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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
rORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAH OF 80KR0E COtlSTT.
BY McGINTY <t. CABANI8S.
Statistics show that there are 132,000
ihurchcs, 02,000 minister', and 19,000,
)00 members in the United States,
I.ca ling British military authorities say
that England's wjjr resources are not
sufficient to with-tand attack from for
ign foes.
I here is a volunfeei regtuv t in Ken
t cky that served in tljr civil war and
was never in tered out. The members
of it want pay from the day of I.'* :'s sur
render to the present time.
The census of 1870 shotve I that there
were 25,000,000 books irt the libraries of
*he United Stales, and it i- believed
that even now there i not in the country
a book for every in! a’titaiit.
Mr, Fronde, the English historian, in
n recent work asserts that the retrogres
sion of Jamaica and other British |)OS
sessions in the West Indies has he n .. „„ so
rap,cl that the Government is seriously
a ik, d t0 K ov «m these places by cominis
sion.
A scientist claims that the bituminous
coal field known as the Pittsburg is
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practically inexhaustible accordin’ 7,000 to
the exploration. There are 10 00 (
,
, bushels . , of coal .... in the barges at Pittsburg
awaiting transportation as soon astir
rivers nro navigable to the; south ami
westward.
t • rme Warden Collins, of Connecticut,
nues to the defence of owls and hawks
bv saying that the examination of over
'-'gi) specimens of these birds by mi-cro
jrroves that they live on small
birds, frogs, snakes, mice ami grasshop¬
pers. Thc “small birds” are mostly
sparrows, and very few game birds a re
eaten.
Phe City of Liverpool is to be supplied
with water from a reservoir in AVales,
which is to be four and one-half miles
long by a half-mile to a mile broad and
eighty fe<'t Jeep. There will he three
miles of pipe, each sixty-eight miles
long, with filtering-beds and secondary
reservoirs. The aqueduct alone will
cost $15,000,000.
Miss Minnie Freeman, thc heroic school
(Oiicher of Myra Valley, Neb., who saved
thirteen school children by her presence
of mind in thc recent ‘blizzard,” has
already been overwhelmed with offers of
marriage. The New York Tribune
that “tin* applicants for this vacant jio i
tion must, regard her as' sure probf
against family breezes. ”
Mttch of the color blindness that is be¬
coming quite common is said to be
caused by the use of tobacco, which, be¬
ing a narcotic, benumbs the nerves.
Sometimes the victim loses siirht alto¬
gether. But is is noticeable, -ays the
(iriijihi tlint the old smokers are the
fastidious about the oo’ors which thc
tabacconrsts give their cigars.
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The estimates of acreage ° product and
value of corn, wheat and oats for each
State and Territory have been issued by
the statistician of tlit* Department of
Agriculture. The area of corn harvested, acre’
excluding abandoned or worthless
age, is 72,00.),000 acres. In round lium
hors the product is 1,45(5,000,000 bushels,
valued at $ 110,000, 000 . The area of
wheat was 37,400,000; product, 450,000,
000 bushels; value. $300,000,000. The
area of oats was nearly 33,000,000 acres:
production, (559,000,000 bushels; value,
$ 200 , 000 , 000 .
Francis La Hesclio, of thc Omaha
tiibe. who is employed in the Bureau of
, .nun j. , „ ans . at^ ... a-migton, , . . the
. is
brother ol lnshta I heamba, and is three
fourths, not full-blood or even. half
breed, Indian, I a Flesehe was cdu
cated at the mission school of an Indian
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clerk Gu*. Onevmliwiinri,/- On scteral occasions he has i,, acted , *>i
ns interpreter between his people and
government officers, and has al-o been
sent on several missions to his iribc.
An example of deterioration in values
b Grown in the-ale of the Great East
ern for less than $100.(03. The origin
nal cot of thc vessel was three and a
bait i w million •,.* dollar', • ,, / but sue was a gigan
tic failure from the start. The building
of this ship, lnwever. was of value in
a limit in
ea uships in the direction ol size. 8he
has been of use also in the laying of the
Atlantic <ab!( s While those ulm in
r;i lo?t heav,i -t v 1,1 ,he j ve:it —<«• »re, they -p can
console themselves with the fact that
their loss was uot altogether in vain.
■Another Another hnnn-Mnt impo.uint stap , o i has i been
placed at the mercy of cm* of thc pow
erlul associations of capitalists known as
"trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re
i cut! v organized on the princink* ,J of the
Puttier Trust, Ur.-n.U ,
nitu ecu aigt requeues ,n the l nited
States seven in New A ork, four in Bos
ton, and oue in St. 1 oub. Each re fin
cry has put its entire capital stock into
the Trust, taking certificates in payment
a-’d * the or-mGaHon r ° ,nt.nk j /illian
, ,ipi . a . P* 11 Gw da
’ .. ' u P ls iig
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*ou of the jiredu tion and price of
sugar. Whenever j.reduction is too great
for the demand, or whenever there is a
search v of raw su-mr tertain of the re
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r.nenes must _ 11C , shut , down, and not start
scam until the market improves.
