The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 02, 1892, Image 7
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BURNED THE STOCKADE
Trouble Between Miners and
Convicts in Tennessee.
\ Prison Destroyed and the In
mates Sent Away.
A XasbviUe (Tenn.) dispatch says that the
scenes enacted at Briceviile, Coal Creek and
Oliver Springs one year ago when the free
miners roee up in anm against convict la
bor and, captaring the prison stockade, ap
plied the torch to them, have been repeat*!
at Tracy City, the ito^kade at the branch
prison there being burno i. In this case the
convicts were not released, but the 39) men
were taken from the stockades and mines
placed on board box cars and ssnt to Nash
ville. The wires were cut by the miners to
prevent communicati >n between the local
representatives of the I'ennesses Coa 1 , Iron
and Railroad Company and the home office
in Nashville, and all the engines in the rail
road yards were held for a similar purpose,
but the convicts were guarded.
At & o’clock a. m. a committee of miners
awoke E. O. Nathurst, Superintendent of
the mines for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, and asked him that the
miners be allowed as many hours' work in
each week as the convicts. Mr. Nathurst
replied that be would su unit the matter to
the company anl do what he could.
The committee then left, and Mr. Nathurst,
knowing that a secret, oath-bound organi
sation had been formed some weeks ago for
purposes unknown, at once began to suspect
trouble. He went to Deputy Warden Bur
ton. and together they began to circulate
among the miners, who were gathering in
groups, and to try to influence them to keep
quiet.
At S:30 o’clock an organized body of 150
men, 100 of them armed, advanced" on the
stockade. To capture it was the work of a
minute. Without undue confusion every
E ieee of property belonging to the Tennessee
oal, Iron an t Kaiiroid Company was care
fully removed to a safe distanc*, and the
convicts who were in the stockade were led
out under guard.
Then the torch was applied, and at 9
tfclock the buildings were a mass of flames.
The miners at once proceeded to the mines,
took possession of the convicts, marched
them to the railroad station, and loaded
them in box car.-'. Next the telegraph
wires were cut and a guard was placed over
every engine in tha yards to prevent it from
carrying the news down the mountain.
Between Sewanee and Monteagle the con
victs cut the train in two, and ten or fifteen
made a break for liberty. Several shots
v^re fired. Mat Wilson, white, was killed,
and Tom Smith, colored, wounded. Six or
eight made goo t their escape. The train was
held at Cowan until orders to come on were
received from.Nashville.
There has been much dissatisfaction
among the tree miners at Tracy City be
cause of the lease systetn, which allowed
the bulk of the work to be done in the mine
by convicts. Yet the miners at Tracy
City have been among the most conserva
tive in the State, an 1 the company has had
very little trouble with them. They have
been determined to support no party or can
didate in the coming election that was not
pledged to the prompt abolition of the sys
tem. Governor Buchanan stated that the
convicts would be brought to the main
prison at Nashville and kept \^ntit a new
stockade could be built, when they would be
returned, a-i had been done at Coal Creek.
More Convicts Released.
At 8 o’clock in the morning between 15d
and 290 miners made a sudden descent upon
the prison stockade at Inman, Marion
County, Tenn., after capturing,on their way
to that place, fourteen guards who had
been ordered ixom Nashville to assist the
regular guards in defending the stockade
from invasion. The miners stopped the
train at a trestle, and, taking
charge, ordered the engineer and conductor
to take the train back to Victoria. The mob
then continued on their way to the mines at
aud, surprising the guards on duty
stockade, compelled them to surreu
der, a task that .vas attended with little
difficulty, although the guards numbered
sixty-five. The next step was to call out
the guards and convicts who were in the
mines. When they appeared they were told
to march to Victoria, aud they complied
with the order. It was the intention of the
mob to lay the stockade in ashes, but they
were asked by Mr. Anderson, the Superin
tendent, not to do it. They said they would
not bum the stockade, but would tear it
down, and with this threat they left the
place.
When they came to Victoria they male
the convicts enter coke cars, and when
everything was ready they gave the train
men instructions to proceed.
