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TOE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 13,1888,-TWELVE PAGES,
CHOPPED HER HEAD OFF.
leafing for life,
only to be Crushed Into
| Horrible Dotd of a Deranged Man la South
Cnrolina.
Shapeless Masses
SOME SICKENING SCENES AT A FIRE.
Employee Caged .... tl.e Fifth Floor of a
Barring Building wildly Leap Into
the Air, to be Dnsliod to Deutli
on the Pavement Below.
-Information
has reached here from Pickens of a brutal
murder which occurred near that place on
Monday night.
Thomas Alexander, a wealthy farmer living
♦n the Crow Creek section of the county, and
a man who is considered deranged in his
mind, quarrelled with his wife about a tiivial
matter—the putting of a stick of wood on the
fire. He became enraged, seized an axe and
struck her in the head. She fell dead, and
gPBCtOFIBLI>, Mass., March 7.—The new Alexander then severed her head from the
office of the Evening Union was burned out j )0 ily. Alexander testified before a coroner’s
•bout 4o’clock this afternoon and the blaze j ur j. that he acted in self-defense,
attended with the most sickening horror
er witnessed in this city, six of the era-
1 os meeting a horrible death, most ol A Letter Turns op to Expose the Insln-
thern jumping fr° m the fifth stor y aad bein 8
rruihed into a shapeless uiass below. Six
(Wb-r’s were badly injured.
The fire was first discovered in the mailing
cerlty of Ills ProfeiuiloiiH.
Washington, March c.—The colloquy in
the Senate yesterday reported as between
Senators Falkner and Plumb on the subject
and clouds of smoke were pouring out j P**l>lic buildings was actually between
f the lower story windows before the fifty Dhntol and 1’lumb. The substitution of
° I, on the upper floor were aware of their muues " ns au inadvertence of the reporter.
" . The names shot up an old elevator Mr. Plumb had been criticising the super-
dinger. _ . vising architect of the treasury lor delaying
lathe rear, cutting off escape by the stair- w „rk upon public buildings and changing
*ar and most of the employes who escaped j the plans so as to involve greater expense.
. ' I ,|, e j r W av to the ground by way of a Mr. Daniel read a letter from Mr. Plumb,
found Wien a / , dated last Oetnher. Ufldrassmt tn
reof in the rear. Some were cut off in the
cosajamng room and there is still a terrible
insjiense, as several fell back into the flames.
The employes who rushed into the editorial
room were cut off from escape in the rear
and had to face the horrible alternative of
buiT.ir.g to death or
A JIMP TO THE SIDEWALK BELOW.
The fire department responded promptly.
■ Ladders were put to the fourth story and the
light of rescue so near seemed to madden
the suffering groups at two windows, who
dropped in succession to the sidewalk below.
SU fell in this way, some of them forced off
aad some madly leaping, and the crowd
puaaed and turned their heads away as they
whirled through the air.
The dead are as follows:
Henry I. Goulding, foreman of Union com
posing room, burned to death.
Miss Thompson, proof reader.
Tin. Frederick E. Farley, editorial depart
ment, fell from a window ana killed.
Mr. Lawson, of Quebec, jumped and was
hilled.
ff. E. Hovey, of Boston, fell to the side-
walk. ,
Mr. Brown, a compositor.
Four compositors suffered bad fractures of
the bones and serious burns, and two, Dono
hue and Ensworth, are probably fatally
hart.
It is thought that the fire started among
lumber in a closet on the ground floor. The
lames were drawn up the elevator well and
ipread through tile composing room. There
were more than thirty compositors, men and
women, on the fifth floor. There was no fire
wipe. Denso black smoke issued lrom the
winuotrs in clouds and by the time the fire
department arrived the top windows were
bled with poor
DESPAIRING HUMAN BEINGS,
who did not seem at first to realize their
dreadful position. The crowd underneath
cried to them to have courage, and on no
snonst to try to Juum or climb down, and
they si first seemed disposed to obey, but so
atew were the ladders in being erected that
panic aeized the victims. The scene as peo
ple begsn to drop or fall from the blazing
windows was horrible. A shriek broke from
the crowd as each of the victims fell into
the street below. There was a great clap
ping of hands when a woman was seen slow
ly defending a ladder. The noise
of the crowd was hushed as the
wounded were carried through to an ambu
lance. The only available article for quench-
tng the flames in the office was an old wutcr-
tng can. There were no force pumps or fire
tuckets of any sort.
A piece of canvass was stretched over the
•Mewalk. Three men jumped oti this, but
woke through and fell out on the pavement.
