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tion, makes the startling stat mint that
there ore t50.000 boy tramps in t-ka
Unite 1 Sates.
A new company, in which Thomas
A. Edison, the inventer, is large y in
terested, has been organized to manu
facture dolls on a large scale. It will
turn out 250,000 the first year.
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ly took place in Westphalia, The bees
were marked by rolling in flour, and the
first reached home over the distance of
three and a half miles twenty-five sec
onds before the first p'geon, three other
bees arriving before the second pigeon,
Professor Behrcud, an English medi
cal authority, points out that in a prac
tice of thirty years, largely among He
brew patients, he has not met a single
case of phthisis in the members of that
faith, their immunity from its attacks
being undoubtedly due f o the Hebrew
meihod of examining and slaughlering
cattle.
The Russian naval manoeuvres in the
Black sea narrowly escaped being a
direct failure. Owing to the impossi
bility of procuring efficient stokers
three of the largest ironclads were pre
vented from leaving their moorings to
take part in the affair. It is impossible
lo find Russians enough to fill these
places, while for varitui reasons the
service is not particularly inviting to
foreigners.
Probably the smallest republic in the
world is the one which iccently de
clared its independence at Franceville,
one of the islands of the new Hebrides,
and , elected , ,, ,, M. Chevilliur , l ..
its presi
dent. The inhabitants consist of forty
Europeans (inc'.u ling a solitary Eng
lishman, a missioner), and 500 black
workmen employed r J by J a French com
pany. The new flag of the republic
having been duly hoisted, the French
gunboat Scrtric landed a detachment and
saluted the flag.
A test of metal railroal ties will soon
be .made in Chicago. It is predicted
that metal ties will be usod before long
on all railroads in the country. Beyond
their technical value, observes the New
York World, these tie3 suggest the pos
sibility that our Americau forests may
be saved from total destruction, Thct
greatest dram upon our forests has been
made in the construction and repair of
railroad tracks. A xvoodeu tic lia? only
a shert lea’s of usefullness an l has to
be replaced very frequently.
Thy Japanese minis'er to America,
Mr. Mu sa, Las just received the decora
tion of the Order of the Crown, con
ferred upon him by the emperor in
recognition of his recent conclusion of
a treaty with Mexico and other services
for the state. Mr. Mutsu hac\ pre
viously been decora cd by the emperor
with the Order of the Rising Sun. The
order was inclosed in the hollow of a
bamboo stick, a method which prevails
in Japan. Mr. Mutsu is not a noble
man, but belongs to a das* in Japan
anulogous to that of the gentry in Eng
, land. , It , . exceedingly ,. , that the
is rare
orders w hich he hasreceived arc bestowed
upon any but the nobility, and they iu
dicate that he is held iu the highest re
pute at home.
The charges made with regard to the
treatment of recruits at .T-ff rson Bar
racks, Mu, have been investigated by
an army court of inquiry and a re
port made to the Secretary of
war. A number of the charges
of cruelty against on i*tel men
wore proved io De exaggerated, al
though the cooking was found to be bad.
A number of non-commissioned efti
cere, it was discovered, had been
running games of elutnee whereby re
cruits lost a considerable putioa 0 *
their earnings. More desertions occur
from this post than any other. Tuis
is attributed to the fact that the post is
so near a bu gs city. Miny men enlist
iu the Evst merely for the sake of
getting sent out West. Many chronic
■ deserters 4 . r from . . the ,, arid ... cry and asi. Infantry
enlist and get scut to this cavalry post,
where the chances of meeting their
former vlliicrs become very slight. Ia
this way they manage to desert, in
many cases, for the third tune.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
t hings tiiat happen from day to day
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Adelina Marquis deCaux, formerly husband of
Patti, is dead,
C. L. J. Myer, Sons Sc Co., dealers in
manteJs.g have rites, etc., in Chicago, Ill.,
made an assignment.
Three thousand miners employed in
colicries j.t Oldbury,,England, have given
notice tl at they will strike unless they
rre .heir granted an increase of ten percent in
wages.
'■ Patrick Sullivan, employed by the
Manhattan Electric Light Company, was
instantly killed Saturday morning by an
electric shock, while at work in the com
pany's building.
W. F. Camp, the most extensive mer
chant in Polkton. N. Y., made an assign
ment Saturday. His liabilities and assets
arc not yet known, but both are said to
be heavy, and near the same.
A passenger train on the Missouri
Pi iific railroad collided with a freight
train near Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Friday
night, and two tramps stealing a ride be
tween the tender and mail cars were
crushed to pulp.
One hundred ami thirty printers from
Beiffhi have been engaged to take the
places of the strikers in Berne. The
Bund and three other journals have con
solidated and will be issued ur.der the
title of the Normal Gazette.
