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VOLUME IX.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS. *
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OP THE SOUTH.
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Manufacturing and Other BaslneM IsdM*
eats Booming—New Railroads. Eto.
An ice factory will be established ai
i Durham, N. C.
Folmar Brothers will build an opera
I house at Troy, Ala.
A bucket factory will be established at
| Greenville, Ala., shortly.
I The Lutherans will build a $15,000
| church at Little Rock, Ark.
1 Mr. Eastin will build a large hotel on
A* Walnut street, Lexington, Ky. • *
B SIO,OOO have been subscribed toward
building a hotel at Oxana, Ala.
Toebelnaau & Cbmpany have started a
shoe factory at Galveston Texas.
James Y. Whitted has built a new to-
B bacco factory at Durham, N. C.
Il lere * s building one mile of
railroad at Rockmart, Ga.
A company has been formed to build a
£isso,ooo hotel at Tuscambia, Ala.
f . A large cotton factory is to be started
2 jduring this year at Little Rock, Ark.'**
H I A carriage factory will shortly be built
Bt,.<>wensboro, Ky.,by Indiana parties.
Elyton Land company will build a
Ala.
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gSSffi company has been chartered at
Miss., to build a waterworks.
Ip i itock company has been formed to
for oil and gas at Flemingsburg,
■ tile factory has recently been estab
l; ■Bed near Okolona, Miss., by Brown &
Keystone Lumber company are
.& saw mill at Bogue Cbitto,
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> wfy. *»d * I3 ‘ k( ' l f;' ! 'tory Will be
Ain , by .lame«< '. An-
wib start a factory at
• 10 mauufacMire bed
Jjjpl^BWlO,ooo stock company is forming
a cotton factory at Jackson. Ten-
Oashvllle Tenn., Gas company
MgftygffiCt a brick meter- Ih»im> t. cost
*-" 1 of the Female academy.of
IW lo^B ’ AJ rt -» erect :l IAOOO
is rebuilding his saw-mill
led some time since
i Electric Light company
rr< ’ ct 1 nt 1 iil; '
MfiF’i'he Bear Mountain Mining company
■MWe decided to build a stump mill at
Snv>;tr, Ark.
Jfc ■ AV. A. Carlton will erect a three-story
| iron front building nt Athens, Ga , to
Ihost SIO,OOO.
The Arkansas Midland railroad compa-
Ir try will extend their road from Clarendon
to Hot Springe.
Arrangements have been made looking
to the erection of a large cotton fact cry
at Cohirabus, Ga.
An Atlanta Ga., company have leased
marble quarries near Sparta, Tenn., mid
will develop them.
It ia that a company has been •
formed to develop 75,000 acres of hma
near Alhlrdt, Tenn.
A stock company has been organized
at Paris, Ky., to manufacture a grain
and seed separator. , .*A
The Georgia Midland railroad company
is preparing for a round-house and de
pot at Columbus, Ga.
The Bessemer (Ala.) Foundry and Ma
chine works have been organized with a
capital stock of $25,000.
W. H. Griffin will start another brick,
yard at Goldsboro, N. C., with a daily
capacity of 24,000 bricks.
A SIO,OOO stock company is being or
ganized to erect a fish and oyster canning
factory at Apalachicola, Fla.
It is reported that a stock company Im
been formed at Tyler, Texas, to bufcl a
- factory ami au oil mill.
Subscriptions are being received to
wards the organization of a company to
build a cotton factory at S|»rtanburg,
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A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased
K veral hundred acres of laud, near Rm
tol, Tenn., with a view, it h Mid, to
erecting a large iron furnace and htrnret
manufactories.
The De Bard rielmt Coal *»d Iron com
pany, of Bessemer, Ala., have p rebased
lately about 50,000 seres more of mineral
land and will build two more iron fur
naces and 30> ovens.
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The Reyno, Iron Mountain and Bt.
Louis railroad company has been charter
ed to build a railroad from Reyno to
Corning, Ark., 20 miles.
W. D. Wylie and W. M. Alexander
have made arrangements for the building
of an elevated railroad at Dallas Texas,
estimated to cost about $200,000.
The Talladega Land and Improvement
company, of Talladega, Ala., will hold a
meeting May 9 to increase their capital
stock from $500,000 to $750,000.
The Morrow Mining company, capital
stock $140,000, has been incorporated at
Birmingham, Ala., by John C. Morrow,
W. A. Walker, Jr., and George M. Mor
row.
The Newport, (Ark.) Building and
Loan association has been incorporated,
and will build an opera house at that
place.
Klieves, Kraft & company have re
ceived the contract to erect a school
building to cost $37,000 at Wheeling,
Virginia.
