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! KING MWANGA DEPOSED.
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A Bloodthirsty Monarch Dethroned
by His Body Guard.
Arabs Put a Number of Missionaries
to Death in Africa.
Information has just been received of a
Revolution in Uganda, Centra) Africa, which
has re?ulted in the complete overthrow of
Sling Mwanga, the slaughter of many Christian
officials appointed by his successor, the
deaths of many other converts to Christi
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nnitv, the enforced flight of the missionaries, i
and in a proclamation that hereafter Uganda |
if to be a Mohammedan country.
The outbreak, it seems, was entirely due to j
the bloodthirsty instincts and cruel inteutions j
of King Mwanga. In October he concocted n <
plot to destroy the members of his body guard.
The latter were under orders to take canoes |
lor a certain island in Lake Victoria j
Nyanza. There King Mwanga intended, j
after destroying the canoes, to de- j
sert them, in the belief that the
guards would soon die of starvation. The
guards, having been warned of the King's j
intentions, refused to make the trip, and |
turned the tables on Mwanga by suddenly j
returning to his capital and organizing an
attack on bis palace.
The attack was successf"!. T*? <?uards
were determined to k;Ii Mwanga if they
laid hands on him, brt be escaped by flight.
The victors in the tight named Kiwewa, j
the brother of Mwanga, as King, and
he was crowned. Kiwewa's policy was j
was not satisfactory to the bulk of the
people, as he appointed Christians j
to the principal offices. The discontent of I
the anti-Christian faction was soon fanned I
to fury and an irrezular hunt for Christians [
followed. Many of the Christian officials
were killed and the only Christians who es- i
car>ed death did so by flight.
Five converts to Christianity met death'in j
a curious way. They fled to the mission !
boat Eleanor and got safely aboard. Soon ;
afterward the boat was struck by a hippo- j
potamus with such force that it filled and j
6ank. The five converts were drowned.
The English and French mission stations j
"were burned, and as many of their inmates [
as could be found were murdered. All the j
missionaries, it is believed, escnpea ?uu
reached Usamboio safely. The Msalala de- I
pot is untouched. By the burning of the j
mission stations many letters addressed to ,
Henry M. Stanley and Emin Bey have been [
destroyed.
Mwanga was caught and is a prisoner !
at Mag we. H? has appealed to the J
English missionaries for asssistance. |
Missionary McKay lias received j
word from the revolutionists that :
they intend to destroy all the mission sta- ;
tions in Central Africa in revenge for Eng- i
land's anti-slavery policy, and he is warned i
that missionaries will not be treated with
more tenderness than their missions.
Uganda is in the eastern part of Central
Africa, has an area of 34,000 square mi'.es,
and a population of 5,000,000, It is divided i
Into three provinces?Uddu in the south, j
Bingo in the west, and Chanewe in the east, i
The men of Uganda are tall and well built, j
with chocolate-colored skin and woolly hair, j
The Government is feudal, the King being j
nominally supreme. Succession is hereditary, I
nominally, but the successor is generally a minor,
who is chosen by three hereditary chiefs,
who, with the young King's mother, carry
on the Government until he attains his
majority. King Mwanga is of the Wahuma
trite, 'fhe late Kine Mtesa claimed direct
descent from Kintu, (Ham).
The Waganda are a warlike people and all (
males hold themselves in readiness for mili- i
tary service.
Mwanga is probably the met bloodthirsty
monster in Africa, and is subject
to paroxysms of uncontrollable
rage. Whenever he has heard of the I
approach of a European traveler he ha3 j
been terriblv excited, and ordinarily he has '
relieved his feelings by butchering mission- |
aries. In 18S6 ne burned at the stake I
iorty converts of the missions of i
the Roinan Cathojic and English
Churches. Bishop Harrington was treacherously
assassinated by this unreasoning
savage despot a nd many other missionaries
have sharea the same fate. When Mwanga
beard of the Stanley expedition, he cast murderous
eyes on the nearest mission stations,
but finally contented himself with sending
envoys to Emin to demand explanations.
His plot against his bodyguard, which has
led to his dethronement, is characteristic of
this inhuman savage. What effect
Mwanga's imprisonment will have upon
Emin's fortunes it is idle to conjecture.
The brutal King has been his chief
enemy on the Bouth, and has blocked the
road to the coast. His dethronement would
naturally be helpful to Emin. The exten?ion
of Mahometan sway, however, will
have the effect of exciting renewed hostility
to Europeans.
FBOMINENT PEOPLE.
John Bright believes in phrenology.
The Queen of Portugal has a mustache.
King William of Holland is reported
dying.
Prince Bismarck is again suffering with
neuralgia.
James G. Blaine has engaged apartments
in Washington for the winter.
The young Duchess of Braganza is at pres- j
?nt a popular idol at Portugal.
The fund for the tenefit of Mrs. Matthew
Arnold has now reached $40,00;'.
There is a probability that Browning will
be the next Foet Laureate of England.
Lord Randolph Churciui.l has given up
his contemplated trip to South America.
Ex-Ma you HEWiTT.of New York,paid out
$40,000 in his unsuccessful attempt to be reelected.
Ex-Preside.\t Woolsey, of Yale College,
th->u?h nearly ninety years of age, is still
? /' rigorous.
A new statue of the Duke of "Wellington
was rec ntly unveiled in Loudon by the
Prince of Wales.
H. P. Cheatham, who has been elected to
Congress from the Second North Carolina
District, was born in slavery.
The Russian Czar delights tt show his
good will toward France by delicate attentions
to her distinguished citizens.
M. Carnot, President of France, is a firs*
class carjenter, and can handle the saw
and piane as well as any mechanic.
Geokge Routi.edge, the London publisher
who died the other day. printed ui?d
boju wv.iwu oi uncie lomscatiin."
Dom Pkdro, of Brazil, is the oidest reizning
sovereign now living. He mounted the
throne in ISil at the age of six years.
The two most punctual men in the Hou?e
of Representatives are Buchanan, of New
Jersey, and S. V. White, of Brooklyn.
A SlOt'X chief named Lime Wolf says that
"William F. Cody (Buffalo Billi is the biggest
coward of a white man who ever rode over
the plains.
Ex-Postmaster-General Frank Hatto
v, who has just bought the Washington
Post, was the youngest citizen ever called to
a position in the Cabinet
Congressman Martcn, of Texas, is sixtyflve
years old, the lather of nina chi dn?n
and the owner of lO.Oi'O head of cattle and
10,000 ai res of ranch land.
