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, 1890-04-01
A Hello AnnihiIator.

Oae OF the most unique inventions OF
theday is being exhibited in this CITY
namely, a telegraph which gives the
message in the handwriting of the send.
er Instead Of In dots and dashes,
The instrument is small and compact
takes up less room than a telephone.
and, 1t is claimed, has many advantages
over the latter, the most important being
that after two parties communicate with
each other they have a written record in
their own handwritings of the CORE.
spondence. The instrument is placed
upon n stand or desk. and the only part-
OF 1t visible are a fountain pen. a STYLUS
attached to the box and a narrow striu
of paper.
The stylus is taken up, and the act
draws the attention of the central Office.
The operator writes the number of the
instrument of the person with whom he
desires to communicate. He is connected
AMI the narrow strip of paper begins
moving. The stylus is in reality the
means of transmitting the message. 1t
is attached to the apparatus below and
as 1t is moved in the making of loops and
Zines Of the letters in breaks and recon.
meets currents, CARRYING the little foun-
tain pen to make the Identical characters
on the strip of paper before him and also
causing the pen Of the receivers instru-
ment to record the same characters.
When the receiver wishes to reply he
simply takes up his stylus and writes
while the other remains quiet.
The instrument is designed to either
take the place of the telephone or to
work in addition to it. 1t is cheaper, be
ing let out at an annual rental, and,
like the telephone. connected with a cen
trail office. Although probably most use
full for use in cities, tests have demon
strated its practicability for interurban
use, one message having been accurately
recorded 500 miles away, and going So
miles over an ordinary wire with a single
battery.-Ne New Orleans Picayune.
, 1890-04-01
A Big Bullet Story.

One of our prominent ranchers has
been laid up for several weeks with a
very sore foot. caused by what appeared
to be a huge carbuncle on the heel. Mon
day afternoon the swelling broke and an
old time bullet emerged from the tester.
He was a soldier in the rebellion and
was shot in the fleshy part of the leg, be-
tween the hip and knee, at the battle of
Antietam.
The bullet was never extracted, and he
has suffered more or less pain at various
times ever since, the sensation appar-
emily working down the limb as the mis-
sile slowly worked its way toward the
surface. Two years ago his knee was so
lame that he was unable to walk for
some months, and the lameness was
caused by the bullet in its passage by
the joint. He is now rapidly regaining
good health, and has had the relic of the
hot times made into a watch charm
Gridley Herald.
, 1890-04-01

The census bureau sprang up in the
night like a gigantic mushroom. When
Mr.. Porter was appointed superintendent
a few months ago it was represented by
a single individual known in the interior
department as the census clerk" Now
it has 1000 employees in the offices here.
and 40, 900 men will soon be in the field,
not counting the thousands of special
agents. 1t will spend on paper and
printing 500, 900, and for other expenses
nearly So, 900, 900 more-for it costs about
ten cents a head for every man, woman
and child to take the census Of a people.
Finally, it will publish twenty-five vol
umes, and then, like a mushroom, it will
go ou of existence, leaving not a trace
behind save one solitary census clerk
sitting at a desk in the department of the
interior, until the year 1900 shall arrive
and another census shall be in order.
Then the mushroom will sprout again
Washington Letter.
, 1890-04-01

1t has been said by more than one
southern fruit grower that a fortune
was waiting the man who had the
courage to plant a grove of grape fruit
.rees, aud depend on them fora living.
Heretofore there has been no systematic
cultivation of the trees Two on three
rees are planted around the yards or
orchards for ornament as much as for
inytAing else, and allowed 10 take
are of themselves. If Improperly treated,
however, their yield would be much
arger than it is today, and a good
profit could be made from them
Garden and Forest.
, 1890-04-01
Condition of Anatrs AT Louisville.

