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The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
Seedlings Of Robert Sigel.

Sometime since information wa!
 received at the Pension Bureau II
 Washington of irregularities in the
 United States Pension Agency ir
 New York City. General Franz
 Sigel is the Pension Agent. j Special Agents Josiah E. Jacobs and Thomas J. Shannon came here, and as the result of their investiga- tions they arrested Robert Sigel, son of General Franz Sigel.
 Robert has been employed as his fathers private secretary and conf dential clerk. He is accused of for gery and violating the pension laws by receiving fees from pensioners.
 Robert Sigel is thirty years old and has been living with his wife at his fathers residence, 563 Mott avenue.
 According to his written comics sion during the four years in which he has been employed in the pen sion agency he has violated the pension law over 150 times and re- ceived fees ranging from fl to $400 i for obtaining pensions. This is a species of misdoing on which the Government is especially severe.
 He seemed completely dazed by | his arrest and insisted on making a of what he called his in- discretion.
 When young Sigel was arraigned before United States Commissioner | the special agents charged him with forging the indorsement of Sidney Knight on two checks drawn August 25th, to Knights or der.
 Sidney Knight is blind veteran of the late war, who is living at Port Henry, Essex county, and by .h; transaction lost $500.
 In his examination Sigel admit ed that he had forged Knights name, but argued that he had ob- .ained the pension for the old man md that Knight had been perfectly with what he had received.
 The penalty that can be imposed s ten years for each oGense.
 Commissioner Shields commit ed Sigcl to the LudIow-street jail n default of $20,0O0 bail to await ] examination. !
 General Franz Sigel is complete ' y heart broken at his sons dis 2 .race.-S. r. Examiner. '
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

As for the new States, we have no
 objection to them. The people would be better off under Federal protection with light taxation. The National Government now pays a great portion of their expenses, while under statehood they will have the privilege of paying all themselves. But so long as States are made to please the politicians the interests of the people do not count for anything. The Democrats passed the bill admitting the new States to forestall the Republicans who were preparing to do so as soon as they might get possession of the Government. The principle of independent statehood is one of the great safeguards against Con- gressional aggression, but when the Senate, which represents the States in the National Government, is the chief agent in undermining the power of the States, they will not much longer be able to withstand the efforts of the central govern ment to extinguish the real force and power of State sovereignty.- N. o. Picayune.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
Some Large Castings.

The last of the large steel cast Ing for the hull of the new cruiser San Francisco was made at the Pacific Rolling Mills some days ago. Something like 26, ,OOOpounds ot metal was heated in the furnace for twelve hours to a temperature of 1000 degrees, and a short rail- way had to be constructed upon which the ladle holding this heated mass was carried to the mold. It took a minute and a half to tap the furnace and but twenty-three seconds to empty the ladle.
 When this casting-the port strut-is completed, it will weigh 16,5OO pounds and will have a ten- sile strength of 65,OOO pounds to the square inch.
 The sternpost, cast June 4, 1888, weighed 12,S80 pounds; the ram, cast August 9th, 27,49O; the star board strut, cast January 9th, 16,- 600, and the rudder frame, cast December 18th, 1S,4OO. The cast ings are all subjected to rigid ex- animation by Governmnet officials. s. F. Examiner.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
Under The Rushing Herd.

Two young men learning to be cowboys were trampled to death
 near the Swectwater Thursday, and
 a third barely escapes the cattle's
 hoofs by his speed as runner. All
 three invited their peril by ventur-
 ing on the range on foot. George
 and Albert Avery, brothers, and
 the son of wealthy farmer near
 4oungston, O., came out here in
 December They money and expect
 ed to buy a range in the Spring.
 This Winter they were learning the
 business at the ranch of a friend,
 another Ohio man, whose brief ex-
 perience as a stockman dates back
 only to last August. Daniel Stock well, the owner of tie ranch, and the two AYerys took advantage of the light snow yesterday morning to go jackrabbit hunting.
 Not knowing the effect that the sight of a man on foot has on range cattle they strode along in their heavy boots until they were four or five miles from the ranch. They had shot considerable game and were within half mile of Indepen- dence Rock, celebrated landmark of overland travel in 1S49, when they noticed a DuDch of some 3OOI or 100 cattle running towards them their heavy heads and tails high in the air. It struck StockweIl that the herd was making for them, and he gave the warning and started to run, throwing away his gun and game. The two boys ran a little way and then turned and fired at .he oncoming herd. The steers n the lead swervcd to one side, but hose behind rushed on and the young men went down beneath the pounding hoofs and were trampled nto an unrecognizable mass.
 Stockwell never stopped running ill he had reached Independence Rock and climbed toa place of safe : y. The herd dashed past him and we're soon ont of sight. The re- mains of the unfortunate cowboys we're to be buried this morning, . nd Stockwel is reported to be al- oo nost wild with grief.-New York v Ferld.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

