The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 25, 1887, Image 2
In New York City there are five colored
lawyers who enjoy a lucrative practice.
They seldom appear in court to argue a
case, their business being chiefly in real
YM.AnorJri r* Krmffl
clients, etc. Ninety per cent, of their
clients are white people.
The three signs of a counterfeit coin
are not often heeded by a careless public.
A bad piece of silver has a hollow ring
or a light weight or an imperfect rim.
If these characteristics were fully learned
counterfeiters would soon be discouraged
in trying to pass imperfect money.
Those who suffer from obesity almost
invariably complain of shortness of
breath. Such people, the Boston Ilerald
says, should make it a practice each day
of walking on rising ground or climbing
gentle hills by easy stages. The exercise
should be graduated and rests taken
when the heart begins to beat rapidly.
A few years ago the Canadians were
behind the New Yorkers in cheese making.
They employed inspectors to go
around among the factories and point
out the defects. They are now trying to
get a government grant of $6,000 to give
exhibitions and prizes, and improve the
make of Canadian cheese still further.
These are good examples for American
cheese makers.
Lectures are now being delivered by
army surgeons in a number of the posts
and garrisons on the care of injured and
wounded. For the want of a little information
on the part of the soldiers
numbers lie on the field and suffer from
their wounds and die, when they might
be saved had their able-bodied comrades
a:?i -?i it?
BO III U practical lUMluilluua l^rtiuiu^ iuv
best means of relief.
Aii extraordinary accident is reported
from the neighborhood of Maidenstone,
England. A lad, eight years of age,
was flying a kite, when he stepped backward
into a forty-foot quarry, to the
great horror of the bystanders. Fortunately
for the little fellow, the string of
the kite was tight around his wrist,
and the kite, acting as a parachute,
effectually broke the violence of the fall
and he was only slightly bruised.
Ostrich farming is prospering in California.
The feathers are equal ta. the best
grown in Africa. The ostrich weighs
from 300 to 500 pounds. Every seven ,
months, after it is four years old, its
plumage is ready for the market, yielding
twenty-five fine feathers, and a num- '
ber of less valuable ones. They are cut J
off with shears. The longest and finest
white feathers sell at four dollars each. ,
It requires a good deal of capital to run (
an ostrich farm. An ostrich in a hurry (
can make forty miles an hour. '
The number of sheep in the world is ,
estimated as follows, according to the
latest statistics: ]
Bouth America 100,000,000 1
I
Australasia, including New Zea- I
land 77,000,000 ?
Europe 212,000.000 <
*Xfrica 25,000,000 1
Asia 50,000,000 ^
United States 45,000,000 c
Canada 3,000,000 i
All other countries 5,000,000 *
r
Total 517,000,000 j
In the United States the average yield t
of wool is about six pounds per head. J
1
A wonderful surgical operation has J
been performed at the New Haven City i
Hospital, it is said, with entire success, *
the subject being the three-year-old son t
of George "W. Ficro, of "Waterbury, ^
Conn., -who was born with deformed }
legs, which apparently destined him to j
be crippled for life. But the surgeon t
broke one of the legs three times, and the J
other leg twice, and then straightened
and reset the bones. The child endured j
the operation well, under ether, and
now walks long distanr^ with only a
Blight limp, which will disappear in t
time. j
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A plucky woman can do almost any- >
thing when she sets about it. Mrs. Mary ,
L. Barr, who is making herself famous as !
a writer of Scotch dialect stories, hardly j
touched pen to paper up to the age of
fifty-four. She lost her husband, who ]
wgs Military Governor of Texas, and J
seven children in the space 01 tw'cStJ-f?ur <
.hours from yellow fever, and found her- j'
ielf left with four little one9 and fifty t
cents in her hands. In the course of time ;
she drifted to New York and beeaine a j
governess in the family of one of A. T. ]
Stewart's partners. Her first tale, which t
was written at the request and to gratify
the whim of her employer, dealt with i
life in the old days in Texas, and found 1
a publisher with ease.
In the center of the tobacco warehouses
at the London docks there is an
immense kiln, -which is kept continually
burning, day and night, and goes by the
name of the Queen's tobacco pipe. The
English Government has a different way
of treating confiscated articles than'that
in use in this country, one of them being
to utilize them as fuel for what is termed
the Queen's smoking. Whenever merchandise
is seized for non-payment of
duty, or because it is considered undei
the law as in a damaged or unsalable condition,
it is taken to this great kiln and
burned there, the owners having 110
remedy. The only utilization that is
made of these seizures is from the sale
of the ashes from the furnace, which, to
the amount of a great many tons a
month, are sold by auction to chemical
works, and to farmers and others to be
used in enriching the soil. There is a
similar but smaller Queen's tobacco pipe
in the Government tobacco warehouses at
Liverpool, these two forming the points
of destruction for all confiscated merchandise
in the United Kingdom.
IRISH EMMS.
Editor O'Brien Attacks Lord
Landsdowiie in Montreal.
Describing Scenes on the GovernorGeneral's
Estates in Ireland.
Editor "William O'Brien, the Irish newspaper
proprietor who has come to America for
the purpose of denouncing the policy purj
sued by the Canadian Governor-General,
Lord Landsdowne, in his treatment of his tenants
in Ireland, was received with great enthusiasm
in Montreal. A Montreal dispatch
I gives the following account of his first pubI
lie appearance:
At 8 p. m. Mr. O'Brien was escorted by
twelve picked friends to Albert Hall, on Rodegonde
street. Most of the escort carried revolvers
under their coats. No personal violence
to O'Brien was feared, but threats had
been made, and it was deemed best to
be careful. Two of the escort carried
sword canes.' Albert Hall is one of
the largest in the city, seating
persons. Tickets were sold to the lecture at
twenty-five cents, fifty cents and one dollar.
