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VOLUME IX.
DOUGLASYILLE* GEOB(
>1MY, MAY 17, 1887.
. The colored people o! hiflcoanttyhave
a medical eollegt*'-«*d » allege of den
tistry. Thigyeat- fit students graduated
at the med'K4 tollegfe in Nashville and
. three at fh® dental- college; -
Merced (Cal.) farmer has poisoned
t over 20,000 jack rabbits in the last four
.years, and yet, in. spilO of the warfare
against them, they are increasing in num
ber, and are becoming a veritable plague
to the Merced and Fresno farmers.
The once famous Cardiff giant has been
heard from again, after yearn of oblivion.
It reposes in a lidless box at El Paso,
1 Texas, which serves as a settee for the
idlers of that town. It appears that the
giant was carried to El Paso a long while
«go by some speculative individuals whose
design it was to take him to Mexico and
- bury -him, with the: ultimate view of resur
recting him for the show business: Since
then he is said to have been sold for the
paltry price of $32.
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SOUTHERN NEWS,.
| invitations have-been sent by the Press
t ' » . - ; ! club and chamber of commerce, of Bir-
PeftfiPi Ifito the South for Mills, I mingham, Ala., to Jefferson Davis and
' ’ ] his daughter, Miss Winnie, asking them
to attend the meeting of -the State pfeSS
j association-, as gue§ts OI the city.
t :oudr!es,
Etc
»spleh-
Dne of the auditors of the Treasury De-
-■ J>artment, who had rented a house in a
fashionable quarter of Washington, was
surprised to discover, when the end of
the month foiled around, that his land
lord was none other than one of the mes
sengers of: his Bureau. Further inquiry
developed the'fact that the latter had
^SSHr loaning money through the depart-
meat to impecunious clerks and others,
extorting in return an interest of 10 per
, cent, a month. The ex-messenger claims
to have kept $10,000 in constant circula-
J ti°n, which, deducting losses,- netted
/ him n profit of about $8,000 a year.
■ . The Chinese are a mild-mannered race,
but they draw the line at banking irregu
larities, When the recent failure of the
Tung Dung bank at Hong Kong was made
publig, a crowd- of excited depositors
stormed the building, ransacked it from
top to bottom, and carried off and de
stroyed everything contained in it: This
is a shorter and perhaps a more profitable
| way °f declaring a dividend than the one
^lsual ly pursued im occidental communi
ties C'n this ’occasion it is not stated
„ whether the officers of the bank were
among.the assets. .The probability is that
they fled to the Montreal of China, wber,
ever that may be. .
■s Phc recentreagpj^mnce of the drtim iu
some European ait j|j|ilch it had
AtC'a sh-'-Htd
the whole-''donti mu jax be called to
Arina - GenStet the French War
ISfimster, abol^J^d it, and not until his
, retirement was it restored to the army of
| France. ' 'Belgium followed Fafre’s ex-
- snSple,but now ber troops have welcomed
tthe return of the familiar music. Italy,
after being fifteen, years without it, is
thinking of trying it again, the - TribuiM
and Em-eite. Jtoliano pleading vigorously
for it with the war authorities. The:
argument against the drum was no doubt
theoretically strong. It was a relic of
barbaric days, requiring the employ
ment of a large force -of men to do noth
ing but make a noise. The cumbersome
instruments are often lost in battle or re
quire inordinate attention to take care of
them. After its successful raid against
the drums, the process of dry, scientific
elimination was extended to the colors.
There, however, it met a repulse; and in
the reaction-in favor-of the pomp and cir
cumstance of war, as a relief from its
there slaughtering capacity, the drum
gets || hearing again.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has rejected the application of the
heirs of John E. Bouligny for the. issue of
prize land Script to the' extent of 75,000
acres. This claim; dates from the year
1717 and is involved in the historic oper
ations of John Law, of South Sea Bubble
fame. It is based upon an alleged grant
by the government of France, covering a
portion of the then French colony of
Louisiana. The claimants succeeded, in
1867, in getting an act passedhy C-ongress
affirming their title. After' the passage
sf the act it was discovered that the Su
preme Court had passed upon the claim
adversely. Thereupon a joint resolution
was passed suspending the operation of
the act, The claimants assert that the
act involved something in the nature of a
contract and, therefore, it was not within
the competency of Congress to annul it.
Helena, Ark. , is about to build
did opera-house.
Union City, Tenn., will build a $150,-
000 court-house.
San Antonio, Tex., devotes $150,000
ior a city hall, jail, etc. :
Greeriville, Tenn., is to have a tobacco
factory to cost $20,000.
There is an electric light company at
Wmstonj N. C., with a capital of $30,-
~ The Memphis & Birmingham Railroad 1
po. contemplate building a branch road
to Aberdeen, Miss.
