THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
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W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC
As ordinary Mexican trials at law are
long and expensive, the seven murderers
of a wealthy cattle owner were recently
given a short way to justice at Durango,
Mexico, by the “icy tie fuego;”that is,
they were permitted to try to escape and
in their effort for freedom were all shot
dead.
Public parks are recommended as a
preventive of anarchy. A speaker in
Philadelphia traced the connection be
tween a certain class of virtues and open
spaces. “Jtiotous uprisings,” he said,
“never fiud their source in that part of
the population dwelling in the vicinity
of parks, since anarchists frequent thickly
crowded quarters, the alleys and densely
populated courts.”
The Atlanta Constitution says that
“the center of population has steadily
moved southward, except during the
war and between 1830 and 1840. la
point of fact the South is increasing
more rapidly in population than the
North, when foreign immigrants are left
out cf the calculation. The last census
shows that the Southern States are add
-050,000 children to their population
each year against only 798,000 in the
North, with nearly twice the population.
Blany of the towns of < alifornia which
went out of existence coincident with
the decline of gold mining have been
revived, and are now luxuriating in a
new and prospeieus career through the
development of the agricultural re
sources of the country. Marysville,
Auburn, Oroville and Placcrville are
illustrations. Orchards and vineyards
have sprung up in their localities, and
enduring prosperity is apparently in
stoie for them.
The journal Forest and Carden gives
a papur from I’etcr Ilcndcr-on, in which
he stales that early in the present cen
tury there were about 100 professed
florists in the United States, and their
combined greenhouses covered 50,000
square feet of glass. There are now over
10,000 florists, occupying 51,0)0,000
feet of glass, or about 1000 acres of
greenhouses. These structures cost
about thirty million dol'ars, and the
» plants in them are valued at twice that
sum.
In respect to patronage, asserts the
New York World, the pos.tion of Post
master-General, is now the most iic
portent in the Cabinet. The 50,000
postmasters who are responsible for their
appointment to the chief of the depart
ment are supplemented by an immense
number of clerks who serve at Washing
ton, on the railroads and as examiners
and ins|re. toiß all over the country, and
•he Postmaster tieueral is to tho people
rt large almost as influential a mat* as the
President himself.
* "i see,” remarks a writer in the Lon
lor Times, “that the United States Go»
rrnment have just launched a formidable
vessel styled a “dynamite cruiser.” She
* 721 tons <lispla< ement,and D intended
to steam twenty knots, and her arma
sicnt consists of three guns, each tiring
t charge of 200 pound 1 of dynamite by
means of compreise I air. It is strange,
sut characteristic, that, while a foreign
power has got so far as this, our ener
getic military and naval authorities
ihould not have made ov n an expess
wnt with dynamite artillery,” *
POLITICAL NEWS.
WIIY HARRISON AND NORTON WERE
NOMINATED.
The Boston Herald says of the nomin
ations that Harrison owes his selection
first to his residence in the State of In
diana, second to his being the most
practicable candidate in the convention
for the defeat of John Sherman. Aside
from the first stated reason it will hardly
be claimed that he was more likely to be
considered in connection with the" Presi
dency than hundreds of other men. He
has proved himself to be a well equip
l>ed and capable lawyer, a soldier who
stood well on the field of battle, and a
politician of good fighting quality.
The nomination of Morton for Vice-
President is, as will be generally ac
cepted, made with a view to the finan
cial strength needed for the campaign.
GOOD ADVICE TO EBTIE.
The following telegram was sent to
Cbicogo, III:
“To M. M. Estie, Chairman National
Convention, Chicago, 111. The Cheraw
Democrats advise you to endorse Cleve
land and adjourn.
W. C. McCreight, Mayor. 1
A Washington correspondent says:—
“Senator Sherman lays his defeat di
rectly at Governor Alger’s door.”
General Harrison has chosen Colonel
W. W. Dudley, ex-pension commission
er, as his personal representative on the
Hcpublican National Executive Com
mittee.
