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NEWS TOMES.
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Ymportaut Happenings Gleaned
: From Late Dispatches.
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Desperado Hatfield's Terrible
: - Story of Crime,
T Ellison Hatfield, sometimes called Ellison
Slounts, ouo of the participants in the Hatfield-McCoy
feud, who is in the Pike County
jail in Kentucky, has made a confession
'to Stato Attorney Ferguson. "I
was present,'' he said, "and participated
in the murder of the threo McCoy
brothers?Talbot, Fanner, and Randolph, Jr.
The brothers were taken from a school house
in Logan County, "VV. Va., where they had
been guarded for a day and night, and
brought over to the Tug River, which separates
West Virginia and Kentucky.
"About fifty feet from the river Carpenter
tied them to a paw-paw bush and hung a lantern
over their heads. Bad Anse Hatfield then
said to them: 'Boys, if you have any peace to
make with vour Maker you had better make
it.' Talbot and Randolph began praying, but
Farmer did not. However, before the boys had
ima to finish tlipir nravors John Hatfield
Bhot Farmer dead. Anse then gave the
order to Are. and shot as he gave the word,
killing Talbot and then emptying the
contents of his revolver into the
dead body. Alexander Masser fired
and killed Randolph McCoy. The others followed
suit, and all the bodies were riddled
. with bullets. After the boys were killed Wall
Hatfield administered an" oath to all of us,
binding us to take the life of the first who
divulged the name of any who were along."
' Captain Hatfield said" that he and Tom
Wallace shot Jeff McCoy after he had escaped
from them. The prisoner also gave
the particulars of the brutal murder of Allaphare
and Calvin McCoy, in which ho took
part. Nine of tho Hatfield faction, on a
Sunday night in January, 1SSS, crossed
the river into Kentucky under
the command of Jim Vance. "They surrounded
the McCoy homestead, fired the
house, and killed the girl as she stood in the
door begging for her life. Cap and Jouce
Hatfield both, asserted that they killed Calvin
McCoy, and bragged about it.
'Xhc World's Conference of Mormons.
The World's Conference of Latter Day I
Saints, which has been held at St. Joseph, j
Mo., was the largest assembly of Mormon !
representatives ever held in this country.
The preliminary proceedings were attended
by over 500 delegates. No regular proceedings
were held on the first day but informal
gatherings discussed various matters
to be considered during the week.
There are over 1000 of them in
the city, England having a stronger representation
than any other foreign country except
Canada. Australia had eight representatives.
Much interest is manifested in
the affairs of the Mormon Church in Utah.
The Statehood claims of the Territory will
be put in shape for presentation to Congress
at "Washington. A communication from the
Mormon General Conference in session at
Salt Lake arrived by mail and was read.
The report of the" church recorder shows
that there are over 26.000 members of the
church, a gain of 14S5 in the last year.
There were 1165 removals and expulsions.
Elder G. T. Griffith reported that missionaries
in Virginia had met vigorous opposi
tion, and nad been tnrearened witn personal
violence on account of the erroneous belief
that the Latter Day Saints were polygamists.
I How Natives Harrassetl Stanley,
t Henry M. Stanley's letter to the Royal Geographical
Society was read at a meeting of
that body in London. The letter consists
mainly of a repetition of what has alreadj
been published. He describes at length the
various devices by which the natives
endeavored to prevent the advance of the expedition.
One of them was to dig shallow
pits across the path of the column and fill
them with skewers, which were deftly covered
with leaves.
r- The skewers pierced the feet of Stanley's
men, inflicting wounds that in many cases
developed into gangrenous sores. The men
who were lamed in this manner were sel'dom
of further service.
' f- Mr. Stanley calls the natives "cunning
rogues," and says that for purposes of extortion
they always pretended that the country
was suffering from a famine.
,The "friendlies," he says, withheld
Information, but the natives who
were captured by the expedition immrted
all they .knew. Mr. Stanley believes
that the lake he discovered in 1870 beloncrs to
the Congo.
i >" - A Town in Ashes.
: Almost the entire town of Smithfield, in
Johnston County, N. C., was consumed by
fire. The only buildings which remain standing
are the County Court House and jail and
a few dwellings. Every store in the town and
many dwellings were burned. The fire
originated about 1 o'clock p. m., and in two
hours the town was in ashes.
r Tho wind was raging at a terrific rate and
jthc flames swept over the town like a hurricane.
There was no fire department to fight
tije finmoc and the people were powerless I
to resist the dCY?uring sweep. ^ The I
total loss 19 estimated at upwaTu Zl
9100,000. Much of the property was insured. I
The fire originated in the carriage factory of |
6. R. J. R. Morgan. Its origin is thought *-o 1
have been acr>"'~
E?'~" Hamburg's Horror.
i. The body of a boy named Steinfatli was
found at an early hour in the morning on
,1 HoniKiirrr f-Jprmnnv The bov's '
J* luau u?u ? nl ? - ,
throat had lieen cut and his abdomen I
i ipped open and his entrails removed. Tho
body was otherwise shockingly mutilated.
It had evidently laid in the road throughout
the night.
. . Immediately upon the discovery of the
murder parties of hussars were sent out to I
scour the surrounding country. One of these I
parties surprised the murderer, but he sue- j
ceeded in effecting his escape.
f A Death Struggle in Mid-Stream.
. Larry McDonald and Jolm Schneider, two
Government employes working on the River
Improvement Commission, quarreled in a
small skill' in the middle of the river
opposite St. Louis. Mo. The men
clinched, and a terrible struggle followed.
McDonald proved the more powerful, and
finally threw Schneider headlong into the
river. McDonald rowed ashore, and allowed
Schneider to drown.
A Tornado in the Northwest.
PTVord has been received at Regina of a
tornado that struck a settlement on Long
Jo>i:e, Northwest Territory. It mowed a
fRith thirty yards wide through the bluffs,
tearing trees up by the roots. Several houses
and barns were blown down, and logs were
carried fifty yards. No casualties are reported.
Prairie lires swept a large area of
land north of Regina.
FOUR WERE KILLED,
Pathetic Details of a Railway Collision
in Illinois.
Passenger train No. 2 on the Chicago
Sante Fe and California Railroad was run
into and badly wrecked at Lorenzo, 111., at
5.30 o'clock in the morning.
