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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1887.y /■ ;
Money Pouring into the South for Mills,
foundries, Railways, Etc.
Anniston, Ala., is to have car and lo
comotive works.
Union, S* C. is to have a new cotton
factory, with a capital stock of $150,000.
Angus McGilvray will build the Tech-,
nological school at Atlanta, Ga., for
$43,250.
Chattanooga, Tenn., is about to have
, a first-class factory for building improved
fire apparatus.,
| . The new railroad from Strasburg, Va.,
to the West Virginia state line, will have
a capital of $1,000,000.
The John P. King Manufacturing Co.
of Augusta, Ga., has added to its cotton
factory 70 looms and 3,000 spindles.
The authorities of Crowley, : La., de
cline to build a frame court-house and
, will erect a substantial building of brick;
Muldrar Station, Miss., is going in for
a creamery with all the modern improve
ments. It will be run on the co-opera
tive plan.
T ‘!>“ r • -- The Etowah Iron & Manganese Co.
’“^^terve'C&ntractedwjth the Cartersville, Ga.,
■ Land Improvement Co. to erect a 100-ton
: : i;Lfurnace during the summer.
So great is the demand for an extra
quality of brick, that a company with
$100,000 capital starts in Nashville,
Tenn. , to supply brick machines.
The contract to build the 70 miles of
the Atlanta & Hawkinsville Railroad in
Georgia, has been let to S. L. James. It:
^ is to be completed by January, 1888.
: * The Welburn Hill gold' mine, a few,
miles south of Murphy, N. C., and near
the Georgia state line, is to be reopened
and worked by a company of Chatta
nooga capitalists recently organized for
that purpose.
In Savannah, Ga., a large amount of
building is going on or projected. The
Union Society and the Catholic Library
Association will each build a $25,000
building, a magnificent hotel is projected,
and a cotton oil seed company of Phila-
C* delphia, will build a mill.
'lire report of the Elyton Land Com
pany, of Birmingham, Ala., is an account
of wonderful progress, Starting 15 years
r "' with a cash capilal of $100,000, it’s
uotowqJ comparison by last years’ sale of
.. lands of $4,866,955, and the present esti
mated value of the property is $15,000,-
000.
| Under the auspices' of the Patrons of
Husbandry, of Alabama, Tennessee,
Georgia, North Carolina and South Car-
. olina an Inter-State Farmers’ encamp
ment will be held at Spartanburg, S. C.,
from August 2d to 6th, inclusive. 'The
object of this gathering is mainly to bring
the farmers of those five states together to
consult about the most improved farm
appliances.
WARMLY RECEIVED.
Banquet Oiveo lo Jell rsoi Davis.—A
Large Assemblage Cirectit Him.
A public reception was given Jefferson
Davis at the residence of Col. J. R. Mc
Intosh, at Meridian, Miss. For two
hours, a perfect stream of people passed
through the parlors and shook hands
with the ex-chieftain and his beautiful
daughter, Miss Winnie. Mr. Davis was
in his hest humor and had a pleasant
word for each one that shook his hand.
A bapqnet aud reception was given in
Ihc'eourt-house grounds. Mr. Davis
made a short address, in which he
thanked the people of Meridian for their
most cordial reception. At this point
members of the press association as
cended the platform in a body and pre
sented their respects to him. A floral
wreath was brought in and E. H. Dial
presented it to Mr, Davis in the name of
the women of Meridian. Mr. Davis, in
accepting it, said :
“God has graced the South with beau
tiful flowers and lovely women. The
nfost blessed of women are those of our
Southland. With such feeling expres
sions, these beautiful flowers which were
arranged so artistically by loving hands,
are more beautiful than anything that has
been given to me.”
The second toast was to ‘‘Jefferson
Davis—the soldier, statesman, and
champion of. Southern rights.” It was
responded to by Hon. Thomas H. Woods.
—Mr. Jtoris apologized for the short ad
dress he made, and said that he was quite
fatigued by the day’s exercises. Con
tinuing he said:
“With inferior numbers of men we
inarched onward fighting for our rights,
and battle after battle was 'fought and
won, but Northern historians have never
conceded that, and indulged in triumphs
of mind over matter. But now those
scenes and incidents have passed, and
they only live in minds and history.
United you are now, and if the Union is'
ever to be broken, let the other side
break it. The army of the South will
shine forever around camp-fires, and will
still shine to our children and children's
children. The truth wo fought for, shall
not encourage you to ever fight again ;
but keep your word in good or evil, and
God bless you all.”
MONTE CRISTO RIVALED.
Ad Eastern Potentate Bnrlei His Wealth,
Which Is Fowndby tho British Govern
ment.
