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Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

The most astounding report which Is
brought here, and Mr.. Benedict was au-
thority for it, is the suggestion contained
In the flattering remarks made by many
Of the Office seekers TO the president. A
large proportion Of them, certainly more
than one-half, say to him that they expect
10 have the privilege Of voting for him
again in 1896. Some Of them try to ex.
plain why by asserting that party lines
viii be so changed, and he will have built
up so strong a personal following, and II
will be so necessary to be sure that his
policy will be carried out, that the coun.
try will simply demand that he serve
another term. Some Of those who are
not officeholders suggest this to him. Hd
never makes any reply to these sugges.
tions, and what he thinks Of them no one
knows.-New York Cor. Philadelphia
Press
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Thursday morning Thomas G.. Allen of
Ferguson, Mo-, and William l.. Sachlet-
ben Of Alton, llls., Rolled into st. Louis on
their bicycles, having completed toul
of the world in three years. Both young
men graduated from Washington uni.
versity in 1890 and undertook the trip tc
China to improve their education. In
their tour the cyclers crossed the Chinese
empire from east to west, a distance Of
1900 miles. and are the only white men
who have accomplished this feat since
Marco Polo in the thirteenth century.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

w. W. Walters, the venturesome
young man who travels over the gas belt
shooting gas wells with nitroglycerin,
had frightful experience in Muncie
Thursday, and several people had close
calls for their lives. Walters travels in
a spring wagon, in which he transports
the deadly explosive. He was approach
ing a gas we'll on Henry Martins prop
erty, and a large crowd had assembled to
see Miss Rose Martin drop the ego
devil, which she did. The horses pulling
the dangerous stuff got frightened and
started to run off. Walters staid with
them and pulled his revolver to shoot
them if they could not be stopped any
other way. Fortunately the neck yoke
on the tongue came loose, letting the
tongue down, and stopped the team. Tho
wagon was loaded with 100 quarts of the
explosive at the time, and tho result Of
an explosion would have made catas.
trophe.-Cor. indianapolis Journal.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

A fact which is not generally known
outside Of sporting circles is that a gun
ner who seeks to do the best work he is
capable Of requires to be measured for
his gun in tho same way as he would be
for his suit Of clothes. To facilitate this
operation, a now adjusting gun has been
devised The bend and castoif Of tho
gun are adjusted by means of screws,
and the points of each arc placed in
grooves running parallel TO the line Of
the butt. Tho length of the butt is also
adjusted by screws in the heel. The
length and bend of the stock can in thid
way be regulated to the length Of neck
and arm of the shooter, as well as to tho
various special requirements 10 which
his style Of shooting may give rise
Boston Journal.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Abraham Martin, an old colorod man
living in Atchison, Kan, believes that
thoro is going to DO another flood. IIo
claims TO havo had n revelation IN .
dream, in which he was instructed TO
prepare an ark like Noah's Of old The
size of tho ark was designated in the
dream, and although the quarters arc
too small for the elephants and giraffcs
the old man has confidence that the Lord
will squeeze them inside in some way.
Martin has figured it out by the Biblo
that tho food win como next August.
He expects the menagerio however, TO
begin arriving in June, Vhen animals,
fowls, etc, will present themselves at this
ark in pairs. The old colored man be-
leves implicitly in the revelations" no
has had and has moved his family into
the ark.
"The Lord wants the earth peopled en-
tirely with black men, !" he said recently,
"and no white people will be taken on
the boat. Only few very black negroes
will be admitted"
The ark is built of old pieces of boards
picked up about town. Martin has been
over year building tao oraft.-Cor. st.
Louis Chronicle.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
coming Ironolads For tho pritlsh.

Preparations have been commenced al
Chatham doclyard for the construction
of another first class armored battleship
of the Hood class at q cost of somo
e070, 900. The new vessel will have a
displacement of $4,000 tons and will bo
fitted with engines Of 1900 horsepower,
giving a speed Of IS knots. Her princi-
pal armament win consist of four elton
guns mounted in barbottes. Altogether
three new battleships, two first class
cruisers, to be fastor than any cruiser
ahoat, and six 27-lnot torpedo boat de-
stroyers, with the prospect Of another IA
should tho first prove satisfactory, are
included in the programme Of the ad-
miralty for the coming Westmin-
ster Gazette.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
Nd Plotnre Ian ..Hondoo. .

