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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
RAILWAY EARNINGS POORER.
CABLE SPARKS.

THE Popes health IS said to be better now
than for long time
THE French government is purchasing
wheat and other grain i'll Italy.
THE Pope is writing an encyclical condemn
ing the agitation FOR a divorce law in Italy.
THE Italian government has recognized the
iunta as the established government In Chlll.
THE Gillian authorities have purchased
the Italian manof-war Aquila, which has
been transformed into cruiser.
THE village of Refel, in the Tyrol, was de-
stroyed by fire, during the absence OF the IN
habitants at a religious festiyity.
THE French government has instructed the
French minister at Santiago 20 recognize the
provisional government Of Chill.
CARDINAL RAMPoLLA, papal secretary Of
state and Monsignor M0cenni his assistant,
have asked 10 be relieved Of Office.
A BAND of brigands attacked the railroad
station at Pavlokiol, near Adranople, Tur-
key, and afler shooting two soldiers on duty
captured tie station.
THE steamship Fuerst Bismarck, of the
Hamburg American Line, made the run from
New York to Southampton, Eng, in 8 days.
u hours and IS minutes, the fastest on record
between those two points
A RENEWAL of the storms and floods have
done more damage in the province OF Toledo,
Spain. It will require two million pesetas 10
repair the streets and buildings Of Almeria,
capital OF the province.
THE King and Queen Of Romania Carmen
SYLVIA have lett Vienna Tor Lake Maggiore,
in Northern Italy. The Queen was so weak
thar she had TO be carried to the railroad car
rage while seated in chair.
A MEMORIAL 10 the memory Of Christopher
(Ki) Marlowe, the English dramatist, who
was killed in a tavern in London, in 1898 was
unveiled by Henry Irving, the tragedian, near
the Canterbury Cathedral.
THE committee formed with the purpose Of
securing the release o, Mrs. Maybriek, the
American woman imI ris0ned in England on
acharge of poisoning her husband, has retain
ed the services Of Sir Charles Russell and Sir
Horace Dayey in order to test the legality Of
Mrs Maybrick' detention in prison.
CHIEF Officer james Thompson, Of the
British ship Orange Prince, now at Dartmouth
England, has been presented with handsome
gold medal on behalfof the President OF the
United States as a reward for rescuing the
crew 1.-THE American ship Amanda g. Parker
in January last.
THE Earl Of Dudley was married to Miss
Rachel s;uerney at Trinity Church. Sloane
street, London. The Earl is "a years old in
clined to lead a sporting life, and has been re-
garded a. the greatest catch in all England.
He is the owner Of an immense estate and n
string OF the most magnificent sappbires in
Europe. His wife's mother was dressmaker
of gay procIeviiies. Her daughter was ad pit
ed by the Duke Of Bedford and his wife, Woo
gave the young lady fl0o,00O as a marriage
Doftfpu
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
FAMINE IN RUSSIA
Distress Caused by the Crop Failure
Other Foreign News.

Distress Caused by the Crop Failure
Other Foreign News.
Reports received from TamboE, Russia, and
It's adjacent provinces announce that the
zemstyos have provided for the resolving Of
the land and 70 furnish supplies Of grain until
January next. After that date there will be
the greatest difficulty to ensure food for the
people. As the collection Of taxes is impos-
sible. the salaries Of the local administrative
bodies have necessarily been suspended Even
u the funds to supply grain are obtained, the
distribution, which viii be over wide famine
tracts, viii be difficult, and the maintenance
OF hospitals. schools aud asyiums is ubtfnl.
The scarcity of oats and hay is compelling
the farmers to sell their live stock at mock
prices. For instance, horse for two reuhles
a COW for three roHbles aud colts for from ~
to 80 copecss. After a recent county fair in
one district. the skeletons Of 30 horses were
found by the roadside. The animals had been
killed for their skins.
DestItution IS also staring in the face large
number of people who have been employed
upon public works, as work upon the latter
must stop when the fros set 10. The masses
of the people rely entirely upon the govern
ment to help them This being the state Of
affairs in the present mild weather. the gloomy
prospects held out by the coming winter can
be readily imagined
At an extraordinary meeting of the anthori-
ties of the government of Saratof. lust held,
it was decided to petition the imperial govern
ment to prohibit the expectation Of oats and
millet as well as that Of rye.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
TEST CASE FOR CHINAMEN.


