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An epiuemic • Vnrc of oi influenza mnu i* prevailing t *
3 I! U „ U f;hi'cago grand jury on Tuesday pool
eturned indfetmeuts against thirty
ilers. Tuesday appointed
The C/Goodloe president on postmaster a t Tua-
ohn as
uffibia, Ala. spoke in
5nd. DiUon and O’Brien
O- Monday night, and
o-l $3,000 for the Irish fund.
ecur police census returns
The Brooklyn total* population of 855,945.
ihows a enumerators made it
the federal census
HO^.OOO. dispatch The
VConcord, N. II., Saturday says:
,'verDor and council morning
to call a special session of the ieg-
ou Tuesday, December 2d.
Bldturc Screpel’s dry goods manu-
Provost & France,
jjctorv, at Rou beaux, was
burned Monday, Loss $200,000. Six
hundred persons are thrown out of em-
[iloymeiif. [ president Saturday appointed
The on
Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, Ga, a mem-
L. f the Warm Springs Indian commis-
L 0 II. Dill, of Fenusyl-
[aaii, vice William
declined.
I { dispatch of Saturday, from Boston,
L,vs: Mr. B. 1\ Shi I labor, the humorist
U poet, who is better known to the
Lurid as "Mrs. Partington,” is dying at
feis home in Chelsea.
I A New York dispatch says: The firm
kRichard H. Allen & Co., bankers and
Commission merchants, made an assign-
iicnt Tuesday. The liabilities are esti¬
mated at $1,000,000.
AMondav’s dispatch says: The run on
he Citizen’s Savings bank at New York,
rhich lasted several clays, is practically
vet. The bank succeeded in holding
its own throughout the trouble.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday
ays: It is expected that the commission
hr the re-examination of the gulf coast
md the selection of a site for a navy
,ard will be appointed now' very soou.
A cablegram of Friday, from Dublin,
ays: The government has issued a procla-
uation forbidding demonstrations in any
art of Ireland ou the anniversary of the
m-ution of the “Manchester Martyrs.”
[A dispatch from Alton, III., says:
[Three flint glass factory buildings of the
Illinois Glassworks, were burned Satur-
liay morning. Loss, $100,000. Five
pndred hands are thrown out of cm-
lloyment as a result of it,
I The official Gazette of London, pub¬
lishes a government proclamation calling
In by March 1st all gold coins issued
prior to the accession of Queen Victoria
lo the throne. After the date mentioned
Inch coins will not be legal tender.
I W. L. Prettyman, a private banker at
[MO Davison street, Chicago, closed his
lloors Saturday morning, and posted on
khem an announcement that he had dc-
lided to close up his affairs—that his
l«nk is solvent, and will pay depositors
In full.
I It was reported Monday at Findley,
f’.lio, N advanced that the 5 price cent of window by the American glass will
[niudow per the
Glass company, the name of
r w tru«t, which now' controls forty-one
f-ctories in the West, including those of
Pittsburg. !
Colonel J. B. Clarke, of Chicago,
^presenting Saturday closed a Chicago agreement syndicate, with capi- on
an
t ‘lists at Galveston, Texas, which means
Jie establishment and maintenance of a
iRew- line of steamers between Galveston
* D( i South American ports.
A series of experiments have been cou-
ducted ut Cologne, France, by Dr. Prior
p ita .^ the Koch curative lymph. Forty-
I. ve Physicians attended the experiments.
Injection . :1 .all cases the symptoms following the
of lymph was precisely similar
1 uat described by Professor Koch.
Lie failure of Barker Brothers & Co.,
,
jankers f " s | oc an k d exchange brokers, was at announced Philadelphia in
T , ‘Ursday afteruocn. Members of the
.! rtu r(1 ‘ised to make any explanation of
i.* 1 *r troubles. Tne failure has been
"[ked largely bv various unprofitable
inroad investments.
