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There is a volunteer regiment in Ken
tucky' that served in the civil war and
was never mustered out. The members
of it want pay from the day of Lee's sur
render to the present time.
The census of 1870 showed that there
were 25,000,000 books in the libraries of
the United States, and it is believed
that even now there Is'not in the country
book for every inhabitant.
3fr. Froude, the English historian, in
recent work asserts that the retrogres
sion of Jamaica and other British pos
sessions in the "West Indies has bean so
rapid that the Government is seriously
asked to govern these places by commis
sion. A scientist claims that the bituminous
coal field known a? the Pittsburg is
practically inexhaustible, according to
the exploration. There are 10,000,000
bushels of coal in the barges at Pittsburg
awaiting transportation as soon as the
rivers are navigable to the south and
westward.
Game Warden Collins, of Connecticut,'
comes to the defence of owls and hawks
by saying that the examination of over
200 specimens of these birds by miscro
scopists proves ;that they live on small
birds, frogs, snakes, mice and grasshop
pers. The "small birds" are mostly
sparrows, ana very few game birds
eaten.
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The City of Liverpool is to be supplied
with water from a reservoir in Wales.
which is to be four and one-half miles
long by a half-mile to a mile broad and
eighty feet deep. There will be three
miles of pipe, each sixty-eight miles
long, with filtering-beds and secondary
reservoirs. The aqueduct alone will
cost $15,000,000.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the heroic school
teacher of Myra Valley, 'Neb., who saved
thirteen schoolchildren by her presence
of mind in the recent "blizzard." has
already been overwhelmed with offers of
marriage. The New York Tribune thinks
that "the applicants for this vacant posi
tion must regard her as sure proof
against family breezes."
Much of the color blindness that is be
coming quite common is said to
muavix uy me use OI tODacco. W niftcr ts-
ing a narcotic, bcnnjHt,'"'ti " nerves.
firtm Atimoa tl.o TZtAva. loses sischt alto-
gether- ut i8 is noticeable, says the
atfhi : that the old smokers are the
fastidious about the colors which the
tabacconists give their cigars.
; The estimates of acreage product and
value of corn, wheat and oats for each
'State and Territory have been issued by
the statistician of the Department of
Agriculture. The area of corn harvested,
excluding abandoned or worthless acre
age, is 72,000,000 acres. In round num
bers the product is 1,456,000,000 bushels,
valued at f 34G,000,000. The area of
wheat was 37,400,000; product, 456,000,
000 bushels; value, $309,000,000. The
area of oats was nearly 26,000,000 acres;
production, 659,000,000 bushels; value,
$200,000,000.
Francis La Fleschc, of the Omaha
tribe, who is employed in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs at Washington, is tbe
brother of Inshta Theamba, and is three
fourths, not full-blood or even half.
ia Indian. La Fleschc was Qdu-
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cated at the mission school of an Indian
agency in Nebraska, and was appointed
by Secretary Kirkwood to a place in the
Indian Bureau. He has made an efficient
clerk. On several occasions he has acted
as interpreter between his people and
government officers, and has also been
ent on several missions to his tribe.
. An example of deterioration in values
is shown in the sale of the Great East
ern for less than $100, C03. The origin
nalcost of the vessel was three and a
half million dollars, but she was a gigan
tic failure from the start. The building
vf this ship, howcvcr,xwas of value in
demonstrating that there was a limit in
steamships in the direction of size. She
Las been of use also in the laying of the
Atlantic cables. "While those "who in
vested their money in building this ship
lost heavily in the venture, they can
console themselves with the fact that
their loss was not altogether in vain.
Another important staple has been
placed at the mercy of one of the pow
erful associations of capitalists known as
"trusts." The Great Sugar. Trust, re
cently organized on the principle of the
Rubber Trust,, includes twc'.ve of the
nineteen large refineries in the United
States seven in New York, four in Bos
ton, and one in SC. Louis. Each reon
ery has put its entire capital stock into
4he Trust, taking certificates in payment,
and the organization controls millions
of capital. The purpose is the "regula
tion" of the production and price of
sugar. Whenever production is too great
"for the dcltnand. or whenever there is a
scarcity of raw sugar, certain of there-
fineries must shut down, and not start
ain until the market improves.
There k a marked decrease of . mar
riages in England and Walei In 1853
the number, of persons married -was- at
the rate of 17.9 per 1,000 of the popula
tion. This was the highest rate since
1838. In 1882 tbe ratio had dropped to
15.5, and from that period there has
been a continual decline, last year show
ing a ratio as low as 14.1, compared with
14.4 in 1883.
Professor E. Stone Wiggins, the earth
quake sharp, has been heard from again,
lie 3ays that a great earthquake in North
America will begin in 1804 on Angust
19, to be exact. Meanwhile he will not
bother with smtll shakes, like those
which have taken place recently, which
are merely "the negative or reflex action
of an earthquake, jthe position being lo
cated south of Cape Horn."
