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The Covington
J, W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
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PHYSTAUZgi lENSES
HARK
I Voice from the Executive Mansion.
r. A. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: The
$i 6 C 0 pic glasses you furnished me
|e time I since, tested give them excellent satlsfao
!. have by use, and
jt ! say they are unequaled in clearness
brilliancy by any that I haye ever
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A Business Man’s Clear Vision,
New York City, April 4,1888.
r. A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir : Your
nt eye glasses received some time
3 , and am very much gratified at the
Jarful change that has coma over
jyeslght since I have discarded my
'lueses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
;tary Stationers Board of Trade of
York City.
1 eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving
G a.
iese glasses are not supplied to ped
I at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Wholesale Depots, Atlanta, Ga.
nfdin B. Wright J
COVINGTON, GA.
ident Physician & Surgeon.
inecology, Iren, Obstetrics, diseases of women and
Ns and all Chronic'
of a private nature, a Special
il have a horse at my command,
[h be will surrounding enable mo country, to attend wel calls K
as
fity practice.
FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. AL EL
HE KING OF BRIDGES.
»ing the Great. Structure Over
the Firtll of Forth
1 great railway bridge over the River
i at Edinburgh, Scotland, lias just been
id by the Prince of Wales with great
lony. Many eminent engineers and
ay directors were present, An im
e crowd of spectators witnessed the
iony, The day was observed as a holi
n Edinburgh in honor of the occasion.
B Forth Bridge has been styled the King
idges. It is big enough to be added to
loaders of the world. It far surpasses
nly in utility, but in its structure as an
leering feat, the Eiffel Tower. The cai
:iou has been ma^^Ahat one of the three
levers of the bnJTVvith its connectin woul
ts, if set up leifialwaays. siffiioBliairbt on end, the Paris
■ry nearly the as
e latter only contaii^ f rV \bsorbed tons of iron,
B the Forth Bridge Juis could over be
0 tons of the finest steel that
tired. It was begun in 1883, and h*
n about seven years to lete.• e
go proper is just over a iqj rth,
e are viaducts on each fn
1 the high ground, apj! I'.naL fcl
a mile more, to
height of the spans abS
feet, allowing for tU§. lias ;he
est vessels. To attain* might, and
to have the necessary strengt hs the can
r ers tower higti’abd’.Vf St. and Paul’s they Cathedral, required
levation as high as
nnparison between the is'WSrWtloite:'' FtMjth-and other
it bridges of the world -
length , Great rfcet.
feet.
th Bridge_____ . 8,001 1.710)
' Bridge....... .10,780 $ 808
gara idore Bridge Bridge, . 1,760 m:s no
.
mini Bridge, . 1,800 150
tannia Bridge . 1,511 460
oklyn Bridge . 5,862 1,600
he two great arch spans of the Forth
cige, 1710 feet each, are beyoud any span
ore attempted, Each is 110 feat wider
u the central span of the Brooklyn Bridge,
las cost, or it was estimated to cost, $10,
,60') in money. In human life, up to Sep
ilier, 1888. including five drowning with cases,
tatal accidents in connection itseon
action amounted to fifty-three, while the
si number of accidents lion-fatal up to the
ae time was 543; an army of workmen,
nbering at times as many ac, 4500, have
in engaged most of the sa ven y ears in build
I the gigantic str- ctm a
emarkable Canine Intelligence.
gentleman iu Glasgow owned a very
I'Uigeut Newfoundland dog. lie ac
npanied his master wherever lie went,
wa s his inseparable companion in his
its and to church. One evening the
itleman went to visit a neighbor. The
m attended him. it was quite late
en the gentleman started for home,
1. to his surprize, his dog could not
found. After the family had retired
bed there was a great noise in the
E-liui. ( In n it It \ta.s ,vw supposed -imwrwed tiiat tmat hur'diVTS liurguvrs
(i<• nibbing the house. Soon there Was
|ra-h and aamash like the breaking OI
Cinflow, andkthen all was still. The
lining revealed the mystery. The dog
<1 faUen asleep under the table. He
I' sensible that his master had gone
,, n. and ... the noise • hcaid , .,i ,, was , ii„. the a
nipt nl the dog to make his escape.