The financial secretary of India has
advised the Home government of the
discovery of an immense amount of
treasure, estimated at $25,000,000, which
had been secreted in the palace of Gwalfe
by the late maharajah. The treasure has
been sunk in pits under vaults beneath
Zehara. The secret was entrusted to a
few confidential servants, who finally re
vealed it to the secretary. After remov
ing the earth to the depth of six feet,
the workmen uncovered great flagstones.
Beneath these stones were several pits
filled to the brim with silver, chiefly
freshly coined rupees. In each pit was a
plate recording the amount of treasure
and {lie names of officials who bad as
sisted in secreting it. The government
has taken the hoard as a loan from the.
young maharajah. Native papers protest
against this action of the government.
PERSONAL.
Samuel Coustns, R. A., the engraver,
is dead. He was eighty-six years old.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY
paid $50,000 for his Washington D. C.,
home.
The widow of the late Gen. Winfield
S. Hancock is visiting friends in Albany,
N..Y.
Queen Kapiolani wept on leaving
Washington. Many a politician knows
just how sbe felt.
Roscoe Conkung and Col. Ingersoll
never walk, even a short distance, if they
can find a street car.
Rev. John Waldron, one of the most
.widely known Roman Catholic clergj-
ifien in the West, died in Chicago, IIL^
after a long illness.
Italian opera having ceased to be
fashionable at St. Petersburg, Ruben-
stein intends to establish a national Rus
sian opera in that city.
Madame Patti always wears with
pleasure two inexpensive bangle bracelets,
from which depend. small golden disks
with Hebrew words engraved thereon.
Queen Victoria, in celebrating her
golden jubilee of a fifty years’ reign, is
only following a precedent set her by
Henry III, Edward III and George HI.
Mr. Parnell, the Irish leader, is sick
with cancer of the stomach, the disease
which killed the great Napoleon; his
condition is causing anxiety to his friends.
Rev. Dr. James T. Curran, of New
York, recently disciplined by Archbishop
Corrigan, is following Dr. Glynn out of
the Catholic Church into Henry George’s.
Irving Fisher,! a Yale student; has in
vented-an apparatus for recording the
length and strength of the stroke polled
by each member of a rowing crew. It is
already in use.
Senor Macedo, Portuguese minister
of Marine, has tendered his resignation
in consequence of a dispute in the Cham
ber with a deputy, who struck the minis
ter in . the face. The deputy has been
court-martialed.
Sir John . Ashley, the " well-known
London sporting patron, captured a stal
wart pickpocket lately who had.,stoien
his watch and gave him a severe' thrash
ing before handing him over to'ithe po
lice.
Duluth, Minn., boasts among the
names of her citizens the following.:
Spring, Winter, Summer, Breeze^Rainey,
Dewey, Frost and Snow, Tho'. climate
around Duluth is very fickle, it should
be understood.
Mayor Hewitt has induced the'? tpen-
ing of the Museum of.Natural Hiiji«|v,yu^.
Sundays. The city will pay $i5,(Jmj a
year to meet the-extra expenses and the
working people will have a place Where
instruction and entertainment can bo
combined in their only hours of leisiui^&
Pawi says that Americans ought to be
very proud of Mrs. Cleveland, When the
diva'was in Washington, she and the
President’s wife exchanged pictures and
autographs. Mrs. Cleveland promised to
visit Patti at Craig-y-nos some time in
the future.
Washington Irving Bishop, the mind-
reader, has added another feature to his
public entertainments. In Cincinnati the
other evening he opened his performance
with a brief leoture on the rottenness,
corruption, and general rascality of the
New York press. It is alleged he skipped
his board bill in several places.
Henry Fink, Vice-President of the
East Tennessee,Virginia & Georgia road,
has been elected Vice-President of the
Richmond & Danville, and in this dual
capacity will act as the general operating
officer of the Richmond Terminal system,
of Which these two lines form a part,
and his headquarters will be in New
York,
John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, Neb.,
President of the jrish League, is having
photographs taken of the letters and doc
uments in the handwriting of Pigott,
which were submitted to the expert com
mittee for comparison with the London
Times fac-simile letter, and will forward
copies to Mr. Parnell and his friends and
to the leading members of the Gladstone
party, so that they may compare the
handwriting for themselves with that of
the Times letter.
Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor,
returned from Florida recently, and is
now at his home in Llewellyn Park, N.
J., in a condition that excites the live
liest anxiety of his friends and admirers.
His deafness, which has been bad for
twenty years, is greatly aggravated, and
he is confined to his room and most of
the time to his bed. He himself, so far
from being alarmed, maintains his usual
good spirits, and insists that he will be
“up in a few days.”
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES,
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
aid Other Notables.
Wbat Southern Man are Being Recognized—
Interesting Item* About the National
Drill, Etc., Etc.
