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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
West Indian Carriers.


The creole porteuse, or female carrier
of the West Indies, furnishes a remark.
able proof that great physical energy and
endurance can exist in the tropics. At a
very early age, perhaps at fire years, says
Lafcadio Hearn, she learns to carry small
articles upon her head, bowl of rice, or
even an orange on plate, and at nine or
ten she is able to carry basket or trail
wooden tray, with deep, sloping sides
containing twenty Or thirty pounds.
Then she walks barefoot beside her
mother, twelve or fifteen miles day.
At sixteen, she is a tall, robust girl,
and carries burden of one hundred and
twenty or one hundred and fifty pounds
weight. She now earns about six dol
lars a month, by walking fifty miles a
day, as an itinerant seller. There are
never old porteuses; to do the work even
at forty indicates constitution of aston
ishing strength. After the force of
youth ana health is spent, the poor car
rier must seek lighter labor.
! As rule, the weight is such that no
well-freighted porteuse can load or I'M
load unassisted. The effort to do so
would burst blood-yessel or rupture a
muscle. In preparing for her journey
the young merchant puts on her poorest
and lightest robe, and binds plain
handkerchief about her head. On the
top of this is placed another handker-
chief folded, to form pad, and on this
rests the great loaded trail. She wears
no shoes. She must climb and descend
thousands of feet every day, over slopes
so steep that the horses of the country
break down after few years of similar
journeying. The soles of her feet be-
come so tough that they feel no rough
ness, and present to the sharp pebbles a
surface at once yielding and resisting,
like cushion of solid rubber.
Young girls very often set off together,
and keep step and time throughout their
journey, but the veterans, or women Sc
lected for special work, usually go alone.
To the latter class belong girls employed
by certain great bakeries. They are the
most heavily laden Of all, and carry bas-
kets of astounding size far up into the
mountains, so as to furnish country fami-
lies with fresh bread at an early hour.
At shutdown the porteuses are coming
from far Grand Ause to halt a moment
in this village. They are going to sit
down on the roadside before the house
of the baker, and his great black work
man, Jean Marie, stands waiting to re-
lieve them of their load. Here they
come, the girls, yellow, red, black. See
the flash of the yellow feet, where they
touch the light! All smile to see Jean
Marie waiting for them, and to hear his
deep, kind voice cry out;
''How art thou, dear? How goes it
with thee?'
'All sweetly, dear; and thou?" some
of them make answer. But others, over
weary, cry to him:
'Unload me quickly, dear, for 1 am
very, very weary"
Then he takes away their burdens,
fetches bread for them, and says little
foolish things to make them smile. And
they are pleased, and laugh like chill
dren, as they sit down on the road
to MUNICH their dry bread.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
A WILD MAN AT LARGE
He TerrIns- the Farmers, And Has Pis
aol.-IIIs IdsnfIfY q Mfaierr.

He TerrInss the Farmers, And Has Pts
tols-HIs Identity Mystery.
Union county, n. T.. is very mueA wroiight
up over the appearance u Wild man. This
strange being makes the woods bis home aud
hiding place. lie was discovered a few lays
ago by party Of negroes that we're oHt haaf-
ing at night, and before the negroes had lime
70 converse with this Strange Individual, Pc
had pistol in each hand bidding them ~ De-
part His sleeping place has not yet oeen
found. lie Is terror b. ths farmers in the
Pleasant Grove neirhooFhOpd. AZ the dead
hours Of night he viii come 10 their hoilsea.
end carry on any kind o. fowl. and combines
will slaughter q - ard drag It awhile, auH
carry il on bis shoulder, - as TO completely
keep his place q abode - himself he has
been shot at two or three times in biz night
fambles but On each occasion be has sncces1-
fully escaped injury. II is thought By some
Of the Inhabitants thar he Is an outlaw, and
has chosen Union county A. bis refuge Ail
Efforts to capture him have proven upsucee,s-
iul, and the men, women and children ara
afraid 10 20 outside their houses at night ior
fear they will come ia e0ntart with this being.
The farmers Of that section are getting up a
band Of men to scour the country for thieiseFf
and IL found, will be shot down.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
DEATH In A TENEMENT.
A Blazing House In Cincinnati, Ohio,
Full Of People
Family smothered and Burned Before
Help Could Reach Them-Those
Known to BE Dead.


