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The Covington Star.
J, W. ANDERSON, Editor and Proprietor.
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A Voice from the Executive Mansion,
Mr. A. W. Hawkes— Dear Sir: The
pautiscopic glasses you furnished me
gome time since, give excellent satisfac¬
tion. I have tested them by use, and
mustsay they are unequaled in clearness
and brilliancy by any that I liaye ever
worn.
Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Governor of State of Georgia.
A Business Man’s Clear Vision.
New York City, April 4,1888.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes— Dear Sir: Your
patent eye glasses received some time
since, and nm very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over
tny eyesight since I have discarded my
old glasses and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Aoar.
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of
New York City.
All eyes fitted by J. M. Levy, Coving¬
ton, Ga
These glasses are not supplied to ped¬
dlers at any price.
A. w. hawkes.
Wholesale Depute, Atlanta, Ga.
Franklin B. Wright,
COVINGTON, GA.
Resident Physician & Surgeon.
children, Gynecology, Obstetrics, diseases end of women all Chronie ami
diseases of a private nature, a special¬
ty. I have a horse at my command,
which will enable me to attend calls
in the surrounding country, as we) las
my city practice.
FRANKLIN B. WRIGHT. M. tL
TRIED BY FIRE.
An Old Soldier's Body Turns to Mar¬
ble in a Crematory.
Great interest is manifested at Cass
ville, Mo., over a remarkable circumstance
which has just come to light. It hap¬
pened on Off Davis, near Buzzard ltoost.
Whcii old man (’layback came out of the
late war lie was a physical wreck, but like
many others ol' the State militia was too
independent to ask for a pension, even if
he could have secured one, and made his
living in the best way lie could until his
six boys and seven girls got old enough the
to old help him. began About live years bad with ago rheu¬
man to get very although he
matism, as ha thought, and,
used the entire crop of spieewc-od berries
which grew on the creek, he continued
to get worse. Two years ago he got so
stiff as to be confined to his house, and
l ulled in a physician who, after carefully
diagnosing the case, /live as his opinion
that instead of rheumatism ailing the man
it was a true case-of ossification. Nothing
could be done, and he advised his patient
to make ready for the end. The although old he
might live for some time. man
took the doctor's advice, and did not
seem to have any fears of death, but
dreaded the yawning grave, and the
cold, clammy earth, To make his
thoughts more pleasant and relieve him
of his only terror, a friend suggested
cremation as an avenue of escape from
the grave, a plan which he haded with
joy, aud gave directions accordingly.
The disease continued, complete ossifi¬
cation took place and the old man died.
Howto carryout the wishes of the de¬
ceased at first troubled the bereaved
family, until they learned that Stephen
Symphony was burning lime in his kiln
which hail been fired three days and was
reaching a white heat, Desiring to save
the ashes, they procured a large evaporat¬
ing pan belonging to a molasses mill.
Placing the remains in this they carefully
shoved the whole into the kiln, which
was an open one on top, and being built
in the side of a hill was easily accessible.
The sorrowing family gathered around,
expecting the rapid incineration aud dis¬
integration of the departed. In a few
minutes the winding sheet was gone and
the body was exposed to the intense heat
From the ears, nostrils and mouth came
jets of steam, broken at first, then solid,
and in an hour had ceased, but no change
was perceivable to the silent form, More
wood was fed to the glowing furnace to
make tiie vigil of the bereaved briefer,
but still no change. More wood was
pitched in, and hotter still the tire raged.
Hour after hour passed, and from a g ow
ing red to an opaque white the body
turned, while on the countenance seemed
to rest an expression of infinite peace and
satisfaction. No three days wore the away, lime
and the fire must he drawn or
spoiled. Twenty-four hours later, by
means of grappling hooks, the pan and
body were raised, and to the surprise of
every one (he body was still intact and
glowing. A greater and more pleasant family,
surprise, however, awaited the
for when the body became cold it was as¬
certained that the intense heat acting uj>
on the ossified body had changed it to
perfect marble, a little lighter in color
than the natural body, but retaining its
natural shape except on the back, w hich
is a little flattened. The onlv defects
Rre where there was a bullet wound, and
in the left foot, which is broken iu two.
In 1870 Mr. Clavback cut his foot verv
severely, splitting it between the second
and third toes, and following this wound
a rupture appeared, which caused the los9
a« above stated. Where a small blood¬
vessel had burst in nis leg circulation, there appeared The
a delicate traoinir of the
lamilv is havini; ii peat . s d cut out of na
live done, and wil niourit the
uc. lmt ut present it is using n
\ sjnm block for the purpose.—
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GAEFIELD’S MONUMENT.
A Magnificent Memorial Tem¬
ple at Cleveland,
To be Dedicated Decoration Day
With Imposing Ceremonies.
A special from Cleveland, Ohio, to the New
York Herald states that the remains of the
late President James A. Garfield are soon
to be moved from the public vault
in which they now repose to the
crypt in the mounment, which will be
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CLEVELAND'S GARFIELD MONUMENT.
dedicated to his memory Decoration Day. It
was at first announced that the remains
would not be removed until the day of dedi¬
cation, but the Garfield family have since
concluded that the removal of the body is a
purely public personal affair, and do not desire any
demonstration. The remains will
have to be lowered into the crypt before the
statue of Garfield is placed in position in the
centre of the memorial temple, directly be¬
neath the dome of the monument. When the
after body death, was sent to Cleveland in 1881, shortly anil
it was placed in a massive
highly finished metal casket, where it has re¬
mained ever since, and the same casket will
encase the body when it is transferred to the
monument.