S Vj Inman and others have chartered
the East Atlanta, Ga., Land Co. with a
capital stock of $60,000, r
Samuel R. Lowry has organized a $50,-
000 stock company to cultivate and man
ufacture silk at Birmingham, Ala.
A company with a capital of $50,000
has been organized at Titusville, Ark.,
to cultivate the poppy and manufacture
morphine.
Packard & Grover will move 'their
large shoe factory from Brockton, Mass.;
to Owensboro, Ky. Three hundred
hands will be employed, ;
The Carolina, Knoxville & Western
Railway Co. has been incorporated to
build a road from Knoxville, Tenn., to
Greenville, S. 0., 150 miles.
JR Burkstresser has purchased the
Black Mills falls water, power, at Dade-
ville, Ala., and Will, it is said organize a
stock'company to build'a cotton factory.
W. G. Welty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
associates will build large works to man
ufacture iron bridges, nuts bolts, at
Rome, Ga: About $40,000 will be in
vested. , ,
J. A. Montgomery, F. Y. Anderson,
G. B. West, W. J. Cameron and I.- Forst
have ipcorporated a company to build a
hotel at Deeds, Ala., with a capital stock
of $150,000.
The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville,
reported before, has a capital stock of
$1,000,000. The cempany will at once
erect malleable iron works with a daily
capacity of about 30 or 40 tons. '('.to'
The Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia,'
previously reported as incorporated, has
Men organized with an <£>tkorized capi-
stock'* of $2,500,000.; The company
willrfetart a town and build 'furnaces and
manufactories. . 1 : jggaggx__
f George F. Alford, of Dallas, Tex.. and
J. II. Langley, of' Boston^ffass., 'pon-
rt’Wpiaie incorporating The &
Archer Coal «fcj ron Railwayed.,to build;
a railroad from Dalian to AVefisr county,
to open up mineral lands,
John S. Perryj the' giefit .stove maim-1
f.-icturmyof Albany,' N.,Y^decidecl to
establish'expensive stave works In the
South, and, spent considera*'' i time in
vestigating the advantages of different
locations for this industry. Finally, he
decided upon South Pittsburg, Tenn; 1 ;
godTTiMtion m
Gloodson Hillyer, alias Bill, Goodson, of
Monroe, Ga., who was pardoned out of
the penitentiary two in mlis |
Gordon, died from hydrophobia.
after his return home, he, was attacked
by iHrmad dog and the woundshealed up;
buir fee'efitly he became delirious, and
dledrin great agony. J
Peter Tripp and Alexander Caldwell,
of the town of Catlettsburg, Kentucky,
well-known farmers, quarrelled, about a
fenM, and parted threatening toMllhi^K 5jg| ;gd to refuse.
other on sight. • Bo-th armed themselves,
and met on the road near town, and at
once opened fire on each other. Tripp
was instantly killed. ; Caldwell lived Un
til the next morning:'
The grand division of the order of
Railway Conductors held its 19th annual'
meeting in New Orleans. Grand
‘Chief Conductor Wheaton praised: mem
bers for their action in the last.jtrike.
Twenty-one new divisions have; tV
formed since the last annual meeting, and
2,386 new members added to to-the order,
which has a membership of 10,830.1 A
bill was presented providing for the li
censing of: railroad engineers and con
ductors, and a resolution appointing a
committee to secure congressional action
On the bill was passed by a vote of 200 to
10.
J. W. Fitzgerald, a fugitive from jus
tice in Abbeville county, 8. O,, was ar
rested at Westminster... II. B. Zimmer
man, postmaster at the latter. place, re
ceived a letter a few days since from
Thomas L. Moore, trial j ustico at Ninety
Six, asking him to look- out for a mag
calling for letters addressed to J., W;
Brown, 8. S., or J. W. Brown, D. Yv.l
Mr. Zimmerman had been delivering let|
ters for Some time with such an address;
and he had no trouble in having Fitzger
ald arrested at once. He has served, one
sentence in the South Carolina peniten
tiary, And there are now several warrants
against him, the most recent of which is
grand larceny. Fitzgerald cscapod fropi
the officers of Abbeville county while
they were carryingnim,- to - j ail, a
■ inchicm
A Small Oik; -
Nearly 1,000 bricll
sofil ill Chicago afil
i-hangs;-their pay dl
Saturday, aud whenj
fused:;, the men laM
[inti quit. work.
had given the C-6'MI
decide; begRu to lea
609 men vere o.ut, J
The strike is hnt ifif
with that of
iii.-rs. Tli:.' l-rh-ki::
bosses Rnnouneed theil
■Saturday. On y s, f|
ON OUR NEIGHBOR, MEXICO.
