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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
EACH HAS ITS ADVANTAGES.

Naval Circles Divided on the System of
Construction.
New YORK, March ga Washing
ton letter says:
The senate committee ON naval affairs
has recently considered the question of
the comparative advantages Of having
the new ships for the navy constructed
by the government and by outside con-
tractors, and has decided in favor OF
continuing both its systems within GER
tain limits.
In the committee bill-which will be
attached as an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill when it reaches the
senate and which provides for the con-
struction of three battle ships, two
armored coast defense vessels, five gun
boats and eight torpedo boats--it is
further provided that these vessels shall
be built either by contractor or in the
government vars as the secretary may
judge best
In naval circles there is difference Of
opinion as to which system of construc-
tion is preferable, but both doubtless
have their advantages and both will be
made use of in the future as In the past.
For manifest reasons it is desirable the
government should be able to build some
Of its own vessels, and undoubtedly
plants for this purpose at Norfolk and
New York will be retained and used, and
it will probably be many years before
similar facilities will be made available
at any of the other navy yards.
On the other hand, many leading
naval officers are decidedly Of the opin-
ion that this system of construction by
private contract is more economical and
is preferable also in some other respects.
Another reason why navy yard construo-
ton is not likely to become more gen
eral soon is found in the fact that the
civil service rules now apply to the
yards, and therefore the politicians are
not as much interested in their develop
ment as they were formerly.
In the matter of outside contracts tits
expected that the government will
henceforth adopt the policy of encour-
aging competition among builders gensr-
ally throughout the country, especially
in the west. One company at Dubuque,
La, already has contract for naval
work, and other companies on the Mis-
sissippi river and on the lakes will be no.
ticed in the field of construction, az the
majority of the new vessels included In
the senate bill are small craft capable Of
being built and foated in those waters.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
BLED TO DEATH.
Mysterious Fate of Farmer Jewett Dur

Mysterious Fate of Farmer Jewett Dur
ham at Tobasco, o.
BATAVIA, o., March 22.-Jewett Dur
ham, young farmer living near To-
basco, this county, was found dead in a
cornfeld near his home.
The body was discovered by two chill
dren, who We're searching for cows. The
only wound on Durham's body was a
deep, ugly cut on his wrist, from which
he bled to death
Durham and several young fellows
were drunk at Tobasco Saturday night,
and Durham started home with Frank
Johnson They separated in good feel
ing. Blood was traced from the place
where Durham was found to an empty
freight car, where large pool of blood
was found.
It is believed that Durham did not
want to go home intoxicated, and SO
went to the empty freight car to sleep
off his drunk Here, it is supposed, he
became involved in fight with tramps,
who probably cut him.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
NEW PROCESS OF STEEL MAKING
1t viii Revolutionize the business, 1t Ii
Claimed, and VIII Be q Monopoly.

1t win Revolutionize the business, 1t Is
Claimed, and VIII Be Monopoly.
PITTsBURG, March ga new method
of making steel has been adopted by the
Homestead steel works of Carnegie,
Phipps e. Company, that will, it is
claimed, revolutionize the iron and steel
trade of the world. 1t is known as the
''direct process" The firm has been ex-
perimenting with it for long time, and
it is now said to be perfect.
During the past week the new process
has been in operation in portion of the
plant, and the results have exceeded all
expectations, the product being of a su-
perior quality, with very material re-
duction in the cost. The details of the
invention will remain a trade secret,
and the company expects practical
monopoly of the steel trade OF the
future. 1t is said that under the new
process workman can make four heats
to turn, whereas under the old method
he could make but two.
The emplo, es have been notified that
the new wage scales now being formu-
lated must be based with view to the
condition of affairs to obtain in the
future of the works.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Big English Oaks.

