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VOLUME X._ HUNTSVILLE. ALA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1889. NUMBER 48.
Bismarck insists that the peace of
Europe is secure; but the Avar prepara
fions of all the leading nations in
dicate that they have a strong presenti
ment that he may at any time change
hie mind upon the subject^
Tiik fraudulent divorce business has
received a severe blow in the action oi
the New York courts, by which all se
cret proceedings in divorce cases are
forbidden. If the courts everywhere
would adopt the same policy, the di
vorce evil would be at once materially
lessened.
Tiik London Times ventures the
prediction that the Suterrmtlondl
American Congress will not have any
practical results. It will be remem
bered that the same authority has
prophesied on other subjects in the
Iia,t oniv to find itself most lamenta
bly mistaken. _
The Canadians feel slighted because
they were not invited to take part in
the Congress of the Americas. This
feeling is unreasonable. The gather
ing is participated in by independent
nations simply. The only method by
which the Canadians can secure rec
ognition in affairs of this sort is by
getting annexed to the United States
or setting up business for themselves.
The general impression that the In
dian race is dying out does not appear
to he justified by the statistics. Ac
cording to the latest official reports,
our Indian population now aggregates
t'62,620. Several of the leading tribes
are stronger in numbers than they
were at the time of their greatest suc
cess in war, and the birth-rate, under
fostering governmental care, constant
ly exceeds the death-rate.
There have been several decided
changes in the amount and character
of the circulating medium during the
past year. In the first place the cir
culation has increased from $1,384,
310,280 October 1, 1888, to $1,405,018,
0C0 October 1, 1880, or $20,677,720.
The principal change in the character
of tho money in the hands of the peo
ple is in silver certificates. The cir
culation is now $276,619,715, or $58,
058,114 greater than a year ago.
The National Typothetae, in dealing
with the subject of international copy
right, pronounced in favor of the
scheme under a law competing all
copyrighted English works to be re
priuted in this country. This is tho
protective policy in a practical way,
and it will commend itself to all good
Americans. Under this law the En
glish author can he paid for his work
without filling this country with En
glish-made books.
Mi;. (Jlakstoxe pays this country a
high compliment in recognizing its
right to be considered, in the near fut
ure, and even now to a certain extent,
"the great organ of the powerful En
glish tongue.” There is no more strik
ing and important fact in the history of
civilization than the rapid advance
ment of this Nation to the place of
greatest honor and influence; and wise
statesmen like Mr. Gladstone no longer
dispute or ignore it.”
• h him; the recent Knights Templar
conclave at JWashingtonthe inquiry was
cpeah'dly made as to whether Presi
Unt Harrison was a member of the fra
ternity. 1 he President authorized tho
inswer that he is not a Mason of any
degree, and that the only secret or
ganization of which ho is a member,
ik,ide fl'om the G. A. K., is the old col
lege fraternity, tho Phi Delta Theta.
Leri- is not a Knight Templar in tho
resident s Cabinet, and only two
“Hseus of any degree.
Ini Secretary of the Treasury has
iered that, in recognition of their
’rnic service in the saving of human
■e during the great storm of Septem
; l to 12 hist, the salaries of John
■ t ampitt. keeper of Lewes (Del.)
1 "SavingStation; Theodore Salmons,
j • per of Cape Henlopen Station, and
- ' mas J. fruxton, keeper of Reho
■ Station, be increased to the max
amount allowed by law. All
'' connected with these stations
•’.ghly complimented.
lnfiuiry into the causes of deser
Jefferson Barracks, Mo., is
^n% conducted by the officers
if -1“ l^e investigation with a view
^ acing the responsibility where it
liut the St. Louis morning
j-e'c.‘? beem to desire to whitewash
|0r in advance, as they uni
3r; «• *I5t0rt ii1® evidence adduced.
Place °k.U‘ mai<e it appear that the
H0, ‘,as .^en almost a paradise.
Lawton^na1^ the. hands cf Colonel
wi ‘ f ■ aPtain Ebstein the record
! Pear in its true light
tob. :-K (’".'e!'nment crop report for Oc
the con'* ■t0 confirm the idea that
the Pr sl7 s ;l?r‘cultural products for
that hV- “!,J,oar wil1 coach a figure
Passi-fl if ever, been sur
Kississi",'°v1\|li8topy* As usual, the
iin ' alley loads.
i
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
On the 11th a conference concerning
the administration of the customs serv
ice at New York was held at the Treasury
Department between Secretary IVindora,
Assistant Secretaries Batcheller and
Tichenor, Collector Erhardt, Appraiser
Cooper, Surveyor Lyon and Chief Tingle
of the special agents division.