A woman also fell through the canvass and
Wed on tho sidewalk insensible. Mrs.
ruley would have been saved if she bad
not become excited and broke away from
jnoie who were endeavoring to induce her to
*j> svenue of escape which saved
•nrnl. Josenh II. Undford was standing
•nine sidewalk at the end ol the building
jnrtherest from the comer of the buildim
•tenMrs. Farley fell, lie stood his grounc.
55? "ached out his arm to catch her. She
•I on Ins neck, hearing him to the ground
‘“"Chmg him senseless. Mrs. Farley
hwsly hurt ln,laD, * y ’ *' a,l ord wa " not * cr
KILLED AND INJURED.
I The following is a corrected list of the
ST"! 1 *,injured: Dead-H. J. Goulding,
renittn °I the composing room;
«™«d toideatli, Mrs. Hattie K. Furler, 23,
■"Cty editor; Miss Gertie Thompson, IS,
I poi-rcader, burned to death; C. L Brown,
SuXtt* Uor ; I*°vey, of Boston, 25,
king on his head and died at the
esinfii’.Ai 1 -\k‘ ns °r, 35, compositor,lately
»»to this city from duiadfc
11 ewL:*' ? ,e: *'• Ensworth, about
fisdij.. , the counting room, compound
tnmnl "l. .A?** ' C K, right hand and wrist
h,nn.h'„ I l °“ lb 'y fatally injured; Thomas
bvi„*** W, compositor, left thigh
tb Lull ,ac * frightfully burned, proba-
h i nrt: « 11 Myrfck, jumped and
fk on • l>>rr el, badly injured.
OFFICE ROUTINE.
‘-kren submits the Result of Ills
an Ur, Into Government Method*.
I aim i. S j°** > *’ " urcb *•—The report sub-
I — . °’ da ? I*y Senator Cockrell from the
I Ike >u J™™ 1 "' 1 *** which ha* been studying
I kn. f l of lraa *octing government bus-
lle, J 1 —* ****wttve department, U a vol-
I I ,a s«» ia addition to vol-
I’Wolav‘PP* 1 *! 11- ®*. The committee de-
> .. h '.'': ork l Senator Cockrell,
iWthe entil’. re “ ,,unia B in Washington dnr-
Iswsreut, j. v 0 ”,* , of *«veral months to
I task h a , |i'„ „ '* “°t assumed that the
I •Ketime in.i^Ti exb *, a »tively performed; a
I !“<»rw’n? i.ri;. w ° ,,ld f* insufficient for the
I"w *m2£*y*jf*' •“ »ny reader of
l^'otnmiuVJ d ‘««v*rfor himself.
Ij'wamenil f* Dmcb to certain places
r*« a, nan’.* 1 . Xtrf mucb in others to con-
‘ n ' 1 ,Sr - Ci -
dated Inst October, addressed to the super-
vising architect, urging that the plan for the
public building at Wichita, Has., he changed
by adding another story and suggesting if to
do this involved omission of a heating appa
ratus from the estimates he (Plumb) thought
that without doubt this could be provided
for at the next session of Congress.
Air, Daniels also read letters from Kepi _
sentative Peters, of Kansas, recommending
that work upon the public building at Wich
ita be suspended, with a view to securing a
larger appropriation. Mr. Daniel made no
objection to Air. Plumb's letter, but he nr-
gued that after being written, common fair
ness should have prevented the writer from
criticising its recipient for acting upon the
suggestions containet^in it, which virtually
had the force of authority.
WOMEN STILL SLAVES.
A View of Their Condition in
Eastern Countries.
NO ROSEATE GLOW IN SIGHT AS YET.
There nro Jinny Hurning Wrongs to bo Re
dressed Itefore Sensible Women Should
Clamor for tho Ballot—.Status
of Women in Japan.
itiirs, the governors, etc., arc working with I rpTT'rvTTp ITT' TAT \ AI T7P TH A
tlie foreign bishops to help the condition of T HU Uotll J.ini AMijitivA
all, but especially the pitiable one women
have so long occupied. They will ever
rejoice that Commodore Perry knocked at
tile gates of the Tvcoon.
\\ ith Dr. I tin ns to expound Buddhism,
and Rev. McKiin to talk to a large society
of jiroininent women this week, Chicago
ought to be alive to the needs of Japan.
Bemcmber that $550 a year will support a
teacher.
A . FRAUD.
How Some Fellow Has Recn Plotting
Against Our Statesmen’s Pence of Mlml.
Washington March 8.—Mr. Jones, chair-
man of the Congressional Democratic cam-
paign committee, says: A circular letter
dated “Democratic committee rooms, Wash-
ington, February 1st, 1888,” and signed “H.
M. V. Judson, secretary,” has been sent to
numbers ot postmasters in the South, re
questing them to procure nnd send to tneir
Senators and Representatives lists ol names
with a request that public documenta nnd
field, garden and flower seeds be sent to the
persons named in such lists.
