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HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE.
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"volume X._HUNTSVILLE. ALA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1889. NUMBER 46. - -
Tnr American cruisers are Conceded
. Lien experts to be the best ves
fe[5 of their class possessed by any
frnvcrnmcnt. _
—— 11 —
AT the recent voting contest at the
stLoui3 Exposition for choice of a
V.t'on-il dower over 21.000 votes were
i Golden-Bod received a
Siaed plurality, the Sunflower being
cccond choice.
q, the Paris newspapers esti
mates that the loss to France which
vould result from customs union be
tvvn the United States and the other
independent countries of this continent
would amount to about $20,000,000 a
I i’c:ir‘ _
I'nnM the increasing frequency of
rear-end collisions on railways the last
coach of a train U getting to be as un
do-irable a place as the first. About
lho only way to do is to get in the
center and take chances of catching it
—
A< < oni>iN(« to the Idlest estimates in
1hc list of corn-producing States this
m, Iowa stands first. Missouri sec
ond. Kansas third, and Illinois fourth.
■i aggregate yield of these four
Natesisput at 1,141,000,000 bushels,
or over one-half of the total corn
product of the country.
Ai r. the preliminaries looking to the
election of Hinpolyte to the post of
President of Hayti have been gone
through with, and that individual will
have virtually no opposition. Theo
retically, tlm term of the President is
seven years, but actually he is gener
allv forcibly removed before that time,
as Legitimo, who was elected in 1888,
was.
The death of Eliza Cook, at the ad
vanced age of seventy-two, serves to
[ recall Ihe fact that she was one of the
most popular of English poets about
orty years ago. Her name has prac
tically disappeared from our litera
ture. but many now living can remem
ber when “The Old Arm Chair” and
others of her productions were regard
ed with universal favor.
Maki.vc; an allowance even for the
1 great reduction in prices in recent
years, the value of the agricultural
yield ot the country in 1889 will prob
ably he greater in the aggregate than
it was in any year in the past. The
products of our mines, too, will un
doubtedly be in excess of that of any
previous year, while the output of our
factories and mills will be fully up to
the biggest past record.
I he:;k b very little emigration from
France, but in point of population it is
| almost at a standstill. In several de
partments more deaths than births are
recorded in the returns for 1888, and
for the last 11 vo years the number of
births in the whole republic has been
steadily decreasing every month. If
tlii- condition of affairs continues the
proportion of native-born citizens to
immigrants will soon become very
smia ! for an old country like France.
HIE annual meeting of the National
' trade, which convenes at Lou
■'D'l®, Ky., Wednesday,October 16, is
expected to bo the largest ever held in
'■■is country. Several important ques
tions are to be discussed. “The River
an Harbor Improvements,” “Our River
Highways, “Adulteration of Lard,”
tleoan Steam Commerce,” “Prohibi
C'n of Pooling," “Basis for Banking,”
Internal-Revenue Taxation,” and
ii'c National Bankrupt Law,” are
c-’j'vts that not only interest boards
>■ ule. but the whole country.
t. Lons is to have a celebration of
1 Day as one of the features of
festivities, in which the Ger
'■•ns intend showing their
■-':! a9 upholders ot American in
0:i'i No (lags, no regalias, no
s puve the flag of our country
i in 1 he parade, and every
icipating will wear a miniature
lat e,nblem of our nationality. At
•irangement the handful of An
i the city are wroth, they
k°ped for an opportunity to
jY 'r‘0ir red flag. Not even a
■'"Cr of Socialistic tendencies can
‘aplace on the programme.
- - Department of State has been
. v informed that the executive
' ■ • of the Argentine Republic has
' :flre the Congress a draft of a
t'iding 75,000,000 acres of gov
.■"“'■ent land in the Territory of Chu
j “ ° small holdings, from 500 to
<0,’ :os ea<;h, and offering the same
ir,iv at from to $3. national
o„.:.YifPer hoctare—about two and
ltiS.pr0pO8ed t0 di'
c an *10e iu’ea 1Qto ten sections,
to Argentine settlers, and
Sttinr'qv le?Pectively to the different
%rY;Ules of Eur°Pe suPPLving ira
‘t0 the Argentine Republic.
