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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
A BAD BLOW.

Congressman Arnot, of EIIniras N. Y.
Knocked out and Badly Punished in One,
Round by an Explosion of Gas i'll the
Vault of His Bank-His Injuries Thought
to be.Serious.
ELMIRA n. Y, October 20.
This city was thrown into excitement
this morning by the report that John
Arnot, millionaire banker and the pres
emit member of Congress from this dis
trict, had been killed by gas explosion
in his bank. A great crowd Of excited
citizens hurried to the scene, and soon
the building was surrounded.
About nine O'Clock this morning those
living in the vicinity of the bank were
start ed by loud explosion. Nearly
ever window in the building was shat
tered by the conclusion, while in some
instances the window sashes We're blown
out. A subsequent examination showed
the doors of the vaults twisted ard
broken, the locks torn off and other dam
age done in various parts of the bank, so
fearful was the force of the explosion.
At the time of the accident there were
in the ank Congressman Arno6 and sew
eral clerks. Arnot had gone into the
vault to open the inside sale preliminary
to commencing the days business. It
seems the gas had not been turned off
Saturday, and had been pouring into the
vault from the time the bank Closed that
day until this morning. eArnYt struck q
match to enable him to see. Almost in
stautly there was terrific explosion.
Arnot was hurled from the vault ten feet
and struck against the Cashiers desk at
the opposite side of the room. When
picked up he was almost unreeogniZable4
h is clothes were torn from his body; his
face burned and blackened, and his whis-
kers and hair completely burned off,
But strange to say, he still retained con-
seriousness.
The first one to approach him was one
of the clerks, to whom Arnot said there
was no need of sending for doctor. A
doctor was sent for, however, and .Arnot
was carried into the private Office. The
doctor soon arrived and made 8 superb
cial examination. He found no serious
injuries, but expressed the fear that Ar"
not had received internal injuries; also
| that he would lose the sight OF one, If not
of both eyes, He was taken home, and
the results of further examination are
| anXiousiy awaited.
He is one of the most poplar and re-
spected men in the city, and much SYM
patty is felt for him. He was to have
entertained ex-Speaker Randall, who
speaks here tonight.
This afternoon Congressman Arnot is
resting quietly under the influence of
opiates. 1t has been found that his in
| iuries are much more serious than at
first stated. His physicians. say that II
he rallies from the shock they have NO
| ffh ;c Tn rncOVaFv
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Daily Patriot, new paper made its
arst appearance at Helena, Ark, on the
Goth.
A LocKPoRT, N. Y, bank is in trouble,
which it is hoped will be remedied soon.
HARDEE LAMBERT killed Chas. Brooks,
near Brinklsy, Ark, on the Goth, by cut
ting him with butcher knife. Both were
railroad men.
JAS. NJ. ANDERSON, a prominent citizen
of Canton, Miss, died at his home on the
10Th.
WATER is so scarce in the Shenandoah
Valley that people have to be supplied
from railroad tanks. All the factories have
been compelled to shut down. No rain in
Central Georgia in over two months.
A BOILER exploded at Columbus, Miss,
on the 21st, killing one negro and seriously
iniuring another.
A LONDON paper says there is a female
firm Of architects doing fourishing bust
ness in that city.
J.R. DORSEY, postmaster at Alpine, Ga.
and woman named Jane Wade, were
hanged by mob ON the same rope at
Center, Ala, on the 21st, for the murder Of
Mrs. Mary Davis and G. G. Jones.
THE State Fair at jackson, Miss, prom.
ises a creditable display in all the de-
partments.
RECENT dispatches assert that the Garth
age fire on the Goth, was the most disas>
Erous that ever visited northern New York,
$50 dwellings, besides churches, were COM
pletely destroyed.
THREE thousand persons visited the
State Fair at Jackson, Miss, on the 22d.
THE dead body of an old man name
unknown, was fonnd near Helena, Ark,
on the 22d.
SARAH BERNHARDT, has gone to the sea
side in search of health.
THE bicycle is being successfully intro
duced in Memphis.
AN attempt was made on the 21st, near
Galesburg, ILL.,, to wreck the train convey
ing Gen. Logan and party, by laying logs
across the track.
THE people Of Georgia and Alabama
were made happy by copious rain on the
23d. The first since August 4th.
WHILE the train was returning from the
Democratic barbecue at Peru, ILL.,, woman
crazed with whiskey drew long knife and
cut and slashed all within her reach, after
wounding several men she was overpower-
ed and secured.
THE well known banking house of Il. d.
Cooke s. CO., of Washington, suspended
payment on the 23d.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01

