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HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE.
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VOLUME VIII. _HUNTSVILLE, ALA.. SATURDAY, OUT. 8, 1887.NUMBER 40.
KEWS IN BRIEF.
Cojapllod from Vari«* Sobtcm*
PERSONAL AM) POLITICAL,
PolydoRE DE Kuper, a Bulgarian by
. ir.u and a strong Roman Catbolm, has
been elected Lord Mayor of London.
r ' ts estimated on one-fourth returns
♦Jim the State that prohibition was de
, in Tennessee, at the election on
Z Zh by from 10,000 to 20,000 majority.
jway h«° a paper in the
Vmmc century ' ** of, ?"ss.*a:s
' ■ influences Asia, which it is
thought will opera®*.aetfLW.nl*..'♦c-AU
nniaritv in British Government circles.
^retary Fairchild was at the
‘ ' :,.r„ Department on the 29th, and had
T conference with Acting Secretary
Thompson, and later attended the Cabinet
, Mr. Fairchild resumed active
clrir''e°ot the Treasury Department on
thl0Hs'swisT0>' Of New York, has de
rPned the Socialistic nomination for Sec
v of State, on the ground of ill health
” j' necessity of mending his private
affairs which he says have been ruined
during his devotion to the cause of labor.
Cardinal Gibbons ai rived in St. Raul
on the 29th. Carriages were taken at the
depot for Bishop Ireland’s residence,
n here an informal reception was held.
Mrs. Colton, widow of General D. D.
Colton, in an interview at San Francisco
on the 29th, denied the statement made a
fen clays ago by C. P. Huntington before
the Pacific Railroad Commission in New
York, in regard to the letter written by
him to her late husband. She accuses Mr.
Huntington of falsehood in saying the
letters were stolen from the safe, aud that
they were afterwards offered for sale by
her agents. .
The President and party started on'their
Western trip on the 30th.
Colonel Wm. R. Morrison, of Illinois,
has been allowed twelve dollars a month
pension as a Mexican war veteran.
Ayoub Kiian, having failed to incite in
surrection at Herat, is marching toward
Candahar.
General Crook’s official report to tue
War Department on the recent Ute
troubles in Colorado is strongly condem
natory of the whites.
The Michigan delegation, both of G. A.
K. veterans, as well as the Woman’s Re
lief Corps, are highly elated, as they have
cause to be, over the honor conferred upon
the State in the choice of Mrs. Emma S.
Hampton, of Detroit, as the National presi
dent.
Secretary Lamar has decided that a
grant attaches to the Northern Pacific
from near Portland, Ore., to near Pugot
Sound, a distance of about 143 miles.
This reverses a decision of Commissioner
Sparks.
The board appointed by Secretary
Whitney to report upon the pneumatic
gun carriages and other devices has rec
ommended that the pneumatic system be
applied to the monitor Terror, and that
tho Government purchase one of tho gun
carriages if necessary.
The Inter-State Commerce Commission
has submitted to the Secretary of the In
terior its estimates for the next fiscal year.
They are as follows: Salaries of commis
sioners, $37,000; salary of secretary, $3,500;
all etiier necessary expensi s, $169,600; to
tal $3 )0,003. The present appropriation
s $100,000. -
Thator Raiiib, of Mona, an Indian
prince, who has been looking over tho
1 nited States and Canada, arrived in
Cleveland on the 30th. He visited Gar
field’s tomb and the rolling mills in the iron
ward ami then left for Saratoga. He
travels in tho late IV. If. Vanderbilt’s pri
vate car.
President and Mrs. Cleveland and
Vit\ arrived in St. Louis at midnight on
® ’st> •-"•I were received in the most en
Jusiastic manner by the thousands who
"uthered along Washington avenue,
through which the party drove to the resi
'•'-heeof Mayor francis. The avenue was
‘ dutifully illuminated in their honor. On
the 1 the distinguished couple attended
' a.ii > service at the (Second Presbyterian
Church.
s. cretary Balfour seems determined
i"completely muzzle the Irish National
ist press.
