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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-31
House Afternoon.

The following bills We're introduced and
referred; II. @3l, by Mr. Thrasher of New
port, to legalizo Newport's real estate ap-
praisal for 1880.
II. 43J, hy Mr.. Moloney Of Rutland, to
reucal section | of act No, 53 of the laws Of
1885. Tho present law provides that Il
workman shall have preference in insol
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-31

il. A., in amendment of act lj laws Of
IS, in relation to savings banks; ii. 10, in
addition TO section 1919 r. H., relating TO
exemption OF debts from trustee process;
IT, Is, in relation to the employment of
labor; IL. o., authorizing the repair or sale
Of the Union church, Berkshire; II, 1862,
providing for the revision of the public
laws, II. 10, relating TO the commitment Of
insane uuupers to usylums.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-31

H. IA, losali1ng the ST. Adams grand
list for 1880; H. GG, was received from tine
Senate with amendments and the amend
leuts concurred in; II. 1871, in amendment
OF an act to incorporate Rutland Railroad
company.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
NATURAL GAS.
A Horrible Explosion at Pitts
burg Attended With Fa-
tai Results.
A House Blown to Pieces and the
Inmates + iIled and Injured.

PITTsBURG, Pa, January % An ex-
plosion OF natural gas about $50 this
morning completely wrecked a tLree-
story frame dwelling on Thirty eighth
near Butler street, killing one person al
most instantly and seriously injuring
eight others, two of whom may die.
Their names are:
Killed-John Slip, aged thirty-elght
years.
| Injured-Mrs. Theodore Ringer, aged
thirty five years, badly crushed and
burned, will die; Annie, Jessie and
Katie Ringer. (children) aged respective-
ly three, five and eight years, cut and
bruised, not dangerous; Mrs. John Slip,
aged about thirty years, slightly cut and
bruised; Annie Slip, her daughter, dan
gerously burned, very serious; Mrs. Paul
Melcher, aged sixty years, badly cut and
bruised, quite serious; Paul Melcher,
aged seventy years, slightly bruised.
The explosion was cansed by leak in
the cellar. About $50 o'clock Mrs. Rim
ger started down into the cellar with a
Lighted candle. Before she reached the
foot of the stairs the gas ignited terri
fic explosion followed, which shook all
the buildings in the vicinity. The
house was lifted from its foundations
and blown to pieces. At the time there
We're ten persons in the building and all
but an infant were more or less injured.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
Republican League.

The third annual convention OF
the Republican League Of the Uni
ted States will convene in Nashville
Tenn, at noon March 4th 1890 and
continue in session there after during
such hours as said convention shall
determine.
At the close of the convention the
delegates will 60 TO Chattanooga fol
the purpose OF holding Republican
League mass meeting, which will be
addressed by someof the most promi-
nent speakers in the country.
What says you President Davis,
shall our League be representedf
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
ADAM FoREPAycH DEAD.
The Veteran Circus Manager Sue
cumbs to La Grippe.

PHILADELPHIA, January 2S.-Adam
Forepaugh, the veteran circus manager,
died last night at his residence in this
city. Mr.. Forepaugh had been ailinp
for some time past. He was attacked a
week or two ago with the prevailing in
fuenya epidemic which, three or four
days ago, deyelppea into pneumonia.
MIR. Forepaugh was originally bptehr
er. but many years ago be embarked in
the circps business in which he wss
very successful, getting together most
extensive circus and menagefls with
which he amassed foltane which is
estimated at more than $1,000. 600. He
was large real estate owner. Mr., Fore
paugh was sixty eight years old. He
leaves wife and one son, Adam Jr..
who will succeed to his immense circns
property.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
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In ten elegant octave volumes, of over 500 ps
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Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
NJ MI. Newman &c 90.
THE RESTLESS AND SLEEPLESS DRY GOODS MERCH ANTS
AFRO AMERICAN LEAGUE.
What Shall the Harvest Be {?

