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J , ITALY IS INCISED.
Baron Fava, Minister to the
- United States, Recalled.
Relations Severed Because of the
'' ; New Orleans Lynching.
A new and highly sensational twist was
fiven to the diplomatic tangle growing out
the New Orleans lynching by the ani
iouncement to the Stato Department by
flaron Fava, the Italian Minister a1
Washington, of his perjmptory recall by the
tlome Government and the consequent sev"
? .1 i xv nfin ml ofinnc
pance 01 an serious uijj.uuiam, >
between the two countries as far as the
Capital is concerned.
A dispatch from Washington says: ShortSr
after rfeven o'clock this morning Baron
ava,wh? has for so many years represented
(be Italian Government as Minister to the
United States, walkel into the State Deftfi'Sinent
and requested an immediate audi*
Qlce of Secretary Blaine on business of
p"*at importance. . ^
r The Secretary directed thatTne Italian
l?inist?r should be shown into the private
, liplomatic room, where he immediately
joined him. Baron Fava, with many per*
rjonal expressions of regret, informed the
Secretary that it was his duty to announce
Jhat he had received instructions from His
Ifai'afitv Kine Humbert to ask through the
Secretary an audience with the President in
\ Order to present bis letters of recall.
In accordance with diplomatic usage Baron
tfava handed to Mr. Blaine a copy of the inItructions
he had received from his GovernKnt.
They were curt and to the point,
ey referred to the implied pledge held
gat by the Government of the United
tates in the dispatch sent on March
15 to the Governor of Louisiana
that the President and the Governor
of Louisiana would co-operate in maintain*
' log the treaty obligations of the United
States toward Italian subjects in NewOrleans
and in promptly bringing all
offenders against the law to justice. It was
then added that "as the United States
Government has not given assurances
that the murderers of the Italian subjects
aoquitted. by the American magiv
trates and murdered in prison while
fender the immediate protection of the authorities
of Now Orleans will be brought to
Justice, the Italian Government has found
ltaelf under the very painful necessity of
^icoot.Ufar>Hoii bv recall
OUW?iUg IM
lng the Minister of King Humbert from a
country wnere the Italian representative is
unable to oLtain justice."
Secretary Blaine, it is understood, while
. expressing surprise and regret at this api
barently hasty action on the part of the
Italian Government, inasmuch as the facts
of the case were still undetermined and
under investigation, promised to convey to
the President the Italian Minister's request,
and to ask for him an interview so that ha
could present to the President in person his
letters of recall.
The immediate cause of offense to the
Italian Government is understood to be the
evasive and unsatisfactory reply of Governor
Nicholls to the telegram addressed to him by
f the Secretary of State.
7L~ ' ' call of Baron Fava puts an end to
a ay further direct communication between
1 ae representative of Italy in this country
.vnd Secretary Blaine. Hereafter the State
L apartment will bo obliged to communicate
-dl/ectly with the Italian Government at
num?.
Secretary Blaine had a long consultation
with the President and Cabinet on the newaspect
in the diplomatic negotiations with
Italy.
The idea that the trvvo nations would really
go to war was scouted by everybody. The
question of our available military resources
iand the present condition of the fleet was
ihardly touched upon, and the increase of the
(army or the concentration of navy supplies
was not even suggested.
' The question, most seriously consid|
?ered was whether we should retaliate by
!withdrawing Minister Albert G. Porter from
iRotne. The opinion of nearly every member
fof the Cabinet was against tnis. It was felt
tthat Italy had acted hastily and would probably
soon regret her action. For us to follow
in her footsteps would make matters
fworse and would detract from the dignity
jof our position without in any way helping
I Strange as it may seem, this is the first
itime in the history of this Government that
fa foreign diplomat has voluntarily demanded
pis passport. There have been a few cases,
.(however, in which the passports have been
jreturned, which practically amounts t*? a
j PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ex-Speaker Reed has gone to Europe.
Senator-elect Prefer, of Kansas, wears
<no necktie.
The Czarwitch of Russia will not visit the
United States.
Theodore Thomas will be offered the
position of Musical Director at the World's
Dr. Nansen, of Christiania, Is about to
" make another attempt to find the North
Pole.
The King of Italy has granted to Princess
CJlothilde the pension of her husband, Prince
i Napoleon.
The late Prince Napoleon was dull, incap able
and cowardly. He was nicknamed
Plon-Plon," which ineao3 one who fears
lead.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, declares
that he will never write a book. He is
e&id to have refused $25,000 and a heavy
royalty.
Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, has written
a biography of his grandfather, 260
copies only of which will be printed for circulation
among royalty.
Senator-elect Palmer once worked for
-twenty-five cents a day on an Illinois farm,
and afterwards learned the trade of cooper.
He paid his own way through college.
General John C. Lee, Lieutenant-Governor
of Ohio under General R. B. Hayes,
JtTlfl rma r\f fha rr?r*af. nrAminanf loww/mo
thatlftate, died recently, aged sixty-three.
Senator Sanders, of Montana, says that
it la inconvenient for him to sleep in a sleeping-car,
for the roason that he is too long for
the berths. His feet stick out at the end of
the berth, to his great discomfort.
Charles Felto.v, tho new California
Senator, is a New Yorker by birth, being a
native of Erie County. He is sixty-nine
-years old. He went West in '49, and though
poor then he is a millionaire several times
now.
Daniel H. "Wells, counselor of the
twelve apostles, general in the Nauvoo Legion
and an old-time leader and trusted official
of the Mormon Church, died in Suit
Lake City, Utah, a few days ago of pleura
pneumonia.
The late Senator Hearst, of California,
was forty-nine years old whe.i the Comstock
silver mines were discovered. In Six months
after he reached the Comstock lode he had
made $500,000 and from that date till his
death his wealth went on multiplying.