THE M ONRO E ADVERTISER: F ORS YTH. GA., TUESDAY, AIARCH 20, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES
GERMANY'S RULER.
IN Till: SHADOW OF DEATH,
FREDERICK PROCLAI MED.
Tlir >>W llniprror on Hfrmn n *nl! tg a in —
nWIjiuM **i , rvlrp« O' fr ilu* itr-iimn. of
ll«" ln:p j;iti:>r. or William
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now Frederick III. is the eldest sou ot
the late Emj.eror, and is in his 57th ye ar,
having been born at Potsdam on October
18, 1830. He married Victoria Adelaide,
princess royal of Great Britain, on Jan
uarv 25, 1858, and they have seven chil
: d|-(;n ' ot whoui Urince William, wlro lias
| *> conspicuously during Ids fatli
er s illness, is the; eldest, there being two
j younger sons and four daughters.' The
new emjteror has had a brilliant career,
and is one of the strongest and most pop¬
ular men in Germany. It seems like; the
veriest irony of fate that the imperial
erow’ll should descend to him only when
i Death stands ready with outstretched
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hand to pluck it from his brow.
Emperor Frederick III drove to the
station at San Remo, accompanied by
Empress Victoria to take a special train
in waiting to convey him to Berlin. The
gathered largest crowd ever seen in San Remo
to witness his depaiture. The
new emperor was enthusiastically cheered
by the crowd, and lie repeatedly bowed
his acknowledgments of their greetings.
Emperor Frederick entered llie mil way
cars without assistance, and then turned
and assisted Empress Victoria to enter.
The municipal authorities and a number
of civillians were on the platform. King
Humbert traveled from Rome to San
Pier (J’Arena to meet Emperor Frederick.
When tiie train reached the station, King
Humbert entered the coach occupied by
the emperor and embraced him. The
scene at their meeting w r as a touching
one. The emperor was voiceless owing
to his disease, but ho wrote many notes,
in one of which lie thanked the Italian
parliament had for the honor and respect it
paid Ids father and himself. The
Empress Victoria translated to King
j Humbert the signs made by the emperor
j and conversed with the king in French,
Thc emperor was suffering from fatigue,
but otherwise was in his normal condi
lion. His throat was closely luutlled, and
he wore a hooded cap and heavy surtout.
The silent parting between the two rulers
was affecting. Accounts concerning the
meeting between Emperor Frederick and
King Humbert at San Pier d’Arena rep¬
resent King Humbert as being stricken
by the ghastly aspect of the emperor,
A lter the departure of the imperial train,
King Humbert covered his face with his
haudke chief, and said sc oral times:
“He is ill, ah, very ill.”
j All the membcis of thc ministry left
Berlin In a sjiecial train to meet Em
i peror Frederick as he returned from San
Remo. "J lie special train conveying the
1 emperor and empress arrived at Munich.
Their majesties met with a sympathetic
\ reception at the station. The train ar¬
rived at the West End station, nearChar
lottouburg, at midnight. Close to tin.
,;lbs il tent--haped pavilion, hung with
bliU ‘ k <:1, ' lb > hud bet ‘ u erected, through
which his majesty, on alighting from the
train, passed direct to his carriage, which
conveyed him to the. Charlottenburg
sell loss. The carriages oil their way to
lie castle were preceded by a detachment
jf the guard corps. A company of the
Second regiment of the guards marched
into Charlottenburg, to mount guard at
various points.
The funeral services weie held over the
remains of Emperor William in the mor¬
tuary chamber in the palace. The cham
l/ 1 ' ' vt ‘ s profusely decorated with flowers.
I he Dowager Empress Augusta, the
grand duke and grand duchess of Baden,
the crown prince and the crown princess
Sweden, ., and , other , royal , personages
| attended the sen ices. I he body of the
I eniperor lav in the. same position which
i
I ' moment when the Empress Augusta held
I , h;tlM i of her living consort.^Afrer the
service, the late emperor's aide-de-eamps,
Lieutenant-General You Lelindorff and
Lieutenant-General Von AYaldersee. acted
co/cli iu guards of honor at the dead monarch's
The dead emneror’s bodv was
K :noved to the cathedral at a late hour. it!
: after Emperor Frederick had viewed
The dead emperor's will directs that lie
be buried in full uniform with all lib
j decorations physicians ..non discovered* him U thc autoiwy
calculus....... di-tiuet t’-u/s
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j The Cologne Gazette states that tlieczar
j , f Rlls , ia , vill al „ m , lhc fmlcral o(
. pmperor in person. The whole Russian
army, by special order of the czar, will
wear mourning for four week-. On the
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will l>e prohibited! The St. Petersburg
new spa juts agreed in expressing a wish
that Emperor Frederick continue the
friendly poliev of the deceased emperor
towanf Ru-d;'.
