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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1886,-ttVELVE PAGES.
THE WORST YET TO COME
BO SAYS A
LB\DING KNIGHT OF
LABOR.
The Great Strike Threatened to be Ex
tended to Every Railroad, Every
Large Manufactory and Every
Extensive Business,
St. Louih, March 23.—A member of tee
executive committee of the Knights of Ln
bcr said late last night: <a The worst is yet
to como. I dread it.jbut there is no help for
it If wo were to submit nowand return to
work without having been recognized as
Knights of Labor, it would he a defeat not
only for us f but also for labor unions, trades
assemblies, and for everv labor organization
in the whole country. We feel that the is
sue must bo met now. The present couilict
is between uh and the railroad only. We w i:l
wait three or fonr days in the hope that
some way toward a settlement may be
opened, and then, if the situation remains
unchanged for the better, every freight
train on every road runniug out of St. Louis
and every freight train on every road run
ning out of Chicago will be stopped. We
will leave a sufficient force of men upon the
roads to rnn mail trains and a few accom
modation trains, but not a wheel of a single
freight car shall be turned until the Knights
of Labor are recognized. If this shall full
to force the companies to recognize us the
strike will then l»e extended to Eastern and
Southern roods, embracing the entire coun
try'; and if it comes to the worst, the strike
will be made to embrace every largo manu
factory' and every extensive business indus
try in the country'.”
supplement it, and its promoters believe
they will have the sympathy and assistance
of the older organizntion.
Four Thttunaml StrUm Rut urn to Work.
1'iTTsnuRn, March 23.—The great strike
of four thousand workmen at the National
Tube Works, McKeesport, Penn., has end
ed satisfactorily to the strikers and work
will be resumed in all departments at once.
The trouble was settled this morning by the
workmen accepting a proposition of gener
al manager Tuaylur to restore the wages
ruling in J884, and to advance the wages of
laborers to $1.25 per day. The increuse
will range from 7 to 20 per cent.
Protection SR»luiit Organized Labor.
Chicaoo, March 23. Letters are being
sent out inviting a national meeting of busi
ness men and manufacturers to be held
some time next month to take action toward
devising some means of defense against the
power of organized labor.
A KENTUCKY CHARACTER.
Ineffectual Attempt* to Start Trains.
St. Loris, March 23.—At 10 o'clock this
morning Missouri Pacific railroad officials
attempted to start a freight train from their
yard in this city, but, ns usual, without suc
cess. After the train had been made up and
was about to shirt the fireman deserted the _, - . „ - , . „
engine, but a private detective in the employ
of the miltoacl acted m U» plaeo. A atott Lh _°_
Anecdotes of a Hrigndlqr Congreshman,
Minneapolis Tribune.
One of the characters in thehouRe is G<ai
Wolf ord, of Kentucky. Wiien he is at hou e
ho wears an old tlannel shirt nnd panlj
strapped about his waist. When ho cainu
hero he found ho had to change his costumo
and put on a “tiled” shirt and black clothes.
At first ho was averse to this, but s
friends bought him a black suit. Ho bus
worn it ever since, and this is bta second
term. But he would not dare go home
dreased as lie is now, for his constituents
would think ho had become effeminate.
Several good stories are told of his first cam
paign, when he took the stump against
Gen Fry. His speech OQ the Fit/. John
Porter case last week revives them. When
ho was first nominated by the Democrats
for Congress Gen. Fry asked him to unite
with him and make several speeches to
gether. Wolford uccept6d the invitation.
The first meeting was enough for Gen. Fry.
Gen. Wolford commaudea the 1st Ken
tucky cavalry in the Union army, and the
i pltteo. A start
was then made, but after going a short dist
ance the engineer fonml that he was leaving
about half of the train. A coupling-
pin had been drawn nnd the
train cut in two. A second start
was made, and this time a switch
was found to he turned wrong; and a third
start wah made necessary, which proved
equally unsuccessful, for the strikers bad
again uncoupled the cars and the engiuo
had started alone. After several more un
successful attempts had been made to start
the train the engiuo was finally backed to
the round house. A large force of regular
police nnd private detectives were proout
at the time, but their efforts to guard the
train were futile. Ko con diet between
them and the strikers occurred. No arrests
as yet have been rondo.
Hedalia, Mo., March 23.—Ilnilroad offi
cials notified city and county authorities
yesterday morning that they would attempt
to run a train at 2 o’clock in the afternoon
„ and requested them to have a sufficient
^orefl On J mn 3 *° present any trouble. The
mayor had tho OIlllW fWC pn the
company's ground and the sheriff and
twenty-five denntuics taken from the bus
iness uioii of tne city. At 2 p. m. a train
wm react; to start, nnd a mim named Wil
liam Freeland, a clerk, who was laid off
kftcr the strike was started, stepped up to
the train nnd gave tho engineer and fire
men And bnutemen each a note, which
read: “You are hereby earnestly requited,
for the sake of humanity, not to go out
on this engine.” The train stmted out, and
4M it passed New York avenue a torpedo ex
ploded under the engine. At the city limits
the fireman cqiuo down from the engine and
the train soon came to a standstill and then
backed up to the yard. After consultation
tho officials decided not to make another
attempt ycsterihiy. Freeland wus arrested
and placed under $100 bonds on a churge of
trespassing,
The Situation at Kansas City.
