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JULY 28 
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THE GREAT RAILROAD STRIKE. 
During the past week there has been a serious 
strike among the employes on all freight trains 
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, The Com¬ 
pany Insist on a reduction of 10 percent. In the 
wages of their operatives, and as this would force 
most of these to work for 00 cents a day. they 
have resisted by refusing to work t hemselves or 
to permit others to take their places. Conse¬ 
quently the movement of all freight along the 
road has been temporarily suspended. The dim- 
oulty has extended along the road through Mary¬ 
land, West Virginia, und Ohio, but up to the 
present date the greatest trouble lias been at 
Newark, Ohio, Martinsburg, Grafton, and Keysor, 
W. Va., Pittsburgh, Pa„ and Cumberland and 
Baltimore, M<L 
As the State troops were unreliable and Insuffi¬ 
cient In West Virginia, Gov. Mathews called upon 
President. Hayes for aid, and several detachments 
of the regular army have been sent on to protect 
the property of the company. The strikers In 
the towns mentioned have become rioters, threat¬ 
en with death any of the crowds of the men ready 
to replace them, forcibly remove from the freight 
trains all who are still willing to run them, and 
prevent, the movement of trains by destroying the 
couplings of the ears, changing or removing the 
switches, and other lawless measures. 
For the past, week there has been more or less 
violence and bloodshed at different points along 
the railroad, but this condition of affairs has just 
culminated in Baltimore, where a regiment of 
State troops, called out by Gov. Carroll, was as¬ 
sailed with stones and shot In the streets or the 
city, and. In return, tired among the yelling 
throng, killing at least eight. Instantly and 
wounding many more. The news of this calam¬ 
ity has spread rapidly along the line and intensl- 
lled the excitement everywhere. The strikers 
and the state and railed States troops are facing 
each other at several points, and, us the former 
seem determined to enforce their demands and 
the railroad equally resolute not to yield, It Is 
feared that more serious troubles have yet to 
come. The difficulty has already extended to the 
Kite Railway, on which all traffic is suspended. 
The Pennsylvania Jl. It. employes have Joined the 
strike and Pittsburgh Is the scene of riotous de¬ 
monstrations, and several other roads arc expect¬ 
ing a like misfortune. 
Troops are now uuder arms, to suppress disor¬ 
der arising from this disastrous strike, In Mary¬ 
land, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, and 
the Governor of New Jersey has just been called 
upon by Thomas A. Scott to protect the Interests 
of the Pennsylvania It. II, In that State. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Maryland this season has contributed 4,100,000 
quarts of strawberries. 
A dog recently died In Georgia at, the age of 
nineteen years. 11 Is not. oftc n t hat a dog lives to 
that age, but Southdown muitou as a steady diet, 
with nobody fooling around with a gun, will stave 
off death tor there’s no telling how long. 
Truman Ives, of Lanslugburg, N. Y., reports 
that 2,000 tomato plants set out by him, were 
eaten up by the potato bugs In one night. 
Seven million and a half ot dollars have been 
spent on the JCast Itlver Bridge between New 
York and Brooklyn, and there is a fair prospect 
that as much more will be required to complete 
the work. 
The Maine Farmer, from new data, has figured 
out that t he farmers of Maine have planted 10,390 
acres more tliau usual; that the extra corn crop 
thus secured may be valued at $160,300, and the 
extra potatoes at $071,000. 
Departures for rural resorts are Increasing. 
The street preacher, the curbstone musicians 
and the champion destroyer of corns are rast 
joining the Innumerable caravan of tramps and 
nabobs. 
The corn crop of Wisconsin will be below the 
average, and a high price for liay will probably 
rule the coming winter, 
Willie a compositor on a Montreal paper was 
setting up an advertisement of a lost canary, a 
few days ago, the bird flew in at the office win¬ 
dow, 't his shows the value of advertising. 
Texas cattle droves which have thus far ar¬ 
rived on the Platte number oo.nOO head, with 
15,000 head yet to arrive. 
