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\(>LIMEIX.__HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, JULY 7, 188s! NUMBER 33.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
BF.Rf:m.\n'N’ and Gebhardt pre
e„,0li to Emperor William, on the 1st, an
official report on the malady of the late
.Emperor Frederick. ^^
Emperor Frederick went from Berlin
to Potsdam, on the yacht Alexandria, on
the l~t. He was enthusiastically cheered
by the populace. The trip seemed to iio
him good.
Two mild cases of yellow fever were
reported at Plant City, Fla., on the 1st.
Tney were in charge of the health officer,
and no fe u s of a spread of the contagion
was felt.
The Union Iron-works of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., at Pittsburgh, Pa., employ
ing 2,000 men, signed the scale of the
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Association
on the 21.
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Prof. CTrtino, the late Emnoror Fred
erick’s tutor, delivered a touching address
to the students of the Berlin University
on tlm 30th, in memory of his dead pupil
friend and patron.
The libel suit of the celebrated jockey,
W" >ils, against the Licensed Victuallers'
G’Ki'ttr. of London, was decided on the
20th. Woods sued for £5,000 and the jury
brought a verdict of one farthing.
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C. A. Russ & Co., granite contractors
at Breen’s Island, Me., shut down their
works, on the 2Kth, rather than accede to
the demands of the workmen for a month
ly pay day and a now scale of wages.
Beo. II. Hobson, who was to have been
married in Boston, on the 28th, was so dis
appointed in failing to receiVe his wed
ding suit ou time, that he shot himself,
inflicting a wound from which ho died the
next day.
Third-class immigrant rates west of
the Missouri river wore abolished by the
trans-continental railroads on the 1st.
This makes the rate from the Missouri
river to Pacific coast points $35 instead of
$30, as heretofore.
The Republicans of Mansfield, O., rati
fied the nomination of Harrison and
Morton hy au immense meeting in tho
City Park, on the 30, at which | resolutions
indorsing (the National ticket and plat
form were adopted.
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The Republicans of New York City
ratified the work of the Chicago conven
tion on the night of the 29th by an im
mense meeting in the Metropolitan
()|!• ra-house, at which Colonel Iugersoll
was (he principal speaker.
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It was reported, on the 2d, that Gov
ernor Ames of Massachusetts was still
dangerously ill with acute bronchitis.
There was danger of apoplexy, and tho
members of his family were deeply con
cerned regarding his condition.
The Democracy of Cincinnati held a
ratification me'ting in the Grand Opera
house on the 39th. The house was jammed.
Hon. William M. Ramsey presided. Lieu
tenant-Governor Bryan, Hon. S. G. Carey
and Hon. F. Follett addressed the meet
ing.
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Four steamships landed 1,506 immi
grants at Castle Garden, New York, on
the 1st. The Erturia, from Liverpool,
brought over 265; the City of Richmond,
from Liverpool, 612; the Polaria, from
Hamburg, .310, and the La Gascogne, from
Havre, 319.
In the case of Mrs. Steele against the
St. Paul City Railway Company, in which
she claimed $51,00) damages because of
in; a v . sustained in the Shelby avenue
cable-cur accident in St. Paul, Mina.,
January 27, a jury, on the 30th, awarded
her $l,uoo.
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T/ie official canvass of the vote of Ore
gon was completed, on the 2Sth, by the
Secretary of S.'ate. The vote on Con
gressman is as follows: Herman (Rep.),
82.S20; John M. Gearin (Dam.), 25,413;
Geo. M. Miller (Pro.), 1,974. Herman’s
plurality, 7,407.
The Pittsburgh Steel-Casting Company,
on tho 2d, signed a contract to furnish
;oino heavy castings for tho cruiser
Maine, now building at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. Among the pieces to be cast is the
stern-post, which will weigh, when com
plete 1, 179 tons.
Valuable discoveries of iron have just
been made by Duluth explorers on the
north branch of the Y’ermillion range, on
the Canadian side of the Minnesota line,
si considerable distance east of Tower and
Ely, and closely adjoining the interna
tional boundary.