Must They BE sent to China Direct, Or
where They Last Came From
On July 81 United States commissioner at
Detroit, in the case Of ChinamaB fund
uDlawfully in the United States ordered him
to be returned 70 China, o. being the country
from whence he came. The ease was appealed
the District Court, and the Treasury
Department receive dispatch from Mr. II.
G. TiIlman, the special deputy collector at
Detroit, saying that Judge swan lad reyersed
the decision Of the commissioner, and found
that Canada was the country from which the
man came and had directed his return there.
The deputy collector asked II there we're any
instructions and in reply Acting Secretary
SpaBiding telegraphed that In case the China
man referred TO in his telegram came before
the court on habeas corpus proceedings, 70
request the district attorney TO take an appeal
II the proceedings se.e under the Exclusion
act Of September 1885, the decision VIII De
regarded a. final.
Al the Treasury Department, with The in
formation now before 1t, the decision j. re-
garded 40 one Of great importance, and u il
said the practical effect Of il, If the proceed
ines at Detroit we're under the Exclusion act,
will be to render imperative the provisions Of
thst aei. The Attorney General has hereto
fore decided that under the provisions Of the
late Exclusion act the country whence the
Chinaman came means 'China, and the de-
partment has been sending all Cinnamon con
Tieted Of being unlawfully in the United
Staie e. back to that country. TIE Canadian
government leyies head tax Of so upon sli
Chine arriving in that country. end there
is nothing to prevent them when once IN
Canada from coming over the unprotected
border into the United States In large
numbers.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
RAIN.MAKING A sue CESS.
What Mr.. Ellis Saw and Tdt in the
Upper Air.


Upper Air.
A despatch from FL Paso, Tex, says; Mr..
Ellis, of the rain making party, who went up
in balloon to measure the humidity of the
atmosphere, got down sifely. When he was
about mile up and three or four miles from
the starting point Professor Kessler exploded
some halt dozen charges of dynamite. These
charges were small, four sticks Of the ex-
plosive, weighing, each, one -halfpouud, being
set off at a time.
Said Mr.. Ellis: 81 felt the effects Of this
explosion. First, | saw the puff Of smoke.
few seconds later came the dull, deadened
reports, and, to my great surprise the side of
the balloon nearest the scene of the explosion
collapsed slightly, with sharp crack. The
folds continued to culver and vibrate from
the effects of the shock for several seconds
after If that does not couelusiyely prove
that explosions cause commingling of upper
air currents, would like to know why, and
If the conclusion resultant upon that charge
of only I 70 pounds of dynamite should pro-
ducc such results, What must be the effect on
the currents when we touch off one Of those
balloons containing so cubic feet of one Of
the most powerful Explosives ever invented.
My instruments worked perfectly, and the
data ] obtained is already on my record"
When the bombardment commenced the
sky was perfectly clear, but at three O'Clock
in the afternoon clouds began to gather an
hover in the low edges Of the horizon. though
the sky overhead was clear at Z. NJ. The
city is crowded with people from Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas and Old Mexico, who
came to witness the experiment, and the great
battle was witnessed by thousands of ps.sle
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
LieOrice Plants.

