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WOMAN’S WORLD.
A Few Things of Interest to the Fair
Sex.
A Girl’s First Fancy—A Fashion Note
From Paris—Women Who Help Their
Husbands A Debutante’s First
Dinner—Old Friends Meet Again.
Some Observations of Ward McAl
lister’s—A Pen Portrait of Two
Ladies of Note—Some Other Matters
That are Well Worth Beading.
We all recognize, says Ward McAllis
ter, in the New York World, the prince
of Wales as the first gentleman of the
world from a social standpoint. He is,
therefore, a most interesting subject for’
study. I devoted two evenings to taking*
in his personality. At the opera he sat in
the club box, with his left hand covering
that portion of his face exposed to the
audience. I could see at a glance that he
had previously taken in the whole house,
and was then absorbed in Melba and
her charming voice.
Having at Cowes bee' surfeited with
Americans (as I heard 1 m his friends)
when he reached Homburg all the efforts
of our pretty American women failed to
attract his attention. By feeing the head
waiter liberally they had secured the
tables surrounding him at breakfast at
Ritter's Park hotel, and at dinner on the
terrace at the Kurhaus. Years ago this
little game was successful, for he then
took up many of our young American
women, gave. them his indorsement,
which secured for them an entree into
Londoh society. But all this is now a
thing of the past.
The eagerness of our American women,
some of whom move in our best society,
to attract his attention, 1 regret to say,
was annoying to many of us, for, to say
the least, it made us ridiculous and laid
us open to criticism. Failing in their at
tempts to capture the prince, they did
• not stop there, but frantically made ef
forts to catch any scion of nobility, no
matter how notorious, broken down or
impecunious he might be. We heard of
individual instances of young married
American women having been introduced
to a sprig of nobility in the morning, rush
ing at him in the evening with an invita
tion to dine with (them. If the invitation
was accepted they announced the fact
triumphantly to a number of prominent
people, and asked many of them to meet
at dinner the same day their new, noble
acq lisition, and thus rendered themselves
the laughing stock of the place. If Amer
icans can associate with foreigners as
their peers, let them do so; but in the
language of our great Webster, if they
• cannot soar socially, let them disdain to
crawl. When our country women,’ by
some accident, were thrown in company
with tilted people the last summer, they
seemed to fail to recognize their own
country people, feeling as it were a social
elevation. As I said before, for heaven’s
sake do not let Americans blush at their
own nationality. The summer at Hom
burg has developed some of the worst
cases of toadying and cringing by Ameri
can ladies to foreigners that we have ever
seen, and they have caused Europeans
to sneer at us. To all this there were,
however, noble exceptions.
“I must confess,” said one of the 400 to
a New York Tribune writer, ‘-to having
had quite a shock in meeting Mrs. X. last
winter—Mrs. X., who used to be the
beautiful Miss B. in my young days, and
who had lived abroad ever since her mar
riage—and in realizing how I, too, must
have changed in the lapse of years. She
was followed by a tall young girl whom
sLe introduced as her daughter, and after
the first very effusive greetings, which 1
was vain enough to ascribe to personal
reasons, were over, the real motive of
her eagerness to attract my attention be
came apparent. ‘Oh, Mr. A.,’ she
exclaimed, persuasively, ‘Olive has
no partner for the german. With so
old a friend I thought 1 might ask—you
know every one—can’t you find her one?”
Well, I managed to oblige her, although
the task was not exactly in my line, and
then sat down beside her, expecting a
pleasant half-hour, for in the old days
she was most amusing. But I got scant
gratitude and small attention. She was
completely absorbed in the young men
who were dancing with her fledgeling.
‘What is the name of the tall young
manf’ ‘Who is the short one?’ "Who is
speaking to my daughter now?’ ‘ls that
Mr. So-and-So who has just taken her
out?’ and so on, ad nauseum, until I re
tired in disgust, realizing more than ever
that my day was over and that a new tren.
eration occupied the old familiar places.”
When I was in Paris in July the French
modistes were preparing models for the
United States, and one of the best known
said that only Americans would take
draped skirts, writes Emma M. Hopper in
tne October Ladies’ Home Journal. Surely
this is bint enough to warn us not to ac
cept what Paris avoids. During my late
visit to this center 1 found the universal
and handsomest’skirts were of the godet
shape, having smoo h sidesand front, and
the fullness at the back confined to a
width of three inches, and lined with
grass cloth or crinoline all the way up to
give a graceful, sweeping appearance,
while the remainder was faced with the
same to fully half of the
depth. The skirts were cut to touch
at the back, but this odoes ’ not seem so
much out of place in Faris, where the
streets are the cleanliest ot all known and
there are but few handsomely dressed
women that do not drive. The neatest
skirls are made with every seam bound
with silk tape, and the top corded in
place of a belt. All rich materials, like
silk, moire, ladles cloth., etc., have the
skirts untrimmed; thinner goods may
have a tiny cluster of three two-inch
bias overlapping ruffles, a style that never
goes out in Paris. Serge, cheviot and
such goods have from three to five rows
of stitching above the velveteen binding
as a trimming. The bias seam up the
back is worn.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REFRAIN.
