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A Budget of Dispatches Received
From Various Sources.
A Steamboat Wrecked and Six
Persons Drowned.
The towboat Port Eads, Captain Nelson
JDavis, of the St. Louis ami Mississippi Valley
Transportation Company, was sunk in
the morning at 7 o'clock at the site of the new
railroad bridge, two miles below Memphis.
She carried a crew of about forty men, and
for a time the wildest rumors prevailed, the
loss of life being placed at from twenty-five
to thirty-five, but it was soon learned that
only seven persons were drowned. The Port
Eads had a tow of six grain-laden barges and
one fuel barge, destined for New Orleans
from Cairo. They passed the city shortly before
7 in the morning in a heavy fog, hugging
the Tenuessee shore closely. The steamer
approached the bridge as slowly as possible,
but owing to the dense fog, she ran upon the
sunken pier. A moment later she was seen
to stop suddenly, hang stationary for a minute,
and then swing round with heavy force
and settle on one side. Men ran from every
direction to the yawl, fighting each other in
panic-stricken desperation to reach it. One
man detached the ropes holding it and was
about climb in, when water rushed in over
the boat's deck and all ran to the other side.
Another wave closed over the boat's deck,
and all ran to the side when she settled lower.
Ten of the crew were taken to the United
States Hospital near by, suffering from cuts
and bruises, and the remaiuder were cared
for at the houses along the shore. The Port
Eads was valued at $50,000. The barges and
contents are uninjured.
A Woniun Flogged by Women.
Hattie Frasier, a colored woman, and the
mother of a mulatto child, is the victim of a
severe handling. She was one of the colored
persons who did not join in the chorus
of condemnation of the Barnwell (S. C.)
lynching. She said the murdered men had
only got what they deserved, and this opinion
was very openly expressed.
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VV UllO Odicqj 111 JUCi UUU3U niU4 UV1 AX?*u**w
the other night, she was aroused by some one
trying to get in at the door. Not suspecting
anything, she went out, with her child in
her arms, to see what was the matter.
At the door sho was seized and
thrown down. Her infant was
jerked from her arms and thrown on the
ground. She was then dragged some ways
from the house, and subjected to a fearful
beating. The assailants were in male attire,
and wore black masks and caps.
\ After the departure of the Black Caps the
woman dragged herself back to her house,
where she found her child lying on the
ground. The next day sho identified two of
her assailants. They were colored women
living near her, and were at once arrested.
These women turned State's evidence, and
confessed that the flogging was done by a
band of twenty colored women, who were
dressed in men's clothes.
Upon their testimony fifteen of the womeD
were arrested.
A Drink. Cost Him His Life.
J. McGoldrick, aged between 50 aud 60
years, a tanner by trade, reached Rome, N.
Y., from Taberg, on the Rome, Watertown
and Ogdensburg Railroad at 0:30 A. M., intending
to take a train a few minutes later
for Fonda, where he was going to work.
While waiting in Rome he crossed the track
and went to the little Stanwix Hotel to get a
drink. In returning he slipped aud fell upon
the east-bound passenger track of the Central
road. He carried a bundle of working
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Ci'JUies AUU U UlUliers hull'.'. iiic auao na? i
18 inches long and 1% inches broad. He fell
in such a way as to drive the knife about six
inches into his right side, the* bl.irle entering
between the second and third ribs and penetrating
his lung. He managed to rise, pulled
out the knife, and staggered across tne remaining
three of the Central's tracks, falling
in front of the depot. He died about half au
hour later. Ho leaves a widow and three
children. He was an industrious man and
had worked for many years at Owens's tannery
in Taberg.
Boats Blown to Sea.
The storm which prevailed on the Virginia
coast for two days proved most destructive,
and a number of oyster boats were blown to ,
sea. The sloop Golden Rule sank in Lynn
Haven inlet, and Captain Jones died from
exhaustion after being rescued by life savers.
The sloop Annie has been missing and her
crew were thought to have psrished. The
crew of the sloop Wyandotte, which went
ashore at Virginia Beach, was rescued by the
life savers, as was also the crew of the
schooner T. M. Thomas, which sank in Ocracoke
Inlet, near h'atteras, It is estimated
that twenty lives were lost in the vicinity of
Chesapeake Bay by the storm.
St. Louis Gets a Shaking Fp. i
At 7:93 o'clock the other morning two distinct
earthmtako shocks were felt in St.
Louis. The disturbance was most powerful |
in the southern portion oE tho city, where
many people were so badly frightened that |
they ran into the streets. The bottles in drug
stores and barrooms were shaken together, |
and in some instances broken. Reports from j
the southern suburb of Coromlelet show that |
the shocks were very violent there. At firafc i
it was supi>osed that 111? powder magazine r.t
Jefferson larracks had exploded, but the
powder was discovered intact, and then the
true solution was discovered.
Children Faint in Church.
The other night while vesper services were
in progress in St. John's Catholic Church,
at Westminster, Md., some of the children
nnmnlninfwl r\f f^plinT hfulll* fttlll illlllledl*
ately after fainted away. "While they were
being carried out into" the open air other
children were similarly affected. AfU-i
reaching the street nearly ail quickly revived,
but there are several who were afterward
confined to their beds. Some of the
adults also felt sick. The man in charge of
the furnace had permitted the gas to escape
into the church.
The Steak Strangled Her.
"While Mrs. Lucius Skinner, of Taberg, N.
Y., was getting breakfast the other morning
her little daughter Jessie, aged two and onehalf
years, asked for something to eat. Mrs.
Skinner gave the little girl a piece of steak,
which she put in her mouth and ran into the
bedroom. On the way the meat slipped down
her throat. She tried to tell her father what
had happened, but could not make him understand,
and was strangled to death in a few
minutes.
Went Down in the Pacific.
The German steamer Sakkarah, with hei
cargo of 19,000 bags of coffee, has been totally
lost at Punta de Kemedias, near Aca
jutla, in the Pacific Ocean. The crew were
all saved.
ALL WERE MURDERED.
A Ghastly Spectacle on the Frozen
Prairie.
