davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05

Deputy e. R. Drake, of New
Hampshire, writes Two new
Pomona and seven new Subordi-
nate Oranges fire insurance com
pany, and an enlargement Of the
trades card facilities, since the
annual session in December, might
not show much fraternal pride in
the hearts of Patrons in some of
the larger States, but it shows that
New Hampshire Patrons are up
and doing Fl"
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05

Queen City Grange, Bangor,
Me-, has built during the past sea
son q handsome new hall, and al
ready begins to feel the benefits of
having a home Of its own, as new
members are beginning TO be at
tracted to it.
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05

Taggart. of Blue Ridge, Missori,
writes: eve are going to dedicate
our new hall and make a grand
public demonstration Our store
is doing an immense business, far
surprising our most sanguine ex-
peetations."
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05
THE PICAYUNE,
The Leading Newspaper Of The South

THE DAILY PICAYUNE
Is independent and fearless in its edito-
rial conduct Il has the widest and
most complete system of news gathering
hY telegraph and correspondence. and
the most accurate and complete mar
keg, commercial and financial state
ments published in New Orleans.
THE SUNDAY PICAYUNE,
Which may be taken separately from
the daily subscription service, is full
and complete In alfsnews departments.
with the added features Of household,
fashion and society talk. and feast Of
choice original and selected literary
matter for home reading. The special
writings OF Cathnrins Cole, Henry
HaYnie Paris correspondent. Jennie
June, Mollie Moore Davis and many
others, appear IN the Sunday issue.
THE WEEKLY PICAYUNE.
This mammoth l6-page paper is the
best and cheapest weekly paper pub
lished in the South. In 9 condensed
form it contains all the news Of the
werk. the cream Of all literary matter
and the hest special features Of the
sunday Issue. with an important Agri-
rrltutI Department aud the Latest
Mlrset Rrpafts The Weekly is pub
Ii urd every Thursday, and reaches all
subscribers for sunday reading
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
DAILY-7 IssUKs A WEEK.
One year. .;..................... flS "
Ihree months. ..s..ss............ "
SUNDAY PICAYUNE ny MAIL.
Ohe year .................~..---. y W
WEEKLY PICAYoNE.
bH| fHaH-.... ....sss.-.....,s.ss 81 %
NICHOLSON s. CO., Proprietors,
New Orleans, La
One copy free 10 anyone getting up
club Of three subscribers
The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-07-05

Yuba City Grange, Colorado,
talks of building a hall this sum-
msr. A committee has the matter
in charge. Several offers of lots,
etc, have been rendered them.
The Farmer says P. L. Bunce off.
ers an acre Of land aud $500 in
cash If they will 60 to his place.
State Deputy Ready, OF Illinois,
says: 81 have been out in the field
most of the time since December,
and have addressed more audi.
enoes since that date than any
other man in ILLINOIS. The Grange
in this State has taken great
boom, and we hope TO keep it mp.
The prospect could hardly be
brighter"
, 1888-05-05
Railroad

BosToN, May 4.-The Post says to day:
There have been whispers in the air for
some time past regarding a big deal on
foot in Atchison. 1t now transpires, and
We have our information from good
sources, that the something in the air is
the grand consolidation, or better, the
absorption of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railway system by the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe. 1t is further reported
that this transaction is practically accom-
plished,, barring the details, which are
being closed up by Col. Mutt. president
of the Atlantic & Pacific. 1t is claimed
that the whole matter will be closed within
a week at the furthest. The absorption
of the St. Louis & San Francisco means
the absorption of the Atlantic & Pacific
and its numerous feeders, giving the
Santa Fe control of about 5000 miles of
road.
, 1888-05-05
Queen Kap1oIan1,s Big Dog.

New YORK, May 4-When Queen
Kapiolani, of the Sandwich Islands, was
in America last summer she made several
distinct and separate %conquests. She won
$1,000 worth of flowers, for example,
from the aesthetic municipality of Bos-
ton; she was accorded the free and sepa-
rate use of w. X. Vanderbilt's private
car. in which to cross the continent, and
ever in San Francisco she won a dog.
The same was a st. Bernard of high de-
gree. Lawrence Richards, a G por-
ter. who lives in East Forty fourth streel,
was the ministrant to Queen Kapi's COM
forts on board MIR. Vanderbilt car. He
so endeared himself to the dusky queen
that when they parted company in San
Francisco she gave him the dog. The
dog S name was Kapi, too.
Mr.. Richards papa lives in Jackson
vile, Fla, and run a hen roost. He
Orchards, pere, J wrote to him Orchards,
Jfis,) that bad, bold men were robbing the
hen roost. Richards, pere, wanted a
strong and intelligent dog. Richards, fb,
decided to send Kapi on to his papa. He
gave him to a messenger boy in the en-
ploy Of the District Telegraph company to
turn over to the steward of the coast
steamer Cherokee, Out of all these com
plications has arisen a suit that was to-day
argued before Justice Morell. The dog
Kapi never reached Jacksonville. The
messenger boy lost the dog, or the dog
lost the messenger boy. SO Mr.. Richards
is suing for the alleged value of the dog
$1,000. Justice Morell will take till Mon,
day to settle it.
, 1888-05-05