North, East and West.
The Chicago railroad rate war con
tinues.
News has been received that a band
of Apaches is abroad in southern Arizona,
wandering and murdering whites.
John Jacker, who lives a few miles
west of Racine, Wis., is now in the forty
first day of his fast.
George W. Wilson was hanged at
Albion, N. Y., at 10:15 Wednesday
morning for the murder of his wife cn
January 19, 1887
Three new blast furnaces are to be
erected in Birmingham, Ala., for which
♦700,000, partly Charleston capital, has ,
been deposited in banks.
At Magna Vista, Miss., a few days 1
ago. a negro covered a storekeeper with j
a revolver, then auctioned off his goods
to other negroes, pocketed the cash and j
escaped.
Mrs. President Cleveland and her j
mother, Mrs. Folsom, arrived from Paris
Tuesday, spent the morning in their
rooms at Victor Hotel. They left for I
Washington in the afternoon on the
7:54 train.
Hon. John M. Glover, Member of Con-1
gress for the Eighth Missouri district. |
has filed suit for $50,000 against the'
Globe Democrat , of St. Louis, for libel. j
William Aldridge, a tough character, j
shot and killed James Cunningham, a
barber, whose home is in Danville, Iml., I
at the house of Cunningham's sister. The
men quarreled over a woman.
James Jowett, forty-four years of age, I
shot anil fatally wotiuded Arthur Craven, ,
a young mill employee, at Wanskuck, <
R. I. Jowett says that Craven attempted
to assault his daughter, twenty-one years
old.
Officer Murty O’SuUiraa was shot in
the abdomen and fatally wounded about
midnight Tuesday night by a negro
roustabout named Frank Parker, at St. I
Louis, Mo.
At the Gettysburg re union, speeches
were made by Gena. Siekles, Gordon,
Longstreet, Chaplain, McCabe and others.;
The blue and the gray intermingled in
harmonious celebration.
Colton worms have apfieared in five 1
counties in the southern part of Arkansas, j
and it is feared that they will do as
much damage to the crop as in 1867, I
w hen the crop was a total failure.
The furnace fires in Cincinnati, New-1
|H>rt and Covington Rolling Mills, Ohio,
were permitted to die out Saturday
night, and were not starred Mond y
morning. Seventy-live hundred men are
thrown out of work, and the luckout
promises to be protracted.
A desperate battle occurred between
revenue officers and moonshiner* near
Black Springe, Ky\, on Thursday. In
ternal Revenue Collector Frye and posse
raided the moonshiners, in which Deputy
Collcrtor Marshall Trammell was killed.
At Milwaukee, Wis., lix hundred men
were throw n out of employment by the
ctosing down of the North Chieago Rol
ling Mill Company's mills at llayview,
because of the difference lietween the
Amalgamated association and the manu
facturers over the scale of wages for the
ensuing year.
Vicar-General Conway, proltably one
of the best known of the Catholic pro
lates in America, is seriously ill at his
home in Chicago, and all hopes of hia
recovery have Ireeu given up l>y his
friauds.
A s|>ecial from Memphis, Tenn., says
that Thomas Moorehead, an old citizen,
was stabbed six times by Tbomis Taylor,
a young man, and died Saturday. The
trouble wav the elopement of Moore
he-tds daughter with Taylor, the old man
compelling the girl to return home, tin
I meeting the old man Taylor attacked
him with the result slated.
Terrlhle Disaster.
The steamer Janie* W. Baldwin ran
down a pleasure launch on the Hudson
just after leaving Newburg. N. Y., and
cut it in two. There were eight persons
1 on board the launch, two men and six
ladles. Two of tbs latter, Mr*. Benj. 1
’B. O'Dell, Jr., aa4 Ml** Anal* Mtiler, j
w»re drowned,.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1888.
THE TWIN STATES.
XORTU CAROLINA.
A great soldiers' reunion is to lie held
at Pittsboro on the Hist Thursday in
August. Governor Scales, Senators
Vance and Ransom and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Steadman will make speeches.
