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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
A Recalled Tragedy.

The calamity which has deprived
, Secretary Tracy of his wife and daugh.
ter recalls another which appalled, the
people of the whole country Just forty
six years ago. On Wednesday, Feb.
ruary 90. 1874, large wrought iron
gun called the Peacemaker. burst.
when fired for thes third time, on the
United States ship Princeton, on the
Potomac. Mr.. Upshur. Secretary of
State; Mr.. Gilmer, recently placed at
the head of the navy: Commodore
kennon. one of its gallant officers
Virgil Maxev, lately returned from a
diplomatic residence at The Hague;
Mr.. Gardner, of New York formerly
member of the Senate of the STATED.
were killed. Besides these seventeen
ssamer were injured.
STUPIDITY IS to the mind what clum-
sihess is to the body. 1t exhibits Just
The same fatal power q mischief in its
own way.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
ALBERT RIENVENU.

The annual report of the Secretary Of
the Senate is an interesting document.
According to his schedules, the Senators
used, during their last session, about
forty cases Of Apollinaris water, fourteen
boxes of lemons, 800 pounds of granu-
lated sugar and 5000 pounds of ice.
Everything else was taken in executive
session
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16

Islands on account of the leprosy; tn
have not been as many as dozen M:
lepcrs there in the history Of ~
country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
RAILWAY NOTES.

The old story is revived that Mr.. L.
NJ. FELTON, will succeed Mr.. John King
as president of the Erie.
A railroad is to be constructed from
Niagara Falls to Lewiston, distance of
seven miles, along the rapids
Schenectady, N Y. is making a strong
effort to secure the New York Central
shops and yards now located at Albany
The Atlanta journal is authority for
the statement that the Richmond Ter
minal company will build through
line from Norfolk to Cincinnati
The Toledo Peoria and Western has
paid the last claim against it On account
Of the ChatsWorth disaster, it costing
the company %230,00O in round numbers.
IN operator i'll Atchison says; 1T is
calculated Jay Gould received 6l.0G0
shares of Atchison and C. P. Huntington
$4,000 shares in exchange for the Frisco
stock"
Railway clerks from all over the Uni
ted States met in Cleveland, o., recent
y and formed national organization.
The name adopted was the American
Association of Railway Clerks.
At the annual convention of the
National Brotherhood of Railway Train
men, held in Los Angeles, Cal, the
treasurers report showed that $275,0
had been paid out for disability and
death claims during the year.
Projects for utilizing the vast waste
of land forming the desert of Sahara are
now agitating ingenious minds. One
man proposes the construction of a rail-
way some 1000 miles in length to reach
the few fertile and productive regions on
borders of or within the limits.
The commission appointed by the
New York state legislature to survey
route and report on the practicability of
building a ship canal between Lake Erie
and Pittsburg has decided to recon-
mend such an enterprise. The state
will, in turn, probably solicit aid from
the national government.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
DOlNGS OF ROYALTY.

The emperor of Germany is said to be
the most extravagant man in Europe.
Princess Beatrice is engaged upon a
birthday book, which, when published,
is only to be privately circulated.
The queen of the Belgians is an excel
lent linguist, and has recently accom-
plished the task of learning the Wal.
loon language.
Up to date Albert Edward, the Prince
of Wales, has drawn $40, 100000 from
the public treasury on his own account,
and his private debts are said to amount
TO about half that sum.
The Princess Frederick Charles of
Prussia, widow of the Red Prince and
aunt of the German emperor, has clan
destinely married her first lord of the
bedchamber, Baron Won Sekkendooff.
Alphonso XIII of Spain, not being
much skilled in the handling of fork and
spoon, ate his chicken with his fingers.
His attendant said, Kings do not eat
with their fingers" The little fellow
quietly replied This king does" and
continued his meal in the same fashion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

