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THE 10MROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
dftlCUL ORGAH OF MOflROE GOCKTY.
BY MoGINTY <* CABAN 188.
bays the New York Voice: “Strikes
are not so numerous &s formerly. In
1888 there were leas than one-half as
many such conflicts between employers
and employes as there were in 1886. The
parties arc coming to respect each other's
ri'ht and might. There has been a
steady growth of sympathy with the la¬
boring men, but at the same time a
deeper determination to uphold the laws.
The people are determined to see fair
play whoever gets hurt.”
The vault in which the body of the
Austrian Crown Prince Rudolph has
been interred is under the old Church of
the Order of the Capuciu**, in Vienna.
The coffins of eighty members of the
House of Hapsburg lie there, some of
them, notably those of the famous
Empress Marla Theresa, and of her hus¬
band, 1 rancis, being of pure silver.
Among others are those of the ill fated
Maximilian, of Mexico, and also of Na¬
poleon II., Duke of Reichstadt, the son
of Napoleon I., and of his Austrian
wife. Empress Marie Louise.
Tho “most recent and most Infernal
triumph of American ingenuity,” the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which re¬
cently made a speed of more than
twenty-six knots over a two mile course,
is not a cruiser in the sense that some
believe she is intended to be. She is
simply a floating gun carriage of high
speed and light draught. Hot chief
function will be that of rapidly convey¬
ing her novel battery to the point where
it can best be used. But England, the
New York Tribune thinks, is not going to
allow tho United Btates to take the lead
in war projectiles. Hhe is about to build
several vessels, each to have a single tur¬
ret for a very big gun capable of crack
• ng, if not piercing,the armor of the best
protected sea going iron clad.
Benner, tho Western business prophet,
whoso predictions for some years have
boon closely verified, now prophesies a
great boom in business during 1880 and
1800. These are the years in lus estima¬
tion iu which to reap a fortuno, for their
wonderful activity will, he says, be fol¬
lowed by a panic in 1801. “I predict,”
ho says, “that tho price of iron will ad¬
vance, and the average price for the year
1880 will be higher than the average of
1888, and 1 also predict that there will
bo a wonderful advance iu prices for
iron, stocks and all products and corn
mod ios in tho year 1890. All business
will bo prosperous; it will be a year of
good crops—tho boom year in tho period
of activity. In tho beginning of the
year 1891 business will bo at its heigth —
a great businoss inflation—pig iron $50
per ton in the markets of our country.
I predict that there will be a panic in
tho year 1891. The overtrading and
general inflation of business and expan
sion of credit and confidence will pro¬
duce the result.”
Some rouiarkablo comparisons between
agriculture in France and the United
States aro made bolow. The French
statistics aro from the agricultural census
of 1882, while those of America are from
the census of 1880. Of course, says the
American Agriculturist , our population,
and probably the number of small farms,
lias greatly increased during the last
eight years. The total number and
acreage of farms in this country ha3 also
Increased marvolously since the last ccn
bus, but in spite of this it will take more
than another century for tho same pro¬
portion of the United States to be classed
os improved lands as in the case of
France.
fYance. United States.
I’opulation 36,905,788 50,152,866
Total area,acres.... 153,006,000 1,936,940,560
Acres in farms.....124,935,629 536,031,835
Number of farms.. 5,672,000 4,008,907
Average acres in
farms 38.17 134
Farms under 3 acres. 2,167,667 4,852
Farms of 3 to 10
acres............. 1,865,878 184,881;
Farms of 10 to 20
acres............. 769,152 254,741;
Farms of £0 to 100
acres.............. 727,222 ,804,33-1
Farms over 100 acres 142,088 1,800,53 5
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tion’s tiou s nrimnval primei al forests, f, which h' h furnish f • v our
timber and guard the sources of our
henri.NMtjUtaSy vers * he preserved! A compre
practical pl.n for
th I8 vastly important^WiiRtre^
outlined in the latest issue of the Garden
and Forest. The propositions of this
plan are, briefly, the withdrawal from
sale of all forest lands still belongiu* T to
the Government; the committal of such
, lands, , at . , least temporarily, to the , care
and guardianship of the United States
army, and the appointment, by the
President, of a commission to examine
,w„ s u, y i„ 0 .be condition o, .be
nation s forests, and their relation to the
agricultural regions watered by the
streams having their sources there, with
• view to preparing a report on which
the Government authorities could work.
T be id*. *o includes . ,e.,e m of
sng, under Government auspices, which
should in time provide a suffi
cient number of thoroughly equipped
foresters for the service. All this, Frank
"ti' and pr c T\ icab.e, S "T, and the r i plan V‘ ,y is certain
at le;ist of careful consideration. France
and Germany have excellent armies of
foresters, but comparably no forests to
speak of. Portions of Asia have been
denuded , i j • into . deserts. j , T In the , L ... uited
States, if the proper steps are taken in
time, the national forests at least may be
preserved, aud so managed as to perpet
reproduce »ud dourirL while a, rbe
same time furnishing an abundant supply
of timber.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER : FORSYTH, GA.,1 TUESDAY. APRIL 2,1889—EIGHT PAGES.