Daughters, daughters.
What shall we do with our daughters?
Why do men tarry?
Why don’t they marry?
Aud give the poor darlings a chance.
And the answer might be found in the
advice of old Nokomis to Hiawatha:
“Bring not here an idle maiden.
Bring not here a useless woman.
Hands unskilled, feet unwilling;
Bring a wife, with nimble fingers.
Heart and hands that move together,
Feet that run on willing strands.”
And one might add:
"A form of beauty undefined,
A loveliness without a name
Not of degree, but more of kind.”
—New Orleans Picayune.
“The first dinner of a debutante is al
moat as much of an ordeal as her first
ball, and a much greater test ot her capa
bilities,” remarked a woman of the world j
who had launched several daughters sue- I
cessfuUy, to the New A ork Tribune.
“ ‘Keen on talking,* I used to tell my girls,
‘even if you talk about nothing. Its bet- |
ter to be thought silly than stupid, and
very young girls are bound to be either
the one or the other, as a rule. It is a
fatal mistake to sit speechless at the first
few dinners. Hostesses resent a dull
looking guest and avoid asking dead i
weights a second lime if they can help it.
It really does not matter what you say.
Recite ‘Mother Goose,' if you like: people
rarely listen to you anyway, and you
must practice on somebody.
“ •Gradually the faeon de parier will !
come to you, and you can cheerfully join
in the talk of the day' without difficulty:
but a habit of silence once acquired, ana
a reputation for stiffness
once fastened upon a girl; and society
votes her heavy and uninteresting, how
ever prett.y, accomplished and really well
informed she may be. All that may be
utilized later on. and will come admirably
into play after she has acquired the arc of
talking; but in the beginning anything
will do. A well-known no . elist has said
that by usage only can you attain the art
of society talk. Gradually, if you practice
the system assiduously,you will be able to
walk alone. Your unconscious phrases
will become exactly like those of your
neighbors. You will then only need to
open your mouth, stretch the vocal chorjds
and supply the necessary breath, and ad
mirably constructed inanities will roll out
without effort.”’
Tolstoi, until recently, says the New
York Sun, had no audience in his wife.
She did not anprove the course he took to
antagonize the Russian rulers, and begged
him to desist and write the stories at
which he is so apt and which pay him so
handsomely. After a time, though, she,
too, was converted to the severe style of
thinking followed by her husband, and
now callers see the couple evenings bend
ing over a plain wooden table, while the
count reads aloud his written pages with
the day’s ink fresh upon them.
John Stuart Mill had the most appre
ciative wife a writer ever had. In one of
his books he has a dedication inscribed to
her, declaring that, but for her “bright,
clear light,” be could never have penned
a line worth reading. To her criticism he
attributed all his success.
Rebecca Harding Davis, herself a fam
ous tale writer, is responsible for the
career of two others well known in liter
ature. Her son, Richard Harding Davis,
thanks her for his literary career, which
she encouraged by getting all his first
good stories in print, and destroying
others that would not add to her son’s
reputation. This she did until he could
“go alone,” as one says of a child. Then
there is her husband, Clarke Davis of
Philadelphia, one of the first editors of
the country, and one who thanks his wife
for her advice on all knotty editorial
points and questions of literary judgment.
Mrs. Gladstone is not an intellectual
woman, yet her husband says she has
“helped” him very materially in his
speeches and writings. And she has “as
sisted” more by what she has not
done than by her actual deeds. For one
thing—and she' herself boasts of this—
she has not bothered him when he was
getting out a new speech or writing some
thing on the vast number of subjects he
has treated in the last sixty years; and
she has kept the children quiet too. Not
always has he read his writtea documents
to her, because they were often on topics
which she did not clearly apprehend. Yet
to her Mr. Gladstone gives all the praise
showered upon himself. Once she bad a
carriage door slammed upon her hand as
she was getting in on her way to hear her
husband speak. And she did not tell him
until afterward, lest it keep him from do
ing himself justice in his speech.
Charles Dickens did not have this kind
of a wife. When the truth is told, after
time has softened its hard outlines, it will
be learned how difficult it was for the
great novelist to work at home until he
and his wife “agreed to disagree” in the
way they did. Both are now at rest.
Thackeray had a terrible time with his
wife. She neither would listen to his
writings, nor allow him to continue to
work with his pen. Finally it was dis
covered that the poor lady was hopelessly
insane. And for years the great-hearted
man supported her in luxury in a private
asylum, while he brought up his bright
children the best he could. Mrs.
Thackeray died only last spring, having
outlived her husband thirty years.
Many living writers have wives that
are true helpmates. Among these help
ing wives are the beautiful Mrs. Eugene
Field, Mrs. Robert Louis Stephenson,
who herself writes well, arid Mrs. Julien
Hawthorne. George Parsons Lathrop
has an authoress wife; Mr. Peary, writer
and explorer, has a wife, who, in scrip
tural utterance, “holds up both his hands
toward heaven:” Thomas Nelson Pago
has a wife, who, though not long married
to him, is intensely interested in every
written word, and Will Carleton has a
home and appreciative household second
to none other iu the world.
