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The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-17
Laura Bridgeman's Occupations.

Laura occupations.
OF Laura Brldgeman, the wonderful
woman, who, though blind. deaf anu
dumb, yet lived a long and happy life,
only recently ended. DR.. Jos. Jastrow
relates the following in the current
number of 81. Nicholas:
Many ladies learned the finger alpha
b t simply to be able to talk with her.
aud she wrote and received many let
ters. Her room had a window facing
south, and she often headed her letters
"Sunny Home" She took pleasure in
arranging her room and read a great
deal. You know that quite a number
OF books have been printed in raised
letters Tor the blind. The letters must
be large and are printed on n side of
the page only. 1t takes sixteen large
volumes to print the Bible in this way.
Most blind persons cultivate one finger
for reading until it is very sensitive and
can feel the letters very readily, Dut.ssof
course, not so rapidly as we can read
with our eyes.
Miss Bridgeman became quite an
author, too. Almost from the time she
learned TO write she began to keep
daily journals. Those sue wrote during
her first five years III Boston form quite
q large pack, and are full of many ill.,
tere ,ting things. She recorded all her
little daily doIrgs, and III going through
them from the earliest TO The latest
entries you can see how she gradually
used more and more words, and began
to use capitals, and wrote more clearly.
Sic had also written a few poems.
These have no rhyme, of course. be-
cause that depends on the sound. What
she says in her poems is in great part
taken or initiated from the Bib e.
Her spare time was devoted to knit
ting, sewing, crocheting lace and mats
and talking. | have IA very pretty GRO
cbeted mat which she made in Oi.e
evening.
Though her life was generally u
peaceful and happy one, 1t had also its
severe trials. Several of the teachers,
to whom she was much attached, died;
her closest tie with the world was
always her constant teacher and COM
panion, who was eyes, ears aud tongue
for her. Her teachers naturally learned
10 sympathizc with her condition more
than others could, and the loss OF N
VI tlCSC uSdl lllCAiuo wac q 6lCat Aii
ton. She even had to endure the loss
of her benefait or, DR.. Howe. lie had
lived to see her grow up into Y hat he
had hoped she might become when he
DOL her from her home in Hanover.
His death occurred in 1876, and affected
Miss Bridgeman so seriously that she
was very i'll and weak for u long time
afterward.
So she lived her quiet life. so the days
grew into months, and the months into
years-and so, also, quietly and peace
fully she passed away on the oath Of
May. 1899.
Laura Bridgeman's days of darkness
are wei. Many, many persons will for
a ong time TO ON think OF her. and
will often speak of the patience she
showed in her atillction and the earnest
ness with which she labored TO make
the most Of her life, ,
The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-17

w. H. Talman. q Deputy Clerk in
thu Chancery Court at Richmond. Va,
died on the 9th. He accidentally shot
himself on the 9th.
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KILLED IN A LABOR RIOT.
Fight Between knights of Labor and
Members Of Miners Union.

SEATTLE, W. T., Jan. 5.-Trouble which has
been brewing in the Newcastle mine for some
time eliminated yesterday i'm a riot. in which
one man, VIM. Raston. was killed. The Diff
Guilty first arose over a man named Boyle, who
went to work on q breast" and whom the
Knights of Labor claimed had no right to the
place. Wednesdayfhorningt they refused to go
to work in the Newcastle mine. The members
Of the miners union. however, who greatly
outnumbered the Knights continued at work,
and Thursday night large force of Knights
came over from Gilman and McAllister for the
purpose Of cleaning out the camp. They
marched through Newcastle, went up to the
mine and assaulted and
TERRIBLY BEAT A NUMBER OF MINERS,
including Buchanan, the outside foreman, and
then returned on the train to Newcastle, and
at the depot they attacked J. L. Hughes, presi-
dent of the union, and Ralph Leowley. Young
Llewellyn Jones rushed out from his house
with gun and ran into the crowd. He was
knocked down and Raston tried to shoot him.
After he got up some one fired shot and Ras-
ton was struck in the abdomen.
GENERAL fUsILLADE FOLLOWED,
but the crowd scattered and no one was hurt
Raston was carried to house near by and ex-
pired in fifteen minutes. The rioters dispersed
Immediately after the shooting Greatly ex-
aggerated accounts of the riot reached the
city. and Sheriff Cochrane, at O'Clock in the
afternoon, took posse of men and went to
Newcastle. Everything was quiet when he ar
rived There was no telegraphic communica-
ton nearer than Reuton, and the militia, under
Col. Haines, which had been ordered to hold
itself in readiness, also started for the scene,
but the engine broke down and they had to re-
turn. The sheriff returned last night with
Rastons body. Howell 7. Jones, father Of
Llewellyn Jones, has been arrested for killing
Raston. An inquest will be held to-day.
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kilograms to The Star.
SCORING YOUNG BISMARCK.
English, French and Russians Attack Him.
MORE OPIUM SMUGGLING.
THE SUGAR REFINING FRAUDS.
White Gaps Still Active in Ohio.
MORE OPIUM SMUGGLING.
THE SUGAR REFINING FRAUDS.
White Gaps Still Active in Ohio.
YOUNG BISMARCK'S INsOLENCE.
Why Some of the English Papers Are
Now So Bitter Toward Him.

Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON. Jan. 5.-Lord Salisbury. after wir-
ing permission to Sir Robert Morier 10 publish
the refutation of Count Herbert Bismarck's ac-
cusation, does not, it appears, propose TO take
further action. The i'll effect of the incident on
the relations of England and Germany is seen
in the tone of the press, which continues vio-
lently hostile to Herbert Bismarck. Perhaps
something of this is due to a desire TO pay off
old scores, young Bismarck having made him
self unpopular during his recent visit TO Eng
land. On his arrival at the London depot he
was accosted by representative of London
paper who presented his visiting card. Bis
marck put his hands behind his back, saying,
with quiet contempt, Il have enough luggage
already, thanks"
An examination of Bazaine's two books on
the war and the Prussian official account throws
important light on the merits of the present
controversy. Evidence is there afforded that
Bazaine was aware of the passage of the Mo-
selle by the Germans near Marstitour on the
evening of August Is, and must have had oral
and optical demonstration of their presence
there on August 16 before he could possibly
have received Moriers telegram. which Ba-
zaine is alleged to have said gave him the first
information.
BY Associated Press.
A Russian Defense of Morier.
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 5.-The journal de 81.
PetersooTo, referring to the charges made by
the Cologne CARTE against Sir r. L.. Morier. the
British ambassador here. of furnishing inform
alton to the French regarding the movements
Of German troops while stationed at Darmstadt
in 1870, says that all persons who know the
minister will agree that he could not be guilty
of the acts with which he is charged The
Journal attributes the attitude of the Cologne
Gazette to personal resentment
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territory Of Washington under its present name.
In requesting that the name be left unchanged
the memorialists say: I'VE have grown and
prospered under the name Of Washington.
This name has never in theory nor in practice
been associated with failure"
ASKING THAT SENATOR BLAIR HAVE TUTOR.
Senator Cullom to-day presented resolutions
adopted by the Columbia Turnverein, Of the
Town Of Lake, Ills, at meeting held Decem-
Der 19, 1888. They set forth that as Senator
Blair has brought before the Senate two bills
with the thinly-veiled purpose of establishing
state religion for the republic" and as This
is incompatible with the very essence of free
government" and 1--WE most earnestly desire
that the freedom Of conscience and religious
worship which we now enjoy under the consti-
tuition be neither abridged nor destroyed, as il
would most certainly be were Senator Blair's
bill to become law;" therefore resolved: That
we most earnestly protest against all measures
calculated to force any religious belief or
superstition upon free people, such as the
one compelling the children Of all citizens to
receive instructions in such belief or SUPER
stitions in schools supported by popular taxa
tions, as savoring of the Dark Ages; that we
recommend to Congress to make an appropria-
ton sufficient to pay tutors to instruct such
Representatives or Senators like Blair. who
have evidently obtained all the education they
possess from Sunday schools. in the rudiments
of history and other studies calculated to
develop their minds, SO that they may no
longer disgrace our nation in the eyes of the
world by resolutions and bills to which there is
no present parallel, but which reminds one
forcibly Of Spain in the fifteenth century" &c.
NEW YEAR GREETING.
The letter which 101 out Of 103 republican
members of the Nebraska legislature addressed
to Senator Henderson has arrived, and has
been read by nearly all Of the republican Sem
ators. 1t is popular novelty to those legis-
lators, and there are several of them who would
like to receive similar assurances. The letter
speaks in the highest terms of Senator Mander-
sons services and record, and assures him that
''while you are thus detained at your post of
duty we will also be at ours, and will see to it
that you are triumphantly elected by the Ne
braska legislature as your own successor"
NOTES.
A bill was introduced in the Senate to-day by
Mr.. Plumb appropriating $4,000 to pay David
w. Boutwell, for hazardous services during the
raid of Price into Missouri and Kansas in 1854
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Shot into the White Caps.
HOW AN OHIO FARMER RECEIVED THE MIDNIG
MARAuDERs WHO sToNEp HIS HOVE.

