Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Sy Interesting late Dispatches Gleaned From the Wires. Sunol Trots a Mile in 2:08 1-4 at Stockton, Cal. Sunol, Robert Bonner's wonderful mare, trotted a mile in on t&e Kite-snapea track at Stockton, Cal., beating her own record of 2:10 made a week before and lowering the world's record of MaudS. of 2:0S% by half a second. Marvin, her trainer, hesitated to trot her against the record on account of a strong breeze which was blowing. The dav was warm, however, and otherwise favorable to record breaking. At 5 o'clock Marvin jumped into the sulky and rave the mare a warming up, driving her five miles. He finally nodded for the word, and the little mare was off like a flash. A runner was in waiting for her at the half-mile pole, and she came in with verv little urging. Six timekeepers were in the" stand, a double set having been employed, and very watch was the same. The mare made the first quarter in 0:31^, the half ir. 1:94. the three-quarters in 1:37, and the mile iu 2:0S)?. Sunol finished strong, and the horsemen present pronounced her the earnest trotter ever seen on a local track. "When the time was announced the crowd went almost crazy with enthusiasm for the horse and her driver, and followed them to the stable, giving both a veritable ovation all the way. The quarters were trotted very unevenly, as will be seen, the record being 0:31 0:32%, i 0:33, and 0:31)^. The middle quarters were J the slowest, both including a part of the j semicircle of this peculiarly formed track. I Had she been able to trofc these as fast as she \ did the first and last quarters, when she was going on a dead straight'line, she would have J made the mile in 2:05. Sunol was bred by Leland Stanford at the ! Palo Alto farm in Santa Clara County, | California, thirty-two miles from San Fran- j Cisco. She was foaled April 14, 1SS6. Her sire was Electioneer and her dam was Waxana, bv General Benton. Her grand dam was "W*axy.a thoroughbred. It is through her dam that she inherits the thoroughbred blooi, the potency of which has all along been championed by both Mr. Stanford and Mr. Bonner, and illustrated by successes ol Maud S., the queen who was, and Sunol, the queen who is. Sunol's career has ever been indicative of j imperial greatness. As a two-year-old she ; made the then record of 2:18, and as a three- | year-old reduce! it to 2;10X, which was the I world's record for that age. Robert Bonner was one of the first to appreciate her worth. He paid $41,000 for her. General Howard's Report. Major-General Oliver 0. Howard, com- J mancttng the Department of the East, de- > votes much space in his annual report to the War Department at Washington to the discussion * of coast defences. He says that at New York, San Francisco ?: and Boston new guns and mortars I are needed. Many fixed torpedoes I or submarine mines have, however, been | already constructed for use at these points. ! General Howard calls special attention to the necessity'of having fortified points as a basis of a proper defence of our national interests. Increased pay for non-commissioned officers , is also recommended. General Howard remarks that the regimental promotion of first lieutenants is pro- ! dncing greater and greater irregularities, I and a3 the lineal promotion of second lieu- I tenants give to them certainty and fairness ! of promotion, he recommends the extension j of the system to the firsts. The new methods of examination for pro- I ;_ ( motion are praised. Canteens, he remarks, I have been an Improvement on the post- j traders' stores, and useful, except when I tin/tos* trtft near thft man's Quarters. The ?>eneflci*l effect of the canteen at small posts is doubtful. "Prom consultation witu of- , ficers in coarge of these canteen?, I am of , '* the impression that the evil that the sale j of beer engenders in making it creditable j for recruits to drink, more than counterbal- | ances the restraining effect it exercises on I the habitual drinkers and confirmed drunk- ' ardp. The benefits of the system to large garrisons, however, are numerous. I decidedly recommend that no soldier be placed j behind the bar to deal out drinks to his com- ' rudes. It is certainly demoralizing to have , a military subject acting as a barkeeper." Two Old Sisters Found Dead. Two small attic rooms in a four-story brick tenement house in the rear of No. 61 Prince street. Boston, Mass., have been oc- j cupied for a great many years by Margaret and Bridget Breeu, seventy-five and seventy- j eight years o'.d respectively. They are ! sisters, and both are unmarried. Since early the other morning neither of the sisters had been seen, and ( repeated knockings brought no response. An officer forced in the door and found one of j the old women, Margaret, lying deal near the door. In the rear room, covered by a j sheet, was the other sister, who was blind. | 8he was also dead. It is supposed that she j died first and that her sister covered her up and then ran toward the door ! to call the neighbors, but was also stricken j with death before she could do so. For five | ot six years they had been unable to do any | work. Although offered food repeatedly by I their neighbors, they were so proud they ' always refused to accept it. Both appeared | emaciated and, without doubt, had died of starvation. Blown to Pieces by Powder. A terrific explosion occurred in the packing-house of the Columbia Powder Company, three miles from Farmingdale, N. J. The building was completely demolished. At the time of the explosion all of the emploves had left the building except Grandir L. Vonnet, aged twenty-one, of Farm, ingdale, and Archibald Johnson, aged seventeen, of Hendrickson's Switch. Johnson I was literally blown to atoms, and Vonnet'a ! body was norribly multiiated. The body I was thrown over 200 yards. The caus9 of the explosion is unknown. The building contained 2500 pounds of powder. ' Found Their Little Ones Burned. Near Lime Hock, Ala., John Long, a farmer, ani his wife went to visit a sick neighbor, leaving their four children at home asleep. The hall lamp was left burning. Returning at 2 o'clock that morning the Longs . found the house in ruins and three of the children, aged twelve, six and two years, Duraoa 10 aeaia. alh* uuier ?iuu, ? uu> aged fourteen years, was fatally burned. It is supposed that the lamp exploded. < Died Under the "Gold Cure.'' Judge Balser K. Higginbotham, one of the most elegant orators that ever took the stump in Indiana, went to the Keely Institute lor the bi-chloride of gold treatment for dipsomania, at Plainfield, Ind., a few nights go. He took the injections for two days and died. He stumped New York with Roscoe Conkling for Ua-fi^l 1 in 18*0. HANGED BY LYNCHERS. Five Hundred Men Avenge a Shooting at Clinton Forge, Va. Two large mobj, numbering in all about five hundred persons, formed at Clinton Forge, Va.,and met at Sweetwood's store at 10 oelock a few nights ago. They fired salutes and then combined their forces and marched to the jail where the colored prisoners, arrested for shooting Wilkinson, a white man, nad bean confined. The mob attempted, after tiring into the jail for some time, to break open the door witd a battering ram. They tnen broke it in with axes *inrl sledge-hammer?. They took out three prisoners, and, takin? tbem to a gully about half a mile trom tae jail, strung two of theui up to a iree anrt iille i tliem fuli of bullets. 