The largest oak now standing in Eng
land is the "Cowthorpie," which measures
seventy eight feet in circumference at the
ground. At one time this tree and its
branches covered more than an acre OF
space. The gigantic old Parliamentary
Oak" in Clipstone park, London, is be-
lieved to be 500 years old. The tallest oak
on the British isles is called the Dukes
Walking Stick" 1t is higher than the spire
of Westminster abbey. The oak of Gele-
mos, which was felled in 1910, realized
$3.50 for its owner The bark was sold
for 81 900 and the trunk and branches for
$3. $50 more,-St. Louis Republic.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
CLOSED ITS DOORS.
The Savings and Loan Association Bank
at Painesville, o.

The Savings and Loan Association Bank
at PaiDesvi1le, o.
CLEVELAND, March 22.-The following
was received from Painesville, Monday
morning:
The Painesville Savings and Loan asso-
citation bank closed its doors this morn
ing. The depositors are generally working
people who are crowding around the
building and threatening violence to the
officials. Colonel r. K. Page, we'll
known in railway circles, and one of
the most prominent capitalists in north
ern Ohio, is at the head of the concern.
No figures are obtainable at this time
and the cause of the failure cannot be
learned. A notice ON the door of the
bank conveys the information that set
tlement will be made with depositcrs as
soon as possible.
The collapse of the bank was due to a
refusal by the National Bank of Com
merce of Cleveland TO honor a large
draft Saturday afternoon. The capital
stock of the collapsed institution was
$4,000.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
THIS YARN COMES FROM TEXAS.


A Thirty ty-Two-Foot-Long Red-Hot Me-
teor, weighing Tons, Strikes the Earth.
DENNIsoN, Tex, March 22.-Mr.
Frank Newell, cattleman of Eagle
county, Choctaw Nation, who was in
in the city today, reports that large
meteor fell on the prairie last Saturday.
1t imbedded itself at least twenty feet
in the earth and protrudes twelve feet
in the air.
The meteor when seen appeared
in the air like monster ball of fire.
When the earth was struck it fairly
trembled and there was a spluttering
and sissing like that caused by dipping
a piece of hot iron into cold water. The
meteoric stone was as hot as furnace
several hours after it descended to the
earth.
Newell estimates its weight at several
tons. The meteor fell about 3 o'clock
on the prairie, near small water course
called Frick's creek. Newell was on
horseback about five hundred yards dis
tant. His horse trembled with terror,
causing him to dismount. 1t was not
until the following day that Newell
could get near the meteor
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
ABNORMAL AFFECTION.
A Hoosier Wife Leaves Her Husband to
Live with Woman.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 2.-Richmond,
Ind, now furnishes story of woman's
strange infatuation for woman. Charles
Worrall and wife have separated be-
cause of Mis-. Worralls unnatural love
for her sister-in-law, Mrs. Marion Wor-
rail-, a widow. The women have hereto
fore been highly esteemed in the com
munity. Mrs. Charles Worrall is a
woman of fine attainments, and was at
one time teacher in Earlham college.
Mr.. Charles Worran demonstrated with
his wife, and tried in every possible way
to break oft the unnatural alliance be-
tween the women, but without effect,
and finally an amicable division of the
property was made, and the husband
and wife separated. The two women
have gone to Lorain, o., to live to-
gether. Both are handsome and about
twenty-five years of age. They say
they can live apart.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
COLORED LOVE.
vile Practice of Indiana Reform atory
Inmates.

Vile Practice OF Indiana heIOrmatOry
Inmates.
INDIANAPOLIS, March %. - Minnie
johnson, a white inmate of the Indiana
reformatory, confessed Sunday night she
fired the institution, whereby a number
Of the inmates escaped recently.
She told story that is worse than the
recent Mitchell Ward affair in Memphis.
The girl confessed that she and a coloreI
girl named Betsey Williams did unnat-
ural acts, and that they formed an un-
natural passion for each other
The Williams girl was recently separ-
ated from Minnie johnson, and as mat
ter of revenge she fired the building.
Some of the correspondence between the
two girls was captured, and it proved to
be of the vilest character.
The officers of the institution admit
that evil practices exist among nearly all
the inmates of the reformatory, and in
every case one girl is white and the other
colored, but they are unable to break up
the awful practices.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Crank From Australia.

