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The Covington Star.
J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor.
■Ono of the early settlers of Oscoda
lunty, Mich., made a peculiar request
pen he died a few years ago. For
lie time before his death his steak
|m Inrs, being stolen, either by mon or
and the old man’s mind was
lected b/ his loss. lie asked that ha
I buried standing, on the cast side of
Ireo which grew on a hill overlooking
k farm. From this position he hoped
Idetect the thieves. And he has kept
le ground round about well dug up,
IcT.uie ho said that his savings were
linear by. People have concluded
1st he made a mistake concerning the
fcney, but no cattle thieves have b»ea
lire since his burial.
One of lho managers of a big oast.
I knitting mill has made a calculation
U the shoestrings of a working girl
II come untied on tho average three
ae3 per diem, and that a girl will
e about 50 second s every time she
lops to retie them. Most of the cm
byes have two feet, so this entails a
■s of 300 seconds every day for each
|n. There are about 400 girls cm
I byed in this factory, and therefore
: 1 gentleman finds that 43,800,000
conds are wasted in the course of a
year, which time, at the average rate of
fges, is worth $343.17*. Orders
r r st e wear accordingly only buttoned been issued shoes that or girls ©on
ess gaiters under penalty of dis
prge.
It looks as if the popular idoa that
s size of the head and brain have a
cat deal to do with the mental calibre
destined to bo classed among bygone
lusions. Dr. Starr, of London, who
,8 been writing very fully oa this sub
et, adduces convincing arguments to
ow that it is impossible to draw from
e size or shape of the head any con
usions as to the mental capacity. He
ows the absurdity of judging of the
aia surface by either the size of the
ad or tho extent of tho superficial ir
gular surface which is covered by the
ull, without taking into consideration
le number of folds or the depth of tho
■ease3, and stales that a little brain
ith many deep folds may really, when
tread out, have a larger surface than a
rge brain with a few shallow folds,
he phrenologists are not happy over
Starr’s stricture!.
| Some enterprising metallurgists in
prrnany have turned their attention to
k manufacture of fij wheels capable
I double and treble the speed of those
lade of cast iron, the resistance of
hich is generally limited to a speed of
p metres for the rim of tho wheel, an
ice3S of this speed rendering the fly
peel [c liab'o to break to pieces under
action of the centrifugal force.
I iej leels ree d emp'oyoi, spokes times have which succeeied of the by are iron speed constructing capable or steel, of in those obtaining of and acquiring the ord'nari- making nave fly
‘ r.tn entirely of steel wire wound
t und and rouud itself a great many
fnes. By means of these whee s, aid
l by immense reheating furnaces for
[e steel plates, and by some very in
Snious apparatus, they have succeeied
.obtaining surprising results.
Frank G. Cirpsnter say i i\ the
vaerican Agriculturist that “India can
use wheat much mare cheaply than
P can. It costs tho Indian farmei
radically nothing to live, and farm
nges are from six to eight cents a
y. Whole families live oa fifty
hts a week, and I have never found
man more willing to work for small
ages than the Eist Indian. T.iere is
lt!e idleness among these 251,003,000
' people, and it is tho only couitry in
ie world where lho poop'.o seem to
ork all day, and every day, and
1 have nothing whatever but
kntence as their leward. Not
ithstanding their crowded condition
id their small farms, they are over¬
ruled with taxes, and tho main part
’ the
great revenues which England
diects from India comes from these
mis. England gets $109,000,000 a
:ar from these dusky living skeletons,
id she pays her servints $15,000,030
year to collect it. She divides up
ie land atnnag them, as to many of
ie most profitable crops, so that ono
ian cannot havo a monopoly, and so
lat few can make more than a corn
etenej.
A Prince’s Floral Present.
A letter signed Albert El ward
ueiph was received by a New York
prist recently. It cams through
'rexel, Morgan & Co., and it con¬
fined a check for $100 and an order
°m the Pr.nco of Wa'es directing him
send two baskets of flowers, to the
a us of $50 each, to two ladies whom
e , had , met abroa , 1, anl , who , are now
Iring cn F.ftli Avenue, near Central
‘ark. The flowers were duly de
ivered. One basket wa, filled , with . ,
Uei of the valley and maiden-hair I
? ra, the other with pharieycnvs ferns
u I American beauty ro e'. I
TIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Important Doings of the Law
Makers at Washington.
Naval Commander McCalla Sus¬
pended for Three Years.
The action of the Secretary of the Navy
in the case of Commander Bowman H.
McCalla. late commander of tho United
States steamship Enterprise, has been
made public. He was tried by court
martial on five charges, as follows: Striking
another person in the navy (Fireman John
E. Walker); violation of the Twenty-fourth
article of the Articles for the Govern¬
ment of the Navy (inflicting improper pun¬
ishments';* maltreatment of persons subject
to his orders, conduct unbecoming an officer
HSfche navy and violation of the tenth clause
of the twentieth article of the Articles for
the Government of the Navy, in failing to
read to the ship’s company the Articles for
the Government of the Navy.
The court found him guilty of all the
charges, and sentenced him to “be sus¬
pended from rank and duty for a period of
three years and to retain his present num
her on the list of commanders while so sus
pended.”
