San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-12
IVORY FROM AFRICA.

IVOH1 fHOm AT NlSAs
Large Quantities Being Received at
Antwerp.
NEW YORK, Oct. San Antwerp
special to the Sun says: A large guam
tity of ivory from the Upper Congo is
now being received by every steamer
from Bona. This season is the first
in which any considerable quantity Of
ivory from the Upper Congo has
reached Europe by way of the west
coast, as most of it has heretofore been
taken to Zanzibar by Arab dealers on
the backs of slaves. The present
movement of ivory down the
Congo is the result of the
influx on the upper river
of white traders who in spite of Stan
ley's opinion that the Upper Congo
would not be worth a penny until the
railroad around the cataracts was
built, have established themselves in
unexpected large numbers.
Three years ago there was not
single white trader on the Upper
Congo. Today Belgian, Dutch and
French trading companies have es-
tablished thirteen trading posts above
the cataracts and these posts are
scattered along the river a thousand
miles, from Stanley Pool to Stanley
Falls. These companies have trans
ported seven steamboats, around the
cataracts. Ten years ago the natives
of the Upper Congo had never seen
steamboat, but today a fleet of
steamers is plying on the upper river
and eleven trading firms most of them
employing large capital, are doing
business between the mouth of the
river and Stanley Falls. 1t will be
remembered that just ten days ago
when Stanley, nearly starved reached
Bona, the present capital of the Con-
60 State, he found there only sixteen
white men. The fact that Oh a recent
occasion 80 white men were domiciled
in Bona illustrates the growth of
the white enterprises on the great
river.
The oldest person who has died this
year, according to the longevity
sharps, was Gottfrled Wapmarek, who
passed away in Germany not many
weeks ago at the undisputed age of
126 years. The oldest person of mod
ern times whose death is recorded &C
curately was Louise Truxo, anEnglish
woman, who was 175 years old when
she died, in 1850. There was Don
Cameron, who may have been an an
cestor of the present family of long
lived Camerons in Pennsylvania, who
died in Scotland in 1859 at the age of
100 years.
The Jews of New York propose to
erect admission building, 10 cost $780,
600, and a fair is to be held in aid of
the project. 1t is said that $4,000
Hebrew immigrants arrive in New
York yearly, of whom 10000 remain
in the city. There are now about
100000 of them in the downtown
districts, the condition of a large pro-
portion of whom 1T is the duty of
| their more fortunate and enlightened
brethren to better. In the new build
| ing will be established a kindergar-
ten, industrial classes, free lectures,
| libraries and instruction in various
departments.
The modes of execution in the diff
ferent counties, according to tx" in
american Notes and Queries" are:
In Austria, galIows, public; Bavaria,
guillotine, private; Belgium, guillo-
tine, public; Brunswick, axe, private;
China, sword or cord, public; Den
mark, guillotine, public; Ecuador,
musket, public; France, guillotine,
public; Great Britain, gallows, pri-
vate; Hanover, guillotine, public;G TIA
ly, capital punishment abolished) old
enburg, musket, public; Portugal, gal
lows, public; Prussia, sword, private;
Russia, musket. gallows or sword,
public; Saxony, 'guillotine, private;
Spain, garrote, public; Switzerland,
fifteen cantons, sword, public; two
cantons, guillotine, public; two guilIo-
tines, private; United States, other
than New York, gallows mostly
private.
The ladies of San Fernando Be-
nevolent Society will hold special
| naatinO o. tomorrow (SundaU\ afterOOOn