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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE president
made the following appointments today:
Evans Randall, of Maine. to be appraiser
of merchandise in the district Of Portland
and Falmouth, Ne; General Sturgis. of
West Virginia. to be attorney of the Uni
ted States for the district of West Vir-
riuia
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NOBLE GOES TO NEW YORK.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Secretary Noble
left Washington for Brooklyn at IL o'clock
this morning, to attend the reception to be
given this evening by the Brooklyn club
to the secretary of the navy.
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Sunday Morning
the brightest Sunday paper
published west Of Chicago.
In. ssnnr soath.

Ihe sEsny south
We take gres. pleasure Ia informing
those who anticipate spending the cold
winter months ia tbs warmer elimste Of
the states OF Georgia. Florida. Alabama
Mississippi Louisiana. and Texas, ths.
the Missouri Pacific railway 10 now ready
to quote exceed axly low excursion rates
20 al the popular ~!stsr F.sorts o. the
SOUTH. We invite all 20 CAL and obtain
our lowest rates before purchasing tieke.s
elsewhere Tits aad other information -
TO routes. connections. reservation u
osrths IA sleepeFz, etc, VIII De cheerfGlly
given by calling 3; eIty ticket Office. No
10 y. Main ~. or ., dacos. corner Of
" .chita and S@co1d s;rsee
az Z. l. BG&6xLxT. r & t.
Engraved AID yrintsd LUNCHEON
cards AZ tie y iehi;a EAGLE cfacs. sc3 Y
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WILL ORDER A COURT MARTIAL:

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Acting on the
recommendation of the secretary of war the
president will order court martial prob
ably today for the trial of Major George
Arms, retired upon charge of conduct I'M
becoming to an officer and gentlemen.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
PORTER WANTS 4 pI ACE

WASHINGTON, April e.-Colonei Pleasant
Porter. the delegate from the Greek nation
who recently negotiated the cession OF the
Creek lands in Oklahoms, is sn applicant
for the Union Indian agency in the Indian
Territory. BE has had an audience with
the president on the subject.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
VACATION RuMORS.

WASHINGTON, April cit is said the
president viii so to Baltimore Monday
morning to take vessel for cruise in the
Chesapeake Bay.
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BOOTH GREATLY IMPROVED.

NEW YORK, April Cit was reported this
morning that Mr.. Booth was greatly i'm
proved in health, and it is expected that he
will have entirely recovered IN two or three
DAYS.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.
WASHINGTON. April 6-The proceedings
in the supreme court of the United States
today were as follows: G. w. Pickle, of
cambridge, Tenn, and James B. Howe,
of Beaufort, S. c., were admitted to prac-
tice.
No. 236. Friedlander ct al, ETC., plain
titfs in error VS.. the Texas & Pacific rail
road company; argument continued by
Mr.. A. G. Stafford for the plaintiffs in err
row by Mr.. Winslow S. Pierce for the de-
PENDANT in error, and concluded by Mr..
Stafford for the plaintiffs in error
No. 237. The Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad company Gas reorganized), appel
liant, VS.. John OvertOn, Jr., trustee, ct al;
appellant from the circuit court of the
United States for the eastern district of
Arkansas; dismissed with costs pursuant
to the tenth rule.
No 23S. VIM. D. Thompson ct al, APP
pellants, VS.. the White Water Valley
Railroad company, ct al argument com
menced by Mr.. c. B. Matthews for appel
lants, and continued by ". r. II. Miller
for appellees; further argument suspended
for the present, with leave to file motion
to amend citation
No. 239. The Michigan Insurance Bank,
plaintiff in error, VS. Arson Elder; argU-
ment commenced by Mr.. Geo. p. Miller
for the plaintiff in error.
Adjourned until Monday at u o'clock.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
THE WORK Or FLAMES
A UNGOVERNABLE FIRE RAGING
In SAVANNAH.
The Heart of the City Rapidly De-
yOured Despite All Eff
forts Of Firemen.
Charleston. Augusta and Macon Appealed
to for Aid in Checking the
Destructive Flames

Fears Entertained that Search Will Re-
veal Loss of Life-A Forty Thous-
and Dollar Fire at Atlanta
Favorable Weather for Grow
ing Crops Reported by the
Crop Bulletin.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07

PAERs' is the puress and best Soap ever
made.
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The Term Explained.

