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Well-Kept Hordern.
Tho beauty and value of a flower- |
bed or a farm depends not a little !
upon a well-chosen and well-kept
border. We have never met a person
who admired a farm bordered with
dilapidated fences overrun with briars
and weeds, or a fine crop surrounded
with tall weeds. Cut ’em down in the
beauty the (?) and vigor of youth, and re-
move old run-down fences.—The
Epitomist. 1
The Calf's Drinking Pail.
Calves during the first summer ore
frequently pastured in an orchard or
tethered by a rope near the barn. In
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either case water must be carried to
them and their pail is very likely to be
lipped over.—American Agriculturist.
Curing Iluy for Home Use.
In hay making, two points are to be
■considered, writes J. S. Woodward, of
New York. First, how to get the
largest weight of such hay as is most
in demand in the market and will
bring the highest price, and second,
how to get the largest amount of di¬
gestible stock food to the acre. The
first is from the standpoint of the hay
seller. The other from that of the hay
feeder.
Fortunately for the farmer, the hay
buying public has not yet “got onto”
the fact that for all animals for all pur¬
poses for a driving horse even, there
is no hay quite equal to early cut, well
cured clover, so the market calls for
timothy hay and such will sell for sev¬
eral dollars per ton more than any
other, and it must be made from grass
fully grown and ripened to a point just
short of the shattering of the seed.
There is a prejudice in the market
against hay that is too green in color,
and although hay cut early and of a
deep green color is far better to feed,
it will not bring as much as that which
is lighter in color, in fact, almost white,
providing this color comes from fuller
maturity and not from bleaching by
the weather.
While no other of the true grasses
has nearly so high a feeding value as
the northern biuegrass, “Poa coin-
pressa,” and nothing increases the
feeding value of timothy hay more than
a mixture of this grass,- such a mix¬
ture injures its market value in pro¬
portion to the quantity of bluegrass
contained. So then, for market, clean
timothy is wanted, and it should be
cut ju3t before its seeds will shell and
at this stage can be cut in the morn¬
ing of a good hay day, and drawn and
housed in afternoon, especially if it be
gone over with a tedder soon after
dinner.
But as to the best time to cut
the various kinds of grasses, best
methods of curing, handling and stor¬
ing to get best results in feeding farm
stock. We do not care for bulk but
for amount of digestible food. A well
established fact in vegetable growth is,
that during the early season much of
the growth of hay plants is at the ex¬
pense of nutriment stored up the pre¬
vious Season, and that up to a certain
point of maturity the plant is largely
fiber and water, and that beyond this
time the plant is taking in carbon from
the air and uniting that with the water
and forming the carbohydrates—first
sugar, then starch and lastly fiber;
that the further this change goes the
woody fiber increases and the digesti¬
ble matter decreases.
A rapid change also takes place in
the constituents of grasses in the cur¬
ing or drying process. While the green
grass may contain much sugar, when
the s.ame has been cured but Little can
found, it having passed on to the starch
form largely, and doubtless more or
less has gone on into the woody state.
These facts true, grasses of all kinds
should be cut when they have the great¬
est quantity of sugar and starch per
acre, as these are both almost com¬
pletely digestible. If allowed to go
beyond this the hay may increase much
in weight and still lose much of its di¬
gestible With value. included,
all the grasses, clover
tois point will be found just at the
period of full that bloom. the pollen I know many the
have a notion on
grasses makes the hay dusty, but if
that be the only dust on the hay, ifo
animal will ever be injured by its use.
There is one objection to this early
■cutting of grass for hay—it is much
more work to cure it, but the far
greater value will more than compen¬
sate for the extra labor.
I have tried almost every way of hay
making but, all things considered, I
prefer to do most of the curing in cock.
Idike to start the mower about four
-o’clock in the afternoon and keep it
running until 10 o’clock the next day,
except for a couple of hours in the
early morning. Ii the grass is heavy,
it should be shaken out with a tedder
before noon and hy three in the after-
noon it will be ready to rake and go
into cooks.
Few men know just how to make a
good hay cock. Almost anyone can
make a bunch, but it takes an artist
to put up a hay cock so it will shed
rain anil not be blown over by every
little breeze. It should be small on
the ground, rather tall and so built up
that the outside coat shall shed rain
like the thatch on a stack. This is
easily done by one who knows how,
but difficult to describe so that a novice
can make one just right. Hay put into
oocks after being fully wilted will, in
good weather, sweat and cure out,
ready to go into the barn, in two to
five days, according to the weather.