*IXXs, the English public executioner,
• ' 'M:ing money by giving exhibitions of
jm. ,.l executions on tiie stages of theaters
■u.,mahout tho country, llo uses wax
r,,";,e'N an'l his show is accompanied by
‘ * ‘.e usual accessories of a genuine hang*
h"\. James G. Blaine arrived in Lyons,
; i He, on the COth, and left on the 1st for
**' wh*re he expected to be joined by
‘e>5is. Hale, Garrett and other geutle
!.“• He " ill next visit Berlin.
HE president and party were given an
t-tausiastic reception during their stay of
j hours at Indianapolis, Ind., on the
• An enthusiastic drummer presented
t chief magistrate with a Waterburv
'vateh.
r; ' '' "Eh°ma.s A. Armstrong, proprietor
p .,t !e ^"tional Labor Tribune, died at
l'a., on the evening of the 1st,
,jD! . e effects of a wound received in
a“ f't the battles of the war.
oi ; 'KRT ®AMM> the oarsman, broke one
-' arms on tho 1st while practicing on
‘tficyle.
B»ss'p,DKST Spalding of the Chicago
I'h r a!l ^°b has rofused the use of the
tharT''0 Kroun(ts f°r one of the world’s
•»‘P.°nship games between St. Louis
8na Detroit.
J)p p
liver n ARKKa’ England, who is to de
Beci ? euloSy.on the late Henry Ward
B , r’ llleached at Plymouth Church,
°U th° *<L
t’oRBETT, who killed John
lv ■«'' °th. has been declared hopeless
t»s i. ne’ an<^ has been sent to the Kau
■ sne Asylum.
thUlES AM) CASUALTIES.
Tf-0. \\* 1
’ i '.x’ accus8(l of attempted
last ,l ‘ r°hbing in Rails County, Mo.,
lif.ii, Jrt"88 arrested at Deer Lodge,
tioaha- b'.Je A warrant of extradi
tha e.!i issa® t by the Governor of
fic-n r '' r,n<^ an officer is on the way
(,h -bKoimforthe prisoner.
i <r,t‘sh steamer Matthews Cav has
^ o < al,e Finisterre, on the
-pam. T»i net-sons were
-Jitter being out three hours, a Milwan
5f4b jury, cn the 29th. convicted J. G.
HoOlzel of poisoning his uncle, Fred Letz.
The evidence was circumstantial. The
young man tried to divert suspicion to his
aunt, as Letz and his wife frequently
quarreled. Hoelzel fled, but tvas capt
ured in Iowa.
F. aI. Severance, chasbier of the defunct
Farmers’ Bank of Fayetteville, N. Y., has
been arrested on r .mplOint of Receiver
Andrews, charging him with embezzling
$50,000 of the bank’s funds.
William T. Grimshaw, a prominent
harness manufacturer, was at his place of
business in Amsterdam, N, Y., on the
29th, at the usual hour, but, ou eomplain
ipia»f being ill, returned borne Mrs.
GrunstiaV?/ his ..:other, •aho Tired with •
him, was called from the house, and on
her return found her son in a bedroom
with his throat cut from ear to ear. His
hand clasped a blood-stained razor.
Thieves got into the National Bank at
Washington, Ind., in daylight on the 30th,
and got away with several hundred dol
lars.
The steamer T. B. Sims ( old D. R. Pow
ell), wps burned at Island 10, just above
Memphis, Tenn., ou the 30th, ouo life be
ing lost.
A lone highwayman held up the pas
sengers on two stage coaches on the route
from San Angelo to Ballinger, Tex., on the
29th, obtaining from them about $2,500.
Munchrath, convicted of complicity in
the murder of Dr. Haddock, at Sioux City,
la., was sentenced ou the 30th to four
years in the penitentiary. The case has
been appealed.
The Farmers’ Bank at Newcastle, Del.,
was entered at an early hour on the morn
ing of the 30th by masked robbers. Their
movements awoke the cashier, who seized
his pistol and firod, wounding one of the
intruders. His companions picked up the
fallen man and quickly carried him out
the front door, making their escape.
Mrs. F. KiNsen eloped from Pittsburg,
Kas., several days ago with Owen Dob
bins, a stonemason. She is thirty-eight
years of age and the mother of six chil
dren. Dobbins has been boarding at her
house. Mr. Kinseli located the runaway
couple in Kansas City on the 30th, and
caused their arrest. They were put iu the
county jail.
