THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. IV. NO. 42.
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W. C. SMITH Charlotte NO j
In Philadelphia,reports the New York
Graphic, there seems to be discontent in
regard to some statuary, as in other
cities. A statue representing “A Lion
ess Carrying a Wild Boar to Her Young,"
designed fora public park, has been crit
icised as “too sanguinary,” as “likely to
have a bad effect upon children,” and as
inappropriate. One critic said “he would
rather see more statues of the early men
of the country, instead of filling the
park with men on hor.-eback all dressed
in the same uniform.”
The London Timet acknowledges that
“as a nation the Americans are the finest
judges of diamonds in the world. Ameri
can buyers insist on getting the finest
stones and the most perfect of cutting.
India takes a very large quantity of the
while stones, as the natives invest their
capital in them as we do in stocks and
shares, hut they will not take yellow
colored diamonds nor stones with flaws
or specks m them. Russia takes the
large and yellow stones. China has only
lately opened up her country to the dia
mond trade, as until recently Chinese
sub ects were not allowed to decorate
themselves with these magnificent gems,
but just recently the Empress of China
has btoken through that custom by wear
ing at court a very superb necklet, so
there is now a demand in th it vast con
tinent.
The City of Chicago receives an
average of 10,000 cans of milk per day,
eight gallons per can. This is 320,000
or a little less than one pint per head of
population, or 27,200,000 gallons yearly.
This is cxlusive of the cream used.
New York City, according to the Milt
Re/ortrr, receives about 55,804,880 gal
lons of milk yearly. In the State of
New York milk must contain not less
than twelve per cent, of solids, Os which
not less than twenty-five per cent, must
be fat. Average milk should exceed the
lowest legal standard in both solids, not
fat, and in fat to be good merchantable
milk. If the average cow gives two gal
lons per day the year round, this would
requite 40,000 cows for Chicago’s milk,
and 70,500 for New York. Denver,
Col., ia reported to require 8..000 cows
to supply the city with its daily milk.
Ata big rabbit drive nine miles from
Fresno, Cal., 2000 persons were present.
Five hundred men'and boys formed the
line of the drive, and, starting four
miles from the corral, slowly swept down
to it. The wing* were half a mile in
leugth, and the corral proper wu 75 feet
in diameter and inclosed with a wire
screen. Into this lnclo-ure were driven
and killed 2000 jack rabbits, and 1000
others were killed in the drive outside.
The Boston Courier thinks that “one
es the drollest of modern charities is that
established by a philanthropic medical
man. whose own fail ng eyesight no
ongcr allows him to work as he used,
and who lias started a spectacle mission.
Having discovered their requirements,
he supplies them with the right kind of
spectacle* without charge. If this
principle la only carried far enough the
id»al of the communist me y be realised
es tee all”
HISTORY SET RIGHT.
TH* CELEBRATION OF THE BAT
TLE OF GUILFORD.
North Carolina Valor Tried and Foandts
Have Been of Mierlln* Material-
Governor Neales' Speech.
Greensboro and Guilford county will
never forget the Guilford battle ground
celebration event. Thousands of people
poured into this lovely little city, and at
earliest dawn fresh thongs arrived. Not
only did they pour into Greensboro on
trains and ail sorts of conveyances, but
they rendezvoused also at the battle
ground six miles away, so that it looked
like a scene of encampment.
Considerable rain fell the night pre
vious, which was alike welcome to farm
ers and excursionists. The morning air
was cool and fresh. Governor Seales
and State officers were recipients of many
courtesies. The morning trains were so
crowded that exercises at the battle
ground were greatly delayed. Governor
Scales and State officers did not leave for
the battle ground until noon, and on the
arrival of the train it was found that
thousands of persons had assembled and
were patiently waiting.
The procession was formed by the
chief marshal, JohD A. Barringer, and
marched from the battle ground to the
speaker’s stand, four hundred yards
away. The procession was composed of
Governor A. M. Scales, Treasurer D. TV.
Bain and W. P. Roberts, Superintendent
of Public Instruction S. M. Finger, clerk
of Supreme Court T. S. Keenan, and
and Quartermaster General F. A. Olds,
band. Colonel James D. Glenn, com
manding Third Regiment and companies
of that regiment from Winston; Captain
W. T. Gray, from Greensboro; Captain
P. P. Gray, from Durham; Captain E. J.
Parrish, of Rcidsville; Captains A. J.
Ellington and B. 11. Boyd, Danville.
Captain A. L. Duncan paraded with reg
iment.
