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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
MILL WORKERS JUBILANT.
RIKE OF THE NEW BEDFORD OP- ERdTIVES AT LIST ENDED.

When the Mills start Up To- Morrow Morn-
 ing the Workers win Flock to the Gates
 In Happy Frame of Mind-, ufrersd
 During the Long Siege.
 New Bedford. Oct. S.-The biggest strike New Bedford ever had, Is prob ably ended. The strike has lasted eight weeks and during that time much more suffering has been endured by the idle operatives than will ever. be known. The mills will start their ma chlnery on Thursday morning and the operatives will flock Into the gates in a happy frame of mind. During the past week they have suffered from lack of warmth and food.
 The committee appointed by the spin ners on Friday last consisting of Moss, Ross, Rown, Robinson, Lamb, Han cock, Perrin and Barnes to-day met the mill treasurers. Among the mill men were A. c. Pierce, A. G. Pierce, jr., Otis N. Pierce, Manley M. Adams, Joseph F, Knowles and Benjamin Will cox. The conference lasted until 5:30. When the spinners' representatives came out the following was handed the New England Associated Press repre- sentative by President Rown of the Spinners' union:
 The spinners in conference with the mill treasurers. mutually agreed that the spinners of the city go back to work on reduction of 5 per cent. in wages, with the understanding that whatever final settlement is made in Fall River shall apply here.
 Immediately after the meeting of the two bodies the spinners proceeded to Spinners' hall, where the conference committees of the various labor organi- zations were in waiting to hear the result of the conference. The meet ing was immediately called to order by Chairman Connolly. The proceedings with the manufacturers was gone over and after quite a discussion the repre- sentatives of the various unions re- tired and discussed the advisability of accepting the agreement. In a few moments the representatives recon vened and practically agreed to go to work. The spinners agreed that if the treasurers would not agree to take all the operatives back under he agree mer1t mat they would not go in them selvesT'but it is said there will be no trouble on that score, as this was the understanding at the conference with the manufacturers. <.
 The operatives about, town tonight were feeling very jubilant. It was learned that the places of the operatives who have left the city on account of the strikers will be kept open for a week after the mills resume. This was condition imposed on the treasurers by the spinners' committee.
 One of the manufacturers was seen after the meeting and he said that the meeting was very harmonious and he spoke of the representative spin ners as smart men. For his part he was glad that the matter was settled He was asked if the weavers were going to work with the rest of the unions and he replied: "The weavers should have less fault to find than any of the other unions for they have been cut the least
 twill they be furnished with particu- lars, if they ask for them?" was asked.
 Why they have about all they want now" was the answer and the man. ager would say no more.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Put Dynamite in . Stove.

Ironwood, Mich., Oct. S.---John Ravel, a miner, this evening put half . box of dynanite in . kitchen stove to thaw out forase in the in-,rning. The family, ,consistiug Of seven persons, gather ed about the stoyea .!e2 ceo2nyeff1H& with . neighboE, Arss fRasters2n Ing,x min utes there was tfErrtte exf}dSfon, and the, following were .k}lleds Nm Rayel. Peter Ravel, Dan Ravel. Louise Ravel, Mrs. Louis PeterSon. The house was blown to atoms. x,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Barracks Blown Up,

Panama, Oct. S.-A dispatch to the Star and Herald from Granada, Nic- aragua, says: A terrible catastrophe has occurred here. The militray bar racks have been blown up and a whole quarter of the city has been badly dam aged. The number of dead Is estimated as 200. The number of wounded is much greater, but no exact estimate is yet obtainable.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Opening Concert and Ball.

The winter season of the Cecilia Sing ing society opened last evening with a concert and ball in Germania hall. The program included selections by the soci- ety accompanied by Hauser's orchestra under the direction of Prof. Schwick- ardi, solos by M. Mccarthy, A. Schnutz, w. Grab and Hedlin. After the con- cert a ball was held.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Was Removed to the Hospital.

John Gormley of 66 Fillmore street, who is well known to the police, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Officer Curran and locked up charged with drunkenness. Last evening he was ta- ken violently i'll in the lookup. Police Surgeon Gaynor was summoned and found the man an.suffering from water on the brain. He was immediately remov- ed to the hospital.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
It Was a Desperate Fight.

Baltimore, Oct S.-The fall meeting of the Pimlico Driving club closed to- day after two heats of the unfinished 2:20 class had been desperately fought for. Guy won the fifth heat in a driv- ing finish with Bravado and Panstone close behind him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Sedgwick's Widow Wins.

