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departments. Evidently he has not been
instructed. 81 visited the United States
ten years ago" he said last night
and the fire departments were
away behind the age. Since that time the
rest OF the world has far advanced; here
not single step onward has been made,
IN fact, | have noticed many evidences of a
decided retr0grade movement The Lon
don chief inveigled strongly against the in
tiuence OF politics in the service. The
best American fireman" seemed to be the
individual who had 1.-THE strongest pull on
the political string Looked ut from this
standpoint the American system was
simply rotten. A man had no need for
training here; it was of much more value to
have friend in power. He had heard
a great deal OF boasting, he said,
about the wonderfully trained frcmen
of New York, They had talked to
him loudly and long OF the magnif-
cent drill of the department. He had seen
1t all, and it all amounted to little exhi.
bition in harncsspd horses. And this Cap
tain Shaw serencly sat down upon as "ab-
surdly useless, you know" lit be of so
great importance to rush out to fire. why
not keep the horses continually harnessed
and at the carriage, and the men always
awake aud NJ their posts. He was conf
Ntllt llul lnlS would he cheaper. Captlln
Shaw also found fault with the uniforms of
the fremen in the cities OF the country. They
may be seryiCcablc, but they are not pretty.
American liremen ON duty look like carl.
Catures, remarked a visiting London man,
with an equally charming fraukness, de.
clarinG that these native tiremeu haven't
the taintest idea of the work to be done at a
fire, or the way to do it, lie was very sorry
he couldn't have them in London for n
while. lie had no doubt that in time they
could be so trained rs u compare fairly
with some OF his men. Captain Shaw has
discovered that there is terrible waste of
money on his side OF the ocean. "The truth
is he said, 1.-THE politicians and the makers
OF fire machines have been running
things their own way, and it looks
rs though they were going to keep rigl
along in the same track He had seen
ladders which he had been informed cost
$1,000. In his experience his department
never bought but one ladder that cost over
900. They couldn't afford to buy ladders
at such an enormous price. He was in the
habit of paying 500 for a fire engine: il
would be extravaganza to pay more. Here
he had seen machines costing from $4,000
to $4,000. The low priced English engines
he was certain were superior to the high
priced American ones The horse used
here is OF very inferior quality, and sold at
II ba ely eNtortlonate price. Captain Shaw
made merry at the prctentions Of Ameri.
can tiremcn. lie win return to his home
he admitted, better satisfied than ever with
London, her fire department and himself
New York Times.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-26

