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Tiie Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
DY CLEM. C. MOORE,
CRA WFORD VILLE, GEORGIA
Entered at the poitoffiee at Crawfordville,
Georgia, an second-ciasci mail matter.
SAM •M i.» ' I II SCHOOL
1\1 / It V.1770\ I /. 1.1, SSI is ion
■II I. V I’ll,
I, <*•*■« tin Taxi “Tin* Tabernacle, ‘ I'.x.
xi-, l-IG Loldrn Tex I : Ifev. xxi., 3
* (iiiim.’iiiary tut the Lebt*on>
* nd the Lord pa ike unto Moses, flow
.'t tve I i 1 f hi ipcneo and how little we
to think of the meaning of it or of
1 hu .. fch the Lord” of the prophet
oi Hie 1 a\ unto you’’ of Jesus iliniKclf,
who w,iU;.' j Ol d 1 •od of the prophets. We
'•ftiinot :;iv too mu h l ee 1 t > the word of
~ id, le herd it too reverent.. and unless
> hear God sneaking tons in His
$ t, , ..dl not nr < Ii:-:.
Jn the first e of the first month.
it was the : •mild year ve : i! and a .1 a
year since* t - 'eat I >v« r n d:t on which
t i»* y left the laud < ^
r l jml iaontii v/a.i - t m 1
month to them be'
ante. A 4 hoi - it Wit vent Ill *; * til of
their 'ivii \ -J they v. !• In :s ! fi Ol'lJj to
count it tb<‘ first month, ! r it- was the first
inc ut ii of I h •ar of the:i 1 1 .story as a
n d mu d l ’ ", very < 'hristian lms t wo
birtlubi . , iho • lay of In birtdi as a child of
< 0(1 lie his life C.TllV bi'gnri, for up to
that time lie had i o rwil li • ills first or
natural birthday h • eau 1 .ioiiliv., Lb surely
ted. but the e ■t, time of his new birth,
aithoii _di ho nia not know, <>od knows,
“The taberm of the lent of meeting.”
(«od hah do! . < r< d t h nut in from t he bon 1
age of 1-y pt. and brou el t! unto Him
sell that Ii v might be unto Him a peculiar
fre/emre nl ,. ■ ft I! f i “<> e, a ’ . n edoni of
priest'. a holy ir. ,i •. i t o Mjak«* liirn
a name (11. e'.eui. vii., • e and now }.,• ,y, 1
dwell an on ; I (net by zz vi ib!e |i; e: « i; • ■ in this
tabernacle s; ■< ■■ .illy i ,i e ] for 2 i i hi < v.,
h). The t i . r i i after onie >00 years gave
place to the Temp o ot : iloni'in, which, with
homo rebuilding, continued until Christ
eftine.tho ti lie t di rnaclo (Hob. viii.,2); but
He, being rejeet4-*d by t!i nation, re j«‘cted
thorn a for a time, and their teinp'e and
eft y an 1 land b e a ruin and desolate
l-ei an • of their rejection ol tneir King.
\V he tin r u e studi he t iberuario or the tem¬
ple, the past, or future history ol Israel, or
the history of t In* present gst.li'*ring out from
the ir ti n * of a p ople for Hi name, or the
|M‘i i onal <h Jilin ; ol < o l with an individual,
we find that .)• -us, flu* Christ, ilia Son of
Man. tli - ,*on of 1 bod, u always in the midst,
the tiiv, and the lust , the foundation and Urn
head corner sloe •. the center and ciremnfcr
eifee ol all th * work of redemption from be
ginning to end.
;>. “I lie ml; ol the testimony. ’’The nrk,table
and altar of iucen «* wer e.i h nm*io of aeueia
Wood, covered with gold, reminding us of the
incorrupt!i»le Immunity and divinity of
Christ. The . rk was the only v«»ss«l in the
Holy wide of and Hole high, ■>, a three room sides t| n cubits of which long and
were
boards covered with gol l; the fourth was the
veil, a type of the bo ly of (fiirist (Heb. xfiOi;
the ceil in y, w.s the beautiful curtains, and
‘the floor was the earth, The cover of the
atk, called t he mercy seat, or propitiatory
tlb-b. ix., 5, U. \ margin), was of fitiregold.
and out. of it was beaten at each end
n cherub overshadowing it. ()vor the
mereV seat, letween the cheiubim, in this
Holy of Holies, was the place of the manifest
pres rtcoofGod. (Ex. xxv. 17 22.) The ark
was made to contain the tables of testimony,
and there they w< r<< kept. The people could
not keep that* holy law, but Christ, the true
ark, kept it peVfeetly. and of Him it is writ¬
ten; “A body has Thou piep.ired Thy will. for mo. ”
fileh« x,5.) ‘d delight to do heart ‘ O (Ks. my
God: yen,Thy law i-. within my
tl, \) l or us He kept the law, and then
died to atom* for our iie by llis piveious
blood propitdating or •dfoetmiliy eoveriug all
our traiis. i • •■-.sinus; bet ruing “the end of the
law for i ighteousnep- to everyone that be
lieveth’’ (Mom. x, 4 >, in ord«*r that as His ro
deeiruHl ones we may delight to keep His
commandments.
I. “The table,” Sabbath on which was twelve placed every
week every day eakes of
bread in two rows, with I ranki i<-oils * upon
each row. (Lev. xxiv., 5-1)). 'The table and
the bread and the incense all speak of Him.
