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Revenue Men Coming Under the
Civil Service Rules.
LOUD PROTESTS ARE EXPECTED.
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Washington, Nov. 10.—The internal
revenue service of the government,with
its thousands of gna,.'ers ami storekeep
er^, is to he placed under civil service
rules. More than 5,000 men will be
milled to the classified list and placed
beyoml removal, except upon charges.
No extension of the civil service, since
the railway mail employes were includ
ed within its jurisdiction, is likely to
raise such a storm of protest among po
litical leaders us this contemplated step
on the part of the president, which will
affect the only service in which patron-
is nut now restricted. The extension of
the civil service to this bureau might be
bailed with satisfaction by Democratic
lenders if the majority of the Republi
can officers bad been succeeded by
Democrats, but ihe reverse of this is
true.
< >n what day tbo order will be issued
cm.not bo learned, lint it is understood i
on :ugh authority that it will be pro
mulgated soon.
I p to tnis time ihe civil service re
formers have overlooked the internal ,
rev. line department, and the collectors 1
have been able to distribute consider- I
ble patronage. In some of the southern
districts the collectors have had at their
disposal a number of veiy lucrative of
fices, which have been filled by the po
lilic.il friends of the collectors. All
Vbls wer will be taken away from i
these efticials when the civil service is j
extended to the gaugers mid storekeep- i
nrs, and as many of the collectorships |
are still held by Republicans whose |
terms have not expired, hundreds of |
Democrats who have been looking
forward to securing fat jobs as soon as 1
the Republicans were removed, will be J
doomed to disappointment. Fully 8,000
Republicans will bo kept in office by
this order.
The London Times Celia the Crime Minis,
ter I Warn on Feota.
London, Nov. 19.—Prime Minister
Rosebery, speaking at the lord mayor's
banquet, virtually said that the news
papers had told untruths concerning
New Zealand's alleged desire to govern
t'union.
Subsequently The Times showed from
official documents that New Zealand
h ad addressed repeated dispatches lot 'ae
colonial office expressing a desire td ad
minister the government of Samoa, an l
i died upon Lord Roa ib ry to withdraw
his statement affecting tnc trutafu.uess
of the newspapers.
Now The Times publishes a letter
from Lord Rosebery, in which he says:
I regret that the words I us - i included
a contradiction of the statement that New
Zealand hail the wish or the intention to
administer the government of Sam >a. My
nse of the word “wish” I readily admit
w as a slip. As regards the word “inten-
tion” it cannot be alleged that New Zea
land had any intention to administer the
government of Samoa, for any such pr s-
feeding would have been contrary to the
treaty engagements of the imperial gov
ernment.
Cleveland Will Be 8»tl*feetory.
The offer of the American government
to arrange a peace between China and
Japan is watched with the keenest in
terest here. The initiative of America,
if successful, would bo hailed with less
jealousy than that of any other power.
The intimation that President Cleve
land might intervene caused the coun
termanding of important orders to Ad
miral Fremantle.
Statistician Waite Has Been
Doing More Figuring.
BOW THE DEMOCRATS L03T IT.
I? Wat th<* I>i«sr»nt!ril Demoerttt That
Can«eii t!» * L n Uiitin Thlft Vetr, a* (ha
S nn * I !< m -ut in «U- Hrpnblieiu Party
Cau«e<l Mtrir* i:» 1333 —O-aio D«jiucrati
Otil.t hjjU *t IH-1 mu
Washinstov. Nov. 10—Vcy\ ric’r C.
V.'aiie, formerly a customs oCixi »1, l as
figured oat lor tile Nat o-.ial Sraristital
association tnat over 5,0Jt),G0J voters
remained away Iro n the pails tais fall
r.nd chang si the political compl ‘Xiou oi
the coaatry.
U« Thai, B M.
Berlin, Nov. 19.—That the advent of
Prince Hohenlohe aa chancellor means
an end, at any rate for a time, of the
submissive chancellor regime aa it ex
isted daring General Von Capriri’s
tenure of offioa is generally aaoipted.
Every indication p lints to Princo Ho-
heulohe being determined to have hia
own way. and the enq ero-, apparent It, .
is inclined to give him a tree han 1 In
lact. there is a strong rein nd r of Bis- I
umrekiau time?. Prince H heulohe aud 1
not the emperor is regarded a •. the mm
who wi 1 pull the string? in Grm iiiy’s
domest o aud loreign policy!
« An article by Pro'es?or Geffcken benf-
in ; upon th-> new chancel or h is attract
ed groit attention. He aldr.cei evi
dence to show rh-ir Prints Lismarok and
not Prince Iloheulo.ie was responsible
His Remains Repose in the An
cestral Charnel House.
