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French jew. Celebrating Em.nc,p.t,o. Day

Among the acts OF the French Revolutionists
one hundred years ago. doing away with class
distinction. was decree issued Sept. ~ and
promulgated Sept. %. 170l. which insured to
tho Jews all the rights enjoyed by other citi-
zcns. Yesterday afternoon and evening the
societ6 Israelite Francaisc 3. Rosenstlcl. Presi-
tho centennial OF this emancipation. In the
afternoon there was a promenade concert by
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum band. opening. OF
course. with the Marseillaise. The arrival OF
Coroner Levy. was greeted with Hail to the
Chief" About Z o'clock President IT Rosenstiel
and introduced yiscount Paul D'Abzac. Con-
sul-Gcneral for France. Ho WAS followed by
Levy.
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nsht. /. Heron on the Elevated Railroad.

Men on the Fifty-third street and Eighth
avenue station OF the elevated road Just before
daylight on Sunday heard u whirr and rapid
Tapping OF wings and saw n bird as bic as n
hen trying to rise from tho platform. Agent
Mahoney made dash for the bird. but II was
There he secured It. In tho afternoon he took
4 TO CentTal Park and presented Y to SnGerin,;
the superintendent This Is about the timo
they start to fly to their Southern homes"
The bird, no thought, had become fntigued or
blinded BY tho approaching dawn. The heron
was put in the aviary.
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Real Estate Broker BOdkIu or Brooklyn at
tho Point Of Death.

Real Estate Broker Lawrence =. Bodkin is
lying at the point Of death at his homc 800
Clinton avenue. BROOKLYN. On tho evening OF
July ~ lo attempted to get OF Manhattan
nenrh train as 1t was entering tho Bedford
station. lie stood on th" step Of an open ear.
umbrella This he set on the ground ns n sup
port. Iic miscnlcllatcd tn" motion Of the train.
md the hand Ia Of tn" umbrella struck him in
the side. under tho short ribs. causing very
acute suffering. He is "a years old.
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Divorced by u Police Justice.

Frank Jackson. colored coachman. was
sentenced in the General Sessions yesterday
to year's Imprisonment for bigamy. In spite
OF this explanation:
II done had an idea dat I could oontracr
anodder marriage. Dis here fust lady, oho
had mo M IN Jefferson Market. and dc Judge
tolo me to let , DC lax alone and not 60 peSr
goes and marries his hyah oder lady"
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SIX BIG VH.iLEB.ACKS.
Win tho North German Lloyd Try Them
for Passenger Services

Tor PnssenGer ServtceS
A despatch from London to the Maritime Ex-
change says that tho North German Lloyd line
has advertised for bids from shipbuilders in
Europe and America for the construction OF
six 8.OOO-ton whaleback steamships. The do
spatch does not specify whether tho ships are
for tho passenger service or freight service
At the agency OF the line in Bowling Green Mr.
Gustav Schwah said that representatives Of the
erpool and were pleased with her. He thought
it likely that II tho company had boats Of tho
wha letack type built they would be- used In
the freight service entirely.
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The London Press Association last week published the
averages of the rst 100 crickeers OF England Among
these arc Lord Hawke. H. Miles, S. N. r. Woods X. r.
Key H. 1icwctt. and {. W Wright, tho rest Of Lord
Hawkes. team not being placed At all as far As batting
is concerned: q. W. .lIiily.rd and Woods are
mentioned in tho bowlers list Here Ia the record OF
the players for the Just finished IN England
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he limped to street car, and 81 home, as
Benedick j. Dodkin., Of his mishap and the lnt
ter examined tn" side. which had hcromc con
siderably swollen Tho next:lny DR.. Jnncwny
q New York was callol In. lilo saii tho ac"i-
Guences and advised Mr.. Bodkin to re-,
main perfectly quiet until some, decided
became worse. an! on sept. II tho patient was
called In, as consulting physicians pr, Griffin,
the Br29klyn Commissionor Of Health. md DR..
They pronounced it = case of pertonitls ng-
gTnvGtcl by dropsy OF tn" prriton"al sack.
II has hoen found ncr"ssary t. oprn Mr..
Bodkin's side. Dr. Bodkn said yesterday TO n
reporter:
1T is like n shin at sea which has sprung
a-lcok. w" arcd"lng all wrran To- save him. hut
30 far we have only cen able t. krop him from
sinking. The future holds out littlr hope"
a Natural Disposition Of the Case.
:, Mrs Annie Mcizcnhorn. SO years old. of "a
East Eighth street, was arraigned In Essey
Market Police Court yesterday. She declared
ident Of the United States. Justice Ryan com.
mitted her for examination as to her sanity.
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: .sssss. $40 AOtut..
BOWLING ANALYSIS
V w III NV N ~ NJ
FIRST INNING.
Champion E.e,,sh Cr,eketers.

rmri-es-George Wright OF Boston and George Lane
Of Staten Island
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BEATEN AT THEIR OWN GAME
LORD HAWKES. CRICKETERs TAUGHT
LESSON BIZ PHILADELPHIANs.

