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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-09-05, Page 2TILEN. Y. O. STRIKE. The Oonferenoe of Leaders Arrives at no Terms of Settlement. -..—ter--- A BRAKEMAN KILLED. pultation. To this meeting 01101000A ha- aembly will -send three to five delegates, and there will be present 600 to 700 members from the seotien lying adjacent to the Cen. trot road'from New York to Buffalo. WILL BEEP POSTED., Mr. Webb this afternoon said, relative to the charge made b Mr. Powdery, that he E1: IN Taw MINUTES. Terrible Daah of a Runaway Car Down Mount Penn—Sour Killed. A Reading, Pa., diepatoh says : A horri. ble accident 000tored this forenoon shortly before 11 o'olgok on the Mount Penn gravity railway, amountain route enoiro- M., s^ . e r. to n. ... e- 1 "• ✓�?�? . S`. ice; W. or cies atOi�l�``etlyw � Ii;tio'�Orzi•`°'kirirlr`�Y$Dtu—`T�7Eati1�A��iv�--rut�t.xix—rutu�F'--`tsad � u � e� p V ferenae of the labor 'leaders, which wee begun last .evening wile resumed this morn- ing. Grand aviator Gar t .' r : We are once more reviewing the entire evidence submitted to ns for deliberation, but just bow long the conference may last I cannot say just at the moment. Mr. Webb, when called upon, repeated the statement that everything • was running •a ostial, and added that he did not .antici- pate any, further trouble. TH:0 FIGHT MAST 00 ON. Mr. Powderly states that the strike has ceased to beone of alooalassembly and has dwegastaarrened Will nee every means in its 'power to oon- tinne• the fight. He intimates that the. Federation of Railway Employees will support the movement. The situation is °eerione. Grand Master urgent, President of the council and chief of the firemen's organiza- tion, has ordered a meeting o! the Supreme. Council of the Federation of Railway Em- ployees on Saturday morning at Terre Hanle, Ind., for the consideration of the New York Central strike. MB. POWDERLY'S APPEAL. General Master Workman Powderly will to -morrow isene an appeal to all true Knights of Labor in the employ of the Central Hodson Railway and upon the Vanderbilt connecting lines. In the doon- ment he will state the oanses for -the strike and the efforts made to obtain a peaceable settlement of the difficulties, and notify every member of the intention of the Execu- tive Board of the Knights of. Labor to pro- secute the fight against the Central Hudson 3ailwey Company to the bitter end. At the same time it is made known that Grand Master Sargent has called a meeting of the Council of the Federation of Railway Em- ployees for Saturday, August 23rd, at 9 ea.>ai.,. at Terre_Haute, Ind. ehadoved by deteetivee, that unless he had taken every lawful mean to keep himself infmxmod as to what the heard wzs dei:ne,. he would be unfit to remain half an hour in in his present position. IN IT TO STAT. The General Executive Board- of the K. of L. reported to -night that everything was very encouraging, and that they were in constant communication with the strikers along the line. No strike has yet been ordered outside of District Aesembly 246. Of the future ordere Mr. Powderly could not tell. They will be very glad if the A GENERAL STRIKE IMMINENT. Mr. Powderly and , Mr. Devlin, of the Executive Scam cifthe R. of -L., called on 'Vioe•Preeident Webb at 5 p.m. to -day. Mr. Toney was with Mr. Webb, and the four gentlemen'had an interview which lasted :g0 minutes. At the conclusion Mr. Pow- derly told the reporters. what had trans- pired. Mr. Devlin asked Mr. Webb if he would consent to an mveetigation of the causes surrounding the discharge of the fifteen men. .Mr. Webb answered that there was nothing to investigate, that the xailway company were managing the road, 'and he did net see why their actions should be. questioned. Mr. ,Devlin, then asked him if he did not owe the public and the employees of the road any duty regarding its management, in which all were more or less interested. Mr. Webb did not reply. Mr. Devlin then said there was no use in further disoussing the matter, as the rail. way company bad declared themselves in favor of an independent comae. Mr. Toney then said that Master Work- man Lee was primarily responsible for the strike. Mr. Devlin asked Mr. Tonoey if he world waive the question•of Mr. Lee's ao. tion and consider` the disoharge of the other men ? ' Messrs. Tonoey and Webb refused, and that ended the conference. The situation looks serious to -night, and the indications are that a general strike is imminent." WAS HE MURDERED ? Charles Oswold, a young New York Cen- tral brakeman, was seen alive sitting on bis brake at Spuyten Dnyvel this after- noon. • When the train rolled into the yard at 75th street at 5 p.m. be lay dead on his car, with a dent as if made by a brick be- hind the ear. Samuel Campbell, a non-union • switch - an n, was assaulted near his . home this evening and hit on the head with a stone. THE MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT. An Albany despatch says : There are no new developments in the situation in thia vicinity