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VOLUME VIII.__HUNTSVILLE, ALA., SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1887. NUMBER 36.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
{ymyiud from YarlMS Sources.
The Scotch yacht Thistle sailed on the
25th from Glasgow for America.
The recent Massachusetts floods have
damaged property, it is said, more than
|500,000. ___
Thirty-eight Liberal British peers have
protested against the enforcement of co
ercion in Ireland. ^
It is the opinion in London that Russia
has left a number of loopholes in the
Af<rhan frontier agreement -just made
with England. » r_
I)K McGlynn announced positively at
New York, on the 22d, that the United
Labor party will run a candidate for Pres
ident next year. ^
The receipts of the United States from
Julv 1 to the 22d were $23,625,388 and the
expenditures $22,795,441, being a net gain
to date of $720,047.
Negotiations are reported to be in
progress between Mr. Gould and Mr.
Mackey with a view to the termination of
the ocean cable war.
Forty-nine new cases of cholera and
twenty-two deaths were reported at
Catania on the 23d. A few deaths were
reported in other towns.
The steamer Sir John Lawrence, -which
was lost in the Bay of Bengal, is now said
to have had eight hundred persons on
board, all of whom were lost.
Mayor Francis of St. Louis and the
Missouri delegation called on the President
ob the 2oth and invited him to visit St.
Louis in October, which he agreed to do.
E. Radoslavoff, late Prime Minister of
Bulgaria, is a prisoner at Varna, charged
with treason. Armed bands of marau
ders overrun Bulgaria, and the country is
in a state of terrorism.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission,
ontheftSd, heard the complaint of Rev.
Mr. Couneill, colored, of Georgia, who
charges discrimination against him, by
reason of his color, by the Western & At
lantic railroad.
The Secretary of the Navy has adver
tised for proposals for the construction of
one first-class torpedo boat at the best and
most modern design, constructed of steel
of domestic manufacture, and to have the
highest attainable speed.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
has created a bureau to be styled its de
partment of statistics, the head of which
will be denominated the auditor. Mr. C.
C. McCain has been appointed auditor and
will enter on his duties August 1.
The Minneapolis (Minn.) Chamber of
Commerce, at a meeting on the 22d, ap
pointed a committee to meet with other
committees to extend an invitation to Presi
dent Cleveland to visit Minneapolis in his
proposed Northwestern trip.
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The Telegraphers’ Brotherhood is said
to have offered the same amount ($3,000,
000) for the property and franchises of the
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company as
was offered by Mr. Gould, with the idea of
making a co-operative concern of it.
The scenery, stage properties, costumes,
etc., of the National Opera Company have
been seized by the sheriff at Jersey City,
N. J. Mrs. H. K. Thurber, of New York,
loaned $32,000 to the company, and she has
instituted suit to recover the amount.
A statue of Pope Urban II. was un
Tailed on the 2‘2d at Chatilon, a suburb of
I aris, and the birthplace of Urban, in the
presence of the papal nuncio at Paris, the
Archbishop of Paris, the Archbishop of
Eheims and twenty-three bishops. Bishop
■reppel delivered an eloquent address.
, Daniel Lyons was arrested in Pitts
burgh several days ago for stealing silver
ware and confessed to the theft. He was
'Uspected of being an Eastern crook, and
as been identified as the man who killed
Joseph Quinn in New York on July 5. He
“as been taken back to New York.
A special edition of the Dublin Gazette
announces the following counties fully
proclaimed under the Crimes act: Kings,
D«trim, Longford, Sligo, Galway, Mayo,
1'oseommon, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Lim
fnck, Kilkenny, Queens, Tiperary, Water
ed, Donegal, and Monaghan.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, thinks
the newspaper fraternity of the country
nt,eds laboring with. He is decidedly op
posed to Sunday papers, and says he never
reads one of them, adding: “You can’t
pound a sermon into a man after he has
Sot through reading one of those Sunday
P“!>6rs.”
Mary Agnes Osborne has begun suit in
nT ^°rk aSains* ber husband Hugh
.borne, superintendent of the French
-able Company. She alleges that Os
°rne has frequently whipped her with a
s"d;h, knocking her down and otherwise
Maltreating her. Ostxtrue’s friends say
“rSl Osborne is insane.
