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CHE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. l HE WORLD AT LARGE. JCK UPS HERE ; THERE AND EVERT WHERE. »OPE OETTIN** HER ARMIES AND NAVIES INTO COXDmON—THE LABOR YIELD—-PROGRESSIVE BETNO AGITATED. The American refinery of San Francis- >, Cal.. w,ts formally sold to the Eastern ugar Trust on Monday. The German printcis of New York ity announced on Sunday, that they r ould demand $’3 50 a day and go on . trike if refused. The Council of S ate, at a meeting held a )uke Luxembourg, of resolved to invite the Nassau to become the regent of Luxembourg. Rev. James McCosh, ex-president of , Princeton college, N. J., is lying at his ■ome in Princeton very ill from pneunio- ia, following an attack of bronchitis. Thomas C. Williams, a wealthy tobac- onist, M. Rosenbaum, a wealthy dry pods veil known merchant railroad and Peter lawyer, V. Daniel, died a at Richmond on Tuesday. While Father Agostino was preaching n the St. Carlo church, in Rome, Italy, * bomb was exploded. Great excitement ollowed and several women fainted, >ut the preacher continued his sermon. The eldest son of the late John Bright, ■vbo is a liberal unionist, will contest .he seat in the House of Commons for , ;he central division of Birmingham, ' Eng., made her. vacant by the death of his at ; Postmaster General Wanamaker made ■ sis first public utterance on Sunday in | Philadelphia, Pa., on the questiou of ; nigh license and prohibition. He de- ilarcd in favor of the consti- rational amendment, and exhorted tho , mdience he addressed, to work, pray and ' eote for it. Sir John Lubbock has presented a aalf-holidav bill before the British Par- , liament, which proposes that whenever two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any given district vote for a half holiday on the some district one day each week, all the shops in shall be closed at 2 o’clock on that day. The closing episode in the record of the steamer Haytien 11 public as a trader lietween Boston, Mass., and Hayti oc¬ curred Tuesday, when the craft was sold at auction for $41,000. The purchaser is William Lewis, of New Bedford, who will lit the Republic out for Behring’s sea and the Arctic ocean as a whaling supply steamer. On Monday a fire broke in the Glencoe Iron Works of Armsbell & Co., at Young-town, Ohio, and spread through the building so rapidly that in half an I hour flames ihe then entire conunuuicated plant was in ruins. The i to the iron works ot Brown, Bonnell & Co., destroy¬ ing one of their warehouses and an en- gine house. The loss will reach $100,- 000 . Judge Alexander McCue, ex-asristant treasurer of the United States,died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday. Judge McCue was stricken with paraly¬ sis on the 20th of March, and has been confined to his home ever since. He was appointed Solicitor by President Cleveland to be of the Treasury, which office he held until a year ago, when he was made assistant treasurer in New York. At a meeting of Central Labor Union, in New \oik on Sunday, a communica¬ tion was read purporting to come from Jay G< u’d, through Washington Davis, railroad contractor, stating that “Mr. Gould was willing to hand over to the Union $11,000,00 j in gold, with interest from 1869, if the Central Labor Union would be willing to adopt the plan for co-operative industry proposed by Mr. Gould.” The recent hurricane in the South pacific ocean swept over 1,200 geograph¬ ical miles, embracing in its track the Heivey and Society groups of islands. The American ship, Red Cross, from New S*>uth Wales, for San Francisco, was driven ashore at Barutonga and wrecked. The crew was saved. The American ship, Ada Owen, was wrecked v at Ouara. Her crew was sayed. Wreck- | I age New from South the Wales, British for ship San Suakim, Francisco, from was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt the > crew perished. A hurricane started on Tuesday in Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all day. Roofs were blown off the Park ' Place hotel and other buddings. The •toi m in several places had the added | tern t r Volin, of fire. Yankton, Dak., reports .at a station on the Northwestern Rad, w as burned. A thousand tons of hay were burned, and all the barns in | the place. The tire invaded the large cattle corral and forty or