In 1745 not house in Maine had a
pane Of glass in it.
There are $50 lighthouses round the
coast of the United States.
A permanent library. composed solely
of books written by women. is to be es-
tablished in Paris
The one part of the world in which no
native pipes and no native smokers have
been found Is Australia.
Five hundred children under 10 years
of age We're taken into custody last year
in London as drunk and incapable
Before the invention Of the telescope
an object upon the moons surface fifty
miles III diameter could not be seen.
The largest farm under cultivation in
Iowa contains $500 acres and is owned
by Mr.. H. c. Wheeler, OF Sac county.
The leader of the Salvation Army has
applied to the Finnish senate for per
mission to establish branch of the army
in Finland
The population of Quebec is about
1900, 000 of whom l 10000 at least are
French in blood, language, sentiment
and instincts
A grain of musk will scent a room for
twenty years, and at the end Of that
time will not show that it has dimin-
ished in the least.
Two of the albums sent to the inter-
national exhibition of postage stamps at
Vienna were insured for G2.590 and
f3, 900 respectively.
One of the most singular facts about
the growth of London is its regularity.
1t may be roughly taken that every
month about l 900 houses are added.
The copper mines of the whole world
are being taxed to their utmost to sup
ply the demand for copper wire and the
other apparatus used in the application
of electricity
There are more than 100000 persons
in Italy who inhabit dark cellars and
1866 communities which are so poor
that meat is never seen on the table, and
bread only on Sundays.
Dark haired persons have a better
chance in the great struggle for existence
than those of the opposite complexion,
except in contagious diseases, where
blondes are comparatively exempt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12

LV -~S.
TURF NOTES.

D. T. Pulsifer has built new stable
Tenny."
In 1890 Snapper Garrison won, ex-
Guiding second and third moneys, &137,-
900; Barnes, 800 20; Littlefeld, 500, 9Oj;
Bergen, $S0,435 Hayward, &S3, sos, and
Murphy, S73,255
The stallion Hyder Ali has been sold
by Mr.. Haggin to Montana breeders. As
the sire of Spokane and other good ones
he should have been worth retaining.
The price paid is reported to have been
$4,000.
Tony" Hamilton has won more
money during the past racing season
than any other American jockey. His
winnings are considerably over 5000, 600.
In first moneys alone his earnings
amounted to S197,745.
Cavalier, by Prince Charlie, out of
Lady Rosebery, by Lord Clifden (winner
of the st. Leger), 1871 hands, of fine gen
eral appearance, and II winner in Eng
land from five furlongs mp to two miles,
has recently been sold by Mr. William
Easton to Mr.. William Astor. of New
York.
The Derby of 1891 has been introduced
into speculative circles in England. The
Deemster and Valauris We're backed, the
former at 1000 to 600, and the latter al
1000 to 100. Against Gouveneur, Peter
Flower and Orion. mixed. a bet of | 600
to 800 was laid, and subsequently . .25(
to | 800 was booked about the same lot
Mr.. a. b. Appleby, of Peterboro, ha,
sold to the stock farm Of Lock q Witter
Bucyrus, o., the well known trottine
stallion Tariff 1852, record 2:204, fol
$1,000, the brood mare Kittie, with tire,
months foal by Tariff, to S. White, NJ
p, Windsor for 5000, and the bay stall
ion Colchis. 2 years old, by MambrinC
Southam 40, 800, record 2:264, to r. NJ
Markell, Dickinson's Landing, for $500.
The fact that the Australian 5-year-olt
Carbine carried 145 pounds TO victory il
the Melbourne cup recently, GOVERN,
the two miles in 3:2St, which is onl,
one-quarter of second behind Tel
Broeck's record, proves conclusivel,
that Australians breed great racehorses
Ten Brock had but 10 pounds up whel
he made his record and ran agains
time, while Carbine carried thirty-fiv
pounds more and ran in an actual con
test.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
THE GENTLER SEX.

Mrs. Dorothy Tenant Stanley is two
inches taller than her husband.
Miss Ellen Terry has become the presi-
dent of the Ladies' Cycling club in Lon
don.
Mrs Plumb, the wife of Senator Plumb,
Of Kansas, has been an invalid for several
years.
The Duchess of Portland is endeavor-
ing to revive the wooden industry, which
is carried on in many cottage homes
about Lalgwell
Mrs. Kendall, the popular English
actress, says she has been made an hon
orary member Of every woman's club in
the United States.
The mother Of Miss Willard denies
that the president of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union aspires to a
Methodist bishopric.
Mrs. Isabel Poland Rankin, daughter
of the late Luke p. Poland. has given to
the town of Morristown, Vt. 81 900 to-
ward library which is being estab-
lished there.
! Miss Grace Hartman, an English
woman who has started scheme for
employing women as market gardeners,
has subscribed all the capital for start
ing the work.
The wife of Frederick Douglass deliv-
cred an address on Hayti before col
ored high school in Washington recent
y. her talk being illustrated by magic
lantern views.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Selnple, a grand
laughter of ex-President Tyler, has given
collection Of old oil paintings which
belonged to the Tyler family. to William
and Mary college
Lucy Larcom. the authoress. is super
titious in that she believes it had
)men to speak of her future literary
Hork to evcn her mot intimate friends.
Il did should never 90 ca with it,, Sc
she says.
Comtesse de Mailly Nesle, one of the
1rettiest Of Partisan women, is a pretty
blonde, with an elegant figure and a
lueenly carriage Her hair is of liquid
gold, her eyes are blue, and she is an ac-
;omplished artist and musician.
Miss Virginia Branscombe, prize
nedalist of the National academy, has
oeen engaged by the Prang company, of
Boston, to prepare designs for the Easter
prints, cards and favors Miss Brans-
combe leaves the Harper firm, and com.
mands in her new position a very large
salary.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
THEATRICAL CHAT.