' '*<•>•<’ «0 other way to get out. the
ci"U- animal went through the win
v taking tile glass and frame with
In.
t w as a lon<>-time before his master
M., .-i i t rn.it i vi t house n m again. When * he did
'log accompanied him, and the animal -...i
pml kitchen his w ay his through old hiding the open place door under ot
f' tal When to the started for
i master
me neither his hat nor cane could be
and. After ... a . long search iii the dog was
-'ovcrrcl fast asleep under the table;
e paw was iu hi- master’s hat, the other
ting on his stick. How the dog oh
Sued -ion of these articles no one
wild tell. He remembered his last visit
Ilic place, and how scurvilv he was
i ted. The V 'i C ' ' !"?■ resolved H ’
, , “o left , - behind next time. , He T „
I 'hat.hi* master could not go home
hi? his hat and stick, and that he
II ■ l be awakened when his dWner «ot
o 0 walk walk, Hi* lilt plans ,fl nc were ^\(.re acuitiv acuteiv
1 l if ho had be- ’i liuthnn bb ctfuld
> r.a a
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
The Venango House and a number
other buildings were burned at Venango
Penn.
Officers of ocean steamers which
reached New York within a few days
meeting ly large immense fields of ice and an
number of icebergs off
land.
Chalkley Leconey, charged
murdering been his niece at Camden, N.
acquitted.
A fire at No. 392 Broadway, New York,
caused a loss of nearly $300,000. Several
persons, Injured. including Battalion Chief McGill,
were
The West Jersey Presbytery at n meeting
in Camden, decided in favor of revising the
Confession of Faith by a vote of 32 to 16.
Expert thieves attempted to rob the Elk
County Bank at Ridgeway, Penn., but they
were frightened away and escaped, leaving
their tools behind them.
Town Collector Chadbourne, of Ox¬
ford, Me., is short hi his accounts from $3000
to $4000. The town will call upon his bonds¬
men to make the deficiency good.
Showman Barnum’ 8 circus and menagerie
arrived at New York a few day's ago after a
long sojourn in England.
James Lennard was killed and Thomas
Owens fatally hurt by the premature explo¬
sion of a blast in the colliery of the Ply¬
mouth Coal Company at Plymouth, Penn.
By the explosion of a box of dynamite in
a contractor’s tool house at Pittsburg, Penn.,
David Hayes was instantly killed and Will¬
iam Soddyfatally injured.
At the Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention in Providence John W. Davis
was nominated for Governor, Captain John
Waters for Lieutenant-Governor, and the
rest of the 1887 ticket was put in nomina¬
tion.
The pottery works of Thomas Haddock &
Sons, at Trenton, N. J., have been totally
destroyed by fire.
Miss Anna Putnam committed suicide
worth by hanging $25,009, at Danvers, Mass. Although
she was harrassed by the fear
that she would become destitute, and took
her life in a fit of despondency.
Challenges have been sent from New
York to the Earl of Dunraveu, owner of the
Valkyrie, Shamrock by the owners of the Katrina and
for international yacht races in
tills country in the coming summer.
Grover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie,
Seth Low, Henry E. Rowland and Joseph
H. Choate, at a public meeting in New
York, spoke in favor otextending that city's
free circulating library system.
Eight freight cars were thrown from the
track near Carlisle, Penn., and wrecked.
The funeral of ex-Goveruor English took
place at New Haven, Conn. Many promi¬
nent people attended.
Reuben Eisenhaut, foremen at the Cam¬
been eron Mine, Shamokin, Penn., which had
on fire for several days, was overcome
by black damp while in the mine, and died
soon after being taken out.
William Bucknell, the noted Philadel¬
phia philanthropist, died of at the
agd'of seventy-nine years. He gave $142, OOC
to Bucknell College, about $525,000 to Bap¬
tist churches and missions, and probably
TfiE'Belgffii tl ! laritie3 of various kinds. ‘
?,.? ,
Webster, from Antwerp for iSOSWIT, thick wen:
ashore at Lighthouse Point, Mass., in a
snow storm, The crew of twenty-seven men
got ashore safely.
South and West.
Two drunken men at Chicago held Count
Leon Albert, a German nobleman, shooting up against
a wall and amused themselves at,
him. One bullet went through his silk hat
and another made an ugly scalp wound.
Mrs. Mollie Smith and her two sisters,
Miss Julia and Emma Barnes, three promi¬
nent and highly respected young ladies of
Saybrook, 111., have been lodged in the
ecuntx jail. They were suffering from the
wildef! and most affecting emotional in¬
sanity upon the question of Christian
science.
August Groth, a brewer, cut his wife’s
throat then committed With a razor suicide, at Stillwater, Minn., and
Fred Jacobs, 16 years old, was stabbed to
the heart at Vicksburg, Miss, by Ellis
Adams, another boy, and died instantly.
The body of Burke Martin, who shot and
killed a white man for purposes of bridge robbery,
■was found hanging to the railroad at
IUenaba, Miss. The lynchers are unknown.
Twenty masked students of Kalamazoo
College, Mich., seized Professors Ferry and
Trowbridge, bound them hand and foot and
left them in an open field, two miles from
the college.
