The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, August 16, 1889, Image 4
THE STORM-SWEPT AREA.
An Estimate of the Damage
Wronght by the Late Delnge.
The Injury to Crops in New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey.
Dispatches from many points in the fann
ing district within a radius of one hundred
miles of New York city show general dam
age to crops by unusually heavy rains. The
total losses in New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey will mount up between $300,-
000 and $400,000, and perhaps more. The
hay, potato and small fruit crops suffered
most. Much grass that had been cut and
stacked is a total loss from mould. Potatoes
in many cases are ruined by rot. Grapes
along tno Hudson have been" badly injured.
The situation is peculiarly discouraging to
farmers, because, owing to the forward
spring and unusually good weather until
within a fortnight, they were confident of
exceptionally large crops of nearly all kinds.
Farmers in New York State are the
heaviest losers. In the great dairy district
of Central Now York their losses in hay and
small grain are particularly severe.
In Connecticut the potatoes suffered most,
although considerable hay on the salt
marshes and on the bottom lands along the
rivers is destroyed.
Truck gardeners are the main losers in
New Jersey, although along the Walkill
River and the Paulins Kill considerable dam
age was done to hay and grain.
In Orange, Sullivan and Delaware Coun
ties in New York, thousands of acres of the
grass and grain already cut arc entirely
spoiled. Extensive onion fields near Grey-
court and along the low lands of the
Walkill River are flooded and the crop
is practically ruined. The same may
be said of the potato and turnip crops in
all the low land fields. It is estimated that
one-fourth of the bay crop of the great dairy
region in question has been lost or damaged
so as to be practically worthless.
In Southern Ulster County, Eastern
Orange and Southern Dutchess County in
New York it is estimated that the damage to
the hay, grain and oat crops and to fruit trees
will reacii $15,000 to $20,000. Standing grass
and grain on hundreds of acres was beaten
down by the rain and wind and has l>ecome
mouldy. Much hay and grain'eut and left on
the ground to cure is spoiled. The fruit crop
of tho lower part of Ulster County canuot
now exceed one-quarter of on ordinary yield.
Some vineyards are entirely ruined.
Concord grape vines near Kingston, N. Y.,
are in bad shape. The grapes are shelling
like snow flakes. Dispatches from fifty
points along tho Hudson valley report hoa'
damage. At least half the crop is ruim
and that means a loss of fully $75,000.
The fruit crop in the vicinity of Pough
keepsie, N. Y., is almost entirely destroyed,
especially grapes. Garden products also are
badly hurt—over seventy-fl vo per cent.—and
eftrn and hay have suffered severely. All
the low lands in Dutchess County are partly
flooded. Pears and apples will do fairly
well. There had never been a bettor out
look in tho early season, but the prolonged
rain ruined many crops.
The oat crop near Chatham has been seri
ously damaged. (Standing oats are black
ened and those in swath are rotting. Fully
one-third tho value of the crop, which was
unusually heavy, is lost. Tho heavy hay
crop is half gathered. One-Quarter of the re
maining crop is ruined. Fields of potatoes
are rotting and small fruits are also damaged,
especially peaches and grapes.
Around Highland, Ulster County, the
losses by the farmers have been so heavy
that the townsi>eoplo held a meeting at tho
office of Edgar Elmendorf, town clerk, to
take relief measures.
Dispatches from various points in Con
necticut say that Connecticut crops gener
ally have suffered. Tho seed growers at
Wethersfield are among tho heavy losers. It
is feared that the potato crop will prove an
entire failure, as already potatoes are rotting.
Countrv roads are badly washed out.
In Wins ted and vicinity the damage
more.
washout on the Valley
of the em-
way, delaying
Tho damage was about
avv
led,
amounts to $2000 or
There was a laad
road near. Che
several hot
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$3000.
Fully $20,000 damage was reported to crops
in New Haven County. Hay cut and stand
ing suffered particularly. Some meadows
along the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers
have been ruined for this year by the over
flowed much hay already cut floated away.
Corn and oat fields also were badly washed.
Hundreds of acres of gross and oats near
Litchfield were flooded out, and the loss from
this source alone is $5000. Tho potato crop
is said to bo a total loss. Altogether the
storm will cost tho farmers in that section
more than $10,000. Corn is not hurt.
Com in fields of low ground at Green’s
Farms, Fairfield, Stratford and their vicin
ity lies flat in most instances and in some is
submerged. Fields of potatoes are much in
jured, and rot is feared. Much grass cut
before the rain is ruiued. Fields of oats are
totally destroyed. Tho loss to farmers from
these sources will approximate $20,000.
The damage to crops near Middletown will
reach $5000.
Potatoes, corn, oats and tobacco near New
Milford are tho principal crops to suffer.
Many potatoes have been washed up or are
rotting on the vines. Grass and hay crops
are spoiled in many places.
In West Cornwall gardens are covered and
the crops heavily damaged. The loss there is
about 18000.
Dispatches were received making the fol
lowing estimates of the damage done in New
Jersey: Close estimates place the damage to
crops in the vicinity of Trenton, N. J., at
$50,000. The rainfall during July was
phenomenal—0.85 inches. The average
monthly fall is four inches. The fruit crop
suffers most. The yield will lie forty per
cent, below the average. The grain yield
will lx? at least ten per cent. off. Corn also
was badly damaged.
In Passaic and Bergen Counties, of New
Jersey, the main damage is to the potato
fields. These two counties produce large
quantities of ix>tatoes. It is thought that
not more than twenty-five per cent, of the
usual crop will be gathcrod. Little damage
has been done to other crops, except in the
Pompton Valley, where the land lies low.
In Livingston and Caldwell crops have
been much damaged, particularly hay and
grain. The total loss to crops in the Oranges
is from $8000 to $10,000.
The loss to crops caused by the breaking of
the series of dams in and near Plainfield is
comparatively light. Probably $10,000 will
cover it.
Hay and oats are leveled near Dover, and
the fruit crop has suffered.
Around Dockertown farmers in the valleys
lose heavily on cut grass and oats, and those
in the vicinity of the so-called “drowned
lands,” principally along the Walkill River,
also suffer considerably. The most extensive
farmers are ex-Senator Thomas Lawrence, of
Hamburg, and John Loomis, of Deckertown.
