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BY HUKTsTILLE GAZETTE OOMPABY.__ ‘"With Charity for Alii and Malice Toward* None." SUBSOBIPTIOB: $1.60 ner Annum. f
VOLUME X. N___HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1888._NUMBER 3.
news in brief.
Omplle* fro® Yaxiota Soorcce*
PERSONAL. AND POLLTLCAI
Presiding Judge Hannen of the Par
nell Connnission, or th» 21st. fined 5 •
Edward Harrington £>00 for contempt ol
court in publications reflecting upon the
\ -judges.
Major Lyman Bissbll, TJ. S. A., died,
ou the 22d, at his homo in New Haven,
I conn., aged seventy-five years.
On- the 2)th Walter E. bchuddor, of
>vw Jersey, a clerk in the Government
Printing Office, accidentally shot and
killed himself while drawing a cartridge
from Lis revolver.
General Black, the Commissioner of
Pensions, is spoken of in connection
with the superiuteudency of the National
Soldiers' Home at Dayton, O.
There was a rumor in Boulangist cir
cles in Paris, on the 22d, that the govern
ment intends to expel Boulanger ou a
charge of conspiring to overthrow the ex
isting government.
j. S. Dickerson, a popular lawyer of
Helena, Mont., who formerly hold edi
torial positions in Indiauapolis and St.
Paul, died of pneumonia, on the 22J, aged
forty-one. He studied law iu General
Harrison’s office, where he was a stenog
rupuei.
At a citizens’ meeting in Boston, on
the 22d, it was decided to put an inde
pendent candidate for mayor in nomina
tion.
On the 22d the State Bank of Valparaiso,
Neb., closed its doors, and the proprie
tors, F. Scoville and G. A. Crafts, have
fled the country, leaving many debts un
satisfied.
The Baris Intransigeant states that
Baron Belliere has been placed in Dr.
Sauray’s private asylum for the insane
situated in Paris.
The South Carolina State Board of
Canvassers has decided the Elliott-Miller
contest in the Seventh Congressional
district in favor of Elliott, Democrat,
making the delegation from South Caro
lina solidly Democratic. The vote of the
district was: Elliot, 8,353: Miller, 7,0)3.
Miller will carry his contest to Congress.
The birthday anniversary of ex-Em
press Frederick of Germany was quietly
observed at Windsor, Eaglaud, on the
21st. She received scores of congratula
tions, and many Gorman officials called
bearing presents.
The postmaster of Baltimore has a
[Scheme for collecting city mail matter by
kmeaus of letter-boxes placed on the street
para
Ex-Congressman Perry Belmont took
the oath of office and leceived his cre
dentials as Minister to Spain, on the 2Rd.
On the 23d Chief Wm. Printnp, Grand
Sachem of the Tuscarora Indians, died
on the reservation, in New York. He was
an able and intelligent man.
The Associated Press statement that
Silas Gearney, of tlia Tremout House,
Boston, Mass., was insolvent is incorrect
Ha is not connected with the Tremont
House.
David Hamilton, a real estate dealer,
and owner of a number of business
structures at Wabash, lnd., failed, on
the 23vl, with liabilities amounting to $30,
000 aud assets of $25,000.
General Harrison denies the truth of
published reports of alleged statements
made by him concerning the annexation
of Canada.
On the 23d General Miles arrived at San
Francisco and took command of the Di
vision of the Pacific. General Howard
left Sau Francisco tho same night for
New York.
President IIannen of the Parnell Com
mission says that he will admit the re
torts made by the police for what they
are worth.
O.v the 23d Mr. Powderly was re-elected
general master workman of the Knights
of Labor for tne next two years at In
uuunpous.
A.\ intimate friend of Samuel J. Ran
all describes him as in very good con
ation, and certain to be iu his seat on the
^assembling of Congress.
“Deacon” Richardson has given no
ire that only American citizens, native
rnaturalized, will hereafter be employed
n his Brooklyn street-car lines as con
uctors and drivers.
Bishop Foley, the new Bishop of De
bt. was received iu that city, on the
d, by a reception committee and a pro
'•-sion of ten thousand persons.
