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, 1890-02-23

At Rome. in 1929, it rained dust, mixed
with blood, for three days, and when the
heavy clouds drifted away it looked as il
the sun was swimming in a sea Of fire.
Four years later, in 1926, a snow fell in
Syria, which presently melted and flowed
in carmine rivers Of blood, or some fluid
much resembling it in every particular.
Many of the old writer's record a three
day shower of blood red rain in the
Island of Rhodes and throughout South
ern Italy in 1896. A monk, writing in
1851, tells Of a loaf being cut out of
which blood flowed as freely as from a
fresh wound.
In 134S there were many great tenn
pests. Several towns and thousands of
people were swallowed up and the
courses of rivers changed or stopped.
Some chasms in the earth sent forth
poisonous fluids, a red as carmine ink,
as at Villach, in Austria. Ponderous
hailstones fell in many parts of Germany
h same year, some of them weighing
from twenty to seventy pounds. Al
Lamech it rained flesh, dust, comets and
meteors; firebrands and ~coruscations
were in the air; mock suns, with fiery
tails, sailed through the skies. Soon
after these terrible scene at Lamech it
began at Cataya, near the sea, and went
sweeping throughout southern Europe.
An igneous vapor or ~sulphurous fire
broke from the earth at Caahery, Asia,
and utterly consumed men, beasts,
houses and trees, SO injecting the air
that a great plague followed. Young
serpents and millions of venomous in
sects fell from the clouds.
In 1861 Burgundy experienced the
novelty of a shower Of blood red rain,
which ensanguined everything it touch
ed; and in 1858 the Antiura reapers found
all wheat heads to be as red as blood. In
1885 bread put in the oven at Nuremberg
was taken out covered with a bloody
e Wurtemberg had a shower OF
birthstone and ashes in 1884. In 1896
Limerick and Tipperary, Ireland, had
many showers Of a soft, fatty substance
resembling butter. 1t was of a darl
yellow color and always fell at night
The people gathered it and used it as ar
ointment, reporting many astonishing
cures.-St. Louis Republic.
, 1890-02-23

know, Dut I found him the following
day, about two miles from the cabin,
with q bullet through his brain. The
gun could have been accidentally dis
charged. as 1 found the body in n small
thicket Of willows, and while passing
through 1t, the hammer might have
caught on a twig, md SO discharged the
gun.
Il got assistance and carried him to
the cabin, and he wa buried alongside of
his beloved wife. at the loot Of the other
pine tree, and today the place is known
as Lonely Gulch.'
after the tragic death Of Alfred, ]
could remain no longer in the place, 80
1 left. I-returned to it a few years ago,
and looked upon the two lonely graves
and thought Of the few happy days that
the three Of US spent there in the August
Of 1872. By reading the article on lonely
graves, l thought the first time l came
to Leadville hat l would tell you the
story about the two graves in Lonely
Gulch.' Few people know the history
of those that lie sleeping in that little
ravine in Routt county. Now you
know it, and it will, in q measure, clear
up any mystery that may have been
woven around them by those who may
have happened to stumble against them"
Thanking the gentleman for his kind
ness, the scribe left meditating over the
uncertainties Of life.-Lead Vile Demo
crat.
, 1890-02-23

Bow low the head, do reverence to the
old man, once like you. The vicissitudes
Of life have silvered his hair and chang
ed the round merry face to the worn WIS.,
age before you. Once the heart beat
with aspiration, crushed by disappoint-
ment, as yours, perhaps, is destined to
be- Once that form stalked promptly
through the gay scenes of pleasure, the
beau ideal Of grace; now the hand of
time that withers the flowers OF yester-
day has bent that figure and destroyed
that noble carriage, Once, at your &
he possessed the Thousand thoughts that
pass through your brain, now wishing
to accomplish deeds equal to q nook in
fame; anon imsginging life a dream that
the soone he awoke from the better.
But he has4fved the dream very near
through. the time toawaken Is very near
at hand; his eye never kindles at old
deeds OF daring, and the hand takes a
drmer grasp Of the staff. Bow low the
head, bog, as you would In your old age
be ACKNOWLEDGEMENT lle Journal.
, 1890-02-23

