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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

supply the demands of business COM
munitys and be finally declares, sfwe
can not believe that 1t is being too SAN
Guine TO expect the establishment of a
line Of telegraphs throughout the I'm
ION. -
Al that date, except to a very few men
who had caught prophetic glimpses of
the possibilities of magnetism, the sema-
phore seemed to tie the swiftest and best
imaginable telegraph. lear ed leo
turer is quoted as saying OF 1t ''It must
be evident 10 the most common observer
thut no means OF conveying Intelligence
can ever be devised that shall euuul the
rapdIty of the telegraph"
One who consuits the old files of our
newspapers becomes deeply impressed by
the patience of our ancestors. In the
Boston Advertiser aud Reportory of Sep
TENDER Z 1914, the latest news" from
Washington is dated September 2, that
from Charleston Angus; 25, and that
from New Orleans July 2S.
In the issue of September 80 we read:
Yesterday neither letters nor papers
were received from any place beyond
Philadelphia. We know OF no reason
for this failure. -
Yet even then line OF marine signals
was in operation, for on October "A,
1914, there is this item: port of
QueDec-We understand that the tele-
graphs report this day twenty-one trans
ports. under convoy of H. NJ. ship Plove
(Pioverr) TO be in the river. They sailed
from Cork on the 10Th July
Turning on u few pages we find in a
letter dated bridgeport, October l,
1914, this paragraph: "Gentlemeu,
we are again visited by John Bull. He
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

Everybody reads the Sunday GAZETTE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

Barnard, The botanist, and did not re-
turn with it, but remained in the coun-
try 10 travel. Some four months after
the departure of our friends we found
ourselves in the little village
of Pich, in Campeachy, state oc-
cupying the northern half of the penin-
sula of Yucatun. We were there on our
way to visit the celebrated ruins of
Uxmal. In the wilderness of Spanish
America, the alculde, or village justice
of the peace, sees to the wants of the oc-
casional traveller, SO We applied to the
alcalde of Pich for guides TO Uxmal. The
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

was blowing a gale almost, and the twig
swung wildly. but the little songster
slept away as il II had been the cslmest
night IN the world. The anatomy of the
legs OF all perching birds is such that
when the limbs are bent, as when sitting,
the feet are tightly closed; hence, so
long as the bird keeps Its sitting posture,
II cannot lie shaken from its twig.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10
La Casa del Gobernsdor. The builders
must have been-Aeiatic.

must have been AriaS
BARNARD md 1 were so much pleased
with our first days stay at Uxmal that
we resolved TO stay week. We spent
our time exploring the ruins, hunting.
fishing and botaniZing. Inc forest was
full of game and rare plants, the river
of fish. and we were always finding
something of interest among the ruins.
In q little closet in the Casa de las
Monjas we found great eartheuware
box and our hearts beat fast as
we opened it, half expecting to- find
treasure, but it was full OF skulls and
bones. On the fourth day of our visit,
while hunting, we discovered a temple
which the guide said he had never heard
of before, Ii sat in little ravine, and
bunch of mahogany trees hid both the
ravine and the temple. The discovery
was accidental. We were pursuing a
wounded turkey, aud il ran into the hol-
low aud right into the temple. II was
very dim IN the ravine and We lighted
some torches of touchwOod and entered
the strange edifce. We found ourselves
IN low, studded room about seventy feet
long and forty feet wide. From the center
of the end opposite the door long, narrow
altar projected far into the room, almost
reaching to the middle. Upon the end
of it sat stone image of boa con-
sirictOr coiled, his head raised in a
attitude above the coils. It
was very well executed and startlingly
life-like. Where the altar joined the
wall was q round black hole reaching
back into u cavity whose depth we could
not ascertain. Over the altar was a
chimney which once gave exit to the
sacrificial fires Beside the altar was a
closet with u narrow door. The build !
ing was plainly a temple. and from the |
image on the altar and the has relief on |
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10

n the year 1852 the
United States govern
ment sent out an ex-
petition 10 explore the
lsthmus of Tehuante-
pee, in Mexico, for a
suitable route tor an
interoceanio ship ca
nal. l held a position
on the engineering
staff and a young
friend of mine was the
botanist of the party.
The survey lasted over
Ia year and then the
expedition returned TO
. }, TT1 O..
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10
A writer in Chambers,