Ell U ur Fre derick. in his reply to
p n .„- u t Carnot, alludes especially' to
ttie marks of sympathy shown him bv the
numerous French visitors at San Remo,
and Wwni expresses F^.ud'c^uu.v the hope that the relations
mav soon
bo fnen ily. I his response was sent
Riect from thc emperor without consult
ing with Bismarck. The resent of Ba
varia has received this message from Em
|>eror Frederick: Tu thi> moment
o dcepCS sonw - \ tru f? to • vo " rf f iend '
l^ 1 °■ nm d - /", h ; iD upon reheve me. ,he ’ To heavy this
I 'un-e ; l.uithtud e lojionded: “I aui
ieepiy move.: by your touching telegram,
cxpi<-smy heartfelt sympathy
J' 1 -' '!'Z un * ll 'T con,lnil: ' nce of our
aillirui , menttsfiip.
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Thre Yor'fdiy .persons W/W killed in the street of
Xe w duimg the month of Fehru
ary by re-kies*driving of .-amages
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWS FACTS AND F.4.Y
C[ES I ST E RES TING L T STA TED.
Accidents oh I.and and on Sen -New Enter
prises—Snicides--Heligioiis, Temperance
and Social .Matters.
C ol. L. 11. < ash died at his home in
Chesterfield county. S. C.. of apoplexy.
11 i- death was announced some days ago,
but 1,0 raliied aud lived on for s ” me tinie *
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One of the out-buildings of the AV jl
iiamson County, Tenn., ]K>or-hou.se was
burned, and William Johnson and Dora
Shannon, colored inmates, perished in the
flame-.
The Nashville, Tenn., Democrat pub
lishes its initial number. It is a l’our
page paper, and starts under favorable
auspices. Dr. R. A. Halley is the man
aging editor.
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head, ol L leveland, hio. are m Augusta,
• a., prospecting i,>r a big brewery. Jr
t:ie pre-odent of the • : ‘ i p ,st
, in-wciy company m leva land. and he
" ants ;t Southern annex.
The crop report for March will be is
sued in a few days by the Department of
Agriculture of South Carolina. It will
show that farm work is in a fair condi
tion of progress. The crop of <tnall grain
is in much better condition than has been
genera 11 v believed.
The private palace car, which is the
property of Jay Gould, has gone to Fer
ruuidina, Fla., to meet him, who is ex
peeted to arrive from Gibraltar in his
yacht, Atalauta. lie will travel to New
York overland, and probably will -top in
Maeon. <la.
The jury in the case of George M.
Bain, Jr., late cashier of the Exchange
National Bank of Norfolk, Ya., which
f died in 1884, brought in a verdict of
•■guilty" against the accused on an in
dictment charging him with making a
false report to the Comptroller of the
Currency.
Four days ago, the wife of Aleck
Johnson,a farmer, in Sumter county, S. C.,
gave birth to a chiid, and it was sup¬
posed that it was the only one, but the
following day Mrs. Johnson became the
mother of a second baby, and two days
after, still another. The three babies
were in a healthy condition, and they
and their mother are all doing well.
At Scotland Neck, N. C., there was an
explosion o f a boiler in Gardner & Has
sc 1 s machine -.mp. un an tie on \
t wo men m the shop, lender-on Purse.
fireman, and John Scott, both colored.
! urse hrnl h.s leg broken and will prob
ably die. Scott was badly scalded lire
boiler was blown nearly out of sight. It
fell back and crushed through the roof
ol" the shop and lodged on the second
q oor
Great aid has been furnished to the
ministers, in the religious revival at Au¬
gusta, Ga., by .Miss Gordon, the young
lady evangelist from Nashville, Tenn.
New facts show this young lady to be a
most interesting character, and the way
in which she is drawing the young ladies
of Augusta about her proves it. Her
voice is magnetic and magical, and she
holds her audience by a strange, sweet
spell.
A switchman in the Louisville & Nash¬
ville Railroad yards heard weak cries for
help coining from a box car loaded with
hay. door He found broke three thc white seal, tramps and opening
the among
the bales of hay. The men xvere almost
wild with hunger and thirst, and very
weak. They said they boarded the car
in Chicago five days ago, and had been
without food and water on their long
journey.
The car repairers, coaeli cleaners and
other laborers, to the number of 150, in
flic Santa Fc shops at Argentine, Mo.,
refused to go to work. They have been
in the habit of working on Sunday until
about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and lay¬
ing off the rest of the day, while at the
same time drawing a full day’s pay. The
new master mechanic notified them that
they would have to work the entire day,
and the icsult was the walkout.
Tlie United States Rolling Stock Com
panv have taken charge of the works at
Anniston, Ala., and have orders already
for more than fifteen hundred cars to be
made as soon as possible. subscription Twenty-five
per cent, of the Anniston ot
$150,000 was paid over, and Air. Hege
noscli. the president of the company,
stated at the meeting that lie had per
fected arrangements for another Indus
trial enterprise to be run in connection
with their present immense plant, to work
about live hundred additional bauds.
