The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, June 23, 1886, Image 1
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Scene* Aloes the K<?st?e i>y Kai!?T!ic Wonderful
City of Denver?The i"u(?< *<* of a (.;rc;it j
Commonweal:!).
CDenver Letter in P.>u:&ii.y"> !) r . )
Those wh^ ride in sleeping ears in the '
East are qaite iij?t to lvmain i:i tiu ii-j
bench to turn, snooze, think, plan amij
rest as on they roll. Xot so here. Hun- j
rise, and ail were up. The cars of the i
Burlington Route w ere so well LuUn i
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with passengers mat every oer.u
occupied, the great majority of passen- j
gers in the sleepers being persons from j
the East -who had never been to Denver, i
never seen its rocky mountains. Near- i
ing their destination, they were like tliu-j
early bird.
It is now six o'clock. In two hours !
we will be in Denver. The l?erths li:i\-> J
all been made U2> for the duv. the cars j
- dusted out and people are on the <[<h j
vive. We are running southwest. L'e-1
hind us is the lieafi ox the liepublicun I
valley and the millions of acres of choice j
Nebraska corn land. We are on top of!
the divide, as a fly would be on top of a j
barrel that lay upon the ground. Miles j
of unfenced country sire to l>e seen, with j
here and there a little house, home of a
homesteader or headquarters of a ranch- j
man or cattle raiser whose cattle are to j
be seen grazing on the wide expanse of j
plains here being run over.
HPIm-v lwnl/nnora ;>vo STPrlll. Dili 11 tod ,
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red and snug. Depots are so far apart
that several others can be built between
tliem in time! The appearance is that
of a very ntw country, yet it is older in
fact than is the East, as first of all from
the vasty deep rose the backbone of the
continent, st 'l to the west of us.
A lady screams: iO! .Set-!''
She points to the west and there, sure
enough, are to be seen the snow-capped
mountain peaks of the grand old mountains.
In a little while the cars have
sped on so that we see the main range,
extending south from Cheyenne or near
there, for hundreds of miles. They rise
as a great wall might rise along the sea
shore, the plains to the east being under
the evening shadows of the mountains
that rise in the west.
Now we sec down into the valley o!
the South Platte. Many school teachers
insist that Denver is a city en the North
Platte. Such is not the c^so. Denver is
on the waters of the South Platte, about
140 miles from where it heads. The
river is not large, except after a freshet.
It runs through a pleasant, wide valley
that at Denver is fourteen miles east
from the foot hills and that at Greely is
about forty miles east. Along here is the
choice agricultural lands of the State,
taking in the county west from Denver
to Golden in a gorge of the mountains,
Boulder, Longmont, Fort Collins and
Greely, in the respective counties of
Jefi'erson, Boulder, Larimer and Weld.
Longmont being in Boulder county, one
of the iinest in the State.
West of these counties, west from
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Denver, tiie county-seax ox A?ip;u:w
county, are the Bocky Mountains, rising
as an abrnpf granite Avail to tlie height of
a mile, or 8,000 feet above the plains.
From north to south we see them from
the cars, a range of fully two hundred
mile. Denver is about 0,000 feet above
sea level. "We are a full mile near the
stars than are those who live in Xew
York. The mountains rise up into the
clouds that rest upon their snowy peaks,
from 6,000 to S,0U0 feet above the plains.
The air is light, so clear, so. rarified
that no new corner^ can judge distance.
- To the northwest we see a very high
peak, standing like a white-headed Long
-TWhn TWntworth. of Chicago, higher
than his fellows. That is Long's Peak.
It is named in honor of Lieut. Long, an
explorer who was a long time in getting
to the top of it, there to float the American
fiag.
WHITE ABOVE THE GRAY AND GSEEX.
Snow is white and deep on the tops
and sides of the mountains, while the
plains below are green with growing
grains and grasses. Away along to the
south rise the snow-capped Rockies, like
a great cross-cut saw, its teeth in air. It
is seventy miles from where we are this
morning in the ears, west to the top of
Long's Peak, yet people in the cars estimate
the distance at fifteen to twenty
miles.
There are big mountains and little
mountains all stuck in together like
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clotnes-pms in a snow neap. ;iWUi
seventy-five miles south from Long's
Peak, and sixty miles due west from
Denver, its snow-white top piercing a
gray, snow-made cloud that is beating
up to fall and to whiten anew, rises
Gray's Peak, the top of which is 14,441
feet above the level of the sea. It is the
mountain under which the company of
which the editor and writer hereof is
president is driving a tunnel at the altitude
of 10,000 feet above sea level, and
which tunnel will be five miles long.
Welcome, old feHow! We have seen
you before, as from your summit range
we have looked east toward the Atlantic
and westward toward the Pacific, miles
upon miles. Some of these days we will
walk through vox; and ride through you,
and walk into your hundreds of fissure
veins laden with gold, silver, copper and
lead, and get as much fatness out oi you
as a rat gets out of a cheese it has burrowed
into bt-yond the reach of a cat.
To the south froxn Gray's Peak, about
seventy-live raiies distant, with many a
snow-covered peak between us is
pise's peak,
distant about ninety miles from Denver,
but its top riot so high by fourteen feet
as is Gray's Peak, which up-shoots west
of Denver, as a guide to Salt Lake City,
which is 403 miles north of west from
Denver, direct line, and 687 miles distant
by rail, via Cheyenne, and 775 miles J
distant by way of Puebio and Gunnison, j
as rims the Denver aiul Rio Grande j
Mountain climby railroad.
rru^ ^ far as the eve I
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can reach, rise the mountains as a wall!
between eastern and western Colorado? j
\l between the Atlantic and the Pacific, and i
1 known as the Continental Divide.
g TOOK OUT HIS TUCK.
? Speaking of the above-named mounK
tain route around and over from Denver
& to Salt Lake, it is one of the wonders
of the world- A prominent business man
B and capitalist from Lincoln, Nebraska,
was on the train and we heard him say:
"I have been over the Northern Pacific,
and the Union Pacific, and the Central
pacific to the Pacific Ocean. They are
?Rut tlie grandest moun
tarfe route of all that I have over rode
ovei\is the Denver and Bio Grande from
Denver by way of Gunnison to Salt
Lake. It take? a man to the top of the
mountains above the clomL, and lets
him down into gorges tliat almost exclude
the stui. I would not have missed
it for anytir&ng, and vet I would not ride
over it againVfor ten thousand dollars.
The way the c$rs ran down tlio teziible
grades is frightluL I looked out till my
jiead ached. TJien I became seasick and
nervor.s, :umT it seoni'.'d to me that I mast
IjO to pleCCS."
Tims do the works and reputations of i
<nv::f :ti-.d Workers. ?>'ird flic con- I
tinent and stretch from polo to pole; but
there is : o more need to doubly insure
your life when riding over the Denver
and I;io (Jraude Railroad than when
riding over any other road built and
operated by men who know their business.