today. Superintendent Bissell said he was more than • satisfied with the great prognose being made in the movement of freight from there. Freight trains were sent out all through the night last night. A Thursday's New York despatch says: Mr. Powderly made the following' state- ment today in reference to a report that the grand jury was considering the advise. bility of indicting the leaders of the strike : ' " The grand jury has, nothing to do with the case. We have violated no law 'either State or national since we owe to this city. The men have been orderly and peaceful. They have acted like gentlemen since the strike began. Whether this Strike has been ordered wisely or not has nothing to do, with the matter now so far as it affects the grand jury; The men have a right to quitwork and the grand jury has no right so decide that they must return to work. " The railway offioials have got men fol- lowing us. This morning, about 2 o'olook, a card was sent np to my room. On it was written : ' The New York Herald offers its enpport, and I am authorized to represent it. The man oame to my room and began to ask gneetione as to what we intended to do; without saying anything of the attitude of the Herald.* I thought the man aoted suspiciously, and upon watching him after he left nil we discover©d he went to the New York Central depot instead of the Herald opine. He was not a newspaper man, and appeared very mnoh flurried and excited while he was in the room. If the New York .Central people hope to shape the action of the Grand Jury by each means as this they cannot expect emecese." Mr. 13ayes,ii diecueaing the matter of the Grand Jury, remarked that if the Grand Jury found indictments against the leaders of the strike he did not care, because an investigation was sure to fol. low, end that is preoisely what the leader° want. A MERemo OF DeenoeeTO. Secretary Hayes, of the Exeontive Board, iannonneed this Afternoon that on Monday • neat at 10 O'clock, at Albany, a meeting of of Reading. The road wail opened 1ve menthe ago, and has been doing a _ good business ever einoe. The oars, were taken from q point on the ontakir sof the of yt b the top of the mountaine, a distance of five miles. On returning :the oars were allowed to go down the mountain by gravity by way of another route to the point of starting. This forenoon at half -past ten a car con- taining about 18 paeasengere was taken from the station to the top of the moun- tain. This consumed about 30 minutes. On the top of the mountain there is ahigh stone tower, where the passengers were allowed to alight to`enjoy the scenery for on anyhow. This is the first time, said Mr. Wright, that Mr. Powderly hal-ever come into a strike himself, but he was here fiat -footed, and was going to stay. Mr. Powderly said he had never ordered a strike, and neither had the Executive Board, and they hid not ordered this one. A tie-up of the surface roads and elevated roads throughout the oity, Mr. Powderly said, had not been thought of. POWDERLY'a MANIFESTO. ' To -night Mr. Powderly leaned an appeal to the people. The appeal reviews the causes of the strike, and relates the un- availing efforts made to secure a peaceable settlement of the difficulty, referring to Mr. Holland's interview with Mr. Webb, and Messrs. Powderly • and Devlin's interview with Messrs. Toacey and Webb, aocon is of which have already been published. The appeal then continues : The publio may have formed erroneous impressions of the Knighte in the con- troversy. We don't pretend to dictate to the company that- it- shall not discharge employees, but in all fairness the dis- charged men should be told why they are dismissed. During the aeseion of the Legis- lature th - . ' igbts of Labor,were active in the pas:: ': of the weekly pay bill. ' The oomedittee of the Knights representing the employees of theNew York Central & Hndeon-RrP.e_ ?teilway-were. ad __the Legielative committee -room by ,theat- torneye of the railway and browbeaten, questioned and terrorized. Some mem- bers of that committee who were at the time employed in the New York Central' were disoharged without any given cane. There exists not the shadow of doubt in the minds of that committee that these men were eingled tent for endeavoring to secure the passage of the above-mentioned law. After rho ieughly investigating the causes whioh led to the strike, and after making every effort in their power to induce the company to arbitrate or submit to an in- vestigation by impartial men the question at ieeue—namely: Whether the men were discharged because they were Knights of Labor, and for the purpose of destroying the organization, as they believe and main- tain, or for just cause and proper reason, ail the company allege, the General Execu- tive" Board have, by a unanimous vote, de- termined to stand by the men,who,whether their Strike was opportune or not, had no alternative consistent with their manhood. AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS. " The . General Executive Board knew nothing of it until it