When cured enough on a bright
morning after dew is off, the cocks j
should be deftly opened into just good
sized forkfuls, and in an hour and a
half or two hours it is ready to draw
and put into barns. Of conrse where
one has not storage under cover he will
be compelled to stack the hay, but I
believe this is a wasteful practice and
that even with the best system of stack-
ing, enough will be wasted in a few
years to pay for a building in which to
store it. The old notion was, that the
barn for storing bay should be open
and that the doors should all be left
open to air the hay, but now people
have learned that the tighter the barn
and the closer it is kept shut, the
greener the hay can be stored with
safety and the better it will keep. In
buyiug a lot of clover hay in England
to feed a flock of sheep which I was to
bring over while on ship I was struck
by its dark color but delicious fra-
grance and the fact that the sheep ate
every portion, even to the coarse stalk,
and from then till now I have been
trying to cure clover like it, and have
succeeded pretty well by curing it in
large cocxs and putting into mow 3
qmte damp.—New England Home-
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Excellent Cheap Chicken Coops.
It is well to utilize the leisure of
winter in preparing for the rush of
work that always comes when spring
opens. One such preparation is the
preparing of tho needed chicken coops
for the broods to be hatched out dur-
ing the spring months. A simple ar-
rangement is shown in the cut. Empty
grocery boxes are procured and turned
upon their sides, the cover being re-
placed by slats, the cover being re-
served for closing the coop at night,
Upon the top now nail three strips
that will project fifteen inches in front,
making the middle strip higher than
the other two. Tack upon these strips,
as shown in the cat, a piece of tarred
paper, and a waterproof roof will not
only be secured, but a protection from
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SIMPLE HEN COOP.
the sun in front of the coop. This will
be very grateful to the chicks in hot
weather, and to the mother-hen, which
often suffers in the ordinary coop in
the heat of summer.
These coops will answer their pur-
pose admirably, can be made with but
a few moments’ work, and need not
cost over fifteen or twenty cents apiece.
—New York Tribune.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Mother earth wants her back
scratched after showers.
The successful farmer not only
knows how to do his work well, but
does it as well as he knows how.
Dig out and haul off, or bury, the
rock that dulls your plow or sickle, or
you may have a break to repair next
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time.
Our rule has been to begin turning
the horses on pastures nignts as soon
as the crops are in and the pasture
good. We consider it a good plan.
Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips,
etc., may well follow extra early pota¬
toes, sweet corn, lettuce and radishes,
thus securing two crops from the same
rich ground.
Many a behind-hand farmer might
succeed in raising a profit by lowering
the cost, through a more intelligent and
industrious use of better teams, tools
and methods.
The journals of grass and grain
cutting machinery must be kept well
oiled, the knives sharp and the pitman
of such length that the sections will
exactlyhlentre in the guards.
On fartas where much feed is ground
for stock a good feed mill will often be
found to pay; the saving in toll will
soon amount to the price of one and
then the grain will not have to be
hauled over bad roads.
In harrowing sod ground first time
over it is best to go same way the
plow went, for the harrow will then be
inclined to push the imperfectly
turned sods over to their places in¬
stead' of tearing them up.
Much American butter goes abroad,
but whether consumed at home or
abroad, competition is sharp and
quality must be just right or down we
go. Questions of competition usually
turn upon the matter of quality.
Dairymen well know that beets and
mangolds are excellent for cows, ton¬
ing up the system and increasing the
flow of milk; and now an experienced
Nebraska man claims the feeding of
sugar beets to hogs is an almost cer-
tain preventive of cholera.
A smile should now play around the
corners of the improved stock breed¬
er’s mouth—at least the one who is
stocked up with good animals. Our
stock industries \ong have been running
downhill enough, and now the
upgrade seems to have been reached.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The trouble with tongue-tied peopla
is that the membrane connecting the
tongue with the lower jaw is-too short.
The tongue of most serpents is
really forked, though this member
seems to be of no particular use to the
reptile.
The mouth of the octopus is in the
centre of his body, and is provided
with a beak closely resembling that of
a parrot.
Some moths have no mouths, The
inseot after attaining a perfect stage,
lives only a few hours and does not
take food.
There are at least two cases on rec-
ord of five children at a birth, viz., a
woman of Konigsberg, September •'!,
1874, and the wife of Nelson, a tailor,
in Oxford Market, in October, 1800.
