NEWS OF THE WEEK.
~Juhn NS. Thomas, a miner at the
Empire Collery, In Wilkesbarre,
Penna., was fatally burned on the 23d
by an explosion of gas.
— John Bertinstrow, superintendent,
John Eisenberg, foreman, and Jacob
Spielman and John Afler, workmen in
Carl Seitz's hat factory, in Newark,
New Jersey, were arrested on the 23d,
for defrauding Seitz ont of large sums
of money by means of fraudulent pay
rolls, Bertinstrow and Eisenberg
pleaded not guilty, and the other two
pleaded guilty.
-Three shocks of earthquake oc-
curred in the vicinity of Newburyport,
Massachusetts, about midnight on the
22d. Houses four miles from town
were violently shaken,
-— Willie J. Hoack, aged 13 years,
while coasting on an embankment of
the Codorus creek, in York, Penna., on
the 23d, ran into an air hole in the
creek and was drowned,
—The report that Findley D, Brown,
Board of Trade operator in Chicago,
was thrown out or fell from a third.
story window, on the evening of the
21st was incorrect. He descended a
fire escape and dropped from a height
of twelve or fifteen feet on a pile of
stones and planks, breaking his ankle,
—S50 much suffering and death has
been reported among teachers and
pupils in Nebraska in tho late storm,
that prominent people and papers have
advoeated public contributions to he-
roic teachers, and to aid those who
have been crippled through losing
limbs by freezing. To secure accu-
rate data, the State Superintendent on
the 24th issued a circular calling on all
County Superintendents to forward at
once names of teachers and pupils in
their locality who perished in the
storms, those who have since died from
effects of exposure, and the names of
teachers who performed heroic actions
m saving and attempting to save the
lives of their pupils,
~A telegram from Neche, Dakota,
says the mercury went down to 60
below and the wind reached a velocity
of 40 miles an hour there ou the even-
ing of the 23d. It was still blowing
on the 24th, and trains were ten heurs
late. The storm reached Brainerd on
the morning of the 24th. Snow was
falling and the wind was blowing a
gale. The heaviest snow storm of the
season began at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
on the evening of the 231, and con-
tinued all of the 24th, The roads are
almost impassable.
~1t Is reported from Sun River,
Montana, that ‘‘Nosey Smith” was
hanged by vigilantes, It is said he
went to Northwest Territory, two years
ago, to escape hanging for shamefully
abusing his two daughters, and going
caught and hanged. While Mrs,
Lester, between 40 and 50 years of age,
was on her way home from a neigh-
near Rome, New York, on the evening
down and cut her throat, It is alleged
that Guest and Mrs, Lester were inti-
mate, and that he became jealous of
her. A telegram from Belgrade, Mon-
tana, says a German laborer, who was
ill, was placed by a farmer Ina room
without fire and wilfully neglected.
After an unusually cold mght,
man was found frozen to death.
body was then removed to the wood-
shed. where it was partially devoured
by hogs. It is asserted by neighbors
that the farmer allowed the man to
freeze to avoid paying him a large sum
due ss wages,
--An explosion oecurred on the
morning of the 24th, in shaft No. 5 of
the Wellington colliery at Victoria,
British Columbia. The hoisting gear
was displaced and ropes were used to
hoist up the men, of whom there were
200 In the mine. By 1 o'clock 65 men
had been hauled up, and 1t Is believed,
a8 there was no fire in the mine, that
all were safe except perbapsa few In
the. immediate vicinity of the explo-
sion.
—Of the nine bodies taken from the
ruins of Barnaby’s boarding bouse, in
Tower, Minnesota, three are still
unidéntified. The verdict of the Coro-
ner’s jury censures Barnaby for not
pro better protection against fire
catching from the stove In the bar-
room,
~In the accident on the Delaware
and Hudson Raliroad at Baxterville,
near Salem, New York, on the 234, 18
persons were injured, Only one, David
T. Owen, of Eagie Bridge, was dan~
gerously hurt, and hie may recover. The
cause of the accident is not known.
