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THE MONROE ADVERTISER,
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FORSYTH, - - GEORGIA
The amount of'capital invested in pot
leri'-s in this country is now $3,000,000,
and the value of last year's product was
about the 3ame. The growth of the ia
fustry has been materially increased by
the manufacture of jara and pots for
decoration by young women with the
rt craze.
Speaking of the use of alcoholic
preparations in the treatment of cholera
and kindred diseases the British Medical
Journal says: ‘-The superstitious value
attached to alcohol in the treatment of
disease is fu-t disappearing from en
lightened medical circles, and the use of j
alcoholics in the great London hospitals
is largely diminishing, with good re
sults." It illu-trates the sentiment by
referring to the experience of the* -Lon •
don temperance hospital, where alcohol
has been given in only three out of three
thousand in-patient cases, with an
average annual mortality of five percent,
during twelve years.
The Xorwagians in Minnesota have in
troduced their peculiar snow shoes there.
The shoes are made of strips of hard
wood, about ten leet long and six inches
wide, slightly turned vip in front. They
are fastened to the foot at about the mid
dle of the shoe. The wearer slides over
the snow, not trying to lift the shoes.and
carries a pole with which to keep liis bal
ance. After the big snows of the past
winter these shoes were almost the only
means of locomotion in Dodge county.
It was not unusual to see something like
half a cord of shoes piled in front of a
store, within which their wearers were
shopping.
Every minute of the day seventy human
beings are brought into existence and
sixty-seven are removed, says a writer.
The population of the world is steadily
increasing at the rate of three per minute,
of 4,320 per day, more than 1,500,000
per year. Just think of the yearly in
crease of man being equal to the entire
population of the State of lowa. Where
do they all go? The home of the huamn
race, so far as we are able to learn, was
in Asia, and from there all the nations
have come. The rapid increase of popu
lation in the United States shows the
tendency of the race to scatter and seek
new fields.
‘‘The Rebels’ Rest’’ is the name of a
house that stands in the wilderness of
Sao Paulo, the most southern of the
Brazilian provinces, and within a few
miles of the house are a score or so of
plantations held by men once citizens of
the United States. These colonists went
thither at the collapse of the Confeder
acy. They now number about GOO per
sons, and they still keep up their Ameri
can manners and commercial customs.
The leader of the little band, Robert
Burton, who was a civil engineer, re
cently saw Bedford Mackey, the United
States consul at Rio Grande do Sul, and
assured him of the prosperity of the
planters, who, however, often wish they
were in North America again.
William Guyton was a bratvetnau v-. ;
the Evansville and Terre Hail'C railway.
There was a collision in which he "was
badly injured, but remembering that a
passenger train was due soou, he managed
to extricate himself from the wreck, and,
mangled and bleeding, seized a red flag
and staggered up the track. Twice he
fell from exhaustion, but pluckily got up
aud went on and flagged the train 500
yards from the place of danger. Then
he fainted away and remained uncon
scious for two days. When lie recovered
he w s a cripple for life. Resent the
doctor’s bill to the railroad company and
payment was refused. Then he sued for
SIO,OOO, and a jury has just awarded him
$5,083 damages after four years of liti
gat ion.
Articles of incorporation has been 1
sued at Springfield, 111., to the Trans
continental Aerial Navigation company
at Chicago to establish aerial transporta
tion lines, the capital stock being $150,-
000 and the incorporators Dr. Arthur De
Bausatt, Eugene Marquerat, and Jules
Lang. Mr. De Bausatt lias lived in Chi
cago for several years, and has made a
study of aerial navigation for over twen
ty-two years. His ideal is to build an
air ship, the length of which will be 174
feet. Its width is to be twenty-four feet
and its height twenty-two feet. It is
expected to prove by the vacuum theory
that it is possible to navigate the air by
the laws of gravitation, by overcoming
the pressure of the atmosphere without
the use of hydrogen or any other gas.
The doctor is in receipt of a very flatter
ing letter from the Smithsonian institute
concerning his invention.
At the recent convention of the Na
tional Agricultural and Dairy associa
tion in New York, a paper was read bv
S. Sato, of Japan, on "The Past and
Present of the Agrarian System in Ja
pan." Mr. Sato described the land ten
ure and agriculture under the old feudal
system and said that lands were now held
chiefly in fee-simple by peasant proprie
tors. The average of farms iu Japan
was one acre, as against 134 acres in the
United State-. The method of farming
was to work a small piece of ground
carefully and always up to its fullest ca
pacity. Ihe law of diminishing returns
had apparently not been carried out. The
same plot had yielded the same crop
of rice for many years. Lately stock
hail been introduced, but only a few of
the wealthiest classes ate flesh to any ex
tent. The farmers lived on the cereals
and fruits. Of the 37,000,000 inhabi
tants 10,000,000 were engaged in flori
culture.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTZILN AMD MIDDLE STATES.
J Ames Andrews, an old man. being reject
ed by Miss Elsie Williams, at Oxford. Conn.,
killed her with an axe and then finished his
own career with poison.
Rev. “Sam” Jones, the Southern evange
list, will hold revival meetings for eight
weeks in Boston next fall.
George Neall, the Newark (N. J.i pound
keeper, died the other day in horrible torture
from hydrophobia engendered by a mad
deg's bite.
After another conference between the
Knights of Ijabor representatives and Jav
Gould in New York on thß 30th Master
Workman Powderly telegraphed toSt. Louis,
ordering the strikers in the Southwest to rm
turn to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his
home at Scranton. Penn., and three members
of the Knights of Labor executive board
started for St. Louis to aid in settling the
strike by arbitration.
