The Bourbon news from Paris, Kentucky (2024)

A 4 THE NEWS. BRUCE CHAMP, Publisher. PARIS, KENTUCKY. CURRENT TOPICS. QUEEN VICTORIA's landed estate is valued at 415,000,000.

HANLAN offers to row Beach for $5,000 in Canadian waters. M. PASTEUR'g latest notion is the compulsory inoculation of alldogs. WHAT is the difference between money and a monkey? The letter of course. THERE is a movement among the Cincinnati barbers to close their shops on Sunday, LIEUTENANT GREELT's book, Three Years of Arctic Travel, will be published this month.

THE New York Journal calls for a poetry match, the prize to be a silver wastebasket. THE farorite music of President Cleveland is "Auld Lang Syne" and the "Mocking Bird." FIVE hundred million dollars worth of eggs and poultry are eaten annually in the United States. THE amount of cutlery and edged tools produced in this country is about 000 per annum. A CINCINNATI woman died a few days ago, who had for months drank five pints of bad whisky daily. THE Episcopal clergymen of New York consider cremation a "barbarous way of disposing of the dead." FRANK JAMES states that he does not beliere that Governor Crittenden was privy to the killing of Jesse.

IT is said that English sparrows make the best of eating and are dainties of the first order when made into pie. GENERAL SHERMAN thinks that every girl in St. Louis should attend the meeting of the National Sugar Association. Tar Prussian Government has submitted to the Bundesrath a bill to prolong the anti-Socialist law for five years. THE National encampment of the Grand Army of the Repablic will be held in San Francisco, Tuesday, August 3, 1886.

IT is said that two hundred patents hare been granted for machines to polish lowgrade coffee and make it look like the best. THE old fortifications on the hill on Fort street, Los Angeles, historical landmarks, are being torn up by the street graders. SHOCLD the Mormons decide to emigrate to the Sandwich Islands sandwich jokes will then be in order by the press of this country. OuT in Oregon they catch wild geese by inebriating them with corn soaked in alcohol and scattered on the field where the birds feed. THREE Vice Presidents of the United States, Gerry, Wilson and Hendricks, bave died in office, all dying in the month of November.

THE Medical Record estimates that onehalf the men above the age of thirty years of American birth living in our cities are bald-beaded. TaB London Lancet says "it a man can keep his teeth until after middle age he may generally count on keeping them to the end of his life." PROBABLY the oldest minister in the world is Thomas Tenant, of Vineyard Township, Arkansas. was born in 1771. He is an itinerant Methodist minister. SENATOR JOHN A.

LOGAN has a son-in-law named Tucker and Congressman Tucker has a son-in-law named Logan, and they are always getting mixed up. THE Department of State has directed an investigation to be made of the circ*mstances attending the killing of Captain Crawford by Mexican troops. YALE COLLEGE has officially declared that it wants no women students in the law department, and will issue no diplomas to them under any circ*mstances. BELGICH, one of the smallest powers in Europe, is the most densely populated country in world, more than sixty per cent. of the whole being under the most exhaustive cultivation.

THIS winter is a discouraging one for the ice piled ice-men. in the The ice-houses heavy on crop top that of is that being left over from last year, insures cheap prices during next summer. MIss MARY J. HANRAMAN has been appointed Judge Wilson, of Clarion County, as a permanent court tipstaff. She is said to be the first and only female tipstaff in Pennsylvania.

THE Mormons are reported to have a project to buy land and settle in the Sandwich Islands. It would be a matter of economy for the United States to encourage them by bearing part of the expense. A. YOUNG lady named Love visited the President's mansion 8. few days ago, and some one made the remark, "Love in White House;" hence the rumor that the President is about to be married.

FRANCE, with an available territory of only 98,460 460 square miles, realizes more than $200,000,000 annually from her poultry, shipping large quantities to England, where the demand is far less than the supply. THE suggestion is made that bottles containing citrate of silver be stowed away in ships' boats. Seven ounces of the citrate will, it is said, turn enough sea water into drinking water to supply a man for a week. THE Philadelphia Herald says there is but one way to keep the girls away from the skating rinks. Just start the story that skating makes the feet grow big, and not a solitary female will ever be seen at a rink.

"'UNCLE REMUS," (Joel Chandler Harris) who writes funny articles in the negro dialect, is himself of African birth, having been born in the northeast of Africa while his parents were engaged in Missionary work there. THE President has presented gora watches to Captain F. M. Hughes and Second Officer Edward V. Roberts, of the British steamship Lord Gough, for rescuing the crew of the American schooner Chaptra in December last.

THE smallest firearm in the world is 3. gold watch-charm in the form of a revolver aboutan inch long. Cartridges are made for it, and it is claimed it could do serious damage at short range. It was made in Liege, Belgium. A BOSTON man has an overcoat that is made of German castor, the body and sleeves being lined with the finest Russian sable.

The broad cuffs and collar are made of the same material. The cost of the garment was $4,000. DURING 1885 126,815 Englishmen emigrated to America, as against 60,082 Irishmen. PHILADELPHIA has declined to drive her or from the streets, and evidently believes that a well constructed band-organ played in the street is no more of a nuisance than an unskillfully pounded piano in a close room. A REMARKABLE explosion, which occurred in Germany, shows the force possessed by dust.