~The Brown's Valley branch of the
Manitoba Railroad, which has ‘been
blockaded since December 20th, was
opened to Wheeler, on the 24th, and
on the 25th, a train load of fuel
-~ An explosion of natural gas oe-
curred on a street in Pittsburg, on the
afternoon of the 24th, tearing up thirty
feet of sidewalk and fatally injuri
two young men named Best on
~The natural gas wains neat Lima,
Ohio, burst on the 24th, and the citi-
—When the wife of A, J. Ellis, liv.
ng sa Kansas City, Missouri, woke up
{ on the morning of the 25th she found
her twin bables, ona month old, dead
by her side. They had been accident
ally smothered during the night,
—The residence of J. E. Taylor, in
Chicago, was entered on the evening of
the 24th by burglars, who carried away
$3000 worth of jewelry, At the time
of the robbery the family were down
stairs at dinner, During the storm of
the evening of the 234, the postoffice at
Annapolis, Nova Scotia, was entered
by burglars, who took all the registered
letters and money packages, It 1s
thought they made a big haul, Post.
office Inspector MeDonald started to
investigate the robbery, and is now
snowed up at Windsor, Isame N.
Stanley, who, while paying-teller of
the National Bank of Commerce, in
Uleveland, Obio, embezzled $100,000 of
the bank’s funds in 1886, and lost the
money in wheat speculations, was, on
the 25th, sentenced to five years’ iwm-
prisonment in the United States Dis-
trict Court. Sanford Tanner, a
wealthy citizen of Freeborn county,
Minnesota, has been swindled out of
$22,000 Ly a pretended detective, A
few days age the swindler appeared to
Tanner disguised as a woman, aud said
he was looking for a person who robbed
Tanner of $1000 some mouths ago, He
speedily gained Tanner's confidences,
and under the pretext of wishing to
buy a farm he got from his victim
$20,000 in securities and $2000 in cash
and disappeared.
—It is now thought that ninety lives
were lost in the Wellington Collery ex-
plogion, which ot¢curred at Victoria,
British Columbia, on the 24ih. The
bodies of twenty-nine miners were taken
out on ths evening of the 24th, and
about seventy more are still in the
mine, About three-fourths of those
still In the mine are Chinamen
All possible means are being
used to recover the bodies, the great.
est obstacle being the after damp.
--A despatch from Pottsville says
work was resumed on the 25th at
Brookside, Suffolk, Locust Spring and
Keystone colleries of the Reading
Company, and at. the Willlam Penn, an
individual operation. The latter is
working full handed, the others with
a partial force, The Enterprise collery
at Shamokin was also started. 1t is
said that the reply of the miner's com-
mittee to President Corbin’s manifesto
18 constructed by mauy of the miners as
releasing them from obligations to sup-
port the rairoad’s strike and many
will gladly return to work.
-A telegram from Brownwood,
Texas, says City Marshal Butler and
wife were kept up nearly all of the
night of the 24th, by a sick child,
About 3 A. M, both fell asleep with
| the baby lying between them, When
| they awoke the baby was gone. A
search discovered it dead In . cistern,
No servants were employed nd the
only theory held is that one 0. ‘he par.
{ ents drowned the child in a it of som-
pambulistn,. Whoever did the terrible
{ act carried the child through the house
opened and closed two doors, and, af-
ter putting it In the cistern, replaced
the cistern cover and set the water
bucket on top of it. The parents are
| frantic.
—The snow storm at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, on the night of the 24th, was
i the worst known there for years, Rail.
Way travel is again demoralized. The
{ harbors of North Sydney, Digby, Yar.
mouth and Aonapolis were frozen
solid for the first time in years
~ Reports from Reading tothe effect
that the storm which previlled on the
| 20th, was the worst experienced in that
{ section for several years, The snow
j drifted 80 badly as to make the country
| roads impassable. Trains on the Read-
{ing Railroad and branched were all
| Tate, the snow drifts in some places be-
{ing 10 and 15 feet deep. Throughout
| the coal regions nearly all the mines
| Were closed down because of the storm.
| Heavy snow also fell in New Y ork,
| Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont,
{and passenger trains on pearly all Lhe
i railroads were delayed, and in some
| cases blockaded. Many freight trains
{| were abandoned. A despatch from St,
Paul, Minnesota, says the prolonged
blockade of the smaller roads of the
Northwest threatens to result in a fuel
and provision famine in several loeali.
ties. At Flandreau, Dakota, no trains
have arnved since the 21st, and there
18 no coal for sale. Many families are
without fuel,
~Tho foreman of the Carbon Lime
stone Company quarries, about ten
miles from Youngstown, Ohio, on the
206th, placed twenty sticks of dynamite
on & stove in au shanty in which five
Italians were lounging. An explosion
occurred, killing one man and igjuring
the others, two dangerously,
~Frank Kostler, uged 36 years,
brakeman on the Pennsylvania Rall
+ road, was crushed to death while soup-
Rug ours at Nanticoke, Penna., on the
-An extensive and systematic steal.
