An expert says that there are now 1977 temperance drinks that are rivals in popularity. It sounds to the Boston Transcript like a bit of incongruity that the rose. are found in most of mary and lavender perfect bloom on the dreary deserts Arabia, In Cape Colony, South Africa, the patives are coming into citizenship so fast that property $125 able the people have raised the quatifications for votes from to $375, and the voler must be to write his name and address clearly. The South, the Farm, Field and Stock- man asserts, is beginning to want better As they are not yet breeding = horses. them extensively, it is opening up a new field the sale horses. They good enough for any purpose. for ot Northern-bred used to think the mule The New York Post wonders why it was that ‘‘a social democracy in New Eng. land produced the most inveterate type of aristocratic politics ever known in our country, and why a social aristocracy in Virginia produced a democratic order of Federal politics at the very beginning of the Republic.” The question of an antidote for an electric shock is now being agitated, An amateur investigator is reported to bave found that the insertion of aromat- ic spirits of ammonia into the body of a bird which had received an shock brought the animal back after all signs of animation peared. The subject affords a good field for investigation, the There is no equal area on face ot the bandry in all its branches, Farm, Field and Stockman, as the south- of the equal area where globe so well adapted to sherp hus- i maintains the ern half United States, and no i appreciated and improved. being free from the me heat drought of the we millions, Australia, which ol and kills their Some ambitious Easlishman has figuring in the Toroato (C the additions British territory since suada) Em 1855. up as follows: In Asia, 273.7 miles and 5,500,000 people (estim jo South Africa, 1,603 205 » juare miles and 14,329,000 people; in Australasia, 97,300 square miles and 158,000 people —a total in the seven years of 2,06¢ square miles and 19,387 000 people. New York's most notable capitalists are men of very simple habits, and so he richest of them spend less than a well paid clerk spends on minor personal Very few of them use tol be for J Ay Gould to have #1 Min money in his p Rockefeller and C. P. Huntiogton carry Mr, pleasures. liquor, Itis or said to wket, and Russell Sage, John D. but little ready cash with them, Sage keeps as careful a record of small personal expenses as does a young housewife on a limited ine ne. The recent death of Elihu Matthews In Cleveland revives interests in the anony- famous " During “ mous authorship of ti ve Bre Professor novel, “The vd Winners, his lifetime Matthews stead. fastly refused to divulge the secret, but it is said that he hes left among his papers a letter, which will be made pub- lic, giving a detailed history of the writing of the book, its origin, develop. ment and publication, the precautionary steps taken to conceal the identity of t This the ete, revelation Field the authorship of the author, ’ Eugene in Chicago Re will fix fam book upon Mr. William Eleroy Curtis ' a journalist and litterateur of national reputation now residing in Washiogton. Julian Ralph has been describing Chis eago's big packing houses f An of amount of business done by these mam- ir Harper's Weekly. idea the immense tuoth slaughter houses is given in this “As one extract from Mr. Ralph's articles: I passed out of the yards handed It contained a record of the business of one firm, the leading one of the *‘oig four” packing concerns, It showed that during the year ending April 1, 1891, that company transacted sales of $66,000,000 worth of meat and other goods, It killed 712,« 000 cattle, 1,714,000 hogs and nearly 500,000 sheep. It employed 7900 per. sons aod paid nearly $4,000,000 in wages, It owned 2250 refrigerator cars and fifty acres of buildings. It made 7,000,000 pounds of glue and 9500 tons of fertilizers, I suspect that its hogs and sheep and boxes of glue and sides of beef and cans of meat may stretch out, if piled one on the other, from here to the moon, but I leave the calculation to others, satisfying myself with the re. flection that America is great, sad Chi. cago is its prophet.” some acard to me. | tables Mrs. Mary Lense says that the prairies of Kansas are dotted with the graves of women who died of *“‘mortgage on the farm.” An observant woman is suthority for the statement that the evolution of man of domestic science has in the matter taken a mighty stride of late. In proof of this, cites the Boston Transcript, here is King Humbert of Italy proudly bling in amateur cooking. The place for chums, avers the Chicago News. Record, pair, as were United States Senate is a great Beck and Allison were such a Don Cameron aad Butler, Vest and Plamb, Edmunds and Thurman, Another notable case of congressional f Damon and Pythias is that of Tom Reed and Bourke Cockran in the House. In 1825 there was but one lone repre. | sentative of homeopothy in this country. 