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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
MARDT GRAS
New Orleans Annual Carnival wit
messed by $4,000 Visitors.

New Orleans Annual Carnival Wit
messed by $4,000 Visitors.
Rex, the King Of the Carnival, made Iii
annual triumphal entry into New Orleans 1T
the opening Of the Marli Gras festival Hs
arrived on a special train in the character OF
King Charles VII, of France He and his
court left the train at st. Charles and st. Jo-
seph streets, and proceeded to the city hall
where he was received by the mayor, whu
turned over to the king the keys of
the city The royal party then proceeded tn
the head of Canal street, where they EN-.
barked upon steamboat which led a pro.
cessiol of fifteen large river steamers to the
exposition grounds. On reaching the expo
sition the king and his suite proceeded to the
music nail where a formal reception was held.
The kings arrival at the exposition ground
was heralded by salvos Of artillery,
and a battery on the leading steanI-
boat fired a succession Of salutes aa
the boat proceeded up the river All thd
shipping in the harbor and the United States
men-of-war were gay with bunting and had
their yards manned The lowest estimate
places the number of visitors in the city at
$1,000, and the number Of people who re.
ceived the king on the exposition grounds al
10000. The crew of PrOteus paraded al
night, and after the procession had a
grand ball at the French Opera
House. The streets through which thG
pageant passed were brilliantly Illuminated
In the pageant of Proteus the Sireless Son oi
Night illustrated the myths and worships Of
China The god who was ever changing his
form appeared as Tien-Tze, the Son of Heaven,
and behind him came sixteen tableauS
Among them were ''The Creation. represent
ing Powan-Kon Matching the world from ain
egg, and Burial Of Buddha,n showing tha
famous porcelain tower Of Canton
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
EEWSY GLEANINGS

The mines Of Montana last year yielded
S24, $4,000.
THERE are now twenty three cities in Mas
sachusetts.
THERE are 81, ,s66 miles of telephone wire
in the United States.
MAKING bricks of cork constitutes one Of
the new German industries.
BOSTON is looking forward to population
Of 100000 in the year 1900.
DURING last year there were 2S9 murders
in Ohio and IT'S in Kentucky.
THERE are said to be rs, 600 men and women
out of employment in New York city.
SIX American ladies are on the list for the
next presentation at the English court.
So far Iowa has more visitors to the New
Orleans exposition than any other Northern
State
IT is said $500 to 5000 per acre is an ordi-
nary profit in Bermuda from an acre Of
onions.
THE skate factories in Richmond, Ind.
have increased to nineteen, with a capacity
Of 5000 pairs day.
A WOMAN in the city Of Mexico gave birth
to seven. children in one day. The babies died,
but the mother survives.
OVER 10000 Germans are employed in Lon
don, monopolizing almost entirely the bar
DeI, bdllOf ana waiter brdQe.
BosToN has an apple mission, which dis.
tributes from 4, QUO to 5000 bushels of apples
among the poor every year.
ENGLAND sent to the United States 81, ,084,
780 worth of cutlery and hardware in 1883
and ST, OH, 20 worth last year.
Nova SCOTIA is not often spoken Of as a
gold producing land, yet since 1850 its mines
have produced 81, ,0O0, ,000 worth Of bullion.
LlEyERY penitenliary in Texas is provided
with a kennel of three or more bloodhounds
for the purpose of hunting escaped convicts.
On several transatlantic ships telephones
are now used between the bridge and the
wheel-house, instead of speaking tubes as
heretofore
THERE are employed upon all Of the Ger
man railways z05, 7bl persons, who received
payin the aggregate last year to the amount
Of si9,669,U96.
AN old negro, seventy years of age, has
just been sentenced one year IN the peni-
tentiary in Newton county, Miss, for marry
ing white woman.
A NEW electric automatic compass has
been invented, the needle Of which, by open
ing and closing circuit, viii keep ship on
her course without the aid of a imam at the
wheel
TIE commissioner OF education places the
number of medical students in this country
in 1878 at 8, ,681; in 1858 We had Is, ISL. The
medical schools during this period increased
from 94 to 134.
TIE Father Of Freemasonary, has just
died in England in the person of William
Eliot, who attained The ripe old age Of ninety
one years. H5 was the oldest Freemason In
Europe, If not in the world.
LOU Hurst, the Georgia wonder Pro
fessor Newman says in Science, produced her
manifestations simply by physical means,
and he suggests that her success affords a
stlAing example of the untrustworthiness OF
human testimony respecting force and action.
Or Colonel Burnaby (lxilled III the Soudan)
London Truth says: Many years ago hs
passed as The strongest man Ia England and
used to twist poker round his neck and
carry ponies up sta1rs Then lie had an ILL
ed these feats
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-


