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Artificially grown ducks are said to be
the best fattened and plumpest birds in
the Boston market. The largest duck
pond in America is at South Easton,
Mass., whire 7,000 have been hatched
this season. It is only a few years since
patent incubators found their way into
public notice, and now they form the
basis of a large industry.
There are said to be in Paris more than
30,000 persons wnomaKe tneir living oui
of rag gatlicring and burrowing in the ash
bins of the city. It is a hereditary calling
and those who are engaged in it are
strong and robust. This is more than
can be said of the ragpickers of New
York. Their number certainly is increasing
but their physical decrepitude
seems to grow greater also.
The annual report of First Assistant
Postmaster-General Stevenson shows that
there are 53,014 postoffices in the United
8tates, The appointments last year aggregated
52,747, the large t number beiqg
9,5GG, for removals and suspensions.
The total gross receipts from the presidential
oftic3s during the past year were
$3?,491,557. New York State has the
largest number of po.tolHces of the presidential
grade.
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Kcntuckians Will have to give up the
idea of the State's possessing diamond
fields. At thfc session of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers in S
Louis the other day the subject came up
for discussion, and it was demonstrated
by Professor Ashburner,'of Philadelphia,
that the only basis for such a belief was
ho rem irk of Hcnrv C'nrlton Lewis be
fore the British Academy of Scientists,
tbat a slight similarity existed between
the trap rock of Eastern Kentucky and
the diamond region of Southern Africa.
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A newspaper correspondent, however,
had reported him as saying that diamonds
might be found in the blue grass
State.
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Mr. Lui, of the Chinese consulate in
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New York, says that there are about
4,000 Chinamen in that city, or one-tenth
of the whole number in this country and
about one-third as many as there are in
San Francisco. There arc 2,000 or 2,000
in the suburbs of New York. He says i
that they are fond of the metropolis and i
are better treated there than elsewhere.
Very many arc married to white women,
and in many instances these have proved
happy unions. lie declares that it is a
mistake to suppose that all the Chinamen
are seeking wealth in this country
with the idea of returning to China with
it. Could they become citizens many j
would do so, a< they like this country
and are fascinated by the comforts and
advantages of Western civilization. Th>y
would not be as happy in China and their
onlv obicct in returning, could they do
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so and then come back here, would be to
see their parents. Mr. Lui complains of
the injustice of Americau laws regarding
the Chinese, but speaks hopefully of the
near prospect of a revocation of those
that prevent immigration and naturalization.
A writer in the Brooklyn Union says:
*'A long time ago I wrote the opinion of
an experienced publisher that Mrs. Julia
Dent Grant, or in other words the Grant
family, would derive, in the end, $750,000
from the writing; of General U. S. |
Grant. Inasmuch as Mrs. Grant has
already received ?350,000 and will get
at least $150,000 more from the work
which Grant finished just before his
death, it will be no difficult m itter to
make the material left by General Grant
for another work yie'd the remaining
$250,000. The work to follow the war
record will be practically a history of
Grant's two terms as President of the
United States. It will be even more interesting
to the masses than the war rec- j
ord, but will lack the merit of being the '
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personal compilation of Grant. His notes,
however, will supply all the facts. A
fair share of the persons who purchase
the war record will want the Presidential
history. Therefore the success of the
work is absolutely assured in advance.
Colonel Fred. Grant has the matter in
hand. I am told that he proposes to be
the publisher himself."
An American who has spent some
months in Liberia writes privately from
Monrovia, the capital, that it is built on
a bed of iron ore, nearly pure; that i
contains 5,000 inhabitants, only few o^
them white, divided into natives, the
Liberians, or children born there of foreign
parents, and immigrants. The
Kroos, an aboriginal tribe, were formerly
the slave dealeis of the coast, and each
man has a blue tattoo mark in the middle
of his forehead, extending to the
nose. The women paint themselves from
head to heel, many having the Liberian
or American ling painted on their brows,
but never the British flag, which they
hate. The girls, as soon as they cau
walk, are put into the gree-gree bush, a
kind of barbarous convent, where they
are taught their duties as women and
wives. They are usually sold at birth
for connubial purposes, at about $15
each, or half a dozen for $75. A man
may have as many wives as he has money
to pay for. The boys arc kept in the
bush until fourteen, when they are considered
of age. If the boys or girls disclose
the secrets of their bush, or are
caught in another b'.ish than their own,
they are publk ly put to death. The
country has some 700,000 aboriginals,
with 20,090 persons of colonial stock,
and nearly all the semi-tropical products
arc indigenous there. The government
is modeled exactly after ours. It was
declared an independent state in 1817,
and, the years following, was recognized
as such by Great Lritain and France.
The climate, which was once considered
fatal to Europeans, has been recently
much improved by clearances, drainage
and the like, and bids far untimately to
l>c inhabited by the Western races. ,
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! In Holland ladies arc gradually assuming
the occupations of the pharmaceutical
assistants. The periodical State examinations
have just been held and the result
is highly favorable to the sex. Out
of a total fifty-five candidates, nineteen
out of thirty-one female candidates and
qnly eight out of twenty-four male candidates
-were successful.
rnv e /%1%/vIai.o in Pnrnfi nrfl
iuc ravages ui tuvwio m w.v? ?
vividly presented by the news that the
deaths from this cause in Seoul, the Capital
city, alone are a thousand a day.