A sack of flour, falling down stairs, opened and scattered the contents in 8 cloud through the lower room, where a burning gas flame set fire to the dust, causing an explosion which lifted part of the roof of the mill, and broke almost All the windows, A NEW INVENTION. Telegraphing From a Moving Train to a Roadside Station. Sending Messages Through the Air -The Current Leaping to Wires and From Them Again. NEW YORK. Feb.

system of transmitting and receiving telegraph messages from trains in motion was successfully demonstrated by the Railroad Telegraph and Telephone Company at Clifton, Staton Is: land, to-day. Inside the car at El small table a telegraph operator sat sending and receiving messages to and from the outsido world while the train was in motion. operator differed from others in having telephone rounding plates over his ears, beld iu place by Fi rubber band passing over bis bead. In front of the operator on the table IRS all ordinary Morse key, by which he sent the message to an operator at Clifton, wbo received them through tolepbone sounding-plates fastened on his ears. Mr.

Edison, who was present, explained that in I the Clifton office there was :1 condenser inade of layers of tin-foil separated by air, but that at the car a condenser was formed by the thirty Baltimore and Ohio wires stretched along the track, by the tin roofs of the cars, which wero all connected by copper wires and by the air between the wires and the tin roofs. Under the tabloof the operator in the car was a local battery. The current used may be conceived as passing first from the battery in the Cliftou Station and leaving through condenser to the telegraph wires, then passing along those wires without interrupting ordinary messages until it gets opposite the car, when it jumps across to the tin roofs and passes down a wire to an electro-magnet the operator's table. Thence it returns through the axles and wheels of the car, and through the ground to the Clifton Station. The Morse current, without the aid of the electro-magnet, can not pass through the condenser 50 as to make a continuous musical note.

It puss*s through, but its wares are so much slower that no distinct sounds are formed. Many messages were sent to and front the moving car. This invention, it is asserted, will be especially useful to train dispatchers, who may by its use communicate with a train at any point on the road. IS SUICIDE AN ACCIDENT? 1 Law Suit of Much Interest to Life Insurance Men. CHICAGO, Feb.

novel case is in hearing before Judge Dyer, in this city, the decision in which will attract considerable attention in insurance circles, as it involves a question of whether or not suicide is an accident. The 23d of May, 1884., Edward M. Crandall took out an accident insurance policy for $10,000 for a year in the Accident Insurance Company of Nortb July, following he committed suicide. Due notice was given to the company, but it refused to pay on the ground that suicide was not accidental within the meaning of the policy. Suit has now been brought by Mrs.

Laurette M. Crandall, wife of the deceased, to recover on the policy. She testified that ber busband was of a cheerful disposition, but shortly before his death be became morose and nervous, suffered from sleeplessness and showed signs of insanity. lie bad considerablo financial trouble and bad lost most of his property. trial will be resumed tomorrow.

Public Debt Statement. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued to Interest-bearing debtBonds at at per 250,000,000 00 Bonds 1 per 737,747,600 00 Bonds at 3 per 194,190,500 00 Refunding certificates at4 per 217,800 00 Pens.on Fund at 3 (J Pacite R. R.

bonds at 6 per 00 Principal $1,260,779.412 00 8,283,930 00 00 Debt on which interest bag ceased since maturityInterest $3.324,755 201,175 00 00 Debt bearing no interestOld dem'd -tender potes 00 Certificates of 14,590,000 00 Gold cert. 00 Silver 00 Frac'ul currency, less lost or 00 00 Total debt, 00 8,485.109 (M) 00 Less cash items available for reduction of the 231,451,651 00 Less reserve held for redemption of United States 100,000,000 00 331,151,551 09 Total debt less available cash 1,514,472,135 00 Net cash in 00 Debt, less cash in Treasury, February 1, 1886. $1,434,782,233 00 Debt less cash in Treasury" December 1, 1885. 00 Decrease of debt during the $8,677,553 00 Cash in Treasury available tor reduction of the: debtGold held for gold certificates actually $115.284,951 00 Silver held for silver certifcates actually 89,761,609 00 United States notes held for certifcates of deposit actually outstanding. 34,590,000 00 Cash held for inatured debt and interest 11,809,864 00 Fractional 00 Total tion of the available for reduce, 00 Reserve fundHeld for redemption of United States notes, acts January 14, 1875, July 12.

1882.... $100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver $29,013.993 Minor 531,048 00 $29,545,941 00 Certificates held AS cash 00 Net cash balance on 79,089,862 00 Total cash in Treasury as shown by Treasurer's gencral 498,986,832 00 Convict Attends His Child's Funeral. OTTAWA, li.t., Feb. comment was caused yesterday by the action of (tovernor Oglesby, in allowing Peter A. Weast, who is serving a three-year term in the penitentiary for manslaughter, to attend the funeral of uis little daughter, which took place at Streato: Weast was accompanied by a guard.

and was kept in jail until Sunday mornin; when be WAS taken in a sleigh to Streator. Over 1,040) people attended the funeral. Weast will be taken to Joilet this morning. This is the first instance in the history of the penitentiary where a convict has been allowed to attend a funeral. Robbed of Their Savings tor Years.