Four bodies lying on the cold, wiudswept
prairie were the ghastly marks of a tragedy
discovered by two cowboys near Wichita,
Kan. James Horner and Thomas Hemps
were riding along when thoy camo upon a
mover's wagon, from which tho horses "wore
missing. A short distance from the wagon
was the body of a man apparently about
fifty years of age. There were four bulletwounds
in his body.
Near the man lay a woman, apparently the
same age. The body was evidently that of
his wife. There was bullet-wound in the sido
of her head and a hole clear through her
breast. Two feet away was the corpse of a
beautiful girl evidently twenty. Tlie face
was turned upward. She hail been shot
through the head and the congealed blood bad
matted her hair, making an awful picture.
Near by was the body of a boy. An ugly
bullet-hole in the forehead showed how he
met his end.
The object of the murders must have beon
robbery, for the whole of the traveling outfit
was completely stripped. There was nothing
left to show the identity of the dead people.
The discovery was reported to Purcell and a
deputy-marshal set out to investigate. The
cowboys say that from the condition of the
bodies the shooting probably occurred ten
days previous.
Letters from Tientsin, China, report terrible
suffering from overcrowding and starvation.
The roads leading to the large citim
are crowded with famishing refugees; and th*
people are offering their children for sola.
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:the news epitomized.
Eastern and Middle States.
Sarah Rice and Amelia Vallancourt wer?
fatally burned in the onc-story waste hous<
of the Tremont and Suffolk Company's mill,
at Lowell, Mass.
A Kif.e which broke out at Rochester.
N. Y., caused a loss of nearly ?100,000. J.
K. Hunt's largo box factory and two adjoining
building were entirely destroyed.
The American Federation of Labor, according
1o a Boston dispatch, proposes t<
raise a gigantic fund of $3,000,000 to supporl
the contemplated eight-hour strike of May 1,
1890.
More than 0000 peoplo attended a publit
reception to Rev. T DeWitt Talmage ir
Brooklyu. General W. T. Sherman and
Mayor Chapin were among the speakers.
Alaska shaft at Mount Carmel,the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company's
largest colliery, has been closed. One
thousand hands are thrown out of employment.
The new glass works at Blairsville, Penn.,
were blown down during a severe storm.
Charles E. Barr, Superintendent, and a Mr. i
Bierney were killed, and a number of per- j
sons injured.
A fearful storm has raged throughout
"Western Pennsylvania. Snow hail, rain
and wind played great havoc. In Pittsburg
no damage was done by the wind, but the
snow and slush blockafled many of the
streets and stopped street-car traffic.
Governor Hill sent a message to the
New York Legislature advising it to pass the
World's Fair bill as originally presented.
A train wreck occurred near Harrisburg,
Penn., which resulted in the death of the
fireman and injuries to four other persons.
The accident was caused by a misplaced
6\vitch.
The house occupied by Miss Caroline Lane,
in Luneberg, Mass., was burned to the
ground. Miss Lane, who was 80 years old
and lived aloue, perished.
The sardine factory at Machiasport
Village, Me., its wharf, some coal sheds and
30,000 feet of lumber were burned, it is
thought, by an incendiary.
South anil West.
F. A. Walton, a trusted employe of the
Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Texas,
absconded with a package containing $35,000.
A writ of error has been granted to the
Chicago Anarchists in Joliet Penitentiary, so
that their case may again be brought before
rVio TTnit?H Sftatps Simrema Court.
Five Chinese on their way to Dutch Flat,
Cal., were overwhelmed by an avalanche and
killed.
The Navajo Indians in San Juan County,
New Mexico, have been harrassing the settlers
on account of the recent killing of an
Indian. About five hundred warriors left
their reservation, and the settlers were greatly
alarmed.
After the adjournment of the Montana
Senate, eight Democratic Senators, incensad i
at the ruling of Lieutenant-Governor Rickards
in couuting them present when they refused
to vote, took trains going in different
directions. They said they were going beyond
the State line to get out of reacn of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. Their absence blocked
all legislation.
The election for Governor of West Virginia
in November, 1888, has just been decided
by the inauguration or A. Brooks
Fleming, the Democratic candidate.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, I
has commenced an open warfare against Chicago
for the World's Fair.
There are said to be fully 6000 people in
North Dakota who are in need of assistance.
The afflicted people are mostly Americans
and Scandinavians.
News was brought to Birmingham, Ala.,
of the killing of two white men and the
wounding of three others in a fight with colored
men which occurred in Bibb County,
fifty miles south of Birmingham.
A dispatch from Stephen, Minn., states
that the worst blizzard within the recollection
of the oldest inhabitant was raging. The
wind was from the north, and the air was
a cloud of snow. The mercury registered ten
degrees below zero, and it was growing
colder.
President Fitzgerald, of the Irish
National League, issued an address from
Lincoln, Neb., calling for funds in view of
coming elections in Great Britain.
Seven boys were drowned in the river at ,
Carrollton, near New Orleans, La., by the
sinking of two yawls in which they were <
taking a ride.
A great rush of settlers to the Sioux Reservation
in South Dakota was made when
the President's proclamation opening that 1
territory was issued. Tho best lands were
soon literally covered with claimants.
Nearly half a block of buildings have
been destroyed by fire at Morris, Minn.
The Legislature of West Virginia passed a
resolution favoring the pensioning of all Federal
soldiers of the war and instructing Senators
and Representatives to vote for the passage
of such a bill.
Seth twombley, Charles Bufovd and
Henry LaClocke, crew of tho ill fated train
which collided at South Euglewood, Chicago,
in which seven people were killed, have
been placed on ti-ial for murder.
Jim Seals and his family attempted to
Dross X eliow urosK in a wagon near Jiurnsville,
Miss., and. the wagon capsized, drowning
four children, aged from two to ten years.
A scheme to legalize lotteries in North
Dakota was defeated in the lower house of
the Legislature after it had gone through the
Senate.
William Ferrell, a farmer of Ironton,
Ohio, was killed by his son, who is less than
twenty years old. Young Ferrell interfered
to protect his mother in a dispute between
ber and his father.
"Washington.
Senator Sherman and Murat Halstead,
the Cincinnati editor, succeeded Governor
Campbell, of Ohio, as witnesses before the
Bouse Committee on the Ballot Box Forgery.
Nominations by the President: James W.
