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Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
MEN AND WOMEN HANGED.
A Mississippi NIob's Punishment OF
Poisoner-

a Poisoner-
Two men and two women. all colored. have
been lynched near Quincy, Miss, fifteen
miles from Aberdeen. Two weeks before
Thomas Woodruff and five children were
taken violently i'll, and two OF the
children died. Woodruff and the others
still hnger. with little hope of recovery. A
number OF neighbcrs also became very i'll
while attending the sick family. Examina-
fion of the well on the premises disclosed
three packages Of rat poison in il, and suspi-
cion pointed to . coiored man, Ben jackson,
who was arrested, but was taken By crowd
OF mer from the officers during the inquest
and hanged
The next day the jury examined Hahsley
jackson. Ben's wife, and Lou Carter. his
mother-in law, who testified to knowledge
OF Ben's intention to purchase poison for
the purpose accomplished. The jury dis
charged them A crowd OF armed men took
them out and hung them as participants Ii
the conspiracy.
Mahaley Jackson also testified that Rufus
Broyles, well-known colored man Of the
neighborhood, had furnished the money to
buy the poison He was seen ct Woods nill
few miles from the scenes Of the Other
tragedies. and next morning his dead body
was found hanging TO limb h that vicinity
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
THE LABOR WORLD.
rALY has Al, 900 miners.

ITALY has Al, 900 miners
GREAT BRITAIN uses 25O,O00,o 600 bricks
month.
A VERMONT mill is making 600 900, 900
postal cards.
The annual session of the Trade and Labor
Congress Of Canada opened at Montreal.
THE Carnegie works at Homestead, Penn,
resumed operations, giving employment to
1000 men.
ALL over the country mills and factories
which shut down for lack of orders are run
ming again.
FIVE Toledo (Ohio) factories that shut
down during the recent financial depression
has resumed operations.
THE Columbia Can Machine Company has
been organized at Saco, Me-, to manufacture
cans of all kinds, together with tools and
materials, with capital of $250,000.
The coal-miners in the Allegheny district
of Pennsylvania are willing to allow the
operators to keep part of their wages IN
trust or TO receive the same in script
THE labor organizations OF New Haven,
Conn, have asked the City Council to order
public works TO be started for the benefit oil
unemployed workmen, no contracts to be
made with middlemen.
The Alabama State Board Of Convict Com
missioners has decided to purchase twenty
five acres OF land near the present Peniten-
tiary and erect several factories, to be opera
ted by the States convicts.
JOHN w. HAYES, General Secretary Treas
urer of the Knights of Labor, is authority
for the statement that seven-eighths OF the
Knights OF Labor in this country are at
present out of employment
THE National Association of Stationary
Engineers has just held its annual conven-
fion in Cleveland Ohio. About $50 local
branches were represented by delegates. The
report Of Secretary p. G.. Monroe showed
considerable increase of membership during
the last year.
ssTHE day of high wages for glassblowers
and steel-workers is about ended, says +.
W. Gessner, formerly Secretary of the Glass
blowers Union. ssFor long time the glass
blowers maintained their wages by excluding
foreigners and limiting the number OF ap-
prentices. but now machine has been de-
vvised to do their work, and it win supersede
the blowers just SO surely as moving ma
chimes have taken the place Of scythes, and
as typesetting machines are displacing COM
positors.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
THE NATIONAL GAME.

MCCARTHY and Duffy lead Boston in stolen
bases.
Tw1rcHELL, OF Louisville, leadsthe League
An batting.
THIS has been remarkable year for home
teams to win.
ANsoN has tried twenty-eight different
players this season.
THE Bostons have signed Pitcher Quarles
OF the Southern League.
In Camp, Anson, LanSe and Parrot the
Chicagos have the tallest infleld in the
League.
CINcISNAr1's new first baseman, Motz, is
generally commended in the East for his ex-
cellent fielding.
SIX of the leading batters OF the Eastern
Association are old League and American
Association players.
LOT OF old professionals, out OF job,
have organized q team and are playing exhi-
bition games in the South.
BosToN is especially fortunate in having
hard hitting catchers. Bennett Merritt and
Camel have all been batting well this season.
GAsrR1GHT, Of Boston, has won eleven out
OF twelve games In which he has pitched for
the team, and the other one was tied when
he was succeeded by Nicholas in the ninth.
CAPTAIN PFEFFER, OF the Louisvilles, is
warm advocate Of the double umpire system.
he says tn6 new rules nave 8uOeu SO mucH 10
the umpires work that they are unable to ac-
complish it satisfactorily, no matter how
able or well disposed.
IT is not at all improbable that some of the
minor leagues next season will adopt some
measure preventing the weakening of clubs
by the selling of players. This is matter
that affects every club in league and it will
doubtless receive great deal Of attention.
ONE of the most peculiar things about the
Pittsburgs is their remarkable inability to
win games in the East. So far this season
they have made championship-hke records in
the West and at home, but when they get
away down East all their good qualities and
essentials OF victory disappear.
RECORD OF THE LRAdUE CLUBS.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
THE CONDITION OF CROPS.
Report Of the Department Of AgrI-
culture.