FUNERAL OF JUDGE WOODS. *
The funeral of the late Justice Woods
took place at Newark, O,; the funeral
arrangements were in charge of the su
preme court of the United States, the
justices being honorary pall bearers,
while the active pall bearers, in accord
ance with the established custom, were
the members of the-court. Private re
ligious services were at tbe house by Dr,
ident Cleveland, Gen, Sherman and
Sheridan, and justices of the supremo
court were present at the services in
Washington.
PROSPERING.
Mrs. Kate Chase, who is living quietly
at Edgewood, lias, many marks of atten
tion shown her from Justice Chase’s old
friends. Her financial fortunes are re
viving with the boom in suburban real
estate. She has recently been offered
$150,000 by a syndicate for the Edge-
wood property.
DROPPED DEAD.
Geo. A. Whiting, a printer, who has
been employed on The Post, was attacked,
with hemorrhage from the lungs while at'
work at the case, and died in a few
minutes. He was about thirty years of
age and unmarried. By a singular, coin
cidence, the heading over his last “take”
was \ Life or Death Struggle.”
DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE VISITORS.
Gen. T- Tani, deputy minister of the
Japanese department of Agriculture and
Commerce, accompanied by a stall of of
ficials, arrived, and will wait on President
Cleveland. The gallant general, who is a
rather elderly man and a veteran of sev
eral wars, in which he was severely
wounded, is an enthusiastic admirer of-
Mrs. Cleveland, whose pictures, he says,
excite in Japan a lively interest.
FASTING SOCIETY WOMAN.
Mrs. Moses, of Dupont Circle, who
fasted for twenty-one days, and has not
in all that time taken a morsel of nour
ishment except a teaspoonful of liquid
three times a day, surprised the guests at
a fashionable reception by singing some
exquisite songs in a clear, strong aud ex
cellent voice, her daughter, Miss Nellie
Moses, acconlfianying her, and then
broke her fast. Bhc says she jrefer felt.
Getter in her life. w ~
DENOUNCING IDOLS.
The Irish College of Rome Does Not Be
lieve in Parnell and Gladstone*
A memoir is about to be issued from
the Irish college at Rome on the existing
troubles in Ireland. The document after
repudiating the action of Mr. Parnell,
concludes by saying: The party with
whom Mr. Gladstone has now identified
himself for the furtherance of the revolu
tionary movement which has for its
avowed object the dismemberment of the
united kingdom, have done everything
possible of late to persuade Catholics, 1 n
their speeches, in and out of Parliament,
that the vicar of Christ was in favor of
it. Could the English government be
brought to believe this outrageous calum
ny, what would they think of the Pope?
What would the Emperors of Austria,
Germany and China think of him? What
would the worlfi at large think of him?
What would non-Catholics, who believe
in revelation, think of the Catholic
church if its head on earth cpuld view,
except with profound sorrow, the move
ment which is filling Ireland with anar
chy and devastation? Woe to the move
ment which,unless its days are threatened,
will leave the land that once flowed "with
milk and honey, a desert without re
ligion.”
NOTES.
RUSSIAN TROUBLES.
A dispute arising at Narva, Russia, be
tween tbe peasants and landowners about
the ownership of some woods, a riot took
place and many were Trilled.
■ Henry C. Rothrock,of North Carolina,
has been appointed to a $1,600 clerkship
in the Assistant Postmaster-General’s
office.
Judge T. M. Cooley, chairman of the
Inter-State Commerce Commission, * is
now in Washington, and regular sessions
will be 1 resumed.
The President has appointed Byron L.
Smith, of Chicago, to be a commissioner
to examine thirty-four miles of railroad
constructed by the Northern Pacific R.
R. Co.
President Cleveland received an invita
tion from Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, and
the Mayor of Nashville to be present at
the opening of the Industrial Exposition
at Nashville.
The government receipts have been
heavy, and the expenditures less than
usual. The available surplus, according
to the treasurer’s calculations, is now
stated at $42,000,000.
Secretary Harrell, of the North Caro
lina Teachers’ Assembly, has invited
President Cleveland to visit the assem
bly during the coming session at More-
head City, June 14th to 29th.
President Cleveland, a few days ago,
for the first time in his life, visited the
tomb of George Washington. Arriving
at Mt. Yernon, an hour or .so was spent
in rambling about the historic spot.
The Secretary of War has received
news that Leah Diaz, the Apache Indian
chief, charged with the murder of Lieut.
Mott, U. S. A., on the San Carlos reser
vation, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree.
Gen. Greeley has received through the
Suiretary of War the gold medal present
ed to him by the Paris Geographical So
ciety in recognition of his valuable addi
tions to the knowledge of high latitudes
and their flora and fauna.