Science brings about economy, and in
these days of varied manufactures, and
perfect facilities for carrying them on,
there is very little waste material in any
branch of trade. The Sunday Call in de-
scribing the slaughter of cattle at New
ark. N. j., says that no part of a steer
is lost a v its dying breath.
Nothing is wasted from the tip of the
tongue to the brush on the end of the
tail. The blood is caught and sold to
make albumen for & ~refineries and
other manufactures, or to form q cheap
substitute for the hard rubber and other
plastic material used in the manufacture
Of buttons. When the meat is dressed
the contents Of the stomach are removed,
dried and baled as manure, and the stom-
ach itself is prepared as tripe.
The hide goes to the tanner, the head
is skinned and denuded of flesh for the
sausage maker, the horns go to the
comb maker, who knocks out the pith
and sells it to the glue manufacturer,
who is ever ready to take all the refuse
from any part OF the steer. The horny
coverings of the hoofs are almost as use.
full as horn for making buttons and sim
liar articles, and the feet can be used for
oil and glue.
The shinbones make the finest of bone
handles. and all the rest of the bony
structure, which the butcher is unable
to sell with the meat, finds its way event
ually to the manufacturer of bone fertil-
izer and bone black.
A few of the tails are utilized, in cold
weather. in the manufacture of oxto;l
soup, but usually 'the tail goes with the
hid" and becomes spoiled for domestic
use while lying about in the tannery.
Every scrap of the animals skin. even
the pate, as the skin of the head is called,
is used, in one way or another, and the
refuse OF the-tanneries becomes an i'm
portant part of the income of those
establishments.
, 1890-02-23

lures come, and in ten minutes there is
. clean picked skeleton where they left
what had been a man or woman the day
before. In a fortnight or so the same
bearers return, and gather up the bones
with iron tongs, and throw them into a
well in the middle Of the Tower Of ST.
lence, which is their final resting place.
Conduits lead from this place to under
ground wells, provided with double fill
tiers of sand and charcoal and sandstone,
for the publication of the rain water fall
ing upon the bones, before it re-enters
the earth. That is the entire system; its
simplicity is ghastly.-Sara J.. Duncan
in Montreal Star.
, 1890-02-23
iron deposits. in which the mountain 70

iron deposits. in which the mountain ro-
gions abound.
When they were very nearly ready to
give up the search as . failure they met
Doc Wise. Like other water witches, he
could find minerals with his peach twig
as readily as he could find water. His
talents in that direction had never been
employed because the natives did not
want anything except water. He was
ready, however, to employ them for the
visitors. They agreed to pay him well
in case of success. He was shrewd
enough to drive a good bargain. In a
few days he showed them a rich vein Of
coal Then they wanted iron and he
found it for them 1t did not take them
long to satisfy themselves that they had
secured valuable mines. Wise worked
for them well into the spring. By the
time he had lone all they wanted of him
he was $1,000 in pocket-agrand fortune
for a mountaineer.-Roanoke (Va.) Let
ter in New York Times.
, 1890-02-23

Myron H. Trapp made a fortune in ele-
~vators, and has long since retired from
active work On Broadway, in one of
the big Office buildings, 1 met him, and
the talk naturally drifted toward the sub
iect upon which he loves to descant.
II have just been having a long con-
sultation with several architects, build
en and contractors" said he. about the
sdvisability Of having some legislation
passed which would limit the speed Of
passenger elevators The fact is that in
many Of the big Office buildings in New
York, as well as in other cities, COM
plants are coming quick and often about
what is called the terribly dangerous
speed with which the elevators are run.
A few years age 200 feet a minute was
considered very rapid travelling up or
down on the elevator in a building. This
wa before the twelve to fifteen stor5
structures became the fashion in the
large cities. With their advent the archi-
tects We'd with zach other in attempts to
arrange things that the elevators could
be u at almost any desirable speed,
and finally the competition of builders
and experts drove the speed on ward until
it in some cases reached 600 feet a min
ute.
Everything considered, however,
there is not much actual danger in a
modern swiftly running elevator. The
elevators in this country carry more pas
sengers every day than the railroads do,
yet you very seldom hear Of q serious &C
cident on any irst clAss elevator. The
degree Of safety attained upon them these
late days IL really something marvellous.
What the public ought to know is this:
Whenever anything happens to an ele-
vator upon which passengers are being
carried and the machinery SEEM to be
deranged, never try to get of. Keep
cool and remain still until the car reaches
the end Of its journey. Then it will stop
of its own accord. New York Star.
, 1890-02-23

Mrs. ~Stockbridge, of Michigan, likes a
good horse. She knows one, too, and
can judge of an animals points as keenly
as a Kentuckian. "At times l like horses
better than people" she remarked naively
once, AID she genuinely has a love for
the noble animal. OF all colors she pre-
fers the blacks, and the Stockbridge
stables will have three spans of magnif-
cent black horses this winter.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
THIRD RACE
Purse $500; selling allowances: mile and
n sixteegth.

