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THE MONROE ADVERTISER, rVBLISJIED EVERY TUESDAY. j 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. — | 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,