-tAA--ALa
The antiforeign contract labor bill was
placed before the Senate Mr. Sherman said
that it was Mr.. Morrill's intention to call up
and continue discussion of the trade dollar
bill on the completion OF the labor bill Mr..
Beck said that he did not know how that bill
had got out Of sight Mr. Hawley said it had
gone to the calendar when the Senate de-
cllned to proceed with it. That course was
in accordance with the Senate rules. Mr.
Beck expressed the hope that If It was to be
killed, it would be killed squarely, and not BY
lndlrection. Consideration of the anti-foreign
contract labor bill was then proceeded with
without action.
The chair laid before the Senate a memo
rial Of the legislature Of Maine urging the
passage by Congress Of the bill to authorize
the placing of General Grant on the retired
list. The anti-foreign contract labor bill
was passed with amendments, and went back
to the House. Mr.. Palmer introduced a bill
TO set apart the unsnrveyed marsh lands at
the mouth Of the st. Clair river, known al
the st. Clair flats, as a hunting and fishing
preserve for the people of the United States.
1t was referred to the committee on public
lands
The Senate passed the Texas Pacific for
feiture BILL Mr.. Blair, of New Hampshire.
and Mr. Bowen, being the only Senators who
voted against it. The bill forfeits and re-
stores to the public domain the lands
granted in 1871 to the Texas Pacific Rail
road company to aid in the construction ot
their road. The bill had passed the House,
and went back to that body with the
Senate's amendments added thereto. Mr..
Plumb reported the post Office appropriation
bill, appropriating $53, Sl9. 900, an increase OF
$500, GOO over the bill as passed by the House,
and So. 2I9, l79 less than the estimates.
Mr.. Miller from the committee on agri.
culture, reported favorably, without amend
ment, the House bill for the protection OF
forests on the public domain Mr.. Hoar
introduced bill for the relief Of seamen. He
said that it was almost a transcript Of thu
Massachusetts law relating to the pledge oi
seamen's wages, and permitting such pledge
only for the support of their wives and chill
dren- 1t was referred to the committee on
commerce. The agricultural appropriation
bill was passed
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
A GREAT SNOW SLIDE
Sixteen Persons Buried in Utah by
an AvaIan cIaes

Sixteen Persons Buried in Utah BY
an Avaian he.
Following are particulars of a snow slide
BY which sixteen persons perished and tho
Utah mining town Of Alta was par
TALLY destroyed Soon after s =. A
a tremendous volume Of snow swept
down over the Emma Mine works, doing no
damage there except taking the snollestaciz
along. Then it struck the town, crushing
about three-fourths of it, but fortunately
many of the houses were deserted for the
winter The place is built at the foot Of
converging gulches and the slides had fair
mark
fuckers boarding house was swept away
and his hotel crushed The Vallejo works
including buildings and tramwaYs, were
crushed. Two men at this mine happened
to be in the drift and escaped injury. Strick-
ley's. fuckers and Wallace's stores were
injured slightly. Powers butcher shop and
Simpsons drug store were tho only
buildings that escaped entirely. "a
large portion OF the victims were in the
boarding house and hotel Twenty-eight IAN
all were buried, but twelve were dug OUT
alive in the morning. The men from ths City
Rocks and the Evergreen mines formed
digging force to get out the bodies The
sixteen persons buried alive comprised seven
white men. two Cinnamon, two white women
and five children
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26


