The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, June 10, 1892, Image 2
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[ Coventry Rises Up Against Clergy
/ and Tithe Rates.
A cablegram from Coventry, England,
■ays: This antique town, rendered famous
chiefly .on “Peeping Tom’s” curiosity, in
dulged in an anti-tax riot the other day.
For years farmers and property owners
have protested against the tithe tax, which
goes toward the maintenance of the clergy
of the Cnnrch of England. No matter how
poor the crops the church must have a tenth
of the valuation of a full average produc
tion.
•' This year the church tax gather has bad
a hard time in this vicinity. W hen the le
gal sixty days expires the courts send bail
iffs, or deputy sheriff.--, to levy on the farms.
When tne sheriffs descended on one farm
l.gt week they found that the owner had
greased all his pigs, so that they slipped
through the hands of the bailiffs at every at
tempt, much to the delight of a crowd that
witnessed the spectacle. The sheriffs gave
up the chase in disgust.
To-day goods which had been seized were
exposed for sale in the market place.
Thousands gathered to the scene, and the
mob showed a determination to prevent the
■ale if possible.
The auctioneer was a man from Birming
ham, as no local auctioneer could be pro
cured for the dangerous undertaking. The
auctioneer startea to put up the goods, and
was just opening his mouth to state the con
ditions of sale, when an egg, old enough to
vote, hit him square in the teeth.
The police closed around the auctioneer,
and after getting rid as far as possiole of
his impromptu lunch that individual made
smother effort to address the crowd.
“Gentlemen,” he criei, but he got no
further. This time it was a cabbage stalk
which struck him on the nose, which began
to bleed. The auctioneer had ha i enough,
and, notwithstanding the protestations of
tithe collectors and police, who promised to
protect him from any further violence, he
made a break to get out of the market
place.
Meantime the mob scattered through the
streets, some of them, whose goods and chat
tels had been seized, recapturing the articles
and taking them home again.
Mexican Indians Revolt.
A telegram from Guaymas, Mexico; says
that 200 Mayo Indians rose in rebellion and
attacked the towns of Naojoa and San
ignacie, on the Mayo Kiyer, district Ala-
mas. They marched against the town of
Ban Pedro.* but failed to attack it. The
Mayor of Naojoa was killed, and the princi
pal places of business were sacked. At San
Ignacio the Chief of Police and his brother
were killed. Several inhabitants were se
verely wounded. The inhabitants of the
town bravely rallied, repulsing the Indians,
killing fourteen.
Governor Torres was notified immediately
and the State troops were sent in conjunc
tion with the Federal soldiers to pursue the
insurgents. The Federal troops, consisting
of a portion of the Twenty-fourth Battalion
and the Eleventh Regiment, commanded in
person by General Banda'.a, commander of
the Department, and General Otero, Chief
of the Mayo section, intends to make a vigor
ous campaign against the Indians. General
Hernandez is in charge of the State troops.
The Mayo Indians heretofore have been
peaceable, and the uprising is a great sur
prise. It is feared taey have made an alli
ance with the Yaquis, who are concentra
ting all their forces for the prolonged fight.
Unless the Mayos lay down their arms on
the approach of the troops a decree of ex
termination will be promulgated against
them, the same as the Yaquis. The same
advice says at a recent engagement wfth the
Yaquis near Los Pilares, Chicohuilo, Yaqui,
the chief, was killed and two of his children
were captured.
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''■^^’''iSunday at the World’s Fair.
The House of Representatives, at Wash
ington, went into Committee of the Whole
on the Sundry Civil bill (Mr. Lester in the
chair) the pending amendments being those
-relating to the closing of the World’s Fair,
atChicago, on Sunday;
Mr. Butler submitted an amendment pro
hibiting the exhibition of any nude or par
tially nude painting or statue. Ruled out
on a point o{ order.
Mr. Scott offered an amendment prohibit
ing any lottery or game of chance on the
fan* grounds or within one mile thereof, and
that no article usti ip «ucb games shall be
■old fn the Exposition.
The vote then recurred on the amendment
of W. A. Stone; Republican, of Penn •
sylvania, providing that no portion of the
money should be paid to Exposition man-
'agement unless they could file an agreement
with the Secretary of the Treasury closing
the Exposition on Sunday, an i further that
no intoxicating liquors be soli at any time
on the grounds. The vote result,id in ayes,
twenty-seven; noes, 122.
Mr. Stone demanded tellers. The prop
osition providing that the Government ex
hibition shall not be open to the public on
Sunday was adopted by 141 to thirty-six.
Mr. Atkinson, Republican, of Pennsyl
vania, offered a proposition that no intox
icating liquors shall at any time be sold in
any Government building. This was agreed
to by ninety-four to seventy-four.
An Ocean Steamer in Chicago.
The Wergenland, the first steamship to
make the trip from Norway to Chicago, ar
rived in port at nooa the other day. Thou
sands were gathered along the docks to wel
come the foreign craft, and three steamers
loaded with enthusiastic Norwegians met the
Wergenland twelve miles out and accom
panied har to the city-
The Wergenland left Bergen, Norway,
with a cargo of fish and cod liver oil, and
will return loaded with provisions. The trip
is an experiment, and if it proves financially
successful will be the beginning of direct
traffic between Norway and Chicago.
Indiana Prohibitionists.
The Indiana Prohibitionists met at Indian
apolis and put a full State ticket in the field
beaded by the Rev. Aaron Wirth, of Jayt
County, tor Governor. The platform adopted
declares for prohibition, for Government
control of railroads and telegraphs, for ro
tnoval of the tariff from necessaries, against
alien landownership, for more rigid immi
gration and naturalization laws, for election
of Senators by popular vote, for postal sav
ings banks,'for prohibition of grain and stock
•peculation, and for service pensions.
