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A Voice from the Lxtrutive Mansion.
Mr. A. W. Hawkes —Dear Sir:
pantiscopic glasses you furnished
some time since, give excellent
tion. I have tested them by use,
must say they are unequaled in
and brilliancy by any that I have
word, d * *
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A Business Man’s Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. Hawices—D ear Sir : Your
patent eye glasses received some time
since, and am very much gratified at thet
wonderful change that has come over
my eyesight since I have discarded my
old glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of 1
New York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving-'
ton, Ga. 5
These glasses are not supplied to ped¬
dlers at any price.
A. W. HAWKES.
Wholesale Depots, Atlanta Ga.
Franklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA,
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
i jChiluren, Gynecology, Obstetrics, diseases of women ami
end all Clironi*
(diseases of a private nutuie, a special¬
ity* I have a horse at my command,
whi>-h _ .'will enable me to attend calls
In the surrounding country, as we! »'*
jniy city practice.
FRANKLIN B. WRYGFTT. M. U
THE LABOR WORLD,
[have The labor organiza’ions public library of Trenton, and N. read¬ J.,
established a
ing-room.
i Baron De Selliere, of Brass, has
purchased control of all the best root sugar
factories in Quebec.
ltb» A Woman's mass-meeting iu support of
demand for women factory inspectors
knet in >'-w York city.
[ The Amalgamated Brass-Workers report
[that their trade is liveiy, and that their
[union is increasing steadily.
The English colliers are greatly elated Work
over the suceessfu. issue of the strike,
has been resumed at all the mines.
Acttng upon the advice of Michael Da
kitt.. the striking dockmen of Liverpool, Eug
nnd, met the employers and agreed upon
:erms.
By a newly invent? 1 machine, now in
iparation in the new mill at Manchester, N.
ti., one girl isabio to sew on 3900 button? in
i day.
Thf, employes of the Laurel Ridge '■ foUiery, Venn.,
in individual mine live at stock Mahoney satisfy Plane, unpaid
ire seizing the to
abor claims.
The journeymen bakers of Washington, and
L). O., went on strike for ten hours,
i?veral of the largest bakeries granted the
iemands of the union.
It fiPai’eired that -within the last twelve
nonths 40.0iX) pauper laborers have been defiance im¬
ported throng astle Garden in
if the contract labor law.
The streit cari'drirei’s at Fort Madison,
Iowa, who went out on strike for an advance
if wares,'have returned to work, their de
nanfls bavin? be-n granted.
Wyoming has one law on tho statute books
shat has up counterpart in apy State, and
that is the law securing equal pay ' for teaSaefri ,equal
work to men and womoa as school
One thousand dollars have been appro
(rated by the United- Brotherhood of Car
mters and Joiners to send members out speakers the to
irons? the interest of the for
mining eight-hour struggle.
It is announced that iperor William, of
dermanv. has decided t in future, in case
workmen’s strikes, the General com*
ading the district in which the strike
corn's shall act independently of the civil
utliorities.
The labor school conference contemp .at.es
whether ringing, a.test^ase New before York the city courts, is liablo to for see
or not
ient ainages caastKl- by failing to provide children suTi
school accommodations for the
citizen?.
Thu ‘smelt- of Leadviiia, Co!., bars
iposiuonof '.opted resolution.? duty protesting silver-load against from the
a on ores
exico. and declaring that to shut out MeXi
in nelting lead would resuit iu closing up all tbs
works.
Consul-General Sutton, at Nuevo Lar
lo, Mexico, reported to the State Depart
lent that 25,000 tons of American steel rails
ad been recently imported into Mexico for
so in the construction of the Monterey and
laitiean Gulf Railway. >a
NO TIME FOR NICK CALCULATION.
An aV*ronaut fell front his balloon and
mded on the roof of a farm-house,
making he three ribs ami seven shingles,
farmer sued him for damages and
icovered aired $15, and the surgeon w ho ref
the ribs charged him $30. He
: now see howmiu h cheaper it would
ve been to have broken ten shingles
d no ribs—but we suppose__- ; he came
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wn so rapid ly that he didn’t have time
think of- that.—[Binghamton Repubii
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WOMAN OF THIRTY.
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tion to having you for a
t I think a yOurrg man shotild
ny before he is 21.
lolni—Yes, sir. I em only 18, but
!> Miss Julia is 27, and I
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Star.
DISASTER IN CHICAGO.
A Sugar Hefniery Blow up
With Fearful Results.
Many Men Killed and Injured by
the Explosion.
An explosion occurred shortly before six
o’clock in the starch department of the im¬
mense building of the Chicago Sugar Refin¬
ing Company at Chicago, III.
At least eight workmen were killed and
sixteen injured, many of them fatally.
The main structure of the refine; IS SIX
teen stories in height, while t ■eh de
partment is located ni a two s, .->• addition,
j which which burned the^nain freely. Owing to the danger
general to alarm building was the expose Fire De¬ 1 a
was turned in tin* to
partment, and by hard work ma* 4 i struc¬
ture was saved.
