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PUBLISHED EVER F TCESLA V.
FOBSYTII, - - GEORGIA
The Philadelphia A’w* gloats over the
fart that the Quaker eity has a bigger
ahret of plate glass than New York, but
\ thinks that Philadelphia architecture
••makes the city a laughing stock.’’
A young lady teacher in the high
school at Tiffin, Ohio, accomplished the
fca of whipping thirty-five boys, rang
ing from nine to fourteen years of age,
in thirty-five minutes. Next day she
wrote an essay entitled “Woman the
weaker visstff,” and that night sat up
with a young man six hoars. But, de
tpit'- her many talents, she can't vote.
Frank Boling of Cherokee, Kan.,
threw himself on a feather bed that lay
on the floor during a thunder storm. He
neglected to draw up his legs, and his
feet were touching the floor, when the
lightning struck the house and played
about his feet, burning them and knock
ing him senseless. That part of his body
that was on the bed was not hurt, and a
child lying by his side was uninjured.
All of which may be used to show that
feather beds are good places of refuge in
thunder storms.
A traveling snake charmer says that it
is easy to win the confidence and affec
tion of a youthful boa, or anaconda, as
they are not venomous or vicious, and
can only exert their power of crushing by
getting a purchase with their tail on
something that will offer sufficient re
sistance after they have completely coiled
themselves around the limb or body of
their intended victim. If surprised or an
noyed, they may bite, but can do no seri
ous harm thereby. Tlieir tongue is as soft
and slippery as velvet.
A singular enterprise is announced—
namely, tlie formation of a company with
$1,000,000 capital stock to dredge the
Carson river, in Nevada, for quicksilver
and amalgam. Eighteen miles of the river
bed have been located. It is estimated
that ten per cent, of the bullion product
of the Comstock mines has flowed as tail
ings into the Carson river, and that at
least $40,000,000 will be recovered. The
proprietor has dredges at work at New
Grenada which have been successful in
recovering much treasure from the river
beds.
In acquiring Burmali, England has got
possession of vast forests of teak, which,
never plentiful in India, was becoming
commercially very rare. Of all the woods
grown in the east this is the most valua
ble. It is neither too heavy nor too
hard ; it does not warp or split under ex
posure to heat and damness; it contains
an essential oil which prevents its rotting
under wet conditions, and at the same
time acts as a preservative to iron and
repels the destructive white ants; it is,
withal, a handsome wood, of several va
rieties of color and grain, and takes a
good polish.
The New York Graphic remarks, edi
torially, that “electricity has now come
into use so generally for illuminating
purposes that it is somewhat strange that
no successful attempt has yet beeu made
to apply it to the lighting of railroad
trains. One of the most disagreeable
things about railroad traveling is the of
fensive odors given out by the ordinary
oil lamps. This is especially the case
with sleeping coaches, where, as a gen
eral rul.\ the w indows are closed, and
the traveler wakes up in the morning
half smothered with the close, smoky at
mosphere. Electric lamps would do
away with this sort of thing, and the
man who succeeds in introducing a sys
tem of electric lighting in our railway
cars will be hailed as a benefactor.”
A most extraordinary memory is that
of llans Yon Bulow, the pianist; in fact,
it is said that there is no musician alive
who can appro ch him in the ability to
carry in his heal piauo and orchestral
scores. One of the most femarkftble ex
hibitions of his memorizing powers was
..4/lyeii in a recent series of concerts at
"■'JiOndon, where he played the Sonatas
of Beethoven, thirty-three in number, at
the rate of five or six each night, with
out notes. It is said that on one occa
sion he conducted a performance of
"Wagners famous “Neibelungcn-Lied,”
which occupied four consecutive even
ings. and during the entire representa
tion he did not require the assistance of
so much as a scrap of print or manu
script. lie knew every note of the mas
ter's composition, and all that he had to
do was to devote his attention to the or
chestra.
One of the strangest sights of London
is the yearly collection for the hospitals
on Hospital Saturday. In almost every
corner of the great city and its suburbs
are to be -ecu ladies seated at small
tables ret on the sidewalk. A large pla
cura is attached to the table soliciting a
contribution. On the table is placed a
box with a -lit in :h? lid through which
a penny can be dropped, and on the box
is printed the w o and . “For the hospitals. ”
The lady doe- n t solicit contributions.
She sits on a eh dr beside the little table,
sometimes kr.i ting complacently or has
a book in her hand. Often a couple of
liit.e g rl- a.. as solicitors and modestly
request the passers-by to remember the
sick aid ;h wounded. Ladies of the
highest social standing do no: consider it
beneath tli m to attend to contribution
boxes on Hospital Saturday. These lit
tle tables obstruct the crowded thorough
fares. They are on the bridges and along
busy streets, but everybody cheerfully
givi s way for them, and few pass them
by without dropping their mite in the
box for the hospitals.
