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A GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT.
An Indiana County Treasurer Short
in His Accounts $50, 900 to $780,

CHICAGO, March 27.A Vincennes Qnd)
special says: Spear S. Hollingsworth, eoun-
ty treasurer of Knox county, has been arrest
ed on the charge of embezzlement. He was
required to give So 800 bail, which he has not
vet done. Hollingsworth is alleged to be short
in his accounts between $4,000 and $780,
600. His bondsmen include thirty-five of the
best citizens.
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R!N!!ES Ri! BROTHERS.. 5
mar26 d3t
ESQ COE ESQ

will make yeur old Silk Hat into a
Spring style for $3.50. He has also,
and makes to order, qualities ranging
from $4.O0 to $500.
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THE LABOR QUESTION.

The BodwelI Granite Company and
Its vinaIhaven Employees.
Action Taken in Adjusting Wages
Which PIeases Everybody.
An Auburn Shoe Firm Announces a
Profit-Sharing Plan to
Their Employees.
Increasing Wages In the Winthrop
WooIen Mills.
Good Prospect that the Great Rail-
road Strike is Ended.
Conferences Held Between Jay Gould
and Mr.. Powderly,
which Result In Ordering the Imme-
dIate Resumption of Work
Pending Arbitration, to Which Jay
Gould Consents.
No Street Cars Running In Pittsburg,
Pa, Yesterday.
Manufacturers, Coal Operators, &C.,
Advancing Wages.
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April Dividends.

The following dividends will be payable in
April:
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THE MAINE STATE PRESS.

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Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PRESS (Which has large circulation in every
part OF the State) for S100 per square for first I
sertion, and 90 cents per square for each subse
quent Insertion.
Address all communications to
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FOREIGN.

The Miners Strike In Belgium
Assuming Serious Aspects.
Factories and Mines Wrecked In
Various Localities.
Troops Called Out to Defend the
Streets.
The Rioters Fired Upon and Many Of
Them Killed.
A State of Siege Proclaimed In the
District Of the Strikes.
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LOCAL WEATHER REPORT.
PORTLAND, Me-, March 2S. 1886.
HAM l11 AMI BPM l7PMl IL m
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from Shawnee, o., was indignant at the at
tack upon his chief, who, he said, had de-
voted twelve years to the Knights, working
solely and alone in their interest night and
day. Mr.. Powderly knows no home," he
and thther in the interest of his men. If
any man in this country knows what it
means to work eighteen hours day, it Is
Mr.. Powderly."
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The Sunday school temperance concert at
Pine Street NJ. E. church yesterday after
noon was largely attended and very interest
ing. The exercises, consisting Of songs and
recitations by the adult and juvenile mem
bers of the school, were varied and of more
than usual excellence. A similar concert is
to be given in this church every three months
hereafter. At the prayer meeting in the
evening much interest was manifested and
four persons rose for PRAYERS
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