Now that Mr.. Fortunes Afro
American League has met and dis
persed we shall watch to see the fruit.
We remember that there was a call
for a National convention in 1879 to
remedy the existing evils that the
colored man had to suffer. That con
vention was called by the wise men
and the states and counties We're re
quested to send their best men as
delegates, Owe, the feathered bird of
the GAzETTE) was then citizen OF
good old Lawrence and being anx.
ious to 60 We persuaded the people
to send us and they did.
So when we arrived we were anx-
ious to do something to show the
good people Of Lawrence that we
were honestly representing them;
but when we attempted to speak We
were told by the chairman (who was
Hon. John r. Lynch) that "the
gentlemen from Louisiana has the
floor" So we sided up to Mr..
Councill and told him our griev-
ances,and he whispered something in
the ear of the chairman like this;
"There is a greenhorn here from
Lawrence, can't you put him on a
committee p The chairman nodded
his head, and forthwith placed us on
the committee of Education and
Labor, and we were content, and
went home thinking we had done
something, but we have been watch
ing ever since to see some fruit #
our labors, and, 10! none has ap.
peared. So we think it will be with
this Afro American League.
Changing names Will not meet our
wants, neither will conventions rem.
edy our evils There is only one
solution and that is to make men and
women Of ourselves. Train our boys
and girls to be indus rious, virtuous
and honest. Train them that if they
would be respected, they must first
respect themselves, and until we do,
this Afro American" will be as of,
fensive to the Caucasian nostril as
Negro.
No. Mr.. Fortune, we don't need
name, we have enough of them; we
need education. Will you pull off
your gold spectacles AID come down
here and help Us
JACK DAw.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
A Slick Swindscr,

The following special appeared in the
Cincinnati Enquirer of Tuesday last
Jan. 81:
FINDLsY, Quo, January 2O.-A slick
swindler giving his name as I. H, De
lase, agent for the Huntsville ala I'm
provement Company, induced Howard
Davis to identity him at the American
National Bank, where he desired to have
fifty dollar check On a Cincinnati Bank
cashed. Davis wrote his name on the
check. and today bad it to pay, as 1t was
returned AS worthless. Delase also
bought string of drilling tools from G.
Q. Angel for 81, $50, giving draft for
$1,000 on Cincinnati for payment, and
received the diference-$450- in cash.
The draft came back today marked the
same as the check : Worthless" When
Delase was looked for by his victims it
was found he had jumped the town
He came here about ten days ago, and
soon made many acquaintanGes among
business men, with the above result
The party mentioned above is not an
accredited agent of the North Ala, Im
provement Company. Some weeks ago
Delase came here and registered at the
Huntsville Hotel He gave out that he
was Chicago journalist of the Republic
Car. stripe in politics, and his errand here
was in quest Of health. He had a b. d
case OF the grip aud eayorted around
like regular old time sneezing snooser.
In two weeks he was cured sound as a
bell, and then be began to "get his work
in" as the gamins say.
He gave some of ns to understand that
the eternal hills that gird our health
giving city abounded In petroleum, and
he knew of company he could form in
Ohio to work tn oil find. He left here
ostensibly for that purpose but his going
and the manner OF it furnished strong
evidence Of the fact that he was as slick
A they MAKE 'em Mercury.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
A Merrited Complement.

The land contest in the Carson
City u. S. Land Office between j. A
Scott, a former resident of Reno
and the United States Government,
recently adjudicated, in which IS.
Summer6eld appeared for Scott, and
Special U. S. Agent Allen A: Gar
ner, represented the government.
was decided in favor of the Federal
Government.-Reno (Nevada) Ev-
ening Gazette.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
Foreign Notes.


