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WOMAN’S WAGES. '
Dr. Talmagre on “The Despotism of
the Needle.” r
Th*» Blessing of Honorable Industry and
the Misery of Idleness—The Mistake of
Parents —Equal Pay for Kqual
, . Work—Woman's Oppressors.
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P The gubject of a recent se-mon by Dr.
Taljnage was: “The Despotism of the
Needle or a Discourse on Women’s \Va»es.”
He took his text from Ecclesiastes iv., 1:
“So 1 returned and considered all the op
pressions that are done under the sun, and
behold the tears of such as were oppressed,
and they had no comforter: and on the
side of the>r oppressors there was power.”
Following is the sermon
woman’s toil. ' 'K? *
\ ery long ago the needle was busy. It
was considered honorable for women to
toil in olden time.. Alexander the Great’
stood in his palace showing garments
made by hi& own mother. The finest
tapestries at Bayeux were made by the
Queen of William the Conqueror. Au
gustus, the Emperor, would not wear any
garments except those that were fashioned
by some meyiber of his Royal family. Bo
let the toiler everywhere he respected!
The needle has slain more than the sword.
When the gcwiost'-muohidi" whs jfihented
some thought that ’invention*-would al
leviate woman’s toil and put an end to the
despotism of the needle. But*ad!- While
thqgewing-mqehine h:\Sbeen bless
ing* to well-to-do families in many cases,
it has added to the stab of the needlb' the
crush of the wheel, and multitudes of
women, notwithstanding' (he reinforce
ment of the sewing-ni&ckifip, eatr only*
make, work hard us they will, between
two dollars and three d liars ppr week.
NO HAPPINESS IN IDLENESS.
The most unhappy women in our. com
munities to-day are those who iiev no en
gagements to call hem tip in tb ruing;
who, once having riseu and' breakfasted,
lounge through.the (lull forenoon in slip
pers down at the he >1 and with disheveled
hair, reading Ouida’s fast novel, and who,
havind dragg'd through a wretched fore
noon and tak n their afternoon sleep, and
having passed an hour and a half at their
toilet* pick up their .card-case aad -go out
to make calls, and who past. thAr eveftitigs
waiting for somebody to come in and
break up the monotony. . AralaSla Btiiart
never was imprisoned in 30 dark a dun
geon as that. . |
There is no happiness in an idle woman.
It may bo with hand, it may he with brain,
it may be with foot; but work she must, or
be wretched for ever.’ The little girls of
our families must be started with that
idea. The curse of our American society
is that our young women are taught that
the lirst, second, (bird, fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, tenth, fiUtjetb, thousandth thing
in their life is to get somebody to take dag-el
of them. Instead of that the first lesson
should be how, under God, they may take
cure of themselves. -The simple fact is
that a majority of them do have to take
care of themselves, and that, too, #ii|er.
having through the false notions t>f their
parents wasted the in they
ought to have learned how successfully to
maintain themselves. We noV
declare tho inhumanity, cruelty and out
rage of that father and mother
their daughters into womautibod, having"
given them no facility, for earning tlsajc,
livelihood. Madame.De'Wt.-j.et ii‘
not these writings that 1 am proud oT* Cut
the fact that I have facility in ten occupa
tions, in any one of’vfcAh l ctlklH 'make a
livelihood.” t
You say you have a fortune to leave*
them. O, man and woman, have you not
learned that, like vuUur36,4i#o fl ft|fm'ks,Tile'
eagles, riches have wings and fly away?
Though you should be successful in leav
ing a comnetencv behind you, tftp trickery
of executors may swamp it in a MSISU: or
some officials in our churches may get up
a mining company and,*
orphans to put their a, hcfe in
Colorado, and if by the most skillful
machinery the sunken money can not be
brought up again, prove to them that it
was eternally decreed tlyit that was the
way they were to lose it, and that it went
in the most orthodox and heavenly style.