Al>out one-third of their crops are destroyed.
Whole stacks of hay floated down the Wal-
Itill River.
What hay and oats were housed along tho
Paulins Kills, near Blairstown, are almost a
total loss. Large quantities of hay, all
nicely cured and cut up in cocks, were car
ried off by tho swollen kill. Buckwheat
fields also suffer. Farmers in Northern
Warren County are greatly discouraged.
The total damage to the growing crops near
Blairstown will aggregate $10,000.
BOULANGER'S FALL.
France’s V.'hilom Idol Meets a Crush
ing Defeat at the Polls.
Returns from tho elections in France for
Councils-General had been received from
1195 cantons on the day after the election.
The Republicans have been successful in 746,
the Conservaiives in 419 aud the Eouiacgists
In 12. There will have to be second ballots
in 149 cantons.
The defeat of Boulanger was more crush
ing and complete than even the most san
guine followers of the Government had antici
pated. The most rabid adherents of the
General admit that ho has ceased
to be a power in French politics.
They are endeavoring to discover the
cause for the revulsion of public feeling. It
is agreed on all sides that had Bou
langer stood his ground and submitted
to trial the result would have been
far different. There is no doubt
that the flight of Boulanger was looked
upon by the masses as little short of coward-
tee, especially so in the case of one whose
whole political capital consisted of his sup-
bravery and disregard for personal
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
turned to New York
gunboat
from a
cruise at sea.
undertaken to test the ship’s strength and
stability and the effectiveness of her main
battery. The results were highly satis
factory.
A cyclone, followed almost immediately
by a terrific rain storm, visited North Wil bra-
ham, Massachusetts, doing considerable dam
age to property. The earth was tom up,
plowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for a
long distance. It threw water fifty feet high.
Public thoroughfares were badly damaged
in many sections of western Massachu
setts.
Laurel, Del., and the surrounding coun
try have been visited by a disastrous storm,
which continued with uninterrupted fury for
two days. Small wooden bridges across the
streams and fences have been washed away,
and fields and orchards ruined.
John Ireland, a well-known New Yorker,
who for years has kept a popular restaurant
on Lispenard street, was robbed of $43,000
in securities while a patient in Chambers
Street Hospital.
E. & A. H. Batcheller, of Boston, Mass.,
one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the
country, have assigned. Their liabilities are
$1,250,000.
Edward Styles, son of Dr. D. W. Styles,
and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both of Buf
falo, N. Y., were drowned while boating.
McKean & Appleton, shoe manufac
turers, of Salem, Mass., have failed, their es
timated liabilities being between $65,000 and
$75,000.
In Ulster County, N. Y., a tornado de
stroyed several houses, and three persons
were badly hurt, one of them fatally.
The bill to move the State capital of New
Hampshire from Concord to Manchester was
killed in the Legislature by a big majority.
Ex-United States Senator E. H. Rol
lins, of New Hampshire, is dead, in his
sixty-fifth year. He had been twice Speaker
of the New’ Hampshire House of Representa
tives; was elected to Congress thrice, and in
1877 was chosen to the United States Senate.
Fred Fap.r, aged twenty-five, an engineer
on the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad,
killed his wife at Clayton, N. Y., and then
committed suicide.
John L. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was
arrested in New York city by Inspector
Byrnes at the request of Governor Lowry, of
Mississippi, and was held at Police Head
quarters while awaiting the action of
Governor Hill.
W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers of
Boston, have failed with liabilities of $250,-
000.
Six thousand cokers of the Connellsyilla
district of Pennsylvania have gone on strike.
Four thousand ovens are idle.
Horace D. Phillips, manager of the
Pittsburg (Penn.) Baseball Club, has been de
clared insane.
A riot occurred amoug 500 Italian railroad
hands at Beaver, Penn., during which Anto
nio Costinello was killed, two Italians fatally
injured, another shot in the leg and several
others badly beaten.
The License bill was passed by the Rhode
Island Legislature, after which the special
session adjourned.
South and West.
The Cannon Fruit Commission and the
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were
burned out in Wichita, K&n. Loss, $170,-
000.
The five men accused of complicity in the
murder of Dr. Cronin—Coughlin, Beggs,
Woodruff, Kuenze and O’Sullivan—were ar
raigned in Judge Horton’s court in Chicago.
All pleaded not guilty.
The steamboat Tolchester on her way
from Baltimore, Md., to Deals Island, ran
down a sail boat There were five persons
in the boat, three of whom, Mary Kalb,
Mary Wiener and John Bitz, were drowned.
Texas fever is playing havoc among the
cattle in the Indian Territory. Hundreds of
cattle were dying in Oklahoma.
J. W. Griffin, an old farmer and citizen
of Clairborne County, Miss., was mistaken
for a burglar and shot and instantly killed
by his son Edward, aged eighteen.
William Schiek and JIrs- HannrJ^eckgr.
were -kilted in LrrGisvilte, Ky., wEITe crossing
a railroad in a wagon. Henry Pfistner was
fatally injured.
Andrew C. Drumm, General Manager
of the cattle film of A. Drumm & Co., of
Kansas City, Mo., one of the largest in the
West, has fled with $40,000.
The signature of White Cloud, the leading
Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an
agreement by which 3,000,000 acres of his
tribe’s r servation will be thrown open to
settlement. His signing ends the labors of
the Commissioners.
Field fires have burned twelve dwellings
and killed numerous cattle and horses in
Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50,000.
Forest fires have just destroyed a vast
amount of property along the Missouri
River in Montana. An area of over four
miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Sev
eral mining camps and a quantity of tim
ber were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunni
son, in Colorado.
Mrs: Snodgrass and her two children
were drowned at Rockford, Ark., while
fording the White River.
A sawmill boiler exploded at Golden
Gate, 111., instantly killing Frank Peters, a
son of the proprietor, and fatally injuring
Joe Wallace and William Fox.
Tom Talbot, a white man, was lynched
at Meridian, Miss., by about sixty men, for
an outrageous assault upon a /ourteen-year-
old white girl.
