THE ADVENTURES OF TWO SAILORS.
THEY ESCAPE FROM A CRUEL CAP-
TAIN ANDYLOAT ABOUT ON A
FRAIL RAFT ALL NIGHT,
NEW York, Feb. 6.—A story of the
terrible suffering of two sallors sfloat
all night last night on the Sound, from
the effects of which one of them died
after being picked up by the steamship
Olid Colony, was brought to this city on
the arnval of that steamer at this port
late this afternoon. The second sailor
is now lying at Chambers Street Ilos-
pital sick near unto death, as the resuit
of an all night ride on a wave-swept
raft in the storm,
The sailors were William Barren-
thine, a German, and Leander Kaldron,
a Swede. The latter is the survivor,
It was while attempting to escape
from the three-masted schooner John
FF. Cairns, Captain James McDonald,
bound for Port Elizabeth, South Africa,
that the two sallors were tossed about
on the mad waters of the Sound. They
had shipped here Sunday. From the
start they were treated brutally,
and when the Cairns put into
New Haven harbor because of
heavy head winds, the sailors de-
termined to escape. Secretly they
had prepared a frail rat, barely sufli-
cient to carry the two. With the tide
setting in shore they hoped to land
safely. The wind changed, and they
were taken out to sea. "Lheir sufferings
were intense, and Barrenthine began
to show sigus of collapse before morn-
ing. Ills companion held bim on the
raft. At 8.30 o'cloek this morning the
steamer Old Colony, which had been
delayed by tke storm, came along
bound for this city. The raft, with
its two occupants, was discovered
tossing about upon the waves. A boat
was lowered, and the men, who were
by tuis time unconscious, wers {aken
off, and just in time, for the raft was
fast breaking up, and must quickly
have gone to pleces, Everything was
done to revive the men, but Barren-
thine died soon after he was taken on
board, and his companion wa: in a
precarious condition when taken to the
hospital here,
yy
a,
—The Spanish smack Lola has ar-
rived at Havana with the captain and
fourteen of the crew of the Ausinan
bark Cavalier Jaamsevich, from
acola for Italy, which foundered
he Tortugas Islands,
—In the bobbing races in Albany,
off
aged 14 years, was killed, He was one
of a crew on a bob that became uncon-
trollable and dashed iuto a crowd
Several persons were injured. Walter
of a nme-story building in Denver,
Colorado, on the 2d. ITe first struck
the telephone wires, then rebounded to
a hose’ back in the middle of the
street, and then fell to the pavement,
Both bis legs were broken, but Le will
recover.
~ Masked burglars chloroformed a
vicious buill-dog, in John Forshner's
jewelry store, in Wilkesbarre, Penna.,
on the evening of the 2d, and trnok
clocks and jewelry valued at 3000,
Burglars entered the postotlice at
Warren, Ohio, on the evening of the
ast, and stole $2000 worth of stamps,
— A drunken policeman named Far-
ley fired five shots from his revolver
into a crowd who were watching fire-
men at work in New York, on the 2d.
One shot grazed a freman’s wrist dnd
another entered the side of a bystand-
er. The policeman was arrested,
George WW. Clark, colored, butler for
P. F. Munger, in Chicago, shot and
killed Tlie Hylander, a Swedish girl,
about 23 years of age, on the morning
of the 2d, and then commitled suicide.
They had been lovers, but quarreied.
— A ear of the Berkeley Motor Line,
in Denver, Colorado, became unman-
ageable on the afternoon of the 3d,
while go ng down a long and steep hill,
and dashed to the bottom of the hill
When near the bottom the ear ran off
the track and was smashed to pieces,
The car was filled with people, ail of
whom were infured, several danger.
ously. Jolin Berry, 8 passenger, and
William Greenman, conductor, are not
expected to recover.
