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NO. 38;
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WASHINGTON, D. CV
1 IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE
What Our Lavaakers are dels? at the
JTational Capital
1
of
Missouri, had the clerk -i.rf
J f t0 effect that
the efforts ofih democrats in the House
to pass a b f Qt thT relief of Cherokee
f,IP n was the result of a bargain
?V -a the freedmen's attorney, J. Milton
Turner, and was intended as compen
sation to him for his services in' 'the In
dianapolis" colored convention. i
Mr. O'Neil desired to brsn't the
.Statement as an absolute lie."' '
The Hojsc then went intc a commit ,
tee of the whole oti general appropria
tion bills. - ? '. ;
la the call of the House a bare Quorum
was shown, but-no 'quorum developed
when the utstion re-oe'eurred on the
i sitting aside of the fertificalioni bill.
irri at 3:30 the House adjourned. 4
nance committee. , .
The consideration of the fisheries
treaty was then resumed 'i . .
The Presidential vetoes of three i pen
sion bills were presented and referred.
After a brief secret section the Senate
atop. ox. adjouihed.
yWESCXfl-Th"S Jlcuse went into
comtnirtee t5? tne whole on the fortitica
tiet appropriation bill,
The tending point of order against the
eEtabEshment of a gun faetory at Wa
terverlet arsenal was .withdrawn. '
Mr. Nutting, of, Xew York, offered aS
aneudment appropriating fSO.'OoO for
the erection of a dock and appliances at
some point "cn Lake Ontario for the
building of armed ships. This led to a
long discussion, but the amendment was
j finally rejected ;
ice DUt-was tbn I gported to the
liouse and ws fit Over until to morrow,"
and the House at 5 o'clock adjourned.
'Senate The Sherman resolution
offered yesterday, calling on the Secre
tary of the Treasury for Statement of
amounts deposited in the National Banks
on August i, 1898, wes passed. Mr.
Morgan then resumed hie argument, in
favor of his resolution to postpone the
fisheries treaty until December. After
remarks by Piatt, George and Chandler,"
Mr. Vest said'that no- treaty could be '
ratified byths Senate which had been
negotiated ; by Cleveland's administra
tion by the man who was a liviD bar
rier to the Republican party : srsinintri
power. j
, On motion of Mr. Frye it was ordered
that the vote on ilr. Morgan's motion
shculd take pact at noon to morrow,
appropriation bill was presented. ; The
Senate then at 6 :15 adjourned. j i
Thuksday House. The for tltcat ion
appropriation bill passed this morning
without division.
After much tilabusteiing and endeavor
to get the pension bill considered, Mr ,
Burnes, of Missouri, in moving to ad
journ, expressed his regret that at i this
late day of 2the session consideration had
been refused to the general appropria
tion bill, in which ten thousand ' veteran
union soldiers were interested, j He
blamed nobody, but he- gave notice- ihat
he wouldj from day to day, as long as he
was able to stand upon his feet, demand
the consideration of the deticiencv bill.
Friday. Tactics on a proposition to
assign certain days fcr the consideration
of the general penilon legislation, and
to take up. the general deficiency bill,
consumed the time of the session of the
House.
" A bill was passed in the Senate pro-
i.hibitiflg the mailing of obscene', or libel--j
ous. matter in transparent envelopes and
I display coverings. The bill faxes s pen
j alty cf from one to ten years imprison
j ment, snd a line of from $1,000 to
OW tor violating the law.
At .2 p. m. the fisheries treaty was
taken up in open executive session.
Mr. 3Iorgmi at 2:15 p. m., took the
floor and addressed the Senate in favor
of the fisheries treaty. At 5:35 the Sen
ate adjourned until Monday, at 11 a. m.
Satibdav The discussion of the Sen
ate bill to restrict Chinese immigration
took up most all the time of the House.
