THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. IV. NO. 44.
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Memorial Requiem of the Cintrlet.
The Archduke of Miramar in the island
of Majorca recently told a very romantic
li.it true anecdote to a traveler in his
Meditenanean principality. He related
that one morning, a few weeks ago, he
had chanced to come upon a stranger in
his grounds. He was a man no longer
very young. The Archduke eutered into
conversation with him; found that he
was a great traveler, spoke many lang
uages. In short, he was a man of the
world. Then he explained his object in
coming to Majorca.
“I had once a dear friend who be
longed to the island. He died lately,
and in losing him I lost all I cared for on
earth. I wished to do something to per
petuate his memory; not by means of a
cold stone monument or a gift to an insti
tution. These ordinary memorials would
not satisfy me. They mean nothing:
they are cold and empty. I thought I
would try and raise a less silent memo
rial to my friend. I have come all the
way from the Canary Islands for this pur
pose. I have brought with me a number
of canaries, and have set them at liberty
in the grounds of Miramar. You have
no canaries in Majorca; but why should
they not live in your beautiful climate as
well as elsewhere? At any rate, if they
thrive they wil propagate, and their
sweet song will be an everlasting chant
and requiem to the memory of my dead
friend. None shall know him; no other
record of him shall appear.”
The Archduke, who has much ro
mance in his temperament, was moved
by the poetry and beauty of the idea,
and by such rare fidelity to the memory
of a lost friend. He desired to know
the stranger's name.
“Sir,” he replied, “permit me to re
main unknown. I came to the island
yesterday, I depart to morrow. I wish
to leave no trace, no record behind me
of my visit. Let the birds chant my
requiem, with that of my lost friend.
With a low bow he departed and
Mnjorca knows him no more. The little
songsters arc flying about the woods
and lodging in the branches, and one
can only hope, with the mysterious
stranger, that their re : gn in the island
has taken root and will not cease.—
Argosy,
Curious is it to note, according to the
Far; Francisco Argonaut, how the power
of the London papers, in relation to the
counties, rose with tho expansion of the
railways, and declined as rapidly, with
the riec of the electric telegraph. It is
the latter discovery which has put an
end to the London press setting the tone
of politictl thought in the counties. The
telegraph, by oiit ruuning the railway,
enabled the provincial press to anticipate
the Loudon pre-a in items of news, con
cerning which, so long as railweyt were
the sole means of communication*, the
London press had anticipated them.
Hence the rapid and enormous develop
ment of local papers in the great manu
factoring centres and elsewhere. The
British press, as an advertising and
n- as-collecting agency, is, nt the present
moment, in the renith of its g eatnrse
one of the wonder* of lbs world.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The Prififce of Wales is in Berlin.
The Paris and provincial banks are re
using to receive 500 franc notes of the
Bank of France because of the enor
mous quantities of counterfeits in circu
lation
The French Senate cothtaitee, to which
the matter was Itsftetttd, hte Abbtovted
the Panama efibai tota. the Senate
the ciaiiXes of the military
trill "king the duration of service at
three years in the active army, six years
and a half in the reserve, six years in
the territorial force, and nine years and
a half in the territorial reserve.
A terrible explosion took place in Mer
lot’s cartridge and fireworks factory, be
tween Pantin and Pre streets, Gervaiscs,
Paris, by which sixty buildings were de
stroyed. Eleven dead bodies have been
taken from the ruins, and twenty-one
persons, all more or less injuied, have
been rescued.
The marriage ceremony of Prince
Henry, second son of Emperor Frederick
and the Princess Irene, third daughter
of the Grand Duke Ludwig, of Hesse,
was solemnized in the chapel of the
Chariottenburg Castle, near Berlin. The
Emperor was able to attend.
Bishop O’Dyer, of Limerick, ireland,
has sent a letter to the mayor of Lim
erick giving warning that Catholics who
attend the League meeting announced to
be held on Sunday will be guilty of
grievous sin in view of the admonitions
of the Papal prescript. The National
League, at a meeting at Cork, endorsed
the manifesto recently given to the pub
lic by the Parncllite members of Parlia
ment.
A Disastrous Cyclone,
A dispatch from Bonham, Texas, says
that a destructive cyclone swept over
Brownton, twenty-five miles east Os
there, destroying the Methodist, Baptist
and Congregational churches and eight
dwellings. One building was carried
across the railroad track arid crushed,
and Amanda Willis, colored, who had
taken refuge inside, was instantly killed.