On arrival at the speaker's stand,
which is a pretty structure on a com
manding point, exercises began. Just at
1 o’clock the scene was inspiring. Thous
ands of people filled the spacious groves
and gently undulating fields. National
colors fluttered everywhere, and an air of
patriotism was especially noticeable. It
was estimated at this hour that fully
10,000 persons were on the grounds.
There were many prominent men on
the stand besides the State officers men
tioned, among them being Judge Settle,
of the Supreme Court of Florida; Colonel
Julius A. Gray, president Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Railroad; Secretary of
State W. L. Saunders; Colonel A. B.
Andrews, third vice-president of the
Richmond and Danville Railway; Judge
John A. Gilmer, Judge R. P. Dick and
other Federal officials.
Rev. J. E. Mann, of Greensboro, of
fered the opening prayer. It was of
thankfulness for American liberty, which
the battle of Guilford Courthouse secured
to colonists and an appeal for continua
tion of fraternal feeling, liberty and
good government.
Here the band played “Star Spangled
Banner,” after which Chief Marshal John
A. Barringer welcomed the visitors in
behalf of Guilford county, and intro
duced Hon. David Schenck, of Greens
boro, president of Guilford Battle
Gronnd Association, as historian of the
battle and orator of the day. Judge
Schenck’s address occupied two and a
half hours iu delivery, and was in all re
spects a masterly production. He graph
ically and in language of rare vigor and
grace sketched the attempts of the Brit
ish to subjugate the South, of the virtual
enthrallment of South Carolina, and of
the determined resistance in North Caro
lina, which culminated at the battle of
Guilford Courthouse, when Cornwallis
received a blow from which he never re
covered, and which insured American
success in that protracted war. Judge
Schenck’s speech was a defense of the
North Carolina militia, which had gone j
into history as guilty of gross cowardice i
in that battle. He proved by a perfect j
chain of evidence that General Greene ,
ordered the militia to fire volleys and re
tire, and they carried out their instrue- 1
tions to the letter. He fully carried out
his avowed purpose to give such an ac
count of the fight ns would show that
North Carolinians should thrill with
pride at future mention of it. He de
clared that the histories of Lee and
Johnston, upon which the idea of the
bottle has been formed, had done North
Carolina gross injustice. Judge Schcnck's
long address was heard with unabated
interest, and the applause was fre
quent.
At its conclusion Governor Scales
spoke with marked enthusiasm. He de
clared that history had today been vin
dicated. and that in the name of the ,
State of North Carolina he desired to I
thank Judge Scbenck, the man who lias '
at last set matters right. He asserted!
that Judge Schrack had literally made .
history, and wiped out a long standing
stigma upon North Carolina. The Gov- |
ernor went on to speak of North Carolina |
patriotism then, and of the true devotion :
of her people to the Union now. He lie- t
spoke their undying affection for it. This
terminated the exercises.
Lunch was served to all the visitors,
governor Scales reviewed the troops,
which ma<le a particularly handsome ap
pearance. The day was in all respects I
perfect and unmarred by any accident.
Ilasdale Wilcox, of Savannnh, Oa ,
son of an ex-Stale Senator, was married
recently to Miss Janie Clark, a school
girl. At the time of the wedding s mu
tual agreement was entered into between
the joung couple that In order for the
bride to complete her education they
would not live together, at man ana
•¥tt, until four years should have sis peed,
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1888.
AN ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKE.
Two Sections of a Train Collide Near
Meant Carencl, Pa., Explodlns a Car
Loaded with Gunpowder—A Smell
Vlllate Levelled to the Groued
And Net on Fire.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, be
tween Mount Carmel and Locust Gap,
Pa. Freight train No. 07, consisting of
seventy-five cars, bound for Williams
port, became disconnected by the break
ing of a coupling, and the engine and
three cars ran half a mile before the crew
discovered that the train was divided.
The first section awaited the arrival of
the second at the foot of a heavy grade,
and the two brakemen losing control of
the second section, it dashed into the
first section, causing an explosion in the
third car, which was loaded with Dupont
powder.
At the scene of the accident the rail
road runs along a steep hill, at the bot
tom of which stood two rows of houses
occupied by the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron Company’s employes.
On the hillside stood a little cottage
occupied by John Quinn and his family
of four children, two boys and two girls.
The .force of the explosion wrecked the
buildings, seventeen in all, and the
stoves set fire to the ruins. Quinn and
his two little girls were burned to ashes.
