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SECOND PART.
THE
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
PAGES 9 TO 20.
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PITTSBURG, SUNDAY. iffEBRUAItY 14 1892.
FROM LAKKTO GULF
The Elaborate Canal System
to Be Proposed in Ohio's
Legislature.
GHAXXELS 20 FEET DEEP,
So
as to Accomodate the largest
Boats on the Inland Seas.
A BRANCH TO EEACH PITTSBURG.
The Great Objection Is That the Ohio Can't
Carry Large Craft.
TTATEE SUTPLIES JSD EIGHTS OF WAY
rcoRBrsroxTExcs op Tire dispatch.
Toledo, O., Peb. It
PROJECT has
turned up in the
shape of a bill
soon to be intro
duced in the Ohio
Senate whose ob
ject is to form a
continuous wa
terway from the
Mississippi river
to the ocean, via
the Ohio, Eake
Erie and the Erie
Canal. It is quite similar to the scheme
agitated in Ohio in 1SS7. It lacks, how
ever, some of the objectionable features
then urged. At that time it was proposed
the Walllonding to almost, if not entirely,
equal it. This would provide a splendid
outlet to the immense coal production there.
v essels would be enabled to float through
Cleveland, Akron, Canal Fulton, Massillon,
Canal Dover, New Philadelphia and a hun
dred thriving villages, to Coshocton, wfcere
the Wallionding leaves the parent water
way. Then for 40 miles they would pass
only coal mines and what might be coal
mines. Their cargoes would be bandied
but once, and the ship, laden with fuel for
cold feet a thousand miles away, would
have plain sailing.
But what if Duluth and Chicago and a
hundred other cities should prefer coal from
Pennsylvania's famous mines?
Mr. Gear's bill provides the way. The
canal would be enlarged to Dresden, where
the millions expended by the State on the
Muskingum, make it navigable to Marietta,
at its mouth. Zanesville and McConnells
ville would be the only laree cities passed.
Vessels destined to Pittsburg would wind
past them, up the Ohio, passing Bellaire,
Wheelimr. Steubenville. "Wellsville and
East Liverpool to the Iron City. Cargoes
ot wheat, flour, lumber or iron would be
brought, lor they find a market in the East,
PittSDurg could send her products straight
to the great lake ports, paying only the
small freights which have "long been the
bane of the railroads which have to compete
with lake rates.
A Short Cut for Plttstmrjr.
The proposition to sell or lease the minor
canals would also give an opportunity for a
good waterway in and out ot Pittsburg. It
would be the improvement of the old bed
which runs from East Liverpool through
2Tew Lisbon, Hanoverton, East Kochester,
Bayard, Minerva, Malvern and "Wavnesbor
ough, joining the Ohio Canal at Bolivar, on
the line between Stark and Tuscarawas
counties. The distance by water between
Pittsburg and Cleveland would be about 175
miles. Without this short cnt it would be
423 miles or more. The benefits to be de
rived irom such inland navigation are incal
culable, and should Ohio once complete
what Mr. Gear has planned for her to do.
inland commerce will receive such an im
petus as it never had before.
The enlarging of theMiami and Erie Canal
would entail by far the greater expense.
The projectors of the bill estimate that two
thirds ol the ?28,O00j000 would have to be
Garfield followed the towpath are still
strong and abundant. But the Miami and
Erie Canal has to depend on reservoirs.
There are three of them, one for each of the
levels which have been established. The
first level is from Toledo to New
Bremen. 114 miles; this is called
the Lake Erie rise. The ascent is 118
feet, and to make it 49 locks are
required. Several of these, however,
are used to drop into valleys where the ad
vantages of some navigable stream may be
utilized. This level is led principally by
the St. Marv's reservoir. Several ntxpftm
which flow into the Maumee at Defiance
and Ft. "Wayne assist somewhat in helping
out, but the great volume, of water comes
from the reservoir.
The Great St. Mary's Beservolr.
The latter is the largest artificial body of
water in the world. It is 12 miles long and
has an average width of 6 miles. It is lo
catedat thesouroes of the Little Wabash, St.
