Newspaper Page Text
The Democrat
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CRA I WORD VILLE. O EOl'.G l A
Eu*?rod «t th<j pofi' fRr# at Cr* wford*:J«,
%, u »<yronff-cJM« wail matter.
The mortgages on farms in Ohio, it is
said amount to more titan *700 ’ 000 000
* •'
gradually am* , «*•’,
and arc increasin',
too, in so old, well-developed, rich
farming country.
It was an old woman in J ;a who
invented the* whi- k broom, a..^ .niilion*
of them are whisking fromdaylight to
dark without her having made a cent
out of tho invention.
A fi^ritntuiag Data aft* been . bunt „ at .
Porlsmcutb, England, for the benefit of
pauper children, nnd nil children at
guirc'i -r to r learned b z J to r §wim h t' r.“.« a* a part - oi
their . regular . course.
Tl,n „« nf tobseco at Yalo College
decreasing each to the ,
id year, owing
<Iini , ,. nin P u .«♦ t iV y *h A ntbletir* ‘ ABflorlations ’
which do not allow their me in bora o
smoke smoke orcnr.w. or chew Gymnasiums ./mna.i ns have a
Whlc inffiicnco ov ;r - be health of colic
gistes.
A Philadelphia 1 court has juit do
tided in tbo . cafio of , »omo rival . , candy ,
makers that “ Jitisy’’ appliod to a
woman with ... ii t , mt , to . , belittle ,i, her l „ a
libellous term, and one for whoso us
tbede , endant In that case must pay
roundly.
ja." ■ — —
.
A railroad conned , Ada . witn ... mis
to
country which 10me Wustorn parties
aro sgitaltng, sounds rather chimerical,
but asserts tho New York Tologram, it is
not ,„„i,l,n,i,,..»i,nw much more »0 now than than a' a railroad rai ro
from the Missitsippl to the I'ncillc was
T „ m .*0
An ..cbooK. call. l.uJIy for . orn
harvester. It says tha. our corn plant
or* and cultivators have assumed a won
derful degree of perfection, and by tboir
aid . , ono man witli a good team of , L.„„, horse.
can grow an Immeosa C >rn crop; but
there , the mat ter stops . and i rapid ii progroa*
is at an end
A “marriage trust" is tlio latost in
combinos. Cue Of theso organisations
has boon ttartoil in New Albany, In I.
It is intended to facilitate matrimony
, for etoping , . couples from Kentucky i,„ y
providing tho spoedlost ! way of per
' ”
tho wodd'ng , cgtoi^y, „ *•*
----—-----
-
Our ''oxprnss” syslom is about to fol
low tho bagttago-c'l.ock system in Eng.
land. Tho London Standard predicts
tout .a . tho .. promotor* a o* f tlio .. scheme . villi m
flod some difficulty in making it work *
th , number of Hritish . . . .
« ® r0 nro ft com-
1 panic* Which distribute tho functions of
an American exproas company among
thomnelvea.
8ir Lyon Playfair says that during
so von teen yours service service ns ns niomnor member nf oi
Parliament ho c»rao in contact with tho
mott «mia«nt , mod ... leal mou of , Lngland, . .
and lie put tiio question to most ol
them: “P'td you, in your extensive
practice, ever know a patient who was
afraid to diet” With two exceptions
they answered ‘‘No.’’
The icoaoclast is abroavl even in out
«poech. Ho toll* u#, with n mighty air
of authority, th*t 'England means
merely ami only “meadow-’and,” end
comei much moro from the Eag-or folk
of , Get _ many, who , dwelt . , among t. <*
polders, than Irom tho warlike Anglic,
wucm from our youth Upward We hove
been taught to regard as tho ‘ godfathers
oi Juho null n lsltno.
An iofiuoatul paper of Huda-Pcsth
Hungary, advocates a reform in the , up
per home of that country, making titles
of nobiilty . descend . * » the , eldest
on.y to
•oa, And having them in»e parable from
. a seat .... in in th. the h h >use, V h ,„l tglish .k fa.hier fa.lnor.
Tbe reason is fantastic cnougb-that
so-called barons and duke» have becu
killiug themselves lately because they
l ad no money to support their dignity.
The nations of Europe will not al¬
ways be satisfied, according to the At¬
lanta Constitution, with sending artned
expeditions to Africa in seaiuh of their
exilorerii. They will come to some
agreement by which they will jvartition
out the Dirk Continent among them
selves. When that time comes the
world will be astound 'd »i tho poten
tialities involved in this land of my*
tory.
Dstnttk’i recent celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of King
Christian’* reign was marred by one
circumstance, and that was the Folk
thing's refusal ta present tha ususl
congratulatory address. A quarrel has
long existed between tha king and the
majority in thst popular brat ch of the
legislature, oa secouat f the iermcr’i
obtti; ate reteutioa of • i unpxjpu'.ar
ministry.
THE DEMOCRAT, CRA > F 0 RDV 1 LLE, GEORGIA,
governors inaugurated.
I III It KXEf'VI ins IN > I II. I n
l\ I ft UK 't I T IS.