Twelve thousand people were ren
dered home'ess by the recent fires aA
Pundsval and Utnea, Sweden. The do
struction of property amounted to 45,
000,000 krousers. King Oscar is visitiiu:
the districts, engaged in relieving the
wants of the sufferers.
A caucus of Democratic Senators was
held, on th * 28th, at which it was decided
to insist o.i the postponement of all mat
ters before the Senate and oppose the
usual adjournment from Thursday till
Monday until the more important appro
priation bills are passed.
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General Sheridan’s children, a
member of his staff and servants, the
Party iu all numbering thirteen persons,
arrived at New Bedford, Mass., on the
‘-"Uk, and were forwarded by carriages to
Noiujuitt, where they will await General
&hei idau’s arrival by steamer.
Secretary of State Bayard has of
ficially called the attention of the British
Minister resident at Washington to the
case of the American ship Bridgewater,
Unlawfully seized by the customs officials
of the Dominion of Canada a year ago
and detained for eighty-one days at Shel
burne.
‘‘Mrs. Gordon Baillie” is the alias of
a shrewd woman who has for some time
imposed upon the authorities and philan
thropists of England and Scotland, ns
one very much interested in the cond.tioa
the Scotch crofters. She was arrested,
°n the 2d, on a charge of oommitting
li'a’ad under false pretenses.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Tn the Senate, on the 28th, the most of the
(lev was taken up in consideration of the River
and Harbor Appropriation bill, but without
final action. Further consideration of tne
fisheries treaty was postponed until the 2d.
Senator Allison made a statement of the status
of the various appropriation bills. A joint
resolut on extending for thirty days the appro
pi iations for the current fiscal year was pre
sented and refer, ed. The Army Appropriation
bill was taken up and amended, but pending
discussion of further amendments, the Senate
adjourned.In the House, the day was
consumed iu political discussions and
consideration of the Tariff bill.
Various amendments were offered, and adopted
or rejected on strict party lines—those offered
by Republicans being voted down, and those of
Democratic origin adopted. Mr. Parker, of
Pennsylvania, had read a protest against the
passage of the Mills bill, signed by over su.)
manufacturers and business men of Philadel
phia, employing loO.OOO persons. The confer
ence report on the Diplomatic an i Consular
Appropriation bill was agreed to, and the
House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 29th, the feature of the
day's proceedings was the discussion in con
nection with the proposed appropriation for
the establishment of a gun manufactory at
Watcrvliet Arsenal, participated in by Messrs.
Hawley, Gorman, Butler, Beck, Reagan,
Evarts, Plumb, Cockrell and Stewart.In
the House, consideration of the free list sec
tion of the Tariff bill was concluded, and the
second section was taken up and occup ed the
time until five o'clock, when a recess was
taken until eight o'clock, the evening session
being dovoted to the consideration of private
pension bills.
In the Senate, on the SO:li ,* he" clay was main
ly occupied in consideration of amendments to
tile River and Harbor Appropriation bill, but
uo action was taken for lack of a quorum. The
conference report of the Diplomatic and Con
sular bill was agreed to, and thirty-eight pen
sion bills were also passed.In the House.
the bill for the payment of the Fourth of July
claims was passed, and the House went into
executive session on the Tariff bill. The duty
on flaxseed, linseed, licorice paste and licorice
juice was increased, and that on glazed or
enameled tiles was reduced.
In the Senate, on the 2d, the passage of the
River and Harbor bill was the feature of the
day's proceedings. The bill, as or.ginally re
ported from the Senate committee on com
merce, appropriated $21,563,763. As it passed,
on the 2d, it appropriates $22,171,781. The con
ference report on the Natchez Bridge bill was
agreed to. On motion of Mr. Hoar, the Fish
eries treaty was postponed until July 10.In
the House, the day was largely taken up in
successful efforts by Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, to
prevent the passage of the Union Pacific Fund
ing bill under a suspension of the rules Ef
forts were made to secure the consideration of
other bills, but they proved unsuccessful, and
when it was seen that the tilibustei-ing would
continue for the rest of the afternoon, the
House at -3:2) p. m. adjourned.
