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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
THERE is NO ANTAGONIST.
Bayard and Whitney in Accord on
the Samoan Matter

Inquiry at the navy department developed
the fact that Secret ry Bayard has made no
direct response to Secretary Whitney's letter
inquiring as to the Samoan policy. 1t is un-
derstood, however, that the PRESIDENTS action
in referring the m tier to congress was based
to considerable degree upon the points made
in Secretary Whitney letter. In answer to
an inquiry on the subject Secretary Whit
ney said "There is no antagonism between
the state depai tment and the navy depart
ment in this matter. For the protection Of
the naval officers who are at Samoa, or who
may be sent there, asked for definite
statement of policy for their guidance, and
on the 18th inst the pr sident referred the
whole matter to congress- and there it rests y
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01

At Cincinnati, O., while workmn were
pulling down brick wall at Fifth and Vine
streets, four workmen remaired on the inner
side The swaying WALL instead of falling
outward, toppled inward and buried the men.
One of them Joan Wilson, was taken out in
sensible and fatally injured. Three others
were aiken out SO iously injured
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
FARMERS FOR HIGHER DUTIES
Vermont Agriculturists Complain of
Being UndersoId,

Being Undersold,
A petition presented in the senate by Sena-
tor Morrill,, from Vermont farmers urges
congress to increase the duties on various
farm products The farmers of the United
States, the petition says, are undersold in
many cities and towns by the products of un-
paid foreign labor. Onions from Spain and
Egypt appear in markets as far west as Chi
cago Tobacco raised by coolies in Sumatra,
and imported by tricks and frauds, lessons
the reward OF American growers. Wool
clipped by slaves, by c0nvicts or by CT at res
scarcely less degraded, stops wool GROWN
by an army of American farmers, and sends
100000 Of sheep annually to the slaughter
Potatoes and cabbages by the cargo fro
places where women work daily in the fields
come here as ballast, with eggs by the ship
load from Hollan1, cattle from M xico and
harley from Canada.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01

A baptism took place at the Haverhill,
Mass, landing, near the Essex engine-house,
on Sunday, in the presence of curious but
shivering crowd There were two converts,
husband and wife, whowalked out with Elder
Shattuck of the Advent church, into the cold
waters of the Merrimac amid the floating
ice, and were immersed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
TAKE NOTICE, BIDDERS.
Warming from the Government to
Paper Contractors.

IHptF OUHIFaCIUFS.
The joint congressional committee on
printing has sent written notice to bidders
for paper for the government printing Office,
whose bids were opened last week, that they
will do well to withdraw bids in all cases
where they think of furnishing paper not ex-
actly like the samples. Their
attention is called to the fact
that there is no mechanical ground wood
pulp in the samples, and that no paper will
be received under tue now contracts which
contains mechanical ground wood pulp. In
the event that such paper is offered the con-
tracts will be annulled and paper bought in
open market at the expense of contractors
bondsmen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
NO MORE FISHING LICENSES.

Instructions to Collectors of Customs
In the Maritime Provinces.
Collectors Of customs in the maritime
provinces have been instruct not to issue
any further licenses under the modus vi
vendi A number Of licenses granted last
year viii not run out until July next, the
first sue being IL months from the date of
issue, but as the season advanced, at the re-
quest Of the Newfoundland G )vernment and
to max Canadian licenses uniform with the
licenses Of that llony they were issued to
b. good only until Dec. 81.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
BANGOR CUSTOM HOUSE.
Repairs to be Begun as Soon as the
Plans are Approved.

Repairs to be Begun as soon as the
Plans are Approved,
The sundry civil service bill OF last session
contained an item appropriating $4,000 for
the repair Of the foundation of the Bangor
(Me) cu,t tom house bui ding. 1t was stipu-
la ed that . like sum should be expended by
the CITY of Bangor, and that the repairs
should be mad, under plans and specifica-
tions to -e approved by the secretary Of the
treasury Congressman Bou ellie ON Satur-
day. submitted these plans to the secretary,
and as soon as they are approved tue con-
tEaot for the masonry will be awarded
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01

Opponents of the bill for the admission of
Utah as state hope that minority report
favorable to the bill will be made in order to
>neourage immigration.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01

The government required 50 per cent. Of
excellence In the grouping Of the shots, and
opinion that this had been accomplished
All the visitors declared the gun great sue
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-01
THE FINAL TEST A SUCCESS.
Good Results With the Pneumatic
Dynamite Gun.