The 275 convicts driven out of Antnan ar
rived in Nashville at night, and were taken
to the prison by the .State officials, the
lessees having informe 1 the Governor and
Board of Prison Inspectors that they would
have nothing to do with them.
iiovernor Buchanan announced his d_c
termination to use every lawful means in
his power to preserve order when the ap
plication in proper and legal form was made
to him bv the civil authorities. The Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
officials stated that they would reopen the
mines in a few days, as soon as they could
organize a force to worK the ovens, and that
convicts might not be used again at these
miues.
graphic eommtnneattoa witn *t>e eneritts of
the Counties of Hamilton, Knox, Roane,
Morgan and Anderson. These officer* were
directed to summon as many men as mignt
ba deemed advisable and to go at once to
Oliver Springs and Coal Creek.
The Sheriff of Anderson County, the
county in which toe two mine* are situated,
was reached with the greatest difficulty,
owing to the lacx of telegraphic facilities.
He sent a reply to the effect that be was
powerless to act in the matter, and positive
orders were for a second time given him.
Coal Creek Also Captured.
At 10 o’clock p. M. the news reached Nasb>
ville that the troops at Coal Creek had also
surrendered to the free miners after a bloody
fight.
The battle began at 2 o’clock P. M. All
night long the miners had gathered on
the mountain sides and in the valleys.
They stole in from secret and
hidden paths. They poured in over
the rocky ridges of the mountains. They
came in wagons and on horseback. They
stole locomotives and trains and swept to
ward their mountain rendezvous. Every
man was armed and some doubly armed.
Not only did they carry guns, pistols and
knives, bat some had dynamite.
In the stockade, called Fort Anderson,
stood Colonel Anderson with about 15'J
militia and guard. He had sent word to the
miners that he would never surrender. They
asked him again and again to come to terms.
He said no surrender every time.
The first assault was after repeated warn
ings. It is known that it was bloody, and
that several miners were killed. The wires
were cut, and the meagre information first
came by courier. The message brought was
that some of the convicts were captured by
the min-rs, and that in a sally the militia
recaptured them.
A second attack followed. This resulted,
despatches stated, in death on both sides.
The third folio A-ed, and the booming of the
Gatling gun of the militia and the howitzer
of the miners was heard miles away over
the hills and mountains. In the third at
tack the despatches say. Colonel Anderson
was captured.
Night came on. and in the course of the
darkness the final attack was made. Coal
Creek fell, and the reign of terror and of
anarchy in Tennessee was complete.
The troops sent from Nashville and other
points were unable to reash the scene of tne
fight, the trains having been stopped by
reason of the destruction of the tracks and
small bridges. The excitement thougbouc
Tennessee was intense, anl from many
quarters came offers of assistance, but arms
were scarce, and there were more men than
guns.
NO RAIN IN THREE TEARS.
Seventy-Six Ttioautnd Cattle Dead in
seven Mexican Ranches.
There iz great suffering among the people
■nd the live stock in the State of Zacateoa,
Mexico, owing to the prolonged drought.
Although bountiful rains have fallen in all
parts of Mexico during the past two weeks
that section has not been blessed with a drop
of moisture for nearly three years. There
have been enormous losses of cattle.
Tbe following is a list of the larger ranches
and the number of cattle on them which
have died from lack of water and grass:
Sierra Hermosa, 20,000; Tetillas, 10,000;
Gnada De Las Coritntjs, 10,000; El Fuerte,
6000; Pastelera, 5000; Poza Hondo, 10,000;
Mezunite y Nori, 15,000.
ALL ON BOARD LOST.
Twenty-three Persons Drowned by
the Foundering of • Steamer.
The British ship Thracian, which had just
been completed at Glasgow, and which was
being towed to Liverpool, was lost off the
Isle of Man. Her crew of twenty-two men
went down with her. The Captain’s wife
•was also on board the vessel. She was
owned in Nova Scotia.
The six children of the Captain and his
wife were awaiting the arrival of their
parents on the landing stage at Liverpool
when the news of the disaster was broken to
them.
Free Miners Repulsed.
The excitement among the free miners in
Anderson County, Tenn., which was inten
sified by the developments first at Tracy
Citv and then at Inman, resulted in the
holding of secret meetings at which tne de
cision was reached that a bold effort should
be made to release the convicts at the Oliver
Spring mines. These mines are four
or five miles distant from the Coal Creek
mines, where the soldiers have for months
been guarding the two hundred convicts
employed in digging coal there. The miners
intended to destroy the stockade and other
buildings by fire after they had set the con
victs free, and thus for the second time in a
year strike a strong blow at convict labor.