The British consul at Bussorah 10 an
Interesting report on the growth of the
licorice plant on the banks of the Tigris
and Euphrates, says that these great riy-
ers, in the part where the root is found,
flow through fiat, treeless praires of un-
cultivated and nearly uninhabitei land
For three months of the year hot winds
blow and the temperature reaches 104
degrees. For six months the climate is
moderate and salubrious, and for three
months bleak and wintry, the thermom-
eter going down to thirty degrees at
night.
The licorice plant is small shrub,
with light foliage, growing to about
three feet high, where its root can reach
the water. 1t grows without any cult
walton. No lands are leased for the pur-
pose, and no objection is made to its
being cultivated. 1t is found in abuud-
ance from Cteslphon, ten miles from
Bagdad, down to Kut-ul-kuary, half way
between Bussorah and Bagdad 1t
grows on red earth soil, aud also on light,
almost sandy soil, where the wood is
best, provided it has plenty of water, and
the ground is not more than fifty yards
from the actual river or stream.
Only one firm works it in Bagdad, and
it is well known that the business is
prosperous -one. The wood, after be-
ing dug up and cut, grows again better
afterward. The time of collecting is,
generally speaking, during the winter,
but it is possible all the year round. The
root when dug is full of water aud must
be allowed to dry, a process which takes
the best part of the year, especially in hot
weather. 1t is then sawed off or cut into
small pieces six inches to foot long.
The good and sound pieces are kept, and
the rotten ones are used for firewood
1t is then shipped in native river
boats to Bussorah, whence it is shipped
in pressed balls to London, and again
from there to America, where it is used
largely in the manufacture of tobacco.
The Consul thinks the trade is capable of
expansion. The demand in America is
great, and shipments are easily disposed
of. After sorting there still remains
some useless wood in the bales, perhaps
seven per cent. From figures supplied
by the Bagdad firm engaged in the bust
ness it seems that the total net cost of a
ton of licorice root laid down in London
is about S20.-Load0a Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
TWO MEN HANGED.
One in Texas, One in Georgia---1heir
Grimes.

One in Texas, One in Georgia---1heir
Crimes.
Il. II. Duncan was hanged at Eagle Pass
Texas. His crime was the murder of the
Williamson family Of fSur persons, of San
Saba county, Tex. The bodies were found
floating in the Rio Grande, seven miles above
Eagle Pass, with stones tied 10 them All had
their skulls crushed, and two of the women
had strings tied around their threats This
occurred about the middle OF February. 1889
SAVANNAH, GA.-Albert Morea, alias Grant
Kitchen, the negro wife-murderer, was hanged
hert. The hanging was private, and was Wit
messed by less than. dozen peopie-offcers OF
The jail physicians and newspaper men.
Kitchen kept his nerve to the last He was
tapized ba n coiored Baptist minister, and
proiessed to have received pardon for his sins
Ills neck WAS broken. Kitchen confessed the
killing OF his first vile ia 1889, and his second
wife IN April last. Both murders were bar
barous in their character. lie cut his frs,
vifes throat from ear 10 ear nearly seyering
the head. His second wife he killed in B
similar way. holding her under his knees on q
doorstep while he drew the razor across her
throat Both murders were eommitteI through
Jealousy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
How Vessels Go Through suez Canal.

The average time of transit by day is
twenty-four hours; by night with cleo
trio lights it is nineteen hours, and has
been done in fifteen hours. In order to
navigate by night, vessel must light
the way by carrying an electric projec-
tor at her bow as close to the water as
possible, and pay the closest attention to
the orders from the passing stations or
cares. Three white lights shown verti-
cally indicate ''slow down." then the
display of two white lights is the order
to stop and haul into the gare. The
steamer presently hauls in, makes fast,
puts out all lights aud lies snug in her
berth alongside the desert, while the on.
coming vessel, looking like locomotive
at night passes by. One waite light
from the gare and lines are let go, and
the journey continued until Suez is
reached. -lScri6aer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
FOR REMEMBRANCE.