TojlSou TwaschooIPpys at' became Fails, involved Ohio, in anal- and
ten PatUpSon Cuyahoga struck Edward Traulman
GeOTge .head with stone, killing him.
in the a
Alderman Charles Hillcock, of Chi
cage jlkas found dead in the street near his
komeA. Death resulted from apoplexy.
The Vir trinity Legislature has appointed
Cmjlfciissioners’to meet with a committee of
foreign bondhqyi-s of thiWState and debt. confer over the set¬
tlement
At BTrecent election held at St. George, W.
Va., Mayor Miller was elected, but failed to
qualify. The City Council then Miiler appointed D.
S. Minear, whereupon Mayor the quali
fled. Both claimed to be Mayor, and re
suit was that no laws were being enacted or
enforced.
Edwin Cowles, editor and proprietor of
the Cleveland Leader, has died iu that city,
aged sixty-five years.
While Henry Greenlee and his wife were
away from home their four children were
burned to death in their cabin at Eupora,
Miss.
William H. Pope, teller of the Louisville
City National Bank, has absconded with
$60'000 of the bank’s cash in his possession.
The Exposition buildings Plattsmouth, and street Neb. car
barns were burned at
The loss is heavy.
Heavy floods have caused much damage
along the Ohio River At Cairo, 111, the
river was fifty miles wiae.
The convention of the National League of
Republican ^ Clubs has been heldm Nashville-,
A reception was given in the League’s
h onor by Governor Capitol. Taylor and the Legisla
ture at the Stete
Uuited States Senator Allison has
been re-elected by the Iowa Legislature.
The Apaches went on the war path in Ar-i
zona. A freighter was murdered near Point
of Rocks and ranches were being abandoned,
Unjted States troops gtar ted in pursuit of
. . jans
TnE banking firm of C. L. Lewis & Co.,
of Winchester, Ind., has failed. All the
county officials had deposits at the bank.
President Joseph Stanley, of the Broads
wav and Newburg street Railway of received Cleve
land, Ohio, has died from injuries
while jumping from one of his own
motors
Mrs Katherine Drake, of Zanesville,
Qy 0< was burned to death. She was eighty
four veers of age. ,-nd her clothes ca'ebin .
fire from the grate she was toe feeble to call
ffir airl •
%+vnhwtorv'^ *of winters of the
Minting and^nblishing’houses one the oldest
in the West,
i h aV e failed, with liabilities aggregating
j $100,000. P.aimund Holzhay, the notorious tram
1 rebbernow in the penitentiary at Marquette
Mich., for life, tried to murder a fellow con
I vict the and was shot and seriously wounded by
warden
j \ An Wheeler English & syndicate Co. shipyard has and bought dry dock the at F.
w. $3,500,000.
i Bay City, Mich., for
'
, _
Washington
1 Soaate ^ has
: jl tong the'
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. MARCH 18 1890.
confirmed the nomination of
Henry C. New Warmoth to be Collector of
toms at Orleans. Eleven
and three Republicans voted against
mation.
The delegates to the Pan-American
ference have been invited to make a
through the South.
The President has approved the bill to
helpless crease pensions of soldiers and sailors
from injuries received or diseases
tracted while in service of United States.
A COURT of inquiry was appointed to
made vestigate against charges Commander of”cruelty and
B. H. McCalla,
commanding Enterprise. Commander the United States
charged McCalla is
muda by an American resident at
with disgraceful conduct at that
The President has approved the
providing for an Assistant Secretary
Foreign.
While a Progressist meeting was being
held at Koenigsberg, Germany, a crowd of
Socialists stormed the hall, and a sharp
ensued. The police arrested a large
of persons.
Four persons were killed and fourteen in¬
jured in a train wreck at Carlisle, England.
Rioting took place at Setubal, Portugal,
and the military fired into the crowd, killing
two and injuring twenty others.
The great railway bridge over the River
Forth, Scotland, was opened by the Prince
of Wales.
Several Nihilists were arrested near the
Anitchkoff Palace, in 8t. Petersburg, where
the Czar and imperial family are residing.
Rudolph de Guehry, a school teacher,
aged Ontario, fifty years, was arrested at Kingston,
for assaulting pupils, and was being
seized conveyed to the Pembroke jail when he was
with spasms and died.
Hungary and Austria were visited by
violent snowstorms, which practically sus¬
pended railway travel in every section.
Abraham Lincoln, son of the United
States Minister to England, has died in
London after a long and painful illness,
The President of the Transvaal, South
Africa, has been insulted by a mob and the
flag of the Republic torn down.
A shoe factory at Weissenfels, Saxony,
has been destroyed by fire. Seven of the
employes building. lost their lives iu the burning
A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia,
says that Henry George was welcomed at the
Town Hall by the Mayor of the city.