Concord's new bank was opened for
business on Thursday, July sth. Work
has been commenced on the new hotel
building at that place. It is to adjoin
the bank building and will be a hand
some structure.
Tht- fifth meeting of the North Caro
lina Teachers' Assembly at Morehoad
city ended Friday after a two weeks ses
sion. More than 3,000 teachers were
present. A party of several hundred
teachers left for Now York by steamer
excursion which is to occupy a week or
more.
William A. Potts, of Beaufort county
the murderer of Paul Linckc. will l>e
hanged on July 18th the Guvcrnor hav
ing declined to interfere. Governor
Scales also made a final disposition of
the death sentence of James Byers, of
Wilkes county. He declines to take
any action, and lets the law take its
course. Byers will, therefore, bo hanged
at Wilkesboro, July 18th for murder.
The Democrats of North Carolina will
hold a series of ratification meetings at
leading points during the mouth of July.
So far ten meetings have lieen arranged
for. to be addressed by all the candi
dates on the State ticket, the Presi
dential electors, the United States
Senators, and as many Congressmen as
can arrange to attend. There will lie a
grand torchlight procession of C'eveland
and Kowle clubs at each point, and the
railroads of the State will givu reduced
rates to all desiring to attend.
sor-rn CAROLINA.
It has just been learned that at John
T. Roddy's camp on the “3 CV’ seven
miles from Rock Hill, one negro was
killed and three fatally injured by a trank
caving in Tuesday.
Information is just received of a hor
rible crime committed in York county.
Robert Wood, a white man of sixty
years, with a family, is charged with
brutally injuring and mutilating a white
girl named Hill, aged only six years. A
(rarty of alrout fifty while men went at
night to the house of the girl's mother,
and though she was quits ill, forced her
to make affidavit that Wood was the per
son who had injured the child. Wood
has been notified to quit the county in
five days, or take the consequences, lie
is supposed to have gone. If he remains
he will he either lynched or very roughly
handled.
A Million Postage Stamps.
A Philadelphian hav collected, sorted,
and filed away enough canceled postage
-tango to reach, if placed side by side,
from the Delaware Iriver to Cobb'*
Creek, the extreme western boundary of
the city. In this extraordinary collec
tion there are 1,000,000 stamp*. These
stamps, if used as waff paper, woull be
sufficient to cover the walls of a medium
aired city house, snd if spread over a
space one yard wide would reach nearly
800 yards." The iratient collector of this
million of little bits of engraved paper
is Paul IVs Granges, a retired merchant,
who began the task February ti, 1882.
Mr. Do- Granges says of his work:
The ptan adopted for the preservation
and actual counting of the stamps was
to remove them from sny adherent paper
by soaking in water, aSfl after drying,
to lie in packages of 100; these were
then made into trundles of 1000, then
5,000, and ten of those into parcels of
50,000 stamps each, weighing five pounds
and five ounces. Having much unoccu
pied time, and the assistance of numer
ous friends and acquaintance, the first
1 “brick” or paekagn of 50,000 was com
-1 pletcd on « ctober ti, 1892. Others fol
lowed at irregular intervals varying
from nine months and twenty days to
1 to fourteen months until finally 1,000,-
, 00) w»< completed on Octol er 8, 1887,
in a period of five years, eight months
‘ and two days Os one cent United
(dates stamps there are 118.000; of two
I cent stamps 665,900; of thrce-ccnt
stamps 99.000; of miscellaneous stamps
35,4th); of foreign stamps 30,800; total,
; 1,000,000.
A Farmer** Magnetic Qualities
A farmer living teai Wslthmtrville,
j liberty Uoumy. wav struck Iry lighting
j four years ago. The occurrence wII be
remembered by many here, as it wa« dur
ing thsUongressioeal Convention. Since
j that time he hav had peculiar electrical
, and magnetic qualities Whenever a
storm gather* or court meet* he beco.ne*
I highly charge*!. Ilit fle-h tingles and
tiny spark* are emitted in myriads
, Small |rarlielev of metal ding to his
linsers while liies which light upon him
, fall dead instantly. —SreuaiuiA Timet.