HUNTINGDON, Feb. the temporary absence from bome of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Westbrook today the residence was robbed of $4,500 in gold and many valnable papers. The old couple had been saving money for fifteen years and had secreted it in an old trunk.

Horses With Hydrophobia. Feb. Kearney, on Saturday, Dr. Ramaciotti, acting for the State Veterinarian, shot six borses out of a consignment of twenty from Chicago. It WAS claimed that the horses were afflicted with t.

An Insane Commission Merchant. St. Louts. Feb. 1.

-Craig Alexander, an old citizen who has been in the commission business in St. Louis for years, was taken to the State Insane Asylumnt Fulton today from Clarksville, where be had been visiting the scenes of his boyhood. He left St. Louis onty a few days ago in seemingly the best of health. The Bursting of a Balance -Wheel.

LATEEN, Feb. 1-To-day at noon the balance- wheel in a saw -mill, six miles from here. burst. Joseph Reamer Was fatally injured about the head. and Albert McNail had his toot cut off.

SEEN IN A DREAM. Strange Manner In Which a Clue is tained to a Terrible Murder. BALTIMORE, 2. -The friends of Philip Haviland, the prosperous farmer of Montgomery County, who is supposed to have been have employed all' the means power to find him, and they are about convinced that further search is useless. The Postmaster at Sandy Springs has received a letter from an eleven-yearold girl named Mary Bell, in which she claims to have seen in a dream 'a horrible murder committed by four 'masked men, describes the affair and place seen by her, and asking the postmaster to see if there was any such place in the neighborhood.

Tho strangest part of the story is that evidence has been discovered that: the missing man was seen struggling with four negroes, and that a blood covered three cornered stone described in the little girl's letter has been found. As it was also said to have been seen in the dream that the murdered man was carried into a collar, the authorities have announced their intention of searching every, cellar in Montgomery County for body. Mr. Haviland, about three years ago, leased the mill property of the Muncaster 'estate situated in Montgomery County. He was A strict Quaker, and with his wife and daughters attended the orthodox meeting-house at Sandy Run.

On December 15 he left home for Washington, and intended to return the same day. He was unable to get his work done until late on the afternoon of December 16, and was obliged to stay over night. in the city. He spent Thursday in visiting several mills in Washington, and left for home in the evening, having about $200 ou his person. Several persons saw him on the road between Washington and Sligo, and at Sligo he purchasod some crackers and cheese.

This was the last seen of him. On Friday morning a young man named Bowman foundHaviland's borses andwagon in a clump of bushes near Wheaten Post Office, about four miles from Sligo. There were spots of blood on the dash board and pole. Nearly a mile down the road his coat was found in a clump of pines near the roadside, and it was also stained with blood. Further search revealed 8.

three cornered stone, which also bore blood marks. The crackers and cheese which Mr. Hariland had purchased were next found at a point nearly two miles from the spot where the coat was discovered. AN INSANE MAN'S SUICIDE. He' Lies Down on Is Back and Forces a Butcher-Kuife Through His Heart.

KALAMAZOO, Feb. K. Whitlock, one of the' wealthiest and best known farmers committed of suicide Richmond, this in morning this county, by stabbing himself through the heart with a dull butcher-knife. He rested poorly during the night, and arose between and 6 o'clock, going out to a carriage-house. From the position in which the body was found it is supposed that he lay down, pulled his shirt apart, and placing the point of the knife to bis breast, struck the handle with bis right hand, driving the blade five and a balf inches into the thoracic cavity, and entirely through his heart.

The knife 'was found by his side, and the blood had spurted from his mouth four feet away. It is thought he was insane from poor health. WHOLESALE FORGERY. Two Hoosiers Play a Slick Game by Means of an Assessor's Books. WARSAW, Feb.

W. Mikles, of Bourbon, and J. V. Card, of this place, forging have several been arrested on dollars charge worth of notes against farmers in this county, which bad been left in the bands of an attorney for collection. Mikles furnished bail, but Card is in jail.

It was discovered in the county offices that the signatures of thirty-six prominent taxpayers had been clipped from the Assessor's list and stolen. It is supposed this was done by the forgers to get the signatures. Card belongs to one of the best families in this county, and his arrest has caused a seusation. WOMAN SUFFRAGE Favorably Reported Upon by the Joint Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb.

the measures favorably reported from Committee was a joint resolution by Mr. Blair, from the Committee ou Woman Suffrage, providing for a constitutional amendment extending the rights suffrage to women. Mr. co*ckrell stated that this report has not the unanimous judgment of the committee and that the minority reserved the right to present a written report in opposition to the measure. Peculiar Family Affliction.

SALEM, Feb. special session of the County Court was held yesterday to inquire into the physical condition of three children of Joshua Huff. They are all deaf mutes; a girl of fourteen and two boys, aged ten and twelve respectivaly. There is also another of the same family, aged eight years, which is also deaf and dumb. A peculiarity of the case is that neither of the parents of the children are similarly affected, nor can such defect in either of the senses be traced to any of the antecedents farther back.

