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VOLUME IX.___HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 1888. NUMBER 1A
news in BRIEF.!
Compiled from Variou. Soured.
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Thk Fisheries treaty, said tobesatl,
Jmry to ail parties.-as signed by the
com m iss lonersjinjhe
Russia’s finance minister has prepared
.new monetary measure for considera
tion by the council of the empire.
Forty persons were killed in a mine
explosion in the Krenzgraban coal mine,
near Kaiserlantern. Bavaria, on the
16th. .
The constables who arrested the whole
mle liquor dealers at Des Moines, la., and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving bribes.
Mr- Herbert Gladstone taunted the
government on itsntter failure to prevent
the progress of the plan of campaign, or
to suppress the Irish National League.
Miss Clara Barton has just completed
an interesting report of the proceedings
of the Fourth International Red Cross
conference, held at Carlesrhue, Baden,
last September.
I jjR William O’Brien’s arraignment of
f Chief Secretary Balfour in Parliament on
the 17th has raised him at a single bound
to the position of a paFl iamentary debater
of the first rank.
J. D. Py.ve «as convicted at Dublin on
the 15fh of inciting resistance to the bail
iffs, ami sentenced to three months im
prisonment. At the close of the trial|he
was arrested on a similar charge.
Breen, the defeated candidate for Con
press from the Eleventh (Michigan) Con
pressional district, will contest the elec
tion of H. W. Seymour, on the ground of
intimidation of voters bv mine bosses.
A revolution in the transportation of
live stock has been inaugurated by the
American Live Stock Express Company.
Speed, economy and comfort of the ani
mals shipped commend the new system.
Trk new rules of procedure proposed
in the British Parliament greatly increase
the power of the Speaker, and provide
that cloture may be voted if one hundred
members are present, instead of two hun
dred, as now.
By a decision of the Inter-State Com
' merce Commission, promulgated on the
16th, Southern railroads are required to
furni-h accommodations, equal in all re
spects, to white and black first-class
ticket-holders.
Bf,\jasus E. Hopkins, late cashier of
the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, was on
the 18th refused a new trial. He will be
sentenced as soon as he is able to appear
in court. He is very sick, and expects to
leave h s cell only for the cemetery.
Premier Tirard left the French Cham
ber of Deputies in disgust on the 16th, de
claring he would resign because of an
adverse vote on the appeal of the govern
ment to fake into consideration the ques
I tion of reducing the salaries of treasury
paymasters.
The estate of the murdered millionaire,
Snell, has been administered upon. He
died intestate, and his property', valued
at +1,050,000, goes to his wife, son and
three daughters. Three years ago he
deeded his wife in foe simple property
valued at +3,000,000.
Brkadstuffs exports from the United
States during January' past aggregated
in value $8,122,277, against +14,523,809 in
January, 1887. Exports of the principal
articles of provisions during January
pn-t were valued at +6,826,980, against
+8,131.442 in January, 1887.
1 ollector Magoxe of the New York
custom house promised on the 18th to take
action in a few days against a local ring
ot opium smugglers, whose operations,
I covering a period of y'ears, will cause the
ievent seizures of opium on the Canadian
o nfier to pale into insignificance.
Di’rixg tht' Congressional inquiry into
cause wild conduct of the Heading
strikes, on the 18th, John Norris, of the
rh:!a<le!phia Record, a statistician of
some note, showed from the books of the
Hearting company that instead of losing
,12.000,000 on mining operations since
the company has cleared $29,000,000.
Richard Cassibone was sent to the
'hio State penitentiary on the 17th, for
>ix years, on a thirty-two-year old sen
tence, for manslaughter, received in
Muskingum County in 1850. He broke
]»i! after sentence was passed, and
ffa* not discovered until two months
a?°, living at Chill icothe under an as
sumed name.
