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The Utah Supreme Court has decided
that SBand wich Islanders cannot become
American citizens.
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Since 1872 France and Germany have
been making inroads into England’s
Bpanish- American trade.
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The New Orleans Times- Demoorat says
that there is a great deal of unoccupied
land in the United States, and immi
grants of a good class are welcome,
The New York Herald wants the vio
let adopted as our national flower, be
cause it stands for modesty and is,
therefore, a true representative of Amer
ica.
There appears every reason to believe
that the present year will prove the
most flourishing ever known in the com
mercial history of the United King
dom.
The newest idea in christening ships
is to scatter roses over the bow, instead
of breaking a bottle of wine. The in
novation is certainly poetical, »comments
the New Orleans Picayune, and a bottle
of wine is saved for those who can ap
preciate it. 5
The Constitution of the Cherokee Na
tion absolutely forbids any alienation of
the tribal lands, and the authorities of
the nation could not sell the Cherokee
strip even if they wished to. It can be
taken by the United States by force,
but there will be no opportunity to
disguise it through a so-called negotia
tion.
The state railroads of Prussia make
special concessipas' to invalids of the
lower classes who are obliged to travel
for the sake of their health. The blind,
deaf, insaue or diseased of any kind are
transportel with their attendants for
the exceedingly low rate of one-sixth of
a cent a mile. Poor children sent to the
country on summer vacations and the
officers of all benevolent institutions of
whatever nature are also given the same
Pprivilege. l
Doorkeeper Loefler of the White
House, has a wonderful memory. He
was with Stanton at the time of Lin
eoln’s assassination, and during the
trials of 1869 was ordered to the White
House for the duties he is still perform.
ing, His recollection of faces is re
markable. ‘‘You called on Mr. Gar
field,”” or ¢‘l remember you during the
Hayes regime,” he will sometimes say to
@ man whom he has never seen but
once, and that years ago. He can tell a
¢crank” on sight and he saves the
President a great deal of annoyance by
his acuteftess.
The men at We .t Guthrie, Ok'ahoma,
are rough, remarks the Chicago Herald,
but tender. Not iafrequently they will
take a drink or a ¢‘chew,” and over a
disputed piece of land they will fight
like tigers. But they are extremely
gallant in their treatment of the fair
sex. They held an election for mayor
out there the other day, and not only
allowed the 35 women of the place to
vote, but procured carriages and drove
them to the polls where they were
treated with every mark of courtesy.
Cultured Boston, in the recent election
in which women participated, showed
them less polite attention than the
rough pioneers at Guthrie.”
The objection of electricians to the
new method of execution by electricity
is said to be purely one of sentiment.
They do not wish to see the science de
graded. As well, they say, put a man
to death by music or poetry as by elec
tricity. ¢‘All of which is true,” ad
mits the New York Commercial Adver
tiser, ‘‘but these practical poets, the
electricians, must remember that the
_protests of the civilized world itself has
mot been able to blot out that instru
ment of torture, the hand orzan.
Doubtless the spinners of hemp were
once much scandalized by the ignoble
e to whih ter handiwork was pul,
* There is certainly something perpet
ual about the perpetual motion delusion.
The Washington Patent Office, in the
course of the last year has been favored
with not less than twenty-eight new
projects for the construction of the il
lusive contrivance.
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Robert P. Porter, chief of the census
bureau assures the public that the re
turns of population will be made out be
fore Christmas of next year, or within
six months from the time the count is
begun. If this is done the Fifty-first
Congress can make the figures the basis
of representation in Congress for ten
years, beginning in 1892.
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Chicago will probably have one of the
finest libraries in the world in the
course of a few years. Mr. W. L. New
berry, one of the earliest residents, left
the sum of $250,000 for the purpose,
and a temporary building has been used
for some time. It is now intended to
erect a magnificent edifice, capable of
holding 300,000 volumes.
A Kentucky swain has just been
wedded after a courtship that lasted
fifty years. Just think of it! exclaims
the New York Mercury. Half a century
of moonlight walks, seaside strolls,
picnic junketing, fireside hugging, ten
der tones, Summer drives, Winter
%eighrides, and whispers of devotion.