A collision . occurred . at , the ,, junction . ot .
the Laurens & Newberry and the Port
Royal & AVestern Carolina Railroads at
Laurens, 8. C.. between an engine of the
way-freight, running from Laurens tc
Newberry, and an engine of the H. Green- Ham
ville Railroad. Engineer AY.
mond< G f the Laurens & Newberry freight,
had just arrived at the depot and started
(>ut U) shiffc llis traiu . J u , t as Ham
^Vdl tx.... Sendiey „ ...
a nnnorq was run over
andklll Jjailroad, . ed b * a tnu ” Birmingham, on ^ Kansas City Ala.
near
Bend ley and John Terry, a young man
tbe f “ c f™*?’ walkin S
along the track of the Pratt . rail
mines
r ? ad ’ "here it runs parallel with the
! Kansas City road. They heard the train
| Woaching from around a curve, and
! th( , h!uklD stepped .g * 011 tbe P. the ratt other “““"“J track,
T over to
tw enty paces in front of the engine,
Bendley was instantly killed and Terry
"as badiy injured.
* " •V.Bmy. " £ * ~ \
Hobk\ am. his granary and stables . were
bred, and lie lo-t m the hre all his mule-,
evidently ztrX plunder his
incendiaries was to
ncai tb /‘ j?/'}' K ’ ,arne night
store? Reidsxnle ... >ed.
jnree m weie m i
Logan Fuqua, a vlute man ho is -»°b
ley s miller, has been arrested tor the
At bur the “ 1D S’ granary and ” is a m piece J al1 of AA fallow entxvortl^ land
that had just been tinned o\er. 4 re»h
Hacks were ,ound over the fallow land
“. ls alleged they fit the tracks or
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1 a capital cum .
AFTER MOONSHINERS.
Deputies Colquitt. Pitts and Oliver
made a raid on the line of DeKalb and
Etowah counties, in the -tate of Ala
bama, and ran upon three big di-tiller
ies owned bv Thomas Misell. Cain Noo
gin and Fayette and Jim Southern. O..C
>tili had lxen removed and the two re
niaining were promptly destroyed, to
gether with forty-one fermenting stands
and about 5,000 gallons of beer. Henry
Hicks. Bud Scotl and Jim Southey were
captured and taken to Birmingham.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.!
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR |
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
Gnaaip About the White Ilomp -Arm v and
Nnvy Matters—Our Relations With Other
Countries and Nations.
congressional.
In the Senate, Mr. Evarts, bv request, :
l 1Kailr ° tr ^ uc t ed 1 a ? ad deb *- sett ^ rhc tbe motion Central to j
reIer the I resident s Message was taken j
U P* atJ d Mr. Colquitt addressed the Sen- j
-Mg Dolph addressed the Senate
upon the same subject. Mr. Dawes pre
seated a memorial of leading wool man
ufacturers and growers, asking legislation
to protect the wool interests... .On mo
tion cf Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, the
House took up the bill appropriating
$120,000 for the enlargement of the
public buildiug at Atlanta, Ga. The bill
was passed. Under the call of states, a
large number of bills were introduced
and referred, among them the following:
tion Relating to the tariff and internal taxa
j^a n( j a R bill); for the loan of
certain articles to the Columbus, O., ex
pfcsition; to encourage the holding of a
national industrial exposition of the
colored race; providing for a commission
to >f investigate trusts, and for the rejical
the jirotective tariff on all industries,
In the House the dependent pension
bill was received from the Senate, and re¬
ferred to the committee on invalid pen
sions. The day’s business was of no in
terest to the general reader, being en
tirely of a routine character—committee
rejoorts, and the discussion of a billgrant
ing lands in severalty to some western
Indians, but no vote was reached.
GOSSIP.
The House committee on public lands
decided to formulate a general bill pro
riding town forfeiture of all unearned
land grants.
The Secretary of the Interior has re¬
quested thq Attorney-General to cause suit
to be instituted to secure the cancellation
of [intents issued on a number of culture
entries in the Humbolt, Alabama district.
A dozen red men from the Count D’Or
eille, Badjddiver, Flambeau and Fon du
Lac reservation were before the Senate
Committee on Indian Traderships and de¬
scribed, through au interpreter, their
grievances, s&tid
1{( . pre iv e O’Neill, chairman of
t j ie p H | J0r Committee, X protested before
thc House 0 mra ittee on Appropriations
iust the g/oite amendment to the Ur
-, nt Defifi^cy ? bill, striking out the
dause lor the c lforcemeut 0 f the Eight
Hour laW q u thc Government Printing °
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I t he \ / . Legislature having
lrguna pre¬
sented to Mount Vernon Avenue As¬
sociation a claim held by the State of Vir¬
ginia on the Government for $120,000, the
association held a meeting to draw up a
memorial to Congress asking for the pay¬
ment of the claim.
The United States Department of Agri¬
culture says that the apparent proportion
of cotton forwarded from plantations on
the 1st of February, were as follows: Vir¬
ginia, 00 per cent; North Carolina, 04;
South Carolina, 93; Georgia, 94; Florida,
87; iana, Alabama, 89 qjff| 92; 94; Mississippi, Arkansas, 90; 90; Louis¬ Tenn
* furi
csaecu $ and Indian Territory,
^ 41 average is 93 per cent.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture
resumed its hearing on the bill to protect
the manufacture and sale of pure lard.