Five Hundred Deaths Daily.
The city of Serinagur, in Cashmere, cele ’
brated for its manufacture of shawls, stfks
and attar of roses, is terribly ravaged by
cholera. The death number about 50D daily.
The city is like a lazaretto, and the dead art
beroei by scores in order to prevent their
bodies from adding to the horrors of the
situation.
SIX PERSONS DROWNED.
A Waterspout Bursts Over an Ohio
Village and a Dam Breaks.
A waterspout burst over Kinsman, a small
■village twelve miles northeast of Niles,
Ohio, on the Pymatuning River, drowning
six persons and destroying buildings, stock
and crops.
The water fell in torrents from 4 o’clock
until a few minutes after »}, and the small
river overflowed its banks. The farmers
did not flee, thinking there was no danger,
and all would bave been safe had not a dam
about two miles above the village broken
without warning.
J. B. Robin’s house was on the brink of
the river. He and bis wife and two children
were eating break.ast when the flood came.
It is presumed that they started to flee, but
too late. K. Stewart and sou were in their
bam. whica was carried away. Their house
withstood the torrent and Mrs. Stewart wit
nessed the drowning of her husband and son.
J. D. Campbell and wife were carried down
stream but lodged on an abutment of a bridge
and were rescusd.
The bodies of the six drowned were found
in a large pile of driftwood which reached
nearly across the rives. Many horses and
cattle wrre swept away and the loss is esti
mated at |20 ) WX).
Large orders are a'tout oemg placed it*
lake ship yards for craft to supply the in-
■cre^siaz demand for lake tonnazeu
THE HEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.
Patrick Fitzpatrick was hanged at
Pittsburg, Penn., for the murder of Samuel
Early. It was the fint execution in Alle
gheny County in eight years.
Tbe People’s Bank at Sea Isle City, N. J.,
closed its doors for*lack of business. The
officers of the bank announca that the de
positors will be paid in fall.
Mrs. Ralph Notes, of Woedsville, N. H.,
went suddenly insane and drank’ a strong
solution of aconite. She then forced
her two children to partake of the mixture.
Then she cut the children’s throat with a
razor. The mother is dead and the children
fatally hurt.
After an absence of exactly twenty-five
weeks the United States cruiser Chicago,
flazsbip of Acting Rear Admiral J. G.
Walker, returned to the harbor of New
York.
The Dorflinger glass works at White
Mills, near Honesdale, Penn., were almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000.
Robert J. Godfret, of Pittsburg, Penn.,
Treasurer of the Supreme Lodge of the
Order of Solon, is charged witn embezzling
$14,000.
The Prohibitionists of Vermont held a
State Convention at Rutland. E. L. Allen,
Df Fairhaven, was nominated for Governor.
The Democratic State Convention of
New Jersey assembled at Trenton and in
structed the delegates to Chicago for Cleve
land.
Two peddlers from Newburg, N. Y..
while walking on the tracks were struck and
killed by the Peekskill way freight, north
bound, near the little tunnel above there.
South and West.
Walter Smith, colored, who assaulted a
white girl, was taken from the jail at Cabot,
Arkand lynched
The car drivers’ strike at New Orleans,
La., assumed serious proportions, and riot
ing occurred all over the city. The Mayor
swore in over 150 citizans as officers.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Tinoham and the
nine-year-old daughter of Charles Pinckney
were drowned at Aransas Pass, Texas.
The Territorial Convention of the Repub
lican party was held at South McAlester,
Indian Territory. The delegates elected to
the Minneapolis Convention ar3 as follows:
Ridge Pascol, a full-blooded Cherokee, who
heads the delegates, of Tahlequah; John S.
Hammer,of Ardmore. One ot the alternates
is a colored man. The delegates were unin
structed, but are for Harrison.
At the Third Party Convention at Char
lotte, N. C., it was resolved to present the
name of L. L. Polk to the National Conven
tion at Omaha, Neb., as a Presidential can
didate.
Fire destroyed a number of mills in
Spokane, Wasnington, and caused $230,000
damage. Three men were injured and two
perishef.
A mob attacked the jail at Dallas, Texas,
in order to lynch a colored man who killed
a policeman. Two of them were shot and
the others desisted.
The Kentucky Democratic State Conven
tion met at Louisville and elected an unin
structed delegation to the National Conven
tion at Chicago.
At the Washington Democratic State
Convention in Vancouver all the eight dele
gates chosen for Chicago were Cleveland
men, and the name of the ex-President was
loudly cheered. No instructions were given.
It was estimated that at least 10,000 peo
ple were rendered hornless by floods on the
lowlands of the St. Francis and White Riv
ers. Thirty-two lives in all have been lost
in the Arkansas bottoms. Governor Fifer
of Illinois, issued a proclamation calling for
money, food and clothing for the flood suf
fers. The damage-in Madison, St. Charles
and St, Claire Counties will foot up 111,000,-
000.
The Democrats of Colorado held their
State Convention at Denver. The delegates
to the National Convention are unin
structed, but all of them are known to be
pronounced Hill men.
The Methodist General Conference at
Omaha, Neb., came to an end.
The “silver anniversary,” the twenty-
fifth, celebrating the admission of Nebraska
as a State, was continued in Lincoln.
The Democratic State Convention of
South Dakota assembled at Yankton and
delegates to the Chicago Convention were
chosen. They go uninstructed.
A detachment of the Fifth United States
Cavalry visited the Cherokee Strip, Okla
homa Territory, to stop the quarrying of
rock there and to confiscate the plant. Tha
troops were ordered to the strip by Presi
dent Harrison.