Philadelphia vs Boston.
A Philadelphia lady, viaiting friends
in Rod<m, coiuplsiind much of the
t crooked streets. "Mow Philadelpha,”
j she asrd is so beautifully and regularly
I laid out.''
“Vce.” responded her Yankee host,
I “but if Uostun were a* dead a« f hila
deiplna, doubtless it would '.re as decent
1) hard out." —Dttrml Free IW
Older and Witter.
Coo ft need Bachelor—“ How time doe*
fly. Miss rVi-idei Why, itwa* ten year*
ago that you refu.ed me on lisle root."
Mist be.raido * who withe* »he hadn't)
I—‘Ye long a* that! I *u young ted
foolish then, Mr. emith ”
| Pa h lor— “But we era both old«r Md
1 wiser BOW."*— lhmr4 Umjten, ,
CLEVELAND NOTIFIED.
Ht-AocepUin a Qraoefnl Speech Hl* Party’*
Trust.
The following is n partial list of the
committee appointed to notify Grover' of
his re-nomination: J. B. Prount, Fla.;
John Triplett, Ga.; T. N. Stnngc, N. C.;
Leroy Springs, 8. C.; B. B. Gordon. Va.
Upon their arrival at the White House
the President descended to the East
Room accompanied by the following
persons: Mrs. Cleveland, Rev. William
M. Cleveland, the president’s brother
and wife, of Forest Portnay; Mrs. W.
E. Hoyt, the president’s sister, of Fay
etteville, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Lamont,
Mr. W. 8. Bisscll, of Buffalo, all of whom
were present at the notification of his
first nomination; Mr. Bayard, Mr. and
Mrs. Fairchild, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney,
Mrs. Endicott, Mr. Vilas, Mr. and Mrs.
Dickinson, Mr. Benjamin Folsom and
Speaker Carliile.
Their approach was the signal for a
general clapping of hands on the part of
the visitors, and as soon as the party had
taken their places. General Collins step
ped forward and addressed the president.
Thomas 8. Pitt, secretary of the noti
fication committee, then presented Mr.
Cleveland with a handsomely engrossed
copy of the platform, adopted at the
National Democratic Convention. The
president replied in an earnest and em
phatic manner and was frequently inter
rupted by applause.
Thus closed the speech-making, and
then all present proceeded to the state
dining room and partook of light re
freshments. Afterward the committee
Irceamc the guests of the Columbia Club
and were driven about the city.
The Mexican Flood.
Telegraphic communication which has
been interrupted for several days by
floods has Irccn restored and particulars
of the terrible disaster on the line of the
Mexican Central railway, particularly at
Leon and Silao, are obtained. During
the past ten days the table lands in
the vicinity of Zacatecas have been
visited by unprecedented rains. Every
mountain rivuled along the Central rail
way for more than 200 miles has been
converted into a destructive torrent, and
the valleys present the appearance of
lakes. Many cities and towns have
lieen inundated and Leon and Silao have
been partially destroyed.
At least 1,500 people were drowned in
Leon alone. Over one thousand liodics
have been recovered. In some districts
the water is full of dead bodies, floating
as thick as drift wood, and the stench
prevading the country is almost unbear
able. All over Mexico, measures arc
Ireing taken to raise funds for the relief
of the sufferers.
Consecrated by the Cardiuul.
Bishop Leo Ilaid, of North Carolina,
was consecrated at the Cathedral in
Baltimore by Cardinal Gibbons. T here
was a procession of bishops, priests,
seminarians and acolytes from the Card
inal's residence to the cathedral. Card
inal Gibbons was the celebrant of the
pontificial mass oil the main altar, with
Father Albert as deacon and Rev. Chas.
