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8 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.