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India, Central Asia and China produce
about one-sixth of the 800,000 tons of
the world’s annual wool clip.
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An American company has leased
Aboukir Bay from the Egyptian Gowmi.
ment to grow oysters therein.
New York has found it necessary
increase the taxes, and it is now $2.23
on the $100, and Philadelphia has done
likewise and increased to $2.06 on $100.
Even Jerusalem is in the nineteen th-
century swim, and has a real estate
boom, l and near the city has gone up
five hundred per cent, within the last
few years.
A colored man by the name of Ross,
•who was lately convicted of murder in
■ the first degree and sentenced to be
banged at Brandenburg, Ky., was
granted a new trial on the ground that
he had not be«n convicted by a jury of
his peers. There was no colored man on
the jury that tried him.
The taste for realism is extending,
■observes the Commercial Advertiser. In
Nova Scotia the other day three small
boys, under eight years all of them,
bound and gagged another small boy
and proceeded to play “killing pig" so
successfully that they cut his throat
fatally to get tho proper flow of blood.
I.ord Wolseley says that one of the
bravest men he ever knew is Lieuienant-
General Sir Gerald Graham, V. C., who
was in chief command at the battle of
El Teb, in Africa. Graham is several
inches over six feet in height, and rather
indolent physically. Many times Wolse¬
ley has seen him endanger his life rather
’ban take a few extra steps in safety.
( ' r e Rafael, a weather-beaten gypsy.
has petitioned the Emperor of Austria to
allow him to be invested with the
sovereignty of all gypsies everywhere,
offering to show incontestably his descent
from that Pharaoh who would not let
Israel go, and also, if his petition be
granted, to make the gypsies cease from
vagrancy and become serviceable citi¬
zens.
An international congress of nearly
■ five hundred physicians lately in session
at l’aris was practically unanimous that
consumption, or tuberculosis, is con¬
tagious and transmissible between man
and beast. There was unanimity also as
to the-pnme necessity of boiling milk
aed csoking meat well as a preventive
of much of the consumption which now
a i icts the human race. None of thes9
conclusions are new, but they derive ad¬
ditional force from the unanimity with
which they wore declared and accepted
as facts well es ablished.
T’e ent arrivals from the Hawaiian
islands declare that the Government is
insolvent, and that nothing can prevent
bankruptcy in the near future. The re¬
form Government, which came into
power on the downfall of the Gibson
Ministry, has simply used any coin in
sight to pay current expenses, with no
thought of future settlement. The pub¬
lic debt of Hawaii may be put in round
numbers at $2,550,000, for which the
only security is Crown lands and Gov¬
ernment buildings at Honolulu, which
under forced sale would not realize hall
this amount.
>„ “P’ive million people upon the globe
are now dope^ient on the electric cur¬
rent for their da : ly bresd,” so said Mr.
W. H. Preece, at the recent meeting of
the British Association held at Bath.
“Scarcely a week passes," he continued,
“without some fresh practical applica-
t on of its principles, and we seem to be
only on the shore of that sea of economy
and beneficence which expands with
every new discovery of the properties of
electricity, and spreads already beyond
the mental grasp vf any one single
worker,” And what is in store beyond
for man’s research and conquest who
shall say?
The New York Independent presents
its annual statistical exhibit of the vari¬
ous churches} in this country, compiled
mostly from official sources. The follow¬
ing is a general summary by denomina¬
tional groups;
CIS. Kin. con.
Adventists........ 1,563 S55 100,441
baptists............ 45,434 30,998 3,971,685
Christian Union... 1,500 500 120,000
CongrY-nationalists 4,404 4,090 457,584
Friends ............ 700 500 JOT,968
German Evange’i.. 675 500 125,008
Lutherans.. 7,902 4,215 987,000
Mennonites. 385 005 93,000
Methodists. ...48,258 28,313 4,690,529
Moravians.. 94 108 10,936
New Jernsal em. 95 101 5,750
Presbyterians.. Eposeopaliaus.. 13,057 9,586 1,136,635 416,785
4.706 3,931
Reformed. 2,025 1,345 269,523
Roman Catholics „ 6,839 5,596 7,200,000
Unitarians.. 375 -488 20,000
L'mversalists 730 C77 37,807
Grand total.. 138,885 94,457 19,799,328
The net gain for the year was 6434
churches, 4505 ministers and 774,681
communicants. By far the heaviest gain
" among the Baptists—4587 churches
at >d 3103 ministers. The Methodists,
^ith isters their 48,285 churches, 28,318 min-
and 4,699,529 communicants, stand
at *he head of the denominations, the
f oman Catholics come next, and then
•he Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans,
Congregationalists and Episcopalians.