During the debate Gen. Harrison "-was
severely critisized for his record on the
("binesc question. . v
j Monday - The House .-pent most cf
j the day discussing the Chinese immigra
j tion restriction hill, which after consid
i crablc debate was passed with the.jSen
J -'ate amendment, providing that the; re -
pealing clause shall go int ""effect buly
-. upon tne ratincation ot the pending
treaty. The House then at ' 35 ad
journed. -
Senate. Discussion of the fisheiies
j treaty took up most of the time of; the
Senate. Mr. Morgan spoke for
two
i hours in favor of the" ratification, and
was followed by Senator -Hoar in
I opposition. Mr. Gray supported s the
treaty and at half past five Mr. 3Iorgan
again took the floor, but at 6 p. -m'; th
Senate adjourned, leaving Mr. Morgan
half an hour in which to conclude' the
debate before the vote was taken. ;
WASniNGTO "OTES.
i rSjjfar this session eleven million cop es
j of the Congressional. speeches have been
folded and sent out from the House
folding room. This is the largest
ever
kown. t?even million be ng the
great -
est number in cne session heretofore.
W. C. Arnold, chairman of the-Executive
committee for thj division ' and
; admission of North Dakota nnd South
Dakota, has forwarded a kngthv icti-
I tion to the President. I :'
- The Secret iry of th; Treasury has: ap
pointed Isaac AY. Ilightower, to be
gauger at Gcrmantown. X. C., David
Pondexter, and John E. Or.borne, to be
gauger at Olin, X. C.
A man hi Akron, Ohio, asks $T."i000
damage' for the los. of a finder. Esti
mating a finger at $75,000, what i a full
band wertbf
I
YELLOW FEYIB.
Better Report
Ffrbt tie
tiicts.
Infected DJs
In the first stage of the epidemic the
be
day TiPia, FJi., Tere the worst afflicted.
iaC Work of disinfecting goes actively
forward. The sanitary force has been
increased to : nearly 300 men. Many
E laces are found in a decidedly Un
ealthy condition especially, the prem
ises of citizens who have flfcL "
Tar and pitch fireS and the booming
of cannon are kept Up I tofastaaUy. ' The
commutes on cannonading have batteries
firing it diflereLt points nigkt andmorn
ing. Money for the relief comjhittee is
fcomfajEjj&bd tereg-am'8 have -been r,e
ttiVedTfbra many cities oifehng mimis
cipal assistittct. Representatives in
Cofcgtss haae sent telegrams offering to
lend their akL towards the passage of the
appropnatingi$200,000.
The establish,ment of a mail fumigation
station one hundred miles from Jackson
ville instead J of in the city is creating
np end of trouble and the delay is com1
pletely paralyzing business. Superin
tendent Turner has ordered that all mail
from Florida shall be concentrated at a
fumigation station near Waycroeer, On. ,
and be thoroughly fumigated and for
warded to It's destination . Xo mail will
bfe sent to any route through an infected
quarantined district, but wiil be dejev
eredday by 3ay over: whatever routes
mav be necessarv to enable it to reach
r the office of destination without passage
tnrougn tne mtectea territory. All ad
joining Southern cities have established
quarrantme. ;
- THAT GOLDSEOEO, K. C, CASE.
The board of health has issued the
following: We, the undersigned mem
bers of the board of health, of Golds
boro, declare that there has not been,
and there is net now, a single case of
yellow fever in this city. The only case
that could have given rise to the report
that there was yellow fever here was the
case of a young man who came from
Florida and went direct to his father's
residence, oue mile from the city, and
was taken sick, which case was pro
nounced yellow fever! ' The place being
quarantined and isolated, we apprehend
no danger, and so declaie to all people.
Signed J. E. Peterson, Mayor; Jas.
Spictr, M. D., Supt. Health; C. L.
Kirby, M. D. ; W. H. H. Cobb, M. D.
South America's West Coast.
The products of the countries on the
rt-t coast of South America, are sugar,
coffee, cocoa and cotton, while those of
the towns are "fanama hats" and fleas.
In each of the ports the natives are busy
braiding hats from vegetable fibres, and
the results of their labor find' a market
m- Pumak d Id the -citiea'frlM voast
where, as in Mexico, a man's wealth is
judged by what he wears on his head.
The hats are usually made cf toquilla or
pita', an arborescent plant of the cactus
family, the leaves of which are often
several yards long. When cut, the leaf
is dried and then shipped into shreds
almost as fine and tough as s Ik. Some
hats ars made of single fibres, without a
splice or an end from the "centre' of the
crowniothe rim. It often requires t-j?o
or three months tomake them, and the
best ones are braided under water as the
fibre is more pliable when immersed.