In Mexico are found the “agrioul-
tural ants.” A clearing varying from
one to thirty feet is made and is used
as ‘a playground or exercise yard. At
its margin grows the crop, a sort of
grass. Breaks in the grass ring give
entrance to and exit from the clearing,
The seeds of the grass form tho food
of the ants.
As asbestos comes from the mine it
i 9 0 f a greenish hue and the edges are
f urre d with loose fibers. The more
nea rly white asbestos is the better its
grade- The length of fiber is also of
great importance, the longest being
the luos t valuable, From the mines
the as bestos is taken to the manufac-
tories in the United States,
Static electricity modifies the human and
voic0 Berionsly a8 MM . Mom-tier
Granier f , OTt to the Paris Academic
de Meilicil e . A singer sitting upon
6Q isolatecl 8tool coupled to the negft-
tiv0 1 , of ft gtatic inaehine WM ma de
^ br fiathe the a tmosph 9 re, which was
electrilied b meftn s of a b rus h elec-
trode; a fter a short time the voice be-
me full and c]ear) the quality mnob
more agreeable, and the voice was less
rapidly tired. For some singers a dy¬
namic’current of 1500 volts connect-
ing with the electric . chair . the only ,
is
remedy,
One of the schemes for future en-
gineers to work at will lie the sinking
of a shaft 12,000 or 15,000 feet into
the earth for the purpose of utilizing
the central heat of the globe. It is
said that such a depth is by no means
impossible, with the improved rna-
cbinery and advanced methods of the
coming engineer. Water at a temper-
ature of 200 degrees centigrade, which
can, it is said, be obtained from these
deep borings, would not only heat
houses and public buildings, but
would furnish power that could be
utilized for many purposes,
Professor Koehler’s experiences of
the effect of formaldehyde in the pre¬
servation of deep-sea fishes are well
worthy of tho notice of future collec¬
tors. It is well known that the tis-
sues of many deep-sea fishes are of
extreme softness and fragility; by im¬
mersion in spirits sufficiently strong
for preservation, these tissues are
much contracted, the natural shape of
the fish often being distorted. This
is entirely avoided by the use of the
usual forty per cent, formaldehyde,
mixed with twenty times its volume of
water. The specimens, however, have
to be transferred into spirits after
some days, because the formaldehyde
bas been observed entirely to destroy
black pigment in a very short time,
Could Hear Webster a Mile OIT.
Marshfield is noted for having its
people live to a green old age, but
Mrs. Sally Baker, who is ninety-eight
years old to-day, can claim the dis-
tinction of being its oldest inhabitant
by quite a number of years. She re-
sides in a pretty farm house on the
Neck road, which has been her home
for sixty-one years. The buildings
are sprucely painted, the surroundings
aro trlml P kept, and the barns indi-
( ' ato a thrifty farm business. Mrs.
Baker was born m Kingston -June 9,
1799, and was the daughter of Oliver
and Sally (Maglathlin) Sampson—good sides
Old Colony stock on both of the
honse.
In April, 1819, Sally Sampson was
married to Captain Otis Baker, of
Duxbury, Parson Zephaniah Willis,
of Kingston, performing the ceremony.
Captain Baker had been a privateers¬
man in the war of 1812, being then less
than twenty-one years old. His widow
now draws a pension, and is the only
pensioner of that war now living in
this section. In 1836 Captain Baker
and his wife went from Duxbury to
Marshfield and established a home,
where she has resided ever since. The
farm was a mile long, and extended to
Green Harbor River, on the opposite
side of which lay the estates of Daniel
Webster. Mrs. Baker used to see a
great deal of her distinguished neigh¬
bor, for he was always hail fellow well
met with the townspeople. Mr. Web¬
ster’s voice in particular has im¬
pressed itself on the lady’s memory.
“You could hear him a mile off,”
she said.
The Websters attended the little
Congregational Church at South
Marshfield, and being of Episcopalian
“proclivities,” were a source of won¬
der to the Pilgrim descendants as they
knelt and bowed their heads at public
worship.—Boston Globe.
Peculiar Freak of a Thunderbolt.
A special from WallaWalla, Oregon,
says that during an unusual thunder¬
storm Claude Clodius, seventeen
years old, returning from fishing, was
struck by lightning while climbing a
fence, knocked senseless and seriously
injured, his body being burned in
streaks, as if done by a hot gridiron.
A peculiar freak of the electric fluid
was that it wrapped the fish-line
around the boy’s neck in such a way
as to choke him, and it had to be cut
to save his life. The boy was found,
apparently lifeless, partly paralyzed,
with his clothes on fire and blood ooz¬
ing from his mouth, nose and ears.
