; THE NEWS,
Oliver Herbert accidentally shot and killed
his little brother at. leading, Pa. The
steam schooner Farallone, while beiag towed
across a bar ia Yaquiu City harbor, Oregon,
was struck' by a heavy 6ea, aud the chief en
gineer, three sailors and a cabin boy were
drowned. The most remarkable thing
about Christmas in the West was the weath
' er. It was a summer day la Chicago, and
instead of sleighing and skating, the young
. folks played crcquet in the parks. R -ports
from all parts of the West state that the
weather is the most remarkable ever known
id December. -W. P. Ford, of East Tem-
pleton, Quebec, while temporarily insane,
murdered bis wife end committed suicide.
.General J. Madison Drake was severely
injured at Elizibeth, N. J,, while trying to
.stop runaway horse. Rev. Sam Jones'
seventeen-year-old daughter married Wil-
' liam Orabam, of Cartersville, Ga., against
her father's wishes. In fight between
whites and blacks at Jessup, Ga., several
were killed.' -Conviota escaped from the
prison at Portsmouth, Oat., by throttling
ana ciuDuing toe wamnman. jamea uar
, ty aged seventeen, was killed at a Christmas
party at Bank Branch, Mo.- Arthur Craig,
of Indianapolis, kilbd his intended father-in-law,
John Sutton, who attempted to sboot
him when he asked his daughter's hand in
marriage.- -Rev. L.B. Goodall, of Oak wood
Avenue Baptist Church, Orange, N. J., was
married hurriedly to MiVs Emma B jll, of
Charleston, S. G.ftt is reported, to avoida
breach of promise suit. Rjpresentafrfves
1 of ten thousand Hebrew workingmeu ut.t
in New York aud organized the Hebrew La
bor Union. -O ie Italian stabbed another
just after mass in a' Catholio church in Jer
sey city. Anson Dawey, a farmer, who,
though having (6,00 sooreted in his house,
near Binghampton, N., Y., committed suicide
through dread of going to the poorhouse.
A gang of thieves that have been plundering
residences In St. Paul, Minn., were captured,
und much of the plunder recovered. ' :
. .;. Mrs. Irene Skeals, of . Spokane Fall, was
' acquitted of murder for killing her husband,
who had been associated with other womem
Henry W. Grady, the noted Southern
editor, died at bis home in Atlanta, Ga,, aged
thirty-eiiht years.- - Fire at Lewiston, Pa.,
destroyed sis buildings. Loss $15,030.
The indications point to a further increase
in the price of iron and in the wages of the
.workers. -Policeman John Meguire, of
Mobil?, Ala., was murdered by James Ilaniill,
a baker. i-A mine In Calaveras county,
CaL, caved in, burying sixteen men. Tba
New York police raided the alleged commis
sion house o' Billings and Camp, in that city
who had been sending circulars broadcast
. offering to sell silks and satins at one-tbird
their value. The police found only a chair
and a stove in tho office and a man calling
himself Jones, who, they believe was repre
senting e mythical firm. William Eu
banks, of Los Gatos, CaL, murdered bis six.
tsen-year old daughter because she would
not give her father her wages and then com
mitted suicide. Nine business bouses at
Leesburg, lad., were burnud. ' Loss $25,003
The purchase by an English syndicate of the
great Pillsbury 11 mring mills and elevators,
of Minneapolis, has been completed. A
judge, a lawyer and a banker each preached
a nttie sermon tsunaav in tne cnurcn or tne
LoltETDay Ideas,- at Milwaukee.- The
. Bigley summer hotel, at Alpsville, on the
B. & O. Railroad was burned. The
jority of tho coal miners in the Monongahela
valley, who have been on 6trike for two
months, returned to work. Rod L. Hei
J-i-U. . T..rvi "NT V ' . I ...
. , , .. -
oc9 year in the penitentiary for attempting
to blackmail the family of Judge. Lewis, of
the Supreme Court. " "
' . ' . " -
, The defalcations of Secretary Schottenberg
of the Milwaukee school board, and who re
cently committed 6uicide, will amount to
over $40,00a-i -Hugh McNamee of Bement,
111.', was stuog by a tarantula vhile un pack
ling a lot of bananas, and he is likely to die
'of blood-poisoning.- A six-story building
In St. Louis occupied by Dickerson & Hans,
shoe manufacturer; Gant Bros.,', the Com
- tmercial Printing Company and other parties,
. Jwas destroyed by fire ; loss $73,000, Al
fred Cowles, secretary and treasurer of the
Chicago Tribune Publishing Company, died
of paralysis. Mrs. (Mary Brunner, belieyjd
to have been t1i oldest person in Eastern
Pennsylvania, died at Djrry.Fa., aged 103
years, and leaving 133 great-grandchildren,
p ;In a wreefcf on the Louisville and Nash--rville
.Road, near Orange Grove, Ala,, the
locomotive tufted over, burying engineer
IPicrce aud killing1 bim instantly, and fatally
jinjurjag $he flrSnan.- The town of Frank
Jinton, N. G, was' destroyed by Are. Loss
$25,000. FejlEanipp of Kanawha county
.XV. Va., wast (teiced to be banged for the
murder of hit children. Warren B. Keely
idiedof paraiy&is at Reading, Pa. He had
held positions of trust under the State for
twenty-two years. Mary Lewis and her
son worV instantly killed on the. Gettysburg
Railroad, near Carlisle, Pa. white attempt
ing to cross the. tracks in front of an ap
proaching: train, There were 342 business ;
Hen'ry.Ct tit Id, A calfskin manufacturer,
of WoburnrMass., has disappeared, and his
.creditors, have taken charge of his business.
