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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. X.
WASHINGTON, D. C,
facts and fancies about
MKN AND THINGS.
Whnt Our National law lUnliers are Dolm
—Departmental Gossip—Movements ot
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
CONGBESSIONAL.
Among the petitions and memorials
presented to the Senate was one (numer¬
ously signed) from Pennsylvania, asking
tsuch a change of laws as to bar all pau¬
per immigration; to prevent the landing
of immigrants under contiact; to debar
ifrom citizenship other all foreigners who owe
allegiance to powers or govern¬
ments, and to require twenty-one years
residence before any immigrant can hold
lany public office of trust or emolument.
A bill reported from the committee and
placed on the calendar, authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Mis¬
sissippi River at Natchez. The resolution
'offered by Mr. Plumb, some days since,
as to the inefficiency of the postal service
[of discussion, the West and and Mr. South, Plumb was addressed taken up the for
Senate upon it. Mr. Kenna discussed the
'President’s Message on the Pacific rail¬
roads. After a brief speech from Mr.
'Sherman, in reply to Mr. Kenna, and a
still briefer one from Mr. Reagan in re¬
joinder to Mr. Sherman. Mr. Stewart
■addressed the Senate briefly in support of
'the education bill. The pending ques¬
tion, the chair announced, was with re¬
spect to the formation of a select com¬
mittee for the consideration of the Mes¬
sage of the President on the report of
ithe Pacific railway commission, and that
the mover of the resolution, the Senator
from Massachusetts, (Hoar) would have
(been entitled to the chairmanship, but
(the chair was informed by that Senator
'that under no circumstances would he
(accept a place upon that committee
[In [chairman the House, of the Mr. committee Blount, of postoffices Georgia,
on
[and [tion postroads, the bill amending called up the for statutes eonsidera
so as
[to [but provide hooks that reprints no publications of books, that whether are
{they or
be issued complete or in parts,
[bound sold by or subscription unbound, or in series otherwise, or whether shall
or
[be admitted to the mails as second-class
matter. The object of the bill, ex¬
plained Mr. Blount, was to prevent the
evasion of the law which designates
wliat shall constitute second and third
class mail matter. Under the law, books
must pass through the mails as third
class matter, but an abuse had sprung up
and the law had been evaded by pub¬
lishers issuing hooks at stated intervals
land passing them through the mails as
{second-class matter, on the ground Bible that
the ey were periodicals. While the
and educational books had to pay eight
cents a pound, a yellow-covered novel
could go through the mails for one cent
a pound. Mr. Crain from the committee
on Presidential elections, etc., reported a
joint resolution proposing a constitu¬
tional amendment providing that Con¬
gress Ihe shall hold its annual meetings on
Ike first Monday in January; placed on
House calendar.
In the Senate,Mr. Coke presented ame- of El
lorial signed by mercantile men
’aso, Texas, representing the extensive
mount of smuggling done between the
order towns of Mexico and those of the
fnited States, under the Mexican free
ane law, and asking that a reciprocity
reaty be entered into with Mexico in or
er to prevent such smuggling. Mr.
'asco presented a telegram which he had
jeeived from the vice-president of the
jeusaeola stating and that Atlanta that Railroad claimed compa
r, company no
■ids except those embraced by the list
■proved Es in by the state of Florida. (This
fcde contradiction to certain statements
by Mr. Call.) Mr. Blair’s educa
■nal bill was taken up, and Mr. Pugh
■dressed the Senate in its favor.....
■ the House, the Speaker .pro tem. pre
lited a memorial signed by Mrs. Waite,
■e of Chief Justice Waite, president of
B Woman’s National Relief Association,
■lying fcaged that pensions be granted to those
Bted. in the life-saving service; re
■dance with The House proceeded, order, consid- in ac
■tion of previous committee to
the report of the on
■amerce, stigation relative to the proposed in¬
of the Reading strike.' After
■ie Bsolidated delay, various propositions were
into the following resolu.
B>. which was adopted without divis.
B: of five “Resolved, That a special commit
■ members be appointed to in.
