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The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-20
THE LATEST

Gov. ROBERT TAYLOR and staff, and the Legislative Committee, from Tennessee, together with about forty prominent citizens of that State arrived at Mont gomery, Ala, on the 18th and were re. ceived with military honors. They will proceed to Fort Decatur, Ala, accom- panied by the Governor and staff, and a military escort from the State of Alabame, to disinter the remains of Gov. John Sevier.
 TnE heaviest rain that has fallen in over a quarter of century occurred at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the 10th. The streets in many places were from four inches to three feet deep in water. The damage will be heavy.
 FLUx prevails to an alarming extent at Pittsboro, in Calhoun county, Miss.
 THE handsome granite and bronze memorial erected at the grave of the late President Chester A. Arthur, at Albany, N. Y., by some Of his personal admirers, was unveiled on the 18th without ceremony by the donors, who inspected it.
 THE Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette was sold on the 18th to n stock company for S42, 900. Among the stockholders are Maj. John D. Adams, John c. England, Col. Zeb Ward, Col. John C.. Fletcher, Dr. c. J. Lincoln, Capt. J. R. Miller, Col. k. B. Moore and W. II. Campbell, and many other leading Democrats over the State.
 DR. T. J. MANGHAM, the well-kuown veterinary surgeon of Yazoo City, died at Greenville, Miss, on the 18th of blood poisoning.
 DR. R. H. WINTER, of Jackson, Miss, ex United States Marshal, received on the 10th from Judge Pardee, the appointment as Clerk of the United States Circuit Court, and from Judge K. A. Hill the appoint ment as Clerk of the United States District Court of the Southern District of Missis. sippi, vice Jas. NJ. Mckee, resigned, from both positions. Mr. Winter is an old citi- zen of Jackson.
 THE total amount of contributions re- ceived by Gov. Beaver, Of Pennsylvania, for the flood sufferers to date is about S700,. 900.
 COURIER arrived at Brownsville, Tex, on the 18th from the military post at Sante Maria, bringing the account of murder and suicide which occurred there. Cor poral Adler Mutchings and private Paul Marquant while on their way back from a ball, had quarrel, which resulted iu Hutchings shooting Marquant fatally, after which be blew his own brains out
 TIE Jnte Bagging Trust, or combination it is reported at St. Louis, where it's real headquarters are, is calculating escaping any conflict with the antitrust law of that State by having all. CT nearly its products sold ahead before iAa law was passed
The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-20
In the Vegetable Garden.

The market-gardener in the neigh borhood of large cities is accustomed to use valuable land, and often pays high rent for the privilege. He makes this pay by growing several crops year on the same ground, and to that end the land is made very rich by ma nure, this latter being favorable to the flavor, as it is a well-known fact that quick growth is what is wanted for vegetables for summer use. The sub urban gardener, in his small lot, may readily practice the same principle, by always growing plants of a similar nature together. For example, all the early crops, as cabbage, peas, rad ishes, lettuce, caulihower, potatoes, bush beans, come of the ground near enough together for our pur- pose, The ground for these should be heavily manured in the spring. Radishes and lettuce take only month to six weeks, so these may be grown between the rows of the other crops. This gives the rows foot or two between each  other, but plenty of room, when the lettuce and radishes come of, for the perfecting Of the other crops.
 Now. then, to succeed these first crops we shall want spaces about that time for late cabbage, caulihower, celery, successional pease. beans and turnips. Even the cucumbers and melons may be accommodated by clearing away the leaves of small space. By the time these are growing rapidly, the first crop comes of alto gether, In making these arrange ments. cabbage need not follow cab bage, but put these on the land the pease and beans had, and so on. All the winter root crops may be by them selves, as also pole beans that occupy the ground Rl. the tune, Prairie Farmer
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News,
ryAsHrNaroN NOTES.