Kashas Citt, March 23.—'There is
change in the situation at the railway yards
this morning. Two hundred switchmen nro
still out, ana no freight is moving. There
has been no disturbance of any kind. Tho
*ra|>erintendcnt of one of the roads said last
night: “Wo are yet undetcimincd as to
whether or not this strike is tho work of the
Knights of Labor. If to, the present time
isas good as any for making an issue with
them, and in this case 1 am in favor of do
ing so. filling the places of strikers and in
jvoking the protection of the law for the
TesumpUon of our business." Tho State
Adjutant-Ueuerul has ordered the Seven
teenth Regiment of militia of tLis city to
.assemble nightly at their arsenal for
drill until further orders. There is a gene
ral disposition to regard tho strike with
•eriouswsH, though it is impossible to nna-
-•^20 the situation at all definitely. The
strikers are dosc-mouthed nud do not indi
cate either their motives or purposes except
THE COWBOY REVIVALIST.
down. Won’t do it, eb? Well, you will pet
down. That’s right. Now you yell. Cry
Being Hamly With Uii Gun, He Bring* ' for help hk** uT-jdih steer in snow belly
HUSTLED BY HOVAS.
MIXED MATTERS,
A)
Men to Itapentance by Main Strength.
deep.
That ain’t a market
Farminoton, N. M., March 16. Lam-1 More on 't! That’s something like
visas Jake, the cowboy revivalist who has There’s the devil’s drire and the Lord’s
On a flag by the curbitone a little peel eat
1 A banana, banana, banana] "
uid such wonderful success among the pe*> drive. There’s tho devil’*
pie of this section, is a tall, loose-jointed Loiu's triui.
trail and the
laLgc of hell,
fellow’, with a full heard covering his sunken ; where the grass is brimstone and the water
A'HL FRENCH DISASTROUSLY DE- i And a dignified gentleman laid him down flat
FEATED IS MADAGASCAR ° h h,nan *- h ““"‘ w
■Jl’IH
kecks, a big mouth, a high forehead, and a
voice that might be heard a mile if the
wind was right. His mode of opera
tion is as singular us his whole appearance
is o«ld and grotesque. Without education,
having au imperfect knowledge of the
Bible, and holding to a great many views
hieh would hardly be approved by theo
logians, lie is nevertheless in dead earnest,
and he exercises a power over the men of
the plains which is something remarkable.
He is entirely ignorant of the existence of
other revivalists, has never seen nor heard
Moody or Jones and was never in
church in his life.
is fire; and the range of lieaveu, where the j
grass is knee high and sweet with posi« •
and the water is os clear as the sky. There’s
the Lord for the boss, and the everlasting
anus reaching out for all us poor Mavericks,
for the hungry and thirsty, for tho beef
critter tliet’s only a shadder, for the wee
lamb and the crippled old buck. But you’ve
got to bleat. There’s the devil with his yoke
ami lariat, with his fork and his spit, with
his cruel laugh, and his legions of hellions
anxious to come a sneak on you. Which is
it, you miserable sinners? Is it devils or
regular : angels?
* Keep down there, every one of you, till
The Political Sit nation In England Nearing
h Cr late—John Bright Favor* Glad
stone’s Irish Scheme— Mlacel-
laucou* Foreign Ntwa.
How Lampasas Jake came to take op the j I get through. I know what you’ll say when
with him when ho made his speech, lie
opened most brillinatly, but suddenly
startled Gen. Fry l>y asking the assemblage
if they knew what the union had done with
Gen. Lee after ho surrendered at Appomat
tox. “Why, gentlemen,—will you believe
it?—when he was out walking under nn ap
ple tree near the very house where he sur
rendered, they grabbed him. Yes, tho men
who had granted him a parole seized him,
and, sir, they not oidj did that, but they
hung Gtn. Lee to the very apple tree under
which he was walking! Hung him dead!”
Gen. Fry at first was so surprised ho could
not speak, but jumping to his feet, he said.
“Gen. Wolford* you know that is not so.
Gen. Lee was never hung."
“But, sir,” exclaimed, Gen. Wolford,
was there, nnd I know it is so. Wasn’t it
John?" and ho turned to one of his “critte'-
baoVs." Tlie wan nodded his head, as did
the others who sat neat him. Gen. Fry
sank back in his chair overoomo.
This is not all,” said Gen. Wolford, turn,
ing to the crowd in front of him. "The
bn ion men locked Jeff Davis up in Fort'
ress Monroe, and oue beautiful moonlight
night when the tide was low, they took him
out and tied him to a stake on the beach.
The sea come in gradually, the waves swept
Over him, and ho was drowned, and they
stood ami heard his cries."
This was too WU*h fot Gen. Frv. Agaiu
he pretested and said that Jeff Davis was
alive still, but tbe "oritterbaeks" indorsed
Gen. Wolford, nnd seeing that his opponent
intended to keep tho thing up, Gen. Fry
withdrew, and Gen. Wolford was elected by
a rousing majority.