The Czair of Russia has received a threat
self suing “Tchebrikova.” letter from a woman The who signed her¬
writer said that
unless he modified his reactionarv policy ho
would meet the fate of Peter III., Paul I.
and Alexander II.
The French and Dahomans have fought a
second battle in Africa, the natives being
beaten with heavy loss.
attacked Major AVissmann, the the German Arabs in officer,
and routed East
Africa.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
A Nfcw York State league has ilflOH
Saji Crane lias been appointed Captain of
the New York league Club.
Gore, of New York, says the League re¬
duced his salary $1000 last season.
Captain Ewing thinks the Cincinnati
beam will finish second or third in the League
race.
The New York League Club is bringing
suits against nearly all its players on last
year’s team.
The Central Labor Union, of New York
city, has indorsed the Players’League, and
ts members will support that organization.
The National League will be fairly strong
n one department—catching; in the aggregate but as weak. an
offset the pitchers are
One of the best pleas that the Piayers'
League lias yet made for public suppor have c is
.-he splendid staff of umpires they se¬
cured.
Pitcher Keefe is training the Princeton
College pitchers, and Riley, the Columbus
third baseman, is looking after the other
players.
A corps of trainers will shortly gotoEng
and to thoroughly train a number of base¬
ball teams. The men will be all good amateur
flayers.
Anson, the Chicago League hotel Club’s Cap
ain, puts up at a first-class in Florida,
.chile his players have to be content with
■heap fare.
Hutchinson, of Chicago, is considered by
nanv the speediest pitcher in the League or
” faster, than Ned
Crane, :he profession of New York. — even,
The Pittsburg League Club will play ex¬
hibition games at home, and will make no
Southern trip before the opening of the
■hampionship season.
The Harrisburg (Penn.) Club, which won
he Middle States championship last season will
,ias been reorganized, and a strong team
>e put in the field to play all comers.
The Players’ League will open the season
in April 21 and close on October 4. Th«
Eastern clubs and the Western play the first
leries of games on their respective grounds.
The Players’ League sent a communica¬
tion to President Young, of the National
League, in session at Cleveland, suggesting
he formation of another national agree
aent, of which the two organizations shall
ye the principal parties.
Director Appleton says the men who
have gone South with Manager Mutrie will
not compose the tJ team the New York League
Club will put i_ in Ihe field and are simply ex
perimental material out ot „ which the cluh
hopes to develop a good man or two.
SEAL FISHERIES LEASED.
A New Company Gets the Privilege
at an Enormous Advance.
Secretary Windom has awarded the lease
for 1 twenty J years 3 of the exclusive privilege
of killing seals on the islands of St.
George and St. Paul in Behring Sea. The
award goes to the North American Coin
mercial Company, of New York and San
Francisco. 'Ihe principal stockholders in the
new corporation are .L Liebes, ?
Sam and Lloyd fttmc^; Tevts, D of O Han Francisco, ^ew York,
The company to wtachhas
been awarded was by far the highest bidder.
Jh. Ai^ska
aa j a roya lty of $L62K for each skin
taken. The North American Company put
m three bids. The first was an agreement to
give $55,200 a year for twenty years as an
anml al rental ahd to pay a revenue tax of $2
on everv fur seal taken. In addition to this,
however, they offered-and it is on this un
expectedly liberal bonus that the Secretary
bases his award—$7.62j7 on each seal
company also offered a bonus of 50 cents
each gallon of seal oil made .r om seal taken
from tu6 islands. North
The grand total of the
Commercial Company's bid for the right
j catch up to 100,000 e “ fur S? seals '“Alaska ’
^ i n smLoU bounty £e
the provisions which are required of to the
| f or the natives at the will expense
! ji paDV , the final figures probably basis of not
elow *35.000,000. On the
i j , ea i = yearly it will still reach the
i um of $13,100,000. or neariy twice what
j Territory cost. The Alaska
| company has obtained twenty from ycata the lease
j government theaeal island* a new on the Russian side of
leai prii'w<»rto taeV &ad a inoxiopoly rafcij
the catching on the seal isiaird*
j ftta United
A MODEL LOW-COST
Description anti Expense of a Small
and Inexpensive Structure.
(Copyright by the Author.)
Carpenters and builders arc good fellows
who perform an immense amount of skillful
work for insufficient compensation. They
are called hard names if a knot the size of a
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perspective view.
beauty of form and , color. , __ Then .
that with about the consider
same materials and at
about the same cost for labor these houses
might have been all the fancy pictures them. |
It seems sometimes that the enormity of the
offense referred to calls for Legislative cor
rection.
I he cut given herewith shows what might
nave been m many a now unsightly neigh¬
borhood except for the dry goods box de¬
signer. A small and inexpensive structure
presenting point an attractive appearance from I
every of view because it shows lines and
breaks” that please the eye and appeal to
the imagination.