The death Of tho young son Of Henry
2. Abbey recalls tho fact that the pic
ture on the act drop Of the Broadway
theater has been fatal to everybody con
cerned, TO say nothing Of the effect upon
the handsome playhouse. The pretty
young girl in the stagecoach is portrait
Of the daughter Of T. Henry French, and
she is dead. The dashing cavalier on the
right is Matt Morgan, and he is dead.
The boy In the foreground is a portrait
Of Manager Abbeys son, and now he is
dead. The picture represents the recep-
ton Of foreign bride by the young
dauphin Of France, and the future Of
the bride and groom was grewsome. 1t
is theatrical superstition that certain
pictures are unlucky.-New York Ne.
trOuOlia
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
Guests Only to Be PlucIsed.

Lakewood, N. j., is eminently resort
Of high pines and high prices.
l was staying at q certain hotel at
Lakewood, but happening to be at an
other one nearly every day during one
of my leisure hours Of the afternoon,
had formed the habit Of getting shaved
there.
One day the boss approached me with
an air at once mysterious and apologetic,
and said confdentially: Il beg your par
don, sir; / thought you were a guest of
the hotel, and have been charging you
25 cents q shave. That is my price to
tho guests only. In the future it will
cost you only IS cents"
The moral was so obvious that smiled
involuntarily, One uses snares to catch
pigeons, but once caught one plucks
them without remorse. New York Her
aid.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
TmIna of Mlrnd nreed.

A COW belonging to Mr.. Weatherby, a
well to 40 stockman of Manhattan, re.
Gently gave birth TO a pair of singular
animals. They resemble colts more
than calves, although both possess rudi-
mentary horns and the hoofs Of cattle
but in all other respects they seem 10 bo
young horses, having long, flowing
names and the tails of colts, only these
latter arc unusually long and bushy
One is a male, and the other is female,
and both are well developed, we'll shaped
animals. The mother, however, seems
TO know that there is something abnor
NAL about them and has declined 10 al
low them natural nourishment 80 that
they arc TO be brought up by hand
Philadelphia Times.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Ex-Seoretary Rusk said 10 a Washing
ton reporter; "Yos, shall go back on
my farm in western Wisconsin and re.
sumo just whore left of four years ago.
1 follow farming not for sentiment OF
pastime, but TO mako It pay, and so ]
shall start 20 raising hay and grass and
breeding swine and cattlo as of old. But
! shall always look back with intense
satisfaction TO my four years of official
life, for on the whole tho time has been
spent pleasantly and pro9tably.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
Distress In ono House.

A house ot the north end might well
have had the Tag of distress floating over
its roof for the past few weeks. The
house is rented by three tenants, one oc-
cupying the l. and one each the lower
and upper tenements. In the l. q few
weeks since occurred the death of beau
tiful mother and her eldest daughter
from diphtheria, while younger daugh-
ter was very III with the disease, Since
that time one of the other tenants had
the misfortune 10 fall on an 10y walk,
another 10 break her arm, while a third
is seriously I'll with pneumonia, Two Of
the families are now moving out 10 find
more auspioious quarters. Springfield
Mass.) Homestead,
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
Tho Columbian stampa.

If any one had doubts as to the good
judgment Of the government in issuing
the Columbian stamps, the report Of the
postmaster general should set them at
rest. According to that official, the total
increase Of sales IN January over the
same month last year is more than %
per cent. At 100 first class postofficea
stamps TO the value Of e2,954 ,478 were
sold In January, against 81 $40, ,4S3 dur
ing the same period last year. Of the
amount received this year from the sale
Of postage stamps 81, ,7O8, $3.50 were for the
Columbian issue, within &i61 ,817 Of the
total sales in January OF last year
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

About one coming marriage there 10 q
flavor of romance. A bridesmaid had
been bespolen for a wedding. She was
taken i'll before tho time set, and at tho
last moment was replaced by Miss
Louise Doelger, q pretty girl, but un-
known in society. At tho ceremony sho
met Mr.. Moses Rockwell Crow, q gem
tlemen whose name would not reveal
the fact that he is the possessor of So
000,0 900 and n sort of Monte Cristo in
his way. It was n case Of love et first
sight. Moses was captured by the fair
Louise, and she, after a suitable period
spent in meditation and prayer, con-
sented to become Mrs. Crow. No one
could resist so lavish an adorer.
Mr.. Crow lives among the swells Of
Great Darlington, Mass, and gives din
ners and dances. He is in the habit Of
supplying watches set with diamonds as
favors in the german. He took his
hancee out to ride the other day in tho
finest brougham which money could buy.
drawn by a pair Of priceless horses,
When sho admired them at the end OF
the drive, ho told her they wcro hers
New York Cor. San Francisco Argonaut:
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