Frederick 0. Prince, ex-Mayor of Bos
ton and representative of the -Indian
Rights Association, had a conference
with Secretary Lamar, at the latter’s re
quest, upon the.question of the selection
of the proper persons to carry into effect
the Indian Severalty, law.
By the terms of the convention of na
tions for the “protection of industrial
property, ” recently ratified by President
Cleveland, citizens.of the United States
have the privilege, not heretofore enjoyed
by them, of obtaining valid patents 'in
any of the countries which are members
of the convention, at any time within the
period of seven months after the patent
is obtained in America.
A JERSEY BRUTUS
Who Locked Up Bis Wife, Becanse She
Did Not Behave.
j Justice Weiss, of Paterson, N. J., deal*
out more Jersey justice than any other
member of the judiciary in Passaic
county. He has often been called upon
to act as j udge on the case of . some per
son who was his friend, and without
flinching, performed the duties of his of
fice in a fair and impartial manner. His
wife was arraigned before him the other
morning, and with as much nonchalance
as. if she had been a stranger, he com
mitted her to the county jail. A few
months ago the justice was a widower,
and, feeling his loneliness, married his
housekeeper, the present Mrs. Weiss.
Recently Mrs. Weiss developed symp
toms of insanity, but the judge took mat-
ters quietly until Wednesday night, when
the domestic trouble reached its climax.
Mrs. Weiss made an inquiry of her spouse,
and not receiving a satisfactory reply at
tacked him, shying a goblet, lamp and
some crockery at the court’s head.
SOUTHERN NEWS]
One of the grandest affairs that ever
took place in Kentucky, came off at Hop
kinsville, at the dedication of a Confed
erate monument; |i '
Four colored convicts, at work on the
governor’s house at Raleigh, N. C., made
a break for liberty; three were shot and
one escaped.
Rev. James W. Payne an evangelist
made a stand at Atlanta, Ga., and was
successful enough to attract the attention
of a lovely young lady, who wedded
him. The happy couple will make Nash
ville, Tenn,, theirjpermanent home.
New York capitalists purchased for
about $300,000, the Mobile, Ala., city
railroad, twelve miles of track, stables,
rolling stock, one hundred acres of laud,
farm buildings, etc,; the Dauphiu street
railroad, two miles '{rack, stables, rolling
stock, etc., and Spring Hill ,railroad,
seven miles of track, etc. The purchase
includes all the street railroads in the
city and is a bargain.
The Virginia Beach railroad and water
ing place hotel property on the ocean,
seventeen mile* from Norfolk, Va., were
sold at auction for $170,000 to-.a syndi
cate headed by Charles W. Mackey of
Franklin, Pa. | ,
The annual conclave of the Knights
Templar of Georgia, at Atlanta, Ga., was
a brilliant gathering, and Mayor Cooper
gave ah address of . welcome, to which
Grand .Commander Ballantyne responded.
Public exercises were held at the First
Methodist Church. I
At the instance of Inspector Griffin,
John B. Suttles, Jr., postmaster at Red
Oak, Campbell County, Ga., was arrested
by Deputy United States ? Marshal Ed,
Murphy. Suttles is Charged with having
made false returns of cancellations, his
object being to increase his salary. 1
A negro reported to the chief of pfilice
at' Birmingham, Ala., that he -had over-
beam a plot between two strange white
men and another negro to wreck and rob
near Leeds, twelve miles from the city,
an incoming train otfjhc Georgia Pacific
railroad. The railrh'ad officials were
notified, and their dispatches warned the
engineer, to keep a shipp lookout for ob
structions.
■ Jesse Hart, of Atlanta, Ga., sued the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad company, for $10,000 damages.
He alleges that on February 28th, 1887,
he was riding in a cab attached to a
freight train, when the track spread and
threw the cab from the rails, down 9n
embankment. He was crushed in the
hips and spine and otherwise bruised and
injured; 1 ^
The state (organization of the Knights
Of Pythias met at ^Savannah, Ga. , The"
uniformed, rank showed magnificently,
and Atlanta won the prize. The fol
lowing officers of the grand lodge were
elected:-- Grand Chancellor—J. M, Hun-
nicutt, of Atlanta, Vice-Grand Chancel
lor—H. S. Spinning, of Savannah, Grand
prelate—II. W. Doscher. of Augusta, G,
M. of Exchequer—M. M. Hill, of Au
gusta, G. ,K. of R. & S—James Naylor,
Jr., of Savannah, G. M. of A—W. -T.
Leopold, of Savannah, Grand Inner
guard— R, P. Paul,-of Darien; Grand
outer guard.
The buildings, etc., of Bluff Spring
camp grounds, near Barnhsville, Ga.,
were destroyed by an ineendiary fire.