Mr.. Dorsheimer introduced in the house to-
day bill to regulate the coinage and promote
the equal circulation Of gold and silver. A
resolution for the appointment of a commits
sion on the subject Of the alco-
holic liquor tariff was reported
back adversely by Mr. English, Of Indiana.
from the committee having charge of the
matter, and was laid upon the table The
Joint resolution giving notice to the North
German Confederation of intention to termi-
nate the treaty of 1868 was reported from
the committee on foreign affairs BY
Mr. Deuster, Of Wisconsin, and placed
on the House calendar . Mr..
on public health, reported a resolution rec.
ommending the appropriation committee to
insert In an appropriation bill an item of
100000 to be expended in preventing the
Introduction into the United States Of the
Asiatic cholera. The legislative appropria-
ton bill was passed.
The House in committee of the whole fur
ther considered the River and Harbor bill
An amendment was adopted appropriating
$500, 600 for the improvement Of Galveston
harbor and directing the harbor board to
proceed at once to examine the plans. speeifi
cations and estimates for the improvement
and report to the secretary of war for his ap-
proval The committee rose without reach
ing a vote on the bill II. The general def
cheney appropriation bill, providing for an
appropriation Of s., ,561, 916, was reported
The conference report upon the district Of
Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to.
Mr.. Holman introduced a joint resolution
requesting the President to open negotiations
with the French Republic with view of ne.
gotiating a new convention with that govern
ment for the establishment of another French
and American claims commission, which
shall have ample jurisdiction to reopen. ex-
anime and finally determine all claims which
were filed before the late commission under
the convention of january Is, 1880 4. Mr.
Bennett, from the committee on elections
submitted a report ON the Iowa contested
election case of Frederick against Wilson,
accompanied by resolution declaring Fred
erick entitled to the seat. Consideration
Of the river ana barbor appropriation bill
was resumed.
Mr.. 9urnes submitted the conference report
on the consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill and it was agreed to. "a bill was passed
granting q pension of $50 a month to the
widow Of Major Thornburg, but when Mr.
Hewitt, of New York, called up Senate bill
granting a pension of $50 a month to the
widow Of Commodore Cravens it was re-
jected. AT its evening session the House
passed fifty pension bills.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
A nacox Sheen.

For many years past, there has been at
Taylor's pork packing establishment a
sheep by the name of s'Billy." He is a
very cunning animal and is used as de-
COY. When carload Of sheep is to be
unloaded, Billy is brought forth and
placed in the car with his brethren. He
is then called, and before he is off the
gangway another sheep is=on, and before
long the car is empty. Billy then
trots around to the sheep pen, the others
following in his wake, when the gates
are closed, and the sheep are safely
housed. Thus d great deal Of time and
labor are saved, as man would have to
climb into the slime and filth of the car
and beat or drag the first two or three
sheep out to induce the others to follow,
were it not for the aid Of Billy. He
has grown very fat and tame during his
many years Of service. and viii allow
small boys to ride upon bis back
Trenton Stats Gazette
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
BIams 1t All on NE.

A grand crash-a shower Of splinters
-bumpl bumpl and the coaches settled
back on the rails, and the passengers
picked themselves up and cried out to
each other that there had been collis-
ion.
So there had. Freight No. IL was
pulling in on the side track, but the day
express thundered down on her while
the long train was third of its length
on the main track.
/ Some one had blundered. Some ones
watch was off time. Some one must be
held responsible for the accident
/ Under the overturned locomotive was
the freman-dead. Near him was the
engineer, pinned down to the frozen
earth by one of the drivers. and when he
had been relieved, a doctor, who was
among the passengers, knclt beside him
and said:
"Arm broken--leg broken--foot
crushed to pulp He cannot live.n
Who had blundered2 Who had dis
obeyed orders2 The conductors of the
two trains were comparing watches and
orders, when the engineer beckoned
them.
sT alone am to blame!" he whispered.
II wasn't due here until 10 10, and it was
just 10 :O5 when I struck the freight. 1
was ahead of running on her time. !"
$50 it was-so it was, I" whispered the
two conductors.
''This morning when I left home, =
continued the engineer, the doctor was
there. Our little Jennie-our five-year-
old-was sick unto death. In her de-
irium she kept crying out: Don't go,
papal doh't leave little Jennie to die
1t was like knife to my heart to leave
her, but go | must. was leaving the
house when the doctor put his hand on
my shoulder, and said: Tom, my boy,
by 6 o'clock tomorrow morning she'll
either be kead or better'''
What long day this was to mer
he went on after bit when pulled
out Of the depot tonight, headed for
home and Jennie, wanted to fly. I
kept giving her more steam, and kept
gaining on my time. We aren't due till
Z, you know, but wanted to be in at
3-ayel an hour before that When the
thought came to me that Jennie might
be dead when next entered the door
should have pulled the throttle wide
open if the fireman hadn't grabbed my
arm
Poor mann they whispered as he
shuddered with pain and seemed to be
exhausted.
eyes, blame it all onme, . he whisper
ed. No. 16 had five minutes more to
get in, and she'd have made it all right,
but ] stole her time. And now-and
now
He lay so quiet for moment that the
doctor felt for his heart to see if it still
beat.
And now-that's her-that's Jennie.
She's beckoning she's calling Right
down the track-over the high bridge
through the deep cut-Pm coming
comingl'
And men wiped tears from their eyes
and whispered:
He has found his child in deathI' Y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
THE SEASONS.