Charles Jones, wha . killed Alexander.
James, near Charleston, W. Va., was sen
tenced td the penitentiary for ten years.
;The stoamiefs Nail City and Kate Waters
collided oft the Ohio river, near Portsmouth,
and the letter vessel suck. .Loss 8,000.
William 'Scbultz was struck by an Oalo
River Raliroad train, near Parkersburg, W.
iVa., and instantly kiIod.- Freight con
ductors on the Missouri Pacific Railroad are ,
to be bounced for carrying tramps from i
place to p'ace at a small cash fare. Seven
thousand jinen and boys are idle by the shut
ting uowa of cuiiienes in the &n ujokin. re
cion." 1
HENRY WM' DEAD.
The South Loses One of Her
. Greatest Men.
rnenmonla Induced by Exposure Af
tor Ills lioston Npeech thrill
rcct CauseThe Career or tho '
Noted Son I her a F.Iitr. .
H?nry W. Grady is dead. The end came
at 3. 40 Tuesday morning, at his horn 3 in At
lanta, Ga.
Its coming had been feared by those who
bad watched the case closely, but nobody ex
pected it so soon. The scenes a J bis home
. during the last hours w. ra most pathetic.
' Is was shortly after 11 o'clock that Dr.
Everett announced that Mr, Grady was sink
ins rapidly, aud that the end mm near.
Then it was that all the momhers of the
family and relatives gathered about the sick
bed hoping against hope, praying that tbe
cup might be taken from them. Friends who
bad at tbe doctor' euggest.on left the house
a few hours previously were hastily sum
moned. ' ' '
The same question the same answ. r "No
hope, no, no." Strong men wept like chil-
j dren one by one, then stolj back, gatxifor a
few seconds upon the ashy pale face, and
came back with bowed heads and burdened
hearts. They realized for the first time that'
death was inevitable, (,'nero was no hope. He
wa3 still unconscious. At 3.40 he drew his
last breath, and the great heart was still.
The funeral has not yet been definitely ar
ranged, but h 'will be buried in Atiauti,
probably ca Tnursday.
The illness contracted by Mr. Grady in
Boston developed into typhoid pneumonia.
Since Thursday the doctors announced his
case-to be danger jus, Mr. Grady's mother,
was caiUd from Athei:s. . His wife and two
children wt re present.
Prayer was ffered in the churches Sunday
for Mr. Grady. Ij the First Methodist Church
regular services were suspended, aad tbe en- -tire
congregation joiued in prayer for the
sick man. From nil parts of the country
came inquiries, and even from Europe sever
al cablegrams have been rtceived.
Mr. Grady's rapid rise iu the affections of
tbe people has been without parallel. Hi
has lor live years past been tbe soul of every
public enterprise in this city. : His message
to bis mother, in a conscious moment, was .
characteristic:
"If I die," said he, "I die serving the
South, the land I love so well. Father fell
in battle for it. :: I am proud to die talking:
for it." " ,
A public meeting was held in the exchange
and resolutions adopted deploring the un
timely death of Henry . Grady. The"
Chronicle says: ' In the death of Henry W.
Grady toe South has lost her most gifted,
glequent and useful son."
HI3 BRILLIANT CAREER,
Henry Woodren Grady wasboru in Athena,
Ga., on May 17, 184, and was educated at
tbe University of 'Georgia and the University
of Virginia. At tbe last-named place be was
college mate of John W. Daniel, new United
States Senator trom Virginia, and of John
8. Wise.
His father was a wealthy business man of
Athene, who, although a Union man and a
supporter oi Bell and Ererett, went with
his State when she sec jdod, and while gal
lantly leading the Twenty-fifth North Caro
lina Regiment at Petersburg was shot seven
times and died from his wounds, v
At the age of 2J Mr. Grady was editor of
a daily paper, the Commercial, published at
Rome, Ga. The paper wi8 atiead of the
town, and he left it to embark in tut Herald,
which bes gone into history as tbe liveliest!
paper ever printed in Atlanta.
The good die youug, so the Herald went
the way of alt the earth, and the young
journalist sat down and figured up bis pos
sessions as follows: Oue wite, two children,
eleven dollars.
Very soon alter calamity overtook the Her
aid Air. Grady walked into the New York
Herald office and by chance" got into ihe
room of Mr. Thomas B. Connery. They bad
a short interview and young Grady went to
work. His first big assignment was watch
ing the electoral count oi F.orida, He made
affidiv.t that Tiiden ca: r.ed tbe State,
He clung to the Fionua uiatu r. following
it to Washington, and on April m, isn, pub
lished tne coniession or ijauieis, Mcuia and
Cox, who explained the fraud they them
selves had committed. The exposure made
13 columns in tbe Herald. For bis first year',
work on the Herald and other papers Mr.
