North Carolina Newspapers

THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER. VOL. IV. NO. 39. THE Charlotte Messenger IB PUBLISHED Every Saturday, AT CHARLOTTE, N. C. In the Intereete of the Colored People of the Country. Able and well-known writers will contrib ute to its columns from different iiarte of the country, and it will contain Gen eral News of the day. Ths Messenger is a first-class newspaper and will not allow personal abuse in its col umns. I', "is not sectarian or partisan, but independent— dealing fairly by all. It re serve* the right to criticise the shortcomings of all (public officials—commending the worthy, and recommending for election such men as in its opinion are best suited to serve the interests of the people. It is intended to supply the long felt need of a newspaper to advocate the rights and defend the interests of the Negro-American, especially in the Piedmont section of the Carolina*. SUBSCRIPTIONS: (Always in Advance.) 1 year - - $1 50 S months - - - 100 0 months - - 75 3 months - - 50 2 months • - - 36 Single Copy - - 5 Address, W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC, There is a movement on foot in Mexi co to encourage the emigration of Ger man farmers and to increase the produc tion of cotton in the northeastern part of the Republic. Mr. R. H. Scott recently delivered a lecture on British and Atlantic weather at the London institution. After some interesting remarks on the effect of dif ference of height upon vapor, the de pcndence of our weather on the upward or downward movement of the atmo sphere in cyclonic and anti-cyclonic systems, and on the cause of fogs, he discussed the utility of the present American reports in forestalling storms, based on a consideration of their move ments as shown by the Atlantic weather charts lately published by the metero logical council. These charts showed that only a small proportion of storms -traveled across the Atlantic. The track of the depressions is determined by the distribution of pressure over the ocean, and of this distribution we are ignorant at the time of despatch of telegrams from America. The lecturer stated that in their present incomplete form the tele grams were of no assistance to the meteorological office in is*, 'ing storm warnings. The Auk, the organ of the American •ornithologists, in an article condemning the wanten killing of birds of plumage for ornamental purposes, says that “the lovely wooden islands off the gulf coast of Florida, where only a few years ago the roseate spoonbill, the reddish egret, all the common species of herons, and the white ibis nested in myriads, never to be forgotten by those who had visited the favored spots, are now almost entire ly deserted, their former occupants hav ing been almost exterminated by the plume hunters. To so great an extent has this bird-murder, perpetrate.] to pan der to the fashion of women appearing like the jackdaw of the fable m bor rowed plumes, prevailed, that one dealer alone at Fort Myers regularly employed from forty to sixty gunners,paying them at an average of forty tents, or twenty P"ncc for each skin, the result being that at one breeding place of the beauti ful egrets Mr. Scott found a huge fester ing pile of rotten birds which had re cnnt!y been • shot off their nests in the trees, le iving their young to perish mis erably of slow starvation, and from two hundred of the-e wretched remains the lovely black plumes only had b°en torn away. Another small island in the gulf contained a colony or ‘rookery,* as it is there termed, of pelicans. This was protected by the owner, with the inten tion of permitting the birds to rear their young; but one day an old French dealer came with a boat and deliberately killed off about one huudrecTand eighty - od J birds as they were feeding their young, which, of course, died of starva tion. Such are merely a few instances of the extermination that is being con ducted on a truly American scab <a* re gards its thoroughness; for the supply of articles required by the exigencies of the female fashion of the day.*’ A STATESMAN DEAD. A Talented aod Useful Man Lest to Eartla. A New York special says: Mr. Conk ling died at 1:50 Wednesday morning. At 9 o’clock last night reports from Mr. Conkling’s bedside were conflicting. The rumor of his death which had been circulated seems to have been given out by a hotel porter. Colonel Fred Conk ling came out of the house and said posi tively that his father was not dead, but that he could not live twelve hours. This was the first official announcement from the house since the rumor was float ed out through the porter. Drs. Barker and Sands left the sick chamber at 9:35. Dr. Barker denied that Mr. Conkling was dead, but said he was sinking rapidly, and would in all probability die before morning. His sys tem is giving way rapidly, and he was very weak and he had lost all conscious ness. Dr. Barker called at 10:50 o’clock last night and remained until 11 o’clock. He said that Mr. Conkling was