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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
Blown Into the River

John S. Lively, for twenty-nine
years Waterman on the Bridgeport
(Ala.) bridge was few mornings
since blown into the Tennessee river
while he was opening the span to al
low the passage OF steamer. The
opening section or span revolved on
pillar as a pivot, and when unlocked
is moved by a crank or windlass,
which acts very much as railroad
brake. Lively had just opened the
bridge by pulling the draw bar.
When the wind struck him he jumped,
but was hit by the crank he had turned
loose already dead into The river 100
feet below. The span sw ung idly in
the wind till it was towed in place
by ropes thrown from the steamer.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

The New York Times refers to the
surprising report of the Russian De-
partment of Agriculture as to the size
of this years crop in that country
According to this report, the yield was
about 1886, 900, 900 bushels, as against
257, 900, 900 last year, an increase of
70, 100000. For the six years ending
with 1891 the average annual exports
from Russia were about $4,000, 900
bushels. This official report indicates,
in the opinion of BEERBoHM's Corn
Trade List, well-known London au-
thority, that Russia can spare out of
this years crop 160,0O0,O0O bushels,
quantity greatly exceeding her ex-
ports in any year thus far.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
DUN's TRADE REVIEW.
Not Much Improvement. But no Bad
Set Back.

Il. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade says: The event of the week
is the offer of 50,000,000 United
States per cent, 10 year bonds.
While industrial Improvement con.
tinues the gain is slow, and increase
in the purchasing power of the people,
by enlargement of the force at work,
IS i'll measure counterbalnnced by
the loss in purchasing power of the
people through reduction in wages
paid.
Again there is reported more bust
ness in iron and steel products, but at
low prices.
Cotton has fallen IA of a cent. as
the receipts are much larger than Il
year ago and the consumption is mar
row. Lard and coffee are dull, but
oil was advanced cent, with large
trading.
Imports from New York show for
January thus far decrease of more
than 80 per cent, while in exports
hence gain of $4,000, 900, or nearly
20 per cent. appears. There is now
10 thought of of a movement of gold,
as London sends stock hither to settle
for products. The excess of exports
over imports in December was S43,-
100000, but the exchanges seemed to
foreshadow' gold imports. Greater
confidence abroad in the financial fu-
ture would be of special service in
coming months.
Failures for the week have been 407
in the United States, against 290 last
year, and as in Canada, against AZ
last year, but the number of failures
about the first of the year does not
necessarily indicate bad state of
business.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
Panic In a Public School.

The Cranch public school in East
Washington was the scene of panic
last Monday morning about o'clock.
The children were entering for the
days study when. Grover Hummer a
child seven years old was seen flour
ishing a pistol that he had brought.
from home unknown to his parents
and playfully rcmarking that he was
going to shoot some one, but finally
saying he 'wonld shoot himself and
pointing the pistol to his head acct
'deHtally pulled the trigger and blew
his brains out, An exciting scene
followed and tho children ran Scream
ing into the streets. and some time, was
required to restore order. Luckily
no one was injured. in the scramble.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
ENGLISH THE woRLD-sPEEcH
The German Favor the General study oD
the Coming Language.


