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4 I 1 , S® ■ gsggp , am U wwMMMmmmmm m FAWNING TO NONE-CHARITY TO ALL. VOLUME IX. DOUGLASVILLE. GEOEGIETITESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1888. NUMBER-48; mm It has been noticed that crows have been migrating in large numbers, which Indicates, in the opinion of the Smith sonian Institute .scientists', a severe win ter. A train on the Michigan Central Bail- way recently ran from Jackson to Michi gan City, a distance.of 156 miles, in 171 minutes, making Several stops. This is reported to be the fastest time ever made on the road. All the training schools for nurses in Philadelphia are free. This is one pro fession for women that is not over crowded and where women can earn good wages. ' The chief qualifications are good health, good temper, general iutel ■ ligence, and a fair common-school edu cation. London appears to be' mueh better fixed in. the matter of school accommoda tions than most of the large cities on this side of . the Atlantic. At- the -recent re assembling of the School Board the Chairman, the Rev. J. B. Higgle, stated ■that, there are now facilities in London —Jes^teaching 657,887 children, while there'“~are only 638,058 names on the School-rolls. tu The Washoe Indians, male and female, are said to be good workers, but. they are extremely sensitive. Tell an Indian to cut your wood and he'll turn disdain fully away. Impart to him, in a casual way, that you -have wood to cut, and wonder who’ll do it at such a price, and the noble'red man, with an air of con ferring a favor, intimates that he will, and he does. . | The Southern California Motor Road Company has a scheme for giving the citizens of San Bernardino lots of fun this winter. It will run a roa’d up to the Bear Valley reservoir, which is 6,000 feet above the sea. , Ice forms there in the winter; and the road will take up skating parties, which can leave town at 6 in the evening, run up in two hours, have three hours’ fun, and get back about 1 o’clock the next morning. Ra The Rev. Russell H. Con well, a gradu ate of Yale, a soldier, lawyer, emigation agent,: special correspondent in^Europe; lecturer, author, and, last of allgBaptist E%eaoKsf; is to have the largest pJBaptist -Tris to be built (fat i’hi hide! j-lii a, • wi i I seat 4,60(1, cost |i00,000, have accommodations for 1,000 scholars in the Sunday-school room, and 500 in the infant department, and have dining-room, kitchen and parlors. Mr. ConweMis forty-four years old. . «»—• A New York man says that the great drawback to electric street railways is that you cannot ride even a block on one of those cars without having your watch completely magnetized and ruined so far as timekeeping is concerned. All the electric roads have (he fame difficulty, and the inventors, although they have been trying for years, have not yet suc ceeded in discovering a remedy. Until that defect is removed, no electric street railway, it is asserted, will be a success., * - Ghief Drummond, of the United States Secret Service, in reporting on a band of Italian counterfeiters now operating in this country, has called attention to the existence of a. formidable secret organiza tion originating in Sicily, but having branches in New York, Boston, Chicago, !St. Louis, St. Paul, San Francisco and several other cities. The members of this society are described as assassins and villains of the worst type, engaged in all sorts of criminal schemes, but especially in the counterfeiting business. R. W. Cameron & Co., of New York City, who are agents for the Government of South Wales, have received a commu nication announcing a reward offered by the Government of $125,000 to A merican inventors for any process which will ■ exterminate rabbits, which have become a pest throughout Australia, and New Zealand. In 1861 a few English rabbits were introduced into the Botanical Garden at Dunedin. These ha e in- creasd to such an extent that they are now public nuisauees, threatening to de stroy not only all the vegetables, but even the sheep pasturage of the entire . country. The magnitude of the evil and the urgency of the case are indicated by the size of the reward, which, at. the same time, is an expression of confidence in American ingenuity. The Sanitary. Era warns parents and teachers against boxing childrens! ears, saying; “There ought to be a statute in every state severely punishing this prac tice or rather an infliction j of b’ows on the head, so common in families or schools of inferior grade. A recent in vestigation of medical records reveals firty-one cases of serious injury to child dren from “boxing-” or “cuffing” on the ear—in some cases Chronic and ult imately resulting in fatal.brain diseases, deafness, insanity, etc. It would be impossible to discipline all offenders, but much might be done by special care in giving notice of the law and penalty through the news papers and by circulars distributed by boards of health -inspectors, and by in structions to the police promptly