Good Results With the Pneumatic
Dynamite Gun.
The final government tests of the pneu-
matte dynamite gun constructed for the new
cruiser Vesuvius were conducted under the
supervision of Maj Za'insli and the naval
board at Fort Lafayette on Saturday.
They were station at different points along
the beach, and on the water The Nina and
Adm raj Ghera' de's launch went down from
the navy yard with lot Of officers On board.
Among tho who viewed the firing and as
sisted in ascertaining the results were Charles
F. Emery, Capt. Birney of the ordnance de
partment, repre- enting the war depart
m mt, President Schuyler Of the Preu-
matte Dynamite Gun Company, Baron Won
Sternberg military attache of the German
embassy at Washington, and Capt. Pierre
Piorowsi of the German army Eight tubu-
lar proiectiles Is inches In diameter, each
loaded with 175 pounds of dynamite and
nitro-gelatina, were fired. The explosions
were accompanied by fine display of mud
and water drawing. The average velocity
was IL seconds, and the average pressure
1000 pounds to the inch. The actual test was
as to the grouping of the shots, and measure
ments were taken from where they struck to
the mouth of the gun. This table shows the
results:
First sand shot. Lost Sixth. .,. .2160 yards
Second . .204S yards Seventh. $3.50 yards
Third. -. .2032 yards Eighth. . BIOS yards
Fourth. .. .2140 yards Ninth. 80. .2180 yards
Fifth. go. 2138 yards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
Making Cremation Unpopular.
THE BODIES TAKEN FROM NEW YoRKs PEI
HOUSE TO BE INCINERArED.

THE BODIES TAKEN FROM NEW YoRKS PEST
HOUSE TO BE INCINERATED.
New York special to the Philadelphia
Times says: The advocates of cremation in
this city regard as mishap to their cause the
building of a crematory on Swinburne Island,
down the bay. This requires explanation. for
under ordinary circumstances every additional
temple for the incarceration CT human remains
would be considered a gain. The reason why
the new crematorv is deplored by promoters OF
the new method is that the bodies TO be burned
therein will be those of persons who have died
OF contagious diseases, mostly paupers. Swim
burne Island is the site of 'the pest hospital
maintained by the quarantine commission. 1t
is these officials who have built the crematory
at government expense.
1t consists of Il furnace and its appurtenances
very similar to those used elsewhere. The
body Of sheep has been incinerated as a sue
cessful test. Now il has been the aim of the
American Cremation society TO make incinera-
ton fashionable. The chief advocates believed
that every example of rich or celebrated per-
son choosing to have his remains disposed of in
this way wins new adherents, and, on the other
hand. they have all along dreaded the adoption
of the process by public institutions because
they feared that it would degrade 1t in the
popular mind. The charity commissioners of
New York would have established large Gre
matory year ago, to take the place of the pot
ter field, had they not listened to the appeal
OF the cremation society not to do so. But the
Quarantine authorities were immovable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
Newman on the New South.
HOW THE BISHOP WOULD SOLVE THE RACE QUE.
TON AND OTHER PROBLEMS.

HOW THE BISHOP WOULD SOLVE THE RACE oUEs-
TON AND OTHER PROBLEMS.
Roan9ke Va, Special to the Baltimore American.
Bishop Newman addressed one of the largest
audiences last night ever assembled in this city.
His theme was Religious Education in the
SOUTH He said: 1.-The purest blood in
America flows through the veins of the sons of
the south. and he did not know but that they
ought to thank God that they were born south
of the Potomac. In the north the native-born
citizens Vre engaged in a death grapple with
dangerous foreign element with ideas an
tagonistic and dangerous to our form of re-
publican government. This element was OBJ
tanning foothoid in Congress, in'state iegisla-
lures and in municipalities, and the day might
come when the south would have to march
forth to preserve our dearest national institu-
tions from foreign encroachment"
With reference to the race problem the
bishop said that recently, while visiting the
governor of South Carolina, he said to him: If
the people of the south will commit the settle
ment of this question to me, will dispose of
it quickly. would draw line Of distinction.
placing upon one side the educated. intelligent
and patriotic. without regard to race or color
and upon the other side the ignorant without
regard to race or color. Then would permit
intelligence to rule. and bring the infiu-
enee OF religious education to bear upon the
ignorant"
The bishop declared that were it not that he
might be charged with betraying a political
secret, he would whisper to the people of the
south on authority that the great and good
man elected to the presidency would not be the
President of the south or west, east or north
but of the whole OF the United States; that his
administration of the affairs of the government
would be wise. conservative, safe and for the
best interests of all sections, and that for the
offices in the south he would select the very
best men of that section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
GrOs-Grain and GrOg.