Btigate forthwith the extent, causes a tea
■ct upon the interstate commerce of
I continued failure by the Reading
Broad company to transport such corn
Sce, and to report to the House, by
■ or otherwise, for consideration at any
He such legislation as is necessary to
Sire to the public regular and com
Ke execution by the railroad company
Bts obligations to serve as a common
■ier of interstate commerce, and
Ring I investigate the differences
in the Lehigh and
vlkill region of Pennsylvania be
Q corporations mining coal and the
is; [relating and, further, to investigate all
to mining corporations and
Pdual miners of anthracite coal in
prtion therewith, and all facts in
r on to the matter, and report the
f t° the house with such recommen
ms as the committee may agree
bong the petitions and memorials
tnted in the Senate were the follow
Against the repeal of internal reve
taxes on tobacco and cigars, (from
figar make;s’ union in St. Louis). For
astitutional amendment prohibiting
manufacture, transportation importation, exporta
and sale of liquors in
L'nited States, (from the yearly meet
ff the Society of Friends in Balti
*)• The resolution offered Mr.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888.
Plumb, instructing the postoflice commit¬
tee to of make inefficient a thorough inquiry into the
cause ly in the mail service, especial¬
West and South,
was taken up for consideration.
To public change the limit of appropriation for
$375,000. building joint at Jacksonville, proposing Fla., to
The resolution
an amendment to the Constitution (known
as Mr. Hoar’s amendment.) It provides
that the term of office of President and
of the Fiftieth Congress shall continue
until the thirtieth day of April, 1889, at
noon; would that otherwise Senators whose existing the term
expire on 4th of
March, 1889, shall continue in office un¬
til the 80th of April succeeding such ex¬
piration........The Speaker pro tem of
the House announced the appointment of
Mr. Gallinger, Cummings, of New York, and Mr.
of New Hampshire, as addi¬
tional members of the committee oil
printing, administration charged with inquiring into
the of the government
printing gesting office, the Speaker pro tem. sug¬
during the investigation that the
committee be known as the special com¬
mittee on investigation. Mr. Oates, of
Alabama, from the committee on judici¬
ary, reported a bill to regulate the juris¬
diction of the United States district
courts in Alabama; placed on the House
calendar. Bills were passed for the erec¬
tion, at a cost of $100,000 each, of pub¬
lic buildings at Greenville, S. C., and
Asheville, sylvania, N. C. Mr. Brumm, of Penn¬
raittee presented a memorial working of a com,
asking representing 83,000 of Reading men
strike; an investigation ordered the
it was printed.
GOSSIP.
The Senate has confirmed J. R. Jordan
as United States marshal for the western
district of Virginia; T. G. Crawford
receiver of public moneys, Gainesville,
Fla.; W. A. Fiske, postmaster, Ports¬
mouth, Va.
The Secretary of the Treasury has desig¬
nated the First National Bank of Ashe¬
ville, N. C., as a decided depository of add public
moneys. He has not to to
the number of these depositories excejit
in cases where it i.s an advantage to the
disbursing officers.
The judiciary committee reported fa¬
vorably on the substitute offered by Mr.
Culberson in place of all bills relating to
polygamy. The substitute provides that
polygamy shall not exist or be lawful in
the United States, or any place subject
to their jurisdiction.
The Mississippi House of Representa¬
tives sent a memorial to Congress, protest¬
ing against the passage of the Senate bill
having for its object the prevention of
the use of cotton-seed oil as a substitute!
for hog lard, and proposing to tax lard,,
tax oil, and the privileges of manufactur¬
ing and dealing therein.
Dennis Kearney, the celebrated Sand
Lots orator of San Francisco, Cal., ad¬
dressed the House committee ou foreign;
affairs in advocacy of additional legisl a-:
tion to restrict Chinese immigration. Mr. the; ;
Kearney exhibited a map showing
Chinese district of San Francisco and:
said that Chinese to the number of 75,000,
now occupied the entire pioneer district'
of San Francisco, and had erected a Joss
house close to the leading Catholic church
in the city.
There had been introduced and refer¬
red to the committee on public buildings
and grounds, up to date, about 150 bills
for public buildings. They are scatiered
all over the country, in nearly all the
States, those for the South being: New
Orleans, $1,500,000; Key West, Florida,
$350,000; Newport News, Va., $100,000;
Texarkana, Tex., $100,000; Monroe, La.,
$100,000; Columbus, Georgia, $150,000;:
Asheville, N. C., $150,000; Staunton,:
Va., $75,000; Vicksburg, Miss., $100,.
900.
AN EXCITING TIME.
The Buildings of I lie Vir«inia Penitentiary
Distroyed and the Military Called Out.