Bill NyE, tbe humorist, is now driving
the wolf from the door at tho rate of at least
$4.r>0 a week, and Jamss Whitcomb Riley'i
jucuorc is not rauca, 11 any, smaller.
Richard Quay, son o" the Pennsylvania
Senator, is a partner of Senator
Cameron in the ownership of a splendid cat%e
ranch, eight miles s (uare, in Mexico.
Montgomery Sears, one of the richest
young men in Boston, is rated as worth
$5VK>o,(iOt). His father, Joshua Sears, carne
to the Hub without a penny and laid the
foundations of his fortune iu a-gro:-ery store.
Gknkral Harrison has just had his life
insured for in a New York agency at
Indianapolis. The papers were drawn up in
favor of Mrs. Harrison. The certificate of
the examining physician was to the effect
that General Hhrrison has no trace of any
organic disease and is in perfect health.
Georgk Vandsrbilt, the young New
York millionaire, has purchased about three
thousand acres of fine land near Ashevil'.e.
N. C. Mr. Yanderbilt will not talk for publication
concerning his plans, but there is a
report which he does not contradict that he i?
about to establish * women's college there.
Thk International Exhibition or norsoa,
asses, etc., to be held in Paris in 1889. has
been fixed definitely for the 1st to the 10th of
September. The prizes have been largely
Increased, and the highest for the best horse
in the exhibition will be $3000.
i
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle Stares.
The (,'unarder Urabria has made the eastern
voyage across the Atlantic in six days,
two hours and fortv-lirg minutes from Sandy
Hook. N. J., to Browhead, thus beating ail
previous records.
The bodies of the dead were all recovered
at Pittsburg, and at Heading it was found
that a corrected list of those killed by the
storm numbered twenty-threo.
J. B. Morrison*, a prominent dentist of
Pittsburg, Penn.. committed suicide in a fit
of dyspeptic melancholy.
Samuel Becket. the President of an iron
foundry company in Arlington, N. J., committed
suicide at his home by inhaling gas.
The third special trial trip of the dynamite
cruiser \ esuvius has I een made over
the new Government course at Delaware
Breakwater. Penn. It was a complete sue
cess, the ves?el attaining a speed of SI.til
knots, which makes her the fastest war ship
afloat.
Chari.es Crisp was killed and Mrs. Herkimer
injured fatally on the Long Island
Kailroad.
Mrs. Gould, wife of Jay Gould, the millionaire,
has died after a lingering illness at
her home in New York city.
A fire broke out in the five-siory brick
building occupied by Smith, Pratt & Herriok,
in Albany, N. Y. It was only after a
light of live hours that the fire was extinguished.
The loss is about 00.
"William Carroll and a boy named
Bostley were killed bv the fall of an elevator
at the Walter A. Wood Mowing Machine
Works at Hoosaic Falls, N. Y. Ahem and
Jansea, the other passengers on the elevator,
were fatally injured.
A fight between riotous Hungarian and
Italian miners, near Scranton, Penn., resulted
in three deaths.
Lieutenant Charles Richards Miles,
United States Navy, the young naval officer
who has been very ill with yellow fever on
board the Yantic in New York Harbor, since
the vessel's return from Hay ti, is dead.
The Republican caucus of Massachusetts
nominated, by acclamation. George F.
Hoar to succeed himself as United States
Senator. The Democratic caucus nominated
General P. A. Collins.
Miss Ada Walker,h teacher in a Springfield,
(Vt.) public school, committed suicide
by drowning in the Black River. She was
the daughter of James R. Walker, a wellknown
farmer and writer on agricultural
subjects.
Senator Hoar has been re-elected by the
Massachusetts Legislature. The vote stood:
In the Senate, Hoar thirty-two, General
Collins, six; in the House, HoarlTl, and Collins
fifty-six.
J-'^-vror Frye, of Maine, has been reelected.
Three girls lost their lives at a fire in a
cigar box factory in Fifth street, New York
city.
Sonth and West.
An immense crowd attended toe funeral
of Owen Brown, son of John Brown, and last
survivor of the Harper's Ferry trageay, at
f asadena, Cal. He was seventy-four years
old.
Av ^idemic of diphtheria prevails at Argyle,
Minn.
As there is neither ice nor snow in St.
Paul, Minn., the project of the ice palace
and carnival has fallen through.
James Barber, a prominent farmer of
Kr,?vn<y Hill TCnn__ has been eored to death
by a Holstein bull which he was leading ic
the barn.
Elmer Sharkey, of Eaton, Ohio, qunrreled
with his mother because she objected
to his marriage. At two o'clock next morning
be beat his mother's brains out with a
maJlet The Sharkey's are among the richest
people in the county.
At Benwood.W. Va., an unoccupied house
was demolished by an explosion of gunpowder,
and two boys, who had temporarily
taken shelter in it, were killed.
Three men were killed by a boiler explosion
at Petosky, Mich.
Mrs. Clem^iie Cox. a demented woman,
locked herself in her room at Paris. Texas,
and, saturating her clothes with coal oil, set
them on fire. She was burned to death.
D. R. Driscoll, City Marshal of Florence,
Mo., was killed by Isaac Willi, who escaped
from jail sorae time ago. Willi was followed
and killed.
A battle took place between over 200
citizens of Cimarron and Ingalls.two Kansas
towns which are fighting for possession
of the county records, during which J. W.
English and John Blis<, two of the loading
citizens of Cimarron, were killed and a score
of others wounded. The crowd was dispersed
by the State militia.
Isham G. Harris was nominated by the
Democratic legislative caucus at Nashville,
Tenn., to succeed himself as United States
Senator. The nomination is equivalent to
election.
Senator Manderson has received the
unanimous vote of the Republican caucus of
Xoi.rneta Ipp^slators for United States Sen
ator to succeed himself. The caucus also I
resolved to submit the prohibition question
to the popular vote.
Governor Alvin P. Hovey, of Indiana,
was inaugurated at Indianapolis; Joseph W.
Fifer took the oath as Governor of Illinois
at Springfield, and D. K. Francis was inaugurated
as Governor of Missouri.
United States Senator Charles F.
MandeRSON, of Nebraska, has been reelected
by the Legislature. He received a
vote of 104 to 29.
The Michigan Legislature ha? elected
James McMillan, of Detroit,as United States
Senator to succeed T W. Palmer.
