The Frontier.
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The stool used by the United States
navy Is recommended by the Austrian
■ocloty of engineers us the best known
in practical science.
A Florid a flsh story tells of a shad,
some twenty inches long,which leupef
from one stream to another,over a con
slderable space of ground, in search o’
food.
Mrs Hattie Day, of Fast Itucksport
Me., sold $30 worth of braids inadt
from hor own hair, and yot sho hat
abundunt black tresses three fee'
long.
The town of Washington, Me., at iti
annual spring meeting refused to ap
propriate any money for a free liigt
school, but voted to establish a liquor
agency.
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An experiment in weaving silk by
electric looms has been made In Ger
many and thu results oncourago a re
turn to manufacturing in tho housei
of the weavers.
A traveler's pipe is an English inven
tion, Tlio bowl has a hook attached
to it which can bo inserted in tho but
tonhole of tlio coat, while a tube com
municates with the mouthpiece. The
smoker thus has both huuds free to bo
occupied as ho finds necessary.
A Poston young lady at tho union
station in Portland, Me., wanted tc
buy a ticket for a way station, but had
forgotten the name of the town, lle
lng urgod to make a guess at it, she
replied in blushing confusion that it
sounded something like “cut’s whisk
on*.” Sho got u tickot for Wiscasset.
A number of Hoston women are issu
lng a paper culled the Remonstrance,
with the following' declaration of prin
ciples: “The erreat majority of oui
sex do not want the ballot, and tc
force it upon them would not only be
an injustice to women but would les
sen their influence for good and im
peril the community.”
The Philadelphia Ledger states that
for the first time in five years, Charlei
A- Fretz, a Dolostown, Pa., farmer,
Was prevented, on account of stormy
weather, from planting an acre of po
tatoes on St Patrick's day. Still it ii
to be hoped that the Irish saint will
appreciate Mr. Fretz’s good intention)
and favor him this year, as for the last
five, with a bountiful crop of mur
phies
A recent issue of the English edition
of the War Cry, the organ of the Salva'
tlon army, urges the duty of confession
in general terms, and then asks: “Ii
confession necessary In every case?”
The reply is: “Tell your sin to youi
captain, or find out some officer oi
friend in whose heart or judgment you
can confide, and tell it in the ear oi
-that brother or sister; but It may be
necessary for you to confess in soma
form.”
, Hicks pond, in Palmyra Me., is a
strange body of water. It is only
jtwelve acres in area, but is more than
100 feet in depth. It has no visible in
let, although a fair sized stream flows
from it into Lake Sebasticook. The
volume of Its waters is not materially
affected by either drouth or freshet,
and the water is always cold.
When Grant Allen, in his story ol
“The Devil's Die," described his heroes
as finding a wreck in midocean swarm*
lag with rats, the critics said it could
wot be. The wreckers who went
aboard the Gottenburg Castle, off St.
Mary’s Isle, recently, had just that ex
perience. But the critics have nc
doubt forgotten all about tho mattes
by this time.
C Probably the longest single span of
wire rope in the world Is that now in
use in the construction of the great
Austin dam at Austin, Tex. The main
cable is 1,350 feet long and 2X inches
In diameter, and the hoisting is done
by a %-lnch steel rope. The hoisting
apparatus will lift a weight of seven
tons and carry it the entire length of
the span in about a minute and a hall
If anyone is ill or annoyed in any
way in Thibet the evil spirits are re
sponsible, end the only sensible thing
Is to go and hire a priest to frighten
them off. For this purpose the lama
reads aloud from his sacred writings,
blows a horn made from ahumanthigb
bone, beats a drum manufactured out
of two human skulls, rings a bell and
tells over a rosary of disc-shaped
beads, cut out of human skulla
Amos B. Carter of Elam, Pa, the
father of twenty-one children, cele
brated his 80th birthday last week.
Be was married but once, and his wife
died about two years ago. Upon her
tombstone is this poetic inscription,
placed there by Mr. Carter's direction:
"Some have children and some have
Cone; here lies the mother of twenty
one." Mr. Carter is a very fatherly
old man.