-A large section of the wall of Max
Meyera’'s brick building in Omaha, Ne-
braska, which was recently burned,
was blown down by the wind on the
afternoon of the 4th. Two buildings
on the east side wera wrecked, and
Edward Oleson, Mrs. Hincher, Michael
Martin, Thomas Houston, Peter Boyer,
Thomas Lombard and tudolph
Mitchell were killed, and seven others
were injured.
~The safe in the post-office in Ed-
wardsville, Illinois, was blown open by
burglars on the night of the 4th and
robbed of $300 in money and the con
tenta of registered packages, amount
unknown.
—1n the Mohawk Valley, m New
York, on the th, the thermometer reg.
istered from 18 to 24 degrees below zero,
The thermometer at the Signal Service
Station at Saranac Lake, New York,
registered 32 degrees below zero ou Lhe
morning of the 4th, A temperature of
42 degrees below zero was reached in
Rome, New York, on the evening or
the 24. Reports from various parts of
New England show that the thermoms-
eter yegistered from 30 to 40 degrees
below zero on the morning of the 4th,
In the dustriet surrounding Ottawa,
Ontario, on the 4th, the thermometer
tanged from 24 to 37 degrees below
toro, ‘The first day of the carnival
festivities in Montreal was ushered In
by the evldest weather experienced in
three years. In the morning the mer-
sury touched 30 degrees below zero,
The American visitors, many of whom
same completely unprepared for such
temperature, suffered terribly, and
noses, ears and hands have in many
sases been badly frost-bitten, Owing
to the recent mild weather, the lee pal.
@mce 1s not so pleturesque as in former
years, :
~A heavy wind storm prevalied
shout Nebraska on the morning
of the 4th, doing much daninge in the
western part of the State, Buildings
were unroofed and trees leveled
Jiasiings n school house wae wracked
and one of the pupils was killed, an~
ciher snd the teacher being fatally
fudured.
¥
=F. F, Hecht, cashier for Kestner
& Co., in Chicago, was attacked on one
of the streets of that city on the after
noon of the 4th, by three highwaymen
and knocked down twice with a plece
of lead pipe. He was carrying a valise
containing $1200, which he had just
drawn from bank. He held on to the
valise, and the robbers were frightened
away by passers by who ran to his
assistance,
— Adam Lefevre, a prominent far.
mer, of West Lampeter, Lancaster
county, Penna., was found suffocated
at bis own lime kiln, on the 3d, He
had fallen asleep while attending to the
fires. Rev, Mr. Nash, of Newark,
Ohlo, went to Zanesville on the 3d to
temporarily fill the pulpit of St. James's
Episcopal Church. He fell down a
stairway of the church and was so
badly injured in the spine that his re-
covery is doubtful.
-A switch engine, moving live stock
cars on the St. Louis and San Francis-
co Railroad, jumped the track and
went down an embankment near
Springfield, Missouri, on the evening
of the 3d, carrying ten men with it,
Willlam Miller, George Lowry, Charles
Mason, C. F. Browning and Edward
Lane were killed, Frank Crawford and
John King fatally injured, They were
all rallroad men, While James Regan
and John McCormick, arm-in-arm and
80 Intoxicated that they could searcely
stand, were crossing the tracks of the
Shore Line Railroad, in New Haven,
Cennecticut, on the 4th, they were |
struck by an engine and instantly |
killed,
—[t 13 reported from Canajoharle,
New York, that at Pine Lake, Fulton
county, on the 4th, while 24 teams
were drawing logs across Lhe ice, it |
gave way after seven drivers and
teams bad reached the shore. The re- |
walning drivers and horses were
drowned, None of the seventeen |
bodies have been recovered,
-A telegram from Marquette, Mich-
igan, says the severest storm cf the |
season has been raging there since the
After abating somewhat oa the |
re ommenced with increased
A high wind
prevailed, with falling temp-rature. A |
eountly, Virginia, on the evening of the
oth, dol g¢ much damage. Snow has
Ontario, and a strong wind caused it to
drift io some localities, delaying rails |
trafic. The thermometer regis |
- Charles Sinx, an engineer on a
Kentucky and Indtana bridge train,
the cab window as
ing the bridge on |
he 5th, and was struck by the fence |
that protects the footway, Ile died in |
a few minutes, lle llved at New Al-
Two runaway gondola cars on |
the Lehigh } .y Railroad dashed nto |
ar Shamokin, Perna.,
¢ the bth, Conductor
and Fireman A.
