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mand for money are reported all over
the W ; i ”‘&A%‘;
Dr. Felix Oswald, writing iifihe
North American Review, predicts that in
the near future arbor festivals will be
too popular to be limited to a single
day in the year. p
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Fifteen per . cent. "of the deaths in a
commune in Normandy, are due to
cancer of the stomach, a fact which has
mvfid@ the doctors that the;dfigaae
is contagious, and is propagated’ by
'ate%* o P“ ".’&'365.“:‘5:'
Every once in a while something comes
8p that scems to justify the famous re
park of the Eaglish engineer that coal
would never be cheap umtil it
bYecame four times as dear, since
only then wou'd a cheap substitute be
invented.
The city of Buffalo, N. Y., has now
the distinction of poscessing more as
phalt pavements than any city in the
world, the area of asphalt here being
1,000,248 square yards, extending ove,
a length of silty-one miles, or more than
the combined area of all the asphalt
roadways in Europe.
It is said that Cul'man County, Ala.,
is the only level, arable and fertile tract
of land in the Southern States in which
there are virtually no colored people.
In a census population of more than
15,000, including an area of over 1,500
square miles, there are only fourtesn
colored people.
Congress appropriates only SIO,OOO
for the preservation of the forests of the
nation, while it is estimated that §O,-
000,000 worth of lumber is yeary
stolen from the public domain. The
value of the wood consumed in the
United States each year is estimated at
$60,000,000,000.
The Duke of Portland s said to have ‘
been registered in the black book of the |
English royal family. It is rumored‘
that he was given a broad hint concern- .
ing his desirability as suitor for the
hand of the Princess Louise, now be
trothed to the Earl of Fife, but having 1
the unenviable career of the Marquis of
Lorne before him, he was not to be
saught. Hence his decline in royal
favor, and the slighting of his bride.
The dullest city in North America has
Deen discovered at last, announces the
Dhicago News. It is not St. Louis, as
most people had supposed, but Victoria,
British Columbia. A letter written
from there contains the following:
@‘Business men come down to their of
fices here at 1 p. m. and leave at 4 p.
m. After that hour the town is com
pletely deserted. I thought Alexan
dria, Va., was dead, but it is positively
gay in comparison with this place.
There grass grows in the streets, but
here crops mature in the thoroughfares.”
The Atlanta Constitution says:
«‘Pretty Mrs. Maybrick, the charming
goutherner, who is to be tried at Liver
pool for poisoning her husband, has
captured the hearts of the cold-blooded
Britons. The statement is madein the
New York Star that Mrs. Maybrick’s
lawyers have received seven letters from
men who are willing to marry the lady
_in the event of her acquittal. One is
from a minister in Scotland, a man of
high family. The Star says that this
instance recalls the case of Madeline
Smith, the heroine of the famous Scotch
poizoning case thirty years ago. She
Jas asked by twenty-seven men to
parry them if she was acquitted. She
gas found not guilty and married a
fergyman, and has been a happy woman
wer since. Just why perfect strangers
Sould fall in love with these alleged
Borgias 18 a mystery. So far as Mrs.
Aaybrick is concerned, it is only just to
sy that the evidence against her is by
no means conclusive. Still, her sudden
-popularity is rather surprising.”
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| ¥IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. |
A hurricane raged at the gort of Bue
nos Ayres Siturday, which did great
damage to shipping. :
The town of Dubno, Russia, was de
stroyed by fire Mofiriay. The loss is
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The manufacturers of window glass,
table glass and crockery have formed a
gmw,l iR it "'p il Aganiars Pl e
An earthquake was experienced on the
Russian frontier Tuesday. In the village
of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried
alive, -
Emperor William, of Germany, has
presented his portrait to Lord Salisbury
as a souvenir of his recent visit to Eng
land. A ;
The barbers’ national convention, called
to meet in Pittsburg, Pa., next Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed. The
purpose of the meeting was to organize
a national union,
The fine passenger steamer, Common
wealth, was burned to the water’s edge '
in less than three-quarters of an hour at |
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday night. The
loss is about $30,000. |
The schedule showing liabilities of the
insolvent wool firm of Brown, Steese &
Clark, of Boston, Mass., was filed in the
insolvency court on Monday morning.
‘lt shows liabilities of $1,180,000.
A combination of eastern capitalists
has formed to buy all the coal lands
along the Monongahcla River, including
franchises, landing, boats; good will,
etc., and control the river coal business.