Tho cotton picking season has fairly
opened in this county and section, and
pickcrs are In demand at 70 cents per hun.
bred and board or 81 and the picker TO
board himself. Within the past few DAYS
there has been general exodus of the col.
ored people, men, women and children,
from the city to the country, to gather the
ileecy staple. A good picker can pick
about 800 pounds day, which is far better
than tho average daily wages they are
getting, Families now lind it difficult to
retain a cook or waSh.woman, and the re.
porter met in his rounds yesterday the
heads of numerous families who were hunt.
ing servants, A great deal of the labor
here went south carly In the season to pick
which has made demand for help here,
yet they are not getting rs good wages as
ARE paid here, The planters are better sat /.
isiied With the crop than they were before
they began picking, rs the staple has
panncd out much better than they antici.
pstcd before It began, which greatly en-.
coureges them. The great trouble Is tho
scarcity OF labor.
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The judge who presided in the recent,
trial of the star.routerS did so with such
ability and impNrtiality and SO plainly in.
dica ted that il the defendants were guilty
they should he punished irrespective OF
their influence or standing, that the crimi.
nails now want another Judge and want him
badly. Tho & lobe. Democrat, of st. Louis.
says; "rho defendants in the star.route
case are now concentrating their rnerpics
To have their next trial conducted under
some other judge than WyIE. II is to
be hoped that they will succeed in nothing
Of the Kind. To claim that they can not
have lair trial before him is all bosh A
fair trial is precisely what they are afraid
Of Wcmay expect u new siege of techni.
cal objections ON an indefinite number of
points There is no other limo OF policy
lett for tho counsel To adopt, and it will
proceed in the same old channels without
any manner Of doubt The talk of keeping
up appearances against such fearful odds
of public opinion, or public knowledge
rather, must have grown very wearisone
by this time, Justice can occasionally
tire this class of criminals OUT"
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TlE great iron-workers' strike closed
altor il had cost 100000, the men going
TO work, after AL their loss of time and
money, at the original wages, Such expc.
ricnces look like absurdities, and indeed
seem to demonstrate, by the repeated fail
ures, that relief for the laborcr must arise
from some other source than strikes. How.
over just the cause organized and large
bodies of capital, which government has
assisted 50 directly for long years, and con,
tinues to treat with partial favor, are toe
powerful for the poor laborors to break
down.
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TuE San Francisco Chronicle; "Thc FoRp
brothers, who trcacherously killed Jsssu
JAMES, are trying to make money out OF
thor criminal notoriety, After appearing
in several cheap variety theaterS in Chicago
thcy have now gone TO New York to
freeze the blood of the Bowery boy with
sanccs ought to be suppressed, for their in
iluoncc is more vicious than that of the
cbcap story papers and dime novels, bu,
there seems to be no way of reaching them,
In the case OF these Missouri rufians II
would be apleasing diversion to introduce
FRANK JAMES into the play, and lot him
settle the family ieud and remove thcs,
dcspcradoes ut ono and the same time"
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rnrnr is not sucn great danger after nj
Of our becoming absorbed or lost us nation,
In the influx Of foreign elements into our
country, though some good people manifest
much fear that this result may happen be.
fore long Births of pure American
blooded children even arc twenty.fold more
than the immigrants who come in, and the
Dutch still hold Holland, The following
figures on the subject may be of interest;
"rhc question regarding the degree of for.
cign mixture In our population is settled
by recent publication of the Census
Bureau. OF our fifty millions and
moro Of people in 1850, Great
Britain and Ireland can only claim
tho nativity Of 2,77s,i6o, and Germany Of
i.o8,7as, while Canada had given Ti1,osl;
Norway. iM,oS7; Sweden, ISL 10, France
ioo,o7i, aud China, iol ,5il. Thus no foreign
country could claim by nativity us much a,
cue-cighteen.h part Of tue population Of
s Amcrica, and all foreign countries com.
bined did not have as much as one In
sevcn."
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Revoked.

WASHINGTON, September 25.--As the re.
suit of emphatic protests against the ap.
pointment of Paul Strobach as marshal OF
Alabama, the president has suspended &c.
ton in the matter for short time at least
and Marshal Osborn will continue to hold
that Office until further notice. The ap.
pointment OF Collectors of Internal Rev
enuc Philip Joseph, Mobile, and William
Houngblood, Montgomery, have also been
revoked, and Morgan, of Mobile, and Ra.
pier, of Montgomery, have been reinstatcd
pending action in Strobach's case.
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MILWAUKEE, WIS, September 25.-Thc
common council held ameeting this after.
noon to consider the financial affairs of the
city. The comptroller claims that there is
Il shortage in the funds of nearly SIS 900
caused by over drafts, and Acknowledgement
on the part of former comptrollers
The comptroller, in his statement
Informed the council that he would ignore
any Gifts acts not in strict conformity to
law and the safety of the community. The
council did not act upon the matter, which
was left in its present shape, the comp
trollcr refusing to sign orders upon the ex.
hausted funds.
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Southern Winter Resorts

New YORK, September pa New Or
leans special to the Times says; The agent
who was sent by some Chicago railway Of
fetal to examine the practcability of
adopting the watering places along the Mis-
slppi sound between New Orleans and Mo.
bile as winter resorts for the people
of the north, returned last night prepared
to report in favor of Bay st. Louis, Pass
Christian, Biloxi and Ocean Springs for that
purpose. lie states that the Mississippi
sound watering places are far better adapted
for winter resorts than any section of the
United States
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New York September 25,--G. f. Gilmore
to-day opened the bids for iettv building
and dredging at WappD cut, South Caro-
lima. The Charleston Dredging company
bid Ii cents per yard for the first mile, Is
for the second mile, and 20 for the third
mile. For building the jetty in Brunswick
hnrhor, John c Provo I, i. T.. Walter and
William II Adams were the bidders. Wal.
ter also bid for dredging the same harbor
For the improvement of Nolusia bar
Florida, g. A. Dccott and /. 4. Cunning.
ham were the only bidders.
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PRESS NEWS.
Continued FROM Firs, Page.


