The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 18, 1883, Page 6

ret SA OHS A Convicts Camp. of attracted tblic attention in some Southern states is just now attending the and to the serious evils farming out of convict labor, there are reasons for hoping that either the system will be abolished or measures to mitigate its hardships. Nearly all the state prison convicts in some of the Southern states are negroes, and this, perhaps, reason why their hardships have been so long oyeriooked. Mechan- re not easily taught in is one ical pursuits 4 Southern prisons, and even if they could be negroes are not adepts in This 1s why it has been found necessary in several of these states, in order to make the prisons self-supporting, to farm out the convicts to contractors to be em- ployed on laborious tasks. As might learning them. he expected, they are ill-ted, ill- clothed, l-sheltered, and very harsh- ly treated. No care whatever is ta- ken tor their comfort, and the sequence is a death-rate among them that is frightful. The South Caro- lina papers have raised their voice against the system and demanded its abrogation. The convict camps along the railroads are abodes of filth disease and suffering. The rate of mutrtality among the convicts em- ployed in the phosphate beds is 10 to 12 per cent, and numbers of them when returned to the prison af- k is ended are more dead than alive, suffering from incurable diseases contracted in camp. The Charleston News and Courier, says; ‘‘Hundreds of lives have been sacri- ficed in the conyict camps that would not haye been lost under other con- ditions, and this is enough to stamp the whole system as a disgrace to the state and a reproach to the civil- ization of our people.’’—St. Louis Republican con- ter their t. CHOLERA. London, July 9.—The deaths from cholera at ninety- six Damietta, forty-eight at Mansurah, one at Al- exandria, six at Samanud and six at Shirbin, reported in the Cairo Dis- ast evening, were the fatal- The number hty-eight at Mansurah, patch ot | ities for Saturday. deaths Sunday was Damictta, sixty-four of at nine at Samanud, seven at Shirbin, one at Alexandria. A Times correspondent at Alex- andra says a European died here ot cholera yesterday. The abattoirs of the city are in a filthy condition and extremely dangerous to health. A private telegram from) Alexan- dria states that 57 deaths trom chol- era occurred Monday at Damietta. Cairo, July 9.—It is reported a yacht is being prepared and will be held in readiness to take the knedive to Naples in eyent of the spread of the cholera making his departure nececsary. Hong Kong, July 9.—Cholera has broken out at Swatow and 1s raging violently. Alexandna, July 9.—Provisions en out at Damietta, and peo- ple ore starving. A number of Eu- ropean residents made an attempt to break the cordon around the and several were wounded. According to advices trom Beher the cattle plague ended with the death of all the cattle in that district. ‘Lhe cotton worm is now doing great damage there. have giv town | Strange Case. From the Clinton Advocate. We have often heard of swallowing a needle, months the needle working its way out of the body, The last case that we have heard of was in the family of Mr. John Maloney, who lives about three miles sout! About a year ago there was a school ; exhibiton at the school house in the district in which Mr. Maloney hves, persons and after ot and prizes offered for different things | One of Mr. Maloney’s daught was a successful contestant, the prize she rec Set of crochet needles. not had them long when one of them disap peared and could not be found. The children were questioned and @enied knowing anything about Several times during the year younger sister of the one the needles oelonged ha her sid a to whom complained : Finally a ‘rising’? made its appearance and 7) ofas le. er pain i the | Turn the Rascal Out. her mother applied a poult seemed to reheve her at the time, A short time Governor St. John of Kansas reg- istered yesterday at the Palmer house since | and it subsided. | however, it began to rise again and | all their efforts to cure it failed, and ishe suffered considerable from it. j Last Wednesday they brought the; had inscribed a number. It ‘Little girl to town to have her exam- | pened to be the wrong numbe,r and find | the beli-boy innocently knocked a A Herald reperter sent up his pro- tessional card, upon which the clerk hap- | ined by Dr. Britts, but failed to him and returned home. way the rising in her side broke, dis- | connected with the Kansas city charging a great amount of puss. | Times. The gentleman was in, and The next morning while examiming | probably said to himself, as he the sore place, they discovered some | glanced at thecard: ‘Herald, eh? hard substance, which on closer ex- | Well, Dll go right down. Let amination, and upon removal proved | see, he'll probably = want ___ to to be the long lost chrochet needle. |me know which way Kansas Mr. Maloney was in town Friday | Kansas will go this tall. D. dif and had the needle with him, which | [ know, but it will never do to let measured nearly three inches in} him find it out. Then there’s pro- length. He stated that his little | hibition —d n prohibition. any- daughter was getting along nicely. | how. Well, I probably know as aes ae | much as the rest of them; and then, Santa Fe Expositions Topekz, Kan, July 10,—A special This has prov- he’s probably a youug man, so I can bluff him on that question, and what ipal aff. I don’t know about muni from Santa Fe says: business isn’t en to be among the most successtul days of the tertio centennial exposi- i | and the worth knowing.’’ Haying arranged his ideas prop- newspaper tion. Firemen from Trinidad, Col., | exly the editonol gentleman pulled and Las Vegas, N. M., together} gown mis vest and pulled up his col- with the Santa Fe team, took part lar and hastened down the stairs in the tournment during the after- **I beg your pardon, sir,’’ said the noon, The companies from Trini- clerk as the journalist approached town. | F dad and Santa Fe took the , honors, | the office, ‘that was a mistake. I their time being 43 3-4 and 44 sec- | sent up the wreng number.” onds_ respectively. The Apache | 4 number of exclamations more ceremonies continue with unabated | ¢orcible than polite escaped the com- interest. This national dance lasts pressed lips of a very mad man whe without ceasing for four days and] wajked immediately to the wash four nights, and 1s known as the | room, probably under the impression Deyil’s dance or Napa Johitah. It} iat he had come down ‘stairs to is the Apache version ot the tempta- wash his face. tion. The story runs that the pretty **Who is he?” inquired the repor- Indian maiden daughter ot Pretty | 4... Beads, Etada, is tempted by the dev- Ooi EE Gris Tears OHS il, Chinita, in many ways and dis- Times,”’ answered the clerk. E guises, her greatest trial being when the devil form ot the renowned Cortes, the Spanish and Old Mischief ot the Apache race A Suit Over Human Skin. Boston, July, 6.—What may well | take rank as the most umique of law- | suits has grown out ot Governor But- sumes the hero ta grand firemen’s ball is in prog hall. The mineral exhibits, which are now | To-ni ress in the mam exhibiton ler’s investigation of the Tewksbury abuses. A reporter met a member complete, are the most striking fea-| 6 the boot and shoe firm from whom ture of the exhibition. The ores ex hibited are valued at many thousand | doll: | acter is attracting mitallurgists, miners and from every quarter of When the comparatively isolated | he obtained the largest governor specimen of tanned human hide, and sand their general rich char | this conversation took place : the attention ot | “Mr. Donaldson, did you ever re- capitalists . ; = capitalists | cover the skin you loaned Governor tue globe. | Butle z ae : “No, Lhaye not: but I am going character of the mining districts are | eo taken into account; when it isknown | “Was it of any value to you wee a psy oe S eee 2 ed “T should say it was. I was mak- is te ‘ ASOT on jacks ob ing a pair of shoes trom it for the it is underst: 5 2 ex | E s understood that these exhibits | jjuseum in Rome. I valued that are the result of only seven’ months’ skin at about $1,500. developement when work could be | ‘How do you propose to get it earned) on without interference. The back i Wow collection here displaved 1s regarded | oy from the governor that he does property intends to nin ? have received ag as simply wonderful and goes far to- wards proving New Mexico not acknowledge any m be | juman skins, and that he to one of the richest mineral territories his it when it has served pur- in the union. Each day from now yose as evidence im the investiga- to the 3rd of Aagust has its teatures of special interest. | ‘ 4 : SE | ‘*Lunderstand thac and have com- People who think that slav has | menced legal proceedings to secure been abolished should read the tele- | it- graphic vs trom Concord. N. H.. | “Do you anticipate success in that their error may be corrected. | your suit?” Slavery has only been abohshed in| ‘‘I certainly do, and because ot | the Sdute: sbstih eackan ceimeomh. | the publicity en the article in’ the er sections. The attention of the | recent affair, [ would_not take less secretary of state at Washington has | than $3,000 tor that skin.”’ been called to the condition ot affairs | = Ss ee | that exists in the old Granite state. \ Cimarroms Cycione. }Alarge number of Swedish and | Dodge City, Kan.. J tb. A Norwegian immigrants have been | clone struck Cimarron, a station arrested at the request of several | 0? the Atchison, Topeka and Santa } manufacturing corporations of Sun- | Fe: erghteen miles west of here, at H 14:30 o'clock this wrecked six buildings, besides one afternoon and cook and other places. The charge is that these people are in debt to the companies. They were brought | /#tge livery barn. trom their native lands to } any injury, Onel i the mills. their a billiard room was picked | hem. Nohody received ! work in ze building oc- age being ad- | cupied pas: vanced dose ot the slay hfe and miserable | let down some yards away uninjur- «As allof the wires are ed, down, oft mill operatives they, as ranufacturers charge, are guilty | fuller particulars cannot be obtained. of the crmme of seeking to better tneir | condition by looking for other fields. | To prevent this and to And now the nail makers’ associa- The pr nails is tion is in distress. to on their | 1 t ces, the manufacturers produce | OV * "Bere are too many retain se contracts showing that the starvation been sufficient pay the debt due for their passage, shop. This is the building seasons We in the midst Wages ‘ave not to; when nails are needed. are re told that we of great and in every case the , but there must be a great poor people nave been thrown into jail for debt. And this, we have read, is a land in prosperit number of idle people. which slavery and involuntary servi- tude. except for crime, Mr. R. E. J. Miles of Cincinnati announces that he hopes to be able © capture Henry Irving tor the next democratic testival- Herhaps Mr. Irving will not bea drawing card by the t.-me the next festival comes off, is forever prohibited. Are not the efforts to get cheap labor by these New Eng. ind manufacturers and their greed of great profits leading to practices verging close upon slavery? On the | the door ot a gentleman said to be | Having had a severe | UP entire, turned twice around and | hand. They are going to shut up the i C. B. LEWIS, THE ‘Boss Liveryman Has opened a His Teams Fresh and Spiritee and onable. hischarges aie r CALL AND SEE HIM. FIFTY CENTS THE WEEKLY XT. LOUIS POST - DISPAT 1 ‘The brightest spiciest and best tamily paperin the West is offered tor 3 at the tollowing extraordinary low rates. 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