Assistant Secretary Maynard has
asiructed customs officers that at quaran
‘n“ k'tat;ons under control of State or
1 a authorities the Federal customs offl
must not interfere with reasonable
'tate or local laws; but whore such regu
] a--tuis conflict with Federal laws, the
a°'!0®8 ' Ulcers must perform their duty,
1 'as Federal laws must L*e enforced as
s“Pieme.
late directors and officers of the
• foopolitan Bank of Cincinnati are
a'">g tardy restitution by paying the
£j°p0t* '*ue from them to the bank,
resid ent Means has paid the receiver
16 hundred and twentv-five thousand
. ’ ai’k; an 1 George K. Duckworth has
. ’ ,lfty thousand dollars on account,
^Ued*’ the ascertalnment °f full in
D] He beautiful city of Mount Vernon,
''as almost literally wiped out of ex
urica on 'he evening of the 19th by a
tr, , c.vclone, which demolished the
an^ better part of the town, fol
* J' bv a fire which spread with
, 'j1, rapidity, and completed the
*a 11 0 destruction. A loss of fifty lives
joretir,eporte<i' while hundreds were in*
her !aHing buildings and flying tini
er' v,lnsv'l*e» Ind., and other adjn
talis f°Wn,S were Prompt in responding to
other ' Iir° aPPai'atus and medical and
C<nm ^aist,ance. A meeting of the City
'aS imil‘«diately called for the
iief, morning to devise means of re
FIFTIETH CONGRESS*
Ih the Senate, on the 15th, Senator Frye re
ported favorably the bill authorizing the Presi
dent to invite an international maritime con
ference to meet in Washington to insure a
;ode of signals and other precautions for the
safety of vessels at sea. The Blair Educational
bill was taken up and argued briefly by Messrs.
Bale, Morgan, Butler, Call and Salisbury, fol
lowed by Senator Blair, who closed the debate.
The Plumb amendment, proposing to distrib
ute the money appropriated by the biil. on the
basis of population instead of illiteracy, was
lost, as were several minor amendments, and
the bill was passed by a vote of y as. 39, nays,
29. Senator Barbour was introduced as suc
cessor of Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia...In
the House, a resolution was adopted, providing
for the appointment of a committee to investi
gate the cause of delay in the construction of
the new library building. The House then
went into committee of the whole on the
urgent deficiency bill, and adjourned at 5:15
D. m.
In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Manderson
Introduced a bill to authorize the wearing of
the badges of the Grand Army of the Republic.
A bill was passed appropriating .ViO.O 0 for the
erection of a lighthouse at or near Diamond
shoal. Cape Hatteras, N. C. Mr. Plumb's
resolution directing an inquiry as to the
causes of inefficient mail service, was
agreed to. After a long discussion
the resolution requiring the Secretary of War
to furnish to Senators, on their request, lists of
persons to whom copies of the Records of the
Rebelion are to be issued was adopted. One
hundred and six private pension bills were
passed, after which the Senate went
into executive session, and, at 4:45
p. m., adjourned until Monday.In
the House reports from various commit
tees were received and referred, and
the Senate's amendments to the House bill for
the appointment of eleven superintendents of
the railway mail service were concurred in.
The House then went into> committee of the
whole on the Urgency Deficiency bill, and a
long debate on the internal revenue law fol
lowed, and,pending final action, the House took
ft recess until eight o’clock—the evening ses
sion to be for debate only, on the Pacific Rail
road Telegraph bill.
In the House of Representatives, on the 17th,
a petition was received urging that a hill be
passed providing for the erection of post-office
buildings in every town of three thousand in
habitants or over, on a basis of #2,000
for each one thousand inhabitants.
The Blair Educational bill was pre
sented | and referred to the Education com
mittee. The hill for the relief of Nathaniel
McKay and the executors of Donald McKay was
passed, and at 4:15 p. m. the House adjourned
until the 20th. The Senate also stands ad
journed until the same date.
In the Senate on the 20th it was de ided to
celebrate Washington’s birthday by the read
ing of the farewell address and by adjourn
ment, An alleged tariff question was brought
up in the recommendation of a committee re
quiring that the rails for the proposed Wash
ington cable road be of American manufact
ure, and on this recommendation Mr. Edmunds
I called for the yeas and nays, resulting in a vote
of 21 in favor of the amendment to 17 against.