 THERE was some excitement in the State and Navy Departments reported at Wash- ington on the 18th consequent upon unsat- isfactory reports from Hayti Nothing definite was given to the press.
 E. A. BAXTER, of New York, has been appointed by President Harrison as United States Marshal for the Western district of New York.
 THE President has said that he will not favor either one of the Virginia Repub. lican factions to the disadvantage of the other. He earnestly desired an end to the disagreement.
 MRS. GENERAL SHERIDAN, who has been quite ill at Washington, is so far convales- cent as to be able 10 go out driving.
 THE Secretary of the Treasury has ap- pointed John Hughsou, skilled laborer, in the Treasury Department, at com pensaton of S720 per annum. Hughson was porter of one of the Pullman cars caught in the flood atsJ ohnstown, Pa., and it was mainly through his efforts that Mrs. F. W. Halford and her daughter were enabled to reach place of safety in the mountains. Ills appointment is due to the recommendation of the Presidents private secretary.
 MRs. HARRISON accompanied by her father and two grandchildren have left Washington for Cape May, where they will occupy Postmaster General Wana- makers cottage.
 PREPARATIONS for the taking of the cen- sus of 1890 are assuming shape The ap- proprations provide for 175 supervisors, which IS an excess of twenty five over the number employed in 1880. This excess of supervisors will go to the South and West excepting one each to Oklahoma and Alaska. The lureau estimation of the population is placed at So, 900, 000.
 THE Commissioner of Pensions has ap- pointed his daughter, Miss Ada Tanner, to be his confidential secretary in place of George B. Squires
 THE Comptroller of the Currency has declared a second dividend of ten per cent in favor of the creditors of the Fidel- ity National Bank of Cincinnati.
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THE WEST.

The San Francisco Johnstown subscrip- ton has reached s5l0 00l
 TIE Secretary of State of Illinois, has issued licenses to the American Execut- ing Company, of Chicago, to execute per sons who are sentenced to death. Capital stock, S25, 900; incorporators, stephen Lawson. Nj. E. Clear and Jacob lfert
 c. D. FAVOR, a furniture dealer of Albuquerque N. M., has assigned with creditors in St. Louis. San Francisco and Kansas City.
 F. D. SLgDaAN, treasurer of Benton County, Iowa, has resigned because of a shortage in his accounts. The amount IS not known. Nothing criminal is alleged.
 NEWS has been received in Tucson, Ariz, of the killing Of ten white men l5O miles southeast of Hermosillo Sonora, by Apache Indians.
 Two bodies, supposed to be those Of victims of the Johnstown disaster, have been found six miles below Cincinnati
 THE Minnesota Iron Company at its an- nual meeting in Duluth voted to use the Sl, 300. 900 surplus for improvements. It Is said this means line of ore vessels
 THE International Typographical Union met in convention at Denver, Col, on the 1lth.
 TIE Santa Fe has started the survey for brauch line from Guthrie to Lisbon and it will be completed in few days and wcrg commenced immediately afserwards 90 as 10 get to Lisbon shsaa at Ihe Rock gsl6ua if pesllbles
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THE souTu.