During the severe storms of a few days
ago, two large steamers went ashore—
the Capital City, running between New York
and Hartford, striking the rocks off Rye
Beach, N. Y., and the Europa, from Ham
burg bound for New York, going aground
near Quogue, Long Island. No lives were
lost, but both vessels were badly damaged.
The steamship Gulf of Akaba,from Huelva
bound for New York, with thirty-five men
on board, has been given up as lost.
The strike of B,oo(4operatives in the Cohoes
(N. Y.) mills has ended, the mill-owners con
ceding the twelve per cent, increase in wages.
Dr. Edward he L. Bradin, who attended
Neall, the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur
ing his fatal attack of hydroj-hobia, is him
self in danger, and has started for Paris for
treatment by M. Pasteur. While attending
to his patient frothy saliva from the man’s
lips came in contact with Dr. Bradin's sore
1 numb. The doctor is the seventh person who
has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula
tion against hydrophobia.
Miners in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate the eight-hour sys
tem in the mines after May 1.
Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk has
been arrested in New York on the charge of
bribery in connection with the Broadway
horse car company's franchise, obtained
from the city's aldermanic board in 1884. The
confession of ex-Alderman Waite led to
Kirk’s arrest.
SOUTH AND WEST.
General Delgado and Colonel Morey
were held for trial at Key West, Fla., as
suspected filibusters. The trial will take
place in New York in May.
Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary
have been detected in the manufacture of
counterfeit coin.
Two negroes, charged with murder, were
taken from the jail at Alamo, Tenn., by a
crowd and hanged.
The civil authorities proved powerless at
East St. Louis, 111., on the 30th, and a crowd
of 1,500 men forced the sheriff to retire, as
saulted his deputies, and destroyed and dam
aged thousands of dollars’ worth of railroad
property. Early in the morning Sheriff
Ropiquet called for a posse. Only twelve
men responded and they were soon put to
flight. The mob invaded the yards and dis
abled a score of engines, and drove the few
workmen who refused to leave their work out
of the city.
Mrs. Timothy Hurley, her lifteen-year
old daughter and her new-born infant, were
burned to death in a lire at Bronson, Mich.
Six other persons were also badly burned.
Geronimo, the captured Apache chief,
with twenty of his followers, has escaped
from the custody of the United States troops
in Arizona.
On the Ist the decree came from St. Louis
that the strike must go on. The executive
board of the Knights of Labor for the dis
tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould’s rep
resentatives were acting with duplicity; that
they refused to re-employ men identified with
the strike, and that they would not receive
or confer with representatives of the order.
For this reason the board declined to name a
time for the strikers to resume work, and
issued an appeal to the country in the form
of a short official address. The Missouri
Pacific road claimed to be running its freight
trains with regularity, and announced its
ability to handle all freight committed to its
care. At East St. Louis the strike was still
in full force, and all freight was blockaded
except on the Wabash road.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: William L. Alden, of New
’ —neral at Rome; Charles T.
* 01% UOtJSUj . '-V T ,- vprnr ,o]. 0 ].
Russell, of Coimeetlcuij consul . r . ,
Samuel E. Wheatley, to be commissioiiVv of
the District of Columbia; Samuel T. Corn, to
be associate justice, Wyoming Territory.
In executive session on the 31st ! Mr. Logan
made a speech favoring open sessions. The
nomination of the postmaster at Webster
City, lowa, was rejected by a nearly unan
imous vote on the charge of “offensive par
tisanship.”
The nomination of William M. Merrick
for judge of the District of Columbia has
been confirmed by the Senate notwithstand
ing the adverse report of the judiciary com
mittee.
The collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1886, amount to $75,158,200, an in
crease of $2,416J388 over the receipts for the
corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
Additional confirmations bv the Senate:
William C. Emmet, of New York, consul at
Smyrna; Allen R, Bushnell, of Wisconsin,
attorney western district of Wisconsin: Alex
ander H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland:
H. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con
sul at Venice; William Gordon, of New
York, consul at Medelin: H. C. Crouch, of
New York, consul at Milan; Galusha Pen
nell. of Michigan, marshal eastern district
of Michigan; Spuille Braden, of Montana, to
be assayer, Helena: George F. Baylis, of
New York, surveyor of customs, Port Jeffer
son, N. Y.: Arthur D. Bissell, of New York,
collector of customs for district of Buffalo
Creek, N. Y.: Brigadier-General O. O. How
ard, major-general, vice Pope, retired.
The reduction of the national debt last
month was $14,057,584, leaving the total debt
on the Ist. less cash in the treasury, at sl.-
417,992,235.
During March the total government re
ceipts were $30,076,106, aud expenditures.
$13,981,675.
FOREIGN.
Prince Bismarck has statedin the German
reichstag that if great European troubles
should arise they would probably become iu
ternational, aud that in his opinion the
French army was opposed to workingmen's
movements.
St. Johns, N. F., has been the scene of an
exciting labor riot. A mob, demanding
labor and railroad extension, assembled
around the parliament buildings with flags,
stormed the assembly house, routed the police
and broke into the council chamber, planting
their banner on the table of the house.
An explosion of petroleum occurred the
other day on board a vessel at Baku. Russia.
The vessel was wrecked, aud the entire crew,
consisting of thii teen persons, perished.
Bulgaria having refused the demands of
Russia to submit certain questions to the
European powers, is threatened with in
vasion by the czar's troops, and the possi
bility of a war is again looming up.