25,000 physicians of 1836 the first homeopathic college in the To-day are enrolled under the banner Hahnemann, Ie world was incorporated, issuing diplo mas to sixteen physicians Now, says the New Orleans Pi there sixteen Are giore Lolumbus or H sis from Profess 144 » » ISUre reporis of that State crops 18¥1 were raised at ooo." | ober 12, has « slled visers thd leading wigners and archite Burns, the eminent says that than §25 James will have to be ¢ Gazette singer a us rates, mitted auy am generation, An in ¢ 153 sOmes who aff yuantry on the t ov £20 a Ho is Jenks, of Kuo “815 a horse is a loss.” The Board ville, T+ orse.” yfesaor thinks Knox- , has a sugges. tive computation ’. ‘ lirt roads cost of mmonwealth an $00.00 a vear. upon the people that one « more than From made other statistics it is niso declared that on a gravel road a horse wiil draw nearly one sad a half times the load, and on wacadam over three times the load he ean draw on the The time consumed, from wear on beast and common dirt road, losses from vehicle and from repairs in indirect ways fall principally, of course, upon those The carriers engaged in agricultural pursuits, average cost which produce bear in haulicg to the Knoxville market from the surrounding farming region is estimated at 87.50 a load. This aver- age, it is authoritively stated, could be reduced one-half upon good dirt roads and five-sixths over good macadam roads, That is to sey, one of the chief expenses borne by farmers is doubled through the extrivagan’ economy which perpet. uates poor roads. It is, comparatively speaking, a saving of cents sad a spead. ing of dollars, The amount of money annually lost in this country from const to const through badly kept highways can only be guessed at, but it is some. thing enormous. CHOLERA IN EUROPE. The Dread Disease Spreading Rapidly in All Directions. Great Britain Adopts Extraordi- nary Precautions, The london Lancet, England's leading medical authority, says that the cholera is making steady headway in Russia, and that even the incomplete official returns received admit that 550 deaths are caused daily by the disease, tis spreading westward, and the has invaded Roumanis, | serious import to Europe ‘ proper nocount, the Lancet says, been lssued with regard to the disease in Paris. The Lancet concludes its artic! follows: “When half the people attacked die it matters little what name is given tw the cholera in Paris and its suburbs The Paris correspondent of the Lancet telegraphs that M, Netter, a member of the Hyglons Publique, reports that In twenty- nine out of forty-nine cases of {lines which ho has investigated he has found the trus cholera bacillus, M, Netter further says that true cholera is limited to the suburbs of Paris, and that only that form of disease known as cholerine exists in the city. Pro fessor Diculafoy, however, states that he has found the cholera bacillus in two oases in Paris “In view of the report of of Spanish doctors that th in the suburbs of Paris | ticcholera, it may be of London report that it true, sof has the cholera epidemic undoublediy Asia. t ny» mmission inter Hnspats 1 tly what pry cautious are bein v to minimizes the plague in Eagland anda a « WAavs be fit pe lens | Add their du i 8t. Petersbu cholera bas made it and several casos ar It continues to rage soutl { Pussin Un account ut great Nishn this year ear) richest merchant of t 4 oat fear | tendano what it cc — BY BURGLARS, Not Telling Was ’ KILLED and Killed tor Their Money Tortured Where TO THE SWORD, A Mad Scotch Clerk Hacks Three Persons to Death, James village of Poimont, Fraser, a bank cierk, re Y oy 4 ‘iy A inty tiand, rushed into the house of a 1 irawn sword in his hand, withouta word of derons attack upon weapon atl all who Came tim, The neighbor made a all his attempts to disarm unavailing and at last, weax from loss ol blood he was unable to resist longer and was hacked to death. The murderer tuen turned his attention to the wife of his flicting upon her wounds which will result in her death Not satisfied with his bloody work, he then rushed from the house, and meeting A young womai on the highway cut and stabbed her with the sword which be still carried until he had kilial har, He