Prof. Sharpless, of Boston, appeared, and
at the request of Mr. Wilson, proceeded
to compound au article out of twenty per
cent of stearine, twenty-live per cent of
cotton seed oil, forty per cent of pure lard
and ten per cent of dead hogs’ grease.
The experiment was made to show that
refined lard manufacturers might use the
grease of smothered and diseased hogs in
the manufacture of the compound.
RUN TO EARTH.
A. B. Franklyn, a liquor dealer ol
Pueblo, Col., who has been on thc look
out for Tascott ever since it was an
nouuced that thc murderer of Millionaire
Snell was eu route AVes*, called to his
assistance Officer Connors, and after hav
ing him sign a paper to give him one
half of the reward, told the officer that
he had discovered Tascott, and wanted
him arrested. Together, the two went to
a lodging house on AA r est Fifth street,
where the supposed murderer awakened was found
sleeping soundly. He was and
handcuffed and taken to the city jail,
Thc P^oner somewhat resembles the
description | of Tascott sent out by the
Chica 0 dfetective8> but he has no gold
filling in his fr-'uit teeth, and one of his
upper teeth next to the eye-tooth was
missing. Again lie is too dark for the
description published, disguised but Franklyn and in¬
sisted that the man is that
he is certainly Tascott.
CONVICTS KILLED.
on
‘ J .‘ tllut nine, tiom Hitmen,Ga. The
| work . in progress at the time of the acci
; dent was the enlarging of a cut on the new
, railroad. Dynamite was used to loosen
, and dislodge huge blocks of dirt from
j the side of the bank. Owing to some
; mistake m the cutting of the fuse, or to
• some defect in the fuse itself, the ex
j plosion occurred before the men were
, fairly started. The explosion detached a
the huge block of dirt which tumbled into
who cut, completely burying four men.
were afterwards taken out dead.
Several other convicts were knocked
down, and the sujierintendent and one
of ,he 8" ar<is were ^ shock ' d -
HORRID CRIME.
An attempt was made to assassinate,
umbia S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Bluff, who
are both past seventy years of age. were
attacked by two men. Buff was beaten
unconscious with a club, and his wife
was knocked down and fearfullv beaten.
John Felton, a negro who lived on the
place, had his throat cut and was killed,
The murderers were intent on robbing
Bluff of several hundred dollars in toll
and money supposed to be in his house.
h is Wiovod that «* uogro
strangled with a rope in the efforts of the
assassins to make him tell where the
money was. After robbing the place, the
murderers saturated the bedding and floor
with kerosene oil, set the house on fire
and fled.
BOLD DEMAND
The United States steamer Enterprise
mounting six guns, has arrived at Tan
the immediate Morocco, and the captain demands
release of Moore, who is
under American protection, and who is
imprisoned at Rabat. He also demands
satisfaction from the Moorish govern
uent for the man’s illegal arrest.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Wliat is Going on North, Ea*t mid West
and Across the Water—The Coming Eu¬
ropean Storm.
wife and chiid of Rudolph Speller
lav, were Ohio asphyxiated bv natural gas at Find
‘Festivals in honored the silver weddiu
of the prince and princess of Wales were
held in all European capitals,
T , v \ v 1 , , * '• a , , . ''j'' 1
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lifted ? d o ~ P Cents n , b i v lbe fort r ^ but
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the . u u demand. V m v \ completely , anesting
ex P ort
Hie employes of the Pan*Handle shops
^ Dennison. O., were treated to a sur
P™ 50 wlieih 111 of them were presented
vvbb tickets of indefinite -uspeusiou.
The British bark Lonews. from Laun
ceston. Australia, for London. England,
with a cargo of wool, was wrecked near
his Weymouth. The captain and eleven of
crew were drowned.
Mrs. Ellen Tupper, known as the ‘‘bee
woman, and one of the most celebrated
etomologists El in the world, died suddenly
*t her Paso, Texas, where she was visiting
the daughter. She was widely known in
East and throughout Europe.
A collision occurred between two jias
senger trains on the Pennsylvania road, a
few miles east of Altoona/ Pa. Two en¬
gineers, two firemen and a brakemun
were reported killed. Five or six passen¬
gers were injured, but none fatally. The
wreck is simply colossal.
An Indian territory dispatch says, that
a terrible accident occurred at Ivavanah,
in the Choctaw nation. The boiler in
Tucker's saw. mill exploded and killed a
boy instantly, while ten men were injured
so severely that their recovery is doubt¬
ful. William Patterson, the 15-year-old
son ot James Patterson, the engineer, w as
blown through the roof of the building,
and his body torn into fragments, his
head being found thirty feet away, while
a portion of his body w as carried some
distance in the other direction.
A serious collision occurred on the
Burlington «fc Missouri River Railroad,
one ot the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
lines centering at Atchison." A through
Denver passenger train was standing on
the track at Humboldt, Neb., when a
south-bound local passenger train from
Lincoln, cab, with a Reading engineer in the
dashed into the station at the rate
of ten miles an hour. Fireman AY. B.