The German police have unearthed a
socialist society whose organization ex
tends throughout the province of Gali
cia. Many lawyers, students and ladies
connected with the society have been
arrested.
The jury of the Paris exposition recom
mends that a gold medal be awarded to
Boston for its educational exhibits. Sim
ilar recemmendations have been made in
favor of Carroll university, and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
An vestigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in his office, shows that the |
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime
ters in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of & concert. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
darmes and a child. '
Dispatches from Egypt say that famine
prevails at Khartoom, Kassala, Tokar
and other river towns. The survivors
are said to be feeding upon the bodies of
the dead. About twenty deaths from
starvation daily are reported at Tokar.
Jobn 8. Mackintosh, wool puller of
Milton, Mass.,, assigned on Tuesday.
His liabilities are estimated to be in the
neighborhood of SIOO,OOO. The assign
ment was caused by the embarrassment
of Brown, Steese & Clark, and George
Holds. _
The shoe factory of A. Coburn, Son &
Co., at Hopkinson, Mass., was burned
Tuesday morning. Over three hundred
workmen are deprived of employment.
One store house attached to the factory
was also destroyed. The loss is esti
mated at $250,000, fully insured. |
At Chicago, H. J. Huiskamp, one of
the proprictors of the Z'imes, procured
warrants Tuesday for James J. West and
his secretary, Charles F. Graham. He
charges them with illegally issuing 1,000
shares of the stock of the Z%mes com
pany.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
fast mail train which arrived in that city
~ Saturday night over the Vandalia Road,
was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana,
- while the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one‘
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was - supposed to
contain about SIO,OOO.
The J. H. Mahler company, of St.
Paul, Minn., one of the largest carriage
and wagon houses in the West, made a
voluntary assignment Saturday. The
‘statement of assets and liabilities has not
yet been filed, but from the magnitude
of the company’s operations, the liabili
ties will probably not fall short of $500,-
000.
l . The Sterne Chittenden building, at
Columbus, 0., was burned Sunday.
| The principal losers are Candy Bros.,
l restauranteurs, $15,000; A. N. Hill &
i Co., clothing, $9,000; Patterson Merrill
l Wall Paper Co., $15,000; Theo. Faul
| haber, hatter, SB,OOO, building, $45,000;
I Sterne Chittenden’s heirs $15,000, and
several others §52,000 or less.
The trial of the six men, Burke, Wood
ruff, Coughlin, Beggs, O’Sullivan and
Kunze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi
cago, on Tuesday. Probably no case in
the history of the city has attracted such
l wide-spread attention as the Cronin
murder case, and the trial will be
watched with great interest.
The spring lake reservoir, near Fisk
ville, in the southwest corner of Crans
ton, about fifteen miles from Providence,
R. I, which supplies the whole row of
mill villages along Pawtucket River,
burst Sunday afternoon. ‘Three persons
were drowned, and some damage done to
property. The reservoir covered eigh
teen acres and contained about 385,000,-
000 gallons of water.
roof of the building while attcmpting to
killed, The total loss on the build ing,
t in‘aeh‘imfg and stock is placed at $150,-
000, with SIOO,OOO ?fiuranoe,’ ‘placed
‘with forty-two companies.
Margaret W. Yapp, of White Bear,
Minn., brought suit in the district court
at Bt. Paul, on Saturday, against the 8t
Paul Globe for SIO,OOO damages for libel.
The alleged libelous articles are two tel
corams printed in the Glole on August
16 and 19, %e%ged “Mrs. Yapp swore
{alsely,” and “Unworthy of belief,” re
?eutiva’ly:*’fi%rM“’m&w accuse Mis.
app of being guilty of perjury.
The entire plant of the Union Fur
nace company, of Rockford, IIL, was
wiped out of existence Monday night by
the most dissstrous fire that ever oc
curred in that yicinity. It broke out in
the finiching room, and in three hours
the buildings, two large four story
structures, were in ashes. Not a thing
was saved. The company will lose
nearly SIOO,OOO, on which there is only
$40,000 insurance.
It was announced Wednesday that H.
C. Trick & Co.. the largest coal operators
of the Connclisyille, Pa., region, tni re
cured control of the J. M. Shoonm ker
coke plant, which includes 5,000 acres of
coal land, 1,500 coke ovens aad 400 cats.