“The sway of the gamblers,” says the
New York correspondent of the San
Francisco Argonaut “increases in New
York every and ay. Many of the gambling
houses have been re-opened, and all the
o ird-men who have recently been run
out of Philadelphia and Washington
have come here. They are clannish to
the last degree. They move up and down
Broadway in pairs, infest the best restau
rants. -tare women out of countenance,
and stand in small battalions in front of
the St. James Hotel. They are a well
dre-sed, scrupulously neat, carefully
gloved, and a polite body of men, but
they are a unit when any one of their
members gets into trouble. It is rather
odd that a gang of gamblers should
wield such a power in New York. The
secret is found in the fact that a great
many have a strong affinity for Wall
street men, and they are all hand-in
glove with the local politicians.”
A goose which had just died at Stutt
gart left the flock, while still a gosling,
and resolved to have nothing more to do
with its companion geese, but to try a
new way of life for itself. So it boldly
marched into the barracks of a Uhlan
regiment one day and stationed itseli
next the sentry box. The Uhlans were
touched by the goose choosing to ally
with their corps, and built a shed for it
to live in. For twenty-three years
neither threats or persuasion were able
to separate this bird from its adopted
regiment. When the corps changed
quarters the goose went with them, and
when the Uhlans went to fight for their
country the desolate creature took up for
a time with a battalion of infantry; but
no sooner did the first Uhlans enter the
town than the goose marched out to
meet them, and went with them to her
old quarters. Since her death she has
been stuffed, and is to be seen in a glass
case on the gate of the barracks of Stutt
gart.
Statements derived from official
sources place the total wheat product of
the world last year at 2,100,000,000
bushels. Of this aggregate Europe is
credited with raising sixty per cent,
largely in Russia. British India produces
fourteen per cent. The exporting
countries altogether raise almost one-half
of the total of the world’s product. The
separate figures are given as follows:
Great Britain, 82,000,000; Russsia, 209,-
000,000; Chili, etc, 25,000,000; Austral
as;a, 37,000,000; India, 288,000,000;
United States, 357,000,000; and Canada,
35,000,000. Total, 1,033,000,000 bushels.
That is about twice the size of the largest
crop ever raised in this country. Accord
ing to the Detroit Tribune, “These totals
of the crop of the world show that there
is far from being an over-production of
wheat, and that there is no likelihood of
any such thing happening. The enor
mous aggregate given is, after all, but a
bushel and a half to each inhabitant in
the world for a year’s supply, while the
consumption of the English-speaking
people alone is about five bushels per
head per annum, ft, then, all peoples
should be induced to use more wheat for
food, double and treble the largest total
product ever reached could be consumed
for bread and seed. The value cf wheat
before it was moved last year was equal
to $1 per head for the entire world’s pop
ulation. Evidently, there is yet room to
develop trade and open the way to dis
pose of all the wheat surplus it is possi
ble for the United States to produce.”
Importance of the Hen.
For the year 18S3 the poultry product
of this country was $5(50,000,000. Under
an equal division each man, woman ani
child in the country would have paid
over one dollar to the poultry farmers.
But we paid more than that, for we im
ported about half as much .as we pro
duced. China alone sent us r?,000,000
eggs. These are tremendous figures.
Our poultry inter< st, it seems, is more
than double the value of the dairy inter
est. It was worth in 1883 $150,000,000
more than the cotton product of that
year. In the past two years a great
advance has been made in this industry
in the Ohio valley. The state fair last
fall and the poultry show the past winter
prove that. Small and large farmers,
and persons having but small lots and
back yards, have been penetrating the
mysteries and cultivating the different
breeds of Cochins, Brahmas, Hamburgs,
Black Spanish, Wyandotte* Plymouth
Kecks, Andalusians, and all the others
for all they are worth. It was but a few
days flgo that all Ohio man refused SSO
for a nine-months-old rooster, had de
mands lor all the eggs his fowls could
produce at $3 per “setting." and had to
rent several hens at $5 each for two
months in order to keep up with the de
mands for eggs.— Wheeling (IT. la.)
llegizter.
Lines by Longfellow.
In the portfolio of Mr. Longfellow
soon after liis death were found the fol
lowing lines, which were written by him
in July. 1879. and which were not made
public until recently:
In the long, sleepless wat hes of the night,
A gentle face—a fa e of one long deal—
Looks at me from the wall, where round its
head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Here in this room she died, and soul more
white
Never through martyrdom of fire wasted
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legion of a life more benedight.
There is a mountain in the distant west
That, sun-defv ing, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upen my breast
These eighteen years, through all the chang
ing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she
died.
Tito Baseball Season.
When summer hanvs her jewels rare
On every plant end tree.
And soft and balmy is the air.
As happy still is he.
The baseball season has come round.
And. with a joyous shout.
He rushes to the baseball ground
Ea h day when school “lets out.”
