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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
STORMS AND FLOODS.
A Deluge In PennsyIvania-Sn
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at Montreal.
SCRANTON, Pa. December 1S.--A heavy
rain storm Sunday night and Monday
caused a rise in the Lackawanna river.
The debris borne, down the stream was
blocked by the bridge. The water thus
damned overfowed the banks and sub
merged one of the principal thorough
fares of the city for quarter of mile.
When the people awoke this morning.
tLey found their property covered with
water to the depth of several feet, and
themselves impris soned in their homes.
Passengers had to go about in boats to.
day. The damage to property was great.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, December 18 The
water in the Susquehanna river at this
point is rising rapidly, and a serious
flood is feared.
CARLISLE, December 18-Reports
from the surrounding country and
number of towns in the Cumberland.
Valley show that thousands of dollars
worth of property was destroyed last
night by one of the most disastrous rain
and wind storms which has visited this
section. In the rural districts dwelling
houses were unroofed, barns blown down,
trees uprooted and fences blown to
pieces. ~
MONTREAL, December 1S.-A big
storm which came on Montreal last even
ing and left this afternoon, has enveloped
the city in genuine winter at last. Con-
siderable damage was done by the severe
gale.
HARTFoRn, Conn.,, December 18.-At
midnight the Connecticut river was 1917
feet above high water mark and steadily
rising at the rate of inches an hour.
This rise is unprecedented and serious
apprehension is felt.
CANAJoHARIE, N. Y, December 49,
A severe blizzard ragged in the Mohawk
valley to-day. Trains are delayed.
PORTLAND, Me-, December 1S.--A furi-
GUS blizzard is raging in this section.
Steamers will not proceed until the storm
abates. The Boston boat arriving this
had one Of the roughest times
she ever experienced.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
PUGILIsrIC. DIPLOMACY.
kilrain's Friend Makes a New
Bluff at Sullivan.

Bluff at sullivan.
New YORK, December 1S-Kilrain's e
friends in this city have published in an
evening paper this statement:
Jake Kilrain's friend, Richard Roe,
will post 50, 900 with the Park National
Bank or any other reputable bank in
New York City, in the name of Richard
Roe. Kilrain's friends will then
notify Sullivan and his hackers to
meet meet .1 them at place outside
States to arrange a match for IS 900 or
$4,000 side, diamond belt and cham
pionship of the world, q party agreed
upon at the meeting for final stakeholder
to be made custodian of the money depos-
tied at the Park National Bank. If Sui
livan and his hackers desire to arrange q
patch without any buncombe and in a
business-like way, they will agree to
these terms, which every sporting man
will allow are fair and business-like.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
smugalers ana opium

ST.. PAUL. December 18.-Another of
the opium smugglers was arrested. at
Battineau, Dakota, last night. His
name is A. q. yCurran. and he was the
agent through whom the opium was
shipped from Manitoba to interior points
in the United States.
SAND BEACH. Mich, December 49,
The Government agents here recovered
forty pounds more Of smuggled opium.
There are still 500 pounds which the,
officers are searching for.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
saved by a wild Engine.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, December 1s.-The
second attempt to wreck the Texas ex.
press on the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad was made this morning at
Lyman station. The switch bolts had
been removed and the rails spread to
throw the train over an embankment.
Fortunately for the 200 people on the
train, a wild engine running ahead,
plunged throught the swith. The en-
gine was demolished and the rails we're
torn up for quarter of a mile. The
fireman with broken ankle dragged
himself back more than mile and
tagged the train, saving it from destruc.
tion. There is no clue to the perpetra.
tors.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
SHADES OF SHARON.
Litigation over the Miliionaire,s
Estate Not Yet Ended.

expected suit, the object of which is to
States tate Court of this district, ct his has been been
commenced. 1t is instituted by w. L
Bramhall in the shape o. bill Of equity
ct al. and Sarah Althea Terry, claiming
to be the widow of William Sharon, to
quiet title to certain lot and restrain
defendants from claiming title thereto.
Plaintiff alleges that the Sharons claim
the lot through tax sale.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

Lie Halford, the President-elect's
Secretary, when managing editor Of the
Chicago Inter-Oceaa, discharged young
man named Melville w. Stone for what
he termed "incompetency." Stone
started the Chicago Nesrs, and made it
one of the most successful properties in
the West Halford applied to him for
employment. "No," said Stone, with a
sardonic smile, "your Judgment of men
is bad. ."-[ Alta.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
AMUSE EMENrS.

