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, 1891-01-07
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PUBLICATION

IT is hereby made known that from the 9Th January next
Postal Parcels not exceeding 10 lbs. Danish rs Kilos) in
weight may be exchanged between the Danish West India
Islands and the United States of America. The transmis.
sion is direct, by means of the vessels at any time convey
ing the mails between the Danish West India Islands and
the United States of America. thus however that until further
notice Postal Parcels from the. Danish West India Islands are
to be transmitted via ST. Thomas.
The postage on the parcels despatched in the Danish
West Indies is prepaid with Danish West India postage
stamps as follows:
For a parcel not exceeding oo6 grams e English pounds
I'D weight -. go. 20 cts.
and tor each additional 458 grams, q English pOund) or frae-
tin thereof IL cents.
On arriving parcels a deltvery@e of 10 cents per parcel
whatever its weight. is collected from the addressee.
The parcels must be so wrapped Or enclosed as to permit
their contents to be easily examined by Post Masters and
Customs Officers; the following articles are prohibited adj
mission to the mails here treated oE:
Publications which violate the copyright laws Of the
country of destination liquids posons, explosive, or inhamma
BILE substances, fatty substances, those which easily liquefy;
live Or dead animals, not dried insects, and reptiles; con
fectiOns. pastes, fruits and vegetables which will easily de-
compose, and substances which exhale q bad olor; lottery
tickets or circulars; all obscene aud immoral articles; other
articles which may destroy or i'll any way damage the mails. or
injure the persons handling them.
A letter or communication of the nature of personal c,r.
respondence mast not accompany, DO written upon or enclosed
with any parcel. y
No parcel may contain parcels intended for delivery 1T
an address other than the one borne by the parcel itself
Tie sender OF each package shall make a Customs De-
claratioD. posted upon o attached to tire package upon 3
special Form provided for the purpose, giving u general de-
scriptioD of the parcel, an accurate statement of its contents
and value, date of mailing, and the sanIers signature amt
place of residence, and place OF address.
The Post Office Department of either oF the contracting
countries will not be responsible for the loss or damage of
any package, and no indemnity can consequently be claimed
by the sender or addressee in either country.
the 27th December 1890.
c.. Fl. ARENDRUP.
, 1891-01-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

nET bekiendtgj5res herveh, at fra den ste Januar 1891
ID kunne PostpakkeT indtil Ell v@gt af 1O% dansk Is Kilo)
udvexles menem de dansk-vestindiske Ger Og de Forentde
Slater at Amerika. Forsendelsen skier med de Skibe, der til
enhver It'd bes6rge den directe Udvexing af Poster melEem
de dansk- vestindiske Ger og de Forenede Slater Of America.
dog saaledes at indtl videre al Forsendese af Postpakker fra
DaDsk Vestindien eker via st. Thomas.
Portoen for de fra dansk. vestindien sesenote Parker
forudbetales med dansk vestindiske Postfrim@Fke efter f6lgen-
de Taxi:
For en- Pakke like overstigende COG Gram, e engelske
Puno) 20 cts
deraf 10 cents.
Pa de Parker, der ankomme herti, opkrmves hos
Adressaten ct Ezpeditionsgebyr af 10 cts per Pakke ud9D
Hensyn til dens V@gt.
Pakkerne skulIe vmre indpakkede eler ttIlukkede saaledes,
at deres Indhold let kan undersoges af Post. og Toldv@s~
nets Functionairer, hvorhos fogende Gjenstande ere %udeukkede
fra den heromhandede Postudvexling:
Tryksager, der krenke Bastemmeseslandets Ehertr> ks
love, fydende Sager, Gifte, exploderende OK let anteudrIse
stofer, FedtstOfer, let smelende stofer; levende og doIe Dyr,
like t0rede Insekter og Krybdyr, Sukkervarer. klebrige Shgr1,
Frugter og VegetahiHer, der let gaa Forraadnrlsr, iIde-
lugtende Sager; Lottersedler eller. circuairer; allie rtugtige
og umoralske Gjenstande, saa Og Sager, SON pAa en eiler
anden Made kunne 0deI@gge eler beSkadigo Pns!en Filler
foruIempe dem, der have med den at gj5re.
Breve eller private Meddelrlser maa like Iedsage, ware
Akrevne paa eller indlagte nogen Pakke.
1ngen Pakke maa indeholde Parker bestemte til Udlevrr.
ing eter anden Adresse end P~ostpakkens egcn.
Asenderen af enhver PAkke skal udstedo ZEN Told
declaration, paaklebet eller vedhefet Pakken, affatct i len
herfor bestemte Form, og indehoIdende en- mldstandig
Beskrivelse af Pakken, en-. noiaatg Angivese at dcns Ind
hold og V9rdi, Datum for dens IndIevering til Postbe.
s0rgSlss SAINT Afsenderens Unlerskrit og BopeI tAisemed
Pakkens AdreSse.
Ingen af de kontraherendR Landes P0stbeStyrelSpr vii
ware ansvarig for Tab eller B~eskadigelse at EN- Postpakke
og Skadeserstatning kan f0lgehg hverken af AfSenderep
eHer Adressaten forlanges noget af dc tvende Landr.
Commencement for de dansk-vestindske Der, ST. Thomas
den eide December 1890.
Oh ARF\DRUP
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g. The contending horses were