The September report OF the Statistician Of
the Department of Agriculture shows de-
cline in the condition of corn to rs. Z from 81
in the month of August, and 932 in July,
being decline of little over ten points from
the August and over sixteen from the july
report. The change is marked in nearly an
of the surplus corn States. In comparison
with the September reports Of the past ten
years only three were lower-70-1 In 1890,
72.3 in 1887 and 1876 in 1886. In the same
month in 1882 the condition was 1916, or
nearly three points higher than the present
month There has been general decline in
the condition throughout the country, which
has been caused by the widely prevailing
droufh
The condition OF the wheat, considering
both winter and spring varieties, when har-
vested was "a, against 853 in 1892. Tho
general average is the lowest since 1885.
when it was IL In Illinois, Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska the yield is small and OF an
inferior quality, much of it grading at No.
and under, and in some places it Is reported
to be worthless. In the Dakotas the yield i
light, while the quality is generally good.
In Iowa and Wisconsin the winter variety
yielded well, and was Of good quality. while
the spring variety yield was poor and of in
ferior quality. In Minnesota the yield has
been poor and not up to expectations, the
quality generally good, with some complaint
Of shrivelled grain In California and Ore
gon the quality Of the grain is good up to an
average, and the yield has been good. except
on low lands, where it was greatly damaged
There has been a further decline In the
condition Of oats during the past month, fh0
general average standing ar 74.9, against
7s.S in August In September, 1892, IT was
7S9 The condition OF rye Is g. Droufh
during the spring and early summer injured
the crop. Barley shows slight falling on
since last month. the general average being
63.8. against 84.6 In August. The returns Of
condition of tobacco on September are les
favorable than those for August 1, standing
at 723. The general cause OF the low con-
dition is the long-continuad drouth.
The cotton report Of the department shows
decline from the August condition OF the
crop of full points, being 7s-4 this month.
as against So4 last month.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
SSAIC CITY, N. j.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1893.
THE NEWS EPIToM7zED.
Eastern and Middle--statcs.

EIGHT deaths and many serious cases from
poisoning by toadstools were reported in
New York City and the suburbs.
THE yacht vigilant won the last of the trial
races off New York and was unanimously
chosen to defend the Americas Cup against
the Valkyrie.
THE United States cruiser Columbia re-
turned to the yard of her builders, the
Cramps, Philadelphia, with the record
her mast, and received an ovation as she
passed up the river.
HENRY NEWMAN & Co., dealers in
clothiers' supplies In New York City, were
forced to ask for an extention; liabilities
estimated at 81 ,622, 500, and the assets at
80, ,413, 1876.
THE three French war ships-Naiade, Nelly
and Rigault de Genouiily arrived at Boston,
Mass. having previously inspected the fish,
cries near New Foundland. They gave and
received the usual salutes.
THE worst fire that ever visitedthe town OF
Spencer, Mass, started in the afternoon at
4. AZ o'clock. and resulted in total loss that
will amount to $3.50, 900. Fully six acres of
buildings were totally destroyed.
FIVE little boys were arrested In Newark,
N. j., on suspicion of having caused the
death of Sophia Kraemer by pushing her un-
der moving freight car.
CASHIER Howard L. Balm, of the Home
State Bank of New York, has stolen 100000
OF the banks money, losing it in speculation
in Wall street.
THE marriage OF Maud Aiken at her faith
er's house near jamestown, N. Y, was fol-
lowed by numerous cases OF diphtheria
among the guests. The sickness is supposed
to have resulted from kissing the bride, who
had been suffering from slight cold. RAN
som Bratt, his wife and only child all died
of the dread disease.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
FOR SENATORIAL ACTION.
A Batch Of Important Nominations
BY President Cleveland.