red,
Jee Willey, a madman, attacked
years |
Balt'more, on |
Henry Han. |
on the morn:
William Lind: 0
a knife mn
St. louis, on the
They kept a lodg-
church
evening of the 4th.
ing house. Daring a factional
injured
John Dempsey shot |
sweetheart, Maud Me. |
and then come
he girl was a domes-
tic and recently arrived {rom Canada,
— Walter 8, Bradley shot and Killed |
wife Chicago, on the 6th, and |
suicide, Both were |
i
1
in
quarrelled, and it |
Bradley had de- |
erary editor,
is sald that
They
Mrs,
daring the evening of |
Haggerman was taken |
from the Colfax county jail, in Schiay-. |
He was charged with
Jolin and
Joe Lee, Chivamen, were fatally beaten |
and robbed by burglars in their laun. |
dry in Rowe, Georgia, on the evening |
of the 6th. At Little Current, Onta-
rio, on the 21, Christina Togesh, a |
haif-breed, was assaulted by five Indi
ns and then literally torn to pieces,
Two of the murderers have been
caught,
-= A blizzard from the northwest has
for two days raged throughout tbe up-
per peninsula of Michigan, Traflic
has been stopped on some of the rail.
roads, but lumber hauling 1s facilitated
by the freezing of the swamps, At
Sand Beach the temperatures was 6 be-
low zero on the 5th, and zero on the
6th. A telegram from that point says:
““The air is full of fine frozen particles,
and it is almost impossibie for a man
or beast to move. Twenty inches of
snow bas fallen, but it is heaped in
drifts by the gale and all travel and
business 18 suspended.” A blizzard
prevalled at Oswego, New York, on
the 6th, Trains were from three to
six hours late, The Boston train from
Ottawa, Ontario, was abandoced on
the Oth, owing to the storm. A bliz
zard prevailed in Montreal, on the Oth,
and the trotting races and the opening
of the 'ark toboggan slide were post-
poned. Th» cold wave continues
throughout Canada, the thermometer
registering from 10 to 40 degrees below
zero,
- Fifty prominent women of Adams
county, Nebraska, made a crusade
against a ealoon and gambling house in
Prosser on the evening of the 4th, de-
molishing the entire establishment,
The women attacked the building when
it was crowded, with their aprons full
of lumps of coal, breaking every win.
dow glass and cleaning out the estab.
lishment, The inmates scattered in
every direction, some of the loungers
being husbands of the women. Whisky
aud beer flowed freely into the gutter,
The ies hes had a bard reputation
for selling liquor without a license,
William Frost died of hydrophobia
at Palatine, Lilino's, on the evening of
the Gi. He was bitten by a dog & few
weekango, lilies wound was cauterized |
by & physician and he afterwards had a
Cro stone’ applied until it would no
longer dhere,
- Laté on the evening of the bth, a
freight train on the Loumswville, New
Albany and Chicago Rallroad, struck a
broken rail near Quincy, Indiana, The
five rear cars with the cabooss were
thrown down an embankment, Everett
Corey, a brakeman, received fatal injo-
ries, and died on the morning of the
6th, Conductor Charles Wilson and
Brakeman Willlam Burnet were dane
gerously injured, An explosion of gas
occurred on the morning of the 6th, in
No, 1 shaft at Edwardsville, pear,
Wilkesbarre, fatally burning two
miners, Michael Metro and John So-
laski, The latter died before reaching
home. John btone, aged 40 years,
employed at Clancey’s fertilizing works,
near New Brunswick, New Jersey, was
scalded to desth on the 6th,
—A despatch from Gloversville, New
York, says there is no truth in the ru-
mors of the drowning of seventeen men
by teams breaking through the ice on
Sacandaga river recently.