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' There is a scheme afoot to create a
greater Boston by Including sixty
eight towns and cities in one vast
metropolitan district, with Boston as
the huh The author of the scheme,
which his name is Smith, hopes to
overcome local jealousies by letting
each town in the metropolis manage
its own local affairs. But Boston ap
pears to be somewhat lukewarm in the
matter, asking, with fine scorn, how
there can be any greater Boston than
is the Boeton that now is
THE TARIFF DEBATE
In C’ouj?ri>s*—.% Diliniiulitn Curried on Pare*
ly for Ciiinpiilffii Purpose*.
Last Wednesday, March 9, the tnriff
debate opened in the house of repre
sentatives. From the day on which it
was first announced that an immense
free trade majority had been elected to
that body in November, 1890, the star
of tariff “reform” has waned. The
voters who, worked up to the desired
degree of prejudice against the existing
law by the infamon s “McKinley prices”
conspiracy, sent the free traders to con
gress, supposed, of course, that the
days of the McKinley law were num
bered. They have since been waiting
for their representatives to make their
promises good. lint as time went by it
became ever plainer and plainer that
the democratic majority had become
frightened at the reaction in favor of
the new tariff which set in as soon as
the people discovered how shamelessly
“reform” orators and papers had lied to
them. The majority began to look
around for some means of graceful re
treat from the advanced free trade posi
tion they necessarily occupied as a re
sult of the prominence of the tariff in
the campaign of 1890. The signal for
retreat was sounded in the free trade
press, which suddenly stopped talking
uhout “McKinley prices" and began
chronicling—as in its capacity of news
purveyor it must do—the events accom
panying the tide of prosperity which
set in after the new law became oper
ative und has since continued to rise con
currently with the decline in free
traders' hopes.
The first effort to get under cover
was made when that representative,
par excellence, of free trade “reform,"
lloger <J. Mills, was turned down and
Judge Crisp elected speaker of the
house. Then Mr. Springer, of Illinois,
was appointed chairman of its ways
and means comtniLtee, who completed
the mask for his party by formulating
the piecemeal plan of tariff smashing in
preference to the proposition for a gen
eral revision of the tariff. Discussion
on the first of the piecemeal bills, the
>rw wool mu, which nns already re
ceived considerable attention in these
columns, began last Wednesday. In the
absence of Mr. Springer, who was ill,
Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, opened
the debate. His speech was reckless,
dishonest and demagogic to a degree
seldom attained in congress. As the
voice of the ways and means committee
representing the majority, it was a fit
ting pronunciamentoof the spirit which
pervades that majority, which would
probably bo a minority but for the most
stupendous campaign of lyiRgon record.
The current debate was inaugurated
for oratory only. The free wool bill or
any other free trade bill cannot become
a law. It will, however, serve the pur
pose of pinning the enemies of protec
tion down to something definite as to
their intentions in regard to tho tariff.
Hut their policy is one of deception.
They will conceal their ultimate pur
pose as much and as long as possible.
They would avoid any discussion of the
subject but that they fear their constit
uents would not brook such a flagrant
breach of faith after all the belicose
threats against "McKinley ism” made
before election. They are playing a
losing game. They have no heart in
their anti-tariff crusade and can safely
be loft in the hands of Mr. Reed and his
little band of valiant protectionists,
Kll Perkins and Editor Hemphill.
Mr. Eli Perkins, who has been mak
ing a lecturing tour through the south,
was in Nashville, Tenn., some time ago
and was interviewed by a Nashville
American reporter. Among other
things Mr. Perkins told the following
incident of his southern tour:
"Well, the best political joke of the season
happened at Charleston I found Mr. Hemphill,
the brilliant free trade editor of the old free
trade News and Courier, writing editorials in
favor of a protective tariff on rice and sea island
cuiion.