The three children were by order of the court sent to the institute for the education of the deaf and dumb ut Jacksonville. Terrible Accident to Bridge Builders. KEOKUK, Feb. at Pittsburg, where a bridge is being built across the Des Moines river, as the workmen were busily engaged fixing in a new span, a derrick rope broke letting the derrick fall against a span in course of erection, and two-thirds of this gare way, falling fifty-two feet upon the ice-bound stream below. Five men were working upon the span at the time of the accident, and were carried away with the wreck.

John Jamison was fatally injured, and Ed. Booth and the foreman, H. B. Gillman, received injuries which will probably result in their death. Forty- Eight Degrees Below.

CHICAGO, Feb. mercury dropped below zero here again last night, the Signal Service reporting the minimum at four degrees below, though private observations zero. The weather is reported as very cold made it from ten to twelve degrees be below throughout Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba, the mercury dropping to thirty-six degrees below at 'St. Paul. and to fortyeight degrees below at Minnedosa, on the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The temperature throughout Iowa is reported fifteen to seventeen degrees below. A Clew to the Knoch Tragedy. lost their lives. Patients for Pasteur. DETROIT, Feb.

important clew to the murder of the Knoch inmily, December 16, was found a few days ago, but kept very quiet. The Sheriff is now investigating. In a bollow tree near the scene of the tragedy a woodchopper found a complete suit of men's clothing, careful bundled up and stored away. The clothes were covered with frozen blood. There is but little doubt that this suit belonged to the author of the recent crime in which four persons JERSEY CITY, Feb.

H. Fange and Joseph Clark, the latter a boy of ten years, who were bitten by St. Bernard dog yesterday, will be sent to Paris to be treated by M. Pasteur. Chief Geronimo Surrenders.

EL PASO, Feb. Robinson an army paymaster, received a dispatch from Fort Bayard, N. to-day which stated that a courier just arrived there who brougbt a message from Lanf's ranche which contained the information of the surrender of the Apache chiet Geronimo to Lieutenant Maus, who succeeded the late Captain Crawford. Iron in the Upper Peninsula. ISUPEMING, Feb authentic report of the ore mined during the season of shows that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Vermillion Iron District of Minnesota produced 2,427,437 tons of iron ore, against 2,528,028 tons in 1884.

XLIXTH CONGRESS. Session. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. the Senate credentials of Hon.

J. Z. Acorge U. S. Senator from Mississippi, were read and fled.

A bill was passed removing the political disabilities of Geo. 8. Storr8, of Texas. Mr. Call denounced the charge of a certain claiin agent interested in a claim made by the State of Florida, which proposed to deduct $62,000 out of A cash award of $92,000.

Mr. P'intt submitted A resolution to consider executive nominations in open session. ferred to the Committee on Rules. A ber of resolutions were introduced. The bill to divide Sioux Reservation in kota was discussed until the expiration of the morning hour, when the Dakota State bill was taken up.

Mr Vest spoke at length in opposition. Mr. Logan took tho Hoor. but gave way to Mr. Dawes for a motion to adjourn until Monday.

The Senate adjourned at 5.05 p. fli. A HOUSE -In the House a few. private bills were reported. At.

12:20 the louse went into committee of the whole on the private dar. The ft artb of July claims was the drst bill. It was laid aside for favorable report, And it cotton clann next taken up. This was amended to prevent ment it the claimant was disloyal, The committee then. reported tho bill, referring the claun to the Court of Claims for adjudication.

The two bills were passed, and at. 4:30 D. in. a recess was taken until 7:30 for the regular Friday consideration of pension bills. The House, at its evening session, passed about tifty pension bills, and journed until Monday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. number of executive reports and communications were received and referred. The renewal of the Hot Springs leases went over. Mr. Call submitted a resolution directing the Committee ON Military Affairs to report A bill providing that Union soldiers shall be exempt from civil service examination before appomtment.

It went over for the. present. The bill to divide part of the reservation in Dakota was passed. The Electoral count. bill was debated by Messrs.

Hour, Sherman and Ingalls. At 4:25 the Senate went into executive session, and at 5:25 p. m. adjourned. HOUSE.

-Resolution was adopted by unanimons consent empowering the Committee on Expenditures in the Department. of Justice to investigate any expendituro made by the Government relative 10 the rights of the Pan Electric and Bell Telephone Companies. An attempt to havo articles read on the telephone scandal was ruled out of order, Mr. Brady, of Virginia, refused permission to reply to Wise. Under the call of States, a number of billa and resolutions were offered and referred, after: which an attempt to adjourn WAR roted down by the opposition, and Maison, of Indiana, took the door.

lie moved to suspend the rules and put upon its passage the bill Increasing soldiers' widows' pensions. After considerable debate Mr. Matson'8 notion was agreed to-veas 198, nays titi. The resolution as passel limits the increase to widows who were married to soldiers nt the time the injuries for which ponsion was granted occurred. It also shutsout pending Brown amendment repealing the limit to arrears of pensions.

