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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

The international American Congress, which
Is to assemble next month, will doubtless bear
fruit of great benefit to the United States as
well as to the South American nations which
participate in it. In an article which appears
on another page a comprehensive outline of the
subjects to be considered by the Congress is
presented. While friendly relations between
all the peoples of the Western Hemisphere will
be cemented by the approaching interchange
of ideas, the main purpose Of the gathering is
commercial. Our Southern neighborS are reach
ing out them hands to us, and are willing to
meet us more than half way. Why should we
as a nation hesitate to do our part?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

ptising spirit of tho manager who has con-
tracted the opera habit, and as it tends 10 he
swectening Of ones disposition to wlsh an
manner of good in all things to everybody, the
public may safely wish success to Mr.. Abbey
confident that whatever betdes, they Will
benefit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

Dstrict.Attorney Fellows proposes TO spend next
year in the prosecution of criminals 49, GAG less than
the sum allowed him for this year. If he hopes
by this petty exhibition of economy TO gloss over
his monumental failure TO convict the boodlers.
he has come lamentably short of rightfully esti-
mating the feelings entertained toward him by
all the right.thinking people of this town.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

factory exhibition in all the departments. We
are glad TO hear this Our brethren out there on
Lake Erie are full OF enterprise and industry and
have way of achieving success by taking care
TO deserve il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

Henry w. Grady's New South is still as airy
and immaterial as the bubbles OF the Delmonco
champagne which inspired his eloquence about It,.
The negroes themselves, who lack that nspira.
tion say that it is still the old South, after
all Only the other day, George w. Cable con.
fessed that he couldn't find any change, even
with magnifying glass, and now the Northwest
ern Conference of the African Methodist Church
exhibits its cold unbelief by advising a general
exodus Of negroes from the South to the North
west. II these things continue. Mr.. Grady's New
England Society speech will 20 on record as a
brilliant first effort in fiction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

The Antwerp fire caused by dynamite ex-
plosions has brought upon this military strong
hold and commercial centre of Belgium dis
aster of the first magnitude. Eighteen years
ago the business section of the city was nearly
destroyed in single day and the catastrophe
has been repeated with the loss of hundreds OF
lives The docks and shipping have been pro-
tected by the direction of the wind, but great
destruction has been wrought among the ware
houses and handsome business streets. Ant
werp, in addition to its celebrated Gothic ca
thedral, has many quaint churches and precious
art treasures in it's Rubens and Vandyke col
Lotions. 1t is to be hoped that the stained
glass in the cathedral is the chief loss sustained
by art. The city is SO Tich and prosperous
that the havoc caused by dynamite and flames
will be speedily repaired
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

Mayor Grant deserves the thanks of his fellow
citizens for setting his face like flint against
the plan to put railroad in Jerome-ave. " l
an unalterably opposed" he says. " to railroad
of any sort in Jerome-ave., because 1t is the
only good driving road in that portion Of tho
city, and q railroad would spoil it for that pur-
pose So he will veto the Aldermen's resolution
TO give public hearing on the question Of build
ing the proposed cable road. The Mayors oppo-
stion will probably not throttle the scheme to
spoil this fine and drive, but it is safe to
saw that no railroad will be built there so long
as Hugh j. Grant is the chief magistrate of New.
York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

The Sultan has "a carriages according 10 the
last count: seventeen dramatic combinations
compelled TO foot it from Chicago to San Francisco
last wear Putting these two facts together, we
SIZE that there Is something wrong in this world
The designers employed by the British Admiralty
are striving TO build new type of war-ship
which will combine the maximum qualities of
speed. strength, stability and fighting power.
The Renown, barbette ship carrying an armament
of 69-ton guns will be, it is expected, the closest
approximation to that ideal which has yet been
made. Probably there will have to he a long
series of improved and romodeled Renowns before
the problem can be satisfactorily worked out
But the aim is one which can be commended
10 American esgners employed upon the new
navy, Sufficient progress hns been made 10
Justify the Department in setting its best talent
nj work in designing a vessel, without reference
20 cost which will be at once the fastest tongest
and most powerful battle-ship afoat.
The big fair at Buffalo is fairly under way.
"Trhe Commercially of that city reports that there
g.f{u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