The German Favor the General Study on
the Coming Language.
IN an article on the Importance OF
Introducing into the schools thestuuy
of a universal language (Weltsprache).
which recently appeared in the Preuss
sische Jahrbuecher, Dr. Schroer ADJ
vocates making the study Of English
obligatory, not necessarily TO the OK
clusion of the classical tongues, Dut
at least in conjunction with them.
"This," he says, sis not question
Of taste or rivalry between the mod
erns' and the ancients;' it is simply
a historical necessity" The learned
professor properly condemns all at-
tempts, however scientific, to con-
struct an artificial world -speech-llko
Volapuk. In his opinion "a language
which possesses neither literature,
historical development nor linguistic
relations can never serve as q medium
OF general communication, for the
reason that no one will take the
trouble to acquire it, merely as
stool Of trade" until it becomes uni
versal. Such attempts, however, are
not only aimlesss, because they can
never obtain the general consent OF
mankind, but they are needless, for
there already exists a universal Ian
| guage-i e., language which, by
its spread over the whole earth, and
| by the ease with which it may be
learned. has gained such long step
in advance that neither natural nor
| ri inl 1nnrivn IL nf ito
! assured position as the future medium
| of international intercourse. And
this language is the English.
Prot. Schroer is carefulto warn his
readers not to set their arm too high,
for to learn to speak and write
Huently and correctly a Languages
which holds so high a place in the
scale of culture and refinement as the
English is difficult; but for the aver.
| age man this is not necessary, for
! even the average Englishman has but
limited command OF his mother
tongue, and the daily intercourse Of
life requires but a small and easily
acquired vocabulary. This is true OF
every language, but the absence OF
puzzling genders and infections and
| syntactcal forms renders the English
easy in comparison with Others.
''Ihe English language" concludes
Prof. Schroer, sis the world-speech,
and will, to all appearance, become
more and more so every year"
During the present century the En-.
glishspeaking population of the
world has increased fiye-fold. from
possibly %. 900, 600 at its beginning
to at least 1876, 90, 900. No other
language has ever been so rapidly de.
veloped, no fact in civil history is
more significant than this. In every
quarter of the world English is the
conquering tongue. The wide spread
of the British colonial system, the
marvellous growth Of the United
States and the facility with which it
absorbs every foreign element bear
witness to this great fact. and our
cousins in Germany are of too prac.
tical turn of mind to be jealous "
torgetful of it.-Baltimore Sun.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
Lynchers Sent to Jail.

The jury in the Hastings court,
Roanoke, Va, brought in verdict,
recently finding Walter Davis, Harvey
Dow, Chas. Mcdaniel and Joe Varil-
la guilty of misdemeanor in assisting
at the burning of the body of Thos.
Smith on the morning of September
Il. Smith was the negro caught
by mob and lynched on account of
his brutal treatment of an old lady,
after the militia had fired upon and
killed eight citizens before being Or
dered TO disband. The sentence
passed upon each is one year in Jail
and in Davis case fine of 800, and
in others nominal, sum. Davis was
not present at the trial, he having
been convicted on an indictment as a
rioter and skipped the bail upon which
he was liberated pending an appeal.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

A scientist declares that there never
was, and never can be, such thing as
a petrified animal body. Fertilization
is not transformation of the original
animal into stone. 1t is merely the
displacement by mineral substances Of
certain organic tissues as they decay.
But it is only the bones which are
thus affected, never the flesh. "Most
of the bodies, he says, reported as
found petrified, are examples of a
phenomenon long familiar. They have
been transformed not into stone, but
into substance called 'adipocere, or
grave wax. This is true soap into
which the corpse of human being
will ordinarily be metamorphosed If
buried in graveyard or other place
where water has access to it. This
'adipocere' is one of the most enduring
OF substances. It is not subject to de-
cay, and the body which has assumed
this constitution may preserve its
form for many years, and even for CEN
turtles. Nay, for ages, since evidence
on the point has been obtained from
the othoceras--a mollusk that became
extinct millions of years ago, Of large
size, and built after the pattern of the
chambered nautilus, but with 4
straight shell. !
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
TRIALS OF MOTORMEN..
1t Looks Easy Enough to Run a Car but
1t Is Not.


To one who has never tried it, moth.
ing seems simpler than running an
electric Car. There are good many
simpler things, however, and as a
matter of fact some men who want
jobs as mortormen on the street rail-
way have to give up because they
cannot learn to handle the car. In
the first place, considerable strength
is required to manipulate the brake
properly, and in the next place there
is a peculiar motion turning the
brake handle one way and the crank
for shutting off the power the other
way at the same time that it is not
easy to learn. The local railroad has
no regular school for training the
men who aspire to run electra cars,
but they have regular system Of
teaching the recruits the businss, and
every new man has to go through
certain line of training before he is
allowed to take charge of Car.
When man applies for a position
as motorman he is placed on the
waiting list, and when the company
begins to get little short OF men
and his turn comes round he is sent
/! for and put on car with one of the
experienced men. For about two
days he stands on the front of the
platform of the car and Watches the
driver manipulate the brake and turn
the current on and off. After he has
learned this and become familiar
with all the curves and switches he
Is allowed to try his hand at running
the Car. The first thing he does at.
ter the car starts is to get nervous
and wonder how long it will take him
| to bring 1t to standstill after
passenger has signaled that he wants
to get off. He begins to sweat, and
before Car has gone half mile he
Is played out and is glad to give up to
his teacher. This goes on for about
day, or two until the new man gets
a Little confidence, and then he
gradually learns the trick of stopping
the car so quickly that it will bring
the passengers to their feet.
In addition to this he is obliged to
gain sufficient knowledge Of the
construction of the motor to be ablo
to repair slight breaks and put In +
burned out fuses. 1t is usually about
two weeks before he is competent to
take charge of a car alone. and even
then he can learn something mora
about running enc every day.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