Tins Republican State convention of
Nebraska passed unanimously a resolu
tion indorsing Chicago as the place for
holding the World’s Fair in 1892.
On the 11th President Corbin of the
Reading railway sailed for New York
from Liverpool, by the steamer Umbria.
It was an nounced on the 11th that
Judge Ambrose Monett, of New York
City, who was indicted in connection
with the Flack divorce case, had had a
dangerous|relapse. and was very seriously
ill at his home. Four physicians were in
consultation over the sufferer.
Mayor Beacgrand of Montreal, Can.,
proprietor of La Patrie, has brought suit
against La Minerve, the organ of the Do
minion Government, for $200,000 dam
ages, for libel, for asserting tnat Beau
grand has no right to the decoration of
the Legion of Houor which he received
from General Boulanger when he was
Minister of War, and that it was ob
tained through fraud and presumably
was sold, as were others, by Wilson and
his friends.
It has been decided by Secretary Noble
that the rerating of Senator Manderson’s
pension by Commissioner Tanner was
illegal, and Senator Manderson has re
turned the rerated certificate for cancel
ation.
Captain Charles A. Dempsey, of the
Second Infantry, at Fort Omaha, Neb.,
charged with assaulting Lieutenant
Colonel Fletcher, the commanding officer
at the post, has been relieved from arrest
and restored to duty. The courtmartial,
alter a gentle reprimand, said the court
was thus leuient because of the indeco
rous, uuofficer-liko manner in which
Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher had con
ducted himself in the affair.
Governor Hill of New York, accom
panied by a party of friends, left Albany
on the 13th for Atlanta, Ga., to attend the
Piedmont exposition.
President St. John of the Mercant ile
National Bank of New York City has ad
dressed a letter to Secretary Windom in
corporating the views expressed in the
writer's address before the recent Bank
ers’ Convention at Kansas City, Mo., in
j favor of doubling the coinage of silver,
and retiring an amount of United States
legel-tender notes equal to the extra
coinage of silver.
On the 14th the three-mile sculling race
between Matterson and Bubear over the
Thames (England) course was won by
Matterson, who led from the start and fin
ished eight lengths ahead.
Captain Rishworth Jordan, a partici
pant in the war of 18L2, died at Iliddeford,
Mo., on the 13th, aged niuety-five years.
The chairman of the Montana Repub
lican central committee, announced on
the 14th that the Republicans had cer
tainly carried the Legislature of that
State either by one or throe majority.
On the 13th Wm. T. Miner, ex-Govern
or of Connecticut, died at Stamford,
aged seventy-four. He was Consul Gen
eral at Havana, in 1804, under Prosi leut
Lincoln.
The canvassers in Silver Bow County,
Mont., threw out the vote ill what is
known as the railroad precinct, which
gave the Democrats a majority of 174. If
this action is upheld by the courts it will
seat the entire Republican delegation
from the county (eleven members), over
come the Democratic majority in the
Legislature and give the Republicans
control of that body.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
At Taylor’s Hotel, Jersey (Jily, N. J.,
on the 11th, a man was found dead iu a
room with a pistol-shot wound in his
head, and a revolver lying on the bod by
his side. A letter on the table stated
that he did not want any word sent to his
friends, and gave his name of Robert
Payne, St. Louis.
On the 11th two children at Lima, O.,
were bitten by mad dogs. Frank P.ogart,
eight years old, was the first vietim, and
suffered intensely. The other was a two
yoar-old child of Johu Lindeman. It was
not badly hurt. Roth dogs were captured
and killed.
A boiler exploded iu Hugh’s planing
mill at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 12th,
tearing out an entire side of the building
and killing a negro named Charles Brad
shaw. The fireman, Dave Pnllman, was
blown fifty feet, but not fatally injured.
On the 13th three men were crushed to
death at Lansing, Mich., by the breaking
of tlib crane of a wrecking apparatus in
the attempt to raise a disabled engine.
On the 13th Mr. McMillen, a widely
known citizen of Le Flore County, Miss.,
and two negroes were killed by the ex
plosion of a steam boiler on the former’s
place at Shell Prairie.
