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HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE.
BY HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE COMPANY. “With Charity for AUS and Molioe Toward. None.” ’ SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50
VOLUME X._ HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1888. NUMBER 6.
ft E W S IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Source*.
lT ia officially stated that the Pope does
pot intend v> leave Rome, nor has he
bought of taking such a step.
Dakota is surpassed hy only four
.states of the Union in the number of stu
dents attending ber agricultural college.
Tuf. press of Alabama, foi the most
part strongly favor the proposition to
establish an educational qualification for
voters. __
The Comptroler of the Currency has
L-ued a call for reports of the condition
of National banks at the close of business
on December 12. __
Strikes are reported from several
points on the line of the Mexican
National railroad, owing to the non-pay
ment of wages.
The President, on the 17th, approved the
art making a deficiency appropriation for
|he contingent expenses of the House of
Representatives.
rev. Dr. B. Costa, rector of the Church
or st. John the Evangelist, New York, de
nounce^ the Sunday newspaper as “the
modern anti-Christ.’’_
There is considerable excitement at
don.' Falls, N. Y., over the discovery of
•diver-bearing ledges in the town. Claims
are being filed rapidly.
Maxime Outrey, formerly Minister
from France to the United States, has re
tired to his villa at Cannes, with Mme.
Outrey, who is an American.
The marked favor shown by the Czar
of Russia to the divorced wife of King
Milan of Servia is taken as an indication
of the early downfall of the latter.
In the primary election which has just
been held throughout Servia, the Radicals
nml Liberals scored a great victory, the
Progressionists being totally defeated.
James C. Morford, of Baltimore, aged
ninety-four, the last of the old defenders,
who repeled the British attack on Balti
more in 1S14, died in that city on the 17th.
The Senate committee on military af
fairs, on the 14th, ordered a favorable re
port on a bill to retire General W. S.
Rosecrans with the rank of Brigadier
General.
The famous stallion Volunteer, the sire
of St. Julien and other noted trotters,
died at the Walnut Grove farm, in Orange
County, N. Y., on the 13th. He was thirty
four years of age. _
Gross frauds in the count of the vote
for mayor of Kan Francisco, at the recent
election, are being unearthed by the re
count demanded by the defeated anti
Chinese candidate.
Official notice was sent, on the 12th,
to the passenger agents of all railroads
in the West and Northwest that, at the ex
piration of ten days, passenger rates will
be restored to the former basis.
Five applicants had already appeared
for appointment as Judge of the Federal
Court for the district of Florada, made
vacant by the death of Judge Thomas Set
tle, less than two weeks ago, up to the 14th.
The New York Press says that Governor
Gray of Indiana refused to allow the re
ception room of the Governor in the Capi
tol at Indianapolis to be used for the re
ception of Mr. and Mrs. Morton on the
14tn.
IIon. Edwin Salter, the first Free-Soil
member of the New Jersey Legislature for
Ocean County, died at Forked River, N.
J.. on the 15th. During the war he was
Hip Washington correspondent for several
newspapers.
General Boulanger says that General
Sheridan was his ideal of a cavalry Gen
eral. He also speaks enthusiastically of
Generals Sherman and McDowell, and of
the memories of his trip to the United
States in 1881.
_.__
E. L. Harper, late vice-president of the
Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, who
is confined in the Ohio State prison at
Columbus, gave unmistakable evidence
of insanity, on the 13th, and was removed
to the insane department.
Several members of the crew of
the oyster sloop Mahoney, sunk in Chesa
peake bay in the recent engagement with
the State steamer McLane, were drowned.
Statements as to the actual number lost
vary from two or three to nine.
John G. Whittier, the venerable poet,
celebrated his eighty-first birthday at his
winter home, Oak Knoll, near Danvers,
Mass., on the 17th, receiving in a quiet
and unostentatious way his friends and
neighbors. He is in fair health.
Fate advices from South Africa say
that the King of Swazitland recently
caused the massacre of his Premier and
su chiefs and their people who were sup
V'ised to be concerned in a plot to de
throne him in favor of Ms brother.