The criminal prosecution of M. j.
O'Brien for embezzing $75, 200 from
the Catholic knights of America,
while supreme treasurer of the order,
was begun in the state court at Chat
tanooga last Wednesday. A plea Of
abatement of indictment was FLED by
the defense, which claimed that the
Knights was not a chartered organiza-
ton under the laws of Tennessee.
by the legislative act of 1891, unchar-
tered associations are denied the right
to own property in the state, and are
ranked as benevolent Institutions. In
consequence there could be no embez-
element where no rights of ownership
existed. On refusal of tho prosecu-
ton to join Issue OF the plea, the court
discharged the prisoner. OBrien:was
allowed to make bond in the sum III
$4,000 pending an appeal to the
supreme court.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
Double Murder.

III. .R. Foster shot and instantly
killed Henry Hudson and negro who
was present, on Mr., Hudson's PLAN
tation five miles from West Point, Ga.
A lawsuit OF several years standing
caused the killing of Hudson and the ne.
gro who was an Innocent party, " as xii !.
ed. because he happened to witness the
deed. The murdered man was one Of
the most prominent planters in the
county, and bis 'friehds'arc greatly
wrought lip over his hntiipely death.
Should Foster be arrested there is no
telling what may be the result.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

Another Arctic expedition is to
start from the United States in 1894,
announces the Boston Cultivator.
1t is to be under the leadership of
Robert Stein Of the geographical sur
vey, and its object is the exploration
OF the territory to the north of Bafin' s
Bay and the west of Smiths Sound.
Eight men will form the party, and
will go by steamer to Jones Sound,
where supply station will be erected.
From that point the party will explore
as far as possible to the north and
west.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

Senator White of California, has
introduced bill appropriating $780,
600 to investigate and determine Tie
best plan to reclaim arid lands.
A Washington afternoon paper
prints what imports to be a memorial
from the Hawaiian Patriotic league to
congress praying for the restoration
of Liluokalani to her throne,
Samuel Parker, ex-prime minister
and minister of the foreign affairs in
Liliuokalanis cabinet, refules the
statement that the deposed queen will
sue the United States government fol-
damages.
The house committee on labor or.
dered a favorable report on Represent
alive McGann's resolution providing
for an investigation relative to the
effect of machinery on labor. The
sum of $4,000 is appropriated to car
ny out the resolution.
Secretary Carlisle will issue $780,
100000 in bonds. He has already
advertised for bids for the same to be
in by February LIST.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

In 1882 B. F. Shuart took up $40
acres near Billings, Montana, under
the s'desert land" act, and went into
alfalfa. He had $500 capital. In just
ten years he sold ont buildings, land
and stock for $40, 900. Doesn't sound
like desert experience, does it? ex-
claims the New York Recorder.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

The Empress of China has no sym
pathy with gay and fighty fashions.
She celebrated her sixtieth birthday
by issuing proclamation, enjoining a
general restraint of extravaganza.
Her Majesty has even prohibited the
customary gifts of silks and jewels by
ministers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
ODDS AND ENDS.
Opolika has a new orchestra.

