Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1882, Page 2

CITY AND_ DISTRICT. = ss The West Washington Sewerage Sye SBSULTS OF RECENT ATION. MADE BY THE DISTRICT RNGINERE DEPARTMENT. ‘Bnder the instructions and direction of As- sistant District Engineer Hoxie, in charge of the District dratnage, Mr. Joun J. Burrows has been making an investigation of the Georgetown ; seworage system and the condition of the sewers fn that city, and at the sim: time superintending the repairs now being made upon them. In @ Teport to Lieut. Hoxie, recently submitted. he street . leads horthwardly to a point near (he south of Pros street where It branches into two sewers, one of which leads northwestwardly to the north side of 34 strest, between Fayette and Lingan streets, and the other northeasterly, end- ing asa main in squire 85, near the pump-house of the Washington Aqueduct.” They follow the tortuous windings of tae old water courses,chang- ing direction no less than thirty-stx times. They were built In sections, of different dimensions and at various dates, and are unfortunately located, In thit they are invariably In private ¥, except where they cross the streets. all D shaped and the archers and side- with some exception, in fair The bottoms, as a general thing have wholly disappeared or have been into holes—the former being the case to agreat extent, when they were of wood, and the inter, when they were paved with stone. The ter portion of the arches were constructed of Brick om st'ie walls of stone, laid Im lime mortar, With indications of a mixtare of hydraulic cement, Im some of what appears to be more recent con- struction. Other portions have s.01e arches laid mortar, and some were built with arch, side walls and bottoms 0° stone selected with regard to shape and size and laid without mortar. The latter were weill-bullt and preserve their original contour in a remarkabie degree. From the south side of Water street a water way 10 feet wide, with stone walls and botiom, extends to station 3xil feet, arched with brick, in fair condition, under Water street, and either opened or covered by Ray’s and Herr’s milis the remaining distance. From station 8x11 to station 4x70, “D* sewer, semicircle of 8 feet span on 3 feet walls, all of stone laid In mortar. Steet wiie and 96 high, shape and con‘itioa of each section 1s given in de- tail, making a very interesting accouat of thesewer- age'system of Georgetown, which was commenced nearly a hundred years ago, and has since ®een tofrom time to time. The defects are all nd tonsist of breaks In the sidewalks, and ‘00d floors worn out by entirely gone, deposits of be removed, man holes covered with wood rotten, oles in crown of arches, wood bottoms entirely washed away to eS. ‘The report is accompanted with a map showing the locations of the main sewers, the bad places, and extent of damages which need repairs, cost, &c. Some of these s-wers are at a great depth be- low the surface, owing to the grades established since their construction. One thing which has ainst the Georgetown sewers is the fact taps in sueh_manner as best sulted thelr rpose. ‘This has had the effect of creating many Baa’ places in the sewers in that city. andatee toed scams Fruit Prospects Hereabouts. ABOUT PEACHES AND PEARS—THE LATE FROSTS. Correspond ence of Tue EvENrxe Stan. Fauts Cuurcn, April 22, 1882. Itseems that cur peach-growers have not agreed in regard to the true condition of the peach cerms since the late freezes. April 10th ‘was about as chilly and uncomfortable a rain as ever occurs in this latitude. There was sleet during the day at interva!s. Temperature, 40°. ‘The storm did not end untilnight. It was quite evident ® an observer ot the storm that there would be a freeze during the night following. Cleared away during the latter part of the night, and on the morning of the 11th ice of about a sixteenth of an ineh thick formed on the water in a tub out of doors. Damp, if not really wet, as the buds and biossoms must have been I do not think that they were killed to any extent. On the Iiththe wind was strong and very esol from the northwest all day with Sunday little snow squalls. On the morning of the 12th the temperature at 5:30 c’clock a.m. was 24°, and ice inthe tab of water was a little over three-eighths of an inch thick: The question seemed to be settled without an examination of, the buds aud blossoms that the peach promise” of two days previous was broken. I thouzht i% was, and was so sure of it that I did not deem it necessary to examine. The second thought, and always the best. changed my mind. I have examined the blossoms extensively. Asa genera! fact the trees that blossomed first, hese were in bloom when the freeze cane, are dead. So far as my observation ne “Comet,” the very latest to ripen of ali the peaches here, and the “Alexander's” and “Amsdea’s June,” the very earliest of all Peaches, now in bloom at the same time, the germs of both were killed. Of thetre Out full blossoms after the freeze, the nearly all alive. The “Smock’s” and ““G: the latest peaches before the “Comets” were brought out, and the “Beatrice,” the earliest be- forethe** Alexanders” and ““Amsdens,” blossomed fally after the freeze, and are alive. To these general statements there are exceptions. The ing or exposing nature of the lucality has places chanzed the fact in both cases. As a general truth also the germs on trees on high ground with a northern siope, have fared better than the same varieties on a southern slope. Oe- casionally a tree has live germs on the north side, whilst those on the south are dead. Thus, whilst the varieties will be lessened as com- pared with bearing years when a freeze has not occurred, the will be sufficiently large for the demand and fair paying prices. igh wegiamerine observations of last season fresh in memory no one can be positive with Fespect to the outcome of the Si But very few growers, at