E. O. Walcott has been elected Upited
States Senator from Colorado to sucbeed
Thomas M. Bowen, receiving the solid Hepubiican
vote. C. 0. Thomas received th?
complimentary vote of the Democrats.
Wesley Barne:t, the notorious half
breed Creek Ind an desperado, who has beer,
the terror of Indian Territory for years, has
been killed. He was the leader of a desperat*
band of thieves and outlaws in the Creek
Nation.
Washington.
The Senate and House of Indiana met ir
joint convention at Indianapolis and listened
to the farewell message of Governor Isaac P
Gray.
Senator Plvmb has been renominated bj
the joint Republican caucus of the Kansas
Legislature.
A fight between cowboys and shepherd;
took place near Holbrook, Arizona, in which
three men were killed and three fatally
wounded.
Gineral Harrison is hard at work at his
home in Indianapolis on his inaugural.
Comptroller Trknholm has :ssu?d a circular
in regard to the affairs of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company, in which
he says: "No dividend has been declared sirtct
May 12,1883, and the assets are not likely tc
allow of another dividend."
President Cleveland has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Henry W. Beckwith,
of Illinois, to be United States Consul
at Bermuda.
Secretary and Mrs. Whitney inaugurated
their official hospitalities of the season
at Washington by a brilliant reception, at
which they entertained a distinguished company.
Mrs. Cleveland has held the first public
reception of the season at the White House.
Over POOO persons attended.
Sfeaker Carlike has appointed as the
j conferrees on the part of the House to consider
the question of concurrence with the
Senate on the bill to incorporate the Maritime
Canal Company of Nicaragua. Messrs.
Clardy, Rayner, and O'Neilof Pennsylvania.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland were
entertained by the Secretary of State and
the Misses Bayard at a Cabinet dinner.
The President has nominated W. B. Webb
to be Commissioner of ti e District of Colum
bla, Thomas C. Anderson, of Iowa, to be
.Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Utah, and Henry J. Munn to l?e Collector of
Customs for the Pamlico District of North
Carolina.
The Secretary of the Navy has issued intl
j ?1 l'imknfltr pnm. i
I structions 10 iiear auimuiu n.iu.?v. .j,
] manding the Pacific station, to proceed in
the United States ship Trenton to Samoa,for
the purpose of protecting American interests
on that island.
Secretary Vilas has reported to Congress
that a commission, after conference
with the Utes of Southern Colorado, had induced
the Utes to agree to cede their lands
for a new reservation in Utah, to which they
agreed to remove for a per capita payment
of J #1000, $20,000 worth of sheep and $2000
to each of the five leading chiefs and the
; establishment of a new agency on the new
reservation. The new reservation will contain
2,1112,000 acres.
The President has npproved the act for
the relief and civilization of the Chippewa
Indians in Minnesota.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Walter C. Newberry to be Postmaster at
Chicago.
President Cleveland has transmitted
to both houses of Congress a report from the
Secretary of State, with correspondence exhibiting
the progress of the disturbances in
Samoa up to the present date.
Foreign.
A great fire occurred in the Elcvpnth
Arondissement of Paris. The school build
ings were destroyed.
The Bank of England rate of discount has
been reduced from five to four per cent.
The damage wrought by the cyclone in
Canada is estimated at ?'J,OOO.OOJ.
The Russian budget for 1880 has been iseued.
It shows a surplus of $2,2-50,000.
The insurgent tribes of the Zanzibar
(Africa) coast attacked the German misssion
at Dares-Salaam. A stout de fense was made
and the blacks were repulsed. -The losses in
killed and wounded were heavy on Loth
sides. There was continuous figthing for
several days at Lindikelwa between boats
from the German squadron and the enemy
on shore. The native villages have been
shelled.
An earthquake has almost totally destroyed
the town of Guanare, Venezuela.
Russia has increased her army by from
80,000 to 100,000 men.
The yield of gold in Queenstown for 188?
was 420,000 ounces, an increase of 2'J,00C
ounces over the yield of 18S7.
Snowstorms are reported in Eastern Europe.
Railways in Galicia and Roumania
are blocked by snowdrifts.
The steamer Phyopeket has been sunk by
a collision with an unknown vessel off Singapore,
India. Forty-two persons were
drowned.
A duel was fought in Paris between twc
journalists, Henri Rochefort and M. Lissagary.
The weapons were swords. Both
combatants were wounded. M. Lissagary's
wounds were dangerous.
A uAirci? of Mnrcnilloa TTronno inhnhi'foH
by Italians, collapsed. Seven of the occuEants
were killed and nine injured. Ihe
uilding had been undermined by floods.
The Parnell Commission in London has
resumed its investigation.
While on a shooting excursion at Buckow,
the Emperor of Germany, having by accident
wounded a citizen of Berlin, who was
looking on at the sport, expressed his deep
regret for the occurrence and begged the
victim of his misdirected aim to pay him a
visit as soon as he recovered from his
wounds.
LATER NEWS,
Miss Carrie Platt, a wealthy younc lady,
was killed by the cars at Danbury, Conn.
Joseph Mookehocse, aged sixty-eight, |
boss dyer at the woolen mill at Webster,
Mass., and his niece, Ella Cooper, of Woodstock,
Conn., while crossing the railroad
track were struck by a train and thrown
fifty feet. Their skulls were crushed and
both died in a few minutes.
Oxe Gila Btnita, a cowboy. dres;ed and
painted as an Apache Indian, made a descent
upon Mexican herders in the employ of Don
Pedro, of Montana, recently, killing five and
wounding one.
Two small boys, Sidney Watson and
Joseph Harper, playing on the ice in the
harbor at Chicago, broke through and wera
drowned.
The public schools at Albert Lea, Minn.,
have been closed on account of a diphtheria
epidemic.
The Exchange bank of Dunlap, Iowa, ha?
failed with $o0,000 liabilities.
The Michigan Senate and House, in joint
assembly, have formally declare 1 James
McMillan elected United States Senator to
succeed Mr. Palmer.
Asbury Evans, a farmer, whose fortune
is estimated at $500,030, hanged himself at
his home near Elkhart, lnd-, because of the
death of his favorite dog.
Public Printer Benedict has transmitted
his annual report for the year 18SS
to the Senate.
The most elaborate fireworks ever seen in
this country will mark the inauguration of
President-elect Harrison in Washington. i
The President has directed the Secretary
of War to order Judge-Advocate-General
Swaim. now under court-martial sentence of j
suspension, before a Retiring Board, to be I
examined with a view to determining
whether his existing disabilities are such as
to incapacitate mm i<ji um;.
