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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGKAMi* fUESDAl MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, i857.-TWELVE PAGES.
ir 'WILL STAY IN MACON.
TEE PERM ANENT LOCATION OF TUB
FAIR SETTLED.
Troceedlngs of the Agrlcultnral Society la
Americas—Discussion ofToplce Inter
esting to Farmers—laying of a
Court House Corner-Stone.
The T«l*obafb's report of the proceed
ings of the State Agricultural Society
Tuesday, the first day of its meeting at
Americas, was mailed on the Southwestern
train which reaches Macon at H:2I, but was
not delivered, as it ehoulo have been, and
lay in the poet-offioe all night. The pro
ceedings of the first two days of the con
vention will be found below:
THE FIRST DAT.
Amf.uhts, February 8.—The State Agri
cultural Society met to-day at 10 o’clock in
the large opera house.
The convention was called to order by
the Hon. L. F. Livingston, the president of
the society, and the exercises opened by
prayer from Rev. A B. Campbell.
Mr. 11. IL Wilkinson delivered the wel
come address,in which he acquitted himself
most handsomely. He presented the at
tractions of Americus and Sumter county,
and Southwest Georgia generally in glow
ing colors.
The response for the convention by Col.
J. O. Waddell, of Polk county, was well re-
ceived. The Colonel’s address was short,
but he took lime to touch slightly upon the
tariff. He thought protection a hardship
upon the agriculturist. The farmer is not
protected. He is taxed to keep up the in
dustries of others. The agricultural labor
was not included In the term * 'American
labor," yet farmers were called in sweet
flattery the "mud sills” of thecountry. The
Colonel thought unless there was a change
somewhere they would be likely to remain
"stuck in the mud."
Resolutions inviting the mayor and city
oonnoil and the Sumter Agricultural Club
and the ladies to seats in the convention
were passed.
Next in order came the semi-annual ad
dress of President Livingston. The presi
dent, like our Senatorial magnates in Con-
K ws, read bis address from manufeript,
t it was well read. The address was full
of thought and information. A contnat
was drawn betwoen the old South of 1860
and the new South of 1880—vastly to the
detriment of the new South. Col. Living
ston appealed for a return to the customs
and practices of oar daddies, who raised
their supplies and made cotton os a surplus
crop, lie quoted from statistics showing
thot in 1880 there was 141,962 acres more
in cultivation In Georgia than in 1860, yet
in 1880 there was produced 7,674,185 bush
els of corn leu than in 1860. In 1880
there was produced 32 039 tons of hay less
thau in 1860, and 27,137,965 pounds of rice
less than in 18G0. Even in tobacco there
was 690,728 pounds less thin in i860. Tt e
value of live stock in 1860 wu (38.372,734.
In 1880 this valuo wu only (25,930,352,
making (12,442,382 leu than in 1860. Yet
in 1880 there wu an increase in agricultur.
al population and 141,962 sores more were
cultivated. Then, too, in 1880 there was
the aid of (4,346,920 in oommereiai fertile
zero.
In the matter of wool, and hotter and
oats, 1880had theadvantage. The showing
of Colonel Livingstone took all the starch
out of these typical orators who make
speeches and say things "pleasing to tne
Borne little sensation wu produeed
in the convention by the reading of
a circular issued by the Georgia stock
and Agricultural Journal, of Atlanta,
in which it claimed to be "theoffidal organ"
of the society. This claim wu based
upon a resolution of the executive commit
teo wishing the paper well and placing it
under tho "auspices" of the society, all of
which wu an empty compliment, u the
goclety has no official organ and so declares
itself.
The attendance on the convention is
large. But Americus is a great town, and
is equal to the occasion.
Dr. W. H. Felton wu billed to nldroaa
tho convontion In the at'eraoon on the sub
ject of "The Farmer: His Difficulties and
Aspirations." iu the absence of the dil-
tlngnishcd orator the convention resolved
Into a general debating society, and a run
niog debate wu had upon the subject
Colonel J. M. Mobley wu happy In his
remarks. He wu followed by tho eooentrio
Jim Carmichael, of Coweta, an odd old
farmer who love* to talk and who uansliy,
somehow orothor, to brings down the house.
I)r. W. L. Jones, professor of agriculture
in the State University, entertained tho
convention upon the objects and prospeots
of the experimental farm at Athens.
Dr. J. T. Maddox, of Clinch, offered
few unaibte remarks upon improving lands
by Blinding. Ha believes in sowing cow
peas, and advotea taking stumps from the
laud so as to allow the Introduction of im
proved implements. Dr. Maddox advocates
tho growing of fodder oorn and bay rathtr
than the old syste u of fodder- pulling. Dr.
Maddox declared the trouble in saving pea-
vine hay wu waiting until the vinca were
too old. They should be out while in
bloom.
Col. W. L. Peek, of Rockdale, wu called
out. His post-prandial eff. rt wu good,
though he declared he wu not responsible
for what he uld, u bis remarks were un
premeditated. He regarded the farmers
poorer than ever, despite the bout of the
new. papers.