Four people were killed outright, five wero
badly scalded and several others received
serious -wounds. The train was running on
time, and the extra freight, through some^inexcusable
error of the train dispatcher, was
allowed to follow her. The engine crashed
into the private car, driving it upon the steps
of the Pullman car Santa Anna.
The fireman of the freight engine jumped
and escaped, but the engineer was crushed
against the boiler head. In the private
car was J. L. Hart, a director of the California
Construction Railway. He lives at
Brookline, Mass. Both his legs were
broken, and he was badly scalded. His
son and daughter, who accompanied him,
were killed instantly. Henry "VV. Lamb, also
in the private car, was scalded about the
face and body. Palmer, the freight brake
man, was hurled over the freight engine int.
the mass of debris, and he escaped with a
bad scald on his face and both hands wjre
terribly burned.
One of the saddest features of the accident
is that Miss Alice Hart was killed within a
few feet of the man who was soon to be her
husband. She was engaged to be married to
Henry B. Lamb, and the young couple wero
on their way East to bo married when tho
accident occurred. ^
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and. Middle Stales.
A. G. Spalding, of Chicago, and his party
of baseball players who left San Francisw
last fall arrived in New York city after a
tour around the world.
Isaac Rtcii & CO.. the oldest fish house in
Boston, are financially embarrassed. Their
liabilities are placet! at $200,000. The firm
was part owner of the steamer Haytien Republic,
which was seized at Hayti. The j
troubles at Hayti are said to have had much
to do with the firm's trouble.
Downs & Finch, shirt manufacturers of
New York city, with large factories at Jamcsburg,
Bordentown and Higlitstowu, N. J.,
regarded as the loading firm in the business
in the United States, have failed for$500,000.
Ex-Presidext Cleveland has returned
to New York city from his trip to Cuba and
Florida and resumed the practice of law.
A reception was given to Secretary
Tracy by the Brooklyn Club in Brooklyn.
Orders were issued for the entire Pennsylvania
division of the National Guard to go
to New York and participate in the ceremonies
incident to the centennial of Washington's
inauguration.
The extensive ax, shovel and saw factories
of Hubbard <& Co., at Pittsburg, Penn., were
I totallv destroyed by lire. The loss will be
! fully $500,000.
I. Ulric Alton, of Greenville, N. H., was
killed while driving across the track at'
Fitchburg. Mass.
OrnnrTtov Tl) i r*\r noi/1 liic fivef. nfRpldl
visit to the Brooklyn ^ayy Yard and inspected
all the vessels being built and repaired
there.
Tiie All-America and Chicago baseball
teams were warmly welcomed home by their
friends at a public dinner at Delmonico's, in
New York city, and their trip around the
world was celebrated with toasts, words of
wit and praise and applause. Among the
many speech-makers were Chauncey M.
Depew. Mark Twain, Erastus Wimau and
Daniel Dougherty.
Jacob Saniit, a well-known aud respected
! grocer of Easton, Penn., Commander of Hugh
Payne's Conunandery, committed suicide by
I hanging himself from a rafter in the garret
of his home.
After a shut-down of only a week's dura*
I tion. the coal miners along the Monongahela
I River, Penn.. have resumed work. About
0000 men in all were affected by the resumpI
tion.
Tiie Boston freight houses of the Boston
I and Maine Railroad were destroyed by fire.
Loss over $500,000.
Matok Grant, of New York, has ap|
pointed Fire Commissioner Richard Croker,
the leader of Tammany Hall, to the office of
i City Chamberlain, recently resigned by
"William M. Ivins. Mr. Croker was promptly
sworn into office. The salary is $'25,000 a
year.
South and "West.
At Frankforl, Intl., William Pray shot and
killed his wife, and then shot himself through
the head, inflicting a mortal wound.
At a revival meeting at Calhoun, Ky., J.
W. White, Sheriff of "the county, confessed
that thirteen years ago "he stole $1000 from
the county. He made restitution at once.
Commodore Ben-ham has taken command
of the navy yard at Mare Island, CaJ.
Thomas Washxgto.v, fourteen years old,
was put off an engine near Charleston, W.
Va. He returned and struck Engineer
Spriggles on the head with a pump handle,
knocking him down, and then beat him to
death.
Bill Morax, the "Terror of Flat Top," a
West Virginia coal mining region, was killed
after a most desperate fight. "One officer was
fatally injured.
Mark Francis, a colored man who was
handed at Lebanon, Ky.. on March 2!>, was
not killed, and was resuscitated by his friends.
He is now at large.
Rich deposits of gold have been discovered
at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana.
The cashier of a bank in Anoka, Minn.,
has disappeared with $100,000.
Craft's sawmill, near Junction City, Ky.,
was wrecked by a boiler explosion ana rour
men were killed.
Rain fell in South Dakota extinguishing
prairie fires.
Miss Bertha Tracy committed suicide at
Chattanooga, Tenn., by firing a bullet into
her heart, having only a few minutes previously
taken chloroform with the intention
of ending her life.
Frank Harss, of Bloomfield. Mich., aged
twenty-two years, was tramped to death by
a stallion. "The animal seized him by the
neck with his teeth, shaking him terribly,
and stamping him to death.
The recent storm which raged in Baltimore
with severity swept over the lower
Chesapeake most disastrously to shipping.
More than a dozen seamen lost their lives and
forty vessels were wrecked.
The Louisville (Ky.) Bridge and Iron
Company's Works, the largest establishment
of its kind in the South, has been destroyed
by firo. Loss, $150,000. Two hundred men
were thrown out of work.
Scarlet fever of a malignant type has
broken oat at Fairbury, 111.
Near Yarbnioueh Station, Texas, Rev.
Hall Miller shot and killed an intoxicated
man of evil reputation named Purchard, who
^ad disturbed his meeting,
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The President lias appointed Joel B. Er*
hardt Collector afc the 'Port of New York* | ]
Colonel Krhardt was the Republican candi" i
date for Mayor of New York last November)
auu is a prominent party leader hi the Me"
tropulis.
Cornelius Van Cott was appointed Postmaster
of the city of New \ ork by the
President. Mr. Van Cott is a State Senator,
and like Colonel Erhardt has been for years
a Republican leader in New York city politics.
The Secretary of the Navy has formally
accepted the gunboat Yorktown.