The men employed in this depa lent
were preparing to leave, when a deafening
explosion was heard, which was quickly fol¬
lowed b v a second, and in almost an instant
a great mass of bricks and beams came
tumbling down upon the men in the bouse.
So great, was the force of the explosions that
the reports were heal’d nearly a mile away,
and the rumor at once spread to the effect
killed. that thirty or more workmen ha 1 been
Thousands hurried efforts to the scone of the dis¬
aster, and the of the firemen were
seriously impeded until an additional force
of Hundreds police was ordered out. the
of women, wives of men em¬
ployed in the works, gathered around and
begged and implored the firemen to save
their husbands who, they were sure, were in
the blazing pile. Volunteers being called
for to aid in the work of removing the
debris, hundreds sprang "under forward to offer
their services, amd intelligent direc¬
tion soon succeeded m removing the wounded
and three of the dead.
The building in which the explosion oc¬
curred w-as rather flimsilv anil constructed, and
was fifty feet in width seventy-five feat
in length. So far as can be ascertained the
cause, of the explosion was the accumula* ion
of fine starch "dust, similar to in that which
athers in flouring mills, which some way
ecame Before ignited. could realize what
the men at work
had occurred a bright sheet of flame, like a
broad flash of lightning, blinded them, and
the first explosion took place, being followed
in five seconds by the second. No one hac
an opportunity to escape, as almost coinci¬
dent with the second explosion the building
collapsed, and the wails and roof, together
with the heavy machinery on the second
floor, Thirty came tumbling down. the
men were in the structure at
time and were imprisoned there. Shrieks and
groan# were heard arising from building, the debris
and the workmen in the main who
ha l rushed out at the sound of the explosion,
were set te work as soon as they had re¬
covered from their panic to help their im¬
prisoned The comrades.
first efforts of the firemen we -e di¬
rected toward pouring water on task the of burning
mass in order to facilitate the rescue,
and then the search began.
Near the main door the first man was dis¬
covered, he was the engineer, who had been
thrown against the brick covering to the
great boiler. He was not badiy uurt, thougn
bleeding freely from several cuts around the
head, but was too dazed to tell an intelligent
story. the
Hospital As he was being conveyed recovered to County 1
said could ne partially explosion an then
he not tell how tin oc
jurred, as he was busy at the engine have at been the
time. At the first shock he must
blown several feet, but could not say in what
direction. Everyth.ng seemed to be sudden¬
ly lifted up, he said, and then he knew no
more until he was dug up out of tae ruins.
The collapse of the building was complete,
and the heat from the burning and pi.e was so in¬
tense that the firemen, police volunteers
bad the greatest difficulty in wording. Sev¬
eral times su-eams were turned upon the
workers to enable them to keep up. The
bricks soon became hot and fears were
entertained that not a man of those impris¬
oned was alive, for the heat below the walls
was like a furnace. The firemen were pushed
forward, however, aud the quantities water was that poured
upon the debris in such tae
rescuers soon had a comparatively easy time
of it.
Before nine o’clock sixteen wounded men
had been removed and throe bodies discov¬
ered, all so badly disfigured that they could
Bpjrbe identified. Eight of the men who
were found at first sustained injuries of no
particular consequence, but of tue burning seventeen
wounded and found deep in the piie
many were fatailv hurt
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The National League has spent between
$10,000 and $12,000 in law suits.
It is said that Mulvey and Beekly are the
only deserters who will' be taken back by the
Plaiyers’ League. League
Captain Anson, of the Chicago this
Club, claims that he has a better team
leason than he had last year.
Hallman's work on the Philadelphia this
Brotherhood Club has greatly improved made by him
season, and only one error was
in five games.
Pitcher Rusie, who is only eighteen
vears of age, demanded $400^ salary to come to
New York, or an increase of $2000 over taat
received by him a year ago.
The following cities in New England can
boast of champion baseball teams in the
past; Boston, Providence, Portland, Lowell,
si ew Bedford, Worcester, Meriden, uater
bury. Cincinnati
Brooklyn has six catchers aud
five pitchers. This is too many for any club
to carry, and some of the ott ■; League clubs
will probably benefit by an inevitable uc
loading in the near future.
Three champion batters will be in Boston
this season. They are Brouthers. one ot the
Players' 1,-ague: Tucker, of the Association,
aud Hardie. of the California League. The
last two are with the National League.
Fred St ke. who went South with the
New- York. League team, bus shown up so
well at third base that Manager Mutrie has
signed him for two years. He is 21 J e ars
old, 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs lbs
pounds. Buck Ewing is
Deacon White says that
the greatest ball plnver on earth, bar nobody,
and that in batting, base running, fielding
—everything that pertains to tne national
gome— Ewir,„- stands head and shoulders
above anybody in tho business.
Shortstop Glasscock’s salary, according
to the sworn statement of John B. Day. of
the New York League: Club, will be $5000
and his car fare trom Indianapolis to the
metropolis. This Is $2000 more than lie re¬
ceived last season from the Hcosier?.
JUDGE lV A LLACE, of the United States
Court, in quite a lengthy opinion, decided
that Buck Ewing coaid not lie enjoined from
playing with any c.u.i other than tne New
Yerk League Club, This made tne third sue
ecssive contest iu the Jaw courts won by tae
Players’ Brotherhood.
