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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
AsIeep on an Enains.

English papers relate how the signal
man at Llandudn0 saved the Irish mail
passengers from what might have
proved a terrible fate. The signal man
at the JUNCTION received message from
the signal man at Conway, the next
station toward Holyhead, that a light
engine was coming. The junction sig
nal man, knowing that the Irish mail
was due, decided to run the engine
into siding in order to permit the ex-
press to pass. He accordingly put up
all the signals against the light engine,
but to his extreme astonishment the
engine came straight into the junction
at full speed, swept round the corner,
dashing past all the danger signals and
disappeared from view down the line
toward Chester. A moments ref1ec-
ton convinced the signal man that
both driver and stoker must be asleep.
He accordingly wired to the Colwyn
Bay station signal man: Engine
coming; driver asleep; put fog signals
on line" The man at Colwyn Bay was
equally prompt, for, running out of his
box, he had hardly time to lay num-
Der Of signals when the engine came
laundering along and an explosion
followed which effectually awoke the
men. The engine was stopped and
run back into siding, when it was
discovered that the ire had gone out,
that the water had disappeared from
the boiler and that the men had been
asleep some time. Inquiry resulted in
their immediate discharge. They had
been fifteen hours on duty.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
The Chinese Army.

China maintains three armies of
operation, so-called, having strength
of 10000 to 10000 men each, and sta
toned as follows: The first on the
Russo -Mantchoorian frontier the sec
ond on the western highroads, leading
to and from Turkestan; and the third
in the vicinity of Peking, for the spe-
cial defense of the capital, for which
purpose the excellent communications
by rivers and canals facilitate an easy
and rapid concentration. Beside these
three corps for active operations, a
fourth army of some 10000 men is
distributed in all the principal ports
along the sea-coast, the central prov
ince of Tchili being again supplied
with the strongest garrisons. While
the strength of the former Chinese
army was estimated at more than a
million men, the effective strength Of
the present force is only about SOC, 900,
but Notwithstanding this great reduc-
tion the appropriations for support,
equipment and armament have re-
NAMED the same.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
Notes Of a Naturalist.

A black cat lay stretched upon a
lawn, asleep. A swallow swooped
down over the cat. just grazing its fur
Another followed, waking it up. A
third flew little higher, and enticed
the cat into making half spring.
Two other swallows passed over, each
going still higher as they neared the
cat, which sprang eAcItedly after them.
The FIVE birds then swiftly circled
round; each in tura flew over the ami
NAL, but carefully kept out of reach of
her claws.
The tantalized cat bobbed up and
down, as a jig saw does, for some time,
but at last lay exhausted on the grass.
The mischievous swallows sailed away,
to find some other subject for their
practical Jokes.
While a Long Islander was at his
dinner table hornet kept buzzing
around his face, alarming him and
amusing his family After dinner the
man stood in the doorway looking out
on the garden, when he felt something
tickling the back of his neck. He
thought it was his wife, using broom
splint to make him believe hornet
was there. He threw his hand quickly
around and caught it. It was not the
broom splint-mud relieves the pain
Of a hcrnet's sting.
| The way of hornet in catching and
packing fly is interesting. A fly is
resting on something, and the hornet
darts for him. If he misses his aim he
does not follow that fly, but hunts for
another. When he has caught one. In
less time than it takes to describe his
motions, he win alight with 1t. tear off
head, wings and ieet, knead it into a
ball, and fly of, to deposit 1t in thenest
for next years young.-Neso York
Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
cancsIina Stamps.

In the top story Of the treasury de-
partment, Washington. is alargeroom
occupied during Office hours by about
fifty ladies, temporary employees Of the
bureau Of engraving and printing.
These ladies are engaged in canceling
tie internal revenue stamps printed
on bank checks. 1t will be remem-
bered that the internal revenue law
passed last winter abolished the stamp
tax on bank checks. Many of the
banks have their own checks and
drafts with stamps printed on them
These are made into books, some Of
which are gotten up in very elabor-
ate style. Most Of these banks do not
care to lose the checks, and. as the
stamps are now worthless, the depart
ment has, in many instances, been re-
duested to return the check books tC
the respective banks, after the stamps
have been Cancelled, and the amoun-
of rebate noted. The government is
not compelled to do this, yet, as an ac
commodation, it is done. The number
Of stamps in each book is first counted
by an expert from the bureau Of eni
craving and printing, and an account
thereof taken. The books are ther
passed to the ladies at the long tables
who, with small hand stamp, prin
the word 4 Cancelled across the fac
Of the stamp. and the book ofchecks 1
ready to 60 back to the bank fxon
! whence it came.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
A TOWN GARDEN.