A woman residing near Morgantown, West, 
Virginia, was bitten by a rattlesnake reeently, 
and was cured by the application of a simple wet 
clay plaster which extracted all t he poison. 
The farmers or Kentucky have just harvested 
the ftnest wheat crop the State has ever pro¬ 
duced, and, to make things better for them, they 
can get a fine price for It any day they will sell. 
The crop will not be less t han seven million bush¬ 
els, and the surplus will bring four or five million 
dollars Into the State—a very snug little sum In 
hard times. 
A New Hampshire paper says that if it devotes 
more space to the potato bugs than to the Legis¬ 
lature, It Is because the bugs are doing the most 
work, and we believe the story. 
The entire number of Jews In the world is vari¬ 
ously estimated from six to fifteen millions. The. 
approximation nearest the truth. In all probabil¬ 
ity, gives about eight or nine millions, of this 
number European Russia alone has 2 ,277,ooo; Aus¬ 
tria, 1,250,000; Turkey, 900.000 ; Germany, 500,00; 
the Netherlands, or,,ooo; France, Italy, Portugal, 
Spain and Switzerland, 200,000; India, China and 
Persia, 800 , 000 ; Arabia, 200,000; United StateB, 
500,000. Total ts the countries named, 7,922,000. 
Johnstone Sullen, formerly a New Orleans sugar 
merchant,, a member or the Louisiana Legislature, 
and a colonel In the Confederate army, who loan¬ 
ed fi, 20 o,ooo to the Confederate Government, and 
was beggared by the results of the war, died In a 
wretched tenement In Grand street, Brooklyn, on 
the lsth Inst,., and was saved from burial at the 
public expense by the charity of his poor fellow 
tenants. 
A gentleman who has spent many years In the 
Western Territories, lias traveled extensively In 
all of them, and Is thoroughly familiar with their 
topography and resources, gives the following 
estimate of the maximum population they are 
likely to attain and supportColorado, 200 ,Ooo; 
Wyoming, 100,000; Dakota, i76,ooo; Montana, 200,- 
000; Idaho, 125,000; Utah, 200,000; New Mexico, 
176,0(W; Washington, 150,000; Nevada, 76,000; total, 
1,400,OIK). 
Calvin B. Camp, a broker of this city, who at¬ 
tempted suicide, is able to attend to business, 
occasionally. The bullet Is yet in his brain. 
A New York ilorlst. bason exhibition some Hue 
specimens of a plant called lndlan-plpes. it Is or 
a very peculiar construction, and looks as If made 
of wax. 
An advertisement In one of the morning papers 
of this city offers employment In Manchester, En¬ 
gland, to carpenters and Joiners who may Immi¬ 
grate thither. This Is reversing the usual order 
of t hings. 
A Niagara Falls letter says the season there Is 
dull and hotel-keepers bankrupt, caused by mis¬ 
representation and extortion. 
The young couple glided deftly through the 
giddy dance. Their countenances beamed with 
the light of love and pleasure. She seemed lo 
move In a delirious ecstasy—when, crash! they 
came Into collision with an elderly pair, who 
seemoil to have taken lessons In dancing late In 
life. The young maid fell; tenderly her partner 
assisted her to rise, and poured a stream of con¬ 
dolence and apology Into her ear. “ Oh, it doesn’t 
much matter,’’ she said, “as I had my new car¬ 
dinal-striped stockings on.” 
The following romance comes from Tennessee: 
Husband leaves home In ihiw to find work. While 
at Atlanta, he learns that his wire and children 
are dead. They are not. 11c marries and ac¬ 
quires property. She hears of Ids whereabouts 
and enters an action for divorce and alimony. He 
faints with horror on learning of the complica¬ 
tion. Second wife dies opportunely of consump¬ 
tion. Husband remarries first wife. Action for 
divorce withdrawn. 
The promoters of a scheme for the emigration 
or the colored people of the South to Liberia, In 
Africa, claim to have enrolled the names of 2,500 
negroes In Charleston, S. C., and 30,000 in the State 
who consent to emigrate. 