Hill, of Lincoln, jumped as the engines
came together and suffered dislocation of
the right knee, and several others were
seriously hurt.
A fire broke out in the Methodist Uni¬
versity at Mitchell. Dakota, from the
combustion of oily rags in the oil room.
There faculty, were student's forty inmates, including the
and servants. All but
ten escaped without trouble. Four young
dow’s; men jumped from the second story win¬
four others and a professor jumped
from the third story, and another pro¬
fessor descended from the roof by a
clothesline. Horton Richer, of North
villc, Dak., received internal injuries and
died in two hours. Prof. R. 11. Taylor’s
skull was fractured, an arm broken and
fie was injured internally and will proba¬
bly die.
CHINESE TROUBLES.
The Hong Kong Mail gives a descrip¬
tion of the earthquake in the province of
Yunnan, and is indicative of frightful
mortality. In the interior department
of Chicng Chau, the disturbances were
extremely violent, being continued at ir¬
regular intervals for four days, when they
ceased entirely. The departmental city
is said to have been reduced to a mass of
ruins, scarcely a house escaping the dan¬
ger, and over five thousand persons have
been killed by falling buildings. 'Jhe
imperial commissioner who was especial¬
ly appointed to investigate the ioss of
life in the Yellow river inundations,sends
a rejDort to the emperor of China that the
total number of persons drowned is over
100.000, and the number destitute is 1
BOO! 000.
COTTON.
Rail shipments during February have
been quite free, but fall slightly behind
the total for February of last year. Com¬
pared with the corresponding period in
188G, however, a very satisfactory in¬
crease is recorded. The month’s gross
lias been 109,315 bales, against 113,050
bales in 1887 and 85,110 bales two years
’go. For the season to date, the total
continues largely in excess of previous
years.
VIRGINIA MORMONS.
Mormon elders have been discovered
working in the remote rural districts of
Botetourt county, A'a. They have made
many converts, among them a wealthy
and intelligent farmer, Mr. Ferguson,
and it is expected a large number will
emigrate to Utah. Many threats have
been made against tlie elders, and they
have been notified to leave or they will
be lynched.
POPE LEO SICK.
The Pope has been slightly indisposed
for some days. No serious symptoms
have manifested themselves, but a cer
lain degree or apprehension exists in con¬
sideration of his age and the lassitude
emused by exertions lie was subjected to
during the jubilee festivities.
A POOR METHOD.
W. L. Swihart, yard foreman at the
fowder works at Pinole, Cal., attempted
to destroy a discarded nitroglycerine can
with an ax, when an explosion occurred,
riously killing Swihart and a Chinaman, and se
wounding two other Chinamen.
GOULD AND SAGE.
In the court of general sessions in New
York. Recorder Smythe reserved his de¬
cision as to whether the Gould-Sage case
should be again submitted to the grand
jury.
A Common Phrase Illustrated.
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“You may begin,” said he, “I am all
ears,”
CLEVER WOMEN.
DEVICES of POOR WOMEN IN
WASHINGTON.
' Teaching Novices How to Shine in
Soc iet y— A r ra n gi it g BriC-a
Brae For t he Wealthy—
Hired Chaperones.
j The Washington Star says that there
; aie many women of reduced circum¬
stances in Washington who manage to
: keep up ajipearances. They have all
been reduced from some higher sphere.
: They are the wives or daughters positions, of men
who have been in Government
in the Army or Navy, or perhaps in Con¬
gress. and have died leaving nothing for
their families. Pome of those women
so reduced have trod the highest walks
of social eminence. Those of more com¬
mon place qualifications have surren¬
dered their social position and opened
boarding There houses or gone ox-Representative into the Depart¬
ments. is an
still alive here in Washington who has
two daughters in one of the Depart¬
ments.
Women of greater resources have con¬
trived earning means their of keeping living up appearances the
and own at. same
time. There are several who teach
etiquette to such as are newly cast into
the Washington whirl. They teach the
wives and daughters of new statesmen
ho v to shine. They take their hands and
lead them through the dark jntssages and
over the slippery places about the en¬
trance to Washington society. They give
a benovolent assistance to rich ladies
who would like to shine in Washington
society, but have been unable to break
through the thin shell to the inner circle.
They supply taste and culture where
their patrons have wealth only, and help
them up the rugged way. They brush
aside the thorns with a hand in a velvet
glove. One lady, it is said, still keeps
up the establishment whi h was the in¬
heritance of her more prosperous days,
through the “consideration” ladies she receives
for introducing into society and for
society news she furnishes confidently to
certain papers, To be invited to h r
house is to secure the eutrt to society.