At o'clock the House adjourned. WASHINGTON, Feb. ported. Among the latter a Joint me resolution petitions were presented and measures reby Mr. Blair for a constitutional amendment extending the right.

of suffrage to women. Mr. Riddleberger offered a resolution defining the Senate's prerogative, and explained desire was to bring up for debate the subject of calling on the President for reasons. Its consideration was objected to, and it went over. The Utah resolutions appointing commissioners were referred to the Judiciary Committee.

The bill for the retirement of Colonel G. W. Getty with the rank of Brigadier General went over at Mr. Logan's suggestion. Mr.

Pugh submitted subatitute for Mr. Riddleberger'8 resolation, which Mr. Hoar characterized a stump specch. The Electora count bill was then debated, and motion to recommit resulted -yeas 30, nays There 110 political division in the vote. 'The Dakota bill was placed before the Senate, but an executive session WaS Agreed to, which lasted from 4:35 p.

In. to 3:35 p. when the Sonata adjourned. HOUSE. -Immediately after the reading of journal, Mr.

Holman, of Indiana, offered following resolutions: "Resolved. That the louse has received with profound Sorrow the intelligence of the death of Thomas lendricks. lato Vice President of the United States. Resolved, That the business ot the House he suspended in tinder that the eminent servicos and private virtues of the deceased may he appropriately cominemorated. Resolved, That tho Clerk of the House be directed to communicate these resolutionsto the Senate Euloisms were riven by Messrs.

Bynum, MeCreary, Long, Throckmorton, Browne, Kandall, Springer, Goddes, Lowry, Hall. Kleiner and Holman. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and the House adjourned. WASIUNGTON, Feb. -The Chair lAid a letter before the Senate from the AtGeneral asking an additional appropration of $50,000 for Jurors and $120,000 for of (.

S. Courts. Referred. A resolution was reported in opposition to joint Asheries commission. The Riddlebergorl'ugh resolutions were then taken up.

discussed and land on the table. They were again called up by Mr. Riddleberger and finally referred fo the Committee on and Rections. The Dakota bill was debated by Logan and Morgan, and at 1:50 p. m.

the Senate adjourned. -An investigation was ordered in reference to the misapplication of appropritiona by the Signal Corps. Mr. Bland's resolution in relation to silver circulation and the policy of the Treasury Department was adopted by a vote of 168 to 88. A number of bills were reported, alter which the bill to abolish certain fees for official service to American vessels was considered in committee of the whole.

Pending action on the bill, the committen rose at 3:30 and resolved itself into committee on the bill relating to taxation of fractional parts of a gallon of distilled spirits. Without action the com mittee rose, and at 5:15 the House adjourned. An American Abroad. (Chicago From a copy of the Liverpool Times, just at hand, learn that "His Excellency, the Frederick I. Winston, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Ex.

traordinary from the United States of America to the court of His Serene Mightiness, the Shah of Persia, has arrived in England, accompanied by his aid-de-camp and high secretary, Prince Wolf von Schierbrand, and other attendants of To a reporter of the Times the Winston repeated his story abont having declined the Brigadier (ieneralcy "tendered by the Ricard Ogilvy, Governor General of Chicago," and the Times prints this story, and adds to it the solemn statement that the Brigadier Generaley was tondered in recognition of Winston's bravery in battle with the Sioux Indianson the prairies west of Chicago. A special train conveyed the eminent American diplomato corps to London, where Queen Victoria's equerry, Sir Launcelot Brown, awaited them at the railway station with one of the royal backs. Sunday Trains in Connecticut. The proposed law as to Sunday trains in Connecticut is, in brief, that only such trains or shall have run the 011 sanction Sundays of the as are commis- mail sioners, as necessary, and that these must be before 9 a. and after 3 p.

mt. It also forbids the handling of freight during daylight Sunday. -People who wear spectacles, and the number is increasing daily, may not be aware that two men claim the honor of having invented these aids to vision. One is Spina, a Florentine monk, and the other Roger Bacon. An Italian antiquary says that Spina was indebted for his information to one Salvino, who died in 1318.

A manuscript epitaph in the possession of the antiquary reads: "Here lies Salvino Armoto d'Armati, of Florence, the inVentor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins. The year 1318." Chicago Times. -An experienced vocalist has, it is said, during fourteen years cured any number of cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the free use of raw oysters as a diet. The remedy is easily tried.Chicago Times.

-A new stitching machine for bookbinders and publishers is out, which will do the work of ten girls in a day. 'The machine turns off' work as fast as All operator caul feed it. It is in a Holyoke mill. Boston Post. County, -Marble is recently pronounced found in Inyo by experts to be equal to any found in Italy.

PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. i -Of Jay Gould's partners, Connor is to be worth two million and Morosini three million dollars. -Senators Blair and Frye are said to be the only members of the Upper of Congress who are teetotalers. -N. Y.

Post. -Pennsylvania has only four living James Pollock, drew G. Curtin, John F. Hartranft and Henry M. Hoyt.

-A real live Polish Prince, Ponitowski by name, is keeping bachelor's hall on a farm of thoroughbred horses near Athens, Ga. -Mrs. Deborah Powers, of Troy, N. is ninety-five years old and at the head of the banking firm of D. Powers -Troy Times.

