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Assassinated nj His door.

WOOSTER, o., Nov. 21.-Last night w.
A. Mackey, well-known agricultural i'm
plement agent was called to his door and
shot in the head by an unknown man and
mortally wounded. Mackey had his life in
sured for $4,000, and the report is in circu-
lation that the crime was committed to OBJ
tain this insurance.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
They auarrcIed About a Woman.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
LEBANON, Ind, Nov. 21.-Jesse Alum
and James Vaughn, farmers north of this
city, quarreled last night over the formers s
wife. Alum drew a revolver and shot
Vaughn in the arm, inficting a painful
flesh wound He then fatally shot himself.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
ANOTHER MUNCIE FAILURE.
Big Shoe and Clothing House Fails
from Lnck of business.

from Lnck Oh business.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, Nov H.-C. A. Winters,
proprietor of the Winters shoe and cloth
Ing store. this evening made an assignment
of all his goods to w. II. Campbell, of
Hartford City. The stock is valued at
from $4,000 to $4,000. with $4,000 Indebted
ness. There is about $1,000 of preferred
claims The store is one of the largest in
the city Mr. Winters was in business in
Hartford City several years, and was a
leading merchant at Warren, Ind, from
where he came TO Muncie three years ago.
The dull trade the past few months caused
fha failura
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
Movements of stenmers.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-Arrived: Mani
toba, from London; Norwegian. from Glas-
cow; France, from London; Elbe and Dres-
den, from Bremen.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 21.-Passed: Lain,
from New York, for Bremen.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
4 Painful Case.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
TOMMY tailor has agreed TO make suit
of clothes for and not charge me cent
for them.
Dick-You must have struck snap
Tom-Hardly; he says I'll have to pay
cash.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
Not I'm Thankful Mood.

San Antonio (TeXas) News Dem)
If Mr.. Cleveland's administration has
furnished the country with anything to
be thankful for the News has failed to
note it. Ruin, want, bankruptcy idle in
dustries and pauperized labor are the only
tangible results of his stubborn and un-
democratic policy
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
A Commodore Missing.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l-It is stated at
the Navy Department that they have
knowledge OF the present whereabouts of
Commodore Stanton. He was expected in
Washington about the middle of the month,
and action looking to the appointment OF
rival.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
The Only DECENT Course.

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
A change OF policy is compulsory and the
only decent course left TO Gresham is to
resign.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
Advantage of being Married.
Atchison Globe.

AICNlSOu blODe.
II a man doesn't know how much money
he spends on cigars IL is because ne has
no wife.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-22
Denth az ChnrIes MnnIesnn.

LONDON, Nov. 21.-Charles Mapleson died
here yesterday evening OF rheumatic gout.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
Found in the Sewer.

Before commencing operations the
London sewer hunters provide them
selves with bull eye lantern, can
vas apron. and q pole some seven OF
eight feet in length, having an iron at
tachment at one end somewhat in the
shape of hoe. For greater conyen-
fence, the lantern is invariably fixed to
the right shoulder, so that when walk
ing the light is thrown ahead, and when
STOPPING it's rays shine directly to their
feet. Thus accoutred they walk slowly
along through the mud, feeling with
their nakel feet for anything unusual,
at the same time raking off the accu-
mutation from the walls and picking
up from the crevices any article they
see. Nothing is allowed to escape
them, no matter what its value, pro-
vided it is not valueless. Old iron,
pieces of rope, bones, current coin of
the realm, and articles of plate and
jewelry-all is good fish which comes
to the hunters net. With finds in
the way of coins, copper of course pre-
dominates but silver and even gold
pieces are often found. Shirt studs,
diamond rings, silver spoons, silver
drinking vessels, and many other quite
out place articles swell the list from
time to time. Lucky finds such as
those above mentioned do not deter the
hunter from keeping a sharp lookout
for less valuable articles as they float
by. His eagle eye" from long prac-
tice is capable of Judging the worth of
the floating refuse before it would be
even discernible to the ordinary OBJ
server. Mile after mile does the sewer
hunter traverse under ground until a
tolerably heavy bag is result of his
labor. Night or day is all one to him.
Some gangs enter the sewers at night
and work on until morning, while
others carry out the search only during
the daytime. Rats abound everywhere,
some of them being of enormous size,
large enough to brighten any beginner
at the game. The experienced hunter,
however, takes no notice of them, and
the rats are only too pleased to sneak
away in the darkness.
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Unwise Experimenting.