GREAT POMP AID OR AID DIBPLAY
Wort MacniHeeat Sorvtoa of Modern TUeas
over tk. Uolr-Tk. Movie Was Divine
and the rvrformUM of Ut«rfl Sob.
lime—The Cream of HiAUiU AaeUted.
The Son** bill Klee.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 19.—The morn
ing opened cold and foggy, and while
there was no rain, a thick mist over
hung the streets and the emblems of
mourning, everywhere displayed, were
Mr. Waite’s ana ysi ? of fer tlio vexatious passport regulations dripping with moisture therefrom. The
CHICAGO’S FINANCES.
A SILVER TRUST.
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in Nnv The
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W til organize to Fro-
Omh Intervals.
Omaha, Nov 19.—F. J. W. Nash, of
the Omaha and Grunt Smelting and
Refining company, confirms, in part,
Denver dispatches regarding a silver
trust.
The object of the meeting at Denver
wan to effect a nmtuc' I understanding
among t.ie smelting companies through
wnndi t'i v won d he protected against
sudden fim-tu uioii? in the silver market
and obtain a . ert -r price lor their pro
ve l- tl it • action w.ts taicen
■ nrm :mu o: tlie syndicate.
duct:
A
it >e win a;>p ante l to ruconi-
■u.'-c o. action at a meeting
I,, it > i ui.y oj ne.i iu Denver
- hurt Cash Cauwt a Cut of the Police
Force— llnud* demur fur Pay.
Chicago, Nov. 19.—Chicago's finances
nr-* iu a bail condition. Chief of Police
Hrcnuon recently made an urgent up
land for 500 additional men, claimii ;
lie could not guarantee peace aud order
< luring the approaching winter with
Ids present force. instead of an in
crease, his force has been reduced by
-50, leaving him 750 men below his idea
of the safety mark.
Appropriations have run so low that
this big cut was supplemented by fur
loughs of 20 days each for police offi
cers, in order to save them from reduc
tions.
The financial troubles nearly caused
a riot Saturday. Some 350 employes of
ihe water board, whose wages were
overdue, called at the city hall for their
money. They were told to come again
Tuesday.
“We can’t bn.v bread on promises,”
was the cry, and many eyes filled with
tears over the hardship, it was decided
to storm the mayor’s office aud demand
their rights. The angry crowd stam
peded, yelling and cursing all the city
officials.
The mayor kept under cover discreet
ly, while extra police details were call
ed for, and after much difficulty the
desperate men were driven back to tho
street and dispersed.
So chaotic is the state of Chicago’s
treasury that Comptroller Ackerman
has resigned in order to save his repu
tation.
the elect on returns of New York in
1392, town by town, shows that Repub
lican farmers then allowed the election
to go by default. This year the Repub
licans have not cast as large a per cent
of the full vote in a single state as in
1888. Hence, the only reasonable con
clusion, says Mr. Waite, is that, like
the discontented Republicans in 1892,
the discontented Democrats this year
joined the stay at homo voters.
This stav at home vote has increased
in New York from 75.000 in 1888, to
185,000 in 1892, aud to 425,0<M) this year.
In Pennsylvania it was 70,000 in 1888,
230,000 in 1892 and 400,000 this year.
It has increased in Ohio from 40,000
iu I8t4> to 115,000 in 1892 aud 290,000
this year.
In Michigan there were 240,000 stay
at homes this year, 20,000 in 1888 and
105,000 in-1892.
South Carolina, when she had 50,000
less voters than at presenr, cast 183,021
votes for Hayes aud Tildeu, while this
year her total vote is not much over C0,-
O00, or about one fourth of her fall
vote.
Wisconsin has not polled for the
Democratic candidates so small a vote
for 25 years, nor has the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania received so few
votes iu half u century.
Census and registration statistics show
that this year the stay-at-home voters
numbered about 5,100,000. Add 1,500.-
000 Populists, 5,300,0o0 Republicans and
the scattering vote, ami there are over
12,000,000 to place against the 4,200,000
who voted the Democratic ticket.
Representative Ikirk, of Ohio, tlio
Democrat who represents McKinley’s
old district, said that the Democrats of
Ohio l.tngh at their defeat, because they
know that they caused it by not voting,
and that they will all be in line again
iu 1890. • . -
iu Alsace Lorraine, aud that it was rlui populace was astir before daylight, and
A DESPONDENT GIRL.
THE STRANGLER CAUGHT,
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prospective
to arbitrari-
let, but sim-
owa inter-
M:c::
Mu
t Alive.
Nov. 19.—Elan
riy a fruit tree agent,
two years made Grand
Lodge ills home and headquarters,while
on a trip to Alina a little over a year
for
Ha Hud Pounced Upon Hia Fourth Victim
When Cuptured.