There are twelve thousand houses to let In Phil¬ 
adelphia, and it Is believed this number will be 
Increased In the fall to firteen thousand, If not 
more. Families arc occupying less space than 
formerly. 
A merlcans are apt to bo scandalized In Europe 
by the field labor of women; but we learn from 
the statements of the special agricultural corre¬ 
spondent of the Edinburgh Scotsman, that In this 
country! also, women arc similarly employed. 
Wilting from the great set tlement In Kansas, he 
says:—"The majority of those who have settled 
here within the past two years, are Russians, and 
being working people without, capital, they have 
reduced the cost or labor greatly. They brea k prai¬ 
rie audplosv land al$l or $1.10 per acre, which 
used to cost $2.50 or $2.76, and fora day’s work 
Russian women charge only 25 cents,and excel¬ 
lent workers they arc.” 
in Thomasville, Ga., a man who bad been suf¬ 
fering with cancer In the mouth, and had been 
pronounced Incurable by his physician, became 
much depressed, and determined upon suicide. 
He went about, his self-destruction In a very me¬ 
thodical and business-like manner. All lus cred¬ 
itors were conferred with, and all paid up, even 
those to whom the amounts were uot due. no 
proceeded leisurely and deliberately to set his 
house In urder preparatory to taking' the fatal 
step. He even made his own coffin. Alter com¬ 
pleting all necessary arrangements, he coolly cut 
his throat. 
W, Delavan, a deaf mute, died in San Francisco 
the other evening. He was about 35years of age, 
uud had been deaf and dumbsluce he was a child. 
A few hours before Ills death his power of speech 
was rest ored, and he was enabled to converse au¬ 
dibly with those about him. 
Mrs. Hickman of Hickman, Ky., has had five 
pairs of twins. 
Edwin Booth, to recruit his health, will proba¬ 
bly retire from the • ’ge for a year. 
Scant patronage seems to have made everyone 
connected with the Philadelphia Permanent Ex¬ 
hibition discontent/!. There Is a row among the 
managers. 
Ross’s gooso laid eggs In Hott’s door-yard In 
Cincinnati, and Hott’s goose hatched from them 
one gosling. Who owned the gosling ? The 
question was angrily disputed by Ross and llott, 
and they have gone to law about It.. The gosling 
has grown Into a goose, and is worth a dollar at 
most, 't he litigation has already cost two hun¬ 
dred dollars. 
The residence of M rs. Washington, the mother 
of George, near Fredericksburg, Va., Is offered for 
sale at auction. 
James Russell Lowell, Minister to Spain, sailed 
on the 14th tor Liverpool from Boston. A party 
of distinguished persons went down the harbor 
with him and a salute of fifteen guns was llred 
from the Navy Yard. 
Bayard Taylor, Senator Ben Hill, A. 8. Abell of 
the Baltimore Sun, ex-Gov. Walker of Virginia 
and Job Stevenson of Cincinnati are at White Sul¬ 
phur Springs, West Virginia. 
A sheep-farmer in California drove a flock of 
i,000 pure-blooded Merino sheep to Colorado. He 
was sixteen months on the way, and brought In 
Ills Merinos In good order. It is stated that a 
number of sheep-ralscrs In California, having 30,- 
CKW sheep on their ranges, contemplate driving 
them to Texas, on account of the splendid pastur¬ 
age to bo obtained In that state. 
At the marriage of the Earl of Annesley to Miss 
Markham, at, Marylebone Church, in London, the 
other day, the bridegroom fainted during the 
ceremony, and had to be led out of the church. 
The bride stood alone during the remainder of 
the ceremony, but Lord Annesley recovered in 
time to sign the register. 
Abdul Kerim, tho Commander-In-Chief of the 
Turkish forces In Europe, has been removed and 
Mahomed All, a Prussian by birth, appointed In 
his place. The deposed General la said to have 
the most gigantic appetite In Europe. A war cor¬ 
respondent reports that his dinner ordinarily con¬ 
sists of an entire roast kid, twenty-five or thirty 
boiled eggs, and when in good form, he tops off 
with a goose or chicken. 