~The fourth victim of the boller ex-
plosion at the State Insane Asylum,at
Lincoln, Nebraska, George J. Cahoon,
a patient, dled on the evening of the
6th, The assistant engineer and an-
other patient are In a critical condition.
The boiler had not been inspected for
six years. The boiler in Redmond’s
saw mill, at Darlington, Missourl, ex-
ploded on the evening of the Oth, kill.
ing Benjamin 3McCurry and Henderson
Weeks ana severely injuring Elmer
Sharkey.
— Although the snow and wind had
abated somewhat at Montreal on the
to railroad trains contin
ued, A train trom Toronto to Montre-
morning of the Tih, with the passen-
gers “foraging the neighborhood in
gearch of food.”’ The storm at Oswego,
New York, abated on the Tih. All
on Lhe
Ogdensburg Raliroad were abandoned
he snow
Oswego and FPuolask:, The
Pacific and Canada Atlantic
all their trains,
between
Rallways cancelled
-F.va Burroughs, aged 14 years, was
Dawzon, in Easton, Maryland, where
unloaded, A
street car in Covington, Kentucky,
was struck by a freight engine on the
evening of the Oth. Mrs. Theobald
and Jacob Gerein, a policeman, severaly
A child, 4 years old, escaped
unhurt, and when taken from the
wreck was laughing.
he th Elihu Stevens, of
50th CONGRE:8.-Second Session,
SENATE.
the United States Senats, on the
the
Elections, reported
in the Texas elec
investigation with a
thal commitiee
the existing
In
$
WO
with a view of providing
ishment of offences against it. The
Mr. Dolph introduced a joint resolu.
tion in reference to the $721,000 re.
ceived by Henry E. McKee 82 a con-
his disobedience of the order of the
Court to pay over $136,000 of the
amount, It directs the apprehension
of McKee wherever he may be found,
and that he be brought to Washington
and subjected to the jurisdiction of the
He-
ferred.
bill was then taken np and discussed,
A conference was ordered on the Diplo-
matic Appropriation bill, Adjourned.
In the U., 8, Senate, on the 5th, the
ment In Oklahoma was, after some
Territories, Mr. Hawley offered an
amendment to the Sandry Civil bili,
which was referred, for the payment
to the widow of General Sheridan of
The House joint resolution for the
payment of $500,000 to the legal repre.
sentatives of James B. Eads was
passed. The Legislative Appropria-
tion bill and the conference report on
the amendatory Inter-State Commerce
bill were discussed, but not scted
upon. Adjourned.
in the U. 8. Senate, on the Gh, a
message was read from the President
transmitting to Congress a copy of the
provisional agreement with the Creek
Indians by which thelr title and in-
terest in all lands in the Indian Terri.
tory or elsewhere, except such as are
held and occupied by them as homes, is
ceded to the United States, It was
referred to the Committee on Indian
Affairs, The Legislative Appropria-
tion bill was considered, pending which
the Senate adjourned,
In the U. 8. Senate, on the 7th, the
conference report on the Nicaragua
Canal bill was agreed to, and it fous
to the President, The credentials of
Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey, for
his new term were presented filed.