Among the prominent visitors attending
the convention are: Col Lee Jordan, Co).
Mobley, Col D. 0. Barrow, W. H. Felton,
D. U. Hughes, J. B. Gorman, Capt It. E
Park. J. M II. Byrd. T. It. Bennett, D. K.
Bntler, T. A. Barrow, Dr. W. L. Jones, W.
J. Northern
* CoL C. B. Hudson, the solicitor general
of this circuit, loves to beast of his carp
pond. As an evidence of hia success in
carp raising he sent to Cspt. John A Cobb,
u "an agricultural present," a large carp
weighing eighteen pounds.
who organised the bureau and gave it life I be put in premiums and advertising,
and being. Capt. Cobb thought the bnrean The executive committee and the oity oonn-
wu doing an immense amount of good, cil most get together and boil down tho
Ho favored large appropriations for it, so as bossing to the smallest number possible,
to extend iu field of usefulness. Capt. Too many bosses will spoil the grandest en-
Cobb wu desirous for a complete survey of terprise on earth. Then there mnat be har-
the State, and favored the establishment ot mony. The line most be clearly marked
one or more experimental farm stations, out, and it can then be followed. There
We caU ours the Empire State, bnt what most be live and active men to do the
are we doing? It wu a ahame that Georgia work. There will be lots to be
wu not represenud at tho expositions at done, and none bnt live, active men
Philade phia and New Orleans. Alabama can do it. One more thing—there
wu tally represented at there expositions. I is no timo to be lost. Yon can't wait for the
The world saw her grand offers of enter- last day toget np afair. The premium lists
E rise. These were accepted, and now the should be sent out and the name of every
age iron and coal interests are moving exhibitor should be secured u early u pos-
South. Capt. Cebb wanted Georgia to ad- sible. Notbingahouldbelottforto-morrow.
vertise herself, and, by proper effort, she I Carry out the Idea that when the fair opens
could maintain her prond position u the everything mast be in readiness for the
Empire Stele of the Bonth. people. Delays in getting a fair ready are
Col J. O. Waddell obtained the floor at | tat&l. If these suggestions are observed,
the conclusion of Capt Cobb's address, and no premiums paid the first week,
and offered icsolntione to the following yon can bold a two or three weeks' fair
purport: that will be worth—well, there's no telling
1. That the Agricultural Society | how much it will be worth to Macon."
reoogniza and appreciate the practi
cal influences and workings of
of the Department of Agrioulture. 2. That
tho society deprecite all unfriendly legisla
tion, and whatever defects there are let
them be remedied. The third danse wu a
THE SECRET OF STEEL.
THE PROCESS FOB WHICH SCIEN
TISTS HAVE LONG SEARCHED
Discovered at Last—Rf markable Tests with
the New Steel Which Cuts Like a
Diamond Kdje-A Knife that
• Whittles Steel with Kaee.
THE MEXICAN VETERANS.
Matter Roll of the Macon Guard*, First
Regiment Georgia Volunteers.
The bill allowing pensions to veterans
” r . Ten ths and widows ot the veterans of the war of
paragrmph of praju *^** r ± d n. 8 1846-47 with Mexico, gives only (8 per
needed hsadcf month to only thou soldiers who are over
that tb^«ceZtadd C ^. P orc.pSn1ohn ^f° to i?
A T C be bb ,^ P tv b ^Wed y ie«Vrs C oT'innuiry SSEStodta £82SS&£i£ ‘ DJU '
.!«Li y ^Sunitarll rfnbs toSchiS The following musUr roll of tho Macon
praoti^^farm^mattori^seoh'fertUizeriq <“ T^^ufntoe war
r. L Sort T W H H W FSton e ohMrm^ mmi “ ee *“ the Guards rotoroJd to New Orllns
^he’ renort wu read bv Hon Grisbv ln JnDe l847 * and were there ““stered out
ThomuT^lumbuTtudlau toUon/- &2Jtt46 8 £13
^Colonel Th‘omu r took m oJo3ton to I8 make by first Lieutenant E. L. Sbel-
.s C ;?X1p T ptu“trLrmr l toqaitdgn e
i i w ..a ..... uKinK ~ n *1 coznp&DV on the day it mustered out.
IhSm off%Trl5?d& n where W toe b g^,o 1 Shelton.Vntenantc—i.u
proves worthless. i. . - -
Capt. 0. H. Waring, of Bartow, at this | w D. Griffin, second lieutenant, brevet
juncture wu louujuceu to too cuuvuutiuu . , „ ,, . . ,
ind he made . beau iful memorial address | £ “t, ^r^nt.
on the character and life of tho lamented I
Dr. W. B. Jones, of Burke, the diatin-1
guished Georgia agriculturist.