The race for the National League base
a-> championship is becoming interest
M?- Chicago, at the close of the week
Wsd the 23d, was within one of tieing
ctroit, and Boston is getting uncomfor
- cl°se for both of the leaders. In
e -Association race the St. Louis Browns
a,'age to maintain their lead without
r'-v serious effort.
^ The jubilee naval review, the greatest
°f the kind in the maritime history
. , e w°rid, took place at Spithead, on the
th« ° °0ast o£ England, on the 23d. Among
B . M'cctaUrs were a number of American
.The Victory, Admiral Nelson’s
one f 'n wllich he fell at Trafalgar,was
to ts . conspicuous objects of interest
10 ‘he visitors.
t)3f* Treasury Department has decided
Porroan ?als of high grade and value im
couuti f001 Scotland or other distant
to { ' s £or breeding purposes are entitled
that tv. entry» notwithstanding the fact
“J V*. «« »le. Thi, ndimt
Castoma decision of the collector of
4ut.. *}Detroit, Mich., who assessed
V wrtam Scottish staUions.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. ]
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The hearing on stay of proceedings in
Jake Sharpe’s case was again postponed
on the 22d, being set for the 26th.
Judge Thurman says the nomination of
Powell for Governor by the Ohio Democ
racy pleases him; also that he believes
Cleveland will be re-elected President.
The opinion exists in Europe that the
settlement of the Kusso-Afghan boundary
will go far toward ending the rebelion of
certain tribes against the authority of the
Ameer.
An important opinion has just been ren
dered by Attorney-General Garland on the
subject of alien land-ownership in the
Territories and the District of Columbia.
La Franck asserts the correctness of
its statement that General Boulanger de
clined to head a monarchal movement.
The paper calls on Minister of War Fer
ron to demand of Boulanger the names of
the delegation that waited on him.
The corporation of Dublin, on the 22d,
conferred the freedom of the city on Mr.
Wm. O’Brien, editor of United Ireland., and
Mr. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, who is
now visiting Ireland.
Texas fever is reported to be killing
many cattle in portions of Kansas.
John Tyler, son of the late President
Tyler, is quite ill at Washington.
Mr. C. A. Heath, of Montrose, Col.,
went to a neighbor’s, on the. 22d, leaving
her three small boys alone in the house.
Shortly afterwards one of the boys went to
his mother, told her that they had built a
fire, and for her to come home and get sup
per for papa. The mother, mistrusting
something wrong, hurried home and found
the building in flames and her two sons
burned to a crisp.
It is estimated that the coke strike just
closed cost the men and operators $2,
000,000.
A conference took place on the 23d be
tween the managers of the Reading (Pa.)
Iron Works and a committee representing
its 1,800 employes, who have been stand
ing out against a ten per cent, reduction
for some weeks. The conference resulted
in a victory for the men for the present.
Roman Catholic circles in Lawrence,
Mass., are much agitated over the deposi
tion of Rev. P. Gilmore, formerly of Law
rence, but now of Waterford, N. Y. He
has been deposed by Rome from the posi
tion of provincial of the Order of St. Au
gustine in the United States. The affair
is the result of the St. Augustine Bank
trouble at Lawrence in 1883.
Theodore Thomas has sued the National
Opera Company for $18,349 unpaid salary,
and proposes to go it alone with his or
chestra next season.
Among the passengers on the steamship
Etruria, which sailed from New York for
Liverpool on the 23d, were Robert Gar
rett, president of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, Chauncey M. Depew and ex
Governor Alger of Michigan. The latter
expects to visit Mr. Andrew Carnegie in
Scotland.
The sculling race between Jake G-au
daur and Ned Hanlan at Pullman, 111., on
the 23d, resulted in a fizzle. Hanlon was
nominally the winner, but Gaudaur’s
backer, Mr. St. John, claims that he had
instructed his protege to lose, as the condi
tions were not complied with.