SOUTH URN
TELLINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGL T BRIEFED.
ACCIDEJFT8 ON THE HAILBOADS, ETC.—DEATH OF
PROMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, SOCIAL
A 51) B.ELIGIOCS ITEMS.
ALABAMA.
It is given out at Florence, that a con¬
trolling interest in the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railway Co., has been sold to
Abraham S. Hewitt, E. Cooper, M. Mur¬
phy and others, of New York city. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Co.,
is the largest and wealthiest corporation
doing business in the South, being a con¬
solidation of the Pratt Coke and Coal
Co., the Coalbtirg Coal and Railway Co.,
and one or two other important compa¬
nies. They own millions of acres of
coal and iron lands besides the famous
Pratt aud Coalburg mines near Birming¬
ham, also several important branches
ur.d mineral railroads of Alabama and
Tennessee, besides large blocks of stock
of several of the principal furnaces in
the two states.
John Purdy, a resident of Clay County
returned only a few weeks ago from Ar¬
izona. Purdy is about fifty-five years
old, and his family consisted of himself
and five grown daughters. About two
years ago the entire family joined the
Mormon church, and last December they
went to Arizona. The party were told
that they could secure government lands
which were very fertile and easily culti¬
vated. Purdy says that when he reached
the promised land he found it was prin¬
cipally an arid desert with patches of
timber here and there. The unoccupied
land was less fertile than the red hill
side he had left in Alabama. Two of
his daughters were made the third and
fourth wives of one of the elders who
had accompanied them West, and the
other became the fifth wife of an elder
nearly sixty years old. His other two
daughters were assigned to elders who
already had five or six wives, but they
rebelled and returned to Alabama with
their father. Purdy says that young
women and girls are taken from their
parents and married to old and repulsive
looking wives. elders who already have several
After marriage, they became the
slaves of their husbands, and by the most
terrible threats they are prevented from
condition. making any public complaint of their
He further says that the
statement made by Mormon Elders in the
South that polygamy is not practiced, is
untrue.
GEORGIA.
No less than 160 applicants appeared on
Monday before the Police Board of At-*
lanta for the position of policeman.
Rev. Sam Small will make the race for
congressman iu the Fall. He has not
decided which district he will run in.
The young postal clerk, H. S. Moore,
Jr., who murdered Legislator James
Hunt, is on trial for his life at Atlanta.
the Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, has directed
police to “regulate” the Salvation
Army because some citizens complained
of them.
Yardmastei Salter and Conductor
Lavender, of the East Tennessee Road,
were arrested on Monday at Macon,
charged with robbing freigh t cars.
Atlanta is going through the throes of
a rapid transit fever, and if plans now
projected are carried through, it will be
one of the best “railroaded” cities in the
country.
At the session of Dooly superior court
just closed, the grand jury discussed and
decided upon the erection of a new
courthouse at Vienna. A committtee
was appointed by the grand jury to pre¬
pare plans and specifications.
A railroad construction company was
organized at Savannah Wednesday. It
expects jected roads, to carry through several pro¬
with especially one connecting
the Amencus, and possibly the
road now built from Atlanta to Fort
Valley.
Jordan Harris, a colored farmer,
caught a small negro boy, Erwin Cato,
setting fire to his kitchen on Monday.
The child, who is only eight years old,
had placed the firebrands beneath the
sill of the building when caught. The
boy is the son of a convict. Harris has
lost thousands by incendiaries.
Governor Gordon pardoued Charles
Johnson on Tuesday. Johnson was con¬
victed of manslaughter at the August
term of 1882 of Gordon county. He has
been confined iu the penitentiary more
than seven years, crediting him with
time for good conduct. Johnson killed
his best friend,under the impression that
he was an armed desperado, who had a few
moments before shot at him.
Maj.-Gen. Howard, U. S. A., who
commands the Atlantic district, told the
Savannah city council that President
Harrison remarked to him just before he
came South: “Look around and see
where I cau do something for that sec¬
tion. I want to pay it some attention as
early as possible.” That came direct from
£j ie bead of the administration, and it
^as encouraged the city to redouble its
ellort s.
John Weathers, who killed his brother
last Christmas, was taken from Monroe
jail, and he goes up for three years. It
i s a short service for the homicide of his
>8il*~6r his relatives are
p Cor people. Starving children and wife
in rags clinging to a departing father iD
stripes, was indeed a sad spectacle,
F. C. Jones had an altercation with
a f£ ecial policeman Robert Walker, in
Albanv on Wednesday. Jones had ad
vanC ed towards Walker in a threatening
manner, and some claim had drawn a
knife upon him, when the officer drew
his pistol and fired twice, shooting Jones
« TliVe^
were directly behind Jones, and they
were terribly frightened.
A collision on the East Tennessee road
on Tuesday, Giflon, resulted in the killing of
George a passenger engineer, and
I
five passengers. The collision was be
tween a south-bound passenger train and
a north-bound freight tram, and hap
^ed Sor ncar sl^klSge, ^uth^of‘^tla^ta ?h«rt
is , deep cu.
an( j near t fi at cu j there is a side-track
known as Maher’s quarry track. The
freight train reached the cut and was in
ac ^ P U 1R Q -? side-track
gines wheu were the c bidlv ° 1 ?f io demolished. ? Four box
^ ars were splintered, and the mail coach
torn to pieces. George H. Gillon, the
dead engineer, was born in Macon, and
was a ^ out J ears of age. The indica
JT^e Tuesday Engineer Gillon
on was not s.