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interesting items boiled
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE
1 HE FIELD OF LABOn—SEETHING
CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTSIOUB—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
Admiral Baldwin d i°d in New
BrotherWs cotton mill, at Preston,
Loss England, $200,000. has been destroyed by fire.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in
Frederick Pit, at Dury, in the province
of Haimite, Belgium, Thirty mineri
were killed.
ialfa Messengers who have arrived at Wadi
report that the mysterious Whits
asliu in Bahort Gahzi district has fought
1 great battle and killed many dervishes.
The yellow lever has broken out at
Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain, The
sontagion was carried 10 the port by a
iteamer from Cuba,
The masters of the colliers in Lauark-
mire, , England, have made
idvance a 5 per cent
in wages. The trade committee
has advised the jute spinners of Dundee
to give their employes a similar increase.
The police have expelled from Berlin
wo French journalists, M. Latapan and
II. Ooriot, editors of Berlin correspond-
?nce with French newspapers. The offi¬
cial reason given fur their expulsion is
that they made themselves obnoxious.
Fred S. Simpson, night clerk of the
Northern ^ Park Exchange Co., atLacona,
W. T., who absconded with $12,000 of
the company’s money a few days ago,
the was caught at Manloops, B. C., and all
money recovered.
Hughes county, Dakota, has a genuine
pase of ie prosy. The subject is a child
pf missionary Mrs. Bansum, in Ctiiua. born while she was a
The neighbors re¬
fuse to have communication with mem¬
bers of the afflicted family.
Three young girls, Mamie Tann, AUie
fiedman and Emma Nickens, while pass¬
ing over the canal bridge at Circleville,
Ohio, were caught by a train of cars on
the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley
Railroad and killed.
The stage, near San Luis Obispo, Cal.,
he was stopped by a lone highwayman, and
went through four passengers. He
took all the registered mail matter. Re
is thought to be the same man that rob¬
bed two stages last week.
The British steamer Black Watch
fouudered in latitude 36 north, longitude
19 east. The fate of her crew is un¬
known. She was an iron screw steamer
of 936 tons, plying between Naples and
Odessa, and was probably returning
from Odessa when foundered.
A shock of earthquake sharp
enough to cause many people in hotels
and private houses to run out into the
streets, was felt at San Francisco, Cal.,
on Sunday afternoon. The direction
was northwest to southeast; duration ten
seconds. The shock was felt throughout
Central California.
Two lighters, Mary Hand and Charles
Whitney, loaded with 800 bales of cot¬
ton, intended for the Hamburg line of
steamers, took tire in New York harbor
and were towed out into the East river.
Before the flames could be extinguished,
about $5,000 damage was done.
As a result of an improvement in tbe
iron trade, the Reading Railroad Compa¬
ny on Wednesday issued orders for a re¬
sumption of work at its large furnace at
Bechtelsville, which has been idle for
some months. The other company fur¬
naces will resume as fast as they can be
repaired. The Glendale rolling mill, a
few miles away, also resumed.
Treasurer James J. Daily, of the
Childs-Drexel fund of the International
Typographical Union reports that up to
Nov.! the amount on hand was $20,000,
which more than doubles the amount of
the original gift of $10,000 by Childs &
Drexel in 18»6, and which was the
nucleus of the fund named in their honor.
The entire fund is drawing a good rate
of interest.
The strike of the Louisville, New Al¬
bany & Chicago brakemen continues, and
no freight has been moved into, or out
of LaFayette. The company, on Wednes¬
day, made up a train at LaFayette,
which was moved under protection of
the sheriff and police, and without brake-
men to a station ten miles out, where it
was side-tracked. The strikers endeav¬
ored to board the cars, and draw the
coupling pins, but were prevented.
The biggest check that even Wall
street has seen for a long time, was drawn
Thursday to the order of tho Central
Trust company of New York, aud signed
by President John II. Inman, of the
Richmond Terminal company. T he-
check was for $3,950,000, which, with
$250 000 previously paid, makes the en¬
tire $4,200,000 that the Terminal com¬
pany bargained a few weeks ago to pay
for the Georgia company. appointed last Spring
The commission removing the South-
will be successful in
ern Utes from Colorado. Two weeks
ho- 0 the commissioners and a delegation
of the Utes appointed for the purpose re¬
turned from Utah, where they went to
look up the new reservation. The coun¬
cil was held at the agency on Wednesday
and all the Indians present—-one-fourth providing
of the tribe-signed the treaty
for the removal to a new reservation in
Utah. Port-au-Pnnce, . •
The prize court of
Hayti, after trial, has condemned the
American steamer Ilaytien Republic to
confiscation for violating tbe blockade of
the Port of St. Marc aud for actively
steamship Boston has arrived at Port-au-
prince, "where her commander is assisting
the United States minister in investigat¬
ing the case.