HOW AN OHIO FARMER RECEIVED THE MIDNIGHT
MARAUDERs WHO STONED HIS HOME.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-A dispatch from West JEFF
terson, Ohio, saws: A few nights ago three or
four men visited the homes of J. ii. Stone and
Clark Silvers, living on Glade Run about five
miles from here and stoned the houses. leaving
a White Cap notice. Thursday night they ap-
peared at Silyers' and aroused him by throw
ing stones against his house. Silvers had pro-
cured double-barreled shot gun and had IL
loaded for them. When they appeared silvers
fired both barrels into the crowd at short
range. The loads took effect ON one or more
Judging from the noise made by the men while
ing considerable blood was found on the
ground and a search is being made for wounded
White Caps.
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General Foreign News.

oocoANUr OIL FACTORY BURNED.
LONDON, Jan. 5.-A dispatch from Cochin, on
the Malabsr coast, British India, reports that
Aspinwalrs cocoanut oil factory has been
burned, causing loss of SlO0. .O00
A Central News dispatch from Cochin saws
only one oil factory having escaped destruc-
ton. The damage is estimated at q, ,5OO, 900.
DEATH OF AN AUSTRIAN STATESMAN.
VIENNA, Jan. 5.-Herr Richbauer, formerly
president of the reichsrath, is dead.
SPANISH EDITORS EXPELLED FROM AL8EIRs
PARIS, Jan. 5.-The governor of Algiers has
ordered the expulsion from that country Of
two editors of a Spanish paper published at
0ran.
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CAPITOL TOPICS.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL BILL


which passed the House yesterday incorporates
a private company under the title Of the Mari
time canal company Of Nicaragua for the con-
struction and operation of ship canal from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, through the
republic of Nicaragua or in part through the re-
public OF Costa Rica. The company Is author
lied to issue bonds and secure the same BY
mortgage on its property and rights. Its prin-
cipal office is to be in New York city, capital
stock to be not less than 81 ,0OO. .OOO shares of
$40 each, with the right to increase to 900 900
upon vote OF two-thirds Of the stock. The
affairs OF the company are to be managed by q
board of directors, fifteen in number, the ma
tority Of whom must be residents of the United
States, and all either of the United States or
Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The president
must be citizen and resident Of the United
States; all meetings of stockholders to be held
In New York. The amendments by the House
were designed to relieve the government from
every possible responsibility Tor the company
and to guard any right the government may
nave In the transportation line. The bill has
been passed by the Senate and win now 90 into
conference.
SAYS sHNAroR COKE WILL BH RE-IIrcrrp.
THE rumor that there was strong opposition
to the reelection Of Senator Coke has no
foundation in fact" said Senator Reagan to
.. star reporter. 'Coke il quite pop
ular In Texas" continued Mr.. Reagan.
There b no discontent on the part of demo-
cratic members Of the Legislature. Coke will
be reelected, and his reelection viii be unani-
nous: Al talk about his unpopulArity II
THE STATE or "wAsHuorox."
The President pro tenn. laid before the Senate
to-day memorial Of the common council Of
Seattle, W. T., praying fer the admission Of the
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CoNTRABAND OPIUM.
The Smugglcrs Now Bringing &c I'm at
Seattle I'm Large Ouautitie.

