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My PALE1I0N JOHN, Editor and Proprietor. Devoted to "the Interests of the City, the County and the District. TERHS C1.50 a Year, in Advance. VOLUME XX. ELIZABETH- CITY, X. C WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1089. NUMBER 47. Ml r is The crovernment of Janan dan!r fn increase its navy by building four or five first-class ships every year, in order to be prepared for any emergency. Japan already possess a navy of thirty-five ships and &000 officers and men. Dr. Lichtenbag of Hungary says that cut of 250 railroad employes whom he examined, 92, or more than a third, suffered from ear disease. Engineers are especially liable to rheumatism and pneu monia, and after some years' service a certain proportion of them become dull Of sight and hearing. The cold storage accommodations in the northern cities would largely in crease the dera ind for southern fruit end vegetables thinks the Atlana Con stitution. Produce men say that in the course of a lew years fresh vegetables will be on sale ia the north frm Janu ary until December. A recent, writer fays that those nations which are given to the cultivation of vocal mu.s e are strong and vigorous, with broad, expansive chests. Vocal music is a good lung exercise; it in creases expansion of the lung tissue; it call into action the entire luncr. thus making the apices less likely to develop organic disease. .'. A largely attended meeting was re cently held at Birmingham, England, tc protest against any further national ex penditure for warlike purpose3., It was pointed out that in the last half-century over $180,000,000 had been squandered n useless wars, hot including the Indian mutiny or the Abyssinian expedition. The meeting was unanimously in favor of cutting off such expenditures in the future. A glance at the annual report of the Imperial Patent Office shows that Ger many performs her part in the present era of inventions. During the last three years 29,764 patents were applied for, and 11,813 actually registered. For the past year the number of patents regis tered was 3'J23, and on December 31st there remained in force (since 1877) 11, BSSjiatents. The Patent Office showed a surplus of 994,321 marks. Mr. P. T. Biirrium has presented the skeleton of his famous elephamt. Jumbo to the Museum of Natur;dJJIistory in New York City. The hide and the tusks are now ownc.l by the authorities of Tufts .college, in Boston. Living, Jumbo was pei ha s the most renowned Of all pachyderms,aud when Mr. Barnum removed him from England to this coun try, he did so against the protests of count ess British child: en. . Dead, Jum-' bo will lie an object of interest in two places at once. IIh skeleton and his hide were lovely in their live3, but in his death they were divided, which, we suppose is a worthy tribute to his vast proportions. Major Pond, the lecture bureau man, says that some of his be it lecturers r.-i. " troubled with stage fright. Chauncey M. Depew and Dr. Talmagc are not free from it. John B. Gough was the worst. Outside of his regular lectures he would not talk in public. Several times ho " made very embarrassing failures! He could not think on hi feet. Bcchcr 1 always suffered when he faced an audi ence. He held one hand behind him at first, and wheu the hand came in view it was a sign that his embarrassment was ' over. Canon Farrar could always think and 6 peak on his feet, but Canon Kings ley could not make the simplest address without manuscript. James "Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, is liable any time to forget his part when he has an attack of ttage fright. Major Pond says that men like Beecher, who draw inspi ration from the audience, are more like-1 ly tc suffer from stage fright than others. A man like Cable gets along very well perfect self-satisfaction will carry him through, or, as Pond puts it, '6elf-possession of the heart" will keep him up. . ' i ' ' 1 Can a surgical operation be lawfully performed upon a wife without the con sent of her. husband? This novel ques tion has just been passed upon by the - Maryland Court of Appeals and decided in the affirmative. A woman was su fering from what was supposed to be a tumor. An operation was decidel upon with the consent of her husband. The thing proved to be a cancer, and the surgeons proceeded to extirpate it with the knife. Some months afterward the patient died, The husband thereupon sued the doctors for damages. He al leged that he had not consented to an operation in case of cancer, and claimed that without such consent the operation was without legal war . rant and henci "the operators were liable for damage3. The court does not accepithis view, but holds that onlyhe consent of the patient was necessary. The consent of the wife, not that of th husband, the court went on to" say, wai necessary. The professional men whom she had called in and consulted, being possessed of skill and scientific knowl edge, were the proper persons to deter mine what ; ought to be done. They could not, of course, compel her to sub mit to an operation, but if she volunta rily submitted to its performance, her consent will be presumed unless she was the victim of false and fraudulent misrepresentation, The Lighthouse. Above the rocks, above the waves Bhinee the strong light that warns and saves. So yvHf too high for a storm or strife, light up the shipwreck of my life. The lighthouse warns the wise, but thes Not only sail the stormy seas; Towards the light the foolish steer And, drowning, read its meaning, dear. And if the lamp by ohanoe allure Some foolish ship to death, be sure The lamp will to itself protest: His be the blame I I did my best P E. Nesbit in Independent. WON BY A DUCKING. BT 8. A. WEISS. The sun was