The New Los Angeles Theater
Popular.
A very good house assembled again
last night at the Los Angeles Theater to
see the repeat of Diplomacy by Miss
Jeffreys-Lewis and her company. The
melo. drama is somewhat threadbare be-
fore Los Angeles audiences. 1t will
give place tonight to very interesting
play, new here, La Belle Russe.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

Treasurer Dudley is so busily engaged
IN putting down the "lewd Democracy"
with mailed hand" that he has no
Time to show the courts in Indiana that
otner hand which drafted the circular
ABOUT hoaters' in "blocks Of fire p
lPhiladelphia Record, (Ind.)
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

"Grindstone, what ails you? You look
as If you had lost fifty pounds of flesh
eince / saw you last." Fifty pounds !''
exclaimed Grindstone, with q groan.
"kiljofdan, don't mock at q mans
misery. / have lost 800 pounds of flesh.
| lost Jersey COW on Cleveland. ."-TChi.
cago Tribune.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

American fiction OF to-day, whatever
may be its origin, is predominantly
Southern in type and character. Hardly
q novelist OF prominence, except Mr..
Howells and Mr.. James, but found it
necessary to yield to the prevailing de.
mand and identify himself with Southern
types.-[A. w. Tourgee, in the Decem Der
Forum.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
Notice to Mail subscribers.

Tte paperg Of all DELINQUENT mail SubscrlDers
TO the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD will be
proYnp pity discontinued hereafter. No papers
Will be sent to subscribers by mail unle.s the
same have been paid for in advance. This rule
is iraexible. AYERS 4 LYNCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

When the smoke of the battle has
cleared away; when peckirg and carp
ing politicians are sent to the rear /;
when future events have lifted the
shadow from the last few years, Mr..
Cleveland will be recognized as one oi
the bravest, tru-st and most capable
Presidents the country ever had.-TNew
Haven Register. (Den
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

cur greatly increased facilities we are prepared
20 execute al kinds of job work in a superior
manner. Special attention will be given to
viii be promptly filed at modei ate rates.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
AtlCntie Stealnsh lbs.

LoNRoN, December ls.-British Queen
from Boston.
GLASGOW, December 18.--Carthage-
nian from Boston.
QUEENSTOWN, December 1s.-Spain
from New York.
PHILADELrHIA, December ls.-Mary-
land from London.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

The .beet-sugar factory at WatsonviIle.
is now working up $50 tons Of beets
daily. '
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
JOSEPH d. LYNCH. JAMEs J. AYERS
AYERS & LYNCH, PUBLISHERS.
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS
Az see, per Week, or soc. per Month

LOCAL LCoRREsPoNDEscE from adjacent towns
specially solicited.
p0etCfice order or postal note. The latter should
Hc sent for all sums less than 80.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

Ory1cE OF PUBLICATION, 1885 West Second
street, between Spring and Fort, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
Eastern Echoes.