The buildings of the Virginia peniten¬
tiary, at Richmond, Va., leased by the
Davis Shoe company, of Boston, Mass.,
and operated as a shoe factory, was dis¬
covered on fire. The flames spread of rap¬ fire
idly, and, despite the efforts the
department, the buildings occupied by
the shoe company were totally destroyed,
together with all valuable machinery and
stock. The buildings burned were three
story bricks and covered an area of about
700 feet in length and 60 in width. Loss
to the shoe company is estimated at from
$150,000 to $175,000. The amount of
insurance is not yet ascertained. Soon
after the'fire broke out the bells of the
city sounded a military call, and in a few
minutes about 200 soldiers were on the
ground to guard against any emeute of
the prisoners, but everything was entirely burned
quiet, and after the walls of the
building had fallen in and fears of a fur¬
ther spread of the fire was over, the mili¬
tary were ordered back. The buildings
were state property, and the loss caused
by their destruction will amount to $35,
000. The Shoe company worked between
three and four hundred convicts. All the
convicts, about 700 in number, remained
quiet in their cells when the fire first
broke out and for some time after, but
when many of the cells began to fill with
smoke the occupants clamored to be let
out. This was soon done, and the pris
oners were turned into the galleries fac¬
ing the inner court, where they remained
under a strong military and civic guard
until the fire was gotten under control,
after which they were returned to theii
cells.
THE CITY MUST PAY.
-
George H. Clarkson, a $55 Chicago drum
iner who was robbed of in cash, a
revolver, a gold watch worth $150 and a
gold chain worth $80, has entered suit
against the city of Kansas City, Mo., for
$5 000 damages. His claim is that the
city is responsible for the safety of life
and property of citizens and strangers,
The case is without precedent.
SOUTHLAND D0TT1NGS,
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FOR
BUSY PEOPLE,
The Social, Religions and Temperance
World—Projected Enterprises—Mar¬
riages, Fires, Heaths. Etc.
Speaker Carlisle, on account of sick¬
ness, will not speak at Atlanta, Ga.
Nashville, Tcnn.,is to have a new dailj
paper—the Democrat —with a strong fi¬
nancial backing.
Thirteen colored men were arrested in
Athens, Ga., charged with running “blind
tigers,” and were each lined $50.
Gray Poole, a negro deaf mute, Ilaleigh, was
found in the fireplace at home, in
N. 0., with the top of his head cooked
nearly to a crisp.
A great icc gorge in the harbor at St.
Louis, Mo., gave way and boats and bar¬
ges were damaged to the extent of thous¬
ands of dollars.
A careful estimate of the cattle losses
in Texas, resulting from the recent severe
blizzard, places the number of head lost
at between 1,000 and 1,300.
Lewis Moore, a negro who was to have
been hung at Georgetown, Ga., received
a respite from Governor Gordon fifteen
minutes before the hour fixed for bis exe¬
cution.
A wreck occurred near Ladiga, Aia.,
on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor¬
gia road. The freight ran off the track,
upsetting the engine, ditched seven cars,
and hurt two brakemen.
One hundred laborers employed on the
extension of the railway from Scotland
Neck, N. C., to Greenville struck, de¬
manding an increase of wages, which the
contractors refused to allow.
Charles Ackerman, a switchman in the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad yards, at
Birmingham, Ala., fell from a moving
train and was crushed to death. He was
33 years old and unmarried.
Near Red Springs, Robinson county,N.
C., Angus A. McNeil, a farmer, was
thrown from his buggy and instantly
killed. When found he was under the
buggy, with his neck broken.
Judge John II. Hull, of Sylvama, Ga.,
died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Scar¬
lett, in Camden county. He was one
time judge of the circuit court, and for
many years postmaster at Sylvania.
Frank Lightford, who, it is alleged,
poisoned six persons at the boarding
bouse of Hattie Lightford, in Chattanoo¬
ga, Tenn., was arrested at South Pitts¬
burg. One of Lightford’s victims died,
and another barely escaped death.
Property belonging to the Rover Iron
Works company, at Roanoke, Va., was
sold at public auction to Clarence M.
Clark, of Philadelphia, for $26,000. This
includes a narrow gauge railroad of some
length and very valuable iron ore banks.
Six colored and two white convicts,
escaped from the Coalburg mines, at
Birmingham, Ala., by digging out of the
shaft where they were at work. They
dug out on the opposite side of the hill
from the prison, and their escape wasnol
discovered until night.