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TO RELEASE IMPRISONED CITI¬
ZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
a JOINT RESOLUTION REPORTED.
It Asks That the President Be JEmpowcred
to Take Necessary Action
in the Matter.
A Washington special says: Senator
Davis, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, reported from that
committee the following joint resolu¬
tion Wednesday.
"That the president he empowered to take
suoh measures ns In his judgment may he
necessary to obtain the release hy the Span¬
ish government of Ona Melton, Alfred 0.
Laborde and William G. Gilder, and the
restoration of the schooner Competitor to
her owner, and to secure this ho is author¬
ized and requested to employ such means or
exercise suoh powers as may be necessary.”
The report recites all the facts that
have been brought out in tho Compet¬
itor case, her ownership, capture and
citizenship of the three men named in
the resolution, together with the pro¬
ceedings thus far had by the Spanish
authorities, the trial, sentence, etc.
The report characterizes it a “mockery
of a trial.” The affidavits of the par¬
ties are cited to show that they were
coerced into Spanish waters, in which
case they were not amenable to Span¬
ish jurisdiction. They were not sub¬
ject to piracy and intended no act of
depredation on the high seas, nor
were they subject to the Spanish au¬
thorities on account of alleged rebel¬
lion. The report then says:
“Irrespective of any of tho foregoing con¬
siderations, the conduct of Spain, as herein¬
before detailed, constitutes such delay and
denial of justice and such an actual inflic¬
tion of injustice upon these men as to make
it the duty of this government to demand
reparation therefor, irrespective of any act
which these prisoners may have committed
up to the date of their capture. Among the
acts of reparation which ought to be de¬
manded should be the release of these cap¬
tives.”
Secretary Evarts is quoted to sus¬
tain this position. The report declares
that the rights of the men have been
violated and continues:
“They have been tried and sentenced to
death by a summary naval courtmartial in a
proceeding which has been annulled by the
appellate courts of Madrid on the ground
that such a courtmartial had no jurisdiction
whatever over them. Ten months have
elapsed since thi3 death sentence was an¬
nulled and they have not again been brought
to trial. In the meantime they have been
subjected to protracted preliminary exami¬
nations preparatory to their trial by another
courtmartial which differs from the first on¬
ly-in the fact that it is less summary and
more formal in its character than the first."
The report says that the men at the
first trial did not know until after the
testimony for the prosecution was in
that an interpreter was present, and
the only translation made to them was
at the close of the sanguinary proceed¬
ings, when they were asked if they
had anything to say, and necessarily
they have little to say, yet one of
them protested that he had not under¬
stood one word of the proceedings
against him by which his life was ad¬
judged forfeited.
“With these protests,”continues the
report, “the trial ended and the de¬
fendants were immediately sentenced
to doath. It is now fourteen months
since they were arrested, during all of
which time they have been held in the
Cabanas fortress as prisoners. Melton
and Laborde are unquestionably citi¬
zens of the United States. Gilder is a
British subject, but he was a sailor
upon an American vessel when taken,
was acting as a mate, and it is the
opinion of your committee that he is
entitled to he protected hy this gov¬
ernment. He was serving under the
flag and he is entitled to be protected
by it.”
LABOR DAY AT CENTENNIAL.
September 6tli Has Been Set Aside l»y the
Management.
A Nashville telegram states that the
Centennial exposition management has
designated September 6th as Labor day
and October 6th as German-American
day. The attendance on these two days
will be very large, many states being
represented.
LIMIT ON ARMOR PLATE.
House Settles Main Item of Dispute Be¬
tween It and Senate.
The house Friday agreed to the par¬
tial conference report on the general
deficiency appropriation bill and then
concurred in the senate amendment
fixing the limit of cost of armor plate
for the three battleships now building
at $300 per ton.
This was the main item remaining
in dispute between the two houses.
A strong effort was made to induce
the honse to agree to a substitute
proposition fixing the limit at $400, as
recommended by the secretary of the
navy, but after a three-hours debate
the house, by a vote of 142 to 45, con¬
curred in the senate amendment.
GEORGIA LAW GUARDIANS
Assemble In Savannah for a Three Days'
Convention.
The annual convention of police,
sheriffs and marshals of Georgia con¬
vened at Savannah Tuesday morning
to continue three days. The welcome
was delivered by Mayor Meldrim.
The following officers were elected:
President, Chief Frank McDermott, of
Savannah; vice president, J. C. Daniel,
of Valdosta; secretary and treasurer,
Sheriff A. C. Bowles, of Columbus.
