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Buys the Ncyv York Tribune: Reports
of industrial progress in the Southern
states come in so steadily and so numer¬
ously as to be almost bewildering.
The Philadelphia Record declares that
the three suburban poorhouses of Phila¬
delphia are “palaces 0 in which the poor
are maintained in Sybaritic luxury.
The railways of the world are now es¬
timated at $30,000,000,000, and there
is just one-third enough actual money
in,the world to buy them if they were
all efferod for sale at once.
England has evidently been alarmed
by the reports of the strengthening of
the French navy, for the British Admir¬
alty estimates propose the increase of
the marine force by 3500 men.
Gathering garbage on a tricycle is the
latest “fad” in Washington, where
everything goes on wheels. The boxes
for the reception of the slop are arranged
between the two hind wheels and under
the seat, and the collector moves at an
astonishing pace over the asphalt streets
in his work.
Mr. Nimino, the great statistician,
says that while in 1857 fully seventy
two per cent, of our foreign trade was
conducted in American and only twenty
eight per cent, in foreign ships, in 1887
but twenty-one per cent, was carried in
American and seventy-nine per cent, in
foreign vessels.
It is notable that though there are
English, French, Italian, Hebrew, Span¬
ish, and even Portuguese restaurants iu
New York, yet nowhere in that city is
there an “Irish restaurant.” Whit does
this mean? asks the Commercial Adver
liner. i • Have tho Irish no distinctive
and attractive way of cooking and serv¬
ing meals?”
A writer in an English journal says
that he noticed lecently Yvhile skaters
were skimming over the frozen surface
of Round Pond, in Kensington Gardens,
that tlis ice gave forth a distinct musical
note which ho found to be <1 sharp. He
compares a sheet of ice to a taut string,
and tho many skates to tho hairs of a
bow, and thus accounts for the musical
tone.
Great difih ally is met. in procuring
horses in sufficient number to accommo¬
date the cavalry arm of tho British ser¬
vice. Although efforts have been made
during the past year to procure tho
requisite number, still fully a third of
the cavalry are without horses. There
are 19,100 men in the tliirty-ono cavalry
regiments of the army, and thole arc only
11,800 horses for them. The cavalry on
duty at foreign stations arc fully as bad¬
ly off as those at home.
Of flic four ne w states the two Dako¬
tas cover very nearly fifty million acres
each. South Dakota is larger than New
York, New Hampshire and Massachu¬
setts. There is enough more to make
six or eight Rhode Islands out of. Mon¬
tana is one. of tho gigantic states. She
is bigger than New York and the wholo
of New England, with New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina
thrown in. Washington is about the
size of the Dakotas, half the size of Mon¬
tana, and has an acreage that would
cover Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu¬
setts, Vermont and New Jersey.
Half a century ago in Turkey, observes
the New York Graphic, it was con¬
sidered a disgrace for a woman to know
how to read. Today the Sultan himself
lias e.tablished two schools for girls iu
Constantinople. Seventy years ago Har¬
riet Newell went to India to find the
women shut up iu Zenanas, ignorant and
degraded. From the very place where
she landed there came to this country,
not long ago. Mine. Jo-hoe, a highly ed¬
ucated Brahmin woman, to study medi¬
cine in the Woman’s College in Phila¬
delphia. No one would have believed,
even twenty years ago, that a high estate
Brahmin lady would address an audi¬
ence of her own sex, in choice English,
from an American pulpit, as was the
case with Pundita Ramabia. The cause
of womankiud is advancing all the
world over.
DRAMATIC STORY.
INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE
GREAT STORM IN SAMOA.
BRAVE AMERICAN SAILORS—THE NATIONAL AN¬
THEM FLAYED WHILE 1E1TH APPROACHED—
HERMAN OFFICIALS ACTING QUEER.
Intelligence has just reached San
Francisco, Cal., by mail, of the recent
terrible d saster in the harbor of Apia,
Samoa. The' terrible scenes on the Van
datia had distracted attention from the
two other men of-war, which still re
nmined afloat, but in the afternoon the
position of the Trenton and Ogla had
changed and they were almost on the
reef near the point where the Eber struck,
The Trenton was coming down upon the
Olga and a collision seemed inevitable.