Ja'-^0Uth American dele
i.ee „ .‘e ^ lu’oe Americas confer
‘■iiihiir ■ *° enl*lusiasti'-'l over the pos
eons,l:Y°: benefit to the countries
.diat th«y are even hinting
<0rI'n ' °n a sort of federation
1’-'Publics of the continent.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The remains of Captain Schooumaker
of the Vandalia, who was drowned at
Samoa during the hurricane last March,
have been disinterred and will be
brought to America on the Monongahela.
The Catholic primate of .Armagh, Ire
land, recently announced that the Pope
will probably leave R ome shortly. The
P rimate took occasion to deplore the In
creasing lack of reverence and religion
in Ireland.
■Stephen Chamberlain, who disap
peared mysteriously from Owego. N. Y.,
last July, aud whose life insurance was
recently paid to his wife on account of
his supposed death, is said to be doing
business as a broker at Baltimore, Md.
The Paris Exposition awards were dis
tributed on the 29th. President Carnot
thanked the governments and exhibitors
who had contributed to the success of the
exposition.
On the 28th General Samuel G. Sturgis,
U. S. A., died at his home in St. Paul,
Minn. He graduated from West Point in
1846, along with George B. McClellan,
Stonewall Jackson, Stoneman, Pickett
and many famous soldiers. He was en
gaged in some of the most important
battles of the war of the rebelion, and
fought Indians in the Northwest for forty
years, retiring from active command
three years ago.
Hon. J. G. Washburn, Minister to
Switzerland, arrived in New York, on the
29 th.
C. A. Pili.sbury denies the report that
the mills of Minneapolis, Minn., have
been sold to an English syndicate.
On the 29th ex-Queen Natalie returned
to Belgrade. She was enthusiastically
welcomed by the populace, but the gov
ernment ignored her presence.
On the 29th Hon. B. B. Stiles, one of the
first settlers of Denver, Col., and twice
mayor of that city, died suddenly from
apoplexy.
Pep.iiy Belmont writes to the New York
Herald from Newport, R. I., that he is
not a candidate for the Congressional
nomination in the Ninth (N. Y.) Con
gressional district, and says that he has
no present desire to return to Congress.
It is charged by the New Haven (Conn.)
Union that Superintendent Munson of
the Noroton Soldiers’ Home has opened
letters containing pension checks ad
dressed to inmates of the home, and
compeled the veterans to turn the money
(over to him or be dismissed from the in
stitution.
It is stated by Rhenish papers that the
romarriage of Count Von Hatzfeldt, Ger
man Ambassador to London, to his di
vorced wife, formerly a Miss Moulton, of
Canada, will take place shortly at Wies
baden. Their separation, the papers al
lege, was formal and for political rea
sons.
Kino Alexander, it is announced, has
refused to call upon his mother, ex
Queen Natalie, until he receives permis
yion to do so from his father, ex-King
Milan.
It is announced that the statement that
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., is so ill that
she can not recover is untrue. Her at
tending physicians say that though she
is very sick, there is every chance of re
covery.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
An explosion occurred, ou tne 26th, in
Laflin & Rand’s powder-mill, at Cres
sona, Pa. William Scropp, Sam Stotaf
and Henry Reed were instantly killed,
and a number of other workmen were se
riously injured.
On the 28th an explosion occurred iu a
coal mine at Homberg-on-the-Rhine,
R henisli Prussia, killing ten persons and
injuring several others, some of them
fatally.
On the 29th Frank Duffy, a justice of the
peace at Jay Gould, Moat., was fatally
stabbed by John Glendeuniug iu a quar
rel growing out of an old grudge. Duffy
was the aggressor, and Glendenning
claims he acted in self-defense.
On the 27th, by the capsizing of a row
boat in South Watuppa pond, near Fall
River, Mass., Louis Dubois, aged fifty
three years; Nathale Dubois, bis niece,
aged thirty-eight years; Mrs. Gao. Mich
aud, her daughter, Leah Michaud, aged
seven, and Rosanna Levitere, aged eight,
were drowned. Mary Michaud was res
cued.
On the night of the 27th the first section
of the St. Louis express on the New York
Central railroad broke down when near
Palatine Bridge, N. Y., and the sec
ond section plunged into it with terrific
force, wrecking several crowded cars
and killing a large number of passen
gers.
Harry Flynn, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who
embezzled over 000 from the Marine
National Bank of that city, was sentenced
to five years in the Western Pennsylvania
penitentiary and to pay the cost of the
prosecution.
On the 28th chemicals exploded in the
artillery laboratory at Spaudau, Ger
many, wrecking a part of the building.
