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PUBLISH Kit EVERY TUESDAY.
XWISYTIT. - - G KORGIA
There are .1,000.000 Indians ir
Mexico,making thirty-five per cent.of the*
sitire population. They speak thirty-five
idioms and sixtv-nine dialects. They are
nearly all grossly ignorant, and live fcy
'hrmselvcs a wild, half-savage life in the
■*nntry districts. Governor Jose Maria
Ham ire/, of Chiapas, will soon ask the
President to appropriate $1.000.000 to
educate these Indians.
The fruit production of California is
"omething wonderful. During 1881 she
produced in raisins over 9,000,000
pounds, or nearly three times as much as
n 1884. She also sent to market last
rear 1.100,000 pound-of prunes, 1,823,-
*OO pounds of apples, 1,900,000 pounds
■if peaches. 1,139,000 pounds of plums,
050,000 pounds of apricots, 2,250,000
pounds of honey, 1,250,000 pounds of
wml nuts. 1,010,000 pounds of almonds.
A deplorable result of the unwarrant
able corruption of the word ‘’fire'’ to
made it synonymous with the verb
•Vject” is detailed in a Western news
paper. A hotel clerk left written in
structions fin a slate for the porter to
build a (ire in one of the guest’s rooms,
reading: “Hoorn 40—tire at 10:30.”
When 10:30 o'clock arrived the matter
of-fact porter went up to the room and
■'fired” the occupant of room 40 into the
•>trcct, in spite of his expostulations.
"Will inrn Prcsnell was on trial recently
it New Madrid, Mo., for the murder of
uia father-in-law. He very successfully
feigned to he deaf and dumb and was
ra]iidly winning the sympathy of the
■rowd, when the judge suddenly turned
lpon him with grim visage and threat
•ning mein, and in a voice of thunder de
manded: “Can you heir or talk ? n
Throwing his head forward, with out
stretched arms, the eyeballs nearly burst
ng from their sockets, I’resnell sang out
it the top of his voice: “No, sir!” The
.‘ffect, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
was startling. He dropped back into his
seat, paralyzed at the mistake, while his
honor, the lawyers and the crowded
•ourt-room roared and shouted with hi
larious merriment, which continued so
long that the room was ordered cleared.
New York ami Pennsylvania arc the
mothers of Congressmen, having forty
sons each in the present House; Ohi 0
comes next-w ith thirty-four, Virginia
with twenty-three, and Kentucky with
twenty-two; Tennessee has seventeen
sons, North Carolina sixteen, Massachu
setts and Indiana each fifteen, Georgia
and Vermont each thirteen, South Caro
lina twelve, Illinois and New Hampshire
ten each; Maryland and Connecticut and
Ireland have nine each, and Michigan
“sagYrt, 1 "Missouri, ATnhama and Ter
soy six each, West Virginia, Louisiana,
Delaware, Rhode Island and England
four each; Mississippi and Scotland have
three, and Arkansas, Florida, and Wis
consin and Germany have a pair; lowa
•aid Texas each have a son, and the Dis
irict of Columbia, New Mexico, New
Brunswick, Ontario, Bavaria, Norway,
Hungary, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg,
Russia and the Isle of 11 :n are repre
sented also.
The pension of $2,000 a year that has
been voted to Mrs. Hancock is the larg
est paid to the widow of ar y soldier ex
cept Mrs. Grant, who receives the $5,000
a year granted to all the widows of Pres
idents—Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler, and Mrs.
Garfield. The widow of General and ex-
Senator Shields receives the next largest
amount, $1,200 a year, granted her by a
special act of Congress in 1879. The
mother of General McPherson receives
£SO a month, and that amount is also
jiaid the widows of twenty-six deceased
generals of the late war, Ilackleman,
Richardson, Wallace, Plummer. Stevens,
Baker, Whipple, Sumner, Bidwell, Mor
ris, Berry, Lovell. Anderson, Canby,
ihomas, Heintzleman, Finley, Mitchell,
Casey. Taylor, Rosseau, Custer, French
Ramsay, and Warren. The widows of
Vdmirals Wood, Reynolds. Hoff, Davis,
Winslow, Paulding, Rodgers, Spotts
and Goldsboro, and of Commodores Gal
agher. Frailev, MeCaulley, McCaver
and Guest, of the navy, receive a similar
j*nsion, as do the widows of Colonels
Harris. ITulany and Twiggs, of the ma
rine corps.
The New York Time* declares that the
frauds practiced upon farmers by knaves
if various kinds have become so preva
lent and notorious that even the agricul
'ural department at Washington has
turned its attention to the subject. In
vestigation has been made in the Bohe
mian i at swindle, which has grown into
mcli proportions as to 1 ecorne a serious
disaster. In some counties in Ohio where
the operators have worked most indus
tiiouslv as much as $10,030 in notes ob
tained by fraudulent representations has
been turned into the banks for collection
m only one county, and, notwithstanding
the publicity given to the frauds during
three cr four years past, the present
-ea-'Cn is more prolifi • of victims than
:he previous one. Farmers are induced
to pay ten dollars a bushel for the seed
•f this worthless grain on the prom
ise to take the produce at the same price.
V note is given in payment for the seed,
ud a bo id C given that the oats will be
ailed for when ready. The note is good
deeause. the farmer 1 as a farm to make it
good, but tie bonds are w rthless be
aasi- the maker is not to be found when
they mature.