writer in Chambers Jorrr.,
1871, page l61, begins an interas.ina.
review OF telegraphy by recoun,ine =.
some length still more ancient siono,s
lie reminds us that Homer makes &C..
SIMON signal by fire to the Greo,, a..
"nen II should return from Tenedos. ~.
recaiis That glowing passage i'm ths
Agamemnon of Eschylus where CIv,o,r
hestra describes how the lonr-Iooka.t D.
capture of Troy was mnde known n, A.,
GENIE From point TO point The oIora
vi Tue beacon fame spr ad its na,rs.
rom iua 10 Lemnos, Athos. Macis,,,s
nnu Messnplum; from the dun beigb,s Of
Clnaeron TO Agiplnnclus, which mss
vi tne thle OF victory across the Sarnn,o
suiI 10 Arachnaus, q hill in the haro1s
nuns territory, and the weary sentries
o. Mycen@ hail with joy the downfall or
speedy return.''
eo ao% vividly this passage recalls
"onuerlnl picture of the sum
moning OF the Scottish clans.
w. or sheet NEE o. flame from the turret high
w Ias IKE blood-hag on the sky.
~ nirlng and uneven:
Ahu soon score of fires ween
from nelght and hill and cliff were saa,,.
Each with warlike tidings fraueht.
Gacn from each the signal caught.
As sta at'e a each they 6 anced to sight
rs staFs arise upon the night ,,
T., mere Is something strangely thrilling
tnse silent Signals of fire. Their
nash seems to kindie the spirit of
a.; Far back In the remoteness of
S S''is history Jeremiah warns the Ben
!auhltes to ''set up sign of fire in Rsth-
haccerem; for evil appearetb opr of tho
north and great destruction. - At the
opening of the American revolution pnuI
Revere bids his friend
II the British march
by land or sea from the town NIGHT
lang Lang lantsrn aloft in the be fry arch
~ S1e North church tower. as a signal light:
Ohe II oy land two IL by sea;
ano curing the civil war of 1861 many
Soulhern church tower broke into "a sud-
ueu sIo" OF llght that filled the minds OF
Inc superstitious negro women with
ghostly dread, but which conveyed bv
theIr silent languag4 messages of untold !
value to the Union officers fron bInrl
men who were ready to give their lives
for liberty.
Signals by flashing light have also been |
used in the daytime
Chambers Journal quotes Herodotus |
as saving tina: faction in Athens ..held |
up bright shield Us signal TO the Per-
sihhs that they should make O sudden
"ttack on the city, while the army was
stlll absent The modern "helio-
graph or mirror telegraph. is based |
on the same principle, and sends mes
Saees by reflected sunbeams tor twenty |
miles ut leap.
But all these contrivances, ingenious
rs they were, were limited TO fair
weather and to short distances and fire.
luent delays for repetition. Nome of
them would have aided in the least in
Drlhislng the isles of the sea together
In this day of submarine cables, when
We may know at dinner time what our
Australian cousins ate for breakfast, it
IS hard to realize that once, less than
twenty-five years ago, the business O;
New England was brought to an almost
complete standstill because there had
been no word of news from England for
more than sixty dRys.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-10
sNAKED OUT OF TROUBLE.

story of Mexico-By Lieutenant W. a.
Curtis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04

stating that Governor Krsakof. of the
Caucasus. had been recalled from his ra.t
for embezzling government funds
MADRID.-The Commission sent by the
Government to determine the character of
the disease now prevailing in the Province
of Falencia pronounce it cholera. They
are unable, however, to definitely fix the
origin of the disease.
MADRID.-The authorities at all Span
ish ports have established ten-days quar-
antine against vessels arriving from Gambia
and Taloncia. If there be cholera aboard
d vessel quarantine is extended to fifteen
days. The total number of cases of chol-
era in Valencia to date is 1876, of which 1l3
have proved fatal.
PARIs.-Cardinal Lavigerie has written
letter to NJ. ROLAND. the promoter of the
Trans-Saharan Railway, declaring that
the new road will be of great Importance
to French interests in Algeria, and prom
ising the entire support of the project of
himself and the missi Onaries under his
control.
LoNDoN.-The Buenos Ayres correspOn-
dent of the Times telegraphs that the Ma
tional Bank of Buenos Ayres suspended
payment on Saturday and that the shares
of the bank fell from 16S to 100 and closed
at llS. A panic was created on the
BOurse at BuenOs Ayres and a general
feeling of distrust prevailed. Gold now
commands a premium of las.
PRINCE FERDINAND's absence from
Bulgaria at the time of the execution of
Major Panitza proves that he neither
reigns nor governs. Prime Minister
StambuIoff is both ruler and regent, and
his method of governing is by terrorism.
His rule will be only transient.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
To the Eeitors.