Grady received ueany 6,000, wuicb was tbe
first money he had earned except in conduct-;
ing his own business.
v In 1880 he bought a fourth interest in the
Atlanta Constitution, paying $fc0a share fcr
tbe stock, which to-day cannot be bought for
$500 a ehare. Since be bought an interest m
the Constitution unbroken success has come
to him. He lived in a handsome and beauti
fully furnished house on Peacbtree street,
tbe most fashionable avenue of Atlanta,
with a charming wife and two children, a
bright boy of 15 years, and a pretty Jittl i
daughter of 11. His mother and sister wer j
also members of bis household. HU library
was bis living room, and there, surrounded
by his ever-happy family, be did much of
his best work. A portiere divfdes tbe libra
ry from a Bmall study, containing a desk
and the telephone which connected with tl.o
editorial rooms of tbe Constitution eimoling
him to direct matters at the ollioj until mid
night. ' " - '
- Mr. Grady's recent speech in Boston tin
direct cause of his deathwas delivered on
.December 13.
HENRYrUDY'il'UNERAL.
The Popular Ueergrla Editor raid to
Kc st in Atlanta.
O.ie year ago Hanry Grady wrote for the
Constitution an editorial entitled "A Perfect
Day." It wai a Christmai editorial, full of
beauty and brightness. That C&risciuaj D y
wfti beautiful, and to-day was another such ;
but liow d ff rnt the people" for whom that
edit rial was written. A? the sun shad its
laso rays upon ths city all that was mortal of
Henry Wood Ha Qmly wait laid to r;st in
Oakland Cemetery. At tbe beautiful houss
on Peachtrdo street, which was once the
pride of bim.who Jay deal in it, sorrowful,
scenes were enacted this day. It wa?,nine
o'clock when t'ae honorary pall-bearers and
committees from each of the organizUions
to which Mr. Gr Jdy belonged arrived at the
house, la tho honorary escort, there were,
Le.-i les men pr jmineno in afX-iirs in Georgia
and the Souui.a number ot Northern friends.
Tbe b jdy lay in a casket in the parlor, and
here these iriends t jok a last look at the be
lovc'd face. At ten oVlocii a roieiuii proLVs
gion wended its way to the F.rt iVletbodi-it
Cinirb, wberj the iKxiy was to lie in stte.
lieie the local niemUcT! of the Chi 1'Lii Fra
trti iuiy, of winch .Mr. Grady was the highest
i.vr in the Scat", tooU charge. Then for
four hou: t the public was allowed to pass the
casket in double lines, aud look upou tbe
face. Floral designs, which came lrom friends
everywhere, were most beautiful. Of thehe,
that given by tne Constitution, employes was
especially noticeable, aud is mentioned be
OiU e it was made after a design selected for
anotber purpose t y Mr. Grady himself. It
was in tbe shape oi Georgia's ooat-of-arms,
with the eimp.e wordd "Georgia's Hon" on
top of the arch, and "Our Friond" at tho
bio. Tbe scenes during-these four hours
were most touching. 01 1 and young, great
and small, white and biack, .aised by the
casket, and there was not a dry eye, as people
readsseJ that tueir b.-st irieud nad gone. Ihd
employes of tbe Constitution, headed by
Pr.sident Howell and business Manager
Hemphill, cjire in a body. Tnen they went
to the house and acted as escort of honor to
the family to the cnurcu. r The services were
the simplest poasibU Tnis was at tbe request
of the widow. Dr. Morrison, Dr. Lie, Dr.
B irnett, Dr. Glenn, General Evans and Dr.
Hopkins wer a the officiating mims'ocrs. Read
ing of selections from th Scriptures, singing
of , by mus and pr.iyers by I)r Morrison,
"Methodist, and Dr. Birnet;, Presbyterian,
completed tbe services, Tne singing of Mr.
Grady's favorite bymn "Shall We Gather
at the River 1" was especially touching. Tbe
lonr propesslon wended its way to Oakland,
and iu the lamily vault of ' W. D. Grant the
body of Henry W. Grady found a temporary
resting oiace. - One short prayer at the vauit
and ait was over. .;
CABLE SPARKS.
Emin Pasha is reported to be entirely out
Of danger. .
The iuflu?n2a epidemic is spreading in Cen
tral and Southern Germany.
France and Russia have ns-ented to tho
conversion of the Egyptian debt.
' The new loan of the Mex'can government
has been more than subscrioed for in London
A check for $17,500 was presented to Mr.
Par null by tbe Liverpool Tenants' Defense
Fund.
Malietoa has been proclaimed King of
Samoa and is so recognizad by tbe consuls at
Apia. . . ' " ' ,
Tbe Italian Chamber of Deputies deprived
the clergy of that country of tbe direction
of all charities.
Funeral services over the remains of the
Austrian Cardinal Ganglbauer were held in
St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. . !
' One hundred thousand cartridges was de
stroyed in the artillory magazine at Baku by
the exolosion of a shell,' and four persons
were killed. " -," ,
M. Entile Ronx, a director of the prefec
ture of the Seine, was murdered in his offtae
in Paris by his former secretary, who had a
grievance against bim. .
. , A private cablegram from Rio de Janeiro
received in London states that fresh disorders
have broken out in that city and that further
complications are feared.
