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Oregon has hate 'old men. One of I
them, the Hon. R. C. Geer, of Waldo, I
aged seventy years, recently 4 'mowed, "
the account says, one acre of wheat and
oats in two hours and twenty minutes.
Fast work for even a young man.
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Statistics, more or less accurate, show
that John Bull is by no means the beef
eater that he is cracked up to be. Englishmen
eat but an average of forty-five
pounds a year, while the Australians
average 130 pounds, and citizens of the
United States 130 pounds.
It is suggested that a reunion of the
dethroned?or uncrowned?royal personages
of Europe would be an interesting
event. The group would include
Isabella and Don Carlos, of Spain; Eugenie,
"Plon-Plon," anil the Count de
Paris, of France; the Duke of Cumberland
(King of Hanover), and Alexander
of Bulgaria.
A statistic gatherer volunteers this information:
Baltimore has fewer colored
people than New Orleans, and 5,000
more than Washington. Baltimore and
"Washington together have 102,000 colored
people, and Philadelphia has 32,000;
Richmond, Virginia, 28,000; the
little city of Petersburg, 12,900; Charleston,
27,000; Louisville, 21,000; New
York city, not 20,000.
A well-known married lady in Grant
County, Oregon, according to a paper
from that neighborhood, has during the
past spriog and summer done a good job
of farming. "When plowing time came
this enterprising mother constructed a
box on the plow in which to carry her
baby, and thus she plowed the ground.
She then proceeded to harrow, plant and
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and in this -way h:is produced a fine crop,
and is now engaged in carting the truck
to a neighboring town and disposing of
it. What can beat this?
A well-digger in Osco, 111., found a
hollow log twenty-eight fect below the
surface of the ground and in the log a
vigorous frog. It has been scarcely a
week since that fro? was blasted out of a
solid rock in Nevada and a little more
than a fortnight since some philanthropist
released him from a cake of ice in
Vermont. And yet we recognize him as
the same old frog that has been turning
up for twenty years or more in similar
predicaments in all pirts of the country.
The only thing about him that has
struck us as peculiar is how he manages
to get over so much territory at such
short intervals.
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More and more Japanese are coming to
this country every year, aud they are
usually of an excellent order. They arc
mostly between fifteen and twenty-five
years old, and of the middle class, such
?? ^Am ol\Ar\l'AnnAi>? of/i All nf
them are to an extent educated when
they arrive, in consequence of the compulsory
law of educat'on in the empire.
Their chief object in comiug is to gain a
^complete education and to etudy the J
manners and customs of the Republic, !
which they rightly regard as very practical.
A large part of thim, on their return,
obtain remunerative employment;
the fact that they have served an apprenticeship
in the United States putting
a premium on their services. According
to the New York Commercial Advertiser,
"the bulk of Japanese on our soil will
compare most favorably with the native i
inhabitants ^f the rame grade. They
are, as a rule, far more gentle, considerate,
polite and wonderfully apt in ac.
quiring new ideas. They have made 1
more progress in the last half century
than any people under the sun." (
The slow but sure precesses of the 1
last few years looking to th3 extinction 1
of the American buffalo have been a !
source of regret. The National Museum
r?:lizis? that the mattei j !
of extinction was merely h question ot
time,recently sent the chief taxidermist,
Mr. William T. Homaday, to obtain ,
specimens for preservation before it was
too late. It is believed by the best authorities
that there arc not more than 100
buffaloes in the whole of Montana outBide
of the National Park, where there
are probably 200 or 300. The party
started from Fort Keogh, crossed to Big
Dry River, and then followed Big Timber
Creek and Mussel Shell River. It
was believed that by so doing all of the
buffalo feeding-ground would be traversed.
A email herd of a dozen or more
is known to be in Southwestern Dakota.
That the buffalo has paactically disappeared
from our prarics may be inferred
from the above. Skins of buffalo heads
are now held by Dakota taxidermists
at $50 each, and it ii safe to assume
that they have given up hopes
of obtaining more. Mr. Ilomaday has
been quite successful in his trip and has
secured some specimens for the museum.
It s a wonder that some step? are not i
taken by private or public enterprise to 1
preserve from utter extinction an animal 1
sy useful. It is said that the quality of
the hair can be greatly improved by cultivation
and proper breeding, and it
would seem that some steps taken in time
might prove most advantageous ultimately.
In this connection Sciene: notes
that Mr. S. L. Bedson of Manitoba be- <
came possessed of a young buffalo bull
and four heifer calves, which have so increased
that he now has eighteen
bulls, twenty-five cows, and eighteen
calves, which are all thoroughbred'. On j
crossing with ordinary cattle tlic halfbreed
possesses the characteristics of the
thoroughbred, save color. On crossing
a thoroughbred bull with half-breed
cows he has grown three-quarter breeds
closely resembling the buffalo, the head
and lobes being the equal if not superior.
Experiments to improve the flesh are
now in course, and it is expected to fully
develop in the new animal the strong
soiats of noble head, pelt, and flc6h.
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The Xenia (Ohio) Gazette proudly an- (
nounces that in that neighborhood twenty
adjoiiiiag farms arc the property of a9
many widows. A person could begin at
sunrise, and, by steady walking from one
farm to another keep going till late in
the day, and not in all that time place
his foot upon an acre of soil absolutely
owned by any man. These farms, in the
aggegate, comprise somewhere in the
neighborhood of 4,000 acres. With but
three exceptions the premises are occupied
by their respective owners.
An interesting and somewhat startling
assertion is made by a wrilcr in a French
agricultural paper. Ii'c has made a comparison
of animal and steam power, and
asserts that the former is the cheaper
power in France, whatever may be the
case in other countries. In the conver
sioa of chemical to incchanical energy,
ninety per cCnt. is lost in the machine,
against sixty-eight iu the animal. M.
Sanson, the writer above referred to,
finds that the steam horse-power, contrary
to what is generally believed, is
often materially exceeded by the horse,
and he believes that for moderate powers
the conversion of chemical into mechanical
energy ia more economically effected
through animals than through steam enengines.