YEARS AOO.
To Pikes Peak. That is what folks
said y. ars ago. Thcv did not go to
Pike's Peak. l>ut to the junction of Cherry
Creek with the South Platte river,
where in the bed of the stream gold was
found. Pike's Peak was a landmark seen
for hundreds of miles, and to get within
seventy-live miles of it was "getting
there" in those days.
The beautiful temperance city of Colo
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vnuo springs, lony-nve mixes south iroiu
Denver, is between Denver and Tike's
I\ :tk. but there are no springs at Color.ulo
Springs. At the foot of the mountains,
live miles west, are springs, at
Manitou, or hx the garden of the gods,
::s some one named this grand, majestic
locality, from which foiks start 011 horses
or muies for the top of Pike's Peak, and
a chance to see the world below. "We
see into the valley of the South Platte.
It comes out from a doorway in the
mountains. :iltout twenty-six miles southwest
from Denver, as the water.came out
of the rock struck by Closes.
By the way, Moses was different from
some people of to-day, as he was a successful
striker.
See the crooked line of bright, green
trees, thrifty cotton-wood, that mark the
course of the river. See the belt of green
farms along the river, clear down to
Denver, and ou forty miles north, showing
where farmers are getting in their
work, and by irrigation bringing forth
crops that pay large profits.
DENVER.
Now we sec the spires of the city. Now
the city itself. Uraeious! what a city.
There it is. fourteen miles east of the foot
mills. Fourteen miles east from the
mountains, on the plains. It looks like ;
an oasis in a desert. A city four miles
long and about a mile and a half wide.
A city of 80,000 inhabitants. One of the
handsomest, most progressive cities in
the Union. Considering all tilings it has ;
no rival 011 earth. Where thirty years ,
ago was a bald-headed plain, now rise :
tens ef thousands of trees, to almost hide 1
the beautiful city they shade. Out from ;
the green rise towers of churches and ;
schools, liner than are to be found else
where west of the Mississippi river till
w? reach San Francisco. Cupolas of
palatial private residences, and high- ,
headed towers for electric lights, prove ,
that a modern, progressive people are :
Tlrnsc who live in the citv named in lion- ,
or of General Denver, the gallant pioneer
and statesman, who now resides in Wash- ,
ington.
From the tops of those high smoke
stacks that mark the location of the great
smelters of Argo, owned by United
States Senator X. P. Hill, Wolcott and
others, and of the Omaha and Denver
smelting works, owned l>y ex-Governor
Grant and others, the smoke rolls day ,
and night without ceasing, as millions ;
upon millions <>f dollars' worth of gold and
silver bullion are here each year j
roasted and stowecftmt of the ore brought <
here by e:>rs from the wondrous mines ]
of Colorado. Thirteen railroad lines <
centre here at the Union depot, one of 1
the largest and handsomest in the world. ]
Now we come up to the broad plateau 1
of railroad works in front of the depot; i
on time to tb^ minute, from Chicago to i
Denver direct by the Burlington route, ]
110 more worn, worried or wearied than j
though, we stayed at home and worked ]
in the garden. Here are lines of horse j
cars leading to all parts of the city? north,
south, east and west. Here are ]
wide, clean streets of the broad gauge '
pattern. Aside them on each side run j
streams of water, used for "the irrigation
of gardens farther back. Here are shade
trees making Denver to appear as located
in some enchanted forest. Here are tele- <
graph messenger boys; churches as fine i
as are to be found in .New lorli city, ;
with audiences that cannot be excelled ,
for dress and all that pertains to modem "
enjoyable religion. <
Here are monthly, weekly and daily ?
papers, chief of which is the Rocky ]
Mountain News. Here are banks as ?
line, as well officered and as solidly foun- ]
dationed as are any in the country. Here <
are more large, beautiful stores and more j
live, prosperous merchants than can be ]
found in any city of its size in the United <
States. Here are hotels equal to the vers* ,
best in this country, with guests from ,
all parts of ihe world. Here are manu- ;
facturing establishments growing into ]
perfect life. Here are as good people <
and as deserving as the sun ever shone :
on, and more of progress to the square ,
incli than can be found in any other
cities of this country save Chicago, St. j
Paul and Minneapolis, as into the West ,
rash the vigorous-minded men wlio make :
fortunes quickly, as they have vim,
brains and means, with courage to invest (
not alone in Denver property, but in outside
lands and mines. ;
Here, too, are lines of gamblers, sharks, .
shysters, dead-beats, bunco steerers, and ;
all that goes to make up a live, cosmo- ;
politan city. Here, too, are the jay-hawkers,
black-mailers and scheming plunder- j
ers of all who have legitimate business
enterprises in tow. Here, too, are the ;
selfish, heartless grabbers for all there
is in sight. Men who get drunk, abuse
xi ^ - "i1 oil i of +T?nvn A Ton !
til Iil5CA> itiiV.1 iUJL ?JUW U uoc ViiViA* .
who have Splayed out" in other locali
ties, ancl who came here to whet their
fangs against each other, and who rip it
into all whom they can fast-en upon in ,
the guise of friendship or the garb of
business. Here are misers, meddlers,
skin-Hints, land-pirates and hoodlums,
all bunched iu together and helping to
swell the grand variety.
Here is a Chamber of Commerce made
up of Al, men, from first to last. Here
arc as fine places of amusement as can
be found in New York, and here gather
audienccs that for wit, wealth, worth,
beauty and style, cannot be excelled anywhere
on this continent.
All in all, Denver is a model city, with
hundreds of attractions and but few
black 3>atehes or drawbacks, iier artesian
wells from which come the purest of
clear cold water; her rich gardens from
which come small fruits and vegetables;
her fine hot-houses from which come
choice flowers in endless variety and profusion,
and her unequaled climate make
i this the capital of Colorado a city to be
j proud of, built here as it is in the midst
: of what was once called the great Amerir
can Desert! And this of a State that
yields the best wheat in the world and
that, with a population less than 300,000 i
: total, lifts ovc-r 40,000.000 oi dollars' I
of lif-i- iron. I
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i gold, silver, lead ana copper mines vearj
iy, hardly yet dug i^to except as prospects
to determine hfyv to conduct fututo
j mining operations. How bright and
j beautiful the morning! How busy are
j ail whom we meet!
| "White undressed kids are fashionable for
i tin- evening.?Ex. The}- arc, and eiijht
j o'clock i=> about the hour for undressing
I 'em in well regulated families.
oa j agggaa?anaai1 * eagagaBMBEWa
OI K CRWSVM. CHJ.ONY IX CAWOA.
51<>w of tl:?* Runaway llfapurt
in Their City of Sc'mc.
A Montreal correspondent of the New
York Mail and Express writes: '-'John ('.
?.no lieaits tuc list o* criminals ui v au;>(la.