No one was killed, but twenty-two women
and ten men were more or less seriously
hurt
John Frieze shot and killed his be
trothed, Miss Georgie Stone, at Balti
more, Md., ou the 29th, for walking with
another young mau.
On the 30th two unknown men were
struck by a train ou the Philadelphia &
Wilmington railroad at Wilmington, Del.,
and instantly killed.
At Allentown. Pa., on the 30th, Matthias
Gruber was shot at target practice by
Achilles Becker, and died the same day.
The coroner’s jury exonerated Becker,
Gruber was a member of Company B,
Fourth regiment.
At Waterloo, la., Sher fE Hoxie was
shot in the head, on the 30th, by one < f
three horse-thieves who were confined in
the county jail at that place awaiting
trial. The sheriff had just entered the
jail to give the prisoners their supper,
when one of them fired the shot that
wounded him. All of the men escaped.
On the 80th PatCalhouu. J. D. William
son, Henry Jackson and John King, prin
cipals and seconds in the recentCalhoun
Williamson duel in Alabama, were
each placed under ;Jo00 bonds to appear
in court December 1.
On the 30th two express trains running
in opposite directions between Naples
and Foggia, Italy, came into collision
while running at a high rate o£ spaed
through a tunnel. Twenty carriages were
wrecked and fifty persons killed or in
jured.
At Titusville, Fla., W. H. Adams died,
on the 30th, from the bite of a rattle
snake, in spite of prompt medical a'id
and the imbibing of Jorge quantities of
whisky.
Judge Net, of Waterloo, Ia„.ia im
posing sentence upon M. E. Billings, con
victed of manslaughter in the first de
gree, remarked that had he been a juror
he would have voted for acquittal. He
then pronounced upon the prisoner the
full limit of the law. Billiugs was con
victed of the murder of County Attor
ney Kinsley at Waverly, la., in Decem
ber, 1887.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Rifiians have delivered to the
Spanish representatives the men capt
ured from a Spanish vessel. This is sup
posed to end the trouble between Spain
and Morocco.
Late advices state that besides the
Adams and Monongahela the only war
vessel at Samoa is the Herman corvette
Sophie.
It is said that the New York syndicate
of the Brotherhood of Base Ball Players
have leased of Mr. James J. Coogan two
blocks of ground lying between One
Hundred and Fifty-seventh and One Hun
dred and Fifty-ninth streets, and Eighth
and Ninth avenues, for a term of ten
years at an annual rental of $21,000.
Several weeks ago the store-ship Mo
nongahela arrived at Apia from Pago
Pago and loaded all the guns and stores
saved from the wrecked ships Trenton
and Vandalia.
A number of the miners employed in
the collieries atMons, Belgium, have gone
out on strike.
On the 30th the stringency in the money
market in New York City was marked,
and at one time call loans iwere made at
the rate of thirty per cent, per annum.
In fact all day the ruling rate was ten
per cent., and the demand grew more
urgent in the last few minutes, when the
highest rate was recorded. At the close
the stiugency continued, aud the lowest
offer was at fifteen per cent.
On the 30th the cotton corner in the
Euglish market completely collapsed.
The month weut at 6 22-24d for Sep
tember options—thirty points uuder the
highest price for the month.
On the 30th the British steamer Recta
arrived at Baltimore, Md„ in ballast from
St. Lucia, West indies, to load for Lon
don, and was quarantined with eight of
her crew suffering from chagres fever.
It is announced that Texas fever has
broken out iu Erie, Pa., twenty milch
cows dying in two days. The disease
was carried East by a drove of Texas
steers shipped by Armour & Co.
On the 30th the Douglas Axe Works at
East Douglas, Mass., resumed operations
to run out the stock on hand, aud will
probably run three months.
On the 30th a party of 103 ladies and
gentlemen lett Boston bound for Sioux
City, la., at the invitation of the Board of
Trade of that city to attend the Corn Fes
tival. The party is made up mostly of
business and newspapermen and capital
ists from all parts of New England and
members of their families.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
The Board of Aldermen of Newport
Ark., has fixed license for tippling houses
>r dram shops in Newport for the year
•390 at $2,000.
Through the efforts of the National
Humane Society and the Kentucky division
of that body a conditional pardon has been
obtained from Gov. Buckner for Linville
Combs, the youngest life convict ever sent
to a penitentiary.