NASHVILLE, May 4.-Three -fourths
of a milc-Golightly won, Tom O'Shan-
ter second, Jim Nave third. Time, 1:I73.
One mile-Tudor won, Fredenia Sec
ond, Comedy third. Time, l:43.
One mile-Little Minch won, Marshall
Luke second, Wary third. Time, 1855.
Five furlongs-Kee-Vee-Na won, Long
Fish second, Fan King third. Time, EOS.
Six furlongs-Kermese won, Jennie
Mcfarland second, Biddy Bowling third.
Time, l:16t.
WASHINGTON, May AT the closing
day of the spring meeting of the National
Jockey Club the attendance was large,
the weather pleasant and the track fast.
Six furlongs-Patrocles won, Bendigo
second, Maroon third. Time, l:l53.
One mile-Sam Brown won, Orlando
second, Nellie B. third. Time, LAO.
Seven furlongs-Sam Harper, Jr., won,
Golden Reel second, Sam Keene third.
Time, Log.
One and II e.eighth miles-Richmond
won, Vosburg second, Tenboecker third.
Time, 1:563.
Free handicap steeple chase over the
usual course-W ellington won, Bob Miles
second, John Henry third. Time, All.
, 1888-05-05
The Yellow River Disaster.

SAN Francisco, May 3.-The Chinese
Times gives the following concerning the
Yellow river disaster:
The repairs in the great breach of the
fellow river go on very slowly, and it is
said that the difficulties are SO great that
the officials who are supervising the oper-
atoms despair of success. If their fore
bodings prove true, and there is too much
reason to fear that they will, we regret to
say the submerged parts of Honan, COM
prising some of the most fertile, and until
last autumn he most populous part of
that province, will remain a lake. 1t is,
OF course, impossible to form an accurate
idea Of the loss of life, but the calamity
was so immense in its proportions, SO
much so as many cities, many towns and
hundreds of small and large villages were
destroyed by the surging waters. 1t seems
to us the Chinese estimate hat 1000, 900
of people were drowned is not altogether
incredible. In very many places, on the
lower levels especially, not a soul escaped
alive.
The Pekin Gazette of March 5 contains
a report from Lii Hung tsao, who is in SUI
preme control of the repairs to the Vel
low river, in which these significant pas
sages occur: 1T had been decided al
ready for the sake of economizing mate
rails, not to build the two extra walls
which were designed in the original plans;
but it is agreed that the construction OF
break-waters up stream can not be aban
doned, as in such a case the final closing
of the breach, when the time for that
comes, would probably prove to be a fail
ure. At any rate it would not be well to
run the risk. Moreover, as the stock of
millet stalks barely mounts to 5000
stacks, all parties are of the opinion that
there is no positive certainty as to the
completion of the work. 1t is, therefore,
thought better to begin in the first in
stance with the break waters. Then, if
the materials come to hand in suf-
hcient quantity, the eastern en-
bankment will be hurried on at the same
time; in which case, with continu-
GUS work by day and night, the whole
may be finished together. While if the
needful supply of materials unfortunately
be not forthcoming, it will still be possible
to preserve whatever has been construct
ed. Every effort will be used to urge on
those who are charged with the duty of
furnishing materials, as well as to stimu-
late those engaged at the breach itself.
If 1t he found that the adoption of any
new methods can be of use they will be
employed without fail "::Rescript: Noted.
We gather from this that the officials on
the spot have given up hope of repairing
the great breach before the summer
floods. The consequence may be lament
able.
, 1888-05-05

The Quaker never makes oath. He
avoids as far as possible coming where
such procedure is necessary, but if obliged
to make a declaration, the falsity of
which would subject him t. legal pen
atty, he affirms. Nor does he observe
any holy days or feast days. lie believes
that the obligation to regard one day
more than another ceased with the
Mosaic dis%pensation. The visiting Of
theatres, race courses, dancing halls, or
the investment in any kind of lotteries
grab bags in church fairs included-are
declared to be incompatible with the
teachings of the society, and are forbid
den. No matter what station in life you
occupy, a Quaker does not use the pre-
fix "Mr." AS soon as your Christian
name is given you are addressed by it
whenever necessary. All these things
are of course known to the Quakers
themselves, but not TO the average Phila-
delphian. Philadelphia Cor. Globe Dem
Ocrat.
, 1888-05-05
The Garland Shooting.