It is always to be regretted; I think,
when love comes to a girl before she has
attained her moral and intellectual ma
jority, writes Mrs. Burton Kingsland in
October Ladies’ Home Journal. The
man whom she would love at sixteen is
often quite different from one to whom
she could give her more mature affections,
and there is rlways the danger of seeing
him at a disadvantage, when larger ex
perience of other men will lead her to
make comparisons. There are some
things to wnich time is the only guiae,
and in so momentous a step as the choice
of the companion of a lifetime, “the un
reasoning madness of love” can, in ex
treme youth, rarely be trusted. A young
girl has so many illusions, so little knowl
edge of human nature, so slight an ac
quaintance with her own heart, as to
make the x-isk always a serious one.
The attention of the visitors at St.
Moritz, says the Boston Transcript, is at
pres nt concentrated on the two morning
glories of the place -her Royal Highness
the Duchess of York and her mother, the
Duchess of Teck. both of whom go about
as freely and with as little form as the
very natives themselves. There are a
few young people in attendance, it is true,
but the hotel register alone betrays that.
In the morning the Duchess of York
walks about with a friend of her own
age and seems to be very jolly and having
a thoroughly good time, though it con
sists of nothing more than walking about
to the different springs, occasionally
stopping to listen to one of the many
bands, and looking in the jewelers’ win
dows with as much interest as if she had
never seen any of the bucket.uls of jew
els all her own packed up at tst. James's
palace awaiting her return! It
is surprising there is never a
crowd following or surrounding her; per
haps because it is difficult for a stranger
to distinguish her among the throngs of
Engligh girls about; she, like the rest, in
variably dresses in serge skirt and coat
with sailor hat. You have all read so
much about her that I hardly need de
scribe to you a girl taller than the aver
age with heavy awkward figure, her face
strongly of the German type, with very
small blue eyes, retrousse nose, and large
lips so red as to suggest rouge, but withal
a thoroughly good-natured expres
sion. The Duchess of, Teck is so stout
that walking is no easy matter, but, nev
ertheless, she strolls about among the
shops receiving a very cordial welcome
from all, for she is an old habitue of the
place and it is said more generously in
cliued than her august cousin Victoria.
A London paper prints this remarkable
bit of news;
“Even if English society hesitates be
fore adopting the colored coats for even
ing dress. America has decided to take
the step. At some of the most fashion
able gatherings, coats of claret-colored
and navy blue, with plush knee breeches
fastened with three button, black silk
stockings and shoes with black buckles
have been seen. So far Mr. Ward Mc-
Allister has not been tempted to desert
the conventional, but he is believed to be
favorably disposed toward the innova
tion.”
While on the topic of men’s fashions it
might be well to add that the Court Jour
nal says there is “a fad coming on rather
strongly” among English swells of the
sterner sex “for submitting the arm to
the process of tattooing” as “an indelible
device to affirm indelible love.” The
writer adds:
“But it will be there as an accusing
evidence, perhaps, in many cases, of a
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1894.
past and no longer existing affection. It
would be much more intelligent if the
hero of a true love were to have a gold
bracelet riveted round his wrist. It it is
a foreign custom which is being largely
patronized in England by some men.
Moreover, it may be considered as a
voucher for being the possessor of a little
superfluity ot' gold—and even some rainy,
unforeseen day may come in useful when
tiled off.”
“Please scan me closely,” asked, says
the New York Times, a tan-cheeked dame
of a morning feminine coterie in a boudoir,
“and tell me what symptoms 1 exhibit of
being a person worthy of confidence.
“I am not a woman who can keep a
secret—on the contrary I am conversa
tional to an extreme, and therefore tell
everything I know. Nevertheless, every
summer, when I take my outing, I am
confided in by other women, and told
secrets—secrets sentimental, literary, po
litical, domestic and religious—until my
brain is almost dangerously fatigued.
This summer, at the seashore, many entire
strangers made me the unwilling depos
itory of their profound interests.
“Mothers told me of daughters who
would not marry to please them, and of
sons .’ho were going to ruin; girls con
fided jo me their numerous love affairs,
happy or happy; literary aspirants held
me down with heavy volumes and read
their poems to me, and even dowagers in
vested me with dangerous information
concerning their final disposition of their
worldly wealth. Are we a nation of
women who cannot keep their own secrets,
or am I fatally gifted in evoking confi
dences? I really would like to know.”
The new scheme, called usually “old
maid insurance,” which has been intro
duced in England seems to depend upon
the vanity of women for its chief gain.
It provides that any single woman may
insure for a lump sum, or an annuity, to
be paid if she remains unmarried up to a
certain age. The taole of expectation of
marriage, which correspond to those of
expectation of life in other insurance
companies, are very interesting and very
catching. The younger and prettier the
woman the higher the rate of premium,
and what woman will decline to pay a
heavy premium on her own eligibility?