Another story is told of Gen. Wolford
when ho was trying a ease in his native town
in Adnir county, Kentucky, His client had
hern eh urged with poisoning soniejone. Tho
chemist for the stuto had testified to finding
arsenic in the stomach of the deceased, and
then Gen. Wolford took the witness in hand,
“Do yon find uny flies wings in (hr stom
ach?” asked the General. “No, sir, for I did
not look for any. I found arsenic," an
swered the chemist.
“Conld yon swear that,! here were no flies'
wings in the stomach?”
“No, sir; because I did not look tor
thm.”
“Ilowdid youknow they were not there.”
"I don't say they were not."
‘That's funny. You »ay yon found ar
senic, but no fly wings. Vet you are not
certain as to their not being there," said
Gen. Wolford. The witness in vain tried
to explain, tho lawyer had twisted the wit
ness up, and so lie addressed the jury.
“Gentlemen, I demand the acquittal of my
client This chemist says he found arsenic
in the stomach of the deceased, but no fly
wirge. Yet everybody knows that when
liny one swallows one or two flies thuy turn
to arsenio in tbe stomimh, yet no fly wings
were found, therefore I doubt if there was
any arsenic there either." Tbe man was
acquitted.
as shown in their statement to the public.
It is Kuiel that many of those* who went out
do not beflong to tho Union, and yet are
Knights of tabor; hence the argument that
the hitter arc at the bottom of the trouble.
Both Knights and Uuiun switchmen, how
ever, deny this, and the public is left to
draw its own conclusions.
Outrages Perpetrated by Str k rs.
Atchison, Kan., March 23 —This lias
been another exciting ami eventful day in
the strike. At 12:45 this morning ten men
on guard at tho Missouri l’acitto round
house were surprised by the appearance of
thirty-five or forty masked men. Thu
guards were eorrelted inti the oil room by
a detachment of tbe visitors, who stood
guard with pistols drawn, while the rest
of them thoroughly disabled twelve
engines which stood in stalls. They held
possession of the house about fifty iniuuLs,
and upon taking leave notified tho itnpris
oned guards that they must not attempt to
leave the room until tho expiration of
twenty minutes. At noon there was another
exciting event, when a largo number of
strikers and others seized a freight min
below town bound for Kansas Lily.
They cliiulied upon it and ap
plied the brakes and prevented
further progress by uncoupling the cars and
throwing the pins and links into the river
«n.l “killed" the engiuo. Marshal Price was
present, but as the tra'n was outside of the
Iternliardt's Whims.
Chlcsgo inter* Keen.
But tho worst was Bernhardt," sniil a
lend theatrical manager, talking of fractions
starts. “She used to drive np at the back
door at rehearsal, anil then wo had trouble.
It took more work to git lur into the builil■
ing than to coax a team of homes np a stair
way. She had to hove both big doors
opened wide. Then we hod to lay down
boards and put a carpet down from the car
riage ilisirway into the stat;e. Her inunuger
hud to dance around with his ■ llsiws crooked,
and some one else had to liuve an nmbrilla
ready nr we were required to rig a passage
way. If things didn't go right she would
jns’t lay laick in the carnage like a unde and
say: T am seek.’ That meant war and she
always had her way. . At rehearsals Bern
hardt made ns work the sets clear through
with everything just ns if the house was
packed. It took from 2 to fi and we hud uo
chance to get supper.”
city limits he was powerless. No United
Kbit* s marshals were present. The strikers
later seized the last switch engine on duty.
A spare engine happened to be at hand,
which is doing dnty in the yard.
A New Secret Labor Organleetlnn.
Boston, March 23. —A rumor has for
some time been current in labor circles
here that a new secret order, resembling
the Knights of Lalsir and to be called
Knights of Industry, was in course of for-
melton. Inquiry yesterday (bowed that
the report is well founded. Several meet
ing* heve been held, correspondence open
ed with labor leaden sail s pream
ble and declaration of principles provis
ionally adopted. In s few days, perhaps,
s public meeting will be called and action
taken for the incorporation of the order
and securing members. Strikes will be
discouraged and arbitration advocated. A
| congress of leaden will probably be held
in tv ptember. The order is not intended
to antagonize the Knight* of Labor, but to
Thw Charm of Fairy Land.
Georg* WlUUm Curtl* In Harper’s.
The realm of Die bullet is like that of the
opera. They are both a fairy-land, iu
which the only absur«lity is to think it ab
surd that nu n and women should ring
instead of talk, or comnmnicate by kicking
up their heels. The wine man must take
care lest lie I uni the laugh against himself
by declaring that a ms,n who expires in a
roulmle, or a woman who upitsMH fund
affection by poising herself upon her foot
and twirling on her toe i* unworthy of se
rious consideration. True, good sir, nn •
no are Push in Boats And Jack the Giant
Kill* r. They are p:ilpably untrue stories.
How could a boy climb to the sky upon u
he-nut.ilk? It is sheer nonsense, uh >ou
say, quite unworthy of serious attention.
And tueinwhile, g»K>d sir, tho smile is gen-
craL
Coc*amptl«m Cured.