By an explosion in a colliery at Pontypool,
England, five miners were killed.
The powder mill at Roslyn, Scotland, has
exploded. Five men were killed and many
| injured.
NJ Zeines will succeed M Coulon as direc.
| tor general of posts and telegraphs through.
| out France.
| The trial Of the action brought by Mr..
| Parnell against The Times for libel, has been
| fixed for Feb. 8.
The Brazilian minister at London denies
| that the Comtist calendar has been adopted
| by the republic.
The czar has decided to restrict the immi-
| grafton of Germans into southern Russia,
which at present is very large.
The miners strike at Charleroi Belgium,
is at an end, the employers having submit.
ted to the demands of those who still held
out
| Journalist Palkowitz Of Vienna, Wednes.
| day shot the popular actress Stericher, and
then killed himself. Jealousy was the mo-
| tive.
The anti-slavery conference is again post
poned. The Congo state does not ask from
the powers subsidy to enable it to suppress
| slavery.
Southwestern France has been visited and
devastated by fearful hurricane. Tele'
graphic communication in that direction ID
| interrupted
The United States steamer Enterprise,
with the body Of Mr. George H. Pendleton,
| late United States minister to Germany, is
on it's way to New York
| Prince Sulkwitz, of Austria, sues to have
his marriage with the actress Juger de-
| clared NULL on the ground that he was in
| sane when he married her.
Violent gales, accompanied with heavy
rains, are reported throughout England.
Great destruction from floods are also re-
ported from many districts
| The board Of guardians of Cork was Off
| cially dissolved Thursday for violating the
rules governing the board by adopting reso-
lutions of a political nature.
| It is probable that Gen. Sir Donald Mar
! tin Stewart will be appointed field marshal
of the British army to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Lord Napier, Of
Magdala.
The American squadron mad ten knots
slight increase Of coal consumption. There
squadron will spend the week at Minorca.
Capt. Teyier, the French explorer, who
recently crossed from the west to the east
coast of Africa, is Of the opinion that no
commercial ventures are possible in those
portions of the country through which he
| Travelled.
The Tagblatt states that it learns, on semi
official authority, that the government has
decided to withdraw the Socialist bill in the
event of the reichstag rejecting the clause
giving the government the right to expel
Socialists
The Berlin correspondent of The London
Standard learns that should the Socialist
bill be defeated, Bismarck viii give as an
election watchword Down with the Social
Democrats" Emperor Williams message to
the new reiehstag will be of the same tenor
a. the princes watchword,
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
NEWS IN DaIrr.

Condemnation OF Interesting Items oa
Various Subjects.
Snow all over the northwest.
1t is showing again IN the Sierras
Cars killed Brakeman Petit at Order,
Illinois
New England tombstone men favor pro-
lection.
Mrs Whitehead was admitted to hail A
Lafayette, Ind
People are starving in q score Of counties
In South Dakota
Brakeman James Lamer was killed by
cars at Darlington, KY.
Judge Sage reafiirmsd his decision as q
the third rail on the o. q N. w. railway.
The tailors in convention at Chicago re-
solved to give but dxty days credit here
after.
Boston had 500, 900 fire Wednesday night.
giving way.
Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas, spoke on the
race question in the senate Thursday. The
galleries were crowded.
Jimmy Carroll, of Brooklyn, whipped
Mike Lucie, of Philadelphia, in San Fran
cisco Wednesday in seven rounds.
Lynchburg, Va, is bidding for the loca.
tion Of the capital, and offers to build a fine
structure without expense to the state.
Ohio at Evansville, Ind, thirty-eight feet
six inches on gauge, and still rising Wednes-
day night. Much damage is being done.
John Hultz and John Jones, who forced
an old colored man named Miner to sign
check for $780, were arrested at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
Washington, Pa, town of about 5000
hasn't saloon in it, Rev. R. R. Cayley, an
Episcopal minister, stated in his pulpit, Sun
day, that there was nothing wrong in drink.
ing wine, and the town threatens to send
him beyond its confines to reside perman-
emily.
the historic revolutionary camp ground Of
Valley Forge, in Chester county, Pa, will
soon be sold by its present owners in tha
shape of building lots The tract com
prisss the entire site occupied by George
Washington and the Continental army
during the winter Of 1777-78. It covers 100
acres.
Carlos Lee Cook, the Mexican news agent
who was arrested at the City of Mexico,
last week, on charges Of attempted black.
mail preferred by the local representative Of
an American insurance company, has been
set at liberty. The judge has dismissed the
case, deciding that there was no foundation
for the action.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
Sparks Cause a Big Oil Fire,

CINCINNATI, Jan. PA special to The
Enquirer from North Baltimore, O.,
Wednesday night said: The country to-
night for miles around is brilliantly
lighted by the burning of thousands Of
gallons of oil. This afternoon well No.
5, operated by the Peerless Refining
company, was ignited By sparks, and in
. moment flames were shooting far up
toward the sky. Four immense tanks
filled with oil ignited one after the other
from the great beat. They, with their
contents, are total loss. The well is
still burning, and the danger to sur
rounding property is great.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
The League.