He is the bread <>l life, the true bread
whieh eunio down from Heav en; there was
no leaven in Him, and all His thoughts,
wonts and deals wore ns sweet incense to
God. He G the living word, and the Scrip
tures vvhi - h are H.c written word heeotne a
living word to .ill wholly the spirit see Him
and eat Him as t lvir bread of life, lie him
self sai l: “Het.»iatoatoi.n Me, even lie shall
live by Mo." i.lohn vi., 57).
‘•’The eandlest'o U” was made of a talent of
pure gold ix v., :»v‘s, and vvou d therefore be
worth about ^> ooo. It was more like
lamp-tan 1 than what, we understand by
candlestick. Radiol its saven branchedield
ti lamp which everyday had to bo trimmed
mill fblc l with oil s * as to burn - ontiimally
before tlui Lord Christ - the light of the
world, the true light, and 16* js pleased to
pay tone* Ye are the light of the world.” As
bread corn was < rushed, and gold beaten,
mid incense burned, so Christ was made a
jierfe t eavioui . our bread and light by IBs
Mtilorm s for us. and only as we are willing
1 o be bi n: e l ai d suffer with Him can we be
« light to others. There could be no light
•wAUmuV oil. and that too was obtained by
beating. l.e> wiv. ,1 I.) Kvery word and
work of Christ was by the Spnrit and only
by the Min * Spirit can we do anything ac¬
cept a* le.
Hu> altar of iiu-ense.” On this til*
!>n« st u« 4 ti . burn im-pn.'O ovt-rv m„rnm K
wnd e\ « ning while he trimmed tin* lamps i
iwx.. ti a fling us that although notn- 1
ing that we do ean be acceptable in itself | I
. of ur sui fulness, vet whatever is I
in artiiv dor in His name with a sun vie de- I
►ire for His glory is maJo a 'ceptable by the 1
iucvU'O of His merits, which is owra sweet
jH*rtuine to God. Tins should greatly oneour
► g>* ns in all our work lor God not to look at
eur imporfe.-t s rvi •*. but at Him who is all !
cur rig S.vr.r.e.thecnnd.e- I
TI
x ■■ mconse, were in the
1 ' ! I pt ■ ■ ‘it - Inch
»n.wt went every day, but into the holy of
h' - h<; ».-nt . r v ,n ,• a
*'• ' ' r t ring and the
I
tJ:«* outer *urt of the tabernacle; the first
w -I- : ot "1 vov rv 1 w: a fribv. and
i>t \ii • " * 1 • it ^oe.-iks
to us , ?h man. our suenfl I r
and teds i that we arc \mwil r.g t * ac
cept the bio d o o vi i,
there is no p.-s- ty ->t our *-tmiing to
The l-»v**r was m i * »>;t
IN*rs t he w :11 i \\\vi! . and contaimvl
watvr with wh h th l'ri t> wash.nl their
hand" an t. r. : i r. tv ling us th .t he that is
washed »i i iff -vi mvioth no? saw t *
w ash i ith the w:\Tcr of the world .
but i< ch ;i in every ? > q oh a and
that it s U t: r to - *'k * the • fe< ? law
of!iU*n% :uu ”• t. ;in to look
a' on 's M i Jiin
I gateU Curtains of fino
linen ha- *l» If w iiot n pillars
u m and
Ly jr»is fas.tont.Hi to br
a fence 1 *>. cul•;: < ’> g. an unO the * curt
•which w ion, teat
Oncvii Iti-IS l he linen 'ourt
i* pillars with their eras-, socket
s. Impiter-' and books, th>
yin? a st*t»ak to u> of t
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAI DVTLLE.
?»towmcnt ami power of our Lord Jesus, and
h /'.v may become partakers thereof.
' ll. "The tabernacle and all its vessels
ano»: tel. ’ A full description of the holy
a .'Entra nt oil is found in xxx., 22-33, and
us of the varied graces of the Holy
Spirit ound in divine fullness in Christ,
l. ; v <■<'lifirniing that every v* -•> -I and every
v. jut of the taljornade uttereth if is gory.
1 ' 15. ‘‘Aaron and his sons anointed."
Ibr-t was he 1, then< lothed and then anointed:
our ns forgiven, then clothed with the gar¬
ments of salvation, and then anointed with
j, , r to minister unto Him. If we realized
our ri<*e 1 of this jxiwer and waited upon Him
mor ■ earnestly lor this anointing we would
b<- hoi.-r and happier people and more used
by Him.
If}. Notice the seven Moses fold or the perfect of obe¬ this
dience recorded of in rest
fhapter, and then notice how in verse 34 It is
s:s id 'lie glory of the I>ord filled tb<* taber
mi' ■ ; (oily let u s be w:Jiing and obedient
ai.'l if-- will fill us with His glory even now.
- Lc 1 on Helper.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate Proceeding*.
ay. Mr. Edmunds introduced a
bin tat the establishment of a Council of
Ordnance to conduct examinations into all
such questions relating to the fabrication and
use of ordnance, projectiles and explosives, the
as may be referred to the it by Congress M. <-yorge or
Secretary of War or Navy.... r.
delivered a speech of seven hours duration in
favor of the adoption of the Fishery Treaty,
When he finished Mr. Dolph spoke briefly
against its ratification.
pier ii Ray.— The fishery treaty was again
considered by the Senate in open executive
M .-sion to-day. Mr. Pugh spok“ in favor of
its ratification and Mr. Chandler made a
speed? against P.,000 the for treaty... monument .The bill General appro¬
priating George K. $ Clark a passed.... The to Senate
was
devoted thirty minutes in executive session
to the nomination of Melville W. Fuller to
be Chief Justice, which was called up by
Senator Pugh, of the Judiciary Committee.