Mrs. Edna Hill Graj Dow, of Dover,
New Hampshire, enjoys the distinction
of being the only waman ' in this free
country ever elected to the presidency of
a street railroad company. Mrs. Dow is
forty years old, married, and rich. She
invested a few hundred dollars in the
Dover street railway, only to discover
that a Boston syndicate was bearing her
stock, hoping to gain control of the
property. She resented that, and when
ever any weak shareholders wanted to
sell out, she bought before the Boston
syndicate caught up, and speedily she
got in control ; and, fully aroused, she
elected herself president.
Authentic estimates of the peace effect
lives stationed in the frontier provinces
of Austria, Russia and Germany show
that Russia has 315,500 men, with 683
field-guns; Austria, 38,000 men, with
160 field-guns; and Germany 98,200
men and 338 field-guns. A comparison
of the military situation on the Russian
side of the frontier with that on the
German side, taking the forces within
territories of about equal area, shows
that the Russians within 119,311 square
kilometers have 123,275 men, 24,198
horses and 2,711 guns of all kinds, while
ihc Germans, within 119,456 square
silometers, have only 81,714 men,
'14,520 horses and 238 guns.
The city of Mexico is madly
devoting
itself to gorgeous spectacles, in which
the central attractkm is bull-fighting.
Sunday is the chief festival day for this
3ort of thing, and half a dozen "rings"
attract multitudes. Saleri, a Spanish
bull-fighter, noted in his own country
for daring deeds, was imported by Mex
ican enterprise to add zest to the Sab
bath circuses. He was "famous" chiefly
for that particularly reckless accomplish
ment which consists in infuriating the
wild beast and then evading its onslaught
by nimbly leaping over its head.' His
first experiment at an introduction of
this into the Mexican Sabbath programme
resulted in his being gored to death.
The proposed linking
w ith the Nejs
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the
CoIutoj",- Juneau (Alaska)
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a Tailroad across Dioena, . uuw uciu
pushed to completion by the Russian
Government, strongly holds out the idea
that in the very near future a great iron
belt from this side of the world will
meet it half way, and travel by land from
the New World to the Old will have
been accomplished. Great railway cor
porations are now seriously looking into
this, as it seems, stupendous project, but in
reality not as great an undertaking as
Eastern people believe. The country
that will necessarily have to be crossed in
Western British Columbia and Central
Alaska is far from being the frigid zone
that many believe it to be. The line
would undoubtedly in its course north
strika the headwaters of the Yukon
river, then keep down that mighty
stream to within perhaps 100 miles of
the coast, at or near . Nulato, where it
would leave the river and running nearly
west would terminate at Cape Prince of
Wales, within about fifty statute miles
of the Siberian coast. Very little diffi
culty, except, perhaps, in crossing the
ranges at the headwaters of the Yukon,
would be apprehended from deep
SnOW 1 Tl,n nllmato ninnu
the Yukon is dry and but very little
snow falls there from eighteen inches
to perhaps two feet in depth. Extreme
cold from 70 to 80 degrees below zero,
only prevails about two months of mid
winter and this would be the greatest
drawback to winter travel. Immense
forests skirt the route nearly to the coast
and about midway down the Yukon are
probably the greatest coal banks in the
world. Branch lines would tap all the
coast settlements and the rich mineral
sections of the interior. With such a
fair country befoie them it will be
wonderful, indeed, in this enlightened
and progressive age, if work has not
commenced on such a line within a very
short time.''
Before a Blizzard.
The terrible blizzard in Dakota was
preceded by remarkably clear, beautiful
weather. Thea:r was so clear that cities
and towns, lake3 and timber forty miles
distant were clearly visible. The south
wind melted the snow, and the oldest
inhabitant began to talk about a Jan
uary thaw. About an hour after noon of
the fine morning a clord overspread the
sky and the blizzard began. One of its
characteristics was that the air was filled
with, fine ice dust, driven with .terrific
force, which choked the unfortunate
victims in a short time. - .
Entertained" an Angel Unawares.
An old lady passing through Neuen
kirchen, Prussia, was seized with a sud
den attack of weakness in the street and
went into the nearest house asking for
assistant c." The proprietress received hei
kindly, made her comfortable, and gave
her a "good cuo of coffee. The old lady
having recovered left the house, saying r
"You shall not loose your reward." The
charitable woman of Neuetikirchen has
just been informed that the old lady had
died and bequeathed to her a legacy of
some $12,000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES OFFICIALS.
GMip Abat t fee White nase Army rind
. 'aTjr flatter Onr Relations With Other
Ctonntrien a.ud NaJian. "
CONGRESSIONAL.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented and referred in the Senate, was
one with 102,000 signatures from thirty
three states and territories, against the
admission of Utah as a state, so long as
its people are under the , control of - the
Mormon priesthood. The pension bill
was then taken up, the question still be
ing upon the amendment of Mr. Wilson,
iddingthe words, Mhe infirmities of
ige." The amendment was voted down,
the amendfiient to include Mexican vete
rans was rejected and the bill passed 44
to .16 ... . In the House, Mr. Tillman, of
South Carolina, . asked unanimous Con
sent for the immediate consideration of
the bill appropriating $10,000 for the
purchase of certain swords belonging to
the widow of Gen. James Shields. The
bill was passed, but not without a erood
Ideal of discussion arising out of the state
ment by Mr. Steele, of Indiana, that he
had seen a newspaper paragraph to the
effect that there was some question as to
the ownership of the swords. Mr. Till
man declared that there was no such
question, and the entire Missouri delega
tion give the assurance that the swords
were in the undisputed possession of the
Shields family. Mr. Rayner, from
committee on commerce, reported
bill to establish a postal telegraph.