the time of ing. had any promise of peaches, and the promise of these was confined to a very few trees as com- pared to the whole orchard, and thea when the germs had but barely changed into peaches, the eung fruit began to drop, and in most cases the fae lado nearly deprived of fruit before matu- rity. Then again this was true of quite a por- tion of the trees; when the peaches had reached the size of a hazel nut, the Lcseesond pasar) = gTowing until the season was about ended. The curious, and, to me, never before seen result, ‘was, on some trees, and icularly the Smocks, three crops or periods of ripening. The first and smallest of fine large peaches matured about the 15th of September; the next,considerably smaller, but yet near fair in size and quality, matured about the middle of Octcber; and the third. near about the size of apricots, colored up and flow- ered somewhat like apricots, about a month later. These facts show that the greater portion of the peach buds that survived the winter sus- tained more or less pre If anything like this should be true also of the buds this season, the Fesults of what now seems to be a fair promise of fruit will be disappointing at last. Pears have bloamed after the freezes and Promise a bountiful crop. LATER. Monday morning, April 24th—The snow fell om Sunday about four inches deep, I think. Temperature at 9 o'clock last evening 33°, and snow disappearing ; temperature at 10 minutes Past 5 o'clock this morning 32°. Wet snow was frozen, but little pools of water not frozeh. ‘Can’t say what at present writing is the effect on L. 5S. A. ————_-+o-_____ Nuisances Needing Abatement. CONGRESSIONAL ACTION REQUIRED. A NEW WRINKLE. A Temperance Pleasure Besort. The Potomac Fruit Growers’ Association, lease of Glymont for five years and have pur- chased 480 acres adjoining on the north side of the Glymont estate, including the Pye whart and grounds with the fishing shore, which gives them control of a mile of river front, including some of the most beautiful natural scenery on the Potomac river. This company propose es- tablishing a temperance pleasure resort, includ- ing, in due time, hotel accommodations, board- ing houses with cottages for rent, or sale, boat- ing and bathing accommodations with general facilities for pleasure excursions or for boarding by the week or month. This company also pro- pose in time to have excursion boats of their own, but will the the use of a boat for ly new place. The price paid for the ground was $7,000 which is regarded as very cheap. It bs the intention of the ees, to aps strictly a temperance resort, and not @ resol for the disorderly and vicious. No hotel will be erected this season. but it is pro) to erect the two saloons purchased by the company at the centennial sale in Philadelphia, erected by the Chinese and Bragilian governments, which cost $40,000. These buildings were carefully taken down and will be put up as_ pavilions for dancing or other amusements, and will be lo- cated on the biuffs overlooking the river. These bluffs are to be set out with the best kinds of ornamental shade trees and the grounds will be otherwise improved with shrubbery and flowers. One feature will be an experimental fruit farm. A contract has been made witha Chicago firm to furnish cottages costing from $150 to $600 each, which will be rented or sold to those who desire to occupy them. The officers of the corporation are S. A. H. McKim, president; Dr. E. P. Howiand, secre- tary; J. Orville Johnson, treasurer, and I. R. Trembly, superintendent of the grounds. Let Us Call a Halt. To the Editor of Tax Eventma Srar. Please grant me the favor of space enouh to ask, Whether the United States have not en- tered the dark and dreadful phase of an eclipse of the Divine favor? The widespread drought of last year, and the destruction that has fol- lowed; the unparalleled floods that have swept from end to end of the Mississippi valley; the al- most total loas of the fruit crop of last year, and anearly certain repetition of the loss this year, and now alodgment of the severities of winter amidst the tender hopes of spring. All these ought to dispose us to reflection. For such things, or the mitigation of them, we must look beyond con- #ressional yotes ur popular suffrages. They are at least calculated—and why not intended ?—to point our thoughts to that Power in whose bands are the fortunes and fate of individuals and nations. No matter here about the sneers and scoffs of unbelievers in the providence or being of God. ‘The dead weizht of their unbe- Hef is the great burden and sorrow of the time; nay, they ate the very provocation that in ali past has brought down the severely cur- rective judgments of Heaven. A brief retro- spect is enough to convince any heart but one of adamant of very great departures; and who can deny that there is among us a rapidly growing indisposition to acknowledge responsibility to a Moral Governor, to confess even His existence, orto regard man as anything higher or better than an ephemeron that battles through his brief day and then subsides into eternal extinc- tion? These are the growing fashion of the day. Can we wonder, then, that the Father and Ruier of our recreant, but yet not forgotten, race should exercise the rod, and, by the might of His irrisistible hand. seek to restore us to a sense of our first and most bounden duty. Yours, &c. Sursum. Se es Rear Esrare Satea.—t. A. McIntire, real estate broker, 918 F street, bas recently made sales as follows:—For M. Langfitt to J. O Connor, lot 29, Square 566; 40c. per foot. For Maurice Kelm to 8. lot 1, sq. 122 For W. W. Metcalf to J. Judah, lot 7, sq. 943; #800. For A. McIntire to R. J. Wyn lots and 18, sq. 233; $3,0.0. For D. A. Pierce to J. P. Anderson, iot 6, sq. 174; $1,300. For W. Z. Partello, 1331 ath street nortuwest; $1,000. N. Jackson fo 'T. Coleman, lot 209, Mt, Pleasant. For das. Horwitz to F.M.Elkins, lot 21, £4. 