Massacres at Catholic missions in Antiam
are reported, the number of victims being
442.
The total cumber of arrests made in Bel
gium in connection with the labor riots is
5,500. Hundreds of persons were killed or in
, jured, scores of buildings destroyed and dam
age amounting to millions ot dollars was in
j flieted.
The steamship Resolute, whaler and sealer,
• has been crushed by ice and sent to the bot
tom off the coast of Newfoundland. Her
| crew, numbering 330 men. were forced to
, leap for life, abandoning everything. All
but three reached land, seventy miles from
the scene of the disaster. At the time of the
accident the Resolute had captured 2-' -kjO
seal-.
A DUEL with pistols in which one of the
principals was instantly killed has been
fought between two French officials in a pri
vate house at Yairea.-.
SETTLED BY ARBITRATION.;
THE RAILROAD STRIKE IS THI
SOUTHWEST AT AS ESV.
Negotiation* Between Jay Could and
The Knights of Labor.
The executive board of the Knighta ol
Labor met in New York on and pro
posed to ay iould, preside atof the Missouri
Pacific raimoad. that a committee of seven
be appointed to arbitrate upon the matters
in dispute which had ted to the strike on
the ' oaW system of railroads in the South
west. This offer o: the Knights was
at first refused by President Gould
up n the ground principally that an
agreement made with the Missouri Parific
road last August by the employes not to
strike without due notice had b en violated
by the latter. This reply of Jay Gould
seemed to put an end to a chance for set
tlement. But the straine 1 rela
tions which seemed to exist between
the officers of the Missouri Pacific
railway aud the general executive board of
the Knights of Labor on the 27th were only
strain-, din appearance. On the 28th General
Master Workman Powderly and W. O. Mc-
Dowell, a member of “the Knights of
Labor from Newark, N. J., a railroad
man himself, representing the Knights
of Libor, and Mr. Gould and Vice-President
Hopkins in behalf of the companies, met at
the house of Mr. Gould. The strike was
discussed from beginning to end,
in. Mr. Powderly says, a friendly
spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and
l oth sides acquired a great deal of informa
tion which they had not before possessed.
Then an adjournment was taken until even
ing in order that each might think
the matter over in its new light.
Vt seven o'clock they met a second time, and
a ter two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow
derly left to fulfil an engagement. Half an
hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He
bore with him the following communication
from Mr. Gould:
The Missouri Pacific Railway Cos. |
New York, March 28. j
T. V. Powderly, Esq , G. M. W:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of the
27th in-f.. I write to say that I will to-morrow
morning send the following telegraphic in
structions :
11. M. Ho.de, General Manager , St. Louis:
In resuming the movement of trains on the
Missouri Pacific, and in the employment of
labor in the several departments of this
company, you will give preference to our
late employes, whether they are Knights of
Labor or not, except that you
will not employ any person who has “in
jured the company’s property during the
late strike, nor will we discharge any person
who has taken service with the company
during the said strike. Wo see no objection
to arbitrating any differences, between the
employes and the company, past or future.
Hoping the above will be satisfactory I re
main, yours very truly,
Jay Gould, President.
Mr. Powderly received the communication
at the Astor House about 11 o’clock and im
mediately sent out the following telegram:
New York, March 28, 1886.
Martin Irons,Chairman Executive Board ,
District Assembly Xo. 101, St. Louis:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and so telegraphs
I Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume
| work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
The following general order was also sent
out by telegraph before midnight:
New York, March 28, 1886,
To the Knights of Labor, now on strike in
the Southwest:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration and so
telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur
suant to telegraphic instructions sent
to the chairman of the executive board
of District Assembly No. 101, you are di
rected to resume work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.
Congressman John J. O’Neil who is chair
man of the labor commi tee of the House of
Representatives, reached the Astor house
just in t'me to be the first
to < ongratulate Mr. Powderly on the
successful issue of the strike. He had
come from Washington to take a hand
in the settlement hiwKf. He brought with
him the text Of a Labol' bill, intended for
immediate presentation to the House, and
; submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He weut back
to Washington on the midnight train, after
sending the following despatch to the St.
Louis Republican.
Settlement of strike effected. Gould con
sents to arbitration. Executive committee,
Knights of Labor, order men to resume
work. Congratulate our people on results.
In the course of an interview General Mas
ter Workman Powderly was asked how many
men had engaged iu the strike and replied:
“Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road,
and there must have been at lead 12,000 or
direct employes. Beside this^
C? cwTSC, “"j IfiGre men ana
women have been thrown out of work
j by the closing of the mills and factories, which
was brought about by the failure to run
i trains. The strike has demonstrated iu a
mtst forcible manner the necessity of laws to
regulate the relations between employers and
employed, and Mr. O’Neill’s bill will come in
very pat just at this time.”
The executive committee of the district as
sociations of the Knights of Labor in St.
Louis issued orders on the 2Sth for the men to
resume work. In the evening the order was re
scinded, a dispatch having been reoe ; -<V
from Master Workman Powderly stating that
fresh complications had arisen as to methods
of arbitration. In East St, Louis, IU., the
strikers thwarted all attempts to move
freight, and the sheriff at length appealed to
Governor Oglesby for assistance.
After Grand Master Workman Powderly
had held a second conferen ?e with Jay Gould in
New York, on the 30th, he telegraphed to St.
Louis, ordering the striking employes on the
various railroads to return to work. Mr.