The Secretary approves the finding of the
court, that Commander “except in that part which finds
McCalla caused men to be
kept standing upon their feet, toeing a seam,
on the quarterdeck of the vessel from about
9 p. m. to about 1 a. M. for four consecutive
nights.” T he Secretary reluctantly the find¬
ing that in ironing the approves
did not impose unauthorized men together McCalla
and does so only because the court punishment,
think the seemed to
Accompanying ironing was necessary at the time,
the record in the case is a
recommendation to clemency, subscribed by
ten of the twelve members of the court.
The Secretary is of opinion, however, that
there are “no grounds which would, in tha
judgment of the department, justify a miti¬
gation of the punishment imposed by the
tourt.
A Statue ol Secretary Stanton. •
The House Library Committee has made
a favorable report on the bill introduced by
Mr. Boutelle for the erection of a statue in
Washington Lincoln’s City of Edward M Stanton statue'
which is Secretary of of War. The
to be heroic size, is
to be cast, if possible, from the bronze of
condemned cannon used by the Union forces
in the War of the Rebellion, and is to
stand in the open plaza at the front of
the State, Navy and War Department
Building. An appropriation of $50,
mo is made for the statue and
pedestal. This is not a good year for statues
to hoped public men, but the Library Committee
to get through without difficulty so
worthy ital a project as the erection at the Cap¬
commanding of a fitting figures memorial of one of the most
in the history of the
Civil War.
The Sale of Liquor in Army Canteens.
The Secretary of War has amended para¬
graph The 329 of the Army regulations as follows:
sale or use of ardent spirits or wines
in canteens is strictly prohibited; but the
commanding light beer officer is authorized to permit
to be sold therein by the drink, on
week days, and in a room used for no
other purpose, and, when practicable, in
a the building apart from that in which
canteen is located, whenever he is satis¬
fied that the giving to the men the oppor¬
tunity of obtaining such beverages within the
post limits has the effect of preventing them
from resorting for strong intoxicants to
places without such limits, discipline and tends to them. pro¬
mote temperance and among
The practice of what is known as ‘‘treating"
must not be permitted.
To be Returned to China.
As a result of correspondence between
Department, the Department it has of Justice been decided and the send Treasury back
to
to China the twenty-one Chinamen whe
were smuggled into this country
from Mexico, and who are now in
custody in San Diego, Cal They will
be transferred to San Francisco, and placed This
on the first steamer sailing for China.
action is taken on the theory that it is cheap¬
er and better for the Government to bear the
expense of their return to China, than to
send them hack into Mexico, and run the
chance of having to re-arrest them and send
them back indefinitely.
Minister Palmer Resigns.
Ex-Senator Palmer, Minister to Spain, Presi¬ ar¬
rived in Washington and called on the
dent, He announced his intention of resign¬
ing his post at once, unless it shall be decided
that there is some diplomatic necessity fot
his return to Spain. Secretary Blaine will
be consulted on this point, and it is thought Mr.
that no reason will be fouud why
Palmer should not remain in this country
aud become a private citizen, It is under
stood that the matter of his successor has
already been practically determine! upon,
but the name of the coming Minister is not
known. He will not be a citizen of Michigan,
however.
Senate Committee Appointments.
Vice-President Morton has announced the
following appointments on Senate com¬
mittees: Montana-Irrigation and
Sanders,of .
Senator Improvement of
Reclamation of Arid Lands,
the Mississippi River. Enr oiled Bills and Ex
imination of the Sever ai Branches of thi
Civil Service. Montana—Immigration
Senator Power, of
ind Naturalization, Railroads, Revolution
iry Claims, Transportation and Sale of Mea'
Products.
President Harrison at the Circus.
Baby Benjamin Harrison McKee had a high
jld time at the circus. Accompanied by the
President, Mr*. Harrison, Captain Dinsmore,
Private Secretary Halford and his nurse,
Master McKee visited Barnum’s. He had lots
af fun with “Tom Thumb.” the baby ele¬
phant, and enjoyed the privilege ring. of getting Later
an his back and riding about the
Baby McKee got astride a pony colt and
trotted him about the ellipse.
Overhauling the Yantic.
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered a
survey or the Yantic at the New YorkNavy
Yard to determine the cost of fitting Lei- for
another cruise. Her boilers r.eed consider¬
able repairs, but in other respects she is in
very good condition. She will not probably
get to sea again before late in the summer,
as there will be little money available for re¬
pairs until the beginning of the next fiscal
year.
The Spread of Leprosy.
According to Dr, Morell Mackenzie,
leprosy, the scourge of the Middle Ages,
has not become practically really spreading. extinct among It
Europeans, but is
has between ten and twelve hundred vic¬
tims in Norwav, is found also in Portugal, spread¬
Greece, and Italy, and is rapidly of
ing in Sicily, in the Baltic provinces
Russia aud in France, while the British
Islands arc not exempt from h - J u ti ' e
United States cases have been found m
Califr , nia in of the States of ths
jf or thwest, in Utah and Louisiana. Many
cases exist in New Brunswick. In thf
<o„fiwich Blands the disease first broke
thore ure now 1,100
j n the Molokai settlement alone.