That Kentuckian was certainly a phi
losopher, and deserved the prolonged
bliss which all the world must envy.
The Churchman, speaking of the
-death of Damien, the leper priest of the
Sandwich Islands, says that outside of
the walls of Jerusilem is a leper hospital
tended by deaconesses from the German
religious houses. “‘Year after year these
heroic women, without pretentiousness,
without any trumpeting of their work,
almost unknown to the world, have
waited upon lepers, while themselves
literally dying by inches. Their courage
has only come to light by the chance
notice of travelers.”
A work of engineering begun by the
Romans under Nero, in the second cen
tury, will be finished this year; that is,
it has been in process of construction for
over 1700 years. The work to which
we refer is the cutting of a canal through
the' Jsthmus of Corinth. The canal,
when done, will be only four miles long,
and will have a depth of eight meters,
which will allow the passage of the
largest vessels used in Greek traffic. It
is not so great a matter from an interna
tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua
projects, but it will do much to further ‘
tho rapid progress made by modern
Greece in the arts of civilization and
commerce. |
Says the New York 7ribune: ¢‘ltis
nine years since a census wés taken, If l
the best estimates are not in error, the
population is now over 65,000,000, an
increase of thirty per cent in nine years.
In some things the industrial growth of
the country has not kept pace with the
growth of population, it is true. In
number of sheep the increase has been
but seventeen per cent, and in milch
cows twenty-three per cent, and the in
crease in swine last January seemed
small. In acreage of wheat there has
not been a proportionate increase. But
in corn and oats the gain has been
greater than in population, and the re
turns of cotton acreage show an increase
of forty per cent since 1880. The sup
plies of beef are assured by an increase
of forty-seven per cent in the number of
cattle.”
A Chicago medical student recently
evolved a great scheme which has sel
dom been surpassed for ingenuity and
effrontery. Before he received his doc
tor's degree he started a medical college,
all on paper, of which he was president,
with a fictitious faculty of twenty-two
persons. Then he advertised that any
one enclosing $25 he would receive a
list of questions. When these were sat
isfactorily answered the applicant would
submit a thesis on some medical subject
and when this thesis was approved he
would receive a degree of M. D. or Ph.
D. from the Chicago College of Science.
As soon as he began to advertise the in.
quisitive reporter camped on his trail
and there was a sudden end of the Col
lege of Science. His scheme would
have poved a bonanza if he could have
prdad againt epons o i,
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM xmtwml:momntu, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST,
The national bureau of engraving at
Philadelphia is in fiancial distress.
Texas fever is reported as playing sad
havoc among cattle in Indian Territory.
The shah of Persia arrived in Paris on
Tuesday. He was welcomed by Presi
dent Carnot,.
Snow storms and rains prevail through
out Bwitzerland, Mountain passes are
partly blocked.
A fire at Hastings, Neb,, destroyed the
Gazette-Journal plant. Loss $25,000;
insurance $15,000.
The United States cruiser Rush has
made several captures of British sealing
schooners in Alaskan waters,
_ Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read
ing, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs
day by hanging himself in his cell.
Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs
day issued a notice of an increase in
wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80
per day.
A company has been formed in Chi
cago which has secured rights in Indi
ana and will pipe patural gas into Chi
cago.
Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers
were appointed Wednesday to take the
places of democrats in Califorria and
Kentucky.
A machine gun exploded on board the
training frigate Courens, at Hyeres,
France, Wednesday. Eight persons
were killed and seventeen injured.
Andrew C, Drummm, who has full charge
of the cattle commission business of A.
A. Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, has
disappeared and $15,000 with him.