! .In the House a number of bills were intro
duced, one of which proposed to change the
presidential term to eight years.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Hon. F. W. Dawson, of the Charleston
j JVttcs and Courer, denies the report that
I he has sued Mr. Dana of the New York
Sun, and says that he has no intention of
I doing so.
The union printers of Louisville Ky.,
have called upon the Domocratic party to
influence the Courier-Journal and the
Times to dispense with “rat” labor and
employ utiiou min.
A battle between the police boat
Folly and private oyster dredgers in
Chesapeake bay on the night of the 18th,
resulted in the death of Captain William
Frank White, of Baltimore, in command
of the oyster schooner Nickell.
The Iowa legis'ative committeo on the
suppression of intemperance, have prac
tically agreed upon a pharmacy bill, un
der which sales of liquor are hedged
about with close restrictions, and penal
ties for violations are very severe.
The Beading miners in the Mount Car
mel (Pa.) district, in mass-meeting on
Saturday, repudiated the action of Master
Workman Lewis, and resolved not to re
turn to work until notified to do so by the
joint demand committee.
The eastern portion of Hagerstown,
Mil., was submerged on the 2)th by a rise
in the Potomac.
Joseph C. Knight, a clerk in the Manu
facturers’ Bank of Philadelphia, pleaded
guilty on the 20th, to the charge of
embezzling, $30,000 from the bank.
A family of nine persons at Bakou
guana, Austria, were recently poisoned
by eating meat doctored lor wolves.
A resolution was adopted in the House
on the 20th making the Pacific Railroad
Telegraph bill a special order for March5.
Jealousy caused a shooting affray in
Willard’s Hotel, Washington, on the 20th,
by which a successful rival had his nose
grazed by a bullet.
The Liberals in Parliament attribute
their Southwark victory to the govern
ment’s action about Trafalgar Square
meetings, and propose to use the same
lever in coming elections.
Claus Spreckles, the California sugar
refiner, proposes to “carry the war into
Africa” against the sugar trust by erect
ing refineries at Baltimore, Md., and oth
er Eastern points.
Rev. E. V. Z >llars, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Springfield, III.,
has accepted the presidency of Hiram Col
lege, at Hiram, O.
Senator Hoar’s joint resolution,
changing the date of inauguration day,
and extending until April 30. 1889, the
term of the Fiftieth Congress, was de
feated in the House on the 20th. .
Press telegrams from San Remo of the
20th, confirm the bad reports about the
Crown Prince. It is hinted that the
official bulletins n e deceptive, and in
tended to soothe the people.
The return of miners to work in the
Reading Company collieries on the 20th,
was so general that the strike is declared
to be irrevokablv broken.
The reported occupation of Venezuelan
territory bv British cavalry was officially
denied in the Heuse of Commons on the
20th.
A SUPPOSED harmless patient in the St.
Peter’s (Minn.) Insane Asylum brained
his room-mate on the night o' the 19th
with the post of an iron bedstead.
Ma'nao R Abbey has brought suit for
$75,000 damages for breach of coat, act
against,the parents of Hoffman, the boy
pianist for withdrawing him from the
stage. Ill health of the child will bj tbe
plea in defense.
*A Bill was introduced in the Senate on
the 20th to reimburse the State of New
York in the sum of $20,000,000 for princi
pal and interest paid by that State in aid
of the suppression of the rebelion.
A dastardly attempt to b ow up the
handsome freight house of the Reading
Railroad Companv, at Shamokin. Pa., on
the night of the 10th, was frustrated by
the ignorance of the dynamiter.
The killing of Captain Whitehurst, of
Baltimore. Md., in the battle with the po
lice boat Folly, on the night of the 18th,
lias caused intense excitement in East
Baltimore, where lie was well and favor
ably known. The coroner’s jury failed to
fix the responsibility for his death.
