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' VOLUME VIII._HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1887. _NUMBER 21.
yEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Yariou* Source*.
rmnvF-i Kersey Coates’ will was pro
Jld at Independence, Mo., on the 29th.
ffltate is valued at S3.003,099.
_mawe,e opened and contracts award
fit Rock Island, HI, on the 29th, for
^,000 of Upper Mississippi improve
ments. __,_
tt develops that William J. Ayers,'who
mated suicide at Kansas City, Mo,
had been guilty of negotiating forged bills
of lading. __
, u intimated that upon the retirement
/Yttornev-General Garland from the
Cabinet bo will take up his residence in
flew York. _
of Labor committ6c &t
Pit'sbur<r'b. Pa, haY3 inaugurated a
general bovcott against goods of P. D. Ar
mour & Co, of Chicago.
v Orleans interests arc combined to
make a strong showing before the Inter
lute Commerce Commission in favor of
thorough enforcement of the law.
The Parnellites continue their policy of
obstruction in the British Parliament,
jwrly tivo hundred amendments being
offered to one clause of the Crimes act.
It is thought that the President will re
peat his last summer’s trip to the Adiron
dack?. in which case Colonel and Mrs.
L.mont will be members of the presi
dential party.
Quiet was restore! in Louisville, Ky.,
on the 3 )th, without any further serious
demonstration. One of the negro culprits
claims to be able to prove an alibi, but
little credence is given to his story.
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Samuel F. Perky, believed to be one of
the Rivenna (0.) train murderers, who
killed Captain Hohen while aiding in the
rescue of Eddy Guerin, the Cleveland fur
robber, is under arrest in New York.
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The Vatican has notified France that
General Boulanger's military law which
refuses exemption from military service
to youth or men studying for the priest
hood is an infringement of the concordat.
Petitions and memorials, respecting
the troublesome fourth section of the
Inter-State Commerce law, continue to
pour into the office of the commission.
They are called for short, “long and short
howls.”
New York City has another official
crookedness sensation, this time in the
tax-assessing department. The property
ot millionaires and railway magnates ap
pears to have been systematically over
looked by the assessors.
Orders were issued on the 28th to com
mence the construction of a new ten-inch
gun at the Washington Navy Yard for the
new cruiser Boston. Tivo ten-inch guns
are still at the yard, one nearly completed
and the other well under way.
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M. Schnaebeles, who has been the
central figure of the latest disturbing in
cident in Europe, was released by the
German authorities and arrived in Paris
on the 30th. H: was given an ovation
along the route of his journey.
The Pop:; has sent a telegram to Em
peror William and Prince Bismarck,
thanking them for their support of the
new Prussian Ecclesiastical bill. The
dispatch adds that his Holiness desires
the prosperity ot Germany a id the Catho
lic church.
The general executive board of the
Mights of Labor, after three days’ con
• snee with the representatives of the
‘ -molders throughout the country,
^ decided that they will not interfere
Hike present controversy about the St.
wn:s patterns.
Iaptain Thomas Plunkett, resident
s'istrate of Cork, has been instructed
y llie British Government to keep a close
',ltfh ovcr all circumstances attending
departure of Mr. William O’Brien on
a way to America to inaugurate a cam
l‘1-n against the Governor-General, the
“iquis of Lansdovvne.
The total receipts of the Government
, 0 month up to the 27th were $27,124.
, • the total expenditures, $11,622,253, be
^ a ilet Stain for the month of $15,501,845.
li f, v-v receipts and the comparatively
. disbursements indicate a corre
POnciingly large reduction in the public
-( - for the month, now estimated at be
‘"een $12,0)j,00) and $15,00j,003.
!,e teasers arul mixers ii all the win
eglass factories of the Pittsburgh
f.y1 district struck on the “17oh for an in
p 'JSe of wages averaging ten per cent.
“Urteen factories have closed down, and
a,ai’!y 0113 thousand men are idle. The
■^acturers say they will resume
^rations as soon as they can secure
ou““ men to run the factories.
