Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1890, Page 5

i . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, ANOTHER OMAHA SMELTER It Wiil Be Established on the Belt Line. TONS OF ORE ARE IN SIGHT. 8 H. H Clark Endeavoring Induce Jay Gould to Extend the Missouri Pacific Itoad to Yankton, to Reducing Ore. John Smiley has gone east to inquire into some fiew schemes for reducing ore which are now in operation in that part of the country. Ho savs he capitalists to this city. inlends eroct. The with several other smolting works place selected tte tract of land _immodiately east of tho present fair grounds, which is reached by the Elkhorn & Missouri Valley, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago, St._Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, the Union Pacific and B, & M. roads The men associated with him are possessed of means and ave also intorested in mines which have tons of ore 10 ship. Some of these have invested heavily in_reduction works near their mines, but have found that the ores cannot be worked without fusion with other ores which cannot be had in the vicinity. These ores could be brought to this city from, other points and used in tae reduction, which wonld render vaiuable a vast amotiat of material which is,now com- paratively worthless, Thero is plenty of material, ho holds, to keep anotler smelting works running day and night and Mr. Smiley says he intends that it shall be built. ——— ON 10 YANKTON, 8, H. H, Clark Endeavoring to 0 tend the Missouri Pacific. It 18 understood that 8. H. H. Clark, general manager of the Missouri Pacifie, ieft St. Louis last Saturday for New York, the object of his mission bemg to consult Gould about extending their line from Omaba to Yaokton. Mr. Clark is quite anxious regarding this matter, and will use all bis influence to push 1t through. Ex- Vice President Holcombe said before leav ang Omaha that no action wouid be taken at prosent toward the appointment \of a suc: censor to the lute K'rancis Cope, as gene {reignt and passenger agent at Salt Lake City. Mr. Parker is in charge of the office now and possibly may be retained perma- nently. » The cut in passenger rates hus notreached Omaha as yet, but it is bound to come if in- sisted on by the Burlington Northern from Chicago to St. Paul. There is no pos- sibie way of preventing such a result unless the association of railroad presidents should have power and 1nfluence enough to force matters, Missouri river lines must either meet theso reductions or lose business des- tined to Portland, Seattle, Puget Sound, Victoria and other northwest Pacific coast The tarif moking $0 aod $7 on first and second class tickets St. Paul, applics as well on all business over the Northern Pacitic to Portland, therefore, unless the other trans- continental lines effected thereby” do the same, they surrender all claims to any portion of that_trafiic. However, since the Teduction there is confined to that portion of ‘the route between Chicago and St. Paul, it will have tocome here, eastof the river. respec sy dinless the Northern Pacific should add an - £ \ additional reduction to that made by the Barlington & Northern the Union Pacific is «<ompelled to depend uvon its eastern con- nections meeting the rate and_thuc keeping its Portland business intact, This system 1s very liable to bring about a f"“ revolution in western rates. But it will not come unless the Kansas City < lines get troubiesowe, It they should sail in and make the same rates to Kansas City as the Burlington & Northern givoSt. Paul and as the lowa lines must make to Omaha there will be a lively war. St. Louis, Memphis, Louisvillo and Cincinnati will then be ‘brought juto the fight, aud nothing can stop them from seeking revenge by knocking the bottom out entirely. Mr. Ward of the Mobile & Ohio road has been quoted as saying that he favors the re- moval of differentials and piacing soutl bound ‘Omaha rates on an equality with Kansas City. This seems to anuse freight agents lor vary much, They sy that Mr. Ward hias nothing whathever to do with this mat- ter and oxposes his ignorance by allowing his expressions to got into print. His road stops av St. Louis and all aifferentials tatked about by him exist north of that point. C. 8. Mellen’s illness hns developed an ab- scess in his he which threatens serious results, It comes from an attack of Russian influenza, that aunoying epidemic so {uulunr all over the country. It effected N. Babcock the same wuay though his Tlhcrmu broke Sunday and he is now on road to recovery. Mr. Mellen’s conai- tion is r-J)orned to be quite alarming though his friends believe that he will recover. tevens, goneral agent of the Rock Tsland, left for Chicago yesterday. 