The Peter Schoenhafen Brewing com
pany, of Chicago, has been incorporated
with a capital of §3,ooo,ooo—one-half
gaken in Chicago; the other half in Lon
on. :
Nine persons in Burlington, Wis.,
were poisoned by eating dried beef
shipped to local dealers by a Chicago
{irm. Four of the vietims are precarious
y ill. 3 '
Eight thousand bunches of overripe
bananas were seized by the New York
board of health Thursday. The fruit
was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy
line,
Eleven houses were burned at Fenn
ville, Mich., Wednesday night, involving
a loss of §85,000. A tramp caused the
conflagration, and he was arrested and
jailed. Y
According to the'latest statistics care
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num
ber of lives lost in 8¢ devastated district l
was about. six thousand.
The postoffice department has received
the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of
Milwaukee, whose administration of of
fice was recently severely criticised by
the civil service commission. ‘
Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan,
McCabe and Farrell, were drowned Tues
day night while trying to cross Menomi
nee river at Ishpening, Michigan. Their
bodies have not been recovered.
Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royee, late of
the Willimantic Savings institute, was
arrested Thursday in Willimantie, Conn., i
on a new charge of embezzlement of
$15,000 from the institute and makivg
false entries. |
'W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers,
doing business at 244 Purchase street,
Boston, have failed. Liabilities $225,000.
The cause of the failure is the general
condition of the leather business for the
past three years.
John Hronek, one of the Chicago an
archists confined at the prison, made a
desperate attempt to commit suicide
Wednesday. During working hours he
severed the arteries in his arm with a°
saddle knife.
Acting Secretary Batchelor bas issued
an order suspending payment on all bills
against the Treasury Department for tel
egraphing during the current fiscal year
on account of the question of fixing
rates not being settled.
The New York Herald says the cotton
crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and
that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat
crops have been underestimated. Such
cotton was never seen, and wheat and
oats are up to the average.
Forest fires have been raging in the
vicinity of Glennwood Springs, Cal., for
several days, and covers an area of over
ten square miles. Reports from Red
Cliff, Leadville, Aspen and New Castle
report the sun completely obscured by
smoke. i
A dispatch Tuesday, from Nagasaka,
Japan, reports that a dreadful earthquake
occurred in the western portion of the
island of Kiou Siou. The town of Kum
amoto was destroyed. A great number
of people perished. A vast amount of
property was also destroyed.
The grand national monument, 1n
honor of the pilgrims, was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass.,, on Thursday. The
Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were
there 1n great numbers, also visitors from
far and near. The dedicatory exercises
were carried out by the Masonic grand
lodge, according to the ritual of their
order, and were very interesting.
A committee, consistii% of William
Onahan, of Chicago, chairman, and
Henry J. Spaanholst, of St. Louis, and
Bexiel B e o oiminmgi,Wednes
day issued a oall for @ gencral congress
of the Catholic laity of the United States
Bi e the Gy BN e 0.
‘vember Ilih anq letn, Loo¥, L 0 CEL "“{?6;‘1%:« ©.
the centennial anniversary of the estab
lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of the
United States.
- McKean & Appleton, shoe manufac
turers at Salem, Mass., have assigned to
J. Beebe, of Boston. The estimated lia
bilities are from $65,000 to $75,000. Mc-
Kean & Appleton did the largest shoe
business in Salem, their yearly sales
reaching nearly $400,000. The assets,
as near as can be determined hastily, are
about $40,000. The collipse was has
tened by recent losses through failures,
aggregating $7,000 to §B,OOO.
The worsted mills of Scheppers Broth
el’fi.. American _and Diamond _ streets,
Philadelphia, Pa., were closed down ou
Saturday, in consequence of the failure
of Lewis Brothers & Co., who were the
largest purchasers of their goods. They
do not gesire to continue their manufac
turing businese until Lewis Brothers &
Co. make a statement to Cornelius N.
Bliss, assignee, so that the Scheppers
may know how they stand. :
The debt statement issued at Wash:
ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in
crease of debt during the month of July
to be $1,017,811.51; total interest bear
ing debt $895,391,886.96; total debt of
all kinds $1,646,777,809.91; total debt,
less available credit, $1,077,663,93%.96;
legal tender notes outstanding $346,-
681,016 ; certificates of deposit outstand
ing $17,5675,000; gold certificates out
standing $118,541,409; silver certificates
$29,557.125; fractional currency $6,916,-
690.47; total cash in treasury $634,723,-
023.44. .
