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DALLAS. GEORGIA.
It would be suppoeed that the Prcsi-
dent and the members of the cabinet
would receive the largest mail in Wash
ington. This is not so, however. That
distinction falls upon a pension attorney,
whose daily moil frequently numbers 500
letters. .
Cures of sciatica are reported as haring
taken place in Paris after a single appli
cation of Dr. Debore’s method of freez
ing the akin above the painful parts with
a spray of chloride of methyl. The oper
ation is said to be applicable also to facial
neuralgia. If the latter be true, Dr. De
bore is a benefactor to the human race.
Chicago has reached the nemo of ama
teur photography. Some ingenious per
son has invented a hat, in which a cam-
era
is concealed,
so that
the
wearer can take
a picture
ns
he
walks along
the street.
The
young men nro utilizing tho inrention to
secure portraits of all the pretty girls
they meet.
Dakota is crying aloud for spinsters,
and the editor of tho Fargo Argut says:
“We can accommodate 10,000 girls with
husbands in Dakotn on ninety days’ no-
tico. Wo have published 2,000 letters
from as many young women, and made
as many matches.” With all this talk it
isstrnnge to learn that Major Edwards,
cditor-in-chief, and Major Plumlcy, man
aging editor oi tho Argut, nro both un
married, nlthougli they havo looked over
the 2000 love letters.
Dr. Davenport, a Brazilian traveler,
rclntcs how butter is made in that coun
try. Thoy fill a hide with milk, and it
is tightly closed and lustily shnken by on
athletic nntivo at either end, or it is
dragged about upon the ground after a
galloping horse until the butter comes.
In Chili tho tilled hides are placed upon
a donkey’s back, and ho is trotted about
until tho butter comes. In Morocco a
filled goatskin is rolled about and kneaded
by women until the same effect is pro
duced.
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THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST
PROM ALL POINTS.
Tho English trade journals nro jubilant,
just now, over the growth of the Indian
wheat oxport. One reports tho export
of wheat from India in 1875 nt 1,250,000
hundred weight, while in 1884 it had in
creased to 10,000,000 hundred weight,
tho value of tho export for the two years
respectively being £000,000 and £8,175,-
000. This need not alarm American
wheat growers, for tho Indian wheat does
not mako tho best flour, and needs to bo
mixed with the harder grades of Ameri
can wheat
Peoplo who wear spectacles, and the
number is increasing doily, may not be
aware that two men claim tho honor of
having invented these nids to vision. One
is Spina, a Florentine monk, and the
other, Roger Bacon. An Italian anti
quary says Spina was indebted for his in
formation to one Snlvino, who died in
1818. A manuscript epitaph in the pos
session of tho nntiquary reads: “Hero lies
Snlvino Armoto d’Armati, of Florence,
the inventor of spectacles. May God
pardon his sins. The year 1318.”
A national sheep-shearing contest is to
take place in St. Louis, April 7-8, under
tho auspices of the Missouri Association
of Wool-Growers. At this contest com
petition will be open to sheep-owners
from all sections of the United States,
and in each class, fino wools, middlo
wools and long wools. Fifteen hundred
dollars in cash are offered as premiums
for fleeces. Everybody desirous of enter
ing thecontest must make his entries on
or before April 1, and have the sheep on
hand for inspection by tho committees on
the first day of tho contest. Additional
information will be furnished on written
application to A. J. Child, secretary, 209
Market street, St. Louis, Mo.
“Curious how one’s feelings get blunted
by the sight of blood and horrors, ” says
Sir Charles Wilson, in his new narrative
of the Rile expedition. “There was one
itradge incident. An unwounded Arab,
armed with a spear, jumped up and
charged an officer. The officer grasped
the spear with his left hand, and with his
right ran his sword th—ugh the Arab’s
■ ;.lia 'Ai*v 'seconds they
stood, the officer being unable to with
draw his sword until a man ran up and
shot the Arab. It was a living embodi
ment of one of the old gladiatorial fres
coes of Pompeii. It did not, stango to
say, seem horrible; rather, after what
had passed, an everyday occurrence. I
used fo wonder before how the Romans
could look on at the gladitorial lights; I
-4q »o longer.”
umu AND MIDDLE STATES.
old man, being reject-
J??** Williams, at Oxford!, Conn.,
killed her with an axe and then finished his
own oareer with poison.