A parcel post, convention between tliu
( United States and the Leeward Islands, has
been signed by Postmaster-General AYanamakor.
Schuyler Duryee has been appointed
chief clerk of the Patent 0(1 ice. He is f< >rtytwo
years of age and was born in New Jersey.
A xew Chinese Minister has been appointed
to "Washington. His name is Tsin Kook Yan.
| He is a man of scholarly attainments, and
! holds high rank as a member of the Imperial
1 * * r
Academy ui rtruui.
The President and Mrs. Harrison entertained
Governor and Mrs. Alger,of Michigan,
and the First Assistant Postmaster-General
and Mrs. Ciarksou at dinner at the White
House.
I Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms James
Christie, of the United States Senate, has
just died of pneumonia. He had been a
Senate employe for twenty-five years.
( Secretary Windom ordered the dismissal
of Captain Herbert Beecher. a sou of Henry
Ward Beecher. from the Government serIvice.
In ISS5 Cleveland appointed him Collector
of Customs at Fort Townsend, Washington
Territory.
TriE President made the following appointments:
Eben E. Rand, of Maine, to ne Appraiser
of Merchandise in the District of
Portland and Falmouth, Me.; George 0.
Sturgiss, of West Virginia, to be Attorney of
the United States for the District of West
Virginia, and Hugh B. Lindsay, of Tennessee,
to be United States District-Attorney for
th? Eastern District of Tennessee.
Colonel H. L. Swords, formerly Ser|
goant>at-Arms to the Republican National
| Committee, Las lieen appointed inspector ul
Furniture in the Treasury Department.
By direction of the President the Secretary
of War has ordered that the new military
post near Denver, Col., shall be known as
j Fort Logan, to honor the memory of the
I late General John A. Logan.
The President has designated Assistant
| Secretary Bachellor to uet as Secretary of
! the Treasury in the absence of Secretary
| Wisdom, and Assistant Secretary Tichenor
[ to act as Secretary in the absence of both
| Secretary Windom anil Assistant Secretary
Bachellor.
Harold M. Sewf.ll, removed by Secre
tary Bayard from the oflice of Consul-Gen!
era! in Samoa, has been appointed by Secre!
tary Blaine the disbursing agent to the
Samoan Commission at Derlin.
Adam C. Tax.ver, of Canton, Oluo, has
1 eon appointed Chief of the Appointment
j >i vision, Interior Department.
The President has made the following appointments:
Frank Phimley, to be United
States Attorney for the District of Vermont;
George A. Knight, to be United States
Marshal for the Northern District of Texas,
and James McDowell, to be Register of the
Land Office at Huron, Dak.
Foreign.
The 0000 tusks of ivory, which the Afri- 1
can' explorers Stanley and Erain Bey are reported
to have with them, are valued at
$600,000.
A nephew of Guzman Blanco, ex-President
of Venezuela, who committed forgery to the
amount of $23,000, has been arrested iu
Mexico while trying to escape to the United
States.
A new Peruvian Ministry has been formed,
with Pedro Aleiandrino de Solar as Premier.
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Hundreds of houses have been destroyed
by fire at Swat, India. The loss is placed
at .51,000,000.
The Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, aunt (
of Queen Victoria, is dead, aged ninety-two.
Considerable distress prevails along the
Panama Canal. There are still over 3000 persons
on the line of the works who are in a
destitute condition. Some deaths from
starvation have already been reported.
The Ameer of Bokhara is about to send
his son to Russia to be educated. The State
Bank of Russia will open a branch in
T^ntlmrn
The Persian Government lias ceded tho
districts of Kelat and Kederi to Russia.
Over 15,000 persons were rendered homeless
by the great fire at Surat. India. To
add to the prevailing distress cholera has
broken out in the town.
The rumor that Stanley and Emin Pasha
were marching in the direction of Zanzibar
was an Arabian invention.
A wixe store at Szil, Hungary, was entered
bv thieves. The proprietor surprised
the robbers at their work and was seized and
crushed to death in a wine press. They
caught the blood in a cup and forced a passer-by
to drink it.
King John, of Abyssinia, before his death
appointed as his successor his nephew, Dagiac
Mangaeia.
Tiie French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the bill regulating the procedure of
the trial of Boulanger by the Senate. Warrants
have been issued for the arrest of General
Boulanger, Dillon and Rochefort.
Copies of them have been submitted to every
police station in France.
The Indian pearl fisheries are a failure owing
to the prevalence of cholera. The failure
involves a loss to the government of about
?2,800,000.
LATERNEWS.
The by-elections in Rhode Island resulted
In favor of the Republicans. They will have
a majority of eleven on joint ballot in the
Legislature.
Charles Hopkins, sixty years of age, of
Philadelphia, was instantly killed, and John
Coogan fatally injured by falling from the
fourth story of a now building in Atlantic
City, N. J.
General Francis Frederick Millex,
Irish patriot, soldier and journalist, died at
his late residence in New York city at the
age of fifty-three years.
Pauline Zanchiska, an insane Polish
girl, threw herself in front of an approaching
train near Scranton, Penn., and was
crushed to death. She did it in order to escape
capture by asylum authorities.
Tiiorwald Egidius, the son of the Nor- :
wegian Consul at Amsterdam, committed J
suicide in his elegant apartments at New (
York city. Egidius was a tall, athletic man, i
about twenty-eight years old. H was well
educated and was of a cheerful disposition.
Mountain fires were raging on the South i
Mountain near Edgeniont, Md. A vast lot of j
timber was destroyed.
The United States man-of-war Pensaeola,
which sunk during the recent hurricane at .
Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard, has been floated. j
ana is iounu not uj ou suiuncu. ?
Mrs. George Shecklks, while trying to \
extinguish the burning dress of her infant
daughter, was burned to death at Shelbyville,
Ind. The child also lost its life.
The President has abandoned his proposed
cruise in Chesapeake Bay for the present, as
Mrs. Harrison's health is not good.
Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson,
U. S. N., retired, died a few days ago at
Washington, aged sixty-nine years. He was
born in New Orleans, and entered the navy
as midshipman in 1830.
A terrible explosion has occurred in a
colliery at Castrap, Westphalia, Germany.