AT about quarter before II o'clock P. NJ,
double alarm rang out from box 10. House
No "A Front street was all ablaze. IL was
iour-story brick, known as the John Christie
tenement house. The frst-story was occupied
by Solomon Menski as secondhand store.
All the other floors were occupied as tene-
ments. There were thirty people in the build
ing.
great crowd on the outside shouted to the
police and the fremen that the people inside
were burning up. The police and fremen
went TO work in earnest The building was
practically destroyed. In the ondstory
were two families Of ten persons; in the third
we're two more. numbering ten persons; in the
iour.h were Two families, also numbering Ten
persons.
The dead aud the injured, so far as can be
learned, are as follows:
Dead-Solomon Menski and Mrs Menski.
his wife; Eva Menski their twelve year-old
daughter; Erran Menski, their -year-old
son.
Injured Gus Hitzwell, Eva Misses and
Mary Kassenuer.
OF the injured, the first two are likely to
die
Solomon Menski and his family occupied
the rear end of the second-story directly over
where the fire is supposed to have started.
The people of the third and fourth-stories fled
to the roof and escaped to the roof of an adj
joining building, from which they were taken
down the Chicago elevated fire-ladder by fire.
men and police. Many of the women were
found unconscious. One elderly woman was
on her knees praying, and seemed obliyious
to everything.
There was but one exit TO the street, and
that was by an old narrow, rickety pine stair
way. At the outbreak Of the fire the police
managed to save some of the ten people who
slept on the second floor, but no one can state
exactly how many. The casualties are not
known certainly at this time. Friends are
anxiously calling at the morgue, at the hospi-
tai and at the police stations seeking friends
known to have been in the building, but not
yet accounted for The occupants of the
building were poor working people, some Of
them operatives in shoe factories some express
drivers, and others laborers on the public land
ing.
While the fire was burning the excitement
in the crowds of spectators was intense. When
everybody was successfully passed down the
ladder, shout went up, and then followed
deathlike silence. Not moan or a scream
was heard from the inmates of the house. As
soon as the deador the injured were taken out
they were removed to the morgue or the hos
pital, and the living, able to help themselves,
fed preeipitately from the scene.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
WORK AND WORKERS.

ARour four hundred saw mill hands In
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, have Como on a strike
for ten-hour day.
fnE large Joanna furnace. in Robson
township Bcrks county Pa. which las been
idle since last fail. has resumed operations.
.TnE Kentucky Genital Railroad has clieef-
Ell q compromise with us striking employees
IN Louisville aud the men have resumed
work.
The Reading Coapanys Keystone Col.
licry, at Ashland Pa. which has bconddlefor
several months, hns resumed operations en-.
ployiug 800 mon and boys.
FIFTEEN hundred saw MIN men In Ash.
land, Wisconsin. have made demand FOR a
l0-hour day with no reduction in wnges. They
now work II hours per day.
THE long strike OF The ;wo thousand coal
miners IN the smith'On coal regions, Scett-
dale, Pa, has been broken large gang Of
Iialians have gone 10 work al the Wayeiiy
plant
DFouR thousand employees Of the National
Tube Works at hekeespori, Pa, have been
locked out Tho company is willing 90 pay
Amalgamated Association wages, but refuses
to sign the scale
TDE strike Of the boiler mixers Ia Pitts.
burg and Allegheny is practically nj nN end.
OF the ~ shops eight have agreed 10 the nine
hours per dny proposition The others, il II
hiouEhts WIZ give UP tht hkItis
The difference between the Big -Four Com.
pany aud its yard employees in indianapolis
have been settled by The company meeting
the demand Of ia employees Underline new
scale the fircmen receive i5conis more lof day
and % cents more for hight work. The
switchmen receive tho same raise on their old
wages.
A TYPOGHAPHCAL ubiDn Was organized 10
AHhyillc, North Carolina. with A. r. Han
dolph - President w. W Jones ns Secretary
and a membership OF ~ compositions It Is
announced that the new union will demand
an increase Of wages and wi'l not work Tor
employers hiring non-union help"
a SINGULAR strike has just ended in Dan
vile, Va. Several days ago butcher VS.
imprisoned for violating a city ordinance,
whercupon al the bntchera closed theirstails,
ami gwure they would VII no more meats tlu.
til the ordinance was changed. Since that
time no fresh meat could DC bought Ia the
market for love or money and the people wero
put 10 great Inconvenience. The butchers AZ
las, decided that they were getting the worst
OF he so.callcd strike and feopened their
stalls.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
THE DEFICIENCY BILL