Denver, Nov. 19.—At 11 o’clock Sat
urday night a short, swarihy Italian
entered the bagnio at 1330 Twentieth
street, at the rear of fitruuglcr’s Row.
In a minute screams brought a frw.irm
of the special police who are guarding
that district. The victim was lonud
Alma a little
ago. was taken ill and supposedly died
suddenly. He was buried by strangers.
Saturday bis friends decided to take up
tin- body aud move it to Williamston.
When they opened the coffin they found
that the body had turned over aud that
the hands were clutching the hair,
handfuls of which had been torn out.
Tlie face was terribly lacerated and
torn, giving evidence of tho desperate
Struggle lie had made to freo himself
from his tomb.
C*pt*in Robertson's Suicide.
Nashvilijk, Nov. 19.—Charles Rob
ertson, captain of the Washington
Light artillery, committedsnicide about
It o'clock Sunday morning at tho resi
dence of liis father, first shooting him
self in the breast aud then blowing his
brains out with a 45-caliber pistol. He
had been on a spree for several weeks.
He was 40 years„.old and single.
struggling with Mane Andrews, aa in- ! ? . . ;
mate. Her throat was in ms gra p aud I. 1 , 1 ’ 1 '.
Ku an iiifnviotoji tniimnl 1 lie* r- *■> • ’
Big Gnthcring in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Nov. 19.—Arrange
ments have all been completed for the
south and west trade congress, which
will hold its session from Wednesday to
Friday of this week. Delegates will at
tend from all the large cities of the
south and west. A large gathering is
assured.
Ives lit tit Shaefer.
New York, Nov. 19.—Frank Ives
won the billiard match with Jake
Shaefer at Madison Square concert hall.
The score were: Ives, grand total,
3.000; average, 00; grand average, 48
24-27. Shaefer, grand total, 3.074; aver
age, 58 1-3; grand average, 41 20-37.
Cargo of Flour loit.
Memphis, Nov. 19.—A barge loaded
with 0,500 barrels of flour, all con
signed by Scharff, Beruheimer & Co.,
of St. Louis, aud towed by the steamer
Polar Wave, sank about 40 miles above
Greenville, Miss., and it is likely that
the cargo is entirely lost.
he fought like an infuriated animal.
He was dragged to the county jail,
where it was supposed he would not
run the risk of being lynched. In his
possession were a dirk and stiletto.
The excitement was so high that the
jail warden would not allow the ad
mission of reporters or visitors of any
kiud.
The prisoner is a French Canadian
named Frank Roch, a cigar maker. He
has a wife aud family, but they know
nothing of how his time is employed.
He has displayed a great deal of money
daring the last two or three weeks, and
the police claim that he obtained it
from the principals who were interested
in getting the women out of the way.
Sli. Tell* the Cau.e of Il.r Suicide Iu a
Letter—Who Is She ? *
Columbia. S. C., Nov. 10.—Some fish
erinen found oil the bank of the Conga-
rea river, near the city, a bottle tightly
corked, in which was the following
letter:
Columbia. Nov. I6.—The hand that
wio’- tb s isrill be cold in death by the
time this uritimr is found. I h u- jnst
left th • h i ’d-oine youth -vho caused my
death. u. in\v I loved him. an . mace I
h tve found tint my love was not returned,
life is nut wiili living. Go si by my dar-
1 n; 1 wi n’d like to clasp your dear
form o xc more be ore I e;ne:- eternity.
Far- ttp-e weil. my beloved Harold. 11
th’sisfinnd ploise publish and tell tbs
e.iiisO'.-f mv unfortunate dva’ 1 '.
Is’fz Lee.
The h irer was written in a pretty,
round f •nil-run i:1. .*>’i-t tV* writer
was evident./ of some educifion. No
one bv that turns was known in Co
nn l no one is rep irte l raining,
a tinory that if th tre ha? bar.1
a snicide that the person was a visitor
to the state fair, which has just closed:
or else was a resident in one of the
upper counties.
to the personal intervention of Prince
Hohenlohe tnat after the elect ons there
in 18S7, so unfavorable to the govern
ment, the constitution was not suspend
ed aud the Reichsland again governed
from Berlin direct
This testimony comes opportunely, in
ier iu which
view of the oordiai manner
t he prince has been received on his re
turn to Strasburg for a short stay in or
der to set the affairs of his administra
tion completely in order for his success
or. Sunday he was presented with a
farewell address from Strasburg univer
sity, and an honorary diploma was con
ferred upon him.
COMER ASSURED.
He Will Be Made President of the Beor.
fanited Central Railroad Company.
New York, Nov. 19 —Receiver Co
mer, of the Georgia Central, says:
“I have been informed that I would
be retained as president of the new
company after the Georgia Central hu
been reorganized.