Committees of National Farmers'
Alliance are in session at Atlanta, Ga
These committees are made up of one man
from each cotton State, and to them is in
trusted the work of engineering the fight
on the jute trust.
Ciiari.es Debow, who killed Dr. TV. B.
Cummings in White county, Tenn., three
years ago, has been convicted at Sparta
and sentenced to imprisonment for two
years.
The sixth annual fair of the Noxubee
County Agricultural Society began at
Macon, Miss., on the 1st., and from the
large attendance, which e ceeded any
during the existence of the association ou
the first day, promises to be the most sue
cessful ever hold in that county.
Chancellor Gibson, at Knoxville,
Tenn., has declared the Dortch iaw estab
lishing the Australian ballot system in
Tennessee, and also the registration law,
to be unconstitutional.
Bishop Chas. B. Galloway was at
Holly Springs, Miss., on the 39th and took
n collection for the endowment fund of
the proposed Methodist Male College in
Mississippi. He secured something over
$1,000. He now has $34,000 of the $50,000
necessary to secure the offer made by Maj.
Millsaps.
All of the miners at the Sloss Steel and
Iren Company’s mines at Birmingham,
Ala., went out on a strike on the 30tb.
There are about 500 of them. The company
jas been paying 55 cents per ton, but re
cently opened a new seam which was easy
to mine and reduced the rate on that seam
5 per cent.
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, on the 30th
ordered Adjutabt-General McCord to issue
an order forbidding millitary companies
.■.ntling on Sunday.
Tiiosias McCarthy, a young mulatto
about twelve years of age, and a would-be
anarchist, was arrested at Memphis, Tenn.,
in the 30th charged with attempting to
blow up the house of Ralph McClelland.
The Aberdeen, Miss., Fair will be hold
October 15, 16, 17, 18. Many fast horses
k be iu attendance and preparations are
being made to accommodate the largs
crowd that is sure to attend.
The jail at Newport, Ark., holds George
Gonld, who inhumanly chopped his father
in-law, Sam Price, to death with an ax.
FLACK’S FIX.
Sheriff Flack of New York County and
Ilia Co-Conspirators in tl»e Fraudulent
Divorce Case Indicted by the Grand
•Jury—Supplementary Report of the
Grand .fury Reflecting; on Certain Offi
cers of the f'oort Granting the Divorce.
New \ ork, Out. 1.—Shortly after noon
yesterday the grand jury entered the
Court of Sessions, Part Oae, and handed
in indicfrueiyts for perjury -and con
spiracy again J; James A. Flack, sheriff;
William FlaMfm& son; Referee Meeks,
Mrs. R.aymond and Judge Monoll.
In addition to handing in indictments
against the Flack conspirators, the grand
jury presented a supplementary report,
which says:
This alleged action for divorce from the first
step to the final decree was characterized not j
only by gross irregularities, but by fraud, de
ceit and collusion. That such an action could
be so conducted, facilitated and concluded in
one of our highest courts of record is a matter
of grave public concern, and it behooves the
judges and officers of our courts and all officials
charged with the administration of our laws to
see to it that like practices do not prevail in j
other cases.
We call the attention of the Legislature and
the courts to the fact that, while consent,
connivance or collusion as to the commission
of adultery is expressly prohibited, yet an ac
tion of divorce may be instituted and main
tained by consent and collusion of the parties
thereto. We consider that the practice of ap
pointing referees in divorce cases is most per
nicious, and is conducive to the very dangers
and abuses which the Flack case has exposed.
We call the attention of the judges of the
Court of Common Pleas to the system of en
tering the minutes and the tiling of papers ob
served in the office of the clerk of that court.
We also cull the attention of the General
Term of the Supreme Court to the unprofes
sional conduct in this case of two of the officers
of this court—Ambrose Monell and Joseph
Meeks. It is obvious that the decree of divorce
could not have been obtained without the sanc
tion of Judge Bookstaver. That sanction was
obtained, partly by deceit and imposture, and
purtly by either judicial negligence or judicial
collusion; wo have not determined which.
We do not impute to Judge Bookstaver corrupt
action in the sense of protit or gain—such ac
tions alone are not the only means by which
the bench may he degraded and judicial use
fulness impaired. Neglect, remissness and
complaisance to friends are liable to produce
like results. We are of the opinion that
among other things the crime of conspiracy has
been committed. The conspirators, from
their position in life, their knowledge and ex
perience, have been enabled to so shroud their
actions that an understanding and discovery
were made exceedingly difficult.