The Calera Shoe company, capital
Calera, Ala., and will operate a shoe sac
s tory at that place.
The St. Augustine Improvement com
pany have contracted to erect a $40,000
building for the St. Augustine Gas and
Electric Eight company.
The Kansas City and Gulf railrcnd
company will build a branch road from
Ensley City to Bessemer Ala., and have
let the contract to J, W. Worthington
& Co.
The Galveston, Henderson & Houston
Railroad company have commenced work
on a new bridge across the Buffalo
bayou at Galveston Texas. It will cost
about SBO,OOO.
The Fort Smith, Paris and Dardanelle
railroad company, capital stock SI,OOO
- has been chartered to build a rail
road from Fort Smith, Ark., to Darda
nelles, 80 miles.
The Sloss Steel and Iron company, of
BirminghamSAla pore.-
entire pj eperty of iha
Coke coqgpany,.. The sit«;l
Iron company will onfy'bwd new *
will. ?£ io.
on a steel plant at '"j ’*
The Decatur,
western Railroad company ItaFTeen in
corporated to build a railroad from De
catur, Ala., to Danville, Cy., and thence
to Cincinnati, O. The same company
has incorporated the Decatur, St. Louis
and South Atlantic Railroad company, tr
build a railroad to St. Louis.
THE POPE'S DECISION.
A Dispatch frem Heat Coaoarataa the
Knlatna of I.Hbor.
The Catholic News, of New York, re
ceived the following cable dispatch from
Rome concerning the pope and the
Knights of Labor:
“The pope has dedded the questions
of the Knights of Labor ik favor of that
organization. This decision will stand
so long as the present metnod pursued in
furthering their aims prevails, The doc
uments of Cardinal Gibbons have been
Indorsed. The pope further decided that
in Canada, where-a mandament has been
issued against the knights, members of
the order will receive absolution on the
promise of obedience to future decisions
of the holy see. If the knights identify
themselves with theories now being dis
tcniinated by certain agitators, this deci
sion in their favor will be revoked.”
ALEXANDER MITCHELL DEAD.
1 Railroad dfturnate DImoF Heart Disease
la New Yark.
Alexander Mitchell, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
t*' ml, bled last Tuesday afternoon at the
yolfunth house, where he has been stop
ping for the last two weeks. Since De
ccmWr he r beeu stopping with his
wife at Alexandria villa, near Jackson
ville, Fla. Wließih*zCame to this city
two weeks ago, he Wais enjoying unusual
ly gbud hetdth. For some time he had
been f-onieWhat troubled from impeded
action of his heart. Etat Wednesday
evening ha went out and afterwards had
a chill. He caught a severe enph whkh
tlevvtoped into bronchial and
no dom»t directly afiected the .jtK
lion and cauaed death. The
have been embalmed and will be taken
Milwaukee.
A TERRIBLE CASUALTY.
Palestine, Ills.,—While viewing the
wreck of the freight trains on the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, near this .
city Sunday, six |wrsons were killed, two i
fatally and a number seriously injured by j
the bursting of s large water tank. It i
h supposed the collision of the freight !
trains iu the immediate vicinity in the
morning had jarred the immense tank, j
containing one hundred thousand gallons j
of water, and loosened or cracked j.-tlte I
hoops, whicKgnve f
standing
structure, when it collapse*l !
fell, burying people under the wreck- |
| age«ad water.
MORMONS NEAR AVGUSTA.
Reunion and William Spencer,of Utah,
: are at present located at Goodwin’s chap
: el. nine miles rroiu Augusta, on the Mill
| etigeviUe road, where they are daily
I pn arhing article* <4 faith of the Latter j
j Day Saints, as founded by Joseph Smith *
|in 1830. Their meetings have been |
, largely attended, but there is now a |
movement on foot in that neighborhood |
to break up their meetings and run them |
j out of the country.
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STEALING GOVKRNMKNT TIMBER.
Timber Agent Connor, of Florida. hi> i
, reported to toe general land office that * |
| lumber firm in that state has caused to b
cut and removed fn>m government lands *
• in one locality A500,0w feet of timber, j
i st $30,000.
r*RK tN MIDDLETOWN, KY
? The business portion of north Middle j
j hsw ? ®, Ky,# was almost totally htshrtd |
i mrt Sun-iay. Lo«s S3S,’WL
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FAWNING TO IVOIVE CH4RITY TO ALL.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY,.APRIL 26, 1887.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL,
What is Bclbc Bone by the Heads of Oar
Government—The Week’s Review.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
The president has appointed Sigourney
Butler, of Boston, to be second comp
troller of the treasury, in place of Judge
Maynard, promoted to the assistant sec
retaryship of the treasury. Mr. Butler is
but twenty-nine years of age. He is a
native of Quincy, Mass., and a son of the
Hon. Peter Butler, who was a prominent
applicant for the position of collector of
the port of Boston when Salstanstall was
appointed. He is a graduate of Harvard
college, and is associated in the practice
of law with Richard Olney, an eminent
attorney of Boston. He is a democrat.