Helen Dauvray has bought new con-
edy entitled, He Held the Proxy" by
Ralph A. WE'LL.
A. NJ. Palmer has appointed Oakley
Hall as his legal adviser in regard to the
purchase of plays and engagement Of
actors in London.
Adelaide Detchon. the actress, has re-
Gently retu ID I'm two months en-
gagement III Swe,.en, where she achieved
a universal triumph.
Leila Lewis, sister of Julia Arthur,
the leading lady of the Still Alarm"
company, is one of the few American
members of Mr.. and Mrs. Kendal's com
pany.
Great hopes are entertained in Paris
for Sardou's "Thermidor. The play
made deep impression when the author
read it to the committee of the Coincide
Franchise.
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Bal
timore, is the name of colored actress
who made her debut in Washington in
1888, and has played Juliet, Desdemona
and Leah with success,
w. j. Seaman writes all of his own
songs, composing the words and music
at the same time. He writes the music
of his songs with the aid of an accordion
which he always carries with him on his
tours.
Maggie Mitchell has secured four
act comedy from Charles T. Vincent,
entitled Lady Tom" She will produce
it with elaborate scenic effects, and her
faith in it is such that she expects to
make it her principal attraction.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12


come in long double strings like ordinary
pork sausages, and are specially intended
for Christmas tree ornaments
A new tangled egg has scored "a great
hit. 1t contains a soft yelk, made of the
whites of eggs baked with sugar and gum,
around which is a shell of brittle sugar,
colored and shaped to initiate exactly a
guinea hens product. yellow bananas"
made of selected fruit, ground up with
sugar and gum, are also being put out in
immense quantities, while apples peaches
and nearly all the other fruits that grow
are reproduced in the same manner, re
tanning all the natural flavor and appear
ance. A queer thing is a big potato of the
peach blow variety that looks fit to put in
a pot for boiling. "Helen's Babies" occupy
prominent place on the confectioners'
shelves. They come in pairs-boy and girl
of pink candy, and have hole drilled in
their heads by means of which they may
be strung up to the Christmas tree.
In very fine candies no attempt is mads
to produce novelties for the holidays. Thu
dainty shapes that sell the year round are
simply turned out in greater numbers
All the novelty is put in the bonbonnieres,
and in these some wonderful results are
achieved 1t is nothing extraordinary for
one of the fashionable confectioners to
show candy boxes costing 800 each. They
are generally made of hand painted satin
and lined with porcelain
a box costing $50 is very commonplace
affair, aud a big importer-for nearly all
these bonbonnicrcs are import ed-tells me
that a single store will sell several hundred
Of these high priced affairs for Christmas
The designs this year are ai1icularly
dainty ~ no demand en-. han, hen. ,rr.t.p
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
lrnings rarely reach 81 a week

1t would make strange contrast If by
some means picture of the candy makers
miserable home could be placed side by
side on Christmas with the home in which
the products of his hands hang heavy from
the gay Christmas tree
In one warmth, light, happiness, a hun
dred candles blazing in the pine boughs
happy faced children pressing about with
their arms full of Santa Claus most ex
pensive offerings In the other, misery,
squalor, dirt; the only signs of Christmas
are the gaping starch molds, useless now
until next year; pale faced, hungry chill
dren, who are so pinched by poverty that
they hardly dare to keep one of the sugar
toys that their little fingers have helped to
make PAUL LATZKA
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12