We lave all met the people whose
own physical well-being who eat and
drink by rule take medicine at stated
intervals, but yet are always ailing. AS
soon as man of this type has one weak
part of his system renovated, some
other part breaks down. and he has to
60 to work at that He drinks sour
beverages to thin his blood, and lies on
his back, with his head toward the
north, to make it circulate properly.
When he imagines that his liver is act
ing in a reprehensible manner he slim
ulates it, or props it up, with a horse
back ride before breakfast; and if his
stomach does not perform its functions
with accuracy and dispatch, he foods
it with cold water before going to bed,
or irrigates it with a seidlitz powder
the moment he gets up in the morning.
He is always doing or taking something
to head off some infrmity. When he
is not engaged in fortifying his system
with Graham bread or oatmeal, he is
developing some weak muscle with
dumb bells, or trying to create an ap-
petite by saving half cord of wood
before the dew is off the grass. He
wears cork soles in his shoes, claiming
that they act as rheumatic insulators.
He is fond OF explaining how much
phosphorus there is in corn, fat pro-
ducing qualities in cheese, and sacchar-
ina nattar in wheat He talks learn.
eddy about the adulteration of food,
tells gloomy stories of the effect hard
boiled eggs have on the digestive or
gans of the idiot who eats them. He
keeps himself sick trying to get well,
wretched in efforts to attain ease. and
goes into an early grave from the eff
fects of trying to lengthen his days.
To sum all up, he is a social nuisance,
with the redeeming feature, that he
Furnishes himself more than he does
anybody else.
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THE FOREIGNERS WE GET.

Official Statement of the immigration to
this Country for 1892.
During the year 1892 the total number
of immigrants landed in the United
States was SAB, 4S7, against 5000 in
1891. The greatest decline was in the
arrivals from Russia, which have fallen
from 1917 in the preceding year to
SO, 267 in 1892. This does not include
the arrivals from Poland, which num-
bered 90, sS9 in 1892 Germany's contri-
button to the country's population in
1892 was 1928. against 1913, 401 in 1891.
The tide of immigration from Italy has
fallen from IS, 4S1 in 1891 to 60.257 in
1892. The immigration from the United
Kingdom has fallen from 120,722 in
1891 to 107, 1876 in 1892. From Austria
Hungary the arrivals numbered 1926
in 1892, against 7O,711 in 1891. The
country from which immigration to the
United States increased in 1892 was
Sweden and Norway, with a contribution
of 1924 against 81, 262 in 1891.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
The CockrOach.

One of the worst enemies which the
cockroach has is the scorpion. the lat
ter being able to run it down even in
the open. 1t was in Jamaica, West In
dies, that the writer, sitting in room,
carpeted, as all rooms are in the West
Indies, noticed a cockroach crawling
out from chink between two boards.
Those West Indian cockroaches are not
the water bugs of this State. They are
large, loathsome-looking insects, from
an inch to an inch and half long, and
the curses of the tropics, as they will
eat everything, destroying In short
time boots, books and clothing, and
they leave horrible odor behind hem.
Its only use seems to be that of scav-
enger.
the particular cockroach in question
came most cautiously from its retreat.
The cockroach was on the forage and
the watcher was waiting until it was far
enough..from its home to give him some
chance of squashing out its life.
The chance never came, for of sud
den the roach darted off at full speed, a
rate which is by no meaps to be de-
spised, in an almost opposite direction
to it's home. In hot pursuit vas scor-
pion, its tail bent over its back, going
at its utmost speed, which was much
greater than that of the cockroach. The
latter was soon held in the claws of the
former, and a sting by the tail seemed
to kill it, apparently, instantly. The
writer had never seen scorpion per
form, but the good deed of this one did
not prevent it soon finding home
among some of its relatives in bottle
of spirits.
1t may be interesting to note that
scorpions apparently have mo power to
harm the common fowl. Fowls are
passionately fond Of the roach. and the
colored people in their quaint proverbs,
have these two on the subject
When roach glib party, him neber OK
fowls, and IF roach eber so drunk,
him neber cross fowl yard.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
CLEVELAND S CABINET.
FIVE MEMBERS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN SEATED.