fifty cattle were I b. dly burned, the rest breakiug through ihe enclosure and escaping. The de- : etruction was caused by a prairie fire. The French Chamber of Deputies, by & vote of 30G to 236, rejected the Senate’s proposal to prostcute summarily all officials. papers guilty of libelling government I M Cocarde says that Gen. Boulanger bring warned Tuesday that the government was preparing for a coup, into arranged so that he would not fall the government’s bauds and loft the city. The police Cocarde', are mystified. “The adds “will appear when duty tequiris him. It is our im- pression perhaps toat he has hidden temporarily, in Brussels.” OUR SHIP DISABLED. The British steamship Falshall, B n nett, from Cape Verde arrived on Wed nesday at Pensacola, Fla. She reporte that she latitude passed the U. S. warship Brook lyn in hundred 23.41 north. and longitud 63.30 west, one thirty-six days from Honolulu, proceeding undei sail with shaft broken. Assistance was declined. The crew all welt. The Fal shall provis oned the Brooklyn, taking her mail, and departed amid the cheer> of the tars. A WOMAN’S COLLEGE In accordance with the action of the trustees of Columbia College, that insti tution will probably soon have a sistei college for women. Hitherto, the youm: women who have attended Columbi have had limited privileges, and wen not given degrees. It was decided t» uli the new seat of learning Barnar- •, ns a testimonial of respect tc Inerable Dr. Barnard. SOUTHERN Callings. liEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬ INGLY BRIEFED. ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS, ETC.—DEATH OF FBOMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS. ALABAMA. The new 120 ton furnace at Gadsden passed into hands of Eastern capitalists on Monday, A Boston syndicate closed n trade for 30,000 acres of timber and ore lands, and will begin the immediate erection of an extensive wooden and tool factory. A $200,000 cotton factory is being negotiated for. A committee representing the Ameri¬ can Packers and Preservers Association, which is simply a trust, is looking for a location for a factory in Birmingham. The principal fruit packing and preserv¬ ing firms of the country have organized a trust which they call the American Packers and Preserving Association. “Yes, I cut the nigger’s head off and I’d do it again.” This was the admis¬ sion made by Jane Simmons, a negro woman, when she was arrested in Blount on head Sunday. The woman had cut off the of a negro named Dave Brooks, a miner, with an ax. The crime w-as committed at Orconta, a small tow r n on the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, about thirty-five miles north of Birmingham. “That is the man,” said Mrs. J. U. Lundy on Wednesday when Jim Will¬ iams, alius Ben Elgy, was brought be¬ fore her. Mrs. Lundy was able to leave her room for the first time since she was assaulted by this negro, two weeks ago. The negro was brought out of jail and taken before Mrs Lundy, in order that his identification might be complete. As soon as she saw- the negro’s face, she exclaimed: “That is the man.” Some of the doctors of Birmingham are stirred up over the recovery of a ne¬ gro from what seemed to be a well de¬ veloped case of hydrophobia. J. E. Browm, a colored man, had a small dog that was attacked by a strange cur, and in defending liis pet, the negro was bit¬ ten slightly iti several places. Last week Brown’s dog showed signs of hy¬ drophobia, and w-as killed. Monday, Brown himself became violently ill, and developed He symptoms of hydrophobia. night grew it worse rapidly, and on Monday six required the combined efforts of men to tie him on the bed. The doctors applied the usual remedies to re¬ lieve the man’s sufferings, but they were surprised ing better when Wednesday, he appeared to be'grow¬ on and will no doubt recover. AltKANSAS. John Chambers was tried in Texar¬ committed kana on a charge of highway November. robbery, near Bassett last Chambers and a pal named William Ball, engaged to work their for a Mr. had, Giles, ami learning that employer on No¬ vember 1, come into possession of sev eral hundred dollars, they held him up iu the road as he was en route home and relieved him of his money. The jury found a verdict of guilty with twenty years in the penitentiary. He has been identified ns an ex-convict