A project is on foot for an international
cremation congress to be held in Berlin in
1889, in connection with which will be an
exhibition of designs for crematories, urns
and coffins.
Mr. John Wall, the New York reporter
who accompanied Editor O’Brien in his re
cent trip through Canada, was presented
on the 23d with a purse of $1,000 by his
Irish American friends in the metropolis in
recognition of his sufferings in behalf of
the Irish cause.
Samuel Schappel, mayor of Claring
ton, O., was arrested at Milwaukee, W is.,
on the 23d, on a charge of perjury while
acting as a witness in saloon prosecutions
in his town.
An explosion of ammonia occurred on
the night of the 23d in the refrigerating
department of Bergner & Engel’s brewery,
at Philadelphia, resulting in serious injury
to five men, slight injury to three others
and damage of about $2,000 to the build
ing.
General Wm. McKee Dunn, U. S. A.,
retired, died, on the 24th, at his home in
Fairfield County, Va.
A mob broke into the Nebraska City
(Neb.) jail on the 24th, took out Lee Shell
enberger, a condemned murderer, and
lynched him.
A new line of steamships is to be run
from San Francisco to Panama in opposi
tion to the Paoific Mail.
Gertrude Beecroft, aged seventeen, of
New York, was rebuked by her mother for
staying out late. She took rat poison on
the night of the 24th, and died after much
suffering.
Eighteen lives are now reported lost by
the flood at Great Barrington, Mass. Par
ticulars, however, are not yet obtainable.
It is reported that two dams gave way in
Williamsburg.
Two young children of Prof. F. R. Honey,
of Yale College, died at New Haven, Conn.,
on the 24th, under circumstances which
make it probable that they were poisoned
by ice cream.
Captain Job Johnson and his ten-year
old son were drowned at Pocomoke City,
Md., on the 23d. Captain Johnson, with
the boy in bis arms, attempted to jump
from the draw-bridge to his schooner in
the Pocomoke river. He miscalculated the
distance, and they were .plunged into the
river.
Miss Rose Cleveland will take the vice
principalship of a private school on Fifth
avenue, New York, at its fall opening in
September. . •
A new volcano has broken out on an
island in the Mediterranean sea.
A mining company’s safe at Bessemer,
Mich., was robbed of $4,000 on the night of j
the 23d.
An explosion occurred in a mine at Nan
ticoke, Pa., on the 25th, and three men
were fatally injured.
An eloping couple from Springfield,
Mass., were captured at Cleveland, O., on
the 25th.
The Canadian Government has issued an
order prohibiting the importation of neat
cattle from the United States.
The Pope publishes a letter in which he
explains his course in the government of
the church, and particularly his efforts at
reconciliation with various European na
tions.
Ret. W. E. Ward, of Nashville, Tenn., \
died of apoplexy at sea on the steamer
Aurania, returning from Europe.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
has decided that commercial travelers are
not a privileged class, and that it is not
lawful for railroads to sell them mileage
tickets cheaper than to other persons.
The county of Antrim, Ireland, which
was at first exempt under the “proclaim
ing” of the operation of the Crimes act,
has been included, making coeroion uni
versal throughout Ireland.
A delegation of Coeur d’Alene Indians
from Idaho, with their chief, Seltice, at
their head, waited on the President on the
2ath, and asked his co-operatioa in securing
their treaty rights.
The drivers and helpers employed by the
Mutual Benefit Ice Company,of New York,
struck successfully on the 25th for an ad
vance of wages from $12 and $10 a week to
$15 and $12 a week, respectively.
Fihe broke out on the evening of the
26th in the building Nos. 49 and 49 West
Thirteenth-street, New York, in which one
hundred horses ^ere stabled, and forty
three of them were burned to death. The
building was occupied by the Fleischmau
Vienna bakery.
Counsel in the famous Deems divorce
case at New York told Justice Allen in the
special term of the Court of Common Pleas,
on the 26th, that there would be no fur
ther litigation, as the differences between
Mr. anil Mrs. Deems had been settled
amicably.
M. Laur, the author of the Boulanger
letters, promises to make public the names
of the eighty-jour Generals who are alleged
to have pledged their support to General
Boulanger in a coup d’etat, after his duel
with M. Cassagnac.