WANTS A JUDICIAL DECISION.
In relation to the reported conflict in
Maine between the state and United
States authorities respecting the authority
of a state court to compel the production
of records of the collector of internal
revenue for use in the prosecution of
persons accused of selling distilled spir
its in violation of the state law, the com
missioner of internal revenue says that
his office has no disposition to interpose
any obstacle to the enforcements of state
laws, but that a provision similar to that
in the recent Maine law, making the pay
ment of an internal revenue tax as a liq
uor dealer prima facie evidence of a vio
lation of state law, has been incorporated
in the statutes of several of the states;
that the question in issue in Maine has
been raised several times in other states,
but never settled, and that it is his desire
to obtain a judicial decision for future
guidance in numerous cases likely to
A NEW SET OF RULES. «
The commissioner of agriculture ha#
wire?! a new set of rules governing the
operations of the department ic* toe sup
p»*Mwn and exterpation. of pleuro-pneu:-
monia and other infectious diseases. The
chief of the bureau of animal industry
may cause exposed animals to be slaugh
tered whenever it is deemed necessary to
prevent a spread of the disease from one
state or territory to another. Provisions
is made for the appraisal of and payment
for slaughtered animals. Whenever it ia
deemed necessary by the chief of the bu
reau to supervise and inspect any lines of
transportation doing business in more
than one state and boats, cars and stock
yards, in connection therewith, he is re
quired to .designate suitable, inspectors
and make all necessary regulations for the
quarantine and disinfection of such boats,
cars and stock yards as are suspected of
being affected with the disease. Should
it be found impossible to enforce rules in
any state, the commissioner, if ha thinks
the exigency requires it; will declare the
state in quarantine, and any person re
moving animals therefrom, except upon
a certificate of the inspector of the bureau,
will be prosecuted.
MUTILATED BANK NOTES.
There was received at the United
States treasury Thursday for redemption
a package of perfectly new United States
notes of small denomination-^I,OOO
- "were mutilated by punches
through them, through which a cord had
been passed and then sealed on the out
side of the wrapper. The package was
sent to Washington by express, by a Na
tional bank in Texas. The mutilation
was evidently intended as an additional
safeguard in transportation. This is said
to be the practice of many of the south
ern express companies in the transporta
tion of money to the treasury for redemp
tion, but the present is the first instance
where new, uninjured notes have been
treated in this way. It is not known
whether these particular notes were mu- |
tilated by the bank or by the express
company, but it is thought at the depart
ment that it was done by the bank to se
cure exchange on New York at the ex
pense of the government. Acting Treas
urer Whelpley refused to receive the
note# and directed their return to the
bank at its expense, with the statement
that such mutilation is considered a vio- '
lation of law and will not be permitted
shy the department.
AN INTXRESTINO HKPORT.
The quarterly report of the chief of the
bureau of statistics ia just out, and soows
some interesting figures.
Seventy or morN pages of the report
are the "conniption of dis
tilled and rnalt liquors aftu. wines,” and
estimates #bade by recognized authority
are given upon various feature 'Uf ibis
subject. Tn round numbers the coihump-
Uon’of distilled spirits, domestic and
igxcorted in this country, is shown to
flMte increased from 43,000,WM) gtdlons
in 1840 to 72,000,000 in 1886. Os wines
from 4,800,000 gallons to 22,000,000,
and of malt liquors from 23,000.000 to
640,000,000.
The consumption per capita during
the same period as regards
distilled spirits, from about two and a
half gallons to ebout one and a quarter
gallons; and increased, as regard-wine#
from twenty-nine bumiretbs to thirty
eigbt bund re ths, and malt from less than
one and half to more than eleven gallons,
An elaborate statement made by F. N
Barrett, editor of the New York Grocer,
by request of the chief of the bureau, is
given, which sets forth, among other
things, that the present average exjM-n
--diture in the country tier annum for malt
and spirituous liquors and tseer at retail
» $700,000,000 The drinking popula
tion is estimated at (in 18861 14.925,417,
waking an average expend dure j>er capita
Os $43 90
ARMOUR’S SRLMA CONTRACT.