The condition of the flagship was most
pit,able. At 10 o’clock in the morning
her rud'ler and propeller had been
c»nied away l>v fooling shock with a piece that of
wreckage. The wis so great
the pilot wheel on deck was Avhirled
around like lightening and every spoke
in it was broken. The two men who
were at the wheel at the time ivere
iluown violently to the deck and one had
Ids leg broken. To add to the discom
fituro of the steamer, water poured in
through the hawser pipes and flooded
the decks. The hawser pipes, which are
large openings in the bow through which
the anchor chains pass, were unfortun
utelv locatedon the berth deck, instead
of on the gun deck above, ns is usually
the case. In a short time the firemen
weic up to their waists in water and all
the fires were extinguished. From 10
o’clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in
thc evening, when she grounded, the
Trenton held out against the storm with
out steam or rudder, and her from
total destruction on the reef was miracu
lous. Skillful management was all that
saved the lives' of every man on board.
Lieut. Brown, the navigator, ordered
.very man into ■ the port rig in so that
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rushed down to the water’s edge storm and
peered through the blinding to
hear the crash which would send both
men-of-war and their load of freight to
he bottom. Running up the flag sud
denly, the stars and stripes were seen
flying from the ,„A gaff of c, in the the Trenton. harbor Pre- had
v ,0 *1, r
was neglected. It acenrf now M if u2
g,i Ian s up now s l it fl!i
had determined to go down with wit the tl, flag
Tho Trenton was not !.ble to 'get collision out
into the bay again after her
with the Olga. She was about 200 feet
from the wreck of the Vandalia and was
slowly aV drifting ^o’clock, toward the shoal. It was
now and the light was
be«»iiming to fiule uwtiy. Iu half an hour
(he Trenton bnd dritttd on to within a
few 1 yards J of theVnntMU’n how, A and the
who , . ,,
men w.n, in L
ter vessel trembled with fear as they . saw
the Trenton approach. Feelings hard to
describe came over hundreds who
watched the vessels from tho shore. The
storm ivas still raging ivith as much fury
as at any time during the day. Sud
denly a shout was borne across the waters,
The Trenton was cheering the \ andalia.
The sound of 450 voices broke upon the
air and was heard above the roar of the
tempest. “Three cheers for the Vanda
lial” was the cry that warmed the hearts
of the dying men in the rigging. The and
shout died away upon the storm,
there arose from the quivering feeble masts that of
tho sunken ship a heard response so the shore,
it was scarcely upon looking
The ineu who felt that they were
death in the face, aroused themselves to
thc effort and united in a faint cheer for
the flag-ship. Those who were standing
on the shore listened in silence, for that
feeble cry was the saddest they had ever
heard. Every heart was melted to pity.
The sound of music next came across the
water, The Trenton l and was playing
“The Star Spangled Banner.” A thou¬
sand men on the sea or on the shore,
had never before this heard the
strains of music at such a time as this.
An indescribable feeling came over the
hundreds of Americans on the beach,
who listened to the notes of the national
anthem mingled with the howl of the
storm. For a moment only were they
Aleut and then they broke forth with a
ary that rent the air and reached each of
the struggling men on the ruling ^exhausted of the
Vandalia—men who had
Eha[ y 13 \irh,>le of
awful dav of rendering some
assistance to Umr comrades^now
Tlmstormwas ntging furiously at mid
„ .r h and the *te« of the Trenton was
forced continued back against thereof. The waves
u'dtt to" beat over her, but her
l was so great that after she had
settled entirelv on the bottom she was
s-iU about her usual height out ol
water and there seemed to be no great
lamwr of her <-oing to pieces before the
men on boanfof her could be taken wait off.
Little could be done on shore but
for morning. Long before a ray of dawn
appeared, crowds began to gather on the
shore again. By 5 o'clock the wiud had
abated, though the sea was still very
rough. However, natives volunteered
to man a boat to go out to the Trenton.
Semanu, chief of the Apia district took
charge of the crew. It was still very
Jark, and the trip was a most peri.ous
one, but the natives put the boat throug
the current in safety and reached tbe
bow of the Trenton. They were given
\ hawser, which they took back to tbe
ffio.c and made fast. But, little was
ilone. however, until daylight. All
hands were ordered to remain on the
ship, there as, the storm having subsided,
was no immediate danger. haw¬ As
soon as it became light, four more
sers were stretched from the Trenton to
the shore to guard against danger in the
event of the storm coming up again.
Two boats, manned by natives in charge
of Chiefs Semanu and Latunae, com¬
menced the work of removing
the Vandalia’s men from the
After the storm had subsided, and after
the officers and crews of the wrecked
vessels had come ashore, evidence of the
awful destruction was presented on evc-rv
s:< le. The German survivors remained in
,liat part of the town where the property
of th e German Trading Co. is located,
bnt the Amerl ans were to be seen
everywhere. The officers had lost their
uniforms, and were dressed as common
sailors. Admiral Kimberly was the last
J*’ ieive the American flagship 1 renton.