J. 'V. Mackintosh & Co., B >ston stock
brokers, have suspended.
President Bradford Raymond of Law
rence University, Appleton, Wis., has
“■'“n tendered the presidency of Wes
■eyan University, at Middletown, Conn.
I' :s believed the offer will be accepted.
Editor Charles C. Corbitt, of the
Providence (R. I.) Dispatch, was ar
rested, on the 24th, upon a suit for libel
Woug.it by J. F. Moore, for $10,000.
Ax extensive purchase of coal land in
Aoegheny County, Pa., made by Mr.
^-Mne seven years ago, and which for a
•^looked like a losing venture, has re
increased iu value three-fold.
(jv tie 24th John Teemer, of McKees
*>a,> " as defeated for the champion
l'a,l°-f America and $2,500 a side, on the
, ':omac river, at Washington, by Wm.
p Connor, of Toronto, Can.
. 'siirjp p0LBY Ti.as formally installed
“ ■ - pof Detroit on the 25th. The cere
j were of a very imposing charac
. -;!1 Chief-Justice Armstrong, of
'•,aua|Dan Labor Commission, died of
•Jp exy at Sorel, Quebec,
j' JhsGEjiEXTs liave been made by J.
i- 'Eliamson, of Philadelphia, to apply
^ “-"hOoO of his vast wealth to the es
oiiment of an industrial school for
j.''"1 ,0 Be known as the “Williamson
^••School of Mechanical Trades.” A
^ lag was held, on the 24th, to select
'ie«s for the endowment fund and to
other details.
>, i'HI>i,N’AL Gibbons has been instructed
A’"pe to congratulate Mr. Harrison
j.° '-Bdtion to the presidency.
s,ate'( that Boulanger’s wife is
ug steps to obtain a divorce, and also
;s", ^'ue °f'he richest widows in France
v‘Ua? ,0 marry Boulanger.
k ; HCELL O’Uorman, ex-member of
C”v u.U!8tl Parliameat lor Waterford
h oil the »th,
A letter has been written to the Pope
thanking Cardinal Manning and the En
glish Catholics for their support of him
in the penal laws question.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
An inmate of the National Soldiers'
Home at Hampton, Va., named Simon
Dinaingham, committed suicide, on the
22d, by cutting an artery and bleeding to
death.
Fire In a school building at Long Isl
and City, N. Y., on the 22d, caused a pan
ic among the children, but was extin
guished with slight loss, an none of the
children were injured.
H. H. Scott killed Sidney K. Irvin at
Hinckley, Mich., on the 23 1.
Fire at Duluth, Minn., on the 23J, de
stroyed property to the value of $23,000. 4
On the 23d Philip J. Goss, the New York
policy dealer, in whose place James E.
Bedell, the forger, lost $123.03), pleaded
guilty to felouy, and was fined $1,003.
On the 23d, fire in the Crescent Avenue
Presbyterian Church of Plainfield, N. J.,
caused a loss of $3,003; fully iusured.
On the night of the 22d nearly all the
business section of Pocomoke City, Md.,
a village in the southern part of Wor
cester Couuty, on the eastern shore of
Chesapeake Bay, was destroyed by fire.
On the 23d Albert Shultz, at Altoona,
Pa., fired a gun, which he thought was
not loaded, and killed his eight-months
old brother.
Near Tralee, County Kerry, an Irish
farmer, recently returned from America,
took a farm from which a former tenant
had been evicted. On the 23d his dead
body was found, pierced with four bul
lets.
Adam Berkes, who was whipped, re
cently, at Sardinia, O.. by White Caps,
has lost his reason, and is now a maniac.
Mrs. Mart Doran, of Columbus, lad.,
who murdered her husband by pouring
carbolic acid into his mouth while asleep,
was, ou the 23 J, acquitted by a jury on
the ground of insanity.
Fire destroyed the extensive works of
the Ft. Wayne (Ind.) Jenuey Electric
Light Company on the 231. Loss, $303,000;
insurance, $158,030. Three hundred em
ployes are temporarily thrown out of
work.