was thrust upon them, and new that we have to face it we ask the entire Order of the K. of In to Dome to oar assistance with the means to win the strike. We are not craving for sympathy ; we are not in need of moral support. We have to fight • a power which owes its lofty bearing to the wealth it has piled up from the labor of iter employees ; untold millions are at its command, and we want money to carry on the struggle. We ask all members of organized labor to Como to our aid. We not only ask labor organiza- tions, but we ask of the great pnblio beyond our organizations of labor to come to our relief." ri HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. There are different stories as to the cause of the accident, but it appears that when the tower was reached, the point where the gravity portion of the road commences, the engine was detached, when the oars ran. away while the passengers were still on board.' The distance to the point of start- ing is five miles, and it is estimated that this was covered by the runaway oar in three minutes, the oar attaining a fearful speed, estimated at 80 miles an hour. It remained on the trackto the foot of the plane, going around all the curves, while the paseengers shrieked in their fright, and several jumped off. When the car reached the station at the foot of the plane it jumped off the track and rolled down a fifty.foot embankment, where it landed upside down. with the passengers imprisoned inside. The greatest excitement prevailed and soon a large crowd gathered.,Doctors and the ambulance were sent for nd the dead and injured removed. Four were taken out dead. They istoluded Charles Rettow, con- dnotor of the oar, and E. M. Levan, a lawyer of this pity. ACCCOUNT BY AN EYE•WITNESS. kintommati 'I'HR F,NNrl$YLVAN14 OYVLOPIE. The Lois of Property Will Probably Rea oh X1,0.000. f A Wilkeebarre despat00ch says : The Ninth Regiment is on duty sedating the police in maintaining order. Unemployed men were preened into eervice to raise the ern - Iwo) laid upon very many of the streets �„y. m,-.gg ' 'ii6YntifP`'uY'ttuidff3Lv�i'liviy'imti:l=t:Yt:.'3:�x�i poles. Many owners of buildings have alreadyset about the reconetruotion of the injured pot -does of their property.., ..A: careful estimate planes the number of buildings demolished and partially destroyed at nearly 300, and some estimate that it will exceed this figure. The lose will probably reach nearly, if not quite, $1,000,000. At the oity hospital several victims are oared for. Some of them cannot survive. EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE. The number of buildings wrecked was 400.. They are damaged to amount° rang. Aot-1 tetra; is estimated at over 01,000,000. When the storm swept up towards Scott street a party of boys were on that thoroughfare. Eddy Schmidt, aged 7, was carried 500 feet and thrown into a pond. His skull was. crushed. His body was found to -day. George Frye, aged 7, was probably fatally hart. Two other boys were less seriously injured. 4. special from Susquehanna, Pa., says : At Brnehville, three miles from here, at 6 o'clock laet evening, a heavy windstorm unroofed houses and barns, and filled the roade with fallen trees and debris. A house occupied by Luther Hall was partially blown down.' A eon of Mr. Hull was killed, and another son ,received fatal injuriee. Norman B. Wilsher, of this city, who was standing at the foot of the plane when the bar came olaehing down the niotneta-in says he 'heard first a distant roar, as of -thunder,,-and-lonking-.ula-•eaw.bhe oar COY*� ing down the mountain, but sticking to the track, at the rate of about a mile in forty- five seconds. He had barely time to recover himself when the oar like a lightning flash dashed past the station and down the em- bankment fifty .feet below. Mr. Wilsher was the first on the ground. He says he found the oar turned npeide down, the passengers all thrown into a confused mass, and that with the assistance of others who arrived, he helped to parry out the dead and injured. There were about a dozen of the letter with broken limbs and battered heads, their clothing being covered with blood. Mr. Wilsher said as the oar fell the united shrieks of twenty voices added terror to the ecene. In addition to Edgar M. Levan and Charles Rettow, • who were killed, the two others killed were Mies Rosa Pfeiffer, a young lady of this city, and Miss Harriet Hinokle, of Philadelphia. The following will die : Miss Hiram Sohittler and Mrs. W. A. H. Sohmel. Among the injured are : Sallie Pye and Mary Guthrie, of Wilmington, both badly hurt ; and Willie Sohmel, of this city, both , legs broken. THE PINSERTONS. Mr. Powderly at some length pays his respects to the Pinkerton men and the methods of their selection and valve of their services. He states that blank commissions are signed by the sheriff of Albany and left in the charge of Central officials. Mr. Powderly then goes on to say : " H. Walter Webb applauds the action of the Pinkertons in shooting, and says they did right. Mr. Webb never did a stroke of work to secure the wealth 'he abused. It name to him by inheritance and he now abuses it: The elder Vanderbilt was a workman and knew something about the feeling of the man who toils. 