“I have had snch assurances from all
of the men who are behind the reorgan
izatiou movement. The reorganization
papers may be given out at any day
now. Everything has been approved
and tlie plans are now all ready to
through. A modified plan has already
been sent out.”
Inoculating Ho^* for Cholera.
Fairbury, Ills., Nov. 19.—-Hog chol
era has been prevailing among hogs in
several portions of this section. A good
many hog raisers have rushed Muir
hogs to the market and disposed of
them, bat those whose hogs were too
young and small for the market are in
oculating them. This is a new scheme
to prevent the cholera, but wherever
tried it is claimed to have prevented
the hogs from taking the disease.
Kiortlan’s Funeral.
Syracuse, Nov. 19.—The funeral of
“Con” Riordan, who died Saturday
morning, after having been knocked out
by Bob Fitzsimmons, on Friday night
at the Grand opera house in this city,
was held Sunday at the undertaking
rooms <?f James Mollirri&'’Sot*. It was
atreude 1 ,by the members of Fitzsim
mons variety company and a large num
ber of sporting men.
FOR STATEHOOD.
THE CORONER INDICTED.
Chirged With Killing Young Brown in »
Dispensary How*
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 19.—The grand
jury of Barnwell has found a true bill
against Coroner Dyches, who shot and
killed Simon Brown several months
ago. Brown was engaged in a row
with Dispensary Constable Gribben
aud shooting ensued, in which both
men lost their lives. The testimony
was to the effect that Dyches, who was
a political adherent of Gribben, jerked
oat his pistol and shot Brown. Not
withstanding this, Dyches, who is the
coroner of the county, held the inque: t,
and, himself, denied complicity in the
affair.
Driven lusaue by Jokes.
Malvern, Ark., Nov. 19.—M. Mosco-
witz, of Hot Springs, well known in
commercial circles, was made the vic
tim of a number of rough practical
jokes by some drummers here, and re
turned to Hot Springs a hopeless ma
niac.
Fromln.nt Lawyer Arreated.
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 19.—John
Fairfield, om of the most prominent at
torneys in this city, has been arrested
by Chief of Police Rogers on the
strength of a letter from Chief Inspec
tor Watts, of the criminal investigation
bnrean of the Boston police depart
ment. The letter contains the infor
mation that Fairfield is none other than
John E. Dore, who was indicted at Bos
ton in 1887 on four counts of forgery
aud four counts of uttering.
Secretary Smith** Solution of the Indian
Territory Troubles.
Washington, Nov. 19.—It is stated
on good authority here that statehood
for the territory is what Secretary
Hoke Smith will recommend as a result
of the deliberation of the Dawes Indian
commission. The commission has just
met here, iu accordance with the caU
sent out by ex-Senator Dawes lost week,
for the purpose of making a report to
the secretary of the interior, showing
the progress of its work and the condi
tions as it found them iu the territory
relative to statehood.
The secretary, in view of the marked
lawlessness lately existing iu the Indi
an country, desires especially that the
facts shall bo laid immediately before
congress in order that that body may
take some action to improve the situa
tion.
UughiiiK Gks Anniversary.
Hartford, Nov. 19.—The fiftieth an
niversary of the discovery by Dr. Horace
Wells of Hartford of the anaesthetic
which ho called laughing gas, will be
observed by the Connecticut Dental as
sociation in this city Dec. 10 next. The
association will erect on one of the col
umns of the building where Dr. Wells
had his office a bronze memorial tablet,
and iu the evening a banquet will be
held, to which Governor Morris, other
state officials. Governor-elect Coffin aud
other prominent people will be invited.
Train \Vr.*ckers in Louisiana.
Crowley, Nov. 19.—A successful at
tempt at train wrecking was perpe
trated Saturday night on the branch
road four miles south of Eunice. The
obstruction caused the eugim, bagg ige
ear and passenger coach to turn ovv.
Fireman H. Geiger was killed -and En
gineer Joseph Mauidiu seriou >ly in
jured.
all the morning lines of people con
verged upon the fortress cathedral of
St. Peter and 8t. Paul, where the boom
ing of cannon announced the beginning
of the funeral servioee. Troops which
had been told off for dnty at daybreak
took their positions promptly, and the
thoroughfares were soon lined with in
fantry, cavalry aud artillery.
From 8 o’clock until the hour of the
funeral there was a continuous flow of
state carriages conveying high officials,
who were making haste to take posses
sion of places in the cathedral allotted
to them. Heralds stood at the entrance
to the cathedral, and a group of clergy
men, headed by the Metropolitan-of St.