■ ■ •• ; I,-! ‘“‘K'ns <JXtl ' rH City ‘ re Friday, bank failure involving was reported less
no
H Hx financial concerns in the south-
bsnt merr’nfx— : °l* ows: Vton The Newton t,ie National
■ ’ ° klahoma ; Com-
li National bank, at Guthrie, with
j
mj! I List? a ,0a conference held ilt of London, the national Friday, liberal the
™> dup u 1 Was ^?. u<lo pted in favor of free
listim 't U ’ r e rin ln l a ’ J d laws, disestab-
,r , disendowment of the church
o ‘ -“
'tutripf ai1 ant i* 0ca P. aris ^ “PfLm, h councils formation and the of
men,li. or ending of the house of lords.
o
X V Special of Friday from Lincoln,
e SU V laat have been
^ P a P ers pre-
fiarprl f '
ofth v a contest by the indejiendents
e ™T ty ° f the eiection of the entire
state g crDment all of whom repub-
fican » are
tes t Iii' i ept 9' avcrao r Boyd. leKi "* lUre The con- d
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l»ti»' i £ri ch -? t constitutional Fri<ia . v f . r ° m assembly R ‘» j»-
■ |r, J” 1 b -y a vote of 175 47, has
c ' J to
imvoram the k 'g alit y of the provisional
. flDCl a< f°pted resolution
fequestiim ',u a
its f l; g tfae government to continue
un tenons until a vote ha.s been taken
1=....."** of a federal constitu-
Tncmag Fawcett & Sons one of the
0031 How in I’m i„;,W .f’4 [>, “,'i ,
I to the II on-
P. 75 SX&
I member of VhoZs FauceT^
presMcut of the Centra bank ’
A } orV 41 ispateh Riys: Tl le rim
J! ® i '' vdn £ here con-
tmu«a Satw.viay sno-ning ws?!i as muc i.
vigor as eve*. T his, the 5 ank oeopie
«av. w\'« caused l>v the ] H ct that tb»v
close at nown. Work A-gair before io
o clock, b,’it the long line erf depositors
seemed to iu.?tea?e all the wMTt* r instead
of diminishing* 'I he pavtieafe? 5 already
made figure up mvrl/ $300,0oa
A London cable^sram of I'rida>y. savs:
An agreement between the Bristol chan¬
nel committee of the Shipping Federa¬
tion and the Seamen s -Union seenitutxi be
impossib.c. Both sidles are busy, per¬
fecting their arrangements fior tUe irn-
pending struggle. The union declares
that it had not advanced any epcor&itRnt
or unfair claim, and that the shipowners
are blamable for provoking the strike:
A New York dispatch says: Albert U.
Smith, of Mills, Roberson & Smith. Wall
street, broKers, who forged stock to f;.«
amount of $860,000 by raising certificates-
of stock to ten times their real value, was*
on Monday afternoon, in general session,,,
convicted of forgery in the first degree.
The trial took only forty-five minutes and
no defense offered. Judge Wednesday Fitzgerald re¬ ;
manded the prisoner until for
sentence at the request of the prisoner's
counsel. --------- j|
fire About started 8:25 in o’clock the extensive Saturday silk morning mill of | £
Bamford Brothers, at Patterson, N. J.,
and the mill was soon totally destroyed.
The fire communicated to the residences
of Joseph and Walter Bamford, which
adjoined 1 the mill, both of which were
burned to the ground. The lossis placed The
at $400,000; insurance, $200,000.
800 hands employed in the mill, among
whom were a number of women and girls,
were for a time panic-stricken, but all of
them, it is believed, escaped uninjured.
The directors of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad held a
meeting in New York Monday morning.
S. M. Felfon. Jr., was elected a director,
and then president, with headquarters
at Cincinnati or Chattanooga. General
Samuel Thomas was chosen chairman of
the board of directors, and will be loca¬
ted at New York, to look after the road’s
interests. Calvin S. Brice and Major
Henry Fink were elected vice presidents;
L. M. Swann, of New York, secretary;
J. Neil Mitchell, of Knoxville, branched treasurer. out
The company has recently of track.
and owns or controls 2.558 miles
A HEAVY FAILURE.
A RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR THE UNITED
STATES ROLLING STOCK CO.
A Chicago dispatch says: The United
States Rolling Stock Company, having a
large plant at Hegewich, was ou Friday
night placed in the hands of a receiver.
The liabilities are given at $3,816,000
and assets at $6,000,000. The failure
was precipitated by slow collections and
depression in the money market. This
company is ore of the largest, if not larg¬
est, builders of railway cars in
the world and has plants at
Hegewich, HI., Decatur, Ala., An¬
niston, Ala., and Urbana, Ohio. The
capital stock of the company is $4,000,-
000, of which $3,500,000 is paid up in
cash, and there is $500,000 of the stock
not yet issued. The assets of the com¬
pany consist of shops, yards, real estate
and machinery at Hegewich, which
originally cost $1,400,000, and which
are 'now claimed, by reason of the ad- be
vance in real estate values, to
worth at least $2,000,000; its shops
and works at Anniston, which cost
$700,000; its plant at Decatur:
costing $500,000; its shop and works at
Urbana, $180,000, and timber lands iu
Alabama, $40,000. “The company has
in its employ at various works 2,200
men. It has been obliged to pay cash to
the employes and for material to the ex¬
tent of $600,000 monthly. The present
stringency in the money market has com-
pelled jthe railroad companies that have
bought cars of the rolling stock company iu-
to pav their bills in long time paper,
stead of cash, and it has been, extreme¬
ly difficult to discount the paper.