The hall was the scene of the famous Gavazzi
riots years ago. To-night it was crowded to
its utmost capacity. The orchestra chairs
were filled with well-dressed ladies
and gentlemen. Tli- re was a motley
crowd of French, Irish and Canadians
in the gallery. The audience grew
very boisterous before the red stage
curtain rose, disclosing Mr. O'Brien seated
upon the platform; surrounded by a number
or prominent Irishmen, among whom were
President Cloran of the National League, Carroll
Ryan, Edward Nagle, John P. Wh?lan,
Dennis Barry, Michael Donovan, and others.
The men cheered again and again,
and waved their hats and handkerchiefs in
the air. The women jumped on the seats and
waved their shawls. The ovation lasted ten
minutes before Mr. Cloran rose to introduce
Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Cloran's speech and introduction
lasted twenty minutes, and was loudly
cheered. There was another ten minutes'
frantic applause when Mr. O'Brien stepped
to the front of the platform. When the
cheers and screams subsided, Mr. O'Brien
said in part:
"I desire at the outset to tackle the question
why I have come to Canada, to ask a hearing,
and to ask your sympathy. I will tell you m
one word?because the homes of the people of
Luggacurran, far away in Ireland, are desolate
to-night, and because the man who is responsible
for it is here in. the highest post of
honor in this great, free land.
"It is no pleasure to us to worry you with
our grievances, but where else are we to turn
when Lord Landsdowne sends the soldiers and
armed police to dispossess every tenant in
Luggacurran, and to fling the old men and
little children out by the ditches?
"We do not come to ask you for ?20,000
for charity any more, but to ask you to consider
what use Lord Landsdowne is making of
the ?'20,000 a year which you give him or
which you enable him to get; and if that be i
put to a bad and inhuman use we ask you to
convey your censure of Lord Landsdowne, as
you have a perfect right to do as the free cit- ;
lzens of a self-governing nation.
"The object of the Coercion bill is to enable (
men like Lord Landsdowne to wring intoler- l
able rack rent out of Irish tenants. Its object
is to render it safe for every rack renter ,
to desolate the homes of Ireland as Ix>rd
Landsdowne has desolated the homes of
Luggacurran. Its object is to gag us if we }
don't lie down and submit to it like whipped J
hounds. '
"The day you send Lord Landsdowne home
with the stamp of Canadian disaffection on
his brow, you will enable us to laugh at
coercion and strengthen the arms of Gladstone
to put an end to evictions for all time. ^
Lord Landsdowne is laying waste an entire
stretch of country miles" long as completely J
as if the angel of death knocked at every j
?abin door in these valleys and devoted every 1
man, woman, and child to destruction. As
soon as he will have obtained his next batch <
jf ejectment decrees, he will have made a 1
:lean sweep of the property, and, except 1
Lord Landsaowne's own baliffs and creatures.
'lio wVinlo nnnnlntinn will hnvp hnm'chcwl i
ind their homes will know them no more.1' (
Mr. O'Brien then auoted from lengthy re- s
sorts in the Dublin Freeman's Journal of the
svictions on Lord Landsdowne's estate, with v
leadings such as "One hundred and twenty ,
people evicted," "Sixty persons left homeless,"
'One hundred and seventy human beings
evicted," and so on. Then he described incilents
attending some of the evictions, as folows:
"Infirm old women, aged eighty and odd
rears, whose tottering steps had to be guided
>ut of their little homesteads, were put out a
n the pitiless storm of hail and snow. The I
old March blast blew around them, and the
wot creatures cried bitterly. Old men over j
iinety years of age were told to clear out.
rhe delicate mother, with her babe only a
ortnight old clasped in her arms, stood Z.
ihivering outside, while the 'emergency
nen' pitched out her little belongings,
rhe 'emergency men' were there with sledge
lammers, crowbars, ladders, saws and ?
latehets, to pull down the house and smash 1
;he furniture. A miserable thatched cottage, 0
nto which the rain poured through the roof,
xxrupied by a tenant named Henry Mulhall, b
vas entered by the Sheriff. On a chair near p
he fire was a poor old woman, v
vho did not seem to realize that she s
K-as going to be put out of the house which f
i&d pieltered her from her childhood, It was /
aining at the time, and she was put out 011 h
he roadside in the pitiless storm. These are 0
1 few typical cases of the hundreds of evic;ions
that have been going on on Lord Landslowne's
Queens county estates.
"The Luggacurran tenants were honest,
peaceful, and inoffensive. So far as crime is
concerned, the locality is simply stainless.
During these barbarous evictions not a blow
was struck nor a stone flung; and
nave these people ever done
that they should be robhed of home and
land? Simply sought abatements in their
rents?abatements less than Earl Cowper's ?
royal Commission, a Landlord Commission u
appointed by a Tory Government, declared d
to be equitable: less even than the Land Commission
Courts are granting on neighboring
states, and, finally,reductions to which Lord 11
Landsdowne's own arbitrator, Mr. Denning,. f
?ave his assent and approval in black and
ivhite.''
Mr. O'Brien showed that the reductions 1
made by the Land Commissioners in neigh- 0
aoring estates averaged from forty to fifty g
per cent., and said that Lord Landsdownes
Dwn negotiator, Mr. Denning, suggested a re
'^"tion of fifteen per cent.,wniie uie rewuiu*, i for
peace:s sake, w?ro w>">ngto accept. Ho
?ai(l in conclusion: ...
"I cl&iin, therefore, that I^ord Landsdowne
stands condemned, and that the justice and
moderation of the tenants' claim are as clear
md convincing as ever God's blessing shed
upon a righteous cause. Lord Landsdowne's .
savage sentence against the tenants closed
with Mr. Denning's offer. Lord Landsdowne
construed the tenants' moderation into weakness.
He construed Canadian forbearance
into indifference to the cry of suffering
from Ireland, and the terms his chosen
representative suggested and agreed to were
scornfully thrust aside. The next news we
got from Ottawa was that Lord Landsdowne
threatened us with a hot. if not a bloody, reception
if we ventured to Canada to proclaim
the wrongs of the Irish tenantry. I appeal
to the people of Canada against "Lord Lands
downe's savage sentence against the (
whole jtcnceabh; population. Substantially
the Canadian flag floated over the
evicting army, and it was Canadian money 1
that hired the 'eaiergency men' to do their
dreadful work. I call upon you to free the
Canadian name from this, and to let Lord
Landsdowne and the world know that when
Canada stretched out an arm t? Ireland it
was not to wound or subjugate her, but to
When Mr. O'Brien sat down; after speaking
an hour, there was a storm of applause
ttiat was simply furious. The !<i>eech
produced a profound effect, and
O'Brien proved himself an orator.