Professor White, of Athens, wu now pat |
on the witness stand, so to speak, and all
farmers were at liberty to propound each
questions u would soothe their troubled |
hearts.
Atl 1:30 o'clock the convention adjourned J." „ W cin,AP
to Witness the laying ot the oorutr stone
John
Muter J. 8. Davidson and marched to the ' y m. JoYn ’ T
tb'onl turnUUn^tbrmutc*^^" bridge^ John H. I vnOVm.’ Mon.on Bob'
p^nR“?uge numb?r of MSo“s we.e prea'- T* J Me
eV and a vL. crowd of people confronted ^ Tho ““d J ' TO
T?i corner atone wu laid with the usual wuha^EngUM? j35l L.Eeita.EfljlhFo!’-
Masonic ceremonies and cnatoms. .1 » n 'Hih mill-+
.. a,. ,_| _t_ i_ il _tj I tor. A. a. 1 r.tiiklin, Cbnrlcs E. rIttodors, T
Jiutiui Uio town dock id tho old court n—m h r u j vh^#
house pealed forth in monrnful
12:30 o'clock, the grand treasurer
the box of deposit, and placed
Darc^b^toe'soodladUs oThMmuble’Amor-1 Walker, Robert Walker, Edward Wood,
ena ““ 1 ll08 P u, ‘ ble Amor Francis Wright, Clairborn Vanghn.
The afternoon session of tho oonvention I t-^^uF^SuIv 1 Wflla^ ll ^r"’ WriShl*
wu devoted mostly to mlsoellaneous bur- £“« ' V :. ^ W
ness. Professor. White made a report of Jboma i McCreary, Alfred McKees, A. T.
West India.
Louts Globe-Democrat.
U. B. Powter, a resident of Kingston, on I onrrent belief that the DnponSFijrji
the Island of Jamaica, is at the Laclede | ping largo quantities of explosives toPs
Hotel. Ho is the manager of a company or Germany, and that the war in Eo
which iB engaged in mining phosphate on coming surely in the spring. The <
the Grand Cayman's Island, hear Jamaica, the Repauno Chemical Works at
and shipping it to the United States, where son’s Point, N. J., is situated now
it is used for fertilizing purposes. This mingtou, and it can be stated with j
phosphate is the remains of some kind of ness that their mills, at which
animal life, according to geologists, and is I destructive explosives in the _
thought to have been loft in the immense manufactured, are as busy u the D UII !
beds in which it now liesbythe subsidence works.
of some pre-historio sea. The deposits up- knowing folks smile.
on the Grand Cayman's Island ar« in masses The m ui B 0 f the latter company.
from three feet to fifty deep and at somo m0B t famous in tho world, and havesi*.
distance from each other, some of them always furnished a large proportion
sustaining upon them the growth of forests powder to European nations on toe «.l
known to beimore than one hundred years wal . j U9 t before toe Prahoo-FruiriuJ
old. I tho mills were ran on extra time, as is t
Peter J. Shannon, third sergeant.
Thomu E. Orcutt, fourth sergeant
Riebard T. McGregor, first corporal.
James E. Flint second corporal
D. A. Logan, third corporal.
Edmund Barnard, fourth corporal
A. R. Ralston, drammer.
Privates—James A. Abbott W. J. Ader-
ing place in the granite rook, I
The address of U.aud Muter Davidson S^erts, ftebaatian Shaw, WfllUm Spratt,
was very brief, and
.a .h. l..„r^,.-Ai.n.sUA Robert N. Sneed, Robert H. Tindall. John
of toe ™>d dtonera nr^ Tll “ ton ' QiIb «‘ ™gpen, William
oi me gotia aiuners pre-1 tj.v,..,
the results cf the experimental farm at
Athens
Discharged —A. B. Ross, Edwin Harris,
... I Simon W. Freeman, William L. Johnson,
w ^ ‘v^rth^n The Sanford Mooro, D. A. Ralston, C. W Item-
u read by Colonel W. J. Northern the . s t ti... ipu
off sirs of the society are ln . health, oondl- ^ Jto J^u ML%„ A \vil£r , Z h °H«
ton. The committee decide .gainst | Seaborn
BMELLS OF WAR.
_ L Islsjtsve it. Intnu Tks„ loaf vrwtnntv I *W| II UiUlUl Liiru.1, As 1/s llOOUs OcftDvlO
week fsirslor the future. They lost money M George A. Grimes, A. H. Hawkins,
by extending it so long. i ,i,„ Vr ' ’
Americas fire department is out on *' Jolin ^ Gowan.
t-. _ I Deserted—William H. WoodalL
tost fight The city Js in s big glee and | . sick ia hospital at New Orleans.
hvants Joseph A. White and Oliver H. Prince,
queation of to, permsncpt loostionof the | Scott resigned in conuquenoe of ill
fair decided b, a vote of 10 to 6 in favor of | (nd Lientenant Duncan L. Clinoh,
THE STATE FAIR.
Noma Ideas as to Uow It should bs Oondac
led this Year.