After reaching an altitude of hilf a
mile the balloon in which Prof. Vandegrift
made an ascension from the Exposition
Park, at Columbus, Ga., ou the 22J, sud
denly burst and the aeronaut, descending
by a parachute, alighted iu the Chatta
hoochie river, and was drowned.
On the 231 Recorder Srnythe of New
York City sentenced James E. Bedell, the
forger, to State prison for twenty-five
years and four months
Detectives connected with Philadel
phia police lieadquartei-s captured John
Williams, alias Charles Dunn, a fugitive
negro murderer, at Avondale Mills, Pa.,
ou the 24th. He is charged with tho kill -
ing of Benjamin Bachelor, a negro, on
January 23, 1887.
Governor Hill of New York has fixed
a date for a heariug on behalf of Frank
A. Hawkins, the condemned Islip matri
cide. Miss Hattie Schreck, his affianced,
secured the heariug. Hawkins, who was
brought up m the Methodist faith, says
he desires tho offices of a Roman Catholic
priest.
Emma Rocr, shot by James Nolan, her
rejected lover, died in Believue Hospital,
New York, on the 2it.b. Nolan,in his fury,
fired five shots at the woman, all of
which took effect
Two men were killed and four others
rendered unconscious by an explosion of
dynamite at Thompson’s mills, near
Schuylersville, N. Y., on the 24th.
Willie Dundon, aged ten, while play
ing with a shotgun, at Binghamton, N. Y.,
shot and killed his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Michael Dundon.
The murdered remains of Bernard Mc
Lafferty were found at Mahonoy City,
Pa., on the 25th. His head had been
crushed and an ear cut off with a hatchet
The murder is a mysterious oue.
On the 24th the bark Moro Castle went
to pieces on Delaware breakwater. The
crew was saved.
A well-to-do farmer, named Frahk
Eicb, living near Royalton, Minn., was
waylaid and murdered on the 24th.
The wire-works of Morse & While, near
Boston, were destroyed by fire oi the
24th. Loss, $53,000; probably fully in
sured.
At Le Mars, la, on the 24tb, John Gay
nor shot and killed Town Marshal C.
McLaughlin.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Great excitement and much rioting,
particularly in Belgrade, where the peo
ple came in collision with the soldiery
several times, attended the elections for
members of the Servian Skuptschinc, on
the 21st Many persons were injured,
some of them seriously.
About half the laud owned bv the late
Joshua Jones, west of Central Park, New
York City, has been sold at auction by
the executor of the estate, and realized
about two million dollars. The property
was bought by Mr. Jones’ father, in lb08,
for less than three thousand dollars.
The Osceola (la.) Bank closed on the
22d, and was placed in the hands of a re
ceiver. The capital was $25,000. There
is said to be $90,000 on deposit, with only
$3,000 in the vault.
The last (twenty-second) volume of the
Tenth census report has been issued. In
addition there are two volumes of com
pendium of the census.
O.v the 22J the New York State Board
of Arbitration met to investigate the re
cent street-railway strike in Brooklyn.
Tex Brooklyn policemen who refused
to remove obstructions from car tracks
during the recent street-oar riot were
fined ten days’ pay each and also
cautioned that a repetition of such an
offense would result in dismissal.
Ox the 23 Canadian Pacific shares were
pressed for sate in London, on rumors
that a branch is to be built to Detroit,
Mich. .
The Journal de St. Petersburg denies
that a secret treaty has been en'ered into
with Corea, but admits that Corea has
granted to Russia facilities for trade
across the frontier.
Ox the 23d, by a cave-in near Wilkes
barre. Pa., the water supply of the city
was suddenly cut off, and a large mine
was submerged, from which the aimers j
bar*lY esonpeti vvltU tUeir Uves»
Indian Agent John Blair states that
the Chippewas are slowly becoming ex
tinct.
The Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga.,
have sent a bale of new cotton to the
Governor’s Foot Guard of Hartford,
Gfcmn., for the benefit of their armory
fair.