His speeches in Canada will certainly
stir up a great movement against Lord Landsdownc.
Mr. Murphy, a local singer, sang
several patriotic Irish songs, which frenzied
the audience again, and then an address was
carried with a great shout, denouncing Lord
Laiidsdowne in the most severe manner tor
the treatment of his tenants.
Arbor Day was observed in Boston by
two prominent officials. Governor Ames
and Mayor O'Brien proceeded to the Common,
where each, with his own hands,
planted a white pine tree. About seventyfive
trees were planted on the Common.
The estate of the late Alexander Mitchell,
of Milwaukee, is estimated at from $15,000,00!)
! to $25,000,000. His only son is the principal
heir. The public bequests aggregate $50,000.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
Heavy forest fires have burned over large
tracts in the Catskills. Hundreds of farmers
and others, including 100 firemen from Catskill,
fought the flames.
The bill providing for a half holiday on
Saturdays, passed by the New York Legislature,
has been signed by the Governor. It
takes effect Saturday, May 21.
The corning mill of the Lafiin Powder
Company, near Pittston, Penn., exploded
with a terrible shock. One man was killed
and two were seriously injured.
Floods in Maine have destroyed many
bridges and caused numerous washouts on
railroads.
The law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors on bunday is being rigidly enforced
in New York, even hotels and restaurants
rpfncmfr tr\ QArvfl f.hotr tniAefs winonr h?>p.
William O'Brien, the Irish editor and
Home Rule leader, arrived in New York a
few days since; and was received with great
cordiality by a committee of prominent irishmen.
He immediately went to Canada for
the purpose of speaking against the GovernorGeneral,
the Marquis of Landsdowne, whose
tenants in Ireland are being evicted by
wholesale.
Prince Frederick Leopold, great-grand
nephew of the German Emperor, nas arrived
in the East from a tour across the Continent.
He is making a trip around the world.
A National Cattle and Dairy Show has
been one of the attractions of New York the
past week. More than 400 cattle, valued in
the aggregate at $1,000,000, were on exhibition,
and many valuable prizes awarded.
General Aaron Stevens, of New Hampshire,
died at Nashua the other day, aged sixty-eight
years. He had been in Congress,
and for many years was a member of the
State Legislature.
Governor Hill pj-esided at a meeting held
in Elmira, N. Y., opposed to England's
coercive measures toward Ireland.
"Workmen were clearing out a furnace if
the Edgar Thompson Steal Works at Brad
docks, Penn., when a red hot arch of coke,
limestone and other material fell upon their
unprotected bodies. Five men were so horribly
bruised that there was no hope of their
recovery.
South and West.
A land slide near Cliff Cave Station,
Mo., hurled a freight train from the track,
burying six cars and the engine from sight.
Two men were killed.
Two murderers were hanged on Friday in
New Mexico?Henry Anderson (colored) at
Socorro, and Theodore Baker at Springer.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the
largest religious bodv in the South, has been
in session at Louisville.
United States Deputt Marshal Peete,
son of Congressman Peete of Arkansas, was
killed while attempting to make arrests
in Indian Territory.
Fannie Mcrray, a girl of fifteen, was
about to mount a horse at Stonewall, Col.,
when the animal became frightened and
dragged its rider, whose foot had caught in a
stirrup, two miles across the fields. The girl
was killed.
The West Virginia Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
Six prisoners in the County jail at
Columbus. Ohio. escaDed bv sawiner off the
bars to a window.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention
will be held at Cleveland July 20 and 21.
W. B. Todhcxter, a cattle-owner, of Sac amento,
Cal., who owns 170,000 acres of land
n Oregon and 50,000 acres in Nevada, hps
failed for $400,000.
Washington.
General Greei.t,'Chief Signal Officer,
will hereafter issue a special weekly bulletin,
with the view of promptly placing before the
public each Monday morning reliable infornation
relative to the climatic conditions in
:he agricultural districts of the country.
The Navy Department has received word
)f the death by suicide of Second Lieutenant
Arthur H. Clarke, of the Marine Corps, on
x>ard the Iroquois at Panama.
Major-General Henry F. Clap.ke, U. S.
(retired), died in Washington on Tuesday.
Seneral Clarke was born in Pennsylvania
ixty-seven years ago.
The United States revenue steamer Bear
las been ordered to Alaska for the purpose
>f enforcing the law against killing fur-bearng
animals within the limits of that Territory.
The law prohibits the killing anvvhere
of female seals less than one year old.
Foreign.
A bill to repeal the Canada temperance
ict has been introduced in the Canadian
Parliament.
The anti-German feeling is so great in
5aris that violent disturbances have occurred
it performances of Wagner's "Lohengrin,'
ind the French Government has accordingly
>rohibited further singing of the German
omposer's opera.
The French steamer La Bretagne, during
ier last trip from New York for Havre, ran
nto and sank a Norwegian bark. The crew
if the bark were saved.
Three old towns of Eastern Hungary have
een swept by the flames. At Epieries every
lublic building and hundreds of dwellings
vere destroyed, while a number of girl
cholars in a convent were killed by jumping
rom windows. More than 100 nouses in
irad were burned. At Nagy Kasoly 400
ouse-3 were destroyed and 5,000 people renered
homeless.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland prohibited
Nationalist meeting .and a counter Orange
lemorstration at Armach.
LATER NEWS,
Thirteen steamers brought 9,06o eniiTants
to New York on Wednesday?this beag
the largest number ever received on one
ay.
The Republicans of Kentucky have nomiiated
a State ticket with William O. Bradley
or Governor at the head.
The American Government has asked for a
[litigation of the sentence of the Mexican
ifficers sentenced in Mexico to Iks shot for unoldierly
conduct in Arizona.