You'll find he can at once recall
Each champion player's name;
He's an authority on all
The technics of the game.
Some early day you'll see his face
And eyes with rapture shine—
Wh-n he achieves the honored p’.a e
Of captain in the nine.
First lease of power that be has known;
Who can describe bis joy?
The sceptred monarch on his throne
Would envy then the boy.
— Boston Courier.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
happenings of interest
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDI.E STATES.
The discovery of another big well in the
Pennsylvania oil field has caused a tumble in
petroleum.
FTre has destroyed the main building of
Harrison’s Chemical Work-, Philadelphia—
the largest of the kind in the country. The
loss exceeds SIOO,OOO.
A can of kerosene exploded in the house
of Michael Feehan. a miner, near Mt. Pleas
ant. Penn. Three of his children, who had
been playing with the can until it ignited,
were burned to death.
R. S. Spofford, of Newbury port. Mass.,
attorney for the American Fisheries Union,
says that the inland fishermen will unite with
New England in opposing future treaties
with Canada bearing on that industry.
Springfield, Mass., has been oelebrat ng
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
its settlement by a big procession and other
festivities.
An Anti-?a!oon Conference of New Jt.-.-ey
Republicans was held at Trenton on the
36th, delegates from all over the State at
tending. E. A. Armstrong, Speaker of the
Assembly, (ailed the meeting to order. A
platform was adopted and a State Commit
tee appointed.
SOUTH AM) WEST.
The prospects are good for large TV extern
grain crops.
The Knights of Labor convened in general
assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th,
repre ; entatives of the Order from all over
the Union being in attendance. The discus
sion and adjustment of differences between
the Knights and trades unions, a change in
the laws of the order made necessary by a
too raj .id increase in member.-hip, and the
powerlessness of the General Executive
Board to prevent strikes and boycotting,
were the questions to which General Master
Workman Powderly hal directed attention
in his call.
Will Whitehead fatally shot Miss Laura
Harwood, at Calrollton, Kv., and then
killed himself, because ths girl’s parents ob
jected to him as a son-in-law.
A novel strike occurred in Chicago, a few
days since, t‘he employes of a large foundry,
whose demand for eight hours had been com
plied with, striking fora return to ten hours
a day.
James Dawson’s bouse, near Rush villa,
Ind., caught fire at night, and his three chil
dren, asleep in the upper story, were burned
to death.
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, presided
at a large meeting at Chicago in favor of
Irish home rule.
A btre at Wausau, Wis., -swept over lum
ber yards covering half a mile of territory.
The loss is $200,000.
Twenty-five Mormons have been sen
tenced at B!a 'kfoot, Idaho, to various terms
of imprisonment for violation of the law
against polygamy.
General Miles, with a strong force of
Americans and Mexicans, is in hot pursuit of
Chief Geronimo and his murderous Apache
followers iu Arizona. The General has
offered a reward of SSO for each Indian or
head of an Indian brought in and $2,600
for Geronimo or his head.
One man was instantly killed and three
others were mortally wounded by the explo
sion of a sawmill boiler near Deshler, Ohio.
Cecil Marriage, chief engineer of the
water works at Oskaloosa,la. .and his cousin,
Miss Hettie Marriage, were drowned a few
days since while bathing iu the river at that
place.
A large building in Chicago, occupied by
publishers and kindred trades, burned down
on the 26th. The losses aggregate $1,000,001.
WASHINGTON.
The President has vetoed four more private
pension bills on the ground that the claim
ants were not entitled to the money voted
them by Congress. The claims of all four
had previously been rejected by the Pension
Bureau.
Nominations by the President; John J.
Finch to be. Collector of Customs for the
District of Sandusky, Ohio. To be receivers'
of public moneys: Amos J. Harris, atKirwin,
Kan.; Alexand ier H. Baker, at Grand Rapt
ids, Neb.; Ezra W. Miller at Huron, Dak.
Confirmations by the Senate: United
States Consuls—H. M. Jewett, of Massachu
setts, at Sivas; Charles H. Wills, of Mary
land, at Managua; Francis H. Wigfall. of
Maryland, at Leeds. Collectors of Customs—
John F. McDonnell, for District of St.
Marks, Fla.: J. McGuire, for the District of
Pensacola, Fla.: William A. Mahoney, for
the District of Fernandina. W. L. Dankins,
of Mississippi, to be United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Mississippi. H.
F. Stevens, of Michigan, to be United States
District Judge for the Western District of
Michigan.
President Cleveland has vetoed two more
private pension bills.
The revenues of the government during
May are about sbi.KtU,ooo in exees-i oi the
expenditures during the same period.
FOREIGN.
Man y Turks were killed and the Greek
General Loris was mortally wounded in
recent engagements on the frontier. The
Greek losses before Grizovali were 150 killed
and wounded. Quiet has been restored by
an armistice.