SAMUEL CUMMINGS has confessed to the murder of Joseph Smith in Roane County w. Va
 Ar Dalton, Ga, the other morning Hon. s, E. Fields, State Senator, was shot and killed by his stepson, Dennis Taylor, whom he attempted to chastise. Young Taylor was arrested.
 A CONVENTION of ex- x-Confederates has been held at Now Orleans for the purpose of organizing an organizing an association embracing all the surviving Confederate soldiers. The meeting organized the Con- federate Veterans Association by adopt ing constitution and electing General George Gordon, of Georgia, president
 SITTING BULL the Sioux chief, was re- ported dying of pneumonia at Standing Rock agency on the l1th.
 A NEGRO named Caffee is in jail at Nor- folk, Va. charged with having set fire to the residence of Rev. E. C. Clarke, near London bridge, three weeks ago Mir. Clarke and four of his family perished in the flames. The negro lived on Rev Mir. Clarke's farm, and was ordered by him to leave the premises for destroying fencing and not paying rent
 TORNADO passed over Mammoth Springs, Ark, on the sth. Many persons were reported injured, but no one was killed.
 THE other night at Helenwood, Tenn, a mob broke into the jail and took Lloyd ana Reynolds, the double murderers, and hanged them to a tree near by. A note was pinned to the bodies threatening ven- geance on any informer. Public senti- ment justified the act.
 WHILE drum corps composed of colored men was parading the streets of Will mington, Del, the other night crowd Of small boys made an attack upon them, when the colored men drew pistols and fired on the Boys, killing one and wound- ing several
 THERE was a serious conflict between whites and blacks recently at Given's store, eighteen miles southeast of Austin, Tex. Tue trouble originated in a colored justice of the peace's offics. Six or eight men were killed on both sides The whites were arming and the negroes were in- furiated and grave fears of worse trouble existed.
 LOUIS MILLER. fifteen years old, and James Freeman, eleven years old, while out in the harbor at Charleston, S. c, in q sailboat the o,her day wers both knocked overheard by tue boom and drowned,
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dead They had been drowned. The rope was thrown to the rigid woman, but she would pay no attention to 1t Grab the rope" a hundred voices shouted The unfortunate creature looked at the two children and tried to rouse them, but they had dropped into an eternal slumber Grab the Tope!" the crowd again yelled excltedly, for the wreckage with its dead and living freight was very nearly under the bridge The woman needed not the advice or the voices She looked indifferently at the strained eyes Of the men above, and as she passed under the bridge with unconcern it was seen she was insane, crazed by grief
 A man woman and child were seen float ing down on a lot of drift. The mass of debris commenced to part, and by desper- ate effort the husband succeeded in getting his wife and little one on floating tree Just then the tree washed under bridge and q rope was thrown out. It fell over the mans shoulders He saw at a glance that he could not save his dear ones so he threw the means of safety to one side and grasped closer in his arms those who were with him A moment later and the tree struck float ing house It turned over, and in moment all were swept to their fate.
 Watchers in railway signal tower near Sang Hollow tell many piteous tales of what they saw Men and women in dozens, In pairs and singly, children, boys big and lit tie, and wee babies passed there in among the awful confusion of water-drowning, gasping, struggling and fighting desperate ly for life Two men on tiny raft shot into the swiftest part Of the current They crouched stolidly, looking at the shores, while between them. dressed in white and kneeling with her face turned heavenward. was a girl or years old She seemed stricken with paralysis until she came opposite the tower and then she turned her face to the operator She was so close they could see big tears on her cheeks, and her palloT was as death The helpless men on shore shouted to her to keep up her courage and she resumed her devout attitude and disappeared under the trees Of projecting point short distance below
 At New Florence were two young men who should be crowned as true heroes Their dress indicated them to be dudes but they were brave in every sense Of the word They hoffed their clothing and formed life saving crew of two members, and did work worthy of men experi- enced in sterner walks of lie. Their plan of operation was simple, but a good one A railroad tie was se- cured and one of the men fastened himself to it with a rope, making a crude life-preseryer. He allowed himself enough
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came sweeping down the mountain and through the valley with force far beyond that Of the great cataract ut Niagara Sons stood back for fathers and mothers and were lost while the parents were taken out Many dear brother found watery grave that loving sister might be saved. The stories by survivors and thrilling escapes are in many instances most remarkable and almost beyond belief
 A man named Dougherty tells thrilling story of ride down the river on a log When the waters struck the roof of the house on which he hal taken shelter he jumped astride a telegraph pole, riding distance of some twenty three miles from Johnstown to Bolivar before he was res cued.
 The eight children of James McMillan, the youngest of which is 10 months old, were in their house on Lincoln street in Johnstown The family was in the attic when the food came. Each of the large children grasped a smaller one, and the family got to the roof The jam of houses made 1t possible for them to walk from roof to roof until they reached the Morrell Educational Institute, where they stayed till next day. They suffered greatly from hunger. One of the children kept the baby alive by moistening its lips with his finger, which he from time to time dipped in the water
 At Pine Creek, seventy-five miles from Johnstown, child not more than a year old was found alive in the drift which had come down from the scene of the great dis aster. It had been floating for thirty hours It is almost a miracle how this mite of humanity escaped death in such raging torrent after a journey of seventy five miles, while many thousands of sturdy men and women met their death in the twinkling of an eye.
 The family of c. Kress have reason to re- member their four big St Bernard dogs Mir. kress, his wife and three children were tossed about by the angry waters. Their house turned over and over, and each time the water. The dogs sprang into the water as each member of the family slipped in and in an instant had the unfortunate person on the house again. Over trees heavy brush, and through dangers of every kind the animals dashed to save their masters family. When the house ap- preached the shore one of the dogs lowed Mrs Kress ashore. The rest of the family also escaped with the assistance of the dogs Mir Kress says he lost sl0O 900 in the flood, but he thinks far more of his dogs than of his wealth.
 The family of Mir. D. J. Duncan, super lntendent of the Johnstown Passenger Rail- way Company, had narrow escape. One daughter, Blanche, was rescued from the floating debris at Cambria City on the right
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- = - THE SAMOAN PROTOCOL.