Marys and about a dozen of smaller rivers.
The site was once a vast swamp. The State
built a big bank around it. itllnwl thn
streams which came down from the high
land around to flow into it and retained the
natural rainfall as fast as it came. In this
manner an average depth of six feet was ob
tained. The first level ends at New Bremen where
the summit level nnminnnc At tYtta ;f
the canal is 512 feet above the Ohio river
and 118 fet above Lake Erie. A gorge or
canon 119 leetleep wonld allow the water
of Lake Erie to flow into the Ohio river
and the canal problem would then be for
ever settled. The gorge need extend no
further south than Locfclngton, it the
Boutnern enu ol the summit level. This
fixes the length of the level at 23 miles. It
has no locks, the south end being at the
same altitude of the north end. The water
supply iB obtained from Laramie reservoir.
J. s ft" Po1 about two miles long
and half a mile wide. There is considerable
question as to how long this reservoir
would bold out when great ships drawing
20 feet of water passed through the locks at
Til KmifhAvn . .l ml .
r.uuu cuu. j.nB reservoir is so
small and its feeders are so spasmodic that
it Is unsafe to depend upon them. Oreater
drains would be made upon the Laramie
reservoir than any of the others because ot
the great incline at Lockington.
At this village alone there are 43 locks
NEW THEOKY OF GRIP
Based on the Ocean's Low Tempera
ture the last Three Tears.
ABSORBS THE HEAT 0P THE BODY.
The Heart Is Overloaded and Congestion
of the Blood Follows.
NOVELTY THAT KJfOCKS OtJT
T0TTEN
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MAP SHOWTSTC THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OP IXIiAXD WATEEWAYS.
that a ship canal be constructed from Toledo
to Cincinnati by merely enlarging the pres
ent Miami and Erie Canal. The fact that
Ohio had another canal connecting the lake
and the Ohio river excited the jealousy of
the portions of the State through which it
passed, and the attempt died with its agita
tion. To get around this the new bill pro
vides that both canals shall be so enlarged
that the largest lake vessels may navigate
them.
By its provisions the State is to appro
priate 28,000,000 for the canals. All tha
other canals in the State the Licking,
"Walhonding, Wabash and Lake Erie,
"Warren county, about three-fourths of the
Ohio and overa dozen short ones are to be
sold to private corporations. If they can
not be sold at a good figure the State is to
lease them. The fund thus raised goes into
that for the improvement of the two re
maining canals.
To Bo Surveyed Kelt Summer.
It is estimated that five years will be re-
expended upon it? Ever since its construc
tion, which commenced in 1837 and ended
in 1S42, it has been the second largest canal
in the United States, the Erie alone exceed'
ing it. It extends from the heart of Toledo,
about six miles from the mouth of the Mau
mee river, to the heart of Cincinnati. The
distance is 244 miles. The first part is CO
feet wide, G feet deep and Cf miles long,
between Toledo and Junction, in
Paulding county. The next part, 114
miles, between' Junction and Dayton,
is 5 feet deep, and 50 wide. The remaining
part, 64 miles long, is 4 feet deep and 40
feet wide. The Ohio Canal is also about the
sase average size.
Size of the Proposed TYatertray.
The proposition for the new canal is that
it be 150 feet wide and 20 feet deep. The
proposed canal would therefore be about 11
times as large as the, present one. It Wonld
undoubtedly be the greatest canal in the J
woria, an points consiaerea. ane object in
making it 0 deep is to keep- in step with
the demands made upon Congress bv the
Detroit Waterways Convention lor 'a 20-
SIIOWKfO LEVELS OKf THE MIAMI ASD ERIE CANAL.
quired to complete the work, and every
rt "11 be made to get the measure
through this session of theAssemblv so that
the surveyors may complete the'ir work
during the coming summer. The bill would
have been introduced last winter had it not
been for the great rush over Senatorial and
Congressional district matters.
The nart of the Ohio Canal to be im
proved is that between Cleveland and Dres
den, about 70 miles. Dresden is at the
head of navigation on the Muskingum river.