The Tilden heirs have decided that it
would be 4he best plan to close Greystone
for awhile, and so the house in
which Mr. Tilden died has been put in
shape for the winter, and is now in the
hands of Mr. Tilden's old and faithful
servants, who have been in his employ
for years, while the family have returned
to their respective homes. It lias
not been decided yet what disposition
will be made of Greystone or the Gramcrcy
Park residence, and many are the
theories advanced as to their probable
disposition. A visit to the (emetery
shows that some kind hands have kept
Mr. Tildeu's gravo covered with flowers.
The monument will not be erectei
until next spring, as it will net be com1..<a
in ! */? nnfumn nr rfirlu
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in the winter.
"I was down in South Carolina during
all of the earthquake troubles," said a
commercial traveler, "and I never again
want to be a witness of such scenes as I
saw there. I'll not attempt to describe
the incidents to you?they have already
been sufficiently touched upon in the
papers. But there is one little phase of
tbe thing which the newspapers have not
even mentioned. You know business was
suspended in Charleston. All of the stores
excepting grocery and provision stores
were closed The banks were not open.
The theaters closed their doors. Even
the newspapers suspended publication
for an issue or two. But the day after
the fiist terrible quake I happened out by
the baseball grounds, and I'll be blamed
if there wasn't two clubs in there a-playing
and quite a crowd sitting on the
benches cheering the players. I looked
through a crack in the fcuce and just
then another earthquake shock came.
The umpire motioned to the players to
go right along, bat the pitcher who was
then in the box askel tj have the game
called for a few moments because the
home plate was wobbling so he couldn't
put the ball in straight. The umpire acceded
to this reasonable request, and after
a delay of ten minutes I heard the
umpire call out: 'Flay ball? batter up!'
Then I left, satisfied that bjecball is the
one American institution which even an
Earthquake can't knock out."
A Plucky Boy.
An Italian, h s wife, and little boy,
eight years old, were driving along '.he
Fo:o-tviile road, near Fulton, recently,
when the young member of the party
discovered a rattlesnake stretched at full
length by the side of the road. Before
his father could check him he hud
climbed down from the vehicle and
grabbed the reptile, fortunately close by
the head, and staited to climb into the
wagon again. His father stopped the
liCI-CS *!u* commanded the young man
to throw the snake away, but the boy
would not do it, in fact could not, for
the hideous thing had collectcd itself
around his arm and was wagging its tail
in his face, making music, blood-curdling
under the circumstances. By this
time the mother and futhcr were almost
wild with fr'gbt and anxiety for their
son's safety, but the little fellow did not
seem to mind it in the least, and held
the flat head within eight or ten inches
of his face and mocked the darting in
and out of the licry red tongue. Cautioning
his son to keep a tighter hold on
the snake, the father cliinbetl out of the
vehic-'c, and drawing his stiletto, took a
firm hold of the snake over his son's hand
and severed the head from the body and
unwound the latter from the boy's arm
and measured it. With the head the
snake measured three feet ten and onehalf
inches.?Santu livta (Cat.) Democrat.
The Lucky Horseshoe.
And now it is authoritatively stated
that the horseshoe is not the emblem of
good luck it has so long been supposed.
On the coutrary, it brings the reverse of
luck to people who treasure it. The
g.iperstititious will j>lease_take notice,
and cease to pick up this olTcnding piece
of iron wherever and whenever tiny
chance to sae it, as has long been their
custom. One of the greatc-t scamps on
record, a person who would have sold
his mother's fa'se teeth, if the "fit took
him," once said nothing on earth or in
heaven would prevent him stopping to
pitk up a horseshoe, for, if lie knew his
fortune was at stake should lie miss a
certain train, he would rather lose both
than pass this emblem by! It is melancholy
to acknowledge he was always a
lucky fellow till he died, and then who
can tell whethi-r he was or no ? At all
events lie left a large collection of horseshoes
of all sizes and conditions to mourn
his los', and hencefoith exercise their
thaumaturgical power in some neighboring
junk shop.?Bunion, Ilerultl.
Crippling Owls.
A farmer tells us that lie has for years
saved his chickens from the depredation
of hawks and owls by sharpening a
scythe blade and setting it on the end of
a pole, standing off at an angle of about
forty-live decrees. The birds of prey
wiil lifrht. on the blade, that trims off
their toes so that, they cannot curry off
fowls. Cne of these blades will also rid
a field of crows.?Athens ((7a.) Banner.
| LOST OH THE MISSISSIPPI.
A. Steamer's Boilers Explode
Near St. Louis.
i The Vessel Burned, and Many Persons
Killed or Injured,
Shortly after noon a few days since the
steamer La Mascotte, bound from Grand
Tower, 111., to Cape Girardeau, Mo., exploded
her boilers opposite Veely's Landing,
was burned to the water's edge and floated
nearly a milo below Willard's Landing,
J where it lodgeJ on the shore. First
j reports of the accident were very
meagre and a full list of the killed and
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i wouuuaa couia not uo uuimueu. jluo wn |
boat Eagle was within sight of La Mascotte
when the explosion took place aud rendered
valuable assistance, rescuing all who were
left alive. The Eagle took thirty-live persons
to Capo Girardeau.
Mo list of passengers could be obtained, as
the register is lost anil the excitement was
so iuteuse among the survivors of tiio olticers
and crew that no one could at first tcii who
was on board.
Among the lost are known to be Judga
Hager and wife, Miss Kreiger, William H.
Wheeler aud two children, and Frit* Laird,
all of Cape Girard.-au: Charle; Ansel, colored;
two chambermaids and an unknown
lady and two children. Tne bodies
of the last three and one chambermaid
were recovered aud taken to Capo Girardeau
on the Kaglo. S. R. Perkins, first clerk;
Miss Julia liobis'j, of Capo Girardeau, and
First Engineer l ortcr were supposed to I e
lost Of the crew of twenty-four fourt en
were saved, and the total loss of life was
placed at between eighteen and twenty-two.