this morning. The contending horses were
evenly matched.
First Race-Five furlongs. DIR. Has
brouck got the lead at the start. and Won
easily from Mabel Glenn. who beat Tor
mentor n length and q half for the place.
Time, 1:01.
Second Race-Seven f~urlongs. Lady Pull
sIfer made all the running. and won in q
hard drive by a neck, from Versatile, who
beat Gertie d.. by q short head for the place.
Time. 100.
Third Race-Five furlongs. Cottonade
won without an effort by two lengths, from
Fauvette, who. by dint of Hooker's hard
riding. managed to beat Money Maid q neck
for the place. Time, los.
Fourth Race-Six furlongs. Belle dor
came through and simply cantered away
from the others and passed the post three
lengths ahead of Marie Lowell, who beat
Blue Rock half q length for the place.
Time. 1:16.
Fifth Race = Seven furlongs. Maggie
Beck ran away from the flag three lengths
from Vosburg. and in swinging into the
home-stretch he forged to the front. but
was shut out a half length by Prettiwit on
the winning plate, in l:30ls, Dalesman one
length behind,
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SCIENTIFIC SUGGESTION.
The Metric System Not Likely to BE Adopted
by the Present Generation.

The Metric System Not Likely to Be Adopted
by the Present Generation.
Philadelphia North American.
The recommendation of the Congress or
Geographers lately assembled at Berne that
q single meridian be established for the
computation basis of time and longitude is
practical; perhaps too practical to find IA
vOr and command universal agreement.
1t does not matter q particle what that
meridian may be, because any. meridian is
central, and the honor of being inrersected
by 1t is not SO stupendous as 1t might be
were it more than an imaginary line. 1t
would be an improvement if the CONNER
cial world would reckon Greenwic time,
as that has precedence OF all others any
how. and probably will have precedence so
long as the British Isles remain above wa
ter. Ut course Greenwich tim will not be
necessary when the suppositi tiOus New
Zealander shall contemplate the ruins of
London.
The suggestion Of the congress that the
world shall adopt the metric system is also
well enough. but not practical. Ideas OF
weights and measures are inbred if not in
nate, and this generation cannot generally
be retaueht. The metric system responds to
scientific demand for uniformity of nOmen-
Slature and method. The unlearned world
cares little for the exactitudes. For exam
to know that the unit of force necessary
to % an ounce one inch at Paris Will not
serve at London, which is further north. To
science the fact ~isimpOrtant; to the world at
large % at all. The Englist-speaking world
will cling to the pound. the bnshel. the gal
lon, the acre. and the mile for some time to
come. The French easily adapt themselves
TO change, because the Gallo character is
changeable. Congresses propose, but the
prejudices Of men. being ingrained. dispose
In the world of affairs. A prime meridian is
q desideratum, however. and withal praeti-
cal, as 1t has no quantity.
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night the immense tents containing the
flowers n plants were blowna away, caus-
ing an immense amount OF damage to the
floral exhibits. A dispatch from South
port SAYS that during last nights gale the
Norwegian bark Gefion was wrecked. The
crew were saved. Dispatches from other
parts of the coast announce numerous
casualties of a minor description.
Information relegraphed here from all
parts of Ireland shows that the bad wealth
er tina has prevailed over the Brltist isles
for the past week or so has caused terrible
injury to the grain crops. Owing 10 the
heavy and continuous rains harvesting In
many parts of Ireland has been entirely
suspended. and the utmost distress Is ap-
pretended IN some districts. The loss
which large numbers of the small farmers
must necessarily suffer is beyond repair
this year. and must needs cause n recur-
renee of the III feeling which was possibly
the cause of many other troubles. The ex-
tent TO which many of the poor farmers IN
Ireland are suffering through the rainy
weather NAV be judged by the TACT that
archbishop Walsh has instructed the no.
mar Catholic clergy of Ireland to pray for
tine weather. and TO instruct their congre-
cations to do likewise.
II Is feared the full tale OF the damage
done by last nights storm has not yet been
told, and hat there may have been con-
siderable loss of life of the coasts. This
assumption is to some degree based on the
fact that the telegraph wires are down In
many sections where wrecks are likely to
occur, and that, In the Clyde at least, q
humber of yachts are known to have been
Hrivan aah0rQ
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West Indianapolis Fire.

