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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
EE7OMBED ALIVE.
Ten Miners Buried 400 Feet Un-
dergrOund by a Cave-In.
Heartrending Appeals Of Their
Families at the Mine.

About o'clock p NJ, one Of the gangways
OF the Cuyler colliery at Raven Run, Penn,
operated by o. M. Heaton & Co, caved in
without warning, entombing ten men who
were at work inside. The cave-in occurred
about four hundred feet from the bottom of
the slope and was caused by sudden crush
ing Of the timbers. The ten men buried
were:
Frank Mclaughlin, William Anderson,
John Anderson, Henry Mervine BENJAMIN
Maurer, Nicholas Purcell Barney Smith, Mi
chaei Herrity, Daniel Kenney and John Cav
anaugh
There was no immediate means of ascer-
tanning whether the imprisoned miners were
dead or alive. Messrs. Heaton & Co. did
everything possible to rescue the men, but
the danger Of approaching the break made it
difficult to do anything to that end, and also
prevented the hundreds of men who gathered
at the scene from going to work to res
cus the imprisoned miners. Those
who are acquainted with the place had little
or no hope of the imprisoned miners being
rescued alive. The scene at the mouth of the
slope was heartrending in the extreme The
unfortunate miners were all men Of families,
and the appealing cries Of their wives and
children filed the air in the vicinity Of the
fatal mine
Exploring parties who attempted to
enter the mine reported it a complete
wreck and all hopes Of rescuing the
imprisoned miners alive was abandoned
that night. The slope is 700 feet deep and
is divided into four lifts. The ten men
In the mine were in the lower lift and the
place was closed to the bottom of the first
lift, 400 feet above. There were three open
ings to the mine-an air-hole and two slopes
and all three were closed below the first
lift. The dangerous condition Of the mine
not only prevented rescuing parties from do
ing any work, but forbade even a thorough
examination of the workings. The conclusion
caused by the fall was so great that the nine
cars at the foot of the first lift were forced
up the slope distance Of fifty feet.
Miners who are acquainted with the work
lngs declared it not only impossible to rescue
the men alive, but doubtful whether even
their bodies could be recovered. 1t was their
Judgment, also, that the colliery was COM
plete wreck. The company employed from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred men
when working, but fortunately was not in
operation at the time Of the disaster Had it
been working, all the men would undoubted-
ly have been lost
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
A journalists Nose.

When George Augustus Sala, the most
prominent of English journalists, was in
San Francisco he told a reporter the fol-
lowing: sMy nose has had good deal
of notoriety on account of its shape and
rather luminous properties. I think a
good deal it, nevertheless, and / ought
to, for 1t brought me So, 500 once, in
this way: l had stood good deal of
chatting in print about my nose, and at
last chap who wasn't particularly fond
of me gave me the benefit Of squib, in
which he distinctly said that the com
plexion of my nose proved me to be a
Bacchanalian. Now, it so happens that
I am not Bacchanalian, nor had my
nose acquired its distinctive character
from the mellow influence of wine or
spirits. The fact was that in my riotous
and unchristian youth, when at college,
! had fight with fellow who was quite
handy with his fists, and beside wore a
heavy diamond ring when the controversy
began. The result was that between his
natural hitting ability and the promi-
nence of his jewelry, I got my nose in
such condition that it required half q
dozen stitches to restore it to anything
like its original beauty. CONSPICUOUS,
therefore, of my integrity, I resolved to
take my libeller on the hop, and did
so. sued him for libel, and having
shown that my nose was not the ad-
vertisement of a Bacchanalian, I got
judgment against him for 50, 500, which
assisted me to make very pleasant tour
of the south of Europe the same summer.
So rather had the laugh of him, and l
cannot but have good opinion Of my
nose"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