D. 7. Pulsifer has built new stable
at Morris Park and has called it "Villa
Tenny."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
Something New In Glass.

a new glass invented in Germany is said
to add marvelously to the power of the
microscope, and "a Yale professor announces
the invention of IA perfect achromatic line
Glass has been invented by the new process
in Germany, which it is claimed may be
used for railway sleepers, posts, drain pipes
and tanks. being as tough as cast iron.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
| WONDER.

wonder If died tonight,
And you should hear tomorrow,
You'd mourn to think I'd winged my fight
Above the reach of sorrow.
wonder If you saw dove
The hunters dart outlying,
You'd lure it back with selfish love,
To danger, pain and dying
wonder if you saw flower
Plucked soon in all its spendor,
You'd mourn to think it's one brief hour
Was June and not November
wonder at n lifc's long end,
If weary, spent and driven,
YOU'D mourn to think this one dear friend
Has been so long in heaven.
Home Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-12
SWEETS FOR CHRISTMAS.
THE VAST QUANTITIES TURNED
OUT BY THE MANUFACTURERS.
Boxes of Candies Ranging in Value from
SO to S1OO-The Humble Toilers who
Trees-A Contrast.

In the weeks intervening until Christmas
enough candy will be turned out in the
United States to make a good sized mount
ain. In and about New York alone Christ
mas sweets are being manufactured by
hand and machinery at the rate of 5000, 900
pounds a week, and there will he 70 let up
until almost the very night of Chratmas
eve. For years the holiday candy trais
has been growing at All enormous rate,
but it is the general opinion among people
in the business that times have never been
so brisk as this season. This is due largely
to the tempting shapes that the manufact
urers have given to their Christmas wares.
Among the most striking things in this
line are genuine candy sausages." These
sausages are perfect limitations of the
"Frankfurters. They are made of genu
inc castings taken from the American
porker, and are stuffed with a paste com
posed of sugar gum and cocoanut. They
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-30
TEXAS STATE NEWS.
SELECTED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND STATE SPECIALS.

Good rains at Corpus Christi.
San Saba county instructs for Hogg.
Weimar's new steam fire engine,
hose and hose cart have arrived.
Work is resumed on the Hutchins
tap of the Central Railway.
The canning factory at Sealy is an
assured fact.
A heavy rain has thoroughly soak
ed Beeville.
Philip Sanencis, a worthless Dago,
horribly beat his little boy. The po-
lice of Galveston are after him.
Miss Lucy Harper, of Georgetown,
goes to Nueva Laredo as missionary
in the girls school there.
A negro enters the boarding car of
the bridge gang at Waxahachie and
stole SOS worth of goods.
News comes from the Trinity river
bottoms that the 17-year locusts are
devouring the trees.
A five-year.oId boy is buried under
the falling end of a house at Gonzales
and died Of his injuries.
John Meyer, employed at a saw
mill at Brantley, was run yer and
had a leg broken by q truck.
Chauncey Donaldson, is accidentally
killed by fooling with a pistol at San
Marcos.
The Cotton Belt and the Arkansas
Pass are tussling over the right of
way for a switch from the Cotton Belt
to German and Hubby Mills.
John Walton, a bad negro of Hous-
ton, is killed by officers while at
tempting to escape from a house
in which he had concealed himself.
Jim Tut, a negro, and Juan Cobb,
q Mexican, had some words over
cards at the quarry fourteen miles
north Of BRENNAN, and the darkey
smashed the Aztec's skull with a
club.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-30
.J0SKE BROTHERS
CARPETS AND MATT|NCS.
We have been so busy B~eautifying Homes that delay
has ensued in calling the peoples attention to the Handsome
Array ofrecent arrivals of
Carpets, Mattings,
lino|eum, Etc.

Containing a good many Inducements, Simply Unmatched.
By buying direct from several of the largest Manu-
facturers in Eastern States, enables us to equip ourselves
with the choicest of patterns that a personal selection from a
Multitudinous Variety affords.
We have kept awake to the tastes that accrue to luxu-
ry, and the many new combinations and ideas in Straw,
designers we're so busy producing last Winter, that we are
we'll represented in this seasons inportations of Mattipgs,
You will go a long ways before you find as large an
assortment of Window Shades that will even bear a fitting
resemblance to the Opaque and Holland shades just introduce
ed by us. AS with everything else, we do nothing by
halves, a~ffording us further scope of demonstrating our
business policy to lead, rather than be led by competition. No
trouble to show goods. Facilities for laying Floor Coverings
or hanging Curtains on short notice.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-10-11