The Afro American League in its
deliberations and work accomplished
has no doubt contributed something
to the promotion of the ends in
view. It has ably presented to the
world the situation Of the Negro as
understood by the delegates, and
made a strong plea in behalf of the
race.
We hope to be able to lay before
our readers in a condensed form in
our next issue the result of the
Leagues deliberations.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25

Senator Ingalls, great speech on
race issue will go down in b story
randing with the greatest efforts Of
Webster or Clay. His key to the
Negro problem is Justice. If it is
used there Is no longer problem
and the great question is already
settled for the peace and welfare of
all concerned.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
Mistaken for q Burglar,

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 24.-Iaura Lin
ton, maiden lady, living on a farm fn
Camden township, Lorain county. o..
was shot and killed Tuesday night by
two boys-Roberts and Gintsey, who
mistook her for burglar. Miss Linton
feared visit from burglars, and asked
the boys to stay at her house. They
armed themselves with shotguns, and
hearing a noise arose and fired at the
supposed burglar. 1t is believed the
woman was walking in her sleep. = she
made no response when they called to
her,
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25

The student and teachers Of the
Tuskegee Normal and industrial
institute, at Tuskegee, Alabama,
are raising themselves and the col
ored people of Alabama perman-
ent scholarship of 1000 to be called
the Olivia Davidson Washington
Memorial Scholarship.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25

Two communications one from
Decatur and the other from Madison
20 to the waste bast basket this week
becausethe writer's failed to send
their names,
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
NEWS AND SENTIMENT.
From Co!ored Exchanges.)

(From Colored Exchanges.)
Baltlmore's new Negro daily made
its initial bow this week.
The state fair held by Afro-Amer-
leans at Columbia, S. c., was fail
ule. Weakness Of the management
is said to cause.
There are four women in the BosS
ton school Board and two Negroes in
the Boston Common Council.
Winchester, Tenn, is to have a
new paper. The editor has at last
struck the right road to starvation,
says the Negro World.
Our birth rate increases steadily
despite all howls to the contrary
The Negro is coming Richmond
Planet.
Bill Jones, the colored man who
puts in most of his time in eating
beer glasses and biting chunks out
Of plate glass windows, has been sued
at Cincinnati by his washerwoman
Liberal minded white men should
grasp hands with the honest colored
ones and put down lynch law
Richmond Planet.
The only United States arsenal in
the central Southern States, and one
of the eleven in the whole United
States, is under construction ar Col.
umbia, Tenn.
Rev. T. P. Sanford, full b'ooded
African, who was born slave in Vir-
ginia, has been appointed pastor Of a
Baptist church in Birmingham
England.
Peter jackson has notified the Cal
ifornia Athletic Club that he will sail
for America January 10, and that
$15, 900 is the size of the purse he
wishes to fight Sullivan for.
The miserable two hundred dollars
reward offered by the Governor of
South Carolina for the capture of
the villaninous cut throats who mur>
dered eight Afro Americans at Barn
we'll. has not been earned by anybo-
dy, and Governor Richardson did
not expect that it would be.
The Philadelphia Tribune says that
Miss Flora Batson was refused ad-
mi tance to the Arlington Hotel at
Santa Barbara, CAL. and damage
suit is in prospect on account of the
refusal.
A judgment has been rendes ed
against a Michigan railroad for
$8, $50, in favor Of fourteen year
old Afro American, who lost thumb
and leg while riding on an engine pi-
lot eight years ago.
The issue of Anglo-India of Dec.
l contains an account of a perfor-
nance bv the Fisk Jubilee Singers
in Calcutta. The company are 60.
ing to make a tour Of India, and
work their way through the Straits to
Japan.
In tho Emancipation procession at
Nashville, according to the Indian.
apolis Freeman, an enterprising un.
dertaker carried coffin and burial
robe in his buggy and told the throng
as he passed that he was prepared to
give them a nice burial.
Representative John P. Green has
introduced a joint resolution in the
Ohio General Assembly requesting
the Ohio delegation in Congress
to use all reasonable efforts to secure
the passage Ex-senator Sherman's bill
to regulate the suffrage in the South
The twenty-sixth anniversary OF
Emancipation was duly celebrated at
Fort Payne, Ala. Mr.. A. L. De.
Mond delivered the Grafton, his SUBJ
ject being "The Manhood Of the Ne
gro." The address which was pub
lished in the official paper Of the
town, was very creditable produc-
ton.
Bishop Dudley Of Kentucky, in
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
SATURDAY JAN, 25th, 1890.