setting in fact, its blood-red rim had just disappeared be low the horizon and chilly gray shadows were gathering in the nearly leafless grove in the rear of Beech Villa. On the mossy root of an old tree, close to the bank of the river which mur mured p,ast, sat a young girl, watching, with a curious expression of alternate hope and disappointment, a footpath which wound away in the direction of the suburban road on which the villa was situated. Clearly she was expecting some one. He came at last a tall, slim young man, unexceptionably attired, and who, as he wended his way among the tall grasses, absently struck off their heads with his gold-headed cane. The girl sprang to meet him. "Oh, Augustus, I'm so glad you've come at last I I've-waited an age; but" with a sudden anxiety, as she noted his grave expression "what success have you hadf Did papa consent to see you, after having so cruelly forbidden me to receive your visits?" -' ' "Tea, he saw me," the young man answered, gloomily. "He could not have avoided it, as I met him at the door just as he was leaving the house." "And what did he say?" she asked, eagerly. ' t Augustus placed his arm around the slender waist ofthe girl the grounds were part of her father's domain and quite secluded and looked down into her pretty face. "He said," speaking slowly and with a far-away, absent look "he said that you and I were a couple of fools." "What! How? Why?" she fal tered. "For proposing to marrv on six hun dred dollars a year." "But papa has enough for us all, and I am his only child. Surely you re minded him oMhat?" "No, indeed. How could I stoop to luch mercenary, considerations? On the contrary, I told; him that I did not want his money; thatI could make my for tune, as he had done, and that all I asked of him was his consent to our marriage.." "And what did he say then?'' she in quired, eagerly. "Nothing; exceptjto request me to leave the nouso ana never again see you." "What a shame!" Tears sprang to her -eyes and she laid her cheek caressingly and soothingly against her lover's manly shoulders. "Of course I went," resumed Augus tus, with sad dignityf; "but before do bg so, informed Mr. Hogau respectfully1 but firmly, that tnougn, i might never again enter his house, I would on no account relinquish my claim to his daughter's hand. I told him that we loved each other, and defied any human power to keep up apart." The girl's cheeks (flushed and her eyes glowed. "That must baveUouched him!" she said, gazing with prdwd tenderness into her lover's face. "That must have stirred his feelings, if anything could. " "It did!" responded Augustus, grim ly. "In fact I don't wish to harrow your feeKngs, Maude, dearest, but your father was stirred to that, degree that he not only slammed the)library-door in my face as I left the room, . but followed me to the hall-door and flung the door mat after me. Indeed, I suspect, that the mark is still upon my back." "So it is," said Maude, indignantly 'Stand still, dear, and let me brush off the dust. What dreadful behavior in papal Aunt Eliza always calls him too hasty, but I never dreamed of his carrying on like this. Perhaps" with a little sob in her voice "perhaps he'll come round by-and-by. He does some times. Aunt Eliza has most influence with him, - and she- she's our friend, you know." They were standing . near the river's bank, and Maude was still engaged in vigorously dusting, with her embroidered pocket-handkerchief, the back of her in sulted lover, when a whiff of, wind took the light straw hat from her jhead, and drifted it to the edge of the bank. Augustus instantly hastened to the rescue, but he had not taken into con sideration the steepness and slipperiness of the incline; wherefore he unexpected Aj found himself plunging, with splash, into the muddy water, six feet below. Maude shrieked -as she beheld him disappear beneath a pad of water-lilies, and the sound reached her aunt, 3Iiss Eliza Pilklns, as she walked in the gar den betweeit'the grove and the villa. : Augustus' head, adorned with algea and drooping weeds, soon reappeared above tho TOrfce of tte watw, and' with hands and feet he commenced a desper ate but futile attempt to surmount the slippery clay-bank. Seeing this, Maude knelt down on ita edge and extended both hands, "which he imprudently grasped but, alas! with a contrary effect to what was intended. In a moment she was in the water, and with difficulty supported in the arms of her lover, whose feet, with this addition al burden, stuck fast in the miry bot tom. It was in this situation, struggling waist deep in water, that they were dis covered by Miss Pilkins, when, sum moned by Maude's shrieks, she hurried to the spot. "Gracious heavens! Mr. Tomlinson Maude! How did this happen? Why don't you save yourselves?" she ciied excitedly. . "We can't!" gasped Maude, fran tically clinging to her lover. 'I I fell in, and Augustus tried to sate me, and we'll drown if you don't help us 1" "Give me your shawl!" promptly re sponded practical Miss Pilkins; "and don't get excited. You can't drown if you keep still, and I'll have you out in three minutes." Hooking up the shawl with a crooked 6tick, she tied it to her own, and at taching one end to a sapling on the bank, twisted the two into a sort of rope. By means of this the pair were en abled, after much scrambling and ex ertion, to reach firm ground, where they stood dripping and shivering. "Here you are, safe!" said Miss Pil kins; "and now I should like to know what's the next thing to be done." "W-warm ba-ath for Maude!'' chat tered Mr. Tomlinson, all of a tremble. while the water dripped from the ends of his drooping moustache and limp fingers. "I-Fll g-go h-home!" "Go home in taat fix? and catch your death of cold by the way! Come along to