At Rico, Col., on the 12th, John Phil
lips, Cash Carpenter and an unknown
man were burned to death in the destruc
tion of the St. James Hotel.
After due warning Sergeant Holston
shot and instantly killed J. P. Erren and
wounded James Steel, drunkpu river men,
who attempted to break into the jail at
Keewatia, Oat., and release an impris
oned comrade.
On the 13th the famous Brooklyn (N.
Y.) Tabernacle, of which Rev. Dr. DeWitt
faimage is pastor, was, for the second
time in. its history, totally destroyed by
fire.
At Baton Rouge, La., on the 13th, a
body, supposed to be that of Captain J.
F. Blanks of the steamboat Corona, whose
boilers exploded OctoDer 3, wrecking the
vessel, was found floating in the river.
Chauxcsy L. Williams, of Lisbon, N.
H.. has been arrested on suspicion of at
tempting to poison Frank Foster and
family by hanging a bag containing paris
green in a water-tank used by the family.
On the 11th Captain Whaleuof the fish
ing schooner William Emerson, of Bos
ton, and Patrick Jennings, one of the
crew, were washed overboard and '
drowned by a sudden squall. They leave J
faurlies in Boston.
The river Livenza, in the northern part
of Italy, has overflowed its banks, caus
ing damage all along its course.
Robert Berriijr, who killed his moth
er-in-law, Walzer, near Lexington, N. C.,
last fall, was captured, on the night of
the 13th, at Greensboro and takon to Lex
ington, where he was hanged to a tree on
the outskirts of the town on the follow
ing night.
The upper portion of the province of
Coriuthia, in Austro-Hangarv, has been
inundated by floods from the mountains,
and Klagenfort, the capital of the prov
ince, is under water to the depth of sev
eral feet.
O.v the 14th John Howard, engineer,
and Frank Raiser and Edward Heinlan
were instantly killed at Heinlan’s sor
ghum mill, at Bucyrus, O., by the burst
ing of the boiler. Cold water was
pumped into the boiler by a mistake of
the engineer.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Denver, Col., was chosen as the place
of the next Knights Templar trienuial
conclave, to be held on the second Tues
day in August, 1892.
The report of Supervising Surgeon
Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Service
for the fiscal year ended Juno 30, was
made public on the 13th. The report
comprises an octavo volume of more
than four hundred pages, and shows that
the steady increase, which has marked
the relief work of the service for many
years, still continues.
On the 13th a battle was fought between
the Cretans and the Turkish troops, iu
which the latter were defeated with the
loss of au officer and three soldiers
killed. The Turks had been sent to oc
cupy Sphakia, and the Cretans inter
cepted them at the Kalierales defile in
the mountains, where the battle was
fought.
Nearly fifty thousand seamen were
treated during the past fiscal year by the
officers of the Marine Hospital Service
at the different hospitals and relief sta
tions throughout the United States, a
number exceeding by more than a thou
sand the work of auy previous year since
the establishment of the service nearly a
century ago.
Great dissatisfaction exists iu the
Conemaugh Valley over the failure to
distribute fully half the relief fund of
.1*5,000,000 intended for the flood sufferers.
There are many cases of great destitu
tion, and gross mismanagement of the
funds is charged.
On the 14th the seventh annual conven
tion of the National Laundrymen’s Asso
ciation met iu Buffalo, N. Y.
On the 16th the International Maritime
conference opened in Washington. The
gathering embraces about fifty members,
representing twenty-three of the more
important maritime nations, that furnish,
perhaps, ninety-niue per cent, of the
tonnage of the world.
Tfie Federal Council of Switzerland is
on the track of various official abuses iu
high places, and to remedy one of them
has introduced a bill making it unlawful
for a member of the Council to hold any
other salaried office. The bill will be
passed at once.
Os the 13th electric wires in all parts of
the City of New York were iuspected.
Expert Wheeler, of the board of Elec
trical control, says that ouo-half of the
wires examiued were fottud to be imper
fectly insulated. This includes the wires
of all the electric lighting companns.
CONDENSED ^tIlEGRAMS.
The fastest time ever made on a bicycle
in America for a mile was made at Peoria,
Hi., on the 14th, by Bert Meyers. He rode
a straightaway mile iu 2:13.