NEW York, March 22.-Among the
passengers by the White Star line steam
ship Britannia, which arrived here Sat
urday from Liverpool, was William
Davis, an Australian, who states that he
has come to this country for the pur-
pose of swimming through the rapids
of Niagara river, following the course
pursued by Captain Webb, the English
man, who lost his life in the attempt to
swim through. Davis says he does not
intend to use barrel or any other ap-
paratus in his undertaking.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Hypnotization of Birds and Amin ais.


/ take cock and repeat on it what is
known as the eXperimentum mirabile OF
Kircheri; it is fresh from the barnyard
and very pugnacious animal. II l hold
it it struggles and screams, but l have
only to place it quietly and firmly on
board and draw chalk line from its beak,
which | have depressed until it touches
the board, and it remains firmly hypno-
tized 1t is motionless, or, as people would
say, fascinated; and it will remain in this
position for an indefinite time. take
rabbit and adjust it on it's back in little
trough, which is only used to prevent it
from falling over, and it also becomes rap
idly hypnotized. The same thing happens
with guinea pig or frog, or even with
young alligator. The limbs are plastic,
can be moved in any direction, and stay in
the position I which they are placed.
So, also, with number of other animals,
such as birds and crayfish. Harting
states that if this experiment be frequent
ly repeated with fowl it will often be-
come permanently paralyzed in some of it's
limbs. If take up the hypnotized rabbit
or lift the cock, they at once become active
and come out of their hypnotic into their
natural state. Position, tactile impress
sion, are the means used here to produce
hypnotism and possibly also mental i'm
preston. Visual impression produces SIM
liar effects. Richet has produced similar
effects with lime light to those which
Charcot produces on his hypnotic, catalep-
tic and hysterical patients. Ernest Hart
in Nineteenth Century.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Yale students on a Lark.

NEW HAVEN, March ga party OF
Yale men, bent on lark, broke up the
last act Of "The Vendetta" at Bunnell's
Grand opera house Saturday night. One
of the students threw SNOWFALL, hitting
one of the actors. Another missile
struck Miss Field, the leading lady of
the company, and inflicted quite severe
blow, stunning her for few minutes.
Four of the disturbers were arrested for
breach of the peace.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22

A Canadian electrician states that cleo
tricity causes the tides and demonstrates
it by electrifying a rubber comb by rub
bing it through the hair and then drawing
it over the top of glass OF water, the re-
suit being that the tidal ware follows the
comb.-New York Journal
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
According TO Gunter.

The phrase according to Gunter" re-
mains in our language as perpetual
memory of Gunter, the English mathema-
tician, who was born in 1851 and died in
1926. Almost to the present time the works
of Gunter were considered standard. He
was the inventor of the surveyors chain
of the logarithmic line, Of the quadrant, of
the scale bearing his name and anything
in mathematics to be right must be ''ac-
cording to Gunter. "-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
1,rat
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Indrmsnt Haa Isewnn.

BosToN, March 29.--Lieutenant G. A.
L. Totten, U. s. A., professor Of mill
tary science and tactics at Yale univers-
ity. lectured at Music Hall Sunday
afternoon on sThe New Star Of the
East" The lieutenant said that March
20, 1892, might be looked upon as the
beginning of Judgment.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22

WASHINGTON, March. 22.-The river
and harbor appropriation bill as
agreed upon in committee Monday, ap-
propriated about $50, 100000. This
smount is $500. 900 less than the bill OF
lsss as reported from the committee,
and about 81 ,O00, 900 less than the same
hill when il passed.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
Minister Fearfully Burned.