Blount said the subject of the bill
the
the
Mr.
was
otie over which the committee on post
offices and post roads had jurisdiction,
and he reserved the right at the proper
time to raise the question whether the
committee on commerce had jurisdic
tion over the subject of posial telegra
phy. ' v
The Senate resumed consideration of
the urgency deficiency bill. At the close
of a discussion on the bill, a vote was
taken on Mr. Payne's amendment and it
was not , agreed to yeas 24, nays 24.
The bill having been reported from the
committee of the whole, Mr. Payne re
newed his amendment in the Senate and
it was again rejected yeas 25, nays 30.
.... In the House Mr. Belmont, of New
York, from the committee on foreign af
fairs, reported the following, which was
adopted "Resolved, That the Presi
dent be requested to send to the House,
if not against public interest, all docu
ments and correspondence, if any there
are, between our government and the
governments of Great Britain and Vene
zuela, or either of them, relating to the
question of the disputed boundary be
tween the said British colony and Vene
zuela." The committee on commerce
reported the bill authorizing the estab
lishment of a number of lite-saving sta
tions, among them one . at Lynn Haven
inlet, Va., and two between Ocranoke
inlet and Cape Lookout, N. C. The
House passed a bill for a public building
at Sedalia, Mo. It then took . bills re
ported from the Indian committee, and
passed, without amendment, the bill rat
ifying and confirming an agreement with
the Grosventure, Piegan, Blackfeet and
River Crow Indians in 3Iontana.
,, j A?"iv.VAi4.caiiiS raidpcl. A. largo party of jpromi-
The Senate tooP the
question, still beinae amendment of
An- Wilson of ,Twa, to insert the words,
"From J luunniues 01 age. jiicr
-rer speeches by Messrs. Berry, Man
person, Sherman, Teller and Beck, Mr.
'Irigalls, presiding officer, having called
f Mr. Piatt to the chair, proceeded to ad
dress the Senate, the galleries being
crowded to their full capacity. The
speech was very bitter, and was replied
to by Senator Blackburn. At the con
clusion of Mr. Blackburn's speech, dis
cussion on Mr. Wilson's amendment was
resumed, but after a half hour, it was
agreed, by unanimous consent, at the
suggestion of Mr. Sherman, that the
pension bill should be taken up as unfin
ished business the following day and
finished In the House, Mr. Thomas, of
Illinois, introduced a bill prohibiting the
use of likenesses, portraits or representa
tions of females for advertising purposes
without consent in writing. Referred.
The House then resumed consideration
of the Alabama contested election
case of McDuffie against Davidson.
After brief arguments by Messrs. Lynn,
of Iowa, and Johnston, of Indiana, in
favor of the claim of contestant, Mr.
O'Farrell, of Virginia, took the floor in
support of the majority report. Aftei
further debate by Mr. Butterworth, oi
Ohio, in favor of tbe minority report,
and by Messrs. Moore, of Texas, Jones,
of Alabama, and Wheeler, of Alabama,
in favor of the claims of the sitting
member, the discussion was closed by
Mr. Crisp. The minority resolution de
claring McDuffie entitled to a seat was
rejected yeas 122,' nays 144, and the
majority resolution declaring the sitting
member entitled to his seat was adopted
without division.
cossir,
The report submitted by Senator Cock-1
rell from a special committee which has ;
been studying the methods of transact
ing government business in the executive
department, is a volume of 2,G83 printed
pages, in addition to voluminous appen
dices. The committee devoted a year tc
the work. Some of the examples of offi
cial circumlocution read as though the j
might have originated in the brain of an
extravagant humorist. "
The President sent to the Senate, a mes
sage in reply to the resolution requesting
him to negotiate with the Emperor ol
China a treaty containing a provision that
no Chinese labor shall enter the United
States. The President says, such nego
tiation was commenced some months ago,
and its progress has been communicated
to such membersr of the Senate as sought
information upon the subject, and he now
deems himself justified in expressing the
hope.and expectation that the tr aty will
soon be concluded concerning the immi
gration of Chinese laborers which .wili
meet the wants of the people.
The following Georgians have made
claims on the Government for supplier
furnished or property destroyed during
the late War: Lcroy Napier, . $20.000 :
heirs of Nedham Ballard, of Georgia, $200 ; I
Samuel Wood, ot cnattooga county, $503;
William White, $576.90; also $107. 0G to i
George R. Ward, of Floyd county; $597,
50 to Alexander Vaugn, of DeKalb
county, for same; $622.50 to John Smith,
of Chattooga county; $1,891.50 to nenry
A. Sims, of Chattooga county; $249.50
to William P. Ramsey, of Walker county;
$1,305 to David R. Ramsey, of Chattooga
county ; $712 to Perry W. Partain, of
Paulding county ; $2,915.50 to James M.