Arming themselves with guns and rifles,
they made the attack at 3 o’clock in the morn
ing. The guards, some twenty-five in num
ber, were game, and volley after volley was
exchanged, the result being the wound
ing of several men, three of them
being guards and the others miners.
One man, a guard, received a mortal
wound. During the firing the convicts were
considerably excited, but the officials kept
a close watch upon them, and after the de
parture of the miners quiet was restored.
Governor Buchanan was notified, and
troops were forwarded to Oliver Springs
from Chattanooga and Knoxville on special
trains. The troops reached the stockade at
Oliver Springs by night, and immediately
went into camp.
During tbe afternoon a band of 100
miners, armed with Winchesters, took
possession of a tram on the Knoxville
And Ohio Road, at Coal Creek, bound
for Clinton, where they hoped to be able
to intercept the reinforcements; but they
were too late,
Oliver Springe Captured.
The victory of the guards at Oliver
Springs over the free miners, as detailed
above, was followed the same night by a
Second attack upon the stockade, with
Bifferent results. Eight hundred miners
\ssembled at Oliver Springs at night, com-
Eellei the soldiers and guards at the prison
Eoczade to surrender, captured the stock-
Me, burned it, and forced the troops to
Enduct the convicts to Clinton for trans-
prtation to Nashville, via Knoxville,
lit was the general impression among
lople distant from the scene that a terrible
\ht would take place, because the guards
t Oliver Springs had repulsed several hun-
Ud men in the early morning. However,
L opposing forces were so large that, b?-
Iring surrender was preferable to aimost
Itain annihilation, the fifteen guards au t
Enty-eight soldiers decided to give way.
Having excelled the convicts and their
bro tec tors at this place, the miners, who
■were strongly reinforced, expressed their in
dention to make an attack upon Coal Creek,
live miles distant, where nearly 2X) convicts
Ivere in the stockade, guarded by probably
125 men and forty guards under tne com-
oand of Colonel Anderson.
Great pressure was brought to bear upon
.tovernor Buchanan to oail out the entire
National Guard. Before deciding upon or-
pring the State Guard to the aoaoe of the
LgybXs .Governor Buchanan lonened _tele-
The Troops in Control.
On the following day Tennessee troops,
tinder the command of General Carnes,
reached Coal Creek, took possession of the
village and relieved the beleaguered soldiers
at Fort Anderson.
Prior to the arrival of General Carnes the
miners ambushed a detachment which went
over the mountains under command of Ma
jor Carpenter within a quarter of a mile of
Fort Anderson, killed three of the soldiers
and forced the rest to retreat.
General Carnes, with 1200 men and a six-
inch and a Gatling gun, reached Coal Creek
about 9 o’clock a. m. He capture! the out-
po-ts of the insurgents without opposition,
placed 200 of the miners under arrest, and
threatened that if General Anderson was
not delivered up by 1 p. m. he would ex
terminate the prison-rs.
The miners promised to bring Anderson
in by 1 o’clock, but the hour passef and he
did not appear. Then General Carnes again
threatened retaliation, and at about 5 P. M.
Anderson was delivered up.
General Anderson had been captured by
five men coming under a flag of truce. He
was enticed from Fort Anderson into the
village by a promise of safety. Turning the
corner he met a mob who took him to the
hotel and produced a letter to his lieutenant,
which was an order for the surrender of
the stockade and fort. Thou~h threatened
with hanging he steadily refused to sign the
paper, and asked only that he be shot, and
his grave marked so that his family could
find it.
At 7 o’clock P. M. a special train bearing
the bodies of the men who were killed in the
battle at Coal Creek in the morning, three
men who were wounded and 12 > volunteers
who had gone to the front, rolled into the de
pot at Knoxville; 3030 people were gathered
about the station, and the excitement was
higher than at ang time since tha trouble
began. When the tram stopped the men
poured out of the coaches and formed in a
line, through which their dead comrades
were carried in military style. The com
pany formed with arms reversed and
marched behind the bodies to the Court
House.