William O'Brien, who was sentanced to
tw months imprisonment in Gal way for ad
dressing a nationalist meeting that was pro
claimed, was released from jail.
Tne minister of finance under tbe provis
ional government of Brazil s tys that in a few
days religious freedom and civil marriage
wiU be proclaimed in that republic. - : .
Tb3 trial in London of tbe libel case of the
Earl of fiuston agaim6 Mr. Ernest Farke,
editor of tbe North London Press, has been
adjourned to tbe next session of tbe court.
The radicals in Lisbon believe that a re
public will eventually be established in Por
tugal! It is said the Portugese government
is anxious for Djiu Pedro to leave that
country.
Ia a note to the Portugese minister of for
eign affairs Lord Salisbury, the English
premier, calls on Portugal to repudiate the
action of itJ agents on the Zambesi river in
Africa.. , , , . ' ,
. Tbe special commission of judges appoint
ed to investigate cbarges made by the lion
dou Times against Parnellite members of the
HoUse of Commons have finished their re
port, but it will not be published before
Parliament meets.. . ' ' f
A large number of the striking employes
of tba 8 jutn Metropolitan Gas Company of
London have uppliu.l to tbe directors to be
allowed to return to work. The new men '
are doing their work satisfactorily and the
gasometers are full - '
In view of the straining of the relations
between "England and Portugal regarding
their possessions in Africa, the government
of the former country has made arrange
ments to trausfer its depots and hospital
stores for the Mediterranean and channel
i qaadrons from Lisbon.
, Tbe steamers Deerdam, bound from Am-,
s erdam to Bueuos Ayres with 400 passengers,
and Gawquansin, bound from Calcutta to
Hamburg, collided with each other in tbe
North Sea and both sunk. . All on board the
two vessels were xaved and were taken to
Cuxbaven by the French steamer Ltnma;
KILLED FOR AN INSULT.
A Terrible Tragedy Enacted in the
Street ot I'enstacola, Fin.
A terrible tragedy va enacted at Pen3a
cola. Fla. J. M. Thompson and J. T. Carter,
both prominent citizius, engaged in afihC
Iu the street, In which Carter was stabbed
und killed.
Tha story of the crime concerns Mrs.
Tnompson,1 who was the divorced wile of
Carter. She was married to him some eight
pears ago, and is the daughter of W. L.
Thorpe, a wealthy lumber merchant, and i
l.n accompbshed woman. Carter failed to
property provide for lier support and she se
cured a divorce from him. Less than a year
ngo she married Thompson, a leading grocer
ut Pensacola. ' ;
: Since then Carter has repeatedly insulted
her. A . few ' minutes after noon, while
Thompson and bis wife were engaged in con
versation on Tarragona street, opposite
Stratton's ice works, Carter passe J, applying
to Mrs. Thompson as be bt ustied by her a
very objactionable epitUe;, wnich ber bus
band r&ented. Tbe two men clinched, Car
ter falling on top, t .
As Mrs. Tboinpsen stooped to separate
them a stream of oiood from a wound in the
neoli of her I or mar husband spurted into her
face. Thompson had severed Carter' Jugu
lar vein and 6 tabbed him ouco througu tbe
right lung and inflicted several other ugly
wounds in different parts of his bedy.
. All the parties to tbe terrible tragedy are
highly connected, and, though it was thought
that the affair woud culminate just as it
has, it is very much regretted on all sides.
Public sentiment, however, is very 6trojgly
with Tbompeon, wno is now under arrest.
A despatch from San Diego, California,
says that it is estimated that tha damage of
the recent storm to property in that vicin
ity wjW be over $100,000. Six bridges on the
California Southern Railroad were washed
away. The Paciflo Beach Road is fcadly
washed away at Rose Canyon, and there
were also bad washouts on tbe Cuyamace
Road. The damage to the race trac1! at
Paeirtc Bjac'i is emulated at $30,000. O. W.
"V ilsoa, master mechanic cf the Puciflc Bnacij
Road, was UrowLeJ,
SOUTHERN ITEMS; '
INTKRESTING' NEWS C05IPILRD
FROM MANY SOURCES. '
-One firm has recently invested $153.O0J
in timber lands in.Buizton ccuinty, VV. Va.
A new depot is contemplated for Har
risonbur, Va., by Ilia 'Baltimore and Ohio
kuthoritid.
- The canning establ:fihrn?nt at Salisbury,
N. C, turned out 15J.0U0 cms of fruit and
Vegetables duoing the past season.-
J u Ice Dirzs. of tbe Comoration Court of
t Lynchturg, Va., has ordered a local option
i-i?uuon to oe neii oa January 11, isjo
In Marion roun ty, ' W. Va. , -: Wartman
Huey was instant v kiilei bv the accidental
ilihcharge of a gun in the hands of John
1 ) IBS. . - - '- ' .