Me. Blair, from the Committee on
Woman Suffrage, reported back favor.
ably a joint resolution proposing a
Constitutional amendment to prohibit
the denial or abridgement of the right
to vote by the United States or by any
State on account of sex. The joint
resolution was placed on the ar,
aud Mr, Cockrell said that a minority
report would bs made hereafter. Mr,
Sherman offered a resolution, which
was agreed to, for the appointment of
a commities of three to ar-
the guano lands was passed; aleo,
ull to provide for writs of error to
¥
Suprewe Court in all cases involving
the question of the jurisdiction of the
cours below. The Legislative Appro-
priation bill was considered, Pending
its consideration the Benate adjourned,
HOUSE,
In the House on the 4th, the Speaker
having proceeded to call the States for
bills, Mr, Payson, of Illinois, de-
manded the reading of a long priuted
bill to establish a Court of Appeals,
his intention being to consume time
and prevent the passage of the Union
Pacific Funding bill under a suspen
sion of the rules, Mr. Crisp, of
Georgia, broke the monotony by call-
ing up, as *'a question of the highest
privilege,” the conference report on
the amendatory Inter-State Commerce
bill. Another conference was ordered
on the disagreeing amendments. A
conference was also ordered on the
Diplomatic Appropriation bill. Pend-
ing action on the conference report on
the Nicaragua Canal bill, a recess was
taken untill evening, when bills from
the Committee on Indian Affairs were
considered. Adjourned,
In the House on the 5th, the Senate
William F. Smith with the rank of
Major of Engineers was agreed to,
The conference report on the Nicara-
gua Canal bill was discussed, An
evening session was held for District
i of Columbia business.
In the House on the 6th, Frank B
The [resident's message In regard to
| at any time. The conference repoit on
177, nays 60. Mr. Dingley,
A
Mer: haunt Ma-
~YEHS
the Secretary of the
information regarding
the orders given to the commander of
revenues cutter Richard in
regard tu the protection rea)
1583
agreed to, asking
| Treasury for |
i{ush
of the
held to con-
nmities
Adliournesd,
Wis
sider business from the C
*s
States now subject to
or are adapted to,
auaq
sions of lhe homestead laws, was
passed, with amendments repealing the
stead entries to make anolher entry.
of Brigadier General W, II.
Emery to §50 a month was passed, The
Army Appropriation bill was con-
| sidered, Mr. Randall raised a point of
$500,000 for the purchase: of moveable
submarine torpedoes, Ia sent the
clerk’ desk and had read a letler from
the chie! engineers advising against
| the appropriation, siatling thal move.
able torpedoes were not perfected, and
setting forth the advantages of
marine mines, Pending action
apd the House
to
sub.
the
Tose
-e
PENNSYLVANI LEGI
BENATE,
In the Senate on the 5th bills were
SLATURE.
November 1st to December Sih;
system of text books for the public
| schools, and by Mr. Harlan, to author.
ze County Commissioners to purchase
property for the purpose of county in-
stitutions. The House resolution,
favoring a service pension bill and the
House bill for the incorporation of eit-
| jes of the third class were referred. The
! House bill, authorizing the election of
| assessors for three years was reported
and read a first time. Adjourned,
In the Senate on the 6th a bill was
{ Introduced by Mr, Wolfe to prohibit
| the sale of tobacco to persons under 16
i yedrs of age. The Anti-poll Tax
Amendment bill was passed by a vote
fof 37 to 8, Adjourned.
:
~=A bill was introduced in the Senate
one to authorize appeals to the Common
Pieas Courts from real estate assess.
ments, Adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the House, on the 5th, bills were
introduced by Mr. McConnell, making
“treating a penal offence; by Mr. Wil
iiamas, to provide for a Rallroad Come
mission; by Mr. Rutan, to regulate the
sale of milk, and by Mr, Fow, fixing
the limit of time when insurance losses
shall be paid. The Inter-Municipal
bill was passed finaily, and sent to the
Senate. Adjourned,
In the House, on the Oth, Mesa,
Patterson, Strine, Baker, Little and
Fow were appointed on the joint com-
mittee on the improvement of the har-
bor of Philadelphia, Bills were re-
ported favorably, to regulate telephone
charges, to regulate the revocation of
liguor licenses, to compel children to be
sent to school for 10 weeks in each
year, and to punish “‘Lreating” to
drinks, Adjourned.