Misses Flanagan. McCabe and Farrell
were drowned at. Iskpeming, Mich., while
trying to cross the Menominee River in a
boat.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton ex
press. due in Cincinnati at 11 r. m., was
wrecked near Oxford, Ohio, and twelve per
sons were reported killed.
Negotiations were completed at Omaha,
Neb., for the sale of all the breweries to a
European syndicate for $1,500,000.
William L. Ross, a note-teller of the Ne
vada Bank of San Francisco, Cal., robbed
the institution of $95,000 and fled to Victoria,
British Columbia, where he was arrested.
Fire in the village of Fennvillo, Mich.,
destroyed the postoftice, opera-house, express
office, Forest Hotel and eight stores.
Harry Seybold, teller in the Bank of
Wheeling, W. Va., and George Hennig,
another employe in the institution, have been
arrested, charged with embezzling $30,000.
Five large companies engaged in the
manufacture of artificial ice in the South
have formed a trust to control the entir?
business in that section.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who was
wanted in Mississippi on a charge of havluc
committed a felony in having engaged in a
prize fight in that State, was taken to Jack-
son from New York city on a requisition
from.Governor Lowry.
William Gaskins, colored, has been
hanged at Leland, Fla., for the murder of
his wife a year ago. He made a speech on
the scaffold, and then gave the signal for the
drop to fall.
Washington.
The Civil Service Commission has de
cided to exempt from examination clerks on
steamboats who also act in the capacity of
postal clerks.
The President designated General MacFeely
as Acting Secretary of "War in Secretary
Proctors absence.
The Postoffice Department has received
the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Mil
waukee, whose administration of the office
was recently severely criticised by the Civil
Service Commission.
Ex-Senator Albert Daggett, of, Brook
lyn, N. Y., has received the contract for sup
plying the Government with postal cards dur
ing the next four years. The contract in
volves between $700,000 and $800,000.
Secretary Tracy has ordered a Govern
ment vessel to go to Arenas Key, Yucatan,
to rescue three American sailors who were
left there to care for the property of the
company working the guano beds as their
limited supply of provisions is by this time
exhausted.
Treasurer Huston has given a receipt to
ex-Treasurer Hyatt for $771,500,000, repre
senting the amount of money and securities
in the United States Treasury turned over
by the latter to the former. Of the above
sum $237,208,402 is actual cash, the remainder
including United States bonds and the re
serve fund.
The public debt statement shows an in
crease of the public debt during the month
of Jnly of $1,017,311.51. Total cadi in the
Treasury, $634,723,023.44.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
directed that an additional allowance of
$78,000 be granted Postmaster Van Cott, of
New York city. His present allowance is
$1,034,000. An additional force of clerks, to
the number of 102, is also allowed, which
with his present force will make an aggre
gate of 1296 employes.
President Harrison left Deer Park,Md.,
and arrived in Washington.
A DESPEBATE BATTLE.
Tlic Egypto-British Forces Slaughter
1500 Soudanese Dervishes.
General Grenfell, in command of the com
bined British and Egyptian forces, engaged
the Soudanese near Toski, Soudan, and com
pletely routed them. Wad-el-Jumi, the Sou
danese leader, was killed. The Arab loss was
1500 killed and wounded. The Egyptian loss
was slight.
Besides Wad-el-Jumi, the slain on the Arab
side include twelve emirs and nearly all tho
Igypt
"General Grenfell marched out of Toski at
5 o’clock in the morning with a strong recon
noitring force of cavalry and camels and ad
vanced close to the Arab camp. Making a
feint of retreating he drew the whole of
Wad-el-Jumi’s force to a point within four
miles of Toski.
Here the Egyptian infantry were held in
readiness for an attack, and a general action
was at once begun. The Soudanese made a
gallant defence, but were driven from hill
to hill. The Egyptian cavalry made a suc
cession of effective charges, in which Wad-
el-Jumi and the emirs were killed.
After seven hours of hard fighting the der
vishes were completely routed. Gunboats
followed the scattered remnants of the Arab
force along the river.
General Grenfell, in his official report of
the battle, says that the dervishes made re
peated and desperate charges upon his
men. They were met by the infantry,
in line of battle, supported by the
Twentieth Hussars and the Egyptian cavalry.
The Egyptian horse artillery did excellent
service. The dervishes numbered three
thousand fighting men. The British troops
will now return to Cairo.
The latest advices give the Egyptian loss as
seventeen killed and 13L wounded. Ono
thousand dervishes were made prisoners.
THE WHIPPING POST.
A Man Whipped In Maryland Uudcr
the Law for Wife Beating.
A special from Hagerstown, Md., says:
The first whipping administered in this coun
ty since the passage of the act of 1882for wife
beati occurred here this afternoon. The pris
oner was David C. Herbert, a resident of the
Carfoss district, this county. Herbert is a tali
well-proportioned white man, while his wife,
who made tho complaint is a fragile, delicate-
looking woman. At tho trial before Justice
Bitner it was proved that Herbert, while
intoxicated last Friday, beat and chofeed his
wife into unconsciousness. While she was
in that condition ho grabbed a chair, swear
ing that he intended to kill her. He was pre
vented from cari yii^ his threat into execu
tion by bis son wresting the chair from him.
Herbert has been guilty of tho same offence
several times before, and the Justice deter
mined to impose a salutary restraint up >a
his future conduct by sentencing him to re
ceive fifteen lashes and an imprisonment of
five davs in jail.
The Sheriff was notified and at onro, made
preparations to carry the senteuro into exe
cution. A thick piece of leather two feet in
length, tapering to tho end, and joined to a
wooden handle, was selected for the lash.
The prisoner after being stripped to the waist,
was mode to stand handcuffed to the bars
of a door in the jaiL One of *>■*
deputies counted the strokes wh^i
tho Sheriff laid them on w ith
force and in quick succession. During tho
whipping the prisoner writhed repeatedly,
and several moans escaped him. After the
last stroke had fallen it was found that a por
tion of tho prisoner’s back was covered with
welts, and his right side, which the end of the
strap had lashed, was badly discolored, and
in several places ridges had been raised.
TWO MURDEBERS HANGED.
