The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1886 Page: 7 of 8
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THE PARIS POLICE.
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/ComptratlcTly Betplen lit the m*.
= -once ofw Appalttnf Amoant “
T' "~dY1CrUa«.
The criminal record of the past win-
,.. ter shows that-the police department of
Jg£t| to comparfltively helpless.' writes
• correspondent of the The Son Fran-
• deco Chronicle. Murders occur with
>frequency, and Mtflaljf tea the
murderers net arrested, hut there seems
noehw whaterer to their Identity. I
have heard the criminal classes of Paris
estimated at 200.000, which isnotprob-
, #bly an exagorated figure, and this im-
mense number is constantly under sur-
surveillauce, of is supposed at least to
he known to the polioe. The task is
herculean. It Is probably because the
„ , >jiptrwjnga> aincg
complishes so little. Whatever the ex-
cuse may bo. it is sufficient7 to satisfy
those who wish to see justice follow
< oioasiV on the heels of crime. The cri oa-
th Is result comes naturally from a
polioe system In whloh secret espionage
that confounds groat Crimes with small
HERE AiND THERE.
jftay so ____ _f_. ____r____^
system of Paris, far the most cosily in
the world, must* be judged by its fruits,
and those fruits are the constant in-
crease of all kinds of crime, especially
those of violence and murder. If some
thousands of those who are engaged in
watching the morals of the community
not so much with reference to their
..........The latest Atlanta prohibition drink
Tiir police ta “miIk shako. ” _________4.
“Mud with the water squeezed out,
purity as—their -own gain, were put
openly on the trail of a soore of un-
known murderers of the past winter it
rht
is possible f capture might be effected.
A Brief Sketch of Pompeii.
Pompeii was founded by Pompey IL,
hence its name. It was built at the fool
of Mount Vesuvius to catch the tourist
traiBc4ft..iemanadft. .paannto, palm leaf
■fans and other articles necessary for
4 —-----— —wyw uvvvoouij
.^ Mount Veepyhta,
^lar a r. i'l
teal classes in Londonteav or may not
Itfi proportionately as numerous as those
of. Paris, But brutal as the-clasb isr it
is yet true that there are ItorjBlHffi®
murders among the five millions of that
city that there are among the two mil-
Ono day when this frolicsome rnoun-
tain wks in a state of violent.eruption.,
like a boy taken down with the measles,
it became sick at the Stomach and
threw up such a quantity of ashes that
was a Lynri >matt“boy’s definition of
dust if... ,
Large numbers of salmon hare been
caught in the Penobscot river thia sea-
son. • : ,0 'A '
A white brfzXard is a rgcgnt aoqulgi-
tion^mjajfpJB^ &n Albanyornithol
Gold is often picked up from the
streets of Shasta, Cal., after a hard
rain-storm. -
A special police force will be required
to enforco the new prohibition law in
Rhode Islaud.
= :
fTQYA SCOTIA AND THE DOMINION.
lions of this, and a murderer rarely es-
lisnnii
Tittlfio. oiit of siglit A prohib
didatb in a distillery district
capes arrest and punishment.; Qf those
who have committed murders on
Englislf railway trains not one has es-
• caped- detection.- Mtrrderers of the
‘ same class in France have been twice
as numerous during the last twenty
years, and few,of the perpetrators have
een discovered. lucre must-be
ever been ____________ ______
reasons for this which inhere in the po-
Hfie Systems of the two Countries. In
^ ‘vation rrf nrdcr Tain-
trusted to a uniformed force, supple-
mented by a secret service that assists
Itt ferreting out mysterious crimes.
There is no general system of espion-
age. In Paris thero are the uniformed
police agents whom one secs every-
where, and an army of police spies
wiv?se numbers can nev,pr be known
but who must be legion, and whose
place is everywhere. There are also
the gens d’arines, who are a sort of
police soldiery who perform special
duty, a'nd who oan be called on in an
Paris
emergent)
The ©r<
r policem . __________
ilue, with military cap and long over-
Bncy.
ordinary
_ — _ — syenli ... _________
or policemen, are neatly uniformed in
de police,
Th.
coat, in winters Most "of them" have
.‘‘Been soldiers, and they Are selected
lot......