He took it to accommodate a friend.
ARKANSAS.
Ida Lynch started to drown herself by j
jumping Arkansas frr m the lower bridge across
the river near Little Rock, but
.
a watchman caught her as she jumped,
his band catching in her garter, wnich
was strong and thus saved her life.
LOUISIANA.
1). N. Cress was shot and instantly
killed by Dr. J. H. Watson, near Eulogy
on kill Sunday. Cress had openly threatened
to Dr. Watson on sight. They met
in a road when Dr. Watson fired the
fatal shot. Cress was a desperate man,
who was reported to have killed three
men. A large pistol was found in his
boot leg and a number of cartridges in
his pocket.
MISSOURI.
A well-dress:d man, apparently about
50 years of age, went to the Hotel Parle
in St. Louis, accompanied by a good
looking, neatly dressed woman, regis¬
tered as S. M. Waite and wife, of Flor¬
ida, aud the couple were assigned a
room. During the night, Waite drank a
great deal of beer and had his suppet
served in his room. The next morn ng
the woman left the hotel and did not re¬
turn. Later. Mr. Waite was found in a
dying condition with a bottle of mor¬
phine nea- him. S on after being taken
t > the hospital, Waite died. The p lice
a’c looking for the mysterious oraan,
and the body of ‘ S. M. Waite, of Flor¬
ida,” lies on a slab in the morgue uni
den tilled.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Several Beaufort citizens have been
dealt with by the White Caps and are
staying at home nights, This is the
only county in the state in which the
White Caps have so far begun their
operations.
The State Convention of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, in session
at Wilmington, elected W. the following
officers; President, A. Blair, of Win¬
ston; vice-presidents, M. M. Hall, D. G.
Worth aud W. S. Fryer; secretaries, J.
B. Whittaker, B. F. Jones and F. S.
Harris.
Six cars, filled with colored people,
left Raleigh on Monday, en route to
Mississippi. The bulk of them came
from Selma and other points in Johnston
county. So far, some 12,000 have left
the state, but rather mote than half have
gone to Georgia to work in the turpen¬
tine industry.
In Granville county, Spencer Weaver,
a half-witted white man, killed his sis¬
ter-in-law by striking her on the neck
with a stick of wood. The victim was
Mrs. M. Longwis, who, having no home
of her own, spent a portion of her time
with her sister, Mrs. Weaver. She often
quarreled and fought with the man who
had killed her.
Fire was discovered in the basement
of the residence of Col. W. P. Canady,
sergeant-at-arms of the United States
Senate in Wilmington. In the room
where the fire originated, was stored a
lot of books saved from the fire in the
library in the basement three weeks ago.
Both fires are of incendiary origin.
Workmen were repairing the damage Wash¬ by
the former fire. Mrs. Canady is in
ington, D. C., attending Mr. Canady, who
is very ill, and the only occupant of the
house was a watchman.
A warrant was issued at Franklin for
the arrest of Lee Lyons, a desperate
negro just out of the penitentiary. When
Officer Porter presented his authority be taken
for the arrest, Lyons refused to
to the magistrate before whom the war
rant was returnable, The officer sum
moned help and went back to arrest
Lyons, who stationed himself in a corner
of a room armed with a hay fork, and
said he would kill the man who put his
hands on him. He said that he had a
pistol, and under no circumstances would
he surrender. The officer used reasona¬
ble efforts to make him surrender and
stand trial, and finally, after remaining
with him two hours, attempted to put
irons on the prisoner. The latter struck
at Porter furiously with the fork, when
the latter ordered him to be shot, at the
same time tiring on him himself. Six
bullets were at once fired into Lyons,
from the effects of which he died.
NOIJTIT CAROLINA.
All Charleston is up and in arms for
Port Royal for the naval station. The
executive committee cf the Chamber of
Commerce held a meeting on Monday,
Mayor Bryan indorsing Port Royal.
The yacht Oneida, oxvnecl by A. M.
Flagler, the millionaire, arrived at
Charleston from New York on Tuesday.
His married daughter, Mrs. F. II. Ben¬
nett, of New York, came on the yacht
and died during the voyage.
The Mount Pilgrim Colored branch of the
Kershaw county Alliance,
is in trouble. They have been trying too
thoroughly to carry out the objects and
attain the advantages set forth by the
organizer, who only charges $8.12 for
the charter of the lodge. This colored
alliance was organized in 1883. The
cause of the trouble is the following no¬
tice, which a few days since was found
stuck up in the road: “We air Coliard
Peple Expects to hang toGether, Mch 10,
1882. Notis: That this is to sho that
We Men of this Settlement has went to¬
gether this day an made a law an adopted
it, That not a man or woman is not to
struck a lick of work fer Willie Smith or
ColeQf (meant for Collin wi n iamS)) if
they (j 0 ig to p U £ one hundred back
on his neakiej 'skis .and 4f their be one
found do eny work for ether one c f them
it is j&ot'no maybee so about that thing,
jWe will sbo to go together put that
whippin on him or her because they hav
started to taken up peple cows some¬
thing never was now done hear before
this soon that sho that a mean neighbor
he is for that cause no one Shall not work
for him. you can work for eny one elce
that you wants to But do not work for
nuther one of them if you do we mean
to whip you sho as you lives Y’ou W. can
work for A. A. Huckabee or B.