Remick to be United States Attorney for the
Distinct of New Hampshire; Paris Kilbourne,
to be Surveyor of Customs at San Francisco;
Collectors of Customs?Alanson W. Beard,
district of Boston and Charlestown, Mass.;
George B. Edmonds, at Fairfield, Conn.;
Louis McKenzie Bell, at Alexandria, Va.; J.
H. Pinkerton, at St. Mark's, Fla.; Frank A.
Vaughan, at Saluria, Tex.
The Colored Convention elected P. B. S.
Pinchback President of the new organization
and adjourned after issuing an address
to the country.
Tiik Senate Committee on Territories directed
Chairman Piatt to favorably report
the bill for the admission of Idaho as a State.
The President sent to the Senate the name
of Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania,
to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Russia.
The President has signed the proclamation
opening the Sioux reservation in South
Dakota. He has also issued an order establishing
land offices at Pierre and Chamber
lain.
Diplomatic nominations bvtho PresidflritSamuel
Marrill, of Indiana, to be Consul- 1
General at Calcutta; J. Fenner Lee, of Mary- i
land, to be Secretary of Legation at Rio de ,
Janeiro; Harris B. Newberry, of Michigan,
to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid.
United States Consuls: Edward Bedloe, of ,
> ennsyivania, at Amoy; C. I. Croft, of North j
Dakota, at Carthageua, United States of ;
Colombia; James R. Danforth, of Pennsylvania,
at Kehi; Ferdinand A. Husher, of
Minnesota, at Fort Stanley and St. Thomas;
Frank D. Hill, of Minnesota, at Montevideo; (
Henry K. Myers, of South Dakota, at San
Salvador; Levi \V. Myors, of Iowa, nt Victoria,
B. C.; Felix A. Matthews, of California,
at Tangier; Frederick M. Ryder, of
Connecticut, at Quebec, Canada: L. R. Stewart,
of Virginia, at San Juan, Porto Rico.
Judicial nominations: James O'Brien, of
Minnesota, to lie Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court iif New Mexico; Cornelius H. Hanford,
to be United States District Judge for the
District of Washington; George N. Wiswell.
of Wisconsin, to be United States Marsha)
for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker appeared
before the House Committee on Postoflices
and read an elaborate statement in
favor of a system of postal telegraphy.
Foreign.
The Pope has issued a decree empowering
the Bishops in all countries recently visited
by the influenza to absolve the faithful from
fasting until further notice.
The municipal authorities of Lisbon have i
riven 100 contos to the Portuguese national
defence fund. The Archbishop convened
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k~mm land.
The Sioux Reservation in Sontli g
Dakota Open for Settlement. J
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A Great Scramble by Settler? si
for Desirable Locations, J
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Tho President by proclamation hns c
opened tho Sioux Reservation in South ti
Dakota and established land offices at c
Pierre and Chamberlain. Reciting that the ^
different bands of Sioux Indians had relinquished
all claims to the land in question, w
provision is made by the proclamation for
tho future homes of the tribe, and any ?
lands occupied by religious societies are ?
given such societies. The proclamation ?
provides that all the lands in the
Great Sioux Reservation, outside of the ,
separate reservations for the Indians, ex- ,
cept American Island, Farm Island and
Niobrara Island, regarding which islands p
special provisions are made, and sections six
teen and thirty-six in each township (wbicb
aro reserved for school purposes) shall bedisposed
of by tlio United States upon th?
terms, at the nrice and in the manner set B
the clergy and directed them to collect funds
for this purpose in every parish.
The Colonial Federation Conference was
opened at Melbourne, Australia. James
Service, Prime Minister of Victoria, was
elected to preside. Much enthusiasm was
manifested.
General Salamaxca, Governor-General
of Cuba, died at Havana, after a brief illness.
While the British man-of-war 'Barra^Duta
was testing her boilers off Margate,
England, one of the cylinders exploded, killing
two of the crew and injuring ten others.
At a meeting of the Canadian Farmers' Ik6titute
held at Toronto a motion advocating
"free corn from America" was carried. Farmers
claim it is cheaper to import corn than
to raise it.
One hundred and seventy bodies were
recovered from the mine at Abersychan, England,
where the explosion occurred. Many
affecting scenes were witnessed. Among
them the discovery of grouped bodies of a
father and five sons.
The Duke of Orleans, son of the Count ol
Paris, pretender to the throne of France, was
arrested in Paris for violating the Expulsion
law by returning to Franco.
Prince Augustus, of Saxe-Coburg, grandson
of Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is
suffering from dementia. He has been placed
in an asylum at Gratz, Styria.
General L. Chinchilla, formerly Spanish
Minister of War, has been appointed
Captain General of Cuba.
The Greek steamer Spyridion Vagliano
was wrecked near Falmouth, England. Of
those who were on board eight persons were
saved. The captain of the vessel was drowned,
and thirteen others were missing.
Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope,
who had been ill for several days with pneumonia,
died at Rome, aged 83 years.
There is a row in social circles in Canada
owing to the fact that only twenty members
of Parliament out of a house of 215 were invited
to the big annual dance at the Government
House.
The Pope received Archbishop Corrigan.
of New York, with every manifestation or
friendship and approval.
The British Parliament was opened and
the Queen's speech was read from the throne
by the Lord High Chancellor.
The Portuguese Government has forbidden
the holding of a patriotic meeting which was
to have taken place at Lisbon. A contemplated
patriotic procession through tho i
streets was also prohibited.
Senator Aristides Lobo, the Brazilian
Minister of the Interior, has resigned in consequence
of a disagreement with General
Fonseca, the President.
LATEK NEWS.
The -wife of J. G. Fisher, of Rutledge,
Penn., committed suicide by setting her
clothes on fire.
The annual Convention of the American
Newspaper Publishers' Association met in
New York city. James W. Scott, of the
Chicago Herald, President of the association,
was in the chair.
In the recent hurricane that swept tha
North Atlantic, the herring schooner Isaac
A. Chapman, of Gloucester, Mass., is thought
to have been lost with the eight men comprising
her crew.
A landslide occurred on the mountain
above the Suislaw River, at Florence, Oreburying
the house of A. F. Andrews and
killing Mrs. Androws, her daughter and little
son. Andrews and an elder son were thrown
into the river, and after floating on the debris
all night, were picked up several miles below
in an almost dying condition.