.Inquiry ut the national Democratic com-
littee rooms and at the Congressional cam-
5 align committee rooms shows that 11. AI. V.
I iidson is not the secretary of any Demo-
cratic committee in Washington, ft is also
ascertained that Senators nnd Representa
tives have tent to the constituents nil seeds
nnd nearly all documents allotted to them.
The circular referred to implies that they
have been derelict in this respect, and it ha it
unnecessarily stirred up people and annoyed
Senators anil Representatives. Mr. Jones
says Judson is a myth, and he advises that
no attention be puid to the circular de-
scribed. »
HOLD CONSPIRACIES.
A Hcueflt Concern llndly llcntcn by South
(.’nruUnn Btntllelcrlei.
Charleston, S.C., March 7.—J. II. Bond,
Mrs. Juda 0. Bond, Dr. L, X. Shafer and
his son, R. E. L. Shafer, with others, were
arrested here to-day upon the charge of de
frauding the Supreme Council of Royal
Templars ol Temperance out ol (20,000 hr
feigning the death of John O. Bond, who is
really alive. Mrs. Bond and John O. Bond
were discharged from custody upon swearing
that their names upon all the papers arc
forgeries.
Dr. Shafer and son, J. A. Robinson and
J. A. Robinson, Jr., were also arrested on
the charge of defrauding the same organiza
tion out of (20,000 by certifying to the death
of a fictitious John U. Lyman. Dr. Shafer
and son, and John H. Bond were committed
to jail In default oi bail. The Robinsons
are out on ball in both cases. Dr. Junes 1’.
Bond and Thomas Bond who figured in. the
Dudley case, are also indicted. The con
spiracy is one of the most remarkable ever
known in this State. Gustav Frank, a
l’inkerton agent, is working up the cases.
INGALLS DENOUNCED.
A Philadelphia Grnnd Army Post Thanks
Senator Illnekbnrn.
Philadelphia, March 7.—General Robt.
Patterson Post (No. 275) G. A. K. met this
evening at Its headquarters, Broad and FJls-
worth streets, when the following preamble
and resolution were unanimously adopted;
Whereas a bill ia now pending in the Uni
ted States Senate called the denendent pen
sion bill, and though this post feels thankful
and grateful to the country tor its remem
brance of her soldiers, yet we learn with re
gret that the memory of loyal and brave ret
erens haa been publicly iusulted in the na
tional Congress in order to advance the
measure in question; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the thanks of this post are
tendered to Senator Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, for so ably defending the memory of
those tried and true patriots, Generals Geo.
B. McClellan and Wingfield S. Hancock.
, It was ordered that a ropy of the above be
sent to Senator Blackburn.
Treaty Hlth China.
Washington, March 8.—The President
sent to the Senate to-day a message in reply
to the resolution requesting him to negotiate
with the Emperor of China a treaty contain
ing the provisions that no Chinese laborer
■hall enter the United States. The Presi
dent says such a negotiation was commenced
some months ago and its progress has been
communicated to such members of the Sen
ate as sought information on the subject and
lie now deems himself justified in express
ing the hope snd. expectation that a„tre«ty
will soon be concluded concerning the im
migration of Chinese laborer* which will
meet the want* ol our people and the appro
bation of the body to which it will be sub
mitted for confirmation. .
A Gang or Counterfeiters Capt
Norfolk, Va., March 8.—The police of
this city succeeded to-day in capturing a gang
office Italian counterfeiter! named Joseph
Dauortfoi, George Cutaboni,
Eleanor Seymour Sea In Chicago Herald.
We talk much of the advancement of
women, but I fear that our mental gaze is
fixed almost wholly upon the ways nnd
means which women have found of late to
gain a livelihood and increased pay for
work. It is always hard to realize that
which we cannot see or feel; there is much
truth in an old saying that what we gain
by the sense of hearing alone goes in at one
ear and out at the other. Tiiis makes it
hard for the American woman, witli her
free-born rights, the honor and veneration
accorded to her sex and her platform of
equality, to comprehend what the advance
ment of woman in heathen lands means.
We have a habit of glancing at such para
graphs as the following in the Herald and
other journals of the day with so little atten
tion that therellection on the mental vision
is quickly observed:
There arc twenty-seven women connected
with the missionary enterprise in China. There
ladles devote themselves chiefly to medical
work.