The admiral was asked iu the regard to but his
own experience during personal storm,
‘"‘id little to say of a n situ re.
. l*e continued: “ihe fires of the Tren
f 011 weQ t ° u t at ten o’clock in the morn
' n g, and our rudder and propeller were
carried away at the same time. No one
can realize the force with which the
rudder was struck. I suppose a piece of
wreckage louied it. The pilot s wheel
" l lr:cd around with terrible velocity.
Bvery 8 P ok ° ltt "heel * was broken, and one of
1U me “ f h,ld a leg broken,
I would have been impossible for us to
s,eil “ ou ” f the barbor as the British
warship Calliope , did, as our engines
' vere not weiful enough. We had on
CVory P 0 V ad ® teaui thafc we could
car ‘ y ’ ai)d \ vit l thrce anchors we were
able hold , U P a =' ainst tbe stor “;
A Ve fou S bt a S al “ st 14 a ® 1 ? n 2 a* wc could
do , s°. hut were finally driven back upon
ft™;’ the wile Blaoklockil of liquor to or the ft sailors s P ro '
ad a ,ft od fft and vury few druuken
'> > 0 seen,
h 'i ft v n 1S ft. 1 ft der a f annc
and ft taafa f , 8 P ohcc bavualso a fft d m
^ untiunin- order Men from the Tren
ton and \ andulm have separate barracks,
and have erected temporary tents for
, helter The Ni j )sic men are still living
aboard their vessel, and the German sur
vivors are quartered in a warehouse be
ft™. Working
pavt.es are kept busy all the tune on the
wrecks of the I renton and Vandaha, and
ancles ot every description are washed
ushore lom tho 7 e9S ft and piled togeth
vt in a large yard. Divers have been at
work, and mapy articles were saved in
£ ? iat ft y : *• lhoi ft 14G , mcu l ost thei "
aXhcTclln m’isS.tS
tbe bo< i‘ es °f Germans were buried in the
French Catholic cemetery, but it soon
^came impossible to identify the bodies,
and owing to tho warm climate it was
nece88ary bur 7 them where hcy werc
f fou,ld m «n°rml services
*
wld ,, ln tbc yard Ia which the
^nton The
“" Juc -> ‘ , cd a .> a 7,, Choplatn , MoAll.,- A11 .
,cr ot * “ ... lreu ‘“ n ver
- -
hundred , , from the three
en men
American men-of-war were present^ but
n ouc of the German officers attended,
gtorm does not seem to have changed
the political situation of Samoa so fur as
the natives are concerned. Both parties
are still camped occupied in the same positions
they have fur several months
past. Mataafa’s ineu have not given the
slightest intimation that they intended
to take advantage of the unprepared____ con
dition of the Germans, and it is not like
[y they will make any attack upon Ta
mase’s force pending the Berlin confer
e nce. The German consul, Dr. Knappe,
j s s tm pursuing the spiteful course,
which has alwaj's characterized his ad
ministration of affairs there. Notwiih
standing the noble work of the Samoans
during the storm, Dr. Knappe posted
printed notices, a few days later, decl r
i„g q ia t the Samoans daily steal produce
f rom German plantations, and warning
ti ie public not to purchase anything from
them,
FIRED ON US.
Capt. Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie
A. Bucknam, which arrived at New
York on Wednesday from St. Domingo
City, reports that w hen off Saoun Ulan J,
at about noon, he sighted a vessel seam
iug towards his vessel ,from land, then
distant six or eight miles. The crait
proved to be a Dominican war vessel.
She laid her course to intercept the
Bucknam, but could not do so owing to
the strong breeze then prevailing, and
fell astern When halt or three-quarters the of a
mile. marly in schooner’s
wake, much to the surprise of the crew
stern She then gave chase, but with a
good breeze the schooner soon distanced
her. After keeping up the chase for
about two hour., she gave it up and
putting about, steamed for land. What
her errand was c m only be conjectured,
as the Bucknam was tar i utstde of their
jurisdiction and on the high seas, where
they could have no legitimate rignt to
overhaul her. The American flag was
flying at the schooner’s peak ail the time,
it having been hoisted as soon as the
steamer was made out to be a war vessel,
HARRISON ARRESTED.
Russell Harrison, son of President
Harrison, was arrested in New York on
Thursday, on the charge of having pub
i; s h e d in his paper, the Montana Livt
stock Exchange, an article taken from a
p u ffaio pap«, accusing ex-Governor John
c; c b U y]er Crosby, of Montana, with hav
J J stolen jewels * from a Washington
SOUTHERN
BRANCHES,
LOPPED HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
new enterprises—movements of religious
BODIES—AFFRAYS, MISHAPS, ETC.—INDUS¬
TRIAL ITEMS—NOTES.