Dramatic Scenes On a Scaffold in the
Lonisville (Ky.) Jail.
Charles Dilger and Harry Smart, murderers,
were hanged at 6:04 o’clock in the morning in
the jail yard at Louisville, Ky.
At the conclusion of the religious service
Smart aud Dilger bade goodby to all the turn
keys. They then took positions on the trap.
Smart inugbod as he stepped upon the fatal
door. Deputy Sheriff Hikes pinioned them
with leather bands at 6:04 o’clock exactly,
and both men shot down through the trap.
Smart turned round and probably died in
stantly, but Dilger slipped through the noose,
the rope catching him over the chin at the
lower teeth.
He was seemingly unhurt and was drawn
up by the rope until his shoulders came
through the trap, when the deputies took him
by the arms and"pulled him upon the scaffold.
Anew rope was brought into service, and
when the noose was adjusted Dilger asked:
“What’s the matter?’ When he was told,
he said: “This shows I should not die.” He
FILM FATHERS.
Foreign.
Mr. Sexton, member of Parliament and
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, complains to
the State Department at Washington, that
President Harrison’s letter, thanking Dublin
for the sympathy expressed with the Johns
town sufferers, had been opened in transit
and the official seal defaced.
The United States revenue cruiser Rush
recently seized the British schooner Black
Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea.
Dr. Tanner, member of the British Par
liament for Cork, Ireland, was sentenced at
Tipperary to one month’s imprisonment for
assaulting Police Inspector Stephens in May
last. When judgment was pronounced he
cried out in the dock: “I defy you. The mag
istracy are the real criminals.” For this out
break three months was added to his sen
tence.
The Japanese town of Kumamoto on the
island of Kiou Siou has been destroyed by an
earthquake. A great number of people per
ished.
Sixty more dervishes have been killed in a
skirmish with the British forces in the
Soudan.
The Shah of Persia arrived in Paris from
England. He was received by President
Carnot.
San Luis, a village near Sautiago, Cuba,
has been visited by a disastrous fire. Sixty
houses were destroyed and two children were
burned to death.
Later election returns from Paris show
that General Boulanger was elected in twen
ty-three cantons. A Boulangist organ, ac
cuses the Government of falsifying 3,000,000
voting appers.
Sir John Thompson, Canadian Minister of
Justice, signed the warrant for the extra
dition of Burke, the alleged murderer of Dr.
Cronin. He was taken to Chicago for trial.
Two deserters from the Mexican army
! were captured by mounted soldiers fifty
miles from Ensenado, Mexico. The prison
ers were compelled to follow their captors on
foot at a rapid pace to Ensenado, where on
their arrival both fell dead from exhaustion.
A machine gun exploded on board the
French training frigate Couronne at Hyeres,
France. Eight persons were killed and
seventeen injured.
Thirty persons were killed and eighty in
jured by the recent earthquake on the island
of Kiu-Siu, Japan.
The German squadron, escorting the Em
peror William to England, sailed from Wil-
helmsh&ven.
The steamer Rapel, from Valparaiso to
Montevideo, was totally wrecked at Hannib-
lin Island, and the chief engineer, purser and
eight of the crew wore lost.
Snow storms and icy rains prevailed
throughout Switzerland. The mountain
passes were partly blocked. Extensive floods
were reported in Silesia.
Colonel Evaristo Carazo, President of
Nicaragua, is dead. Dr. Sacasa has succeeded
to the Presidency, in conformity with the
constitution of Nicaragua.
Hon. Mr. Davie, Premier of British
Columbia and Attorney General, died a few
days ago at Victoria.
Laced himself upon tha_trap the second tim«
r o hops.
and at 6:09 he was strans
pla
by making two
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The drop was
Tlie National Monament in
Thei* JRenor Dedicated.
Unveiled Aidd Impressive Cere
monies at Plymouth, Mass.
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT.
The grand national monument in honor of
the Pilgrims h^f been dedicated at Ply
mouth, Mass. 'The sons and daughters of
Plymouth were ihere in great numbers, with
from far and near,
of the early morning
many visitors
The weather
was unpropitii
to review
umbrellas. The
with a salute by
bells. The morni
bers of strange
[ec<
beneat]
’at sunrise
.ttery A abd the ringing of
trains brought vast num-
and a gre^t throng sur-
eat th
rounded the new .monument at 9^ when the
dedicatory servi<|^s were carried out- by the
Masonic Grand Hfisc. according to the ritual
of their order ' fiese exercises were very in
teresting. The ifnd rendered a choral by
John K. Paine, fallowing which the song of
praise, written fr? ^ r - Thomas Power, was
sung by the Temi' )le Quartette. Following the
song came the red'*®^ the President of the
PUgrim Society, ex-Gov. Long; the response
of the Grand Mister, Henry Endicott; pro
clamation by th* 5 Grand Marshal, George H.
Rhodes- reading of Scriptural selections by
the Grand Chart ain t. 1110 Rov - Cflmries a.
Skinner, and pr^ er “F the Grand Chaplain.
The report on t“ e examination of the monu
ment and libat’oJ 8 o£ 00X11 and wine by the
Junior and Sen 101, Grand Wardens respect
ively, and the libations of oil by Deputy-
Grand Master, ^Samuel Wells, were fol
lowed by the ^vocation by the Grand
~ ^ Master Endicott then
Chaplain.
delivered
sang an appre
the Rev. R. W:'
of “America.” I
a proclamation
ediction by the
“Pilgrim Chorui
Meantime the*
ing, and at 11 0*01!
sive route in sever
pie
oers of the Pilg
poet and invited l
great dining tent,
the occasion was <’
The dinner was
address. The assemblage
opriate closing hymn by
Thomas Power to the time
fhe exercises concluded with
»y the Grand Marshal, ben-
■ Grand Chaplain, and the
it ■ to
on bad been form-
moved over the exten-
visions. At the cora-
the officers and mem-
lety, with the orator,
took their places in the
the feast provided for
‘ for an hour.
© ,big event of the day.
Long, President of
]>
Ex-Governor Jo! _
the Pilgrim Society, presided, and the oration
of the day was delivered by William C. B.