Oh! the damnable schemes thgt- professed
Christians will engage in until God puts
His fingers- into the collar of the hypo
crite’s robe and rips it clear down to the
bottom! You havifno right; because you
are well oil, to conclude that your children
are going to be as well off. A man died,
leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead
in a Philadelphia grog,-step. Has olji com
rades came in an<|( jsajfij! as* jjtliey beitt
over his corpse: “ What is the matter with
you, Boggsey?” The surgeon standing
over him said: “ HusM| lsptte is dead!”
“Ah, he is dead !” thevaijJa^.yteomd3p)ovg t
let us go and take a drink to the memory
o poor Boggsey.”
THE CtUME OF PARENTS.
Have you nothing better than money to
leave your children? If you have not, but
send your daughters into the world with
empty brain unskilled band, you are
guilty of assassination, homicide, regicide,
infanticide. There ire women Jtqjjing in
our cities, toiling for two and three dollars
per week, who were the daughters of mer
chant princes. These suffering ones now
would be glad to have the crumbs that
once fell from their father’s table. That
worn-out, broken shoe thgt sjbe wears is
the lineal descendant of the dollar
gaiters in which her mother walked, and
that worn and faded calico had ancestry
of magnificent brocade that swept Broad
way clean without any expense to the
Street Commissioners. Though you live
in an elegant residence and fare sumptu
ously every day, let your daughters feel it
is a disgrace to them not to know how to
work. 1 denounce the idea prevalent in
society that though our young women may
embroider slippers and crochet, and make
mats for lamps to stand in without dis
grace, the idea of doing any thiug for a
livelihood is dishonorable.
It is a shame for a young woman belong
ing to a lai-ge family to be'inefficient when
the father toils his life away for her sup
port. It is a shame for a daughter to lie
idle while her mother toils at. the wash
tub. It is’ as honorable to sweep houses,
make beds or trim hats as it is to twist a
watch-chain. As far as I can understand,
the line of respectability lies between that
which is useful and that which is useless.
If women do that which is of no value,
their work is bcmorable. If they do prac
tical w<#k, it Is dishonorable. That our
young women may escape the censure of
doing dishonorable work, I shall particu
larize. You may knit a tidy for. the back
of an arm-chair, but by no means make
the money wherewith to buy the chair.
You may with delicate brush beautify a
mantel ornament, but (die, rather than
earn enough to buy a marble mantel. You
may learn artistic music until you can
squall Italian, but never sing “Ortonville”
or “Old Hundred.” Do nothing practical if
you would in the eyes of refined society
preserve your respectability.
I scout these finical notions.. I tell you
a woman no more than a man has a right
to occupy a place in this world unless she
pays-a rent,for it. In the course ;of a life
time you consume whole harvests and
dpoves of cattle, and every day you live
you breathe forty hogsheads.qf gpoij. pure
air. You must by some kind of usefultiess
pay for all this. Our race was the last
thing created—the birds and fishes on the
fourth day, the cattle and .lizards on the
fifth day and man on the sixth day. If
geologists are right, the earth was a mill
ion of years in possessi'dh of the insects,
beasts and birds before our race came up
on it. In one sense we were innovators.
The cattle, the lizards and the hawks had
pre-emption right. The question is not
,what we are to do with the lizards and
summer insects, but what the lizards and
summer insects are to do with us.
NATURE SAYS “PAY.”
