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FAWNING- TO NONE dH4BITY TO ALL.
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VOLUME IX.
DOUGLASYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1887.
RUMBEF 16.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has rendered a decision declaring tjie
oleomargarine law passed at the 'ast ses-
sionof Congress constitutional, Attor
ney-General Garland had previously given
his opinion sustaining the constitutional-
~ ity of the law.
Farmer Keith, of Runnels County,
Texas, is noted for his big beard. It is
said to be five feet four inches long, ana
twenty-one inches wide in its broadest
pert. It is of a rich chestnut color, and
its owner, a prosperous sheep grower, is
very proud of it.
The latest religious sect in Russia has
been founded on the dogma that it is a
sin to let a fellow member suffer the mar
tyrdom of disease. Accordingly, when
anybody falls sick; one of the believers
goes to him and chokes him to death.
The person commissioned for the deed is
clad in red clothes, and is known as “the
red death.” Unfortunately, they do not
confine their delicate attentions to the
members of the sect alone, but, impelled
by a broad charity, seek to cure in their
peculiar way anyone, whoever he may
be, who has the misfortune to become ill.
That hostile and expensive old repro
bate, the fire fiend, has been more than
ordinarily demoniacal lately. During
March his ravages in this country mounted
up to a total of $10,450,000, which is
about $3,000,000 more than the average
losses for that month. This disagreeable
fact may be accounted for, probably, by
the uncommonly bad weather which char
acterized the month all over the country.
Intense cold, penetrating winds and
■LJjmge banks of snow compelled a free use
§Kof heating appli^nGeSj. and the same
p^ses operated to make the task of'bat-
111 tlihg^flifi^A^^^'yhfgusare.
INTERESTS NOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES.
Till Operations of the Departments, and
What Sonthern Men Are Being Ap
pointed to Positions, Etc., Etc.
The French Government has at last suc-
ceeded in obtaining leave from the Greek
Government to search at Delphi for re
mains of the temple which stood there.
It is supposed that there are priceless
treasures buried in the ground. There
was no sanctuary to which so many valu
able presents were made as to the Delphic
one, and nex.t to that of Olympus it was
the most important in Greece. Fora
long course of centuries the soil has not
been disturbed. Comte de Monv, who
is an enthusiastic lover of classic antiquity
at] pyhipolop-ist. began, when he was
Minister at Athens, negotiations wnieh
have ended successfully by M.* de Mon-
tholon. He had a keen rival in the Amer
ican representive at Athens, where there
is now an American as well »s a French
school.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
sounds this note of warning in regard to
that scourge of scourges—cholera: * ‘The
prevalence of cholera in South America
subjects us in this country to much more
serious danger than the European epi
demics of the last two or three years have
done. We had the sea for a barrier be
fore, and the length of the passage was
sufficient to show whether or not arriving
vessels were infected. When the disease
comes north through Mexico we shall
have no such protection, and the mainte
nance of an efficient quarantine along the
wholelength of the Rio Grande will be
exceedingly difficult. It will be the part
of wisdom alike in individuals and in
municipal authorities to repeat the pre
cautions of former years, to compel abso
lute cleanliness, and to look carefully
after the water supply. ” • ^
The indications all point to a heavy
increase in the population of this country
by European emigration. Not within
seven years has there been so great a de
mand for passage, and the facilities for
transportation during the season will be
taxed to the uttermost. So great, indeed,
has been the rush that most of the steam
ship lines have been already compelled
to notify their agents to stop booking for
the present. This premised irruption is,
doubtless due to the fact that the revival
of trade in the United States and Canada
offers enticing prospects to the working
men of Europe to better their condition.
Great Britain, it is said, will contribute
a large quota of bricklayers, plasterers
and masons to find profitable occupation
in building enterprises, while Germans
and Scandinavians are Coming to fill good
openings that present theffiselves to crafts
men and agriculturists in the fast-devel
oping West.
One of the most remarkable develop
ments of modern dental surgery is the
transplanting of teeth from one jaw to
another. Dr. W. T. Younger of the
California Dental Society has carried on
some investigations which tend to show
that the vitality of teeth is almost as great
as that of any seed. He .cites among
others the case of a bicuspid tooth ex
tracted and allowed to lie carelessly for a
year, a part of the time in an old travel
ing bag and a part of the time loosely in
a bureau-drawer. Apparently the tootl
was “dead.” After soaking for a half-
liour in warm water the tooth was in-
terted in the proper cavity of the jaw,
where it became firmly fixed. After
twelve days it was affirmed that a true vital
connection had been established between
the jaw and the tooth. The question
may, however, be fairly raised whether
shis was a true unison or one of powerful
-• encysting, a,s when, for example, a bullet
j is-firmly lodged in the body,
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INDIANS REMEMBERED.