There has been a serious labor riot in the
town of Trani. on the Adriatic. A mob
overpowered the garrison and burned dowu
the law court buildings, the town hall, the
custom house and a theatre. Several per
sons were burned to death and others were
murdered by the rioters.
Forty Odd Fellows were injured more or
less seriously by an accident to an excursion
train near Bromptoil, Canada.
Rjel. wife of jjje hanged Manitoba
jrebeh Jpas jug: died near Winnipeg,
A toiTxado at Wetzlar. Prussia, destroyer)
q railway station and unroofed many facte?
fito- and dwellings. Barges were lifted out
of the river Lahn and carried considerable
distances in the air. In the neighboring
country enßre forests were uproot e;L
"The Derby, the leading English racing
event, was won this year by the favorite.the
Duke of Westminster's bay colt Ormonde,
from a field of nine starters.
Peace prevails again between Turkey and
Greece. The Powers will raise the blockade
of Greek ports.
Twelve men were killed by an explosion
in a dynamite factory at Valencia, Spain.
The Belgiau Government has prohibited
the holding of a contemplated immense So
cialist demonstration.
Thunderstorms have been raging in Ger
many for three days. Many persons and
hundreds of cattle were killed.
A DIABOLICAL. OUTRAGE.
A .Man and his Wife I.ashed to a tree
and Whipped.
Ritchie county. W. Va.. omes to the front
with one of the most diabolical outrages eve r
perpurated within the bordeis of that state.
As on other occasions of this nature, the per
petrators are what are known as • R and Men,”
that organization of outlaws whic 1 for half
dez *n years, has fl mrshi-d in ti at state, despite
attempts of the authorities to s'amp it cnt.
Ihe vic ims this time are Mr. and Mrs. George
Keck, who live on Goss Run in R tehie countv.
Two nights ago. they were aron-ed by the
shouts of the mob. which hal surrounded
their house, and on the door being opened the
red men took Keck and liis wife into the woods
near by. rrp:d them to trees and boat them in
a most brutal manner with hickory switches
Tnev then burned the dwelling and its contents
'o the ground and departed. Alter daylight
Keck succeeded in releasing himself, and after
removing his bleeding and fainting wife to a
plaee of safety, swore out warrants for such
of the mob as he had been able to recognize,
and twelve of them have been arrested and
placed in ja;L O-her arrests will be made.
Mount .'Etna's Eruption.
The flow of iava from Mount Altna continues
undiminished. The destractioa of the town
Nicolosi is inevitable.
THE PRESIDENT'S MARRIAGE
CELEBRATED IT THE WHITE
HOUSE. WA>HI.\OTO\. V. C.
The President and Hi*-, Frances Folsou.
Married.—A quiet Wedding.
President C eveiand was married at the
Whi'e House on TVedu sdav evening. June 2d,
t > Miss Frances Folsom. The recent death of
a relative of Miss Folsom changed the original
plans for the wedding and invitations were
limited to a few of the n ar relatives and mem
bers of the cabinet and their wives. Rev. Dr
Sunderland, of the Firs Presbyterian church
of Washington, officiated. Toe ceremony was
followed 6j a collation, and the wedding in all
of its details was plain and unostentatious.
Miss Folsom arrived at New York from Europe
the previous week on the Antwerp steamer
Noordland. She was met on the steamer at
the quarantine station by Colonel Dan Lament
with a revenue cutter and landed at one of the
uptown piers on the North river. Her coming
by an Antwerp steamer was so little regarded
as within pos-ibilities that only two of the New
York morning papers and not any of the tele
graphic repoterrs had the news. The reporters
generally were watching British steamship
liners.
The long agony is over. At last the public is
in possession of the great sicret. Washington
breathes easier, both because all mystery is at
last cleared away from this absorbing topic,
and because the happy event has occurred there
instead of at the home of the Folsoms, as was
hitherto reported. President Cleveland, ac
companied by Miss Cleveland, went to New
York Sunday night. On Monday he attended
the decoration day exercises. Tuesday morn
ing the presidential party left on an early train
for Washington. Miss Folsom, her mo:her and
several other relatives came to TVasliington on
the same train. The Folsoms were the guests
of Secretary WThitney until the wedding.which
occurred at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, at
the White House. Only a few friends and
relatives, the members of the cabinet and
their families were present at the ceremony.
After the marriage there was a reception to
congress, the diplomatic corps, army and navy
officers and invited guests. The date originally
set was June 16tb, but it was moved up two
weeks on account of the incessant gossip and
the variety of comments which is said to hav
been very annoying to both parties. This was
the first wedding ever had in the White House.
It is thought perfectly proper that Miss Folsom
should be married there as Mr. Cleveland is
her guardian as well as the groom elect.
THE STORY OF THE COURTBHIP.
The president was married in the blu 3 parloi
where, just a trifle over twelve months ago.