Said an observing shoemaker recently:
“It is a positive fact that women’s feet
are decidedly larger than a few years ago
1 can‘recall when a woman who asked for
size 4 in her shoes almost invariably
apologized in manner or words: now 5s
are almost the average size, and 6s are in
great demand. The physical culture
craze is responsible for this. Young
women who tramp, play tennis, and now
golf, simply cannot do it in narrow tight
boots any longer. As to the French heel,
only actresses and women who ape their
modes wear them in the street any more.
The really fashionable women use them
still for dress shoes, but never for walking
boots.
The Land of Pretty Soon.
I know of a land where the streets are paved
• With the things which we meant to achi sve.
It is walled with the money we meant to have
saved.
And the pleasures for which we grieve.
The kind words unspoken, the promises
broken.
And many a coveted boon
Are stowed away there in that land some
w Fi •
The land of the “Pretty Soon.”
There are uncut jewels of possible fame
Lying about in the dust,
And many a noble and lofty aim 1
Covered with mold and rust,
And O! this place, while it seems so near,
Is further away than the moon.
Though our purpose is fair, yet we never get
there—
The land of “Pretty Soon.”
The road that leads to that mystic land
Is strewn with pitiful wrecks,
And the ships that have sailed for its shining
strand
Bear skeletons on their decks.
It Is further at noon than It wus at dawn.
And further a( night than at noon;
O! let us beware of that land down there—
The land of “Pretty Soon.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
—Cincinnati Commercial. 1
ItistheNew England housewife who
understands the art of making brown
bread in all its perfection—light, savory,
delicious.
This excellent article of food is apt to
be at its best in the rural districts be
cause it is always possible there to get
the best rye meal fresh at the moment of
need. In the large cities it is difficult
often to get it; grocers do not keep it as
a rule, and feed stores are the best
souths of supply. In the farming dis
tricts 10 cents will buy a good-sized bag
ful.
The real New England brown bread is
thus made: To a pint and a half of rye
meal add a pint and a half of corn meal
and a teaspOonful of salt; mix thoroughly
dry; then add a cup of molasses and a
heaping teaspoonful of baking soda, wet
in a little warm water. Add enough sour
milk to make a soft batter. Put the mix
ture into a buttered mold, with tight
cover, and steam four hours. When done
take out, cut into medium thick slices,
and serve on a platter. It can be Oaten
with butter alone, or for a company dish
at tea serve it with thidk cream poured
over each slice, in which setting it is a
most toothsome compound.
Miss Edith Rockefeller, says the New
York Sun, has a fancy lot pianos. There
are five in her home. 4 West Fifty-fourth
street. She likes them in wood to match
her boudoir, or in rosewood like the draw
ing room. She plays beautifully, and is
rich enough to indulge the fancy to her
heart’s desire.
Miss Pauline "Whitney loves to write
French poetry, and does so very well in
deed. She has contributed to all the
leading 1- rench periodicals, and is much
amused when a French paper refers
to her as “the daughter of one of the ex
emperors of America.”
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, while rich
enough to abound in fads, really has very
few. She loves flowers, though, and has
them everywhere about her. The walls
of her little boudoir are covered with
them: and her mirrors, of which every
side of the wall has one. are entwined
with garlands painted upon the wall by
the most celebrated artists of America.
She loves white flowers more than all.
JCer flower-trimmed window seats look
over the Lowery ana green expanse of
Central park.
Miss Virginia Fars has a fad for fans.
She owns the largest and most expensive
private collection hereabouts. They are
all for use, too, and match her costumes,
of which she has hundreds every year.
Miss Fair did not set out with the idea of
making a collection of fans, but the
number has increase until sue has come
to'have a justifiable pride in them.
Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin,who until recently
was the most celebrated so. iety girl of
her state, has long had a fondness for
candlesticks, She has every conceivable
sort, and ber tables and mantels are cov
ered with them. There are jeweled sticks
and just the plain, pretty ones that come
in so many diuerent kinds ot china now
adays. Her collection would stock a bric
a-brac shop nicely with that variety of
ornament.
Mrs. Frederick Gebbard, when she was
Miss Lulu Morris, had a wonderful fancy
for sipall dogs. She owned many of them
and used to get the newest importations
to add to her list of pets. She named
them all, too. and knew them by their
own titles even as they knew her?
Helen Gould has a fad. You have heard
of it. It is for bowling. Last winter she
formed a private class in bowling, wMch
met on Monday nights at the Berkeley
Ladies Club for practice. There were
oniy about a dozen in the class, and, un
fortunately for Miss Gould, she was either
ill or out of town nearly every night dur
ing the season. She hired two alleys for
her friends, so that the Dins could be set
up in one while the sport was going on in
the other. Miss Gould is strong enough
to be an expert bowler. An alley recently
built on her Tarrvtown premises cost $lO,-
000, and is as beautifully equipped as the
bowling alley at Biltmore, George Van
derbilt’s North Carolina home.
Miss Sylvia Green has a fad which is
hers by inheritance. It is for money.