Judge Blodgett appointed A. Hege-
wich as president at present, and he has
been for nineteen years. The judge also the
ordered the receiver to continue
works and not let any of the plants be
shut down, Mr. Hegewich gave bond in
$500,000.
THE COTTON YIELD.
NOVEMBER CROP STATISTICS GIVEN OUT
BY THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Cotton returns for November to the
department @f agriculture at Washing¬
ton are county estimates of the considering yield per
acre. The consolidation,
areas with ratio of yield, with the cor¬
rection of obvious errors, makes the av¬
erage yield 187 pounds of lint per acre.
It is about the same as the yield last year,
and better than the returns exceeded of yield by last the
November, which were of
results of final investigation. Some
the returns report killing frosts, which
did not exten d to a large area on the
southern side of the cotton belt. The
estimates of yields by states are as fol¬
lows: Virginia, 168 pounds; North
Carolina, 182; South CaroUna. 175;
Georgia, 165; Florida, 108; Alabama,
160; Mississippi, 300; Louisiana, 238;
Texas, 196; Arkansas, 225;
191.
NEWS OF THE SOOTH
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FT!OM ALL JOINTS rjf TUB
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIWNTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
c4 Major Sherman Conant, railroads superintendent
the Flo.-ida Southern died in
Faiatka, Fla., Friday, of pneumonia.
Thomas R, Jeroigan. pci it or of The I/i-
ttlhfencer, of Rah-igh. publication N. C.. wiA, in a
fciv days, begin the oJ un af-
teruoon paj^r there.
The- Southern aaid Western Rnilwav
Club composed of'master niechauicTand
master ear bunders', held its third meet¬
ing Th rrsday in Naria-ville. Most of the
souther.! lines were represented.
W. R.. Quarles,, buttleand broK<?r,
assigned at Rictruonri!,. Vsa., Friday, llie
cause ascctbed is inabfti<Y realize inn
mediately on debfB- due hi ran, or to pn>
cure noededdoans in ti\o present cond «’
tion of the money market*?, 'fie liabili¬
ties are thought to be aaoufr $80J)00 o?
$35,000.
A New iMeans dispateh. say: The
grand jury late F*dav nigto reported
finding true bills ayrinst seveateen men
under arrest, charged with*the murder of
Chief of Polio* David C. Hesmessy. on
Oct. 15th, fr murder iud accessory
thereto. will be It is expected ea:*lydate,. 5 that thsar trials
fixed aVan
News was .received at 5»n Antonio
Texas, Saturday of another rasd made
by tbe Seris tribe of Indians, who* reside
* n the State of Sonora, Mexico^. :»®d are
sa ^ to be cannibals. A*.band!of the s»t-
a K es attacked a. detachment off Mexican
troops stationed on the frontier,, aad sev-
sral soldiers and lotir Iadi&as were killtnl
in the battle.
Governor Fowle, of North C uxu-Sna, is
receiving many litters froin *di stingwashed
men, stating interstate that they will abteud and the
southern immigration
commerce convention at Asheville next
month. A letter on Wednesday from
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, expressed
gr6at interest in the matter, and said that
he would be present.
Thomas II. Allen «fo Co-,,, oottna factors
and commission merchants at Mfemphis,
Tenn., made an assignment Tuesday
morning. T he firm is- one of- thi oldest
in- the 8outh, and has a branch office in
New York. A conservative estimate of
the firm’s liabilities, as $750,.000,* made by one of
its members, is about with as¬
sets at $1,500,000.
A Charleston dispatch says: It was
learned definitely Friday that an English
syndicate is negotiating lands in the this purchase of
ail the phosphate state, to¬
gether with the machinery, etc. Their
agents are now making a schedule
of the principal stocks and fixing the
value. Ten million dollars is said to be
about the figures involved.