A Boston barber says: "A perfect
temper in a razor is happy accident
How like women razors must BEL
LoweH Courier.
A knight of the grip married the
girl who busted his room and furniture
because he said he understood busters
were very useful travelling companions.
-MerctQm Trareler,
Little johnny, on being asked by
his school teacher if he knew what was
meant by "at par. replied that INA
was always at pa when he came home
late, Philadelphia CdH
-Fogg Phew' open the window,
the room is full of gas. Henderson
That can not be, for | took the pre-
caution to blow it out before | lay
down. boston Transcript.
--PaSteur was so successful with
the Newark children that it is said he
will next tackle Jersey mosquito.
But if the mosquito sees him first he
won't lORkerS Statesman.
A man came into a cigar
store, bought cigar and threw bad
iive-cent piece on the counter. lie
was hurriedly departing when the
dcalor called after him, "Hold on,
hold on, it's badr Never mind,
answered the purchaser as he quickly
passed out, "I'll smoke it anyhow. -
n. T. C0Dmercial- .Adcertiser.
Adelaide Chapman. an American
girl nurtured on Boston beans and
other Intellectual comestibeS, is Great
ing sensation in operate circles in
Italy. But she does not do it in her
own name. She calls herself Nine.
Adda Adni. viii Mile. Addi Adini
please explain why Adelaide aside her
proper name?- NOrrich Bulletin.
-l,rown-I never could endure that
Jones. he is so Internally lazy. Smith
Is he lazy? Brown-Too lazy to wink.
And the worst of it is he sets such
wretched example that every one about,
him gets TO be just as shiftless as he is
himself. Smiths that SO? Brown
Yes. They do say that even yeast
won't work in his house. Somerrille
JOrRdl
] "A L uilktt W Hb llat'i ntNtl pdNl iliplC
than a shilling to see an exhibition,
went to New York theater one night
to see the Forty Thieves The ticket
seller charged him three shillings for a
ticket. Passing the paste-board back,
he quietly remarked Keep it, mister;
[ don't want to see the other thirty
nine, and out he marched. ~ Y. In
dependent.
japanese etiquette requires that
the lady shall give the signal for the
termination of visit from gentle
man. japanese customs are singularly
like our own. In this country the lady
gives the signal for the termination of
a visit, and the signal is; George, l
think | hear papa out in the backyard
untying the dog" The signal never
fails. Boston Courier.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
WILL CHINA RETALIATEe
A Chinese Consul Thinks Americans
May All Be Driven from China,
Aud That the Commerce Eetwcen tn. T,o
Countries, Amounting O $50. Ooo mn
Annually, viii BE DESTROYED.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-'rhe Mail and E,.
press publishes the following interview
win Ching Hoy, the Chinese Consul in
this city, based upon st. Louis dispatch
saying that the Chinese Imperial Gnvarn-
ment cOntemplates retaliatory measures
on account of the treatment accorded sub-
1ects III this country: II can not saw that
lam advised that an imperial proclama.
ton has been issued compelling nil
Cinnamon in this country TO re.
turn home, but | can say that the
Consul-General Mt San Francisco has sent
out notices advising all Cinnamon to leave,
Whether the Government is back of this
can not say. As to the suggestion of re
tallation, have no doubt measures of this
kind will be taken by our Government. If
Cinnamon are driven out and outraged
here, why can not our people drive out
all Americans from Chinas The good
fame of this country has been disgraced
by the recent ontrages, and the question
has become very serious. There is
no protection to the Cinnamon at all
But all American merchants and mis-
sionaries are well treated in China. and
whenever lltreated the Government takes
prompt action, not only paying damages.
but redressing the wrong done What |
don't understand is why the good people
of the East here remain silent. 1t GER
tainly was not the intention of Congress
that merchants and others should be
treated in this way. If nothing is done,
the commerce between the two countries
amounting to SSOWO,OD annually, will be
DESTROYED ~
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Canadian Mail system.

MONTREAL, Feb. EN- connection with
the recent loss of mailbag between Mon
treal and Boston, an old post-oilice employe
stated to-day that English mails via New
York, and half the New York, Boston and
other American mails, actually left Mon
treal without mail clerk, and ii was only
when a train crossed the border thata mail
clerk took charge, Some of the bags are
not locked. He had seen n railway EN-
ploye receive tips for opening bags and
putting letters in.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
CoUkTERFEITERS CAUGHT.
men and IA Woman Arrested at
'heif Work-Nabbed With the Tools
and Stuff in Their Hands,