An express train was wrecked on the Wid
consin Central road near Mellen Junction
and six passengers were injured, but nona
fatally.
A fatal railroad ollision occurred nt
Coaling, Ala., in which an engineer was
killed and a dozen persons injured.
When the case of the men indicted for attempting
to bribe the Cronin jury was called
before Judge Waterman at Chicago, the four
defendants pleaded guilty.
There is great excitement in Lathrop,
Mo., and in the surrounding towns over a
crusade inaugurated against liquor. The
movement is spreading rapidly, and all the
women have abandoned domestic duties to
attend meeting.
The House Committee on Territories decided
to report favorably Delegate Carey's
bill for the admission of the Territory of
Wyoming as a State.
The Senate in executive session nave nnany i
disposed of the nomination of Thomas J.
Morgan to be Commissioner of Internal Affairs
by a vote in the affirmative.
Secretary Blaine resumed his officii! j
duties at the State Department for the first
time since his recent bereavements, and one
of his first acts was the appointment of S. A.
Brown, of Washington, as Chief Clerk of the
Department.
A fire in Paris has destroyed Osborn's
library, valued at *400,000 and containing
many unique historical documents.
The Duke of Orleans, who went to Pari.'
with the avowed intention of enlisting in th?
I
French army, and who was then arrested oz j
the charge of violating the law exiling from
Franco all pretenders to the French throne,
was arraigned before the Tribunal of the
Seine and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
A gux burst on one of the ships of the .
German squadron off Smyrna and killed one I
sailor and injured two.
Thomas Kane was hanged in the jail yard
at Toronto, Canada, for the murder of his
wife in November last. He met his fate resolutely.
The Manitoba Legislature decided to abolish
the official use of the French language in :
that province by a vote of 26 to 10. The
French-speaking people are very indignant
and will appeal the matter to higher tribunals
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GREAT MINE DISASTER.
t\ Hundred and Fifty Men Entombed
in an English Colliery.
A cable dispatch from London says: An
explosion occurred in a colliery at Abersyrhan,
in Monmouthshire. Three hundred miners
were imprisoned and for severed hours no
communication could be had with them.
Au opening was finally effected, and at noon
many of them had been rescued. Rescuing
parties are still searching for those remaining
in the mine. It is feared that It will be
impossicie to rescue lue uiuiera nuu Clio oiiu
imprisoned. Up to 4 o'clock in tho afternoon
Corty bodies have been taken from the mine.
The cause of the explosion was tho flooding
of pits adjacent to that in which the explo?
sion occurred. By the flooding of these pits
gas was dislodged and forced into the pit,
where work was in progress, and there it ignited
and exploded. There must have been
a great quantity of gas, as tho explosion had
tremendous force. It was heard at a distance
of a mile. All tne gearing in tho shaft was
thrown into the air as if from tho mouth of
a volcano, and simultaneously a vast bright
volumo of flanio shot upward, followed by a
dense heavy column of smoke.
The first party of rescuers organized endeavored
to penerate the pit through the
old workings. They got far enough to ba
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a Die to see groups 01 mu ueau, uuu
they could not reach them, and were
compelled to retreat by the suffocating
volumes of smoke that rose in that
direction. Upon the first appearance of a
diminution in the volume of smoke rescuers
went down the main shaft and reached the
scene of the catastrophe. They rescued a
large number of miners yet aliva, but all
very badly burned, >nd they brought out
sixty dead bodies, nearly all so multilated
that the recognition of their identity is impossible.
TbeJfttest estimate of,the dead J*
160. ^ ' - * - v.;, ;'
forth in the Act of the Commission, to actua' V
settlers only, under tho provisions of th<
Homestead law (cxcept section 2301 thereof),
and under the law relating to town sites. If l
is provided, however, that all persons who, y
between February 27, 1885, and April 27, ?
1885, entered upon or made settlements with H
intent to enter tho same under the Home t
stead or Pre-emption laws of the United j
States upon any part of the Great Sioua K
Reservation have a right to re-enter upon ^
said claims and procure title thereto undei p
the Homestead or Pre-emption Jaws of th<
United States.
A dispatch from Chamberlain describes _
the rush for the newly-opened territory as ?
follows:
There was a rush for the Sioux Reserva- y
tiou hours before it became known that tho j(
President's proclamation had opened the ^
new territory. It was a grand sight, viewed (j;
from the high bluffs on tho east side of the
river, to see the teams with their great
lumber-loads dashing across the river on a
dead run, up the bluff on American Island
and Anally being lost to sight in the heavy p'
timber. "
The Indian police, to the number of nearly *1
nna liurwlrosl iinil hpoM nlared as n. fruard to '
vue ..U..U,W, r- , o .
prevent any premature invasion, but they f
stood dazed and helpless as they viewed the "
gjeat and irresistible rush for the reservaf.inn
A most, novel sit? lit was the moving n
of a large building, under which had been a
placed heavy timbers and wheels. This, like r
the other wagons, was pulled across the n
river by galloping horses. "
It took but a few minutes for the several ?
sections on the valuable bottom to be liter- J!
ally covered with claimants, and it will take
a score of lawyers to solve tha problem as to 0
who are the rightful owners. P
The local town-site boomers undoubtedly t
secured an advantage over the other organ- '
izeil boomers by a few minutes, but among ?
the boomers are a number who intend to se- ?
cure homestead filings if possible, which if J
persisted in, will complicate the matter to "
such an extent as to result in a protracted
legal struggle. While this rush and conflict"' >?
was going on for the bottom lands iapojr iS
other intending settlers rushed promptly into: z,
the uplands and began at onco th& erection ;?
of houses, and these are prepared to .defend P
their rights as against later fielfcferra, cletdP' p*
mincdly guarding against any invasion, oi . *
their lands. $
At night the settlers encamped on their ?
claims. The new land office will be organ"''
ized at once and be in running order by the ' ?
time the lands are surveyed, when filings '
will be tendered by settlers. The land is as i
yet unsurveyed, and settlers will for the
present have to secure squatters' rights. ?