One Of the most prosperous cities Of wash
ington has been reached by our staff CORE
spondent in his circuit Of the ID, States. This
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

The big fair at Buffalo is fairly under way.
d" The Commercial" of that city reports that there
seem to be general indications of very salts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

II the Niagara Falls cranks are determined to
risk their lives, why won't they turn their passion
for notoriety TO useful purpose, and offer them.
selves to be experimental on by the new electrical
execution apparatus?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

One of the most disastrous effects OF the Ant.
werp fire would be injury to the great Cathedral.
Apart from the priceless paintings it contains, to
protect which it is hoped adequate precautions
have been taken, the building itself is one Of the
Oldest and most beautiful in Europe Nobody
who recalls the calamity which shattered the Par
thenon can help lamenting that the delicate lace
like spre which has crowned the city by the
Scheldt for many centuries should be threatened
with destruction. Antwerp could better afford
to lose whole rows of houses and stores than to
sacrifice this one great work of art
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

"The Albany Argus wants to know what is the
use of lying in regard to the record of the De
mocracy Of this State in relation to sumptuary
legislation There can be no use unless one
wishes TO demonstrate that the record is not
entirely discreditable. In that event some tall
living would be very useful.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

1t is understood that Attorney-Gcneral Tabor
expects TO be renomnated in spite Of the fact
that the reform element in his party demands
his retirement. Why shouldn't he indulge HIM
self with such an expectation? Wasn't David b.
Hill renominated?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

The delegates from the Liquor-Dealers and Pro-
hibition conventions who met on the Niagara Falls
train enjoyed an excellent opportunity for renew
ing assurances of their mutual consideration
Each had declared against the Republican party
and High License and each had taken measures
for strengthening the saloon candidates in the
forthcoming campaign. little more such har-
mony will make politics lost art
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08

And she turns 70 her crystal mirror,
And her teeth, white as foam OF this sea,
vayt a. smiling and dimped she murmufs,
'tSOZODoNT these fair pearls are from thee.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08
Business NpilrrS..
AT HER LATTICE.

Fair Isabelle sits at her lattice
And looks Ger the swelling sea
An the foayn.creste pillows Ringing
THOR spray upon tall clu and lea.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Rrazilian Affairs

Rio JANEIRo, Nov. 2?.-Allothe PEN
sions granted by the Imperial Govern
ment have been confirmed by the Pro
visional Government, and an order has
been issued that they be paid out of the
revenues A decree will be issued
shortly making numerous changes in
the personnel of the Government
officeholders, and naming the Off
cials who have been appointed to sue
ceed those who will be removed. The
greater number of officials who served
under the Emperor have announced
their allegiance to the new Government.
An ovation was given to the Ministers
of Uruguay and the Argentine Republic
last night upon their recognition of the
Rpnublic
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
MOST HORRIBLE.
In n Fight One Butcher Throws Another
Into a Vat of Boiling water.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 23.-IIenry Brunier,
aged seventeen, butcher, employed at
John Weitzel's butchering establish
ment, died at 12:45 o'clock this morn
ing, from a severe scalding in vat OF
boiling water. John Fisher, another
employe, is held by the police to answer
the charge of throwing Brunier into
the vat. The story of the assault as
told by Brunier, who spoke with diff
Guilty, is this: Fisher and Brunier were
both employed at Weitzells. Yesterday
morning they got into quarrel over a
trifing matter, and later began to fight.
They clinched, and threw each other
around the slaughter-house, to the
amusement of the other employees, for
some time. Fisher, who was older and
stronger than Brunier, had the advan-
tage all the time, but the latter stuck
to him, and they fought like bulldogs.
Fisher managed to get the boy near a
vat of boiling water, which is used to
take bristles off of hogs, and pushed
him in. The boys body from his neck
to his knees was scalded in most hor-
rible manner The lads cries brought
the other workmen to the vat, and he
was soon pulled out, and a doctor sum-
moned He suffered intense agony un-
til he died. Both men had been friends
up to the time of the fight.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Talmaee breaches on Mars Hill.

ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 23.-Rey. De-
Witt Talmage and his party are in this
city. DIR. Talmage has secured a corner
stone for his new church in Brooklyn
from Mars Hill, where st. Paul preach
ed to the Athenians. DIR. Talmage
preached there yesterday to many peo-
pie, taking as his text Act xvii, %:
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars
Hill and said, Ye men of Athens, l per-
ceive that in all things ye are too super
stitious." Later in the day DR.. Tai
mage had an interview with Premier
Tricoupis. Yesterday he had an audi
ence with Queen Olga and ex-Empress
Victoria, of Germany.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28

through the anguish Of an innocent
creature like that one. I'm young,
can work for my family. The Lord AL.
mighty may punish old Dear, and I'll
do without my money"
Upon that he went to bed and slept
the sleep which hardship teaches to her
nurselings, until the landlord pounded
at his door about dawn.
whats afire?" asked Laplace, sitting
up in the nipping air.
Thomas hired mans come after
you," said the muffled voice of the
landlord, ito take you out to their
place"
I'm not going out to their place." re
sponded the young man. I'm going on
the first train. You tell him to tell Mrs
Thomas have an engagement. can't
take dinner with her to-day. plague
take people that get up at three in the
morning and sit on the fence with Ian
ternr') grumbled the aggrieved sleeper
Il guess you'll have to CO." urged the
landlord. THE old fellows had another
stroke, and he's dead"
The hired man, waiting solemnly with
democrat wagon and brisk team, in
formed Laplace that the undertaken had
already gone out, and the honse was full
of neighbors.
They spun along the frosty road, win
ter twilight still holding the woods and
fields under it's pail.
The young man did not know what
was expected of him or how to behave
but as he entered the house and the
| weeping woman came to meet him he
! took her in his arms. He comforted hei
as if she had been his mother.
''Oh! how blessed it is to have you
here" said the trembling creature, 'and
it's been a comfort to me every time
thought of it-this awful night. My
head is so poor it never came into my
mind last night that you were the heir.
And Dear, he couldn't speak. have my
dover all fixed, but Dear explained it to
me long ago that he had dealings with
your father that made him want to leave
his property that way, seeing we had NO
children. You ought to have spoke out
palmer. And your name-I knew it was
in the will-but forgot. And now he's
gone from usl The best husband and
most upright man that ever ivedi''
When she could control her weeping
she took Laplace into the awful sanctuu
and showed him what was yet her most
precious possession.
He looked at the grizzled face which
had settled all scores with him, and
hoped sincerely that the spirit Of John
Thomas would receive forgiveness from
the Maker. But he prayed for himself
that If he should ever be stretched dead
before the woman he loved, she might
believe in him with better belief, might
stroke his hair and adore him with hei
eyes and say over and over and oyeI
again: "My Dearl My own sainted Dear''
MARY HARrw1Ex CArHxRwooD.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28

Of the paper he had .sssmpted 10 deliver

Of the paper he had tempted 10 deliver.
1t wus a statement made by Laplace's
father just before death, and had been
sealed up against the boys twenty-fifth
year. 1t specified how many head Of
cattle John Thomas had robbed his sick
partner of, how many thousands of dol
lars not his own he had absconded with;it
contained affidavits of witnesses, and in
dicated the part of the country from which
John Thomas had come, and from which
his movements might be traced after the
lapse of years.
The young lawyer had identified kis
man. He had the spoiler of his fathers
fortune, the oppressor of his mother and
his childhood, where he could blast the
mans reputation and strip him of all he
owned.
"And 1 will do it." said Laplace. He
rose up and walked the floor again. He
thought of girl who wore ring for
him and whom he could marry at oncel
without waiting on the slow law prac-
tice of young man. 30 long had pov!
erty pinched him there was rapture in
thinking of the things he could give he's
when he had wrested his fathers dor
lars back. Beautiful journeys, an abun-
dant home, with none of the mean shifts
of poor people TO degrade life il it. A
family would grow around them. Fort
une should make it up to tho homeless
boy for the way she had treated him in
the past.
"And she'll be as fond of me as that
old woman is of her humbug Dear. But
| n l. 49, 1SNx.
that old woman now? It's actually the
woman l have to deal with. The old
Dear is out Of the world now, as far as
responsibility goes. But am l going to
let this old woman go on innocently
robbing my family? If l am chicken
hearted now how will 1 feel when
can't do what wish by them in the fut'
ure? It's unfortunate she's where the
hammers going to strike. Confound a
great lubber of manuthat would hurt
that tender old thing! Suppose it were
my mother. But who had mercy on my
mother?''
SO he went on, stalking about the
room, while his watch licked the hours
Suddenly, after midnight, he opened
the stove and dropped both waferet
document and copy in. They fared W
and turned to ghostly parchment, show
ing written characters for a moment
and then melting down and becoming
nothing. He replaced the stove-lid AND
threw his arms wide.
Il won't take revenge on any woman
Ny father never meant it that way
My mother and my wife would think
me less a man if took my rights
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28