No decisive a- tion was taken.... Mr. Mc¬
Pherson introduced bills to increase the limit
of cost of the public building ut Paterson. N.
J. ,to $150,000, and to provide for the erection
oi a public building at Perth Amboy, N. J.
13)nr Day. The bill which provides for
an adjustment of tip* accounts of laborers
and mechanics employed by the Govern¬
ment, arising underjthe eight hour law’, By was
passed after considerable discussion. • - • a
vote of 20 to 21, the bill to place John C.
Fremont on the retired list of the army, with
the rank of Major-General, was passed.
* 131st Day. —The Senate considered all day
the bill for the formation and admission into
the Union of the State of Washington- to be
CO I nposed of the present Territory of VI ash
ington and part of Idaho Territory. When
the reading of the bill was finished Mr. < nl
lom offered a substitute for it, confining the
area of the new State to that of the present
'Territory of Washington. Messrs. Stewart
and Blair addressed the Senate on the sub¬
ject. Without action on the bill the con
siderat ion of executive business was begun.
Hons© Proceedings.
161st Day. 'There was considerable debate
Indulged in by Messrs. Dingley, Holman,
Felton and Bingham, on the foreign mail s r
vice in connection with Mr. Bingham’s
amendment reducing the Senate appropria¬ with
tion, and increasing the mail facilities
South American countries. No action was
taken, however.
162d Day.—'T he Bingham amendment to
the Post Office Appropriation bill was re
jeetod by a vote of V 5 to 156... .'The confer
ees were instructed to disagree to the Senate
amendment appropriating »>oO,()(H) for for
eign mail ser\ioe.. .. The House then w<v..t
into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Springer,
of Illinois, in the chair) on the Tariff bill,
the pending schedule being that relative to
wool. Speeches were delivered by Messrs.
Outhwait, La Folletto, Breckinridge ami
Ford. Committee of
16:;n Pay.— The House, in
the W hole, resumed debate on the'Tariff. 'The
free wool clause was discussed till one P. M.,
and then by a vote of 120 to 102 the House re¬
fused to take wool from the free list i w -
den (Pennsylvania) and Wilkins and Koran
(Ohio), Democrats, voted in the affirma¬
tive, ami Anderson negative (Iowa), the Republican, Democrats.
voted in the with
'I he date on w hieh the free wool clause shall
go into effect was fixed as October 1, 1 - 8 S;
and the dap* for the taking effect of the
woolen schedule was fixed as January 1.
Iflsi). The consideration of the internal
revenue sections of the Mills bill was then
begun. Mr. Johnson, of North Carolina,
offered an amendment providing for the
repeal of the tfix on all distilled
spirits made from grain or fruit, This
was defeated by a vote of 27 to l a.
An amendment was adopted fixing Octo¬
ber 1, 1888, as the date upon which tin* repeal
of taxes on manufactured chewing tobacco,
smoking tobacco, and snuff shall go into ef¬
fect. An amendment was agreed to striking
out the clause imposing a duty of 30 per
cent, ad valorem on cm jvets and carpetings, !
aud inserting a clause imposing a duty of s»x
cents per of\o s {uare yard on hemp and jute floor car
p : tin s; per cent, ad valorem on
matting and floor mats e\-e.lusivo!y introduced of voge
table substances.....Mr. (kites a
bill creating the office of Assistant Attorney
GVneral, at a salary of $5;ioo. who is to be
charged with the duty of editing and com
piling the Unitoff States statutes and treaties.
lffTm Day. The House in Committee of
the Whole continued the consideration of the
revenue sections of the Mills bill. Numerous i
amendments reducing or taking the tax off
of cigars.tobaccos and liquors were defeated. •
Air. MeMillin, of Tennessee, offered an 1 '
amendment providing that the bond require l
to lie given by the cigar manufacturers shall |
bo in mi h penal sum as the Collector of in- j
ternal Revenue may require, not loss than 1
10 K w i Hi an addition of sh) for every per¬
son proposed t o be employed by such manu¬
facturer. It was adopte 1.... At the evening
session a bill establishment was passed appropriating lightship f ,: i
000 for the of a at
Sandy Hook, N V. .Secretary Fairchild
called the attention of the Congr s> to deficiency. the need j
of appropriations »or Customs
an dun* enforcement of the A lieu Contract
l.abor ia ■.
165th Day —When ti e House, w ith Mr.
Springer of Illinois in the chair, went into |
> "mmitnv of the Whole on the Tariff it!!.
I'r on motion of Mr. Tra.vy. yas
stricken trom the free list, and then a long
discussion was startl'd hoops on tin* the paragraph free j i
placing cotton ties or on list,
An amendment steel placing hoops on not the thinner tree list than all j
iron and j
number 20 wire gunge was agreed to- » to
71 . The existing rates of duty were restored
an cement and on whitinr and : on Paris
white. The duty on P iris green was fixed at
i. per rent ad valorem- The duty ( »i
t'fl. .;i iKiivolain, < art n. cone, or crockery
was that ri'litinj to «rwn ami i-olorel clasS
. Mr Hr, ..nr viov.-.l t . rrik
the duty one cent instead of threesmarter* of
„ . , t ,, r ; run l, wlucli was ndofU-J.
lAcellent Ihmsi'kftpC?’. |
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-WeiM.t. • JT, they , v . tell , (1 me you vnn are . xrf >
b*v : icd.
v-s, l ::r. Dr.C't YYi.o in the
.