There were a number of smash-ups in the
rush, but no fatalities were reported. The P
City was m a greac uproar, uuns iiugiug,
whistles blowing, cannons booming, shout- ?
ing of excited men and the rushing of teams t
made a veritable bedlam. ,
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POSTAL PRIZES. I
Twelve Gold Medals for the Quickest p
Men on Railway Routes. d
General Order No. 803, just issued by the
General Superintendent of the Po3toffice Do J
partmont, notifies the railway postal clerks i]
throughout the country that at the close of ?
1890 twelve gold medals will be presented to q
the most efficient men. f
They will be known as "The Postmaster
General Medals." and one will be awarded to
the clerk in cacn of the eleven divisions who
shall have made the best general record on
the largest number of cards representing j
postofilces distributed by routes or by counties,
modified bv the class of tbo clerk, the
error slip record and the car work.
The twolfth medal will be awarded to the i ^
clerk of auy class in any division who shall ! ,
during the year correctly distribute, in the | ;
shortost time and with tho largest number j ii
of eeparatioiis, cards representing tho greatest
number of postoffices.
Committees to determine the award of the : i
division medals will bo selected by the clerks !
in their respective divisions, in a manner to j (
be arranged by the Division Superintendent j ^
and a committeo to award tho twelfth medal !
will be designated by tho General Superin- ! ^
tendent. r
THE LABOR WORLD. '
The South's manufacturers employed 4S3,- ~
260 persons last year, and 215,428 in 18S0. ?
Michigan* has seventy-eight furniture fac- o
tories, half of which are in Grand Rapids. a
Ox the Hudson River alone 10,000 men 1
usually employed on the ice harvest have
been idle. j
The postal clerks of Chicago have organized.
They waut eight hours a day and
graded salaries. y
Pennsylvania's master painters and w
decorators have declared th?ir opposition to
the eight-hour inovemeut. ?
The Massachusetts Federation of Labor ^
will hold a convention in Boston on March j
16to boom tho eight-hour movement. I g
English mine owners are preparing to a
form a federation to protect their interests
against the organizations ot employes. j
Ax eight-hour badge has been adopted by q
the American Federation of Labor. It is
simply a figure eight made of nickel plated Q
metal.
Si
Christopher Woods, Treasurer of the
Switchmen's Union No. 4, of Kansas Citv,
Mo., has disappeared with $1003 of the P
union's money. '
The New York State branch of the Ameri- *i
can Federation of Labor seems to be in a
prosperous condition, as the per capita tax v
could be reduced one-fourth of one cent.
The journeymen plumbers and steam and
gas fitters of Allegheny County, Penn., *
numbering 2000, are arranging to affiliate
with tho American Federation of Labor.
The cio;ar making industry of San Fran
cisco is almost dead, because of Chinese com- r
petition, and goods from Pennsylvania are
sold cheaper there than they can be made at
home.
There are at Sheffield, Ala., enterprises ''
now under construction or contract to be completed
there within six mouths to the extent P
of $660,000, including a $300,000 rolling mill,
*300,000 railroad shops, etc
Thic London owners of docks, wharves and ?
warehouses have formed a union to combat
the demand of labor unions. Lockouts on ?
oho hand aurl new strikes on the other will
probably follow in qnick succession.
Women employed on the Vol^a River in ?
Russia work from four o'clock in the morn- J[
ing till sunset. Tlioy carry 140 pounds of j
freight up high ladders. Men get twenty- j
two cents per day, women eighteen cents.
Moses Boyd, of Dedham, Mass., has been j
n Boston and Providence Railroad conductor j
for forty-six years, and he is said to be the c
oldest conductor in active service ou any t
road running out of Boston. He is seventy- a
four years old.
Dix Island, which contains the granite j.
quarries from which came the granite for j
the New York and Philadelphia Postoffices, j,
the Treasury Building at Washington and the v
Brooklyn Bridge has been sold to an English v
syndicate, which is to reopen the quarries. r
Miss Frances E.williard,who has lived
for many years in a Chicago suburb, says
there are women in that city who make a t
dozen skirts for seventy-five cents, and find f
iheir own thread. Also that there are chil- t
dren who work twelve hours a day for a doJ- I
Jar a week. 1
FAMILY OF SIX PERISH.
Father and Mother and Four Children
Drowned.
A chain of four lakes, known as the B limewaters,
is located along the line of the
"Waterkill Valley Railroad, a few miles from
Kingston, N. Y They are great resorts for
pleasure seekers, both summer and winter, as
they abound with fish and are surrounded by
woods. The third Binnewater, which is between
six aud seven miles from there,has been
the scene of an appalling accident. The four
children of Jacob R. Slater went skating on
the lake, the ice being hardly two inches
thick. They had been skating a little while
only when the ice gave way and they were
struggling in the water.
Their cries for help were heard by their
parents, who hastened to the scene only to
find that their loved ones were far from the
shore beyond their reach. The mother, frantic
with grief, and with uplifted hands, ran
wildly in the direction of her children in a
frt rocoim fham. A<3 she an
; ... 1 '
PIFTT-FIEST CONGBESS.
In the Senate.
34th Day.?The Senate took up the bill to
rovide a temporary Government for the
'erritory of Oklahoma, and the Clerk finished
lie reading of the bill, which had been begun
tie dayprevious. V arious formal amendments
rere offered and agreed to... .Mr. Blair reurned
his speech on his National Educational
ill.... Mr. Gibson introduced a joint resoluion
providing for an appropriation of $4,000,- j
00 for the improvement of the Mississippi
liver and the harbors of New Orleans, >iathez,
Vicksburg and Memphis In execuive
session, a motion of Mr. Edmunds to reonsider
the vote bv which the Samoan treat? I
fas ratified, was called up and laid on the
abb by a vote of 30 to 13.
3">th Day.?Mr. Hoar introduced a bill
finch provides that all soldiers who have !
>st the use of both hands shall receive 1100
month in lieu of the pension they now reeive
The Senate resumed consideration
f the bill to provide a temporary governlent
for the Territory of Oklahoma. An
mendment was offered to incorporate "No
lan's Land," but the Senators voted it
own....The Senate bill for the organizaion
of the National Zoological Park and the
[ouse bill to constitute Albany a port of
nmediate transportation were passed.