“ ‘Why,’ said he, ‘the Egyptians shipped 40,000
hales of long stuple cotton over here last year
for twelve cents a pound. They knocked down
the price of our South Carolina long staple cot
ton. And those cheap-lahor Chinese sent thou
sands of bushels of rice, made by low-priced live
cents per day labor to break down our well
paid labor In South Carolina. Now,' continued
Mr. Hemphill, ‘you Yankees have a tariff
against corn, wool, rye, barley and wheat com
ing from Canada, and why can’t we Rebs have a
tariff against the Egyptians and Chinese.' ”
Being a high protective tariff man myself I
felt like hugging Mr. Hemphill. "At last,” I
said, -the protective tariff Yank and the free
trade Reb stand on the same platform. Arise
and sing.”
Referring to this incident related by
Mr. Perkins, the Augusta Chronicle,
which was always till the present time,
a strong “reform” paper, remarks:
Had this story been told a year or so ago
Editor Hemphill would no doubt have appealed
to the repututlon which the genial Ell enjoys
for unncqualntunce wtth the truth as his surest
defense, but he will not do so now. Editor
Hemphill has taken the practical view that
while protection is the policy of the country he
had better try to get some of the benefits of it
for his section and people. He wants to investi
gate in a practical way the question: “Does
Protection Protect?'
If present industrial conditions in the
south continue, protectionists will look
for their strongest allies in the bourbon
free trade editors and statesmen of
slavery days._
Something Wrong—What Is It?
Whoever contemplates, on the one
hand, the enormous powers of produc
tion in the United Kingdom, and, on
the other, the misery which, neverthe
less, griuds down masses of the popula
tion, will necessarily conclude that the
circumstances which insure or promote
the creation and due distribution of
wealth are yet unknown or mistakeu.
He will see the science which assumes
to teach these things discredited, help
less and utterly at fault There must
be something fearfully wrong or essen
tially deficient in the prevailing system;
there must necessarily be some error in
theory. No adequate practical measures
of relief can be devised till it is discov
ered.—Sir John Barnard By lea.
We are able to report progress in our
work of reforming the “tin plate liar.”
Not long since he would not admit that
any American tin plate mills existed.
Now he only contends that the Amer
ican establishments do not make tin
plate of certain kinds and certain sizes
of a certain thickness in certain large
quantities at certain low prices. This,
we take it, is a marked improvement
No case of total depravity hire, we
fondly hope.
FREE WOOL AND THE LABORER.
Whi»t Mr. Springer's Hill Would Mean to
American Workmen—It Would Clone I'p
Hundred! of FnctnrJen Now Employed
In Making Woolen Gooiln, and Thun
Throw Many 1 hounandn Out of Work.
It docs not require much thought to
see the ruinous effect which the enact
ment of Mr. Springer’s bill, abolishing
the duty on wool nnd greatly reducing
the duties on its manufactures, must
have on American wool growing. The
importation of 872,000,000 in wool man
ufactures in addition to the $43,000,000
last year sent to this country (for Mr.
Springer says that the decrease in rev
enue will have to bo made up by in
creased importations, and on the basis
of last year’s imports, this increase will
be at least 872,000,000), $115,000,000 in
all, would simply be the importation of
:J4.->,000,000 pounds of wool, though in a
manufaucturcd form, to take the place
of so much American wool in our mar
kets. This quantity, increased by even
the amount of raw wool now annually
imported, 110,000,000 pounds—it would
doubtless be more under Mr. Springer’s
free wool measure—would give a total
of 404,000,000 poundsof wool that would
come in. Deducting this quantity from
our total consumption of wool, 600,000,
000 pounds, we find that there would
remain a market for only 180,000,000
pounds of the 303,000,000 pounds an
nually produced in this country. These
are the results which Mr. Springer him
self admits will follow from his wool
and woolens bill.
IJut the farmer will not be the only
one injured. The additional 872,000,000
in manufactured wool which Mr.
Springer says would be imported under
the lower duties which he proposes
would, of course, supplant an equiva
lent quantity of American goods, and
compel American wool manufacturing
establishments to reduce their output
by that amount. Now, $72,000,000 worth
of foreign goods at the undervalued
prices at which they are imported would
be equivalent to at least 8100,000,000
worth of domestic goods at American
wholesale prices.