the house, both of you, as fast as you can I Brother has gdne to a political meeting, with a supper afterward, and won't be-back till midnight. You two come through the garden, while I go ahead and unlock the back door." Once in the house, Maude, who, de spite her fright, had not suffered nearly so much as her lover, hurried to her room, while Miss Pilk n directed the hoUscmaid to show Mr. Tomlinson at once to the east chamber. "Please' m," said the sympathetic Betty, "there ain't been a fire in the east room this fall, and the bed ain't nxea nor tne sneets airea. lucre s a fire in master's room, and everything warm and comfortable, and I can fix it all right before master comes home." To Mr. Hogan's own bed-room, accordingly,- pallid and shivering, Tom-4 linson was conducted, while Sam, the stable boy, was dispatched to his town lodgings for a change of clothes. Until its arrival he was forced to ar ray himself in certain garments of his host, selected by Miss Pilkins, including a quilted dressing-gown of gorgeous colors all of which, being too large for his slender proportions, gave him the appearance as Betty, with a giggle, de clared to the cook of ' 'a needle in a stack of hay." Then he was made to get into bed, and blankets were piled on him;'' while down stairs Miss Pilkins made a steam mg toddy, and cook prepared a supper "to be took sizzlin' hot." Under these combined influences-r- Ijut more especially that of the strong toddy Mr. Tomlinson soon fell into a calm and unconscious slumber. He did not hear the clock on the man tlepiece strike ten (Sam was an unusually long time in returning"), nor see thedoor open, and a portly old gentleman enter, and at sight of him, stand as if petrified. 4 1 And it was not until the old gentle man, after twice rubbing: his eyes and turning first pale and then fiery red, suddenly found his voice, did Mr. Tom? linson start from his peaceful repose. '"Hello! What is the meaning o: this?" . At sound of that awful voice, the household rushed up stairs all but Maude, who immediately fainted dead away in her room. Miss Pilkins grasped her brother's arm. ' 'Hiram listen to me let me ex plain!" 'Explain!'', roared Mr. Hogan. "JJidn t 1 turn this , iellow out oi my doors a few hours! ago? and don't come home to find him not only again in my house, but in my room in my bed? And by the everlasting hokey,' as agitated Tomlinson rose up in bed "In my very clothes I f Where are my pistols? Let me cet at him! Let me fling him out of the window " But here- the cook and housemaid rushed in, with shrill screams,and while the former, assisted by Miss Pilkins dragged in turiated Hogan backward oult of the room, Betty hastily locked the door and put the key in her docket. Left thus alone, Tomlinson armed him self with the only weapon which pre sented the fire tongs and facing the door, stood breathlessly awaiting the further course of events. , He heard the retreating footsteps and voices die away and a door violently slam. V-' Then ensued five minutes of dead si lence, at the end of which time quick and heavy steps came along the passage and the door knob impatiently rattled. Augustus , nerved himself, raised the tongs above his head bravely and pre pared to defend his life. - - I Light steps now ran along the pas sage, the key turned in the lock and the door flew open, revealing Mr. Hogan, his sister and the female servants. He advanced toward -Tomlinson with out stretched arms and tears in his eyes. "Mr. Tomlinson 1 My dear young friend! How can I atone for my late hasty conduct? how thank you suf ficiently for so heroically saving the life of my only and darling child? The tongs fell from the young man's hands a Maude's agitated father seized and shook them, with a vigor which brought tears into his own eyes. ' - Cook and Betty were already sobbing. "Mr. Hogan, sir," commenced Au gustus, with as much dignity as was consistent with the situation and his pe culiar attire, "I must protest You greatly overrate " But just here he was aware of covert signals from Miss Pilkins, who was hov ering anxiously in the background. I "You need not deriy it, Mr. Tomlin son," she said, aloud. "But for you and your heroic exertions, where would our beloved Maude at this moment beF' 'An' sure she looked, "a-lyin' there on the lib'ry sofy, with her eyes shut, an' white as a sheet, jes' for all the worl' like the corpse she would, a been now, but for him," said cook, who, by reason of long and faithful service, was a privileged person in the household. j. 'Come down stairs and see her," said Mr. Hogan, excitedly. j : And seizing Mr. Tomlinson by the arm, he led him to where Maude, re covered from her fainting fit and flushed with the ! joy of a sudden and unex pected happiness, was awaiting him. : "You saved her life," said the agi tated father, "and she belongs to you. There,- take her ! and may heaven bless you both!" ' I Everybody retired Jrom the- room in tears, leaving the happy lovers to them selves. J Miss Pilkins, seated before the fire in her own room, smiled cheerfully Jo her self, as she gazed into the glowing coals, while in the kitchen cook and Betty, re galing themselves on the remains of the hot supper and toddy, declared how beautiful it had all been, and wondered when it would be time to commence preparations for the wedding.