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^ eve:> _
niurve*. uoo. i ;n
Never hu ■'tc eat any adamantine orviid
or celluloid pics. Perfect bauquet three
j :
il ,'. , ,. ..
VlU ‘ a coo*, _ , , ...
*• > .
' Nv. but -he buys everything at tue
bakerjf."—A e.$ka >■ -itr Jcntrn tu
What Canthe Vommotion.
; > the cause ot that crowd
ver there— fire
he w ■ a: lives *w
i o . a hair and
led « d named like the house was
e all over. — at Jtmrwip
STOLEN HONE?.
Over Two Millions Embezzled!
Six Months.
Array of Defalcations by Trusted
Employes in Ten Years.
The New York Herald says that during
the half year of 1888 there were twenty-nine ’
vases, the aggregate amount embezzled or
appropriated being $2,340,005.68. This sum
e lded to the $48,513,466.81 inyolved during
the previous ten years makes a total of $50,-
753.472.41 in 126 months, or at the rate of
t h>2,78 j. 53 per month. Df
The leading embezzlement for 1888 so
was that committed by Charles H. Pitch?
toiler of the In ion Bank of Providence,
I., who carried off $818,644 in cash and t
curiti \(‘H. He was arrested in Canada a)
impudently proposed to “compromise” f
>150,000. The following is a list of the (J
falcations and embezzlements during theft
half of the year 1888:
Cir leville, Ohio, January 2.—
Jacob H. Delaplaine, clerk in
Milford, paper factory..... ........... 3,000
Mass., January 6.—
Arthur H. Ball, clerk in Hope- 2,000 (
dale Machine Company.......
Troy, N. Y., January *7.—Asa
\V. Wickes, cashier Central
National Bank.......... .... 9,000 (
Birmingham, Frank Ala., Irwin, January register 18.
— M. 10,000 o
City Court.................... 23.—
Auburn, N. Y., January and
Charles O’Brien, cashier, of
Elmer Moore, bookkeeper, Bank,
the First National car¬
ried off all the cash and availa
ble securities. Escaped to 180,000 0
Canada...................... 1.
Philadelphia, Penn. J February 4
— Isaac Henry Roberts, cashier 10,000
of Whitehall, Tatum & Co....
Middletown, N. Y., February 2. n
—Charles S. Starr, reported County l
Treasurer. Books 29,028 t-3,
Philadelphia, missing....................... February 8. h
Penn., cashier for
—Henry J. E. E. Reese, & Co. (In 1875 1
embezzled Kingsley $60,000 from >7
an¬
other firm and compromised ■8
for $17,000.) Plead guilty to ■e
last offence February 20. Sen¬
tence two years and a half im¬ 00
prisonment....... 5,000
Philadelphia, Penn., February
21. Oram N. Ingram, clerk
for Johnson. Higgins & Cur¬
tin. 8 aid he intended to com¬ 3,000 00
mit suicide................
Harrisburg, Penn., March 5.—
John of Dauphin S. Longnecker,Treasurer oiinfcy............ 38,000 00
< .................. March
Battle ....... ( 1QD reek, », Mich., Mich., March 20. 20.
Joseph H. Whipple, alias S.T.
Mather, president Pembroke
Knitting Mills; arrested in 5,000 00
New York....................
Daviess county, Ind., March 20.
~ H irhard H. Green wood, Coun- 14,108 00
ty 'Treasurer... 21—
F rank fort, K y., March
James W. ... Tat State Treas¬ 00
urerof Kentucky........... 404,065
Ki;w Orleans, l.n.. March 33.—
Fernand i’onpart,clerk in Cot¬
ton Exchange, arrested at 20,500 0?
Wichita, Kan ...............
Willimuntie, Conn., March 22.
—it. !•’. Royce, treasurer of 0T
savings bank. )
N. C MuVcU and
! lent Charles E. Gross
! < 'ashler Samuel < •• White, ol
j {State National Bank; arrested
m Canada and now under bail
for trial; carried of 200,000
Newbu money.. N. Y.. April T.-Ar
thur rg, V. Wiltsie and John M.
Pollock, ban kerb.......... ••• 100,000'00
New Albany, Ind., April Weir, 10. ab- -
County Treasurer 70,000 :oo
scondcd Y., April 2->.
Keneca Falls, N.
N. I*. B. Wells, secretary Sav¬
in ;x Bank; excused himself b«
causc his salary was only $400 10,000 100
per annum... 2.».
Philadelphia. Penn., April for
John H. Murphy, clerk
1 >r. 1 )aniel Bray. • .......... 25,000 Of
Columbus, Ohio, April 27.—F.
AY. Corzilius, cashier South
End Bank.................... 15,000 to
Scott County, Kan., April 28.— 0,600 00
U. P. Grant, Treasurer.......
New York 2.—C. J.
Do Baun, cashier Park Bank. 05,000 f»C
Paterson, N. J., Juno 10.—John
\Y. Benson, treasurer Exempt 00
Firemen's Association........ 5,000
Lambertv'lle, N. •)., June 10.—
Major Libbie, City Tax Re
ceiv or................... 5,000 00
Providence, R. l.« June 27.—
Charles A. Pitcher, teller in
Union Bank............. ..... 818,644 00
Jersey City, N. J., June 29.—
John H. Van Loan, bookkeeper 00
in Second National Bank..... 20,000
New York city’,June M0.—Albert
E. Krahe, cashier for Ilirsch
& Co ......................... 4,000 00
Total for six months of 18S8. .$2,240,005 63
recapitulation for ten years and a
half.