rear, dimly outlined itself against a
| hill background.
The hired man came from the barn
yard with two frothing pals of milk,
and was met at the side doorstep by a
stranger who had labored with the front
knocker in vain.
Good evening"" said the stranger.
''Howdy-do," responded the hired man.
docs Mr.. John Thomas live here?"
"Yes, sir"
"Is he at home?"
"He can't very we'll be anywhere
else" replied the hired man, with an
explanatory grin. Hes been help
less since a year ago last August,
and can't go nowhere unless he's carried
out. tend to the business of the farm
for the old folks"
''My business is with him, not with
the farm" said the stranger.
"Step right into the house, then" in
vited the hired man, himself leading
the way with his pals Of milk.
Aunt Susan" he announced in the
familiar tone of one who feels the de-
pendence of his employers, 'here's
gentleman to see uncle"
The clean kitchen, bright with lamp
light and preparations for country
supper, held nothing else as hearten-
ing as the old woman who turned from
her cooking-range. Her ripples of gray
and auburn hair, patient, blue eyes and
trim and active figure won the young
man, though he tried TO regard her
with callous Indifference.
She took him into an inner room
where a table was spread at the elbow of
an old man propped in an easy chair. 1t
was comfortable room, full of pleasant
living, and signs of such opulence as
an aged agricultural couple might care
for. On the mantel over the log fire
stood deliberate clock and two vases
of those mummies known as winter
bouquets.
Locked in the calm of paralysis the
useless farmer met and resisted that ap-
preaching strangers gaze. A lamp
burned in the middle of the table. 1t
showed every cast-iron line of the in
valids grizzled face. His weakness be-
came ON a sudden his strength. He took
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28

refuge in it and covered himself with it
from the vengeance he recognized, COM
ing out of the past in search of him.
Dear, here's somebody come to see
you," said the old wife, bestowing this
delight upon her husband and q chair
upon the stranger. ''The neighbors
have all been so good, but it isn't often
we have stranger to our house now. ]
think it's so much better for Dear to see
folks" she confided to the young man,
''than to sit alone in his affiiction."
Her caller stood by the hearth, declin.
ing seat and holding his hat. He was
a hale, blond man, carry Ing with him
the air of the busy world. Success had
already set confidence in his face. He
was power confronting that wrecked
old man, for whom he could feel no more
pity thar enc Sives badly crushei
snake
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Clergy Warned by the Pope.

VIENNA, Nov. 23.-The Politische
Correspondent learns that the Pope, as
soon as he learned of the change of
Government in Brazil, telegraphed to
Monsignor Spolverini, in Rio dc Janci-
ro, to instruct all the Catholic Bishops
and lower clergy to abstain from med
ding or participating in politics Bishops
and clergy were only to demand of the
new Government that they should, as
in the past, be allowed to peform their
religious duties in liberty.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
SANK AT SEA.
A Steamship ColIides with a Schooner and
Sinks-Lives Lost.