- Satur day Night. ! Talue of Jade, ; The tombstone of the conqueror Tam er' an e at Samarcand he died there in 1405 consists of an immense block of dark-green jade. Some courageous van dal broke a piece from it for the late Dr. Heinrich Fischer of Baden, part of which was: sent Jo me. The rest of the tombstone : is still at Samarcand for some enterprising American or English col lector. The block of Siberian jade ex hibited for a time at the British Museum weighed 1130 pounds. De Laet (1647) mentions a lump of jade the size of a man's head which came from ; the Ama zon river and sold for $250. A piece the size of a cup was sold to Rudolph H by the imperial jeweler at Dresden for 1600 thalers. Cortez was content with four pieces out of all Montezuma's ac cumulated treasures. . The emperor of China has a necklace of fine green beads of jadeite as large as cherries, strung at intervals between several of the finest coral. Pendent from this Is a large ruby spinal. Among the principal collections may be men tioned that of the museum at Frieburg, in Eaden, whieh contains the collection of the late Dr. Heinrich Fischer, at Frei burg, the greatest authority on jade, and those of the museums at Constance and at Dresden. At the colonial exhibition in London there were shown large rounded and waterworn blocks of jade weighing hundreds of pounds and called by the Maoris panamu. Much of it, of the finest green color, was worked into charms and knife handles at the exposi tion. Art Amateur. A Solid Silver Wagon Eoad. "You may talk about nickel-plated railroads," said Vice-President T, L. Stanley of 904 Walnut street, "but what do you think of a solid silver wagon road The Horseshoe Mine in Colorado has one, although when it was built they didn't know it would pan out that way. They had to have a road from their mine, a distance of three miles, over which heavy loads were to be drawn. They took the rock that had been taken from the shafts they were sinking and which lay around in the way, and ma cadamized the road all the way through. The wagons passing over the ', road ground the rock down. One day they had a heavy rainstorm, and when things got dry again after this rain the .wind blew the dust off the road, and all through the road bed, every which way, they could see Jbig streaks of silver. Well, maybe they didn't collar on to the rest of that loose rock that lay around those shafts 1 They sent away a lot of it to be assayed, and when the report came back they found that their road bed was worth $200 a ton. It was a little expensive to drive over, but they had to have the road, and I suppose they've got it yet, if their mines hava held out" Philadelphia Press. "Give the boys a chancew says f trade journal. Nonsense j the boys taks too many chances now. Captured by Blind Detective. There used to be a young blind man who sold cigars at a stand on Wintei street or thereabouts. Ordinarily the sales were of single cigars or small pack ages of cigarettes, and the dealer, being expert in the handling of coins, had no difficulty in making change. Sometimes paper money would be given rny and then the blind man had to trust the hon.. or of his patrons not to give counterfeits. One day a man came to him who wanted to buy a lot of cigars, and offered a five dollar note in payment. The blind man trusted his. honesty, took the five -dollar bill, and gave what change was due him in silver. The bill proved to be coun terfeit Some time afterward the swind ler, secure in the inability of the dealer to identify him; came back to the blind man's stand and bought a cigar. "I should think," he said nonchalant ly to the dealer, "that you'd sometimes have counterfeit money passed on you.'' "Oh, no," said the dealer, "nobody would impose on a poor blind man like me." "So?" said the sharper. His victim had. thrown him off his guard. "Evi dently," he thought, "the blind man succeeded in passing the bill, and no body discovered that it was bad till ' it got into the third or fourth man's hands. So here's a chance to get him again." "Of course," said the sharper again, aloud, "nobody would! come such a game on you. By the way, I got a lot of cigars of you awhile ago that were good. Got any more of the same?" "Yes, sir." - "All right. I'll take another 5 worth." . ; The blind man got up like a flash and seized him by the arms. ' :"So you're the man that passed the counterfeit $5 bill on me, are you?" he exclaimed. "Help! Thief!" There was a crowd on the street, and the man had plenty of help to secure the swindler, who was promptly marched off to the station, where quite a supply of counterfeit money was found on his person. Boston Transcript. At a Famous New York Restaurant. A lady, was taking luncheon with her daughters at a famous restaurant in the city. Her check amounted to some thing le3s than $5. She handed the waiter a bill and he brought her change for $5. She declared that the bill she had given was a twenty. She was very quiet and refined woman, and her belief about the amount of money she had given to the waiter was evidently honest. But the waiter asserted that she was mistaken. He went to the desk and enquired. The answer came back and it was a $5 bill. The lady put up her purse and was preparing to leave The head waiter asked her to step to the cashier's desk. . The young man then asked her if she was quite positive ; she had sent $20 up to him. She replied that she felt sure of it, because she had a twenty and a five in her purse when she came in, and the twenty was gone Without any ; more words the cashier counted out the change for $20 and passed it to the lady, The fact is that the lady was mistak en. But this particular restaurant retains the good will of the wealthiest people by the utmost confidence in their integ rity. . They rectify mistakes when they know the mistake is not their own rather than have their best customers' offended. They will even trust a stranger for i extravagant dinner and take his visiting card for security. The system is really profitable in the long run. They cannot be cheated twice, and the friends that they make by their liberal methods out weigh a hundred fold the occasional losses they sustain from trusting dishon est people. ; The