The two boys escaped with burns. Simon
Berwick's family consisted of Mary and
Willie Cavanaugh, adopted children,
aged respectively eight and fourteen
years, David Kerwick, aged eight, Alice
Kerwick, aged five, and his wife and a
new born babe. Mr. Kerwick carried
his wife from the burning building, but
the children were burned to death.
Thirty persons were injured.
In all twelve cars were destroyed and
seventeen houses, with their furniture.
All the windows in the Locust Gap
churches and schools were broken and
the doors blown off. In Mount Carmel
large store windows were broken. The
total loss is estimated at $75,000.
WHIRLED AROUND A WHEEL.
A Remnrkoble Ca*« Reported from Dooth
Carolina.
The ease of Absolonr Fricson, a white
boy living in Clarendon county,' 8. C.,
is one of the most remarkable in the his
tory of medical science. The doctors
who have seen him say there is no such
case on record. The boy was carelessly
loafing around the mill, when be was
caught by the gearing and pulled up
against a revolving wheel. Ills head
was drawn against tnc wheel just where
the head of an iron bolt was projecting,
and before the machinery could be
stopped this wheel had possibly revolved
a hundred times, the iron Irolt each time
tearing through his forehead. When re
leased from the machinery his head
was a terribly mangled object. The
bolt had torn a passage through his fore
head from the lop of his head to the
middle of his nose, about five inches
long, an inch and a half wide, and an
inch deep. The brain was exposed in
this passage for about three inches by
one and a half inches, and small parts of
it were destroyed. The nasal bone, ex
cept a very small part of it, was torn out,
and a cavity an inch and a half deep was
made where the nose should be. It was
a fearful sight, and there is no parallel
case ou record where a person survived
such a shock to his nervous system, to
say nothing of the wound. The boy
himself declares he is not going to die.
The patient lias to be kept on his back,
for should his head be turned face down
ward a slight jar would probably throw
his brains out of his head. A fit of vom
iting would prove fatal. Both the mem
branes that cover the brain have been
torn away, and the only hopes is that
nature will supply another. The cool
weather has been favorable towards sup
pressing inflammation. The greatest
danger is from inflammation, or blood
poisoning, cither of which would prove
fatal. Tire wound atipears to be heal
ing. The boy says he feels a great deal
better, and it is possible that he may get
well. He has about one chance out of a
hundred thousand.
Every Man His Own Photographer.
Would you rather have my card or my
photograph!”
Tw o young men who had been discus
sing matters in general in a New York
picture gallery, were pieparing to part.
“Your card will do; I don’t want to
put you to so much trouble.”
“No trouble at all. If you like, I’ll
put my portrait on the back of the
card.”
He thereupon drew from his pocket a
small rubber stamp and imprinted on the
back of his card a very creditable like
ness of himself.
An inquisitive Mail and Espnee re
porter, who overheard the dialogue, look
pains the next day to learn to what ex
tent the fad had gone. He found that
there are several concerns in (he city
where portrait stamps are made, similar
in style to the rubber stamps, containing
one’s name and appended to a pocket
had pencil. These stamps cost from $2
to $5 each and are from one to three
inches square. All the stamp makers
require It a tintype portrait of the
customer ard a money order. The
stamps wear well and arc much affected
by young clerks and East Bide business
men.
The Advantage of Being Homely.
“Is it true. Mr. Feailicrly,” inquired
Bobby, “Hist the homeliest men get the
handsomest wives!”
. “I believe there it an old saying to
lhat effect. Bobby. Why?"
“I bond massy so to sister Clara last
night, and < la** said that you ought to
marry ooa of the loveliest woman io ths
warld."—i/ar/wr'i tiaear,
THECAROLINAS.
THE PALMETTO AND OLD NORTH
STATE’S BUDGET.
Interesting Notea Called Frem Oar Ex
cbnnxea and Boiled Down fer Oar
Boar Headers.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A private letter just received at Raleigh
from Hon. Thomas J. Jarvis, Minister to
Brazil, says: “My health is better than
it was some months ago, but I am by no
means as hearty and robust as I was
when I was in North Carolina last
spring. ”
A general fight in Pitt county arose
between a crowd of negroes who worked
in the shingle swamps and some farm
hands in that section. During the affray
James Whitehurst shot Newton Clemons,
killing him almost instantly, the ball
passing through his heart. Whitehurst
made his escape and was captured in
Williamston. A number of persons con
cerned in the fight were very badly
hurt.