Truth to tell, foreigh missions is a mat
ter dismissed with a shrug and a passing
thought that “charity begins at liorae,”
leaving to somebody else the thinking out
of the problem what can be done to help
this great people, the heathen nations, to'
Christianity, and through that to 'an en
lightened manner of living. It needs no
further proof than the advancement of cul
tivation in the civilized Christian races to
demonstrate the effect ol education from
the cause ol Christian religion. When,
again, Me read that “in England, os the
question ol the extension ol the parliamen
tary franchise to women who pay taxes, is
one in which all parties are equally inter
ested, it has been found possible to interest
many jiersons in it,” etc., it is natural to
think that the absorbing part of the ques
tion of the advancement of women is from
the suffrage point of view, but if one’s at
tention is directed to the real state of tho
case—that part of our sisterhood is not
even thought to rank higher than a dog—
when we realize how far their number ex
ceeds ours, then does the thought come
home with vivid reality.
Should we not bend more effort to bring
them to the safe and pleasant state in
which wc now stand, and leave, until that
is accomplished, such luxuries the power
to cast a vote among dirty crowds of men,
or to sit in Parliament on the floor, instead
of in the ladies’ gallery. Ah! if the world
would only be content to leave the little
things until the great ones arc accom
plished.
Let us have a look at the condition _ of
women in one of these Eastern countries,
Japan. The native women, from thei
birth, arc but the slaves ol the men, and
after their marriage of their mothe
law, which second slavery begins very
early in life, since they nre given in mar
riage extremely young. They are taught
as their only education, how to play an
instrument somewhat like the guitar, and
another large „fivc-stringed ouq which
rests on the floor. They are tanght how to
arrange flowers, and, aliove all, how to be
agreeable and entertaining, for tire Japan
ese women arc very charming if one can
gain an entrance among them. They nrc
allowed to exhibit these accomplishments
to elderly married men and male members
of their own family. As to books and any
real education they know nothing about.
They can read, but what kind of read
ing? In Japan there are three styles of
books—those written for the men, class
one; those written ior the youtiis, class
two, and those written for women and
coolies, class three. In class three are
many books of etiquette, which is regarded
as something to be understood by all the
better class of women. The Japanese wo
man directs her own housekeeping, unless
her mother-in-law lives with her, or vice
Arrest of the '*Kln; of tho Forgers.”
From the London Telegraph.
On Saturday afternoon William Ringold
Cooper, an American, aged 40, was charged
vovovty mt jfiiiui it auj a^cu iwtuMjiiai^uu
at Bow street police court with defrauding
by means of forged cliecks-the Loudon nnd
Westminster Bank (Bloomsburg branch),
and was formally remanded until Friday
next. The reports furnished state that
Cooper is known in America and through
out Europe as the King of Forgers, lie
speaks a number of languages; he was !>orn
at Smyrna, in the United States, in 1846.
At the age ol 16 lie removed to Philsdel-
phia, entered the United States navy early
in the great civil war, and distinguished
himself by much daring At the close
of _ the war lie obtained a good
position in the Navy Department at Wash
ington, where liis extraordinary career
commenced, He appears to have attained
a marvellous skill in imitating handwrit
ings, and soon mqjle effective use of it.
Taking advantage of his official position,
he fpqjcd orders train paymasters to the to
tal qf 5175,000. He duly received the money
and on the same day lie married the niece
of M. Defrees, the United States Govern
ment Printer. He was arrested on his
honeymoon, tried for the forgery, convict
ed and sentenced to five years in the 1 S'ni
tentiarv
I Tim Conv
V OOl) ALCOHOL,
rslo
i IiitoMcr-
Leclure by Professor Charles
Eliot Norton.
QUITE A STRIKING COMPARISON-
IloRton of the First Quarter of This Cen
tury ami ltoston of tho Irfist Quar
ter Compared, Showing tlio
Couutry*s Changes.
From the Boston Post.
Professor Charles F.liot Norton read his
lecture upon “The Condition of Thought _ __
in America” at Chickering Hall last even- out , and > passing through large copper con
densers surrounded by cold water, are con-
f Hard Wood
chantahle Material.
From the Bradford Era.
At the extensive chemical works of A.
B. Smith & Co. the interesting process may
bewitnessed in all its details of converting
hard wood into charcoal, wood naphtha
and acetate of lime. These three products
nre snipped to all parts of the country,
where they are finally consumed in the
manufacture of various commodities and
in forming a part of different chemicals
used in the arts and sciences. The wood,
cut in ordinary cord lengths, is packed
closely in huge iron retorts and
subjected to an intense heat. The
watery vapors anil gases nre driven
- t ?“ me °f the examples • Laffiori, Pietre ,
“U’s'iriinl 1 , tio “> tak en at random 1 Filip Brocolo and Bragina Mature, alia, l’etro
. * «iirin n ’t„’i r 5 ad .“. though they might Lamo. These men have been here about
E f“at bonSri., e< * J? ,be b ™in of all extrava- two weeks and have flooded the eity with
iJsfcUai .i, 1 / ,hc r *port accompanies its 1 counterfeit silver dollan. They had none
■■aii’l.r an.l m 5? 5r r ®commendations of of the spurious roin in their possrealon when
I*•'1 „?., *•** methods of business J arrested, but have been identified aa having
| a «l*(l« o t _.(?* ,, n»ed praise where better pa-"sl it. The treasury department lias
-• been notified of the eaptar
I >m»bov " ‘■'"•"••c.
fetoaftSfisow:
F'lW and \L < r’ rdan > **° parties, Z. T.