The Interior Department has struck
off at the Philadelphia mint a number of
Indian peace medals, with a bust of
President Cleveland on one side and on
the reverse an engraved scene represent
ing a settler, and an Indian. Above is
the word “Peace,” and below is a toma
hawk and a pipe crossed. These medals
are given to Indians as a reward for ser
vices iw Inducing their tribes to relin
quish their savage customs for those of
civilization and peace.
the president's views.
The President the other day denied the;
application for a pardon in the case of
James J. Stanley, who was convicted
April 13 of fraudulent registration and
sentenced to ninety days* imprisonment
in the jail at St. Louis. The President
indorsed the application as follows: “I
cannot pardon a crime against the elec
tion law exeept it be in a case presenting
unusual considerations for clemency. I
consider such offenses the, worst of all
crimes, and I know of none the punish
ment of which is more important to the
public.’®
THE COLORED SOLDIERS CLUBBED.
The Muscatine Rifles and the Vicks
burg Southrons divided the honors of the
day and the applause of the spectators at
the competitive drill of infantry at the
National Drill, until later in the day the
Keck Zouaves;:;of Johnstown, N, Y.,
came on the arena and went through a
labyrinth of beautiful evolutions.in a way
which won universal admiration. Vir
ginia made but a poor showing. Ev
idently she was not permitted to put the
best foot foremost. The performance of
the two colored companies from that
state were amusing in the extreme. They
seemed to have more officers than pri,
vates and one-half of the men were kept
busy irn clubbing the other half into line
with butts of their guns.
OUB PILE OF CASH.
The'transfer of the funds in the Treas
ury to the new treasurer Mr. Hyatt, in
volves a careful count of the cash which
includes $137,000,000 in paper money in
the reserve vaults; $95,000,000 in the
cash vault ; $60,000,000 standard silver
dollars ; $25,000,000 gold coin and smal
ler quantity of fractional silver, j The
counting committee in making thej count
will have the assistance of seventy-five
persons, including experts, and it will
occupy two months. ,
THE FBESIDENT ACCEPTS.
A committee of 25 of the prominent
citizens of St. Louis, Mo., Waited on
President Cleveland and extended an in-
v itation for himself and wife to visit that
city in the Fall, and it was accepted.
The invitation was contained in a large,
elegantly bound book, with a carved
wooden cover, the carvings representing
the great bridge and principal municipal
buildings of St. Louis. The clasps and
edges of the book are of solid silver,
bearing the iuitials: “G. C.” The invi
tation is beautifully engrossed on saitin
and is signed by over 20,000 persons-
REVOKING LAND GRANTS.
The secretary of the interior recently
issued a rule upon land grant railroads to
show cause why the orders of withdrawal
from the settlement of lands within their
indemnity limits should not be revoked,
and the same opened to settlement entry.
The roads affected are: The South &
North Alabama, Mobile & Ohio River,
Alabama & Florida; Alabama & Chatta
nooga, in the State of Alabama. The
Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central, Pensa
cola & Atlantic* Pensacola & Georgia,
Florida & Alabama, in the State'ofIFlor-
ida. The Vicksburg, Shreveport <fc Tex
as New Orleans Pacific, in the State of
Louisiana. The Mobile & Ohio'River,
Vicksburg & Meridian, in the State of
Mississippi.
NOTES.
The President has appointed to be
postmaster, Ellis Hunter at Brunswick,
Ga., vice J. T. Blaine, resigned, Jos.
St C. Wiggins, appointed April 11, 1887
having declined.
Henry J. Ramsdell, a well-known jour
nalist and formerly register of wills for
the District of Columbia, died recently
of apoplexy. A few hours before bis
death he was about the city in good spirits
and apparently good health, although he
had Suffered from Bright’s disease several
years.
Paymaster Robert Rodney, U.- S. Navy,
is engaged in trying to abolish pawn
brokers. He says of his effort that it is
“a virgin field Of mercy which has never
been entered by private charity since
Shentpershent, the . first pawnbroker,
hung out the three gilded balls from the
old abandoned gate lodge of the Garden
of Eden. ”
The President has appointed Commo
dore D. B. Harmony, William A. Wal
lace, of New York, H. 8. Van Eaton, of,
Mississippi, Asa Morgan, of Arkansas,
Thomas A. Logan, of Ohio, and Prof. D.