The contract under consideration is
tween Amour A Co., of Chicago. an«i
the Selma Land company h*s been closed.
to< s .tur having been signed by IxHi*
parties, and their extaMtve warehou*.
with refrigerator, will be erected there
at 000 l
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
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i ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARI
OUS POINTS.
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! Short Porncraphs That Will Prove Enter
taininc to Onr Readers.
Montgomery, Ala., will select city
officers by primaries instead of by a con
vention.
Senator Wall proposes to amend the
constitution so that women can vote on
the liquor question in Fla.
Greenville, S. C., will be represented
before the interstate commerce convention
in Atlanta, Ga., on the 26th.
Real estate continues to change hands
in Fort Valley, Ga.. and many inquiries
are made for both milding and storehouse
lots.
Mr. MaNorv’s bill prohibiting free
passes over railroads to delegates to po
litical conventions will probably become
a law in Florida.
Haslewood townsnip, in Chester county
| 8. C., by a vote of 277t0 87, decided in favor
i of a subscription of $14,000 to the cap
j ital stock of the Chester and Camden
: railroad company.
The money to build a hotel at Oxford
Ga., has all been subscribed and work is
to be begun on it at an early date. It
will be located near the East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia railroad depot.
In Fayetteville, N. C., Mr. Andrew
Deal, while digging out the foundation
for the dam and wheelhouse of the elec
tric light mill, came across a rock wall
and heavy timbers five feet below toe bed
of toe creek.
The general government, at the solici
tation of Colonel W. H. Yarborough
collector of internal revenue in the fourth
district, North Carolina, has located a
bonded warehouse In Fayetteville for the
storage of grape brandy.
A Mobile Ala. newspaper gays at a
recent ball a gentleman wore the swallow
tail coat in which he was married fifteen
years ago, which seventeen other bride
grooms had worn, and which had done
duty «t forty-three weddings.
The plans of the boys’ school in Annis
-;'' 3 \ AlB., have received and put in
the hands of the contractors, the Aagtlr
of the building xrill be 128 width
55 feet. It will take the SIO,OOO donated
by Mr. Sam NobltHo complete it.
Sunday Mr. W. J. Bridges’ saw mill in
Fayette county, Ga., was burned to the i
ground. It caught from carelessness in
regard to burning saw dust. About sl,-
000 worth of lumber was destroyed and
about the same amount of damage was 1
done to the machinery .
The Athens council only appropriated
about SB,OOO this vear to the support of
the city schools, to ? board of edu
cation asked for >9,500? This will be
supplemented by about $2,000 from the ;
state and poll tax, which will be amply !
sufficient for the support of the schools. '
The sinking of the artesian well at the
creosote works at Fernandina, Fla., was
put in full operation and has reached the
depth of over 100 feet. So far as the
work has gone the contractors find the
indications favorable for a speedy com
pletion.
The crib of Mr. Joseph McClelland,
full of corn and three horses, was burned
to the ground. A few hours later, Mr.
Emile Poiret’s crib, situated at Plaisance,
La., eight miles north of Opelousas, was [
also burned. The fires are supposed to
be of incendiary origin.
Owing to the cold, dry weather which
has prevailed for several weeks the stand
of corn is very poor throughout the en
tire section around Minden, La., and
until it rains cotton will not come up.
Even now farm work ia very much re
tarded by the dry, cloddy condition of
the ground.
Fort Valley, Ga., is a good site for any
kind of a manufacturing enterprise. Oak,
hickory and ash are found in abundance
around that place, and the hickory is
said to be of the finest and most durable
quality of any in the south. A spoke, i
hub and axe handle factory is badly need
ed there.
Reports have reached New Iberia, La.,
of a shooting affray that took place be
fore the Catholic church of Loreauville, i
Pierce Herbert and F. Fournet had a |
miaunderatanding, when one sought re- j
dress by attempting to cowhide his ad- I
veraary. After a short fight for the whip. ;
both parties began firing and both were
•lightly wounded.
On Sunday night last, a negro tenant j
living in a house on Mr. Jake Rhodes’?
place about eight miles east of Greene- j
ville, AI went off, leaving five children, !
toe eldest eleven years of age, fastened '
up in the house. While absent the house I
took fire, and Lafora any one could gut J
there, the children had all burnt*! ST
death. Cause of fire unknown.
On Monday night of last week Jackson 1
Ga., was visited burglars. The store ’
of
eontente of their iron safe The
aafj? contained S7OO in currency and f WO j
gold watches. 1 Six hundred dolhui 01 -
the money belonged the town council. |
The safe seemed to have been opened by {
an expert, as there was no evidence that i
force was used to open it. Four hundred :
dollars was offered for the apprehension |
of the thieve#.