1t would be sweet to think when we are old
OF all the pleasant days that came to pass;
That here we took the berries from the
grass,
There charmed the bees with pans, and smoke
uurolled,
And spread the melon nets when nights
were cold,
Or dulled the blood-root in the un ierbrush
And marked the ringing of the tawny
thrush,
Whilfall the west was broken burning gold
And so bind with rhymes these memories,
As girls press pansies in the poets leaves
And find them afterward with sweet surprise;
Or treasure petals mingled with perfume,
Loosing them in the days when April
grieNes;
A subtle summer in the rainy room.
-DuHc1H CampbsH Scott, IN Scribncr.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26

cnance. He'd have nailed him. Every
one says that Markson has made an
awful null of it, and now the fellow has
got clean away, no one knows where.
Who's the best man now2 You can't
say much for your side, Tom. "
AS watched him stride away toward
the park, thought; "Yes, but thank
God, Smollett did not get the chance. ?"
The Strand Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26

ENocH PRATT the Baltimore banker and
phi,anthrop;st, has just celebrated his SD
birthday. He has never wsrn glasses, walks
four or five miles every day and says that al.
though he has worked hard since boy of Is
years. when he began his career as clerk in
Boston, he feels as young and active to-day
as be did fifty years ago He has never suffer.
ed a days sick ness in his life
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26
BROTHER AND SISTER KILLED.
struck by an Engine and Crushed to Death,
A Companion Escapes.

A Companion Escapes.
A pay train on the Ohio River Railroad,
containing the president Of the road, pay
master, and other officials, while passing
Sherman, g few miles below Psrkersburg. W.
Va, struck a blackboard containing Lewis
Parker, his sister Alice, and Mr.. Bailey.
Parker and bis sister were carried on the
pilot Of The engine across the bridge before
falling Of.
When picked up both we're lifeless, having
been crushed TO death. Bailey jumped of
just as the engine struck the wagon, and
escaped with severe bruises. Neither Of the
horses were injured.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26

Mr. CARL KAHLER's great painting Of
Nine. Bernhsrdt as Cleopatra, together with
a number Of paintings Of the volcanic regions
OF New Zealand by the same artist, i" is now
On exhibition in San Francisco.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-26

A SYNDICATE of German capita lists is hes
ing formed in Hamburg, Germany, with The
purpose of constructing new large abattoirs at
Chicago 90 that it my be possible for the Ger
man capitalists 10 control the importation of
American pork into this country.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-31

Transfer of Control to the Brice-Thomas
syndicate-New Officers.
fBy telegraph to the Dispatch.I

fBy telegraph TO the Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, March 30.-The committee
consisting of John Greenough and General
Samuel Thomas completed the examina-
ton of the Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago property last week. John Green
ough, who attended to the examination of
the finances, returned on Thursday and
General Thomas. who examined the physi-
cal condition of the companys road re-
turned on Friday. The directors of the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago met
to receive the report of the examination
on Friday, but there was apparently some
hitch. for no announcement was made by
the syndicate as to whether the syndicate
would carry out the agreement to advance
the 81, 900, 600 necessary to relieve 1t from
its pressing debts. The directors met
again Saturday, but without action. To-
day the syndicate announced its readiness
to make the loan. and in accordance with
the conditions already agreed to the entire
board handed their designations over TO
John Greenough. A recess was then taken,
after which the board reconyened.
NEW DIRECTORS AND NEW OFFICERS.
The designations of eight of the old
board were received and the following
new directors were elected in their places:
General Samuel Thomas, John Greenough,
lalNln y. DTlct. IIuuh n. OluIHlS, ohulcS
L. Grannis, w. A. G. Even. and Z. r. Sib-
ley. The old directors who hold over are
W. L. Breyfogle. II. II. Campbell, John b.
Hughes, Hubert b. Shaw, and +. ID. Haw-
kins. DR.. Breyfogle resigned from the
Office of president and General Thomas
was at once elected to succeed him as
president of the company. John Green
Ough was elected yice-president, and DIR.
Breyfogle was then made assistant to
President Thomas. After the directors
meeting was over the Vice-President stated
that it would continue to be operated as an
independent system and that its alliances
with friendly connections would be con-
tinued. Nothing in the way of forming a
new traffic agreement was done at the
meeting, but the resolution authorizing
the classification of directors was rescind-
ed. 1t is stated that the syndicate Obtain
ed control not by buying the bonds, but
simply by lending $2,OO00 900 on S2,s00,0
of treasury bonds and 81, 100000 in stock.
1t is also stated that the East Tennessee
Company provided Sl,2OO,OOO of the total
loan.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-31
MANCHESTER IN BRIEF SPACE.
Personal and Other Items of Interest from
Across the James.