Petersburg, stood aronud the main en
trance awaiting the arrival of Emperor
Nicholas II and the imperial family
who, when they did arrive, were escort
ed by the metropolitan and his attend
ants to places at the foot of the coffin,
which was slightly raised at ths head
with the foot towards the -altar. Close
to the altar was a platform wide enough
to accommodate most of the princi
pal mourners.
The whole dais was covered with can
opy. The religious servioe over the
body of the dead emperor was .probably
the most magnificent of modern times;
in its external aspects far exceeding in
beauty aud grandeur the memoriable
burial service of Alexander IL
The music was divine and the per
formance of the liturgy snblime in the
extreme. The surroundings were sub
dued, which greatly enhanced the splen
dor of the whole scene.
The cream of the royalty and no
bility of the empire assisted at the ser
vices, and princes of blood, prelates of
the orthodox churoh, noblemen, repre
sentatives of foreign sovereigns and
princes, foreign diplomats and other
distinguished personages joined in the
devotions and pleadings to Heaven for
the repose of the soul of the dead.
At the conclusion of the religious oer-
emouies the czar stepped forward to the
coffin and kissed the lips of the dead
emperor, the other members of the im
perial family and those bound by ties
of blood and marriage following, the
ozar standing by the side of the coffin
till all farewells were over, when the
coffin was closed.
The grand dukes then lifted it to their
shoulders, bore it to the entrance to the
imperial vault, which opened in the
pavement, and a moment later the mor
tal remains of Alexander HI were low
ered into the resting place of his impe
rial ancestors.
Two rrt.aSa Work
Uto A moist of i l-iUrx.
Boston, Not. 19.—H. H. Holmes baa
been arrested in this city, charged with
working a graveyard insurance scheme
in Philadelphia last September. Pitael
was a friend of Holmes, who ostensibly
ran a real estate business in Philadel
phia. Upon the life of Pitzel was $10,-
usurance in the Fidelity Mutual Life
association, placed through a Chicago
agency. A body secured iu New York
was placed in Picsel’s office, audHuiiues
identified it as that of Pitzel, who ha t
supposedly died from the effects of
barns received by the explosion of ben
zine.
Bat the insurance company, while it
paid the money, proceeded to investi
gate, aud traced Holmes to Chicago
and Denver aud back east here, aud
after his arrest, he confessed all, saying
that Pitael is alive and that he (Holmes)
shared iu tbe $10,000 insurance money.
Boston police think Holmes may be a
man wanted in Chicago to answer to
the charge of murder. It is certaiu he
is wauted in Fort Worth, Tex., to an
swer to the charge of house stealiug. A
daughter of Pitzel, who lived iu St.
Lotus, identified his body by the teeth,
and declared that nobody iu tho world
had teeth like his.
C»»1ff«»rtii - >« Million on Proit
San Francisco, Nov. 19 —The fourth
biennial report of the state board of
horticulture states that owing to the
railway strike California fruit growers
lost over $1,000,000. Had it not been
for the railroad tie np, this season
would have been the most profitable for
horticulturists in the history of tho
state.
SilY*r Conference Celled.
Washington, Nov. 19.—The execu
tive committee of the American Bime
tallic leagne has called a silver confer
ence to be held at St. Louis Nov. 87, at
which the present situation will he ful
ly discussed and the policy hereafter to
be pursued by the mends of the free
coinage of silver will be decided upon.’
Jut Cratalai Around.
London, Nov. 19.—A dispatch from
Tien Tsin to the Central News says that
part of the Japanese fleet is cruising
between Talienwan and Port Arthur
and the remainder of the squadron is
cruising iu the gulf of Pechili, giving
particular attention to Weisbai, over
which they are watching closely.
To Toaeb Marinos to Shoot.
Washington, Nov. 19. — Secretary
A Bis Strike Settled.
Pawtucket, R. L. Nov, 19.—Two
hundred worsted weavers in the Lar-
roin Worsted mills have returned to
work. The troubles were arbitrated by
Mayor Tilpke. The strike was one of
the' largest in the textile annals of Paw
tucket.
Herbert has determined to fit ont the
old frigate Lancaster, which some time
ago returned from the China statiou, as
a gunnery practice cruiser. The navy
department has long been in need of
means to instruct gunners in the use of
modern rifles, and the assignment of a
special vessel for drill at the great guns
under competent instructors him been
Ttxmi Driving Olnb Heating.
Houston, Nov. 19.—The Texas Driv
ing Park association will hold a race
meeting at the driving park from today
to Dec. 1. A large number of good
horses have been shipped here, and the
racing promises to be a big success.
Locomotive to Ran 100 Milee an Hoar.
Pitesburg, Nov. 19.—The Pennsylva
nia road has been experimenting with a
new locomotive, which, it is said, can 1 contemplated for several years,
ran 100 miles an hour. The company
has at least one, aud probably more, of
the 'same kind iu course of construction
in the shops at Altoona.