At Lee Postoffice, Ark., on the 13th, the
two year old child of Mr. Joseph Hill fell
from a chair into a fire of red-hot coals,
burning the face of the child to a crisp.
A fatal affray occurred at Nicholson,
Miss., on the 14th, resulting iu the death of
Dr. W. M. Tett, of Nicholson, and E. C.
Collius, of Lacy, Miss., and the severe
wounding of Quitman Pentou.
The Mexican Congress has granted con
cession of lands to be occupied by colonios
of negroes from the United States. The
concessions are in the States of Vera Cruz,
Micboacan, Guerrero and San Luis Potosi
and are situated in the hot region, and are
admirably adapted to the culture of cotton.
The famous Brooklyn Tabernacle, of
which the Rev. I)e Witt Talmage, I). D., is
pastor, was ou the 13th, for the second time
in its history, totally destroyed by fire.
Gen. H. D. Clayton, president of the
University of Alabama, died at Tuscaloosa,
on the 13th. He was sixty-five years of
age and was one of the most distinguished
statesmen in Alabama.
Arrangements have been made for on
excursion for the Nation’s South American
guests to start South in December. They
will take in Nashville, Birmingham,
Chattanooga, Memphis, Montgomery,
Pensacola, Jacksonville, Mobile and New
Orleans.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made
the following appointments in the Inter
nal Revenue Service: Henry C. Isaac,
storekeeper and gauger, eighth Kentucky;
John M. Mouser, storekeeper, fifth Ken
tucky; H. L. Maxwell, storekeeper aud
gauger, fifth Tennessee.
Mormonism has received a decided check
in Wilson county, Teun.,tbe people of that
section having risen against elders operat
ing there and compelled them to seek other
fields under penalty of severe punishment.
Maj. Chas. E. McGregor shot and killed
J. M. W. Cody, upon the streets of War
rentoD, Ga., on the 12th. This is the clos
ing chap'er in a feud which has lasted for
several years.
The gross earnings of the Louisville,
New Orleans & Texas Railroad for ten
days, ending October 10, are $94,S17.55,
against $54,052.27 for same period last year,
an increase of $30,765.25.
Owing to the extreme drouth there was
a failure of crops in Ramsey county, Da
kota, and in consequence over 100 families
are reported to be without any means of
subsistence during the coming winter.
James Hillary, a man of about 30 years
of age, who has figured as a detective at
Birmingham, Ala., for several years, was
shot and killed ou a crowded street ou tha I
12th by an unknown party.
the jury-fixers.
The Identity of the Mysterious Prisoner
it la John Graham, a Lawyer—Seven
Men Now Indicted for the Crime—Gra
ham was the Employer of the Othei
Sit—Wlio was Graham’s Employer?
Chicago, Oct 14.—An extra issued at 1
I*, 1,1 • says the mysterious prisoner ar
rested last night by Captain Schuettler,
aud brought to the Chicago-avenue sta
tion with his face muffled in a handker
chief so as to conceal his identity, is John
Graham, a lawyer, who has an office in
the same room with A. S. Trude. Whether
Graham has confessed aud acknowledged
his connection with the jury-bribing i3
not yet known except to the State’s At
torney.
Judge Longenecker accompanied the
grand jury to the room, aud this after
noon an indictment will be returned
against Graham,and also two additional
indictments against two of the men al
ready in jail. More evidence is being
rapidly accumulated, and the probabili
ties are that Graham’s backer aud em
ployer in the conspiracy will be also ar
rested before night. The whole scheme
is at the point of complete exposure. Most
startling developments are lookod for.
Jerry O’Donnell,charged with complicity
in the jury-bribing case, this morning
gave bail in the sum of $5,000.
Graham gave bonds this evening in the
sum of $10,000—double the amouut re
quired of his fellow-conspirators. A
brother of the noted lawyer, A. S. Trude,
and Alderman Whelan became sureties
for the prisoner.
Joseph Konen, the fruit dealer, who
was arrested late Saturday night, was
also released this evening on $5,000 bail,
which was furnished by his relatives.
State’s-Attorney Longenecker said this
evening that Graham was the man who
employed the other six to see the men
who were to be summoned on the jury.
The evidence against Graham, he said,
was as strong as could be expected in
such a case. Graham began this work
over two months ago, but the State’s At
torney is satisfied that the eight jurors
already accepted have not been tampered
with. Frederick W. Smith will be the
principal witness against Graham.