Warren Le’and, Jr., hotel proprietor at
Long Branch, N. J., on Friday made an
assignment of all his property, including
.nr Ocean hotel, Ocean theater, Ocean
club house, etc., for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are $225,000.
At a mass meeting of Knights of La
bor held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Satur
day. a resolution wa< passed to the effect
that a demand of 20 per cent, advance
in wages be made February 1st. The
meeting was largely attended and com
posed of miners and laborers only.
John R. Rauch, Jr., who has for sorpe
time past conducted a savings bank at
Baltimore, was on Saturday reported to
p av( . disappeared with all his depositors’
composed money. The mainly depositors in thebanly were
of poor persons, and
the average amounts were from $8 to $20.
Warehouse 14, at Baltimore, Md ■i
owned by the Sadtder estate, wtfs da tri
aged by fire Saturday morning to the ex
iont of $15,000. Martinez A Co., cigar
manufacturers John R. Kerb – Co.,
jewellers, and George Instruments, R. Wnhg «te Co.,
dealers ip musical occupied
the building,
In a blinding snow storm at kittle
Fern - , N. J.. Saturday, a heavy coal train
through plunged into the Hackensack river,
gine went an out open of sight, drawbridge. carrying The with en- it
the engineer, fireman and one brakemgu.
The snow prevented the engineer from
seeing the done danger signals, and nothing
could bo to stop him.
At New - York Saturday morning the
commissioner of public works, Gilroy,
sent out four gangs of men to cut down
the poles and wires of the. electric light
companies. Inspectors of the hoard of
electric control accompanied them to point
out the poles on which the dangerous'
wires were strung. The companies are
actively seeking another injunction.
PHOSPHATE BEDS.
A SCHEME ON FOOT TO SELL THEM TO A
SYNDICATE Olt TRUST.
The new - s of the development of a pro
ject in Columbia, 8. 0., looking to the
outright title and sale by the State of all its right,
interest in the phosphate beds,
for a sum not less than seven million dol
lars, has caused a stir in the phosphate
exchange at Charleston. The first inti
mation of the project was the introduc
tion of the bill in the legislature by the
ways and means committee on Friday.
The phosphate industry is the principal
industry of Charleston. Millions of do'.
lavs are invested in it by natives, north
enter; and foreigners. Most of the fer
tjUser their supplies works ot there. Europe The and deposits America get the
on
s f mims are moved by companies who pay
the State a royalty of about one dollar a
ton, the revenue to the State amounting
to about $200,000 a year. Should the
State dispose of its interest, the pur
chasers w'ould lie at liberty to increase
this royalty to any figure, as there is no
restriction in the proposed bill.
THE LABOR FEDERATION.
MEET IN BOSTON, MASS., AND ELE< T OFFI
CERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAH.
The National Federation of Labor, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected the
following officers: President, Samuel
Gompers, of of New York; W. H. Martin,
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers, first vice-president;
P. Maguire, of the United States Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, second
Miners vice-president; and Christopher Evans, of
Mine Laborers, Secretary;
Henry Einrieh, of Furniture Makers un
ion, treasurer. After selecting Detroit as
the place for the next year’s meeting, the
federation adjourned.
MOVEMENT OF SPECIE.
York Exports week of specie from the port of New -
last amounted to $299,035. V>47,800
of wh] ,. h mm was ^ alM|
silver. Of the total export $1,200 iu gold
and $225,850 in silver went to Europe
an< ^ > n an< ^ $22,220 in silver
to South America. Import* of specie
amounted to $20,028, of which $11.86)
was in gold and $17,167 silver.
A MONUMENT FOR DAVIS.
THE 80 tcrriKIlN PISE8S MONUMENT ASSO
CIATION HSUE8 AN ADDRESS.
At a Monument special meeting of the Southern
Press association, at New Or
leans, on Friday, President Childress was
instructed to appoint one vice-presid cut
lor each "state. Appointments them ore
were made as follows - : South Carolina—•
J. C. Hemphill, Charleston News and
Courier. North Carolina—S. A. Ashe,
Raleigh News and Observer. Florida—
W. C. E. Merrill, Jacksonville Times
Uniou. Arkansas — George William
Caruth, Little Rock Gazette. Virginia—
W. G. Walter, Richmond Dispatch.
Maryland — Asa Bell, Baltimore Sun.
Louisiana—F. E. Davis, Picayuue; Page
M. Baker, Times-Democrat; George A.
Dupree, States, and John Fairfax, the
City Item. Missouri—C. H. Jones, St.
Louis Republic. Kentucky — W. N.