A plot of ground-the merest scrap
Deep, like dry, forgotten we'll,
A garden caught in a bIick-built trap.
Where men make money, buy and sell;
And struggling through the stagnant haze
Dim flowers, with sapless leaf and stem,
Look up with something of the gaze
That homesick eyes have cast on them.
There is a rose against the wall,
With scanty, -incrusted leaves;
Fair showers on happier roses fall
On this, foul droppings from the ewes.
It pines, but you need hardly note;
1t dies by inches in the gloom;
Shoots in the springtime, as if by rote;
Long has forgotten to dream of bloom.
The poorest blossom, and it were classed
With color and name-put never flower !!
II blooms with the roses whose bloom is
ras.,
Of every hue and place and Lour.
They live before me as look
The damask buds that breathe and glow,
Pink wild roses, down by a brook,
Lavish clusters of airy snow.
Could one transplant you-far on high
A murky sunset lights the tiles
Andset you meath the arching sky,
In the green country, many miles,
Would you strike deep and suck up strength,
Washed with rain and hung with pearls,
Cling to the tre,Iis, leafy Length,
Sweet with blossom for June and girls?
Yet mol Who needs you in those bowers
Who prizes gifts that all can give !?
3 Bestow your life instead of flowers.
nd slowly die tia dreams may live.
soon >ed and perishing, your dole
Will ren--ering leaves shall not be vain
-The Knlaathe the hemlosk bowl,
Pl al ,,..sSf al out the cross of pain
.-Margaret Veley, IN Harper.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
WOODBURY., w.. THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 1888
The Farmer and Farming.

| Every reasonable man knows that
on a prosperous agriculture depends
the wealth. the vigor and the virtue of
people. The farmers are in the
main the bulwarks of liberty and good
| government. Simple in habits, indus
trious, humble, dependent more upon
God than man; their sons grow up
manly and vigorous, and are not car
ried away with the fashions and
temptation of life. A dollar made
upon the farm by farmers boy is
very different sort of dollar from one
made in speculation or clerking in
store or travelling as drummer or
from fiye-dollar fee in justice court.
1t lasts longer and has more salid
ring. One Sunday suit is enough for a
farmers boy year or two, and one
hat, and one parasol and one pair Of
gloves will keep his sister or his
country sweetheart happy just as long.
There is freedom about farming that
no other occupation can boast. His
time is his own. He has no employer
and belongs to no man, and can come
and go when he pleases. The pure
air and water are his, and the sweet
south wind and the creeks and branches
and flowers that perfume the meadows
and fields. read the other day that
Jay Gould's son said that the old man
was going to take little trip
around the worll to look at it and,
if he liked it, he intended to buy it,
Well, of course, that was kind of a
joke, but Jay Gould, with al his
money. can't buy contentment nor
create one gushing spring like mine.
But still the farmer is long suffering
man. He gets no encouragement ex-
cept what nature gives him. He gets
less protection and consideration than
any other class. He makes a scanty
living by sweat and toll and gets a
power of advice. He tries cotton AMI
wheat and fruit and truck of all kinds,
and the editors keep telling him how
to get rich, and he keeps pegging away,
but can't. The editors know exactly
how to do it, and I wish some of 'em
would come out and show u.s. Farm
ing beats a saw-mill on paper, but
somehow it don't pan out in the
pocket.-BM Arp, in Atlanta Consti-
| hutton
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
How ideas Come.