The exercises attending the dedication
promise to be of the most impressive and im¬
posing character. Invitations will be sent to
President Harrison and bis Campbell, Cabinet, ex-Presi¬
dent Cleveland, Governor of Ohio,
and his staff, and they will in all probability
be present. Personal invitations will also be
sent to many of the nation’s distinguished
citizens, and a general invitation is extended
to all the civic and military organizations in
the country. The Executives and staffs of
numerous States will be present. The com¬
mittee has decided that personal invitations
would entail too voluminous a correspond¬
ence, and thus concluded to make the invita¬
tion a general one to heads everybody, of the national and to issue
a special one to the and
State departments.
As the monument was built by popular
subscription, consisting of nickels, dimes and
dollars, the committee concedes every man’s
right to participate. The day will bo the
grandest Cleveland ever Masonic saw. Represented bodies
in the parade of will be the and from all and
the militia every State, quar¬
tern will he assembled the leading men of the
day to pay tribute to a man who, though
cradled in Ohio and reared almost within the
preciuets of the city, spread his influence over
the entire country nud finds his sepulchre the
heart of the nation. Ex-President Hayes will
make a brief introductory address, but the
principal speaker will be ex-Governor J. D.
Cox, of Ohio.
Grandma Garfield's remains will also l>e
transferred from tho public time, vault and will to tin be
monument at the same
placed beside those of her distinguished son.
The cost of the monument amounts to
$160,000, of which surn $62,000 Ohio wassubscribed
in Cleveland, $10,000 from outside of
Cleveland, and the remainder from the
various States and Territories, countries. with about work
$1500 from foreign After
had progressed somewhat upon ihe monu¬
ment it was decided to reduce the i.eight
seventy-five feet, to insure greater stability’,
and the result has been to give the monu¬
ment a stunted and dwarfed appearance,
which invariably gives offence at the first
glance, but the eye is soon exterior. attracted All by- the is
many beauties of the that
squatty about the design is the purely external,
for when one has climbed many narrow,
little winding stone staircases iu the
interior to the dome and looks out
through tiie windows to the ground be¬
neath he thinks the earth is several
hundred feet away. One of the pecul¬
iar properties of the structure, and which
will in time give it a double lame, is its
power of sound transmission. IVlien one
man is specking a dozen seem to talk. The
tones of tiie voice seem to be divided into
several different parts, and each division has
a greater strength than the original voice it¬
self. The harmonious compleuxental and
blending tones are all preserved. massive,
The monument stands upon a
square foundation of stone which is accessible
by » stairway oftwentv steps, The monu
nient stands squarely in the centre of the
foundation and leaves a margin of about ten
feet for a walk around the structure, Tiir
monument proper is round in shape
and is capped by a cone shaped dome.
Upon the west side is a square,
heavy portico, in which are em¬
bedded pauels representative of scenes
through which Garfield passed. The first
panel, on the north side, shows a country
school, with Garfield, then the ayoutli, asteach- side,
IT Tl-e second panel, on west, is a
war scene, and represents Garfield serving
on General Rosecrans’s staff, the third panel
represents him as an orator, and in the
fourth panel he is taking the oath of office as
President. The fifth pane), on the south
side, represents a bier.
The interior decorations are in marble and
mosaic work. The Garfield statue will oc
cupy the direct centre of the memorial tem
pie, and all its surroundings will add to its
beauty. white It will rear an imposing the momument rainbow.
in amid all the colors of
This statue is the second that has beeu cut
of Garfield. finished
When the first one was almost a
shadow of black was detected iu it which so
marred the snowy whiteness of the whole
that a new block had to be selected. The
new block was found to be without a flaw.
The statue will stand upon a marble height. paved
dais,and will measure about ten feet in
Light will be thrown upon the statue in
the temple from the great stained glass win¬
dows and four panel windows each being de
signs emblematic of t he thirteen represented original
States and Ohio, New York is
by the Statue of Liberty, with a big steam¬
ship in the distance.
It required nearly 250,000 pieces of \ ene
tian mosaic marble for tiie iuterior work on
the dome. The memorial tempie is circular
inform, and is surrounded by eight massive
Jars which support the dome. .
• Shenandoah" has now been running in
New York about- eight months, and tj»
General Sheridan who rides nightly iittls across
Proctor*s stag© has contributed not a to
the general success. Still not more than one
of the more than half million people who
have seen the plav knows who the actor is
who looks so much like General Shendan.
According to a high authority in th 1
English navy, the decision has been
made that masts and spt tci
to be banished from ali fi
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1890.
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and. Middle States.
Throughout Northern New York and
Vermont the snow was deeper than at any
time during the winter. In some places it
was eighteen inches in depth.
Congressman David Wilber, of New
York, died at his home in Oneonta, N. Y.
Stephen Burrows was killed and Peter
Riley seriously injured at au explosion in the
metalic cap works at Huntington Valiey,
Penn.
Ex-J udge Downs Edmunds died at Cape
May, N. J., aged seventy-seven. Ho was for
many years a member of the New Jersey
Senate.
By an explosion in a coal mine at Nanti
cokt, Penn., three men were killed and six
hurt.
P. R. Townsend & Co., dry goods com¬
mission merchants of New York city, have
failed with liabilities estimated at 4225,000.