C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University,
as members of the Board of Visitors to
the Naval A cademy at Annapolis, Md.
The work of converting the Navy Yard
into a gun foundry, authorized by the
last Congress, has been commenced. Op
erations are at present confined to the old
anchor shop, where the former appli
ances are being remoyed preparatory to
its being fitted up for the construction of
guns of 8-inch calibre and under. It will
be many months before the gun foundry
is in full Working Order.
REJECTED,
The New York Senate declined to
confirm Governor Hill’s- appointment of
Col. Fred Grant (son of Gen. U. 8,
Grant) as quarantine commissioner for
New York city; also Gen. Dan Sickles;
the one-legged veteran, who had been
nominated for emigration commissioner.
CHOLERA AND YELLOW FEVER
People Rapidly Dying Off in the Argen
tine Confederation.
Key West. Fla., Alarmed—What will Hap
pen In Birmingham, Ala., it the City
to Not Cleaned Up.
Chief officer Gay, of the bark Macleod,
of St. Johns, N. B., which, arrived at
Philadelphia, Pa., from Buenos Ayres*
tells a frightful story of death from chol
era in that portion of the Argentine
Confederation. He says that while his
vessel was lying in the harbor of Buenoa.
Ayres, the people of that city and suburbs
were dying off like sheep, and the disease
seemed to be spreading like wild-fire.
The wife of the | captain of the Golden
Rule, the chief mate and one man of the
bark Bremen,and four men of the hark
Wyle, who were stricken down with the
disease, died while the Macleod was in
port. As fast as cases were discovered,
the patients were remoyed to a hospital
in the city, adjoining which is an open
lot, and when death relieved their suffer
ings, they were at once removed to this
lot and their bodies burned.
The excitement occasioned by the ap
pearance at Key West, Fla., of
yellow fever was revived by the death of
a cigar maker named Minneden, who
arrived a short time ago from New York.
He was boarding at the restaurant where
the sickness originated. *
Regarding the report of several cases
at Birmingham, Ala. that were reported as
cholera, A.. 8. Robinson, of Boston, who
has been in Alabama two years, said in a
talk: “Having spent much time in Bir
mingham, I know enough about the
southern climate and the lack of drain
age, and Sanitary provisions, in places
like Birmingham, so that I, in some meas
ure, anticipate what will one day take
place there. The large growth of the
city has been attended with disregard of
sanitary regulations, and they are certain
to have trouble there this summer; and in
subsequent years, unless they seize time
by the forelock, and take precautions
against, an epidemic.”
PERSONAL.
Gov. Gen. Lansdowne and his wife on
their return to Ottawa from Toronto, re
ceived a tremendous demonstration of
regard. The escort to the Governor
General contained six brass bands. At
Cartier square a great stand bad been
erected and was occupied by about 2,000
school children, who sang a chorus of
welcome. There was an enormous con
course in the square, estimates varying
from 15,000 to 20,000 persons* thousands
having come from surrounding counties.
Rev. Fa'her Dawson read a jubilee od
The governor general thanked the
jreas for t&ej? msyMSSSt Wftfeopfc
Col. J. W. Pabamoub, a prominent
/citizen of St. Louis, Mo., died in tha
city of pneumonia.
The Queen of Belgium stood god
mother to a young negro from the Congo
Who was christened in Brussels. He was
named Henri Leopold.
Governor Hill; sent the name of Col.
Fred Grant, son of Gen. U. 8. Grant, to
the New York Senate for Quarantine
Commissioner in New York city.
J. Armoy Knox, of “Texas Siftings* ”
who is commonly called Armory because
he carries two revolvers and a bowie-
knife, is the ablest cOin-matcher in the
country since John T. Raymond die”cE
FbAnk MacAbthub, son of ex-Judge
MacArthur, Of the Washington, D. C.,
Supreme Court, was married recently to
Miss Sarah Winston, grand-daughter of
the late Governor Winston, of Alabama.
Gen. Dan Sickles heads a large body
of Northern veterans, who denounce the
Gettysburg Memorial Association for re
fusing to allow a monument to be’erected
to commemorate the bravery of Pickett’s
men.
The'Duke of Rutland will not allow
gas anywhere in BelvOir castle, his ances
tral seat. Lamps are used all over the
immense building, and a servant who has
spent fifty years in the ducal service oc
cupies his whole time in filling the bowls
and trimming the wicks.