Gresham Has Accepted-Carlisle, Lamont
and Bissell are Certainties -Other Names
are Said to be Fixed-But the Slate May
be Broken.
1t may now be stated authoritatively
that Judge Walter @. Gresham, of Hill
nois, is T. be Secretary of State in Mr..
Cleveland's cabinet. The members of the
coming cabinet who are fully settled
upon up to date are said on what appears
to be good authority to be as follows:
Secretary of Stakeholder 9. Gresh-
am, of Indiana.
Secretary Of the Treasury-John e.
Carlisle, of Kentucky.
Secretary of War-Daniel S. Lamont,
of New York.
Postmaster General Wilson S. Bissell,
of New York.
Other possibilities are said to be Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, Secretary of AgrIcul-
ture; Hilary Herbert. of Alabama, Sec
rotary of the Navy; George A. jerks, of
Pennsylvania, or William L. Wilson, of
West Virginia, Attorney-General.
Considerable doubt, however, may be
said to exist IN regard to the last ehree
appointments. No name has yet been
mentioned for Secretary of the Interior.
Of the members of the cabinet author
itatlvely selected Mr.. Gresham may be
said to be the leading Independent in the
country, while Mr.. Carlisle is the leading
Democrat Mr.. Lamont and Mr.. Bs5eli
are personal friends of the President
elect, Lamont having been his Private
Secretary during the previous admins
tration, while Mr.. Bissell was formerly
Cleveland's law partner in the firm of
Bass, Cleveland C Bissell, at Buffalo.
Both are men of high character and Ia $
political experience.
In spite of the confident reports made
there is possibility that the cabinet slate
may be changed at the last moment.
This has happened before on the eve of a
President taking Office.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
sazsssssa <s-sssssss.1.azs;s1zss ezs
DANGEROUS RAINDRoPs.
Why They Do Not Kill Those They Fall

Why They Do Not Kill Those They Fall
Upon.
Of course we all know that it would
be an utter impossibility for storm
clouds to form and rain to fall we're it
not for the forty odd miles of atmosphere
that rise above our heads. But, sup
posing it were possible for human be.
ings to exist in an atmosphere that only
rose to a level with their mouths, and
that storm clouds could form in the
region outside such low-grade atmos
phere, then every raindrop would prove
as fatal to earthly creatures as if it were
a steel bullet fired from dynamite
gun, says Nature.
All falling bodies, whether they be
crystal raindrops or meteorites, fall
with what philosophers term "a uniform
accelerated motion )" in other words, if
a body be moving at certain velocity
at the expiration of one second from the
beginning of it's fall it will be moving
with twice that velocity at the expira-
ton of two seconds, gaining speed at
uniform rate throughout the whole
course of its fall.
Careful experiments have shown that
the rate per second at which bodies &C.
quire velocity in falling through the air
is thirty-two feet per second at the enc
of the first second from starting. At
the end of the next second it is going at
The rate of sixty-four feet per second.
and so or through the whole time OF
falling. Where the velocity is known
the space through which the body has
fallen may be ascertained by multiply.
ing the velocity at that period by the
number of seconds during which it has
been falling and dividing the result by
two.
This rule applies, however, only to
bodies falling through vacuum. The
resistance of our atmosphere materially
retards raindrops, hailstones, aerolites
and all other bodies which fall through
it, and were it not for the resistance it
presents, every rainstorm would be dis
astrous to the human race, as each drop
would fall with velocity great enough
to penetrate The full length of full
grown mans body.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
a HOSPITAL INVESTIGATION.

Affairs at the Poughkeepsie Institution to
Be Looked Into.
The State Lunacy Commission of New
York in few days will begin an investi-
CATION Of the affairs of the Hudson River
State Hospital at Poughkeepsie. The
scope of the investigation will include
medical, financial, administrative, and
executive work, and the treatment OF
patients. The ability of the administra-
tive officers will also be inquired into.
The investigation is to be conducted
under the law by one of the Commission.
ers, although the members of the Board
will all be present. 1t will be carried on
at Poughkeepsie and will have the assist
ance Of the Attorney Generals office
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
FoRTY.THREE BURNED TO DEATH.
Only Three Escaped From the New Haml
shire Insane AsyIum