Eight persons, including the sheriff and
county recorder, were fatally injured.
The damage will exceed $12,000. The
path of the storm was three hundred
yards wide, and everything within those
limits, crops, fences, barns, outhouses
and trees, was swept away. A terrible
rain, hail and a lightning storm fol
lowed.
A Corsicana, Texas, special says: The
storm began at 11 o’clock and continued
for half an hour. The damage to busi
ness and residence property will exceed
$25,000. Damage to crops cannot be
estimated, but it is very great. Over a
dozen buildings were unroofed. The
drygoods establishment of A. Fox &
Bro. sustains a losa of SIO,OOO. About
a dozen small houses were demolished.
No lives were lost. The colored Metho
dist church and Odd Fellows’ hall were
blown to pieces. Nearly all the trees In
the city and for miles surrounding were
blown down,
A Disastrous Waterspout.
A waterspout fell in the northwestern
part of Dawes county, Neb., burying
five miles of the Fremont, Elkhorn ana
Missouri Valley track and carrying away
a large number of cattle. Bridges across
the White and Lone Tree rivers were
carried away, and all the telegraph com
munication was cut off and it was im
possible to learn the full extent of the
damage. It is feared that a number of
settlers along these rivers have been lost.
The spout camo in. the form of a black
cloud, which resembled a large cart
wheel in rapid motion and appeared
about ten feet thick.
A Dispute Over Land.
Engineers of the Tennessee Steel and
Iron Company, while surveying in Wise
county, Va., were attacked by a body of
men in the bushes and two of the party
killed. A company of guards, in com
mand of Captain Sam Dotson, employed
to protect the engineers, were driven off
and routed. Great trouble is expected,
and settlers of the neighborhood warn
the engineers to leave immediately. The
cause of the trouble is that the settlers
claim the land, which claim is contested
by the iron company, who are trying to
eject the tenants.
One Man Killed and Tea Hurl by
Lightning.
A dispatch from New Orleans says:
At MilDhurg, a resort on Lake I’onchar
train, within a few miles of this city,
one man was killed und ten others in
jured, it is feared mortally, by a light
ning atroke. About 5 o’clock in the
evening a sudden storm came up from
the lake, and a large number of people
sought refuge in a tent in one of the
gardens. The atom lasted but a few
moments, but during its height the tent
was struck with the result above stated.
A $300,000 Fire.
The but ning of the stove works of the
Perry Stove Manufacturing Company, of
South Pittsburg, Tenn., on Saturday
night, resulted in the complete destruc
tion of the entire plant except the foun
dry, involving a loss of $200,000. The
fire department was powerless to itattie
against the flames. Except for the favor
able wind, the whole town would have
been .'estroyed. The total insurance is
$178,800.42.
Heavy Waterfall.
Heavy storms prevail over a great por
tion of the North and Weat. Tele
graphic communication with all points
west of Pittsburg Is precarious. News
service is practically cut off from a great
part of the Weat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1888.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The President has approved the bill to
increase the limit of coat for the public
building at Charleston.
Col, A. H: Matklatid; wild was super
intendent of the army mails under Gen.
Glint, died Saturday in Washington.
The President nominated to be post
mpters, Byron Lemlv, at Jackson,
Miss., .and Jefferson T. Whitman, at
Dalton, Ga.
Attorney General Garland has naked
for a deficiency appropriation of SIIO,OOO
for the payment of witnesses’ and jurors’
fees in the United States Court for the
current year.
Cardinal Gibbons, and all the other
church dignitaries who took part in
laying the corner-stone of the Catholic
University Thursday, called at the AVhite
House by special appointment and paid
their respects to the President.
Ih respect of patronage, the position
of Postmaster General is now the tndst
important in the Cabinet. The 50,000
postmasters who arte responsible for their
appointment to the chief of the depart
ment are supplemented by an immense
number of clerks who serve at Washing
ton, on the railroads and as examiners
and inspectors ail over the country, and
the Postmaster General is to the people at
large almost as influential a man as the
President himself.
In the House, Friday, the amendment
offered by J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, to in
crease the salary of the chaplain of the
House from S9OO to $1,200, gave rise to
some discussion, much of it of a banter
ing character, in regard to the amount of
praying which was necessary for the
well-being of the Democratic House.
The amendment was rejected—Bl to 82.
On motion of Mr. Davidson, of Florida,
the Senate bill was passed appropriating
$75,(M0 for the erection of a public
building at Tallahassee, Fla. The House
at its evening session passed thirty-eight
private,pension bills.