The seleotion ot Macon by the Agricultn
ral Society as the place for bolding their
fairs wu talked about on the streets yeater-
day.
Jr., was placed in command. This corps
left in June, 1847, tor Mexloo. and were in
service near one year. We have no copy
of their.muster roll
Shooting at n Burglar.
This morning about 1 o'clock officer
Brown had an exciting adventure. He was
, The following anatohea of converse-1 patrolling the lower end of Walnut street,
tion caught up by tho I'ELEOKara man will I when bo saw a negro in the set of entering
serve to show what was thought of the se-1 tho residence of Mr. Barnett. He had
leetion: [ broken a window fastening, pushed up the
‘It comes iu mighty well for Macon's I sssh and wu carefully moving some chairs
boom,” said a citizen; "and ws must toe to out of hia way, whan hia movements at-
it that it is the moat sucotaafnl ever held I traded the policeman’s attention, who at
here.” ones ran across the street, reaching the
It lies within anr power to make it s I fence in front of and very eloee to the noose
large and paying one, not only for the Agri- before the negro knew he was discovered,
cultural Society but for the oity," said an-1 A veranda extends along the trout and the
other. I men ran down this, with the intention of
"It would cost any other city in Georgia I jumping over the fence at the lower
a hundred thousand dollars to prepare loeh I end. The officer ran alongside
grounds as Macon has,” said another. I him, with only the paling
One gentleman who has had experience I between. This wu repeated two or three
in running fairs said: "The premium lists I times, both running the length of the
should be out right now, and every pre- veranda back and forth, the burglar cn the
miutn offered should be one worth com-1 Inside and the offioer on the outside of the
petingfor. At the lost (air two counties I fence. Finally the negro drew a revolver,
made the finest agricultural display ever I bnt wu not quick enough, and ths
seen in Georgia, and, perhaps, in toe South, officer fired first The man fell.
Now, suppose the premiums for county dis- hat immediately scrambled to his feet,
plays were adored in this way: (1,0UU for and in spi.e of a second ahot and every ef-
tne best display, (760 for second best, (6001 fort to intercept him, snoceeded in tusking
for the third but and (250 for the fonrtn I hia way to the back yard of Mr, Birnett's
beat Such prem nms would bring displays place, and escaped. It is thought he will
tiom fifty counties. We have plenty of I be captured to-day.
room in the park and each county would I ■ .
have a png Ida or partition of its The Superior Court
own built after its style | i n the Superior Court yesterday, Judge
S.coutl D»)'« Proceeding*.
Amksici's, FebruaryTbs weather this
morning portended rain, bnt the not t sun
light soon stota forth and diuipated avery
cloud that lingered to cut a shadow over
the cleunres and bright anticipations of
the day.
Americas hu been in holiday ocstnme all
day. Bnsineu and care are banished for
the moment.
Not only tha session of the Agricultural
Convention, bnt ths laying of the corner
stone of the new court house now building
bronght to the city the large crowd in at
tendance from adjacent towns and the sur
rounding country.
The Agrieollnnl Convention oonvened
this morning st 830 o'clock. The exercises
were openecTwith prayer.
Brady 'a bill, pending before the Legisla
ture, allowing farmers to plead failure of
consideration in gnano debts, formed the
first subject matter of diseaseioD. The
views on tbs subject were various, but the
sentiment seemed to bs against the bill
Next came an address from Capt Jno. A.
Cobb, of Americus, on the theme: "The
Department of Agriculture of ths State of
Georgia." Captain Cobb gave a short
history of tbs convention, alluding in ap
propriate terms to Dr. Thomu P. Jones,
end fashion. It would make I Simmons presiding, the eua of Hardeman
lbs largest end grandest display of a State a rs. English, Raguenin A Co,, wu postpon-
products everieen, and it would draw thou- «j by reason of toe siekneu of Mr. Geo. B.
unds ot people trom the North sod West. Adams, one of toe jnrora.
The attendance from abroad would be I The cau of J. E. Lord vs, W. P Crnnon
greater than the local attendance at any fair and Ivieon Lord vs. W. F. Cennna were
yet given in Georgia. But ths disDUv Of I utlLd. Tn. mnrt than odinnmad nntll
sgrioalmral products U not «C that would o'clock this morning,
attract strangers. We have th/climate, the When the grand jary met it wu found
pure water, and thelsuds to sell; we have that several members were absent and
a city that offers to the ma&afactorer I there vti not a qnornm present. Three of
the finest dietribnUng point tor toe 8outh- the absentees wera fined (25 each, and new
ern States, and all the railroad families ] jnrora summoned.
thotisposiiblefor a city to have. Tne r
people who run the State fair most adver-1 Tne Nouthwsstern Kailroad.