The street 9&t strike in Now Orleans, La.,
was settled by arbitration and resulted in a
victory for the union. According to the
agreement none but union men are to be
employed, excepting the few at work before
May 18.
The Idaho Democratic State Convention
met at Pocatello and elected delegates to the
National Convention. The resolutions favor
the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and
recommend that the plank be inserted in the
Naticnal platform. The delegates are unin
structed.
E. C. Montgomery, President of the Ger
man National Bank, a wealthy and well-
known citizen, was snot and instantly killed
at Lincoln, Neb., by W. H. Irvine, a for
mer resideut of Lincoln, now of Salt Lake
City, and a member of the Utah Territorial
Legislature. The murdered man was toe
friendly with Irvine’s wife.
The Tennessee Democratic State Conven
tion was held at Nashville. The delegates
to Chicago were instructed to vote for Oleve
land as long as his name was before the
Convention.
Washington.
The executors of the will of the late Gen
eral George W. Cullom. of New York City,
called on Secretary Elkins and presented
him a check for $250,000, the amount of a
bequest made by General Cullom for the
erection of a memorial hall at West Point
Military Academy. Secretary Elkins for
mally accepted the bequest.
A caucus of the Democratic members of
the House deciaed that the remaining appro
priation bills shall be disposed of in their
regular order before other bills are taken up.
Sir Julian Pauxcefofe, the British
Minister, and Lady Paunceforte gave a re
ception at the British Legation, Washing
ton, in honor of the seventy-second anni
versary of the birthday of Queen Victoria.
The United States Treasury balance is
stated at $27,089,844, made up entirely oi
deposits in National banks, subsidiary silver
and minor coin.
A new commercial treaty has been nego
tiated between Austria Hungary and the
United States on the basis of the reciprocity
clause of the McKinley bill.
Commissioner Raum has asked the Ap
propriations Committee of the House for a
deficiency appropriation of $7,000,000 on ac
count of pension payments for the remain
der of the fiscal year.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Association of American Physicians ad
journed. after sitting three days in the
Army Medical Museum building, Wasning
ton, under the Presidency of Dr. Henry M.
Lyman, of Chicago. Dr. Alfred L. Loomis,
of New York, was elected President.
THE FLOOD CALAMITY.
Greatest Desolation Ever Seen
in the South and West.
Foreign.
Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians
fought near Los Pilros, Mexico. Seym pri
vates and two officers were killed. The
Yaquis were dispersed.
President Diaz has appointed Senor
Matias Romero, the present Minister to the
United States, Minister of Finance. No (
successor to Senor Romero as Minister to
the United States will be appointed at
present.
Sip. Alexander Campbell, Lieutenant-
Governor of Ontario, Canada, is dead. He
was the son of the late James Campbel’, M.
D.. and was born in Yorkshire, England, in
1822.
A commercial modus vivendi has been
arranged between Spain and France.
Queen Victoria's seventy-third birth
day was celebrated in Loudon by a parade.
The fetes in honor of the golden wedding of
the King and Queen began in Denmark’.
Four soldiers were fatally injured at
Chalons, France, by an explosion of gun
powder. They, with two otners, were con
veying a chest of gunpowder to the camp
firing grounds, and on the way stopped to
rest, sitting down on the chest Without
thinking of the powder they began smoking
cigarettes, and almost immediately the ex
plosion occurred.
Hundreds of Lives Lost and Mil
lions of Property Destroyed.
From the very source of the Father of
Waters down to the Louisiana delta the story
is one of desolation. Farms ruined, houses
swept away, live stock drowned, railroads
idle, human lives in danger—such is the his
tory of the big fiood. Beginning at St.
Clond, north of Minneapolis, following the
Mississippi down to Keokuk, Iowa, where the
great Egyptian levee has yielded,
flooding thousands of acres of the
richest farm lands on the continent; thence
in succession passing tne cities of Quincy
and Alton, in Illinois, where the work of
the wind and water has been disastrous, the
first great stage of the desolate journey ends
at St. Louis, Mo. It is impossible to make
an estimate of the damage to property
in that city and vicinity, except to say
that millions will express it, and that
the loss embraces untold acres of growing
crops destroyed, the wreck of several vil
lages, injury"to factories, the stoppage of
trains, and the demoralization of business.
Devastation hovers over a big and prosper
ous manufacturing district. Already the
losses and damages turn over $1,000,000,and
hundreds of men are in forced idleness.
Merely to name towns and villages in
Missouri and Illinois that have suffered
from the inundation, would make a list of
appalling length. The truth is that the de
struction is so widespread and overwhelm
ing in its character, as to be difficult not
only of description, but of realization.
On the Missouri, too, and its tributaries,
the waters are abroad to a greater extent
than ever before known. Throughout the
Dakotas farms are under water, bridges
have been carried away and railroad tracks
undermined. The horror at Sioux City,
Iowa, is still engaging attention, and the
full story of the deluge has not yet
been told. Even yet hundreds of peo
ple are closely following the receding
floods, searching for their ruined homes
and missing relatives. Weeks and perhaps
months will be required to repair the havoc
caused by the flood, and it will probably
never be known exactly how many perished
in the torrent. The loss by water even when
the buildings were not carried away, was
very large. Everything is soaked or ruined,
or smashed by the waves or by the timbers
hurled along by the current.
Down through Nebraska the Missouri and
its tributaries "are on the rampage. The
Platte is especially turbulent, and all along
its course through the State until it empties
into Big Muddy at Plattsmouth it has left
desolation on either side.
