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The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-28

How the Principal Product ofthe sanny
Isle Is Loaded In ships.

y Isle Is Loaded In ships.
e. L. Wakeman, in Chicago Nsws.)
AS is we'll known, the chief exports
Of Cuba-in fact, the sources Of her
wonderful wealth-ars sugar and No.
Iasses. The Sugar crop Of lss5.s6 viii
amount 10 zoo, 900 tons, and the ~
port OF molasses win reach 100000
hOgsheads. The United States yeetlv0
five-slxths Of this enormous product.
Sugar is shipped In hogshsads, boxes
and sacks, the latter form Of shipment
having become q standing menlce to
profitable American merchant serylce,
for the reason that these secks, are
manufactured for comparatively moth.
Ing In England, and their i1lrodnctlon
into the Cuban export sugar trade Has
almost swept from existence our here
totorc profitable American cooperags
for this purpose. It Is worth I trip to
Cuba to see vessels load with molasoes
for foreign ports. It is brought to Has
vana by coasters from all portions Of
the Island. It ia warehoused In Santa
Catalina and in Regla in immencs
butts, many holding from hve hun-
drsd to thousand hogshesds each.
From these butts II is conveyed In
cloth hose to empty h0gshead In the
lighters, a lighter.load usually consists
ing Of from thirty to forty hossheads.
In these lighters the hogshssds are
brought to the vessels side, elevated
from the lighter to large stationary
trough built directly above the vessels
hold, lowered, the cane.husk hung
removed, and constant stream Of raw
molasses kept pouring into this trough
which, holds from four to six hogsheads
From this trough large canvas hose
conducts the molasses to any portion
of the vessels hold, where empty
hogshead are laid in tiers, buug up-i
ward. Three or four men are required
in the "filling" process In the hold.
These men are practically naked. On
the vessels deck are crew OF coopers,
consisting, perhaps, Of Spaniard,
a creole and q negro. These coopers
trim or repair the empty hogsheads a.
they are needed from time to time l.,
in the hold below. They are fed at the
cabin table, will only work from nine
until five, insist on five meals q day,
and bring with them gallons of cheap
Catalan wine, of which they partake,
sparingly, every few moments from q
quaint Spanish glass vessel called
barron, with a long, delicate, crystal
snout from which the wine Is shot into
their thrOats, their lips never touching
the nozzle, and the entire draught OF
wine being taken without the lips
being once closed. From eighty to
one hundred hogsheads Of molasses
will be stored in this way daily, and
from Captain to cook, every member
of the vessels crew is permeated with
molasses. The deck flows with mo.
lasses. You eat, drink, smell. breathe
molasses. This sea of saccharine seeks
your dreams.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-28


comforting Jurisdiction on courts of the
domicile.
Also favorable report on the same
Senator's bill, authorizing the institu-
tion of suits for the recovery of certain
claims before courts having jurisdic.
tion of the property when the owners
are not domiciled in the parish where
the property is situated.
Also favorabIy on an act to prohibit
the malicious discharge of firearms in
the near vicinity of private residences,
churches, etc.
Favorable report will also be made
on House bill No. 70, to shift the bur-
den of proof in suits for damages
against railroad corporations.
Mr.. Murdoch, of the House, appear.
ed before the committee and opposed
the bill relative to public carriers, on
the ground that it is unconstitutional.
Before the Claims Committee came
up the old act making an appropria-
tion to pay the fees of the counsel en-
ployed by Gov. Wilt, in May, 1880,
to represent the State in the Supreme
Court. Col Breaux, made an argu.
ment in favor of his claim which was
laid over by the committee.
The Committee on Labor and Capt..
tai took up Downing's bill creating the
State Board of Control of the Peniten-
tiary. Downing held that the State
could at any time abolish the contract
with the lessees. The session of the
committee was consumed in the read,
ing of the bill, which will come up
again:
The Sunday law passed by the
house, requires The closing OF all stores,
shops, saloons and places of public
business on Sunday except, drug stores
undertaken shops, public and private
markets, bakeries, livery stables, rail-
roads, hotels, boarding houses, steam
boats, warehouses, restaurants, tele>
graph Offices and barber shops. No
alcoholic liquors shall be disposed of
In hotels or boarding houses, except
for table use, and no liquors shall be
sold or given away in any place on
Sunday. An amendment to the bill
excepts places of amusements where
no Intoxicating liquors are sold.
Senator Gaskin offered q resolution
requesting our senators and representa-
tives in congress to ask for legislation
to search the title Of parties owning
lands on the line of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific railroad, having
purchased same in accordance with an
act of congress passed in 1856.
Senate bill passed relative to power
of attorney relative to placing obstruc-
tions on railroad tracts.
The Sunday law passed by the legis;
lature will kill Sunday and Monday
morning papers unless published be-
fore midnight Sunday and after mid-
night Monday. Newsdealers are not
affected.
Monday evening the railroad men
will be given hearing by the railroad
committee.
The range practice of burning the
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-28
Report On the Improvement oftne Mis-.
sissippl River.