The Term Explained.
Ad. Vance-S&y. water, did I Urder.
stand you 70 say this is home made railce-
pei
Waitsr-Yessuh. ds's home zsde PIE
Ad- Fanee-Ah, yes, see the JOKE now
II was made n the Hone fer the Bind
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07
TEXAS LEGISLATURE.

AUSTIN, Tex, April 6.-There was an in
teresting effort in the house this morning
to get up the bill to build a new penitent-
larry. To do this, Mr. Moses, of Burnett,
author of the bill, called up his resolution
declaring in effect that it is the reiterater-
ated policy of the state to keep and work
the eonvicts inside the prison walls, and to
that end the state should build a new
penitentiary instead of experimenting
further in working the conyicts on state
farms.
Mr.. Stevenson took the position that
convict labor should be used in competi-
ton with skilled labor and manufacturers,
instead of being brought into competition
with the common and farm labor or the
country.
The resolution, as far as it goes for
declaration of policy, get 81 votes for it to
81 against it, but was defeated for want of
two-thirds majority.
The house passed the senate joint reso-
luton for constitutional amendment TO
the taxation provisions of the constitution
so as TO allow an additional annual ad va
loren tax to be voted by the tax-paying
voters not to exceed 15c on the 500 yalua-
ton of the taxable property OF the county.
The house engrOsSed the senate joint
resolution amending the constitution so
as to authorize the creation Of a railway
commission.
Senate bill authorizing railroads char
tered by this state to extend their lines to
other states passed, but with amendments
which will send it back to the senate.
Senate bill regulating barbed wire fences
was defeated.
The house refused to consider the substi-
tute school bill.
The resolution for final adjournment
was laid on the table subject to call.
In the senate this morning the report Of
the committee on examination of the
comptroller's and treasurer's books pre-
sented an elaborate and favorable state
ment of the condition and work of those
officers.
House resolution urging action by con-
gress for the relief of the sufferers in
Brenh ham by the burning of property by
federal soldiers, passed to third reading
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-17
BEER AT GREAT YARMOUTH.
Prentice Mulford Tells How 1t Is Wor-
shipped by Fishermen.