S"fOVOtOVF-
Representative Henderson, of Iowa, from
the Committee on Appropriations, has re-
ported the to House the general deficiency APP
preparation bill, the last of the appropriation
bills to be acted upon initially by the House.
The bill makes total appropriation of
$40 440, divided as follows: State Depart
ment, $40, 63S; Treasury, S447 035; District of
Columbia, S7971i; War Department. S203 663;
Navy Department, 1907 ,5t7 Interior Depart
meut, $47 PCS; Postoiiice Department, 81 1888 =
S9S; Agricu. mral Department, 81, 1855; Depart
ment of Justice, s1l ,662; U. S. Courts, S6U3,.
sos; House of Representatives, sl55,3 pub.
lie printing, S3l 475, Court OF Claims judg.
ments, 1887 ,226 United States court judg-
ments, S59565; Fox and Wisconsin river
improvement so, 1862; State claims, SlS2, 49l.
Audited claims S453. 3l7. Among the items
of interest IN the bill are: Protecting Alaska
salmon fisheries, $500; Payment to owners of
barges Benefactor and Mayilower for injuries
received by collision with the United States
steamship Juniata, April, 1859, 1886; Salaries
Mississippi river commission, S5625; To carry
out the Oklahoma town site act, $780, 900; Rail
way mail transportation, S5Il 1923; same for
the year 1883, $496,9l9; Marshal's fees, $780,
469; Special deputy marshals at Congressional
elections, SS4,37 Fees of jurors, $4,000; wit
nesses, S10l 500, Salaries of revenue officers,
$l15.0U0.
The report says that provision is inserted
in the bill as follows: THAT hereafter the
Secretary of the Treasury shall include in his
annual report, in the statementsof actual and
estimated receipts and expenditures of the
government, the revenues from and expendi-
lures Oh account of the postal service. The
enactment Of this provision and compliance
with it on the part of the Secretary Of the
Treasury will result in presenting annually
to the country, in the one report where it viii
naturally be looked for, a statement of the
revenues raised from every source and of all
expenses incurred in operating the govern
ment."
Appended to the items relating to the Court
of Claims is the requirement that the Secre'
tary of The Treasury shall certify to Congress
such judgments only as are not TO be affected
on such appealed cases as have been decided
by the Supreme Court.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
THE SONG OF THE SEA.


Their world was world of enchau slent;
A wonder of luminous light
Came out with fiaring of carmine,
From all the black spaces of night;
The music of morn was as blithesome
And CHEEKY as music could be:
But all through the dawn and the daybreak
mouIned for the song of the sea.
Ihey showed me the marvellous flowers
And fruits of their sun-beaten lands:
They said, Here are vine-tangled valleys:
Forget ye the barren white sands;
For WEAKNESS unto the spirit
The dash of the breakers must be:
80 dwell ye beside our blue waters;
Forget the sad song of the sea"
ana wrapped me about in the sunlight,
on the marge of dimpling stream,
And there in tangle of lilies.
wove me wonderful dream:
And song from my dreamlapd went float.
ing
Far up where the angels must be,
But deep in its under vibrations
heard the sweet song of the sea.
With the dew in his locks all a-elitter
The Prince of the Daytime lay dead:
FOR the silver-white lance of the twilight
Smote off the gold crown from his head.
And the Princess of Night came to see him
Her lights all about him to hang;
And nightingale screened in the thicket
His song to the slumberer sang.
And the stream from the tangle of lilies
came winding its way through the sedre.
And silvery nocturne it rippled
Among the tall flags on its edge.
But its babble fain would have pivan
For the sleep wooing sea voices lull
And the nightingale's song would have b,r-
tered
For the desolate cry of gull.
Ahel world was world of enchantment.
And they laughed with the laughter of
scorn,
when turned me away from its beautv
In the light of the luminous morn.
But heard grand voice in the distance
lnsistently calling to me,
And rose with a jubilant spirit
And followed the song of the sea
Hattie Whitney, in Belford,s Mooaz;ns
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
Two Wonderful Twins.

There are two young artisans Of Bris-
toll, named johnson, who are twins, and
between whom the similarity is far more
remarkable than in Shakspere's two
Dromios even. Not only are they of the
same height aad weight, having the same
colored hair, eyes, and complexion, iden-
teal physical measurements, and feed
ing, walking, running, laughing, crying,
singing, and speaking alike, but they are
of the same occupation, hold the same
position, and have the same religious
persuasion and likes and dislikes. More
singular still, they have espoused very
similar wives, aud they have the same
number of children, who are of the same
sexes, three girls and three boys EACH
London (Eagland) Grap,ic-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26

only the butterfly quilt that I want. The
dear old quilt Harry says we can't
keep house without it, We both love it
So"
''I've rolled it up for you already, {"
sand Mrs. Jolliver. sit seems to belong
to you, Olive"
And SO to-day Olives last baby sits
upon the brilliant quilt, and tries, with
his chubby fingers, to pull therefrom the
butterflies and roses.-7he Ledger.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
FATAL FEUD IN KENTUCKY.
Four Men Killed at "a Political Meeting
In Knox COunfv