was finally captured after a desperate strug He was believed to be insane SHOT BY MEXICAN RANGERS Robbers Taken Out and Theie Dead Bodies Lett Where They Fell, Beveral Texans from the Mexican frontisr report that six of the robbers who recently attacke! Quarry Foreman CC, H, Wood near Trespidras, on the Mexicans Interpational road, and who attempted to murder him and afterward robbbed his car, have been by Mexican Rangers, who, after identifying tho men by stolen property upon their tosk them out a shores distance from the main track and put the entire number to death, The six robbers were shot and their bodies leit where they fall 1 Cray C, Crovon, of Boston, Masse, has come into $25,000 by the will of Hereford Drummond, of London, Abouta in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mr. Clough, he risk of his life, stopped a aie ot runaway which bor with a made a with warning him, slashing to res «001 fight n Frage us his va wore victim, ine ————— horses attached to a Jatringe wero Mr. Drummond and his daughter, The gomdents waned o iow” Hi pinion some h 'olinadarenard Tn -- | | deaths and | | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States, Ropenr Ray Haminron's body has been taken to New York from Wyoming and placed in the vault of his uncle, Robert Hay, In Greenwood Cemetery, PART of the New York Biscuit Company's | plant, in New York City, was destroyed by | fire, causing a loss of over £160,000 Lous CoucHenr, a farmer of Myersville, N. J., was clearing away the grass in front of his mowing machine, when the horses started and he fell in front of the knives. He grasped ths reins and tried to stop the wreos, but could not, The top of his skull was cut off by knives, exposing his His death was by his the brains little son, witnessed Freperiok MoLLICK, a baker, was ar- rested at Long Branch, N . accused of complicity with the Anar Berkman in the attack on Chairman Fri H. Bauor, an alleged accomplice of Berkman, was arrested in Pittsburg, The police of that city thought there was a plot Lo assassinate Frick, which had its inception in New York. INTENSE heat prevailed Eastern and Middle State i interferfug wit tories and mills, The 101 degroes, was re where thers wore prostration nlso throughout the many in fac- i, Causing work Lon po Philadelohi deaths IHR whi City of Paris, flag, n Liverpool Queen of inman ling st the American smashed m her late tr and is now ynplished f the run in th fifteen hours oy Dg the & no $s Lime ol ive day LR minule § he Lest prev 1% was fro Tur Colorado Peo nition at Den ticket headed Ly Ji ornor met A DEAPERATE Rock, Ky., betw Sellers and John killed Ari Ind Iron Hal the Vice-Prosl Juravs Wise, « ington Court Hous for the murder ol an A SEVER am swept Harrisonburg unroofed and trees uj Ex-Coxonrsamaxy Kx nominated for Governor ug me ' he nomination was made by ATION © are storm over ro Minnesota Paul, aociaination, ublican Ntale ( tion at Washington, confirmed by the Associate Justics was Smale as Gronar Sminas United States of the Supreme Court BENATOR ALDRICH, Rhode Island, opened the tariff debate in the Honate with a speech in which he amsertel that ths cost of living had been decrease! under opera- tion of the McKinley bill and that wages bad been fucreased, His statements were denied by Senator Vest, of Missouri. Tux President has approved the act to enforos reciprooal commercial relations be- tween the Unite States and Canada. Ix the House of Representatives, a vote on the proposition to appropriate #5,000,000 for the World's Fair at Chicago, resulted 117 ayes; 106 nays, Tur Renate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: A. Barton Hep burn, of New York, Controller of the Cure rency: Watson R. party, of Delaware, Minister and Cousul-General to Persia; Yruxton Beale, of California, Minister and Consul-General to Roumania, Servia and Greece, Tur President nominated Watson R, Sperry, of Delaware, to be Minister Resident and Consul General of the Unite! States to Persia, He Is editor of the Wilmington of ritories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Oklahoma to inquire into thelr resources, population, ete,, and as to the prosriety of their being admitted as States Tux President approve! the act granting pensions to the survivors of ths Indizn wars of 1832 to 1842, known as the Black Creek, Cherokee and SBeminole wars Tre President vetoed the famous William McGarraban bill, The bill provided for the payment of the MceGarrahan about £3,000, 0060, woe ETOSs many years SECRETARY NOBLE imsuel a public warning all persons now on the C Indian reservation, in the State of Wa ars Hawk, ciaim for