-
LOUISVILLE, March 2l.-It has been
showing since early last evening and it is
feared will greatly damage goods in the
tobacco districts. A water famine is
threatened in serious earnest. The river
is at such a high stage that the injury to
the pumping station can not be repaired.
The river is still rising. As long as the
Hood continues nothing can be done.
President Long estimates that the reser-
volrs barely hold three days supply.
The last of the dead are being laid away
today.
With four inches OF water soaked snow
slowly melting the situation in the devas
tated district has been gloomy today and
many people tonight are broken in spirit,
though their physical wants are supplied.
Most of the streets IN the district are
ankle deep in mud and water. The worst
result of the wet is not SO much in the
additional injury to property as in the
suffering to i'll protected people. Scores
OF families are protected only by hastily
put up boards or canvass and they are
wet and cold. There is plenty OF food,
however, and the relief committee and
agents are striving in every way to supply
proper protection from the weather for
all. The heavy snow, however. has
greatly retarded repairs in the residence
districts and a vast quantity of household
goods today have been partially or wholly
spoiled by the wet Tobacco warehouses
are pretty well protected and don't think
their loss will be serious.
Mayor Jacobs. in an interview this
evening, said he was satisfied that the
number of those killed outright and those
who will die from their wounds will moi
reach $50.
Three Russian Jews were arrested last
night while setting fire to a demolished
store on Market street in the midst of the
shattered district. The fellows will be
severely dealt with. Besides this there
have been but few criminal attempts since
the storm.
Mrs, Barnwell. whose husband, the
rector Of St. johns church, and his son
were killed. was robbed of all her jewelry
and money and even the body of her dead
husband was not respected, his gold
watch being taken from his pocket.
A late special from Anderson, KY,
says the total number OF killed in Webster
county is forty and of wounded eight. A
relief corps has gone from Henderson.
In Louisville the total number so far
reaches ninety-three and of wounded $50
OF the latter etween twenty and thirty
are not expected to live. Possibly more
than that number will eventually succumt
, 1890-04-01
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Governor Hill has vetoed the SaIton
ballot reform bill.
Listers spinning factory at Bradford,
Eng, burned yesterday. Loss, ECO. 600.
Vice Admiral Stephan, United States
navy (retired). has died of Bright's
disease.
Kemmler has been sentenced to death
by electricity at the Auburn prison during
the week beginning April 2Sth.
Yesterdays temperature-New York
3l0, New Orleans CO. St. Louis Sc. Gin
cinnati $40, Chicago go. Winnipeg 240.
Tie Brazilian government telegraphs
the Brazilian minister at London that the
reports of disaffection in Brazil are I'M.
true.
Michael DavItt has compiled the terms
for the settlement of the Liverpool dock
strike. Both sides agree to resume work
Immediately.
Four men were killed and eight in
iured by the explosion OF a cartridge at
the Coalbury mines, near Birmingham,
Ala yesterday. All were convIcts.
Negotiations have been entered into by
the respective chief officers for the es-
Enlistment of thorough cooperation by
the German and English trades unions.
The New York supreme court this af-
ternoon decided IN favor of Ball Player
John NJ. Ward in the suit against him by
the Metropolitan Exhibition company.
The senate and house committee on i'm
migration has adopted a resolution ap-
proving the selection of Ellis island as the
location OF an immigrant landing station.
Dilworth Choate. the New York re.
porter who secreted himself in the jury
room while the jury was considering the
Flack case, has been sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment and fined $3.50.
The record of the court of inquiry in
the case of Commander McCalla and
other officers of the u. s S Enterprise
was received by the navy department yes
terday. 1t is believed they will be court
martialed.
The court of claims of the District OF
Columbia yesterday gave judgment in
favor of Representative Grain of Texas in
a suit to compel the government: to reim-
burse him for money lost through the
defalcation of Clerk Silcott.
Conrad n. Jordan yesterday resigned
the presidency and dictatorship OF the
Western National bank of New York,
Brayton Ives being elected to succeed
him. The resignation is a great surprise
but 1t is said that there is no friction
among the directors.
Sheriff Flack has been sentenced to
two months in the county jail and fined
$500. Joseph Meeks was sentenced to
pay a fine Of $500 and one months i'm
prisonment in Jail. VIM. l.. Flack,
$500 and Imprisonment 10 the p%eniten
tiary for four months.
A contract has been made between
Guatemala and a French syndicate for
the construction of 2 railway from the
capital to the Atlantic. to connect with
the Central railway running between the
capital and the Pacific, thus com
pleting an inter-oceanic route across the
republic.
, 1890-04-01

The London and North Western
Railway compam. has Il capital Of
t1O5, 600, 600, AN annual evenu of
tlO, 300, 600, and an annual expeudi-
ture of to, 300, 0Ou. The number of
persons employed by the company is
80, 600, and in the locomotive depart
ment IL. 900; the miles operated are
Z, 500; there are 800 stations; 30, 600
signal levers are in use there are ID, 500
lamps lighted every night; there are
| 400 cabins; the number of passen-
gers carried annually is 81, 900, 900; the
weight of tickets issued 80 tons; the
number Of tons of goods and minerals
carried, 81, 600, 900 annually; engine
mileage per year, 55, 525, 334 Once a
Week.
, 1890-04-01