When ex-Empress Eugenie left the railway
carriage in the Paris station, on tho occasion
of her recent visit to the French capital,
she was almost lifted out, and did not
need the walkin? sticks she usuallv car
riee. She was attired in a plain black dress.
Her hair has become white, and enhances the
faded beauty of her face. Her smile is pathetic,
and every line in her countenance
bears */he impress of sorrow.
Thomas A. Edison was at Schenectady,
ST. Y., the other day, where the Edi.son
Works are located, and after examining au
?lectric torpedo boat, diued at the hotel. As
en evidence of how deeply absorbed lie becomes
at times in his thoughts, it is said he
got up from the dinner table, and in passing
out of the dining room commenced to sing
"Sweet Violets," much to the amusement of
the waiter eirls and hot-el guests.
The contract for erecting a monument to
the "Unknown Dead" of the great flood,
Whose bodies rest in the Grandv'ew Cemetery,
at Johnstown, Penn., has just been
awarded. The base is to be twelve feet high,
and the granite shaft will rise twenty-one
feet, six inches. It will be surmounted
by three figures representing Faith, Hope
and Charity. The monument is to cost $6500
and is to be completed by May 31, 1892.
F The Chilean Government has bought,
through its agents in Hamburg, several fast
gtauners which will be fully equipped as
cruisers to operate against the insurgents.
TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Charles arbuckle.the millionaire coffes
merchant, died a few days ago in Brooklyn,
N. Y., in his fifty-ninth year.
A wreck occurred on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, two miles from Ashland,
Pennby which three men were killed
and several injured.
The commercial hotel and boarding house
of R. . Henry, at Austin, Penn., were destroyed
by fire. Three lives were lost,
Lizzie McGarisk, a sorvant; Jack McGarty,
a boarder, and an unknown man. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
The stranded United States warship Galena
was floated and torred from Gar Head
to Vineyard Haven, Mas.
Erastus B. Stickney, of Lansingburgh,
N. Y., dropped dead of heart disease at the
age of ninety-one years. His death so affected
the mind of his only daughter that it
became unbalanced, and the next afternoon
she dropped dead of heart disease.
The biggest snow storm of the Beason
swept over Pennsylvania a few days ago, delaying
railroad traffic and rendering country
roads impassable. The fall was heaviest at
Pittsburg, Reading, Harrisburg and Lancaster.
Ret. Dr. Howard Crosby. the distinguished
Presbyterian divine, died of pneumonia
in New York City, aged sixty-five.
Claus Sprkckels has effected a truce
with the Sugar Trust and will abandon his
Philadelphia refinery.
About 5000 school children are sick in New
York City with either grip or measles.
General Charles A. Johnson, a retired
army officer who served in the Mexican
and Civil Wars, committed suicide at
New Haven, Conn., by shooting himself. He
was sixty-five years of age, and a descendant
of John Quincy Adams.
The coke strikers in the Connellsville(Peon.)
region became riotous and destroyed much
property of the companies. The mob made
a raid on the Jimtown plant of the Frick
Company, putting to flight the non-union
laborers. A dynamite bomb was exploded
at Leisenring. The Leith works were also
raided and tne plant gutted.
The Grand Jury in New York City indicted
the Directors of the New York and
New Haven Railroad on charges of misdemeanor
in violating the New York law9
asrainst tieatiner cars with stoves. The in
dieted men are: Charles P. Clark, President,
New York; E. M. Reed, Vice-President,
New York; Wilson 6. Hunt, New Haven;
E. H. Trowbridge, New Haven; W. D.
Bishop, Sr., Bridgeport; Henry C. Robinson,
Hartford; Joseph Park. New York: Henry
S. Lee, Springfield; Nathaniel Wheeler,
Bridgeport; ChaunceyM. Depew, New York;
William Rockefeller, New York; Leverett
Brainerd, Hartford.
South and West.
General James A. Ekin, of the United
States army, died at Louisville, Ky., a few
days ago. He was born in Pittsburg in 1819.
He was a member of the commission which
tried Mrs. Surratt, and was for many years
Quartermaster of the Government at Jeffersonville,
Ind.
Henry Smith, colored, was handed at
Louisville, Ky., for the murder of Louis J
Specht. Specht was a saloon keeper, and
employed Smith. Specht asked Smith to do
some work. Smith grabbed a pistol and
beat Specht to death.
Captain W. D. Dowell, a well-to-do
farmer and State Treasurer of the Farmed
Alliance of Arkansas, was buncoed out of
$3000 at Fayettesville, Ark. It was the same
old game. Captain Dowell loaned one of the
men the money with which to cover a wager
on a game of cards.
Two landslides have occurred on the Spartanburg
branch of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad, in North Carolina, and
through traffic has been discontinued. The
track is covered to a depth of forty feet for
a distance of a quarter of a mile.
Captain Henry E. Catley, of the Second
Tnfantry, United States Army, tried at
Omaha, Neb., on the charge of feigning
sickness at Pine Ridge, has been acquitted.
General Brooke disapproves the finding and
icquittal.
Colonel John McEnerv, who, the Democrats
claimed, was elected Governor of
Louisiana in 1872, died at New Orleans, La.,
aged fifty-eight.
A mob of 250 armed men at Belgreen, Ala.,
overpowered Jailer Waltrep, and took "Jeff*
Denzmore and "El" Hudson, two colored
men arrested for burning the town of Russellville,
to a neighboring tree, swung them
from a limb, filled them full of bullets, and
left them^^
A HOL^^fc blown in the port boiler of the
steamer Wfcier, which was on her way to
Savannah,?*., from Brunswick. The noise
jf the escapile steam caused a panic among
the colored deck hands, several of whom
rushed overboard, and four of them were
drowned.