I
—B---J lutvuuci mcm un-
approachable, hut if addressed politely
they are usually amiable and impart
all the information in their power. Lift
your hand to one of them when you
wish a favor and you will find him de-"
voted-to your servico. They pace the
streets in an erect and methodical way,
.not allowing their attention to be dis-
tracted by any disorder that does not
amount to, a genuine disturbance. An
English or American poileeamn rushes
in everywhere where the peace threat-
ens to be broken, and is the first on
hand to assist in ease of accident. The
Paris policeman seems to have no in-
structions at this,kind. HejvaiJa till
.. the peace is actually broken, and if
there is a runaway he permits private
citizens to pick tip the wounded and
gather together the shattered remanta
- d the vehicle. Ills ‘military stiffness
prevents his pursuing a thief with inde-
corous speed. He nevertheless quick-
ens his pace, at thdfcaine time raising
the cry. . “«*op, thief!’r wheniperhaps
some law-abidiur person interposes, or
somfr uimWe pi^MU-ian joins in the
b,.
>haae and effects the capture. Very
little of t^e espionage, orK dirty work,
falls to his share. This is done by the
Ibitjon can1*
— — — — ——■......». ....... 1 v*t could not
be more completely snowed under.
Never was there such a tumble'in
ashes as was observed that day. They
were absolutely a drug in the market
Folks would’t. cart them nwny as~a gift.
And still ashes continued to fall.
Everybody was panic stricken. They
begun to wail .aiiU put on sackcloth,
but the disparity between the limited
amount of sackcloth and'the illimitable
quantity of ashes was ludicrous m the
metreme^ -People demanded with ■ chon
cently at Mobile, Ala. The saurian wss
out of its element.
A Portland, Oregon, paper-mill get*
paper stock—tote butts—from Calcutta
wur the mnnniacture of manilla paper.
caterer.lias jus* re-
oeTVtkl st set of molds -for producing all.
the “Mikado’’ characters in ice-cream,
AvCabl^jjrailroud at Las Angeles,.Cal.,
has. liiifj out a park With a lake in it as
- N .. .*
Home Cogent. Reasons for the Secon-
~ stow "of the 1,tide Canadian Prov-
luce— Vo Interest*'In tom, 2
mon with Canada.
* ------A—......... . . .. . .ir 1 a,
A Novr boothtn now at Washington
writes to YfaKeiu York Herald as fol-
lows: The recont action of the Nova
Scqtia hoitso of assembly lookingto tho
withdrawal of that provinoe from the
■Dominlfm of Canada is not a surprise
to those who wore the unwiL
lingnoss'of a large part of the people
to euter Into the confederation andfol
the discontent 'that has been 'felt and
expressed since the union was consum-
mated, It is; hoWover,
is, however, easipr for
' About 840 cars of oranges have been 8tst«*> ^ well as individuals, to unito
^ fwaa ■•4ha*4*separate; less difficult in most
•this"season. • - —1 ‘ !_». —•-----■ -•
au inducement to people to travel on
its line. ;—«—-— -----— -
- A monstrosity in the way of a medi-
nm-stre’d dog, with the head of a hog,
cases to enter intothe mhrriage relation
4p procure n divorce.
One party to the pnion can not sever
the relation without the consent of the
other, and if both parties thereto
should be willing to separate the con-
sent of the motner-^-England—must bo
obtained. Nor does thelarge -majority
in the assembly favorable to separation
necessarily indicate the. general desire
of ;th& people. “ThAlr wishes will be
expressed in the election soon to fakd
place, when* tho question “for” or
“against” repeal will be determined at
the polls.—TAoWdiboraP party is now
in power in Nova Scotia, although
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college, ho will reeogni/.t- in tho _
educator a native Massachuset.
^Fhe books in the coHege, Vhe hymt
books and to same extent -tho bibb
used in the churches, boar theimprimi—
,tiire of Boston, New York, or PhiladeU
phla publi'.hera.. .Until recent yet 1
when the protective tariff stimuli
douiestiu.4nannfacture9, nearly all «
tfcles of furniture, including docks,
the houses of the people were made
New England.
Nor was tips, all. The young mei
and to som& extent the yoiuig womei
Iffotwf t«-—the Htstes’’ a« ihtrtr 1
home, where therp were broader._
of employment arid bettor opportui
tics fbr enterprise itmnn^j a people
whom they were united in sympd
and to some extent in relatiot
ship. The trades and professions
Nuw England,, Bad to
New" York and other cities, "ihbw
since the election in September, 1878,
is the prioperty of a Shoshone in Eure^
ka, Nev. .....“ - ' '•
faces, wlien is this to endP But it came
to an end after a (-while, and Pompeii
too. w 7' r, *1 .. „ +r: • >
You have heard of aslTes"Qf roses?