A shrewd Cape Cod farmer descanting
lately on family quarrels said; '1m Of
the opinion of my wife. Go to a family
partyY she says. Yes, ! always go, pro-
vided it igm't in my own family Tho
reason Of thom family rows is that they
live too clost and rub agin each other too
much. There was the Wings down our
way. They fought continually as long
as they lived under ono roof, but when
John Wing went to ranchin IN Colorado
and Jim Wing TO maxim nails in Penn
sylvania they grew aInazin fond Of each
other"
This hoinely philosophy could DO up
piled with equal force TO nations. -
Youths Companion.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
AnOther o. the Innumerablo coo conc.

AhOtheH OF tue AhhulneEuDlo oOO Gonos
The death of Edward Beetham re-
moves the last of the famous Light
brigade who lived in Canada. The old
man was a private in the Seventeenth
lancers and went through the Crimean
war. He had book presented to him
by Lady Cardigan, containing his name,
his regiment and the donors name He
also lad a letter written by the same
lady as additional evidence that he was
one Of the memorable Six Hundred. He
served in India and was at the relief OF
Lucknow, for which he received O medal,
and he served in China as well. He com
muted his pension seven years ago and
came to Canada, but he has not been
able to do much work, his long service
in the army having broken down his con-
stitution. Toronto News.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

II is usually supposed that tho faint
and squeaiy hand organs played bv Woo
ful old women. seated on curbstones and
wrapped Ia shawls, arc decrepit from
long service in the cause Of art. That Is
not the case Their builders intention
ally leave out notes, 80 that they shall
sound more mournful and touch moro
quickly tho senibililies Of some peoploi
Organs Of this kind are known az
''wheezers. New York Sun.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25
The Washington Memorial Association.

An association has been formed in
Washington for the purpose Of presorv-
ing the most noteworthy houses at the
capital that have been made historic by
the residence Of the nations greatest
men, and also to suitably mark by tab
let or otherwise the houses and places
that are of chief interest to residents
and strangers. II is called the Memorial
association and was Incorporated last
year. Chief Justice Fuller is president
Washington Letter.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

The Rev. DR.. 7. De Witt Talmage
Sunday read from the pulpit Of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle an offer TO pay the
last $4,000 Of the floating debt Of the
church as soon as the remainder had
been raised. The floating indebtedness
amounts to S55, 200 and must he paid by
June l.-New York Advertiser.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Antonio Astora, an Italian living In
Johnstown, Pa, attempted to remove
his trunk and valise from one boarding
house to another on Sunday and was ar.
rested and fined "a for desecration Of the
Sabbath.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

SOmo persons prOIvss " 20 aUie 70
guess approximately from what part Of
Italy woman comes by the length Of
her earrings. Italian earrings lengthen
as one goes southward, end In the ex-
tremo south Of Italy the earrings Of the
women reach almost to tho shoulders
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Carlisle Is the only man In the Glove
land cabinet who is not college bred
And yet It looks as II he could give point
era to his better educated colleagues. -
ChicaQ6 Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

Light trousers, black frock coat, white
tie, pearl gray gloves, form the correct
costume for groom and ushers for a June
wedding.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1893-07-25

One hundred and two kernels OF gram,
It Is said, have been counted in one head
Of wheat grown near Cheney, Wash.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16
Liabilities Liabilities
Failures
In | 600