He is living :it Quebec. The house
lie routs is large, and the situation delightful.
Tt is t\v<> und a half miles from
tin.' j>ostoliice. The rent he pays?nearly
;?:!, < MK) a year?is, for Quebec, enormous.
This means, proportionately, about
SO,000 to .^,000 per year in New York.
Rents are ven* low in the Gold J Jock
City. and the Eno bor.se at Bcauvoir is
one of the finest in the suburbs. Financially,
lie appears to be at ease. He
drives good horses and is liberal with his
money, but socially he is not known.
Neither he nor his wife is ever invited
out, nor are they visited 1 ?y society ])col>Ie.
Eno has never been asked to the
Garrison mess, and does not belong to
the only social organization in Quebec
of any pretensions?the Garrison Club.
The old French families do not ask him
+ +-1wiiv l./lncnc VTic o/VllKlijl+riTlfWI flv<*
principally made at barrooms. Some
few society men have a nodding' acquaintance
with him. Society is exclusive,
and the old noblesse have long memories.
"When Eno gives dinner 'parties" J
they are only attended by his legal ad-1
visers, or speculators who may wish to
see him. The Commercial Club he belongs
to is a small place where men of
business meet. It has no social significance
and does not j>retend to any.
Many respectable merchants belong to
it. These men meet Eno in a business
way. They do not ask him to their
homes. Some of them may drink with
him at the St. Louis Hotel when they
meet him there; that is all. He visits
the houses of two or three personal
friends, but the stories about his being
received into society are exaggerations.
Ho attends cocking" mams and billiard i
tournaments, and he is a constant visitor j
to St. Rock. This is tlie roughest sub-1
urb in the city.
"The New York Aldermen and their
friends attract much attention. They
arc Billy Moloney. Charley Dompsey,
Keenan and De Lacy. They all have
rooms on the same Hoor of the Windsor
Hotel, with the exception of Billy Moloney,
who is in a small house near the
hotel. J)e Lacy and Keenan are great
chums, and arc rarely out of each other's
sight. Moloney and Dempsey, however,
seem to be engage in picket duty
and throwing inquisitive people off the
scent. They all live like lords, getting
the best of even-thing and scattering
their money about like water.
"New York has not a monopoly of the
sriminals here; Chicago makes a very I
good running for second place. Moms, I
the 'church deacon,'and trusted adviser j
of widows and orphans, heads the list, j
Morris had thousands of dollars intrust-'
ed to his care. The people whose money |
he had were chiefly poor, struggling men
and women, who had saved the gatherings
intrusted to him after years of selfsacrifice
and privation. The victims of
this man thought they were saving up
for the 'rainy day.' Many of his dupes
were laboring ir.c-n, charwomen and
orphans to whom small sums of money
had been left. He encouraged the people
to deposit their money in his keeping.
When he got what he considered
sufficient for his wants he left. He made
paupers of hundreds of poor people in
Chicago. He does not appear to mind
io inn vnn rr o lillfti
a ess here. The writer saw liim in a
Duggy yesterday. He sat behind a fasttrotting
black. The flush of health was
present on his countenance. There was
ao cowardly conscience in that man's
tact:. But the detectives say that Morris
is not at ease, for all his assumption of
indifference. They have noticed that he
ilways employs the one driver to take
liim in mirl frnril bis of bvsinoss.
fhey think he is afraid of being kidlapped."
The Knights cf Honor.
Xew York and Massachusetts lead all
jther States in membership in the order,
:he former having on January 1, 1S8G,
15,559, and the latter 10,686. From
January 1 to December 31, 1S85, Xew
i'ork hud 216 deaths, and paid into the
supreme treasury three hundred and
sixty-five thousand and twenty-two dol.ars,
but withdrew to pay beneficiaries
58,078 in access of the amount paid in.
For the same period Massachusetts had
)7 deaths, and paid in two hundred and
fifty thousand live hundred and twentyaine.
being ?58,529 in excess of the
imour+ withdrawn. In New York the
leath was 13.9 per thousand; In Massachusetts,
9.1. As the payments from
Massachusetts into the supVeme treasury
liave constantly been in excess of the
amounts drawn out to pay her beneficiaries,
it speaks highly for the care exercised
by" her lodge medical examiners.
As the highest number of assessments
in any one year lias been twenty-two?
and tiiat in but a single year?would it
not be a good idea for lodges, when the
monthly assessment plan goes into effect
f.Tult- 1 \ pfintinnf" +!if> rlnnlVlf r*nll rm
til one or two assessments in advance
liave been collected, and set the same
aside in the lodge treasury, that it could
be forwarded promptly on receipt of the
assessment notice from the supreme reporter,
thereby avoiding the delay now
caused by too many members availing
themselves of the thirty days' grace allowed
by the constitutions. This would
facilitate payment of the benefits, and
prove a great protection to lodges and
members against suspension. "While
there are no doubt some who would ob??* >+
frv +V>ic c+ill oc if tivmii/1 "nor
haps six months before an assessment in
advance of the number called could be
set aside for such purpose, the objection
seems very slight when compared with
the good it would accomplish in protection
to the members and the prompt
payment to beneficiaries.
Russia's Influence in Greece.
Among certain persons here, usually
well informed in political matters, it is
now nretended that the Greek policy has
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recently been solely influenced by Russia,
through 31. Butzoff. The p-f sence '
of two Russian vessels in the bloc';?.ding
fleet, it is said, has been a mere blind,
which has deceived the leading statesmen
of all the others, with the exception, j
perhaps, of Bismarck. Greece lias not, !
we are assured, been simply posing liefore
the world as a small but determined
and pugnacious power, whose absolute
restraint called for the collective coercion
of the united maritime strength of Eih
rope. She has abandoned for the present
her threateniug attitude wit-h the
best possible grace under the circumstances,
but only on a distinct under
standing vita Kussia, who in iter own
good time will proceed to accomplish her
fixed Fanslavist policy in the Balkans,
and thereby create :i political position in
Southeastern Europe which will be of
inestimable assistance in the furtherance
of Hellenic claims on Tnvhey.?Odessa
Letter to tli T.ondon Daily !N ews.
\ number of Washington gentlemen
have organized a company under the name
of <:Tlic Long Fibre Cotton Gin Company,''
to bet in an enterprise at Woodlawn, near
Birmingham. Ala.
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' ( nih-t"* Tri'sf Tti"ir \i*iior-> to i'irci;*
An interesting feature of ilie West
Point Military Academy cm Thursday
last was the mounted exercises of the
cadets in the riding hall. By the time
. Secretary of War Juidicott and pai-tv ar >
. 1.1 . i;..?
nvou. l^api. .-\ugiir nun jjj.i- <u u??i.ic- f
; men before him. The men wore their j
; tri~iy fatigue suits ami all sat their horses i
j well. At a word they started oil' one j
t after another and swept about tin' area atj
a galiop. Then sabres were di.iw.n and j
: the drill commenced. First the blade J
; was brought down upon an imaginary j
1 foe at the right, then it was twirled in j
' air. next thrust forward, again backward, j
I fill"! ;! SV.W1 >i?o- shisll WJ1S Made to i
i the left. Once the horses were in line,
i the men stood at their heads. "Mount."