Delegations from St. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, San Francisco an 1 Now York
City are in Washington pressing the :
claims of their respective cities for the
honor of entertaining the next Demo- j
cratic National Convention.
The sugar trust investigation was be- |
gun by the New- York Sta'e Senate com
mittee in Now- York City on the 20th.
Henry Havemeyer, one of the parties tc j
the compact, and John E. Parsons, coun- :
sel for the trust, were examined. They ;
gave their testimony grudgingly, but d s- j
closed the fact that the price of sugar had ,
been forced up bv a twenty-five per cent,
falling off of production.
The New York Produce Exchange de- |
cided on the 20th to make forma! com j
plaint to the Inter-State Commerce Com- j
mission of discrimination by the trunk
lines against ser.b -rd cities in favor of
Western cities in the matter of through
freight rates. They adopted resolutions
that if, not checked, this discrim'nation
would ruin the seaboard commerce.
Six thousand striking miners in and
about Shamokin, Pa., went cheerfully to I
work on the morning of the 20th, com- |
pletely molified by President Corbin’s
gift of $20,000 to the miners.
It was stated in the House of Commons
on the 20th that agricultural values in
Great Britain had shrunk £t2,80>,000 in
1885, and could not now be less than
£‘>0,000,000. Thousands of acres of land
I ad gone out of cultivation, greatly in
creasing idleness and reducing wages.
It is stated that Mr. Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World and
Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch, will probably bo
Oome totally bliud. His treatment at
Santa Barbara was not successfu'.
The fisheries treaty was con sidered b\
the Senate in secret session on the 20th
An evident desire to order its immediate
publication was barred by the code of
ru es governing the body.
A ruling of the Supreme Court of the
United States on the 20th, in effect defers
for the present the execution of the sen
tence of death' pronounced upon Brooks,
alias Maxwell, the slaver of C. Arthur
Preller in St. Louis in 1883.
A bill was introduced in the House on
the 21th by Mr. Blount, of Georgia, pro
v ding for the reorganization of the
postal servic’. Three classes of post
masters aro created, with salaries rang
ing from $0,0)0 per annum, with per
quisites, to $80 per quarter.
Secretary of War Endicott’s reply to
the Bouteile resolution of inquiry relative
to the disposition ot captured rebel flags,
was read in the Houso of Representatives
onthe2)th. The author of the resolution
characterized the reply as a weak attempt
to evade responsibility for the acts of the
present Administration.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
H. T. Abrens, Thomas Budle and Mike
Ryan were arrested on the 22d for stealing
goods out of a freight car at Little Rock.
A roll of carpets, tobacco, cigars and dry
goods were found in their possession.
The North Mississippi, North Alabama
and West Tennessee Lumberman’s Asso
ciation was formed at Columbus, Miss., on
the 22d.
The bill to license railroad conductors
and the bill to fix a maximum passenger
rate and to fix the hours of labor for em
ployes on passenger trains has been ad
versely reported to the Senate.
George Anderson and George Edmon
son, for robbing the Yell county (Ark.)
safe, were placed in the penitentiary on
the 22d to serve a term of seven years each.
The Senate of Mississippi on the 22d
passed the bill having for its object the
settling of titles to Delta lands.
G. W. Hill, manager for the Diamond
Match Company of New Orleans, is miss
ing. * He is $10,000 short in his accounts.
The Senate Committee on Public Build
ings on the 20th ordered a favorable report
on the bill appropriating $1,200,000 for a
postoffice at New Orleans.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
20th received a package containing $1000
shipped by “a freeman” at Cincinnati*
It was accompanied by a note asking that
the money be placed to the credit of the
conscience fund, and bearing the signature
“One Who Will be Honest.”
Matthew and Anna Gardner, aged 70
and 71 years, respectively, an indigent old
couple, were found dead at their home in
Milwaukee on the 18th. There are no sus
picious circumstances connected with the
case, and it is believed that the couple died
of the infirmities of age.
It is reported that terms were practi
cally settled at Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the
18th, for the sale of the Chattanooga
Northern railroad to the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham Company. The
construction of the first ten miles out from
Tuscaloosa is already well under way.
