davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02
FEDERATION OF LABOR.

An important aud significant move
ment-the federation OF labor organi-
zatious-was began OF Dsnver recently
while the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firsmen were In session
there.
1t is proposed that all trades unions
be Incorporated under one vast organ>
ixatiop, each separate union main
tanning Its utonomy and right to To-
cal sslf government, but otherwise to
be under the government Of the fed
eral union, thus presenting plan OF
consolidation and government sim liar
to the federation and government OF
the United States.
II this plsn is carried out-and ii
seems TO be popuiar-there can be no
doubt that 1t will result TO the great
good Of the labering people throughout
the country. Organization aud CO.
operation have made the great labor
unions what they are aud 1t follows,
logically, that more organization and
cooperation will accomplish still more.
Separate, the labor organizations have
benefited their individual member.
ship; combined they will still further
benefit them, and the working classes
will become great power, having
that voice In affairs TO which they are
and no combination of mo.
nopolistic capital can Cypress them.
In many of the great contests be-
tween capitol and labor the latter has
been driven TO the wall simply he
cause OF lack of organization Of all
labor under under one general head,
while capital has always been united.
One trades union cannot successfully
hght the combined capital OF the
country.
There are some who fear evil results
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

%. States: 1t 10 narrated that, in
the German Emperor's recent visit to
Hanover, he saw with pride an arch
inecribed "Wslcome to His Imperial
Msjesty." He was. so charmed With
the evidence Of loyalty that, after pass
Ing under the arch, be turned about to
admire it, beauty again with His Maj
esty Of saxony. But what was his
surprise to read on the reverse side the
words: "Johann Bach, best brewery
ia the village. Beer, cents a quartz
They both laughed over it long and
hard.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02
SOUTHERN ENTERPRISES.
Magnificent showing of New Indus-
tries.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 30.-Saturday's-
Manufacturer Record will show that
great enterprises are crowding aGe
upon another % rapidly in the So lth
that there are reports of the organ "a
ton OF greater number of gieentic
enterprises than ever before made pub.
lie in one week.
One Of the most striking feature is
the heavy investments Of Eastern and
New Eogland capital, which is ptur-
ing into the South as it formerly did
In the West. A plumber OF Philadel-
phia capitalists have just returned
frnn, Florence, Ala, where they in
vested heavily, including, 1t 10 report
ed, $500, 900 toward $500. 600 carpet
mill.
The New England excursionists to
Fort Payne and Dsnis0n left, 1t il said
over $500, 900 In these towns last week.
A five milllon>dollars company has
been organized, With all stock SUBJ
scribsd by leading New England ban
kers and others, who have purchased
1000 acres Of land adjoining Ch.tta-
nooga, where extensive enterprise 9
will 10 established, and the purchase
by three million dollars Northern
company of 300, 600 acres of land In
East Tennessee, the entire piece being
10 the hands of the wealthiest men,
beEs of the prohibition movement.
10 Chattanooga q million-dollar
bank will open for business shortly.
Two companies, one with $500, 900 and
the other with $500, 900 capital stock,
have been organized in England for
gold mining operations In Georgia.
Birmingham has organized million
dollar coal mining company; Centre,
Ala, a hundred.thousan iron
company, to repair and operate an old
furnace Dadeville, Ala, fifty-thous-
and-doliar cotton mill; Mobile a fifty.
thousand-dollar paving company :;
Kentucky q half-million- dollar con.
tracing company.
10 Louisiana a suipher mining prop
erty has been sold fer 500, 600. La,
redo, Tex, has secured $50, 900 foun-
dry aud machine shop. In Virginia
there has been about a dozen big en-.
terprises, including 5000, 1000 Town
company, q $50,000 lumber company
and 500, 900 iron company at Graham;
the sale of iron property on Cripple
Creek for 800, 900 for development, q
500, 900 manufacturing company at
Richmond, 100000 land and ir.
vestment and $500, 900 land company
at Roanoke. with many other enter
prises being actively worked up.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