American woolen and worsted mills
must, therefore, make 8100,000,000 less
in poods than they make now. That
means that 60,000 mill hands which it
takes to make 8100,000,000 in finished
products must lose their places and $16,
000,000 in wapes. Foreipners would do
the work and receive the pay.
But 816,000,000 is only an insignificant
item in the great total loss which labor
would suffer from Mr. Springer’s $72,
000,000 addition to our present imports
of wool manufactures. It takes account
only of the wages paid for direct labor
in manufacturing, about one-fifth of
the whole amount of labor involved.
Take a piece of woolen cloth, trace it
back to its original elements before
they were touched by the hand of man,
commencing with the labor of shipping,
handling and placing on the shelf of the
jobbing house the finished piece of
cloth, following it through all the pro
cesses in the factory, not forgetting the
labor of the engineers, firemen, watch
men, clerks, overseers employed about
the establishment, nor the labor in
volved in producing the coal, wood, oil,
belts, and the score or more of other
classes of miscellaneous supplies con
sumed in the factory; then following
the raw wool as it is handled and trans
ported from farm to factory, including
the farmer's labor of tending and shear
ing the flocks, raising hay and grain
crops to feed them, not omitting even
the salt they eat and the labor of pro
ducing it—if all of these and all other
elements of labor are counted, fully 80
per cent of the wholesale selling price
of the goods, which we have placed at
8100,000,000, represents labor cost of
production. In other words, Mr.
Springer would take 880,000,000 from
American labor in order that the
worsted and woolen mills and working
people of Bsadford and Huddersfield
ana r-ngnsn ana Australian wool grow
ers might prosper.
To realize what this means to Ameri
can industry generally, one has only to
imagine what the conditions would be
in any factory town if all the factories
should shut down. Every tradesman,
professional man, clerk, car driver, bar
ber, cook and chambermaid in the place
would suffer. The town lives on the
wages received by the working people
which are spent for household neces
saries and general supplies, and are
(kissed from hand to hand, imparting
life and nourishment to all branches of
Industry. The withdrawal of an an
nual disbursement of 880,000,000 from
the channels of trade would be like
drawing a corresponding proportion of
life blood from a healthy body. The
results in both cases would be similar.
Activity would give place to inaction,
strength to weakness, health to lan
guishing sickness That is what Mr.
Springer's measure means to labor and
its dependent interests.
Protest Against the Bagging Pleeemeal
BUL
Democratic free trade “reformers"
are hearing from their constituents in
relation to their proposed piecemeal
bills. Congressman Samuel Byrns, oi
Missouri, received the following com
munication from Warren, Jones &
Oratz, a bagging manufacturing firm of
St. Louis:
Dear Sir—We wired you again to-day re
questing you to vigorously protest against the
Turner bill, putting bagging on the free list, be
cause it would practically confiscate the bag
ging mills in St. Louis. It cannot be just for a
single industry, that has been built up under the
tarifT, to be singled out and destroyed as the
bagging industry would be if the Turner bill be
comes a law. The bagging mills in St. Louis
employ about 600 hands, and these people would
be turned adrift shortly if this Turner bill is
passed. For the past two years bagging has
been lower than ever before in this country
particularly during 1891, and surely the south
ern planters have no reason to complain of the
values of bagging. In fact, a number of mills
have ceased manufacturing because of the ex
tremely low prices. If the bagging industry lc
this country is destroyed, then this country wll'
have to be supplied with bagging from India
where there has been for years a strong jute
combination. In such a case the cotton planters
of the south would have to depend on this jute
combination of Calcutta for their supply of bag
glng, and they would surely have to pay very
much higher prices for their cloth than they dt
now. Yours truly,
Wahrem, Jokes & Gratz.
What American industries and the
people dependent upon them need most
of all is to he let alone. There is •
chance for the application of the free
traders’ laitnz favre principles here,
NEBRASKA.
Tho Union Pacific is to build a new
iepot at Grand Island.