failing rap idly. His extremities were becoming cold. His legs were quite cold. He was pulseless. His respiration was very quick. He did not think Mr. Conkling could live much longer. In fact he did not think he would live tw’o hours. He was suffering from general failure of nervous system. At the bedside of the dying man were Mrs. Conkling, Judge Cox, Dr. Ander son, Mrs. Oakham (Mr.Conkling’s daugh ter) and a professional nurse. Mr. Conk ling passed away without moving a limb. He looked as though peacefully sleeping. There were a number of persons outside on the street waiting to catch the last re port. Within doors there were between forty and fifty persons, also waiting to hear the worst. Tney were composed chiefly of representatives of the press and friends of the dead Senator. ANOTHER PULPIT WONDER A Lad of Eleven Years Who Preaches with Great Intellectual Force. The Rev. Sam. Jones preached a few days ago at Eminence, Ky., with a new companion—the boy preacher, Pascal Porter. The latter is a juvenile wonder, who has created a sensation wherever he has preached, and who is coming to Louisville with Mr. Jones in a few days. Pascal Porter is a handsome eleven year old lad. Dressed in knickerbockers and plaited blouse, a jaunty little hat and high button shoes, he makes no more impression on the casual observer than any well-dressed boy of 11, but a close scrutiny will show the observer that there is something unusual about the lad. This impression is made when onfe looks at his large, brown eyes, that have in them an expression beyond boy hood—a thoughtful light that indicates developed intellect. His manner, aho, while emiuently boyish, is so full of ner vous force as to at once impress a close observer. In the pulpit he loses all of his boyish mannerism, and if be hail not the form and dress of a child the audience could bi.t feel that a man of wonderful intellect and culture was addressing them. The incredulous say that Pascal’s ser mons show far too extensive a vocabu lary to be accounted for on the theory of the abnormal development of any intel lectual faculty, since of necessity it would take much more time than he has had far him to have learned the language sufficiently. However that may be, the youngster preached sermons of wonderful eloquence and fluency, quoting readily from all jx>rtions of the Bible. His father, who travels with him, says the faculty showed itself in the little fel low when he was about seven years old, I by his delivering lectures and sermons to his fellow Sunday school scholars at his own instance. He has been preaching regularly now ! nearly two years, and has been travelling all the time for three months past. The | family live in Jefferson county, Ind., near Madison. The Biggest Bobcat in America. There arrived in Bangor on Monday night by the American Express, from | 3reeuville, one of the. largest wildcats, i>r bobcats, ever seen in Maine. When placed upright he stood as high as any ; log in town, and, in length and general ' wake up, was far more powerful than a wolf. In length he measured, from tail to snout, three feet, while from aind foot up the leg and to the fore foot the length was four and i half feet. The legs were as , ar go around as the calf of an average nan, and the head was net unlike that Df a panther. In the exact centre of the forehe id was a bullet hole, showing that the marksman, whoever he was. was a fellow of nerve and a sure shot. Such in animal as this one was could easily nave pulled down any living thing in our forest, sa c a bear or a porcupine .and it is fortunate for our lumbermen that fel lows of his sort are not plenty. The cat will Le mounted here. On the Field of Battle. An army officer tells this story: 11 At the battle of Gettysburg, heavy lighting was going on at the front. The wound ed in great numbers were being carried past us to the rear. At this moment when one’s backbone needed all the bracing possible. I saw on a tree, some little distance from me, a paper which looked ko much like a notice of a horse race or a public sale that 1 left my posi tion and rode up to read it. “ Phansy my felink*,’ as Veilowplush says, when I read the folloving: “Bodies of otfi ?er.s carefully emlmlme I and forwarded by early express to their friends for fifty dollars. S. B.—The bodies of privates tt half-price. A , Undertaken tad Embalmers. ” CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1888. CAROLINA SHOCKED The Sudden Death of Secretary of State Leitner. Attacked with Heart Dlneaee While HU Preaarlaa far Charch- Extlact Before the Aiteadance ms a Ph Valeria a Coaid he !