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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-25

THERE is some remote prospect of
such inquest into the stealing of the
Plummerville ballot box as may lead
to the discovery of John Clayton's
murderers. The assurance that the
ballot box stealers were among the
most respected young men of the
vicinity does not say much for the
character of that responsibility, nor
does it give any sanguine hope of
reaching the facts,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-25

THE case of Mr.. Parnell before the
ex-chequer division of the high court
of justice in Ireland has been ex-
plunged. The cable does not inform
the public beyond this fact, and far
ther information must be awaited. 1t
does not seem creditabIe that this
means throwing of the case out of
her majesty's high court. 1t may be
that it merely means the transfer of
the case to the English courts, but
one justly grows so suspicious of any
action of this tory government in any
matters concerning Ireland, that
there is no saying what may happen.
Justice for Ireland will not be done
so long as Salisbury and Balfour run
matters.
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
A cEUMBLING EMPIRE.
The Largest of South African Native
States Falling to Pieces.

A great native empire Ill Africa las
been going to pieces within the past two
years and is now the prey of all its enc
mics. 1t is the empire of the Aluata
Yamye, whose dominions have embraced
a territory as large as Germany, and who
was heard of scores of years before any
white man visited Lunda. whose rulers
bear the title of Muata Yamyo.
When the Congo Independent State
was formed it was at first intended to
embrace in it the entire Congo basin,
except those small parts Of it which had
been appropriated by the French and
Portuguese. 1t was thought, however, that
the Muata Yamvo was too powerful q per-
son to NEEDLE with, and it was finally de-
cided to let him alone. This is the reason
that the Congo State has such pecu-
iarly shaped southern frontier. On the
map il bears some resemblance toa slice
of bread out Of which an urchiL has bit
ten a large mouthful. The missing
chunk is the Muata Yamvo's empire.
1t was the pleasant custom of this
ruler not long ago to dispatch messen-
gers, sometimes hundreds of miles, to
chiefs VINO had incurred his i'll will. The
messenger would hand a knife to the
object OF the Empcror's wrath and in
innate that it was the royal will that he
kill himself. No instance has until re-
Gently been reported of failure promptly
to accomplish this disagreeable duty.
But while ago some of the big chiefs
began TO put on independent airs, de-
clined to play tribute any longer, and
even had the impotence to refuse to
kill themselves when their thoughtful
master sent them the knife. The troub-
les of the Muata Yamyo began with the
detection of his powerful chiefs, and this
spirit of rebellion in Lunda has encour-
aged her enemies to make forays into
the country for all they could find.
A little man, scarcely five feet high,
has done more than any other person to
destroy the once famous Muata ,Yamyo.
He is Kangombe, the chief of the Lu-
vale country south Of Lunda. Armed
with plenty of guns, his bands have
swept like cloud of locusts far over
Luuda for three years past, returning
home with lots of ivory and thousands
of slaves. A while ago Mr.. Arnot fol-
lowed in the wake Of Kangombe's VIC.
torious army, and saw all the horrors a
savage warfare. 1t was six days after
Kancombe ssoldiers had passed over the
road, and yet Arnot found that some Of
his victims who had been left to perish
were still alive. Some were tied to trees
with bark cords, and others were multi
lated so that they could not walk
The Muata Yamyo has sent armies to
fight Kancombe, but they had only ma
tive weapons, and melted away before
the firearms Of the enemy. And here
curious fact may be mentioned. Weak
ened by his many reycrses, and stripped
Of much Of his territory, the Muato
Yamvo has accepted protectorate Of
fered by Portugal. And yet it is the
munitions Of war that have poured into
Portuguese ports and been sold by Port
ugese traders TO his enemies that have
reduced the Muato Yainvoto his present
Impoverished condition. -AeiO York
Sun.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
in the summer, to say nothing