The Tomiistono coach, belonging to the
“Mexican Joe” (Joe Sheely of Texas)
combination, while parading at a gallop
i ing pace through the streets of Liverpool,
England, on the 30th, capsized and the
i members of the band were scattered upon
the stone payments in all directions.
Four were so badly injured that they had
to be taken to the hospital. The band in
struments were all smashed.
Samuel Johnson, treasurer of the Ham
ilton (Ont.) Powder Company, was arrest
ed at Ogdensburg, N. Y., on the 1st,
whither he fled after having defaulted to
the extent' of $25,000, which he lost through
injudicious speculation.
Three men and two hoys were suffo
eated, and thirteen others overcome with
gas in the Host Colliery at Ashland, Pa.,
j on the 1st.
By the burning of the “English Kitch
j en,” at Detroit, Mich., on the morning of
the 1st, one person was burned to a cin
der, one suffocated to death, and another
so badly burned that his recovery is im
possible.
Rev. Henry Clemens, a Free Methodist
preacher, committed suicide near Millers
burg, O., on the 1st by placing the muzzle
of a shotgun in his mouth and shooting
the top of his head off.
The Lunar Oil \torks in Brooklyn were
damaged oy fire on the 2d to the extent of
$3 0,000. The Excelsior stores adjoining
also suffered a loss of about $10,090. All
insured.
News has been received of a serious ac
cident on the A. O. O. road, near Glad
! stone, Mich. A work-train, in backing
down, struck a cow and derailud the
train. The conductor and brakeman
were killed au l several others were in
jured.
A fire at Mitchell, Dak., on the 1st,
destroyed the Dutton & Mitchell barns
and nineteen horses, including Bar* Lee,
the running horse. The loss is §19,000.
| Incendiarism is suspected.
Three unknown hunters deliberately
shot a man and a bov near Elizabett port,
N. J., on the 2d. The victims are Patrick
Duono and Dennis Norton, the latter a lad
of thirteen years. They were picking ber
ries, when the men with their guns came
along, and taking deliberate aim, fired,
inflicting probably fatal wounds.
MJSCELLAMEOL'S.
The Dublin Union asserts that since
January 1, 1887, the National League ha',
received subscriptions amounting to £31.
000, of which it has doled out only £4,7J)
to the tenantry of Ireland. The balance;
the Union says, has not been accounts'1
for.
A statue of Francis Deake was uuvailed
at Pesth on the 29th, in the presence <f
Emperor Fiances Joseph, AreliduKi
Joseph and other members of the roy*l
family, representatives of France, Italy,
Turkey and other distinguished persons.
Count Louis Tisza delivered a eulogy on
Deake, praising his services to Hungary.
At tho consistory to be held at Rome in
December the Pope will confer the oar
dinalate upon Archbishop Richard of
Paris and Mgr. Persico, at present on a
special mission to Ireland, and will also
invest Cardinal Jacobini with the ear
dinalate.
The next National encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will lie held
at Columbus, O.
The twenty-first National encampment
of the G. A. R. closed on the 3Q*b.
The Grand Army of the Republic elect
ed Judge John P. Rea, of Minnesota, com
mander-in-chief; Nelson Cole, of 8>t. Louis,
i senior vice-commander-in-chief; John C.
Linahan, junior vice-commander-in-chief;
General Lawrence Donahue, of V ashing
ton. surgeon-genera!, and Rev. Edward
Anderson, of Connecticut, chaplain.
Local free-traders met at Cleveland,
O., on the night of the 29th and issued an.
invitation to the American Free-Trade
League to hold the next biennial conven
tion in that city. The convention meets
this month and the invitation will no doubt
be accepted. $
Catholics throughout Europe ere much
f incensed at the action of the Roman police
i in seizing the Popo’s jubilee in' t> - b -
ccuse hey bore an inscription designat
i ing the pantiff as • kiug.
It is estimated that the public debt was
reduced during September $16,500,000.
The Volunteer beat the Thistle in the
second race of the international series on
the 30th, thus keeping the America’s cup
at home for another year at least.