-Chang, the Chinese giant, recently lost twenty-live thousand dollars by all unfortunate investment in an Australian gold Post. -A Chinese laundryman in St. Louis named Jue Jun was recently received into the Pilgrim Congregational Church. Five of his countrymen witnessed the ceremony. -Miss Mary Dickens, 3 granddaughter of the great Charles Dickens, is playing on the provincial stage in England, and her playing is spoken of by the press in terms of praise.

-Adirondack Murray says that while a Yale student he lived four months on a diet which cost him fiftysix cents a week--Indian meal and water, not enough mcal and too much water. -Sol Abrams, who is reported to be one of the richest men in Oregon, used to lead a horse, packed with notions, which he sold to people between Oregon City and Silverton at an early day. -Chicago Herald. -Pope Leo is said to have an income of one million five hundred thousand dollars, authority annually, of and Monsignor it' is Capel stated that on the Pope's personal expenses are limited to two' dollars and fifty cents a day. -Prince Paul Esterhazy, according to a European journal, with his bound.

less estates, Transylvanian forests and other sources of wealth, would. probbeyond the late Vanderbilt by a trifle of twenty or thirty million dollars or so. field the body of the Napoleonic Prince naive who carried from, the Imperial when he lost his life fighting in South Africa was presented with a diam ring and pensioned by the Empress Eugenie. He came to chusetts and was lost sight of, but the ring was found last week in 8 Boston pawn-shop. -Leopold von Ranke, now more than ninety, presents the anomaly of a man who has never taken any exercise and vet is in perfect physical health.

The German historian has almost lived in his library, working for fifteen hours a day, and he has laid out more work which hopes to complete before bis one hundredth birthday. LITTLE NONSENSE." -Which is the stronger, an apple or a pear? An apple; it drew a pair out of the garden of Eden. -Prairie Farmer. -Dishonest railway managers profit watering their stock. But every honest farmer waters his -Chicago Mail.

-Very Sad: "Aw, Algernon, sick?" 'How'd y' eatch 't?" my hat rawthah suddenly t' one o' the girls, y' know." -Chicago News. anything new this beastly weather?" asked one citizen of another. "Yes, said the interrogated, with a fresh frown on his corrugated visage. Ledger. -Farmer: That is a voracious pig; I gare him a pailful of slop which he drank all up, and I picked him up and put him in the bucket, and the blamed thing didn't fill it half I Journal.

-The scholarly people give a philosophical reason for speaking of steamboats, fire engines, as she. The Lowell Citizen says the fire engine is called she because all the men turn and look at it when it passes along the street. didn't see you at church Christmas Day." was there, though. I have a new pew away back under the "You are unfortunate." Not at all. I consider myself very lucky.

I can't hear the choir at -Philadelphia Call. -At a party a young lady began a song, "The autumn days have come, thousand leaves are falling. began too high. "Ten thousand," she screamed out, then stopped. "Start her at five cried out an auctioneer present.

-N. Y. Mail. -A Captain commanding one of the British ironclads, being at a grand ball that had been given to the officers of the fleet. was accepted by a beautiful partner, who, in the most delicate manner possible, hinted to him the propriety of putting on a pair of gloves.

was the elegant reply, "never mind me, ma'am. I shall wash my hands when I have done Exchange. -In Malta persons are forbidden to come to the opera short sleeves or with naked feet." We can understand why there should be all objection to short sleeves, but why should bare feet be excluded? Some of these notions of etiquette are too absurd for anything. A society young man don't to stay away from the opera simply because his only pair of boots are at the shoemaker's getting half-soled. Norristown Herald.

-A Good Excuse: Said Judge Noonan, of San Antonio, to a convicted malefactor: "It has been proven that you burglarized a house, stole a ham, and forged another man's name to a note." "May be so." "You have also been sailing under the false names of Smith, McMullen, Goodrich and Perkins while you were committing your crime." Judge, you didn't expect me to allow mv own honest name to be mentioned in connection with such villainies anddragged through the Texas Siftings. An English Fish Story. A workman in the service of the North British Railway Company at Berwick Station was entering the tank of railway locomotive for the purpose making repairs, when he was surprised to hear 3 splashing noise proceeding from some water which bad left there. A light having been procured, eight live trout, two or three of which were of good size, were digcovered swimming about in this novel aquaria. The was a Glasgow one, and it is sapposed the fish had hoan introduced when the locomotive vita water.

-Liverpool Post. ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE TO Debtors and: Creditors. POWDER AND DYNAMITE. Explosion at Two Shafts of the Croton Aqueduct. Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds of Forcite Shows.its Explosive Capacity- General Demolition with Loss of Life.

NEW YORK. Feb: 3. -This morning the powder house of Shanly, Sarrell Co. exploded at Shaft No. 29 of the new aqueduct, on the Fordham Landing road, shattering a boarding shanty and severely injuring two men.

Michael McGinnis, who was in' charge of the powder is missing. The cause of the unkuown. The shock was felt for a radius of many miles in all directions, and othe damage to the surrounding neighborhood was heavy. Tue people thought an earthquake WAS upon them. and many left their houses.