PERSONAL _AND GENERAL.
Goodenocgh & YVeioelom, book pub
lishers and dealers in Sunday-school sup
plies at No. 122 Nassau street, New York
City, made a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors on the 28th.
Alhert E. Krame, cashier for Hirsch
& Co., importers of buttons at Nos. 427
and 429 Broadway, New York city, disap
peared a few weeks ago. Investigation of
his accounts revealed that he had appro
priated 36,999 of the firm’s money. De
tectives Yvere put on his track, and he was
traced to Montreal, where he is noYv
under arrest awaiting extradition.
Mrs. J. J. Griffith and Mrs. Dr.
YValker, of Jennertown, Pa., started in a
buggy, on the 28th, to visit re]atives in
the country. Each lady was accompanied
by a little daughter. While descending a
steep hill the horse ran away. The Grif
fith child was killed by being thrown
from the buggy, and both ladies were
probably fatally injured.
Lillian Warren Hammeusly was mar
ried at half-past one o’clock, oil the 29tli,
to the Duke of Marlborough by Mayor
Hewitt of New York, at the City Hall.
Rev. Charles Wheeler and wife were
instantly killed near YVinehendon,
Mass., on the 1st, by a passing freight
train, which struck their buggy. The
horses escaped uninjured.
General Sheridan embarked for his
trip on the Swatara on the 30th.
Emperor William will probably ap
point his brother, Prince Henry. Imperial
Minister of Marine, to succeed General
Von Caprini.
E. T. Lemwalt, a lumber broker, of St,
Paul, Minn., was forced to assign on the
29th, by an attachment for $900. issued by
Ashlatid (Wis.) creditors. Liabilities,
$25,000; assets, $8,000.
A special from Aspen Junction, Col.,
says Charles Whitehead shot and in
stantly killed Minnie Hill, on the 29th,
and then blew out his own brains. No
cause for the act was assigned.
The Berlin Kraus Zeitnug, o£ the 1st,
asserts that Prince Bismarck has induced
Russia to abandon the idea of an alliance
with France.
James Jordan, a young colored man
who was at work on the fourth floor at
Hamilton’s casket factory in Pittsburgh,
Pa., fell through a skylight, on the 39th, to
the ground, a distance of sixty feet. He
was terribly mangled and will die.
YVilliam Parkinson, a longshoreman
of New York City, took rough on rats, on
the 1st, with fatal results. Despondency
and poverty were the causes which led to
the deed. He leaves a wife and one
child.
General John B. McIntosh, U. ». a.,
retired, died of heart disease at his resi
dence in New Brunswick, N. J., on the
29th.
Joseph Autenrach, a Reading (Pa.)
ice cream dealer, hanged himself in his
cellar, on the 39th, because his ice cream
had turned sour.
The scale of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron and Steel-workers, was
signed by Oliver Bros., & Phillips, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., on the night of the 39th.
Wm. Grainey, while umpiring a game
of ball in Brooklyn, on th> 30th, was
hit on the neck by the. pitched ball and
died shortly after.
James Kent, twenty-live years of age,
was overcome by illuminating gas at the
corner of Ninety-fourth street and Sec
ond avenue,New York City,on the 30th,and
was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital,
where be died on the 1st.
Forest tires are raging in the vicinity
of Charlevoix, Mich.
J. P. Breen, aged seventeen years, an
employe of Dobson’s Carpet Mills at the
falls of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia,
was caught in the machinery and crushed
to death ou the 2d.
W. K. Kennedy, a New York stock
broker, announced bis failure ou the
Stock Exchange ou the 2d.
The war vessel Swatara, having on
board General Sheridan and the party
who accompany him, sailed from Fortress
Monroe for Non quit t. Mass., on the 2d.
The weather was warm, with a fresh east
erly wind blowing.