Among the ladly injured wero Lena
Buchmann, daughter of Georgo Buchmann,
of Cape Girardeau, and Leon Adams, the
first mate. Among the saved wero Captain
J. B. Thompson, Henry Lowrey, st:ward;
James X. Donohoe, pilot: J. J. Hanlan, second
clerk, and D. C. Martzinger.
La Mascotte was a new boar, having been
built by Evansville (Ind.) parties during
the past summer at a cost of about
especially for the packet trade
between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau.
The patronage received was
more than satisfactory, the steamer making
tri-weekly trips with heavy loads of pacS3ngers
and freight. Capfciiu Thompson conj
sidered her remarkably fast. Sho loft St.
Louis at 4 o'clock the previous afternoon.
LATER NEWS,
Wages of .the miners in the Lehigh (Penn.)
coal region have been advanced two per
cent.
Four men were instantly killed and a fifth
fatally injured by an explosion of giant
powder near Deadwood, Dale.
Later reports put the number of dead by
the destruction of the Mississippi steamer La
Mascotte, near Cape Girardeau, Mo., at
twenty-two, with about fifteen persons missing.
General John B. Gordon has been
elected Governor of Georgia. There was no
opposition to the State ticket headed by
General Gordon.
Mrs. Cleveland returned to the White
House on the 6th after a few days' visit to i
Buffalo.
The White House is again besieged daily
by a host of visitors.
! A column of British troops sent to relieve
the surrounded garrison at Myotheit in Bur
1. nrt tViA jnnrrh the bodies of I
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several British messengers who had beea
crucified.
Prince Moltstaxi, a member of a wellknown
Neapolitan family, committed suicide
in Paris after seeing his name posted as a defaulter
at his club because of his failure to
pay his losses at gambling.
Four, more of the New York "Boodle"' Aldermen
of 1881 charge! with accepting
bribes for granting a charter to the Broadway
Hoive-car Compauy are about to bo
tried. Alderman Jaehne is serving out his '
sentence in Sing Sing, and several oth?rs of
the indicte 1 City Fathers have lied to Canada
or Europe.
Colorado Democrats have nominated
Rev. Myron W. Reed, a Congregational
preacher, for Congress.
The motion for a new trial in the case of
the eight Anarchists condemned to death at
Chicago has been denied.
Rohbers broke into a Catholic Church at
Notre Dame, Ind., and stole from the altar
two golden crown? of great value?one the
votive o ?"ering of the ex-Empress Eugenie,
the other the devotional gift of Mrs. General
Sherniau.
Pkairie fires have done immense damage
in Northern Dakota.
TiIK fifty-sixth semi-annual conference of
th3 M irraon Church, held at Coalville, Utah,
was atteuded by 40J delegates. The policy
of ths priojthooJ iu favor of polygamy was
vigorously upheld in a letter from First President
John Taylor, issued from his hiding
place.
OKS'erak Jackso.v, United States Ministor
to Mexico, having been recalled, has returned
with his wife to Savannah.
The Queen Rodent of Spain has signed a
docree frceiug the slaves in Cuba from the
remainder of their term of servitude.
Great prairie fires have bjeii ragiug in
Manitoba. Around Morden scores of settlers
have lost all they possessed, including
barns and live stock.
Friendly natives assaulted and carried
Tamai, Osman Digma's old stronghold in the
Soudan. Two hundred rebels were killed
and many prisoners were taken.
Senators Lafayette and General Grevy,
the French President's brother, will represent
the French Senate at the ceremonies attending
the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty
at New York.
PARDONED_BY MISTAKE.
Spanish Itebels Owe Their Lives t
an Official Blnndcr.
Tbe true story of tin pardoning of the
Spanish insurgent leaders has just leaked out,
says a London dispatch. At a meeting of
the Cabinet in Madrid it was resolved that
the dea'.u S3ntence or IU9 court marwai
should bo confirmed. An under secretary
to whom Premier Sagasta
whispered the dejision misunderstood tha
hurried remark, and going out annouuced
to the crowd which had assembled t-j await
the verdict that the prisoners had been pardoned..
Tiie newspaper men rushed off and
telegraphed the news to all parts of the
country.
Senor Sagasta, as scon a? he learned of the 1
mistake of the Under Secretary, despaired of j
stopping the telegrams, but sent a cor re -tion
to all the newspapers. The press, however. |
did not believe in the correction,thinking that '
the Cabinet wished to keep the pardon se ret 1
until after ths convening of the Queen's |
Council,and published the pardon as autlien
tic. The Secretary's blunder has saved the
insurgents' lives.
At a Spanish Cab:net Council Quean *
Christina signed a decree commuting the j
sentences of the condemned insurgents. They
are the military officers who took part in the 1
iccent uprising at Madrid.
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Mrs. Stexa Jones, who died in East i
Carondclet, Mo., a fow days ago, had lived
115 years. Uf her fivo sons and fourteen
daughters all grew to maturity, and it is said
that each one was six feet or over iu height. '
Mrs. Jones outlived all but Ave of her nineteen
children.
Is the recent Knights Templar parade at ]
St. Louis M. \V. Peyton S. Coles, Grand i
Ma&tjr ot' Virginia, wore tha original sash i
and apron presented to Brother George <
Washington by Brother Lafayette. ?!
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
a circular issued on the 1st by Grand
Master Workman Powderly, of the Knight?
of Labor, and d irected to tne coal operators
in the Hazeltou (Penn.) district, demanded
an iucrease in the price of wages of the coal
operatives.
The fishing schooner Stockbridge, Captain
Olseu, of Gloucester, Mass., with a crew of
sixteen men, is missing, aud it is feared has
been lost, witli nil hands.
Otto Bacma :?n, receiving toller of the New
York Dime Savings Bank, has disappeared
with $20,000 of ".hat institution's funds.
Five more convicts were legally whipped
at Wilmington, Del.