The projecbfor the consolidation of the
Cuban debt, it is believed, will prove a
failure, on account of the different opin
ions entertaiued on the subject by the
ministers at Madrid.
During the mouth of October 40,365 im
migrants came to this country, against
44,166 in October, 1337. Germany fur
nished the greatest number, 10,166; En
gland and Wales, 7,477; Ireland, 5,530;
Sweden and Norway, 4,250; Italy, 2,7S5,
and Scotlaud, 2,004.
It is reported that the Woolen Goods
Association of New York will petition
Congress to class worsted importations
with woolen cloth.
Improved machinery is being imported
into Cuba, with the object of increasing
the sugar-production of the next cane
crop.
During October exports of merchandise
aggregated in value $74,714,495, against
$76,033,439 in Ootobor, 1837. Imports for
the month were valued at $66,234,653,
against $60,983,257 iu October, 1887.
W m. Larzelere & Sons, wholesale
dealers iu foreign fruits and fancy gro
ceries at Philadelphia, have made an as
signment. The liabilities are between
$50,000 and $69,000, the nominal assets be
ing from $75,009 to $89,009, consisting of
outstanding book accounts and stock of
goods on hand.
The ship Emily F. Whitney, at Boston,
on the 24th. from Manilla, had two China
men in her crew, who were shipped at
Manilla. The collector will inquire as to
then- rights under the Chinese Exclusion
act.
There was a report, on the 21th, that
Pennock’s rolling mill at Coatsville, Pa.,
which had been idle the entire year, would
soon resume operations with a full com
plement of hands, and the Viaduct roll
ing mill at the same place, running on
half time, would soon commence running
full time.
Sink-holes have been discovered un
der the tracks of the St. Paul & Duluth
railroad, near Hinckley, Minn. The
tracks have sunk, aud traffic is seriously
interfered with.
Kew York City experienced its first
snow of the season on the 24th.
Reports from Samoa represents the
condition of affairs on that Island as
growing worse day by day. With Ger
man arrogance and native outrages, for
eigners of other nations have a hard time
of it.
Owing to the failure of their fishing,
caused by hard storms, the L i Poiute In
dians, on the Grand Portage Reserve, in
Minnesota, are in a starving condition.
A five-inch fall of snow, on the 25th,
impeded railway traffic in Connecticut
and other down-Eastern States.
Intelligence of a serious revolution in
Venezuela has been received.
The Republic of Colombia has deter -
mined to extend its telegraph lines very
widely.
The revolutionists at Potosi, Bolivia,
on lh9 approach of the government forces
evacuated and retreated.
The sale of the Great Eastern yielded
£20,090.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
On. was again struck on the 20th in tlio
gas well which is being put down eighteen
miles west of Chattanooga in the Se
quatchie Valley.
Tub District of Columbia Supreme Court
on the 2(ith decided that children of slave
parents, although not born in wedlock,
are entitled to inherit property of parents.
Josiah A. Dugger, Jr., has been ap
pointed postmaster of Stiverville, Maury
county, Teun., vice Isaac W. Lovell
resigned.
Frost fell in all portions of Florida on
the night of the 25th.
Bishop McTvere, of the Methodist
Church South is critically ill at his home
in Nashville, Tenn.
The orange crop of Southern California
is reported to be large enough to allow of
from 2000 2500 carloads being shipped
East.
■ The iron ore of Alabama is greater
than that of Pennsylvania. The coal area
is 11,000 square miles.
The fine new steam saw and planing
mill at Pocahontas, Teun., belonging to G.
W. Garrett, hurried on the 23d. It had been
in operation only a few days.
George Rembert, with several aliases,
who hails from Columbus, Ga., was
arrested in Nashville, Tenn., on the 23d for
doing up several business houses by obtain
ing goods from them under false pretenses.
During the year 3,875,525 cigars were
manufactured from 82,545 pounds of to
bacco iu Tennessee. About 2,204,000 pounds
of tobacco was manufactured in the State,
and 1,245,870 pounds sold, for which taxes
were paid amouuling to $98,064.40.