Louis J. Finlay, a furniture-worker,
was jailed at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 2d,
charged with attempting to poison his
wife.
Queen Victoria lias given £70,000, the
balance of the women’s jubilee offering,
to St. Catharine’s Training hospital for
nurses for the London poor.
The Dowager Empress Victoria of Ger
many, in her reply to the message of con
dolence from the municipal authorities of
Berlin, said she intended to co-operate
with them in all humanitarian projects.
Ihe Canadian Government has ordered
an investigation into the complaints made
by Chinese merchants, at Victoria, B. C.,
that the Chinese interpreter was inter
fering with the immigration of Celestials.
Harvey Rogers, Jr., aged nineteen
years, while bathing in a pond near No. 6
coal shaft at Brazil, Ind., on the 1st, was
drowned. He was a member of the high
school graduating class.
Marcus L. Howe, master of the bark
Freeman, who was recently convicted of
manslaughter in the United States Dis
trict Court at Boston, Mass., for shooting
a Japanese sailor, on August 6 last,
while ou a voyage from Yokohama to
Batavia, was, on the 2d, sentenced to pay a
fine of $250 and to be imprisoned in jail in
Barnstable County, Mass.
Jacob Bretz, a son of the Philadelphia
millionaire brewer, was drowned, on the
2d, while boating in the Schuylkill river
with two friends.
Colonel Den Robinson, the negro wife
murderer of New York City, was, on the
2d,'sentenced to State’s prison for life.
The appointment of M. W. Fuller,
to he Chief Justice was reported to the
Senate on the 2d without recommenda
non.
Queen Natalie lias declined to consent
to King Milan’s request to become recon
ciled with him, and has determined to
proceed with her petition for divorce.
Henry Epstein, a clothing merchant of
Lafayette, Iud., hanged himself from a
chandelier at his residence, on the 30th.
Ho was a Mason, Kuight of Pythias and
Odd Fellow.
Mrs. Golden had a narrow escape from
death, on the 1st, in the burning of her
husband’s bouse, one mile south of Ionia,
Mich. .She is in a critical condition,
being insane from the effects of fright.
The Lookout Polling Mill Company, of
Chattanooisn- rnm., neguiu mo Aiua.ga
mated scale on the 2d.
Five prisoners in the county jail at
Wooster, O., escaped, on the 1st, by pry
ing off the bars and gaining entrance to
the corridor, where the floor was pried up
and an opening made to the cellar.
Two killings occurred in El Paso, Tex.,
on the 1st.
A large new stone block of stores and
several other buildings in Flagstaff,
Ariz., were destroyed by tire on the 2d.
Thomas Carson, of Philadelphia,
brother of Major John M. Carson, corre
spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, was
taken suddenly ill at the latter’s home
with heart disease,on the 1st,and died the
following morning at three o’clock.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary
has decided to report back the nomination
of Melville YV. Fuller to he chief justice
without any recommendation.
The Postmaster General has telegraphed
instructions to the postmaster at Plant
City, Fla., to fumigate all outgoiug mails
on account of reported presence there of
infectious fever.
C C. Nelson, a banker who has been
ruining the Northside Savings Bank at
Atlanta, Ga., has disappeared. It is
thought that Atlanta banks and others
will lose, hut it is not known as yet how
heavily.
The Iliver and Harbor bill passed the
Senate on the 2d.' As originally reported
from the Senate Coinmorco Committee it
appropriates $21,502,783. As it finally
passed the Senate it appropriates $22,474,
783, having been increased by tho Senate
$912,000.
The following postmasters have been
appointed in Arkansas: F. G. Huddleston,
Burns; AYrm. Johnson. Peach Orchard*
Patrick H. Gresham, Big Springs; George
YYr. Slaughter, Carlton, and Geo. YV. Cul
ver, Wayne.
In the Senate on the 2d the conference
report oa the hill authorizing the construc
tion of a bridge across the Mississippi river
at Natchez was adopted and the bill sent
to the President for his approval.
Small-pox of a virulent type ha: made
its appearance at Bunton Station, Tenn.