As was predicted, the Washington and In
diananoiis Clubs have been dropped York Club from gets the
National League. The N ew
I be pica of the Indianapolis and teem-)
jock. Denny, Rusie
among tile p.avers secured 1 he W ashington
Club uas joined the At.antic Association.
Here are the salaries paid to the leading
stars of the P.ayerJ League for. their ser¬
vices to the National League during the sea¬
sons between 1881 Ward, and 1889, ?27,35C: according O Kourke. to a
baseball guide: $26,100; Radbourne, $2o, toC,
*°7 250- Keefe, Hardie Richardson. $24.
Bnratherz, $24,170; Jim ^
150; Mike Kelly. 723,150; and Connor. $20.800..
900; Rowe, $22,400,
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1890.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern aid Middle Suites.
John S. FarloW, President of the Cin¬
cinnati, died suddenly Sandusky and home Cleveland Newton, Railroad, Mass.
at his in
the A Agricultural bill to provide College for sixty of New- scholarships Jersey in
was
passed by the House at Trenton, N. J.
An insane woman endeavored to burn
tho insane asylum at Lancaster, Penn.,
and nearly succeeded. Great cicitemenc
prevailed among the Inmates of the asylum.
The wholesale P.css dry goods & Co., commission New York
house of Campbell
citv, failed with liabilities of about $125,
ooo.
A Texas steer escaped from the abattoir
at Jersey City, N. J., and it ran two miles
and wounded four before it stuck in
the mud, and was killed by a policeman.
Eight engineers and firemen on the Read¬
ing Railroad have been discharged for drink¬
ing.
J. F. Anderson, collector df Milford
Township, N. J., for the last three years, is
$4000 short in his accounts.
A boy is said to have died of yellow fever
near Reading, Penn.
Burt Gardner, Dolpbice Ranault aud
fold Michael Mulvey, Lawrence, painters, Mass. fell Gardner from a scaf¬
at was
killed, and Mulvey and Ranault badly in¬
jured
United Statbs Minister Reid, who ar¬
rived at New York disappointment from Paris, stated felt thal in
considerable was
France over the location of the World's Fair
in Chicagd.
The New York Yacht Club received a
letter form Lord Dunraven expressing his
desire to sail the Valkyrio for the America's
Cup.
Richard, Herman and William Bakk
feld, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were run over and
killed at Red Rock, Penn., on the line of the
Erie Railway.
South aud West.
A north-bound train ran into a mis¬
placed switch in Nashville, Tenn., killing
two men, injuring several others, wrecking
many freight cars and damaging the depot
building.
In searching the ruins of the recent fire
in Seattle, Wash, , the charred remains of
three bodies were found—two men and one
woman.
A tornado inflicted considerable damage
in portions of South Carolina, principally at
Sumter and vicinity, and a number of fatali¬
ties were reported.
The destroyed Midway Hotel by at and Kearney, Harry Neb., Doming, has
been fire,
of South Omaha, a guest, was killed by
jumping from a window. It was one of the
finest hotels in the State, and cost $100,000.
Mrs. John Lowrie, wife of a farmer liv¬
ing at Charlestown, Ohio, has given birth to
four children—two boys and two girls—all
alive and well developed.
Fire in the business portion of Laredo,
Texas, destroyed property worth $100,000.
Colonel Richard Owen, a well-known
Indianian, died from drinking embalming
fluid by mistake.
Four boys were drowned in the Missouri
River, near Florence, Neb., while out hunt¬
ing.
One man was killed and seven Injured in a
train wreck near Huron, Mont.
The Kansas prairie fires have been sub¬
dued. There was no loss of life, but the dam¬
age to stocK and farm produce in store is es¬
timated at $250,000.
Dr. J. S. Dorsett, Superintendent of the
State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Texas, was
assaulted aud dangerously iujured oy a lu¬
natic named McDermott.
Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, has re¬
ceived a letter from the British Consu -Ge -
eral to Jamaica, inviting the citizans of Bal¬
timore to participate in the Jamaica Exposi¬
tion.
Eighteen residences, the bridge and a
business block in Bryan, Ohio, have been
burned.
Circuit Judge William L. Jackson died
at Louisville. Ky., from Bright’s disease.
Justice James V. Campbell, of the Michi¬
gan Supreme Court, died suddenly from heart
disease at his home in Detroit.
Archbishop Michael Heiss, of the Mil¬
waukee Diocese, died at Lacrosse Hospital,
Milwaukee, Wis., at the age of seventy-two
years.
The Farmers’ Convention in South Caro¬
lina nominated B. R. Tilman for Governor.
The Iowa House of Representatives railroads ha- the
passed a bill to compel all in
State to make joint through rates with their
connections.
The house of John Meyer, a farmer near
Villa Ridge, 111., collapsed, the flood from
the river having carried away the founda¬
tions. The whole family were drowned.
Washington.