infantum in the summer, to say nothing
of measles, chicken pox, whooping cough
and scarlet fever all the year round. How
ever, the charges ON thousand dollars
insurance on a baby's life might be
scaled i'll this way. For a 81, 900 policy
for one-day old baby premium Of
1899 might be charged. Then the in
surance company should agree to return
one dollar day as long as the baby
lived until the premium was reduced to
$40. At the age of two and half years
the result would be still 81, 900 insurance
ON the baby's life at an annual cost of
but $40. If the child should die when
it was but week old, though, you
would be 1892 out. Still you can't rea-
sonably expect to insure an infants life
for nothing. 1t would be possible to
avoid this heavy percentage by waiting
until the child was two years of age be-
fore buying policy. That is the only
solution of the problem that 1 can
see.
If the wealth Of the Vanderbilts be not
overstated, it amounts to nearly $780,
000,0 900. With this sum they could
purchase 312 tons of gold and have
something left over, but they couldn't
buy two tons of gallium, that rare metal
being worth SO, $50 an ounce. With this
metal the highest price is reached, and
it may well be called the rarest and
most precious of metals.
Glucinum is worth $3.50 per ounce;
indium S158; iridium s65S pound;
lanthanium, $l75, and lithium $3.50 per
ounce. Medium costs $l2S per ounce;
asmium, palladium, platinum, potas-
stun, and rhodium bring respectively
$40, $400, $130, $50, and $512 per
pound. Strontium costs Sl28 an ounce;
tantaum, $144; telurium, 50; thoriuln,
S272; vanndium, $500; yttIium, Sl44,
and chromium $3.50 an ounce.
Thus we see that the commonly received
opinion as to what are the most precious
metals is quite erroneous. Barium is
more than four times as valuable as gold,
and gallium more than 162 times as
costly, while many of the metals are
thrice as valuable. Aluminium, which
now costs IS or 50 pound, will eventu-
ally be produced as cheaply as steel.
When this can be done it will push the
latter metal out of n great many of its
present uses, ms it possesses great
toughness, and elasticity, with
extreme lightness of weight. Its sour
ces of supply are inexhaustible, and its
present high cost arises from the diff
Guilty of its extraction in metallic form.
Indium seems to be chiefly used for
pointing gold pens, and many of the
metals mentioned have but limited
~. iere of usefulness Globe Democrat.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
A Chinese Conveyance.

The great wall of China, says Frank
G.. Carpenter in the New York World, is
right in the mountains. There are no
villages to speak of near it, and the sur
roundings are the picture of desolation.
The road to it, which was once n paved
highway, is now mountain path filed
with boulders and puddles, and it is inn
possible to get through with anything
else than mule litters, camels or donkeys.
We passed camels 10y the hundreds, and
our mule litter and two donkeys, which
made up the outfit of the party, had
often to stand aside for herds of black
Chinese hogs and droves of fat-tailed
sheep which were being driven from the
wild pasture lands of Mongolia down to
Picking. Ponies and horses can no more
travel this road than they can the passes
of the Andes, and the mule litter in
which my wife rode is fair sample of
Chinese interior travel. 1t was a cloth
covered box about five feet long and four
high, swung between two Of the rawest,
mangiest mules | have ever seen. 1t was
hung upon shafts, and these mules, one
in front and two behind, carried it in
single file up the hills and through the
mud. In passing through one Of the
villages they slipped and the whole out
fit came to the ground.
The muleteer was n Mohammedan, as
are many OF these north Cinnamon. He
was rs stubborn as his mules, and he de-
cidedly objected when l proposed put
ting two people into the litter during a
rain. We carried our own cook and
bedding with us and slept at Chinese
inns ON dirty lodges of brick heated
from beneath by fiues. These lodges
are about two feet high, and they CON
stitute half of tho bedroom of Chinese
hotel. The inns were much the same, /
judge, as those CT Palestine in the DAYS
Of the Saviour. Low, one-stOry brick
buildings ran around an open court in
which droves of hogs and camels slept.
The doors of the building all opened in
to the court, and half Of them were open
1T the front and were assigned to the
donkeys and mules Of the travellers.
These prayed the live-long night, and
their munchingof straw could be dis
tinctly heard through the walls sepaIat-
ing them from us.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Mrs. Cleveland in New York.