Tik French Government introduced a
in the Chamber of Deputies, on the
Rth, providing for a postponement for
tliree months of the payment of the Pana
®a Canal Company’s liabilities, including
interest and the redemption of bonds.
The Secretary of the Interior, on the
Fth. rejected the claim of the State of
ilieh'san to a tract of land in the Upper
Reni; - ula. Some thirteen hundred acres
ar,‘ directly involved, while more than
one million acres are indirectly affected.
Representative Catholics of New York
City discredit the recent cable dispatch
stating that the Pope, in refusing to bless
certain medals intended for distribution
in Ireland, said that the people of Ire
land ‘‘seemed to prefer the gospel of .
billon and O’Brien to the Gospel of Jesus I
Christ.”
A Daring train robbery occurred near
buck Hill, Miss., on the night of the 15th.
D'o masked robbers held up a'h Illinois
1 ant; d train, and secured $3,000 from the ]
express car. A passenger named Charles
Rm_-« of Jackson, Tenn., who attacked
: 1 jobbers with a Winchester WR9
H,y>t by theas »ud killed). J
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the lath, the Tariff bill was
taken up, the pending question being the
amendment to admit “hoop and band iron"
(cotton ties, etc.) free of duty, instead of taxing
it 2 10th percent, per pound additional,but after
the entire day was spent in the discussion, the
Senate adjourned without action on the pro
posed amendment . J y.In the House, the River
and Harbor bill was reported and referred to
the committee of the whole House. The Sen
ate amendments to the Department of Agricul
ture bill were non-concurred in, and a confer
ence was ordered. The House then went into
committee of the whole on the Direct-Tax bill,
which, after several amendments had been of
fered and rejected, the committee rose and re
ported to the House. The bill was then passed
—yeas, 1T8; nays, 99.
In the Senate, on the 13th, the day was chief
ly devoted to consideration of the Tariff bill.
The discussion was enlivened by a passage be
tween Mr. Riddleberger and the residing offi
cer, in which the Virginia Senator was threat
ened with arrest for disorderly conduct. After
a lengthy discussion of the Tariff bill, no action
being reached, the Senate went into executive
session, and soon after adjourned until the
17th.In the House, in his opening prayer,
the Chaplain said: “Instruct the young men of
the universities and colleges that the Lord hath
no delight in the legs of a man, but in a sound
bead, a wise heart, a pure life and a noble
character.” Several new bills were reported
and placed on the calendar. The Oklahoma
bill was then taken up, and occupied the re
mainder of the session.
The Senate was not in session on the 14th.
.In the House, Mr. Hooker, of Massachu
setts, introduced a concurrent resolution pro
viding for a holiday recess from Friday, Decern
ber 21, until Monday, January 7, which was re
ferred to the committee on ways and means.
The Nicaraguan Canal bill was then taken up,
but after an hour and a half spent in a vain ef
fort to secure a quorum upon a proposition to
limit debate, the House took a recess until
half-past seven o'clock, when a brief session
was held without results. _
In the Senate, on the 17th, bills to establish
a coinage mint at Denver, Col., and to furnish
arms to the State of Oregon, were favorably re
ported. Mr. Riddleberger spoke to his resolu
tion to reorganize the Senate after the 1st of
January, which called forth enconiums of the
presiding officer's fairness and impartiality.
The resolution was withdrawn. The Tariff
bill was then taken up and occu
pied the remainder of the day'3 session.
After a short secret session, the Senate ad
journed.In the House, it was agreed to take
up the South Dakota bill and make it a special
order for the ISth and succeeding days until
disposed of. A bill incorporating the American
Horticultural Association was passed. The
adjournment resoluVon as originally intro
duced was passed. Further effective legisla
tion was prevented by filibustering tactics.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Henry George was among the passen
gers on the Etruria, which lauded at New
York from Liverpool on the 16th. He re
ports the single-tax idea rapidly growing
in favor in England.
Terrible storms raged, between the
13th and 17th, in the Department of Pyr
enees-Orientales, France, flooding vil
lages and causing wrecks and much loss
of life.