to ar rest parents or others seen, cuffing chil dren—as they may be seen at all hours of the day in certain regions of every Citvt” ; . WASHINGTON, D. C. TACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT MEN ANV THINGS. What Our National Law Makers arc l)#wg —Departmental CJossip—Movements ot President and Sirs* Cleveland, CONGRESSIONAL. Among the nominations sent to* the Senate by the President were the follow ing postmasters: Robert M-. Gardner, Christiansburg, Va.; G. L. Jack, Fer- nandina, Fla.; Win. T. Broyles, Dayton, Tenn. Memorials were presented by Mr Blair in favor of a national prohibitory constitutional amendment. One by Mr. Hoar against the admission of Utah as a state so long as its local power is in the hands of the Mormon priesthood. Also, several in favor of the Blair educational bill. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hoai to provide for a world's exposition at the national capital in 1892, and thereafter oi a permanent exposition of three Americas in honor of a four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Referred to the select committee on the centennial celebration. Mr. Mitchell then called u} the joint resolution introduced by him ot December 12th, for the appointment of a commission to select a site for a naya: station on the Pacific coast, and addressee the Senate in advocacy of it. Mr. Dolpi also spoke in favor of' the same resolu tion. The Senate then, at 2.35, took uj the Blair -educational bill as unfinished business.- The report (unanimous) of tin committee on education and labor wa: then read, after which Mr. Blair said the as the bill had been long before the country, and had twice passed the Senate the friends of the measure thought if proper to yield the floor to those opposed to it. Mr. Reagan opposed the bill. Hi argued in detail that the Southern state were not in need of Federal aid for tin support of their common schools, an< showed that in-the state of Texas th school fund for this year was $3,100,0(K. Mr. Vest obtained the floor, but yielde d to Mr. Plumb, who offered an amend ment to the second section providing that the money shall he distributed among the several states and tervi tories in proportion to their popula tion, according to the census of 1880 The following bills were introduced tip the House and referred: By Mr. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, for the preservation jjj the woods and forests of the national do main adjacent to sources of navigabi rivers; also to restore the rate of duty or. imported wool. By Mr. Stewart, <f Georgia, authorising national banks t< take liens on real estate for loans o( money. By Mr. Collins, of Massachusett , to establish a marine: signal board of th- United States with a view to the adop tion qf tiie code and system of marlin . and fog signals; ■ also for the preventioi of cruelty to animals. The Speaker t lu i announced the committees. Mr. Plumb suggested the inquiry wheth er the object in giving the* list-was in apprehension that any of the Senators who had voted for the bill might gel away. Mr. Blair read letters from edu cational authorities in Texas complaining of a want of funds there and urging the passage of the bill. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of execu tive business. At 5:10, the doors were reopened and the Senate adjourned. Among the papers presented to the Senate was a letter from Allen & Co., publishers, Augusta, Maine, urging the necessity of the issue of fractional cur rency. Mr. Frye, who presented it - Btated as a fact astounding to him, tha this firm qften received in its business om thousand dollars a day in payment of : fraction of a dollar in stamps. By Mi. Hale, a petition against any change in tin fishery treaties, and in favor of the rights of American fishermen under existing treaties and . legislation. Also, by Mr. Vorhees, in favor of the present tariff on lumber. Also, by Mr. Collom, several petitions of the Illinois state grange, in dorsing inter-state commerce; favoring government ownership of telegraph lines, denouncing gambling in “futures,” fa voring the restriction of immigration as proposed in the Reagan bill, opposing the abolition of the whiskey and tobacco tax, and favoring tbe placing of salt, lumber, sugar, etc., on the free list. Among the. bills introduced and referred were the following: By Mr. Collom, amendments to his postal telegraph bill; by Mr. Blair, to encourage the holding of the national industrial exposition of arts, mechanics land productions of the colored race ‘throughout the United States, in Atlanta, ■Ga., in 1888 and 1889. Mr. Brown of fered a resolution declaring that the prac tice of the government was correct for the first three-quarters of the century of its existence when it collected neces sary revenues at ports or other bound aries, by tariff, except in case of war or other great emergencies, when internal revenue or direct tax laws were imposed, but which were repealed ‘as soon as the emergency ceased. . Also that the