1]T |s sa‘d at Ottawa, Ont., that the
r;r.m» °f Lansdowne was totally igno
w , c Hnv bargain whatever being made
^ “ ais tenants. If such an agreement
tat ,mad0 aaii repudiated, as the dis
itnc ’S Say’ il was directed by His Excel
0;.r 8 agent and without the knowledge
e bovernor-General personally.
Provp Pscretary °f the Interior has ap
thefw a decision of the Commissioner of
pj ,'eaeral Land Office, bolding a trian
ofl ?a(ty of Und containing 200,033 acres
til' lyin? eorthwest of the unforfeit
to fbe Oregon Central Railway
6j r)(fan-v aad along the line of the forfeit
kent .r l° be public land and subject
c°nnE<‘lkr^nacted wa?e question of the
the 28'h l le c°ko region was decided on
Pire irv^d1 rece>Pf of a letter from Um
The ur.,'- ■Jac'Ison, now in Colorado,
lie an>-• ?? “tbat there should not
btrther iaanCe *.n wagas until there is
coke.” u vance in the selling price of
000 men i/tho decisi°u of tbe umpire 18,
8r€ to eonHn 6 ^ouaellsville coke region
Pcafe of Wages ^ worlt on tbe present
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The Missouri Pacific car and machine
shops have been located at Atchison by
Geneyal Manager Clarke. They are to be
built on the western limits of the city, and
will be the central shops of the Missouri
Pacific svstem for Kansas.
Treasurer Jordon has returned to
Washington and has resumed his duties.
Wm. Duff Haynie, of Illinois, has been
appointed chief clerk to the First Assist
ant Postmaster-General, vice Jas. H.
Marr, deceased. Mr. Haynie has per
formed the duties of the position for a
year or more.
News from the Afghan frontier is of a
rather disquieting nature for British in
terests in that quarter, and the latter
government is discussing the situation.
John Gibbs and Abe McCrea got into a
fight at Rosebury station, Pa., on the 33th,
and both were fatally injured.
Miss Alice Cobb, daughter of Alvin
Cobb, twenty-four years of age, com
mitted suicide at Portland, Me., on the
morning of the 33th, shooting herself
through the heart.
The plate-mill department of the Key
stone Iron Works at Reading Pa., was shut
down on the 30th, for an indefinite period,
throwing a large number of men out of
employment. The Inter-State Commerce
law did it.
Recent heavy rains in New England
have produced the greatest freshets
known in nearly twenty years. All the
rivers are out of bounds, and much dam
age to property is reported.
Serious pension frauds have recently
been discovered in England, and an offi
cial Inquiry has been ordered.
The Swiss village of Sils was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 33th.
Experts in chirography are agreed that
the London Tunes Parnell letter was a
forgery.
Montana has declared a quarantine
against cattle from Illinois, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Texas, Vermont and
the District of Columbia.
An accident occurred on the Northern
Pacific railway on the 30th by which W.
O. Breed, of Faribault, Minn., was crushed
to death and seven others were seriously
injured.
Washington Territory liad two sharp
shocks of earthquake on the 1st.
Active preparations are going forward
at Washington for the National drill.
Al Barer has resigned as umpire of the
.American Base-Bail Association and John
O. Valentine succeeds him.
Senator Vest is reported as suggesting
that Mrs. Cleveland’s wishes may influ
ence the President to run for another
term.
It is feared that the schooner Louie
O’Neill ha3 gone to the bottom of Lake
Erie and that her crew of eight persons
are lost.
There is an enormous increase of emi
grants from Great Britain for Canada,
Australia and the United States.
Ex-Governor Charles May of Michi
gan addressed the American Temperance
Union at Chickering Hall, New /ork, on
the 1st.
Hon. James Sheldon, ex-chief-justice of
the Superior Court of Buffalo, N, Y., died
on the 1st of cerebro-spinal meningitis,
aged sixtv-six year3.
King Humbert unvailed a statue of
Victor Emanuel in Venice on the 1st.