The American Iron and Steel associa
tion, at Philadelphia, Pa., has ascertain
ed from reports from manufacturers that
the total production of Bessemer steel in
gots in the Urfited States in the first half
of 1889, amounted to 1,268,496 gross
tons of 2,240 pounds, against 1,275,189
gross tons in the last half of 1888. The
association also reports that the quan
tity of kinds and sizes of Bessemer steel
rails, rolled by the Bessemer Steel Pro
ducing works of this countryin the first
half of 1889 wus 652,475 gross tons,
against 673,724 tons in the last half of
1888,and 692,197 tons in the first half of
1888.
THE CITIZENS ARE MAD,
BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER THE FALSE
REPORT OF A YELLOW FEVER CASE.
The Advertiser and Times of
Brunswick, Ga., both . appeared
Thursday containing strongly worded
editorials condemning Savannah’s
action in Tregard to quarantine
ing Brunswick on aecount of the fever
rumors. Further investigation proved
that false rumors were started by a wild
drummer who left here some days ago,
and without any regard to truth circula
ted the report that a man named Night
ingale had died of yellow fever.
A dispatch from Waghington states
that owing to the prevalence of rumors
of suspicious cases of fever at Brunswick,
Ga., the marine hospital bureau ordered
Senitary Inspector Posey to proceed to
that place and make an investigation.
The following telegram from Dr. Posey,
dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received
at the marine hospital bureau Thursday:
The cause of the death of B. Nightingale,
which occurred July 24th, was hemor
rhagic malarial fever, confirmed by an
autopsy held by Drs. Dunwoody, Bur
ford and Hazlehurst. No cases of fever
here of a suspicious.character.
ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT.
A BOSTON BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE If
FORCED TO SBUCCUMB.
E. &A. H. Batchelor & Co., among
the largest boot and shoe houses in
Boston, Mass., doing business at 106
Summer street, have assigned. Mr.
Batchelor, one of the firm, states that the
liabilities, as near as can now be ascer
tained, will reach $1,250,000 with nomi
nal assets about the same figure. The as
signees are Thos. E. Procter, of Boston and
R. Batchelor, of North Brookfield. The
larger amount of indebtedness is said to be
on paper held by parties who are at pre
sent unknown to the firm. The firm is
one of good standing, and was rated by
Bradstreets ‘‘G. A.” The failure creates
great surprise. The business was estab
lished in North Brookfield, and the fac
tory there is one of the largest and best
equipped in the county, and gives em
ployment to 1,100 hands, calliug for a
weekly pay-roll of over SIOO,OOO. The
immediate causes of failure are large
loans made by A. H. Batchelor outside
of business, and the fact of the recent
large failures in leather trade, followed
by Lewis Brothers & Co.’s failure.
THE BAGGING QUESTION,
FARMERS DETERMINED NOT TO USE BAG
GING MADE BY THE TRUST.
Col. Polk, of Raleigh, N. C., state
gsecretary of the farmers’ alliance, on
Tuesday, received a telegram from the
business agent of the Louisiana Farm
ers’ Union, which stated that the New
Orleans mills made the first shipment
of Odenheimer cotton bag%ing. This is
made of cotton, and is forty-four
inches wide. The mills will run day
and night to meet the pressing de
mands. A dispatch receiveg from Texas,
by Col. Polk, states that the farmers of
one of the largest counties in the state
held a mass meeting, and decided that
m would on no account use bagging
‘made b}‘% rust, but would pen their
SOUTHERN NEWS:
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 GOING OX OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., took charge
of the office Thursday.