The commercial death rate strictly speaking. Is
higher than the rate OF failures to firms In business
although rot few suspensions are reported which
are followed by recovery and reinstatement For
there is aso probably in almost every year. still
greater number OF firms which go out OF business IN
consequence OF losses though without formal failure
As II is not possible to distinguish these from hisc"I
tnunnccs Of business for other reasons such as death
or change OF firm name, the failures AFFORD the best
ohtainahe Indication Of the commerc'a Gean suS
and substantially the same rs In so2, bui n niue
higher than in 1850 and ISL, and little hisacr
thorough organization and system Of reporting AS time
accurate than they were ten years or twenty years
The average Of liabilities to each firm falling affords
the hest indication obtainable of the volume OF OUT
standing commercial Indebtedness. Always wheh
This average rises high there Is aansgr o OF o small
for II Is a sign that creditors have become so gen
eray and largely involved that they consent TO u't
still further, rather than TO preclpate failure "iBcn
might shake their credit Thus in 1871 and IT,
the average of liabilities In cases OF iannre cav
warning Of the disaster which came in le,3; Tor II
those which failed. tho aggregate 81 commercEii III
would make the aggregate for SOC only s12N0ooo
600 although the volume OF all business has Wen th
donbled The lowest average OF liabilities ever re
corded since the present modes OF reporting began
means n remarkably low accrefat" OF cornmercihi
debt edncss II NAV lie worth the consideration Of
business men whether the great reduction in abill
ties since the repeal OF the Bankrupt law In 1873 has
not e " amount to-. 90 I"r r" lscs to all firms In
business. representing ronghv the 2s.c' eh
tween losses Of $40 yearly In 1873. 1850 In 49,
an1 1902 in 1884 and less than 800 yearly n l-"2
hern is all the difference between disaster ana bros
ucrity. Finally the proportion Of dcfahlteG la'irtieS
10 payments through clcarng-h houses would rndOlb'
edv have been larger than II was I'm 1S-1-'s2 had
not speculation enormously inflated The exchanges
then. At NcwYork alone the specul1v" t on soc
or 5000. COO 900. The volume Of payments ont
side New YORK in ISL wa; 1tlooc c ans
about IS - IN 81 900. hut this year the "olumc of
payments outside New-YOrk has teen ahon' % 400
millions and the ratio Of defauted liabilities 10 such
navments only 81 80 70 81 600 For most pn'po-cs
the exchanges outside York usually cons dr"d
q faircr OF the volume Of business than the total
81 exchanges
In the first and last quarters Of tho wear defaults
nrc ant to he frequent than I'm Othc,S The
following record has been comDuied from The quar-
tcrlv statements Of failures Of r. G. Dun & Co. sine"
Ianuarv 1873. TO show the average Of liabilities to
al firms I'm business each quarter!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16
GRAND ARMY BUGLE NOTES.
COMMANDER FINN'S BRILLIANT RECORD.
GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN SUFFERING
FROM HIS OLD wOUNDs-INSTALLA.
TONS OF OFFICERS.

GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN SUFFERING
FROM HIS OLD woUNDS-INSTALLA.
TONS OF OFFICERS.
John J. Finn the present commander OF Noah l..
Farnham Post. No 49, enlisted at the first call for
troops by President Lincoln April 49, 1851, In Com
pany X. 1lth New-York Volunteers, the famous Ellis.
worth Fire Zouaves lie took part In the capture OF
Alexandria where Colonel Ellsworth killed, and
at the battles Of Backburn's Ford. the first battle
Of Bull Run (Manasas) at McCloud's Mills and
Brick House, ana took part in the defence OF Newport
News against the attacks OF the feet composed OF the
ram Virginia. better known as tho Merrimac: the
Yorktown. the James Alger and the Teaser. with the
Of the regiment he mustered out at Governor
Island in June 1864.
Comrade Finn was one OF the charter members Of
Noah L. Farnham Post, named for the lieutenant
colonel OF the regiment who succeeded Ellsworth as
colonel and was also killed In battle He was the
posts first Quarermaster. and aierward for four
years senior vicc.commander. On the retirement OF
Colonel Charles Mex. Leoser, who held the Office Of
commander from the organization In 1883 to 1892,
Comrade Finn unanimously elected his sue
cessor and at the last cleo ton he again chosen
by Il unanimous vote TO serve during the year 1893.
Commander Finn IS wellknown Mason. an active mem
her Of Eastern Star Lodge No, o27, f. and a. NJ for
wcntynne years and for four its master. lie is
also member Of Empire Chapter, No. no. II. A. NJ,
for twen'yeight years. and served three years as Its
high priest. lie is also member Of the Masonic
Veteran Club As member OF the Volunteer Fire De-
partment he connected with Fourteen's Jumper
which used TO be located at Church and Vesey sts
and anerward with Columbian Engine Company. No
IA. lie has been a member OF Typographical Union
40. g. OF this city, since 1sCO. Commander Finn
holds a place in the Finance Department as clerk
having been appointed by Controller Myers shortly
after his first election. Noah L. Farnham Post has
now an active membership OF 252, and has such well
known members as Colonel Charlie; Mex. Leoser. Gen
eral Emmons Clark, General Edward Ferrer General
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16