Lov rnor Amrm «> HiM»«ach«Wfil8,Fi»vfln
\\ oinan ‘‘uflrniif
Governor Oliver A me* was inaugurated in
joint convention of the legislature at Boa
ton. . Mas*. In ... his maugura a* I • „ I..
-
that the funded debt of the * ommonw. altb
on January 1 18*9 was *28,351,61*165. to’f^.WKM The
sinking Rands' amounted a
de reaseof *.1,078,061.25, due to the payment
'•< portion* of tbeTroy und Greenfield Rail
road loan, which matured during tire year.
A ,. tua i expense* of the Government as far a*
a ^ rtHln ,. tl w ,. r „ *4 <is.Yia5.47, against
$ ,. 0 d 8 Ai.OR for the pr«v jous year, a no t
.
es) finales for tbe current year are A ,
rinsemn, neerts Institutions the deDos'ts In the
saving, hanks and at the .ml of
the fl*-al year a» *(|.5,lb5,i);o.:.7. an itierea*.
of $1 .*■'.*;*i UU 1 *, V tho tmmUr of open ac*
counts being '.Kb matter* that
Amonjr the raootnirwii'lationM re bo
th« tpimtion of conatitutiona) people: prohibition that, law
promptly li nubimttett to the municipal a
enacted conferring the right of
upon women; that the subject
-
for the appointment of a suitable j*eiwn to
that. ^Fr^'r’irsr^ MflH~aehu**us should b* ntJ> repn New
seiib' l at the Washington wmtemoal in
York city on April • 0, and that tha initia
live should lie taken at. onen for the repre
sent itiori of the Stale in the exposition to las
opetx.l in Washington ihr< >* ai- lien. e.
The imJuntrh** at the H«nt« J rmort nr * re
ported In a very »ry eowditmo, bu
it is suggested that the law governing prGon
labor Hhould Imihiih J'* 1 " *
era may have the no o ■> -ot <• | '^
with such H.iproyed ma. - ri <0 then.i ur
of jh • l»iM»fM« m wimh i. a ^ ^
mav demand. -
I lie work of the Ktafee Boar J of oonUnue.i. Arran a
tion t‘*eGovernor has b en
w.ih inerensing Is-nellt to employer and am
J ) Who have come within tli. w-one of its
lrt on
_ —
Governor Iliirlciuli of Maine.
J"!!; . , . , ■
ov rnor 1!" ■ " M.ui..“ ■ took 1 pbec
at .Z'-mn- ^Augmta “he ^ “Vtnttsl (|i j,,,.), ’ (Immcml n t , fl( .
that, tlv
condition of the State Is one which will soon
justify a further reduction of taxation. The
nm „ u y,t of annual interest, with the refund
,„ K the debt, cannot, exceed if, .,ok) per
annum, and. If the direct tax should b“ re
paid by the National Government we may
fairly no|m, says the Governor, 1100 to -•e it_ I re he
,IS l " w ,l “ •'A p i mmum.
total taxation may safely be reduced for the
year l-'.Kt t«. V mills, «he li would bu n ro
" f GI7 .nc.-l .^nnnm
^ex^nn^on ami
J llliiir j tlll .,.„ u „„d ihe Stab- Board He- of
Health have dm.,, valuable work
h iring to fisheries and game lie lakes
()( .,.„ sl ,,ii to say that tlm reje, tad lisle
cries treaty »»- oppo 1 by “b over
-helming maturity of t n people of Maine,
id™ .,f changing the date
ef the biennial Rtttt,-election from Koi-temter
to the date of the National election in No
vembor, but recommend* that th- l ngisla
tui-e> memorali/e (.oner ess asking l lint Rr si
.....dial electors and Heon -ntatives shall he
chosen on tho wh'OUu! luesduy of October,
beguming m lbU.\
Governor Morehouse, , of r « Missouri fi .
Jett-(*Jy Misaourf v by ,*"<w tlio Uuri«iiiturfc*irgunt/.ed '-lioi*,.. «• nousn
... J --sshTl. Jleuiocrat, of -dcsfssippi
i ,unity, ns Sp.'uker, and K. D, Nab-s, of
Lewis County, a* Ch.ef ( lerk. In the Sen-La
V,. ^.^'“"L^Tprolcm cLlumbi,,’ .Secretary.' 0 ”'* c 'hT ‘
Orav, of Morolionse, as
Governor A \‘. sent in his
f ft rewatt mwaije, t-nxiihl" wealth, which nat<n rapid n *'Xtin;;uiHh- largo in
oivamt of n
meat of the public dabt, sound oondithui of
tho public school system and Stain inatitu
tiollH um i shvh m no i^riod of the state’s
history has p^h-nty Ink.,, a weler mnge
or baon moro luviih in her gifts. J ho gross
lll dahU'dm»ss of the state i
I'.M.OOO, uiK>n which t here is $r.lO,*J00
interest pud. This, the Governor thinks,
will ia* wi|iisl out entirely in eight or nine
years. Tho Governor recommend* the ap
think f any radical of , change m railroad '] ’V’ logtsla- n , ot
tion i* needed at pnsv-nl. Miggc-j* that the
laihor ihirenu be nuttioriWHi tiy law to arbi
trate alt laboi* troubles, rc^arffs tho inttuciic*e
of dram shop* as dcmorali.-itig and tlimU
Huffkuunt for the State’s v\elf,ire. Herccom
mend* teat the Australian system of voting
Governor Luce, of Michigan
The oath of office was administered to
Governor Cyrus G. Luce at Lithsiiig, M elt.,
before the assembled State Legislature, and
in entering upon his seiatitd term of oilh*e he
delivered an address, a considerable portion
of which wasdevotisl to the question of tem
Iterance. On this topic he sai l m part:
“Believing that the sentiment of a large
portion of the State is ripe and ready for it,
1 eemmeml to your consideration the passage
„ hx*al optiitu law, if one can V*e d'*visisl
f^'e from eonstitattoii.il objection, If our
constitution effieieut law for prohibits localities, us it from does securing not prohibit an
a genial prohibitory law, ami if we nr* do
u*nd other op\v>rtunities, no doubt m the
future this course wiki lie resorted to.