1t was in his day that the record of the New York Central : for generous treatment of wotk- men was made, and not under the of, management." In conclusion Mr. Powderly says : " The K. of L. hold themselves in readiness, now, and will continue to hold themselves ready, to yield to the will of the public in this matter. The eompenee on the other hand, holds itself above and superior to publio opinion. I ' would here ask the men still in the employ of the New York Central Railway whether it be not their interest to Stand by and support those who are striking to vindicate the common right to organize. The General Executive Board will conduct thin content with all of their ability within the law and without violence. NO TROUBLE WEST OF BUFFALO. A Thursday's Chicago despatoh says : John Hall, a member of the Executive Board of the Federation of Railway em- ployees, said to -day, ' In reference to the atrike on the Vanderbilt roads, that he did not believe the Brotherhood men west of Buffalo would be involved, as he thought the action to be taken et Terre Haute on Saturday, would be only as to the New York Central Railway. The leading officials of the Vanderbilt lines in Chicago say they are not making preparation for a' strike and do not 'expect one. The Thinnest Crook. • A Paris, Ill,, deapetoh says : e Shorty" McGill, en all-round crook and piokpooket, made his escape last night from the new jail here by crawling through the sower pipe leading from the water closet. McGill weighs but 90 pounds. His partner, Henry 1ldorrie, toi owed-Tilm, lbnt etuok in the pipe - "l ieiribt'"246 would he held, nt which the for nearly two houro and wept take, ore, Rierative Board would be present for eon ;more dead.than alive. A. JOURNALIST MURDERED. Shot Down By a • Peanut Vendor on a Street Corner. A Detroit despatch says Fred. Crim- mins, assistant city editor of the Evening Sun, was fatally shot by Tony Menti, a peanut and fruit vendor on the corner of Uroghan and Randolph streets this after- noon. He had just lett the Sun office for the day and,, stopped at the Italian's stand to purchase some fruit. As he was examin- ing some plums Manli drew a 38•oalibre pistol from under the stand and emptied one of the ohambers into Crimmins' abdomen. The letter fell where he stood. " I am killed," he muttered, " What will my poor sister do ? " He was pinked up by sympathetic halide and . carried into Huokenetein's dry ,goods store 'from where he was removed to Harper's Hospital. Drs. Walker and McGraw were called and are probing for the bullet. They say the wound id fatal beyond a doubt, and the viotim cannot live •many hours. Manli ran up the alley between Randolph end Brush streets and was capteired beeOfficers Wolfe and Belle in a barn twenty minutes later. He was taken to the station and looked up pending the result of Crimmins' injuries. COULDN'T FACE TROUBLE. A Canadian Shoots Himself in lilinois— Ilis Girl Went Back on Him. A Springfield, Ill., (meoial despatch says: Harry Hamilton shot himself through the heart this afternoon and died instantly. He was a hotel porter and worked in the St. James' Hotel, Denver, and had been em- ployed in the Palace Hotel here for a year. He was discharged three weeks, ago. He came back looking for workto-day. He -had been drinking. Failing to obtain employ- ment he started for Litchfield, a country town near here. He had two valises, and after visiting several saloons left them temporarily with e storekeeper.. Then he stepped into an alley and put a bullet through hie heart. He said to a companion a few minutes be- fore that he had consumption, that the girl be bed loved had gone back on him and that he did not care to live. His relatives are not known here,but live in Millbrook, Ont.,nndthe body will be sent there. ENGLAND'S NAVY. What is Being Done to Add to its Strength. TuIBTY-TWO HEW VE8BBL8 TO BE BUILT. "='-7y''i-'411.-BYµ''ek+0. l-eh,refe..: �^ �s�•� statement explanatory of the navy esti- mate° for 1890.91, which has been issued as a pr.rlinn entary paper, says the London Times. It contains much interesting com- ment upon a text which in its nakcu aim- plioity is found by many people somewhat difficult reading, notwithstanding the genu- ine public interest to which the increase of our naval strength is unquestionably due. The estimated expenditure upon the navy for the ensuing financial year is £13,786,- 600, being an increase of £101,200 over the estimates for 1889.90 Some difficulty has always been felt by the public in under - he exact soo ' e and effect of the A Nervy PRISONERS REVOLT. Deputy Assailed by Five Des- perate convicts. An Iron Mountain. Mich., despatch says: When Deputy Sheriff Geo. Keyes, of Flor- ence, Wis., thirteen miles ` northwest' of here, entered the jail at 8.30 last night to look the prisoners into their cells, one of them named Burke threw a lighted lamp into his face and knocked him down. .Another named Gallagher covered him with a blanket and -held" him on -the fleet while the jail fall of prisoners started to oodps.