The Berlin Xational Gazette denies that
the German Government has the slight
est concern with the Russo-Persian dis
pute.
The Frank Adams Woolen-mills, at
Pittsfield, Mass., resumed work, on the
16th, on full time.
Chief-Justice Charles E. Boyle of
Washington Territory died of pneumonia
at Seattle on the 15th.
The Prince of Wales, on the 15th, re
placed in the coffin, in the private chapel
at Windsor,the relics of Charles I., which
were removed on the occasion of the in
vestigation in 1H18.
On account of small-pox in the vicinity,
several Union Pacific switchmen have re
fused to work in the transfer yards at
Omaha, Neb.
On the 15th, Vice-President-Elect and
Mrs. Morton concluded their visit to Gen
eral and Mrs. Harrison and left for home.
The latest revised returns place the ag
gregate popular vote at 11,310,518. In the
twenty-two States classed as the North,
Harrison obtained 4<>6,830 more votes than
Cleveland, while Cleveland led by 574,268
in the sixteen ex-slave States. This
makes Cleveland’s plurality 107,438, as
compared with 62,883 in 1884. The aggre
gate vote in 1880 was 9,204,426, and in 1884,
10,048,061.
Mbs. Anna de Grote, of Millbury,
Mass., the wife of a laboring man, has suc
cessfully given birth to four babies, all
girls, the average weight being four and a
half pounds. The last was the smallest,
measuring eleven and a half inches. The
mother is doing well, but the youngest of
the quartet failed to rally, and died shortly
after birth.
Information is wanted as to the where
abouts of Theodore F. Gibson, who left
Brooklyn ten years ago to go West, by
Jacob Brenner, a New York attorney.
Gibson is heir to $100,003.
At Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, N.
Y., on the night of the 15th, Harvey Lub
bington, aged fifteen, threw a chair at his
father, fracturing the old man’s skull
and causing death. The boy was ai
rested.
Alfred Duenweg, book-, ’eper for
Bauermeister & Busch, at Terre Haute,
Ind., has absconded. The firm do not
know where he has gone, or how much
they are out, but say the books have been
doctored for a long time. .
Colonel James F. Casey, who married
a Miss Dent, sister of President Grant’s
wife," was reported dying, on the night of
the 16th, at his home in Georgetown, D. C
John Bright, the great English^states
man, had another relapse on the 17th.
jug French man-of-war Destaing ar
rived at Zanzibar on the 17th.
.Panama canal shares were quoted at
93 francs and 75 centimes on the French
bourse on the lith.
Olaf P. Olsen, charged with the killing
of Mrs. Nelse Lindman. at St. Paul, Minn.,
for $900, which she had in a bank in his
name, was, on the'17th, found guilty of
murder in the first degree. His will be
the first hanging in St. P aul since 1 k.
The Alabama Methodist conference, in
session at Mobile, adjourned, on the 17th,
after adopting a report looking to the es
tablishment of a society for the support ot
superannuated preachers of the confer
eITHE Sultan of Zanzibar has returned to
his capital He ha* been directing certain
religious sacrificial ceremonies, which are
designed to defeat the schemes of the
, white tpea,
Baron Jomini, of St. Petersburg, is
dead. He was a friend and trusted ad
viser of the Czar and a strong Pan-Slav
ist.
The German Plantation Company of
Zanzibar has decided to remove its plant
and staff to Borneo.
General Boulanger denies that he is
plotting war, or a,coup d’ etat. He sees
corruption in th£ Chamber of Deputies
and trouble in the Senate. The former he
would dissolve and the latter abolish.
Half of France, he says, is at his back in
the movement to revise the French Con
stitution.
Miss Cleveland went to Philadelphia,
on the 17th, to be the guest of Rev. Dr. and
Mrs. Wood, at Germantown. Ou the 18th
she dined with Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Childs.
The Queen of Spain has written a letter
to M. De Lesseps expressing sympathy
with him in his troubles over the Panama
Canal scheme.