Governor Thayer, of Nehrssks
Governor John M ihayer as' has teen in
augurate 1 at l. uon Govern w of No
braska, to servo tus stn oiid term,
tkrraroor l4»n\t»w and statT. of
Iowa, were prwwuit as the guests of tho
Btata. The utiugurai address «>f the (Jov
aracr liMlt ballot iFTincipally with the tha legislature, que.tmn of
m, honest ; ur K mrf to
^mmena^ The'im^uS
toll in th. awning wa. one of the moal
brilliant social erenu of the year.
PENNY POSTAGE
Tho Champion of Cheap Trarisnt
tan lie I’osral Kales
Mr John Hcnmker H<wten. member of
the Fug s i *'.u ns; i.-tit. lias a.svpted an iu
iiui mi to > ;su the United Ntnte. <* *ri V
tins ywtr. He to have
of spptiinng is-for*
t engr s- m suvocs.-y- of o.s-sn pi'tinv
itw-.i - i.: i - i..--. and much of the time of
h s ' is.: w ill i devot^U'Mhe lurther.uivv of
cbetpposUg* H.s idea is that at letter-arv
-u. f
Vm nCa "
In TS actual'v
rry n- i>h
impton to f '.' r
J my pach -that H . forty
o the t pou ,-. ant te ra e
I vi to ’ll ft*! tract steamers is
poun 1 As te pr *nt*.
y iitn at*! hs Vedsb 1 i«t
o to I an
Aat’ri'w
tiers, an I
r 5?- Tie iper*, eto., w
for which ttie s?i 9
mr r*w:vt\l that
the r, ttjlish IWto lkv ncarfti mom tuai
NEWS SUMMARY.
»
Eastern and Middle ,
The new United htates Delawaref eruiserfevesuvius
made three trial runs in i iay with
satisfactory i>-suite. t
Broker E. Graham Haight, >u tenant
of Company G, Seventh Regim thirty
seven years old, committed siiicjSe by shoot- hi*
mg himself through the right Despondency, temple at
residence in New York city.
caused by the death of his broth r and dissi
Ration, w-iui the cause.
.’oski-fi small A orlt , jobber . ..
BOLom.-V. a New „
in lace* and linens, in a drunken, jealous
fr ,.„ 7y fatally shot his wife Dora and after
ward killed himself.
... ,r. Haw.n a prisoner.in the Eaidern
p'/oeath ja jp, deliberate) v' set
p,,. to his .-lothes and lay on the floor until
death came.
The Old Colony line steamboat Bristol,
plying bet ween New York and Jloeton. w-a
burned at her dock at Newport, R. (..shortly
,[t*. r the passengers and freight had been
l«nrl»wl. Competent authorities place the
tot ** losrftat &*iil),000.
Hfnfv G. Hticknet, fw ton years booh
keeper for the Che sea Balt- ta.mpany o
M ***-* ,?JS difappeared *ith<4>,0 (fO
" f tliat fir "> s m ""'T
GoiernoK Hill was inaugurated for a
s mo l term at Albany, N. \ with - ivic
ami mart)i.-.l pageantry- Both House.
or the Legi* utjtreorgatma d. J. Sloat kas-etl
wc- elected I resident of the Senate and
Kremont Cole was made Speaker of the As
sembly. %
Huott J. Grant was installed as Mayoi
of New York city.
.. ..... - a «.
kj ,j i (; j- j>,. y who had come to tahvhim ™
“1 an , asylum.
--
South and Wect.
The Citv Gas Worki at Big Rapids, Mich.
w ,, re destroyed by fire, leaving the city in
»}arkric*«*.
1|(K bucking tub and lont? hanging in by the
modeaoC puuisbm^nt, vogue at
the Ohio i'emteiitiarv. Warden at Columbus, Coflln Iwvg
„ bo | Wl «. 1 by os t„0
w-voro and nffiuman, and the dark dungeon
will be mibutituted for them.
A ciuu> of Joseph wo". nj»ed sixteen .
months, was burned to death at, Westminster.
Mil., a three year old brother setting its
clothing on ffro during the mother's atieenco.
A hvNamItk cartridge placed under Va.. the
corner ot a house near McGaheysvilie,
in which a party of colored people were hav
‘"R 11 .......« l-l"ded tuid almost totally^
st.roved the building, fatally injuring Amos
Moore and two women.