Writing about the recent great growth
‘ Minneapolis, a correspondent says:
There are twenty-four flouring mills on
le banks of the Mississippi River, oin
loying:- altogether- some five thousand
en and a vast amount of machinery arid
ipital invested, the daily capacity of
tese mills being 31, 200 barrels of flour,
id exporting directly to 'Europe about
000.000 barrels per year. .This great
dustry Would of itseif-alone, W-ith its de.-
- 1 of barrels,-bags, machinery, etc.,
iild up a.large city: but in addition-to
,in and lumber there are miscellaneous
anufaetures of many staple arti<*!es of
odd and metal, and also of textile fab-
cks, which Were a few years ago made
delusively, in the Eastern States,., .The
dues of the manufactures, exclusive of
),ir and lumber, in 1885, were $21,050,-
)0. Altogether this miscellaneous man-
'aeturing gives employment to over ten
lousand men. The jobbing trade of
inneapolis has increased from about
I ooO, 000 only in 18T0 to the amount, of
11,309,000 in 1885. There are now six-
en'railroads, entering the city, and more
eking admittance,”
A Seismic Convulsion Which Rocks the
Country, Producing Horrible Chasms v
Many People Hilled and Gen
eral Terror.
News from Guymns, Mexico, state that
the earthquake of a few days ago was ac
companied by a terrible volcanic erup
tion at Batrispe, which destroyed Monte
zuma, killing 1 one hundred and fifty per,
sqhs. and igniting the woods in the
vicinity. Twenty-seven persons were
also killed at Oxutu by the falling build-
iiigs. Many persons were injured in
Grenada and Gusabar, Which towns were
almost completely destroyed.
. Another violent earthquake is reported
in San Jose mountains, forty miles South
“of Fort Huachuea, in Sonora. Gen. For
syth has sent an exploration party to
investigate. A party just returned^, from
(Santa Oaliana mountains report that tlie.
canyons are full of water, which :was.
brought to the surface by theearthquake.
This is a great boon for that region, as
there are thousands of acres of good
farming lands at the base of these moun
tains, which only needed water to make
them valuable. Another good effect of
the earthquake' is the opening of two
large gold veins, -which were discovered
in Santa Gaisina mountains, at a point
where the whole side of the mountain slid
down. ■' ' ' ;■ .
COERCION FAILING
And Ireland’*' Friend# Very Hopeful.
With regard’to’’the ‘recent, division ft
the British Parliament, refusing a se- j
lect committee, a deputation of conserv
ative members waited upon the; Irish
party, to say that if the latter were wil-.
ling that the-scope of. the . proposed com
mittee be so enlarged so as to include thfe
Parnell letter, they, representing a con
siderable number of conservatives, would
support Mr. Gladstone’s amendiuent.
The Irishmen counseled with Mr. Glad
stone, Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, and
subsequently said they were willing.to
have it so enlarged as to include any
charge made by anybody against any
Irish member. Then the conservatives
Waited on Mr. W. H.. Smith. He in
stantly said that if any independent
action was taken among his followers, ho
would resign. The Times, Dillon affair
tends to weaken the alliance of the con
servatives and unionists, and thus works
directly against, the interests of the gov
ernment. The general impression is that
the- present government' is in a tight
place, and likely to be defeated.
. A number of veterans of the,;6th Union
Army Corps, went to Spottsylyania to
unveil a tablet fo: the menu#
corps bommander, Gen. Sedgwick;; They
wer® met at the railway StStjpH tit Ft&l- - jef«-s
ericl*bnrg, Va., by: thh F#ederick^|fe,
Grays and a eelegation ,qf( Corfedu ib 1
soldiers and Citizens, .mil" i-.-omi.-d to
thei^lieadquarters at the Exchange Mldli
The - weather was clear, :: warru i^d
plea.ymtaadJh<j &#arnoon
visi f :ngTn:-earrfa<|i'- ^ 1
.teresC ln_-tfeiyg;
^ttjgtown.: 4^®:
tors by t'he-eifii
Its, On.
ajronftna-
EhbssUl'yto
^Monday to
JSiand was re-
their trowels
P0 men struck
JEile others who
Its n few hours to
Ihder. By fiOon;
jiore will follow.
xvay tsonnected
Iters or hod car-
lhufc wherever
i m pay on
tRb . bosses
e' evening
had quit
al number
ad harriers
emplpy-
idle by
i some
PERSONAL.
probably
work; Thfi;^(ew,:dn^(an e ^
of Rod,earriei^A^NOarly all h’
in (;bieago are now deprived o?
ment, 1,000 of fhem having been 1
tile stake of then ewn inaugurat
dsys-rinRe» : . | I @
'There ha^jjwn some trouble |
past few dstysaifti-'g the laborers i|
Mound: AtaenS,>Ga. : They have
and’ scefi inclined to strike fl
O^^^H|H«H|WHrhns i.ui&<1 the
tb 7^Meenta, and]
jr-etnrMd'.’Idi ^
Ruad-f'diSsatisi^
Gunn .& Mnrr
strike among U
new opera '
hands have
■M. and A.
their job; Messrs.'
ame-mear having a
nds: excavating in the
r te. They demanded
per day, but die ring leader was dis-
eh|r^^^^p|^ouble arrested; '
■ SECRliT 3CCIEIIES :
' W»o Care iW ktle Widow and Orphan.