ALAMOsA, Colo, May 4.-Old Tom
Tobens made his will last night and ad
mitted that he would have to cross the
divide soon. He is game all through,
as was evidenced by the fact hat he shot
three times after he fell and was at
tempting to reload.
The affair is the chief topic of CONVEX
sation at the fort. The Garland people
all side with Carson, while those in
Toben's neighborhood side with him, but
no further trouble is anticipated. Tama-
sta Tokens takes it very hard and at the
time of the shooting threatened to shoot
Carson, but he has made no threats since
and seems more resigned.
, 1888-05-05
Base Ball.

CHICAGO, May Chicago won their
eighth consecutive game from Indianap-
oils to-day. The battery was very strong
on both sides, but the Chicago's punched
hits better than their opponents and earn
ed a victory by good strict work.
Score-Chicago II, Indianapolis I.
DETROIT, May 4.-Pittsburg dropped
another game to day to the champions
through their inability to gauge Conway's
delivery. Calvin was hit for eleven bases
with a total of t~wenty-one. Dunlap, Sun
day and Cancel shared fielding honors.
Thompson's hand was spit in the first
ing by a fly ball and he gave way to SUIT
clitfe, Only a few people were present
owing to the threatening weather.
Score Detroit s, Pittsburg 3.
AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville 5. st. Louis I.
AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati 3, Kansas City 4.
AT CLEVELAND.
The Cleveland Athletics game was post
poned on account of rain.
, 1888-05-05
John LIS

Boston, May 4-John l.. Sullivan,
the hero of Chantilly and the Catalonia,
looked as finely as ever he did in his life
as, clad in full dress and a white tie tucked
In one side of his low-cut vest, he stood
up before 1000 people in Music hall
Wednesday evening at Joe Lannon's ben
eft, and made a very good >speech. He
met with a great reception. Previous TO
his remarks there were several set .tos
with the mutfs between local slugpers.
Then Lannon and Jack Ashton came ont
and took seats in opposite corners of the
immense platform. As Lannon was very
bashful, Sullivan made 4 speech for him.
He said:
There is in Boston a man named Joseph
Lannon. Some day he will take the place
of John l.. Sullivan. 1t would not do to
forget my friend on the left, Jack Ashton
of Providence. He has not seen 50 much
OF the world as | have and is rather BASH
full. He is a good fellow. He shared my
trials and troubles. He is here to night
to spar Mr.. Lannon. Mr.. Ashton wishes
to fight Mr.. Kilrain. Kilrain is a Bos-
tonian as well as myself. He may be a
good fellow as well as myself. There is a
difference between us and W. will settle 1t
some other day. Ashton wants to fight
him, but | want the first crack at him. If
cycr he meets Kilrain and | am alive, he
can call upon John l.. Sullivan for his
second, and | will go through fire and
water for him. Then Lannon and Ash
ton boxed four rounds.
, 1888-05-05
Terrorized by White Cans.

New ALBANY, Ind, May about
forty white caps ca led at the house of
w. II. Toney, at English, Crawford
county, on Tuesday night, dragged him to
a telegraph pole and tied and whipped
him numerically with hickory withes.
The mans body was lacerated in a horri-
BILE manner, and his recovery is doubtful.
lie is a prominent citizen of that county.
The charge against Tonev was drunken
ness and abuse of his family.
a. Jackson Goodman, who also lives
near English, was notified to change his
manner Of doing business by keeping
sober. -
James Pro, editor of the English NccS,
was notified to publish that the white
caps would attend the election next No
yember, and that all persons detected in
buying or selling votes or acting in any
way dishonesty would be treated to 900
lashes. None of the white caps are
known, and it is said they are much
stronger and more diligent than hereto
fore.
, 1888-05-05
BLAINE IN THE FIELD.
About Ready to Open an Ag-
gressive Campaign.
The Piumed Knight to Come
From Under Cover,
And Boldly Work for the Re-
publican Nomination

