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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENI
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Wm. Rule, of Tennessee, has been ap
g‘ointed pension agent at Knoxville,
enn,, vice D. A. Carpenter, resigned.
Secretary Windom left Washington
Tuesday for a three weeks? vacation, and
Secretary Rusk left on Wednesday.
Not a member of the cabinet is now in
the city.
The President hss approved the
amendment to the civil service rules
governing the railway mail service ex
cepting from' examination clerks em
ployed in that service exclusively as
porters in handling mail matter in bulks,
in sacks or pouches, and not otherwise.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York, to supply notes and silver certifi
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them in sums not less than
SI,OOO.
The department of state on Monday
received a cablegram from the United
States vice-consul at Porto Rico, an
nouncing the death of Consul Edward
Conroy, one of the oldest members of the
consular service, having been appointed
in April, 1869. He was fully eighty
years of age.
The Secretary of State is informed that
his imperial majesty, the emperor of
China, has approved for the use of Chi
nese legations and consulates an oblong
yellow flag bearirg a dragon in dark
blue and a sun 1n red; and for the use of
Chinese merchants a triangular flag of
the same design.
The President, Saturday, made the fol
lowing appointments: Robert A. Mosely
to be collector of internal revenue for the
district of Alabama. Postmasters: Sam
uel P. Burns at Talladega, Ala., vice
Richard R. Hunley, removed; James G.
Hughes at Marietta, Ga., vice James B.
Blackwell, removed; George G. Alexan
der at Camden, 8. C., vice Daniel C.
Kirby removed.
The Treasury department has granted
the applicaticn of a New Orleans firm to
have an asgignment of percussion caps,
intended for transmission to interior
points, taken from the list of explosives,
so that they may be forwarded under
bond in the ordinary manner. This ac
tion has been taken upon a report from
the collector at New York, that actual
tests show that these caps, used for
sporting purposes only, are not explosive
articles, and are not, therefore, properly
included in the list of explosives.
Civil Service Commissioners Lyman
and Thompson had an interview with the
President on Saturday in regard to cer
tain contemplated changes in the civil
service rules. Commissioner Lyman pre
sented to the President a rough draft of
the contem;l)llated amendments, and, to
gether with Mr. Thomp:on, discussed
with the President the probable effect of
the proposed changes, and the reasons
that induce the commission to recom
mend them. The President is understood
to favor the changes. It is belieyed that
one of the rules, as amended, will place
all chiefs of divisions within the classi
fied service, and thus provide that when
changes occur in these positions, that
they shall be filled by a certificate from
the commission.
BREAKS THE RECORD.
AN OLD MAN FASTS SIXTY-SEVEN DAYS
AND DIES,
Robert Marvel, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
after fasting sixty-seven days, died
Tuesday morning. His case is extraor
dinary, and has attracted the attention
not only of the curious public, but of the
medical fraternity far and near. He was
85 years old. On June 13th, Mr. Mar
vel ate his last square meal. For thirty
six days he took absclutely nothing into
his stomach. On the thirty-eighth day
he bit off a piece of pie, but did not eat
it. On the thirty-ninth day he drank a
small quantity of milk, and at regular
geriods he has continued so. All told,
e has drunk not to exceed one gallon of
milk in the sixty-seven days that have
elapsed since he began to fast. The
faster was reduced to a ‘‘living shadow.”
Sores came upon him by reason of his
long confinement, and evidently Marvel
had not only suffered long, but severely,
though everything possible was done to
relieve him. His fast is the longest on
record. :
A NOVEL RACE.
FOUR LARGE STEAMERS TO RACE ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC,
Great interest is taken in the sailing ot
four big steamships, which left New
York for Europe Wednesday. The big
racers, ‘‘Teutonic,” of the White Star
line; “City of New York,” of the In
man; ‘‘Saale,” of the North German
Lloyd, and the ‘“City of Rome,” of the
Anchor line, all had a fair number of sa
loon passengers, and all were eagerly dis
~cussing the merits of the several vessels.
The Teutonic and City of New York
were the favorites for the great race.
The Inman Line people predict that the
BokML e b
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made before the departuro of the racers,
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“OLD BLACK JOE’ DEAD. ‘
I'HE ORIGINAL OF THE FAMOUS OLD SONG
PASSES AWAY,
The original “‘Old Black Joe” died at
Mount Holly, N. J., Sunday, in the little
cabin where he has lived for years, just
on the outskirts of the town. His proper
name was Joseph Queen, and he was
undoubtedly the oldest man in the state,
being 112 years old. ke wus born in
Virginia in 1777, and the fact is recorded
in faded characters in an old family Bible.
“Old Joe” was a runawsy clave, and
came to New Jersey in 1827, where he
was taken care of by eome of the resi
dents of Mount Holly, one of whom is
still living and remembers that he was
well along in years when he went there.
For years past the townspeople have
ministered to his wants and kept him in
comparative comfort. He was very pa
triarchial in appearance, and his form
was bent nearly double with the weight
of years, A monument will be erected
to his memory by the citizens.