BY the suspension of work at Jne pip
mills at Allentown, Pa, 800 men are
thrown out of employment.
On the goth the comet recently discov-
cred by Prof. Wolf at Heidelberg, and by
Prof. Copeland in England, was observed
at Alexandria, Egypt, as nebulous body,
condensed in the center and tailless.
In his monthly report the Chief of the
Bureau of Statitics says the value of ex-
ports of bre adstuffs during the month Of
September aggregated $45, 4}1, 193 The
value of exports of breadstffs during the
past nine months amounted to $3.50, 43O, 5l4.
INFORMATION has been received by tho
Marine Hospital Bureau that the paper
manufacturers are now shipping waste pa
per from England. There is no opposi-
ton or objection to the landing on Ameri-
can shores Of waste paper from non-lnfect-
ed ports.
On the 22d the visible supply of wheat
was SO. 595, 600 bushels; corn, $3.50, 0C0
bushels; oats, 4,125,0O0 bushels.
The larger bottle manufacturers are ac-
cused of cutting prices to freeze the little
| concerns out of business.
THE Belgian Ministers have placed their
| designations in the hands of the Prime
Minister.
On the 21st the Burlington Road knocked
the bottom out of passenger fares, and
| tickets were selling for one dollar to Mis-
souri, River points from Peoria, Ill.
On the ed the National Convention Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
met in st. Louis, No., the sessions being
| held in the United Presby terrain Church.
The Chinese continue to march troops
| into Tonquin, and the French Government
| is apparently undecided as to what course
to pursue.
SEVERAL of the coal mines along the
Monongahela River, in Pennsylvania, re-
sumed operations on the ODD.
AT Butler, Pa, the Phillips Oil Well No.
Q, struck richer streak in the sand on the
| 21st, and was flowing at the rate of TWEEN
ty-fve hundred barrels a day.
! THE report OF the Lighthouse Board
| relative to the recent electric light expert
ments at He'll Gate announces them per-
fectly satisfactory. They, however, be-
lieye that two additional lights will be
necessary to render navigation as safe by
night as by daylight.
THE cashier of the California Bank
states that the reports that that institution
| is seriously injured by the failure of Ar
| thur W. Bowman, capitalist, are ground
less. Tue latter's liabilities are $T71, 900.
The German and French Governments
have acceded to the proposal of Earl Gran
vile to limit the work of the Congo Con-
| ference to the settlement of the Congo
question.
THERE has been scarcely any rain around
Washington for three months. At Allan
ia, Ga, they have had no rain for two
months. Drought has been general in the
| South Atlantic States.
THE cholera epidemic in Italy is aba
ing. During twenty -four hours ended sthe
2Ist only ninety six fresh cases and thir'
| ty five deaths were reported, which is a
| marked decrease as compared with the
records of the previous week.
TIE Philadelphia, Wilmington & tBalti'
more Railway Company fileo an answer
on tne 2lst to the injunction of the Balti'
| more & Ohio in reference to it's refusal to
carry the cars Of the latter line.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
A NOTABLE WOMAN.
Death of Mrs. Mary BIackburn-M Morris, a.
Lady Prominently Identified With the
HLost Cause.''
an asylum


Lady Prominently identified With the
0Lost Cause"
LOUISVILLE KY, October 20.
Mary Blackburn Morris, wife of the late
Judge Buckner Morris, of Chicago, and
the sister of Ex-Governor Luke p. Black
burn and Senator j. C. S. Blackburn, died
at the Blackburn Sanitarfum yesterday,
after long and painful illness. Mrs.
Morris was one of the most remarkable
w men of her time, and was known all
over Kentucky and the South. she was
famous ex-COnfederate who assisted III
the attempt to Hibernate the Camp Doug
lass prisoners. She had passed her sixty
fifth birthday, and her long life was filled
with continued and earnest work. She
married Judge Morris, who had gone
fro Kentucky 10 Chicago and was the
first man to engage iii the practice u law
in that place, and was also the nrst
Mayor of that city. He became one OF
the leading men in the State
Mrs. Morris was warmly Southern IN
her sentiments during the war, ana
scarcely had Camp Douglass been con-
yerted into prison for captured Ccnfed-
crates before she manifested her deVo~
ton in he most practical manner, visit
ing the prison and carrying creature com :
forts to the prisoners. Her residence In.
Chicago was the rallying nolnt ana ND
ing place for those who erected thelr es-,
cape. At her house Captain Thos. Hines,
the present Chiet-Justice of Kentucky,
was hid an entire day between bed mat
tresses, with detectives searching every
nook and corner of the place for him.
When Captain Arnold's associates IN
the attempt to liberate prisoners We're
captured, Mrs. Morris and her husoanG
were arrested as accompllces, and i'm
nrisoned for four months, during which
time, under the rigorous prison rules
the health of both was greatly impaired
and their fortunes wasted away. They
were never arraigned for trial, but they
said it cost them over $1,000 10 obtain
release. and that in order to raise the
money, 5000, 900 worth of property had
to be sacrificed.
After the death of her husband, which
occurred about five years ago, Mrs.
Morris returned to Kentucky to reside
with her brothers. During the term
Of her brother, Governor Blackburn,
Mrs. Morris and MIS-. Blackburn estab-
Ished Sunday-schools in the Penitentiary
and accomplished much good in rallying
many convicts back to the paths OF NOR
ais and of rectitude.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
New Postal Convention with Mexico.
WASHINGTON. D. c., October 81