R*v. “Sam” Jones, the Southern evange
list, will hold revival meetings for eight
weeks In Boston next fall.
Gaosox Nball, the Newark (N. J.) pound
keeper, died the othsr day in horrible torturs
from ^hydrophobia engendered by a mad
-Afteb another conference between the
Knights of .Labor representatives and Jay
Gould in New York ou th* :K)th Master
Workman Powderly telegraphed to St. Louis,
ordering the strikers in tne {Southwest to re
turn to work. Mr. Powderly returned to his
home at Scranton, Penn., and three members
of the Kniehts of Labor executive boaid
started for ofc. Louis to aid in settling the
strike by arbitration.
Ddrino the severe storms of a few days
two • large steamers went ashore—
the Capital City, running betweou New York
and Hartford, striking the. rocks off Rye
Beach, N. Y., and the Europa, from Ham
burg bound for New York, goin^ aground
near Quoguo, Long Island. No live;* were
lost, but both vessel* were badly damaged.
The steamship Gulf of Akoba, from Huelva
bound for New York, with thirty-live men
on board, has been given up as lost.
The strike of 8,000 oiieratives in theCohoes
ITL Y.) mills has ended, tho mill-owners con
ceding the twelve per cent, inemre in wages.
Dr. Edward deL. Bradin, wh > attended
Neall, the Newark (N. J.) poundkeeper, dur
ing his fatal attack of hydro? h >bia, is him
self in dong >r, aud has starto 1 for Pari* for
treatment by M. Pasteur. While attending
to his patieut frothy suliva from the man's
lips camo in contact with Dr. Bradin's sore
thumb. Tho doctor is tho sevontli person who
has gone to Paris from Newark for inocula
tion against hydrophobia.
Miners in Pennsylvania are holding mass
meetings to inaugurate tho oight-hour sys
tem in the mines uftor May 1.
Ex-Alderman William P. Kirk has
been arrested in Now York on the charge of
bribery in connection with the Broadway
horse oar company’s Iran hi«\ obtained
from tho city's oldormani • hoard in 1884. The
confession of ox-Aldermnn Wa.to led to
Kirk’s arrest.
•OUTH AND WEST.
General Delgado and Colonel Morey
were hold for trial at Koy West, Fla., as
suspected filibusters. Thu trial will take
place in New York in May.
Convicts in the Kansas State penitentiary
have been detected iu tho manufacture of
counterfeit coin.
Two negroes, charged with murder, were
taken from the jail at Atumo, Teuu,, by a
crowd and hanged.
Tiiecivil authorities proved noworloss at
East St. Louis, III., on the 30tli, mid a crowd
of men forced thesherilf to retire, as
saulted his deputies, and destroyed and dam
aged thousands of dollars’ worth of railroad
property. Early in tho morning Kherilf
Itopiquet called for a posse. Only twelve
men responded and they wore soon put to
.*5 j The mob’invnded the yards and dis
abled a score of engines, and' drove the few
workmen, who refused to leave their work out
of tho city. * 7
Mrs. Timothy Hurley, tier fifteen-year
old daughter and her new-born infant, were
burned to death in a fire n! Bronson, Mich.
Bix other persons were also badly burned.
Gbronimo, tile captured Apache chief,
with twenty of his followers, has escaiieci
from the custody of the United States troops
in Arizona.
On the 1st the docroo came from St. Louis
that the strike must go on. The executive
board of the Knights of Bailor for the dis
tricts involved claimed that Jay Gould’s rep
resentatives wore acting witli duplicity; that
they refused to re-employ men identified with
the strike, and that they would not receive
or confer with representatives of the order.
For this reason the board declined to name a
time for the strikers to resume work, and
issued an appeal to the country in the form
of a short official address. The Missouri
Pacific road claimed to be running its freight
trams with regularity, and announced its
ability to handle all freight committed to its
care. At East Ht Louis tho Btrike was still
in full force, and all freight was blockaded
excopt on the Waba9h road.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: William L. Alden, of New
York consul general at Rome; CharlesT.