The men were at work in the pit at the time,
and twenty were killed. j]
The American schooner Carrie A. Buch- ^
nam was chased by a Dominican gunboat and I
fired upon off the coast of St Doming, YFest
Indies. ^
Archbishop Joseph Tulzsphorus Paul,
ol Bogota, United States of Colombia, is
(lead,
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TJlt; JN UlYLliN ilTlUJN
Summary of the Work Done by tin
Senate Special Session. | ?
Of the 3)0 nominations sent to the Senate j
during the special session by President Harri- i a
son the following were rejected:
Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany. I L
Isadore S. Loventhal to Postmaster at j
Modesto, Cal. j.
The following remaiued unacted upon (and
therefore died) at the end of the session:
William H. Whiteman to b? Associate Jus- (
tic? of tho Territory of New Mexico. s
Edwin 1. Kursheedt to be Marshal for the
Eastern District of Louisiana. e
Postmasters?Kittrall O. Haiders at Minot, t
Dak.; Carl C. Crippen at Eustis, Fla.; Burt
C. Drake at Gainesville, Fla.; Robert P.
Pebout at Kusliville, lnd.; George E. Nichol- ?
son at Ness City, Kau.; Samuel C. Moore 1;
at Find laj*, Ohio.
President Harrison's nominations were t
contained in :.8-i messages. During the spe- e
cial session of the Senate at the beginning of
President Cleveland's term ho sent to the |
Capitol 118 messagcG. Eighteen of his nomi- ,
nations failed to receive confirmation, but
khere were no rejections. At the last session
pf Congress during Hayes's Administration '
the Senate faile I to act ou luu or ins nomi- <
Rations, and rojected three?an uuequaled
record. t
SINGULAR SUICIDE.'
An Aged German Kills Himself With jj
a Home-made Cannon.
Gustavo Stenzel, mi aged German of Mil- f
waukee, Wis., shot himself with a cannon t
under jK'culiar circumstances. He made the E
cannon himself. He first secured a piece of '
cast steel, weighing nine pounds, six inches j
lung and two inches square. In this was a ,
hole nil inch in diameter and five inches deep, i
with a regular cannon touch-hole at the end. J
He filled it with half a pint of powder and
double B shot.
He then placed the cannon on a tub. with '
the muzzle close to his abdomen, and deliberately
touched off the load. His wife found '
him ljnng on the ground with a terrible hole '
in his abdomen. He died instantly. The
cannon was found several yards from the !
spot. Stenzel had been a hard drinker for
' 1? *-~'1 nrnviniK ho I
several uuntu^ uuu iu<- ? .
threatened to kill his wife and himself. I j
WAR SHIPS AT SAMOA.
The Three Powers Concerned Agree
to itetluee Their Naval Forces.
It is authoritatively stated at the Department
of State, Washington, that the three
treaty powers concerned in Samoan affairs? j
Kngland, Germany and the United States?
have reached an understanding, by the terms
of which they will each keep but one war vessel
at Samoa pending the termination of tho
Berlin conference.
The vessel to be sent there by the United
States will be the Alert?a thousand-ton ship
now at Honolulu. The German corvetto
Sophie, now on her way out from Zanzibar,
will represent German interests, while England
will doubtless order the Calliope to return
to Samoa from Sydney, or will replace
her if she was materially damaged by the
hurricane.
" ... ' - - / ' '
. SWEPT BY A GALE.
Terrific Storms Throughout
Virginia and Maryland.
The United States Ship Pensacola
Sunk at Norfolk,
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says:
Thunder and lightning, hail and snow and a
bowling gale were what the people in this
Ficinity were treated to the other day. This
continued all day and changed at 10 o'clock
at night to a regular cyclone, the wind
blowing upward of fifty-four miles an hour
until 5 o'clock that morniug. The wind came
from the northeast, and blew into the harbor
and its tributaries a tide which, at high water
was eighteen inches higher than ever recorded
before.
Tlio United States ship Pensacola sank in
drydock, where she was being prepared for
sea. Her sea valves had been opened for inspection
and another one was being cut. The
tide flooded the dock and she filled with water,
and, getting off her keel, sank before she could
be got in position again. A diver will have
to be sent down and her valves stopped up
and the ship pumped out. The Simpson Drydock
was flooded and the damage may reach
$40,000.
The lower part of the city was flooded by
the tide, and* fire broke out on "Water
street, caused by slacking lime on the
wharf of John O. Gamago & Son. The
entire block, with the exception of
Savage, Son & Co.'s, commission merchants,
was in flames. Tho old Cotton Exchange
building, containing about 800 bales
of cotton, and the warehouse of J. W. Perry
& Co., containing about 600 bales
of cotton, were totally destroyed.
Santos & Bro., coal dealers, lost
everything except their office building;
Batchelder & Collins, coal, lumber and
lime, are damaged to the amount of S-1000,
John A. Carnage's loss, including building, is
$10,000. The loss on buildings and stock destroyed
in this block is estimated at $150,000,
partly insured. It is probable that the losses
sustained by the wholesale groccry merchants
from the water forced into their warehouses by
tho unprecedented tide will nearly equal this
amount. Hundreds of barrels of sugar and
flour and other goods are ruined. During the
storm the roofs of the Opera House, Masonic
Temple and many dwellings were torn off,
and the Virginia Beach Railroad depot is
badly injured aud the track for hundreds of
yards is seriously damaged.
In Portsmouth firo destroyed the lime and
lumber yard of Trugie & Hill. The wires
along the coast were all down.
The snowstorm began at Charlottesville.
Va., early in the morning and continued
through the night. The telegraph wires were
1-NO/lltr IwaI'oti /1/vrmn alnnrr flm f'Vinco nn^1.'?
aut uvuu tuvu^j luv vuvoa^??ivv
and Ohio and tho Richmond and Danville
railroads and all trains were delayed. The
electric light wires were down in the city.
The worst storm of the season prevailed at
Richmond, Va. It commenced with thunder
and lightning, and was followed by rain, hail
and snow, augmented by high wind. At
nine o'clock tho snow and wind showed no
abatement, and reports denoted the storm
general throughout the State.
A furious snowstorm and blizzard provailed
at Winchester, Va., all day, snow
falling to tho depth of fourteen inches, as
much as has fallen during tho entire winter.
At 10:30 o'clock, whilo tho snow was falling
rapidly, a loud clap of thunder from southeast
startled the citizens. The winds were
very high all day. Telegraph wires were
down iu all directions. This is the severest
storm this late in the season for years.