The cost of . a single hat is sometimes
$250, but such lasts a lifetime, and can i
be packed in a vest pocket or worn inside
out, each side being as smooth and well
finished as the other.
The natives make beautiful cigarca-es
top, but it is difficult .for a stranger to
purchase either these or the hats, because
they have an idea that all travelers are
rich, and will pay any price that is
asked. One old lady produced a cigar
case, such as are sold in Japanese stores
for 1 or $2, and politely otferei to sell
it for $20. "When I told her I could get
a silver one for that price, she came
down to $19, then to $12, and finally to
$1. They have no idea of the value of
money, and arc habitually imposed upon
by local traders, who exchange food for
their work at merely nominal rates, and
then sell the hats at enormous figures.
A merican Maga line. j
The Useful Uorse Weed.
Gorse is a plant which grows in Eng
land and Scotland as a common weed.
Its narrow, sharp-pointed, prickly linear
leaves, and the twigs upon which they
are borne are .quite nutritious and have
been long used for green fodder for
horses and cattle. The sharp, needle
like, points render it necessary that the
leaves should be crushed or ground in a
sort of mill, after which they are eaten
without difficulty, and with much re'.isb
by farm animals. Considerable attention
has been given of late in England to the
subject of cultivation; of this plant for
the feeding of cattle as an accompani
ment for hay or straw in the winter.
French farmers have grown it for many
years, sowing six pounds of seed per
acre in March, and using the crop late in
,
known
the fa1! and winter. The plant is
as ; t lex Eurof ous, or j furz?, whin and
gorse. It has been cultivated to some
extent in the South of England, and
being easily grown upon poor land, it
has been a favorite crop with the poorer
farmers. Xo doubt it would be a great
acquisition in the Southern States aa a
substitute for the wretched brown sedge,
and as a valuable perennial fodder for
oxen, mules and cows to be grown on
the frequent and unsightly old fields.
New York Times. . I
Effects of Tea Oa the Teeth.
A correspondent of the Biitish Medical
makes the following remarks on
the injurious c feet of lea on the teeth:
"Some years since, when on duty at re
cruiting stations in the north of England,
I took observations on the great amount
of disease and loss of the teeth existing
among the classof men offering them
selves; It became a cause of rejection of
itself in great numbers.! As far as my in
quiries went I was led to trace it to the
excessive tea-drinking indulged in by
the working classes in the manufacturing
towns, and this went on all through the
day, whether with food or not. Tea
seems to have a peculiar tendency to
cause hyperemia in the tooth sas, lead
ing to inflammation and eventually ab
scess of the fang, with, of course, den
tralagi at every itage,"
?aJ fteta rate was enormous, there
lag as high as thirty tieaths in one
iu Jacksonville. ia..irm Thic
RAILROAD NEWS, !
Some General Inicjmatien, New En-
"ferprieeBs
Sol Haas, traffic manager cf the Asso
ciated Railroads of Virginia and the
Carolinas has resigned that position to
accept a similar position with the Chesa
peak and Ohio road. Mr. Haas has been
connected with the Atlantic Coast Line
and Richmond and Danville roads for
the past eight or ten years. By his tact
and business ability fie has made himself
very popular, and his resignation will be
regretted both by thefficerl of the road
and others who hate $al. dealings with
Jiimi Mr. rlaas in the iuttife will be
located at CincinnatiJJhiO; , -
iixfc "F IMe .AKD CAiiOLiSA?1
' "The Virginia and Carolina railroad, its
rights of way, works and properties,
which were sold at Richmond, under a
decree of the CHancery Court of Rich
mond, in the case of the city of Peters
burg against he iailroad company, was
bought in by a Richmond, gentleman for,
Moncure Robinson and ojthers guaran
teed stockholders for, 16o,000. The
sale is subject to a debt of $101,640 due
the city of Petersburg, which is a lean
on the property of the purchaser.
This line; when completed, will be
sixty miles. long, extending from Peters
burg to Ridgway, X. C.
Mannfactnrin? Peach Baskets.