Gospel work, is perhaps best described in
his own words: “X never had no educa
tion, gentlemen, but fifteen years ago I
heard a man preach in Santa Fe on tbe
plaza. At first 1 thought I'd just bust up
the meeting, but after a little I made up
my mind to listen. The gospeller put it
down straight, and when he got through ho
distributed some little Bibles in the crowd.
1 ne ver had no use for a Bible, but I took it
and carried it about with mo for years,
never opening it. One day last winter
when I was off on tho range and didn’t have
not’iiug to do 1 just pulled out tho book.
Although I never wus much at reading 1
just began to spell Lor out, aud tho first
thing 1 knew 1 was getting the hung of it. It
took hold of mo powerful. I read again
and again. One night as I was sleeping 1
hud a dream. I thought I was lying out on
the range in my blankets with a cold rain
beating on me. Everything was stiff.
Pretty soon a feller in white leuned over me
and 1 opened my eyes.
“ ‘This is a dog's life yon arc leading,' he
said, ‘and it’s a dog’s death you and the
boys are going to die. Will you come up
out of it or will you keep on?’ 1 was scored,
but 1 says:
“ 'Come up where?’ ”
“ ‘Up out of this here sin find'wicked
ness,* says lie.’ ‘Every man has a cull once.
This is yours.’
“I rose up and was about to ray some
thing further to the stranger when i noticed
that there wan’t nobody there, and then,
cusring myself for dreaming, I went to sleep
again. ’1 Liu next day, and for a month after
that, I kept thinking about the call. ‘Unit
was a mighty stningo thing,’ says I to iny*
self. ‘Somebody 1ms got Lampasas Jake on
the string. There’s bperrita after me. Igot
a little sunky, but after a while 1 remem
bered that I once had a mother—I had about
forgotten it—nnd I says to inyself, ‘If any
body’s bothering themselves about me I
know who it is. That call meant business.
If it won’t my mother, it was somebody
that she sent.’
“When I had male up iny mind to that
I felt easier, and gradually l got reckless
again and thought little about it. One night
early last spring I bad another dream. J
thought I was in hell. A big devil opened
tho lid and wanted to know it I wanted to
see anybody in particular. 1 said : *Y<
Texas Billings nnd Reddy Jones.' He took
a lariat nud gave it a whizz, and a moment
later ho hauled them up. Just as they came
out thev began to abuse me for not telling
them what 1 had heard and seen, and Bodily |
reached for his gun, and groaned when he
found that he didn't have it. Tho next
morning I was in a terrible frame of mind,
and after trying to think * f everything else
and failing, I sank on tho ground nnd cried
out to the Lord to forgive mo. I howled for
more'n au hour before it came to me, but it
did come, and I began to preach right there.
I got the boys together, and I gave it to
them. First they laughed. Thru they got
mad. Then I licked two of them. Then I
got them down on their knees and made
every one of them howl just as I hail. I’ve
been preaching almost a year, but I never
had a better meeting than thnt same. I
brought the whole cump in, nud the boys
have stuck to it ever since, and so have I.
That range is one of the quieteat and best
in the Territory now, and not a man has
been shot there since I took hold.”
Jake preuche* nothing hut repentance and
salvation. He lives off the country, ho say*,
lie takes up no collections and ho asks few
favors. He goes well armed aud never lays
aside his weupons, even when preaching,
lie has fights frequently, nnd he so ire times
brings men to repentance by main strength.
Wherever he finds three or fonr cowboys,
gamblers, rmtlers, or adventurers he begins
Lis services.
“I'm going to speak to you fellers about
your everlasting soul*,” he will say, “and
while I am at it 1 want you to keep quiet.
This is a free country aud every man lias got
a right to have hi* say. ITu going to have
mino now.”
If anybody manifest a disposition to deny
this right Jake becomes militant at once,
and as he has the reputation of being oae of
the quickest men iu the territory he usually
carries his point.
Going into one of the hardest of tho
numerous hard saloons in this plm*« the
other night, Juke mounted a chair and com
manded silence. The games and the drink
ing caiuo to an end, aud about twenty men,
young and old, looked up. One fellow
undt rtook to edge out, but Jake stopped
him.
“No you don’t, mister,” he said, pointing
his finger at him. “No you don't. When
you get to hell you’ll have chances enough
to come a sneak on somelsHly, but yon can’t
do it here.” Then, straightening himself up,
he yelled in a voice that untie tilings creak:
“How many of yon's ready to die now
with your lands on? Whered yon be to
breakfast? Don’t any of you drunken,
swearing, fighting, blaspheming, gambling,
thieving, tin horn, coffin-paint exterminat
ing galoots look at me uglv, because I know
ye. I’ve been through the drive. You’re
all in your sins. You know a fat, well-fed,
well-cored-for, thoroughly branded steer
when you see one, and you can tell whose it
it and where it belongs. There’s a man that
owns it. There’s it place for it to go. There's
a law' to protect it J£Bnt the Maverick—
who’s is that? WmYe oil Maverick* and
worse. The Maverick has no brand on him.
He goes Indicting about until somebody
takes him in and claps the branding iron oit
him. But you whelps you’ve got the devil’s
brand on you. You ve got his lariat ulsmt
you. lie let* you have rope now, but he’ll
haul you in when he wants firewood.”
