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VOLUME IX. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. * THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS OP THE SOUTH. W 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. at the twr'<l,l ■■ ; • the rt cou n ty, N. 0. 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, *> > 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, 8,0. * 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. er Hr Bh n ■ 000 and a court ; O p ( > HBESBaMHIyb- aab; ■? ‘ * EjgTn ’' j H goal HL - - Asm>ria- Jp ■ mHHf ’- - tS'uthvru - ; - x z- // v > 1 } THE WEEKLY BTAR. 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. I - , : ■ -■ ■ ..... ... I 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 ■ L. 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. I I i ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VARI OUS POINTS. —— ! 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!” I 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 ■?. - -■M-ip'- ■■ ■ k TROUBLE IN TONGA. . f 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 . .. I 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. i I* ■ 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 „ g