Russell, of Connecticut, consul at Liverpool;
Sanniel E. Wheutley, to be commissioner of
the District pf Columbia; Samuel T. Corn, to
be associate justice, Wyoming Tefritory.
In executive session on the 31st Mr. Logan
made a speech favoring open sessions. The
nomination of tho postmaster at Webster
City, Iowa, was rejected by a nearly unan
imous vote on the charge of “offensive par
tisanship.” . 1
The nomination of William M. Merrick
for judge of the District of Columbia has
been confirmed by the Senate notwitlistand-
nuitee 0 adverse report of the judiciary 00m-
TnK collections of internal revenue for the
first eight months of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1880, amount to 175,158,200, an in
crease of (2,410,388 over the receipts for the
corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
Additional confirmations by the Senate-
\l illiam C. Emmet, of Now York, consul at
fernyrna; Allen R. Bushnoll, of ."Wisconsin
attorney wostern district of Wisconsin; Alex-
ahder H. Shipley to be consul at Auckland;
H. A. Johnson, of District of Columbia, con-
Bul at Venice; William Gordon, of New
York, consul at Medelin; H. C. Crouch, of
New York, consul at Milan; Galusha Pen-
nell, of Michigan, marshal eastern district
of Michigan; Spuille Braden, of Montana, to
be ossayer, Helena; George F. Baylis, of
New York, surveyor of customs, Port Jeffer
son, N. Y.; Arthur D. Bissell, of New York,
collector of customs for district of Buffalo
Creek, N. Y.; Brigadier-General O. O. How
ard, major-general, vice Pope, retired.
The reduction of the national debt last
month was $14,087,884, leaving the total debt
417 *99^ 285 1003 treasury, at $1,-
During March the total government re
ceipts were $30,07(5,169, aua expenditures.
$13,081,075. 1
FOREIGN.
Bulgaiua having refused the demands of
Russia to submit certain questions to the
European powers, is threatened with in
vasion by tho czar's troops, aud the possi
bility of a war is again looming up.
Massacres at Catholic missions in Annam
are reported, the number of victims being
442,
Tri non Dism a tick bns staled in the German
reichstag that if great European troubles
should arise they would pro,ably become in
ternational, and that in his opinion the
French army was opposed to workingmen's
movements.
St. Johns, N. F., has been the scene of an
exciting lab>r riot A mob, daman ling
labor and railroad extin lion, assembled
around the parliament buddings with flag*,
stormed the assembly house, routed the polios
and broke into ttic council chamber, planting
their banner on the table of th > house.
An explosion o'f pet-o’emn occurred the
other day on I oa-ti a vessel at Baku. Ruaia.
The vessel was wrecked, and the entire crew,
consisting of thirteen persons, perished.
The total number of arresti made in Bel
gium in connection with the labor riots is
1,500. Hand redrhf persons wore killed or in
jured, scores of buildings desti <ved and dam
age amounting to millions of dollars was in
flicted. »
The steamship Resolute, whaler and sealer,
has been crushed by ice sad scut to the bot
tom off the coast of Newfuuu (land. Her
crew, numbering 330 men, were forced to
leap for life, abandoning everything. All
but three renched land, seven y miles from
the scone of the disaster. At tiie time of the
accident the Resolute had captured 20,000
seals.
A duel with pistols in which one of the
principals was instantly killed has been
fought between two French officials in a pri
vate house at Vulreas.
BIST tLEHITO
SETTLED BY ARBITRATION, THE RAGING FLOODS.
THE RAILROAD STItIKE Ilf THl WIDESPREAD ?E S TRUCtflOy IX
SOUTHWEST AT AM END. THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
India’s national debt is $1,250,000,000.
There are 807,804 public school teachers in
the United Alston.
The dyrtunite attacks on buildings cost
England $250,000 for repairs.
Georgia has a law making death the pun
ishment for burglary in the night time.
Experiments iu steering balloons are to be
made i^all the fortified places in France.
Wolves have 'uoeomo so plentiful near
Washington, 111, that th-y hunt in packs.