from Georgia, and received the verdict with a light laugh. GEORGIA. Henry Johnson, a watchman of tlic Western «fe Atlantic Railroad, w r :ts killed on Tuesday near the Emma street cross¬ ing in Atlanta. A negro in East Dougherty dyed a five dollar Confederate bill green and passed it off on young Mr. Gregory, of Columbus. He is bunting for him with a constable. the Evangelist Culpepper is stirring up sinners in Columbus. He preaches at St. Paul in the morning and at St. Luke at night. Several stores are closed daily to allow their clerks to attend the services. The safe of the Sandersville postoffice was blown open aud robbed on Wednes¬ day. The safe front was literally blown to pieces, and the debris covering the end of the room. The money in the safe did not amount to $100, but a number of valuable papers, useful only to Postmas¬ ter Roberts, were taken. Atlieus is to have a new daily paper. The paper will be an eight page morn¬ ing daily, and will contain the Assoc¬ iated Press dispatches and special cor- respondence. It will be edited, in all probability, by Col. Albert R. Lamar, of Macon. The Athens Evening Chroni¬ cle is to be merged into the new daily, thus leaving the city with two first-class papers, both morning. Thomas Woolfolk, in confinement at Macon, on Tuesday made a display of that temper some time exhibited by him during his recent trial. When Jailor Bird- soDg entered that part of the jail where Woolfolk is confined, he asked the jailer to let him out in the corridor, The jailer told him he should come out iu a few moments, but because the jailer would not let him have access to the corridor immediately, he flew in a violent rage and became very abusive and pro¬ fane, and his curses could be heard in all parts of the jail. The trial of Hardy Hamilton, charged with the murder of the Chinaman, Joe Lee, was concluded in Rome, Ga., on Wednesday. The evidence made out a clear case of cold-blooded and atrocious murder, whose only motive was robbery. Several silver dollars, stained with blood, were introduced in evidence. The money belonged in to the Chinese, and was found Hardy Hamilton's trunk, The case was given to the jury, and they a'verdict returned in a very few minutes w’ith of guilty. The jury did not recommend to mercy and the penalty will be death. A man who registered at the King Hotel, at Stone Mountain, on Monday t ight, as Charles Thompson, of Atlanta* was found early Tuesday morning along- -ide of the railroad track with a bullet hole in his head, and his skull crushed. Near him was a burglar’s “jimmy,” rth ch had been used no doubt to batter out his brains. He had been seen in company with A. D. Reviere, of Gwin¬ nett county, and Reviere was arrested on suspicion. that The had general impression is, the two planned a robber?, quarrelled about it, and the murder was the consequence. MISSISSIPPI. The announcement of the bagging trust has aroused the planters of Missis¬ sippi, the Farmers’ and fifty delegates, representing Alliance in t wenty-five coun¬ ties of Mississippi, have been in session in the Senate chamber in Jackson, dis¬ cussing a plan to establish bagging fac¬ tories in that state. These delegates passed a resolution to build a bagging factory farmers in Jackson, and the agents of the have already begun the work ol raising funds for this purpose. north cAitotm. Gombroon, Senator Vance, who is at his home. near Black Mountain, though luffering from nervousness, is being very much improved by rest and the mountain air. Governor Fdwle has issued a death warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a negro burglar, at Jackson, Northamp'on County, jail May 30. Ward set fire to the His recently and is now in jail at Halifax. execution will bte public and will be the fourth during the present year. The colored people in the Kinston sec¬ tion are wild over the matter of offices under President Harrison. They are as¬ pirants for places to be made vacant by turning out Democrats, and in addition to employing a special instructor, are Grace. Bending their petitions to the Throne ol daily, They hold prayer meetings and ask that the hands of the President may be laid upon them, and that their services may be required by the government. A large party of negroes left Raleigh on thus Tuesday for Arkansas. Attempts far in the more eastern and southern