The British steamer Jasper, from Work
ington for Glasgow, foundered off the
Wigtown coast on the li!th. Her crew,
numbering eleven persons, were drowned.
Nathaniel J. Bradley, a well-known
architect of Boston, died on a railroad
train, on the 17th, while on his way to
Keene, N. H.
General Boulanger strongly con
demns the French Government for allow
ing honest people to think the Panama
canal was sure of official patronage, and
now turning its back upon the enterprise.
The great English ship-builder and
Member of Parliament for Govan, Sir
William Pearce, Bart., died, on the 17th,
in London.
Rev. John F. Hooper, pastor of St.
Paul’s Reformed Church at Morrisania,
N. Y., has been suspended from the min
istry on account of the recent decision of
a California court granting Hooper’s wife
a divorce on account of cruel and inhuman
treatment.
A contagious form of sore throat—it
may be called diphtheria—has broken out
among the Mexican children of Bernalillo
County, N. M., and it is said that no less
than two hundred deaths have occurred in
the past few weeks.
A through freight on the Erie railroad
broke in two, on the 17th, while passing
Friendship, N. Y. About three miles fur
ther on the second section overtook the
first and caused a serious wreck, several
cars being derailed and the tracks
blocked. No one was hurt.
Ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New
York, was on the floor of the Senate
chamber, on the 17th, for the first time
frince the election, aud he held quite a
levee. In response to queries about the
Cabinet, he said: “I know nothing about
any thing.”
Attorney-General Baker of Iowa has
begun twenty-four suits in the District
Court of Scott County upon informa
tion filed by Davenport merchants against
the Rock Island railway, for alleged vio
lation of the State law fixing a maximum
schedule. The penalty for each violation
is $5,000.
Herr Blumenthal, who was arrested
in Paris, on the l(5th, on suspicion of being
a German spy, is a Major in the German
Landwher. He had leased a chalet in
company with a supposed lady (but who
was really a German cadet), and had
taken photographs of the various forts,
his apparatus being concealed in a'peram
bulator.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Huiigh J. Long lias been appointed post
master at Bible Hill, Tenn., vice W. P.
Davis resigned, and Joseph J. Adams at
Spring Hill Academy, vice A. H. Duncan
resignod.
A bill, was introduced in the Senate on
the 18th authorizing the Pensacola and
Memphis railway to build its liue over the
public lands in Tennessee, Alabama, Flor
ida and Mississippi.
Judge W. W. Smith, Associate Justice
of the Supremo Court of Ardansas, died at
Little Rock on the 18th.
Haggin, the turfman, has offered $25,000
for Bryant’s Proctor Knott. Bryant holds
the horse at $30,000.
Tiie report of the State Treasurer of Ten
nessee show the receipts of 1S87 were $1,
643,542, and in 1S88 $2,051 448. The dis
bursements were $1,554,146 in 1887 and
$1,854,014 in 18S8.
A party of New England capitalists
from Hartford, Conn., and adjoining cities,
were in Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 17th.
They are traveling through the South on a
prospecting tour.
Comptroller PickArd has received ad
vices from the New York banking house of
A. Lanier & Co. that the sum of $200,000,
which the State requires to meet the Janu
ary iuterest on the public debt, had been
passed on their books to the credit of the
State of Tennessee.
There is in this country twice as many
acres in corn as in wheat, and four times
as many as in cotton.
A sale of 231 bales of Allen cotton was
made at Memphis on the 15th at 13 cents
per pound.
The question of an amendment to the
State Constitution making an educationa
qualification for suffrage, is being agitated
in Arkansas.
Over two hundred deaths from dipthena
have occurred in the vicinity of Albe
querque, N. M., in the past two weeks,
and the breaking out of small pox has
caused much additional alarm.
Fully 50 per cent, of the corn crop in
Smith county, Tennessee, is badly dam
aged.
The people of the United States spend
more than $1,500,000 every year for chew
ing gum.
Jackson, La., is greatly exercised over
the mysterious disappearance of Rev. J.
V. Penn, pastor in charge of the Methodist
Church there. He has been missing for
over a week, and fears are entertained that
he has been foully dealt with.