I aL Deen belo Lon ton, without express authority to leave the same without delay, Foreign, Tne English have armed East Africa wo fight the German E1GurY pe the the ys were injured by ing of seals in the theatre Franc» A COMMERCIAL and the Hepublic Ix view of the Russia ali the the Holy Bynod have been « A RECOUNT in Beotland stone's majority in the British to forty, Tur customs farmed out elgners, FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, In the Senate, 14187 DAY. Mr, to promotes treaty hetween of Colo cholera Germany nia was signed, schools und atrol of is to be ndicate of for revenus of Cuba by Bpain Ww a s) Bhermar PeRce Amo roduced a bill should Union Morgana: a ne Pas Grovernmen tral and r indelit Cer In the House, THE HOMESTEAD LOCKOUT, An Estimate of What It Will Cost All Concerned, st one ver §1 Bote } MANY 1) #e number { Bae Joss in cash, the military has « n rou figures § the workmen lost in wages 000 and the Carnegies have spent wv much more ia getting new workmen The work Beaver Falis, Duguesas and wm mills in Pittsburg have lost about 1 wages by ths sTmpatay st n is 1t $100.00 by the Added to this wi 80,003, $150. - and have nen at rile, en res Congress u of no and indirectly affected for Wt workme prived of any of if the fight should last sever there is no danger of the LY coming to actual want boen coming in liberally and the relief work has been carried on judiciously well. Every day people come to the Amalgamated headquarters and receive orders for gro- oeries and provisions The funds already oollected will hold out for time. The people who are receiving aid are principally those who received #1 40 a day, the cheap inborers, who left their places out of sym- pathy for the members of the Amalgamated Association.’ On the 20th of June, 2000 men having been looked out, 1500 others =track ont of sympathy, ana only a few watchmen were jeft around the plant, Now there are about T256 men in the mill, and the Hrm says it bas M™ quantity of beams ready for siipment. The men claim that their rauks are as solid ason the first day alter the mills ware closed against them, while the officials of the company assert that thers are gaps that are daily becolning wider When the striking workmen at the Alle. ghany Bessoner Steel Works at Duquesne were paid off a watchman named Foley got into an altercation with a man named Bourke, a striker. They wore arrested and taken to the Allormen's office While there Foley's son attacked Bourke and cat Mm over the right eye A crowd of several bundred worcmon gathered around to see tae fight and nearly oroatel a riot, The crowd was ultimately scattered by the Sheridan which was tele gra for to the heights above, would-bs assassin Borkmann was , pg rer hearing in the County all offics in Pittsburg, and was admitted to ball regating 4,000, which was not for court, mean sig - men maaan which want 1 BAY e Lew 10 Close gown locked weeks longer ans iAamines Su beeripti som» od, and tie prisoner was remanded | cons in certain paris of 1s have | THE GEM OF THE OCEAN, Columbia, Our Commerce stroyer, Launched, De- Descrintion of the Greatest and Fastest Vessel /.float, The new United Sta Columbia, offic , but nickname i od azo io ( fully launch afternoon ramy’ lelphin. The y¢ christen th fae daughter rion, the on of the teen hours and five tA t down nour of the City are made I he tected by on the ™ % a gun oon coal bunkers and not used for cos substance of 5 feet thio, ar of an Inner and In the event substance, the oan be used { the coal t with a wal wont In t machine § mored with ix<inch guns, will be mounted tected by heavy new ships, 10 the The coal capacity toms, Atlen kn give her an end of action 6, 247 able to steam around the « without recoaling, thus breaking for spead, economy and cana The batteries of the « foar six-inch breech. 08 g rifles six-pounders, rapid fr guns, che field gun an 1 six torpedo She will have two signal masts he new cruiser i» Any other war ship in the floest ship nn the nearest approach to { It was stipulate! in Cram that the wvesssl in should be of domestic manulsciure A sister ship, Orawser No. 13, is fng by the Cramps Her cont awarded August 11, 1800, the | belag #4 745, 000, jes £55.000 which they threw « hk vessels will Le wientioal in character, except that No. 13 wil oary @ heavier battery, LAND OPENED, It Reverted to the Government From the Southern Pacific, gUun-ORrT f 1 ia speedy Kn ruler w n tw rior to Riake, is the eminently sgt the world he British raiser N : tract BAYY, with the is parts, nil metruots act was rampss id hi i : Hl q
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