counties to induce the negroes to emi¬ grate, have proved an absolute failure. The labor agents are hard at work to in¬ duce them to go to Kansas, Arkansas oi California. It is now believed that the exodus has almost ended until in the late Summer, when it will become more ex¬ tensive and far more systematic, as it will then, it is claimed, be under the auspices and control, to a great extent, of the state immigration association. KENTUCKY. Deputy Marshal Russell Wireman raided some moonshiners at the Cross Forks of the Kentucky river, in Knott county, and captured ten prisoners. These he lodged in jail, and then went on another raid with four bailiffs. They arrested J. Draughn, J. Adams and Jesse Cium, and started back to Prestonburg. They had only gone a short distance when twelve men, armed with Winches¬ ter rifles, stepped out from behind some rocks and opened fire on Wireman, their bullets being apparently directed at him alone. The officer returned the fire with his rifle, as also did the special baliffs and several rounds were exchanged. One of the bullets struck Wireman in the head, and he was wounded in several other places. Two of the attacking party were killed. The men who committed he murder are supposed to be the same ones who fired upon Deputy Marsha] Greer and were indicted during the Feb¬ ruary term of the U. S. court at Louis¬ ville. LOUISIANA. Thomas Rigby, one of the wealthiest men in New Orleans, and for many years resident of the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Co., died ou Sunday, a^ed ninety years. TEXAS. The Texas legi lature has just passed a bill, leasing the old cvpitol building at Austin for ten years, at five dollars lei annum, to the board of directors of the National Confederate Home. Under the state constitution, the Legislature can- not md appropiiate money for the purpose, the most ;t could do was to leas* out he old eapitol bu Ming to the directors >f f VIRGINIA. Fire in Manchester on Monday, de- -troyed a cooper shop belonging to Dun- ap&McCauce; tools, implements and two houses, tho property of J. R. Ten¬ nant; a frame dwelling house of A. B death, and a frame home of B. Funnel- ‘y. The sales of leaf tobacco in the Dan ville marktt in March were 3,016,549 pounds, an increase of half a million pounds over last March. Sales since the beginning of the tobacco year wert. 12.405,660 pounds, a decrease of 5,000, 000 pounds. The sale of s amps for manufactured tobacco for March shows an increase of $18 250 over March of last year. WEST V1HGINIA. Detectives Baldwin, Robinson and Wallace, coal police for the Elkliorn re¬ gion, Mercer couuty, went to Tug river on Wednesday to arrest a desperado aud moonshiner, named Will Moran. A fight ensued and Moran was killed; not, however, until he had wounded serious¬ ly all thteeof the detectives. As a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio main line reached the bridge over Hart’s creek, eighty miles east of Wheeling on Monday, Engineer Kus- sack noticed that the bridge was burn¬ ing. It was too late to check the train, and he and his fireman, with one brake- man, saved themselves by jumping. The next instant the locomotive oroke through the bridge, which was weakened by the lire, and, followed by fourteen cars, fell into (he creek bed, where burn¬ ing timbers from the bridge set fire to the cars and they were burned, Two tramps lost their lives. A BIG CROWD. The Musical Union, of New York is endeavoring to prevent the landing there of strolling bands from Europe. Almost every incoming German steamer has ou board a score or more of muicians, who have been in the habit of coming here in the Spring and returning in the Fall with the money earned during the Summer. It is urged that such immigrants come within the provisions of the foreign con¬ tract labor act, but heretofore they have escaped detention by swearing that they came as individuals and not as bauds under leaders. When the steamer West- ernland arrived Wednesday at New York, of irom Antwerp, La- Superintendent Simpson, the ding Bureau at Casile Garden, discovered ihat there were no less than four hundred musicians on board, nearly all of them having spent the Summer in New* York and vicinity f >r years past. WHIPPED THE FIGHT. After a vigorous fight in Oskalousn, Kansas, the female candidates for city offices won the