187$...... ...... $3,784,805 «£»
1879...... ...... 2,755,!«il W
1SS0...... ...... 1, *s 1.437 00
1881...... 2.887,395 2,318,575 80 55
1882...... ...... 2,3:14,4*1 87
1883 ...... ...... 22,154,301
1884 ...... 11
......
1885 ...... ...... .'1,477,530 44
1886 ...... ...... 8,780,505 00
1887 ______ ...... 4,450,408 !to
1888 <iv '* >nth; ...... 2,340,005 83
Grand total...... ......$50,750,472 44
In 126 months—from the 1st of January,
1878, to date—the total of all discovered de
falcations above >2H) > is $50,753,472 44, or
equal to $402,781 53 per month.
SIX THOUSAND MARINES.
\n l-Nt imarc of Kcvrub * Wcdei For
Our lleconst ructetl Navy.
Th** Secretary of the United States Navy
has just sent a communication to the Senate
in answer to a resolution introduced by Mr.
Hale show ng the full complement of officers
"hieh wil, ^ -juimi forth* fol
lowing new cruisers, gunboats and mom
tors It shows as follows: enlisted Chicago, to- 31
and 406 men;
tali., Boston ami Atlanta, each 2. offli-ers
and • men; total. 42. Dolphm, 31 10officeri officers
total 1#3. Newark.
and 35U men; total 390. Chari ston. -’*0
o:fivers and "’.4 men; total 844. Balti
mo:v 3; oflivers and 410 men; total
,,, Fhi i ade i phia anJ Snn Francisco,
each SI officers and 340 men ; total 37L
Wrktown, Uoncorvl and Bennington, each
17 officers end T*4 men; total 211. Petrel,
'*i; t -tal 145. Dviiamite
cruiser Vesuvius, 6 officers and 70 men; total
First-class torpedo boat, 4 officers and 18
^en: total 22. Puritan, 25 officers and I'M
nen; total 221. Mlautonomah, Amphritrite,
ind Terror, each 23 officers ani 177 men;
:otal total Monadnoek, Texas, 23 officers and 4t>0 180
nen: 2" •. 30 officers and
nteu; total v 0. Maine, 30 officers and 444
men; total 4 ? 4.
Active arc to lie taken by the Iowa
State Board of Health to prevent immigra¬
tion of persons tainted with leprosy.
>nsul a* Chri-uania, Norway, has been
that if any more victims of the dis¬
ease come from the district of Stavanger
will be sent back.
LABOR NOTES,
Tenn., will soon have a roliing
rinneapolis labor temple will be fin
year.
vvN✓Bla,. furnishes employment
cigar makers.
: are 0134 journeymen carpenters
f apprentices in Scotland.
/coxa Trades Assembly of Clerks
mien ■ in course of formation,
i bef' • n the history of the country
ouia uring establishments changed
. mum as at this time.
; of Associate l Carpenters of
■ re been in existence twenty-six
: i >wt:s a membership of 8877.
oo*r, Penn., there are three cork
zrie annu al production is 150,000
* one-half of this country's manu-
1 s of the Seaconnet Mill, at Fall
, are being prosecuted for viola
. ten-hour law in overworking
i >lliery, Shamokin, Penn.,
ii idle since 1883, has resumed
mployment will be given to
jkfjn, sash and blind manufac
oj*< ester, Mass., have just de
imong their employes as their
rofits of 1887.
ers’ cramp, a deformity of the
•ed by continuous grasping, as
ML. Poncet, is an affection of
glassblower.
er of 1600 persons says: “The
re more faithful than the best
average record of the men is
; t of the women.”
the stone cutters, which has
trouble in the building trade
. xi as terminated. The cutters ac
) terms offered them by the masons.
keeping on the Continent is a
1 like most trades learned iti Europe
lire at least seven years' apprentice
under a most accomplished teacher
pacity of the Findlay (Ohio) natural
spurting already is 50,000,000 feet,
claimed that if all the bads were de
sufficient oil could be obtained to sup
vorld.
’•ganized labor of Rock Island, Ill.,
ned for the purpose of building a
devoted to labor me tings and
s in connection with the iurther
the cause.
irding to the report of the Depart
of Agriculture the present average
monthly wages for farm labor in the
t i states is §18.24 without board, and
$ with board.
Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company has
gtj u up its rail mills under a new scale
pep yA \ reduces the wages from five to twenty
ent., and guarantees continuous work
nil I January. The men accepted the reduc
i i i jction of ten pAr cent, in the wages
of 2500 hands employed by the Reading
Iron W Effect. or ks> All at Reading, the Penn., has gone
into wentwork, under employes except fifty
protest, at the reduced
wage s -
Ao ORDING to the investigation of Mr.
E<y|-(i f Chadwick, the average life of the
g T f sh wageworker is twenty-three years.
^ ( ss than forty-eight in every 100, nearly
laY, of the children of wageworkers die
»r fi ve.
• i cding to certain statistics the cotton
d Nashville, Tenn., now affords em
to more than 1500 persons
eSrlv aTrdut 187>I'd dra . v ->
ffnished product is double the value
raw material.
oxbury, Mass.,is a big factory having
..or&tely constructed fire-escape, deep which
jinates ten feet above a stream of
er. Thus the choice of death by fire or
nr would be neatly set before the opera
a ease of a conflagration.