Martha Hmwi.v, a killed girl eighteen .Morns, years
old, of Jullico, loan., Letts
who was trying to murder her father.
“Pi i'’ Overton was hanged at. Hearsay Bastrop,
f„ r the murder of Frank m
April last, and Ling Sing, a Chinaman, was
hanged at San Francisco, Cal., for the mar
der of Ids unde.
Kim originating in McArthur Brothers’
,i rug s h, rt . at ItoHineaux. Dakota, destroyed
Ul( . hudnass portion of that town.
\V,li , a m IVisTami John I.airey, after a
rs&ss^rSSs^tlSSS «-**'?.........'***»“;
whitest dt!“X,mi^l, „ , „
Mo„ was
mnnlerecl in his bedroom in a struggle with
a burglar. The weapon used was an a*.
Tin ■!mas Vim s.assist.-int timekeeper of the
Adams A Westlake Manufacturing Coin
pany of Cbicngo, di-api^ared, taking w >'d,
him the week's salury of 7(0 men and boys.
Theamountwa about #ti>,<Vm, done up in
TOO packages ready for delivery to theem
,d■,v e
A . |,,i! , "? ! M , v ,. n colored ‘ ' ^ people
* ral T t r ,S r It ” riot
Ohm, anduUweve.il owned .
I i- to tho present time lb> Ivepubiicnn I an<
1.7.) Democratic candidates htive een
fied to the clerk of the House as ba-'-WA his l 11,1
. . , . ....., .-ive*
tnstru'-t* in doubt—two iu West Yir
gjnia and one in Tennessee. In Tennessee
t.he Governor de,-id,*l to issue the certifl.-ate
t( > tlfe Hepubliian, but was restrained by an
in unction
Mr*. Uahh.ft "ifr Balt, ft, Kemmui, wife
"f ' "\Va_"aic-'toi, M / l - i T.^ U iV r !„ , a^t’failare i' t 0, l'‘. l<l 'l'!!!T| "* ,l fdt " n d'
’
ln u u as,ungioit or of u nn i a uurt.
(li.\ KRNi»u Tayi »h, of Teiinessoe, has
^i\t n a ft r.iff* ete to l.v«t»8, IvepuLiicnn. ns
na iiiher of Co Harass for tho Chattanooga
district. Iltisiissumn lteimblioan maionty t.Uy
of M le thre- in the House of the
Hist t ongiess,
Ho far notices of contest have been filed in
twelve cases in the next llouse of Heprcseiita
tives, eleven of which are from K‘publicans
<ontestin^; seats of Democrats, and the twelfth
is the other wav.
Y J. McConnell. Ghicf Justice of Mon
, Hna T.-rritorv, ha* fm-wHidcd Ills resignation
to President Ch velnntl.tinding the duties of
t * um *. vlvsom , Judire Mct-onnell
wu , upp igo. oiiiteil from Tenuessee about two
years
rm. stemubnat .Natchez, one of the finest
on tin* Miss snippi River,was sunk near l.ake
Provitlem-e, La
The Richardson Drug Company, of St.
Louis, tlio largest wholesale drug store m tlio
West has been destroyed by lire. A private
watchman was burned to death, The
pecuniary damage is about i'. 0 i.tHXi
Washington.
A national convention of colored Cath
olit'H l>eiran its sess on in Washington.
President and Mis. Cleveland held their
last \ew Vt'ar’s reception nt the White
House A great throng attended.
Foreign.
•]', {K bursting of n shod in one of the
fortresses of Messina, .Sicily, soldiers cxphsled and a
jKiwder lunca/ine,killing sixteen
injuring many others.
The annual rvj»ort of the Minister of Cus¬
toms shows that the exports of l anada dur¬
ing the tKcal year ending .tune do were
fb*,'J5o.0iK> anil the imports ^]ll.D0U.OOO, tho
largest balance of trade against Canada since
the Dominion was formed.
Wkbb Brandon, who killed his wife, Mairi- while
drunk, has been hanged at Wmmiieg,
toblL
KlllK a «troved most of the village of Dri
~. ,u . 'anwta The tatal tea is about
IBklunO
Fkirck KARAOEoRGKviTrH. brother of th©
preteittier tt> the Servian throne, is dead.
Hit immense fortune gtvs to his brother.
Thk hangman of Mmas Geraes. Brazil.
has died -tt tc: a service of forty-eight years.
interesting individual w «s csaidemned
te death, with Ins tatlier and mot In r. in
1S85, but ;earning that the office of public
hangman was va ult offered himself n con¬
dition of commutation li *'f --iT-r his penalty wasacceptwl to im¬
prisonment lor life, s
and his debut in tvs functiosis as executor of
high justice was ma te in tile hanging ot Uts
own pan-uls
A RKHKi.t.ioN lias broken out in tbc IV*au
country m Upper Burmah. The prisoners
in shweU> Jad. in Burmah recently
nm de an attempt to escape, kwvtral wt»re
h 5,»uitoif?"oSStin h °r^-'taj^'hli "^rcuroff hiaXrt^aufi^ “TLX
tas
hrari end entrails l aff teen torn out. The
W fc.t«H-h«jvt fiend is l*e.tev»a to have com
nutte.1 Use crime.