day by sweeping mrjori- ies. At Cottouwood Falls,. Kans-as, the ladies were also triumphant, Mrs. Minnie Morgan being elected mayorwith all ihe members of the council of her sex. The contest for the mayoralty at . eaven worth lay between D. R. Anthony, Republican, and L. M. Hacker, Demo¬ crat. Susan B. Anthony, sister of the for Republican candidate, worked her ically him, but Hacker was electid by about 2,500 majority. Nearly 4,000 women voted during the day. most of them casting their ballots for Hacker. AUTHENTIC NEWS. A letter from Henry M. Stanley, dated Smuputuri, September 4, 1888, ha* reached a friend of the explorer in Edin¬ burgh, Scotland. Stanley says he is well and in good spirits. He met Emin Pasha on the shores of the Albert Njan« za. They were together for twenty-six days. When Stanley left Emin Pasha, the latter was in good health. Sit Francis Dewinton, president of the Emin Bey relief, says the letter from Stanley will make fire newspaper column*. MATTERS IN WASHINGTON. OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS A CHANGE. — CONGRESS. With the adjournment of the Senate bn Tuesday, alt the nominations sent tc it are confirmed, with the exception ol Eugene Schuyler as Assistant Secretarj of State, and Murat Halstead as Ministei to Berlin. There are no nominations hanging fire, and everything was closed up. The special session h as been re- markable in one thing, and quite differ¬ ent from nearly all other similar special sessions to confirm the appointments ol newly elected presidents. It is not t current to reject thing in history for the Senate in administration. any appointments so early made a new Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, introduced into the Senate on Monday* a resolution which caused a good deal of comment. It was in regard to the death of John Bright. ceased’s It spoke in eulogy of the de¬ character and of the regret of the Senate in hearing of his death, and also referred in grateful terms to the sympathy which Bright evinced toward the Union side during the late War. Several members of the Senate said that the resolution, while objectionable in its general terms, dealt with a subject with which the United States has really noth¬ ing to do. It is of a foreign character entirely, and the policy of the United States is to keep its hands off such mat¬ ters entirely. It is hardly probable it will be pushed, or, if it is, that it will be passed. Quite a discussion was had upon the nomination of delegates to the Congress in of American Nations, to be held objection Washington next Fall. There was to them by the Democrats on the ground that the commission was almost unanimously Republican in poli¬ tics, and that if their report was to have the weight before the country and with Congress, be it ought to have, there should a parties. more equitable division between the two The President sent the fol¬ lowing James nominations to the Senate: M. Huston, of Indiana, to be treasurer of the United States; Ellis H. Roberts, of New York, to be assistant treasurer of the United States at New York: William F. Wharton, of Massa¬ chusetts, assistant Secretary of State: George H. Shields, of Missouri, assist¬ ant attorney-general, vice Zach Mont¬ gomery, United resigned; Captain George B. White, States navy, to be chief of the bureau of yards and docks in the department of the navy, to fill a vacancy; L. Bradford Prince, oi Santa Fe, N. M., to be governor of New Mexico; Louis A. Walker, of Hel¬ ena, Mon., to be secretary of Montana. The Senate confirmed the following nom¬ inations: L. Wolfly, to be Governot of Arizona; Louis A. Walker, to be Secre¬ tary of Montana; James W. Huston, of Indiana, to be Treasurer of the United States; Ellis H. Roberts, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer at New York City; Edwin H. Terrill, of Texas, to be Minister to Belgium ; J. T. Abbot, to be Minister to the United States of Colum¬ bia; and numbers of postmasters, among them II. J. Cooper, at Tampa, Fla. NOTES. The Secretary of the Interior, on Wednesday, approved the location of th« route for fifty additional miles of railroad to be built by the Rock Island Co. in th« Indian Territory. With the belief that Gen. Rosecrans will not be asked to resign from the office of Registrar of the Treasury, there was a report at the state department on Monday, that Gen. Longstreet would, within a short time, bo named as minis¬ ter to Constantinople. The three officers mentioned as likely to succeed Adjt.