ALABAMA.
The saw mill, pinning mill and half
a million feet of lumber,belonging to O.
A. Dukes, four miles southwest of Clan
Ion, were totally destroyed by fire on
Thursday. Loss," $25,000.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Co., will erect a steel plant in Birming¬
ham. It will be remembered that new
directors and officers were elected at the
annual meeting of the stockholders in
Nashville, April 1st. The new board has
decided to erect a plant in that city for
the manufacture of steel by the basic
process.
In Walker & Terry’s saloon in Bir¬
mingham, Will Stone was shot through
the head and instantly killed by Mr.
Terry, one of the proprietors of the
place. The negro had been cleaning up
the saloon and a dispute arose about the
payment of the work. Terry threw a
bottle at the negro, and the latter
picked up a stick, when he was shot
dead.
A spirited meeting of white Republi¬ Wed¬
cans was held in Birmingham on
nesday, and organized by chosing these
officers: Ex-Governor W. H. Smith,
president;L. E. Parsons, vice-president;
Robert Barber, Montgomery, executive secretary.
The organization has an com
mittpe composed of two members from
each congressional district and a vice
president in each county. Resolutions
were adopted favoring white immigra¬
tion, home protection, Federal aid to
open rivers and harbors in the state, and
the organization of a Republican Pro¬
tective Tariff League.
GEORGIA.
Governor Gordon decided another con¬
tested election case on Saturday, that of
F. I). Van Brockle vs. J. D. Morgan, for
the sheriffship of Biyon county. A suffi¬
cient number majority of illegal votes to overcome clearly
Morgan’s were not
proven to be illegal, and the governor
decided not to disturb the result shown
by the returns.
Col. Lyman B. Goff, a successful man¬
ufacturer of Pawtucket, R. I., who has
been in Georgia, for several weeks, has
organized a company with $100,000 capi¬
tal for the manufacture of yarns, twines,
knitting cotton, etc. It is proposed to
erect a new mill at Pottersdale, near
Covington, utilizing the fine power at
that place.
Many people visited the ruins of the
house of Mr. Woods, near Clayton which
was burned and hi which six persons
were burned to death. Mr. Woods, be¬
ing a millwright, is away much of the
time, and did not know of the disaster
until he walked up to the spot and saw
nothing but a heap of ashes. When told
that the bodies of his wife and five chil¬
dren were in ashes, he became uncontrol
able, and had to be borne away. Mrs.
Woods must have been awakened by the
ilames to find herself in the midst of the
conflagration, and rushing to the chil¬
dren, all were suffocated and burned to
death. There was a camping party near
by, who rushed up to the fire, but not in
time to save life.
MARYLAND.
A great sugar refinery is to be estab¬
lished in Baltimore, with a capital stock
of $1,000,000.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has
issued a circular letter to ihe Catholic
clergymen of his diocese, directing that
a special meeting be held in all the
churches April 30th, the hundredth an¬
niversary ol the inauguration of George
Washington as president of the United
States, and that the church bells be rung
for h If an hour as an < xpressiou of joy
and thanksgiving.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Airs. C. M. Hubbell, a passenger on
the steamship State of Texas, which
stopped at Port Royal. Saturday on her
way North from Florida, died suddenly
from heart disease. She was related to
C. II. Mallory, president of the Ma lory
Line Steamship Co.
For the first time in years, the strange
silence regarding Ray and Anderson, the
famous murderers of Mitchell county,
was broken a few days ago. News Avas
received that Itay was lately treed in
New Mexico by cowboys with whom he
got into trouble. Ray killed Anderson
soon after they escaped from Asheville
jail, six years ago.
Dr. L. M. Dunton, president of Claflin
University, is visiting the machine shops
and foundries in Charleston. He ex
plained that he was on the lookout for
some machinery and intimated that he
had succeeded in finding what he wanted,
“We intend,” said he. “to go into a new
business at Claflin, or, at least, to add a
new feature to our curriculum. What
wc are trying to do is to increase the
e the direction of
scope of the college in
the mechanic arts--in fact, to convert it
largelv into an industrial school or col
lege; and with that object we propose to
erect a large building on the college
campus. It occurred to me that the
state farm which we operate has just the
kind of clay that is best adapted for
brick-making, and as we have a pretty
large roll of Students, I don’t make see any
reason why we should not our own
bricks out of our own soil, and for our
own building.”
MISSOURI.