686:$4,500. For J. Johnson to C. ‘Thoms, H and Nogth Capitol streets; $3,000. For F. Sisson to N. Darfing, lot 96, = 675; $2,500. For M. E. Sutpley to G.J. Bond, No. 43 K street northwest; $2,170. “For J. Eller to E. ‘Taylors 1th and Q sts northwest; §800, For. L. s 2 Fraley to Jno, ‘Test, 1128 and 1180 26tu st. n.w.; $3,000. For G.J. Bond to M. E. Shipley, 1226 12th St. n.w.; $4000. For H. Jenison to Mta. Tayior, #2. Farm near Chain Mr. Houser to D. McIntire; $1,500. N. Huyck, real_ estate agent, has sold for Mrs. Colonel A.’ D. Robinzon, part of lot “C” in Square 215, improved by a three story residence, No. 1409 L street northwest. to Mra Colonel Charles Worthington, for $10,500 cash. a Bride J. VICTORIA’S SICKLY SON. A Weak Bridegroom. London Cor. N. ¥. Tribune. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, is still very ill. He will leave Mentone on the 11th, but has hurt his leg very severely. The Prince is so very deli- cate in health that the experiment of marrying him is causing a great deal of comment. Per- petual subcuticular inflammation or defective “cutis” and general debility make the unfortu- nate and intelligent Prince a doubtfal bride- groom for any fixed day. It is yet hoped that no such disaster as the postponement of the day of marriage on account of the ill-heith of the bridegroom will occur. Nothing kills like ridi- cule, and a weakly bridegroom is the most ridic- ulous of human beings. The Duke of Albany is doubly unfortunate in being the weak child of a yigorous stock. The vitality of the “rest of the Royal family” is astonishing; their perpetual ap- petite is only equalled by their power of under- going fatigue. Their ee of ilfe would seem to be like that applied by trainers of blood — to yearlings—food and exercise and plenty —_____+e._____ Horace Greeley’s Shoes. From the St. Louis Republican. About the year 1870, when Arthur Barret was President of the Fair Association, Mr. Greeley accepted an invitation to deliver the annual ad- dress in the amphitheater at the Fair grounds. Colonel Todd was chairman of the reception committee, and after the close of the address es- corted the speaker to his room at the Southern hotel, where he bade him good-bye, as Mr, Greeley was to leave the city early onthe follow- ing morning. Before leaving him, however, Col- onel Todd said : “Well, Mr. Greeley, [trast that during your stay here everything has been done for your com- fort and that everything has been satisfactory to ou. Oe es.” replied Mr. Greeley slowly and with considerable hesitancy, “everything been as pleasant as I could have desired, except”—here the old gentleman looked sadly down at his feet, abrief pause resumed, “except that some one stole my shoes last night.” * Stole your shoes!” echoed Colonel Todd tn astonishment, also surveying Mr. Greeley's feet. “Yes,” replied Mr. Greeley with a sigh and moving his feet uncomfortabl, “One mi be “for wanting to some one wanted ‘This was intended fora compliment, put Greeley was too much interested in his notice it. He only sald, “Perhaps so, would very my old ones to ‘and wish they taken something else as “The next moraing the old gentleman. lim; ing ss sod tok m caring forthe day away a vor- able impression of the souvenir hunters of St. Several weeks elapsed Pi = before the mystery of solved. It was then THE WOODMONT BR. AND @. CLUB. Opening of the Bas Sensom on the Petomac. ‘From Forest and Stream. ‘The Woodmont Rod and Gun Ctub celebrated the opeaing of the bass season on the 8th in- stant. That the members and their guosts had @ grand time, caught bass, sang songs, ate a big dinner, and made themselves unanimously merry, isa foregone conclusion. But first let me tell you something of the location of the property and personnel of the club. One hundred and four miles from Washington, on the Baltimore and Ohlo railroad, is the little town of Great Cacapon, at Dam No. 6, one of the feeders of the Ohio and Chesapeake canal, and one mile farther, beantifally situated on a hill- side, overlooking a delightful stretch of moun- tain scenery, is the Woodmont club-house. The club owns 3,000 acres of land, three-fourths of a mile on the Potomac, and reaching back several mites, embracing a territory that is well popu- lated with deer, bears, turkeys, grouse, quail, juirrels and rabbits. The river is well stocked with black and other bass, and there is the usual supply of less gamy fish, such as catfish, eels, sunfish and suckers, which are thrown'in for good measure. The club has introduced Iand- locked salmon and Califoruiatrout, and arrange- ments are being made for hatching, so that the general supply of native and imported fishes may be rapidly increased. The club house is a model in its way, admira- bly adapted to the wants and comrort of mem- bers and guests. There are fifteen rooms in the house, and adjoining is a building for the accom- modation of the superintendent. and his family and servants. {n the farge hall is an elaborate rod and gun rack, while an adjoining room is well arranged with closets and lockers. From the portico of the house there is a charining view across the Potomac over to the Capon mountains, south, the Tonoloway moun- tains, east, and what Is called Sidling hill, west, the first two being great enough and regal enouzh to show the royal purple with which mountains are clad to the eves of the distant beholder. The club was organized in Washington two years ago, the prime mover being Mr. A. H. Evans, of Washington, president, who is a hale and hearty old gentleman, an enthusiastic sports- man and a prince of entertainment. Among the members who were present at_ the bass-opening were the president, Mr. Evans, . Dram, U. Senator Warner Miller, Commo- Crosby 8. Noyes, editor Evening Star, Washi ton, and Messrs. Levi Woodbury, W. C. MeIn- tire and Thomas Russell, of Washington. Among the invited guests were Senators Frye, Hawley