At Kansas City the Missouri Rive, ia
higher than at any time since 1844. The
town of Harlem is left without a soul of its
populace, and many houses have been carried
from their foundations.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:
Ten thousand people along the banks of
the Mississippi nave been rendered homeless
by the ravages of the flood between this
city and Cairo, 111. In some parts the river
ranges from ten to twenty miles in width.
The river runs are sweeping away homes,
drowning stock and submerging bottom
lands. Five hundred thousand acres of
growing crops have been destroyed. As the
water begins to go down an estimate is
being made of the actual damage done, and
it is believed that half a million will
not cover it. There are now in Har
lem, Argentine, Armourdala and West Kan
sas over 1000 houses which have been
deserted. It is impossibly to make more
than a rough estimate,but it is believed that
the damage, actual and resultant, will
amount to fully $5,000,00') in this immediate
vicinity. In tbe fiosded district probably
1500 square miles are submerged to an ex
tent which renders it impossible for the far
mers to raise crops. At least 15,000 persons
have been thrown out of employment.
The following Louisiana parishes are at
fected by crevasse water: East Carroll, Mad
ison, Tensas, Concordia, Morehouse, Richland,
Caldwell, Catahoula, St. Charles, St. John,
Plaquemines, Assumption, La Fourche,
Caddo and Bossier. The large arsvasses now
running are two on the LafoRfahe bayou
and two on the Mississippi proper.
A telegram from Shreveport. La*, says:
The whole country above here, with few ex
ceptions, is one sheet of water, and the flood
sufferers have taken refuge in houses, barns
and gin-houses, from which they are await
ing succor. Despatches have been received
reporting a big rise at Garland
City and advising the committee at
Benson lb spare no pains to hold
the levees. At 3.30 o’clock in the morning
the Dan Nicholson levee on the Bossier side,
a few miles below this city, gave away at a
point where no danger was anticipated. Tbe
guards were seated In a store near by, aha
the store and contents were carried away.
Fifty armed citizens cut the levee at Ot
tumwa to save their property. The cutting
was calculated to injure the property of the
Water Company, and the company appealed
to the City Marshall, but he was powerless.
The Water Company’s superintendent at
tempted to stop the men, but he withdrew
when a revolver was levelled at his head. A
dike was soon opened in three places, allow
ing the water to escape.
The Secretary of War has authorized the
Chief of Engineers to use Government boats
upon all Western rivers to save human life
where residents of the flooded districts are in
danger.
Governor Holes, of Iowa, after investiga
ting the flooded districts resolved to issue a
proclamation inviting the people of Iowa
and the country generally to contribute for
the relief of the destitute people. The proc
lamation will state that $200,000 is needed
for this purpose.
A telegram from Castoria, Ark., stated
that 1500 men, women and children were
water bound there and asked that a boat be
sent to their rescue.
The destitution among the flood sufferers,
white as well as colored, between Little
Rock, Ark., and the mouth of the Arkansas
River, is appalling. Pine Bluff and its vi
cinity is covered with thoqSands of refugees.
The cotton crop all along the river is totally
destroyed, and it is hard to tell on what the
farmers will live this summer. The Gov
ernment boat C. B. Reece supplied 15'J0
half-famished people on seventeen different
landings with provisions furnished by the
citizens of Little Rock Hundreds o: peo
ple were taken up along the trip, and put off
on dry places. At Eagle’s Landing 120 peo
ple were found living in three houses. Two
men were seen drowning by the crew, and
four were rescued from housetops, wuere
they for hours found refuge. A flotilla
of Government boats is continually on the
river bringing succor to the helpless victims
of the flood.
The entire Illinois Valley is desolate.
Farms that are usually being worked at
this time of the year are now under several
feet of water. The farmers have aban
doned the hope of being able to get a crop
of corn in this year, as the season will be
too late. It will take three or four weeks of
the most favorable weather to get the water
off the farms and the ground will be too
wet to work.
The American Red Cross Association has
decided to receive no more relief for distribu
tion in Russia. They recommend to the
generous people who wish to give that they
sond all relief direct to the destitute cities
and towns in the flooded districts of the
West and South of our own country.
A FAMILY LYNCHING.
The Lynchee AVorkecI lor the Lynch
er anil Helped Him Do the Job.
An extraordinary murder and lynching
>ccurred at Bastrop, La.; the other day.
Dae man committed the murder and one
nan did the lynching, with the assistance of
:be murderer.
Schambliss Brigham, manager for Colonel
Seorge C. Phillips, wno owns a plantation
an Island de SiardL while in the field *v*s
shot dead from ambush by an old colored
man. The murderer then walked to tbe
plantation residence, summoned Colonel
Phillips and told him that he had Killed
Brigham and wanted to be hanged for it.
-oionel Phillips put a rope around the man’s
aeck and he was soon swinging in a death
struggle from the limb of a tree. No motive
is assigned for the murder, and it is thought
that the murderer was insane.
Great danger to the cities of New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City is believed to exist
in the barges loaded with high explosives
anchored IB the harbor near Ellis Island.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is hav
ing an eiacrate display made for the Expo
sition.
Insurance aggregating more than $3,.
000,000 is now carried on the World’s Fair
buildings.
Chile will be represented at the Fair, re
gardless of the tact that its Government
made no appropriation.
An association has been formed in Ger
many to organize excursion parties to visit
the World’s Fair and incidentally Niagara
Falls, and a number of the larger cities.
Many relics of the Cabots, the early Eng
lish voyagers to America, will be exhited at
the Exposition by a committee formed for
that purpose in Bristol, England, where the
Cabots lived.