Not until the arrival of this train was it
possible to get a correct statement of the bat
tie and the exciting incidents leading up to
it. Five men were killed in all. The dead
militiamen are: J. T. Waltha 1. of Knoxville,
railway clerk, aged 22; Bruce Givens, farmer,
Knox County, aged 39; militiaman of the
Second Regimsnt (nam- unknown) and sup
posed to be from Chattanooga. The
wounded are. Thomas L. Carty, lawyer of
Knoxville, soot through the left groin, in
juries may prove fatal; Samuel G. Heiskei,
prominent lawyer and Democratic poli
tician, slightly injured; John Milton,
laoorer, slightly wounded.
Two miners were killed. They are George
Miller, of Coal Creek, and George Neil, of
Oneida. Tenn. John Wilson, a miner of
Coal Creek, was slightly wounded in the
heel. J. M. Gaur, a business man of Knox
ville, aud one of the volunteers, was badly
injured by falling over a ledge of rocks.
Volunteers from all parte of the State
hastened to the scene of the insurrection,
and guns and ammunition were supplied by
the Federal authorities an 1 the authorities
of adjoining States. Mass meetings were also
held throughout the State, at which reso
lutions condemning Governor Buchanan tor
his inactivity were passed.
Federal Arms Furnished.
On applicatiou of Governor Buchanan
the Secretary of War ordered 600 stand of
arms to be sent at once from Indianapolis to
Knoxville where they were distributed to
the forces gatheriug at that point. Thirty
thousand rounds of ammunition came with
the guns. The lack of arms has been an em-
bfex/a^sing feature of the situation, as the
ivOTunteers have armed themselves with
whatever weapons they could procure.
NEW YORK AT THE FAIR.
The Handsome Building Now Being
Erected at Chicago.
The New York State Building at th«
World’s Columbian Exposition is now in
course of construction in Jackson Park,
Chicago, according to the plans of Messrs
THE LABOR W<
MAULS OF THOUGHT.
THIRTY PERSONS DROWNED
Wreck of a Russian Steamer in the
Volga.
The steamer Grigorieuff, plying upon the
Volga and its tributaries, has been wrecked
at Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. The vessel car
ried a number of passengers, and great excite
ment prevailed among them when the vessel
struck. A heavy storm was prevailing at
the time, and many of them jumped over
board and attempted to reach tne shores by
swimming. Many of the crew also jumped
overboard. Thirty of the passengers and
crew were drowned. Many of those on
board floated ashore in chairs, tables, etc.,
while the more cool-headed, who waited for
the small boats to be launched, were landed
without difficulty.
Everythtno is possible in this
country. But supposing it happened
that a man who was once a messen
ger hoy should be nominated for
President, would he run?
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices of Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
34 BEANS AND PEAS.
Beans—Marrow. 1S91, choice $ —
Medium. 1891. choice.... —
Pea. 1891, choice —
White kidney. 1891 .choice 2 75
Red kidney, 1891, choice. —
Yellow eye, 1891. choice.
Lima, Cal., per bush.,
Green neas, 1891, per bush...
1891, bags. 1 60
1891, Scotch —
BCTTEK.
200
1 70
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Creamery—St. &Penn,extras
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Western. firsts
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Western, seconds
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Western, thirds
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State dairy—half tub?, aua
pails, extras
Half tubs and paii£, Ists.
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Half tubs and pails, 2ds.
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"Welsh tubs, extras
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Welsh tubs, ists
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Welsh tubs, 2ds
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Western—Ini. creamery. Ists
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W. Im. creamery, 2ds...
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THE NEW TORE BUILDING.
M^Kim. Meade & White, architects, Neu
York City. The building covers an area ot
14,538 teet, exclusive of terrace and porticos,
which cover an additional area of 3776 feet.
Apex of tower roofs, ninety-six feet.
ihe building is in the style of Italian
Renaissance, a villa in character, rec:angu-
Jariu form, approached on the south by a
flight of fourteen step?, forty-six feet wide,
giving access to a grand terrace fifteen by
eighty feet, from which the loggia or open
vestibule, forty-six feet by seventeen feet
six inches, is reached. In the selection of
the stvie of the building the architects and
the Board of State Managers were guided
bv several conditions of climate and sur
roundings, and after careful reflection, be
lieving that in t'ae school of tbe Italian
Renaissance the best opportunities exist for
a successful comoarison with the larger
buildings of the Exposition, they decided to
adopt it in the design.