und Harrison, Representative Calkins, Colonel John M. Bacon and Major William Dann, U, S. A., J. C. Burnett and W. H. Clark, Washington. A few of the party came up in the afternoon of the 7th, and though they did not sally out till late. a dozen bass were brought in. On the 8th, with one-half the party on duty, about fitty basa were captured and rare good sport was had. Tn the evening—well you ought to have been there, liking fish and fun as you do, and having the capacity, as may be inferred from the col- umns of Forest and Stream, for the good things of earth. The spread was a royal one, from soup to cigars, with an intermediate fullness and _fin- ish surpassing a White House entertainment, as one of the Senators testitied. The Baltimore and Ohio rallroad company is liberal with the club in the way of spccial cars, stopping opposite the club grounds, etc. The club has an ample supply of boats, and good attendants for parties angling, procuring bait and rowing are near by. Much pleasure is anticipated by the members for themselves and their friends at this delizhtfal sport, the facilities for which will be increased from year to year. ‘The spring fishing under and just below the Dam No. 6 is excellent, affording fine opportunities for skilful handling of the and reel. Above the dam in the late summer and in the fall there is good fishing from a boat, trolling and casting. In short, the year round, by land and water, there is good sport to be had, the pure, sweet air comes to the lungs with the odor of pine and the fragrance of flowers, the distant droning of the dam, the ery of the whippoorwill, the drum- ming of pheasants, the hooting of owls, are among the voices of the night, and here, if any- whece, one is sure of rest and recreation. J.C. B. Woopmont, Mp., April 10, 1883. See SPE Valuable Discovery of Aybestos. Tneson Star. At a depth of ninety feet in the Apache copper mine, in the Santa Catarinas, aten inch vein of asbestos has been discovered. When found, the workmen reported to Supt. Scott that they had struck a petrified log. He thought it impossible, and made an examination, and at first sight be- lieved the strike was what it afterward provedto be, after a careful assay andanalysis. Thespeci- men shown us, in specifle gravity, is almost equal to lead, of a fine fibrous character. The fibers are combined together ina compact mass, but split off similar to a straight-crained wood. It is a greenish color, with a white shade. The veln appears permaneht at present, and, as a matter of course, adds great value to the property. The finest fibrous variety, with easily separable fibers, is used for making cloth, whici renders it indestructible by the elements. In ancieut times the cloth made from asbestos was used to en- wrap dead bodies placed on the funeral pile, so as to preserve the ashes unmixed. The finest juality is found in Savoy, but it is abundant in rica. tis alsofound in Cornwall andseveral of the Shetland Islands. Small veins have been discovered in California and Nevada. The value in its native form is about $300 per ton It is now largely used in the manufacture of fire-proof materials, such as cloths, papers, ete. i An Indiana Mileteor. Professor Daniel Kirkwood, of Bloomington Ind., describes in The Scientific American what is termed the great meteor of March 9, 1882. At about 11 o'clock, he says, on the night of March 9, 1882, a meteor of great size and brill- fancy exploded over Kosciusko county, In- diana, in latitude 41 deg. 20 min. N., longitude 18 deg. 50 min. W. from Washington. The tol- lowing account of the phenomenon is derived from the The Warsaw Repiblican of March 25, 1882, and from a letter written by Mr. Albert Parker, an intelligent and trustworthy obser- ver. Mr. Parker was one of a party of five young men who, at the time of the explosion, were rid- ing in an open carriage or wagon about eight miles northeast of Warsaw, the county seat of Kosciusko county. The sky was entirely cov- ered with clouds, and snow was rapidiy falling. Consequently the meteor could not be seen till it had passed below the clouds; and as the ex- plosion took place within less than a second after its appearance, no trustworthy estimate could be formed of the time of flight. The mo- tion of the meteor was from south to north, and ‘was accompanied by a noise resembling that of a rapidly moving train of cars. Its color was a bright red, and its apparent size bong ual to that of the full moon. According to Mr. Parker it_was nearly overhead—probably a little north of the zenith—at the time of its explosion. The report was distinctly heard at Warsaw, and ex- morning paper the following curions advertise- ment: “It J. W. will return the skeletons he will re- ceive the price he demands.” ‘The name attached to this invitation was that of @ well known Fifth avenue modiste, and a Mercyry reporter, desirous of ascertaining in what connection skeletons were made valuable in the business of ety ‘woman's called on the advertiser. servan' that she was ed, an ed “pri ‘ Office,’ 7 od the reporter m “private g ie speedily became aware of an anything but friendly conversation conducted on the other side. Finally the door opened and a young man came out, followed by “Very well.” said the young man “This is the fifth time you've it will be the last. pay it, or ca T'LL GIVE THE WHOLE SNAP AWAY.” ~ The modiste entered the rageption room with- out answering, and asked the reporter his busi- ness. . When he stated it she flushed and replied, hesitatingly: “Well, there’s nothing in it, sir. My brother Is medical student, and a young man who wags employed here stole two handsome prepared ‘skeletons from him and he advertised for them, That's all, I assure you. Excuse tue, but I'm very busy, and must bid you good-day.” The reporter went out. On ‘the front ae he found the young man, who seized him by the arm and sald: “You're a reporter, ain’t