In a twinkling, even1 cadet was in air.
; In another, without touching a stirrup,
| he was in the saddle. Another coin|
mand. The men wore on their feet
again, but only to vault clean over sad!
die and sill and stand ready at the other
| side. Then up again in the saddle.
They twisted around, now facing forI
ward, now backward and again sideways.
And while they so drilled two
uprights were fixed at a distance of about
fifty feet from each other with a pad as
l>ig as a cap fixed upon each with a handle
attached to it. At a word the cavalrymen
dashed oil. Now one came along
at full gallop, leaned over as he reached
the upright till his hand was below the
level of the stirrups, and in full career
picked up one pad after another and
tossed it behind him. It was a feat requiring
coolness and address, but nearly
all executed it satisfactorily.
Next tin: pad was placed upon an upright
the height of a man, and at the
same distance as before another was
placed on a lower stand. Between them
was placed horizontally a beam resting
on two uprights?a good, stiff jump for
:i lmr.se in sneli a limited snace. and one
requiring a rider to have his brain clear.
The word was given. A horseman came
galloping on. As lie reached the taller
stand he drew a revolver. It flashed, and
the pad, struck by the bullet, tumbled
oft", while the horse dashing on was a
moment after lifted over the bar in a
flying jump. Bound still the horseman
went, his comrades following one by one.
And now as he approached the stand on
which the pad is replaced he has his
sabre out. He slashes at it, hits it fairly,
and almost before it reaches the ground
he is over the bar; his sabre cuts an arc
through the air as he leans over his
horse's shoulder and tosses up with a
great slash a .bunch of tan! >ark, and then
just recovering in his saddle he brings '
down the blade with a sweep upon the
pad of the second upright and tosses it
off.
In the next exercise the uprights :iud
pads arc still there, but in place of the
jump is a high pole with a transverse '
bar, from which hangs just within reach
of a horseman's sabre an iron ring only
a few inches in diameter. And through
all this, too, the horses go around at the
top of their speed, the feat repeated ;
again and again, a few failing, but nearly
all successful.
Xext saddles are removed and the men
ride bareback at will. There is no circus
performance like this spectacle. The '
place is fnll of hounding steeds; some
with riders leaning over their should'-" -, j
till their hands sweep the ground; some .
lying at full length upon their backs; |
some facing to tlie rear, but guiding them
with spur and rein; some jumping on '
and oiV. like circus riders, while the ani- <
mal is going at the top of his speed, and ;
some vaulting clean over them and keeping
up the pace. It is a thrilling spectacle,
which a burst of applause rewards,
and then the men repeat their exciting '
drill, training by coupies on half the j
number of horses. It would be called a
gallant equestrian show anywhere. An
old officer's comment interpreted the
general opinion: ;'I never saw better ^
riders."
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A Cvclonc of Fortv-foMr Years <
Stories of the recent cyclone in Ohio
are coming in quite freely, but they do
not approach the marvelous stories of
the tornado that swept up the valley of j
the roaring Codonis, in York county, in j
the spring of 1S12. After the s*orm we i
speak of one farmer found that nis well 3
had been pulled up by the roots and was
hanging on the limbs of a white oak tree j
four miles away. A cellar belonging to '
one ox his neighbors was split vi two,
oue half of it being blown 1 ough a
stone quarry and the other half turned .
up endwise against a haystack in the ;
adjoining county A flock of geese were j
completely stripped of their feathers by ]
the wind, and a di*ied apple pie was j
blown through the side of a school house,
terrifying the teacher and scholars, be- j
sides ruining a large map of the grass- ;
hopper districts of Kansas. A large
bam containing thirteen tons of hay was '
lifted oft' its foundation and carried bodi- '
ly six miles down tlie. valley, where it
sett'ed down so squarely that the doors 1
could he opened without prving tlicm. ,
Tlie wind blew the tails off six Durham 1
cows, and a Berkshire pig, weighing 200 ,
pounds, was blown completely through i
his skin, the hide remaining in a. stand- j
ing position and preserving an expression
of naturalness that deceived many vis- j
itors. The boundary liacs of several ]
townsliips were bent all out of shape, so j
that they looked like a curled hair mattress
on a hot griddle, and the air was
blown so completely out of the valley
that people had to go up on the hills .
-n-lion tluiv wrm+fil fr? brpntlin?Pbilflflfl- '
pliia Press. ,
\ Rn?li Kditor I'nys for a !Ir.t.
The Cleveland Press permits a little '
facetious diversion in its State news column,
wliicli is eonuueted l)j a young
Xorwalk newspaper man named Poster.
It is appropriate to say that he is unmarried
and unengaged. Last Tuesday
lie published a paragraph to this effect:
"A Marion girl started her graduating
essay as follows: 'I am fairly wearied out
with the incessant prating of the lords
of creation on the duties and sphere of
woman.'" The paragraph closed with 1
the somewhat dangerous assertion that '
the editor would bet a new spring hat .
that the author of that discourse on
woman's sphere could not bake a loaf of
bread. Saturday Mr. Foster received
from Marion a large box. It contained 1
sundry light loaves of bread and cake,
marvclously toothsome. An ?? -ompa
living affidavit bore; tlie solemn oath of
the sweet girl graduate ( who possesses
the pretty name of May Williams) that 1
slie had, unaided, baked the wheat bread
marked "Exhibit A,'' the two specimens
of corn bread marked "Exhibit B,*' and
the chocolate cake "Exhibit C.:' The
notary's seal of oliiee was affixed to the
j aft.'flant, and it was settled beyond a
doubt in Mr. Foster's mind that iiis rash
| vr'&ger iiad been accepted. Ho therefore
j went out and lavished his week's salary
j on a new spring hat. Of course liy had
never seen Miss Williams.- Cincinnati
Eiujuii-cv.
j 1:1 llxis roumry 11 (iocs noi manci v. Ui.ui
j er u man is a blacl-:smiti?, a shoemaker, a
j faymer, a banker, n lawyer, vr a doctor, .so
j long as his business is moral and legitimate
I he may be a gentleman.
WT li
An ittioi.'j.itit* Fi-.ij.LiKc .\5;??.*I*Issi* of Vv iiii-ii
( !)*&( Thicx* ;irv Kxjw'.i'il.