Powderly then went home to Scranton,
Penn., and a committee of three members of
the executive board of the Knights of Labor
proceeded to St. Louis, to confer with the
railroad authorities with a view to a settle
| rnent of existing differences,
j At St. Louis, on the 31st, Martin Irons,
chairman of the executive committee of
District Assembly No. 101, which embraces
all Knights of Labor employed by the
Missouri Pacific Railway company,
telegraphed to the diffe ent local
assemblies under his jurisdiction, notifying
them officially that the general executive
board had ordered all the men to go to work
pen ling arbitration of tb ■ existing difficul
ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific
employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of
this order many of the men returned to work
and freight trains began moving once more.
KEY WEST S GREAT FIRE.
The Principal Part of the Florida Citj
Laid in Anlieet.
A firestarted in the San Carlos theatre,
Key West, Fla,, on the morning of the 30th
and soon went beyond the control of the fire
men. A fresh wind blowing from the south
caused the flames to spread, and soon five
blocks in the center of the city were
destroyed. The Episcopal and Baptist
churches were burned about noon, and be
fore 3 p. M. when the fire subsided,
ever fifty houses in all were laid
in ashes. They included Masonic
haU. three or four cigar factories and the
bonded warehouse, containing $250,000
worth cf tobacco. Officers from the
United States steamers Brooklyn and
Powhattan aided iu b’owing up some of
the houses with powder to prevent the
spread of the flames. There was no water
supply, the cisterns iieing mostly dry.
The fire subsided at 3 o'clock. The
principal part of the town has been burned.
Six wharves an I five brick warehouses were
among the structures destroyed. About
fifteen persons were injured, of whom six
were taken to the Marine hospital and others
on board the men-of-war.
The damage to property is estimated at
sl,suo.uuo. Individual losses cannot be
known, but terrible sufferings and privations
have been eutail-d. B tweenfive thousand
and six thousand people were thrown out of
employment by the burning of the factories,
and no provision could at once be made for
the large number rendered homeless. The
j United States court and its records are con
sumed. The other government offices re
moved their records early to the revenue
steamer Dix. where a number of people took
i refuge aud were cared for by the officers.
THE RAGING FLOODS.
WIDESPREAD DESTR LT TIOS I \
THE SOUTH ASD SOUTH.
Citiend Yillne* Submerged mid People
Driven From Tlieir Home*.
Freshets in mauy parts of the country have
done great damage. Many houses on the
Tennessee river were abandoned, an 1 the
water ran through the doors and windows.
The damage iu the lower part of Lynchburg,
Va , was heavy. One-third of the Richmond
and Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to
Buchanan, forty miles, was submerged, a id
all the trestling was washed away. The vil
lage of Northpjrt, Va., was almost sub
merged, aud the iron bridge was under water
at both ends.
In West Virginia the Kanawha and Elk
rivers rose rapidly. One-half of Charleston,
W. Va.. was under water, and many dwell
ings occupied by poor people were submerg
ed. The Western Union wires were im ier
water from that town to Point Pleasant,
sixty miles.
Floods near Pownal. Vt., raised the Hoosac
river to such a height that the Tro t &
Boston railroad track was covered with live
or six feet of water aud debris. No tia us
could get through, and the company's ie e
graph wires were all down. Land slides
along the east bank of the Hudson retarded
travel between Troy aud Albany.
A freshet along the Midland division of
the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped
all trains, and travel was not resumed
for several days. It was snowing hard there.
In Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin there was
a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight
hours. The snowfall ranges from four to
fifteen inches.
A heavy rain and melting snow back in
the mountains, raised the rivers in Vermont
so that great damage was done. Main street,
in Berlin, across the river from Montpelier,
was filled many feet high with ice for nearly
one mile. The Winooski branch was higher
thaffi fit any time since 1869. A house on the
bank of the river, occupied by William Lind
sey, was swept from the foundations by i a
The family was asleep when the shock came,
but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on
the Northeastern road at East Richford was
carried away.
At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel’s
river formed in a big jam just below Mechanic
street bridge and caused the river to be par
tially turned from its course, so that about
one-half the stream ran down Mechanic
street, carrying huge cakes of ice
along jn its course. Nearly all the
houses in that section of the village were
flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich
olas Wilson were carried away and are a
total loss. The Stewart house, a small hotel,
was flooded, but the guests aud occupants
were rescued from the second story by means
of ladders and boats.
William E. Robertson, with six French la
borers, stated from Bradsboro,Yt., for Sears
burg, where they were all going log-rolling.
When crossing Keith bridge, about a mile
from any house,the bridge gave way and the
men and horses were precipitated into the
river. The water was very high an I only
two escaped. Robertson and three French
men were drowned.
The greatest disaster by the floods iu Ala
bama was along the Alabama and Coosa
rivers, in Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, An
tauga and Dallas counties. Wetumptka, the
county seat of Elmore county, and the coun
try around it were in a deplorable plight.
Water was four feet deep in business houses
of the town, and occupants were driven
out of many of the residences. A con
vict farm was flooded and all hands had to
take to the rafts and then floated for m lea
on these before they could land safely. < toe
farmer was drowned while crossing a stream.
There is not a bridge left in Elmore county,
and only one mill. Untold damage lias
been done further down the river, t ei.na
was cut off from the outer world by and ;r.i •-
tion of railroad bridges and tracks, an 1 a
vast area of farming country tributary t > it
was under water. The Coosa river at Ga la
den was the highest ever known. Railroad
traffic and mail service were paralyzed n a ly
all over the State.