When a young man concludes that he
* really of no ar count in this world I do
*ot care how soon he commences to part
a* hair in the middle.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
C. F. Woerishoffer, a leading “bear"
among the New York stock speculators, is
dead.
A triple tragedy is reported from Louns
bury Station, A. Y., where Norman Louns
bury, fifty-two years old, murdered his wife
and a nephew named Payson, and then killed
himself. The murderer was jealous of his
nephew.
The trial of Henry W. Jaehne, ex-Yice-
President of the New York Board of Alder
men. charged with selling his vote in favog of
the Broadway railroad franchise, began in
the metropolis on the 10th. Jaehne's bail was
discharged and he was taken to Ludlow street
jail.
Herr Most, leader of the Socialists it
America, for whom the New York police
have been searching for some time, was cap
tured the other day under a lied in a disrepu
table house in the metropolis. He had been
indicted for making incendiary speeches.
The great strike in the Brooklyn sugar re
fineries has resulted in the defeat of the
strikers. The men taken back to work are
required to sign an agreement that they will
not belong to any union or join any while in
the employ of the refiners engaging theii
services.
The New York Senate has passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Stat?’s
public buildings.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Countless dead birds of many varieties
'' ' fe found the other morning on the streets
and sidewalks surrounding the Board of
Trade building in Chicago. While migrating
from south to north during the night they
had been attracted by the immense electric
light in the top of the building, and fell dead
when they touched it.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind, rain and light
ning caused three deaths in Indiana and one
in lowa.
Charles J. Brusckk, senior proprietor of
a large Chicago furniture factory, shot two
of his striking employes who had assaulted
him. One of the men wa; fatally wounded.
Bruscke surrendered himself.
Two niftTi and two children were drowned
while crossing a ferry near Parsons, Kan
Three persons—Mr. and Mrs. Jacksonand
babe—were killed by the wrecking of a camp
meeting tent during a wind storm near Law
rence, Kan.
Later reports put the number of killed by
the wind storm in Kansas City at thirty-two
including liftmen school children, and tha in
iurod at thirty-five. Tjie pecuniary damage
s estimated at $-100,000. ....
AtToRNEY-GeNERAL FRANCIS J. HoRD,
of Indiana, has been adjudged insane and
sent to an asylum,
The cyclone which proved so fatal at Kan
sas City also did great damage in other parts
of Missouri, in Illinois, Indiana and Kansas.
The village of Odell, 111., was nearly de
stroyed, three persons being fatally and
three badly injured. The greater part of
Vichy Springs, Mo., met a similar fate. At
Evansville, and., three lives were lost and
the African Baptist Church, a brick build
ing, was wrecked. In many other localities
houses were unroofed, stock killed and crops
destroyed.
The official police report of the casualties
by the anarchist riot in Chicago show that
sixty-six officers were wounded, of whom fiva
have died.
All the members of the Chicago Whole
sale Clothing Manufacturers’Association have
notified their employes, many of whom are
on strike, that for the present no further
work would be given out. By this lock-out
nearly 80,000 men and women have been e 4
cT from employment.
WASHINGTON.
Congressman Morrow has received a
monster petition from the Knights of Labor
of California It is over 2,000 feet long, con
tains the names of over 50,000 persons, and
asks that the Chinese be forever prohibited
by law from emigrating to this country.
There are yet over 1,000 nominations to
-be_actfidAißUiA JIX the RWAVIy-kTrtf bfv
those the President has made remaining un
confirmed.
Mr. Bissell, the President’s law partner,
who is put down as the best man at the ap
proaching wedding, is at the White House.
He will accompany the President to New
York, to meet Miss Folsom on her return
from Europe.
The President has nominated Clarence
Riilgley Greathouse, of California, to be Con
sul General of the United States at Kanaga
wa, the nomination of Warren Green for this
position having been withdrawn.
There have been introduced in the House
8,740 bills and 171 joint resolutions; of these
the House has passed 823.
FOREIGN.
England, Germany, Austria, Russia and
Italy have notified Greece that a blockade of
her ports has been ordered.
Premier Gladstone is said to be losin°-
ground in his efforts to establish Irish home
rule.
President Roca. of Buenos Ayres, South
America, was struck on the head bvm would
be assassm and knocked seuseless while oDen
ing the Congress. His assailant is supposed
to be insane.
The British House of Commons has re
fused, by 117 nays to 62 yeas, to abolish capi
tal punishment.
Greece has anew Cabinet, with M. Val
vis as Premier.
Sixty members of the House of Commons
met at Mr. Joseph Chamberlin's house in
London and passed resolutions declaring they
would do their utmost to oppose Mr. Glad
stone s Irish home rule bill.
A WRECKED TRAIN.
Three Men Killed Outright and Twenty,
five Cars Wreked.
A freight wreck in the mountains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad the other night de
molished twenty-five cars, killed three men
outright, and obstructed the tracks so badly
that it took twelve hours to clear them.
The accident was the result of a
. heavy storm which swept along the
Ccneniaugh Valley during the night,
uprooting trees and blowing down fences
and outhouses. Near Coneinaugh a number
of empty freight ears were standing on a
siding. The tornado picked them up and
carried them over to the main track. A heavy
west-bound freight train of twenty-five ears,
going at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
came along about midnight and crashed into
the obstruction before the engineer
had time to reverse his engine.