An Austin, Texas, dispatch o-f Friday
says: Under instructions of the gover¬
nor, State Health Officer Rutherford has
decided to establish a quarrantine Verde against
smallpox at Del Rio, Val county,
and at Claude, in Armstrong county.
Quite a large number of new cases of
smallpox have developed in the last two
days in Mexico, near Del Rio.
A Greenville, Miss,, dispatch says: At
8 o’clock Saturday night as the Georgia west¬
bound passenger train on the
Pacific was coming in between Grady
and Tom Nolen stations, it killed Editor
Dukes, of the Eupora Progress, Eupora,
Miss. The unfortunate man was sitting
on the end of a crosstie. The engine
knocked him off killing him instantly.
A Nashville dispatch of Friday says:
Complete returns of the election in Ten¬
nessee give John P. Buchanan, Demo¬
crat, 115,545: Lewis, T. Baxter, prohibitionist, Repub¬
lican, 76,325; Dr. Kelly, Buehafian’s
10,915: total vote, 202,785. majority
plurality over Baxter. 89,220;
over both, 28,303. Taylor's plurality dis¬
over Butler for congress iu the first
trict is 744.
A dispatch of Monday from Somerset,
Ky., says: Miners at Barren Fork coal
mines, numbering 800, are on a strike.
They demanded an increase of 10 cents
per ton, which the company refused to
to pay. They thereupon threw then-
tools down and refused to work. The
commissary has been locked against the
miners, and they have been refused any¬
thing to eat.
EX-GOVERNOR SMITH
DIES IN COLCMBUS, GEORGIA—HIS LIVE
AND SERVICES.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith died
Tuesday afternoon at his residence in
Columbus, Ga. He was a member of
the confederate congress. After the war
he held no political office until elected to
the legislature iu 1879. He was made
speaker of the house, and five years later
was elected governor. He has since been
a member of the railroad commis*ou,
and was at the time of his death judge
of the superior court of the Chattahoo¬
chee circuit.
WILL BE ON HAND.
MINNE8SOTA ALLIANCEMEN PREPARING
FOR THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN 1892.
A dispatch from St. Paul, says: The
Farmers’ Alliance, of Minnesata,
fjkoposes to have a hand in the national
politics of 1892. A call has been sent
to the county alliances of the state for a
convention of the alliance to be held in
St. Paul December 30th. The object of
the convention, it is understood, is to
take steps towards the organization of a
national alliance political pnrtv.
disastrous FIRES.
Mica., AND
AMi'SKEAO. ga., cherovoas, 'C.'TIMS.
BASTROP, TEXAS, THit V.
■ of the
The extensive planing nvAU Amos-
Arnoske;. ’*jf Lumber Company v at 0
kcag, Ga., were burned Tnc 4tk t igine
o’clock, h fire broke out in tSitvsk. 'cr¬
room and wi. * l>ut a few minutes
ing the whole building. It employcfTW^t was oyb» v
the heroic effor ts of all the
the aid of their «. excellent lire engines* tlis*
the entire sawmill plant—one of
most extensive in South Georgia—
saved from the threatening will prohab flame*. 1
The loss to the com pany *
foot up $12,000 or $14,000, partially-
covered bv insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but tho vight to be acci¬
dental,
At 3 o'clock Tuesday
l imber piles ob the Chebcg^iu Lumber
Cs in pa ray’s docks, at Cheboy^nn. Mich.,
wttio discovered on fine, "t he -vied blew
violently,, and though the dho depart¬
ment was prompt-y on hand, they made
no rtnpressson, and about lX’.(t>O;.0fW) feet
of lumber, including trannvavy; <4o«ks,
etc., wore destroyed, entailing &< le*s of
$ 200 , 000 .
A tiiiastrows tire occurred at Bastrop,
Tex,, Tuesday. A a umber of I irildriigs
Tfetotal lossnramm^ea
£ a *>o«t. B $20^00, the heaviest bverj'stabM c»J«er*rs k«s
*
f 8 - 0 ^ 0 ' ^snmtims $4ot>: W. J. M Nulty
* J 0 - dru ^‘ loss ^°°°* ins » BW
STUPENDOUS FRAUDS
V3tEAKTDE©- BV T-tE KEtt MANAGE1J89W
OJA- Tlisoes 11 A ft UO AD.
A Housteci/ Tex., dispatch of Wedne»-
dtj'says. A-very bad State of affa ; :«-
h.wbeeu in sxisieiiHC on ?!i*: Gulf, C’o-k>
rado and Sante Fe railway fo-r some ti
andeince ther recent chauges of officials*
alBthe discrepancies have eo-ine to light-;.