Vicksburg Post: It is learned thas
the capital stock Of the New Orleans,
Natchez and Fort Scott railroad com.
pany will probably increase lie stock
from y, 500, 900 TO $4,000, 900. A
meeting Of the stockholders has been
called to decide the matter, It is also
learned that another meeting will be
called for the purpose Of consolidating
this road With the New Orleans and
Northeastern Railroad company 10
Mississippi. 500
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

The gallant Field Marshal Murai
Halstead pleasantly describes President
Eliot, of Harvard, as ga gander of the
schools.'' But after Mr.. Halstead's
recent experience with the Campbell
forgery he cannot surely regard po-
litical goose as an object of reproach.-
Providence Jo,pmal.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

We publish elsewhere the proceed
ings of the meeting of the planters OF
Morehouse parisn aud Ashley county,
Ark, held at Line, La, for the pur.
pose of organizing mutually protect.
i've association TO guarantee hereafter
faithful performance OF all labor con.
tracts both on the part Of employees
and employers. Heretofore the plant
ers have suffered severe loss by the
desertfon of Iaborers at critical periods,
and there being no perfect understand.
ing between themselves, 1t was a hard
matter to right the evil. The laborers,
too, have not In all cases been fairly
and properly treated and It ia the pur-
pose of the best planters TO organize
for the protection of both. As will be
seen by the proceedings, another meet.
ing has been called to convene at
Hamburg, Ark, on Tuesday, 26.h
inst, which will embrace the parishes
of Morehouse, Ouachita and Richland
and the counties of Ashley, Chicot,
Drew and Desha. It was Intended
that the parish of Caldwell should
have been Included In this call but by
some oversight 1t was omitted aud the
TELEGRAPH has been requested to
invits the planters Of that parish to
send delegates to the meeting, This Is
a very important matter and we trust
all OF the parishes named, including
Caldwell, will send delegates, IS no
plan which may be adopted will work
perfectly unless the planters Of all these
parishes are practical unit on 1t.
Ouachita will send up a strong deiega>
tion.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02
At the Experiment Station.

The meeting of the North Louisiana
Agricultural Society at the Expert
ment Farm at Calhoun last Thurs
day was not largely attended but it
was an interesting and profitable one
to those who did attend.
The subject for discussion for the
day was sis not the manufacture of
cotton bagsing as much the cause of
the South as It Is the cause of the
planter" was ably discussed by Prof.
Stubs, J. w. Taylor and L. Nj. CAL
houn.
The resignation OF Gen. Brent as
President of the State Society was sue-
gested by Col. Heffuer, of Morehouse,
and appropriate resolutions were
passed expressive of the regrets of the
meeting al the loss of Gen. Brent as q
co-laborer and citizen.
Committees were appointed TO invite
the State Agricultural Society, which
meets at Arcadia next January, to
visit the Farm, aud prepare for its re-
ception and entertainment.
Tue subject chosen for the next
meeting of the society is :Cotton in
sects, their prevention and destruc-
tion." The following named gentle
men have been assigned for its discus
sion; r. w. Marston, Of Red River,
A. L. Smith, of Ouachita, and A.
Heffner, of Morehouse.
The following delegates were ap-
pointed to the State Agricultural soci-
ETY., which meets at Arcadia the fourth
Wednesday In January next, viz: T.
A. Williams, @. O. Davenport, J. B.
Williams, of Morehouse parish; J. p.
Parker, w. T. Theobalds, A. L. Smith,
from Ouachita; F. l.. Maxwell, J. T..
McClendon, g. w. Mangery, from
Madison II. p. Wells, Pete Berry,
Richiand; I. NJ. Hancock, j. c. Jones,
N, NJ. Smith, from jackson; n. B.
Took, T. 7. Reddy, w. B. Prothro,
from Bienvilie; A. j. Nelson, J. W..
Mcfarland, j. II. Simmons, from
Claiborne; w. d. Henderson, G. A.
Brutop, e. T. Sellers, from Union; Y.
l.. Bond, j. NJ. Stallings, JIM. Roaue,
from lincoln; DR.. ]. E. Woodward,
Nick Sandiin, Thomas Fuller, from
Webster J. NJ. Hollingsworth, j. NJ.
Foster, L. B. Herudon from Caddo !;
e. Schiller, g. A. Friersou, Will and
s. Frierson from DeSoto /; j. e. Adger,
Calvin Vance, John Pickett, Bossier !;
II. G. Sttingfeiiow, J. G. Esgan, B.W.
Red River.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