When that the jecund Spring is here,
And violets blue meath hedges peer,
When oowslip bold and oxlip pale
Adorn the dell and star the dale,
Methinks that It's the time Of year
Which most Of all becomes my dear.
When Summer with her glorious train
Of sultry hours, reigns once again:
When heavy hangs each roses head
With languor of much sweetness bred,
Methinks that It's the time of year
Which most Of all becomes my dear.
When Autumn steals DER weald and void,
BespangIing many copse with gold,
When violets ope their eyes anew,
And sleeping meads are white with dew,
Methinks that its the time of year
Which most of all becomes my dear.
When Winter, softly passing by,
With snowy plumes wells earth and sky;
When snowdrops in Gods acre prove
That death is not the end of love,
Methinls that it's the time Of year
Which most of all becomes my dear.
ST. Janies's Gazette
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
NUMBER 27.
BETRAYAL 0F GORDON.
How Kharfounl Fell into the False
Prophets Hands,

How Kharfoum Fell into the Ealag
Prophets Hands,
Adyices from Korti state that the cavass
who has given The most intelligent and 70 al1
appearances THE most trustworthy account of
the events attending the fan of Khartoum iz
named Abdul Kerim He was one of Cen
eral Gordon's servants. He secured his es-
cape from Khartoum after the city fell, be
says, by bribery. He bought a camel and
crossed to Dsbbeh, the journey TAX
ing twelve days From Debbeh be came to
Korti In an English pinnace. Tile says fhat
Farag, upon whom Gordon relied implicitly
was really the person Who delivered kharfOum
over to El Mahdis troops When they en-
tered the city it was Farag who prevented tho
garrison from nrIng upon them. Iue story
that Farag had once been a slave, and that
General Gordon secured his liberation, and
that when he subsequently entered Gordon's
service the latter was deceived into mistak-
ing Farag's zeal for evidence Of gratitude, in
corroborated by the cayass. He says thaG
when Gordon made Farag military conn
mandant he used to receive letters from El
MRhdL When Gordon would asl1 him about
this correspondence Farag would say the let~
ters weie unimportant. and Gordon appar-
emily took him at his word.
Concerning the massacre In Khart0um Abb
dul Kerim states that General GordOn's clerk
and the chief clerk Of the arsenal were killed
FL Mahdi did not enter Khartoum until tha
third day after its capitulation. He in-
spected the city and then returned t0
Omdurman, where he remains After
General Gordon fell Abdul Kerim says tlls
Arabs killed his clerk and nine others with
spears. The others who were at the
time with Gordon escaped. The cavass
declares that, with the exception Of the
attack in which these murders were CONF
mitted, there was no fighting in Khartonn
During the attack, however, all the Euro
peans and most Of the nctables were killed
While the attack was III progress The male
Inhabitants Of the city joined the Insurgents.
Abdul Kerirn states that no women or chill
dren were killed, and that all who submitted
to the invaders and surrendered their val
uables were permitted to depart I'M
harmed. 1t was reported that Ei Mahdi
ordered Farag to be hanged, and that the
Prophets soldiers plundered Khartoum, kill
ing all the Greeks in the arsenal and hberat-
ing all the prisoners except the Greek Consul
Nicolai and doctor. Abdul Kerim says that
Ell Mahdi has 40, 600 good fighting men, who,
however, he thinks, have been somewhat
scared at the results of the battles at Abu
! Klea, Gubat, and Kabbabisa
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26