WASHINGTON, ID u, OctODerEt.
The Postal Convention between this
country and Mexico, the execution OF
which has been pending Cor some time
past, was executed yesterday by Post
master. General Hatton on the part of the
United States Post-office Department,
and Mr.. Romero, the Mexican Minister,
on the part of the Interior Department
of his Republic. The Convention will
now require ratification by the Mexican
Senate, which is now i'll session, and APP
prevail by the President of the United
States. That it will be ratified and APP
proved there is 10 doubt The new ar
rangement is to go into effect on jan
nary LIST next. Under the Convention,
the postal systems of the: two Republics,
as 10 their international postal relations,
will be unified. United States domestic
postag rates and conditions will apply
to mail matter for Mexico, except sam
pies of merchandise, ores, etc, packets
of which, though liable to the domestic
rates, are to be restricted to twelve
ounces weight.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
A CITY In FLAMES.
The City of Carthage, New York, Visited by
a Confagration Involving FulIy Million
Dollars Loss.
WATERFOWL, N. Y October 2


WATERFOWL, N. " Oetober21.
Ruin stares the people OF Carthage in
the face. During the entire day yester-
day aud until long after SHUTDOWN g con-
fagration swept through the lnostvaluable
district, and the inhabitants were utterly
exhausted with their exerttons to save
their prope rty. high wind drove the
flames from house to house, and the local
fire-department was powerless. Nearly
200 buildings are burned, and the loss
can only be estimated at nearly 81, 900, 600.
The fire started on the west side OF
the river, in Meyer, Ross &. Co.'s furni-
ture factory, and Revell's tannery and
dwelling, aud several other buildings adj
Joining were soon ignited, and sparks
carried by the gale across the river set
fire IN rapid succession TO s wooden mill,
three saw mills, blast furnace, grist
mill, foundry and machine shop. !:
BY this time the atmosphere was SO
filed with suffocating smoke, and the
heat was SO intense that in despair help.
was telegraphed for from this city, Utica
and Low Village, and it was promised
speedily. Three churches, Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian, were next to
suffer, and in few hours at least
eighty dwellings, north Of Main street
were swept away. The Town Hall,
the school building and the
engine house are also in ashes. The final
arrival of several engines from Water
town alone saved the Lewis HOUSE and 8
lar4e part of Main street from de-
struction
The insurance or losses is unknown,
and it is feared much desttution will re-
suit among the poorer people, may OF
whom have lost everything.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

-
SERIOUS damage has been done by recent
heavy rains and foods in Jamaica.
SCORES of Hungarian miners are leaving
Pennsylvania and going to the Hooking
Valley under contract to mine coal for
fifty cents ton, which is twenty-five
cents less than the strikers demand.
ON the 10th dispatch was received at
the Chinese Embassy in Berlin confirming
the statement that the Chinese under Lin
Mingschuan defeated 1900 French at Tam
sui on the 18th inst. The French opera.
tions there were frustrated by torpedoes.
, The Chinese are reported to be fleeing
6rom Shanghai in fear that the city will be
f8mbarded by the French.
pN the goth the receiver of the Wall
81 let On. " Bank paid the depositors
tyecsty per cent.
I'm italy, during the twenty-four hours
end. the 10Th, 100 fresh eases of cholera
were{ Iported, and sixty six deaths.
BIZ Ire shutting down Of the mills at
Fall R,rs2er, Mass, ten thousand people
have bee; thrown out of employment.
OK the 10Th IT, Lockport IN. " Bank
ing Association transacted no business,
owing embarrassment.
SERIOUS ri ts occurred during the cleo
tionaat BrESs els, Belgium, which neces-
STATED the CT fling out of the civic guards.
The ChinSte are reported toes'e8ve re.
Gently madA an attack on Thainglayen, Up
per TonquSh Yhere they were repulsed
with heavy losBes.
ON the OOH tie New Yd--r Central cut
passenger fa4es o TIE West. The Erie Road
will mear0ht hates. Tie Bennsylvania will
take no actiog q present.. 1t is predicted
that S. rate frem New York to Chicago
will be reached.
THE United StatesS Supreme Court met
on the goth, but no decisions were rem
dered. A number of cases were advanced
on the docket, however.
III On the 10Th The special Postal Convens
sion between this country and Mexico, the
execution of which has been pending for
some time past, was concluded by Post.
master General H&tton and n. Romero,
the Mexican Minister.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
Bold and Successful Stage Robbery.
PORTLAND, ORE, October z