Shot by n Hack Driver.
Hot Springs, Nov. 19.—Tom Thomas,
a hack driver, shot and mortally
wounded John Darling, a butcher, at
Thomas’ house. The trouble grew out
of alleged intimacy between Darling
and Thomas’ wife.
Iffiooit'a Phosphate Work* Burned.
Macon, Nov. 19.—The largest fire
that Macon has had in years occurred
at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, in which
the Southern Phosphate works, located
in Tybee, a suburb on the southern lim
its, was a total Iom.
PJajr«l with a Loaded Revolver.
Newark, Nov. 19.—While playing
with a loaded revolver, iu a tenement
house, Alfonso Magno, aged 80, was
shot by Giuseppe Gregoria, aged 19.
Magno is at the city hospital, and will
probably die.
Oyster* Cease nn Epidemic.
Middletown, Conn., Nov. 19.—The
theory that the present illness at Wes
leyan Was caused by oysters containing
germs of malarial aud typhoid fever is
further substantiated by tbe illness of
several of the alumni who were at
the banquet of one of the fraternities.
This theory is a new one of scientists,
as heretofore it was tupposed that salt
water would kill all germs.
MORGAN'S WALKOVER.
CUSTOMS SEIZURES.
Th# Work of Special Agent* Commend**.
Sharp Chinese Practice*.
Washington, Nov. 19.—Supervising
Special Agent Crowley, of the treasury
department, says in his aunuol report
that the servioe has recovered to the
United States iu customs seizures, fines,
etc., during the year about $500,000.
As a result of the prosecution of smug
glers of opintn and Chinese at Portland,
Or., seven pleaded guilty aud three
wore couvicted.
Difficulty in enforcing the Chinese
exclusion law was found in thefaot that
Chinese lanudrymeu upon leaving the
country invest small sums iu Chinese
mercantile firms iu order to insnre their
return as members of the merchant
class. Of 6,840 Chinese applying for
admission during the year, 1,241 were
rejected. Mr.. Crowley anticipates that
the new. treaty with China will increase
the work of the special officers.
The report commends the work of
special agents in Europe who have fur
nished valuable information of under
valuation frauds iu Germany aud
Francs. It recommends the abolishment
of useless ports of entry aud of bonds
given by importers of merchandise en
tered for warehousing of transportation
in bond.
It Lomu tk* Chaavc* of go—body Tak
ing a Shot at Bte.
“You would naturally think that the
banter ont far game would wear clotbee
of soft, unobtrusive colon harmonizing
with the . landscape, ” said the veteran
sportsman. "Yet, stalking moose and
deer iu the Maine wood*, 1 select ap
parel pronounced in hue and often wear
a red uecktio or hatband. This I do to
lessen the danger of being abot through
mistake.
“Of the great army of hunters that
each fall range the woods of the Pine
Tree State there are few that will not
sometimes venture a shot into moving
bushes on the chances that* the invisible
object that rustles them may be a deer.
The fool sportsman, who is largely in
evidence in tlie shootiug season, will do
so every time. If it be .a man in the
bushes, any striking colon of hia ooe-
tume are apt to catch the eye of the one
preparing to fire and prevent the shot
’being fired.
“The danger of alarming game by
such costume? That is not enough to
be taken into account. Everything strik
ing in color is more likely than not to
excite their curiosity and draw them
toward the hunter if he work with prop
er slowness and caution. Besides that
all the antlered game. trust almost
wholly to their senses of hw»wc*-wd
smelling to warn them of thet
of danger, and if yon cun
faculties you need have little 1
their taking alarm from the sight of
yon.
“But, speaking of costume, don’t
wear blaok, else every ninny, and even
some experienced sportsman, seeing you
among the trees, would let drive at you,
believing he was going to bag a bear. ”
—New York Sun.
NOT MUCH AFRAID.
There Seem* to Be Fair Selling for Ale-
bn m-.i's Senator.
Goald** Match Factory Dot* Not Scaro tho
Diamond Company*
Akron, O., Nov. 19.—O. C. Barber,
president of the Diamond Match com
pany, is about to leave for Liverpool,
England, where the company will erect
the largest match works iu the world.
He says that this factory is intended to
compete only with the foreign trade aud
the product will not be imported.
When he was asked in regard to the
new company in which Edwin Gould is
engaged in organizing, with the pnr
pose of competing with the Diamond
company, he answered that the im
mense new factories at Barberton, O.,
and Liverpo“l scarcely looked as if he
and his associates were afraid of Gould
and his company.