This chief city of t'ie peninsula contains
less than a quarter of a million inhabitants
within its walls, and as the pestilence
began to rage furiously there fully
three or four months ago, it may be imagined
what havoc it has made. An important
paint to note is that the sanitary
condition of the capital has been for a
long time horrible, in spite of excellent
natural drainage. The sewers were once
very good, although open on the streets;
but of late the houses have encroached
on the thoroughfares, and have been
recklessly built up to and even over the
sewers, leaving only the space necessary
for these conduits, which have become
filthier and filthier. The lesson of this |
present devastation of Seoul is the one
that would be taught in any other city
of ihe world under like circumstances;
and horrible and pitiable as is the mortality,
insomuch that the dead now lie |
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lung unuuimu, it cuuuut uc apprising.
Business in Xcw York's great financial
center, "Wall street, would be paralyzed
but for the loaning system ia vogue
there. Comparatively small brokerage
conccrns re juire as much as $1,000,000
at a time to do their business. They put
up stocks and bonds as collateral. The
rule is to advance money to the extent of
about three-quarters the market value of
the securities pledged. If the pricc3 of
securities decline, the banks either reduce
the loans or require an increiso in
the collaterals. The system of certification
makes it impossible to work off a
bogus check. Loose money is never use J
in a transaction Everything is "doue
on paper." The banks adjust the balances
of the brokers and their own balances
are in turn adjusted through the medium
of the clearing house. It is really surprising
how little actual money is used
in the street. About all the money that
is seen in the offices is to pay clerks and
for the personal use of members of the
houses. Messenger boys and office boys
run around all day with checks for hundreds
of thousands of dollars in theii
hands. Thieves do not snatch them, foi
they would be of no more use than so
much blank paper. Not a dollar could
be secured on them. Such a thing as a
robbery is never h?ard of in "Wall street
nowadays. That, if any place, ought to
be a thieves' paradise, but I do not know
a place where gentlemen who help themselves
to other people's property will find
poorer picking.
New York bankers who have spent
time abroad the past summer tell enter
taining stories of the easy-going ways in
which business is conduct .'d in some of
the leading European cities. In New
York from the opening hour to the closing
every day the b inker and the merchant
are on a continual rush. In Europe
there is a very different scheme.
The European bunker may work hard
from early morning till noon, but when
noon comes he is ready for the table and
to the table he goes. The New Yorker
is u?ed to grabbing his morsel of lunch
on the fly. The European eats leisurely
and does not allow sociability over his
viands to be interrupted by business demands.
Ex-President Simmons, of the
New York Stock Exchange, tells an interesting
story, in tlie Timia, apropos of
this difference between methods here and
over the ocean. He was in a European
capital, and wanting some ready money,
sauntered down to a banking-house on
which he had letters of credit one day at
about noon. The bank was cloied, the
doors were locked, everybody was gone.
Something very like a shiver stole over
the frame of the genial New Yorker; to
all appearance?, though no notice was
up, that bauk had suspended or gone out
of busin ss. Appearances, however, were
deceitful, there was nothing unusual;
business had come to a standstill and the
doors were locked only because the
bank's officers and the bank's clerks were
liuDgry and had gone home to dinner.
And there is no rush over this noonday
meal, cither; it seldom takes less than
an hour.
How $20,000 Were Saved.
Omaha Banker?"Can't leave your office?
* Why don't you get a boy to look
after it?"
Omaha Lawyer?"Have tried about a
dozen and not one was worth keeping.
Don't want another one around."
"Why, I saved $20,000 by an office
boy once."
"Eh! IIow was that?"
"I sent him with a message to a broker,
saying that I wanted a large quantity of
a certain stock. Well, that stock went
way down to zero the very next day."
"You must have been badly caught."
"No, I saved $'20,0JO."
"Saved $20,000. IIow under the
canopy could that be?"
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wei;f juu 5UJ i uiuu t nave any 01
the stock because the boy lost the message."?
Omaha World.
When .Man is Weakest
According to the recent experiment of
Dr. Jiuch with the Dynamonetcr, a man
is precisely at his weakest when lie turns
out of bed. Our muscular forcc is g. e itly
increased by breakfast, but it attains
its highest point after the midday meal.
It then sinks for a few hours, rist s again
toward evening, but steadily declines
from night to morning. The two chief
foes of muscular force, according to Dr.
liuch, are overwork and idleness.
Sweating at work deteriorates the muscles.
We know that many of the great
workers of the world, though not all,
have been early risers. But early rising,
according to Buch's doctrine, ought always
to be supplemented by early break
fasting.
| " LIBERTY UNVEILED.
A Great Pageant in the Streets of
America's Metropolis.
Ceremonies in the City and at the
Base of the Statue,
The following vivid account of the cere
monies accompanying the unveiling of Bar|
tholdi's statue of Liberty has been compiled
J for our readers from the New York papers:
Bad "Weather, but Great Crowds,
For many weeks the day appointed for the
dedication of the statue had been the objective
potnt to which thousands turned their
thoughts and hopes. Though the faithless
elements held out but little encouragement,
thousauds of visitors came to the city. At
an eariy hour the population of New York
and the thousands of visitors were up and
stirring.
By St o'clock, the hour set for the head of
the columu to move, the streets leading to
upj:er Fifth avenu? were thronged with citizens,
military and civil organizations on
their way to the rendezvous. Looking east
and west from the brow of Murray Hill, the
entire po].ulatioii of the city seemed to be
marching in one direction or drawing its
lines closor about the Windsor Hotel, where
th3 Grand Marshal and his staff were assembled.
