Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-11


Ear-s Etc., Ear-
A jan Of logs ii the Kennebec River
defed al efforts Of the lumbermen 70
break It. Lumbernen climbed out TO
the head Of the Jam and deposited a
large quantity Of dynamite which was
connected BY wire with battery On
shore. The gates It the dam 1t Indian
Pond were opened and head of ten feet
suddenly poured down through the val
ley. The great pile Of logs ereaked and
twisted, but did not start until an cleo
trio button on shore was touched. There
was tremendous explosion. Logs few
high in the air, and . sudden shower of
splinters fell for acres around. The jam
started en- masse Down the valley. There
was strange crashing and rumbling
that grew into 3 roar as the immense
body gathered speed. The current runs
at sixteen miles an hour for long dis
tance below where the blockade occurred
and the logs, moving as solid body,
gained nearly that speed. It was a
strange sight. No water was to be seen
and the great black avalanche, rushing
through the valley with an unearthlv
roar, presented spectacle which those
who witnessed it viii long remember
Lumbermen say there were fully fourteen
million logs In the drive as it finally
swept down stream. After the mass cot
IN motion it stretched ont so that its
height above the water was about twenty
feet, many Of the logs riding down in an
upright position. Many logs caught
upon rocks and projections, and were
broken or ground to pieces.
In BALTIMORE Frank Pyers, convicted
OF brutally beating his wife and sem
fenced TO fifteen lashes and six months
in jail, received the corporal portion of
his punishment He stood the ordeal
with considerable GOODNESS and nerve, al
though blood oozed from the heavy
blows of the cowhide. When brought
from his cell he walked to the whipping
post, mounted the platform and facili-
tated the work of the deputies BY plac-
ing himself in position so they could
fasten the iron clamps with ease. When
Sheriff Airey stepped upon the platform
the wife beater pressed his head against
the upright, closed his eyes and clenched
his teeth. He received the first two
blows from the four foot cowhide with
out moving. At the third stroke. how
sver, his knees began to tremble, but,
perceiving his weakness, he Strengthened
up and did not move q nerve until the
tenth blow was struck. This encircled
his neck and tore the flesh on the right
breast. Then Pyers began to shake and
tremble all over and could not recover
himself. The whipping took but six
teen seconds, and when the fifteenth
blow was struck the man was immedI-
ately released He walked without sup
port to his cell. While being attended
by DR.. Hoopman he exclaimed, seThis
is hard treatment for white man.
BRAZIL buys from the United States
SIS, 600, 600 to Sc, 600, 900 worth of -four
in q year. American exporters, when
-four is cheap, as it is now, occasionally
send largely increased quantities, and
expect that a market will be made for it.
It's cheapness, however, seems hardly to
make difference In the quantity con-
sumed. Some $4,000 barrels q month
are consumed at Rio and it's dependent
markets, and it seems almost impossible
to increase this. At Rio the bread is
made by bakers; it is of good quality
and is eaten by all classes. The great
obstacle in expanding consumption is the
lack of internal transportation, and the
fact that the mass of the people have
never been accustomed to use flour, they
being satisfied with the -four made from
the manioca root, and which they habit
ually eat mixed with their stewed black
beans and dried beef. A large part Of
the interior population produce and buy
but little. They live in q primitive
manner, in cheap dwellings with matched
roofs and earthen floors, sleep in ham,
mocks, use but the scantiest articles of
furniture, and even convey their food to
their mouths with their fingers.
A PRACTICAL joke played upon
Croatian peasant has nearly caused the
destruction of the chemical laboratory of
the University of AgraTn. The peasant,
who was coming with his wife into
Agram, separated from her, agreeing to
meet her few hours later at o certain
place. AS she delayed her return, he ex-
pressed his anxiety to q bystander, who
told him, in jest, that his wife had prob
ably been kidnapped by the university
who made It their business
TO cut up women and children. The
wife came up soon afterward and went
home with her husband; but the latter
repeated what he had heard, and the re-
suits have been most serious. On Whit
sunday an Infatuated mob of peasants at
tackled the laboratory, crying Down
with the hell kitchen |" and had to be
driven off By soldiers. The university
has since been watched every day by
evil disposed crowds, and there was an
other attack on the succeeding Sunday.
All the servants of the university have
left their situations, and the professors
have had to ask for police protection,
being in terror Of their lives.
a sERaEANT-lEAJoR, named Ebrard, Of
the fifteenth French army corps, four
years ago embezzled some Of the funds
placed in his charge, and lost all at
Monaco. He ran away, took the name
Of Antoine Vorner, enlisted IN the
foreign legion, and volunteered for Ton