yon? Ithoughtso. Just come along with me and I'lltell you what you want to know. Pve got the skeletons, and here they are.” And he pulied from his breast pocket two octavo sized account books, whose leaves. as he fiut- tered them over, disclosed long lines of entries and columns of figures. “I was her book- keeper,” the young man went on, “and I worked like a slave for her for $12 a week. She hasn't paid me a cent these three months. and last week she told me she wouldn't unless I took it at the rate of $10a week. Then I kicked and ELOPED WITH THE SKELETONS, and she’s been advertising for me ever since. Why? Why, because she can’t run her bnsiness without ’em, that’s why. There's $50,000 in money lent in these books, and she can’t make out her spring bills without them, Why, I could burst the whole millinery business in New York inside of a month if I could get hold of their skeletons,” “But what do me here, and You know how much [ want; you call skeletons?” demanded the reporter. he extra books,” replied the young man. “See here now. There are few dressmakers in New York with any style that do a straight business. They can’t. Their cus- tomers won't have it. There's more money lent than there is spent on customers’ dresses. and when a bill for a couple of thousand ismade out you can bet your life that half of it is clear cash with interest. In these here skeletons,” said the young man, impressively tapping the books with his forefinger, ‘there's over $75,000 entries and less than $30,000 of them are square busi- ness. The rest are loans at 5 per cent a month that the husbands haye to Pay for. along with the clothes their wives wear. ere’s one lady in this book whose spring bill will be over $5,000 and lees than $2,000 is for dresses. The rest is cash borrowed since lest fall, and INTEREST ON IT."” “Do you mean to say that dress-making is only another name for usury then?” “I mean to say that many dress-makers in New York lend money on Interest to customers. That’s where the skeletons come from. The skeletons are the secret books of the house. On one page of them is entered the actual indebtedness of the customer for dresses. On the opposite fe are the loans. Every month the books of the busi- neas are made up from these skeletons, the moncy loaned being charged to the dress-mak- ing account. See here. There isn’t # full name in this whole book, you notice, but each amount is headed with a number, a letter or a star, or some combination of them. This number, let- ter, star or combination, corresponds with some name on the other books, and nobody’s got the key to them but the man who keeps the books. I'm the man that kept the books up there, and I've got the key and the skeletons, too. So if T don’t get what she owes me there'll be trouble about the spring settlement. But more than that, I've got the BLACK-BOOK, TOO.” “What is the black-book?” ‘The credit reg- ister. There's a system among the dress-makers of keeping up a sort of registration of customers who are bad pay. It was startea about ten years ago by a big modiste on University place. When- ever a lady ran, up af account and refused or failed to settle it the modiste entered her name in a memorandum book. and sent written slips detailing her indebtedness to the different other big dressmakers here. They were warned in this way to look ‘out for her, and in return would warn her of their own bad customers. After a couple of yéars these names made up a long list. About fiye years back, when the bus- iness of lending money commenced. this list be- came very valuable, for it saved the dress- makers from heavy loss. There are some swell names in it, I can tell youn—women who are rich enough to buy you and me out with a year’s in- come, and who yet have to pay cash for every bit of ribbon ert - But women are not the only ones in the black-book. There are pages devoted to men, too. For instance:—You are in the habit of kicking at paving your wife's bills. Very well. You are entered as a kicker, and an extra charge tacked to your Wire's BILLS EVERY TIME they are sent in to pay for the trouble of collec- tion. Another man is slow pay, 50 interest is added to his bill. Doubtful husbands are kept ‘account of, and those who have to be sued noted. There are men on the list who are regu- Jarly charged with the expenses of suing jem to collect their wives’ bills. Some women are allowed unlimited credit, because they have the knack of making custom for their dress-makers, There is one lady who dealt with our house who hasn’t really paid a bill for years, and yet we have made thousands through her. All these points are down in the book as regularly as the accounts themselves. Why look here.” He designated an entry on a final page of one of his skeletons. It ran: “4***—A close bargainer, but fond of show; husband easy; father pays many bills, A. 1.” Following it was the entry: “A. 4—Talker and buyer; husband suspicious, but pays; money of her own; been sued twice,” while still another reads: “O. -Sirreguiary interest charges.” THE FINAL SENTENCE, the young man explained, meant that an allow- ‘nce must always be made in Mrs. 0. 