Massachusetts has a law prohibiting
tho sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen.
Thirteen thou-and stray dogs have been
killed by the Loi^Um polico since the hydro
phobia score began.
The exercises on Decoration Day at Gen
eral Grant’s tomb will be of a very elaborate
aud national character.
Tiie International Uongo association has
for wont of funds abandoned several of its
stations in Cehtral Africa.
Land in Connecticut upon which pine trees
were planted a few years ago is now worth
$100 an aero for its timber.
Jacksonville, Fla., is paving its deeply
sandy streets with wooden bio Us, sawed out
by steam sawmills right in town.
It is eOtoujnad that there are fino unions in
New York eity, with on aggregate member
ship of 100,000 men and women.
Justice Butt, of London, hnsrendoreda
decision to the effect that a divorce obtained
in Aifierica is invalid in Euglaml.
In Michigan there is a new factory for a
new purpose—to make a substitute for whale
bone out of the quills of geese aud turkeys.
An extensive mine of rubidium, a rare
metal worth $5,000 a pound, lias been discov
ered near Rock Creek, Wyoming Territory.
The leading Indies’ assembly of the
Knights of Labor is the Garfield Assembly,
of Philadelphia, having, it is said, 1,000 mem
bers. *
In January, 1885, his big scholars gave a
Wilson county (Kansas) school teacher a
ducking. He fmt just received $3,000 dam
ages. 1 1
A company with $100,000 capital has been
organized at Pittsburg to try to break tho
jiatent controlled by the fruit jar ■ monopo-
Tiie Wash’ngton Star attributes the illness
that has overcome several secretaries of the
treasury to the presence of sewer gas In the
building.
Grafted trees of tho Japanese chestnut
are now growing and yielding ou Dong Is
land. They bear from seed iu from three to
flvo years.
Dakota farmers are making plans to grow
flax for fuel this summer. It is said that a
ton of flax straw is worth more to burn than
a ton of soft coal.
Germany has eight schools of forestry,
where five years' training is required of
those who seek positions under tho govern
ment, although a course of study half as long
may be taken by amateurs. Franco supports
a single school at Nancy.
IUSIC1L AMD DRAMATIC.
Mrs. Langtry has finally decided to tour
this country again next season.
Kienzl’s new opora “Urnssi” has been
brilliantly produced at the Court Theatre in
Dresden.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is singing
now away down in the region of the Rio
Grande.
Emperor William has positively refused
Nieman, the siuger, permissiou to make a
tour of America
Anna Dickinson is negotiating with an
English manager to return to the stage. 8ho
will make her second venture in Loudon,
“The Harbor Lights,’’ the latest melodra
matic success in Loudon, will be ) >roduced at
the Boston Museum by Manager Field, next
fall.
Cincinnati has been afflicted with more
than twenty different “Mikado” companies
this season, and yet there has been no rioting
there.
A new society drama,much after the style
of “Fedora,” lias been completed by Osrau-
yan, a Turkish journalist residing in New
York, for Fanny Davenport.
Mmf.. Sehbrich, the great prims donna,
has been singing with great success in Riga,
Wilna, St. Petersburg aud Moskow. Russia
is a good field for enterprising singers.
The Countess Agatha Dornfield, is to be
gin a thirty-two weeks’ tour of this country
on September ti, next, in a reportory consist
ing of “She Stoops to Conquer,” “Romeo and
Juliet,” etc.
Patti vigorously resents the imputation
that her popularity is on the wane. She us-
serts that her throe concerts in Paris averagod
$8,000 a night, and that her reception was
most cordial.
Mr. Edward E. Kidder has just finished
wliat be terms e. “FjffloaSvis. .Fn.rce.’.’jn three,
acts, which satirizes in a good-natured man
ner the entire secret workings of the stage
and the craze of young society girls for hand
some actors.
May 10th Edwin Booth and Tomasso
Salviui will begin an engagement at the
Boston theatre. Two performances of
“Othello” will be given, one with the Italiau
in the title-role anil the American as “Iago,"
and one with the parts reversed.
There were 130,300 people who attended
the performances of the German Opera com
pany during the season recently closed in
Now York, according to Manager Stanton.