"One swallow does not make a
 summer" This is an ancient Creek
 proverb, and may be found in Aris-
 totle in this form: "One swallow
 maketh not spring, nor a wood cock winter" (Ehic. Nicom. lib. i.) In Attica the children were given a holiday when the swallow first ap- peared. Horace connects the ze- phyrs of spring with the arrival of the swallow. In Italy and Spain the proverb still runs, "One swallow does not make a spring" But in more northern latitudes the swal- lows appear later, and here prover- bial literature denies that a single swallow makes a summer. In Northbrooke's "Treatise Against Dancing" 1888, the proverb reads, Cone swallow proveth not that summer is near" Shakespeare, in "Timon of Athens" Act IT., Scene 6, says: "The swallow follows not the summer more willing than we your lordship." Dr. Fowler gives the 18th of April as swallows day. Magazine.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

The failure of the Panama Canal scheme seems to be absolute, and not far from S25O,OO0,O0O have thus been hopelessly sunk, while the sum necessary to complete the en- terprIse is estimated at $90,C00,0O0 more. Work has nearly been dis continued, and it is conceded that it will entirely stop within a few weeks. While this gigantic failure is a pitifuI one for the thousands of French people who have invested their savings in it through conf- dence in De Lesseps, it will greatly improve the prospects of the Nica- ragua Canal enterprise, in which American capital and genius are now earnestly interested.-Railway Age,
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

There are points in the London
 method of banking which New York officials might study with advan- tage. Particularly worthy of their attention is the custom of allowing interest on deposits. As a rule the only depositorS who now get inter est from New York banks are other banks and financial institutions, nothing being allowed to individual This is reversing the true rule. Institutions are always the first to draw out their money when the rate of interest goes up, and only let it lie so long as they can not profitably use it them selves. Individuals, on the con- trary, are not so keenly on the look out, and if they were getting and interest on their money they would leave it in the bank, whereas now they are fairly forced into drawing 1t out by the knowledge that it is earning nothing.-Rhodes's Journal of Banking.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

General Clark, Clerk of the House of Representatives received from the Governor of West Virginia cer- tiGcate of election of Congresses men for the Third and Fourth dis triets of that State. TEey are is sued in the name of the Democrat candidates. This makes Repub- lican majority of three in the next House.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

Mrs. Mosley, the wife of an Eng fish army officer, and a former American heiress. has been creat- ing sensation in Monte Carlo this season by her reckless play. Two weeks ago she lost $50,000 at a single sitting.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

A Texas steer lifted carriage and baby off street and over a high fence in Denver without the least damage. Indeed, the baby cackled with delight over the per tormancc, and the nurse did not have to stop her Irritation with a soldier.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

The body of a man found. hang ing to tree in Missouri had this card pinned to it: "I die because I am too durned lazy to live. If the rest of you feel as I do you will let me hang here until my bones fall of their own accord"
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
Marriage and DiT0Fce.

! m England, ln response to certal ? articles in the Contemporary Re view and the London Telegraph l the anonymous work which bear the above title, and which has nov
 made timely appearance in thi.
 country. It is not a contribution
 to the subject, ''Is marriage a fail
 ure?" though it is related thereto
 Tie author, whose pseudonym is
 Alp. Richard, is a scholar well versed
 in both church and legal lore, and
 probably is a minister belonging to
 one of the numerous religious bo-
 dies of England. Though a con-
 scientious believer in and an earn
 est adherent to the inspiration and
 trUstWorthiness of the Scriptures,
 old and new, he urges an unpreju-
 diced consideration of the matter
 and the abandonment of partisan
 or sectarian influences in the desire
 to know the truth and the princi-
 pies of justice. Briefly summarized
 his views are somewhat as follows
 Deeply religious himself, he argues
 strongly against the claim of the
 Church to the almost exclusive
 right of performing the marriage ceremony. With a thorough ac-
 quaintancc with tie Hebrew and
 Greek Scriptures and g masterly ar ray of citations, facts, and logic, he combats the stand taken by modern church authorities, and argues that polygamy is not condemned nor prohibited in the Gospel writings, but that, while it should not be con demned on religious grounds among any nations or races of men, it should be cOunten&nced only under very restricted limitations, such as assertion, insanity, penal servitude, and perhaps some others. He holds our present laws aGd popular sen- timents on some points relating to marriage to be not in true accord ance with the authority on which they are based-namely, the teach ing of the Scriptures. Regarding divorce he says: "This permanent union of man and wife cannot be justly insisted upon as a Christian
 duty except in a church where the principles of church discipline are and effectually maintain ,d." The distinction between the luties of Church and State is de- ined as "the Church to teach and its own doctrines and dis ,ipline among it's own members
 he State not having any commis- ion to teach or enforce religious { logmas, but only to maintain such fundamental principles of religion ; md morality as are generally ac- epted by the people, as being es- ential to the general welfare, and ; uch as do not trespass on the due l iberty of conscience of any indi- ( iduaI." Notwithstanding the some l 'hat revolutionary deductions of I he author, 1t is but fair to state i hat the work is strong, sincere, rev I rent, and hi9h-minded throughout. I t is the conscientious attempt of i he author to discover and promul- f ate what he regards the truth con erning these great questions which [ fleet so deeply the lives and hap [ mess of the communitY.-Public ( opinion. J
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