The Race. The Bourbon was first away.
made the pace all the way to the turn, where
Lotion assumed the lead and showed the
way TO the stretch, where Golden Reel came
length. with Lotion second the same dis-
tance before VANDERBILT Time-I. 523k
The evening world., 1890-04-18
TICKETS FOR GOOD GuESSERS
Anybody's Chance to See Ball
Games Free All Summer,
Fiji Out an Evening World"
Coupon as Directed Here.

II everybody In The EVENING WORLDS
prize guessing contest goes TO help swell the
attendance on which he is figuring at one
Of the New York or Brooklyn ball grounds
the crowds at the opening games will be
something tremendous.
The coupons come in showers, and the way
the figures range from high to low il won.
derful.
The first part Of the contes closes at noon
tomorrow that for Brotherhood Park and
the Polo Grounds-but there is still nearly a
week for guessing on the attendance at
Washington Park, where the first game
occurs next Thursday. April "a, and at
Eastern Park. where the first game comes
off on Friday. April %.
Cut the baseball cO,ipoflS rom the second
page or THE EVENING WORLD. write the
name of the ds you want to vote for
land you can vote AZ many times az you have
ooupons). state what you think the attend
ance will be at the first home game. set
down your name and address. forward your
coupons thus filed out to the Baseball Ballot
Editor EVENING WORLD. y. q. box 1884,
and there is your chance to win q season
ticket.
Remember there are four tickets to be
given as prizes, and anybody can guess for
gil Of them.
Yhe games on the attendance at which the
guessing is to be recorded will occur as
follows:
Brotherhood Park, Saturday, April 10.
New Yorks P. L. VS.. Philadelphias Up. L.
New Polo Grounds, Saturday, April 10,
New Yorks IN. L.) VS. Philadephias IN. l..
Eastern Park, Friday. April 20. Brooklyn
u. L. } versus Philadelphia p. L.l.
Washington Park, Thursday, April -.
Brookyns IN. L. versus Philadclphias
N. L.
The person guessing nearest to the
attendance at Brotherhood Park, New York.
gets the season ticket for those grounds;
the one guessing nearest to the Washington
Park, Brooklyn. attendance gets that ticket,
and so on.
In case OF postponemeut Of games on ac-
count Of rain the contest will be open for the
actual opening days.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
WILL MURRAY Be EXPELLED ?
Revival OF the Story of His Con-
firmation by the 80 Aldermen.

The Committee ou Resolutions of the
County Democracy, before whom Police JUS
tico Murray last night refused to substsn-
tiate his charges against Maurice J. Power.
Thomns Costigan. William I. Mitchell and
Richard Cunningham. will mcot in Cooper
Union Monday night and formulate their
report to the County Committee.
1t is said that the report will fully exon
crate the accused leaders OF all the charges
preferred aud heavily score Police Justice
Murray, who made them.
IL may even recommend the expulsion OF
the accusing Judge from the organization.
The Investigation was farce. declared
one OF Judge Murray's friends this morn
ing. Judge Power aud his crowd have
tried to make Judge Murray appear in the
position of prosecutor, and when Inc
refused to give his authority for, the charges
be made to the press. they say that case has
fallen to the ground.
- hat is not the situation. Tho County
Committee became prosecufor az soon AZ II
took cognizance of Judge Murray'a state
to the bottom"
In connection with this difficulty between
Police Justices Power and Murray, the old
nomination of Judge Murray has been re-
Mayor Cooper nominated Judge Murray
Jan. 20. 1850. but the Board OF Aldermen
failed to confirm him.
An effort to do so on July 20. 1850, was
defeated by tie vote, aud denomination
had to be made.
This WAS done OH Sept. : of the same year.
when confirmation was secured. four Tam
many Hall Aldermen having gone over to
the enemy.
At the time there were grave hints that an
immense amount OF money-somethinR
more than $50. O0o-was spent by somebody
to secure the confirmation of Judge Murray
and one or two others.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
THE YACHT MINERVA SOLD.
-------- - -a.--a-
She Becomes the Property of a
New York Man.
Tho Champion 4O-Footer to Figure
in This Years Races.
ESPECIAL IN rHy pvrxrSo wortp.I