As there were fifty-two representations, the
average attendance was about 2,503.
Item... Jar Ge.M sad Cl.l-oad ▼Ulogs. F -» l *
The Kslahta ef Lsber. I Dr ‘"« ■
Th# executive board of the ^wighte of Freshets in many pert* of the country hsra
Labor met la New York on the 37 th and pro- done great damage. *““7 . ho "f® !£*
posed to ay iould, president of the MiMoari Tenne»ee river were abandoned,
Pacific raia oad, that a committee ofieran water ran through the door* and window*
be appointed to arbitrate upon th* matters The damage in the lower
In dispute which had led to the strike on Va, was heavy. One-third of the Richmond^
the Gould system of railroads In the South- •“<* Alleghany railroad from Lynchburg to
west This offer of the Knights was Buchanan, forty miles, was submerged, and
at first refused by President Gould the trestling was washed sway. Thevil-
upon the ground principally that an Northport, Va, was almost sub
agriemeit made with the Missouri Pacific, merged, and the iron bridge was under water-
road last August by the employee not to I at both ends.
strike without due uutico hud b en violated ! Tn vireinia the Kanawha and Elk.
bv the latter. This reply of Jay Gould vlr «‘“ la “
teemed to put an end to a change for set- rivers rose rapidly. One-half of Charleston,
t:- i ent But the straiuel rela- W. Va., was under water, and many dwell-
tions which seemed to exist between ] j nKg occupied by poor people were submerge
the officers of the Missouri Pacitia! The Western Union wires were under
railway aud the generU executive beard pf water from that town to Point Pleasant,
the Kuights of Labor on the 27th were only 1 m u w
strained in ap|*arance. On the 28th General j ^ p 0 wnal, Vt, raised thaHoosoe
Master Workman Powderly and W.O. Mce | river to guch * height that the Troy 4k
Dowell, a member of the Knights of ; railroad track was covered with five
Labor from Newark, N. J., a railroad Q r six feet of water and debris. Wo trains
ruau himself representing the Knights „>„« get through, and the companyVtele-,
of Labor and Mr. Gould and Vice-President | graph wire* owe aU down. Laud slides
Hopkins in behalf of the companies, met at £long the eaat bank of the Hudson retarded
,i.„ i-— ■ra- travel between Troy and Albany.
the hojso of Mr. Gould. The strike was
I discussed from beginning to . end,
i in, Mr. Powderly says, a friendly
I spirit. The discussion lasted two hours and
both sidos acquired a great deal of informa-
, tion which they had not before possessed, i
I Then an adjournment was taken until even- 1
! mg in order that each might think 1
tiie matter over in its new light.
At seven o’clock they met a seern 1 time, and
»eyeu o v.ecK me, ...m. a sec. n i simp, ana A heavy rain and melting snow
ate’ two solid hours of argument Mr. Pow- the mountains, raised the rivers in
i?5 S“ ao that great damage was done. Mi
hour later Mr. McDowell followed him. He
liore with him the following communication
from Mr. Gould:
The Missouri Pacific Railway Co. I
New York, March 28. t
T. V. Powderly, Esq, O. M. W”:
Dear Sir: Replying to your letter qf the
27th inst., I write to say that I will to-morrow
morning send the following telegraphic In
structions :
//. M. Hoj-ie, General Manager, St. Louis:
A freshet along the Midland division of
the Grand Trunk railway, Canada, stopped
all trains, and travel was not resumed
for several daya. It was snowing hard there.
In Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin there was
a heavy fall of snow lasting forty-eight
horns. The snowfall ranges from four to
fifteen inches.
A heavy rain and melting snow back In
■ -*■" in Vermont
_ Main street,
in Berlin, across the river from Montpelier,
was filled many feet high with ioe for nearly
one mile. The Winooski branch was higher
than at any time since 1801). A house on the
bank of the river, occupied by William Lind
sey, was swept from the foundations by ten
The family was asleep when the shock came,
but all escaped safely. A railway bridge on
the Northeastern rood at East Richford woe
carried away.