Judge Schandfc, of Greensboro, has au .
ibiglinh officer’s cavalry sword, which ■
>‘■<■-8 found upoa the battle ground of I
Guilford courthouse” in the year 1867, i
.bty-six years after the bank was ?
rught, It wa» uncovered by the rains, !
A’hicli washed a deep gullv in the field I
near toe spot where the deadly struggle '
took place between the Scotch Highland
ers and the Maryland Continental line, j
The sword has beautiful chasing upon it, ’
and bean toe coat of arms of some dis
singuiahed family.
CoL R. J. Brownfield, of Statesboro j
township, 8. C., haa the fossil remains of !
some unknown animal, which has been
taken from a well over 75 feet in depth.
The fossil consists of the teeth and frag- ■
ments of the jawbone of wme small ani- (
tnal. The teeth greatly resemble those ;
of a shark, sithough much smaller, i
They were embedded in a smooth, dark
< stored rock, which contained glittering
particha supposed to bi- mica. After j
-triking these fosails, in a distance of a :
v«ry few feet the workmen met with i
•tom distinct strata of soil, all varying '
greatly in ooloi wid quality.
About sunset on Saturday evening last
I a little colored boy named Alcide Fils,
I aged nine years, was playing on the rail
i road track near Jeannerette, La. A bru
tal negro called Ben Williams came along
, carrying a loaded shotgun. He ordered
the boy to kneel and say his prayers. The
terrified little negro obeyed the orders,
when the monster drew the trigger of
the gun, lodging a load of ehot in the
neck of the boy, who expired in great ag
ony at 8:30 o’clock next evening. On
being arrested Williams made the old
plea of not knowing that the gun was
loaded.
MUTINOUS CONVICTS.
! The North Carolina Penitentiary the Scone
of Great Excitement.
Raleigh, N.C.—This city was thrown
into a state of high excitement Saturday
by the riot alarm being given. The cause
I of the alarm was a telephone message
j from the penitentiary asking the aid of
the police and military. The Governor’s
Guards, under the command of Captain
Englehard, assembled at the armory and
thence went to the penitentiary, a half
i mile west of the city, while the police
and many citizens also hastened to the
scene of trouble.
Just before seven o’clock, while the
convicts were in the yard, a negro pris
i oner named Jim Lewis, from New Han-
I over county, drew a knife and threatened
to kill anybody and everybody. The
guards surrounded him, and finally one
of them struck him such a sharp blow
that he dropped the knife. He was then
: seized and taken to the hospital. *As
I soon as Lewis was struck some of the
i other convicts shouted out that Lewis
was killed. Upon this it appears the
convicts made signs as if preparing for a
rush and the guards ran for their guns.
It was not desired to kill the convicts,
but to overawe them. The convicts ga
thered in the rear of the yard and blocked
the corridors and shouted and yelled, but
! refused to enter the cells. Thereupon a
call for the police and troops was sent
out. The negro Lewis, who started toe
trouble, is in for life for rape, and is a
bad man, Au official at the penitentiary
said that he was no doubt the ringleader
in what was a plot for mutiny. The con
victs are so well and kindly treated that
they have become bold, and the people
in the e'er-ivere greatly alarmed. - To
add to the trouble the gas went out, and
altogether it was decidedly an unpleas
ant evening.
THE TROOPS ENTER.
The troops entered the penitentiary
about nine o’clock at night. At that
hour, all of two hundred and fifty con
victs were in cells save about sixty, all of
i whom were negroes. These tore up a
part of the brick pavement of the cell
corridor, but made no attempt at attack.
At midnight the gas was again turned
on, and the great building was illumi
i nated. Nb further attempt was made to
j force them into the cells. They waved
' red flags from the windows of the prison
■ which were observed by hundreds of
persons xvho had assembled near the
j building. The talk they indulged in
was very violent. Adjutant General
Jones and Warden Hicks, of the prison,
had a conference with Governor Seales,
who gave instructions that bloodshed
; must be resorted only as an extreme
measure, but it must follow the slightest
attempt to escape or attack. He placed
the military under the control of Warden
Hicks. The latter and a member of the
i board of directors of the institution
: spoke to the convicts. The latter refused
to go in the cell#, saying that they
■ wanted certain grievances redressed. The
authorities informed the convicts that
they must surrender and obey the regula
tions, and refused to make any terms.
The convicts then promised to obey and ;
enter the cells, which they did at the
usual hour for locking up. The excite
ment here was remarkable, and was made
more intense by the evident sympathy of
some outsiders with the mutinous con
victs.