There was received at the Treasury
Department on the 30th a novel com
munication from a German capitalist in
Berlin. He states that he has in his pos
sesion a large number of bonds issued by
the Confederate States of America, and
after much persuasion by his friends he
has concluded to offer $1,000 worth ol
them for redemption.
Eighteen officers and forty-one non
commissioned officers in the Sweedish
army arrived in New York on the 30th on
trhc~Wllng\a!la Line ateamHkip Hoc!.-,
attend th? international drill in Chicago.
On their return to New York from Chi
cago a dinner will bo given in their honor.
The veteran firemen of New York were
in Cleveland, O., on the 30th. They were
met by a delegation of old-time firemen,
and in the afternoon the visitors and
others gave a parade through the principal
streets. Tho New Yorkers hold a reception
and concert at night.
Scotch yachtsmen arealready planning
to build a *ew yacht with which to com
pete next > ear for the America’s cup.
The public debt was reduced during
September $14,247,960.
Glanders is reported as prevailing to
an alarming oxtent on the Crow reserva
tion.
The Dotroits are now sure winners of
the League pennant, with Chicago and
Philadelphia fighting for second place,
the latter club being only seven points be
hind Chicago. Cincinnati will be second
in the Association.
While cutting down a tree on the farm
of -John Warred at, New Portage, O.,
Washington Reichard and a companion
named Snyder found several thousand
dollars in gold and bank notes hidden in
the hollow.
The Bellevue Bank, at Bellevue, O., has
suspended, with liabilities aggregating
$100,000.
The Southern Exposition at Louisville,
Ky., has succumbed to Lad weather and
s mall attendance, and was ordered closed
by tho board of directors on the evening
of the 1st.
A strike of the Baltimore & Omo tel
egraph operators at New York has been
averted by the withdrawal of an obnoxious
order issued by the company.
The annual meeting of the National As
sembly Knights of Labor convened at
Minneapolis, Minn., on the 4th. It is
thought that in spite of some pronounced
opposition, Mr. Powderlv will be re
elected General Master Workman.
A panic occurred in Harris’ theater,
Cincinnati, on the night of the 1st, but no
i one was seriously hurt.
A large number of Detroit (Mich.)
street-car employes have been discharged
on suspicion of crookedness.
Ryan & Haney, the contractors for
building the Red River railroad in Mani
toba, have refused to continue the work
until their back pay is forthcoming,
amounting to about $ 75,000.
A noisy audience of four hundred per
sons listened to a speech by George Fran
1 cis Train at Webster Hall few York, on
the night, of the 2d, for the benefit of the
} Chicago Anarchists. The address was an
attack on the leading politicians of the
country.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Dispatches of the 2d indicate that the
Prohibition amendment has been defeat* 1
in Tennessee by 25,000 majority.
T !ie ex-Confederate Association of f.hi
■ago unanimously decided to participatd
in the escort tendered President Cleveland.
They will turn out 150 meu.
The miners in the S: xiugfieid* (III.) dis
{t. ict are out on a strike for an advance of
[ wages to 07 12 cents per ton. Their wages
| have been about 55 cents per ton. Over
! 1500 meu aro now out.
| The veteran firemen of New York ar
! rived at home on the 2d from their trip to
i San Francisco, and were escorted to their
club house by a procession 5000 strong,
nomposed of veterans and exempt firemen.
The second meeting of the vegetable
and fruit-growers was held at Jackson,
Miss., on the 1st. A constitution and by
laws were adopted. W. H. Cassel, of Cau
j ton, delivered an interesting address.
An election was held by the land-owners
of cotton levee district No. 1, of Arkansas,
on the 1st. for the purpose of votiug a tax
necessary to rai e !t50,000 to build a suita
ble levee in the district. No one but laud
owners were permitted to participate in
the vote, and ont of the number of 190
I land-owners, resident and non-resident,
j four votes were cast against the assess
] ment of said tax.
The President had a rousing reception
at Indiauapolis on tl>,e 1st, and in his
i speech paid a feeling tribute to the mem
I ory of the late Vice-President Hendricks.