The twenty-five cars were totally
demolished and the wreck strewn along
the tracks a distance of several hundred
yards. Conductor Thomas Conners. Engi
neer Thomas Mowray. and Fireman Michael
Myers were killed almost instantly. They
v. ere caught in the wreck and terribly man
gled. The balan eof the crew escaped with
slight injuries. The men killed were all mar
ried, and lived in the neighborhood of Derry,
Penn.
HOG MEAT FOR FOOD.
A West Virginia Fa'root** Narrow Escape
From Lynching.
George Baum. a fanner living with his wife
and family a few miles from Volcano, W. Va..
narrowly escaped being lynched by a mob of
indignant neighbors. The cau-e was the out
rageous treatment of his wife and the feeding
cf her and the oh ldren on dog fl.-sh. Mrs.
Banin is iil wuh consumption ano her physi
can prescribed cod liver oi'. He husband
the-* upon kill and a dop, rendered some of its
fat and plao ditin a I ottie an 1 took tha - aid
the dressed meat hi me. His wife took : he
gr> as-, and soon became very ill. The dog
meal Baum represen:nl to be mutton arid
made the children eat ;t. Asa resu.t the chil
dren were also taken sick.
Tue following day < rue of the neighbors
whose suspicious i.d teen txcited fo lowed
Baum to the wDoi.- and saw him kill and dress
another doc. They a: once captured him.
They were on the point of hinging him when
wiser counsels prevailed and he was placed it.
jail. H:s wife m ' children aie very ill.
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J. M. H
THE REGULATOR AND CON
Are of the correct kind to draw
the kind of Bargains to please
the right sort of Special Barg
j
HIGH .
Cannot prevent others from blowing about i
their immense stocks. High guarantees to j
show you the Largest Stock of Dry Goods and j
Millinery in the city of Atlanta, and promises j
faithfully to undersell any and all.
HIGH’S
MILLINERY DEPARTMENT
Is by odds the best equipped in the south. In
the first place it occupies more space and car
ries a larger stock than any other Millinery !
Department in Atlanta. Ladies will find a
beautiful new store and entire new stock,
which is daily added to.
Opened on Saturday
30 cases of new Straw Hats, extra quality fine
Milans, which will be placed on sale Monday
morning. Bear in mind, the cardinal princi
ple is to give the very latest styles, the best
work, the finest materials, for less money than
any other house will offer.
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT,
It is an undisputed fact that I do the largest
silk and dress goods business in the south. I
carry only the best styles, and daily open
soid-ga -quickly ; *
Only about 60 combination French suits left.
lam bound to close them this week. If you
want a bargain come and you will surely
get it.
1 Lot all wool Foule cloth, 20c, usual
price 35c.
1 Lot all wool Serges, 20c, positively cheap
at 35c!
1 Lot Figured Challies at 20c!
1 Lot all wool Tricotines at 27ic!
The best line 25c dress goods!
The largest lines of 35c dress goods!
The most complete line of 50c dress goods!
The choicest things in 60c dress goods!
The most stylish 75c dress goods!
My dress goods at 80c, 85c, 90c and SI.OO
have no equal!
300 Pieces Pin-check Melanges at 12{c yard.
They are 31 inches wide and worth at least
25c!
1 Lot of Combination Beiges at 10c, reduced
from 25c!
1 Lot all Dew spring shades in!
Diagonal Coupures, 39 inches wide, at 39c
yard, never before offered under 50c!
To Open Monday,
An immense lot of Canvass Cloths. 39 inches
wide, at 50c, the same grade that brought
always this season 75c!
Silk Department !
The following lots will be found very de
sirable and of unexceptional value:
60c Pongee Silks!
75c China Silks!
35c Black Silks!
50c Colored Satins!
85c Surah Silks!
S.IOO Gros Grain Colors!
SI.OO Colored All Silk Rhadamae!
SI.OO Black Rhadamae!
$1.50 Black Surahs!
The celebrated Black Regatta Silks at sl,
1.25 and 1.50, are the finest finish, best black,
and the wear of every yard is absolutely guar
anteed.
Just opened an elegant and new line of
Striped Two toned Velvets from $2 to $6 a
yard!
Special value in Black Silk Grenadines at
$1.25, worth $2 a yard!
Summer Silks at 25c!
Summer Silks at 35, 40, 45 and 50c!
Special sale of Pongee Robes at $5 each, just
opened Saturday, and worth $8.50 each!
J. M.
THE REGULATOR A
LOW P
Wholesale
46, 43 and 50 White
RGAINS
O BE FOUND
WEEK
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IGH’S,
TROLLER OF LOW PRICES
delightful crowds. They are
the people. HIGH will offer
ains at the right sort of prices.
BLACK AND MODRNING GOODS
Is a perfect stock at
HIGH’S.
All Wool Serges at 35c.
Satin Berbours at 65, 75, and 85c worth fully
40 per cent more.
Bargains in Armures, Rayme, Hercules
Grenadines. Cashmere,Diagonals, Whip Cords,
Almeda, Tyrolese, Diamoilet, Voille Nappe,
Dentelle, Caschmyr, Maltese and Salvador
Suitings, also Tarnise, Albatros.
Nun’s Vailings from 124 cents to sl.