About 12:45 o'clock this morning fire was
discovered In a saloon adjoining the
~Shaugnessy Block, on River avenue, in
West Indianapolis. The flames soon got
beyond the control of the meager facilities
in that place for putting out fires. and,
spreading to the Shaugnessy building. en-
veloped it. Assistance was then called for
from the city, and two engines went over.
They were not there early enough to
do anything more than to protect adjoining
property and confine the flames to the two
buildings which were destroyed. The
greater part of the loss, about $4,000,
falls on Mrs. S~haugnessy. er
of tho building bearing her name,
and her tenant. Clossett, q grocer, whose
notion stock was for the most part damaged.
The second story of the house was used as
a hall. In the upper part of the saloon
building were living rooms. the property in
which was destroyed. The loss there was
about $4,000. There Were evidences of IT,
cendiarism about the place. The loss Is
covered by insurance.
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Records Lowered at independence

INDEPENDENCE, Ia. Aug. 26.-The seven
thousand people that attended this efter-
loom races saw great sport. The first
number on the card was the unfinished
81 GOO trottlng stake race for three-year-
Odds. eligible to the 2:40 class. Position
won easily in 2:24. In the S.. ZOO stake for
three-year-olds. Faustine sold favorite, 5 to
J.. The first heat was q succession of breaks,
but in the next three he covered himself
with glory. lowering his record to PIT, and
having the honor of making the three
fastest heats ever trotted by q
stallion in q race. The talent, who have
been badly left throughout the whole meet
ing, made another grand mistake when
they chose TO play Climatlze as favorite in
the 2:35 class. The heats looked to be his
in the three miles. but Niger Baby had
Just q little moro speed, and carried off the
hOnors every time. In the four-year-old
2:3O tror White Foot sold even with the
field, and won in straight heats. The 2:30
pace was unfinished. Storm, by Brown
Hal, carried Oft two heats in 2:17 and 2:16l5.
Nelson was started to beat his record and
made the mile in his own tiEle, 2:104. Man
ager lowered his record of 2:144 and paced
a mile in 2:13, breaking the worlds record
by a second. He now holds the record for
the two-year-old and three-year-old PAGERS.
He il sired by the king of speed-getters.
NutwoOd.
Tomorrow card contains the great five
year-old stake. Nancy Hanks is in fine
condition, and all Kentucky is backing her
heavily. To-day summarizes:
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Governor Byrd has notified all white set
tiers that they must leave the territory of
the Chickasaw Nation at once.
Judge McAllister, of Nashville, has de-
cided that the State Mine Inspector and
the Board of Penitentiary Inspectors had
no right TO order the removal of convicts
from the Brlceyille mines.
State Railroad COMMISSIONS Hager, of
Kentucky, has resigned and Secretary of
State Matthew Adams has been ap-
pointed his successor. Willis Ringo has been
appointed Secretary of State In Adams's
place.
At Sandy Creek. Oswego county, New
York, yesterday, ut a depth of ! ,020 feet, tie
largest vein of gas ever struck in Sandy
Creek WAS tapped. 1t blew the tools in all
directions. The noise of escaping gas can
be heard for miles.
The coilieries Of the Reading Coal Com
pany III the Schuylkill valley are all partly
Hooded as the result of the recent severe
storms, and mining has been seriously in
terfered with. Several collieries have en-
tirely suspended work.
James Thornton, one of the men who
robbed n Georgia express train several
nights ago. has been arrested at Collier
Station and has confessed. He returned
$3.50 OF the money taken. Thornton says
his two associates were recently discharged
employees of the road.
Because of the refusal to do away with a
sewage nuisance. the school board of Al
toona. Pa, has had the entire City Council
and the Mayor arrested. They all appeared
before an alderman and were released. The
matter has Occasioned trouble for years and
will now go to the courts.
Joseph O'Brien. son of the late John G.
OBrien. the ~welEknown New York Repub-
lican politician, was accidentally shot and
killed at COney island yesterday, by
Joseph Cropsey, a fellow-member of the
Atlantic Rod and Gun Club. The full
charge of a shotgun entered the side OF
young OBrien's face. causing instant
death.
Much gossip was caused among the rail
road men at San Francisco. yesterday. by
the sudden ummon by Coils z. Hunting
ton of Henry V. Herbert. claim adjuster
for the Union Pacific railroad. to New York
by the first train. 1t Is the general opinion
that Herbert's mission has connection with
the contest of the Hopkins-Searles will by
Timothy Hopkins. the adopted son of the
deceased laGy.
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SENDING MISSIONARIES TO CHINA.