The Prince Of Wales is said to be
afflicted with Brjght's disease and the
chances are that the Queen will ont
live him and the Prince Will never
become King. 1t Vic had any moth
erly magnanimity left she would alb
dictate and give the Prince chance.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02


Ci0tx1RYilRl. s
s ~ ~ ----,,sss ~ s2ll
2hs Iii 81 I great man al~syS ex-l
.ites synpatby and administration In
he breast Of : people and whom that
man has not only been great but .
popular one, bis fall makes
one feel like he had lost q near and
dear friend.
We feel that way In the sad case Of
Maj. Burke. $ ssss
What reader Of history but has felt
tiuge Of sympathy for the dashing and
gallant traitor Benedict Arnold? What
one but admired, despite himself, the
brave, brilliant, Intriguing Aaron Burr
and lamsnted the fact that he did not
remain true Thousands regretted the
downfall Of the greatest dsspot the
world ever saw and followed him with
|sympathetic Imagination TO the isola-s
TED secluslon Of his exile ON st. Hsl-
ems. Hts fall, however, was not the
result Of personal dishonor but the fate
Of war and the combined power Of
Europe, bot the analogy Il In the fact
that fallen greatness appeals to the
Isympathles, 1t matters not how thst
downfall was accomplished.
We cannot help but sympathise with
Msj. Burke.
The TELEGRAPH had been one Of
those papers that, while opposed to the
faction Of the Democratic party to
which MsJ. Burke belonged and, you
might say, dominated, was yet sorry
to hear that bis honesty aud integrity
had been called In question and hoped,
to the last, that be would return and
vindicate his honor. @s.4F S...
There 10, however, no longer any
hope. The report of the grand jury
on the bond robbery has swept away
ievery vestige Of hope In the innocenc>
OF Maj. Burke and by his failure t
return home, and his subsequent
flight, he has entered plea Of guilty
to every Indictment brought sEains
him.
i Msj. Burke was great man. Hi
whole history proves 1t. His almos
Unparalleled success up to the time o
his fall, without any advantages te
start with save his indomitable plucl
aud energy and inordinate ambition
proves 1t. He was almost Napoleonf,
In his conception and execution Of 81
gantic schemes and It was our belief a
first, that should II turn out that b,
was guilty, that In an evil moment
spurred on by his great ambition ant
nerved by his own confidence in hi
ability aud capacity he took the States
money and used her credit with the
full determination to make restitution
This would have been little less worse
than the crime of which Maj. Burke !.
guilty, but alas that II is not true!
j The reader Is perfectly familiar with
Msj. Burke's political history and from
the time Of bis employment as the
States agent and representative al
Washington In the famous Nichols
Packard contest they have recognized
the brilliant diplomat, organizer, leader
and politician Of astute ability and
dazzling genius. BY remaining true
what could he not have accomplished
for bis State and people?
Alas that such q man should have
fallen ...z.-.,..-,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

The governments paid e2os, part Of
the prize money OF 800, 900 offered for
the capture Of Jefferson Davis, on the
2slh nit. There are yet several mere
applicants, who participated In the cap
ture, for shares of the prize money.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

Senator Barbour denies tho sensa.
tlonal report recently sent out from
Washington to the eject that hs had
given up hope Of carrying the Old Do
minion for the Democracy. We
thought II was Q lie.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

