The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-23

CINE mandatory took part OF the money,
while a lot OF paDcf mills. including the
Glenn Falls the Remington and the Hud-
son River companies OfcN-Sehaior warner
Miller's, together representing s9.@o,o0,
were bought with the rest. The big potteries
al Trenton. y. j., and East Liver
pool. Ohio and the leather
factories at Newark. y. j., are now being
absorbed by the same process. The apso-
lutte control Of an industry, such as the
pottery manufacture, means OF course an
arrangement with tie foreign makers 10
sbut OF competition with the United states.
in respoct 10 any commodity which the tariff
does not itself exclude. but the profit ailor-
ded bv that tax comes out Of the pockets OF
Americans and goes directly 10 Europe in
either case On this point Mr.. Jntermeyer
is very frank and says In an interview
"Manv Of the enterprises bought by for
eign capital are protected. and unquestion-
ably the tariff tax has been an inducement
10 Investment In these cases, but on the
whole my clients desire manufactures
for which there IL an unlimited demand and
factories which are able TO hold their own
all over the world"
With over two hundred millions foreign
capital getting the benefit of our protective
tariff. the platform makers Of '92 will have
to sing very much altered tune.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
Richmond and Danyille system: Second
week January. 1890, S2si0j0; 1889. S24No2o;
increase. S35.52j. Kansas City, Fort scott
and Memphis: First week January, 100,
SSl,62j; 1889, S7j.Slj increase, $3.50.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
A peculiar death has occurred az the
house of Charles Maltby, i'm the suburbs Of
Plainheld. George Henry Robinson, a lad
employed 10 assist Mr.. Maltby's gardener,
slviv entered the buffers storerOOm soon
after dinner and fed himself generously on
dried prunes. He then drank largely OF
water and in short time began TO swell up
10 an amazing size. lie suffered eXcrucia-
ting pains which medical skill could not
lessen. and within an hour after physicians
had been summoned ne was dead.
The commissioners who have had the mat
ter i'm charge have selected a farm I'M the
the town of EsOpus, lister county, rs the
site Of the new State prison. The farm can
be bought for 1900, as against S3m-ooO.
the estimated value Of the present site nj
Sing Sing. The place is easy of access.
Young men in doubt as 10 what profession
i'm life 10 adopt had better look into the oi-
p0rtunities offered by a sugar trust. II has
lust been shown that there are three officers
i'm the trust who draw salaries Of Slw,V"
each. six who draw $1,000 and seven vi o
draw $500 each each for services IN posi-.
tions which are purely ornamental.
NELLIE BLY's TRIP.
The SEVENTEEN day of Nellie Bly's trip
round the world began this morning al 9;5o
o'clock, and the telegraph tells MS she II
speeding across the continent for the end Of
her glObe-tr0tting match. on the overland
Journey via the Southern Pacific and Allan
tic and Pacific route. This route brings the
Young woman home by way Of Arizona,
New Mexico, and Texas, "a route necessa-
rilv far below the frost line. and there is
ground 10 hope that the rest of her journey
will be made on time and without mlshap.
In the meantime the slOw-gOlng 'unafder,
Bothnia. is ploughing her way across the
Atlantic with Miss Bissell Nellie's plucky
rival. on board. The question now seems
10 be not whether either Of them viii reach
here by the seyenty-hye days, but how soon
they will arrive after 10 has expired. Miss
Bissell will be exceedingly fortunate II she
gets here by Thursday, January 80.