1t 18 un- dorstood that upon his roturo he will leave +or Los Angeles and take the agency for the same road at that poi lished Fact. The fact has been abundantly proven that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is the most prompt, most reliable and most successful medicine yet discovered for acute throat and lung diseases, such as coughs, colds and crou —e—— Maryon=Wheesler. At high noon yesterday Miss J, L, ‘Wheeler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, 5. E. ‘Wheeler, 1814 Wobster, was united in matri- mony with Mr, E. A, Maryon, a commercial traveler well known in Omaha, The wed- ding occurred at the bride's home. The parlors were darkeued for the o on and & dozen wax candies in each room shed a -7 soft light. Dean Garaner performed the * ceremony, The *“Wedding March' wa: plu‘ld by Meyer's orchollrl. ‘The bride was ly attired in a dress of oream albatross vdlh hromd- atin frout. The trimmings ;n\n of white ribbons and lace. She wore After congratulations the friends and relutives pregent sat dowa to a fine wedding diper. * A reception followed until 7 p, m. At that time the bappy couple took the train for their future home in Salt Lake City. Plattdeutsche Verein. ‘The Plattdeutsche verein celebrated its ®ixth anuiversary Monday night at Germania Dall. It was & private affair, only members and nvited guests being admitted. Good sivging was rendered by the musical club, under the direction ,of Prof. Dworzack. At midmeht an excellent supper was served, after which dancing continued up to sn early hour in the morning. Prof. Thiele furnished very good music. The arrangement com- mittee were P, F. Anderson, John Roosch- man aud. H. Beselln. The Pl-ud'uunher. - verew is the strongest Germ: in lmwuy Omaha, having & membership ol’ nearly three hundrad, mmprmn‘ maoy of the ing Germans fu the city. o R Pears’ is the best and purest soapever made* —— Stewart Sucoeeds Jacobien, Jolin M. Jacobsen, deputy coliector of fu- ‘ ternal revenne av Hastiugs, will end his ofticial carcer January 16. Deputy Marshal * R. Q. Stewart el the United States court uxun&hshu for some time prom- isod Jucobsen’s shioes, but has nnnnnd 0o . eMicial notification of his apvointmen! ———— It you are aware of the success attending the use of Dr, Thomas Jefforis' preveutive and cure for dlph\h-rh (during the last 3 Yoars) and |Iisl’ dc children to die with- uutllv ‘5- a ‘their blood is on your it of references [lvu Mornlll.v uufl-r other treatments, 50 to 100 ner ocent. Under treatwent of Dr. Jefferis' remody loss than oue n 1,000, Address look box 657, Owaba, Nnm, or sent by express C. 0. D. Price §.00. EBSTER'S WORK. Mo Tells How as Served the City. City ATToRNET'S Orrice, OMans, Nob., Jan, 1, 180, —~To the Honorablo the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Omaha— Gentlemen: 1 have the hunor to submit herewith my report as city attorney, for the year ending January 1, 1500. At the expiration of my predecessor’s term of office, in_ May, 1887, it wae reported by Mr. Conneli that there “wore pending in the several courts, 157 suits against the city, in- volving claims to the amount of $203,043.42." After a term of two and one-half year's ser- vice, I am able to report that, notwithstand- ing the fact that & large number of cases ‘were commenced, gr g out of the exten- si1vo improvements throughout the city, and added to by reason of the growthof the pity, 80 large a number of cases have boen dis posed of by me that I shall leave to my suc- cessor only about two-thirds many cases as were turned over to myself, Although during tho year 1350, seventy-four new auits were commenced against the ¢ A larger nrmber than were ever commenced in any one previous yeur—1 leave only a total of 108 cases now pending, out of the accumula- tion of cases for several years past. During the past year saventy-one cases have been finally disposed of, aggregating a money 000, Of this large num- ber of cascs, only three were deoided ad- versely to the city, upon final trials fourte were sottled for small sums of money, by di- 100 of tho mayor and city council, and i of theso cases were disposed of 1n fayor of the city of Omaba, Of the amonnt of monoy involved in the suits