BY President Cleveland.
The President hes sent to the Senate the
following nominations:
Theodore Runyon, OF New Jersey, Ambas-
sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary OF
the United States TO Germany.
Ex-Congressman Albert s. Willis, Of Ken
lucky, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States to the
Hawaiian Islands.
Henry M. Smythe. OF Virginia, to be Min
lister Resident and Consul General OF the
United States to Hayti.
Ellis Mills, OF Virginia, Consul General at
Honolulu, Hawaii.
William s. Carroll. OF Maryland, Consul
General at Dresden, Germany
United States Consuls-George J. Willis,
of Georgia, at Port Stanley and st. Thomas,
Canada John r. Mobley. Of Texas, at Aca-
pulce, Mexico Henry r. D. MacIver, of New
York, at Lenia, Spain George Keenan,, OF
Wisconsin, at Kehl, Germany Henry c. q.
Leopold Moore, OF New York, at Christopher,
West Indies.
A Washington special says that s'the ap-
pointment of the diplomatic and consular
Representatives to Hawaii is regarded at the
State Department as official notice that Ha-
waii is not to be annexed. There is here a
representative Of the annexationists with
whom negotiations for annexation could be
completed in fortnight were Mr.. Cleveland
anxious for annexation, and he would not
send men half around the world to represent
this country in islands about 20 be annexed.
Mr.. Blount's report will probably be made
public within two weeks.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
NEW G. A. R. COMMANDER.
The Military and Civil Career of Cap
tain John q. B. Adams.

Captain John G. B. Adams. the new Com
mander-in-Chief OF the Grand Army of the
Republic was born in Groyeland, Mass,
October 6, 1841, and spent his boyhood and
youth In that locality.
At the breaking out Of the war he enlisted
as private in Major Ben Perley Poore's
Rifle Battalion, which was afterward merged
into the Nineteenth, Massachusetts, Infantry
Regiment. He left the State on August %,
1861, as Sixth Corporal Of Company A of that
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
A MELON PATCH TRAP.
A Mother and Child Were Crossing
When q Gun Was Set on.

J. NJ. Pardon has a melon patch trap two
<or three miles from Brunswick, Md. and to
guard the melons had set four or five loaded
guns therein. Mrs. D. A. Hibler, whose
residence Is near. was going through the
patch with her fye-year-old son when one OF
the guns was discharged, killing the child
a2d wounding the mother. The neighbor-
hood Is incensed, and Pardon has left to es-
cape arrest.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
OUR PAPER MONEY.
a Total Amount or $1,112, 001, f9S
In the Country.

An of1cial statement prepared By tho
Treasury Department shows the total Of
Unitod States notes, Treasury notes, Na-
tional bank notes, gold and silver certif
icates. and currency certificates outstanding
to has
One-dollar notes, 4s9, ,s6s SIS two-dollnr,
eS1 tx, ass flvo-dollar, e253, ,387 ,809; -
dollar, e312, ,o34. 466 twenty -dolinS. ez1p,-
557, $50 1ffy-dolinf, ~, ,0W. los on1-hun-
dred-doilar. M, ,621, ,l7o ;nvs- s-hundred -dollcf,
80. .149. ooo; one-fhousand-dollnr, ~, ~,
800 nyelhousand-doilar e1z .QQ9 -
thousend-doliar, ~, ,e1o, 90 xotal, n,
o91, ,19o.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
Foreign.

AN alarming increase Of cholera is re-
ported in Nantes, France.
LOYAL land forces OF Brazil repulsed an
attempt OF the navy revolters to land near
Mctheroy, a suburb OF Rio Fifty-one OF the
rebels were killed and thirty wounded.
REvoLuT1oNIsrs in TUcuman, Argentina,
fought desperate battle with the Govern,
ment troops in the streets of Cordoba and
were victorious.
The Austrian Government suspended some
OF the rights OF the citizens OF Prague In or
der to put an end to the Young Czech agita-
ton.
THREE lives were lost by the burning OF a
lake steamer at bennington, Canada.
THE Regatta Committee OF the British
ROYAL Yacht Squadron awarded the Bren-
tons Reef Cup to the Navahoe.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16

TEE steward Of tho wrecked City of Savan-
nah tells curious story. Just before leav.
ing Boston lady who had taken passags
drove hastily tothe dock and stated that she
had changed her mind owning to . draam.
abe Had her baggage taken on and bought .
Eoilroad ticket % Gavannah. She oo1d ahe
dEoomod fho nh1p v1a lost.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16

A THRKE-YEAR-oLD child at Calhoun, Ga,
swallowed bean seed, which lodged Ia It's
Wtndpfpe and caused the death Or the child
1osoge The seed could ~ removed.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
Washington.