In Lamar county, Ala., on the night of
the 14th, a crowd of masked men took Mrs.
Jane Johnson from her home and adminis
tered thirty-nine lashes on her bareibaek,
and then warned her to leave the county
within five days.
RACE TROUBLES IN MISSISSIPPI.
Kemper County the Scene of a Terrible
Tragedy—Conflict Between Whites and
Blacks, in Which Three White Men Are
Killed.
Meridian, Miss., Dec. 17.—This morning
a number of telegrams-, were received here
stating that a riot bad occurred at Walia*
lak, Kemper county, fifty miles north of
Meridian, and that Holly Morton, of this
place, had been killed. A party of twenty
men was at once organized and left for the
scene on the regular passenger train, (sub
sequently another party of forty was
raised and left on a special train. A num
ber of wild rumors wore in circulation,
one to the effect that the posse from this
city had a fight with the negroes and that
several of them had been wounded. These
rumors were set aside by the arrival of the
two posses on the regular mail train to
night, who reported that everything was
quiet, and that their presence was not
needed. They told the following story of
the riot: Last Thursday the son of Mr.
G. F. Nicholson, a prominent farmer of
Kemper county, was driving a wagon
along the road leading to Ruqualak, when
he met a negro desperado driving a team
in the opposite direction. Young NichoF
son accidentally brought his vehicle in coF
lison with that of the negro, who kept in
the middle of the road, as if determined to
drive the boy out. The negro began curs
ing the ycuth, when Nicholson appeared
and interfered in the boy’s behalf. The
negro thereupon drew a revolver, but in
stead of firing, closed with Nicholson aud
brought the weapon down with his full
strength on the former’s face. Nicholson
fell senseless to the ground, and when he
recovered the negro had left. The follow
ing day Mr. Nicholson told his friends of
the assault, aud on Saturday it was deter
mined to organize a posse and arrest
Maury. Information of this determination
of the whites reached the negroes in some
waj". It is said that two white men gath
ered a party of negroes together at a
church Sunday night, aud after harangu
ing them, organized a force of ten negroes
to resist any attempt to arrest Maury or
attack on his house. The whites are known
to the people of Wahalak, lint their names
cannot be learned. It is their settled de
termination to lynch them when found and
the people argue that when they are hung
it will be the proper time to make their
names known. The negro force raise l by
the white men went to Harness house vbc..
the church meeting adjou-ned and non
cealed themselves in the smokehouse and
cottonhOuses. Very soon thereafter the
posse of whites came up the road and
halted in front of Maury’s place. A few
of them walked up to his residence, but
fouud it deserted. From the residence they
went to the smokehouse, where they found
three negroes. These negroes were asked
the whereabouts of Maury, but they pre
tended they could not tell where he could be
found. While they were trying to exact
same information from the negroes, a man
on the outside shouted, “Here is Maury;
suppose you come to arrest him.”
The whites rushed in a body from the
building, and as they emerged were re
ceived by a volley from eight or ten mus
kets and shotguns.
Wm. Vaughan was seriously wounded
by buckshot in the left arm, neck and
shoulders, and another man, whose name
the whites will not reveal, received a
slight wound in the hand. This volley
earns from the cotton house and was
promptly returned by the whites, but the
negroes being behind a stout plank wall
received no injury. The whites soon
discovered that they were fighting at great
disadvantage aud moved around to the
north side of the structure. Here they
received another volley, resulting in the
instant death of Henry Maury, and the
wounding of his brother, J. T. Maury, in
the arm near the elbow. The whites now
drew off and the firing ceased temporarily.
Notwithstanding their losses, however, the
posse determined to make another attack
oil the cotton-house, approaching it this !
time from the south side. As they came j
up to the building they received a third !
volley, the negroes apparently waiting the
order to fire, as they had done in the two
previous instances. At this third volley
Meth Cobb received twenty-two buckshot
in the breast aud stomach, tearing the j
entire frout of his body from the neck to
the navel away. John Dow, another of
the whites, was also wounded, perhaps
fatally, by a pistol ball in the groin.