“There ain’t no shec|)-herderH on these
ranges that can come around me putting on
any airs. I’ve been on the drive in Texas.
I’ve herded in tbe Panhandle. I’ve been
city marxLal in Lampasas. I’ve followed
the Ire rds from the Canadian to the North
Platte and from Kaunas City to Las Animas,
and I never yet see a hunch of cattle that
wan’t of more account than you. You
brand your sheep with a brush and a kettle
of red or black point. How will you feel
when the devil in bell d .nta* you with rent
paint from top to toe, and then changes his
you go out of here. You’ll say Jake is tucked.
You dassent say it now'. You’ll say that the
good Lord don’t core for us. You dassent
say it now. You’ll yelp out something about
religion being all right in the States. You
dassent yelp now. You're a nice lot of ruf
fians, ain’t you? You’d look nice gallivant
ing around in heaven, wouldn’t you?
Wouldn’t bell itself turn pale if it saw you
coming? Yon know it would. But, bless
the Lord, there is a way for you to put on
righteousness. You can get yourself in con
dition. You can make your hides slick.
There is the gra^s of salvation that is green
all the year round. Yon can eat of it, and
you’ll make flesh from the word go. You
can refuse it, and you’ll grow poor and mis
erable till your old hides will flap on your
bones like a bed quilt on a ridge pole.”
When Jake passed out the drinking and
gambling were resumed, but with less bois-
terousnes**. He has followers, nnd he prom
ises to stay by tho hoys until they all come
into the fold.
A TRIUMPH OF TELEGRAPHY.
, Oh, banana, b&nan*. banana!
I He laid birn down flat on tbe length of hla
Aud none from hi* epeech would bo Uk« to
To believe that d. g. wa* a noted divine-. lnclln *
■Oh, banana, banana, banana!
Tredf. are 4fifi -lrtiontg in th 0 o r , B ™ „ .
sann asylum, and the number is increMi I
rapidly. “““SI
London, March 23.—The African mail
steamer which strived nt Plymouth to-day,
brings news of deporute fichtinq between
the French and Hovus in Madagascar.
About the end of February the Hovas,
under General Willoughby, attacked
three thousand French troops, routed
them with heavy loss and pursued
them to Tf.matave. The French houses
nnd stores in Tumatnvc were shelled by the
Hovus, then took Are and were destroyed.
The Hovas then returned to tho capital.
Their losses were small. A few days later
Gen. Herrington surprised in a forest four
thousand Sakalavas, preceded bv two hun
dred and fifty Frenchmen and three ma
chine guns. The Sakalavas were routed,
forty being killed and many wounded.
This is the first news of a fresh
rupture in -Madagascar and has
created u granted n great sensation in Paris.
Experiment* With tlie K<li*on .System of
Telegraphing From a Moving Train.
Chicaoo, March 19.—An exhibition of the
practical working of the Edison system of
telegraphing between moving trains and a
fixed station was given to-day on a special
train run for the purpose by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
from Chicago to Miwlaukee and return,
leaving here at 10:30 a. m. About 200 in
vited guests were aboard, comprising olll-
cials of all the railroads entering Chicago,
officers aud electiicians of the
telegraph companies, and nu
merous representatives of the press.
Before leaving Chicago each passenger
wrote a telegram, which he addressed to
himself, and handed to a collector who
passed through tho train, keeping a dupli
cate for comparison. The messoges thus
picked up wore transmitted by the Morse
system to Wadsworth, **. station midway be
tween Chicago and Milwaukee, where the
duplicate set of instruments and condensers
hail been located. From thero they were
tolegmpned by the induction system to the
operator on the train, which was moving at
the rate of thirty-five miles per hour. There
was no interruption to the working of tho
system froui the time the train left the
Chicago yards until it arrived in Milwaukee,
nnd the messages as delivered on the train
were found to ho correct.
The same may bo said of tho return trip,
The instruments used appear quite simple,
consisting of an induction cod four inches in
length and one and one-half inches in
diameter, to one end of which is affixed a
metallic diaphragm, on which in a vibrat o;
uriunture. Connected with thin is a light
key for sending, this being between the
vibrator and battery. The battery need
going to Milwaukee this morning consisted
of twenty-fonr cells of Fuller. Un tho re
turn trip this was reduced one half, nnd
worked qaite as well. From the metallic
roof of the car a wiro passed down to two
phonetic receivers, which are very similar
to the end of a telephone receiver, being
enp-shaped, and are fastened over each eur
by straps, end the vibrations coming into
them ere read by the operator. The ordi
nary Morse alphabet is used, tho only dif.
ference being the absence of the “bnck
stroke," which completes the letter to the
ordinary telegrapher. In this System the
length of the vibration determines the dif
ference between the dot and dash. From
the two receivers a wiro passes through the
car floor to the axles of the trucks, thus
forming a ground connection and com
pleting the circuit from the wiro ontside.
Tho battery, it is claimed, is used only
from the key of the vibrator, tho passage
from there to the roof aud wires being ac
complished by the mysterious process called
induction.