Mr. Longenecker stated emphatically
that up to this time there hail not been
any evidence of any kind that would im
plicate A. S. Trude, or Thomas Sennott,
clerk of the Probate Court, whose names
have been connected by rumor with the
plot. He asserted tliat he had no new
evidence at present which would result
in further indictments for jury bribing,
but did not hestitate to say that he be
lieved the same man to be at the back of
this plot who was the fountain head of
the conspiracy to murder Dr. Cronin.
A Significant Departure.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 15.—Dr. O’Reilly,
treasurer of the National League of
America, and Colonel John Atkiusou. a
prominent attorney and Irish-National
ist of this city, left here yesterday morn
ing for London. Rumor has it that their
departure has something to do with re
cent disclosures in the Crouin trial at
Chicago.
Dr. O’Reilly late Sunday night received
a cablegram from London aud a. tele
gram from Chicago, and subsequently
held a long conference with Coloual At
kinson at the latter’s residence, which
lasted till long past midnight. Their in
tention to go abroad was not known by
any of Father O’Reilly’s parishioners or
Colonel Atkinson’s many clients.
A SEVERE NORTHEASTER.
Vessels Driven Ashore ut Vineyard Haven,
Mass.
Vineyard Haven, Mass., Oct. 14.—A
violent gale has prevailed here to-day.
At noon the schooner Richards, of Tis*
bury, parted chains and went ashore at
the "head of the harbor. A small fleet of
schooners is harbored here.
The schooner Nellie Clark, of Eastport,
Me., Captain St. John, for? New York,
loaded with lumber, parted both chains
in the harbor this afternoon and ran
ashore near the steamboat wharf at the
head of the harbor, where she now lies,
bilged.
The schooner Benj. English, of Eliza
bethport, N. J., is ashore and well upon
the beach at the head of the harbor.
A Wild Night at Sea.
Chatham, Mass., Oct. 14.—The terrific
northeast gale continues with increasing
force. The weather is very thick, and
the rain is descending heavily. No
wrecks are reported, but nothing can be
seen at any distance, so if any vessels
are stranded on the shoals, nothing
would be known of it until the weather
clears or wreckage comes ashore. This
will be a wild night at sea, and vessels in
distress outside can not. get help from
here until the sea goes down some.
In Unknown Vessel Sunk in Nantucket
Sound.
Nantucket, Mass., Oct. 14.—A severe
storm is raging here, The body of a
man has washed ashore on the south
side of the islanl. Tue Coskaty Life
Saving station rejiorts seeingtwo vessels
in collision Saturday in Nantucket sound,
one of which sank. The vessels are un
known. A quantity of bedding, eta, has
been picked up at the station.
Washed Overboard Ana Drowned.
Boston, Oat. 15.—Captain Whalen of
the fishing schooner William Emerson,
of Boston, anil Patrick Jennings, one of
the cre^ were washed overboard and
'IVowned in the bay yesterday afternoon
by a sudden squall. Both leave fatnili§.j
in Boston,
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The Desecration of Emerson’s Grave,
Concord, Mass., Oct. 15.—The desecra
tion of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grave,
Saturday night has caused much com
ment here. Dr. Edward Emerson has
returned home, and appears satisfied
with the examination made by Select
man Keyes. Undertaker Farrar and
Chief-of-Poiiee Sanford on Sunday, who
declare that none of the remains have
been taken. The Emerson family desire
no further investigation. A watch will
be continued at the grave foi the pres
ent, and until a solid vault of masonry
with s^one covering can be constructed.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,
A Cool Mail Robbery.
Between Leaksville and Palestt*a> |
Miss., recently, Willie Lott, the eight
een-year-old mail-rider, was held up by
two masked men, armed with a Win
chester rifle and a pistol. They pos -
sessed themselves of the mail-pouch and
blindfolded the boy, leading him into the
woods, where the sack was cut open and
the contents secured. There were but
two registered packages in the bag.
Their contents are unknown.
Allen Brown Found Guilty.
Tbe case of the State vs. Allen Brown,
colored, one of the Marion (Miss.) riot
ers, charged with murder, has been con
cluded, the jury returmug a verdict of
guilty. The case will be carried to the
Supreme Court. Brown was sentenced
by the court to be hanged on the 18th of
November. The cases against the other
three Brown brothers and Sam Gillespie
were continued to the March term of
court.