MEMPHIS, March 3l.-The rain has
fallen in torrents since last night. The
river is again rising and probably all the
low lands below Helena will be over
flowed. A break in the lepee occurred
last night at midnight and this morning
it widened 300 feet. There is no
possible way TO close the gap and it may
increase to an unlimited extent. All
plantations are submerged to a certain
extent. and the tenants are leaving with
out saving any effects,
The appeals Greenville. Mss. special
says: The levee north of the city gave
way at noon despite the efforts of the
people. and water poured in upon the city
which had always before been above the
level Of the Mississippi at its greatest
height. The flood is tremendous, a LOCO
ton volume of water pouring in from
three breaks above and spreading out in
all directions, in%undatine plantation after
plantation. which, in the food OF 1882,
were above water. 1t is estimated by en-
gineers hat a large portion of the city
will be flooded and the greatest height the
water will reach In the lower parts will be
three feet. This is greatly feared. The
heavy wind and rain prevailing will cause
the leYees to give way in new places.
The water from the Austin break viii
have an outlet into the Yazoo river which
will inundate a large section of country.
In the Sunflower aud Yazoo river coun-
ties no lives are reported lost aud no ac-
tual suffering is anticipated.
, 1890-04-01
BiackmaiIed by the Fiack Crowd.

New YORK, March 3I.-F. A. Fox,
1877 Montgomery street, San Francisco,
patentee of u car coupler, writes the
Herald of his experience with the black
mallers IN Sheriff Fiack's office. He
ing an interest in his car coupler took out
an order of arrest for him. Deputy
Sheriff McGonigal waited until the night
before securing it and then coolly de,
manded 800 as the price for allowing
Fox to remain at liberty for twenty-four
hours. To a v annoyance and distress
to his wife, who was with him. he was
compelled to pay it and before the TWEEN
ty-rour hours was ended the court declared
there was NJ authority to arrest him
under such circumstances.
, 1890-04-01

MILWAUKEE, March 3l.-Fire broke
out at 9 O'Clock this morning in st.
Joseph's Catholic convent and the entire
building aud contents were burned. Sister
BANKER, finding escape II of, jumped
from a fourth story window and sustained
injuries. Two young candidates. Rose
Minet and Mary Werener. jumped from
third story windows and we're seriously
injured. Two fremen were also badly
hurt by falling walls. All the other in
mates, nearly seventy five in number, sue
ceeded in getting out safely under the
guidance of sisters, who prevented many
young girls from throwing themselves
from the windows in their fright. Loss,
80. 900: insurance. SOL. 900.
, 1890-04-01

There is within a few miles of Hazel
Green, Ky, a bank of clay that makes a
very superior calcimine when dissolved
in water, and if a railroad was running
to the place it could doubtless be made
very profitable. We have seen a wall
washed with this clay three or four years
ago, and it is as good today as when first
put on. 1t will be a good thing for some
man whenever railroads come near
enough to furnish transportation-New
York Telegram,
, 1890-04-01

WASHINGTON. March 3I.-After rou-
tine business Reagan addressed the sen
ate on the bill for the issue Of treasury
notes on deposits OF silver bullion.
The dependent pension bill was then
taken up. The first question was on the
amendment removing the limitation as to
arrears of pensions and making pensions
on account of wounds or diseases, to com
mence from the death or discharge OF the
soldier.
An amendment by Call to include those
who served in Indian wars prior to 1870
was rejected.
An amendment by West providing
that the money to meet the appropriation
under the bill be raised by an income
tax was laid on the table.
An amendment by Plumb to pay a
pension of 80 per month to all who
served ninety days in the late war, who
are 81 years old or as they attain that
age, was rejected l9 to 80. The bill then
passed-yeas AZ, nays II.
, 1890-04-01

New YORK. March 3l.-Stocks we're
exceedingly dull. The general list dis.
played considerable frmness and closed
dull. but steady at slight gains over Sat
urdaY's figures.
Government bonds steady.
Money on call easy, S3CG5.
Petroleum-Market spot, opened steady
at S4B, declined, and closed at "a. The
April option opened strong at S44, ad-
vanced TO S54, reacted and closed at SAL.
Following are closing prices OF stocks
Pacific 6s. lie; American Express, lI3;
Canada Pacific, -; Canada Southern,
545; Central Pacific. 81; Burlington,
1919 Delaware, Lackawanna l. Western,
1853; Denver 4 RIO Grande, l4}; Dem
yer & Rio Grande, preferred. 73.; Erie,
PAT; Kansas < Texas. %; Lake Shore,
10Y; Louisville 4 Nashville. $50, Michi-
gan Central. 97s; Northern Pacific, 81;
New York Central, 1863; Oregon I'm
provement, IA: Oregon Naviga-
ton. 81 Oregon Short Line, All;
Trans1Ontinental, 80; Pacific Mail,
37si Reading, 45!; Rock Island,
9lI; Milwaukee h st. Paul, IS; Texas
Pacific, l95; Union Pacific, 623; United
States Express, Sc; Fargo Express, 40;
Western Union, SI.; American cotton
oil &c.
CHICAGO, March Observation-Disclosures
1900; shipments 3, 500. Market steady.
Beeves, 81 5044.95; steers, 81 25
0G3 as; Texas cornted steers. 81 OOCG
2.7j Stockers and feeders. 50. SOFA 3 O5.
Sheep-Reccipts 1000. Market higher.
Natives, SO 1896 90; western corn fed,
SIS. l0CG5. 10.
The Drousrs' Journal London cable
gram quotes best American beeves lie
per n, &c lower than last week.
Wheat-Msrket easy. March, 5s3;
May, 79t.
Corn-Market easy. March, 2s3; MAY
29f030!.
, 1890-04-01