, NiNclSNATI Feb lS.-For some time the
secret Service officials have made strenu-
GUS efforts to locate gang which was
vigorously Showing queer' half dollars
ana quarters in this city aud vicinity. The
couhterielters were finally located at a
rather unpretentious brick building, No. 8
JACKSON street, occupied by Mrs Mollie
ouiiiVan' A Secret Service agent
Dscame acquainted with one of the
counterlelters by working in the same shop
WIN MN, and so far gained his confidence
'hat be was invited to engage in the coun-
terielt business with him, which the officer
uld' After gaining all the information
needed, the officer notified the authorities,
ana THIS afternoon was the time set for tn,
capture The officer had access to the house
ana was in the room when the deputy
marShas arrived at the house The
officers waited at the bottom
ol the stairs, and then stealthily
ascended the creaking steps in their
stocking feet The Secret Service agent
was In the room at work. A low knock
warned him that the officers were in wait
ing upon the outside. With "a bound he
sprang toward the door, jerking his re-
VoiVerS and leveling them at the counter
felters, and at the same time unlocking the
door admitting the officers. To say that
lhe counterieiters were surprised is draw
ing 1t mild, McGuire was in the very act
OF pouring ladeful of metal into one of
the molds, and had filled the mold before
he became aware that the officers were
upon him. The Sullivan woman was re-
Ginning upon bed, and Morrison and Hal
ligan were watching McGuire pour out the
metal. They made no resistance when
called upon to surrender. The men were
lrOned and taken, with the woman. to the
United States Court. Their names are
Richard Harrigan, Dave Morrison and John
McGulre The men and the woman Sulli-
van were all arranged before Commissioner
Smith Mcclure pleaded guilty, and was
at once remanded to jail without bail.
His contederates who pleaded mot guilty,n
were placed under bonds for hearing.
Twenty half-dolars and sixteen quarters,
all newly made, along with the dies,
chemicals and the entire outfit used in the
manufacture of the bogus stuff were cap
tured and taken to the marshals office
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
The Greek fleet has gone to Euboea

GENERAL BoYrN, Adiutant to Emperor
William of Germany, is dead.
THE Meininger actors of London will
shortly make tour of America,
Tar lntanta Eulalia is confined to her
bed with an attack of sore throat accom-
panied by fever The date of her marriage
has been postponed,
Tnf Powers have sent n final note to
Greece before blockading the Greek fleet III
Salamis Bay.
Tur Sultan has informed the British Am
bassador at Constantinople that the Porte
does not intend to grant any concession to
Greece.
Nix. P,RNElL has prepared scheme to
amply the Irish Church surplus not yet eN-
bausted to relieving distress in Ireland
Thirty thousand persons have applied to
the Mansion House for relief.
TuEPope on the Goth celebrated the eighth
anniversary of his election as Pontiff.
TpE German colony in East Africa has
acouired the Wehc district in South usa-
CARA
Tur German Government declares that
only German material and labor will be
employ ed ON the Baltic Canal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
NUMBER Ia.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

Edwin Booths full name is Edwin
Thomas Booth.
General Nelson A. Miles is the
Youngest man of his rank in the United
States army, and the only one who has
come from civil life.- Chicago journal.
The new Swedish minister to the
United States is named Kjolt. The
wav to pronounce this name is to begin
in the middle and kick the sides OIL
81. Louis Post Dispatch
General Wesley Merritt, the COM
mandant at West Point, is tall man,
with a round, red face and a light
silken' mu,tache, He stands as straight
as his cadets are instructed to do
N. J. Hcrald
Henry F. Gillig. Of the American
Exchange, London, who recently sailed
for London, after flying trip to the
United States, is only thirty-five years
old, vet he has crossed the Atlantic
just fifty times.
-Merced County, Cal, can boast OF
the largest man in the State IN the per.
son of Mexican Archibald, native of
Nova Scotia. He is over seven feet
high and built in proportion. he
wears a No. - boot and carries his
/ own last
Joseph Cook refers to the Amer.
cans in recent lecture as "the most
drunken race on the planet but Canon
Earrar says that "the temperance cause
in the United States is far in advance
Of the temperance cause in England.
St Louis Globe.
Mrs. James X. Polk has found it
necessary to deny the report that she is
Catholic. While she has the highest
respect for that church. she is and
! ALWAYS has been a Presbyterian, and
was once called blue Presbyterian be-
cause opposed to dancing.-Ch'cago
| Inter OcedH.
Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota,
several years ago gave his VIE the
| choice between a block lot in Mlnne-
ap0lis and nice new bonnet. Disre-
garding the traditions Of her sex she
took the lot and recently sold it for
ninety thousand dollars. The present
value of the hat she had in mind at
the time is not known, Chicago Mail.
OF Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, au-
thor of Americas nearest approach to
national hymn, who is living in New
ton Center. Mass, at the age of seventy
seven. DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in
his poem "1he Boys wrote:
And there's nice fellow of excellent pith,
Fate tired to conceal him by naming him
Smith;
But he shouted a song for the brave and the
free.
Just read on his medal, my country, of
thee"
Diamond joe Reynolds is one of
the millionaire curiosities Of Chicago.
He invariably wears plain gray suit
without an overcoat, a hat several sea-
sons behind, prunello CATERS that have
been out of style for years. and always
has in his shrt-front tirst-water dla-
mond as large as a filbert and as bright
as dewdrop. He owns more gram
elevators than any man in the country
and ships more grain than any two
men on the Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago NeWs.
West Brookfeld Mass, has six
couples who have experienced more
than fifty years of welded bliss, and
one of the marriages was fifty-seven
=, wears ago. One of the marriage GER
tifcates recently issued by Town Clerk
Bush was to Rev. W. b. Stone, aged
seventy-fiye wears, and brother of Mrs.
Lucy Stone Blackwell. The veteran
prooms bride was Miss Martha Robin
son. ared seyentv-one wears, the sister
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
A Remarkable EXperience,