After seventv-three weeks of impris¬
onment in the county jail, Edward Mc¬
Donald, of Chicago, III., walked out of
the criminal court a free man, under
$10 000 bail. His ride down Clark street
partook of the nature of an exile’s return.
Long imprisonment in jail has not les¬
sened, apparently, the number of his
friends. One of the attorneys of the so-
called “boodlers” said: “McGaugle,
who away, can now come 1 ar.i tc
ran hands with Sheriff Mat-
Chicago, shake and walk out
son, spend ten days in jail e
Iranian.
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1888.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF¬
FICIALS ARE DOING.
$10,000 Secretary Fairchild has decided to pay
for Ilughoimer’s lot iu Charles¬
ton to facilitate the construction of the
new postoffice.
Y Representative Perry Balmont of New
ork, has been tendered aud lias aceep-
ted an appointment as United States min-
ister to Spain, to succeed J. L. M. Curry,
Flora Schmidt, the young woman who
wus taken to Bellevue hospital. New
York, with symptoms of yellow fever
died at that institution.
The light house hoard in its annual re-
Port to the Secretary of the Treasury ha*
recommended tho establishment of sev-
eral new light stations in Charleston bar-
ta '“ a lhe 8 ““";
burgeon Martin, at Gainesville, P la.,
telegraphs to Surgeon-General Hamilton
that there is one new case (white) in that
city and suggests the withdrawal of
hold guards, as the fever has gained a foot-
in all quarters of that city. He also
says that great destitution prevails.
T. S. Riley, chairman of the Demo-
cratic state committee of West Virginia,
has sent tho following dispatch to the
Washington Post: “Wheeling, W. Va.
—Official returns irom this state
are sufficiently ascertained to warrant the
announcement of the election of Jud>re
A. B. Fleming, Democrat candidate for
governor, The by a small but sure majority.
rest of the State ticket elected by
larger majorities. The Legislature will
stand on joint ballot, 46 Democrats, 44
Republicans and " one labor union inde-
pendent.”
Some crooked business hus been dis¬
covered in connection with the transfer
of silver dollars from the mint at New
Orleans, La., to Washington, for storage
in the new vault iu the court yard of the
treasury loss building, which lias resulted in
a of $1,500. From one box an en¬
tire sack of dollars had been abstracted
and sacks of Nos. 4 and 6 shot substi
tuted to give it weight. From another
box half of the contents of one sack bad
been taken and pieces of lead substituted.
The broken seals on the boxes were
patched up with impressions of a silver
quarter.
Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, in his an¬
nual report to the Secretary of the Interi¬
or, states that the white population hat
greatly increased, and he estimates that
there are 25,000 natives. The total
ulation is 49,850, and of this numbc-i
there are 6,500 whites, 1,900 Creoles and
2,950 Aleuts. He says that the climate
is favorable and the soil rich. He sees
no reason why Alaska may not ultimately
rival Montana and Wyoming as a cattle
country. Promising silver discoveries
have been made. The government thinks
that there is enough coal the in the territory
to supply the whole of United States
for centuries.
The me Supreme r Court 1 . of t the 41 . United tt -i i
States, through Chief Justice Fuller, ban
rendered an opinion of unusual interest
to holders of life insurance pollen s.
Thomas L. Hume of the District of Col-
umhia, died m 1881..totally insolvent, but
either Spoils to the widow children of the
or
deceased. The administrators and cred¬
itors of Hume's estate sought to force the
application of the proceeds of the poli-
ries to the payment of debts due credit-
ers. The Supreme Court holds that (he
beneficiaries are entitled to the proceeds
of all policies, and that where such poh-
cies are effected in the name of bench-
ciaries, they are no part of estate of the
deceased,
The military court of inquiry into the
acqueduct tunnel scandal developed some
very interesting testimony. Frank
Thompson, a bricklayer on tho tunnel,
tisrified that incompetent men were em- the
ployed and they were hurried so by
sub-contractors, that i|p was impossible
that the work could be good. The con-
epiracy was thoroughly organized, and
its object was to deceive the government
inspectors. A great deal of bad work
was done at night, when nobody but the
sub-contractors was ever around. Civil
Engineer George H. Coryell, who was at
one time employed on the work, testified
that the masonry lining was, in his opin¬
ion, too weak to withstand the pressure
that would be put upon it. He con-
deinned the whole scheme for the work,
and declared that the tunnel was nothing
more that an expensive hole.
YELLOW FEVER.
Jacksonville, Fla., had 12 new cases is
fever on Sunday. The city proper of
comparatively free from yellow fever.