'ihe third prisoner, a boy of sixteen, was broucht back to the jai1, but finally the mot> let him go, ana he escaped The fourth prisoner, who ha 1 been crippled with a bullet, was in the jail, the door of which had bean fastened. Breaking in again, the moo took hi:n and banged him to the tree urt?l(^e the other former two. Another of the gang had been shot down in th9 afternoon, near Iron gate, and left dying by the side of the rai'rrvid tra^k. The famishing peasants In Ru'*ia are flocking into the towns, bat many die by the wayside; crimes are on the increase. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Aw attachment of over $700,000 was issued in New York City against Ex-President j ! John Hoey's property, and a direct charge j | of embezzlement was made against him by | the Adams Express Company. The three-masted schooner Rebecca A. Taulane, of Boston, commanded by Captain j Anna Nickerson, of South Chatham, Mass., j went down at sea, and her crew of se*en men were drowned. The body of Miss Laury S. Presbery, the missing Smith College girl, was found in ' Paradise Pond, Spring8efd, Mass. She had j committed suicide. She was the daughter 1 of wealthy parents, but was detected rob- ! ! bing one of her college mates, and preferred ! death to disgrace. It is believed she was a 1 j kleptomaniac, as she had plenty of money of . her own. Samuel Whitney Hale, ex-Governor of ! New Hampshire, died at the home of his brother, in Brooklyn. N. Y. He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1S23. The General Conference of the Evangelif cal Church, which had been in session at Philadelphia, Penn., for two week, has just ; adjourned. The next General Conference will be held in the autumn of 1895, at Naperville, 111. As tour men of Occum, Conn., who had acted as pall-bearers at a funeral in W illimantic, were driving back to Occum, their horse ran away down a hill. Peter McCafferty, aged thirty-five, was killed and John Shea was fatally hurt. The horses dashed over a precipice sixty feet high and were J killed. Ox the first day of the sale at Hunt's Point, N. Y., oi the racing stable of the lace I A 4. cfollir>nc ! auxumi actcuij-aia I broodmares and youngsters brought $270,j 050. i Irvixg A. Evans, the stock broker, | known to Boston and New York speculators l as "Nervy" Evans, shot himself dead at the j summer residence of his uncle, Brice L. Evans, in Allentown, N. H. Sam Small, the evangelist, was arrested in Boston, Mass., charged by another clergyman with swindling. The great shipbuilding firm of Harrison, Loring & Co., proprietors of the City Point Works, South Boston, Mass., has assigned. The liabilities are stated to be $375,000. John Hoet, of New York City, has resigned the managership of the Adams Express Company. Ex-Vice-President Spooner's property in Connecticut has been attached. James Parton, the well known author and biographer, died at his home in Newburyport, Mass., after an illne33 of several weeks. He was born in Canterbury, England, on February 9, 1822. On the second day of the sale in New York City of thoroughbred horses belonging to the estate of the late August Belmont, the imported St. Blaise was sold to Charles Heed, of Gallatin, Tenn., for $100,000, the highest price ever paid for a stallion. A yearling by St. Blaise brought $30,000. Iwehty-four yearlings sold for $124,550. The total sum realized from the sale was $641,400. Aged Mr. and Mrs. William J. Huyler, of Bergensfield, N. J., were instantly lnlled by an express train while driving over an ungraded railroad crossing in that village. A locomotive's boiler exploded near Pottsvllle. Penu.. killinz three men and fatally Injuring another. ~ Jonathan Steward, wholesale grocer, of Trenton, N. J., made an assignment. Liabilities, $329,000. The Pennsylvanian Senate, in session at Harrisburg, took up the investigation of State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor-General McCamant. By the premature explosion of a blast, three men at work on Dr. Webb's new railroad at Malone, N. Y., were billed and a fourth, an Italian, was terribly Injured. Sonth ana West. Commodore Nathaniel Duncan Ingra.ham, formerly of the United States Navy, . died at Charleston, S. C., aged eighty-eight. He was born in Charleston and entered the Naval service at the age of nine years. j The boiler of the steamer Evangel, plying between Port Townsond, Washington, and Whitcomb, exploded, killing Gus Carlsou i and William Biggs, deckhands, and Julius ] Flint, fireman. Five others were severely ( scalded. The bodies of 903 soldiers who fell in the 1 battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio, including the body of General Butler, were interred with j impressive ceremonies in one immense grave at the cemetery set apart by the Govern- ' ment for that purpose. More than 50,000 I people were on the grounds. Judge Samuel Hunt, of Cincinnati, delivered the address. William Rose was hanged at Redwood Falls, Minn. He murdered Moses Luflcin, 1 ? . ? ? i - x. t_;^ ir wno oojectea to ms atwauons w ms (jjuikin's) daughter. Aleck Morris was hanged at Madison, Ga., for tbe murder of Daniel Lockett, an aged colored man. 1 J. R. Stevenson, aged thirty-eight, Pro- i fessor of Astronomy in the Quincy (111.) High School, committed suicide. No cause fo> , the act is known. Henry Hon siew the father and uncle of Miss Otte at McGregor, Iowa. Now he threatens the woman because she repulses him. Mrs. Mary Thurman, wife of Jadga Allen G. Thurman, died at her home in Columbus, Ohio. Her maiden name was Dun, and sbe was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1811. 1 One hundred and twenty men,employed on the Electricity Building at the W orld's Fair grounds, Chicago, 111., quit work be cause their foreman. William Irvmg, had been told to accept a position at forty cents an hour or quit. Governor Steele tendered his resigna tion as Governor ot Oklahoma to President Harrison, who accepted it. Tbe cause ot Governor Steele's resignation was nol known. Hancock & Co., dealers in general mer chandise at Gretna, Neb., wera closed on a mortgage of $19,000 held by the Gretna \ State Bank. The mortgage was given by A. N. Hancock, Vice-President of tne bank, and immediately after the store closed the bank suspended. The wildest excitement ( reigned all the afternoon when it was learned that the Vice-Prosident had de- 1 camped with some of the securities. < John Rush, a young white man, was i lynched at Columbia, La., for the murder ol > Hagar Sterling, an old colored woman. ' At the Norton beet sugar factory at Nor- ' folk, Neb.. Lloyd Cobb, son of one of Nor- J folk's leading business men, fell into one of 1 AM J wno ATT/mnrtmo VlTT 1 ine caroonauon IBUKS UUM ?