The body of John EL Heine, a Knight of
Labor, was burned the other day in the Buffalo
(N.Y.) furnace. This makes the ninth
cremation at th is crematory.
rinrmionKPiTTTenM nf Panngvlgflnin in
a letter to Attorney General Cassidy, calls
attention to the alleged illegal action of the
Anthracite and Trunk Line pools in raising
the price of coaJ, and requests that legal action
be taken against the various railroads
forming the pooL
Merrill S. Holway, City Treasurer of
Chelsea, Mass., while temporarily insane
committed suicide.
A laroe crowd of workingmen gathered
at the Cooper Institute in New York, a few
nights ago,to rutify the nomination of Henry
George for Mavor. There was much enthusiasm,
and rolls of paper containing 34,000
signatures pledged for George were exhibited.
The New Jersey Republican State Convention,
held ic. Trenton, nominated Benjamin
Franklin Howey for Governor, and
adopted a platform which arraigns tho National
Administration and favors the submission
of the liquor question to the votes of
the people.
South and West.
Charles Edwards (colored) was hanged
in New Orleans for the murder of He3ter
Brown (colored).
Two Mexican policemen chased a fugitive
over the Rio Grande River into El Paso,
Texas, and after shooting and wounding
him, kidnapped him back into Mexico.
A heavy snow storm prevailed on the 1st
at Sheboygan, Mich.
F. S. Harris, owner of a grist mill near
Quincy, Fla., an* his miller, named Buckley,
were barged to a tree by unknown parties.
They were suspected of setting fire to another
man's mill.
The Texas cotton crop has been greatly
damaged by bad weather.
Tom Farrer, charged with murder, was
taken from jail at Throckmorton, Texas, by
lynchers and hanged to a tree.
R. P. Wallace, the murderer of the Logan
family of Ave persons?father, mother
and three children?was taken from jail at
Steelville. Mo., bv a crowd of men and
lynched.
Washington.
The total coinago for September was
$5,070,855, of which $2,070,81(5 was gold and
$2,027,185 silver; balance minor coins.
Postmasters appointed by the President:
Walstine P. Eddy,at Columbus. Kan.; Noble
P.Howard, Jr., at Greenfield, Ind.; John
W. Hingeley, at Barnesville, Ohio.
The President bas directed the suspension
of Bei thold Greenebaum, United States Consul
at Apia, Samoa.
The distribution of the new $1 silver certificates
bas bagun.
Mru Benedict, the newly appointed Public
Printer, has been making large reductions
in the force of the Public Printing Office.
Additional appointments by the President:
James A. Hanlon, of New York, to
be Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2*th
District of New York. Postmasters: Conrad
Durkes, Franklin Grove, 111.; Edward
Fay. Mooreliead, Minn.; S. S, Harvey, C'entreville,
Ark.; John Hornestein, Booae,
Iowa; G. G. llodman, Washington, Iowa;
D. W. Neagley. Millersburg, Penn.
JThere are now outstanding $10,130,052 in
standard silver dollars, being the largest
amount ot tliat coin in circulation snice their
issue began.
Foreign.
Violent earthquake shocks have occurred
throughout Thuringia and other parts of
Central Germany.
The state of siege which lias been maintained
in Russia since the assassination of
Czar Alexander II. ha>, by an imperial decree,
been continued in ten provinces,including
St. Petersburg aud Moscow.
A frightful explosion lias occurred at a
colliery, near Wakefield, England. Seven
men have been found dead, eight have been
rescued and seventeen are missing. In all j
probability the missing seventeen lost their
lives.
Pi rates all* ked the escort of the
French Tonquin Frontier Commission, killing
two officers and eleven men.
Two men convicted of murder were guillotined
t be other day in Paris.
Gekep.al Villacampa and five other
officers con vie tod of taking part in the recent
military uprising at Madrid were condemned
to death.
All of the Spanish revolutionists who
were sentence! to death have been pardoned.
A rn1ciuii/< or.infinn ha? fvfnrrfvl nn the !
isla nd of Niapi., one of the Tonga group in
the Pacific Oce in. Tho whole island is now
covered wilh volcanic dust to a depth of
twenty feet. Every village on the island,
which has a population of 500, has be9n destroyed.
The inhabitants escaped.
CHOLERA VICTIMS,
Terrible Scenes in a Stricken District
of Austro-Hunjjary.
Tho cholera is slowly but firmly taking its
seat in tho Austro-Hungarian monarchy, tcF
egrapks tlie Vienna correspondent of the
LOUUOIl iVCtfS. JLUIH'geCiV ILioaouitsi u?vc
now been ta :en in Pola to prevent its
spreading further. In Buda-Pesth
there have been eight new cases.
Ten persons ill of cholera, are lying in the
barrack hospital, aud several more in private
horses. One n lan died half an hour after being
taken ill; but it is worse in Lie, a village
near Agram. Out of 'J00 inhabitants ninety
werp taken ill, twentv-eight having died almost
immediately. Tie uncultivnt? 1 people
distrust all din iors and OOUCeal their sick
brethren as long as they can. When the great
number of casus made concealment impossible
the d x-tor who came to look after tbein
was received with volleys of stones. The
people refuse to help each other. Wherever
cholera appears the house is immediately isolated.
A commission goes from houso to
house to ascertain the number of ca-os aud
to pro.'ure help. In oue house they discovered
a mother and daughter on the bare floor,
both writhing i n agonies. A little boy stocd
near crying, but not attempting to seek help.
Alter opening another door in the same
house the commission ifound tho father, who
had died of cholera, on tho old hearth with
the dead bod}- of his tweotv-year-old son
flung ovor him. It is almost impossible to
make tho peop'e believe that the doctors are
not the originators of tho epidemic. The entiro
population is deep in misery, because the
traffic with Flame, their only resource, has
be?u intermuttiJ.
AMERICAN SILK CULTURE.
LIIIll rt 1 IsmoiivM' V > 1 niiiii M ?- I
meats with Native Cocoons.
At its last session Congress made an appropriation
to enable tha Commissioner of Agriculture
to test the most, improved machinery |
[or converting silk co?oons into raw silk.