,. ' . . jnisnel far
*
( . . .. . .
a, •> - 1 - -'- '
t iPn-ERA s! quulcn. on th* Majat ] nr coast,
is s*Lkl to have v»rrk>d off t.vJ chrettans.
T> NNFSsrx three per cent, bon !s haw
cents, nidden and ly g one it is up aimed from sixty that iar-e to seve UKx-ks atv-fiej
th- iu are changing handa
PEOMINENT PEOPLE.
Anna Dickinson i- forty-six.
Leo XIII., the Pope, is seventy-eighL
Secretary Bayard has a strong bent for
farming.
Ferdinand de Les-eps was born Novem¬
ber IP, 1805.
Vh:k-President-elect Morton is a Con
gregationali t.
Gladstone has just celebrated his Seventy
ninth birthday,
BikMarck. Gladstone an.l Disraeli were
all born on Kndav
R ... ! ' ngU „ ' h h statesman ,taUS! ‘ n is
* y -. j ‘*1
D-ew ,-a.ru , a fife ...
President-elect Harrison has taken out
a life Insurance policy.
Kuaxg-Hsu, the young Emperorof China,
has thirty cooks and as many doctors in his
household
Mr. 8 ik, the Corean representative at
Washington, skill. p:ays the banjo with consum¬
mate
Alphonse Daf'det, the French novelist,
is look nearly sixty years of age, but does not
it by at least ten years.
There are live Grand Dukes Nicholas.
three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand
Dukes Alexis. .Sergios George, Alexander
amt Uonst-intine.
The humorists of Congre * - are Allen, of
Mlssi , si -, a , nev> of Mll:hif(atK \\ „| iam
y Mason, of 1-lim.to, and Wiihani G. l.a:d
j au . of New York
v iCTfiRtA IYoodhull has purchased a
house in I-ranee for $400,01)0, mwtm-hsho
hopes to found an institution :or the free
t,, I 11 K • only • , two members ot the . Congress ,
of 1«S9 now Jiving are H. M. Wat.tersun,
father of Henry U atter-on, and R. K
Thomas, of Maryland.
li is said that the Sultan of Turkey aspires
to a literary career,and has ordered the poet
iaur» at.e of the JCmpire to affix the royal sig
nature to bis poems hereafter,
Geohuk William <‘cutis, editor of JInr
per't earned Weekly, by is laid up with a lurneness
water on the knee. The trouble
ing wa« brought about by over-exertion in play
tennis Jast summer.
Osman , Di»;na » frenchman, , of
a or
french descent, formerly a merchant at Sua
kin. His name was \ inet before heahiured
it and bis religion to marry one of the Jato
Mabdi’s numerous daughters.
The iatest story about Henry M. Stanley
is that he is enamored of a charmin'' J'luln
deluhia widow, mid that her col.tne-s wof
such a phenomenal degree that it has driven
him again to the burning lands of Ain a
Hauji Kilym an Baba, of Constantinople.
who died tho other day, was ninety-eight
vears of age when he took his last wire, and
lrved tobe HSi He had sixty sons and nine
daughters and seven wives, and survived
them 're¬
The senior lady among the wives of tlio
justices of the Supreme Court is Mrs. Miller,
"hose social experiences m Washington ex
tend back to I Si J. .She is of English parent
age, her father having been a Baptist min
'««•”' Krlst ° •
S'.To^ rssaft
«»'K.StSS
' , t San Domingan hero.
m ay J 0 yof Grifflfua"^ i-S il. wo®'voun^t ''’unH™ 6
n
, • j ; s7)n , t • ^ l')^,Stewart
jfe Is the () f Congressmmi I '
.. E 1 -' ul ,rlsoJ vvlu , he c heard ot .■
^ > ' n
'' 1 lu,1 ‘
-ft>HK Manamaker, the millionaire trier
‘'haut prince of I’Uiiadelphia, has a deep
seated objection to sitting for a portrait. He
fan By repeatedly and friends declined who overtures of his
are anxious to secure
a , mnterfeit presentment, mi l up to the
a jit tjme transferred it is ■•c* i-•> ■« thte features
.. . e tK.en to paper in any regu
i wr manner.
MCSLJAL A5IDDRASI1TI0.
Ail “ QU8en Victoria ' s fl *voiite
^ mow
Robert Mantki.l is presenting “Mon
bars’’ iu Canada.
Diney’s iK Adonis' 1 is nearing its two thou
sandth perfornuuice.
tr^is u Trkufi coveHu^ u tho famous French ron
«■
Totrtv 1 , ll)on I ew T ' ion ? 1 . Macbeth . , , at tho
, Ami 7 ,>n 0 oumwmoulya partial success.
Mmk. Mod.ie^ka refused a salary of $150J
a week to join the booth Barrett combina
,ion -
THE Duchess of Cambridge pays a well
known vocalist e-Hxm a year to slug to her
daily.
At the Theatre an der H':en. Vienna.
“The Yeomen of the Uuard’ is announced to
be suiiglin German.