William T. Walters, of Baltimore;
Md., values his art collection at more
than $1,000,000, Mr. Walters is a
Pennsylvanian of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
His love for art has been the ruling pas
sion of bis life. The first $5 he ever
spent was for a picture.
Mbs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgbejt, of
Washington, D. C., has written a new
novel, not yet published, to be called
“Divorced,” of which she says: “The
book is a plea for the sanctity of the
marriage tie, and intended to show the
various evils consequent upon our present
system of easy divorce.”
Rev. Db. E. F. W. Waltheb, presi
dent and professor of the theological
seminary at St. Louis, of the German
Evangelist Lutheran Synod of Missouri,
Ohio, and other States, died at St. Louis,
in the 76th year of his age. He was the
organizer of the Missouri Synod, and was
well known, throughout Europe.
Thebe is a paragraph going the rounds
of the papers stating that the Baroness
Burdette Coutts, who married Mr. Bart
lett, an American, wears three skins, the
third one being of silk and covering her
entire person. She is quite old, very rich,
and has her body thus covered on account
of her real skin breeding a most loathe-
some parasite.
J. H. Beabd has, just finished an oil
portrait of Gen. W. T. : Sherman. He
says of his subject: “Gen. Sherman was
always punctual to the minute for his
sittings. He sat f or me nine or ten times,
but be never could keep still for any
great length of time at any sitting. He
would constantly apologize for the fact
that he could not keep still. ”
Tippo-Tip, the famous African trader,
came upon a remarkable tribe on the
Congo, to the north of Nyangwe, who
do a great deal of work in copper, and
whose inlaid work in that metal is of a
highly artistic character. Among the
same people, enormou i spear heads of
very thin copper are made, some six feet
in length, which serve as a kind of cur
rency.
the marquis welcomed.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Columbus,Ga., is rigidly enforcing the
vagrant law.
Griffin, Qa., is to have a contingent
from the Salvation Army at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., is to have an improved
cab service similar to the great Northern
cities.
A man giving the name of T. B. Otis,
who represented himself-as a capitalist
from Boston, Mass., victimized many
people in Memphis, Tenn., through the
medium of worthless . checks. His real
name iff Brown, and he belongs to Kansas
City, Mo. *
Dr. J. S. Kennard, of Chicago, who
has been conducting revivals in ^Atlanta,
Macon and other cities, with remarkable
success, is now working in Albany, Ga.
The meetings, though undenominational,
are held in the Methodist church, which
is crowded night and morning to its ut
most capacity. ffl §J
Considerable excitement was created
in Little Rock, Ark., over the arrest of
ex-Mayor Gen. W. S, Walsh, of Hot
Springs, on a serious, charge, sworn out
by Miss Ella Dyer. Gen. Walsh went
over to Little Rock recently, on business,
and Ms arrest was as a poisoned arrow
fired in the flesh of an innocent lamb.
Atlanta, Ga„ dry goods houses will all
close hereafter at 6 p. m.
Master Workman M, J. Devereau, of
the Augusta* Ga., Knights of Labor,
went North recently and raised money
enough to pay all the debts accruing
from last year’s strike.
The board of regents of the Grant
Memorial University of Athens, Tenn.,
unanimously conferred the degree of
doctor of laws upon George W. Childs,
of the Philadelphia Ledger.
The officials of the .Hast Tennessee,
Richmond & Danville Railroads were in
Chattanooga, Tenn., lately to locate the
site for a bridge across the Tennessee
River. The bridge mil be built above
tbe city, near the city furnace.
Lee Furtangler,' ap itinerant watch
maker, dropped dead in a Nashville,
Tenn., hotel from paralysis of the brain;
and shortly after, Logan King, an aged
colored man, dropped dead from heart
disease while passing the same hotel,-
A negro named John King, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was bitten on the leg by a
small red spider, and- he died from the
bite. His body was swelled to enormous
proportions and wasyeovered with large
white spots* ThsuJiegro suffered the
greatest agony.
George Oakes was, killed in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., in the ; Louisville &
Nashville Railroad's* yard. Oakes was
about twenty-two years of age, and was
well known in Atlanta. For a longtime
b.e was a thriftless, fellow, but a few
weeks ago Joined iij,e Salvation Army,
and when he was/lsSM was wearing the
Salvation Army badge and uniform.
The most diverting part; of the enter
tainment of the Atlanta, Ga., University
was the exhibit made by the members of
the cooking class. The girls are instructed
how to make and _ bake bread, pies and
cake; are given practical lessons in roast
ing and boiling meats and fowls and
preparing all sorts of food -for the table.