THE TUNNEL COMPLETED.
A NEW THROUGH LINE FROM THE SOUTH
TO CINCINNATI.
The Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and
Louisville Railroad was fully completed
Wednesday from Knoxville, Tenn., to
and through the great tunnel at Cumber
land Gap, 8,750 feet long, where it con
nects with the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad and Norfolk and Western Rail
road. The Knoxville, Cumberland Gap
and Louisville Railroad, with the ex
tension, the Marietta and North Georgia
Railway to Knoxyille, will form a new
and important through line from Atlanta
to Cincinnati and Norfolk. The Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railway, and
the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and
Louisville will open a vast tcrritory yet
undeveloped, but known to be ome of
the richest sections in the South,
abounding in marble, iron ores, coking
coal and valuable hard wood timber,
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA
A PHENOMINAL INCREASE IN THE VALUE
OF PROPERTY.
The tax returns for 1883 showed that
property had increased throughout Geor
giu%lß,OOo,ooo. Every year since that
time the returns have shown an increase,
but never has the amount for the year
1888 been equaled. This yedr, how
ever, the high water mark will be passed
and a new record established. = The in
crease of 1883, which, for many years,
was quoted as something phenomenal,
included the improvements in railroad
property, which was a very large factor.
The $19,000,000 worth of improvements
this year come solely from the tax di
gests, leaving the railroads out., Bhould
they be included, the statement would
prove that Georgia is $25,000,000 richer
than she was last year.
WILL REBUILD.
The South Fork dam, the breaking of
which caused the Johnstown, Pa.,
horror, will, it is said, be rebuilt.
Members of 'the South Fork club say
they cannot afford to lose the money in
vested in real estate in that locality.
The property is worth fully $200,000 and
if the fishing resort is not re-established
the whole investment would become
almost a dead loss. The intention, how
ever, was not to build a dam of the size
of the one destroyed, but one which
would make the lake much less in size,
so that in event of the barrier again giv
ing way no destruction to life and prop
erty would follow.
A PICNIC MELEE.
At a picnic in Hampshire county, W.
Va., on Saturday, John Price, a wealthy
farmer, aged sixty years, boasted that he
could whip any man on the grounds.
A. G. Largent promptly knocked him
down. Sherman Price, his son, drew a
revolver and shot Largent dead. A
general ficht ensued, in which Sherman
Price shot and fatally wounded Homer
8. Largent and Daniel Largent, who at
tempted to avenge their brother’s mur
der. James Alderton attempted to ar
rest Price, and was dangerously stabbed.
The old man Price was seriously injured
in the melee.
: SNELL’S MURDERER.
A MICHIGAN MAN CLAIMS TO HAVE LOCA:
TED TASCOTT.
A special from Hersey, Mich., says,
G. G. BBchlege, of Hersey, claims ta
have discovered that Tascott is serving a
term for horse stealing in the state prison.
He maintains with considerable vehe
mence that when he went to Chicago to
consult with the friends of Snell, the
murdered millionaire, he discovered in
disputable evidence that there was a
ring in Chicago which is interested in
keeping the matter quiet, and that he
would disclose this evidence within a
short time.
Tae figures given in a recent issue ot
Bradstreet’s with reference to the kero
sene oil supply of this country effectually
remove any idea that it will be exhaust
ed within {i:e next fifty years. The prin
cipal oil field is in Pennsylvania. The
track contains over 204 square miles, from
which the yield up to the present time
has been over 340,000,000 barrels, The
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SCIENTIFIO SCRAPS.
A Swiss chemist has invented a new
fulminating mixture that can be carried
about with perfect safety, but will ex
plode with a deafening report if
brought in contact with a drop of ether
or alcohol.
Woolwich arsenal, England, contains
an anvil weighing sixty tons. Bix
hund:ed and sixty tons of iron were
used in the anvil, block and foundation.
It required six months to cool before the
immense hammer could be used.
Investigation has shown that terra
cotta bricks and blocks best resist the
action of fire. Next to these as fire-re
sisting materials come concretes. For
buildings intended to be fire-proof, the
best materials are iron-work encased in
terra-cotta, with tile or brick-work in
roof and floor.
That a sound canbe seen is one of
the wonders of the age. Looking down
the throat of the phonograph with the
aid of a powerful magnifying glass one
can see a laugh, a cry, a whistle or a
song in a series of little dents or holes
recorded in a sheet of wax by means of
the point of a needle.
The capacity of bass wood in regain
ing its original bulk after being enor
mously compressed is being taken ad
vantage of in carved moulding. The
wood is stamped with dies, then placed
to a level with the deep impressions
and then steamed, when the originally
depressed parts rise in relief.
Henry M. Stanley describes a poison
used on arrow heads by the natives of
the Lower Congo, Africa. It appears
that the bodies of red ants (in which
formic acid exists in a free state) are
dried, ground to powder, cooked in
palm oil and smeared upon the points of
the arrows. The effect of this poison is
deadly. Its victims die immediately in
frightful suffering.