A project is being perfected at Mel
bourne, Australia, whereby a large party of
artisans of various crafts may be enabled to
visit the Exposition at Chicago for study and
pleasure combined.
General J. H. Brinker, one of the al
ternate National Commissioners from Mis
sissippi, has in his possession, and will ex
hibit at the Exposition, five bales of cotton
that was raised by slave labor in 1862-3.
The $60,000 World’s Fair appropriation
which Greece has made will be devoted in
large part to the preparation for exhibit of
reproductions in cast of the many famous
specimens of ancient Greek art, now owned
by the Government.
At the special request of the Empress of
Germany the Princess Frederick Karl, aunt
of the Emperor, has accepted the presidency
of the women’s commission, which will co
operate with tne Board of Lady Managers
in promoting the women’s exhibit at the
Fair.
A glass punch bowl, made by the glass-
blowers of Cork in 1825, and presented to
Daniel O’Connell, the famous Irish patriot,
will appear in the exhibit from Cork. One
side of the howl bears O’Connell’s initials
and tbe other a representation of Cork, as it
then existed.
Visitors to the Exposition will be able to
go comfortably and expeditiously from one
part of the grounds to another and obtain
advantageous views of the buildings. They
may do this either in electric boats through
the lagoons, or by the intramural elevated
electric railway. *
The Illinois Woman’s Exposition Board
contemplates a novel exhibit as part of its
work, in tne form of a model home. The idea
is to show the ideal conditions that should
surround a woman’s life in the household
and demonstrate the facilities that can be
provided at a moderate cost.
Great Britain’s building at the Exposi
tion will be a typical specimen of a pictur
esque, half-timbered English home of the
time of Henry VIIL, or about the period
which the World’s Fair will commemorate.
It will be ninety feet square,two stories high,
and built ot red brick, ueavy timber and yel
lowish terra cotta, with red tiling for the
roof.
A $50,000 monument to Columbus, de
signed by Sculptor Howard Kretscnmar, of
Chicago, will be erected in Lake Front Park,
which has been termed the “Gateway to the
Exposition.” It will be a statue in bronze
twenty feet high, surmounting a granite
pedestal thirty leet high. The monument
will form the design for souvenirs of the
Exposition.
The New York World’s Fair Board has
▼isitel Chicago, inspected the Exposition
grounds and buildings, and inquired care-
tuliy into the progress of the work of prep
aration for tne great fair Tbe members
of the board expressed their astonishment
and enthusiasm over the magnificent build
ings, and the. vastjimount ot work that has
been accomplished. .
*' Tn th^women’s exhibit from South Da
kota will be a life size statue of a Sioux In
dian maiden. Tbe subject was Minnehaha,
the eighteen year old daughter of Sitting
Bear, woo was prominent iu the engagement
with General Custer’s troops on tne Little
Big Horn. Minnehaha feu in love a Lieu-
tenantin the United States Army at Fort
Sully and died of a broken heart.
1 Dr. N. G. Blalock, President of the
Washington State World’s Fair Board, an
nounces that there will be celebrated at the
Washington building a “watermelon day.”
He has set apart 100 be devoted en
tirely to the raising of tfljK melons, and he
f realises to take a train IcK of them to the
'air and give them away^itb the purpose
of convincing people that a? a water-melon
growing State W asbington stands first.
1 The Exposition probably will not have an
Eiffel tower or anything'approximating it
in height, except the elevation to which the
captive balloons will ascend. There will be,
however, three observation towers about
300 feet high for the accommodation of
visitors who waut to take a bird’s-eye view
of the grounds and buildings. These towers
will be of elaborate design and beautiful in
appearance, and will cost about
each.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Gladstone has become a frequenter of
the London theatres
General Miles is enthusiastic over the
use of bicycles in the army.
All attempts to induce Rubinstein, the
pianist, to visit America have failed.
General N. P. Banks gives a good deal
of attention to gardening in his old age.
Composer Arthur Sullivan has en
tirely recovered Irom his recent illness.
Queen Victoria has made the Khedive of
Egypt a Knight of the Order of the Bath.
Herbert Spencer was tendered a nomi
nation for Alderman in London, but he de
clined it
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, is
supposed to be the best dressed and most
polished man in tbe Senate.
Cclonel Steadman, who has just been
made Commander of the Grand Army, De
partment of Iowa, is only forty-three years
old.
It is said that Rev. Dr. Con well, of Phila
delphia, bad a law practice yielding a rev
enue of $20,000 a year before he entered the
ministry.
Senator Barbour and Senator Plumb
are said to have both been killed by the
over-work of answering letters of their con
stituents.
Though Senator Berry, of Arkansas, has
but one leg, he is an expert billiard player
and gets about the table as nimbly as his
opponent.
Jay Gould carries in his pureo a ten-cent
piece which he declares was at one time all
that stood between him and a dead-broke
condition.
Emperor William, of Germany, is bein»
severely criticised tor his wasteful personal
extravagance in the face of the prevailing
distress among his subjects.
Senator Hiscock, of New York, is fond
of athletic sports and as a sprint runner has
done good work in the Columbia Club, of
which he was at one time the most fleet-
footed member.
John R. Buchtel, founder of Buchtel
College, die 1 a lew days since at his home
in Akron, Ohio, from paralysis. He was
seventy-two years old. During his life he
made gilts to Buchtel College amounting to
$500,000
The Albert Medal of the Society of Arts
(England) has been awarded to Thomas A.
Edison for his services in electric lighting,
the teltgraph and the telephone. Among
former holders ot the medal w ere Faraday,
Liebig, De Lesseps, Bessemer and Helm
holtz.
Governor Seay, of Oklahoma, is a very
popu.ar man in the Territory. He is a
bachelor, “nigh onto fifty,” as he says him
self. and weighs 200 pounds. His face is
beardless and his voice a high falsetto. In
the everyday talk of the Territory “the
Governor is no.sloueh,” and everybody likes
him.
Queen Victoria being seventy-three
years old the other day, the customary ob
servances in honor of the event took place
in Windsor. As usual on the royal birtnday
the bestowal of honors by Queen Victoria on
favored subjects is made public. Prince
George of Wales receives the titles of
Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron
Killarney. Sir Julian Pauncsfote, the Brit
ish Minister at Washington, receives the
Grand Cross of tbe Bath, and Chief Justice
Lacosie. of Quebec, is knighted.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The League has sanctioned Sunday ball.
Boston’s team is tbe same as at the start.
The Bostons lack the weight and strength
for a hard fight.
Boyle has caught all of New York’s
championship games.
Brouthers, of Brooklyn, did not strike
out iu nineteen games.
Of the Western teams Louisville shows
the most dash and snap.
Harry W right says Corkhill,of Pittsborg,
s the king of outfielders.
Hamilton, of Philadelphia, still leads the
League players in base-running.
Anson thinks Staley, of the Bostons, is
the best pitcher he has seen this year.
Yale’s baseball team defeated Princeton's
at New Haven by a score of one to nothing.
The Chicagos won thirteen straight vic
tories and then were defeated by the Pitts
burg.
“Pretzel” Gktzein, the once famous
pitcher of the champion Detroit club, has
been assigned to St. Louis.
Breitenstein, the phenomenal St Louis
pitcher, measures almost six feet, and weighs
180 pounds. The phenom is also red-headed.
Browning, of Louisville, has signed with
the Cincinnati club. He will play left field,
O’Neil being laid off on account of sickness.
Captain Striker, the second baseman of
the St. Louis Club, has been laid off for
poor work. Crook has been appointed
Captain and will play second base.
Good judges pronounce Kittredge, of
Chicago, the best catcher in the business.
They say his work is twenty per cent, better
than Ewing’s was when Buck was in lii«
prime.
John M. Ward, of Brooklyn, who is one
of the most observant ball players in the
country, says that so far this season he has
noticed a better attendance and a healthier
interest in the game than has been the case
for a long time.
The sale of Burns to Pittsburg by the
Chicagos means that Canavan is a success
at second base. Anson would never have
let Burns go otherwise, as he intended to
play Dahlen at second and keep Tom in his
old position if the youngster failed to come
up to expectations.
Jennings, of Louisville, was born to play
short stop. He goes to the park in the
morning or early afternoon and practices
until either Chapman or Pfeffer compels him
to stop. He plays ball for the delight it
affords him and is anxious to become the
greatest short stop of the world. One of his
prettiest accomplishments is throwing from
any position. The ball speeds from his baud
as if fired from a rifle.
“Hub” Collins, the popular BrodKTyn
outfielder, died unexpectedly a few days ago
of typhoid fever. He was born in Louis
ville, Ky., about thirty years ago, and was
at one time the crack second baseman of the
American Association. He never fully re
covered from the injuries received in a col
lision with Burns two years ago. The
Brooklyn baseball players held a meeting at
Eastern Park and took suitable action on tbe
death of their comrade.
record of the league clubs.
Reri Per
ct.! Clubs. Won. Lost, ct
Clubs. Won. Lost,
Boston 23 8 . 742
Brooklyn...20 9 . 690
Chicago... .17 13 .567
Cincinnati.18 14 .563
Cleveland.. 16 14 .533
P ittsburg.. 17 15 .531
New YorklS 15
Louisville. 15 15
Philad’Jp’al3 18
Washing’nll 17
St. Louis. 9 23
Baltimore. 8 21
.500
.500
.419
.393
.281
.276
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The crop of maple sugar iu Vermont this
season approximated one and ^three-quarter
million pounds, ninety-five per cent, ot which
larized above eighty degrees, so that the
unty paid will be about $30,000.
col
bci
The Western floois are subsiding.
There are no millionaires in South Da
kola.
Indians are again committing outrages in
Arizona.
The Irish factions are still warring among
themselves.
Germany has accepted our invitation to
the international silver conterence.
The rice crop of this year will be fifty per
cent, larger than that of last year.
Frosts and snow injured the fruit crops
in Illinois, Connecticut and Vermont.
The two branches of the Colored Metho
dist Church have consolidated as one.
Cotton is improving in demand, but
prices continue below a remunerative poin \
Florida is trying to raise a $200,000
World’s Fair fund by popular subscriptions.
Quebec, Canada, has cut her annual
allowance of #500,000 to charities to $355,-
7:5.
Sixteen Astrakhan sheep will be sent
from Persia to this country for experimental
purposes.
Russia has abandoned her proposed mili
tary maneuvers owing to the low ebb of her
finances.
The house in which Columbus lived, on
the Via Diritto Ponticelli, Rome, Italy, is
being restored.
The probable shortage of the Western
wheat crop is averaged at 40,000,003 or 5 ),-
000,000 bushels.
The floods in the West and the heavy
rains in the Mississippi Valley seriously in-
terruptei trade.
Mud fever has broken out among the
horses in the mud girt region ot Iowa, and
numerous deaths have occurred.
To the Westinghouse Electric Company
has been awarded the contract for furnish
ing the electric lighting on the World’s Fair
grounds in Chicago.
Sylvester Silver, a museum freak,
twenty years old, well known throughout
tbe country, died in Baltimore, Md.. the
other day. He weighed fifty pounds.
