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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-16


THREE DELEGATIONS called on Secretary Folger
to-day in regard to Treasury patronage.
CRANK LETTERS TO THE PREsIDENT.-President
Arthur's mail contains fewer 'crank" letters than
have heretofore found place In the White House
mail bags He is not. however, free from the NUS
ance There Is one crank who, for persistency, is
entitled to the confectionery. 1t Is DR.. Tachmyn-
us, the long-haired Greek, whose personal real
estate was for years familiar sight on the streets
OF Washington When they sent him to New York
he continued to write to President Garfield. He
numbers all his letters. He had reached number
so when the President was shot He has com
menced TO write to President Arthur, and has
reached number 13 in his new series OF epiStleS.
Ihe letters are simply cranky effusiOns.
NUMBER OF FEMALE CLERKS employed on the
"siapsed roll" of the Treasury department Will be
discharged on the first OF January.
ALI THE MEMBERS OF THE CABINET were present
at the meeting this afternoon except Attorney
General MacVeagh. The department OF Justice
was represented by Solicitor General Phillips.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN and Assistant Sec
retary OF State Davis will relieve ex Secretary
Blaine and ex-Assstant Secretary Httt OF their
Official duties next Monday.
THE VISIT OF COLLECTOR ROBERTSON to Washing
ton Is principally upon matters OF business with
the Treasury depar tment. 1t can be stated that
the Collector, unless he elects otherwise, Will
serve out his term as collector OF the port Of New
York.
WHITE HOUSE CALLERS TO-DAY. This being
Cabinet day there were few people at the White
House In search OF an audience with the Presi-
dent. There were the usual number of people to
see the rooms down stairs but the general visitor
could not carry the breach and reach the upper
story Ihere were many members OF Congress
VINO called. They sat upon chairs around the
Prasident's room or wrote at the Cabinet table
until unit the President was ready to receive them.
Among the callers to-day were: Senators Plumb,
BroWn Harrison, Saunders, Sawyer, Mcmillan,
MaL) s) Williams, MI Ferry, McDlll, Dawes, Cameron
lNls). Platt. Beck, and Representatives Robson,
Sherwin, Brewer, Urner, Ward, Miller. Pettibone,
Speer, Scranton, Bland, Guenther, Young, Morse
and Tucker. Mr. Beverly Tucker called with
Representative Tucker Senator Boutwell, brought
a Trend to shake hands with the President. The
Michigan congressional delegation called in
body. Ex-senator Henderson, of Missouri, was
one Oh the latter callers. Collector Robertson did
not see the President, but expected to see him
AFTER the Cabinet meeting. Justice Harlan was
the only member OF the Supreme Court who called
PRIVATE DALzELL manages to keep up his end of
rrn Nrn11 ITnr hxr,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
A Locomotives Race with a Reptile.

As the Shenandoah Valley fast express
entered the mile cut Immediately north
of our town on Tuesday last the engineer
was horror-stricken to see what he sup
posed to be the end of the rail ju,t ahead
of his rushing locomotive sliding rapidly
away from him. His first thought was
broken rail caught by thepiloe and he'
expected an Instantaneous shOck Won
derment usurped the place of lear whom
q second glance revealed five-foot
blacksnake of the species known as
runner" gliding rapidly away from
him on top of the rail. In the excite
ment of the moment his hand sought the
throttle, he threw it wide open and the
train bounded forward under the i'm
pulse, but the snake maintained its lead
although the train was running at fully
fifty miles per hour, and when the end
of the cut was reached, and opportunity
was afforded to escape, it left the rail.
ran out into an open space, c0iled itself
up, threw its head into an attitude of
defiance and died right there An ex-
animation proved that the intense heat
OF the rail had burned it to DEATH
Aschanscsto,cn (Md.) Clarion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