-Gen. Drum of the army are Cols. John C. Kelton, William D. Whipple and Chauncey McKeever. Col. Kelton, however, as the rauking colonel of the corps, is considered most likely to secure the coveted position. Gen. Harrison will go away for a ten days’ or two weeks’ rest. He unfolded his plans to a senator on Tuesday, saying that he was worn out, and must have re¬ lief from his incessant attentions. Where he will go the President did not say, but he believes that the adjournment of the Senate and his departure occurring to¬ gether, will have the effect of scattering the clamorous crowd which has been there since the inauguration. The Signal office reports, that in the Gulf States, the general effect of the weather was favorable for the planting of corn, cane and rice, which is about completed, and for cotton planting, which is now in progress. More rain is needed in Texas and Alabama, while some injury resulted from heavy rains in por¬ tions of Mississippi. Reports from Ten¬ nessee and Arkansas, indicate that the fruit crop is in good condiiiou and up tc the present date has not been injured by frost. The immediate relatives of those who lost their lives in the great storm in Sa¬ moa, will be entitled to pensions under the general law. The pension is $6 per month for a seaman’s widow, and $2 pel month for each child under 16 years ol age. special Congress will probably also pass a act making reimbursement for the effects and baggage of officers and men lost in the wrecks. This wras done in the case of the Huron, which went down on the Hatteras coast about fifteen years ago. Assistant Secretary Thompson, of South Carolina, finally retired from the Treasury Department on Tuesday, and his successor, Col. Batcheller, assumed the duties of the office. As a mark of appreciation of their former chief, the prominent officials of the Treasury gave a dinner in honor of Mr. Thompson and his colleague, Judge Maynard. Secre¬ tary of the Treasury Windom presided, and Mr. Thompson, as the honored guest, sat on the right hand of the pre¬ siding officei. The ten delegates that are to rep¬ resent the United States at the In¬ ternational Conference to be held at Washington this Fall, will have plenty uf interesting and impoitant work to do. The nations represented will be th« United States, Mexico, the Central and South American Republics, Hayti. San Domingo and Brazil. The conference was suggested by Mr. Blaine in 1881, and amoDg the subjects will be propo¬ sals for the establishment of internation¬ al arbitration, uniform coinage, weights and measures, customs and tariff-, and plans for the more frequent and conven¬ ient interchange of commerce. Corporal Tanner, the new Commis¬ sioner of Pensions, is creating some thing of a sensation in his bureau. When he entered upon his duties he announced the Democrats must go. A clean sweep at once meant chaos and confusion in the business of the Pension Bureau, but the new commissioner declared that he meant what he said. His friends coun* selea moderation, but the corporal “isn’t built that way.” He prepared to revo¬ lutionize matters immediately, and made so much fuss about it that it came to the of the Secretary the Intel % idr. ears of The result w as Secretary Noble’s order, on bureaus Tuesday, to the effect that heads Interior of and other officers of the Department would not call for resigna¬ tions except by his direction. TELEGRAPHIC- The German man-of-war Olga, wrecked in Apia bay, has beeu floated. The cruiser, Charleston, at San Fran¬ cisco, Cal.* is almost ready for sea. Forty houses were unroofed in Balti¬ more, Md., on Wednesday by a storm. Bridgeton, N. J., was visited houses by a aud se¬ vere windows cyclone on Wednesday, being blown down. Xenia, Ohio, is excited over the at¬ tempt of a mob of negroes to lynch Sher¬ man Jackson, who stabbed Frank Law- reDce to death at a dance. The sugar crop of Cuba this y f, ai shows a decrease of between 45 and 75 per cent. The falling off is attribute to the cyclone of September. It is very probable that peace will soon be declared in Hayti. Negotiations are going on between Hippolyte and Legi¬ time that may lead to such an end. The whole country around