ITaldeman, Courier-Journal. Tennessee—
W. A. Collier. Memphis Appeal. Ala
bama—-W. W. Screws, Montgomery Ad
vertiser. Texas—A. II. Belo, Galveston
News. Mississippi—J. L. Power, Jack
son Clarion. Georgia—J. H. Estill,
Savannah News. The following address
was drafted by the committee duly ap
pointed at the meeting Friday: “The
purpose of the people of the south to
build a grand momanent to Jefferson
Davis was synchronous with the last
breath of the dying - hero of the Confeder
ate cause. It is not, therefore, to create
new - enthusiasm; it is to centralize and
direct the course of that which already
fills,millions of patriotic souls, that the
newspaper press of the South have organ
ized to co-operate with the association of
United Confederate Veterans. While the
great soul of Jefferson Davis, freighted
with indefensible truth of the Southern
cause, of constitutional liberty, has winged
its flight to the throne of God, his earthly
remains must he duly honored by those
for whom he suffered, and w r e should be
dead to every sentiment of duty, every
prompting of gratitude and love, did we
not, now that he has been called hence,
seek in every fitting way to perpetuate
his memory and prove to the world and
to posterity that we know how to appre
ciate so pure, so noble, so exalted a
character. We need d#> no move than
state the object qf the association to s»
cure the (lamest and enthusiastic co-oper
ation of every newspaper in the south,
That object in itself—so noble, so patri
otic, so suggestive, that the heart of every
man and woman in our broad, fair land,
.vill at once beat responsive to it.” The
tddress -was signed by George W. Dupre,
•hairman; Page M. Baker, Thomas E.
Davis, John W. W. Fairfax, New Or
leans; W. G. Walter, Richmond, Va.; A.
N. Screws, Montgomery, Ala.; W. A.
Collier, Memphis, Tenn.: E. N. Car
mack, Nashville, Tenn.; Ed P. McKis
sack, Charleston, S. C.; R. M. Johnston,
Houston, Tex.; John Henderson, West
Point, Miss.; Deon Jastremski, Louisiana;
John IV. Childress, ex-officio chairman.
ANOTHER DEATH TRAP.
A?
X panic in tiie TyfiSATRE building in
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN.
Tom’s During the performance of “Uncle
Cabin” at the Park opera house at
Johnstown, Pa., Tuesday night the cry
of fire was raised, resulting in a terrible
rush down the narrosv stairs. About a
score of persons w r ere instantly killed and
impiy terribly injured. People rushed
from the outside up the narrow stairs
land were crushed by the crowd
forcing its way to the street.
Seventy-five When person were injured.
the crowd was driven away, the
following the persons were found dead upon
stairs: Mass Clara Burns, Mrs. Nes
ter, George llerner, Charles Fiaut, John
Carr, Mgs. Lester, John Miller, A. $ r eiss,
John Wayman, Richard Worthington,
Isaac Tolar, an unknown vmman.
Among Vaugh, the seriously injured were Charles
Albert Owens, and a man named
Wiemer. There are about thirty others
injured, but their names cannot be ascer
tained. The alarm was false and there
are many threats against the unkiNhvn
man who started it.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
A RAILROAD WATCHMAN CAUSES FOUR
MEN TO LOSE THEIR LIVES.
When ope of the fast New - York and
Washington and express trains on the Balti
more Potomoc arrived at Washing
ton Saturday night, the dead body of a
man w as found on the cow -catcher of the
engine. It was subsequently learned that
the train had run into a wagon filled with
countrymen on the outskirts of the city.
Four men were killed—-two white and
two colored- and one colored man was
badly injured. The men were in a cov
ered wagon and drove across the track
without concern, as the guard gates were
open. The watchman at the crossing,
whose duty it was to close the gate at the
cha approach of a train, was arrested on the
rye of manslaughter.
STRIKING MINERS.
THEY CLAIM THAT THEY WE HE NOT
TREATED RIGHT.
The miners at the Pratt mines of the
Tennessce Coal, Iron and Railroad com
pany went out on strike Thursday morn
ing. They claim that last year the Ten
nessec agreed Coul, Iron and Railroad company
to advance wages whenever
the price of iron w - ent up. The advance
promised Avas two and one-half cents a
so the '■liners rl-iim i 0 j
striE. ; -ii (L - C0Up i
Smtorfretolnn wif h. rto '
n T , l 1 th"’ kd
them to refuse to go to work. r l he mini-
2 000 Tnd thev Zl 9 th can/^ nt - 0Ut x is , I' 6 ™ <" “
'ong as the company
SOUTHERN NOTES.
interesting news from ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
general progress AND OCCURRENCE*
WHrCH ARE HAPPENING BELOW
SON'S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Virginia senate, on Friday,
a bill repealing the law opening 'u,,,/ pa*,,a
land Flats for planting oysters.”