A vast amount of money has been spent in
making this river navigable, and with a few
hundred thousands more ttoe largest lake
carriers couia iwist around its manv shoals
and bends. The canal part is a gentle slope
from the highwater to the lake. A reservoir
perched np among the hills supplies water
for the raising and lowering of vessels. The
feeders to this reservoir are believed
to be never-failing. The Walhond
ing, formerly the Mohican and Wal
honding, runs into the Ohio and is
by far the most picturesque of any canal in
the State. It follows the valley of the Mo
hican river around hills and across plains
to the famous Walhonding coal mines. It
was for this industry that it was built. The
narrow canal boats carried food and cloth
ing to the miners, who, save for the canal,
were isolated from the world. To reach
them the boatmen had to twist and turn in
all directions. The horses walked on a path
of stone, in places hen n out of the solid
hillsides.
Opening Up Coal for the West.
u"his is one of the canals which Mr. Gear,
the father of the bill, proposes to have sold
or leased and the proceeds expended on
making great arteries of commerce. He be
lieves that by making the Ohio. Canal 20
feet deep private capital will soon bring
foot channel all over the lakes. Thus the
largest lake carriers would be enabled to
navigate from Duluth, "the Zenith City of
the unsalted seas," to New Orleans, the
Horizon City of the Father of Waters.
There would be a continuous stretch of
over 3,000 miles of fresh water navigation,
the longest on earth. It would render pos
sible a multitude of schemes which would
naturally be declared crazy ones. Think of
shipping a cargo of cotton direct from
Natchez to Buffalo, or a boat load of copper
from Marquette to GalvestonJ Salt loaded
on a ship at Saginaw might be unloaded at
Nashville or Wheeling or Sioux City. "War
vessels stationed on the Mexican frontier
could hasten to repel an invasion at Sault
Ste. Marie, on the Canadian frontier.
A Very Big: TTndertaking;.
To accomplish all this would require the
removal ot 2,792,688,800 cubic feet of earth,
not counting in the hills and hollows on the
route and counting out the present canal bed.
It wonld necessitate the removal of hundreds
of large warehouses and manufactories built
upon the canal banks in Toledo, Defiance,
Troy, Dayton, Hamilton and Cincinnati
In some places railroads have secured the
right of wav along the canal bank, and to
widen the channel the State wonld have to
fight a, legal battlo with them. Nearly
everv foot of the wav wonld have to be
bought, except in some of the large cities..
xicre the State is supposed to own 90 lect on
each side of the canal. However, it has
long been appropriated to private uses and
it would take much litigation to recover a
good title.
As to the supply of water in the case of
the Ohio canal it is Relieved the natural
feeders tapped along the route would be
ample. The same streams and lakes
which furnished the supply when James A.
leaving but six for the entire 107 miles be
tween there and Cincinnati ' It is the most
tedious part of the whole canal for travel
ers. For lake vessels it would be the hard
est part of the trip, although modern en
gineering would reduce the number of locks
by at least two-thirds. At Sault Ste. Marie
vessels are lowered and raised 20 feet at one
lock, and it is believed that similar locks
would be practicable In Ohio, if water
enough can be gotten to fill them.
The water supply for the Ohio river rise
comes from Lewiston reservoir, a body
nearly round and about four miles in diame
ter. It is in the northern part of Logan
county, and is one of the natural sources of
the Miami river. Having only six locks te
supply there is no question but that it
would be never-failing. The water frdrn it
carries canal boats through TtOt. Pinna.
Dayton, Middletown and Hamilton. The
easiest navigation on the whole canal is the
part between Dayton and Cincinnati.
"What was once the southern terminal of
the M. & E. Canal is now owned by Cincin
nati, which purchased it for sewer purposes.
Green scum and floating filth now have the
right ot way and canal boats stop long be
fore they reach the Ohio. The engineers
who have recently been looking over the
route say the best way is to lock the canal
into Mill creek, seven miles tip from the
river. ,
Most Dredge the Ohio.