Springfield, Oct. S.-In the superior .annrs-te-day the Boston and Albany railroad, which had been fndicted for the death of F. H. Sedgwick, the ex- press messenger, killed at the Chester accident, year ago, was fined $2,700. This is practically civil suit, as the money goes to the widow of the vic- tim,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
Dead Body Found in the Water.

Bridgeport, Oct. S.-The dead body of man very much decomposed was found this morning off the beach ip Fairfield. From his clothes the maa had evidently been sailor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09

Boston Defeated Bridgeport, ,,,,,:
 Bridgeport, Oct 8.-The Bostons easi- Iy defeated Jim O'Rourkes Bridgeports at Athletic park this afternoon before. hooo spectators.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-09
John O'Brien Knocked Out.

London, Oct.S.-Frank Craig and John O'Brien, pugilists, met at the National Sporting club this evening. O'Brien was knocked out in the second round. The purse was 1900.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
Truly q Serious Case.

Once I was assistant to an elderly
doctor in Ontario, who also ran a drur
store. Hey as peppery as a cayenne
pod, and from time to time customers
and patients had sprung jokes on him
just for the sake of hearing him blow
off.
On one occasion well-dressed fell
low called at the shop and asked the
doctor to prescribe for q breaking out
and rash on his left arm. The doc
tor examined the limb and pronounced
it to be bad case of psoriasis and &C.
zema.
Il suppose, doctor, you can cure it?''
said the patient.
why, certainly" replied the doctor.
How long will it take to get well?"
''Oh. l guess about two months, -
says the doctor.
Quite sure. sir-is it bad case?'
Positively the worst I've SEEM
sThen will leave it with you and
call again when cured" solemnly said
the patient, slowly christening his
arm, which was an artificial one, and
painted for the occasion. Chemist and
Druggist,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
KING COTTON AT HOME.
Brilliant Appearance of Field of Cotton

A field of cotton in June is like g.
great, brill INT flower bed. According
to the Blue and Gray, its bloom resem-
bles the Eollyhoc!5, and has the re-
marl1ablc rcculiarity of changing it's
color from hour to hour. When it first
opens it is Il pale straw color; in a few
hours it is pure white; later it is
| family pink, and next morning rose
color. The flower is succeeded by a
triangular pod, containing in three
cells the seeds in three locks of white
down which burst forth when the pod
opens. The length and the fineness of
this fiber, or ''staplc," as it is called,
determines the grade of the cotton.
The sea island or long stapled cot
ton is grown on the upland. The best
cotton il the world is grown on Edisto
island. south Of Charleston; the staple
of this is nearly two inches long.
Seen under q microscope, the cotton
fibers are ribbon shaped, and not
straight like fax, but twisted some
thing like q corlzscrew. The best sea
island cotton is in beautiful spiral
springs that lend themselves readily to
spinning This cotton is used only in
the manufacture of the most delicate
fabrics; in England, single pound of
it has been wrought into one thousand
and twenty-siz miles of thread.
1t was at first thought that compress
sion would injure the staple of the
cotton: that the fiber would be broken
off short, or the spiral screw, so neces-
sary to good spinning. be crushed fat.
But it was demonstrated by expert
ment that, SO far from injuring the
staple, it seemed to preserve it. and
since then the great desire of the cot
ton shippers has been to get q machine
to compress the cotton as much as pos
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
a REASONABLE OBJECTION.
An English Clergyman Who Protested
Against a Remarkable Name

An English Clergyman Who protested
Against a Remarkable Name.
Some times in English country par
ishes. where the clergyman has been
accustomed to have his own way, he
protests vigorously if the name pro-
posed for child about to be christened
does not suit him. Occasionally, how
ever, he does so upon false premises
James Payne writes in the Indepen-
dent:
The late Dean Burgon, when a
curate in Berkshire, was requested by
a village couple to christen their boy
Venus or, as they called it, '.Vanus."
'Are you aware" he said, that you
are asking something ridiculous as
well as exceedingly wicked? Do you
suppose / am going to give Christian
child, boy. the name of a woman
in heather mythology. How did such
a monstrous notion get into your
headS?"
''Please, SIR" said the father, 'we
want him called after his grandfather"
''And do you say his grandfather was
named Venus?"
eyes, sir; there he is, SIR"
A poor old man, looking very unlike
Venus, hobbled out of the crowd.
do you dare to say you were chris
tened Venus?" asked the indignant
clergyman.
''Well, no, SIR" was the respectful
answer, 81 was christened Sylvanus,
but they always called me Vanus."
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
A New Cereal.