Twiggs Davis, wbo murdered Gus Eanes
at Anton, Henry county," Va., in 1688, wasj
captured iu Missouri, and now awaits trial
in the Martinsville jail. '''" T ,
A R mnoke, Vj., realistateoperator last
w 'ek ciosed a contract with a Baltimore cap-,
italist for 4,000 acres of timber and mineral
l laud in BedforJcounty, i - . "
A h?avy gale of wind prevailed at Rom'
nt'y,,W Va., which destroyed the large dpw
frame dwelling of Mr. D. C. Tabb, late pro-
i prietor of the Mont Alto summer resort. . . '
William Adkins, a young man, fell from
a loot log into Harris Cretk, in Lincoln
county, VV. Va.. and was drowned. It is sup
posed that be was intoxicated at the time,
There is a mep'e tree in one of tbe street?
of Williamsport, Md , that has a full. crop of
green leaves, while every one ot its neighbors
is dry and leaf les '. TbUis a strange freak of
nature. - .', , , .
Isaao Van Metei'd Fine brick , house at
Old Fields, Hardy county, VV.' Va., with
all its contents war totally destroyed by fire
while tbe family was ats nc, att.-nding a
funeral. .
-At tbe request of many citizens of Frot
burg, Md., the country commissioners are
crtcunga substantial pavilion over the fa
mous "Braddock milcttone," just outside tbe
corporate limits. .
-The Norfolk and Western Rallroal Com
pany has donated $5,0t.'0 to the hoc pital to
which the city council of Roanoke, Va.. ex
pressed a wiliingnecs to appropriate jaO.OOO
to build. (-
Ex-Governor HollIday,'of Vo., has' just
starinl on another -tour uf the world from
New Yorio to San Fruucisoo - via Panama,
thence to the Sandwich and Samoan Is) a ids,
Australia and Africa. ; v .-.
Mrl L. J. Lefanch3U, of Norfolk, Va.,
has a copy of tbe telegram to Jt fit Davis an
nouncing the assassination of President Lin;
oilu, which he received while Military oper
ator at Charlotte, N. C,..' A w, t. ;
'- Mr. Milton Chew, of Carrollton, Md..
bas made a sausage that measured forty-'
seven reel in iengtn ana weigned twenty-tour
pounds. This bugh sHur was shipped ' to'
Baltimore last week.1 , j
James O. Heme, of Philip's Delight, M"d. '
has a cabbage Btalft, prown daring the past
season, which contains twenty-eight distinc)
heads, about three inches long and as round
as a medium sizj hen's egg. , !
While Henry Hebb, a farmer living near
Sbarpsburg, in Washington" county, Md.,
was loading logs Monday a lo fell on and
injured him to such an ox tent that it is
doubtful whether ha wil4-recover.. ; , ,
- John Fa lien, while hunting near Qutncy,
W. Va., shot away .the flash part of his
hand. . While dragging his gun through a
fence, the hamm;r caught and exploded tba
weapon. ' ... . .
Some one broke into the First Methodist
Episcopal Church, at Bulaire, W. Va.,
through the window, and turned ori tbe
water, three ftet of which was found when
tbe workmen entered. " . t" ? -' " -In
the Kanawha County, (W. Va.) Cir
cuit Court, Felix Hampp, who murdered his'
two children a son and a daughter by cut
ting them, to death with a knife, was sen
tenced to be banged on March 7t 1890.
-A bulkhead b&8 been put into the flooded
mine of Chambers & Co., a Elm JGrove, W.
Va., in orderto courine the inflow of water. .
A lour inch stream has been pumped out lor
two weeks without lowering the water. , .
A son of Charles Hornbv. of Mark!es.i-
burg, W. Va,, while operating a steam saw
mill, was severely injured bv the breaking of
one of tbe.belts.whicn struck him violently on
tbe bead, mating an ugly wound. . There are
The wife of Anderson Coles, living near
Chatham, Va., discovered her eat in the well
and lowered h?r small son int tbe bucket to
rescue it, but as tbe bucket-wis being raised,
near the top, the rope parted and precipitated
the boy to tb bottom, breaking his neck.
Floyd CarwileV, a farmer of Mount Zion,
vCamDbell county, Va.; was attacked while
asleep in bis bod by a mink and badly bitten 1
.in tbe necK, narrowly missing tne jugular
vein. It he had not awakened instantly the
auiinal would have killed him. - .
While chopping wood in Prince Freder
icktown, MdH Air. Julius Hall missed his
btroke aud brought the axe down with such
fcrce on his right foot as to split it from the
great toe to tbe ankle, severing the thick sole
of his shoe. " ' .' '
Another discovery of gold ore has been
made on the farm of J. E. Wells, near Boyd's
Station, Montgomery county, Md., specimens
of which have been sent to Prof. Cblstate of
the Columbia University, of Washington, D.
C, to be analyzed. n,y q:v
W. C Ch8terman, conduotor on ,the
Norfolk and. Western Railroad,, while, un
coupling cars at Norfolk, Va., caught' his
foot in a frog and fell backwards, tbe train
in backing passad over his body ljngthwise,
almost cutting it in two. He was killed in
stantly. -- .sSlif'- -TP- ' " V.i ;
Durham, N. C , is making etrong efforts .