BosToH, April 1s.-Tho Scotch cutter
Minerva, champion OF the fortv-foot class,
has been nod by Admiral Charles II. Tweed
to Mr.. Carroll. OF New York, brother OF
Royal Phelps Carroll, owner Of the Gorilla.
The price is not made public.
The sale was made through the agency OF
Thomas Manning. the New York yacht
broker, and the statement Of the sale il
made on his authority.
Mr.. Carroll will race the Minerva, and II
he is at all like his sporting brother he will
enter her in every race.
1t will be q hard task for any American
boat to beat the slippery Scotchmnn. but 1t
will add greatly to the interest in the forty
foot class that a chance lie to be offered to
accomplish this difficult feat.
Skipper Charlie Barr. Mate Hewitt. for
merly on the cutter Thistle, and two men
are on board the Minerva at Beverly. getting
her ready for commission.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
SILK FAILURES CAUSED IT.
FRANKIE & Co. Nav Resume After
Treir 81, 100000 Failur,.

The failure Of the silk importing firm OF
Louis FRANKIE 4 Co., 40 Grand street, also
the owners ofa large silk mill at Paterson.
n. j., caused great deal OF surprise in the
trade this morning.
The firm has SlwAvs stood well and had a
capital OF half million dollars. II began
business in 1862. and the partners aTe
Louis FRANKIE aud Henry W. Struss.
The failure Was CAUSED by large losses in
recent failures IN the silk trade, which have
embarrassed the business of the firm for
some time past.
Its Outstanding accounts are very large,
as the hTm has always done an eI-
teuslye business. botu in the domestic
and foreign trades, but collections have
been 80 slow ut late that il WAS found mn
possible to raise the ready money required
To meet its nute-. The assignment was
made To Lawyer Adolphus III. stulber with
ont any preferences,
The store AZ no Grand street was open
this morning, but no business Was done.
The asslguet has no. yet tahen poss sesslOn,
but Mr.. StTuss, one Of tie Partners, was IN
charge.
lie said 10 an EyESING WORLD reporter
that as soon as the debts OF the firm had
been liquldated II sou-d IN all probability
re une business.
The assets we're largely IN excess of the
liabilities. aud he fully expected that sur.
plus OF At least 5000. 600 would be found
upon an examination OF the firms accounts.
IL Is SAID tue Liabilities wAl aggregate le-
tween 5000, 900 anu 1000, uoU. The
nominal assets are considerably more than
i, 600, 600.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
HELEN DAUVRAY WARD TALKS.
Her Return to the Stage Not the
Cause of the Separation.

The rumor that Mrs. Helen Dauyray Ward
and John NJ. Ward. the well known ball
player. had separated, is confirmed to-day
by Mrs. Ward herself. who says: II go
back to the stage because am separated
from my husband. but am not separated
from my husband because / want to go
back to the stage"
Mr.. Ward still ref fuses to discuss the mat
ter. but there is an iuklIng to an unfortu-
nate skeleton in the closet given by Mrs,
Ward in her pathetic remark made to a re-
Z" When think how devoted wife | have
beento Mr. Ward and then consider the
it almosts breaks my heart.
THE whole blame OF the separation Is
put upon my shoulders. Ny desire TO re-
separation. and MIR. Ward Knows IT,
We were married, aud MI. Ward Knows full
WI noT 30 value EopeS,iG nest stfsr iife; 10 Tyr
My domestic affairs are sacred to me.
and therefore have steadily refused TO dis
self cannot rest under the imputation pub
lishsd. regret that this over-Zealous re-
porter did not obtain an interview with Mr.;
Ward. for ] am certain Mr.. Ward would
never have allowed such an undeseryed Ac-
cusation to be brought against me.
''lt Is true that Mr.. Ward and are living
apart. 1t Is true that l am going back 10
the stage, but that onr separation is caused
by my uneontrollabls 'lesire TO return n the
stage Ia absolutely false. do love my art,
but Lowell my husband more and the stage
has never in the past or at the present mo-
mPnt possessed for me charms as attractive
as those OF 3 happy home.
u go back to the stage because am sepa-
rated from my husband. pm not separated
from nv husband because | want to 80 back
to the stage; there ls vast dlherg nee be-
tween the two. 1 have never broken q
promise made to my husband. have never
done anything a. a wife an honest woman
would dieclaim. ! have noy made all the
affairs that | intend to make My pro-
fessional life belongs 10 the public, my
private life belongs to my husband and my
self. HELEN DAUyRAY WARD"
The evening world., 1890-04-18
TROUBLE ON The CENTRAL.
Indignation Meetings Held by
Brakemen and Switohmen.