Foster, of Paulding county; and $770 to
Abner , Worthy, of Chattooga county ;
John G. Whitehead, administrator of
John G. Whitehead, of ; Rome, $2, 158 ;
Sam Allison, executor of William P. Al-
lison, of Walker county, $2,321; Luther
Walter, of Floyd county, $502.
FLORIDA ITE
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L.Bucki & Son wilPextend their road
to a point on the Suwannee river "about
fifteen miles from EUaville, and then con
nect with boat for Cedar Key ; ... Hills
borough is to have anew jail. Madison
wants a tobacco factory : - . Da ytonia is to
have a Knight of Pythias Lodge . . .
Cholera is taking, off many hogs in Madi
son county. . .The corpsof engineers of the
Leesburg and Lake Region Kaiiway nave
started out to definitely locate the line" of
that road. . . Robert Serene, a colored
man from Lake county, who was confined
in the jail at Sumterville, charged with
breaking open a store, died of meningitis.
. . . .A large saw-fish fourteen feet in
length was caught in. the bay, at the
mouth of the Myakka river. Dr. King,
of Boston, made the unusual catch while
fishing for tarpon with a hook and line.
... .A brick-yard is to be established at
DeLeon Sorimrs.. . . Silas B. Wright, of
DeLand, has resigned the office of county
assessor. . : . E. N. J Waldron, of Welaka,
has started a cocoahut grove at Jupiter.
.. . .Parties in Appltton, "Wis., have pur
chased 64,000 acres of. pino and cypress
timber land of Hamilton county. . . .In
quiries concerning Alachua county are
coming ia from all portions of the North,
and there is no doubt but that next Fall
will witness a large influx of visitors and
settlers. . . .Mr. Lancaster, of DeLand, is
now filling large orders from California
for orange nursery stock. He expects to
leave with a car-load or two within the
next few weeks, and will be absent about
thirty days. . . .A Cuban gentleman in Key
West, who has a number of pretty daugh
ters, complains to the mayor that he was
continnually annoyed by a number of boys
congregating around his premises. The
mayor ordered a policeman detailed to
watch affairs. . . .The immense sugar mill
of Disstons was started up at St. Cloud,
on the beautiful lake of East Tohopeka
liga. Mrs. Hamilton Disston, of Phila
delphia, christened the enterprise ..J."
WPaul, J, W. Willis and A. W. Wine
gold, from Crystal ; River, Fla., went to
Jacksonville. " . They registered at the
Plaza. H. T. Leshman, clerk of the hotel,
went to their, room to call them for the
early train. Getting no response to his
knocks, and thinking he detected the
odor of escaping gas, he forced the
door open. All three of the men
were found lying unconscious, while
the gas jet was turned half on . ...
Ed. Perine, popularly known in Lake
Weir circles, has been missing. He was
to make a trip to Homosassa, conse
quently no fear was entertained ; till re
cently, when a boat was found capsized,
also a handkerchief bearing his name.
. . . .The 2d Artillery band gave a com
plimentary serenade to Mrs. General
Grant at the Ponce de Leon hotel in St.
Augustine. Owing to a sudden slight
illness, Mrs. Grant could not appear, but
through L. P. Rolerts, . clerk of the
Ponce de Leon, sent her regrets. . . .Ed
ward F. Pittman, a cigar manufacturer,
of .Quinsy, cut the throat of George
Hughes, also a cigar manufacturer, and
head of the firm of George Hughes & Co . . .
Forest fires raged near Mill Creek," doing
much damage to the property of F. E.
Southland, destroying his house and con
tents County Solicitor A. W. Owens
filed with the clerk of the Criminal Court
at Jacksonville, forty fifty bills of infor
mation against parties who were reported
bv Sheriff Broward and - hia deputies as
beincf inmates of the gambling Houses re
are in Jacksonville. The tour is one con
ducted by the Pennsylvania Railroad .
Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M. P.,
spoke before the Irish National League at
the opera house in Jacksonville: . . .The
Omaha party of excursionists, who ar
rived at Jacksonville two weeks ago and
who have since been down on the Gulf
coast, left for home. They were all de
lighted with their trip and expressed
themselves as Florida converts. . -
PRINTERS KILLED.
A Massnchusetts Newspaper Burned Out
A Great Sacrifice of Lifc.
The new office of the Evening Union,
at Springfield, Mass., burned out, and the
blaze was attended with' the most sicken
ing horror ever witnessed in that city, six
of the employes meeting a terrible death,
most of them jumping from the fifth story
and being crushed into a shapeless mass
below. Six others were badly injured.
The fire was discovered in the mailing
room, and clouds of smoke were pouring
out of the lower story windows, and be
fore fifty souls on the upper floor were
aware of their danger, the names shot up
an old-elevator in the rear, cutting on
escape by the stairway, and most of the
employes who escaped found their way to
the ground by a roof in the rear. Some
were cut off in the composing room, and
there is still a terrible suspense, as several
fell back into the flames. The employes
wrho rushed into the editorial room were
cut off from escape in the rear,; and had
to face the horrible alternative of burning
to death or jumping to the sidewalk be
low. Four comporitors suffered bad frac
tures of bones and serious burns. Two,
named Donehue and Ensworth, were
fatally hurt. It is thought that the fire
started among lumber in a closet on the
ground floor. Tt flames were drawn up
the elevator well and spread through the
composing room, lae following is a cor
rect list of the killed and iniured : H. J.