Ponca has a proposition for an electric
light plant before the city council.
Tho Wyomin'g hotel at York was de
stroyed by fire. It will not be rebuilt.
Four-year-old Nellie Hill, residing near
Talmage, fell and broke her leg in four
places.
Jessie Dudek, of Wauneta, was severely
burned by falling into a vat of slacking
lime.
Niobrara is trying to get the Short Line
to build a branch through that town into
Boyd county.
A Bayard steer was found dead with his
head firmly wedged between the spokes
of a wagon wheel.
F B. Stacy and J. W. Striker are in jail
at Wayne, serving sentences imposed on
them for gambling.
Rev. L Piper, pastor of the United
Brethern church, at Blue Springs, will
shortly remove to Lincoln, i
Hartington business men have been |
victimized to a considerable extent lately j
by the counterfeit coin fiend. I
Columbus people are talking of doing !
considerable building this season. An i
opera house is also talked of.
Martin Morenrity and James Morrissey,
two young men confined in the county jail
at Columbus, made their escape.
At a meeting of the Holt County Agri
cultural society October 4, 5, 6 and 7, was
the time agreed upon for holding the fall
fair.
The O’Neill Daily Tribune is soon to be
launched by the O’Neill Printing com
pany. C. S. Evans and sons are the pro
jectors.
Charlie Chamberlain of Fairmont, got a
vicious kick on the eye from a horse he
was clipping recently, but fortunately no
serious damage resulted.
Sheriff Holliday, of Custer county, went
to Norfolk Monday, taking Mrs. M. A.
Pile, an insane woman from the west part
of the county, to the asylum.
Mrs. Emanuel DeVoll. of Grafton, has
sued Patrick Hammond, a Graftou saloon
keeper, for 4200 damages for selling her
husband liquor and thus depriving her of
his wapas.
The city of Ord report* that it is almost
out of debt, and all the financial affairs of
the town are in good shape. This condi
tion is owing to its having had for the last
two years a council of business men who
have looked well to the interests of the
town.
There will soon be three vacant pulpits
at David City. Rev. V. F. Clark has re
signed the pastorate of the Congregational
church, Rev. Mr. Crounse will go to In
diana soon and Rev. Mr. Hands, of the
Baptist church is about to leave for other
fields.
W. T. Bullis, at Valentine, says that
curing the six months he has served as
deputy sheriff of that county the jail has
not had an occupant. This certainly
speaks well for Valentine and Cherry
county. Can another county in the state
make as good a showing?
George Johnson, & laborer employed in
the quarries at South Bend, was seriously
injured by a derrick falling upon him,
striking him in the small of the back. He
was brought to Ashland and med
ical examination showed him to be quite
seriously injured internally.
Owen Green, a young man about 20
years of age, was struck and killed by an
east-bound wild freight about half a mile
west of Schuyler. He was subject to epi
leptic fits, and while returning home this
morning was taken with one and fell on
the track.
Mrs. Katharine Schneider, an Otoe
county widow, is in dire distre»s because
her cow waded iuto a mud hole and miser
ably perished. The widow applied to the
county commissioners for recompense but
failed to get it, and now she threatens to
sue for damages.
According to the Goring Courier, Scotts
Bluff county holds out better inducements
to settlers—who have a little money espe
cially—than any region west of the Mis
souri. What you buy this spring for $10
or $15 an acre will be in a few years, likely
only one, worth 130 to (75.
As Editor Parks of the Norfolk Herald
was about to retire to his bachelor’s
couch he found his lamp empty and pro
ceeded to replenish the same. After pour
ing the liquid in he suspicioned that it
might be other than kerossne, and pro
ceeded to investigate. What followed is
not definitely known, but it is certain that
Mr. Parks' face is vory much disfigured.