uu these attractions. Bpend flve thousand | The annual meeting of tho stockholders
dollars, if necessary, to advertise the great oft he Southwestern railroad wu held st their
^ V'2 U> 2 ,n . , “ “*• office, on Third street, yesterday-14,892
U 2 t ! d .? UU *- U , Ul# 8 . ul *. D « on shares of stock were reprinted. The old
whichth.eyeaof Uie people are fixei Yonboardwu re-elected, having received ths
go on Wall street, in New York, and iron whole number of shiTres voted,
bear more about Georgia toon any other Pr «ident, John E. Jones; directors,
Southern State, and when you gather Virgil Power* A. R. Law ten, John 8. ltax-
np the several products, both t*,, Thomu B. Gresham, George S. Jones,
mineral and vegetable from w . G. Rtoul, John J. Urenbam; secretary
eveiy quarter and •We ttem in aUractiv. ud troosarer, V. & BranUy.
form at Maoon, and with Macon s auperior | 1
advantages at toe Central City, let the I A iuo Machine,
world know it properly, we will have snch While Mr. John Garfield wu running a
a crowd of people here u wu never assem- planing machine at the Central railroad
bled in thi* conn» before. Why, we can Hhope yesterday laoming, his left hand was
have the greatest horse show on earth here, caught in the blades and badly eat, losing
Some ot the finest sad most experienced I one linger and havitg two others isjfl bare,
hoisemen say that nor mile track U the The injured hand wu draased by Dr.
second best in the United Statu for young Williams.
horses. The climate here it also adapted I Thin is ths sixth hand that hu beeunu-
to hones, and by proper advertising the Minted by this particular machine. Messrs,
fastest trotters cn the tort will bs induced Goodyear and Nix and thru others bars
to come here, provided, of course, the suffered much by IL
panes are at all large. One thing is eer- — -
tain, there moat not lean; two-dotiar-and-1 J? to* t»*£r* l _**e _<rf.cousmptlan Jhe affllrtad
Louisvllla Courier-Journal.
A number of testa ot a most remarkable
new process for hardening and tempering
steel were made in Louisville yesterday with
unqualified success. The testa were made
at a considerable disadvantage, the inventor
working with only the facilities afforded by
an ordinary small blacksmith's forge and
withont preparation, but every test that was
suggested was promptly undertaken, and
the remarkable superiority of the steel pre
pared by the new process over tho very
finest and most costly imported steels was
folly demonstrated. Indeed, the evidences
of superiority were eo great as to satisfy
those present that the new discovery would
revolutionize the steel trade of the world as
soon as it coaid be introduced. The testa
seemed to prove that the inventor had dis
covered the invaluable secret of carrying
hardness, elasticity and ductility iu combi
nation, and that tho development of one or
all of these qualities could be conducted
mechanically, thus regulating the temper
with perfect and unvarying results.
The tests of the new process yesterday
were made in the presence of Mr. IL Red
man, himself a well-known and skilled work
er of edge eteel, who has been following the
resnlta of Mr. Miles' experiments for sever
al months. Mr. Redman first exhibited the
difference between the steel produced by
Miles' process and a specimen of the finest
imported English cost-steel made from
Swedish iron. Mr. Miles has taken several
blades of the common shears mode of mal
1 coble oast-iron. One of them haB simply
been convened into steel and abutuei Las
been hardened and tempered. The temper-
pering of steel, as is well-known, produces
a molecular change in the metal itself, and
the molecular difference between the Eng.
tish steels and Mr. Miles' stohl, under n
strong glass, was very noticeable.
The grain of the latter was finer and
smoother, and the edge put upon tho Miles
steel was so perfect and smooth that, under
the glass, it appeared as well as to tho naked
eye. while the edge of ths English steel,
nnder the samo glass, appeared rough and
uneven. For this comparison, razors made
of the two steels were used, both finished
and ground by Mr. Redman. It was ex
plained that, as the English stool used in
making razors is more or less unequally
tempered—the temper depending entirely
upon the practical skill and judgment of
the workman—weak spots not infrequently
appear upon the same blade, which render
it liable to take on what is known as a
“saw edge.” “No two imrorted razors aro
tempered alike, either,” sold Mr. Redman.
"Each must be tempered separately, and
yon can not, therefore, always depend upon
the quality. Occasionally there is a blade
which is perfect, bat the majority are more
or less imperfect. I have finished a num
ber of Mr. Miles’ blades, and one is exactly
the same as another—all of them equal if
not superior to the most perfect and the
rarest English blade. The cost of Miles'
blades would not he near as great, beoause
the skilled labor required to temper each
ono would not be necessary, nor would
much time be required.’'
"I can put a thousand dozen razor
scissors blades into my bath at once,” said
Mr. Miles, “and guarantee that every one
of them will come out with exactly the
same temper and without any farther atten
tion.”'
wnrrTUNo steel with a knife.