The Italians employed by the Construction
Company building Camden's road
through Upshur County, W. Va., incensed
at the remark made B. Gr. McCauley, a track
I boss, justifying the New Orleans lyinching,
shot him dead and mutilated his body in a
j horrible manner. There are over 500
| Italians engaged on the job.
Chicago, III., reports three hundred deaths
i from the grip during a recent twenty-four
; hours,
| A blast furnace in Terre Hauto, Ind., full
of molten Iron, burst. Two men were inj
stantly killed by being swept under the hot
iron and much damage to property resulted.
A nrr*/\* ? fnmilvr nAnciofin? nf A Horn Ror
TT ELKJkuC* lauiuj, wuoioviu^ v?. a?\u?u< vM? ley,
his wife, a sister and a daughter, have
died in the past week after a few days' illaess
of ula grippe," followed by pneumonia.
They lived near Stephens City, Va.
One of the heaviest rainstorms that have
occurred since the memorable Centenuial
I flood visited the region around about Galena,
| 111., doing great damage to the railroads
and other property.
Citizens of Decatur, 111., are boycotting
the local cemetery because the body of 0.
\V. Crawford, who was hanged for murder,
is buried there.
Will Field, colored, was lynched at
Mineola, Texas, for making a criminal assault
upon an estimable lady residing near
the city.
G. W. Porter, of Kansas City. High
Chief Ranger of the Missouri Order of Forresters,
has disappeared with the Order's
money.
Washington.
The President appointed Joseph Pinkham,
of Idaho, to be United States Marshal for
the District of Idaho, and John C- Quinn.
of California, to be Collector of Internal
Revenue for the First District of California.
Indiana, received from the Secretarj
of the Treasury a draft for 5769,144, being
the amount of the direct tax money returned
to the State under the act of the last Con
gress.
the clotn cnosen Dy tne rosLomce uepartment
for the new uniforms of the letter car
riers is a new shade of cadet blue. The contract
tor furnishing two suits each to tht
10,070 letter carriers throughout the country
at $15, without hat or cap, has been awarded
to a Baltimore firm.
The President has pardoned George Smitb,
convicted in Michigan of breaking into a
postoffice, and sentenced April 10, 1889, to
live years' imprisonment.
n n n . ? e t-? _ _ rr* .
iuajdk Ej. u. r^ai-ttbujiis, umei .rostorncu
Inspector, has accepted the office of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-General.
The Treasury Department made tbo following
payments under the French Spoliation
Claims act: Mary B. Scott, administratrix
of Jacob Clement, 834,093; Cassias F.
Lee, Jr., administrator o? William Hodgson,
Miss Grace Fuller, daughter of the
Chief-Justice, was married to Archibald
Laphara Brown, in Washington.
The President made the following appointments:
Thomas H. Carter,-of Montana,
to be Commissioner of the General Land
Office, vice Lewis A. Groff, resigned; James
Compton, of Fergus Falls, Minn., Surveyor
General of Minnesota, vice John F. Norrish,
term expired; Ernest W. George, a British
subject, to be Marshal of the United States
Consular Court at Hankow, China.
The wife of Senator Faulkner,of West Virginia.
died in Washington from inflammation
of the stomach, caused by an attack of
the grip.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has issued special instructions to the Collectors
in regard to the tobacco traffic. He
say3 that the practice of allowing cigar
manufacturers to put up in packages their
scraps, cuttings, clippings, etc., and attach
thereto stamps and place the same on the
market as manufactured tobacco should bo
discontinued.
Foreign.
CotTN't Arthur Kesselstadt and Countess
Anne Fries were caught in a storm in a
pleasure boat off Albazia, Austria, andwero
drowned. The youthful Count Fries was
saved.
A merchant has been murdered bv a
Mafia assassin at Kufstein, in the Tyrol ol
Switzerland.
M. Baltcheff, Bulgarian Minister oi
Finances, was assassinated while walking
with Premier Stambuloff, in Sofia.
The Cork (Ireland) Court House caught
fire while the Tipperary riot trial was^oind
on, and was destroyed. Many ancient and
valuable records were burned.
Camille Tombea.u, of East Templeton,
and Alfred Bradley, foreman, of Prescott,
were killed by a slide of rock in a phosphate
mine near Ottawa, Canada.
The will of the late Prince Napoleon was
opened at Rome, Italy. It was found that
he left everything he possessed to his son,
Prince Louis.
Sergeant Meter, of the Reserves, has
been sentenced to fifteen years' pnprisonment
for inciting men to Socialism and to
disobedience of the orders of the German
Emperor during the manoeuvres near Berlin.
Severe fighting at Sligo, Ireland, between
the two factions of Irishmen was prevented
only by the constant interference of the
police. Dr. Tanner. Member of Parliament,
was assaulted by a mob at B&llina and was
knocked down and dragged a considerable
distance.
There was heavy snowfall in Great Britain
and France.
A riot occurred at Moven, Argentine Re- i
Eublic, during the recent elections. Two
undred voters attacked the police and general
firing ensued, which lasted two hours.
The killed and wounded number twenty.
A unrtKff nrvnirrori nn fchft Chilian man-of
war Pilcomayo while lying in the harbor of
Buenos Ayres. The mutiny is supposed to
have been instigated by Chilian residents of
that city. Three sailors were killed and nine
were wounded.
By the wreck of the missionary schooner
Chapman on the west coast of Tahiti, th?
crew, numbering sixteen, were drowned.
Influenza is again raging in Berlin,
Germany. Many deaths from the disease
are reported.
Two hundred Bengalese troops and eighty
Goorkhas were shot to death by hostile tribee
in a pass in India.