Washington, March 8.—Secretary .Fair-
child, in his report submitted to Congress
early in December, estimated that the trea*-
• ’ ‘ 1 (140,000,000 by the
year. It is now
I th a hoe, wiiirh , '»a**th , oHaht Gi'ho *° heavy receipt*duritig*the last few montha, I
Ui b "‘ Millet's phvsiSan • the estimate tSen-ubiallt*. d *«“ . who was .m e,im ..lyel I pr. ident
.."'“son nn,nnm,~- ,l ; iil too small and the surplus at the end of Jon', , , . .. . \ (.oilcan.
^ ba lt>U£!T^* *• ikk ftr ? 1HA, will probably resell one handred and l ET. ,
fifty-fire millions. ’
versa, when, as stated, she is the complete
■lave to both her husband and his mother.
She may not even go out or change he
dress without the consent of both. As for
her marriage, it is anything but sacred, the
husband being able to divorce her at his
S tcasure. They have not the delight, so
ear to the American feminine heart, of
tollowingthe fashions, for Japan is the one
country Bulwer Lytton did not have in his
mind when he said “fashion is ever strut
ting through one country alter another.”
It never changes there. One’s ancestor’s
attire, centuries old, is perfectly au fait
to-day.
The Empress is a good woman, though
not a confessed Christian, and she takes a
great interest in the progress and education
of her poorer sisters. The entire govern
ment is, to a degree, interested in the pro
pagation of the Christian religion. There
are already 80,000 believing converts.
Charlemagne’s old theory of wholesale
baptism is not practiced. They, in their
turn, are sending missionaries of the faith
to Corea, China. This means not only re
ligion but civilization to any land.
The system of religion, Buddhism, from
which we would conuert them, is full of
ridiculous theories, particularly repulsive
to thinking women. Over some of their
houses of worship is this sign, “No cattle,
no dogs, no women.” The act - of worship
ping seems to be a vain repetition of cer
tain words. An old priest will ait before
an idol all day, saying as fast as his tongue
will fly: “Hail eternal Buddha,” “Ilail
eternal Buddha," “Hail, eW.”. They have
no realization of the omnipresent,omnipo
tent, omniscient deity; but they are willing
to lend a helping hand to the forwarding
of the good work among their jieople. Some
schools for girls have been established,
which it first met with no favor, it being
necessary to resort to a sort of chromo,
gift-boo ft arrangement to get even six pu
pils. To-day St. Margaret’s at Tokio, and
St. Agnes’s, st Osaka, are full to overflow,
ing, and the sell-sacrificing American
teachers are driven to the verandas for j further st.
sleeping place. They arc taught all kinds
domestic duties, and the teachers do not i
all speak Japanese, but use an Interpreter. ifiuil]
The girls dress in the native eoatnme, aa over th
in the accompanying sketch of one of the
St. Agnes School, who has il.untatm h pri
vate missionary work. That a- a class the
gitls of the higher familis* aresWirfH, in
telligent and pwaaing is shown bjr IMM>
alarily of one of their noml . r who w t.
* nt b> this coumrv to !-■ educated :.iut
imoosly elected prtsi.ieni
tiary at Moyamensing. When he came
out of prison in 1870 he found that his
marriage had been annulled on his wife’s
letition, and lie at once proceeded South.
He obtained a situation at Columbus, Miss,
as agent for a New Orleans insurance com
pany, took to local preaching, and married
Airs. Hill, a well-to-do widow.
He soon relapsed into vice, and squan
dered his wife’s fortune. Being a friend
of the postmaster of Columbus, lie was
allowed free access to the post-office. One
afternoon he unobserved moved the hands
of tile clock forward twenty minutes, and
whea tlie mail matter from the local bank
arrived it was found, according to the
clock, to be too late to catch the evening
train. Cooper remained at the post-office,
and at a favorable opportunity stoic from
the bank package a draft for $18,000 on
the Bank of Mobile. He altered the paper
to make it payable to himself, restored
the letter to the mail bag and has
tened to Mobile, and in due course
cashed the draft. The fraud was soon dis
covered, and Cooper was arrested. He
managed, however, to find bail, and then
escaped to San Francisco. By means of
forged letters of introduction he entered
tho service of J. B. Treadwell, a leading
merchant, whom he ultimately defrauded
by forgery of money and bonds to the total
value of $82,800. Cooper escaped to Eng
land, and committed a series of forgeries
for which he was never brought to justice.