They succeeded in making a tempting
display of cooking food, all prepared by
their own hands.
Thirteen bar-room keepers were before
Recorder Dunbar, in Augusta, Ga., for
keeping 1 open and selling liquor on Sun
day.
Rev. John Pirkey, aged 70 years, and
for forty years minister of the Christian
Church, and pastor of a Church in Win
chester* Va., died recently.
A discharged/ negro railroad hand is
suspected of having attempted to wreck
several trains on the McMinnville branch
of the Chattanooga railroad, by placing
obstructions of ties and rails across the
tracks.' ,/
A letter was received in Montgomery,
Ala., from Charles Mclv. Foster, of New
York, offering to return a sword picked
up on the battlefield of Antietam. the
blade of which bears the name of Oapt.
George J. Watley* 10th Alabama Infan
try.
Brick masons employed on the U, S,
barracks in course of erection at Atl nta,
Ga., struck for an increase of pay, from
$3 to $3 50, but Dr. Howard declined.
New men flocked in to take the place of
the strikers, who gave in after being out
one day.
Robert Cushing Was! found near Lula,
Ga., on the Richmond .& Danville rail
road track with his skull fractured. The
indications are that he was killed and
then placed on the track, as the wound
on the head could not have been made by
the train.
Grant Best, the negro who killed three
of his companions and wounded two
others at one shot* a short time since, at
Wilmington, N. C., was found guilty of
murder in the first degree. At the time
of the shooting, there was a general, im
pression that it was the result of careless
ness, but it was found to he murder.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
NEGRO murdered
xicutj, jx : cuxuucr a I—-?
citi- 'Y&Qnd that Prenty was guilty of wilf ul
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The South Reaping the Benefit of Large
Capital to Develop Railways, Mills,
Foundries, Etc., Etc.
Dade City, Fla. , is to have a $15,000
hotel. i 8
The Lorain, Ohio, tool works will re
move to Chattanooga, Tenn., very soon;
the capital stock is $50,000.
Decatur, Ala., is to have an extract
factory with a capacity of 75 barrels a
day, the largest in the world.;
The Nashville, Tenn., Land Improve
ment Co. is negotiating for the removal
of several manufacturing plants from the
North to West Nashville, |
R. C. Cooke, representing a New York
company, has purchased the mineral right
on 1,200 acres of land at Bristol, Tenn.
It is rumored that a furnace iff to be built
by the company.
Affairs in Knoxville, Tenn., look very
promising. Iron bridges are being built,
streets are being extended through large
suburban tracts,, a belt railroad around
the city is projected, also new street car
lines.
The Macon, LaGrange & Birmingham
Railroad Co. and -the Birmingham, Geor
gia & Florida Railroad Co. have arranged
to build a direct line from Birmingham,
Ala., via Talladega to Savannah, Ga.,
with a branch toad to Brunswick.
Bills have been introduced in the Flor
ida legislature to incorporate the Ala
bama Midland Railway Co.; a company
to build a railroad from near Lake George
to the Gulf of Mexico, and a company to
operate a canning factory at St. Lucie.
The Nottingham Railroad & Improve
ment Go. capital stock $300,000 has been
, organized. The .company will purchase'
and extend a narrow gauge railroad and
build a 25-ton charcoal furnace at Alpine,
Ala, A cotton factory is to be built also.
North Carolina dots: Plow works have
started at Bost’s Mills; Davidson college
has a new boot and shoe factory; .Allen
B. Goodwin has put up a large factory
for the manufacture of buggies;; Greens
boro has inaugurated a street car line and
two tobacco factories; and Emma is to
have new brick works.
The Jefferson Brick Co. capital stock
$40,000, has been organized with R. F.
Hudson, of Columbus, Miss,, as presi
dent; E. F. Manning, New Orleans, La.,
vice-president, and F. G. Dunn, secretary
and general manager. .They have bought
and will enlarge the brick works of Car-
roll & Carroll* at Birmingham, Ala.
The resolution “that an invitation is
hereby extended to any corporation to
erect in the city of Macon a complete
system of water and gas works; that for
the purpose of promoting said enterprise
the city of Macon pledges the cordial sup
port to make such undertaking a success, ”
has been passed by the, Macon, Ga., coun
cil.