Dispatches this morning from the western
part OF the State say that serious trouble is
brewing for the New York Central Railroad.
The employees on the Niagara Falls Divi-
sion are in state OF almost open revolt
against the General Superintendent of the
Company, Theodore Voorhees,. on account
of the discharge of large number Of train
men OH that division. and the dissatisfac-
tion is said to be spreading among the men
all along the line OF the road.
Meetings have been held at various points
by employees who are members OF the
Knights of Labor, and it is now rumored
that some decisive action will be taken soon
for general strike of the brakemen and
switchmen, unless thelExecutive Committee
of the Company will accode to the request
for the removal OF Mr.. Voorhees,.
1t is said that orders have been received
from New York by the heads OF the division
at Lockport to lay off one hundred men.
This came without any warning and with
out any reason being given for the sudden
action of tho Superintendent.
The men are naturally very indignant, az
they can get no satisfactory explanation for
their discharge from the officers OF the CON-
pany, and they are nov. threatening 10 IN.
auRurate one OF the most serious strikes that
the country has ever seen.
They say. according to the latest adyicea,
that II the movemeptis 10 decided upon it will
all its connections in the West.
General Supt. Voorhees, was not In town
to-day, having gone away presumably to
attend to the trouble, Third yice-president
Webb, who has Just returned from = trip to
the Western Division. said TO an EVENING
WORLD reporter:
I'VE had some trouble two or three
months ago with the switchmen ~ Lockport,
but that was all satisfactorily settled, aud
since then there has not TO my knowledge
been complaint from any OF the Company's
'ThiE report about asking for the removal
OF General SupL Voorhees, is something
never heard OF until saw II in the papers.
and cannot believe that there is any foun-
dAtiou for il whatever.
The officers of the Company have never
received = word OF compliant against Mr.
Voorhees,. and there has been no request for
his removal There have been q few men
discharged on the Western Division, don't
know how many. do not SUPPOSE there 10
any objection to disohArging men when
there ia no longer any work for them.
'As for general strike, that Is absurd
to talk about. / know that the employees
OF the company are well satisfied, and IL
they had any grievance they know that they
can bring IL right TO the Executive Com
mittes of the Company and it will De fully
heard and fairly decided.
The evening world., 1890-04-18
BEATTIE LACKS A PLAY.
While He Ponders the Dirt and
Dust Accumulate.

Street Cleaning Commissioner Hans s.
Beattio il 4 splendid thinker.
Ever since his induction into Office he has
been engaged in thought, but his thought
force has not AZ yet been applied to work the
machinery OF his Department and clean the
streets.
No definite general plan has resulted from
the intense mental application of the rev
Commissioner. and New Yorks streets are
no cleaner, IL as clean, AZ they were dur ing
the administration of his predecessor.
We shall find plan soon, was Chief
Clerk Beardsley's confident assertion.
Meantime preparations are making for
the introduction oI the block system III the
central portion OF the city; u few laborers and
cart. are engaged during the day IN
portiQps of certain streets in a pre-
scntabls condition: the work OF wee /
ing out old aud physically incapable
ers in the Department drags ,inwly on; the
ramHhackle sweeDers rattle and the dirt
carts rumble through the streets as formerly
at night, and Commissioner Beattie thinks.
The commissioner transferred the scene
OF meditation from his Office in the Emil
grant Savings Bank Building TO the Depart
ment stables at the foot Of East Seventeenth
forenoon there studying the science OF street
cleaning IN so far as lie could with the aid
OF q dilapidated plant
II was conhdently expected by the poll
ticIans that Deputy Commissioner would
be appointed to-day.
EX-AssemblymAn William J.. Dalton,
Tammany Hall leader Of the Fifteenth As
senblY District, spent a good share of yes
terdAy at the offices of the Department and
he Was credited with being the coming man.
Despte this, Collector Beattie was cred
no necessity for 3 Depnly Commissioner in
his Department.: that snch an official is in
fact more ornamental than useful.
This rumor. Chief Clerk Beardsley ex-
planned, arose from a abatement ma le by
him TbAt there is really little for q Deputy
Commissioner to do while MIR. Beattis is
present and in control OF the administration
OF departmental affairs. The Commissioner,
he said, isnot responsible for this opinion.