Rev. Mr. Button was at one time pastor
of the Methodist church at Richland, Col
fax county, but he isn’t any more. There
was a little difficulty between the rev
erend gentleman and some of his flock,
and this is the way Mr. Button explains it
in a card he has issued: “The official
board did not seem to be satisfied with
the very best Epworth league in the
county, a growing and interesting prayer
meeting, an increase in church members,
but wanted the best and most faultless
preacher besides. Because they did not
have the latter seven men got their heads
together and began to howl and the
preacher packed his goods and made
tracks for Omaha. Just who howled the
loudest is a little hard to tell, but Brothers
Nelson and Grover are entitled to the ban
ner. Thanks, gentlemen I I am now1
located at a place where all the members
are at peace with themselves. Remem
ber God’s word says: ’All things work
together for good to those who love Him,’
and I feel like a bird that has escaped its
cage. Again I say, thanks I’’
According to the Clay Center Gazette
Democrat, Rev. T. W. Spanswlck, a re
vivalist who has been operating in that
section of the state, is a wolf in sheep’s
clothing. According to the paper named,
Spanswick left Crafton “at the invitation
of the officers of the church. The reverend
gentleman’s general deportment was not
as it shuuld be for a man in his position,
and the church thought best to discard
him. Since leaving here it has leaked
out that he was, in several different in
stances, entirely too familiar with the sis
ters of his congregation.”
The Herman Gazette, by S. C. Harris, is
the most promising newspaper enterprise*
begun in the state in a long while. Mr.
Harris Is a honey cooler, in the diamond
class, and he has the age and experience
to properly shade these valuable qualifica
tions.
T he saloon of William Beneck, at Emer
erson, was destroyed by fire, and a “vag”
named Charles Smith was arrested for
arson and burglary. Some bottled whisky,
cigars, tobacco, etc., identified by Benecks
ss his property was found in his posses
sion. On his preliminary hearing he was
bound oyer to the district oourt.
EI6HI STUDENTS DROWNED
A Sail Boat Capsizes Off the City
of Boston.
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An Instructor and Ten Bojri From the
Boston Farm Scliool Thrown Into
the Icy Sea—Only Two Oot
Safely to Land.
Boston, April 11.—Last evening' an
instructor and ten boys connected with
the Boston farm school at Thompson's
island were capsized in a sail boat and
the instructor and eight of the boys
were drowned. The party were return
ing to the island from City Point and
had reached a point between Spectre
island and Thompson’s island when
their boat was struck by a squall and
capsized.
The victims were:
A. F. NORBEKG, instructor, aged
about 40.
FRANK F. HITCHCOCK, aged lit
H. F. THATCHER, 17.
GEORGE F. ELLIS, 10.
THOMAS PHILLIPS, 16.
WILLIAM W. CURRAN, 17.
C. H. GRAVES, 17.
HARRY E. DOUD. 18.
A. H. PACKARD, 16.
When the boat capsized the eleven
occupants succeeded in securing posi
tions where they could cling to the
overturned craft, but the ice-cold water
and the exertion necessary to keep
their heads above the surface overcame
the unfortunates and one by one they
were compelled to release their hold.
Some of them endured the unequal
contest for nearly four hours and it
was 11 o’clock when the boat with its
two survivors still clinging to it, but
exhausted, drifted ashore. They were
immediately cared for and are recover
ing from the exhaustion of their expe
rience.
THINK “LUCKY” WILL RELENT
Baldwin's Manner Taken as Meaning For
giveness lor Oeorge and Anita.
San Francisco, April 11. —So quietly
did “Lucky” Baldwin return to town
yesterday that no one discovered his
presence till evening. The old million
aire was as uncommunicative as u
clam about his daughter's marriage,
and all he said in response to queries
was:
“The marriage is legal as far as I am
aware, and if 1 am satisfied with it the
public will have to be. ”
When asked if he would resume his
relations with the runaways he said:
“I have nothing to do with my son
in-law,” but he said not a word against
his favorite daughter.
Inference from this is made by the
friends of the young eouple that
“Lucky” will hold out for a short time
and eventually forgive the children.
Meanwhile George has been promoted
in the county clerk's office and gets
more mone for household expenses,
but his entire salary will not keep the
fair Anita in caramels and corsage
bouquets.
TERRORIZED BY TRAMPS.