Cashmeres at 25, 30, 35, 40, 50 to $1,50.
Priestly’s celebrated Silk Warp Henriettas
from $1 to $2.25 yard.
WHITE ~ GOODS
Department
Is a perfect store in itself. High sells mere
White Goods than any other three houses in
Atlanta. Talk about matching his prices, it
can't be done.
3,000 yards sheer imported Plaids at 10 cents,
cheap at 20 cents.
9 cases imported White Satin Plaids at 15
cents, the same as everybody else sells at2s.
My Plaid Indias,Check Persians and Batistes
at 20 and 25 conts are cheap.
1 lot White Check Nainsooks at 64 cents.
London Cords at 31 cents yard.
Remnants of Lawns at 31 cents, at 5 cents,
at 6$ cents, worth twice as much.
1 lot Colored Check Paisleys at 10c, worth
15c!
White Mulls 124 c up!
India Linens, John Hopehurst’s goods, best
in the world, at 124, 15, 20, 25c!
Persian Linen Lawns, all grades!
Special bargains in White and Ecrue Rohes,
all grades, all prices!
White Robes, sl.7l,J*>iyio, $3, up!
Fcrue Robes, s4,'fjso7sl]’'Ep!
LINEN DEPARMENT
Turkey Red Damask, 25, 35, 50, 60, 75c, best
value in America!
1 lot Cream Damasks, with red border, at
! 35c, worth 50!
1 lot Cream Damasks, with red checks, at
| 50c, cheap at 75c!
Cream Damasks at 25. 35, 40, 50 and 60c!
Special drives in Bleach Damasks at 45, 65,
j Ssc!
Remnants of Damasks very cheap!
1.500 Russian Bath Towels at 5c each!
1 lot very fine Turkish Towels at 15c, cheap
at 25c!
1 lot Check Towels at 21 each!
All Linen Towels at 60c dozen!
1,000 dozen very large Huck Towels, only
j 10c each!
300 dozen splendid Damask Towels at 10c
each, very cheap!
1 lot all Linen Crash at 5c a yard!
! Bargains in Check Linens!
I 1 lot Brown Linens, 33 inch wide, 10c a yard.
1 lot Striped Linen Furniture Covering, only
j 25c a yard!
JUST OPENED.
10,000 yards Madras Curtain Nets, real Hong
Kong goods, in late Mikado designs, at 15c a
yard, cheap at 35c!
90 pieces Scrim Nets at 121, 15, 20 and 25c!
LATE ARRIVAL.
35 pieces Fine Etamine Curtain Nets, in
I lovely patterns, at 35 and 40c!
Special value in Nottingham Nets at 20 and
j 25c a yard, worth double!
Wash Dress Goods Department.
JUST OPENED,
10.000 Yards real French Satteens in beauti
ful designs at 12Jc yard!
8.500 Yards Crinkled Seersuckers at 81c yard!
500 Pieces New Chambrays and Ginghams!
5,000 Yards Foulards at 10c yard!
120 Pieces Windsor Satteens, 74c yard!
5.000 Yards Percales at 84c, worth 124 c!
On Monday and Friday mornings of this
week, between 7 and 10 o’clock, I will sell
10,000 yards real Toil de Noird Chambrays in
short lengths, blue and white mixed only, at
5c yard, worth 124 c yard!
Also 3 cases Garner’s Perea!cs ends, at 5<
yard, cheap at 13c!
HIGH
ND CONTROLLER OF
%
RICES;
; and Retail,
hall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
A FEARFUL TORNADO,
1f.4 AT cnil.milS KILLED on
ISJ l Ii E D I V K t YN4 .S CITY.
Tap Court House ntul Ollier Prominent
Buildings Demolished.
Kansas City, Mo., has been visited by a
I storm which caused the loss of many lives,
j principally childreu, and the destruction
| of prominent buildings, including the Court
: House. Details as given on the night of the
calamity in a di-patch are as follows:
A fearful storm of wind and rain swept
■ over the city to-day. continuing from eleven
o'clock until noon. The Court House on
■ Second street was to!ally demolished above
the second story. The Lathrop school
building on Eighth street was jmrtially
wrecked, many children were caught in the
ruins, and eleven of them were killed. A
manufactory of overalls on Second stieet was
blown down, and five deaths are reported
from there out of the fifteen girls at work in
the building, while nearly all the others are
wounded. The old water works building
near the Court H >use was blown down, and
; one or two pei sons th -re are mis dug.
Frank Smith, of Smith & Moffat, owners
; of spice mills situated in tbe old water
i works building, was killed. Deputy Sheriff
j Dougherty was buried in the ruins of the
! Court House and takeu out dead. Of the
four buildings wrecked all were more or less
I unsound. The school building has been
; twice condemned, and tbe Court House by
| many was considered unsafe.
The storm was a violent wind accompanied
; by a flood of water and some hail, which
i turned many streets iiito'rivers. S gns, shut
j ters, chimneys, etc., were blown with the
| gale, and a number of vehicles were over
| turned in the streets. The black clouds that
i rolled over the city created almost the dark
i uess of night, and made the timid ones
| crouch in terror in cellars. The streets
| were entirely deserted, and in some
j instances horses were seen wandering about
| attached to vehicles au.i seeking refuge from
j the pelting storm.