Particulars of the failure of the
Saranac Iron Company of Saranac, N. Y.,
have been received. Bowen & Signor, the
proprietors of the company, have made an
assignment. The liabilities are estimated
from $250,000 to $300,000 and the assets at
about $75,000. Their property is mortgaged
for $125,000.
A dispatch from Nizhnee-Novgorod, on
the 25th, stated that a large naphtha
spring, containing 1,000,000 poods of naph
tha, at Balachna, twenty miles northwest
of Nizhnee-Novgorod, was on fire, and that
the flames had spread to the structures in
closing other springs.
Joseph Van Heyst, the Holland Danker,
whose wife recently fled to this country
with Jules Van Dooren, 50,000 florins of
Van Heyst’s money and his three-year-old
child, arrived at New York on the 25th, on
the steamship Aurania. He will go to
Easton, Pa., where the fugitives were last
heard from.
An explosion occurred in a blast-furnace
works at Friedenshutt, Silesia, on the 25th,
with very disastrous results. In the works
there were twenty-two steam boilers, one
or more of which exploded, demolishing
the others and killing two and wounding
more or less severely twenty persons. Fire
broke out in the building wrecked by the
explosion and extended to others, consum
ing six houses and shops.
Annapolis Royal, N. S., the oldest town
in British America, is greatly excited over
the discovery, a few days ago, of a large
quantity of scrip and coin. The find was
made in an old cellar dug by the French
There was over $2,000 worth of Continental
scrip, dated lWiO, and the coins were either
German or Russian. The gold was under
neath a house owned by ex-Sheriff Bonnett.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The State Wheel of Arkansas met at
Hollywood on the 27th.
It Is said that the yellow fever has
about-exhausted itself at Key West.
A delegation of one hundred of the^
most prominent citizens of Kansas City
have gone to Washington for the purpose
of inviting the President to visit their
city.
The Louisiana Insurance Company has
suspended business aud asked for the ap*
pointment of a commissioner to settle the
company’s affairs.
The Saranac Iron Company, of Saranac,
N. Y., failed on the 25th. The liabilities
are estimated at $300,000 and the assets at
about $75,000.
Virginia Hudson, colored, aged seven
years, is in jail at Gainesville, S. C., un
der the charge of murder. She killed a
chlid one year old and then threw the body
into a well. She struck her victim over the
head with a board until it was dead.
Elsie C. Martin, a passenger on the
steamship Oregon when that, vessel sunk
near Fire Island on the morning of March
14, 1886, has brought suit for $5000 against
the Cunard company for damages to her
person and loss of property.
Telegrams from Dallas and San An
tonio, Tex., di-credit the report that the
Texas cattle trail is to be abandoned, and
that 60,000 head of cattle on their toWyom
ing were turned back at the Arkansas
river.
Rev. W. H. Gatlin, a colored pastor,
was shot and killed at Starkville, Miss.,
on the 24th by officers who were attempt
ing to arrest him.
Near Guntersville, Ala., a negro named
Brown cut oft tha head of James Beard, a
prominent citizen. Beard was drunk and
drew his pistol to shoot Brown without
cause, when Brown, who was mowing in
his field, threw up his blade, and with a
swooping stroke chopped off Beard’s head.
A FARMER named Eli Parker was gored
to death by a bull near Charlotte, Mich.,
on the 23d.
The prohibitory law of Rhode Island
gives the Chief of State Police virtually
autocratic powers. He and his deputies
can search, seize, arrest, and imprison as j
they may please, suspicion of the reason
ableness of which they are the judges is
sufficient to justify, under the law, a forci
ble entry into a private house.
The Brotherhood of Telegraphers have
offered $3,000,000 for the Baltimore and
Ohio telegraph plant.
Lee Shellenberger was lynched at
Nebraska City, Neb., on the 24th for the j
murder of his child.
Brig.-Gen. Wm. McKee Dcnn, United j
Btrtes Army, retired, late Judge Advocate |
General, died at Maplewood, Va., on the i
84th In his 72d year.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Mrs. Catharine M. King, widow of tho
late Barrington King, died recently at
Roswell, Ga., aged eighty-i hree. She was
highly esteemed.