There wore fonr wires on the poles,
which were at an average distance of thirty
feet from tho track. At the station tho
Edison instrument was connected with all
the wires to guard against an interruption
by tho falling of any one. Tlie use of the
fonr wires iu interchanging mesaages had
nocffict on tho Morse operators at tbe reg
ular stations, and the Edison men could
find no difference between the nsa of four
and one. They claim that the only thing
liable to trouble them is where the tele
graph line gets more than fifty feet away
from the track. This spoils their induc
tion to a large degree, and if the system
were introduced permanently wonld havo
to bo remedied by placing one or more
wires closer to the track.
In reply to the question propounded ns to
how they could overcome the induction of
several wires with heavy batteries, hesido
which they were working on a smaller wire
with less battery, the manager said that
they had worked under just such circum
stances and fonnd no difficulty whatever.
Practic'd telegraphers and electricians on
the train wero very favorably impressed
with the working of the system, so far as it
is developed. The manuger hopes to he
able in a few days to successfully inter
change messages between two moving trains.
Tlie BrtGrth Political Sitnatfon.
London, March 23.—The Daily Nows,
referring to the political situation, says:
“All efforts to effect a compromise have
failed. Tlie crisis is on the lnnd question,
because that was the first question to be
presented to the cabinet. Chamberlain and
Trevelyan are junt as implacably opposed
to the Home Rule scheme. Gladstone is
much annoyed by the erroneous reports of
his scheme, which has been given to the
public. An authentic Mft»em**nt will show
that his project differs widely from the pub
lished account, of it.”
John Bright, the Pali Mull Gazette says,
sinco liis interview with Gladstone on Sat
urday, 1ms been more in favor of tho Pre
mier s scheme of Irish government. Gossips
at the time averred that Bright strongly op
posed Gladstone’s Irish proposal. From
what the Gazette says, this statement was
all wrong, for the paper declares that Bright
was struck with tho ingenuity and origi-
Thk one. Chinaman left at
Washington Territory, is married to
dian squaw.
Tiik San Francisco Alta is authoritv t I
the statement that it recently rained tollB I
at Napa, Cal. U Uzard » I
A woman in Wing’* Station N Y i I
given birth to twenty-five children nnii a
is not 50 years old. ’ D Il,h *l
Tins wealthiest resident of Reading p.
become insane because Rix men were kin!
in an accident in his mill. ^ I
Even “innocuous desuetude” is notnf.*
The phrase was used by Mr. Everts in I
college essay as far back as 1836. a 1 1
That part of tbe United States lying *e«i I
of the Mississippi river could be carved intj I
351 States the size of Massachusetts,
It is a at range thing that the man \*k
knows exactly how to run a newspaper U I
always engaged in some other kiud of bm? I
It is calculated that the cotton cron I
the Vera Cruz coast this season will reach I
400,000 arrobas. An orroba contains twent?
five pounds. '
A Holyoke paper-mill hand, seventr 1
years old, who had always been regarded L
poor, was found after his death to have W I
nearly $50,000.
nality of the Premier's scheme,
Gladstone will announce in the Ho\lsc of
Commons to-morrow tho date upon which
ho will make his statement in relation to
Ireland. It is probable that ho will also
partially explain the nature of his propos
als. The Daily News believes that no defi
nite home rule proposals have yet been
submitted to the cabinet, the attention of
the ministers being engrossed with the
Irish land scheme.
Death of One of Pasteur's Patients.
Paris, March 23.—One of the wolf-bitten
Russians who recently cnino here and were
treated by Pasteur to prevent rabies, died
last night in great agony, with the symp
toms of hydrophobia. Pasteur is not at all
dismayed by the fn*l ) *•» of his treatment in
this case. Pasteur injected morphine into
the dv ing Russian, but without avail. The
spinal mnr of tho dead man will be used
to inoculate dogs experimentally. Tho
other eighteen Russian patients arc doing
well. Fourteen of them aro bimy seeing the
sights of Paris.
A New York modiste has sent notes to
her former customers offering 50 per cent
uiscouufc it they will come back aud abaa. I
don the man tuilor.
HELLO CENTRAL ! WAKE UP !
Uncle Sain'* Suit to Teat the Validity of the
Bell Telephone Patent.-'.
Coi.itmuur, O., March 2i.—District At
torney Kirnher, of Cinclnur*’ diis after
noon tiled in tlie United Gteie* court, in
this city, government papers to test the va
lidity of tho Bell telephone patents. De
fendants named in the petition are tho
American Bell Telephono Company, a cor
poration under tho laws of Massachusetts,
tho Central Union Company, under the
laws of Illinois, tbe Erie Telephone and
Telegraph Company under tho laws of
Massachusetts, and Central District and
Printing Company, under laws of Pennsyl-
vania, the Cleveland Telephone Company,
the city and Suburban Telegraph Company,
the Uuion Telephone Company, the Buck
eye Telephone Company, under the laws of
Ohio ami Alexander Graham Bell. 3 he at
torneys for government named in petition
are Solicitor-General Good, District Attor
ney Number, Allen Q. Tbnmmn, E. 1\
Lowry, Hunter T. Chandler and Charles
E. Whitman. Process was issued
directing appearance by May 1st and
requiring that answer bo filed on or before
June 1. Tho petition, with accompanying
exhibits, makes about seventy-five page* of
pamphlet printed matter. The points have
been made public in tho pres*. Taylor A
Taylor have been rttaiiud ns local counsel
by tho defendants. It is understood that
the first question to bo considered in con
nection with tho cuso will bo that of juris
diction.