The Prospeetor says: Tn conversa- ton with Andy Meham to-day, he stated when asked to give some general information regarding his dealings with Daly, that he had nothing to say. He bought the mines in good faith and was not employed to hunt Daly. He would go to Bisbee and work the properties and considered that the people should be glad to have them worked rather than to have them lying idle"
 Andy's connection with the murderer of W. W. Lowther, acting upon the hypothesis that nthe least said is the soonest mended," was doubtless correct and, perhaps, it was as well that he held his tongue, for the reason that his words would have convinced no one he was telling the truth. The query, however, is easily explained by the evident fact that Meham and Daly met by secret appointment in Pueblo, Colo rado; else why was 1t possible for Me ham to have tracked Daly so many hundreds of miles from where the lat ter assassinated the unoffending Low ther?-when so many of the keenest detectives of the land, guided by nat ural powers, sharpened by prospec- tive reward of S4,5oo for the capture of Dely failed to run him down.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-10-11
>IsG.GovERaeR N 0. nuRPnY's REC.
 0MWESDss .ONs

tFrom his report to the Secy of the Interior
 lst. That m Enabling Act for the l'admission of Arizona as State be passed by Congress at the earliest pos sible moment
 2d That all the public lands within Arizona be donated to the Territory, title to pass upon admission as State,
 3d That all school lands within Ari- zona be donated to tic Territory for school purposes, and provision be made for the selection of good sections in lieu of bad
 4th. That the Apache Indians who are now under military surveillance on San Carlos reservation, be removed from the Territory, and the reservation opened for settlement,
 9th. It is further recommended that all Apache Indians on reservations un- der military guard be disarmed, and that they be prohibited from the pos session of rifled guns and fixed ammu- nition, and that it be made felony for any person to sell or furnish the h. dians such guns and ammunition. under similar penalties as are imposed for the sale of liquor to Indians.
 9th, It is earnestly urged that if the Indians are not removed that the limits of their reservation be reduced and the mineral and coal lands on the reserva- ton be segregated and made available
 Tth. It is requested that Congress appropriate money for the erection of buildings for the use of the public ser vice in Arizona.
 Sth. It is recommended that the pro- visions of what is known as the "Idaho Test Oath" be made applicable in Ari- zona.
 9th. That the act now before Con gress providing for fourth Judge in Arizona be passed,
 10th. That the salaries of the present Judges in Arizona be increased to S5,000 per annum,
 1lth, That the pay of legislators in Arizona be increased to S10 day.
 18th. Thatappropriations be made by Congress to pay the Governors and Secretaries of Territories the amount allowed them by law under Section 1S45, Revised Statutes of the United States, 1878.
 18th. That Congress appropriate n reasonable sum for artesian well boring in this Territory.
 14th. That all public lands within the Territory be surveyed.
Arizona silver belt., 1890-10-11

Articles of incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State, of Illinois, October 7th, creating an Aeronautic Navigation Company, with capital of SEQ, 900, 900, for the construction and operation of aerial vessels for transpor- tation of passengers and freight. The longest recorded aerial trip, twelve hundred miles, was made from St. Louis, Missouri, to Northeastern New York, in 1859, by Prof Wise, accom- panied by William A. Hyde, of the Missouri Republican,
Arizona silver belt., 1890-10-11

People who take the tronble to read the new tariff law Says Washington dispatch to the Globe Democrat will have very poor opinion of the Gov ernment proof-readers. Yet the re- sponsibility for the bad spelling is not on the printing office A new law is printed from the manuscript copy which the President signs. The Pub lie Printer is compelled to follow this copy exactly. He is not allowed to make any corrections whatever in spell ing. Punctuation or phraseology, no matter how palpable or grave such er- TOT may be if it appears in the engros- sed or enrolled copy of the bill, It would seem as if with all the months to perfect the tariff legislation tolera- ably well spelled and well punctuated copy might have been laid before the President for his signature. But the breaks are numerous and unaccount- able. An outsider would naturally at tribute the blunders to the printer, for it certainly does look like careless proof-reading. The fact is, the print ing office originally had these words correct, but had to change them in the printed law to read exactly like the en- rolled copy filed at the Department of State, and these errors, therefore, appear in every one of the 10000 copies which are being published.