If we w-ant a place in this world we must
earn it. The partridge makes its own nest
I before it occupies it. The lark, by its
; morning soug, earns its breakfast before it
I eats it, and the Bible gives an intimation
that the first duty of an idler is to starve
wheu it isays that if he “will not work
neither shall he eat.” Idleness ruins the
health, find very soon nature says: “This
mam has refused to pay M 3 rent; out with
him!” Society is to be reconstructed on
tho subject of woman’s toil. A vast ma
jority of those who would have woman in
dustrious shut her up to a few- kinds of
werk. My judgment in this matter is that
| a wpman has a right to do anything she
I Vaa do Well. Thore should be no depart
! inent of merchandise, "mechanism, art or
j science barred against her. If Miss Hos
! filer has genius for sculpture, give her a
chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a fondness
for delineating animals, let her make “The
Horse Fair.’.’ If will study
astronomy, let her moUut the starry lad
der. If Lydia w-ill be a merchant, let her
'Sell purple. If Luoretia Mott will preach
' the Gospel, let her thiill with her womanly
| eloquence the Quaker meeting-house,
p. It is said if woman is given- such oppor
| tunities she will occupy places that might
Ibe taken by inau. 1 say if she have more
I skill and adaptedness for any position
1 than a man has, let her have it. She has
j as muohVright to her bread, to her apparel
and to her home as men nave. But it is
said that her nature is so delicate that she
'is unfitted for exhausting toil. I ask, in
the name of all past history, what toil 'on
earth is more severe, exhausting and tre
mendous than that toil of the-needle to
which ‘for she has teen-subjected?
The battering-ram, the sword, the car
biuj, the have made such.
haYoc as the needlp I woul *
living sepulchers,-in which women/' have*
for ages been buried, might be opened, and
ethat some.* resurrection trumpet might
bring up these living corpses to the fresh
air and sunlight. Go with me and I will
show you a woman who, by hardest toil,
supports her children, her drunken, 'hus
band, her old father and mother, pays her
house rent, always has wholesome food on
the table, and when she can get som9
neighbo on the Sabbath to come in and
take care of her family, appears in church
w-ith hat and cloak that are far from indi
cating the toil to which she is subjected.
Such a woman as that has body and soul
enough to tit her for any position. She
could stand beside the majority of your
salesmen and dispose of iriorfe gobds. She
could go into your wheelwright; shops and
teat one-half of your workmen at making
carriages. We talk about woman as -though
we had resigned to her all the light work
and ourselves had shouldered the heavier.
But the day of judgment, which will re
veal the sufferings of the stake and inqui
sition, will marshal before the throne of
God and the hierarchs of Heaven the mar
tyrs of wash-tub and needle. Now, I say
if there be any preference in occupation
let woman have it. (jod knows her trials
are the severest. By her accter sensitive
ness to misfortune, by her hour of anguish,
I demand that no one hedge up her path
way to a livelihood. Oh, the meanness,
the despicability, of- men who tegrudge a
woman the right'to work Anywhere in any
hpnorable calling!
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.
• I go still further, and say that woman
should have equal compensation with
men. By what prim iple of justice is it
that women, in many of our cities, get
only two-thirds as much pay as men, and
in many cases only half? ’Here is the
gigantic injustice—that for work equally
well ( -if not better, done woman receives
far less compensation than man. Start'
with the National Government: Women
clerks in Washington City get nine hun
dred dollars for doing that, for which men
get one thousand eight hundred dollars.
The wheel of oppression is rolling over
the necks of thousands of women who are
at this moinent in despair about what they
are to do. Many of the largest mercan
tile establishments of our city are acces
sory to these abominations, and from their
large establishments there are scores of
souls being pitched off into death, and*
their employers know it. Is there a God?
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 31. 1885.
Will there be a judgment? I tell you, if
God rises up to redress women’s wrongs
many of our large establishments will be
swallowed up quicker than a South
American earthquake ever took down a
city. God will catch these oppressors be
tween the two millstones of His wrath
and grind them to powder.
Whyisit that a female Principal in .a
school gets only $825 for doing work fty
tYhfch a male Principal gets $1,(150? I hear
frdtft Htl this land the wail of womanhood,
Man has nothing to answer to that wail hut
flatteries. He says she is an angel. She
is not. She knows she is not. She is a
human being, who gets hungry when she
has no food and cold when she has no lire.
Give her no more flatteries; give her jus
tice. There are sixty -five thousand sewing*!
girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across?
the sunlight comes their death-groan. Its
is not such a cry as comes from those who
are suddenly hurled out of life, hut a slow,
grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look mto their faces
—pinched, ghastly, hunger-struck! Look,
at their fingers—needle-picked and blood
tipped ! See that premature stoop in the
shoulders! Hear that dry, hacking, mer
ciless cough.