The Lathrop school consisted of a main
| building, to which an art wing had been
added. The building was surmounted by a
tower, which for some time had been consid
ered unsafe. The building was crowded \
with children, many of whom went nearly
frantic with fear over the appalling darkness
and the stillness which preceded the tempest.
I The wind seemed to concentrate its force
I upon the tower, which yielded with a crash,
and, carrying down the heavy bell, plunged
j through the intervening floors to the base-
J ment. Th 3 main building is a mass of ruins,
within shattered walls, which still stand. 1
The wmg nas comparatively uninjured, and
the there were unhurt. j
In the main building the effect was awful.
The falling floors precipitated the terrified
children to the basement, where masses of |
brick and beams crushed them to the ground
and buried th in from view. Owing to
the excitement the first work was not very
effective, but the fire department and
police soon arrived and an organized
search was commenced. The dead !
and wounded were taken out as
quickly as possible and carried to the Nata
toriurn, adjoining, which was turned into
a hospital. Here the parents and friends
of the little ones soon gathered, uttering
heartrending cries as they recognized in the
maimed and bleeding forms those whom they
loved. Among the first taken out several were
dead anil one or two mangled almost beyond
recognition, their clothing torn and their
bodies covered with dust and mortar. Many
heroic scenes w r ere enacted during the rescue,
and some of the wounded children seemed to
have greater control than their elders. One
little girl half buried in the debris, over
whom rescuers were busy, i begged them to
leave her and help a boy because, she said,
he was only five years old. Eleven dead
were taken out during the day and the
bodies were sent to the houses of sorrowing
families. Several of the children belonged
to prominent families in the city.
In the overalls manufactory conducted by
Haar Brothers were twenty-five employes,
chiefly girls. When the storm began they
started for the cellar. The building fell with
a crash, being razed entirely to the earth, and
most of the girls were caught in tha ruins.
The county Court House was erected nearly
twenty years ago for hotel purposes, but
when complete was purchased by the county
for $200,600, and converted into a Court
House.
The second span from the north end of
the long bridge across the Missouri, opposite
the city, was blown into the river, the piers
being left apparently uninjured. The dead
numbered about twenty, and some of the in
jured were expected to die.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Sarah Bernhardt is industriously study
ing the English language.
Mrs. Langtry contiues to draw well by
her performances of Pauline at tha Prince's
Theatre, London.
Dion Boucicault has written a play
founded on Sir Walter Saott’s “Guy Man
neriug.”
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll will Jeo
ture in New Yor.c for the banafit of tha Al
ters’ Fund.
Miss Maud Banks of Boston, the daughter
of General N. P. Banks, has written a play
that she intend* to star in.
The Sultan of Turkey may rank wPh the
musi- al monarehs of the age. He has recently
composed several orchestral works.
Anew Egyptian comic opera by two
Philadelphia journalists is finished, and is to
be pla eil in Colonel McCaull’s hands.
Mrs. Agnus Ethel Tracy, widow of the
the Buffalo millionaire, will return to the
stage as soon as her period of mourning is
over.
The largest then‘re in the world is the new
cp?ra house in Paris. It covers nearly three
acres cf ground; its cable mas. is 4,287,090
feit; it < oit about $2,003,000.
Anew instrument, to which he has given
the name of plenisphone, has bean invented
i by a mak-r at Bilbao. It unites the tones of
t .e vi 4m, viola, cello anl double bass.
Anew fe ior his been discovered in Carls
ruhe, Germany. His na ne is Felix Minner,
i and he is a porter by trade. He is being ed
ucated for an artistic career at the public
i expense.
Audp.an has written anew comic opera,
“The Path of Love.” which is having a pros
perous run in Paris and is expected to be
translated for both the English an 1 Ameri
can stage.
A play written by Julian Ila-.vthone and
his brothsr-in-iaw, George Pars ms Lathrop,
has been accepted by’ Mm?. Modjeika. The
scene is laid in England and th? heroine is a
prima donna.
Major Ben Pep.ley Poore writes that
the Marine Band at Washington is industri
ously reheardng Mendelssohn’s “Wedding
March,” “Haste to the Wedding,” and a
waltz dedicated to Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
In addition to Robson and Crane's grand
spectac liar revival of "Comedy of Errors”
and “Merry Wives of Windsor,” next sea-
I son. two other of Shake p a -e’s rlays will be
| put on in spectacular styie ny oth?r part es.
Next to Mr. Wilson Barrett, the leading
foreign attraction visiting this country next
season will be the celebr at> and Meiningen Court
Company, of which the Duke of Saxe-Mein
ingen is the promotor and patron.
The customary summer circus accidents
s have begun to be reported. At a recent per
formance of Robison’s circus the trapeze
ring broke, precipitating two performers to
the ground. One was severely if not fatally
injured.
A IIOKRIBLE DEATH.
A >'egTO Boy Drawn Into an Ore Crusher
and Killed.
James Larkin, a negro boy, aged sixteen
( years, who worked at the ore crusher of the
; Wheeling iron mines, Birmingham Ala., met a
horrible death Fr.day. He was putting ore in
the large crasher, when his foot slipped. His
| coat sleeve was caught in the machine aDd
Ihe was drawn in. He made a hard fight
for life. The crusher slowly drew him in and
mashed him into a pulp. He could not be saved
and died by inches. The death was a horrible
I one.