The proposed International Maritime Conference
has been postponed from April to the
end of September. Secretary Bayard has
informed the different Governments of the
postponement of the conference.
a letter from Henry m. Stanley, the
explorer of Africa, dated August 17, has been
eceived at Brussels; it confirmed the news
of his safe arrival on the Aruwhinii.
Damage estimated at ? '5.000,000 was done
by an earthquake in Costa Rica, West
Indies.
THE LABOR WORLD.
TnK St. Marks Railroad in Florida fcas a
lady conductor.
In* Eastern shoe factories the girls make
from $7 to $10 a week.
In nearly every industry men are paid two
to three times as much as gii-Js.
In New England candy factories the wages
of girls are from $4 to $6 a week.
Ix the California cotton mills the average
pay of a woman is $7.50 a week.
Beside locomotives, there were seventeen
rotary snow-plows built last year.
as a rule, the hours of labor have been reduced
within the past half century.
There are indications of another big
strike in the fennsylvaia coke regions.
Three men over eighty years of age are
employed in a factory in Taunton, Mass.
The average of salaries paid to working
girls in the city of New York is about $5.35
a week.
About 4000 laborers employed on the Culebra
cut of Che Panama Canal have been discharged.
An increase of fifteen cents per day has
been granted the striking switchmen ac
Lima, Ohio.
The average salary earned in Germany by
men working on machino-made shoesis ai>out
a week.
For girls under fifteen years old in Northern
factories the pay is from thirty cents to
seventy cents a day.
Fhom 400 to 500 tramps have taken up their
abode in empty coke ovens between Pittsburg
and Johnsiown, Penn.
As electrical locomotive is building at the
locomotive works in Rome, N. Y. It will be
constructed as an experiment.
There are said to be women in Cincinnati
who do all the work on pantaloons for five
cents a pair, and furnish their own machines.
There are now in the Southern States
more than 300 cotton mills weaving l.SUO.OUO
spindles against 160 mills and 700,0^0 spindles
in 1SS0.
The retail clerks of San Francisco are said
to be preparing to make a vigorous elfort in
the b-.-glulling o? ISaO tj establish early closing
in stor
The Amalgamated Union of American
PiiptumtiJiv hucit'J lirn nphtx nml *A" > 'li
Lerjv. It is the rival of the American Brotherhood
of Carpenters, whicti has a iuuc'a
larger membership.
The eight-hour system oflabor, which was
adopted in Australia many years ago, has
bteu found to operate so advantageously
there that it is now upheld by both employers
and wage-worker?.
The Municipal Council of Paris maintains
at ati annual expense of $4000 the Labor
Bourse, or Exchange, where workers of
all kinds can seek employment, and where
the labor societies have their headquarters.
TIE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Second and Formal Election For
President and Yice-President.
How the Electoral Ballots Have
Been Oast in the State Capitals.
In every State of this Union on Monday
distinguished citizens, chosen last November
for the purpose, met at their respective
iA-1- 1. J- Pmoi'.
capitals to uu me crckucu iuuuS vuc x . v?ident
of these United States. The voting in
which the people at large participated on
November 6, while it was of course an expression
of their will, was only a mere factor
of the real balloting performed on Monday.
The labors of the electors of the various
States are not generally understood,says the
New York Sun. At Albany, lor instance,
the thirty-six Republican electors will meet,
and after thoroughly examining the tabulated
lists, will cast their ballots and then
sign the declarations prepared by the Secretary
of State. This done they will vote for
some distinguished citizen of the State, who
will be commissioned a messenger to the
Electoral College,
To his care, within a few days, will be
committed a sealed package containing the
results of the electors' work, together with
duplicate lists prepared by the Secrelary of
State, properly signed and sealed, and he
will then proceed to Washington and formally
hand the package to the President of
the Senate. At the same time another set of
documents, sealed and signed, will be sent by
mail to the President of the Senate.
To be a messenger of a Board of Electors
is considered almost as much of an honor as
to be chosen Governor. The fortunate individual
not only has bis expenses paid, but
his name is engrossed on the archives of the
State.
It has happened in many of the States in
times past that tBe Secretary of State has
forgotten to provide for a ballot box, and of
a necessity a hat belonging to one of the electors
has been used. Thereafter the possessor
I fila n11atv?arl if. mnot. nnfc
Vi uuo mw * v? "V
even daring to wear it lest it should be lost
or damaged, and at his death bsqueathing it
as an heirloom to his descendants.
The question has often arisen: "Has any
elector ever cast his ballot contrary to the
pledge of honor which he gave when he was
chosen?'' There has not been an instance of
this kind since 1796, yet by the method of balloting
in vogue there is absolutely nothing to
prevent an elector from depositing a ballot
contrary to that expected from him.
There is no open declaration of his preference;
he deposits a written or a printed slip,
as the case may be, and should another name
from that exp-cted to be cast it would be difficult
to ascertain who it was had forgotten or
disregarded his pledge.
It is this simple fact which has caused so
much surprise amone statesmen of other
countries ever since the nineteenth century
began, and more particularly since the developmentof
the country became the wonder
of the age. In this connection it is safe to
say that Benjamin Harrison will receive all
of the votes 10 which he is entitled, name)y,
233, and that Grover Cleveland will follow in
Becond place with 163.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
BosTo.v-bos 101 club&
Skating is in full swing in Parii
Bkklin is to have rubber pavements.
UKKiiUN oppies are snipped to v^uiiiu.
Brooklyn has 80,0.'>g school children.
The Patent Lc<ather Trust has suspended.
In France last year 701 wolves were killed.
The English cavalry are wofully short of
horses.
Thekk are 3000 professional tramps in
California.
In 188S 023 persons died in Connecticut
from old age.
Thkrb was a decline in tonnage last year
on the canals.
The Virginia peanut crop is almost a total
failure this year.
Only eight counties in Kansas are no*r
without railroads.
There were eight lynchingB in North
Carolina last year.
Over a million tons of pig-iron were made
in the South in 1838.
The Southern Pacific Railway earned
about $47,000,00J last year.
The winter in France has thus far been
the sawrest in fifteen years.
Maine's mackerel catch for last year is in
the neighborhood of 25,000 pounds.
You may Le incinerated iu Philadelphia
now?after you are dead?for $28.
There were nearly fifteen thousand weddings
in New York city last year.