But, unlike her mother, Mrs. Hetty
Green, it is not for tbe making of money,
but for saving it. She is constantly in
fear of the poorhouse, and is afraid to
spend a cent. She has three millions in
her own right from her grandfather, but
spends nothing. She is most agreeable to
live with, being quiet, amiable, and ac
commodating, though not so cheerful as
she might be. She is not stingy to the
household, but will not spend anything on
herself. She has devised almost every
imaginable kind of bank for saving her
spare “change,” and is always looking
ahead into the future, with her money
hidden in her hand for safe keeping. Her
friends say that this is the result of
early training, and will be eradicated if
she ever comes into the fifty or so mil
lions which her mother will leave her.
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, the younger
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willy K.. has a
fondness for bracelets. Mrs. ’ Willy has
brought up her family well and has not
ovei indulged them in luxuries, but this
daughter, who will make her debut in
about two years, owns a very large col
lection of these ornaments.
Miss Anna Gould, that ever-discussed
heiress, has a fad for horses. At Furlough
Lodge, her brother’s place in the Adiron
dack mountains, she keeps a magnificent
team for her own driving, ana she has,
besides, several saddle horses there and a
stableful of young horses, yet to be
broken, for she will doubtless establish a
small sized stock farm there, where there
is so much room. Her fad for horses
dates from the day when her father
bought a little pony cart for herself and
her sister Helen at Saratoga, years ago
when her mother was living.
Miss Winnie Davis has a fad, so it is
said. It is for getting her photograph
taken. She has been photographed so
oiten that she has grown to enjoy it, and
several times a year she poses. The de
mand for her picture is very great, as in
the south she is known as “the daughter
of the confederacy,” and north she has
many friends. Miss Davis has several
hundred of her own photographs. She is
beautiful enough to have many more
taken.
Miss Julia Dent Grant, thought not yet
in society, knows a great deal about the
etiquette of Austria, England and Amer
ica. and speaks many languages. She
now enjoys learning them, and since the
day when her cultured mother insisted
upon having German spoken as the lan
guage of the household she has mastered
several tongues. In the Austrian court,
when her father was foreign minister, it
was not an unusual thing to hear Miss
Grant speaking German, French, Italian
and Spanish all in one breath, then En
glish again, without a second’s hesitation
in any of the tongues.
OHIO REPUBLICANS.
They Turn Out in Force to Hear Gov.
McKinley Open -the Campaign.
Findlay, 0., Sept. 27.—Gov. William
McKinley this afternoon inaugurated the
fall campaign of the Republican party of
Ohio, and the event was signalized by one
of the greatest outpouring of the rank
and file that Northwestern Ohio has ever
witnessed. Arrangements had been made
for special excursion trains from Colum
bus,Toledo, Sandusky, Kenton, Lima, Fos
toria and numerous other towns within a
radious of a hundred miles at rates as
low as a quarter of a dollar for the round
trip, and as a result the republican co
horts flocked in by droves. Findlay
itself, irrespective of party, kept holiday
in honor of the day and swathed itself in
in gay colors.
OUTWITTED HIS OAPTORB.
A Negro Desperado Fires His Prison
and Escapes.
Waycross, Ga., Sept. 27.—Last night a
desperate negro murderer was brought
here by a detective and put in the city
jail. This morning at daybreak the jail
was discovered on fire. The negro had
set fire to his prison early after midnight
and effected his escape. He had left
several hours before his flight was dis
covered. Detective Bough and Chief
Sweat went in search of the fugitive but
could make no progress. The negro had
outwitted his captors. Much of the in
terior of the jail was destroyed but the
damage was not great.
MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS.
Negroes Want Their Children Re
ceived in White Schools.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27.—Mandamus
proceedings were begun here to-day to
compel the school board to permit the
colored child of Bcnjimin Thornton to
attend the school in Thornton’s district.
The officials have expelled the child and
are attempting to force her to attend a
colored school some distance away. This
is the first time that the color line has
been drawn here, and the colored popula
tion are indignant. The case will be bit
terly fought.
ACCIDENT TO A DRUMMER.
He Was Thrown From a Train and
Thought to Be Killed.
Wheeling, W. Va. Sept. 27.—A Balti
more and Ohio train when approaching
Messerly yesterday struck a curve, and
Albert Messerly, a Wheeling drummer,
was thrown off the platform on which he
was standing and went over an embank
ment. He was picked up unconscious.
A doctor pronounced him dead, and his
supposed remains were turned over to an
undertaker for shipment home. While
the undertaker was preparing the corpse
Messerly opened his eyes, saw- what
was going on, and, after proving himself
still alive, was taken home. He will re
cover.
SANK IN A GALE.
All of the Crew of Seven Drowned Ex
cept One, Who Floated Ashore.
Manistique, Mich., Sept. 27.—The
schooner William Home, consort of the
steamer F. R. Buell, sank off Seul Choix
Point, Tuesday night during the heavy
southeast gale. All of the crew of seven,
except one man, were drowned. There
was one woman drowned. The only sur
vivor—Antonio Mingo—floated ashore un
conscious on a piece of boat.
Verdict Against the Liquor Traffic.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 27.—The com
plete returns on the liquor license
question in the recent state election have
been certified to bj- the secretary of stale.
The vote stands: For license 47.662,
against license 45,495; a majority against
the continuation of liquor traffic of 1,933
Change of Postal Arrangement*.