Lieutenant 3L E. Hail. U. S. X.. who
fcv sL'Verai yt-uvs has been endeavoring
to perfect u fish torpedo. has one now
nearly perfected at the Eagle Iron "Works
in Br.lTalo. Tin- Conner describes it as
twelve feet long, in three sections, and
re-en forced l>y four longitudinal girder;-to
give it greater strength. Tn the extreme
bow then* is a capacity for a charge
otffceventy pounds' of gunpowder. This
is fixed by mcann of a primer of fulminate
of mercury. A .pltwger projects iu
front, having two crossed knife edges
constructed so as to act when the torpedo
strikes a vessel at a small angle. The
ordinary torpedo in such a case would
simply allow the projectile to glance oil
rHw\ r?lin-i^nv
Vflllll'lll CAJAUJUllli^. J. Iiv; il 1/K.uao
the screw that holds the spring-firing
apparatus, thus releasing the firing pin
which explodes the charge l>y striking
the sensitive primer of fulminate of mercury.
On the bow there are two automatic
fins used for steering. The generator
is composed of a series of tubes
il -ut hold gas and vapor at 2.000 pounds ;
pressure. The middle section consists of
plain cylinder 15: inches in diameter,
and in this the generator is contained.
The tins arc worked by small engines (
whose valves are automatically controlled :
by power derived from the generator, !
whose great pressure, 1,000 pounds to flir?
smi:ivA incli Lns nrslv ol)l:iined i ;
niter incessant labor and innumerable
experiments, many of whicli were failures.
The after section of the torpedo
contains the propelling apparatus, consisting
of Gardner's patent three cylinder :
engine, which works two screws by gear- ]
iiig. These screws are two-bladed, and
revolve in opposite directions. Their '
peculiar feature is that the blades of one 1
screw are each at right angles to those ^
of another, thus enabling screws of large '
diameter to be used as inner blades of 1
the screws revolving in the same space. (
The three different sections of the ^
torpedo are screwed together so as to f
make water-tight joints. The projectile [
is so constructed as to dive and keep a J
certain depth by means of the automati- ^
eally controlled pins in the bow and the ^
diving.rudder in the tail. Two tails tend ]
to keep the torpedo upright and regular, [;
enclosing the screws to prevent tlieir l)o- 1
ing fouled by any floating object, such 1
as seaw eel, etc. l)n the top of the deathdealing
machine are three hand holes *
covered by plates?one giving access to *
the apparatus which controls the fires at ?
the engine, the other affording access to <
the diving rudder. The engine is in- 1
closed in a steel case, which slips into its 1
place in the torpedo, and is there held by (
three bolts, so that it can be readily re- :
moved for examination or rej)air if need \
be. Attached to the engine is a governor, '
the invention of 3Ir. Gardner, foreman 1
of the Eagle Works. This governor con- 1
trols the engine so as to give uniform t
rate of speed wlijle working under vary- -
1J1? UL'LjrCUS UI [JiL'fcMllC.
Tlic great advantage claimed for the a
uew torpedo is its straightness of course. v
The undulating motion of the ordinary '
torpedo frequently causes tlie machine 11
to dive "without striking its ol?ject. The '
new one, it is said, can he aimed more a
directly and certainly at the precise spot where
it will have the greatc-st destructive c
ower. Another advantage is in the dis- 1
ranee traversed. Hie ordinary torpedo ;
lias a range of ahout 700 yards; the new ^
tinny creature speeds along to the extent }
of about a mile and a half, or 2,100 i
yards. The engine is the only one made ?
in this country at all suitable for tlK* i
?vork contemplated, and the patent for *
this part of the apparatus is vested in the *
Eagle Iron Works Company. Without t
my special tests or appliances, it is 1
nothing short of wonderful how efficient- [
ly the new toipedo in all its parts has f
been completed and now nearly fitted A
together. It will shortly be put to the *
test in Lake Erie. 'I he whole apparatus
lias a buoyancy of fifteen feet, and it is 1
lomputed to be able to blow into smith- t
Dreens the largest vessel afloat. t
Senator Van WycK.
Vail WycJc, oi -Nebraska, is tne oiuy ,
Senator whom his associates do not pre- j
tend to understand. He is liable to get 1
up at any time and create a row, and the ?
records of the present Congress will allow c
that be lias had as much of the fun of }
the Senate as any two men in it. Van t
Wyck is nothing if not audacious. He \
will attack any one who stands in his
tray. Only a few days ago Edmunds jlrose
and attempted to squelch the fiery i
Nehraskan with an avalanche of Sena- 'z
torial precedents. But Tan Vv'yck abso- (
lutelv refused to he squelched, and mere- j
[; replied in his most rasping tones: (
"Xow I suppose we shall he treated to <.
the terrors of the Supreme Court." The ]
Senate, of course, laughed, and that, too, s
it the expense of the great Edmunds. r
Van Wvck is no respecter of person . ,
When fully convinced that i. certain j
project is right and ought to prevail c
there isn't anybody in the Senate who
?an prevent his fighting that measure to v
the bitter end. "Old Van," as the boys s
;all him, is against secret sessions, lie
believes that the Senate was created for f
the purpose of attending to a part of the j
people's business. Therefore, he argues, (
the people are justly entitled to a full ^
knowledge of all that is going 011. ?"Was] i- +
ington Letter to the Boston Traveler. ~
The .Joi*liC>V IsTi. ]
There arc people who imagine "that a 1
jockey's life is a joyous life; that earth \
?an ofibr few greater deligiits than to n
ride tlie winner of a great race and to be r
led back to the scales by an ecstatic 1
srowd, and that the sole drawback to the r
profession is the chance of being asked 1
to pay income tax on ?10,000 a year, s
But how utterly untrue is such an opin- r
ion is well shown by the racing < < rre- :
spondent of the New South Wales I->ho, j
who saw Archer's face at the Derby, and t
Hm? ciAtr-n'hot; it: "it w'.as like that of a (
tnaii abont to l)e hnngcd?a duelist light- a
ing with a foe at once feared and hated r
?a man, in short, in any posiiit n of 1
awful strain, with the complex emotions \
of terror, hope and resolve. It w:>s all i
the observation of second; but it <'
brought home to ihe mind the abysmal ]
depths of life and death, exultant joy or s
horrible despair that underlie the gayetv
and the blare, the bright ilresxta, the s
smiling women, the popping of cham- 3
pagne bottles, ami the vacuous noise of t
Epsom race course." After this there t
would seem to be nothing for it bat to \
start a Jockey's Ecsc.ie Society.?Pall
Mail Gazette. n
Ti:r. of i{i:ii:iii-.\
Quinine, ll.o alkaloid of cinchona thai is (
most largely used in medicim*. is now 'o\v- :
ir in price-than it has ever before hecn }? ! t
the history of its manufacture. When < on- | ^
UToss removed ihe im^ri tin:y on ihe va- j .
lious s.,l? 01 quinine in July, ls7'->. the | <
price of sulphate vf?ji?ini:ip. of American .
manufacture, was x3.:;3 jn-r mince in hulk, j '
hut since thai date the j-j lo. w ith the ex : '
ecptiou iif u i'r-.v iiiultt ihietuaiiocs, has 1j
steadily ?. ended downward, unlit at the '
present lime the American >iru-- y^uoiedh
at Os cents per ouuro in hulk, while tin*' *
foreign article is quotcl ;il about four crnts j 1
per ounce less. ' ]
\
j
TiiK i'iilXCES AS THEY ARE.