■ Atlanta, has started the Georgia Indian
Association, a branch of the Woman’s
National Indian Association, with Mrs,
Dr. William King as President.
Rpfus Trammel, a contractor on the
East Alabama extension of toe C. & W.
railroad, is missing from Opelika, Ala.
His 400 laborers are anxious to see him
about three weeks* back pay.
. A negro military company picnicked
near West End, at Atlanta, Ga., and one
of the soldiers was placed on guard
duty; because a “citizen” came too near
the dead line the soldier stabbed him
three times with a bayonet, making three
ugly wounds.
Jack A. Holbrdok, of Grenada, Miss.,
a carpenter, was stabbed and killed” on
the public sidewalk, by E. J. Lo wen-
stein, a young grocery merchant and
proprietor of a restaurant, Only a -few
words passed between them, when Low-
enstein drew a four-inch bladed knife
and inflicted 4he blow near the collar
bone on the left side, ranging downward.
Holbrook remarked, “You’ve got me,”
walked several yards into W. E. Smith’s
jewelry store, where he fell and expired
in a few minutes.
Birmingham, Ala., has a ful-lfledged
Chamber of Commerce.
_ A mad dog made things pretty lively
in Atlanta,. Ga., until Detective Buch
anan laid him low with a pistol .shot.
Incendiaries tried to fire several houses
on Capitol avenue, Atlanta, Ga., but
happily failed in their dastardly work.
Romeon Bubiera, national secretary of
the Cuban federation’ of cigar makers,
who was expelled from Tampa, Fla., by
the vigilance committee, for attempting
to organize the cigar makers, has gone to
Washington D. C. to enter a claim for
$50,600 against the Spanish government,
which he claims, was at the bottom of
his expulsion.
Immense congregations greet Rev. Sam
Jones and Rev. Sam Small at their
services in Rome, Gta. Howell’s compress
has been specially fitted up for this pur
pose, and "will comfortably seat 5,000
people. All the railroads and steamboats
lea-iiug into Rome have given reduced
rates of fare, and hundreds are flocking
in from the surrounding country.
BRAVE OFFICER
THE POPE AND KNIGHTS.
The Pope, after having examined Car
dinal Manning’s justification of Cardinal
Gibbons’s memorial in favor of the recog
nition of the Knights of Labor by the
Roman Catholic Church, has instructed
Cardinal Simeohi, prefect of propagandi,
to confer With these cardinals and ’settle
the question in accordance ; with the
views of the Vatican.
KILLED IT HIS POST Of DUTY, AHD
ANOTHER MIN BADLY VOUKDED.
GONE DOWN.
The American ship Charles H. Mar
shall, which cleared from London. Decem
ber 5th, for Philadelphia, has not been
heard of since, and has been given up for
lost with her crew of twenty-three men.
Alexandria* va.. Excited Over the Devilish*
Um of a Gang of Burglars.
Julian Arnold, a policeman, was killed
and Ernest I. Padgett, a companion, was
hurt, at Alexandria, Va., while trying
to arrest burglars. Near the circus lot is
a salooh, kept by Sefer Blouse, who had
taken in considerable money during the
stay of a circus. Between 11 and 12
o’clock, Policemen Arnold and Martin,
observing two men whispering together
suspiciously, crept up near enough to
overhear theffi plan toe robbery of
Blouse’s Saloon. ■ While discussing what
it was best to do, the officers were joined
by another policeman and Padgett, who
had been an unsuccessful candidate for
police superintendent at the last election.
It was agreed that two of the officers
should notify Blouse of the intended rob
bery, while Arnold and Padgett should
come from the direction opposite Blouse’s
Saloon, and thus the four should .inter
rupt the burglars. In following out this
plan, Arnold and Padgett discovered two
men lying flat on their backs in the circus
ring. They called to the suspected bur
glars to surrender, and rushed forward to
capture them. As they did so, the two
men drew revolvers, and one of them
shot Arnold in^the breast and escaped,
Padgett knocked toe other man down
with a stick, when a life and death strug
gle ensued, the robber endeavoring to
kill or disable Padgett with a revolvey
shot. One of the bullets fired inflicted a
scalp wound just over Padgett’s ear, but
he held on to his assailant until the other
officers arrived and captured him. The
murdered man had been on the force six
teen years. .When but fifteen years of
age, he left home and entered the Con
federate service in Stonewall Jackson’s
brigade. He leaves a wife and four chil
dren, Alexandria is in a state of fever
ish excitement, and threats of lynching
are made on all sides. It is reported
that the policemen themselves were pre
vented from lynching Curran, one of the
burglars, by their superior officers, |
O’BRIEN IN TORONTO.