0.'s ac- counts for the delays in paying them. In the same way all bills and credits were adjusted by reference to the credit register. As regards the loaning of money he stated that the customers to whom that confidence is extended are only the secpees et it when the lender is satisfled as to their solvency ng system of elaborate and exhaustive inquiry. ¢ lender has absolutely no security for her money. Her rates of inter- est are usurious, ranging from 5 to 10 per cent month, according to the character uf the erand the urgency of her need: and if the cases were ever carried cI leisurely and i; its harmlessness, they suck it in. As S general val the ordi method of fly-fishing with wet files Is of no ai A ary fly must be used. Only one is put on the charms, | {; it stated knees Cuetn the casting as if his life de- fishing for the Thames hat rarest of fish—I have no a experience; but men spin day after day, and month after month, with an extraordinary pa- tience, and without success or much apparent hope of It. The most deadly contrivance of all, both for salmon and trout ing, is one which is hap, now illegal. I refer to the lath or otter. is consists of a board about 2 feet long, 3 inches wide, and a t¢ inch thick, Jointed in the middle 80 as to fold, for convenience of stowing. One edge of this is weighted with lead or iron, 80 that it will just float on edge in the water. A strong line is fastened to this lath by means of a bridie rigged like that on a kite, and a stout string or rod with a large pirn for the line to tow the lath. The latter sheers out as you walk or row along to any distance. At intervals along the line shorter lines with files attached are sus- pended, and these comb the water. I have seen the same plan used for pike on some of the Cumberland tarns, and most deadly it was. In- stead of flies artificial baits were suspended from the line. Another dodge I have seen the miners use in Cumberland is to tle lines and spinning baits to rude toy boats, and set them to sail across the lake. . —— 9. _____ General Conference of the yi gaa Episcopal Church South for The ninth quadrennial session of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south will convene in Nashville, Tenn., May 3, being the first Wednesday in May, 1882. At the General Conference held in the city of New York, May, 1844, then representing the whole Methodist Episcopal church in the United States, the church was divided into two separate ecclesiastical bodies, on ‘‘a plan of separation” agreed upon by the general conference. The occasion of the separation grew out of the de- position of Bishop James 0. Andrew, D. D., from the episcopal office on account of his con- nection with slavery. A line of division was agreed on, and the great Methodist family parted north and south. The southern division held a convention in the city of Louisville, Ky., in 1845, and proceeded to o1 ‘ize an indepen- dent ecclesiastical body, under the name and titie of “The Methodist Episcopal church south.” The first general conterence of the southern church was held in the city of Petersburg, Va. May, 1846. The session was held in the old Union street Methodist church, near Jarrett’s hotel, now occupied by a congregation of col- ored Methodists. At that first general confer- ence Bishops Soule and Andrew—the two bish- ops who adhered to southern Methodism—pre- sided. The conference was compoed of 97 clerical delegates fromfifteen annual conferences in the southern states. But few of the men are now living who were members of the general conference of 1846. The great pulpit orator, Rev. Henry Bascom, of Ken- tucky, and that wonderful man, the Rev. Lovic Pierce, D. D., of Georgia, together with such men as the Wn. teed D. D., of Sonth Carolina; Rev. A.L. P. Green, D. B., of Ten- nessee; Rev. Hezekiah G. Leigh, D.D., of North Carolina, and many others of kindred poility, now no more, were members of that body. At that conference the Rev. Robt. Paine, D. D., then president of La Grange College, in West Tennessee, and the Rey. William Capers, D. D.., of the South Carolina conference, were ‘elected additional bishops in the southern “church. Bishop Paine is still living. Bishop Capers is dead. There hasbeen a wonderfal growth of Revalts ‘From @e H. Y. Tribame, April 24. ‘The labor troubles in this city and tts vicinity bave mot attracted unusual attention eo far this marble and pol- on strike at one time, and the mat- ay ia a, bat if the a ee y interested, but e same number employes should strike Thus far this season about 15,000 workingmen in this city have made demands for increased leldingatonce. The wages which framers for the abolition of job was granted they were obliged to strike. The stair builders were successful in @ day and only The bluestone cutters had little difficulty in taining advanced wages a few days ago. and bluestone cutters succeeded in pay increased to $4.50 a day. ters at the same time made a for $3.50 a day. eight hours work seep G the About 2,000° painters held a meeting at Irving Hall two weeks ago. at which it was decided to strike for @3.50aday. Aftera tew days of hesitation the last of yielded to the demands of the men and they resumed work. the bosses all The trouble in regard to the wages of the tallors has been confined almost exclusively to the men working In custom sho) and has In most cases been wages have been from 10 to 15 cent. satisfactorily rettied by the adoption of new price lista, by which the increased per The strike which the unfortunate marble cutters made several weeks ago has not resulted favorably to all of them. Their desire was to have the Job system abolished, by which, they sald, it was almost impossible for a man to make $12 a week, while many of them only received from $5 to $9. The trackmen on the Hudson River branch of the New York Central railroad are stillon strike between this city and Peeks- kill, having refused the offer of $1.25 a day made by the compan: were working for .20 a day and they manded $1.50. Before the strike they de- It is thought they will accept the company’s compromise, not having money to sustain the strike in their disorganized con- dition. The plumbers will strike this morning for $4 aday, which is an increase of fifty cents. At sevéral meetings which the men have held recently. the two organizations of lumbers in this city have been materially strengthened, and the men are confident of immediate success. It was stated yesterday that many of the bosses had already promised higher wages, and that their action would doubtless influence others to do the same. The headquarters during the strike will be at No. 537 3d avenue. Several strikes stubbornly contested last year have not