A farmer in Passitmpsie, Vt., made 1100 I
apiece from the milk of his twentv-tw,.
cows last year; nnd the caino cows gave him
$2,400 during 1884.
In a grand rabbit hunt near Biober, Las-
sen county, Cal., recently, fifty-three’ guni
were in use nnd 1,717 rabbits wus the score
for tho day’s sport. •
About nine hundred Chinamen have gone
to Los Angeles, Cal., since tho beginning
of the anti-Chinese movement in the north-
ern part of the State.
It is believed tlint there arc more fowl*in I
tho country than at any previous period in
its history. The supply of poultry and egg*
is very large in most cities.
Helena, Montana, has a lady saperin- I
tendent of schools who has Indian blood in ,
her viens. She is highly educated, and hu
a decided dramatic talent.
There is a sort of elothes-pin arrange- J
ment coming from Paris that makes artifU '
cial aimp’e* in tho cheeks of tho girl of tta
period after one application.
A few days ago a Maine man took from
his burn boards that bad been in use then |
tor forty years nnd pinned them for uso in
constructing a coffin for himself.
The use of the steam-plow is said to bo
diminishing in Great Britain, not became it
does not give good satisfaction, but beams
the large farms an- being divided, and th* I
steam-plow can not be employed advantage-
ou*!y in small fields.
“A hen has to feet” “Ho done it.” Thin I
was what Superintendent B. B. Russell, <A
Brockton, Mass., placed upon the black
board for the pupils to correct. This wim
the way one boy corrected it: “Ho didn’t
dono it, God done it.”—Boston Journal of |
Education.
General Lee’* Foreca*t of the War.
Mintouri Republican.
Unlike tbe vast majority of his Southern
country men, Lee had a very dear idea of
the tremendous odds against which the
Honth wonld have to contend, and was not
sanguine ns to tbe result, ’ibis is shown
by an anecdote never before in print and
entirely reliable. Just after receiving his
coinmirtsion from the Virginia convention he
eulled upon a family in Richmond whom he
hod known for many years. Two of tho
sons had already enlisted and the third
mere boy—wanted to do so. The mother,
naturally anxious, said: “General, how long
do you think this awful war will lost?” Tlie
ansv.tr w«s given with solemn and signifi
cant emphasis which the questioner never
forgot: “My little madam, I am afraid it
will last until we are all driven into the bills
and the mountains.”
L»t I'tazd In bi» baud* b; an Ka*x te '.la mi
ry th# formula of a *i.upl** vegetable r»W"i» f< .....
r ml a, ”‘ P*inu ,oo buck’ Ob you'll get
***** . . * .. . ; y * l ..ra ztf i.xn can tl... Ian«l ha.
_ felt It hl« doty to make it known to hi*
f«Unw onffem*. Artuat*.l by thU motive an J a de-
*ir» to relieve ha rain ■offering. 1 will arnd fvtw of
charge, to all who dealra It, thla receipt. In Germans
French and Engfieh. with full directions tor popart
and ming. Rant by mall try addraaelng with
ip. naming thla paper. W. A. noyas, U9 Power',
X lochT, X. t7
there. Home of yon can feel the lariat now,
and oil you old whiskey-tabs here note can
smell the fire. I’ll bet you Uve dollars
you’re -caret!. I’ll Let you ten dollars you
would give something now to know that
S ou wouldn't get cooked. I'll bet yon a
nndmi dollars I con tell yon how to escape.
“Just yon get down on your knees here
now sad yeU. That’s right; all of you get
The Raf« Str k r.
Pack.
Gentleman of wealth (to member of
United (blis* Hod-carriers ont on atrike^
—“Fat, you ought to be nt wosk. instead oi
loafing wi.-und the street, your finally
balf-starved st home.” Vat—“rihtarvM i-
it? An* sure it's mtseii that a insurer nv
the ordher.”
Regulating the Telephone In Indiana.
Indianapolis, March 23.—The Supreme
Court to-day decided who last of tho telc-
ihnuo cases. Tho decision was rendered
»y Chief Justic Nibeuck. It covers tho con
stitutionality of two laws p.ifcdl by the lust
Legislature for the regulation of telephone
affairs. * Regarding tho non-discrimiuatiou
act, the court holds i.t length that u tele
phone con puny in a common carrier, and
as such is subject to all regulations which
tho law imposes upon common carriers. It
cannot, therefore, refuse sorvico to any
person w ho demands it and f altills tho legal
requirement.
Dogmatic idiocy.
Philadelphia Pre*a.
Tlie dogmatic idiocy which impels tho
Rev. Sam Jones to say that “it is iuq>ossihle
for a society woman to be pure” may be*
entertainiug enough ter Chicago, but it
would hardly pass muster ns an amusement
novelty in other com infinities. Parson Jones
is making his acrobatic religion too clownish
to be effective.
Tho DUputcd Drue* Line.
Philadelphia Call.