Montgomery, Nov. 19.—The general
assembly of Alabama has gotten well
down to work. All of the preliminary
details have been disposed of and the
only interruption to the routine work of
tbe bodies is the joint session this week
at which a successor to Senator Morgan
will be elected.
No opposition to Senator Morgan has
developed and it appears now that he
will be nominated by acclamation by
the caucus of the Democratic members.
It is stated that the Populists will nom
inate a candidate and give him their
vote in order to attest the disfavor in
which they hold Alabama’s illustrious
senator.
Important Meeting In Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. 19.—The annual meet
ing of the National Transportation as
sociation to he held in Chicago Wednes
day, will he one of the most important
in the history of the organization.
Among the subjects to be discussed are
the proposed amendments of the inter
state commerce law, car service, demur
rage claims, uniform hill of lading, deep
waterways hnd terminal charges.
An Anstrlan Ministerial CrUU.
Vienna, Nov. 19.—A prolonged con
ference of Austrian ministers and depu
ties has been held to discuss the ques
tion of coalition in regard to proposed
electoral reforms. The two eectiops disc
agreed upon the proposal of the govern
ment to create a workingmen's repre
sentation in parliament. It is probable
that a ministerial crisis will ensue as a
result of this disagreement.
The Dntoh Have Another Fight,
Amsterdam, Nov. 19.—A dispatch to
The Neusvandendag. from Batavia,
states that the Dutch troops have storm
ed Tjakranegara as far as the palace of
the rajah. The Balinese fought desr
ately and 160 Dntoh soldiers were killed
or wounded. The Balinese lost several
hundred warriors, killed or wounded.
Neither the rajah nor his treasure have
been discovered. ^
. Muskogee Asking for Troop*.
Muskogee, I. T., Nov. 19.—The citi
zens of Mrskogee have prepared and
forwarded o Washington a petition re
questing that a company of government
troops be Btationed at
Repablioaa Women Celebrate.
Chicago, Nov. 19.—Jit-publican wo
men celebrated their victorr with a
banquet at the Grand Pacific hotel Sat
urday evening. There were 800 peo;
present. . The banquet was given t
the three Republican trustees, Lucy L.
Flower, Alexander McLean and Samuel
Bullard.
Gordon In Ohio.
Toledo, Nov. 19.—^General Gordon
h«a consented to deliver six lectures in
Ohio for the beuefit of the Masouio
home. He is booked to speak here on
Wednesday night on “The Last Days
of the Confederacy.” Colonel Inger-
soll will also speak that night at Memo
rial hall on Voltair, this being the two
hundredth anniversary of the French
philosopher’s birth.
Scotch Term* and Cnrtnnub
Everybody knows that the word mao
(pronounced in ’ Gaelic maclik) means
son, so that, for example,. MacDonald
literally means the son of Donald. But
it is not generally known that when a
woman is spoken of the highlanders
substitute for mao the feminine nich,
which means daughter; that the vooa-
tive of moo is vichk"(we spell phonet
ically), which always replaces mao
when a person is addressed, and that
the nominative plural is michk (sons)
or clauu (children). Sir Walter Scott’s
ignorance of Gaelic frequently led him
into error upon these points, both in his
poetry and in his novels.
The meaning of the Gaelio word clan,
as jnst stated, is children, and the obe
dience which clansmen owed to their
chief was considered by them rather as
the affectionate obedience due by chil
dren to a father than ns that dne by sub
jects to a ruler. They believed them
selves to be all blood relations descend
ed from a common ancestor, of whioh
their ohief was the living representa
tive. The clansman who hesitated to
save his chief’s life at the expense of
his own was regarded as a coward who
fled from his father’s side in the hour
of peril. On tbe other hand, tbe chief
was expected at all times to acknowl
edge the meanest of his clan as his re
lation and to shake hands with him
wherever they might happen to jneeL
Subordinate to the chief and generally
related to him were the chieftains and
tacksmen.—London Spectator. |
Attempted to Barn n Dispensary.
Kershaw, S. C., Nov. 19.—An unsuc
cessful attempt was made to burn the
dispensary here early Sunday morning.
One end of the bnildiug had been satu
rated with kerosene by a negro named
Weary Clyburu, and be was about to
apply a match when canght by the
watchman.
A Racing Meeting In Selma.
Selma, Ala., Nov. 19.—The Selma
Fair aud Driving association, trotting
and running, will hold a meeting, be
ginning Wednesday, and will last four
days. Sixteen hundred dollars in parses
are offered.
Turning Up the Trousers.