Prentice Muiford Tells How 1t Is Wor-
shipped by Fishermen.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-At Great Var
mouth, England. Fisherman's tap room,
opposite lodgings. The Hercules. Mar
row street. Twenty feet from my win
dows. Empty by day. Full every night.
Herring fishermen. Wives ditto. Part
ners for life in drinking. Hercules eti-
quette. One mug for two, man and wife.
Sip alternately. Feminine power to drain
pot equal to mans. He sips. She sips
She sips. He sips. Mug empty. Passed
to barmaid. b. NJ. at beer pump. Prac-
ticed muscle. Mind ditto. One stroke
Dump lever for half pint Two, apint
Quarter stroke thrown in for good meas
ure. Alternate conjugal slipping as be-
fore. Sanded floor. Long table. Rack
of long stemmed clay pipes. Public pipes.
For customers. Smoke room full. All
hands talk. Talk, noisy, exciting and at
II o'clock confused.
Commences to simmer down at mid
night. Company at that hour at maxi
mum of beeriness and prosiness Long
winded. Steam up. High pressure. In
spirational nocturnal anec lotage. Same
old yarn. Hundredth time, Five hun
dredth time. Midnight Hercules puts
up shutters. Turns 'em out. Patrons
linger outside, Hate TO go home. Mild
night. Soft moonlight High tide OF
beeriness. All nature at rest. Care
driven away. Recollection of debts,
the morrow's labors, rheumatism and
waiting wives softened down. Roseate
hue over all. Lifted into temporary
elysium by beer. No wonder they linger.
|, abed. Within ear shot of it ALL
Without beer. Don't want beer. Want
sleep. Can't get sleep. Can get only
herring fisherman's midnight beer talk.
Time lags. Leaden winged. One
o'clock. Still hearing beery talk Of men
who 60 down on great deep and now in
depths of beer. Two o'clock. A week
has passed. Turn and toss. Frame OF
mind malignant.
Hope at last, Signs of breaking up.
OF what? Maritime beer talk. Subject!
Best way of picking up anchor aftel
slipping cable. Seven opinions given.
All talk together. Differences Of opinion.
Talk loud. Energetic. Some profanity.
Subject finally forgotten. Merges into
something else. Then focuses into com
mon subject. What?
Gibbons. Gibbons drunkest Of lot,
Beer inside of Gibbons suddenly boil;
over. Gibbons becomes volcanic. Erup.
tive. Gibbons differs from everybody.
Becomes profane. Abusive. Wants tc
fight.
Lesser drunks argue with Gibbons.
Coax him to go home. Gibbons won't &C
home. But loves to be coaxed. Regards
coaxing as sort Of homage paid him by
party. Common drunken perception on
part Of the Gibbons type Of man. Glib
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Dons real want. A club mercifully ad.
ministered.
Gibbons finally prevailed on to start
for home. Home at upper end Of court.
Two hundred yards distant from my
windows.> Gibbons stops. Anchors to a
gate post. Wants to go back for the
other drink. Forgot 1t.
Gibbons friends argue with Gibbons.
"No more tonight, mon. Go home to
yer wife, mon." Party deeply solicitous
e for Gibbons. His moral welfare. His
wife's ditto. Such comfort il the
drunken, crazy Gibbons will but &C
home to his wifel Inference on theii
back that when Gibbons. crazy, brutal
and insane, does but go home the domes.
tic Eden will run over with bliss.
Strange but true.
Gibbons makes another move for home.
Party accompanying. Occasional halt.
ings and anchorinGs by Gibbons. With
renewal OF old discussion. Abuse, pro.
family, desire to fight with anything,
topped with demands for more beer.
Moral, peace loving drunks at last see
him home. Leave Glib at front gate.
Quiet ut last. Imay now sleep. Voices
die away. turn over. Gale to land OF
Nod appears.
May enter? No. Sudden uproar In
Hail. 8 court. Screams! Shrill. A woman's.
arise. Open windows everywhere.
Both sides of court. Heads out. Female
heads. White nocturnal rigging. Mas
culine heads. Halls court again i'm up
roar.
Why? Gibbons beats his wife. Beer
inside Gibbons has taken this direction.
Power must expend itself somewhere
Target for fermented power inside Glib
bons is Mrs. Gibbons. Nothing unusual
in Halls court And elsewhere.
My landlady out. At front door. In
white. Night robe. Comely young
woman. Husband at sea. In collier.
Athletic young woman. Red and robust
pair of arms. Loud voiced. BY nature
a driver. Drives broom. Drives arms
over washtub like young healthy steam
engine. Leads expression of Halls court
public opinion Of Gibbons from front
door. Friend to abused Mrs. Gibbons.
Heads the clamor. Shouts disapproba.
ton of Gibbons conduct. Says she'd
like to smack Gibbons facet"
or this Glib. oblivious. ID. d. Dead
drunk. Asleep. Has done lis best and
worst.
Events In Halls court over for night.
Quite forgotten on morrow. Gibbons
will arise. Go to work. The court will
go on as usual until another or the same
Gibbons does it all over again. Such is
life. In Halls court, Great Yarmouth.
Also elsewhere. PRENTICE MULFoRp.
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ISTSs%0W~Eyyv~~'
1000 TON CRUISER.

p,Vpu lON ShUIoEh-
mean draft, 18 feet; displacement, 9,100
tons; horse power, 10000; speed, 20
knots an hour; battery--one inch and
enc 10 inch rifled gun, two 0 Founders,
two 3 Founders, one FOUNDER, two Cat.
ling guns and two small revolving can.
non. The first two guns named form
the main battery, while the others form
the secondary battery. Tho great su.
periority claimed for the armament OF
these cruisers is in the use Of rapid firing
guns in the main battery, instead OF the
ordinary breech leaders.
The six inch guns can be fired foui
times as fast as the ordinary guns of the
same caliber, while the four inch rifles
can be worked ten times minute. In
addition to q heavy protecting deck
there is to be water line belt of wood
ite," whatever that may be, which Is ex.
pected to swell up and keep water from
passing through any holes made by an
enemy's projectiles. There will also be
a thick belt Of coal over and protecting
the machinery and boilers. There will
be double bottom in tho wake Of the
machinery space. The rudder will be Of
the balanced type, and will form con-
tinuation Of the lines of the ship aft.
The protected deck will slope at the side
In two slopes of 22 degs. and 80 degs. 1t
will he covered first with half inch plat
ing, then two inch plato is worked on
this on the slopes amidships. two inches
on the slopes at the ends and one inch on
the fiat.
The engines are triple expansion, In.
verted and direct acting with high pres,
sure cylinder 80 inches, intermediate 60
inches, and two low pressure 81 inches
in diameter, the common stroke being 3S
inches. There will be six torpedo tubes,
with openings about four feet above the
water line, worked from the berth deck.
These tubes will be of the Howell pat.
tern, using gunpowder impulse. The
rig will be that Of two masted schoon.
er, spreading 7,2l0 square feet Of sail.
The masts will have barbette galleries
for machine guns just below the tops,
The vessels will be in every way we'll
built and arranged SO as to secure the
utmost economy Of room combined with
the best ventilation and greatest conven.
fence to officers and men.
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THE OLD MISSION.