Below will be found a somewhat detailed
description Size of this design: |
of Structure: Extreme width (front),
26 ft.; depth (side), 31 ft. 6 inches.
9 ft.; Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 ft.; first story ’
second story, 8 ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls: Foundations,
stone or brick; first story, clapboards; sec
ond story and roof, shingles.
Interior Finish: All rooms finished with
white plaster and soft wood trim. Stair
ease, newels, rails aiid balusters, hard wood.
Exterior Colors: Body of first story, pale
yellow; casings of doors and windows, cor- j
ner boards, water table, cornices, bands and
Mv.ag. fc
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First floor.
veranda posts and rails, white; shingling on
side walls and roof,silver stain; outside doors,
white with yellow panels; blinds, white with
yellow slats; sashes, dark green; brickwork,
red. ’gie principal
Accommodations: closdfc. shown rooms by
and their sizes, heAiith. etc., are In addition
the plans given undci^P' whole house with
there is a cellar thereto,
an inside and an oufflwe entrance
and the garret loft is floored to provide
storage Special room. Features: A he windows except
those of the cellar are azed with double
thick glass. The ponfces are ceiled and
finished with oil in natural 'Colors, The
“swell” front and the “#vell” side increase
the sizes of important rooms and give The variety front
and interest to the eflRerior.
parapet is roofed wiG«m level with its top
at the sides and ri^^BB-tUe T the in the observer center on to
carry off ram
tj:o> c/2j
pot J
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SECOND floor. !
the parapet has , the ., appearance „„„„
the ground the floor of baicony.
of enclosing the neighborhood a of the city ot
Cost: Iu unusual diffi
New York, where there are no
cultiesinex<«vatmgand materials m> $1-^ iinus It - .-jeL
m transporting the outset otj tmsse^iesoi e au
perhaps, that at esUtnates rell be *£« .
ro sav no
possible, to let the contract fora small house
at the right figure. Most contractors prefer of 1 j
larger work, and the high bids ot a tew
them easily discourage a man of smalt faith.
But*the _____ determined ______., “man specifications who submits to all com- |if j
lflete drawings and
necessary) reputable builders in lus neignbor
hood usuailv succeeds. Architect.
R. W. Shoppe
A DEED i'UJA $22,000,000.
Pittsburg®* -- - Transfers mi |
A Wealthy
Property to His Son
Ex-Judge n,, Thomas A. , nf Pittsburg
. •
filed leed ,
Penn., aged mid feeble, has J .
! I Wlt i, the Recorder transferring all his v ast
real estate—$22,000,000—to his sen Andrew ;
W Mellon. Judge Mellon owned and property Alle
in Ihanv almost every ward in Pittsourg had than
fowSwellinsshoos*. He i. said to have more
of unimproved property. The transt-. a.so
, I j includes const ierao e real cstxVy m t A
. West. The pwsonaipropff^ 0 -^^
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS
In the Senate.
49th Day . Mr. Ingalls, on motion of Mr.
Sherman, was elected to serve as President
pro tens, of the Senate during the absence of
to^orid^ £ P S
ment of two persons to represent the
Staten in the International Conference at
Madrid m reference to industrial property
d, “ ! ' ' ” rvl "6 «*“
Alaska where schools are maintained by the
Interior Department____The bill to establish
uniform salaries of $5000 for United States
District Court Judges was passed____Mr.
Spooner spoke in opposition to the Blair bill.
51st Day.—A joint resolution for taking
the census in Alaska was passed____A re¬
solution offered the previous day by Mr.
Voorhees in regard to the lease of the fur
seal islands in Alaska to the North American
Commercial Company was reported back
adversely The from the Finance Committee____
relations of the press to executive sessions
were discussed.
52d Day.—T he message of the President,
known his approval of the agreement
with the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota
the cession of their lands, transmitting the
of the Commissioners, and recom¬
of the an lands, appropriation to complete a sur¬
was presented in the Senate,
and referred----The Blair Educational
came up for debate, and Mr. Plumb spoke
opposition Day.—A to it.
53d number of private bills were
.Mr. Wilson introduced) a bill pro
that the charge of desertion against
soldier who served in the late war shall
no bar to his right to pension, when it can
reasonably shown that the disability on
of which he claims pension was in
while performing actual service in
volunteer army.... In executive session
consideration of the “leakage” of secret
proceedings was continued,
In the House.
55 th Day.—I n Committee of the Whole,
largest Deficiency bill was passed.... Mr.
from the Committee on Military
reported the Army Appropriation
The total appropriation is $24,458,220,
increase over the appropriation for the
year of $633,004. The estimates sub
by the Department aggregated $85,-
56 th Day.—A fter the passage of a few pri
pension bills, Mr. Cutcheon called up
Senate bill providing for an Assistant
of War. Passed—yeas, 126; nays,
----The contested election case of Feather
against Cate, from the First Arkansas
was considered.