One of the most important industries
on the Delaware peninsula is the manu
facture of peach baskets. A leading
dealer cays that the manufacturing
season begins about the 1st of April
and continues until the end "of August.
During that time the many factories all
over the peninsula are pushed with
work, hundreds of men and boys are
kept busy nailing the baskets and many
more are engaged in various depart
ments of the work. The price paid for
hailing is 'fl per hundred, and a good
nailer can put up from 150 to 200 a
day.
The ordinary peach basket is com
posed of twelve staves and four hoops
The staves are macle of gum and the
hoops of oak and Southern pine. It is
not uncommon to see logs cut, hauled to
the mill, steamed and made into baskets
the same day.
The cost of making a basket, includ
ing timber, nailing and wear and tear on
machinery is about three cents; it re
tails at the factory all the way from four
to bight cents, according to the supply
and demand. Formerly five-eighths of
a bushel was the common size tor peach
baskets, but during the last two years
the half-bushel basket has become very
popular with fruit-growers. A large,
share of the baskets manufactured in
Delaware are sold directly to the grow
er, hut immense Quantities are shinnedt
to "wholesale dealers jn Northern cities.
Improvements are being constantly made
in the manufacture of basket, and it is
expected that a gift peach basket will
be made the coming season to retail at
three cents or even less. New York Mail
and Erpre?.
The Match City.
The busy little city of Akron, Ohio,'
thirty-five mi!es from Cleveland and two
hundred and fifty miles from Cincinnati,
which owe3 its prosperity to the di
versity and healthy condition of its
manufacturing industries, eujoys the
especial distinction of producing more
matches than does any other town or
city in the United States.
The united product of the Akron fac
tories of the Diamond Match Company
and the Miller Match Company reaches
the seeming y fabulous count of nearly
one hundred million matches per day.
If these matches were laid 6ingly end
to end they would form . an unbroken
line something like three thousand miles
long, while a sufficient quantity is made
in eight days to encircle th globe. To
pack this enormous output in paper
boxes requires the annual consumption
of over one thousand tons of thin straw
paper, or straw board, as it is called.
A trip throngh these great fctories
will well repay the studious observer.
The machinery which turns out matches
and paper boxes stems almost human in
intelligence and dexterity; while the
nimble fingers of the young ladies who
pack the matches in boxes must be seen
to be appreciated.
A single match seems a trifling thing,
and one can hardly realize that these
two factories alone censume in the
manufacture about eight million feet of
lumber annually, while untold quantities
of chemicals are worked up in their
laboratories. Cinc'naali Enquirer. ,
Rules for Testing Rope.
A German paper, in an, article on th
present methods of rope manufactun
from hemp, and the determination of th
different qualities and probable strength
simply from the appearance, lays dow
the following rules: A good hemp rope i?
hard, but pliant, yellowish or greenish
grav in color, with a certain silvery o
i pearly lustre. A dark or blackish coloi
. fj: . ... ,i -l v r,t
JUCllCabCS luab l lit; iiuiji nas suutitu 11
fermentation in the process of curing,
and brown spots show that the rope wai
spun while fibres were damp, and h
consequently weak and soft in thos
places. Again, sometimes a rope' ii
made with inferior hemp .on the inside,
covered with yarns of good material
fraud, however, which may be detected
by dissecting a portion of the rope, or,
in practised hands, by its behavior i
use; other inferior ropes are made wit
short fibers, or with strands of uneua
strength or unevenly spun the rope ii
the first case appearing wooly, on accoun
of the number of end3 of fibers project
ing, and, in the latter case, the ir
regularity of manufacture is evident of
inspection by any good judge.
Children Cremated.
In Kershaw county, S. C, "Wcdn'sday
evening Henry Shropshire and wife went
to church, taking their baby . with them
but leaving at home their . two other
children, aged respectively six and eight
years. When they returned three hours
later they found their house burned to
the ground and in its smoking ruins the
charred remains of the two children.
The father fainted, and when he recov
ered eonsciousnesa it was found that his
reason was dethroned. The rnothpr Is
prosti ate d by the shock and her life is
despaired of.
rofmcii e.
Gen. Harrison wa? fifty five years tld
Monday. I
Dr. Abernathy . has retired from the
Prohibitionist State ticket in North Car
olina and says the third party will dam
age the came ef Prohibition.
