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WASHINGTON, D. C.
uoVEMENTS OF TUE PRESIDKN1
Aia) U1S ADVISERS.
VTMEHVS. DECISIONS, Atm OTHEK MATTERS
^IJITEBEST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Hid. were opened Saturday at the navy
department for the constiuction of three
o (10 0 t on cruise is.
" the President, on Friday, appointed
E buck, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Uni
ted States marshal for the Northren Dis
trict of Georgia.
general , of officials
n is the impression
, naV Y deimitment that the board of
; r veyon of condemning the Ossippee the will vessel. report in
favor Saturday,
centeTth? Windom, on ac
n signati n of Charles B.
Morton commissioner of navigation, to
take affect on the 10th of November.
Secretary Tracy, on Wednesday, con
cluded the wo k on estimati s for the na
val establishment tor the year 1890-91,
au( i they "ill go to the secretary of the
treasury as i,oon as a copy of them can be
made.
Bids were opened at the treasury de
ou Wednesday, for the iron
and wood floors in the public building at
Savannah, Ga., the lowest being that of
L. Schiieber – Co , of Cincinnati, at
$8,946.
It is understood that two of the em
ployes of the pension office, whose pen
sions were re-rated, have been officially
requested to return to the government
the extra money paid them on account of
the re-rating.
Dr. R. P- Daniel, president of the
state board of health of Florida, tele
graphed to the marine hospital service
that the quarantine restrictions imposed
m Key West on account of suspicious
rases of fever there, have been removed.
The ordnance bureau of the war de
partment, has invited proposals foi
the erection of one main store house,
wmmanding officers’ quarters, office,
guardhouse, workshops, magazine, stable
ud shed, and two sets of barracks for
enlisted men to comprise an arsenal at
Columbia. Tenn. The proposals are to
be opened at noon ou Wednesday, No
vember 20 h. The amount appropriated
fortheactuil cost of construction of the
irsenal is $200,009.
Argtim< nt was begun in the Su pro me
Court of ihe United Statesou Thursday,
in the well-known case of Chase Cro-s
dent and Sami. and cashier C. White, respectively defaulting presi
of the
State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C.,
igainst the gq.te of North Carolina.
Cross and White were indicted in the
Norih Carolina State Court for forgery,
ft was alleged that they forged a note
for the purpose of sustaining certain
false entries they had m de iu the bank’s
books, the inteution being to deceive the
national bank examiner, whose duty it
was to examine into and report on the
Snancial condition of the same.
An hundred or more gentlemen, rep
resenting the National Board of Promo
tion, o ganized for the purpose of hav
in ing the World’s fair held in Washington
1892, met in that city Wednesday
morning. rious I hose present came from va
p its of the country and were
nearly all members of boards of trade or
similar commercial bodies. Delaware,
Maryland and Florida were represented
by their governors, A memorial was
presented to congress, urging that body
to take steps for an appropriate celcbra
hen in 1892 of the 400th anniversary of
the discovery of America by Columbus.
An exposition designed to show the
progress of civilization in the western
hemisphere dining the last 400 years is
recommended for the purpose of this
celebration and the memorialist “pray
hat the dignity of the nation be not en
trusted on the proposed occasion to the
eepmg of an y corporation, association
^fver’but or municipality upon any inducement
that the exposition beheld
J, e “ direction e national and capieol, exclusively under
control of the general
government, the Lnited anu that from the treasury
■> States, overflowing with
cu-nues in excess of the needs of the
government, d a °y a bove the the receipts excess of expenditures
be met.”
AILORS ON A STRIKE
Mr AD8E .tic THE managers refuse
to dis
< barge the foreman.