BALTIMORE, September 25.-This morn
ing whilst the clerk of Weston. CASTOR &
Co., brokers, 13i west Baltimore street, was
cutting of the coupons of anumber OF
Columbia & Greenvile railroad bonds in
the cashiers room of the Bank of Balti-
more, two men entered the room, one OF
whom engaged the cashier in conversation
in reference to the purchase of Baltimore &
Ohio bonds, When through he started to
leave the room, and the other man seized
the package of bonds, containing Sl2,OOO
worth, aud the two ran down the stairs and
made their escape. 1t is not thought the
bonds will be negotiated as the banks and
brokers have been notified Throughout the
country,
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The work of repairing Bunker Hill monu.
ment, which had been going ON for six
weeks, was completed satisfactorily a few
days ago without accident of any kind.
When the examination which led to the
repairs was made, it was found that the
seams about the top of the monument had
been almost completely washed ont, and
the moss was growing in many of the GREY.
ices. IL the monument had been neglected
only. a short time longer it would have suf
iered irreparable injury from the action Of
FROST which had already begun to show its
effects around some orthe horizontal Joints,
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New York, September 26.-The Posts
cotton report says: Future deliveries
opened 800 to 4-l0O lower and lost 2-lO0 to
800, when the market assumed some
stcadiness and part of the decline was re-
covered The third cali exhibited a brisk
demand; September brought ll.S7; October,
II .lOdll so, November, ll3O December,
ll,2S; January, lL33; February, ll4i;
March, ll,5i(Gll So; April, ll.6l; June ll,S7.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-26

Tur storm which visited the Atlantic
coast of New Jersey, Delaware and Virginia,
on Saturday, seems for the short time il
lasted, to have been almost unprecedented
there in fury and amount Of rainfall Rail.
road bridges were swept away, tracks sub.
merged, cities Hooded and crops destroyed.
The floods of 1881 50 will long be remem-
bered throughout the whole country,
scarcely any section escaping,
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Nrw NoEE September 25.--This morning
shortly after S O'Clock while firing salute
ut Port Columbus, Governors Island, in
honor otthc French tugatc, Minerva, one
OF the guns was prematurely discharged,
ami priyatcs Whalcn and Mallov. who wcr,
serving the gun, were tcariully mOngled,
aud Crowlcs were also badly hurt The
former lost hand and the latter had his
arm blown or aud is not expected to live.
Corporal Grace had one hand burned badly
aud Corporal Irvine had both hands man
glrl
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The Turko-Greek AFFAIR settled

CoYsrANrINorLE, September 25,-Thc sui
tan has ordered the immediate surrender to
Greece of the whole frontier fixed by the
international commission. Representa-
tives here of the powers who, at the invita-
ton of Count Corti Italian ambassador,
Greek frontier question, dissolved their
meeting upon learning of the settlement of
the difficulty.
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4 Cyclone,

Two boys were playing in the sand to-
gcther last sum when one ofthem sud
denly asked; ~ Charley, do you know
what acycloue Not egzackly, Jim.
my-but 1t is suntnlng what mashes every.
thing all to nits." "oh, well, then know
what 1t isl exclaimed Jimmy, Frightening
up, "it is Swayne's Ointment, for my father
says that will smash the Intense itching at
night, and all sorts of humors, all to Hin.
ters" Sensible father that; and the boy
why, some time he may come within one
vote OF being chosen by the ople to GOV.
ern the affairs Of this great nation. Re.
member Swayne's Ointment.
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TnE scene in the Wilmington, Delaware,
Jail OF Saturday as reported in our Sun
days dispatches, where ten criminals were
publicly whipped, must have made the
blood o. the spectators boil, legal though
the act was, to see humanity so degraded.
II is a terrible punishment, but very salu-
tary one indeed.
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American Fire pcpartmcntn