Queen Alice, the banner canine of
i the Pittsburgh Kennel Club, won first
' prize in the champion English setter
hitch class at the Cleveland bench show,
beating the famous Leddesdale of Lon
don, Ontario. Queen Alice, it was also
staled, won the special prize for being
the bespsettgr tilth in the show.
POWDERLYS MANIFESTO.
THE h S IGHTS OF LABOR CIIIF.I
ISSCE s' .1 SECRET CIRCULAR
In Which lit* Declare Again*! Boycott!**
and Ali Acts of Violence*
A secret circular from General Master
Workman Powderly, of tha Knights of
Labor, has been issued and read in the vari
ous Assemblies. On topics of current inter
est to the oilier Mr. Fuwde.iy speaks very
frankly. He says:
“We have been losing ground, so far as
public opinion is concerned, for some time.
One of the causes is that we have allowed
things to be done under the name of the
Knights of Labor fi r which the organization
was in no way responsible. I ask of our
members to keep a jealous eye upon the
doings of the labor men who never labor, and
when they charge anything to our order in
your locality set the seal of your condemna
tion upon it at once by denying it. ”
’1 he Master Workman distinctly advises
against boycotting newspapers for criticisms
uufavoiab.e to the order or its officers, since
the knightsd -mand for themselves "the right
of fiee speech’ ami cannot consistently deny
it to others. Speaking of the abuses arising
from illy-considered strikes, Mr. Fowderly
says:
"‘I find that wherever a strike occurs ap
[ eals for aid are s attered broadcast among
the assemblies. Do not pay one cent for
such purposes in future unless the appeal
comes from your owu district assembly or
the general assembly. If boycott notices are
sent to you burn them. I have in my
possession 400 boycott notices which
were sent to assemblies with u request
lint they be enacted. A member
is editing a papier; he fears a rival aud pro
ceeds to get into an altercation with him,
boycotts him and then asks the order to
i arrv it out. Our order has been used as a
tail for a hundred different kites, and in fu
ture it must soar aloft, free from all of
them. I hate tha word boycott. I was boy
e otteil ten years ago and could not get work
at my trade for month*.”
In the future, Mr. Fowderly a c serts, the
Executive Board will suffer no interference
in the discharge of its duty. He condemns
the j assiug of resolutions by local assem
blies, denouncing Jay Gould and other capi
talists, since such actions do no good, but only
retard the efforts of the General Board to ar
biti a! e differences with these men or their
representatives. Sir. Powderly says Thai his
time is so taken up that he cannot undertake
to answer any questions addressed to him by
mail. He says:
From" now until the general assembly
meets, I will receive no committees, answer
no letters. I must formulate a plan for the
future and will not be interfered with. Nor
will I go anywhere at the request of members
of assemblies. This is imperative. I must
have a chance to do something of benefit for
the order, and I cannot do it if I am to sit for
eighteen hours a day reading letters.”
Continuing, Mr. Powderly says that the
order has had trouble from drinking mem
bers and from men who talk about buying
guns and dynamite. “If the men who pos
sess money enough to buy guns aud dynamite
would invest it in tho purchase of some well
selected work on labor,” he remarks, “they
would put the money to good use. They will
never need the guns or dynamite in this
country.”
Mr. Fowderly takes a determined stand
against violen in the following sentences:
“If I kill my enemy I silence him, it is
true, but I do not convince him. I would
make a convert rather than a corpse of my
enemy.
“Men who own capital are not our enemies"
If that theory held good, tho workman of to*
day would be the enemy of his fellow toiler
on the morrow, for, after all, it is how
to acquire capital and how to use it
properly that we are endeavoring to
learn. I am well aware that some ex
tremists will say I am advocating a
weak plan, and will say that bloodshed and
destruction of property alone will solve the
problem. If a man speaks such sentiments
in an assembly, read for him the charge
which the master workman repeats to the
nswly initiated who joins our ‘army of.
peace.’ If he repeats his nonsense, put him
out.
“In the hands of men entirely great the pen
is mightier than the sword. ” “To that I add:
“In the hands of men entirely mouth the gun
is as harmless as the sword.”
The writer advises his readers to boycott
strong drink. He also says that through
seme “unfortunate misunderstanding” that
knights have incurred the enmity of several
trades unions. He finds no excuse for the
attack made on the order by some of these
trades unions, especially at a" time when the
knights stand face to face with a most per
plexing question, but he thinks there is no
cause for quarrel and asserts that at the
spiecial session of the General Assembly the
entire trouble can and must be settled. In
conclusion Mr. Powderly says:
“There is one thing that will not be done
while I stand at the head of this organization
—it will not be used to further the schemes of
individuals, cliques or parties, and it will be
subordinate to no other organization on
earth.”
BASE BALL BOTES.
Now, as ever, the bed baso-runnmg trams
are doing most of the winning.
The Portland (Me.) Club more than cleared
expenses on their Southern trip.
Chicago furnishes about four-fifths of all
the Northwestern League players.
Lack of confidence Las much to do with
the wildness of mo it young pitchers.
Johnston, centre fielder of the Bostons, in
twenty-one games mado but two errors.
In the opening gam?; of the I-iaitem
League all the home clubs were victorious.
The National Agreement now covers
eleven associations, with seventy-two club;.