Miss Cleveland, “the leading lady of tho
land,” has written an essay on “decollete
dresses.** She draws the Hue of display at
the “bust line,” but unfortunately omits to
state wbetlic-r that line is above or below the
bust. Public observation at Washington
shows the hitter to he the most fushinuable.
Divided We Stand, United We tall.
Petersburg Index and Appeal.
Frankly ami freely tl e Macon Teleouaph
admits that “Jeffersonian simplicity without
n little sugar in it i*» a mighty poor diet.”
Virginia Democrats will cordially unite with
their Georgia brethren iu thi* noble and
appropriate sentiment.
A nurseryman of Union county, Penn
sylvania, claims to bo able to grow applet
without cores. His theory is to bend tb#
twig when the size of a small elder, and in
sert the t**p in the ground. When the top
takes root sufficiently cut it off near th*
butt, and stake it up perpendicularly.
Twenty-five years ago a young Scoteh
man nanud Garrick went to Australia, leaf
ing bis wife behind him. After some yean
she heard that he was dead, and came to
Hamilton, Canada, with her little son, and
there married Mr. Nicholson. Six yean i
ago he died. Meanwhile G.irrick, who bod '
not died, returned to Scotland with s nict
little fortune, and began huuting for hit
wife. Two weeks ago sho received a letter
from 1dm, and a week ngo he joined her in
Hamilton, ami they Were again regularly
and lawfully married.
Mermaids, it is said, use telegraph cablet
as skipping-ropes, but wolves are scared by
telegraph wires. From Norway it is re-
ported that at a debate in the storthing, while
a vote was pending on u grant to a new line,
a member remarked thut, while his con-tit*
nents had no direct interest in it, they
would support the grant, because the wires
would drive away tho wolves, it is tnid
that however hungry a wolf may he be will
never go to a spot that is inclosed by rop*
stretched on posts. It is stated as a re
markable fact that sinco the first telegraph
line win istnbltahfcd twenty year* ago,
wolves had never appeared iu its neighbor
hood.
Tiif. wife of a Montpelier man requested
him to have aloud of the waste made in
•hair stock sent home for cooking
purposes. Telling the truth of the stop’ i°
uis words makes it read thus: “That night
you know, there was to l»e a lodge meeting,
and l forgot the wood. On going home
Madam asked where it wus, when 1 owned
up to my forgetfulness, but told her that I
would meet the man who furnished it that
night and would see that it was delivered
the next morning. That night, yon know,
we wore detained very late, and the ueit
morning at bn nkfost my wife said ta m*
that it was hardly worth while for uie t<»
worry so about that w»*sl as to fret about ij
in my sleep, whereupon I asked her what l
had said relative to it in my sleep. ‘Several
times, ’ s.-iid she, ‘yon cried out in you*
dreams, “Here, give me another dollar*
worth of i»htps.”’ f He evidently thought
his wife intended to boil a jack pot. — Moot*
pelier Argus.
VYdkn hot-b 'ds are desired only for ft * e , w
flowers and vegetables for home u*e, tW
frame may be made movable. Dig j*
six feet wide, two feet or more deep. »ud
of any 'length desired. Level off the
tom of this bed nnd drive down s *tn®$
slake in each comer, to which nail ebup
board*. Make the frame* twelve f‘*et »»
length by five feet ten metres in width. &
that a sash ttree feet by six tnsy be wej*
Til A IkkAtiMAA If.V lilt. ullillllli *'
Tlie Grant Mouuniant Fund.
Np.w York, March 23.— Kx-Freddent
Arthur to «hiy resigned the chairmanship of
The Rinnnro used for hot-beds should
fresh ami well worked, removing all coan
litter. If a small bot-bed, and tbe oWn *
does not care to go to the expense
then uiiblcHcked cotton cloth, 0, ^‘*.
answer the purpose, and it the bed I*
in a warm location is nearly es effceti** •*
gbisH. Buy unbleached cotton cloth ubu '
with linseed oil on oue side. Tackjo
light frame with the oiled side up. dn
frames are much lighter than glass *a* d ;
the board of trustees of the Grant menu- ,V n d will b« "fouu.l very desirable iu fmiii
ment fund associatum. Five hnudr«Ml dol- j gardens.
Iain from the Kmj>en>rof Japan was received j
to-day, milking a total of $120,11$.
Duxnto last year Iceland sent aftont seven
thousand fat sheep and three head of fat
cattle to England.
Catarrh and Umuehitla Cared.
X«w York Women Appointed Notar**
Albany. N. Y., March 23.—Gorarnnr
to-day appointed Mary* Seymour and kiwj
Lu <au r^u,-.lv -»t U»t found a preacrlptiuti i
nuui'lrttly cured ar.d wreed bln* from dratb.
eafrrrtn* from ifcU dreadful dlaeaea tending «
addmiecd lUntad aatelop to Dr. J. Fljnn 4 Col.
117 Kaatltthatraat, Jtew fork, will rtcehe the re
yceiyt free of charts-
Brooklyn, Mra. C«ri. L.
l any It uni county, anil Id* U. BUke of
»*•:/- county notaries {inblie for their . re *P rt i‘,»
I • | countie*. ThU notion U ragerdtJ »» » K n *
> victory for women.