The supreme loSge of the Knights of
_ #a;(..theentljf.-
The Knights of. Honor was organized
June 80, 1873, in ^Louisville,. Ky., by
James A. Demolee^and sixteen young
men. ijMr.;' Demorws is' still identified
reporter. . In the
fourteen years of the order’s existence it
has distributed $26,000,000 to its sick
members and the widows and orphans of
deceased members. Thirty-five states' and
the District of Columbia Werc.represcnted.
The report of B. F.- Nejson, supreme re]
porter, shows that.
last month tM
002, a slightj
ort of. tlJr
Hho beginning of
Bpemberslitp was 126,-
gns&teerJast?ifea,h--The
Joseph
Hows that during)the four-
the order’s existence;. a;to-
t«l Op$20.Q(|9,<>00 have been dhtriinited!
Totatr receiiits of widows and orphans
benefit fundi during 1886, was $3;080.018
and hp to Apr* 1 1887, $1,062,603;
total.! $4vyfi,522 16. Balance. oU hand
BB^iWgt- | .w:afi' $6.9.305^-t,-In:the gen-
kl.ihpd. b.toi! heed, April 25,’
" of.
BUFFALO BILL’S POPCLA BITY.
The "Aniencan exhibition at London,
Eng., was formally opened recently. The
weather was clear and sunny. Ab.out
7,000 persons attended. The bursting of
a boiler during the morning; .prevented
the starting of the machinery, otherwise
the programme of the opening ceremony
was carried out. Hundreds of visitors
ignored the ceremony of opening the
regular exhibition and rushed to the
grounds Where the Wild West show per
formed.
The meeting bf the military at Macon,
Ga.", to eoii < -i for prizes, was one of .he
most brilliant assemblages held in the
South for ieats;
- Three 'Brothers named. Hutchins;- of
Huntsville,^BCybecamb-jUvolved in a
family quarrel, and Jame^ MT- Hutchins
killed Hunter Hutchins and .wounded
Charles Hutchins. ;
A man named. Follins, of Wetumpka,
Ala., was, with his sons, hoeing cotton
in a field,'when a dispute arose with a
young; man named Powell about a money
'debt. It ended by- Powell’s death from
-a wound made by a hoe.
Columbia, 8. C., recently , celebrated
Memorial Day'under the auspices of the
Ladies’-Memorialassociation. The graves
of the'Confederate soldiers in the differ
ent burying grounds iu the city were
decorated with flowers by the committee
of ladies. There were no ceremonies,
but the City bell and the several church
bells were tolled during the decoration.
Express Messenger Fotheringham has
sued the Adams Express company and
the Pinkerton Detective agency, at St.
Louis, Mo., for $100,000 damages for
false arrest and imprisonment;'; in con
nection with the great: express robbery.
The electric ear system in Montgomery,
Ala., is working, admirably and gives
very general satisfaction, but recently an
end of a wire from one of the poles had
been left carelessly on the ground near
the deyot. A mule attached to a bag
gage wagon accidentally tfod upon it,
The wire was fully 'charged with the
dangerous fluid. There was a flash, and
in an ' instant the mule: tumbled to the
ground dead.
At the annual meeting of the Young
Men’s Library in Atlanta, Ga., the present
number of members was reported at 729;
total numbej of books 12,164 volumes, as -
against-11,550 in the year 1885-6, being
an increase of 605 volumes, of Which 373
were purchased aud 232 donated. These
new books were carefully and judiciously
selected, and as a result the current of
books-issued 'from the librarian’s, desk:
quickened from 926. in May last, and from
an average of abnut 1,100 volumes per
month for the first eight months of the
fiscal year to an average of 1,500 volumes
per month for the last four months.
The authorities ©f Macon, Ga., are hard
at work perfecting plans for the new
water-works. . , _
The Students at the Athens, Ga:, Uni
versity became very unruly recently. They
armed themselves with guns and.made
demonstrations at the Lucy Cobb Insti
tute, Which so frightened tiie principal,
Miss Rutherford, that site called on the
police for protection.
Charles V. Harris, of Jacksonville,
Fla., was arrested ju Savannah, Ga.', for
larceny after trust, and attempting tO;.
commit suicide With a pist ol in the sti-l
tion house it was frustrated by the police,
In a rago he attempted, it is alleged, |@:
shoot a policeman.
‘ Mrs. George It. Black recently pur
chased a 600 pound bell for All Sain is
Episcopal Church in Sylvania, G;i. It is
a memorial bell, and upon its side is this
inscription: ' '“To the glory of God-and
in loving memory of George R. Black,
who entered into rest November 3,1886;”
Jennie. Bo'wman, tho brave-young do
mestic, whose J brutal treatment.. by the
negroes, Turner and Patterson in Louis-'
ville, Ky., so aroused the people of that
city a few weeks ago, died from her inju
ries .recently. A fund of about $1,000
waa raised for her during her illness.