At Duryea, John Pryor Penn., and John during Butz, a quarrel shot be¬
tween a was
fired him instantly. which struck Hugh Graham, killing
James McGuire, a veteran .State official
of New Jersey, died in Trenton. He was the
father of nineteen children, and was health
officer of Trenton at the time of his death.
burned A farmer his house near and Egg died Harbor in the flames. City, N. He J.,
was crazed by the foreclosure and sale of his
property.
Fire has destroyed the homestead built by
Horace Greeley at Chappaqua, N. Y., forty
years ago, and occupied by him until his
death, in 1873, at the close of his unsuccess¬
ful campaign for the Presidency,
The returns from the election in Rhode
Island showed that the choice of State offi¬
cers would be left to the Grand Commit¬
tee of the Legislature.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
passed resolutions condemning violation the Chinese
exclusion legislation as a of the
Chinese treaty of 1880.
Edward Sylvester, Charles Mason, and
Harry AViiliams, three noted Buffalo, counterfeiters, N. Y. They
have been arrested in
had a number of counterfeit dollars in their
possession.
South aud West.
Grant Adsil, his wife, daughter a two-year-oid of Elmore
child, Thomas and a young Sugar Creek
Ford attempted mile* to Milford, cross 111., and all
four from
but Mrs. Adsil were drowned.
Stanley "Wilcox, of Carroll, III,, was fa¬
tally shot by his wife. Nothing is known of
the causa of the crime.
Maryland’s special Jackson legislative that committee there is
reported sufficient to Governor Treasurer Archer is
defaulter. proof They that decided to leave the to a
case
the Governor for his action.
J. H. Caddall. Pulaski County (Va.)
Treasurer aud President of the Pulaski Na
tional Bank, was murdered and robbed while
on the road between Dublin and his home.
George W. Peck, the humorist, author of
the “Bad Boy” articles, has been elected
Mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., on the Democratic
ticket. The same party was successful in the
Chicago municipal election.
While six boys of B. H. Baskervill and
K. P. Wommack, ranging in age from eleven
to nineteen years, were playing the in caved a sand in
cave near Vernon, Texas, billed. bank
on them and all were
The United States Express Company lost
a package containing $ 10,000 while it was
being conveyed from their Chicago office to
the National Bank of Illinois, in the same
city.
A white man named Redd was flogged by
citizens of Wiliiston, S. C., for abusing his
family and refusing to provide for them.
A man went into a saloon in Denver, Col.,
and shot himself dead. The body was after¬
ward identified as that of Count Schimmer
man von Hartman, of Hamburg, Germany.
A boiler exploded in the stave mill of J.
K. Hussing, at Hustonville, Ind., killing the
proprietor and on9 of his workmen. Nine
others were wounded, three fatally.
Will Hicks and Robert McCoy, both col¬
ored, were hanged at Homerville, Ga.. for
the murder of William November Hughes and last. wife, an
aged white couple, on 6
The arrest of the murderers of the railroad
station agent at Posey ville, Ind., led to revela¬
tions that a gang of murderers contemplated and the
the destruction of the town by fire
murder of several of its inhabitants.
The house of Wilhelm Brown, nearHurou,
South Dakota, was burned, and his three
children perished in the flames.
One of the worst storms that ever visited
Dallas, Texas, ragad in that neighborhood.
All the water courses were over their banks,
and mauy bridges were swept away, Tiie
crops were badly damaged.
Washington.
Secretary Noble has issued an order
that chiefs of bureaus and officers in the In¬
terior Department must obtain leave on
written application before absenting them¬
selves from Washington.
President and Mrs. Harrison gave a
dinner to Minister and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Postmaster-General IVanamaker held
a iong conference with postmasters from the
largest cities in the country.
The Senate Committee on Claims has made
a favorablo report on the bill to pay the
assignee* of John Roach $69,000 for labor
and material furnished on the man-of-war
Roanoke and Puritan.
Ordep.s have been sent to the Com¬
mandant of the New York Navy Yard to put
the United States ship Enterprise out her of
commission as soon detached as possible. her All dis¬
officers will be and crew
charged.
amend The President tho act has providing approved for tho taking act tho to
eleventh and subsequent censuses.
The House Judiciary Committee appointed
a sub-committea to investigate alleged cor¬
rupt acts of Federal Court officers in the
South.
Foreign.
A man who had been convicted ol the
murder of eight women has just been hanged
in Szegedin, Hungary.
The peasants are rising in Riazan, Russia,
and blood has been shed, The agitation is
spreading to Finland and Poland, and gen¬
darmes and Cossacks have been sent to queil
the disorder. The excitement is intense.
During the races at Fowey, England, the
giand stand collapsed. More than 300 per
sons were thrown to the ground, and many
were injured, some fatally
Tee Cosihuiriachic Reduction Works,
about fifteen miles southwest of Chihuahua,
Mexico, owned by a New York eompai iy,
have been totally destroyed bv fire. La ss,
$ 2 , 000 , 000 .
A preliminary sitting of the Interna¬
tional Industrial Conference was held at
Madrid. Spais- Senor Moret was elected
President.
The State Treasurer of the Canton of
Ticino, Switzerland, has been arrested on the
charge of enibezziina: l.OOOdWO Cuba, franf;- the build¬
A fire at Santiago de in
ing occupied by the Chamber of Contmei
resulted in the destruction of a dry go- rV
store and its contents, and the burning colored
death of two white women and a
girl.
A slave dhow has been captured on the
African coast by the British warship Sultan.