Well, nobody evd™ roso from those
ashes. . -‘"~
For nearly eighteen hundred years
Pompeii lay asleep, and it Would have
A Victoria, British Columbia, wo-1
mau soundly thrashed a Chinaman last
Jtbe conservative partyhas hud a large-
ntejoritv in tho Dominion parliament.
The dissatisfaction of the people 6f
large number of N'ova Scotians, wb
have brought no discredit upon eith
country. American shk>-build mg w
greatly promoted by fl inald McKay
Httenee, especially asttn nomy, honO!
Simon-fNewcomb; Amer can indusfri
history reepgiilzes the ability and
sea roll Of Dr. <1. Leatuier Bishop,-
.Philadelphia, who, like! thousand*
jiis fellow-Aeadiamvgavq his best se
vieus as a surgeon for three years
tho-cornitry of his adopt on—tin*
Nova Scotia with the Dominion govern;-
r —j —****** *• w uuiu ui»T v
•been ash-heap to this day had not.jSome
scientific explorers come scratching
around the base of Mount Vesuvius—
for to such base uses do 'they come at
last—and discovered surface indiqntious
of the lost oity. They continued dig
'*1 J
ging, and it was not long
Phenix arose from its ashes.
This was the Phenix Hotel, tho most
popular m Pdtnpeii. The guests Were
ail in their rooms; although many of
them had left orders with tho porter
be called for the early morning train. :
Eighteen hundred years waiting to
i-be called! Many hotel porters are that
way now. „ ........ ~
The lie ad clerk of the PbenTi” had
disappeared,'but they found his mam-
moth diamond pin, by the illumination
of which they were enabled to contin-
ue their explorations.
They kept on digging and prefcty
soon they uhearthed a thoatrb with a
whole minstrel band seated in a ro# on
the stage. . The audience wore in their
seats, too, entirely petrified—an end
man had gotten off a new joke. The
stage was thickly covered with chest-
nuts, all of which wero oarefullv col-
lected and shipped to America, where
they were eagerly bought up by the
minstrels* who continue to use them,
week for improper conduct before her
two children;
Ip Pennsylvania, this year, there is
not a single reoognized democratic can-
didate for the state offices or for con-
gressman-at-large.
Athens, fia.r authorities have refused
qffer of $4,000 a year from a brewer
for the exclusive privilege of selling
liquor in tliat city.
A Los Angeles stret-car company ad-
vertises that it has lost two? cars some-
where between New York and their
poiat of destitfath
iUQM>yM increfljgcd by the protect! ve-
tarlff abt of 1875—a raeasoror^tnuy-ai^
wvv va M.KTI ^ R IUVdQ*
sei% that operates favorably to Ontario,
which is extensively engaged in manu-
facturing as Well as in farming, and un-
favorably to Nova Scotia, which, in ad-
dition to her farming, mining, and fish-
ery industries, has been largely arid
profitably interested in shipping. The
A fish of unknownspecies that is fif-
teen feet long, and weighs two thou-
sand pounds was recently captured at
Long Point, Canada.
s&.. Grundy intimates that New
York people think Jfc—fs the proper
thing now to have trfrtefcd who has
been “presented at court.”
~ The various cheap stores throughout
the country are now selling' “goods
slightly damaged from the steamer Ore-
gon.” Tho cargo appearirto have beep
multiplied. ' :. ' •
“James Hill, of Warren county, Geor-
gia. says that be h^S boen struck by
lightning three times, drowned twice,
and shot once, and still lives, a very
robust fellow. _ . _
A farmer in Washington county,
Pennsylvania, built a fence along a line
where a number of holes had been dog
causes of this dissatisfaction with the
confederation aro- partly geographical'
and partly ethnological. :v
A glance at the map of Canada, ink.'
eluding the northeastern states, will
'Show the contiguity of Nova Scotia to
New England and its remoteness from
Ontairo and Manitoba; and the ““
try of his. forefathers—- pud lias tern
his ileath thereby. In I lew \a»rk l
we Hag in Bostoi) bdsiiu?H, and profeL
sienal men. manufacturer, puljli^erAj
and others haVb'achieved t>uccv‘8afiL'_ S
In tlie recent deb.He in the house
assembly it was stated: “The city _
Boston contains more Nova Scotiadi
than the city of Halifax; Massachus
more Nova Scotians than Nf
TtsTir^ Tills IS, Udwiver.