The suburbs develop most of the new
cases. The fever has appeared in viru¬
lent form in South Jacksonville, across
the St. John’s river. The natural loca¬
tion is most favorable to the spread of
the disease, the land being generally low,
and, to a great extent, marshy and wet,
and a number of yards being partially
covered with tide water. At n meeting
of the relief authorities a resolution was
adopted to allow the Howard Association,
of Fernandina, to draw on them for $3,-
000. No further aid could be extended
to that city. Surgeon Martin reports
five new cases at Gainesville, Fla. Mon¬
ey is badly needed, ’ Surgeon Martin is
greatly overworked as the fever in
.Teases, but stands up manfully.
ROUGH TIME.
Tbe Cunarder Etruria, which arrived
in New Y r ork on Sunday from Europe,
experienced one of the worst passages
in her history. A tidal wave swept ovei
the big steamer aud George Warnold, a
sailor, was killed. Her record include*
five more or less severely injured. The
passengers were terribly shaken up. The
Bailors saw a mountain of water approach¬ safety,
ing. Terrified they scrambled for
but with irresistible force, the green wa¬
ters curled over aud fell upon tbe tbe
big steamer. Like logs the five sailors
were jammed in a heap against the deck
house.
A LIGHT VOTE.
Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, mother of Lil¬
lian Russell, the singer, candidate for th«
equal rights party for the myorality ! eight in
New York, received a total 0
vote#.
HAD A GOOD TIME.
The Georgia Weekly Press Jfssocia-
lion, under the leadership of B. P. Perry,
of tho Canton Admire, held an ad¬
journed meeting at tho Augusta Exposi¬
tion. Tho party mustered about 25
strong, and several young ladies were
included in the delegation. The party
W !iS treated royally by the people of Au¬
gusta, especially by Ilou. Patrick Walsh,
of the Augusta Chronicle, nud Editor
Gibson, of the Evening AVim, and culo-
g is tic resolutions were officially for-
warded to these gentlemen. A banquet
was tendered, aud was a grand idT.tir.
The AsBOciation donated $20 to the Mnr-
t ‘ n * und * or tBe Bem ' dt of the family of
the noble hero of the Time*- Union of
^ {“JIj' le ’ J, 1 *” “f 1 ° fficiall >’ s,lt do ™ n
“" Vw . P °* suitnblo t,0n ’ man rec-
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The general opinion was expressed that
the Exposition was a surce s and far in
advance of the one held in Atlanta a
year ago. The railroad facilities were
simply perfect between the city and tho
grounds,
A SMALL WAR,
~
P hen tho r ecent elect 'on . in the
Chickasaw Nation . was held, Governor
Cuy was elected on the face of the re-
hirhs, but V> llliam Byrd, his opponent,
who was in control at the capital, threw
onough votes to secure a small nia-
jtrrity, and the Speaker of the House
swore in B J rd c *Ued the legist n-
ture together and put the capitol build-
1D S llnder guard. Guy, with fifty fol-
lowers, marched < into lishomingo and
took possession. He called his legisla¬
ture and was sworn in. Then he went
to Washington, laid the facts before the
interior department and was recognized
as governor and told to call on the
United States troops for assistance if nc-
cessary. Each has a force of about 200
men, and the excitement Is intense.
Guy’s life has been attempted several
times, but he still travels alone, refusing
to incur the expense of a body guard.
He is waiting now for the time given
Bytd’s men to expire, when, he declares,
he will kill or capture all who resist or
die himself.
SUSPECTED.
John Van Korff, engineer at the Steam
Gauge and Lantern works, at Rochester,
N. Y., was arrested by Chief Detective
Hannan and Assistants McCormick
and Naight on suspicion of setting fire
1° the works Friday night, in which
thirty-seven persons lost their lives. Van
Korff is forty-five, years old and ‘has a
wife and six children. Some years ago
bo was abraketoantm the Buffalo, New
Yora & Plnlade phia Railroad, and was
suspected of ha ving set fire to loaded
freight building cars. Later B'oadway lie was in engineer that city, at a
on
Three times while he was in charge the
building £ was on fire, ’ and on the third
it wfl8 bur ned down Before
u Van Korfi worked in Moore’s sash
d bjind fact J a9 e ineer This
was burn twice while he was
, m B , > , in it when Gould , g / groc , ry /
gfco Trowbrid gtreet and e8t a
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BANDIT KILLED.