SEATTLE, W. T., Jan. a-Customs oficer
Ringer discovered nearly 900 pounds of opium
in pawnbroker's shop on I'd street, but could
not obtain clue 10 the smugglers until ves,er-
day. A Apawnbroker named VIM. Mason, and
an associate, A. Z. Gone, were arrested and
brought before the district commissioner on
the charge OF facilitating the transportation OF
the opium II turns out that extensive snug
Cling operations have been going on here for
some time, and 100000 worth Is brought in
yearly by sloops from Victoria. b. c.. which
send boats 30 the shore near Seattle 10 leave
the drug with the professionals on shore. II Is
then either sold 90 Chinese or shipped 20 Port
land and San Francisco for transportation east
most practicable since the activity OF the
customs officials at ST. Paul and other eastern
cities. The custom-house officers suspect a
powerful and wealthy gang who make a bust
ness OF opium smuggling. The cases Of Mason
ana Cone were continued 20 await further de-
yelopments.
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The Murchisou Letter.


THE REPORT THAT Ex-0ov. SHELDON Was TIE
AUTHOR OF 1T coSTRADrcTED.
Los ANGELES, CAL, Jan. 5.-inquiries were
received here yesterday from Indianapolis re-
ferring TO published dispatches and asking il
ex-Gov. Lionel A. sheldon was not the author
of the famous Murchison letter. An Associated
Press reporter put the question to gentleman
first made public, and the answer was made ON
authority of Col. H. q. Otis, Of the Times.
Judge W. r. Fitzgerald, and Henry I. Gage,
that ex-Gov. Sheldon was not the author of the
letter, and knew nothing of it till after il was
published These gentlemen stated positively
that the name of the real writer Of the letter has
never yet been made known 10 the public in
any Of the numerous reports that have APP
peared on the subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-05
THE GOSSIP OF LONDON.
The Electric Sugar Refinery Fraud-A
Slight Decrease I'm Emiprafion

SIIyNt DcCredSt III F-U1prAtIOn.
Special Cable Dispatch TO THE EVENING STAR.
LONDON, Jan. 5.-The electrical sugar refinery
exposure has made little sensation in London.
The English portion of the shares are almost
exclusively held in Birmingham and Liverpool
An attempt was made to boom them in London.
but business men fought shy.in the absence of
scientists publicly expressed skepticism of the
process.
The emigrants from England in 1883 num-
bered 2S006S, slightly less than the previ-
Gus year. The decrease of emigrants TO the
United States was 5.566 and to Australia 2. col.
but to Canada there was an increase of 5000.
Last year 6,59l new books or editions were
published, England's largest number on record.
Works of fiction were especially numerous. the
increase being three-fold in the last six years.
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Freights Crash Together on a Bridge.
THREE CARS AND THE BRIDGE BURNED AND A rrL-
EGRAPHER KILLED.

CHICAGO. Jan. 5.-A dispatch from Carbon.
Wyo., says: "Eastbound Union Pacific freight
train, No. p, crashed into the rear of train No.
yesterday at Medicine Bow creek The ca
boose and two box-csrs were ditched and
burned. The wooden bridge. sixty feet long.
on which the train had stopped 20 cool hot
box. also burned. James Hughes telegrapher,
of Shelbyville, No., who was riding in the ca
boose, was killed. Engineer Vim. Nottage was
badly cut about the head, and Brakeman James
lsom had leg broken. Overland travel was
interrupted for twelve hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-05
Prof. Geffcken Released.

TIE PROSECUTION ABANDONED.
BERLIN, Jan. 5.-Prof Geffcken. who has
been held in custody on the charge of being
responsible for the publication in the Dt7ltchs
Rundscltdu of the diary Of the late Emperor
Frederick, has been released, the prosecution
having been abandoned
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Grand Rapids Post-omice Robbed.
THE THIEF WAS IN A HURRY AND ONLY TOOK S5oo
WORTH OF STAMPS