lady mentioned could probably not have secured her money as she did in any other j?l ace in New York. But she had all the appearance of sin cerity, and the good will of an influen tial woman like her meant undoubtedly a large-profit; in the end. Had she been refused she would never have patronized the place aarain. She told a hundred people of her generous treatment there. It is easy enough to see that . in certain circles this manner of doing business is a very wise one. Neva York Sun. : J The Iron Crown. The iron of Lombardy consists of a broad circle composed of six equal plates of beaten gold, joined together by clow hinges of the same metal, j Within is the iron band which gives it a name. . It is about three-eighths of an inch broad and a tenth of an inch thick, and is said to have been made out of the nails used at the Crucifixion' and gi:ven to Con stantino by. his mother, the Empress Helena, to protect him in battle. A Pugnacious Hawk. A big hawk dashed down into the yard of a colored man near Americus, Ga., and grabbed a chicken. - The old hen interfered, and the two had a fierce fight' A daughter of the house ran out to capture the hawk, and it turned upon her, tore her hands and face severely with its talons, and then went off with the chicken, and ate it within 100 yardi of the house. A Rochester.N. Y.,man hasopened a . 'boarding stable" for bicycles. He takes charsre of " the machines, whik their owners are at business. $ . . , Tremendous Fire lions Kew Yorij's RiYer Front. Jtive immense 5 ml (line's and Other Property Destroyed. One of the biggest fires known in New York city for manyf' years broke out in the "Wilcox Lard Refinery, at the foot of West Fifty-ninth street at abouf 4 P. X. It destroyed the re finery, Rosatey' s stores and two immense crain elevators, with their covered wharves and connecting buildings and nearly half a mill ion bushels of 'grain, besides a great quantity of flour, rosin ale, oil, lard and other com modities on storage. The loss was estimated to De 4,UUU,UUJ, partly covered by insurance It was the biggest fire, measured according to the standard of the insurance companies, upon which ill fall tho whole of the loss, that New York has known of recent vears. Far into tile nieht the flames razed with fury, throwing a lurid flare over the whole, city and for utiles into the surrounding coun try. -J , A spectacle af more appalllnfir grandeur was never witnessed. The cries of fright of thou sands of anunjals imprisoned in the pens of the great Unjpn Stock -Yards addecLto the horror of the ifecene. ' ? ! l ne names started in tne Wilcox .Lard and Refining Comjbanv's massive fiVe-storv brick factory, at the foot of Fifty-ninth street Nearly oneQiundred laborers and a dozen clerks were at work in the factory at the time. in spice oig tneir utmost exertions, tne flames gained rapid! v. and after ten nrecious minutes hadtjbeen wasfrji the men became panic strickek and fled from the building. With a roar! like an explosion the flames burst up from the cellar and rushed along the oil-soakecLfloor of the first story. " ; 1 be ponce tiad turned in a second and third alarm, and ttie sound of engine bells was heard on evey hand. Four Truck arrived just as the crwd discovered a man in one of the third stoifp windows,' He screamed for help, and the fro wd screened and shouted. The firemen pjilled a ladden the truck and raised it to th window. ' f Uome dowji p' yelled the firemen. The man made a feint of clamberine on to the ladder, but he was filled with fear or his strength had eft him. "Uome down P' shrieked the crowd. The man tlirew one lee over: the silL and. with each h$nd clasping the frame work, looked down the crowl with staring eyes. A tongue of fijime in a heavv cloud of thick smoke burst out. The man would be burnt to death if he regained theire much longer. A fireman ran up the ladder and grasped his leg. He pulled as hard as he ; could, but the man hung back anft the fireman retreated slowly, urging the man to follow him. Suddenly the man threw hi hands in the air and leaped out He fell om the sidewalk, and was smashed so badly that he died in a few minutes. He was Henry Banning, a laborer employed in tne ractory. e - Within fifteen minutes after the fire started the flames reached a lot of wooden fences and shanties between the factory and the river and flashed across them to the New York Centralpier at the foot of the street ' known as Dock C. It was crammed with. lard and oils awaiting shipment and the flames swept it from end to end with a rush. At five o'clock the flames had gained full, sway in Rosgiter's warehouse, and all eyes were turned anxiously on the big elevator. At five minutes past five a little wreath of smoke curled Up from the apex of the south ernmost gable, and from' 10, 000 throats went up the cry: iShe's going?' A moment later a red glow appeared with in the topmost window beneath the gable end and it was evident ' that the elevator .had caught fire ifi the timbers of thereof. No spark of flarn communicated with it but it simply became ignited under the heat of the ragmg furnaqa a hundred feet away. Like wildfire the flames crept along in the timbers behind the slated walls, peeping out here and ther and breaking forth fiercely at me upper winaows. '4 For three hJurs; the (firemen succeeded in keeping the frames frogi spreading further, but when the jgreat walls of the storage house fell and left mountain of burning ruins nearly as hig as the building had been, the heat was so hftense thai; grain elevator "A," of the New Tork Central Railroad, 200 feet north, wassorfaeated that it was impossible to keep it frttm catching fire. The building was 225x75 fet and 125 feet high. . " While Elevator A was wrapped in flames from end to