disposed of during the last year, it the amount claimed by the suitors is 10 ' be tho criterion of value, thera was saved to the city in these litigation §113,000. During my entire term of oftice [ have disposed of 190 suts, involving claims to the amount of 00,00 . Whel T tool the office. there was i ‘the judgment fund §13,724. That fund has been accumulating untii today there is in the judgment fund $71,280.45, notwithstanding the fact that for the year 1859 no tax was levied for that fund.” The sum remaiving in the judgment fund is amply sufiicient, under any ordinary circumstances, to carry on the affairs of the city without tho levyi tax for that fund for the year 1890. amination of the judgment fund discloses that @ less sum of money has been paid outof that fund during the years that I have held the oftice of city avtorney than during a like period of time for many years vast. ‘The duties of the oftice of city attorney are very burdensome, aud thero are yet pending many suits of great importance, touching the taxing power of the city for local improvements, Thero are some casos pending in the supreme court of ~the atate, involving the constitutionulity of the pro* vision of tho charter avthorizing the taxa- tion of benefits, where land has been taken for the extension of stroots. I do not report herewith a_tabulated state- ment of the suits pending, as it would be of no value to the public. 1 have in my ofiice a completo dooket of all pending suits, con- taining a brief mstory thereof, lflL’(!th,l‘ with copies of all the files und recoras therein, which, when turned over to my successor, will furnish bim all the information neces: sary to take charge thereof, and fully under- stand the same. 1'wish to thank his honor the m the members of the city council, as and individually and personally, for their uniform manifestation of kindness and courtesy extended to me during the term of my oficial service, $Kespecfully submitted, Joux L. WEBSTER, city attorney. i g Announcements. This morning * at 9 o'clock seats for the engagement of Eugene Tompkin's 10s- ton theater company in the great melodrama “Mankind,” will be put on sale. No melo- drama since “The Silver King” has had the success in tho eastern cities that ‘Mankind” has. Itwillbe produced by a magnificent cast and a wewlth of scenic effects. Mr. W. H. Thompson in the character of Daaiel Groodge, does a piece of character acting that is worthy to rank with Captain Cuttlo and Mr. Florence. So vivid and startling a picture of a grasping, feeble old wretch, tottering on the edge of the grave, hugging ns own passion—the love of gold— has not been seen in drama in years, Korest Robinson, S. I, Springer,Clarence Heritago, Alf. Kisher, Herbert Ayling. Jamos L. Car- hart, Misses Sibyl Johnstone, Maggio Hollo- way, Marie Greenwald, and_little Geruio Bosswell, have prominent cHracters and contribute effoctnal aid to the production. James Fort, agent of Mouroe & Rice's musical farce comedy, *My Aunt Bridgey,” which will be at the Bovd on the first three evenings of next week, is in the city. Succeed s Himself. Oficial notice of the apbroval by congress of Mr. Peters’ appointment as collector of internal revenue in the Omaha office was received at the revenuo headquartors y terday. Mr. Peters' appointment was made during arecess of congress and he entered upon tho duties of the position before that logis- lative body passed upon his appointment. According to the constitution of the United States this is perfectly legal, but his position meanwhile is only temporary and the disapproval of the apvointment by con- gress would have ended his official career. Now that congress bas approved the appointment he will have to go through the form of succeeding himself, He must renew his bonds and have new bondsmen chosen or the old ones re-chosen to go his security as perm nent instead of temporary collector and dis bursing agent. Mr. Peters is at present at Albion, but will returit ing few days when he will go through the formulity of ending his uncertuin term aud entering upon the duties of his perma- neat position, Bogford's Case, A paragraph was published in Monday's Bes about a bogus enginoer named Bogford, who claimed to bo a member of the engie neers’ association. Iv was also stated that an engineer named Hodson had offered in consideration of #50, $12 of which had been Fnlu, to secure his abpointment as enpincor n o very important ln-mumn in this city. Leading members