Huckabee or W. T. Bell or J. L. Gettys
or for any one except Willie Smith and
Colen, Just because they have started
they took up 1 of franks cows so dont you
Work for them do we Will whip you Sho."
J* 1 ® re J u ^f °* not ice was that
^ Sm,th swore out a peace warrant
^ he" knew of and the v
“
think that they had done wrong, saving
that their charter, which was registers.
m Washington, D. C.. gave them a'..hi
Smsetos* and^ comequtmriv Unf re
eived .be charge, agaius. .born .vi.h
' m des.
TENNBSSEB.
Hon. John R. Neal, member of Con¬
gress from the 3d Tennessee district, in
the 50th Congress, died on Tuesday at
his home, Rhea Springs, after an illness
of two months, of consumption of the
bowels.
McCurdi’s Hambletonian, record 2.26,
died at Gallatin of congestion of the
stomach. Pierce Howard. Mil ler & Co.,
had paid $2,000 for his services in their
stud for three months. His owner had
refused $20,000 for him.
MARYLAND.
William Driver, a color!?® .4 man em
ployed at the mill of J. Anthony,
near Denton, fell again't a circular saw
on Monday. One of his arms was cut off
at the shoulder and he died within ten
minutes.
VIRGINIA.
Trouble is anticipated between whites
and blacks at Stony Creek, a village in
Sussex county, in consequence of ne¬
groes receiving alleged White Cap no¬
tices.
Rosanna McCormick, aged sixty-five,
an eccentric character, who redded by
herself, near Jordan White Sulphur
Springs, for many years, and who was
well known to thousands of people, was
found dead at home on Monday, lying
on fertilizer sacks and sheepskins. She
had a number of feather beds, but never
slept in them. She always wore long,
heavy boots, with pistols in them for
protection, rarely ever taking them off,
and died in her boots. She told the
fortunes of many a fair maiden and old
time lady in the United States. A
number of handsome uncut silk dress
patterns were found among her effects.
XYEST VIRGINIA.
Thomas Woods, who lives near Torna¬
do postoffice, sent word to his step¬
mother, Mrs. Woods, that one of his
neighbors across the hill was sick and
wanted her to come immediately. He
concealed himself behind a tree near the
path to await her coming, and when she
approached, stepped out and fired a re¬
volver full at her left breast, the ball
taking effect just below the nipple.
Wocds then shot her again in the neck
and afterward dragged her to a cliff near
bv and dropped her to the ground below.
She recovered sufficiently to give an
alarm. She related the story of the
shooting, accusing afterward. Woods of being her
assassin and died
OCEAN DISASTERS.
The New York shipping men say that
the steamer lost off the Virginia coast
was the Nanticoke, from Newport News,
Va., for Ruatan, Honduras, which was
loaded down to the gunwales. The sup¬
position is that the Nanticoke encoun¬
tered equinoctial gales, and being dan¬
gerously loaded, could make no headway
and put back for Chesapeake bay. In
this attempt she probably foundered.
The pilot boat Edmunds reports at Phil¬
adelphia, Pa., that she picked up a
clinker-built whale boat in good condi¬
tion, bottom up, with “Conserva” mark¬
ed on her port bow, at Fenwick’s island,
bearing W. by N. 1-2 N., distant 16 to
18 miles. Four oars were lashed in her,
and a both new painter which and a new line on each
end, of were broken and
everything covered with fish oil, includ¬
ing the ropes The schooner M. B.
Steadson, of Provincetown, arrived at
Boston, Mass , on Tuesday in distress,
having been in collision. When twenty
five miles east of the Highlands of Cape
Cod, the watch sighted a small fishing
schooner, slightly under their lee, and
quite close. No light was visible, and
,s the other vessel was on theport tack,
trying to cross, Steadson’s helm was put
hard up to round the stranger’s stern,
but it was too late, and the vessels came
together with a crash. Nothing could be
found of the other vessel after the col¬
lision, and it is believed she sank with
all on board.
A MADMAN’S CRIME.
W. A. Harvey, an accountant, of Tor¬
onto, was arrested at Guelph, Ontario,
for emb'ezzing $4,000 from his employer.
He was shortly afterwards bailed out.
During the forenoon, Harvey purchased
a revolver, but what use he was to make
of the weapon was not dreamed of till
Tuesday evening, when, for some reason,
the chief of police visited Harvey’s resi¬
dence. The chief found the house was
locked, but by raising the windows he
made his way in. All was silent. He
passed through the kitchen and dining
rooms, looked in the parlor, and went
up stairs, where the first object he saw
was Harvey’s fair-haired daughter of
twelve years lying on tho floor of the
front bed room with her head in a pool
of blood. A bloody hole in her head
told the means by which she met her
death. The chief raised the dead child
from its cramped position, and laid it on
the pillow. He then passed through the
upper hall, and in the back bed room
found Harvey’s oldest daughter lying
beside the bed also dead. In the clothes
room off the kitchen Mrs. Harvey-was
found stretched at full length, wsth a
similar bullet wound. Harvey was ar¬
rested at Toronto, by Detective Black.