end, Chief Shay looked anxiously at Elevator B near by, and sadly exclaimed: 4Tve done ali i could dOj bnt I'm afraid she'll have to go tool" As the wortts left his lins a huere blazing brand whirled- through the air and fell on the roof near aj skylight Elevator B blazed, if possible, more rapidly than its companion. Within six hours after ; the fire broke out the building iij which it started, a freight pier at tne loot pt riity-nmth street, and a smaller storage pier, two great elevators. with the contents of all of them, had been absolutely destroyed, involving a loss in money of oveij $4, 000, 000, and at least one life was lost. p The area of the fire-is greater than that of any other fire ithat has occurred in New York for many years. The space burned over measures 300 feet along the river front from riity-ninth street to sixty-nftn street, a quarter of a mile. Nothing in the course of the fire escaped. Piers, sheds and outhouses between the lajger buildings were burned up so rapidly that people who saw them disap pear were aswnisiieu. All the bm .cgi.n rt"sf.-oved were the prop erty of the NeSv York Central Railroad Com pany. Chief gf them was the huge building, 200 feet high and covering almost a full block of land, kno-frn as Grain. Elevator A, but often referred to as "The Pride of the New York Central? Each elevator was 125 feet high, 875 feet long and abojjit 50 feet wide. They were twelve years ojd and stored with nearly half a million bushels of grain as dry as powder. The immense Surface they presented to the heat induced adegree of temperature inside of them whichi jnade the spontaneous combus tion of then contents certain. Uver nve nunared thousand persons, ac cording to thp estimates made by veteran police officers; visited the some of what is now known asthe great North River fire be tween th '.xuti of four o'clock in the siter- noon and ten Qcloek- at night A pOGUS KING-. How a Califbrnian Gov orris One of the . Aleutian Islands. A Washington special says : A very pretty little story, which promises to develop an in teresting triaj, comes to Washington from Alnrfr Itostothe effect that about three vears aeo a man named McFherson sailed from Ban Francisco, and eventually landed on one of the Aleutian Islands, oft the coast of Alaska. i Mr. MoPhepson's entire outfit consisted of a snit of clothes, an American flag, together v li,A a paper purporting to have been signed by Attorneys-General Garland, appointing htm United States Commissioner. As soon as he landed on the Island he raised the Ameri can flag with great deal of ceremony, took command of 690 natives and compelled them to address hini as King McPberson. Each season he exacted heavy tribute. Things wentt along very smoothly until a few months aeo, when reports states that he and. fearing that there might be a mutiny. he determined to dispose of all those who did not' bow to hig authority. He arrested three recalcitrant Aleuts, tried them by court martial, and sentenced them to be hanged. 5 He carried out the sentence. Somehow or either, a report of McPherson's rule reached the Treasury Department and a special agent was sent to his island to invests gate tne manor. ... . The agent recently ; reported the facts to Secretary Windom substantially as they are axven above. I Piow it is said that a revenue cutter will be sent to the island for the pur pose of arresting McPherson. It is the in tention of the authorities to bring him to San Francisco and try mm lor murder. Thb most productive gas well in the work! has been struck at Findlay, Ohio. lt capac ity is 40,000.000 oubio feet per day and it is called the MeUott HEADLONG TO DEATH. Sensational Suicide In the Presence of m. Oowrd.' . James Hogan, who had been staying at the Spain House, Chicago, became suddenly in sane from an over indulgence of liquor, and rushing to the roof near midnight swung him self over. He was j"g"e and shoutinjr, and soon attracted a large crowd . which stood spellbound. "Don't Jump!" shouted a spectator, and Hogan climbed to the roof again, laughing boisterously. Several times he repeated thu penormance, singing ana snouting au tne tune, the crowd, which by this time had swelled to hundreds, watching him breath lessly.. Two policemen rushed up stairs and out upon the roof, but the maniac discovered them before thev could seise him. and run ning to the edge of the roof, swung his body into space, hanging tightly with nis hands from the cornice. A woman in the crowd fainted and there was a rush to clear the sidewalk. .- . "Dont you touch me," Hogan screamed. as the two office crawled toward him, "or ril let go." Just then the crazed man saw an officer climbing the fire escape and within a few feet of him. "No, you don't" he shrieked, and suddenly released nis noia. His body shot downward, turning In its descent and striking a sign which extended out from the second story it rebounded and then struck the - stone sidewalk with a sickening crash squarely on the head. iiogan s brains were scattered all over the flags and the front windows of the hotel. deatn resulting instantly, me nead was literally broken to pieces. One of the officers who rushed to lift the body became sick at the sight reeled and feu. The suicide was a man of middle age, and was well off at one time. His only relative m unicaeo u a marriea sister, A FATHER'S FRENZY. Frank. Hancock, or Addison, N. Y.f Kills His Four Children and Himself. Mrs. Frank Hancock, of Addison, N. Y., pn opening the bedroom door of her houso discovered her husband's dead body suspended from a rafter, and four Of their children lying dead in pools of blood. One of the bo vs. onlv a vear old, who was sleeping in the cradle, was unharmed. The father had left a note, found on tne craaie with a silver watch, in