The House Committee on Agriculture au
thorized Mr. Allen to report a bill providing
for the transfer of the Signal Department Service fron
the War Department to the oi
Agriculture, v
The President has nominated John F. Sel
by United States Attorney for tho District
of North Dakota: Major Thaddeus H. Stan
ton. Paymaster, to be Iiautenant-Colone! anc
Deputy Paymaster-General: and Calvin T.
Spaulding, Postmaster at Brainerd, Minn.
President Harrison has issued a procla¬
mation warning all parsons against entering
the waters of Behring- Sea for the purpose oi
killing otter, mink, marten, sable or fur sea
or other fur-bearing animals within the lim¬
its of Alaska Territory, or the waters thereof.
Thomas Brown, alias George Carter
(colored), was shot, anti Washington fatally wounder by
shortly after midnight in Le
Quong, a Chinaman, who charges tha>
Brown was trying to rob the laundry ol
King Lee.
Postmaster-General Waxamaeer re¬
ceived a letter postmarked New Yo in
closing a $1000 United States gold note, and
one $500 gold note, which the s,under desired
him to place to the credit of the Consicance
Fund.
The House Committee on Elections voted
in favor of the seated Democratic member.
from the contested First Indiana and Ninth
Virginia Districts.
The Ways and Means majority decided to
restore hides to the tree list.
Warrants were sworn Newton out in Washing¬ J.
ton for the arrest of C. A. and J.
Verser, upon a charge of violating the Civi.
Service law in soliciting am'receiving employes con¬
tributions from Government for
political purposes.
The foreign delegates to the Pan- American
Conference issued invitations to_a dinner tc
be given in honor of President Harrison.
The Ways and Means Committee of th->
House have practically decided to put works
of art on the free list.
Mrs. Harrison and party have return.? !
to Washington from their visit to Florida
and the South.
Foreign.
Th{ . fj ermaB authoritiea have hsmre 1 r
giave-deaier naaiwi Swa.iIU I" ; t
em bark slaves a t Bagamo vo. on the Has.
African coast.
y HK Danish Minister of War announce*'
, n the Folkething at Copenhagen employed this in
Socialist workmen would not be
state workshops.
j The new extrailitiou treaty hrweyi Keg
| land and the United State; was formally
^ , bv the Queen and countersigned te
I the Premier.
- Paliama. in Crete, spriest ire
At nas -
| from his pulpit and paraded mob. through Sixty- th?
| streets amid the jeers of the
four of the villagers were starving ii.
; prison.
. The annual eight-oarod renr—enfin; boat race Oxford on the
j Thames between crpws
1
and Cambridge' Universities, was won by
the former.
John God man, a young Amt Kean, blew
out his brains at a private hotel ::i Paris.
France. He was out of funds.
A HURRICANE and at Townsville, Australia,
flooded the. town tiaiised mu * i damage.
Several persons Were drowned.
Prince Bismarck bad a farewell inter¬
view with Emperor vvlliiam.and was greeted
with poRuiar demonstrations of rcsoact and
affection as Ke'Vlrove tnroujjh thi sir ;so7
Berlin
A violent earthquikd has occurred !~
Trieste, Austria, and its vicinity.
stroyed About fifteen hundred houses were de¬
by fire in Tokio, Japan, and seventy
eight were partially destroyed. Two K persons
were killed and about twenty-five
were more or less severely injured. On the
preceding day 187 houses were burned in the
city, and a week later about eight hundred
and sixty were destroyed and several firemen
were injured The fires were of accidental
origin.
Serious disaffection is said to exist in the
garrison cf Pio Janeiro. Brazil
Fourteen thousand workmen of Barce¬
lona, Spain, went on strike for higher wages
and fewer hours of labor.
The Industrial Exhibition at Yokohama,
Japan, Mikado. has been opened in person by the
Renewed fighting has occurred o:i the
west coast of Africa between the French
troops and the natives of Dahomey, in which
three men were killed and twelve injured.
PROMINENT PEOPLE;
Andrew Cak.vjsgie has made $5«,000,000
in twenty-six years from bis rolling mills.
Professor John Fikke believes that the
American Indians originally came from Asia.
bfcxATOR Hoar has purchased the summit
Of Asnebumskit Mountain, in Paxton, Mass.
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, is
now the sole survivor of a famous family of
•even brothers.
Of the eighty members of the United States
Senate .
there are but three who are fond of
horseback riding.
Archbishof -Kenricx, of St. Louis, now
in his eighty-fourth year, takes a daily walk
of nearly six miles.
M IU.IAM 1J. Jackson, brother of Gov¬
ernor orchard Jackson, of Maryland, owns a peach
containing 35,00!) trees.
The Hou. S. J. Randall is now able to at¬
tend to his correspondence, and hopes soon
to resume his duties in Congress.
B. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington!, is
nearly living eighty years old, but he still makes a
writing humorous articles for a syndi¬
cate.
Frank B. Tracy, the son of the Secretary
of the Navy, is an enthusiastic fine stock
raiser, and has a farm in Tioga County,
George W. Peck, author of “A Bad Boy’s
Milwaukee, Diary,' 7 has been nominated for Mayor of
Convention. Wis., I>v the Democratic City
General Boulanglr has offered- to re¬
turn to France if the Government will per¬
mit him to be tried by a court-martial or the
Court of Appeal.-.