WOOL DEALERS* MEETING.
San Francisco Cal. A meetjngwus held
here Monday by persons interested in the
wool trade for the purpose ottaking such
action as would induce Life interstate
com meree commission to suspend section
■ four of the interstate law so far as it re
lates to wool. Under the present inter
pretation of the law the rat# on wool to
New York and Boston is $8.70. whereas
: -the rate was sixty-four ami one-half cents
l per 10U pounds. * It was claimed th*t
I if the new rate was maintained the wool
industry of California would be destroyed,
as the surplus pxrduct could not be sent
east with pry#*. A committee was ap
[ pointed leet the necessary informa
tionforward it to Wasfiingtoa on
i Wetfue- lay next. The meeting then a<l»
IQOurned subject to the call of the com- s
mittee
THE ENGINEER S LAST WORDS.
“Bara, Fioa * ht * A large L«»<-
•IM» •• th» Naw Yark Central.
A passenger train on the New York
Cenusl road at midnight, Monday, ran
, into a and the engine and seven
. cars were thrown. D%>m the track. The I
engineer was killedan* the fireman and ’
; one passenger badly injured: The slide |
was 120 feet long, caused by s-Uejvry
rain. The <*onductor of the wrecked
train had his wits about him. The ex
l press train from toe east was due, and •
’ the conductor flagged it just in time to
I stop it within seven car lengths of the
• slide, which covered both tracks. The !
| engineer's last words were: “Boys, flag
I the trains!”
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j FATAL CYCLONE IN VIRGINIA.
He«iar« Bi«w* Dawn auad B«<*aral lJre» ’
Monday night a cyclone visited Suffolk :
> Va.. section with fatal and destructive j
| effects. Its track was about one hundred |
yards wide. The house of John Wright,
I six miles north of Suffolk, on toe Norfolk
and Western railroad, was completely i
I demolished. Wright and his wife and a
young sister sad James Luke were in the 1
: house at the time. Mrs. Wright and i
IMr. Luke were killed, the young girt j
fatally injured and Mr. Wnght smomdy I
hurt. Much other damage was does
property along toa pato of tot ejehfie, i
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TROUBLE IN TONGA.
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AN UPRISING IN THE ISLANDS
PROMPTLY QUELLEI),
Thirty-six Converted Wesleyan Natives
Condemned to Death.
i A steamer which has just arrived at San
Francisco brings the latest particulars re
garding the attempted assassination of Prem
ier Baker, of the Tonga Islands, by converted
Wesleyan natives. The correspondent of the
Sydney (New South Wales) Herald at Suva,
Fiji islands, writes that Mr. Baker believed
that an organized attempt to kill him and to
overturn the Government was to be made by
the Wesleyans. He sent for soldiers, and
a large number of indiscriminate arrests were
made. Mr. Baker put the prisoners through
a form of trial, condemned them to death,
and the sentences were executed the same
night. Before the sentences were carried out
the acting British Vice-Consul, W. E. Giles,
used the utmost, exertions to prevent the exe
cutions.
Things were growing quieter when the newly
appointed Vice-Consul, R. B. Leese. arrived
at Tonga, and after an inquiry decided that
he had no power to interfere. The storm
a«ain burst forth with redoubled fury.
The Wesleyan Mission College was in
vaded by an armed mob. AVeSeyans were
brutally beaten and -their houses wrecked.
Mr. Leese was again appealed to, but again
refused to interfere. Among the earnest
persons arrested and condemned to death was
an ordained Wesleyan minister, David Finan,
a man of the highest position and repute.
Many persons wen l under arrest.; and six exe
' cations were to take place the dhy after the
; departure of the steamer which brought the
I above news to Suva, and thirty more the day
following.
The French and Germans have sent for
men-of-war, and urgent representations have
been made to the Governor of the Fiji Islands
to interefere and depose either Mr. Baker or,
Mr. Moulton, a Weslevan missionary, J
A special to the Sydney Herald from
i Auckland, New Zealand, says: “Further
'.tews from Tonga states that, Wesleyans are I
being mercilessly plundered and maltreated
by the King’s soldiers. 'The Premier does not
anticipate any difficulty about French inter
ference in Tonga, and is of the opinion that
German jealousy would be aroused by the
apjtearance of the French so close to Samoa
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The Tonga or Friendly Islands form a
group in the Southern Pacific Ocean. They
were discovered in 1643 and ware visited in
by Cook, who gave them the name
ot ri iendly Islands from the apparently hos
pitable reception he met with from the in
habitants, It has since been learned that it
was fear alone that, prevented the natives
from attacking Cook, many of the natives
being wild ana ferocious. ‘ There are 182 isl
ands;;, about thirty of which are inhabited,
the'populatiort being estimated at from 25,000
to 50AX). They are divided into three groups, ■
the Tonga being at the south. The cli
mate is healthy. but humid. Earthquakes
are frequent, but not formidable; hurricanes
are both frequent and destructive The na
tives cultivates yams,sweet potatoes and fruits
and a little corn G grown. Missionaries in
troduced the cultivation of oranges. Cocoa
nut oil is the onlv important article of ex
port.