The notorious Kep Queen, from Texas,
was kil | ed ne ., r (;i ara more, in the Che¬
rokoc Nation, on Sunday, by the district
fber jff Ed Sanders, and posse. A week
Qr more ago it became known that Queen
^ some of his outlsw followers were iu
^ bc vieinity, and they were finally lo-
ca ted in a cabin about a mile from the
p> 0 g Creek court house. That night the
8 ht riff made up a party, and, going to
place, they secreted themselves
abo ut the premises. Three men then
ca me out and mounted, and as they were
riding away, were called upon to halt,
jjjo answer was a pistol shot, which was
returned by a vollev from the officers,
Queen went down, mortally wounded,
and one 0 f b j s companions was unhorsed,
Rewards are standing in Texas for
Queen’s capture, dead or alive. Tho
cisco and other bank robberies are laid
a { Queen’s door.
SEVEN KILLED.
Limited express train No. 5, coming
west on the Baltimore & Ohio road,
ran into an open switch at Valley Fails,
ninety-three miles east of Wheeling, W.
Vn., aud collided with the engine of an
cast bound freight which I vy on and the John sid¬
ing. Ed Dwyer, the engineer,
Sty, tiie fireman of the passenger train,
both residents of Wheeling, Clerk were in¬ oi
stantly killed. Postal Hall,
Woodsiield, Ohio; William Clinton, en¬
gineer of the freight ttaiu, and a brake-
man named Conley, were also killed.
Two unknown men, tramps, who were
stealing a ride on the freight train, were
found dead in the wreck. Clerk Scott,
of the postal cat, escaped through a win¬ bad
dow with no worse injuries than
cuts about the face and head.
8TRIKE THREATENED.
A general strike against a re-arrange-
ment of working hours is threatened by
tbe iron workeis of Pittsburg, Pa. On
account of (he shoitage of natural gas
during have the daytime, the gas companies
requested hours mill owners the heaviest to arrange
working so that order work
will be done at night, in that the
consumption of gas can be made more
uniform. the change, The manufacturers their employes agreed to
but at meet¬
ings ot the various amalgamated lodges
throughout the city on Wednesday re¬ in
solved to strike against any change
“turns.” -
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ENGLISH ONLY.
petition A dispatch bad been from presented Rome slates to the that Prop¬ a
aganda influence protesting of against German the Catholics predomi¬ in
nating Archbishop Ireland,
America, and seven
Catholic bishops made a request that the
catechism shall be taught only in the
English language, and that in Ger¬
man parishes, where sermons were here¬
tofore preached in German, they should
now be preached in English, and that
no more festivities of any German nature
should be tolerated; in short, that every¬
thing German should h? abolished.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS,
ALABAMA.
The safe io the county treasurer’s of¬
fice, at Carrollton, Pickens county, was
blown open. The noise of the explosion
v va used several people living near by and
ho burglars fled without securing any
joodlo.
arkanhass.
The long and tedious con tent ion between
the Beil and Fan Electric Telephone com¬
panies was brought to a close in Little
Rock, by tho destruction of the Pan
Electric instruments by order of the Fed¬
eral court. Twelve hundred aud twinty-
nine instruments were collected and cou-
veyid to tho suburbs of the city and
burned. The bonfire consumed property
to the value o( $15,000, for which the
investors got no returns whatever.
GEORGIA.
Christopliine, an Italian fruit vender in
Atlanta, who was assaulted last Monday
night by three young men, died of his
injuries on Thursday.
Hon. Jnmes Hunt, a member of the
Georgia Legislature, was killed in At¬
lanta, Thursday night, by Sully Moore, a
mail agent on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad. The two men wero old
* liends.
N. B. Baum & Bro., of Toombsboro,
$100,090 lave failed, with $125,000. liabilities Savannah ranging from firm
to A
■ >f cotton factors lose over $50,000. Baum
& Bros., did a large general merchandt-e
business in Wilkinson and several neigh¬
boring counties, They operated three
-tores, one each in Toombsboro, Irwin-
ton aud Dublin.
NORTH CAROLINA.
An attachment against the property of
the favor Bank of of Arthur Durham, has been granted
in C. Elliott, of New
York, in n suit for $5,984.
There was a business crash in Durham
on Thursday hitherto unequalled in the
business history of North Carolina. Six
firms made assignments almost simul¬
taneously. The firms assigning are; W.
1’. Blackwell, president and owner of the
bank at Durham, $400,000; E. J. Parish,
$190,000; W. F. Ellis, $23,000; Muse &
Shaw, $10,000; Robbins & Stone, $8,000;
J. W. B1 ck well, $110,000. The aggre¬
gate liabilities will approximate $1,000,-
O00. Assets are not known yet.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The British steamer Sandringham,
loaded with ootton at Charleston
lor ltevid, was found to he on fire in the
forward hold, and wi g nearly destroyed
ou Sunday night.