Thomas Frazier, an employe of Joshua
H. Cox, an extensive lumberman of
Washington, entered the store of Cox
and demanded liquor, which was re
fused. Cox then left the store and
started off, when Frazier picked up a
double-barrel gun loaded with buckshot
and fired both charges into Cox's body,
killing him instantly. Frazier fled, but
was caught and placed under heavy
guard. During the night a crowd of
masked men took him from prison,
bound and gagged him, carriel him to
the scene of the murder and fired the
contents of numerous weapons into bis
body, literally riddling him and mutila
ting his body beyond recognition.
News has been received at Raleigh of
the suicide of James Davis, of Bcnton
ville township, Johnston county. He
was arrested on the charge of attempting
to outrage his step daughter. He was
tried before a magistrate and found
guilty. He was ordered to be taken to
Smithficid to jail. He asked permission
to go to his house and was permitted to
do so, a deputy sheriff accompanying
him. On reaching the house he asked
to lie allowed to change his clothing.
He went to his room, and in a minute
the officer heard the report of a rifle.
Rushing into the room th" officer found
that Davis had placed the muzzle of the
gun under his chin and had pressed the
trigger with his foot. The ball had
passed through his brain and caused in
stant death.
MOUTH CAROLINA.
A hail storm at Ridgeway tore down
fences and broke windows.
John Sims, a laborer working on the
C. K. &W. Railway, near Greenville,
was painfully hurt while digging an em
bankment. The bank caved in on him,
breaking his leg and badly bruising his
head and body.
William B. Jones, of Dublin, caught
two young rabbits in his garden a few
days ago. He had an old Maltese cat
which had a family ol kittens, and from
some cause the kittens died. The old
cat has adopted the rabbits, and happi
ness reigns throughout the household.
The cat cares for the rabbits as tenderly
as she did for her own offspring.
A serious stabbing affray occurred near
the Air Line depot at Greenville. John
Reynolds, while driving a delivery
wagon, was stopped by L. B. Pearson,
who cursed him and dareil him to get off
his wagon. As Reynolds got down
Pearson struck him. Reynolds drew his
knife and cut Pearson in the back, mak
ing a gash a foot long. The trouble
grew out of an old quarrel between the
two. Pearson may live, but his chances
arc small.
NORTH. EAHT AND WEST
Forest fires have been raging in the
Kane oil field, near Bradford Pa., for
nearly a week. Much property has been
destroyed.
All the flint glass houses in the Pitts
burg district were fired up a few days
ago, and now every factory is in full
operation.
Lightning struck a country school
house in Delaware county, Ohio. John
Bowers, aged 12, who was at the black- j
board explaining an example in arithme
tic, was instantly killed, the electric
fluid passing down his upraised arm to
his body. The teacher and twenty
scholars were throw n from their chairs |
and benches to the floor, remaining un
conscious for nearly half an hour.
In honor of the occasion, and in order
to show their appreciation of Mr. George
W. Childs’ friendship, for the printers,
the ex-delegates of the International
Union, who have formed an association
in Philadelphia, are making elaborate
preparations for a banquet, to be held on
the evening of Mr. Childs' birthday.
A Perilous Nome it.
“ But,” said old Mr. Northbyeast, j
knitting his brows, “ 1 don’t think you j
areready to marry my daughter. You '
are hardly ab'e to support a wife, are
jrou?” "laud, no,” said the young
man. frankly. “ I can't men aupport
myself; I was thinking ’— but whatever
he was thinking, it wa-n't spread on the
record, became the barometer fell so .
rapidly at that instant that all hands
were ordered aloft to shorten sail, and
in Iho confusion of the moment the ;
young man escape!, how anl whither
he know not.— Burlelfc,
The French law prohibits the use in
that oountry of the name “chsinpagno’’
for sparkling wlnta uoleu actually
grown in the Champagne District,
GOSSIP FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
The New Chief Justice—Oor Balance Sheet
far A»rtl-And Items of Gen
eral Interest.
The debt statement issued May Ist
shows the decrease of the public debt
during the month of April to be $9,235,-
300.10; decrease of debt since June 30,
1887, $97,795,881.98; cash in treasury,
$590,368,519.48; gold certificates out
standing, $95,561,293; silver certificates
outstanding, $194,426,932; certificates of
deposit outstanding, $10,555,000; legal
tenders outstanding, $346,681,016; frac
tional currenqß (not including amount
estimated as’wst or destroyed), $6,694,-
106,112; total interest-bearing debt,
$1,699,097,159.38; total debt of all kinds,
$1,700,833,377.17; total debt, less all
available credits, $1,181,632,855.04.