- -
"A South Carotina inventor VIII ex-
hibit . lcoston-picklng machi.e al; ths
Atlanta ExpositDhs Sssss xaaHsss<sS>
The recent discovery that cotton
seed oil is perfect and satisfactory sub
stitute for lard bids fair to create quite
revolution in Southern household
economy. s'i'-l fsbiiE ID
Eastern tanners sometimes use the
fruit of the cypress tree IN their tslnings
operations, and 10 Is Maintained that the
fruit and even the wood of this tree
makes very good tanning material : J
Paper betting is used with success
in the machinery hall of an exhibition
now held in Japan. s,Itisstated that the
betting made of papee has been tested
and found to be IAuctf stren gersthan that
made of ordinary leather.
The canal across the Isthmus of
COrinth, begun by the Romans Under
the Emperor Nero, but never finished,
is likely to be cut by the. French, Gen.
Turr having lately received a concessions
from the Greek Government to carry
out the project. - y .sfIt
An inventor in Hartford, Conn.,,
has patented q belt which is made of
iron wire, the selvages being brass and
copper. The weff is of cotton, several
threads being woven in without being
twisted together" A double fabric is
made, between which, or inside of
which, a number of single heavy wires
are inclosed to take the tensile strain of
the belt. 2g ca sz-s - al
"A new celluloid is said to be obtain
ed from well-peeled potatoes, which are
treated for thirty-six hours with solr-
ton of eight parts of sulphuric acid in
100 parts of water. The mass is dried
between blotting- paper, and then press.
ed. It is further stated that in France
smoking pipes are manufactured out of
this new material which are quite equal
in appearance to the meerschaum. By
heavy pressure the material acquires
such hardness that billiard-balls can
be manufactured from it.
Investigations into the cause of dis
ease in plants have been made on pear
and apple trees by Prof. L. J. Burrill.
His paper in the July american Natu-
rails. opens up q prospect that blight in
fruit trees can be combated successfully
by careful tests of the diseased parts and
the use of a knife. He found the starchy
particles in the bark of diseased pear
trees full of bacteria, and succeeded II
inoculating healthy from diseased trees.
While cutting away infected parts the
greatest care has to be taken lest healthy
tissue become inoculated by the knife.
The yellows of the peach tree are of the
same nature, and the Lombardy poplar
and aspen suffer from similar disease.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, being unable to unite upon
either Stone or Barksdale, the
two prominent candidates for Governor,
finally nominated Hon. Robert Lourey, Of
Rankin County, Barksdale Withdrawing in
his favor.
The Prohibition amendment has been
defeated in North Carolina by decisive ma
jority.
The Democrats of the Second Maine
District refused to indorse Gilbert, the
Greenback candidate for Congress, although
urged to do so by Governor Garcelon. Frank.
lin Reed was nominated by reclamation.
RENEWED attacks by mobs on the
shops and synagogues Of the Jews are
reported in various places in Pomerania.
Some shops were wrecked. The mebs were
dispersed by the police.
The National Catholic Total Absti-
nenee Union has been in session at Boston.
Archbishop Elder, Of Cincinnati was elect
ed President of the Union, but declining,
the Rev. J. B. Cotter, of Minnesota, was
chosen.
NATHAN o. GREENFIELD, six times
sentenced for murder of his wife,in 1873, was
hanged at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 9TH.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, and vicinity
has been vsi ed by severe storm. Grain
fields and stacks suffered heavily, and tele.
graph wires were blown down in every di.
rection.
FOREST fires have swept the country
north of Bay City, Mich, destroying farm
buildings, fences, and much standing tim.
Der. Trains on the Michigan Cen raj Rail-
way were delayed by clouds of smoke and
ashes.
AT Petersburg, Va, John w. Green,
commiss on merchant. and ". T. Lee, of
Littleton, n. c., used knife and pistol upon
each other with fatal results. The quarrel
grew out of a refusal to drink on the part Of
the latter.
THREE daughters of D. o. Barley,
farmer living near Sherman, Texas, aged
respectively seven, nine and eleven years,
playing beside stack Of new mown hay,
were struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
NEAR Kokomo, Ind, the locomotive
of passenger train on the Toledo, Delphos
& Burlington Railway went into the ditch
while making fast time, and NJ. K. Blinn and
j. A. Glenn, engineer and fireman, sustained
probably fatal injuries.
The Apaches are continuing their
murders and depredstions in Ne v NJ .xico.
Six Mexicans are reported killed in an en-
counter with the savages at Peraje, forty
mile south Of Socorro. mining party, in
Guiding one woman, was reported SURF ,und-
ed at Silver Mountain, and a party from
Socorro had gone to their rescue.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
PITH AND POINT.