In 187D, however, he was arrested for
forging checks to the amount of £4,000 on
Glyir, Mills & Co., for which he was sen
tenced at the Hertford Assizes to five years’
penal servilude.
At the expiration of this sentence Cofijier
returned to America, and was engaged in a
uumlier of forgery frauds, but always man
aged to ha file tint police. Last year lie
came to England again, forged check- for
over £5,000 on the Loudon and Westmin
ster Bank, obtained )the money and de
camped to France. A warrant was taken
out against him, nnd executed by the
French police on December 12 at Fontaine
bleau. Cooper had been living for some
time at a quiet hotel on the verge of the
forest with iv lady-like woman who passed
as his wife. He went out shooting in the
forest daily nnd seemed to be enjoying
himself, liut for a day or two pre
ceding liis arrest he was ’ observed to be
nervous and moody, nnd to indulge heavily
in brandy. He was conveyed to Paris, and
after the usual extradition formality taken
thence to Havro on Friday evening. As
ho wia known as a most desperate man, he
was loaded with chains by the French de
tectives, and so delivered, at 9 o’clock on
Friilzy night, to Sergts. White and Freest,
of Scotland Yard, who had gone over
specially to meet him. Cooper was taken
on board a steamer hound for Southamp
ton, and placed in a cabin. The
Frerch police had informed their
English confreres that the prisoner
had been thoroughly searched, but
knowing the dangerous character of the
man. it was decided to make another
■earth. The caution of the English offi
cer* was justified by the result, for in a
secret pocket of the prisoner's trousers was
found a formidable bowie-knife, of Ameri
can aianufactnre, very long, and oi razor-
like sharpness. Other secret pockets were
discovered in the iirisoner'sclotlie* but noth
ing if value was found in them. Cooper was
then securely handcuffed, wrapped in
rngs and closely watched by the officers
in turn. Several times during the night
the prisoner made frantic but unsuccessful
efforts to remove the handcuffs, which for
ing before a company which included
within its too limited numbers several per
sons who stand for what is best and most
brilliant in this town. No one who has
much acquaintance witli good literature is
ignorant of the high qualities of “Church-
Building in the Middle Ages,” and Mr.
Norton’s other works; his labors in the
Carlyle-Froudc matter are public evidence
of his impartial discernment; and the ful
filment of of hisduties ns professor of the
fine arts at Camhriilgejhns made liis name
a symbol of the roost liberal education.
Another gift which adds a charm of its
own to whatever Mr. Norton says is n per
fection of speech and an urbane dignity of
manner that are not soon forgotten by
those who have once felt the attraction of
his presence. But even more persuasive
qualities than those which seem
to unite in Mr. Norton the culti
vated layman and the wise preacher
would be needed to make his lecture of
last evening acceptable to the many per
sons who mistake narrowness for patriot
ism. It would be wrong to call Mr. Nor
ton’s opinions of his country pessimistic,
but it woulu he impossible to suspect him
of optimism. Indeed, that phrase of Em
erson’s about this great, rich, sensual, avn-
ricions America—which not a few good
jieople indignantly supposed to be Mat-
thew-.\rnold’s own and not an instructive
quotation—would well rejircsent a part of
Mr. Norton's contention. This America is
greater and not less sensual, richer and (it
is to be feared) not less avaricious than
when Emerson wrote those words. And all
our material success receives its due meed
from Mr. Norton. He rejoices that we
should be,in the possession of it, but. he
rightly feels that it should be a foundation
for on intellectual development of which
there are yet few tokens. The Boston of
the first quarter of this century nnd the
Boston of,t!'.e last ijuartor were compared,
after a fashion which is pointed out in the
excellent abstract below, os an exhibition
in little oi the changes which have taken
place in the whole country.
But with ail our material prosjieritv,and
with all the literary activity which has
been unceasing since the time when the
thirteen colonics became a nation,Mr. Nor
ton finds that only one American writer
and thinker lias within that jieriod sensi
bly ili!llli'Mcctl the thought "i (he unrhl at
large. The “friend ol tho spirit” is, ol
coarse, Emerson, and Mr. Norton, even
while lie expresses reverence for him, is at
the same time conscious oi much that is
local, much that is transient, which the
jieople of other countries have naiurally
Men quicker than the jioojile of New Eng
land to discover in Emerson. Again,
look of five hundred years nhcail fills one
with gloomy apprehension for the fame of
our contemporary jiocts; nnd if in litera
ture American accomplishment lias been
small, in profound scholarship, in original
research, m philosophic thought, it has
been far less. And in these 60,000,000 of
people who are, as Mr. Norton expresses
it, free from fear, and of whom at least
50,000,000 are well housed and fed, there
is no leisure class to whom one may look
for intellectual tastes. Those among us
who have inherited fortunes present them
selves to Mr. Norton in the divided aspect
of sheer idlers and men who work only to
increase the hoards they have received.'