to nave tbe proposed Baptist Female college
located ia that town. : At a recent meeting
J. S. Carr proposed to. donate a, doilar for
every dollar raised by the Baptist denomina
tion, xor tne purpose oi securing iuo insbiu
tion. . ' " ' ' ' ,
Th9 authorities of the Richmond & Dan
ville railroad (North Carolina division) have
off-red to increase the sum for the building
of the union depot in thiseity, from tbe orig
inal amount proposed' ($50,00J)- to $75,000,
providing tbe Raleigh & Gaston Railroad
company wid agree jto - its. proportionate
share. . .. 1 1. . l, . . ' .t
- -WiHiana Browhlee, of Wellsburg.W.Va.,
while at work at the brick kilns of Nicholls
& Matthews,' us-id as a pokef a gas pipe, the
end of which had been 'accidentally plumed
, wlthjlay and partially filled with powder,
The explosion lacerated nana so oaaiy
that it uad 1 to be- amputated.' :
A new "to house" Is being erected at IM1
aire, W. Vi., by the Baltimore and: Ohio
Railroad Company for, storing the ice used
in thfiir fBfriearnXor can, the dimentiOOS Of
which will bo 10060 feet,v,Tbereamlready j
two"goo4-sisted ice-bouses at than point, uuc
the big demand makes anotber one neces
sary. , . , . , . ' '.
The farmers around Centreville, ' ML,
were badly sold by a fakir, who disposed of
what he claimed to be cologne Seed, which,
upon desolving in coll water he claimed
wonld produce a ilne perfume. The grat
trouble is that the sotids will not Uibm.Iv p,
but will, no doubt, prosiae a Cae crop vt
clover v. 1 jUntod,
At Fsrmioton, W: Va., John Piles was
instantly killed through a rather peculiar
accident. ' Pyles and Walter Huey were
going, hunting, and while i waiting for-1 lie
train they laid their gun, an old musket, on
a platform. It was kicked off by Pyles, and,
beiug- discharged, the load entered PyleM
stomach, making a terrible wound. Huey
bad a narrow escape, his coat tail being shot
ft. '"'' l-Xv.i.'.l . ;;'"", !".v.''
While Miss Mantra Jordan, sixteen years
old, was washing in the kitchen at her bouse
in -North Dauviilj, Va., her clothes caught
Are from the range.- She bad a beautiful head
of hair banging uown her. back, which was
soon in a t I izj. Her criea attracted the at
tention of her mother and a gentleman near
by, who ; succeeded in ex.iuguishin the
flames, but not until she was badly burned
in the back and hips.
Mr.O. D, Fraleyy of Emmlttburg, Md.,
bas just received asa Christmas present from
Yuma, A.. T., a cane made by a convict in
tbi penitentiary out of iron wood. It bas a
silver head, and is composed of sections bait
an inch in length, of differeuc colored wood,
Joint d together by an iron rod. . Tbe etTecc
of the highly polished pieoes of different
colored wood and tbe beautiful graining, is
exquisite, but the cane is very heavy.
' An accident decured at Piedmont, be
low. Home, Ga,, on tha E tst Tennessee, Vir
ginia aud Ucorcia Riilroad, in which B.
Quinn, conductor of the first section of the
tiwight train, was killed. Quinn ran his
triiu' on , a side track, carriea his lighted
lamp iutotbe caboose, laid down and went
to steep, eectioa no. a came up about nait
an hour afterward and ran into the caboose,
throwing it over, on its side. The oar took
fire aud was consumed. Tbe eharred body
ot conductor Quinn was found in the ruins.
Messrs. Aaron and Adam Showman, liv
ing pu Mr, Piper's farm, near Sbarpsourg,
Mil., have been annoyed a number ot times
by disguised persons, wDo'stoned the house
and frighten- d .the women during their ab
sence. VVnile away last week six disguised
men surrounded the house, but the women
rang a bell and brought tbe hands from the
fields, and tbsiniscreaiusleft. When Messrs.
Showman returned they telegraphed to the
state's attorney for protection, but the sheriff
so far h:8 not been able to find the guilty
parties. - '
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
. Mr ' William - Astor has diamonds that
once belonged to Cardinal Richelieu. . ,
The Czar of Russia bas become an expert
performer on tbe violin. His trobles have
evidently made him desperate. ; r
f Lord Macaulay's executors have in their
hands some unpublished ballads of his that
be wished should not be published. .
i Beggs, the released Cronin prisoner, says
be will now devote himself to the task ot bunt
big do wn-tho real niui-derera. , He probably
La tbe advantage of knowing who they are.
Mayo W, Hazdtine, the well-known litera
ry critic of tbe New .York San, is in the
prime of life, a bon vivant, a Bohemian and
a man, who talks, if possible, better than ha
writes. ' 'w- w-r -s -v -' - . ; -
' Mr.- Corneliusf Vanderbilt is asserted by
the London newspapers to have purchased
frenv the young Earl of Dudely Turner's
master-pit ce, 'The Grand Canal, Venioe,"
for the sum of $a5,000 (,; ( ;, . ,
Franklin Br Gowen ma'de"israp-book 6f
thd hundreds of threatening letters which he
recsi ved ciuriug his prosecution of the "Mol
lie Maguires," and iu after years often looked
it over with grim amusement. ;
(Speaker Reed has made a collection of
newspaper pictures of himself and on bis
desk is a ' large pile of thtse cuts. He takes
great pleasure in showing his friends how
many ailferent. faces he turns to the public.
' Zola reports 'that his attempt to reduce his
weight, which was very great, by not drink
ing, reiult.'d in a reduction of ten pounds in
eigbtdays. A th end of three months he
lad lost for y-flve pounds, and was in maub
improved uuoitn. , .. .