The Document Signed by All the Com
 mlssiouers at Beriin-Its Provisions May
 Not be Made Public Until Congress
 Meets.
 WASHINGTON, June 15-The Berlin ne- gotiations for the Samoan treaty are at an end, and dispatches received at the State Department state that the protocol was signed by all the commissioners yes terday in Berlin. It is now understood that the agreement originally submitted to the State Department wasTound to be entirely satisfactory to the President, to Secretary Blaine and the rest of the Cab met.
 State Department officials arc not yet certain whether or not the Samoan agree ments can be made public before the meeting of Congress. If formal treaty pertaining to international questions, It will have to be submitted to the Senate; but as a simple agreement the State De- partment has power to make public its provisions at it's discretion.
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- - WORDS OF THE WISE.
Aphorisms Selected from the Works
 Great Philosophers.

Aphorisms Selected from the Works o
 Great Philosophers.
 No thoroughly occupied man was every yet very miserable. -Landon.
 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time We fall -Coffucius
 Quarrels would never last long if the trouble was only on one side Roche foucauld.
 There are soft m oments even to des peradoes. God does not all at once abandon even them. Cecil.
 It is one proof of good education and of true refinement of feeling to respect antiquity. -Sigourney.
 Cheerfulness keeps up kind of day. light in the mind. filling it with steady and perpetual serenity. y.-Ad- dison.
 There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all.-Shen- stone.
 Pride, like the magnet. constantly points to one object self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels, s,-Colton.
 Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless 1t be a greater hurt to another to conceal it--W Penn.
 The greater a man Is in power above others the more he ought to excel them in virtue None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Cyrus
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ABOUT ElAx-oRowINo.
Interesting Communication from an Irish
 Farmer on the Subj Iect.


 Prof Willetts, the Assistant Secre. tary of Agriculture, has under con- sideratiou letter from Ireland, which he thinks may offer solution of the economic problem: What shall take the place of wheat on farms where it can no longer be raised at proftP The writer. who has been familiar with flax-growing and linen manu- featuring since 1S40, says in his inter esting communication There are only two establishments weaving-one at Webster. Mass, and the other at Ap- pleton, Wis, the latter doing but little. and neither weaving any thing finer than crash. There is nothing in the climate or.soil conflicting with the as- sertion that just as good flax and linen may be produced in every State in the American Union as in any country. Germany now spins and weaves the finest linen. and she has no essentially different climate from America. Many things become successful in America from the facility with which the people take up and adopt improved processes and appliances, and this may be the salvation of the linen industry, of the importance of which there is no question. There is every reason why the American farmers should produce a million acres of flax for both seed and fiber over and above what is now produced, which would give l2,000, GOO to 15, 900. 900 bushels of seed, worth as many millions of dsllars, and 2,500, 900 tons of flax straw, worth $50, GOO, 900, fiber would be obtained, worth $100,- 000,000 Once established, American invention would, as in all other in- dustries, soon build up au industry to consume this raw material. 1 wish the State experimental farms to grow a small amount in each State, and such private farmers as are disposed to do tho same. The flax should be sown upon any good mellow soil which has been well manured the past year, or active chemical fertilizers may be em- ployed to reasonable extent. The seed should be sown at the rate of two and half bushels On an acre of land, brushed In. and no further attention is needed excepting that oany large weeds may be removed until the flax has turned" for half its length, when it should be pulled, cured and cared for to keep it bright, in the same man. ner as is done with hay. The seed may be taken off by ripping or by roller thrashing, and there will be market for all flax straw thus grown at $20 per ton. The crop should give two and half tons of straw to an acre. and twelve to fifteen bushels of seed. The cost of pulling is, in Canada.$5 ar acre
 Prof. Willets has informed the sender that the subject of his letter would be earnestly considered by the department, which would lend it's aid to any effort to increase or diversity the agricultural industries of the coun- try. y.-Washington Letter.
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ourr . larre meeting of colored men Q