The whites again dre%v off for consulta
tion, when it was determined that another
attack on the building with their reduced
force would be useless, and they deter
mined to wait for dayligut aud reinforce
ments.
While they were consulting the negroes
rushe.1 from the cotton-house to Maury’s
residence in a body, and proceeded to
fortify that building. The whites went
back to Wahalak yesterday morning.
Another force of fifty men or more wai
ruised and proceeded to Maury’s residence.
The place was found entirely deserted,
even the bedding anil furniture having
been removed. The whites burned the
three buildings on the place, together with
those on a near farm, scouring the woods
for the negroes in vain. No trace of them
could be found. It was impossible to come
across a negro in five miles of the scene of
trouble while people from ihe adjoining
towns began to pour into Wahalak all day
and joined in the search, but as none of
the negroes were known except Georgs
Maury, they accomplished nothing. One
negro was seen lurking in the woods aud
was fired upon by a white man, but ho not
only disappeared when the po se from Me
ridian under command of Thomas Jamison
reached Wahalak, but they were told that
their services were not needed. They say
the whites throughout Kemper county are
very sore, and think more trouble will fol
low. It is certain that if any of the ne
groes who fired on the w-hites are caught
they will be killed at once. The feeling,
however, is greatest against the two white
men who are said to have organized the
negroes. Not a single negro is known to
have received any injury whatever. Two
white meu beside those already reported
were wounded, but as their hurts are slight
their names are withheld for prudential
reasons.
'It does not appear that the whites, in at
tempting to make the arrest were acting
under any legal authority, but they are
i sustained by the entire white population
of Kemper and the adjoining counties, and
it Is unlikely that any proceedings will bn
taken against them- '
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Alfred Moses, who lived in Burke Conn*
ty, N. C., went to the house of his broth
er-in-law, Jake Helms, a few days ago,
and commenced pelting the house with j
rocks. This brought Helms to the door ;
with an order for Moses to leave the ;
premises. Moses cursed and threatened
Helms, and a fight ensued. Helms drew a
pocket-knife and stabbed Moses in the ;
throat, killing him instantly. There was
an old grudge between these men, and i
Moses went to Helms’ house for the pur
pose of settling it,
W. R. Wilson, of Dinwoody, Ga., disap
peared recently with the widow of his
brother-in-law, J. C. Adams. Wilson was
administrator of Adams’ estate, and is j
short $6,(XX) to $8,000. Mrs. Adams left
three children absolutely destitute,
Thomas Jefferson was sentenced at
Memphis, Tenn., recently, to be hanged
January 18 for the murder of William i
Ragland on October 19 last. Ragland j
was a hack-driver. Jefferson surprised :
him in the room with a woman who was
intimate with both of them and cut his j
throat.
A fire broke out in Pickens, Miss., a few
days ago, and the following business
places were destroyed: D. W. Brit’s res
taurant, N. Oliver’s drug store, Hugh
Tucker’s saloon, Blair & Furgeson’s gen
eral store and Gus Roussell’s barber shop.
Detectives Wickliff and Bloomfield, of
Paducah, Ky., recently arrested Green
Foster and Green Cobb at Mercer for
train robbery. During the past few weeks
much freight has been stolen from the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley cars
between Paducah and Louisville. The
crime was traced to Foster, who is an em
ploye of the road. After the arrest be
confessed and implicated Cobb as an ac
complice. Part of the plunder has been
found in an old deserted coal mine.
A boiler at Wilcox’s steam mill near
Evergreen, Ala., exploded a few days
since, killing four men and wounding
several.
A creditor’s bill against J. H. McKenzie
& Co., of Waynesboro, Ga., charges that
the firm is insolvent with liabilities from
$80,000 to $100,000.
The Georgia House of Representatives
has appropriated .$500,000 for the common
schools of the State. The bill will prob
ably be passed by the Senate.