Breckinridge, i~ 1
off
by a poem by
Yhe oration and
by speeches fro;
George F. Hoar, Hi
ick Greenhalge, Dr!
Justice Durfee, Wi!
P. BankSH^sA- Mo:
gentlemen.
Mr. Myror
sang during
“The Bn ’
llentucky, followed
ohn Boyle O’Reilly,
were followed
J. Q. A. Brackett,
Cabot Lodge, Freder-
George E. Ellis, Chief
,m Cogswell, Nathaniel
and other distinguished
highest hills ini
rock on sWiich 1
of the anchorage ^
The monument ?
when the Pilgrim J
iect. In that yeai
Hammatt Billir
the present site wq
is oi solid granit
nal pedestal,
five feet high, is
northwest of tne
landed and west
the Mayflower,
first thought of in 1853,
ciety agitated the sub-
a design was made by
a famous architect, and
selected. The monument
d consists of an octago-
ich, standing forty-
figure
_ _ ^ lounted by a
of Faith, who, standing on Plymouth Rock,
holds in her left 1 hand an open Bible, and
points heavenward with her right hand.
This figure is th|irty-six feet high. The
pedestal bears foi “ ‘
irty-six
tablets, upon which are
3 of the foundors of the
facts connected with the
inscribed the nai
colony and historic
first settlement. !
Below these tablets project four wing ped
estals, upon which are placed—one on each—
figures of Moralityl Education, Freedom and
Law, and at their feet are alt-relief tablets,
representing the Embarkation at Delfthaven,
the signing of th^social compact, the landing
at Plymouth, aul the first treaty with the
Indians.
The monument cost in the neighborhood
of $200,000, t le major portion of
which was presented by citizens. Massa
chusetts gave J 10,000, Connecticut gave
$8000 and the United States
Government gavi i $15,000. The cornerstone
was laid with imj iressive ceremonies August
2, 1859, but it was not until last fall that the
work was fin* lly rompleted.
news! gleanings.
abundant.
90,000 paupers,
ies are prospering,
miles of railroad,
stj the rage in Europe.
York city is $88,000,000.
instructing fifty-two war
ople a day go up the Eiffel
and gas $8 a thousand in
l dogs licen
tew York
The corn crop
London contai
Canadian indul
There are 342,
The Shah is
The debt of
England
ships.
About 30,
Tower.
Coal is $18
Venezuela.
c ; t _
’geographical societies
in "
low:
debt—|
A “sweet
at Baltimore.
Yellow fev(
mus of Panama/
A mountain of pure manganese has just
been found in Cobrado.
Human saeriftas are still quite common
on the East AfjMm coast.
In Chicago l.^LoOO hogs were packed this
year against 1,5^000 in 1886.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors.
Crop indicatiors throughout the country
point to the largest yield of oats ever re
ported.
to have paid
Iff her last dollar of State
Ito trust” has been formed
las broken out on the Isth-
A Bi
$5,000,1
busbie
Mr.
after
Comr
The
age of
years to:
Monta^
jected wor
three to tl
NinetseI
tion in
waters that til
through them|
Philadei
scold corapla
ble termagan j
to keep the ]
Refined i
half to ten <
finers 1
away in Br
Horse :
tent in!
the old ?
i said
stent medicine
surplus
expenses
cf $100,000
before the
rmy law extends the
’service from forty-five
itution makers have re-
frage by a vote of thirty-
aeries are in opera-
are so thick in the
often cannot crowd
caught the common
[recently two unbeara-
placed under $500 bonds
gone from six and a
i pound at retail, and the re-
1,000 barrels of it stored
i Nebr
has increased to such anex-
that it is proposed to revive
committee, which ceased to
exist over twenty yean ago.
Since Buffalo Bill has Been she
Paris he has had often of marriage
twenty-nine
were of allt
h women- The women
aid conditions, three or four
of them being ano monsbr rich.
LATER HEWR
George D, PknROBE, one of the Auditors
at the Philadelphia office of the Reading Rail
road Company, was drowned while bathing
at Atlantic City, N, J.
While Horatio Proser and his wife and
two children were boating on the Pawtuxet
Hirer at Providence, R. I., the boat capsized
and the children, aged two and one-half
and four years, were drowned.
Charles Kemmer and Henry Arnett ware
drowned in Braxton County, W. Va., while
attempting to cross a flooded stream.
The low grounds around Galena, 111., were
visited by a frost, which did considerable
damage to growing vegetables. Com suf
fered in most exposed places.
The Ripley (Ohio) Mill and Lumber Com
pany’s buildings, with a large amount, of
lumber, were almost entirely destroyed by
fire. The residence of J. P. Parker and the
house of William Rode were also burned.
The loss is about $200,000.
In the Republic mine at Marquette, Mich.,
two cases of giant powder exploded, killing
two men and three boys. All the victims
were tom to shreds.
C. M. Hull,editor of the Bolivar Democrat,
was killed at Rosedale, Miss., by S. A.
Weissenger, editor of the Review. A news
paper war was the cause.
A terrific wiq4 storm visited a portion
of Prince GeorgG County, Va., leaving de
struction au^-'havoc in its track. Many
bridges bdve been washed away. In the
upper counties of Virginia the crops have
Titer ally ruined by constant rains.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor was
taken suddenly ill in his office in the Treasury
Department at Washington, and had to be
taken homo. For some time he has been in
ill health and has been overworked. His prin
cipal trouble is rheumatism in an acute form.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
issued an order extending the age limit of
appointment of letter-carriers in non-civil
service postoffices, from thirty-five to forty
years. This age-limitation does not apply to
persons honorably discharged from the
military or naval service.
Venezuela and the United States of Co*
lombia have notified the Department of State
at Washington of their acceptance of tho
invitation to take part in the three Ameri
cas’ Commercial Congress to be held in
Washington next October. All the nations
interested have now signified their intention
to be represented in the Congress, except
Paraguay, Hayti and San Domingo.
The Shah of Persia attended Cody’s Wild
West show in Paris, and at its close ex
pressed a desire to meet Buffalo Bill, whom
he thanked for the admirable performance
he had witnessed.
All Europe is alarmed because 80,000
Turkish reserves have been called out. The
Porte is buying uniforms and stores, and
work is proceeding at’the dockyards with fev
erish activity.