A student at Vanderbilt University, in
Teuuessee,feas ]ust beat the world’s reo
ord in high kicking, having succeeded in
hitting a mark at the unprecedented
height of nine feet three and one-half
inches.
Miss Lemley, of Montgomery County,
Teun., commuted suicido by hanging a
few days ago. She was a religious en
thusiast, and her mind had become un
balanced.
The ex-Union negro soldiers at New Or
leans are clamoring for admission to the
Grand Army of the Republic. Having
been refused by the local department,
they will appeal to the Grand Encamp
ment at St. Louis.
ihene is at preterit at Mount Vernon,
Barr <cks, Ala., an old army mule that has
a record (ft service in the army covering
a period of s.xty years. He h^s been en
tered on the Government rolls as a pen
sioner, getting his feed and care during
life and exemption from sale.
NearTroy, Tenn., a few evenings since,
James B Kitchel was run over and in
stantly killed by a train on the Chesa^
peake & Ohio railroad. Kitchel was a
blacksmith, originally from Metropolis,
I1L He left a wife and several children.
A bill recently Intro-lucid into the
Georgia Legislature prohibits the use oi
the little chromes that go with packages
of cigarettes.
Nine head of thoroughbred Holstein
Fris’an c itile were poisoned a few nights
ago by some unknown person, who threw
paris green, mixed with salt, in J. S. Ed
munds’ pasture, near Mauehester, La.
Eicrht of the animals have died.
The boiler of E. L. Chamberlain’s new
saw-mill at Natchez, Miss., exploded a
few days si ice, wrecking the mill, kill
ing Dorsey Scott (colored), fireman, and
injuring Mr. Chamberlain, the engineer
and proprietor, and two or three others.
The startling discovery was made at
Lexington, Ivy., a few nights ago that
the incendiaries who set on fire the large
coal and feed estabiiihmentof Descognets
& Co. twice within a week are five small
boys ranging in age from seven to nine
years, some of thorn belonging to good
families.
Parties digging a well in Nashville,
Tenn., a few days since, found the tusk of
a mastodon twenty-eight inches in cir
cumference and nearly seven feet long.
Prof. Safford, State Geologist and Pro
fessor of Mineralogy and Geology at Van
derbilt University, examined it,, and pro
nounced it undoubtedly the remains of a
mastodon.
Nimrod Burrow, an old and eccentric
farmer of Carlisle County, Ky., was shot
and killed by his tenant, Jack Russell, a
few days ag-o. The weapon used was a
shotgun, the load taking effect in Bur
row’s head, killing him instantly. A feud
had existed between the two men for
some time.
Fire destroyed the Bernhardt Hotel, a
two-story wooden structure, at Bessemer,
Ala., a few nights ago, together with
twenty-one adjoining houses of the same
character. Thirteen persons were hurt
bad enough to need the services of the
physicians, and the injuries of an en
graver named Frederick Peterson were
thought to be fatal.
United States Marshal Gross and an
armed force left L'Uisvdie, Kv., a few
days since for Campbellsburg, the county
se >t of Tiylor Counts-, Ky., to make a
levy iu enforcement of a ju lament against
the people of the county for a railroad.
The people are furious, and lively times
were ex pected.
For some time past freight cars of the
Knoxville branch of the Louisville ft
Nashville road have been systematically
robbed and large amounts of goods taken.
William Pollock, a brakeman, for fifteen
years in the road’s service, was arrested at
Louisville, a few days since,'and confessed
the robbery. He implicates J. m s Fuell,
a colored boarding-house keeper oi
Lebanon, Ky. Most of the stolen goods
were Cincinnati shipments, some of which
have been recovered.
Daisy Cherry, an eleven-vear-old col
ored girl, of Barnwell, N. C., has been
convicted of the murder of a while in
fant, and sentenced to be hanged at Co
lumbia in September. The young crim
inal was hired out by her parents to
nurse a white baby. The work was dis
tasteful to her, and she administered a
dose of concentrate I lve to the <hild,
which caused its deaih in a few hours.