France is excited over the attitude of the
United States on the Panama Canal question.
Before the new year was fifteen minutes
old murder was committed in New York
city.
A town of Oklahoma boomers grew from
fifty inhabitants to five thousand in sixteen
days.
1 he next Legislature of North Carolina
will have about 1400 justices of the peace to
elect.
Three hundred and fifty-one patents
Af WTnnVtinmt'rtn in AAA /lav ha
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cently.
The records of Kansas show the amount
of land mortgages in the State to be i'Sio,1)00,000.
The United States hog cholera commssion
is traveling through the South seeking for
information.
There will be sixteen Republican Representatives
in the next Congress from the
Southern States.
New Jersey has 10 5 public schools, employing
4121 teachers and giving instruction
to 3;>7,t>4i pupils.
t The value of the agricultural products of
the South in lbSS was $300,(MO,(JOU, against
8570,000,000 in IPSO.
Careful estimate* place the number of
people living within ten miles of Boston
Common at l,0JO,U(K).
Eastern markets are overstocked with
apples, and a great quantity is going to
waste lor want uf saie.
It is deemed a flattering sign of the times
that seats in the New York Stock Exchange
are now held at $il,r>00.
Sioux City will send a special "corn
palace'' train to Washington at the time of
Harrison's inauguration.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided
that railroad stock is taxable in the
county in which it is held.
Thk bank clearings at our thirty-seven
largo cities Jor twelve months of 18&5 aggregated
about $41), 15)1,000,000.
About 154 deaths during the last four
years is the record of slaughter at railway
grade-crossings in Philadelphia.
Over 3s3,000 immigrants landed in New
York during the past year. This is about
12,000 above the record for 1s87.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. :
The author of "Madame Angot" has a new
boaffe nearly ready.
Marie Van Zandt, the American vocalist,
is singing In Portugal.
Edmond Audran, the French composer,
has about completed a new comic operu.
Rubinstein has finished a new grand
opera, "Uorivska." on a Russian subject.
Mr. Wiiktherill, the husband of Emma
Abbott, the American prima donna, is dead.
Lawrence Barrett is afflicted with a
glandular swelling that is likely to prove
serious.
The musical colleges of Chicago are said
to bo unsurpassed by three in any other
American city.
Edwin Booth and Lawrenca Barrett are
to receive f'JO.lWO cash for seven perlormances
in Louisville.
It is said that Joseph Jefferson intends to
engage botli John Gilbert and C. W. Couldock
for next season.
W. J. Florence, the comedian, is contemplating
a big reviva' of one of Shakespeare's
plays next season.
The London papers are unanimous and
enthusiastic in their praise of Henry Irving's
impersonation of Macbeth.
John P. Sousa, the leader of the
Marine band of Washington, has sold to
Francis Wilson, the comedian, a new comic
opera called "The Wolf." Under the contract
Mr. Wilson agrees to produce it in New
York city within a year. The scene is laid
in Spain,
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. ]
The Senate.
22d Day.?Onlv six Senators were present '
at the opening. Mr. Butler moved a call of
the Senate. The Chair declined to entertain
the motion. After an hour's delay a quorum j 1
assembled The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Tariff bill, the pending e
question being on the amendment offered by \
Mr. Plumb, to strike out of paragraph 557 ?
the words "except when frozen or packed in t
ice, or otherwise prepared bv any process, for t
preservation"?so as to let the paragraph ^
read simply "fresh fish" (free). Messrs. Hoar {
and Frye opposed it. After a long debate,
fresh fish was struck off the free list of the j
Tariff bill and made dutiable at one-half <
cent a pound. j
!S5d Day.?Consideration of the Tariff bill i
was resumed. Quite a number of minor (
amendments were adopted. After the read- ]
ing of the entire bill was completed, the Sen- (
ate. in Committee of the Whole, went back j
to the provisions which had been informally j
passed over. A number of verbal amend- \
inents intended to make clear portions of the ,
Ill] were maae 10 me administration secuuiis. ,
24th Day.?The Senate proceeded to the .
consideration of the Tariff bill,and Mr. Alii- ,
son. on the part of the Finance Committee, ^
reported two new sections, which he proposed .
to offer as amendments. 1 hey related to a )
lounty on sugar, and provided that until |
April, l'.KJO, there shall be paid to the producer
of sugar from beets, sorghum,or sugar
cane grown within the United States a bounty
of one cent per pound.... Mr. Hoar intro- \
duced a concurrent resolution, which was j
referred, providing for the counting of the
votes for President and Vice-President in the
House of Representatives, on Wednesday,
February 13. (
25th Day.?The Senate discussed for five
hours and a half an amendment to the Tariff
bill, which proposed to strike from the free
list atter of roses and substitute salt. No
action was taken, and the Senate adjourned
with the amendment still pending. The
principal speakers were Messrs. Vest, Voornees,
Aldrich, Hiscock and Plumb.
2Hth Day.?The debate on the Tariff bill
was continued.... The correspondence in the J
Samoan affair and about the seizure of the
steamer Haytien Republic was laid before
the Senate.
The House.
24tti Day.?Chairman Dibble, of the Pul>lic
Buildings Committee, succeeded in offer- ,
ing the conference report on the Milwaukee
Buil ling bill, and it was adopted, as also was
a report on the Umaha isuuaing 0111. meu
Mr. Dibble tried to offer a third conference
report, but Mr. Weaver moved that the
House adjourn, and filibustering was engaged
in over this motion until both the day
and night sessions were consumed without
accomplishing anything.
25th Day.?The deadlock which bas been
maintained through ten days by the filibustering
tactics of Mr. Weaver has been
broken The Pension bill, the Military
Academy and Diplomatic and Consulate Appropriation
bills were passed In Committee
of the Whole a bill to revive the grade of
Lieutenant-General was reported favorably
from the Committee on Military Affairs.
lifiTH Day.?Immediately after the reading
of the journal, Mr. Randall from the Committee
on Rules,retorted a resolution rescinding
the rules requ'ring a dailv adjournment
at five o'clock. After debate this was adopted
by a vote of 155 to 85....Under the call of
States, Mr. Cowles introduced a bill embodying
the internal revenue features of the
Mills bill.
27th Day.?The bill for the admission of
South Dakota into the Union was taken up
and discu-sed until the hour of adjournment.
Chairman Springer opened the debate, and
was 'ollowea by Messrs. Cox and Gifford.,..