James Lee. Charge d’Affaires of th :
United States in Brazil, has presented Gen¬ *it<
eral Deodoro da Fonseca, the President.
I he congratulatory motion adopted h
United »S ; Congress and approv. u;
President Karrison.
er a >se of two yea 5 Detect
Pinkerton ha rrested iu Spani Ii Hondu:
Edm und Sturgis Crawford, v> Cole a i>3
;e of $41,000 in 11s sent by 19 Ai l n
i o. city.
Adatns Express Company. Crawford con¬
fessed and implicated others.
A revolution has broken onfc near Itpia
la, in the State of Guerrero, is unpopular. Mexico,the Gov¬
ernment of which
The British Somalis, expedition East recently Africa, sent having out
failed against the accomplish its mission, another
to ex¬
pedition has been started.
PROMISES’! PEOPLE.
Emin Pacha will return to Central Africa
as a Gorman Governor.
It is reported that Evangelist Moody has
converted many Yale students.
Minister Fred Grant says lie and his
wife are having a delightful time in Vienna.
Prince Bismarck is compiling a memoir
of the last twenty-five years of his official
life.
Inventor Edison has lsen elected an hon¬
orary member of the Berlin Electrical So¬
ciety.
The Prince of Naples, heir appal •ent to
the throne of Italy, is suffering from over¬
study.
Oliver Dalrymplb, the bonanza farmer
of Dakota, expects to raise this year
30,000 acres of wheat.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg million
aire, will speak at the Scotch-Irish congress
in that city next month.
The venerable Sir Edwin Chadwick, the
great English sanitarian, uses no tobacco,
and cats many green vegetables.
It is proposed to give a complimentary
banquet sion of his to seveDty-seveuth Allan G. Thurman birthday. on the occa¬
C. B. Evarts, the Now York Senator's
oldest son, devotes bis attention to managing
his father's big farm at Windsor, Vt,
The King of Dahomey was educated in
him. Paris, but He the cruelty bad was not refined out of
is just as as any of his savage
ancestors.
Senator Cockrell, does his own market¬
ing his in Washington every ill! morning, and makes
$5000 salary cover the expanses of a
large family.
Dom Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil,
has refused to accept the proceeds of the
forced sale of iris Brazilian property ordered
by the Provisional Government.
Joshua Hood, one of the committee ap¬
pointed to welcome General Lafayette dur¬
ing his visit to this country in 1824, died re¬
cently in Baltimore at the age of eighty
seven.
Ernest Renan, the French philosopher,
indulges in a preferring hobby of not walk, riding although in vehicles his
of any kind, to
health is feeble, and a stout cane is neces¬
sary to support him
Reivi is the last survivor of the great
fighting chiefs of New Zealand. Hisdefehce
of Orakan against the British troops is one
of the most brilliant achievements in the
history of savage warfare.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is a devoted
member of the Baptist Church. He has given
$50,000 to the Baptist Theological for Seminary
at Louisville, Ky., and $10,000 a new
Baptist Church in Atlanta.
I)R. Brubnnen, an American, has been
appointed professor of oriential pliilology at
Heidelberg, this being the second instance in ’
which an American has been appointed a
professor in a Germany university.
Ferdinand de Lessbps, of Suez Canal
fame, leans heavily forward as he walks, and
his hair is white as slacked lime, yet he still
retains a buoyant flow of animal spirits,
and his haudwr iting is anything but shaky.
The Czar of Russia indulges in pretty
heavy hypodermic injections of inorp hia, to
the extent of between twelve and fifteen
grains a day. He tried to give up the habit,
hut it was too strong for him, and he re¬
mains its willing slave.
M. de Freycinf.t, who has become for tiie
fourth time Premier of the French Republic,
is a peculiar creature. He is small and insig¬
nificant physically, and his countenance hab¬
itually- bears a furtive, his being scared dubbed expression,
which has led to “ths
White Mouse.”
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The Cherokee strip has been cleared ol
boomers.
The French Senate and Chamber of
Deputies have adjourned.
A rupture of the peaceful relations be¬
tween Servia and Bulgaria is threatened.
The grand church royal at palace,has Apeldoorn, been Holland, burned
adjacent to the
to the ground.
The Pan-American Conference has recom¬
mended the establishment of an inter¬
national monetary union.
A medical college for Chinese has been
sstablished at Hong Kong, and is doing good ir
work in instructing the native students
medicine.
The indications are that the South Caro¬
lina rice crop will be the largest made in many
years. The winter was very favorablo tc
the planters.
Emperor William, of Germany, will,
within the next few months, hold confer¬
ences with Queen Victoria, the Czar and
King Humbert.
The Sultan of Turkey has decided to re¬
press the lawlessness of the Kurds in Arme¬
nia by establishing strong garrisons through¬
out that country.
ThE Governor of Palestine recently inaug¬
urated the work of. building Joppa, the proposed in ths
railway from Jerusalem to
presence of nearly the entire population.
Colonel Terillon, the French com¬
mander in Dahomey, W est Africa, has dis¬
lodged the native troops from their positions losses
on the river Oueme, inflicting heavy On
them.
Prairie fires have been raging in south¬
western Colorado down to the Kansas
border, and 1,003. 000 acres have been de¬
vastated. Thera were no facilities for fight¬
ing the fire.
The Illinois Supreme Court decided, in the a
suit over the will of one Hamilton, that
Y. M. C. A. is not a religious corporation, land
and can therefore hold over ten acres of
in that State.