Gov. Kemper of Virginia is visiting his old home 
In Madison Co., N. Y. Blaine has gone to Califor¬ 
nia. Robeson Is on the New Hampshire coast. 
Kate (Maxton is at Chautauqua Lake. Annie 
Louise Gary has bought a summer home near 
Portland, Me. President, Eliot, of Harvard Is soon 
to marry a daughter of J udge Hopklnson. Froth- 
Ingham Is In Oswego collecting material for a 
biography of Oorrlt Smith. 
The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch reports that the pros¬ 
pects for the display at the suite Fair, to be held 
In that city, are very encouraging. The grounds 
are being refitted, fences put up and Machinery 
Hall rebuilt. A reduction In railroad freights has 
been secured, that Is, freight Is paid In full to t he 
grounds and returned free. The list of premiums, 
the judges and names of committees will be Issued 
soon. 
Tho Smith Sisters of Glastonbury, Ct., famous 
for their resistance to the payment of taxes with¬ 
out the right to vote, appear to thrive upon perse¬ 
cution. The elder one, who has seen more than 
eighty years, took a warm noon-day walk of more 
than two miles not, long ago, and was, as an ad¬ 
miring correspondent puts It,, “ as bright as a new 
button" after It. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
Miss Canavassoglu of Athens was deceived by 
a Greek officer, and she shot him dead In the 
street. She was arrested for the murder, but 
was acquit ted and accompanied to her home by 
the acclamations of enthusiastic throngs, she 
seems to have been reading American news¬ 
papers, and to have learned the way to do It. 
Mr. Gladstone showed, at tho recent Caxton 
exhibition at South Kensington, a Bible which 
had gone through every stage from printing to 
completion at) Oxford that Clay. 
In England, during the last twenty years, Jews 
have been steadily rising In social estimation, and 
many now hold a very high position in society. 
Although no one actually holding the Hebrew 
faith has attained to the peerage, baronetcies 
have been conferred on several Jewish gentle¬ 
men, and Sir George Jessel, a member of the per¬ 
suasion, was appointed, on the retirement of 
Lord Romllly, Master of the Rolls. 
The Librarian of the National Library at Paris 
reports a tendency during the past year to read 
instructive works rather than works of rancy. 
Tho French defeat, by the Germans has a ten¬ 
dency, doubtless, to make them a more serious 
nation. 
In his reply to the congratulatory telegram of 
the Governor-General of Moscow, the Emperor 
Alexander estimates the loss In crossing the Dan¬ 
ube near Slmnltch at 15U killed and too wounded. 
The Erzerum correspondent of the London 
standard Is studying the domestic life of the Ar¬ 
menians. One day a pan, In which an omelette 
was being cooked, fell down, and the servant ob¬ 
stinately maintained that ft young woman on the 
roof of a house opposite bad caused the mischief 
by her evil eye, and with difficulty was prevented 
from going over and taking vengeaace. Here is 
another Incident:—The married sons, contrary to 
the Turkish custom, live In the house of their pa¬ 
rents, but the law of the Armenian Church forbids 
the mother-la-law, during the first four years of 
the marriage, to say a single word to her daugh- 
ter-ln-law. The young wife sits, dull and motion¬ 
less, the whole day In a corner of the room, with¬ 
out any occupation, unnoticed by her husband or 
any one. Only In the very poorest families, In 
which the women must, work, Is the daughter-Hi- 
law driven by blows, cuffs and kicks to labor. 
The i>oor young creatures are allowed, however, 
to go five times dally to the church. Now, it hap¬ 
pened that In the house next door the mother-in- 
law had not spoken to her son’s wife for six years, 
twe years more than the allotted term, because 
she was childless. At last the entreaties of all 
the young women of the neighborhood, on their 
bended knees, Induced the deeply offended old 
woman to address the first words to her daughter- 
in-law. 