The purchasers propose to extend it to
join the main line at Jasper, which is fifty
miles from Tuscaloosa and forty-five west
of Birmingham, Ala.
A reunion of the veterans of the Army
of Northern Virginia was held at Jackson,
Miss., on the 18th. A permanent organi
sation was effected with Jefferson Davis as
president.
The sheriff of Boone county, Ark., and a
posse of four men, while attempting to ar
rest G. W. Middleton, were fired upon by
the latter, and Charles RicbardsoD, one of
the sheriff’s men, was instantly killed and
another seriously wounded, Middleton
making good his escape.
The Hon. John W. Hewitt, late Speaker
of the Arkansas House of Representatives,
is reported to be in a dying condition at his
home in Marianna. He is the victim of a
THE WAR FLAGS.
Secretary Endicott Sends a Reply to the
House of Representatives to Mr. Bnu
telle’g Resolution in Relation to the
Captured Battle-Flags.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Secretary Endi
cott yesterday returned to the House his
answer to the Eoutelle resolution calling
for information as to whether the flags
captured by the United States have been
removed from the placo where they were
displayed and concealed; and if 30, by
what authority and for what purpose:
and further, as to what propositions have
been made by Government officials for
the surrender of theso flags, and whether
it Is true that a portion of them were
actually surrendered to persons having
no right to their possession.
As a preliminary, tho secretary has
given a brief history of tho flags. Of the
whole number captured and deposited
with the department, t'36 were United
States flags original! y captured by Con
federates and recaptured from them, and
■44 were Confederate flags taken by the
United States troops, making a total of
780 in the custody of tho department.
When received they wore deposited in a
vacant attic room of a building on Seven
teenth street, occupiod bv the clerks of
the Adjutaut-Genoral’s office. In 1807 the
superintendent of the buildings, without
instructions, as far as can be ascertained,
had a few of them removed to bis office,
where a few were placed upon the walla
and the remainder upon shelves or in
pigeon holes.
At this time an inventory Of these flags
was entered in a book, in which was also
entered a description and brief history of
the capture of thoso that could be identi
fied as belonging to particular organiza
tions. They remained here until the lat
ter part of 1874.
The report states that while some of
the Confederate flags bad since been
given the companies or regiments captur
ing them, none have passed out of the
custody of the department that were in
such custody when Secretary Endicott
assumed charge of the department.
The order to return the flags, and the
order revoking it, are given, and the
statement is mado that no flags were
actually returned under the first order.
As to the law requiring the public ex
hibition of captured flags and trophies,
it is assumed that the construction put
upon it by former secretaries of war and
of the navy that the law applied to
troahies taken from a foreign enemy, and
not to those taken during domestic hos
tilities is the correct one.
Consideration of the report was de
ferred until after it is printed, and when
it comes up again in tho House, it is
likely to provoke a lively political discus
sion.
INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
An Opinion of the Inter-State Commerce
Commission on the Complaint of the
Chamber ot Commerce of Danville, Va.,
Ajrainst the Richmond & Danville Hoad.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The Inter-State
Commerce Commission yesterday an
nounced an opinion by Chairman Conley
in the case of the complaint of the Dan
ville (Va.) Chamber of Commerce against
the Richmond & Danville Railroad Com
pany. The complaint contained a num
ber of charges, the ch ef of which were
that it made excessive rates; that it dis
criminated in its charges against the mer
chants and traders of Danville and in
favor of the merchants and traders
of Richmond, Lynchburg and Char
lottesville, and especially that it
discriminated by refusing to give to
merchants and traders at Danville in re
spect to merchandise purchased by them at
Richmond and other points through rates
from the point of purchase to the point
at which they might make sale thereof.
Through rates to Danville from both di
rections were complained of; but the
commission holds that in so far as the
rates are made by other companies with
out the participation of the defendant,
the defendant does not charge itself with
any responsibility therefor by merely
giving the rates in addition to its own to
any ono who asks for through rates.