.ark’s machine shop,at Pittsfield, Mass.,
recently purchased one of the largest lathes
in New England. It weighs 5000 pounds, has
a face-plate bed thirty-two with a wing feet of long, seven and a half
feet, a and the dis¬
tance bet ween tlm centers is twenty-two feet.
A certain car. No. 14Y of an Indianapolis
street railway company, has had so many
persons killed or wounded in, on, or by it,
that the drivers have signed a petition asking
to have it taken off and either demolished
or generously presented to some other com¬
pany.
Twenty-five employes in the Louisville
(Ky.) office of a New York life insurance
company went over to another company the
other day because the firm sent men from
New York to take the places of the superin¬
tendent and his assistant instead of giving
the Louisville men a show.
LATEST NEWS.
The great strike of the Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Workers which commenced
on June 1 has terminated in the uncondi¬
tion, surrender of the manufacturers, All
works have resumed operations.
Henry C. Ebert, the wife-murderer, has
expiated his crime on the gallows in Jersey
City, N. J.
Richard Kfi ARNETT, wfio murdered
Margaret Purcell, Jffie aged Irish house,
keepei* of Mrs. Daniel R. Lyddy, at Long
Branch in February last, has been hanged at
Freehold, N. J.
After a deadlock of three months the Re¬
publican Congressional Convention of the
Twenty-fourth District of Pennsylvania has
nominated J. Warren Ray, of Greene Coun¬
ty. Over 200 ballots were taken before tiie
break occurred.
A girl sixteen years old was burned to
death while attempting to escape from a
crowded New York tenement house that was
on fire.
In order to exterminate the chinch bug the
farmers of Crawford county, Ill., have
agreed to plant no wheat, rye or barley for
three years.
A cloudburst at Vincennes, Ini., caused
a train of oars to be derailed.
Jacob Daucher, charged with the mur¬
der of Louis Shoenberg at Denver, Col., Inis
killed himself in jail at !8ati Bernardino,
Cal.
THE-five stor}’ piano warehouse of Julius
Bauer, in Chicago, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of. $400,000.
Samuel Yf. Hawkins has been nomi¬
nated by the Republicans for Governor of
Tennessee.
Assistant Secretaf.y of State Rives
has issued instructions to our Consuls abroad
to collect all statistics as to assisted pauper
immigration, for use by the special House
committee just app anted to investigate this
subject. The Consuls are required to report
within ninety days.
The village of Grafton. New Brunswick,
bas been destroyed by lire.
Three boys were drowned at a picnic near
Johns, New Bruns wick, and.f our compan¬
ions narrowly escaped.
A volcanic eruption has occurred at
Makmats, in Japan, by which 40j persons
were killed and 1O0U injured.
A company has been incorporate! in
I iinois to build an underground railroad for
Cucago and the surrounding country.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
b ’ lSK pITZJSZ ur^ot
powder, P Wby killing
exploded with terrible force, third.
two men and fatally injuring the
The simple request for credit for one glass
of rum le i a liquor dealer at Bridgeport,
Conn., to murder the would-be imbiber.
The manufacturing town of Avon, Mass.,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
Fire destroyed the shops in the Erie
'Penu.) Penitentiary and the convicts will
remain idle for some time in consequence.
Three men were drowned while fishing off
Elizabethport, N. J.
William Stauffer and Jeremiah Reiss
were fatally burned by the explosion ot c* ■
ladle of molten iron in a foundry at Allen
town, Penn., and four others were severely
injured.
A bride anl Ki-oora, whfle spending their
honeymoon at New London, n., were t
cidentally drowned in feunapee Lake.
A CRIPPLE woke up John GusUannon at
Bennington, \ t. and asked for a drink of
wh.sky. Fading to get the liquor he mar
dered him with his crutch.
Patrick Kelly, seaman on the Atlantic
steamer Erin, for New York, stabbed two of
his shipmates to death in the vessel's fore¬
castle while on the high seas.
Michael Duxphy, of Brooklyn. N. Y.,
while in a drunken rage, murdered his half¬
brat her John and then killed himself.
The Democratic National Campaign New Com¬ York
mittee met at the headquart *rs in
city, and elected Colonel Calvin & Brice, of
Ohio, Chairman.
Two women were burned to death and
three of persons lamp injured Buffalo, through Y. the explosion
an oil at N.
South and West.
Erenezer Stanford, an Englishman, has
been hanged in the Columbus (Ohio) Penit eii
tiary for the murder of his former sweet¬
heart, Alice flancox, at Youngstown, March
24, 1887.
Four lumber dealers were drowned in the
flooded Kanawha River at Parkersburg, W.
Ya.
Chief Piah, the once notorious chief of
rado. renegade Utes in the North Park, suicide of Colo¬
has ended his career by on the
old Navajo trail. He had lead some of the
most barbarous Indian massacres ever
known.
George M. Rider has been hanged at Mar¬
shall, Missouri, for the murder of R. P.
Tallent about three years ago.
While assisting at Ke nton, Ohio, in rais¬
ing a Harrison and Morton pole, 2 .0 feet
long, Zelestes Musgrove. aged fifty, was
killed. The rope broke, letting the pole fall,
striking him and breaking his back and both
legs. Death was instantaneous.