Judge, of Bt. Charles College, as sUb
deacon.
Bishop Haid celebrated the mass on
the altar to the right, assisted by Father
Willilrad, of North Carolina. Bishops
Becker, of Georgia, and Scidcnbusch, of
North Minnesota, were the co-eonscerat
ors. The commissions from the Po|re
were read by Rev. Alphonso L. Magnier.
The first document appoints Father Haid
Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina, and
the second invests him with the titular
bishopric of Messenta, Greece. Bishop
Keane, of Richmond, preached the
sermon. Others assisting at the cere
monies were Bishops Kain, of Wheeling,
W. Va, Curtis, of Wilmington, Del.,
and Monsignor Corcoran, of Philadel-
Irhia. Bishop Haid is a Benedictine.
Ic is a native of Latrobc, Pa.
The Richmuntl anil Danville Deni.
The alliance of the Richmond and
Danville and Atlantic and Coast Line,
which has Irccn talked of for some time,
but not heretofore officially confirmed,
will give the Richmond and Danville a
new outlet at Norfolk, and furnish a
more direct anil shorter route to the far
South. The Richmond anil Danville is
a progressive and prosperous corporation,
which covers nearly the whole Southern
territory, and is an imirortani factor in,
the progress of the new South.
The i-ontract will move all competition
Iretwren the Coast Line anil Danville
systems. It is I relieved that the con
tract also provides for inakl"g Norfolk,
V*., one of the principal terminals of the
Richmond and Danville system of 6,000
miles of railroad, anil that tliis will Ire
done in connection with the Coast Line
by the eonstru* tion of aconnecting link
of alrout 100 miles.
Confederate Soldiers’ Home.
I‘ikesvillc arsenal, near Baltimore. Md.,
has lieen transferred into a confederate
soldiers' home. The formal opening of
the home took place Wednesday. The
stand was decorated with the national
colors and portraits of Jefferson Davis,
Holrert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Addresses were made by United States
Senators Hampton, of South Carolina:
Vnore, of North Carolina; Daniel, of
Virginia; Blackburn, of Kentucky,
Berk, of Kentucky; Vest, of Missouri,
and Hon. J. Proctor Knott, of Kcnturky.
Judge George William Brown presided
AUh th« Indians w* have modi 935
jMJdij* »«d bm brok»o olmoit mrj on*
WASHINGTON, D. C.
IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
Congressmen and Senators Again Devote their
Time to New Laws.
Friday. —The consideration of the
free list section of the tariff hill was con
cluded and the second section taken up
in the House.
Motions to strike from tho free ’.lst
rags, and reeds manufactured, but not
made up, rejected.
Paintings in oil or water colors and
statuary were stricken from the free list.
A mo.tion to strike from tno free list
stones manufactured or undressed frcc
stono, granite, sandstone and all build
ing or monumental stone, excited a
lively discussion and was rejected.
On motion of Sir. Russell, of Massa
chusetts, primali ne was placed on the
free list. This completed the free list
section of the bill.
The clause providing that the rate of
charges in the dutiable parlNrf the bill
should go into effect July I, 1888, was
passed over informally.
A movement to strike out the clause
fixing the rate of duty on refined gly
cerine at three cents a pound led to a long
discussion but was lost, and at 3 p. m
the House took recess till 8 p. m.
At the evening session the House
passed twenty-seven private penrion hills
and at 10:20 adjourned.
Senate. —The feature of the Senate
proceedings Friday was the discussion
in connection with the proposed appro
priation for the establishment of a gun
factory at Watcrvliet arsenal.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the army appropriation bill—the
pending amendment being that of Mr.
Hawley, appropriating ♦6,300,009 for
the establishment of a gun factory, and
for steel manufacture at Watervlict, N. Y.
The Senate, without coming to a vote
on Mr. Hawley’s amendment, at 6:20
adjourned.