of the Mint at Denver, and Philip W. Hilder-
brand, Surveyor of Customs at Indianapolis,
have been called for by President Cleveland.
THE President has nominated Charles H.
J. Taylor, of Kansas, to be United States
Minister to Bolivia James Butcher. OF New
Jersey. for Collector or Internal Revenue for
the First District of New Jersey Charles B.
Aycock. United States Attorney for the East
ern District of North Carolina
THE interesting ceremony OF weighing the
White House baby has taken place with all
the eclat attending such an event. The
scale showed just nine pounds and quarter
REPRESENTATIVES of the country's boards
of trade met in convention in Washington
and adopted resolutions urging the Senate
to quickly pass the Silver Purchase Repeal
law.
FIRE in the cupola of the Corcoran Build
ing, in Washington, cut off all the Western
Union circuits and greatly retarded the tele-
graphic service.
THE President appointed Charles Wilson
Assistant General Superintendent OF the
Railway Mail Service.
THE Senate confirmed the following
nominations: Albert S. Willis, OF Kentucky,
United States Minister to the Hawaiian
Islands; Charlas H. Dickinson, Surveyor
General of Louisiana Beal Gather, Indian
Agent, Siletz Agency, Oregon.
THE new White House baby will be known
hereafter as Esther. This old-fashioned
name has been selected for the child by the
President and Mrs. Cleveland
Passaic City record., 1893-09-16
south and West.

CARDINAL. GIBBONS opened the Parliament
Of Religion in Chicago with prayer.
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY opened the Repub.
Ican campaign in Ohio with speech.
CAPTAIN CoNcAs, acting for the Govern
ment ofSpain, formally transferred the Col
umbus caravels to the United States at the
Worlds Fair. The boats were received by
Captain Berry Of the Michigan. The cere-
mony took place on the platform in front OF
the Administration Building, with President
Palmer as the presiding officer.
Ar the Parliament OF Religions in Chicago
Dharmapala. the Hindu scholar, assailed
Christianity papers by Cardinal Gibbons,
the Rev. Lyman Abbott and others were
read Ohio Day was celebrated.
ANOTHER case of yellow fever developed at
Brunswick. Ga, making the fourth since the
renewed outbreak.
THE Democratic campaign was opened in
Ohio by large gathering in Newark. which
was addressed by Lawrence T. Neal, the can
didate for Governor.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
Line the Roads With Trees.

The matter of shaded roads is one
upon which the movement for road
improvement and for forestry preser-
vation may work together. The ends
Of the later, or at least part of th em,
would certainly be subserved by the
planting of trees along mile after mile
of country roads. 1t would add con-
siderable amount to the forest area of
State, and would thus affect the rain =
fall to some degree. The added beau
ty and comfort of highways is an item
of no mean importance, and is worth
considering in new country, while
the added expense, once the system Of
road-making and mending is estab-
lished, would be comparatively small.
In the Prairie States especially, the
plan is eninently desirable, and should
be adopted wherever the work for road
improvement gets hold. There is no
reason why it should not be carried
out as successfully in Minnesota as in
Massachusetts,, in Missouri as in New
Hampshire, and with our immense
variety of forest growth it should be
possible to make tree-lined avenues an
agreeable diversifcation of the land
scape, without great expense or trou-
ble.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
CLEYELAND'S POLICY.
The Income Tax is Generally Acceptable,
West and South.

WASHINGTON. May 22.-Western
and southern Democrats in Washing
ton are overjoyed because "f the Presi-
dent and Secretary Of the Treasury
having decided to recommend the in
come tax when Congress ccnvenes.
Many of the eastern Democrats, too,
are in favor of this mode of taxation,
although there is no doubt that the
prevailing sentiment. of the eastern
men of all parties is against an income
tax.
The President and Secretary Of the
Treasury, however, became convinced
that in order to reform the tariff and
keep the revenues up to the needs of
the government it would be necessary
either to pass an income tax or restore
the duty on sugar, and perhaps coffee
and tea. Every western Democrat
with whom the President eonversed
gave notice that the reimposition Of
the sugar duty would not be accepted
by the west; on the contrary would be
resisted to the bitter end. The Presi-
dent was further informed that tax
on the breakfast table would not be
popular anywhere in the country, and
more particularly in the west.
The President has made very care
full study of the question. He has read
the debates in the English house Of
commons on the income tax PROPOSE
ton and has discussed the subject with
some of the ablest economists in the
country. There is no doubt that Sec
retary Carlisle's influence with him is
very great and in this matter that he
had the benefit of the earnest advice Of
the Secretary in favor Of the imposition
of an income tax. The belief here Of
incomes of not more than $1,000 year
will escape the tax, although there are
several members of Congress in favor
Of putting the limit at $1,000.
This, however, is a matter that Con-
gress will have to settle. The Presi-
dent is committed to the general theory,
and will recommend it in his message
to Congress, but in all likelihood he
will make no suggestions regarding the
details, but will leave that to Congress
to work out in its own way.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
Bow the Days Follow Each Other Around
the World.