It is stated that ono man WAS killed ontright and another badly injured. These two were in charge of the magazine. There was in the shanty two hundred and fifty pounds of what is known as "forcite." The building was blown into fragments, it being difficult to find a piece of it as much as a foot long. Fragments of the stove were found seven hundred feet away. Three boarding shouties 8.0 some distance away, in which forty laborers, mostly negroes, and Italians, wore sleeping, were wrecked, and the occupants unceremoniously tumbled.

out of their beds, Nothing except the flimsy character of the structures saved serious loss of life. Only one person was seriously hurt. McGinnis has not been scen since, has the least trace of his remains been discovered. It is not believed that he could have been SO utterly annihilated that not eren a blood stain could bave been discovered, and it is therefore suspected that he was unhurt, and fearing that he would be held responsible for the calamity, ran away. Ranging at distances of A mile to 8 mile and a half from the scene of the explosion are many beautiful and costly residences, including those of ex-May or Edson and H.

B. Claflin. All of them oniore or less severely felt the shock. Panes of glass were broken, crockery wasrattled, pictures were thrown from walls, and in some instances persons were thrown from their beds. The general impression for miles around was that it was an earthquake.

It was felt. all over Long Island, and the shock was much more severe than that of the Hell Gato explosion. N. Feb. two dynamito cartridges were being thrown out at Shaft No.

of the new Croton aquduet. this afternoon. they exploded with a loud report and destroyed the small building in which they were to be used, and in which only a few moments before a number of men had been enting their dinners. Noone was injured. About a thousand pounds of dynamite was stored at the shaft in 8 frozen state, but fortunately it did not OLD AUNT SALLY Shot and Mortally Wounded While Rob- bing a Honrvost.

break yesterday morning Jetbro Winters, KNOXVILLE, Feb. Beforo day. living in the suburbs of this place, heard a noise at his honroost, located about two bundred feet from the house. lie took down his gun, and softly raising a window got ready to fire, should be observe any one. In a moment be discerned a dark figure moving away.

He then fired. There was a scroam, aud the figure fell to the ground. Winters secured El lantern, went to the place and found be bad shot an old colored woman known AS Aunt Sally, who lived a half mile away. She was wounded in tho right side, and may not, recover. Sho was taken home and cared for by her two grown children.

A bag found at, the spot, whero fell contained eight fat fowls. Rowdies Create a Church Panic. IRRADINO, Feb. -The Evangelical Chapol, near Speaces Church, several miles from this city, was packed with people Monday night. A rowdy element on the outside smashed in the windows with clubs and then pushed in a long fence rail into the chapol.

It upset the pulpit and struck tho preacher just as ho bad closed bis dis(curse. Some of the ligbts extinguished, and at a cry of "fire" men, women and children became panic-stricken and rushed for tho door. A platform that had been erected outside the chapel by those who could nut get in was upset, and added to tho excitement of the terror-stricken people. One lady was seriously injured, and several were slightly cubby broken glass or crushed in the effort to get out. The riotous element on the outside was about.

renewing the demonstration when they were charged upon by the friends of tho church. The battle which ensued. wasshort and sharp, and the rioters, finding they were beaten back, turned and fled the darkness. Their names are being to-day, aud the entire gang will be arrosted. Removal of Police Commissioners.

COLUMBUS, Feb. 3. -Governor Foraker to day removed the three Police Commissioners of Cincinnati on charges made against them, thus virtually abolishing the Board. The Mayor is expected, as custodian of the peace, to take charge of the police force until now Commissioners are elected in the spring, or until the hoad of the department is defined by new legislation. Mr.

Rois, one of the Commissioners, says that they will not recognize the action of the Governor, claiming that he bas no jurisdiction in the matter, and will remain until the proper authorities -the courtshave decided the matter. Crazed by Religion. KOKOMO, Feb. 3. -Michael Swaggart, for a long bead sawyer in the large heading factory of L.

Snyder, while suffering from bereditary symptons of apoplexy and mental derangement, conceived the idea this morning that God had commanded him to kill his children. Swag. gart has always been considered a weakminded person, but was always a quiet citizen. Of late he bad been attending a religious revival, and had become considcrably wrought up on the subject of relig. sot.

He was lodged in jail, and will probably be sent to the asylum. Injured by an Exploding Candy-Kettle. DETROIT, Feb. morning a candykettle in Flynn Durfeo's establishment, on Michigan avenue, exploded, injuring three persons. Carl Snickenbacker was covered with the boiling candy and terribly burned.

It is thought his injuries will prove fatal. Ed. Fidler and Nellie Galvin were severely but not dangerously scalded. who decorates the floor, regardless of -The tobacco young man where he is, will be very apt to give certain Harrisburg, (Pa.) church a wide berth church had just bought a new carpet, and a specimen of the kind of hog mentioned had ruined a considerable area of it during one evening's chewing performance. It was publicly announced in church that he would have to buy a new piece of carpet or stand a lawsuit for damages and a criminal prosecution for misde-Pittsburgh Post.