Patt charges more every year for her a fa
solute farewell warbling. She is non singing
in England for 83 >00 a night.
The famous tenor Masini is to receive the
comfortable sum of $180,non for a season ot
Italian opera m Buenos Ayres.
Mary Anderson is midersto ,d to have
concluded an engagement fi r another Ameri¬
can tour under H. E. Abbey's management.
Mmk. Bernhardt has declined an offer of
Haw from tli- Sultan of Turkey for a single
performance at his palace at Constantinople.
JosKph IYhkklock 'e a- been engage l to
play Macduff to the Macbeth of Charles
Coghtun and the Lady Macbeth of Mrs.
Langtry,
The oldest musical society in the worl i,
the Antlitzgeseilschait.ha- just celebrated Us
27Uth anniversary at St. Gall, in Switzer¬
land, with great eclat.
Aoreeahle to the wishes of the German
Emperor French the theatres theatrical have resolved to abol¬
ish ail terms which hate
crept into the iunguajte.
» Edw a HD Koy. who has recently made such
a hit in New York, is the only comedian
of prominence who battle* recognition b> h.s
“make-up” on the stage.
Sara Jkwett, who used to be leading lady
at the Cuiou Square Theatre. New fort
cil*-. is recovering bar health. auJ wiUreap
pear ou she stage .text. season,
Rt benstkin has written a cantata to cole
brate the preservation of the Czar and
Czarina ;ti the recent railway accident. It
will be given in i L I e.crsburg
It has been definitely settled that Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr , will go cm the stage,
probably under the management of Daniel
Frohman, of the New' York Lyceum.
This year there will be a celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of Verdi’s debut as a
composer. His first ojicra "Oborto di Ban
BuonafaeiO, v was produced at Milan, on
November 17, IS-Sk
It is rej>orted that IVnman Thompson con¬
templates keep.ng **Th© uhi Homest ad on
the boards of she Academy of Music in New
York for three years. Its presenr prosperity
would indicate a long stay.
. n read v tonic for the am it v lietweeu
Tnr"nt-xt c<*iniv opera that will be brought
from Europe te on.* b> Fret, m* Steppe tuat
« j t ns * is h ''!’" t,l! ;.™ 7 1, Ta-TraY'iem ,7, Gluck L ‘ *
literal.', i if u Hunt At h r u •
Tbk building No. 16 Uramercy Park.
New York city, presented by L*lw,t\ L -
to t- r. ■ - * jVesidcut, . rya- cl Flayers’t'ub.
, v } u> j, j. has been conv,-r: .
,nto aneWfant and I'ommodiouc c nb i.o ''*’
It w-,s f,a-.,;,iilv .raied on New \ wr > -' !
Thk (Teortia iAr^lature has ju<t now, for
tb first tinas, m\>sjnu*od the i*iil public-school
in
NEWbY GLEANINGS.
France had but a poor 1888 vintage.
French mushrooms are , ' . n6
, J e !
•
scarce.
There are 1809 students in Harvard Uni
versity. j
Kentucky reports an excess of female
pojjulation.
West Virginians want their State called
“Kanawha. ’
Yellow fever is rampant at Port-au
Prince. Hayti.
There arc 5U01 homeless women and girls
in New York city.
Every year will have a nine in it now
antil the year #>00.
Last year 1356 people died of delirium
tremens in England.
California's silk product this season will
not be over 1000 pounds.
HiXTv- five German Generals have been
placed on the retired Jist.
Know . lee. Tenn.,claims to be the largest
railway center in the South.
Land in the centre of New Haven, Conn.,
Is worth $K*>0 per front foot
The greyhound Fullerton has been sold at
auction in England
-AN electric railroad H to to built from
Dover, N. H.. to Berwick, Me.
The total export* of American apples this
season is fully 1,000,000 barrels.
Pneumonia is said to be on the increase
from year to year in the large cities.
Southern pig iron is slowly forcing its
■way into the Pittsburg (Penn.) market.
The overheated flue, as a destroyer of pub
lie buildings, did not make its customary
record in the autumn of 1888
The boomers are booming Oklahoma again .
an.l expect to move on the Territory on the
iirst of February.
The United States furnishes seventy-five
per cent, of the lard consumed in Canada.
Balloons and parachutes have been sent
to Suakin for the use of the British troops.
The Connecticut tobacco crop for 1888,
i hough small, was a remarkably good one.
Over 100,000 dogs arc used in smuggling
along the frontier betwem France and Bel
A new political 1881)” organization formed called the
“Commune of lias been in
Ihiris.
The American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children is to be duplicated jn
England.
For the first time in years the Czar of
Russia sent a friendly Christmas greeting to
the Pope.
The number of war veterans in Vermont
is 6571, and the amount yearly paid to them
is *832,: 01.
The drinking saloons in Berlin number one
y babitantS; ^ He ' delberg °“ e
foeM 1 t --swen
Jim CURRY, the Texas desperado, who has
murdered nineteen men,has at last been sent
to prison for a long term.
The German army consists of 3,513,410
completely drilled men not count’ng the re¬
serves and the Laudsturm.
It is reported that one hundred of the lead¬
ing business men of Denver, Col., will at¬
tend the inauguration at Washington dressed
as cowboys.