He was standing at the corner of King
and Yonge streets smoking a cigar when
arrested, and is undoubtedly insane.
TELEGRAPHIC.
John Bright died on Wednesday in
London, His end was peaceful and
painltss,- He had lain in a comatose
condition for over a day. All his family
were present at his deathbed.
The machine shops and foundry of
McIntosh & Hemphill, in Pittsburg, Pa.,
were totally destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. The total loss wfill be
$100,000, which is fully insured. The
fire is believed to be the work of incen¬
diaries.
A'discovery is reported at Ensenada,
Lower California, wffiich is said to be
filling the International Land Co. with
dread. It is said that by a mistake in the
English maps at the time of the treaty of
Guadaloupe Hidalgo, the boundary line
between the United States and Mexico
was placed too far north, and that the
real boundary terminates on the Pacific
ocean at a point some distance south of
Ensenada.
SATISFACTION DEMANDED.
The Cologne Gazette, of Berlin, says
that neither criminal nor civil
is applicable to the N case of Klein
America. It only remains for Germany
the to bring tribunal the evidence of Apia,' against including him before the
American consul. It maw be assumed
that when Herr Stenbel, the newly ap¬
pointed German consul, arrives in Apia,
satisfaction will be demanded from
Mataafa, the king whom the United
Slates favor.
DUELS.
M. DeLonlay and Gerault Richard
fought a duel in Paris, France, on Sun¬
day. The former Richard was slightly wounded
in three places. had attacked
DeLonlay in a newspaper article, charg¬
ing him with plagiarizing the work of
M. Duquet... .In a duel with swords in
Rome, Italy, Deputy Cavallotte slightly
wounded Signor Carveto, under secretary
of the war" department. The trouble
grew out of a personal dispute.
A SOLDIER FAINTS.
While dining in the Cafe Durand in
Paris, on SundAy, Gen. Boulanger was
sudden’y seized with a fainting fit, ‘and
had to be conveyed home.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
CONGRESS.
The President sent the following nom¬
inations to the Senate on Wednesday;
John Wicks of Wisconsin, to be envoy
extraordinary tiary the United and minister plenipoten¬
of States to Peru;
George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, to
be minister resident and consul general
of the United States to Portugal; Robert
T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be envoy extra¬
ordinary and minister Great plenipotentiary of
the United States to Britain; Mu¬
rat Halstead, of Ohio, to be envoy extra¬
ordinary aud minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Germany; Allan
Thorndyke Rice, of New York, to be en¬
voy extraordinary and minister plenipo¬
tentiary of the United States to Russia;
Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬
tiary of the United States to Chili;
Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten¬
tiary of the United States to Mexico;
Marion Erwin, of Georgia, to be United
States attorney for the southern district
of Georgia; Tyre Glenn, of North
Carolina, to be United States marshal fot
the western district of North Caro¬
lina; Andrew D. Cowles, post¬
master at Statesville, N. C.; Tyre
Glenn, nominated to be marshal
for the western district of North Cafoll
na, is a native of Manna, Yadkin coun¬
ty, and was chief clerk in the collector’s
office at Greenville, under the last Re¬
publican administration. He is a broth¬
er-in-law of Judge Th .mas Sottle, of
Florida. Marion Erwin, nominated Uni¬
ted States attorney for the southern dis¬
trict of Georgia, is a well known young
lawyer, of Macon, Ga., and a brother-in
law of Col. Evan P. Howell. He was
clerk of the United States district court
at Savannah for four years, and was
United States commissioner at the same
time. He graduated from the University
Of Georgia in 1875. His appointment
was recommended by Representative
Brewer and other Republicans.
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate by the President on Tuesday,
were the following; Robert Y. Bell, of
Maryland, to be assistant commissioner
of Indian affairs; Charies W. Jones,
postmaster, Martinsville, Va.; Francis
E. Warren, of Wyoming territory, to be
governor of Wyoming territory; Benja¬
min F. White, of Dillon, Montana, to be
governor of Montana; Oscar M. Spell¬
man, of Arkansas, to be marshal of the
United States for the eastern district of
Arkansas; Charles C. Walters, of Ar¬
kansas, United States attorney for the
eastern district of Arkansas, The Sen¬
ate, in executive session, confirmed the
following nominations: Zacariah Walt
hon, to be United States attorney to the
Indian territory; Thomas B. Nowles, to
be United States marshal for Indian ter¬
ritory; James M. Shackleford, to be
judge of the Indian territory courts;
James Tanner, to be commissioner of
pensions; Seligman Bros., to be fiscal
agents of the naval department at Lon¬
don ; and a number of postmasters,
among them, George L. Baram, at Suf¬
folk, Ya.
NOTES.