Sir William Ewart, member of Parlia
ment for the north division of Belf- ^ Ire
land, is dead. He was a Conservati e in
politics.
The dervishes charged the Egyptian cav
alry at Toski, Soudan, and killed twenty-
seven men. Lieutenant Daguilar dislodged
tho dervishes at Masmas village and killed
fifteen of them.
Miss Jessie Croucher and Miss Ella
Parr, of Boston, were <
l in Horn
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Merchandise Passing Through Our
Custom Houses Last Fiscal Year.
The value of imports of merchandise dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to $745,127,-
476 and of exports to $742,401,799, an excess
of imports over exports of $2,725,677. Of our
exports the value of domestic merchandise
was $730,282,606 and the value of foreign mer
chandise $12,119,193.
The total value of imports and exports ol
merchandise was $1,487,529,275, as against
$1,419,911,621 during the fiscal year 1888, an
increase of $67,617,654.
The value of imports of merchandise
amounted to $745,127,476, as against $723,-
957,114 during the fiscal year 1888, an in
crease of $21,170,362.
The exports of merchandise amounted to
$742,401,799, as against $695,954,507 during the
fiscal year 1883, an increase of $46,447,292.
The value of exports of merchandise during
the last fiscal year was larger than during
any other year since 1883, aud was only ex
ceeded by the exports of 1881, 1882 and 1883.
The value of imports of merchandise during
the last fiscal year was the largest in the his
tory of our commerce, being larger than in
the year 1882, when it amounted to $724,639.-
574.
In Sitka, Alaska, a town of 1000 inhabi
tants, not a foot of land is owned in fee sim
ple, but buildings and improvements pass
from one to another by simply a bill of sale,
and this practice is universally regarded as
in every respect a complete and perfect title.
FLOODS IN WI JERSEY.
Commodore William E^FFttzhugh,
United States Navy, died a days ago in
the Naval Hospital at Philadelphia. He was
sixty-three years old.
A sailboat containing five persons was
capsized on Silver Lake, near Pembroke,
Mass. Fred. Allen, ol Brockton, and Marcus
Howe, of East Bridgewater, were drowned.
In the trial of the United States cruiser
Boston for. speed in Narragansett Bay, off
Rhode, Island, the vessel made 15.6 knots
with seventy revolutions under unfavorable
conditions.
In Columbia, S. C., William B. Moetze, a
livery stable keeper,shot and killed James S.
Clark, an ex-trial Justice of Lexington
County. They had quarreled about a wo
man.
Hal Harris, an old resident of Monte-
vallo, Shelby County, Ala., was killed dur
ing a quarrel by his son-in-law, Will Mc
Call.
John C. Coates, New York; Thomas G.
Stoddard, Massachusetts, and R. J. Elliott,
Kansas, were appointed Postoffice Inspectors
on mail depredations by Postmaster-General
Wanamaker.
The President appointed John R. C. Pit
kin, of Louisiana, to be Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States to the Argentine Republic and
tendered tho appointment of Collector of the
Port of New Orleans to ex-Governor War-
mouth, of Louisiana.
When the train for Quebec on the Grand
Trunk Railway had passed St. Lambert’s 1
Canada, after going through tho Victoria
Bridge, an explosion occurred in tho express
car by which a messenger named Rogers was
killed, the car completely wrecked and tho
express matter destroyed.
Second ballots for members of the Coun
cils General were taken in tho cantons in
France at tho recent election. The returns
show the election of twelve Republicans and
thirty Conservatives. M. Laguorre, tho
Boulangist leader, was elected at La Rochelle.
In a fight at Atchin, Sumatra, precipita
ted by the Netherland troops, ninetoen
Dutchmen were killed and twenty-two
wounded. The natives havo grown embold
ened, and matters begin to assume a serious
aspect.
Many Cities and Tillages Dam
aged by Raging Waters.
Seven Dams Burst and Sweep
Away Houses and Bridges.
The flood gates were lifted during the late |
heavy rain in New Jersey, and, since the j
Johnstown disaster was fresh in the minds
of all, it would be hard to gauge the amount
of terror that existed in some parts of that (
State for a few hours. The streams were i
already running full, and a succession of
deluging showers in the afternoon and
evenmg caused them to overflow. The rain- 1
fall was especially heavy on the Orange
Mountains, and the result was that cities
like Newark, Plainfield and Elizabeth on the j
low land which received the mountain's i
streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams
and houses were washed away, trains stalled,
and other damage done. I
The greatest flood Plainfield, N. J., has |
ever known followed this heavy downpour
of rain, and wash-outs and broken dams
were the result.’ At 4 o’clock Codington’s
dam. on Stony Brook, gave way, and tho
large body of water thus freed carried I
away Codington’s icehouse and threatened
the Green Wiley Mills with destruction.
The damage along the course of this stream
itos heavy, foi many barns and other build
ings were washed away.
At 4:30 o’clock the great dam at Feltvillo
gave way, and the rush of the water down
the valley proved too much for tho little
Green Brook, so that the torrent divided and
part of it made its way to Cedar Brook. This I
brook flows through the choicest resident j
portion of Plainfield, and tho elegant houses
there were badly damaged. An fh fia in the
town covering three square miles was entire
ly submerged.
At 5:40 Tier’s dam in Green Brook gave
way, precipitating a great body of water
through the center of the town, This brook
divides the two counties of Somerset and
Union, aud where it rims through tho town
is built entirely over. When tho water, in a
great torrent, rushed down the stream and
found its way blocked by buildings it turned
into the street. Somerset street became a
raging fiood, and where the brook was
bridged the street was washed out badly.
Many small wood on buildings were washed
away and demolished.
Several houses situated along the brook
were flooded and the inhabitants compelled
to move in short order. Freucho’s mill aud
carriage factory were threatened with des
truction. All the cellars and first floors of
the stores in Somerset street were flooded and
the damage to property was great.
Most of tho houses were occupied when tho
water came rnshing down, and the greatest
alarm prevailed among tlie occupants, who
felt sure that the fate of the people of Johns-
to.vn was about to overtake them. The
screams of the women could bo heard above
the noise of the torrents, and scenes such as
have never been witnessed in that part of tho
country before were enacted.