“The vast plants that have been put in
at Birmingham* Sheffield and vicinity will
remain. The iron and coal industries in
North Alabama have been developed for
permanence. The manufacturing growth
of Nashville and Chattanooga, the trade
development of Atlanta, Little Rock and
othef cities in the South will survive any
monetary crisis that may occur.”—Manu
facturers' Record, Baltimore, Md.
THEATRE BURNED.
A Large Number of the Audience Burned
—Heroism of the Firemen.
The Opera Oomique in Paris, France,
took fire from one of the wings coming
in contact with a gas jet, during the per
formance, The manager M. Tasquin
rushed on the stage and implored the
audience to remain seated until the exits
were opened, which the; majority did,
and thus a terrible loss of life was pre
vented; as it was, nearly 20 persons
jumped from the. upper windows and
were killed or maimed. The iron curtain
was lowered in front of the stage, and
this prevented the fire from spreading
immediately to the auditorium and al
lowed tbe audience time to escape. The
fire brigades distinguished themselves,
and many of them had narrow escapes.
Most of the casualties were due to excite
ment and fright, and persons who were
unable to trust themselves to walk the
narrow edge of the cornice around the
building, jumped off in their terror. One
woman coolly walked all around the cor
nice, while the flames were bursting
above, until she reached a fire escape.
The victims were almost all singers, and
are about 60 in- number. Only a fort
night ago, M. Slenakers called attention
in the Chamber of Deputies to the dan
gerous condition of the Opera Comique,
which was the oldest in Paris.
fishermen killing each other.
There is war among the salmon fisher
men on the Columbia river, near Astoria,
Oregon. • The seiners and gillers have
banded together to stop all trap fishing.
A. E. King, owner of a cannery at II-
wac, and Albert Green and Archie Ross,
owners of traps, started out armed with
guns to guard a large lot- of web, which
is used in the traps, and which had been
tarred and was lying in the open air to
dry. This was in a field not far from
the beach, surrounded by small timber.
While on the watch they discovered
men moving in the darkness, whom they
challenged. The reply was a volley of
shots. Mr. Ross was killed, and Mr.
King received three serious wounds.
Green was Unhurt.
William Prenty, a young white man,
had a dispute with Sherman Bacon, a
colored man, in Charles Umbach’s store,
three miles from Savannah, Ga. The
trouble came about because Bacon re
fused to treat to cigars after Prehty had
treated to beer, and the negro was killed
by a shot from a gun in the hands of
Prenty. A coroner’s jury promptly
summary JUSTICE.
k Mon Arraigned for Outrage Shot to Death
in the Court Room.
A man called at the residence of Join
Anderson, in Rockville, Mo., and asked
for a glass of water. Jennie Anderson
a daughter, waited upon him, but when
she came near, he suddenly seized and
chloroformed her, and while under influ
ence of the drug, she was terribly treat
ed, Search resulted in the arrest of John
Vanderburg, and lynching was prevented
only by doubt of the prisoner’s guilt.
After the excitement had cooled down,;
Jennie Anderson confronted the prisoner
and claimed to recognize him. At a pre
liminary court hearing, the Ander
son family were all present, besides many
other citizens. Jennie told the horrible
details of the crime, and the prisoner
made a poor attempt to prove an alibi.
The judge had just announced that the
prisoner would be held in $10,000 bail,
when a shot rang out, followed in rapid
Succession by two more. There was a
scamper for the • street, and when quiet
was restored, the prisoner was dead. No
one knows who fired the shots, but as
two of the Anderson boys were in the
court room, they were put. under arrest.
ALABAMA’S CYCLONE.
LATEST NEWS,
An attempt has been made to kill the
Sultan of Turkey.
The meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Southern Press Association,
which has been in session in New York,
adjourned to meet in Atlanta, Ga., on’
June 21. .
Placards were posted in the country
around St. Petersburg, Russia, threaten
ing to burn down the landlords’ villas on
a certain night, and at the appointed
time over 60 houses were fired and de
stroyed.
The national convention of the United
States Brewers’ Association, in session at
Baltimore, Md., appropriated $5,000 for
the assistance of the brewers of Michigan,
$5,000 for the brewers of Texas, and
$3,000 for the brewers of Tennessee, the
money to be used in attempting to defeat
the efforts of the prohibitionists in those
states.
The colored queen, Kapiolani, with
her suite, has sailed for Europe.
A movement is on foot to consolidate
the cities of New York and Brooklyn.
P. S. Peadroe, a fanner, confined in
the Anna, Ill., insane asylum, was beat
en to death by the attendants.
The coke operators of Pennsylvania
are so disgusted with their Hungarian
help, who took the, place of the strikers,
that they will discharge them, and hire
native Americans in their stead.