. , hun,lred !—: and , fift and ,
sevTnL s > x y
venmmdred i journeyman . tailors,
em
? ln tailoring twenty-six of the largest and
a f houses in Chicago,
went U ;*’ n a 8trik Friday morning,
Mir«.o «
inertin g V, f < L Ihursd,, e , clsIon reached kt at Indica- p. big
tiims S® u i the y n 'S -
Mon * = difficulty will not be
in tv, 7 m’ 1 ' Jho dis l )ute originated
– . tHdorin ■ ff establishment of Mai hews
< ui I lie men dissatisfied with
foreman, were
eir a man named Hendrick
’ ou - * bey made complain of this man
0 ° Mathews, but the latter claims that
specific charges were made, a simple
'fin: ml being presented for Hendiiek-
11 s dismissal. The firm refused to elis
the foreman and the men quit
BANK STATEMENT
hollowing banks is a statement of tlio asso
at New York for the week
ln g Saturday, October 26th:
rvui «crcase.. $ 212,022
J U1 » di .
‘ increase....' crease..... .. 2,428,3t)(! 407.7. A’
a k lers ,. l,27s»,90C
' I1( decret
pouts ase. ..
Oecrejsa... .. 4,186, 'iOC
t J ije bu.ks increase................ 62,29(1
now hold $916,650 in excess
l>er cent rule.
the deadly ax.
an OLD MAN KILLED, AND HI8
KNOCKED aged wife
UNCONSCIOUS.
A dispatch fr an Hawkinsville, Ga.,
save a v. tumble ui murder
n ' g deVen milesfr was committed
8 \rii° u U8 ^ . 0a couat kn °mhere,just
iHm y ®. Mr. Wil-
1 an a M e( I farmer, was kilted
, . . -
lved was nearly killed. Mr. and
" 1 ? r alone. They were sit
• ,
-mail “f.,7 lamp. the fi Mrs. , r « reading Miller and heard each had a
''^ou’t her hus
Ba ^ ir do that.” Then she
foH h nerself struck, and knocked
was un
> onscious. When she regained con
ciousmss she heard the clock strike
we ve. She saw that Mr. Miller was
apparently dead, and she was afraid to
call for help, fearing that her assailants
Acre still there. S ie lay there until four
o clock, whea her suffering were so great
hat she called for help. Her calls were
soon answered by the cook, whose house
bed was forty or fifty yards distant. On the
was an ax which had struck the
blows and the inrable top of a bureau
which had been removed from its place
to enable the murderers to rifle the draw
ora in search of money, which Millet
supposed was supposed to have iu the house. It is
that Mr. Mi ler saw the parties
as they raised the ax, anil asxed them
not to stiike. Mrs. M Her did not see
them. Wire was nearest the door, and
was struck first with the ax. She was
knocked senseless, and was probably
thought to be dead. Then it is supposed
tuat Air. Miller was attacked, lie was
struck five blows with the ax, and his
skull was badly smashed. When lound
he was still sitting m his arm chair with
his head and arm hanging over the side
The blood had run from ms wounds and
made a pool on the floor. Hisdea.h
must h ive been instantaneous. Mr Alii
ier was one of the most respected ci i
zenaof Ilous’on; a well-to-do larnier
upwards of sixty years old. El John
•Min and Sam Chun„ey, two mu-roes are
uspected of the murder, as th y have
uisapptared from the neighborhood.
D1SASTERS AT SEA.
SEVERAL VESSELS GO DOWN—FRIGHTFUL
LOSS OF LIFE.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says:
The schooner George T. Simmons, of
Camden, N. J., was wrecked off False
cape, thirty miles south of Cape Henry,
in a storm last Wedue-day night. When
the vessel was fir-t seen sunk in the
breakers, by the life-saving crew Thurs
day morn ng, five men were lashed in the
rigging. One by one the doomed men
h ive been swept away into the sea. Sun
day night two No-. men were left. Life-sav
ing stations 4, p.cked 5 and G have kept in
readiness a crew of men, watching
an opportunity to go to surf tue re-cue of the
wiecked men, but ihe has run too
high for the life boat three-masted to make an attempt at
relief.... A large schooner,
flying a flag of distress, is ashore eight
miles outside of Oiegon Imet. Assist
ance will be sent from Norfolk. ...Tte
schooner Lizzie F. II .ynes, lumber lad
en, from Savannah to Balt,more, has been
wrecked on Body’s Island. The captain
and steward were saved. Five men were
drowned. Two of their bodies were re
covered and were buiied. The vessel is
a total loss, and the cargo is washing
out on the beach... .The schooner A. E
Blackman rolled over when two miles
out at sea. Captain jacket, Charles Edwards,
by aid of a cork swam to
New inlet and was saved.