->aa utciwiuw . the carbonic acid gas, which is used in the manufacture of sugar. Cohb died toon 1 after being taken out. Jules Vigeraux, who 1 tried to rescue him, was fatally injured. j i Washington. 1 The United States has bought 1,000,003 acres of land from the Shoshone Indians for \ 1600,000. Fifty-five cents an acre for coal 1 and oil fields. Captain Shepard, Chief of the Revenue Marine Division of the Treasury, Washington, has received a report from Captain , Hooper, commanding the revenue cuttei Corwin, dated Sitka, Alaska, giving a de tailed statement of the cruise of that vessa , in Behring Sea during the past season, including his action in warning sealing vessels against a violation of the modus vivendi. [ The Treasury Department has had printed for distribution several thousand copies of a pamphlet, entitled "A Brief History ol Coinage Legislation in the United States.' ( It is an interesting document of twentj pages and contains the story of coinage leg islation from 1792 to 18'K) inclusive. Professor M. W. Harrington, Chief ol the Weather Bureau, has directed that daih w eather mat s be sent to newspaper editor: in all large cities of the country, as well ai to agricultural and business centres,in ordei to facilitate the dissemination of news re garding tbe prospect. Something like 400( copies are now being distributed trom tht sixty printing stations. The Lucy Webb Hayes Deaconess as' Home and Bible" College for Home and Foreign Missionaries was dedicated at Washington. The annual report of Major General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the Department of the Missouri, is mainly a historical review of the Sioux war of last winter. He recommends that the National Guard of the country be mobilized at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Brigadier - General Stanley, commanding the Department of Texas, in his annual report to the War Department de-, tails the location and strength of the bordei garrisons, and says that they- are much to< small for the service expected of them. Second ComptroleerGilkeson in his an nual report to the Secretary of the Treas ury says that 50,732 accounts, claims ant cases, involving the sum of $176,884,062 weri settled during the last fiscal year. The Ecumenical Council, on the eleventl day of its session at Washington,adopted ar address to the Methodist churches of the world. The railway bulletin of the eleventh cen sus has been issued from Washington. The Methodist Ecumenical Council, sit ting in Washington for twelve days, ad journed sine die. Return Jonathan* Meigs, who has beei clerk of the Supreme Court of the Distric of Columbia since its organization, March 23, 1863, died a few days ago at his home ic Washington City in the ninetieth year of hi: age. He was appointed clerk of the cour at the direct request of President Lincoln. Foreign. Arthur E. Smithers, Managing Directo of the English Bank of the River Plate, wai arrested in London charged with stealing 135,000. Disastrous droughts and great loss ol stock are reported from tha State of Sonora, Mexico. An old woman of seventy, a young woman and three children lost their lives ir a fire in a tenement house at Millwali Docks, London, England. The storm in Great Britain broke ou! again witu renewed violence and did muct damage. The Italian Government has agreed t< remove the prohibition against America] pork. It was officially announced that the Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, Member o Parliament for East Manchester ani a E resent the Chief Secretary for Ireland, hai een appointed First Lord of the Britisl Treasury. Mr. Balfour will retain his offlci as the Chief Secretary for Ireland. Five were killed and many injured in . railway collision at Kohlport, Silesia. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of Nev South Wales, has resigned his office. Thi leader of the Opposition will form a nev Cabinet. The storms of the last few days in thi British Isles have caused many rivers u overflow their banks, great damage resulting As animal tamer, at Buda Pestb, Hun gary, entered the cage of a Bengal tiger, wV?n*% fVio hoocf offor?lror? him onr) t.ht unfortunate man was soon tern to pieces it view of the horror-stricken people in the place. Nine bulls were killed in the presence ol President Diaz at a revival of bull fighting in the City of Mexico. The receipts wen applied for the relief of sufferers by th< floods in Spain, Mme. Diaz, wife of th( President being a patroness. A French force in Algeria has been or dered to the oasis of Tonat, in order to pre vent its occupation by the Sultan of Moroc co. Don Fernando Gczzman. the ex-President of Nicaragua, is dead. H)s death is thi cause of universal regret. No man was held in higher esteem by his countrymen. B< was born in Grenada, Nicaraugua, in 1812 Hecame of an old and highly distinguished Spanish family whose American history dates back to the time of Cortez. John Redmond, Parnellite, will be a candidate for the late leader's vacant seat for Cork City, in the British Parliament. Advices from Almeria, in Andalusia, Spain, report the prevalence of great flood! in that vicinity. The mountain torrents flowing: from the Sierra Nevada have inun dated the surrounding country. The dam age to property was immense. LATER NUWS. Secretary Blaine left Augusta, Maine, or Washington. George Fitts, farmer, McLean, N. Y., as been buncoed out of $3000. Black diptiteria is spreading rapidly in t Norwegian settlement in Soldiere Va leyt clarrison County, Iowa. Fourteen deaths rom the disease were reported, six of them in one family. The PostofEce Department reports that ;he postal revenues for the fiscal year ended Tune 30 last were $?5,031,745, and expandiuresto September .30, $71,662,403. Official notice was received in Washington that Italy will hereafter admit American [>ork, bacon, etc. The Indian Commissioner has ordered that all Indian children betwasn five and jighteen years of age, in suitable health, must attend school, A fire has destroyed the town of Dida, Russia. The Government offices and ovet 400 other buildings ware consumei. The Czar has donated $1,530,030 to the relief of the famine stricken provinces. Five cloth factors have failed in Moscow, with aggregate liabilities of $1,500,000. A band of about fifty Albanians attacked a party of Montenegrins and a fight took place at a point between Bielopolie and Sien itza. Six Montenegrins were killed and on? was.severely wounded. The Chilian elections for Presidential electors and members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies resulted in a sweeping victory for the Liberals. NEWSPAPER, MEN KILLED. They Were Riding on an Engine Which Lelt tbo Track. A terrible accident, resulting in the death [>f three members of the Chicago InterOcean staff and the serious injury of several other passengers, occurred on the Chicago ind Eastern Illinois Railway a few mornings ago about 11 o'clock at Crete, 111. The dead ire: Leonard Washburne, sporting editor ot the Inter-Ocean; Fred. \V. Henry, a reporter recently from Louisville; J. J. McAfferty, an artist, recently from St. Louis; Jauies Clark, eneiueer. The train left Evansville early that morning and preceeded safely to Crete, where it ran into an open switch. The three newspaper men who were killed were on the engine, Henry and McAfferty having gone out for the purpose of writing up and illustrating a midnight ride on a fast train, and Washburne, who was returning to Chicago from an Indiana trip, having joined his friends on the engine. As the locomotive plunged from the track the four men were caught and burried beneath the wreck. The engine and baggage car were completely destroyed. Two passenger coaches and the sleeper were more or less damaged. The round-house at the switch was destroyed and fell upon the wrecked engine. Fireman Laflferty jumped from the engine and was slightly injured about the breast and stomach. A DA6TARDLY DEED. \ Purposely Misplaced Switch Sends an Express Train to Destruction. Five persons were killed and fifty or sixty injured in a wreck at 1 o'clock in the morning on the Burlington road, at Monmouth, 111. The Omaha and Diuvar fast express ran into an open switch, an! the entire train was thrown from the trask. Engineer Emerson and the traveling engiueer of the roai, who had gone i:it<> tlvi cab before the wreck, were kille 1 nutrigh:. A lady pa-?s^u;e:- was found pinion 3d under the trucks of the sleeper. She had evidently been hurled through a win low by the crash. Her body was crushed. Near her were a man an 1 woman, both dead, under the sleeper. The train consisted of three sleepers, twc coaehe;, one smoker, one baggage, one express and two mail car -. The train was speeding at the rate of forty-five miles an hour when it reached the open switch. The officials of the road say the cause of the accident was malicious displacement ol a switch. The switch was found after th< wreck partly thrown and the pin out. 5 MAIL TO FARMS. -1 Agitation for Free Postal Dea lirery in Rural Districts. i Postmaster-General Wanamaker's Views on the Subject. i < An orgaaized effort is under way among " farmers to secure from Congress free mail delivery in country towns. The Farmers' j I Alliance, Patrons of Husbandry and other t orders aro canvassing the matter. Letters < are being written to Congressmen in favor 1 1 j of the project, and petitions to Congress for 1 ' ; free delivery are being circulated in many * parts of the country. Farmers assert that a daily mail delivery i at their door would add perceptibly to the < money .value of their farms, and would bo i worth still more because it would keep them 1 r in touch with markets and the outside world, ' j and rob farm life of its isolation and mo- 1 ' notony. The farmers are writing to the , agricultural press that this convenience < t would enable them quite generally to take a ] , daily paper, as well as to subscribe for the j local papers more liberally . j In the American Aqriculturiit for No[ vember Postmaster-General Wanamaker states definitely for the first time that the experiment made by the Postoffice De- 1 k partment for free delivery in farming dis" tricts shows that the increase of revenue more than pays all the increased expenses. He believes that universal free delivery would, therefore, be self sustaining. i Mr. Wanamaker's article also contains 1 this statement of the case: i i "When a town grows to 10,000 population ] ! and puts down footwalks and puts up num- i ' bers on the houses, the Postofflca Depart- < i ment is authorized by act of Congress to ea! tablish a carrier service to deliver mail mat- j ! ter at the doors of houses and offices. As the town increases postal stations are estab- 1 lished. < "Thus the postal service keeps pace j ' - - ?-v e A_x_ _ i. nruji ai_ ; . . ( Wlin cue growcn ouna town, wiiueau mis < . postal work is going on at the thickly pop, ulated points, the farmers, quarrymen, blacksmiths, millers and artisans, all paving 1 the regulation rates of postage, are left to ' ' get their mail as best they can from the , postoffiee in the village or at the railway station. j "In a hamlet of 100 bouses perhaps sixty persons from the village and the vicinage make a daily pilgrimage of a distance of from one block to two miles from the home to the postoffiee, to find out whether there is any mail or not; ' and a hundred mora persons within 1 the circle of the office do not find it j convenient to go to the postoffiee o'tener 1 than once a week. One hundred or more 1 I persons each day, in all weathers, are making trips to the postoffiee, often at great par- 1 sonal inconvenience and discomfort, when t a single carrier could once or twice i a day make th? round of the vil- t lage and distribute the mail, and ? save tbe hundred a daily unnecessary i tramp, collecting at the same time from the j letter boxes, located at the street corners, i the mail to be forwarded. A newspaper brought every day to the door of the farmer or workman who has no one to go to the | ^ postoffiee for it would find a thankful sub- j ' scriber and light a new lamp in the house- 1 hold. ! "True enough, the village or cross-roads ^ inhabitants, or the dweller on the farm, chooses bis homo for his family and might 1 live in tne city, wuere gas ana water uuu ! mails are brought to his door; but when < people everywhere pay the same rat9 of 1 postage, why should one portion of them i nave mail facilities denied to othsr ' portions? Is it fair to th6 rural locali- i ties to refuse postal service equal to that ] provided for the citias? Is it not a reflection 1 on the intelligence and aspirations of tbe 1 former and the artisan to ignore his need of tbe conveniences of correspondence and of ( supplies of newspapers and majizines? Does ] it not retard the settlement of country dis- y tricts to neglect to provide, in some form or ] other, means for at least daily intercourse r vrith the rest of the world?" < I PftOMINENT PEOPLE, ! Astob's income is 128,000 a day. j The German Kaiser is a poor dancer. i Ren a rr, the French historian, is sixty- ? eight years old. j Three sons of the great author of "Pick- y wick" are still living. j Dean Hoffman, of England, is the rich- ] est clergyman in the world. i Mb. and Mrs. Gbover Cleveland have decided to name the baby Ruth. < The late William Henry Smith, of Eng- t land, was nicknamed "Old Morality." i Tippoo Tin, the famous slave dealer of * Central Africa, is about to visit England. j Senatob Calvin S. Brick's first labor t was over law books in a country law office in f Dhio. t General Lew "Wallace has recently ss- ] cured patents on a fishing rod and rail coupler. s Louis Kossuth is now in his ninetieth t year; he lives in Italy, and his health is I fairly good. 1 f Ex-Governor J. Madison Wells, ol 1 Louisiana, is now eighty-five years old, and * almost blind. 