At a large meeting of these women, held
in a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches
were delivered; but a needle-woman took
the stand, threw aside her faded shawl,
and with her shriveled arm burled a very
thunderbolt of eloquence, speaking out the
horrors of her own experience. Stand at
the corner of' a street in New York at six
or seven o’clock in the morning, as the
women go to their work. Many of them
had no breakfast except the crumbs that
were left over from the night before or the
crumbs they chew on their way through
the street. Here they coine! The work
ing girls of New York and Brooklyn!
These engaged in beadwork, these in flow
er-making, in millinery, paper-box mak
ing, but most overworked of all and least
compensated, the sewing women. Why *
do they not take the city cars on their way
up? They can not afford the five cents!
If, concluding to deny herself something
else, she gets into the car, give her a seat!
You want to see how Latimer and Ridley
appeared in the fire! Look at that woman
and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a
hotter fire, a more agonizing death ! Ask
that'Woman how much she gets for her
work, and she will tell you six ceuts for
making coarse shirts and finds her own.
thread!
MERCILESS VILLAINS.
Years ago one Babbath night in the ves
tibule of this church, after service, a woman
fell in convulsions. The doctor said she
needed medicine not so much as something
to eat. As she began to revive, in her de
lirium she said, gaspingly: “Eight ceuts!
eight cents! I wish 1 could get-it done! I
ain so tired I I wish 1 could get some sleep,
but I must get it done! Eight cents! eight
cents!” We found afterward that she was
making garments for eight cents apiece
and that she could but three of them
in a day. Hear it! Three times eight are
twenty-four. Hear it, men and women
who have comfortable homes! Borne of
-the worst villains of our cities are the em
ployers of these women. They beat them
down.to the last penny and try to cheat
them out of that. The woman must de
posit one or two dollars before she gets the
garments to work on. When the work is
done it is sharply inspected, the most in
significant flaws picked out and the wages
refused and sometimes the one dollar de
posited not given back.
. A STALWART FRIEND.
The Roman’s Protective Union'reports
a case where one of these poor souls, find
ing a place where she could get more
wagsi, resolved.to change employers and
went to get her pay for work done. The
employer says: “I hear you are goinjg to
leave me?” “Yes,” she said, “aud 1 have
-come to get what you owe me.” He made
no answer. She said: “Are you not go
ing to pay me?” “Yes,” be said, “I w ill
pay you,” aud he kicked her down stairs.
Oh, that Woman’s Protective Union, 19
Clinton Place, New York! The blessings
of Heaven be on it for the merciful and
divine work it is doing in the defense of
toiling womanhood. What tragedies of
suffering are presented to them day by
day! A paragraph from their report:
“ ‘Can you make Mr. Jones pay me? He
owes me for three weeks at $2.50 a week,
and I can’t ge* any thing, and my child is
very sick.’ 1 Tbe speaker, a young woman
lately widowed, burst into a fldod of tears
as she spoke. She was bidden to coine the
next afternoon and repeat her story to the
■attorney at the usual weekly hearing of
frauds and impositions. Means were found
by which Mr. Jones was induced to pay
the $7.50.”
Another paragraph from their report:
“A fortnight had parsed when she mod
estly hinted a desire to know how much
her services were worth. ‘Oh, my dear,! he
replied,‘you are getting to be one of the
most valuable hands iq the trade; you will
always get tbh very best price. Ten dollars
a week you will be able to earn very easi
ly'.' And the girl’s fingers flew on with her
work at a marvelous rate. The picture of
ten dollars a week had almost turned her
•• y
head. A few nights later, while crossing
the ferry, she overheard the name of her
employer in the conversation of girls who
stood near: ‘What, John Snipes? Why,
he don’t pay. Look out for him every time.
He’ll keep you on trial, as he calls it, for
weeks, and.,then he’ll let you go and get
some other -fool.’ And thus Jane Smith
gained her'warning against the swindler.