Princess Theresa, daughter of the Prince
Regent of Bavaria, is the author of a book
of travels that has attracted great attention
througnout Europe.
William Walter Phelps, United States
Minister to Germany, is said to be worth
i8,()0o,()00, the greater part of which is in¬
vested in railroad securities.
termg illiam Endicott, his of Boston, is just
sole upon of ninety-third the seventh year. generation He is the
survivor of
John Endicott's de ndante.
Henry Wattsbson, of the Louisville
Courier-Jour ,ki ', will make the annual ad
i.ress before the .South Carolina Press Asso¬
ciation at Charleston on April 30.
A son of Compte de Lessep.-:, of Suez Canal
fame, known as “’Young de Lesseps,” al¬
though fifty-six years of age, is arranging to
visit this country with his family.
John Russell Young isa guest of James
Gordon Bennett on his yacht, for ft cruise
which is expected to last two or three months
and to extend as far east us Ceyfou.
The Earl of Rosebery, who is spoken of as
a possible successor to Gladstone iii the lead¬
ership of the English L berals, is a suave
mannered, hard-working Scotchman.
Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder. who is
to command tue dynamite crusier Vesuvius,
.s prominent among the young officers in the
navy beeauso of his scientific knowledge.
The students of Boston University were
delightfully entertained the other day by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who appeared be¬
fore them in the chapel and read several of
his poems.
Captain William Carlton Fowler, the
oldest pilot in New England, has celebrated
his eighty-first birthday at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs. William Evans, of
Everett, Mass.
A new factory will soon be built by Dr.
Gatling, of machine-gun fame. His inven¬
tion is now used by every Government of the
world, and the doctor’s purse is proportion¬
ately lengthened.
The late General Schenck was popularly
believed to huve published a book on poker
playing, but his explanation lady whose was that the
book while was published Minister by London, a and for guest whom he
was to
he had written out the rules of the game at
her request.
KILLED BY HER OWN SON.
A Boy Cuts His Mother’s Head Off
and Then Goes to Play.
A singularly atrocious murder has b«en com¬
mitted at Somerville, Teun., the victim being
Mrs. Sally Hobson, colored, and the mur¬
derer her eleven-year-old boy. Mrs. Hobson
was a servant in the family of the Episcopal
minister, and lived with her four children in
a small house in the rear of the jiarsonage.
The other morning her husband, who
had been in the country at work,
called at the house in company with an¬
other man, and after a short stay started
out for a walk. Returning a half ho;u
later, a terrible sight met his eyes. On one
side of the door lay the decapitated remains head. of
bis wife and several feet away the A
stick of wood on which her neck had been
placed when the cutting was done showed
three distinct cuts of an axe.
The boy was found playing with the other
children, his clothing saturated with blood.
Heat first asserted that the blood came from
a chicken which be had killed, but at the Coro¬
ner's inquest admitted he had committed the
crime. He said his mother laid her head
down on the block and told him if he did not
cut her head off she would kill him. The
boy’s story was not believed, and he was
placed in jail pending further investigation.
ALIVE IU ITS COFFIN.
.Mourners at a Wake Frightened
When »he Corpse Began to Cry.
Christopher O’Neil, of New Brunswick, N.
J.. called nis frienfs to his house to bold a
wake over the body of his child. The wake
.vas in due progress when the mourn¬
ers were suddenly terribly frightened, for
, he supposed corpse, clad in its grave clothes,
sat. up in the coffin and began to
erv lustily. In a moment th s
nby's aunt recovered her presence of
nind and grabbed the little one from its
narrow bed. gasping out: “Bless the Lord,
.t's alive!”
1 he wake became a night of rejoicing, for he
the doctor who vis summoned said
nought the child was likal v to live.
But their joy was premature, convul-ions for next day
the child was seized with and
died. The second wake was even sadder than
the first.
GENERAL SCHENCK DEM
He Suddenly Succumbs to an
Attack of Pneumonia.
His Notable Career as Diplomat,
Statesman and Soldier,
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MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE CROOK.
General Robert Camming Schenck, Con¬
gressman, saidier and diplomat, and a leader
in public affairs a generation or more ago.
died at 5 o’clock in the evening of pneumonia,
at his residence in Washington. It was not
until the previous day that it was known
that he was seriously ill. He had been ail¬
little ing for about two weeks, but attached very
before importance he to calling his complaint. A week
was but and seemed in his
usual health, save for a slight bronchial cough.
It was not until four day3 previous to his death
that it was thought necessary to call in a
physician. found General Dr. H. C. Sehenek Yarrow was sent for,
ami suffering from
capillary bronchitis. Within twenty-four
hours limited pneumonia of the right lung
set in, and later the left lung also became
involved. When Dr. Yarrow visited Gen¬
eral Schenclt he found him much worse, and
it was discovered that a diphtheretic exuda¬
tion w-as commencing in the right side of the
throat. He grew rapidjy weaker until the
end came. His mind was clear and bright to
the very last. His three daughters. Mrs.