ing of cou! has been discovered at
story thus:
in a
may be when
ulations, died on the 26th, at Sarcoxie,
Missouri, from the effects of exposure,
~A sult was un in Jefferson.
ville, Indiana, on the 20.h, by State
Attorney General Michuer, against
David M. Allen, former steward of the
South Indiana Prison. The afidavl:
charges Allen with conspiracy with a
number of manufacturers and business
men In furnishing supplies to the
prison and converting them to his own
use. The amount that the State is
said to have been defrauded oul of is
$150,000,
~Three masked men entered the hut
of Henry Merritts, a woodsman, in
Henderson «township, Huntingdon
county, Penna., on the 20th, and de-
manded his money. He was bound
and gagged, and failing to extort a
confession his assailants held his bare
feet to tne fire and otherwise maltrea.
ted him. Finally Merrnitis became un
conscious, Beneath the flooring the
villains found a flour sack containing
$1500, and this they took. Merritts
had about $4000 altogether hidden
about the building,
~Officials of Pike county, Kentneky,
have applied two the Governor for
troops to defend the people against the
Hatfield gang. Troops were refused,
but the people were given permission
to arm themselves, The Sheriff o!
Pike county has invaded West Virginia
to capture the outlaws, but a West
Virgima Sheriff is out with a posse to
drive them back to Kentucky.
-{), B. Hitchcock, a prominent
farmer went to Santa Anna, Califor-
nia, on the 23d with his wife, and ac-
knowledged a deed to his property to
a Fritz Anshlag. They returned home,
Lut not having been seen thereafter
neighbors instituted a search. Their
dead bodies were found on the 26th a
long distance from the house, It was
thought that Anshlag murdered them
to regain the money he had paid them
for the land, A party was organiged,
and Anshlag and his pariper, Antone
Dyker, were lynched before the officers
could interfere.
~A train on the Connecticut River
Railroad dashed into a gang of men
who were shovelling snow from the
tracks near Holyoke, Massachusetts,
on the evening of the 20th, killing
Martin Griffin, James Kennedy and
John Shee, and fatally injuring
Michael Connors. The stow was blow-
ing about so that nothing ceuld be seen
a few feet cistant. A passenger train
which left Troy, New York, on the
evening of the 26Lh, mn into the rear
of a freight train, near Williamstown,
Massachusetts, early on the morning of
the 27th, and Conductor P, Cudmore
and Brakeman George Wheelock, of
the freight were killed and three other
brakemen severely injured. Asa grip
car, with its accompanying car filled
with passengers, was coming down St,
Anthony Hill In Mioneopolis, Minne-
sota, on the 27th, the gripman lost con-
trol of the car and the gnp slipped
from the cable. Thecars started down
the hill and were only stopped by run-
ning off the track, Twenly persons
were injured, E. M. Sanders, fatally,
Daniel Sullivan was killed and Edward
and Daniel Callerty were
severely, if not fatally, injured by a
collision betwean coal cars in Jersey
City, on the 27th. An express train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad was thrown
from the track Ly a broken frog, near
Mount Joy, Penna. early on the morn.
ing of the 27ch, The eugine and six
cars left the track. Great excitement
prevailed amoug the passengers, but
nobody was hurt.
a foree of American troops, who have
been scounng the country southwesi
of Chihuahua io quest of the alapula
tra:n robbers, have come in with an.
Other robber, making three captured,
The despatol states that in the robbers’
possession were found four of the
horses on which the bandits escaped
sod quite a sum of money, some in the
original Wells Fargo packages, James
Burrows, who was arrested in Mont
gomery, Alabama, on the 22d, is said
to be the organizer, as well as leader,
in many of the train robberies which
have occurred for several years past.
Ilis brother Heuben escaped arrest by
killing his pursuer, and is now hiding
in a swamp.
—Miss Ettie Shattuck, a young
school teacher, was 80 severely frozen
in Holt county, Nebraska, daring the
late blizzard, that she had on the 27th
both her legs amputated, and It ia
thought will hive. Os the night of the
storm Miss Shattuck took reffige in a
hey-stack, but was unable to burrow
decp enough to prevent her legs from
freezing
~An explosion of gas occurred on
the 27th in the Nottingham Mine, at
Plymouth, Penna., by which five men
were burned and bruised, One of
them, Daniel Reese, died on the even-
ing of the 27th, and it was doubtful
whether the others would survive.