W. H. Heyward, one of the richest and
most prominent rice planters of the olden
times, died at Charleston, 8, C., Tues
day, aged seventy-two years. gl
In Sampson county, N. C., the heavi
est rain ever known in that section fell
for fifteen hours Saturday. Hundreds of
barrels of turpentine were swept from
Johnson’s mill. Two other parties lost
large quantities, The loss will anigg’l‘lt
to $3,000, e
} hirty-five editors of North Carolina,
~while at the press convention recently,
were interviewed on the insane asylum
matter. Twenty-eight of them favored
the removal of Superintendent Grissom,
while four opposed his removsland three
were non-committal,
The largest gathering of farmers seen
in Charlotte, N. C., in many years,
greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur
er Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the
fair grounds, and it is estimated that at
least 2,500 farmers heard him. Much
enthusiasm was manifested.
W. F. Lecroix, seventy-five years of
age, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was mar
ried Tuesday night by a justice of the
peace to Miss Lou Black, of Rising Fawn,
Ga., aged sixteen. The bride was very
pretty, and the groom the opposite, The
young lady, it is understood, ran away
from home to marry her aged lover.
This is the fourth time that the groom
has led ablushing bride to the altar.
The case of John P. Hunter, justice of
the peace, who was clubbed and hand
cuffed on the streets of Charlotte, N. C.,
some days ago, was called in the magis
trate’s court Tuesday morning. The de
fendants, Police Sergeant Joe Boyle and
Policeman G. J. Morris, waived exami
nation, and were each bound over to the
criminal court. The case is attracting
widespread attention, and is being
watched with peculiar interest.
A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on
Thursday night, during which the city
railway stables, located just without the
city limits in West End, were struck by
hghtning. The building took fire, the
flames spread rupidly, and before aid ar
rived the entire structure was consumed
and sixty mules and horses were burned
up. Seven street cars were also de
stroyed. The loss is estimated at $24,-
000; insurance $46,500, all in foreign
companies,
Two new industrial enterprises were
organized at Charleston, 8. C., Tues
day—the Imperial Box and Envelope
Manufacturing Company, capital stock
SIO,OOO, and the Tropical Refrigerating
Company, capital $25,000. Books of
subscription will be open in a few days
for the Mount Pleasant butter and
cheese factory, the Charleston Mattress
Manufacturing Company,and the Charles
ton Three-Dollar Pants Company most
of the stock of which has already been
subscribed.
Martha York, an old woman, was on
Tuesday. placed in jail in Randolph
county, N. C., charged with murdering
her grandchild, a boy eleven years old.
While delirious the child said repeatedly
that his grandma had beaten him to death.
The child’s mother testified that its grand
ma was the murderer. There had been
a quarrel in the family, and it is said the
old woman whipped the boy with hick
ory switches until she fainted from ex
haustion. The affair is creating excite
ment among the citizens.
A dispatch from Tusealoosa, Ala., re
ports the mysterious death at noon Mon
day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent of
the Tuscaloosa eotton mills, and son of
J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds of the mills, and finally disap
peared under an old building. A pistol
shot was heard, and an employe found
Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly
wound behind his right ear, and the pis
tol with one chamber empty at his feet.
There is nothing to determine whether it
is a case of suicide or murder,
Rube Burrows, a train robber, mur
derer and hunted outlaw, is crealing a
reign of terror in Lamar county, Ala.
He is strongly fortified in a mountain
cave, almost within sight of the court
‘house and jail of the county, and sur
rounded by an unknown number of des
peradoes, defies the civil and military
authorities to capture him. The sheriff
of the county, who has a posse of
seventy-five men and twenty detectiveg
working with him, has applied to Gov.
Beay for troops to aid him in the capture
of the gang.
SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS.
A WONDERFUL PLENTY—PEACHES ¥IF.
TEEN CENTS A CRATE, ETC,
The abundance of fruit this year seems
to be general throughout the whole state
of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit
is actually a ‘‘glut’” on the market,
Farmers bring into that city wagon
loads of melons for which they are un.
able to find a market at any price. Gfifi. ;
taloupes of the finest quality sell for a
song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif
teen or twenty cents a dozen, One of
the fruit commission merchauts bad a
a number of crates of peaches ia front of
‘his store marked ‘fifteen cents
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