The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-23
LABOR NOTES.

1t is stated that the Amalgamated AssocIa-
ton Of Iron and Steel Workers will not be
represented at the convention Of the national
and international trades unions at Column
bus, o.
Most of the coal mining in Tennessee is per-
formed by convict labor The conyicts like
it, as they get better air, better food, and bet
ter treatment than when they are under close
confinement
The Knights of Labor in British Columbia
have inaugurated a general boycott against
Chinese labor. There are now over 10000
Cinnamon in the country, who have prac-
tically driven white labor out of the market.
A party of Knights of Labor waited upon
Governor Albeit, OF New Jersey, recently
and asked him to make special reference in
his message to the facts that school accommo-
dations in Jersey City are inadequate; that
the child labor bill Is not enforced in the state,
and that unskilled mechanics are appointed
to positions in the navy yard
According to The London Globe, York
shire man, who describes himself as sober,
honest, industrious, civil, willing and oblig-
ing cannot obtain situation because he is
O husband. He has been a servant by pro-
feSsion for twenty-five years and is cOmpe-
tent in every way, but the fatal objection
that he has wife and family meets him mt
every point.
zee Hing, Chinaman VINO setrleu III
Pittsburg and had become a Presbyterian,
committed suicide the other day because the
heather Chinese of the place tormented him.
Stephen f. Seward, of Rising Sun, Ind,
died of Addison's disease the other day. Only
few cases OF the sort have ever been known
and they have invariably proven mortal.
The disorder is caused by diseased suprarenal
capsuus and its chief symptom is the dis
coloration of the skin. Seward was origi-
nally blonde, but before his death he had
become black as n negro
An interesting operation of flesh grating,
one of Mr. Paul Bert's discoveries, has just
been performed by a young French surgeon.
A workman had his foot scorched by molten
iron and the skin was destroyed over a sur
face of about eight inches by four The sur
geon took four strips of flesh from the thigh
Of young man and four from a frog and
transferred them TO the wound which healed
in few days.
B. Anderson, Swede, lost his way near
Shakopee, Mimi, and wandered into creek,
where his boots were filed with water, which
quickly turned to ice. Being convinced that
he was about TO freeze to death, Anderson
cut his throat with penknife ard lay down
to die When he was found by farmer his
hands and feet were frozen solid and his
windpipe was severed, but he was alive. 1t
is thought that he will recover from his inju-
ries.
W. r. Sonner, Of Fort Worth. Tex, has
mad stone that has been used over 100 times
and>with success. 1t has history In ls48
Capt Wilson, Of Alabama, killed q white
deer, and, knowing the Indian theory, looked
In its stomach and there found stone as
large as gooseegg that resembled petrified
sponge This was the mad stone The In
dian theory is that the white deer Is more
susceptible to vegetable poisons taken into
the stomach when eaten with grass than
other animals. To preserve the life OF the
animal nature has placed in the stomach this
porous stone, which absorbs the poison, neu'
tralises 1t, and saves the desrs Life.