1t is reported that at Hubbard's Mills, a
small village in Knox County, Ky, the Smith
and Messer factions met political gathering,
and when the smoke had cleared away four
were dead. As soon as the speaker was
through the crowd repaired to rudely con.
structed tables nearby, which were loaded
with bread, barbecued meats and homemade
dainties.
Two Of the warning factions got into quar-
rel, and in a moment they were arranged, ten
on one side and eight on the other, in line Of
battle. Firing began almost simultaneously
and the crowd fed TO shelter in every diree-
ton. When the fight was over four had been
killed, two on each side. The Messers faction
lost two young men named Mills, and the
Smiths lost Bob Burcnett and one Hubbard
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
MARKETS.

E-FIour-City Mills. extra 30
assoc Wheat-Southern Fultz, 96G997
Cons-Southern White, 436.4ae., Yellow,
4std+9c- Oats-Southern and Pennsylvania
3I6g37c. Rye-Maryland and Pennsylvania
5jlp55c. Hay-Maryland and Pennsylvania
i1.JHdst2.50. Straw = Wheat, 7.5Ofa. $50.
Butter-EaStern Creamery, leh11 nearby
receipts I2td l3c. Cheese Eastern Fancy
Cream, SiGae, Western, 7Gt71e. Eggs-f4(1
I4lc Tobacco, Leaf-Interior, 1GsSi.50, Good
Common, 4f1$5.Oo, Middling, 6Eass.0G, Good
to fine red, 901S1000. Fancy, 10fa$i3Oo.
NEW YoRK--Fiour = Southern Cool 10
choice extra, 3l05f1$3.l5. Whcat-No.l " hite
96ads7ic. Rye-State 5SG160c. Corn-South-
ern Yellow, 43tfd44c. Oats-White, State
3fzM.3Je. Butter-State, Halle. Cheese =
STATE. 7tdyse. Eggs-14iCGi4ie.
PHILADELPHIA - Flour - Pennsylvania
fancy, A2jGgs475. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 92id92Ic. Rye Pennsylvania,
5s6a6Oc. Corn-Southern Yellow, 5iAl942ic.
Oats = 37G157ic. Butter - State, 16(gi7c.
Cheese-New York Factory, i09l0sc- Eggs
State, l5fs Ice.
CATTLE
BALTIMoRE-Beef- 3256SI75. Sheep
3.00taSs-7 Hogs-490f1s5-
NEW YoRK-Beef = 6251E.25. Sheep
L01fes 100. Hogs-- t21aE sI-l).
EAST LIBEETY- Beef-l4i(1S470 Sheep
5.00G 500. Hogs HOG siI5.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
A BATTLE IN SALVADOR.

The Guafemalfans Suffer a Crushing
Defeat-Their ARTILLERY Captured.
FL U'sirersal publishes an account Of battle
between GustemaIans and San salyadorians
in San Salvador, in which the former were
defeated with heavy loss. The GuatemaIan
farce numbered nine thousand.
Gen. Barrundia, the Guatemalan refugee,
has left Oaxaca TO take part in the war. He
will probably raise the standard Of revolt In
Guatemala.
Private kilograms from San Salvador say
that the San Saivadorians captured the Qua
temaIan artillery in the battle.
II Is rumored that President Banllos, Of
Gratsmale. talks Of tesigning.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
DOWN THE CANON.
Work of Terrible CIoud-Bur A Rail,
road Demolished.

road Demolished.
Al midnight occurred a terrific catastrophe
that has temporarily isolated the towns ur
Clear Creek Canon, Colorado, from the world
At that hour an immense cloud burst neal
the forks of creek poured deluge Of water
within the narrow walls Of the canon. IL
completely demolished the two iron railway
bridges at the forks, and as far as can be
learned annihilated all the structures ia the
vicinity. The restaurant, the depot and the
outhOuses were swept away by the flood. For.
tunately, it is believed, no lives were lost.
The immense column of water, laden with
wreckage, went tearing down the canon with
the result that from the forks to the Golden.
there is scarcely ye-tige Of the railroad lett
The greater portion of the roadbed is washed
away and all means Of communication are
destroyed.
After the cloud-burst furious hail-storm
set in, and it is reported that hail foot deep
is lying in the canon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
SHOT THE MAYOR.