>Ki:T< Hr> OF T1IK BOX VP ARTISTS Til K
Hr.ri r.-. in.-.
I'tdK-Pio:! Too >!; < !! of a <'o?nrd lo Eter <ii\r
ilaltlc?!Juv. LouN nnd I'rince Victor
\|>{i?'arivl in School !>i?vs.
The proposed French law for the expulsion
of the princes of noble blood
draws ihe attention of the world to the
.-trango political situation of France as it
is to-day and lias been for six or seven
years. Tlii! republic established at the
close of the Franco-Prussian war feels
iiiciiniiivi vrifl) flip IllV-tmi /lr>VS t.O t.llf!
Ui,;VVlUC
throne within its borders, and fears that
through some intrigue the present government
may he overthrown, though
none of the pretenders can actually count
upon a sufliciently large following to
dare to take any decisive stop.
The Orleanist party is rich, but not
wry numerous and far from active. The
monarchical party is iii favor of a king
by divine right, but has none to go to.
f*' ^ ^ li
-LJJC? illl'iiiuurs ui lui.^ panj ua>c uccjll
brought up to hate and despise tlie house
of Orleans, yet the elder branch having
fallen, the hated head of that family is
ilso the heir of Henry V. and of all their
kings. They prefer the republic, prefer
.my thing to having the grandson of Louis
Philippe and the great-grandson of
"Louis Egalite" profane the throne of
Louis.
"The strongest party, the Bonapartists,
want an empire, but are much in
the same position as the Monarchists.
I'he heir of the great Napoleon is the
hated Plon-Plon, the most unpopular
man personally m an j? ranee. jsesiaes
this, it is objected, his father married a
German princess, he an Italian. Many
irdent Imperialists say that they can
iven place no hopes in the sons of a man
ike that until they have proven themselves
possessed of the virtues that enleared
the founder of their family to the
French. Had the young son of Xapoeou
III. iived, they si y lie would surely
lave become emperor, but the brave,
landsome boy went to his death in
Zululand to gain a little gloiy, and by
lis last acts endeared his memory to the
learts of his countrymen.
It is probable that if the bill expelling
lie French princes should become a law
he majority of the exiles will seek an
tsylum in the United States. The Comte
le Jt'ans, who served ciurmg our civu
var iu tlie Army of the Potomac, has al cady
been cabled an invitation to come
)ver by some over by some of bis old
inny comrades, and it is fully expected
hat be will come. The Comte bas many
riende 011 this side of the Atlantic, and
lis literary labors in the revision of his
listory of the civil war would be facili- j
ated by coming here. Prince Jerome
Napoleon has expressed himself on sev;ral
occasions during the past few years
is anxious to come to this country, and
vill doubtless avail himself of the excelent
opportunity for traveling offered by
l forcible expulsion from France. Prince
'L-vome is, in his every tastes and char
lift UJliUICXlt XXKJ11X c Il'J 1XJL&V
sapoleon as one man can be from another,
His cowardice made him cut such a
idiculous iigm-e during the Crimean
var that Hie soubriquet of PlonP]on he
von then has stuck to him ever since,
le takes after the founder of his family
n but one respect, his personal appearmce.
Of this resemblance Prince Jerome j
s very proud; he is rather taller than j
he "iittle corporal" and is just about as
leshy as his famous uncle was in his later
years. His cheeks and lips are closey
shaven and liis features large and
atlier handsome. No one who is
amiliar with the pictures of Napoleon I.
vould fail to recognize his lineaments in
lie face of his heir.
Prince Jerome is a polished man of
etters, studious and thoughtful by naure,
liberal in his religious views, exremely
fond of good living and pleasant
lompany. He has an unusual aptitude
or language?, speaks well half a dozen
dioms. and is interested in anything ap
jertaing to j>liilology or etymology. Jble
las written several volumes, -which have
uet with uniform success, and has rankid
among the leading savants of his
ountry. He is fond of the company of
iterary men, and likes to walk along
he streets slowly, with his Lands behind
>ack, his head erect, discussing books
.nd authors. Though by nature an
sisy-going man, of pleasant disposition,
le has never been able to get along with
he members of his own family. His
[uaiTcls with liis wife, largely on religous
grounds, as she is a devout Roman
Catholic, attracted as much attention
ome years ago as did his difficulty with
lis eldest son, Princc Victor, which reulted
in a complete separation, more
ecently.
Loth of the sons of Prince Napoleon
nay come to this country when they are
ixpellcd, and it is certain that Prince
actor, who is now making a tour of the
i'orlu; will be here soon. Some six or
even years ago both of the young men
rere students at the Lyece du Yauves,
ormerly known as the. Lycee dn Prince
niperial, situated just outside the walls
>f Paris. The writer was at the time at
lie Lycee, having been for four years in
/.locc oc "Pvinr>r> T.nnis Tll?
lie DUllie Vitloo M.-o J. A
ildor Prince was a tall, raw-boned boy
if nearly six feet in height. He had
>een growing fast for several years, and
le was rather clumsy in appearance, but
ras very strong physically and quite an
.thlete. His features were heavy and
athcr coarse, his hair always cut short,
lis upper lip shaded by a slight dark
nustache. He was scrupulously neat in
lis dress, and was inclined to hold liimelf
aloof from his classmates who were
ather inclined to ridicule Lini. He did
?1 ?-*4- +1*T :io lovrro mo_
IUI UUctJLU iit LUC JJ > vtt?j MO
oritv of tl'e students (lid, but lived at
he house of one of the professors, Mr.
Juvillier, a friend of his father, who
.ccompanied him to and from the place
icarly every day and assisted him with
lis lessons. Professor Cuvillier usually
valked up and down the corridors durng
the recess hours, tramping up and
lown slowly with his pile of books'under
lis arm. Victor w?s an. intelligent
cholar. but not bright. His mind was
.f a rather heavy order, and while he
coined to work quite hard he rarely held
, better rank in his cla?s than about half
vay. In mathematics and history he
Viir-i unusuauy sumious ami aiways svuuu
veil.