Washington, Sept. 27.—The postmaster
at Savannah. Ga., has been instructed to
uispatch through registered pouches for
Brunswick. Ga., daily, except Monday,
instead of daily, except Sunday, as at
present.
Fine Crops in Oglethorpe County.
Lexington, Ga., Sent. 27.—A. O. Bacon
and L. F. Livingston spoke here yester
day to a large crowd. The populists seem
to be missing in this county.
Crops are tine in this section.
IN THE WAKE OF THE GALE
The Ground in Florida Strewn With
Oranges—Damage Elsewhere.
Bice Crop of the Carolinas Probably
Severely Injured—Damage by Flood
at Charleston and Casualties to Ship
ping Coastwise Atlantic Vessels
Beport Encountering Heavy Hurri
canes—No Loss of Life as Yet Ascer
tained.
New York, Sept. 37.—Steamer Eldo
rado, Capt. Percy, of the Morgan line,
from New Orleans, arrived at quaratine
just after sundown to-night, 13 hours
late. She rounded the Florida Keys on
Sunday, Sept. 34, and the hurricane ac
companied her to port. Capt. Percy’s
log shows that he encountered a gale
from the southeast just after passing
Key West, which, instead of dying out as
usual, increased in velocity and effect
until be neared Cape Hatteras, on Sept.
35, when it moderated somewhat and
cantered to the eastward.
Day before yesterday morniiig the wind
again increased, until it had attained a
speed of fifty to sixty miles per hour.
Later in the day it moderated slightly,
and yesterday commenced veering to the
northeast.
Capt. Percy says the hurricane was one
of the most severe he had ever met, and
that he had a hard tussle with it. He
had a raging sea for three days and
nights, but the Eldorado is a staunch ves
sel and weathered tbe storm without re
ceiving any but trivial damage.
Outgoing steamers for the West Indies
and coast points south are unsettled as to
the advisability of facing the storm,
which is reported to be coming north
along tbe coast.
The steamer Aivena, for the West In
dies, passed out at the Hook early in the
afternoon, but returned after having gone
but a few miles.
NACOOCHEE IN GRAVESEND BAY.
The Cienfuegos, bound for the West
Indies, was reported by the Sanay Hook
observer as clear of the bar at 5 o’clock,
but ten minutes later he reported her re
turning, headed for the bav. The York
town, for Norfolk and Newport News,
went out late in the afternoon, and the
Nacoochee, for Savannah, anchored in
Gravesend bay.
The outward bound steamer Vigilancia
of the Ward line, after delaying twenty
four hours in Gravesend bay, decided to
face the storm and heaved anchor at 1
o’clock p. m. The Lampasas of the Mal
lory line also went out this evening.
GROUND COVERED WITH ORANGES.
Ocala, Fla., Sept. 37.—The storm of
Tuesday night and Wednesday was the
worst experienced in this section for
twelve years. Trees were blown down in
every direction. Over 200 were counted
blown across tbe road leading from An
thony to Ocala. The mail route through
the fiat woods country leading from An
thony to Fort McCoy was impassable,
over 100 trees being thrown across it and
all bridges washed away.
The rain was a young waterspout.
Drains became foaming creeks, branches
rose to rivers and were temporarily im
passable. The Ocklswaha rose so rapidly
that it submerged Howard and Gibson’s
causewaj’ and made it impossible to reach
Grahamville.
The storm was so fierce, and Drees fell
so numerously, that Col. Hart’s Palatka
and Silver Springs boat Okeehumpkee,
Capt. Thompson commanding, was com
pelled to tie-up at Eureka and remain
that day and night. Several large trees
came near falling on her on the way from
Silver Springs.
The storm did great damage to orange
trees. Much fruit was blown dowuj and
the ground is literally covered with
oranges. In groves where forest trees
were standing, many were blown down,
and numerous orange trees were crushed
in their fall. Henry Dunn, in this way,
lost fifteen trees. Other grove owners
lost similarly. The Philadelphia grove,
west of Millwood, suffered much damage
from the storm.
Ocala was not hurt much. Many trees
were blown down, one falling on P. B.
Dukes’stable, crushingit, but from which
he had just taken his horse. Few farm
ers are in town to-day; busy putting
up wrecked fences.
Sea gulls were found on the streets of
Ocala Wednesday morning, having been
blown in from the Atlantic ocean. Old
residents testify that it was the worst
storm since the famous hurricane of 1871.
SOUTH FLORIDA CUT OFF.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 37.—Storm
news is very meager. Jacksonville is
still cut off from communication with
South Florida, and since Tuesday not a
word has been been received from
east coast points, where the storm is sup
posed to have been most severe. All the
wires leading to the south are down, i
and no trains from that section have
come in since Tuesday. Nothing has been |
heard from St. Augustine since Tuesday, >
and there are rumors Jhat the “Ancient |
City” has suffered greatly. The railroad
and Western Union officials are repairing
the damage to their lines andcommunica-
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tion with the south will probably be
opened up by to-morrow. Then reliable
reports as to the damage done by the hur
ricane can be obtained. It is certain that
the orange crop has been greatly injured,
but It is hoped no lives have been lost.