A fair estimate of the number of balls
made for the present season is said to bo
5,000,000, or one for every’ ten of the popu
lation of the entire country.
From present appearances Detroit's seven
successful left-handed slugg -r.s are likely to
test the mettle of all the National League
right-handed twirier.* —for a time, at least.
Nearly every Association club has had
one or more pleyers crippel. The Louis
ville, Metropolitan and Athletic c-lubs have
been particularly unfortunate in thisreipect.
One of those monstrosities known a; a fe
male baseball club has disbanded New Or
leans from la -k of support, and the manager
has been sent to the workhouse as a vayrant.
At Albany, N.Y.. recently the Democratic
Assemblymen teat their Re niblican brethren
by forty-one to fifteen. Th? r?< elpts amount
ing to *44. were given to the b-centennial
fund. Tr.e bats and bails wera afterward
sold as mementos.
The regular annua! gues. ng as to New
York’s salary list has began a r an and wil
te kent up, we suppose, al -urn ner. One
New Y' rk pa; er places the sula-y obli p.ti n
of the club at S4O, Of this Welch reeei. es
$2,800, O'Rourke, Ewing, Keefe, Gercardt
and Connor SB,OOO ea h. and Ward $2,500.
The New England L ague ha* adopted a
rule that if the spect ito. sec m s ■ noi-y a£
to prevent th? clubs from he uing the um
pire’s derisions he shall give wandng. and,on
a repetition of the disturbance, sh ill forfeit
the game to the visiting club. A! o, that if
the pitcher steps out or the box toddiver the
ball when there is na basa-runner on the
base;, heshai be subjected t ) a fine of $5.
If tbe-e b? a man or men on the bases at the
time, the runner or runne.s‘halt be ad van-el
one base.
national league record.
Wort Lout. Won La<-
Chica?o 0 2 Washington. .3 5
New Y0rk...6 2 St. Louis 4 4
Detroit 5 3 Boston 2 5
Philadelphia .4 8 Kansas City... 1 .1
AiU.i-.ICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
... T . Wmn Lott. Won Isrt.
ht. L<ouis.... o Cincinnati.... 7 10
Athletic S 6 | Louisville 7 10
Baltimore... .8 0 Pittsburgh 7 9
Brooklyn 8 4 | Metropolitan. .3 11
EASTERN LEAGUE RECORD.
n• i- H , / n Lf ? t - , Won L"*t.
Bridgeport... 0 5 Meriden 0 2
Hartford 1 3 | Newark 5 0
Long Island..o 4 i Providence.... 2 0
Jersey City. .4 0 j Waterbury 3 1
SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORD.
an . Won LmL Won Lost
Atlanta 9 a Macon. 9 tj
II 5 Memphis 6 10
Charleston 6 10 Nashville.. 7
Chattanooga .4 11 Savannah ... 8 5
A SCHOONER SEIZED.
I Y AMERICAS VESSEL HELD Bl
THE CANADIAS OFFICERS.
Statement of Her Captain to the Uuitel
States Consul-CJeneral.
Considerable excitement has been aroused
by the seizure of the American fishing
schooner David J. Adams, of Gloucester,
Mass., by the Canadian authorities, for pur.
chasing bait in Canadian waters. The State
Department at Washington ordered Consul
General Phelan to make an investigation
and report. The Captain of the Lansdowne.
the Canadian vessel which captured the David
J. Adams, made a demand upon Captain
Kinney, of the American ve sol, for the sur
render of bis ship's papers. Captain Kin
ney refuel to comply. Consul-Geneial
Phelan, representing the United States Gov
ernment, told Captain Kinney to keep firs
pai>ers. The following is Captain Kinney's
official statement of the seizure:
••We arrived in Digby basin on Wednes
day night at 6 o'clock and laid at a place
called Granville till 5 o'clock the next morn
ing, when we got uuder way and started to
leave the basin. The win i leaving us when
we got outside ab tut one mile, the flood tide
brought us back again. After we got into
the basin again we sailed around to
different parts till -about 4 o'clock
on Friday morning, when we started
to agam leave the l asm. Shortly
after getting under way we saw a beat com
ing toward us from a steamer lying opposite
Digby, which lat er appeared to b; the
Lansdowns's 1 oat. It came alongside of us
after we had proceeded a mile and a half.
The first officer of the Lansdowne
was in the beat, and at once asked
our hailing port, our name, the own
er’s name, the name of the Captain,
and what we were there for. I answered
his questions and he went away, apparently
satisfiod. Then we again proceeded on our
course, but failed to get out oi the basin
The wind leaving us, we drifted on to the
west shore an hour before low water. There
wo lay for two hours, when wo floated agaiu,
ami the tide brought us back into the basin,
where vve were again hailed by tho first
officer of tho .Lansdowne, who came
aboard, aud going below, searched our cargo,
as he said, in accordance with the orders of
the captain. When he returned on deck he
said he Lad found herring on board and
in pared how old they were. I told him they
were ten days old, which I considered
they were by their size. He then re
turned to the Lansdowne, and returned
shortly after with a man whom, I suppose,
was Captain Dakeu, who also examined the
cargo, and then the beat and officers returned
to the Lansdowne. Then the same officer and
crew that fir >t boarded us came back and said
we would lie delayed for some time, aud or
dered us to Digby, aud to anchor as near the
Lansdowne as possible. We obeyed the
order, and the schoonor was placed in charge
of the second officer and five men armed with
revolvers and cutlasses. We were ordered to
lower our sails and await the orders of Cap
tain Scott, who was to investigate our case.