SI
ttijclgENef
7, . Orde? c^r'®|2hi B’lith, fit
bScomSttees of minor importahdf . ; To
wards the close, of the session, the sen-:
ddwmcnt committee reported unanimoiis-
lwin favor of $1,500 endowment, with
annual dues of $30. Hon. B. F. Petixotto,
of New York, made a stirring address,
urging united action in behalf of the
Jewish emigrants from foreign shores.
The supreme delegates of the Catholic
Knights of America met fit Chicago, III.,
recently. The organization is one of the
strongest of Catholic organizations in the
United States, and now numbers among
its-members fully 18,000 belie verb in that
faith. The supreme delegates represent
state societies, and two from each state
and territory were in attendance at the
recent meeting. They meet once in two
years, the last biennial session having
been held in New York city.
BATTLES ON PAPER
Somewhat Different In Aetna) DcStonstra-
1 tion,
Murat Halstead, of the Commercial-
Gazette, Cincinnati,, O.,. - prints in his
paper, over his own initials, a stricture
on Jefferson Davis’s historical inaccuracy
in that gentleman’s -recent criticism of
Gen. AVoiseley, on Lee at Fredericks
burg. Halstead maintains that Wolselev
was right. Halstead was at Fredericks-'
burg and knows -whereof be speaks, and
sharply criticizes Davis, saying: “Davis,
in criticising Wolseley for -saying that
Burnside’s army was in a ‘tight place’ at
'Fredericksburg, and allowed to escape,
falls'into a strange error which lie re
peats and dwells upon, of assuming that
there were two natioual%rmies, one un
der Burnside, arid'another within sup
porting distance on the north under
Hooker, and out of this theory of two
armies Davis makes the assertion that
Burnside’s troops were not in a tight
place. Hooker did not have au inde
pendent command. He had charge of
one of the three grand divisions of Burn
side’s army. The other two were under
Franklin; and Sumner, Hooker was in
the battle of the first day, personally giv
ing orders to Humphreys that he had re
ceived from Burnside, to continue the
hopeless Attack on the stonewall, and
vainly attempting; to support it with
artillery. - Stonewall Jackson is reported
to have advised a night attack on the
troops in. Fredericksburg, and if he had
known how greatly they had been dam
aged ho would almost certainly have
made tlm attack. Thpreis no doubt that
after their repulse, they were in a dan
gerous situation, justifying Wolseley’s
phrase of a ‘tight place.’ ”
FRANCE VS. GERMANY.
Two commercial men named Weissman
and Patricia, who were parties to a bitier
fp-ud, met in met in a cafe in Paris;
Fran ce. The . proprietor, Terrian, to
ovoid a row, asked Weissman to leave the
place. This enraged the-latter, and in
*he. shuffle which followed, Weissman
drew a sword' stick and mortally pierced
Terrian. A crowd collected, and believing
that Weissman was a German, tried to
lynch him.
' NUISANCES.
The narrow gauge railroad must go.
President Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow
gauge miles, s#s; they are “first-class
nuisances.
Mbs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, inO
Washington, D. C., authoress will visit
Europe this summer.
_ Queen Vi,ctc®a is determined to vin
dicate Lady Colin C'aiiipbell. Hey method
of doing this will be to receive the young
woman at court.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now
nearly sevent y years old, is a great sports
man, and has shot in his Tliurmgian for
ests some 1,100 stagS;
/‘ Gen. Sheridan takes a fide through
the. Shenandoah valley every spring.
This year he will be accompanied by one
his aides and Senator Cameron, of Penn
sylvania. ,
i PnoF. Young of Princeton College,
N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the
sun in August next at Kireshama, in the
government of Kostroma, Russia.. His
companions will be the scientific repre
sentatives ttf Russia and England.
. M ia now almost certain that thfe Med
ical Society of Washington will take no
further stops in the case of Dr; Z. JV
Sowers, who recently talked, indiscreetly
:gbout President Cleveland’s adiposity,
SoWers has had a big advertisement.
Gen. C; A. Evans ( and Hon. .Patrick
Walsli, of Augusta, Ga ., have been talk-
ifilS -wp the proposed Chattanooga &
Ati? ustfi railroad to the people of Chatta-
Gen. Evafis is president of the
comraSSZ’* an< i ii 16 prospects for the con-
structiohii4 tlie road are good,
Ai.KCTURNte? 11 “Golden Opportunities
and Hbw to .Them’.’asked J ohn
Wanamaker the pStttefifiJijJjia 1111 0 1 onair
clotliier, Which of his opportili?
been most useftii to hint “Thinking
trying, toiling, trusting in God,. is all of
my biography,” replied the great Shop
keeper.