36th Day.?The Senate resumed consideraion
of the bill to provide a temporary
overnment for the Territory of Oklahoma
... The Educational bill was taken up, and
[r. Blair continued his opening speech in
ipport of that measure The Senate took
p the nomination of Thomas J. Morgan to
e Indian Commissioner and debated for an
our and a half without coming to a vote....
Lmong the bills introduced and referred
rere: By Mr. Pierce?To create an agricullral
commission to investigate the present
epressed condition of the agricultural interrtsof
the country, and by Mr. Ingalls?
Istablishing a free bathing beach on the
otomac River, near the W ashiiigton Monulent
grounds.
37th Day.?The Morgan resolution, conratulating
the new Republic of Brazil, a
isolution inviting the King of the Hawaiian
ilands to send a delegate to the Internaonal
Conference, and a motion of Mr.
ones to authorize the construction of a
ridge across the Arkansas River in the Iuian
Territory were passed.
In the House.
38th Day.?The Democrats carried out
aeir policy of silent protest against the rullgs
of the Speaker by declining to vote upon
ae question of approving the journal. It
roe hnwmrnr nnnrnVfili hv B. Vote of VeaS.
' ? I ?re ? -w ? . .
53; nays, 0?the constitutional quorum beig
counted by the Speaker... .Mr. Cannon,
rotn the Committee on Rules, reported the
ew code of rule?, &nd it was ordered printed
nd recommitted.... Mr. Tarsnev offered a
esolution reciting that it is charged that
lany hundred individuals entered Oklahom
in violation of the act of Congress, and
irecting the Speaker to appoint a committee
a investigate the matter. Referred to the
!ommittee on Rules... .A bill for the relief
f the survivors of the Samoan disaster was
assed.
39th Day.?Bills were passed increasing to
100 a month the pension of General Duryea,
f "Duryea's Zouaves," and appropriating
40,000 for the maintenance of the Marion
ranch of the National Home for the Voluneer
Soldiers for 1890.
40th Day.?1The journal of the proceedings i
f the previous meeting was read, and,
Ithough the Democrats did not demand a
etailed reading of that document, they inIstockupon
a yea and nay vote upon its aprovaL
It was approved?yeas, 149; nays, 1
g,iMr. Wickham introduced for reference j
r bilC.-'the purpose of which is to prevent j
.ttrym'andering in the States. It provides
hat the Representatives elected to the Fif tyecond
Congress shall be returned from the i
ame districts as similar Represents- j
ives elected to the Fifty-first Congress ;
...Mr. Cannon, from the Committee on
tules, reported back the new code of rules,
nd the House proceeded to consider it.
Lrguments wen? made in opposition to the
roposed rules, especially the clause making :
00 members a quorum in the Committee or ,
he Whole. Pending further discussion the '
louse adjourned.
41st Day.?The journal of the previous !
lay's proceedings containing a yea and nay j
imnn whiph t.hfi Snpatpr counted a quo- !
um, the Democrats would not by tfieir I
ilence acquiesce in its approval, and a roll j
all was rendered necessary. It was ap- i
iroved?yeas, 150; nays, l....The general I
ebate on the new code of rules was continued.
42d Dat.?The journal having been read,
Ir. Boutelle asked unanimous consent for
tg approval, but objections came from the '
)emocratic side, and a roll-call was made ,
lecessary. The journal was approved.... I
Tie general debate on the new code of rules
or the House was continued.
A M0KM0N DEFEAT.
The Gentiles in Control at Salt Lake
City for the First Time.
The Gentiles, after au excitiug election,
lave obtained control of the Municipal
kmncil of Salt Lake City for the first time
11 its history.
Tho oflicial returns give George B. Scott
Gentile) for Mayor a majority of 809; Louis
lyains (Gentile) for Recorder. 53!); J. B.
Valden (Gentile) for Treasurer, (>59; li. R.
'lute (Gentile) for Assessor, -100; J. M.
'ouus (Gentile) for Marshall. 773. The renaiixler
of tiio Gentile ticket, including
if teen Council mon, are elected by majorities
anaina from 300 to 400.
Speaking editorially upon lbs contest,
udge C. C. Goodwin, of tlie Salt Lak < City
"ribune. says:
"A great wave of thankfulness will ? veep
7er Utah to-da}\ Tlie blow delivered
esterday upon the Mormonisni as a poliical
power was a terrible one, and the news
f it will strike upon thousands of hearts like
, visible answer to prayers. February 10,
8i>0, marks an epoch in Utah's history."
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
William S. Gilbert, the librettist, says
lat he never reads criticisms of his own
forks.
London's theatres are said to have had a
flat, stale and altogether unprofitable"
rinter.
Karl Merz, known throughout the United
tatcs as an eminent musician, recently died
t Worcester, umo. I
"The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan's
itest comic opera, will shortly be sung in
rerman in Munich.
William Crane in his new play, "The
lenator," is said to make up so as to reemble
Senator Plumb, of Kansas.
Miss Adele aus der Ohe, the eminent
ianist, has been playing a number of sucessf
ul recitals in Boston and Providence.
The production of "As You Like It" at
tie St. James's Theatre in London was postoned
in consequence of the illness of Mrs.
iangtry.
Hexrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright,
i thought by sorue good critics to be the
lost original dramatist of the nineteenth
entury.
A plat at one of the English theatres has
ust had to be modified because the actors
ad a superstition against the appearance
f a peacock or its feathers on the stage.
Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor, is liv,ig
in London, at the ago of seventy. It is
aid that while his voice is apparently unimaired,
he does not wish to sing in public any
lore.
Wilson Barrett was offered $1000 to give
performance of "Tho Silver King" in Chiago
on a Sunday night, but refused on the
round that it would be an affront to his
labbath observing friends.
The most noted colored actress of the day
? Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Baltimore.
h<ii< (Intuit, in Washington, in 1SS3. !
nd has been well received iu?sucli roles as
uliet, Desdemona, Queen Elizabeth and
y.'ali.
It 1ms been determined to give a concert in
jonclon during tho ensuing season, which Dr.
oacliim will bo asked to conduct. The proeeds
will be devoted to the general fund for
ho establishment, in the house of his birth, of
, Beethoven museum.
Mrs. Ervixg Wi.vslow, the Boston acress
and elocutionist, has been giving readngs
of Ibsen's plays, "A Doll's Home, "Pilars
of Society," "The Lady of the Sea," etc.,
vhich have been received with much pleasire
by the admirers of the Norwegian dranatist.