Mrs. Harrison has discharged every
colored servant in the White House, and
replaced them with white people.
Reports to the navy department from
Capt. Schoonmaker, commanding the
warship Vandalia, and Commander Mul
lan, commanding the Nipsic, both at
Apia, Samoa, the Associated confirm the telegraphic re¬
ports to Press.
Gen. Longstreet, who has been quite
sick for some days, left for home on
Tuesday. The general’s condition is
more serious than his friends are willing
to believe. A few days ago he con¬
tracted a severe cold, occasioned by hav¬
ing his hair cut.
A courtmartial was convened at the
War Department on Monday morning
for the trial of Maj. G. J. Lydecker,
corps of engineers, on charges arising
out. of the failure of the aqueduct tun¬
nel. The charges have six specifications
which set out the faulty work in the
tunnel and failure of defendant to exer¬
cise due care in the superintendence.
The Secretary of War has prescribed
regulations governing thg issue of arms
for military instructons at colleges, un¬
der which each college or university
where an army officer is stationed, will be
allowed two 3-inch rifled guns of wrought
iron, valued at $450 each, two carriages
and appurtenances, 150 Springfield cadet
rifles and a corresponding number of
bayonet scabbards and appendages.
Collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year,
ending June 30, 1888, were $83,364,211;
an increase of $2,603,744 over collec¬
tions for the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year. The collections were as
follows: On spirits, $47,492,765, an in¬
crease of $2,508,712; on tobacco, $20,-
269,445, a decrease of $58,631; on fer¬
mented liquors, $14,982,445, an increase
of $137,284; $67,934. oleomargarine, $557,086, an
increase of
Postmaster-General Wanamaker on
Thursday issued an order directing all
clerks in the office of first assistant post¬
master-general, and such as may be re¬
quired from other bureaus of the depart¬
ment, to begin work at 8:30 a. m. in¬
stead of 9 o’clock as heretofore, and to
remain at their desks until 6 p. m. in¬
stead of four. The clerks in the dead
letter office were also required to work
from 8:30 a. m. to 8 p. m., until the
work now in arrears in that division is
brought up.
James Tanner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a
Union soldier, who lost both legs while
serving as a corporal of artillery during
the War, has been appointed commis¬
sioner of pensions. Corporal Tanner is
a strong believer in “spending the sur¬
plus,” and will no doubt adopt a liberal
code of procedure in adjudicating pen
-ion claims. He is noted for his liberal
spirit in intercourse with Confederates,
and has stood on many a platform urging
a union of sentiment of the Blue and
the Gray. His appointment was opposed
by a great many, as he is one of those
strong men who make warm friends and
bitter enemies.
No little dissatisfaction is felt among
the naval officers over the details of the
programme for the celebration of Wash¬
ington’s Inaugural Centennial in New
York April 30th. According to the pro¬
gramme, the army and navy are to figure
prominently in the demonstration. Maj.
Gen. Schofield has been selected to take
charge of the military forces, and against
that selection no criticism is made, but
naval officers complain that their branch
of the service, which will make the ex¬
hibition of particular interest and because of
its comparison of the old new navy,
has been placed in charge of a retired
army officer.
Secretary Windom states that he has
not got the heart to ask for the resigna¬
tion of Gen. Rosecrans, the present Reg¬
istrar of the Treasury. He gives as his
reasons that it wcffild be an act of in¬
gratitude to ask for the resignation of
suOh a picturesque figure in American
history, to retire from an office simply tri¬
because the opposition election. party was He
umphant at the last sftj*
that Rosecrans’ “services during the Waf
entitled him to the highest recognition,
and that his place in American history
shottld not be looked upon from a politi¬ one.”
cal standpoint, but from a patriotic
Gen. Longstreet will fio doubt be ap¬
pointed to the collectorship of the port of
Savannah, Ga.
Trouble between George A. Armes, a
retired officer of the army, living in
WashihgtoD, and those having charge of
the Harrison inaugration parade, culmi
nated on Wednesday in a scene in the
rotunda of the Riggs house. Armes
walked into the hotel and after a few
words pulled the nose of Governor Bea¬
ver, of Pennsylvania. The governor and, steady- was
not hurt, but he was angry, 1
ing himself against the hotel counter,
he seized his crutch which served him in
place of one leg left behind during the
War, and aimed an ugly blow at his ene¬
my. Armes dodged the blow and it
struck one of the pillars of the hotel ro¬
tunda. A second blow also missed its
mark, and the hotel policeman rushed
up, attracted by the noise, and placed
Armes under arrest.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, act¬
ing upon the recommendation of Gen.
Supt. Bell, of the railway mail service,
appointed the following division super¬
intendents of the railway mail service;
W. B. Bigelow, first division, Boston,
Mass., vice George E. Dame, resigned;
U. C. Jackson, second division, New
York City, vice W. F. Doolittle, resigned;
C. W. Vickery, third division, Washing¬
ton, D. C., vice Eugene Carrington, division, re¬
signed ; L. M. Terrell, fourth
Atlanta, Ga , vice B. M. Turner, re¬
signed ; George W. Pepper, ninth divis¬
ion, Cleveland, Ohio, vice F. B. Dodge,
resigned. With the single exception of
Mr. Pepper, the appointees named above
were displaced during the last adminis¬
tration. The men, who are now rein¬
stated have been for many years closely
identified with the railway mail service,
and its efficiency is largely due to their
ability and energy.