This will give Frick & Co., control of
over 9,000 coke ovens in that region,
Begining with Monday the scliing
price of coal will be advanced from $1 to
$1.85 to furnace men, $1.50 to dealers
and $1.65 to foundry men.
After Dbeing ‘shut down for sixteen
years, the Ironton Pig Iron works, with
a capacity of 1,200 tons of pig iron per
day,located a few miles north of Buffalo,
N. Y., on the Niagara river, was sturte:l
up on Wednesday by Cincinnati parties,
who have leased the plant for five years,
with the privilege of purchase. The re
newal of this enterprise, which originally
cost half a million of dollars, has created
much enthusiasm in manufacturing cir
cles in Buffalo.
Mr. Scott,” of Pennsylvania, tele
graphed General Manager Devlin ov
Monday to discharge all employes of the
Spring Valley coal company at Spring
Valley, 111., who were not absolutely
needed to run the mine, and to prepare
for a general shut down for six months
ora year. This means a practical de
pgpulation of the town. Manv_ of the
miners have already left. The Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad has closed
down its Spring Valley branch, and dis
charged all the men at their end of the
line.
People residing in the section bounded
by Parish, Brown, West College avenue
and Twenty-eighth streets Philadelphia,
Pa., were afraid to retire Monday night
for fear that %mfir dwellings would be
swallowed up and:that they would be
killed. A succession of the most start
ling cave in of streets, breaking of
sewers, and bursting of water pipes,
reigned in that district on Monday as a
result of the recent.rains. It is estima
ted that SIOO,OOO worth of damage has
been caused thus far.
The great strike in London, which
was inaugurated several days ago, is
gaining new adherents hourly. Eight
thousand sailors and fireman and two
thousand five hundred dockmen at the
Isle of Dogs, where several large docks
are located, have gone out. The author
ities are holding military in readiness to
suppress an outbreak should it occur.
The coal porters at Kings Cross have
also joined in the strike. A conference
took place on Monday between the dock
managers and delegates from the striking
laborers, but it was without result.
The statement of the business of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad company
for July, 1889, as compared with the
same month last year, shows the gross
earnings to be $457,530, an increase of
$50,444 ; expenses, $279,522, an increase
of S2B, 142: net earnings, $178,208, an
increase of §522,302, For the seven
months ended July 31st the gross earn
ings were $2,985,424, an Increase of
$254,163, as compared with the corres
ponding period of 1888; expenses, sl,
925,660, an increase of $252,400; net
earnings, $1,599,764, an increase of
$1,764. A
The case of Deputy Marshal David
Nagle, who shot and killed David 8.
Terry, was taken up in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco on
Wednesday, for the purpose of fixing the
time for taking testimony and hearing
arguments on the question of jurisdiction.
of the federal court, Mr. Turner, one of
the attorneys representing the state, an
nounced that as both his colleagues had
retired from the case, he would follow
their example. This leaves the state
without counsel in the Nagle case. The
hearing was postponed until next week.
A CHINAMAN IN TROUBLE.
THE CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL AT SAN
FRANCISCO TO ACCOUNT FOR $300,000.
The Ban Francisco Chronicle states that
Chiang Tseng, Chinése consul-general
stationed in that city, is to be made de
fendant in a suit for accounting in the
United States court there, on complaint of
Moy Bock Hing, contractor, {from Port
land, Oregon. The consul-general had
charge of the distribution of the mon
eys paid by the United States govern
ment to recompense the sufferers by the
recent fires at Rock Spring, Seattle,
Urka, Truckee, Redding and other
points, amounting to $400,000. It is
claimed that the unexpended balance of
SBOO,OOO 15 unaccounted for, and that the
f acts have been laid before the emperor
of China.
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BIOUSPOINTS IN THE SOULA.
P I TR
' IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. '
Theodore Carant, the distinguished
violinist, dropped dead Saturdayin New
Orleans, ‘
A carpenter’s strike is in progress in
Birmingham, Ala. No prospects for a
scttlement are at present in sight.
Granny Boston died at Murphy, N.C.,
Tue:day. She was one hundred and
twenty-one years old, a pensioner, and
remembered the battle of Kings moun
tain,
The Merchant and Viticulturist, news
paper, estimates that the wine product of
California will not exceed 12,000,000
gallons this year. This is a reduction of
8,000,000 gallo:s from early éstimates.
Alphonse V. Phillips, a prominent
lawyer aud notary public, of New Or
leans, went to Colurado &bout two
months ago. It has been ascertained
that he has squandered SIOO,OOO of other
people’s money.