Partaking of the domestic as well as tha
palatial, this building will form, not only a
headquarters for the State of New York, but
a house for the comfortable reception and
entertainment of rizirors from all over th*
world.
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CHEESE.
State factory—Full cream,
large size white, fancy..
Full cream, colored, fancy
Full cream,good to prime
Part skims, choice
Part skims,good to prune
Part skims, common....
Full skims....
EGGS.
State and Penn—Fresh
Western— Fresh, fancy
Fresh, fair to prime
FRUITS AND BERRIES—
Apples—Nyack pippin, bbl.
Orange pippin, per bbl.
Up River, per bbl.*..,,.
Pears. Sugar Top, per bbl....
Bloodgood, per bbl
Bel), per bbl
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca
tawba 5 lb. basket
\ Western N. Y., Concord.
Peaches. Md. & Del., crate...
Huckleberries, per quart
Jersey per quart
Md. & Del. per quart
Blackberries, per quart
Jersey, per quart
Gooseberries, prime green, qt.
Raspberries, red, Jersey, pint.
Currants, per quart
Watermelons, per 100 -
Muskmelons, per bbl
HOPS.
State—1891, choice, per lb...
1891. prime
1891, common to good..
1890, common to choice..
Old odds
LIVE POULTRY
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn.
Western, per lb
Spring Chickens, local, lb....
Small to medium
Roosters, old, per lb
Turkevs, per lb
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
per pair.•••••••••••••
Southern, per pair
Geese, Western, per pair....
Southern, per pair
Pigeons, per pair
DRESSED POULTRY—FRE!
Turkeys—Selected hens, lb.
Mixed weights
Toms, fair to prime
Chickens—Phila., oroiers...
L. I. broilers
Fowls—St. and Penn., per lb
Western, per lb
Ducks—Western, per lb ....
Eastern, per lb ...
Spring, L. I., per lb—.
Geese—SpringEastern.per id
Squabs—Dark, per doz
Light, per doz
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes—Southern, seconds,
Norfolk, bbl
Eastern Shore, per bbl,
L. I., in bulk, per bbl..
Cabbage, L. I., per 100
Norfolk, per barrel.....
Onions—Western, per bbl..
estate, per bbl
Squash—Marrow, per barrel,
L. I., yellow, barrel
L. L, white, barrel
Peas, S. Jersey, bbl. basket
Long Island, per bag..
Cucumbers. Norfolk, crate.
Long Island, per 100....
String beans. L, I., bag
Tomatoes, Acme, etc., crate..
Grant, etc., per crate
GRAIN, ETC.
Flour--City Mill Extra
Patents
Wheat—No. 2 Red
Rye—State
Barley—Two-rowed State...
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
Oats—No. 2 White
Mixed Western
Hay—Good to Choice
Straw—Long Rye
Lard—City Steam 7.50c @ —
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves. City dressed 6 @ 8)$
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .20 00 @48 00
Calves, City dressed 9 @ 12
Sheep, per 103 lbs 4 25 @ 550
Lambs, per lb ^
Hogs—Live, per 100 lbs 6 00 @ 6M>
Dressed ®
American street railroads ear
men. f
W ore hen are not allowed to work on the
streets in New Bedtord unless taey have
been naturalized.
The United States manufactures 65,0'JO
hat* every day, while England manufac
tures about 40,000.
The shoe salesmen of Baltimore have been
organized, and have affiliated with tha
American Federation of Labor.
Organizers for each State of the Union
have been appointed by tbe Carriage and
Wagonmakers’ International Union.
The strike in the Elmira (N. Y.) iron and
steel rolling mill has be»n declared off, after
having been in force two years and two
months.
A tote is being taken by the local brew
ery workmen’s unions throughout the coun
try whether or not to join the Knights of
Labor in a body.
One of the busiest men in New York is
President Samuel Gotnpers. of the American
Federation of Labor. His mall averages
over a hundred lettsrs a day.
Supervising Architect Estkrbrooke,
of Washington, says that the new Eight-
Hour Law will cast ths Gavernment #V
000.00J more a year on its building cen-
tracte alone.
The boss coopers and manufactures of
staves and other coopers’ supplies of Illinois,
Indiana and Michigan have combined to
fight against the manufa'ture of barrels by
convict labor.
The Philadelphia, Healing and New Eng
land has reduced the pay of section men to
$1.25 a day. They formally received $1.50.