There are 2800 members of the during Michigan
Anti-horse Thief Society, and the
past year they did not have a cent's worth
of property stolen.
Osmax Digna has 1000 men and five guns
at Handoub, Egypt, intends where, it make is asserted another by
deserters, he to
formidable stand against the Egyptians and
blacks.
LABOR NOTES.
The .trike R iding ta Bel
A STRIKE o’f silk ribbon weavers is inv
Ruttent.
Cleveland (Ohio) city workmen labor
nine hours per day. ■
AT New Bedford, Mass., a new automatic
shoo laster is at work.
mum (M r .) cotton tnill, m.lt.
and men a week.
Tilts country now leads the world in the
manufacture of perfumes.
The barbers are to have a national organ,
and its name is to be the Shaver.
The German-speaking bakers throughout
tbc United States aro largely organized in
un ‘ ons '
The „ Seamans , TT Union, . of , Buffalo, r, w A. v Y.,
has restricted its membership to American
citizens.
Or tho 6501 brick layers, stone-masons and
stone-cutters in New York city, 4354 are of
foreign birth.
JJei.momco'k chief cook in New York city
is said to have received over £700 in tips on
Christmas morning.
at Monte,e ?’ ^ iponi. _.l■ v,
have . been i.He for years, are to be reopened ed
aaul vigoroush worked.
Bakkhs in Chicago are now required their to
stamp the weight of the loaves and
names on every loaf of bread.
According to BradslresVs , there were fif
teen strikes in the United States in December,
16S8, in which 2 J51 persons were concerned.
Powdkri.ys salarv as Grand Master of the
Knights of Labor is |3>00 this year. He much, was
voted £5000. but would not accept so
The Oxford Iron and Nail Company’s closed
works at Bclvidcrc. N. J.. have been
Indehiiitely, throwing 1400 employes out of
work -
Steam machines for cleaning out the re
torts in gas works are being used in Pbiladel
phia with great success. One machine does
the work of eight men.
A LARtiK amount of business has been done
st the marble quarries, B est Rutland, Yt„
iu fulfillment of a Government contract for
20,000 soldiers' gravestones
A company has been chartered in \\ash
iugtan for the purpose of building railroad
cars from sheet steel according to methods
lately invented in California.
Besides the 2S00 all-night bakers in Phila¬
delphia, there are 1400 male and female work¬
ers m twenty-two steam baki-ri-sfor the mak
ing of cakes, crackers ami knick-knacks.
The gauge of the Cleveland and Canton
Railroad, in Ohio. 161 miies {in length, was
entirely changed to standard on a recent
Sunday. One thousand men were engaged
in the w ork.
Thkrk are twenty cotton factories in Ja
j'an now in of'eration. with a to‘al of 32.680
spindles. There are twenty factories now in
process of establishment or extension, with
an estimated capacity of 180,680 spind lea
The 1’i.p* having expressed a desire for
the orgaui-ration ot workingmen's pilgrim
a-os to Rome next September, M.OK) arrangement* French
ai e being made for taking art
i-ans thither, un ier the escort of the Arch
bi.-hop of
The International Trade Association of
Hat Finishers of America was organized local in
Philadelphia. June 5, IS54, with 12
It now numbers 15 locals with 4000
hattmS , - most comuiete complete control coo of
} l,aWlIlg ( ^ nter *
men: is r> weekly.
They have an improved method of lasting
shoes in some of the Maine shoe factories by of
-which cement is made to take the place
w .. ts and tackaThe device, which is patented.
c c>sts twentr tier cent less than all oth r
articles for th * purpose, and it is said to do
three gups the work.
The Trustees of the Metropolitan History Maseam
of Art and Museum of Natural at
New York have agreed to open the museums
on Min iavs between the hoursof tweivenoon
and six o'clock.
LATEST NfclW^.
Charles T. Dure, a highly respected
gentleman of Wilmington, Del., has com
, n itte(i suicide by shooting himself through
the head. He was suffering from cousump
tion, and the disease brought on melancholia,
and he determined to end his life.
The joint Republican Legislative caucus
at Au£rusti ® Me has nnanfmously renoroi
nate 1 Senator r **.
Over sixty designs and ten models have
teen submitted by American and European
artists for the proposed Grant monument in
New York city.
W. E. Barrett, publisher of tha Boston
Advertiser and Record, has been elected
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives.
White Cars have warned several persons
at Ferndale, Penn.. to leave.
John Sche.vck and a man named Krb
were blown to atom- at James Miller * dyna
mite factory at Trunnlytown, Penn., by the
!osion of haU a lmrket o£ dynamite. The
shock felt .... two miles , off. ,, , The r , men „ were ... „„
was
blown into fragments.
E. O. Walcott (Republican) has been
nominated by the Legislature of Colorado
a3 Lnited States Senator, to succeed Senator
Bowen.
J ames W. McMillan, of , Detroit, . ... has been
nominated by the Republican caucus of the
Aiichigan Legislature as I nited States Sena
tor to succeed Thomas W. Palmer.