A fire started in one of the compart¬
ments of the Union Cotton Press, al
Charleston. S. C., the principal owner of
which is the firm of Pelser, Rodgers &
Co. Two thousand bales of cotton were
destroyed, involving a loss of over $100,
000, fully covered by insurance.
Yellowstone Kit came near breaking
his neck during his show in Montgomery,
Aia. He slipped from a high backwards. box where
he was orating, and full
Some gentlemen caught him just in time
to prevent the back of his neck from
striking a heavy iron-barred chest.
Miss Arethusa Weller, Kansas City,
who created a sensation in that city by
her strange actions, and whose mind be
came unbalanced as a result of her atten
dance upon the Sam Jones revival meet
ings, was adjudged insane by the county
clerk, and ordered to be sent to the in
sane ‘ asylum
In accordance with a petition commercial signed
by the presidents of several
exchanges of New Orleans, La and
many prominent represen ative drtzens,
Gov. Nicholis issued a call for an imnu
gration convention to meet at that city
March 5th, the object teing to encourage
immigration to the state.
Twenty-fivo of the prominent citizens
oi Opelika, Ala., met at the First Na
tional bank to take steps in organizing
a cotton factory. A committee of five,
consisting of Major A. Barnes, chairman;
N. P. Rcnfroe, R. M. Greene, G. J. Sud
dith and H. B. T. Montgomery, was ap
pointed to canvass the town and report.
The Atlanta, Ga., directory canvass
shows that there are ten chartered and
private hanks, with an aggregate capital
of $2,225,000; that there are 140 miles of
streets and 190 separate streets, 240 miles
of sidewalk, 60 of which are paved and
curbed. There is 151,000 feet of sewer¬
age. The estimate of the population is
72,000.
E. Short, railroad agent at Knoxville,
Miss., on the Louisville, New Orleans &
Texas Railroad, was assassinated. The
assassin fired through a window. Short
at the time was engaged in making out
his monthly reports. His daughter, tele¬
graph operator, and his wife were in the
room with him. His wife was shot in the
back.
A pair of Mormon elders passed through
Raleigh, N. C., on their way to Davie
county. The Mormon missionaries con
fine their operations to the most ignorant
people in the backwoods and unenlight
ened communities. These latest arrivals
say that quite a number of Mormons will
visit the South, and do there earnest
work in making converts. Several Mor
mous have been nearly whipped to death
in Western North Carolina.
J. Browning, of Jefferson, Texas,
bought cooked a half bushel of turnips, and some
were for dinner with pork. Nee¬
lies Chaney, Allie Eubanks, and two wo¬
men whose names could not be ascertain¬
ed, both visitors from Marshall, (all col¬
ored), ate of the turnips, and were imme¬
diately taken sick. Browning, who ate
also of the pork, was taken sick some
eight hours afterwards. It was found
that nails had been driven in the turnips,
and they had been in a box with “Rough
on Rats.”
Charleston, S. C., is rejoicing over the
capture by detectives of the burglars who
have been operating there for the past
six months. They were captured in their
den on Meeting street. Their names are
Andrew Gibbs and James Johnson, with
a dozen aliases. Both are negroes under
30 years of age. The officers found in
their nest a large assortment of plunder,
which filled up a room of the main po¬
lice station. One of the burglars made a
confession, and told how they had rob¬
bed over fifty houses within the last three
months.
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Write* a Letter to the Legislature of Mis*
sisstppi Regretting He Cannot Address It.
The following letter from ex-President
Davis was read before the Mississippi
Legislature and ordered spread upon the
journals: Beavoir, Miss., January 34,
1888. To the Senate and House of Rep¬
resentatives of Mississippi: Gentlemen the honor •.
I am sincerely thankful for
conferred by your concurrent resolution
of the 12th instant, inviting me to visit
you during your present session. It
would give me great pleasure to meet the
representatives of the people I have
served so long and have loved so much.