THE STORY OF ADMIRAL VERNON AND HIS FAMOUS
GRos-GRAIN COAT.
From American Notes and Queries.
The word gros-grain, as applied to heavy
silks, ID a weil-known word in commercial cir
Giles, but it is not generally understood that
there is direct connection between this
word.and "grog," which is the sailors name
for a mixture of rum and water The facts
are as follows: Edward Vernon, of the old
Stafordshire house of that name, was put by
his father, who was secretary of state to Will
lam and Mary, into the British navy and after
distinguishing himself under Sir George
Rookie and Sir Charles Wager both in the
West Indies and the Mediterranean, and rising
to the rank OF rear-admiral. he was suddenly
appointed vice-admiral of the blue while a
member OF parliament from Penryn. near
Falmouth. and selected to command the
great expedition which was sent out in 1879
to break up the power of Spain in the Carib-
bean and the Gulf Of Mexico. He attacked
Porto-Beiio on the Goth of November in that
year, and after furious engagement
which lasted two days. took the place with
all its treasures and muniton of war and
two Spanish line-of-battle ships. number
Of American colonial troops served under
him, and the great victory made him as
popular in the American colonies as in
Europe.
The seat ON the Potomac afterward owned
and occupied by Washington. was named Mount
Vernon i'll honor of him. He afterward quar-
relied with the government and was struck from
the lists Of the navy, was alleged, for his too
great severity toward his men. though really
because of his too small respect for the lords
of the admiralty. In the British navy he was
adored as the chief who first ordered rum and
water to be regularly served out to the crews
OF his squadron. He began this practice on
board Of his own ship, the Bedford. his flagship
at the capture of Porto-Bello. and as he had
acquired the nickname of ''Old Grog' from his
habit of walking the quarterback in gro
slowed by Jack Tar on the new beverage.
''Grogram" was the English corruption of
''gros-grain. the name given in France to a
heavy stuff of silk and wool with a rough
knOtted surface; the same name that now is
given to heavy silk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
New Gowns at Court.

Special Cable to the New York Mail and Express
The queen has made new rule for presen
tations. which will serve to regulate the pecu
liar etiquette to which her majesty adheres
with more certainty than heretofore. She has
consented that ladies, who, by reason of illness
or infirmity of advancing years, are incapaci-
tated from wearing the usual court dress at her
majesty's drawing-rooms, may, on permission
being obtained through the lord chamberlain,
appear in high court dress. These gowns
must, however, be made on a certain model
which the queen has approved, and which will
allow a small portion of the neck to be visible,
the sleeves coming to the elbow. The princi-
pie reason for the new regulation is to secure
uniformity in the ladies' toilets. Formerly,
by obtaining physicians certificate, lady
might wear high neck and short sleeves, or,
in fact, cut her gown as she chose. Now, all
'high neck" gowns which are allowed to be
worn will be alike, and, as the regular court
dress is never varied, general uniform will
be attained No change is permitted from the
rule that the veil, plume and gloves must be
white.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
Don't Toss the Baby,
VERY RISKY GAME 70 PLAY WITH THE LITTLE
CHERCBs.

A VERY RISKY GAME 70 PLAY WITH THE LITTLE
CHERRIES.
From Harper's Bazaar,
The throwing a baby into the air and catch
ing him again is always risky practice, GER
tain though the tosser may be of his quickness
of eye and sureness of hand. A sudden and
unexpected movement of the child in his mid
air flight may result in a cruel fall.
gay young father snatched up his baby boy
one morning and tossed him to the ceiling
Twice the little fellow went flying through the
air and came down safely into the waiting
arms. The third time the excited child gave a
spring of delight as mis- fathers hands released
him. plunged forward and, pitching over the.
fathers shoulder, fell, head downward. to the
floor. When the poor baby came out Of the
stupor in which he lay for hours, it was found
that, although no bones had been broken. the
brain had sustained an injury that would, in all
probability, render the child an imbeciIe
Another baby snatched from the floor and
tossed into the air received fatal wound in
the top Of the head from the pointed orna-
ment of chandelier. Still ano ther child
slipped between her fathers hands as he
caught at her in her downward fight, and
al though his frenzied grasp on the baby's arm
saved her from falling to the ground it
wrenched muscles and sinews so cruelty that
the girls arm was shrunken and practically
useless to her all her life. These are extreme
ases but the fact of their occurring at all
should be enough to warn one from the habit
Of relinquishing ones hold on II child when
ossing il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
ALEXANDER THE THIRD.
Personal Qualities of the Present Ruler
of all the Russias.