The disease is extending in the Best
Indies.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1890.
| THE Eastern NEWS and EPITOMIZED. Middle
States.
Ex-District Attorney Ives, of Essex
in County, the Mass,, Prison was sentenced to two terms
State for forgery and ember.
Element.
Ex-MayoR RrcdARD Vacx, of Phila¬
delphia, was nominated by the Congress. DemonraSs
to succeed Samuel J. Randall in
William H, Bigelow, New England
Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service!
died a few days ago at Watsrvilie, Me. Ha
Was born in 1835.
W: H, M. Sistare, the New York banker,
who failed recently; has bean locket up in
Ludlow Street Jail charged with defrauding
i customer,, RiehUrd Hecksher; of Philadel¬
phia, of $112,(KK) Worth of stocks Utid bonis.
Robert L. Wallace, nephew and pros¬
pective heir of John H. Wallace, editor and
proprietor oubiications of Wallace's Monthly and other
on trotting mattei-s, has disap¬
peared after robbing Mr. Wallace of $52,000.
Patrick Higgins died at his home in Eliz
ibath, N. Y., at the age of 101. Higgins
was born in Ireland in 1789, ied and came to this
lountry to within in 1820. Higgins an active life
ip a few years of his death.
Engineer Haglegong and Fireman
Kauffman were killed by the explosion of a
toiler on the Reading road, near Shamokin,
Penn. George C. Yeager was, also, fatally
injured.
United States Senator Edward O.
Metcalfe Walcott, of Colorado, and Mrs, France#
Bass, widow of Congressman Bass,
were married a few days ago in St, Paulk
Cathedral, Buffalo, N. Y,
Doran & WbighT, of New York city,
“outside" Wall street brokers, announce
their suspension. Liabilities $400,000.
N. Curtice Holt, a leading citizen of
station Webster, N Y,. was instantly killed at that
while attemptiag to board a train.
He Was thirty-seven years old, and been
School Commissioner several terms.
The graduating exercises of the Yale
Chapel, Theological Seminary were held in Battel!
New Haven, Conn, The gradu¬
ating class numbered forty-one,
C, S, Williams, of the largest bucket
shop in Boston, has suspended. Liabilities
$300,000.
Brigadier General Nelson H. Davis
(retired) died at Governor’s Island, New
Njiprk harbor, of heart disease.
Mrs. Cordelia F. Hall, Clark wife of Presi¬
dent G. Stanley Hall, of University,
Worcester, Mass., and their eight-vear-old
daughter, their residence, Julia, were found dead in bed at
suffocated by illuminating
gas.
Three little boys were killed by a bank ol
earth falling upon them in Brooklyn, N Y,
A large number of men were buried by a
fail of rock in a mine at Ashley, Penn,; three
were recovered late in the evening, badly
burned and otherwise injured.
Oliver Bell Bunce, editor, author and
playwright, Uty. died suddenly in New York
South ailil West.
Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, sent to
the Legislature c, message emphatically pro¬
testing Lottery against an extension of the Louisiana
Company’s charter.
The Rev. James Kerr and his wife were
drowned in Boykin Creek, Sumpter County,
Ala., whileOu their way to church.
extraordinary A terrific hurricane, accompanied Jeffer¬ by an
fall of rain, swept over
son City, Mo., aud unroofed the State House
besides doing other damage.
General Julius White, United Republic, States died
ex-Minister to the Argentine
at his residence in South Evanston, 111., of
dropsy, after a protracted illness. General
White was born in Cazenovia, N. Y., Sep¬
tember 29, 1813.
Two section men were killed and a third
seriously injured by being run down by a
special train on the Burlington Road at
Prescott, Wis.
The engine and five cars of a construction
train left the track near Clayton, Mo., and
rolled down an embankment. Richard Jones,
engineer, and Richard Shelcroft, Arnold conductor, Garfield,
were instantly fatally killed, injured; and
fireman, was
Judge Crozier, of the First Judical Dis¬
trict of Kansas, has decided that the State
Prohibitory law is unconstitutional.
William Starnicker was discharged Ga., where
from the Penitentiary at Empire, life
he had served sixteen years of sentence
for a murder of which he was innocent.
The Louisiana Lottery Company has
doubled its offer to the State, and now offers
$1,000,000 per annum for the privilege of
maintaining a lottery.
Ten stores were burned at Auburn, Neb.
Loss, $50,000.
Every State and Territory Convention was of repre¬ the
sented in the National in
Knights of Honor recently in session De¬
troit, Mich.
The Rev. Dr. W. E. Moore, of Columbus,
of Ohio, was chosen Moderator of the Pres¬
byterian General Assembly at Saratoga, N.
Y The annual sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dr. W. C. Roberts, the. retiring Mod¬
erator.
John Colmski and Michael Vocintz were
instantly killed aud Peter Basco was seriously
injured by a fall of rock in a tunnel near
Park Place, Penn.
The Winona Mill Company's caught immense fire,
flouring mill at Winona, Minn.,
ana the entire plant, including the mill, ele¬
vator and surrounding buildings were de
stroved. The total loss on the property is
estimated at $800,000.