There is trouble again On the Mexican
border, because Sheriff Sanchez, of
Laredo,Tex., arrested Lieut. Jose Cortez,
of the Mexican army, who tried to arrest
a deserter on the American side, and in
doing so, used a pistol.
The 23d annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of the World
met at Saratoga, N. Y. Nearly every
country in the world was represented.
There were really two bodies in session,
the Right Worthy Grand Lodge and the
Right W 1 Tl-hy Grand Lodge of the World.
In 1876, a disruption occurred, when the
English branch seceded.
A young man called at the residence of
John D. Bates, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Boston, Mass., and de
manded hush money, claiming to have in
his possession- a terrible secret affecting
Mr. Bates. The latter called the pplice
by telephone, but the blackmailer es
caped, and before doing so, tried to in
timidate Mr. Bates with a pistol.
Strikers exploded a dynamite bomb
under the police barracks at Heburn,
Eng., and destroyed the building.
Belgium strikers have used firearms
and explosives in their encounters with
the police and destroyed a railroad bridge.
Marcon L. Sequin a manufacturer of
umbrellas in Philadelphia*has dis
appeared, leaving his creditors minus
$85,000.
Recent rains throughout the North
west, have extinguished most of the forest
fires which have been raging in Wiscon
sin and upper Michigan with such de
structive violence of late.
A student tried to kill the Czar of
Russia while he was in the Don Cossacks
country. The culprit had in his posses
sion a bottle of poison, six cartridges,
a revolver and a dagger.
One of Queen Victoria’s chaplains,
Fleming by name, published recently a
volume of sermons, the most important
of which was identically the same as one
delivered by Dr. Talmage, the noted
Brooklyn* N. Y„ preacher.
The Pope in an allocution referring to
Germany said c “Thanks to the equita
ble and pacific sentiments of Emperor
William and his counsellors, the Prussian
government removed more serious incon
veniences and then accepted various prac
tical concessions of peace by which some
of the former laws against the church
have been repealed. ”
O’BRIEN WELCOMED.
The New York Legislature Gives Him a
Royal Welcome—He Goes to Montreal.
The New York Legislature gave a
semi-official reception to William O’Brien,
the Irish editor, and Speaker: Husted, of
the Assembly, in receiving O’Brien on
the rostrum said, motioning to himself
and the distinguished visitor : “Sham
rock and the stars and stripes,” This
created another outburst of applause.
Then there were pries of “Speech!”
‘Speech!” “Give us your idea of Ca
nadian hospitality.” Mr. O’Brien then
made a ten-minutes’ speech, in which he
referred to the universal hospitality with
which he had been received everywhere
in America; to the feeling of security he
experienced when he found himself un
der the glorious stars and stripes at Cape
Vincent and to the great honor now ac
corded him by the Legislature of New
York. He then went to the train and
took passage for Montreal, Canada, where
he received a flattering ovation. Nb
disturbance took place.
LOVE AND COMFORT.
Montgomery, Ala., was visited by a
cyclone which lasted half an hour, -tore
off the roof of the court-house, Pros
trated the buildings in course of erection
for the fair and did considerable dhmage
oar stables burned.
Tbe Belt line stables on Ninth avenue
in New York city were destroyed by fire.
The immense structure of the Consoli
dated railroad in Cincinnati, O., occupied
as stables and offices, were burned up.
BOSTON ON HAND.
The first donation for the Atlanta, Ga.,
exposition was a check for $100 from
Phelps, Dalton & Co., of Boston, Mass.,
received through W. 0. Dodson, of At-
In days gone by, we danced, we sung
The sunny vales of life among,
There was no joy like being young!
NovC, we have supped with toil and care.
And ’mid tbs glint of shining hair,
Time, as he loE5 ago did pass,
Shook from his rieVJff-faffing glass
The silvered dust of wi thered years—
Ploughed furrows with regretful tears—
Along the-cheek whose roses pa led
Before the cold breath he exhaled
In days gone by, with righteous sham*.
We scorned pursuit of gold and fame,
Give us, with love, herbs and a crust t
Riches had wings, gold was but dust,
With love divine and four bare walls
Who cared for lands, for gilded hails?
But now, the noon of life is past!
There blows a strong and chilling blast
That snakes the poor, thin cottage doors
And penetrates its creaking floors,
The toothless gums Reject love’s crust—
Love’s herbsWe dry as storm-blown dust.
The days gone by will come no more,
When heaven was roof and earth Whs floor ?