DETROIT, MIcE., Feb, 2l.-At midnight
last night Edward Ashley, drover of
Clinton County, Mich, boarded a west
bound train at Buffalo and was soon sleep
ing soundly in the sleeper. As the train
was speeding along at the rate of forty-five
miles an hour Ashley's dreams became
troublesome and while passing through the
little town of Atterciffe he was induced
to leave his berth The porter watched and
followed the somnambulist, whose only pro-
lection was Il nightshirt, but the sleeper
was too quick for him. He stepped on
the platform and unhesitatingly walked off
into the air. where he was welcomed by
chilling winds, accompanied by heavy
snowstorm The conductor of the train
was notified, but thinking the man must
be surely killed, did not stop. He tele
graphed back from the next station to have
the remains looked after While the sta
ton agent was preparing to execute the
order Il scantily clad and half-frozen, but
wide awake and otherwise uninjured man.
walked in and asked for clothes. He came
on to Detroit on the next train.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
.Jail-RrnnkerS Cnnturen.

S,RcoXIE, No, Feb. 22.-Marshal Shaw
has returned with two of the Carthage
jail-breakers, whom he captured near
Kings Point, Dade County, Friday night.
The mens names are George Hamilton,
charged with house-breaking, and James
Fortune, charged with larcency. The
men say that Masters, the Newton
County murderer, did not know they
were ready to escape and that they had not
informed him the evening before the
escape: that he had nothing TO do with the
iail-breaking, as they were afraid of him
exposing their plan They were five days
and nights digging out, and report the sub
walls of the jail nothing but small rock and
sand They were surprised that Masters
was out. as he was locked in another cell
from them
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27

New YoRK, Feb. 1S.-John Lobossong. a
French cook, was found dead this morning
at his boarding house, No. 40t Fourth ave
nue.. He had committed suicide by inhal-
ing gas in an ingenious manner. The gas
Jet in one corner Of the bedroom was turned
on full Over the burner on the pipe was
one end of an eight-foot rubber tube,
This was run down the side of the
wall and on the other end of this tube was
an iron pipe about foot long, The rubber
was coied once around the body of the dead
man and the iron pipe stuck in his mouth.
Then over all this was placed the bedclothes
and pillow. When found he had evidently
been dead two days. He left a letter in
French saying that he was tired of life and
that he had been out of employment two
weeks
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
A CASE FOR SOLOMON.
Two Mothers Claim the Same Four
Months.Old Baby.

Two Mothers Claim the Same Four
Months.Old Baby.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb, 1S.--A singular
case of mistaken identity was developed in
the Criminal Court to-day. Mrs. Bauers
applied to the court yesterday for writ of
habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Myers and
her husband to produce the body of a
tour-months-old child in court Mrs.
Bauers claims that the child was born at
the City Home, and that Mrs. Movers oh
tanned it from her with the promise that it
should be returned. This statement was
corroborated by the superintendent of the
Home and some nurses On the other
hand both Mr.. and Mrs. Myers swore posi-
lively that the child was theirs and was
born at their house. They called the ply
sicians and several neighbors, who corrob-
grated Mrs. Myers story The Court gave
the child to Mr. and Mrs Myers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27