The Methodist Episcopal Church Not Dis
couraged by Recent Riots There.
New York Tribune.
According to the Rev. DR.. Leonard. the
Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, of
which he Is one OF the secretaries. has no
thought of abandoning the field of mission
airy work In China. The society will, during
the first week in Septem ber, send three
missionaries to that country. The Rev.
j. K. Hykes. the Rev. j. II. London, and
the Rev. DIR. Curtis are the ones who are TO
go. Later in the month q newly appointed
missionary will be sent out. He, IL Is
thought. will be the Rev. G.. S. Miner, of
Nebraska.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard denied that any of
the missionaries sent out by the society
had suffered injury in China. The Rev.
Mr.. Plumbgras. who has just returned from
China, thinks that the secular press is
magnifying the disturbances there. None
of the alleged outrages had occurred before
he left China. The Rev. John Valley, who
is in charge of the mission at Wuhu, where
a riot took place recently, has sent q letter
giving details of the trouble to the society.
1t was dated May 19, at Wuhu. 1t Is in
part as follows:
For the last week we have been in a
state of excitement on account of q riot
against the Roman Catholic mission. 1t
started over a week ago. Two Chinese
nuns went about the streets amounting
the children with holy water. This caused
them to be abused by the crowds who had
congregated about them, and this resulted
in the nuns being taken to the police sta
ton. The officer in charge cent them
to a place where they wouid be,safe until
they could be returned. as they were,
to the mission. This dissatisfied the
people, and on Tuesday, two days after
ward, they attacked the Roman Catholic
mission. / was present when the walls
We're pulled down. In q few moments the
inside of the compound was filled by the
mob, who believed the priests had commit
ted Outrages upon the children. The mob:
finding some graves where priests had
been buried, exhumed the bodies, expect
ing to find treasure hidden in the collins.
Being disappointed, they ransacked the
buildings, destroying what they had no use
for. Before they left 1t, they set every
thing on fire.
IL then left the scene, thinking of the
safety of our own place. We remained at
our mission all night, but as things sumed
a threatening aspect, we went ext morn
ing on board a hulk in the harbor. For
several days the mob created disturbances,
but it was at last routed. and our mission
is, at least for the present. safe"
The society is now rejoicing over tho
prospect of being out of debt by Nov. l.
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go TO Mr.. Halford. and with his regular
duties one would think that he could not
always maintain an agreeable frame of
mind, but he goes along the even tenor of
his way. making friends with every body
and trying TO please every body inst as he
did when he edited the Indianapolis Jour-
nal years ago. He then could do more work
in two hours than any other workman In
the office. The great reliance that the
President places upon his judgment was
we'll illustrated the day of the Arkell dim
ner at Mount McGregor, for up TO two min
the President had fully decided not to make
a speech, but Mr.. Halford remarked that
tho country might think strange If he did
not at least say n word about General Grant,
and on Mr.. Halford's suggestion the Presi-
dent acted.
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Union Veterans Union.