The James river at Richmond, Va., ro e
steadily, aud nearly all that part of the city
known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by : o >r
families, was submerge Ito a depth off o;n
eight tauten feet. Numerous families were
drivent,bni r h >mas a id fcuUto seals
flielter else ivhere.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
India’s national debt is $1,250,000,000.
There are 307,804 public school teachers in
the United States.
The dynamite attacks on buildings cost
England $250,000 for repail's.
Georgia has a law making death the pun
ishment for burglary in the night time.
Experiments in steering balloons are to be
ma/le in all the fortified places in France.
Wolves have become so plentiful near
Washington, 111., that th y hunt in packs.
Massachusetts has a law prohibiting
the sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen.
Thirteen thou and stray dogs have been
killed by the London police since the hydro
phobia scare began.
The exercises on Decoration Day at Gen
eral Grant’s tomb will be of a very elaborate
and national character.
The International Congo association has
for want of funds abandoned several of its
s ations in Central Africa.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine trees
were planted a few years ago is now worth
SIOO an acre for its timber.
Jacksonville, Fla., is paving its deeply
sandy streets with wooden blocks save ; out
by steam sawmills right in town.
It is calculated that there are 300 unions in
New York city, with an aggregate member
ship of 100.000 men and women.
Justice Butt, of London, has render and a
decision to the effect that a divorce ol .toned
in America is invalid in England,
In Michigan there is anew factory for a
new purpose —to make a substitute for whale
bone out of the quills of geese and turkeys.
An extensive mine of rubidium, a rare
metal worth $5,000 a pound, has been discov
ered near Rock Creek, Wyoming Territory.
The leading ladies' assembly of the
Knights of Labor is the Garfield Assembly,
of Philadelphia, having, it is said, 1,000 mem
bers.
In January, 1885, his big scholars gave a
Wilson county (Kansas) school teacher a
ducking. He has just received $3,000 dam
ages.
A company with SIOO,OOO capital has been
organized at Pittsburg to try to break the
patent controlled by the fruit jar monopo
lists.
The Washington Star attributes the illness
that has overcome several secretaries of the
treasury to the presence of sewer gas in the
building.
Grafted trees of the Japanese c-he 'nut
are now growing and yielding on Long Is
land. They bear from seed in from thre - to
five years."
Dakota farmers are making plans to grow
flax for fuel this summer. It is said that a
ton of flax straw is worth more to burn than
a ton of soft coal.
Germany has eight schools of forestry,
where five years" training is required of
those who seek positions under the govern
ment, although a course of study half as long
may be taken by amateurs. France supports
a single school at Nancy.
THE RIOTS IN BELGIUM.
Towns and Villages Pillaged, and Many
People Killed.
The strikes in Belgium growing out of the
depressed condition of the iron and st .el
trades have resulted in a terrible series of
disturbances and collisions with the military
in various parts of the country. A r ung
to one dispatch the damage to the property
in the disturbed district was estimated at
$5,000,090. There were more than 15,000
soldiers in the field. Every jewelry store
and gun shop in Charleroi, and nearly every
liquor warehouse and liquor saloon was
looted. Churches were robbea of ail arti les
of precious metal. More than 100 collieries,
foundries and residences were burned. Hun
dreds of persons were killed or wounded.
Many citizens were robbed in the street, in
daylight. One young woman v. ho wore a dia
mond ring that was tight upon the finger had
her finger amputated by ruffians with a chisel
and mallet. .Scores of “women were brutally
assaulted. In two cases mothers had the hr ains
of their babies dashed cut before their eyes.
B ?fore order was restored more than 2,500
arrests were made.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Mrs. Langtry has finally decided to tour j
this country again next season.
Kienzl’s new opera "Urassi" has been
brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre in
Dresden.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is siuging
now away down in the region of the Rio
Grande.
Emperor William has positively refused
Nieman. the singer, permission to make a
tour of America.
Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an
English manager to return to the stage. She
will make her second venture in London.
"The Harbor Lights," the latest melodra
matic success in London, will be produced at
the Boston Museum bv Manager Field, next
fall.
Cincinnati has been afflicted with more
than twenty different "Mikado” companies ]
this season, and yet there has been no rioting
there.
Anew society drama,much after the style
of “Fedora.” has been completed by Os. an- !
van. a Turkish journalist residing in New
York, for Fanny Davenport.
Mue. Sembrich. the great prima douna,
has been singing with great success iu Riga,
Wilna. St. Petersburg and Moskow. Russia
is a good field for enterprising singers.
The Countess Agatha Dorufield. is to be
gin a thirty-two weeks' tour of this country
on September 6, next, in a reportory consist
ing of "She Stoops to Conquer,” " Romeo and
Juliet,” etc.
Patti vigorously resents the imputation
that her popularity is on the wane. She as
serts that her three concerts in Paris averaged
ste 000 a night, and that her reception was
most cordial.
Mr. Edward E. Kidder has just finished
what he terms a “Frivolous Farce,” iu three
acts, which satirizes in a good-natured man
ner the entire secret workings of the stage
and the craze of young society girls for hand
some actors.
May 10th Edwin Booth and Tomasso
Salvini will begin an engagement at the
Boston theatre. Two performances of
“Othello" will be given, one with the Italian
in the title-role and the American as “lago,”
and one with the parts reversed.
There were 130,300 people who attended
the performances of the German Opera com
pany during the season recently closed iu
New York, according to Manager Stanton.
As there were fifty-two representations, the
average attendance was about 2,505.
BASE BALL NOTES.
Dunoon, a mute pitcher, is doing tine work
for the Nashville.s.
Some of the Southern league clubs play a
trong game of ball.