The Easter celebration at Meade-Memo-
rial Sunday school day before Yesterday
afternoon was largely attended. Every
Beat in the edifce was filed and many bad
to stand up. Quite an entertaining pro-
gramme was presented.
The Swansboro' Mission school, which
attended, filed into the church with pretty
banners, and each class made an Easter
Offering. Rev. j. j. Ciopton closed the
exercises with short address.
There was an Easter-hunt at the Presbv-
terrain church yesterday at o'clock. The
children greatly enjoyed looking up hid
den Easter eggs.
The revival services at Fifth-Street Meth
odist church have been discontinued. The
church had two additions SUNDAY night.
Mr.. George w. Schofeld died Sunday
morning at 8 O'Clock at his residence on
Fifth street. He was twenty-seven years
of age and leaves wife: was member of
the Official Board of Fifth-Street church.
and an employee of the Richmond and
Danville railroad shops. The funeral took
place yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock from
that church.
The Mayo's bridge street-car line expects
70 have the cars running TO Seventh and
Hull streets by the LIST of MAY, and by
June the LIST to Twenty-second and Hull
streets.
The Alert Fire Company had ball last
night at the Odd-Fellows' Hall, corner of
Eighth and Hull streets. The Committee
OF arrangements consisted of Messrs. w.
Il. Smith, James Osterbine, w. L.. Timber
lake, w. NJ. Muller, II. III. Crooks, j. A.
Lipscomb. Jr.. and J. L. Baugh.
The Richmond and Danviile railroad
shops were closed yesterday.
The Democrats OF Matoaca have nom-
mated l.. W. Belcher for oyerseer of the
poor,
Stuart Lodge, No. 141. of Odd-Fellows,
have elected j. r. Green representative
and q. w. Blankenship alternate to
the Grand Lodge of that order, which
meets in Richmond next month.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-31
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Danger of Fresh Outbreak BoInted Out
[py telegraph % One Dispatch. J


Providence, II. l., March 9O.-Mr. Eu-
gene Il. McAuliffe, of this city, yesterday
received letter. dated Pine Ridge Agency,
March Esd. from Rev. Father Francis III. j..
Craft, the Indian missionary. who pre-
dicted the recent Indian troubles and who
himself was shot at Wounded Knee.
In the communication Father Craft
earnestly points out the danger
of more serious trouble unless the Indians
are placed under control of the War De-
partment He says, III part; AS the case
stand now the cause of trouble still ex-
lists, and Indians and whites are at the
mercy of any rascal who finds 1t to his in
terest to annoy and anger them. The only
thing that stands in the way of speedy
and permanent settlement OF all difficult
ties by the immediate transfer OF the In
dams to the War Department is the desire
of politicians TO retain plunder AS these
politicians are public servants and in our
power, We, American citizens, should use
that power to turn them out of the offices
they have abused to our loss and disgrace.
With the people rests the remedy, and on
them will rest the blame il they do not
bestir themselves. Every word that l have
said for the past year has been verified,
and more than verified, and think it Is
now time for Americans to say what they
are going TO do. The American peopie are
responsible. if they fail to act at once, ior
the evils that will certainly follow. Heaven
grant that may not now be making another
prediction TO be lightly disregarded and
terribly VERIFIED II the Indians are not
to be transferred TO the War Department,
but are 10 be further robbed and abused
suppose must prepare for another dose
OF lead and steel, which will. hope. DO
more effective than the last. am heartily
sick and tired OF witnessing miseries that
csnnot correct and sharing the sufferings
Of unfortunate indians and brave soldiers
who are forced into conflict, and then
slandered by the cowardly politicians who
slaughtered them.p