Every one who has seen Mrs. Cleve-
land since she arrived in this city has
remarked upon the great change in her
appearance. She is very much thinner,
having lost probably since her marriage
fully twenty pounds. She is a tall
woman, something like five feet seven,
and weighed when she married Mr..
Cleveland nearly ono hundred and sixty
pounds, which did not seem at all too
much for her height, Now she looks dis
tinctly thin and has lost, too, the bril-
liant color she had as girl. The life in
Washington has been, III some respects,
n hard ono and the climate has never
agreed with her very well, she having
always been accustomed to colder and
more bracing atmosphere. This change
in her appearance has been greatly ac-
centuated by the change in the way of
wearing her hair which she has recently
made. The Cleveland couture, which
meant high coils on the head and a few
curled loye-locks on the forehead, has
taken a distinct place among the fash
ions Of hair-dressing and has grown uni
versally familiar through the photo
graphs of the ex- Presidents wife. But
it is now entirely altered; she brushes
her hair straight back from her fore
head, without any suggestion of bang,
and pins it in a low, braided coil on the
back of her neck. Such radical change
of couture makes almost as much differ
once in a wolnan's appearance rs would
the shaving of his beard on the part of
the man. II has changed Mrs. Clevc-
land SO much that very few people who
are not personally acquainted with her
would be able to recognize her. 1t is
said that is what size had in view when
she made the change. She knew that
her face had become so familiar to every
one that she would not be able even to
walk in the streets or to appear in any
public place without Immediately being
pointed out and stared at, and it was to
avoid this unpleasantness that she
changed her hair-dressing in order that
those people who knew her only through
photographs should not easily recognize
her. She and Mrs. Folsom are already
beginning an executive session with the
dressmakers, preparing their spring
wardrobes, as they probably leave town
early in the season and wish to be be-
forehand in their preparations. Mrs.
Cleveland has already made investments
in the pretty new ginghams and China
silks which are being shown in the shop
windows. She has great fondness for
simple, girlish costumes for summer
wear, and with her fresh complexion
and slender, youthful outlines these are
becoming TO her. Mrs. Fol
som, however, dresses very quietly,
does not look veIy much older than her
daughter, and, indeed. rs far as age is
might easily be an elder sis
ter, being but little over seventeen years
her senior.-Aets York World.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Shooting Ptarmigan.

About half way up we fell in with a
large flock of ptarmigan. In rising they
took MS by surprise while struggling
through heavy squat, accompanied by
fine, hard snow, which stung our faces
mpleasantly. In the midst of this we
were suddenly conscious that the air
was full also of white wings; for the
plumage of the birds was at this season
nearly as pure rs the snow itself. 1t
soon became evident that owing to the
stormy weather and the birds, being
packed, they were far wilder than we
had supposed they ever could be, and
that there was little chance of doing
much by pursuing them in ordinary
fashion So we agreed 20 separate and
work singly about the mountain, vary
ing our direction and elevation on the
terraces as each judged best for himself.
These tactics succeeded admirably.
The ptarmigan, when flushed by one
wandering gun, swept round the but
tresscs of their rocky citadel, which they
naturally never left, and were sure
before long 10 encounter another, swing
ing past him, or over his head, or light
ing within view, only to be flushed again
and passed on once more. While this
state of things lasted the shooting was as
wild and sporting as n man could desire,
but il was bitterly cold work Earthly
enjoyment consists good deal in the
absence or cessation Of discomfort, as
one fully realized on that day when,
stretched in positive luxury, under the
lee of big boulder, and not feeling a
breath of the biting wind, one gnawed
greedily chunks Of cold ryper and black
bread, washed down with ardent spirits.
In the afternoon, however, the squalls
abated and there were transient CLEANS
of sunshine, when, as the packs were
partly broken and disorganized, some
few birds took to crouching tamely and
fell easy victims. | cannot say how
many we lost of those which dropped
over steep, slippery places, where forour
lives we burst not follow them. Some
indeed, were eventually retrieved by
making long circuits, but considerable
number were never gathered. Our unit
ed bags, when turned out, produced
twenty-nine brace, which, under the
circumstances, represented, think, m
excellent bit of wild shooting. Fort.
mighty Rerie1c.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Insurance For Babies.

Life insurance has been brought
down to such a fine point nowadays
that I am told" says John Preston
Beecher, in the New York Ne1rs, "a
company is being organized to insure
the lives of babies. A baby's life is a
very precarious thing, and l should
think there would be quite as much risk
attached to it as there would be in in
surfing n big piece of plate glass, and
yet they insure plato glass against break
age just as they do ones arm or leg. As
far as babies are concerned, / should
fancy that the rates Of insurance would
have to be graded on a very high basis.
They are susceptible to colds and diph-
liberia in the winter time, and to cholera
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
Hamilton's Commemorative Thir-
teen Trees.