The officers attached to the Navy De¬
partment are highly gratified at the in¬
formation which has reached them of
participation of the British authorities
and forces in the funeral of Admiral Chan¬
dler, who died in Hong Hong. More
than 700 Highlanders marched in the
procession and they were followed by a
thousand sailors attached to English
men of war, each having a crape bund
on his sleeve. A company of the North¬
amptonshire regiment, marines, artillery,
and marine artillery, proceeded the gov¬
ernor, and staff, heads of government
departments, consuls and a number of
res dents who brought up the rear. The
service at the grave was very impressive.
Commander Duer called on Governor G.
William Des Voeux, Vice-Admiral Sea
mon, Gen.Cameron,Rear Admiral Maxwell
,d Colonels Craster and Robertson, and
hanked them for the marked and spon¬
taneous tribute paid by those officers at
the funeral of Admiral Chandler.
SPANIARDS REJOICED,
Queen Victoria paid her expected visit
to San Sebastian, Spain, on Wednesday.
She was accompanied by the Prince and
Princess Henry, of Battenberg and mem¬
bers of her suite, including Lady Church¬
ill, Sir Francis Ford, British ambassador
at Madrid, and representatives of Queen
Regent Christina met the royal visitor at
Irun, on the frontier, where a train was
wa iting to convey her majesty to San
Sebastian. The queen, upon alighting
from the train, kissed Christina on both
cheeks. Alter mutual presentations the
two queens entered the state carriage
and drove to the castle, attended by a
brilliant military escort. Victoria form¬
ally received the mayor of the town.
Her majesty afterwards witnessed a se¬
ries of Basque dances and games in the
square from a window in the town hall,
and was heartily cheered when she ap¬
peared upon the balcony after the enter¬
tainment was concluded. From the
town hall the party drove to the railway
station where Victoria and Christina
exchanged affectionate adieus.
NOT REVEALED.
Samuel Humbert died at McClellan
town, Pa., on Monday. He was eighty
years old, has been a miser and is sup¬
posed to have had a large sum of money
saved and stored away somewhere, being
distrustful of banks. This fact led to
his capture in his house near Fair Chance
one night last Summer, by a robber gang
who burned his feet with candles, and
held him over a fire, using every device
conceivable to force him to disclose
where his wealth was hidden, but in
vain. The old man never fully recovered
from the shock thus received, and heart
disease caused his death. When he was
gasping in the throes of death, he tried
to tell hia attendant, but had only
gasped, “Bob, the box is—’’when he
was seized with a choking fit, and died.
BOLD ATTEMPT,
Thirty-five out of 160 boys at the
House of Refuge, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
made a break for liberty on Sunday.
They were from ten to fifteen years old,
and were under four leaders, the chief of
whom was a negro boy. These boys,
when it came time for them to retire to
their rooms preparatory tor dinner, in¬
stead of doing so, marched in a body,
armed with baseball bats, to the fr&nt
entrance, where they found four guards
stationed, and they used their bats and
rocks, and broke several windows. The
noise attracted the attention of the po¬
lice, and fifteen officers were sent to the
place and quelled the mutiny.
“THE BEAUTIFUL LAND. 9 9
The Oklahoma boomers are not alto¬
gether satisfied with what they have se¬
cured under the amendment to the Indi¬
an bill, but the territory thrown open to
them is large enough to make a big state.
Congressman Springer says that the
President's pioclam; tion will open up
about 2.000,000 acres at once, and there
will be 100,000 people on the lands with¬
in sixty days. The reports conflicting, concerning
the character of the land are
buttle country around Ok’ahrmi c lied
“The Beautiful Land.” a: d .he boomers
say that it is me of the garden spots of
the continent.
RADICAL MEASURES.
The German government has resolved
upon a stricter measure for the Germani
zation of the provinces wrested from
France—the dismissing of schoolmasters
and tutors unable to teach the German
language, and replacing them partly by
4kUsLi9ft§ Pa rtly by Ge rmans.
SHRIMPING.
Where the Canneries aFe Located-,
They ore the Sea Chameleons—
Extensive Southern Flsh
cries —Chinese Shrimpers.
Whoever has walked down I niton
fish stalls quantities of small red objects
which look for all the world like infant
lobsters. A reporter stopped the other
day at one of these stalls, and asked thd
proprietor to tell him something about
these objects, which of course were
shrimps. “Certainly,” said the tiddler, a* ho
took one of the creatures between his
forefinger and thumb by the hard part
or shell, and ripping off the tail, ate it
with evident relish. “Shrimps world. are In
caught and eaten all over lh3
our waters there are at least six dillerent
varieties, and the commoueat one of the
lot, the C. Vulgaris, curiously enough,
is the kind to which the New York
palate most kindly takes. The C. \ ul
garis is found both in the Atlantic ami
Pacific Oceans. On the east coast they
are found up North as far as Labrador.