The bili which provides that there be established
off Sandy Hook, N. J., a new lightship
with a steam fog signal, the entire cost of
which shall not exceed $<?.' ,0(10, vras passed
128th Day.?The debate in the House on
the Territorial bills was continued. Delegate
Joseph, of New Mexico, delivered au earnest
r-peech in behalf of the admission of that
territory. Delegate Voorhees, of Washing- i
ton Territory, delivered a strong speech in
behalf of the admission of his Territory.
RAILROAD MEN AO-REE.
Important Conference In New York ,
?An Interstate Association.
Substantially all the leading railroads of
the country were represented by their Presi- ]
dents or other officers at a meeting held in
New York for the purpose of effecting a
radical reformation in railroad matters, rate j
cutting and other troubles having caused a
great depreciation in the securities of moe'.
of the companies. Prominent New York
bankers also too* part in the conference on
behalf of the security holders. A committee
which had been appointed to perfect a plan
of organization submitted a long report, |
which was adopted. The essence of the proposition
o" the committee is that an association
be formed of th8 Presidents of railroad companies.
The purpose of such an association
shall be the enforcement of the Interstate
Commerce act, and the establishment and
maintenance of reasonable and uniform
rates; to secure complete reports of all com- i
petitive traffic subject to the Interstate act, .
and such other traffic as may hereafter be '
deemed advisable. ,
A Board of Managers shall be formed to j
consist of one accredited representative from J
each company whose President is a member .
I of the association. This Board shall meet \
monthly, or at such fpecial times as may be ,
I deemed necessary. They shall appoint rate j
J oommittees to consider all changes in rates. (
One officer from each company shall be held ]
responsible for the maintenance of rates by ,
| bis company. Agencies and commissions (
shall be regulated or abolished. No conces- ,
sions shall be made to iufluence business. All |
ronnrta must lifl curtified.
For violation of any of the laws or rules of '
the proposed association penalties are provided.
including dismissal from service of
any employe responsible for such violation. !
The association, when formed, is to be
known as the Interstate Railway Association.
As a guarantee of good faith each
member of the association will be required
to keep in a bank, to be named by the mana- I
gers and to the credit of the managers, not
less than *1000 and not more than ?5003, as
may be agreed upon.
The plans submitted by the committee
have the endorsement of the Interstate Commerce
Commissioners.
AT.T icnoun is toe name or a gigantic black
trooper who was promoted on the field to bo
Sergeant for his conspicuous gallantry in
hand-to-hand fighting with the dervwhes at
6uakin.
THE iMAKKEIS.
3 NEW TORS.
Beeves 3 50 @ 5 10
Milch Cows, com. to good...SO 00 (a~>0 u0
Calves,common to prune.... 0 00 @ y 00
Sheen *1 50 @ 5 50
| Lambs 0 50 & 7 ?5
Hogs?Live 5 50 5 85
Dressed _ & @
Flour?City Mill Extra. 5 cu ug . > ~u
Patents 5 til) (CQ 7 00
Wheat? No. 2 Red 97 @
Rye?State 5^ @ (52
Barley?No. 1 S4 @ fr5
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 08 @ -55 I
Oats?No. I White ? (0 H9
f Mixed Western tM? @ 32
Hay?No. i 82K@ W
Straw?Long Rye SO @ 85
Lard?City steam ? @ 7.4(>c
Butter?Mate Creamery.... 21 (<3 2!i
Dairy, fair to good.. 18 ($ 20
West. Im. Creamery 16 <?} 21
Factory 13 @
Cheese? State Factory Jl%
Skims?.Medium.... (>K@
AVestern 10 @ 11'^
Eggs?State and Penn 18)^@ ?
BUITAOa
Steers?Western 3 25 @ 4 00
Sheep?Meu.iimto Goo.l ... 4 25 @ 5 00
Lanios?Fair to (too 1 5 50 fa 0 00
Hogs?Good to hoice \ orka 5 20 @ 5 5">
Flour?Family 5 00 @ 5 25
Wheat?No. - Northern ? ($ 1 21}?
Corn?So. Vdiow 4 ) @ 40
Cat.??No. 2. White ? ? SI
Parley?State. to @ 10
K< ?<TOV.
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. G 8"> @ 7 .5
Corn?Steamer Yellow. 40 (S 47^
Onts?No. 54 \\ hit6
b ye? State 63 <<|| 64
WATIRTOWX (MASS.) C ATX LB MARKST.
] eef? Dressed weight. (i 7}<f
Sheep?Live weight 5'i
J.atnb* ''h? ^
Hogs?Northern ? (t$ C%
PHILADELPHIA
Flour?Penn. family 4 @ 4 '5
"Wheat?No. :i, Red, Jan... 9'>4^
Corn?No. 5J, .Tan... -il.'ii# 41^
Cats?Ungradfi Wnite ? @ 3oj^
j>or. ,r. e?Kar v o o5 to 40
Butter?Creamery Extra... ? 6$ -S
Cheese?v"uiR s.ums 6 (& b
i
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V
'ASSENGEKS BOASTED ALIVE
L Green Brakeman's Error Causes a
Fatal Collision.
The worst wreck in the history of the New
fork, Pennsylvania and Ohio road occurred
it three o'clock in the morning one and a
ialf miles east of Tallmadge, Ohio. The
ast bound fast express, No. &, consisting cf
)aggage and express car, smoker, coach and
,wo sleepers, crashed into a westbound extra
reight. No. 81. Eight persons were killed
ind a dozen injured.
The long freight train, in ascending a
leavy grade just east of Tallmadge, broke
n two. The first part was taken to a siding
lear Tallmadge and Engineer Kobinson. before
starting back for the other part of the
;rain, put out as flagman his fireman, named
Brady, an old railroader, fearing to, trust to
:be brakeman, who was a green hand. A
lagman had also been sent back as a warning
to trains from the east. The engineer
ihen went back and coupled on to the remainder
of the freight train to pull it also to
i siding. He then gave a signal of four long
whistles and one short whistle to call in the
rear flagman. The flagman near Tallmadge
thought he heard four long whistles without
?iKa eJrrnol tnn hrtt.li to
liUUSUUiVVilC l/uu .v. ?w?? .._Q ,
return. Putting out his lantern, he started
back,thus leaving noguard toward the west.
Just as he got to the freight engine, the
walk taking him about fifteen minutes, the
fast express dashed round the sharp curve
into the cut from which the freight was just
Btarting and then came the awful crash.