The commission holds that the justice of
local rates can uot be determined by a
comparison of them with the rates
charged on long through lines upon
which the freights are carried for long
listances in great volume and at rela
tively very much less expense than like
reights can be carried when moved in
ess quantities and for comparatively
hort distances.
The commission holds that the railroad
■an not be compeled to give the same rate
or the two shipments, say, for instance,
rom Richmond, Va., to Danviile, and
hen re-shipped to Goldsboro, N. C., (hat
t gives where there is but one shipment
lirect from Richmond to Goldsboro. The
act that its refusing to do so operates in
favor of one town or adverselv to another,
does not charge it with unjust discrimina
tion, which must consist in doing for or
allowing to one party or place what is de
nied to another. It can not be predicated
of action which in itself is impartial.
THE CYCLONE’S VICTIMS.
Some of the Injifreil Whose Chances ol
Recovery are Goorl, anil Others Who
will Certainly Swell the Fearful l>eath
List.
Mt. Versov, III., Feb. 20.—Among the
ijured, but who will recover, are the
ollowing: Mr. and Mrs. Hattie Snow,
^mory Maddox, Miss Lauth, John Gan
(colored), Sam Pontney, Mrs. Cutts’
amily of five persons; George Jones and
>ne daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. Galbraith,
'has. Wier, Amanda Bearden.
The following are believed to have no
■hance of recovery: Mrs. T. Maddox.
Mrs. Hv. Waters, Nick Morgan and wife,
.loe Safford and wife, Mrs. Gabe Gines
John Dodson and wife, Miss Lizzie Bon
net, Corinne TJmbrich, Mrs. Dr. Jacob
Albrecht, Mrs. Lillie Craft and Mrs. Abe
Hicks.
The chairman of the relief oommitte
vesterdav notified Governor Oglesby o!
the number of the suffering in this city,
and last evening the Governor issued
proclamation appealing for immediati
aid, and requesting mayors of cities and
all religious and charitable associathuis,
-ocieties and organizations to raise con
tribotlons for the relief of the people.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is reported
as saying that his pub ic career will close
with !iis present term,
William Kelly, inventor of the pneu
matic steel process known a3 the Besse
mer, died at Louisville, Ky., recently,
aged seventy-eight years.
W. E. Grimes, editor of the Chester
County Citizen, published at Henderson
Tenn., was killed in a personal ditliculty
at Subrosa, Ark., recently.
In an aiXrav at Gaddis town, Ga., a few
days since, “Dot” Gaddis and bis brotbei
Maxwell were bolli badly cut by Henry
Ward. They were involved in some littga
tiorf. A fuss arose betweeu them In
which Gaddis was fatally cut by
Ward. It is said that Gaddis was thought
to have been “shy” against the moon
shiners, and that this was the cause of
the killing. Maxwell was not seriously
hurt.
Near Moorehead City, N. C., a few days
ago, a wha'e of the species known as the
right whale was killed by a crew of men.
The length of the whale is sixty feot, and
its s avers had a desperate struggle with
it. D is valued at $2.0li»0.
Dr. J. M. Bradley, a leading physician
of South Pit tsL-urg, Tenn., left his home
some days ago with a large amount of
money on his person to go a short dis
tance in the country on a professional
visit. Search has been instituted for him,
but he can not he found. His friends
think he has been mu. dsred for his monoy
and his body hidden.
Fire m as discovt re 1 a few days ago in
the rear of McCnosney’s drug store at
Jackson, Tonn., near where lire lias oc
curred three times rec'ntly. A carpet
was burning which had been saturated
withoii, on tiie steps adjoining McCUes
nev’s o 1 moms. Tiie steps going lip
stairs were also covered with oil. This is
the fourth attempt since Christinas to
burn this building. It is evidently the
wo k of an incendiary. Detectives are
on the lookout.
Ruth Woodalla, a negro woman, living
in Jones County, 6a.. mixed some "Rough
on Rats” with water and made her t wo
daughters, aged sev-n and five years,
drink of it. IShe then drank what was
left. The moth r and older daughter
died, but the other child was saved by a
physician. >'o cau.eis assigned for the
deed.