present internal revenue laws were enacted as a war measure, and that it has. now become the imperative duty of Congress to enact appropriate laws for their repeal at the earliest day. A lengthy debate took place between Senators Sherman and Vorhees in regard to tbe President’s Mes sage. At the close of Mr. Vorhees’ speech, Mr. Sherman moved that the Message be referred to the finance com mittee; but action on that motion was withheld to give Mr. Teller an opportu nity to make some remarks. Mr. Teller spoke briefly in reply to Mr. Vorhees’s criticisms of his (Teller’s) former ^state ment. Pending the resolution to refer the President’s Message to the finance commit tee, the Senate, at 3:50, went fiito secret session. In the House, a great many bills and resolutions were introduced and referred, among them the following: . By Herbert, of Alabama, to regulate the jurisdiction of circuit court commissioners. By Mi - . Wheeler, ,to provide for a reduction of custom duties ; also to establish a court of appeals ; also to amend the civil service act; also granting pensions to survivors of Indian wars who have attained the age of seventy years; also to establish signal stations on the West Indian islands; also for the temporary support of common schools; also for the refunding of the cotton tax; also to remove the tax from tobacco and spirits made from fruits. By Mr. Springer, of Illinois, to provide for the organization ol' the territory of Oklahoma. By Mr. Adams, of Illinois, for the reroo- ' 77: !"“~~“r %■ val of dangerous aliens from the territory of the United States. By Mr. Town* shend, of Illinois, a joint resolution to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the election of Senators by the votes of the people of the States. • Also, to or*' ganize Indian Territory under the name of Oklahoma and consolidate certain tribes under tbe territorial government and allot lands in severalty among the! dlfdians; to establish a new department of industries and public works. By Mr. Auderson, of Kansas, creating the postal telegraph of the United States, . GOSMl’. Sherbune G. Hopkins,'the young news paper reporter, who some weeks ago sent it sham infernal machine to Chief Justice Waite, for the purpose of creating a sen sation and selling news, plead guilty in ;he police court to the charge of attempt ing to obtain money upon false pretenses, ind was fined $100. The first of the annual series of pfesi- lential state dinners was given. at the White House to members of the cabinet. The public parlors were handsomely deco- fated with palms, potted plants, and cut Bowers, while festoons of smilnx were sntwined around the chandeliers. All the lower part of the house was brilliantly lighted. The dinner table was adorned With, a floral "centre piece consisting of a* bank of red roses three feet or more in tength, and a tower of roses standing at ' tech end, while the whole was set off by Hussive shining candelabra; WHITE AND BLACK Battle Koyal Between United States Troops to Settle the Question of Equality.: A revolt occurred at the United States barracks at St. Louis, Mo.,-between white and colored United States soldiers that resulted'in the injury of many men, and probably will cost three lives. At this, tinie there are many recruits at that sta tion, and they drew their first pay, and made an onslaught on the sutler.. Nu merous brawls resulted, and a crowd from New York resented the familiarity of the colored troops, and a fight followed. The guardhouse was filled with the dis orderly ones, and still the rows kept up. Late in the day a drunken colored trooper was seen pursuing a fourteen-year-old white girl, and a party of white troopers were seen after him, and in due time handed him over to the officer of the day. This seemed to enrage a number of his comrades, and they-forihwith left .(he barracks, starting for Cafondelet. .g Dp their way they fell in with a sqtj&3; d!l; 'white troopers and proceeded to- t-akg vengeance. The white soldierP-madf; their escape with a few bruises and HnrTfrjwL It BBBHHK H ifite Wracks where fl-ifiSw 5 WM u iS SOUTHLAND DOTTINGS, INTERESTING NTIF.S ITEMS FOB BUSY! PEOPLE, - The Social, Religion* and Temperance World—Projected Enterprises—Mar* tinges, Fires, Deaths. Etc. Thb Hot Blast newspaper of Anniston, Ala., has been sold to W, H. Edmonds, of Baltimore, Md. .Atlanta’s new morning daily is getting licked into shape. Leading prohibition ists are freely subscribing to the stock. Maj. W. M. Jendone, one of the most brilliant lawyers in Texas, committed suicide the other afternoon by stabbing himself in the bovfels. Under an ordinance adopted by the City Council of Atlanta, jGa.