a been made again this season, will probai ly during the summer. The but ba- kers, who were unfortunate last season in their strike for higher wages and fewer hours’ work, on account of their connection with the social- ists, are now making efforts to increase membership of their union to make further the de- mands of the bosses, and in May they will doubt- lesa strike. The ovens are usually in badly ven- tilated cellars, and the men assert they have to work from twelve to sixteen hours a day, although almost suffocated with heat, for wages often less than received by men in other trades for ten hours’ work. The men in brew- | Seek erles and car drivers have not yet made any move for better pay. They suffered last year from the unsolicited interference of socialists. The badly-managed attempt which the engi- ‘neers, firemen, and trainmen of the elevated Toads recently made to obtain higher w: and the adjustment of other troubles, resu! in a complete discomfiture of the men. A Trib- not destitute of artistic merit, adorned the pages of Puck on the 12th of April. The ani- mus of this cartoon is of a piece with the criti- cisms. Both sound a note of warning danger to the country. matter and as thoroughly as he 1) I see the safety of the country, and reason why—because the Pope has most official utterance tor the whole w: ted States is a just form of government, and kingly power nor mob power has aright to over- throw it. Our form of government is a just in- heritance from our and we intend own, Lge from his encyclical of Jane 29, 1881. In speaking of authority he lays down the scriptural idea that all authority comes from God, and, with regard to this, we call attention to the consequence of teaching that authority belongs to the ple. Disobedience to the people would not sinful, as sin is a violation of God's law only. Therefore, all laws would be but penal; there would be no obligation of conscience to obey, and therefore any one could violate them provided he were in no dan- ger of being caught. What a delightful state of things, and what adoor would be to lawlessness! As things are now, the law- breakers are In the minority; with such teaching the case would be rev. The Pope and the bishops teaching that authority comes from God put an obligation of conscience on citizen to observe the laws of these Uni ut the Pope and the bishops at Cincinnatt go further. They say ‘that they who are to be set over the republic may, in certain cases, be chosen by the will and the decision of the without any opposition or repugnance to Cath- olic doctrine. By this choice the ruler is desig- nated, but the rights of the government are not conferred and power is not given, but it Is deter- mined by whom It is to be wielded. There is no our country, she seeks to benefit it in every way by declaring its form of go gee od and commanding all Catholics to obey it under pain of resisting the ordinance of God. therefore God Himself. If there be anythi the Declaration of Independence that against this doctrine, then, it seems te declaration is not as friendly to the well oth ow A tthe pastoral the bah om er points ot slopes earn to quard —of z 3 & H a it dent and people, and of low, ey dod doing they dwell on human inequality, science and of social 1 ind on the rights Over all this presides Justice. It te strenethens government and raises 2288 southern Methodism since that day, now thirty- six years ago. Then there were but fifteen an- nual conferences in southern Methodism; now there are thirty-nine conferences. Then less than 2,000 traveling preachers or regular pastors; now 6,804. Then but 350.000 church members, ‘une reporter met one discharged employe yes- terday, who said that he did not believe the matter had been permanently dropped, men were 80 dissatisfied that they would sure to make more efforts to better their “The be con- 150,000 of whom were negroes; now about 900,000 white members. The general conferences since that session have been successively held as follows: In 1850 the conference was held in St. Louis, Mo., at which Rev. Henry Bascom, D. D., was elected bishop. He lived but 4 few months after his election. May, 1854, the general conference was held in Columbus, Ga., at which the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, D. D., of Georgia, Rev. John Early, D. D., of Virginia, and the Rev. H. H. Kavanaugh, of Kentucky, were elected bishops. Bishops Pierce and Kavanaugh are still living. The conference of 1858 was held in Nashville, Tenn. No bishop elected. In 1862 the confer- ence failed to hold s regular session on acevunt of thewar. The conference of 1866 was held in the city of New Orleans, at which Rev. Wm. M. Wightman, D. D., LL. D., of South Carolina, Rev. David 8. tt, D. D., of Virginia, Rev. Enoch Marvin, of Missouri, and the Rev. Hol- land N. McTyeire, D. D.. of Louisiana, were elected bishops. Bishops Marvin, Doggett and Wightman are dead. Bishop McTyeire is still living. May, 1870, the conference was held in Memphis, Tenn., at which Rey. J. C. Keener, D. D., of Louisiana, was elected bishop. The Rev. James A. Duncan, D. D., of Virginia, came near being elected, and would have been elected but for the reason that a of the delegates from Virginia were unwilling to with him as president of Randolph-Macon col- lege, and on that account only did not vote for him. The conference of 187C was the first at which there was an equal number of clerical and lay delegates. The venerable D'Arcy Paul, of Pe- tersburg, Va., was a member of that conference, and, aa one of Dr. Duncan's warmest friends, would not vote for him as bishop, because, as trustee of Randolph-Macon college, he did not see how he could be spared from the presi- dency of the college without irreparable damage to the fortunes, just then, of the institution. Others of Dr. Duncan’s-test friends, clerical and lay, took the same ground, and barely defeated his election