Great Crowds Assemble* and Many Scenes
of Disorder Ocenr in the Streets.
Editor O’Brien who Vent to Toronto
to assail.Lord Lansdowne for his treat
ment of his Irish tenants, when ' attempt
ing to speak in the Queen’s park was in
terrupted bv a crowd of Unfriendly Or-.
angeniea who groaned/hissed and, ( sung,
‘‘God Save The Queeni”and “Rule Bnt-
tannia.” At large force of policemen on
foot and mounted, under command of^j
Lieut. Col. Grassett were present and by
their coolness and determination prevented
bloodshed. There were frequent encoun
ters between Orangemen and nationalists,
in which sticks and fisfs were frequently
used. The Orangemen set up two stump
speakers to talk at the same time as Mr.
O’Brien. They roared themselves hoarse'
amid the frantic cheers and yells of their*
little coteries, who shouted in derisive,
chorus at those on the platform; “Pay
your rent?” Hurrah for Lansdowne 1”
“God save the Queen.!” After Mr.
O’Brien had delivered a lengthy address,
the Toronto branch of toe Irish National
League gave a banquet to Mr. O’Brien at
the Rossi n house. More, than 300 of the
most prominent Irishmen in the city sat
down. ttVhen the speeches began another
display of Orangemen was made. A fife
and drum band started out and paraded
up and down King street, playing “The
Protestant Boys,” “The Boyne Water,”
“.God Save the Queen!” and “Rule,
Brittannia.”
A LOVELY YOUNO LADY
Subjected to a Hint Cruel Experiment In
the Clty of Faria, France.
A sensational hypnotic experiment was
achieved at a private performance at the
Folies Bergere, in Paris, France, by a
beautiful young lady entering a cage of
lions, after she had been hypnotized by
M. de-Torcy, according to the methods
of Dr. Charcot. De Torcy'and the byp-
notizedfirang lady entered the cage, the
animals being kept in check by the lion
tamer. De Torcy compelled toe young
ladv to. fall on the lion’s backs, and to'
place her head, in a lion’s month, held
open for the purpose by the lion tamer.
The seance wound up by the young lady,
who had been put in.if rigid acute cata
leptic state—resting with her head on
one stool and her feet on another while
the lions jumped over her. One lion
placed its paws on the patieut’s thigh*
and caught in its mouth a piece of meat
attached to a cord, thereby firing a pis
tol fastened to the roof of the cage. The
lions all jumped about and roared furi
ously, and in the midst of the excite
ment De Torcy brought toe patient out
of toe hypnotic trance and removed her'
from toe cage.
TWO NEGROES KILLED
Because They Murdered a White Man.
A body of armed men surrounded the
Willis, Tex.:, calaboose, where two col
ored men, Andrew McGeche and J. B.
Walker, were confined, on a. charge of
shooting young Granville Powell, while
he was assisting some young ladies on a.
passeuger train. The mob overpowered
the- guard, ■ broke down the door, and
told Walker’s wife, who was present, to
get out. Then they opened fire on Mc
Geche and Walker, who were chained to
gether. Five minutes after the first, gun
was fired the mob had disappeared. Mc
Geche. was found lying dead in the cell
with eight bullet holes in his -body.
Walker was seriously wounded in three
places, but may recover.
AMBUSHED HIS FOREMAN.
Alexander Bloomfield was several years
ago discharged from the employment of
the Waterbury, Conn., Brass company
for drunkenness, and has always cherish
ed a grudge against Foreman Warren 8.
Frost, whom he held responsible for his
dismissal, He ambushed Frost as he was
driving with a companion to the mill,
wounded both, but not seriously, with a
double barrel shot gun. . Employes of the
mill surrounded him in the woods, but
before they could lay handg on him,
Bloomfield had blown nut his brains.
LATEST NEWS.
Janausqheb, the eminent actress, fell
down.a pair of stairs in a hotel at! New
port, R. L, and was badly hurt.jjj
Over 500 people formed an Abt»
eyty Society in New York eiSE
Rev. Dr. McGlynn as president j and
Henry George as vice-president.®
A fire broke out in the shanties |>ecu-
pied by about 300 Italian laboreqj'Dii the
Summit division of the Dulutll jS'OUth
Siictfe and Atlantic railroad, and,, cowing
to the scarcity of water, many of toe men;
lost their lives in fighting toe
Mr. O’Brien the Irish editoKjfh jjpSK
pretty hard time in the streets of Tj %on|
to, Can. The Orangemen assayed kins
with mud and brickbats, as lie was
ing in the^ streets and he goShfiistfeo
pretty badly. J. M. Wall, York
Tribune, reporter who was walkiugf with
Mr.- O’Brien, got a bad cut on the head.