Goulding, aged thirty-two, married, fore
man of the composing room, burned to
death; Mrs. Hattie E. Farley, aged twenty-three,
secretary to the "editor; Miss
Gertie Thompson, aged eighteen, proof
reader, burned to death; C. L. Brown,
aged twe ty-two, compositor; W. E.
Hovey, of Boston, aged twenty-five, fell,
striking on his head, and died at the hos
pital; J. Danzon, ged thirty-five, com
positor, lately came to the city from
Canada. " :
BOLD SWINDLE.
J. H. Bond, Mrs. Julia Bond, J. O
Bond, Dr. L. M. Shafer and his son, R.
E. L. Shafer, wiih other.-, .were arrested
in Charleston, 8. C. upon the charge of
defrauding the supreme council of the
Royal Templars of Temperance out of
$20,000. by the feisminsr death of John
O. Bond, who i really alive. Mrs. Bond
and John O. Bond were discharged from
custody upon swearinsr that 'their names
on 11 of the pat crs are forsreries. Dr.
Shafer and -on, j. A." Robinson, and J.
a. Kooinson, Jr., were also arrested on
the charge of defraudinsr the same or-
ganiz tion out of $20,000 by certifying
to the death of the fictitious John R.
Lyman. . - ,
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OVERWORK.
The sexton of a rhurch at Castleton, N.
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Charles DownW teller of Castleton
National Bank, who has been missing for
several weeks. He has been wandering
about demented, and a reward was offered
for information of his whereabouts. JHe
died shortly after being : discovered.
There was a pist-l wound in his left
temple, and the weapon was found in the
all straight. He
was rendered insaue by overwork. -
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN
CIES IXTEIt EsTlXGL Y STATED.
4rcilents n IabJ and en Sea-New Enter-prlaesNnirides-TRngioM'H
Temperance
and Helai Matter.
The shops of the E. T. V. & G eorcria
Railroad, at Macon, G a., were destroyed
by fire.r
Hon. C. G. Memminger, first ' secretary
of the treasury of the Coufederatc States,
Jied at Charleston, S. C.
Pepper & n6ney, jewelers, at Cleve
land, Tenn, wtrcTobbcdof $3,000 worth
5f watches and jewelry. Thieves blew
the safe open and made away with their
booty. No clew to the robbers.
The bridge over the - Pecdee river on
the Wilniugton, Col umbia & Augusta
.ttailroad has been rebuilt, and trains by
svay of the Atlantic Coast line have re
sumed regular schedules on that road.
Thomas C. O'Neal, of Rutland, Vt.,
employed at the marble works in Mari
etta, Ga., while under the influence of liq
uor wandered on to the railroad track of
the W. & A Railroad and was killed. -
State Chemist II. B. Battle, of Raleigh,
N. C, .returned from Washington, D. C,
bringing with him $7,500 of the Hatch ex
periment farm fund, which he paid over
to the state treasurer, who is ex-officio
treasurer of the Department of Agricul
ture.' . . '-,, '--
Miss Marian Bones, daughter of Mr.
J. W. Bones, died suddenly at Rome,
Ga. She had just finished her duties for
the day as instructress of music at Rome
Female College, when, without warning
or premonition, she dropped to the floor,
and when assistance came, she had ceased
to breathe. ' . 4 -
The steamer Waurita was launched at
Palatka, Fla. She will leave for Day
tonia, down the St. John's to its mouth,
thence towed down the coast to Mous
quito inlet and the entrance to Halifax
river. She will run between Day tonia
and Rockledre in connection with the
St. John's and Halifax (the White) rail
road. . " .
A fire broke out in Wriaht's Opera
House, at Macon, Mo., and destroyed
Wright & Martin's tobacco factory, N.
Hnnt's brick block, occupied by McCol
lough & Smith as a grocery; two adjoin
ing brick buildings, owned by Daniel
Rowland and occupied by Montgemory &
Co., and Wynner & Fritch, grocers, and
the Congregational Church. ,
The elders of the Gay Street Christian
Church at Nashville, Tenn., have filed a
bill in the chancery court against Preston
Taylor, colored, pastor of r said church.
Complainants charge that during defen
dant's pastorate he has so changed the
long-established mode of worship in this
church that grievous dissensions have
arisen among the member.
A sleeping car on the limited express
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
w as ditched near Fort Payne, Ala., and
badly damaged, involving a loss of sev
eral thousand dollar?. The trucks struck
a broken rail while the train was running
at the rate of forty miles an hour, and
the coach was turned entirely . over. S.
L. Waldridge, of Lexington, Ky., and
C. A. French, of New Orleans, La., were
badly hurt. : - - :
The United States Rolling Stock Com-
4ga3-&yCJtn Charge of the rwork
Anniston, Aia., ana nave orders already
for more than fifteen hundred car8 to be
made as soon as possible. Twenty-five
per cent, of the Anniston subscription of
$150,000 was paid over, and Mr.7 Hege
nosch, the president of the company,
stated at the meetiDg that he had per
fected arrangements for another indus
trial enterprise to be run in connection
with their present immense plant, to work
about five hundred additional hands.