WASHINGTON, March 3l.-The bill
passed for the disposal, under the home.
stead law. of the abandoned Fort Ellis
military reservation, Mont.
The bill passed depriving United States
judges of authority to give an opinion on
a question of fat.
The house then went INTO n committee
of the whole on the army appropriation
bill. After unImportant action the com
mittee rose and reported toe bill to the
house. The action of the committee in
adopting the amendment providing that
no intoxicating liquors be sold at any can
teen was reversed By the house. The bill
then passed.
Springer introduced a Joint resolution to
retire n. o. Banks, with the rank of
major general. Referred.
Adjourned
, 1890-04-01
STABBED BY SMITH.
Fiddler" Smith,, a Notorious
Newark Tough,
Uses a Shoe Knife with
Fatal Effect.
st. Joseph's Convent Burned to
the Ground.
Two Men Stabbed BY Tougb.

NEWARK. Nj, March 3l.-'Fiddler"
Smith, a notorious tough. rushed into
Herman's hat factory this afternoon and
said to Geo. Hastings: "What have you
been saying about me?' Hastings re
treated and before he SAID a word Smith
plunged a shoe knife into his abdomen,
making a trightful wound. Frederick
Butler attempted to seize Smith and was
himself stabbed in the left breast. Work
men then succeeded in disarmIng the
murderer. Hastings is dead and Butler
cannot live.
, 1890-04-01
A new JUSTICE.
Clarence D. Clark's Nomination
Sent to the Senate.
Dependent Pension Bill Passed
by the Upper Body.
Suicide of a Man Who Was
Elected to Kill the Car.

WASHINGTON. March 3I.-At a special
meeting Of the ways and means commit
tee Chairman Mckinley presented the
Republican tariff bill. The minority will
be allowed ten days to offer amendments
to the bill. According to Mckinley it
will effect a reduction of S45, 900, 900 in
the revenue.
The president sent the nomination to
the senate of Clarence D. Clark to be as-
sociate justice OF the supreme court of
Wyoming.
Among the articles placed on the free
list arc: Uncut diamonds and other
precious stones. fish produce of American
fisheries and fish caught by American
vessels in the open waters of the lakes
which form the boundary between the
United States and Canada, ~currants,
dates, fruit green, ripe or dried.) Not
specially enumerated, opium, crude OF
manufactured and not adulterated. con,
tanning 9 per cent and over of morphia.
, 1890-04-01
An Easter Egg Costing $4,000.

A Partisan firm has made an Easter
egg for a wealthy Spanish lady at a cost
of $4,000. 1t is a most ingenious piece of
mechanism, and is made entirely of pure
white enamel. 1t is provided with doors
and slides, the inside being engraved
with Easter gospels. The opening of a
door sets a tiny bird singing and a mu-
steal apparatus going, which is capable
of playing twelve airs. --Paris Letter.
, 1890-04-01

Scribbler-I have here n little poem
that 1 should like you to keep with a
view to publishing it during the present
spring. l call it "a May Lay"
Editor going to the telephone)-Hello,
Central station! Send the patrol wagon
up here. There's a man disturbing the
public peace.
Scribbler-Why, what do you mean?
Editor-Haven't you been creating a
melee?-America.
, 1890-04-01

The French output of coal last year was
"a, $50, $50 tons, 1885, 9se tons more than
in 1888, and $500, 900 tons more than in
1887. The increase would have been
still larger but for strikes among the
miners in the largest district. The
French are making a greater effort to
take from English miners the Mediter-
ranean traffic.
, 1890-04-01

ST. LOUIS, March 3l.-Twenty inches
of snow fell over an area of loo miles
radias from this city Yesterday; half of this
melted and the rest will melt soon, add
ing to the already dangerous floods.
There Is much suffering among the
flooded districts
, 1890-04-01
Preferred Suicide to Murder.