C. M. Whittaker and G. M. Stubbs were
crushed to death in a granite quarry near
Monrovia, Cal.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, at Asheville, N. C.,
elected the Rev. Dr. James Park, of Knox¬
ville, Tenn., Moderator.
An east-bound train was derailed near
Butte, Montana, and the sleeper, containing
the N. C. Goodwin Company, rolled down an
“mbankment, Manager Duffle and two other
members of the company being killed.
Fire, which started in a saloon from the
explosion of a lamp, destroyed half a block
of frame dwellings at Spokane Falls,
Washington. Two persons were burned to
death. The loss amounts to about $50,000.
Washington.
The President approved the act for im¬
proving Aransas Pass, Texas.
A caucus of Democratic Senators was
held to elect a successor to th? kite Senator
Beck as Chairman. Senator Gorman, who
has been acting as Chairman in the absence
of Senator Beck, was chosen permanent
Chairman witoout opposition.
General Superintendent Bell and As
Uteoinal Washmeton on a tour of inspection of the
.4ate railway " postoffiee line* in the
Southern beghmmg with the Atlan
tic coast line.
-r T H , - , ■ r American Physician
, ,u £ Waffle.
Thf nomination of William D. Sorsby, to
be Consul-General to Ecuador, was con
firmed ThI Resident bv the Senate by a strict party vote.
has nominated Samuel L.
Prarer of Massachusetts, to be United
States Consul at Cardiff, Wales.
" Okla
The 8-enate confirmed confirmed the following |di
of I ana ,
Martin of Oklahoma.
Edward BAIreen, Illinois. Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court; B. J. Seay, i
Missouri, and J. 6. Clark, Wisconsin, Asso
riate Justice*; W. S. Luriy, Marshal, and ]
Horaee Speed Oklahoma, Attorney
T „ B „ Jettons War has amended th?
army v r re E u!at1 ”"* so s ?' aa as taptohibit the sale ol
liquor m canteens to soldiers.
The President has approved the aet pro
riding for the disposal of the Fort bedg-
wick military reservation in Colorado tin
Nebraska to actual settlers, under the pro
visions of the Homestea I laws, and the acl
Oklahoma. providing for town site entries of lands i u:
Pay Inspector Stewart has tfeen ap
pointed Paymaster-General of the Navy.
Foreign.
of The GratibUUdeu. village of Tiefenasteu, 8 witaeria nd, in ha* the Canton
been al¬
hotel most completely add few houses destroyed left. by fire. Only a
a are
The Alexander Prison at Irkutsk, Russia,
ha3 been burned, aud three convicts per¬
ished in the flames.
General Sir Frederick .Middleton,
commanding the Canadian Militia, has been
’vJuvieted by a committee df members of
Parliament at Ottawa, Canada, of looting
fiirs valued at $.5039 dr *0000 in the late
Northwest Rebellion.
A house occupied by a family named
Wynn was burned at Campbellford. old, Canada. and his
William Wynn, thirteen years
grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Soules, were
burned to death. The woman was eighty
years old and helpless. The boy lost his life
in attempting to save her.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
In the Senate,
104th Day.—T he amendment to the Mili¬
additional tary Appropriation bill, providing for two
pension agents, was passed ., .Th«
Army Canteen system was discussed with¬
out action.... Mr. Butler presented the peti¬
tion of the heads of nine families, aggrega¬
ting seventy-two persons, that Congress ap¬
propriate emigrate $100 per capita to enable them to
themselves to Liberia, Africa, and maintain
there for a period of six months. bill
105th Day.—T he Army Appropriation
was passed... .The Senate took up the ind>
yidual pension bills oU the Calendar and passed
all of them (185) in an hour and a half.
____The calendar was then taken Up, and
a number of bills were passed____
Mr. Dawes presented a Communication from
the delegations of the five Indian nations re¬
right monstrating against the numerous grants of
of way fdr railroads through the
Indian Territory.., ,Mr. Sherman in¬
troduced a bili providing for a special pension
of $25 a month to the surviving sol¬
diers, sailors and marines of the United
States who Were on board the steamer Sul¬
27, tana 1885..,, when she Mr. exploded her boilers on April
ing Ingalls introduced a bill fix¬
$4 a month as the minimum pension to be
paid for disability to survivors of the late
war... .After a short executive session tha
Senate adjourned.
106th Day.—M r. Hoar reported back the
House amendment to the Senate Anti-Trust
bill with an amendment.,,, Mr. Jones op3ned
the debate upon the Jones silver bill
...The Senate bill appropriating $200,090
for a public building at Ogden, Utah, was
placed on the calendar .. .Mr. Plumb intro¬
duced a bill providing that the unit of value
in the United States shall he tha dollar, and
it may be coined of 413’k grains of standard
silver, or 25 8-10 grains of standard gold,
each to be equally legal tender for all pur¬
107th Day.—M r. Jones, of Nevada, flu¬
shed his speech on the Silver bill; general
iiscussion of the measure folio wed.... Mr.
Davis reported back the Home substitute
.'or the Senate Dependent Pension bill with
t written report, and moved that the House
iubstitute be non-concurred in and a eou
lerence asked. The motion was agreed to,
ind Messrs. Davis, Sawye-, and Blodgett
were appointed conferrees on u.a part of the
Senate.