Mr. Miles then produced a common,
cheap, black-handled pocket-knife, such as
are mode of very low grades of outlery
steel He had removed the blade* and re
tempered them by bD process, converting
them into a very high grade of metal. He
then took a common steel key, one of those
on his key-ring, and, with the kmfo blade,
whittled the stem of the key with little
moro effort than it wonld reqnire fora good
isnknife to ont n silver dollar. In this cue
t was steel ent stud After whittling a
minute or two he opened his band, strapped
tho blade on the palm two or three times,
and then turning np his shirt sleeve, shaved
tha hair off his fore-arm with the same
blade almost as neatly as a razor wonld do
the work.
The most surprising sod convinolng tost
of the extraordinary hardness and elsaticity
of the steel made by the new process wu
then exhibited. Mr. Miles bad procured
two specimens of bnrglsr-proof safe-piatea.
For many years various safe companies 1
have engaged iu strong rivalry to secure
] dates that wonld resist burglars’ tools.
These companies defy any burglar to bore
Into one of their safes with s quarter-loch
drill (the easiest with which to penetrate) in
leai than ten or twelve hoars. It is pretty
well known that burglars, when operating on
a aofe, use s number of drills, so that as
fut u one becomes dulled another takes its
ilace, and the work can bo carried on with
ittlo oesaation. Mr. Mila took one ot hia
drills, one-eighth of an inoh in diameter,
yesterday, and bond through a bnrglar*
proof safe in exactly forty mlnntas. Be re
moved it ooceortwloo and honed theedga.
He then took np another bnrglar-proot
plate and went through it in leu than
five minnt'S. The tint plate experi
mented on wu three-eighths ot an inch
thick. 51 r. Mila said he oonld take an
iron plate three-eighths of an inoh thick
and convert it into steel harder and more
etiatiothan the plate experimented on at
considerably leu expense. A specimen of
his steel wu submitted to a safe expert with
the requat to test iL It wu returned with
tho statement that nothing leu than a dia
mond drill could penetrate il and it wu
even doubtful if that oonld do the work
practically. 3Ir. Mila said the drill waa
not the hardest and the bat he oonld
make. He stated that he would undertake
to make a drill that would penetrate auy
safe plate in five minuta.
A thorough and lost tat of the value of
his steel wu then msde. A bar of ordi
nary soft tire steel wu tent for. When it
came Mr. Mila took it into hit forge room
and in exactly eight minnta he had forge?
a single small cold chisel from one end of
il which he tempered by his process. Tak
ing s bnrglsr-proof safe piste, he pat it into
• vice, and with ths still warm chisel cat
the hard edges and sida u readily u an
ordinary cold chisel wonld ent iron. He
then substituted a more diffionlt plate to
work on, and with the chisel ent the mid
dle piste readily, it msde only s slight im
pression upon the hard outer plates. Mr.
Redman then took one of his float cold
chisels made of Imported steel and it also
failed to ent the steel plates. A decided
difference of results, bowaver, wu ob
tained, for, while the edge of the Mila
chisels showed practically no injury from
the attempt, not being tamed or brokeo,
there wu a great yawning gap in the edge
of the imported chisel
The Mila procaeis claimed lobe
chap u to be capable of universal adop
tion, and fta rapidity is revolutionary. The
stool used to plate tha bat aafa is glass
hard on the extenor, but it can only be
given a sort cf aeluticity by placing be
sted When the Miles drill penetrated the
first and second plates and was entering . ......
tho third (hard) plate the latter chipped ° r<Rt AcU » lt T »“<> Sljsterion,
nnder it and a huge piece, the thickness of “* tb ® p “ wd ®F M,11 ‘ ,n lhl ’ Count,
the plate, dropped out, showing that tho PkUaielphla Bscord.
hardness was obtained at the expense of As a straw that shows which
toughness. If the bat safe plates were as European war wind blows, the „
tough as they are hard it would be invinci- Wilmington are attaching a great
ble armor. Mr. Miles states positively that importance to the unusual activity
he can prodace a solid plate of the combin- Dupont Powder 5Iills on the Brands,
ed qualities upon short notice. When 1 a few miles from that city. The miia
this is done ho will have produced a met- never in their history been more bus*
al that will be to all other metala the men are worked night and day |/
what the diamond is to tho other stones) I parts of tho great establishment,
— turning out clack powder such as
CANNIBALISM IN HAYTI. «• in TB1 ‘ by the tons. The
makers are told that the orders
Decline of British Possessions—Facts About hand cannot be filled fast enoueh
these indications of on unprecedented
mand for tho article have strengthen^}
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disoouragingly. I around', and they say to all such inqu
"The islands and their inhabitants are people that they are not exporting
retrograding rapidly," said he yesterday, .mantities of powder, but in nearly
“They are exporting less and less every instance when their mills hare beenbu.