James L. Cuitis, of Xew York, and
James N. Greer, of Tenr-essee, for Presi
dent and Vice-President, were nominated
by thi American party in session at
Washington last week.
The Xew. York Democratic State con
vention has been called to meet at Buf
falo on September 12 to nominate candi
dates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor
and J udgc of tb.2 Court of AppeaK
5 Hon. George . O. I8neBj chairman cf
the national committee "of the Greenlftck
party, has issued a call fcr a National
Convention September 12th next, to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice-President of the United Sta'es.
It is reported. that Blaine has advked
the Republican Senators to bring in no
tariff bill and leave the whole responsi
bility for tariff legislation with the J'e
inberacy.
It is announced that a. proposition is
under consideration by the Democratic
Campaign managers for a jcint discus-,
sion- of the tariff question by Speaker
Carlisle and Mr. Blaine,
Xews from Texas indicates that the
Republicans are going to make a pretty
hard fight in the wool growings districts
of Texas.
In the Connecticut Democratic Con
vention Hoa. Mofgan Bulkley was nomi
nated for Governor by acclamation.
Wiley Shook, a leading Republican of
North Garolira, and editor of the Clyde
Register, has declared he will yote for S.
M. Finger, Democrat. Shook was a del
egate to Chicago and his defection is a
severe blow to; the Republicans.
Gen, Lew. Wallace, the distinguished
author of "Ben Hur" and life long friend
of Gin. Harmon, has just completed an
authorized biography of him. W. U.
Hensel, a staunch leader in Xational
councils of the Demociatic party, has
just complete I an admirable biography
of Clevtlind, - with a bright sketch of
Thurman.
Gen. Harrison is recreating at -Middle
Bass Island on Lake Erie.
There are 1,200 Republican clubs in
New York State, with a membership cf
200,000.
Red Sea Pearl.
The mother-of-pearl fisheries of the
Red Seaextend the whole length of that
.water. About three hundred boats are
employed by the Aiab tribes whp are
eneaaea
boats, o
-
in the workr :oiien. undfecwi
frdin- eirriit Co nwiliivrfa
burden, carrying n larjo latpca, ail.J
manned by crews of from five to twelve
men, and each provided with a number
of small canoes. There are two fishing
seasons during the year, one of four and
one of eight months, during nearly the
whole of which the boats keep the sea.
Fatal accidents are said to be unknown
among the divers, and they are remark
able for their strength and good health.
They dive between the ages of ten and
forty years, and the practice is said to
have no ill effects. Operations are con
ducted only in calm weather, when the
shell can be discovered by the eye at a
depth varying between seven and fifteen
fathoms. Of late years, empty petroleum
tins, with the ends knocked out and a
sheet of glass inserted in one end, have
been used to assist the eye. The glazed
end of the tin is submerged under the
sea, when a much clearer and deeper
vision is obtained. ' During the last ten
years the find is said to have diminished,
owing to the dearth of shells, from ten
to? twenty per cent, in quantity. AVc
York Star. I I
On Trial for. Her Life.
The Criminal Couit in session at Char
lotte, X. C, is occupied ttith the trial
of Ann Robinson, colored, for the mur
der of Millie Robinson, also colored .
Ann Wallace and Milhe Robinson, who
were both, married women, became en
aniored of a colored man in their neigh
terhood, and on the way home, from
church, on the fatal night, they began a
quai rel which ended in blood shed . Ana
attacked Millie fiercely and knocked her
down in the ro id. She quickly spiang
upon the prostrate woman and with a
pocket knife stabbed her four times in
the neck and breast, when she threw the
knife away add walked off. The injured
woman got up, took a few steps forward
and fell dead -
The jury brought in a verdict of man
slaughter. Judge Meares sentenced the
defendent to k term of 15 years, at hard
labor, in the State penitentiary.
A Colored Paragraphist.