It appears that,-.through-some means, t-Ijo-
ro:M has been defrauded owb of $180,00*? •)
worth of cottoo and tlvat during ths
1 • eighty-five
present cotton - season* some
car-loads of com-pesseoU Gotten have gone
astr\y. The ottrcials- will only say that
the above is and will not divulge 1
time, collected against
what .evidence they in'the Brain tru-ted sus- ;
pected parties who ere
teinatically employes. The shrinkage has been sys-
going on,, and the company
is in possession of all the necessary
facts,-, which will, be- sprung when the
time comes.
THE REBATE OFF.
THE DUTY OX JUTE. HAGfUNG NO LONGER
SUBJECT* TO REBATE.
The custom beuso authorities at Char¬
leston, 8. C., have received no-Sice from
the treasury deportment which will affect
exporters all over.the country. Recently
the exporters of. cotton covered with
jute have been allowed a. rebate to the
extent of the duty/paid the best ora it, of upon their filing be¬
an affidavit that to
lief the bags were manufactured of jute
upon, which the duty leal been paid.
The new. order requires no-w a certificate
from the manufacturer of such bagging
to that effect, which is tantamount to re¬
fusing the rebate, as most of the jute
bagging has passed through half a dozen
hands-before reaching the exporter.
FINNERTY’S PROPHECY
THAT WITHIN HALP A CENTURY IRELAND’S
STAR WOULD ADORN. OUR FLAG.
A large meeting of Irishmen was held
in Cooper Union,. New York, Monday
night, to celebrate the twenty-third Larkin an¬
niversary of the death of Allen,
andQtBrieu, the “Manchester martyrs,”
who were hanged in England for the
murder of Sergeant Brett. Every seat in
the hall was occupied. A representation
of the graves of the three men was upon
the platform, guarded by two members
of the Tipperary Volunteers. The ad-
dress of the meeting was made by John
R. Finnerty, of Chicago. Mr. Fiunerty
predicted that in fifty years Ireland would
be one of the brightest stars in ilie Amer-
icon flag,
NAVASSA RIO rtrtS AGAIN.
THE C. 8. SUPREME COURT DECIDES THE
QUESTION OK JURISDICTION.
In the supreme court of the United
States, Monday, Justice Gray announced
the decision of the court in the case of
the Navassa rioters, who are under sen¬
tence of death in Baltimore, for a mur¬
der committed on the island of Navassa,
iii the Caribbean sea, in 1889, where
they were employed by a Baltimore firm
in working guano beds. The case was
brought to the supreme court on an ap¬
peal, the question raised involving the
jurisdiction of the United States over the
island. The court decides that the Uni¬
ted States have jurisdiction over the
island and affirms the decision of the
lower court.
another electrocution
TO TAKE PLACE IN NEW YORK—A JAPAN¬
ESE THE VICTIM.
A Washington dispatch says: The su¬
preme court of the United States on Mon¬
day affirmed the judgment of the circuit
court for the southern district of New
York, Jttdge Lacombe presiding, in the
case of Shibuya Jugiro, the Japanese, York,
confined in Sing Sing prison. New
under sente nce of death by elec tricity.
TOO it Kt IN lio.
Mrs. Fangle—How do you like your
new maid, Mrs. Jingle? she'd be all right if
Mrs. Jingle—Oh, over-refined.
»he were notso
“Ia what way?”
“She never breaks anything but the
most costly Dresden chuia.”-[St. Joseph
News.
The Cranberry Industry.
A prominent New Jersey cranberry
"rower says that the New Jersey berries
this year are unusually line, and will
bring $4 per bushel. Jersey berries can
be kept iu good condition from now until
May or June of next year, with little or
no shrinkage and no loss to the owner.
Cranberries are grown in the poorest
lands of the county, but yield a large
The culture of cranberries is
rapidly becoming the chief industry in
the lower counties of the State, particu-
irly Atlantic County. The swamp tn and
\rshy lands are hardly fit for any O ther
but make excellent bogs. The peo-
-e beginning to realize that the bar¬
jjhi'a, ds which have hitherto been only
ren ’flst use can be utilized, and large
an ei-pt money made from a very small
sums • of . A grower who has had long
.
investm*tfi, v making and managing bogs
•s.xperienSfc'v. ‘hat a first-class bog can be
?aid recently v $600 to $800 an acre, ac-
UMnde for frt-f> lality of the bog .—•Next
cording to tli<9* \,
York Tribune -
Only D*. e Inhabitant.