PORTLAND ORE, October 20.
The stage was stopped near Weiser,
Idaho, by three masked men, and under
the cover of their rifles, The driver threw
out the express treasure box. He was
then ordered to drive ON. Several pas
sengers were in the stage, but no attempt
was made to rob them. 1t is not known
how much the robbers got. A party OF
citizens was Immediately organized and
are in pursuit.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
CRTnTEs AND CAsUATTTEs.

Or the 10Th ?. A. Burton, President OF
the Blaine and Logan Club, was shot dead
by a river rough at La Crosse, Wis. No
motive assigned. The affair caused 50
much excitement that citizens overpow.
cred the officials, took the murderer from
the jail and hanged him.
An MonteIlo, Wis, the bank, Opera Hall
and a number OF stores and business places
were destroyed by fire on the 18Th. The
loss il estimated at $4,000; about one-half
insured.
on the nth a passenger train went
through bridge on the Cincinnati &
Eastern Narrow Gauge Railroad near Ba-
tayia, o. The engineer and fireman and
one passenger were killed, and a large
number wounded.
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yond his time-he was not important
enough for that, he would have said
himself, and perhaps with truth. His
department had consisted chiefly of
homework, and his employment had
been regular, if not exciting. There
had been times when he had wished, in
the superabundance of his strength and
energy, that his mission had been
more active one-times when he had
envied the more privileged, more peril
GUS tasks of some others, who were sent
| abroad to the ends of the earth now and
then, on engineering and surveying ex-
peditions, for which, if the discomfort
and responsibility were great, vet the
remuneration was correspondingly
large, and the excitement, thought
Philip, must be most remunerative of all.
No such fortune had as yet hefallen him.
To-day, bearing in mind the fact that
he would have two hours and half to
dispose of somehow, before his sisters
train was due, Philip was in no haste
to depart, but sat, after all the other
clerks had gone, at his desk, sorting out
papers, and classifying some plans
which had long wanted putting in
order
Thus employed, he sat at his desk,
and his pen travelled slowly across the
paper, while the May sunshine streamed
in,through the dingy window, and lighted
up his dark face. Philip back was tow
ward door leading into the Office of
Mr.. Day, the head and confidential
clerk, and which, without his knowing
it, was standing half open.
By and by voices were heard grad
ually approaching from a further office,
and then steps entered Mr.. Days
sanctum. Halt abstractedly Philip heard,
without exactly listening to what was
being said:
Look here, Grey! Here's letter
just come from (murmur, which
sank into indistinctness. and then, more
loudly.) "What became of those peo-
pie, Blake-Black was the
name, who recommended Bywell to
uspn
HIM. replied the voice of Mr..
Grey, the junior partner, to this ques-
tion of Mr.. Starkie, the senior; wasn't
it somewhere out Edgeton way that they
wentP On my word, don't remember
them. But you know, think it is only
these Chinese fellows grumbling a little.
They like to make difficulties, and tie
British Consul at y must attend to
them more or less. for the name OF the
thing. | don't think there's anything
in it.
I'm not quite so sure that the
grumbling is quite without foundation,
for my part, " replied Mr.. Sta-kie. Il
wish very much that you would drive
out to Edgeton this afternoon, and make
inquiries, quietly. think it ought to
be seen to-
"My dear sir" came in tone of
dismay from Grey, 81 would do a great
deal to oblige you, but this is impos-
sible to-day. l promised long ago to
go from to day till Monday TO-"
The voice dropped again. and then
came the words" entirely for my bene-
fit, you know, and Lady Elizabeth
very sorry, but unless it were a matter
of life or death. which it is not, | don't
see how could manage it.''
TO BE Continued
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(t'oii'' .!ti'tio''.
HER PHOTOGRAPH.