WILL NEVER ABDICATE.
Queen Victoria Desire. to Helen ao I.ontf
os I-lfo l asts.
A special supplement to The London
Gazette publishes the following letter
from Queen Victoria to Sir Matthews
White Ridley, the home secretary,
dated Windsor,. July 15th:
“I have frequently expressed my
personal feelings to my people, and
though on this memorable occasion
there have been many of the expres¬
sions of my deep sense of the .un¬
bounded loyalty evinced, I cannot
rest satisfied without personally giv¬
ing utterance to say these sentiments.
It is difficult for me on this occasion
to say how truly touched and grateful
I am for the spontaneous and uuiver-
sal outburst of loyal attachment and
real affection experienced on the com-
pletion of the sixtieth year of my
reign.
“During my progress through Lon¬
don ou June 22d, this great enthusiasm
was shown in the most striking man¬
ner, and can never be effaced from
my heart: It is, indeed, deeply grat¬
ifying after so many years of labor
and anxiety for the good of my belov¬
ed country, to find that my exertions
have been appreciated throughout my
vast empire. In weal and woe I have
ever had the true sympathy of all my
people, which has been warmly recip¬
rocated by myself. unbounded pleas¬
“It has given me
ure to see so many of my subjects
from all parts of the world assembled
here and to find them joining in accla¬
mations of loyal devotion to myself,
and I would wish to thank them alt
from the depths of my grateful heart.
“I shall ever pray God to bless them
and to enable me still to discharge my
duties for their welfare as long as life
lasts.”
DEFICIENCY BILL.
A Number of tire Senate Amendments are
Disagreed To.
The conference report on the gen¬
eral deficiency bill was presented to
the senate Friday.
It shows a disagreement on several
of the senate amendments, the most
important of which were those limit¬
ing the price of armor plate to $300
per ton and paying claimants under
the Spanish-American claims commis¬
sion.
Among the senate provisions strick¬
en out are those for the international
exposition at Brussels and requiring
the secretary of the treasury to certify
to congress the act of 1861. The house
conferees accepted the amendments
appropriating $150,000 for an emmi-
grant station at Ellis island, limiting
the total financial cost to $600,000;
providing for the United States at the
Paris exposition and making an ap¬
propriation of $25,000 for an addi¬
tional judge in Indian territory.
The bill as reported carries a total
appropriation of $8,000,000.
BUSINESS MAX SUICIDES.
Emanuel Rich, of Atlanta, Ends His Rife
by His Own Hand.
Mr. Emanuel Kich, a prominent He¬
brew citizen and a member of the
well-known firm of Rich Bros., of
Atlanta, took his own life Friday
morning at his residence on Pryor
street.
Death resulted from thirty-three
stabs in his neck and body, inflicted
with a fruit knife in his own hand.
Thirteen of the wounds were in the
neck, and one of them severed the
jugular vein. Of the twenty stabs on
the breast, one was directly over and
penetrated the heart. Mr. is attribut¬
The suicide of Rich
ed to his severe illness during the
past few days and to despondency
brought on by his nervous condition.
Mr. Rich’s family life was as happy
as his business career was successful,
and the news of his death caused great
surprise and shocked the entire city.
Mr. Rich leaves a valuable estate.
His life was insured for about $30,-
000 .
AMOUNT OF INDEMNITY FIXED.
Turkey Will Get #4,000.000 and Exten-
sioa of Frontier.
It is stated in Athens ou reliable au¬
thority that the powers have fixed the
indemnity to be paid to Turkey by
Greece at $4,000,000 and have accepted
a compromise giving Turkey a more
liberal line of frontier.
Turkey and Greece have been left to
settle the question of the capitulations
between themselves.
WILL ASK SPAIN TO PAY.
United States Minister Will Demand
.273,000 Ruiz Indemnity.
The government has directed United
States Minister Woodford to formally
present to the Spanish government
and press tho claim of the family of
the late Dr. Rniz for indemnity in
$75,000 on account of his death in
Cuba.
While the circumstances would just¬
ify a demand for a much larger sum of
money, yet Mr. Woodford is instructed
to say that, in proof of the spirit of
moderation and absolute justice with
which the United States government is
animated, the government of Spain is
requested to pay the indemnity named.
IVAS AN INSULT.
Organized Tabor Not Pleased at Pow-
derly'a Appointment.