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T. J. Smith;, editor of the Pittsburg,
Pal, Broad Aj&, the colored men's organ,
attended the I recent convention at In
dianapolis. His opinion of that gather
ing may be gathered from the following
headlines for his report of the proceed
ings in the Unhid Axe:
A negro Democratic hell, mixed with
free wool Indiana tangle-foot is the,
cause of a redfhot time The Democratic
scheme to getj the negro vote Razors
glisten in the fun, like stars in the sky on
a clear, frostvjjwintcr night A free-for-all
fight Tbe most disgraceful political
meeting, white or black, that ever as
sembled We smell the brimstone yet."
The liotlensce.
The Lake of Constanz, also known as
the- Suab'an Sea and the Bodensee, small
as is its spread of pale green color, only
about twenty, miles long and six miles
wide, laves live countries: Switzerland,
whose canton of Turgan comes up to the
wall of Contanz ; Baiea, in which Con
stanz is situated, upon' both banks of the
Rhein at the west end of the lake ; then
on the north are Wittenburgand Bavaria,
and on the cast is Austria. The Coun
cil of Constanz met from 1411 to 1418
and its operations were like a two-edged
sword. It burnt John Uuss, for heresy,
July 14, 1415,'and Jerome, of Pragg, for
the same, June 7, 141C and it deposed
Pope John XXIII. for the fame and
elected Martin V. as his successor. The
ecclesiastic who was its president, Jean
de Bronrer,J now reposes in Calvia'i
Cathedral, Geneva.
KORffi tiEOtlKA. f
Many calls are marfe upon 8. B Alex
ander to make speeches during the cam
paign. ; . " " " :
President Cleveland signed the Char
lotte public building bill on Tuesday
morning. The bill- for Sfatemlle's
building has also been signed.
F. Sledd, of Virginia, graduate stu
dent of Johns Hopkins' University, has
been appointed professor of French and
German at Wake Forest College,
" The Xorth Carolina Conference of lo
cal Methodist preachifs convened at
Rutherford College Friday.
Mrs. Senator Vance is at ''Gombroon,"
the Senator's summer home, near Black
Mountain station, in western North
Carolina. " I. ;; ".''
Graham's cotton factory, lately com
pleted, costing f 150,000, is noiv running
night and day and they caririot supply
the demaid. A Baltimore firm took
$50,000 stock in the concern.
Two sheep ranches have been establish
ed near Ashevjille. One by a Western
man the other by a gentleman from New
York. The section is said to be admir
ably adapted to sheep .culture.
Fish Gnun, a negro twenty years of
age, of Alamance county, attempted
criminal assault Oa Miss Paris, at the
home of her brother WTlliam Paris, near
Attamahiw. The lady was awakened
by some one in her room, and screamed.
Gunn made his escape through a win
dow. He wa arrested, fully identified
and jailed. , '
James Woods, cf Woods fc Baker.
Statesvilie, has been arrested on fifteen
charges of forgery and is in jail in de
fault of bail. :
Matilda Griggs who strayed away from
home, in 3Iacon county, was found
Saturdaym an almost dying condition
after eleven days.
John T. McKinnon, a merchant of
Wadesville, Montgomery county, was
found dead in his store. Beside him was
a shot gun, and in his head was a large
wound made by shot. Some believe
that it was a case of suicide, while others
think it accidental. McKinnon h ft home
early i' the morning with tne gn.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Farmers Encampment at Spartan
burg is proving a grand success.
Aunu&ta is moving in the right , di
rection to make the A.ationaJ Expofition
there a grand success
The farmers cf Fairfield arc making
arrangements for the hoi . ig of an insti
tute in that county.
There iz some talk of the woolen
mills now located, at Hamlet, X. C.
The first bale of South Carolina cottor
lias been sold at Orangeburg.
John Graham, a respectable- colored
mau,; of Wralterboro, was struck by
lightning Wednesday afternoon. .
An unknown balloon passed over
Camden,-one day last week.
The openirg of the 3C's load to Rock
Hill wn3 celebrated by the people of that
tqwn on Tbur-daV, an ex-;
cuieirm train was- run from Charleston to j
Rock Hill. . i " I
Over One Hundred Lives Lost,
The Steamship Geiscr, of the Inmau
valla line, which left Xew York Saturday
August 11th, for Europe, was run into,
off Cape Race on Tuesday by the steam
ship Thingvalla of the same line. Her
sides were stove in and she sank rapidlv.