A nine of female ball-tossers has been
playing Sunday games at New Orleans.
The new grand stand on the Metropolitan j
grounds, Staten Island, will co-t $27,000.
In a game of baseball played at Savannah
Ga., a short time ago, the Pittsburgs scored 1
to the Savannahs 0 in fifteen innings.
J. E. Sullivan, a professional ball
player, a few days sitice committed suicide
at Grand Rapids, Mich. He was in ill health
and somewhat dissipated.
jThe seven clubs which compose the New ;
England league are as follows: Boston, Port- I
land, Brockton, Somerville, Lawrence,
Haverhill and Newburyport.
The new Gulf league comprises clubs in j
Selma, Ne.v Orleans, Montgomery. Mobile,
Columbus and Pen-acola. The rules of the
National league have been adopted by the
Gulf league.
Dunlap is captain of the St. Louis
Maroons, Ward of New York’s Giants, Ansoa
commands Chicago’s Babies, Jim White is
chief of Detroit’s big four and little five, and
Morrill has charge of Bost in’s men.
The weights of the Chicago yas taken a 1
Hot Springs, Ark., are as follows: Anson*
227; McCormick, 226, Williamson, 221:
Gore, 187; Flint, 185; Kelly, 182; Dalrym- I
pie, 175; Burns, 169; Clarkson, 165: Pfeifer, 1
160; Moolic, 1581-2: Ryan, 155: Sunday,
149; Flynn, 143.
This is the time throughout the land
The base-ball tosser takes his st aid
Upon the diamond, ball in baud,
Exerting every nerve;
For well he knows the noble game
him worth and fame
If he can get the speed and aim
Of some new-fangled curve.
— Merritt.
The mask which basebaU catchers now
wear was the invention of Fred. Thayer. He
was training the Harvard nine in the winter
of ’76 and ’77, when Harrold Ernst, one of
the fastest of pitchers, was on the nine. Jim |
Tyng, who caught, said that he would not
stand behind the bat unless he could get some
sort of protection for his face. The result
was that Thayer fixed up a sort of cage, j
which hag gradually become the improved
mask of to-day.
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PERSONAL MENTION.
President Cleveland receutly spent a
few hours duck shooting.
C. P. Huntington, the railway king, says
he rests two days every week.
Representative Abram S. Hewitt will
not be a candidate for re-election to Con
gress.
Mr. George Hearst, the new Senator
from California, is said to have an income of
$2,000 a day.
M. Pasteur is spoken of as a modest,retir
ing and unaffected man in social life, and a
hospitable entertainer.
Fred. Douglass and his white wife are daily
visitors in the United States Senate gallery.
They are going abroad this summer.
General John B. Gordon will deliver the
address at the unveiling of the Confederate 1
monument at Myrtle Hill cemetery at Rome,
Ga., on May 10.
Miss Marian Foster, the crippled artist,
has visited the White House, at the invita
tion of Mi ss Cleveland, and had au inter
view with the President,of whom she is paint
ing a portrait.
President Holden, of the California State
university, receives a salary of $5,000 as pres
ident, and $3,<100 as director of the Lick ob
servatory. This is the largest salary paid to
any college president in the country.
Mr. Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the best paid body of skilled artisans in the
United States, is an American of Scotch-
Irish extraction. He is a man of fifty-five,
and has been chief for the last ten years.
David Siton, Ohio’s richest man, is a
Scotch-Irishman, and grew up around the
big iron mills of Pittsburg. He began busi
ness as a clerk in a country store at $4 a
month; then was a clerk in a blast furnace,
afterward manager, and at last half owner.
He is worth $12,090,000, and giv es largely to
public charities.
his Lusi i'..sn.iW
A man with a red nose applied to the
theatrical manager for a position.
“Where were you employed last?”
asked the manager.
“I was in the orchestra.”
“What instrument did you blow—the
trombone?”
“Naw, I blew out the kerosene lamps
after the performance was over.”— Texas
Siftings.
MIRTHFUL YARNS.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Why He Went Away-Left All
Around— Xo Chance for the
Presidency—Wonder
ful Machine.
Chollv (trying to be funny; time, 11
M .) I"I say, Aurelia, tell me what is
the difference between that clock and
me.” ~ „
Aurelia (artlessly)—“You tell me.
Chollv —“Because it is not fast and l
ha! ha! See the point?”
Aurelia (as lie fore) —"Oh! yes; but
there’s another difference. The clock is
not going and you -he! he! See the
point— Call.
Left all Around.
“Well. 7 ’ observed the bank president
to the leading director, “the cashier
seems to have cleaned out thin oretty
thoroughly. ”
“Where is lief
‘■Kaone to Canada.”
“Then the bank is left,” replied the
director, ruefully. _ .
“Yes,” responded the president with a
sigh.” and that is about all he did leave.”
—New York Graphic.
Xo Chance for the Presidency.
•“Mamma,” said a little Fifth ward boy
lugubriously the other day, as he laid
down a volume of biographical sketches
of the Presidents, “I don’t believe I’ll
be a President. I ain’t got the chance, I
wasn't brung up right.”
“Why, child, you have the same
chance that other little boys have.”
“No, I ain’t; I wasn't born in a log
cabin, nor I ain't drove a team on the
canal, nor had to read the spellin book
by the light of a pine knot, nor had to
split rails, nor nothin’ like the rest ol the
boys who got there. I tell you.mother,
I’m handicapped on this Presidential
question.”— Elmira Gazette.
The Sewing'Circle’s Noble Work.