Just previous to the starting of the parade
the sight-seers feasted their eyes upon the
many and varied organization?-, the procession
of whiili seemed to be endless. Uniforms
nnd equipments which have seen service for
a quarter of a century, shone in all the glorv
of the overhauling and burnishing which
they had received. Condemned, but caudy
lire engines rumbled through the strec-ts
alout Murray hill, and now and then some
venerable relic, such as the coach of George
j Washington, clattered alongside of a light
I and trim model of the small but fat.-ful Mon|
itor. Every leading thoroughfare of the
city was bright with bunting and from every
flagstaff stars and stripc-s or a tricolor fluttered.
The City's Decorations.
Few attempts had been made at elaborate
decorations, but th9 mass and aggregation
I of the red, white and blue in part made up
for wha'ever lack of artistic arrangomeut
there might be. On the fronts of many
business houses were hastily manufactured
reproductions of the motto of tha
French: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite''.
Portraits of M. Bartholai were to 1 e soen
here and there with the colors of the French
Republic as a setting. The north end of the!
post-office building was a mass of! flags,
shields and bunting, and facing it the City
Hall seemed to vie with the Government
building in a display of color. The
World building on Park row was completely
hidden iu its mass of bright colored
decorations. Stretching over the street was
the beautiful triumphal arch erected by tho
proprietor of the paper. In the midst of the
evergreens, which conceal the framework of (
the structure, were the inscription "l>a Belle
Fiance" and "The United States'' or. eilher
side. Beneath the painted representation of
the statue of Liberty uniting the two hemispheres
was the inscription: "Vive P Kntento
Fraternelle des Deux Republiques" (lDDglive
the brotherly sentimeutof the two republics).
From the centre of the arch flags aui bunting
gracefully drooped
Uptown the Hotfman, Albemarle and
Bartholdi Hotels displayed the most
elaborate decorations, though nearly
every hostelry in the "hotel district"
was decorate! to a considerable
extent A majority of the Fifth avenue
residences alODg tli? line of march displayed
decorations. And where all else was lacking
the handkerchiefs of the ladies served to
make up for the want of other encouragement,
to 1 he paraders. In lower Broadway
the display was more general aud nearly
every building of any size was festooned.
At the Reviewing: Stand.
The reviewing stand was located nearly
abreast the llag-sivai hod Hoffman House, on
IH8 west siae oi I'lltu avenue. Jt accommodated
about ],0()0 persons. Tbo reviewing
stand an 1 stand on the opposite side of Fi'th
avenue began to fill with guests before 9
o'clock, and balf an hour later there was
sarcely standing room on the grand
stand. Most of the spaca in the re,
viewing stand was reserved for the French
quests, who did not arrive until a few minutes
past 10 o'clock. They were headed by
M. Kartholdi, Count de Lesseps, Admiral
Jaures, General Pellss'er, Colonel de Pusy,
M. liigot, Colonel d'Eloussedat, and Lieutenant
Yillegert. Among other distinguished
cuests on the reviewing stand were General
Sheridan and his staff. Governor Hill, accompanied
by Lieutenant Governor Jones
ind nis staff, Judges Brown aul Benedict of
the Supreme Court, General Rufus Xngalls
and many athers.
At 10:40 the Old Guard, acting as guard of
honor to President Cleveland aud headed by
the Thirteenth Regiment band and drum
corps, arrived at the reviewing stand. The
President was greeted with hearty cheers as
be drove down the avenue and drew up in
front of* the stand. Secretary Bayard
rode in the carriage with him. The Old
Guard made a fine show as they marched
past tho reviewing stand and formed in
line on the opposite' side of the avenue. Accompanying
the President were Secretaries
Bayard.* Whitney and Lamar, PostmasterGeneral
Vilas, "Col. Lamont, and General
Schofield and Admiral Luce with their staffs.
After the President had taken his place on
the reviewing staud tho members of the
French delegation were presented to him. 1
The Military and Civic Parade.
At half-past eleven o'clock the signal eorpi
?ave the signal that the liead of the procession
had s-taited from Fifty-ninth street.
All along Fifth aven ;o the members of the
signal corps were stationelon the roofs of
high buildings, signalling tha movements
of the procession from point to point.
At precisely eleven o'clock the head _ of
the procession reached the reviewing
line. At the head rode General Stone,
accompanied bv a laree staff. After passing
<t)6 reviewing line General Stone and his
staff wheeled into line telow the stand and
the General took his place beside the President
in the stand. Close behind him came
the Fifth United Stat?s Art llery under command
of C.donel John Hamilton, headed by
the United States Military Band. Next
came the United States Marine Band at
the head of the Naval Brigade, consisting of
details of n arincs from the different war
vessels in the harbor, and the boys from the
training-shin, followed by four Gattling guu
batteries. The marines did excellent man hing
and wcro heartily cheered. They were
undor tommand of Captain Robert Boyd, of
the United States Navy. Then came the
United States Brigade, consisting of comEanies
from the different forts about the haror,
under command of Major Wallace F.
Randolph, of the Fifth United States Artillery.
The Second Regiment of the National
Guard of the State of New Jersey, parading
ten commands of sixteen files front, and a
detachment of one company of the Massachusetts
Volunteer Militia brought up the
close of the first division.
The second division wis composed entirely
of troops of the First Brigade of the National
Guard of New York Stato under
command of Brigadier-General Louis FitzrrnrnlH
nnrl n Tiiimher nf W#?nrh ?<v?i<4tip?.