A certain lawyer justifes his pet
hobby, which is carpenter work, not
merely by the healthy relaxation of
nervous tensions and exercise Of
muscle 1t brings him. but chiefly be-
cause he works out his legal problems,
plane in hand. Old law reading comes
back to him then, out Of the way prece-
dents recur to mind, the very text of
the law book is never SO clearly before
him as then. He has glimpse of the
volume aad the page, and the very
part Of the page on which is some
needed citation which he would other
wise have long to seek.
Nor is it only memory which works
when he is half engrossed with the af-
fairs of his hand;craft. Original
thoughts arise and ingenious devices;
clever combinations take shape of
themselves. The case works itself
out, and mental labor is only pleasur-
able exertion, just as his amateur
handiwork is. Hawthorne composed
walking. Musicians are seized with
ideas, and modern playwrights seize
upon others ideas, at the most unex-
pected moment. Business men have
been known to depend upon their
meditation at dead of night for sound
review of the present, and forecast on
which they base their plans When we
are hurried, we long for rest, to "think
over things" and decide nationally;
but, relieved from pressure, we "think
of nothing at all" Comes the moment
for action, we settle in three seconds
the confusion Of days, and, for good OF
i'll results, our plans are at last clear
What is needed is not time Nor will,
but rather the favorable moment when
there is harmony. Then, like the cleo
trio message, thought is swift and
sure. The idea which we have long
waited for arrives, not as the certain
result Of earnest thought, but as the
reward of thought, just as honorable
fame is the reward of noble deeds, but
not the certain result Of them.-BOSton
| Courier.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09

.This rain is fine for my corn CROP H
said Farmer Plowshare to his grocer
taking off his soft hat and wringing
the water out Of it into the coal-seut-
tie.
AZ suppose il is" replied the grocer,
Sokina as sour as cranberry tart;
abut what Is one mans meat Is an
other mans poison. It makes my corn
crop feel mighty uncomfortable! '
And then he limped over and took en-
other corn plaster out Of the show case
Statesman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09

The cost of keeping in first-class
style horse and carriage in New York
city is from $40 to sf5 a month. 1t
takes mint Of money torun Robert
Bonner's ITO horsepower stable.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
Total .1.s44. 1o2 s627. .7Os. .6s4 l82. sa5


The total number of hands employed
in all the industries in the census year
(18SO) was 2,738,S59; the aggregate
of wages paid was s947, ,953, ,795. and
total number of establishments is
given at 253,852. The statistics OF
iron and steel manufactures include
blast furnaces, bloomeries, forges, roll
ing mills, steel works, forge products
machinery, and finished and orna-
mental iron work of all kinds of lum-
Der, sawed, planed. turned, carved, sash,
doors and blinds brick and tile in
clude drain pipe and terra-cotta sta
tistics, and printing and publishing in
corporates lithographing. The follow
ing table exhibits the lsading industrie:
in order of annual value of products
Value annul Value p
Industries. PR lcts. rials US. d
Iron an esl. -. .s55l, SIS, loo ssls, 50 $50
Flour and grist mill
products. 505, 1885, ,712 al, ,545, ,225
L mber and wood. 407,715,963 2l5,9S6, ,ss332
Cotton and mixed
textiles ...... 277, 7,172,08j $50. .993, ,275
Woo'en goods ...... 271,s1j,746 1e6,6i0,75S
Mems and vomea's
c,otaing ......... al, ,55s,24 Iso, ,s22, 500
Gather, ham, SIS, etc 241, ,05S,230 177,Sz1. .175
b OTIS end shoss.... ). 207,3S7, SOB 122,542, ,745
Carriage sn smith
ing.e............. 1sa 41o,s7s g, so, ,g75
Tobaccos, 9 Co.,. 11s,610.16j IS, 3s4, ,4O7
Print ng aud pub
fishing -. ....... 97,f01,679 35,21e, 15l
Furniture and up
holstery. ........ e5,O0l,61S 100 500
Agricultural impe-
nelts. 68,640, ,486 81, ,531, ,fs0
Shipbujl7ing .... 36,s60.327 1878, ,35e
Brick, tile, etc. .... 3a,S6S, Isl 10,119, 53s
Total. .s8,284, ,527, ,2ss 81 o)5, 81 .97i
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09

More than three-fourths Of the pa
tients admitted to Bellevue hospital,
New York, are under the influence Of
liquor.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09

My son, deal with men who adver-
tise. You win never lose by it.-Ben
Fndnklin.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-08-09
Manufactures Of the UnIled States.