Several policeman were injured in de
fending the assailed men,
■ ISSSli' a -. • ■,.
Five men who took an active part in
.the plot to assassinate the Czar were-ex
ecuted.
' The French Cabinet, headed by Minis
ter Goblet, have resigned, on account of
the rejection of its financial policy.
Owing to the failure of a compromise
between the executive of toe Knights of
Labor aiid toe manufacturers’ asssocia-
tioa at Haverhill, Mass.,, 'in regard to
the troubles at Chick Brothers’ shoe fac
tory, forty manufacturing establishments
closed their doors throwing out of em
ployment 7,000 persons.
R. Nelson Boyd, member of the insti
tute of civil engineers, London, who has
spent a good deal of time in personally
inspecting the Panama canal, says that
toe immense and' difficult work under
taken by Count DeEesseps cannot be ac
complished under six years from January
3 * 1887. Assuming lhat 1,000,000,000
francs have been absorbed by the exist
ing works, interest -on capital, etc., the
amount of capital required, will lie over
$500,000,000. ;
Mr, Gladstone, the Grand Old Man of
England, has, in recent Conversations
with his personal friefids, expressed a de
sire to visit: America. This has long been
a cherished thought in his mind, but its
execution has always presented so many
obstacles that it has never, until recently,
been expressed. An urgent request has
always been met with the reply, “I would
like ■ to, whenever public business per
mits.” The prospects: are that during
the coming autumn there will be a favor
able opportunity for a prolonged absence
from Parliament and England, If he
comes, he will visit the South.
The Boston, Mass., working brewers
have, struck for shorter hours and more
pay.
Germany will mobilize her army in
case the warlike plans of Gen. Boulanger
are adopted by France.
Count Herbert Bismarck is visiting the
Marquis of London, derry, the lord-lieu
tenant at Dublin, Ireland.
Geo. E. Reed, for two years city treasr
urer of Bismarck, Dak., is missing. It is
believed he has gone to Canada. His
accounts are said to be $9,000 short.
The steamer Arizona, which arrived at
New York recently, brought the remains
of Vicar-General O’Quinn, .who died
while on a visit abroad. It was taken to
the cathedral rectory, on Fifth avenue.
The authorities of New York have un
earthed two scoundrels on Sixth avenue,
who' have been posing school-girls in
Black Crook pictures. The 'men are
photographers and named Chapman &
Lewis.
By the advice of England, the Bulga
rian regents are meditating the proclama
tion of King Charles, of Roumania, as
prince of Bulgaria, thus virtually making
of the Danubian-Balkan provinces one
kingdom.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, in
speaking of popular errors, while visiting
a church, declared that every man had the
right to acquire, by honest means, as
much as he could, and cited toe Indians
as an example of the disastrous results of
the free land policy. He also said that
the latter idea was in direct opposition
to the deeree of toe Pope.
CROP BULLETIN
TRAIN WRECKING
laiued by the Signal Office at Washington. .
The weather has 'been wanner than
usual in all the agricultural districts east
of the Rocky mountains. The excess of.
the temperature over normal in the wheat
and corn regions .of Ohio, the upper
Mississippi and the lower Missouri val
leys, ranged from fifty to set'snty-five
degrees (a daily average of from about
six to eleven degrees above normal). In
the cotton regions,, the excess of the
temperature for the seaspn ranges.from
two hundred to three hundred degrees.
A slight rainfall during the week has
served to increase toe deficiency already - -
existing in the Southern.states, where the
rainfall since January 1st has been from
six to ten inches less than toe average
for toe season. Generally, in toe wheat
and corn regions of toe North, the week
; has been p exceptionally ..favorable fo?'.;
agricultural, .pursuits. The diT>' .warm;
weather continues intoho'CsttOU yegiQB§tia»—
east of the Mississippi, while rains west'
of toe Mississippi have bebffiifbrable to “
toe cotton crop. Although there is a large
deficiency in the rainfall in the cotton
region, the recent showers have improved
the.condition of the crop in toe lower
Mississippi valley, While the weather in
North and South Carolina and Southern
Virginia is reported as favorable for the
growth of the plant. ;
Madf. Unpopular in Mexico, by Shooting
Those Who Obstructed the Railway.
A train'on the Mexican National Rail
road ran over and killed a Mexican near
Patzeuaro. Friends of the dead man
undertook to retaliate, and put a big
rock on a curve. The engine of a pas
senger train struck it, and an American
engineer was injured and a Mexican fire
man killed. The Jefe Politico sent a
squad of Mexican gendarmes with in
structions to bring in every person sus
pected of any complicity whatever.