And star and flo wer and leaf-clad tree
Exceeded all man’s tapestry.
The sweet, toe foolish love of youth
That brooked no shade of doubt—near
truth,
But bravely faced that cloudless sun—
Is all disproved—its lessons done 1
Now spread thick carpets on the floor,
Curtain the windows, drape the .door—
And let the glittering chandelier
Throw mellow light upon good cheer;
Now, wiser grown, let truth be told—
We love—our ease, our lands* our gold.
—Margaret H. Lawless, in the Querent.
PITH AHD_ POINT.
A shoplifter—An earthquake.
Never abuse a mule behind his back.
The man who has just bought a dog iff
a bore to his friends.
The farmer who raises the glass too
often isn’t likely to raise much else—
Siftings.
The best way to “get rich by poultry
keeping” is to sell all yonr hens early
every spring. Then you won’t have to
plant your garden bfit once.:—Journal of
Education.
Pastor—‘ ‘Well, what did your young
people realize at your entertainment.?”
Member of the Committee—“We have
just realized that we arp $25 out. ”—Bur
lington Free Prtss. ^ , , i
A lady who had her photographT
taken was showing it to her husband.
“Do you think it looks like me?” she
asked. “Yes,” he said after a critical
examination, “it looks like you, only it
seems very quiet.—Harper’s Bazar.
REMARKABLE UNANIMITY.
The bridge had brokem
Flocked near and far the wreck to see;
They came in swarnis; ill droves, in clouds,
And grew in numbers momently.
And then, in loud Accordant notes.
There rose a shout from hill and lake,
And burst from fiftyl thousand throats:
“I always said that bridge would break.”
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Simulating Death.
Some persons have possessed the power
of simulating death, but it is a dangerous
experiment, and - the story is - told of a
college student who for the amusement
of his comrades did this once too often.
By the power of the will over the vital
functions he had again and again lain
down upon a sofa and fallen in a few
minutes into his sportive death trance.
He had always come back to activity
within half an hour, but on this last oc
casion they grew alarmed at the long con
tinuance of his trance. They called to
him, but he did not answer; they shook
him, but he did not awake. Their fellow-
student was really dead. It is narrated
of Colonel Townshend, Rajah of Puttiali,
in the Punjab, that he had this power of
what doctors call voluntary hibernation.
As some women faint away whenever they
feel like doing so, so the gallant Colonel
could “die daily,” or whenever he
pleased.
His heart, says the medical account of
it, would cease to beat; there was no per-,^
ceptible respiration; the body became
cold' and rigid, the eyes glassy and. the
features cadaverous. He would continue
dead for several hours, and then come
back to life. Dr. Chej tie says that Colonel
Townshend told him that he could ex
pire whenever he pleased and by an ef;
fort of his own will restore himself in
stantaneously to the living state.. On one
occasion he performed the experiment in
the presence of three medical experts,
One of whom kept his hand upon the
Colonel’s heart, while a second held his-*
fingers on his wrist-pulse, and the third
held a mirror before his mouth, They -A
found all traces of pulsation and restora- jH|
tion gone, and were unanimous un theif
belief that he was actually dead, when ho ; P
revived as easily as he had died, to theif
great astonishment.—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Rat on a Goose’s Back. -
“Misery makes strange bed-fellows,”
says the proverb. It also renders the in-
stinct of creatures in peril exceedingly p| I
keen in finding means of self-preservation. ; K.
During the recent freshet in the Ohio
River a sigular instance of a rat’s sagac
ity occurred a short distance below Cin
cinnati.
About the time when the river was at
its height a number of people were as
sembled on its margin, watching tbe
huge masses of hay swept along on its
irresistible course.
At length a goose hove in sight, strug
gling sometimes for the land and at |
others sailing majestically along with the
torrent, and, as it drew near, a black spot
was observed upon its snowy plumage,
which-the; spectators were astonished t®
find was a living rat.
It is probable that it had been borne
from its domicile, /■ and, observing the
goose, hastened to it as a refuge. On the
goose nutking land the rat leaped from its ./
back and scampered away.—Youth's Com
panion.
Setting an Example.
“Br-r-r-r-r-r! I wish this wind would
settle*” remarked a man as he_sfiammed
the door of an editor’s sanctmSffcn^ -
backed up to the stove to warm bis c
tails. s S?
“Mebbe it would if you’d set;
example. It’s four years since yd
tied your subscription,”- was ,'fjj
reply of the editor,—JJansvill ’