A bold attempt was made to 1 urglarizi
the postoffice at Franklin, Tenn., on the
night of the 1st. Thieves entered by a
window and rifled the cash drawer, only
securing $7.25.
Santa Barbara, Cal., has an artesian
well which yields over 1,000,000 gallons
of water daily.
Mas. Sipney Smith Swann, the wealth
iest woman in Maryland with tho ex
ception of Miss Garrett, has sued her hus
band, Donald Swann, for divorce on the
ground of unfaithfulness. Mrs. Swann
inherited $20,000,000.
In the Senate on the 30th, tho appropria
tion for YY’hile river, Ark., was iucreased
frt m $8050 to $25,000. No particular
changes, were made in the other appro
priations for Arkansas rivers.
It is expected that the Senate will ad’l
to one of the appropriation bills the House
bill making appropriation for refunding
th s direct taxes levied at the beginning of
the rebellion.
The argument in the suit to recover from
defaulting Treasurer Tate’s bondsmen lias
begun at Frankfort, Ivy. Au effort is be
ing made to excite sympathy- on the plea
that the State can belter afford to lose
$247,000 than to improyefisU a u'jrabef of
good citizen*.
A MISSION OF HOPE.
Arrival in St. Louis of the Mother and
Sister of Ilrooks, alias Maxwell, the Mur
derer of Preller—A Visit at the Jail to
the Doomed Man—They Will See Gov
ernor Morehouse.
St. Louis, July 2.—The mother and sis
ter of Hugh Mottram Brooks, alias Max
well, the murderer of C. Arthur Preller,
Maxwell's Mother.
wno is condemned
to be hanged on the
13tli inst, arrived in
this city from En
gland this mornin g
They were met by
Mr. W. P. Fauntle
jfroy, one of Brooks’
^.counsel.
s After a short rest
^Mrs.aud Miss Brooks
^ and Mr. Fauntleroy
got into a hack and
were driven to the
latter's residence, where they partook
of a refreshing breakfast
At ten o’clock the ladies again took a
hack and were driven directly to the Four
Courts. Jailor Callahan greeted them
warmly as they ascended t,ho steps and
willingly complied with their request to
see Maxwell at once. Through the long •
corridor the mother and daughter slowly i
walked to see the beloved son and brother
prisoner in a murderer’s cell.
With an innate sense of delicacy those
who thronged the corridor stepped back
as the ladies passed on their way to the
jail entrance. The iron door was opened
at the command of Jailor Callahan, and
the ladies entered the visitors’ corridor,
shut off from tho prisoners’ apartment
by an iron screen.
A guard hastily carried the news to
Maxwell, who was sitting quietly reading
in his cell almost opposite, about one
hundred feet away. With a spring the
little man was out of
his cell and he ran
hastily across the
intervening space to
where his mother
and sister stood.
But there was no
smile on his face as
he appi cached them.
It bore the familiar^
expression of litter^,
immobility. With a*
few w h i s p oredf
words he pressed his
Ma 'AOfill's Sister.
oar against the wire screen and
Mf.ned imP’TiiFerview latfetl "l»7.
a short time, but as Mrs. Brooks and
her daughter left the jail they could no
longer restrain their pent-up emotions
and sobbed bitterly as they again took
tlieir seats in tticir carriage.
Both Mrs. and Miss Brooks expect to
call upon Governor Morehouse in a few
days.
PORTER AND BUCK.
The Pair of American Crooks Now in the
Hands of the I.aw on the Other Side oi
the Pond Liable to Become Familiar
With the Administration o£ Justice in
Europe Before They Return Home.