Thirty-three arrests were made. The in
vestigation resulted in the selection of
three victims, and sentence was imme
diately passed. Shortly after sunrise on
a recent morning the three were marched
to the scene of the disaster, stood up
before an adobe wall and a file of sol
diers, at ten paces distance, fired a volley
at them. The men fell at the first fire.
A sergeant stepped forward to the bod
ies, put a revolver close to each head and
blew out the brains. .The corpses lay for
some time where they fell, as a warning
against mere train wrecking, and were
buried near the scene of the wreck.
LAID DOWN HIS LITE
In Order tbat His Babe Might be Saved*
John Vorbank’s eighteen-months-old
babe had toddled down to the North
western railroad track, near his house at
Chicago, Ill., and sat down between the
tracks to play. The whistle from the
approaching switch engine attracted the
attention of the father, who was at work
in the yard and glancing up he saw his
child sitting on the track, calmly watch
ing the swift approach of the ponderous
machine. The father rushed toward the
trackj and -throwing himself directly in
front of the engine,* seized the child in
both hands and threw it'Safely to one
side, while he was crushed to cJcath.
A MANIAC’S DEED.
Raymond Biitsch, overseer’ of Wood-
lawn plantation, Plaquemine parish, La.,
was shot through by an insane man named
Ed. Williams, with a musket. The shcr-
iff of Plaquemine parish, accompanied by
Georg6 Osmond, editor of toe Plaquemine
Protector, started out to arrest- toe
maniad. When they approached Wil
liams he opened fire on them, shooting.
Osmond through the 1 neck, and, it Ts
thought, fatally injuring hup, ■ Yb R
sheriff then pursued the maniae, who
took refuge in his house. The house was
set on fire in order to dislodge Williams,
and when he came out to get water to
extinguish -the flames, fid vaa shot dead
by the sheriff. '
WON A'FORTUNE.
Mrs. Lizzie F. Carew, a sister of J.
and W. W, Williams, jewelers, of Ma
con, Ga., has won from the Secretary of
the Interior,'her claim to toe ownership
of the old military reservation at Tampa,
Florida. In 1888, this land was given
over to the State of Florida, and Dr.
Carew immediately entered the lands and
took possession. His death occurred last
year, and his widow fell heir to the
magnificent dowry, which is worth at
least one hundred thousand dollars.
FATALITY AMONG NEGROES.
Dysentery has been prevailing epidem
ically in Madison, Ga., for some time.
Among. the negroes it ip exceptionally
fatal and about two die each day. Since
toe report of grave robberies by parties
wishing to sell’ cadavers to toe medieal
colleges, the negroes have abandoned
burying their dead in the country church
graveyards, and bring “them to the town
cemeteries where they suppose they will
be less liable to be prematurely resur
rected for dissection.
BELIEVE IN THE LAW.
The East Tennessee Farmers’ Associa
tion, composed of the leading farmers of
the state, at their annual convention in
Knoxville, adopted resolutions, by an al
most unanimous vote, indorsing the In
ter-State commerce law, and expressing
the belief that it will result in relief to
the agricultural classes. *
- FACING A JURY. ; A:'Y j
Jake Sharp, “the notorious” of New
York city, has at last been brought into
court-on a charge-of bribing officials to
pass the Broadway, surface railroad.
HIGH-PRICED.
Mr. Barclay, of London, Eng., has re
fused Mr, Wright’s offqr of $109,000 for
the race horse Bendigo.
Orchard and Fruit. Garden.—If the
trees were properly heeled in, planting
may still be continued. Trees in' transit
in warm weather may either dry and the
bark become shriveled and heated, and
the buds push out long white shoots.
If the trees are shriveled, open a trench
large enough to hold them, lay in toe
trees, and cover them so that the soil
will come in contact with every branch
and twig; in a week or less the bark "will
regain its plumpness. ; ■ Where the buds
have started prematurely, cut back the
branches to a dormant end." Plant cut
tings of grape vines, currants, etc. , leav
ing but one bud at the surface; crowd
the soil hard against the lower end of
the cuttings. Newly planted grape-vines'
should bear but a single shoot. Layers
of old wood may be made. Watch for, 1
the ‘‘currant, worm”; whenever ragged
leaves appear, syringe with white helle
bore, a tablespoonful of the powder to a
pailful of water; repeat in five days.
Thoroughly weed toe strawberry bed
and apply a heavy mulch. Currants,
raspberries, and all other fruit-bearing
shrubs will be greatly helped by a mulch'
of straw, bog hay, or other litter. If
fruit is marketed, have boxesf crates,- ’
etc., ready, and look out for a sufficient -
force of pickers. As soon as the small-j:
webs are seen in the trees, remove them. -
Daily jarring the plum trees and - catch-, ’:
ing the enreulios on sheets,-is-the onli '?
way to treat this insect, ' • , '
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