The corner-stone of the Divinity build-,
ing of the new Catholic University of
America was laid Thursday, but the
weather was so very bad that only about
3,000 people were present where 20,000
were expected, and the grand procession
under the direction of Gen. Rosecrans
had to be abandoned. The programme
of religious services was but partially
carried out. President Cleveland was
present, occupying a scat on the plat
form between Cardinal Gibbons and
Bishop Ireland. With the President
were also Secretaries Bayard, Vilas,
Whitney and Endicott, and Postmaster
General Dickinson.
USING lIIE VETO POWER.
The President vetoed the Senate bill
providing for a public building at
Youngstown, 0., on the ground that the
expenditure of $75,000 fer that purpose
is not justified. He also vetoed three
private pension bills for lack of merit in
the cases.
RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.
A cable message has been received at
the Department of State from Minister
Curry, at Madrid, Spain, confirming the
press reports in regard to the continu
ance indefinitely of the commercial ar
rangements now existing between this
country and Spain, which otherwise
would have expired on June 30.
THE ARMY BILL.
The House committee on military af
fairs has completed the army appropria
tion bill. The hill makes a total appro
priation of $24,289,700. The estimates
were $25,864,324. The appropriation for
the current fiscal year, which was $23. -
724,718, is increased by the bill $564,-
981. The principal items of increase are
$400,000 for dynamite guns and $100,009
for testing high explosives.
TnE AORICI’LTI’RAL BILL.
The House committee on agriculture
have finished the agricultural appropria
tion bill. It appropriates $1,591,860, an
apparent increase over the appropriation
for the current year of $977,280, but
$585,000 should he added to the bill of
last session, as the bill appropriating
that amount for agricultural experimental
stations was afterwards passed. The ap
priation fer this purpose in the bill just
completed is $600,000.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL,
as reported to the Senate, contains th*
House provision for Mobile harbor, (re
stored.) including the appropriation of
$250,000. The appropriation of $18,500
for Biloxi Bay is also restored. The ap
propriation for Pimlico and Tar rivers,
N. C., is increased to SIO,OOO and a new
item of $5,000 for Lumberton. N. C., ia
inserted. An item of $50,000 for Sny
levee is added. This is the levee which
recently broke and caused a disastrous
flood below Quincy, 111. The law cre
ating the Missouri River Commission is
repealed. The appropriation for the
Mississippi River started at $2,500,000,
including a number of specific expendi
tures which were provided for in the
House bill, but which were stricken out
by the Senate committee, and are now
restored. Surveys are recommended for
Saluda River, and also Owendaw and
Ward’s River, and other waters and
water routes connecting Bull’s Bay and
Charleston harbor. A survey of the Sa
vannah River is also ordered to ascertain
whether the damage to the freshet bank
Inst year was caused by the work at the
cross-tides, and whether the maintenance
of said bank is essential to the success of
the work at the cross-tides, and what
will be the cost of so constructing said
bank as to confine the waters of the
river to its bed. The Winyah Bay ap
propriation was not restored, but a pro
vision ia inserted authorizing the Secre
tary of War to appoint a board,composed
of three armv engineers, to examine
into the expediency of improving Win
iab Bay.
The total increase of the river and
harbor bill as reported to the Senate
over the bill as it left the House is a
million and a half dollars. Among the
principal Items, as they now stand, are the
following: lirihlovetneht Potomac River
at Washington, $4(K>;OOt); Savannah,
(harbor! s2o<j,ood; Mobile, $150,000;
Tampa Bay cape, . $50,OoO; Cape Feat
River, below Wilmington, $240,000;
Roanoke River, N. C., $40,000; Tadfeiii
River N. C., $10,000; Saltkebatchie
River, S. C-, $8,000; Waccamaw River,
North Carolina and South Carolina,
$10,000; Ocmulgee River, Ga., $7,500;
Catoosahatchie River, Fla., $10,000;
Black Warrior River, Ala., $150,000;
Tombigbee River, above Vienna, Ala.,
$12,000; inland waterway from Chinco
teague Bay, Va., to Delaware Bay, near
Lewes, Del., $25,000. St. Augustine,
Fla., was stricken out and referred to
the board of engineers. Key West, Fla.,
was stricken out and referred to the
board of engineers.