4 ? Ex-Governor Houser, of Montana, who J is now a millionaire, turned the windlass of . | a mine hoist in tde early days of Helena. I Lieutenant Schwatka, the explorer, has ' returned from a trip to Alaska, in which ha explored 500 miles of totally unknown coun- ' try. Kino Humbert, of Italy, has conferred upon Professor Virchow the decoration of j the Grand Cordon of St. Maurice and St. j Lazaire. Little Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has ] an income of about $250,000. Her reign will ( begin August 31, 1SV8, when she will have ( attained tee age of eighteen. i William Waldorf Astor says he isn't going to live abroad at all, but will stay < right in New York and put his $9,000,000 an- < nual revenue from rents where it will make i his next year's revenue $10,000,000. t On October 7 Colonel A. A. Parker, who * was graduated from the University of Ver- < mont in 1813, celebrated his one hundredth < birthday at Fifczwilliam, N. H. The old < gentleman's mental faculties are sound. 1 Albert Cusick, a full blooded Onondaga : Indian, has been ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church. He has been a lny reader in the mission at the Onondaga reservation, < and he is the first Indian received into the < Episcopal Church. He is the interpreter of < the tribe, and he is learned in the traditions 1 and dialects of the Six Nations. < ycee.v victoria Has just completed a reign of fifty-four year3, there being only two British sovereigns who have exceeded } her in this respect?Henry III., who reigned fifty-six years, and George III., fifty-nine J ytars. She is also third with reference to age, she having been seventy-two years old on Sfriy 24. Those who have exceeded her in this respect were George II., who died i when he was nearly seventy-seven, and 1 George III., who died at eighty-one years, 1 EAIN MAKING. The Government Experimenters Joy- < ful Over Their Success | The Government rain makers are very | joyful over their success at San Diego, Texas, s The bombardment was on an elaborate scale and continued from 6 o'clock in the after- ' noon until midnight.Sevent?en large balloons j were filled with the terrible explosive ^as ?nd , IC'JO charges of dynamite and rackarock , prepared. In addition to this there were 250 charges of the tweive-pound cannon, and ' > luO twenty-one-pound bombs for the mortar i batteries. The moon shone brightly during ; the night, but at 3 a. m. clouiis began to ap ! pear. At 4 o'clock the skt'above was full ! oi heavy clouds, but not urop of rain had fallen. Then a ballot was sent up and ' exploded right -m the clouds, and the mortar battery- began shooting butts in i rapid succession. In two minutes after the balloon exploded the rain came down, and < ? in three miiutes more it wa3 falling in sheets. At sunrise a dry norther came, and in a short time the storm clouds had been i blown to shreds. One-half an inch fell. The management of the World's Fair has ' formally called upon the city of Chicago a for $1,000,000 of the $5,000,000 voted to the ? organization. I WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. . Florida, at its recent World's Fair convention, decided to raise $100,000 for its representation at Chicago in 1891. Guatemala has opened World's Columbian Exposition headquarters with nn enthusiasm which assures a splendid exhibit from that country. A New York company that manufactures self-winding clocks has offered to furnish free ?11 *u-. ^ will via n'mkhah i J?- *-U3U CU1 LUC HUIC'piCCCS tUUV wv in the building during the Fair. Turkey has appointed as World's Fair Commissioners D. Jemel Effendi, Agricultural Inspector at Broussa.and Pangiri Bey, Sub-Director of the Foreign Press Bureau. Thk First infantry Regiment, National Guard of California, has decided to attend the Exposition in a body, and has inaugurated apian for providing for the expenses of the trip. The National Association of Woolen Manufacturers and the American Pottery Association have each decided to make an exhibit at the Exposition such as has never before been seen in this country. ivan jh.alaxoff, a dc. reiersuui g ta["talist, wants to reproduce at the Exposition i street scene from Nijni Novgorod, the celebrated piace where expositions have been held for i>00 years. He agrees to spend &250.000 upon the reproduction. The magnitude of the building operations ow going on at Jackson Park can be surmised from the fact that an average of from thirty-five to forty car loads of construction material arrives daily. The Expo ition buildings are rising With wonderful rapidity. A compact has applied for space to erect i building in the form of an iceberg in which to make a polar exhibit. A group of Esquimaux, with reindeer, furs and all the paraphernalia of inhabitants of the polar regions, will be installed in the building if the concession is granted. Between 340 and 350 men are employed in pTieccing tne landscape iearures 01 sue Exposition site. It is the intention to make the grounds exceedingly beautiful by walks, irives, lawns, terraces, fountains, shrubbery ?nd flowers. Several hundred thousand loliars are to be expended for this purpose. | The Ways and Means Committee has jranted W. L. Libby & Son Company, of ! foledo, Ohio, a concession for the operation j if a big cut-glass factory. The company will invest between $50,000 and ?75,000 on its plant, which will be located at Fifty-ninth street, in the Midway Piaisance, on a plat of land 150 by 250 feet. C. W. Wynkoop has been sent out by a London syndicate to And the gold mines in ;he biblical lands of Ophir, where King Sol- i jmon and the Queen of Sheba got their j riches. He will report to Chief Skiff the remit of his investigations, and promises to turnish some interesting matter for the nines and mining department. The Exposition Directory has called upon the Comptroller of the city of Chicago to tell $1,0U0,000 of the $5,000,000 of bonds which the city voted in aid of the Expolition. The proceeds, which it is desired ihall be realized within ninety days, is to bo ipplied mainly to paying the enormous exlenses of the construction of the buildngs. The women of Illinois, who have the (pending of $80,000 of the $800,000 which the state appropriated for its representation at j ;he Exposition, have been granted, for their sxclusive use, one tenth of the space in the I Illinois Building, which, altogether, is some- I ,uiu% more uau ua uure aim a u **,. | rromen will make a separate exhibit. Theodore Roosevelt, the civil service | shampion, wants to have an "American | Sportsman's Exhibit" made at the Expo- j rition. In explanation of his idea he says, j "I want an exhibit of every weapon and i itensil used in hunting, fishing and trap- I jing since the discovery of the country down I ? the present day. We have the greatest lunting country on earth." Ox* of the unique features of tha Mexican exhibit at the Fair will be the celebrated Pandure family, consisting of fire person;, *ho are probably the most expert worker* n clay and modelers of figures in the world, rhis family will be sent to Chicago by tha I State of Guadalajara. It is the intention to provide a Mexican house for them to lire in luring the Fair, and a workshop where the arork may be inspected. The Palace of Music at the Exposition, it snow expected, will stand on the Treat | sland formed by the lazoons, and will be , lurrounded by a magnificent garden of flow- j irs, ten acres of more in extent. This loca- I don is desired by Theodore Thomas, Musical | Director to the Exposition, but has not yet , jeen finally passed upon by the Board of Directors. The structure will measure 150 by !30 feet, and cost approximately $100,000. Director George Schneider has re - * D?1.-_ *1.^ thai- ' :eiv?a aavice^ u uio om uu >un v>... lie associated chemical work3 of the Gernan Empire had agreed to make a full and :omprehensive exhibit at the Exposition in 1893. As is well known, the Ggrman Empire i eads all the world in tho matter of the ihemical manufactures, and tho exhibit thus ietermined upon can not fail to be one of j ;he most attractive and instructive at the ! Exposition. Dr. Edward Bedloe, United States Contul at Amoy, China, who has been an active >romoter of the interests of the World's ?air, writes to Chief Handy that, in all Eng- i ish-speaking circle? in China, there iz a ^reat | md growing interest in the Chicago Exposition. In addition to other work he has s? ured promises from eight friends to send on :heir private collections of curios and brici-brac in 1893, and hopes to obtain most inaresting collections from Amoy and from Formosa. Sik Walker Bollard, who owns the inest collection of native Maori curiosities uad paintings in the world, has applied for a space in which to displav his collection, and ntends visiting the Exposition with his 'amiiy. Major John Wilson, of Auckland, las submitted a proposition to the Foreign Affairs Committee to bring a colony o? Maoris to the Exposition, house them in one >f their native built forts, and let them ihow their native costumes, home life and nethods of warfare. Colombia will celebrate the anniversary )f its independence, July 20, by opening an >xposition on that date in 1892. Tne exposi!ion will continue until the end of October, ind will embrace an extensive showing of ;he resources and products of tho country, md also a historical, archaeological, and ithnologicnl exhibit. At the close of the sxposition the whole collection, or the be3t 3art of it at least, will be sent to the World's Fair at Chicago as part of tho exhibit from ;he Republic of Colombia. Professor Ward, the well-known mineralogist and scientist of Rochester, N. Y., jailed upon Director-General Davis, a few lays ago, and offered to send his entire collection of geological specimens to the Export ion. His collection represents tha expeniitureof agreat deal of money and the work )f years, and is one of the most complete in this country. At the Centennial Professor tVard was allotted space 120x130 feet. If he ?n secure it he will fill considerably more ipace at the Exposition of 1893. British Columbia, has decided to build i structure which will be a novelty in archi* iecture, composed of every variety of wood mown to the British Columbia forests. The juilding will be built first in sections of conTasting woods neatly mortised together. The roof will be of native slate and a variety of ?edar shingles, making in all a pleasing iffect It is intended to ship the building in sections, ready to be erected on its arrival. The display will be unique in every way, the Government and cities of the province subscribing to the fund. The World's Fair Committee of the American Jersey Cattle Club has addressed a ci?mlar letter to every breeder of Jersey cattle in America for the purpose of enlisting his lid in securing for the Jersey breed a creditible representation in the live stock department of the Exposition and in the daTry tests which are to be made. In their circular letter they say that it has been decided to show at frh9 Fair a herd of fifty Jersey ijows in milk, an i tiiat the association will bear all expense ot' transporting, caring for nud feeding them. Too breeders are asked to furnish one or more of tueir finest cows to this herd. \ Van* Hodtox & Zoos, manufacturers of cocoa at Weasp, Holland, have set apart f 100,000 with which to make a special exhibit at the Exposition at Chicago in 1893. They intend to erect a large building in the style of the old Holland architecture of the fifteenth century, and to put in it, besides an exhibit in their own line of business, paintings, views, bric-a-brac, etc., illustrative of the Netherlands and the life and characteristics of the Dutch people. They will have there a "cocoa school," where Dutch maidens, clad in picturesque native attire, will make delicious cocoa beverages according to the most approved methods, . and will serve it to visitors. ( _ % THE LABOR WORLD. \ Washington miners are on a strike. New Yobk sewing girls are organizing i New York City has 600 union furriers. j Wonzfr work in Houtzdale (Penn.) mines, Vibglnta City, Nev., has a teachers' j union. Texas colored cotton-pickers have a' 1 union. New York K of L. protest against Italian labor. .cj.-siiLiAau sug^esua txa. luitjrnanouai eigathour day. New Yobk has a Hebrew pavement workers' union. Women* marble cuttere in Italy get twentyfive cents a day. The working-women's unions of Germany publish a paper. New York buttonhole makers won a fifteen weeks' strike. The Waltham Watch Company has cut wages twenty per cent. Miss Branx, the organizer of the German barmaids, has oeen exiled. War Department clerks in Washington will hereafter be paid weekly. Four dramatic companies in New York are composed of labor union talent. Compulsory life insurance is the order of a New York heating company to its employes. New York coach drivers, stablemen and washers protest against; fifteen hours a day, and are organizing. The Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and the Order of Railway Conductors recently voted for federation. Labop. organizations in Paris, France, nsed pay no hall rent. The city has built halls for the holding of meetings in the different , districts. The National Order of Railway Telegraph- | ers and the Brotherhood of Telegraphers of ( Chicago have appJied for admission to the Federation of Railway Employes. A.T a rough guess there