| wish to keep before tire people this
sentence Of Mr.. La Toilette 5 recent speech.
that in every single instance we will quit
beaten. whenever the American laborer re-
fuses to make the reduction in living and
in wages necessary to equalize the labor
cost with the cheapest production of the
world wish to keep it before the peo-
Pile for two reasons, First. i. is not true;
Second, it uncovers the object aimed at 10y
the high takers. | affirm, after years of
the closest study of authorities, mqueS-
toned as to correctness, that no such diff
ference exists between the labor cost of
goods made here and those made else
where, nor does labor rs a cost in produc-
ing goods Justify the sentence quoted
above Pardon ne. bat no tcell-iHtormtd
man lcoHid make u.
First, if labor will quit beaten then
labor rs an element in producing goods
must be : most important one. Is it?
Take the leading manufactures of our
country, on which the av varage tariff
is Il per cent. the amount paid to
labor in 500 worth of goods is not quite
s25. For convenience call it oHeJOurth
then one dollar in foar dollars Is the eN-
tent to which labor figures as 4 cost factor
in goods ready for sale Then if we are
TO quit beaten" in our contest with the
world, it is because of this one-fourth
this one dollar in four dollars. for we
have the Natural conditions for an al
most unlimited diversity of industry. :
That is. on the other three-fourths we
have advantage over competing countries.
Suppose the labor (one-fourthl cost here
twice rs much rs in the old world, what
tariff protection" is needed? Would
not l2la per cent, tariff equalize the differ
ence in fine labor cost of producing goods
here and elsewhere? Then tell the voters
in this district how you justify AZ per cent
tariff
Suppose the labor here is to the pro-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THERE were forty fatal cases of sun
stroke IN Chicago in the forty-eight hours
ending at noon Monday.
DENvER-The business portion of Nor
rison, twenty miles from here, burned
early Saturday morning. The loss is about
S65, 900.
TWELVE HUNDRED miners 1t the Spring
Hill colliery near Halifax are out on a
strike This is the largest coal mine in
Nova Scotia
+. II. HUEsToN & Co., heavy operators
on the New York Cotton Exchange failed
Wednesday afternoon. The failure caus-
ed considerable excitement.
MINNEAPoIIs, Mimi Fire, Monday
morning, destroyed the type warehouse of
Marder. Luse & Co., in this city. Loss on
stock, $4,000; insurance, S25, 900. loss
on building, $50, 900, fully covered by in
surance. The fire is supposed to have or
iginated in the stereotyping room.
NEVADA, Mo- The Missouri Pacific
passenger train was wrecked FIVE miles
from here Saturday afternoon, by Il spread
ing of the rails on sharp curve. Three
coaches were precipitated down the e"N-
bankment The conductor, Sam Jones, and d
child, of w. IL. Marvin, both of Kansas
City, were fptally hurt. Twenty-seven
other people were injured, more or less
seriously, but it Is not thought that any of
them will die.
MILWAUKEE, Visa special from
Hartford, Wis, says: The bank of Hart
ford has suspended payment. owing to the
failure of the Park Bank, at Chicago. The
Bank of Hartford is capitalized at $4,000
and Frank Leake is cashier. An assign
ment has been made to Judge H. w.
Sawyer, of this place. No statement of
the assets and liabilities have been prepar-
ed as yet, but the deposits are placed at be-
tween Sc, 900 and $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
NEW ; IN BRIEF.