After having finally reached the Ohio,
Mr. Gear's elaborate scheme would seem to
have been carried out, and his hopes ful
filled. They would be in the spring and
summer, but along about dog days, when
farmers are threshing wheat, the Ohio
rapidly subsides. The floods with which
Cincinnati contends every spring are away
down in the Gulf of Mexico, and only a
few feet of water is left. The Ohio is only
4 to u teet in aeptn at Cincinnati in Sep
tember the time when the great grain crop
of the West is.on the move, and thus the
canal would be rendered useless at the very
time when wanted the most. The only way
to obviate the difficulty would be to dredge
a channel in the river which would always
be 20 feet in depth.
The probability of the passage of Mr.
Gelr's bill is much greater than would be'
at first supposed. He is virtually
the Democratic leader of the Sen
ate, and would probably be backed
by his party in the House. Independent
of politics, the proposed improvements
would greatly benefit 27 counties, which
iiiiHI
Sues of Ote Projected and Preient Canali.
The following comes to The DlSPATCn
from a gentleman who is not altogether un
known to readers of newspapers. Ills
theory as to the cause of the grip is given
for what It is worth. As a scientific novelty
Lieutenant Totten's notioni as to the con
junction of Jupiter and "Venus are not much
ahead of it:
The grip, or, more properly, "congestion
of blood in the veins," results from the
workings of certaiu natural laws, which are
as yet but partially understood, affecting
life and health, climate and vegetation, to
an extent which is quite incredible to those
who are uninformed as to their subtle and
far-reaching effects.
In order to convey a clear understanding
of the subject, it is necessary to exolain
some of the laws of neat, espe
cially in connection with water.
Heat is always passing from
the warmer to the colder body of matter in
proximity, whether it be earth, air, animal
or water. If the disparity in temperature
be slight the draft of heat from the warmer
to the colder bodv will be slight. If the
disparity of temperature be laige the heat
current will be increased accordingly. Dis
tance is no bar to this law, and heat will
pass instantly from the warmer to the colder
body, and its current will continue until
equalization of temperature between the
two bodies is effected.
A Tact About Water.
"Water hal the capacity of holding more
heat in an insensible condition" than any
other natural substance. If the tempera
ture of the water of the Atlantic Ocean
should from any cause be lowered 10 from
its normal condition, it would reduce the
temperature of a weight of iron equal to
me weignt oi tne waters ot tne ocean S9U
to restore the 10 of sensible heat to the
water. This illustration conveys but a
faint idea of the volume of heat that is
drawn from the adjacent continents when
the waters of the ocean and the Gulf
stream have been lowered in temperature
12 to 23, as has been the case for some
three years past
During the summer of 1888 the flow of
icebergs was almost continuous, and in Sep
tember of.that year they still reached as far
south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1889
immense icebergs and fields of floating ice
kept flowing southward to and beyond the
bauks of Newfoundland till the summer was
past, which was quite unusual. In 1890 the
same condition continued, and as late as
the 12th of October the commander of an in
coming vessel leported passing an iceberg
near latitude 33 north, an event which, at
that late season of the year, was pronounced
Unprecedented.
Temperature of the Atlantic.
Judging from-the few tests of the tem
perature of the waters which fell under the
eye of the writer the ocean was about 13,
and the Gulf stream about 25 below nor
mal in the fall ot 1890. May not this low
temperature of the Waters lying between the
continents whose people have suffered so
terribly from the mysterious malady ..called
grip be the cause Of the disease?
When the temperature of the wateis of
the ocean is below that of the continents on
either side, the heat currents must be con
stantly passing from the warmer substances
on the continents, including animated
bodies, to the colder waters of the ocean,
until the temperatures become equalized.
The greater the disparity of temperature,
the greater the draft of "heat. Hence gur
bodies being warmer than the air, earth,
water, buildings andothersurrounding mat
ter, are drawn upon for a proportionately
larger amount of heat; and it is this subtle
draft upon our life force tnat causes so large
a number of our aged and infirm fellow
creatures to be gathered to their fathers.