Tho Gentlemen OF England Unable 20 Keep
Up Their Batting Streak n the secons
Inning. While the Americans Fuaish the
Opposing Bowiers with Ease-Oniy Two
wichets Lost when tho winning Rua
was MsAe-The Enslishmen Want satis.
motion, and They Will Get IL.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
CORN AND WHEAT

The extremes in values of corn per
acre are S243 32 and Sc 49, Eighteen states
and territories average above SIS Half
of these are east of the Alleghenies and
north of Delaware, and the other half
on the Pacific coast and the Rocky
mountain region. In the former the
cause is found in large yield per acre
and high prices, both the result of de-
mand for consumption by a large pro-
portion of the population engaged in
non-agricultural pursuits. In the lat
ter, the climate is not SO well suited to
maize, and mining and manufacturing
stimulate the demand. Where prices
are lowest, there is either an excessive
production or very low rate of yield
1t requires nearly four acres in South
Carolina to equal the value of one in
New Hampshire, although the soil of
the former is superior to that of the
latter; and it requires more than three
acres in Nebraska, which makes the
highest average rate of yield, to produce
the value of one in the Granite state.
The higher values per acre in wheat
are found in the eastern states. The
middle states and the Rocky mountain
districts generally make relatively high
averages. The entire northwest runs
below the general average, and also
the entire cotton states. in the former
case because of supply beyond con-
sumption, and in the other because Of
low rate of yield. The average rate of
yield for the country, twelve bushels,
is nearly the same as that of Europe.
England, with small acreage, has an
average more than twice as large, while
Russia, with large breadth, averages
scarcely two-thirds as much as the
United States. As population shall in
crease, higher cultivation and soil en-
richment will follow as necessity
This result is beginning to be seen in
the practice of the most progressive
wheat growers, and is shown in the
differences of state averages. Even
the exceptional richness of the western
prairies is fully offset by the fertiliza-
ton and cultivation of relatively poor
soils of the Atlantic coast
AVERAGE PRODUCTION.
In the following table is shown the
average production per acre of corn
wheat, oats, potatoes, tobacco, cotton
and hay for the past decade in each Of
the states producing them. The amount
of tobacco and cotton is given by
pounds, of hay by tons, and the other
products by bushels.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
FARM PRODUCTS.
Average Yield and Value Per Acre
of the Principal Products.
Interesting Statistics from the Depart
ment of Agriculture Covering Pc
riod of Ten Years-Average
Yield for Each State.

A valuable work, entitled the "Al
bum of Agricultural Graphics, has just
been issued by the department of agri-
culture. 1t contains series of maps
showing the value per acre and average
yield of various crops in the different
states for the last ten years, the figures
being based on the results of an in
vestigation under the direction of the
statistician of the department. The ma
tional averages for the crops of ten
years, says the statistician in his intro
duction. show wide range of values
per acre. Tobacco has the highest av-
erage, S6l51. That of potatoes is S3S. "a.
Cotton comes next, Sl5.6S, and hay
S11.0S. The cereals fall below $40 per
acre except barley, which is not grown
in sufficient quantity to meet the re-
quirements of consumption. The fol-
lowing table shows the average value
and yield per acre of the crops named
in the entire country during the past ten
years:
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