Report On the Improvement oftne Mis.s
sissippl River.
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator
Van Wyck Wednesday made report
from the committee on the improve
ment of the Mississippi river fund, Of
which he is chairman, on the bill "to
make the Lake Borgne outlet to inn
prove the low water navigation Of
the Mississippi river from New Orr
leans to Cairo Ills, and incidentally to
reclaim and protect the valley lands
of the Mississippi river and tributa.
ries from overflow. The bill Is favor
ably reported. More than 150 years,
the report says: The problem of the
control of the Mississippi river has en-.
gagged the attention of the people, Gre
ating constant anxiety to the dwellers
in the valley, causing great expendi>
ture of public and private wealth,
with practically few benefits, and to-
day the problem is still unsolved.
The levee system haa been fully tried.
The first levee was commenced In 1718
In 1884 the Spanish government issued
law to bnild levees under penalty of
confiscation. and the work was contin-
ued until it almost bankruptad the
people, parishes and counties. The
United States has given nearly 0,000-
900 acres of land for this work, and
also, in 1850, the States of Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri,
undertook to stop its progress. In
1858 the chief engineer OF the army
said the riyer was leveed from Cape
Girardeau to New Orleans, on both
sides with embaukments, averaging
four feet high, and the same report
showed more destruction from over.
flows than in the previous history Of
the river. The facts appear promi-
nently in the engineer reports. Ia the
1874 they say the breaks were more
numerous to mention than if the
levees had not been broken. The
water would have run over the top Of
them, and that it would cost fifty mil
lion dollars to build levees to protect
the Valley. The revetment and abut-
ment system Of the river commission;
carried al an expense of about $1,000
600, have had equally disastrous re-
suits, and $6,OOO,OOO have been expend
ed on the Eads' jetties. Yet the over.
flows not only continue, but are in-
creasing. Such are the results of a
century and halt Of experiment and
expenditures equal probably to four
times the present value of the land in
the Valley. The jetties were to benefit
the commerce Of New Orleans and the
country drained by the Mississippi and
its tributaries. The channel was to
be deepened thirty feet. The channel
in fact is scarcely twenty>four feet
deep and the commerce of New Or,
leans has decreased S67, 100000 in ex-
ports, and $4,000 in imports during
the nine years following the compile.
ton of The jetties as compared with
the nine years preceding. At this time
there seems their report says, enly one
more experiment left to be tried, that
is to open and deepen the Lake
Borgue outlet. BY this outlet the
waters of the river will reach the same
ocean level by run Of ten miles,
which it attains after coursing 10
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
A MONSTER SOCIALIST MEETING.

FIFTY THOUSAND woRKINGMEN TO ASSEMBLE IN
BRUssELs-ESGLIsH SOCIALISTS
BRUSSELS, Aug. 13.-lt is believed that no
less $4,000 workmen will attend the Socialist meet
ing next Sunday authorized By the Burgomater
diton that parade and from 1t avoided the vicinity
of the Kings palace 1t also thought that nearly that
number OF will take part in the procession TO the
meeting The procession will pass along all the prn
eipal streets and boueyards excepting those the
Kings palace.
Six thousand soldiers have been detailed to guard the
route OF the procession from disorder. Six thousand
pher troops Will be stationed at the garrison to be ready
tOr emergencies Six hundred policemen Will be stationed
along line OF march, All the garrsons In the mel gh
borhood OF Brussels have been ordered to be kept In
readiness to 60 to the capital moments notice on
6unday.
LONDON, Aug 13.-Wiiliams and Mainwaring, tho So
ciast leaders. who were arrested for holding Social
istic meeting at tine junction OF Best ana the Edgo
road Sunday July 1s. were today convicted OF
constructing tho Streets and fined 90 eaeh with the
alternative OF paying the fine or serving two mouths
imprisonment. They were given until Tuesday next 10
Uake I'D their minds.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
TIE IRISH NATIONAL LE1GTE
PATRICK EGAN SAYS THERE WILL De 80 sERIOU!
DIssENsION AT THE MEETING.