The President has appointed James W.
lyatt, National Bank Examiner in Connectiut.
Treasurer of the United States, to suceed
Conrad N. Jordon, resigned.
The eighteenth annual ro-UiiioA of the j
Society of the Army of the Uumberiana
vas hehl in Washington on Wednesday and
riiursday, the latter day being devoted
nainly to exercises conducted with tho un eiling
of a statue of President Garfield. The
Irst day was devoted to business matters,
ind in the evening a large audience listened
o addresses by tho President of the Society,
jreneral Sheridan; Generals Sherman and
[losecrans, ox-Governor Curtin and others.
Mrs. Logan was in tho audience.
Queen Victoria visited Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show at the American Exhibition
Grounds in London.
Fourteen persons were killed or injured
by a railroad.collision in Australia.
Floods have done immense damage in
New Brunswick. The city of Frederic-ton
woo L.ft- in fnfnl Hnrlrn<-ss. the filS hoUSC liaV
ing been flooded, and a bridge, which cost
nearly $&0,000, was swept away.
THE PENSION LIST.
Number of Certificates Issued During
the Past Three Years.
The following table will show the number
of pwwion certificates issued from tho United
States Pension Office during the fiscal years
ending Juno 30, 1884, 1885, 1880, and for tho
year of 1887 up to the 30th of April:
iss;
up to
1884. 1885. 1886. Apr.S}.
OrigiHal 34.1'JO 35,771 40,852
Inc. and mis
no rr/VD QO TTtf.
eellaneous... 22,KM ;>4,oi.> oo,iu- ?
Totals 56,729 70,380 79,554 74,608
In the fiscal year of 1886 there were issued
79,987 supplemental certificates to widows
and dependent relatives, whose pensions had
t?een increased by Congressional enactment of
March 19, lbt#. ,
LIGHTNING'S WORK
Four Persons Killed by a Single
Bolt in Virginia.
fiiv TTnnctfa StrnnTrflnd rpareral Mpti
frJUX AAVUMVU fVUWWUWUU WVIW*W*
Injured in Ohio.
A communication from Stafford Court
House, Ya., gives the details of fearful havoc
by lightning in that vicinity. Terrific storms
raged for two days, and many barns cud
other buildings were struck by lightning.
Four persons were killed in the rosidence
of Anderson Pearson. He was away
from home at the time. When he return 3d,
he found his wife unconscious, his three children
dead, and Luther Wright, a friend from
Prince William County, dead. The four persons
had been killed by a single bolt Mr.
Wright stopped at Pearson's house
for shelter in the midst of one of
the worst of the storms. He tied his
horse to a tree directly in front of the door.
The fury of the storm made the animal restless,
and Wright, who had been playing with
the children, in the front room went to the
door to quiet the horse. The instant he
opened the door, there was a terrific flash.
He fell dead across the threshhold. The
electric bolt passed through the house,
killing the three children as they played on
AL. a ~^ i - l.U 4.1 u 4.u~ 11
j uie uwr, uuu Mmi uig a, nuit) uuruu^u uuo wait.
Mrs. Pearson, who was in the kitchen, was
struck down by the shock, and several other
persons about the premises were stunned.
Lightning: and Floods in Ohio.
A thunder and rain storm at Akron, Ohio>
in I'orty minutes did fully $20,000 damage,
killed four horses and seriously crippled four
men. Six houses were struck by lightning
in Akron, shocking the inmates
terribly and almost killing James Brown,
William Sickler, Charles Morgan and William
j Taylor, who were picked up for dead. The
| entire business portion of the city was flooded,
and thousands of dollars' worth of stock was
ruined by flooding of cellars. The houses of
James Durant, W. K Hilderman, N. C.
Lewis and Mrs. Mary Murphy were
swept from thair foundations and
badly wrecked. William Bittman's barn
was fired by lightning and three horses roasted
alive, loss $1,500. In the barn of T. Wylie
the lightning made a very small hole, but
killed a horse instantly. This was the fourth
storm of almost equal severity within four
dayn.
THE NATIONAL GAME,
The Detroits won thirty-one consecutive
exhibition games.
The New York team has the most gaudy
uniforms in the League.
Fooartt and McCarthy of the Philadelphias
are fine base runners.
The Metropolitans have been Chicagoed
three times in seven games.
The baseball fever is raging with great
virulence throughout New England.
Little Davy Force is holding his own with
the short stops of the Southern League.
There are at present some 200 or 800
ancateur clubs in the field about New York.
All the baseball managers are pulling their
hair because it will cost iust douhla to travel
this year.
Whev in New; York city Governor Hill
never misses a League game at the Polo
Grounds.
Or all thn League clubs. President Young
thinks the Chicagos-and the Phillies play the
best up-hill games.
Boyle, of the Indianapolis team, was presented
with a fine hat for making the first
home run of the season for his club.
(The spring tour of the Detroit Club did not
o ove a financial success, owing to the Interstate
Commerce law and long jumps, both of
which were costly.
A Southwestern Baseball League has
been organized with clubs from little Rock,
Fort Smith, Springfield, Mo., Webb City,
Hot Springs, and Pine Bluffs.
The twelve games played between the Philadelphia
and Athletic teams, for the championship
of Philadelphia, were attended by over
57,000 persona. The "Phillies" won six; the
Athletics five, and one was a tie.
The number of really excellent players ha?
10 increased and so many superfluous ones are
under engagement tliat managers are really
in trouble to decide whom to let go. The
only class of players in which there is a
scarcity is pitchers. The market is not likely
to be glutted in that department at least.
President Young of the National League,
predicts not only a great season for the national
sport, but he Is confident that the pennant
race will be closer than for many seasons.
The leading clubs are hardly as strong
as last year, and the newly admitted organizations
are in much better shape than Washington
or Kansas City last season.
Of the twenty-five leading batters in the
League, in last year's record. Detroit has six?