are 2000 women employed as cashiers among the New York merchants, who receive not less than $15 a week, and a stenographer who writes ninety words a minute has no difficulty in getting $2 a day. A dressmaker who goes out to work commands $3 a day. and if she brings her assistant she gets $5, and very often board and lodging. GEADY'S MONUMENT, The Statue of the Dead i?ditor Un veiled at Atlanta, Ga. The monument to Henry W. Grady wat unveiled at half-past 1 o'clock in the afternoon a few days ago at Atlanta* Ga. The streets were thronged with visitors from every State in the South, and when the veil fell from the bronze statue, which stands in Marietta street, between the Government Building and the old Capitol, 30,000 people joined in cheers. The monument was unveiled by Miss Gus> " sie Grady. Never in the history of Atlanta has a more imposing procession passed through its streets than the parade which passed from the Capitol to the monument. The Confederate Veterans and members of the Grand Army of the Rapublic marched together and were greeted with applause all along the line. Governor David B. Hll), of New York, the orator of the day, rode in the first carriage drawn by four white horses. By his aide was Governor Northen, of Georgia. Colonel Charles S. Northern, President of the Monument Association, presided. Prayer was offered by the Rev. J. W. Lee, aitet which Falton Colville told the story of the monument's construction. Charles Howell, Mr. Grady's successor as managing editor of Constitution, and the Speaker of the Georgia House ot Representatives, then introduced Governor Hill. The Governor was greeted with enthusiasm and made the dedication speech. The monument was designed by Alexander Doyle. The statue is of heroic size. It represents Mr. i-nrady, with uncovered head, standing in an easy attitude, with the left foot somewhat advanced. The general pose is that of an orator engaged in deliver? 12 a speech, the left arm hanging ty the side and the right crossing the breastand clasping between the forefinger . and the thumb the lapel of a full frock coat. On the right and left of the statue are allegorical figures of Memory and History, and the figures surmount a great stone pedestal, ; the east sides of which bsars th3 following inscription: Henry W. Grady, Journalist, Orator. Patriot," Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Born in Athens, Ga., May 34, 1S50; Died in Atlanta, December 23, 1889. Graduated at the State University in the year 1863. He never held or sought public office. "When he died lie was literally loving a Nation into peace.'" Below this, in large letters, is the name: Henry W. Grady. Un the west side are two quotations from Mr. Gradv's speeches. FIVE ARE DEAD, A Young Girl Was the Innocent Cause ct a Kentucky Tragedy. A party of White Caps attacked the residence of George Culp several nights ago at Owingsville, Ky. Aa a result James and George Howard were instantly killed, half a dozen others wounded, one of whom, George Jones, has 3ince died. A sister of the Howards was ill and the shock killed her. Next day an infant to which she gave birth a few minutes prior to her death also died, making five deaths in all. It was quite certain one or two more of the wounded would die. A young girl named Delia Carpenter was the innocent cause of the tragedy. -Mr. See had adopted the girl. The Culpa and Rebecca Carpenter and their confederates were incensed at this, as was also Cynthia Jones, who, it is claimed, said she had bought the trirl and was to Day $250 tor her. Rebecca Carpenter declared she would kill the girl if she remained with the See family. There was a great deal of excitement overthe matter and somebody served a White Cap notice on the Culps ordering them to leave in thirty days under penalty of deato. The Culps remained and the neighborhood talked with more lreedom than prudence. So matters continued until the fatal culmination. Some tune ago Rebecca Carpenter, an aunt of the girl, cnme to the house of Prosner See and asked him to take the girl and keep her, as the Carpenters were not able. See promised to take the girl on trial. Not long after this Mollie Culp, Susie Culps and Rebecca Carpenter went to See's house in the absence of the family, stole the trirl and secreted her at the house of George Culp. j It came to the ears of Mr. See that the persons who had the girl in charge intended . to take her to Mount Sterling. Ky. and put her in the hands of Cynthia J ones, a notorious character. _ ? In the mean time the girl ran away from < the Culps, came to the house of 8ee and piteously begged him to k?ep her, as she said ( she was afraid of her people. This led to the attack on Culp's house and the deaths of five or more persons. 1 SWerterrsnaie'JTOraensome. , J The rivalry and feud between the ' Norwegians and Swedes seem inex- , tinguisliable. Norway chafes at be- ! ing, for all practical purposes, a mere province of Sweden. Different in i language, customs and traditions from 1 their rulers, they cannot reconcile themselves to Swedish dominion. Disaffection Is gradually spreading; socialism is striking root among the : descendants of the fierce old vikings. 1 There are in spite of this some prospects of a federation of the Scandi- ; navian countries, Norway, Sweden, ' and Denmark, which, however, the discontents of the Norwegians are ( likely to make somewhat doubtful. TEMPERANCE. ><- DOCTORS WHO DBIIOC. V ' According to a recently enacted law in,1 Georgia no physician or surgeon, if once: jonvicted or drnnkennesa, can ever again; ? u:- 'TK^t jrtiunue LiioUl Ui-CJVSXL/U Hi luatf ***?. Cincinnati Times-Star, in suggesting a simi-j at law for Ohio, says: "It isbut a few days > since a Cincinnati physician was taken off the streets sufl^ring from delirium tremens, j while still another is locked ap in tile work* louse, convicted of habitual drunkenness. I?;. is not many years sinca one of the most! prominent men in the Cincinnati MedicaT Society, conscious of his consuming appetite | tor rum, invariably wrote his prescriptions twice, each time keeping a copy, thinking thus to escape any mistake wmch he was fearful his dipsomania might lead him into. total abstinence leagues. The Massachusetts Total Abstinence So* ciety has icagurated a plan of wtork looking;, to the organization of temperanca leagues in every city and town in the State. The plan. of work embraces the following departments: Public meetings, work among chll dren, circulation of the total abstinenoe plege among adult?, the distribution of temperance ana no-license literature, securing a large no-license vote in all the cities and towns and the enforcement of existing laws.. The membership will consist of retfdents of cities and towns over eighteen yean of age. The constitution is flexible ana adapted to every locality. The necessity of such organizations is apparent when one realizes that less than ten