of 1the association say that Bogford never bas been a member of the organization and that the report was cir- culated with & desire to injure it. T uy that at the next meeting on Friday the action of Mr. Hodson will be discussed by the association, and that he wiil be punished for the part he has played in the transaction. e —— SUUTH OMAHA NEWS, Froceedings of the Uity Council, Steps will be constructed .from Twenty- sixth street to the railroad tracks south of he Q stroet viaduct to cost nov more than 815, The hcense to sell liguor granted to George Palmer, may be used in the Second iustead of the First ward. Soecial ordinances Nos, 13, 17 and 18 wore nssed. No. 12, for assessing the cost of paving N street asseased the property to the alleys dividing the squares. north and south f N streel %oflrl Melcherg Boyd, McMil- lln Johnllml und Savage voting for it. Nos. 17 and 18 were for assessing tho expense of H‘Mlnq done on Twenty-fousth street by C. Prichett and Daniel Cash, nding nearly the whole eveuin A O'Donovan's claim for sever: l.hnuund dellars the mutior was cut lhon by postponing it till the vext meeting 1o be taken up in the presence of the eommluu oh stroets and alleys of lust yur 's couneil, Ilh'hh watter 'Ill being discussed ex- wmu was called in and courteous| J{ \J W.I ng 8 v nnnur 's of- oertain the South Oluhq land compuny the amount subscribed to help build tho L strect visduct. The lighting that viaduct was indeti- nitely vostpon City Treasurer Thomas Geary's Fequost for an ussistant was refused. George W. peace's bill of $15 for tr; i seven clty cases was cut down 1o $10 an wed. ‘nu following huu'-n referred: James P. Maloney, $37; CN Hofiln.r. $10; Charles ite, $17.1 Holmes & Smith, ; Nel ‘Pel m ey urness & Parks, §55; Atthow & Co., .w, T, Sunderiand & Co. $13: Amerioan Works comphny, 1.02; ROarter cturing company, 8.5 Milspaugh & Coddington, 30 ibson, Miller & Richardson, 78 cents. Bills as follows were approved and war. gantes nuthorized: Mayor William Q. Stoane $41.67, St. Joseph's hospital §5.00, enrinecr’s aepartment 311, police Jdepartment $305, Mayfield Brothers #1415, L. F. Hilton $101.50, Daniel Equn $1430, Pateick Rosley $Y6, 7. P. Hedwes $25, fi 50, Thomas G Cla city clerk's department $81.67, partment $150.80, L. W. Wolf $392, Midiand electric light company *$22.02, Magio City Hoomer 85 con th Omatia lumber com- pany $13.51, Tota AlH(mrnud to meet Mnndn\ evening, Jan- uary Board of Education Meeting. President Person, Secretary Carroll and Messrs. VanAken, Hoban and Slate were present at Monday's meeting of the board of education, Secretary Carroll road a lottor from County Superintendent Bruner, stating that “on advice of the county attormey I ave this day divided the §1,000.01 in the hands of the county treasurer to the credit of old pol district No. , and havo allotted 01 tnereof to school ufstrict N 1and $350 thereof to sehool district No, 8.' The following billa were ordered pmd Egrers & Bock. £786.60; J. C. Carroll, Thomas Fox, $3; Holmes & Smith, §18.! Bruen & Carpentor, $2; Spellman & Biair, $190; Howland & Bradford, $1 Browor & Sullivan, 00 centst J, W. Edgerton, $10; Strang & Clark, . ‘The buildmg com: mittoe was divected to get the tho advice of the board’s attorney whethore the contract for the plumbing cau be taken from Robert Parks & Co, or hether the board must notify Parks & Co.'s bondsmen that they will b held for all damages by dela otherwise, 'I'he services of Superintendent V. H, Spellman wero again engaged. Tho superintendent and committeo on teachers may employ Miss Sadie Spellman as a sub- stitute toacher. Miss Augusta Muhn, tho substitute teacher, will report every morning to the superintendentand will receive $25 per month when idle, Janitor Pox of the Third ward will receive #40 per month during the next three mounths and after that time #35 per month. Superintendent Munroe is authorized to endorse teackers' ceitificates till the meeting of tho examining board in March, Electric Light Election. At the annual election of the South Omaba electric light and power - company, Messrs. C. M. Hunt, David Anderson, C. F. Fahs, A. J. Baldwin, Fred M. Smith, Peter Cock Uharles W. Koy, Joun L. Miles aud Howland wero elected di directors will meet E'riday o'clock to organize. Notes About the Of Members of Robert R. Living No. 282, Grand Army of the Republic, will g0 to Omaha Friday evening to attend the Grand Army of the Republic public installas tion in Goodrich