which he said: "x leave my watcn to bany. uarerornim. and when he grows up give him the watch and say it is from papa. Bury me and tho children in the cemetery at Sabinsville." The fiendish fattier cut tne throats oi au tne four children, and, not content with that, dis emboweled them. The oldest was ten ami tho youngest four. The father's body showed that ne naa staDDea nimseir twice m me aoaomea iid gashed his throat. These" wounds not being iatai, ne supped a rope around nw neck and over a rafter and stood upon a soap box, and then kicked it from under him and strangled to death. An examination or tne ratners uoay showed that he stabbed himself twice with a butcher knife and haggled his throat befors hanging himself. At tne uoroners inquest mrs. nan- cock said that she and her husband had not been living happily together. She admitted that sho and . her husband had a creed to separate on May 1, dividing the children be tween tnem. A WONDERFUL RECOVERY, A Bullet Extracted, From-a Would-Be Suicide's Brain. A year ago, while crazed with drink. George Lucas, of Dubuque, Iowa, fired bullet into his brain from a 82-calibre re volver. He recovered from the wound sufficientrwfco attend to his business. - A few days since ne visited ms pnysician ana complained that he felt something in his head. The wound was probed, and the doctor . succeeded in extracting -.the bullet It had penetrated the front lobe of the brain over an inch. The doctor says there Is no doubt of Lucas's . complete recovery. The case is an extraordinary' one and has been Hnln rtBfmmffd by the medical fraternity. NEWSY . GLE ANINGSi A 8UGAB famine is possible. Fbanck has 178 war vessels. England has 7000 flour mills. Crop indications are all favorable. ' Thb sugar trust has been dissolved. Boston money-Jenders are very busy. About 800,000 wooden cars are in ase. Baltimore has a population of 500,000. Chili owes this country and won't pay. Chicago is rapidly becoming a club city. Natural gas has reached Louisville, Ky. Prairik fires have been raging in Dakota. It is unlawful to keep bees in Los Angeles, CaL There is activity in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 15 Paris there is one suicide to every 2700 people. Maple sugar is abundant and of good quality. Five K"" towns have elected women as Mayors. Both Etna and Vesuvius are in an eruptive condition. Thb Austrian wheat crop Is said to bt nearly a failure. Ovf.R 1000 letters are received at the White Houso every day. The European exodus is not only larger but earlier than usual. CAT.nrouNiA roofinc slate Is said to be the finest in the world. Thb Mavor of Denver. CoL. cowhideda man the other day. . Prisctlla Davis (colored), 105 years old, Is dead at Baltimore. Rich veins of copper have been found In Southern California. Galveston. Texas, is going to have a semi centennial celebration. A COLO XT of old soldiers ia-abont to start a township in Oklahoma. Thsbe are 26,000 members of the Mormon Church in this country. Japan leads the world in the number of houses destroyed by fire. Spring wheat is backward both in the United Kingdom and in Franca. Thx hiehest "peak in New Guinea is to be named alter iu. uiaastane. Fish pirates on the St. Lawrence are giv ing the Canadian authorities trouble. Boston is said to be the srreatest market in the United State for the sale of lottery tick ets. A number of towns in Vermont are prepar ing to choose their postmasters by popular vote. The Rothschilds have secured control of more than half the trade in Russian petro leum. Farewell banquets to retiring American ministers and consuls are heard of all over Europe. Owing to the scarcity of water the area of sotton culture m .Egypt this season is much restricted. The German court dress is to be changed to a style tfinflar to that in vogue at tune of redencK a. , These are said to be 213 clubs of in New Orleans devoted to the stady of po uocai economy. Is to be builtover tho St Lawrence River at Quebec, Canada, The total of failures in the United States. from January 1st to recent date la 3873, against in ltsqs. Wisconsin has been transferred from the Military Department of the East to the De partment of Dakota. ThT npl ripnrt at the Canadian Dapart. tnont of fisheries snows a decided -decline in the value Qt the.fixherles. RESCUED IN MID-OCEAN. , The Sinliintrflanniark's Passen gers Sated by the Missouri. Picked Up at Sea a.ncl Taken to the Azores. TheM573 people who sailed from Copenhagen on the ill-fated Danmark March 2d, and who were feared to be lost ore all safe. The glad tidings were flashed sctcm the Atlantic cable to Funch, Edye it Co., the New York agents of the Thin gvalla Line. The cablegram they t received road as follows: Message received from- Lisbon: rasseneera and crew all saved. Brought to the Asorea by stoamec Missouri. Tltreo hundred and forty passengers follow Missouri to'Fbuadel phia. Remainder still at the Axorw. I This message camo from Lisbon, Portugal, via Copenhagen, the information having been brought there from tho little steamer which piles between that port and FayaLin the Azore Islands. The Daiunark. when she left Cvponhairan on March 20, liad C2-S passengers on board ' and fifty-four officers and crew. The first news of t ho disaster was when the City of Chester, which arrived at (Jueenstown early in April, reported having passed thtf Daiunark on April 8 in lati tude 43 north, longitude isT west, hi a water logged condition, ami without a soul on" board. All the bantu were gone. and a chain dandled from the bow. It was thought at first that some steamer had. endeavored to tow her, and, finding that the Daumark was soon to sink, had taken her naivcnfrerg and crew tin ItoAftl and abandoned her; but as day after day went nv, and arriving steamers brought