The company has also discharged about on;*
half the men in tho Hartbrd car shops.
The annual mteting ol ths New Jersey
State Federation of Traces has taken place
in the Assembly Charmer of the State
House at Trenton. Sixteen local unions
were represented from Paterson, Newark,
Jersey City, Camden andTrenton.
Of the 11,00 >,001 womei in Italy nearly
2,000,000 are employed in industrial labor,
and over 3,003,000 in agriulture. They are
in the majority in the cot t>n, linen and jute
industries, and in the sil trade there are
117,000 women employe, and but 17,700
men.
Comparatively more children are em
ployed in Rhode Island tUn in any other
State of the Union. The ppulation is 345,-
000, and not less than 5273 children, between
’ ten and fifteen years, are working in mill*
and factories. Their wags are from sev
enty-four cents to $6 per week.
At a meet in i iu Boston if the represeta-
tives of the Knights of Laior, Central Li
bor Union and Building ’ira ies Council, a
committee was appointed md instructed to
visit every labor organiz iton in Massachu
setts and solicit funds foi the Homestead
men. The organizations igreed to raise
•820,000 for the strikers.
A HUMAN VAjIPIRE.
The Perpetrator ot I)r«.clfut Crimes
to be Taken to W&hiiijgton.
The (Penitentiary Board at Columbus,
Ohio, has directed its Secrtary to notify
the National authorities that Jimmy Brown,
the insane United States plsoner, must be
removed from the prison vithin the next
thirty days. Brown’s case is one of the
most noted of the prison. T»wnty-flve years
ago his crime was the tab of the Nation.
He was charged with being i tampire, and
it was alleged that he Ired on human
blood.
Brown is a Portuguese, ad when about
twenty-two years old he shipei as cook on
a fishing smack from Bosta for a trip up
the coast in the summer f 1867. There
was a crew of about thirt men, and one
of the men disappeared. 1 was thought
that he had fallen overbord. Next the
mate was missed.
Two aays atterward his bdy was found
hidden in the bold, and nea it the body of
the saiior. There were smalcuts in various
parts of the bodies.
The men set a watch and were rewarded
by seeing Brown stealthily' see? up to the
bodies and move them to anoker part the
hold. He was place d in iros, taken bacic
to Boston, and tried for mvder. The de
fence was insanity, but the ary brought a
verdict of guilty and Brownwas sentenced
to be hanged. A few daysoefore the day
set for the execution Presideu Johnson inter
fered and oruered him remov i to tbe Gov
ernment Insane Asylum at Vasbingcon.
Betore the transfer was (fecteit Brown
killed one of his keepers wh a chair, anci
when discovered he was lapmg his victim’s
blood. He was sent to W.snington anl
again back to the Bay Stas Penitentiary
for fifteen years. He never iw the light of
day, being confined in a dungeon and
alone.
When the Government lade arrange
ments for the transter of :s criminals to
Columbus, Massachusetts insisted that
Brown te taken along, a arriving at
Columbus be stabbed a gu-d with a fori.
He will be removed to Wasbgton.
A FATAL FESIVAL.
Six Persons Killed and I any Injured
by an Kxplosion ot ireworks.
The festival of St. Anselii was closed at
Cesa, Italy, with fireworkdn the market
place. A crowd of sever hundred had
gathered around the spot’here the Are.
works were set off. A hich of rockets
were set too near a ourni: ‘‘wheel,” and
was ignited. The rods werfriven in all di
rections through the crow; carrying with
them fire and panic.
Six men were struck in t face or neck
by the rods, and were soadly torn and
burned that they have see died. The
sparks set fire to the light owns worn by
several girls, aud before thire could be ex
tinguished four of the yoi* women were
senonsly injured. In tha .nic many chil
dren were trampled.
Seven men suffered fractes of arms or
legs while they were stggling in the
crowd, and some twentfive or thirty
women were more or less isred.
71 003 4 Small people like to be made much
"of.
The candle not seen until it is
Uirhtcd.
“He that covereth his sins shall not
prosper.”
The man who buries his talent bur
ies himself.
Nobody can be happy without first
being useful.
When children get hungry they cry
for bread, not pie.
The cross we pick out for ourselves
is always the heaviest.
Our best successes are built upon a
foundation of failures.