The census of 1880 makes the fol-
lowing showing:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
Aching Ladies.
London Truth


Chickens and champagne. indeed
l have note from a dramatic critic.
who discloses truly miserable state
OF afGirs. He says that scarcely a
week passes but an attempt is made to
get at him" in favor Of some ire
pressible and incompetent amateur
who considers herself a born genius.
and who has not Eesitated to engage a
London theater to show how utterly
incompetent she is to understand
Juliet, to read Pauline, or even to
look Lady Teazle. Society of certain
kind swarms just now with stage
struck girls and frisky matrons, deter.
mined to obtain fame with a rush.
and obstinately inclined to believe
that they can do in an hour what it
costs others years of labor to accom- i.
plish. They are surrounded by swarms
OF injudicious friends, who take thea.
tiers for them, pack The house. and
importune the critics as a favor to
waste their mornings ever the feeble
maunderlngs Of these hattered mai
dens or excitable grass widows. But
there Is some conscience even in crit
les. Irritated by loss of time, and
bored to death with pretentious
women. they occasionally tell the truth
IN the interests Of their employers and
the public, wkereupOn there is dis
nal howl in fashionable drawing
rooms, and the wretched critic is
Immediately ostracized. Acting ladies,
in my opinion, should be severely left
alone. There is no pleasing them or
their friends.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
CONGRESSMAN OCHILrREE.
His EndeaVOrs TO Draw His Sal
AIRY While in Default $4,000.
Specinl 10 Commerclnl Ga1eItn.


WASHINGTON, March 1O.-Repre-
sentative elect Ochiltree begins to be.
lieve there is something serious in the
action of the First Comptroller in
ordering the Treasurer to withhold
his salary until the judgments against
him now on record are satisfied. He
fled lengthy argument with Judge
Lawrence to day on the constitutional
rights of a Congressman to draw pay
whether he happens to be deiaulter
to the government or not. He has
heretofore asserted that the reports
of his being interfered with at the
Treasury Department we're all mons
sense, as the Sergeant-at-arms of the
House would pay him the same as he
did the other members. The Sergeant.
at Arms, however, does not care to
incur any risk of this sort, and 0chil-
tree has finally learned that the Treas.
urer of the United States is the Con-
gressional disbursing officer The
Solicitor of the Treasurer, before
whom an offer of compromise is pend.
ing, has not yet taken up 0chiltree's
case. lie is awaiting information
from Texas in the case, and is not
disposed to hurry matters.
The $500 which the Colonel claims
is all he has to offer is on deposit in
the department, but it is rather too
much below the $4,000 which the
courts have decided he owes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
RETURNED TO THE WORLD,
A Georgetown Nun RenOunees
the CIOister for the Vani-
lies of Society.
Washington. D. G. Special.


The convent situated at George
town, adjoining Washington, is agita-
ted over the disappearance of one OF
its nuns, who was known among her
companions as Sister Lorenzo. She
was the daughter Of a we'll to. do
citizen of Reading, Pa, and when
about nineteen years old, being dis
pleased with some iancied slight, she
left her home and entered the con-
vent as a cloister nun. Sister Lorenzo
speedily became a fayorite among the
young lady students, and for the past
nineteenyears has borne the reputation
OF being one of the best scholars and
quietest members of the institu-
tlon. A Pennsylvania Representative
visited her short time in company
with some lady acquaintance Of Sister
Lorenzo, and in the course Of the con-
versatlon the gentleman addressed her
by her given name. and asked her if
she was not tired Of convent life. She
blushed violently, but made no reply,
as she was accompanied by another
nun, in conformity with the rules Of
the establishment. A few days later
she received notice that her parents
had died and that their estate, worth
about 10000, was at her disposal.
This was too much for Sister Lorenzo,
and taking advantage of an opportunity
that presented itself she Effected
an escape from the convent. Her
absence was reported to the Superior,
who informed the scholars Of the
affair, but placed an injunction of Sc
crecy upon them. Sister Lorenzo,
before being admitted to the convent
as member OF the sisterhOOd, had
the reputation of being fond of dress
aud display, and her nineteen years of
confinement seems to have intensified
her hobby. The latest advices from
Reading are that the former mounds
ent of the cloister has resumed her
family name, donned a blonde wig,
purchased in Philadelphia the night
succeeding her fight from the convent
and is now reigning belle and pros
pective wife. Several unsuccessful
attempts have been made to induce
her to return to her cloister duties,
but she says in a recent letter that she
is out in the world again and that she
means to stay.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
BIniue's RooIt.