A dispatch from Lagos, Africa, says that
the Jebus made a sacrifice of 200 people, in
cluding manv maidens, in order to propiti
ate the gods prior to battling with the Brit
ish.
A concession of 1,000,000 acres of fine
farm land in the State of Chihuahua, Mex
ico, has been granted to a Mormon colony.
Five hundred taalilies from Utah will taKe
possession.
' DENMARK REJOICING.
Golden Wedding Celebration of King
Christian and Queen Louise.
The celebration of the golden wedding of
the King and Queen of Denmark began at
Copenhagen when the members of the royal
family attended Holy Communion at the pal
ace of Amalienborg. The Empress of Russia,
who arrived that day with the Czar, has
S rocured a unique and splendid present for
or father and mother. It consists of a
team of six horses, perfectly white and of
the rarest breeds. Besides this gift of the
Czarina, the ruling families of Russia. Eng
land and Greece will make a magnificent
joint present to the King and Queen of Den
mark, consisting of a group of sculpture by
the Danish artist Husselrus, and will later
on be placed in one of the public squares of
Cooenhagen.
King Christian extended a hearty greeting
to the Czar on his arrivfl at the palace. The
King looks remarkably vigorous, although
seventy-four years of age. Queen Louise is
also in good health. The Prince and Princess
of Wales, accompanied by Prince George
and the Princesses Victoria and Maud, ar
rived and were received with marked tokens
of affection by the royal couple.
LABOR WORLD.
WAR SHIP LOST.
Tbe Solimoes, of Brazil, Wrecked on
the Uruguayan Coast.
A despatch from Montevideo says that the
Brazilian turret ship Solimoes was wrecked
off Cape Santa Maria, near the mouth of the
Rio de la Plata, while ea route to Matto
Grosso.
Only five of the crew, it is said, were
saved, 120 being drowned. Captain Castrot
is among the lost.
The Solimoes was one of the vessel sent
by the Brazilian Government with rein
forcements to suppress the rising in the
State of Matto Grosso,
The makers of boilers and engines are vert
busy.
The latest from Minneapolis, Minn., is a
hired girl famine.
Great activity is reported in all the Dela
ware River ship yards.
There are now about 3000 union carpen
ters in Cincinnati. Ohio.
The average daily earning of an American
locomotive is about $100.
There is widespread discontent among the
laboring classes in Chile.
The chief cook at a fashionable New Yurk
hotel is paid $8500 a year.
The carriage and wagon industry through
out the West is particularly prosperous.
California, Kansas. Oregon and Nevada
satisfactorily operate State printing offices.
Switch Engineer Tunnel has beer
awarded $12,500 tor loss of a leg on the Santa
Fe road.
At the labor bureau of Sydney, Australia,
over 6300 unemployed workmen registered
their names in March.
It is estimated that the wages lost through
the Durham (England) miners’ strike
amounted to about $6,250,000.
A n agitation has been started by the work
ingmen of Canada tor the abolition of the
law permiliing attachment of wages.
There bave been instances in the neigh
borhood of Reading, Penn., where farmers
have given up farming because of their in
ability to secure farm laborers.
More than 47,000 firms engaged in the
various lines of business, wholesale and re
tail, and manufacturing in Chicago, 111.,
give employment to 457,860 persons.
The miners of Great Britain have a bill
before Parliament prohibiting the employ
ment of women and of boys under sixteen
years of age in all mines of the country.
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish servant
girls in Chicago have formed organizations
to demend $10 per week during the World’s
Fair year. They are now asking $5 or $6,
or double the wages prevailing a month ago.
The organized laborers of Cincinnati,
Ohio, have decided to erect a magnificent
building at a cost of about $200,000, tor their
use. It will contain lodge rooms,gymnasium,
bath rooms and a hall that will seat. 2500
people, and only union laborers will be ad
mitted .
Railroad employes in Australia do not
work more than fifty-five hours per weeks,
while miners in silver mines work only
forty-four hours. Domestics and coachmen
have their eight-hour day. Building trades
workmen get an average of $5 per day, while
jewelers earn about $100 per month. The
poorest paid people are textile workers, wno
receive $12.50 for sixty hours per week.
THE MAEKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices of Conntry
Produce Quoted in New York.
22 beans and peas.
Beans—Marrow, 1891, choice. $2 00 @$2 05
Medium, 1891, choice,... 175
Pea, 1891, choice 1 80
White kidney, 1891, choice 2 15
Red kidney, 1891, choice. 2 10
Yellow eye, 1891, choice. 1 65
Lima, Cal., per bush..., 165
Foreign, medium, 1891.. 1 70
Green peas, 1891, per bush.... 1 37J^@
1891. bags. 1 32i*@
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1891, Scotch.
NEW butter.
Creamery—St., & Penn, extras
—
20%
Elgin, extras
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20%
Other West, extras
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State dairy—half tubs, and
pails, extras
26
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Half tubs and pails, Ists.
—
19
Half tubs and pails. 2Js.
17
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18
Welsh tubs, extras
—
19%
Welsh tubs, Ists
18
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19
Welsh tubs, 2ds
16
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17
W estern—Im. creamery, Ists.
15
@
17
Im. creamery, 2ds
13%@
14
Im. creamery, 3ds
12%@
13
Factory—Fresh, extras......
—
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13
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13%
Fresh, 2ds
12
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12%
Rolls—Fresh extras
—
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NEW CHEESE.
State factory—Full cream.
wbite, fine
—
10%
Full cream, fair to prime.
S%@
Full cr. colored, fine
9%@
9%
Common to fair
9
10
Part skims, choice
—
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7%
Part skims,fair to good..
5
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6%
Part skims, common
3
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5%
Full skims
1%@
2%
Pennsylvania—Skims
1
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EGGS.