The British revenue returns for the fiscal
year 1889-90 show an increase in receipts of
£4,617,024, of which £1,100,000 is due to aug¬
mented taxation. Tho net revenue has in¬
creased £831,500.
THE PUBLIC DEBT,
Monthly Statement of the Treasm-y
Deparl men!.
The monthly public debt statement issued
from the Treasury Department shows a de¬
crease of the debt during March of $11,389,-
857. and for the first nine months of the cur¬
rent fiscal year of $53,488,949, The total
debt less cash in t ie Treasury, is $1,023,157.
esbbeAriu* <;:■> and of this * amount $802,122,532 ’round is inter
debt made up in num
be-s of S'14 cents’ 090.000 4':.. per cents, Navy $010,000,- Pension
(Kri 4 lie: 1 *14,000,000 $64,500,000 Pacific
F-uid ( unrt -. -: D,— p . cents, ceme, and ’
R Thep:V^-pTus the Treasury is $33,615,
in
01* about '150,000 less than a month ago.
On Anrii I, "8 the 'lr _arv onaf Bank surplus depSsito- aggre
r [XX3 UK $33,178,304
nes i! 10 v\* hold i\ 99 4 against February 1, and
a mo nth ago; on ' in on
&4A j* >11 the inning of
L l-al id'baianrejn Treasury had
ltd ih^-ec-nuartcr th®
aso<l » rnd “ niUiions
m-nb & and “fiver now fundPtkt-
1 and ant toe atver iuna La
in- >00,000 trade-d X
•id had (ec-reasi 1 ii ariy two and a half
roii and now at ales $10,065,949.
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RnvEP. iuuHyAF.d, the English noTelist, ha»
been offered ?100J a ’veek for a forty weak*?
lecture toizc in this country
FIFTY-PIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
70th Day.-— The Senate spent four or five
hours iu secret session, trying unsuccessfully which
to dispose of two Florida nominations
have months____Mr. been pending Daniels for the introduced last three abiil or foui
pro¬
viding for an annex to the AVorld’s Fair....
Mr. Morgan introduced an anti-trust bill.
71st Day.— Several bills for river and har¬
bor improvements were passed, including one
for the completion of the entrance to Galves¬
ton Harbor. The conference report on the
Urgent Deficiency bill was agreed will to. be th(
72d Day.— The Senate met, as
rule until otherwise ordered, at 11 o'clock.,..
Mr. Reagan addressed the Senate on the bill
for the issue of Treasury notes on the Pension deposit
of silver bullion____The Dependent
bill was passed—14 to 12.
73d Day.— The nominations of Judge Strip¬
Swayne and United States Attorney
ling, of the Northern District of Florida, were
disposed of after an executive session of five
and a half hours. They were confirmed....
Mr. Stewart introduced a bill regulating the
manufacture and sale of adulterated beer,
and Mr. Chandler a bill N. to Y.... make The a House public
g :irk on Bedlow's Island,
ill authorizing the Mississippi boats River Com¬
mission be immediately to purchase or hire such inhabit¬ as may
necessary to rescue
ants of the overflowed districts and to use
boats for that purpose from was passed____Among and
the bills reported committees
placed on the calendar were the following:
Senate bill to prevent the summary cancela¬
tion of pension certificates and providing for
a hearing incases relating thereto; Senate
bill giving a pension of $100 a month to the
widow of General JohnF. Hartranft; Sen¬
ate bill directing the Secretary of Agricul¬
ture to cause to be made all the necessary
field examinations, surveys and experiments
with reference to irrigation degrees by longitude the overflow and
waters between 97 west
the foothills of the eastern slope of the Rocky
Mountains.
74th Day. —A new Anti-Trust bill was in¬
troduced by Mr. Edmunds from the Senate
Judiciary Committee.. ..The Montana con¬
test was taken up, Messrs. Hoar and Gray
presenting the majority R. and Mizell minority confirmed reports
respectively____Joliu Marshal for Florida. was
a - United States
75th Day.— The House amendments to the
Senate bill for a zoological park in the Dis¬
trict of Columbia were laid before the Sen¬
ate. After considerable discussion tiie
amendments were non-coneurred in and a
conference asked____The following Senate
bills were taken from the calendar and
passed: building Appropriating III.; $75,000 for a public $100,
at Aurora, building appropriating- Leadville.Co!---
000 On for a publie of Mr. Hale, at the House Dill
motion to
amend the Census law by providing population for the
enumeration of the Chinese was
taken from the calendar and read, with the
amendments reported by the Committee on
the Census. Mr. Evarts suggested that the
bill should lie allowed to go over for three
days, and Mr. Hale assented to tho sugges¬
tion ____The Montana contest was debated
... .Mr. Ingalls was elected President pre
tern.
In the House.