London, July 3.—The eminent Ameri
cans, Messrs. Porter and Buck—the latter
being better known In the Uuited States
under another name—will not be likely to
revisit New York for some years. The
ease with which these skillful cracksmen
performed several large operations on
the Continent perhaps contributed more
than any other circumstance to their ruin,
for they were thereby tempted to repeat
their depredations instead of remaining
content with a moderate booty. En
glish burglars rarely operate on the con
tinent now. The spoils are not
commensurate with the risks. It is
considered that the premises are not so
carefully guarded and the goods are more
easily obtained, but the Hues of travel are
under such close surveilance that escape
is very difficult. Any burglary executed
with more than ordinary skill is attributed
to Englishmen or Americans, and all
routes to England, the only place of re
treat, are at once closely watched by the
police. No hesitation is felt at detaining
parties on mere suspicion, nor is any re*
dress obtainable by those innocent In
dividuals whose journey is thus rudely in
terrupted.
Again, the processes of law are more
rudely vigorous; the meshes of the legal
uet are not so wide as in America or even
i in England, and straw-bailerS do hot
flourish. Imprisonment for a loug term
: is tantamount to death, and the treatment
is purposely rigorous to break down the
1 health of the most robust. Nearly all the
: American crooks who have operated here
have betrayed themselves at last through
: their associations with women. The Bank
of England forgers were prominent in
stances and Porter and Buck are no ex
ceptions to the rule. The latter must
needs marry, thus drawing the attention,
it may be said, of an army of detectives to
them, and their frequenting resorts with
out being known to reputable Americans
was another instance of their folly which
they probably now sincerely mourn.
Porter had determined to leave the
country, having been rendered uueasy by
several incidents, but he was persuaded
to remain by Buck and several English
crooks, who were profiting by the liberal
expenditures of the Americans. Many
stories are told.of their adventures here,
which can hardly be recounted, but it is
to be hoped that they are greatly exagger
ated.
In spite of assertions to the contrary,
all the proceeds of the Munich and Zurich
robberies have not been recovered, and
some reputable English dealers may
suffer loss. As careful as such tradesmen
may be, it is possible for persons hover
ing on the verge of society to act success
fully as go-betweens. The struggle for
life is so fierce that the chain from shady
swell to criminal is hardly unbroken, but
the upper links seem to possess superior
facilities for escaping from the penalties
of the law. If Messrs. Porter and Buck
deemed it wisdom to talk freely they
might make it uncomfortable for many
persons moving in good society here, but
jt would not jui'igato their ultimate
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
The Jones-GreOn war in Hancock
County, Tenn., still rages. A battle was
fought recently at the residence of Hamp
Green. During the progress of the bat
tle a five-year-old child was killed and
several of the combatants were slightly
wounded. Over two hundred shots were
fired. A new invoice of rifles has been
shipped to the scene of war.
The outlook foi a big crop in the vicin
ity of Jackson, Tenn., was never better.
The cotton is looking very fine, with
plenty of blooms.
Charley Winters, a fisherman at Helena,
Ark., caught and landed one of the larg
est fishes ever seen in that part of the
country, a few days ago. It was a chan
nel catfish, weighed over two hundred
pounds and was caught in the St. Francois
river.
Near Bayou Pierre, twenty-five miles
below Vicksburg, Miss., a few evenings
since, a gravel train on the Louisiana,
New Orleans & Texas railway tackled a
furious bull on a trestle, which resulted
fatally to the bull and the piling up of
the engine and tender and seventeen
gravel cars in a general smash. One ne
gro brakeman was killed and the engi
neer received a slight wound in the head.
The north and south-bound passenger
trains were competed to tranfer at the
wreck, which delayed them several hours.
At Maysville, Ky., a few days since, a
domestic scandal terminated in Lucy Rice
shooting Barbara Ballinger to death.
Rev. J. Henry Snmthe, D. D., L. L. D.,
regent of Grant University, Athens,
Tenn., was reported lying dangerously ill
at the Windsor Hotel, in New York.
Boston capitalists are negotiating for
the purchase of the charter of the Chat
tanooga & Augusta railroad, and if they
succeed in their efforts it will mean the
immediate building of the road.
George Deans, a negro, living near
Jacksonville, Fla., three ot his own chil
dren and another child, were poisoned, a
few days ago, by some drug in their break
fast. Two of the children have died.