LONDON, March 3l.-A st. Peters
burg dispatch today to the Daily 7ele-
graph says a man committed su icide yes
terday leaving a letter saying he destroyed
himself sooner than kill the car, he
having been selected by ballot for that
duty. The letter gave the names OF his
accomplices. several of when were ar
, 1890-04-01

New York, March 31.-In the cases
of Deputy Sherifs Martin, Walch and
Young, indicted for bribery in taking
ST00 from Charles Fracklyn. who was
under arrest in 1887. Judge Barrett to-
day discharged the indictments, holding
the acts misdemeanors.
, 1890-04-01

According to a recent official return
the length of the telegraph lines on the
globe is at present about 800, 900 miles, or
20 times its circumference at the equa-
tor,-London Standard.
, 1890-04-01

/ he largest stock of fine brandies. old
WHISTLES. choice hqueurs and super6ne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
, 1890-04-01

The Foochow China Echo says the
losses incurred by tea men during this
season are computed at $50, 00O, 900, and
failures of other traders have amounted
to more than half that sum.-Chicago
Mi
, 1890-04-01

DETROIT, March 3I.-The headless
fragment OF the left side of a mans body,
with n leg attached. was found in the
stream in the eastern part of the city this
morning. No clue to its identity or how
it got there.
, 1890-04-01

Madame AuerbaGh, the Denver COS.
tuner, will be here Saturday afternoon at
Keefe hall annex with a special fine
selection of mask costumes
, 1890-04-01

Get your suits ready for the Maenner-
Choir masquerade April 7, at Keefe hall,
where you can Join in with Prince Carni.
val and have a good time.
, 1890-04-01

No n allowed on the dancing floor
without full mask April I, Maennerchor
masquerade.
, 1890-04-01

Maennerchor masquerade ball as usua
will be the most renowned success it has
attained for years past.
, 1890-04-01

You can get Ellis machine made
French tatfy for IS cents per pound.
, 1890-04-01
TEETH EXTRACTED AND FILLED
WITHOUT PAIN.
what the People Of Cheyenne Say.

March q. lsv0.-I have had five
teeth extracted by Dr.GrHy's painless method.
IL was perfectly satisfactory and positively
Without main. MRS. j. B.. L~EATHERMAS.
have just had twenty-four teeth extracted
by Dr. u. II. Gray Ia less than two minutes
Can %tTuthully say | did not feel a single tooth
extracted, and felt Just as well afterward as
before Miss SELMA LCSDISa.
, 1890-04-01
U ARCHITECTUREI
IL BUILDINGi
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Decorating. etc. Ny %IOo-page Illustrated
CoMSToCB, 20 Warren ST., New York.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-29
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Among those who spent few days
last week in this city none were more
welcome than D. L. Miller, of Los Ger
rillos, N. M. He is an old time New
Mexico miner, and the owner of valu-
able producing coal property in Santa Fe
county. OF course the Bullion Office Was
his headquarters during his stay!
Paso Bullion.
Santa Fe man picked mess Of green
lettuce out of his open garden yesterday
and in some sheltered places the swelling
Of lilac buds indicates that winter is
nearly gone. Truly, Santa Fe can boast
the finest climate on earth.
Letters to the Las Vegas Stock Grower
indicate that there will be very large
attendance at the meeting Of stockmen on
January at Santa Fe.
The annual meeting OF the Historical
society will be held this evening at the
Office Of the secretary, VIM. M. Berger.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-29
Bank Failures.

DENVER, Dec. pa special from
Greeley, Colo, to the Republican says
that Hunter g. West, bankers, made an
assignment to d. b. Sanborn. The firm S
liabilities are placed at $33, 900; the assets
$Yo, 900. 1t is believed that the assets
are placed too high and that the creditors
will have hard time getting their money
San Antonio, Texas, Dec Z9.--fhe
Maverick bank of this city has been
compelled to close its doors after
run of three weeks duration with
liabilities of $S44,l64, and assets OF
$780, ,9l5, rs shown by the schedules of
assignment. The assets while more
than double the amount OF the liabilities
consist largely of real estate aud securi-
ties which can not be realized on lmme-
diately without sacrifice, and the policy
Of the assignee will be to avoid sacrificing
the interest of the creditors by hasty
action.
The Alamo brewery, Maverick Print
ing house, san Antonio Paint company
and Alamo insurance companies, in all
Of which Mr.. Maverick has large inter
ests, are not affected by the banks clos
ing and are heing conducted uninte.-
ruptedly and without any change OF man
agement,