The other five of the crew were lost....
News from Charleston, S. U., Sunday,
says: The ste mer Carbis Bay arrived
from York on Friday. She reports that
fiity-four miles northeast by east of Ilat
teras light she passed the abandoned
schooner Mabel L. Phillips, of Taunton,
Ipmber laden. The hold was filled with
waier. All the masts were gone, aud the
deck bowsprit was standing in the track
of the steameis, and is dangerous to
navigation. She left Charleston for
Philadelphia on the 12th with 558,000
feet of lumber on board.
FLORIDA FRUITS
WILL BE CONSIGNED TO CXllCKQO DEALERS
FOR DISTRIBUTION.
A largely attended meeting of whole
sale fruit dealers of Chicago was held
Thursday, at which Gen. A. S. Mann,
of Jacksonville, Fla., was present, to
f 0rnm |ate apian to mike Chica o a dis
tributing point saili for Florida for the North*
west. He that the fruit growers of
bis etite ha 1 arrived at the conclusion
that it was a waste of time and money
to c<m sign hundreds of small packages
f0 towns and villages throughout the
Norlhw( , st . lie proposed, Florida, as spokesman had
of the shippers of who 10,
000,000 boxes of oranges to send over
the country, that the merchants of Chi
ca g 0 unite to m ike that city a point for
distribution,
THEY RESOLVE
l’O CONTINUE THE USE OF COTTON BAGGING
ANU ENCOURAGE ITS MANUFACTURE.
The Georgia committee on cotton bag
ging^ its recent session in Macon, Ga.,
passed the following resolutions:
“Whereas, The bgging commute; has
information from a number of sub-al
liauces throughout this state indica ing,
in the strongest terms, a determination
to continue the use of cotton bagging
alone for the purpose of covering the
prop of 1889. Therefore. Ro olved,
Tuat in conformity wi h this purpose,
we recommend the manufacture of bag
ging, to weigh not less than one loosely pound
the yard aud 44 inches wide,
woven, u Bimiliar to that now manufac
by the .Lane and West Point, Ga.,
mills.”
f, ‘i
TRADE TOPICS.
an encouhaging report from dun'i
COMMERCIAL AGENCY.
The following is R. G. Dun – Co.’
weekly ending review of trade for the week
Sat C rdat, October 20tu: Th
money mar T 7 et his b come more easy,
w ‘th pro pects mat serious disturbance
this seasun is no longer to be appre
bended. The hunk ot England gamed
^st week $270,000, and the Bank of
Trance $239,u00in gold. All report
supplies adtquate fur legitimate needs
Collections are unusually satis actoiy at
a most all points, though some place
note tardine.-s because fanners hold bacw
products lor better prices. The volume
yf I trade, fair for the season, at all points,
s greater than a year ago, though th'
aggregate of bank clearings outside ol
New York exceed last year’s but two per
cent. Trade in food and groceries is
good. Tue wo 1 trade has been the
largest at New York fyr a long time, and
more active at Boston, where sales were
B, 100,000 pounds, but full at Philadd
phia. Irou grows stronger, having ad
vauced in price $1. A demand from
Canada and from Mexico is felt, foreigu
blooms prices being high. Bir irou is fimi.