(Governor John B. Gordon of Georgia is'
said to tie a poor man again in conse
quence of unlucky speculations.
The sent ment in favor of prohibition is
said lo be rap diy on the increase in Nortb
Cai ol ilia.
A Mississippi man recentlv made three
attempts to commit, suicide, but all of
them Mere unsuccessful.
John Outlaw, if Chester County, N. C.,
is the olde t man in that State. He was
born in 1773. He M as a soldier in the war
of 1812.
Tiie headless body of J*'ff Huff, a col
ored hotel porter. Mas found on the rail
road track at- Knoxville, Tenn., a few
mornings since. It is not known m better
he threw himself under the train or Mas
drst nttirdertd and his body thrown
across the track to cover up the crime.
E. II. Taylor, an aged negro, mss found
lead near the railroad switch that enters
tiie spoke factory in Lex ngton, Ky., a
feM’ davs ago, M'ith tMo M-ounds in the
head, supposed to have b’en done with
some blunt instrument. He is said to have
saved considerable money, and it is
thought that robbery M as tiie cause of the
murder.
Mr. Stephen f-'wfft.. ninety-two years of
ige, and at. one time a prominent business
man of L*'xin;;ton, Ivy., fell down a flight
of sta rs at his residence a few days ago,
from the effec's of which he died. He
moved lion Massachusetts to K oituckv
in 1S17. He 1 aves six children and a
large fortune.
A part / of eight persons, all n igroes,
crossid the river a few days since from
La Reusite plantation to Pymold’s Fair
view place, in Concordia Parish, Lai The
boat was old, and when the partv were
returning, and within a hundred feet of
their homo landing, the swells of a pass
ing steamer caused the skiff to go to
pieces and seven of the occupants were
drowned. A boy saved himself by cling
ing lo a pieci of the broken boat.
There is a post-offi in Tennessee called
1-tweet Lips.
A report that sma'I-pox exists at, Jack
son, Tenn., is denied. It is positively
staled that there is not a single case in
the city.
There is a young lady in a girls’ school
in Georgia who goes be the nicker of
“Postscript.” Her real name is Adeline
Moore.
Groat interest is felt in the revival
which hasb-en going on in the First
MeMiodis1 Church nt Jackson, Tenn.,
during thi east few weeks. Some of
the most eminent divines in the South
are p -esent. and a large number of con
versions have been made.
Will am Young, while hunting in
Chickasaw Count/, Miss., undertook to
chop a possum out of a hollow log. He
not only got the possum, but 19“ silver
dollars which som" one had concealed
the -e.
Wr. Patterson, who is in jail at Louis
ville. Kv., under sentence of death for
the mu der of Jennie Bowman, has a’•ain
been respited bv Governor Buckner, this
time for ninety da vs:
Tho sa l death of Mrs. Bob Chapman, of
Barnett, Ga., occurred recently. Her hus
band, in administering the medicine left
by her father, the attending physician,
gave four grains of morphine instead of
the same quantity of quinine, as in
structed, whic-h resulted in her death.
The engineer on a north-bound ) assen
ger train on the Alabama Great Southern
railroad a few days since discovered the
dead b dv of a woman lying near the
track, about two miles from Tuscaloosa.
The train was stopped and t'e body ex
amined. I proved to le that of a hand
some woman about twenty-five years old,
and the cuts and bruises found showed
that she had been knocked from the track
by a pas ing train. Attached to the
b> soin of the w man’s dress was a card
bearing a number, and by tta:s it was
supposed she was an escaped lunatic
from the insane asylum not far distant
The Tuscaloosa authorities were notideJ
of the find
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
—It is a curious fact that one out of
every nine persons you meet on Broad
way is a Hebrew. They number in
New York City about 120,000, and with
their wealth and intelligence, if ever
organized politically as a party, would
exert a strong, if not controlling in
fluence, on local politics.