The Hon. W. E. F. Milburn, a prominent
j lawyer of Greenville, Tenn., and member
I of the Legislature, shot aud instantly
1 kil'ed Will Ward, a bartender, of the same
place, on the 1st. The parties got into a
discussion over the result of the prohibi
tion election, when hot words passed, and
Ward assaulted Milburn witb a knife,
when the latter shot him through the
heart.
j Hundreds were unable to gain admis
sion to the St. Paul Cathedral, on the 2d,
' when Cardinal Gibbons preached upon
' “Charity.” The Cardinal left for Port
j land, Ore., the same day, accompanied by
Bishop Brandel, of Montana, Bishop Mat*
! ty, of Dakota, and Dr. Capele, of Wash
ington.
The editor of the Birmingham, Ala..
Hornet was arrested and put under bond or
the 1st, and the sale of his paper stopped
at all the news stands, for the variety of
ribald and Llasp^iemous articles in it.
A suit was filell in the L'.ttle Rock Cir
cuit Cfcuft on the 1st against the St. Louis,
| Iron Mountain and Southern railroad by
: thirty-seven persons, who claim in the ag
I gregate $190,000 for damages sustained on
! the 5th of.July, by an alleged unnecessary
j detention a* Newport.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
The Most Rev F. X. Leroy, Archbishop
?f New .Orleans, died in France a few
lays since, whither he went three months
igo in obedience to orders from the Pope,
tie was very ill when he left New Orleans,
xnd had no hope of returning. He was
iixtv-two years old, and became Arch
jishop in 1881.
While returning from a Sunday school
concert at Calvary church, Edgefield
County, S. C., a few nights ago, Will Bu
ford wa3 shot and killed by Paul Griffin.
Griffin declares that the killing was acci
dental; that he shot at Eldred Oliphant,
w ith whom he had quarreled about escort
ing a girl from the church, and that the
,.is(ol ball missed Oliphant and struck
Buford.
Edmund Montgomery died on Nick
Jordan’s place, near the county line of
Schley, Ga., a few days ago, aged one
hundred and two years. Ho was an
African chief of the Askari tribe, and was
taken to Virginia from Africa in ISO,,
when he was a stalwart young man. He
had a large family in Virginia, and when
be died he left his third wife and twenty
flvo children in Georgia. His grandchil
dren and great-grandchildren are un
known and unnumbered. He had re
markable good eyesight and health, and
never took a dose of medicine in his life.
Ho had teeth like ivory and every one was
in his head at the time of death.
Jule J. Sigman, a saloon-keeper, and E.
,J. Wilkerson, bothpowerfulmen, assaulted
A. W. Reynolds, editor of the Holly
Springs (Miss.) Daily Sun, a few days ago,
and beat him unmercifully over the head
and body with a club and loaded whip.
Preston Fant, a son of the mayor, stood
in the door of the office and attempted tc
prevent bystanders from stopping the
row.
There is an organization of tho laboi
vote in Virginia sufficiently strong tc
! count as one of the uncertainties of the
! campaign.
The salary of a judge in the mountain
districts of Kentucky is $500 a year, cf •
county attorney $500, of a clerk §750, and s
sheriff §300.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ruprecht died in Owens
boro, Ky., recently, at the age of ninety
one years. She was born in Pegintz, Ba ,
varia, in 1700, and has been a resident Oi
Owensboro for thirty years.
Mr. Israel Johnson, living on the easl j
side of the Oconee, near Dublin, Ga., on
one day recently extricated and killed
thirty-four large m casins from a hoi*
in his mill dam.
The Democratic convention of the Sixth
district of Louisiana nominated Colonel S.
M. Rrbertson, of Baton Rouge, for Con
gress. to succeed his father, the late
Colonel E. Robertson.
C. F. Mavis has filed a suit in th*
District Coart at Pa'estine, Tenn.,
against the Missouri Pacific Railway j
Company for §7,500 damages claimed fo: :
injuries to his person inflicted by the car* ■
at a crossing on September 10.
Mrs. L. A. Baarcke, in lighting a gasoline
stove at her residence in Mobile, Ala. !
caused a flare up of flames, the stove bav- j
ing been allowed to leak over night. Th*
; lady’s clothes caught fire, and she was
terribly burned from the neck to the heels
It is doubtful if she recovers.