The Knights of the Rond Take Possession
of s Freight Yard.
Corning, N. Y., April 11.—The Erie
freight yard in this city was terrorized
by a gang of the boldest burglars last
night which the police have ever had
to deal with. They broke into the
freight cars and when the employes
tried to drive them away they flour
ished revolvers and put the employes
to flight. An officer captured one
of the burglars at 9 o'clock.
An hour later the gang stoned a
brakeman on an outgoing train, broke
into the cars, stealing a quantity of
ladies Bhoes. The police then cap
tured three more of the gang, but only
after some shontincr in whieli nna
the robbers was hit. The others were
chased a distance by officers on a loco
motive, but they took the woods and
escaped. The gang was equipped with
burglars’ tools and were undoubtedly
professionals.
BORROWE Ts A COWARD.
HU New York Club Friends Think He Is
Afraid.
New York, April 11.—New York
clubmen are disgusted with Hallett
Alsop Borrowe, and they think with
Drayton that he is a coward. Mr. Bor
rowe was earnestly advised by an inti
mate friend, who is an official of sev
eral New York clubs, that he must
thoroughly whip Mr. Drayton at once.
It was learned from Mr. Drayton's
habits that Mr. Borrowe might at any
time find his man and publicly thrash
him. This being determined upon,
Borrowe's club friends withdrew and
awaited with no little interest the
news of the encounter. Monday
passed, Tuesday passed and Wednes
day passed. Cn Thursday came the
news that Borrowe and Milbank had
fled on an ocean steamer, registered
under assumed names: Mr. Borrowe’s
club friends have ceased to defend his
valor, and no longer try to deny the
stories that Borrowe trembled at the
tales of Mr. Drayton's accuracy as a
pistol shot.
PRINCE MICHAEL.
The Prophet of the Flying Boll Appears
in Police Court.
Detroit, Mich., April 11.—Prince
Michael, of the New and Latter House
of Israel, and his spiritual wife, Eliza
Court, were in the police court this
morning for examination on the
charge of adultery, but the case was
adjourned until Monday next, owing
to some legal technicality as regards
the prince’s bonds Judge Chamlers
has issued a warrant for his re-arrest
and he will be taken into custody
again this afternoon.
No Escape fur Deeming.
London, April 11.—The British au
thorities have applied for a warrant
against Deeming, the murderer, so
that he may be brought to England
and prosecuted for the Bain Hill crimes
in case the prosecution in Australia
ihould result in a failure to convict
Killed by tlie Electric Wire.
Boston, April 11.—James Hayes, a
lineman employed by one of the elec
tric light companies, was killed this
morning by receiving a shock while
trimming * light
ERRATIC DUMAS.
HI* Silly Quarrel with Mm. « ,
Under a
abis, April 11.—The mo»t talked-**
man at preaent is Alexandre Dm!
flls. and the following story U heart
only m whispera-for in view ? V
fact that it concerns one of the
est contemporary French celehrUi«
no newspaper in France has vet fc a
the temerity to print it. Some Italu!
journals which are not distinguished
for the same delicacy have outlined it
in their columns, and II secalo ‘
Milan, has stated it boldly infull.onl!
suppressing certain names, which sr>
most easily recognized. 00 ar®
”f8t Part °* Btory. which I*
the least spicy portion of the narrv
tive, refers to the great row between
Dumas, fils, and Mme. Meissonter
Dumas, as is well known, was one of
Meissonier s most intimate friends, and
when the painter died he headed th.