The Seventh Regiment, headed by Colonel
Clark, had the right of the line, and thj
band just before tl:o hea 1 of the. division
reicbed the reviewing stand struck up the
Marsellnise. This was the first band toplay tho
air, aud every Frenchman on the stan.l removed
his hat and shouted ,lBravo" as Colonel
Clark saluted tl'e President. The French
column,headed by Wadsworth fife aud drum
corps, fo l )wcd thj militia. Next came
United States Judges aud other oiicials of
1 he United State--, Governors of States aud
Tei ritories in carriage*, bringing up the rear
of the second division.
The rest of the ] recession j as-ed tho reviewing
stand in the following order:
THIRD DIVISION.
Hugh J. Grant, Marshal.
Mayors of cities and Muuicipal Officers (in
carriages), followed by
A Battalion of the Police Force of Philadelphia
and a Battalion of tho Police Force
of Brooklyn.
Veterans of the War of 1SI^ (in carriages).
Tno A/to.' Club, Veterans of the Mexican
War (in carriages).
The Military Order of tho l^oval I.egion.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Col. C. A. Wells, Marshal.
War Voteran Military Organizations.
FIFTH DIVISION.
So:ond Brigade, N. G. S. N. Y., escorting the
Grand Army of tho Republic.
Comrade C. H. Lutjens, Marshal.
Tho Grand Army of the Republic,
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SIXTH DIVISION.
Col. Locke Winchester, Marshal.
\ eieraa JUlllUiry urguui/miuiH uiaei tuau
purely War Veterans.
SEVENTH DIVISION.
Maj.-Gen. A. S. Webb. Marshal.
Aide Marshal Alexander P. Ketchum, U. S.
Vols. The Edu. ational Division.
EIGHTH DIVISION.
Gen. H. C. King, Marshal.
Independent Military Organizations.
Gen. Washington's carriage drawn by eight
horses, escorted by tha Continental Guards
of Washington, D. C., and by theOld Wash
ington Continental Guard, mounted.
Sons of the Revolution.
NINTH DIVISION.
Bernard J. Deran, Marshal.
Sons of Veterans. Detachment Fire D&partment,
Brooklyn. Association of old
Srooklynites. Representative citizens of
Brooklyn.
TEN TH DIVISION.
John Decker, Marshal.
Volunteer Firemen's Association. Board
of Trade and Transportation. Regiment of
^Uniformed Knights of Pythias, Indiana.
Regiment of Uniformed Knights of Pyth az,
'New York. Charity Associations and other
civic societies. Citizor.s.
Soon after the head of tho pro-ossion
reached the reviewing point a drizzling rain
bejran to fall. Some of the ladies on tho
grand stand spread tlieirumurenas, dui; rresident
Cleveland, who wore no overcoat, stood
at his post in the front of the reviewing stand
and removed his hat in response to every
salute tendered him.
After the roview was over the distinguished
partv on the stand were, after ta'cing Rlight
refreshment, driven at once t > the steamer
Despatch, where they embarked forth??er>
monies on Bedloe's Islaud, in the harbor.
The head of the profession reached the City
Hall at about noon, and the crowd then was
immense; the weather seemed to have little
or no effect, people standing ont in the drizzle
and meekly taking down their umbrellas
at the request of t.he people back of them.
Broadway was almost impassible. At the
Battery the procession ended.
The Xaval Parade.
Animated is the best word with which to
describe the appearance of New York harbor
during the morning. Ferryboats, steamyachts,
United States revenue cutters, and
crafts of all description moved through the
water aud the fog, in almost a constant procession.
Only the outlines of the great statue
on Bedloe's Is'an 1 could be seen from the
Battery through the heavy mist which
had settled over the harbor. Surrounding
the island the mast and hulls of the United
States steamships Tennessee, Portsmouth.
Jamestown, Saratoga, Yantic and Alliance
could faintly be distinguished.
The signal to proceed for the naval parade
was finally given, and iu real nauti al style
the flotilla moved down the North River
from above Forty-fifth street toward
the harbor. They steered two
abreast each boat keeping: her leader on her
port bow. President Cleveland, on the
steamer Desratcn, left the foot of West
Twenty-third st eet a few minutes before
the naval parade i-tarted. The wharves
were thronged and every ona seemed to
recognize the Despatch. The old shippers on
passing craft blew away nearly ail their
s'eam to show the President how patriotic an
American could be. The Despatch moved
into the dock of Bedloa's Island at 1:4o, and
with the echo of mighty cheers rinsing in
his ears, the President was escorted ashore.
When the naval flotilla passed the pier of
the Compagnie Generate Transatlantiauethe
steamer La Bretagno, moored alongside, discharged
two deep-sounding cannon iti honor
of the grand display. Bitween 200 and MOO
vessels?led by the steamer Gedney with the
Grand Marshal of the procession, Rear Admiral
Luce, aboard?w.^re in line, including
all sorts of craft, from the great Sound
steamers to tug-boats and steam launches.
On the embarkation of the President-'al
a. 1 d.i 4.1,^
party una iul* uwjui tuww uu mo x><^'iu4ik.u,
a signal gun was fired and the tugs ami
steamers got in portion, "heading down
stream. At a second gun the flotilla move 1
down the river, passing across the harbor
to the eastward of the men - of war
drawn up in a. lino off IJedlce's
Island, and turnin.% ? assed around the last
man-of-war, and an -horal off Bedlo. V- Island
between tlie pier and the North Atlantic
fleet. A snlut1 was fired from the fleet when
the Presidential party landed, a second when
the st it le was unveiled and a third wb?n the
e ?rernouie-i "f the unveiling was over. Th *
dense fog which prevailed made it impossibto
to .sea much of the naval parade from the
shore.