So far as known, at least seven dams were
carried away. The last one to go was that
near Cadmus’s mill below Plainfield. The
mill was reported to be wrecked.
Bloomfield, N. J., especially its business
centre, is a wreck from tho great flood. The
second river dam at Fritz Mill, near the Dela
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Depot, has given way aud the land for two
miles around was submerged. Stores and
residences were flooded and thousands of dol
lars’worth of property destroyed. JohnP.
Scherff, druggist, lost $3000 worth of drugs
and other articles; Robert M. Stiles, feed
merchant, is also a heavy loser, while nearly
all on the north side of Glen wood avenue
have lost from $500 upward each. One or
two lives were reported lost.
The breaking of Fritz’s Dam on Parrow
Brook, near Orange, flooded aud entirely de
stroyed Eppley’s Park, v/hich was recently
laid out at a cost of $40,000. The damage in
Essex Comity will amount to over $100/000.
Reports from Morris County intimated that
even greater damage has been done there, v
The worst effects of the storm were felt in
ho
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
A Total of 9180,890,432 Collected
Daring the Last Fiscal Year. ,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason
has made the following preliminary rerort of
the operations of tho internal revenue ser
vice for the fiscal year ended June 30 last:
The total collections for the fiscal year
just ended were $130,895,432, against $124,-
826,475 the previous year, an increase of $6,-
568,957. The cost of collection for the fiscal
year just ended will aggregate about $4,185,-
000, exclusive of the amount expended for
the printing of internal revenue stamps,
which is paid from the appropriation made
to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The total receipts from the different ob
jects of taxation during the last fiscal year:
were as follows: From spirits, $74,-
313,206, an increase of $5,007,039
over the previous fiscal year; from to
bacco, $31,866,860, an ir'Tease of
$1,204,429; from fermented liquors,
$23,723,835, an increase of $399,617; from
oleomargarine. $894,248, an increase of $30,-.
108; from banks and bankers, $6214, an in
crease of $2011, and from miscellaneous. $91,-
0C9, a decrease of $74,248.
The following table shows the aggregate
collections of internal revenue by States dur
ing the last fiscal year:
Alabama.... $93,762
Arkansas.... 120,719
California. ..2,097,013
Colorado.... 294,116
Connecticut. 785,714
Florida 424,082
Georgia 436,119
Illinois 81,007,419
Indiana.... 5,788,236
Iowa 393,576
Kansas 183,433
Kentucky. .16,910,814
Louisiana.. 632,009
Maryland... 3,986,928
Massachut’s 2,424,536
Michigan.... 1,962,397
Minnesota.. 1,377,796
Missouri... .$7,780,603
Montana.... 162,610
Nebraska... 2,248,624
N.Hampsh’e 469,351
New Jersey. 4,319.(118
New Mexico 59,062
New York..15,648,673
N.Carolina. 2,467,150
Ohio 11,506,726
Oregon 236,521
P’nsylvania. 8,520,796
S. Carolina. 81,723
Tennessee... 1,066,835
Texas 228,117
Virginia 3,303,026
W. Virginia 782,063
Wisconsin.. 3,090,495
All 5n thel
mountains contained more water than
usual at this time of the year be- :
cause of the unprecedented rains ofj
the past few weeks. This downpour
overflowed thorn and atone time early in the
evening disasters were feared in Milbura,
Maplewood, Wyoming and South Orange, as
the reservoir of the Orange Water Works
was unusually foil, and it was feared it would
burst. In this reservoir the waters of several
mountain streams are dammed up for future
use, as drink water in Orange, East Orange,
West Orange and South Orange. It is 360
feet above high watermark, and about two
miles and a half west of South Orange, the
elevation of which is about 175 feet.
In South Orange several buildings, includ
ing the postofllce, were carried away, and
350 carrels of flour were washed out
of one storehouse. In Orange Valley
the water was up to tho second-story
windows, and great damage has been done
to tho stock iu tho numerous hat factories
there. People were compelled to paddle
around on planks and to swim in order to
reach places of safety on high ground.
Rutherford, N. J., was flooded badly and
large portions of three of the prominent
streets were washed out entirely.
Several prominent streets "at Cailstait,
N. J., were turned into mill-races and will bo
Impassible until repaired. Largo portions of
the sidewalks were carried away. Passaio
also came iu lor her share of the cloiiuoiust.
At Hackensack many of the prominent
thoroughfares were entirely washed out and
made impassable. The Hackensack River
had risen considerably and many of the cel
lars in the lower portion of the town were
flooded.
The pretty village of Ridgewood Park fared
badly. The finest streets in the town were
totally ruined by the torrents. Cellars were
flooded and great holes and ditches made in
several private gardens. The storm, on the
whole, was the heaviest that has visited those
points for twelve years.
Landslides and washouts occurred on near
ly all the main railroads in New Jersey and
the movement of trains was stopped.
TWO M0NAR0HS MEET.
in
THE LABOR WORLD.
Brooklyn has the biggest bakery.
Pittsburg has the biggest ax mill.
Boot and shoe manufacturers are busy*!
Window jflass factories will soon start up.i
The bakers of Leipzig have gone out on-
strike.
Electricity is used to haul coal out of
mines.
Great Britain has 1500 co-operatir# 1
unions.
England is complaining of the arrival of
pauper labor.
The European workingmen are opposed to-
standing armies.
One of the street car drivers in Dubuque,)
Iowa, is a woman.
Silk mannfacturing is growing very rap
idly in the United States.
The United Order of American Carpenter*!
is said to be increasing rapidly.
There is a wonderful increase in the num
ber of foundry and machine shops.
On June 30 288 furnaces were in blast in
the United States, and 293 ont of Mast.
A. J. Drexel, the New York banker,:
has founded an industrial college at Wayne,,
Penn.
Belfast flax weavers get $5 per week. I
Other workers make from fifty cents perl
week up. w
English iron workers are agitating “no-
Sunday work and five days per week with'
Monday off.” ,
English mill men who are obliged to
work on Sunday, are making an effort to-
have it stopped.