they have in England. In our American
hurry there is no considerable number
of people who, though they were rich as
Crasuses, would be content to sit down
and doze away even the autumn of their
days. Money getting and money grab
bing Ia our common heritage. The
Goulds and the Vanderbilts, the Stan
fords and the Astors, are richer than can
be comfortable, but they do not stop in
the pursuit Of money. As long as there
is a dollar ahead they are going for it,
and going for it with zest and eager
ness as though their lives depended on
it. In that they find the pleasure, not
in sitting down and resting. And while
there Is a class Of Americans who are
satisfied with competence and willing
70 retire from business, it is not to the
poetic quiet and rare beauty of Santa
Barbara they are going. but to the great
capitals Of the world, where they and
their wives and daughters can display
their wealth and enjoy the enyious ad-
miration of those less favored. We ses
that in California. The Stanfords, the
Ms:keys, the Crockers, the Hunting
tons and the Floods have their magnih-
cent residences on Mob Hill, but San
Francisco, even, is not enough. Their
mansions are closed nearly all the time,
and they are away dazzling Paris, Rome,
Berlin and New York. No, quiet and
repose Is not a characteristic of the rich
American.
No description Of Santa Barbara will
give one fair idea of the place. Not
that It is so very beautiful, or that one
gets suggestion Of Arcadia in entering
from the railway OF the sea. Far from
it. The train stops midway. the steamer
at the foot, Of the long finely paved
leading street which is full of hustle,
and tells Of the working world. But af-
ter one has been there day or two and
is away from the principal thoroughfare
the seductive atmosphere has its sooth.
ing influence and you feel what restfui
region you are in. Life then lacks ami
nation, although the delicious oxygen is
abundant in health giving proportion
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-17
THE STANDlSh MONUMENT.
A Noble Tribute to Americas First Com
missioned Oficer.

A Noble Tribute to Americas First Com
missioned Officer.
The spot chosen for the monument
which has been erected to perpetuate the
memory Of Miles Standish, the first COM
missioned military officer of the New
World, is on Captains Hill, on the old
Standish farm, where Capt. Standish
lived and died. 1t is here that the house
bull. by his son in 1866 still stands near
the site of the old homestead which was
burned in 1865. The farm was given to
him by the colony about 1880, and re-
mained in the family till the middle Of
the last century. The hill is $50 feet
high, and overlooks Plymouth and Dux-
as sighting point in entering Massachu-
sets bay. When the shaft is finished it
will be very useful to the coast survey as
well as to pilo,s.
The monument is 100 feet high from
the grade to the top Of the parapet or
base of the statue. The diameter of the
base is 25 feet and at the top 10 feet.
The base is octagonal to the height Of
25 feet, or rs far up as the projection of
the lower cornice; above this the monu-
ment is perfectly round. The founda-
ton extends 8 feet below the surface of
the ground, and is laid in hydraulic ce-
ment. Up to the first cornice the granite
base of the monument is of the first di-
mension quality, with rough, split faces
and hammered beds and builds. This
monument Is the tallest and largest
structure in the United States erected to
the memory of any individual, except
Washington. The whole upper corner
is also of rough, split granite. The brick
cone inside is supported by eight ham.
mered granite posts, l2 feet long, and
lintels
The granite in the shaft is in irregular
blocks, no course less than eight inches
nor over twelve inches rise outside The
interior above the octagon base is built
up with common rubble stone, the whole
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-17
SECRETARY CIAolN ASD HEADQUARTERS
or TIE CHICAGO COMMITTED.