hall, J. L. Martin dfew the horse and buggy rafied off at the exchange. The final game of the Emanon billiard tour- nament will bo played Saturday e Messrs. Z. Cuddington, Arthur W, Saxe, N. Milispaugh and £ii H, Doud are the co testauts. The county board of tho Ancient Order of Hibernians will bo in_Sheridun & Clair's office, New York Life building, Omaba, Wedsesday evoning av § o'olock. THE INFERNITO. A Region Which Abounds in Asphalt and Petroleum. Some strange natural phenomena are described in a recent report from the United States cousul at Maracalbo, in Venezeula. That purt of the depart- ment of Colon situated between the rivers Santa Ana and Zulla and the Sierra of the Colombian frontier is very rich in asphait and petroleum, says Ni ture. The information we have regard- ing this extensive and interesting re- %lon, which is an uninhabited forest, is derived chiefly from the' reports of the searchers after balsam copabia, which abounds; but the Tollowing data were taken from the personal observations of an American gentleman who made a special exploration. Near the Rio do Oro, at the foot of the Sierra, there is 2 very curious phenomenon, consisting of a horizontal cave, which constantly ejects thick bitumen in the form of large globules. These globules explode at the mouth of the cave with a noise loud enough to be heard at a con- siderable distance; and the bitu- wen, forming a slow current, falls finally into ‘a large deposit of the same substance, near the river bank. The territory bounded by the rivers Zulia and Catatumbo and the Cordillera is rich in deposits and flows of asphalt and petroleum, especially to- wards the south, where the latteris very abundant. At a distance of little more thuu seven kilometers from the confluence of the Tara and the Sardi- nete, there is a sand mound of from twenty-five to thirty feet in height, within an area of about eight thousand square feet. On its surfuce are a multi- tude of cylindrical holes of different sizes, which eject with violence streams of petroloum and hot water, causing & noise equal to that produced by two or three steamers blowing off instantane- ously. For a long distance from the site of this phenomenon the ground is covered or impregnated with petroleum, The few explorers for copaiba who have visited this place call it the Infernito (little heil). Among other things, it is stated that from one only of these streams of petroleum was lilled in one minute a receptacle of the capacity of four gallons. This represents 240 gal- lons in nan hour, or 5,760 gailons in twenty-four hours; and even if this cal- culation is somewhat exaggorated, the fact remains that . such a con- siderable number of petroloum jets in constant uctive operation must produce daily an enormous quan- tity. This petroleum is of excellent uality, with a density of eighty-three egrees, which is a sufficient grade “for foreign markets. Consldering the 1m- mense amount of inflammable gases which must be given out by the lows and deposits of petroleum as described above, it may be easily believed that this has direcv bearing upon the phenomenon known since the conquest 8s the Faro of Maracaibo. "his, con- sisting of constant lighting without ex- plosion, may be observed toward the south from the bar atthe entrance to the luke, and Goddazzimin his geography, explains it as being caused by the vi- pors arising from the hot water swamp situated about one league from the mouth of tne Escalante, at the southern extremity of the lake. Near the moun- taing, and not far from the River Tor- ondoy, there are various flows of sub- stance which seems to be distinct from either asphalt or petroleum. [t is & liquid of a black color, with little den- sity, and itfl)flllg (mpmgnnwd with carbonic acid, and is ulmost identical with a substance met with in the Unitea States among the great lu\.hl\clw fields. ——— Mr. Labouchere on Two Suitans. I read last week with interest s lotter from a Turk thut appeared in a cou- temporary, says the London Truth. ‘The writer is incorrect in sayiog that the present Sultan is insane, and that there is a sirong party desirousto re- place him by the ex-Sultan Muraa, who has recovered his wiw., Murad was never mad, but he was always drunk. Possibly, he hus not_been l‘u*lolwd un unlimited supply of liguor of late, and is, therefore, more frequently sober, The presant Sultan is the son of a Kurd slave who was in the harem of his re- uted father. IHis real father, it is