Spain allows children from nine to thir
teen to work five hours daily. From thir
teen to eighteen, eight hours.
Electrical coal, mining machines are
being introduced into English mines which
can do as much work as four men.
The Indianapolis stonecutters have suc
ceeded in carrying the eight-hour ■chedulo
[ter a struggle of fifteen months.
ity of Atlanta, Ga., has
has also.
There is a great udling off in the i
tion of laborers this year on account'
enforcement of tha Contract Labor law/
The only woman barber in Boston is Je.
L. Dodge. She is a New Hampshire girl
has followed her trade with success
1883.
Silk weaver’s wages have declined twent
per cent, in ten years, but they are said to l
earning nearly as much, because the ma
chinery is better.
Leading Paterson (N. J.) firms will estab
lish an industrial school for the education of
pupils in designing, dyeing and the weaving 1
of all textile work.
The Manufacturers’ Gazette, of Boston,;
says: “There is not another country on the.
face of the globe where workingmen are so 1
well provided for as in America.”
A wholesale vaccination contract was;
entered into recently by the Amoskeag cor
poration at the works, Manchester, Mass.,:
■aking -in the whole 8000 operatives at the-
expense of the company.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
las discharged 339 of its employes at Sacra-
nento, Cal., 100 being machinists. The
ifficials say that this action is taken to lessen
he expenses of the road.
The Carpenters’ Brotherhood is growing
■it an exceedingly rapid rate. It was only
founded four years ago,but there are already
t50 local unions, with a membership of 65,-
)00, scattered through 475 cities in the United
States and Canada.
Possibly the best organized painters*
union in tho country is the New York Pro
gressive Union, No. 1. It pays $6 a week to
disabled members and furnishes free medical
attendance. A member receives $25 on the
death of his wife, while in the event of his
own death his heirs receive $50.
There were numerous casualties during the
srection of the Paris Exposition buildings.
It is estimated that 300 workmen hurt their
’egs, 260 received severe injuries in the eyes
rom projecting timbers or bars of iron, 114
,vere scalded or severely burned and fifty had
fheir fingers cut off. Tho deaths from falls
are put down at twenty-four.
A Grand British Naval Review
Honor of Jtlmperor William.
The arrival of the Emperor William, of
Germany, at Portsmouth, England, was made
the occasion for one of the grandest, if not the
grandest, naval parades the world has ever
known. According to programme the Prince
of Wales at neon went outside the Solent in his
yacht, the Osborne, to await the arrival of
the German monarch on board the imperial 1
yacht Kohenzollern. The weather was su
perb. Outside tho German squadron was
sighted, and the great English men-of-war
took up their positions.
As the Osborne approached the Hohsnzol-
lern the Prince of W ales signaled his greetings
to the Kaiser, to which the latter responded.
The Osborne then accompanied the Hohenzol-
lern with her escort through the lines of war
vessels drawn up in parade to receive her.
Every vessel, both German iw 1 English, was
in holiday attire, and the spectacle, as tho
German fleet steamed slowly through the
narrow aisle left between the gayly-decked
warships—the flower of the British navy—
was imposing in the extreme.
As the imperial yacht passed each ship
she was saluted by loud huzzas from the tars
spread out upon the yards or ranged upon the
deck, followed by the booming of the ship’s
guns, which shot out their tongues of flame
again and again until the Hohenzollern was
hidden by the smoke. Then other voices took
up the welcoming huzzas and other cannon
boomed forth thunderous greetings.
Throngn this gantlet of fire and smoke
the Kohenzollern passed with the iron-
elads Deutschland, Kaiser, Prcusser
and Friedrich dor Grosso and tha
frigate Zieten in her wake. At
Trinity Pier the Kaiser disembarked and
proceeded to Osborne, where he was em
braced by his grandmother, the Queen. The
Emperor dined with the Queen at Osborne
that evening.
The spectacle attracted to the shore of the So-
lent hundreds of thousands of people, while
the water was literally covered with every
conceivable form of craft bearing sight
seers, most of which,as did all of the war ves
sels and the transatlantic liners serving as ex
cursion steamers, displayed the German flag.
THE MARKETS.
31 NEW YORK.
Beeves 3 57^® *
Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 @45 00 ;
Calves, common to prime... 2 50 @ 5 50 j
Sheep
Lambs
Hogs—Live .................
Dressed.
25 @ 5 37J4
37J^@ 7 00
60 @ 5 00
7 <3 S*
Flour—City Mill Extra
4 40 4 60 i
Patents
4 85 @ 6 15
Wheat—No. 2 Red
87KG5
8794
Rye—State
53 @
54*
Barley—Two-rowed State...
80 (<$
87
Corn—Ungraded Mixed
42*®
Oats—No. 1 White
— <&
38 ,
Mixed Western
26 @
29 j
Hay—No. 1
85 @
95 j
Straw—Long Rye
65 ®
75 i
Lard—Citv Steam
— @ 6.10c:
Butter—Elgin Creamery....
17 %
17H
Dairy, fair to good.
13 ®
16
West. Im. Creamery
10 &t
14
Factory
9 <SS
12*
Cheese—State Factory
6tfC<$
8*
Skims—Light
7*®
9
Western
— (20
7 j
Eggs—State and Penn
15 !
Great alarm is caused in the City of
Mexico, by the terrible ravages being made
throughout the country, and especially in the
low-lying districts, by the yellow fever. The
mortality increases in number every day.
BUFFALO.
Steers—Western 3 25
Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25
Lambs—Fail’ to Good 4 50
Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 70
Flour—Family 5 00
Wheat—No. 2 Northern —
Corn—No. 3, Yellow —
Oats—No. 2,White —
Barley—No. 1 Canada —
boston.
Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 6 10 6 40
Corn—Steamer Yellow. 46 485
Gate—No. 2 White 30 <j§ 40
Rye-State 65 @ 70
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef—Dressed weight 5 <g 5}
Sheep—Live weight 4J
Lambs 7
Hogs—Northern — @ 55
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour—Penn, family 400 (3 4 25
Wheat-No. % Red. July.... 86 @
Corn—No. ^ Mixed, July... 44 &
Oats—Ui_ '
Rom. _
16*2 x f