w. W. Smith, Justice of the Arkansas
Supreme Court, died Tuesday night of
consumption.
Mrs. Waite, the widow of the late
Chlef Justice, is lying ill of pneumonia
at her home in Washington.
Jack Rowe and Jim White, of last
years Detroit club, have bought tho
majority Of the stock in the Buffalo Base
bali Club and will hereafter control it.
General Charles G. Dahlgren. formerly
of the Confederate Army, died Tuesday
in Brooklyn. He was brother of Ad-
miral John G. Dahlgren, and they fought
on opposite sides in the war.
The scnooners August Flower and
William Wiler, which sailed for Phila-
delphia together November 10th, are be-
lieved to have sunk at sea during the re-
cent storm, and all on board lost. Each
vessel carried mate, four seamen and a
steward.
i. New YORK, December ia new
dynamite gun is on exhibition at New
York. Projectiles are thrown from the
periphery of a rapidly revolving disc ten
feet in diameter. 1t is estimated that
shells can be thrown over gve miles.
The fourth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Indian Defense Association was
held in Washington Tuesday. Rev.
Alexander Kent, was reelected Presi-
dent, and among the Vice Presidents are
Judge W. ]. Godfrey, Nebraska; DIR. F.
Grinnell, California, and Colonel w. G..
Harkins, Indian Territory.
Near Knoxville, Tenn, Negro gam
bier, driven from a camp on the Cumber.
land Gap railroad, returned with party
OF friends and attempted to shoot some
of the men. They were driven off with
out any injuries having been inflicted,
and the leader was arrested. On the
road to the Jail mob took him from the
officers and hanged him to tree.
At a session of the Millers' Convention
OF the West and Northwest at Mil
waukee, resolutions were adopted calling
for curtailment of the output of the
mills OF the country for January to one
half the average capacity, naming a
committee of three to regulate the out
put, asking the railroads 70 make the ex-
port rate per cent. less than the in
ternal rate, and forbidding the consign-
ment Of -four by mills for three months
after January l, 1889.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
able Flashes.

VIENNA, December 18.-Count Leo
Thun, formerly member of the Aus
trian Cabinet, is dead.
LONDON. December 18.-A heavy fog is
general in all parts of England.
The Civil Service stores were damaged
5000, 900 by fire this morning.
LONDONDERRY, December 18.-The
centenary Of the seige of Londonderry
by the French forces under James II. Of
England was celebrated to-day with
much enthusiasm.
BERLIN, December lS.-Monsignor
Kirby telegraphs Archbishop Walsh
from Rome that the story that the Pope
refused to bless the reliquaries sent to
him by an Irish priest, is fabrication.
PARIS, December 18.-The sharehald-
ers of the Panama Canal Company have
been invited to sign an agreement to
subscribe for lottery bonds on future
Issue, at 800 francs, and q Thousand have
already signed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19
Ensargfng our Boundaries.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1855
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-19

&tA1 AAhlfEDs
Senator Quay, accompanied. by his
private secretary, F. w. Leach, General
G. II. Williams and Colonel E. B. Brit.
tan, chairman of the Inaugural Commit
Etee, arrived in the city tonight at IL
lo'clock. Ex- President Hayes came on
/ the same train. Colonel Quay sought
his room at once. He was very coarte-
GUS to the newspaper correspondents, but
cautiously avoided talking current poll
tics. When informed that subpoena
had been issued for him to appear before
the Federal Grand Jury, he smiled and
said thot he should not run away on that
account.
WHAT THE soUTHERNERs' VISIT MEANS.
The committee Of prominent South
erners who visited General Harrison to-
day were particular to impress upon the
correspondents that their visit was nom
partisan in the general acceptance of the
term. Inquiry, however, into the causes
and circumstances leading to their visit,
and the formulation Of the address they
presented brings out the fact that beneath
the endorsement Of the protection doc.
trine lies what may prove the greatest
political problem of this generation.
Only the rudiments of the movement
are as yet visible, but beneath ia
a we'll defined programme for the found
ing of new political party in the South
ern States, the leading spirits Of which
shall be the business element, especially
the manufacturing interests Of the South,
one Of the committees said tonight:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-14
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Mania for Collecting Gems.