Bates, an old friend, and Miss Sedgwick
were with him at the time of his death.
General Schenck was in his 81st year, hav¬
ing been born in Franklin, Ohio, October 4,
1809. He was graduated from Miami Uni¬
versity in 1827, and after spending three ad¬
ditional years at the college studied law with
Thomas Corwin. He sorved two years in the
State Legislature, and acquitted himself so
well that he was electe i to Congress ai a
Whig, Fillmore serving from 1842 until 1851. Presi
dent then sent him to Brazil as
Minister Plenipotentiary. While serving in
this capacity he distinguished himself as a
diplomat by taking a conspicuous part in the
negotiation of treaties with Paraguay, Republic.
Uruguay, and the Argentine
After two years in Brazil he returned to
Ohio, his native State, but took no part in
politics. When the Civil War broke out he
offered his services to the Government, and
was commissioned a Brigadier-General by
President Lincoln on May 17. 1861.
served with his brigade in the first battle of
Bull Run, in which the Federal army was
defeated. He next served in West Virginia
under General Rosecrans, and did some Till
iant fighting at McDowell and Cross Keys.
General Fremont then entrusted him with the
command of a division, and while leading the
first division of Franz Sige.’s Corps at the
second battle of Bull Run nis right arm was
shattered bv a musket ball, incapacitating
him lor service for some time. In Septem¬
ber, 1862, he was uroraoted to be a Major
General, and in December of that rear he
took command of the Middle Department
and Eighth Corps at Baltimore. He ren¬
dered effective service in the Gettysburg
campaign. General
Schenck was nominated for Con¬
gress against the anti-war Democrat, Val
landingbam, and, though the district was
Democratic, he carried the election, and re¬
signing his £ st in the army took
his seat in House of Representa
tives on December 3. 1883. He was
immediately made Affairs, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Military Congress aud during this
and tne following his position en¬
abled him to do valuable service to the Fed¬
eral cause. He was re-elected to the two
succeeding Congresses, during and throughout the
exciting times, and after the
war, he took a leading During part in the proceed¬
ings of the House. his last term
he was Chairman of the Wi ays and Means
Committee and leader of the House, succeed
ing Thad Stevens in command of the Re¬
publican party. He was Minister to Eng¬
land in 1870, aud in 1871 was one of
the Alabama Claims Commissioners, re
tainin this last office for five years,
when he resigned, Since that time he
has made his home in Washington, where he
was a warm favorite. He was a familiar
figure at Republican gatherings politics. there, His but
he took no active part in life
had been several tames despaired of during
the last decade, but his bardy constitution
and strong will pulled him through.
Secretary Blaine was much attached to
General Schenck, and sent an affectionate
note when he heard of his illness. In his
book Mr. Blaine pays General Schenck a
warm compliment. “No man in Congress
during “has the rivaled present General generation,” Schenck he
says, five-minute debater. In the
as a live
minute discussion in Committee of the
Whole he was an intellectual marvel. The
compactness and clearness of bis statement,
t he facts aud arguments which he could mar¬
shal in that brief time were a constant sur¬
prise and delight to his hearers. 7 ’
Slgnnliiig by the Heliograph.
For signaling during the day time, by
whatever code, if the suu is shining, the
heliograph may be used, This instru
ment, which is simply a mirror (or two
mirrors rather, for the sun's rays are re¬
flected from one to the other, and then
thrown upon the opposite station), is
especially adapted to long distances, as
the distance at which the reflection can
be seen if with a sufficiently large mirror,
and when the atmospheric conditions are
i.'.e best, is only limited by the curvature
of the earth’s surface. This is overcome
to some extent by elevating the stations.
The United States Coast Survey, which
has made exclusive use of the heliotrope,
or heliograph, in its trigonometrical
work, ha-, succeeded in establishing com¬
munication over the greatest distances
ever attained, This was in California,
where the reflections from a twelve-inch
mirror were made anti observed between
Mount Shasta and Mount Helena, 1 Se¬
nile.?, and between Mount Shasta and
Mount Lola, 169 miles. Of course, these
observations could only be made undet
the most favorable atmospheric condi¬
tions, and the stations at Mount Shasta
and Mount Helena had to represent be
tween them an altitude of about 20,000
eet, iu order to overcome the curvature
:if the surface of the earth.
Foggy or smoky weather, if very thick,
would render ail of those methous use
esc, though, with the intense lights non
in use, fogs may be penetrated tha
would heretofore Have cut off coratnuni
ition entirely. — -Cotmopoli!^ Mujmine.
DESIGN FOB A RESIDENCE.
A Handsome Country House— De¬
scription of the Design.
(Copyright bytho snthor.)