T. l>e Witt Saddler shot and killed J. C.
Harrison at Pineapple, Ala., a few days
ago, and the coroner's jury gave a verdict
of accidental homicide. They bad been
out hunting and began joking by Saddler
asking for a chew of tobacco. Harrison
refused, and Saddler pointed his gun at
him playfully, when it went off by acci
dent, killing Harrison on the spot Both
were respectable white citizens.
At Wincheste •, Va., recently, the grand
jury indicted a promine it Israelite mer
chant, N. Kohn, and his niece, Emma
Frankel. The parties were married by
Rabbi Phi lipson, of Har Sinai Taber
nacle, in Baltimore, January 31, 1887, and
returned to Winchester to reside. The
Virgiuia law forbids the marriage in the
State of parties thus connected, or, hav
ing been married, from returning there to
reside as man and wife. The penalty is
a heavy fine and imprisonment. Eminent
counsel has been engaged by K-'hn.
The Georgia House of Representatives
passed the Pel'.on Wine-Room bill by a
vote of 93 to 69. The necessity for the bill
arose from the fact- that the law under
which 118 of the 137 counties of Georgia
have become dry, permits the sale of do
mestic wine. Under this law the State
wrs filled with wine-rooms, which sold
vilest compounds of wine and whisky.
The bill imposes a tax of $10,000 a year
upon each auJ every one of these wine
rooms.
Fran k Allen, residing at Marble Hill,
Franklin County, Tenn., cut his throat
from ear to ear a few days ago while iu
the presence if his wife, and died a few
miuutqs later. Allen had been acting
que-'r lately, so much so that It was
tie.'mod bast to se id him to the State
Asylum f. r the Insane. Mrs. Alien to.d
him that Dr. T.iylor was in an adjoining
:com to examine him. He immediately
drew a knife from his pocket and suc
ceed ■ 1 in cutting his throat before he
cuilJ he o. even tod.
THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTS.
Another Urgent Invitation to the Presi
dent to Visit St Louis Accepted, and it
Looks as if This One Might Stick—Mayor
Francis’ Address and the President’s K»
ply.
Washington, July 25.—The delegation
from St. Louis, which arrived last night to
invite the President and Mrs. Cleveland to
that city, called by appointment at the
White House at 12 m. to-day. The dele
gates was ushered into the library, where
the President received them. Mayor Francis
of St. Louis immediately stepped to front
and made the following address:
Mu. President: It was my fortune sixty days
ago, accompanied by twenty five representa
tive citizens' of St. Louis, to supplement and
earnestly Indorse, in behalf of the people of
that city, an invitation previously extended to
you to atten t the annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the
City of St. Louis, during the last week of Sep
tember next. The success of that mission in
elioiting from you a favorable response
was highly gratifying to the people of
St. Louis au,d of Missouri. The disappoint
ment later, consequent upon your letter of
declination, was deep and all-pisvailtng, bnt
coextensive with it sentiment of sincere ap
proval of the patrlotio motives which had
prompted you to such action. The citizens of
St. Louis, irrespective of party, n -tionality or
race, in mass-meeting assembled the day after
your letters were received, with one voice en
thusiastically resolved to extend to yourself
your estimable wife a cordial invitation to visit
their city, during the first week of October
next, and instructed their mayor, with a
committee of fifty citizens, to convey
ana deliver the same In person to
you. Assemblages of like character
were promptly held In almost every county in
the State,indorsing and emphasizing the action
taken in St. Ixiuis. Delegates were appointed by
these meetings to proceed to the capital of the
Nation and there to express to the chief execu
tive in a manner as effective as words and form
would permit, the warmth of the greeting
which awaits him from the people of Missouri
In the metropolis- of the State.
We are here, therefore, in obedienoe to the
mandates of our people, representing all sec
tions of Missouri, her commercial, manufactur
ing and agricultural interests, and reflecting
the desire of every city, town and hamlet In
her borders, to urge you and Mrs. Cleveland to
favor us with your presence.