There is a difference between the lips of a young man and the lips of a young woman, but sometimes it is very small.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
The Monroe Doctrine.

doctrine % tie situation at SamO
 and its practical success, for th
 Chancellor of blood and iron ha
 owned submission to the America
 decree, is a wonderful illustratio
 of the power which America is [,
 wield, without the expenditure of
 dollar or the cost of a life, in th
 affairs of half the world. The Uni
 ted States had a scattered popula
 ton of barely 10,000,0O0 in 1923
 when President Monroe boldly in
 formed tLe world that the time haC
 come for asserting, "as a principle
 in which the rights and interests o
 the United States areinvOlvcd, that
 the American continents, by the free
 and independent position which
 they have assumed and maintain.
 are henceforth not to be considered
 as subjects for future colonization by any Europaan power" and tlat any interference by a European power with tie affairs of any Amer jean nation would be regarded Gas the manifcseat5on of an unfricndly disposition toward tic United
 States" Probably Monroe himself never dreamed of the immensc i'm portance which should ultimately attach to the new doctrine. Like the classical athlete who began his training by carrying a calf on his shoulders and kept it up daily un- til he was able to lift full-grown OX, the young giant of the West has borne a growing responsibility un- conscious of it's ipcreasing weight.
 Sixty years ago the Monroe doe Urine, baldly stated, meant that no European power must assail the in- tegrity of any nation on the conti- nent of America. Twenty-Five years ago 1t meant that Mexico should not be cursed with an emperor and a foreign court. MaXimilian's tinsel crown fell when the Monroe doe Urine was invoked. About the same time England's intended "Kingdom of Canada" became suddenly con- Herted into an inohensive "Domin- ion" Within a decade Great Bri- tain has been warned off from her designs on West Indian territory, l and her aggrcssions on Venezuela | have attracted such notice that, had | we a Secretary Of State made of firmcr than putty, they would have drawn down a writ of ejection which is at present only postponed, not over-ruled. Four gears ago, when France was begin ming 10 get a foothold on the 18th mus of Panama, the incident of Prestan's rebellion sufliced to draw out the latent power of the United States, and it required only cou- pie of ships at either end of the transit and the landing of a few marines to show that the elastic doctrine was able to cover any pos 3ible contingency there. Now it is he islands of the sea, thousands of miles away from the American con ,inent, which are being protected rom foreign aggression by the com )rehensive doctrine of Monroe. Bismarck would make short work of such a doctrine if it were put onward by any European power, ,ut he is too wise to risk an open collision with the United States { wen for a more serious cause. Won ierful that the most aggressive and ,ugnacious power in the world is : to bow 10 a principle nunciated as a principle and no; $ law by dead and gone Presi- cnt seventy years ago.-Boston 'ilot.
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The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

Niagara Falls, taken clear across, has not worn away so fast but that they will be there for your great grand children to look at,
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14
Constitutional Japan.

The announcement that Japan
 has a new Constitution and will be
 henceforth governed constitutional
 ly Is bewildering, because it is i'm
 possible to associate constitutional
 ideas and practices with the Japan
 ese. Yet for many years there has
 been strong liberal tendency among the more intelligent statesmen of
 the country, and those who knew
 Arinori Mori, the Japanese Minis
 ter at Washington fifteen or sixteen
 years ago, who was one of the most liberal and progressive leaders in Japan, have seen with sincere sor- row the report of his recent as8as- sinatio2.
 During his mission in this coun- try, and largely by his sympathy and support, the attempt was made to establish in Japan our system of public schools. Iwakura also who came at the head of the special Japanese mission at the same time, was q statesman in full sympathy with Arinori, and attemps have been made also upon his life. Ari- i nori was a jealous student and ad- mirer of American institutions, and he promoted the education of clev- eE Japanese youth in this country, that they might return to forward effectively the liberal movement at home.
 Details of the constitutional scheme are yet to be received. But here must be necessarily distrust 'f a political change which proceeds rom a few highly educated and 'b!e political leaders, instead of { developing from the general nation Il condition and intelligence. Sue { ,essful free institutions are not :, given to people by a power above hem. They are the result of tra- i litions, long and tentative expe- fence, and natural aptitude Even t France adjusts herself to them very 1 lowly and with extreme difficulty. { The suggestion of them in Japan is Y me of the most remarkable in pol [ tical history.-Harpers Weekly. V
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