650th CONGRESS. — First Session.
| Friday, Tbe vote on the majority res
ution resulted: Yeas, 140; pays, 6
No quorum voted, Mr, Crisp ther
moved to adjourn. The Speaker pro
tempore stated that he had made »
mistake in enterta'ning the wotion to
consider the motion of Mr, Hogg. The
motion could not be enterfained until
hie previous question onder which the
House was now operating should have
teen disposed of, The motion to ad
fourn was agreed to-—yeas, 149; nays,
23a strict party vote,
In the U. B, Benate on the 234, the
Judiciary Committee reported a res
olution, which was adopted, authoriz
ing that committee to inquire nto the
alleged participation of Federal officers
in the suppression of colored votes at
Jackson, Mississippl. Bills were re-
ported for the admission of the State
of Dakota and the organization of the
Territory of Lincoln; to authorize the
sale to alleps of certain mineral lands
and to forfelt certain railroad grant
lands, The House joint resolution for
the participation of the United States
in the Melbourne exhibitiou was re-
ported and passed. Mr, ¥rye spoke at
length upon the tariff, The Blair Ed-
ucation blll was taken up, and Mr,
Blair spoke on it for nearly an hour,
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned, While in secret session
the Senate ratified a shipping treaty
with Guatemala.
In the United States Senate on the
24th, Mr. Voorhees introduced bills for
the organization and admission of
Montana as a State. Mr. Hoar called
up Mr, Gorman’s motion, made some
time ago, to reconsider the vole by
which the Senate had ordered a special
committee of five on Pacific Railroad
matters, After debate the original
resolution was modified by increasing
the membership of the select commil-
tee to 7, and as thus amended it was
adopted—054 to 15. Mr. Palmer spoke
in support of his bill to restrict imwi-
gration, after which it was referred to
the Commiltee on Foreign Relations,
The Deficiency bill was copsidered,
pending which the Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
256th, Mr, Chandler's resolutions, ask.
ing Joformation of the Navy De-
partment, weére taken up. The Lrst,
relating to purchases of plans snd
specifications in foreign countries, was
adopted. The second, in regard to the
changes from the original plans 1g the
construction of war vessels, was re-
ferred. The third, calling for coples
of contracts made for ships and ord.
nance since March 4, 1855, was adopted,
after being amended, on motion of Mr,
Butler, so as to substitute 1880 for
1885. The Deficiency bill was passed,
with amendments, snd goes back to
the House, After an executive ses.
sion the Senate adjourned,
In the United States Senate on the
26th, the House bill to provide for ag-
ricultural experiment stations was re.
ported aud placed on the calendar,
The bill increasing the pension for
total deafness to $30 per month was
passed. The calendar was proceeded
with and the Undervaluastion bill
reached, but its consideration was ob-
jected to, Mr. Allison then gave notice
that be would ask its consideration at
an early day. The bill giving the
widow of General John A. Logan a
pension of §2000 a year was passed,
after debate, by a voleof 66 t0 7. A
similar bill was then passed increasing
to $2000 a year the pension of the
widow of General Frank P. Blair. The
Educational bill was discussed, pend-
ing which the Senate adjourned,
Inthe U., 8, House of Representa.
tives on the 27th, Mr, White, of New
York, introduced a bill “for the pro-
tection and administration of the for.
ests on the public lands.” It was re-
ferred. The Senate amendments to the
Little Deficiency bill were concurred
in. Pending consideration of the
private calendar the House adjourned
until Monday.
HOUSE
In the House on the 23d, the Thabe
Carlisle case was called up, and the
majority resolution declaring Mr. Car
lisle entitled to his seat was adopted—
yeas, 164: nays, 7. A number of bilis
and resolutions were introduced under
the call of States. A bill was reported
amending the laws relating to navigna-
tiun., Adjourned,
In the House on the 24th, a bill was
reported making bills of lading con-
clusive evidence in certain cases, The
bill conferring civil jurisdiction in the
Indian Tertitory on United States
Courts baving criminal jurisdiction
was passed. Mr, Wheeler, of Ala
bama, offered a resolution, which was
world-wide fame of Mr. Geo
Childs, the President of the Board,
dall introduced a bill looking to the re-
moval of Smith’s and Windmill
Islands from the Dalaware river. Mr.