Earl Granville, who had been 111 for
several weeks, died on a recent afternoon In
London, England. Lord Rosebery succeeds
to tho leadership of the Liberals in the Hous?
of Lords. Granville George Leveson-Gower,
Hscond Earl Granville, was born on May 11,
1815.
LATER NEWS.
Teie United States steam tug Nina has
! been floated and towed alongside the Galena
i at Vineyard Haven, Mass.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
adjourned to November.
Toe bill appropriating $40,000 for representation
at the World's Fair was passed by
the New Hampshire legislature.
Christian Montao, of Savannah, 111.,
drew out 10,000 pounds of fish the other day
at a single haul of his net from the Mississippi
River, the catch being the largest ever
made in chat section.
Judge Paul A. Weil committed suicide
with a revolver at West Bend, Wis. Ho had
been a sufferer from la grippe. He was
about sixty years of age.
John Maitland macdonald, s cousin or
Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier,
and one of the most remarkable characters
iu this country, died at Fort Smith, Ark.
He was a geologist, mineralogist, mining expert
and a speculator. Ho squandered three
or four fortunes in England, Australia and
this country.
John Henry Martin, thesteDson of Senator
Vance, who while drunk broke into tho
White House, has been let off with a fine
of $25.
The correspondence between Baron Fava
and Secretary Blaine relative to tho recall
of tho Italian Minuter by King Humbert
was made public.
The elections just held in Chili have resulted
in a complete triumph for the liberals.
It is reported that tho situation in which tho
insurgents at Iquique find themselves is a
most desperate one.
Prince Bismarck was seventy-six years
old a few days ago; thousands of visitors
greeted him, and ho received 3000 congratulatory
messages.
WONDERFUL COUNTERFEIT.
The Two-Dollar Silver Certificate Duplicated
Even to the Paper.
A sensation lias b9sn caused at tha United
States Treasury Department at Washington
by the discovery oE a counterfeit $3 silver
certificate so nearly perfect in all its parts as
to be almost impossible of detection.
Heretofore all counterfeits of our paper
currency havo been readily detected by the
failure to imitate the distinctive character
of thepapar on which Government notes are
printed, which is so arranged that each part
of it forming a complete note contains a solid
silk thread running through it lengthwise.
This paper is, for the first time, almost perfectly
imitated in the counterfeit just discovered.
80 far as is now known it has been used
of the series of 1886. This note was designed
under the supervision of Treasurer Jordan
and contains on its faca a vignette of
General Hancock.
It is estimated now that nearly $40,000,000
worth of these notes are in circulation;
and the problem before the Treasury Department
is how to get them back into the
Treasury and to suostitute a new series
without serious embarrassment, before any
considerable quantity of the counterfeit notes
get into circulation.
It has been practically decided to suspend
the printing of the $2 silver certificate and
to institute a new series of the same denomination.
These will contain a vignette of
Secretary Windom and will be issued as soon
as the necessary plate oau bs engraved. It
will take about two months to prepare the
plates, and in the meantime the Government
will exert it3 utmost endeavors to secure
and destroy the plates and other paraphernalia
used in the manufacture of the
counterfeit.
TWO MURDERERS HANGED.
Geo, W. Moss at Willcesbarre, and
Wm. Stangley at Mauch Chunk.
George Washington Moss was hanged at
Wilkesbarra, Penn., for the brutal murder j
or tiis wire, uctooer iu, issy.
Ho had ill-treated his wife for years aul
was tinMlv sent to nrison on her cDmolaint.
After his reteas?, which was secured largely
on his professions of penitence, he renewal
bis cruelty and soon began to lay plans to
kill his wife.
On the evening of the murder he bought a
cheap pistol, and going to bis house, deliberately
shot and killed the helpless woman,
j He then tried to kill himself, but only suej
ceeded iu inflicting a serious wound.
Moss's neck was broken by tbe fall on
tlae scaffold.
William Stangley was bangeJ at Mauch
Chunk, Ponn., for the murder at Weatherly
of Mrs. Albert A. Walbert, with whom he
boarde:!, on October 12, 1889.
He had quarrelled with the woman and she
had had him arrested. The suit wa3 afterwards
withdrawn, but Stangley brooded over
the affair, and on the morning of the murder
went to the house, and, aftAr a quarrel
with Mrs. Walbert, shot her. Ho narrowly
escaped lynching when captured.
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LOST IN THE WBECK.
The Bark Dictator Founders Off
Cape Henry, Va.
The Captain's Wife, Son and Six
Sailors Perish.
The Norwegian bark Dictator, Captain
Jorgensen, from Pensacola to West Hartlepool,
England, laden with pine lumber, with
a crew of fifteen and the Captain's wife and
boy of three years, went ashore on the Virginia
coast in a strong easterly gale a few
mornings ago, four miles south of Cape
Henry and two miles north of Virginia
Beach Hotel. Eight lives were lost, including
the Captain's wife and son.
The weather was so thick that the vessel
was not seen until 9 o'clock. She was then
in the breakers broadside on, and within a
?[uarter of a mile of the shore. Fall crewB
rom the life-saving stations?those of Cape
Henry and Sea tack?under command of
Captain Drinkwater, were promptly on
band, and began firing lines to the ill-fated
i *_ mi. . u *
u&tk. i at* guua luiuu uun utuou hwuuu,
though repeatedly fired.
The crew finally succeeded in getting a
line ashore. It was tied to a barrel, which
the surf carried to the life savers. The
breeches buoy was quickly rigged and sent
to the vessel. Unfortunately the crew were
ignorant of its use. and the rescue was delayed
until Captain Drinkwater of the life
saving crew wrote instructions, put them In
a bottle and sent it to the Dictator by the
line connecting the vessel with the shore.
The men on board broke the bottle at
once, as could be seen by glasses from the
shore, and proceeded to carry out the directions.