Gn at preparations were made for the
gala week wnicb. begins in Charleston,
•4. C. Amusements include fireworks,
naval sham battles, prize drills, balloon
ascensions, trades display, torchlight
procession, fantastic parade, prize shoot-
ug, lawn tennis tournament, racing daily
i.ndan illumination of forts and Charles¬
ton harbor.
There is danger of a serious riot in
Beaufort between the negroes. Ex-
Congressman Robert Smalls ran for slier-
dF and was defeated. He then became
. i isgusted, and it is said assisted in hav¬
ing a split ticket put up against the Re¬
publican ticket for county officers and
1 epresentatives. Serious trouble is ap-
pri handed at any moment, and, acting
under the order of Governor Richardson,
Adjutunt-Generd Bonham has ordered u
battalion of infantry to arms, and they
are now awaiting orders.
VIRGINIA.
William R. Shipe, a young man 23
years of age, committed suicide on Sun¬
day at Richmond, by shooting himseii
through tiie head with a pistol at St.
Jnmes Hotel. He is said to Vie a Vh-
giuian, a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
aud traveling salesman for tho shoe house
of Pollock & Co., Baltimore, Md.
DISCOURAGING.
In view of the great falling of! in the
^Membership und the debt which is hang¬
ing over the Ordor, the delegates to the
KLuights of Labor Convention are now
feeling rather blue and wondering what
the outcome will be. At the end of June
1887, tile order was $5,972 ahead. Of
its condition one year later the balance
was $164, with bills to the amount of
$9,227 due and unpaid ; October 21, 1888,
there was a cash balance of $40, with
$2,887 due and unpaid bills.
OFF FOR ENGLAND.
Empress Victoria (tho widow of Em¬
peror Frederick), and her daughter!
started for England on Sunday. They
were escorted to tho railway station by
the emperor. The parting between the
emperor and his mother was very touch¬
ing. He kissed and embraced her severul
times. The party met the prince of
Wales at Flushing, and embarked on the
royal yacht which started for England.
GRAND 'NCREA8E.
Treasurer Jss. G. Daily, of the
Childs-Drexel fund, at Typographical Philadelphia,
Pa., of the International
U nion, reports that up to November 1st,
the amount on hirad was $20,333, which
more than doubles the amount of tho
original gift of $15,000 by Childs and
Drexel in 1886, and which was the nu¬
cleus of the fund liatned in their honor.
LOST MONEY,
The central exposition commission¬
ers of Cincinnati, O., read their
report in a general way. They fixed
the assessment to be paid by the
guarantees of the exposition funds at
thirty-five per cent, ff’hc guarantee fund
■was $1,000,000, and the assessment will
be $360,00(1
SCHUR2 HONORED.
A grand farewell was given on Tues¬
day to Gen. Carl Schurz on the occasion
of bis departure from Hamburg for the
United States. The Prussian minister,
Yon Kusserow, president and of the other senate, dis¬
the board of trade many
tinguished pmous, accompanied Schurz
to the skewer.
BUDGET OF FUN.
Humorous rkktchim from
various SOURCES.
A11 Autumnal Idyl— Then Ton'll
Remember Mo—A Precaution¬
ary Measure—A Creature
of llabit, Etc., Etc.
The roses from tho wild rose-trees
Upon the gra^s are falling,
And geese in happy argosies
Fly southward, wildly csllirg.
Upon The the squirrels top rail madly of tho chatter, fence
And in the forest, deep and donsa,
The chestnuts gaily patter;
And "Mary .lano will when* soon commence batter.
To make the buck
Then You'll Remember Mo.
Restaurant Waiter (to departing him cus¬ tho
tomer who has failed to givo
accustomed tip) —“You’ll not forget me,
will you?"
Miserly Party—“No, indeed. I’ll
write you a letter when I get home."—
Siftings.
A Precautionary Measure.
Enamored Youth — “Your father treats
me with the most distinguished night called consid¬
eration. The other he to
me as I was leaving and reminded mo 1
was forgetting my umbrella.” afraid
Sweet Girl—“Yes, papa was the you
would bo coming back after it next
evening."— Philadelphia Record.
A Creature of Habit.
:*» r «*• •»* '“*■«*”
sJi'iffir** ,h “‘ b " u, "" g
“Because, you see, I bought this horse
from the street railroad company and ho
won’t move unless I ring 0 a bell."-
Fhegende E,,- >. Blatter.
r- Not Due to Success.
First Poetical Aspirant (to second
ditto)—“So you say you sent off more
than a hundred poems and never had ono
returned?”
Second P. A.—“That’s what 1 said.”
First P. A.—“It’s a phenomenal suc¬
cess! I wish I knew the secret."