Nj Stead In Truth about Russia
The Emperor Alexander the Third is, in
many respects, a model autocrat He has two
great qualifications for the discharge of the
difficult duties of his post-steadiness and cour-
age. He ia not Eighty man. He is sober,
sensible and sedate. He is not rash or precipi-
tate. He is slow in forming resolution, but
when he has mastered subject and has the
facts at his command, his decision is made
once for all. His one anxiety is to do right,
and when he has come to q conclusion that a
certain course is right, he acts upon it regard
less Of danger.
''Our EMPEROR said one who knows him
well, sis somewhat of an enfant terrible. When
he sees what he thinks he ought to do, he goes
to his object like a bullet from gun. He
does not ask what is in the way. Public opin-
ion. censure of the press, all these things are
nothing to him more than the croaking of
frogs In the pond. Pressure as you under
stand 1t, will never make him swerve hairs
breadth from his course. If you want him to
change you must not bring pressure to bear;
you must pursuade him. Once convince him
that anything is right and he will do it, Other
WISE he will not. no, not though all the voices
in Europe, in the world, were denouncing
him.
The faith of the Russian peasants in the
car has its counterpart in the faith of the
emperor in the czardom. Often faith fingers
among the rustics when it has died out in the
objects of their devotion. In Russia the czars
believe in the czardom. the present emperor at
least as much as any of his predecessors. Not
that Alexander LII is an optimist. 1t is some
what difficult to be an optnnist throne to
which you have been called by the bomb of an
assassin.
A saying of his is repeated in st. Petersburg
which sheds ray of sombre light upon his
character. One of his brothers was talking to,
him once about the ineXtricable tangle of hu-s
man affairs and expressed very emphatically
similar opinion to that which made Alphonso
OF ArragOn famous. Ii he were ruler of the
universe. for instance. he would alter many
things, and, in short, reconstruct the affairs of
pattern. The emperor listened to him for
time and then said: Il do not think So As
God made it otherwise He must know best.
But for my part if He should end it all to-mor-
row should be very glad"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
Why it is Cold on the Mountains.

The Story Of the Heavens.
Go into greenhouse on a sunshiny day. and
we find the temperature much hotter than out
side. The glass will allow the hot sunbeams to
enter, but it refuses to allow them out again
with equal freedom. and consequently the tenn
perature rises. Our whole earth is in this way
to be likened to greenhouse, only, instead of
the panes of glass, we are enveloped by an en-
ormous coating of atmosphere. When we are
on the earth's surface WE are, as it were, inside
the greenhouse, and we benefit by the inter-
position of the atmosphere; but when we begin
to climb very high mountains we gradually get
through the atmosphere and then we suffer
from the cold. Ii we could imagine the earth
to be stripped of its coat of air, then eternal
frost would reign over the whole earth as well
as on the tops OF the mountains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
Her Cable Cipher.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
His daughter was going to Europe. He is a
very rich man, but a millionaire will always
make up Geographic code to save money. 1t
would be nothing to him if she sent hundred
words, but he will always get as much as he
can for nothing anyway. and he will have tel
egraph code. / don't know though. Perhaps
he thought she might take as many words 10
say thing by telegraph as ladies ordinarily do
in conversation. and that would bankrupt q
millionaire. Let us acquit him of economy.
Let us say by combining her to one word he
would understand what she telegraphed.
whereas ii he left her to express it her own
way he might never have found out what she
meant. He left her TO make out the code. She
selected the words herself, wrote it all out. and
handed it TO him when she left He locked it
in his desk and it was all right. Last week he
got telegram from her. II consisted of one
word-'Laugh." He laughed. 1t seemed to
be something quite pleasant. His code was at
the house. He went up there in the best of
humor. He got out the code and he read:
"Iaugh-sepd me.S5Q0'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19