The Georgia legislature passed the
Western & Atlantic railrond lease bill on
Wednesday by a vote of 130 to 19. By
the provisions of the bill the road is
to be leased without restrictions of any
sort.
William McClosky, Catbolic dishop of
the Louisville diocese, has ordered the
closing of St. Joseph’s college at Bards
town, Ky. The reason is that a faculty,
such as was desired, could not be made
up for the ensuing year.
One drug house in Vicksburg, Miss.,
received orders for fifteen tons, or 80,000
pounds of Paris greena few days ago.
This fact demonstrates the extent of the
apprehension felt by cotton planters
concerning the cotton worms inthe large
area of country tributary to or trading
with thet city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
at Los Angeles, Cal., at 6:13 Tuesday
evening. The entire duration of the dis
turbance was about ten seconds. The
vibrations were of such force as to stop
clocks and crack ceilings. The shock
was the most severe experienced there in
many years.
The United States circuit court, at
San Francisco, was officially infofmed
Tuesday that the charges of murder
against Justice Stephen J. Field had
been dismissed by the Stockton court.
Judge Sawyer accordingly dismissed tke
habeas corpus proceeding in the case of
Justice Field.
A joint stoclk company is being formed
at Tallulah, Ga., to build a SIOO,OOO
hotel, to be located near the grand
chasm, north of the Blue Ridge and
Atlantic railroad,and an elevator will be
put down to the falls from the Grand
view park, thence a cable line narrow
gauge road will reach all the grand
points at Tallulah.
About one hundred negro miners left
Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday for Mex
ico. They go to work in the coal mines
in one of thg interior states of that re
public. High wages and liberal induce
ments of various kinds are offered the
negroes. Most of the negro miners at
Birmingham are ex-convicts, and learned
the trade while serving their sentence,
Reports were received at Charleston,
8. C., from the Ashchoo rice fields, on
Monday, by F. W. Wagener, E. B.
Means and other big planters, that har
vesting had been commenced. It is es
timated that the fields in that vicinity
will yield from fifty to sixty bushels per
acre. Reports from the entire rice re
gionof the state confirm this statement.
Little Mamie Parker, fourteen years
old, died Sunday afternoon at Nashville,
Tenn., from the effects of medicine ad
ministered to her by her little cousin,
Bessie Woods. They were playing doc
tor with each other, with Bessie preteud
ing te be the physician, She made her
little cousin take ten pills, which resulted
in her death in a short time.
The annual statement of the shipments
of watermelons from the melon region of
South Carolina is out. Thearea planted
is 8,000 acres and the shipments 2,880
car loads, or about three million melons
against 785. car loads last year, and 759
in 1887. Of these New York took 522;
Philadelphia 298: Baltimore 267, and
Boston 68 car loads.
A wholesale poisoning occurred at
Chattanooga, Tenn.,on Monday, through
the use of impure tainted meat. A col
ored woman named Wildham keeps a
boarding house, and has ten men board
ers. One hour after dinner, all the
boarders, including the woman and her
daughter, were taken violently ill, and
all have been unconscious since. The
girl and twe of the boarders will die.
St. Augustine, Fla., was in a fever of
excitement Wednesday, over the discov
ery of a hidden Spanish treasure in an old
house, corner of Bridge and Marine
streets. An old colored man dug up
near the foundation of the chimney filty
two Spanish coius in a rusty metallic
pot about te. inches deep and two in
ches across the mouth. The coins are
very old, the latest being dated 1806,
and several of them antedating 1760.
Further developments are awaited with
interest.
AN unusual number of “deaths by
drowning are reported from summer re
sorts on the Atlantic coast. Comment
ing on this fact the Trenton (N. J.)
Times says: “ There seemsto be even
a larger c?llota than usual of smart
swimmers this season. Thelife-guards
men who go out to save them from
drowning thereby risiz much more valu
able lives than the ones they design to
rescue.’” )
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' Tilwing 1# 7.G. Dun & Oos o
view of tra uorw
‘gust 24 The monetary pressure i
- which su many warnings have been givig,
operated during the week to modify the
‘improvement in the general trade dus to°
excellent crop prospects, The suspeii
! tion of imporiant bills, resulting irom
} the recent failures of commission houses
comes just when there were brighter
prospects for manufacturers than at
previous times in mild weather and overs
production last Winter. With orders in
sight, if the mills could go on, 1t is suid,
| all liabilitics could soon be met, but if
this be fact, it shows tiie extent of pres
sure in commercial woncy markets,
¥rom all quarters improvement in busi
ness is reported with fine prospects for
the Fall trade consequent upon large
crops. At Chicago the actual transac
| tions are about equal to last year’s in
clothing, alittle larger in boots and shoes,
aud 18 per cent. larger in dry goods.