“ any man arrested twice for being drunk is “black listed;’’ it will cost a dealer $500 if lit;nor is sold to hint. r Ben Burton, a fireman,mf Atlanta, Ga., has been arrested charged with having wives in Homer, Ga., EatiTey, 8. C., An derson* county, 8^,C., and Atlanta. He is only 22 years of age. Lieut. Charles B; Rogers, UaS-.N., wSs married at Winchester, Va. , to Miss Alice Walker, daughter of General John G. Walker, ex-Confederate, late of Texas, and how in South America. James Cawthorn, a young man from Tilton, Ga., was on a freight train of the W. & A. Railroad, learning the duties of a brakeman, and slipping between two .cars at Big Shanty, was k^led. Three of the notorious Reeves gang at Glasgow, Ky., received aepj^nces aggre gating thirty-one yeari%S*nprisonment each, for various liurglarilsrtmd bur nine the court house afeTgmgjiinsville, Ky. . A voung.haIf-wWfi£^BK.ite man named Waldrop, employefcllnjihe farm of, F. J. Pelzer, in AnderjBuqpjj$y,' South Caro lina,was lynche^^^^pigiau | him to a : tree, and his bocfejsli|Mrahamck shot. It is alleged thd ft^^mg w as d one by (negroes. . The business txy q)|p*f; Beau^rt, Nj C., was burned; A|Tb§|®feek as fol lows : ThomaA fjjMt&MprffeeffOTdS and stock, *1f). (WMiM fjfejwfck- stories, store and stock, loss G Dill, loss It, 800; Cffiarlewpy«<>) loss £1,600-, Taylor & Buckman,: fesvo StorefLajtd stock, •53,500. . „ C. Clark, a -'d«rai5pprea&te at Bir- i-h&gham ; AIa.-<i|jfefflHKanri‘l - pistol to a.£'iSikffiSnnjs, ear-old white le t®y acciden- THE BUSY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHEV BY THE EVER PRESENT NEWSPAPER MAN,'-- BUDGET OF FUN.. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. their way to the barracks, where they soon made up a party to handle the men. Armed with revolvers and caiWues t .they started in good order for..C.ar6®elej| -But! before they had gone far tliev wefAdiS der.ect to returWand disarm, By theiffiew of the day. 3 They refused to return*to their quarters^ but laid down their arms at once and then proceeded after the'“en*. emv.” At the river Des Peres bridge they met the colored troopers returning. An encounter immediately followed, and knives, clubs and rocks were used. The fight was one of desperation, and the white men’s superior force was offset by the discipline of the colored troops who had entered a .second term of service. In the meantime, word of the "battle had reached the barracks, and four troops.-.of cavalry were ordered out and arrived in Carondelet in time to save the police from attack. The jnutineers dispersed,.- and they were arrested in detachments on a general order to arrest.all troopers. The barracks, Carondelet and intervening country assumed a military aspect, and all night the soldiers’”tread and demand of ‘ ‘halt” rang out. lath was was cars LIMITING THE SUPPI.T. Seventeen individual collieries in the Shenandoah and Mountain district in Pennsylvania were working and more* are likely to follow. All have agreed verbally to pay the present wages pending any settlement the Reading com pany may make. Coal dealers in Phila delphia are raising the price of coal 50 to 75 cents per ton, and many of them an nounce that they will only sell one ton on each order. Some dealers have been un able to replenish their stock for ten days past. A Pennsylvania railroad miners’ train with 500 men, returning from work, was wrecked near Shenandoah. A sill Was wedged on the road bed. This is the third attempt to wreck the 1 train. The miners are very angry and threaten ven geance. Several persons were seriously injured. The miners riding on* the train are all Knights of Labor working at mines paying their price. They do not under stand the animus of the wreckers, but be lieve it is some dissatisfied parties who desire a stoppage of mining in the interior region. TirEX'oxnrcTOtts smiled. The West Side Street Railway com pany of Chicago, Ill., ceased selling its new issue of tickets, after having lost over $2,000 in less than a week, the con ductors, by a simple and ingenious pro cess, making themselves beneficiaries to that amount. When the Yerkes. syndi cate formally resumed control of ti e company on January lst^the event was signalized by the introduction of coupon tickets. The conductors were instructed to ring up’ as cash every coupon taken, As the coupons were sold twenty-two for $1, and as cash fares were five cents, con ductors who studied the subject were tempted to turn into the company a'! coupons and no cash, thus harvesting just ten cents on every dollar. A HELP INDEED. K«4*wnd, The I liiiffl- Sohvfapistol::' tors @§mpanySi||s;5 qr-'*eYen wag; - then appointed to ctfiEw^up by-1 arSKmd to report to a meefing ito-morrow night all the details in regard to tbe number of officers, and the men to be secured for immediate work. A freight train on the 2 New River di vision of the Norfolk & Western Railroad ran into a rock slide, twenty-seven miles from Central the other night. The engine- jumped the track: and ran'into the river and disappeared. The. -engineer drowned at his post- The.