and bidets feverish, and rails are
$31.50 to $32, o ders already booked for
18000 amounting to 75,000 tuns or more,
Copper is steady. Tin is a shade lower,
an d lead depressed to $3.75 by expectn
tlou of lar S e Mexican supply. The coal
trade is dul1 tlm wetk < aaJ has aecom
l dlsl,ed nothing beyond fixing upon
8,000,900 ions as the output for Novem
by; tioH 5,1 sa.es "Teat generally at $3.90. with Liquida
teuts lovver than continues prices three
a weck a g°» auci sales
" f 65 .°°M 00 bushels here. Poik is
"e k, and in hogs the decline has been
sixty cents pci 1U0 pounds. Oil has risen
Uirec cent9 - Coffee is unchanged and
sugar is again lower. Colton continues
bowu, receipts exceeding those of the
» a me week last year by forty tkousami
LaleS1 ’ and ex l ,orts thirty thousand bales,
and wb ! le there has bee “ a touch of suow
m Virginia, the dreaded frost in the cot
ton states is still deferred. The treasury
has done little to help or hinder, but has
increased its cash holdings $900,000 for
the week. Ou the whole, speculative
markets are not promising, aud judi
ciously let alone by the public, but the
outlook for all departments of legitimate
business is more encouraging than it. has
been for a long time. Business failures
during last we k number lor the United
S ates 188, and for Canada 37. For the
corresponding Week la-t year, the figures
were 222 failures in the United States
and 32 in the D minion ot Canada.
PETITIONS FOR PARDON
OF MRS. MAYBRICK, NOW SERVING A LIFE
SESTRNCE IN LONDON.
Interest in the celebrated Maybrick
poisoning case w as revived through a
legal document which reached New York
ou ihe arrival of the mail from England
Friday. It was a mortgage, and bore
the signature in a firm, bold hand of
ETorence Maybrrk. The mortgagee is
li chard Stewart Cleaver, of Liverpool,
Mrs. Maybrick’s Engl sh counselor, and
the mortgage was made to secure his fee.
It be irs a date three days after the trial
began, and was placed on file in the
county register’s office in New York
Friday morning. At the office of Roe –
MackliiqMrs. Maybrick’s American attor
neys, was teamed that strenuous effoits arc
being made by several prominent mem
bers of the English convicted bar to secure a pai -
d >n for the woman, among
tnem being Sir Charles Russell, Sir
Henry James, and the recorder of Liv
erpool. A petition asking her
majesty’s intervention in the ensse
ha«, it is said, ben signed
by at least two-thirds of the barris
ters in England, and members of parlia
ment and leading men throughout the
kingdom are interested in securing Mrs.
Maybrick’s release in view of the insu -
dcieucy of the evidence, as they believe,
which convicted her.
A Dog’s Sense of Justice.
A gentleman residing in the suburbs
is the owner of a very large and iutel i
gent Newfoundland dog, to wlii h he is
much attached. The other day Max
(the dog in question) accompanied liis
master to a ne ghboring market, where
some purchases were to be made, and,
of course, something for the dog was in
cluded in the list.
When it came to the latt. r investment
the purchaser was impressed with the
small return secured for his money,
and the dog’s plance at the same
time seemed to signify that a similar
impression had taken posses son of his
canine mind. Tue purclia with er the was dealer, just
about to remonstrate
when, turning suddenly, he caught a
glimpse of the dog, who had taken his
own method to get even, and was dart
ing through the door with something The dea’er he
had seized from the bench.
did not notice the theft, and the owner
of the dog thought he was justified in
postponing any remonstrance as to his
purchase until a more favorable time.—
[New York Star.
THE PAPERS MISSING,
DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT “BOODLE”
CLAIMS DISAPPEAR.
It was announced at Chicago Friday
evening that important papers were miss
ing from the state’s had attorney’s office,upon
which the county largely claims, depended
to combat the old “boodle” ag
gregating $250,000. They arc needed
chiefly to tight the bills of Contractor
Kellogg, ex-Warden Varnell, tx-Com
missioner Fray and tho American iStone
and Brick Preserving company. It is
said that unless the missing documents
are recovered it may result in the loss of
many thousand dollars to the county.