A Metuure of Relief.
From the Fbih^IclphU Record.
The tariff bill prepared by tlie Demo
cratic members of the wavs and means
committee will grow in public favor, day
by dav, as it shall he more fully discussed
and better understood. The roar and
racket of the protectionist press will de
ceive nobody who shall desire to make nji
an accurate judgment from a study of tlie
facta bearing upon the situation.
It must Ufliorne in mind that the object
of the bill is to afford the Isrgest measure
of relief to the people, not only by reduc
ing the amount of money poured daily
into the Federal treasury in excess of the
necessities of the government, but by
cheajiening the cost of living at the ex
pense of the monopolies, trust* and combi
nations which sre st present sucking the
marrow of the consumer.
The bill proposes to revive the drooping
manufacturing interests of the country by
discarding the rude, unscientific and un
ity device of taxing both the crude
into sullen silence, which he interrupted
occasionally with sarcastic remarks about
the wa sickness from which one of the of
ficers suffered. The steamer reached South-
amiton at 1 o’clock on Saturday morning,
and officers ami prisoner came to London
by the first train.
The jiolice have in their possession a
good deal ol luggage belonging to the ac
cused including several portmanteaus, a
careful examination of which will prob
ably lead to imjiortant discoveries respect
ing some of the more recent frauds in
which Cooper has been engaged. It is
possible something may be learned of the
whireabouts of certain bonds, part of the
proceeds of tlie great San Francisco fraud,
which, curiously enough, have never been
negotiated, or, at any rate, haTe never
beea traced. When Cooper was serving
hi* last term of jienal servitude, at l’ark-
hunt prison, lie was visited by Capt.
Leis. eliief of tho Ban Francisco police,
who, it ia understood, promised that the
American .authorities would not demand
his extradition for the Treadwell swindle
if he would give full information respect
ing the missing bonds; but nothing came
of the interview, and as Mr. Treadwell
died while
i take
verted into the liqnid form. The liquid
i« pumped into a series of tanks, where the
tar settles to tho bottom, is drawn off and
burned as a waste jiroduct. The upper
and lighter portion of the lluid is carried
oyer to another tank, where it is treated
with common lime. It next passes into a
close still, where the ajiplication of heat
drives off'the wood naphtha or alcohol
sjdrit, which is collected in the ordinary
manner of distillation. The iv iduum from
the still is thrown into an open vat, where
the water is evajurated by boiling. The
resulting product is acetate of lime, which
is spread over the floor of a kiln and
thoroughly dried.
Mr. Smith’s manufactory contains twen
ty-four retorts and has ail average con
sumption of fifteen cords of wood a day.
The only fuel used is natural gas, although
in the manufacturingproeeksa large quan
tity of gas is evolved which in factories
which do not enjoy the advantages of pet-
rogen fuel is consumed under the retorts.
These retorts are nine feet long and four
feet in diameter; tliev are made of heavy
cast iron, 1J inches thick, and weigh moro
than three tons apiece. Each holds about
live-eighths of a cord of wood, which is ex-
jiected to make thirty bushels of merchant
able charcoal. Each retort is sujiplied with
a short, thick curved outlet at tlie back,
which connects it with a peculiar condens
ing apparatus of copper pipes, ranging
from twelve down to four inches tn diame
ter. The retorts are set in a firm frame
work of fire brick and require a very solid
and expensive-foundation. When a re
tort is filled the door is plastered
tightly shut with mud and firmly closed
liy means ol two wedges. The outside of
the retort is subjected to a heat of 400 dc-
§ rees, which in tlie interior rises to 1200
egrees. Tlie vajiors immediately begin
to pass over, and a liquid whicli at first is
as clear as water runs from the condensers
into a long pipe at the rear of the great
range of retorts. The liquid soon changes
in color and becomes thick, brown and
tarry. The boat is applied from twenty-
four to thirty-six hours, according to the
quality and condition of dryness of the
wood. The gas that finds its way through
the condensers is hurtled at the end of long •
upright pipes. When no more liquid runs
from the condensers the preliminary stage
of the manufacture is at an end.
Ut>on opening the heavy door of a retort
a solid pile ol charred wood confronts the
the observer. The attending workman
immediately thrusts in a long iron rake,
the largo sticks are broken up, ami the
whole pile burst- into a blaze. 'I he pieces
of blazing charcoal are raked Into heavy
iron cylinders and conveyed away to cool.