Frank VizETEi,LT,the artist, supposed:
to have perished iff tile ill-fated expedi
tion, is said to be alive. A Syrian Greek
who lias arrived at Cairo says that among
the European prisoners at Khartoum is “a
short,) stout man, with a full beard,
weafing glasses.” There is every reason;
to suppose that this man is Yizeteily,
Gen. S. B. Buckner is a man of middle
stature, ' with small, piercing blue eyes,
snow-white mustache and imperial And a
rather ruddy face,' He is between sixty-
five and seventy years of age. He is
wealthy. His real estate in Chicago is
said to be worth $500,000, About two
years;ago be married, as his second wife,
a reigning belle of Richmond, "Va. - :
Jefekson Davis has Written a review of
Gen. Wolselye’s “Life of Gen; Lee.”
Mr. Davi.s takes exceptions to many of
the English general’s statements, and,
.while not finding fault with the superla
tive opinion of Gen. Lee’s military ability
expressed in the book, lie shows plainly
(hat he eonsidexs .Gen; Woilseley t s criH-
cismS of other Southern leadei-s unjust
and unwarrantable., ,
NATIONAL CAPITAL
gossip About the President, His Cabjne!
and Other Notables, I
BUMBEj
What Southern Men are Being Itecoffniz(d-
Intereatina Items About the National
Drill, Etc., Etc, *
: The interesting historical problem as
to whit kind of dot lies George Waslung-
ton wore, at his inauguration has *een
settled. 1 llis suit on that occasion was
made of cloth from the Hartford woollen
manufactory, the first woollen': mill in
America, established in 1788. The color
of the doth was dark brown. The Pres
ident wore white silk stockings, also of
American manufacture.
Scan'iai, seems to be the order of the
day at the Austrian court. There is
trouble between the >Crown Prince. Ru
dolph and pretty little Crown Princess
Stephanie);; they, have been on the verge
of separation, but the Emperor has person
ally interposed as a peacemaker, and in
stead of leaving- Rudolph for good,
Stephanie, will oiily deprive him of her
presence for a few weeks, while she goes
home to Belgium to pout and be consoled
by papa and mamma.
Jorkrhus Compton, present member of
the Legislature of Alabama, has left his
home mysteriously. Compton rattled in
St. Clair Co. four years ago, coming from'
Kentucky, so he stated. Ho took up his
abode in the little town of Eden, where
he followed the trade , of a carpenter.
His life: Was: exemplary, and in a year or
so lie was elected town- marshal. Last
year, after a seasonable probation, Comp
ton was licensed as a Methodist preacher,
and his sermons and exhortations were
qf the most fervid and eloquent charac
ter.. It turhs out, that thirteen years ago
he was engaged iu making moonshine
whiskey in one of the mountain counties
of North Carolina and .shot an officer, for
which he was imprisoned, but- escaped.
He was tracked, antt a f requisition was is
sued for him recently, but he escaped
the officers.
PERMANENT PROSPERITY.
President Alfred Sully, of the Rich
mond & West Point R. R. system, said,
on returning to New York :
“I went over some of our South Caro
lina lines, East: Tennessee roads and the
Georgia Pacific. I found them, all in
very good condition and a great boom
down there in real estate and mining in
terests. There is a lull in Birmingham
real estate sales, but there is a very large
amount of building going on. There
seems .to be a remarkable amount of en
terprise manifested in the South, espec
ially in Alabama and Eastern; Tennessee,
developing the natural resources of the
country. There is no question but that
the newly developed manufacturing in
terests of the South are upon a perma
nent basis, and I believe that Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee will add 50 per
cent. io their material wealth in the next
five years.”
REMEMBERING heroes.
The monument to the Confederate dead
of the battle of Bentonville was unveiled
at Smithfield, Johnston county, N. C.
Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Washington, d!
C.„ delivered an address. Many distin
guished men were present, among them
Were Hon. William R. Cox, State Com
missioner of Agriculture Robinson and
others. ;
NEW CORPORATION.
Judge Clarke, of the Superior Court
Atlanta, Ga., recently gran ted; a charter
to the Atlanta Construction Co. The in
corporators are E. P. Barns, W. K. Park
ins' and James A. Barns. The objects
are contracting, building, etc.; etc The
capital stock is $10,000, with the privi
lege of being increased to $100,000.
^ AgjKS FOB CLSilfENOY.-. : :
Secretary Bayard sent a telegram; to
Minister Manning, stating that; the re
ports concerning the executions of the
Mexican attny officers at Nogales have
been most conflicting, and that the Uni
ted States government would view vnth
deep regret the imposition of a .penalty so.
extreme, and. instructs him to say that
mitigation would be regarded by pne
United States With favor. -
SILVER dollars.