Prince Louis wtvs by l'ar the handsomer
,nd more clever of the two. Of medium
icight, with finely moulded features, a
jure dark complexion, 1 >right eyes and
veil proportioned body, he was in looks
in ideal prince. Tie had none of the
nn.nly qualities, however, that would enhu.se
his fellow countrymen. Ho was
rery much like his father in one respect.
hat of coward'ec. He invariably j)rovetl |
limsi'lf timid as a little girl, and coukl!
put tu flight by the slightest indica
.ion of hostility. While the majority of
;he young men, iu his class played foot
>:<.ll :-ju1 other games he would quietly
>ueak into the playground and wait
iround near the door foj* some kindiiearted
fellow to come up and talk to
aim. Of a very retiring disposition, he
was apt to seek refuge in flight if the
crowd approached him. His great delight
was to walk up and down with some
other young man, braiding elaborate
castles in the air; a few words of praise
would elate him as highly as any harsh- j
ness would deject him. He was by nature
light-hearted and bright, but woful-'
ly lacked application. He had at the j
+i'virtA oe nit/i nlwnt Aivtr-vipil :1? i
- - - -
most Frenchmen have, ami lie often J
asked the Americans at the Lyeee most i
absurd questions abont theiv country. |
Ho was very grateful to the writer for
having protected him from the roughness
of his classmates on one or two occasions,
and in the plans he made for the
time tliat his family was to return to
power he invariably included the writer,
to whom he said he intended to give one
of the highest positions in the land.
Louis' laziness caused him a great cleai
of tronble in liis studies. Pie invariably
putoffliis work until the last moment
possible, and then rushed through with
it carelessly. He frequently appeared in
the class-room without having looked at
his lessons. He would take his seat a
short time before the professor arrived,
and try to make up for lost time. He
had a faculty for committing Latin and
Greek to memory, and could get a fair
idea of what he fiad to recite in a few
minutes, but he forgot the lines as quickly
almost as he learned them. On
Thursday mornings, which were devoted
to competitions between the students for
rank in the different studies, after the >
subject had been given out, Louis would I
generally sit for an hour or more idly I
looking at the paper before him, or mak-1
in nr roiifrh and iioor sketches over his
o O? JT
books. When lie finally got down to
work, his sole idea appeared to be to
riisli it through in any manner he
could. One day when the competition
was in Latin verse on a subject given out
by the professor, Louis only managed to
grind out one verse during the two and
a half hours allowed to work. The two
Americans in the class had rather the
faculty for grinding out "machine"
verses* rapidly, and stood respectively
first and second in the class, and Louis
professed to warmly admire their
"talent." He assured the writer that
"when he became Emperor" he would
appoint mm "juatm poet exiraoxuxuiirv
to tlie Court."
Both of the young Princes Napoleon
are very pleasant socially, jmd if they
conclude to come to live "here they will
become social Hons.
Nicholas Piddle.
A XEW STRIKE.
Dr. Talmage Wonts Laborers for AicoJio!
to Quit Work.
Tlie Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon
last Sunday in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
on the poverty among the working
classes caused by the use of intoxicating
liquors. Dr. Talmage introduced his
sermon by saying that there ought to be
more public fountains, where persons on
I the street could get pure cold water.
"In Persia," said he, '-under the reign
' T^.iw'nc TTvrcvfocrrvic: +TiA r>r>mVlr* ilirl nni*
I VI JL/aiiUO JLXJ-W1V ?svvj?/?.v w*v? *?vv
prosper. They made money, but did
not keep it. "Wliat lias become of the
billions and billions of dollars paid to
the working classes in this country?
Some of it lias gone for the necessities
of life, but most of it has been wasted in
foolish outlay, wasted at the gaming
table and in intoxicants. The most persistent,
most overpowering enemy of the
working classes is intoxicating liquor.
It is the anarchist of the centimes, and
has boycotted, and is boycotting, the
body, mind and soul of American labor.
Within three hundred yards of the ^ands
Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn,
there arc fifty-four saloons, and another
is under preparation. Stand the saloons
of this country side by side, and it is
carefully estimated tliey would reach
from New York to Chicago. "While the
ordinary strikes arc ruinous, I proclaim
a universal strike against strong drink,
which, if kept up, will be a relief to the
working classes and the salvation of the
American nation. I will undertake to
say that there is not a healthy laborer in
the United States who, within the next
twenty years, if he will refuse all intoxicating
beverage and be saving, may not
become a capitalist.
. "When you deplete a working-man's
physical energy you deplete his capital.
The stimulated workman gives out before
the unstimulated workman. A
Ui.JLOJL ^ltv.0 JUULO tAJiyVilencc
in this matter among men in Lis
employ. He said: 'The beer drinker
who made the fewest bricks turned out
60S), 000, the abstainers who made the
fewest bricks counted up 746,000. The
difference in behalf of the abstainer over
the indulger was 87,000.' When the .
Russians go to war a corporal passes
along the line and smells the breath of
each soldier. If there be in liis breath a
taint of intoxicating liquor the man is '
sent back to the barracks. Why? He (
cannot endure fatigue. All our young
men know this. "When they are prepar- ,
iug for an athletic event they abstain.
Our working people will be wiser after
awhile, and the money they thrpw away ;
on hurtful indulgences they will put into
co-operative associations and so become
capitalists."
Dr. Talmage has arranged to go to the
Thousand Islvs June 2fi with GOO of his :
congregation. They will travel in parlor
and sleeping coaches and will be gone
three days.
i?iur\tt(iun * lines in me cviiiii.
Even as early as the Spring of 1803
the question of food had come to be a
serious one 'with the Confederacy, leading
the Richmond Enquirer to say: "The
custom of three meals a day should be
abandoned, two are amply sufficient; it
is a habit?this eating three meals a day,
and, at present, a bad habit. We can
accustom oiirselves to two meals, and to
two light meals at that, and it is a duty
we owe to the cause. It is nearly as bad
4./-V ?<->4- O4-r\ r*r\4- *n/?T> TT'llllo WOT
W gJLKJW XOtV ao t\/ liv/u v^a?j ?. %**
is being waged." Speaking of tlic high
price of board, the Richmond Examiner
of Marcli G, in the same year, says: "Not
less than 1-i of the- largest boarding
houses in Richmond have closed their
doors the present week to table boarders
on account of the scarcity and unprecedented
high prices of all the necessaries
of life, and more will follow their example
soon. At the large hotels the price
of board and loding per diem is $6, and
if prices continue to advance in the i
same ratio in the future as they have in j
the past, boarding will advance to slO a
day."
A Legal Uuestiau.
A Trial Justice refuses to issue warrants
to compel defendant's witnesses to attend
ill vooco \yi. j/x ?7j? uiv/ >;uicv., ^v.v,^<l i
for felony. And the County Commissioners
refuse to pa}' Sheriff's accounts agaiust j
i i ie County fur serving subpoena's un ?lci
fendani's witnesses in such cases. If the
| defendants arc unable to pay the Sheriff for
! such services, how is he to get his [<uy. and i
! can lie l>e compelled to render such -ervice I
without pay, is a legal question which !
should Ik; settled.?Lano.'M-:r lienc
It is somewhat singular luat ail tinhomely
girls arc poor. JNo one ever s?w a
1 homely heiress. '
THAT 150I\I>\RY-LI\E.