The jury in the Kilrain case, at p,,
Miss., on Saturday, returnad rV u
not guilty of prize fighting, but a verdict rf
assault and battery. They guilt,,
were ‘
hours. out five
A large tubular boiler at Randall
Bro.’s saw mill, Covington, t
ploded Saturday, demolish! Tenn ex ,
the building and killing completely U K
and Mr. Stuart, Fireman Jones
one of the firm, Two
other employes were seriously hurt.
Western nail manufacturers to the
her of fourteen mills met in Wheeling' mini
discussion vy. V a., L rid ay morning and after a | 0 n,r
over the condition of trade
advances in raw material, etc., concluded
to advance the price of nails to *-> ■>-.
net.
A strike occurred at Chattan OOO'ji
Tenn., on Saturday, of eighty-five brick
layers iu th<* employ of D. J. Chandler
and sixty-three stonecutters in the employ
of the Chattanooga stone and marble
cutting company. A difference of five
cents an hour on Saturday was the cause.
Half a dozen farmers, w ho w - ere return
ing to their home from Dallas, Texas
after selling their cotton, were robbed by
highwaymen Rock. on the road near White
Bloodhounds were put on their
track, and a report has reached Dallas
that two of the robbers were captured and
hanged by the enraged farmers.
General Manager Bond, of the Tetme S.“
see Coal, Iron and Railroad company,
returned from New York Friday morning,
and, after conferring with a committee
of Pratt Mines miners, all differences
were arranged, and the miners agreed to
return to work at the present prices.
wages are to be raised as the price
iron advances.
Advices Saturday from Key West imli
cate that the cigar strike is further from
settlement than ever. The men are better
and are receiving daily large
from other labor organizations,
They lose nothing but their wages, while
manufacturers are losing their profits,
their trade broken up and being
each. to monthly The expenses of over
strikers now laugh at
at a
OVATION TO COL POLK.
HE IS GIVES A GRAND RECEPTION BY THE
FARMERS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The Fanner’s Alliance hadademonstra
tion at Raleigh, N. €., on Friday, upon
the arrival of the president of the Na
tioual Farmers and Laborers’ Union, Col.
Polk, from St. Louis. Colonel Polk was
escorted to the city hall by a procession
in which were many public men and offi
cers of the State and county Alliances,
and a mounted escort of members of Oak
ridge Affiance, of which he is a charter
member. A. C. Green, president of the
Wake County Alliance,presided, and Col.
Polk was greeted with great applause
when he entered, accompanied by Acting
Governor Holt. President Green wel
comed him, as did also Governor Holt and
Mayor Thompson. Addresses were made by
State Labor Commissioner Scarboro, Pres
ident. Tonnoffskie. of the Knights of La
bor, Trustees Broughton and W. IT. S.
Mechanical Burgwyn, of the State Agricultural uud
college, and other prominent
men. In response Col. Polk delivered a
forcible and eloquent address, among
other things saying, this demonstration
of approval by "his neighbors was more
gratifying high to him than his election to the
position.
AN INVITATION
TO UNITED STATES DELEGATES TO TAKE A
TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA.
The central and South American dele
gates to Hie Pan-Apaerican congress at
Washington, United have decided to invite trip the
States delegates to take a
through invitation Central and South America. The
w ill probably be accepted. The
through delegates to the congress will take a trip
the Southern states, starting
about the 15th of January.
The islands of tlio Pacific have been
the sphere of some of the greatest trans
formations in history. Among these
the story of New Zealand is by no
means h sst exciting. It is a land 1,500
miles long from north to south, full ot
great resources, agricultural and other
wise, cnriche l with some of the most
romantic scenery on the lac ; of the
globe, lofty waterfalls, towering snow
clad southern Alps rising 12,000 feet,
and beautiful stietches of coast, lhe
change Zealand has been most wondeiful.
inhabitants, has 606,000 happy, known, prosperous the
poverty is little anil
cites are fall of comfort and taste,
the whole people are worthy mid in’clh
S cllt - Business is thriving, impr< Vj -
ments lllG of vast extent, and a soli<
basis for the life of the colon v is us
sured * is room for ten times iu
man y inhabitants, and the next lmj
years will find a givaf increase m
Population,
'
, r
which can be drained and brought undei
cultivation is equal to that of all the
cultivated lands, ’ or nearly 300 , 000,000
a . r Mm;1 . of this i. ir q cou ld l e re
claimed without groat difficulty or e*
ereaT’v.lue far;n " -,Mld °