Inthe Iouse on the 7th a bill was
introduced by Mr. Fow to regulate
actions for Itbel, Adjourned.
weAdvices from Haytl are to the ef-
fect that there is but little change at
Port-au-Prince. President Legitime,
by his arrests, imprisonments and occa
sonal executions, has quieted all ex.
to his rule
of open tion
the capital eity. Pyppoli
remaining near Laecaer, the
Now a the 1st,
HE IS NO PHONOGLAPH.
But Littie Harold Meech Has a Most
Remarkable Memory.
When ex-Justice Meech has some
thing to communicate to Mis. Meech
which he does not wish to hear repeat-
ed verbatim at inappropriate time and
places the Leads of the family go out
for a ride, leaving instructions that
Harold is on no account to be allowed
to leave the bouse during their absence,
Harold is only 7 years old, but he has
an astonishing memory. lle remembers
everything that interests him, and he
makes it his business to be interested
in whatever his gifted papa says. Un-
like most of the museum prodigies, he
is no phonograpa; his mental apparatus
is sensitive enough to things which
strike his fancy, but receives no impres-
sion from routine jargon and phrases
which his understanding cannot fathom,
Hoe is a bright, healthy, wholesome boy,
with a big, active brain in bis cranium,
Harold was good enough to receive a
visitor from The Tribune, The honor
impressed him deeply, but falled to
abash iu in the least,
was in fair to middling condition, Le
Lo yd
Was
he proceeded to real off a few
pages of American history, This
merely a kind of turning up process,
“Who
won the battle of Walerloo?
“Napoleon, *’
“Who was
“Josephine.”
“What was h
“Eu
Hugene,
¥
Napoleon's wil
Napoleon i
er son’s nai
at 3 x 44
AIgene wiialrsy
“The Duke of Orle
LPR {1.8 Po "424 3
What was the nue of
53
anus"?
“Hortense, *’
“What famous marshal
Napoleon at Water]
Harold's ment
2 8 lit 1as
a it
Mil
n about tl
to
juinp
& goided something
ed with & golden key
tr me out of his Kingdom
nts moe «
biog # etre”?
Hale poelry.
“a Gian
RT | ft matrint
HAY IS i {
ik
improvised out «
answered, with a
“Hurrah!
Then the youngster,
around ithe room a number of
plunged into the story of the batile of
shilot, and m,
Though he did not invariably use the
exact words of the historian, Lis
Because tl
having marched
Limes,
. ‘3 5 “iis l + $s 3
polling could stop hi
swing, and his voice and manner
In
Cen,
scription was spirited or pathetic.
effort of
Johnston to conceal from his staff Uw
fatal ature of his wound the little chap
was really impressive,
Little Harold Meech’s knowledge of
}
he managers
of one or two panoramas in Chicago.
time he saw the representa-
tion of the battle of Geltysburg be cast
his eye over the expanse of canvas and
detected at once the absence of an im-
portant detail. The lecturer looked
the matler up and found that the boy
was right,
Harold inherits from his mamma a
is a member. She read the paper
a few days afterward Harold got
It was just in lus line,
mamma fer an audience recited it with
fine effect from beginning to end,
Harold 18 commander-in~chief of all
the boys in the neighborhood. Under
strategic importance, In these battles
it is noticeable that the forces under
Harold invariably march on to victory.
Harold has an timate knowledge of
every prominent man in American
politics,
A — Sa
1 have one suggestion to make: that
our national government, when it
takes the next general census, include
in its atatistics information about all
the people in the United States above
90, the kind of information to be de-
termined beforehand by the most emi.
nent physicians and scientific men
ing apgrecate value of theoutsut of
coal, gold, silver, copper, zire, iron and
steel of the United States for the year
1668 is placed at £500,000,000, an in-
,o-
crease of $8,000,000 over that of 1857,
——— A A
Mpe, Mary CrLempxr lLeaviTl
preached before the Queen of Madagas-
car in the royal chapel, and with such
effectiveness that the Queen precented
Ler with $100 for uge in Ler
CH.
