New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19

cred with white CLOTH The woman sobbed most BIT
tery and the of distress realistic that tht
handing the woman goodly amount Of money in ordo
to enable her to defay the expenses OF the burial Thej
her handkerchief and it flashed her memory that
she dropped 1t in the death chamber She returned and
corpse healthy looking man. sitting erect In OF
the chairs and was assisting his wife in counting tho
money that had been given for the burial.
George Holgate, manufacturer Of explosive
machines in Philadelphia, has been interviewed about
his business reporter Of The Record He says thai
from the description OF the effect Of the explosion OF
the internal machine under the Government Office In
London, he feels confident that it caused by Z
power much greater and destructive than dyna-
mite Mr.. HOgate, who makes secret of the busneg
in which he Is engaged has probably made infer
nal machines than any other man in this country
Within the past six weeks he has constructed four ex
plosve machines and sold them to parties in this city,
Each cOntrvance be placed in cigar box, and pos
sesses an explosive equal TO 800 pounds OF gun
powder He has also constructed and sold two burning
machines which can set any number OF hours ane
when sprung create flame equal 10 hundred gas jet
and intensity of heat equal to thousand such jets
81 know nothing" said he, "Of the to which ms
machines put no more ask man when he buy
whether he proposes to blow up Car or set fire &c
palace, any more than gunsmith SKIS his customers
whether they about to commit murder or match mer
chant II his purchaser about to become ncen
diary. make the machines for those who want Them
proper TO assassinate statesmen with knives but
would not have the cutlery business stopped because bad
make improper of the dagger. If the Nihllss
in earnest If they possess half the courage they
credited with, they VIII be supreme III few years. &
not believe that the Car viii be crowned"
Ever since General Francis A. Walker, in his
Statistical Atlas Of the United States, included the ter
rtory formerly known oregon in the region acquired
through the socaed louisiana purchase OF 1903 he h
been made "the object OF reproachful letters through
the mails and Of objurgatory notes and appendices in
magazine articles and school histories" Though by Nc
means convinced that he wrong, h las been fOi
time willing out OF pure wearir s Of soul and
for the sake OF peace to confess that Oregon dscOy
cred by Jason, settled by Dido, conquered by Tanner
lane and acquired by the United States at the peace OF
Westphaa, I'm the administration Of James X. Polk"
But his courage and endurance have lately been fortified
aud In letter to the editor Of The Nation, after &c
count Of the tribuations noted above, he turns the
tables on his critics He has lately examined the map
of the Louisiana Purchase given by NJ. BarbeMarbois
the negotatOr the part Of France OF the treaty OF
1903 N his Historic dc Louisiana, published in 1929;
and 10 and behold upon that map with all the emphatic
disnctness of body color and printers ink, appeart
the precise duplicate of General Walkers boundaries
" A man OF temper" adds General Walker. Knight ask
II NJ BarDe Al0rbOis didn't know the extent OF tina
Louisiana which he kindly ceGe, and the effect OF tina
cessiOn, who ddi But the spirit OF sefassertoD ha
been too far broken within by past suffering TO al
low 10 adduce even VI. BaTbe-Marbois as authority
this subject, against the secOnsttuted guarillh
OF American history"