Preparing for the Saengerfest.
The ceremonios of laying the corner
stone of Music Hall, in which the coming
Saengerfest will be held in New Orleans,
occurred recently in the presence of a
large concourse of citizens. The cere
monies were preceded by a grand pro
cession of civic and military organiza
tions. Many buildings along the line of
march were handsomely decorated. The
ceremonies consisted of addresses In
German by Dr. B. Maas and in English
by Judge W. W. Howe and vocal con
tributions by local and visiting singing
societies. Mr. Jacob Hassinger, presi
dent of the Stengerfest, was master of
ceremonies. This hall, when completed,
will have a seating capacity of 6,000 in
the auditorium aud 1,800 on the stage.
The National Prison Congress.
The auuual congress of the National
Prison Association convenes in Nash
ville, Tenn., November 10.
Killed l>y a Passing Train.
Hattie Begars, a girl of seventeen while
attempting to cross the railroad tra>.k on
the Western & Atlantic railroad, near
Smyrna, Ga., was struck by the engine of
a passing train and instantly killed.
Depot Hurnod.
Thd depot at Evergreen, Ala., way re- j
cently destroyed by fire, with all its con
tents. Nearly all the merchants had
more or less freight in the warehouse.
Loss about $10,000.
Respited for Thirty Days.
Governor Lee of Virginia ha3 respited
Simon Walker, colored, of Chesterfield
County, for thirty days from October 10.
He deserves to hang.
A Strike Ended.
The strike of the six hundred coal
miners at Coalburg, near Birmingham,
Ala., was settled and the men returned
to work at the old rate of fifty cents a ton
They struck for fifty-five cents.
Tobacco Ruined by Frost.
The recent frosts have ruined at lehst
500,000 pounds of tobacco near Flemings
burg, Ky., or about one-eighth of Flem
ing County’s entire crop, entailing a loss
of $50,000.
Perhaps They Deserved It.
There is much excitement in Bellvolr
township, Pitt County, N. C., over the
whipping of Robert and Phoebe Phillips
by unknown colored men. Colored peo
ple were angry, it is said, with the par
ties for some alleged flagrant derelic
tions.
Not Fast Enough to Escape Death.
Sam H. Shaw dropped dead at Atlanta.
Ga., recently, of heart disease. Mr. Shaw
was one of the fastest printers in the
United States, having been the victor in
several type-setting contests. He was
known from San Francisco to New York.
A Probable Murder.
Bill Posey, a farmer, who lived twelve
miles from Warrior, Ala., has been miss
ing for some days and is supposed to
have been murdered. He went to War
rior and Gate at night his horse re
turned hoiile cCYered with blood.
To lie Hanged In November.
Willie Williams, colored, will be hanged
it Atlanta, Ga., on the 8th of N >vembsr
for the murder of Conducror Whigham,
on the Savannah, Americus & Mont
gomery road. The traiu was iu motion
at the tiiiid when Williams, who refused
to pay his fare, shot the conductor dead.
Had a Circus of Their Own to Attend.
Robert McGraw, a countryman, and
his two daughters, Cornelia and Martha,
aged ninotedtt and seventeen, recently
visited Birmingham, Ala., to see a cir
cus. The girls gave the old man the
dodge and disappeared. He learned that
Cornelia had eloped with a young man
named Bullard, taking her sister with
her. McGraw has gone gunning for Bul
lardi and say? there will t># trouble when
they meet.
Killed by a tave-In.
Tom Wadley, superintendent of Messrs.
Davis & Lamar’s kaolin beds, near Lang
ley, tia., was buried alive. Mr. Wadley
was down in the mine instructing his
ilegrb lands about some work to be done,
When one of the banks Paved in and more
than a t< n of the hard clay fell upon Mr.
Wadley. The accident was watched by a
number of the hands, who were power
less to »id their boss. Mr. Wadley’6
body was shortly afterward excavated,
and upon examination his back was found
broken.
An Important Chemical Dlscoverv.
Four successful tests were made re
cently at furnaces in Birmingham, Ala.,
of a chemical process for removing all
phosphorus from Iron and converting it
into Bessemer pig. Every test was
pronounced a complete success by
chemists and practical steel men engaged
to witness them. The process has just
been discovered by a Scotch chemist
named Archibald, who is in the employ
of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Company. By this process the extra
cost of converting Birmingham ores into
Bessemer pig will be only fifty cants o
tom
07 GENERAL INTEREST.
—A Matamora (Mich.) breeder re
cently sheared a ram that dipped 38J
pounds.