Brouthers. Richardson, Thompson, Rowe,
White, and Dunlap: New York Ave?Connor,
O'Rourke, Ewing, Gore, and Dorgan; Boston
five?Kelly, Wise, Nash, Stemmayer, and
Sutton; Washington three?Hines, Shock,
and Meyers; Chicago two?Anson Jind Ryan:
Indianapolis one?Glasscock; Philadelphia
one?Fogarty, and Pittsburgh ono?McKinnon.
the national league record.
Won. Lost,
Detroit 8 1
Boston 5 2
Pittsburgh 4 2
New York 5 3
Philadelphia , 4 4
Indianapolis 2 7
Chicago 1 6
Washington 1 0
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Won. Lost.
St. Louis 13 8
Baltimore 11 5
Brooklyn 8 4
Cincinnati 9 7
Louisville 8 7
Athletic 7 7
Metropolitan 1 13
Cleveland 2 13
THE COLLEGE LEAGUE.
TVon. Ix>st.
Harvard 1 0
Princeton 1 0
Yale ? 1 0
Columbia 0 3
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. '
TFoh, Lost.
New Orleans
Nashville ** ?
Memphis ^
Charleston ? ,X
Mobile a W
Savemnab 2 14
THK INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Won. Lost
Newark 0 0
Syrstcuse 4 2
Rochester 4 2
Bing;bamton 3 2
Toronto 3 3
Hamilton S 2
Buffalo 3 4
Jersey City 2 6
Oswego 1 5
Utica 0 4
EASTERN LEAGUE.
TT'on. Lost.
New Haven 5 1
' Hartford 5 1
Bridgeport 4 2
Wateroury 3
Danbury 0 8
Springfield 0 5
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Elaborate Preparations for its Coming
Meeting at Saratoga.
" -u ? i ~..A
General M. T. McMnlion, rresiuent, aim
Colonel Strusddl, Treasurer,of tho Society of
the Army of the Potomac, have been at Saratoga,
N. Y., making arrangements for the
reunion of members of that society, which
will be held June 22 and 23. It is probablo
that the coming reunion will bo the mostsuccesful
ever held. President Cleveland, Generals
Sheridan, Sherman, Sickles, and other
distinguished men, besides several military
organizations of the State, will be in attendance.
The annual address will be delivered ou the
first evening by Chaunoey M. Dej?w,and the
banouet will take place the next night. Five
hundred badges have already been issued to
members of the society in various parts of
the country, and General Mo Mala on says tie
meeting will be attended by fully 3,000 peri
ions.
j A DESPERATE APPRAY,
I A Prohibition Editor Shot Dead bj
a Mississippi Senator.
) A desperate pistol light has taken place ii
Jackson, Miss., between Colonel Jones S
Hamilton, State Senator for the past foui
years, and one of the lessees of the Penitenti
1 ary, and R. P. Gambrell, editor o:
the Sioord and Shield, thi
State Prohibition organ. About a yea]
ago young Gambrell, who is the son of t
prominent Baptist minister residing in Jack
' son and the editor of the State Baptist organ
1 began in Jackson the publication of th<
' Sword and Shield and has ever since
in very strong language, mad<
war on Governor Lowery and th(
State Administration and Congressman
Catchings for his action in Penitentiary mat
ters when he was Attorney-General of th<
State, and has been especially bitter on Colo
nol Hamilton, criticising in unmeasured
terms his action in the State Senate and as
i lessee of the Penitentiary.
On April 21 there appeared in the Clarion
a call signed over a nom de plume urging that
Colonel Hamilton stand for re-election. Two
days later Gambrell's paper came out with an
article saying in substance that the people did
not want a man to represent them in the
Senate who disregarded the interests of the
people and whose sole purpose in the
Senate was to look after his own corrupt jobs.
It charged that as lessee of the Penitentiary
he was seeking to defraud the State out of
$80,000 through a loophole in his bond, and
wound up by saying that the man elected
must also have a high personal character.
Since the publication of this article trouble
has been anticipated, and it came Thursday
nig-hfc. (Tflmhrpll wnQ Wflltint* nn +Via cfriwt
and just as he was crossing tSe iron bridge
spanning Capitol street Colonel Hamilton's
carriage overtook him and shooting began. It
is claimed by Hamilton's friends that Gambrell
fired the first shot and that Colonel Hamilton
then jumped out of the carriage and the
duel with pistols began on the bridge. This
theory is denied by Gambrell's friends, who
claim that Gambrell was overtaken and tho
assault made on him, and that more persons
than Hamilton shot.
Gambrell was found in a pool of blood,
gasping, and soon expired. He was shot
through the knee and through the body, the
latter ball going clear through him, fracturing
the backbone and lodging just under the
skin of his back. The third shot went in an
inch below the left ear, and ranged upward,
but did not reach the brain. His face was
also frightfully disfigured, having been beaten
and gashed by being struck with a heavy pistol.
Col. Hamilton was the only person found
on the bridge when the officers arrived. He
also was frightfully wounded. His left arm
was shattered at the elbow, and he was als6
shot in the stomdch.
The affair caused great excitement in Jackson.
Gambrell was unmarried, and about
twenty-three years old. Colonel Hamilton is
over fifty and has a large family.
AN INSECURE BAILING.
Women and Children Drowned at a
Christening in New Orleans.
Sunday morning a number of colored peo
pie belonging to the congregation of Mount
Zion Baptist Church assembled on the whan
at the head of Lizardi street, in New Orleans,
to be baptized by immersion, according to tlm
rites of their church. A large number oi'
persons followed the baptismal party
to the wharf for the purpose of witnessing the
ceremony. They leaned on the wharf railing,
which gave way under the great strain
brought against it by the pressure of the
crowd, and about lifty persons were percipitated
into the river. The following persons
are known to be drowned.
Harriet Cook, white, aged 3% years ; Amelia
Williams,colored, aged 8; Rosa Edmonds, colored,
aged 7; Rosa Lawrence, colored, aged 6;
E. Cornelius's 7-year-old child; Felece Richard's
baby; Rene Rogal's 5-year-old child;
a colored "woman (name unknown); a white
woman (name unknown); a white girl, who
held a baby in her arms. She finally let the
child go and sank. The baby was saved.