ONLY Three Escaped From the New Hamp-
shire Insane Asylum.
A terrible catastrophe occurred at Do
yer, N. H., when the insane asylum of
Strafford county workhouse, about four
miles out of the city, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire, and forty three of the
inmates were burned to death. The
building was two-story wooden affair,
130x35 feet in dimensions, and burned
like finder, and only three of the inmates
survive. Waterman Wilbur Chesley,
who discovered the fire, made the follow
ing report:
II was making my 10 o'clock round,
and went into the asylum. / smelled
smoke and saw light in cell occupied
by Mrs. LaFountaine. | opened the
door and saw fire as big as bushel bas-
ket at the foot of her bed. | pulled her
out of the room and closed the door and
called Mr.. Driscoll, the keeper, and his
wife. He helped lie to break the locks
and give general alarm to all the in
mates. ! saw the LaFountaine woman
go out into the yard. The fire ran rap
idly through the building as if it was sat
urated with oil. There was no way OF
getting the insane people out. had to
run through sheet of flame to get to the
outside door myself. I gave a general
alarm all through the big almshouse, but
could do nothing to save the asylum.
The building was erected about TWEEN =
years ago, and cost $16. 900.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
Resisting Federal Courts.

A fight has been precipitated in South
Carolina between the State authorities
and the Federal courts. The issue was
created in an attempt of the State to
collect taxes against railroads declared
to be invalid by the United States court.
Governor Tillman notified all sheriffs to
ignore the order of the Court and to levy
on the roads, which has been done.
The contention will undoubtedly be car
ried to the United States Supreme
Court.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
sloop and Forty-five Cinnamon Lost.

The smuggling sloop Cornelius, which
left Cadboro Bay early in December
with forty-five Cinnamon aboard. des-
tined for California, has not been heard
from since. Shortly after she left Cad
boro Bay there was a succession Of
severe gales. one of which it is feared
sealed her fate. The sloop was only
thirty feet long.
The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
Advertise in the BEE.

Rooms with Beard: In frs,
,..ss house aud Ill d popular partl
o. the city. Cars pass the do
922-11 81 Ii.
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HE INDUSTRIAL Bull
ING AND SAVING co.

leans money to buy or bull
mes. Shares 81 eacn, payabi'
IL nfhIy. Divid, nds declared "
" January. Secletary's otic
jU9 + g., II. W. Op'n 9 a. M. =
: y. I'll. Monthly meetings at Lib
III NJ mUrlal I, hurch, cor. III :
ID Z sts., u. W., brst Monua
'=ht III every moitIs.
EENKY b BAKER,
cecrefai}
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PRICE Of LOTS ONLY i1Q0.

TERMS OF PURCHASE: Five dol
lars cash and two dollars 70,
month, with nc interest,". Hal
cash, 10 per cent discount; all cash
20 per cent discount.
Money will be advanced to oar
ties des ring To build.
Ii a husband purchaser dies.
before his purchase is G. mpIeted
a deed In tee will be given to bis
widow, if the property nas been
improved, or If not. the amount
already paid will be returned her
The above presents an opportu.
nifty never before offered the Col
ored people of the city If Wash
lngton to secure a valuable lot
either as all investment or for a
home Oh monthly payments, and
at The same time, entitled them
TO a vote and Voice III the Gov
ernmes OF the country.
Those who apply first, will have
the hrs! eiIUIc,- OF lots.
Already many have made THEN
homes In the "Iity OF Bowie
anu lots purchased on Tue above
tern.s Should double IN value WIFI.
III lie fexI TX nluatbs
Fo' tur'heI lhfOrmali % Apply e
W. CALVIN CHASE, ag.nt.
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fly Cents Per Week
81 \Jf
soc. Per Weel.

iii buy you a home VI III.
CITY OF BOWIE.
% CrS. PSa WEEK.
re first opportunity otf,r-r
o,ed Pc 'pl to seeafs Homes
Weekly pay ments Oh - cent,
eek or Two Dollars per mouth
1000 LOTS fGR .IE.
the city Of Bowie, State g.,
aryland Only 20 minutes ride
ON Washington. Double Track
: trains stop daily. Fare 10 and
I'm Washington, only Six cent,
y Communication ticket. lie inrc
.on of the Baltimore aud Poto.
dc and Pope Greek RAILROAD
telegraph aud Express offices,
lie best depot on the Baltimore
nj Pot C ra lrOad. Stores
.lurehes an- hools already built,
he most beaIthtul spot In the
State OF Maynard. Title to prop.
srty perfect. No Taxes, and Dur.
;hasers If lots will receive ttei,
leeds, with certificate of title
Free "
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subscribe to and advertise
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UFFICEns:
PreslGen', Jro. X Lynch
Vice Pres, Joseph ". COle
Cashier, Douglass b. MeLaEy
tieasnfsf, l.. l.. bailey
Secretary, lie. Baker
DIRECTORS.
Jno. 4. Lynch, g BaIIey'
Joseph W. Cole, W. McKlnlay
John A. Pierre, j. A. Lewis
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W. 5. Montgomery,
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w. .. Loftoh, j. A. johnson.
a. v. Iancli, IL. r. baker,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-12
Paper, Pens and ink.