' The grocery trade improves at most
points, excepting as to sugar, for which
the demand has been much affected by
the operations of the trust, and raw is
$c lower. Coffce is in better demand an@
¢ higher, and the scrious injury to the
eastern potato crop by wet weather has
caused a sharp ndvance. Butter and
‘eggs are also higher, and cotton 8-16¢
for spoo!, notwithstanding a decline of
[c in print cloths. Splendid crop pros
pects begin to have their legitimate es-
Ject upon prices of breadstuffs and pro
visions, Hogs have declined this week
20 cents per 100 pounds, lard 12 cents
‘and pork half dollar per barrel. Oats
‘and corn § cent each, latter with sales of
19,000,000 busheis, and wheat Las de
clined 1} cents, with sales only 7% mil
lion bushels here. The speculative
movement in wheat has been defeated
by liberal receipts from the farmer, and
when the farmers market freely early in
the season, the prospect for the Fall
trade is excellent, and monetary pressure
is not usually of long duration. The
iron and steel business appears still more
“encouraging to most producers and deal~
ers, and some furnaces have this week
been added to producing force, Happily
the foreign trade at present threatens no
decline, and while imports have
been 28 per cent. larger than in August.
last year there has also been an increase
of 22 per cent. in exports from New
York. Business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun &
Co. 'Mercantile agency, by telegraph,
number for the United States 190, and
for Canada 16, or total of 206 as com
pared with total of 211 last week and 213
week previous to last. For the corre
sponding week of last year figures were
214, made up of 187 in the United States
and 27 in Canada.
THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION.
GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR
THE FORTHCOMING WORLD'S FAIR.
New York has certainly entered heart
and soul into the pre!iminary arrange
ments for our great internutional exposi
tion of 1892, and when this mighty city
commits herself unreservedly to any en
terprise, the ultimate accomplishment of
the undertaking is practically guaran
teed. Therefore, the history of Ameri
ca’s forthcoming world’s fair may be
epitomized in one word of reliable pro
phecy—success. Mayor Grant is being
congratulated by everybody upon the
excellent judgment he has displayed in
appointing the various committees. His
wisdom in the discharge of that duty
reached its climax in his selection of the
finance committee. There probably
never was such a galaxy of millionaires
associated together on any one board of
management. The combined wealth of
the twenty-five men composing that
finance committee amounts to over
$500,000,000 or an average of $20,000,-
000 apiece. The following is extracted:
from a report of the first meeting which
was held in the governor’s room in the
city hall on Baturday: The committee
consists of twenty-five members, ap
pointed. by the muyor, with the mayor
and the secretary of the general com
mittee members ex-officio. Of the
twenty-seven membets, only seven were
absent. Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. O’Dono
hue, Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr.
Huntington are in Europe. Mr. Mills,
Mr. Jesup, Mr. shepherd and Mr. Van
derbilt were out of town, and could not.
return in time for the meeting. Those
present were: William L. Bull, Presi
dent of the Stock Exchange; Calvin 8.
Brice, August Belmont, Samuel D. Bab
cock, Robert Dunlap, Jay Gould, Heory
B. Hyde, John H. Inman, Eugene Kelly,
Frederick A. Kurshoedt, John McKes
son, Herman Oeclrichs, Oswald Otten
norfer, William Rockafeller, Charles
Stewart Smith, William Steinway, J.
Edward Simmouvs, Jesse Seligman, the
mavor and the secretary. ;
A PENITENTIARY BLAZE.
One of the most exciting conflagra
tions that has visited Columbus, 0., in.
years, occurred at the Ohio penitentiary
Tuesday afternoon. The flames started
in the factory building oecupied by the.
Columbus chair company, and had made
great headway when discovered. Before
the flames could be got urder control,
the chair factory, Columbus bolt works,
and a large warehouse were total wrecks.
The prisoners were locked in their cells,
but the Lghts had not been put out, and,
great consternation prevailed. The
Chair company lose $15,000, bolt works
$4,000, Corner Brush company lose
SIO,OOO, and the total loss will reach.
£95,000.