year, and the natives aro departing more an( j j nst before a European struggle
and moro from civilization. The reason 1 same re pj y has been made to the a
believe to be the abolition or slavery, in They do not deny, however, the t
1824. The effects of that stop were not notivity at tho mflls, hut declare
felt by the white planters until the old indifferent sort of way that the
slaves began to die, and the new generation | der f or tho coal regions. If
had to be depended npon for labor. They t TOe there is promise of an extraoi
wonld not work, not having been bred to in- ooa j supply and cheap for this
dnstrions habits, and each old slave that Knowing people at Wilmington, howt
died was so much loss to the quantity of U- Bm ji 8 when tho coal-region story is toll
bor to be obtained. Some of the planters declare that it is a musty old chestnut
resorted to tho expedient of import- is pretty certain, however, that theebe
ing coolie labor and did very well, bnt a CB f works are not making ammunition
large nnmber of owners did not do this, and war purposes, beoause the artiole mam
estates on tho island went to min fast As tured at Thompson's Point is too atron,
time passed on, it became more and more wsr usee, unless, as one of tho officiate!
difficult to obtain laborers, and tho evil neoted with tho works said vesterdar
effect of this unusual idioneBB was seen in might be useful to dropdown from ball
yearly decreasing imports. Tho negroes j nto tbo enemies' camps. Bnt, as tei
need not work to get food and a house— ag j B tho foroo of this explosive, it ray,
these oan be had for nothing—and tho only found tough work to blow a hole throi
reason why they work at all, Is that they Twenty-fifth street, from Callowhill »b,
may earn enough money to dress In expen- to Green street, in this city, big enough
sivo and gaudily oolored clothes. This is ma ke a tunnel for tho Schuylkill Ear
tho only use they have for money. If ra ilroad. Tho rock through this
slavery had not been abolished, or if it could was found to bo almost os hard
bo re-established, the islands would flour- adamant, and If the contractor,
■ 8b -" I did not bargain for such
"What of the reports that tho praotice of stratum, had not been permitted to uiet
cannibalism has been revived in Hayti?" roc k which he blasted out in the masou
• In the main they were true. Hajti, of 0 f the tunnel he wonld have loat a n
all the West Indies, is the most marked ex- fortune. As it was, it required no 1
ample of the decay of tbo islands. When than 200,000 pounds or 100 tons of the n.
R*? ^ r ^ n °h left it, in 1172, they left a super- powerful dynamite manufactured at the l
fidally, at least, religious people, with pan no Works, with 75 per cent of ni
churches, factories and roads. Now there glycerine, to blow open the rock for „
is not a ohnrch or a factory on the island, few hundred feet The explosive naed «
and bnt one road, while the Cathoiio re- <w.r $50,000, which i* the lamest naan*
hgion has been abandoned for the Obi or W i h one ixccption, required for aim
fetish worship, and cannibalism haa again work in this country. It is almost c*
sprang up. The island is a blaok republic, fourth as much as was required to blow!
and no whites are allowed to own property. Flood Book at Hell Gate, in New Yorkk
In fact, tho only whites on the island are a bor, ono of the greatest and most difir.
few European traders, who conduct the engineering feats of even these dayil
nnanciui affiirg of the government ana lend I powerful explosives.
it money. The island it not commnni-1 a™,™
cited with by the people of the other trouble auout exi-obtino rowoti.
islands, and ths negroes are left to Persons closely connected with theC
devour one another ua fuel aa they pleaa*. I Powder Works, and who are fam
Their human flesh eating it not that of the I what is going on at other powder o
pa»t century. They do not eat tho flesh of I t} 1 ® country, say that m all of them t 1
persona who have died, and having nobody “ a » 8™*t activity as at the »
to war with they can take no prisoners to on lbo Brandywine, and while nobodj ]
cook and eat. They eat the fleah of children, the business is willing to admit that aU 111
taken when young, penned and fattened for I increased manufacturing of powder iitj
the feast. Sometimes they steal children cause of demands and orders from LoeI
from the neighboring islands and fatten fboy evidently do not expect people to8
them for their tables. They are drifting Hera their little evasive answers and IT
b»ck into complete barbarism, and there it I «tories about the coal mines,
no inclination on the part of the other I It is a fact well known in marine <
islanders to intorfere with their gradnal ex- lb*t the Duponts have been endear*
Unction." I lor some Ume past to have large ooa
* I wentH of goods lent to France by t
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ble old Gentleman. vessels, and Inquiries have been madsli
Ths Dramatic Tims.. charters. The shipping men say thstlf
Not long ago I was talkiDg with an old Dnponta will now purchase vessels. Tbi
gentleman who has tor yean been in the is a decided smell of war in it all wtl
iron business as a commission merchant in I cannot be very well disguised,
a Western city, who, early in his career,
went to England to make a study Of iron
manufacture in conjunction with a visit rot
pleasure.