Henderson, from the Judiciary Com
reported a
na! sections of the internal revenue
wa, and it was placed on the House
calendar. Mr,
THE BEAUTY DOCTOR.
He Gives Valuable Prescriptions for
Preuty Women,
An Arab poet tells us that a beauti-
ful woman should have four things:
Black-—Halr, eyebrows, eyelashes
and pupil,
White-5kin, teeth and globes of the
aye,
Red—Tongue, lips, gums, cheeks,
Round-Head, neck, arms, ankles,
waist,
Loug—Rack, fingers, arms, limbs.
Large-Forehead, eyes, lips.
Narrow—Eyebrows, nose, lips,
Fleshy—Cheeks, Himba,
Small Ears, bust, hands, feet.
We will not discuss the taste of this
Arab poet, but I may remark that all
the white, red, round and fleshy at-
tributes required to form he plea of
beauty are purely and simply the re-
flection of physical health, Health
alone can give youth, freshness and
radiancy to the complexion, and bril-
llaney to the eyes and an attractive ex-
pression to the whole face, lll-heaith,
on the contrary, dries and discolors the
skin, produces wrinkles, makes the
face yellow and spoils the color of the
teeth, hair and najls, The celebrated
Dr. won Feuchtersieben says that
“health is nothing but beauty in the
functions of life.”
A French author (Balzac) once called
ugliness ‘‘a gnef which lasted a life.
time.” But he did not often know the
all-powerful force of hygiene in the
cultivation and preservation of physical
beauty What is, perhaps, the greatest
attribute of beauty is a beautiful skin.
The skin should be white, smooth, soft
and fresh-colored. A beautiful skin
man beautiful. And here again hygiene
steps In, for without hesith a beautiful
skin Is impossible. Le Camus, the an-
thor of that curious old book, *“*Ab-
deker,” says: “The most regular
beauty could never charm me if fresh-
ness, purity and brilbancy of com-
plexion did vot enliven it by adding
the radiancy of youth and health.” In
fact the complexion is to beauty what
springtime is to pature—what the
bloom is to the peach-—what the varied
Unts are to the wings of the butterily,
Bat as the sma'lest cloud can darken a
spring morning, as the contact with
another object can remove the bloom
of the peach, and a touch can spoil the
beau'y of a butterfly’s wing, sc the
slightest derangement, either of mind
or body, darkens and troubles the com-
plexion, and without constant care this
freshness and this purity which makes
he power of beauty becomes like a
faded flower. The preservalion and
cultivation of a beatiful skin is, there-
fore, one of our first duties.
Lot me warn all ladies from wishing
to appear different to what nature has
made them; that 1s, let no lady who
bas beautiful dark hair attempt to dye
it yellow, just because it is yellow hair,
and dark-halred ladies are quite as
shall 1 tell you a secret, ladies? Satis.
tics tell us that more dark-haired wo.
men marry than fair-halred women!
Beauty is not molded In one form, it is
varied as the leaves on a tree, and no
two types are exactly alike,
How He Knew Him.
Ben: Perley Poore is authority for
the statement that Abraham Lincoln
once told a good story about Heury
common clothes, was studying human
nature as exhibited in the highways of
New York. In the course of bis
philosophic peregrinatins, he went into
a mock auction shop. He stood
awhile on entering, and reflected
to all sense of truth and honesty as the
auctioneer in question, endeavoring to
palm off his worthless trash to the in-
experienced in city ways as good and
valuable, and finally the auctioneer
called out: “Mr, Beecher, why don’t
you bid?" He was greatly astonisned,
as can be imagined, at finding himself
known in this place, and, as he had
supposed in his purposely careless
dress. He immediately left, and star
tea for the residence of one of the
members of the church in the neigh-
borhood, and requested him, as an aet
of kindness, to go down and inquire of
that person who had sold himself to
Satan for the love of gain how it was
that he knew him in his disguise. The
neighbor kindly consented, and on en-
tering the “Peter Funk’ shop he ad-
dressed the auctioneer:
“How is it that you know Henry
Ward Benshee eA tole ate to
recognize him in his u
“How do LLknow him? Why, I have
been a prominent member of is con-
fon for the last five and
lease the OfLh pew from the front!”