PATRICK EGAN SAYS THERE WILL De 80 SERIOUS
DIssENsION AT THE MEETING
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-Patrick Egan, presl-
this city to-day and Michael Davtt this evening. Mr..
EGan was asked to-day: DO you expect much troubis
at the forthcoming convention T.
"Of course there may he differences, but We 40.
prehend nothing OF a serious nature" he replied.
"Are there not differences and dlssenslons in New
York r.
They very trivial. New-York has its own little
troubles ready for every convention
" Ii has been the Impression tDa the local trouble and
the disseasons IN outside States had their origin IN
different sources and hat the split IN Chicago began ia
the Ancient Order OF HiberniaDs."
don't think believe that the trouble originated
ror the malice and jealousy OF few men here toward
Alexander sullivan That Is the short AMI the long OF
IT,"
Mr. Egan then stated that he did not think this
ing split would injure the movement III Amerca. Ii nad
not done so yet proof o, the strength and vitality
Of The National League IN America he would mention
the fact that within the past month
it had forwarded 100000 10 Ireland
Il was at frat understood that the OF all Irish
natoua societies would lie Invited TO take part Ia the
oonyen tiOn aud each delegation would be
ucd by the amount OF us SUBSCRIPTIONS 10 tue para-
mentary party but he mad Issued crcnlar In which hs
stah the fact pretty clearly that IL was convea.
ton OF National League and only properly affiliated
could be represented there. Mr. Egan further
SAID that this the third annual convention. called
purpose OF eectiny officers and taking steps for
more active support OF Parnels policy lie should MOB
again accept the position OF president.
Mr. Egan did have any idea as 10 who his probable
might be- Is said that Chicago will MAKE
push TO have Chicagoan elected To the presidency
and It is said either sullivan or Finerty Will DO Tue
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
LOssEs IN VARIOUS PLACES.

HASTINGS, Mich, Aug. 13.-Firc broke ont last
evening In Hewton's planning mill. The Iossos ARE as
follows, Nswton's planning mill and lumber yard $4,000;
A. :. Merchant, $1,000 Nc~ton's Opera House aud
s,ere ~ ooo l.. j. Evanss tin shop, S2,oool Dawsons
two frame budmss, with cartis's millinery slorc,
81 900, wrisntmsns grooery, Sl.ooo Brown d
wrrht's elevator $4,000 spauidings Oroaust Works,
10000, Hastings Engine aud iron works $4,000 ,
narsw Il watsrss elevator and warehouse, $4,000 I
Fulleris bowl raot1ry, $5opi DIR, bartnn'a dwelling
II iuoi Uaaer, Gray ~ Co.'S store, 81 900, Total
So7 500 T total insurance viii not exceed $40, 900
CIlygiAap Onio, Aug. ID tspecsaD. .-rho oil works of
tina W. H. Dean Company We're waited hy = nro to-day
which burned about $4,000 barrels OF oil and caused
lass az nearly T75,00u Several Immense taDks wero
sr, AT the same time and stresMs OF burung oil ran ID
very direction The greatest enort aso required
In nreyent the burning oil from running river,
iru you'd have carried destruction vast amouue
Of uroperty. Two wOrkmen were severely injured.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13 (Speciqb There is
considerable uneasness In railroad circles over prob
able reduction OF freight by tho road and
the effect 1t must have the trunk line pool. Those
who profess know that by the
Will disturb the whole trunk line situation. meeting
OF the Executive Committee OF tho trunk uo pool Will
be held onWednesiay next
CHICAGO, Aug - (Spec,ab.-It was said here to-day
that formal complaint had been mado to Commissioner
Blanchard that the Vanderbilt roads had Withdrawn
their ratss grain. and that they still taking
1t the seaboard and New points at reductions
OF from to cents a hundred pounds COmms-
Blanchard to-day denied that any such plant
had made but tho Lake shore road had asked Joint
Agent Moore to the records today to dsproyc
the intiination that the rOad had cut the rates
PITTsBURG Aug. - tSpecah.-A telegram from Phila-
dclpha stating that General Passenger Agent Boyd Of
the Pennsylvania road had decided To take steps
toward suppresslng the tckot brokers' Offices In
this city, causes tho brokers To smile.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
CROSSING TIE OCEAN IN i DAY.
MIR. DoUGHERTYs PADDLES FOR SWIFT yEssELs-
GREAT SPEED ANTICIPATED.