In Jacksonville the damage? which
amounts to about 575,000, is being rapidly
repaired. The wreck of the new union
depot, in process of construction, was the
most serious loss.
SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN.
Washington, D. C.. Sept. 27.—At 1 p.
m. the weather bureau issued the follow
ing special bulletin regarding the West
India hurricane: The tropical hurricane,
announced in the weather bureau bulle
tin of Wednesday as southeast of Jack
sonville, has moved slowly north-north
east tq north of Charleston, which sta
tion was within nearly the calm center at
Ba. m. to-day with a pressure of 29.30
and wind of 12 miles south. Later re
ports show that the pressure has risen
one six-hundredth in three hours at
Charleston and fallen the same amount,
at Norfolk, which indicates a very slow
movement to north-northeast. Present
indications are that the storm will con
tinue to move slowly until midnight,
probably diminishing in intensity. Dan
gerous gales will be experienced on the
South and Middle Atlantic and South
New England coasts and moderate winds
in the interior of the Atlantic coast
states.''
THE WIND AT NORFOLK.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 27.—Weather bu
reau here at noon to-dpy states that
owing to the area of high pressure to
northeast of Hatteras, storm center will
be forced to west of Norfolk; that
the mountain range will head it off and
start it on a more direct course for the
New England coast, and that it will pass
just east of Washington and over New
York. At 12m. here, the wind thirty-two
miles from east and still increasing. At
Cape Henry at Ba. m., wind thirty-eight
miles from northeast, with heavy sea;
coast wires down since 8 a. m.
SLOWLY MOVING NORTHWARD;
New York, Sept. 27.—Reports received
by the United States weather bureau this
morning show that the hurricane now
prevailing in the south is increasing in
force, and slowly, but surely, moving
northward. It is believed that it will
reach this vicinity either to-night or to
morrow morning. The storm center to
day is along the coast of the Carolinas,
the lowest barometer being at Charles
ton. It extends over an area with a
radius of almost 1,000 miles, and is mov
ing northeast. Its travel, however, is
slow, the center being changed but little
during the past twelve hours. The
velocity of the wind in the region of the
hurricane varies from 40 to 70 miles an
hour, and is accompanied with rain. A
large number of ships lying at anchor
about Liberty statue and down in the
lower bay are awaiting the passage of
the storm before sailing. The violence of
the gale is so great that skippers fear to
risk their vessels out at sea. It is be
lieved .that ocean steamships going east
from here yesterday would escape, but
that those sailing from European ports
at the same time for this side would run
into it.
DAMAGE TO CROPS REPORTED.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27. —Specials to
the News and Courier from various points
in the middle and coast region regarding
the West India cyclone, report consider
able damage to corn and cotton, very seri
ous damage to rice, but no loss of life. At
Georgetown the damage to the rice crop
was very great, and it is difficult yet to
estimate the loss, though many put it at
33 per cent. A large portion of April
planting, either in stubble or stacked in
fields, floated off with the tide, and June
rice is, no doubt, badly injured, for the
water was salt for some distance up the
rivers.
A LIGHT SHIP MISSING.
Charleston, Sept, 27.—Clyde steamship
Iroquois arrived here from Jacksonville
to-night, reports that Martin’s industry
light ship off Savannah, Ga., is missing.
AT THE
Presidential Proclamation—Ths Del
aware Bridge—Other Matters.
Whashington, Sept. 27.—The President
has issued a proclamation granting full
amnesty and freedom to all persons who
have violated the Edmunds act against
polygamy.
Commodore Matthews, chief of the bu
reau of yards and docks, to-day received
a telegram from the superintendent of
the Port Royal, S. C., new drv dock,
stating that the dock remained uninjured
and that the severest part of the storm
had passed off to the eastward without
touching Port Royal. This indicates
that the sea islands, where such havoc
was wrought by the storm last year,
probably have escaped this time.
The United Stales has not signified its
intentions with regard to the pan-Ameri
can monetary conference proposed by
Mexico, and this, with the delay of other
governments to send answers to the invi
tations, will cause the postponement of
the meeting which was set for next
month. It is probable that this govern
ment will decline the invitation.
The plans submitted for the gigantic
railway bridge across the Delaware river,
to connect Philadelphia with Camden,
N. J., have been approved by the war de
partment, the only change required being
in the location of the draw. The bridge
is to be built by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, whose chief engineer, Mr.
Brpwn, prepared the plans.
It will be high enough to permit the
passage of ferryboats at any point. The
draw will accommodate ships with the
tallest masts. This bridge will give
through rail connection to the seashore
and New Jersey towns. Work will com
mence within a year.
For the first time in several months all
the prominent officials from Secretary
Carlisle down are -on duty” in the treas
ury department. The changes incident
to the reorganization, which goes into
elect Oct. 1, is engaging most of the time
of Secretary Carlisle at this time.
Important Husband—Come on, dear. You
don’t want to hang around the store all day l
Wife (sweeilyt—Pretty Boon, darling! I've
only got a quarter left.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
BED MOTIONS PROPOSED.