The first man was brought ashore in
eight minutes, and seven others were rescued
before sunset, four of whom came in a lifeboat,
which was capsized, but the men succeeded
in reaching the shore in a half-dead
condition, one man having his arm broken.
During the entire day the ship rolled and
pitched terribly, and made the work of rescuing
the sailors difficult and slow. The life line
would tighten and slacken in response to the
motion of the vessel. Once the line broke,
with a man midway to the shore, and he was
hauled back to the bark half dead. The
line was mended, and the same man safely
landed. The beaoh was lined with people who
had come from the country houses and the ho- ^
tel near by. To the spectators the suspense
was painful. They could plainly see tho
people oil the bark and hear their criea for
help. At nightfall there were still nine persons
on the Dark, among the number being
the Captain, wife and child. The Captain
urged his wife all day to take the buoy and
come ashore, but she refused. She would
not leave her husband and child, and only
one could take the buoy at a time.
That night the work of rescue was continued,
and the Captain, after vainly beseeching
his wife to make an attempt for
life, took his half-dead child and strapped
him to his back. The father said farewell to
the wife and leaped into the sea. The father
reached the shore; but the son was lost.
Late at night the bark went to pieces. All
on board were, lost, including Mrs. Jorgenson.
All <-viof aamM Ko erafrr\m fiia halfa
dead sailors as to the cause of stranding was
that they did not know where they were,the
sun not having been seen for four days, and
the weather being so thick that they struck
the breakers before they could see the coast.
The life savers worked all day without food.
The list of the saved Is as follows: Captain
J. M. Jorgensen, Second Mate Julius Anderson,
Ampler Barrett, John 8teven, John
Patterson, Yelmer Olsen, John Mall, Carlo
Olsen (broken arm)/ and Charles Joseph
(colored). The Dictator wa3 trying to make
Hampton Roads, having been disabled by
hurricances.
THE SOUTH'SlEYELOPMENT
New Enterprises Started Daring the
Last Three Months.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman's report
of new Industries established in the
Southern States during: the first three months
of 1891 shows a total of 853, against 837 in
tho corresponding period of 1890 and 612 in
the corresponding period of 1889. During
the three months there were established in
the Southern States 6 agricultural implement
works, 6 barrel factories, 12 boot aud shoe
factories (a comparatively new industry in
the South, only 2 having been established in
the first quarter of 1889), 3 breweries, 1
bridge works, 2 car works, 10 canning factories,
45 cotton and woolen mills (which is
somewhat below the number established in
the corresponding quarter of 1890?but the
distribution is general?Georgia leading with
12,South Carolina S.Texas 7,and nearly every
other Southern State being represented), 5S
large development and improvement companies
organized, Texas leading with 12 and Alabama
with 10; 31 electric light companies organized,
22 flour and grist mills, 47 foundry
and machine shops, against 43 in 1890 and 45
in 1889 (Texas leading with 10, Virginia 9,
and the balance being equally distributed),
9 blast furnaces organized, against 23 in the
AAfcoanAnrlinrv r\9 1 >}QA nnH 17 in IftfiO
7 gas work3 organized, 28 ice manufacturing
plants, 53 mining and quarrying companies
incorporated, 4 nail works, 8 oil mills,
against 21 in the corresponding period of
1890, 5 potteries, 1 rolling mill company, 53
street raiiway lines incorporated, 12 tanneries,
32 water works chartered, 141 woodworking
plants, and 79 miscellaneous industries.
The phosphate excitement in the South is
sucli that thirty-two new companies were
organized during the quarter, nineteen of
which were formed in Florida. The extraordinary
activity in railroad building in the
South is evidenced by the fact that during
the three months ninety-three new railroad
companies were incorporated, thirteen in
Virginia, thirteen in North Carolina, twelve
in Georgia, ten in Alabama, seven each in
West Virginia, Texas and South Carolina,
eleven in Tennessee and the balance in other
States. The Tradesman adds that the present
indications point to continued activity In
the Southern States in all industrial
branches.
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Thirty-Nine Cars Piled, on Top of a
Locomotive?Three Men Killed.
"While a freight train on the Philadelphia
and Readiug Railroad was ascending the
grade from Locust Summit Station on a recent
night the locomotive jumped the track
near Barry Station, Penn., and rolled down
the embankment,carrying with it thirty-two
freight cars. Engineer Andrew Walker and
Fireman John Oches, also Frank Myers, a
passenger engineer, who was riding to hia
Lome at Tamaqua, were instantly killed.
Conductor William E. HofEna and Brakeman
Lewis Cockert and Jacob Yenancer
were injured, the former fatally. The cause
of the wreck is attributed to the spreading
of the rails.
Succe.'ji in Jouriiallain.
Cienius ia literature and journalism
is the faculty of doing things much
quicker and better than the majority
can do them; and is not a thing
that i3 easy to kill by obstruction or
that can be prevented from making itself
kuovn. It is the rarest of human
Rifts ani it is not worth while for anybody
to imagine that he has not it. It
will alwavs prove itself to others, and it
i3 just as well for its possessor to remain
nuconscious. For the young man of
talent and industry, but not of genius,
who desires to make his way in the
newspaper business, we recommend
study, intelligence, moral integrity,
great accuracy in the statement ot facta
and of principles, economy in living,
always paying your dobts, first-rate
health and a power of work equal to a
steam engine's. With these he will got
along, though lie may never draw the
greatest prize ic the list of professional
success. The newspaper business is
just like any other. Those who succeed
in it are fewer than those who do
not.?Hew York Siul.
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' GEN. SHEBMAN^TDESIOT.
The Simple Monument He Selected to
Mark His Grave in St. Louis.