Engineer Huntington reversed hisengine and
put on the air brakes, and then bad no
time to jump. He and his fireman were
crushed to death. The baggage car, smoker
and ladies' coach were telescoped. The smoking
car and the passenger car next to it took
fire, and then followed the slow roasting
of wedged-in passengers. Most pitiful of
all was the fate of a little girl traveling
alone, ticketed from the far AV est to Cherry
Creek, N. Y. She was not injured by the
crash, but a seat caught her fast and held her
as in a vice, and then the flames crept up and
slowly burned her to death.
There were seven Chinamen in th6 smoker,
and three were pinned in the wreck and consumed
by the fire, which reduced to embers
the smoker and the passenger car next to it.
The little girl and the Chinamen
were pinned down by seats, and their
shrieks rent the air until the smoke
sti filed them. The passengers who escaped,
and the farmers, who were quickly
on the scene, worked heroically, but
were beaten back by the fierce heat All
that remained of the six persons in the three
coaches was a heap of bones and burnt flesh,
gathered up in a common receptacle. The
express engine was smashed to bits. Three
freight cars and an oil car took fire and burned
up. The loss to the railroad company
is $35,000. A quantity of gold and silver
bricks in the express car were partly fused
with the wreckage. A strong guard was put
about them. A lawyer who was going East
to try an important case saw his trunk full
of valuable papers burn up, and remarked:
'There goes $25.000."
i-i-riT * ttt a -n-niri n-Hvr a rum)
ULLih. VV AHJliO
Anthony iliggins Elected to the
Unl' ei States Senate.
The Repr.olican caucus of the Delaware
Legislative nominated Anthony Higgins, of
Wilmington, to the United States Senate on
tho forty-third ballot. In tho Legislature
Mr.. Higffins was elected, receiving on joint
ballot sixteen votes, to nine for Walcot and
five for Robinson, both Democrats.
Anthony Higgins is a son of the late Anthony
M. Higgins.of Fed Lion Hundred. Ho
was born in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle
County, Del., October 1, 1840. He was
graduated from Yale College in 18*51, with
the degree of A. B., and was admitted to the
bar of New Castle County in May, ltfM. Ho
at once opened an office in Wilmington, in
conjunction with the late Edward J. Bradford,
afterward United States District Judge
rind the founder of the Republican party in
Delaware. Mr. Higgins was one of the original
300 persons in Delaware who voted the
Republican ticket The same year he was
admitted to the bar he was appointed Depnty
Attorney-General of the State under Attorney-General
Jacob Moore, serving two years.
He was made Chairman of the Republican
State Committee of H^IS, and in 180!t was apK)inte;l
by President Grant United States
istrict-Attorney for Delaware, which office
he held until June. 1876. He was an unsuccessful
candidate for Congress in 1SH4. He
took a front rank as a lawyer from the first.
He has been a leader of that taction of the
Republicans of Delaware who have been favorable
to Blaine.
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
Estimates in Detail of Some of the
More Important Cereals.
The December report of the United 8tafces
Department of Agriculture, which publishes
in detail estimates of some of the more important
crops, makes the product of corn
1,'.*37,7!K),000 bushels, grown on 75,673,763
acres, valued on the farm at $617,561,500, or
34.1 cents per bushel against 44.4 cents for the
crop of 1887, a decrease of 23 per cent., the
product of 1887 being 27 per cent, less in volume
than that of 1888. The average yield
of the commercial belt, or seven corn surplus
States, is 33.2 bushels per acre. The Atlantic
roast, south of the Potomac, averages 11.2
bushels, of comparatively poor quality. The
wheat aggregate is 414,S*i8,000 bushels, grown
on 37,330,138 acres, and valued at $884,24S,1)30.
The average yield is therefore 11.1
bushels per acre; winter wheat. 11.6 bushels,
and spring wheat 1U.3 bushels per acre. The
average farm value is 1)2. G cents per bushel,
against 08.1 cents for the previous crop, a
difference due more to foreign than domestic
scarcity.
The azgrezate for oats is 707,737,000
bushels, grown on 2S,W)8,282 acres, and
valued at $195,424,240. This is 27.8 cents
?>er bushel, against oO cents for the crop of
A comparison of aggregate values shows
that the present corn crop is worth only
f31,000,000 more than the previous one:
wheat $74,000,1)00 more, and oats f.?,000,000
less.
Lieot. TVissmax, the eminent German
traveler, says that of late years a
great change has taken placa in the
attitude of the Arabs of Africa toward
Europeans. The danger of European
ascendency has made them very hostile,
defiant and relentless. They no
longer hesitate to show that the right
belongs to them of carrying on the
slave trade, and that they mean to
exercise it. The slave dealers oharged
Lieutenant Wissman to inform the
English on Lake Tanganyika that any
attempt on their part to interfere with
the traffic would bring war upon them.
The traveler is convinced that warlike
ineasures against the Arabs must be
reported to if a secure foundation is
Bought for the establishment of European
civilization in Africa.
Prof. Chandler Roberts, the English
chemist, has been analyzing the
smoke cloud which perpetually hangs
over lioudon. He estimates that it
i A x?_ -c
contains UDOUt JUfcV wjjjo ui DUUU Wttibon
in gaseous combination. The expense
of this waste of coal is figured
at $13,000,000 annually.
TnE new law passed by the New
York Legislature requires that after
Jan. 1, 1881), electricity be substituted
for hanging as a means of execution.
The precise mode in which the electricity
shall be applied has not boer.
officially determined.
Minneapolis has finally outstripped
St. Paul in the matter of population^
The former registered 50,000 voters b^
fore the late election and St. Paul onl^
^2,000.
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|H
Portraits Two Thousand Tears Old^H
An interesting collection of antiquitie^H
has lately been on exhibition in I.ondon^M
consisting of the various objects brought wi
to light by Mr. Flinders Petrie duringj^H
his recent excavations in Egypt ^ atHj
| Hawera, on the site of the ancicnt^J
i Labyrinth described by Herodotufl|^H
| These objects arc not so very ancient^^^|
that is, they belong to the Ptolemai^Hj
and Itoman periods, which, althougl^^J
dating back to about 300 B. C., is quit^^B
modern according to the Egypti&i^H
standard, says Chambers'* MnyazintMH
Nevertheless, to many people these relic^^fl
will be of greater interest than those o^^H
far greater antiquity.