“One day,” he laid, “I went to a London
book atom to flod a cortain work on metal
lurgy I could not find in America, and
while there a pleasant old gentleman came
in and began looking around pretty much
as I waa doing. We came together pres
ently, and soon were chatting pleasantly on
books and other matters, and I told him
who I waa and what I was seeking Ho
told me he knew the work, and, tbongh U
waa rare, thought he might find it, and at
once began a search through the racks,
shelves and ont of-tbe-way corners, and
finally came up smiling from a dark place
with the book in hia hands I thanksd him,
and, taking the volume to the dealer, I or
dered it laid aside, and st the same lime or
dered the late numbers of Macaulay’s works,
which were appearing In parts and some of
which I had bought in America.
"I told my new friend that in my esti
mation Macanlay wu the greatest English
writer, and that I had read everything ho
hod written, u far as I knew. He smiled
pleasantly, and after a few morntnU’ far
ther conversation, we parted, with the
hope of meeting again. The next morning
I left London for Y’ork, and when I had
settle! uit.'-’f iu the compartment assigned
me 1 round u.y at*., ing oompanlon to be
tho old gentle .i.a I u■*( met in the book
store the day uie> M,ie.iy. I was glad to see
him and told him l >a» 1 rand for York,
and he said he wo. h it g t-. re, too. This
pleased me, and I seni- n <t,. n (or a good
talk, for he was excecu.ngly entertaining
and thoroughly the gentW.'i. We made
no stops for some time, and «ht n we did f
noticed a large crowd at the am i -n.
‘"There must be some dui mrai-b-.l
penon elK-e-d t6o ‘Mir,' I said, *au.i tt>.«
poop!* , re 11. . > —f l.ltu ■
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lik-iiUf i>|.f to -
amu. it ihr ho ,ka.
Bismarck and tbe Length of His Lit* •
Pall Mall Gantts.
Prince Bismarck's second speech
chiefly interesting because of his d«d '
tion that, although be expected to
three yean longer, ho expected to die
fore seven had passed. He gave this i
one of tbe resons why ho refused to ink
fere with the Septennato. Prince Bisn
is now seventy-three. He anticipates il
between 1890 and 1891. That is to say, I
expects to live till he is seventy-six and I
dis before he is eighty. It is not evei "
who calculates so closely as to the pn
dotation of hie existence. It would Uj
very interesting subject to invest!
how far the plans of statesmen
thus modified by their expectati
of life. It used to be said that both "
old man in a hurry" and our "yourg
tn a hurry" were impationt from the i
cause. Mr. Gladstone's age precludes I
possibility of mtny years of prolonged i
tivity, and Lord Randolph's constitution!
so impaired that medical authorities '
said to have warned him not to exp
mare than five or six years of a care
Thut may be mythical, but there is 1
doubt that the ccnadouantst that Ur. Gii
stone hu only a few gulden years to 11
dominates every calculation of Mr. 1’ana'
and probably if the truth wera knows
every politician in Parliament
talk- At tr.e n- a- H'aunn (here was a larger
crowd. • iKlK.mt.g iM.tdde I asked whet
was g..i g .m, uni aoiuo . i,e u.id nis Lord
Macaul.y wu on tho train. 1 a cut back to
report to my friend.
“ ‘Lord Macualay is on the train,' I said;
‘that's what brings the people ont, and I’d
give a good deal to see him myself.' He
smiled sgain. ‘I'm Lord Macaulay,’ ho said
with almost a schoolgirl blush, and I reach-
ad out with American enthusiasm and shook
hands with him so heartily and earnestly
that ha laughed till tears came down his
The San Going Oat-
Sir W. Thomson, who is in many .
the moat sensational of all oar icientists,
declared st the royal institution that the
is going ont at the rate of thirty five me
* vp„r In 2 non years Ha radius would
liri ner mot i.«» loan at ire.er.t, and
1'i.UOi.OOO years it will lave shrank so
.bat life will be impossible on this p
As this pnta the extinction of the race*
* 'd, *i h a smile I d ’ 1 '* beyond our time, this prophecy
Ui-. 11.0 day lielnn- prohab.y attract li*a attention than Sir
c-ibiiuue t our i "*«>'" calculation that ths eon cannot 1
"When we reached York he invited me to
dins with him, and at the dinner, he ex
tended farther invitation forms to visit his
horns and hia family, and I did it, and t o
.... _ - this day Mactulay U one of my brightest
tween the outer plates a padding of aoft and pleasantest memories."
existed more than 20,000,000 years. Tkk|
u corner, would be a staggering Mov'd
many received evolutionary theories, i
require much more elbow room than at
twenty millions of jeers. Sir William 1
son, however, is obdurate. He haa no«
passion on geologists or biologists, who ’-I
almost be ae hard put to it to reconcile
theories of creation with so brief a ip* 2
Ume aa with the Mosaic six days.
ttssss. KaGraagw and Birmingham (S*l
It is probable that a proposition *0*1
mads to the citizens of Maoon tom the w|
corporators of the Macon, LaGrange »»■
Bmmnghim railroad looking to begin^l
the won of coMtrartion at this end cf tfl
Una. Col Wm. C. Yaney, whole inu-:«*'l
ed in the road will perhai be in lira -"'I
day.