But the Union held him in the toils of the
law until he paid the worth of eacn of those
days of ‘trial. ”’
Another paragraph: “Her mortification
may be imagined when told that one of the
two five-dollar bills which she had just re
ceived for her work was counterfeit. Bat
her mortification was swallowei up in in
dignation when her employer denied hav
ing pa’fd her the money aud insultingly
asked her to prove it.” When the Protect
ive Union had placed this matter in the
courts the Judge said: “You will pay
Eleanor the amount of her claim,
and also the costs of the court. ”
THE BALLOT WO REMEDY.
How are these evils to be eradicated?
Borne say: “Give women the ballot.”
What effoct such ballot might have on oth
er questions I am not here to discuss; but
what would be the effect of female
suffrage on women’s wages? I do not be
lieve that women will ever get justice by
woman’s ballot. Indeed, women oppose
women as much as men do. Do not
women, as much as men, beat down to the
lowest figure the woman who sews for
them? Are not women as sharp as men on
washer-women, milliners and mantua
rnakers? If a woman asks one dollar for
her work, does not her female employer
ask her if she will not take ninety cents?
You say: “Only ten cents difference,” but
that is sometimes the difference between
Heaven and hell. Women have often less
commiseration for women than men. If a
woman steps aside from the path of recti
tude man may forgive, woman never!
Woman will'never get justice done her
from woman’s ballot; neither will she get
it from man’s ballot. How then? God will
rise up for her. God has more resources
than we know of. The flaming sword that
hung at Eden’s gate when woman was
driven out will cleave with its terrible edge
her oppressors.
But there is something for women to do.
Let young people prepare to excel in
spheres of work and they will be able aft
er awhile to get larger wages. If it be
shown that a woman cau in a store sell
more goods in a year than a man she will
soon be able not only to ask, but to demand
more wages, and to demand them success
fully. ' Unskilled and incompetent labor
must take what is given; skilled and com
petent labor will eventually make its own
standard. Admitting that the law of sup
ply and demand regulates these things, I
contend that the demand for skilled la
ter is very great and the supply very
small. Start with the idea that work
is honorable, and that you can do" s'ouie
one thing tetter than any body else.
Resolve that, God helping, you will
take care of yourself. If you are, after
awhile, called into another relation, you
will all the better be qualified for it by
your spirit of self-reliance; or if you are
called to stay as you are you can be happy
and self-supporting. Poets are fond of
talking about man as an oak, and woman
as the vine that climbs it; but 1 have seen
many a tree fall that not only went down
itself, but took all the vines with it. 1 can
tell you of something stronger than an oak
td ciiw.b on, and that is the throne of the
Great Jehovah. Single or affianced, that
woman is strong who leans on God and
does her best. The needle may break, the
factory band may slip, the wages may
fail, but over every good woman’s head
there are spread the two great, gentle,
stupendous Wings of the Almighty.
A SHARP CONTRAST.
Many of you will go single-handed
through life, and you will have to choojse
between two characters. Young woman,
I am sure you' will turn your back upon the
useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity
which society igriomiuiously acknowledges
to be a woman, and ask God to make you a
bumble, active, earnest Christian. What
will-become of that womanly disciple of
the world? She is more thoughtful of the
attitude she strikes upon the carpet than
how she will look upon
more worried about her freckles thau her
sins; more interested in her app;nAHh<*i
in her redemption. The dying actress
whose’life, had been vicious said: “The
scene clos<s; 'lvakv the curtain.” Gener
ally the tragedy comes ty-st.ajyl ,th,e . faroe
afterward; bpt in bpjr life it was first The'
farce of a wretched life and then the trag
edy of a wretched, eternity.