The panic stricken people were got into
boats as rapidly as possible, the Thing
valla'b boat being used in the work cf
rescue. -..
j The Geiser sank so fast, however that
before the boats returned from the Thing
villa after their first trip the disabled
boat had gone down, leaving scores of
people struggling in the water. Many
of these were picked up, but when the
roll was Called on board the Thingvalla.
it
was found that seventy-two passengers
atid thirty-three of the crew of theGeiser
were missing. The Hamburg Line
steamship," Weiland, which was in the
vicinity, came up in time to assist in the
work of rescue, and she divided the res
cued party with the Thingvalla, the lat
ter proceeded in a damaged condition
far Halifax, while the W'ieland pro
ceeded to 'Xew York, arriving at quar
antine late in the afternoon. It is re
ported that only 14 passengers, and
17 of the crew of the Geiscr were saved,
including Cant. Mullen. The collision
occurred about 4 o clock Tuesday morn-
i ing. first Mate, nenry rjrownnau oec-n
cnarge, tne chaplain uaviug rcnicu hi
p. m., the night being perfectly
ar r.nd no danger apprehended.
ijout 1 o'clock the Captain was
awakened by a call from the chief officer
on the bridge, who said there was dan
ger of a collision. A moment later there
was a schrill blowing of whistles which
awakened the
thev could get
passengers, but tTorc
on deck, there was a
terrible shock and the vessel's side was
crushed in. iome of the water-tight
compartments were broken into, and the
ship began at once to sink. Those on
board were thrown into confusion and a
na.ni; ensued.
Ihe omcnl report of the Geiser , Uisas-!
tef shovs that there were 95 passengers
on board, of whom ecven were second
cabin and the remainder steerage. The
crew numbered seventy men, including
officers. X'one of the cabin passengers
were saved, but 17 of the ,jcrew were
f sa fed, inclusive of the officers. Of -the
j steerage p'!' engers, fourteen were saved.
iThe 1 oss of life is therefore, 132.
Cable Clicks.
The World's. Conference of th-.
Young
Men's Christian Associations arc in
s s-
si
n at Stockholm,. Sweden.
LV dispatch has been received from the
island of Hayti saying that the revolution
has been successful and that the govern
ment has been overthrown. The Presi
dent has taken refuge ou an English
frigate.
The famine which prevails in portions
of
Turkey has given me to serious -re
su
ts.;, The garnscnat Aletzova. exasper-
atjd at the noa-reeeipf of their wages.
ri-Tolte'l. burned many houses, plundered,
shops, ami killed many G'hristiap. "
SELECT SI FUNGS.
Dens of wild dogs have been fotmd
near Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Leases were invented by a Sergeant
Moore, in the re'gn cf Henry VIII.,
1535. - -
A new thing in England is a walking
stick made hollc w, with a place in it for
holding eight or nine cigars.
There is a boarding house for 4 " whoop
ing cough children" and their parents in
the New.York Catdulls.
IS has been, discovered thatthe flea
trses only one eye at a time, and that he
dies the hardest of any insect in nature.
A summer toboggan slide in Detroit
.is arranged with rollers, and ends in a
sheet of water. : Patrons of this sport
require bathing suits.
A Johnstown, Penn r firm recently re
ceived a postal card from. Bolivar, West
moreland! county, Penna. postmarked
February 28, 18s 7.
Since the opening of the new artesian ,
wells in the Desert of Sahara, a large
Increase in the number: of palm and
other fruit trees has taken place.
Pet dogs in Paris are now clad in man
tles wiih pockets for holding lump3 of
sugar, bracelets on their
paws and a
strinc of little silver belU
around the-
neck.
Primus Jones raised a watermelon
on his farm, in Baker county, G a., last
year, that weighed eighty-hye pounds,
the largest that was' ever, raised in that
State." i
. A family of Petaluma, Ca!., recently
had a nest of hen's eggs hatched by
a quail. The bird hovered and cared
for the little chicks the same a3 the hens
in the barnyard.
At Canton, Ga., two cows got into a
fight, and their horns became su badly
tangled that it was necessaey to saw off
parts of the horns of one of them in or
der to free them. '
A sixty-four inch bicycle is the largest
wheel ever turned out inth:s country.