There were thousands of spectators pres
ent, and much enthusiasm was dislayed.
Thirty-eight pedestrians started i' a
six days’ go-as-you-pleaae at Philadelphia'
on the night of tho 30.h. Among them
were Vint, Noremac, Hughes and Hart.
Tho prizes aggregate about $6,000.
Tiie accounts of the British colonial ex
hibition have been published and show a
balance of $156,175. It is proposed to
transfer $10J,00 ) of this to the Imperial
Institute fund, and with the remainder
settle the deficit of the Inventions exhi
bition and form a reserve fund.
Dr. T. S. Dabney, of New Oilcans,
whose dismissal from a clerkship in the
Pension Office was attempted by certain
Grand Army posts throughout the coun
try, on account, it was said, of his having
been a Confelorate guard at Anderson
ville prison during the war, has tendered
his resignation to Commissioner Black, to
take effect June 3).
Jay and Lee Moore, aged fourteen and
twelve years, and Ira anl Bertie Hotch
kiss, aged eleven and eight, sons of well
to-do farmers of South Valley, Catta
raugus County, N. Y., went fishing on the
1st along the Allegheny river. When
about a rod from the shore the current
capsized the boat and all four were
drowned.
AVithin a short time the United States
steamer Galena, Commander Chester, is
expected to arrive at Washington, having
on board the pre-historic statue secured
from Easter Island by the Mohican, and
but recently transferred to the Galena at
AspinwalL, This piece of work, by an un
known race, is destined for the Smith
sonian Institute.
The Sunday law is being strictly en
forced at Washington.
A steamboat boiler exploded at Pitts
burgh, Pa., on the 21, and three men were
killed.
German officials deny that a state of
siege for Alsace Lorraine is contemplated.
Schnaebeles insists that his arrest
was made by German officers on French
soil.
The Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
arrived in Chicago on the 2d and pro
ceeded on her journey to Washington and
Europe.
Rossini's remains were disinterred at
Paris on the 1st, and were removed to
Florence, Italy, on the 21.
Reports from Chili indicate that cholera
is decreasing. Great poverty exists aDd
many suicides, because thereof, are re
corded.
The Comotroler of the Currency has
designated Chicago as a central reserve
city under the previsions of the act passed
at the last session of Congress.
General Ganetslt, governor of the
Fortress of St. Petersburg, who became
famous in the Russo-Turkish war, is
dead. . ,
Prince Jerome Bonaparte was stricken
with apoplexy at Bordeaux on the 2d, and
at last accounts was in a critical condi
tion. , ,
About five hundred coopers employed
in private shops at Milwaukee, Wis.,
went out on a strike on the 2d for an in
crease of five cents per barrel. The men
have been averaging $23 to $-5 per week.
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Chief Justice McAdam of the New
York City Court has removed Ernest
Harvier from the receivership of Bartley
Campbell’s estate and appointed A. M.
Palmer, of the Madison Square Theatre,
in his stead.
Tiie Chinese government has settled the
currency question by making a contract
with a Birmingham firm for a supply ol
silver and bronze coinage.
GeohoeGexsleh, a Minneapolis (Minn.)
restaurant-keeper, sixty-four years old,
was found on the morning of the 2d with
his skull battered in, and the axe, with
which the deed had evidently been done,
lying near by.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has pre
sented Cardinal Vannutelli, who is about
to retire from the papal uunciate at
Vienna, with the decoration of the grand
cross of St. Stephen of Hungary.
A stkike was .declared on the 2d in the
cigar factory of Lozano, Pendas & Co., ;
New York. The firm employs two hun
dred men, or nearly half the Spanisn cigar
makers in the city, and the factory is the
largest for pure Havana goods in this
country.
A westerx-bouxd Atlantic & Pacific
passenger train leaving Albuquerque, N.
M., on the morning of the 2d, ran off the
track fifteen miles from Coolidge, N. it,
and was badly -wrecked. Several per
sons were killed and many wounded.