General Rosecrans was placed on the retired list, to date from March 1, 1889.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-03-14

Nothing is more embarrassing to its poSsessor than q reputation which he has not deserved. A laurel wreath awarded by chance becomes absurdly heavy, and the unfortunate wearer, though he may long to toss it into the nearest thicket, is usual ly unable to tug it from his brows. When the late Professor Moses Stuart Phelps was a student at New Haven, he one morning took walk with Professor Newton, who lived in the world of mathematics.
 Professor Newton, according to his usual habit, began the discus sion of an abstruse problem. As he went deeper and deeper, MT. Phelps mind wandered farther and farther from what was being said. At last his attention was recalled by his companions remark, which, you see, give us K"
 Does it?" asked MT. Phelps, thinking that, in common polite ness, he ought to say something.
 "Why. doesn't it?" excitedly ex- claimed tiie professor, alarmed at the possibility that a flaw had been detected in his calculations. Quick ly his mind ran back over his work. There had indeed beer a mistake.
 You are right Mir. Phelps; you are right!'' he shouted. It doesn't give us "z;; ;" i! give us 'y."
 From that hour he looked upon MT. Phelps as a mathematical prod igy. He was the first man who had ever caught the professor nap ping.
 And so," Mir. Phelps used often to add, in telling the story, T a reputation for knowing a thing l hate. It's the way many afe made in this super GciuI world" Detroit Free Press. 1
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19

The lumber business OF Eastern
North Carolina is becoming i'm
meuse, says the Wilmington Star,
and has grown rapidly within the
past few years, especially in the sec
III tributary TO the Cape Fear and
adkin Valley railroad, where nu.
erous sawmllls are constantly EN-.
Dyed in shaping it for market.
The pine lumber is in great demand
IN the North and is shipped as tar
north as Boston, 10y rall, and also
South into Georgia, while large
quantities Of hard timber are shipped
to Europe for ship building purposes
Both the pine and hard woods o.
this State have a reputation in this
country and abroad second to nc
timber in the world, and the demand
Tor it here aud elsewhere is annual
" Increasing. Our forests, if indici
ously handled, will Prove in the III
ture one OF the most valuable pos
sessions OF our people.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19
Epoch.

The transition from long, linger,
ing and painful sickness to robust
health marks an epoch in the lite OF
the individual. Such a remarkable
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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19

The postal service ia greatly in
need OF Improvement. In the hot
haste to turn out Democrats and put
in Republicans, first by suspension
and then by evasion or fiat violation
OF the laws regulating appointments
to office, the postal establishment
has been SO badly demoraIized since
March 4th that it does stand in very
urgent need of immediate and radi-
cal improvement. Between March
Goth and May LIST there were in the
hallway mail service alone 1,134
changcs.-Neac York Star.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19
Wilmington Messenger
Big guns. krnnp has

Big guns. krupp has made a gun
weighing 235 tons. 1t is 40 feet
long. It's calibre is Ii - inches.
It's range is eleven miles. Two shots
a minute, each costing over $3.50,
The ~projec,'le used is 4 feeA long,
weighs 1900 pounds, and requires
100 pounds of powder. 1t pene-
trated l9 l.2 inches OF armor and
vent l,2l2 yard, beyond the target.
1t beats the world. The English
war vessel Victoria carries two Ill
ton guns. They cost nearly 800, 600
each. They weigh, including car,
riage, etc., 30,OO0'pounds.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19

Mr.. Walter r. Benjamin., of %
West 23d ST., New York City, is
collecting for historical societies, let
tiers of North CaroIinians and other
Southern men who were distinguish
ed in the Revolutionary War. He
pays large prices for these old let
tiers, and writes that he thinks there
are many Of them stored away in
the old garrets of iiilIsboro. North
Carolina may we'll teel proud OF the
gallant men who sacrificed life and
property in the Revolution, aud it
is only proper that their merits
should receive recognition even at
this late day.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19

For years / have been constantly
troubled with humors in the blood,
which caused the breaking out OF
bolls and carUuncles all over my
body, that when bruised would make
a lasting, ugly sore. l consulted
macy eminent physicians and took
a great deal of medicine without any
perceptible benefit. Nothing help
ed me but Switt's Specific IS. s. 81
That medicine cured me! am now
enjoying excellent health, aud there
is not . blemish of any kind on my
body. MICHAEL MCITALE,. Bulo.
n Nebraska.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-10-19
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