Miss Folsom stood with Miss C.eveland to re ;
reive alone of <£#• Saturday aftei noon recep
tion. A lady, lWlescribing the scene, brought
hack vividly a in incident which occurred, in
which the brifprt and clever Kate Bayard
figured. Someone, looking at Miss Folsom,
said :
“She is a pretty girl, Miss Biyard, don't you
think ?”
“Yes,” she replied, “and soon to be Presi
dent, Cleveland’s wife.”
The same iady (a prominent society leader}
went on to say :
“The relations between her father and Mr.
Cleveland were so intimate that in the Folsom
household the president was treated just like a
member of the family, and Miss Folsom re
garded him the same as a much esteemed
'amilv friend. When Mr. Foisom died, and
Mr. Cleveland became his daughter's guardian,
the relation exi-ting between them became no
stronger—it could hardly become so—but when
as the years passed and Miss Foisom, from a
careless, thoughtless child, developed into a
thinking woman, and learned of the fidelity
with which the president had guarded her in
i' rest® .can you wonder that she painted h.m
as 1 1 v-uea. ? The president, on the other hand,
ha. one whathadsq often been done before.
~Tg_ i hfft p He
watcotd her develop and expand and become
the beautiful woman she is, and yet only m a
dim, unconscious way, realized that the little
tiring whom he had at one time carried in his
arms was now a woman with a woman's heart
and a woman’s love. It had never occurred to
him, I suppose, that the little gir. had substi
tuted for the love she foimerly bore him, as her
father’s friend, a deeper and more passionate
affection. In ca-es like these there is a sudden
awakening sometimes needed, and it came in
this instance.
“Had Mr. C eveland never been elected pres
ident, he would probably have ended his days
as a bachelor. L tst winter Mrs. aud Miss Fol
som were guests at the white house, and, of
course, there was nothing more natural than
that gossip should associate their names, as
they had done with Mi6s Van Vechten’s and
others. The president heard of this gossip and
then awoke to the fact that he loved his beau
tiful ward. The troths were plighted in
Washington and then the president showed
the greatness of his nature. He feared that
Miss Folsom might have given her assent be
cause of the relations that had previously
existed between them, and told her he wished
her to go abroad, so that if during that time
she should find any one she thought she loved
better, or that she could not love the president
well enough to become his wife, then the fact
of the engagement should never be made pub
lic. Miss Folsom protested there was no
necessity to send her abroad for a probationary
period, but the president was inexorable, and
she went. This was why the matter wTts kept
so secret, and although the letters which the
president received from Miss Folsom left r:<s
doubt that she would eventually become his
wife, still he decided that Ike should
not be made public until Miss SGlsMaTacT
turned and again renewed her troth. Had not
the truth leaked out, the public would have
remained in ignorance until the formal an
nouncement had been made from the While
.House,’
PERSONAL MENTION.
Ex-President Arthur's weight has de
creased from 250 pounds to 130.
| ISam Jon vs, the revivalist, is a small eater.
He is fond of oatmea , imiK. fruit, lemonade,
and only drinks come occasionally.
A monument to General J. E. B. Stuart is
to be erected on the Yellow Tavern battle
field, where he received his fatal wound.
Samuel J. Tilden’s • yacht, the Viking,
has been fitted up for a cruise which her
owner is going to undertak • this summer.
The “father of the House of Commons” is
Mr. C. R. M. Talbot, of Glamorganshire,
who has just completed his eighty-third
year.
G. D. Patterson, who becomes postmaster
at Home, Tenn., at $240 a year, is a son-in
law of ex-President Johnson and was once a
United States Senator.
! James G. Blaise and Stephen B. Elkins
have together purchased a 500 acre tract of
land on the great natural gas belt in Alle
gheny Count.-. Penn.
Senator Berry, of Arkan as, is the only
Congressman in the T oper House whose in
juries in the Civil War cause him to walk
with a crutch. He lost a leg at Corinth.
The title of Miss Rose Cleveland's new
book, which a Washington paper says she is
writing for a Detroit oubiishing house, is
“You and I; cr, Moral, Intellectual and So
c al Culture."
The Duke of Newcastle, who is coming to
thus country for a visit of several months, is
only twenty-one. and is of the Duke
of Newcastle, who came to the l nited States
in ltifiO as special guardian cf the then youth
ful Prince of Wales.
The Czar of Russia is sa ; d to be in public
and private, honest, frank and straightfor
ward. He is hard-working, resolute, and
intensely patriotic, but is unable to make
rapid decisions on account of the red-tapeism
which characterizes official methods in
Russia.
Not Quite What He Meant.
Little Brown (a horrid bore) —“Do you
believe in a man’s sighs, Miss Robinson. ”
Miss Robinson (tall and stately)—“A
man's size? Yes, certainly I do! I
think no man ought to be less than six
feet in height.”— London Judy.