Saturday. —The Senate met at 11 a.
m., and immediately took up the river
and harbor bill. The following amend
ments were agreed to: Inserting an item
of ♦IO,OOO for the Mississippi river; Also
directing examination and survey with a
view to future work on Cape Fear river,
North Carolina, hut no appropriation
was made. An amendment was agreed
to locating a canal from the Illinois river
at Hetmeypcn to the Mississippi at the
mouth of Rock river and abolishing the
Missouri river commission. Among
the hills passed was one authorizing the
Bingham, Selma and New Orleans llail
roart Co. to build a bridge across the
Tombigbcc in Alabama.
Thirty-eight private pension hills were
also passed and the Senate at 4:40 ad
journed until Monday 11a. m.
The House passed the bill for the pay
ment of the Fourth of July claims and
went into committee on tariff bill.
The duty on flaxseed and linseed oil
was increased from 10 to 15 cents per
gallon, licorice paste or rolls was in
creased from two to five cents per pound,
and licorice juice was fixed at 25 cents
advalorem. Mr. Dingley moved the
bichromate of potash from 2 1-2 cents
to 1 cent per pound, saying it was con
trolled Iry a Baltimore trust. Mr. Kelley
supported Mr. Dinglcv and said the trust
controlled every bed of ore in the
country. The amendment was rejected.
The ehiua section was reached and in
formally passed over.
Mr. Bynum, of- Indiana, moved that
duty on glazed or etiutnel tiles ho re
duced from 50 t 045 per cent., advalorem,
which was agreed to. At 5 p. m. the
House adjourned.
Monday.— The time of the House was
largely taken up in successful efforts by
Mr. Anderson, of lowa, to prevent the
passage of the Union Pacific funding
bill under a suspension of the rules.
The conference reirort on the bill
authorizing the Mississippi and Louisiana
Railroad Company to build a bridge
across the Mississippi river at Natchez,
was agreed to, as was the conference re
port on the legislative appropriation bill.
Unsuccessful efforts were made to se
cure unanimous consent for the consider
ation of the dependent pension ami
Niearauga canal bill.
The Home at 3:20 adjourned.
Senate.— The passage of the river and
harlror bill was the event in the Senate
to-day.
Mr. Turpic then took the floor and
lead an address on the President's an
nual message. Wh-n Mr. Turpic c<6r
eluded, the Senate went into secret sec
tion, and at 4:35 adjourned until Thurs
day.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Senate has attached the Hennepin
Canal scheme to the river and harlror hill.
♦ 19,000,000 has been added to the
surplus ill the United States treasury
during the fiscal year just closed.
The President will not go to the
Cincinnati Exposition.
Both North ami South Carolina resi
dents in Wasbingto 1 have organized
Dr m KT.rtic associations.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate nuthorizrng a company to build
a bridge nines the Hudson riser be
tween the city of New York and the
Jersey shore for railroad trains and other
ptir|roscs. The structure it to be a single
•pan.
Sensational Marriage.
Mr*. Lillian Warren Hsmmersby was
matrad at 1:30 Friday to the Duka of
Msrlbourough by Mayor Hewitt et tbe
1 01 y Hall, New Vork City.
Terms. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cenls.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The Czar and the new Emperor of
Germany will meet at Cronstadt on
July 14.
Prince Bismark has induced Russia to
abandon definitely the idea of making
an alliance with France.
Mr. Fitzgerald, Nationalist, was elect
to Parliament for the division of Lang
ford, near Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Fitz
gerald was unopposed.
The Italian papers referring to Premier
Crispi’s policy as intended to force the
Pope to leave Italy, say it will have that
result if persevered in.
Commissioner Bigelow gave a banquet
at hotel Brittainnique Thursday night to
celebrate the opening of the American
section of tbe exhibition at Brussels.
Judge Lambert Tree, tho United States
Minister, proposed a tost iu honor of
King Leopold, and Prince Chimy toasted
President Cleveland.