Final Ceremonies011 Bedloc's Island.
The face of the statue was veiled ull the
morning with a French Sag. Au attempt to
veil the entire figure would have involved
too much bunting, more fc'ian could have
be*?n conveniently handled without the use j
of tackle specially rigged for the purpose. |
At half-past 1 o'cloc'c many craft of all I
kinds began t"> gathor around BcdlooY, Island
and by 2 o'clock fully 2< 0 steamers and sailboats
wore cruising within sight of the
island.
The music that was played while the officials
and guests were assembling on Bedtce's
Is'and in the afternoon was followed by a
signal gun that announced the begiuning of
the ceremonies. Prayer was offered by the
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Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, and the aged
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps then delivers 1
an address on behalf of the FrancoAmerican
Union. Senator William M.
Evarts next made the presentation address.
He said that tbo scene upon which the vast
assemmage was cone-tea aispiayea a transaction
in human affairs which found no precedent
or record in the past. "How can we
fitly frame in word? the motives and emotions
which have filled and moved the hearts
and minds of two great nations in the birth
of this noble preception i" He then, in
eleauent words, alluded to the war
in tnis Republic, in wh:ch the liberty-loving
French people felt such intense interest, and
paid a high compliment to Bartholii and the
people of France. He also complimented the
builders of the pjdestal, and the people who
contribatei.ana the Government which gave
space on Bedloe's Isiaud for the statue. He
concluded as follows:
"To day,- in the name of the citizens of the
United States who have completed the pedestal,
and raised thereon the statue, and of the
voluntary committee who have executed ttie
will of their fellow citizens. I declare in your
presence, aud in the presence of these distinguished
guests from France and of the august
assemblage of the honorable and honored
men of our land and this countless multitude,
that this pedestal and the united work of the
two Republics is completed, and surrendered
to the care and keeping of the Government
and the people of the United States."
The ropes leading from the platform to
j the flag which still covered the face of the
goddess were now seen to sway; a sharp
pull was given and the banner fell to the
pe iestal. The countenance of the statu# was
uucovered above the great assembly. M.
Bartholli's life work was formally declare
1 to live as a work of art.
From that moment began the existence of
the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World. Scarcely had the banner fallen than
j a signal flag was waved from the masthead
of the Tennessee. A streak of flame
1 sprang from the side of the old war
I ship, and then auothor and another,
: until her decks were hidden in the white
cloud of powder smoie. The Tennessee was
not alone in this homage to Liberty. From
every mau-of war in the fleet, French as well
as American, thundered the salutation to the
goddess.
Again the strains of the bands were heard
and th? sounds of national anthems were
lorne upon the breezes until their notes died
away as had the roar of the guns. The Presirfonr.
nf t.hn TTnitorl States thon stannod for- I
I ward and said:
' The people of the Unit:d States accept
with gratitude from their brethren of the
French republic the grand and complete
work of art we here inaugurate.
"This token of the affection and consideration
of the people of France demonstrates
the kinship of republics, and conveys to us
the assurance that in our efforts to commend
to mankind thj excellence of a government
resting upon popular will, we still have,
beyond the American continent, a steadfast
ally.
"We are not here to-day to bow before tho
representation of a fierce and warlike god,
filled with wrath and vengeance, but we
joyously contemplate instead our own deity
keeping watch and ward before the open
gates of America, nnd greater than all that
have been celebrated in ancient song. Instead
of grasping in her hand thunderbolts
of terror nnd death, she holds aloft the light
whic h illumines the way to man's enfranchisement.
"We will not forget that liberty has here
made her home: nor shall her chosen altar be
neglected. Willing votaries will constantly
keep alive its fires, nnd these shall gleam
upon the shores of our sister republic in tho
East. Reflected thence and .joined with answering
rays, a stream of light shall pierce
the rlarkne-s of ienoranre and man s op
pression, until liberty enlightens the world."
An eloquent address was then made in Enlisb
by tI'.o representative of the Republic
of Franc?, A. I.efaivre. There wa>
more music, and then Mr. Chauncy M.De{>ew
delivered the commomorative addresa "Old
Hundred" was played by the band, and the
assembly .oined in singing tha DoxoIorv.
Tho ceremonies were closed with th ' benedic*
tif 11, pronouncad by tho lit. Rov. Henry C.
Totter. D. D.. Assistant BNhop of th? Diocesjof
New York. A national salutJ was
then fired simultaneously by all batteries in
th'! harbor, afloat and a liore.
1 Itir ng t ie evening there was to have bren
an illumination but the rain au>i fog caused
a postponement of this part of the proprogramme.
Tho Presidential ? arty departed for Washington
at the conclusion of the ceremonies
on Bedloe's Island.
In the evening a dinner was given at Delmonico's
in Id nor of our French visitors by
the Now York Chamber of Commerce. M.
I Hartholdi, 'Count de Lesseps, and the other
j French representatives, together with many
prominent Americans. woro present.
Speeches were inaile bv M. Bartholdi, Admiral
Janres. George William Curtis, aud
' others.
