The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-16

$780, Some of the Fall River mills have orders
for print cloths which will keep them at
work until Christmas are wooden
mills in Connecticut. where children go to work
at o'clock in the rfiornfng and stick at it un-
til 8 at night, with thrse-quarters of an hour
for dinner and As cents for one days work.
The sales of leaf tobacco at Lynchburg for
the tobacco season to date amount to over 3d.
100000 pounds, an increase Of over 100000
for the corresponding period of last year.
About 5000 silkworIns insthe possession of Mrs.
John Wolf, at Quakertown, Bucks Co., Pa, are
now spinning, and attract considerable atten-
ton. sso
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada. which
was in session last week at Hamilton, Ontario.
has decided that Quaker. cannot be q Mason !;
also, that no person can be initiated who does
not believe in God. An Indian not franchised
can be admitted into the Order.-ThOmas
Murray, James Manning, w. A. Barton, John
Gibbons and A. j. Davidson, long-term prison.
ers, escaped from the York County (Pa.) Jail
on the Sth inst They sawed the bars of q
window, and, after reaching the roof, descended
to the ground by means of rope None have
as yet been recaptured. Moore, a
middle-aged widow, has commenced suit in
San Francisco for breach of promise against
Moses Hopkins, aged 20 years. claiming
$225, 0OO The defendant is q brother of the
whom he inherited an estate valued at $6,0OO,
O00-An extensive cave-in occurred on We'd
nesday of last week at No. of the Baltimore
mines of the Delaware and Hudson Company,
about one mile from Wilkes Barre, Pa. The
cave-in takes in at least 10 acres of land
Capt. Morton, Lieut.. Frank Brown, Edward
L. Thomas and John Rescola, leading men of
the Salvation Army, were fined 81 each, with
costs, at Plymouth, Pa, last week, and they
were warned that the fines would be continued
until their street parades are abandoned. They
refused to pay, and were sent to Wilks- Barre
jail.-Five thousand French Canadian SYM
pathizers with Louis Riel, the late leader Of
the rebellion in the Northwest Territory, held
meeting in Quebec last week, at which
speeches were made comparing the case Of the
half breeds to that of the Irish. A subscription
was started to aid in Riels defense. -George
F. Stednan, 40 years DID, of Sebec, Me-, was mar
ried few days ago to Grace Preble, a girl of IL
years, living in the same town. The Town
Clerk at first refused to issue license, but the
consent of the child's parents being given no
legal ground for refusal remained, and the
marriage ceremony was performed at once
Christopher Mann, aged Ill years, died at
Kansas City, Mo-, last week. Ho was born in
Virginia in 1774, and in 1888 went to that
place.-Nearly 20,0O0,O00 eggs are shipped
across the Atlantic to this country, chiefly from
Antwerp and Hamburg, during the Summer
months Of each year.-The number of emf
grants from the port of Bremen to the United
States during the month of June was 1000 less
than for the same month in 1884. The total
decrease for the six months of 1885 was 1881.
The Hessian fly is destroying hundreds of
wheatfelds in Wayne and Ontario Counties,
N. Y. Experts estimate the total loss thus far
at 500, 0O0-In Edgecomb, Me-, on the 10th
inst. Mrs. Jane Wilson celebrated her Tooth
birthday, about 300 relatives and friends being
present; among them being sister aged o.
and daughter aged 81.