79th Day.—T he House Committee or
Elections decided to recommend to tht
House the seating of McDuffie, the occupied Republi¬
can contestant for the place now
by Turpin, of tho IVth Alabama District,
and iVaddiil, the Republican contestant for
the seat now oceuped by Wise, of the Illd
Virginia District. —A number of public buildings
89th Day.
appropriation bills were passed... .In Com¬
mittee of the Whole on the Army Appro¬ liquors
priation bill it was voted that no enlisted
should be sold at army canteens to
men. Commit
81st Day.— Mr. Morrill from the
tee on Invalid Pensions, reported his bill pro¬
viding for a service pension services----Mr. and disability
pensions, and for other Hen¬
derson presented the conference report upon
the Urgent Deficiency bill. The report was
agreed to____In Committee of the Whole,
the Naval Appropriation bill bill was reported,
and the Army reported. Appropriation was corn
pleted and Day.—M Walker introduced
82d r. a
bill to establish a national banking
code____A bill was passed providing
that affidavits and declarations in pen¬
sion and bounty cases may be taken be¬
fore any officer authorized to administer
oaths for general the purposes----In Fortification Appro¬ Com¬
mittee of the whole
priation bill was considered and passed with¬
out division. The amount Appropriation appropriated bill is
$4,521,678____The Naval
was reported by Mr. Boutello and placed
upon the calendar____Mr. Sherman offered
resolutions of regret on the death of David
Wilbur, a Representative from New York,
and as a farther mark of respect the House
adjourned. A committee of seven members
of the House was appointed to attend his
funeral.
83d Day.— The Idaho Admission bill was
discussed____The Farquhar Shi bill
was introduced____The Hudson River Bridge
bill was Day.—T passed. he Idaho Admission bill
84Tn was
passed, 129 to 1—the Democrats not voting,
and the Speaker counting a quorum----A
petition lroni the New England Shoe and
Leather Association against tho imposition
of a duty upon hides and skins was ordered
printed in the Record ... .The Senate bill
was passed to enable the Secretary of the
Treasury to gather information as to the
present, condition and preservation of the
fur-seal interests of the Government in the
region of Alaska, as compared with its con¬
dition iu 187(5; also full information as to the
impending extinction of the sea otter indus¬
try____A Senate concurrent resolution was
agreed to, requesting the President to invito
from time to time, as fit occasion may arise,
negotiations with any Government with
which the United States end may have diplo
mn tic relations to the that any differ¬
ences or disputes arising between the Gov¬
ernments, which cannot be adjusted by di¬
plomatic agency, may be referred to arbi¬
tration.
FIGHT FOR DIAMONDS.
A Thief Euttces a Jeweler Into HU
Room for Purpose of Robbery.
An exciting hand-to-hand encounter for
$1500 worth of diamonds occurred in a room
at the Palmer House, Chicago. One of the
combatants was a young man who registered
at the hotel under the name of Ralph Allen.
That noon he sent to Hyman's establishments, jewelry store,
and several other similar
asking that diamonds be sent to him for in¬
spection. In making the request, he wrote, inci¬ . .
dentally, that he was confined to the hotel
with a sprained aukie. Salesman V-. A.
Bigler was sent by Hyman & Co. to make
inquiries concerning Alien, and found him
)lathing one ankle with arnica, and wanting sales¬
the diamonds to make a present. The
man was suspicious, but decided to return
with an assortment of gems, and take the
precaution to have a hotel r rter, named
Perret, stationed near at ban
When Bigler re-entered the apartment
with the $1500 assortment of diamonds
Allen made a careful selection, and then
bobbed around hack of the salesman oaten
sibiy Instead to get the money fellow pulled to pay a for heavy the cane purchase^ from
under a mattress and felled Bigler to the
floor. The salesman, a sturdy giappled
struggled to his feet and
with Alien, meanwhile yefiing to 1the
porter. Before toe latter liidr-ndual could
collect his wits Allen had broken the cane m
tour pieces over Biglers head and dashed
I down the hallway. nim To he persons shouted, who “eaten at
I tempted to man,” stop pointing back he ran.
thatinsano as
Timekeeper Gregg, of the hotel staff, was
like only person not fooled by this cry.
f Overhauled Allen m a room into
!J* rhiefi he had dodged and taken refuge under
| a lied. indicate that he came from .
trashington*. Allen’s paoers his ri^ht is said to be
j 6 and salesman name hauanum
George Fierce. The
j ^ 0 f scalp wounds, Kona of the diamonds
were loaG
VOL. XVI, NO, 21.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Players’ League is firmly opposed t«
playing on Sundays.
The seating capacity of the Philadelphia
Players’ League grounds is 20,000.
Mike Kelly is throwing Boston all Players’ his energy in¬
to the training of the team.
Six thousand dollars’ worth of the Pitts¬
burg Players’ League stock is held in Chi¬
cago.
Manager Hecker lias compelled his Pitts¬
burg League toarn to practice four hours a
day.
The grounds of the National League and
the Players’ League in New York are close
together.
Mclvey intends the to $1250 pay the advanced Philadelphia
League Club back money
he received.
This will be a good season for the develop¬
ment of baseball talent. Quite a number of
future stars may be counted upon.
The Philadelphia scorers are going tomake
efforts to get the actual attendance at each
of the games of the three organizations this
season.
ball. Australians They have are already going crazy organized over base¬ six
a
club league, and the papers devote a good
deal of space to the game.
Pittsburg is to have the natural freak
who was signed by Indianapolis. His name hand
is Gray and he has six fingers on each
and six toes on each foot.
Captain Anson took his Chicago Hot Nation
a] League team to the Arkansas Springs
for a fortnight's recuperation before the
opening of the regular season.
The Players’ League will have the double
umpire system this season. Two of the eighl
sidered umpires—Ferguson the best and in Gaffney—are their line. con¬
among
Paul Radford has declared himseli
against Sunday baseball playing, participating and has had
a clause exempting included him from his
in Sunday games in contract.
A yeah ago pitcher Rusie was working pitching in
an Indianapolis lounge Now factory lie crack and pitcher
for $5 per game. is a
and a member of New York's League team.