- =Wiese-std$.taut,--!r and ebot Gallagher directly over the heart. , He also forced an Italian murderer into his Cell and fired a number of shots after two who succeeded in reaching the door outside., These were a man named Burke, arreated two weeks ago for robbing freight oars, and a fellow named Wiley, arreeted here three menthe ago for burglary. Gallagher, the one who was shot, died half an hour later, but lived long enough vo say that Burke, who is an old convict, had arranged the plan to escape. Burke and Wiley are still at large with the sheriff and a posse after them. Telegrams are in the hands of all neighboring officers. Keyes is a young man, formerly ' marshal of Florence and acting sheriff during the sheriff's absence. He is congratulated on his nerve. There were in the jail five as tough men as bars ever held. Two were in for murder, one for attempted murder and two for robberies. Only Burke and Wiley escaped. Four Killed in a Railway Wreck An Emigrant Qap, dol., deepetoh eaya : At Cascade City to -day a train was stand ing at I the enmtnit with air -brakes set. The air leaked, and the caboose and several oars started down grade. When the run- eway train reached Caeoade it Amok the caboose and one oar of another freight pulling in on a aide era"ok. Conductor Kingsley, of the runaway, and Conductor Connelly and Brakemen Beaver and Levi of the ,other train were killed, and one or two others were badly injured. Nineteen cars were piled np in a moos and the wires protitrated. " What booam° of that tremendous mos- (ltrite yon had here yeetorday, kill him 7 . No, I drove him around o the pound.' Joy• Turned to Sorrow. A Beaton despatch says :. The saddest story of the Quincy disaster yesterday is, told by Judge Edwards, of Louisville, Ky. Be was one of a party of nine ladies and gentlemen and children from Louisville who were north enjoying a vacation. Of the party two are dead, a third is dying, and every member of it was.mote or less injured. ` There were in the party besides Judge Edwarde, Capt. W. R. Abbott and wife, Mrs. Oscar Fenley, Mre., Mary Fenley and her three little girls and Miss Susie Fenley. 1 hey had been spending°ten days at Nantucket. It was their purpose to 'spend three or four days in Boston. After seeing Boston they were going to Saratoga and then to New York. Mrs. Mary Fenley and her children were to meet Mr. Fenley, who is a Louisville banker. The latter was coming north to attend the bankers' convention in New York. Judge Edwards hands were badly cut and burned. daft dealt with a arm of £21,500,000. On one side it has been supposed that this sum constitutes an addition to the money spent year by year in the ordinary way ; and on the other side it is sometimes assent) that - the Act is illusory, and that we are of maintaining the navy at the old rate. The confusion arises from the fact that, while the act gives parliamentary sanction once for all to the expenditure of twenty- one and a half millions upon specified undertakings, eleven and a half millions are voted year by year, as partof the an. • need provision tor the navy, while ten millions are charged upon the ooneolidated fund, this constituting a source of naval revenue independent of the annual votes. Thus the sot fixes a minimum of £2,650,0000 to be expended in each year for five' tinan- oial years upon dockyard shipbuilding, and £600,000 to be yearly expended during the same period, upon armament. It these sums are not folly epent in any one year the balance unexpended remains at the disposal of the Admiralty in such fashion that the available total for the whole to shall suffer no reduction. Thirty -el` 15 vessels are to be built with this money, and of these twenty-one are already begun, seven will be begun in the coming year and ten of the lighter types will be left to begin after March, 1891. 'I_ izety,tmt)_V-.esaelF+ arA taxa nils by con- tract out of the ten millions set apart and - charged upon the consolidated fund. Of these, twenty-six have been ordered during the year'new closing. The remaning six are torpedo gunboats, capable of rapid construction, and held over for the present in order to obtain the benefit of the latest experience. Thus the effect of the Naval Defence act is to fix an irreducible dock- yard programme for five years, the cost, of which appears in the estimates, and, in addition, to•provide during the same five years ten millions' worth of ships built by contract, and not appearing in the annual accounts. Ships begun earlier than list year have to be completed out of the sume charged in the estimates. .It is expected that the whole of them will be com- pletedin the course of the incoming year, with the exception of the Blake and the Blenheim. Ten which ought to have been finished by this time have been delayed for various reasons of a more or lees satis- factory kind. The vessels build- ing by contract • for Australian service under the Imperial Defence Act of 1888 have alae been delayed, but it is hoped that they will be ready in the course of the summer. No portion ,of the cost of these vessels appears in the annual votes, and against it there is the set-off of considerable contributions payable by the colonies for twelve years. . Many vessels of new designs were em- ployed in the naval manoeuvres of last year, and the experience then gained has been useful • in various ways. Details , of boilers and machinery, of coal transport and ventilation of engine -rooms have un- dergone improvemente which are embodied in the original designs of the ships built ander the Naval Defence Act. In particu- lar it is satisfactory to know that the boil- ers of the new cruisers have been increased in power from 16 to 25 per cent., and that special attention has been given to the development of high speed under ordinary service conditions. In other worde, the measured mile performances, which are wholly exceptional, are not any longer to be treated as indications of the work 1 o be got out of the machinery under ordinary conditions. y Firemen and, Engineers Strike. A Chicago despatch of Friday says : All the firemen and engineers employed by the Union Stock Yards Switching Association - struck for higher wages this morning. At noon • 40 engines, each having two men, were lying idle in the 47th street yard. In consequence of the strike 120 switchmen are also idle. -The switching or transfer system is the largest in the country, as the association does all the work for the pack- ing houses in the yards. Consequently all work at the peeking houses is at a stand- still. The tracks are filled with immense trains of fresh meat, which was de'etined for outside points. " I should like to see Scotland again," said Dr. MaCosh the other day. " Dear old Scotland, with all her great associations and grand and noble men l I don never forget her. In memory I revisit her every day of my life. I had my ticket bought not long ago for a voyage to her shores, but I was not able when the time clime to go. Scotland—I hope yet to see Scotland once more." China is going quite extensively into railroad constrnotion, in spite of the ob- structive tactics of its non°progressive statesmen. This movement in China promisee to open new fields to the loco• motive builders and •other enterprising meeefacturere of this country. The large exportations of steam engines and machinery show that the manufacturers of these product fare capable of competing successfully in the .markets of the world in spite of the burdens which the tariff imposes on them.—Philadelphia Record. The London Hospital toile of a seamstress who, like Hood's pathetic heroine in the " Song of the Shirt," worked till the stare shone on the roof. Her eyesight failed, and the story goes on : " She saw at the same time four hande, four reedioe and four seams. She at first treated them tie an illusion, lent at the and of some days, in consequence. of weaknese and prolonged 'mental anxiety, she imtigined that she was really owing four seams et once, and that god, onohed by her misfortune, had worke a miracle in her favor." ° Grodm—A ring around the moon is the Sign of rain. Bride (sweetly) -And a ring' around ik wonoan a finger ie the sign of ? Groom (it adly)—Reign. Mortality of Widowers From P.hth is. In a paper on tnberoulo=ia in ,Bel m MM. Desatree and Gallrnaerts come the conclusion as the reealt of their inve tiga- tiona that, in comparing the mortality from phthisis of bachelors, married men, and widowers, the last are very much more subject to this disease than either •of the other classes. The name statement holds good for all ages, and it is, they a Y; also true that widows are more liable then sin- gle women to die of phthisis. The authors do not think' this is to be explained except by direct contagion of wife to hnband or husband to wife. They cannot think irregularities and excesses indulged in by widowers can bo answerable for it, for ad- vanced age does not seem to make any difference. They would ascribe it to the infection occurring during married li e, the disease claiming its aeeond viotim so e time after the death of the filet. . Janes' Gazette. Peasants Wbo Nell Children. In the government of Podol the peasant° have no Barnplea about selling their chil- dren. Instances of a very revolting nature are reported in a Moscow daily. One peasant sold,,hia daughter, a girl of 8 years, to travelling mendicants for the eum of sin rubles; another one brought two girls to the town of iarenova, where he sold the older, a child of 7 years for five rubles, and the younger, 3 years old, for three rubles. Such instances have occurred in many towns of the government. Modestly Stated. Travelling Agent—Aro you the head of the house, sir ? Mr. Cowed—Hem i --Ah 1—I represent her. • The mother of Oscar Wilde, who hes written verees that hrtve been admiral its England, will henceforth receive an annuity from tho British crown her namo having been planed oil the pennon. e,