A bio fire raged all day on the 2d in col
liery No. 1 at Wilkesbarre, Pa. It broke
out suddenly, and all effort to suppress it
proved unavailing. At night the coal
was burning more fiercely than ever.
Preparations were being made to flood the
mine, that being the only way to extin
guish the fire.
The public debt was reduced during the
month of April $13,053,098.
Arrangements are in contemplation for
a considerable extension of the fast-mail
system at St. Louis.
Washington gossips, busy with the
Presidential succession, are of the opinion
that Hill will support Cleveland enthusi
astically.
Chief-Clerk Brown of the State De
partment, Captain Taylor, of the army
and Lieutenant Rogers of the navy, have
been assigned to attend Queen Kapiolaui
and suite during their stay tin Washing
ton.
Judge Hilton has given Meissonier’s
painting of “1807” to the New York Metro
politan Museum of Art. He has also pre
sented the museum with Detaitles’ “De
fense of Champigny.”
The wife of ex-Senator Thurman, who
has been slightly ill for several weeks
with.a bronchial affection, was announced
as alarmingly ill on the night of the 2d.
She was seventy-two years old on that
day.
Deserters report that the Hadendowa
Arabs, assisted by other friendly tribes,
have dislodged the Soudanese rebels from
Kassala, and have captured Osman Digna
and Abu Girga.
M. Schnaebeles has given notice that
he will refuse to accept the diamond cross,
which it was proposed to give him, and
the donations which have been made to
ward the purchase have been given to the
Alsace-Lorraine Society.
Casper H. Borgess, Catholic Bishop of
Detroit, Mich., has resigned. During his
seventeen years, incumbency he has
had very many troubles, and before send
ing in his resignation promulgated a sen
tence of excommunication against those
concerned in the Polish riots a year ago.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, escorted
thirteen young ladies, schoolmates of his
daughter, to see the President on the 2d.
Fourteen persons were sentenced to the
penitentiary at the last term of the Chat
tanooga, Tenn., criminal court. Of these
eleven were moonshiners and three coun
terfeiters. Of the number one is a woman
from PoJk county, sent up for one year for
selling "wildcat whisky.”
There is considerable excitement in
many of the river counties in North Ala
bama over the boom in ore lands.
Union county, Ark., is threatened with
trouble over the killing of a colored man
named Lincoln, who had insulted ladies,
whipped a white boy with an ax handle,
ond whipped and threatened to shoot, on
sight, a number of young white men.
George Ayers and Henry Lindfley
quarreled about ail indebtedness of $5 at
Bowling Green, Ky., on the 30th, and the
latter was killed. Lindsley was on horse
back when the quarrel began, and as he
dismounted Ayers seized him by the throat
and quickly drew a knife across it, cutting
it from ear to ear. Ayers fled, but was
soon captured.
The principal, if not the only topic of
general interest iu political circles in New
York, during the past week, has been the
alleged declaration of President Cleveland
not to allow his name to be used as a can
didate for a second term.
The reports of drouth throughout the
agricultural districts of Texas are daily
assuming a more serious aspect. During
the past two weeks many conflicting ac
counts have been disseminated regarding
the area and amount of rainfall thoughout
the six great cotton districts comprising
the cotton belt.
A Bii L granting women school suffrage
has passed both branches of the New
Jersey Legislature. New Jersey is thr
fourteenth State to extend this right to
women.
The bodies of three negroes, brothers,
named Sylvester, were found hanging to a
tree on the roadside near Proctor, W. Va.,
on the 1st.
The Daltimore and Ohio Express Com
pany has cut rates on strawberry ship
ments from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Cin
cinnati from $1.25 to $1.10. The Southern
Express Company will meet the rate, and
fruit-growers feel confident the reduction
will continue until the shipments can be
made for $1 per hundred.
Two hundred Mormon proselytes from
Sweden and Denmark passed through
Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 1st, hound for
Utah. Nearly half of the emigrants were
young women. They said that Mormon
missionaries had induced them to come to
this country to get better homes and
promised they would not be required tp
idopt the Mormon faith.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS
One of the Florida papers wants tti
iuty on foreign oranges raised.