None are exempt from danger, for the
strongest by exposure to this ijeat draft
may be stricken down in an hour.
"Why the Body Keeps Warm.
Friction is the source of heat, and the
heat of our body is produced by the friction
of the blood in Its channels in our systems
as it is driven through, by the heart. If,
however, a portion of this heat, which is re
quired for the well-being of our bodies, be
drawn off by the laws before stated, the
heart fails, especially in old asre and infirm
ity, to supply this extraordinary draft and
the wants of our bodies at the same time,
and it is precisely these conditions that
cause tne temperature Ot the blood to lower,
which is followed by chills. The heart, na
ture's heat force, is still doing its best, but
the blood thickens and it. soon congests in
the veins, circulation ceases, which is called
"heart failure," and the coldness of death
follows. This is the grip. All its victims
are not affected alike. Manv cases are
diagnosed as the grip, then heart failure,
pleuro pneumonia, 'paralysis, meningitis
and sudden pains, all springing in large
measure from the same source, loss of heat
from the blood and resulting congestion.
In demonstration of this fact a thousand
facts could be stated. The winter of 1891
was remarkable for its high temperature
throughout the United States, the mercury
ranging generally 10 to 35 degrees Fahren
heit above the temperature ot the waters of
the Atlantic to the eastward. During all .
the winter and until the beginning of sum
mer the grip manifested its power,
Becoming More Virulent
As the temperature went up, holding carni
val in the cities, towns and villages, and
maniiestinc its aeatn-aeaiinz sotrer in a
still greater extent, in proportion to popu
lation, in the rural districts. Its victims in
the region lying north of 35 degrees north,
to the lakes, if they could be counted would
outnumber the victims ot cholera, yellow
fever or any other plague that ever devas
tated our country.
' North of the lakes the winter was cold
and severe! Blizzards, snowfalls, ice and
zero weather prevailed, yet we had no ac
counts of grip in Canada until late in the
spring, and late in July in raged in Quebec.
A slip now before the writer, dated Mon
treal, July 8, 1891, says:
At Piaster Cove and Helgan, dozens of
people have died, dozens are dying and
iuau uavt guuo iiiwuv, uuu lu maiCQ tuo
manor worse, provisions have run short.
Bishop Bosss is down with the disease, his
prelato is dead and a number of the nuns are
also among the dead.
On July 6, 1891, the inspector stationed at
Quebec writes:
knon people who are ill. In Leicester SS
members or the police force are ill, and GO
percentof the teachers fn the public schools
are unable to continue their avocation.
Another dispatch, dated London, May 21,
1S91, says:
The report of the Kegister General for the
West End for the last weekshow s that the
epidemic has made sad ravages in the hum
ble ranks of life. The death rate for the last
four weeks is as follows: 10, 3d. 149, 260, the
latter being double that reported lor any
week during the scourge in 1S90.
Preventing the Grip.
The foregoing facts should be sufficient to
convince the careful reader that the grip
only prevails when ard where the tempera
ture is above that of the waters of the ocean.
To avoid the chilling of the blood, from
which the grip and other kindred diseases
arise, it is essential to keep as far as possible
all the heat within our bodies that the
action of the heart can produce. The test
mode of doing this is to wear plenty of
wooien clothiug and to avoid exposure
when the weather is moderatelv warm, that
being the time when this incomprehensible
heat-draft from our bodies is greatest.
Avoid exposure. Sleep in a warm bed, and
if aged or infirm, keep within a warm
room, and you will be safe from the blight
of this invisible foe.
As soon as convenient after the patient is
attacked with pains, or chills, a bath or tub
of hot water should be procured, tempera
ture about 130f. Use a cloth or large
sponge. Bring thfe nater well over the
limbs and aid the circulation of the blood
by friction. When the proper circulation
is effected the pains will cease, generally in
15 to 30 minutes. Take a warm bed in a
warm room; drink plentifully of hot water
or hot weak tea, which will promote per
spiration, with which the pain is sure to
cease.
Has Known of Cares.