-Beecher says Hades is state rath-
er than a place. Jersey, We'll bet.-
Turner'S Falls Reporter. Sd -
Bindings are very selfish. creatures.
They take the food right out of their
mothers mouths.-Boston Transcript. =
We Judge from accounts ia almost
all of our exchanges that almost every
body has, at one time or another, been
shot through the iyer.-Elnsira Free
Press.
"A Michiganeditorr received 5000, OO2
from the administrator of the estate of
deceased subscriber, and to celebrate
the event caused his Office towel to be
washed. How often afduence leads to
extravagance.-Detros Free Press.
Now the chowder's in the pot, land
the days are getting hot, and We all be-.
gin to swelter with a SWEET, swelt, SWEET.
While the crimson lemonade through .
straw enchants the maid, who displays
a bunch of flowers at her belt, belt, belt.
-PucE. =, &, 80 - .sa E-9~.
g The editor sat in his easy chair.
His shirt collar was unbuttoned, he was
wiping the perspiratiOn off his brow,
and thinking of q future state (unre-.
vised), when the man who borrows ex-
changes and gives him suggestions as to
how to run his paper came in and said
-" Is this hot emo" The man said
no more until he opened his eyes in the
drug store, when he remarked, 81 reck-
on it was -Teras SJiings.
The first drink makes man feel
anxious for the second; the second
brings smile to his face; the third has
q vOluble effect; the fourth, he is still
more sOciable; the fifth produces digni-
ty; the sixth stern expression of cOun-
tenance that means beware; the seventh,
he becomes pugilistic; the eighth. he
fights and gets thrashed, and all subse-
quent drinks have no effect but to delay
the hour of sobriety.-NeW Haven Reg
ister. -a-
-"What kind of q house do you
want?' asked the architect. "Oh,"
replied the citizen, YEARLY, 81 don't
want house at all. I just want you
to build me three tiers of closets, like
jail cells; one hundred and thirty closets
in tier, and put q roof over the top
tier. want to put up q house that viii
contain enough closets to satisfy my
wife," But the architect, who was
man of broad experience, told him he
WOULD have to put q thousand closets in
q tier and make the edifice six stories
high, and then his wife would say when
completed that there wasn't q closet in
the house big enough for cat to turn
round in.-Burlington Ha,okeye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
A Summary Of Important Events.

THE Ohio Prohibitionists convened at
Columbus on the 4th Endorsed the State
ticket recently nominated at LOveland.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

Bishop HAVEN, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at Salem, Oregon,
on the 1st, after brief illness. He was six
ty wears of age
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

THE Land League will hold a National
Convention in Dublin on the 18th OF Sep.
TENDER, "to consider the best means Of OBJ
tanning Irish land for Irishmen."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

THE public debt statement for August
] shows reduction in the debt for July OF
S10,07s, OPS; outstanding bonds, 81 ,62l, ILL.,
600: legal tenders, 50, 1884, OILS; debt, less cash
in Treasury, 81 $3.50, 500, 7SS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12
State and District Fairs.

The following list of State and other Fairs
is complete as far as announced up to q re-
cent date:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

The City of Brooklyn, having post
poned its Fourth of July celebration ON ac-
count of the attempted assassination of the
President, had a grand gala day on the 18th
of August, as token of rejoicing for the
PreSident,s conyaleScence
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

The Commissioner of Agriculture has
appointed Commission, consisting Of Prof.
Hilyard (colored), eX-Gov. Famaso, of Ne
braska, and T. C. Jones, of Ohio, to visit the
arid regions of the West and investigate
whether they can be made to have any mar
ketable yalue
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

The Kentucky State election, held on
the LIST, resulted in the reelection of j. W.
Tate as Treasurer without opposition, and
j. H. Lewis. Appellate Judge, by large
majority. The election, except in few
places, was a quiet one, and a small vote was
polled. Returns show Republican gains in
both Senators and Representatives.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the LIST
says Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Up
ton has returned to his desk in the Depart
ment. He will not, it is now understood,
be removed from his place; nor will Mr..
Lamphere
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

SHEIK MARMoUD, arrested by the
French Consul, and upon whose person were
found documents showing the existence of
vast Moslem conspiracy against the French
in Africa, has been taken aboard French
man-of-war and will be sent to France
charged with conspiracy against the public
peace in Algeria
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