puu ,nrrpurA. May 1.-The Times
I'll n,,hi;sh tomorrow the following triple
,ondaJ sneeial from New York, which 1t
Iii ondnrse as coming direct from a most
authentic source:
NEW York, May Al have entirely
reIioble information that the friends of
blaine have, within the last three days,
received direct from him his assent to an
aggressive movement Tor his denomination
for president and the assurance that if
nominated in the face of his Florence let
ter of d~eclination he would not feel at lib
crty to de line, and a general and system
attic effort has been made by Blaine's
closest friends, such as Chairman Jones,
William Walter Phelps, Whitelaw Reid,
Charles Emery Smith and others, for two
months past to get Blaine into an attitude
vi a passive candidate.
The Washington conference was only
part Of the varied methods by which the
influences had been brought to bear upon
Blaine and the publishing OF his portrait
freshly taken from life in Italy and issued
by the .Jpdge this week, was decided on
more than a month ago as the starting
point for the effort to make Blaine a can
didate. Every possible pressure has been
put upon Blaine to get from him a direct
assurance that he will not decline if
nominated, and that assurance has
been received in this city from Blaine.
within the last three days.
In n very few days more it will cease to
be a secret that Blaine is in the bands of
his friends, as the Blaine leaders will at
once come to the front and make an ag'
gressive campaign for his denomination.
This movement has been pretty clearly
,r,yhnl,ur,l tar cnp,n wnnIc in urhirh
the Blaine organs-the Tribune of this
city and the Philadelphia Press, and all
affectation about Blaine's candidacy will
now soon be thrown off and the battle
made an aggressive one. 3,
Part of the original programme was
the election of Chas. Emery Smith as
delegate at large from your state and the
failure was a great disappointment to
Blaine's friends in this city, but MIR.
Smith gives the assurance that Blaine
can command n majority of the PennsYl
vania delegation under any circumstance
and hat if Blaine's nomination shall
seem to be assured the delegation will be
solid for him.
The unexpected expressions in Massa-
chusetts and Vermont for Blaine were
not accidental nor were they unexpected
to Blaine's friends. When all the anti
Blaine men were reposing on their arms
because they regarded Blaine as out of
the fight, the friends of Blaine were most
energetic in their work in two anti Blaine
New England states and they made a
good impression in Vermont and Massa-
chusetts while the others were sleeping in
fancied security.
1t was the expression of three hitherto
anti Blaine New England states that
made Blaine cast aside his doubts and as
sent to the opportunities Of his friends for
mis- denomination, 1t is now a positive
fact that Blaine is in the field, that his
friends have his assent to the movement
in his favor and that he will be nominated
at Chicago if hard work and plenty of en-
thusiasm can accomplish 1t.
, 1888-05-05
Switchmen on Strike.

Los ANGELES, Cal, May 4-The
freight department OF the Southern Pa
cific road was tied up to-day owing to a
strike OF switchmen. The night switch
men demanded more pay or shorter hours
of labor and the day switchmen have
joined them. The night men now work
thirteen hours and get the same pay as
the day men working ten hours. The Of
ficials of the road say the men were I'm,
reasonable and hasty and their places will
be filled with new men unless the strikers
return to work at once No settlement
has been reached yet.
A later dispatch says: The differences
between the striking .switchmcn and the
Southern Pacific Railroad company have
been amicably adjusted and the men vii
return to work.
, 1888-05-05
BREVITIEs.

Carl Schurz dined with Prince Bis
marck last evening.
Gen. Boulanger has gone to reside with
his family at Neuilly.
The secretary of the treasury Yesterday
accepted bouds to the of $73S, 100.
Bonds to the amount of So, $50, 900
were offered to the government yesterday.
At San Diego, Gala, a substantial
structure known as the "Old Market
building was burned. Loss $3.50, 900.
AT Virginia City, New, Samuel f.
Black yesterday killed his brother John
l.. Black in a quarrel over some property.
Dispatches from Buenos Ayres say that
the reports of the suspension of the bank
ing houses in that city are without found
alton.
Charley Lyman, for many years at the
head OF the dead letter office, post office
department., died Thursday evening in his
S0th year.
DR.. Bliss, who was physician in chief
to President Garfield. is seriously i'll with
affection of the heart and is not expected
to recover.
At Winona, Mimi, the Mississippi
since yesterday reached the highest point
ever known there, and cellars in the own
are flooded.
Emperor Frederick was less feverish
last evening and the favorable symptoms
give the hope hat he will soon overcome
his present weakness.
The porte will dispatch troops to quell
the disturbance at Monster, Macedonia,
where the Servians and Greeks have re-
belled against Turkish authority.
The French and Spanish military au.
thorities are strongly opposing the ne
gotiations between France and Spain for
two new railways across the Pyrenees.
A terrific cyclone passed over the east
ern portion of Quachita county, Ark,
yesterday. Much damage was done to
bull iings, but no loss of life is reported.
The race for the one thousand guineas
stakes at Newmarket yesterday was won
by Briar Root, Sea Breeze second, Belle
Malone third. There were fourteen
starters.
The people in a number of parishes in
Ireland have warned the priests that il
the pope's rescript against the league is
read in the chapels they will protest
against it by leaving.
The Progressive Labor Party, formed
in opposition to the Henry George party,
has been declared dissolved, it having ac-
complished its object by the withdrawal
of Henry George from his party.
Officials of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe state positively hat there is no
truth in the published report of the alb
sorption of the st. Louis mad San Fran
cisco railroad by the Atchison.
The pope Thursday received a party of
Spanish pilgrims. 1t was expected that
the audience would be made the occasion
for a Carlist demonstration, but nothing
of the kind occurred.
A bad condition of affairs exists in
Londres county, Alabama, growing out of
the recent l%ynching OF a negro murderer
by a white mob, and the negroes threaten
vengeance. -Four companies of troops
have left Montgomery for the scene.
, 1888-05-05