At the Hail gold mine in Georgia, San
Ewing recently had $95 stolen from bin:
! in a singular manner. He was in th*
! habit of depositing his money in a hollov
; stump in the woods for safe keeping. -He
went to the stump to make another de
posit, when he discovered that someone
bad made a draft on his bank and ex
hausted his surplus.
In the Georgia Senate, reeontly a substi
tute for famous Glenn bill against mixing
negroes and whites in the public schools,
was passed. The House has in turn re
jected the substitute.
The construction of the Kansas City,
Memphis & Birmingham railroad bridg*
across the Tombigbee River at Aberdeen,
Miss., is progressing favorably, thougl
several drawbacks have been encountered,
and the contractors are employing every
means for facilitating the works, labor
j ing day and night when vantage ground
l can be obtained by extra time.
Tbe J. B. U athen « Bro. Company,
(list.Hers at Louisville, Ky., has made an
assignment. Tbe liabilities are placed al
530,000. The assets, including tbe plant,
which is one of the most costly of the kind
in the State, are $121),000. The general de
pression in trade and a destructive tir«
which necessitated the construction ot
new warehouses by the firm in 1880 an j
given as the tanses of the failure.
A white fisherman named John Davi- i
was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn., a few
days ago, for the murder of bis wife, and’
was committeed to jail without bail. Mrs, j
Davis died recently very suddenly. Davis ;
stated at the time that she had eaten c ,
henrtv supper and was dead in an hoir
nnd thirty minutes. Supioious circum
stances aroused tho officials, and the re
mains were disinterred, and the fact was j
revealed that the skull had been frao j
t tired by a blow.
A fatal altercation is reported from Hal.'
County, Ga., in which the exciting cause
was the ownership of two puppies. The
dispute was bdween W. F. Wilder and
Charles Maddox, which terminated bj
Maddox chasing Wi der with an axe.
Maddox's wife swore out warrants against
Wilder and his sister. Wilder resisted ar
rest, chopping right and left with his axe
striking J. H. Durham with his axe cutting
him through the shoulder six inches deep
j Durham then shot Maddox in the hip, th«
bullet lodging near the kidneys, indicting
a fatal wound.
Tbe strike in the woolen mills at Louis
, villc, Ky, which was inaugurated
i two months ago, has proven a failure. Th«
' weavers demanded an increase of wages,
and were supported in this action by ths
Knights of Labor. The mill owners took *
firm stand, refusing to take back any ov
the strikers who would not sign an agree
ment tc give up all allegiance to the
Knights and return at the old wages. They
were compeled to close. Recently, how
ever, their employes began to seek tbeii
old places at their owners’ terms, anc
neariv all cf the weavers have agreed t<
the conditions. Two mills areatwesk
and another expected to be able to resume
It is a very severe defeat for the Knight'
of Labor, who lose nearly seven hundred
o mbers, after supporting that numb*
for ;wg months.
ST. LOUIS’ UUESTS.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland the Al|^
sorbing Topic of Conversation Among tlie
Citizens of Si. Louis, and the Shrine to
which All Eyes Are for the Time lieisig
Turned.
St. Louis, Oct. 3.—Although St. Louis
is just recovering from a week of over -
crowding, it did not take a hack seat in
the matter yesterday. The weather
played vigorously into the hands of all
lovers of ont-door life by providing a day
so bright that a walk or a drive on the
avenue or a stroll through the parks was
delightful. They took advantage of it
and all the principal streets presented a
tide of happy, prosperous humanity more
cheerful and cheering than had crowded
them before this season. It was not the
usual crowd that a bright summer Sun
day turns out. There were hundreds of
strangers, and, apparently, live ladies to
every man; especially was the latter
statement true of that part of the crowd
which rode and walked through the boule
vards in the western part of the city.