The property destroyed by the recent
fires at Sundsville, Swecden, was valued
at $45,000,000. Twelve thousand per
sons were rendered homeless by tho
flames. King Oscar is visiting the dis
trict aud is engaged iu relieving the
wants of the sufferers. Houses forests
and standing crops on farms in other dis
tricts were also burned.
Gaston Comity Mnrder.
On Saturday night at Caleb Carpen
ter’s store, Gaston county, live miles
from Cherryvillc, N. C., Lee Aderbolt,
a young man 17 yeava old, was shot and
killed by Bill and Dan Thornburry, two
notorious characters, who usually have
several rases ill every court.
The brothers arc twins, very similar
in appearance, aud tried to force an
entrance into a show without paving.
They were ejected, when the witness"
were not certain which drew revolvers.
Four shots were fired, striking Aderholt
who was waiting for tho performance to
commence, just below the right eye,
from whnh he died in fifteen minutes.
Two shots struck the showman on the
hip and arm, injuring him seriously, but
not fatally. Aderholt was the son of
Emanuel Aderholt, fomerly county treas
urer of Gaston county.
Dr. Tanner Still Fasting.
Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, now re
sides in New Mexico, where he has a
ranch of fifteen hundred acres, and i*
interesting himself in a foundling asso
ciation, to bo conducted on vegetarian
principles, and a part of his mission to
Indiana is to secure forty infants. The
doctor is surgeon for the association, a»4
he expects to secure the children in Elk
hart and surrounding cities. He lives
on one meal a day, breakfast. The
foundling home is an experiment in
tended to demonstrate that the baser
passions are aroused principally by
tho use of animal food. Ho expects to
make good children as well as long
long-lived ones by feeding them one meu
a day on a light vegetarian diet — Titus*-
Democrat,
A Homesick Pony’s Journey.
The following story was sent out from
Millcrsberg, Ky., and is vouched for.
Wheiher its being vouched for make* it
tny easier to believe, we leavo our
readers to determine, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat: “Ernest Butler,
of this place, has a friend in the Indian
Territory, who six months ago sent him
in Indian pony, film was kept confined
in the stable until the la-t four weeks.
When she got out she wandered off
through the several Slates, swam several
rivers, and arrived in the Indian Terri
tory last Monday. The pony traveled
Iu lour weeks 1200 miles.”
Two Men Killed by Lightning.
A fatal and destructive thunder squall
is reported from the coast section of
Beaufort county, S. G. In a small vil
lage called Dicksonville, ad jacent to the
county seat, and occupied exclusively by
negroes, two men, Ben Harvey, and
Sherman Simons, were stric Iry light
ning and instantly killed. 'i lie clothes of
Simons took fire ami Ills body w as scorch
ed. There were about ten persons in
the house, four of whom lresidcs the
killed were seriously shocked. The
building was badly damaged.
Several Lives Lost.
A train southbound, proceeding to
Mobile, went through a small bridge'
near Tensas, Fla. The engineer, John
Morgan and 9am Williams, the fireman,
ami two-tramps who were stealing a ride,
were killed. Mail agent Davis was .
dangerously hurt snd four passenger*
and the baggage master was slightly in
jured. The engine, baggage ear, tba
mail car, two passenger coaches, and one
sleo|H-r were totally wrecked. The killed
and wounded were taken to Molulo.
Had Too Much Money.
Great excitement has Irccn caused by
the mysterious disup|tcarunce of C. C.
Wilson, President of the North Side
Savings Bank at Atlanta, Ga. The safe
waa opened by the cashier and found to
be empty, Friday Nelson sold hi*
checks on New York to local hank* for
amounts estimated at ♦20,0(8). He was
seen to go to the depot at 11 o’clock
Saturday night and ho is thought to have
gone through to ConnecAicut-
Iron Works to Shut Daws.
Pittsburg, Pa., Special.—All the Iron
and steel manufacturers in tho city gave
notice to buyer* that no order* would
Ire received after Satnrdav, and that
none would Ire taken which cannot Is)
filled by that time. This 1* indicative
that tfeer regard » abut down a; |my|-
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