108th Day —Mr. Teller spoke on the silver
bill____Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill for
the establishment of a National University
....Mr. Plumb made a favorable
report upon a bill to transfer the Fish Com¬
mission to the Agricultural Department____
Mr Frye reported ,.i y,J*
proposed of to *1,500,000 theVustofflce for Appropriation the transportation bill,
an item
of foreign mails____Among the bills passed Major
were: Senate bill for the relief of
Goodloe, Paymaster, United States Marine
Corps the defalcation (crediting of him hi* with clerk); sums Senate lost through bill in
relation to Rear-Admiral James E. Jouett,
retired (allowing him the highest pay and
compensation of his grade as Rear- Admiral:
Senate bill to pay $205 to the heir or heirs Oi
John Howard Payne, due on his salary as
Consul to Tunis.
109th Day.—M r. Teller finished his speech
on the Silver bid; Mr. Coke also spoke bills on
the same measure____Among the re
ported from the committees and placed Th? on
the Senate calendar were the following: pub¬
Senate bill appropriating $100,000 fora
lic building at Allentown, Penn.; the House
bill authorizing the erection of a hotel (for
colored people) on the Government reserva¬
tion at Fortress Monroe; the House bit!
granting a pensk* to Mrs. Delia Pardell....
Mr. Blair offered a resolution (which we.i
agreed to) calling on the Commissioners ol
tue District of Columbia for information ai
to the employment and payment of laborer;
on public works in the District, and wiiethei
they are required to. work more than eignt
hours a day.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Patti refused $1000 for an essay on th;
voice.
A great su iiper-nationalmusieal festival ii
proposed for Wasliington in 1892
Tragedian Thomas IV. Keene expects t<
retire from the stage in a year or two.
A Paris theatre is to have a play based ot
Stanley’s African adventures and exploits.
It is announced that Julia Marlowe, th.
tragedienne, will be her own manager next
season.
Sonzogno, the editor and impresario, the lest
more than $200,000 in his venture on new
French opera in Italy.
The Albert Plaza in Vienna has been se
lected as the {.lace to erect a mennment to
the memory of Mozart.
Eugene Field, the American humorist,
is writing the libretto for Bir Arthur Sulli¬
van’s first grand opera,
Nevada, the American prima donna, i;
making almost a furore in the smaller cities
of France with “Lakme.”
Marcella .Sf.mbp.ich, is liknlv to doom
here as the pnma donna of an Italian opera
willpany next November.
The patriotic custom of closing all theatri
cal performances with the “3tar Spangled
Banner” has been inaugurated all over tin
l nited States.
Henry Irving has done what one woulc
suppose some actor or manager would hav«
done long ago, dramatized Scott's novel oi
“The Bride of Lammermoor.”
Tommy Russell is going to star in “Th?
Pauoer.” Tommy’s step
father and salary collector denies that th<
„ oungster ; s growing whiskers.
s™ CAMPANtNt. the famous tenor, ha,
had a tumor removed from his throat anc
he has strong hopes that the surgeon s knife
has restored his long-lost high I
Mrs. Jeanette Thurber proposes tha
Washington should be made the musical cen
ti e of the continent through music hafi. the erect,or
there of a great nationai
To the English playwright, A M . Pinero
the rare honor is being paid of Iransiatioi
into the classic tongue of Italy. His “Swe*
lavender” is being adapted tor
at a theatre in Rome.
During Stowe Bros.’ circus
at Lima, Ohio, acowboy threw a lasso
William Evans, and before he could let go
the rope the horse, becoming frightened,
run a wav. dragging Evan* to death.
A little white bearded man named
dow*. now a clerk in the Trmsunr
ment at Washington, was one of ratti's
managers. Widdows was a noted
ringer. He paid th? thirteen-year-old
who was destined to become a
,,owned diva $100 a week for -raging in
wrt troup9 witu which he toured
,
THE LABOR WORLD#
An epidemic of strikes is prevailing.
Bilk culture is being revived in Ireland
There are 75.000 idle men in California.
The great Pittsburgh strike was in 1877.
Fresh strikes are reported from Austria
In the old countries cigars are made by U -
male labor.
An industrial school is to be started f t
Newport, R. I.
The gas workers went on strike at Ham¬
burg, Germany,
The iron and steel makers are complain¬
ing of low prices. >
The railmakerg all over the country ara
crowded with work.
A Boston gun making concern is about
moving to Bluff ton, Ala.
Labor controversies cause less interrup¬
tion than was anticipated.
Andrew Carnegie’s new hotel for work¬
ingmen at Pittsburg will cost $300,000.
An organization of newsboys and boot¬
blacks has been effected in Denver, Col.
A dozen or more rolling mills are pro¬
jected, nearly all of them to be built in the
South.
A new labor conference composed of dele¬
gates from all over Germany is to be held in
Berlin.
Inquiry among the London trade union*
develops the facts that they were never more
prosperous than now.
In some German towns manufacturers
have established a “strike fund" with which
to fight their workmen.
A Providence (R. I.) concern has secured
an order from the Government for four
more steel torpedo boats.
A gymnasium and sewing school have been
attached to the Workmen's Free School of
Yorkville, New York eily.