The carpenters’ strike in St. Louis it
still on, with no evidences of weakening
on either side. Both the Masters’
Builders Association and Carpenters’
Brotherhood, hold regular meetings, the
latter daily, but cannot come together
on the one point of recognition of the
brotherhood. On hours and renumera¬
tion both agree. President Cook, of the
Master Builders’ Association, says, how¬
ever, that he does not believe the master
builders will recede from their position,
and the prospects for a settlement of the
differences are very slim.
The new statue of the Virgin, in the
chapel of the Convent of tiie Sacred
Heart at St. Louis, has provoked consid
erab e criticism, even from the inmates
of the convent. It is described as being
: young girl in the bloom of youth, and
when it arrived the nuns w'ere more than
astonished; but they were assured that
it was done in Rome under the supervis¬
ion of one ofsthe highest authorities of
the church, the desire being to have the
Virgin considered in her youth as well
as in her maturity. The statue stands
seven feet tight inches high, and was
carved from a single block of Carrara
marble.
NORTn CAROLINA.
During a recent gale, Portsmouth,near
Oceraeonk inlet, was submerged, drown¬
ing cattle, sheep and hogs. The water
rose into many houses and there was
great destruction of property. Inhabi¬
tants took to house tops remaining there
until the s f orm was over. Great suffer¬
ing was experienced, but no lives were
lost.
TENNESSEE.
A fire occurred at Dayton Sunday, en¬
tailing a loss of $22,000. It caught from
the ovens of a baker. The principal $3,000;
losers are: Bicknell & Johnson,
J. W. Hudson, grocer, $3,500; Garden
hire building, $5,000; A. W. Frasier,
$1,500; H. Spinly, two brick buildings,
$4,000. None of the buildings were in¬
sured .
A syndicate of capitalists from New
York, New Orleans, Memphis and At¬
lanta, have just consummated the pur¬
chase of 63,000 acres of land in Sequa
chee Valley, about three miles from
Chattanooga, adjoining- the city of
South Pittsburg. The price paid for the
property, which controls coal, iron and
timber land, was $540,000. The prop¬
erty is to be developed on a grand scale.
PICTURES OF
WASHINGTON.
MANY CHANGES BEING MADE
AMONG OFFICIALS.
NOTES.
Mrs. Russell Harrison is reported to be
very sick at the White House. Her hus¬
band attributes her iilness to “the sewer
gas and ovei flowing draughts with which
tbe White House anound3.”
The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday
convened a courtmartial to meet at
Washington navy yard on Monday, for
the trial of Lieut. Commander Book, of
the Piuta, who left his ship in Alaskan
waters without permission.
The President appointed Henry S.
White, of West Virginia, to be United
Stases marshal for the district of West
Virginia. Mr. White lives at Belton,
Marshal county, where he has been en¬
gaged for many years in farming and
merchantije pursuits.
John K. Miller, of Tennessee, was on
Thursday appointed on the watch force
of the Interior Department. During the
War, Miller was colonel of the 13th Tenn¬
essee cavalry. His command overtook
(Ten. John Morgan, the great raider, and
in the engagement which followed, Mor¬
gan was killed.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy has or¬
dered the board of inspection and sur¬
vey, of which Admiral Jouett is presi¬
dent, to be officially present at the Cen¬
tennial celebration in New York, and has
instructed the commandant of the New
York navy yard to send all of the vessels in
commission to an anchorage in North
river.
Jerome B. Burke, chief of the gazette
division in the patent office, has been no¬
tified by the commissioner of patents
that if tendered,his resignation would be
accepted. Mr. Burke, however, declines
to resign, and declares his intention to
allow the commissioner to dismiss him if
he so desires. Mr. Burke is a G. A. R.
man, and was at one time commander of
the department of the Potomac.
THEY ARE ANGRY,
The com i n g centennial in New York
j s to b r jng about another secession on,
t v, e p ar t of South Carolina. issued The adjur
tant-general of the state has per
mission for eight or ten companies of the
white militia to go to New York as an;
escort to the governor of the state.,
Among these is the famous Washington
Light Infantry of Charleston, who had
made great preparations with for the them trip.. the
They proposed to carry which borne
historic Eutaw flag, was by,
Col. William Washington in his fight
with Tarleton during the revolutionary
war. A letter has been received from
Gen. Cruger stating that the committeq
declines to recognize the right of the,
Washington Light Infantry to any place
of prominence in the parade, and that
the Old Guard Veterans battalion and
the Boston Tigers are also to be forced
to parade with the militia. Some of the
Federal War veterans are angry too, be
cause Gen. Cruger declines to recognize
any membership veteran organization outside the.
of the Grand Army of the
Republic.