A cyclone passed over the southwest
ern part of the parish of Opelousas, La.,
and many dwellings were blown to pieces.
Chapman Guidey and his son, each had
an arm bioken. The youngest son ol
Valentine Lavergins was killed. Three
brothers, who were keeping a store, lost
their house, and their goods were scat
tered for miles. All the members of the
family of Louis Bourgeois were injured.
About a dozen dwellings and as many
more eut-buildings were demolished, and
in every case the inmates were injured,
and household effects destroyed. The
vath of the storm was three hundred
yards wide
At Berry, five miles from Reidsville.
N. C, the dwelling house of . C. W.
Mobley and his granary and stables were
fired, and he lost in the fire alibis mules,
wheat and fodder and corn, wagons,
carriages and threshers. The plan of the
incendiaries evidently was to plunder his
store near the house. The same .nighl
three stores in Reidsville were robbed.
Logan Fuqua; a white man who is Mob
ley's miller, has been arrested for the
burning, and is in jail at Went worth.
At the granary is.a piece of fallow land
that had just been turned over. Fresh
tracks were found over the fallow land,
and it is alleged they fit the tracks of
Fuqua's shoes. Arson in North Carolina
is a capital crime.
MONUMENT POSTPONED.
The Senate bill appropriating $10,000
to the Ladies' 3Ionument Association to
aid in the erection of a monument to the
Mississippi Confederate soldiers, when
ever the funds of that association i3 suf
ficient to erect the monument, came up in
the Mississippi House, and proved to be
the most exciting question yet aiscussed
in that body. The ladies had beautifully
decorated the speaker s stand with dioice
flowers and creeping vines, and displayed
conspicuously over tnc siana a nne pencil
drawing of Jefferson Davis and the tat
tered colors of the third Mississippi regi
ment of volunteers. AH was artistically
arranged and presented a grand picture.
To make the setne complete, the ladies
turned out in force and thronged all the
lobbies. A great many patriotic speeches
were delivered, and strong appeals made
to grant the reasonable aid asked for by
the ladies in their noble work, but the
bill was indefinitely postponed by a vote
of fifty-nine to forty-two. It passed the
Senate with only cght dissenting votes.
DYNAMITE.
A frightful disaster, the exact cause of
which will probably never be learned,
orcurred- in the Cleveland Iron Mine,
Mich., resulting in the instant death of
fix-o mm. Thev were at work blasting
rrvk. havinff inserted a piece of gas pipe
oiiat-fTMl with dvnamite. The pipe had
Inst come from the blacksmith's shop,
and it is supposed still retained sufficient
heat to cause an explosion of the deadly
aent of destruction. . ..Six tons of dyn
amite stored in the "house of Oliver
Hampton, about nine miles northwest of
Richmond, Ind., exploded. David
Hampton, his horse, and a dog were
blown, to atoms.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN . PICTURES. PAINTED ' ET A
COliPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
What W :injr on North, East and Went
and Acrs thP Water The Canting- -ropena
storm. -
Wilfred Blunt was released from Tul
lamorcj.Ireiand, jail.
The New J ersey senate has passed the
high license bill over the governor's veto.
y. A dispatch from Massowah says, that
the Italian outposts have signalled . the
enemy along the entire Italian line.
Louise M. Alcott, the authoress, and
daughter of A. Bi onson Alcott, the aged
author who died a few days ago, died in
Boston, Mass. : .' V - ;
The steamship Circassia arrived at New
York from Glasgow, Scotland, and is de
tained at quarantine on account of small
pox on board.
" S. V. Harness, of Cleveland, Ohio,
vice-president of the Standard Oil com-
-pany, died of heart disease on board his
steam yacht Twilight, in Charlotte Har
bor, Fla..
A hock of earthquake was felt at Los
Angeles,- Cal, being the severest for
eighteen years. No damage was done
but houses were badly shaken and people
ran into the streets in fright. -
: Lord Randolph Churchill presided over
a conference held in London, England,
to receive, the preliminary report of the
executive committee to provide assistance
for the unemployed workingmen of
Paddington. 4
Quite a scare has been created at the
Chicago, 111.,'' city prison, where 950
prisoners are confined, over the discovery
of a case of small-pox. The victim is a
man who came from the East, and was
sent out for vagrancy. He was promptly
removed to the pest-house, and the pris
oners were vaccinated.
The Wamsutta Cotton mills, at New
Bedford, Mass., whose spinners and balk
boys are now on a strike, give notice that
tdl of their mills, except No. 6, will shut
down for an indefinite period. The news
has created" consternation among the
traders, who depended largely on the 2,
500 operators for support.
By order of District Judge Malins of
the state of Coahiula, Mex., . Capt. Fran
cesco Mananz, Lieut. Miguel Cabrera, the
second sergeant, and the lieutenant's or
derly, all of the 3d Mexican cavalry, have
been arrested and placed in jail, charged
with participating in the late attempt to
kidnap a Mexican deserter in Eagle Pass,
Tex., and with participating in a subse
quent attack upon the sheriff of - Mave
rick county.