—The young folks of West Deer Isle,
Me., have organized the Tongue Guard
Society, whose object is to guard
against saying any thing improper to
or about any one Each offense is
punished by a tine of one cent, to be
placed in a box in the church, the fund
to go towards buying a circulating
library.
—In the United States arsenal at
Watertown, Mass., there is a machine
for testing the strength of iron and
steel substances, which is looked upon
as a wonder of mechanical skill and
power. It can test to a nicety, and
with equal ease, the tensile strength of
a ponderous iron or steel bar, or of a
wire, or even of a single hair.
—It is said that there are two sisters
living near Delta, whose ages are
between fifty and sixty years, who
have not seen each other in six
teen years. They live only four
miles apart, and are on per
fectly friendly terms. No cause what
ever is assigned for this seeming in
difference.—Dalton (Oa.) Citizen.
—In the district court at Waco Tex.,
Andrew Miller, a negro preacher,
charged with the theft of a cow, when
brought for trial, wished to open the
court with prayer. The judge re
quested the sheriff to take the prisoner
to the judge’s private office and let him
pray. After prayer the prisoner was
convicted of theft, as charged in the
indictment, and given two years in the
penitentiary.
—The average watch is composed of
175 different pieces, comprising up
wards of 2,400 separate and distinct
operations in its manufacture. The
balance has 18,000 beats or vibrations
per hour, 12,960,080 in thirty days,
157,680,000 in one year; it travels one
and 48-100 inches with each vibration,
which is equal to 9J miles in tWenty
four hours, 292J mile* in thirty days,
or 8.558J miles in one year.
—The latest “fad” among wealthy
families is to burn “driftwood” in open
grate fires. This wood is gathered
along the seacoast by Eastern parties,
packed in barrels and shipped through
the country. It is mostly wreckage.
A great part of it has once been the
material of ships’ bottoms, and was
sheathed with copper plates. The cop
per salts have impregnated the wood,
and when burned it gives out most
beautiful green and peacock blue
flames.
—In parts of India wild elephants
give a great deal of trouble to persons
employed in road improving,frightening
the native workmen and destroying
their work and knocking down their
houses. A herd will corue along the
newly made road, and reaching a
temporary bridge will send their
lightest member across to test it Be
ing made to support bipeds only, it
will generally give way, whereupon
the herd will express its disapproval of
such workmanship by promptly de
molishing it
—During avolent thunder and lio-ht
ning storm at Middleton, Fla., lately,
an immense ball of fire was seen to fall
in the forest near the town. Searching
parties were sent out, and parties of
negroes found it, but they were too su
perstitious to handle it It struck a
big pine, demolishing it and splitting
the rock into two pieces. One weighed
about two hundred pounds and the
other twenty-five. It sank into the
ground nearly eight feet It appears
to be of iron ore covered with opaque
white cystals.
—Turk’s Island, one of the West
Indies, is only 7 miles long and 1$
miles wide. It contains 2,500 inhabit
ants, three-fourths negroes. The only
product and export of the little island
is salt and sponges. Of these it sends
out annually 2,000,000 bushels and
2,600 bales of sponges. Two-thirds of
the salt goes to the United States and
the rest to the Canadian provinces as
fishery salt The best part of the salt
is piled up outdoors in stacks 15 to 20
feet high. It is pure, dazzling white
and trying to the eyes; in fact, so much
so that those who work at the salt
usually wear goggles.
—At 10:30 o clock on a recent even
ing the people of Middletown, Pa.,
who had not retired at that hour were
startled by their natural gas lights
and fires suddenly springing up a
distance of a foot or so. Then
the lights leaped to the ceil
ing and the stoves roared like fur
naces. The people rushed through the
streets warning their* neighbors, and
but for the prompt action taken the
town would have been sacrificed. The
surplus gas was caused by the ball or
safety valve of the gasometer being
either taken off, or falling off, thereby
throwing the entire pressure of the
well, ninety pounds, on the service
lines. The pressure was thrown on in
every house, and almost every one had
left the gas burning.