Another attempt will be made to start a
Southern League. The cities proposed are
Montgomery, Selma, Mobile, Chattanooga,
Atlanta, Columbus, Ga., and New Orleans.
Dihby Bell and of De comic Wolf Hopper, two of
the leading lights League the* opera, won’t fight. rec¬
ognize the in present
They’re “with the Brotherhood heart and
band.’’
The International League has adopted a
six-club Buffalo, Load schedule, Hamilton with Detroit, and Toronto Saginaw,
on, as
members. The season of 128 games will be¬
gin on April 28.
The Cleveland Payers’ Club is having no
end of difficulty in getting railroads possession of its
grounds. Between the aud the
property owners in the neighborhood things
are in a very turbulent state.
The Players’ League, at a meeting New York, of the
Central Board of Directors iu re¬
instated lieckley, Delehanty National and League Mulvey, and
who had joined the
then repented of their action.
One of the good “Players rules adopted by the
Louisville Club is: must transact
ail their business connected with the club
through the manager.” This should com¬
mend itself to every club iu the country.
The old St. Louis Browns furnish four
captains to the the profession Chicagos; this Welch, season, for viz.,
Comiskey, for the
Athletics; McCarthy, for the St. Louis
Browns, and Gleason, for the Washingtons.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Rhea is achieving great success in his
new play, “Josephine.”
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosierpoet,
has resumed his platform entertainments.
John Boyle O’Reilly, the Irish poet
editor, is out on the Pacific coast lecturing.
“A Long Lane” is the title of a new
American play produced at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre, New York.
M. Jules Claretie, director of the
Parisian Comedie Francaise. is writing his
memoirs for a New York publisher.
Lillian Russell, the comic opera singer,
has been re-engaged at the New York Casino
for three years. She is to get $30,000 a
year.
In consequence of definitely the Sultan’s that objections, M. Ber¬
it has been decide.! de
nier’s “Mahomet” must not be produced in
Paris.
It is claimed that the Ameriean actress,
Lotta (Miss Crabtree), is the richest single
woman in the world who has earned her own
money.
Sardou, the French dramatist, started out
as a surgeon’s assistant and became a pro¬
fessor of mathematics before he took up play
writing.
M. B. Leavitt’s New Broadway Theatre
at Denver. Col., will have a stage constructed
of steel. The scenory Is to be worked by hy¬
draulic power.
Colonel John A. MoCxuLLhas purchased
the American rights of Millocker's opera,
“Sit-ben Schwaben,” and will make it the
feature of his repertoire next season.
Theresa Vaughn would not join the Stet¬
son “Gondoliers” company unless her hus¬
band, William Mas layer, went with her, and
so the whole happy family were taken in.
Lillian Lewis went through the role of
Lena Despard at constable St. Louis stood wearing in the a wings seal¬
skin sack, while a
waiting to seize on her wardrobe if she took
anything off.
May Nevada, the star of a company stabbed play¬
ing “Cynthia” in Iowa, accidently
George Weller, her husband and leading
man, on the stage the other day. The wound
was not dangerous.
Maude Granger has secured from Miss
Lucy Hooper, the well-known author and so¬
ciety woman, a fonr-act emotional drama or¬
iginally produce.! iu Paris under the title of
‘“(’Heritage D’Helene.”
Arabella Goddard, discovered once a in famous pianist,
has recently been extreme pov¬
erty in London, and a benefit concert for her
has realized $2500, which, with other contri¬
butions, makes a total of $3000.
Edwin Booth is one of the child actress
Elsie Leslie’s warmest friends and most de¬
voted admirers. Recently they sat together
for a photograph, Sir. a copy of which hangs in
a frame in Booth’s apartments wherever
he is playing.
Thomas A. Lyne, probably the oldest
American actor, has just, died m Salt Lake
City. His first He was born in Philadelphia at the 11 alnut in Street 1806.
appearance was
Theatre in nis native city about 1828 in tho
part of William Tell.
A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY,
.Y Constable Finds a Woman’s Corpse
in a Trunk.
Constable Bennett, of Augusta. Ga., armed
with a warrant authorizing him to attach
tho trunk of a colored woman for debt who
was about to leave the State, madea horrible
discovery. While woman’s waiting at the depot baggage for
the arrival of the trunk a
wagon deposited it on the platform, rhe
officer seized it and opened it to investigate astounded
its contents. As he did so he was
to find the body of a woman packed closely whom
iu the box. It was that of the woman
the warrant was issued against. Sue died
the previous night iruuk, and was being she shipped off
to relatives in a a? was so poor
that her friends could not buy a coffin tor
her.
Gilbert and Sullivan have already re¬
ceived as royalties for performances of “The
Gondoliers,” given in this country, upward
of $9000.
TAKING THE CENSUS.
The Questions That. Will bo Askecl by
the Census Takers.
The work of taking the United States Cen¬
sus will begin on June 2, and will, it is ex¬
pected, occupy a month. The questions that
will be asked by the census takers are as fol¬
lows:
1. Give Christian name in full and initial
of middle name, surname. dur¬
2. Whether soldier, sailor or marine
ing the civil war (United States or Confed¬
erate), or widow of such person.
3. Relationship to head of family.
4. Whether white or black, mulatto, quad¬
roon, octo'-oon, Chinese, Japanese or Indian.
5. Sex. If under
6. Age at nearest birthday. ous
year give age in months.