In the House Thursday, on motion of
Mt. Lathings. of Mississippi, the Senate
bill was passed foT the erection of the
public building at Vicksburg, Miss., at
Sn ultimate cost of SIOO,OOO.
dn motion 0 t Mr. TaUihee, of Ken
tucky, the Senate bill passed authorizing
the construction of bridges across the
Kentucky River and its tributaries by
the Louisville, Cincinnati and Virginia
Railroad Company.
On motion of Mr. Lee, of Virginia, a
bill was passed making inauguration day
a holiday in the District of Columbia.
The House then went into committee
of the whole (Mr. Turner, of Georgia, in
the chair) on the postoffice appropria
tion hill.
On motion of Mr. Blount, of Georgia,
the appropriation for the mail messenger
service was increased from $900,000 to
$950,000.
In the Senate Thursday the following
bills were reported and placed on the
calendar: Authorizing the cohsttuction
of a bridge across the Tennessee Bivet at
Chattanooga and Gunthersvilie, Ata.
Senator Stewart called up the joint
resolution offered by him on the 14th
Inst., for a constitutional amendment re
ducing to a simple majority the vote
necessary to override the Presidential
veto, and addressed the Senate on the
subject.
Senator Stewart closed his speech at
half past one, and then the conference
report on the appropriation bill was dis
cussed.
The President has returned to the
House, without his approval, the bill
providing for the erection of a public
building at Columbus, Ga.
A Crown for Mr. Davis.
More than 6,000 persons witnessed the
ceremonies connected with the laying of
the corner-stone of the Confederate mon
ument at Jackson, Miss. The procession,
headed by carriages containing distin
guished visitors and State officers, moved
from the city hall and paraded through
several of the principal streets. Mr.
Davis did not attend, owing to bad
health. Eight military companies and a
number of benevolent associations, about
one hundred war veterans and a large
Masonic representation were in line.
Adjutant General William Henry com
manded.
Upon arriving at the State capitol
building Miss Winnie Davis was con
ducted to the library chamber and for
mally introduced to the large crowd by
Governor Lowry. The ceremonies at
the monument followed, and were opened
by the reading of a letter from Mr.
Davis explaining his absence. Col.
Chas. E. Hooker delivered the oration,
and at the close presented Miss Davis
with a silver crown to be given by her
to her father. The crown is the gift of
three Mississippi gentlemen. Its pre
sentation was unexpected, not having
been announced in the programme. The
laying of the corner-stone with Masonic
ceremonies closed the exercises of the
day. In the evening a grand military
parade was held at the fair grounds by
the National Guard. The day passed off
pleasantly and without accident.
Swift Vengeance Taken.
Great excitement exists in the upper
portion of Union county, S. Q., in con
sequence of the brutal murder of Gun
nings Byers, a white youth of sixteen
years, by a negro named Ben Cunning
ham. This negro had previously had a
difficulty with Bvera’ father, on whose
farm he was a tenant, swearing ven
geance against the whole Byers family.
Cunningham took it on the first member
he met unprotected. Meeting young
Byers alone in the woods, he dealt him a
mortal blow on the head with an ax and
thon fled. A party are already in pur
suit, and it ia not likely that Cunning
ham can escape. There ia much talk of
lynching him, and unleaa he falls into
the hands of the authorities before the
pursuers take him he will doubtless never
come to trial.
Importaat Deciaiaa.
The Northern and Southern Presby
terians have decided not to unite until
all differences shall be settled. In the
I Southern Conference of that church,
just closed, the complaint of Dr. Wood
row against the Synod of Georgia, the
action of the Synod was sustained.
A Family Burned Alive.
Ghoverhurst, Out. —Frederick N.
Foye, township clerk, his'wife and three
children, aged 5, » and 11 years, were
burned to death in their house at Ufflng
ton, several miles from this place. A
girl of 16 was the only one of the family
saved.
Terms. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
North, East and West. i
Rev. Sam Jones is preaching in Rome, ■
Ga.. to 10,000 people dailv. i
William George, a murderer, was exe- 1
cuted in the Ohio penitentiary Wednes- 1
day.
The Richmond Grays were met with a
heatty welcome by the New York Mili- 1
tary. 1
Thete is a good prospect of Charleston '
having a fine line of steamers to the 1
North.
Col. Wilson Morris, auditor of Penn
sylvania, died at hi» residence in Phila
delphia Monday.
Bald-headed Indians are becoming nu
merous since the adoption of hats and ,
caps by the race.
St. Louis, Mo., will vote on June 80th
on the question of prohibition under the
local option law.
A fire at Hiseville, Ky., destroyed the
postoffice and half a dozen other build
ings. Loss, $20,000.