There should be no let up in the
Fl sht Cor the Blair bill.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25
CONTENTS :

Vol. I, Early Colonial Literature 1861
1875
Vol. II. Later Colonial Literature, 1876
1854
Vol Ill. Literature of the Revolution,
1765,l777.
Vol. Nv. Literature of the Republic
Constitutional period, l7S8-l82O
Vol V. Literature of the Republic, l8'
21-1S34
Vols. vi, VII, Will Literature OF the
Republic, 1885 1850
Vols. TX, X Literature OF The Republic
1861 1888 Fully representing the W.T.
ters that have arisen since the tlVIl wal
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Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-25

LAGRIPHE has taken a firm hold
here.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-11
A Frisco Census EnumeratOr
Arrested.
He Missed 6O8 Names in His
District.
Merced COunty's Desirable Dutch
Immigrants.
An Elevator Boy and Another Lad
Dashed to Pieces-P. D. Wiggin-
toms Funeral.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

SAN Francisco, July 10.-United
States Marshal Long arrested this after
noon Thos. J. Fitzpatrick, census
enumerator, for neglect of duty. In
Fitzpatrick's returns discrepancies were
found which led to the RECOMMENDATION
of his district. When 60S more names
were discovered than he had turned in,
warrant for his arrest was issued.
Fitzpatrick states that he found the
work too laborious, and it was physi-
cal impossibility for him to complete it,
and he so informed the supervisor at the
time.
Stanley w. Hoyt asks judgment
against the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railway Company for "a 200, for
services rendered as secretary and audi
tor of the Cloverdale and Ukiah Rail
road Company. Hoyt AYERS that the
two corporations assigned their property
to the North Pacific Company.
Samuel Carson & Co., book and sta
tionery dealers, have petitioned the
superior court to be adjudged insolvent
debtors. Their liabilities are 6,297.
Their assets consist of real estate, home
stead and personal property, and debts
due petitioners of the aggregate value of
$40 9,240, exclusive of mortgages on their
property, amounting to $11 400.
The jury in the case of Benjamin Davis,
tried for the murder of his wife, July 6,
1889, this afternoon brought in verdict
of manslaughter.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-11
BRITISH AFFAIRS.

Arrangements for the Reconstruction of
the Cabinet Making Progress.
LONDON, July 10.-The press associa-
tion announces that arrangements for
the reconstruction of the cabinet are
making progress. Smith, the present
government leader, will be elevated to
the peerage and will probably be sue
ceeded by Lord Randolph Churchill as
government leader in the house. Hart
ington has again been offered the office,
but has declined. Salisbury went to
Windsor castle last night and obtained
the queens assent to the proposed
changes.
In the house of commons today w.
H. Smith, government leader, stated
that in view of the late period of the
session the government had decided not
to proceed with the standing order relat-
ing to the postponement OF the consid-
Grafton of bills from one session to an
other. 1t had also decided to drop the
Irish land purchase bill and tithes bill
during the present session, but to again
introduce them at the next session,
which would open in November. Smith
said he trusted that before the house
was prorogued it would pass the bill
providing for the cession of Heligoland
to Germany, the local taxation bill, the
bill providing for housing the working
classes, and the census bill.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt said he
hoped the government would consult the
house about holding meeting of parlia-
ment in November.
Gladstone expressed a similar wish.
Smith said that the government was
satisfied as to the convenience of the
session opening in November.