A cowboy walked into the bank of La
Junta, Kan., and covering Rufus Phillips,
the cashier, with a revolver, ordered him to
drop all the funds of the bank into a bag he
placed on the counter. The cashier complied
with alacrity and the daring robber at once
mounted his horse and escaped with $28,000.
A battery of gas tanks exploded at Lud¬
low, Ky., injuring fifteen persons, four mor¬
tally.
Six persons, colored, were drowned in the
Arkansas River while returning from a dance
near Fort Smith, Ark.
Joseph Soup, an insane Bohemian, mur¬
dered his wife at Columbia, S. CL, by driving
a sharpened file into her head. He subse¬
quently killed himself by cutting his throat.
A frolic at Axton, Va., ended in the
murder of two young men by a drunken ruf
fi&u.
Fred Gleason, aged twenty, John Will¬
iamson, aged eighteen, and Louis Burnam,
aged sixteen, were drowned at Wilke’s Lake,
Mich., while bathing. Gleason got into
deep water and the other two were drowned
while attempting to save him.
A Mexican boy, Pedro Jones, aged 15,
shot and killed George Stevenson, post¬
master and station agent atGlamis, Arizona.
Conrad Waco, Jackson, colored, has been hanged
at Texas, for the murder of John
Talley, Jackson, a prominent who white planter, one year
ago. was nineteen years old,
made a confession on the gallows.
W. A. Potts, who was to have been banged
at Washington, N. C., escaped the gallows by
committing suicide on the day he was
doomed to die.
Put.tam Dakdek, Gt-atiii Master of the
National Grange of the United States, died
recently at his residence in Fayette, Miss.
Washington.
The President has accepted the resign ition
of the Hon..GeorgeV. N. Lathrop, United
States Minister to Russia.
The State Department has received infor¬
mation of the death of United States Consul
J. Harvey Brigham, at Kingston, Jamaica.
Speaker Carlisle has appointed a special
committee, consisting of Messrs. Ford,
Spinola, Gates, Morrow and Guenther, to
investigate the subject of contract and
pauper immigration.
The President has approved the joint reso¬
lution extending the provisions of the joint
resolution relating to the disposal of public
lands to the States of Florida and Louisiana.
P resident Cleveland lias sent the fol¬
lowing Tree, nominations to the Senate: Lambert
Minister of Illinois, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United
States New York, to Belgium; Robert R. Roosevelt, of
to be Envoy Extraordinary an.l
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, of
Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary ami
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to Svved n an 1 Norway; Charles L. Scott, of
Alabama, to lie Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to Venezuela: John E. Bacon, of 8-out.h
Carolina, to be Minister Resident of the
United States to Paraguay and Uruguay.
The President has vetoed four more pri¬
vate others. pension bills and signed a number of
The Police Department has just completed
a census of the District of Columbia, its re¬
port shows the total population to be 218,157
—white population, 145,685; colored, 72,522.
Foreign.
An imperial ukase just issued in St. Peters¬
burg, Russia, fixes the number of the con¬
tingent recruits at 250,000 as aga ; nst 2 5,000
In 1^87, ami places the perio-i of acti ve ser¬
vice at five years, but at thirteen years lor
the Landwebr. All able bodied men under
forty-four years of age, who have not
already been in active service, must join the
Landwebr.
The Debeers diamond mine, at Kimberly,
South Africa, was destroyed hundred by fire, natives and
twenty-four whites and two
perished therein. !
Sir John Henry Brand, President of the
Grange Free State, is dead.
Six men employed by the Eau Claira
{Canada** Lumber Company were drowned
while driving Io:s.
Pope Leo XIII has addressed another en¬
cyclical letter to the Irish Catholic Churches
disapproving of ‘ha boycott an l the plan of
campaign,
I see sometimes in the street, ssys a
city newspaper man,a re.iliy pretty girl,
or one who would be, were not her face
state of mind she is in—ft gn- Avho •ook.-> (
as if she had just got off some “hard :
words” with her mother or sister, or !
somebody else, and is still sioing through
with it all and giving them ail a piece
of her mind. But keeping tiiisup docs
her a great deal of harm. It is bring¬
ing on ugliness. It weakens the stom¬
ach. It poisons the Mood. It drives
the be-t people from her. It attracts
and brings the w rst. It ruins the com¬ ;
plexion.
¥EWST GLEANINGS.
Cleveland, Ohio, has a plague of fish flies.
SOM : Florida coast peop,e are talking of a
turtle cannery.
There are 127 dividend paying gold and
r-ilver mines in this country,
A mining claim on Douglass Island, Alaska,
has just been sold for $2,50J,000.
Dr. a. Y. P. Garnett, ex-Surgeon General
of the Confederate army, is dead.
Caterpillars are doing great harm in
Blaine towns oa the upper Penobscot,
Twenty-five bushels to the acre is about
t j ie average of Kansas wheat this year.
g 1R p R ovo Wallis, just Senior Admiral his 100th of
Great Britian, has completed
y ear .
General Sheridan’s prettiest cottage, at Nonquit,
. g one G f the on the Massachusetts
coast
Al)VICES f rom Havana, Cuba, state that
murder and pillage are running riot through
out the is | an q.
Thomas Perfect while eating dinner at
I & f , ( , ohi choked t0 death on a
, of potatoes,
A French six weather prophet has been cold sent
to jail for mouths for predicting a
.1 illy and loss of crops.
The annu 1 cop prcdutticD cf i'.iz world
is 275,000 t ins, and the French syndicate is
said to control 215,000 tons of it.