Bench warrants were issued for the
sheriff and Ihe others indicted with him,
anil all will appear in court to-day ex
cept Civil Justice Monell, who is too ill
to leave his bed, and who will furnish
hail for his subsequent appearance.
NATALIE'S TRIUMPH.’
Tlie Enthusiastic Welcome of the Popu
lace of Belgrade to Ex-Queen Natalie
Moved the Itoyal T.ady to Tears—The
Infant King Alexander Said to be Jeal
ous of His Mother's Popularity—Must
Ask Pa.
London, Oct. L—The enthusiastic wel
come given to ex-Queen Natalie by the
populace of Belgrade astonished, i? it
did not dismay, the government officials,
who sought to accentuate their displeas
ure at the persistence of the royal lady
in disregarding their wishes respecting
her visit to her son. The extent of the
demonstration was so great as to render
the lack of courtesy on the part of the
officials of the government unnoticeable
and to move the ex-Qneen to tears. The
bouses along the principalstreets.as well
as the residences of the nobility and in
habitants of the better class, were pro
fusely aud beautifully decorated, and in
all respects the reception surpassed any
thing of the kind that has ever been seen
at the Servian capital.
The most notable exception to the rule
of decoration of private residences was
that of Madame Ciiristicli, wife of the
late Servian Minister to Germany, and
mistress of ex-King Milan. This omis
sion can be regarded by Natalie in no
other light than as complimentary, since
it is a matter of Servian court notoriety
that the ex-Queen took occasion to so
publicly evince her detestation of Ma
dame Christich and her appreciation of
the King’s lack of decency in bringing
his mistress into the presence of his
wife that both were overwhelmed with
confusion.
It is stated in official circles in Bel
grade that the young King, Alexander,
has become excessively jealous of bis
mother’s popularity, but the courtesy
shown to her by the Russian Minister and
others not over-friendly to the present
governing power of Servia, will prob
ably deter the boy’s advisers from coun
seling him to resent the demonstration
or to treat his mother with any marked
lack or filial attention.
Belgrade, Oct. 1.—It is announced
that King Alexander has refused to call
upon his mother, ex-Queen Natalie, until
he receives permission to do so from his
father, ex-King Milan.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
Flattering Advances in the Value of Prop
erty in Tennessee—Increased Revenues.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 30.—The
Times this morning publis' 's reports
from 75 of th9 90 counties comprising the
State of Tennessee, showing an increase
of the value of real estate and personal
property of $26,000,000 over the assessment
of 1888, and an increase of $100,000,090 over
the assessment of 1885. The increase
of $109,000,099 taxables in three years is
unprecedented in the history of any State
in the Union. The reports show the total
value of taxables for 1889, including $32,
290.303 railroad properties, aggregates
$356 456,761. The revenue of the State will
also be increased this year by the collec
tion of $125,090 account of back taxes from
corporations that have been heretofore
inadequately assessed. The State debt
of Tennessee now aggregates .$13,339,000.
2 -25 per cent, of the taxable property of
the State. The State Comptroler writes
to the Times that the increased revenue
will enable the State to pay its entire
floating debt within fifteen months.
The Times, commenting on the figures,
gays: “Tennessee has for some time
past been in financial disrepute; but
there is no reason why it should not take
a foremost reputable stand, and it will
speedily do so if the authorities at Nash
ville will handle its finances io a prudent,
business-like manner. M
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,
Thrown From a Huggv and Killed.
Mrs. Newton Hudson, of Shop Springs,
Wilson County, Teun., was thrown from
a buggy and killed. Sue was caught in a
wheel and dragged three-quarters of a
mile. The body was horribly mangled.
A North Carolina Poisoning Case.
The coroner’s jury in the Morris poi
soning case in the town of Reidsville, N.
C., rendered a verdict, after a long aud
laborious examination, of the witnesses
and the attendant circumstances. The
verdict rendered was that D. E. Morrip
came to his death by the use of chloro
form administered by his wife, Cora
Scales Morris. The womau has been ar
rested aud is now in the hands of the
sheriff. Although the result of the in
vestigation was generally anticipated,
the final decision of the jury has caused
the most intense excitement. Mrs. Mor
ris is a kinswoman of ex-Governor Scales
and a member of one of the best-kuown
families in the State.