MIR. DoUGHERTY's PADDLES FOR SWIFT VESSELS
GREAT SPEED ANTICIPATED.
PITTsBrRG, Aug. 13.-An order for iron
plates was given rolling mill here yesterday by
John Doughcrty. OF Mount Unon Penn. for use In an
experiment which Is expected 10 revolutionle travel
By water The plates 10 be used by Mr. Dougherty
IN constructing the folding paddles for patent rapid
transit steamboat which he Is about TO build on the A.
leghany River. When completed the boat will make a
trial trip NewOreans TO prove tie pracueaDlity ot
Mr.. Dougherty's idea.
The boat to be 50 feet wde l63 feet long on the
water lnc and - or $50 feet long deck aud Will be
built entirely OF wood Its weight without the engine
Will be about forty five TONS ard when has the engine
and $50 passengers board It's draft Will be less than
Elk inches each side OF 1t will be two folding pad
dies sinking deep into the water. The paddles Will be
open when going forward so that thsy may move the
back ard motion will. by the agency OF springs close
mum There Will also under tho centre OF the vessel
two propeling poles. which intended 10 drive the
vessel through shoa water by striking the bottom OF the
river Mr. Dougherty calculates that his patent Will 80
greatly increase the speed OF rahc ON the river that
he will abba make the trip from Pitsburg 10 New
Orleans and back week, the time now taken by tho
fastest make the round trip TO Cincinnati lie
that he Will be able to reduce the time occu-
MED IN Atlantic by the shortest route that
IRON Southamr 10 Halifax. to twenty four hours,
and tn at from NEWARK TO Calcutta TO ten daos
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
THE FIRE RECORD
FIRES STILL RAGING IN WISCONSIN.


EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Aug. 13.-The latest re-
ports the Chippewa fire districts were received
from several woodsmen who arrived from Deer TAIL al
important feeder OF the Chippewa, last evening They
say that territory escape the devastation. The
superior regions well burned over, but fires have
broken afrcsh number OF loo ates the upper
Chippewa since Tuesday and arc raging fearully OF
the escaped territory far are tho tracts along Tho
Deer Tail toward the Sault Ste Marie, which there 10
plenty OF clippings and windfas. which will offer the
most combustiDe food for the flames. which are ex-
pected To re- ach that locality within day or two The
settlements sparse In that direction, and tho loss
will be confined to standing pine and hem.ock
On Yellow River. forty miles northeast OF hore, the
have dons irreparabe damage. Hurlbut Brotherss
OF this city, lost their MIL and Qantity OF lumber. Inc
fires are having their own way. but men are now
stationed logging camp. and the hay marshes to
cave those properties II possible. Tho lumber manu-
facturers aud tho Mutual Insurance Company OF this
city, have sent an agent to the nrc districts.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Aug l3.-Iatcst reports from tho
northern woods state that the rapidly growing
less ana that tho hrcs suhsdins for want o fnes
The work OF relief Is being actively pused by tho res
dents OF Green Bay.
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
TIE WRECK OF TIE PROLTC.

BosroN, Mass. Aug. 13.-lt is now learned
that there persons on board the Froc when
she capszed yesterday. They were William L. Hayden,
the owner OF the boat his sons. Frederick and Ed
war ago and thirteen years respectively and
j. W. Lamng. Mr. Hayden leaves n widow and three
children. Mr.. Laming twentyfour years old. He
WAS a photographer In Dorchester married and
had one child.
IL seems that no lost from the schooner Ore
gon which also capszed Captain Lewis OF tue OREGON,
who saw the nl-iated Frolc 20 down, said to-day
After we had been put schooner saw slOop
Yacht about twenty feet long. with tho American
cnsgn at her peak roll and sink There wcro
IN ree men In the swimming for their lives. and
when TWO them got within twenty wards OF us tncy
threw up their hands and saw no more OF thcn.
the third man tried u little longer but MS strength
soon failed him and he also went under"
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
STILL WAITING AT WASHINGTON.
WHAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT Is NOT DolNG-No
FRESH DEVELOPMENTS.

WHAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT Is NOT DolNG-NO
FRESH DEVELOPMENTS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Specian The report
that It has been decided to send special envoy TO
Mexico TO confer with the Government OF that Re
public in regard to the Cutting and its legal as
meets was denied at State Department to-day both
by Secretary Bayard and Assistant Secretary Porter
The latter said that no such action has been even
suggested While 1t is thus easy to ascertain that the
State Department Ia not doing certain thing In the
Cutting case 1t to be hard to find out what the
Department is doing about IT. The truth probably is
that Mr. Bayard desires conceal from the country
possible the struggles he is making to escape from the
awkward, not TO say humiliatng, position in
which he has placed himself by his own in
considerate, hasty and unwarranted demand for the
release Of Cutting before he had demanded and obtained
4 statement Of the reasons for his imprisonment
the following statement by the Associated Press IS
supposed TO be Mr. Bayarfs statement OF the case
1T is asserted at the state department tnat
Cutting case, and that the attitude OF
this Government has not changed in any respect
This is the fruit Of the natural friction or antsg
onsm weeD the systems Of government oftwo peoples
who differ radically In character and customa The
position have taken based upon the assumption
that all material facts and the legal features OF the
case they have been set forth 10 the correspond
ence and reports already made public but In matter
possible warfare is held 10 be incumbent upon
us to make that there 10 nothing OF Importance
beyon the official Information already In hand ana 10
The foundation firmly laid tue decision will have
10 be made whether the differences found to exist shall
be reconcilcd through the further efforts OF diplomacy or
BY war; but In no event will this Government assent 70
tried and punished abroad for offence committed
within own domain
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
POISONING PEOPLE BY WHOLESALE
MRS. ROBINsONs sICKLY RELATIVES.
EVIDENCE ACcUMULAIISd AGAINST nER-PoIsoN
AT PICN1C.