The archeologists of Norway have
pursued researches into the early popula
tion of the country as far north as 70
degrees 15 minutes. The results show a
large population in prehistoric times,
but one not given to agriculture. No
bronze objects are found, and the con
clusion is reached that the men of the
early iron age were the first to affect
them, those of the bronze age never
having reached the northern parts.
It is asserted that one hour after the
gas of London is lighted the air is
deoxydized as much as if 500,000
people had been added to its popu
lation. During the combustion of
oil, tallow, gas, ete.,, water is pro
duced as well as carbonic acid; in
cold weather we sece it condensed on
the windows. By the burning of gas
for twenty-four hours in London,
more water, it is estimated, is pro
duced than would supply an emi
grant ship on her voyage from Eng
land to Australia.
‘ United Through a Pawned Ring,
There are some curious romances in
life. There’s a whole novel in a little
incident told me some time ago. Many
years ago a young Englishman of good
family, who had only a small portion,
came out to Colorado to seek his for
tune. He was engaged to a girlat
home, and he had parted from her with
the usual hopes and tears and protesta
tions, For a year or two he wrote
regularly, but Le did not seem to be
getting on or making his fortune. At
last his letters stopped. They thought
he must be dead. Three or four years
passed, and nothing was heard of him.
Then the lady, with some friends, came
out on a visit to California. On the
way they made inquiries, but nobody in
the place in Colorado which he had
left could tell what had become of him.
He had disappeared suddenly, and they
did not know whether he had been
killed by an accident, shot or had sim
ply left for other lands. The party ar
rived in San Francisco, and, promen
ading Kearny street, the lady suddenly
stopped and began to stare at a ring in
a pawnbroker’s window. It was the
ring ste had given him., She knew it.
She went in and asked to look at it. It
was the ring byond a doubt, with her
initials and his engraven on it. = From
that clew, although the ring had long
bicn in the pawnbroker's possession,
they traced him down to Southern Cal
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Proteetion from Lightning. '
The fatal lightning stroke is so fre
quent this season, that persons much ex
posed to thunder storms should take all
known precaution against it. In a scien
tific paper recently read before the Royal
Meteorological society, Mr, J. Y. Symons,
F. R. 8., tLe English meteorologist, pre
sented a large mass of important data on
the phenomena of thunder storms. Or
dinarily, persons exposed to a thunder
storm flee to the nearest shelter to escape
wetting. Mr. Symons shows that ‘il a
man is thoroughly wet it is impossible
for lightning to kill him.” He refors to
a remarkable proof of this fact. The |
great scientific lecturer, Faraday, once |
demonstrated to his audience at the
Royal institution, that with all the pow
erful electrical apparatus at his disposal 1
it was impossible for him to kill a rat
whose coat had been ssturated with wa
ter. It would be well, therefore, for any
person in a severe thunderstorm, and lia
ble to a lightning stroke, to allow him
self to be drenched with rain at the ear- ‘
liest moment possible, and in the absence
of sufficient rainfall to avail himself of
any other means at hand to wet his outer
apparel.—XN. Y. Herald,
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Canada’s Wealth.
Those who are in the habit of consid- l
ering Canada as an Arctic and sterile
country, will be surprised to learn that
she has one-fourth more land fitted to
wheat cultivation than the whole United
States. In 1877 the yield of wheat in
our own country was a little over twelve
bushels per acre. In the same year,
Manitoba alone raised 12,500,000 bush
els, and averaged twenty-seven bushels
per acre. The climate of Canada does
not hinder, but contributes to the wealth
and enterprise of her people, She has
more timber of every possible descrip
tion than both she and tYle United States
ocould consume in a hundred years. She
has more iron and coal than any other
country in the world. She hasprobably
more copper than all other countries ‘
combined, and there is no telling what
lies hidden under the snow and ice of
her northern districts. ‘
In Pike county, Ark.,is a couple
named Green, aged seventy-seven and
seventy-one years, with seventy-two liv
ing grandchildren and twelve great
grandchildren. Mrs. Green’s last child
was born when she was sixty-two years
old.
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A sow brledf months ago her cheek
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Loan toll yon whas wrought the c%fiu'h
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beo;n url:gg)v;‘ &5’3&? shyesfi?ug'vut:g }suh:
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An interesting man has named his daugh
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noman.
Sarah Bernhardt.
is coming to America, and great will be the
enthusiasm aroused amongst her admirers.
But, we have our own bright star, Mary Ander
gon, who will continue tobear off the palm in
the dramatic, as does Lucy Hinfon in the
great tobacco world,
This is the age of wonders, and the average
American citizen is no longer surprised at
anything. 1f you want to experience that
sensation, however, just write to B. ¥. John
son & Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va., and
hear what they have got to say of thesuccess
of some of their agents. They have got the
goods that sell, and any one out of employ
ment will consult their own interest by apply
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