A tornado swept over Natchez, M iss., a few
•venings since, unroofing many dwellings
ind doing much damage. The whole front
>f the City Hospital was destroyed, as
was also the dormitory of the Baptist
College. In Vidalia, the Methodi9t
'Jhurch, the engine-house and several
imaller buildings were blown down. The
lamage from the storm was great, but
there was no less of life.
Hamden Fuqua, son of J. A. Fuqua, of
Dwensboro, Kj-., swallowed a tin bird
fall a few days ago, which passed through
the windpipe and lodged in the upper por
tion of his lungs. Tho local physicians
;xhau3ted their skill in attempts to dis
lodge the whistle, but every thing short
of an operation failed. Dr. Roberts, of
Louisville, was telegraphed for, and an
operation was performed. The boy’s chest
was opened and the whistle located, but
all efforts to remove it were futile. The
boy will die.
The trial ot ex-State Treasurer Vincent
of Alabama, charged with embezzlement
in thirty-nine cases, has been continued
until the July term of the Circuit Court at
Montgomery. Owing to the absence of
Mr. Duncan Crawford, an important State
witness, who is ill and confined to his
bed, a continuance was asked by counsel
for the prosecution and Judge Arrington
granted it. Vincent and his counsel an
nounced ready for trial, but finally agreed
to the continuance.
Mrs. Beckwith, wife of Rt. Rev. J. W.
Beckwith, Bishop of Georgia, died in At
lanta a few days ago.
The negro, Albert Robert Robinson, who
was to be hanged at Tyler, Tex., May 20,
died a few nights ago.
Three children of J. T. Hall were left
alone in the house near Bonham, Tex., a
few days since. The house was burned,
and all perished.
The committee in charge of the decora
tion of the graves of Federal soldiers at
the National Cemetery, near Nashville
Tenn., has invited Senator Sherman to de
liver the oration. Should he decline,
Governor Foraker of Ohio will be asked
to speak.
A reception was tendered to Miss Win
nie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis,
by the citizens of Chattanooga at the Stan
ton Hotel a few nights ago. Over five
hundred invitations were issued, and the j
reception was attended by the leading cit
izens of ihe city. Miss Davis will return
to her home in Beauvoir this week.
Governor Gordon of Georgia is suffering
acutely from -an attack of intercostal
neuralgia which prostrated him while de
liveiing his address before the Confeder
ate Survivors’ Association at Augusta.
Colonel Phinizy, to whose house he was
taken, says that although Governor Gor
don was suffering from the effects ol
morphine, he was not considered in any
great danger.
Grenada, Miss., was thrown into con
siderable excitement a few days ago
when Captain W. D. Fowler, of that city,
a traveling salesman for Schmidt & Zieg
ler, of New Orleans, shot and fatally
wounded Rev. C. F. Stivers, of the Epis
copal Church. The shooting occurred in
Fowler’s own house. The cause is not
known, as neither party have said .any
thing about the affair. Stivers, expecting
to die, made a confession in which he
stated that the shooting was justifiable,
and he did not want Captain Fowler pun1
ished.
Louisville whisky men have subscribed
14.00) to fight prohibition in Texas.
Hot Springs, Ark., has been making the
gambling element, who infest that valley
as thick as it it is said fiddlers are if
hades, “mark time” so disgustingly con
tinuously for the past week or two, tha”!
they are pouring out of town like rati
leaving a sinking ship.
A little girl aged about five years, th*
daughter of Ezra Jenkins, of Henderson,
Ky., fell into an old cistern and was
drowned a few days ago. The little on*
was wandering around while her mothei
was picking greens for dinner.
Forty-three thousand bales of cotton
have been compressed and shipped from
Jackson, Tenn., the past season. Thirty
thousand dollars have been subscribed by
the citizens to aid in building a cotton fac
tory in that cil»y.