Tho storm in "Washington badly interrupted
slectrical communication and workmen were
busy all day repairing damaged telegraph
ind telephone wires. There are 384 poles
iown between Alexandria and Fredericksburg,
Va.
The barge Sunrise, bound from Norfolk for
New York with coal, was towed to a buoy in
Delaware Bay and anchored by the tug B.
vv. morse during a Heavy gale. At miamgnv
the barge foundered. The Captain, his wife
ind two children and one seaman were lost.
Joseph Coyle was the only survivor of the 1
(vreck. '
Coyle, in the open boat drifted ashore near (
;he Government pier. He was picked up in
in exhausted condition by one of the crew of '
;he Lewes Life-Saving Station.
A dispatch from Baltimore says: Reports .
?ming in from the counties in the State ,
ihow the storm to have been a very peculiar '
>ne. The snow and rain was accompanied by j
ihunder and lightning, and much damage was
lone. Near Mount Airy rain began to fall in
orrents and continued until at about 2 p. m.,
vhen the snow began. In some places it was
rom eight to ten inches deep. A terrific galo ;
>f wind was blowing, and the snow was
\1m<4inrr A ciiicnilnv fonfiirn nf t.hn J
vas that while the snow fell there wore con- lj
inuous peals of thunder and vivid flashes H
ightning. Prom Knorville down th^Tclep-aph
poles and wires were strewn'in all 1
lirectious. Throughout the State nearly all '
he wires were down. Ob* the bay the wind 1
lew a gale.
PROMINENT PEOPLE..
King John of Abyssinia is dead. |
The Pope is a very fine chess player.
Secretary Windom is worth $5,000,000. ^ 1
Senator Stanford is worth $40,000,000.
P. T. Barnum began poor and has now '
5,000,000.
Emperor Franz Josef is to visit Berlin 1
bout the middle of August.
The Empress of Japan has abandoned her [
ntention of visiting this conntry.
The Prince of Wales has accepted an invi- '
ation to dine with Mrs. Bonanza Mackay.
tWt'r \t H *t.stfad. editor of the Cincinnati '
7ommercicdrGazcttey is a sufferer from eryipelas.
I
Mrs. Amelia Rives-Chaxler, the author*
ss, is just twenty-six years old, having been \
>om in lt)G3.
Bismarck looks pale and haggard and has 1
;rown ten years older in appearance in the
ost twelve months. ,
The Emperor of Austria lias given orders
hut his dead son's name shall never again be (
poken in his hearing.
The lato John Bright had on the walls of |
lis study a portrait of Gladstone, one of Linoln
and one of Washington. (
Stoxewa r.i, .Tacksox's widow is now living
n Randolph County, N. C., with her father, .
vho is ninety-one years of age.
King Alexander, of Servia, is a tall,
veil-built boy, but awkward and shy. Ho '
akes much interest in natural sciences.
Admiral Kimbkrlv, who is in command ;
if our Pacific squadron, is fifty-nine years of !
ige, six feet in height, well proportioned, and
luick in all his movements. I
Tnr. family of Assistant Postmaster-GeD;ral
Clarkson is composed of five persons?
limself, Mrs. Clarkson and three sons. The i
ddest son is eighteen years of age and the I
-oungest six.
Tnt will of the late John Scott, of Pitts- I
>urg, President of the Allegheny Valley Rail- I
vay, leaves nothing to his wife, while his
""MO Avilir <51 tim ia ,
ralued at ?300,000. J
Miss Clara Huntington*, the daughter of
he railway magnate, has $4,000,000 of her
>wn, and will inherit four or five times as
uueh. She is about twenty-three years old
md goes but little into society.
Ward McAt.ijster the famed leader of
;he Four Hundred Aristocrats of Gotham, is
:lose on to sixty years of age. He is a tall,
n-ell-built mail, with a brown mustache and
jjoatee, slightly streaked with gray.
One of the closest students of the Indian
problem and one of the best informed persona
ti the country in matters relating to the Iniians
is Miss Kate Drexel, of Philadelphia,
rhe Indian in her hobby, and sho is said to
jive ?hri,U!W a y^ar out 01 ner own mcome 10
ihe Indian Department at Washington.
Chang Fan Mo ah, tlio interpreter atSnchcd
to the Chinese Legation at Washingcon,
is described as a gigantic blonde Chinanan,
with a profile as regular ns a Greek
itatuo. He comes from the north of China,
ivhere, owing to tho severity of the suniptuiry
laws, the race is kept intact as to its unasual
size and peculiar attributes.
Mrs. Ella Clymep., the new President of
Sorosis, is said to be tho handsomest member
Df that highly intellectual organization of
tvomen In New York. She has a sweet, Mar
lonna-like face, bi^ dark eyes, and a soft,
,ow voice. Mrs. Clymer is a widow, wao was
left a large fortune by her husband. She
Dossesses exquisite taste in dress, and is, in
fact, an ideal President.
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APEIL THANKSGIVING,
The President Recommends Kcll/cious
Services on Centennial Day.
The following proclamation has been issued
by the President:
A hundred years have passed since the
Government which our forefathers founded
was formally organized. At noon, on the
30th day of April, seventeen hundred and
eighty-nine, in the city of New York, and in
the presence of an assemblage of the heroic
men whose patriotic devotion had led the
colonies to victory aud independence, George
Washington took the oath of office as Chief
Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This
impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock
in the morning, in all the churches of the
city, by prayer for God's blessing on the
Government and its first President.
The centennial of this illustrious event in
our history has been declared a general holiday
by act of Congress, to the end that the
people of the whole country may join in commemorative
exercises appropriate to the day.
In order that th9 joy* of the occasion may
be associated with a deep thankfulness in the
minds of the people for all our blessings in
the past, and a devout supplication to God
for their gracious continuance in the future,
the representatives of the religious creeds,
both Christian and Hebrew, have memorial
ized the Government to designate an hour for
prayer and thanksgiving on that day.
Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of America,
in response to this pious and reasonable request,
do recommend that on Tuesday, April
tfO, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning,
the people of the entire country repair to
their respective places of divine worship to
implore the favor of God that the blessings
of liberty, prosperity and peace may abide
with us as a people, and that His hand may
l9ad us in the paths of righteousness and good
deeds.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
of America to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this
fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine,
and of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and thirteenth.