The President has nominated Melville
W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The selection of Mr. Fuller was
somewhat of a surprise, for although his
name has been occasionally mentioned in
connection with the Chief Justiceship,
none of the members of the Senate Ju
diciary Committee had the slightest inti
mation that he was to be the President’s
choice. Democratic lawyers generally
regard the nomination as a good one,
and while the Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court decline to express m
opinion on the subject, in Supreme Court
circles he has the reputation of being a
capable lawyer, and promises to be a
worthy successor of Faney, Chase, Waite,
or any other of the distinguished jurists
who have presided over the Supreme
Court. Early in the administration of
Mr. Cleveland he was tendered the So
licitor-Generalship, and subsequently
positions on the Civil Service Commis
sion, Interstate Commerce Commission
and Pacific Railroad Commission, all ol
which he declined, lie has been held in
the highest regard by the President, and
has been generally endorsed by Western
Democrats. Republican Senators who
know him say they know of no reason
why he should not be promptly con
firmed. Senator Edmonds, when spoken
to on the subject, said he couia say
nothing as to what action the Judiciary
committee would probably take, and cut
off all further questions by declaring
that he was a blank so far as the nomi
tion was concerned.
A discovery has been made at the
Treasury Department which it is thought
points to a defalcation at the American
Exchange National Bank, of New York.
The express company, in making its
usual deliveries of national bank notes
forwarded for redemption, submitted a
package from the bank limned. It bore
the usual labels and seals, and purported
to contain $41,000. In handling it,
however, one of the treasury experts
found that it was not altogether right,
and it was temporarily laid aside. Pack
ages containing notes for redemption arc
usually made up in the most compact
manner, but this particular one, while of
the right size for the amount it purported
to contain, did not seem to be closely
packed, and yielded readily to hand
pressure. It was subsequently opened in
the piesence of officers of the express
company and found to contain nothing
but brown paper. An examination of
the sealed label also disclosed that it
had been neatly cut from its original
place and pasted on a bogus package.
The Treasurer refused to receive the
puckage, and notified the bank accord
ingly. The impres.ion at the depart
ment is that the bank put up the money
for transmission to the department, but
delayed forwarding it, and that while in
its custody the package was abstracted
and another put in its place bearing all
the marks and appearance of the original
package.
Fast Work In a Clothespin Factory.
“One cent a box?”
“Yes, sir. We are paid one cent for
packing a box of five gross of clothes
pins,” said one of these packers to are
porter for the New York Mail and Ex
prtet recently.
“An expert can pack 100 boxes in a
day of ten hours Sharp work that,
handling 72,000 pins a day.
Clothespins are made in the lumber
regions. They are usually made of
white ash, sometimes of beach, black and
white birch and maple. The wood is
taken to the factory in logs and cut into
lengths of thirty-one innes by circular
saws. These lengths are then cut into
blocks and tbe blocks again cut into
sticks. The sticks are placed under
another saw and cut into the required
lengths. Next the turner takes a hand
at them and from there they go to the
slotting machine. They are placed in
treughs by the operator, tbe machine
picking them up and slotting them.
They are then placed in a revolving pipe
drier going thcoce to the polishing
cylinder and then to the packer. Each
pin passes through eight hands. A sin
gle plant consists i t board saw, gang
splitter, gang chunker, turning lathe,
drying house and polisher and costs
I from $7,000 to $12,0)0. The machines
j working ate very interesting. The little
' blocks of wood five and a half inchea
long are placed on an endlc-sbelt, which
feed* the blocks automatically into the
lathe. As the lathe is turned the pin ia
taken automatically from the spindle and
placed on a turntable anil carried to acir
cular saw, which whittles out the slot in
| the pin. It is then finished ana thrown
1 out of the turning table by tbo same ap
; pliance that puts the pins on the table.
Falling, they are caught In n banket or
barrel and nra then taken to the drying
house for ten to twenty-four houn, or
•alii dry. Tbe polishing cylinder or
nimbler holds twenty to forty bushels;
thin Is run at atlow speed, about thirty
turn* • minute, and by simple frictioi
end contact they become polUbtd-
Terms. $1.50 per Aide Single Copy 5 rente.
' THROUGH DIXIE.
* SPARKS AS THEY FLASH FROM
THE WIRES.
' What Oor Want hern People ora Darios mod
t Being-Item's of Interest Re
duced to Facts.
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At Dade City, Fla.. Peento peaches
i will soon be ripe enough for shipment.
Sixteen hundred alligator hidea were
' sold and delivered in Fort Ogden, Fla ,
’ last week.