Rosalie Williams, a colored girl, also had a
baby in her arms. She was drowned and the
child was saved.
There were a number of skiffs in the river
in front of the wliarf railing. Many of the occupants
of these small boats were injured by
people and broken railings falling upon them.
Many of the skiffs were upset and some of the
occupants were drowned. A great crowd
lingered about the scene of the accident in the
afternoon, many of them in search of relatives
?pd friends.
A NEW PLAN.
Mr. Dillon Counsels a Way to Defeat
the Purpose of the Coercion Bill.
At a meeting of the Irish National League
in Dublin, just held, Mr. Dillion said that he
had clearly in his mind a line of policy
for the people of Ireland, which he
would produce at the proper moment
and knock the bottom out
of the Coercion bill. When the Coercion bill
was passed the landlords would find that the
plan of campaign would continue without the
slightest interruption or inconvenience. His
proposed policy would involve neither crime
nor violent resistance 01 me iaw. n, was a
system of combination so perfect and the people
would be induced to act so loyally toward
each other that they would not revert to
crime or outrage.
A MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE,
Towns Nearly Destroyed and Many
Lives Lost.
A disastrous earthquake has occurred at
the town of Bahispe, in the district of
Moctezuma, Sonora, by which one hundred
and fifty persons lost their lives.
At the same time volcanic eruptions began in
the neighboring mountains, lighting up the
summits for a long distance. The same afternoon
earthquake shocks were felt throughout
the State. Volcanic outbreaks are occurring
near the Guatemala border, as well as in the
State of Sonora.
Twenty-seven persons have also been killed
at Oputu by falling buildings. Many persons
were injured at Grenada and Gusabar, which
towns were almost completely destroyed.
THE MARKETS.
. NEW YOnK. 19
Beef, good to prime 8 <3 83*
- ' ? ?- ? my/a flij;
Uaives, comn io prime
%& f
Hogs?Li $ A
Dressed ?i-a
Flour?Fx. St., good to fancy 4 75 <?? 4 80
West, good to choice 4 00 @ 5 10
Wheat?No. 2, Rod 95#3 95%
Rye?State ? @ 63
Barley?State 60 (g) 75
Cora?Ungraded Mixed.... 50
Oats?White State 39}<@ 89??
Mixed Westorn 34 (4! S7
Hay?Med. to prime S3 @ 90
Straw?No. 1, Rye 50 @ 60
Lard?City Steam 7 15 @ 7 50
Butter?State Creamery.... 23 (ft) 24
Dairy 20 @ 22
West. Im. Creamery 1<? 19
Factory IS (?< 19
Cheese?State Factory 11 13;/
Skims 7 (<$ 10
Western 13 liJJ-j
Kggs?State and Penn 1~V<8 l''M
BUFFALO.
I ?. .J /? n nn
DLlttflJ V*UUtl I'J V55 V
Lambs?Western 5 15 & 5 50
Steers?Western 4 ?55 @ 5 <J0
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 AO @ 5 00
Flour 4 75 @ 5 15
Wheat-No. 1 HI & 91}?
Corn?No. 2, Mixed 44 ($ 44,li
Oats?No. 2, Mixed IfcJ (<j 33
Barley?State 04 @ 65
HO STOW.
Beef?Good to choice 14
Hogs?Live 6
Nnrt.harn Dressed GlZfit 1\n
Pork?Ex. Primo,per bbl...12 00 @12 50
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 90 @ 5 10
Corn?High Mixed ? (i? 52
Oats?Extra White 40 @ 40}?
Rye?State 60 @ 05
W'ATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef- Dressed weight 6 @
Sheep?Live weight
Lambs ? @ 5
Hogs?Northern 7 @ 1)1
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 3 90
Wheat-No. 2, Red ? @ 96%
Rye?State ? @ 53
Cora?State Yellow 50 @ 50J^
Oats Mixe i 34}<j@ 35
Butter?Creamery Extra... 28 @ 24
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? @ 13}/
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DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
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i Two Towns in New Hampshire
Swept by Fire.,
P
f Many Buildings Destroyed and
9 Families Rendered Homeless.
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* The mcst destructive fire that northern
New Hampshire has ever known on Tuesday
' swept the town of Lebanon, a place of 4,00C
j inhabitants. All the manufacturing shops
' and many dwellings were burned,
leaving some thirty families without shelter.
' The fire was discovered in the
[ j shops of Mead, Mason & Co., furniture man"
ufacturei s, and the alarm given at 1 a. h.
, Calls for help were sent to Hanover about 2
[ o'clock. The Hanover fire engine and a hun.
: dred Dartmouth students we1 it down at once
j to assist. All the manufacturing shops
, I of the place were '* crov?a?,5 along
. | the banks of the Mascoma River, which
't j runs through the town. Logs, lumber and
other combustible materials were niled in
i among the mills. They caught and burned
! like tinder. Assistance went from White
( River Junction, from Concord and from
t Enfield. Eighty buildings, of which twentyfive
were dwelling houses containing families,
were burned. A man named Perkins was
the only one injured. He was badly scorched
but will recover. The Boston and Lowell
Railroad bridge was burned, and passengers
were transferred. Two other bridges across
the Mascoma were burned. The entire
loss is estimated at $250,000.
This is one-fourch of the taxable
property of the town. Mead? Mason & Co.
met with the heaviest loss, estimated at $100,000,
the greatest part of which was stock, as
far as can be ascertained covered only by
$5,000 insurance.
Four hundred people are out of employment.
Some of the shelterless people stopped
with relatives and others were housed and
fed at the public expense in the City Hall.
The village is practically destroyed; as
there is absolutely nothing left of
the buildings there will be little to induce
the corporations to rebuild on the old ground.
The water power is good, but the larger mills
were propelled by steam. Household goods
of every description filled the yards in the
vicinity of the fire. Over ten acres were
6wept by the flames.
Large Fire in Sun cook.