"Work has begun on the monument which
was designed by General W. T. Sherman
himself to mark his grave in Calvary Cemetery,
St Louis. The monument is being
made by the New England Monument Company.
A few weeks before his death General
Sherman called on Mr. Canfleld, of the
Monument Company, and expressed his
views as to a proper monument to mark his
grave. A drawing was prepared, and after
it was somewhat modified, according to suggestions
made by the General, he accepted it,
saying he would place it among his papers
and leave a request for his executors to carry
out the design. Shortly after the General's
death his son, the Rev. P. T. Sherman, arranged
with Mr. Canfleld to prepare th*
monument.
The design, as approved by (ieneral Sharmin,
is here produced. The monument is to
be mode of what is known as fine hammered
Westerly stautary granite of light color.
It will be four foot eight inches by three feet
eight inches atthe base and nine feot six inches
high and made in three sections. It is to
stand beside the granite cross which General
Sherman a year ago eracted to the memory
of his wife. In height, material and finis a
the monument will, by the General's direction,
correspond with the cro33. There will
be no ornamentation of the monument except
on its front. On the top his well-known
gold and silver combination badge will be
represented. It consists of a gold pin,
from which is suspend*! a ribbon in
the national colors. The ribbon supports
an arrow from which a triangle is
suspended. To the triaugle a gold shield is
ftJ-fonliarl urlMi OTl flMfn T%Anrtttnf.. Oil fchft
centre of the shield ia a star with a cartridgo
box engraved on its center. The arrow,
triangle, shield, star, cartridge box aad
acorn are each the emblem of one of the
army corps with which General Sherman
was associatsd daring the war.
Below the badge are two furled flags, one
tho headquarters banner of the General of
the army and the other the regulation
national flag. It is a reproduction of the
two flags as they stood in the General's late
residence in Seventy-first street, New York.
Below the flags in addition to the modest
inscription given there will be added a simple
record of his birth and death.
THE LABOB WQBLD.
Brass unions are spreading.
Initiation* fees are going up.
Colorado has Miners' Alliances.
New York has a Japanese carpentcr.
f England will revive industrial villages.
San Francisco unions exclude Japanese.
Lowell (Mass.) weavers can average I8.5C
a week.
SAN r RANCI9C0 musicians talk or a musio
library.
Palestine (Ohio) pottery girls struck for
less hours.
Union and non-union shearers are at wat
in Australia.
Labor agitation is unusually active in
in Chicago just now.
Massachusetts sweaters make eightyeight
per cent profit.
The international bricklayers have accumulated
a fund of $4000.
Lord Derb r has accepted a seat on the
English Labor Commission.
The Flint Glass Workers' Union has 7000
members and $99,000 in bank.
The carriage makers and wheelwrights are
about to form a national body.
Denmark proposes an international union
of machinists and blacksmiths.
One hundred and fifty thousand New
York girls get sixty cants a day.
The boiler manufacturers are forming an
insurance and inspection company.
About 700,000 able-bodied workmen ara
out of employment in France at present.
The French Labor Commission will established
a Labor Bureau and an Arbitration
Board.
The Secretary of the Nary is unable, under
the law, to supply men for the new war
vessels.
The railway managers of Holland employ
watchwomen instead of watchmen at their ,
stations.
All arrangements have beon perfected
for the builaing of a million-dollar cotton
mill in Huntsville, Ala.
"* The corner-stone of the Printers' Home at
Denver, Col., will be laid on George W.
Childs's birthday, May 13. #
Canton (Switzerland) municipal authorities
have decided that all employers must
share profits with the laborers.
In the United States the average annual
production of each employe is $720, of which
the laborer receives ?310 and capital $374.
The Reading Railroad of Pennsylvania is
cutting down the trees along its tracks that
the engineers may have a better look ahead.
C*T-?r /% anirnn fVirvncnnrJ trnrVmon A T*fl MftW
UiA VI OOrcu vuvuouau ? w uv ? .
steadily employed in the various branches |
of industry connected with Edison's inventions.
The Master Masons' Association, of Philadelphia,
refuses to grant the increase of pay
from $3.25 to $3.60 per day asked by the masons,
who threaten to strike.
Fifty of the coal miners at Rondville,
Ohio, broke open a general store and carried
off thirty barrels of flour and several hundr?i
pounds of meat. They said that they
had to steal or starve.
In 1890 there were in Germany 1131 strikes^
in each of which more than ten men participated.
The total number of ctrikers was
394,440. In 420 cases they were entirely unsuccessful;
in 468, partiallly successful; in
187 they irot all thev demanded.
A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.
Morocco and Algeria Invaded by
Myriads of These Insects.
After months of anxious uncertailfty
there remains no room for doubt that MoAlrroiMT
will a an in hfl vioifcfld bv E.
plague of locusts. The warning first came I
from Mogador in November last, whence tho i
insects were then advancing in untold myriads.
A spell of cold weatner checked the '
advance for a time, but they have now arrival
on the coast at Casablanca, where they
literally carpet the ground. They have even
invaded the city o." Morocco, climbinz over
the walls and infesting the houses. Famine
is certain to follow their ravages, and in Morocco
the wretched people will be permitted
to die liko dogs, as they were twelve years
ago when thousands perished. Algeria can
scarcely escape for Arabs who have arrived
at Figuig from a village in the Sahara say
that they rode on swift dromedaries for
more than sixty miles through swarms of
locusts. The authorities are bestirring themselves,
but the latest and most scientific
measures have hitherto failed to check the
awful invasion, an-l this year efforts will in
the end have to bo concentrated upon the
saving of lives during tho famine which
must result from the universal destruction
of crops and every greeu thing which the lo
cust, "el djerad&j the scourge o? the Most
High," finds on his way.
f The census of the United Kingdom, awarding
to the estimate of the Registrar*
Benerai, gives a population of 39,000,000.
