The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-03-07
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A COOPERATIVE society of working
women in Paris, in the hope of obtainin,
steady work and remunerative prices
have opened shop at 2 Boulevard d,
Temple for the manufacture and sale O
undertaking for both sexes, and O
flowers, hats, and dresses for women
There is also an association of journey
men tailOrs, established on q firm bash
at y Boulevard SebastOpol and SO Ru,
TurbigO, which advertises that it obtain
ed prize at the Philadelphia Exposi
ton.
THE first official batch OF statistic,
born of the Moffet register, in Virginia
shows that from the middle of Septem
Der las. to the 1st of February the peo
pie of Richmond took 7S3, Sos alcoholic
and 706.616 malt drinks. Leaving Out
the liquids purchased in large guantitie:
for exclusive home consumption, the
register would chronicle an average OF
100000 drinks per annum. Adding
the registered and estimated unregister-
ed (One-third more) drinks, the allow
ance would be 40S drinks per voter, or
20 drinks per annum for every man,
woman, and child in the city.
ACCORDING to invariable custom,
since the detection of the gunpowder
plot in 1908, detachment of Beef Eat
ers, who guard the Tower of London,
marched at 10 O'Clock in the morning
previous to the late opening of Parlia-
ment. through the cellars of the two
Houses, in order to ascertain if any
gunpowder might be concealed there.
The Beef Eaters are selected from
among the non-commissiOned officers
of the British army who have merited
notice through services or good conduct,
and wear the uniform selected for them
by Henry VIII.
The San Saba (Tex) NeUs says: A
gentleman is resting in McCulloch
County with 1000 sheep, which he de-
signs to put upon a ranch as soon as a
favorable location can be secured. The
gentleman started with the sheep from
California two years ago, and had no
other help than two well trained dogs.
The man drove a wagon the whole dis
lance, while his dogs, with no assistance
from him, herded and drove the sheep,
protecting and watching them while
feeding in the day, and driving them to
the camping place at night without
help.
In an appeal sent to the French pa
pers, signed by French and other Con-
suls at Constantinople, it is stated that
the distress in that city can not be exag-
gerated. More than $4,000 persons
from different parts of the Turkish en-
pire had, during the previous ten days,
arrived at the capital. The majority
are without shelter, insufficiently cloth
ed in an exceptionally rigorous winter.
and almost famished. Mosques, church
es, schools, and barracks have been Civ
en- up for their accommodation. The
Sultan has resigned several palaces for
the purpose, but means for feeding the
hungry are everywhere wanting, as To-
cal resources are exhausted.
A Mr.. DAVIS, of Medford, Mass, a
short time ago, while shaving, fell back
ward upon the floor, and was pronounce
ed dead. As he had expressed fears
that he might be buried alive, the body
was kept several days in the house and
carefully watched. The remains were
finally buried at Maiden. After the
funeral the widow and her daughter,
who reside in different houses, on a GER
tain night dreamed that the deceased
was buried alive and was trying to re-
lease himself from the grave. They
told their dreams to each other, and
finally caused the grave to be opened.
To the horror Of all the corpse was
found lying on its side, and the top Of
the casket broken, showing that the man
had made strenuous efforts to escape
death by suflocation.
The revelations of the New Jersey
prison fortunes before the Legislative
investigating committee confirm the
worst charges, and are almost too
hideous for belief. One ex-keeper testi-
iies, in an off-hand way, that he saw as
many As five or six convicts at one time
with gags in their mouths; saw men
chained down to the floor, and at the
same time gagged so tightly that they
could hardly breathe: sew men bound
to that modern adaptation of the rack
the stretcher-their hands fastened to
the ceiling and their toes touching the
floor; saw convicts chained to the floor
with their handouts on; often heard
screams coming from the dungeon; and
had seen a woman, with black and blue
marks on her wrists, who told him that
she had been strung up.
PLEASANT and easy method of rails
ing revenues is that pursued by the
Turkish Government. Some weeks
ago, finding that the caimeh or Govern
ment paper money was rapidly depre-
ciating, the Porte concluded to kill a
brace of birds with a single stone by
raiding the brokers, thus intimidating
them from further speculation, and at
the same time making little money for
the Treasury. Accordingly the police
descended upon all the jew money-deal-
ers, seizing them right and left indis-
criminately, and throwing them into
prison on a charge of conspiracy. After
being kept in duress a fortnight, they
were dismissed upon the payment Of
heavy fines. The science of backsheesh
has evidently reached a high degree of
cultivation in Turkey.
The obsequies of the late Mrs. Ben.
Pitman of Cincinnati, preparatory to
the removal of her body to the increm-
atory furnace at Washington, Pa. were
somewha. novel in character. Invita-
tons were issued and the guests were
received by Mr.. and Miss Pitman, no
signs of mourning being visible, either in
the toilets of father and daughter or in
the arrangements of the house. When
all were assembled, Mr.. Pitman, in a
conversational tone, spoke of the many
pleasant and happy years he had spent
with his late companion, and how,wh
realizing his great loss, he felt it useless
10 mourn. He was followed by Mrs.
Longley, an intimate friend, in a few
remarks, after which Mrs. Kate Weston
dorf. professional reader and elocu
ZIONIST, read two appropriate poems
The adjoining room, in which the body