MANNING, Ia, March ga gasoline
stove used in the church to heat water
for baptizing exploded, Sunday, and,
while being carried out by Rev. Boles,
the flames from the burning oil ignited
the minister's celluloid cuffs. In an in
slant his clothes were ON fire. Both of
his arms were burned and charred in a
frightful manner. The attending ply
sicians saw his injuries are fatal.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
CAROLINE MouNTpLeAsANT DEAD.
Wife of the Late Chief John Mount
pleasant, of the Six Nations.

wire OF tne bAte Gniet Jbhh hAouhh-
pleasant, of the Six Nations.
LocKPoRT, N. Y, March 22.-The
death of Caroline Mountpleasant, wife
of the late chief Of the Six Nations,
John Mountpleasant, Saturday, aged
sixty years, removed one Of the most
prominent Indian women of the
time. Mrs. Mountpleasant was q
sister of the celebrated Indian general,
Parker, now of New York, who served
SO gallantly in the civil war. The de-
ceased had received an academic educa-
ton and was well-versed in literature.
She proved of great help to her husband
in his efforts to elevate and educate the
various tribes of the Six Nations. Mrs.
Mountpleasant, after his death, retained
her home with the Tuscaroras, on the
reservation. where her influence in re-
ligiols. educational and commercial mat
ters was strongly felt.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22

NEW ORLEANS, March 22.-Mr. Shake
speare was nominated for reelection by
the Foster Alliance wing Of the Demo
cratic party Saturday night. The Nc
Emery wing has not made any city
nominations.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
unsnccessful Attempt to Float a House

CHICAGO, March 22.-While half
dozen men were preparing to load two
story frame house on a scow, to tow it
over the north branch of the river to
the West Side, a jack-screw slipped.
The house toppled over into the river,
and in its fall killed Nicholas Brost, a
laborer. James Vane and William L..
Veach were badly hurt. The house sank
to the bottom of the stream, and only
its gables are above water. Navigation
10 closed
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
RIaina Imnroying.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Secretary
Blaine is rapidly improving. Sunday
afternoon he took long walk about the
city and Monday he attended to Off
tial business at his house.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22

ST.. LOUIS, March 22.--At Chelting-
ham at 2:30 p. m, the boiler of the La
clede Fire Brick company's works ex-
ploded, killing four men and injuring
seven. Several are seriously injured.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-22
A Paris nank Fails.

PARIS, March 22.-The banque Des
Chemins de Fere has failed for 5000, 600
francs. The director of the bank, M.
DuGouread, has committed suicide.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20

u don't like the treath OF that stove "
exclaimed little Ethel one day when the
gas was escaping from the sittingroom
stove. Coal gas is like the perfumes OF
India" compared with the breath of q per-
son afflicted with catarrh, but among
many other symptoms the sense of smell Is
often deadened, SO the sufferer is uncon-
scious OF the oftensiveness of his presence
Why any one will endure such a painful,
dangerous and offensive disease, when Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy-costing only 80
ceDts-will cure the most stubborn case. is
one Of the many mysteries. The proprie-
tors are 90 confident of the success of this
Catarrh Remedy, that they offer to forfeit
$500 for any case of catarrh they cannot
cure. It would be suicide for their remedy.
for them to make THE offer, Unless they an
derstood it, exact powers.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20
One OF Barnum's Inducemc nts.

About the time Blind Tom started out
to show his wonderful gifts Macon de-
veloped a musical prodigy, though in a
different line. In the alley back Of Eads,
Neel g. Co.'s store was blacksmith
shop owned by man named English, a
quiet sort Of man and very popular in
his business. One day he bought his
three-year-old boy drum-it might
have been a gift from Santa Claus-and
great was his establishment when the
baby ratified away on the drum with the
skill of professional.
Of course such precocious boy soon
became known to Macon, and a mention
Of it fell under the eye of P. T. Barnum,
who was then in his prime. The great
Snowman sent an agent to Macon as
fast as steam and coach could bring
him. After good deal of parleying
the agent succeeded in securing young
English, it being understood that his
mother would accompany him. Then
the New York papers were filed with
mention Of 1.-The Infant Drummer" and
for years he was one Of the features of
Barnum's museun.-Macon (Ga.) Tel
egraph.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20
Ancient Greek Coins.