-New York auctioneers have sold several cases of old sabers, rifles, bayonets and other small arms. They were picked up on battle-fields in the South during the war and sold to the manufacturers who had made them. Among the lot were many sword-bayonets and canteens. Bullet-holes were in the leather belts and dents in the swords. They were sold to a Brooklyn junk-dealer for two or three cents apiece.

-N. Y. Times. -The ice crop from the Erie canal at Rochester yields New York State abont twelve bundred dollars each sea- AL persons holding present claims them against to me Win. at once, Also, all persons owing Wm.

Shaw, Sty, wilE properly proven as required by law. please come forward and settle. (21apr-tf) A. SHIRE. Assignee, WM.

KENNEY, M. PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE SURGERY, May be found during the day, when not professionally engaged, at Brooks' Drug Store, at pight, at the Thurston House. J. Monroe Leer, -PROPRIETOR Stock Farm, PARIS, KENTUCKY. PURE for sale Jacks, at all Jennets times.

and Correspond- Cotswold ence respectfully solicited, and orders Alled with guaranteed satisfaction. All persons owing taxes are hereby tified that immediate payment is demanded. I must have money to meet the demands of the people to whom the county and State are indebted. The taxes are due and long due, and must be paid at once, or I shall be compelled to distrain for same. 25dectf J.

B. HOLLADAY, S. B. C. GEO.

W. DAVIS, -DEALER INFURNITURE, Window Shades, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mattresses, Special Attention Given to Undertaking and Repairing. Main Street, Paris. Ku. Milling Notice.

I public, WOULD that I respectfully have leased, announce repaired to and the m- put in first -class order, THE BOURBON FLOURING MILLS (known A6 Spears' Mills. on upper Stoner), and am now ready to receive the patronage of the public, which 18 most respectfully golicited. (8janif) T. J. BISHOP.

For further particulars, JOHN P. SHROPSHIRE, Leesburg Harrison County, Ky. Land at Private Sale! EIGHT tered acres and of timbered, unimproved on Innd, Hinkston, well Millersburg precinct, four miles from Millersburg, and seven miles from Paris, known as part of the Parker place. It is pear the Jackstown pike; mostly in grass, and has a good orchard. Possession given any time.

Terms easy and price low, Call at thisoffice or address NIMROD WOOD, 7septi Millersburg, Ky, A SMALL FARM AT PRIVATE SALE. TWENTY situated acres the of fine Jacksonville improved Leesburg Turnpike. convenient. to churches and school. has on it a comfortable new house with six room, a good barn, stable, smoke-house and hen -house.

A well of flue water, eight acres of fine tobacco land. NOTICE TO TOBACCO MEN! I A lace the sole of Local Louisville, Agent for of the Sawyer, Counties Walof Bourbon and Fayette, soliciting consignment, and aIn prepared to offer as good terms as any other house in the business, to both producer and dealers. Partios wanting reasonable advances upon their goo Is, can be accommodated at a low rate of interest. I expect to visit both counties in a few days, and bope to see all in person. A proper revognition from my friends, and a share of the public patronage is all I wish.

For the I at. present Midway any communication JOHN will J. reach ROGERS. PLO R. M.

RICE. 0. E. RICE. R.

M. RICE SON, ING. An elegant new hearse; all kinds of caskets and wooden cases, and robes of all kinds on band. We beg your inspection and solicit your natronaga R. M.

RICH A at AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper, Window Shades, and Furniture Supplies Generally, NORTH MIDDLETOWN, KY. Special attention given to UNDERTAK- NEW NEW SPEARS. W. L. Co.

We desire to call the attention of the public to the fact that we have just opened the largest and most complete stock of staple and fancy groceries ever brought to this city. Our stock is fresh and new and and embraces Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Cigars, Tobaccos, Canned Goods in almost endless variety. Ip fact, we have everything usually kept in 3 first-class grocery. We are making a specialty of Fancy Grocerles and in this line can please the taste of the most fastidious. We bought our goods for CASH, a ad to cash customers are offering special inducements.

JACOB SCHWARTZ, -WHOLESALE AGENT FORTHE CELEBRATED I.X. L. Lager Beer. THE retail trade towns in the supplied city at a and all moment'a surrounding warning. My cellar is always filed with Barrels, Half Barrels and Kegs.

Also, a hottled supply for family use, always packed on Ice. 6 -Lime For Saleby the car-load, barrel and smaller quantities, Office at Jobu Schwartz' Saloon, Main Street, Paris, Ky. 12ianti A Fine Bourbon Farm FOR SALE PRIVATELY. HAVING offer at determined private to quit sale, the farming, farnt I known as the Douglas Lewis farm consisting of 230 ACRES OF FINELY IMPROVED LAND, gituated six miles from Paris, on the Harrode Creek pike, in the Cane Ridge territory. On the farm there 18 a large brick residence with 10 rooms and all necessary outbuildIngs, including a tobacco barn sufficient for housing 40 acres of tobacco -also two good tenant houses; two fine orchards, one young and just hearing: 200 acres in grass and acres of timber; also an abundance of ing and stock water.

It is convenient to good district school and to old Cane Ridge Church. For further particulars, call on or address H. M. CARPENTER, so 0.