S8tkhIAhb 'hltti' AID hiAbN9t Ahl tUr
or THE CHICAGO COMMITTEE.
The New York worlds fair" was not
q success. II followed closely ON tho
heels OF the London exhibition, and the
novelty had worn off; there was an exit
bition in Dublin ut the Same time, and
the location OF the building was then
quito distance from the center OF the
city. Instead Of 1900 exhibitors who
contributed to the London show, there
were but 4, 800 at New York. Then there
was great delay in opening. All these
causes made the New York affair far
tanner one than that in Hyde park. But
tho Yankee exhibited a lot of agricultural
implements, which he has since been
using to great advantage, besides ship.
ping them all over the world. After
the fair the New York Crystal Palace
was leased 10 tho American institute for
annual exhibitions, and during ono OK
them, In October, 1853, II caught fire
and was destroyed with its contents.
Tho New York world'S fair Was . Guam
cial failure.
Munich had all exhibition in . glass
and iron building In 1854, which was in.
terrupted by cholera. Tho French car
ried on tho idea started by tho English
by an exhibition in 1855 at Paris, which
which vas up 10 that time euccessful
next 10 tho Hyde parl. affair. A build.
ing of stone, brick and glass was erected
on tho Champs Elysces 800 by $50 feet,
costing S5, 900 900 Tho Emperor Louis
NAPOLEON opened tho exhibition on Nav
IA. There were 10000 exhibitors and
over 4,500, 900 visitors. As display the
affair was a success, but financially it
was q failure.
In 1852 the Londoners got up an in
ternational exhibition in brick, glass
and iron building In Kensington, intend
ed to follow the worlds fair" Of 1851 az
q second decennial. There were in all
over 20, 900 exhibitors and about the
same attendance as at the previous dec
ade There was a deficiency Of Gi2 900
when the exhibition ended. The build.
ing was intended to be permanent, but
it was demolished.
In 1867 the French arranged an eXhi.
bition which distanced all previous ones
in the number Of exhibitors and visitors.
A building was erected in the Champ
de Mars, oval in shape, 1850 feet long
by 1850 feet wide, the area being in
creased by number OF smaller buildings
TO 35 acres. 1t was opened to the public
for seven months, during which the. ;
were 50,228 exhibitors. The time the
exhibition was open was longer than
that of either Of the London shows, but
there were more visitors in proportion
taking this fact into consideration at
the Paris exposition. 1t was claimed
that there was a fnancia. profit to the
Paris exposition Of about 5000. 900.
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L.
Is North river
stone, four inches thick and twelve
inches wide. The statue, which is built
by the Cape Ann Granite company, is
finished and on the grounds. The height
from the base at the feet to the crown Of
the head is fifteen feet. 1t is carved out
of two blocks of the finest Cape Ann
granite, and represents the old Ruritan
captain standing In an upright position
in full military dress Of the early colonial
period, consisting of the cooked hat,
Elizabethan rufiie around the neck, mill
tary boots, etc. The right foot and arm,
in which a scroll is held, are extended
forward, while the left hand rests firmly
on the hilt of the sword hanging on the
left side. Theslong cloak which was
then worn is thrown over the back, fall
ing behind the statue in graceful folds to
the feet
Very large stones were used in the
construction Of this monument, many Of
them weighing from three to five tons
each, which when set make very i'm.
posing structure. The stones which form
the jambs of the arch over the entrance
"'iS Dl anu ptat tht
of each of the New England states. Presi.
dent Grant presented the keystone which
represents the counties of the common.
wealth of Massachusetts,, suitably in.
scribed. There are four sunken panels
on the sides, each contains four stones,
on which the sixteen names of Capt.
Standishs companions in the great work
accomplished by the Pilgrim Fathers are
cut.
The inner room Of the octagOn base II
about twenty-one feet across by twenty
feet high, and is so constructed as to re
ceive tablets of religious, historical, ma.
sonic and other societies, mechanica.
and mercantile associations, regimenta!
and other military stones. All the inte
rior Of the shaft above, including the
sides of the cone around which tn
stones circle, is studded with the mill
tary company stones Of this and Other
states and such like tablets, which may
be deemed best to insert so as TO conmem
morate and perpetuate the works and
names Of Capt. Standish and his asso'
ciate5.