- fireman also killed and twenty-five loaded were demolished. Apparently the whole city of Charles ton, S. C., is up iri arms against the mu nicipal license - system. The new city eouncil passed the usual license bill, and, although there had been an effort to abolish it, everybody thought the matter was settled. However, a peti tion and protest has been circulated, ex tensively signed, to be presented to the council. Miss Fannie Gjllem, of Chattanooga. Tenn., was carrying a bucket of watei from a spring, near her home, to the house, she was shot in the face by hot eleven-year-old brother. Thirty-two shot struck her in the if ace and head; and she is thought to be fatally hurt. The little fellow was playing with a double-barrell ed shot gun, which he thought was not loaded. Mr. Holmes, the transfer mail agent at the union, depot in Birmingham, Ala., wrs robbed of 19 registered packages 'while he was asleep on a truck in the ear shed. Postmaster Inspector Williamson arrested Thomas W. Peteet, a young man who has been iivfilg by his wits 4 some time. Peteet was intimate with Holmes and. was seen about the depot on the night of the robbery, i A boiler in Woitihie & Son’s - mills, in Jonesboro, N, C,, burst, instantly killing Richard Melver, ( colored, fireman, and seriously injurjng.'Henry Dark and Peter Mclver. The fireman had drained the safety valve down to prevent the loss oi steam and filled the furnace full of pine knots. He was blown through a house, a distance -of seventy-five feet, and his body was torn into fragments. The coroner’s jury of inquest into the killing of Trial Justice George E. Haynes- worth, at Sumter, S. C., have rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death at the hands of one of the following named persons: W. J. Harby, P. G. Bowman, J. R. Kels or K. Pennington, the one doing the shooting bein| unknown, the others aiding and abetting. Gf the parties implicated, all are in jail except Bowman and Penning ton, whose wounds are too serious to per mit of their removal from their homes. The Enronean Powers Preparing lor a Great Struggle—Irish Allairs—Storms« ' Railroad. Accidents, Suicides, etc. Erard’s -piano factory (the oldest in the a crid) in Paris, France, was destroyed by ire, | The Alhambra Theatre at Antwerp was destroyed by fire. The theatre was a vast struclSare. Two express trains on the Dutch State railroad, near Meppel, collided. Twenty- six persons were killed and . many others tnjKced. ft-'- * A canal burst at a point near Dudley,' not far from Birmingham, England. Hun dreds of families were rendered homeless by the inundation. The Liberal Radical Union has decided to give a public reception in London, England, to Messrs. O’Brien and Sullivan after their release from Tullamore jail. On the celebration of the Pope’s Jubi lee in Chicago, Ill., the Catholics of that city collected a purse of $19,000, and it Will be forwarded to Rome. Prof; Thiersch, of the Leipsic Univer sity, has published the opinion, that ac cording to recent accounts from San Remo; the drown Prince’s malady cannot be oi it cancerous nature. The Italian papers Say Mr. Gladstone, the Grand Old Man of England, will treat with the Vatican for tits support in the ef forts being made to obtain autonomy for Ireland, Mgr. Perisco having commenced the negotiations. ( An earthquake in Mexico was percept ibly felt throughout its southern part, and in the city of Ingualalia was quite Severe. Some damage to property, con- Bisting principally in the cracking of walls, is reported, but no loss of life. : The board of poorhouse directors in ! Lancaster, Pa., asked the tramps confined In the county workhouse; one hundred and forty in all, if they were willing to go to Reading to take the strikers’ places, and if so to- sigh a paper. But only ’•twenty-five Complied, the rest fearing vio lence, - j”, * By a premature blast at Wilkesbarre, ■Penn., four Italians ’were killed and sev- !en severely injured, while at work in blasting on the Lehigh Valley * railroad, near Laurel Run. An Irish foremap was standing within one foot of the blast hole, was blown into the air and landed on Bis feet with trifling injuries. | Mrs. Leonora M. Barry, of Philadel phia, Pa,, general investigator of the Knights of Labor, lias,Issued a circular RTferTo the female members of the order! uherever found. It deals with the. Ijjj pcfif the condiHdiTof"vrPricing women - and girls and strongly advocates the ex penditure of money for education instead: of strikes. !■ . - Ex-Empress Eugenie decided that the* ceremony of the removal of the remains of Napoleon III, and the prince imperial from Chiselhurst to Earnborough should be private; none of the members of the royal family were present, but the queen gent wreaths to be placed on the coffins. After mass had been celebrated, the cof fins were taken to Farnborough by. a special train. Only the ex-empress and her usual suite were present. A span in the new viaduct- now being constructed at Cleveland, Ohio, and which connects Sonthside with the city proper, fell recently. It was ninety feei above the ground. A large car was pushed off the end of the span, by acci- on.t in fulHmr it knocked the braces A Terri bie Aflljption t- The Attack to l:e Renewed—Twice Snr- ] prisqd—Ernshed Again— Took His UegjOff - Mendicant^~“Will you please help thq blind, sir?” Gentleman— “You can see afe vtefl as I. You’re,not blind.” . | Mendicant—“No, sir, but my wife is.; She takes in washin’ an’Thave to fetch all the water for her. It’s an awful thing to be .blind, sir.”