State and Penn—Fresh
18
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Western — Fresh, fancy
17% @
18
Fresh, fair to good
—
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Southern—Fresh, per doz....
—
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Duck Eggs, Md., per doz.....
18
18%
Goose Eggs, per doz.
16
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3 50
@ 4 50
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The notorious fcauiit Juan Alanis was cap
tured recently near China, Mexico, and was
lodged in jail at Matimoras. Tne day after
his capture he was taken out for an airing
by an escort of soldiers, and. after the Mexi
can style, was qJiowed to make a break for
liberty. He fell dea 1 with a scor^ of bullets
in his body before he hai gone far.
fruits and berries—fresh
Apples—Northern Spy, bbl..
Spitzenberg, per bbl....,
Baldwin, per d, h. bbl..
Russet, per d. h. bb!
Grapes—Western N. Y., Ca
tawba, 5 lb basket
Western N. Y„ Concord. —
Strawberries, Charleston, qt.
Marylan J, qt 10
HOPS.
State—1891, choice, per lb...
1891, prime
1891, common to good...
1890, common to choice..
1890, common to prime..
Old odds
LIVE POULTRY.
Fowls—Jersey, State, Penn.,
Western, per lb
Spring Chickens, large, pr...
Small to medium....
Roosters, old, per lb
Turkeys, per lb
Ducks—N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
pair•••»•••••••• ••
Western, per pair
Geese, Western, per pair....
Southern, per pair
Pigeons, per pair
DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED.
Turkeys—Selected hens, lb.
Mixed weights
Young toms,tair to prime
Old toms 13
Chickens—Phila., broilers...
L. 1. broilers 35
Fowls—St. and Penn., per lb
Western, per lb 13
Ducks—Jersey, per lb
State and Penn., per lb.
Spring. L. I. per lb.....
Geese—Western, per lb 6
Capons—Phila., extra large.
Phila., small to medium.
Western, fair to fancy..
Squabs—Dark, per doz 2 25
Light, per doz 3 50
POTATOES AND VEGETABLES.
Potatoes—Jersey, bulk, bbl.. —
State Rose and Hebron,
per ISO lb 1 35
State,other kinds, 180 lb. 125
L. I., in bulk, per bbl.,/, —
Sweet potatoes. Jersey, bbl.. —
Cabbage, L. I. per 10O ...
Onions—Connecticut,re!, bbl —
Orange County, red, bbl. —
Orange County, yefiow.
Eastern, yellow, per bbl.
Eastern, white, per bbl. —
Squash—L. 1;, marrow, bbl.. —
L. I., Hubbard, per bbl.. —
Turnips, Canada, per bbl.... —
Celery—Fla., per doz. roots.
String beans, Fla., per crate.
Lettuce. Southern, per bbl..
Tomatoes, Fla., per bush crate. 2 00
Asparagus,new,doz. buacnes 1 50
Green Peas, Va., basket
LIVE STOCK.
Beeves
Milch Cows, com. to good...
Calves, common to prime...
Sheep
Lambs
Hogs—Live o 00
Dressed
GRAIN, ETC.
Flour—City Mill Extra
Patents
Wheat—No. 2 Red 27%^
Rye—State 81 @
Barley—Two-rowed State... — @
Com—Ungraded Mixed 58% g
Oats—No. 3 White 39%(S}
Mixed Western 35 @
Hay—Good to Choice 89 @
Straw—Long Rye 45 <£
Lard—City Steam 5.90 «
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Padgett
WILL PAY
THE FREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE, /
| Cooking Stoveis,
7
Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades ;and
Lace Curtains, (Cor
nice Poles, /
BABY CARRIAGES,
Clocks, MirrorsJ Pic
tures, Dinner 'sets,
Tea Sets, Cha»ynber]
Sets, Mattresses,
t
Comforts, Blankets
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same pr.ee that you
buy them in Au-
|gusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
You need, and can quote
you prices that will sat
isfy you that I am giving
a dollar value for every
dollar paid.
Special Offer No. I.
To introduce my business in every |
neighborhood in the quickest possible
manner, I will ship you one Bedroom
Suite complete, consisting or-Cue Bed
stead, full size and high head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well
worth $20; but to introduce my goods
in your neighborhood at once I will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOE ONLY $16.50,
When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, Oak,
Poplar, and all the popular woods, i
running in price from the cheapest up
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in
plush in popular colors, crimson, olive,
blue, old gold, either in banded or in
combination colors. This suite is sold
for $40.00. I bought a large number of
them at a liankrupt sale in Chicago,
] hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your I
nearest railroad depot, for $33.09. Be- '
sides these suites 1 have a great many
other suites in all the latest shapes and j
styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
I Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re
duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid.
Special Bargain No. 4
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, all
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $lo.
Besides these' 1 have the largest stock
of Cooking Stoves in the city, includ
ing tbe gauze door stoves and ranges,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES
with patent wire gauze doors. 1 am
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
freight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are far
superior to any other stoves made. Full
particulars by mail.
109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
roll, $5.50 per roll. 1009 Cornice Polls.
25 cents each; 100 Window Shades,
3x7 feet, on spring roller an! frigned,
at 37% cents each. You must pay
rour own freight on Cornice Poles,
iVindow Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything 1 have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room, be
sides its annexes and factory in another
part of the town.
shall be pleased to send you
anvthing above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you will say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
Recorder, published at Aiken, S. C.
rgf No goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. 1 refer you to the editor
and publishe r of this paper, or to any
banking concern iu Augusta, or to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc.;
L. F. PADGETT,
DYER BUILDING,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
I Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.