Compare the life and death ot\ su'Rh’ A.'
one with-that Christian aunt that'
was ont| a blessmg to your household. I
do not Aow that she wg* ever offered ,the .
hand inlnarriage. She lived single thAt,
untrannSeled, she might be everybody’s
blessing. Whenever the sick were to be
visited or the poor to be provided with
bread she went with a blessing. She could
pray or sing “Rock of Ages” for any sick
pauper who asked her. As she got older
there were days when she was a little j
sharp; but for the most part auntie was a j
sunbeam—just the one for Christmas
eve. She knew tetter thau any one j
else how to fix things."- Her every
prayer, as God heard it, was full
of everybody who had trouble. The
brightest thiugs in all the house dropped
from her fingers. *he had peculiar no
tions, but the grandest notion she ever
had was to make you happy. She dressed
well—aunt e always dressed well; but her
highest adornment was that of a meek
and quiet spirit, w-hicb, in the sight of
God, is of great price. 'When she died
you all.gatb*jred lovipgly about her, and
as you carried her out fo rest the Sun
day-school class almost covered the coffin
with japonicas; and the poor people stckidi
at the alley l , with their aprons to their
eyes', sobbing bitterly, and the man of the
world said with Solomon: “ Her price
was above rubies:” aud Jesus, as unto the
maiden of Judea, commanded: “1 say
unto thee, arise!”
A Killing Passion Strong Mu 01*1 Age.
IBoston Beacon.]
The Comtesse de Castiglione, the most
beautiful .woman of her day, and whose
forthcoming memoirs promise the world a
sensation, has shared with others-of her
sex a profound passion for diamo ,ds. She
wears them irow. wheu you?ii and beauty
are long since passed, covering her dresses
with them, fastening them in her hair, on
her shoes, and oven wearing them around
her ankles. This latter place, however,
must be vastly unbecoming, ,bqt the eccen
tric TVmntess has reached an age when she
oares more for precious genfs than for the
-symmetry of her extremities and the dash-,
ions -of the day. If .the, : gold and be
gemmed anklets of Eastern houris would
look well on Western beauties, they would
have been a tooted long «.-<>.■ • Fashion and
Parisian jewelers gave us tangles, but
they have not yet. ventured'to ■' introduce
the barbaric anklets so w iff ul woman shall
cry for them.
RUSSIA’S IRELAND.
A Counterpart to England’s Trouble,
in the Baltic Provinces.
Oppressed Tenantry Who Resort to Blood
shed to Avenge their Wrongs.
London, June 7. —The Russian Govern
ment finds itself confronted by a new
trouble on its northern borders. The peas
ant tenantry of the Baltic provinces have
long complained of their treatment at the
hands of the landlords and agents and
have lately taken the law into their own
hands and resorted to many acts of vio
lence, often including murder. The griev
ances alleged are not unlike those which
have long agitated Ireland. The peas
ants complain of the absenteeism of the
laudlords, who never visit their estates,
but spend the income derived from them in
luxurious living in St. Petersburg and
other cities. Not being on the ground,they
do not see the losses suffered by the tenants
by failing crops, etc., but insist on the full
amount of the rent being turned in by the
agent whether the farms are productive
or not. If the rent is not forth
coming evictions promptly follow, and the
peasant, being black-listed among all the
agents, is unable to get another holding,
and is often left to starve. The authority
of the Village Assembly, which was form
erly relied on by the peasants to guard
their rights, is now set at naught, and the
gendarmes override its decisions at will.
Under the circumstances the Russian
peasants of the Baltic Provinces have ta
ken to the same forms of vengeance form
erly employed by their Irish prototypes,
and shots at landlords and agents are be
coming common. The frequency of these
agrarian outrages has now attracted the
serious attention of the Government, and
the severest measures of repression have
been resolved upon.
The Lightning's Gigantic Toy.
W ashincjt'on,' June 7.—Lightning again
struck the Washington Monument on Fri
day night, and a subsequent examination
has developed some perceptible injury.