The inducements which nature offered
did not alone call the myriads to the
streets and the parks. Uppermost in the
minds of nine out of evary ten of them
was a desire to see the distinguished
visitors. President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Vandevonter place temporarily lost its
feature, indicated by the gilded sign:
“No thoroughfare,” which hung over the
entrance. Pedestrians who had never
passed along its pleasant walks before,
began to appear on Grand avenue early in
the morning. They met no blue-coated
policemen, and after pausing and looking
down over the green sward, studded
with its beds of flowers and along the
line of palatial residences, they
entered cautiously and paused on the in
side of the gate as though expecting to
be told they were intending. Then they
passed on and stopped long enough id
front of the mayor’s residence to count
every brick in it. Those who followed
them entered with more assurance, and
they spent less time in front ot toe reel
dence in which were quartered the visit
ors, for the little scattering knots ot the
first hour became a solid line that
crowded them on. There were the
rich, the poor, the fashionable and
the plain. Carriages began to arrive
in the neighborhood of the place
long before the morning church bells rang,
and Its beautiful drives were lined with a
varietv of equipages from that time till ft
late hour in the afternoon. They talked
of nobody—-of nothing—but the President
and Mrs. Cleveland, a-d they, wanted to
show to them that thev were more keenly
appreciated and could be more flattering
ly treated in St. Louis than at any othei
place on the habitable globe.
The down-town crowds wero no less
eager and expectant than those who
thronged Yandercnter Placo. They
watched every carriage. The streets were
full of longings. The town was as eager
as a family of children watching for
Santa Claus. They seemed to expect that
the President might appear almost any
place at almost any time, and the young
ladies fairly danced in their eagerness for
the time to come when they could gaze
on a “real live President”and a “first lady
of the land,” and the men were anxious
to see for themselves what sort of a man
it was who climbed so high on the political
ladder In so short a time.
The peddlers on the street put away
their Grand Army badges, and jdetures c>f
noted soldiers, and brought out portraits
of the President and Mrs. Cleveland. They
sold hundreds of them to those who
wanted something by which to identify
the President if they met him anywhere.
Those who had little hope of seeing him
yesterday spent the day in discussing the
; programme which will be carried out to
1 day and to-morrow, and planning for
those days. They all expect to see the
! President before he leaves the city, and
most of them will.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Delegates Gathering for Animal Meeting
of the National Assembly a* Minneapolis
—Powderly the Idol of the Knights Still.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 2.—A large
number of delegates to the Kniglits of
Labor assembly have arrived in the city.
Each incoming train brings them from
every part of the country. Among the
prominent arrivals were: John W. Haves,
New Brunswick, secretary of the general
exocutivo board; James Campbell, Pitts
burgh, president of the American Window
Glass Association and chairman of the
credentials committee; Hugh Cavanaugh,
Cincinnat i, district master workman of D.
A. 40, one of the largest district assem
blies in the organization, and Richard
Griffiths, Chicago, the second officer in the
National body, general worthy foreman.
There was no meeting of the co-opera
tive board, end though the committee on
credentials is busy, the majority of the
delegates have nothing to do but discuss
the issues of the coming assembly.
InspeakiDgof the opposition to Pow
derly, Richard Griffiths said: “There is a
great deal more smoke than fire in the pub
lished reports. During the past year I
have spent a great deal of my time as a
general officer of the organization,
traveling about the country. I have
visited nearly every portion of
Wisconsin, Michigan, Ind'ana, Ohio,
Kentucky, and have traveled in other
Middle and Southern States, as well as
my own and I want to tell you that
during all that time I never met one man
among the masses of the organization
who has even whispered the complaint
against Terry Powderly or his policy.
Powderly is the idol of the knights and
more the ideal man for the position which
he holds in the estimation of the masses
of the organization than any other man
couid be.”
The credentials committee continued its
work and passed upon upward of two
hundred delegates upon whose credentials
no protests had been filed. The commit
tee, it is understood, has a great surprise
I jn store for Joseph R. Buchanan, the Den
ver kicker, who is oue of the champions
of the expele l assembly 120 of carpet
wer.ve- s. It is stated that there is a pro
test filed from every local assembly in
| Colorado against the credentials of Bu
I ••hanan. In case this proves to be a fact,
! and there is not much doubt that it is true,
j it is exceedingly probably that Buchanan
; -.rill not be allowed a seat in the coming
1 eonvention.
OF GENERAL INTERt&T.
_Dressed frogs sell at two dollars
and a half a dozen in the San Francisco
markets.
—The reflection of electric lights at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. is seen a distance
of sixteen miles.
—Seventy-five years ago the first
tomatoes grown in this country were
cultivated as a strange and showy
horticultural curiosity in Salem, Mass.