The Vanderbilts have edded the
Chicago and Alton TO their vast rail-
road Interests which. under the combi-
nation with the Onion Pacific and
other roads, aggregates 2, 100 miles.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

from such q combine. Won Of labor AZ 7
Ia the plan su.t Eested by the
Locomotive Engineers .snd Firemen at
Denver but there is nothing to fear
from united labor when honestly and
fairly dealt with. The intelligent ard
skilled iaborers who comprise the
trades unions OF the country constitute
q large class Of the best and most patri-
otto citixsns of the country and they
will use their power, while protesting
themselves, for the best interest of the
country.
We see less danger, less oppression
and less wrong In organized, united
labor than In organized, united capital.
Godspeed the honest laboriug man
to better and higher destiny.
N. o. States: It appears that the
election Of q negro to be orator Of q
Harvard class was due not so much to
the Intellectual ability OF the negro,
but to the fact that the white students
Instead Of dsvoting proper attention to
their books, spend most Of their time
playing baseball and In q nocturnal
beerrush which results In all hands
getting drunk. fighting the police and
Handing In jail. Cornell University
imagining that Harvard had done a
very proper thing, also elected q negro
to be orator of bis class, but the negro
had tho good sense to refuse the honor
on the ground that 1t would give him
too much petoriety. There is good
reason to believe that the Republican
universities of the North imagine that
, the negro orator business is placing a
thorn In the side of the South, but II
Is great mistake, It is the wish Of
the South that they should have and
pet and make much of all the negroes,
? orators or no orators.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02
The Navy Yard Location.
(Picayune.1


Yesterday the announcement by tie
Picayune 10 the effect that there had
been radical change in the views OF
the Naval Commission appointed to
report on the location of q Southern
navy yard produced quite sensation,
Many citizens Interested in the matter
spoke on the necessity for some united
action in the way of memoriaIizlpg
Congress.
To-day the Picayune's Washington
correspondent sends information which
somewhat qualities the former state
ment but, nevertheless, while WE are
glad not to be left entirely without
hope, as far as the commission is con-
cerned, we nevertheless deem it wise fox
our commercial organisations and other
public bodies of citizsns to join in
memorials to Congress on the subject,
and take measures to secure the active
cooperation Of the cities that have al.
ready expressed favorable opinions
with regard to New Orleans a. a site
for the naval depot and marine de-
Tense station for the Mississippi Val.
ley.
The entire matter is 10 be finally
decided by Congress, and any further
appeal or representations which may
be thought necessary in advocating
the advantages offered by New Orleans
for such service should be made to
Congress.
A practical philosopher writes to
the York York World as follows: II
would suggest the use of the phopo-
graph or graphophone in connection
with the telephone and type for
reportorial purposes. For example
A reporter is assigned to the duty Il
reporting railroad accident at a more
or less distant place, or perhaps a fire
in the upper part Of the city. The time
in which to gather the news and write
out his report in ordinary course is net
sufficient, as the World is about
to 60 to press. But thu reporter
need not leave his scene Of duty
nor need he waste valuable time
in laboriously writing out his &C.
count. With all his senses on the
alert and while he is absorbing the
facts he turns to his phonograph and
there makes his speaking record. The
cylinders are at any moment detached
and taken to the telephone, and his
words ground into the telephone will
be recorded exactly as spoken in a
similar cylinder prepared for the pur-
pose at the telephone in the World
office. The second or receiving phone
graph cylinder is then placed ia the
hands OF an expert typewriter, who
with ease aud rapidtty makes the
cleanest sort of copy of the fire.. hest
kind OF news forthe typesetter."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

the market hitherto. It Is q non.
drinking, noa-expanding fibre, but IL
liable to slip in the weaving unless it
has been separated and divided per-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02

Secretary Bayard and Miss MARI
Cymer win be married on the 9Th. I
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-11-02
II MoNRoE. Ia. NOVEMBER = lssa..
Auotter fellow was recently arresled
for Tascott 10 Philadelphia.
o. T. F,orman has been appointed,
spostmaster ct Baton Rouge.
Papers for the extraditiop OF M
Burke have been applied for.

ME- wionle Dayis called lrom New
York for Europe last Saturday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-28
BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS.

AN old painter watched little fellow who amused himself making drawings of his pot and brushes, easel and stool, and said: s'That boy will beat me one day." So he did, for he was Michael Angelo"
 A BOY used to crush the flowers to get their color and painted the white side of his fathers cottage in Tyrol with all sorts of pictures, which the mountaineers gazed at as wonderful. He was the great artist Titan.
 . A SWEDISH boy fell out of a window and was badly hurt, but with clenched lips he kept back the cry of pain. The King, Gustavus Adolphus, who saw him fall, prophesied that that boy would make man for an emergency. And so he did, for he became the famous General Bauer.
 A GERMAN boy was reading blood-and- thunder novel. Right in the midst of it he said to himself: ''Now this will never do. I get too much excited over 1t. 1 can't study so well after it. So here it goesr' and he flung the book out into the river. He was Fichte, the great German philos- ODher.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-28
SCIENCE AND STUDY.