CHINESE TAILORS.
A Visit to a Mongolian Clothing
House in New York.
Suits that Cost from Ten Dol
lars to Two Hundred Each.
There are many Chinese tailor shops
in New York. Mott street is filled with
them. They are in cellars, where pig
tailed Mongolians sit and watch on
three-legged stools, and a password or
a detective is needed to pass a stranger
from the street. They are in the rear
of first-floor shops and some are in up
per stories, through long, -winding halls
that smell of dried fish and frying pig’s
tails. The clothes are kept on dingy
shelves and in boxes under dark count
ers, and only form part of tha general
stock, liko nails in a hardware shop.
But there is only one swell Chinese
tailor in New York city, and he is
known to the business puolic as Mei Lee
Wa and Co., and is familiarly called
Mr. Mei by those who have tha honor
of his personal acquaintance. His place
of business is in the Bowery, where he
occupies the first floor and the basement
of one of the largest buildings.
The tailor shop looks as little like the
customary clothing store as a Chinese
laundry does like a fashionable drawing
room. It is a large room fillo 1 with
tables piled high with goods, and cloth
ing seems to be about the only thing
that is not offered for sate. At the
door, behind a small counter, generally
sit two men. One is short, stout,
shrewd-eyed and smiling. He wears
American clothes, with his pigtail eare
fully coiled out of sight under a fashion
able straw hat. lie is th; head sales
man, aud a capable one, too, if
appearances count for anything. The
other is slender and melancholy, He
affects the sombre in attire, and wears a
black felt hat of the prevailing under
taker style. II; spends his time finger
ing a kindergarten counting machine
and making up accounts With a piece of
India ink or a paint brush on the long
pages of a brown paper note book, lie
is the bookkeeper, and is said to be one
ot the most expert hieroglyphic makers
in the Chinese quarter.
The under salesman is aldermanio in
form and drosses very much as an Amer
ican docs in hot weather, with his coat
off and the sleeves of his white shirt
rolled up to the elbows. His knowledge
of English is confined by strictly com
mcrcial limits, but his winning smile is
broad enough to cover any linguistic
deficiencies he may possess.
A casual caller might fancy at the
door that Mr. Mei kept a tea store.
Before he had gone twenty feet he
would credit him with keeping a crock
ery store. Another half dozen paces
would change his opinion again, with
another change in the appearance of
the store. On the first row of tables
are kept Chinese wares of all styles an l
at all prices, from common crockery sets
worth $5 each to a superb red vase
worth $1000. On the next row are
glassware and square boxes holding te,n
and spice 1 herbs. Behind glass cases,
against the wall, are kuick- knacks in
ivory and gilt, worth a week’s wages
for every square inch of surface, Far
tlier back in the store arc laundry goods
and the various utensils used by the
frugal Mongolians for their housekeep
ing.
* Against the rear wall, which con
ceals from the barbarian world the liv
ing apartments of Mr. Mei and pretty
Mrs. Mei, is kept the clothing. It is
all made in China and imported in bulk.
Here are clothes enough to deck out the
8000 Chinamen of New York in holiday
attire and keep them in their Sunday
clothei for a year.
A Chinaman’s every day outfit is
beautiful in its simplicity. It consists
of a pair of short loose trousers, an
undershirt, a short coat that is called
Chan Sa Tien, or something that sounds
like that, and an overcoat known to the
initiated as a Foo Soi S un. The boots,
called Tien San Ifi, together with the
hat and hosiery, complete the ward
robe.
The undershirt does not differ nra
terially from that worn by native New
Yorkers, and is usually made of pongee
silk. Chinese dudes when not working
in their laundries wear finer grades of
silk. The long coat is only worn on
festal occasions by tha common clas ,03
of Chinese. The workingmen usually
content themselves with the short coat.