Government officials are just now wor
rying over a robbery of the mail between
Plummersville and Coblenz, Ark. This is
a star route. The mails have been robbed
five times within ten days, and the amount
.ecured altogethor will aggregate about
,500.
There were nine new cases of yellow
fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on the
24tb. Total cases, 4,674; total deaths, 407.
Three white and one negro convict were
whipped at New Castle, Del., on the 24th
for larceny and burglaries. They took
from five to fifty lashes, lightly laid. About
250 spectators were present.
Fire destroyed the Judson Female Sem
inary at Marion, Ala., on the 24th. It was
one of the oldest and best known institu
tions in the South. The loss is $100,000;
insurance, $25,000.
The official returns for the State of
South Catalina are: Cleveland 65,825,
Harrison 13,740. Democratic majority
52,085. The total vote is 11,932 less than
four veavs ago. The Democratic majority
L. 45G0 greater.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Vnnual Report of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue to the Secretary of the
Treasury—A Big Batch of Illicit Stills Ue
strayed—The Oleomargarine Industry.
Washington, Nov. 26.—The annual re
port ot Josephs. Miller, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, was given to iho
press last night The report covers not
only the operations of the bureau during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, but
includes some verj Interesting compara
tive tables relating to production in past
years, as well as additional information
relating to the work of the office during
the first quarter of the current fiscal
year. Mr. Miller’s report shows that in
ternal revenue receipts from all sources
during the fiscal year were $124,326,475, or
nearly four and a half millions more than
his estimates. His estimates of receipts
for the current year is $125,000,000, pro
viding that no changes are made in exist
ing ra'.es of taxation. The cost of collec
tion during the past year aggregated
$3,978,283; being less than three and two
tenths per cent, of the amount collected/
against three and four-tenths per cent in
1887. The estimated expenses of the
service for the next fiscal year are put
down at $4,135,280.
During the past year tobacco and its
manufactures yielded $30,662,431 revenue,
against $30,108,067 duriug the previous
year; spirits, $69,306,116, against $65,829, -
321 in 1887, and fermented liquors $23,324,
218 last year, against $21,922,187 the year
before.
me revenue from oleomargarine dur*
ing the past year amounted to $9,854,129,
and for the eight months in 1886-87, when
the tax was first placed on it, it aggre
gated $723,948.
During the past year 518 illicit stills
were seized and removed or destroyed,
and one officer, Deputy United States
Marshal Trammell, of Arkansas, was
killed. The year previous there were 456
seizures. The production of tobacco,
snuff, cigars aud cigarettes during the
year, compared with the previous year, is
stated as follows: Tobacco, pounds, 201,
925,613; snuff, pounds, 7,436,989. Total
tobacco aud snuff, 209,362,6)2. Increase
over the last fiscal year, 2,863,081. To
bacco and snuff exported, 13 5)4,227. To
tal production for the fiscal year 1888,
222,866,929: increase over the fiscal year
1887, 2,638,375. Cigars number 3.844,726,
(!5(); cigarettes. 1,862,721,100; total taxed,
5,707,452.750; increase over the last fiscal
year, 334,642,107. Cigars exported, 143 -
625; cigarettes exported, 180,769,800; total
product for the fiscal year 1887, 5,514,
640,993.