The writer has known many cases treated
as above, and all were relieved of pain in a
.short time and well in one to two days with
out the use of any medicine whatever, and
no lingering, annoying results ioiiowea.
Heat up the blood and its congestion in the
Veins will be removed, but do not use
Ipiritnous stimulants. They accelerate the
action of the heart before the blood is in
proper condition for circulation.
The foregoing paper has been written
with the hope of turning abler minds to
this line ot investigation. That more die
in this disease from the use of drastic drags
and the want of proper treatment than from
the malady itself there is no room for
doubt. I'ronerlr treated the disease is
1 easily mastered, but the disease must be
clearly understood belore it can be
properly treated. In the light of all the
known facts relating to the grip, to treat it
as a result of microbes or baccilli or as an
infectious epidemic seems to be nothing less
than dangerous sclentlne-nonsense.
A Peculiar fact About Corns.'
The effect of this heat-draft from our
bodies is manifested to all who are subject
to rheumatism or neuralgia or have corns.
When there is a cold wave up in the region
ef the lakes, 100 or 500 miles ofF, or when
there is a heavy snow fall in the lake region,
and the temperature here in the Ohio
valley is warm and pleasant, all who are
subject to rheumatism, neuralgia or Corns
suffer intensely till the disparity of tem
pera tuie in the locations mentioned is more
nearly equalized. Then the heat-draft
which so injuriously afiects the blood, ceases
and the pains are gone.
This represents, upon a miniature scale,
the action of the same laws which astound
the world when the mighty ocean is brought
under their effective force. D. T. L.
QRXVE DIGGER HILL WAS J. LITTLE TOO PREVIOUS.
WH5TEBH FL0TJE TOB ETJ8SIA. f A HSW iqCK-HUT.
An
TIIE BOW OF PROMISE,
That Filled the Heavens With Glory
in Minnesota Recently,
WAS CAUSED BY FJIOST SPICULE.
It Is a Celestial Phenomenon Quite Common
in Polar Eegions.
STPJCTLT LOCAL H ITS CUAEICTER
A TOTAL ABSTINENCE MANUAL.
The
Catholic Church's' Stand as to the Ap
plicants for IIoense.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America has just issued a manual on total
abstinence. Some Of the greatest minds of
the Union has been employed for some time
ilpo'n it, notably Bishop Cotter, of Winona,
Minn., and Dr. Conaty, Of Springfield,
Mass. The little boolf takes the form of
question and answer after the style of a
catechism". Among the good things in it is
Cardinal Manning's famous expression,
'"Temperance is good, but total ab
stinence is better," and that of
St Augustine, "The man who gets drunk
does not commit sin; he becomes Bin it
self." Gladstone is quoted as saying: "In
temperance"" brings more calamities on the
world than the three great historical
scourges, war, pestilence and famine, com
bined," Statistics are used to prove the evil is in
creasing. Much stress is placed on the in
herited tendency of children of
drunken parents to intemperance and
immorality generally. Attention is
called to the dangerous practice of treating.
The concluding chapters are devoted to
hygiene, the saloon and remedies for intem
perance. The declaration of the third
plenary council is quoted to show the posi
tion of the Catholic Church on the subject:
"We call upon all pastors to induce any of
their flocks who may be engaged in the sale
of liquor, to abandon a3 soon as they can
the dangerous traffic, and to embrace a more
becoming way of making a living."
It is expected to cirouUte the manual
amon? school children ?enerallv. bnt it is
'especially interesting in Pittsburg just now
on account of tne applications lor license
now being" filed.
BTBlSlNG BAGS AT THE ClAFLIHS.
alone have 47 members of the Legislature.
These, with a few friendly votes which
could be easily obtained, would send the
bill through a whooping. The shallowness
of the Ohio in the autumn is the greatest
brawback, and if the project is a failure,
this will be the mam reason for it. A
second handling of the grain at Cincinnati
would perhaps be adopted.
The large map shows-the ideal waterway
system connecting the great lakes with the
Ohio, Mississippi and the Gulf on the South
and the Atlantic seaboard .via the Erie
Canal on the East The proposed canal
from Pittsburg to Erie and the Chesapeake
and Ohio outlet, with which readers of The
Dispatch are familiar, are not shown on
,the map.