Each cylinder i- provided witli a cover,
which rqon smothers out all tendency of
tlie charcoal to consume itself. The cylin
ders hold from four to five bushels each,
and are readily carried around the works
by means of light two-wheeled trucks.
Next to the range of twenty-four re
torts is the dry kiln, an elevated platform
of stone about twenty-five feet square,
upon which the acetate of lime is spread
for its final preparation for tho market.
Ilovond the heated floor of stone arc the
boiling vats, and huge stills nnd tanks into
which the liquid from the retorts is con
veyed before it is converted into alcohol
and acetate of lime.
The wood used is principally beech,
birch nnd majde. The product of the
manufnetorv varies considerably nnd de-
tiends upon the market and the demand.
The year jusl closed has not been remark
ably prosticrous. Too many establish
ments of the kind have been
built, and the result is that wood alcohol
has declined from $1.05 to 65 cents a gal
lon, and the acetate of lime, which at one
time was 15 cent* a pound,dropped to $1.80
per hundred last year, and now brings but
$1.25 tier hundred weight. Charcoal is
worth from 3 to 5 cents a bushel. The ca
pacity of the works when uin to their fail
extent is about 4,500 bushels of merchant
able coal, 8 or 10 tons of acetate of lime
and 240 gallons of wood najitha )>er week.
This amount would require the consump
tion ol ninety cords of wood.
LOIID STANLEY.
tun: telv were of special pattern and excep- material and the fiuished product, thus
tioDil strength. Finally Cooper relapsed putting our industries and our labor at a
disadvantage os compared with competing
industries and labor in all other parts ot
the world. No argument can break down
the fact that manufacturers could make
cheaper goods and pay better wages if they
could buy
Cheaper wool,
Cheaper dye-stufls,
Cheajier lumber,
Cheaper jute, hemp and flax,
Cheaper chemical* and other crude ma'
Uriah.
And no argument will avail to convince
the laboring man that he will be injured
b T
Cheaper food,
Cheaper clothing,
Cheaper shelur,
Cheaper earthenware,
Cheajier glare, and
Cheajier utensils.
11 the taxes can be reduced $100,000,000
by conferring these general advantages
upon the industry of the country, and by
the some stroke gathering into the pockets
of consumer* snotber $100,000,000 of un
earned money from the inordinate prices
of materials which are necessaries of life,
is it not worth while? _ This is the aim of
the new tariff bill. This it will accomplish
if it shall become a law. For every dollar
- Ifritljji- Open.
r.,Mar. li Til- bride l!
of tax it may intercept on its
treasury it" will save to the
dollars on the way to
.oly. Of course, the
. - 1 u 1. anil till- -It!'-illi/.ei 1 pre-
Line and the “protected interests”
to the
ople two
To He Governor-General ol thc$DumlnIon
of CcinnUa.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
In view of the ojieration of the new
treaty with our northern neighbor on the
fisheries question, which in all probability
will be adopted by the parties concerned,
the succession to the supreme office in the
dominion, that has, it ajtjiears, been deter
mined ujion. has noire than usual interest.
The Marquis of Landsdowne, governor-
general of Canada, will soon vacate the
honor for, it is reported, the even greater
dignity of succeeding the Earl of Dufferin
as governor-general of India, and his suc
cessor will lie Lord Stanley.
Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Pres
ton, G. C. It, is a brother of the present
Karlgof Derby. He was born in London in
IS4I,entered the Grenadier Guards in 1858,
and retired in I860. As Sir Frederick
Stanley lie entered the House of Commons
in I860, the conservative . member for the
borough of Preston, Lancashire, anil liis
services in Parliament have been continu
ous since _ that date. HD first office was
that of civil lord of the admiralty, gfvsa
him in 1868. In .'he yean 1874-77 M won •
financial secretary to the war office. He
became secretary to the treasure in 1S77.
He left office with bu party u la
the ministry of 1885 and 18.Nl !,.• ».1- S-i -
retary ol State for the colonie-. The 1 hlef
incident of hu administration was the re
call of SirC. Warren from Bechnanaland.
In Augu-t, 1880, he became j.ri-iilent of
the board of trade, and was raised to the
peerage ss Boron Stanley, oi Photon.
During his entire cant r -- a puldicman
he has consistently maintained hi- mem
bership with the Con-ervative parte, of
which hi- father, it will |.e remembered,'
> I- . I. Ilnel.l, The pr.-elil earl
of Derby, ana brad of tho fltsaler family,
i- e.,uni’. .1 aith tin.-. I.iltera 1- who, on the
Iri-li ijiii-tioii, r. in— 1., f.,|L,» the lead of