On the subject of methylated spirits,
the Commissioner says: “Inquiry hav
ing been made at this office by Members
of Congress ns to the practicability of
withdrawing spirits from distillery ware
houses free or* tax, for use in the me
cnauical arts and protecting the revenue
agaiust fraud by methylating the spirits
iu bonded warehouses established for the
purpose, the mlcroscopist of this office
was requested to make experiments iu he
chemical laboratory for the purpose of
ascertaining whether such spirits could
be demethylated. It appears from his
report that he has succeeded by the use
of a small still in separating the methyl
or wood alcohol from the ethyl or taxa
ble alcohol, aud iu deodorizing a portion
of the alcohol through the use of bone
black aud other chemical substances. It
| may he urged that if the demethylatiou
can not be accomplished without the use
of a still, t!ie operator is readily liable to
detection because of the special surveil
lance required by the internal revenue
laws iu the matter of stills and
distilling, but I do not take
1 this view of the case. The
internal revenue laws do not prohibit the
use of stills by persons other than dis
tillers of spirits, and, as a matter of fact,
many druggists and others use stills on
their premises. It is true that these law3
prohibit the making of a mash fit for the
distillation of spirits, except on the prem
ises of a distiller, brewer or vinegar
manufacturer. It is also true that the
process of mashing is readily discovered
by the peculiar smell which pervades the
premises on which the business is con
ducted, but the process of demethylatiou
does not. involve any process of mashing
or fermenting, the use of the large still
which even the smallest distillers who
produce spirits from a mash are com
peled to use. The still used in this office
was among the smallest of the stills
whit h druggists and others, not distillers,
are permitted to use.
The Commissioner devotes consider
able space to oleomargarine, its produc
tion, manufacture and taxations; 31,557,
527 pounds were produced at manufac
tories during the year, and 21,694 627 be
tween November 1, 1886, the day on which
the Oleomargarine law took effect, and
June 30, 1S87. There appears, he says, to
have been a small increase in production
during the year, and the demand for con
sumption at home and abroad, is in
creased. A considerable decrease in the
number of manufacturers, as well as
wholesale aud retail dealers, is reported.
Commenting on this, Commissioner
Miller says that the decrease iu the num
ber ot special tax-payers has become a
subject of great solicitude to this office,
as it may be partly due to fraud, and
adds: “The statement (appended to the
report) as to the production and use of
oleo oils shows that more that 27,000,000
pounds out of a product during the year
of 69,000,000 pounds of this substance, in
vented for the sole purpose of being used
in thB manufacture of abutter substitute,
was neither exported nor used, as shown
by reports received at this office, in the
manufacture of oleomargarine. The
question as to what actually becomes of
this material will never be satisfactorily
answered until the manufacturers there
of are compeled to account for it with
the same particularity as they are re
quired for the article subject to tax. It
is doubtless used in the manufacture of
some food product, such, for instance, as
cheese. It can not be economically used
as a lubricant, in the face of the faet that
its market price is nearly double the
| price of tallow.
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They ‘*00” as They l'lease.
New York, Nov. 26.—At midnight ths
Marquis of Queensberry said “Go,” and
he contestants in the six days go-as
you-please match at Madison bouare
Garden started.
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SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Fire at Louisville, Ky., a few days
since, burned the Hopkins & Robinson j
Company’s building. Loss, $40,000; in- (
surance, $17,500.
In a row at New Roads, La., recently,
Van Matthews and J. B. Woodruff killed
each other.
Wm. lh Shine, a Baltimore drummer,
shot himself throngli the head at the St.
James Hotel, Richmond, Vu., a few days
ago. No cause is known.
The millstone in Cunningham & Gallo
way’s grist mill, at Galloway’s Station,
Tenn., burst, a few evenings since, in
stantly killing Oliver Welder and serious- j
ly injuring Cunningham. The mill was
wrecked.
The Governor of South Carolina has
commuted to thirty years’ imprisonment
the death sentence of Charles Dupre, the
child murderer, who was to have been
hanged on the 23d in31. The criminal is
a negro boy, just nine years old.
The warehouse and offices of W. H. El
mger & Bro., wliolesale flour dealers, at
Louisville, Ky., were burned a few nights
ago. Nearly 5,030 barrels of flour were
destroyed. Loss on building and stocks,
; $40,000; insurance about $35,000.
J. J. Barrey, of Vicksburg, Miss., re
cently sank a gas well at Lake Provi
dence, La. The pressure is good, and
the gas burns brilliantly. It is believed
the gas field is extensive.
The cotton crop in West Tennessee is
yielding much better than was expected
a month ago. Tiie staple is larger and
better than has been known for years.
The streels of Jackson are crowded with
: cotton bales from morning until night.
| The outlook for a big holiday trade was
i never better.
The yellow-fever scourge has entirely
abated at Decatur, Ala.