«eeared. The Hon. Z. W. Leitner, Secretary of State, died suddenly at his residence in Columbia. The news will give as great a shock to the people of South Carolina as it does to those of Columbia, who have been among the warmest of the secretary. He sat down to hreakfapt but ate very sparingly. Alter breakfast he walked out to the State House grounds and conversed for a little while with friends, and then returned to the house, lay down on a sofa in his sitting room while his family were preparing to go to church. A few minutes after wards, when one of the household re turned to the room. Major Leitner was found lying on the floor convulsed with pain. Dr. A. N. Talley, a coliege-mate and friend of the secretary, was instantly sent for, and in a few minutes was upon the spot, hut niton his arrival life was extinct. Major Leituer died of paralysis of the heart. The attack, as it always is in heart disease, was sudden and severe. Secretary of State William Z. Leitner was born in Fairfield county, near Winnsboro. on September 3, 1329, and was therefore in his 59th year. He en tered the South Carolina College in 1847 and was graduated in the class of 1849. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar. Devoted to his people and to the for tunes of his State, he entered the mili tary service of South Carolina in the Camden Volunteers on April 8,1861, and was present at the bombardment of Fort Sumter. After the surrender of the fort he went to Virginia, wh?re he was en gaged in most of the battles fought by the army of Northern Virginia. At Gettysburg his right leg was shattered below the knee by grajieshot and was amputated. Duriug the war and immediately after the war he was elected to the Legisla ture from Kershaw county at the head of the ticket. He was also elected District Judge and held that position until the District Courts were set aside by the military commander during the recon struction period. In 1876 he led the Democratic cam paign in his county, but was defeated by the Republican candidate. In 1884 he was elected to the State Senate from Kershaw county, and served in that body until his nomination and election ns Sec retary of State two years ago. The funeral services of the late Secre tary of State. Major W. Z. Leitner, were held in Columbia. In evidence of re spect to the memory of the honored dead, the State and Federal flags were displayed during the day at half-mast from the St-te House, and all ’of the State offices were closed. Sixty mem bers of the Survivors' Association of Richland county, of which Major Leit ner had l>een a vice president, assembled at the residence of the deceased and formed a guard of honor for the remains. Each wore a blue badge and a knot of crape on the left bresist. From the residence on Senate street the funeral procession moved to Wash ington street Methodist church, of the deceased was a member. The sur vivors marched two abreast in advance of the hearse. The attendance at the church was very large and thoroughly representative. The services at the Methodist churc h were conducted by the Rev. William Martin, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Richardson, the pastor of the church. Mr. Martin’s prayer was elo quent and touching. Leaving the church for the place of interment, the funeral procession moved in the same order to Elmwood cemetery, where the service at the grave was con ducted by the Rev. Mr. Martin. It was quite dark Indore the last words were s|K)ken. and the remains of the gallant soldier and jiatriotic citizen were left in their quiet resting place. Losses by Fire. A fire destroyed a half block in the heart of the business portion of Owens boro. Ky. The water works company had shut down without notice to the city, aud the fire department was for a time useless, allowing the fire to gain great headway. The loss is placed at $159,000; insurance, $75.000. A ure at Bamlx-rg, S. Cl, destroyed all the wooden ]>art of Maiu street. Loss on buildings, $11,450; insurance, $4,400. Loss on stock and other i»ersonal prop erty, $19,450; insurance, f 8,450. At Peoria, Ills., the City brewery, owned by Leysty 8r09., was entirely de stroyed by tire. Loss, $75,000; insur ance. $35*006. At East Cairo, Ky., fire destroyed the Mobile and Ohio round-house and three locomotives. Total loss probably $75,- 000. The Wheeling, West Virginia, factory and its contents were burned —cause, natural gas. At New Haven, Conn., fir • completely gutted the large three-story brewery of Philip Fresenins & Sons and ileatroyed the boiler house, liam and several smaller huil ings. Loss. $150,900. Insurance $49,909. Fire supposed to lx: iuceu diary. The Speed of Fish. It it understood that for sh'>rt dis tances the Mitnou is the swiftest of fish. It has been calculated that ita speed, at ligh pressure, or under chase, is from ;m cnty to twenty-five miles an hour. It i§ calculated that sharks are capable of seeping up a speed of from seventeen to twenty miles an hour. The whale, when aard pressed, can make alxmt fifteen j miles an hour, though its usual speed | teldom exceeds five. | GOSSIP SAMS* CAP. ITOL What oar Bany Law Makers are Doing. Coaaresslonal and Other News. The President has nominated Thomits T. T. Tunstall, of Mobile, Ala., to be United States consul at San Salvador. The house which was purchased in Washington for the widow of General Hancock has been presented to her by the