A TRAIN containing men on their way
to fight the forest fires in Potter County,
Pa, was wrecked in the midst of the
burning woods and the engine and cars
were destroyed. Eighty or more of the
men were burned seriously and several
are missing.
THE issue Of standard silver dollars
since the 1st amounts to $3.50, 173. The
issue during the corresponding period
last year was $34S,s Shipments OF
| fractional silver coin since the 1st
| amounts to 1888, ,173. The shipments
during the same period last year aggre-
gated S217,409
THE towns of Austin, Costello, Gale
ton and Moore's Run, in Potter County,
Penn, are on the verge of panic, being
threatened with annihilation from for
est fires that seem to form an impene-
trable wall on every side.
GEORGE G. KELLER, aged 81 years and
resident of Pine Bluff, Ark, since
1S47, died on the 11th. Mr.. Keeler has
been Mason since 1853.
MONROE L. RAWLINGS, leading citi-
zen of Union County, Ark, was shot
from ambush on the 10th while return
ing from church.
JOHN PENToN, the noted desperate,
was killed while resisting arrest near
Milton, Fla, on the 10th.
A JURY was secured in the Garrison
81
the 10th. Over 500 jurors were exam
ined and it cost $1,000 to secure the
twelve men to try the case.
COLEMAN MATTHEWS, farmer OF Mis-
sissippi County, Mo-, died on the 9th.
Matthews had pleaded poverty all his
life, but with his last breath he informed
his wife that an old box under his bed
was full of money. The box was opened
and found to contain 81, ,7SO.
FRANK BENNETT and wife are in th
United States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark,
charged with operating blind tiger at
Fayetteville, which is a prohibition
town.
F. W. DORIAN & Sons large frame
tobacco warehouse at Covington, KY,
with 800, 900 pounds Of common tobacco,
was burned on the 7th. Fifty hogshead
of fine leaf tobacco were also consum ed.
The loss is $4,000 and the insurance
$4,000.
THE Southern Baptist Convention
met at Birmingham. Ala. on the Sth.
1t was the largest in the history of that
body, about l,s3o delegates and visitors
being IN attendance,
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

"A Kiev daily describes an interest
ing family of blind peasants living in
the suburbs of Pereyaslav. The head
of the family is strong and healthy
man, aged forty-six years, blind for the
last twenty years, named Semen Romsik.
His wife is also blind. They have one
child, boy about six years old, and
maintain the mother of Semen and the
aged father of his wife. The old peo-
pie do only the housework, while Semen
himself supports the whole family. He
can do many kinds of work. He chops
wood weaves baskets and straw hats,
works as a cooper, winds, ropes, and
constructs Tyres" on which blind Rus
sian beggars play when they walk about
begging in the streets. His principal
occupation is training blind beggars.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
This story of Carlyle and Georg,

This story of Carlyle and George
Gilfllan has recently been put in circu-
lation. The latter author, whose Lit
erary Portraits by the way, was a
great favorite with the young ladies,
was popular lecturer. and is said to
have had pretty fair appreciation of
George Gilfllan. He called one day at
Mr.. Carlyle's and his knock was re-
sponded to by Carlyle himself. As Car
lyle opened the door and stood before
him Gilfillan introduced himself with
a grandiloquent bow, and said: Il
am George Gilfillan and you are Mr..
Carlyle, suppose. / have been lectur-
ing about you all over England" Car
lyle looked at him half a moment and
then, throwing back his shaggy name,
blurted out: ''What the dickens did
you lecture about me for?" and
slammed the door in his face.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHAs. j. DIXON, arrested in New York
city as an insane person for having
threatened the life of Jay Gould, unless
the latter at once paid him certain
sum of money, is the son of the late
Rev. Dr. Dixon, of Hartford, Conn.
The latter died in the insane asylum at
Long Meadow, Mass. State Senator
Dixon is also an uncle of the man who
has threatened Mr.. Gould.
WM. GLASGOW, of Hull, England, has
sold to the New York Land & Irriga-
ton Co. $4,000 acres of land in the
James Tor Dakota) River valley, South
Dakota. The company now has over
100, 900 acres in that locality, and is ar
ranging to irrigate all of it by artesian
wells. "a
CHAs. j. DIXON, crank who said he
was commissioned to kill Jay Gould.
has been confined in the insane ward at
the Bellevue New York city, hospital.
On the Sth Frederick Feisr, editor of
the Columbus (O.) Westbote, from 1s43
to 1884, and at one time editor of the
Cincinnati Volksblatt, died, aged 81, at
Columbus.
On the Sth the Hamburg-American
Packet Co.'S new steamer, Furst Bis
marck, sailed from Hamburg, on her
maiden voyage to New York.
EDWARD MCPHERSON, last surviving
executor of the estate of Thadeus Ste
vens, has fled final account at Lam
caster, Pa, after nineteen years serv-
iee The balance on hand is S5O,349.
IT is stated that President Balmaceda
is arranging to flee from Santiago, and
to sail to London by the way of Buenos
Ayres.
SIGNoR CoRTE, italian consul at New
Orleans, has made himself so obnoxious
in the lynching affair that this govern
ment is likely to ask for his recall.
T. P. O'CoNNoR, M. P, has started a
paper in London called the Sunday Sun.
1t began fairly as to sales, was well
filled with advertisements, and devoted
column to an explanation of its atti
tude toward Parnell, whose shadow, it
says, blights parliament.
| THE premier of Nova Scotia estimates
the expenditures of the province at
S577, 900, or $4,000 in excess of the re-
ceipts OF this expenditure 100000 is
for interest charges.
p II. DOWNING, collector of the port
of San Pedro, Cal, died on the 18th.
| Mr.. Downing is the fourth collector un-
der the present administration who has
died when just entering upon the duties
| of his Office.
| r. CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM, M. p. for
| the northwestern division of Lanark-
shire, Scotland. has been expelled from
| France. for utterances offensive to the
French government, made at a socialist
meeting held in Paris on the 10th.
| THE case of Peter j. Claasen, the New
York city bank president sentenced to
six years in the penitentiary, will go be-
fore the supreme court Of the United
States for final adjudication at the next
| term. Meanwhile he will be released
| on bail.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