Blunt, Dak., is being devastated by prairie fires. One fire driven by a sixty-five mile gale, burned everything in its path, including human beings. The switchmen in the Erie yards at Buffalo, New York struck on Wednes¬ day. The men went out because threi of their number were discharged ten days ago and not reinstated at their de¬ mand. Their places are being filled as rapidly as possible. A freight train on the Chicago, St. Louis & Pacific railroad, near Centreville Ind., became detached from the engim at back the top of a long, second high grade, smashing and ran into the section, the locomotive and nine cars, !8>x tramps in a half loaded car were badly hurt, and two were killed. Minn., Reports were received at St. Paul, the of a bad railroad wreck on Northern Pacific, near Missoula, Mont, A passenger train ran into a freight and Green, the freight fireman, and twe tramps who were stealing a ride, were killed, and some others injured. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. In the Reichstag, on Wednesday, the naval the German secretary, warships referring in the to the loss of recent hur¬ ricane at Apia, Samoa, said that the re¬ port of the German officer in command there did not show that the lives or prop¬ erty of Europeans were endangered and he was sure that the British warship the Caliope would had not have left, Samoa if position the been critical, He an- nouuced that government intended to replace the wrecked German vessels as soon as possible, as the United States government was about to send three cruisers to take the place of the Ameri¬ can -warships that had been lost. HURRYING THINGS. The Navy Department is making every effort to secure an adequate representa¬ tion at Samoa. Orders were sent out Monday to have the Richmond, Alert and Adams sent to Apia at the earliest practical moment. The Alert is at Hon¬ olulu, all ready to sail when she coals, and can reach Samoa in a month or forty days. The Richmond is at present in river Rio De La Plata, on the east coast of South America, and must go around Cape Horn. The Adams is under repair at Mare Island, California navy yard, and ten days or two weeks will serve to com¬ plete additional the repairs, and after a few days is consumed in taking in stores and coals, she may sail on her voy¬ age, which will take about a month. The Yantic, now at Brooklyn, N. Y., will be ready to sail in a week, probably to relieve the Richmond. Renewed in¬ structions have been sent to San Fran- c sco to hurry forward the preparation of the Charleston, and every effort will be made to get her guns and carriages trans¬ ported overland at the earliest possible moment A graceful tribute from English nav» 1 officers was contained in the fol¬ lowing cable received by Secretary Tracy: “Gibraltar—To the Secretary of the Navy, Washington: The officers of the English channel fleet sympathize with the American navy on the terrible loss of life from wrecks at S.-moa.” To this message the following reply was made: “ Admiral Commanding He* Majesty’s Channel Fleet, Gibraltar: Ac¬ cept for yourself and officers of your com¬ mand my grateful acknowledgement, in behalf of the United States Navy, for your mesiage of sympathy and good-will occasioned by the recent disaster at Samoa, Tracy, Secretary of the Navy.” LABOR MATTERS. About 1,200 of the 2,000 earpeuters in St. Louis went on a strike Monday morn¬ ing. The causes which led up to this action were the demands of the men for hour an eight-hour standard day and forty cents per as wages. The bosses seem to have generally conceded the eight hour day but are divided about the wages, many of them being unwilling to give more than thirty cents an hour. The men are firm in their position, and as the boss carpenters decline to recog¬ nize the demands of their former em¬ ployes, a bitter struggle is probable.... The Framers’ Union submitted its agree¬ ment to employers in New York City for an equalization of wages in the city and in Brooklyn and Jersey City—an agreement forty binding employers to pay cents per hour for day work and double price for overtime and Sunday work. About twenty-five of the largest shops have given in, but in some shops the proposition was refused, and many men went out. ELECTIONS. A victory for the Democrats was the result of Tuesday’s election in Chicago, had HL Over heard 