This invitation emanates from the people,
yqur sovereigns and ours, and not from any
organization, civil or military, political or re
ligious. It is the spontaneous outburst of a
community that never suffers its reputation
for hospitality to be aspersed. It Is a vigorous
and feeling protest from a generous host
against the absolute declination of a distin
guished guest to be the central figure of an
invited company.
The reasons why you should visit the West
are even stronger now than on the former oc
casion, when your reply was a favorable one,
whether viewed from our standpoint or your
own. Our appearance before you in largely in
creased numbers, coming even as we do from
the most remote sections of the State, fur
nishes some indication of the feeling prevailing
at our homes. The people of the West revere
the high office of Chief Magistrate of the Na
tion, and their loyalty and patriotism impel
them to honor him who fills that exalted posi
tion. Especially is it so when the man who
fills it performs his duty with the wisdom, fear
lessness and patriotism which characterizes
your administration. No organization, how
ever strong, and no occurrence, however im
portant, will be required to add interest to the
occasion of your presence.
The people of Missouri and of the West
will congregate in vast numbers to meet
and welcome you in the commercial centre
of the Mississippi valley.
We have designated the first week in Octo
ber as the time for your visit, because we
thought that time would be most convenient
and agreeable for you; because it is the season
when our fall festivities are at their height,
when our trades pageant gives Its annual dis
play; when the mysterious Veiled Prophet sur
rounded with oriental splendor makes hi9
visit; when our streets are brilliantly illumin
ated by arches of blazing light on a scale of
magn ficence never approached; when our
Exposition and our Agricultural and Mechani
cal Fair, each the greatest of it9 kind on the
continent, are in progress; and ecause, finally,
it is a season when the sterling yoemanry of
the land, the bulwark of the Republic and the
greatest contributors to its wealth,
can with least detriment to their agricultural
interests assemble in our city to do you honor.
If, however, another time would be better
suited to your inclination or engagements, your
welcome would be none the less genuine.
The city of St. Loui-, the State of Missouri
and the people of the West, say to the Presi
dent of the United States; “Honor us with
your presence” and to Grover Cleveland the
honest, fearless man, who so ably fills that
high office, “come and be our guest.”
At the conclusion of the address Mayor
Francis presented an elaborately engraved
invitation to the President.
Mayor Francis’ remarks, which were
made off-hand, were repeatedly interrupt
ed by applause, which was redoubled when
the address was formally presented to the
President with the terse remark that it was
from what they thought the greatest city
of the continent, to him whom they
thought the greatest President of the Un
ited States. The President, also speaking
extempore, replied as follows:
MR. Mayor and Gentlemen—My reply to
your very complimentary and hearty address
shall be very brief and very agreeable. At the .
time you did me the honor to invite me to your j
city on the occasion of your last visit I felt,
quite contrary to my expectation, when I first |
met you, that it was an invitation which ought j
not to be decli ed. I felt impressed at the mo- j
ment that you had something there in St. Louis ;
of which you were deservedly proud; that you
had a city and people and interests there which j
it was only right and just you should earnestly
desire that the Chief Magistrate of
the Nation should see and appre
ciate. What has happened since has In ;
nowise hampered my desire to see these things,
and to become better acquainted with the hos
pitable and good peop’e, whose good feeling and
kindness you manifest. It was not at all nec
essary in order to convince me of your good
faith and sincerity that so many of your good
people should at this most uncomfortable sea
son of the year come here, and yet you don’t
know how much it pleases me to see you all.
My desire to come to see you has grown with
every day, and I do not see how I can do other
| wise now than to accept your invitation.”
When the applause which greeted this
announcement had subsided, the President
reverting to his previous acceptance said:
“The arrangement made before was one
which was entirely free from complications
and which presented no likelihood of clash
ing with any of my other arrangements.
You are aware I suppose that I have
agreed to visit the city of Atlanta early in
October. This is an agreement of long
standing, entered into before the closing of
Congress. I must go there. I only speak
of this because when we sit down to
determine on the day when I can
' visit you this must be taken into account,
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
—A Nevada man who started out to
look for a grizzly bear found him in
time for dinner—the bear** dinner.—
Judge.