Ever since tliC treasury department be
gan the issue of small silver certificates,
there has been a gradual return to the
treasury; of standard silver dollars previ
ously ifl circulation. . The demand for
these certificates iias been so great of late, |
however, that the supply, has beebme
nearly e-xhausted. The effect of thjs has
been to slightly increase the circulation,
of silver dollars.
Fort brooNs to be sold.
Actifig Secretary Muldrow, in the case
of Daniel Mather, has directed the com
missioner of the general . land office to
appraise and dispose of by sale the land
of Fort Brooks, Fla., abandoned military
post, under act July 5th, 1884, except as
to those tracts Of not more than 160 aqres
settled occupation^has been cotp-j" recover 50,000 francs damages for an at
tinuoiis since
settlers will be
LATEST NEWS,'
Gov. Hill, of New York, has signed:
the half-holiday bill. Hereafter, every
Saturday afternoon wiU be a legal holi
day in New York. •’J
Thq high license bill passed the Pefih-- :
sylvania Senate by a vote of 36 to ll.
The bill was at once returned ta the
House for concurrence in Senate amend
ments. After a brief - ‘discussion, (the '
Rouse concurred in theriamendmentss^ii
yeas122, nays 57.
The Gettysburgh Memorial A®iocia-
tion, who. declined recently to assist in
the erection of a monument to commem
orate' the magnificent charge of Pickens
at Gettysburg’s great battle, ifla pri
vate corporation and has no connection
with any veteran Union organization.
No doubt the association will be “sat
down” upon very emphatically by the
Union soldiers, who at all times! show a
disposition to recognize Confederate he
roism.
New York city was recently enveloped
Din a dense fpg for three days.
• : VM. Lamoureaux, maijjiger Of the Eden
theatre, in which “LolieiWiii” was pro
duced recently, but which waSkwithdrawh
owing to the opposition, by apportion <
the people, fo German works, H
suit against the newspaper La France to'
m/
m.
allowed to enter tTR*A* .knds under the
.aomestead or pre-emption laWjs : „
Chicago bequest denied.
Application has been made to the treaP
ur# department by Chicago for permis-
sion to stamp and remove for consump
tion certain imported. manufactured
tobacco and snuff in packages, containing
quantities other than provided lnsectiom.
8862' Revised Statutes. The depart
ment's has denied the application on the
ground that the law (Revised Statutes,
section 337,) prohibits the .withdrawal
for consumption m the XJnited States lm-
ported packages other than those pre
scribed in section 3862.
NOTES.
Mrs. Cleveland does not assist her hus
band at public feeeptions, and it causes
gome disappointment sometimes.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union are determined to stamp out the
immodest cigarette photographs.
An inquiry about the strength of the
militia in Pennsylvania, caused a mis-
ihiey.ibjlS'cahltd about the; fisheries CQH:y
troversy.
The President has appointed James W.
Hyatt, of Connet tkat>-. ta,b.e...toeasurer of
tbv United States to succeed Gonyad^^
Jordan, i >• gift 1
7 -° -x g - |„-
The evangelic^!3mfl|^^eldj>.!w
ing to arrange for asenes-6f revival ser.y-.
Vices, and several noted evangelists wiu
take part in them.
Justice Woods, of the United. States
supreme court, is critically ill at his home
in Washington, D. C., and his death-may
occur at any moment.
The Comptrbller of the Currency lias
authorized the Western National Bank, of
the City of New York, to begin business
with a capital of $3,500,000. Daniel
Manning is the president «f the bank.
( Edward G. Russell, a young brother ,
of lion. R. B. Russell, of Athens, Ga.,
has been appointed to a cadetship at An
napolis Naval Academy. He was ap
pointed to succeed his ■ brother, Robert
Lee-Russell, who is now cruising off
Panama.
The Department of State is publishing
a series of reports submitted by United
States ministers and consular officers rel
ative to emigration to this country from
the various countries of Europe, which,
;in an interesting manner, gives a sketch
of .the emigrants, their native disposition
and the prospects of their; becoming val
uable citizens of the United States.
: An order .was issued from the war de
partment by direction of the President,
dropping 2d Lieut- John Shaw (appoint
ed from New York) from the rolls of tlie
army. Lieut, Shaw was charged with
duplicating his: pay accounts, but disap
peared before he Was arrested.
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tack madefupon the opera.
A Ion® circular, said to have been sen;
put tojfll prominent Knights of Laboj
ndsejjiretaries of assemblies in Califoi
HH^Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Ill*
nois, Michigan and Missouri, by local as
sembly 8,133, of Portland, Ore., d||
nounces General. Master Workman Pog
derly for his rejoicing over the result
the Chicago municipal election, and
bodifes resolutions passed by the ass
bly demanding that Mr. Powderly be,
posed from office.