To the Lydians the innovation Of
coming gold and silver is attributed, and
the year 862 B. 9. is fixed az the era Of
the invention. Some 300 years after
this, it may be noted. Crasus was king
Of Lydia The coins Of that period were
not very elegant Among the Greeks
banking was carried on to q considerable
extent. Homer speaks of brass money
among them in 1854 B. c.. but it was
weights, not coins. But the art of coin
ing was soon acquired by the Greeks.
The earliest coins they made were some
what crude.
The original method Of making coin
was by placing given weight of metal
after it had been softened, over q die
upon which national symbol or emblem
was engraved, and then pounding it
with hammer on the die until good
impression was obtained. They were
rude and battered and showed die i'm
preston on one side only, the other bear
ing the rough marks of the hammer.
The earliest Greek coins were Of silver,
whereas those Of Lydia were of gold or
electron-gold and silver. They were
Of a sacred character, and the old in
scriptions were succeeded by representa-
tons Of the Enthusiastically Eagle.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20

ono was pushing than aside end passing
through; than they. closed - quistly q
they had opened
sThe unaccountabls thing filed me
with terror, and was about to spring
forward and tear the curtains down
when was again transdxed BY fear.
The ponderous oakeu door which led
from our apartments into the public
hallway swung slowly ON ito hinges, a.
II some one were going out Then came
q faint sound, Like q woman signing
and the door closed and latched itself
Nothing had been visible but the NOV.
ing Of the curtains and the door. and
yet my soul was filed with o nameless
horror that / dared not dwell upon.
Rousing myself I leaped forward, and
tearing aside the portieres rushed to my
wife's bedside. There she Lay, her eyes
closed and her pale face family illum-
ined by the light that followed me
through the doorway. seized her hand
and strove to awaken her, but she did
not move. In an agony Of terror, bent
my head and listened for the beating Of
her heart Then clasping tho limp form
in my arms I pressed it to my bosom
and called aloud her name:
GLADYS, Gladys, my Gladysr
"But there was no answer; she was
agone. George Percy Taggart in Jour
nalist.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20
"In God We Trust"

The motto, I'm God We Trust, I" which
is now stamped upon all gold and silver
coins Of the United States, was suggest
ed by an old farmer living in Maryland
This conscientious Christian gentleman
thought that our currency should indi-
cate in some way the Christian charac-
ter Of our nation, which, he argued,
could be best done by putting a motto
upon our coins expressing a national re-
lance on divine support in govern
mental affairs. It was in 1861, when s.
P. Chase was secretary Of the treasury,
that this man wrote to Washington re-
specting his pet idea His letter was re-
ferred to Mint Director Pollock, who
discussed the question in his report Of
1852
Pollock and Chase were in favor Of
introducing the motto at once, but con-
gress gave the suggestion no attention
whatever. In his next annual report
Director Pollock again referred to the
matter, this time in firm theological ar
gument, saying, 1.-The motto suggested,
God Our Trust, Is taken from our ma
tonal hymn, The Star Spangled Ban
ner;' the sentiment is familiar to every
citizen Of our country; the time is pro-
pitious; It's an hour of national peril
Let us reverently acknowledge his SOW
ereignty, and let our coinage declare our
trust in God"
A two cent bronze piece was author
lied by congress to be coined the follow
ing year, and on April %. 1884, the first
United States coin was stamped with
the legend, I'm God We Trust. st
Louis Republic.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20
How Some Coins Were Named.

The origin Of the names Of coins in
present use is curious In many cases
they imply a standard of weight that
lost its significance long ago. This is
the case with the English standard. the
pound The word shilling is Of German
derivation. like penny, which comes
from the German pfennig. The word
Grown" comes from the image placed
on the coin. The name franc was given
by King John, who first coined these
pieces in 1850. They bore the motto
"Le Roi Frank" King Of the Franks)
and were Of two kinds, one representing
the king on horseback, the other on foot
Chicago Tribune.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20

Dubois-This is a strange case, ISL t
it3 A wealthy man is found dead in his
room. There is no wound, no sign Of
poison and not the slightest evidence Of
disease anywhere about him. But there
he sat in his chair stone dead, one hand
still holding the paper that he had been
reading. l tell you it is one of the most
mysterious things
Bigers-What did you say he was
reading?
Dubois-One Of the Sunday papers
Bilgers-Oh, we'll, that explains the
whole thing. 1t was a forty page edition
probably, and when he looked at it his
heart failed. Boston Post.