A traveller in the Himalayan noun
tain region has discovered that the ma
tives of that country cultivate a grain
hitherto unknown in civilized agricul-
tural operations, which has something
the look of wheat but has very much
longer ears, and which has peculiar
inward curve. The shiny, brown grain,
unlike wheat, is, on the other hand,
much smaller than wheat grains should
be for SO large an ear. But the inter
est is that a cereal of this character
should yield such heavy crops in so
high an altitude, where the seasons are
necessarily short and the temperature
low. The natives call the grain kow-
nee.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
The Light of the Far North.

The wonders of the aurora borealis
in the British possession just over the
line of Alaska cannot be told. The
heavens all winter long are lit up with
golden glow. Indeed the colors-
the sparlzles and fashes-are SO many,
constant and varied that no one can de-
scribe them. There is practically no
day during the year. For two or three
months up to December Is, from nine
to twelve o'clock, there is sort of
dawn, but the rest of the time it is
night. 1t is SO clear that you can go
out and read a newspaper anywhere.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
KEYS In 1hE EAST.
Their Great Bulk Corresponds to In
tricacy of the Locks.

trlCacy the IoChS'
In the History of Nineveh, and Its
Palaces" by Joseph Bonomi, we find a
description of, perhaps, the Oldest lock
ever discovered, says Hardware. 1t
was used in securing the gate OF the
apartment in one of the palaces OF
Khorsabnad. In describing this
ancient piece of hardware-if such
terms may be applied to wooden locks
he says: "At the end of the chamber
lust behind the first bulls, was former
" a strong wooden gate, of one leaf,
which was fastened by large wooden
lock, like those still used in the east,
of which the key is as much as O. man
can conveniently carry, and by bar
which moved into square hole in the
wall. 1t is to key of this description
that the prophet probably alludes:
And the key of the house of David
will lay upon his shoulder and 1T is
remarkable that the word for key in
this passage of Scripture, 'muftah,' is
the same in use all over the east at the
present time. The key of an ordinary
street door is commonly thirteen or
fourteen inches long; :nd the key Of
the gate of a public building or of a
street, or a quarter of town, is two
feet or more in length. The iron pegs
at one end of the piece of wood CORE
spond to so many holes in the wooden
bar or bolt of the lock, which, when
the door or gate is shut, cannot be
opened until the key has been in
serted, and the impeachment to the
drawing back Of the bolt removed by
raising up SO many iron pins that fall
down into holes in the bar or bolt cor
responding to the peg in the key
This description, and others of cor
robatory character, prove that this
form of lock and key was in use in
Egypt four or five thousand years,
during which extended period of time
it does not appear to have undergone
any successful changes
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
FOR Ti-l1 l-AeORERS.

HE United States cotton crop in
1892 was 9.oSs,TG7 bale.
GERMANY prohibits lie employment
OF union men on Cover -nent works.
IN manufacturing equations the
average life of soapboi:ers is the high
est and that of grindstoae-makers the
lowest
BREEDERS of sheep in the south of
Eng land have had several years of de-
Ginning values, terminating last year
IN IN disastrous losses, consequent upon
the absence of feed, owing to the bleak
winter and unfavorable spring.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
SIXTEEN.

A sweet ignorer of the laws
or etiquette and rules of dress,
And ten times prcttier because
She knows not of her prettiness!
With childish ardor unrepressed
She chattcrs in her girlish way,
And never doubts our interest
In everything she has TO say.
She tells US just how much she spends;
She talks about her dog and horse,
About her best and next best friends
AS if we knew them all of course.
1t seems as If all things combined
To make her raGiantly glad;
Every good time is TO her mind
The best good time she ever had
What though tho future beckon her?
What though her youth must pass away?
Are not the flowers the 'lovelier
Because they only last day?
And yet, when perfect buds unfold,
We'softly grieve for what has been:
Dear Alice, must you, too, grow old:
Can you not always be sixteen?
Robert b. Hale, in Youths Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
TREES THAT GIVE MILK,
South American Natives Do Their MiIikin,
Without Using Their Hands.