—Gun-flints are still manufactured
in England to a considerable extent.
These gun-flints are exported to Africa
and disposed of to the natives of the
interior by barter.
—A rattlesnake was captured in the
eastern part of Southington making off
with a farmer’s lien. It crawled over
a stone wall with the hen in its mouth.
—Connecticut Farmer.
—The duck lias been so greatly
changed by domest'eation that natural
ists can easily determine by tin* bones
of the wing whether the bird was a wild
or a tame one.—N. E. Farmer.
—It seems to have recently been dis
covered that three-fifths of the horses
are bow-legged or pigeon-toed. In
New York fifty-three differently shaped
horse-shoes are required to lit the hoofs
of the horses.
Another level-headed druggist sold
harmless colored water for vitrol in
Paris the other day to an excited
woman, who immediately proceeded to
fling the innocuous liquid ttt the faces
of two persons whom she desired to
disfigure.
—Tallull Dauzy, with limbs tied, aim
great beads of sweat upon his face,
being about to be hanged, at Camden,
S. C., kissed his baby and spoke these
old words, unutterably human and
touching, to his children: “Mind
mamma.”
—“Wny is it, Cicero, that you don't
visit Miss Spilkins now?” “Wall, ye
see, boss, her mother thought our
family wasn’t quite ’ristocratic ’null:
her father is a whitewash artist and
mine is only a barber.”—Burlington
Free Frets.
—A little girl, whose mother had
been afi'Octing some of the English
forms of speech, astonished a visitor
recently, who had just made use of the
expression half after six, by asking in
a most interested way: “Oh, tell me!
when did you begin to say half after?’
—N. Y. Independent.
—For the benefit of those who do not
know the meaning of a sneeze the fol
lowing is quoted from a pamphlet re
cently issued by a German scientist.
He says a sneeze is but “an affection of
the respiratory nervous center, the af
ferent impulse of which is conveyed by
the trigeminal nerve fibers.
—Two bells cast in 1775 at Messilla,
Mexico, for the Catholic Church, are to
go to Milwaukee to be smelted. It is
believed there is at least one thou
sand dollars in precious metals which
became fused in when the laborers at,
the original casting dropped jewelry
into the molten mass to propitiate
patron saints.
—Achieving a Reputation.—Husband
—“Young Miliken seems to have made
quite a name for himself.” Wife—
“You surprise me. I never thought
that he would amount to any thing.”
Husband—“Oh, yes, he can hold an
eyeglass on his eye longer than any
member of the club.”—Drake's Trav
elers' Magazine.
—Last Monday, while out fishing, T.
R. Hair, of Tampa, Fla., caught a large
catfish. He held it up near lus right
breast to break its back, when the fish
gave a sudden jump and finned him
right over his heart, the fin entering
about three-quarters of an inch and
breaking off even with the flesh. Sir.
Hair took out his pocket-knife and cut.
the fin out, and at last accounts was
doing well.
—Sir-. George H. Walsh, of Grand
Forks, D. T., wife of Hon. George H.
Walsh, the well-known politician, in
her husband’s absence from home this
season has run the farm, hired all the
help, put in and harvested eight hun
dred acres of grain of splendid yield,
has paid the entire expense of the
work, including seed, etc., from the
proceeds of the sale of chickens, eggs,
butter and vegetables from the farm.
—A certain professional man in Or
lando, Fla., has a scheme which might
be adopted by every one who pays his
street tax. When a collector called on
him yesterday with a bill he was re
quested to stand still a moment, and in
the meantime an assistant of the afore
said p. m. had succeeded in taking a
photograph of the pair in the act of
paying the bill and giving a receipt.
The scheme works to perfection and he
is never troubled a second time.
—S. V. French, the New York City
politician, made a queer catch in Mon
tauk bay the other day. What he
hauled up was a long black fish that
weighed over four pound-. The pecu
liarity about it was that it- hea l was
flat and corrugated like the sole of a
tennis shoe. It proved to be a speci
men of the “remora.” By means ol
i this flat head it dabs itself against the
i side of a shark or other large fish and
| stick# there, and thus makes its voy
i ;ge» bito the deep waters.