An optimist is a man who believes
that all eggs will hatch.
The worst thing about some men’s
failures is the failure of conscience.
A pessimist is a man who believes
that all the chestnuts have worms in
them.
The money that is the root of all
evil ic the money that is in another’s
pocket.
The children of a millionaire never
get much acquainted with their
father.
The fly is an instructive preacher,
when he takes a sip of molasses with
out getting his foot fast.
The best time to pray for grace to
keep from fighting is before you get
int quarrelsome company.
A good many people lose their souls
because they are foolish enough to be-
live that money can buy anything.
It is because of tbe possibilities of
eternity that so many incomprehensi
ble things have to happen iu this
world.
There are heathen parents who ex
pose their weak and sickly children to
wild beasts. How much worse are
they than the parents in our land who
do not provide wholesome reading for
their children?—[Indianapolis (lud.)
Rain’s Horn.
INDEMNITY DE ANDED.
The State Depart men Asks Nicara
gua to Pay $2000.
The Government of Nirngua, Central
America, has been asked • Secretary ot
State Foster to pay $23,(Xindemnity for
ill-treatment of Dr. Myer, lAmericau citi
zen. Dr. Myer went to iciragua four
months ago to make exolitions. A re
port was circulated that hfas a conspira
tor, and one night he was T to choose be
tween death and leaving t country. He
choose the latter. He wasot allowed to
depart in his own way, butts arrested and
sent to the coast in a car w seven Nicara
guan political exiles.
While the Doctor was ifiicaragua all
his letters were opened by Government.
They included one from Ue.l States Min
ister Shannon under thUnited State;
eeal.
G. A. R. ENCANMENT.
Sixty Thousand Veters Kxpected
at the Opening in Whlngton.
It is expected that 103,1 people will
visit Washington at the mieg Grand
Army encampment, 63,000 whom will be
veterans. The encampmenipens Septem*
berl9th, and Chairman Eds says there is
no lack of money to providsr tbe enter
tainment of the big crowd. „ number of
buildings are being put up be used as
sleeping barracks, two of Ich will pro
vide for 30,000 men. The fing of such a
large number of people is neght task, but
the arrangements which been made
promise well. The railroi are making
great preparations, and exp to ba taxed
to their utmoct capacity. Tbarade on the
last day of the meeting wile a monster
one.
The aged King and Queen denmark, fol
lowing the wish of their sucta. recently
placed on exhibition tbe Oniflcent gift*
which they received at thaiebration ol
their golden wedding. Almione hundred
thousand people took
portunity.
adva^e of tbe op-
11 Tien It is Well to be a Zebra.
Nowadays, when the colors of ani
mals aud their uses for the purposes
of recognition and protection are
forcing themselves upon the attention
of all naturalists, it is not wonderful
that an animal so conspicuously
marked as the zebra should have com
manded a large share of notice. Much
as it has been con-idered, however, I
do not think that we have yet
learned all the lesson s that it has to
teach us.
That its bold and vivid stripes
should bo of immense service for re
cognition may be accepted as beyond
dispute. The statement of Mr. Francis
Gallon, that on a clear moonlit night
these vivid stripes melt into invisibil
ity, and to au eye not absolutely
focused to the animal itself, but to ob
jects in its immediate vicinity, it is
quite unseen, even when so near that
its breathing can be heard distinctly,
proves most indubitably their im
mense protective value. As be says:
“If the black stripes were more
numerous it would be seen as a black
mass; if white, (hen as a white one;
but their protection is such as exactly
to match the pale tint which arid
ground possesses in the moonlight.”
Prima facie, this is hardly what one
would have expected, but when point
ed out by a competent and trust
worthy observer, even a slight knowl
edge of the laws of light proves it to
be true. Let any one notice at what
a short distance a lady in a galatea
dress with broad stripes becomes in
visible in the moonlight, and he will
be at once convinced of the truth of
Gallon’s remark.
Professor Henry Drummond further
says: “When we look at the coat of a
zebra, with its thunder-and-lightning
pattern of black and white stripes, we
should think such a conspicuous object
designed to court rather than elude
attention. But the effect in nature is
just the opposite. The black and white
somehow take away the sense of a
solid body altogether, and the two
colors seem to blend into the most in
conspicuous gray, and at close quar-
•ers the effect is as of bars of light
seen through the branches of shrubs.