BENJAsnN Harrison.
By the President.?James G. Blaine, Secretary
of State.
FIRE IN SAVANNAH.
Fifty Buildings Bnrnetl, Causing a
Loss of $1,500,000.
The fire which recently swept a number ol
business houses and dwellings at teavannan,
Ga., out of existence, was the most extensive
in the history of the city. The loss is undoubtedly
over $1,500,000.
The fire broke out during the evening and
rapidly assumed proportions of a connagra
tion. The local lire department was inadequate
to cope with the names, and the Mayoi
of Atlanta was asked by telegraph to send
all the firemen he could spare.
That half of Savannah was not swept from |
the face of the earth is little short of miracu- j
lous. The halt of the conflagration after It i
had burned out the Independent Presbyterian
Church and its chapel, together
with three adjoining dwellings, wtu
not due to human efforts, Decause at thai
point not a single engine or stream of water
was available against the destruction.
The total number of buildings burned is estimated
at fifty.
The Independent Presbyterian Church, a
four-story brick building, and the new bricfc
arsenal of the Savannah Guards Battalion,
were destroyed.
The fire also swept along the north side ol
South Broad, from Whitaker street to within
one house of Bull street, the structure left
bein* a large brick residence owned by Dr,
Daniel Hopps
STANLEY AND EMIN.
(1 Keport That They are Marching together
to the East Coast.
Advices received at Brussels, Belgium,
from Stanley Falls state that Arabs who have
irrived there report that Henry M. Stanley
ind Em in Pasha were heard from in Fefcruiry.
They were then marching toward
Zanzibar, with several thousand men, women
md children. They also had 6000 tusks o?
ivory. The Arabs who brought news of
Stanley and Emin arrived at Stanley Falls in
February. They claimed to have seen Stanley
several months before that time.
This report, says the New York Post, seems
to be a confirmation of the rumor, published
recently, that Stanley was on his way to the
East Coast, and it would also indicate that
lie had safely rejoined Emin according to the
plan mentioned in the letter just published.
and thafcjtfrs. -detenhlnea finally to"
sefcaino civilization with all the men,
women and children attached to his command.
This would apparently fulfil the main
object of Stanley's expedition, although there
is a political side to it yet to be explained.
THE LABOR WORLD,
About 3000 iron cars are in use.
"Western* stove foundries aro nearly all on
full time.
A new forty mile ore road is to be built in
Michigan.
TriErtE are two hundred gold beaters in
\Tew York.
In the South all the coke ovens are running
louble time.
There is a general depression in labor conlitions
abroad.
A lady in Belfast, Me., is learning the
nachinist's trade.
Minneapolis, Minn., has 2000 men who
ire looking for work.
Montana coal miners show an out crop
;wenty-two feet thick.
New Bedford, Mass., is to have a mill for
weaving fancy cashmercs.
A thousand dock workers at Marseilles,
France, have gone on strike.
The Gadsden, (Ala.) car works have an or- I
ler for 700 cars for one road.
A good many costly hotels are being built ;
>f concrete and artificial stone.
Starvation' wages and idle workmen is
;he story that comes from Berlin.
A bed plate weighing thirty-three tons
ivas recently cast at Steclton, I'enn.
In the neglected mining district of Zacalpam
Mexico, labor is paid ?14 per month.
ivages are being reduced in New England |
rvoolen mills and new mills are starting up.
In Baltimore 5000 women and girls get tho J
iverage weekly wages of for making overills.
A Vienna man- is making good leather
Tom red beechwood. It can bo nailed ox
iewed.
Patterson, (N. J.) silk weavers work till
) o'clock at night, and new silk mills are
starting.
Delaware River shipbuilders have contracts
enough on hand to keep them busy for
two years.
The New York Progressive Musical Union
has taken steps toward getting up a national
organization.
The 10,000 washerwomen of Paris havo
formed a union. They will demand seventyfive
cents per day.
IN Australia twU,-K?> worKiiien, uiupiuj Oi m
"1,570 shops and mills, have their lives injured
against accidents.
Nashua (N. II.) tool makers have had to
reduce wages five to thirty-live per cent, to
meet Western competition".
Building in the City of Mexico is said to
be so active that some of the work has to be
suspended for want of bricklayers.
The striko outbreak in Germany is so
general tbat it would appear to be an organized
co-operation of the trade centers.
The Standard Oil Company think they
now have a process to turn lime into gas, ann
have just bought up 40,000 acres of territory.
Postmaster-General "W'anamaker is
the pioneer in Philadelphia in employing colored
people for responsible positions in his
business.
A Union- of Manchester (England) TaHarasses
has been formed. Miss Iiarkness stated
that there were 25,000 tailorcsscs in London,
working sixteen hours a day, at two cents an
hour, when they can get work.
Ai.nEHT Raymond, a Jersey City (N. J.)
painter, is out with an offer to paint 100 0 to
S inch letters, six colors to a letter, against
any man, the painting to be done on glass, in
water colors. He has a 6.2a record for the
job. . . _ . .1
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A CENTENARIAN DEAD,
Death of Chevreul, tlie Distinguished
French Chemist.
M. Michel Eugene Chevreul, the distinguished
French chemist, has just died in Paris
at the age of 103. He was born at Angers,
August 31, 1780. He was educated in the
schools of that place. In 1810 he was appointed
a professor of chemistry in the Lycee
Charlemagne. He was awarded in 1823 a
prize of $2400 for an essay of animal oils.
He succeeded his old master Vauquelin in the
chair of chemistry at the Museum of Natural
History in 1810. He was made commander
of the Legion of Honor in 1844. He was the
author of many works on scientific subjects.
In 1886 the centenary of his birth was celebrated
in Pains.
Almost to the last he was a devoted student,
and his intellect and memory were
both unimpaired by advancing years. His
vitality was amazing, and ho betrayed the
liveliest interest in all current affairs of the
day. His daily life was one of extreme simplicity
and rigid regularity. Of late years
lie was only out of bed for a few hours daily,
but this wus only a matter of precaution. Ho
pursued liis studies in his bedroom, and received
his friends, with whom ho discussed
chemistry and colors, with unfailing animation.
It may lie interesting to know that he
never drank, never smoked, and never ate
fish or drank milk except when mixed with
other food. His regular diet was of strong
soups, beefsteak or cutlets, and coffoe.