The Canadian labor unions have recom¬
mended the Government to establish a scheme
of compulsory insurance for the working
classes.
The growing probability of a general
strike among the iron workers of this coun¬
try is giving employers a good deal of un¬
easiness.
The wage workers throughout the country
have by their actions of the past year at
themselves in a stronger position than they
have ever occupied.
has THE just Williamsport made cable (PennJ for the Wire Reading Company Rail¬
a
road Company, one mile long, weighing two and one
half inches in diameter, and 40,000
pounds.
The laboring classes throughout Germany
peror’s are responding proposals loyally for bettering to the the young condition Em¬
of working people, and the workingmen lose
no opportunity to cheer tor the Emperor.
There are to-day not less than 100,000
Italians in the city of New York. These
fellows enter into immediate competition in
the realms of cheap labor. To such an ex¬
tent is this a fact that cigarmakers who
easily find earned $12 a week a few years ago now
it difficult to get $4.
Manufacturers of electrical machinery
in every part of the country are crowded
with Work; some concerns have even with¬
drawn all all their advertising, which their having capacity in
prospect the work
can take care of for a long time to come.
Most of the larger establishments have ex
tensions of capacity now under way.
The railroad ... companies . are pursuing a
policy m working a number of men full and
aver time, and keeping so many more par
tially this idle. Labor organization but the is railway helpless
in matter. It is unjust,
managers are determined to keep a large
idle labor contingent, so that in case of
strikes there will be plenty of strikers. anxious to rush
in and take the place
One of the worst results of the Southern
n T „ -- demoralization of
labor. It was aDSOratBi^ - . -
^“waTdo^ b^f^te ttoe
nation. But the greatest care was necessary
to prevent such lavish use of the provisions ad
would encourage habits of idleness aud draw
a crowd from their work in districts which
iad not suffered.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Jay Gould was born May 27, 1830.
The King of Holland is now practically an
imbecile.
The Prince of Wales is said to be practis¬
ing type-setting.
Chauncey Depew is a cousin in the third
degree to both Senator Evarts and Senator
Hoar.
Ex-Secretary Bayard follows the Eng¬
lish style, and simply has “Mr. Bayard” on
bis cards,
Jean Ingelow. the poetess, is nearly sixty
years of age, but looks quite young, and is
very active.
Princess Bismarck never addresses ot
refers to her illustrious husband otherwise
than as “Bismarck.”
Queen Christine, ot Spain, is thirty-one
year* old. She is said to be the most popular
Queen the nation ever had.
Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the famous
gun, is now an old man of 80, with snow
white hair and a clean-shaven face.
The Queen of the Belgians is one of the
best equestrians in that country, and can
drive a six-in-hand with grace and safety.
Ex-Senator Sawyer, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as a second class clerk
in the War Department at Washington.
The youngest millionaire in New York is
Marshall O. Robe-ts, son of the late Marshall
O. Roberts, He is ten years old and worth
$5,000,000.
Mme. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, is said to be unpopular in that coun¬
try. She is nevertheless praised for many
acts of charity.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is one of the
many men in public life who was an editor
1 before he went into the railroad business and
became a millionaire.
Louise I mi ige.v Guryev, the Boston poet¬
ess, is a daughter of General Cuiney. who
died just after the close of the war. She i*
twenty-nine years old.
Mobelt Bell the new manager of the
London Times, is the author of two volumes
on Egypt, namely: “Egyptian Finance” aud
“From Pharaoh to Fellah.’’
Earl Spencer, a possible and tali successor with to
Gladstone, is fifty-five moustache a and beard. man, His
an enormous red
face is narrow, but full of strength.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, is one of Dur¬ the
plainest dressed men in W ashington.
ing the winter he went around in an oid
gray ulster almost threadbare and spilt up
the back.
Mies Mattie Mitchell, the daughter of
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has the reputa
tion in Paris of bein the most beautiful
American woman who ever been seen in
that city.
John ArbucKLE, who has been called
“The King of the Coffee-Pot," has a fortune
that is variously estimated at from $15,000,
000 to $25,000,000. He began to grind coffee
in a small way in Pittsburg fifteen years
ago.
Empkror William of Germany is a very
hearty eater. He gets away with four meals
i a day in royal stylo. He eats ham and eggs
j f or breakfast, game and salads for luncheon.
soups, fish and roasts for dinner, and hot
saukges and beer for supper. Hejias
very fleshy of late.
Sixteen years ago a Swiss cobbler
Bernaserni left his home in the Canton Tes
sin and emigrated to the Argentine Repub
Uc. He ha* now returned the possessor
millions which he made as a dealer in leather
a nd hide*. He is now budding on the
where his Swiss house stood an asylum foi
children,
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Poston ladies attend baseball games in
large numbers.
McKean is captaining the Cleveland
Brotherhood team,
Paul Hines has been released by the
Pitts’»>»s: League club.
thirty-seven Captain Anson, of of Chicago, is said to be
years age.
Pitcher McGill, the Cleveland League
wonder, is only sixteen years old.
The Players’ League is sti.4 wutdrawing
the National League in the aggregate.
first Tate, the old Boston catcher, is playing
base for Barnie's Baltimore Orioles.