THE evidence IS accommodating that the ma- crobe of malaria, which was described by Laverau, Is the cause of intermittent lever.
 REGENT discoveries made by the use of the spectroscope show that all the heavenly bodies appear to be composed of the same chemical elements.
 THE Eiffel tower in Paris has been of- fered Prof. Marcy to enable him to make studies in photography of birds in flight. and very instructive results are anticipated.
 SooT falls down a chimney before storm, because the air at that time contains more moisture. Soot is hygroscopic, that is, it ab- sorbs the moisture from the air, and, be- coming heavier, detaches itself from the sides of the chimney. ;
 IN the course of recent excavations in the Nile valley inscriptions in Cypriote or Old World Greek characters have been dis covered. As some of these inscriptions date at least as far back as 20OO B. o., 1t seems to follow that the Homeric poems might have been committed to writing by Algean Greeks at the supposed date of their composition.
 CERTAIN English scientific men are dis, cussing anew the direction of lightning. Much evidence has been collected to show that the lightning sometimes really pro
 ceeds upward from the earth to the cloud,
 and to disprove the late Dr. R. A. Proctor's
 theory that in cases where this is seen the observer Is deceived by the impression that the flash starts from the point nearest that at which he is looking.
 "VoLT' means the inducing caused by an
 electrical current, bearing the same relation
 to electricity that "pounds pressure per
 inch" do to steam or "head" does to water.
 One cell of gravity or Daniell's battery gives
 about .O7 volt potential. "Ohm" is the unit
 of resistance offered by 0 wire or other con-
 ductor to the passage of an electric current;
 one thousand feet No. 10 pure copper wire
 represent a little over one ohm.
 OZONE is form or phase of oxygen, sup posed now by men of sclence to be devel- oped by plant life, especially in the act of blossoming. The prevalence of epidemics Is believed to coincide with the absence of ozone or it's decrease to minimum. Open winters are dangerous in the North because vegetation decays, with neither freezing nor ozone to counteract the effect. The Tennes- see Board of Health has discussed the ques- tion thoroughly and finds pine forests not to aid in producing ozone. A sharp thun- der-storm, on the contrary, increases 1t remarkably.
 FROM an exhaustive study of the large collection of meteorites at Harvard College, | the conclusion has been arrived at that ! many of the masses of meteorlo iron now known are cleavage crystals, broken off, probably, by the impact of the mass against
 the atmosphere. It is found that these
 masses show cleavings parallel to the planes of all the three fundamental forms of the isometric or regular system. From all that appears, the theory has come to be enter l tained that the masses of meteorites were thrown off from the sun among the fixed stars, and that they were slowly cooled l while revolving in zone of intense heat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-28
BEAR IT IN MIND.

The voters should keep it in mind that they will be called upon at the coming election to vote on the question of prohibition. Those who seek to foist this unwise, impracticable and utterly indefensible amendment upon the state constitution are making mighty efforts in their work, and it will need some thing more than mere ridicule and leth- argy to defeat them. Those whose inn mediate interests it is to defeat prohibit tion are doing next to nothing in the matter, while the voters generally who are unwilling to do anything towards bringing about an era of unlicensed rum are apparently sleeping at their posts. If they will wake up long enough to cast vote against prohibition on election day they will be fulfilling duty which they owe to themselves, to their fellow men and to the state. The we'll meaning but mistaken persons who are trying to reform the drink evil by in- effectual laws should receive:a quietus in this election that will keep them quiet for some years to come. It is the duty of the voters to defeat prohibi- tion so effectually that it will be beyond hope of immediate resurrection,
 Voters, bear in mind the fact that you are to vote on prohibition. Kill the amendment deader than Julius Caesar.