About four hours later Captaiu Scott himself
came aboard aud examined our cargo, after
which he seized the vessel in the Queen's
name for violation of the fishery laws. Ido
not remember the exact language used bv
him. No re-istance was made. He then
read to us his regulations that we would be
allowed to go ashore here or go to St. Johns.
I came ashore to see the Consular agent here,
but did not find him, after which I re
turned to the Lansdowne and informed C'apt,
Scott that I could not find the Consul, anil
preferred to go to St. John. He said he
would start th? next morning, and that I and
my crew might stay aboard of the
schooner, which we did, the vessel remaining
under the care of the armed crew from the
Lansdowne. I again in the evening came
ashore and saw Consular Agent Stewart,
aul a-ked for instructions regarding
tha course to be pursued. He ad
vis ; d me to go to St. John,
winch we did tha following day.
After remaining in St. John four days I re
ceived instruction to return to Digoy and
report to the Consul-General. I deny having
purchased or caught any bait for the purpose
of fishing in English waters or having con
realed the name of the schooner. Of course
there is a jwssibllity that a piece of canvas
may have been over the ra l covering a
portion of the vessel’s name, but it was’not
placed there intentionally.”
Commander Scott, of the Lansdowne, re
iterated his conviction of the guilt of Captain
Kinney, and said the latter simply lied when
he denied purchasing bait. In reply to the
question as to whether he had received any
definite instructions regarding the mak
ing of further seizures, or whether
it was the intention of the
Canadian authorities to await further de
velopments in the present case before pr
ceeding to the bringing of new ones, Captain
Scott said: “The seizure of the Adams will
make no difference whatever. If Iha l a
chance to seize half a dozen more vessels to
night I w ould do so without the least hesita
tion.”
Consul-General Phelan characterize 1 this
latest procedure asnotoingshort of trifling by
the Canadians with the affairs of a great
nation. “For. said he, “have they not held
this vessel since Friday with ut offering our
Government any explanation whatever? I
sent a communication to Caotain Scott
yesterday morning, asking hinT to explain
tbe latest turn of affairs, but he
gave no satisfactory response. I asked
Collector V iets on what grounds the
customs authorities held tha vessel, aud ho
replied: ‘Violations of the customs laws, em
powring a penalty of S4OO, and she was held
for that sum? How can these conflicting
contentions be reconciled? On one side the
assertion is that the Adams is confiscated for
violation of the fishery law’s, and on the
other is the statement that she was seized lor
infringement of customs regulations?”
All the satisfaction Mr. Phelan could ob
tain from Captain -Scott was that the latter
referred the Consul to the Ottawa authori
ties.
Sheriff Van Blarcom received from Hali
fax. N. S., a writ agaiust the David J
Adams, bringing the case before
the Vice-Admiralty Court in that
city. The document is one of the
greatest importance. It says that the action
is for the forfeiture of the vessel and her
cargo for violation of the treaty of 1818 and
of various acts of the British Parliament,and
of acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of
Canada of 1868, 1870, 1871 and 1873.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
There are 20,001 waiters in New York
and Brooklyn.
Last year 4,950,4.19 cans of milk were
brought to New York city.
The estimated n unhor of idle wa rework
-•r ip. th . U-rit-d ’ ; a(. °
Mainz still pays out about $3,9X' a year
b.unties for bean* kille 1 in the State.
Based on the names in the last city dire?-
tory.St. Louis claim : a population of 420,0J0.
A floating planing mill, 170 feet long by
iii 611 - '" ln w idtb, is being built on tho
Allegneny River.
Aboct a fifth Of the GOO Chinese residents
of 1 hila r lelphia have become members of the
feunday-schools of tbe city.
c- la<t year the output of coal in
Was 150 >*11,418 tons, ia which
.)20,t*.f2 eolher.es were engaged.
The average annual yield of the Kimberly
r mmeS ? ,Uth Afril d-inng the
pa. t three years lias been $12,500,000.
*ll A tLV <SUlt - °L boomin S things on piper,
all the towns in IVyo ning al mg the .North
ern PacifiCare crowded with tramps.
7’!. E <l ‘ at t ra , te cf f airo ha s been frightful
Ho i 5 1' ll i Januar y it was S i x tv perl,o.JO.
Ba/1 water is believed to be the cause.
?. f C ? ncord > Mass., lives on
the farm which has been owned by his an
cestors s.u e 163.). He is ninety years old.
Una /® d , that it; will require fifteen
cars per day for four months to market the
orange crop of Southern California this year.
A Y;Y VE large enough to accommodate all
the citizens of the town is to bo dug in Clif
ton, Dak. It is designed as a safeguard
against cyclones. °
The eleventh annual meeting of nursery
men, florists and seedsmen will l>e held in the
Department of Agriculture buildings. Wa-h
--mgton, L> C.. beginning June 16th, and con
tinuing three days.
Mormon Elder Morgan is at Chatta
nooga, with a large staff of Mormon mission
aries, of whom there are at least one hun
dred at work in the South, distributing tracts
by the million and making many proselytes
in the mountain districts of North and South
Carolina, Georgia. Tennessee and Alabama.