It is reasonable to suppose that the
time is near at hand when I will
go hence forever, and I would be
glad personally generation to know the the men destiny of the
present to whom
of Mississippi is to be confided. Missis
sipians from the time of her territorial
existence, have borne an honorable part
in the affairs of the country, and have
shrunk from no sacrifices which patriot¬
ism has demanded. Bearing testimony,
as one who comes down to you from a
past age, I can applaud the chivalry and
integrity of old Mississippi, and my high¬
est wish is that her future record may be
worthy of the past. When your very
complimentary resolution was received,
my health did not permit me, as I desired,
at once to accept and indicate a time
at which I would visit you. My anxiety
to confer with and learn the views of my
younger brethren, caused me to hope that
at a later period, I might be able to send
you an acceptance, but that hope has not
been realized, unless the session should
be protracted. inability I am compelled attend. to With an¬
nounce my to
grateful acknowledgment j of your kind
consideration, I am, with cordial wishes
for your welfare and happiness individu¬
ally and collectively, your fellow citizen,
Jefferson Davis.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Tiie following statistics from the offi¬
cial reports, shows the growth of the co 1
ton and woolen industry in the Southern
states in the past seven years, The iu
crease in mills in the South during that
period was eighty-five, or 51 per cent.;
of spindles. 654,036, or 116 per cent.; of
looms, 15,734, or 39 per cent. The in
crease in each of the Southern states
separately in the past seven years, was ns
follows: Alabama—Mills increased 18
p er cent'.; spindles, 18 per cent.; looms,
71; j, er cent. Georgia—Mills, looms, 37 per 81 cent.;
spindles, 90 per cent.; per
€ ont, Mississippi—Mills, looms, 25 per 109 cent.;
spindles, 155 per cent.; per
cent. Maryland Mills, 16 per cent.;
spindles, 35 percent.; looms, 14 percent,
North Carolina Mills, 61 per cent ;
spindles, 139 per cent.; looms, 226 per
cent. South Carolina—Mills, 107 per
cent.; largest percentage of increase;
spindles, 181 per cent.; looms, 195 pa
cent. Tennessee—Mills, 75 per cent.;
spindles 188 per cent, the largest in
S^ ”^27 g0 °Tce„t."spin dies,' 35pmcent.';
I per cent North Carolina has
mi Us, agafnst against 49 in 1880.
^ Carolina *9 14 in 1880.
■ ’ g [ & against 16 in 1880. Virginia, Geor
ag inB 1880. ^ 4 Alabama, 1880 . 19 against 13
against 3 in
1V5 in 1880. Arkansas lms added one mill
s { nce 1880; Kentucky one; Louisiana
one . Mississippi two, and Maryland throe.,
r fhe' total number of mills in the Son: 0
to-day is 249, and consumption of r.-w
cotton in 1886 and 1887 was 401,482
bales, against 316,062 in 1884-85.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
A scheme is on foot to build a railroad
from Brewton, Ala., to Bronson, Fla. A
large vein of iron ore crops out of the
ground near Lake Irma, in Orange coun¬
ty. L. H. Cawthon, of Walton county,
has the only flock of pure merino sheep
in the South. It is said that Key W est’s
custom-house will soon be moved to
Tampa. The orange groves about Ar¬
cher sustained a severe check in theii
growth by the recent frost. The west
side of the Indian River, between Jupi¬
ter and the Narrows, is being settled upon
rapidly. The land is well adapted to
pineapple culture.
COTTON REPORT.
The weekly review of the cotton mar¬
ket, says that the total receipts have
reached 90,130 bales, against 105,403 bales
last week, 145,741 bales the previous
week, and 159,308 bales three weeks
since, making the total receipts since the
1st of September, 1887, 4,486,132 bales,
against 4,346,172 bales for the same
period of 1886-7, showing an increase
since September 1, 1387* of 139,960 bales.
THE BUSY WORLD
PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE EVER¬
PRESENT NEWSPAPER MAN.
The European Powers Preparins (or »
Great Struggle—Irish Affairs—Storms*
Railroad Accidents, Suicides, etc.
The Hynes carriage factory at Quincy,
Ill. (the largest in the West), was de¬
stroyed by fire.
Fifteen hundred cotton operators are
on a strike at Cornwall, Ontario, on ac¬
count of a reduction in wages.
tion Archbishop Walsh will lay the found Church -
stone of the National Irish
of St. Patrick, at Rome, Italy.
Latest reports from Manitoba indicate
that there has been great loss of life on
tiie Canadian Pacific owing to snow
slides.
The private bank of W. H. Cutter,
called the “Guelph bank company,” sus¬
pended payment recently at Guelph, On¬
tario.
Ah Fat, a Chinaman, was hanged at
Victoria, B. C., recently, for the mur¬
der of a Chinese woman named Chney
Whey.