Ad vices from California brought the news
hat in the Sierras the snow was seventeen
eet deep on the level, and in many places It
tad drifted to a depth of thirty feet. At
mints along the railroads the telegraph poles
vere entirely out of sight. i
- i . !
proached tlie spot where they had broken
through, the ice gave way beneath har feet,
and she, too, was floundering about in the
water. Mr. Slater, who was only a few feet
behind his wife, also fell in, and all were
drowned.
News of the accident spread rapidly, and
by nightfall hundreds of people lined the
shore of the lake while efforts were being
made to recover the bodies.
DISASTROUS FLOODS, v
Great Damage to Property in Oregon
and Washington.
Heavy rains and melting snow have resulted
in disastrous floods in Oregon and
Washington. Portland, Ore., was partly
submerged, and the only travel through the
principal business streets was by small
ooats. Many bridges were swept away. All
railroad communication south and east of
Portland was cut off for five days.
The wagon bridge across the Willamette
River at Salem, Ore., was carried away.
The structure was 1000 feet long and cost
about $75,000. No less than ten million logs
have been swept away on the Willamette
and Columbia Rivers. Large quantities of
sawed lumDer ana a numoer uj. Mwuima
the river have also been carried away. The
damage was estimated at over $500,000.
At Tacoma, Washington, the Willamette
River was higher than for twenty years
past, and much damage was inflicted.
LOST m A SNOWSTOEM.
Picnickers Have a Thrilling Adventure.
A party of young persons living in Colorado
Springs, Col., have had a thrilling adventure.
They left the city early for a day's
picnicking in Cheyenne Canyon. At the hour
of starting the weather was like a June day.
A storm came upon them suddenly, and
frave fears were entertained by their friends.
earching parties were out all night, but
without success. Next morning word came
that they had found refuge in a ranch building.
Several of the party suffered from exposure,
but none of them were in danger.
The searchers were not so fortunate, as several
of them were badly frostbitten.
J. E. Webster, a contractor of Denver, lost
his life in the blizzard. He had been out in
the country on business, and returning home
he was overcome, sank down in a drift and
was frozen to death.
A WTfiMSTPnTTfl TflF.TVF/R.rL
XL ^IVXIUXIIUUU 1VUVUUVII
One 700 Feet High and a Mile Long
Passed by a Steamship.
Reports of dangerous icebergs lying directly
in the path of Western-bound steamships
still come in, and the hydrographic officers
have warned mariners of the dangers attending
a "northern passage." Captain
Evans, of the British steamship Mineola,
which has arrived at Philadelphia from Hamburg,
reports having passed within a few
miles of a floating island of ice 700 feet high
and a mile lone.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
General W. T. Sherman is just seventy
years old.
Senator Ha wist practices on the violin
every day.
Mr. Gladstone keeps six private secretaries
at work.
Spain's little King has an income of one
million dollars a year.
Ttth TTnnse will soon contain a Dor
trait of Grover Cleveland.
Chief Justice Corliss, of North Dakota,
is only thirty-one years of age.
Senator Gorman is an expert on baseball,
and was formerly a noted amateur player.
In June next King Leopold's jubilee will
he appropriately celebrated at Liege, Belgium.
Cardinal Newman is eighty-eight years
old, but still clear-headed ana physically spry
and active.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker never
permits wine to be served at any of his entertainments.
James "Whistler, London's eccentric
American painter, iscominingover for a visit
in'the spring.
UALVIX i3. iiKIL't, Uliios new ocuaiAji, nui
occupy James Gordon Bennett's villa at Newport
next season.
Prince Bismarck's friends are apprehensive
again about his health, which is said to
be much impaired.
Senator I.vgalls's daily luncheon at the
Senate restaurant consists of nine oysters
fresh from the shells.
Dr. McCosn, ex-President of Princeton,
didn't stop teaching until he had educated
thirty-seven college Presidents.
Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, is a
little man who talks in a sharp, quick way.
He is tired of humorous writing.
Among the many messages of sympathy
rec?ived by Secretary Tracy were cablegrams
from Queen Victoria and the King of Italy.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, will, according
to a London journal, shortly wed
"an immensely wealthy American Catho
ulv
The richest man 111 Alabama is H. P. De
Bordeleban, a Birmingham iron manufacturer,
who is supposed to bo worth about
f8t000,000. _
Oliver "Wendell Holmes always retires
at the same hour, eats dinner in the middle
of the day and walks at least two miles every
tweuty-four hours.
Monet is being raised for the erection of
a monumental statue of Commodore Vanderbilt
on the campus of Vanderbilt University,
at Nashville, Tenn.
Charles Dudlet Warner has a full
beard, dresses better than most authors and
lives at Hartford, between Mark Twain and
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and
his wife will have receptions in every Canadian
city and town they visit during their
tour through the Dominion.
Buffalo Bill is quoted as saying that he
does not wonder that Christopher Columbus
wanted to get away from Spain, as he felt
very much that way himself.
Senator Wade Hampton comes from an
old and formerly wealthy Southern family.
At the out! reak of the war he had from
3000 to 300C slaves on his plantations.
The Khaa of Khiva and the Emin of Bokhara
are to make a tour through Europe
this year, but the Russian Government stipulated
that they ara not to visit England.
The Eaiperor of Russia has been in a state
of insane panic, the result b >ing that lie has
sunk into the deepest despondency, and constantly
insists that his end is approaching.
Astonishment is expressed by many people
upon learning that Mr. Blaine and Mr.
Randall never studied law. One began hi?
" " mi- ?s b mprnhant. and the other as a jour
nalist.
Tiie first cash John D. Rockefeller, of
Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was
twenty-five cenlr, whic i he earned by working
for a farmer io that he might go to tua
circus.
Mo.yta.va is in a bad state. Her appropriation
funds *a?e exhausted, and the
Treasury will pay no more bills until the
Legislature makes an appropriation. There
is no money for the support of convicts, and
the people are calling loudly on the Legislature
to nustle.
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~ SPONGE MYERS.
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A PERILOUS OCCUPATION IN THE*
MEDITERRANEAN.