The freight depot of the Concord railroad
at Suncook, N. H., caught fire the same afternoon
from a spark from a locomotive and
was uumwi. wgeuuer witu tuw uugu
wood and coal sheds of William H. Hazeltine,
containing 300 cords of wood and fifty tons of
coal; the houses of Timothy Lynch and Miss
Sarah Appleton; the ten-tenement block of
Mrs. Grace Potter,and a four tenement block
of Clifton B. Hildreth, on the Pembroke side of
the river. Sparks from the burning buildings
were carried by the high wind across Suncook
river and set fire to Hildretli's house, which
was destroyed. From this point the fire
spread to the houses of Charles Emerson,
Peter Michand and Thomas Otterson, all of
which were burned. A storehouse filled
with lumber owned by Thomas Otterson
was also burned. The steamer
Kearsage and a large detail of men from
the Concord Fire Department, arrived in
time to save several fine houses, which were
atone time seriously endangered. The
freight depot was filled with merchandise.
The total loss is estimated at from $35,000 to
$50,000 with an insurance of $25,000
A MINE DISASTER,
Eighty-Eight Whites and About 100
Chinamen Killed.
An explosion followed by a fire has caused
a harrowing disaster in a coal mine at the
eastern end of Vancouver's Island When
the explosion occurred a large number of
miners were at work at the bottom of the
shaft, and determined efforts were immediately
made to rescue them Over onehalf
of the imprisoned men leave wives
and families to mourn their untimely end
Samuel Hudson, who formed one of the rescuing
party, died from the effects of the after
damp. Five men were rescued alive, but seriously
injured. There were eighty-eight
whites ana about 100 Chinamen in the mine
at the time of the explosion.
Jules Michael, one of the injured, said that
he was sittinein his cabin at supper in No. 2
shaft. He ?eJt the concussion. All scrambled
out. He became insensible. Only one of his
four companions was saved The dead bodies
of the others came up in the cage with him.
Several .of " those rescued hardly appreciate
their miraculous escape, owing to the
dazed feeing which "characterized all
who came out from the deadly pit.
Michael was only 150 yards from the
entrance to the shaft when the explosion
occurred He represents it . as something
terrific. All became darkness. John
Lynch was badly injured about the face and
hands and had his hip fractured
A Nanaimo (B. C.) dispatch says: "All
hope of rescuing any one in the mines has
been long ago abandoned. It is thought that
all that man can do is being done to reach
tiinm T+ ot. firct. thnncnt nf mittinc a
ditch to the salt water, so as to attempt
to put out the fire in No. 2 shaft
by turning a stream of water mto
it, but the scheme was abandoned. It would
only flood the mine, rendering it practically
useless for a year, and would banish any
hope there might be of saving the lives
of the men. Imagine the scene. The mines
extend out from the shore more than a
mile beneath the waters of the harbor,
and as one looks over the placid
waters he cannot imagine that beneath
are imprisoned the fathers and sons of more
than eighty families of this little city. Around
the shaft tne scenes are harrowing in the extreme.
As each cage comes up, anxious faces
look there for glad tidings that never come. A
black pall hangs over the city. Business houses
are closed, collieries shut up, and the entire
population is gathered at the scene of the disaster.
Frantic wives, terror-stricken children,
and sorrowing fathers hover in the vicinity
and mourn over their terrible affliction.
"Women with babes clasped to their bosom3
walk up and down in front of the
shaft sobbing and moaning. Swarms of
terrified Chinese are on the grounds.
One woman laments the loss of
her husband, father, and brother?her all.
This is one of many cases."
Since the above dispatch was sent many
bodies have been recovered by searching parties.
A REMARKABLE TRIAL.
A Man Convicted of Murdering Hifl
Wife "Fourteen Years Ago.
The case of Jean P. Soquet, of Green Bay,
nVarwoH with the murder of his wife
fourteen years ago, has come to an end, the
jury returning a verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree. The case has been one of
peculiar interest, both on account of the many
years intervening bet ween the commission of
the crime and the trial, and other surrounding
circumstances. The trial occupied
two weeks. Soquet was charged with the
murder of h's second wife in June, 1873.
His third wife, whom he married soon
afterward, has also been missing since
January J, and is believed to have been mur'
dered by Soquet to prevent her being a witness
against him in this case. Mrs. Soquet
No. 2 was formerly Mrs. Aug. \Vainsart. Mr.
"Wainsart died about the same time of the
death of Mrs. Soquet No, 2, and. as was
proved,from poison. Mrs. Soquet No. 1) was arrested,
but released. It was shown in the
testimony of the present trial that Soquet
kept the neighborhood in which he lived terrorized
for twenty-five years. While it was
freely talked among the farmers that he had
murdered his two former wives, no onedared
whisper a word outside for fear of Soquet.
The spell was broken by the disappearance of
?? ' " n frii if
| Mrs. coquet r*o. o. me ni3? ui Ka?iuiu?j
secured since was astonishing. The jury
took only three ballots before they agreed.
Henry Ihmer, the oldest locomotive engineer
in the United States, died a few days
ago, in Whistler, Ala. He ran the first engine
over the Charleston and Hamburg road, the
third railroad built in this country. The
drivers of the engine were of hard wood.
General Bucl anger, the French Secretary
of War, has ordered that tradesmen
supplying food, clothing, etc., shall not be
allowed to enln* French forts unless accompanied
by soldiers. This is a precaution
against spies.
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MUSICAL AND DEAMATIC.
' Patti has been giving a farewell engagement
in Washington.
' They are still giving " Pinaforen in the
interior of Michigan
The Scotch universities have been asked to
grant degrees in music.
[ Bernhardt has not been doing well out
West. High prices are out of date.
A new show company in the West is composed
of Mongolians, who are known as tbe
Chinese students.
' P. T. Barntjm is worth over $18,000,000.
His circus partners are worth from fl,000,000
I to $3,000,000 each.
t Robert Buchanan, the English author,
thinks that the greatest living actors are to
be found in America.
( Mme. Bernhardt^ engagement in Chicago
resulted in a loss to the management.
The actress is now in California.