The Commissioner is no;v setting up in oue
the department bui]>iiugs of Wn-hiuglon
?i.x Serrell automatic silk reels, which he proposes
to operate during the comng year.
The Commissioner some time ao;o issued a
circular fc > cocc.on raisers, informing them of
his readiness to purchaso their products.
These coco. in.s are no v.- being receive i generally
in small lots. Somo of them are pronounced
by tho expert Italian employe! by
the Agricultural Department to be better
thnn the Europenn average. Last year we
imported, duty free, nearly &JO,OU.).OiiO worth
of t eeled silk. I f the cocoons which entered
into this silk had been pro iuced in this country
it would have added $o!>,000,00.1 to tho
income of our farmers, and would have
re juired nearly l-.UO) persons to operate
the machinery ne essury to convert thi>m
into raw silk. Tho department officials hope
for tho ultimate success of their efforts to
lomoustrate the practicability of reeling the
iilic economi a ly in tho United Statea.
KNlgHTS OF LABOR
Opening of the Tenth Annnal
Convention in Richmond.
Addresses of Governor Lee and Masfor
W nrlrm o n /m?1 rr
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The tenth annual convention of the
Knights of Labor of the United States
opened at Richmond, Va., on the 4th, with a
large attendance. When Master Workman
Powderly opened the convention, in the armory
of the First Virginia Regiment, he
looked upon the faces of a thousand delegates
from every part of the country, representative
of a million men and women. White
and black faces,tho faces of men and women,
met his view. Governor Lee appeared a ;
moment later,and was received with applause
The Governor made a speech of welcome. He
was always glad to welcome strangers and |
was pleased that such numbers of them have
now the opportunity of ascertaining for
themselves that Virginia is marching on in a !
new era of prosperity. He reminded his
hearers that the impulse of the Revolution
was given from Virginia's colonial capital.
The future glory and greatness of the country
will be assured "if justice and order,
peace and good-will shall alwaysabide in onr
midst.'' Of the more immediate past Gov.
Lee said:
"The Cons'itution under which we live has
now borne the test of war; troublesome and
unadjusted questions were submitted to the
sword and by the sword they have b2en decided.
Wo, of the South, placed a different'
interpretation upon the terms of that instrument
from that held by the North, but bow
in submission to the settlement thus decreed;
and now, having with all other
sections a common Hag, a common country,
a common Government and a common
destiny, are as much interested in the prospective
grandeur of these United States as
they. The wisdom of the founders of the
Bepublic is vindicated to-day by tha verdict
of tho nations of Europe, where the power
of the privileged classes is being gradually
transferred to the bands of the people.
'But what class of capitalists are opposing
you and whoso (ourse is injurious to the
Mines marked out by the founders of the Republics'
I divide capitalist; into t'.vo kinds,
and will go with you and give the command,
'forward,' and fight by your side against
one of these classes. Make war against
incorporated rascality and we will
help you t'j ride it down. Combat
great moneyed corporations that seeli to control
your legislatures. Federal and State, by
bribery and corruption in order that they
may get votes in the Federal halls of
legislation to perfect and fasten upon
the whole country legislation for their
benefit and not for the benefit of
the people at large. We will march
shoulder to shou Ider with you in that. Draw
the fangs from the money kings who seek to
take possession of the great telegraph lines
of the country and deflect them from th3ir
legitimate purpose by controlling them to
defeat the will of afree people in an attempt
to defraud the whole country of their constitutional
right to elect rulers, and we will order
to your support "horse, foot and dragoons"
in that. Organize against capitalists
who furni-h mouey to carry elections and
then claim as their reward the selection of
the men upon whose shouldei? shall be thrown
tho purple robe of the judiciary, and we are
with you in that. You will feel the touch of
our elbows, too, in assisting to keep down
any men or set of men who seek to depart
from (ho "liues marked out" by our forefathers,
and sot up in th's country a strong
central government to control tha people,
when the fathers formed a goverainent to be
controlled by the people."
Before Governor Lee took his ssat, Edward
J. Fan-ell (colored), of Districts, New York,
stepped upon the platform and introduced
Mr. Powderly, "who,"' said Delegate Farrell,
"will reply to the address of welcome
by Governor Lee. of this State, one
of the noblest in tho arena of our
?olitical government." He referred to Mr.
owderly as one of the createst men of tha
Nation, who recognized tho importance of
this gathering of the toiling masses. He
hailed the approach of a tiuie when there
would be no distinction in creed,
color and nationality, proclaiming that
the principles cf the Order of Knights
of Labor stood higher than political
parties, and that they all should stand
as brothers and o juals. He said that Virginia
had been one of the greatest States in
the past and hoped that she would be that
again and would make no distinction on account
of race or color.
Mr. Powderly began his address by thanking
Governor Lea in behalf of the delegates
for his kin 1 words of welcome. After ail allusion
to the last war, he continued:
"The men who owe allegiance to the Knights
of Labor are engaged in a conflict, but it is
in a war of truth against error. It is not, as
many honestly believe, and many more dishonestly
assert, a war of labor against capital.
It is a war in which the manhood of
the Ameri?au laborer is fighting for recognition.
In this war it must be determined
which shall rule, monopoly or the American
people, gold or manhood. Our
battle3 are not fought for the purpose
of determining whether an individual
shall rule a State or an empire, but to decide
whether a people who are entitled to
life, liberty ana happiness shall live in the
full enjoyment of tneir rights and liberties
as becomes citizens of a Republic.
"To rescue the toiler from the grasp of the
selfish is a work worthy of the noblest ani
best of our race. It is to the accomplishment
of that grand object that every Knight
of Labor should lend his every
energy. Lack of success or en
uuuiu^cuiciio iiiuau uju uiauoai rau, v*wfection
in friends, or fancied friends, must
not turn him aside from his purpose,
love of ease must not prevent him from
working. The slanders of the jealous, the
hatred of the envious, the opposition of the
enemy, must not ba allowed to deter for a
momeut the progress of the work whi:h he
has pledged his knightly word to continue
until success shall crown his e lores, or death
end his labors on earth.