William Sherwood, of Baltimore, Md.,
has been sent need to prison for one
year for stealing a Bible.
It was estimated that from 15,000 to
20,000 gathered to witness the sham {
battle at Nashville, Friday.
Peak & Graves, dealers in dry goods, ,
Lynchburg, Va., have assigned. I.iabil- i
itiea between $25,000 and $30,000.
Henry George has been expelled from
the Twenty-third Assembly District As- 1
sociation of the United Labor party.
Memorial services were held over the
tomb of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in .
Montgomery cemetery, Pa., Sunday.
George Washington Ewing, member i
of the Confederate Congress, died at his i
home near Adairsville, Ky., Monday i
morning.
The annual commencement sermon be- j
fore the graduating class of Greensboro,
N. C., Female College was preached on :
Sunday morning by Rev. W. 8. Creasy.
Benoit Bttilledeau was waylaid and
killed on Thursday while passing through
a thick wood, tntee miles south of
Welsh, La.
Cardinal Gibbons has been notified of
the appointment of Dr. John S. Foley,
of St. Martin’s church, Baltimore, to be
Bishop of Detroit.
The Richmond and Danville and the
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroads are
both pushing their systems, and great
competition exists.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott was elected
permanent pastor of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, and the first regular successor
to Henry Ward Beecher, on Saturday.
Ten thousand people attended the
commencement exercises of the Claflin
University, colored, at Orangeburg, 0.
C., Wednesday.
Gen. R. L. Gibson succeeds himself as
Louisiana’s senior United States Senator.
There is still a deadlock in the caucus
for junior Senator.
The five new Methodist Bishops are
Drs. J. H. Vincent, Jas. N. Fitzgerald,
I. W. Joyce, D. A. Goodsell and Dr.
Newman, who was Grant’s pastor.
At Columbus, Ga., the directors of the
Chattahoochee Valley Exposition Com
pany held a meeting and decided to
open the exposition there on October 8,
and close it on October 20.
The Governor of South Carolina has
commuted to imprisonment for life the
death sentence of James Stowe, colored,
who was sentenced to hang at the April
term of court in York county.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church is in session at Balti
more. The case of Dr.’Woodrow at
tracts great attention. The Nortnera
Assembly of the same church ia in ses
sion at Philadelphia.
The Boston Journal says that “a
family consisting of two men. one
woman and two children have taken up
their abode in a mammoth hollow syca
more tree on the banks of the Kanawha
River, in West Virginia.”
A terrible tragedy occurred in Jack
son county, near Sylva, N. C. Logan
Bumgardner and his son Will were shot
and killed by Allen Dills, all three men
of prominence and respectability. The
tragedy was the culmination of an old
The first full year when the Brooklyn
bridge was open to traffic there were
11, passengers carried on the
bridge cars. Last year in eleven months
the number carried was 26,588,593. The
increase in the use made of the bridge is
enormous.
Four docoy letters were placed in the
pouch of city letter carrier Charles At
tendee at Atlanta. Three of the letters
were afterwards found broken open and
eight dollars stolen. Attender was at
once am sted, and is now awaiting the
action of the court.
Major W. A. Dunnington, in charge
of the United States Fish Commission
car No. 2, deposited three-quarters of a
million of young shad in the Savannah
River. He then left for Macon, Albany,
Tbomatville and Quitman, and he will
leave a half million young shad in each
place.
All the employes of the Milwaukee
road at Mitchell, Dakota, were notified
that they have been assessed one-third of
their pay for the first six days of the
month to help the company pay the
damages sustained through the “Q"
strike. Much indignation is felt.
The largest iron casting ever attempted
in America was recently made at Beth
lehem, Pa. It was the base for the steel
compressor to bu used in the new gun
steel works, and 124 tons of molten
metal were used. It will be some weeks
before the huge casting will be cool
enough to examine.
Joe James, white, and William Scott
and Louis Williams, colored, have been
arrested on suspicion of the murder of
Joe James, the elder, whose mysterious
murder in Darlington county, 8. C., a
few weeks ago, caused so much excite
ment in that section.
The manager of the Reading, Pa., Iron
Works notified one thousand hands in
their tube mills of a reduction of ten per
cent. The cause assigned is depression
in the trade and low prices. Tne men
suffered a reduction several months ago,
and they will hold a meeting to deter
mine if they accept this one.