On the grounds of "The Grange" al
New York City, as his country seat was
called, Alexander Hamilton planted with
his own hands a circle of thirteen trees.
The act was touching commentary on
the statesman's love for the union for
which he had labored as bravely in coun-
ell as he had fought valiantly in the
field. There is nothing in the early po-
litical history of the country which is
so entirely patriotic an act as this of
Alexander Hamilton no picture 50
beautiful as that Of the statesman per-
forming his labor of love in the quiet
shadow of his own home, his hands en-
Drowned with the soil into which he was
delving, his keenly intellectual face
sparkling with the pleasure which his
work gave him. An artist ought to have
made it his masterpiece long ago; a city
should have been as proud of it as it
was once of old Peter Stuyvesant's pear
tree, and at least as careful of it as of
the trees in Central Park. 1t is not too
late 10 do something. The trees still
live, but in the midst Of an abomination
of desolation which would have made
Hamilton weep to see. Yet, strange to
say, they bear to this day the imprint of
his master mind. They have kept pace
in point of size with the growth of the
whose names they bear.
New York, Pennsylvania and Massachu-
sets are the largest in the circle of thir-
teen. and Rhode Island and Delaware
are the smallest. The trees themselves
have honored the dead statesman where
to the mass Of men he seems to have be-
come but the shadow of a name, even in
the city where he made his home.-Nsn
York Commercial AdUertiser.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-28
NEEDED RELIEF.

"Conld i induce you, Mr.. Jobson, to
part with your seraphic daughter
Olaral"
BLESS your life, Young man, yes. 1
told her mother last night that if no.
body came along pretty soon I'd let her
run off with the coachman. ''-Drakes
Marazine.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Micro ORaANlsNs.-The remarkable
fact was discovered that in canals aud
rivers the micro.organisms slowly sub.
side. The water oil the Thames yielded
800 colonies per drop near the surface,
and 2,120 colonies per drop close to the
bottom. Az Sunbiry there were found
in sample which was taken above
eOhc black mud no less than 10000
colonies per drop. But Ia the sea water
round the coast oil England the organ.
iSms are more numerous near the surface.
Samples taken of the old pier At Bigh-
ton In July, were found TO yield $50
colonies per drop near the surface, and
only ten at the bottom. The water
supplied to London by the Middlesex
aud Grand junction Companies varied
In purity according TO the season. In
May a drop contained seven germs; In
July iorty.tlve, aud Ia November three.
These are remarkable facts.
NKw GRANApAs Ink PLANTS, - In
New Granada grows a plant which is
locally known rs the INK plant aud
scientifically as Corlatia thymiiolia. It's
Juice serves, without the slightest prepa.
ration, az ink. Az first the writing ap.
pears red, but In lew hours II assumes
a deep black hue, Several sheets OF
nanuSCript written with this natural
Ink, became soaked with sea water on
lhUifl Quincy 10 Europe, but when dried
tho writing was found 10 DO still per.
ieCtly clear.
A FoRTuSE IN WArcn KRYs.-An old
farmer IN tho GranlIO State one Sunday
morning started 10 Wind up his great
silver watch and found that tho key was
Allied with dirt. Being unable 10 dlg IhH
latter out With 4 pill, the farmer drilled
hole In the key and With a single
breath blew all tho dust out. Then lie
sat down 10 thiOk aud within month
had patented that hole. To-day, 10 10.
bAnon, n. i, there Is a large factory
running by electric power wherein arr
manufactured daily thousaSdS Of wOlCl
keys Of every possible size, shape ant
dp6ign. Each one Of these keys con
lAins the hole which has been patented
by tue farmer, Tho latter has altead,
made q torlune.
WOUNDs DREssED Wirn SAwnUsr,-
The use Of fine soft sAwdnBt 40 a dFeSslnI
for wounds and 10 d vehicle for tngdica
lngnls OF antisepilCs 10 suggested, II 4
1ald that the dust, freed from splinter
and sharp bits Of wood by Sitting, Whel
used alone and dry, make q clean an,
gFAteiul dressing that u readily take
up and holds thU discharges without
packing or adhOring, and that II 10 eaSll
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03
Is Communion InpurnhloY

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Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The Marx Lane Exprei
weekly review Of the nfltlAh graln trade, says
English wheat Ii firm despite plentiful deliver
les. Sales Of English wheat for tho week, ~, 90.
quarters At 3ls ii per quarter, against 6I,O2l
quarters At Sis vi for the corresponding WeeE
Of lsLtycar. Flour Ia III sellers favor. Fotels q
wheAts are quiet. New Australian crop Ig EpeC
ulatlvely offered ut 3Ss 81 per quarter. Receipt
from llPlatA aud Chill promise good crop
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

~ USE Ayers Cherry Pectoral freely
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cases Of Whooplng Cough among child.
rem, having found Il more certain u cure
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lett Of Concord, Mass. nav
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-03

RIlcNk IastlIe
The latest wild, weird, woody, wicked,
woeiul, wonderful rumor about the
gubernatorial contest ia that Goff can
have the office II he will appoint Henry
$. Walker Secretary Of State. Gutf don't
want the place that bad. Besides, the
Gazette does NOT believe this fairy tale ia
true,