—A Juniata County, Pa., woman
publicly flogs her husband every time
he comes home drunk.
—A resident of San Francisco re
cently witnessed a terrific battle be
tween a swordfish and a whale in the
harbor at San Francisco. The sword
fish was finally victorious, killing the
whale.
—Says an English verbal critic:
“Americans are generally falling into
the habit of using the word ‘affirm’
for ‘confirm.’ For instance, when an
official is questioned as to the truth
fulness of a certain rumor, his answer
is apt to be: ‘I will neither affirm nor
deny the report’ Of course he ought
to say ‘confirm.’ ’’
—The following sentence, from a
letter written by Livingstone a short
time before his death, and which re
fers to slavery, is inscribed on his
tomb in Westminster Abbey: “All I
can add in my loneliness is, may
Heaven’s rich blessings come down on
every one, American, English or
Turk, who will help to heal the open
sore of the world."
—A farmer of Sporting Hill, near
Manheim, Pa., has a twenty-five-year
old horse that was so stiff that he
could hardly walk. He was put into
a pasture through which runs a creek.
It was noticed that a great part of his
time was spent in bathing and lying in
the water, and, in a short time, to the
surprise of the owner, he became as
spry as a young colt.
—Three young women lately caused
a good deal of commotion in Eastwood,
a wealthy little suburb of Louisville,
Ky. The teacher of the village school
having resigned, three young women,
members of the best families of town,
applied for the position. The author
ities were unable to choose because of
the embarrassment of riches, and an
election was ordered to decide the
question.
—A Geneva (Ga.) man says that ho
saw a rabbit whip and kill a snake a
few days ago. The snake had caught
a young rabbit and was trying to swal
low it. The old rabbit rushed by the
snake and bit at it as it passed. It
then ran by the snake again and bit it,
and repeated the run several times,
biting the snake each time. The snake
finally dropped the young rabbit,
crawled off a short distance and died.
—“The Sugar Beet” quotes from an
exchange the following statement, but
seems to be somewhat doubtful of its
authenticity: “A hen that had gone
through a clay puddle went with her
muddy feet into a sugar house. She
left her tracks on a pile of sugar. It
was noticed that wherever her tracks
were the sugar was whitened. Expe
riments were instituted, and the result
was that wot clay came to bo used in
refining sugar.”
—The amount of water passing over
Niagara Falls varies with the height
of the river. Prof. W. D. Gun
ning estimates the average amount at
18,000,000 cubic feet per minute. Al
lowing 62^ pounds to the cubic foot
this would give a total of 562,500 tons
per minute, or 25,312,500 tons in forty
five minutes, of which somewhat more
than two-thirds passes over the Horse
shoe Falls. Other estimates place the
total amount passing over both falls as
high as 100,000,000 tons per hour. In
comparison, the recent fiood at Johns
town was a gill.
—The Atlanta Constitution remarks:
“It looks like the Lord is compensat
ing the South for the loss of its slaves
by opening new and unsuspected
sources of wealth. For instance, in
slavery days the problem of the plan
tation was to dispose of the cotton
seed—it was burned, rotted, dumped.
When slavery lifted it was discovered
that tbe despised seed were good for
fertilizers and stock food. Then thir
ty-five gallons of oil could be taken
from each ton without impairing its
value, and this oil refined up to $1
per gallon. Then that the hulls made
good food, the ashes good potash, the
‘refuse’ good soap stock and the fiber
of the stalk good paper.”
A Very Knowing Horse.
Horses are just like men—some have
sense and some have none There is
one hill horse on our line that knows
as well as I do when his work is done
and with what car he is to go to the
stable. The car leaves the terminus
at midnight and passes the corner
where he is hitched ten minutes later.
I don’t know whether ho knows the
number of the car, or the team, or the
driver, but he knows the time, and
one night when they tried to keep him
to help up another car, a few minutes
later, he kicked, and squealed, and
bit, and refused to pull, so that they
had to let him go. The other hill
horse that works with him doesn’t
know a thing, and will pull cars up all
night without having sense enough to
object. —btreet-Car Driver in Globe
Democrat