give you safety for the present and re-
yenge for the futurel Come with me,
Jacques, and I will hide you so safe that
Necker can never touch you, with all his
spies, and he took his arm and they
would have gone out together had not M.
Caron stood in the way.
Rather die yourself, Jacques, than
help to kill France" he said, sternly.
Il know you, M. Robespierre. and your
scAomes. A free France, hope for, but
not such France as you would bring
about.
Jacques turned toward him fercely.
II would rather serve under Danton than
La Fayette, M. Caron. There is no one
in the court whom would wish to i've
M. Robespierre, am ready.
= +
Extract from the stocking Of La
Rouge, the old woman with the yellow
rosette on her cap, who sits near the left
Of the knitting row..
"This Captain Peraubier seems a very
squeamish young man. l must watch.
When La P'tite Marquise, as they used
to call her, was being brought along in
the tumbriI she saw him and called out
his name. and instead Of slapping her
face for her impudence he only turned
pale and looked the other way. When
La Tete-du- Mort threw the vitroil in La
P'tite Marquise's face he rode up and
knocked La Tete-du- Mort down with the
fat Of his sword, and when the guilIo-
tine made an end Of the marquise, I saw
tear on the big booby's cheek If he
were not such pet of Robespierre he
would be in cell tonight. &c. 4.
Copeland, IN Hatchet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
GENERAL STEWART,
Heath OF Another Frominrnt FnyHiaEA
OFFICER in Egypt

A dispatch from Korti brings intelligence
of the death Of General Sir Herbert Stewart
who was wounded at the zereba fight Of jan
uary 49, This death, the dispatch adds, has
cast aprofound gloom over the whole a1nay.
General Stewart was forty-two years of age
He had served with distinction i'll Tue znlu
war and in earlier operations il Egypt. IR
the present campaign General Stewart was
putin command Of the expedition Of I SEQ men
sent across the desert from Korti to Aetena-
neh by way of Gakdul Wells. His recent
battles at Abu-Klea and near Gubat on JAN
uary IL and 10 are fresh in the public meme
ory. He was wounded early On the day of
the second fight in preliminary sIirmish.
Queen Victoria sent her personal cungratIiia-
ti0ns to Gen. Stewart on his brave victory amin
promoted him to be majoT-generaL General
Wolseley recently expressed the opinion that
General Stewart was one Of the bravest offi-
GERS he had ever known. 1t was expected
until within few days that he would recover
from his vOund
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
THE BRITISH RETREAT.
Tine Entirc Plan Of tEc CampaIgn VA fn
Egypt Changed,

Egypt CRAmSeds
1t is announced that in view Of the fact
that the fall of Khartoum and the death Of
General Gordon have rendered the main OBJ
ject of General Wolseley's expedition iaapes
sible, the British government has deemed
it expedient to change thu whole
plan Of the campaign i'll tha
Soudan. General Brackenbury, who suc-
ceeded the Late General Earle liza beoH
ordered to ahaEdosl his 81 vance On Berter
end to concentrate his troops at Korti Col
onel Sir Redvers Butler who evacuated
Gubat and withdrew his forces 70 Abu Kiaa,
has also been ordered to fall back on Korti.
All the available troops in General 3Volseley
command will be concentrated at That plaea
ana at Debbeh and Korosko, the main hodT
being az kott 1t is probable that General
NolHely may evacuate Korti and retire tn
DebDehs where desert routes from OInduuIpat
Et Oheld and Darfuur converge Oh Che Niia
General w Wolseley viii there await help from
England,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26

The shrewd skating-rink man never
advertises hard wood floors Call
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-02-26
The First Clock.

The first clock which appeared in Eu-
rope was probably that which Eginhard
tthe secretary Of Charlemagne) describes
as sent to his royal master by Abdallah,
king of Persia. "a horoIoge Of brass,
wonderfully constructed for the course
Or twelve hours, answered to the hour
glass with as many little brazen balls,
which drop down on sort of balls un-
derneath, and sounded each other .
The Yenetians had clocks in s72, and
sent specimen Of them that year to
Conatantinople. -slerelers' Cycuzar,.