George Alfred Townsend in N. Y. Tribune.
A friend of Mr.. Blaine gave me
some inform alton about his new book
yesterday. He is writing it himself
without any Gmanuensis, beginning
after breakfast and working about
three hours daily at the composition;
he devotes some OF the remainder OF
the day TO library and documentary
research, and occasionally to personal
inquiries, lie has made a contract
with a New England publishing house,
and will issue the FIRST volume at the
close Of the first year or at the first OF
next 1t is 60 be history Ofthe gov,
eminent, aud movements in it. from
the beginning of Lincoln administra.
tion to tho end of Gar6eId's. He will
especially discuss the diplomatic tai.
ent OF this country in the various epi-
sodes from Franklin and Jefferson tc
our times, aud he is understood to pay
high compliment to Jeffersol's dip
lomatiC talent in playing off England
against France to acquire louisiana
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13

Sales yesterday, 1850 bales; to ex-
pOrters, 1900; to spinners, $50. The
market exhibited an improved tone
and buyers were active, though no
higher prices prevailed. Ruling figures
areas follows: LOwordinary, 7lc; good
ordinary, 8iC; low middiing, &c;
middliug, 9ac; good middling,
lOsc; middling fair, 1850. Stains
Good ordinary, &c; low mid.
ding, 8lc; middling, 89c. Tinges-
Middliug, SIC; good middling, 9bC.
The New York cotton market closed
firm but unchanged. Middling, 10
3-16o. Stock, 1884 bales. Futures
steady at / to 5points below Saturdays
closing figures.
The New Orleans market closed
steady and Lice higher. Middling, 8
ll-l6c, Stock, 332,6l6 bales. Futures
steady at very little change from Sat.
urday's close.
The Liverpool market closed un-
changed, Uplands, 5 9.16d; orleans,
5 11>l6d. Futures losed steady.
Total receipts Of cotton at all U. S.
ports for the past 3 days sum up
32,278 bales, and 1892 bales more
than for the same time last year. Total
since September LIST at all U. s. ports
5000, 1888 bales, and 973, 2O7 more than
last year, also 237,957 more than in
1881 ct the same date Total exports
this year, 3,418,0c4 bales; last year to
same date, 2, Ass, POS bales; year before,
1924, 055 bales. Total stocks, 900, 100
bales; last year, 946, 1859 bales; year
before, 897, 1893 bales.
The excess of supply of cotton
which had come into sight on the LIST
inst, according to the report of the
National Cotton Exchange, for the
first six months of the cotton year is
986,l18 bales over last year, and 1893, 937
bales over the year before. The total
movement is set down at $4,000
bales, against 4,6Ol,69l last year and
5,l2l, 705 the year before. This years
movement includes 496, 076 bales over
land to mills and to Canada direct, and
this movement is 98,l5l bales more
than last year and 1O3,824 in excess of
the year before. The takings Of
northern mills has been 1,245,283
bales, against l,243,47l last year and
| 1884, 500 the year before, The taking,
of northern mills after this date last
year was 435,ll0 bales, and the year
before 4l9,117 bales. The stocks in
U. s. ports were 97O,2l9 bales, and
l03, 574 bales less than last year at the
same date, and this years shipments
abroad have been nearly million
bales in excess Of last year, Receipts
at New Orleans are 27l,424 bales
ahead Of last season; Galveston is
296,5l2 ahead; Mobile, over $4,000
bales in excess; Charleston, $4,000
bales; Savannah, 81 1853 bales, and the
total excess of receipts at the ports is
859. 800 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
EASTERN DRY GOODS.
Driven Out of Market by south.
ern and Western ManuGae-
turers.
Baltimore Sun.


Representatives OF the dry goods
trade met on Thursday in New York
the executive committee of the trunk
railroad lines for the purpose Of ask
ing reduction on the freight rate of
domestic dry goods forming part Of
the Western bound traffic. 1t was
alleged that the shipments of Eastern
made standard sheetings to points west
of the lakes has almost entirely
ceased, although the demand for and
consumption of this article is very
large at the West, and that this change
is not entirely due to freight charges,
but largely so, Western and Southern
goods having virtually driven the
Eastern standard sheetings out of the
markets of Chicago and st. Louis. 1t
was thought that a reduction of one
per cent or even one halt of one per
cent in the cotton goods schedule
would be sufficient to change the
whole current of that trade between
the East and West and give the East
good chance to compete with the
West and South. With the West
it would be possible, but the South
has no many advantages in the way Of
cheapeDing the production of the
palmer kind of goods that no reduc-
ton in freight charges compatible
with a working profit to railroads will
give back to the East the trade she is
losing on these fabrics. In printed
goods aud the finer qualities of cotton
the East will maintain its ground for
some time yet.