A freight train on the Rock Island
Road went through a bridge near Ran
dolph Point, Mo., crashing into a ravine
twenty-five feet deep. A short time
after a freight train on the Hannibal and
St. Joe went througn a bridge which ad
joined the Rock Island, ana which had
been weakened by the first wreck. The
two engineers, a fireman and two tramps
were killed.
Oddities of Genius at Work.
Voltaire had in his room sometime*
five desks, at which he pursued different
tasks.
The great Romancer, Balzac, after a.
frugal dinner at six or seven o’clock,
was called at midnight, when he took a
eup of black coffee, or green rather, and
extremely strong, and worked till noon-‘
Pitt never ate but at his own table,:,
which was frugal; only when he hadj
some important affair to discuss he took
a little port wine with a spoonful of!
Peruvian bark.
Addison speaks of an advocate who
would never plead a case without
his hand to the end of a thread drawn
tightly around one of hiß thumbs all the:
time his speech lasted. The wags said
it was the thread of his discourse.
Dr. Shapman relates that a celebrated I
advocate, of London, always applied a;
blister to his arm whenever he had aa|
important case to plead.
The historian. Mezeray, would work,
only with a candle, even at midday and I
midsummer. He never failed to wait on
his visitois, even to the street, with a
candle in his hand.
Bossuet worked in a cold room, with!
bis head warmly enveloped.
It is said that Schiller, before compos
ing, put his feet in cold water.
Guido Reno painted with much pomp.,
He dressed himself magnificently, and
had his pupils attend him in silence
ranged around him.
Sarti, the musician, composed only in:
darkness.
Michael Angelo, Leonardo de Vinci,.
Titian, Rubens, passed from the chisell
to the pen or the brußh. The change
rested them from the preceding work;:
and thus, during long life, theyl
accomplished marvellous works.
Some persons can think only standing,
or in walking the room with swift strides.
Some, like Montesquieu, compose in aJ
postchaise.
Buffon wrote in lace ruffles; Alexander,
Dumas in his shirt sleeves.
Milton composed his “Paradise Lost”
on a large armchair, with his head thrown,
back.
When Fox had eaten heartily he
would retire to his Btudy, envelop hia
head in a napkin soaked in vinegar and
water, and work sometimes ten houri in;
succession.
Jeremy Bentham jotted his ideas on
little squares of paper, which he piled I
upon each other, and this pile of little'
papers stitched together was tho first
forms of his manuscripts.
Napoleon had his particular mode of
meditation and work. When he waa
not in council he stayed in his study,
talked to himself and sung, or like a:
child, cut tho aims of his chair; then
suddenly rousing up, would give the
plan of a monument to be erected, or of
one of the great military movements
which astonished the world. —Com msreial
Adecrtiur.
The Industries or tho Metroplls. '
“Some facts that I have learned from
the canvass just closed,” said a man who
had been assisting in the compilation of
the New York City Directory to a World j
reporter, “maybe interesting as com
pared with those found in last year's di
rectory. These facts were gleaned from
the huge mass of unpublished material at
my disposal, and will be found correct
in every particular. The leading indus
try in point of numbers continues to b»
its saloons, of which the names of 7230
were given in last year’s directory. The*
canvass just closed reveals the fact that
180 new ones have been started. Thoia
who have a ‘sweet tooth' will be glad to,
know that seventy confectioners hsvo
started shops, making the number now
1010. There are 803 retail drygooda
stores to 720 last year, and the dressmak
ers have |kept up with the procession by
increasing their numbers from 1460 to
1690. The butchers and bakers havu
not been standing still, the former now
having 2835 shops as compared with
2732 last year, and the bakers 1270 to
1312. We have now 3020 physicians to
cure the ills that flesh is heir to, and 725
druggists to fill their prescriptions. Last
year the numbers were respectively 2830
and 720. There are 792 r-staurante, 872
hotels and 552 boarding houses. New
York is shaved at 1910 barbershops,
whereas a year ago 1820 sufficed, and it
now takes 2112 tailors to clothe us,
where before 2060 did the work. Our
feet are attended to at 2762 shoe stores,
where twelve months ago 2640 did it re
markably well. To teach the young idea
there arc 610 schools. The newspapers
and periodicals have increased from 840
to 980. Os lawyers there arc 4512, at
compared with last yesr's 4360, and the
?;rocers have prospered and multiplied
rom 4820 to 5102. Taken all in all, I
think New York has a right to be satis
fied with her growth since the close of
the last directory yeur.”
It it better to be nobly remembered
than nobly born.