The large saw mill at Alec has re.
sumed work.
The Southern Female College is
prospecting in Admission, its new home.
1t is announced that Col. N. N.
Clements of Tuscaloosa, will be
candidate for Congress.
Brewton will have a canning factory
within the next 80 days without some
unforeseen mishap occurs.
Harry Hitchcock, machinist, age
SO years from Richmond, Va, COM
mittcd suicide at Mobile few nights
since.
The Tuscaloosa compress has
already pressed 10000, bales of cotton
and will receive from 5000 to 1O,-
900 more bales.
Prof. Hugh Mckee has been elected
principal of the Aub I'm Female
Academy to succeed his brother the
late j. j. Mckee.
A systimatic schedule of burglary
was caught up with at Marion few
nights since and the guilty parties are
now Ill tuC tOltS VI tilC law
Gilbert j. Dease and John Ryan
who are charged with the murder of
j. Wesley Thomas, deputy sheriff of
Mobile county, are now on trial at
Mobile.
The Etna Iron works at Tecumseh
will blow in February LIST. The
Langdon ore mines have already re-
sumed work after more than year of
idleness.
On last Monday one hundred and
seven thousand dollars was sent out
bv the State Treasurer 10 pay teachers,
aud all will be paid by the end of the
present month.
George Afford who killed Chance
Howard in Opelika, several months
ago, has been arrested in Walkr coun-
ty Georgia, and will at once be
| brought back and tried.
A picture of the late Chancellor
| John A. Foster has been presented to
the Supreme Court library by his
| daughter, Miss Pearl Foster, and will
| be hung on the walls of the library.
A dummy line will soon connect
| Opelika with Auburn, the home of the
| Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Alabama. The enterprise was in
augurated several years ago but from
some cause was allowed to stop.
The miners at Corona, 500 hundred
in number have made demand for
cheaper rents and material surch as
| powder, oil, etc. The company re-
fused the demands and strike is the
result, and unless the trouble is set
tied it is liable to spread.
Mr.. L. b. Ilearn, of near CASTOR,
| presented his two grown sons each
with $500 in cash as a Christmas pres
ent. The young men locked the mon
ey in their trunks. One of them had
occasion to enter his trunk few days
ago and found the money missing.
AL Stansell who killed Jim Hillary
, at Birming ham in 1899, was arrested
few days since at Jacksonville, Fla,
and has been brought back to Alaba-
ma for trial. lie went to Mexico, but
his curiosity brought him to Jackson
vile to see the Corbctt- Mitchell fight
with the result as above stated.
Seven United States prisoners made
their escape from the county Jail al
Huntsville few days since. Si2
have been recaptured. They knocked
the jailer down while taking in Goa
and made their escape. In the pur.
suit, Chief of Police Davis's hors,
fell, breaking the small bone of hi
right ankle and bruising his body
Policeman Overton's horse also fell
bruising him up pretty badly.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

In England there has been a re-
markable reduction in the number of
young convicts. Even as lately as
1887 it stood at thirtytwo per cent
of the whole prison population. In
1892 it was twelve per cent.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

Ninety-five per cent. of merchants
are said to fail at some time, though
many recover. Ninety-fve per cent.
of farmers succeed.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

Eleven million six hundred and
twenty thousand families, with an av-
erage income Of $96s, pay ninety per
cent of the taxes Of the United States.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

One-seventh of the land owners IN
Great Britain are women.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01
nResolved that it is the sense of tho

"Resolved that it is the sense of tho
house of representatives that the sec
rotary of the treasury has no authority
under existing law to issue and sell
the bonds of the United States, except
such is conferred upon him by the act
approved January IA, 1876, entitled:
An act to provide for the resumption
of specie payments and that the mon.
ey derived from the sale of bonds is
sued under that act cannot be lawfully
applied to any purpose except those
specified therein" The resolution
was referred to the judiciary commit
tee,
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-02-01

32p DAY. The fight to amend the
sugar bounty was made in the house
today and so far as that end of the
law-making power is concerned sugar
bounty Is thing Of the past, and re.
fined sugar comes in free Of duty.
Almost the entire day was spent In
the discussion. A night session was
held devoted to speech making s,
An Anti-Bond ResoIution..,fi Ns'&
Representative Bailey, Of Texas to-
day introduced the following resolp-.
ton: - ? =
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
EXPERTS IN HANDWRITING.