Sponges Obtained at the Deadly Peril,
Of Divers, Who Use no. Appar- Jfl
atus and Remain Below /i
Several Minutes.- ;
Vf 1|
Sponges soft as the skin of a babe come
from the Grecian Archipelago, where;
thousands of lives are lost every year in'
procuring them, and forty dollars has
often been paid for fine ones in New .
York.
No man in the city knows more about
this annual sacrifice of men than *J.[ ^3
Papadopolo. He was born in Greece,'
witnessed the operations of the sponge-:
getters there, and himself seen many o?
these fearless men eaten by sharks orj
otherwise killed in t^e water.
"In the Archipelago the divers are' ^
prepared to take many chances," he said J !
"Under water they can hold their breatlr -i
for four or five minutes and can see as
well beneath the surface as above it,f
keeping their eyes constantly open.' ^
They use no mving apparatus, neiiaer v
helmet nor anything else, and are clothed! /
just as nature made them. They are ac-j
customed to the work from the time theyj
are six or seven years old, and when a
boy is sixteen he has become as expert as
his father." - !
The skill they attain does not pro-j
long their lives, and few of them reach'
or pass the age of thirty. Often theyj
are brought up from the bottom of the
sea more dead than alive, having becomeunconscious
before they could give thef- 1
signal to be raised. ' ]
Mr. Papadopolo said that though theiif
skin is fair enough, being only somewhat. _
tanned, it turns actually black when the^
divers have been suffocated by a lon^^H
stay below. Their occupation render8^P|
all of them deaf?the pressure of the'" !
water ruining the delicate structure in4 J
side the ear. J
Every vessel that goes out on the- jj
Mediterranean on a voyage for sponges- 8
returns with several dead bodies, or re-' a
norta that missine men had been de-i I
voured by sharks! The wife of every! V
diver anticipates widowhood when she'- I
kisses him adieu.
Sponges come from the Onlf of Mexico, 1
the coast of Florida and the West- 1
Indies, but only in the Mediterranean do- J
those who get them brave the monsters- d
of the deep by jumping in the water- 1
and cutting the sponges loose from thft ,1
rocks or coral to which they are fastened.' : I
In the other waters men remain in boats, '
and, with long poles to which hooked
knives are joined, they tear each sponge- J<
away. i
But the Mediterranean sponges are the- ,
finest; they are such as the Yanderbilts,;
Astors and nabobs of the world use in: -v
their bathrooms, and they are considered
precious enough to risk cheap v human
lives for. .
"The diver holds a heavy rock witlv* \
both hands when he jumps into the water,
so that he may sink to the bottom rapidly,"
said Mr. Papadopolo. "Moments- '
are valuable to him then,and none should
1 A ATTrn A 1Q \
ue wasiuu gumg wiTu. jj. _
ened to this rock and another to a belt I
around his waist. "When he reaches bot- I
ton, a hundred feet, perhaps, or' more)' 1
he drops the rock, and with a knife like^J
a Turkish yataghan detaches spong^A^
from the coral. He has a larger knife^^H
his belt to protect himself against shark^S
and other fishes. : |9
It means danger or death to a diver tb-^B
forg.it where the rock is deposited, asthe-jH
rope attached to it is the one used to sig- V
nal with. When he has been down S
longer than usual another diver is sent tolook
for him, but by that time he may be
drowned. The second rope is used to- M
draw him up when the other diver sig~
nals. No attention is paid to pulling on I
it as he is roving around below.
The bag which every diver carries sus? jfl
n./innrl Vlio nool- ismodp rtf liwht.'-flB
jjuuucu aivj^ o?i^m
tough netting. The stuff he throws into 3
it rapidly is unattractive in its original ?
condition. Mr. Papadopolo compared
the sponge when brought up to a piece
of dark liver.
An integument surrounds it, and between
this outer covering and the sponge-.,
itself is a thick tarry-like substance,
which the sponge men call "milk." Thesponges
are tramped on by the divera
when thrown on the vessel's deck, and
this thick liquid crushed out. Otherwiseit
would dye the sponge so black that no \
- ~ if TtoIIatT "Rlparh
Uieat-'Uillif cuuiu uuav ii. jv.nu...
ing confers the yellow color, and ?.
bleacher who does not know how to han- B
die the acids delicately will cause &
sponge to rot in the process. 9
"When a diver is uescending or is at B
the bottom," Mr. Papadopolo remarked; |fl
"sharks do not attack him. He may der: W
fend himself then with his knife, as he
can see them below or around himi I
Whiie he is down, the shark, a coward-^J
ly fish, will hover around him or rcixtajfl|^l
in one spot watching him intently,
parently knowing that his breath wi^^H
give out, that he must rise to the surface
and that then will be the time to attack I
him from below. The diver remains at I
the bottom as long as he can, anu when I
he gives tne signal 10 oe urawu up uq
has not breath enough left to take time.to
fight the shark. Up he goes; the
shark follows and seizes his man often^'
times as he is about to be drawn on declc^'
The shark jumps up above the water and
catches a diver's leg;' the crew on thfl
deck pound it with the oars of theif
small boats or iron bars; but it does no^
Jet go until it has severed the leg or cut
the man in twain. Such scenes are common
in the archipelago." ^
It might be thought that large remu-2
aeration comes from this perilous employ-'
ment, but the pittance the divers get
barely maintains them and their families,'
and they continue in debt to the men who
hire them from one generation tu auumci. ?
They live on the islands in the archipelj H
ago. They keep at the work all the year H
round, save during the two months or S0|fl
when storms sweep the sea. It is no^
because hurricanes wreck their vessels
that they remain idle then, but because I
the winds roughen the waters, which arei H
usually clear to a great depth, as are B
those at all the sponge beds, and thus they H
are prevented from seeing where the H
sponges are. a H
The best sponges are got by diving, as-1
they grow finer in the cold and darknes^ *S
of the depths of the sea than higher up*-1 H
where the sealight reaches thera aqdi I
warms the water. The supply of sponggs.1 fl
which arc thought vegetable matter bajB
some scientists and animal by others,]^
will never be exhausted, as they thrive(<H
when cut just as human hair does.?: H
York Journal. H
The waters of Japan furnish 250 differ* I
ent varieties of fish suitable for food. ?' fl
a.