cihhs-isiNes
New YORK, Nov. 23.-The Old Domin-
ion steamship Manhattan, which left
this city for West Point, Va, at 4 o'clock
last Tuesday afternoon, with thirty-five
passengers, cOllided with the schooner
Agnes Manning, from Baltimore for
New York, and went to the bottom. At
least fifteen lives are supposed to have
been lost. The first intimasion of the
disaster was given in the Associated
Press dispatch from New London. At
the company's office the information re-
ceivcd pointed to the fact that in all
probability over twenty persons have
been lost. The vessels crew numbered
thirty-twO. She also carried three steer
age passengers. The name of only
few of the crew are known by the Old
Dominion people. The manager of the
company said that the vessels on his
line exchange crews at the end of each
trip, and it was impossible to state
which of the employees of the company
were on board the Manhattan. The
Manhattan was valued at S150,000
She carried very small cargo
only 100 tons of general merchan-
disc, principally groceries and dry
goods. There was no insurance on the
steamer. The Manhattan was a wooden
vessel, schooner rugged, of 1,155 tons
burden, and was built at Chester, Pa,
in 1879. The fact that the schooner
with which the steamer collided has ar
rived in Philadelphia comparative safe,
and makes no report of loss Oflifeor sink
ing of the other vessel, suggests the fear
that the most of the Manhattan's crew
have been drowned. Besides the Captain
of the schooner reports that the com
mander of the steamer refused to give
the name of his vesss. when signaled
to do so by the the capt"in of the Man
ming. Fenwick Island, where the col
lision occurred, is on the Delaware
coast, and on the dividing line between
Delaware and Maryland. 1t is twenty
miles south of Cape Henlopen. This is
the second vessel lost by the Old
Dominion Company by collision in
less than a months tine. On the Goth
of October last their steamer Cleopatra
was sunk off the Delaware Capes by col
liding with the steamboat Crystal
Wave. Happily no lives were lost
thnO
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Grocery Wrecked by Powder.

tSTEUBENvILLE, o., Nov. 23.-An ex-
plosion of powder in the grocery store
of Charles Nicholson yesterday totally
wrecked the establishment, the entire
building and stock being destroyed by
the flames following the explosion. Two
adjoining houses, the residences of Rev.
John McCune and VIM. Bowman, were
badly wrecked, and the flying missiles
struck one of the electric street cars,
tearing out one side, but fortunately do
ing no damage to the passengers.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
A Murderer's Terrible Death.

The mangled remains of Willis Banks.
colored, were found in the country.
about mile from Eufaula, Ala. He
had been dead several weeks, and the
skeleton was found by some children
and identified by the clothing, About
two months ago Willis Banks killed Ned
Clayton, and was a fugitive. He was
arrested some days afterward by Officer
w. II. Harrell, of the Eufaula police
force. He made break, and the officer
shot at him several times, but failed tc
stop him. The inference is that he was
wounded, and after getting away died
from the effect of the wound.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Not a Soul EScanad.

DRAIN, ORE, Nov. 23.-The tug Fear
less, of Coos bay, Captain James Hill
commanding, ran on to North Spit at
the mouth of Umpqua river Tuesday
evening and went to pieces, not ono of
the crew or passengers, fifteen in all,
escaping. She was on her return trip from
Astoria, where she had to go to take a
lot of Cinnamon lately discharged from
the canneries on Coos bay.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
A Premature Explosion.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 23.-By the
premature explosion of heavy charge
of dynamite on a railroad construction
near Blockton, Bibb County, Tom Nc
Donald, foreman, and three other men
were blown twenty feet into the air
Two of the iaborers were killed out
right, and Mcdonald and the others
friphtfully injured.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Schooner Given up for Lost.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 23.-The schooner
c. b. Church, which left this port Octo-
ber 10 with 1924 tons of coal for Boston,
has been given up for lost by her man
aging owners, Morse & Co., of Bath, Me.
Captain j. T. Gallagher, the master of
the vessel, was accompanied by his wife
and child, the latter little boy about
four years old.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-11-28
Bloody Prison Revolt.

TUNIs, Nov. 23.-A revolt has occurred
among the convicts in the Layoulute
prison. The prisoners succeeded in
freeing themselves from their chains,
and in procuring firearms and other
weapons. They then made fierce at
tack on the jailers, who were unable to
quell the revolt, and troops were sum-
moned. When they arrived at the Jail a
desperate fight took place, and many of
the prisoners and soldiers were killed.