WiSi \ortli Carolina <?et a Slice of Our
Territory.
(From the Rilfigh News-Observer.)
Mr. Arthur Winslow, engineer, has
completed tlie field work of Ms survey
of the disputed boundary between North
QIMI+II /"^wOino ayi 4-1^/a ^
v_/?; 11'i i ?v 11 v l > j\j \ in; vaiwiiua< v/xx uu\./ juuiv
between Mecklenburg and Lancaster
conn tics. He spent three weeks in making
the survey, the work being done by
direction of Capt. S. B. Alexander, of
Charlotte, the commissioner on the part
of North Carolina. The survey was
made some years ago by the South Caroiina
commissioner. He made a compass
survey. Mr. Winslow's survey was what
is technically known as a venier survey,
in which a venier and theodolite were
used and the exact course was taken
from the stars. Numerous errors and
variations were discovered in the old
survey. In all Mr. Winslow Trent over
thirty miles of line. Tlie greater part
of the country is fine fanning land, but
near the Catawba river there is some
land almost mountainous in its roughness.
In a distance of five hundred feet
there arc valleys ono hundred and fifty
feet in depth. By 3Ir. Winslow's survey,
made with the greatest care and
accuracy, he states, about seven thousand
acres of land heretofore claimed as
South Carolina territory, are part and
parcel of North Carolina. Most of the
people in this territory Mr. Winslow
found to be very well pleased with the
change which throws them into Mecklmrg.
They are in a strip of country
far from Lancaster, the county seat of
the county of that name. By the change
of counties and States they get within
tivn nv f.Tvr-1 vp nn'loc nf <"Vhov1/"v(~f<i oik
now county seat. Of course some of the
residents in the territory do not like to
leave South Carolina, on account of old
associations, etc. Mr. Winslow will
to-day begin to make up the maps, etc.,
from his survey. The papers will all be
placed in the "Governor's hands. It is
probable that a board of arbitration will
be required to adjust matters satisfactorily
in all respects.
The Fishery Quarrel.
The Yankee fury over the fishery question
find* little echo in the West. The
Omaha Bee declares that the people out
that way have no disposition to go to
war to maintain the rigiit of the United
States to tax Canadian fish landed in this
country, while claiming for their own
fishermen the free use of Canadian fishing
grounds. It declares that "the New
England representatives misjudge the
temper of this section of the country if
they imagine that sensible citizens will
lasli themselves into fury over the question
whether the products of free ocean
are to be taxed when brought into ports
^y fiiendly neighbors." The Bee declares
that we have no one but ourselves
fr? l\1omn tf li -foilnro +/% tatiaxr?
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fishery treaty. Jt will' l>e well for the
East to study tlie attitude of the West
on this subject before trying to bring
about a war. This is a big country, ana
u question must be a pretty broad one
to make it "fighting mad" all over at
once.
A&'tiu Afraid of the Fenians.
Militia circles \rere, yesterday, reported
in*a state of considerable excitement,
a rumor prevailing that the Fenians?
owing to the failure of 3Ir. Gladstone's
home rule policy?were preparing for an * |
immediate raid over the Canadian
frontier. The rumor?after examination
bv our reporter?ai wears to have verv
little iii it.* It seems"that an officer from
one of tlie frontier counties came to
town yesterday to make arrangements
for the summer camp in -his vicinity.
While so doing he stated to several Montreal
ofiiccrs that he had incontestable
evidence to the effect that the Fenians
v. ere hard at work in Boston drilling for
a raid into Canada, and that they were,
moreover, to be assisted by the aggrieved
fishermen of Maine. * Our reporter
visited the ofiicers in charge of the Fifth
District, in whose territory the country
said to be threatened lies, and was informed
that no credence was being
placed hi the story.?Montreal (Canada)
Witness, June 11.
The Continent's Smallest Newspaper.
The smallest newspaper on the conti
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u'jiit is jmviosueu iii v_j uucuuuja.ru, Jiexico,
the capital of tlie State of Jalisco, and
one of the leading cities of the republic.
The El Telegrama, a copy of which was
shown us by Major Hilder, the energetic
commissioner to the World's Exposition,
in this city, from Missouri, Is a fourpage
weekly, five by three inches in size,
and, as may well be fancied, is a marvel
in the way of condensation. The motto
of the paper, as translated, reads: "Little
straw and much wheat." The condenser
of either the New York or Balti
Liiuxu >jun huiuu luxii yreeu wiui envy
after takii.g a glimpse at tliii; really wonderful
little Mexican sheet. The" price
of the paper per week is one cent. At
the bottom of the first page is printed
the following: "Responsible?LinaLnna,
R. G. Fuentes, printer." The copy in
band contains five small advertisements.
?New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Tar and Feathers and Drums.
Omaua. Xeb., June 15.?An exciting tar
and feather affair occurred at Rush villein
northwest Nebraska on Sunday. A man
named Iken. a lawyer and land agent, was
the victim, Iken had made himself disliked
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their confidence and then contesting their
claims by means of information thus surreptitiously
obtained. A number of his
victims took him from his office, stripped
liim and applied a coat of tar and feathers,
forcing him at the muzzle of revolvers to
assist in decorating himself. He "was then
marched through the street in broad daylight
to the music of drums, which headed
I lie procession. Finally he was ordered to
leave the country, and proceeded to do so
us soon as he could get the tar and feathers
:jfT himself.
The Destruction of a City by Fire.
Xkw Westminster, B. C., June 15.?
The city of Vancouver, situated at, the
Pacific end of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
is in ashes. Xot a half dozen houses
remain of live hundred, and the 'worst of
all there is ;i large loss of life. Ten bodies
thus far have been recovered and a number
of persons are missing, supposed to have
perished. ()ne* short hour did the whole
work. Tlf property saved is insignificant.
A "clean >v. ?ep'' defines the situation. A
thousand men are at work clcarin^up the
del iris for t.lio r-iiliwirl mmwn,.
contracts for rebuilding have already been
let. Many men lost their all, but are determined
to start again. The property loss
falls directly on the pioneer element of the
new city. Hundreds of people are camped
out.
The K t> cm band of Cherokee Indiana is
now static: ::: six States, the hulk of the
trine having tl-.cir home in North Carolina.
In sjwaim ami other Western Counties
thc-e Indians have a reservation of seventythree
thoii^iiii! aci\ s. for which they hold a
deed of irw-t. L'(>on this vast tract they live
somewhat in common, cultivating and
olh'-rwi-i: u -ii:g the land :ts each deems
Ti c whole number of Clwrokees bcf"
the Eastern band is 3,029. Of
these I.I are in Nortli Carolina, 750 in
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oi-j ui i ana evzht in JNoy
Jersey.
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