I doubt not through the ages one in
creasing purpose runs, and that is why
I have always felt sure that there must
be some reason for the ‘‘astrornory and
ascentrio” behavior of people who turn
up the bottoms of their trousers in dryi
weather. The New York exquisites who
copied the fashion from London will be
disgusted at the- vulgar origin of the
practice, for I understand that it had
its rise in the inventive brains of some
bank clerks, who used to go down to the
city on those bad old “razor back”
buses. They found that their nether
garments got frayed by rubbing against
tbe woodwork under the Beats until one
day one of them exdarmed, “Go to, and
let us turn np our trous-trs. ” And they
did so. And having turned them np it
didn’t seem worth while to tirn them
down again, so the custom became crys
tallized. If only somebody woulcf now’-
inform us why we wear silk bats and
have pockets in our coattails whioh we
never use, we might even yet be moder
ately happy.—London Figaro. j
Appointed to Succeed Her Father.
WaRRENSBURG, Mo., Nov. 19.—Gover
nor Stone has appointed Miss Mittie Pem
berton to fill the vacancy in the office
of recorder of deeds caused by the
death of her father, J. B. Pemberton.
DAILY MARKET REPORTS
Prodnoe and Provision*.
Chicago. Not. 19 —Cash quotation* were
a* follow*: Mess pork at $12.6i>4^$i2.75
Lard. •;.2SM®7.25. Short ribs, loose. JkLia®
Z8.7j. Dry sa't >ho Utters, boxed. S.'i.G-’ti'tS
$-’>.7 ‘. Short Clear sides, boxed, g&aSMMAffe.
Cikcikhati. Nov 19.—Pork, mess, 9I2.<0.
Lard, steam leaf. 87 ati. Kettle dried, $7.62(4.
Bacon, shoulders. $6.uu. Short rib sides, $7.(W.
Short olear. $7.37(4.
Naval Store*.
Savannah. Nov. 19.-Spirits of turpettnoe
opened and closed firm at £1(4 for regulars,
sales. 1,3m casks: receipts. 973 casks. Kostn
opened and closed firm with sales of 6,1*10 bar
rels; A. Band C. $l.(«ir “ *’ ■■*- ” “■ “
$1.3) “
sis: A. B and C. $l.iai; II. $l.itV, E. $1.15; V,
1.3): G. $1.:L’(4»1 35: H. $155: 1. $1.91: K.
2.15: M. $2.40: N. $2.6.; window-glass, $2.85;
waterwtdte, $3 an.
Wilmington, Nov. 19.—Rosin quiet: strain
ed, $l.Gi; good strained. $i.n5. Turpentine
steady at 2>. Tar, steady at St 10. Crude tur
pentine steady; bard. $l.l(i; soft. $1.5j; vir
gin. $1.7(1.
Chicago Grain and Prolueo Fntaros.
Z-ro Weather Reported.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 19.—Zero
weather is reported all over the north-
Aaether North Carolina Contest.
Raleigj, Nov. 19.—Charles H. Mar
tin, fusion nominee for congress in the
Sixth district, has notified James S.
Lookart. Democrat, that he would con
test the latter’s seat on the grounds of
various and manifsst frauds in the late
Wheat—December...
Cora—November.....
Pork—January
Lard—January
Bibo—January.......
Chicago. Nov. 19
56 A
.$ 7 3i Hi
-$6.3. |
west.
New York Cottoa Future*.
New Yghk. Nov. 19
Cotton.futures opened steady at an advance.
November ..5.38
December 5.41
January 5-47
February 6.53
March... 6.57
April .5.63
Superior to Time.
It is strange, said a jeweler on Twen
ty-third street, but women seldom ever
consult the official timepiece in tbe
window. A man involuntarily polls ont
his watch to set it by the standard time
from the United States observatory,
and if he passes ten timekeepers in a day
would be apt to compare with half of
them, bnt a woman, unless she is very
businesslike, wouldn’t pall oat her
watch to regulate it, not if she passed
100 standard timepieces. She is superior
to time.—New York Beoorder.
For a Sweet Breath.
Don’t expect to have clean teeth or a
sweet breath while there is a tinge of
white on the tongue. It is an unmistak
able evidence of indigestion. Drink sour
lemonade, eat ripe fruit and gzeen vege
tables for purgatives, exercise freely,
use plenty of water internally and ex
ternally, and keep up the treatment un
til the mouth is clean, healthy and red.
Various things are suggested to coun
teract an unpleasant breath resulting
from a bad tooth, wine or garlio scented
dishes. Cinnamon, mint, creams, orris
root. Cloves, mastio rosin and spruce
gum will disguise some odors. Ten
drops of tincture of myrrh in a glass of
water will sweeten and refresh the
mouth. A teaspoonful of spirits of cam
phor or peppermint in tbe same gargle
is among the very best antiseptics, and
a few drops of myrrh and camphor in
the water are recommended in case of
cold, throat trouble or any slight indis
position which may affect the tasatb.—•
Philadelphia Times.
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