An accident occurred at the
Thompson steel Works, at PittSbUrg„Pa
that cost five lives. Furnace . E,
blown -out a few days ago. A ga;
men were put to work clearing ii
An arch had formed, composed of coke,
limestone and other
still at red heat-, and part of.:Afie
were working beneath jm^nasSj.. V1
out warning, the arch gf.ye - wny!
hot matter was tln<5v^^f^ %fFdireef!
knocking many, men down; urcl .oj.
instances almost Oniryiug tl'.em.
T.y: Aiiu-i-u-au pajier wheels' for
unfl.ttot;thenmD
Germani^rSilway ki
g^ll^^scffirfcraedjheffi.;
. Walter Vrooman, an editor of
City, Mo., made a socialistic’ spoc
Pittsburg, Pa., and,'denouncing
thorities and. the American
jailed. -
Count Shovalow, Susaian ambassadd4
to Berlin, is the bearer of an aufpgiaph
letter from 'the Czar, assuring the Etn-|
peror William of Russia’s continu|d
friendship. ; -
A rousing - meeting - o^ representatiye
men was held in Ohicago|^ Hl., recently.,
to give expression to Ame^eansenti^^F^
in opposition to the suspension of co^®
tutional liberty in Ireland. About 6,000.
were present, drawn priiteipally from
well-to-do classes. Mayor Roche preside
ed, and most of the speakers were citi
zens of American birth, such as Governor
Oglesby, Rabbi Hirsch, Wirt Dfe^j^
Rev. Dr, Bolton, Congressman Mason atftj
Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de
nounced the coercion bill now pending in
the British Parliament. Resolution^
similar in tone to the speeches
adopted.
' TWO OCEAN DISASTERS.
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Ail uNHAFPY LORD,
Made So, by an Irish Editor.
At Montreal, Can., Mr. O’Brien the
Editor of the Dublin United Irishmen,
had a great ovation and made a speech m
which' he said: ;%“I pome not to offer of
fense to any section or class of the Cat
nadiatlrpeople.. Quite the .contrary; I
come not to meddle in Canadian affairs--
not to deal with the career of Lord Lans-
downe as governor-general, but as the.
exterminator of five hundred human
beings, This being a free country, we
cannot expect everybody to agree
with
5is; but I believe we have such a strength
of justice and truth upon our side the
when all have heard our story, ail wilt oe
convinced:. And that- the Canid tan pro
pie will stretch out their hands and sav
the lives and properties of these
hundred poor tenants of Luggaourr ,
for both are at this moment at.yourme, y
and in your hands.” It is v
Orangemen will meet Mr. O’Brien s ;‘ S
ments by violence, and .ample P re l ): ' 1
are being made to prevent bloodsn
The French steamer Lajlretagnfe
tain Do Joussoli, from New Tori
Havre, France, reports that during
night of April 30th she collided withaim
sunk a Norwegian bar^. The crew ®
the hark was saved. The steamer .
Champagne, which sailed.; for Now Yora
from Havre, and which afterwards re
turned, having been in collision, was
run into by the stunner Ville de Rto.
The latter steamer sank,- but her crew aud,
passengers were saved. Tlie collision ' t
caused a panic among the Italians on a
board the Champagne, who nuidc a rjisli
for a life boat and caused it to cap.-;/c. ^
Thirty-five of thein wert drowned, in aapg ey
ffition to three sailors 5 whq Hrie&»fIF|gti^:
vent the rush. The steamer ville d^ cur .
Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians ,duitg*\^
to the capsized Ufa '•boafestSHF 1 ™ - ™*
A Small Boy Objects.
HEEDING BRITISH SCHOONERS.
The U. S. revenue cutter, Richard
Rush, has been ordered; to proehed to
Sitka, Alaska, where she; will take a
United States marshal aboard and convey
him to Ouna, Alaska, for the purpose o
selling, at auction, two British
seized in Behring’s sea last year for Uteg
seal fishing.
RUINED BY A DAW.
Another failure in the barbed wire
business has taken place in conseijue
of the Intersttfle law. The
of Schnabel & Co. Their h a W«™
reach $803,000, and their assets are abou
$176,000,
The Leadvillo Messenger says:—Pro
fessor N. Luceocknvas dow* in Alleg
heny county officiating at i wedding, m
which his brother was. the happy groom,
in the presence of two hundred, and fifty
fashionable guests. The solemn ques- .
Hons which plighted the pair to eaoo |^[
other- had. been solemnly asked. The Nost- j
hushed assemblage heard, “If any man A-D. j
knows aught why this man and woman
should not become man and t ,t byi
him now speak or hold Ms peace 1811a
ever,” when, to the astonishment of, aRj*
a little boy ran to where tlie ceremonoadwayl
was being performed, and, going in frot^.
oi the minister, said,—... I
bride and groom, nervou3 ,f-^ kbr) *
almost faihted. The see. t
dramatic. The lad was of longj^aadiniJ
and was adopted by tlie
very f'nd of Miss: Mag * .
asked to explain, said
going away. It requi^aMHaMMEn
the minister and brida
their equanimity,