Captain Il. NJ. Shaw, chief Of the fire do.
partment of London, arrived in this city
yesterday, bound hcmeward after an ex.
tended excursion through the southern and
western states. He visited nearly all the
prominent cities of the country. and paid
careful attention everywhere to:their FIRE
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CArTAIN MAYNG REID, the novelist, who
served as lieutenant in our war with Mexico
and who is now reported as being in Eng
land, his home in very poor circumstances,
is to receive q pension from the United
States of $3.50 per year. This is small
sum, but in the old world will help to make
ends meet wonderfully.
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A Total Wreck

NEw ORLEANS, September 25.-Captain
LEIGH, OF the steamship City of Dallas, from
Belize, Honduras, reports the British
steamship Mollard, from New York, Sep.
tember 9th, went ashore on the night of the
nth on the Chicuries, or Northern TRAN
giles. she became total wreck. The
crew we're saved and will come to New Or
leans in about ten days on the steam
shin Wanderer,
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Fanny Alexander, colored, who resides
some two milcs west of the city. sworc out
q warrant yesterday before Justice Price
for tho arrest Of her husband, charging him
with making an attempt TO take her life by
slasning At her with white.handled razor.
A warrant was issued aud placed In the
hands ofan officer for his arrest.
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ates 10 decide who should attempt to take
the life Of the emperor and that he in
tended TO throw the bomb into the garden
of Mirami Castle. The high court of
Venice has given sn opinion in the case of
the recent arrests; that the extradition of
asSassins shall take place if they conspire
against the life of the emperor Of Austria
on Italian territory.
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TuE Chinese laundries were driven from
o certain street in Nevada City and the
cclestlals quit washing. There were no
white men or women to take their place,
and the population of the town has become
as children again, dirty but happy.
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CINclNNArl, September 25.-Thc prison.
crs in the county Jail are allowed coal oil
lamps to read by at night. Last night the
lamp of Edward Leddons exploded while
he was asleep in bed, and he was covered
with the burning oil and burned so badly
that he will probably die. lie was confined
on a charge of attempted outrage on little
girl
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\ CHICAGO WIFE
Sho Follows Her Uniaithfui Lord to this
City, Captures Him and Takes Him
Hack

Sho Follows Her Uniaithful Lord to this
City Captures Him and Takes Him
Hack
There arrived in this city on Saturday
evenings south. bound train over the Texas
Central road, woman who took the bus
for the Revere house, on Elm street, where
she took a ROOM She registered as Mrs.
NJ, Lennon, Chicago, and sent out for
several shoemakers, and questioned each
one closely as to whether or not they knew
of II shoemaker in this city named c. Len
non. None of them knew of such a man,
and one of the number insisting
on knowing what her interview with
them meant, she stated that she had moth
ing to conceal. She was pursuing run
away husband who had after brief mar
rage deserted her III Chicago some eight
months or more ago, and learning through
u Chicago drummer that he was hanging
out III Dallas, she concluded to come on
and reclaim him. The last she saw of him
was one evening about dusk, at their home
In Chicago, when he attired himself in his
best rigging and told her that he was
going down town to he initiated in secret
order and that he was going to have his
life insured in her favor for $4,000, in case
of his death. She retired tattering herself
that she had such n tlattcring and kind
husband, but awoke the following morning
TO find him missing She feared that he
had been toully dealt with, and notified
the chief of police and the citizens secured
for him, but no trace ofhim could be found,
and his wife, who, at the time, never once
dreamed that he had deserted her ,mourned
him as dead until she met the louuacious
drummer who told her that her worse half
was still in the flesh and in excellent
health, when she came on to see him In
company with another woman she called
at the office of City Marshal Arnold ycster-
day morning to get him to assist her in
finding him, The truant one was found at
his laundry on Jackson street, near the
Santa Fee railroad. She stepped
in the laundry before he saw
her. and when hc looked
up he stood stock still. lie was paraIy2ed
what made you leave me2o she Nsked
After hcsitating u few moments he re-
spondcd in u tremulous voice, 81 don't
know, God knows don'l know what pos
sesSed me. All can do is to beg your for
giycncsS." They went to the hotel where
She was stopping, and last evening they
lett on the north-bouud train for Chicago.
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In is actually reported as fact that there
is an Ohio paper which has run up the
name ofSrrAREr KErrER for the presidency.
The fearful and wonderful character of the
Ohio man Is diplaying new features daily.
The sublime conception which the editor of
the aforesaid paper has Of the presidency is
better imagined than described,
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a,young woman who resides in that part of
the county known as Devils Neck The
attempt was made some two months AGO
but Darr succeeded in GLIDING the officers
W. to the date of his capture, which was
Friday The matter has been Rent yerv
quiet, and until recently no one knew of t
but the officers, 1t is charged that Darr
chloroiormed her in order to accomplish
his purpose, but that he failed in his HE.
nous efforts. He is in the county jail.
PLANTERS HOUSE,
ST. LOUIS. MO,
STRICTLY FIRST-CLhSS, S3 PER nay
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ROME September 25,--At u consistory
held to-day, Monsigueur Cyaki, papal num-
clio at paris,and MonSigneur Ahraurhi, man.
clio at Madrid, were created cardinals. The
pope also prcCanoniZcd one English and sew
oral French bishops, and appointed mum.
Der of prelates to secs in America and
OCeaniCA,
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Alleged A,,empt ia OUTRAGE.