Hobbs —“I do envy you ladies the
pleasures of the sewing circle. Just
think, too, of the va-t good accomplished
by your nimble fingers, for the poor.”
Mrs Fogg—"Yes, we are all so inter
ested in the work. I don’t believe you
could keep any of us away from the meet
ings.”
Hobbs—“ What is the result of the ses
sions of the winter, so far?”
Mrs. Fogg “Well, we've de ided
that the minister’s wife is a lazy, good
for-nothing woman; that unless young
Spriggs proposes to Miss Brown so in,
old Brown will be justified i:i using stern
measures; that Mrs. Bangle is a deceitful
woman in telling around that her bonnet
cost $25 when it didn't cost any such
money, for Mrs. Ham bought one almost
as good for $5; that Miss Barnes
is the homliest woman in town,and a few
other things of minor importance. Then,
beside this, we’ve about resolved to de
vote two weeks of next winter to sewii g
?f the village. Tid-Bits.
omlerful Machine.
onclerful machine” is thus de- j
scribed by a writer in Mechanical Pro
gress: When I was laying the founda
tion of my mechanical fame and fortune
a few years ago. 1 boarded in a house
filled with lo emotive engineers and fire
men. A practice prevailed there of en
livening the supper table with social con
versation, and, the locomotive party
being in the majority, the leading theme
of talk was stupendous feats performed
in railway inns, varied by minor inci
dents and records of narrow escapes.
George Dcwhirst, who ran a lathe in the
shop, sat opposite to me at the table, and
he got tired of being excluded from the
conversation. He became ambitious to
hear himself talk iu that crowd. One
evening, catching on a lull in the con
versation, he called out loudly to me. !
“Well, I went over and saw that ma
chine to-day, and it is astonishing the
fine work it do vs!”
“How does it work?” I inquired.
“Well,” said he, “by means of a pedal
attachment a fulcruined lever converts a
vertical reciprocating motion into circu
lar movement. The principal part of
the machine is a disc which revolves rap
idly on a vertical plane. Power is ap
plied through the axis of the disc, and,
when the speed of the driving arbor i<
moderate, the periphery of the machine
is traveling at great velocity. Work is
done on this periphery. Pieces of the
hardest steel are by mere impact reduced
to any shape the skillful operator desires.”
“What on earth is the machine?” de
manded a listener.
“Oh! it is anew grindstone,” replied
George; and a silence that could be felt
passed round the supper table.
He Had Been Invited.
“Good morning, Mr. Johnson,” said a
young, man to an elderly and near-sighted
passenger, who had come off without his
glasses; “going up to town?”
“Yes; got to do a lot of trading at the
stores an’ I don’t know how on airth I’ll
get along without my glasses.”
“Getting ready for the wedding, I
suppose.”
“Yes; my darter Emmer is goin’ to git
married. She an’ that good-for-nothin’
Hank Williams hev made a match of it
at last. I thought that young man would
never get down to business. He’s as slow
as sorghum molasses in January, and as
shiftless as an Injun. I don’t believe he
can earn his salt, an’ I s’pose I’ll have to
support him.”
“But, Mr. Johnson—”
“Oh, he’s good enough for Emmer.
That's the worst giri I ever raised. She
hain’t a bit like her mother, nor like me,
nuther. A fine poor man’s wife she’ll
make. Beside, she hez bunions on her
feet as big as early rose potater*, an’ she
kin eat more'n a hoss. An" that ain't the
worst on’t. If twan’t for her mother that
girl wouldn’t keep herself clean, and she
never thinks o’ slickin’ up her hair nor
puttin’ on somethin’ nice ’eept when
company’s expected. She’s a reg’lar
slouch, Emmer is, an' she km wear out
seven pair of shoes a year. But she’s
good enough for that Hank Williams, an’
if he only supports her I’ll be glad to git
her off my hands. S’pose you’ve got an
invite to the weddirf?”
“Yes, I'm invited. You don't seem to
know me, Mr. Johnson?”
“Yea, I do, but I can’t just place vou.
. Le’ me see—l hav< n't got my glasses with
1 me—but I know vou. Your nai i
j is—”
“Hank Williams, sir.” — Chicago Her
aJ.d.
A Merited Thrashing.
The man who looks for fight in New
York is pretty apt to find it. I possess
the cursory acquaintance of two gentle
men of more or less distinction who Ln
dulge at times in the pleasant and dash
ing habit of imparting to the town a
deep vermilion hue in the early hours of
the morning. Two better hearted or more
agreeable men never lived, but after they
have stowed away six or eight bottles of
champagne, sung themselves hoars
had all the fun that can be got out MB
ordinary chib, they are apt C to salb ; * ■
and go booming up Broad wav at
in the morning, making the'
rable by outraging thelaw and hunuahM
in whatever way happens to strike % |
brilliant fancy. As both of th-m - j
very well known, men of prop rtv .'.Hms
exceedingly liberal, they are as u r ,'!] v .
lowed to have their own way. {
mornings ago they had exhausted the
sources of their club, tied th e sleenii
night watchman to his chair, turned f
all the gas and were roaming
way on one of their accustomed month!
rackets when they discovered two J
cers’wagons standing side bv ja,?' *
Twenty-eighth street, near Rcoa.nvc?