The signal corps station at NantUcket,
Mass., report upwards of fifty vessels in
the ice near Nantucket, and from Great
Point to Tucknuck shoals.
The organized brick makers of Phila¬
delphia, have Pa., numbering about 4,009,
decided to demand an advance of
fifty cents a day for the coming season.
A fire, which started it the store of
Henry Rogers & Co., No. 549 Broadway,
New York, caused a loss of $1,500,000
before the firemen controlled it. Several
firemen were hurt.
the Chicago’s labor organization opposes
Convention holding of tiie Democratic auditorium National
in the new be¬
cause non-union men and convict stone
were used in its construction.
Dr. Mackenzie made another examina¬
tion of Crown Prince Frederick William’s
throat. The tumor inflammation was re¬
duced, and no signs of cancer found. No
operation will be made.
Tiie McKeesport, National Tube Works Company,
of Pa., employing 4,000
men, have posted a notice ordering a re¬
duction of ten per cent, in wages of all
employes. If the reduction is not ac¬
cepted the firm will shut down.
The carpenters of Pittsburg, Pa., have
notified employers that on the first oi
May they will make a demand for an ad¬
vance of ten per cent, in wages, and the
employers say that the demand will cause
& suspeusion of business.
Eugene Zimmerman, formerly a direc¬
tor of the Fidelity National Bank at
Cincinnati, Ohio, who was in Europe
when he was indicted by the United
States grand jury for complicity has in the
wrong transactions in that bank, re¬
turned.
Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin,
Ireland, was released from Tullamore
prison the other day after two months’
confinement. A large crowd was gath¬
ered in front of the building and greeted
Mr. Sullivan with great enthusiasm, and
he afterwards received addresses from
various delegations.
A man named Fitz Maurice, who re¬
cently took Ireland, a farm rngir Tralee, brothers County
Kerry, from which two
had been evicted, was going to market,
when he was approached by the two
brothers, who shook hands with him, as
if to make sure of liis identity, and then
shot him fatally with revolvers.
Tiie limited express west bound on the
Pan Handle railroad, ran into an open
switch at Urbana, Ohio, and collided with
a switch engine. Both engines were
badly wrecked. Frank Brown, engineer,
and Charles M. Alband, fireman of tire
passenger locomotive and Frank Shade,
roadmaster, were killed.
Wm. McFarland, one of the oldest
actors in the country, died in the county
jail, at Minneapolis, Minn., where he was
awaiting examination as to his sanity.
Intemperance had made him a wreck.
elder McFarland had and supported and Macready, noted the
Booth Foriest, other
stars of a former generation.
The people of Ivildysart, Ireland, and
surrounding neighborhood gathered, and
headed by priests, marched toward the
court-house. They were charged by and the
police, succeeded who used their batons freely,
in clearing the streets. Many
persons lected were injured. The people col¬
again, and finally 1he police de¬
cided to allow them to remain. Tiie
court-room was filled with priests.
One thousand two hundred men have
become idle at Sing Sing prison, New
York, and locked in their cells. Advices
from Platfshurg state that the same con¬
dition is true there of three hundred and
fifty convicts in Clinton prison. The
meq, will be confined in their cells for
twenty-two hour s daily until the Senate
passes a bill making an appropriation for
manufacturing in prisons.
About 3,000 men, women and girls,
employed in the »noe manufacturing bus¬
iness, are locked out in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The manufacturers agreed upon this
course of action. The origin of the
trouble was the keeping back of the
wages of twelve girls in Blocker, Gerstle
& Co.’s manufactory recently, which the
firm claimed had been paid them im¬
properly by mistake in estimating their
work.
The incendiary who set fire to the hos¬
pital for Ruptured and Crippled Children
on Forty-second street and Lexington
avenue, in New York city, has been dis¬
covered in the person of a pretty, mild
mannered Wilson. little girl of 11 years' named
May She has been in the hos¬
pital nearly three years, suffering from a
wry neck. She was about to be sent
NO. 50.
home as cured when the terrible crime
was discovered.
London, (England),advices from St,Pe¬
tersburg say that an army officer, who had
been shot in the region of the heart, was
taken to the hospital, where the doctors
declared that his wound was mortal. The
officer thereupon admitted that lie had
shot himself in order to avoid the neces¬
sity of shooting the czar. He said he
was a member of a secret society,
which had balloted to decide who should
undertake to assassinate the czar, and
choice had fallen upon him.