{ed -
IT waAS hardly necessary to get an
opinion from M. Pasteur to the effect
that the bite of a healthy dog Bs (on
may be) harmiess, There are probably
ten thousand cases of bites from dogs
which heal up without after conse-
quences to one that develops hydro-
phob'a—a fact well knovn to dog
fanciers everywhere,
——————
Bynrox D. Harsreap, formerly
editor of the American Agricwlturest and
pow professor in the lowa State college,
and horticulture in Rutgers eollege.
His appointment makes the fourth ad-
ar. The aunpouncement is made
i 4 : ROOF
iditional §25.000 has been re-
the endowment fund of the
The gift is made anoyinously.
al
* New cruiser
wg hesn
Naval Com.
opriate $450,
of apother
the
erasing
Lion
paliern
3.500 ton
st $1,500,000 on the plan
of Representat! Thomas of Illinoi
to be appropriate
as
Ye
en
of the
EEA
RESFRCTIN the copdition
M le duri
Montana call ng the present
the
krrgest
%. « * Ceid a
kK for winter,
caitie
that he had
rable state of
residences in
eon and the
onrad
ralser Mor LAYS
fave
his 2
§ Sn) yeaurs
in
never
affairs durin
the Territory. Cattle are thriving, and
from ell indi
not a single head
will be lost of the winter,
He estimates the season’s reporis from
the Territory at 100,000 head,
————
New York Herald has caesed a
among the Hebrews of that
interview with
greatest
ist of
ations
4 2 1
at the close
re
Ins
sensalion
city by publishing an
baron the
banker and pbilanthrog Paris, in
which he announces
true Tutu: te
3 sried Buy ome tise
Le found in assimuation
his belief that the
race will
Christian
¥
as
Helbraw
with
races and religion, The kerview
fleLbrews of the
0 a man they
ry a al
Hives revolu-
been active of
ho and 30th two
ned the Zag Splize,
¢ Bavarian Alps more than
R000 feet high. They returned straight
to the Eib Lake the The
weather the mountains was good,
and the outiook clear and Ene. The
descent, especially the latter ball of it,
was, however, very difficult, owing to
the suow, days some
Americans ascended a peak about 6000
feet laugh, Berchtesgaden, in
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AX exchange says: ‘Those people
who are forever carping at the National
Bank system and would like to see it
abolished would do well to conshder the
fact that our national bank cumirency
passes more readily in the Deminion
of Canad than the woney of most of
their own banks, Contrast this with
what was seen before National Danks
came into existence, Instead of pass.
ing current in Canada, our State lank
bills very often were not received at par
Tuose who are not looking for foi.
tunes and are made unexpected hehs to
a handsome competency are few and far
between, but two such instanees have
been recently announced. Christopher
Kern, living in the upper part of Bucks
county, an ordinary farm band, who
had no regular place of employment but
worked wherever he could get some
thing to do for the past ten years, is
pow rich. He bas inherited a share in
his father’s estate, in Germany, that
amounts to $55,000, A more singular
case is that of John Moon, who is sup.
posed to be serving aterm in the East.
ern Pemtentiary, at Philadelphia,
There is a fortune of $250,000 awaiting
him in Glasgow, Scotland,
Tue explanation that Great Britain
has not thrown any obstacle in the way
of the proposed international confer.
ence to decide upon a universal system
of signals at sea, but that certain diffi-
culties were found to exist with regard
to the application of the principles like.
ly to be discussed, muy bo accepted
with the proverbial grain of salt, It is
absurd to argue that the scheme to be
proposed would not work, since its de.
talls have never even been formulated
or discussed. The truth is that an jp.
ternational code of maritime signals
would have been adopted Jong ago had
it not been for the apathy of the
British Board ot Trade, which indiffer
ence seems to have been Uransferred to
the Foreign Office.
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