know the photographer pinned
A little white card on the screen,
When he'd wrapped up his mead in cloth
And focused his picture-machine;
And as he turned back to the chair,
am equally certain that he
Said: won't you look right at this card?"
Yet she seems to be looking at me.
. And after arranging her chin,
And twisting and turning her head,
And adjusting the folds of her dress,
am sure the photographer said;
"Now please for moment sit still
And smile till you hear me count three"
AS he whisked off the cameras cap;
Yet she seems to be smiling on me.
l presume that she thought 1t bore,
And that she was quite i'll at ease;
Saw little black speckS in her eyes,
And felt a temptation to sneeZe;
That she. wondered how long it would take,
And what sort of a picture 'twould be:
And yet, when look at the face,
She seems to be thinking of me.
And when the brief seconds were passed,
And the artist mad said: "That is all;"
presume, as she rose from the chair,
She only said: "When shall call?"
But the message that waits on these lips,
That smiling, half-parted, see,
is as sweet and as fair as her face;
And it seems to be waiting for me.
-Wdtter Larned, IN Life.
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How They Get Oil.

In boring for oil wooden derrick of
plank and boards is erected. 1t is usu-
ally twenty feet square at the base, sixty
to seventy feet high, with the corners so
arranged that the top is about three
feet square Here rests heavy piece
which holds the pulley over which the
two-inch drilling cable works. In the
less elevated localities it is necessary to
drive pipe to prevent the caving in of
the well and the influx of water. This
pipe is of wrought iron, eight inches in
diameter. and is driven in seventeen
foot sections by heavy maui erected
IN the derrick. Since it is to guide the
drilling tools, great care is taken to
keep it straight. The engine, usually
of fifteen horsepower, is placed near
the derrick, twelve feet from the center
of which is placed the "Samson" post,
heavy piece of timber, twenty inches
square and twelve feet high, the top of
which is prepared to receive the walk
ing-beam. This beam tapers slightly
each way from the center. 1t is about
fifteen inches square, and of such
length that when properly balanced on
the Samson post one end is over the
middle of the derrick floor. To this
end is fastened the cable and drilling
tools, which weigh some 5000 pounds,
and the other end derives power from the
engine, giving the beam rocking mo-
ton, which lifts and drops the tools.
They are lowered and drawn by the aid
of the "bull" wheel and shaft.
An eight-inch hole is drilled below
the veins of fresh water, which are shut
off by wrought iron casing tube, five
and-a-half inches in diameter, lowered
in sections eighteen feet long. After
the necessary length of casing is intro
duced, the size of the hole is lessened to
tive-and-a-half inches, and this size con-
tinues down till the well is completed.
After oil is struck the tubing pipe, of
two or two-and-a-half inches diameter,
is let down inside the casing, and seed
bag dropped in between the tube and
the casing The bag is of leather and
is filled with fax seed. When it be-
comes saturated with water it swells
and makes water-tight joint SO that
no water can get below it. Four men,
two drillers and two blacksmiths, are
required to sink a well, and the cost
runs 70 cents to S1.50 per foot The
rock, pulverized by the blows of the
drill, is removed by use of the sand
pump. This is a heavy metal tube, six
feet long, which is rapidly lowered with
every six feet Of progress, the drilling
tools being first withdrawn. The sand
pump has a valve in the lower part.
which closes and retains the contents
until the surface is reached.
The process Of torpedoing' well
is resorted to when the well shows signs
of giving out. A tin shell filed with
couple Of gallons of nitro-glycerine is
dropped down and exploded, bursting
the rock at the bottom. The effect Of
this is generally to at once largely in
crease the yield for the time being
Manual Of Petroleum.
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CHAPTER III.
sPBCIAI SER VICE.

v
There was none Of the usual adorning
for the weekly cricket match required on
Philips part, on Saturday, the day fol-
lowing his visit to the Berghauses.
He had appointed to meet his sister
Grace at half past four. and with a
thoughtfulness unusal in one Of his
sex, age and bachelor estate, had or
dered dinner to beready at his lodgings
atsix, and purposed dining with her.
lie was therefore not going out of town
atall until he returned from the station
with his sister.
The great firm in which Philip was
employed usually dismissed their en-
ployes on Saturday at two O'Clock.
Philip Massey hadseldom been kept be-