to the episcopacy. In 1874 the gen- eral conference was held in Louisville, Ky. No bishop elected. In 1878 the conference met in Atlanta, Ga. No.bishop elected. Now the con- ference of 1882 will meet in a few days in Nash- ville, Tenn., at which, by common consent, not jeas than four, probably five or six bishops will be elected. A curious feature in the election of bishops is that no nominations are made. The confer- ence spends a short season in prayer and then proceeds to ballot. The drift of the vote to the man. The ordination of the bishops elect takes place on Sunday follow- ing theelection. It is not improbable that Vir- ginla, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri and Loul- siana or Kentucky, possibly both, will be repre- sented in the new bishops, This is conjecture from current opinion. In the general conterence all the great con- nectional interests of the church pass in review, such as the missionary work, the Sinday-school. cause, publishi education, the ad- ministration of bisho} bound- formation etl i ine or couk torn will I i : A i t Part | selected-the most intel dition.” —————-+-____ The Knights of Labor. From the Baltimore American. Labor strikes have been frequent during the past six months, and there are dim hints and outgivings that during the summer there will “The Knights of Labor,” a secret association of workingmen, has grown with great rapidity during the past be more extensive strikes. six months; and though the order claims that it disapproves of strikes in gei yet, never- theless, it also claims that it ‘thas never lost a strike.” It is understood that the strike at the George's Creek mines, in this state. is conducted under the advice of the Knights of Labor. The society was organized in 1869, and laid down in its constitution, as its aim and object, “‘to secure to the toilers a proper share of the wealth they create; more of the leisure that rightfully longs to them; more of the benefits. be- society advantages; more privileges, and emoluments of the world; in a word, all those rights and privi- I to make them le of enjoying, appre- eges capabl yoring, carbot clating, defending, and ings of good government.” objects are all laudable and proper, question being only as to how they are to sought. The society 4 etl at first. worl sorts, and initiated them by a ritual the be It en of all tended to impress upon their minds the nobility of labor, and the need of brotherly ties to insure co- Oj ion. and loyalty. It is said that there ‘are ‘noe local organt are now 1,830 158 of which have been formed since last. There are said to be 60,000 members in September the state of Pennsylvania alone. The state of Mary. land is said to contain only 2,800. The order is extended through the north and west, but Ala- bama and Tennessee are the only southern states where they exist in any numbers. So far as appears from the facts as made public, the order consists of picked men, and not, as trade unions in theory are, of all the operatives of each several calling. It is the object of a trades union to secure the co-operation of all the table workmen of ¥ special trade; the Knigi of Labor, however, elect their members by secret its ballot, a few black balls rejecting a name, and the members are selected from all trades. The essential difference of the two is perceived this. The order will not operate by mere force of numbers, but by greater intelligence. One of the features of the order is the collec- tion of statistics, such as ment by employers, condi These ‘Frous the Denver (Col.) Tribune, April 18. ‘ices of labor, treat- of workshops, &c. local organizations to _ e About ten days ago, while Mr. Frank Keeler, of the firm of J. Keeler & Son, was visiting North of ail our people; who, instead of malevolently criticising her should regard her as their bene- factor. “tPrancis Stas Cratann, “Bishop of Vinceanes. “Indianapolis, Ind., April 18, 1883." — —_$—_¢2—______ How a Valuable Copper Mine was Dis- covered. The Calumet and Hecla copper mine, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, which has been worked for fifteen years, and yielded nineteen nate Individual was a solitary man, living ing hut on the Old Eagle river trail. He wasas poor in compsrison as Robinson Crusoe, having only two pigs anda few fowls. The pigs were trou- blesome, constantly breaking from their pea and running off. One day he had sought vain to recapture them, when in his anger asked a person who happened to be with toshootthem. One was wounded bya revolver and tracked through the dense woods by the blood that dripped from the wound. At last he was found hidden among leaves on the side pig most valuable mine the world yet knows then should not be reverenced? couraging circumstances cai to drop till they sold at $1, but as ite immense wealth began to ap) , there was a rapid rise in the stock, until now the $25 shares are juoted at $250, or the market value of the $2500.00 stock is $25,000,000. And of this stock only 1,200,000 have really been expended. in the development of the mine. Thus the divi- dends already have been about sixteen fold the expenditure of stock. The son of the late Prof. Agassiz invested very largely in the Calumet and Hecla (of which corporation he ts president) when its stock was considered al- most worthless, and from the immense dividends it has yielded him he has already enriched his alma mater with endowment gifts of €300,000 or more. § once prompted a leading tiagedian, w°en cast for the part of Othello, to blacken himself from head to foot, so that, in color at least, he might be “every inch the Moor,” may be accounted the fi recently moving the of the Town Theater, at Lalaach fo. sara d and dumb gentleman to perform the role in Bouilly’s thrilling melodrama, ~‘Le Sourd- Muet.” It is impossible to help admiring “the unites" indicted by thi encasement, but uni . it seems to us to of principle which, if