Tho dimensions of the groat statue aro as
follows: Height from bas9 to torch, Ml feet
I inch; foundation of pedestal to torch,805 i
feet t! im hes: heel to top of head, 111 feet 6
inches; length of hand, 10 feet 5 inches.
The statue aud tho pedestal, with the ex- t
pense3 of transportation, etc.. have cast i
about $700,000. i
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NEWS SUMMA11Y
Eastern and Middle States.
Walter Knob, the seventeen-year-old .
stepson of Judge Daniels, Republican nominee
for Justice of the New York Court of
Appeals, shot himself while gunning near
B uHalo, and was instantly killed ,
6onth and West.
Three men were fatally burned at a fire in
a Chicago varnish factory.
Tnv liarrra Pnrnl'O niirltf mar* ohnnr/1 ViOQ
been lost in Lake Michigan. E
The old Peckstone manor house, built by c
Henry Corbin in KXiO in Wostmui-oland
county, Va., and near the Potomac River, 1
has been totally destroyed by fire with all ?
the furniture :t contained. This house wus c
known as the oldest colonial dwelling in the i
United States. The loss is $15,000. r
Martin Soukup, a farm baud at Sherry- j
ville, Iowa, set fire to his employer's property r
and brained two wornou, the wives of neigh- r
bore, who attempted to quench the flames,the
owner beingabsent. Soukup was insane. a
The greatest wild-pigeon roost in the couu- c
try is located just now near Tahlequah, In- s
dian Territory. Millions of pigeons nightly i:
cover the trees in a square mile of timlerod c
land. When they come in to rocst they t
make a noise like thunder. _ 1:
Rosie Doknrrock, two years old, was torn ?
to death by a chained bear in the yard ad- J
joining her parents' residence at Toledo, J
Ohio. *
Dev. Robert West, editor of the Chicago r
Advanc, the Western organ of the Congre- c
gationalists, died at Sycamore, 111., a few t
days since. . v
Mary Jacksox, a colored cotton picker, ?
was murdered in Bolivar County, Miss., by s
James Hayues (also colored), who was ar- a
rested. A crowd of colored people took a
Haynes out of jail and hanged him. t
Ten Chicago justices cf the peace are t
charged with fraudulently appropriating e
fines imposed upon prisoners. 1
A new industry for Texas is about to be J,
opened in the direct shij m?ut from Galveston
to London, .England, of fresh beef and ?
mutton.
Washington. ?
General Black, Commissoner of Pen- 0
sions,has written a letter to an ollicial under F
him declaring that any Federal office-holder c
who pays a political assessment is liab'.e to d
removal. 11
The President has mado tho following ap- ?
pointinents: Daniel N. Lo?kwood, of New |
York, to le Attorney of tbo United States ?
for the Northern district of New York: Leo- ?
Sold Moore, of New York, to be Consul at _
[ulL J
Robert W. Alston, a clerk in the Sixth v
Auditor's Office, Washington, had been 0
drinking heavily for soiuo tinu-. The other ^
morning he went to his desk, took out a re- j
volver and shot himself dead. He came of a c
proiuftient Georgia family. his father,ColoueU
Alston, having been killed in the State Cap- k
itol at Atlanta some j ears ago in a political a
quarrel with a Captain Cox. g
The report on the pleuropneumonia out c
break among cattle at Chicago made to the ti
Department of Agriculture by Dr. D. E. a
Salmon sets forth emphatically the danger tl
of contagion, and states that legislation is si
needed in order to stan;p it out.
President Cleveland has been growing J]
uncomfortably stout, and is about to try the *!
massage treatment
United States District Attorney ^
Stone,of the Western Pennsylvania district, r
a Republican, and United States District At- p
torney Benton, of the Western Missouri <1 istrict,
a Democrat, have been suspended by ?
the President for disregarding his recent or- g
der against Federal officeholders taking part
in politics.
Additional appointments by the President:
Fred. A. Barker, of Keeue, to be
United States Marshal for the district of
New Hampshire, and Samuel J. Campau, of
Detroit, Mich., to be Collector of Customs I
for the district of Detroit
Foreign. v
Codst vow Beust, tho distinguished Aus- 1
trian statesman, died at Alteuburg, his estate
on the Danube, aged seventy-seven
years. "
Ex-Premier Gladstone was badly stung 0
by wasps while felling a tree on his eouutry 0
estate. )
Lady Churchill, the American wife of
the British Cabinet Minister, delivered a q
political speech at the opening of a Primrose v
Lodge in Bradford, England. p
The National line steamer the Queen, which v
had arrived at Liverpool from New York, P
was nearly destroyed by fire. Tho loss is o
heavy. si
Tjiree men have been condemned to death v
at Lytton, British Columbia, for the murder '
of William Dillmau, of Minneapolis.
A massacre of native Christians has oc> I
curred in Uganda, Africa. Many Christians ?
were tortured, mutilated and speared, aud
thirty-two were burned alive together.
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LATER NEWS. 3
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A vessel from Liverpool arrived at Phil- 0
adclpliia a few days ago with 307 converts to d
Mormoais.n, mostly women aud children, on ?
board. tl
P. M. Anrnun was re-elected Grand Chief tl
Engineer of tbe National Brotliernooa 01 ?,n i *
gineers at the convention in New York. ?
The magnificent stone building of the !
Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, t<
Ohio, completed about a year ago at n cost
of $200,00!), has been destroyed by fire; total ?
loss, $250,000. ii
A KiiiKat Pocahontas, Va., destroyed six- w
teen houses, inclu ling two hotels and several
business houses, (ieorge Baber, of Lynch- \\
burg, perished in llio flames. w
A kkkkllion agaiust the British in Bur- P
ir.ah- is spiralling. jj
King Otto, of Bavaria, is suffering from jj
violent attacks of insanity.
Piwmixe.vt Mexicans an ! leading Mexican
newspapers favor the establishment of a
Dictatorship instead of the Presidency.
Gkxekac. Deujado an 1 t'iree associates,
leaders in the rccent invasion of Honduras, d
have been executsd. All Honduras is under
uiarlial law. P
An* explosion of fire-damp in a mine at
Scranton, Penn., iujured eight men, two so
badly that they were r.ot expected to recover. ?1
Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart, widow of
tho late A. T. Stewart, was buried in tbs ^
crypt of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at
Garden City, Long Island. ti
During the absence of "William Poe, a lo
farmer, from his home near Flat Ro ck, Ky.
the building caught fire, and all the inmates
?bis wife, five young children and two young j ^
ladies of tho neighborhood?were burned to i
death. I tt
The estimates of the expenses of the postal
service for the next fiscal year aggregate $55,- !
342,1*)0, while the appropriations for the cur- ^h
rent year were showing an in- n>
crease in the e ;timates for next year of f'JTti,- m
G. There were in operation during the last ^
fiscal yfar, throughout tho United Stat.'s ? >,- j
route; of all classes on which mail service. | 01
was jierformcd at an aunual rate of expeudi- I
ture of f20,0i?i,G58. The aggregate length j
of all tho o routes was oSr,5S;i miles. I
A collision between two vessels in the j
Thames, resulted in the sinking of one and j in
the death of so'. o:i i ersous. i n'
Ciiadwics's large thread mills in Bolton, al
England, Lavo been destroyed by J:ro: los.*, i ag
$200, <100. in
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1RREE V0SSC1S l(l(ib Niut'u 11 Dili duciivu
Avres for Savaunah on tho same ilny, saw ba
nothing of each other during the entire voy- in
age until they entered the mouth of the Sa- ai
vanuah river, recentiy, within a few hours of
cach other. (|c
? Bi
Sumac gathering Is becominga recognized
industry in portions of Virginia. This year '
the quantity gathered is uuusually large, Ia
some gatherers having made $50J each by JIi
collecting the leaves and branches of the Ct
ihrubu Ai
Accordtnt; to a Lewisburg (Penn.) paper ho
i iiuml>er of apple trees in the track of the pb
ierriflc hail-storm of last August are covered ?
with blossoms. Ci
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t HEAVY BOBBERY.
In Express Car in Missouri
Bobbed of $50,000.
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rhe Messenger Bound and Gagged
by a Stranger. : . %
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Tho Adams Express car attached to a pasanger
train of the St Louis and San Fran iseo,
which left St. Louis at 8:25 the other
light, was robbed of about $50,000 in cash
ind valuable articles before it reached Pa? {
:ific, Mo. Superintendent Damsel, of tha '!
Sxpress Company, gives the following as the i
esult of a long examination of the messenger
in chargo of the car, Mr. Fotheringham,
cade at the office of the company the
text morning:
' Mr. Fotheringham says that as he wa* ^
ibout to go out on his run la?t night a man ' j
ame to him with a letter purporting to be
igned by myself and Mr. Barrett, icStructng
him to take the bearer, Jim Cummings, - *
in his run as far a? Fierce City, for instructions.
Fotheringham took the stranger and set
lim to work checking up. Then he began hi*
iwn work. Fotheringham was standing with J
us back to the stranger, his coat off and tha j
tandle of his i evolver sticking out of the pi?ol
pocket About ten or fifteen miles out of
he union Djnot he was Attankfiri from thA
ear. Tin stranger gripped his neck with j;
me hand and grasped his revolver with
he other. Before Fotheriugham realized
vhat was being done ho was thrown to the
loor. He struggled and fought, but the
tranger overcame him and bound him hand
,nd foot Then he put the gag in his mouth ~
,nd tied him to the safe. Having secured
he messenger, he proceeded to go through V
he safe and tike all there was in it 8?y-.
ral pouchej of silver he cut open, but .
>ft them when he found out what- ; . ?
hey contained. At Minck some men ~ %
forking in a lime-kiln flagged tha train on r ,
.ccoant of an obstruction on the tract" 1
fVbile it was standing still some one tried to
;ct into the express car, but the robber stood
ver Fotherin^ham with a revolver and preenteil
hi-: making any effort to cry out At
r about Pa illc Station the robber took his
ilunder And opening the front door of the
ar went out on the platform and closed the ' <
oor after him. Tue messenger remain d lyog
on thi floor of the car until the train
eaehed St. Clair, when h) was able to got the ag
out of his mouth and cry out for assist- /:
nee. The trainmen hearing him. endeavr?l
to get in the back door, and finding It '
Dcked, went around to the front door, rhich
Ihe robbjr hid le.'t open. They rejased
him. Fotlien'ngham say3 the robber- <
ras about six feet high, twenty-four years
f age and weighed about U'OJ pounds. He < '*
ad dark, straight hair, cut close, a this,
ark mustachs, a low forehead, wore dare
lothe3 and a dark gray overcoat"
He was gaged with handkerchiefs tied ittnots
forced into his mouth and- bound
round his head. His hands were tied toether
behind his back with a silk handkerbief.