200 precincts, from, showing out of 390, been a majority thus far of 6,428 for Crogier, Democrat, for mayor. Predictions give Crogier the election by 8,000 to 10,000 over Roche, Republican. Two years ago Roche carried the city by 20,000.... The municipal election in 8t. Louis,Mo., passed off quietly. One hundred and twenty-two out of the one hundred and fifty-two precincts, give Noonan (Dem.) for mayor, 22,417; Butler (Rep.) 21,169; Noonan’s plurality, 571. EXCITEMENT IN CANADA. Quebec branch of the Evangelical Alliance decided to affiliate with the- Dominion Alliance aud endorse the peti- tion to the government to disallow the Jesuits’ estates bill. FAKES AND FREAKS. Origin of the Curios of Dime Mu* seuuis and Side Show*. “The American people like to be hambugged.” As with P. T. Bamum so with the managers of the “fakes, freaks and follies” class of dime mu¬ seums, side shows, and traveling stores, let¬ this truism is indelibly stamped in ters of gold on the corner-stone of their existence. Were it not for this phrase of public character their profession would be in vain. The “legitimate” as well as the “ille¬ gitimate” business is found among dime museums and low-price shows, and there are those who do what they advertise and work on general business principles, the although they may not appeal contribute to to higher tastes and do not the culture which Matthew Arnold look¬ ed for in vain among Americans. A rather confidential dime museum man not long ago was led by a Springfield his Republican reporter to talk about brotherhood, and the facts here set forth are maiuly as he described them. He had in his “exposition” a snake-charmer, an Abyssinian beauty, a bodiless woman, and a two-lieaded calf (stuffed). The museum was in a tent about thirty feet in diameter and the curios were arrang¬ ed around the sides. Two or three stretohed glar¬ ing sheets of canvas were about the entrance to depict what the show contained. To be sure the snakes on the illustration were thirty feet long, while the realities were thirty inches, and the calf was the represented Abyssinian as and espec¬ the ially lively, but fairly portrayed, bodiless woman were except for an amount of physical beauty have which the originals could never possessed. The account of these attractions which the proprietor gave was delightfully asserted, naive. The snake charmer, he was the daughter of a real Indian charm¬ er who was brought over with by Barnum. She became enamored a concert ticket-seller, and, as he had ambitions to start a museum, married her, and their only ohild was then office doing lot the in “snake act” on the post Springfield. The fakir said that the mother really had power over snakes, but that the daughter used toothless snakes and chloroform. “She is, how¬ ever,” he said, “very fond of snakes, and would sleep with them if I would Princess let her.” Irymi, The “Abyssinian described beauty,” 23 was as years old, a uative of New York, and de¬ scended front poor but honest Irish parents. At the age of 17 she was em¬ ployed to scrub floors in a New York Bowery dime museum, and there learned the secret able of bleaching stand her hair and being to make it services. upright. She was paid 85 a week for her The bodiless woman was the fakir’s wife, who had formerly been a charater dancer in a variety show. The man said that there had been a time when the “bodiless woman act” had been a whole show, aud that he bad been able to coin money. The calf, or the remains of what had once been a calf, he asserted, was a legitimate curiosity which he had bid in at an auction sale of curios for 83.50. He said that his whole outfit cost 858 and his salary list was from 817 to 825 a week, with his other expenses about 840 a week, and his receipts were from 815 to 835 a day. “We don’t lay up nothin’, though, because when we lay off we have to go with the boys, and we all buck the tiger a bit, and, of eourse, in the long run, that beats us.” endure He told of and many said hardships they they had to that stranded are always afraid of getting away from home. Very few of the so-called freaks •are what they seem, and are “doctored” in a more or less ingenious way. Men are all the time doing some strange thing simply to get a job to pose for a wonder, as tney are too lazy to work. 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