The gem collector is the latest. /. Is
said that Henry Ward Beecher is respon-
sible for the preseut ;tete for collecting
precious stones and that since his death
many people, women chiefly, have begun
to buy mp diamonds and colored stones,
not for display on their persons, but for
keeps" Such mania has its advan-
tages. In the first place, the risk of loss
is not as great rs with pictures or hric-a-
brac, and in the next place, one little
chamois bag can transport thousands Of
dollars without any special anxiety or the
payment Of express rates, A delicious
handful of sparkiers of every hue was
shown me the other day by IA lady who
has gone in" for several other collection
crazes but who assured me none had
given her so much solid comfort as this.
II never care to wear my diamonds
now," she said, poking at a beautiful
sapphire with the jewelers. nippers she
held in her fingers You can't see your
self, you know, and so I'm going to have
them all taken from their settings like
those diamonds" and she nipped up
solitaire that had hidden itself behind
pearl that looked like gold bead. The
colored stones are all more or less in this
batch; but at home I've hundreds of
queer, odd things that only please the eye
and have no temptation for thieves. My
diamonds, as | add to them, and This ruby,
which hasn't its match in this country,
never leave me. When my friends want
to humor me they ask to see the collection.
Every one wishes to know how much it IS
worth, but that never tell! 1t is great
fun collecting precious stones. Much bet
ter than old furniture and pictures that
can be burned up" Is this an excep
tiOnal case in Boston?-Boston Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-14

The statesmen have some disagreeable
experiences with customers, and it is some
times hard for them to keep their tempers.
The worst fiend they encounter is the
woman who is ''only looking" She will
approach a counter and Immediately
spread herself all over it. She asks to see
some calico of certain print; this does
not suit her, and she asks for another
pattern, only to put it away and call for
something else. After the third call the
clerk begins to grow suspicious; ''she's a
locker - he says to himself Still she
goes on calling for something else.
Haven't you this in red?'
"Yes'm.' The clerk takes down the
desired style.)
''But | wanted something in red, with II
leafy figure; haven't you something In
that lnep'
The clerk looks her over. Eyes, why
didn't You say that was what You
wanteds''
Must | tell you your business; I'm
sure you're the most perfectly awful stu
pd man ever saw; your
But here the desired style is spread be-
fore her 1t does not ,'uit. The leaf is too
leafily lcafy, or the figure is too utterly
too aesthetic, and she suddenly discovers
that it was no, red pattern at all that
she wanted. but blue.
BY this time her ingenuity is exhausted,
and with u sigh she turns away.
81 guess l won't buy today" she says,
because I'm only looking. ID. J. Nc
Grath in Boston Globe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-14

Considerable amounts Of American cap
ital are being invested in some big African
enterprises. The railroad from Delagoa
bay, the best harbor on the east coast of
Africa, which is now completed for dis
lance of fifty-four miles inland, was built
by an American syndicate under a con-
cesson from the Portuguese government.
1t will connect with the line to be built
from Pretoria, the capital of the Trans
vaal. The largest trading company on
the Upper Congo, and the only one that
has yet sent two steamers to the upper
river, is the Sanford company, which was
organized and until recently was managed
by Americans. Considerable Belgian
capital however, is invested in the com
pany. American engineers surveyed and
are now building the railroad from Loanda
to Ambaca, which is backed by the Portu-
guese government. Some American
money also is finding its way into quartz
crushing machinery for the new gold
fields of South Africa. News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-14