His legs werd fastened with straps
iken from valises in the car and with cords
nd with the heavy strap whit-h was around
tie safe. He wa? tied to the handle of the
ifo.
Mr. Damsel added, in re:>ly to questions,
:iat it is customary to send new men out on
lie road with messangers to receive instrucions,
and that such orders as Fotheringham
lys were presented to him by the robberrould
be issued either bv Route Agent Barett
or by himself. He also stated, that
'othoringham telegraphed in to the commDy's
depot manager that he had beenobbed
and that he (Mr. Damsel) was sagged
of the fact about 1.30 the next moruimr
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MRS. A. T, STEWART.
)cath of the Great New York: -r\[
Merchant's Widow.
Surrounded with all the insignia of luxury
rhich fancy could dictate or wealth buy, Jfcjj
Irs. Cornelia Mitchell Stewart, the wido*?
f the late Alexander T. Stewart, the milouaire
merchant, passed quietly away tE^
ther morning, after a short illness, in h?
lagnidieat mansion, on Fifth avenue, New
fork. A New York paper gives the follow3g
account of her life and residence: '
Mrs. Stewart was the daughter of Jane*
!linch, an old New York merchant She
ras born on October 20, 1813, iu a house on
tlcecker street, which was then considered
ery Jar up town. Her brother was Charles
'. Clinch, for many years Deputy Collector
f the port. When sne married Mr. Steward
tie was only twenty-two years old, aod ha
ras then only a promising young man,
rithout fortune or backing. For years they
ved in a house in De Pau row, a quaint borough
fa re running between Franklm and
IcDougall streets. Stewart, bit by bit durine
is lifetime, purchased the entire block, ana
; now forais part of his widow's ?stats.
Mrs. Stewart was considered a great- j
eauty in her younger days and she retained
luch of her comeliness up to the hour of her
eath.
m. C4 I. TTTOO V.tlitf
XUO UWvroi li iiiHJQiuUf nuivu n(w t/uuv
ud fitted up in regal style by the late priuo*
f merchants, Alexander T. Stewart, who
ied in April, 137B, at a cost of nearly $5,J0,000,
was always closed to the outside
rorld. From the foundation walls to
tie cap on the chimney, it is built of
lie purest Carrara marble, every stone of
'hicn was quarried in Italy and freighted
n special sailing vesse s to this countr^
Intil the erection of the Vanderbilt palacf
; was the most beautiful specimen of archi*
3 "turd in this country.
Mr. Stewart attended to the interior furishings
himself. Every yard of carpet, th?
iirniture covers, rugs and works of art were
nport-ed from Europe, where th?y wer* >
roven after special desigus to match th$rescoes
on the walls and ceilings.
When Alexander T. Steward died in Apri? J
370, just a year after they moved into tu'hite
marble palace, he left a fortune convi
osed of real estate and personal property
alued at from $30,000,000 to $i0,00j,00u.
[uch of this property has largely increase)
l value.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Dotroita were the first League club to
is band for the season.
Trfc n v unttURhnma mnc ma/ie hv LeA?TU#
layers during the saaaon.
The Chicago playcra have been presentedith
new suits of clothts by their club.
The Pittsburg team lost the first championlip
game of the season and won the last.
O'Rourke, of the New Yorks, will coach
le Yale College team this winter. He has
isumod his law studies at Yale. ,
The Eastern and Southern Leagues were
le only ones of seven organizations to suffer
ss of clubs in the past playing teason.
Poun clubs?Now York, Chicago. Pittslrg
and Baltimore?are after the Toronto
itcher, L'arling. He is said to be what his
une implies.
Arout '?2,0JO persons saw, at Chicago, tba
tree Cliicago-St. Louis games for the chainonship
of tilt world, or which the League
am won two.
John Kelly receives $2,500 for managing
ic Louisville American A-sociation Club
;xt year, whii h is a raiie of |1,300 on his
come from umpiring.
There is talk of the Chicagos going to
ilia this winter, but Al&nu^or Simmons of
0 Philadelphia Athletics lias secured the
ily t uitahlo grounds in Havana. <
A picked nine, composed mostly of the
juisvillo American Association team, has
Hi t-'d oil a three month)' trip to Florida,
obile, New Orleans and California.
The St. Louis American Association club
the three games with the St. Louis League
ue lor the local championship, won them
1 by the scores of 'J?0, 10?1 and 7?i.
T"* ~ ? ? firef ho on nn Iinlls
J J tt)vIO JVUVUCU Ul^b WM.V ~
G times; Chicago, 145; Delroir, 330; "VVashgton,
2W; Philadelphia, 251; New York,
3; Kansas City, 231, ami St. Louis, 22J<.
Ok the first dozen League batsmen Chicago
is two, Detroit four, .Ntjw ifork two, AYasnKton
two, JJ.?sto:i and St. Louis one each,
id Philadelphia ami Kamas Lily not one.
Oni.y threo League players got into the
iuble figures iu th? home ruu column, viz.,
"outliers ami Kichardson, of Detroit, with
jven each, and Anson, of Chicago, with ten.
The schelule committee of the Southern
>aguo will be appointed from Nashville,
eunihN, New Urloans, Savannah and
mues'.on, and will be called to meet iu
lauta.
1'iik Chicago and Detroit clubs are tied ou
me i utis, each having made 5'.'. Phiiadelia
made '-io; liustou, 2i; St Louis, 2"J;
:w Yoik, 22; "Washington22, and Kansaa
ty, 18. -