When the men employed at Glendowei
colliery, near Minersville, Pa., came out
from work recently, they were met at the
mouth of the slope by a large crowd of wo¬
men from the adjacent Ileckslierville val¬
ley, who besought them to stand by theii
striking brethren, and offered, if tliej
would, “to share their last crust with
them.” As an offered earnest of their substantial good
faith, the women them
contributions, which they had broughl
with them, consisting of bread, meat and
potatoes. Little or no attention was paid
to this novel appeal.
MISCEGENERATION.
A Young German In New York CUy Weils a.
Colored Woman*
The East side of New York city was
stirred up very much ou account of the
celebration of the nuptials of Arto Shon
vitch, a young German of the pronounced
blonde type, to Bello Jackson, a buxom
lass of most ebony hue. The mar¬
riage ceremony was celebrated at Kra¬
mer’s hall, 66 Essex street, which
adjoins the celebrated Silver Dol¬
lar Saloon kept by ex-Assemblyman
Charles Smith. The guests arrived at
the hall about 9:30, aud were received
with astonishment by mine host Kramer,
who had made all the arrangements for
the celebration with the groom; he natur¬
ally supposing the bride to be some rosy
cheeked German lass, and had never
stopped to question her antecedents.
Great was his surprise, when, instead of a
crowd of solid Germans and their wives,
a company ol' dusky gentlemen and their
ladies appeared, the midst dressed of them in the latest Mr.
style. In and leaning his came
Shouvitcli, on arm was a
large colored girl. She wore the usual
orange blossoms, and a veil covered her
face. After everything had been ex¬
plained to Mr. Kramer, he joined heartily
in tiie laugh that arose at his surprise.
The festivities began with a march, and
then came dancing. While the company
were in the midst of it a scene occurred
which was not on the hill of fare. It was
the appearance of a poor, decrepit old
woman in the barroom. She was crying
bitterly; she was the mother of the
groom. She begged and his piteously wife. to She be al¬
lowed to see him was
brought in by a rear way, and was shown
tiie bride through a window. At the
sight of her the old woman fainted away.
After being revived she begged her son to
come away with her. He refused to have
anything to say to her, and she was car¬
ried out. In the midst of the excitement
a burly German insisted on forcing his
way into the hall. He was hatless and
coatless. He claimed to be the foster
father of the groom, and threatened to
shoot not only the bride but every person
in the hall who could not vouch for her be¬
ing white. The excitement was now in¬
tense, and loud were the imprecations
heaped on the head of the intruder. lie
made a dash at the bride. The woman
fainted, the colored men yelled, and all
through the hall you could hear murmurs
of “Gut him,” “Slit his wizen.” At last
the man was ejected from the hall, quiet
was finally restored, the festivities ter¬
minated peacefully, and Mr. aud Mrs.
Sehonviteh left on their weddimr tour.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.
An orderly of Kossville hospital, patient, New
York, was instructed to move a
named Charles McClane, from the second
floor of the hospital to the third, where
the doctors were about to perform raised an
operation on ! McClane. The orderly and
tiie elevator to the second floor went
for the patient. Having placed moved McClane him
on a folding cot, the orderly and
to the shaft, re-opened the door,
without looking to see if the elevator was
there, rolled the cot forward. During
the orderly’s absence to prepare the
patient, the elevator had been sent up a
story, and McClane was precipitated the cellar,
through the shaft clear down
and was killed.
MISSOURI 18 IIAPPY.
The excitement over the gold discov¬
ery in the Prospect well at Appleton
City, Mo., has not abated in the least.
The strata in which the gold is found is
thought to be from seven to nine feet
through. One day’s washings have re^
suited in the finding of better specimens who
than ever, and tiie local chemists, all
have seen them, pronounce them gold.
•SHAKE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt
in Scotland. It caused no damage.
Shocks were also felt in different parts of
England. Reports from Birmingham,
Coventry and Edgbarton, a suburb ol
Birmingham, show that disturbances Scotland the oc¬
curred in those places. In
shocks were especially marked at Ding¬
wall, county Ro ss, and at Inver ness.
CHOLERA IN CHILI.
The latest cholera returns from Chili
by cable are: Valparaiso, 46 cases and
30 deaths; Santiago, 54 cases, 18 deaths.
The epidemic extends as far South as
Valdiva. No more cases have appeared
at La Serena. The Peruvian consul at
Panama advises the government that the
authorities at that port will not accept
rnai's from Chili.