A NEW SENATOR,
Election of Nathan P. Dixon by the
Rhode Island Legislature.
The Rhode Island Legislature, on the
ninth ballot, elected Nathan F. Dixon to the
United States Senate as successor to Senator
Cliace, resigned. Senator-elect Dixon is a
lawyer about forty-two years of age, and is
the third member of the same family with
the same name. All three have been graduates
of Brown University, and lawyers. The first,
Fifter serving seven terms in the Rhode Island
Legislature, was elected to the United
States Senate in 1839, and served there
till his death in 1842. The second served six
terms in the State Legislature, was elected
seven times to Congress, and declined further
service; then was subsequently elected six
more times to the Legislature, serving until
hjs death. The third of the name, now
chosen United States Senator, was graduated
at Brown University in 1869, and is at pres
ent a member of the State Senate.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Scott's "Marmion" has been dramatized.
German- opera is to bo produced in Boston.
Mrs. Crabtree (Lotta's mother) is worth
$800,000.
Bernhardt is making a tour of Algeria,
j north Africa.
Emma Abbott, the opera singer, was born
in Peoria, 111.
The Buffalo Bill "Wild West will open in
Paris May 15.
It is said that there are 1200 actors out ol
employment in this country.
Del Pjtente, the tenor, is to be with the
Patti Opera Company this fall.
Josef Hofmann, the boy pianist, will return
to America next November.
iVlME. ALEAK! wiu neau an xuumu upeio
company in this country next season.
Adelaide Moore,the English tragedienne,
is to return to this country next season.
Pauline Lucca is concertizing in Austria
prior to her proposed departure for this country.
Ernest Gye promises us a season of Italian
opera with an American prima donna
and chorus.
Victoria Vokes, the handsomest of the
Vokes Sisters, will tour the United States
next season.
Clara Morris, the emotional actress, -was
taken ill in St. Louis recently by an abcess i
on each hip.
A floating Russian theatre and hotel i9 !
successfully touring the shore towns of the j
Volga River.
Another American singer, Miss Jeanne
Danish has made a success on the concert
platform of Berlin.
Margaret Mather, the actress, has made
arrangements for a twelve weeks' tour of the
West this summer.
The "Passion Play" will be given at Oberammergau
in the autumn of 1&90. The text j
and music have been revised.
John Duff, lessee of the New York Standard
Theatre and an old-time theatrical man- i
ager, died recently of paralysis.
Miss Mary Anderson has sailed for Eng
~-krwi>-. She was much improved in health and
will protsatty resume-" Eer American tour in
October.
Fanny Davenport, the actress, who was
at one time very obese, has reauced her
weight from 215 pounds to 16S by the system
of Banting.
In Japanese theatres females are not
allowed to act with men, consequently the
Ophelias, Juliets and Perditas are played by
men with shrill falsetto voices.
Maurel, the baritone, is to receive S100,000
for forty performances in Buenos Aryes,
while Patti is to be paid $180,000 for singing
thirty times in South America.
Harriet Hcir, an ex-English actress and
a fine-looking young woman, was lately arrested
in London for attempting to enlist as
a private soldier in the British army.
Signor Massini, the famous tenor, at his
recent benefit in St. Petersburg, Russia, received
so many presents that twenty-four
servants were needed to carry them from the
opera house to his hotel.
Catelix, a once popular French tenor and
a pensioner of the Societe des Artistes, and
noted of late for his squalid poverty, was
lately discovered dead in his miserable garret
in Paris. Over $7000 was found by the po-'
line hidden in his wretched mattress.
New railroads tu'o projected every day.
Among the recent announcements ar6 a 235
mile road from Springfield to Hannibal, Mo.,
a 210 mile road from Waco, Texas, to Shreveport,
La., and a sixty mile road from Coleman,
Texas, to Albany, Texas. Railroad
building is looking up.
THE MARKETS.
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15 NEW YORK.
Beeves 3 05 @ 5 10
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .25 00 @45 00
Calves, common to prime... 4 00 @ 6 30
Sheep 3 75 @ 6 25
Lambs 2 00 @ 5 50
Hogs?Live 5 00 @ 5 40
Dressed 66%
Flour?City Mill Extra 4 50 @ 4 05
Patents 5 10 ^ 0 40
Wheat-No. 2 Red 85%(S> 88%
Bye?State 59 @ 61
Barley?Two-rowed State... 70 @ 74 i
Corn?Ungraded Mixed 41 (5. 44 '
Oats?No. 1 White ? @ 39 .
Mixed Western 30 @ 83
Hay?No. 1 t>0 @ 95
Straw?Long Rye ? @ 75 ;
Lard?City Steam ? @ 6 70
Butter?Elgin Creamery.... 275^@ 28
Dairy, fair to good. 18 <tf) 24
West. Im. Creamery 17 @ 23 i
Factory 10 @ 19 j
Cheese?State Factory 10^@ 11
Skims?Light 8V?(S} 9
Western 9 @ 10%
TVcs?State and Perm 11%@ 12 i
BUFFALO.
Steers?"Western 2 SO @ 4 25
Sheep?Medium to Good.... 3 25 @4 75
Lambs?Fair to Good 5 25 ft 6 00
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 15 @ 5 20
Flour?Family 5 00 ft 5 25
Wlieat?No. 2 Northern ? ft 89,^
Com?No. 3. Yellow ? ft 3S}<j
Oats-No. 2. White 30%ft 31%
Barley?No. 1 Canada ? Cj 70
BOSTON.
Flonr?Spring Wheat Pat's., fi 70 ft 7 25 I
Corn?Steamer Yellow 43 ft 4f;'-^
Oats?No. 2 White 31 ft 40
Rye?State tio ft 70
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef?Dressed weight 5 ft 0
Sheep?Live weight 4 ft 5}^
Lambs <> ?
Hogs?Northern .'... ? ft 5;1;
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. family 1 50 ft 4 75
Wheat?No. 2. Red, April... Ill ft 02
Corn?No. 2, Mixed, April.. 41 @ 42
Oats?Ungraded White ? ft 33}? j
Potatoes?Early Rose 30 ft 40 :
Butter?Creamery Extra.... ? @ 27 /
i Cheese?Part skiias 0 @
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HI
ME
WORDS OF 1YISIK>M? H
Attack is the reaction.