Paper, as we learn from recent dis,
coveries, was in use in Egypt as fa1
back as $500 B, c., and not merely,
as old Pl!ny thought, from the time OF
Alex nder the Great The ancients,
it appears, knew more about pens and
ink than they usually have credit for.
The Greeks made silver and other me.
uallic pens. and Latin manuscripts
show a great variety OF inks-red,
purple, green, blue, silver, and gold.
The great Floreffe Bible in the British
Museum shows the skill of the penman
in the twelfth century in the use OF
this mode OF decoration; and in some
what later times it was no unusual
thing for scribes to annotate thei1
texts in colored inks red, green, VIC
let, blue, using each color for dis
tinct class OF notes, historical, bio.
graphical, geographical, etc. Scientif.
ic works are often made exceedingly
attractive by co lored diagrams, chron.
ologies by architectural arcades and
ornamental panels.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-12
Society Shocked.

Cleveland. Jan. 7.--Whcn the suicide
of McZck in Chicago revealed the tact
chat Mrs. Marion Hathaway of this city
was his companion in his last dcbaurh, 1t
was predicted that the effect would not
hc confined to the family Immediately
concerned. The Hathaways are wealthy
people. of the best society, and the d!-
vorcr promptly obtained by the wronged
husband and the speedy retirement OF the
fallen wife to her fathers home We're OK
pcctpl. hathaway. rs soon as he as
crrtaincd the whole story of his wife 5
downfall. openly Threatened that the first
time he mot Will p. Todd. the vice preSi-
dent and manager of the Ioplifr Manu-
featuring company. i" would thrash him
within al inch of is life Last Ne'ln"s-
day they mot il RumSey's turkish bath
rooms on Erie street. and hathaway
Knocked Todd down at sight and gave
him such Il beating that he did not Vent
urr out upon the streets until today. This
afternoon Mrs. Todd. the daughter Of
Mr.. and NJ. Topliff. also prominent i'll
money and society circles. brought suit
for divorce. She alleged many acts of
barharorS cruelty. asserting that her hus-
band hrutally struck and abused her
rrnny times in Cleveland and other
cities They were married III 1855. So
crty is much disturbed over this last
lcIOuncment.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-12
Dun'S Weekly Review.

New York. Jan. 7.---R. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review Of trade: The business of the
new year opens well. In every part Of the
country. and apparently in almost every
branch of business the traders are looking
forward to year of large transactions. But
i'll financial circles the year opens with a
considerable feeling of uncertainty owing to
the revival of gold exports which will be
about S2WD.aW for the current week, and to
the doubts about tic action of congress.
Trade at Chicago is fair in volume. with
active speculation in products and stocks
and money in strong demand at per cent.
money in good demand. as at ST. Paul,
though trade is uuiet and collections slow
there and ut Minneapolis. Business at St
Louis is strong. At Kansas City iObbny
trade is goDn. receipts of liv. stock fair and
of grain li"tr.
Speculation in stocks is depressed by mon
cary :iAi"tE. Government and OF her large
disbursements make the money market
easier. but bankers expect exports of gold
fest with reports of reduced prices for pig
by Sollir Southern concerns.
I'll" most prosperous year ever known in
textile manufactures leaves the full prOlllc-
ton of most mills sold for months ahead,
and the new year opens with great strength
in Wonl"nS and cOttOnS Above all monetary
uncertainties. the enormous demand for tex
Tile fabrics appears To give an assured fut-
nrc for some months 10 the manufacture
and trade in these branches.
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days num-
Der $40. as compared with 4 total Of 49, for
the corresponding Wce.. last year.