—Drake's Magazine. - The Attack to be Renewed. Young Man—“ I love your daughter,; sir, devotedly. May I hope for a bless ing from you?” Old Man—*“]lave you spoken to my daughter- upon the subject?” Young Man—“Yes, and she refused me.” «r» ; | ; Old Man— ‘‘Well, doesn’t that settle it?”- Young Man—“No, sir. You forget that I am a life insurance agent, and neyer take no for an answer.”—New York Bun. , ' ■ • Twice Siirprised. Young. Wife (at dinner table, sobbing) —“I think you—-you-—are just as mean as -:1s--you can be. I made that—that apple'dumpling as a pleasant surprise for 1 you,' and—and now- - you—want me to firing a handsaw to cut it in two with.” Young Husband—“Good heavens, Maria! Is that a dumpling? I took it for a cocoanut. (With desperate firm ness.),- I’ll eat it now, Maria, if it kills me. Chicago Trllmne. one ' should . be w ound - up at a regular hour each day, -The old man concurred in the planwitli ail bis head, and prom- mised he'‘would not.fail.- ■ The house was, closed., .Theowner bragged a goo.d.defl about his! scheme for having cve^y room guarded against’ Leaks, etc , during'^thfe winter, 'and came to-Boston A week or two afterward this geuileman thought, he wotifd tiake 1 a riitf doWhtitf Nah imti/and see, how things were;- going;! When' he arrived,there lie found his man, who-was-.: veiyglad to see liivn,, and told him that lie had wound each clock faithftrily as he had di rect ed . On en teritig; the house, the two proceeded td theffear drawing rbom, and the astonishment of the rownor may ,: be better lmigmCd than described- whetj he saw ranged afong in a row his thirteen blocks, which the old man had brought down to save himself the trouble of go ing all over the housceverv day.—Boston Gazette. 7: , Crushed- A<rai n. (Midnight.) :'' Poor .Wife to husband whose loud shoring keeps her awake— “‘Cliai'liel'“CIlaflie! do stop snoring! Turn over on your side.! ’’ (Nudges,him.,) Husband, only half awake, grunts, turns on his side, and continues to snore. Wife has a happy {idea. Remembers a [ine from an article.called “ How to Pre vent Snoring,’! sGives her husband a second nudge, which elicits another grunt.) “Oh, Charliel If you’d koetl your mouth shut, you’d be all right.”' Charlie (still* semi-conscious}'—“So Would you 1 ”—Harper's Bazar. dent, and in falling it knocked the braces and beams out of place and tbe span went also. There were eight workmen on the span when it fell. Two men were killed and four injured. an angry mayor. The tow boat, “Little Bill,” in attempt- to pass through a narrow passage made by tbe lowering of some of the wickets at Davis island dam, hear Pittsburg, Pa,, struck one of the broken wickets and knocked it down, clearing the channel for the space of 200 feet. Boats are now passing through the'opening made by the accident, and about three million bushels of coal will get out for shipment to Cin cinnati and Louisville, instead of one million bushels, as expected. SUMMARY MEASURES. At Madisonville, county seat of Madi son comity, Texas, a! body of armed.citl- zens—calling themselves reformers—shot and killed Bill Bold while he Was stand ing on the steps of Viser's store, and then hanged “Red” Paige, and another roan, whose name is not known. happy day. The. Christian AdiocaU, of Nashville, Tenn., anhouncei a fact' that makes glao many hearts among the Methodists, that the publishing house is able to pay the last cent of its outstanding obligations; that the concern is out of debt. The bonds are at par,(and the book agent is ■prepared to redeem all of them, now out standing-. The agent requests that these bonds be presented as - soon as .possible. Ten years ago the! publishing house ap peared to be'hopdl.es^ly involved, in debt. The annual message of Mayor Haynes, of Newark, N. J,, complains of the Lack- awana & Western railroad company. He says: “A few first-class funeral subjects furnished from, the directors of that road would make room for a reasonable board —one that would not treat a city of 165,H 000 inhabitants, that pays them hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly, worse than they treat any country village from Hob oken to Buffalo. It becomes us, on all occasions, to be' reconciled to the will oi the Lord, and if in His wisdom He should see fit to remove some of the directors oi the road, the city of Newark would be perfectly reconciled tc- His merciful dis pensation.’) , BOUND TO ESCAPE. Jailers Birdsong and Bassett, at the Macon, Ga., jail, in changing the anklets around Tom Woolfolk’s leg, found that one of the staples that connect the lock chain with the anklet had been cut tin two. on one side, leaving a good big gap in one bend of the staple. They set to work immediately to find the saw, and after a long search found a piece of broken case knife, with the blade all gapped up, concealed near the roof, This is his second attempt to escape within a week. , - COTTON REPORT- The decline in Liverpool,: Fiigland seems to have made some of ti. timid “longs” sell out, as otherwise there seems to be nothing in the market to cause a decline. The latest news from that point is: “Certainly we have very seldom seen Manchester doing a bigger business, the export trade for yarns having carried off any surplus supplies, and it looks as if it would take some considerable advance in prices, before consumption will be checked.” WANT IT FREE. “MUST EAT CROW.’ In the Circuit Court, at La Fayette, In diana,'Judge Vincent decided, that tele phone companies were compelled by the statute law to rent instruments to cus tomers at $3 per! month whether they wished or not »„«***- ~ • Must Have Suffered. Barber (to customer)—“Did you tice that gentleman who just out Customer--“Yes.” Barber—“I’ve shaved him for over five years.” . ‘ L-. Customer—'‘ Vou tlon’t say so? years' Heavens, how he must suffered!”—Jti/ioch, Bub -Talks of the Goat. The gote iz wot botinists wood call a forgit me not—no boy that is suddenly overtakin by a gote will be apt to ferget im. This is a settled fak in my mind, altho’ wen ma looked at mi trowsers af ter the las’ engagement sha thort it wuz a open kweschin. The gote gives milke, pervided you don’t make a mistake ait tap the rong kind ov a gote; in this caS.e you dont git any milk but yu do git igsasperated. Gotcs wares thate hare pompydore wen thare, in a pes,ceful mood, but wen thay aint thay wares it bang, an I its a* kin ov bahg’yu dont -forgit ifi * | hurry nether. .Ole gentlemen gotes wares wiskers wich is decevin cause thay looks like Sunday skool su'perintendferiS, but if yu sen his tale wink yu want.-to ajurn* rylts yool think yodje-sot down on a frate 'kar'that wuxina hurry. " Gotesiz eters. Wen tliar , hungry i frido ■ tomb stones iz jest as .gopd.to them.ez enny. thing buy ef thares iriiymoryutn Verses ontit thayls.pit.tem out. -xlve been - try in tp say something nice bout the sgiy* gotes looks in’ the face, but I cant an -yu mus- ent spepkt me' ter say anythirig’ - m.een bout a fj-niud that gives me so many, boosts fHH 1 i>: i — Tonif/t Gazette., Took His Lefi Off, (‘Did you hear abput. Jake Gubbins’s leg beingt'aken off?” *| NrnSReg. was tiiaitl ’’ “This morningy on the railroad.” - f‘ Jove, tlpit's hard luck. How did it; ’happen ! ” , ^ .. •• Wiiy, you see he bought a ticket, antL.tgiar-ded’thcArain and the locomotive w ffi^|*'dai!d away ywqtprqiooT, .Gubbins’s leg ” ” "* “Well how? Did he fall off?” ,? Blowing Up Camels., \ Moorish traders m camels scorn to be no ‘iftbie ' honest than- traders in liorse^- haveti the repntatio-n-..of; being:» ;Tha‘ author of “Among the A^Ijs”.describes. One of‘the‘if'feickS,' which, according to his account, Ally an expert is iikplv' ■to d.ete.ct.,: Th^story was ? tpld tq the, | author of a Frenchman who. had traveled * for sometime in AlgiCiv*. - - •'■*'- ••*1 ” " On one occasion, .while; in an,, Arab Ivillage,' he declaredhisjntention of buy* t i! ing a young camel. No soon pi; had -Ms i : desire, bepomftj. known than tiAt least: :: twenty camG"' ' ere , brought for his in- || f f weiAv •all finfetoqttigijg aniinals.aia tb:tiV.. rtitie. ^Oxjly; Sttee :No.-He sat there in atispat, aBA-TOpA.: • — — the train went it had to. take, his leg oif, | TtTW 11 didn’t i®|§ Of course it tobk the rest..o| j|Uo°k at his larW.iiMlML. him off too, you know Lie'll be lionie skeleton, on whose! alniW on the night’ train ptobably—I’ll take a i.tbeflesh hung.in large, folds, arip cigar for inirie ‘'—Dansmlle Breeze. ■■■ ' ;best development was;abou»p,30inp»v - ' , i : '.The method by Which the camel; a?e- H© Understood. ,j suddenly- ..“fattened’’ for the naailigyfty; On a Wabish and..Cottage Grove grip ' dhitfa ciesciibed . . . ’ ,y ; First Person—(’I got the worst of it j An mctsioii about an inch mtiriigth W -to-day” : . .. made, in each ear-betwecii the skin.aai.a. Second Ditto—“So*” ■ “ the flesh. Into this a small tube is First—“Yes, I wenthome last night j 'fitted arid secured by hsilk cord. There' and that duck - of a wife said to me': it r remaiM, hidd®» from .tiip o*«erv^OB..- ! ‘Dearie, the hats this fall are much of a,lllmt the initiated, and leacy lower.’ I was overdome with, joy, and at aiiyffioment.When a hrferc ia ™ told her tb go and get one or two if sbej is ; not acquainted with .the^ liked, because you know how uncertain ! trick comes to buy the market is.” Second Ditto—“Well!” First—“Well, she did ; got two. To day I paid the bill. "Holy Joseph, but it Was a stunner. More than I ever paid before. So I spoke to my wife about it, and her reply was that she meant the style was lower—not the price. See? That Wife of mine ought to be a lawyer or an editor or something where her genius could spread itself. The speaker turned to see the effect of his ‘ narrative upon his friend, but the latter had fallen off his seat about a half block distant.