From the latest reports received, tho
Straits of Belle Isle and to the eastward are
full or heavy ice. The grip is working havoo
among tho inhabitants of that locality, and
a great many are leported starving, dead
and dying.
It Bages In Warm Weather.
The winter of 1891 was a very cold one in
Europe, and during the continuance of cold
weather the people there were exempt from
the grip. Late in the spring, when the
temperature raised higher above that of the
waters of the ocean, the death rate was high
in many places on the continent and terri
ble in England. A telegram to The Pitts
bubo Dispatch, dated May 13, 1891, said:
Tne weather has been almost tropical dur
ing the last three days, bnt In spite of the
changed cllmatlo conditions there has been
no abatement in the grip. The capers ore
filled almost to the length of columns with
names of titled personages and other well-
Cincinnati Merchants, Acquitted of Embez
zlement, Sue for Damages.
CuiciNifATi, Feb. 13. Charles S.Weath
erby and W.' E. Stevens, doing business as
Weatherby & Stevens, were arrested some
days ago at the instance of S. B. Claflin &
Co., of New York, on the charge of embez
zlement amounting to $70,000. They were
tried before a justice of the peace on. a spe
cific charge of embezzlement of f 10,000.
It was shown that Weatherby & Stevens
were agents for Claflin & Co. upon salarrr
and at the termination of the agency there
was a disagreement as to the state ot the ac
count The magistrate who heard the testi
mony decided to-day that there had been no
embezzlement and dismissed the accused.
Now it is said they will bring suit against
A Full Blood White With a Dark Skin.
Nashvill, Feb. 13. A bill to be filed
in the Chancery Court of Butherford
county was presented yesterday to Judge
Eldley, and he granted a decree for an in
junction. Joe Bartlow, who, the bill al
leges, is of a dark complexion, is the com
plainant. He claims to be the son of K. C.
and Lockie Barlow, white people, now de
ceased, and claims to be a full brother of
Jack and Mary Barlow, who are white.
He alleges that by a mere unaccountable
freak of nature he was born with a dark
skin, but he was recognized by K. C. and
Lockie Barlow as their lawful son, and was
treated as a member of the faniilv.
A Messiah Born at New Jerusalem.
Dubuque, Ja., Feb. 13. News comes
from Iron Hill, or "New Jerusalem," as it
is called, in Jackson county, that the Free
Methodists of that section have gone wild"
overa religions craze. Bevival meetings
are being held. The climax of excitement
was reached when the announcement was
was made in "New Jerusalem" that a child
naa been Dorn wmen tne promoters of the
meetings declared was none other than a
second Messiah.
A Penniy Strike That May Spread.
Indianapolis, Feb. 13. The strike of
the Panhandle machinists is still unsettled.
The men now declare that unless the com
pany grants their demands every machinist
on tne Pennsylvania system between In
dianapolis and Altoona, Pa,, will be
caned out
Order Prom Philadelphia's Mayor for
G.OOO Barrels Filled in Six Boars.
Minneapolis, Feb. 13. Mayor Stewart,
of Philadelphia, Chairman of the Bussian
Famine Belief Association, yesterday
placed an order with a local milling com
pany for 5,000 barrels of flour, and the train
of 30 cars required to carry it left at 3
O'clock this afternoon.
The company turned out the flour in six
hours. The train was handsomely decor
ated and placarded and marked "rush." It
will go from Chicago on fast time via the
Pennsylvania Bailroad, arriving at Phila
delphia February 17, where it will be
loaded on the American Line steamer In
diana, which sails February 20. The vessel
will go direct to Buisia anil' will sail under
the American flag.
Two Homestead Men Discover What Me
chanics Have Long Wanted.
The. illustration shows a nut-lock which
has Just been patented by Messrs. Leo Bul
lion and David James, of Homestead, Pa.