Mike Kelly, of the Boston Brotherhood,
is excelling all the catchers in throwing.
OLD Ezra B. Button is playing a wonder¬
ful game at second for the Hartford (Conn.)
club.
The two New York captains, Ewing and
Glasscock, lead their respective teams in base
stealing.
President -Spalding, of the Chicago
the League club, thinks the revolt has injured
game.
Very few o! the heavy hitters of last
season are astonishing the League patrons
this season
Despite financial weakness Pittsburg per¬
sists in carrying more men than any other
League team.
The successful Brotherhood pitchers are
Daley, Vau Haltren, of Boston- Knell, of Philadelphia, and
of Brooklyn.
“Strong-arm Rusie” is the latest title of
the New York League club’s wonderful
young pitcher and heavy batter.
Tom Ramsey, of the St. Louis club, bids
fair to become a terror once more. He seems
to hat e regained his oid-time form.
Pitcher Tim Keefe, of the New York
Play ers’ team, believes that Princeton will
win the intereo’legiate pennant this year.
It is the confession of the Milwaukee Her¬
ald that it cannot intelligently describe a
game of baseball in the German language.
Fogkrty hfts resigned tho captaincy and
management of the Buffinton* Philadelphia Players’ his
League club and has taken
place.
No shortstop in the Brotherhood, not even
excepting John Ward, is playing a better
game delphiar. at i.hortfleld than Shindle, of the Phila
Team work is the feature of the Boston
rificing J-eague his club's playing. interest Every for the man advance¬ is sac¬
own
ment of the club’s.
Glasscock, of the New York League team,
who was such a heavy batter last season, has
proven very weak thus far. The reason for
it is an attack of malaria.
Never before in the history of baseball
have so many games been postponed by rea¬
son of bad weather as there were this spring.
They are cutting a big hole in the profits.
Herman Long, the new Boston;, League
shortstop, bids_ fair to outrival Ward as an
attraction. He is playing the position even
better than Glasscock, who is the recognized
king of shortstops.
The noisy methods of coaching which at
ono time was so largely condemned by the
League is recognized as an important old factor
to the game both by the new and organ¬
izations this season
T In the ,. good , old ,, days , when u the Mutuals , , and .
Atlantic*, , of New _V ork city, playi ed their
games on the tree Elysian Fields. H oboken,
j it was nothing extraordinary to have
* people at a game,
,, Captain ... AV ... ard s Brooklyn wonder ,, ,,, Players , Club ... ,
to of the season,
men are f full of confidence and they are
plapngfine balk and Ward he works the player, od
* team ls ulana K
systematically and well.
. 9 ."® ' jea S', President le ”, r , Spalding, must of 8® Chicago, *°
*7*
*«id remark, 1 *. sfitmuied everywhere.
*
ciai e the same for the Flayers League,
The heavy batting and large scores of the
Brotherhood gaihes are causing a great deal
of comment. Some say the pitching is weak,
while others think the ball is too lively. On
the other hand, the hitting League and games small are re¬
markable for weak scores.
Since the centre field fence at the new
Polo Grouud in New York city was moved
back thirty feet such a thing as lifting tbs
ball over it was a feat which the critics
thought never could he accomplished. Tier
nan, however, did it in the thirteenth inning
of a recent league game between the New
Yorks and the Bostons, and made a homer,
which was the only run scored during tin
game
players’ league record.
Fnrf
Won. Lost. ot. Won. Lost, ct
Buffalo____ 7 11 .389 Pittsburg.. 7 8 .461
Brooklyn.. 10 9 . 520 New York. 5 8 .38J
Philadel’a. 8 9 .471 Boston.... 12 7 .631
Chicago...11 5 .688 Cleveland. 5 8 .38i
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
/*>• Pei
Wok. Los*, f't. Won. Lost, ct
Philadel .11 (1 .017 Cincin’ati.. 8 8 ,50(
Boston.,., 8 U .421 New York. 7 9 .4*
Pittsburg,. 8 1 0 .4441Brooklyn.. 9 8 ,52f
Chicago.,, 8 0 ,571 j Cleveland . 6 7 KB
AMERICAS ASSOCIATION RECORD.
/»-• Pei
Won. Lost, ati Won.Lost. ct.
Louisville..10 8 .550 Brooklyn.. 3 15 .107
Columbus 9 11 .450,Syracuse. . 8 11 .421
. ,700iSt. if
Athletic.. .12 5 Louis. ,19 9
Rochester. 14 ft .700 Toledo ... 8 9 .47!
ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION RECORD.
Per t*.
Won. Lost. ct. Won. Lost. ct.
Newark 9 8 . 529 IVash’gt'n. 13 3 .811
Worcester. 6 7 462 Baltimore. 10 7 .586
.
Hartford 7 9 .438 N. Haven.. 9 7 .56.
. 2 15 .lit
Jersev City 8 8 .500,Wilm’2t’n.
The Best Protector in Central
America.