Miss Mary B. Sherman, of Wakeman,
Ohio, a member of the freshman class at
Oberlin College, shot rfind killed herself at
her boarding place. Overstudy is assigned
as the cause of her action.
All the business portion of Altona, IU.,
has been destroyed by fire.
An ep ja e mic of measles is prevalent at
pekjn nJ A „ th0 pubU( . schools j n the city
have been elo-ed by the board of Health.
Charles de la Graza and Jesus Barbo
fought about a woman at Anagua, Texas.
Commencing their shooting on horsetbaek,
they finished it afoot, dying with only a
couple of yards’ distance between them.
Congressman Springer has introduced a
bill to extend the Presidential term to six
years, with no re election.
Secretary of the Navy Whitney sent
to Congress estimates and recommendations
for an appropriation of *50,000 fora photo¬
graphic telescope to be erected to enable
tho Government to co-operate in a concerted
international movement for photographing
the skies,
The public debt statement for December
shoWs that the reduction of the public debt
amounted to $I4yi'-7,5'i5.08; total cash m the
Treasury, $fi!5,5‘Jl,078.58; total debt, less
cash in Treasury, *1,134, 00 .',257.19.
The disastrous Rhone floods in France
are subsiding.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate.
14th Day.— The Senate convt ned again as
the holiday recess had terminated. A quorum
was present... .The following presented: petitions, me¬ Ke
morials and resolutions were
ri
^‘^’the^s^ and of the coinage of silver of
S jjver bullion
dollars; in favor of including soldiers in the next Ho
census statistics of surviving of t
late war; in favor of woman suffrage in the
Territories; and a resolution, which was
•*”(-««, Great JSSK Britain the
been had with concerning
sea I fisheries in or m ar Behrings vessel Li.- its, of
especially as to the seizure of any
the United States or other country.. ..The
Senate then resumed consideration ot the
Tariff bill, Mr. A'dison going I *® I* ir *;
f«ph 1*. -*^on "^ius 1 '']^ "
three-eights of one inch in diameter" from
^ ^ merits pet- jiomid. Mr. Vance
move d to amend the amendment by - making
the rate thirty per cent, ad valorem. Mr.
Vance’s amendment Allison's was rejected—yeas amendment lb,
nays 21—and Mr. was
agreed to without a division. The bill was
then taken up at the point where it had been
left when last before the Senate (scntdi:].-* 1,
cotton manufactures! the question being on
the amendment offered by Mr. Vest to ro
duce the duty on cotton thread, yarn, warps,
^ „ valued at not e; , oe ,,lin 2 tw-nty five
cents per pounds” from ten cents per pound
to thirty-five per cent, ad valorem,
The House.
16tii Day.— The River and Harbor Shill
W as discussed... .Mr. Springer introduced a
joint resolution for the admission of the
States of Arizona and Idaho. Referred.....
Two important amendments to pension laws
were passed. One of the n provides chat tde
' N
. „ r6 ex-imination
th e ot |.er is design d to relieve claun o.t- for
increase of pen-ions from a heavy burden of
expense to which they are now subjected resolution ...
j( r _ sp r i n g er introduced a amendment joint which
proposing a Constitutional
extends the Presidential term to six years.
and makes tbe President ineligible fer re¬
election. It abolishes the Klectoral College
and provide for a direct vote of the people.
HANGINGS FOR A YEAR.
Liogal Executions in tho United
States During ISSN.
The number of legal executions ;n the
United States during the last year 1m-. fil¬
reased over 1>87, when it vras much smaller
than for many- years previous. The total
number was87. as compared with 79 in 1887,
83 in 1386, and IPS in itvto. The executions
in the several States were as fo lows: A;a
barns. 5; Arkansas. California. Cou
necticut, 1; Delaw ate, 1; Georgia. 3: Illinois,
- Indiana. 1: Iow- a . 1; Kansas, 2; Kentucky,
1 : Louisiana, 3; Marvlan 1, I ; Massachusetts,
New 1; Minnesota. York, 9; New 1; Mississippi. Jersey. North 4; Missouri. ♦:
4; Carolina.
2; Ohio, 3; Oregon,!; Tennessee, Fennsvlvania. 5; South
Caro ina, 5; 2: Texas. 6; Arizona,
! Idaho. ’£: M< ntaua. 2; Washington, >:
Wyoming. 1; Indian Territory. 2.
i f tins ruimb.-r all were tna'es but one, ;,7
were whites. 29 colored.and l Chinaman.
A GOLD CRAZE.
An Old Time Alining Frclteraent In
Southern California.
An old time mining excitement is in full
blast in Southern Ca ifornia and Arizona as
brought into Yuma a large ^antity of
pure jro’d which they said they had outained
in Southern California, about one hundred
mil-s Loin Yuma.
They had been prospecting in a,locality by
that *«• aton-ioaed only recently toe'ife
Indians, who lad kept miners out of the
country for n aikr years. The Mexicans said
the gol i " as eas .y worked, and the ■'"ou’d
have remained there longer nad brought cut
more if their provisions had lasted. Their
story set everybody in Yuma the crazy fields with has tbe
gold fever, and a rush to new
begun. The river beats are crowded, and
every possible conveyance is being fitted up
te take miners to the diggings.