HoT SPHINGs, Ark, May 4.-John Ii.
Atkins, ex chief of police, was fatally
shot in Bryant saloon last night. Atkins
and Joseph Sample, a livery man, had
engaged in swo fist fights during the
afternoon in the same saloon. After the
last fight Atkins armed himself and re
turned to the saloon. Immediately upon
entering the shooting began, three shots
being fired in quick succession. Atkins
was found lying on the floor with a bullet
through his body. He stated that Bry-
ant and Chief of Police Hart shot him.
BRYANT and SAMPLE are under arrest.
, 1888-05-05

"No n will even be able to tell the
real wealth of Alaska" said a furricr to
a reporter. at consists of the abund-
ance of its skinned animals. The
Russians used to value the country for
its furs, and it was mainly for the furs
that this country acquired it from Russia.
The trade has grown very much since its
annexation to this country. The ship
ments of sea otter and fur sealskins alone
have more than doubled during the past
ten years, and-now average annually
81, 500, 900 in value. The list of furs
produced in that part of the country is Il
long one. The land furs comprising
otter, beaver, brown bear, black bear,
red fox, silver fox, blue and white fox,
mink, martin, polar bear, lynx and
musk rat, Rabbits, marnOts and wolver-
ines are also common, but their skins are
retained by the natives. The annual
value of the furs, sea and land, now OBJ
tanned from Alaska is estimated to aver
age IS 5000, 600, and there is no sign of
decrease in the yield, The competition
of the traders for skins has stimulated
the natives to greater industry in hunt
ing, and the prices now paid to the
hunters are from four to ten times more
han were current during the Russian
rule."-New York Mail and Express.
, 1888-05-05
Methodlst Eipiseopal Conferenee

New York, May Bishop Foss of
Minneapolis presided at to.day's session
Of the Methodist Episcopal conference.
The order of the day was the debate on
the eligibility of women as lay delegates.
The debate was opened by DR.. Leonard of
the Cincinnati conference. He began by
saying that he had received a number of
letters warning him not to speak in favor
OF admitting women. He was a strong
advocate for the admission of women, and
he closed by urging hat if women were
not to be recognized they should be al
lowed to vote for the election of lay dele
gates.
Rev. John Miley, president of the
Drew theological seminary, spoke against
the admission of women. If the question
were submitted to a vote Of the women
he believed that nine out of ten would
vote against 1t.
Rev. r. j. Day of the New York con-
ference also argued against the admission
of women. He thought the question,
before it is settled, should be submitted
to a general vote of the church. Woman,
he said, lacked the necessary experience,
and if admitted would weaken the force Of
the lay delegation.
Gen. Samuel H. Hurst, dairy and food
commissioner of Ohio, was the frs. lay
man to gain the floor. lie defended the
right of women to admission. He alluded
to the opponents of women las old
fogies,' and criticised the bishops az
IrnSc
, 1888-05-05
TO Murder.

BosToN, May A prominent real
estate dealer named Luke +. Holman was
last evening arrested Tor consplrlng to
have his sister murdered. The intended
victim, Miss Emiline Holman, resides in
Worcester and owns considerable prop
this into his hands that Holman con-
ceived the plan. He made arrangements
with two men to do the job, but they be-
trayed him to the police. He was ar
rested this afternoon and placed under
$685. 600 to answer.