"To remedy the evils wo complain of is a
difficult and daugerous undertaking. The
need of strong heart? and active brains was
never so great as at the present time. The
slavery that died twenty-two years ago was
terrible, bat, bad as it was, it never developed
a millionaire, while thus new slavery
which now reaches out with a far stronger
hand than the old, has developed hundreds
Of them. The lash in the hands of the
old-time slave-owner could strike but
oi e back at a time, and but one
of God's poor, suffering children felt
the stroke. Tha lash of g>Yd in the hands of
the now slave-owner falls not upon one slave |
alone, but upon th9 backs of millions, and I
among th3 writhing, tortured victims, side
by side with th9 poor and the ignorant, are
to be found the well-to-do and the educated.
The power of the new slave-owner
does not end when tho ordinary day laborer
beads beneath his rale. It rea hjs I
out still further and controls tho mechanic,
the farmer, tin merchant and the manufacturer.
It dictates not alone what tho
price of labor shall be, but regulates the
price of money as well This uaw slavery
counts among its victim? servants of the
State who hive b9en chosaa by the people to
executc a people's will. Not aloue does it control
the Legislature at the Stite Capitol, but
in the ha'ls of our National Congress will
you find its most willing, cringing slave. It
reaches out even further ana holds iu its
iron prasp the judpo upon the bench;
not that alone but it has the power
and docs corfer the judicial ermine
upon its most subservient creatures. Do
I overestimate its powerf Have I made
a single nvsitatsment? If my word is not
4. 4. +
SUUliJIUIJL bUI U IAJ OU'J Ui tuo uwwui j wjl i
t>day?the public press?and you will find {
the testimony to prove that what I have i
said is true. Evidcnco in abundance can be !
ndduccd to corroborate every statement !
made by the press. The lash wa? strickea i
rroni tuj na:id or the stavo owner of twenty- I
five years ago, aud it mast bj taken from |
the hand of the now slave-o'.ener as well. |
' The monopolist of t>d?,y is more dau;cr- i
on; than the slave-owner of the past. Monopoly
takes the land from the peop!e in million
aero plots, it sends it? agents abroad and
brings hordes of uneducated, desperate men '
to this country, it imports ignorance and i
scatters it broad- ast throughout the land. It,
and it alone, is responsible for every manifestation
of anarchy that our country
has witnessed. All men may not
bo* willing; to admit that; this statement
is true, but when monopoly dies no more
Anarchists will bo born unto this
country, for anarchy is the legitimate child
of monopoly. While I condemn and denounce
the deeds of violence committed in
the came of labor during the present year, I
a n proud to say that the Knights of Labor,
?^?
us an organization, is not in any way responsible
for su"h conduct. He is the true Knight
of Labor who, with one hand clutches anarchy
by the throat, and with the other
strangles monopoly.
"It is the duty of every Knight of Labor to
assist in creating a healthy public opinion on
tho subject of labor, and the justice of its
receiving a full and just share of the values
01* capital it has helped to create. In this
work we seek the co-operation of all rightminded,
honest men."
After reading his address, Mr. Powderly
explained that he had asked Delegate Farreli,
nf A ccamKI v 1Q f/\ mfrnrln/vi Kim Ka/>qtioa Wa
Wi. w 1UVI VUUW UlUlf UVV^IUOQ UQ
wanted it to go forth to the world that the
organization would not discriminate in color,
or creed, or nationality, and that he honored
Assembly 49 for going with the colored dolegate
after they had been refused entertainment
at a hotel in Richmond because one of
th9ir number was colored. This announce*
ment was received with applause.
At 11 o'clock the chair requested the hall
cleared of all save delegates, and the Assembly
was closed to the outsiders. After appointing
a committee on credentials and
committees for other purposes the Assambly
adjourned till 9 o'clock the nert morning.
FEDERAL FINANCES.
A Statement of the Condition of the
National Treasury.
The public debt statement issued by the
United States Treasury for September shows
a decrease iu the total debt, less cash in the
Treasury since September 1 of $10,627,013.
The following figures show the condition of
the Federal finances on the 1st inst:
Interest-bearing Debt.
Bonds at 4 1-2 per cent $250,000,000 00
Bonds at 4 per cent 737,769,900 00
Bonds at 3 per cent 115,164,300 00
Refunding certificates at 4 per
cent 199,600 00
Navy peusion fund at 3 per
cent 14,000,000 00
Pacific railroad bonds at 6
per cent 64,623,512 00
Principal $1,181,757,312 00
Interest 11,936,811 00
Total $1,193,694,123 00
Debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity:
Principal $6,998,735 0C
Interest 20J.061 00
Total |$7,199,790 00
Dcht Bearing no Interest,
OM demand and legal tender
notes 1346,738,391 00
Certificates of deposit 7,7(15,000 00
Gold certificates 8-(,ii!)l,S<)7 00
Silver certificates 95,337,112 00
Fractional currency, less
$8,3 75,9:54, estimated as
lost or destroyed 6,953,702 00 t
Principal $541,476,012 00
Total Debt.
Principal $1,720,832,053 00
Interest 12,137,372 00
Total $1,742,360,932 00
Less cash items
available for
reduction of
the debt $206,924,043 00
Less reserve
held for redemption
of
United States
notes -100,000,000 00
306,924,043 00 !
Total debt less available cash
items $1,435,445,888 00 !
Net cash in I ho Treasury.... 07,?90,321 00
Debt less cash in the Treasury
July 1, 1880 $1,367,549,567 00 ;
Cash in the Treasury.
Available for reduction of i
the public debt:
Golil held for gold certifi- ;
cafes actually outstand- ,
iuj; $84,691,807 00 >
Silver held for silver certificates
actually outstanding
95,387,112 00
United States notes held
for certificates of deposit
actually outstanding .... 7,705,000 00
Cash held for matured debt [
and interest unpaid 19,137,607 00
Fractional currency 3,517 00 t
Total available for reduction
of the debt $206,924,043 00 j
Reserve Fund. t
Held for redemption of
United States notes, acts i
Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, r
18S2 100,000,000 00 [
Unavailable for reduction of
the debt: ,
Fractional silver ^
coin $20,890,745 00 i
Minor coin.. 250,2-11 00? 27,195,039 00
Certificates held as cash.... 63,300,310 00 .