From Chambers Journal.
Regarding the methods made use OF
b determine authorship, specialists
are naturally reticent. Some of them
have admitted, however. the nature OF
the leading principles which guide
them. The philosophy of the matter
rests mainly on the fact that it is very
rare for any two persons to write hands
similar enough to deceive a careful OBJ
server, unless one is initiating the
other. Fists" like faces, have all
some special idiosy ncrasy. and the imi-
tator has not merely to copy that of
someone else, but to disguise his own.
By careful and frequent practice he
may succeed well enough to deceive
the ordinary man, but is rarely sue
cessful in baffiing the expert Even the
most skillful culprit can not wholly
hide his individuality, as he is sure to
relapse into his ordinary method occa-
sionally. Then, again, great care has to
be used, and this can be detected by
the traces of hesitancy, the substitu-
tion of curves for angles and vice
versa, which come out very plainly
when the writing is examined under
the microscope. as it usually is by the
expert
A plan Of detection which has been
adopted with great success is to cut out
each letter in doubtful piece of writ
ing, and paste all the AS, BIS, etc, on
separate sheets of paper. The process
is also gone through with a genuine
bit of caligraphy of the imitator or the
initiated, as the case may be. Com
parison almost invariably shows that
the letters are less uniform if imitation
has been attempted, the writer being
occasionally betrayed into some ap-
proach TO his ordinary caligraphy, or
momentary forgetfulness of some spe-
cial point in the handwriting he is SIM
uiating.
No point is too small to escape an
experts attention. The dotting of
''i's," the crossing of It's" the curls
and flourishes, the intervals between
the words, the thinness of the up
stroke and the thickness of the down
stroke, are all noted and carefully
compared. Where only a signature
mas octH lof Seu, anu thdI oE hedns VI
tracings from the original, the resen-
blance is often so exact as to deceive
even the supposed author, but in these
cases the microscope is generally eff
fective in determining not merely the
forgery. but the method by which il
was accomplished. 1t is some comfort
TO know that the cunning of the forger
is overmatched by the scientific skill
of the trained expert
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
EDMUND RUSSELL ON DRESS.

BRILLIANT jewels are for brilliant 90.
casions-
BRACELETS are dangerous. but many
are better than one.
IF not wealthy. buy your jewels first.
your dress afterward.
Do NOT commonize your jewels; dare
not to wear diamonds In daylight.
BELTS are commonplace and contra
dict every line OF the body; girdles
give grace.
THE pressure of an ordinary corset IL
equal to carrying ssack of -four weigh
ing sixty poAnds-
GIVE the throat perfect freedom;
high collars are sinful; sin il doing
what you know 10 be wrong
Az ugly neck In low collar rcdeems
itself, as IL can have motion and az
preston; an ugly thing at res, is hope
less
SINCE color is the language OF has.
mony and feeling. IL is better 20 have
cheap material and good color than
vice versa.
ART IN dress is based on relation
the right thing In the right place; jew
els should be part OF the general har-
mony of the attire.
THE art of dressing was ruined By
fhe invention of needle and scissors;
ancient draperies were clasped by
splendid ornaments.
AVON broad stripes; they make un.
pleasant gestures Do not wear asser>
tive brocades: they are designed for a
assertive, uncultured aristocrscy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
RAILROAD CHAT.

CALIFORNIA has a railroad in Sonoma
county graded through forest. the
ties being laid on stumps.
THE cost of railroad construction has
of late years diminished in France and
increased IN Great Britain
THE average distance . passenger
travels during a single journey in this
country Is twenty-threo miles
MULHALL says the average price OF
locomotives in tho Upited States Is
80, 600; of sleeping cars, $4,000.
LAST year there were <o@ rear-end
collisions in this country, 81 head-end
collisions and SO at crossings.
The fastest long g-distance run ever
known was on the New York Central
in 1891. 439 miles in 4e5 minutes
LAST year the railroads Of this coun-
try paid s232, ,eso, ,ose IN interest on their
bonds and SIS, ,s36, sii IN dividends
THE construction Of tho New York
elevated railroad required 2.2oo tons Of
iron per mile and cost so2o per yard
DURING 1891 i.1ss persons were killed
and Z, 5,0sO were injured By railroad 90
cidents In Great Britain and Ireland.