Bounteous crops and an unlimited demand
for them at gtwd prices, by reason of the par¬
tial failure of crops abfoSd, forma combine,
tion of circumstances that ne7*r falls to
elevate good the horn (1879-80) of plenty. inaugurated The last by era the of
times aided was
lame specie causes, payment which by assured the resumption solid values of
for everything. to-day. The same conditions pre¬
vail
the During prosperous times, find especially times be- at
commencement of prosperous
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perspective view.
fore the prices for materials and labor be
come inflated, the building certainly of houses b» of
moderate cost will prove to
profitable ventures. When an American
makes money he is comfortable pretty sure heme to provide for his an
attractive anil
family. The design illustrating - this article
is submitted for his consideration. Brief de
•eription of the design:
Size of Structure: depth. ft. Front, in. including
veranda, 30 ft.; 48 6
Height of Stories: Cellar, 7 ft ; first story,
9 ft. 6 in.; second story, 9 ft.; attic story, 8 ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls: Founda¬
tions, stone or brick; first story, clapboards;
second story, shingles; gables, dormers and
roof, shingles. Finish: Hard white plaster; white
Interior
pine trim; cherry staircase; plaster cornices
and centres in hall, parlor and dining room.
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Net Inducing Qaji
FIRST FLOOR.
Exterior Colors: Body of first story, buff:
shingles around veranda, shingles on second
story and shingles on gables, medium light
buff; roof shingles, pale red; all trim—such
as window and door casings, belt courses,
brackets, veranda posts and rails and lattice,
light green; chimneys, red; sashes, dark red;
doors, natural color of wood with hard oil
finish; blinds, dark buff; veranda floor and
ceiling, oiled. In exterior and painting finishing there
should be one priming two
coats. To get the best results the second fin¬
ishing coat should not be applied until at
least eight months have elapsed after putting
on the first.
Accommodations: The principal shown by roams the
and their sizes, closets, etc., In addition are there is
plans given herewith. a
cellar under the whole house and one finished
room in the attic, with space for more rooms
In the attic. As the second floor plan pro
vides more closet room than is usually re¬
ftoof; '
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SECOND FLOOR.
quired, it is the suggested of that the the house three
grouped ted. The in floor centre thus acquired be
space may
combined with the dressing room, thus
viding another bedroom which would
eight feet six inches by fourteen feet in size.
Special Features: The dominating
ures—the windows, the dormers, the
imd veranda Colonial. posts—of Shingling this exterior may
said to be the
story and copied the gables, now become
lar, was from a Colonial style.
The polygonal bays of the dining room
the bedroom above make the two rooms
ferred to unusually attractive. But there
no lack of air and light for any of the
Cost: In localities where prices for
and materials are about the same as
York prices, $3300.
R. W. Shoppell. Architect.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
An Explosion ol' Glycerine
Three People
While a man named Barr was hauling
quantity of nitro glycerine at Stone, Ind.,
exploded, blowing Barr to atoms and
itantiy killing a mother and her babe.
horses were also killed and his wagon
into splinters.
Tho explosion dug up a circle of
about sixty yards in diameter, tore the
dows from the borne in which the
w as sitting havoc. with No ner child, and wrought
eral tracA Df either the man
horses were to be found, excepting
pieces of flesh hanging upon the trees
mote from the spot where the explosion oo
■urrert.
VOL XVI. 3U 20 .
■23
IIFTY-FIKST C0NBHE3S. f
In the Senate.
64th Day.—S ir-Sherman’s Anti-Trust bt!>
was discussed by M inis . Sherman, Allison.
Hiscock, Vest and others.
65TH Day.—T he Senate bill to promote
tbs efficiency of the General Laud Office (in- ts*
craaSng the salary of the Co nun heioner
<5000 and of the Assistant Commissioner to
*3500) gave rise in the Senate to a
ong fiiscussion, at the end of which
,t wgs laid aside without action...,
File Dill appropriating $300,000 for a public
juilding Stsnl Diego, Ca!., was debated at
ength educational and paffeed____Mr. Frill----About Blair introduced fifty of the a
lew passed—most
aiils on the calendar Were of
them private pension bills.
69»A Day.—.S everal petitions Kgainst tha
ra tiiivatiOil of the extradition treaty with
Russia were presented in the Senate from
Massachusetts and Missouri____The Sherman
Trust bill was debated by several Senator?,
out no action was taken.... Majority election and of
ninority reports concerning presented the from
the Slcwtana Senators were
the Committee on Elections.
67th Day.—A good deal of progress was
i made with the Sherman Anti-Trust bill.
Varic&S amendments, proposed by Messrs.
Reagan atfd Ingalls, were accepted it about and
incorporated in the bill, until was
our times its origin!.} btngtli ... Mr. Harwell
introduced a bill to pwseion Mrs. Crook,
widow of General Crook. Referred.... Mr.
Morrill introduced a bill to establish ae edu
national fund, by setting apart the net pro
■eeds of sales of public lands and railroads. a portion of
i he receipts horn land-grant
erred.