How Tugboatmen Sleep,
The question has often been asked,
“When do tugboatmen sleep?” In
int of fact, so far as disrob and
down in bed, nothing
kind ever occurs to their experience;
but still they manage to obtain a full
and, in fact, liberal allowance of slum-
ber, because they have trained them-
TORIES OF ‘DEPRAVED APPE.
TIre
Beasts That Eeai Odd Things
Stomach of the Elephant, Cow
and Ostrich.
**10 is truly astonishing what curous
things are found in the stomachs of
elephants,” said Bu ntendeut Conk-
lin, of the Central Park menagerie, as
be read the story from Bridgeport
about the finding of an ivory idol and
other curiosities in the stomachs of
elephants that were killed 1n the fre at
Barnum’s winter quarters, “I doubt
very much about the idol being found,
but as to the knives, pieces of lead
pipe and the coins, that is quits com-
mon,
**I bad an elephant bere, and when
he died there was aj least £10 worth of
coins found in his stomach. Bowe of
the coins were English pennies, three
penny pieces; some were German coins
and others were the coins of various
European countries, and Chinese
coins were also found.
** Another elephant we had here was
crazy for bats, The boys bad great
fun throwisg each other's hats into
the inciosure. The elepuant would
just put out his trunk and in a twink.
ling the hat was gone, One day a
gentleman’s silk hat blew off. The
elephant picked it up and disposed of
it as quickly as he did of the siraw
hats of the culidren.
“It seems that the elepbant's stom-
ach will take anything. Anviling bul
metal seems to pass away without cans.
ing the animal any pain, but it appears
that the gastric juices only lend to
oxydize coins and the like, they
remain in the beast’s stomach uetil
death,
“Cows are the only other auimals
that bave a fancy for disposing of for.
eign substance that may pass down the
throat.
*1 should judge the elepbapi’s tast-
ing powers are ilmited, because be
gobbles up everything that is offered
him,
{ “The ostrich is just about as careless
{ of what he swallows a8 the elephant,
| He takes in anything Le can caieh, and
| more curious things have been found in
| the stowach of the biped than that of
the gquadruped.”
Hind
i Charles Reiche, the dealer 1a ani
i mals, not only corroborated Mr. Conk-
{ in’s experiences, but related sowe of
{his own experiences in that line,
i “Once we bad an elephant,’’ he said,
| “tbat took part in the first Plait-
| deutsche Volksfest ever held, Out at
{ the park we had the animal on exhibi-
i tion. A lady held out her pocketbook,
{ and the elephant took it in his trunk,
jand before the woman could realize
: what a foolish thing she had done the
| purse was safely stowed under the ribs
{of the bog brute, 1 had to give her
| twenty-five cents to go home with,
| *“Ifaman beld out a loaded pistol
{ that elephant would have swallowed
(ik. Aupolber Mme one of the keepers
left bis lunch for a second, and laid his
{open jack knife on the top. Launch,
| cloth, jack knife and everything else at
{ once disappeared down the elephant’s
{ throat, and he never seemed to suf-
| fer from it. ElepBants must have ar-
| mor plated stomaehs, for they take in
jeverything from a lady's hairpio wo a
| Wooden image.”
“Then you believe the sacred ele.
i phant swallowed the idol as reported?”
*1 certainly do. The sacred elephant
would just as soon pick up a stray god
&s be would a Laoana or ¢range.”
Old Southern Homes
A greal mauy of the plantations in
different parts of the South, which
were once well known for their size,
the magnificence of the residences upon
them, the hospitality of their owsers or
on account of the prominence of the
families which possessed them, are now
falling into ruins, The reason of this
is, perhaps, that the land has been
watked 80 long without being fertilized
that it has become poor, or it may be
that those into whose possession it has
passed lack the energy and skiil which
are required to make it pay under the
present system of labor. One of these
famous old places, in Liberty County,
was lately sold to a colored man for
$2,600, only a part of the purchase
| being required al once, It is known as
Laurel View, and 1s within two miles
of the historic town of Sunbury,
was the home of the gifted John Elli-
ott, and a very beautiful home it was.
John Elliott represented Georgia in the
Hole States Senate from 1820 to
The plantation contains 2 800 aerea
It was purchased during the war of
secession by Lion Stephens, a brother
of Alexander H. Stephens, and was
sold to the present owner by his bers,
The district in which the plantation
is situated wasnoted, from the first set-
tiement of the State until the emanci-
pation of the slaves, for the Intelligence
and wealth of its citizens. It i» now,
however, almost wbolly abandoned to
he Soloted people. Its
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