It was the custom about five years ago
to have brass signs on doors, and every
merchant invested in bright sheet metal
with name and business painted in in
dented letters. You don't see so many Of
them now, and most Of those you do see
are dingy and coated with dirty oxidized
covering. Merchants know what these
changes in the styles are, but Of all am
acquainted with this has been the most
expensive. 1t is not like the sign one sets
in his door and allows to remain there
without further concern until it goes to
pieces. 1t has been cost Of SIS, and
looked very attractive the first week or
SO. Then the variations Of climate
proved SO great that l had to have it
FURNISHED very frequently in order to
keep i, in good condition. There was .
man here who used to make n business Of
polishing these signs, and for So /. month
he used to come around and FURNISH the
sign. This made the sign cost ME over
800 before the style changed and mer-
chants began to stick porcelain letters on
their windows. Styles in signs seem to
change every three or four years. You
can observe thar by making a survey OF
the business houses, some of which have
signs five. ten and fifteen years old
Merchant in Globe Democrat.
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sOf Al tie ugly elephants I hsve
known" said the trainer. albert vas
the worst You could gain some dea at
his disposition by looking into his eyeA
He used to 60 out into the ring to carry
me in on his tusks after the act was over.
That was all it was possible to train him
TODD. One night at Nashua, n. H., -
one of the keepers was getting Albert
ready for the ring, the elephant sudden
ly turned on him and felled him TO the
earth with q blow from his trunk. An
elephant in attacking man curls up his
trunk and then throws it out, like one
striking straight from his shoulder.
When Albert had knocked the keeper
down. he coiled his trunk about him,
raised him up in the air and then thrashed
the earth with him. breaking every bone
in his body.
when it was learned that Albert had
killed the keeper, the ring master re-
quested members of the local militia COM
pany who were in the audience at the
time to step forward A squad OF them
were requested to appear in the morning
and shoot Albert. could always control
him: indeed, he was perfectly docile to
me when | captured him after he had
killed the keeper and chained him up. !
led him out on the mo Mtg OF the execu-
ton and gave him some hay. Inever saw
him SO docile. As he ate his breakfast
chalked a circle just back Of his fore leg
in the region Of the heart Then twenty
seven militiamen stood of a little dis
lance and ut the word of command fired
into that circle. Five bullets pierced the
elephants heart, and he dropped dead,
making the ground trcmble as he fell.
Success in handling elephants depends on
letting them know that you are boss, and
never for moment relaxing your stern
discipline. New York Evening Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-14

1t is not easy for n good actor to play
corpse. Miss Annie Russell had an ex-
perience the other evening that illustrates
a scarce suspected difficulty, yet one that
might easily turn sad scene into ridic-
ulous farce. In the last act for fully If
teen minutes, the lady maid of Astolat Is
seen by the audience stretched out upon
her bed that has been lain upon the barge,
her limbs rigid, her features firm and one
hand visible, stiffened in death. A white
light IL thrown upon her A feeling of
sadness pervaded the audience as they
watched the pale countenance. Not a
single person in the theatre knew what
was passing through the mind Of the
corpse. Miss Russell was in perfect
agony She felt that her rigidity of limb
and pensiveness of feature were sadly i'm
periled. Her nose twitched, and she felt
that she was about to sneeze. Horrors
Farewell, smooth, placid features locked
In death; farewell, tears standing in many
eyes. and. rrorsl-laughter, convulsive
laughter! Fortunately she did not sneeze.
"But, oh my! if had" she said plain
lively, would it not have been perfectly
awfui,''-New York Herald
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''What do you think that iss" inquired
wholesale stationer of the writer, at
the same time handing the latter sheet
OF note paper of excellent quality and the
finest finish.
Paper answered the reporter Cant
you give me something hard?n
''Oh, yes; of course it's paper, but
what's it made froms''
Linen rags
''Just what thought you'd say, but
you see you don't know it ALL No sir;
that paper which appears to be, and is
equal to paper manufactured from linen
rags, was in its natural state nothing but
the stems and waste Of the tobacco plant.
A use has thus been discovered for thou
sands of tons Of material, that has hereto
fore been practically worthless. Another
new paper making material is bamboo,
which, after being crushed to pulp, can
be made into an excellent quality of pa
per. shouldn't be very much surprised"
added the stationer, ruminatively, "to
hear that some genius had succeeded in
manufacturing paper from pulverized
cobble stones. Its great country, and
you can't most always tell what's going
TO happen. Mail and Express.
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passed through one of the principal
thoroughfares of st. Petersburg, and OBJ
served that the upper fronts of many OF
the business houses were covered with cot
fee sacks. inquiry revealed the fact that
beneath those sacks were beautiful signs,
and the covering was to protect them from
the dust in summer time. induced a
merchant to show me one of these signs
six by eighteen feet, partially mosaic, a
portion painting. He was chemist, and
there were pictures Of bottles Of ointment
and perfumery; sick people and doctor
to represent medicine; paint brushes and
samples of the paint; insects on animals,
to represent flea and like powders, and
pictures of fancy articles. The sign would
be valuable acquisition to the Corcoran
art gallery at Washington, and must have
cost several hundred roubies even to the
cheap hands of Russian artst-Moscow
Cor. Cleveland Leader.