RUSTING WHEELS.
The strike of locomotive Engineer Ex
tending Over the West.
The Burlington and Northern Railroad
strike is on, having started at Minneapo
lis, Minn. The road's freight business
was very large -before the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy.strike, but it is now
nothing more than local. Chief Arthur
stated unreservedly (to use Arthur's ex
actness,) there was "serious danger that
the strike of the engineers and firemen
would now spread widely. : It is impos
sible to appease our men," he said, "when
xney Know mat railroad compamet-ATL
over the
country are eiviner ly m re-
I M i ,7. i r
j-ithe com-
ceipt oi telegrams bhow m g" u.
panies are rendering tn'va ass
ce, and
it is not in my power, or the
wer of
unless
urling-
any other man, to restrain the
such things are stopped." The
ton strike is involving other ro;
s at the
stockyards. Five Lake Shore (j
'pneers
oon cars
from Englewood to Sixteen tn Atreet, in
Minneapolis, declaring they would quit
before they would haul anything bearing
the 4Q" label. - A Wabash switchman
refused to receive Burlington cars, which
were brought to .the yards at Root street.
The switchmen emf loyed by the Union
Stockyards and Transit Company, which
has charge of all switching at the yards,
also decided that they would handle no
Burlington cars. The full support of the
entire Brothorhood 'of Locomotive En
gineers and Firemen has been pledged to
their members on any and all roads
throughont the United States, who deem
it necessary-to! strike, and formally de
cide to do so, in order to uphold their
brethren on the Chicago, Burlington
Ouincv Railroad. So far as heard from
not a single road upon which the Chica
go, Burlington & Quincy has made the
demand to handle their freight had re
sponded favorable; The Wabash refused
point blank. The St. Paul declined, and
a heavy train, switched on to its tracks
from the Burlington's tracks, at Western
avenue, for transportation over the Chi
cairo. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad,
was hauled . back. . Other western roads
to whom the formal request was
sent, have either refused or are pre
pared to reject freight when offered.
"We would rather have a lawsuit than t
strike," said General Agent W. S. Nine
lin. of the Minnesota & Northwest
mad' and ' Chicago. St. Paul & Kansas
City. The strike threatens to extend to
the engineers and firemen in the Denver
& Hy Grande Railroad's freight yards.
Tfc t was learned that several
consigned
Rio Grande
by
for
the
the
the
the Burlinsrton to
transfer to the West, arrived in
yards. Orders were issued to have
rar Rwitched. but the engineer on
switch engine refused to touch them.
Another engine was sent after them with
the same result. The cars were aban
doned, and the men say they will quit
before they move them. Indications are
that a strike on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf system is inevitable. The
Gulf road has announced its willingness
to handle freight, and unless it reconsid
ers this determination the men will sure
ly go out.
BAD LOT.
The police of Norfolk, Ya., captured
a gang of five Italian counterfeiters,
named Joseph Laffiori, Pietro Dauorfoi,
Georae Cataboni, Filip Brocolo and Bra-
rios Marois. alias Petro Lanio. These
men have flooded Norfolk with counter
feit silver dollars. They ha none of
tbe spurious coin in their possession when
arrested, but have been identihed as hav
ing passed it. Similar gangs are work
ing in different portions of the South.
LEVANTED.
Charles K. Dickinson, treasurer of two
street railway companies, and highly con
nected, ; has mysteriously disappeared
from St. Louis, Mo. He took all his keys
with him. He is l a brother-in-law of
Julius Walsh, president of the Franklin
Avenue and of the Northern Central Rail
ways. v-:'--.-'.- -
Nothing Remarkable.
Kentucky School Teacher (to infant
class) "Yes, dear, children, the camel
can go seven days without water."
Class (in chorus) "Is that tl?'2ieio
Tort Sun
i
rorcxAn SCIENCE.
A Philadelphia firm has been awarded w
n contract by the Italian Government for
the construction of a Zalinski dynamite
gun,, which. is to be forty feet long and
to Le made in three sections, and de?
signed to throw " a" prosectile "weighing
600 pounds a distance of four miles. It,
will bo used for coast defense.
The extension nf triPPM
system has involved the crossing : of
several ianre rivers a mntfrnf email
O vtuwt -
difficulty, owing to the enormous dimen- ,
sions of the summer floods. The river iu '
question, whose ordinary width is about
half a mile, is swollen by the rains to a
breadth of more than eight miles.
Referring to the British birds that
3warm in South Africa in winter, Profes
sor Seebohm stat e3 th it on the coast of
Natal he must have seen : hnndrftda nf
thousands of barn swallows, evidently col
lected to return to northern 'Europe.
Swifts and other species were numerous.
Many of these did not breed within
8,000 miles of those farts, and some not
within 10,000.
A powder is used in the German army
for sitting into the shoes and stockings
of the foot-soldiers. It is called 'Fus
streupulrer," and consists of three part
salicylic acid, ten parts starch, and
eighty-seven parts pulverized soapstonc
(Speckstein). It keeps the feet dry, -prevents
chafing, and rapidly heals sore
spots. It is to be recommended , to
mountaineers, . ;
Mr. J. W. Collins reports in the Bul
letin of the United States Fish Commis
sion the finding of a knife of curious
workmanship' in the thick flesh of a
large cod. The handle of the knife is
of brass, curved and tapering behind,
with a longitudinal incision on the con
cave side to receive the edge of the blade.