The Central Labor Union of New
York, after a long wrangle at their
meeting Sunday, adopted the follow¬
ing resolution:
“Resolved, That the appointment
of T. V. Powderly as commissioner of
immigration is the greatest official in¬
sult ever offered by the federal gov¬
ernment to organized labor.”
BMTAIX IS PROMPTLY CALLED
DOWN BY MU. SHERMAN.
SENSATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS SENT.
England Has Alined a Blow Below tho
Belt and Has Not Acted la
Good Faltli.
Important and exhaustive instruc¬
tions have recently been sent by Sec-
re tary Sherman to Ambassador Hay
{or his „ uitlanee ia urgiug ou the Brit-
ish government a compliance with the
provisions of the Behring Sea award,
which looked to the preservation of
seal life in Alaskan waters. The in-
structions were prepared as a reply to
a recent note from Lord Salisbury
handed to Secretary Sherman by Sir
Julian Pauncefote a few days before
the British ambassador sailed from
New York for London. They show at
length England’s policy of procrasti¬ and
nation, her continued failure refu¬
sal to support this government in its
efforts to prevent the extermination of
the seal herd, and the anxiety of the
United States, frequently made known
to the London foreign office that steps
should be taken to preserve the seals
as an obligation imposed by the Paris
Tribunal.
A dispatch to The New York Trib¬
une from London says:
“The publication of Secretary Sher¬
man’s dispatch on the Behring
question re-lights momentarily in the
English press the smouldering em¬
bers of a resentful criticism of Ameri¬
can diplomatic methods. pleasant The reading text of
that dispatch is Pall not Mall Gazette and
here, as The
other journals frankly admit. implica¬
“As the matter stands, the
tion that England has not acted with
good faith is considered a blow below
the belt. The petulant comments of
the London press today ought not,
however, to be taken too seriously.
The action of the foreign office has
disclosed a willingness on the part of
.the government to discuss the ques¬
tion without irritability.
“This dispatch was one of the ear¬
liest state papers presented by Am¬
bassador Hay to the foreign office after
his arrival in London, and while the
reply of Lord Salisbury was a lefusal
to set aside the expert testimony of
the British agent employed in the
case, there was no indication that un¬
friendliness had been excited, either
before or after Mr. Foster’s return to
London from St. Petersburg. The
negotiations have remained in prog¬
ress, with an increasing probability
that the British government will ulti¬
mately consent to send a representa¬
tive to a conference at Washington
when Russia and Japan have been
drawn into it.
“The situation remains unchanged,
and is not affected by the comments
of the English journals on a few
phrases in Secretary Sherman’s dis¬
patch wjiich are considered here un¬
necessarily brusque and aggressive,
although mild and innocuous in com¬
parison with President Cleveland's
Venezuelan message.
“Both Colonel Ilav and Mr. Fowler
decline to discuss the question or to
say anything except that the negotia¬
tions are making satisfactory pro¬
gress."
MORMON CHURCHES BURNED.
The Elders Having Trouble In Getting a
Foothold in South Carolina.
On July 3d last the Mormon church,
near Ridgeway, S. C., was burned.
The saints immediately began prepa¬
rations for rebuilding, asked bids for
a brick structure and secured a contri¬
bution of land from a Christian, James
Sharp.
Sharp at once received anonymous
letters notifying him not to permit the
church to be built on his place, de¬
claring he would suffer if the warning
was disregarded. While preparing for
a handsome church, the Mormons
erected a temporary building in which
to worship. Thursday night that was
also burned to the ground. No arrests
have been made.
Mormon elders have issued a card
calling on broad-minded Christians to
come to their aid.
TUG MONARCH IS FREE.
Held as a Suspect at Pensacola Several
Months and Finally Released.
The tug Monarch, which has been
held at Pensacola, Fla., in the custody
of the collector of customs, a custom
inspector being on board all the time,
since her capture by a revenue cutter
near Key West, more than two months
ago, has been released by order of the
treasury department.
She was suspected of filibustering,
but it seems that the government offi¬
cers were mistaken, and her papers
have been restored and the inspector
withdrawn.
Three Boys Killed.
Early Friday morning a freight train
on the International and Great North¬
ern railroad in the yards at Austin,
Texas, ran over four boys who were
sitting on a side track, killing three of
them instantly and badly wounding
the fourth.
Americaii Flag Torn Down.
An American flag, flying at the city
hall in Toronto, in honor of the visit¬
ing delegates to the Epworth League
convention, vas torn down by an ultra-
British partisan. The man was at oi\ce
arrested and locked up.