A fire broke out in a cottage in La Villa,
Fla., a few days ago, and eight houses
were destroyed, including several stores
and shops; loss $12,000.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Manship, worthy and
higjily respected citizens of Jackson,
Mias., celebrated their goMen jedding at
their family residence recently.
The boiler of the cotton-gin on G. W.
Turner’s place, near Montgomery, Ala., a
few days since,exploded, killing Geo.Tur
ner and two negros outright and wound
ing seven others.
Charles Burns, a painter, was shot and
killed on the street in Paducah, Ky., a
few nights ago. Policeman William
Mount was arrested on suspicion of hav
ing fired the shot, but protested his inno
cence. The murder remains a mystery.
Rabbi A. R. Levy, of Chicago, who was
arrested in that city some time ago and
taken back to New Orleans charged with
having obtained certain mortgage notes
by fraud, was tried in the latter city and
acquitted.
Since the result of the late presiden
tial election became known there has
been great activity among the moonshin
ers in the mountains of East Tennessee.
The mountaineers rarely read papers, and
many of them think the revenue law has
been repealed by the Republicans, hence
they are very bold in the making of illicit
whisky. A big raid on these wild
catters is organizing and will soon be
made.
A violent explosion of blasting powder
took place in the Reincke coal mines, neat
Earlington, Ky., a few evenings since,
which resulted in the death of Alex. Ash
ley, Ed Rear and Titus Merritt, three
miners, and in the destruction o f $3,000
worth of property.
The body of William Spry, of Davie
County, N. C., was found lying on the
floor of his room, in a pool of blood, a few
days ago. There was a bullet hole in his
teg from which he had bled to death.
Spry, who was an ex-convict, had been
charged with incendiarism in Davie Coun
ty, and evidence was accumulating against
him.
Harry Smart, charged with the murder
of Meisner Green and Bell Ward, who
were found floating in the river at Louis
ville, Ky., last summer, was found guilty,
and the sentence fixed was death. Smart,
on another count of the same charge, was
convicted several weeks ago, and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
Notwithstanding all efforts made to
capture him, and the large reward offered,
Eugene Bunch, the train-robber, it is now
definitely known, is in the vicinity of New
Orleans, and is liable to be heard from at
any unexpected moment.
Mrs. John Lee, working in a laundry at
Chattanooga, Tenn., with her hair hang
ing down her back, got too close to a re
volving pulley, a few days since, which
caught the hair and jerked her head
against the shaft, fracturing her skull and
injuring her fatally.
As Wm. Carneal, a farmer, residing
south of Guthrie, Ky., was attempting to
cross the railroad, driving a team, a few
nights ago, a train of freight cars sudden
ly came upon him, and, striking his wagon,
demolished it, killed his horses and in
jured him so seriously that little hope was
entertained of his recovery.
Robert W. Page was boiled to death at
Atlanta, Ga., a few days since. He was
an employe of Weller’s slaughter house.
While under the influence of liquor he fell
into the large kettle kept full of hot water,
in which hogs were scalded. He had been
in the kettle over an hour when found,
and his body was boiled almost into jelly.
Nine hundred and fifty telephones, here
tofore the property of the National Im
proved, Crescent City and New Orleans
Telephone companies, were burned at
New Orleans, a few days ago, under the
direction of Frank B. Knight, of the
American Bell Telephone Company, of
Boston. These instruments were adju dged
by the United States Court to infringe the
patents of the Bell company, and as they
could not be utilized they were destroyed
Jacksonville refugees are returning.
FULL OF FUN.
—i“I’d just like to go abroad and set
tle down in France,” said Mrs. Sprig
gins. “The life of a Parisite is so
free fr m care and trouble!”—Harper's
Bazar.
—Political Orator ( furiously )—
“Now, fellow-citizens, if this man is
elected what is the result?” A Voice
—“His opponent will be defeated.”—
All Sorts.
—“I saw a cool deed this morning,”
remarked Fangle at the supper table.
“What was it?” asked his wife, with
deep interest. “The title to an ioe
house,” replied the wretch.—Exchange.