The first thing which strikes us is
Rprips of nort:inits nn wood, so tierfeC^^H
and fresh in appearance that it is diiiicuI^Hj
to believe that they have been buriecflfl
for nearly two thousnnd years; yet sucl^B
is the case, for these portraits repre-entHB
Komnns interred during the Ptolcmiac^H
period. '
It is singular that the Romans in Egypf^H
should have adopted the mcde of burial^H
of the Egyptians: but the faces and dreas^H
of these portraits are undoubtedly^
Koman, although they covered the heada^H
of mummies beautifully and elegantly^M
swathed in the numerous linen bandagei^H
peculiar to Egyptian burials, but mor^^J
artistically arranged than was commni^H
in the more ancient mummies, for th^^f
crossings of the bandages form a beautl^H
ful honeycomb pattern of extraordinary^*
symmetry, each pane) finished with
gilt band.
The board upon which the portrailBB
was painted waf. bandaged in skilfullj^H
over the head, and thus the relutives^B
might have the mournful pleasure of^H
contemplating the features of the de-j^H
ceased whenever they pleased; ancl^H
ccrtainly no artist of modern times couldHH
have more faithfully portrayed the indi-HB
vidual than did the portrait painter of^H
: two thousand years ago.
They are evidently what are usually^H
called "speaking'' likenesses. There ia^H
one or an old man, who might have been H|
; a general, or one of the C.tsars, in hia^B
j white toga, every line and furrow of the.^H
I fonn AOKrtftillTT /lolinoafa/^ toVIIIO AAVOrftl.^D
of the ladies, and particularly two youn{f^|
girls, might be exhibited as likenesse?^B
of professional beauties of tho prcsent^H
The material employed for these durablc
portraits was a wax medium, whiclv^fl
has been employed with excellent eriecti^M
in modern times, and might be used^B
more frequently with advantage. JB
Sponge-Gatlieriug on Florida Reefs.
All the guod sponges do not come from B
the Levant and the Indian Seas, nor from
Jlexico and the Bahamas. The United H
States has quite a t!onrish:ng sponge in- H
dustry, oil the Gulf coast of Horida> flfl
i whete a great line of '-sponge reef' extends
from Appalachicola down to and H
beyond the Cedar Keys, and out toward
the Bahamas. These coral and lime- fl
stone ridges afford a supply that is abun-' >
dant and pr.ictically .nevhaustible, as- H
the sponges grow rapidly, reaching ma
turity within two years. Italians and I
half-breed Indians do most of the ;
"sponging'' in this locality, and very jl
hard work it is. An eight-ton schooner, H
manned by a ciew of five, and carrying H
two small boats, or "dinkies," goes out H
on a cruise of, perhaps, five or six weeks H
on the burning subtropical waters of the H
Gulf. As the average depth of water oa
? * -4. / _ 1^ '
tne sponge-reeis rao-i ircquenuv is umy ,
about twenty feet, the men do not have
to dive after their harvest of the deep.
They go out, two in each of the small
boats, and take observations of the rocky 1
bottom through the clear water, using*
for the purpose buckets with glass bottoms.
The sponges are thus easily discerned,
and it is easy for an expert todctach
them by means of an iron hook
fastened on the end of & long pole. The
fiponges are laid out on the deck of the
schooner for four or five days, until the
gelatinous animal matter decays; then
they are taken to the shore aud deposited
in a "crawl," or cage of logs, In some
inlet, where the most of this substance
is soaked out A beating with wooden
paddles followed by several more washings
and a bleaching in the sun, after
which the sponges are strung in bunchea
of twenty, completes their preparation
for the Appalachicola market, where they
are trimmed and sorted befoie being
shipped to the North. With average
luck, a schooner's crew of, say, live men
will gather about 1200 sponges a week,
or 7000 (:Jo0 "bunches''j in mx weeks.
These bunches, or strings, arc worth?
according to a correspondent wrifing in-Fored
and Stream?about *1.50 apiece
in the local market, making the gross .
" ** -
earnings lor ine trip amuum iu
After the expenses and the ^boat's tharejfl
are deducted, there is about $< 0 apiece
for the men?little enough, when the
risks, exposures and hardships of t\eir H
calling are considered. Hj
Banana Plauts Fractify Lavishly.
In tropical countries bananas are H
propagated principally by suckers, H
which spring up about the old or bear*
ing stems. Plants are also ra sed from V
seed, mainly for the purpose of produc
ing new varieties, of which there are fl
now an immense number in cultivation. K
The tall-growing varieties, witli stems
ten to fifteen feet high, will usually bear
fruit when about eighteen months old, B
if planted in the richest soils of tfce
tropics; but dwarf varieties are said jto J
come into fruit earlier, or in about Qrie
year. Botanists have described about (J
eighteen species of plantains and bananas, '9
giving them different names, but it is
now thought that most of those de- M
scribed a6 species are merely lbcal vaffip~-W
The hiinnna nroduces food for
millions of people, far surpassing in
quantity that of any other plant in pro
portion"to the space it occup es. It ha9 I
been calculated that the same area re- H
quired to produce 100 pounds of pota^il
toes will produce more than two tons of
bananas. The dwurf varieties of the fl
banana grow and produce fruit freely in fl
I hot houses, and the fruit is as finely
j favored as that produced in the tropica.
? Xeio York Sun. Hj
Where Lodgers are Hung: Up to Sleep^H
Plunging about on the levee in the-^|
blackness the other night a reporter
covered a retreat, the Dovelty of which Hi
knocked him all in a heap. It was
lodging house but there were no bedt^HI
The guests did not recline on the
either, nor were they hungup on hooks]^!
and yet they slept. The room was perJ^H
haps seventy-five feet deep by twentf^H
wide. About three feet from the wall
and extending around it, was a royeW
j nlo/^uH nf intprvnlo It HI
lUbicneu iu ? ?w#
was about five feet from the floor avc^^H
was slightly slack. Underneath it
other ropes similarly stretched,
whole resembling a rope fence. Wj^^H
their backs to this support, and
both arms thrown over it to keep fro^nH
falling, were twenty-two persons, most^^H
colored, but among them were ecvc^hH
wretched white meu, and all were sle?|H
ing f-ouodlv. The place was dii^BH
lighted, and the old darkey prpprftfl^H
tat patiently waiting for more-'gueststo^B
arrive. His charge for lodging, ggH
j rather to hang on the ropes all night, i|JH
| but five cent8.? LouiuUU- C^uriSmm
j Journa7. fl
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