Three men were arrested recently in
Mason Couuty, Ky., charged with steal
ing 31,000 tobacco plants from their neigh
bors.
Three years ago Charles Nellie, of Mor
ris Cove, Tenn., saved from drowning the
young daughter of a rich New Yorker.
Now, by will of that gentleman, who has
lately died, Nellie gels $10,000 in reward
for his bravery.
Blanche K. Bruce, formerly a Senator of j
the United States from Mississippi, and
later Register of the United States Treas
ury, received eleveu votes for Vice-Pres
ident in the Republican National eouven
The last spike of the Chattanooga, Rome
& Columbus railroad was driven a few
days since. This road extends from Chat
tanooga through Rome, (la., to Carroll
ton, (la., a distance of 140 miles, and will
be extended to Columbus, (la., and thence
to the sea.
A young man named Harris was killed
iu a stave factory near Pimeson, Tenn., a
few days since. The jointing machine
tiejv to pieces while going at a rapid rate
of speed. A large piece of casting struck
Harris in the breast, killing him instantly.
Two other men were seriously hurt, but
will recover.
Sam Alexander, colored, was shot dead
a few nights ago in Walton County, Ua.
There was a church festival, wheii a quar
rel arose as to who had done the most
work for the church. The combatants re
tired to a distance of 150 yards and fired
several volleys at each other, by which
Alexander was killed and others wounded.
The grand jury at Frankfort, Ky., has
returned four indictments against Ken
tucky’s fugitive Treasurer, James W.
Tate, charging him with defalcation. The
charge of forgery did not hold because
the evidence showed that the bauk-book
which he used was his own private prop
erty.
Rev. Warren A. Candler, associate ed
itor of tlie Nashville Christian Advocate,
has been tendered the presidency of
Emory College, located at Oxford, Ga.
Mr. Candler is regarded as one of the
ablest young divines of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
Having just finished the mineral road
around Birmingham, Ala., and being bard
at work on the Huntsville extension, with
a letting a few days since of the contracts
for sixteen more miles of the latter, it
develops that the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company is at work on another
scheme, by which Bristol, lenn., and
Birmingham will be joined.
A destructive cyclone visited Todd and
Mulilenburg codntiCB, Ky., a few nights
ago, passing from northwest to southeast
and on to Tennessee. Vast tracts of land
were laid waste, trees uprooted and houses
blown down. The rain also fell in tor
rents, causing the streams to overflow,
doing great damage.
At a negro church three miles south of
Davisboro, Ga., a dispute arose between
two negroes, Hal Bryant and Bam Hunt,
over a debt of fifty cents, which it is
claimed the former refused to pay the lat
ter, as it was made at cards. Hot words
caused Hunt to draw his knife, and when
he did so Bryant shot him through the
left lung, causing death in less than four
minutes. Bryant left immediately after
the shooting.
Eight years ago Henry Johnson, living
in Stafford County, Va., was made the
happy father of twins and he named them
Grant and Garfield. A few days ago,
while the husband and wife were absent,
the boys got possession of their father’s
gun, and sifter fruitless attempts to fire it
Grant found a percussion cap, which he
put on the gun and with an old hammer
succeeded in discharging the load into
the body of his twin brother, Garfield,
tearing and mutilating it almost beyond
recognition.
Tne Grand Temple of Tennessee,
Knights of Tabor, the second strongest
colored organization in 'America, was in
session at Nashville, Tens., last week.
Rev. Moses Dixon, of 8t. Louis, delivered
an address, and the report of A. Mc-Fall,
chief grand mentor, was read. The Grand
Vemple of Georgia, which has a member
ship of 300, was admitted to the jurisdic
tion of Tennessee. The Order of Knights
of Tabor, organized tweniy-seven years
igo, has 90,000 members ig the different
States.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
—“Lingua" is a new language which
threatens to di’ive out Volapuk. It is
based on Latin roots.
—A Vermont humanitarian has just
patented a fly-paper skull-cap for bald
headed men to wear in church.—Puck.