be- ieved, was un Armeniun coachman at- tached to the court, Far from being mad he has all the sharpness of as Ar- menian. Ho 18 an abject coward and he is probably making s puree for himsolf, as ho 18 aa ready A'any pasha 1 take bribes. The writerof the lotter aleo al- ludes eulogistically to the late Midhat Pasha. Ivery one who resided in Con- stantinople during the caveer of th worthy is aware that he was one of the vilest among the vilo. - A WORM N THE EYE. Curious Case in_ths Practice Bridgevort Physician. Not long since d Woll-dressed and in telligent appearingIndy called at the office of Dr. F. Wi Young, on State street, stating that she had a worm in one of her eyes, desired to have it re- moved, says the Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard. Dr. Young was somewhat surprised at tho novel proposition, and made a careful examination of the eye aid to be inhabited by the strange ten- ant, but was unable to discoveranything and told the lady that she must be laboring under a mistake. and he could find nothing abnormal about the eye. She replied thatthe worm was quiet just then, but had been giving hor consider- able trouble by its activity of late, and on that account she desired to have it removed. She then picked upa hand- glass lying on the office table,and while looking into it the doctor, who was meanwhile scrutinizing the eye, saw suddeniy a worm-like object erawling under the skin across the upper lid of the eye indicated, and the lady herself oxclaimed: “Thereitis.” Dr. Young acted promptly and taking up a fold of the lid between his thumb and fore- finger, 80 as to inclose the objoct and hold it, cut open the lid with a pair of sharp = scissors and with fine tweezers hold of and extracted from between the inner and outer skin of the lid a live, hair-like worm, about two inches long and having a clearly de= fined head. This singular ~ find squirmed as the doctor held it upon the tweezers, but it soon died upon ex- posure to the air. The lady stated that she was a missionary, and had been stationed at Benita, on the west coast of Africa, near Gaboon, and in thut particular section this phenomenon of & worm in the eye was not unusual, as & large number of the natives and many of the missionaries were similarly e fected. She herself has had one ex- tracted from her other eye at Basle, Switzerland, by Dr. Hugler, and she thought that one or two similar opera- tions had been performed elsewhore— one in this countr The natives of Africa who ure thus affected do not generally puy any special attention to the matter, aud tle worm in time dis- appears, causing no apparent trouble. Sometimes it appears on the ball of the oye under the outer covering, which is transparent, and then the natives prick through the outer skin and ex- tract it with a sharp thorn which has a hooked point or ibarb. Asa general thing, however, they do not attempt to meddle with the intruder. As 1t is probuble that not move than oue other such case huasever occurred in this country, this one ons considerable interest among fih inns and sur- geons. and thé mutter is being looked up. The singulan specimen is preserv- ed in glycerine, and_is now in the pos- session of Dr. F\. M. Wilson,the oculist, It is double from the head for more than hali itslength, and is a peculiar and very interestiny specimen. el Mtutels NEW YORK'S.ARISTOCRACY. Origin of the Weaith of the Astor's, Vanderbiltgand i orfllards, An oid inhabitunt writes to the New York Times: John Tactoly Astor had his store ib Vesey street in the building in which Dr. Halleck' lived. 'Fitz Green Halleck, the doctor’s son, was one of Astor’s clerks. Old Astor got his start in life by hiring out to a furrier to beut furs—keeping the moths out of them— ot 81 a day. He was economical and saving, and presently began to buy cat furs and muskrat furs, and when he had accumulated them he took them to England and sola them at a large profit. Then he established his own business here, and extended his connections westward and northward until he be- came the largest dealer in the country. Commodore Vanderbilt was at this time running a “‘perry-auger’ (perigua —a small ferry boat carrying two masts and a lee-board) hetween -quarantine station and the city, and was becoming very popular with boatman and others who were thrown in his way. Fulton & Livingston owned an exclusive charter to run steamboats between New York and Albany, and the monopoly was pay- ing immensely. Two old Jerseymen