The monument having been stripped of
every vestige of staging, the only way to
examine the exterior of the structure was
to train a powerful telescope on the
pyramidal crown, which is five
hundred feet from the base,
and has a height of fifty-five feet in
twelve courses of marble, not includ
ing the cap-stone. The telescopic
nation showed that the cap-stone had been
shattered at the north-east point of its
base, removing a piece of the marble prob
ably loui' inches in height and thickness
in the shape of a pyramid. The last
course of stone, which is only seven inches
in thickness, showed on the north side a
distinct vertical- crack; beginning at the
shattered part of the cap-stone and
extending four feet four inches,
the width of that stone. Through
the telescope it was deter
mined that the fracture was less than
an inch in width, widening very little to
ward the bottom;'so that the riven part
projected over the next course on the east
side half an inch, and on the north side
three-fourths of an inch. Standing near
the base of the monument no fracture or
damage can be discovered by the naked
eye. Nor could any other injury be found
by the telescopic examination exteriorly
save what has been described.
Runaway Accident, v,
Shei.byville, Ind., June 7. —A sad acci
dent occurred just this side of Waldron,
eight miies east of here, to-day, u#>ich re
sulted in the death of Mrs. Bijah Castro
and the fatal injury of her little daughter.
Mrs/* Castro and her two children,
a son and daughter, ‘’both small, were
riding in a buggy- drawn ; by a span, of
horses. The latter became frightened at
something and started to run away. Mrs.
Casto threw both the children out of the
buggy and then jumped out herself, strik
ing on some stones and crushing her skull.
The little boy escaped with some severe
bruises, being the first one thrown out be
fore the horses had attained much speed,
but the little girl on striking the ground re
ceived injuries which are expected to prove
fatal before morning.
Place Him in the Patent Office.
Washington, June". —The following is
i copy of an application recently received
from a local office-seeker: “Hon. L. Q. C.
Lamar —Dear Sir: In trying Experiments
I Placed A Duck under a Spout and worked
the Pump vigorously Half an Hour. No
Drop of the Fluid entered Penetrated His
Featherrv Armsr. I Next wrote A Poli
tician who Could Help me to A Position By
A word or the Scracll of a Pen the Duck
and the PoW#cian are Imprevious. In Con
sidering jy Application For Employment
I Hnpe you will Not Be A Duck Nor A
Politician.” - :
Archbishop’s Denunciation.
Paris, June 6.—Cardinal Guibert, Arch
bishop of Paris, has issued a manifesto to
the clergy of his diocese in which he de
nounces the profanation of the Pantheon.
For the third time, he says, an impious
■philosophy, which denies our religion and
national traditions, has ravished a church
from the patron saint of Paris. He directs
that special services in reveration he held
to-morrow throughout the diocese. . The
cleric.il demonstration threatens to lead to
n counter demonstration on the phrt of the
Communists. " *
Distress in India.
■ London, June 7:— The earthquake shocks
at Serinagur and other points in the Vale
of Cashmere continue at intervals, aver
aging three hours in length. Whole vil
lages have been engulfed and terrible sub
terranean noises are heard, driving the
people frantic with fear. The hotrors of
approaching famine are added to other re
sults of the disaster, as many thousand
bushels of grain in storage have been swal
lowed up' in'the chasms which are cou
stantly opening.
VOL 11. NO. 15.
DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS.
Terrible Waterspout in Mexico, With
Loss, of Life,
Disasttous Storms of Wind and Hall in
Various Sections.
El Paso, Texas, June 8. —Yesterday a
water spout burst in the mountains, about
eight leagues east of Lagos, Mexico, near
the dividing line between the Btates of
Guanajuato and Jalisco. The effects were
most deplorable. Immense quantities of
water swept down the mountains
with irresistible force towards the
well populated plains and valleys be
low, and left desolation and ruin in their
wake.. There are already one hundred .lives
reported lost, and it is leared that the list
muy be swelled still larger when all the
details are known. A great many houses
were swept away. Steps have been taken
in Lagos among the wealthy manufactur
ing classes to. alleviate the pressing wants
of many who’escaped from the valleys, but
lost everything. , .
Owatonna, Minn., June 8. —Yestevdav
morning a severe hai! and wind-storm
passed through this city, hail-stones as
large as hen’s eggs covering the ground.
Fruit trees were damaged, as were also
corn and garden produce. Every skylight
in the city was demolished. Some store
fronts were benten in.