WORTH OF STAMPS.
GRAND RAPIDS, MIcH., Jan. 5.--The post
Office in this city was robbed last night Of
about $500 worth of stamps and a box contain
ing number of registered letters. The jani-
tor completed his NDrk at 6:lO and left a win
dow open TO air the place. Five minutes later
the deputy postmaster entered 20 lock up the
yalubles for the night He found the vault
door open and the property gone. The thief
had evidently entered through the window
taken what he could lay hands on aud left hur-
riedly. Several thousand dollars worth Of
stamps and half dozen registered pouches
were left undisturbed
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May Turn Out 60 be A Murder.

sItclAI DlsTetch % I'm EvENTNa SrAR
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. a colored boy
named Abe McCorrell. who had his skull frac-
tured by brick in the'hands Of Ed Summers.
also colored, during an alteration near the
stone bridge last night. is expected 20 die this
AFTERNOON, and the assault may turn out 70 be .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-05
From Wall Street To.day.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5, IL q. m.-The stock mar
ket showed little or no change this morning
from those Of the past few days, being quiet
prices were somewhat irregular but generally
higher than last nights figures, the advances
extending to y per cent The succeeding
transactions were for the most part confined 10
few stocks, among which New England was
most prominent, followed by the coal stocks
almost neglected New England was strong
and moved up "a per cent, and most Of the rest
made slight gains over the opening figures, but
Jersey Central opened unchanged at 9sss, re-
tired TO IS, and became dull and stagnant. The
other coal stocks sympathized TO some extent
with Jersey and remained rather heavy. The
remainder Of the list became heavy toward the
end of the hour and at ii O'Clock the market
was very dull at about the opening prices.
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MRS. FRIEND SPEAKS.
She Says II There Was Any Fraud She
is Not Guilty of it.

ANN ARBoR, MICH, Jan. 5.-The persons in
terested in the ''electric" sugar refining frauds
at New York have been in consultation with
Sawyer 4 Knowlton, attorneys here, for several
days past The president of the company has
been here and met Mrs. Friend. the Howards
and Holsteads, all of whom live in Milan, this
state. Mrs. Friends attorney says that there
was no intentional fraud. but the company was
to furnish money to equip refinery for REIN
ing the sugar by Friends secret process. Ihe
company alleged the refining was to be done
from the sugar cane. This she cannot do.
The contract her husband made was to refine
the sugar at 90 cents a ton or TO sell out MS
stock and secret for S250.000 after everything
was running. The company has been running
five years and put in over s3O0. but no
sugar has yet been refined for the market
Mrs Friend says that the company are now
irving to force from her another secret by
which she makes q superior article OF sugar
from grapes instead Of getting the secret their
contract calls for. This last secret she refuses
to divulge for any amount.
No arrests have been made and none even
threatened by the company's agent, who re.
turned to New York Wednesday. Mrs FRIEND
says she Is the only one Of the party who 10 in
terested in the transactions, the others being
merely employees.
. TEE snAREs DnoP TO THIRTY sHILLNos.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 6-Shares Of the electric
suesr refining company have fallen 20 30 shil-
lines. warrants have been issued for the ap-
prehenaion of Ers. Friend and her step-father,
81. 2. Howard, who was . director Of the COM
pany and had charge Of affairs as the factory
In BROOKLYN.
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TEE EVENING SrAR il served TO subscribers in the
city By carriers their account, at 10 cents
week. or 44c, per month Copies at the counter,
cents each BE- mail-pOstaxs prepaid-50 cents o
month: one year, s6. six months, s3
Entered 1t the Post Of5ce at Washington. D. c., a.
oecond-class mail lnStter-l
The WEEKLY STAR-published on Friday-S1 o
year. postage prepaid. Six months. so cents.
tVM mail subscriptions must be paid in advances
no paper sent longer than Is paid for.
Rates of advertising made known on application
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Two MORE NoTARIEs.-The President has
appointed Harry NJ. Earle and Martin s. Decker
to be notaries public for the District Of Colum-
bia.
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CONTRACT AwARDED.-The Secretary Of the
Navy has awarded the contract for repairing
the sea-wall at the Norfolk naval hospital to
Berry McFrederick, Of Baltimore, for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-05

BoATswAIN IN THE NAvY.-The President has
commissioned John J. Glynn to be boatswain
in the navy.
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AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day were
Senator Pugh and Representatives Springer,
Rogers, and Joseph, with Judge Clements