— Ghieago Mail. It Could Not Be. • He put on his hat, started slowly for the door, hesitated, came back, sighed deeply and took the lily white hand 411 his own and pressed itdofhis lips. “Katie,” he murmured, “I have waited long —0I1, how lonjfMfor this oppor tunity. Will you, Katie, will you, darling be mine?”; : “Henry, ” she replied, with a look half of sorrow and half of determination, “it can never be.” “Never be! Oh, why have you per mitted me to hope? Why have you en couraged me, only to stamp upon my bleeding heart at last?” “I am sorry, Henry; but I can never be yOurs. I have other-objects in view.” “Otherobjects,?”.. . ; “Yes, Henry; I cannot consent to be long to any man. I intend that you shall be mine.''-^Boeton Psangcript. At the annual meeting of the Commer cial club; of Augusta, Ga., by a unani mous vote, it was decided to request tbe Council to make tbe city bridge free at .nice. , * - : Dull Times West. Eastern Man—“How is business in Prairie City?” Western Man—‘‘Everything’s dead; don’t know what the country is coming to. ” „.: E. M.—“Why, Iheardten new factor-- ries were going up there.” !J W. M.—“Yes,, that so.” | E.AL—“And a new board of trade had started in opposition to the old one. ” W. M.—“Yes, Tbelieve so.” E. M.—“And I was, told 400 nevy houses were in course of construction.’ PHHH | I qamcl, tb<#, dealer ti; talres two tubes, each a yarc( long, aiid, j inserting one lend of - each-rin, the small- - [ tubes, just described, through the other, puds two 1 Arabs ’ blow with all their . I might until thcanimal has attained the | requisite degree of plumpness. . The in- . Bating tubes are then withdrawn, and the - air is prevented from escaping by means of a coifir smeared ivith pitch. .. The poor camel now becomes, apparent Jy, quite 'lively aiid frisky, trying to throw itself on the: ground, or to press, against the wall or a tree, or whatever .object may be at hand, so as to: get fid of the wind; It is generally: too well watched ■* by the' rascally Arab to. g^M§8 . accomplishing its purpose.- ! Sometimes, however, it manages to elude his vigil ance;. and.then, if the cork n n^r Ye, r f* ; secufely fastened, the wind escapes with a whistle like- that of a steam engine, antigb the fine-looking beast, suddenly cqliapa^^S into the miserable object it really Youth’s Com;■■■ anion. Gliost-Haunted Ships. t . Ghost-haunted ships were of all thing$#(i those which the sailor regarded with most terror, and,it is-not many yea«? since that an account was published of some sailors whq refused to serve on J board a British man-of-war because,) as they said, there was a- ghost aboard. ' When pressed to give a .reason for their, belief they said they smelled him.: . night, however, in a staferof genuine terror, they said they had. not only/ smelled but seen the ghost—a\ e, and,. heard it, too, behind some beer barM?,« and thev would rather swim than remain aboard." The captain, however, ordeted, them to be put in irons until they were < well out at sea and,then flogged. Aftef * that lm heard nothing more of the ghost. Ships thus haunted were, not | only doomed to peiish, in the belief >of • sailors, but their very presence brought , ; danger to all who looked qpon them. The decayed hulls of_vessels^ reput%d(t<^ be haunted would drive the fisher folk ’ on some of the Scotch and .Irish coasts 1 from the most promising bays, and no one would -venture even-to bathe near them, such wild unreasonable terror did . HI LVUIOU VI v—— J . .. . 7 •Yesfl s’pose that’s about the they provoke. —London. 1 elegrajM. no- went Five have W. M.- number.” E. M.-4-' £ ‘But you say things are dull. ” W. M.—“Dull’s no name for it ; dead, absolutely dead. , Why, sir, I staked out a suburb, only fifty miles away, into twenty-foot lots at $10,060 a lot. an’I ain’t sold a danged one of ’em.”—Tid- Bits. Ingenuity on Both Sides. A Curious Deformity, A seven-year-old chil,d of Herman Myers, a few miles southeast of Waits- burg, Washington Territory, died a-few days ago. The child had -from ita m fancy, doubtless, bcetnlcad to all sense,!—hearing,, smelling,,-fasting, fe”w ing and seeing. It never walked, stood nor sat—nor even attempted to —yet it MMa'"' " ’ Kg the A gentleman about to close his sum-| grew physically all the time, « mer house at Nahant conceived what he j period of its death-waaaS tad as ordinary considered a briLliant idea to insure thej children of its-age. tit never jn._any.waj daily iiersona.1 inspection of every room) helped itself, nor #temptc)(^i --- * • ‘ - 4l --- eat what was. p^'in its r^s ever food was.put there in his villa during (he winter by the old man in whose, charge the establishment was to be left. Accordingly, he said to the old man that.* he-shonld leave all his ..clocks, one in each room, at Nahant,dur ing the winter., and he desired that every .til It would! .ill,ami wli’en-^. Its eyes were as bright as : 'evcr seen, but they seemed to be useleis. - It showed no iMrns of life at any tiine, except that itJK:eatlied, ate , and digested its food ,.