A bill Introducing a new system of public In¬ 
struction in Prussia, which is to remodel the fa¬ 
mous Institutions dating from the beginning of 
this century, has Just been completed by a special 
commission. By the new bill, the classical ten¬ 
dency of liberal Instruction will be somewhat 
modified while, regarding elementary Instruction, 
advantage has been derived from American expe¬ 
rience ot the frce-school system. 
In contradiction of the report of the death of 
the Pope, we are now told that nis nollness Is 
still robust. Ills head Is clear and bis chest sound. 
His legs are weak, but nevertheless he continues 
to celebrate mass every day, standing, and there 
Is no apparent danger of Uls death. The Pope and 
Alex. Stephens are alike in the Inconsiderate per¬ 
sistency with which they disappoint the concoct- 
ers of obituary notices. 
Very little has been heard of the mitrailleuses 
since the Franco-German war. Some of the Turk¬ 
ish gunboats on the Danube and Black Sea have 
been armed with them, and have found them to 
be of more service In resisting the attacks of tor¬ 
pedo launches than more powerful and less easily 
handled guns. The British Ironclads are supplied 
with two or three Gatlings, as the latest type of 
the mitrailleuse Is called. 
A report comes from Paris that, the Legitimists 
arc already preparing for tho great, campaign of 
1890, when Marshal MacMahon’siem or office will 
coroo to a close, and that, they are gelling up a 
subscription lor the purchase of Lorraine, which 
Is to be handed over to tho Count de chambord. 
The sum which It, Is proposed to raise amounts to 
400,000,ooo francs—or $. 90 , 000 , 000 -and one great 
family is already down for $ 200 , 000 . Jt is supposed 
that the Comte de Chambord, who was rejected 
in 1873 on account of his Uag, will be accepted in 
1890 if be can only restore the severed province. 
The death, at 64, lately occurred of an English¬ 
man, known as the Norfolk giant. He was a farm¬ 
er, and often loaded his own wagon by carrying 
four bushels of wheat under each arm at a time. 
When In great haste to get farm work done, he 
has been known to harness himself to one of his 
own harrows. Ills weight was 336 pounds; ldght, 
six feet, six inches; width, from shoulder to 
shoulder across the back, 20 Inches. He was a 
most amiable man. 
Londoners have been revelling In so-called “Jer¬ 
sey” butter, an unction which they fondly laid 
Into their stomachs as coming from the finest 
breed of cows in the world I u the Channel Islands. 
A distinguished Jersey gentleman now makes the 
horrid revelation that no Jersey butter goes on 
the London market, and dreadful hints about 
golden-colored oleomargarine, sold under tho se¬ 
ductive name of Jerspy, are afloat. 
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New York city. 
GOOD ADVICE. 
Mr. cuarlks Pka'it, President of the Adelphl 
Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., (which, by the way, is 
one of the very best schools In the country,) closed 
his address to the young ladles and gentlemen 
graduated in 1877, with the following advice. Be¬ 
lieving it may be of service to others as well as 
those to whom it was directly addressed, we take 
pleasure In transferring it, to the columns of the 
Rural New-Yorker : 
Dear Class ok ’77 -.—as you leave the Adelphl, 
let me give you a lew familiar maxims that have 
been of value to me. 
Be cheerful, and have no regret ror the wasted 
or misused past, and never borrow trouble about 
the future, but do well the duly that Is nearest to 
you 111 the present. 
Be patient, and learn to wait; make rew 
ehanges; and be known as transparently honest. 
Always be at work. There Is no pleasure or 
profit In Idleness. Plenty of work Is better than 
wealth without It. 
The results of all effort are In proportion to the 
work and skill we give them; never expect to get 
honor, position or money upon any other terms. 
Be faithful, and honors will curne to you. Never 
seek them. Keep your wants simple; avoid debt 
and obligation of s#iy kind so tar as possible. 
Seek the counsel of persons more experienced; 
then act on your own judgment. If In doubt, wait. 
Never do anything you would be ashamed to 
have your dearest Mend know. 
Be just, and fear God; It Is safe to talk much 
with Him. The rewards of life are an approving 
conscience, the memory of kind deeds, and the 
hope of Heaven. 