—Mistress (to Bridget, who is clean
ing windows in the second story) —
“Geraldine, a man has just rung the
basement bell.” Bridget—“Ask ’im
up to the parlor, and till him Oi’ll be
down in a jiffy.”—Time.
—“Little boy, do you understand
what is meant by energy and enter
prise?” “No, sir, I don’t think I do.”
“Well, I will tell you. One of the rich
est men came here without a shirt to
his back, and now he has got mill
ions.” “Millions! How many does he
put on at a time?”
—“So you found the clock ticked sc
loud that you couldn’t sleep?” said the
jeweler to customer who returned a
clock. “You ought not growl when
you have your folding-bed ticking un
der you all night.” The man took the
clock home again. — Life.
—“My sould and body!” said old
Mrs. Evergreen, as she looked intently
at the indicator in the car, just as the
conductor rang up two fares. “I de
clare if ’taint two o’clock, an’ it warn’t
mor’n a minit after I got on that it
struck one! These here city people do
live terrible fast.”—Jeweler's Weekly.
■—Miss Wideawake (to young agri
culturist from Vermont)—“I fancy,
Mr. Sidehill, that you are very fond of
husbandry?” Mr. Sidehill (with an
unutterable expression)—“I s’pose 1
would be, Miss Wideawake, if I could
find the right kind Of a gal. Terns
Sift i ays.
$T«ik»r—“Why is it that you don’t
pay for that suit? I have c»Hcti rfro
repeatedly, and all I can get out of you
is promises.” Young Actor—“Well,
you know all the papers call mo a
promising comedian.” Tailor—“Yes;
but promises are not performances.”
Young Actor—“Well, come up to the
theater any night, and you will see my
performance. ”—America.
—A small boy whose record for de
portment at school had always stood at
a hundred, came home one day recent
ly with his standing reduced to ninety
eight. “What have you been doing,
my son?” asked his doting mother.
“Been doing?” replied the young hope
ful. “Been doing just as I have been
doing all along—only the teacher
caught me this time.”
—Old Mrs. Bently—“What are you
readin’, Josiah?” Old Mr. Bently—'
“I’m readin1 ’bout a prize fight atween
Hoboken’s Rat an' Teddy the Flip. The
paper says that what-his-name put the
the other fellow to sleep in the fifth
round.” Old Mrs. Bently—“Gracious,
Josiah, what a dreadful thing to read
about, an’ sech dreadful names! Still,
he must have some kindness of heart
or he wouldn’t put the other man to
sleep. ”—Epoch.
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EFFECTS OF COFFEE.
A Useful Preventive Against, Infection*
and Epidemic Disease*.
Coffee owes its stimulating and re
freshing qualities to caffeine. It also
contains gum and sugar, fat, acids,
casein and wood fiber. Like tea, it
powerfully increases the respiration;
but, unlike it, does notaffectits depth.
By its use the rate of the pulse is in
creased and the action of the skin di
minished. It lessens the amount of
blood sent to the organs of the body,
distends the veins and contracts the
capillaries, thus preventing waste of
tissue. It is a mental stimulus of a
high order, and one that is liable to
great abuse. Carried to excess, it
produces abnormal wakefulness, indi
gestion, acidity, heart-burn, tremors,
debility, irratability of temper,
trembling, irregular pulse, a kind
of intoxication ending in de
lirium and great injury to the
spinal functions. Unfortunately, there
are many coffee tipplers who depend
upon it as a drunkard upon his dram.
On the other hand, coffee is of sover
eign efficacy in tiding over the nerv
ous system in emergencies. Coffee is
also, in its place, an excelent medi
cine. In typhoid fever its action is
frequently prompt and decisive. It is
I indicated in the early stages before
local complications arise. Coffee dis
pels stupor and lethargy, is an antidote
for many kinds of poison, and is valu
able in spasmodic asthma, whooping
cough, cholera infantum, and Asiatic
cholera. It is also excelent as a pre
ventive against infectious and epidemic
diseases. In districts rife with malaria
and fever, the drinking of hot coffee
before passing into the open air has
enabled persons living in such places
to escape contagion. —Boston Journal
of Commerce