Net cash balancc on hand.. 67,899,321 00 J
Total cash in theTreasury '
as shown by Treasurer's
general account.. $465,375,713 00 '
GROWTH OF TEE SOUTa <
A Report of Wonderful Industrial '
I'ro/jresR. j
The forthcoming report on Southern in- j
dustrial progress, by the Bureau of Statis- ,
tics, will, says a special dispatch fromWashington
to the New York Commercial Adver- ?
tiser, undoubtedly create a great sensation j
throughout the country. The people of the (
North have uo adequate idea of the extent j
of the natural resources of the South,
or of the way in which they are developing,
while the details of the report will be a per- <
feet revelation to the Southern people them- j
selves, who, as yet, do not begin to appreciate
their own advantages or tha good fu- <
ture in store for them. ]
The report, which is really a series of ten
separate reports on each of the ten southern ]
states, will make a volume of more than five j
hundred pages, and will be issued in a week ,
**.-11 Kn Kir nr. monnfi n. mare lliaSS I
of dry statistics, but will coutaiu a Rood j
deal of narrative and historical information <
and will be adorned by a number of
illustraticns showing the modus operandi of
various industrial oc.'upatioas. In brief, the
report will show that all j arts of the south
are developing at a wonderful rate. Men |
and money are pouring in from the north; j
railroads are building by the dozen; raanu* ]
fa-tunes are springing up as if by magic, j
and the great natural industries of the section
are progressing as never before, while
new and hitherto unsuspected resources of
Alabama and Tennessee in the shape of minerals
are fully exhibited and will certainly
create a profound interest in commercial i
circles all over the world. J
Th3 report on Virginia is voluminous and
shows the great and growing activity in the
tobacco and peanut interests. The iron do- ]
posits of Alabama and Tennessee ate ]
thoroughly exploited, and it is shown that
tliev are larcer, of a better quality |
and more cheaply workable than the iron
mines of Pennsylvania; that, for in tan e,
the best Alabama pig iron can bo produ e<l
for $9 or ?.?.o0 a tou, agaiast ?L1 or $1 l.f,(J in
Pennsylvania.
The decrgia report will contain a very in- <
teresting exhibit of the recent agricultural l
operations in the southern [ art of tbatState, | j
while the chapter on Florida will read like a I
fairy tale, with its descriptions of the mar- !
velous growth of orange, cocjanut, bar.ana , *
and honey interests. The Florida orange j 1
crop of next season, it is said, is expected to i
amount to 1,000,00'j boxes. j '
The report devotes a good deal of s: ace to ?
a discussion of the labor problem at the i
South, and the cc n lusion reach d is tbat j c
the col >red lattoriug class, taking all the i i
eircumstan e.J into consideration, promises j
to become the best lody of com- ' .
mon laborers in the world They are i :
accustomed to the climate. are liappy |
an.l contcntel, are satisfied with low
wages, are becoming more an 1 more indns- J 1
trious, and are not subject to strikes, j I
PI ?-- noolintllarlv ill tail- !
x i:c_y txi xj pai ti\ uiui ?. ?.
road building aud farm work and also j 1
bid fair to become good miuers and irachin- j t
istS. The report also dwells upon the s:ib- '
ject of education at the s.nith, and describes ' /
the various .-o ial an 1 natural features of
the different States and localities in that ,
6ectioa The stctisticsare full an 1 accurate. j
As treasurer of th-i Pennsylvania Railroad j !
Company, ilo late John J_>. Taylor was the ;
signer of the r'U(,U0 ),t>(W the k paid for a con- j
trolling interest in the I'hilidehdi.a, Wil- .
mingion and Baltimore read, tue largest ' J
chock ever drawn iu Pennsylvania. J
Although the fanners of Santa Barbara
County, California, ere offering SJL.^O a day (
for hc-lp th?y are unable to get enough hands '
to care for the c.inmon needs of a farm. <
*1
A BATTLE OF BROTHERS. I
Queer Canvass for the Ooyernor* ship
of Tennessee. B
The Taylor Brothers Stumping the H
State Together. Hj
One of the queerest outcomes of politic** |fl
differences is the canvass for the Governor- hM
ship of Tennessee b?ing made by "Bob" and
"All Taylor, brothers and rival candidate*
nominated by the two lea ling parties of the
State. They have been canvassing the
State together, speaking from the same platforms,
traveling in company and occupying
the same rooms in the various hotels at which
they stopped. A recent Memphis dispatch.
gives the following interesting details of
their reception in that city:
The Taylor brothers have canvassed the
State from the mountains of Carter ?
to the Mississippi They have spoken
to more than one hundred thourand
people. At every place they have
created intense interest and great
enthusiasm. Some people have sneered at
the nominees and referred to the canvass aa
a show, but the people of Tennessee pronounce
it the ma-it entertaining, brilliant and
able canvass ever made in the State.
It was left for Memphis to bring the enthusiasm
to a climax. Great preparations
had heen made to give Bob a reception
worthy of the city. Alf's friends, not desiring
a demonstration, met him yesterday at
the depot and escorted him quietly to the
hotel. Bob got ol the train two mile3 from
the city. A large procession was there waiting
to receive him. There were hundreds of
horsemen wearing sashes and white roses*
Thprei were manv ladies in carriaffOS and
great crowds on toot.