THE Mexican conservatory Of music has
over two thousand pupils.
OVER hundred sonatas have been written
in honor of General Gordon.
MILE. RHEA did a big business in the South
and proved strong attraction.
THE latest craze among Boston school chill
dren is the desire to play the violin
OCTAVE FEUILLET, now sixty-four, is fin
ishing five-act comedy of modern French
fashionable life.
VIcToRIEN SARDoU has built himself a
handsome residence with the profits Of his
last play, Theodore"
A PARIS paper says that Patti has been en-
gagged to make tour of Germany by M Pol
lni, the Hamburg manager.
LAWRENCE BARRETT will resume his
American tour in September. He promises
number Of new productions next season.
Mr.. JOHN 7. RAYMOND finds 'the theatri-
cal field wholly occupied by the roller skating
rink and says that he will not contest the
field with them until September.
SIGNoR SALv1NI will open his American
season at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New
York, at the end of October. The actor
to support him are now being engaged
THE s1adies of the chorus,n like Office
seekers, die very hard In the chorus at the
Teatro della Pergola, in Florence, there is
one woman still singing at the age OF seventy
four.
Mr.. HENRY GALLUP PAINE, associate
editor of st. Nicholas, and Mr.. Brander
Matthews, are writing the ibretto Of a comic
opera, to be written by Mr.. Richard Henry
Warren.
FRANZ ABT the dead German composer, is
well known in this country, not only through
his songs, but personally, as he visited Amer
&1,.rs rtr.tf Inoh
ing vocal societies.
AN international musical congress is to be
held at Antwerp toward the close of the pres
ent year. Papers on musical education will
be submitted, and discussions will take place
on subjects relating to the modes Of spreading
musical knowledge.
Two Frenchmen have invented a new kind
Of harp, made entirely of wood. Instead or
ttrings, the inventors use strips Of American
fir. The sound is produced. as in the ordinary
harp, by the contact of the fingers, but the
player wears leather gloves covered with
rosin The tone of the instrument Is said 20
be Of remarkable purity.
THE lfbretto of Gilbert and Sullivan's new
comic opera, "The Mikado; or the Town OF
Titiper,' is said to be a lustrous satirical gem
in a setting of japanese bronze and the
score to be filled with as ear-catching melo-
dies as ''Pinafore.n The choral parts are
more aGtracIlF0 bnin aliJ kouiAAF tAn ne1S PAoNH
ousIy written, and suggests no previous COM
position.
a NEW musical composer of apparently ex-
traordinary power turns up in Madrid dis
name is ViIlate. He is but thirty three years
old and has already produced one opera at
the Hague and one in Paris but they had only
moderate success. He did not dare to come
before his own countrymen till now. dis
new opera, Balthazar,n had an immense
success, and the people Of Madrid seem to be
crazy over it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
A LITTLE CHILD.

Down from the hill, up from the glen,
With waving flags and warlike din, g.
They rushed-two troops of mounted men
The boys in blue. the boys in gray;
And they had almost met that day,
When, lol child stood in the way.
Its hands were filed with fow'rs; its eyes, =
As clear and soft as summer skies,
We're opened wide in grave surprise.
Upon the pretty baby head
The sun golden blessing she'd
II want mamma, !" the sweet voice said.
Both captains shouted, "Halt!' The men
Refined in their eager steeds, and then
The blue leaped down, and up again,
And galloping like mad, he bore
The child he'd grasped mile or more
Back to its mothers cottage door. J
Loud rose the cheers from blue and gray #l
As smilingly they turned away:
There was no battle fought that dayl
-Harpeq's Weekly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
Then and Now.

81 met Hannibal Hamlin the other even
ing writes w. A. Croffut in the New
York World. HE said he was very well
-uncommonly well for man of eighty.
told him he reminded me of the growth
of journalism in quarter Of a century. In
February, 1861, I took a New York
bound train at Springfield, Mass. There
was great crowd about, and thought,
at first, that some case of breaking
had brought them together. 1t pres
emily appeared that Hannibal Hamlin,
the new Vice President from Maine, was
going through to meet Mr.. Lincoln in
Washington for Inauguration There
was no newspaper man on board.
Wherever the train stopped on the way
through Massachusetts and Connecticut
great and excited crowds were gathered
to see him and bid him good-speed on
his dangerous journey. He addressed
them all, making dozen brief speeches
on the way. had copy Of Lowelrs
Fable for Critics for railroad reading
and on the fiy-Ieaves Of this | reported
the utterances of the Vice-President
elect. Arrived in New York, success
sively visited three newspaper Offices,
told them Of the exciting trip and strove
to market my report. None of them
wanted it, declaring that it was Of no
consequence, but fourth took it and
paid me seventy-fve dollars for o column
and q half report. It was my first New
York work. Imagine such an important
occasion now and no reporters at
hand. I
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09