The port of Bea, on Tongataboo Island, is
c.lebrated as the place where in 1840 Captain
t roker, of the British sloop Favortte, was de
feated by the pagan party. In tois engage
ment. undertaken hi liehalf of the Christian
missionaries and their native partisans,
broker and many of his officers and men were
slain. When pagans, the natives were
elevated to war. The natives offered human
sacrifices and cut off their little fingers and
toes as propitiatory offerings to their gods
Their mythology, hke that of the other
Polynesians was a low type of polytheism;
the spirits of ail chiefs go to Bulota; those of
the poorer elapses ivihiun on earth to few] the
*ms and lizards.
Nearly all the people are now Christians.
They were visited first by agente of the Lon
don Missionary .Society, but in 1827 came
under the care of the Wesleyan Society of
Great Britain. , There are three main mis
sionary stations and the smaller islands are
intrusted to i;he supervision of native teachers,
lhe art of printing has been introduced
and many of the natives can read and write
A king rules all the islands. Catholic mis
sionaries from Fra ice have, established them
selves in the southern group of islands and
converted many of the natives io that faith.
AN ARCTIC EXPLORER DEAD.
Saleide es Lieutenant Dnnenbower, ot the
Arctic Exploring Party.
Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, of
Arctic fame, was discovered at
Wednesday morning dead in his quarters
at the naval academy, Annapolis, Md.,
with a bullet hole in his right temple.
He was found lying on his rug in front
of the fire place with a tag tied to bis
button hole, saying:
“Send to my brother at WaslEtigton.”
Although he has had mepral trouble
since he returned fronj the>tctic regions,
what immediately le<l to' the suicide is
thought to have been <lie recent ground
ing of the Consteltatiuu on its way to
Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for
which it ia supposed he had fear of being s
courtmartialea. Furthermore, he was
very intimate with young Robert W.
Gatewood, who recently corpinittsi~siH~
cide on the Carolina, and wUmtT he saw
in death. It is supposed that this death
suggested the modejto him His wife,
formerly Miss Sloan, of New York, ia
away with her parents. Ueutenant--
Danenhower leaves two chifdreii7~~H%
was about 85 years old and an intelligent
»n<l polished officer.
EMPLOYES SHARING PROFITS.
l*ra«>t«r Gamble, «t (’inclnnntl, Agree t«
Divide with Their Eaaptoyee.
i The* firm of Proctor A Gamble, manu
; facturers, has made an elaborate proposi-
I tion for allowing their employes to share
in the profits of the firm. The plan is to I
appoint three trustees, two bookeepers j
i and a superintendent in the firm’s em- i
ploy, who shall twice a year ascertain
the amount of profits during the preced
j ing six months, allowing as expenses six
! per cent interest ou the capita!
; and reasonable salaries to member* of th#
i firm devoting their time to their inter
ests, and divide profits between the firm
j in proportion to the capital sad wages
i earned.
The employes have accepted the prop
; »sition with thanks, and resolved to al
; low no outside influence to disturb the
, relations between them and their cm- j
' p!oy«s.
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QUEEN OF THE SANDWTUH ISLANDS*.
———
Queen KspioUni. of Sandwich Islands,
i has arrived in San Francisco, en route to
attend the jubilee of Queen Victoria,
will visit Washington, to pay her re
ppecta to President Cleveland before
' going to England >
NUMBER 11.
OUR FATHERLAND
From-shores where Liberty’s portal i '
Shines fair to earth’s ultimate span; w ■ i
I From Prairies where Lincoln immortal f
Won loftiest manhood of man;
' From beyond those mountain peaks hoary,
i ' Where Fremont, the brave, saw each way
Our after-time transcendent glory;
i From land of Calhoun and of day,
i Americans! make thy song ever, ; |
At the God of all nations’ command:
Our fatherland sweeps to
From the Lakes to the far
Great men of the East,
1 Smiles sweet upon heritage
Strong men of the West,
Os hope beckons endlessly ~X|
Brave men of the
Clear-visioned, and calm
Grand men of the Southland, trt.