It means recognition and other invita¬
tions. The com; ensation for such a ser¬
vice is a matter of delicacy, but it is
managed by the lady so that the patron
may feel under deep obligations, and not
as if she was getting just others so much
for the money. There are who,
when not engaged in social activities
themselves, are occupied in showing some
lady how to arrange her parlors and re¬
ception curtains; room; how what to hang pictures this and
the to put in room
and what in that: how to ; rra lge bric-a
brac on the mantels, in cabinets, and on
the floor; what to put here, what there,
and how the whole should be for bar
mony and good where taste. Then they show
their patron to stand and how to
stand when receiving company, what to
talk about and how to talk; or they will
sho\v her how to give a dinner party,
whom to invite, how many, how to dec¬
orate and arrange the table, what to put
on it and in wliat order, how to dispose
of the guests as to precedence,and all the
rest of it. This matter of precedence
puzzles some of the best of the new¬
comers, and they are glad t o find some
one to relieve them of the responsibility.
These fema’c professors of etiquette help
them out of all such embarrassment.
They bring out flic debutantes and help
have the m to good matches, for bom:;, it is said,
particular talents match-mak¬
branch ing, and devote themselves to that. This
of service) is said to afford very
lucrative employment to two or three
amiable ladies of great tact. They bring
young their people together and introduce
“wards” into eligible society.'
Another employment sought by ac¬
complished ladies of reduced circum¬
stances is that of chaperone for young
people. A chaperone is a very imjaortant
attachment for young people in
AVashington society, and one it is not al¬
besides ways easy generally to get. It is embarrassing and
inconvenient for ma¬
ma’s to have to sit in the corner or against
the wall and nod, while their fair daugh¬
ters whirl in the waltz and tread the
mystic mazes that lead to premature old
age. Ail amiable chaperone, who will
go with the girls to the theatre, to balls
and parties, and receptions, is cheap at
most any price, and can find plenty to do
profitably. “Wanted.—A Of course they do not adver¬
tise: situation as chap
erone. ” Nor do they ask Mrs. Penny
harvest if she doesn’t want to hire a
chaperone with long experience and gooi
references. Not at all. It all comes about
very naturally. The lady is so accom¬
modating and it Mrs. Fennyhar.est is sa
grateful, that all comes to lie under¬
stood. Another occupation of fashionable
ladies in reduced circumstances is that
of reading to invalids, and entertaining
them with ail the small talk of the day.
All these means are resorted to by ladies
who have by some misfortune been
thrown on their own resources. tome
perform these services openly with no
pretense at concealment of their necessi
:ies. Otliers manage to keep their occu
ation a secret between themselves and
•.hose they serve, each patron thinking
;hat she is the only one so favored.
AVashington is a place for the cultiva
;ion of clever women, and they are found
jving upon their sharp wits in all the
walks of society. Many do a thriving
ousiness in the “lobby.”
The Length of Life Increasing.
Statistics are very misleading, says a
doctor in the (Hole-Democrat, and! think
it is susceptible of proof that the average
of longevity is getting higher al! the
time. Epidemic diseases, which con¬
tribute so largely to the depopulation of
thickly settled districts, are becoming
less and less destrueti e every year—al
most in exact ratio, I may say, to the in¬
crease in therapeutical knowledge. Look
how yellow fever was kept down in
Florida this past summer, under condi¬
tions equally as favorable to its spread as
those which obtained at Memphis in
1878, when such fearful mortality pre¬
vailed, And, then, see what surgery
has done. There isn't anything in the
way of accident work that is not per¬
fectly understood by the experienced
surgeon, and save, possibly, lesions of the
brain injuries to the peritoneum,
Even the latter has, time and again, been
I succesfully treated by the prompt use of
knife and needle. Surgery has been ie
j duced, or maybe “raised ’ would sound
| | better, and all to that the materia status medica of exact lacks science; is
a
j remedies better knowledge of the operation of
! upon different constitutions,
I and that knowledge is rapidly being ac-
1 quired. The proportion of deaths to
cases] medical ofj s : ckne-ss reported in all our
meetings is growing smaller all
the time, the same rule holding with the
hospital reports. These are some of the
reasons why I say the people of this age
have passed the lowest point in their
longevity record, and by the same token
it can never get so low again until medi¬
cal which knowledge period becomes retrogressive,
is a long way ahead, ac
cording to my idea,
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Pie Without F'ruit.
When fruit is scarce, a good pie can
be made of one c ij> of rich, sweet cream,
sweetened and flavored to suit the taste;
whip to a stiff froth with an egg-beater;
if the cream is cold it will get stiff
quicker. Line a pie plate withcru«t and
bake; juit the cream into it: set in a cold
place until you want to cat it. Small
pieces of red jelly placed on the top ini
provc its appearance.
Fried Parsley for a Garnish.
This is the cheapest of all garnishes,
but it must be carefully prepared. Wash,
j)i k and dry the parsley thoroughly,
then jut it into a wire basket, and hold
it in boiling fat for two minutes: then
take, it out of the basket and dry it well
bv placing it before the fire. Beef-drip
]>ing is the best frying medium for this
purpose, and care should be taken to
have it boiling hot when the parsley is
put in.
The Philosophy ol' Boiling.
It is a mistake to suppose that a
of 4 ’well-boiled” souji beef lias
heated to 213 degrees throughout. T.ie
heat penetrates so slowly, that a good
si/.ed piece cold inside of beef may staying remain in compara¬ boiling
tively after and if
water for an hour or more, you
actually measure the temperature, of the
inner parts of the beef the moment it is
taken out of the |>ot and surprised pronounced
‘‘well-done 44 you will Ik: to
find that it seldom reaches over 170 de¬
grees. It was therefore cooked at a
temperature considerably below tlit*
boiling point.