At Lancaster, N. H., the ice from Israel’s
Iu resuming the movement of trains on the river formed in a big jam just below Mechanio
issouri Pacific, and in the employment of street bridge and caased the river to be par
tially turned from its course, so that about
one-half the stream ran down Mechanio
street, carrying huge cakes of ice
along in its course. Nearly all the
houses in that section of the village were
flooded. The sash and blind works of Nich
olas Wilson were carried away and are a
total loss. The Stewart house, a small hotel,
was flooded, but the guests and occupants
were rescued from the second story by means
of ladders and boats.
William E. Robertson, with six French la
borers, stated from Bradsboro,Vt., for Seors-
burg, where they were all going log-rolling.
When crossing Keith bridge, about a mil*
from any house,the bridge gave way and the
men and horses were precipitated into the
river. The water was very high and only
two escaped. Robertson and three French
men were drowned.
The greatest disaster by the floods in Ala
bama was along the Alabama and Coosa
rivers, in Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, An-
tauga and Dallas counties. Wetumptka, the
county seat of Elmore county, and the coun
try around it were iu a deplorable plight.
Missouri
labor in tho several departments' of this
company, you will give preference to our
late employes, whether they are Knights of
Labor or not, except that yoti '
will not employ any person who has In- I
lured the company’s property during the I
late strike, nor will we dioohar^e any psi-s n
who bos taken service with “the company !
during the said strike. We see no objection :
to arbitrating any differences, between the
employes and the company, post or future.
Hoping tho above will be satisfactory I re i
main, yours very truly,
Jay Gould, President. 1
Mr. Powderly received the communication
at the Astor House about 11 o’clock aud im
mediately seut out tiie following telegram:
New York, March 28, 1886.
Martin front,Chairman Executive Board,
District Assembly No. 101, St. Louie:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and so telegraphs
Vice President Hoxie. Order men to resume
work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W.-
The following general order was also sent
out by telegraph before midnigh$: ..
New York, March 28, 1880.
Te the Knights of Labor, note on strike tn
the Southwest:
President Joy Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration and so
telegraphs Vice-President Hoxie. Pur
suant to telegraphic instructions sent
to the chairman of the executive board
of District Assembly No. 101, you are di
rected to resume work at once.
By order of Executive Board.
T. V. Powderly, G. M. W,
Congressman John J. O’Neil, who is chair
man of the labor committee of the House of
Representatives, reached the Astor house
just in time to be the first
to congratulate Mr. Powderly on the
successful issue of the strike. He had
come from Washington to take a hand
in tho settlement himself. He brought with
him the text of a Labor bill, intended for
immediate presentation to the House, and
submitted it to Mr. Powderly. He went back
to Washington on the midnight train, after
sending the following despatch to the St
Louis Republican.
Settlement of strike effected. Gould con
sents to arbitration. Executive committee,
Knights of Labor, order men to resume
work. Congratulate our people on results.
In the course of an interview General Mas
ter Workman Powderly was asked how many I
Water was four feet deep in business houses
of the town, and occupants were driven
out of many of the residences. A con
vict farm was flooded and all hands had to
take to the rafts and then floated for miles
on these before they could land safely. One
farmer was drowned while crossing a stream.
There is not a bridge left in Elmore county,
and only ouo mill. Untold damage has
been done further down the river. Selma
was cut off from the outer world by destruc
tion of railroad bridges and tracks, and a
vast area of farmingcouutry tributary to it
was under water. The Coosa river at Gads
den was the highest ever known. Railroad
traffic and mail service were paralyzed nearly
all over the State.
The James river at Richmond, Va., rose
steadily, and nearly all that part of the city
known as Rocketts, occupied mainly by poor
families, was submerged to a depth of from
eight to ten feet. Numerous families were
driven from their homes and had to seek
shelter elsewhere.
BISE BILL BOTES.
Dundon, a mute pitcher, is doing fine work
for the Nashvilles.
Some of the Southern league clubs play a
trong game of ball.
A nine of female ball-tossers has been
men had engagod in the strike and replied: playing Sunday games at New Orleans.