7. Whether single, married, widowed or
divorced. the
8. Whether married during census year
(June l, 1889, to May 31, 1890).
!). Mother of how many children and num¬
ber of these children living.
10. Place of birth.
11. Place of birth of father.
13. Place of birth of mother.
13. Number of years in the United States.
14. Whetner naturalized. havt
15. Whether naturalization papers
been taken out. occupation.
16. Profession, trade or
17. Months unemployed during the census
(June 1,1880, to May 31, 1890).
18. Attendance at school (in months) dur¬
ing thecensus rear (Juno 1, 1880, to May 31,
1890). Able
19. to read.
20. Able to write.
21. Abie to speak English. If not, the
language or dialect spoken.
25. AVliether suffering from acute and or
chronic disease, with namo of disease
length of time afflicted.
23. AVliether defective in mind, sight, hear
iug or speech, or whether crippled, maimed.
or deformed, name of defect.
24. Whether a prisoner, convict, homeless
child, and pauper. 20. Is the home live in hired, or
25 yon member of the
is it owned by the head or by a
family? If owned by head member of family,
27. or incum¬
is the house free from mortgage
brance? family farmer,
25. If the head of the is a
is the farm which ho cultivates hired, or is
it owned by him or b / a member of his
family? If owned by head member of family,
29. or
is the farm free from mortgago incumbrance’
30. If the home or farm is owned by head or
member of family and mortgaged, givetho
postoffles address of owner.
THE LABOR WORLD.
One THousAND-plumbers went on strike in
Chicago, 111.
It is calculated that there are 60,000 night
workers in New York city.
The unskilled employes of the New York
Postoffice have organized a union.
The Berlin Labor Conference closed after
an extremely dull session lasting one week
aud a characteristically dull banquet.
The striking tailors of Hanover, Germany,
have sent au appeal to their fellow-craftsmen financial
in this country, asking them for
aid.
Attorney-General Michener, of In¬
diana, law has given that an opinion is valid that and the constitu¬ Eight
Hour ol" State
tional.
The American Federation’s organizer,
Hamill, has just organized at Rochester, N.
Y., a largo branch of tho Furniture Work¬
ers’ National Union.
One thousand Italian laborers, who re¬
cently emigrated to Brazil, are about to
leave Rio Janeiro for home, having been un¬
able to obtain employment.
Over 600 meetings of workingmen have
been arranged to take place in various parts
of Austria on May 1, to agitate the estab¬
lishment of an eight-hour day.
Printing in Germany keeps its four hun¬
dred and fiftieth birthday this y ear, and the
Teutonic Printers’ Union intend to celebrate
the anniversary right worthily.
The United States Labor Commission has
decided that the collection of statistics re¬
lating to building associations does not come
within the scope of the census law’.
Orders for the resumption of work at the
Pennsylvania Colliery have been issued.
One thousand minors who have been idle
since January 1 found employment.
T. B. Wakkman showed by statistics at a
recent mass-meeting in New York city that,
thirteen hundred men, women aud children
are killed annually in the factories of New
York State.
In the larger cities of Northern Italy started co¬
operative societies have recently work¬
stores and dwellings for the benefit of
ing people, and they are meeting with ex¬
traordinary success.
John Sivinton. the labor reformer, writes
from Rome that his health has not improved,
but that his interest in labor matters has not
abated, and that he would like to see a fed¬
eration of labor in Italy.
There is a movement in England against
the employment of barmaids, although it is
felt that the reform will not be accomplished
until the far future, and that ail that can be
done at present will be limiting the hours of
labor.
The American Federation of Labor has
just granted charters to the Coachmen’s As¬
sociation and the Stove Mounters’ and Polish¬
ers’ Union, of Rochester, N. Y.; the Women
Rubber Workers, of South Framingham, Workers, of
Mass.; Mail Pouch Tobacco
Wheeling, W. Va.; Cork Cutters, Lancaster,
Penn.; Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters.
Beaver Falls, Penn., and the Mechanics’
Union, of Erie, Penn.
The inhabitants of the neighborhood wolf,
of Auxonne were long annoyed by a
which at one time devoured a young
girl. A boy named Foureault, about 14
years of age, was tending some cows in
that canton. It is well known that these
animals, when urged by common danger led
at the approach of a wolf, are by
instinct to collect and arrange themselves
into a kind of circular phalanx, with pre¬
senting to the enemy those arms
which nature has furnished their heads,
and thus securing their bodies, which
would otherwise be exposed. The cows
which Foureault watched adopted this
natural tactic the moment they perceived itscll
the wolf, which, however, directed
not toward them, but toward the boy,
whom it seized aud began to shake.
One of the cows, immediately attacked separating Jhe
itself from the phalanx, its The
wolf and made it drop prey,
boy availed himself of the contest
between his adversary and protectress to
seek his safety by flight. The wolf
quitted the cow, pursued the boy, seized
and shook him as before. The cow
rushed forward again foY the defense of
the youth and harassed the wolf so much
as to oblige it to relinquish its victim
once more : but, being soon the repulsed, of
the boy was a third time in jaws
t;.e wolf, when fortunately two inhabi
tants of a neighboring animal. village came Young up
and dispatched carried the hospital,
Foureault wu to tiie
and, though wounded in more than
thirty places, has since perfectly re¬
covered.—[Paris Moniteur.
Lionel Brough is reported to be makings
smalt fortune out of his performances iu
Africa et the diamond fields.