WOKDS OF WUDOM.
True honor despises evasions.
Beware of the man who has no petty
?ice9.
Dig, sow and reap; but the harvest i*
Death's.
Money made by chance will go with
certainty.
Waste of money and time usually go
hand in hand.
Friendship at the highest height Is
Btronger than love.
Be quick. You can use a minute but
once?make the most of it.
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iu imi&e ciusu couaeuuuua wim CWJnity
Death has to be run on time.
Life is a long course of mutual education
which ends but with the grave.
The first snow flake of winter, how
significant?and the first white hair!
Lying is the basis of all evil. After
one year of absolute tilth crime would
disappear.
Borne p3ople spend their vacations in
nAtror ffio Knainoaa tViov laff Ko.
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hiad them.
Justice is a little short sighted, perhaps,
but it frequently has aa eye to the
main chance.
You just bring a couple of little quarrels
into your family and they'll breed
like sparrows.
It is so easy to fancy one's self right
that self-condemnation is about as scarce
as dodo's eggs.
Doubt is brain fog, and it sometimes
takes all the rays of the suu of experience
to disperse it.
Every incomplete work is a monument
to human folly. Whatever is worth be
ginning is wortn completing.
God sets the stars in the windows of
the night to cheer the belated world as
it rolls through the darkness.
She was regal, she was haughty, she
was highborn, and distinguished; and,
like the rest of us, she was clay.
Grief is not to be measured by the tears
shed, nor does the'loudest mourners always
deserve the largest bequest.
The happiest man is he who, being
above the trouble which money orings,
has his hands the fullest of work.
They Lire la the Stone Age.
Hugo Zoller has published in the
Mittheilungen, of Gotha, an article on the
little known islands, Bouka and Bougainville,
the most northern of the Solomon
group, east of New Guinea, which
he visited two years ago. The inhabitants
of these islands are so remarkably
hostile that to this day all the islands of
the Solomon group are little known.
The natives have kept almost wholly
free from European influences. They
live in the stone age, though a very few
of them have firearms. They wear little
or no clothing, are of the Melanesia!]
race, and whilo darker in color than the
natives of New Guineas their habits reeall
the Polynesians. Their bows ar?
ten feet long, and they also use lances
and clubs.
They have quite a number of industries,
and build canoes which Mr. Zol^
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xur soya iuuiu iiuu uc cawcicu uj nunv
artisians. Their carvings upon wood are
ingenious, and they weave nets r?.nd
make pottery without the aid of the
wheel. Cannibalism, which is always
observed in these regions to a greater or
lesser extent, is becoming rare among
them, if the natives are to bo believed.
Many writers have affirmed that these
islands throw their dead into the watei
or cremate them, but Mr. Zoller says he
repeatedly saw cemeteries in Bougainville
decorated with rude stone monuments.
This custom cannot be attributed
to the influence of Christianity, for missionaries
have never yet ventured among
these dangerous people, and the nativea
have met only a few Europen merchants,
most of whom they have slaughtered.
Bouka is only about thirty miles long
and ten miles wide, but it has a population
of about 15,000, and the little
islands which are near it are denselj
peopled.
Real Dimensions of Whales.
Most of the stories wo hear about
whales of 200, 300 and 400 feet in length
are the imaginary musings of persona
who have more respect for the size of a
story than for the truth it may contain.
Mr. Scoresbv, a very high authority on
this subject, declares that the common
whale seldom exceeds seventy feet in
length, and is much more frequently
under sixty. Out of 362 whales which
ao personally assisted in capturing not
one exceeded fifty-eight feet in length,
and the largest he ever heard of being
captured and measured by persons who
could be relied upon only moasured seventy-seven
feet. Of the razor backed
whala he has seen specimens that measured
105 feet. One of these was found
dead in Davis Straits, which measurei'.
101 feet, and a skeleton of one found Id
in Columbia River was 112 feet. Othei
specimens have measured all the way
from eighty to 100 feet. One cast on
shore at North Berwick, Scotland, and
preserved by Dr. Knox, was eighty-three
feet in length. These instances seem
to establish the average length of these
huge animals. Iu his earlier accounts
Cuvier, the eminent naturalist, with
considerable credulity, says: "There is
no doubt that whales have been seen in
certain epochs and in certain seas thai
were upward of 300 feet, or 100 yards
long."?St. Louis Republic.
Best YFay to Study Birds.
Olive Thorne Miller, in a paper in tho
Atlantic, called "From My Window,"
tells about her ' ;Bird Study." She says :
The best place I have found for spying
upon the habits of birds is behind a
blind. If one can command a window
with outside blinds, looking upon a spot
attractive to the feathered world, he will
be sure, sooner or later, to see every bird
of the vicinity. If he will keep the
blinds closed and look only through the
opened slats, he will witness more of
their unconstrained free ways that can
possibly be seen by a person within their
sight, though he assume the attitude and
the stolidity of a wooden figure. Says
our nature-poet, Emerson:
' You often thread the woods !n vain
To see what singer piped the strain.
Seek not, and the littlo eremite
Flies forth and gayly sings in sight.1'
And tho bird student can testify to tho ;
truth of the verse.
Many times, alter having spent the
morning in wandering about in the bird
haunts of a neighborhood, I have returned
to my room to write up my notebook,
and I have seen more of birds and
bird life in an hour from my window
than during the whole morning's stroll.
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Comities. ^"l||8
A revision of the areas of cotmties 1? ' ^0
United States, made by the Censual
Bureau, reveals some facta of interest'
with regard to these minor divisions of;
the territory of the Union. The "coun-!
tv" is a territorial division of the United- - a]
States derived from Great Britain, where
the counties correspond to the provinces
or departments of other European countries,
and in a limited sense, to the
States of the American Union. An Englishman
addresses a letter to "Bromley,! .