Finis Gower, a cousin of Frank and
Jesse James, of Missouri, has been con
victed in the United States Circuit Court
at Nashville, Tenn., of robbing the mallr
between Lawrenceburg and Waynesboro
He was given two years in the Nationa
prison at Albany, N. Y.
Abe Littlejohn, a well-to-do white farm
er, and wife, living near Clinton, Ala.t
were burned in their dwelling a fewnigkt9
ago. Subsequent investigations lead to
the conclusion that the aged couple were
murdered and the dwelling burned over
the dead bodies to conceal the crime.
W. L. Hockaday, a traveling man em
ployed by the house of Goodbar. Love &
Co.', of Memphis, Tenn., attempted suicide
a few days ago by taking belladonna.
Standing in the rear door of the firm’s
place of business, he suddenly raised a
vial to his lips, and exclaiming: “I’ll be
a dead man in twenty minutes 1” drank
the contents. Medical aid was summoned
and he was brought around after several
I hours of agony.
Jno, Tagert, Jr., who lives m the north
west part of Morris County, Tex., started
a few days ago with a load of cotton-seed
to his farm, when it is supposed that his
team became frightened and ran away,
throwing him from the wagon against a
tree, killing him instantly. An old freed
man, who heard the team running, went to
him immediately, but when he reached
him Tagert was breathing his last.
A young Hebrew stock trader, together
with a horse he had just purchased, was
drowned in Salt river, near West Point,
j£y., a few days ago, while endeavoring to
ford the swollen stream. His body was
recovered by some farmers who witnessed
the accident.
The Bishops of the colored Methodist
Episcopal Church met last week at Nash
ville, Tenn., and arranged their plan of
episcopal visitation for the present year.
Atlanta, Ga., was selected for the next
meeting of the Bishops.
Right Rev. Chas. B. Galloway, of Mis
sissippi, one of the Bishops of the M. E.
Church, South, has declared himself in
favor of local option as a step toward
constitutional prohibition, and says that
if he had time he would canvass the Btat<*
of Texas in favor of Droliibition.
THE FISHERIES.
Captain Collins, of the United States Fish
Commission, Declares the Canadian In
shore Fisheries Not Worth Entering Inta
Controversy About—Much Ado About
Nothing.
Washington, May 2.—Captain Collins,
of the United States Fish Commission, is
quoted in an interview as saying: “If
Canada should freely grant American
fishermen all of her fishing privileges
there would be none that our fishermen
would avail themselves of. Canada has
no fisheries that we want, or would have,
if they were freely given to us. All the
fish that are to be caught with any profit
are in the deep seas. With all I have
seen written on this subject on both
sides of the controversy, this one
thing seems to be ignored or not
known. The only in-shore fishing Canada
has is along the shore of New
Brunswick on the coast of Prince Ed
ward’s Island and off the north coast of
Cape Breton Island. Now you will see by
this chart that the shallow water extends
out a considerable distance, and 1 can tell
you that there are many sharp rocks there.
You see here, following down the shore of
New Brunswick, within the three miles,
it is eight fathoms and here ten,
again fifteen, then twelve, next eighteen
(that’s the deepest), then again eight, ten,
twelve and fifteen fathoms; the same way
along the coast of Prince Edward’s Island
and Cape Breton. There is no place with
in three miles of the shore where an
American fisherman would cast his nets
without danger of losing more than he
could gain, since his seine would possibly
bedestroyed. Years ago when they caught
mackerel with hook and line these fish
eries were of some value, perhaps, but
now the fishing is done altogether with
nurse seines of from fifteen to twenty-five
fathoms. There are few places within
three miles of shore where these
seines could be cast without danger of
their being torn to pieces on the sharp
rocks. Our fishermen could not afford to
run this risk. Besides, by far the best
catch is out where they have a perfect
right to fish without Canadian or other
interference. There used to be fishing in
the Straits of Belle Isle. There the in
shore fishing, which we still have a right
to, was of some value, but it has been fif
teen vears since American vessels stopped
going there.”