I " The Simpleton'1 is the title of Strauss'*
new coul'c opera to be produced next season,
, and which he says will De his best work,
i It is said that Sir Arthur Sullivan is devoting
a great deal of time to the oompoeition
of an opera to be entitled " Mary Stuart"
Irving will close his season in London on
the 16th of July and will leave for America
soon after, to remain until April, 1888.
.Beginning with the 4th of July, Theodore
Thomas will give a five weeks' concert season
at the big exhibition building, in Chicago.
Memphis has a musical prodigy, Tommis
Key, a five-year-old colored boy. it is said
he can play any tune on any instrument with
equal ease and excelleuce.
Mme. Patti is to make another South
American tour, beginning in April next. She
is to receive *5,000 for each performance,-and
all expenses of travel will be defrayed by the
management.
A correspondent says that by actual
count there were daring a recent week 80S
actual and legitimate actors behind New
York footlights, men and women cast' in
speaking parts, in twenty-four theatres.
J. K. Ekhbtt says that all the music inhia*
plays is written by himself. He says when he
struck the refrain in his famous Lullaby lie
jumped to his feet with as much enthusiasm
as if he had struck gold, and it was almost
as valuable.
The *'Golden Legend" has been sung jjn Albert
hall, London, in the presence of an andience
of 8,000 persons, with Nordica, who is
fliA ftnlr on a Alhani trlin haa minor
part in England. The young American scored,
a success of the first magnitude. She was- t >
cheered over and over again, and Sullivan
left his box to thank and congratulate her.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. :f ?|
Secretary Lamar and wife will spend a
month in the White Mountains this summer.
General Sheridan will be present at th?
unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument at New '
Haven, Conn., June 17. ? .
Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich iV
Islands; has a face that indicates bfenevolence
and good nature. Her features do not belie
hei? character.
General Sherman smokes a light domestic
cigar, limiting himself to three a day; '
General Sheridan puffs imported, three for
half a dollar. \
Judge McConnell, the new Chief Justiceof
Montana, is an aggressive temparance
nun He closed up every saloon in his judicial -i
circuit in Tennessee. '?
. Pom Leo received among his Easter giftsan
egg carved from a block of the finest ivory. j
lineawith quilted satin, and inclosing a ruby
and several diamonds. The gems were worm
$10,000.
Ex-Secretary Manning write? from ~
* Europe to a friend that he is nearly as strong
as ever, and will be home early in June to gointo
harness for the new bank in New York,
of which he will be President.
The Sultan of Turkey has just,had the
members of his harem vaccinated. There- *
were 180 in all. Tfce physicians were not permit
ted to see the Women, wbo poked tneir I
arms through an opening in a screen.
W. E. Darwin,son of the author of ^Origin
of Species," who is traveling in America, ae- v
clinee tc be interviewed. He has brown hair
and wears long side-whiskers, with shaven
chin and upper lip. His heiznt and size are /,
rather below the average, ana his appearance
is that of a country vicar. ' ..
George Francis Train says that when hestopped
eating meat, thirteen years ago, and
began living on fruit and grain he weighed
210 pounds. He now weighs 180, and as ne'ia
six lest in height he thinks ho has the correct
proportion. He has not been ill an hour since
he-began fasting.
Lady Cook, formerly Tennie C. Claflin, of
New York, has almost the face of a religious recluse,
wjthout the slightest expression of a
woman of the world. Her eyes are a cold,
steely blue and she looks to be at least fortyfive
years of age. Her husband is a linen
draper, knighted while in some municipal
office. :>*
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Missouri has 1203,000,000 worth of railroads.
The Southwestern earthquakes extended
over a section 1,000 miles wide.
Mexico is about to expend $4,000,000 in
improving the harbor of Vera Cruz. . . .
All cattlemen and other.whites have been
ordered off the Cheyenne reservation.
There are 8,800 persons in the various National
fhomes of the United States receiving
Government care.
The Mexican Senate has passed a Consti- ? ' -3
tutional amendment prohibiting the second
Preadential term.
A catch of 8,000 shad was made in one
haul on Raritan Bay, west of Sandy Hook,
one day recently. ,
The Chinese Government has made a contract
with a Birmingham, England, firm for
I - ?a# wlrni* on/1 HrnriTA minAffA.
it BUpJflJr VI OUTVI UUU m v.. 0
The America cup race will be sailed at New
York on September 27 and 29. A tie, should
there be one, will be sailed oft on October 1.
Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches
in New York city, Grace and Trinity, have
determined to make their pews free to the
public.
A coubt martial has sentenced to death
three Greek officers for treachery in having
surrendered to the Turks during frontier
fighting.
ScrsANTfA Madora Salter, justed elected
Mayor of Arigonia, a little town in Kansas
of 500 inhabitants, is the first woman ever
chosen for that office.
It costs a man forty cents every time l?
swears in Oxford, Penn., an ordinance
imposing such a fine having recently beo?
passed by the local council
George K. graham, once the owner
of Graham's Magazine and lor many *
years the leading publisher of Philadelphia,
who gave employment in their
early days to men and women who have
become the shining lights ot American
literature, is now a joor, infirm old
man, and bnt for the kindness of a philanthropic
Philadelphian would be in ]
the poorhouse. He is lying, a hopeless
and practically friendless invalid,
in a New York hospital. Among the
regular contributors to Graham's Magazine
were Henry W. Longfellow,
William Cullen Bryant, J. Fenimore
Cooper, Richard Henry Dana, Nathaniel
P. Willie, James Russell Lowell,
Lydia H. Sigourney, Francis Sargent
Osgood, and Ann S. Stevens. Some
of the earliest and best productions of
these now famous writers first appeared
in this rnihliriftfcinn. Edcrar A. Poe Was
lon? employed upon it and put some of
his best work in its pages.
Willie Lamb, a 13-year-old Kentucky
boy, found that a big rock had
fallen on the railroad track in a narrow
cut near Scottsburg. He waited an
hour and then flagged and stopped a
coming passenger train. The passengers
made up a purse for him. "I
didn't expect nothing," said Willie, "I
just didn't like to see the train busted
up."
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