After the nut A is drawn into its proper
position on the bolt the split pin B is in
serted through the slots in the nut and the
hole D in the bolt it is impossible for the nut
to turd and become loosened. A safe nut
PICKETS FIBED "UPON.
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Tennessee Soldiers Preparing for Farther
Trouble With Miners.
ICnoxvtlle, Tenn., Feb. 13. A num
ber of drunken men, supposed to be miners,
fired upon the pickets of the State troops at
the Coal Creek convict camp, about 10
o'clock Thursday night. The Gatling gun
was turned on them, and two of them were
wounded.
Commander Anderson has telegraphed to
General Carnes. at Memphis, 'for more am
munition and arms. Crowds of men are
seen amohg the hills in and around Coal
Creek, and the operator there predicts an
other attack soon.
ofthUklnd has long been sought in the
field of mechanics,railroading, bridge build
ing, etc., etc Constant attention and
freat expense is entailed in efforts to keep
olts and nuts tightened and many a life
has been sacrificed through their becoming
loosened. The new lncknnt is being put to
a practical test on several of the railroads
in and around Pittsburg, as well as at the
Homestead Steel Works, and so far they
have fully snstained the favorable opinion
one forms at first sight. Mr. Bullion, one
of the inventors, is a cousin of Mr. Andrew
Carnegie and a manager in his Homestead
plant.
S50O Beward
"So Candidate Against Diaz.
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The beautiful midday phenomenon re
cently witnessed at Lake Benton, Minn., a
brief account of which was given in Tub
Dispatch, belongs to a rare order of ap
pearances for this latitude. Like the rain
bow, such a spectacle is local, so that while
it may be seen in a given place, there may
be no display at all a few miles away.
"Very few persons in describing an nnnusual
exhibition, as was that at Lake Benton, do
so without giving some rein to the imagina
tion; and .there seems to be something mis
stated in this case, as the published de
scription does not fully comport with what
would seem to fall within the lines of
analysis.
The writer witnessed one similar exhibi
tion in February, 1880, which took place
between the hours of 9:30 and 10:20 A. Jt.
The day was cold, the sky nearly clear,
with a horizontal circle of mist-like light
bisecting the heavens abont midway be
tween the zenith and the horizon. Four
immense globes of light mist, lay at eqnal
distances right on the line of the buminons
ring, the band apparently passing through
them, the sun also being'in the path of this
circle.
At some distance ont either way from the
sun on this band, was an immense "sun
dog," each located across the line in
in the form of a segment and having all
the hues of the rainbow in the usual
order. Near the zenith, on the sun
ward side and with the convex side
of the arch turned from the snn, was a per
fect section of what maybe termed a rain
bow, although the phenomenon was not the
result of falling drops of water.
Such occurrences are necessarily restrict rd ,
to the winter season and to sunny days. In
the Polar regions they are very frequent
and they there assume a splendor and a
variety unknown to dwellers of temperate
and tropical zones. A cold temperatnre,
with sunshine and frost spicnlae borne on
currents of proper angles to the sun's posi
tion and the plane of the observer's vision,
are the conditions under which such a-phe-nomenon
may make itself manifest It
would be possible, if properly located
in mid-air, to see 'a rainbow in
a continuous circle, but as the drops
of rain fall nearly perpendicularly
and the observer is located at the terminus
of the column of falling drops, the angle,
even with the sun on the horizon,. can. afford
no more than a half circle.
But this frost spiculs, moving perhaps
quite horizontally, n it has the proper
translncence, may project the complete cir
cle which must lie in the heavens on a
plane coincident with the plana of the
movement of the floating parti
cles. The parts of perfect rain
bows are the resnlts of either
clearer and higher spicula?, or thev are
projected from where the focus of light is
most intense and the opaque accompani
ments are the result of the imore indirect
transmission.
The common rainbow, tha brilliantly
burnished clouds in the evening or the
morning, and the celestial happenings
described, all belong to one general class,
the differences being merely caused by
somewhat varyingiactoia. There is nothing '
auroral in their character, as these latter
lights of the night have no kinship no
direct kinship with sunlight and floating
matter. N.
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