THE Government history of the war can
not be completed for ct least ten years yet.
1t will cost S33, 900 a volume.
SENATOR T. w. PALMER. of Michi-
gan, has been elected president of the
World Fair National Commission. Mr..
7. c. Dickinson, of Texas, was chosen as
secretary.
The French committee that went to
Panama to investigate the condition of
the canal has reported that it will take
twenty years and l ,737 900 francs (5447,-
OO,OOO) to complete the work.
The New York Court of Appeals recent
ly rendered a decision affirming the judg
ment Of the lower courts disolving the
Sugar Trust.
A NEW electric brake recently expert
mented with in England, stopped a car
travelling at a rate of thirty miles an hour,
in 200 feet.
Hon. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, ex-United
States Senator, ex-Governor of Rhode
Island. ex-manufacturer and ex-husband
of Kate Chase Sprague is now Chief of
Police at Narragansett Pier
SARATOGA, n. Y.-The appeal in the
kemmler case came Up for argument
IN the Court of Appeals Tuesday morning,
but when council for the people opened his
argument the Court stated it did not de-
sire to hear him and affirmed the decision
of the courts below, which was that the
Warden of Auburn Prison was the proper
person to execute the death sentence.
THE Republican State Convention of
Pennsylvania, held at Harrisburg, nOmin
ated for Governor George Wallace Della
mater, of Crawford; for lieutenant Gov
ernor, Louis A. Watres, E Lackawanna;
for Secretary of Intern ! Affairs, Col.
Thomas J. Stewart. OF Montgomery.
Messrs. Delamater and Watres are at
present State Senator'S and Col. Stewart
now fills the office to which he has been
PAR-s.-The French press admit that
between Lieut.. Wyse, a
of the liquidation of the
Panama canal company, and the
Colombian government, for the extension
of the Panama canal concessions. and the
of work on the canal have col
lapsed and that the hopes of the bond
holders are ended. The budget commit
tee will submit this report to the chamber
of deputies this week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
pENITENTEs OF NEW MEXICO.
t he Barbarous Performances of Religious
Fanatics.

The penitentes seem TO a new conner In
the country TO be strange order Of super
stitiOus fanatics, the old fiagellaHts of the
dark ages, who have come down by some
ecclesiastical ledgerdemain, landing in this
corner of the terrestrial footstOol, ays the
Las Vegas Optic. Their performances are
touch of baptized barbarlsm clutchlng at
the skirts OF this nineteenth century. The
horribleness of seeing them at work tiagel-
lating themselves on Good Friday is akin
In the recollection to the heartrending
means of the wounded and dying in ter
rible calamity.
They compose a secret organization that
is fast dying out, and Is not now sanctlI l.
ed by the dominant church, and the worst
of theirs doing are supposed TO take place
In their lodge rooms. They are seen TO out
siders only when marching In procession,
carrying each rough, wooden cross, near
ly heavy enough to crush them under its
weight. Their backs are usually 5are, and
as they stagger along as best they can,
weighted down by their burdensome load
In body and their sins In mind. their breth-
ren beat them with clubs and prick them
with cactii till, IN many instances, there
isn't an inch of flesh that isn't torn and
bleeding.
Not infrequently they die from the ter
rible effects Of the horrible.punishmeDt in
aicted. 4 doleful chanting, In which they
specify the particular sins they are trying
TO expiate. is continually kept up And yet
this class Is usually composed Of the rabble
element Of the community. After they get
through their penanees, they go straight
of and get drunk and run up another score
Of evil deeds done in the body greater than
the last They seem to hold implicitly in
the belief that every sin committed must
be paid for in suffering, and the more pain
one endures here the less he Will have here
after.
These poor, deluded penitentes are not
attempting any morBl improvements. They
are merely endeavoring to shorten their
stay In purgatory, and horrid work they
rake of it. Anyone who was ever so un-
forum lie as to be locked up In one of their
lodges must admit that feeling of uneasi-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04

Mr.. Bltines last political move on the
chessboard of national affairs is a check
mate to the pushing Mckinley and the
audacious Tom Reed. 1t will be remem-
bered that during the period Of Blaine's
prominence in republican counsels, he
never allowed any one to rise high in party
favor that he did not pick a quarrel with
him His war with Conkling, his cruelty
planned scheme te crush the popular Col
fax, his stabbing of Sbcrman's hopes, his
quarrel with Grant, and his calm butchery
of the careers Of other republican leaders
are now familiar history.
Hitherto Mr. Blaine has been the pet
and idol of the high tariff men of PENN
sylvania; and they have regarded him Us
their foremost man. He had faculty of so
stating their sophistry as to induce the av-
erage republican reader to swallow it
without question.
Latteriy, however Mr. Blaine place in
isolated him from American home affairs.
The young Mckinley and spirited Reed
are forging to the front as the special
champions of the high takers. This
arou5es the hostility of Blaine; and true to
the course of action OF his whole political
career he prepares dish Of cold water to
throw ON the measure which is intended
to give so much prestige to these two
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
GRIMM AL.