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PEACE OR WAR.
The Austro-Hungarian Minister Inter.
viewed on the Subject of the European
Situation.
Washington, May 2.—Baron Tavera,
the new Minister from Austro-Hungary,
said in an interview yesterday regarding
the prospect of war in Europe that the
sovereigns and cabinets are all anxious
for peace, but there is danger of war be
ing brought about by unscrupulous men
outside of the cabinets, who are working
to stir up a fight to further their personal
ends. The Baron is just from Berlin. He
was asked: “Does Austria apprehend nc
trouble over the Bulgarian question !”
“I can not tell; but it is certain Austria
will not be the aggressor. We are as ab
solutely masters of the situation in our
own country as Bismarck is in Germany,
and no outburst of popular feeling among
the Hungarians, who, of course, remem
ber the events of 1848 and the part Russia
took in it, or any other nationalities that
comprise the empire, could force the gov
ernment into war unless it was fully re
solved to take that course. With Russia,
however, it is different, because of Nihil
ism, which might drive the Czar and his
advisers into war against their will, and
in France the national feeling might be so
strong as to produce the same result.
“Austria,” continued the Baron, “could
offer no objection to Russia’s putting a
candidate on the Bulgarian throne pro
vide! it is done legally and by an election
by the Grand Sobranje. We have no ob
jection to Russian influence in Bulgaria.
The treaty of Berlin will not allow any
one power to disturb Turkey, and if
Turkey is attacked the signatory powers
to the treaty of Berlin will possibly de
fend her, while as long as her rights are
not violated and the statu quo
ante is maintained, it is immaterial
whether a German or Russian
Prince is on the Bulgarian throne. Un
doubtedly Prince Alexander was treated
very harshly, but it was done, I am sure,
by those agents who are always seeking
to make trouble. Neither th Czar nor his
: ministers authorized it.”
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INTERESTING RELICS.
1 Arrival of tlie Galena at Washington with
i the Pre-Hlstoric Statue From Easter
Island—A Subject for Antiquarian Ke
search.
Washington, May 2.—'The United States
man-of-war Galena, Commander Colby M.
; Chester, of the North Atlantic squadron,
! anchored yesterday morning in the Poto
mac off Alexandria, here from Aspinwall.
The Galena has on board the great stone
image or statue secured last year on
Easter Island for the Smithsonian Insti
tute. The statue weighs fifteen tons.
It was transported to Panama by the
! United States ship Mohican, C mmander
Day, and thence by rail across the
Isthmus. Within a few days this extraor
dinary relic of South sea barbarism will
have reached its destination, the Smith
sonian Museum, after having been nearly
a year on the way. The Galena was vis
; ited and admired by a good many people.
Although obsolete and comparatively use
! less as a war ship, she is a very handsome
vessel, and seems none the worse for the
heavy weather experienced on the voyage;
Easter Island is in the western part of the
Pacific ocean, 2,301 miles from the coast of
South Amerioa. It has about a thousand
inhabitants of the Polynesian race, and
i is seldom visited by navigators. Since
| 1885, when some French missionaries
landed among them, they have become
| Christians. The island contains several
j hundred gigantic stone statues, the larg
; est of which is forty feet high and meas
! ures nine feet across the shoulders. They
: are scattered about the island, which is
| about eleven miles long and six wide,
I generally prostrate. They were carved
i out of the common rock of the island
and some are tolerably well chiseled.
Nothing is known as to tho origin of these
rude works of art and worship. Native
traditions give them a supernatural or
igin. It has recently been conjectured
that the island is the remnant of a sub
merged continent and that these statues
were made for idols by an extinct raee,
OF GENERAL INTEREST
—This country is the best picture
market in the world.
—Coffee as a cure for typhoid fever
is recommended by a French naval sur
geon.
—A cross-eyed cat, one of the few
known to be in existence, is owned by
Mrs. George Hebard, of Hartford,
Conn.