! A long black mass detaches itself from
the assembly Of saurians, and makes fol
the great slope. Others betake them.
selves to their favorite morning landing.
places.
! sSorodom has seized his telescope, and
watches the progress of the drama with
intense interest. All the rest of us look
on breathlessly in silence.
The biggest crocodile has reached the
edge of his pathway. There he stops.
Perhaps he is wondering what that bait
is. A whole quarter of an hour passes
BY. The snout Of the alligator leaves
the water and now his fore-legs are on
the raft.
Everybody holds his breath.
He keeps on climbing -slowly-very
slowly. The bait is there, only twenty
inches from his nose. He seizes it. At
the very same instant the sails in the tree
above him pulls the strings which oper-
ate the running nooses, and the reptile,
caught at once by head and tail begins to
struggle furiously. Immediately the
other sais leaps forward, his hammer in
one hand and huge nail in the other;
and while the monster stretches his legs
in trying to reach the water, the sais
nails the right fore-foot to the rail. The
worst of the job is over. In the twink
ling Of an eye, the right hind foot is also
nailed down. Then, boldly stepping
over the alligator, the sais Immediately
nails the two left-feet also to the raft.
Thus crucifed, the saurian is we'll
muzzled, and his tail is fastened firmly
with bamboo ropes.
He is carried to Norodom and measured
seven and half feet long.
We remained on the lake shore two
weeks, and during that time caught six
teen more ocodiles, which were brought
alive to Pnom PENN, and then skilIfully
butehered.
The .Cambodians are very fond of GRO
codile flesh, and must confess that I ate
it myself without the least repugnance.
Ordinarily it sells at two cents pound
in Cambodia-exccpt when the animals
are caught during royal hunt, ard then
the 'Ring's crocodile meat" sellsfor four
cents. Just on the same principle that.
in France, President Greyy's rabbits sell
at four francs pair, while yours or mine
are worth only forty sous.
1t is nearly seven years since enjoyed
the hospitality Of King Norodom, and I
would not have thought of publishing
this recital of my hunting adventures had
not public attention been sgain called to
the good king of Cambodia-who was
SO kind to me-by the action of Procon-
sui Thompson in despoiling him Of his
estates.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
PRESIDENT BARRIOS..
The Dictator OF Central America
Reported Killed i'm Battle.

The Dictator OF Central America
Reported Killed i'm Battle.
General Barrios, the president Of Guate-
mala and would-be dictator Of the five Ger
trail American republics, has been killed.
cording to a dispatch, which says that 1
gold-hilted sword was found on the e-tieIa
of Chualchuapa- Two battles were fought be-
tween the allied troops Of Guatemala and Hon.
duras under Barrios on one side, and the forces
of San Salvador on the other In both bat
ties the San Salvadoranians were suCcessful
defeating the enemy with great slaughter
a Washington dispatch says that Senior
Peralta, minister Of Costa Rica, recaived
cablegram from President Zaldivar. Ct Sal
vador, of which the following is q transla-
ton:
'sBarrios killed at the battleo Of Chalchuapa.
Complete victory. Long live free Central
America
Another dispatch from Central America
says HHostilities between Guatemala and
the allied republics have been suspended. An
armistice Of one months duration Is an
nounced The legislative assembly of Guate
mala has annulled the decree promulgated hy
President BarTios on February IS, in which
a union of the Central American republics
was proclaimed and Barrios was announeed
dictator and supreme military chieftatn
OF all Central America
BarTios was a man Of considerable ability
and energy, and the richest man in Central
America. For the past twelve years he Hx
ercised almost despotic sway in GuatemalA
and made many enemies. He owned prop
erty in Fifth avenue, New York and 4 Hqn
IS at present a cadet in the United Etat9
military academy at West Point.
A New Orleans dispatch says. ssConfirt
ing reports reach here about General BaN
rios Mexican and San Salvador source
continue to announce him as killed in battle
Information from Guatemala and Honduras.
is to the effect that he is alive and TT tie ~
of Guatemala, which he has not quilted Tha
Guatemala senate, in withdrawing the le
cree for forcible union Of the states Is SAIL
to have acted under his direction IhA f
ports of his death are not believed ut N44F
Orleans by those best posted Ia Central
American affairs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
NORMAN ]. COLMAN.