possession Of 81 90 He has played them " right up
10 ms breast and rises from the table worn out In
nina and body. Breakfast - cents, cigar ana
sundry cocktails IS mOre, leaving the hcnd" WIN
~ for the pooroom. The poolroom gets 1t in the
course Of time. and the fend' has TO make Dor
row. 10 get through tho night.
And 70 II goes. II is the life OF dog. No, II Is
far worse. There Is no hope for Snch n man. lie Is
on the way 10 beggary, worse-he may turn thief.
The Writer can take YOU to score of poolroomS IN
this city aud show You n hundred men who belong TO
he category OF pOOlrOOmS endS. The city i full 81
them. They abound. They begin as boys who bet
their tenccnt pieces In combination with the en-cen
pieces of their comrades. and they 90 on Till the
passion becomes too strong 10 resist.
No. II would not be In the line Of the writer to
approve such plan that advocated by the practical
betting man. The main thing now Is to do away with
the betting temptation In tho city, and To coninc the
evil TO the racctrack. Betting j. bad enough any
where. but II Il Is To go on let II be confined.
II II not for the poOlroprls Gutenberg could
rot keep It's gates open Nobody Is going there
In such weather has prevailed these ten days. but
long there l. betting IN the city, arI long
the poOrooms pay tho track for the returns, just 30
long will the ccsspool Of racing be profitable venture
Lord Bcaconsteld right. The turf T. the
greatest engine OF national Generalization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16
FEW FAILURES IN 1892.
PROOFS OF A PROSPERITY RARELY SUR
PASSED

Among the evidences that the year 1892 was one
OF the most prosperous In the history OF the country
The record Of failures is Of peculiar interest For
ten years there have never been few failures.
compared with the number OF firms In business, IN
any other year IN 1902 In twenty three years the
average OF defauled liabilities to the whole number
OF firms In business has never been small as 1t
was In 1897 except twelve years ago In the OK.
Cepuonaliy prosperous year 1850. Only in that
Year and the next was the average OF defaulted
liabilities to the exchanges through all clearing
houses rs low It In 1902.
These statements based upon the annual re-
ports OF X. Il. Dun Co., whose records run back
10 1870 with sufficient details to permit such com
PARSONS These reports show the number OF failures
each year, the whole number OF firms In business
and the amount OF liabilities OF firms failing. in
the following table there added for each year
the exchanges through all clearing houses. Although
a large part OF the amount Is at all times due 10
speculation In 1881 and 1852, It is also true that
many Of the failures and OF the largest are due
TO the same cause. The data thus given enable the
number Of commercial disasters TO be compared with
the number OF firms doing business, and the amount
Of defaulted liabilities to be- compared with the re-
corded transactions on which payment was made
through clearing houses:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16
FUNERAL OF WILLIAM Fl. WICKHAI.
TOPICS IN NEw.JERSE>

The last tributes OF love and respect from MS 'e''
low-men were yesterday afternoon paid to the mem
Dry Of exMayor william HILL Wickham VINO d'eu
on Friday morning at his home, No. 33o Lexington
ave. The body was placed In richly ornamened'
cioth-covered casket. about which vioets INES
and were strewn in DrOfusion. The calm lea
lures OF the dead man. ~ natural as In the iuii
bloom Of health, uncovered and many expressions
OF heartfelt regret heard the friends hiea
oy the caslet. A plate upon the casket bore the
name and the Oates OF his birth and death
The Rev. DR.. Charles n. Parkhurst, Of the Madi-
son Square Presbyterian Church. conducted the services
ana was assisted By the Row Dr. Tucker Of Andover'
ana the Rev. Mr.. Moir Of the Church OF the Holy
Communion.
The burial will be at Shutdown l.. L.. this morn
ing Many prominent men present. among
mem being Ex-Mavor Abram 5. Hewitt. Ex-M'yor
hugn j. Grant, Jordan l.. Mott. Arthur ii. Masten.
stephen A. Walker. Colonel B. +. Watson Judge Law
renee Justice Van wyck. Francis Lynde stetson'
commissioner Of Public Works DAILY. ex-Collector