' Alf Prater, pedestrian, of Atlanta, Ga.,
will enter the six days’ go-as-you-please
foot race that opens at Madison Square
I Garden, New York. May 6.
An immense crevasse has occurred in
the west bank of the bayou at Lafourche
: Crossing, La., but it is thought there will
be no serious damage to crops.
. Parties representing a Belgian colony
, have purchased 2,000 acres of land,
seven or eight miles from Manatee, Fla.,
from the South Florida Railroad, and
will settle a hundred families there this
fall.
Cclestino Palacio’s cigar factory at
Key West, Fla., has been closed, owing
to the impossibility of securing good
wrappers until the new Cuban crop is
ready for use. About 500 persons are
thrown out of employment. ,
The activity in mining operations in
North Georgia is increasing daily. Men
from the North and Europe are visiting
the cily, aud thence go to the mines in
Hall and Lumpkin counties, examining
the mines with a view to investment.
A quiet strike is in progress at the
Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala.
The company proposed to reduce wages
five cents a ton, and the miners resisted.
The matter will be discussed by the board
in a day or two. A strike is also re
ported at Wheeling, Miss.
The store and grocery of Mrs. Nancy
McKeancl, of Nashville, Tenn., were
burned. Andrew Logan, her sixteen
year old son, was burned to a crisp. It
is supposed he went to bed and left the
candle burning and the fire caught from
this. The loss was SI,BOO.
A fatal burning occurred at the farm
of E. G. Davis, one and a half miles from
Bell Buckle, Tcnn. A negro eh.id,
whose mother had left her alone, was
found with its clothing on fire, which was
so badly burned as to prove fatal.
Wiley Dixon, a negro man, was shot
and killed at Montgomery Ala., by the
accidental discharge of a gun in the
hands of Leavett Peet, the nine year old
nephew of Colonel O. O. Nelson, of the
Montgomery Oil Works.
At Bcnnettsvillc, 8. C., Dock Dargar,
a negro boy, deliberately shot with a gun
and instantly killed a white boy, W. E.
Coxc, Jr All the pa-ties lived near
Benncttsville. The negro is in jail there.
Several attempts have been made to
lynch him. The sheriff keeps the jail
guarded. A number of enraged men
shot into the house of Essex Dargar, the
father of the murderer, and killed a
three year old child. The entire section
is aroused.
The announcement that Col. W. L.
Scruggs would accept the editorship of
the prohibition weekly at Atlanta seems
to have premature. It is now said that
Col. John William Jones, the historian,
will be selected to fill the position. Col.
Scruggs is a regular contributor to the
North American Review, but on account
of his being a Republican it was thought
best not to select him. The first issue
of the paper is expected to appear on
May Bth.
Two miners engaged in an affray at
Warrior, Ala., a few days ago. One of
them, George Martin, shot and irstantly
killed Deputy Marshal Kelly. He was
arrested. The mayor of Warrior tele
graphed the sheriff to come quickly with
a posse to resist the mob and miners and
protect the prisoner. The officers smug
gled Martin aboard a freight train. The
mob followed and cut loose the caboose.
They hanged Martin and then filled his
body with bullets. Sheriff Pruss failed
to go.
NARROW ESCAPE OF A CIRCUS.
T-alo Dashed to Pl-ces hr a Land Slide,
and Several Railroad Eaiploieo
Killed aod lajared.
A terrible calamity occurred on the
Camden and Pittsburg Railroad at Mi
kanna, Ohio. As the train of Miller A
Freeman's circuss was passing this point
through a deep cut known as the "Back
bone,” it met a laud sjide, which threw
the engine and five cars from the track,
piling them up in a confused and broken
mass. The cars are badly broken and
will likely be burned, while the engine
is turned over and lies directly scroa* the
track. A. 11. Stilwcll, of WelUville,
Ohio, the engineer, was terribly scalded,
and it Is feared he received internal in
juries. Elmer Ellswoith, of Columbus,
Ohio, n colored cook, was killed out
right. The passenger coaches -contain
ing the performers were injured, as were
also the cars containing the horses. Ths
train was running at a speed of twenty
five or thirty miles an hour, and ths
shock wss terrific. The escape of ths
passenger and horse conches wss miracu
lous. Cars containing wagons and other
paraphernalia are complete wrecks and
the contents cover the tracks. Fireman
Stilwell saved himself by jumping
There Is n new pamphlet out entitled
“The National Bank Aot," The National
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tory with all Dm fund*.—