The New Commissioner Of AgrIcul-
ture Appointed by the President
Norman J. Colman, who succeeds Dr.
George B. Loring as commissioner of agricul-
ture, is about sixty years old, and has been a
resident of Missouri for more than thirty
years. He is the editor Of the RurnI World, OF
st. Louis, near which city he has farm, on
which he is constantly carrying on expert
ments. He has had practical experience in
stock breeding. drives fast trotter and is
familiar with equine pedigrees. For two or
three years he has been president OF the
National Sugar Growers association, and
at the last annual meeting, in st.
Louis, last December, he expressed con
fidence that sorghum was destined to supply
all the sugar this country needs. At that
meeting Colonel Colman was unanimously
nominated for the Office to which he has now
been appointed. He was the Granger candi-
date for governor in 1874, but was defeated.
A year or two later, however, he was elected
acknowledgement on the Democratic ticket.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
FRANCE AND CHINA.
"A Treaty or Peace Between the Two
Countries COncIudcd,

q AK1sLty OF Fehce BetNVeen the TWO
Countries Concluded.
The London Times Pekin correspondent
says that peace between France and China
has been concluded on the basis of the Fournier
convention Of May II, 1884.
dispatch from Hong Kong confirms the
news that peace has been Concluded. Tha IA
mand for indemnity was waived by France
The Fournier convention was signed Nav
II, 1884, at Tien Tsin, by Captain Fonr.-
nler on the part Of France ana I'll
Hung Chang for China. By its pro-
visions China recognized French
to have an equal voice in certain cnstone
regulations. The indemnity now waived Nv
France was demanded on account Of ths
Chinese attack upon the French at Langson
which point was claimed by France as hers
under the Fournier convention.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-04-09
A FAMILY MURDERED.
First Killed, and Then the BODIES
Burned 10 Conceal the Crime

- u = OOllCS51IA llEo O1IAAAD
The coroner's inquest into the circum-
stances attending the death near
the turnpike in Buncome county, N
c., twelve miles from Asheville, of j
2. Joyce and his daughter Margaret, her
child and Mrs Mary Rice, revealed the start
ling fact that the whole family was first MUIR
dered and the house subsequently set on fire
to conceal the crime. The skull Of one Of the
victims was found to have been fractured
and piece of cloth pressed into it. Other
evidences were also brought to light Of the
murder of the unfortunate family
Mr.. Joyce was known TO have had in his
house previous to the murder several hundred
dollars
New-York tribune., 1885-02-02
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

NEW YORK Saturday. JAM 3l.-BEEy yEs,Reccipts were
~ car. of headSB at 6Otbs and cars AZ Jer
sey city Total The week ! O53 hesd against l32nI
bcol jns week Mr. received ~ cars-eclw ritz
cd SuIzbafgor lB and oteTn and Metzcer cars
and at Jersey lty Levy May had No ado IN Lave
Cattle. -. i, ,..,.. ,,,,,
prlces were frm AID "a trhe hlgh'r -.
change sApm' reported yesterday except Ihat
the EysIa owing hole In her hull by the ice WIN
not get on until next week. ,,,,-- .du
CAIVrSNo resh arrivals worth noting Feeling STEADY
sIIEEP AND LAMBb-Iecoipts Including . cars
late Yesterday "a OF 1913 headB cars at Jersey ivy
and ears eOihst Seven al Jersey Cly All
late. Offerings ali Common ana Medlnm luaiy an.
prices shade lower limited business Was raisao ~
oW Prime sheep and Cooe Lambs could have Deeh SOY Nv
a S7a Common TO Fair Lambs at - oOas0 w ana no
prime on market Fifteen Spring LAMBS SOFA AZ the
extreme range OF SSas 20 head According present.
indications Will Dc wanted next week anu uoaeis
predict lower prices .-,.w -, -, =.
The q little Prime stock selling ~ high rs &C. Dfessei
Lambs soid at 7dplc. -. - =. -.
s. SOt l08 eN ~ ID, at NC. ,,- ,o-
Newton iiet sold: 4s2 Ohio Sheep 80 N, at 81 65 225
do rs TO- at &c 1876 Indiana DO sS ID, ut 4i2o 40 chgah
do, so n, at 80 50. .o~
l08 State sheep 80 ~ at 80 - 90 ewes: "a 10 az 40
20s Michigan do part ambs 10 ID, assc 2Ao do 10 10 ~
81 35. and 245 do. 10 n, at 81 20 .
Dnlepbeek Dewey sold l09 Vermont Iambs Is q. AZ
tsc 81 Wsstsn sheep 100 b. at 4'o 90 DO l02 D, ~
New-York tribune., 1885-02-02
LIVE srooR MARKEr-BY TELEGRAPH.