In Central America travel is generally
undertaken at night, to avoid the heat
and glare of dav, and twelve hours at a
stretch in the saddle are not thought who
excessive. The traveler, therefore,
would see very much of the interior
must expect to encounter many hard- petty
Inconveniences, annoyances and
ships. Though peril i* not always added to
privation, vet it will be well to wear con¬
spicuously a revolver. This little mouth¬
piece of'iron will secure its possessor
proper attention and freedom from insult.
He may not need to use it, but it known
presence is a pit cut force. Your^ this pocket silent
will be safer when pistol guarded is Cerberus by that
w atching. The a
accepts no sorts.
The Salmon ia a Great Home Body.
In regard to the wonderful migratory
instinct of salmon. Lord Duumore says
that he caught on his property m the Isle
oi thirty 'salmon! ThTs^hc marked anil
carried alive in island; his yacht to the opposite all
side of the where they were
turned into a lake. In the course of the
same season in which they were trans- of
ported it was ascertained that some -ill
the*e some tish had come back again, miles
the way home a circuit forty a
least through the pathless waters of tne
„reat Atlantic, passing several rivers in
their journey, up which they might have
a-onc had they not preferred their native
stream.—lScientific Aramaean.
VOL. XVI. NO. 27.
CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
two little kitties.
There was once a little kitten,
Whose fur was brown and gray;
She would drive the other kitties
From t lie bread and milk away.
There was plenty in the saucer,
There was more upon the shelf;
But this naughty, greedy kitten
Wanted all of it herself.
She had been coaxed and petted,
She had been punished, too,
But Kittie still would snarl and bits
Whatever we would do.
And when the meal was over,
7.'there remained a bit,
She did not want the others
To have a taste of it.
There was another kitten,
A little downy ball,
11’bo would sit and wait for break fas*
Till Miss Greedy ate it all.
She would wipe her dainty whisker*
With her pretty velvet feet,
And wait in meek submission
For something she could eat.
8he would not drive the kittens
From the bread and milk away.
Now, like which of these two kitties
Will our darling be today?
~~ Tansy,
DIFFERENT BIKDS.
Besides earth burrowers there are
wood burrowers among the birds. You
all know the habit of our woodpecker,
of boring into a tree and building
within tho opening made. The nut¬
hatch makes a similar nest, as does tha
South American toucan—a bird with an
enormous bill, which it thrusts, as a
defensive weapon, out of the door of
its domicile, to warn off aggressive
monkeys, snakes or other enemies.
Then there are swinging nests, which
dangle from the end of a bough and
rock tho infant birdies on the tree tops
until they are old enough to fly away.
Perhaps you have seen tho nest or the.
Baltimore oriole, which is constructed
after this fashion, though some African
birds build very beautiful and wonder¬
ful hanging nests. Among these are
the weaver birds, whoso nests arc flask
shaped and woven in and out as neatly
as a basket-maker’s work; aud tha
tailor-bird, which sews her nest up in
leaves, tiling a fibre or small root for
thread and her bill for needle. The
Australian honey-eater makes a ham¬
mock of fine grass, which she swings
from two small tough twigs, and all
the humming-birds, I believe, make
hanging nests.
Another class of birds make nests
daubed with mud; you know tho black
■* W T--
martin, and there may be others I can¬
not remember just now. There is an
African bird—the oven bird—that
makes a round, hollow ball of mud, at
the side of which she opens a door and
lines inside with softest moss and
feathers. Tho nest bakes as hard as a
brick, and furnishes a very substantial
home for the little brood which is
reared within. I could tell you of
many other curious nests if I had titua
— Picayune.
THE YOUNG AND THE OLD.
It is sometimes said that Western
nations havo some things to learn from
the dignified and urbane Orientalists,
and assurodiy Young America might sit
at the feet of Oriental youths to find
that they possess virtues worth emulat¬
ing. Courtesy and reverence are two
virtves strenuously inculcated by ths
Orientalists, and conspicuously lacking
in typical Young America. Some
American lads in their teens talk flip
jiantly about the “guv’nor” and the
“old man,” by way of designating the
father whom they aro com minded to
honor, thus recklessly trampling under
foot all filial reverence.
In the heathen nation of China the
government lays great stress upon the
family relation, and chi'd.en are reared,
not only in the most dutiful regard for
their parents, but in a most profound
respect for elderly people. Age alons
entitles a man to respectful treatment
in China. When a poor old man, a
ttranger, enters a small Chinese villaga.
the people leave their various occupa¬
tions and stand in respectful quiet until
he has passed out of sight, If this
same old man bad appeared in some
American villages, ho would perhaps
have been called a “tramp” and “an
old codger, ’1 with possibly a volley of
stones to add zest to tho greeting. In
China, if a person lives to be a century
old, he has the privilege of petitioning
government to build an elegant marb-o
monument commemorative of the fact.
There are many su«h memorials in
China,
p> oe9 a „ e win the respect which is it*
due from Youag America! There is a
great charm in the fresh enthusiasm of
y 0U th, but mature age and old age have
he - r immeasurab le advantages. Honor
the veteran who , , has fought . , . long on the
battlefield of life, and now flags a little
, n tll0 cou flf c t. Wbat can reflect *
chgrm upon youth than tender.
| gentle courtesy to tho aged ^ nitonm? pilgrim
. grouped
Let the „ rac ioua virtues be
j 'be c ospel banner,