The drivers were in iicighh,, r ;W hotel'
delivering their goods struck f
two elegant and accomplished utlenie
who were “doing” Broadway 'x l w j n
an act of amazing effrontery ,r grocers’
clerks or anybody else to have lie imnn
donee to be earning an hone living
that hour in the morning, so. <e of them
stepped to the side "of eu er hors
and after counting one, two, into, th*v UP
dealt the beasts two tremenden
with their canes upon the r,G fbe
horses leaped forward and Ue aert
moment were blocks _• i
Twenty-eighth street,
bobbing out of the warnm omd Mh<r<ill
bestrewing the streets'. ) iie dub
jumped into a hansom rrto the d-’ve
with a grin of delight, i r i,,,j A”
away. \
The joke struck them a h ; n „ ilic j (
good one that they told many time*
at the club, and before tliev v.™
thoroughly aware of if <] uv
primed for another jourii i ■ g roj( j
way. As the two risd )n( j
jolly rounders found thcin w ;iV ~j, i; r , n .p
way in the morning they presented \
picture of complacency ami con
tent. They were clad in> dr***
and each had lire arm aroYnd the'other'i
i neck, while the other thrust car*.
• lessly into the trousers po, km. Twa
cigars stuck out from tlWeeoi mrs of their
mouths, their hats we ref on tm leek- of
: their heads and they were elmntin- a
Lcollege song with 1 1 1/' ■ air of men who ire
lat peace with all th/ world. It wastlu
I that the grocery qflerks fell upon them
They are both thf them men who talk
'much of their abilities as boxers and
j fighters, but it pain* me to observe that
they were the most thorough , completely
and generously tlirasheii men that I have
, ever seen. Their mustaches were torn,
their eyes smashed and in 6necasc a rib
broken, and when they werte taken to \
neighboring hotel, bathed, the remnant
of the mustaches shaved off .and plaster
applied to the abrasions and w,minds with
which their faces weie bespat o they
were as sorry a looking p: : o lighting
men as I have ever seen. The whole on
slaught was a surprise to them, i it it was
not to the men who know that whoever
go -s about the world !o iking fo tight is
pretty apt to lie accommodated u time,
u id singularly enough it ahv.iv- {, miens
to bill on them uncap tedh
A Book Manufactory iu Ancient Home.
In a German publication w- lis-h hi in
teresting account of the prod tioa ..f
books in ancient Rome. It -t,c .1
therein that.notwithstandingth. ,!' an -a
had no printing presses, b .ok* , wen it
that time produced much mot • quickly
and in larger numbers than iiko-u modem
works. Paper was u-ed wlr'el/i was al
most woven out of tin* fibre- of '!■ Kgyp
tian papyrus, xvli.c'i grow-to a 1., ightof
ten feet, ond which lias given ire b ni ■ to
paper. A Roman residing Kg >t
assures us that the yield of hi * paper
manufactory would )>• siiffb i at to
port an army, and- whob sh . ' f
paper were sent from Egypt tv. Rome.
Before books of any de-criptioi, v ere pro
duced in large numbers, were real
mostly either in private eirei --nr pub
licly, so that the author could ; i >pt >ag
gestions for the improvement of ’ s *rh
Wealthy Romans used to ow a uge
number of slaves for all kinds a r s,
which rendered labor cheap, f.> v ■st
nothing in many cases, and had m a
be supported. They were nf - vp a re. n
ers of xvar. the pick of nation- and jl a
more cultivated (especially the G reeks)
than their masters. They wen onso
quently employed iti the education <
Roman boys. The work- of ant 1 ' were
dictated to a number oi slaves, women
also being employed for that . ■!• r
Even amongst freemen and ft ‘d
slaves the desire to obtain <i. , , . at
became so great that hundred- <>f willing
hands could be had for writing •> Gk- A
a very low rate of wages. Tin-ii/trac
tion imparted in the workshop*' of K/ansn
publishers necessitated a regular or a
of training, which was to teach ttie
prentices an easy and eleg t 'it
ing. If a publisher had at
a hundred writers, and
working day at ten hour-, a do a
which took an hour to write wc a
be multiplied in the oom-e >? a > *
to a thousand copies. Tiw <?rs
became in time experts to ‘■uch a
degree that they ggmbined qua '
with elegance. I; must also be 1
ded, that in cases;'where speed wa 7
first consideration,- the use ofstenogra
ic contractions befcame general, a
possess illustrations of their emp’o? mt
in the old manuscripts still in exi-te'
We are also informed that other r
and copyists were instructed and tr
the former in the tgolution, the lau :
the application of cl-ntraetiou.- Th'
ject was to copy work -as quickly ao p
sible, the usejif full woreU being only re
sorted to for the best work The ab/a
brief account demonstrates the
the Romans made the nearest appr.^^^ o
the invention of pointing, althou' ti f
never attained to it. The movate
stamps of iron or other metals -
the Romans for marking earthenware
vessels or other utensils al-o prove -
But the art of rapid writing, whi'
perfected by them to an unusual av "
counteracted a further developraeo’,
while the number of slaves a:ul car'
willing hands at disposal, bv woo"
means the most astonishing result- were
obtained, operated in the -am Lire v>-ju
A So nth western Dinner Bill of I.r
S. G. Bayne, who has returned fr
a trip to the southwest, gives us the - •
of “a ten-minit” dinner in Indian T
tory, as called out by a lady of J
esque stature at a railroad depot:
menu.
“Superfish.
Bing!
“Stakerli'er.”
Bang!
“Pieorpud.”
Bung!
“Tearcough.” ■,
Sling! t
* ‘C'heeseercrackers. ” i
Slang! A*
“HutscrappleA.”
Slungl
All out! *-
Fifty cents!
A wlaboard!
Ph—wiyz!
—^ Bradford Era,