CHICAGO, jan 3l-Ths DyocsrS Journal reports cdne-
Recrlpta 100 head: Ship 12O0 head marker weak
Good 20 Choice SbIDDlnI 50 Olds) 40; Cohhoh W n''
81 OO1si 90, Texans. 81 0DdSi 81. ,ooo., ,,ou,o,
Hogs-l,eceIpts 5000 sipments GOoOhea1 nRrKet
firm Rough Packing ~ Isf 50 Packing and shipping
81 so 81 TO Light. 81 i09sl 6n SioS ~ 90asi 20
StesD- Roceipts i.oOO shipments 700; GlarAet SLOW;
Inferior to Far 50 25@s2 Is: Mshumi 70 Gooi' 10 "
as rs: Choice 10 Extra 9i0Si 90. oo .,o,,,
sT Louis Jan. 3l.-t'atNs- Receipts ZOO shipments
7OO market quiet Exports rs 0s6 20 Gooi 70 C.oSe
Shppng 50 2j6sj 7S Fair to Medium. 81 4Ogso W.
Texans 81 0J0 81 7J =. A..
Shsep-ReceioGs 7)0: s1iDmentI =: co npon 20 Me-
dum, SO 5Odf3 2j; Fair To Cnoce. SO 50dtt w. ~ .oa
HoGS-Receipts 3l10; shipments. 3 100 L1ght IA so~
81 81; PACKING 81 50Qsl G5 Heavy, "a 6OdSi ~ 49,.
BUFFALO Jan. 31Cafte Receots totay l2Oo reaa tV.
week 80 ncld for tne last week
head; consigned through. 26l marAet duil
Good to 30 2j0sj 7j Stockers ani feeies
81 75aS4 25. .,,
SaespRecepts toi1H ooh,.t t:r for y,,< u ~ r
week 3b.4p near
through, 10 cars market active and Grni, Medium u
Good. - 00as %; Canada lambs. 70 70 a. Sd 10 -. g..
Hoqs-Recepts toIlI 1900 mead toti for week ths a'
4OO0J head; Tor san, uns a,I w,eh 0hoOg neaE spu
lJ7 market dull and nrn 1oon %
Choice Workers. 80 81 9Ui Butchers Grae1 81 10 90 oO
Ilgs. 10 DSi 70.
New-York tribune., 1885-02-02

r1;ad IN Tho ;npa- surface of the most commonly
bound book. Mr.. Lang writes so pieasanSy an"
plausby on subject which he has taken httie pains
to master that one regrets to have to say that Ills
reader needs TO be constantly on his guard against
many errors many of which are elementary.
report is creeping about London that MI
Ouaritch has got rid of his Mazarin Bible. Ac-
cordinp to this story, tho book goes to America
Mr. Ouaritch held commission from America Ior
the purchase of the Bible at the auction. Inc piu-
dings far exceeded the limit of the COMMISSION pu'
the Piccadily dealer true to his system OF 1orcihg
other dealers out of the market and forcing up
prices, secured the lot at the now historical price
E39OO His calculation was that ne couid ihduoo
his American principal to take the white elephant
off his hands; aud in this, as IN SO many
other instances, he seems 10 nave
been successful. The American principa'
like many an English principal seems quite I'M
aware of the fact that, by these tactics books arc
made to cost their ultimate owners lar more tnih
their real value, even their legitimate market
value for the time beng. As for this particular
copy of the Mazarn Bible shorn, torn, vulgar in
binding and as il were, only the mutllated remains
of a magnificent book, can only say as | said OF
the imperfect Shakespeare Fnst Folio from the
samo sale-I am sorry it goes to America. America
of early printing aud the great treasures of early
literature in their original form. She wants more
but she wants the best and the best only.
OF the Psalter at ca $50 there is no further news.
| asked bookseller, who is an expert IN such
matters, what he thought of the price. AT least
$4,000 more than it is worth" was his emphatic
answer. His Outspokenness encouraged me 10
solicit his opinion on the Mazarin Bible. Worth
good f1 900 less than the Perkins copy" responded
he with equal decision. Now tho Perkins copy, as
you know. was sold for the sum of f2,69o. and by
an easy process in arithmetic it appears that, ac-
cording to my booksclling friend, the Syston Park
copy was run up to price f2,21O (more than
S1O,OOO) beyond its true value. 1t may give
some idea of the splendor of the Althorp
collection If add that the Psalmorum Codex on
vellum sold the other day for this preposterous sum-
is of the second edition, and that you may see at
Athorp the first, second and third editions of this
rare and noble book, all on vellum. The AlthoTp
Library belongs to Earl Spencer. g. W. s.