INDICTING ANARCHISTS.
TRUE BILLS FOES J) HI A I YST TUI.
( HICAdO PHIsOS EBS.
The tlri'ai Slrike rf Miners in the Clear,
lield It eg in ii Ended.
A Chicago dispatch says that the Grand
Jury have found true bills against the leading
Anarchists, charging them with murder ns
accessories before the fact. It is said the in
dictments include the names of August Spies.
A. R. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Michael
Schwab and Hermann Schnaioble. It was
agreed to withhold the indictments until all
the cases have been disposed of.
The police have made two new arrests,
which they consider important. Information
com erning the men was given by one ol the
Anarchists already under arrest. A quantity
of dynamite, a bomb, two revolvers and a
Winchester rifle were found. Tlie chief of
detect.ves refuses to give any information
regarding the capture.
The 3.060 packing house employes of Sidney
A. Kent, who began the eight-hour move
ment at the Union Stock Yard- in Chicago,
have had a consultation with Mr. Kent, at
which the latter agreed to (ontiuuethe eight
hour plau until October 1. The men
in all the departments are to receive
nine hours' pay, except the lahorers, whose
wages were only reduced from .<!.<•'> t >
The other packing house employers had an
no', need their intention to return to ten
hours on June 1.
The great strike of coal miners in the Clear
field (Penn.) region has ended. The men re
turned to work at the old wages and the
mine-owners make the following concessions:
“Absolute guarantee of just weight. Ac
ceptable weighmau to bo placed on
every tipple, and his wages to be
paid in the office as agreed upon by miners.
Abolition of the store-order system and cash
payments iu even dollars to the loth of each
month, with full settlement at the end of tho
month, and the men to go where they
please in making purchases without
any restraint. Questions of price to
be paid for all dead work and other mat
ters of dispute shall be referred to a com
mission agreed upon by both parties,
said commission being composed of
the Superintendent of the mines and
one of the miners. That no man shall be dis
charged on account of his participation iu the
present strike, but all the old miners shall be
employed without any discrimination.”
At a mass meeting at Hut-edala. Penn.,
the agreement made by their committees and
the operators at Tyrone was unanimously rat
ified, and the men re-olved to re
sume work on the terms specified
iu the agreement. H. G. Fisher of
Fisher, Miller & Cos., who Is in the milling
business at Huntington. Penn., and whose
flour has been boycotted throughout tho
bituminous coal region on account of his ac
tivity in looking after the interests of the
operators,has received notice that the boycott
has been removed.
A Boston dispatch says that the employes
of all the steam railroads running from that
city have been quietly organizing thems lives
into local assemblies of Knights of Labor. A
general move has been made in the and rec
tion of higher wages all along the line, under
the counsel of the Executive Board of Dis
trict 30. Notices were received from several
of the railroads that the requests had been
laid before the Board of Directors.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
There are 1,000 professional musicians in
London, of whom 3,000 are Englishmen.
The veteran actor, William Davidge, will
soon celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his
services on the stage.
“Engaged” seems to have taken anew
lease of life after a long sleep. Six com
panies are now doing it.
Miss Louise Montague, who pla3-s the
part of Evangeline in Rice’s “Evangeline,” is
the celeb: ated SIO,OOO prize beauty.
Miss Mary Anderson’s manager has
sailed for England. When he returns next
autumn it will be with Miss Forteseue, the
celebrated English actress.
Daily’s Theatre Company, of New York,
now in Lmdon. will visit Fans aud Berlin
after their London season to j erform Ger
man-comedies adapted by Mi-. Terriss.
Charles Dickens, the novelist’s son, is
about to follow in the footsteps of his father
as a reader. Asa writer he has no success,
but it is thought that he will be happier asau
elocutionist.
The Duke of Edinburgh took an active
part in an entertainment given the other day
on oue of the ships of the Mediterranean
squadron, joining in the vocal trio and play
ing a couple of solos on his fiddle.
Miss Somerville, Miss Cameron, Mis |
Dolaro and Miss Amy Ames are known a ;
the “four fat queens or comic opera.” It pi !
sad tli -ir combined weight would make thg ]
scales kick the beam at a thousand pounds. e I
Mr. Mark Smith, the baritone of the Me- j
Call Company, is an amateur astronomer ■
and nightly sweeps the heavens through his ;
telescope, an i it is noted that his manager
is abo on the constant lookout for new ,
stars.
MissLeonoreTifft, one of the numerous
American sopranos now sojourning in Italy,
writes home that Manager Monzoni, of j
Milan, offered her an engagement without
salary, and said that plenty of American
girls would pay him handsomely if ho would }
bring them out in opera.
French theatres share with Kings the
privilege of having private physicians at
tached to them, even w hen they are in fiour
i.-hiug health. There are ten attached to the
Comedie Francaise, fourteen to the Opera,
without counting several dentists for the lat
ter; eight to the Gvmuase. an Iso on. - .