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 26.-At to-day's
session of the National Encampment of the
Union Veterans Union resolutions were
adopted favoring a service pension bill to
approach nearly the one in the German
army; the erection of o monument to the
unknown Union dead in every Southern
State; commencing the service of Com
mander Clark for the good of the organiza-
ton; condemning foreigners not natural
lied holding Office; giving the 30th of May
the proper observance. aud asking that
federal appointments be given to old sol
diers and widows and orphans of soldiers.
The election of q commander-in-chief oc-
CURED in the afternoon, Hon. S. S. Yoder,
OF the Department of the Potomac, being
chosen. There was a campfire tonight.
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How He Did It.
Life.

Darling" he murmured. do you remem-
Der the night / left you six years ago, VOW
ing that | would not look yon in the face
again until | counted myself worthyi To
night, my queen, ! an n rich man. Tell me
again that you do indeed love me-"
Il do" she answered. as she lay back in
his strong arms. "But tell me, dear. how
you made your fortune"
That is easily DONE" he replied gayly.
After left the house that night | hastily
entered a cab. but had not driven a block
when the driver fell Oft the box In an apo
plectic tit"
And thenfn she questioned anxiously.
And them no went on. an ~exnltant ring
in his voice. Il took his place."
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The e:25 class; trotting; purse, 5000;
-2:l9l4, 2:20A. 2:22l9.


JEROME PARK. N. j.. Aug. a-This was
the last day of the Monmouth Associations
meeting ut this course. There will be one
more days racing this year under the aus
pices of the Monmouth Association. and it
will be held at Morris Park and not here,
and thus the sport to-day was in the nature
of getaway racing. The track was in fair
order.
First Race-Five furlongs. Aciplant won
easily from Volunteer. who beat Triangle.
Time, 1:04.
SECOND Race-Six furlongs. Cynosure
won from Contribution, who beat fearless.
Time. 1:17i4.
Third Race-Onc thousand four hundred
yards. Homer won easily. while Woodcut-
ter beat Mary Stone for place. Time. l:2l4
Fourth Race-One mile. Celia won from
Beansey, who beat Pra:her for the place.
Time. 1:45l4.
Fifth Race-Four and n half furlongs.
Alliquipa won by n Myth from Marmont,
who beat Count a length for second money.
Time. :57a4.
Sixth Race-Steeple-chase; short course.
Delaware won: Futurity second. Wheatley
third. Time. 1885.
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Cable Notes,

A dispatch from Brussels says the recent
~ reported great successes or Emin Pasha
are denied In that city.
A woman named Lombard has been ar
rested in Paris for an attempt to murder
her husband by pouring molten lead into
his ear while he was asleep.
Russia will not allow exported grains to
contain more than 3 per cent. of rye or
I per cent. of bran. Reports from Odessa
say there is talk there Of q prohibition of
maize.
The Norwegian collier Frey, bound from
an English port for Drontheim. caught fire
and burned to the waters edge near Bergen
on Saturday last. Eight of her crew were
drowned, seven were saved.
The CHILEAN cruiser Presidente Pinto has
arrived at KieI. It is the commanders in
tention to take some small arms and strong
guns aboard, but it is doubtful if the Ger
man government will grant permission.
The granting of permission to the starv-
ing peasantry of Russia TO use the imperial
forests has led to many burglaries and dep
relations on the imperial farm, the famish-
ding blood over the spoils.
The Swiss Federal Council has written to
Mr.. George L. Catiin, the United States
consul at Zurich, thanking him and his
fellow-consuis for the congratulations sent
by them to the council upon the occasion
of the sex-centennial fetes. The council
has also presented the consuls with medals
commemorative of the sex-centennlal fetes.
The Barcelona Chamber OF Commerce has
resolved to send q formal protest to the
government and Cortes against the new
treaty with the United States, on the
ground that the treaty infiicts q grave in
jury or the trade of Spain with the Span
ish West Indies. The protest represents
mainly the grievance of Caralonian monop-
OllStS.