no news of tho missing jkh1c, the belief liecame gen eral that all bad been lost after taking to the boats. A cabloffram from Lisbon. Portusrol. elves the following part ieulars: Ottlccr Lnhan and forty-two of the crew of tho steamer Pan mark are coining bore front ; tho Azores. Tho Ilium lark broke her shaft on April 4, when WKI miles off Newfoundland. .Immediately ufter tho accident Engineer Kass was found dend in the engine room, evidently struck by a wheel that bad been freed by tho breakage of tho shaft The officers acted eoollr. and tho crow be haved well. The vessel, powerless, drifted in the trough of the sea, mid a leak astern made things look serious. Distress siguals were raised, and the day after the accident the steamer Missouri camt up with her officers volunteering to do all in then power toward relief. Bho made room for twenty cabin passengers, and fastening hawsers, began towing the disabled steamer. After the first day's towing, tho Daumark began settling noti.tbly. The swoud day it grew worse, and he dragged heavily. In the interim tho 700 steerage twissengei-a were growing restive arid hard to control. and the officers inaugurated military disci pline, tho crew obeying admirably, greatly assisting in prewrviug order in the steerage. At the end of the third day after the acci dent the officers of t he Daumark saw that tho water was continually gaining on tho pumps, and the after portion of. the vessel bocuuio untenable. The'Missouri hod no more room for iwuwon- gers, but by moving her cargo managed to make room. The situation on the Danmark crew des perate on the third day and the passengers were transferred, the "boats of both vesels being used for the purpose, those of the Dan mark being afterward abandoned. i When the olllcers of tho Danmark left her deck her bow was clear of the water and her stern almost submerged. The Missouri sailed from London March 28 for Philadelplda, but with the emergency of her burdensome compleinwit of jxtsseti gers, headed for the Assures as the nearest point. Mlie arrived there saiely and left "oao passengers, together with the officers ami crew. ! The first olllcers immediately started back to Copenhagen. The Missouri continued her voyago to Philadelphia with 340 of the Den mark's passengers aboard, which poH sho reached without incident. j The Azore Islands are ubout 700 luiles west of the coast of Portugal. The spot wlmrd thu waterlogged Danmark was HiKMted by the City of Chester was about 325 miles siorth- west of layal, almost in inid-fxsraw Iho Danmark was in the trough of the soa, and 'md apparently been abandoned some time. THE LABOR WOELDj Shop labor is busy and well paid. There are about 7,000,000 workers in EnB land Electrical appliances are in great de mand. A GRKA'deal of cotton machinery has been moving South. ) Four or five new glass works are to be built in Pittsburg. . j The Chicago carpenters are organizing to secure better wages. . j In New Bedford, Mass., $13,000,000 are, in vested in industries. ! The low price of copper has caused the Ari zona mines to shut down. The wood-working machinery makers pro pose to form a combination. I Three dollars a week are the wages of working milliner in London. . . A new cotton mill is to be built in Bidde- ford, Me., with 90,000 spindles. I In England the eight-hour question is even more vexed than in' this country, . j . As an unskilled laborer a man will receive double the salary paid a woman. Statistics show enormous reductions in the weights of marine steam engines. The shoemakers of the country are banded in unions, but only for sick benefit purposes. Lv a German shoe shop the foreman is paid 96.S0 and-$7 per week; good operators, to to . Textile manufacturers are ordering enormous .engines from 250 horse-power to 500. A great sugar refinery is to be established in Baltimore, with a capital stock of $1,000, 000. Australian paper makers are ordering paper making machinery from .Ohio manu facturers. . A one-arxed printer in Connecticut sets 1200 ems an hour and can get along as well as anybody. A CUT of cloth consists of about forty-six yards. Some weavers can weave over a ut a loom per day. The agitation for reduced hours of labor is creating quite a stir among working classes on the continent. Watch movements are now made so cheaplr by machinery that they cost at wholesale lest t han a dollar apiece. Deaths from mininz erolosions in England for 1888 were only forty-three. This is' the-' lowest record since 185L Union trade marks are legalized and pro tected by the New Jersey law, as a bill to that enect nas passed the Legislature. There are tailors in New York city who make a specialty of turning coats inside out and remaking them lor customers. The statistician of the National District of Paper Hangers reports a favorable condition in most cities, but not in New York. It is thought that if rail way servants in Great Britain worked only eight hours the railroad companies would tiave to employ about ijuo.ouu extra nands. Rubber waterproof goods are now to be manufactured in Guatemala, CentralAmerica, rrom native rubber to be obtained from the neighborhood of Escuintla. ; A Bennington (Vt) manufacturing con cern claims to have the first and only machine in the United States for- mirfag the long French welt in knitted underwear. . Den wis T. Kltnn is the name ef the man who will enjoy the honor of being the first bona fide white settler in the new Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Flynn u a former resident of Buffalo, N. .Y. He is a young Irish Amer ican, twenty-eight or thirty years of age. who drifted West decade ago to grow up i run tne country.
The North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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