, Tatti has become very much disgusted with
Chicago on varioui accounts. . One of her
chief grievances ia that tbe critics there ay
more attention to her hair than to ber voice,
and her voica i3 giving- way owins to the
horrible coal smoke.' -".? ,
eDr. Oliver Wendell Holmes will not follow
in the lootsteps of Tennyson and Browniug
and publish a volume ot poems in nis oiu age.
lie bas not given up hie literary purpuiti,
but it is said that he now destroys whatever
.he writes.' This ia modest but not wise. His
muse is stilt young, whatever may be hta
age-',, ' ' ,
Audi w Carnegie is the picture of a self
made man. Everything about bim has tbe
direct asstrti vi. ness of a man who has carved
his own fortune in the world, and bis cone si
manner ef speaking and erecting carriage
emphasize the impression created by bis
looks. He cares nothing for the theatre, but
is passionately loud ot a quiet game of whist.
Dr. Emanuel Schu User,' an uncle of Emin
Pasha, is visiting friends in Pittsburg. "Emm
Pasha is ray dead brotbor'sson, and his right
name is E iward Schniiz jr.' I knew him from
tbe time he was born. He is ot H.-brew
parentage. At 15 ElwarJentered college at
Neisse, where he carried eft nearly all the
prizes during his term. His olosa application
to studies almost cost him his eyeigbt, and
bis weak eyts may have ccst him his lift'."
William Alack is a small and sunburnt and
hazel-eyed and biack-uioustacbed. .- Ha asks
$6,000 far a novel and gets what be asks, yet
withal he is profoundly uunff ected and a mas
ter of small talk.' He is also addicted to
yachting and epicurean dinners; has recent
ly described his treatment at tbe bands of the
autograph tieud, and he is alleged to have a
sneakiug regard for a Scotch mist. Ue is 43,
wears spectacles, and is reckoned umong the
admirers of Mary Anderson.
;";murdered his family.
After Kllllntf M'ifc and Children
- -'Han Corainlts Haicidc.
The community of Niles, Ohio, was start
Jed by the discovery of one of the mo3t
wholesale and bloody butcheries that baa
ever occurred in this scosion of the State.
The victims, five in number, are Charles
Shelar and. wife, and three children, and the
dims is supoosed to have taken place at an
early hour in the morning. - When the inhu
man deed was discovered at about five o'clock
in the evening, all five bodies were stiff and
cold in death irwltb their tnroats'cut from
ear to ear. "Shelar and bis wife were lying
together, a crow the foot of the bed, while
tbe three children wore on the floor in dif
ferent pans ot the house.-. ribelar was a mill
man, aud had steady employment, but of
late drank heavily, and it is rumored that
he and his; wife did not live happily together,
Tbe theory advanced is that Mielar, in a fit
0( mad no, cut ibe throats of ti wife and
children and then his own. 'Shelar and wife
were .born and reared'in thia city. The
weapon used was a razor, and was purchased
by bhelar of a hardware dealer, . ,
A Greek who settled . ia New York less
than a rear a to davised & money-making
machine that would have soon sent bim borne
rich if be bud tot been interfered with, but
it was a pool imitation of United States
money that Uo m.uie with it. Ho ha made
an assiiTnraout of ni3mlatto a secret ser
vice otUcur,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES;
A cylinder burst in the coke room of tba
American Powder Mills, in South Acton.
Mass., killing Charles tL Sanders, and latally
injuring Joseph Hurd. ' r
Two- freight trains on the Baltimore and
Potomao Railroad collided at Baltimore, bad-;
ly injuring Engineer Minnick. Seven cam
and the engine were wrecked.
Five children were bitten by a vicious doz
while returning from school near Fort Re
covery, Ohio. All tbe children have since
developed symptoms of hydrophobia.
A cylinder top in the rolling mill at New
Philadelphia, Ohio, burst, shattering a por
tion of tbe building., Richard Horner wai
killed and anotber man badly injured. '
While blank cartridges were. being loaded
at the State arsenal in Buffalo, Naw York,
they exploded, fatally injuring the janitor,
Milis, aud severely in jurlug Adam Zhn.
' Edward Dolton, while repairing a skylight
ijn the roof of tbe old Union Depot at Toledo,
0 iio, fell upon an electric wire upon tbe
roof close by, and was killed by the shock.
A thousand-gallon copper digester in
Gross' candy factory, in Jersey City, ex
plode.!. Fritz Greenwald, a fireman, was
killed, and two other msn were severely in
jured. ...V . :
The influeozi has appeared out West.
About 1 Jo cases are reported in Kansas City.
It bas also broken out in Detroit,- where,
curiously enough, only bank employes have
thus far been affected.
v "A fifteen-year-old son of Henry Potts, re--siding
near Woodstock,' Maryland, while
handling a shot-gun accidentally discharged
the piece, killing his young sister, who was
btanding near by, and severely . wounding
bis mother. j . - - . .. .. .. -
- While ' sixteen girls were preparing &
Christmas can tan ta in a public school in
Detro.t, Mich., their costumes were ignited
by contact with a candle, t Jennie Lancaster
was burned to death, and all the others were
injured, four dangerously. - ,
Joseph Kraeko, a Bohemian carpenter,
1 ecame insane at bis residence in New York,
and threw his three young children out of
the window. Tbey fell on a fire escape and
were not seriously injured; Kraeko was
subdued and placed in a strait jacket by four
ipolicemeu end sent to Bel lev ue Ho-pital. .'
i Three bodies 'were taken from the Cone-
maugh river at Coopersdale Fauna., last
.Wriolr Onn of tha LnriiMB found w an nositi v&lv
recognize l as that of ' Walter E. Hooper,
Tnis is tne second body identified as that of.