FINE SINGLE AND DOUBLE CARRIAGE, COACH
AND BUGGY HARNESS, INCLUDING SEVERAL
VERY FINE SETS OF SOLID RUBBER
MOUNTED BUGGY HARNESS, ALL HAND
MADE AND OF hoFFETr's LEATHER, COM
PRISING ONE OF THE FINEST ASSIGNMENTS
OF FINE HANDMADE HARNESS EVER En-
HIBITED; ALSO, LARGE AND FINE AS
soRTMENT OF CARRIAGE ROBES, IN FUR.
PLUSH, AND CLOTH; HORSE COVERS, BOTH
SQUARE AND CUT IN GREAT VARIETY;
TRAVELLING TRUNKS, &c. AT AUCTION.
POSITIVELY WITHOUT LIMIT, WITHIN Our
sAI.ESROoMS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
TWENTIETH, AT TEN AM. fl6-3t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
THoMAS BOWLING. Aucuoneer

OFFICE OF TIE COMMISSIONERS. DIS
1h1GT OF COLUMBIA, MAsHINGTos, February
10th. 1Ss9.-Nytioe Is hereby Given thai on
thursday March LIST. 1883 the lease Of the Fish
harf ana Fish stalls In the cities Of Washington aud
GeOrgetOWn Will be sold by public auction for the
term Of one year from March list, ISsa, follows;
IN the Georgetown Market House, ~ the highest
BIDDER. Terms. cash IN advance. Also. at O'Clock
ath SIS NV IN 'front.' Of the FISH stalls Of tCenterD
or alloNed by the laws Of the CORPORATION OF
Washington, 70 establish wharyes or docks for
the landing cleaning and sale nsh i'm the city Of
Washington. and no wharf dock shall be deemed
eligible unless situated al point on the north
side OF the Potomac River. between l1th 81 e. and
sth ST. ". e. the highest bidder. Terms Que hun
dred dollars to lie paid the day OF sale. and the
residue 10 De paid within Ne from the -aie
By order Of tue Board Of Commissioner District Of
Columbia. W. Il. WEBB, s. T. NHEATLEl, q. W.
RAYMOND. Commissioner. fl5-IOt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19
The Laws lnconsi stency.

From the Philadelphia Record
Mr.. Noodie-"Wall. it do beat all how the
laws work, one upsettin' another right along"
Friend--.'Wah's wrong now?"
wall, there amt much that isn't wrong.
Here I've been maxim good livin' as q jury
man for years and years. all bee ause / don't
read the papers an: amt got no 'pinions, ye
know"
''You can't read"
'sNo; never learned. Wall, now. sot great
store on that there son o. mine an wanted 10
bring him up for a juryman. too. but hang me
IL they amt talkin' bout laws ter make every
boy 90 to school Where's the jurymen goin'
ter come from in the next gineration? That's
what beats me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-19

VNHoS. F. wAGGANIAN. Real Estate Auctioneer.
TRUSTEES SALE TO CLOSE OUT AN ESTATE
OF VALUABLE PROPERTY IN THE NORTH
NEST, SCL1hMESr AND NORTHEAST SEC
TON OF TIE CITY
On THURSDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIRST AT
FOUR O'CLOCK y. N viii offer Tor sale front Of
the premises, lots 40 aud ~ in square S0 improved
by house numbered 615 1st street southwest and 3
houses on che resr Of said lots
Immediately thereafter part of lot %. in square
10, improved by house numbered 2:So "a street
northeast.
Immediately thereafter lot i41. IN square 675 i'm
proved by house numbered l9 write street northeast
immediately thereafter part OF sub lots % AMI -,
an square 81 improved by house numbered in alley
between North Capitol and ls aud streets north
west.
Immediately thereafter sub lots 81 and GO in square
east OF square JO9. improved - houses numbered
1854 and 1914 +ih street northwest
Immediately thereafter part OF lot ia square II
Improved b. house numbered Ii % Goth street north
Immediately thereafter the rear part OF lot 26 in
square p improved by houses numbered 1. 3 ard 5.
SNOW alley. between 24t.l and 10TH and streets
northwest.
Terms day of sale.
THOMAS f. WAGGAMAN.
tI0-4t Trustee