Second P. A.—“Well, I’ve sometimes
thought it was because I never enclosed
postage stamps."— Life.
He Diked to lie Accurate.
The farmer’s wife ran out to the road
and looked up and down. A tramp was
shuttling along, when she hailed him. “I
say, did you see any cows iu the corn in
that corner lot?"
“No, ma’am,” ha replied as he in lifted
his hat, “I didn’t see any cows the
corn, but I did see some of the corn go¬
ing into the cows at —”
But she was off .—IA is. ,
Didn’t Hocogni/.e the Bivalves.
Mr. Byam Kegs (from Kalamazoo, with 11
intense disgust). — “Here, waiter,
ordered raw oysters. What ozi airth
are these nasty black stones!
Waiter (petrified)—“Oystahs, suh— on
de hail-shell, sah!” "
Mr. Byam Keggs—“Ilaff-shell, is it?
Oh, git out! Pvo eat a million canned
oysters out home, anil never saw a shell
on ary one of them I”
Careful of His Mind.
Woman (to tramp)—“I s’pose you’ve
traveled a good'deal in this country?” of it,
Tramp- “I know every toot
Ma’am, from Portland, Maino, to the
llio Grande.”
Woman—“Don’t ye git tired 0 ’travel-
in’ sometimes?”
Tramp—“Occasionally, Ma’am, I am
oppressed with more or less ennui : still,
there’s nothing like travtd, you know,
to broaden one’s mind.”— Tm Epoch.
’ Two Pictures.
In Courtship—“What makes the stars
so dim to-night?” she asked. bright they
“Your eyes are so out¬
shine them,” hand. he said, as he tenderly
pressed After her Marriage —“I wonder how
many
telegraph poles it would take to reach
from her# to the moon?” she said,
musingly. if it long enough,” he
“One, was
snapped; “why can’t you talk sense?”
—Boston Courier.
What Can He Tell Pa?
Clara (shyly)—“You will have to gain
papa’s consent first, Mr. Sampson, ere I
give you my answer. ”
Mr. Sampson (heart throbbing with
hope)—“Can I see him at once, dear
Clara?"
“I think so, Mr. Sampson; and papa is
so absurdly practical, ho may ask somo
foolish questions.”
What will he ask?
He may want to know how much you
are worth, and oh, Mr. f ampson—George
(and the name dropped so tell sweetly him?— from
her lips)—what will you Sift¬
ings.
Learning to Shop.
Pretty Miss~“ilave you any plows?."
Jeweler—“i’lows?”
“Yes, or harrows!”
“Yes, or rakes, or hoes, or mowing
machines—”
“See here, my little miss, you seem to
he out of your bead, and I don’t know
but may be I ought to call a doctor or
policeman “Oh, or-” me! Don’t do that! My
head mercy wanted
is all right. You see, I to
go shopping and as I had not any money
ma told me to bo careful not to ask for
anything the store 1 went into wus likely
‘.0 have in slock. ”—Philadelphia Record,
Food for a lover.
lie—“Amanda, this is the neat little
restaurant where I have those delicious
lunches 1 have mentioned to you but
could not describe, and this is Tom, the
waiter who serves me my favorite dishes
so nicely, Adolphus."
8he-»-“Howsweet, order, Amanda?
He—“What will you
They have birds, oysters, and all tiie
delicacies of the season. ”
8he—“Your favorite dish, Adolphus,
of course. Waiter, you may fetch Mr.
Wigwag’s favorite order, which he says
you serve so nicely." (giving
Waiter—“Yes, ladv”
“Draw one in de dark. Soused pigs’feet
on de Iron .”—Niw York Sun.
Vanquished.
“You malicious nuisance 1” exclaimed
Jiff
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tho angry business maq, “you h*ve been
here every day for the last six month*.
How many more time* do you need to
be told that I never buy anything of* f
peddler*?” “I carrying orft the wishes _ of my **i a
am
late father, sir,” said the peddler. “He
railed on you 3!(* times without «f«r
making a sale and tiion turned the job
over to me. He dmd of a broken heart,
sir, and 1 am fast breaking down, but I
have a son who -.—”
“I surrender,” said the business man,
brokenly. “I don’t want the blood of
three generations on my head. I’ll take
your entire stock if you quit and sail it
square.”— Chicago Tribune. /
A Moan Trick.
Gus De Smith has been engaged far to he s
number of young ladies, but thus
lias never married any of them. Besides
being a gay Lothario, Gus is also a pout.
"On meeting a friend recently Gus re¬
marked: engaged
“Did you bear that I was
again?” “You don’t tell ? When.areyou
me 10
going to get married?”
“I didn’t say that I was going to get
married. I am only engaged." lady’s name?”