Industrial School for Girls*
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill for the establishment o£ a State in
dustrial school for girls. It is to be
based on the plan of the Mississippi In
dustrial School.
The Heavenly Road.
Away down on the eastern coast of
Horida is a piece of railroad almost too
short to be indicated on the map, and
called the Jupiter & Lake Work railway.
Its length is eight miles and the stations
are named Jupiter, Venus, Mars and
Juno.
A Pythian Temple.
The corner-stone of the first Pythian
temple in the South and third in the
world was laid at Jackson by Grand
Chancelor F. Wilson, in the presence of
visiting Knights from all over the State.
The castle will cost $30,000, and will be
used for business, an opera hall and
Pythian castle.
Natural Gas In Tennessee.
There is considerable excitement over
the discovery of natural gas in the neigh
borhood of Murfreesboro, Tenn. It is
not known whether or not it is in paying
quantities. It is on the farm of J. J.
Hillman, a Birmingham capitalist, and
he will probably investigate it
Kentucky Immigration Society.
The State immigration convention was
held at Louisville, recently, under the
auspices of the State League of Com
mercial Clubs. Governor Buckner called
the meeting to order. Speeches were
made by Dr. Broaddus, of the Baptist
Theological School, State Geologist
Proctor and others. Resolutions look
ing to the establishment of a State bureau
of information and immigration were
adopted.
The Cotton Crop.
In Ceutral Alabama the farmers re
port the damage done to the cotton crop
by rain very small. Cotton has opened
very rapidly, and, owing to the further
fact that labor is very scarce, the harvest
is late and the fields are white with open
i cotton.
The Question of Tare.
At a meeting of the Memphis (Tenu.)
Cotton Exchange the resolutions adopted
by the New Orleans convention, fixing a
tare of twenty-four pounds and sixteen
pounds on bales covered with jute and
cotton bagging, respectively, were unan
imously rejected. It was recommended
that the factors in the Memphis market
tier in warehouses all cotton-covered
bales separately from jute-covered bales,
and that it be sold upon its merits sepa
rate and apart therefrom.
The Jute Dagglng War.
Large quantities of cotton are being
marketed at Greenville, Ala., fully two-,
thirds of which is covered with cotton
bagging. The war against the Jute Trust
is so bitter there that farmers will pay
almost any price for cotton bagging, and
will withhold their crop from market
until they can get it rather than use the
jute. Farmers’ alliances throughout that
section of He cotton belt are boycotting
merchants who can not furnish them with
cotton ba gging.
A Novel Damage Suit.
A suit was filed in the Circuit Court at
Birmingham, Ala., recently against the
county for $35,000 damages by Thomas
F. Jones, administrator of AVill Myriek.
Myriek was convicted in the Criminal
Court of Jefferson County of carrying a
concealed weapon and worked out his
fine and costs. AA7hile so employed he
was instantly killed by the explosion of
a dynamite cartridge. The allegation is
that the explosion which killed Myriek
was caused by carelessness of a fellow
convict while tapping a blast.
Those Georgia Duelists.
Governor Gordon of Georgia was re
cently waited upon by an officer from
Alabama, who bore a warrant from Gov
ernor Seay of that State for the arrest
of Pat Calhoun and J. D. APilliamson, to
gether with their seconds, who were en
gaged in the recent duel ia Cherokee
Couuty, Ala. Governor Gordon at once
honored the requisition, and th9 whole
dueling party was arrested. They agreed
to meet in Montgomery, where proper
legal steps were to he inaugurated for
j their defense.
The New Orleans Proposition Dejected.
The St. Louis Cotton Exchange has re
jected the proposition of the New Orleans
convention that cotton be sold by net
weight
Jumped Hi# Bond.
AAHlliam B. Hussey, of Madison County,
Ala., under charge of murder, has fled
and forfeited a bail of $10,00). The Gov
ernor has offered a reward of $4,000, ths
limit allowed by law, for his apprehen
sion. Several years ago Hussey killed
uis brother-in-law, Matt O. Strong, was
tried at the February term this year,
found guilty and sentenced to twenty-five
years iu the penitentiary. The Supreme
Court granted him a new trial, and at the
August term, when his case was called,
uo was gone.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. 4
—The Duchess of “Fife is a capital t
ill-round gymnast and is especially V.
fond of fencing, at which sport she
excels.