"A ire in Portland, Ne, the other
day, played havoc with a mems furnish
ing store. The day following one of a
gang of men cleaning out the cellar
saw foot with stocking and shoe on
sticking from under a pile of black
ened bricks. The men were much ex-
cited, and decided at once to send for
coroner. While one started for him,
another, bolder than the rest, took hold
of the foot and pulled it little. The
foot and leg rapidly came out of the
pile of bricks, and his companions scat
tered, shouting: Hes pulled off one
of his legs" They were mistaken. Tho
leg was made of papier mache, for the
purpose of advertising stockings and
patent CATERS.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
THE SENATE AND GARLAND.
Inquiry Desired Into the Alleged Oiense OF
the Attorney General, and Whether

Inquiry Desired Into the Alleged Onense OF
the Attorney General, and Whether
the Senate Can Discipline Him.
WAsHINGTON, Feb. 23.-ln the Senate to-
day Mr. Morgan introduced preamble
and resolutions concerning the recent re-
port from the Judiciary Committee con-
demning the Attorney General for refuS-
ing to send to the Senate copies OF papers
called for by resolution. The preamble re-
cites that the Senate would be exposed to
just censure if they in the manner recon-
mended by the Committee on the
Judiciary proceeded to announce their
Judgment Of condemnation against the At
torney General of the United States upon
an accusation that includes an Otiense which
is punishable by impeachment, and the
Senate would also attempt to declare the
Attorney-G General to be in contempt OF its
authority and to pass judgment of con
demnation against him for contempt
wit without ,I having him orranneG notl,led ta 1l
answer the same at the bar of the Senate.
The resolutions direct the Committee on
Privileges and Elections to inquire and re-
port upon the question whether the oifense
alleged against the Attorney-General is
of the class of offenses for which the head
of a department may be impeached and
rem owed from office, and whether the Sen
ate can take jurisdiction of said alleged of.
fenses and condemn the Attorney-General
in advance of trial for the otfense by a
resolution of the Senate, there being no
impeachment of said officer in the mode
required by the Constitution. The com
mittee is further instructed to inquire
and report whether the Senate has the
power to punish the Attorney-General
for contempt of its rightful authority;
whether the Attorney General has really
violated any law in his refusal to furnish
certain papers, and whether the Senate has
the right under the Constitution to with
hold its consent to the removal of persons
by the President who are unfit for office,
can bind its members by any declaration
of the duty of the Senate, or by any rule,
as Il duty to the Senate,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
Hunter Drowned.

RoCuEFoRr, Mo, Feb 23.-Mr. D. c. Bar.
ton, a prominent man of this city, left
here yesterday morning for the bar above
town to shoot ducks. About two o'clock,
man was seen floating down the river on
cake of ice and was recognized as Barton by
Mr. 7. j. White, who was also out cunning.
He asked Barton what was the matter, Bar
ton told him and that he had gotten on
the ice and could not get ashore, asking
White to get pole and pull him ashore.
White ran for pole and while gone, Mr..
Barton disappeared and was seen no more,
The supposition is. that having killed a
duck he ventered too near the waters
edge to procure his game and the ice giving
way carried him out into the river, and
while Mr.. White was going for assistance,
to swim, sunk beneath the water and was
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GREAT STRIKE OVER.



MI. PLEASANT, Pa, Feb 2l.-Yesterday
afternoon the Board of Cancellation, on the
part of the strikers, met with the syndi-
cate representatives, composed of H. {.
Frick, Of the Frick Coke Company;
Colonel j. NJ Schoomaksr and his
brother, of Schoomaker Il Co; 5. 7.
Rafferty,, Of Mcclure & Co.; Secretary
Achison, of the Coke Producers Associa-
Hon, and Syndicate Agent Strickler at
Scottdale. The conference was strictly
confidential, but the negotiations we're OF
such character that notices have been
posted in all the works stating that work
Will be resumed tomorrow, at the wages
paid before the reduction of December,
lSol' which means the grant Of the ten per
cent. advance asked by the strikers.
The English-speaking laborers are jubilant
The Hungarans, though, maintain sullen
silence, especially at Morewood, where they
say they will not return to work until al
the prisoners are liberated from Jail. The
operators will evict them if they do not
return "a work Monday The strike lasted
five weeks, and the total loss to THE opera
tors and workmen is over S5OO,WO.