A Lecture on Con *e.
It is a well-known fact that a better
and more delic'ous coffee is made by
pouring the boiling water the over thc
ground coffee than by boiling coffee
itself, as unfortunately is yet so often
done. The boiling water that is poured
over the coffee ceases to boil the instant
it leaves the kettle in which it was hoik* 1.
Through evaporation it is already some¬
what cooled on llie way to the coffee pot,
and by further contact with other bod i-s
the temperature is still further lower - 1
until it is evident that the temperatu-e
in the coffee pot is several degrees la
low the boiling point. The coffee is co
sequently not made with boning but av ltd
warm water.
A Suggestion for Easy Cooking
A writer in the New York Times says
“A process in cooking that possesses 1 it.'
advantage of considerable saving in la
bor and fuel, and, furthermore, makes it
impossible to scorch or burn anything. F
as follows: The food is brought to bn.l
and allowed to boil for a few minute;.
The kettle is then removed from the (ire
and carefully protected in a in at safe io
as to prevent the heat from escaping.
The food will then be cooked by its own
heat, or, in other words, the temperature
will for several hours remain high enough
to produce the necessary changes in the
victuals under treatment.
Thc heat safe necessary for the fore
going anybody, jrrocess can be easily constructed
by and at a merely nominal
cost. First get a common packing bo\
of a suitable size, cover the bottom with
a layer of picked wool or cotton two or
three inches thick, then from a piece of
zinc or sheet iron make a hollow cylinder
a little larger than the kettle used, place
the cylinder in the box, and lilt the inter .
val between the cylinder, . and the box
with cotton or wool two or three inchr
thick. A common pillow will answei
for the lid, and the safe is ready for use.
When the kettle is removed from thc fin
care should be taken not to raise the lid,
which should fit as closely as possihic,
and when placed in tlie safe the pillow
must be t icked well down all around.
After remaining in the heat -afe for from
two to four hours, according to circum¬
stances. the food will lie done, and y<>
will be nstonishe 1 to find what a wcl
cooked and toothsome dish you have
prepared with so little trouble."
Hay or cow hair, being cheaper, can
be substituted for wool or cotton, but do
not retain the heat quite as well,
especially in apparatus of smaller size.
The safe can, of course, be made to con¬
tain several vessels at one time, and.
meat, potatoes, beaus, etc., can all be
prepared at the same time. Potatoes,
beans, rice, peas and likes can be placed
in the safe as soon as they boil, but largo
pieces of meat should be boil-.J for about
half an hour so as to a]!
penetrate them better.”
Hints fo House l>ccorat i
A pretty fancy forli. u: curtains is to
drape them with narrow scarves or half
handkerchiefs of their own material.
Maiden-hair and pink roses are the
accepted dinners decorations for the “pink’'
and luncheons'now so prevalent.
hope embroideries and rope fringes are
stylish and costly for wall decorations, a
bit a yard square or less that we re¬
cently handled being marked $135.
Maiden-hair fern without any flowers
is a very favorite decoration this winter,
and should always be dipped in water
just l.efore using, so as to glisten in the
light.
A decoration within the reach of almost
any is a jar of grass and ox-eyed daises,
draped about with a green scarf, and.
though so simple, few more effective ones
can be found.
A narrow shelf about eight inches above
the mantel board, with a row" of Japanese
fans placed behind it as a border, serves
admirably for bolding and displaying the
smaller bits of bric-a-brac.
painte A champagne 1 basket and pine ease!,
some neutral tint and draped
with plush or velveteen, or cretonne,
make an a dm ruble holder for newspaper
and periodicals. Have the pins of the
easel long enough to hold the basket—
whose lid should be fastened up with a
bow matching or contrasting with the
drapery.
with .Avery but pretty little tray cover may be made
linen, expense. Get butchers
which ^ comes in tine quality at
forty cents per yard, forty inches wide.
Make the cover two inches longer each
way than the tray it is to cover. Have
dragons stamped in each corner, with n
border of crescents between and a mono
cram in. in the chain center. Embroider the
uago 11 s st:tch—blue, brown,
orange, red,and a little black leal Scotch
unen flosses or flourishing thread. Hem¬
stitch all round, an ineli deep, and thee
trim with some pretty crochet edge clone
with the real Scotch Unen crochet thread,
about No. 70.
Mrs. Cleveland’s Tired Arm.
“I should think your arm would be
of paralyzed,’ the a AVashington corresjtondenl
Ghle-D irtocr U ventured to say tc
Mrs. Cleveland after one of the shake
hand receptions at the AYhite House.
“It is tired,” she rejtlied, “but it is,
curiously enough, the left arm, not the
right. General Grant was troubled in
the same way—the arm that tired was
the one not shaken. This mysterions
puzzle can be left to the physiologists.”
I here are 10,548 more men than women
in Manitoba.