Oatmeal water is healthier than
ice-water.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-12

In the House of Commons, on the LIST,
Parnell was ''named" for offensive language
and for disregarding the authority Of the
Chair, and Gladstone moved his suspension
for the remainder Of the sitting. Parnell
rose and interrupted Gladstone, and said he
would not 60 through the farce of awaiting
the vote. as the Speaker interfered with the
freedom of discussion. He then quilted the
House. The motion for his suspension was
carried-173 to IA.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13

told him we rarely gave an encore uut
as this was an extraordinary occasion ne
shonld have one. He applauded lioeral'
ly at times where no applause was ue
served. At such times called ms at,
tention to the omission, anu ASKED
whether on reflection he did nol rea"y
think that he had made mistake. A
hint was sufficient. He would clap ms
hands as though perfectly enchanteu
and shout Bravo like an Italian over
Salyini The company paid no attention
10 him. but went on with the perform.
ance as regular as clock work. Between
the acts, however, one or two oil theh
evinced disposition to 80 gu. IN Wv. 't,e
auditorium and mingle with ths
audience. | set my face against IL anu
they RETAINED. AT the close OF the
second act the manager eh'ereu tie
theatre. He had been out Tor a walk.
He seemed DUN bounded at seeing the
bouse brilliantly lighted and the
orchestra playing soberly TO one man.
"But he was the more astonished when
the curtain arose and the performance
was resumed with as much unconcern
as though there were q thousand doi-
lars in the house. But he had an eye
TO business. He sent word to the news
paper reporters, and half a dozen ar
rived in time for the last act. No actor
received better newspaper criticisms.
Some of them were over a column long
II turned out that the audience was the
owner OF copper mine in Michigan ana
yery wealthy. On the following night
he gave the whole party banquet at
the leading hotel. He entertained us
as handsomely rs we had entertained
him, and We parted with mutual regrets.
Just year alter ! announced another
matinee at Columbus. 1t was well adj
vertised and the house was packed 10
sufFocation, ! took in over 81 200.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13
The Earthquake in Italy.

iTOlu VIZ LulhpA -'S"S'
Down the steep road came old and
Young men, laden with such OF Their
household goods as they have saved,
chiefly bedding. Their woe-hegone
faces showed traces OF night spent IN
tears. Then came little hand.cart,
filed with dusty and tumbled clothes,
from under which protruded a pair OF
booted feet, telling OF the sad burden
there hidden. Opposite ruined houses
we're encamped their occupants, or In
the orchards and gardens You saw I'M
proyised tents. On the roadside was
bed made on the ground, and tented
over with shawls and other garments as
warmly as possible, for beneath lay
sick persons. Groups OF young girls
wandered about, weeping; but all the
people were very quiet and As II stunned,
and only when some sad burden was
carried past did their voices rise In
lamentable explanations. Before We
reached the piazza We came upon
group of houses fallen in one heap OF
ruin across the street, so that We had to
climb over hill of rubbish. Here the
soldiers were at work digging. Alas f!
they could hope to find no living person
under those crushing masses OF mason
ry. ,
In the piazza two men sat on the
doorstep of their houses, their arms
folded on their knees, their heads bent
in dumb despair, terrible to see. A
women, weeping, told me that the wife
and mother lay buried in the ruins OF
the house behind them. In the middle
of the piazza sat an officer taking notes
of the most destitute cases. A poor
ragged woman, Gushed with crying,
was telling her sad story, and group OF
silent and sympathizing listeners stood
close around. The silence in the usual.
" vOluble Italians was very impressive.
Soldiers were being ordered oil IN parties
10 various points to eXcavate. Then
two boards were carried past. On them
were the hattened and dust-cOvered
forms of a woman and little girl, just
dug out. Three or four men passed me
carrying and supporting in 4 chair an
elderly woman with,crushed and bound.
upface. She was speaking, and her bearers
tenderly told her not to be afraid. This
was about 8 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The earthquake had happened at ex-
actly five minutes past | on the DAY
before, as the great clock Of CasamacciOla,
which had stopped, proved. The poor
woman had therefore lain buried alive
twenty.six hours, with what agony of
mind and body through the long dark
night and following morning one can
happily scarcely imagine.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13
MAKING THE MOST OF TIE
HORSE.
What Can bC Got out OF an
Equine After His Race Is
Ran