Family Difficulties Lead 10 n shooting
ARRAY Ina Tnseumbis, Alabama.
John Steele, the Mayor Of Tuscumbia, was
shot by John w. Goodwin He fell dead in
front Of Curry 4 Aberuathy's drug store.
Goodwin was wounded and lies in a critical
condition. Mr. Alternately tried to separate
the two men and had bis left arm badly shat
tered by bullet.
The unfortunate affair was caused BY a
family difficulty between W. II. Chollen aud
Judge Steele father Of John Steele, who was
killed.
Mr. Chollen has been placed under guard
at hia residence. Public feeling is much ex.
cited and more trouble is apprehended.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26

"Lucy" said Olive TO her sister, few
months afterward, ''now that we are 60
ing to housekeeping, want YOU to give
me one thing"
Anything on earth that can" said
Mrs. Jolliver. 81 was thinking of sill
yer service"
toh, Lucy, dear" said Olive, begin
ming to cry for very Happiness. sits
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26

A BILL has been introduced in the
Hungarian Diet making it obligatory on
each of the communities to have kinder
garteh, and on parents to send TO it all
children between three and six years, if
not otherwise properly cared for.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-26
::TH E:::-
Martinsburg Herald,

Gfres more Solid Readfns Natter uaa all
ths other Papers eons6imed.
More general news; more local news. morn
county news more reading for farmers. more
reading for teachers: more reading for voune
people; more information for busine men.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-22
''Mooch Frightened"

The experience of the fire marshal
with the Polish Jews who have piled
their trade in Boston has often been
quite amusing. The Boston Courier
says that their first refuge when being
examined is TO feign an ignorance of
any language in which they may be
addressed, and The Courier illustrates
it by telling the following story:
One man brought his wife to the
office in answer TO the summons of the
marshal, but assured the officer that
she could not speak English, nor yet
Polish nor Hebrew.
Being forced to own that she did
speak something, she admitted with
reluctance that she knew a little Ger
man, and in this tongue the marshal
began his examination. Presently,
when the woman was off her guard.
he had recourse To an old and simple
but effective ruse.
is that a mouse under your chair
he asked, suddenly.
The woman jumped from her seat
with "A shrek, proving that she was
still "A woman where mice were con
cerned.
Then you do understand Englishi'
the marshal said. blandly.
Sometimes when | am mooch fright.
ened | knows it a very little" she an.
swered.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-22
STOPPED HIS TRAIN.
A Well Known Police Ofieer's Clever
Scheme to Get On an Express Train.

Inspector Williams, ofthe New York
police force, who has dubbed many
men in his time, told me the other day
of an incident that occurred last sum
mer, in connection with which he ac-
knowlcdgrd that he himself should
have been the clubbce. The inspector
has Il summer cottage at a place called
Cos Cob ON the New Haven road,
where he spends his holidays. He was
going mp there one afternoon, aud at
New York. by mistake. got aboard the
express instead of the local train that
stops at Cos Cob. The express does
not stop until il reaches Stamford,
which is some distance beyond the in
spectOr's destination. Williams did
not know the conductor and could
think of no way to get safely off from
an express train gong AT the rate Of
forty miles an hour, 80 he made use of
his philosophy, a large quantity of
which he always carries with him
when he travels, and he settled down
in his seat intending to take a much
needed rest; but the fates We're against
his getting the bite of sleep that his
system craved. An inquisitive coun.
tryman, who knew little of railroad
travelling, dropped into the seat beside
him, and asked him questions about
the danger of running off the track,
what he reckoned the speed was,
whether he had ever seen "A COW mus
sed up by the engine" Williams gave
the man monosyllabic and fretful an
swers, but Mr. hayseed kept on talk
ing. Forgot to bring a lunch,' he
said. never needed a snack as bad.
Wisher had a chunk of pie, or wen a
ham sandwich. 'Spose no chance To
get it on this train
As the old fellow said this Williams
was gazing out of the window al his
beloved Cos Cob. which the train was
rapidly approaching, and which he
knew they would swoop past in about
a minute. Suddenly he gave "A start.
His massive siNty-two ounce brain
bumped against the roof his skull and
an idea was born.
Mister" he said, turning To the
countryman, Il think you said you
wanted something Ia eat. | "a tell
you how you can grt a good square
chicken sandwich. step right up 10
the middle of the car and pull that
clothes line near the roof-yank it
hard "A couple of times and the train
boy will bring vou the stuff.
The old fellow started for the bell