Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-27

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| been computed by Professor Roberts at
fifty tons of solid carbon and $50 tons of
hydro carbon and carbonic oxide gases
for each day of the year, and its value at
&2 600, 900 per annum.
An epidemic of fux has prevailed in
| Charleston, W. Va. aud county during
the past thirty days. The disease is
! virulent and has proved fatal in about
| fifty cases in the county and city. Both
| old and young are dying from the dis
| ease, but deaths are more prevalent
| among young children.
| Trenton, n. J F., has new industry !,
making of dynamite guns. Six of these
| guns are now being constructed by the
New Jersey steel and iron company {.
The guns are to be fifty feet long, eleven
inches in diameter and will be made in
three sections. They will be constructed
OF cast-steel plates, bolted securely to-
gether.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson
states that the number of postoffice
changes made by the present administra-
| ton amounts so far to 10 600. This
makes nearly q thousand a week since
the AK of the administration began to
work, and it is exclusive of two thousand
postal clerks removed by superintendent
Lowry Bell under supervision of the civil
service rules.
Senator Hoar says: "Nearly ma
jority of the United States senate favor
woman suffrage. OF those opposed to it 4,
many have committed themselves to the
doctrine that the control of the matter
should be left to the states. President
Harrison, as is well known, voted when
in the senate to submit woman suffrage
amendment to the states or paired on
that side. -
A Cincinnati Enquirer reporter was
sent to Moscow, Ohio, to ascertain the
facts relative to the diphtheria epidemic
prevailing III that village. Seventy cases
have been reported and twelve deaths.
The disease, as usual, is confined mostly
to children. Many families are leaving
the place to escape the dangers of the
disease. A number of the refugees have
reached Cincinnati.
Michael J Leonard, a contractor of
Maytfeld, Ky, recently discovered sew
enty-five acres of land near Ripley,
Tenn. upon which were rich deposits of
yellow ocher. He told his friend, L. II
Bell, publisher of the Catholic AdvO-
cate here. Bell bought the place at the
ordinary value of land in that region,
and will give up his business to bring the
ocher to market. 1t is supposed to be
great fortune for him. There are only
eight other beds of ocher in this cOuu-
try.
There are now in use in the United
States more than five thousand, six hun
dred and fifty central electric stations
for light and power. There are, accord
ing to recent census, 2l0, 900 arc lights
and 2 800 900 incandescent lamps aglow
nightly. There were fifty mine electrical
railways in operation in March last, and
eighty-siX roads in process of cOnstruc-
ton. The increase of capital i'll electrical
instruments during the year 1888 was
nearly seventy million dollars. These
are very gigantic figures, and they point
Enthusiastically to the course of future in
Yentions and discoveries.
Cooperation among workingmen has
hourished in England, and an exhibition
of cooperative products has just been
opened at the Crystal Palace in London,
which, it is said, will prove a surprise to
the English themselves. No less than
one thousand and six hundred separate
establishments organized on the Coop
erative principle are represented. Some
Of them are very extensive, employing
large amounts of capital. They include
nearly two hundred distinct trades or oc-
equations, in which only the best and
most intelligent aPtesians are engaged
1t is expected that the exhibition will
open the eyes of workingmen to the bene-
fits of the cooperative principle and give
great impetus to the movement.
The leader of the Christian science
movement at Long Branch is Mrs. f. j.
UyaS
Saratoga last summer. She is a Chris
tian scientist of the pure school, and pro-
fesses to frOWn upon the heresy intro
duced into Christian science by Mary
Bently Plunkett- Worthington, formerly
of Detroit. Mrs. Stetson has established
at Long Branch what she calls the First
Christian Science Church of Christ. The
church numbers among its members some
of the Wealthiest of the summer residents
of the Branch, as well as a goOdly repre-
sentatiOn of the superior village folk.
The Branch has caught the craze bad.
Dozens of women, it is said, have discov-
cred that they are not mated, and have
therefore refused to any longer perform
a Wife's duties to their husbands. |
Mrs. Hugh j. Hastings, widow of the |
late proprietor of the New York Com |
mercial Advertiser, is deeply interested |
IN the movement, anu spends both her |
time and her great wealth without stunt. |
Another liberal contributor is Mrs. OF |
tersen, wife of DR.. Ottersen of Brook |
Ign. There are plenty of younger con- !
verts, including Miss Carrie Mcguire, q |
teacher in the state normal school at |
Trenton; Miss Maud Howard, daughter |
of Phil Days private secretary; Mrs. |
w. H. Campbell, wife of Freebooter |
C1amDbn11 and Mrs Ed FmrOOds wife |
of the popular proprietor of the Mer- /
hotel. Christian science has |
broken up more than one happy home in
Long Branch. Husbands with families
of children have been robbed of the love |
Of their wives and vice versa.
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