Constable Haddock, Of precinct No. 8,
brought in as prisoner, Sunday evening,
Frank barr, whom he had arrested on a
warrant charging him with attempting "a
outrage the person Of Addie Weatherford
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Justice, q, administered in the petty
courts of England, is rigorous, IL the Of
fender is poor and friendless. Two reputa.
Bile laborers stole handful of oats from a
field TO feed their hungry donkey, aud a
magistrate sent them to prison for two
months
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WHILE the metropolitan papers and
members of the New York Associated Press
arc wonderfully exercised, as our volumi-
nous reports of the matter for two issues
now indicate, over the possibility of Mn.
JAY GouIp getting ahold of the Associated
Press and the news of the country, the sub
iect is of but little interest to us down here,
as whoever may manage the machinery
may be depended on to give the public the
news of any Importance pretty much AS it
has been sent ont heretofore. The contro.
yersy will be an interesting one as showing
tho relative power of the contestants only
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a Mining Disaster

CUMBERLAND, Mp, September 25.-The
heavy fall of the roof of coal mine occur
red this morning in the kingsland mine of
the Cumberland coal company, at Lonac-
Oning. -Four miners, including the mine
boss, VIM. Byas, are known to be underthe
coal. The dead body of James Brehaney
has been brought out Louis Cook and au-
other miner have been brought up in dy-
ing condition.
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rue Pan Mall Gazette points out very
decided advantage that would flow to Eu.
rope and the new world from the occu.
pancy ofAEypI Ivy England that has been
so far overlooked by tho public. The Suez
canal and the Nile region are and have
bcen always, each during its existence, the
gatcways through which the eastern
or Asialc cholera has travelled in
lbs westward march. The presence
of England There rs II power, there.
lore, would operate undoubtedly az a
great barrier to this scourgc, hy the enforce.
ment of sanitary regulations of which the
miserable eastern governments know OF
care nothing, There is sound sense in the
Gazctte's views.
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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1889

MATT ADAMS, of Kentucky, after much
fear and trouble, has at last succeeded in
obtaining the nomination for congress again
in his old district.
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Marine,

BcsroS, September 95,-Arrivcd, City of
Columbus.
NV ioHH, September 2S.--Arrivcd, Ser
via. Arrived out, Nora. Homcward, Lin.
coin, Orleans, Mark Twain, Galveston.
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Death of AN Old Journal,st.

LOUISVILLE, September 25,-Iesterday ].
u, Osborne, surviving partner of the old
newspaper firm of Prentice, Henderson 4
Osborne, of the original Louisville journal,
died suddenly Of heart disease, aged O..