To the lean pig a fat acorn. jjEj
Good bread needs no trumpet.
He is the happiest, be he king or pe&^Hj
ant, who finds peace in his home. HH
Let us consider the reason of the cas^H
For nothing is law that is not reason. Bfl
To be prepared for war is one of tl^H
most effectual means of preserving peac^H
If you employ your money in doinjHj
good you put it out at the best interes^H
He draweth out the thread of his velwl
bosity finer than the staple of his argtfiS
ment. Ql
The heart of a beautiful woman,
that of a beautiful flower, may ba tigH
abode of a reptile. flH
When the sun of virtue is set the blufHH
of shame is the twilight. When thdBQ
dies all is darkness. 90
Liberty is the soul's right to breath^H
and, when it cannot take a long breatl^H
laws are girded too tight. 9H
It is always to be feared that they wh^H
marry where they do not love will lo\fl9|
wuere uicy uu nut marry. MM
That character in conversation whic^M
commonly passes for agreeable is macflH
up of civility and falsehood. hQ
There is music in the beauty and tl^B
silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweet^Hj
than the sound of an instrument. HH
When bad men combine, the goolM
must associate; else they will fall, onebflS
one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contempt*?
ble struggle. i Ba
The Home of the Moravians.. jfc|l
On the north side of the Lehigh RiveiES
fifty-four miles from Philadelphia, anjjfl
twelve miles above Easton, Penn.,. M
situated one of the neatest and most aflB
tractive towns in the State, and in all itflfj
government probably one of the quietes1flg|
The borough of Bethlehem also occupi?M
both banks of the Monocacy Creek, thdsH
at this point adds its pure waters to
more turbulent neighbor, the Lehigh. WSj
is probably due to the excellent watenjjR
more than any other one thing, that
tracted its first settlers and caused thei^H
to build their houses at this most deligh^H
ful spot. It has always been the princ^H
pal settlement of the Moravians, or Uni'e^M
Brethren, in the United States, and fcjflfl
an entire century retained the principle o^B
its original organization?to wit, the ex^H
elusion of til persons who were not mem^H
bers of the church. H|
The name Bethlehem was derived fror^H
the. following circumstance: "Coun^B
ZinzendorfE, a Saxon nobleman of wealtJ^H
and great talent, and of the Moravia^H
faith, arrived in New York in November^?
1741, and came to Bethlehem in Decem^H
ber, and in his house the celebrations o^h
nativity of Jesus Christ took place on ih^H
24th of the month. This celebration sug^n
gested to the Count a name for the net^H
settlement, and it was accordingly c&lleJH
Bethlehem." SI
The wealth which within the past
teen years has centred in the Bethlehem^H
has been attracted principally by the coa^H
and iron interests, situated on the line o^B
the two great railways which connect thJH
anthracite regions of Carbon and Luzern^H
Counties with New York and Philadelphia
and in the heart of a valley which is proflH
verbially rich in iron ores and limestone^H
enterprise was not slow in selecting Beth^J
lehem as a most desirable point for th^H
successful prosecution of traffic in thos<flH
indispensable staples of modern civilizaMB
Bethlehem, the seat of the LehigbH|
University, possesses an admirable schoo^H
system, an efficient fire department, forn^Hj
? ? ? ? J ?11
Qcwspspcrb^ anu uu iiiu
which distinguish'a prosperous and en^H
terprising community. ? New Yor'i^M
Graphic.
Esdtinf Adventure With a Whale.
The fishing schooner G. A. Whit^H
has returned to Port Townsefld^^B
Washington, from a halibut cruise in th^H
North Pacific. Her mister, Captain^B
Charles Johnson, relates an exciting ad-^B
venture with a whale. The vessel wa<^H
anchored on the Flattery Banks, seventy^B
five miles from shore, with all of tht^B
crew out in five dories catching halibut,^B
when a school of fivf black whales cam^K
alongside. 0.ae of the school got en-^B
tangled in the vessel's cable, the anchoi^B
parted and the vessel, in tow of t?^H
monster, was taken at a rapid rate to th^H
westward, the only person aboard being^B
the Captain and the cook, who were un-^B
able to stop her. jj9|
The whale became exhausted and^B
brought the schooner around in a circle^B
rr ifliin flffrr from where thev started.^H
The windlass was rigged and the vesse^H
hauled alongside of the whale.
measured over eighty-four feet. With^H
one turn the cable became disentanglecBj
on the whale's flank, and the whale dis-^H
appeared beneath the water. The Cap^H
tain and cook hoisted sail and returnec^H
for the boats, where the crew was safely^B
found twenty-four hours later. The ex-^H
perience was the most exciting that haj^f
ever occurred off Flattery Banks. The^H
story is vouchsafed for by all the crew.?
San Francinco Chronicle. flfi
Cuban Pineapple Plantations. Hj
Twelve miles from Havana is a fln^H
pineapple plantation of sixty acres, ownec^H
by two brothers. The pineapple tree^H
arc low and bushy, about two feet high,H|
with long and prickly leaves extendin^H
up and around the pineapple. Thes^H
bushes, or trees, are planted touching^?
each other in rows about four feet apart^H
Each tree has an apple growing in th(^|
top. Some were just forming, other^H
half grown and others full gro-vn. W^H
had the pleasure of eating them ripe frorr^H
the trees, and we found the flavor fa^H
superor to those we get at home, whicl^B
are shipped green to ripen on the way^H
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There are about ivuu trees iu iw
Each tree produces an apple every eigh^H
months, which are sold on the place fo^H
about ten cents apiece. The trees art^B
pood for four years' bearing; they ar^H
then replaced with fresh settings. It wa^H
indeed .1 pretty sight?the pineapples ir^H
their different conditions furnished dif^H
ferent hues?some golden, some azurAB
and some bluish green, all blending to^J
gether, making a beautiful picture.?At^^k
Untu Constitution. J
An Oil King's Luck. 13
The luck of John McKeon, the oi^H
king, continues, his present income fron^E
his wells being *50,000 a month.
addition to his oil interests, he owns 25,^H
000 acres of yellow pine lands in Ala^|
bauia, one of the largest flour mills
Minnesota, and a business block in Balti^E
more said to be worth $1,000,000^B
' Nevertheless he goes about his oil well^B
from five in the morning until late in th^H
evening, iu an ordinary workman's dress^H
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