“Well, it covered about 8,000 miles of road, , Thb new grand stand on the Metropolitan
“?*S lere " lus ‘ have , toGn ttt kTU 2 ’ 00 ?, . or grounds, Staton Island, will cost 827, o4o.
14,000 direct employos. Beside this, * T ’ . . . „ , , . a u
of coulee, many more men atu i In a game of baseball played at Savannah,
women havo been thrown out of work P a -j 0 |bort time ago, the Pittsburgs scored 1
by the closing of the mills anil factories, which j to t * 16 Savannahs 0 in fitt;eu innings.,
was brought about by tho failure to run ; J. E. Sullivan, a professional ball
trains. Tne strike has demonstrated iu a player, a few days since committed suicide
mtst forcible manner the necessity of laws to at Grand Rapids, Mich. Ho was in ill health
regulate the relations between employers and 1 and somewhat dissipated.
employed, and Mr. O’Neill’s bill will come in
very pat just at this time.”
The executive committee of the district as
sociations of the Knights of Labor in St.
Louis issued orders on the 2flth for tho men to
resume work. In the evening the order was re
scinded. a disjmtch having lieen received
from Master Workman Powderly stating that
fresh complications had arisen os to methods
of arbitration. In East St, Louis, III., the
strikers thwarted all attempts to move
freight, and tho sheriff at length appealed to
Governor Oglesby for assistance.
After Grand Master Workman Powderly
had held a second conference with Jay Gould in 1
New York, on the 30th, he telegraphed to St. I
Louis, ordering the striking employes on the |
various railroads to return to work. Mr. :
Powderly then went home to Scranton,
Penn., and a committee of throe members of
the.executive board of the Kniglits of Labor
proceeded to St Louis, to confer with the
.railroa 1 authorities with a view to a settle
ment of existing differences.
At St. Louis, on the 31st, Martin Irons,
chairman of the executive committee of
Di-trict Assembly No. 101, which embraces
all Knights of Labor employed by the
Missouri Pacific Railway company,
telegraphed to the different local
■Bssemlw*.•amUiS.Wa. thn, notifying
them oHicially that the general executive
board had ordered all tho men to go to work
pending arbitration of the existing difficul
ties by a committee of the Missouri Pacific
employes and Mr. Hoxie. Upon receipt of
this order many of the men returned to work
aud freight trains began moving once more.
Bakey, the horse-trainer, was never
married. Greatness never makes a mis
take.
Needles were invented by a man. It
is needless to add that he died bald-
headed.
(The seven clubs which compose the New
England league aie as follows: Boston, Port
land, Brockton, Somerville, Lawrence,
Haverhill anil Nowburyport.
The now Gulf league comprises clubs in
Selma, New Orleans^ Montgomery, Mobile,
Columbus and Pensacola. The rules of the
| National league havo been adopted by the
i Gulf league.
Dunlap is captain of the St. Louis
Maroons, Ward of Now York’s Giants, Anson
i commands Chicago’s Babies, Jim White is
! chief of Detroit’s big four and little five, and
i Morrill has charge of Boston's men.
The weights of tho Chicago?, as taken at
Hot Springs, Ark., are as follows: Anson*
227; McCormick, 220; Williamson, 221:
Gore, 187; Flint, 185; Kelly, 182; Dalrym-
ple, 175; Burns, 1611; Clarkson, 165; Pfeffor,
100; Moolic, 1581-2; Ryan, 155; Sunday,
140; Flynn, 143.
This Is the time throughout the land
The base-ball tosser takes his stand
Upon tho diamond, bull iu hand,
Exerting every nerve;
For well be knows the noble game
Will surely bring him worth and fame
If be can get the speed and aim
Of some new-fangled curve.
—Merritt.
The mask which baseball catchers now
wear was the invention of Fred. Thayer. He
was training; the Harvard nine in the winter
of ’70 and ’77, when Harrold Ernst, one of
the fasteit of pitchers, was on the nine. Jim
Tyng, who caught, said that he would not
stand behind the bat unless lie could get some
sort of protection for his face. The result
was that Thayc-r fixed up a sort of cage,
which has gradually become the improved
sk of to-day.
mask t
There are fifty teetotallers in the
British parliament; twenty-five years
there was but one.