chairman of the committee, Stilson Hutchins. It is a four-story brown stone structure. The Comptroller ol Currency has de clared the first and final dividend of one hundred per cent and interest in full, payable on and after the 16th instant, in favor of the creditors of the Metropoli tan National Bank, of Cincinnati, O. The President has appointed Fred erick R. Coudert, of New York; Frank lin MacVeigh, of Ilpnois; Alex. C. Has kell, of South Carolina; M. A. Har.na, of Ohio, and James W. Savage, of Ne braska. as government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company. By a unanimous vote the House com mittee on Elections decide* l the contested election ease of Nathan Frank vs. John M. Glover, in the Ninth Missouri dis trict, in favor of Mr. Glover, the sitting member. The two Republican members of the committee were absent from the meeting* Senator Hampton, while out horse back riding a few pays ago, met with an accident which has confined him to his apartment ever since. The horse stumbled and fell, the Senator breaking his arti ficial leg and bruising his hand in the fall. His injuries are by no means seri ous, and he expects to be out again in a few days. The secretary of the Washington Asso ciation of the Alumni of the University of Virginia lias received dispatches from New York, New Orleans, Golveston, St. Louis and San Francisco stating that large and enthusiastic meetings of the Alumni in those places were held Friday to celebrate the anniversary of the birth day of Thomas Jefferson. The Sec retary of the Treasury has ap pointed Postmaster Aloxvry disbursing agent for the new public building at Charleston, S. O. The compensation, which is 3-8 of 1 per cent of the amount disbursed, wras so small that no desirable person could be foimd who was willing to accept the designation, consequently Mr. Mo wry was .selected to discharge the duties in connection with the postmaster ship. The weather-crop bulletin, issued by the signal offices, says: The weather for the week has been favorable for growing crops in all agricultural districts. Re ports from the Southern States show that the week was favorable for cotton and cane, and that small grain crops have been affected favorably. The season is probably ten days advanced in the Mid dle Atlantic States, and from fifteen to twenty days late in the Northwest, where seeding is progressing slowly. The House committee on the Merchant Marine authorized a favorable report ou the Dunn bill making it lawful for citi zens of the United States to buy vessels built in whole or in part in any foreign country, import them free of duty or other charges and have them registered as vessels of the United States, ami to be entitled to all the rights and subject only to the same regulations as vessels built wholly within the United States. It provides further that all or any part of the materials necessary for the construc tion and equipment of vessels to be built and furnished in the United States after January 1, 1889, may be imported in bond, and upon proof that such mate rials have been used for such purpose, no duties shall be collected or paid thereon. NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURE The Siare Board ol Asricultnre Mecfn the Collrire Trustem. There was a joint meeting of the State Board of Agriculture ami the trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh, which was very important in the material aud money used. The assets of the college were shown to amount to $21,000. There was in the smashed State National Bank $8,300 of the college’s funds. Iu this the amount was scaled to twenty cents on the dollar in the estimate, although the bank ex aminer thinks it will pay more. It is estimated that other funds will be real ized from the Board of Agriculture to increase the amount available during the present fiscal year, ending November 30, when the new appropriations will begin. It was decided to proceed with the erec tion of the college building, and all this part of the matter was left to the execu ! tive committee for its immediate atten tion That committee is composed of \V. S. Primrose, chairman, A. Leaser, ! W. F. Green, 11. L. Grant ami 11. E. I Fries. The first building to be erected I will lx* of bricK, three stories high, and 69 by 170 feet in size, broken with wings. It will be the main agricultural building, and is to cost thirty tbuusaud dollars. The money in h ind and availa ble during the current w ill be used, and if expended before the end of the year, work will be suspended until the new appropriation Iwcomcs available. Arrangements were made for a vigorous prosecution of the work on the farm which surrounds the eolJge. Much work has already lx*en done on this. Great interest is manifested in the college. Valuable aid bus been afforded by the penitentiary authorities in the way of preliminary work ou the farm. To Japan a husband if held responsi ble for hit wife’s gossip. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS NORTH CAROLINA. L. Heilbroner & Bro., of Tarboro, have made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. R. L. Lang is assignee. The liabilities are $28,000. Assets esti mated at SIO,OOO. Preferred debts aggre gate about $15,000. A car load of cotton in transit, con signed to the Henrietta mill, was dis covered en fire four miles from Shelby. The train was run to a tank and the tire extinguished without great damage. Pieces of exploded pyrotechnics w r ere found in the car. The entire force employed in the con struction of the Wilkesboro Railroad have struck for an increase of 25 per cent in wages. The railroad authorities offered to allow the increase, but de manded twelve hours work instead of ten, as heretofore. Meanwhile work is at a standstill pending negotiations. There wa9 a destructive fire at Reids ville. The losses are estimated at $25,- 000, and are as follows: G. S. Kenodle, store, SIO,OOO, insurance $5,000; Wil liamson Bro. & Co., stock of merchan dise, $12,000, insurance $6,000; 11. J. Martin, livery stable, SI,OOO, insurance $400; Reidsville Times office. $1,500, in surance S4OO. Several small buildings were burned. In Cabarrus county, some time ago, the barn belonging to Dr. Rufus T. Shimpock was set on tire and burned with much valuable forage and corn, to gether with reapers, mowers and other farm machinery. The loss was heavy. Henry Glover, a white man fifty years old, and his son, aged twenty-one, were talking with a man whom they thought a bitter enemy of Dr. Shimock, and among other things they said: “We gave it to his old barn.” This led to their being suspected of having burned the bam. They are now in jail at Con cord. While Hiram Cowan was plowing on his farm in Rowan county he heard the report of a gun, and at the same time felt a stinging sensation of shot entering his body. Medical attention was sum moned, and over twenty No. 6 shot were in his body, three of which had pene trated the lungs. Twelve shot struck the house. According to Cowan’s state ment, his oldest son was in some bushes near where he was plowing, and the gun went off accidentally. His son was very ! much prostrated by grief and sorrow' over the occurrence. He is eighteen i yevrs old. HOIJTH CAROLINA. Governor Richardson has appointed Col. J. Q. Marshall Secretary of State, to ; fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. W. Z. Leituer. A few days ago Mr. Robert Gifford, of Hampton county, South Carolina, was violeatly thrown from his buggy by a runaway mule and instantly killed, not far from his residence. He leaves a family and a large circle of friends. Mr. Wing, the sawyer at Moses & Harby’s mill, nine miles below’ Sumter, on the Central Road, was severely in jured by the smashing of an emery wheel. His face was badly bruised and the collar-bone broken. Peter Watson, a negro, was’ drowned in the Catawba river where it traverses Fairfield county. He and a white man were crossing the river* in a bateau, which suddenly capsized and threw both out* The white man swain to the shore but the negro soon sank. A negro named Albert Dans, in at tempting to jump from dredge to a tug. near Port Royal, missed Lis footing, fell between the boats and was crushed, and before aid could reach him fell into the water and sank. His body has not been recovered. An insane negro named Ward Martin, who was lodged in the jail of Spartan burg county preparatory to being brought to the lunHie asylum, committed sui cide by beating his brains out against the wall of his cell. He had been in jail only a few* hours, and it seems it was not thought necessary to take precautions against suicide. At SLstrunks, one negro was killed and two negroes and a white man were wounded. Later it was learned that B. Lee Jeffcoot was retailing whiskey to negroes on the road, when they were fired into from ambush. One negro was killed and three wounded. .Jeffcoot was hit between the eyes and is in a critical condition. The coroner ami sheriff are at the scene of tr.c affray. Charles P. Hoffman, postmaster at Blvthewood, was brought before the United States Commissioner at Columbia charged with detaining and destroying mail matter left for delivery. He was i bound over to appear ut court for trial. It is alleged that on the occasion sped- j fled in the warrant he burned a whole barrel full of mail matter left at the of- j lice to be dispatched. Other irregulari-1 ties arc also charged. Hoffman denies the charge aud says he is the victim of a ; conspiracy. NORTH. E.%*T AND XVE*T Forty nersons were killed and about | five hundred injured by a tornado at! Dacca, India. The Bmiington Road has restored , rates on freight. This means an end to | the freight rate war. The city clerk of Bucyrus, Ohio, W. ! 