—Ulysses is the only town in Grant
County, Kansas, and Horace and Tri
bune are the only towns in Greeley
Count}’.
—The total egg crop of the United
States, or the product handled by the
larger cities and towns, is estimated at
one hundred and fifty million dollars
annually.
—The Chinese are said to manufac
ture an anaesthetic not unlike cocaine
in its action, and claim that the anaes
thetic property is the juice of the eye
of the frog.
—Treasury clerks who count the
trade dollars have to wear buckskin
gloves or get sore fingers. Any sore
spot on the finger is soon poisoned by
contact with the metal.
—London papers tell of a spaniel
which saved the life of a cat. The
owner of both decided to drown
the cat, and threw it into the
river. The dog rescued the tabby and
the man threw her in again. This time
the spaniel took the cat to the other
shore.
—The retired list of the navy is swell
ing. The«*e are fifty Rear Admirals,
fifteen Commodores, fourteen Captains,
twelve Commanders, twenty Lieuten
ant Commanders, forty-one Lieuten
ants, forty-six surgeons, twenty pay
masters and seventy-two engineers.—
Chicago Herald.
—At a late auction in Paris a Stradi
vari us violoncello, bearing the maker’s
name and the date, 1689, was sold for
$3,802; a violin by the same maker, of
the date of 1691, went for $2,400, and
a Ruggeri, of the year 1650, for $6,400;
A violin bow, by Tourte, for $220.—
Cincinnati Times.
— A curious flower is being cultivated
by a lady at Barton, Fla. It is called
the veiled nun and is of the lily species
and has a fan-shaped base, in front of
which projects a purple cell, and in the
cell is the pistil, on the apex of which
is a perfect face with a white hood or
veil almost exactly like that worn by
some of the orders of nuns.
—The prints of peculiarly arranged
teeth were found in some cheese in a
house in Jersey City that was robbed a
few nights ago. A colored man who
was arrested on suspicion was required
to bite a piece of the cheese; when his
teeth made the same marks as were up
on the other piece, and he was commit
ted for trial.—Chicago Tribune.
—A Philadelphia physician says that
a great deal of what passes for heart
disease is only mild dyspepsia, that
nervousness is commonly bad temper
and that two-thirds of the so-called
malaria is nothing but laziness. Prob
ably he doesn’t tell his patients so, but
there is no doubt a good deal of truth
in what he says.—American Analyst.
—The Governor of Guadalajara has
arranged for the establishment of pawn
shops in that State similar to the na
tional pawnshops of Mexico, which lend
money on collaterals at a very low rate
of interest. Private parties in the
State capital have already subscribed a
capital of twenty-three thousand dol
lars and other subscriptions are coming
in rapidly.—Chicago Times.
—The secret of being always enter
taining in conversation is so simple
that it is astonishing so few people
know it. The rule is always to talk
about the personal interest of the one
you are talking with. He will save
you the trouble of saying much, and
will leave you finally with a remarka
bly good opinion of your powers as an
entertainer.—Journal of Education.
—Tapestry is neither real weaving
nor true embroidery, but in a manner
unites in its working these two pro
cesses into one. Though wrought in a
loom and upon a warp stretched out as
long as its frame, it has no woof thrown
across those threads with a shuttle or
any like appearance, but its weft is
done with many short threads, all'vari
ously colored and out in by a needle.
It is not embroider}-, though so very
like it, for tapestry7 is not worked upon
what is really a web, having both
warp and woof, but upon a series
of closely-set fine strings.—Boston
Budget.
—The New Brunswick (N. J.) News
announced with great gravity one
morning that certain post-office clerks,
naming them, had been detected in
“selling thirteen stamps for one cent
and a quarter,” naming the detective
who had worked up the case. The
News has now been sued for five thou
sand dollars damages by the two clerks
and is the victim of its own joke, which
turns on the fact that thirteen stamps
cost twenty-six cents, or a cent and a
quarter of a dollar. The Post-office
Department sent on an inspector to de
mand the reason why the. theft had not
been reported.