—The cowboys have fired so many
bullets into telegraph poles in certain
districts in the West that a gust of
wind snaps the pole short off, and
much trouble results.
—At a coin sale in New York the
other day a cent of 1793, known as the
“Liberty Cap” and very rare, brought
$82.50, a perfect specimen of the year
1804, #38, and one of 1795, $30. A
half-cent of 1793 went for $51.
—Flower culture is suggested as
one of the most attractive and profita
ble occupations which women are fit
ted to pursue. Two New Orleans la
dies went into the business a few years
ago, and are rapidly growing rich.
—Small boys in Phillips, Me., make
circus money by digging bait for trout
fishermen. The latest quotations were
twenty-live cents a quart offered by
one of the leading grocers, and eighteen
quarts were brought in at those figures.
—They handle wheat with wonder
ful celerity at Duluth. The other day
the steamer Montana Eagle made fast
to the dock there, adjusted six receiv
ing spouts, took on fifty-two thousand
bushels of wheat and was off with her
load in forty-nine minutes. This is
claimed to be the fastest job of loading
wheat on record.
—A new State is about to be added
to the sisterhood of nat ions. Letters
patent have been granted to “The
British East African Company," giving
them full power to erect and maintain
a government, with taxes and army.
It lies north of the German East Afri
can Society near Zanzibar, and in
cludes some of the finest land in Cen
tral Africa.
—A curiosity in Norwich, Conn., is
a one-legged English sparrow, which
has a nest on the crown of a column in
the front porch of the City Hall. Ho
wasn't worth much at. building a. nest,
but lie could help a little about hatching
one leg. His mate had to build tho
nest unassisted, but he furnished her
with lively advice, and she seems to
think as much of hhu as though he
had two legs.
—A curious calculation has been,
giving the work of the heart in mileage.
Presuming that the blood was thrown
out of the heart at each pulsation in
the proportion of 09 strokes per min
ute, and at the assumed force of 9 feet,
the mileage of the blood through tho
body through the body might be taken
at 207 yards per minute, 7 miles per
hour, 168 miles per day, 61,320 miles
per year, or 5,150,880 miles in a life
time of eighty-four years. The num
ber of heats of the heart in the same
long life would reach the grand total
of 2,869,776,000.
—A Boston girl, retiring at night,
found a rat in her room. She closed
the door and started in wild pursuit of
the creature about the room. She was
just about to deal it a crushing blow
with the French heel of her shoe when
the rat took refuge in the spring of her
bed, cpiite out of her reach. “IN ell’
said she, “I guess after his experience
he will stay where he has found ho is
safe.” And then she went tranquilly
to bed and slept all night, and in
the morning she got a terrier at a
neighbor's, and the dog ferreted out
the rat and killed it.
—There are thousands of chairs ia
Hyde Park, London, which can be
hired for a penny each, and their his
tory is an interesting one. Jt dates
back to shortly after the battle of
Waterloo, when an English General,
who had done good service, found him
self reduced to extreme poverty. The
government of that day acknowledged
his past services by granting him and
his heirs forever the right of letting
on hire chairs at Hyde Park. 'I he
General gathered his resources and
started with a hundred chairs. There
are now over 27,000 chairs, the in
come from them amounting to over
$50,000 a year.
—The bridges over the J ay and the
Forth in Scotland have attracted much
attention as engineering works, the
first named viaduct being notable as
the largest bridge in the world. It is
only one link in thd line of northern
travel. The second, or Forth bridge,
from North to South Queenstown, and
which is scarcely less important, will
have the distinction of being made of
gteel throughout its entire length of
more than live thousand feet, and,
when completed according to the vast
and admirable design of its projectors,
will be one of the greatest marvels of
engineering construction which Kuropo
can show. The island of Inchgarvie,
in the middle of the arm of the sea
which it crosses, enables the bridge to
be in four spans, only two of which
are over water; these two principal
spans are each of about 1,700 feet, and
the height above the sea of each of
them is 290 feet, all of tbe most mask
Ive masonry,