Kent," a3 we address a letter to "Wor-. :
cester, Mass.," or "Rochester, N. Y."
One State of the Union, which derived
its usages from French and not from
English originals, has no conn- Hm
ties at all. In Louisiana these sub- jfiS
jt -t il. m.i. _i.:n
umsiona ui me ataws are tsuu tautsu ,.
parishes, both officially and in ordinary'
speech, though they are now divided ^
into many real parishes of the church. :
There are about 2800 counties in tha|
Union, with an average size of about'
1000 square miles; but this average is ' 3
enormously exceeded in many instances,'
and is also frequently fallen below.j i
Leaving out the great unsettled counties.
of the West, the average county worn?
be about 500 square miles in extent. , ^
In much of the Western part of thoj ^*11
country the size of the county is regu-{
lated'mathematically. It consists of six- ' vi2
teen townships, each composed of thirty* '3
six square miles, aking 576 square milei>
in all. In other words, each township i? . ' -j'&
six miles square,and each county twentyfour
miles square.
In Iowa there are thirty-nine counties- ' ^
which were formed in this way, each on?
of which has exactly 576 square mile?.1
Such divisions were possible in the newe?
West, where these minor political divi4 v
sions were made in advance of settle-j
ment. In the other parts of the country)
the territorial arrangements were largely',
accidental.
The largest county in the United
States is Yavapai County, Arizona, whicty
has an area of almost 30,000 square miles;
Nine States of the Union are each smallei - : 5than
this one county. It is larger than ;' ^
the whole of West Virginia, and almost
13 large as South Carolina.
The sixteen counties of Montana aver- .-/
age a greater size than the State oj
Massachusetts.
Among the other great counties of the - j|
Union are San Bernardino and San Diego# .4,
in California, which are not only vast /-,?$
regions, but contain a very great amount
of productive territory; Humboldt ana
Lincoln Counties in Nevada, which are
exceedingly sparsely populated, and Lin-!
coin County in New Mexico, which mayi
some time have a large population. ;
Although the New England States are)
small, the average size of the counties
is greater than that in most of the
Middle, Western and Southern States.1 *}
Worcester County, in Massachusetts, ill
an example of an Eastern county which.'
is at the same time large in area and
very populous. It has more than 1500
square miles, and almost 30,000 people. ^
It is larger in area than the adjoining
State of Rhode Island.
The emallet State in the Union has the ; ^
smallest county as well. Bristol County,
Rhode Island, is only twenty-five square
miles in extent. At one place it is not
more than two miles in breadth.
A 7ovan^pia nnitnfu in Vircrinift. til not
much larger,having only thiity-two square
miles. King3 County, New York, ha3
but thirty-seven. One of the new West- ; 3
em States possesses an exceedingly small
county as weil as some large ones; Todd
County, South Dakota, is only fortyfive
square miles in extent.?Youth1? \
Companion.
How Lions Hunt Game.
Lions, as a rule, hunt in family parties.
A very old lion, not infrequently
incapacitated from taking an active part
in purtming game, is generally to be
found at the head of such a coterie, and
on him devolves no unimportant part of
the programme. Down to leeward, a
hundred paces below where the draught
bullocks are made fast when a train halts
for rest, the young ana active maiea ana
lioneses place themselve3 behind what
available cover is tc be found. Thii being
done, the old lion goes to the windward
of the encampment, and shakes out
his abundant mane in the breeze, so that
the odor from it may be carried down to
the excited draught animals. One sniff
of the tainted breeze brings every ox to
his feet in a moment; then standing,
often trembling with fear, they gaze
with dilated eyes into the impenetrable
darkness. Closer and closer approaches
the aged lion to his victims, shaking and
reshaping the dense, tawny covering of
his fore-quarters. Then, if the traveler's
harness be not strong, he may look out
for a stampede. Should it hold tem]
o arily, the aggressor, as a climax to his
former maneuver, gives utterance to his
deepest and loude^TiSar.when the frighteued
beasts,if not secured bythe"stoiltfisf""^ ^
fastenings that can be obtained, will
break free and rush with inconceivable
rapidity into the very jaws of their foes,
secreted to leeward.?Picayune.
The Noises of a Big City.
"I cannot understand the outcry some
people make against the noise in the
streets," said tho man. "Just stand
here in the City Hall Park, close youi
eyes, and listen. It is a bright day,
and it is the time when the tide of city
life is at the flood. That dull, heavy
boom, like the roar of the sea, is tho
thousand wagons, which, when heard
one at a time, rattle and jar so. But the
thousand are like a multitude of bass
viols blending in a monotonous, musical
note. Above it rise the higher, shrillei
notes, the tinkling of a score of car-bells,
the shouts of drivers, the high-pitched
voices of women and children, thq
sounds of laughter, the faint murmur of
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times this rises to a shrill falsetto, then
dies, until it i3 scarcely to bo c'istin^
guished from the bass roar of the wegona
on the granite. You are hearing tha
tremendous orchestra of city life?violins,
flutes, cellos, cymbals, drums. It
could be set down in notes. It is not
discordant. It is soothing, and the city
man, who hears it unconsciously day
after day, learns to love it unconsciously,
and it haunts him with its melody in
country places so that he must como
back to it.?Xeto York Sun.
Paralllne From Peat.
A new industry that is flourishing in
Brazil is the distillation of puaffine from
a peculiar kind of peat, which is found
in great beds. This peat is rich in
paraffine, aud the distilled product is
used in the manufacture of candles.
Some of the beds have been worked to
great depth, but there is no evidence ol
the exhaustion of the supply.?Philia*,
delphia Record, t