“What is tho young
“Her name is Lucy. Two other young
ladies to whom I was why*-, engaged engaged were
named Lucy. That’s 4
myself to this last girl. I can use on
this present Lucy the sonnets and love-
letters I used on tho other two. See?”
— Siftings.
A Pointed Reply.
After the downfall of Napoleon in
a'vsijrrs ass
r»°A p .oV™n™
Tho ^em payments for the were to be made ““Kj m 1316 ?* a
gold, but as the French were unable to
raise the amount in gold, tho Allies baa of
to be 8atisned with silver in payment
the other installment. naturally
The people of Paris wero
very much interested, and took having no pains
to conceal thoir anguish at to
part with their gold and silver coin.
The subject was under discussion one
day in the salon of Madame de Stael.
A young German officer who being was present
protested against the Allies com¬
pelled to take the inferior metal in pay¬
ment.
«t You had better be satisfied," inter¬ the
rupted Madame de Stael; “wo paid in
first installment in gold, the second
silver, and, if pressed too closely, we
might pay the third in iron."
“Very well, Madame," replied the
German officer, calmly; “you can if pay
the third installment in iron, you
! choose, but if you try it we will give
you a receipt in full in lead ” ^
Penelope’s Words of Comfort.
“j enelopc, can’t you say something
to soften the blow?” implored the young
man. canlsay?
“.)li, Philip, Philip! Vthat
It is all over between us.”
“That doesn’t soften it suid any,” rejoined
Philip; “that’s what you before.”
And the unhappy youth looked mourn-
fully at a ten dollar volmno of poems he
had presented her a few months before,
and heaved a sigh his so shoes deep, perceptibly so pro-
found, that it made
tighter. “Penelope,” he continued, “when a
young man builds ali his hopes on the
promise of a young womap and that
young woman deliberately goes back on
that promise, it knocks the props, as it
were, out from under his hopes, and
they come down, kerswash! You may
have a perception sometime, Penelope,” “of
ho added with increasing gloom, standing
the feelings of a human being
by a wreck of this kind happiness.” aud “looking at
the debris of his own
“I couldn’t help it, Philip,” she re¬
plied. “I have become satisfied that we
were not made for each other. We
should not be ha ppy together. We”-- he
“Is it because i am a mugwump?”
demanded.
“No, Philip, it is not that, I think,
with proper nursing, you would recover
from that in time. Neither have I any
objection to your personal appearance,; hah-’
your position in society, your
its”_
not. “My Penelope habits!” Witherspoon, he ejaculated. I “I hopoj in
never
my life took a drink of anything tobacco, intox-j
ieating, never chewed never;
smoked and a cigar, in never ballroom. went to a I circus,j don’t;
never was a
drink tea or coffee, eat peatnuts, chew!
gum, read novels, swear, gamble, lie,: atj
use snuff, play checkers, sit up late
night, go to theati%s, eat between meals, ;
nor rea.d Amelie Hives. I never kissed
a young womau in my life”--
“As far as ray experience goes,” “I as¬
serted Penelope, retrospectively, “Philip,” van she
certify that you have not.
added, with a glow of tender womanly
sympathy on her face, “you asked me
to say something to soften the blow. I
think I t an foresee a great future for you.
Y’our habits have fitted you for a shin¬
ing career.’’
“In what capacity, may I ask?”
“As a $50O-a-week freak in a dime
museum.— Chicago Tribune.
Squirrel Skins mid the Weather.
Tacked upon the wall in one corner of
mv room are three native gray that squirrel
skins. The agile chatterers wera
once within these soft jackets were shot
last October in the Maine woods, and theil
furs were tinned aud sent to me at the
same time by an enthusiastic sportsman
of my acquaintance. The ordinary way
in which ihese merely skins are tacking preserved them in tbe
country, is by upon
a good broad shingle, sprinkling a little
8a j t ovcr them and then setting aside for
a week to dry. F’or almost a year now
have these furs been upon my wall in a
soft, pliant and dry condition, though, as they
should be. Last Tuesday, when
the atmosphere was so’ excessively sat-
united with moisture I found them soak-
i D g We t,withgreatbeadsofwaterdistrib- The salt with
u ted over the sui face.
which they were withstand permeated, the humidity had simply in
been unable to
the air, and bad, of a consequence, been
dissolved by it. If squirrel skins provo
to be such an accurate register be of atmos- bad
pheric moisture, it might Service not Bureau a
idea for the Signal to
adopt them henceforth as standard hy-
grometers.or at least to use them in con*
nection with their other instruments.
dition My skins, again as .’’—New I write, Y.ni are Jn^ Xeu>.<. normal con-
Tho skin of murderers, tauued, ha*
been used to hind books in England.
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