The long garment costs from $10 to |
$15, depending upon the wealth ami
rank of the wearer. The lowest priced
article is made of coarse si.k and 1st
usually blue or black in color. The
short c >at sometimes cost $200, but tha
variety usually seen on the streets can
be bought for from $5 to $8. It is
made of silk and is often gi#en a water
proof gloss and does double service as
coat aud umbrella.
The sandal-shaped boots are made of
cloth aud have soles an inch thiok.
These soles are fashioned of layers of
cotton pressed together, and arc as im
pervious to moisture as sole leather. The
tops of the shoes are embroidered and
they sell at from $1.59 to $59 a pair.
As none of the coats have sleeves the
selection of a suit of Chinese clotho3 is
both simple and satisfactory. The cus.
tomer simply fits the garment around
his neck and takes care to select one
that is not too long for him and the
task is done.
Mr. Mei’s clerks follow an adaii ruble
system in selling their clothing by the
wholesale. They have a number of lit
tle wooden manikins, which are dressed
in the various costumes offered for sale.
These are the samples and from them
the choice is made. The higher grades
of clothing are not offered for sale in
discriminately. They are the marks of
rank and can only be worn by those on
tilled to the honor.
While there are a number of Chinese
clothing stores in New York there is no
Chinese tailor. All clothing is ready
made. Thanks to the Celestial stylo of
coals,every one from a giant toa hunch
backed dwarf can be fitted with equal
ease, aud, as to trousers, all that is ever
seen of them by the public is the bot
toms, which to be in style must flap
against the ankles at every step.-— M<*U
atll> ' E" x P rebS -
Chinese Floating Gardens.
In a recent number of the China Jfy
vieio Dr. Macgmvan describes the man
ner in which floating fields and gardens
arc formed in C.iina. In the month of
April a bamboo raft 10 feet to 13 feel
long and about half as broad, is pre
pared. The poles are lashed together
with interstices of an inch between
each. Over this a layer of straw an
inch thick is spread, and then a coating
two inches thick of adhesive mud, taken
from the bottom of a canal or pond,
which receives the seed. The raft is
moored to the bank in still water, and
requires do fuither a'tention. The
straw soon gives way and the soil algo,
the roots drawing support from fhe
water alone. In about twenty days the
raft becomes covered with the creeper,
and its stems and roots are gathered for
cooking. In autumn its small -white
petals and yellow stamens, ncstliug
among the round leaves, present a very
pretty appearance. In some places
marshy land is profitably cultivated in
this manner. Besides these floating
vegetable gardens there are also floating
rice fields. Upon rafts constructed as
above weeds and adherent mud were
p aced as a flooring, and when the rice
shoots were ready for transplanting
they were placed in the floating soil,
which being adhesive and held in place
by weed roots, the plants were main
tained in position throughout the sea
son. The rice thus planted ripened
from GO to 70 in place of 100 days.
The rafts are cabled to the shore, float
ing on lakes, pools, or sluggish streams.
These floating fields served to avert
.
famines, whether by drought or flood.
When other fields were submerged and
their crops sodden or rotten these
floated and flourished, and when a
drought prevailed they subsided with
the falling water, and while the soil
around was arid advanced to maturity.
Agricultural treatises contain plates rep
resenting rows of extensive rice fields
moored to iturdy trees on the banks of
rivers or lakes which existed formerly
in the lacustrine regions of the Lower
and Yellow
Subsisting on Dried Coca Leaves.
The dried leaves of the coca plant,
which is cultivated on the slopes of the
Andes, form an important article of in
ternal trade am >ng the various native
tribes. It is estimated that not fess
than 3,000,000 pounds arc consumsd
annually. Alter tho morning meal
men and women aliko take a mouthful
of the leaves mixed with a little lime:
fresh leavoi are added throughout tno
day, and without any additional food
the consumer is enabled to do a hard
day's work.
The ielf-made man is frequently ex
ceedingly proud of a very poor job.