SUPERINTENDENT CORNISH of the
Pinkertons' Boston agency is reported
to have stated on the 7th that their eff
forts at unraveling the Barnaby poison
ing mystery had led them entirely out
side of the popular line of suspicion.
The evidence SO far obtained implicated
no certain person. @
JOSEPH BARONDEss, leader of the
striking New York cloakmakers, who
was convicted of extortion, was SEN
fenced to state prison for one year and
nine months.
IT is believed that the great fire in
Long Island City on the night of the
9th caught from spark from casting
made in the Doncaster iron foundry just
before closing for the night.
On the Sth William Noonan, of Wa
basha, Mich, IA years of age, was killed
by being dragged three blocks by a
colt. He had tied the halter strap
around his wrist, and the colt became
frightened and ran. The boy was kicked
and badly mangled, and when the ami
NAL was stopped the youth was found
to be dead.
THE tug Edith, with full cargo of
sugar, was sunk in a collision in the
Patapsco river, near Baltimore, Md, on
the Sth.
On the night of the 9th the south
bound train on the Santa Fe road was
held up by five masked men, supposed
to have been the notorious Dalton boys.
They boarded the train at Wharton, !.
t., detached the engine and express
car. and then proceeded two miles south,
where they robbed the express of all
the money it contained. 1t is believed
that the amount stolen is not very large.
The passengers were not molestcd.
ALMOST the entire business portion of
Manning, Ia, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th.
on the eth the commander of the
revenue cutter Woodbury. reported to
the treasury department that few days
before, while four miles off Pemaquid
lighthouse, he picked up dory con-
tanning two dead bodies The dory was
evidently from large vessel.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the order Of the New York cir
cult court denying writs Of habeas cor
pus in the cases Of the prisoners Woods
and Jugigo, now in Sing Sing prison
under sentence of death by electrocu-
ton.
or the 10th eight men were killed
.ad twenty-five injured by an explo-
ion in the forehold of the British tank
-anship Tancarville. while undergo
/ repairs at Newport, England,
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16


ihfRE is vast accumulation of mat
WIS S requiring attention from the state
apartment just now, and Secretary
na lane will probably be a very busy
@ 4an during the summer. The recent
asuts sss IN the Gillian situation have
.S LED TO the complexity of affairs, and
S;ni s,e Is now long docket of unsolved
IN 1onidVlc problems, as follows: The
tba lan "a and Behring's sea complications.
l.rs Isnadlan reciprocity and Newfound-
tror,I a hsnerles negotiations, the Chilian
vsaoS vieS the Spanish agreement, the
s,..;a eluelan treaty, the Haytien coaling
o~r '.On' m tne refusal of China to receive
nv ".niSter, the trouble over the fail
,os.. % consul at Victoria. B. c., to
Ms S. the queen, and quite number of
tba gr d matters including the claim of
'ne Barrundia family.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

PECULIAR case, known to the med
cal world as aphasia, is being treated
III d. Louis To certain extent such
'dses are rare, but not sufficiently SO
10 oe extraordinary. The patient has
.oSt % the faculty Of expressing his
thoughts in words or writing, while
sun In perfectly sane condition in
e'efy other respect. The unfortunate
man mas all the unpleasant sensations
~ a victim of catalepsy. He is per-
.e'.iy conscious of what people are
a@sing, and comprehends the questions
tp' 10 nm, but, while his thoughts are
on o]s, he can not express reply, either
orally Or in writing.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