per cent, of the population under forty years is pledged to total abstinence. The societv invites all classes of temperance workers to co-operate with this effort to establisu local societies. a mother's fortitude testto. It is doubtful if a mother's fortitude and endurance can be put to a stronger test than to be obliged to fight single-handed against starvation, whilst shielding her children from the brutalities of a (L-unken parent. Such a woman hardly ever manifests her bitter anguish, except, perhaps, to a spiritual adviser, wno can do little else for her than counsel patience and resignation. Her. virtue and her suffering are not known to the world. Even her own children, whom the sottish beh?.cior of a drunken parent has prejudiced against all the sorroundings of home, are soon eager to leave her.; They gladly embrace the ilrst opportunity to can their lor, among strangers. The Catholic Church cannot refuse to give her hearty support to a mo vement which is destined to deliver from misery a nutherous class of virtuous mothers and their helpless infants?it is not too lata?if the demon of alcohol has not already buried its crooked harpy claws in the vitals of society*? Bet.. Ofprge Zurcher. i DhiSTC AND TBK XATIVK SAGIS. A member of a Naval Lodgeof Good Tarn* plas, on board of one of the British naval vessels on the west coast of Africa, in a letter read at the late anniversary meeting of the Drink and Native Races Association, [writes;. ' We rffre out hereon the soot, and can see for ourselves the immense enls arising from this devilish traffic. In the steamers which brought us oat to the Cape of Good Hope to join our ships were two missionaries with cases of Bibles, etc., to bring the glad ings of great joy unto the poor benighted heathens, and down in the hold of the aamc vessel were 2100 gallons of Hollandgin and 1500 gallous of rum intended for the self' same heathens. Now, my brothers and sisters, please ask yourselves, What good is it sending our missionaries to enlighten the negro when, we allow th* devil and his agents to send oat that which utterly destroys the good they may be ?# abled to do? We seamen, although, as it. were, on the scene of battle, are helpless to do anything in this matter except to una the poor blacks to abstain from the drink; bat when we speak to them on the subject, they tell us, "White man briny it, white man drink it, and the black 'man drink And black man does drink it. and dies jn consequence. One of the objectslor Irttch oar ship is stationed here, is the suppression of the slave trade, but the ships of all sorts that pass in and out of the rivers have on board that which binds the negroes with worse chains than those which Wilberforc?* broke asunder, which holds them in stronger Donas loan Aoranam unoom unuea ? America, and which binds them in slavery ! more degrading, more debasing and morel damni ne than any for which the brave meal of the jSTorthern States went to war with I their Southern brethren to abolish. S SAD LESSON" FEOK LUX. . || "The Women's Christian Temparancall Union is very well," said a gentleman tojl me, "but women make more drunkards ihanfl their society reforms." It was a sweeping! sratement, and I asked him to explain. I "Women like their cordials and their tdnic%*fl said he, "and alcohol forms an Importaaffl part o? all of them. They are apt to keepfl thjm ou hand, for their stomach's sake anal often infirmities, and mix what they call IB harmless medicine for their husbands or aonsH when they come home tired or out of sort3,1 so that the liquor habit is formed and thai men go to saloons, where they can get! Ktrnnsrer drink. Here is a case in noint. - IB knew a man, honest and capable; a good husband and father. His wife was weakly . Very often she would ask her nan* to make her a whisky punch, and to give some to Jamie if he came 1st tired after a day's work. The habit grew on bim, he dranc stronger liquors, business failed, he neglected his family, and they became very poor. His delicate wife would have suffered from actual want, bat aiiaunt dying about that time left her ISOOOi Her husband wanted the money to begin busine* again, but his wife would not trust him; ah* was consumptive; her children might be left destitute. "There was a stormy scene when he demanded the money and she refused, and partly under the" influence of liquor, be struck her. They separated, and she never saw him again. Sorrow developed her disease, and not long before her death, ahe sent forme. 'I want you to be kind to Jamie,' said she, '/or it was my fault that he took to clrmk; i see n oow.m He did not care for liquor till ? coaxed him to take it. But I did oocH dream it was more than a medicine.' Again B and again she would moaa in a heart broken H v ice. 'It was my fault. Jamie would neverH have been a drunkard if I ha'd not given himH a taste of liquor!' And this sorrow wentH with her to the grave. Jamie did not needH my care long. He was taken up in the streefM intoxicated soon after his wife's death, andH being sick in the jail, I had him sent to theH hospital, where his sorrowful life soon endeciH But if women would be careful about theH brandy in preserves, the wine in sauces, tiieH pleasant tasting tonics, the little sip befofaH going to bed, there would be less drunkenuessH among the men, and fewer heartbroka^| women to sob out, *1 am to blame P Mtiifl my fault!' "?Practical Fanner. Bj TEMPERANCE NSWS AWD XOTBS. H Tho road to ruin is broad; but its entrancaB is generally through the side-door. H The English syndicate has bought anotherS brewery in St. Louis for 110,000,000. R A prohibition clause in title-deeds hasbeeoH iecided to be valid by a far-off court in In-H Frances E. Willard has cancelled her fallj| engagements for addresses, owing to the^a feebleness of her aged mother. The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd FellowsM recently decided to exclude liqaor-seller^H 'rum the organization in future. Eg The aggregate whisky production of th^H Kentucky distilleries for the year endin^H June 30, 1S91, was 33.392,092 gallons. M Great Britiau and Ireland last year dranfe^H >67,000,000 gallons of oeer, 42,000,000 gallons? nore tnan were consumed in Germany. Hj "Saloons on wheels" are a new invention^! in Sioux City, Iowa, for illegal liquor-sellin^H j mi evading the legal penalties tnerefor. The police report states that the license iH houses in London, England, number 14,085lH giving one to every 413 of the population. H Of the 30,000 criminals in German prison^B 14,000 were arrested for crimes committe<^| under the influence of intoxicating drinks. Of ?00 cases treated for inebriety, at th^H Fort Hamilton (N. Y.) Inebriates' Home^| 305 had one or more relatives addicted to in^| toxication. "Liquid bread" is the very illusory nam^B given oy an enterprising brewer to his bobH tlod beer, as -food for the sick and beverag^H for the well." JBj