57 th Day.—T he contested election case of
>hs introduced against Cate was Mr. taken Owen up...,
were by Military appro*
uis bill appropriating $200,000 to be
the reconstruction of the military post at
Barracks, Mo.
58th Day.— Consideration of the contested
case of Featherston against Cate, of
was resumed. The debate had
concluded Day.-*Bj when party the House vote of adjourned.^ 147 to 138,
59th a H. Cate, the sit¬
House decided that W.
member from the First Arkansas Dis¬
was not elected a Representative in the
Congress, and then decided, by a vote of
to 135, that L. P. Featherston was elected,
he appeared and took his seat,
60th Day.—T he greater portion of the day
consumed in a discussion of a bill for the
attendance of witnesses before
and receivers of land offices, but no
was taken....A number of public i.
appropriation bills were pas 4 ,
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
*
Dr. Knork, of Germany, has made $l r
on* of anti-pyrine.
John D. Rockefeller, Secretary Tracy
ex-Seuator Platt were schoolfellows.
Joseph Biggar, the Irish Honm Ruler,
the bulk of his estate to his son Joseph.
Congressman Anderson, of Kansas, says
Jay Gould is the brightest man in Amer
Wjlliam D. Howells, the novelist, is
to shrink from having his portrait pub¬
Annie Besant, the wall-known English this
will shortly make a visit to
Chief Justice Comeys, of Delaware, is
possessor of 6 feet 3 inches of stature and
robust intellect.
The Order of Commander of the Legion of
has been conferred by France upon
Belmont of New York.
Chauncey M. Depew is said to travel 500
on an average every week, Besides
he takes an annual trip to Europe.
Representative Reyburn, of Phila¬
the successor of William D. Kelley
Congress, is several times a millionaire
General Benjamin F. Butler is said to
able to quote the Bible more freely and
accurately than any other man in pub¬
life.
Andrew Lang, probability the English criti*,seriously this
the of coming to
and making his permanent home in
York.
Emperor William has conferred upon
Charles Gibson, of St. Louis, the
cross of the Prussian Order of the
Crown.
Edward Burgess, the yacht designer,
delivering, at the National
Museum at Washington, an illustrated lec¬
ture on yachts and yachting.
Corporal Tanner is said to be making He an
abundance of money in Washington. and his
employs a force of twelve clerks
practice is worth at least $20,000 a year.
Charles Emory Smith is the sixth Penn
S yi v - an , an ; n ; a te years to be honored with the
Russian mission, his predecessors having
bftpn Messrs Boker, Curtin, Cameron,
Dallasand Wilkins.
Paul Niemeyer, the famous lecturer
hygiene, has died in Germany
« Nightingale fursing. in the editing of
’ He was born Ui
Magdeburg, March It. I'D!.
Dr. Carl Lumholtz, of the University
of Christiana, who spent a year in scientific
investigations among the cannibals of Aus
tralia, is on b is way to New Mexico on an
other scientific expedition,
I>- a New York Court recently a son of the
j a ,^ Emory A. Storrs the testified distinguished under
Chicago Ir.wyer his father and orator, did not leave enough
oath that funeral
money to defray the expenses.
In declining an invitation, Professor Hux
ley, the English scientist, writes that h's
iieafness is growing on him, and that now-.
adays p e ls liable to become very tired and
lose bis voice when he attempts to talk
Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Pei it is a
Parsee ofg gentleman who has given away
^ ogo iu private charities. His latest
benelaction is a gift of 100,Off) rupees toward
the founding of a leper hospital at Bombay,
India.
Edward Bellamy is a magnetic looking,
black-moustached and cordia'.-maimered na¬
tive of Massachusetts, and nine and thirty,
fia has visited the Sandwich Islands anl
written ^ novo ‘'Looking ffoo UcpThs
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VOL. XVI. NO. 17.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Omo miners complain of (lull times all
over the State.
The Weekly Pay bill has been passed in
the New J ersey House.
Colored men have been taken to Dana,
Wyo., to fill the places of strikers.
Many surgical-instrument makers are out
of employment, as business is quite dull with
their trade at present.
A bureau of immigration is to be estab¬
lished in Minnesota, but the organizations of
that State are opposed to it.
About five hundred laboring men held a
mass of the meeting eight at Toledo, Ohio, in the interest
hour movement.
A hill making the counterfeiting of union
labels a criminal offense has been introduced
in the Legislature of Massachusetts.
Coal has been discovered in the mountains
orously up Deep Creek, Mont., and work will be vig¬
pushed as soon as the weather settles.
The Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, accord¬
ing to a statement by Secretary George W.
Reid, has 5000 members in the port of New
York.
Boston capitalists have bought 3300 acres
of land in Lexington County, S, C. Large
pottery will works for making white table ware
be erected there.
All the moulders employed in foundries
represented in the Iron Founders’ Association
struck at Ban Francisco. One thousand
workmen were thrown out of work.
The Typographical Union of Hartford,
Conn., desires Congress to restore wages rati in
the Government Printing Office to the
prevailing previous to March 5, 1877.
Charters have been issued by the Ameri¬
can Federation of Labor to the Rubber
Workers’ Union of Framingham, Mass., and
the Hod Carriers of Martin's Ferry, Ohio.
Within two weeks thirty-two charters
and supplies have been issued new assemblies
from the headquarters of the Knights of
Labor and seventeen lapsed locals have been
reinstated.
General Master Powderly will address
a public meeting of workingmen at Dover,
N. H., April 4. The following evening he
will speak at a demonstration of workers in
Faneuil Hall, Boston.
It is rumored that the Strong Locomotive
Cincinnati Company will soon of the erect largest in the establishments suburbs of
one
for the manufacture of locomotives to be
found any where west of Dunkirk, N. Y.
Ground is to be broken in Chicago •eon
for the erection of two shops, respectively
1450 and 1500 feet in length for the manu¬
of fire-proof steel cars. A company
a capital stock of $1,500,000 has been or¬
in that city.
The Ship Carpenters’ and Calkers' Union,
Buffalo, N. Y., ob ject to Canadians com¬
there to take the places of native-born
is They claim that not less than
taken to Canada yearly by work,
of that country.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
It is said that the Buffalo Bill show will re¬
to London for a brief season in May.
Miss Thomas, of Cleveland, musically
at Milano, is to make her debut in
in Paris.
Among the many attractions that Pierre,
new capital of" South Dakota, promises
is u $150,000 theatre.
Patti and her company arrived at Denver
a thirteen hour delay by Colorado
The diva was suffering with a chest
and fever.
The almost complete score of the opera
written and signed by Wag¬
has been discovered in the ruins of the
Theatre.
A new tenor, Tolpi by name, has been dis¬
in Venice, and great reports of the
of his voice come from Italy, where
is now singing. 'v'
The niece of Mme. Christine Nilsson, 11 ”
to become a great prima donna, has
her plans, having discovered that
voice is inadequate.
Herr Eduard Strauss has American sigued an en¬
at Vienna with an uu
for a three months tour with a
orchestra in the United States dur¬
the coming season.
Seats for Joseph Jefferson's recent per¬
at Atlanta. Ga.. were sold at auc¬
without bis knowledge or consent. Tie
not feel that he was entitled to the prem¬
money, some $600 in all, so he distributed
among local charities.
Signor fewer Salvini intimate has friends, the reputation outside the of circle hay¬
his own countrymen, than any other for¬
actor who has visited these shores, 1 he
given is not that he is unsocial, but
he is unable to speak English.
The London County Council contemplates
a license on variety artists with
remarkable restrictions, the infraction
which will involve the canceling of the
A large and stormy meeting of act
managers and music-hall loving people
held.
The theatre which the authorities of the
of Pennsylvania have decided to
will be used for all of public the University, lectures given tot
inder the auspices the performances of classi¬
concerts and for and the
cal music. It will cost $75,000, $2o,000. organ
s-hieli wifi be constructed about
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The premium on gold in Bueuoe Ayre,. hai
risen to 164 per cent.
They are about to build a imvthUsonic
temple in Chicago, at a coat of *3,00U,UW.
Turkey has declined to accept the Belgian
scheme for the suppression of the slave
trade.
The large smelting or f anii “ tio “ ,i
United States have formed a Trust with s
capital of $25,000,000.
It is now proposed to dig a tunnel unde*
the Detroit River in the interest of the Ca¬
nadian Pacific railroad.
Leprosy is spreading so rapidly in New
Caledonia that 3000 of the natives and many
of the convicts have been attacked.
State Treasurer Noland, of Missouri,
has been suspended owing to the discovery ot
a shortage of $32,000 in his accounts.
Virginia has begun to take steps to ascer¬
tain bon- large a proportion of its taxable
property is owned by colored people.
The epidemic of influenza is slowly mak¬
ing its way down through Mexico and Yu¬
catan to the Central American States.
Leagues have Ivon formed in Rio Jau
erio Bahia. Para. Santos and Pernambuco.
Brazil, to boycott British in favor of Ameri¬
can goods.
Ohio is to have a new oil company com
posed of wealthy capitalists from estimated Chicago.
Milwaukee and Pittsburg, with an
capital of $50,000,000.