—The bodies of abom, of* hundred
Chinese are about to be disinterred at
San Francisco and shipped to China by
steamer for final interment.
—A rich New York dry-goods mer»
chant’s son, who was entirely bald, ha«
had the hair from a Newfoundland dog’s
leg transplanted to his own head and
it is growing nicely.
—Hot water from artesian wells is
one of the looked-for boons. It is
thought reasonable to suppose that hot
water can be obtained almost any where
if wells are bored deep enough, the fea
sibility of this source of supply being
already largely demonstrated by the
success of the great artesian well pro
ject at Pestli.
—Bill Johnson, a stage robber, now
languishing in an Idaho jail, speaks
despondently of the business as fol
lows: “Stage after stage has been held
up without getting a nickel, and it
seems as though all the money in the
country was in the hands of the bank
ers, the railroad managers or the ex
press companies.”
—A Tennessee newspaper contains
the following: “We are rejoiced to
know that J. C. Rackhelt, that prince
of gentlemen and czar of culture, has
secured the contract for building a
plank sidewalk in front of the Gibbons
block. He is a gentleman of the old
school and knows a good piece of plank
when he sees it.”—Philadelphia Press.
—Two skeletons dug up several
months ago in a cave near Orneau, in
Belgium, appear to belong to the oldest
race of which any record exists. These
prehistoric individuals were contem
porary with the mammoth, and in
habited the country before the great
ice age. They were short and thick
set, with broad shoulders, supporting a
long and narrow head, with an ex
tremely low forehead.
—Three weeks ago J. F. Eurich, of
Red Bank, Ni^J., placed a basket of
eggs on his stove extension. He had
no occasion to use any of them, and in
advertently kept his stove at an even
heat both night and day. The room
served as a shop and living room.
Yesterday he was surprised at a “peep”
from his egg basket. He found twelve
as pretty little chicks as were ever
hatched by an old hen.
—It has been demonstrated again and
again that almost one-half the units
of heat in a given quantity of coal are
wasted in one way and another as it is
now used, owing partly to the impossi
bility of gauging the supply of heat by
the requirements of the moment, but
more to imperfect combustion. It is
capable of scientific proof, too, that
nearly all thi9 waste can be avoided by
converting the coal into gas before us
ing it ft9 a heat supply.—Providence
Journal.
—The International Institute of Sta
tistics has just had a convention in
Rome, and one of the most interesting
points it established is the fact that the
death rate in Europe has been very
much reduced during the past century.
People are living longer and are more
healthy than they were one hundred
years ago, and this happy result is at
tributed to the progress ol medical
science, and especially to the energetic
sanitary measures that have been
adopted everywhere.—Boston Budget.
—An American writer who is smart
at figures has estimated that the peo
ple of the United States could feed
themselves upon a good mixed diet,
including meats, tea and coffee at a
cost of about twenty-four cents per day
lor each person. Vegetarians have
demonstrated the possibility of main
taining health upon sixpence or twelve
cents worth of food per day. At the
other extreme we find many fashion
able hotels charging from five to ten
dollars per day for three meals and »
bed.—Foote's Health Monthly.
—The living skeleton and well
known museum specimen, lately de
ceased at the age of thirty-five years, was
a case of recognized disease known as
progressive muscular atrophy or wast
ing. It is generally caused by unusual
muscular exertion or exposure to cold
and wet, but in this particular case it
was brought on by excessive swimming
at the age of twelve. The patient’s
health, appetite and mental faculties
remained unimpaired long after the
great bulk of the muscles had wasted
away.—Foote's Health Monthly.
—Says a man who is himself a great
smoker: “What can men be thinking
of who light cigars or cigarettes, not
only on the elevated stations, but some
times even before they get off the cars?
They surely forget that they are mak
ing themselves offensive to any ladies
that may be present, not to speak ol
men. Such lack of consideration on
the part of presumably well-bred
men is incomprehensible to me and
makes me almost determined to give
up smoking, much as I enjoy it; for it
looks as though the habit of smoking
tended to make men indifferent to the
| rights of other*.”