QUITE large meeting of colored men of Mississippi was held at Jackson on the 18th. John R. Lynch presented the reso- lutions which favored national election law and indorsed President Harrison in glowing terms.
 CAPTAIN DUvEReE, formerly of Balti- moro, Md, who shot and killed Vice-Con- sul Stanwood at Andakale, Madagascar, last fall has been arrested and will be tried before Consul John Campbell at Ta- matave, Madagascar.
 IT is officially announced that the Nor gan line of steamers have suspended their trips between New Orleans and Vera Cruz owing to tho rigid quarantine established by the Louisiana authorities,
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SEEKING IMPORTATION OF LOVED ONES
 bank of the stream. half mile below Johnstown a second daughter, Miss Masee, was drawn out of the water alive and ts we'll At Morrellsville, on the left bank, one mile below Johnstown. third daughter-Elyira, with little 6-months-old child in her arms reached the roof of floating building, and was carried by 1t up stony creek to Kerinville, mile and half above Johns town on the extreme opposite portion of the town from which they started. Miss Elvtra states that the building on which they succeeded in finding refuge was turned over and over a number of times before 1t set tied, but so slowly that she was enabled to follow it's movements and keep in a safe position, from which she was rescued Sat. urday morning Hardly had she reached the shore when she was received by her overioyed mother, who had also a most thrilling and wonderful escape. She had foated on the debris in the midst of the army of floating houses which went up Stony creek and was waited through the second story window of a brick school-house in another portion of the town, where she re- mained until rescued, 1t is questionable II there was ever more thrilling escape or wonderful adventure on record.
 gray haired woman was among the ap- plcants for clothing at the distributing de- pot at the Pennsylvania railroad station. An outfit was made up and given her but after examining the dress she approached the agent In charge and asked if he would exchange it for a black one. T have lost all my family" she added by way of apol ogy, as tho tears streamed down her wrinkled face, and would like to have a black dress if could get one. My husband and four children are in that awful pile by the stone bridge, and 1 am alone now" black dress was found for her
 In many cases whole families perished. In a small room of the school-h0use lay five little children A big boy sat by contem- plating them They were his brothers and sistsrs His father, squire Fisher. and bis mether wore drowned, but their bodies / pt Est bssa f9aAa, TAs oaildFen
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Tn. psnu.ylvanIa Company. Loss.

PHILADELPHIA, June 14.-Pennsylvania railroad officials have not yet estimated the amount of damage done to their prop erty by the recent flood, and will not be able to do so for some time yet It is stated that although it would be easy to approximate the amount necessary to re- place bridges and tracks, the roadway is seriously washed in very many places, so that years will be required to place it in first-rate condition. The loss In snoh re- spects is hard Co calculate. The loss however, will not be as great as at first reported. They say that sS,09o oQe win ooYsr ail that can Dc replaced
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The penn.ylvanla Railroad Repaired.

CHICAGO, June I5.-The PennsyIVahIa railroad has been rebuilt through the late flooded district under the direct superVi-
 sion of the officers in charge of the en- gineering and transportation depart ments of the Pennsylvania lines. The last rail needed to connect the severed parts of the great thoroughfare was placed in position yesterday. The new track has been substantially built and it will be gradually tested until Monday next when the great trunk line will be reopened and express trains will again run in both directions between Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Cleveland on the west, and Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York on the east.