The morning call., 1891-04-05

account of that famous ride notes "the place
where Marks body was hung in chains. =
From "A Story of Old Charlestown.o by
John Goldman, I'd, in New England Maya
zine for February.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The first settlement in Vermont was in
1890.
St. Louis BARRIERS have formed trade
union.
General Wade Hampton participated in
124 battles.
Cincnnati's new charter provides for a
non-partisan government.
Dalton, KY, is infested with mad dogs
which have bitten boy and many head of
stock.
The irrepressible Barnum has opened his
greatest show on eartn" for the season in
New York.
Mrs. ati!da Sewell of Augusta, Me-. aged
96 is one of the most accomplished pianlstS
in the city.
Mrs. marlborough of Lansingburgb, n.
Y, is one of the heirS to a SIS, 100000 estate
in Australia.
Abuer Van Duzen, Schenectady, n. y
cigarette tiend of 10 -incurably insane
State Asylum.
l.. F. Harvey, Pittsbarg-domestic in
felicities-de spondent-rough on rats-exit
--funeral-hnale.
Some sacrilegious wretch has made two
attempts to destroy the Presbyterian Church
at River Forest, Ill.
William Dougherty, brother of the sill
yer-toOgued orator." was recently found
dead in Philadelphia cellar.
The house in which Paul Revere was born
in Boston will soon be demolished and a
tenemenl-house erected on its site.
Mrs. Matilda Cayce (colored) of Hopkins
vile, KY, aged 1903. was recently run over
by train and sustained fatal injuries.
What is supposed to bs the oldest grave
in the world is that Thebes, Egypt, con-
tanning $40 sarcOphagi, inferred in $500, BIC.
1t is stated that the ''oId slave market" at
st. Augustine Fla, pointed out to Northern
tourists, was never the scene Of traffic in
human flesh.
Jabez Hakes, recently deceased at Graf
ton. n. Y, aged 95 was one of the ex-
tremely few permitted to see his great
great-granGchid.
Nearly 10000 bales of silk are awaiting a
market at Yokohama Should this state of
affairs continue the Japanese papers predict
a panic before 1892.
T. r. Oyster Of Ridgeway, Pa. has the
utmost antipathy TO tile bivalVe which bears
his name, the odorS from a fragrant stew
making him deathly i'll.
Isaac Meredith of Mon ticel lo, Ill.,, af-
flicted with dropsy, has been relieved of
324S pounds OF water i'll the past three years,
being tapped every five days.
A letter written by Captain Nathan Hale,
the American martyr spy of the Revolution,
was sold for Sl275 at the recent LafhngWeu
autograph sale in Washington.
The new North Carolina revenue law
taxes all incomes. The clause was surrep-
titiousiy inserted in the bill, and it will
probably be repealed by the next Lsgisla-
ture.
The champion pie-eater comes to tn front
in the person of George White, a imam and
brother" of Kansas City, VINO got outside of
twenty-Dine Of the indigestib articles i'll TWO
hours.
Mrs. Erwin and Mrs. Supplee, eighty v
eight-year-old twins, live near Philadelphia
and enjoy excellent health. The latter owns
considerable property and acts as her own
inancer.
Anti-tobacco advocates viii be somewhat
interested in the fact that Hugh ST. Clair is
dead at Griffith, w. Va, aged no, alter be-
Ing tens inner OF the weed In every form
all his life.
Mrs. Christina Colehamer, a recent vic
tim Of the grippe at Eagle Mills, n. Y, WAS
81 years old. Previous to her death four
generations inhabited the house in which
she resided.
Alligators are slowly disappearing from
Southern waters. They have greatly
y
predict thai they will become extinct in less
than ten yeaiS.
A fierce battle between three dogs and
two grCund-nosS recently occurred near
Lawrenceburg, Ind, IN which one of the
former was killed, but the surviving dogs
eventually We're vlct0rS
The latest craze in Louisville society is
marble parties" in which the girls play
the game like children. The Sterner sex Ia
strictly prohibited from participating i'll or
even Witnessing the pastiine.
Carl Steckelman, a poor Indiana boy,
went to Africa lew years ago aud is now
at the head uf a large trading station. He
has learned the tlote language, and is
anxious to follow in SANKEY'S footsteps as
an explorer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dulany of Virginia while
on their bridal tour were badly injured i'll
a railroad accident, and lave just been dis
charged from Pfttsburg hospital, where an
enforced honeymoon OF three months dura-
ton was spent
generally accepted assertion that an indian
never forgets FAVOR nor forgiyes an injury.
They say tHat the red mans trucutent pro-
eliv,tieS do not exceed in Intensity those OF
the average white man.
The application Of modern mechanics has
accomplished the removal to another foun-
dalton of an immense brick residence OF an
estimated weight of $4,000 tons at Chicago.
This stupendous achievement was effected
without disturbing tue occupants.
London saleswomen receive from 500 to
$3.50 year, in addition to board and lodging.
They report for duty at 8 o'clock IN the
morning aud leave at an early hour in the
evening. Their labors are said TO be much
lighter than those OF American girls.
Mrs. Annie Green of New York is of
Amazonian proportions, aud invariably
gives her husband good thIashing when
he comes home late from work. He has
tacitly become recOnciled to this novel pro-
cedure, and is seldom tardy unless drunk.
Matthew Nal, Troy On. W employing
carpenter, has receiver letter demanding
eight hours dis days labor, the Signature
to which is skull and cross-boneS. The
writer threatens TO drive him out of the
business if his demands are not complied
with.
1t is not generally known that postage
stamps range IN value from l cent to $50.
That commanding the latter price is pasted
upon the stub of the receipt as a voucher
for magazine and newspaper postage,
which is paid for by the pound. The stamp
is not transmitted by mali.
William Young of Philadelphia, aged II.
q member of the manual training school
of the Young Mems Christian Association,
gave the class yell as he emerged from the
building and was arrested by policeman,
who was severely censured by the Mayor
after an explanation had been made.
8 device for use in poStoffices has been
invented which cancels the stamp and
prints clean and distinct postmark, ac-
curately dated. Tue machine is run by
two men and its capacity is from 1900 to
2o,0G0 letters an hour. Heretofore the
average work of stamper has been about
1000 letters IN ten-hUur day.
Pennsylvania officers have unearthed an
extensive factory of - tile queer" near Co
IumbuS, where limitations OF silver dollars
were the chief production. Chauncey
Marble, farmer, is the head of the gang.
Marble was arrested some three years ago
for running an Illicit still, but pleaded in
nocence of the law and was discharged.
Conductor John w. Houghtaling, who had
cnarge of the Lake Shore train wrecked near
Buffalo about year ago, is dead. Several
lives were lost by the accident, and Honest
john" as he was termed, was indicted for
maIlsiaughter, but was acquitted. His
friends say that the disgrace OF his arrest
caused broken heart. He had been in the
roads employ some thirty years, and was
highly esteemed.
During the recent municipal campaign in
Chicago, Carter Harrison, ex-Mayor and
the defeated candidate for reelection, was