South American Natives Do Their Milking
Without Using Their Hands.
DR.. Spruce, the renowned South
American traveller, mentions a tree. a
member OF the dog bane family, the
juice of which is used as milk, says
Chambers Journal On the bari, be
ing wounded the milk flows abundant
ly, and is of the consistency Of cows
milk, Of the purest white, and sweet
to the taste. The Indian mode of talk
ing it IS to apply the mouth directly to
the wound, and thus receive the milk
as it flows. DR.. Spruce says he has
often partalcn of it without experience
ing any i'll effects.
In Guiana, the natives employ the
milk from d tree belonging to the same
family as the Inst named; in the yer
nacular it is known as hyahya. and to
bOtanists as Tabernacmontana utilis
$50 named after Jacobus Theodorus
Tabcr- acIaontanuG, q German physi-
clan ard botani6t). The milk has the
same flavor a3 sweet cows milk. but is
rather sticky on account of it's contain
ing some c2OutchOuc.
In Para, q lofty tree, BELONGING to
the star apple family, attaining a
height of one hundred feet, is used in
a similar manner to the others men
toned. lncisiOns are made in the bark.
and the milky juice flows out copior,s-
~ about the consistency of thick
cream, and II it were not for it's taste,
winch is somewhat peculiar, could be
hardly distinguished from it.
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Queer Pets.
mammal which makes a most agree
able pet, but is rarely tanned on ac-
count of its fur value. is the North
American beaver. A well known In
dian trader, some years ago, tanned
some OF these Woodworking fellows,
SO that they answered to their names
and followed like dog. In cold
weather they were kept in the sitting
room, and were constant companions
OF the women and children. When the
indians were absent for any great
length of time the beavers showed
great uneasinesS, and on their return
discovered equal signs of pleasure by
fondllng them, crawling into their
laps, lying on their backs like SOUR
rel, and behaving like children in the
presence of parents whom they seldom
see In their wild state beavers feed
on bark and heritage chiefly, but in
their case they feed for the most part
on rice, plum pudding, partridge and
venison, and they like all of them ex-
tremely.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
COURTESY IN A HOST.
lie Shined His Guests Shoes When II
Servants Refused.

Servants Refused.
The independence displayed by serv-
ants in America invariably forces it.
self on the attention of visitors from
Europe.
\ well-knOwn official of the English
post office tells a very good story on
this point, says the Boston Traveller
Some years ago he visited America on
business and while staying at New
York he was the guest of prominent
officer of the Western Union Telegraph
company, gentleman whose name is
familiar to most Americans.
When the Englishman retired at
night he placed his boots outside the
bedroom door, where they were duly
observed next morning by his host,
who asked his wife to get one of the
servants to clean them.
'Oh,' replied the lady, she must get
them cleaned at the corner of the
street, just as you do
mo, my DEAR" remarked her hus.
band, 81 can't ask Mr.. - to do that
Just offer one of the servants half q
dollar to clean them
Il have done So" said the lady, ''and
they declare they WON'T
well. if they won't l must" and
forthwith the American seized his
guests boots and polished them in a
highly creditabIe style.
On the morning of the Englishman's
departure his friend accompanied him
to the steamer, and, just as the whistle
was blown to indicate that all but pas.
sengcrs must go on shore. whispered in
his car:
"ln tell you something that will
anuse You. l have cleaned your boots
all the while you have been in New
| York"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02

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The record-union., 1894-10-20

Bible, and the Roman Church the au-
thority OF the Pope above the Bible, and
so long as other Christians insist upon
the right OF private judgment in the inter-
pretatlon of the Bible, putting that and
the individual conscience above all eccle-
slastlcal authority, so long the reunion of
Chrlstendom cannot be anticipated as an
Immediately imminent event. Mean
Whlle we may welcome every such ad
dress as that of Cardinal Vaughan, and
every such utterance as that Of the Lam
beth platform, because they indicate
clearly what are the difficulties in the
way of reunion and what are the direc-
tions In which larger liberty and larger
cathollclty must be sought for before re-
union Is possible"
The following is from the New York
ChTiSttdB 1dUocdte (Meth.): Cardinal
Vaughan, the Roman Catholic Cardinal
of England, had officially stated that none
OF the Roman Catholic Bishops, from the
highest to the lowest, admits the validity
of the orders of the Church OF England.
We have often asserted this, and it has
been denied by some ministers of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. all but one,
however, young and uneducated. The
Archbishop Of Canterbury, in late
charge, alluded TO this, and exclaimed:
| w hat a moment to be lingering the
tTInhe-s OF rome! By the lrInKetS OF
Rome are here to be understood the
komeward tendencies Of ritualism.' Con-
| corning this subject, the EUangeLicaL
| ChT1Siend0m of London, with the caus-
| ticity OF truth asks: Might not the ac-
ton of Cardinal Vaughan, however,
protitably suggest to the Archbishop and
the high-church party in general that the
measure which Rome deals cut to them is
only the same as that which they deal out
| to \ Noncomformists? Ifthey resent Rome s
denial of the validity OF their orders, can
/ they wonder if Nonconfornists resent
their denial Of the validity of Noncon-
! tormist ministry? 1t were well # the
/ doctrine OF apostolic succession were
| seen to be. what it in truth is, one of the
I many delusive tictions of the Church OF
| Rome"