Near 500.000 parcels of vegetables were
shipped from Charleston, S. C., to New York
City between April 1 and June 1.
The Metropolitan Cattle Market, London, and
is the largest of its kind, covering three
one-half acres and costing $1,000,000.
David Asiiley, of Plattsville, Neb., has
jiut died of hydrophobia from the bite of a
rapid dog received twelve years ago.
An aline, placed in some caused lemonade by
young Robert Chenault, the death of
James George, aged seven, at Lexington,
ky
Glasgow, Scotland, having taken in vari¬
ous outlying suburbs, is now the second city
in Great Britain, with a population of
780,000.
Acres and acres of melons in Georgia
rotte l on the ground on account of the ina¬
bility of several railroads there to transport
the crop.
Ex-Governor Houser, of Helena, Mon¬
tana, says this year the Territory will pro¬
duce gold, silver, and copper to the value of
$ 10 , 000 , 000 .
At Chicago the mercury recently dropped
from eighty-six degrees to sixty-four in live
minutes, and seersuckers were quickly ex¬
changed for overcoats.
Crop reports from ail parts of the country
indicate recent favorable conditions and the
promising state of all sorts of crops, North
and South, East and West.
Sum feminine ability in finance as that
shown by a sixteen.year-old girl in Detroit is
fortunately rare. For the past six weeks she
has been forging checks and sending swind¬
ling telegrams. She said her mother thought
she was earning $6 a week and she disliked
to disappoint her.
William K. Vanperilt, of New York,
lias bought over one thousand acres just be¬
low the city of Ashvil e, N. C.. at the con¬
fluence of the Fr«-n°h. Broad and Swajaz-no**
r. vers. fine land lies m one tract, which was
held by over twenty persons. It is said to be
the finest property in Western North Caro¬
lina.
The cattle epidemic fears in the Philippines entertained still of
continues, and grave are
giving rise_ effluvium to Jseaso amongst mankind, number
ow ing to the from the large
of corpses of an finals, while it is almost cer¬
tain that in the districts where the epidemic
m< »re esj -ygr'ivaUs. there will be a scar¬
city of food owing to the want of oxen to
pi < » .V the fields. In one instance the owner of
1260 head of cattle lost them all in a few
days.
FROMINENT PEOFLE.
General Harrison smokes but never
hunks.
Queen Natalie is going to live in Flor¬
ence, Italy. a*
Sitting Bull is living a life of laziness
Standing Rock Agency.
Congressman Roger Q. Mills has a pas¬
sion for the collection of odd walking sticks.
The father of the new Duchess of Marl¬
borough is a native of Garrard County, Ky.
Qn a : Victoria is said to be inordinately
fond ol pearls, of which she has a fine collec¬
tion.
Kojiro Matsaga, one of the Yale Law
School graduates this year, is of Japanese
ro 3 r al blood.
Miss Isabella Darlington, daughter of
the Pennsylvania Congressman, has marked
oratorical ability.
Miss Rose Ctxtei.ajjd is en¬
gaged on a new novel. At present sue it rt
siding at Asbury Park.
E'.ipebor William II. is the first Russian
speaking King of Prussia. Prince Bismarck
speaks Russian fluently.
Bret Harte is a social lion in London.
He rarely dines alone, and is in great demand
at receptions and soirees.
Robert II e. the printing press man. spent
a fortune on his library, his taste running to
rich and valuable bindings.
Oliver F. Rah me. who made $250,000 out
of the invention of the self-scratching match,
had a dream which suggested the device.
Prince Jerome Napoleon and his son
Victor have been reconciled. They will have
a meeting with the Empress Eugenie very
soon.
The Duchess of Marlborough had seven
waiting maids ami occupied five of the Au¬
ra nia’s state rooms on her trip across the At¬
lantic.
Ex-Minister John M. Langston, of
Virginia, is one of the best educated men of
the colored race, lie was a Mahone delegate
at Chicago.
After leaving his office m New York, Jay
Gould goes to his library and studies out the
questions of the day from a historical and
literary standpoint.
The King of Sweden, who has been visit¬
ing London of late, has but two subjects
upon which he cares to talk. One is music,
the other is his dyspepsia.
Benj amin F. Shively, who represents the
South Bend, Ind . district, is tiie youngest
member in the Fiftieth Congress, having
been born on March 'JO, 1857.
Perhaps the youngest Rev. Warren college president Candler, in
the world is the A.
wno at the age of thirty-two has just been
put at the head of Emory College io Georgia.
Edward George Washington Butler,
of Iberville, La., is the oldest living graduate
of the West Point Military Academy. He
was a m •mber of the class of 1818, and re
m fined in the army until after the Mexican
War, in which he participated.
Commissioner Fink, the railroad man, is
worth about $2,000,000, which was m 3d He e
largely from patents on railroad bridges.
is now sixty one years old, and has a dis¬
tinctively German cast of features. He
entered railroad life in his twenty-second
year as an assistant engineer on the Balti¬
more and Ohio Railroad.
Mr. Charles Df.jiachv. one of the great
indemnity to whole Germany as ti;e price for not
marching the German army through
Paris. The money was to be paid in gold,
® ni wh« Bisiaarek saw the signatures he
P ost P oned his uemaud for V* “**•
The Brewers’ Organization of the United
■ ites has 6^8 members. The total quantity
oi beer made last year was 22,460,335 barrels,
or one barrel for every three people in the
country.