When Bob stepped from the traia he was B|
greeted with a round of applause. Judge J. H
M. Greer made the sceoch of welcome. In Hj
concluding his speccn ho said: "We wel- IB
cone you again, b2cause you, with your B
distinguished brother, have taught the peo- B
pie of your native State that per- H
sonality in politics is secondary to B
principle; that abuse of an oppos- B
ing candidate is not argument; that the H
discomflture of an opponent is no proof of B
fitness for public trust! Standing by our B
great river, which b?ars on and forever its B
message to the ssa, I trust your stroug, .hope* fl
ful tones may be caught up by the peo- B
p?e whose shores its waves wash, and B
bear to them the message: 'Great parties B
must stand for great principles, and boliev- HI
ing this we have most reverently put away
the f ast of our common country, because we B
live in the expanding; present and hope to B
make of it the foundation ot' a gr?at future.' - B
Again we Lid you welcome to Shlby 'B
County." B
Tho rtand for the speaking was erected B
on the I ':s of the Mississippi Probably B
the largest crowd that ever assembled at a * B
political meeting in Memphis gathered ' B
last night to hear the Taylor brothers* H
Barnnm's great thow, which exhibited B
here the night before, did not have so large a B
crowd. Bob was introduced in an eloquent B
speech by R. F. Looney. He held the rapt H
attention of the vast audience for an hour H
and a half and was cheered from the very B
start. No orator ever delighted an audience
more than did Bob. B
Judge Brown attempted to introduce Alf.
The crowd would not let him proceed, but
called loudly for Bob. The Judge stood ]
looking in th? faces of the audience for five
minutes, but, finding it impossible to sreak,
book Alf by the arm and escorted hira to
the stand. Although the crowd wa3 largely
for Bob, Alf made a fine impression. His
ilelicate thrusts at his brother were received '
with great applause. There were a great
many ladies present, and they presented the
orators with beautiful bouquets, which wera
nrceoted in eloouent speeches.
THE NATIONAL GAME
.
The Washington Club has had thirty-flva
layers under contract this S3ason.
The baseball season of 1887 will probably
>e still more interesting than the present onei
It is understood that the New Yorks will..
lave a duplicate team next year from whish-o
draw in case of sickness or injury to t*
egular men.
It is said that the Southern League next
eason will be composed of Nashville, Mem$-)his,
New Orleam, Atlanta, Charleston, Mo?
?-ju- n.v
jue, ur yus^iuij cn uuuguuiu.
There is some talk of a league next seaion
that will include Hartford, Meriden,
Waterbury, Bridgeport, Danbuiy, Fough
ceepsie, Newburg and Kingston. t
The St Louis Browns have won the scries
'rom every Association club except the
Louisvilles. The Chicagos have won the
leries from every League club. j
The salaries to be paid to Washington's
'Big Five" next year, according to the Hart'ord
Post, are: Mack $2,500, Kreiz $'2,C0>,
jrilmore $1,750, Schock $!,750 and Henry
51,800. Hayes is receiving $400 per month.
The Newark Eastern League Club has this
season met and defeated the Detroit, Boston,
Philadelphia, c5t. Louis and Washington
League clubs, and the St Louis, Cincinnati,
Pittsburg, Louisville and Athletic American
Association clubs. '
Detroit now leads the League in batting,
ind New York in fielding. Chicago is seo
rnd in batting and fourth in fielding, yet i? '
Irst in the League ra~e. Fine base-running
ind good work in tha pit. her's box have
placed Chicago in the leaa.
The married and single ladies of Gillmore
Penn., recently played a game of ball in aid
Df a church fund, fc'e en inning i were
?. - 1 xl. i-l .1-/ *:Mn. *1ia
played, loe uisrrieu uaxrabiux uuc cmjig
ladies by a score of 25 to 17. The decisions
ot the lady umpire were not seriously di>
puted.
In a game at Da'las, Texas, between Dallas
ana Abilene Clubs Harry Reed, first
baseman of the Dallas Clnb. bod both bones
of bis left leg broken between the knee and
inkle. He had batted a swift grounder tothird
base, whence it was fielded to first to
cut him off. Berry, tb? first baseman of the
Abilenes, stood on the base line and tripped
Reed.
national league.
Won Lost. Won LoH.
Detroit 81 34 | Philadelphia..07 43
Chicago......87 31 j Boston 51 59
Sew York...70 43 I Washington..23 87
3t Louis 43 73 | Kansas City..29 84
american association record.
Won Lost. iron Lost.
St. Louis?89 44 I Pittsburg 74 55
Brooklyn....72 53 | Cincinnati...61 66
Athletic 57 09 | Louisville....05 64
Baltimore...45 79 | Metropolitan.4'J 74
eastern ueague record.
iron Lost. Won Lost. '
Bridgeport.. .33 58 I Waterbury... 55 35
Hartford 40 48 Newark 66 28
Jersey City...49 39 |
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Charleston, S. C, is daily crowded with
sxcursionists.
Teieue are six thousand bee-keepers in the
state of Iowa.
Migratoky birds are goiug South a month
'arlier than usual,and au eany winter is prelkted.
Chcrches in this country are estimated
to u e 60,000 gallons of wine every year for
lacramental purposes.
On the ancestral farm of Secretary EndJ'ott
at Dan vers, Mass., is a pear tree 25$
.'ears eld. It still bears fruit every year.
Lightning started a conflagration in the
forest of the Yellowstoue National Park, '
frhich destroyed immense tia.ts of timber.
Rev. Mil. Harvky telegraphs a Montreal
>npor that the reports of deilitution in New'ouudland
have boi-u greatly exaggerated
A well digger in Osco.Ill., found a hollow
og twentv-eight foot below the surface of
he grouud, and in the log a vigorous frog.
a flock of sheep got on the tracks of the
iraud Trunk Ha I way uear Fergus, Canada,
ind a train da-shel through t'uern, killing six- !
y-two. I
? . . - T> Ti Til TI ? .... I
IF Daniel nne, or raw raw, ill, uvtn uu,il
December he will be one hundred years
>!d. Meantime he amuses himself by hoeing
iud sawing wood.
Av the recent State fair in Iowa, Mrs. C.
E. Barron and her daughter, cf Des Moines,
(vou over a hundred premiums and prices for
aeedle and fancy work.
The Peruvian Government has issued a
ieciee that Chinese residents iu that country
shall enjoy all the rights and privileges
;once led to other colonist?.
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