Carnegie Company Announce, Its In
ability to Pay the Present Scale.
Pittsburg, Sept. 27.—The Carnegie
Steel Company, limited, to-day gave no
tice to its 5,000 workmen employed at the
Edgar Thompson Steel Works and fur
naces at Braddock, of a desire to ter
minate its sliding wage scale contract
with them. A new scale is proposed,
which, it is said, will make reductions on
all classes of work except common
laborers. The posted notices contain
the information that the company
will be ready to present the new
scale for the consideration of the men by
Nov. 15. It is to go into effect Jan. 1,
1895. The reasons given for the proposed
wage reduction is that the company can
not continue to pay the present rate of
wages owing to the depression brought
about by the tariff uncertainty. The no- J
tices were a* disagreeable surprise to the
workmen.
GtASSWORKERS THREATEN TO STRIKE.
The wage difficulty at the Chambers &
McKee window glass factory at Jeanetta
is still unsettled and unless settled to
morrow, will probably develop a strike
by Saturday. Trouble among the un
skilled workmen is also threatened at D.
O. Cunningham’s factory, South Pitts
burg, and also at the Shenango Glass
Company and Lawrence Glass Company,
at N ew Castle.
TIN PLATE WORKS CLOSE.
Bridgeport, la., Sept. 27.—The tin plate
mill department of the Etna Standard,
mill, employing eighty men, shut down
last night because the employes refused
to accept a 25 per cent, reduction de
manded by the management. .Fifteen
hundred coal miners, along the line of the
Cleveland, Loraine and Wheeling rail
road, were laid off to-day, because of
the inability of the road to furnish cars
to handle the output, which amounts to
about 500 cars per day.
TWO NEBRASKA TICKETS.
Administration Men Bolt the Conven
tion and Name a Ticket.
Omaha, Neb. Sept. 27.—The following
nominations were made by the state dem
ocratic convention after midnight. For
governor, Silas A. Holcomb. The populist
candidate was nominated by a large ma
jority on the first ballot. The balance of
the ticket is as follows: Lieutenant gov
ernor. J. N. Gaffins; secretary of state, F.
J. Ellick; treasurer, G. A. Linkhart; au
ditor, H. J. Dahlman; superintendent of
public instruction, W. L. Jones; commis
sioner of grounds and buildings, S. J.
Kent. With the exception of Ellick,
Liukhart and Dahlman the nominees are
the ones put up by the populists.
The state democratic convention, after
a turbulent session, split at midnight
over the fusion question. When Judge .
Holcomb, the populist candidate, was
named for governor, the administration
men bolted. The bolters numbered 104,
and they at once organized into a separate
convention and began the work of select
ing a straight democratic ticket. The
following state ticket was nominated by
the bolters, including the delegates of
six counties: Governor, P. D. Sturde
vant; lieutenant governor, R. E. Dumphy;
secretary of state, D. T. Rolf; auditor,
Otto Bauman; treasurer, Luke Driden
thal; attorney general, John H. Ames;
commissioner of public lands and build
ings, Jacob Bigler; superin tendentof pub
lic instruction, Milton Doolittle. The
bolters’ convention then adjourned, after
adopting the same platform, with the ex
ception that it fa\ors a gold basis.
Before the bolt the convention showed,
by its upanimous indorsement of William
Jennings Bryan for the Senate, that he
was a favorite son.
THE CERTIFICATE ACCEPTED.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 27.—A certificate
sworn to by Euclid Martin, as chairman,
and S. M. Snyder, as secretary, of “the
democratic state convention,” was filed
with the secretary of state this morning.
It contains the names of the . men put in
nomination by the seceders from the
democratic state convention at Omaha
last night. Secretary of State Allen says
that as the certificate comes to him
from representatives of the Demo
cratic party he will accept it to be
what it purports. When asked if another
certificate should be filed by the officers
of the regular democratic convention
what he would do with that, the secre
tary said he would have to take advice as
he could not say off-hand what his course
would be. He intimated that any con
test as to the right to the name of the
democratic ticket would have to be de
termined by the courts.
ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
Second Trial of Edward J. Fuller Re
sults In a Favorable Verdict.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 27.—A special
to the Star says: -‘The trial of Edward
J. Fuller, which has been progressing at
Rockingham, Richmond county, nearly
six days, ended to-day with a verdict of
acquittal.
“Fuller was charged with the murder
of B. C. Parker at Fayetteville, N. C.,
and was tried there last March, convicted
of murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged.
“The case was taken to the supreme
court, which| granted a new atrial. A
change of venue was then made to Rich
mond county, and the second trial re
sulted in prompt acquittal.
“The case has attracted much attention
throughout the state.”
INDICTMENT QUASHED.
Other Indictments, However, are
Pending Against Hardwick.
Atlanta, Sept. 27.—The indictment
against J. O. Hardwick, ex-cashier of the
First National Bank of Cedartown, Ga.,
was quashed to-day.
Another indictment for forgery is pend
ing against Hardwick. He demanded a
trial on that indictment but the prosecu
tion secured a postponement.