[Goldthwait's Geographical Magazine.l
The maritime powers of the world
have agreed to make London the time
centre, and the 1S0th degree of longi-
tude from London (or Greenwich) as
the point where the day changes. This
meridian, therefore, leads the day.
Its passage under the le0th, or mid
night, celestial meridian marks the be-
ginning ofa new day for the earth,
hence to-day becomes tomorrow. We
have a new date for the month, and
new day for the week in the transition.
It is here, then, that Sabbath was
born just to the west of Honolulu, but
bear in mind that the day travels west
ward, therefore this newborn day does
not visit Honolulu until it has made
the circuit of the globe. Honolulu and
New Zealand are only about so degrees
apart in longitude, but they are a
whole day apart as regards any partic.
ular day, because the point at Whlcn
the day changes lies between them.
Sabbath born on the lS0th meridian is
long way off from Honolulu. 1t is
morning there, too, but it is Saturday
morning, while in New Zealand it is
not yet day, but the Sabbath dawn is
breaking. 1t is clear. then, that if it is
Friday (uear midnight) at Honolulu to
the east Of the line, and Sabbath (near
l a. NJ to the west of it, ship which
sails from Honolulu to New Zealand,
or from east to west must sail out Of
Friday into Sabbath, and thereby skip
the intervening Sunday, and gain a
day; and vice versa, ship which sails
from New Zealand, where Sabbath has
begun, to Honolulu, where Friday has
just ended and Saturday begun, or;
from west to east, must lose day.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
The TclautoSrapli.

Another great and important elec-
trical invention has been added to the
list. 1t is one whose usefulness will
give it prominent place beside the
telegraph and telephone. Some weeks
ago Professor Elisha Gray's telauto-
graph was tested in the presence of a
number Of newspaper men, scientists,
and Others This new instrument, the
result of the inventors careful and
patient study and deft manipulation,
provides the means by which writing
can be done b. electricity. 1t consists
Of transmitter and receiver at each
end of line, which may stretch across
a street or across continent. \ per-
son sending a communication takes
the pen and writes what he has to say
on the paper arranged on the instru-
ment. At the other end the message
is exactly reproduced on the paper
placed on the receiver, and the person
for whom the message is intended has
an autograph letter whose authenticity
can not be disputed. Higher criticism
would not be necessary to discover
dual authorship. The very motions of
the pen on the receiver reproduce the
peculiarities of the writers. The use
fulDess Of this successful invention is
at once apparent. 1t is an advance
upon both the telegraph and telephone
and will doubtless rank along with
them in facilitating the business Of
life.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-31
ERRONEOUS RUMORS ABOUT MIR
CLEVELAND.
He Has Not Decided in Favor OF an In
come Tax, Nor in Favor of Abolish
ing the Tax on State Banks
Sherman Law Must Go!
1Ph;ladelphia Public Ledger, I

Philadelphia Public LEDGER
WASHINGTON, May PA despatch
to the St. Louis Republic makes the
positive statement, which that paper
treats as san advance message from the
President" that it has been decided by
the President to recommend the restor-
alton of the income tax, the repeal Of
the 10 per cent. tax on the circulating
notes of State banks, and the repeal Of
the Sherman act.
This is announced as "the Admins
tration programme to date" and it is
asserted that the Secretary of the Trea-
sury and Mr.. Cleveland are in entire
accord on this matter.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
despatch alluded to is said to be given
with "authority," AM assured by au-
thority that is quite as good that the
President has not definitely decided to
recommend the restoration of the in
come tax. There is no douot tnaI
Western and Southern members of
Congress who favor the restoration Of
this tax have discussed the question
with the President, and urged him to
recommend its reimposition, but these
gentlemen have evidently mistaken the
silence of the President, or rather his
failure to disapprove their arguments
and recommendation for acquiescence.
He has not said nor intimated to any
person that he favors the reimposition
of an income tax, nor has he expressed
purpose to ;ain with that recon-
mendation for the repeal of the tax on
circulating notes of State banks.
His opinion of the Sherman act is so
we'll known that there can be no doubt
he will recommend the repeal of that
measure.