In light of thy sorrow (
1 All, all! Let our anthem ':?■
At the God of all nation®command: sB
Our fatherland sttteps to Ktf
From the Lakes to the '* •
Here are birthrights noble
There, dust of a
Here, mountains and f:
There, echoes of immortal
O, freemen! we are but
All these have been ‘v-
Rise, rise’, to the
Invincible, evermore one!
Then, deathless, our song shaß'W r '
At the God of all nations’
Our fatherland sweeps to both
From the Lakes to the far
—Edgar L. Wakeman, in
P(Tir4N£PfwW
A big blower—-The wind.
Letters of Credit —I. O. U. A.i
Dansville Breeze.
The man who struck au attihghr msS -
not yet been arrested,— Boston
Naomi was 580 years old when
married. Truly the Bible is £
consoler. —New Haven News. £ -jS J&
A fireman on a
how hard-hearted he may
tender man.-- /C,
If angels’ visits were a# exy^®®r‘® ;
those of doctors’ we <no»ld
They are so few and far benv*erL|X
The live mummies J&jjgb, WgPliSMp
cave last week
tlr.d families. —
Kate Sanborn J
. : . < r.tiling in tIuQMMMM ’
but the g-eat d
it. Graphic. ' r
We are told t hat* the | f
boarding-hou’cs to ’<«l : W g
former offer them more -
fights when tm-\ ~f i ick 3
“It’s a fine day, your J
Disorderly Drunk in R «usf! 4 h* MaHvJ
“k is, indeed. ” , ph-'d
“Ten dollars
’Lives of great meh all §3
We should make our -
then let ten o cbx-k ncer
At the club, but h«M
Singular language '
is full of kindle-<
say he is humane; « h--u of &s3/g
ties, we say he is only
Courier.
An agricultural exc&affge
readers to take care. of their-
In this relation, we in^V’ ? ’WWWHMjnwß
only a brute who would bs unkmdjßp
his cabbage. - Graphic. , ' 1
The new Mayor of a new OhfriwWlK '
the serenaders who tooted -.inderlua
dows that “he wept tears of joy owk; Amp
election.” His Honor seems to be labor*
ing under a mistake; he wasn’t
town crier.— Burdette.
What wore precious offering can ifeag
laid upon the altar of a man’s heart, thgj|3|
the first love of a pure, earnest,
affectionate girl, with an undivided itt®
terest in eight corner lots, and fourteestsfe
> three-story houses?— Texas Siftings.
L ....“Hullo, Mr. Brown! What are ||
you doing up at this time o’ morning!” *3|
“Oh! I’m trying to scare up an appetite
for my breakfast. Why are you up so
early?” “I’m trying to scare up a break
fast for my appetite.”— Judge.
“An Old Bettier Gone,” read Dr. Bolus
in the obituary cohituu of the local paper,
and then he added thoughtfully: “Well,
Bjenks may have been an old settler in
one sense, but he always managed to for
get to settle with me.” ~ BomervilU Jour
nal.
An Illinois man advertises “pure bred,
Poland-China swine, all the most fash
ionable and leading families? represented.”
We presume that a fashionable Poland-
China pig is much more valuable to sell
than the common ordinary hng that
crosses his legs in the street cars.-
Graphic. ~
—-Awlmals that Change Color.
There is a tiny ermour ep». the dump*'
icon shrimp, which can alter its htfHo
that of any material on which it happens
to rest. On a sandy bottom it appears
gray or sand-colored; when lurking
*mong seaweed it Izer-omes green, or red
or brown, aegording to the nature at ’Us
momentary background. Probably. ta|
effect is quite Unconscious, or at
voluntary, likeXhishiag with
and nobody evebdilushed on purpose,
though they do distinguished poet
once complained thX an eminent actor
did not fol low his staged i re* tiofis because
he omitted to obey remark,
I “Here Harold purples with«ng«r.” The
change is produced by certain au».om«ttc
muscles which force up *
ment cells abov* the othoro. green cSPs-” ,
ing to the top on a green surface,
a ruddy one, and brown or gray wqjft
the circumstances demand them. Mffl
kinds of fish similarly alter color to ' a iy
their backgroup* forcing forwertW
backward pigment-cW 4
known as ■ A|»p|S| ' ■’ ?UW!e v * ri< F
■ will almost «MF
required tone Almost al! r®*
tiles and amphibians posses the powergf
changing their hue in accordance wsh f
their environment in a vety high degrte/
, and among certain tree toads and frag J
it is difficult to say what is the
coloring, as they vary indefinitely f,
buff and dwe-color to cho< ,
rose, and even lilac.— CartJG "
Au English inventor ciaij
made by soldering togeth»-e
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