list of subscriptions for a magnificent
statue for which contribution! p^
in from all quarters The memorial
progressed rapidly, and all went well
until the committee, of which Dumas
was not a member, selected the loca
tion at the end of the Place Male*,
herbes, where the statue of Dumaa
pere, stands This spot, it now a£
pears, had been selected by Duma*
ills, himself, as the place for the statue
which he thinks his admirers will be
certain to erect for him as soon as he
is dead. He accordingly protested
against the situation. His protest only
caused amusement, and in a rage he
withdrew his name from the lUt on
which it had been so prominent a
figure, and Mme. Meissonier and he
are now deadly enemies This would
be trifling in itself but for the fact
that it indicates the erratic conduct of
the novelist
The strange part of the story begins
with the announcement made about
ten days ago that he proposed to sell
at auction his picture gallery and the
whole of his famous art collection. The
pictures are extremely valuable,
nearly all being gifts of the great mod
ern painters, and they are likely,there
;-* — wvvu num uicir assucia
tion and their intrinsic value, very
high prices. The art collection is al
most equal in value to the pictures,
and there is little doubt, according to
the judgment of connoiseurs, that the
sale will produce a minimum of 1,000,
000 irancs, and possibly the figures
may run to even double this amount
1 be. reason for the sale is purely
feminine, and is nothing more nor less
than the desire of Mme. Regnier, the
daughter of the famous Societaire of
tlie Committee Francaise. Dumas fell
in love with her six months ago, and
has completely lost his head so far as
she is concerned. Her st-iange power
over him has caused a great deal of
surprised comment, but there is no
doubt as to his complete slavery or
her wildly extravagant habits His
handsome income derived from his own
and his father's works has been quite
insufficient to meet her wants She
only laughs over the matter and
speaks of him as her “amoureux sur le
retour,'’ indicating that the power of
love is bringing him hack to youthful
ness
This, however, is not the worst of the
matter. Dumas’ two daughters are
married and live in homes of their
own. He has a wife, but practically
lives alone, and it is now remarked
that Mme. Dumas has not been seen
in public for some months—not since
his liason with Mme. Regnier was un
der full headway. Furthermore, Du
mas goes about meeting his friends
with a melancholy air and whisper
ing: “My poor wife; I shall be
obliged to have her placed in a maison
de sants ” It is declared on the other
band, that Mme. Dumas’ faculties are
not the least impaired, and her sorrow
over the eccentricities of her husband,
as well as his keeping her in retire
ment, are sources of deep and poignant
sorrow to her.
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
Twenty-Fire Families Said to Have
Perished at Columbus, Miss.
Birmingham, Ala., April 11.— Rain
has set in again and much more dam
age will be done by floods. No trains
have run to Memphis over the Kansas
City, Memphis and Birmingham
road for a week. In one placa
the road is washed out for half a mile
and trains cannot be run for many
days yet In Marion county large iron
bridges across the creeks and rivers
were swept away. Near Pearson's
mill John Livingston and two
children while crossing the creek in a
wagon were swept away and drowned.
Eight miles south of Carbon Hill two
women were drowned.
A man from Columbus, Miss, says
twenty-five families are believed to
have perished by the floods around that
place.
Near Greenwood 1,200 feet of the
Georgia Pacific track was washed
away. At Gadsden, Ala., the Coosa
river is forty feet above low water
and hundreds of acres south of the
town are submerged. Many rafts of
timber have been lost and damage
amounting to thousands of dollars has
been done.
THE TREATY OF 1817.
A Resolution Adopted In the Senate May
Lead to Its Repeal.
Washington, April 11.—Mr. MeMil*
Ian's resolution in relation to the oper
ation of the treaty of 1817 as regards
the prohibition of the building wf war
vessels on the great lakes by the United
States were adopted by the senate
today, Mr. Hale, who had previously ob
jected to their immediate consideration
withdrawing his objection after con
sultation with the secretary of state
and the secretary of the navy. The
resolution will call up the genera
question of the repeal of the treaty o
1817 in regard to the war armaments
of Great Britain and the United State
on the great lakes.
City or Fitchburg Burning.
New Bedford, Mass, April lb-—The
steamer City of Fitchburg, of the o
Colony freight line, which arrived he
yesterday from New York, is burning
Several tugs are now throwing strea
of water into her, but it is feared
will be seriously damaged.
Died lu Awful Agony.
Des Moines, la, April9.—Mrs. Ann.
errs, wife of Adolphus Carrs, °‘
itv, was so badly burned by 8' .
in*e Thursday evening that ah
a great agony last evening.
7 years old.