CONGRESS OF CHURCHES.
Annual Meeting of Representatives of the
Various Reliefs,
The second annual meeting of the Ameri
can Congress of Churches has just been held
in Cleveland. The meeting lasted three days.
A circular officially issued thus set forth
the scheme of this new departure in relig
ion: “The American Congress of Churches
has for its object to promote Chris
tian union and to advance the Kingdom of
God by a free discussion of the great relig
ious, moral and social questions of the time.
The general management of the Congress i;
in the hands of a council of twenty-five, in
which the various churches of America are
unofficially represented by clergymen or lay
men or both. This Council ha- no intention
of establishing a society or organizing a plan
of union or putting forth a creed. It simply
aims, by holding public meetings from time
to time, to make provision for a full and
frank discussion of the great subjects in
which the Christians of America are inter
ested, including those ecclesiastical and the
ological questions upon which Christians
differ.”
In the council of twenty-five the following
denominations were represented; Congrega
tional, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Disciples. Baptist, Swedenborgian, Christian,
* k Reformed, Unitarian and Methodist.
Governor J. B. Foraker, of Chio, was pres
ident of the meeting, with a Img list of vice
presidents, including Governor Robinson, of
Massachusetts; Congressman C. R. Breck
inridge, of Arkansas: Rev. T. L. Cuvier, of
Brooklyn: Dorman B. Eaton, of New York:
Rev. Henry M. Field, of New York; Rev. E.
H. Captic-e, of North Hampton. Mass.: Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, of New York: Bishop
Ruhson. of Pennsylvania: Chancelor C. N.
Sims, of Syracuse. N. Y., and manv others.
Among the more imper ant topics of dis
cussion were: “A True Church: Its Essen
tials and Characteristics:" “The Present Ne
cessity fora Restatement of Christian Belief:”
“Readjustments in the Church to Meet Mod
ern Needs in City and Country and in For
eign Missionary fields:" “Religion and Our
Public Schools.”
i On the second evening one of the burning
questions of the time came up for considera
tion under the title “The Workingmen's Dis
y!ust.,“Church: Its Causes and Reme
dies. The appointed writers and speakers
were Rev. Wav-land Hoyt, D. D., of Phila
delphia: Everett P. Wheeler, of New York,
well known as a leader in civil service re-
Mr. John Ja-rrett, of Pittsburg, one of
tbe post prominent of 4 4 workingmen,* 7 for
merly president of the Amalgamated A soHa
tion of Iron and Steel Worke s, and Mr.
Henry George, whose fame as a writer on
social and economic questions is world wide.
Mr. George is a member of the Protestant
i Episcopal communion; Mr. Jarrett, of the
Congregational.
A Hunted Hnnier.
Of all the native birds iu Florida none
is more interesting than the Heron tribes.
The king of all these tribes is the great
Blue Heron. It grows to an extraordinary
size. Captain Dummitt. who planted the
most noted orange grove in th. .’ta.i.
kiiled one on a bayou near Mosquito La
goon fifteen years ago which measured
nine feet seven inches from the point of
its bill to the tips of its toes. I lie coast
wise bayous and lagoons arc usually dot
ted with small mangrove islands. In
South Florida the mangrove grows to a
height of sixty* and eighty loot, but north
of Cape Canaveral it is a gnarled busn
from ten to fifteen feet high. Flic bushes
cover the little islands as hair covers a
man’s scalp. The islands arc veritable
thickets, and woe betide the man who i>
lost in them, for they are intested with
sand flies, red bugs, mosquitoes and scov
jfions. Creeks, intense in crookedness
and of uneven tide, wind among these
islands like the paths of a labyrinth.
These solitary creeks are the favorite fish
ing grounds of the great blue heron.
Some of the happiest days ol my life
have been spent in hunting the bird in
these haunts. Seated in the bow of a
Canadian canoe, with my gun on my
knees and a guide in the stem, 1 was
noiselessly poled over the winding creeks
beneath the arching mangroves. At
sharp turns there was frequently a scream
of affright. Huge wings were unfolded.
The great bird wafted itself into tlie air,
and was brought to earth by a shot well
aimed. It is dangerous sport, however,
for a stranger. Even the best of guides
are sometimes lost in the green labyrinth
and suffer untold tortures. Unpracticed
hunters are apt to lose their eyes; for tho
beak of the great Blue Heron is as sharp
as a needle, and his long neck masks im
mense sweep and great power. The bird
strikes with marvelous precision and with
the rapidity of lightning. "When wound
ed it is especially dangerous. I was once
struck on the cheek within half an inch
of the eye. The blow was made by a
crippled snowy heron on an island in
Lake Worth. It was just after twilight.