68th Pay.— The Senate sat till after dusk
trying to reereh a vote on the Sherman Anti
Trust bili. The most that could be accom¬
plished, however, was the of the completion Whole and of tlw. ip*
neasure in Committee
wort to the Senate____The World’s Fair
fill was received and referred to the special
v'inmi'.tns having that subject in charge.,
A joint resolution was passed, authorizing the
the Secretary magazine of from the Treasury Ellis Island, to remove New York
naval
larbor, to some otter site, $75,000 bring ap
jropriatfil for this purpose, and a like sum
:o enable him Co improve the island for im-,
migration 03th Day.—T purposes. he Sherman Anti-Trust bill
was referred to the Committee on Judiciary
.... Mr. Hawley, from the Committee on
Military Affair?, reported back the House
fill authorizing the purchase of 3500 tents
ly the Secretary of War, for the use of tiny
people driven from their homes in Arkansas
Mississippi and Louisiana by the floods, an t
appropriating $25,000 for the purpose. The
oil] was passed ...A debate was begun on
the Dependent Pension bill.
In the House.
73d Day.—I mmediately after the reading
of the journal the House went into Com¬
mittee of the Whole (Mr. Burrows in the
•hair) on the Pension Appropriation bill,
kfter a debate, in which Messrs. Cutcheon,
ioothmau and Outhwaite took part, the
jommittee arose and the bill was passed.
74Tn Day.—M r. Lawler presented Wholesale the Shoe re¬
monstrance of the Chicago
and Leather Association against the im
>osition of duty upon hides. Referred.. .
’he Timber-culture law was repealed---
iulogies ware pronounced upon the late E.
J. Gav, of Louisiana.
75th Day.— Mr. Henderson, from the
Jommittee on Appropriations, reported back
he Urgent Deficiency bill, with Senate
iraendments taereto, with the recomnaeuia
ioa, that certain of those amendments b»
> incurred in aud certain non-couourrod in.
'he recommendations of the committee y/ers
igr?ed to and a conference was ordered....
he bill to create a public park in the Dis¬
ci ct of Columbia was discussed without ac
ion.. ,,A bill for the erect,on ol a public
rjilding at E.izabeth, N. J.. to cost 8359,000,
vas introduce t by Mr. Geissenhainer.
78th Day.—T he Chicago World’s Fair bill
vas passed with an amendment May, 1 postponing
he opening of the Fair to 893.
7'Tri Day.—M r. Cannon, from tne Com
uittoe on Wyoming Rules, reported Admission a resolution bill special mak
ag the a
,rder for the dav. Tile resolution way
idopted, and the Wyoming bill was then
akeu up aud discussed.
78th Day.—A fter a long debate, the Wy¬
oming Admission bill, as reported by by the
Jommittee on Territories, was passed a
uajority of twelve votes—139 to 127.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
HawaDans, as well as Chinese, have been
excluded from Samoa.
The largest vessel ever built in France, La
Touraine, nas been launched.
The Farmers’ Alliance has established
headquarters in Washington.
In the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, there are now 2153 students.
The Hebrew population of Palestine has
increased 50,000 m the last five years.
The Grand Army of the Republic has
bought a tract of land comprising the Cedar
Creek battle ground in Virginia.
The trials of the new German rifles in com¬
petition with the 1871 patterns have showed
the superiority of the new weapon.
A bill has been introduced in the Mary¬
land Legislature to fine every citizen five
dollars who fails to vote at an election.
The American School at Athens has re¬
ceived the authorization of the Greek Govern¬
ment to conduct excavations at Flatea.
Michigan fruit growers say that the peach Mw
crop in that State is a dead failure.
c-o!d weather in the spring killed the buds.
The French Rothschilds have $75,000,000 signed of a
■ontract for the conversion of
th 9 last convertible five per cent. Russian
loan.
The Governor of Ciiarkoff, a Russian
province, has ordered that no impecumou? emigrate to
persons shall be aUowed to
America.
IT is stated that the Japanese Govern¬
ment’s indebtedness to foreign countries,
winch iu 1879 amounted to $10,000,000, is
now only $1,000,000.
Senator Voorhees will be the leading
counsel in the defence of Mr. Kincaid, the
Washington correspondent who killed RE
Representative Taulbee.
Leprosy is dying out near Tracadie, Gov¬
New Brunswick, where the Canadian
ernment lazaretto is established. There wer»
three deaths there last year.
The difficulty between Turkey and Grei*
Britain arising from the firing upon a Brit
.sh vessel by the garrison at Fort Fao has
oeen satisfactorily arranged.
Venezuela has paid $20,000 for the sword
presented in 1S25 by Peru to Bolivar, the
Liberator, and the relic will be placed in the
National Museum at Caracas.
Two aud five dollar bills are raised and
circulated in Burlington, Iowa, bill by pasting higher
o ver the figure from of the genuine a
igure cut a cigar stamp.
The Senate of Bremen, Germany, has ap
oroved a project for the widening of the har
lor there. The cost of the 15.000,000 proposed
mprovements will amount to
.
marks.
Fonr Very Old People.
The village of Dafia, on the island of
Lesbos, has a womau said to be 135 years
old, who stilt has the complete use of a’l
her senses. The same island contains thres
other inhabitants who are said to have
passed their hundredth birthday, Ismail
Apa, 180 years old; Khalil Apa, in his
119th year, and Asckik Baba, aged 115.
All three of these centenarians, it is said,
earn their living by daily work.
According to a high authority in the
English navy, the decision has been
made that masts and spars are hereafter
to be banished from all fighting vessels.