Orr Mexican neighbors are making
rapid strides IN material prosperity and
agriculture Is being conducted on more
extended and intelligent lines than
heretofore. Already the expectation of
unrefned sugar to the United States
has begun, and during the present year
there will be a large increase in the
area devoted to farming operations.
The general trade of the country is in
nreasinr daily
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

The country is just now being flooded
with circulars of so-called portrait COM
panies, each person receiving being led
to suppose he or she has been selected
as the recipient of a portrait free in or
oerto influence neighbors. Many reply,
out none receive the enlarged copies of
Photographs sent on unlessthey respond
10 supplemental circular offering a
frame II at a fancy price. The moral is:
Don t bite at speciously-worde cir
culars or advertisements offering to give
something for nothing, or next to moth
Iug; there is usually an expensive catch
TO them.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

THE English papers think that Presi-
dent Harrison's Galveston speech is a
sort of proclamation that zollverein is
to be established in the western hemi-
sphere, with the United States at the
head Of the enterprise. The English
papers might have made an assertion
much wider of the mark, and not tried
very hard either England is in the
habit of looking after her own com
mercial interests, and can not grum ble
if we profit by her example.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

AFTER considerable mud throwing
between Rev. Sam Small and the board
of directors of the Utah university OF
the NJ. E. church, in which, among other
things, the latter declares that the ex-
Georgia evangelist is extravagant in the
use Of university moneys. and does not
hesitate to make himself reveler in
the luxuries of life at the expense of the
funds, and that as subscription raiser
he is a successful failure, Mr. Small has
resigned, declaring that he don't care a
continental what the Utah folks charge
him with.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
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DARING SAFE ROBBERY.
The Cashier Knocked in the, Head and
the Building Fired.

The Cashier, Knocked in the Head and
the Building Fired.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May &c. FL.
Russell, cashier of the Georgia Pacific
freight Office was at work with his
books last night in the Office. The safe
was opened but the building was
locked. The watchman in charge
of the building was the only other per-
son in the place
Shortly before II o'clock the watch
man heard Russell screaming and
rushed to his assistance. Hefound him
near the safe, robbers having knocked
him in the head, robbed the safe and
set fire to the papers The fire had
gained too much headway for the
watchman to successfully fight it, so he
carried Russell to the street and gave
the alarm. The building was gutted
and large amount OF freight do.
stroyed,
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

OK an average at least one woman
loses her life from the ignorant use of
the gasoline stove every week through
the summer months. These stoves are
veT convenient to housekeepers, and
1oafd be perfectly safe in their hands
II they were always careful il, follow
ing Instructions about filling them; but
there are so many persons who set all
ordinary rules of prudence at naught
that the only wonder is that there are
not more such accidents than really
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

IL Secretary Blaine's last communi-
cation to Lord Salisbury on the Behring
sea controversy the British premier is
very forcibly reminded that he should
not seek to enforce one line of action
in one part of the world and directly
opposite course in another locality; in
other words, England can not be law
unto herself wherever size chooses, at
any rate not where the United States
is an Interested party.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

Ix Chilli it appears the government
forces have no trouble in sinking reDel
war vessels by means Of torpedoes, but
when the war is over and the factions
hare settled down to business, where
will the Chilian navy be? Down with
Vcl1iutv. at the bottom of the sea.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16
VOLUME XII.

Is,manufacturing nation the United
c.a+es nassed Great Britain, its only
':r.l more than ten years ago, and the
.acent transfers of British factories to
,,;s side of the Atlantic shows that the
sanntrv is rapidly increasing its lead.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

THE statue of Gen. Grant, to be pre-
ssnted to the city of Galena, ILL.,, by II.
II Koblsaat, of Chicago, at the open
;nr Of Grant park, is to be unveiled
lime 8 prox, and Hon. Chauncey NJ.
nanew. of New York, will deliver the
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

Some men are, in regard to ridi-
cule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard
to hail, all that hits them bounds rat
Ting off. Not stone goes through
Beecher.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

= 'Vh BISMARCK, as chancellor, had
bess s0oa " deal of experience with mem
Of ~ VI the reichstag in his deals in aid
and 0rhan government. The world.
to !. specially William H., is curious
aid salh 1T whether this experience viii
uept ''4 IN his opposition to the govern
Huntsville gazette., 1891-05-16

-Teaches s'What is a synonym"
Bright Boy-'sIt's q word you can use
in place of another one when you dup I
know how to spell the other one"