The darkness saved my eye. I was in a
thicket looking for birds that I had shot
while on the wing. I saw a snowy spot
in the undistinguishable foliage, and took
it for a dead bird. As I stooped to pick
it up my cheek was pierced as though re
ceiving a thrust from a stiletto. This ad
venture made me extremely cautious
while hunting herons, and finally led to
a laughable scene.
In the spring of 1875 I was encamped
in the heart of Turnbull Swamp, about
eight miles from the head of Indian
River. The weather was very dry, and
there was much less water in the swamp
than usual. I was hunting paroquets,
wild turkeys, wood ducks, deer, bears,
wild-cats and pumas. The swamp is
streaked with savannas a hundred yards
wide and miles in extent. Deer becom
ing scarce in my vicinity I set a savanna
on fire one morning while on a turkey
hunt. After the burning of the dead
grass the new crop would serve to bait
the deer within a fortnight. At sunset I
was miles away from camp. At dusk I
saw several gobblers fly into a grove of
tall cypresses, and marked them, with
the intention of returning in the morn
ing at daylight and shooting them from
the trees. The reddened sky gave me
bearings on my way back to camp.
After wading for ten minutes through
mud and water, listening to the doleful
music of a death owl, I emerged upon
the burning savanna. The sky was
overcast. It was as dark as Erebus. A
brisk south wind was driving the fire
northward. The flames were leaping
over the tall, dry grass, and tinging the
clouds and the tops of the cypresses an
orange hue.
Suddenly I saw in the lurid light far
above me four great Blue Herons. They
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were in line, flapping their wings v.r
the precision of machinery. Instinctively
I drew my gun to my shoulder. On j n .
spiration 1 discharged it, for the “sight”
was invisible. The second barrel did
good work. The third heron in the : ; no
stopped, fell ten feet, and came swooping
toward the ground in great circles. I
that the bird would drop some district;
awav, and ran forward to mark the -pH.
But the burnt part of the savanna, despit,
the lurid light from the rolling wave of
fire in the south, was as black as tlie
bellying darkness of the clouds. I ivurd
the bird strike the earth with a thud. bur.
did not see where it fell. The black
ashes of the burnt grass were ai kV leep.
1 searched for the prize, but did not find
1 was jx'rplexed. Suddenly a feathery
Form arose from the ashes ten feet away.
It seemed to hover above me. It was the
heron. It had elevated the white piumc
on its head as an angry cockatoo draws
forward its topknot. The plume alone
could be distinctly seen in the darkn
With a blood-curdling scream the
bird darted forme. I knew the danger.
On the spur of the moment I turned and
ran toward the blazing savanna. The
bird gave chase, screaming frightfully at
every jump. I divined the situation. Its
wing was broken, and it was thoroughly
infuriated. If it struck me in the rear
with its sharp and powerful beak I fan
cied tliat its head would go through me.
In my haste to secure my prey I had ne
glected to withdraw the empty shells
from the fowling-piece. It would not do
to stand the chance of a light by using
the gun as a club, for it was so dark that
I could not guage the bird’s distance.
Besides the bird would be facing the light,
and I would be facing the darkness. I
continued my retreat; I rau as though the
evil one was after me. In my flight I
threw open the barrels of my gun, and
drew out the empty shells. In mad
haste I reloaded and relocked the barrels,
still running at the top of my sjieed.
Then I stopped, wheeled about and
banged away with lx>th barrels. The
bird shrieked worse than ever and was
untouched.
Again I sped toward the burning grass.
I had regained my composure, however.
Fear gave way to mirth. I laughed out
right at the absurdity of the situation,
blessing my stars that no friends were
near to chaff me. Again I reloaded the
gun, turned and fired. I was on the verge
of the blazing canes, and had a fair view
of my pursuer. At the second shot the
heron fell, and the impetus from its speed
was so great that it came against me,legs,
wings, neck and beak, in a limp lump. I
had shot it through the neck. Its head
was attached by the skin of the neck
alone.
I carried the prize to camp. Its plumage
was the perfection of feathery beauty.
Old Conner, my guide, was awaiting my
return with a supper of roasted venison
and yams. The bird was so tall that Con
ner fastened its beak to the back of my
coat-collar, drew the neck over my head,
and the feet touched the ground. He after
ward severed the head from the neck,
and hurled it across the fire at the trunk
of the palmetto—l have seen performer-, at
a circus handle a knife in a similar wav—
the sharp beak entered the tree, and stood
quivering there like a heavy-handled
bodkin; and for all that I know it re
mains there to this day.— Amo* J. Cum
miag* in the Cook.
Discriminating Heathen.
The boys in the Chinese Mission
School usually prefer women teachers,
perhaps because these are more sym
pathetic and patient with them; and
there is a good story of one who, in the
absence of his own teacher, was put un
der the instruction of a man. He seemed
uneasy and unhappy, and when asked
how the lesson had gone, burst out with:
“Me no likee man teacher! Me want
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