8. Welsh, has lieen arrested oil the charge of embezzlement. i G. I). Allen & Bros., large land and ; cattk* ow ner* of Hartland, Kansas, have ! failed. Liabilities, $1 Term $1.50 per Annm Single Copy 5 ceats. At Terre Haute, Ind., the State Nor mal School building was burned to the ground. Loss, $189,000. The upper Mississippi and its tribu taries in Wisconsin and Minnesota are at flood tide, aud doing a good deal of mis chief. Sam Wolff, of the firm of B. Wolff & Bro., the largest firm of furniture deal ers in Montgomery, Ala., committed suicide. At Bristol, Tenn., the large planing and manufacturing mills owned by Buf fum & Co. have been burned. Loss, $25,000; insurance, $5,000. J. S. Simon, the defaulting ex-treas urer of Drake county, Ohio, has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary and to pay a line amounting to about $48,000 aud costs. Two negroes, w’hose names could not be learned, fought a duel with pocket knives near Birmingham, Ala., at a rail road camp. One of them was fatally stabl>ed and the other escaoed. Thomas Sholcs, who with his brothers owns a mimber of grocery stores through out New York City, and is reputed to be wealthy, was sentenced to the peni tentiary for three months for selling oleomargarine. Matthew’ Arnold, the noted poet, scholar, critic and theologcan, whose article on “Civilization of the United States” attracted marked attention, died suddenly in Liverpool, Eng., of heart disease. Thomas Kennedy, a son of Aliffiin Kennedy, one of the wealthiest railroad and cattle men in Texas, was shot and killed at Brownsville by Deputy Sheriff Jose Maria De Esparzo, a well-to-do ranchero. Kennedy had been paying marked attention for some time to Dona Elivera De Esparzo, wife of the deputy sheriff. A TENNESSEE MYSTERY. Unearthing; a Tragedy After Nearly Four Years. . The American's Tullahoma (Tenn.) special says that Col. Anderson gives the facts known concerning the disappear ance of John W. Neal and his relation ship with Maude St. Pierre, the alleged woman of wealth. Three years and ten months ago Maude St. Pierre pretended to have great wealth, and wanted to buy all of Jhe vast ranges of mineral laud iu that section. She represented that John W. Neal was her private secretary. It turned out, however, that her first check for $1,500 was dishonored, that Neal had delirium tremens and thit he had wandered away in one of these fits and got lost in a thicket, where he died and where his remains were found a few days ago and identified by portions of his clothing. The rumor that he w*as mur dered is untrue. His body was found just one mile from his last disapjx»arance from human eyes. The lady who has been so prominent in this case was last heard from in Florida, but her where abouts during the past three years has re mained an impenetrable mystery. A Collection of Crowns. The next room to the throne room of the Kremlin Palace, in Russia, con tains probablv the finest collection of jewels in the world, even more valuable than those of the holy synod, but not so rare and curious, here is an as semblage of crown, most of them coming from the palaces where the thrones were stolen, and some time worn by royal heads. 3he crowns of Poland, Kazan, Georgia, Astrakan, Persia and others are more splendid, being covered with some of the largest and most precious stones ever known-e-“crow T na upon crowns, oceans of pearls, risers of diamonds,” as one writer has expressed it. Beyond them are the ancient crowns of the U/ars, the double ore for Peter the Great and his half-witted brother being the m >st curicn.B, and it sit 3 be fore a double throne, with a place be hind the drapery where their sister Sophia used to sit arid prompt them what to do aud say on occasions of ceremony. The costliest crown in the entire col lection was made l*y thr order of Peter the Great for the Swedish peasant girl, who became his wife and the Empress Catherine 1., the number of d amoudsin it being 2536, all of them large tiawMcss stones of the first water, with the larg est and finest ruby in the world as a crest. The crown of Ivan' the Terrible has some of the larest stones, very largr and perfect turquoises and sapphire* of creat purity and value. In tin* room is i large ca-ket of soli 1 gold, whi h con tains the ode of the Czar Alexis.— C . ica/o Nc icm. An Ancient Umbrella. An umbrella that was brought to this country from Holland iu 1 too hi* been mi exhibition in Albany, N. V. It bears the name of an Italian maker. It has beeu asserted that umbrellas are a later invention than 1630 and taat an English man first appeared in the streets of Lon don in the last century with one to pro tect h.m from the ruin. The fact is, however, that umbrellas were in use by the Egyptians 4000 years ago. The um brellas seen sometimes attached to a vehicle in the streets are seen pictured upon the wall paintings of ancient Egypt- A Web-ionte;l <3iri. A gentleman living in Albina, Oregon, tells the Albina V urler man of a t-irl born at Eola near Independence, who i* web footed, for a fact. The girl u non nineteen years of age and lives at a littl* town on the Oregon Hallway and Navi gation. She is a handsome girl, wear* * •mall >hoe. and, with the exception ol the webi between the toes, has as ahap* ly a foot as any young lady. __