—Mrs. Harrison recently remarked
that if a woman foves the society of
her husband she should never en
courage him to become a public man.
—Anton Meucci, Garibaldi’s old
compatriot, is stili Jiving at the ohi
House at Clifton, S.. L, in which Gari
baldi manufactured candles when in
this country'.
—One of Sag Harbor’s old citizen s
has quit the use of tobacco. He say's
he has smoked 75,000 cigars ^ucing
the past fifty-two years and did not be
gin until he was twenty-four years
old.
—Engineer Folsom, who ran the ill
fated Ashtabula train at the time ol
the disaster, has never since handled
an engine throttle. He is now work
ing in a purchasing department of a
Western railroad.
—A short time ago a lady, the first
of her sex, graduated in medicine in
Mexico. As an appropriate compli
ment her fellow-students of the other
sex got up an amateur bull fight in
honor of the occasion.
—The Countess Marie Edle von
Ameline, who recently arrived in San
Francisco, has been traveling in India
for the past three years, and has been
amusing herself by hunting tigers and
other large jungle game. She is only
thirty-five years old and worth a mill
ion or more. She is said to carry with
her jewels of great value.
—There is a man in Biddeford, Me.,
who has whittled so industriously and
skillfully for eleven years as to bring
himself into notice. Among the prod
ucts of his jackknife are a violin case
made of 2,937 pieces of wood of 106 dif
ferent kinds; a yoke of oxen and a
cart, put together in a glass jar with a
small neck, and a great number of
really well-made animals.
—The death was recently reported
of a mechanic of marvelous ingenuity
and wonderful skill, Mr. Fasoldt, of
Albany, N. Y. When about seventy
years of age he devised a machine by
which he could scratch upon glass
about one million lines in an inch
spaca By aid of the microscope it is
only possible to see these rulings of a
fineness of 230,000 lines to the inch.
—Mr. Presley Saunders, uncle of
Mrs. Russell Harrison, recently died
at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He had lived
on the same quarter-section since 1834,
and one of bis children was born in
Michigan Territory, another in Wis
consin Territory, a third in Iowa Ter
ritory, and a fourth in the State of
Iowa. The family record is a lesson
in political geography.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
—First dude—‘‘I have tewible news. >
Charles is dead.” Second dude—"How
did he die?” First dude—"His cane
fell on him.”—Boston Beacon.
—The man who feels around in the
dark for a door, and gets an arm on
each side of it, occupies the time of a
recording angel for fully five minutes.
—Puck.
—The watermelon come* again.
On greedy lips to sweetly melt.
And Johnny, feebly, will complain
Because it hits below the belt.
—Washington Post.
—Finlan (at the rolling-mill scrap)
—“Have yez anny more gloves
handy?” Master of ceremonies—“We
have.” Finlan—“Put wan on me op
ponint’s head, ’r th’ match doan’tcome
off. Oi’ve fit wid coons befoor.”—
Judge.
—They had missed the train, and
she was telling him so emphatically.
“You are not in your right mind, are
you?” she said. “Certainly not, my
love,” he responded sweetly, as hus
bands always do under such circum
stances; “certainly not; Pm in my left
mind.”—Washington Critic.
—Judge (to prisoner)—“So you were
drunk .and disorderly. What have you
to say?” Prisoner—“I’ve a good deal
to say, your honor, if you’ll only give
me time to say it.” Judge—“Cer
tainly, with pleasure. Sixty days
will be enough, won’t it? Our object
is to please.”—Washington Critic.
—Miss Gushley—"I so often see
some one spoken of as being beautiful'
as a poet’s dream. Do you poets have
more beautiful dreams than we com*
mon mortals?” Mr. A. Tenoyson Fiz
zle— “I hardly know. I generally
dream of porterhouse steaks, fried
chickens and that sort of thing.”—'
Terre Haute Express.
—“Are you fond of autographs, Mrs.
Mushroom?-’ asked the aesthetic young,
lady of the practical visitor. “Xo; I
don’t go much on ’em, but my son,
who’s away at college, has a big col
lection of the handwritin’ of great cei
ebrights. I reckon I'll surprise him.
some when he gets hack this summer.”
“In what way?” “Well, you s"6e, some
of them celebrights writ such poor
writin’ that I had all the names copied.
otT in a neat hand in a big book. You
have no idee how much better they
look. That other truck, that nobody
?ouldn’t make out, I just burned up."
—America.