FOUR murderers, one white and three
colored, were hanged at Memphis, Tenn,
Tuesday morning.
ASHLAND, Wis.-SaIoon-keeper Baker,
who was on trial for robbing the Hurley
bank was found guilty Wednesday night.
Assistant Cashier Perrin is still to be tried.
New YoRK.-Harris Smiler, who was
last week convicted of murder in the first
degree, was Wednesday morning sentenc-
ed 10y Judge Fitzgerald to suffer the death
penalty by electricity some day during the
week beginning August and to spend
the intervening time IN solitary confine-
ment at Sing Sing prison.
WEST SUPERIoR.-Pat Mahoney, alias
Tug" and Frank Hopkins. notorious
crooks, were detected by George l.. Hicks
Il groceryman of this city. in the act of
burgIarizing his place. Hicks fired two
shots, shooting Mahoney through the
right lung and Hopkins in the right side
The latter will die Hopkins was arrested,
but was Immediately afterward released,
upon furnishing bonds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
ELOPED WITH 4 NIECE.
X. &. Schmidt Leaves Chicago Withoutth
Knowledge of His Wife.

CHICAGO, July Tn German upper
tendon. the hasty departure Of K. G.
Schmidt president of the X. G.
Schmidt Brewing company, man Of
enormous wealth, and one of Chicago's
foremost citizens of Teutonic extraction,
has excited considerable comment. For
Mr.. Schmidt did not set out alone
on his travels He was accompanied
by niece. Leonora Schmidt. He left
so suddenly that he forgot to even mention
the fact to his wife and children. He has
not sent a line, either in the shape of
letter, cable or telegram, to either of them
since. He must be at Carlsbad. Austria
by this time, Tor he sailed On the North
German Lloyd steamer Elder three weeks
ago last Saturday for Bremen, and that
vessel landed there safely eight days later.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.
New York Weekly.

Sev j OrE W eeEly-
There IL menny who wont know any
thing but what they kan prove. This
akounts for the little they know.
Most people hev found out, sumhow,
that they kant serve God and mamon too,
and so they serve uamon.
A pure heart IL like looking gIass-it
keeps no secrets, and dispenses no fat
terry,
A cheerful old man, or old woman, IL
like the suny side ov a wood-shed, in the
last of winter.
Avarice IL like = grave yard-it takes
all that it can git. and gives nothing back.
Paint humming brd sucking honey
from flower. and VI hay very good
piktur ov low uing to live upon beauty
The best investn ent lno ov IL charity;
W git yure principal back Immediately,
and dra~ diyident every time yu think
ov it.
Everything on this earth iz bought and
sold except air and water; and they would
be. if kind Creator had not made the
supply too great for the demand.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
THE SEARCH ABANDONED
ReScuerS Satisfy Themselves of the
Fate of the EutomS ed.
Found the Working Material of the
Miners But No Men.
Property Owners Will Now Endeayor
to ENtinguiSh the Fire.

DUNBAR, Pa, July Fifteen md a
half days have elapsed since fash If gas
set FIRE to the Hill Farm mine HOPE and
work were abandoned this evening at six
O'Clock and the dust or ashes of thirty
one imprisoned men may rest beneath the
Dunbar Hill till the last day shall come.
This is because the men could work
no more, After being driven from
the mine by smoke and black damp
this morning, twenty-one brave men re-
solved to make one more attem It to rescue
their comrades. and at o'clock they
again entered the burning pie Three Of
the party returned to within few hundred
yards of the burning subterranean ire and
satisfied themselves that the men were
dead and further search was useless. The
stencil of burning human flesh Sickeued
them, but they visited the nine placer
where the men were known to have been at
at work. Two dinner pals were found
with dinners untouched, and two coats.
The picks and Shovels were all lying
Just as man would leave them
as he started on run for his
life Otherwise no trace of the
men could be found. While prosecuting
the search further the rescuers ran into
dense cloud of black damp, which put
out their lights. A struggle for
life then followed but they succeeded
in getting back to the rest of the party
After sad consultation it was decided to
abandon the search, and the company will
now make an effort to extinguish the FIRE
and save some of their property.