The total length of handle and blade to
gether is 6 1 inches. ; .
Professor Medeleef. in Engineering
advanced the theory that petroleum is of
mineral origin, and that its production is
going on and may continue almost in
definitely, v He has succeeded in making ...
it artificially by a similar process to that
which he believes is going on in the
earth, arid experts find it impossible to--distinguish
between the natural and the
manufactured article. .. V
Some of the inventors evidently do ,
not propose to give up the ' car, stove.
Several of . them have invented and
patented extinguishers in the shape, of
water tanks, which, when anything hap
pens, drown out the fire, in the stove,
fc'ome of them act automatically, whilo
others must be operated by pulling' a
cord, which is supposed to flood the
stove and render it innocuous, so to
speak. ..
A paper made by Herr Ladewig, Ger
many, will resist the action of both fire
and water. The manufacture is accom
plished by mixing twenty-five parts of
asbestos fiber with from twenty-five to-.
tnirty parts of aluminum sulphate,'
zinc and thoroughly" washing it in
water. It is then treated with a solution
of pure aluminum sulphate, after which
it is manufactured into paper like ordi
nary pulp.
Roburite (says Iniustriei) promises to
displace all other explosives now used in
p.rtfl.1 minp.a Thft Tnprimpnt mndp ta ,
highly satisfactory. 'Inwhatis usually
an explosive mixture of air and fire damp ,
; we understand tLcro was i. S' "ignition."
ijave results etjuut ii'iV"-,"-rf i k. .4
blasting gelatine, while there was not bo ;
much small coal as with gelatine and ,
dynamite. Probably it is not widely -
, 1 1 , A A? ' "1
Known mat roounie is an inveniion uue
partially to the action of the Austrian
Government, which in 1882 offered prizes -for
the safest mining explosives.-v Robu
rite, carbonite and securite . were three r
out of twenty which were favorably re
ported upon, and the former appears to -be
the most satisfactory."
Furs For Decorative Purposes.' -A
Washington letter to the New York -Graphic
says : Going into a taxidermist's ?
studio a day or two since to buy a .pair
of owl's eyes they can be had for from
fifty to sixty cents, according to the ex
pression wished for 'I noticed many
elegant furs lying in heaps upon the
floor. They are used principally for
decorative purposes, although one sees
much fur worn upon the streets of Wash
ington. I asked the proprietor to give
me, a few of his prices. "Here," he;
said pointing to a magnificent white
Eolar beat skin ten feet long, 4is a rug,
an dsomely mounted, for which I ask
$200. I had a lovely Cofean tiger skin
the other day, for which I got $500.
These are rare. A lody who visited my
studio and saw this skin remarked that
it must have been a pretty large buffalo I
A royal" Bengal tiger skin will sell or
from $1 00 to $150. The musk or ox skin,
which a few years ago sold for $35 or $ 10,
is how worth $150 as a sleighing robe. I
have an eider down quilt, eight feet long
by five wide, beautifully pio-jed, which is
worth $100. A good lion rug costs
$400. An angora rug can be had for
from $6 to $20. I have just mounted as
a rmrfor a Washington lady a beauti
ful monkey skin. It rests on gold
plush. Here is a lovely reindeer skin,
which (Jreeiy earned wun mm 10 tao
North Pole. It "came from Norway, and
can be had for $10."
The Origin of Leap Yiir. .
The custom observed every fourth year
of permitting the fairer sex to assume the
right and prerogatives appertaining to
their brothers during . the remaining
threa is a very ancient one, according to
a New York World correspondent. When
it originated is not definitely known, but
a law enacted by the Parliament of Scot
land in the year 1288 is doubtless the first
statutory recognition of the "custom.
That law was as follows: "It is statut
and ordaint that during the reinc of Her
Maist Blissit Megestie, i'k fourth year,
known asLcip car, ilk maiden ladye of
baith high and low estait shall hae I berty
to bespeak ye man she likes ; nlLcit, g
he refuses to tak hir to be his wyfe, he
shall be mulcted in ye summe of ane
dnndis or less, as his estait molt be, ex
cept and awis gif he can mak it appear
that he is betrothit to ane ither woman,
that he then shall be free."
A Daught?rs Fabrication.
email viIIacrR in lien?ai. was aw."311"'
j u: ,.,Hrt TTa wm found
guilty on the dkect testimony of his sur
viving daughter, who entered into .min
ute details of the circumstances of the
mnw The evidence asrainst
Muluk Chaud was so overwhelming tnat
the sessions judge who first tried the
case was absolutely convinced of his
guilt. Fortunately there was a power
of appeal to the High Court of Calcutta,
and a new trial was ultimately ordered.
in ine iunnerprocceuinj;-i.uu ivuv.
counsel succeeded in satisfying both the
judge and jury that no murder had been
committed. The sentence of death was
therefore not" carried out, and the pris
oner was liberated. His daughter sub
sequently confessed that she had fabri
cated the story. -