sweat &C. A4,rgau.
In France, wL,n horse has reached
t&r a.e OF tScn'v or Thirty, it is deStln-
I'll scr 4 clsujcai factory; il is first re-
Tsyyl ciits hair, which serves 10 stuh
cushions snl saddles; then it is slauSh-
;crrd snj skinned; the kOOfs serve TO
NIKE camhs. Next the carcass is placed
IN cylinder and cooked Ivy steam at a
Y.e'sUIr ui three atmosphere; a cock is
~ nod. which SLOWS tie grease to Ire
rlH or; then the remains are cut up,
- igg bones are s,ll 10 make knife
h,IC.'s. etc Snl the cCarser, the ribs,
the L..t, Dtc Sro converted into animal
black AMI glue. Tie first are cGlcincd
in cylinders, and the vapors when con-
isGSgd iNTl the chief source OF clrbon-
al %! ammonia, which constitutes the
G.S' of yearly all ammOniaCal salts.
There il an animal oil yielded which
mSSCS capital insecticiie and q vermi-
iUgc. To make glue the bones are dis
solved in muris;ic acid, which takes
away the phosphate Of lime, the soft
srsitue. retaining the shape Of the bone,
u dissolved in boiling water, cast into
squares, AMI dried on nets. The phos.
phate 81 lime, acted upon by sulphuric
ac'd and Calcined with carbon, produces
Phosphorus for lrc;ie- matches The
remaining tlrsh is distilled 20 obtain the
carbonate ii ammonia: the resulting
mass Is pounded M with potash, then
mixed with old nails and old iron OF
every description; the whole Is calcincd
and Yields magnificent yellow crystals
prussiate Of potash, with which tissues
are dyed PruSsian blue, and iron trans.
ierred into steel; it also forms the basis
OF cyanide OF potassium and prussic
scld, the two most terrible poisons
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13
.JACKsoS's B0YnoOD.

Stoucwall Jackson was born in Clarks-
burg, on the Mouongahela, not over
forty miles in straight line from the
birth place of James G.. Blaine. Jack
sen was brought up 10y an uncle nprob-
ably the most Inaccessible part OF all
West Virginia, about half way between
Charleston and C'arkSburg As the
Traveller passes over the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad he will %; his dinner ut a
station called Hawks Nest. Nobody
knows who passes here that in the I'M
mediate vicinity lies the body OF Stone
wall JacksOn's mother. She married
again after having had four children by
first husband. and her second hus-
hand, whose name was WOOdSon, VAS
clerk IL this mountain court on the
New river. She lived with her second
husband only one year, and died from
The results 81 having her first child by
him. Young Jackson, the future stone
wall, Was then Oaiy seven years Old,and
Was brought across the Wild mountains
10 ser his mother die. His father, q
y.ry common man, had passed away
long before. Many cf the family emf
grated tO iCdi3na, and plenty OF the
jackson blood persisted for the Union.
Jackson was brought up by slave
holder, rough mountainecr uncle, who
gni him TO ride in the drunken races
;Ity held in these Will settlements, and
whatever the SuhsCquJn. virtues Of the
man he WSs legitimate zion OF the slave
institution, and his uncle Was a hard
task .rysS'Pr
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13
Grateful Women.

None receive So much benefit, and
none are SO profoundly grateful and
SHOW such an interest in recommending
Hop Bitters as women. 1t il the only
remedy peculiarly adapted 10 the many
Ills the sex is almost universally subject
to. Chills and fever, Indigestion or
derangCd liver, constant or periodical
sick headaches, weakness in the back or
kidneys, pain in the shoulders and dill.
ferent parts of the body, a feeling oi
lassitude and despondcncv, ar all
readily removed by these BitterS.
Laughlin, Bros. & Co., wholesale agents,
Wheeling
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-13

When you visit or leave New York
City, save baggage, expressage and car
rage hire, and stop at the Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot.
40 rooms, fitted up at cost OF one mil
lion dollars, reduced to 81 and upwards
per day. European plan. Elevator.
Restaurant supplied with the best;
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to all depots. Families can live better
for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other first class hotel
i'm the CITY,