John Peterson, wauted in Ashville, N.
C., for murder, has been captured in
Blout County, Tenn.
An unsuccessful attempt was made, a
few nights ago, to burn the building oc
cupied by the Birmingham (Ala.) Acje
Herald.
Ben Harrison, a colored man of Hop
kinsville, Ky., had a fit while driving a
wagon, a few days since, and, falling to
the ground, broke his neck, dying in
stantly.
John White, a young farmer living near
Hopkinsville, Ky., fell from a loaded
wagon, a few evenings sinoo, and broke
his back, and received other serious in
juries that rendered his recovery doubt
ful.
Dr. J. I. Walker, a well-known and ec
centric citizen of Hopkinsville, Ky., died
suddenly a few days siuce. He recently
had a stroke of paralysis, and never
rallied. Ho was a bachelor.
The Garfield Club, of Knoxville, Tenn*,
composed entirely of white citizens, have
made arrangements to attend tha inaug
uration of President Harrison in a body.
Two hundred members will go, each
wearing a silk hat and overcoat of the
same color.
The house of Jack Gregg at Leesville,
Ky., was burned a few nights ago, and all
the family, consisting of five persons,
perished, except Gregg, who was away
from the house on business.
While boring for gas in Livingston
County, Ky.. twelve miles from Paducah,
recently, a vein of silver ore was struck
at a depth of about eight hundred feet
The vein is said to be about three feet
thick, and considerable excitement pre
vails over the find.
Henry James, colored, and his wife
went to a church supper at Livingstone,
Ala., a few nights ago, leaving their three
children locked up in the house. Upon
their return they found the house in
ashes, and the children burned to a crisp.
John Peterson, wanted for murder at
Asheville, N. C., was arrested in the
mountains of Blount County, Tenn., a
few days ago, by Deputy Sheriff Blanken
ship. Peterson killed a man named
Gooch last July, the murder being the
most horrible ever known in Western
North Caroliua.
F. H. Varnado, a promiuent merchant
of Tsyka, Miss., was shot down and in
stantly killed, a few nights ago. There
were no witnesses to the killing, and the
assassin is unknown.
O. F. Adams, city treasurer of Macon,
Ga., is reported as being about $20,000
short in his accounts, and has been sus
pended from office. He can give no satis
factory explanation. Demands have been
made on his bondsmen.
Some new coal discoveries that have
been made near Fordsville, Ky., on the
line of the Owensboro & Falls of Rough
railroad, hold out better promises thaD
any of the veins yet known in ihat region.
Jas. Philbeck, a farmer living in Cleve
land County, N. C., was called to the door
of his house a few nights ago and shot
dead by an unknown party, who then en
tered the premises, shot. Philbeck’s wife
and robbed the house. The murderer
escaped.
Robert H. Hailey, or Jackson, Tenn.,
brakeman on the Mobile &Obio railroad,
fell under the wheels while coupling cars
at Guntown, Miss., a few nights ago. The
cars passed over his left hand, mangling
it in a fearful manuer. The unfortunate
man was taken to Jackson, where four of
his fingers were amputated.
Jack Jones, a negro hailing from Ma
con, Ga., made an unsuccessful criminal
assault on Mrs. John Haggard and Miss
Hedgroth, who live near Rockwood, Tenn.,
a few nights ago. He was afterward
caught by an angry mob and lynched.
The recent disappearance of Colonel J.
F. Hill, from Morgan County, Ga., has
been given additional interest by the dis
closures of his wife. 8be says that three
months ago he claimed to have had a
vision in which he was ordered to divide
up his property and go into a distant
land where he was not known. He
reached home one night from a neighbor
ing town, and handed his wife the deed
lor $10,(WO worth of property, keeping
£5,0W in cash for himself. After giving
aer explicit directions as to how to man
age business, he went out into the dark
less and disappeared. He settled up all
ais obligations before he left. He was
if'y years of age, and had always lived
nappily with his wife. He leaves four
children, all daughters, three of whom
ire marri^ to the wealthiest men ia tile
county,
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
The Reason Why Marriage Is Very Fre
quently a Failure
Many letters we have read with sad
ness lately, prove that the majority of
unhappy homes have resulted from too
slight acquaintance previous to mar
riage. A handsome face, a pretty fig
ure, the step that suits in a waits, the
chatter that amuses for an hour, are in
too many cases all that is deemed
necessary for a life-long companion
ship. Others have failed because each
started with the idea that marriage
means getting, not giving; the man in
tent only on the comfort he can obtain
from an unpaid housekeeper, the
woman on the attention and adulation
of an ever-present lover. No altera
tions in marriage laws or civil con
tracts can make such unions happy or
successful.
