The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-04

IRELAND'S GUESTS.
The Duke and Duchess of
York Well Received
at Castleton and
Dunraven.
RISE OF BREAD in LONDON
Vatican Doctor Says Leo Will See
the Twentieth Csntury-An-
drew tarnegis's Castle.
RISE OF BREAD In LONDON
[By Cable to The Associated Press. j


month of August was largely in excess of
the average and in some places the ex-
cess was greater than in the case of any
August of the past twenty-eight years.
The Duke and Duchess of York con-
tinue their triumphal visit to Ireland.
They have spent the last two days at
Baron's Court, the Duke of Abercorn's
place. Their spontaneous popularity
among the Irish is in sharp contrast with
the servile adulation of the English. The
Irish peasantry have shown themselves
especially anxious to see the Duke and
Duchess. The correspondent of the
Daily Graphic" who, his paper says, is
a prominent Parnellite who has suffered
for the Nationalist cause sent the follow
ing private telegram to the editor:-
1.-THE tour has become triumphal pro-
cession. AT Castletown and Dunraven
was simply astonished. You cannot
magnify it's significance
The Castle clique at Dublin is SO
determined to make political capital out
of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of
York, to ireland that the Lord Lieutenant,
Earl Cadogan, has been obliged to set his
foot down firmly in order to prevent it
from being turned into Protestant
ascendancy demonstration and he has
ordered expunged several sentences, in
this sense. from addresses sent to their
Royal Highnesses by Orange Societies.
The failure of the potato, hay and corn
crops IN most of the districts in Ireland
has resulted in the gloomiest outlook for
the winter. The Chairman of the
Michaelstown Board of Guardians, at
meeting held by that body on Thursday
last, declared Ireland is on the verge of
a great agricultural crisis and that num-
bers of ratepayers will be compelled to
go to the workhouse.
The price of bread is rising slowly in
London and here also the outlook for the
winter is of the gloomiest kind. This
city requires 10000 quarters of foreign
wheat weekly, Independent of flour, and
during August less than $4,000 quarters
arrived per week. Not one-tenth of Lon
don's bread is made from English flour
and the bakers assert that, with flour
at the present figure, the loaf of bread
at sgd III cents) viii send them into
bankruptcy.
The hop crop is below the average. The
picking. which is in full swing, has pro-
duced the usual pauper invasion of Kent
| and has been marked by greater distress
| than usual. The workhouses and police
stations of that county are filled and
there have been several deaths from ex-
posure in the fields and hedges during
| the recent storms.
| Court circles are enjoying a sixteen
page booklet, written entirely in cypher
| by a minor Royal parsonage, in which
amusing stories and facts connected with
| the inner life of members of the Royal
| circle are set out in the most unvarnished
manner. Most of the matter in this pub
| lication concerns Emperor William of
| Germany and the writer asserts that 5000
| people are languishing in the German
| State prisons on charges of lese Majeste.
| The booklet is in great demand. 1t is
| said to be like pages from 1.-THE Pickwick
| Papers,
| The Pope's attending physician declares
| that Leo XIII. will see the twentieth CEN
| tury. The announcement has been de-
| cidedly unpleasant for the Papal initiators
| of changes in Rome, who are in COM
p1ete state of stagnation. One Cardinal
| said this week.
| IF you want to be correct in state
| ments about the Vatican, you must say
! and impress upon the people that the
| present complete stagnation in everything
/ initiative does not project any changes.
! No one, high or low, wishes to undertake
| anything new, for if DR.. Lapponi is
| wrong in his prediction a real. great and
| radical change may arrive at any mo-
ment and all fear to find themselves the
| mainsprings of some enterprise which
might be displeasing to the new Pope"
| Paderewski, while on his Polish estate,
l hat 0f No n iS
| hair short and is practicing bicycle riding.
| The strike in the engineering trades
| has grown more serious during the past
/ week. 1t has now extended to the various
| trades connected with engineering. Over
| 5000 moulders, boilermakers, finishers,
etc, at Newcastle, Sheffield, and other
centres have revived notices that their
services will not be required after this
| week. Many of the firms affected declare
they are preparing to move their estab-
| lishments to the Continent and they add
that the question of eight hours work
per day is by no means the most inn
/ portant thing involved in the dispute.
/ The strikers are opposed to the introduce
| tion of new machinery and are trying.
| artifically to check production.
In connection with the engineering
strike. the Employers Federation has is
/ sued a statement regarding the hours of
! work in the case of engineers in Amer
! lea. based on the official statistics of the
| United States Government Labor Bureau.
/ showing that wages are not higher, in
/ America, relatively to the work done at
| much higher pressure and with fewer
| holidays.
| the docking of the United states battle
marked that the predicament OF the Unit
4 ed States must be taken into account
in estimating her fighting power. The
..Morning Post adds =
! After all of Americas talk she has
| not vet built a navy of any serious sea-
| going strength and it will be long before
| sha 51lii6s docks Our guests at Halifax
| are heartily welcome to all the assistance
We can give them, but it does not need
asking assistance to rednoc i1 the process
test case is to be made OF the right
/ of the Vicar of Shakespeare's Church at
/ Stratford-upon-Avon to exact toll from
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the American
ironmaster, has purchased Skibe Castle,
/ an estate which comprises rs, 900 acres of
| fhe hest shooting and fishing district of
| Sutherlandshire.
1 Nj. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, with a
party of friends, including Tan McLaren''
CDR. John Watson), has just completed
/ long cruise among the Hebrides in the
/ screw schooner yacht Columbia.
Mrs. Nellie Harris Sedger. sister Of