Hoopes ; tbe first was forwarded to Baltimore,
where noopes formerly lived, on November
15th. Tbe washing away of toree bridges by
the recent rains leaves Johnstown in a very
bad condition, travel by wagon being almost
wholly susueuded. ,. : : .
SWEPT INTO WATERY GRAVES
Five Persons Carried Off i Vc-smel by
: Treniendoiu Wf e., . ,
i A special from Yaquin City, Oregon, Bays?
-m . . . . 3 - M
the steam schooner r arauone, coram&naeu
by Captain Bonifield, after being towed
across the bar by the tng Resolute, was struck
by a heavy sea, which carried overooara
Chief Engineer Pugsley, a "cabin boy and
three sailors named Frank Johnson, Charles -D.ckenson
and Wm. Brown Tha Bailors
drowned before assistance could reach them. ,
iney were an young men anu mtures oi
Sweden. Tbe chief engineer and the cabin
boy succeeded in catching some wreckage, '
and were rescued by tbe tug after being in
the water some time. They were nearly ex- i
bausted. 1
Tbe sea shipped put out the fires in the
flohnrtnap nnrl tha ncoilant AncH IlfWl" flncl tWO
firemen bad a narrow escape trom drowning .
in the fire-room. The Farallone was towed
in by tbe Resolute, badly damaged. Her
starboard side was Btove in, tbe rail carried .
away, the davits and life-boats washed over
board and tbe hatches torn up, filling tbe'
hold with water and damagin? tbe cargo of
wheat. The schooner is owned by Dolber &;
Carson. San Francisco, and is charter"! by
the Oregon Development Company. Capt,
ijonineld reports over twenty-rour- lees os
water on the bar where tbe vessel was struck
by the sea The three men were probably .
drowned at once. Tbe bar was compara
tively smooth when tha vessel started to go
out, but a heavy-swell then arose.
LOVE AND A TRAGEDY. '
A Young 5Iau Kills Ills Sweetheart'
Father.
Arthur Craig, of Iadianapolis, '. arrived in
Newman, UL, with a view of wedding Miss
Hattie Sutton, a pretty teacher in the New
man school. Her father, ' Detective John
Sutton, who bitterly opposed the match,
confronted young Craig and placed a cocked
revolver at his bead and said:
"Git, or I'll kill you."
He pulled the trigger,'' but his weapon
balked him. He tried again," but before he
succeeded two bullets from Craig's revolver
pierced the angry detective's brain, and be
ted a corpse, vraig gave himself up. A.
jury was caned, and the evidence showing
mat he acted in self-defense, be was ac
quitted. . He at once returned to Indianapolis, .
luariug trouble from the dead lu&u's friends.
Tbe young .lady ia said to exonerate her
lover from all biame. The affair has created
much excitement, owing to tbe prominence '
of all the parties concerned. Craig is a
nephew et Representative Isaac B. Craig, of
the Thirty-Second Illinois district, wnile
Sutton was a prominent Grand Army man.
MARKETS.-;
Baltimore Flour City Milla. extra, 1 4. 40
J4.65. Wheat Southern Fultz. tsOaSl;
Dorn Southern White, 42a43 eta, Yellow
S5a37c Oats Southern and fennsylvania
gSaSlcts. ; Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
ITaOOcta. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
13 00a 13 W;Straw-W oeat,7.50a$S.50;l3utter,
Eastern Creamery, 2oa28a, near-by receipts
lOaSOcts; Chee.se Eastern Fancy Cream, 11
fcll eta., Western, lOalO),' cts; K?gs 24
3tt; Tobaooo Leaf Inferior, la$3.lM, Good
Common, 3 00a$4 00, Middling, $5a7.00 Good
to fine red,8af; Fancy, 10a$13.
i New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, $3.50a 3.85; Wheat-No 1 White 84
a4k; Rye State, H51a(3; Corn Southern
5reUow,i:d42.Oats-White,StaUf-,l,'a2;i
ets. Butter-State. iaal3X cts. Cheese-State,
ctis.; Eggs 24a cts.
Philadklphla, . Flour Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25a4.75; Wheat Pennsylvania nnJ
Southern Red, 80461; Rv Pennsylvania
ISalWcta: Corn Southern Yellow, i4 SctA
Data 29a31K ot Butter State, lya-. eta.
Cheese N. Y. Factory, a"JJ i cU Kg
State, 24i25cta, i
. . . CATTLE.
. - Baltimore Bf, 4 12a4 25; S-: $3 0
5 00 , Hojrs $4 755 Oft.
JKEWYoitSBaef 5 00a7 00 j-tl 0)
600, HoKs $4.00a4.SOl
if-EAST LiBKftir-wBf 13 ''.vi i ' - i