Let men learn to be patient and sym
pathetic. to pause sometimes in their
fuller, more varied lives to brighten
with a little thought and love the dull
er, more monotonous ones of their
women-folk; and lot woman re
alize that the lives of true
men and citizens can not always
be cramped within their narrower
home circle, and strive to take an un
selfish pleasure in and to show a ready
sympathy with those wider outside in
terests and ambitions. Just imagine the
kind of thing which a Frenchman who
in theory held the legality of marriage
to be unimportant to morals, would
have written, and contrast it with that
letter, and its note of intense, though
conventional, domestic piety. There
are scores of letters breathing that
spirit, though usually expressed with
much more clumsiness, and, to use the
word which best expresses the fact,
“humdruminess.” It is that quality
which is to us the satisfactory feature
of the letters.
The humdrums are in England the
immense majority, and to judge from
these letters, they have no more in
tention of attacking the marriage laws,
as far as their main principle is con,
cerned, than they have of agitating
against the principle of caveat emptor,
or the rule that a jury should
consist of twelve. They have, in
fact, never considered marriage as an
institution like any other, but as a hu
man condition, the very healthiest
state of mind a community could en
joy. It is only when a community
feels that marriage needs to be sus
tained by argument, that it begins tc
be in danger. Even the few who
would abolish marriage have never
really considered their proposal, for
they neither suggest a substitute, nor,
apparently, have thought for an in
stant what the social consequences
would be, to what utter slavery it
would reduce women—to whom, after
forty, a threat of divorce would be like
a sentence of slow death—or what the
ruin it would work on the next genera
tion. They propose the change to get
rid of discomfort, just as they propose
federation to be rid of the Irish diffi
culty, or socialism to be rid of occa
sional cases of suffering from want.
Their lightness of thought is bad; but,
like the density of their opponents’
thought, it proves that there is no real
question in the public mind.— London
Spectator.
THE LEBEL RIFLE.
A Weapon with Which France Will Tru»t
Not Even Her Own Soldier*.
The French value the secret of their
new magazine rifle—the Lebel—so
much that the troops have been or
dered not to use it when mounting
guard or taking part in maneuvers.
For these purposes their old breech
loaders of the 1874 type are to be em
ployed. This plan may or may not
prove effectual in preventing the Ger
mans from learning the mystery of the
Lebel powder, which explodes noise
lessly and without producing any
smoke, but it must have a perilous ten
dency to bring about a repetition of the
state of things which hindered the
French from realizing the full superi
ority of the Chass< pot during their
last war with Germany. At the com
mencement of that war thousands of
the French troops did not even know
how to fire their new rifles, and had
to ask for instructions on
that subject. In the present case the
danger is accentuated by the issue of a
new regulation forbidding men to take
into account either the smoke or the
noise in a battle. This is, of course,
on account of the new smokeless rifle.
The position of a party on the defen
sive, hitherto betrayed by a cloud of
smoke, will henceforth remain undis
closed to the assailants, and the prac
tice of forcing the enemy to deploy by
a fire from a great distance will have
to be abandoned. The more the at
tacking party marches in serried ranks
and the quicker it advances upon tho
enemy the more fearful will be the
losses inflicted upon it by the invisible
foe. These are very momentous
changes, amounting, in fact, to a revo
lution in the modern art of war. But
the plan of making French soldiers
carry their old rifles while they go
through movements appropriate only
to the new arm can only lead to con
. fusioa.— London Court Journal.