A manufacturing firm has made this
wheel for a Texas gentleman, who
stands six feet seven. inches' in his stock
ings. " ;.
T. H. Stewart, of Smyrna, Ga., owd
a cat with three kittens. A young rab
bit was given her to eat recently, but in stead,
&he adopted it and is rearing it as
carefully as if "it had been one of her
kittens.
Aquatinta, a kind of engraving by
which a soft and beautjful effect is pro
duced, was invented by the celebrated
hundred ' later Barabbe, of Paris,
was distinguished for his improvement
in this kinq of engraving. .
Pancake parties is a present French
fancy in amusement. The cakes are pre
pared by the assembled company on the
sands or on the grass under the the trees
toss ra.neaJkea Bs higb u possible.
Seedless raisins are made by arreting
a law of nature when the grape is about
half ripe The end of the vine is bent
down and buried in the ground, thus
preventing the formation of seeds ani
the full development'of the fruit, which
ripens all the same and has a fine flavor, j
. Gentlemcu with gas wells must beware
of lighting cigars about them. Mr. Mc
Kim, of Findlay, i-h'o, tried it ou the
other day while exhibiting his pet prop
erty to some friends, and the explosion ' '
knocked over house, derrick and engine, I
and scattered the arty galley west, be- j
side burning them quite seriously. .
A irreat bicycle race recently took j
I place from the Hotel Lcland, Chicago, to
i'ullman,: Jll.y a uisiance or auuuu ,
eighteen railed There were, eighty-s r
entries, and severty-onc contestants took
the start. Arthur Lunsder, who rode a
fifty-one inch roadster, was the winner
in fifty-one minutes forty-seven seconds.
The largest library in the world is the
BibliothequeXational, in Paris, founded
by Louis XIV. It contains 1,400, Off
volumes, :00)a pamphlets, 175.C6 .
manuscripts, 30 , 000 maps and charts, t
and 150,000 ( ous and medals. The col
lection of mida'.s exceeds 1.300,000, con
tained in some 10,000- volumes. The
portraits number about 100,000. -
I (irasshopper Traps.
There arc three principal methods, of .
destroying tho insects. Where the land
had been plowed for wheat none hatched
out as inverting the soil destroyed tbo
eggs, and no hoppers were found in the
fieldsof growing wheat. . But from ad
joining fields, especially" those where
wheat was grown last year and then
abandoned without plowing, they came
in armies, ; sweeping the fields before
them. In traveling this way a line of
march Is formed before i which eyery v ,
green thing disappears. When Dr.
Lugger left some fields were eaten into
several rods. 'I he method adopted prior
to the arrival of keroseneand taT was to
dig a ditch two feet deep and two feet
wide just in advance of the approaching
host. A few inches of straw is then
placed in the" bottom and the locusts are'
rlrirPTi into ii bv walking slotvlv along
i behin(i tberaj canDOt ju"mp out
' -n(1 hnrnWi ; sr. if straw is not to be
had, they are" killed by drawing a log
through the ditch. The tar is used by
placing it in a shallow sheet-Iron pan two
feet wide and eight feet long, with n
wide board fastened to one side.
This is drawn sidewise across the field.
the hoppers jumping against-the board
j and falling into the tar, where they
I perish. But .the. handier, more rapid.
and most complete metnou is iu usv
kerosene on canvas, against which the
....to ;,mn Krrnn it muslin or canvas, a
yard wide and fifteen feet , long, is
stretched on a frame and carried on a
sled-like arrangement pulled by a team.
The canvas slants back, and is constantly
saturated with kerosene. Every one
that hops against this and touches his
body to the oil dies instantly. One
barrel of kerosene will go over about
one hundred and twenty acres, and will
kill two hundred bushel or more. Each
farmer is given one barrel of oil, and
promises to use it only for destroying in
sects. Minneapolis Tribune. '
Whep the Fault Bested.
He "I was so mortified that you
should see jme fall from my bicyle. Miss
Maadie, btit I can assure you that the
fault rested entirely on the bicycle."
"Yes, for a mament. Mr. Geelip, and
then tho bicycls rested entirely on the
fault- Nw Ycrh 8n.
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