EVIDENCE ACCUMULATLSG AGAINST HER-POISON
ATA PION1C.
BG5TON, Aug. I3 tSpccidU.-1niormatio derOgatOry
to the reputation of Mrs Robinson of Somerye sus-
pected of poisoning her family is pouring in and
the Chief Of Police will have about forty witnesses
when the case to trial. There is strong pre-
sumptive evidence that Mrs. Robinson has caused the
death Of at least seven persons by poison, beginning
with her husband, who died in 1882. The next death
was that of her daughter Emma, who died at the age
Of ten in 1854 Her brother Prince A. Freeman, who
live with Mrs. Robinson after the death Of his
wife, died in June 1885. Mr. Freeman's two children
Elizabeth b.. and Thomas A., died in 1885 and 1856.
Elizabeth Robinson, age twentyfour years and dat gh-
ter of the prisoner died last February and Willie j.
Robinson, her sol, age twenty-five, died yesterday.
An old man, Sleeper died at her house two or
three years ago under suspicious circumstances. A
different physician called in each case. jour
nal reporter interviewed all of the physicians who
were called to the Robinson house and they all unhes-
tatnsy express thor belief that poison used in
each case.
The startling rumOr is now circulated that Mrs.
Robinson may be responsible for the poisoning OF up
ward OF 100 people at the Methodist Church
which occurred last June. II reported to j. Tyler
Hicks the Charleston caterer who furnished the lee
cream for tic festival to day that Mrs Robinson was
present that evening and of those who dshed
ont the Ice cream This statement is also c0ntradiced
but it is possible that Mrs. Robinson furnished cake in
common with other members Of the society, for the
picnic Upward Of fifty people were poisoned then
and yonitcd all night and everybody attributed the
cause TO tie ice cream which they ate Mr.. Hicks
served several hundred gallons Of tie cream for other
persons and complaint was made. lie has all along
coutcudcd that his lett his place OF business all
right and that il it poisonous some one at the
festi> al must have tampercd with it, At all events,
Mr. Icks is investigating the report. Dr. Machccknie
said at the time that the sick people had every ap-
pcnramce of having taken arsenic.
II has been learned that Mrs. Robinson owes money
10 great many people. jackson Caldwell, the furniture
dealer of Somcrvillc saws that he let her have last
October and December. furniture to tit up her house
az West SOmcrvic. lie leased il 10 her and she was
10 pay tor gr dually nstamcnts. lie has found
that she has at least six mortgages placed on tbs and
other furniture in the house under different names
The furniture was seized this forenoon. money
lender let Mrs Robinson have some watches andcothes
and was around mourning the loss to-day and trying
to see what he could get back through the police.
The woman skipped around without paying her rent,
New-York tribune., 1886-08-14
mr. TAYLOR cor ADVICE fRou WASHINGTON.

mr.. TAYLOR cor ADVICE FROM WASHINGTON.
Chicago, Aug. 13.-A dispatch from Wash
ington says that Robert L. Taylor OF Tennessee, the
candidate for Governor Of that state, IL also United
States Pension Agent at Knoxville He present
tho Con venon The reason for his absence
tho recent OF tho President forbddlng Federal
officials take picuous parts politics. Mr.. Taylor
desired TO attend tho Convention. and shortly before 1t
mot wrote tho Commissioner OF Pensions asking for
advice on tho subject To this ottcr Colonel Moonn
ing Commissioner Of Pensions sont tho following rc-
ply:
In rop,y 10 your letter have tho honor IN inform You
that, pursuance OF tho instructions ot tho Honorable,
the OF tho Interior II II better for You
attend the nominating convention. While m doubt
ss to your good faith IN tho propo-od notion your
presence w. tho Convention Will place ana tho AIT
nin!htraton II not IN falsS position. Ia subject to
m nm.