Alabama papers are calling attention to
the wanton destruction of mocking birds m
that State. large numbers of them are shot
every spring and summer.
According to a statement just issued by
the Illinois Auditor of Public Accounts there
are forty-one State banks in the State, har
ingan aggregate capital of $9,816,500.
Reports concerning the prospective wheat
crop in the Western States are encouraging. of
Only Michigan and Wisconsin complain
damage by recent freezing and thawing.
Thk Chinese Government ba- ordered one
powerful armorelad, two swift cruisers and
two torpedo gunboats from English builders,
and the two latter have already been
launched
AT the National Convention cf Hungarians, determined
held in Pittsburg, Penn . it was
o form an organization to look after the in
qi Hu-JCariaaS II hii parK ra tw
1 Sab Rosa.
I have heard the robins singing
Where the sweet magnolia grow®
I have seen the zephyrs flinging
Twilight kisses to the rose;
But a sweeter song has filled me
Than the birds in perfumed bowers,
And a softer kiss has thrilled me
Than the south winds on the flowers.
I have felt the lilies blowing
Dewy fragrance in the morn;
I have seen the sunbeams glaring
Golden blushes on the corn;
But I know a flower that’s fairer
Than the lilies ever grew,
And I love a blush that’s rarer
Than the sunbeam’s softest hue.
I have seen the moonbeams flying
Over starlit, silvery seas;
I have heard the zephyrs sighing
Through the orange-blossomed trees;
But a purer ray has blessed me
Than the moonlight on the sands,
And a softer sigh caressed me
Than the breath of Tropic lands.
She is fairer than the flowers;
She is sweeter than the rose,
And her heart of kindness showers
Blessings everywhere she goes.
Altruistic—without sinning—
She’s an angel from the sky
(Far above my earthly winning)—
She’s engaged! and so am I!
—Larry Chittenden.
HUMOROUS.
The oyster carries hit shelter with
kirn.
There are several ways to pay bills,
but the majority of big ones are paid
with reluctance.
When cutlery manufacturers begin
prices it is very apt to bs war
■o the knife.
A fruitless search—The one a farmet
after the small boy has passed
the orchard.
Carberry—It strikes me you an
long paying that bill. Snodsy—
because I am so short.
“Alfred, »t she said, disengaging her
“those horrid men saw us—what
they say as they passed by? >» “How
“What do you value that handsome
at, if I may ask?’’ “Well, if
Two howliug pet dogs in a backyard
were struck by two bullets last
Howling dogs should cut this
and paste it in their hats.
John—I’m sorry I shall be away so
Miss Janet. You don't know how
hate to say “good-by’’ to you, but I
the best of friends must part,
know, Janet—Oh, yes, and what’*
use of people who are nothing to
other growing sad over separation?
the way I look at it.
A Once-Despised Vegetable.
Some paper, speaking of the tomato
*aya that 72,000,000 cans “were
up this year past” and refers to the
times when the tomato was called
“love apple, and held about at
a match for “ground cherries” a*
food for man or beast, Mr. B. R. Sul
grove, the oldest newspaper man in the
city, says he remembers seeing, when
a boy, in 1835 or thereabouts, several
stocks or bushes of “love apples” grow¬
ing on the north side of Market street,
near Delaware, in the garden of John
Wilkins or “Archie” Lingen feller.
They were not called “tomatoes” and
nobody thought of eating them mors
than “jimson burs.” They were not
commonly grown, even for garden
ornament, and it was a half score of
years later before they came into even
occasional table U3e. But he remem¬
bers that some of the doctors of that
Jay commended them as a healthful
thing to eat, and the new name “tote
mafo” became familiar. Fifty years or
more ago this was the fame and food
value of the tomato, now more often
and generally used, and in more forms
than any other garden product what¬
ever.
It Took Off Both Legs
Major Jones, who served 'vith credit
in the late war, i3 no liar, says the
Lewiston (Me.) Journal, yet when he
tells a story he generally manages to
astonish his hearers just the same, Ho
is fond of boasting that he participated
in numerous battles without receiving
a wound of any description, Remem -
bering this fact his comrades were as
tonished when he remarked the other
•vening at a Grand Army meeting:
.. Gentlemen, the battle of Antietam
was the hottest engagement I ever saw.
My regiment, as somo of you are aware,
was exposed to a galling lire for more
than two hours without evea the poor
satisfaction of firing a shot in return.
During this trying season, while I was
receiving an order from the Colonel, s
cannon ball came straight for me, mow¬
ing a swath through the tali grass, :
have reason to remember that shot, gen¬
tlemen, for it took off both legs.”
4 1 What I” cried an astonished listener,
as he glanced at the speaker’s shspely
limbs.
• Qf mr hor*e, added >he imp'T ur
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