I have found myself iu a forest gazing
at what I supposed to be a solitary
zebra, its presence betrayed by some
motion due to my approach, and sud
denly realized that I was surrounded
by an entire herd, which was all in
visible until they moved.” By this I
understand Prof, Drummond to refer
to his observations iu tbe day-time, as
Mr. Gallon speaks only of the moou
light. One can readily see how tht
shadows of the branches in a tropical
forest falling upon the zebras would so
intermingle with the stripes of the
animals as to add enormously to the
difficulty of recognition by human
eyes. — [Nature.
King
Of Medicines Is what
I consider Hood's Sarsa
parilla. For 6 years
I was confined to my bed
with white swellings
.and scrofula sores.
Wm. A. Lehr. To my great joy,
when I beifan with HOOD’S SARSAPAR-
LLLA tlie sores soon decreased. 1 kept takimr
It lor a year, when 1 was so well that i went to
work, and s.nce then have not lost one day on
account of sickness. 1 am always well and
have a good appetite." Wm. A. Lehk, No. 9
Railroad Street, Kendallville, Ind.
Hood’s Pills are the best after-dinner Fills,
aasist digestion,cure headache and biliousness.
Shaving Off scares.
There is an old merchant in a thriv
ing little town near Minneapolis who
scorns a paper ledger and insists on
keeping a pine board account with his
customers. He planes this board off
once every five months and starts afresh.
Some time ago a customer dropped into
tbe old merchant’s store to pay a bal
ance of forty cents of six months’ stand
ing. “I guess you don’t owe me noth
in’,” replied the old trader to a ques
tion about the debt. Tt* questioner
protested that he did owe the debt; in
fact, he remembered buying the goods
some six months ago. “Ob, well, five
months alters the case,” said the
weigher of sugar and molasses. “You
may owe me forty cents for all I know.
You see? I’ve up and started a new
board since you got your stuff and I
don’t remember your debt. You may
pay me it you want to, but if you don’t
it’s all O. K.,as I’ve shaved your ac
count out.” The trader got his forty
cents.—Minneapolis Bulletin.
On lh«* Veranda.
How pleasant, but how dannerous, unless Dr.
Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure is at hand. This
great remedy is the only specific known that is
an ninxilhte pi< veiit.ve a* uc i a - i vik of Croup.
Pneumonia, Diphtheria. Bronchitis and con
sumption. Isold by prominent drtigg.sts. ^ . r i0c.
Manutactured by A. P. Hoxsie. Butlalo, N. \.
A blonde is said to have about ten
years the advantage of a brunette.
Pare and Wholesome Quallt*
Commend* to public approval the Californ'a
liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. It i-
pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney-, liver and bowels to cleanse the
system effectually. It promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it. and with millions it
is the best and onlv ro-nedv.
M. L. Thompson <Sr Co.. Druggists, Couders-
port. Pa., say Hall’s Catarrh «. ure is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it. 75c.
Pimples
AND-
Blotches
j^RE EVIDENCE That the blood is
wrong, and that nature is endeav
oring to throw off the impurities.
Nothing is so beneficial in assisting
nature as Swift's Specific (S. S. S)
Jt is a simple vegetaole compound. Is
harmless to the most delicate child, yet
it forces the poison to the surface and
eliminates it from the blood.
I contracted a were care of blood polsoa
that unfitted me for business for four years. A
few bottles of Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) cured
me. J. C. Jones, City Marshal,
Fulton, Arkansas,
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. Swift Specific Ckx, Atlanta, Ga.
€4
The evils of malarial disorders, fever, weak
ness. lassitude and debility and prostration are
avoided by taking Beecham’s Pills.
If afflicted with sore eves use Dr.lsaac Tho-nn-
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EveryMotheh
Should nave It im The House.
Dropped on Sufjttr. Children juovc
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Sore Throat, Tonsllltla, Colic, Cramps ano Pains. Re
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Disordered Liver,
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SWA.TIP-ROOT cures kidney difficulties.
La Grippe, urinary trouble, bright’s disease.
Impure Blood,
Bcrofuia, maiaria, gen’i weakness or debility.
Ouarnntee—Use contents of One Bottle, it now beik
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icttle of August Flower. It worked
hke a charm. My wife received im
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