then started an oppositi. n line, but as they could not run_direct between New York to Albany they got around the difficulty by going from New York to Jersey City and making that the start- ing point for Albany.y The encountered all sorts of difficulties, however, the monopolists going so far as to willfully run their boats down and otherwise eri p(rhng them, and they were threat- ened with bankruptey. One of the proprietors was at New Dorp one day when he asked old Mr. Guion if he knew of a man who was competent to take hold of their line and make a success of it. ‘Yes,’ said Guion, *I know such « man. His name is Cor- neel Vandorbilt. He'll take your boots to the mouth of hell if you want hit to,’ “That’s just the man [ want,’ was the re- sponse, and in a little while the bargain was concluded and Cornelius Vander- bilt took charge of the line. The wmo- nopolists tried every possible means to revent the line from doing business in &ew York, and at last put a sheriff on board with instructions to arrest Van- derbilt it he should attempt to move the steamer from the wharf. Vander- bilt got all ready to go, and then stood by with an ax, and when the wheels began to revolve and there was a good strain on thehawser he up with his ax and cut thehawser and steamed away to Albany: with the sheriff on board. A continnssion of his vigorous ]u)licy finally broke up the Fulton & Livingston monopoiy and established the upposltmn ling.on a profitable basis. Vanderbilt’s daughters were a wild kind'of girls, They, were perfectly at home everywhere o Staten 1sland and were very popular; "1 used to see them in a grocery over there, sitting on the counter and swirging their feet, and talking to the yuutg 7ellow- who were chafing them. R The Lorillards ®ad a soufl and Lo- bacco business amdsthey made a greut dealof money-out ofiat, There were three brothers of uthem—Jdacob and Poter and (-eorflo Jacob had a butcher shop up near Dowery theater. Peler—that wn the Duatch of it--it came to be Pierre after it had been transplanted into Freach soil a few months—Peter and George were the souff and tobacco dealers. After they fm wealthy uotbing would do but old rillavd must have uurrmle and & caat-of-arms uwn it. He chose for his coat-of-urms **‘Who'd thought it—souff bought it.” ‘This wade the peoplo laugh, and so he changed it alter uww lla, ‘xuulnz on iw place, **Quid rides,” which meaus At what do you laugh¥” His tobucco store was in Chatham street. of a Tusawau, Cal, Jon. 7.—A. d. Clark, ir., shot and Xifled bis brofher, Johaston Oiurk, 1bie moralug as a Tesult of 'a_family guurrel ‘The coroner's jury veturned s verdict of Justifiable meit-detonses JANUARY 8, 1890, OKRA FIBER. 1ta Claims as & Substitute for Jute and Ramie. For several yoars various oxperimonts have been made with okra fiber, and re- contly the department of agriculture has been furnished with beuutiful speci- mens of it, but little has been known of iy, availability for the manufacturs of cheap products, says a special dispatch to the Globe-Dx An Hdgefiela countv farmer vecently sent to the de partment of agriculture a sample of okra fiber as glossy and strong as ramie. The department sent the spucimen to the natiohal departmoent at Washing- ton. Sec Ruso, in acknowledg- ing its veceipt, suys that the specimen is a very fair one: that letters Irom all parts of the south indicate a general inclination to substitute the okra fiber for jute, not only for cotton bagging but for nil purposes for which juto is used, Secrota to know the process the fiber. Now W. L. Sudlow with the nasser- tion that he can produce at n cost not greater than ubout le per pound. Mr, Sudlow 18 an Englishman, born in Oldham, raised in Mancheste who has large experjonce in toxtites He is a practical engineer and m chinist, and has put up mills in Bng- land, France, Australin and Mexico. Mr. Sudlow has been in this state for two years, during which time he tells the department he has been looking into the okra fiber question, and h now reacl ich conclusions as assu him of its cheap production. He sa; that the okra stalk is essentinlly differ- ent from the jute. cotton and rame in hut the wood surrounds the fiber, the others it is mixea with it, and this is the key of the problem of cheap production. His experiments last suiomer and fall prove that the okra fibre and wood are nuturally sepa- rated. The mixing of the fibre with the wood of jute, ramie and cotton malkes it necessary to employ manual labor, chieflly to decorticate and this is so costly that only in Ind China, where labor is excessively cheap. is it possible to produce the ‘fibre at low vrices. The okra on the contrary ean be separated by machinery. Mr. Sudlow declares that he can make a machine which will not cost more than an ordinary cotton gin, and which can be emploved as gins are_employed, on each large farm or in each neighb hood, and that by its use plantors of okra can turn out their fiber and sell it us they do cotton for so much a_pound. [oto this machine the okra stalks will be fed, butts forward, and it will cut the wood from the fiber. means of an ingenious deyice, Sudlow has explained to your corr more fully than he'cares the public to know, thé strips of fiber and wood will be si!puuulm\, the glutin will vhen be re- moved ivom the fiber by asimple pro- cess, and after drying the iatier will be ready for-the market. Mr. Sudlow is now muking arcangements for the ms ufacture of an initial set of machiner; which will practically demonstrate the the trath of his assertions. As to the quality of tho fiber thero is not the least doubt. It is long, strong and glosso. It can be so subdivided that it can be used like ramie for the making of cloth for personal wear, us well as for bagging, rope, ete. The cheapness of its growing need not be argued about. Abandoned rice fields in the low country would raise forests of it. It thrives in undrained lands. The quantity which can be raised on an acre must be considered only by the ton. and the fiber constitutes most of the stall, the wood and bark being very thin and papery. The stalks need not be cut at any specinl time. They can be aliowed to lie in the field before the fiber is extracted. MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND, Births Have Now Keached the Low- est Rate Ever Recorded. The unpopularity of marriage con- tinues unnbated, says the Pall Mall Guzette, and last’ year was the first in recent times, in which, while the price of wheat foll, the mavriage rate remained s Tvis now 14,2 1,000. The decline in the vopularity matrimony is greatest with those Wwho have already hud some experiénco of wedded lite. Between 1876 and 1888 the marriage rato 12 per cont for bachelors and spins 27 per cent for widowers, 31 per cent fur wida The drop in the remarringe of widows, however, is probably due to the glutting of the mar- ringe market with surplus spinsters. “The excess of women over men in 1 ing- land and Wales is estimated at 765,000, Another interesting fact is that the birth have now reached the lowest rate recorded since oivil registration began. Tn 1876 the rate was 36.8 per 1,000: it is This s very satisfactory is also notable vhat the illegi mate birth rate has declined, the pro- portion, 4.3 per cont, being the lowest yev registered. The worst feature in the registrar-general’s returns, how- ever, is the fact that the male birth; has fallen in proportion to the females in the last ten years 1,088 baby boys were born for every 1,000 girls, and last year the male proponderance had dropped by 5, and is now standing at 1,083 to 1,0 With a surplus female population of 750,000 this is a move in the wrong direction. 1t is worth noting that while the in- crease in marriages between English people has not kept pace with the pop- ulation (having increased only 4 per cent in the last nine years), marriages according to the Jewish rites have grown no less than 65 per cent. 11 this rate is kept up we shail become A'nglo Israelites indeed in a way not dreame of by those enthusiasts who have identi- fied us with the lost ten tribes. mocrat A PROMINENT REGULAR PHYSIOIAN Of New York City gives the followiug di- rections FORPREVEHNTING AND CURING INFLUENZA OR “LA GRIPP Evaporato morning evening a few table- spoonfuls.of POND'S EXTRACT and in- hale the vapor, Pour the PONDS EX- ‘PRACT™nto a tin cup,”which bold over the flames of & lamp; hold the nose over the cup that the vapor may be inhaled. £y this treatment the membrane of the noso and throat will be in such, condition that it will resist the Doisonous action of the gerwms which are tho cause of this disease: snd if the germs huve already beeu iunaled they will be destroyed, ‘The symptoms of “La Grippe'" arg inilsmgation of the lining of the mem- brave of the nose, which may extend to the lungs; ‘with congh, sneezing, runniug at the ad perhaps severe aoching pains aud Yoyer. 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