Milwaukee, Wis., June B.—Special tele
grams to the Sentinel indicate that the
damage from yesterday’s wind and hail
storm, which s\wept across the entire State
from, west to east, was very serious, and
has resulted in great loss to farmers by
damage to crops and fruit. In Vernon
County the storm appears to have assumed
the .nature of a cyclone. All buildings in
the little village of Victory were demol
ished, including two small warehouses, a
church, hotel and school-hotiße. Across
the Mississipui River, in Minnesota, the
village of New Albin was also almost to
tally wiped out of existence.
Dubuque, la., Juneß.—Sunday a torna
do, with a heavy rain and hail-storm,
struck us from the west. The school
house was picked up and smashed to atoms,
The St. Paul Company’s warehouse, oper
ated by McMichaelßros., with fifteen hun
dred bushels of grain, was blown over on
the rail-oad track. Erickson & Sartt’s
lumber was blown ull over town. Lumber
was through windows, some
going through dwellings. About twenty
barns were demolished.
Gladstone Crushed.
London, Juneti. —lu the division upon
the adoption of the Budget in the House of
Commons, to-night, the Government was
defeated by a vote of 2<>l to 252. When the
figures of the vote was announced there
was a remarkable scene. Mr. Gladstone,
•who had. teen leaning hack in his seat
with a calm ngid cynicul smile on his face,
suddenly started up, became quite pale,
and clutched with nervous grip the rail of
the seat before him. The House w-as in wild
confusion, the member* of the opposition
yelled, stamped and waved their hats and
handkerchiefs. Some of the more excited
statesmen., tore off their cravats aud flour
ished them in the air, while the shouts
from the floor w< re re-echoed by cheers in
the galleries. Ir is certain that the Gov
ernment defeaj to-night .will result in the
immediate resignation of Mr. Gladstone.
Driven to Death l>y Rheumatism.
PeortA,” liji,., June B.—The body of
•Julius Cornelius, a fanner, aged about
thirty-three years, was’found yesterday
hanging by the neck to a tree on his
father’s firm in Limestone Township, this
couniy, both feet touching the
ground and with the *" knees bent,
showed that he had pdr*srstt>d
ting suicide with great determinancy. The
body w as in a terribly swollen and decom
posed condition, and the Coroner decided
that it had been hanging since last Friday.
Deceased was a sufferer from rheumatism,
and it is believed that pain drove him to
the act.
An Kxtra Supply of'Tramps.
Ckntkalia, 111., June B.—For a week or
so a number of tramps have teen at work
picking berries here, as usual at this sea
son. Some of them, more saving than the
others, had kept the money earned. * Yes
terday the industrious members of the fra
ternity were eornered by their fellow
‘tramps, who, with oaths and threats, se
cured all the money in the crowd. A team
ster, named Myers, was also robbed of $950.
A nuinter of the tramps have been arrest
ed aud the Citf Jail is full to overflowing.
. A Two-Legged Pig.
BrcYurs, ()., June B.—Mr. Emanuel Al-
brought to town this week a mon
strosity in the shape of a two-legged pig.
The pig is a perfect one. except that it is
entirety d stituteof hind legs, and walks
around balancing itself on its front legs.
It is a real curiosity, and attracts consid
erable attention.
Fire in an Asylum.
Williamsburg, Va., June B.— The build
ings of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, at
this place, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
sl2f>,ooo. One female patibht perished in
the flames, and another wandered away
and was drowned.. <
Two Child ed.
Cairo. 111.. June B.—Near Villa Ridge,
111., on Thursday night, a colored woman
named Ada Hackney locked her two boys,
aged seven and nine years, up iu her house
and " went to n dance. While away the
house-and two boys burned up.
( hoi* ra in Afghanistan.
London. June B.—Cholera has made i*
anpearace among'*the laborers on I e
Quetta Kailway. and also at Rindfi. earn
ing the dispersal of the commissariat
camp.
Fiance and Ohina Agreed.
Shanghai. June B.— The disputed points
having been a reed to. the formal treaty ol
negee between France aud’ Chiua will h*
signed Wednesday, _