In the months of May and .Tune they
spawn in Chesapeake Bay, and are then
preferred bv many. in New
“The shrimps most eat
York and the South are about six inches
long, exclusive of the feelers. They are
caught along the coast in the warm
weuther, but as soon as winter sets ia
they move out into deeper ivater. Dur¬
ing the winter months, therefore, South. we get
most of our shrimps from the
Shrimps differ trom lobsters in possess¬
ing the power of changing to a limited
extent the color of their shells, accord¬
ing to their surroundings. They are sen
chameleons, so to speak. Many shrimpi
are obtained from the Jersey flats, Bay
Ridge shore, and Long Island, wher«
men and boys make long nets from fln«
muslin, and drag them over tho bars.
Four or five thousand gallons are ob¬
tained in this way from Bay Ridge alone
every year. important shrimp fisherici
“The most
are in the South, North Carolina is
great shrimp country- and in \ irginitf th«
they are plenty up the bay and about
York River. At Beaufort and Newberc
many bushels are caught at ono haul,
and the price these is about fifty cents «
bushel. In Virginia they bring at re¬
tail from ten cents to a dollar a quart.
Iu the neighborhood of Charleston th«
shrimp fishing is tho mo.it important ol
all, and the season lasts from March unt
til November. About a dozen boats arn
engaged in tho business, and tho hauling
is done at night when the t.do is low,
for under these conditions the shrimps
seems to come in shore. Tho colored
people are fond of them, aud they readily
sell at from ten to twenty-five cents bj
the plate, sixty to the plato. Georgia shrimp
“In tho St. Mary’s in
ing is good, and about 500 men are on
gaged in tho business in that State.
Large quantities of tho Georgia catch
are sent to Savaunah and thence shipped
to New York. If tho season is mild,
they can be caught in Florida tho voar
round.. In the St. Augustine fishery
about 1000 barrels are caught yearly, the
selling at fifteen cents a plato in
height of the sea-son. Now Orleans and
San FYancisco are the great shrimp cen¬
tres, and immense quantities of them are
received at those cities every year. At
several places in tho South there ure
canning factories, where about half A
million half-pound cans aro turned out
yearly. Tomales Bay in California thoi<
“At
are very extensive shrimp fisheries, car¬
ried on almost entirely quantities by the Chinese,
who send great of the shell¬
fish to i hina aud the Sandwich Islands.
Every day after tho haul is made you
can see the shrimp dealers coming into
market with huge netted baskets filled
with the fish, on their backs. What
cannot be aolcl while fresh are put in
boiling brine and pickled; aud dried. afterward Thon
being spread in the sun
they are trampled on by tho wooden
shoes of the Chinamen, and thus the
meat is separated from the shell, the
former being shipped 'lima and the
latter being utilize^ ertilizer. ”
New York tost.
The Koonking Dince.
The colored people of the South must
have received the koonking dance i'toie
their African ancestors.
When a child I lived in the westerif
part of Africa, says a contributor to th«
Detroit Free Press. At the koonkiug,
seated on tho ground, the musician
holds the tom-tom (drum) between hii
knees and strikes the sonorous skin with
the palm, first of one hand and then ol
the other. The dancing women rang*
themselves in a wide circle. One conx
mences slnging a song of meager poetry,,
but rich and, with humor and personal the whole allu¬
sion at due intervals,
gathering join in chorus. The entire
assemblage swing their arms backward
and forward and clap their hands regu¬
larly quit the to mark circle, the time. “get out,” One or they two
or as
term In, and, entering the open space io
the midst, commence tho koonking.
The gestures are most singular. Noe
did 1 ever find the white man who, with
the greatest practice, could imitate
them. Tho young maiden glides round
within the circle of her singing and
hand-clapping and friends, waving her but arms at
scarcely moving her feet, the
every beat of the tune jerking up
hip, or “voondo,’ in a ludicrous manner;
others drop in and imitate her; ea-ch is
eager to dance; excitement arises, It
becomes contagious. Another and an¬
other starts from the ranks; the hands
are clapped more vigorously, tho flood of
song swells high, the tom-tom beats
elysium. more rapidly tho group aro in
The shrill voices proclaim the joy far
and wide; maidens at a distance hear*
the song, hasten to take part, and befora
midnight few spots of earth witness Bucb
highly-wrought that madness of pleasure Thd as
favored by the koonking.
growing excitement is amusingly de*
veloped. At first the “voondo” i i
ierked at lazy intervals. By degrees,
however, the agitated hip acquires a per¬
petual the fitful bystanders motion. and. The dancers seize will*
on whirl them
ing or unwilling into the spinning maze;
meanwhile the song changes to the live?
liest, the moonlight streams on the happy
party; and the air breathes of the orange
flower, thickly covering the surrounding
trees. This occurs in Sierra Leone, ana
possibly in other parts of West Africa.
The spread of leprosy in India hat
convinced the natives that the disease is
contagious. dred India has about ono hun¬
and thirty-five thousand of the
sufferers, aud the list is swelling at 8
tremendous rate.
FiFtv thousand people in New York ar«
collectors of postage stamps, and they hav*
been having an exhibition. It embraced al
most every stamp known to every civilized
nation and.wa^ said to be worth $200,000. _