Has 5 Skiddar.-, Camber-
TLv township' of stands unique in
laud, in all probability Kingdom * a township of
the United 11 a n Daily JVews,
one htsae, says the LouAi inhabitant is
and the solitary m**te au-Vtt ■i of the fact
deprived of his vote bees’-*, • make out
that there are no crerseei ’-'V. or public
a voters list, and ns-- church H ons, if
building o*i which to pufciik
made. cessful
On se^vnl . occax>ns uaK-tfk
■ ,
claims havtt been madwfor ocT\ s
an ~
vote beforo v tb« revising barrisUr all-.
wrick, and this one’of tht”reg'?A a "
year 11
tion agents served a notice of cioim uf*
the assistant: o-versoer o^- the a4join?%
township of Un-tierskiddiw; but that
feial declined Jo have anything: to dc*i
with it, on CoH ground that) he could not if
saddle his t:wns&ip with the si.u : y audl
expense of another.
The tenant of- the house » -this shep-q
herd of Skidd >,w f wrest—a forest witkout-
a tree.
Removal t-f th-e Ham an 'Liver.
. of
* ue ®° urse ® ‘® n l? ser~en core-
fully ^ eonductee investigations, the Pi-ofesfuer’
Ponfic, of Bresbu, has made impor-
t»nt discovery that * large poet of the
fiver—even ns much as tbree-foarths—■
may be removed without scrior u*disturb-
mce of the anin aJ functions. Surgeons
have long known, a* regarded il a fact
'bat the whole cf.- the liver is aot ab¬
solutely essential to health, but have
hardly supposed t lent the sudden destruc¬
tion of a considerable pare of ic would
not be serious iu tit© extreme—the dis¬
covery to the contrary now eirabling
operations to be performed which have
hitherto been considered alike bayond
surgical skill ard human endurance.
Professor Ponfic’s remarkable investiga¬
tions in this line prove that the liver ha3
a wonderful power of reproduction—in
some eases, he states, a portion equal- to
two-thirds having been replaced -by a
new growth with’u a few weeks .—New
Y&rli Tribune
A Hemarkable Case of Paralysis'.
‘•John Doe, unconscious ami un¬
known,” is the record at the receiving
hospital in the case of h. man who was
taken to that, institution last Wednesday
morning by Officer Egan. The man was
found lying in a doorway at Washingtou
and Front streets* and from the time he
was taken into t’jc receiving hospital, he
has been in a comatose condition. Be¬
vend slight and ntermittent pulsations of
his heart and a a occasional opening of
the eyelids, no other signs of life are ap-
prjeut. The man w r as at first paralyzed
on the left side. Then the paralysis sud¬
denly changed to the right. Dr. Will-
hams, the phyriciau in charge of the
hospital, says in is one of the most re¬
markable cases that ever came under his
notice. The man's name is not known,
13C j no OIlc Baa as yet made any inquiry*
^Bout him.— Sun Francisco Chronieie.
Safety Wheels for Omnibuses.
Safety wheels have recently bean fitted
to some of the London omnibuses. These
are small wheels—casters would perhaps
be a more expressive name—attached to
the body of the vehicle, and ordinarily
carried a f*iv inches off the ground, so
that in the event of an axle breaking or
a wheel coming off the worst that hap¬
pens to the passengers is a sudden dro»
of five or six inches. It is said that an
attempt will be made to hare the appli¬
cation of these safety wheels made com¬
pulsory in order to prevent accidents,
similar to those which so. painfully
marred the last coaching season.—_ Vet*
Tori Journal.
The Great Carpet City.
The Philadelphia Press says the textile
industry is the greatest of all industries
in Philadelphia, and the largest branch
of that industry is carpets. The trade
has been in a flourishing condition, and
in one ward in the city more carpets arc
made than in all England combined, the
former homo of the industry. There
are at least one hundred and fifty mill**
in the city producing goods worth prob¬
ably $40,000,000 a year, employing fully
seventeen thousand persons.
The notorious Albanian bandit, Hadji-
Pillman, before he was led to execution,
expressed a last wish to make a meal of
curried mutton. But as the Turkish cook
did not understand how to prepare the
dish, the culprit pushed back his plate,
saying: “If I ate any of that stuff I
should have the dyspepsia for a week at
the very least.”— Bader Nachrichten.