. -------------- , dr,-<wli
estimate, as the census of I860 ga
but 29,307 natives of Nova Scotia <1
Massach usetts, and only. 51, lt>0 in
United States.
The trade relation! and the ties
consanguinity that formerly bound
people of Acadia to New England .
attach.their children as strongly to
land of their fathers, and any h
iter
tjon interrupting that free in
is distasteful and
to free commercial intercourse is aug-
mented by climatio conditions -For
five months in the year a shipment of
Nova Sootia coal can not be made to
ports on Lake Ontairo nor a return
cargo of Ontairo flour brought*to Nova
Scotian ports. Any exchange of, pro.
ducts by these provinces must be made
over the circuitous international rail-
way, an.d at so high a cost as to greatly
* ....... On the
And'still they dug and dug. Wlld®8t
A newspaper omoa was the' next ®*in- *BRn CHrries the mail otera rough
limit this interprovincial trade.______
other hand, the proximity of Portland
and Boston to the principal parts of
Nova Scotia—fipm Halifax to Cape
Sable on the Atlantic and from Yar-
mouth to Windsor on the Bay of Fun-
dy—is highly favorable to tho.freest
commercial intercourse. The .volume
of trade, like the current of a river,
may be diverted from Its accustoipud
channels, but it is liablo at any tinm to
break through its artificial embank-
ments and spread desolation ia its ef-
forts to regain its natural oourse. For
_____ irritating. These a_.
other Nova Scotians assert that tb
union was consummated by
and Umt only one county
parliament by Sir Charles Ti
Canadian commissioner^ in London—
voted in favor of confederation. The-flH
Nova Scotians of to-day like New En»^^^“ *
gland and Ttrolre to trade therewith.|
but are not partial to and do not- v ‘
to buy' of Ontario, They wre ‘ Sfill
attached to the people of the provii
of Quebec, with most of whom
differ in race and language.
They formerly sold, and still desfrw
Jb> sell, to New England gypsum, grind-
stone, biturainou
atones, building stone.- bituminous
firewood, hemlock bark, potatoes,
and otlier farm products, live animals,
and[ fish, and purchased of New "
gland flour, corn meal, medfeinua
niture, musical instruments, books,.]
wall paper, agricultural implerhent
seeds and* plants, hardware, dtti
ware, wooden ware, broom A Yankeo j
notions, and a variety of other manu-
factured articles. They dislike to have j
their current volume of trade turned j
Into another channel by legislation “Odr ]
otherwise.
^ uuwspaper omce was tn«'next - —-----
thing that came to light. The editor road twenty-one miles in length, He
% XT t ¥ a 1 a/i/\ ir • I 2 .. at. —. - v J _ # a 1 * I 4mm .—1m a 1. a —. 1 ^ A... ! * . 1__f ^ - M
secret agents, called agent* de tnocurs,
Intel
or by other names, by the department,
but mouchards by other citizens® ■who
detest them thoroughly. They are al-
ways in Citizen’s dress, but have a
badge of authority, which they show
whoa necessary. To better perform
their work they assume, the blouse of
the laborer, tho dress of priests, tho
white aprons of cooks and garoons, the
hat. portfolio, ..and thoughtful air
of thelawyor or lawyer’s clerk, or the
garb of mondkjity. -Thete business is
towateh•*the criminal classes, and to
n v“uiv kv- 1 lit; suitor J---- :—v v 45c
was discovered in the attitude of hold- j travels the circuit three times a week,
ing up his right hand before a notary, I *ud has never missed a dajFor met with
swearing that his circulation exoseded an accident / ^
°i !vU t.lfu papers coiaJWued. I A pgVel summer tour along the Erie
O d Subscriber was sitting in the .canal is advertised as possessing some
of Fundy and the people' of Massachu-
setts and Maine, and the restriction of
“Veteran Observer” Was at another ] thon n^l “ tfUin,1
disk preparing an article on the sub- h?lbf r" r p:
iect of “StrikoA” On the bulletin -A White-Cat club
ject of ‘“Strikes.” On the bulletin I A White-Cat club is an ftrganization
board in front of the office was an an- I existence in Atlonta,.Ga. tt
BOMI?.?,raont Susan ‘ B. . Anthony } Is made up of white boys from 7 to 1C
would speak that “evening on the sub- ] years old, and its obiect M-to cause at
id
this freedom by the Dominion govern-
ment has caused irritation and disopo,
tent. Bat strong as is this desire to
continue the trade relations with their
neighbors, tho tics of contignity are
not nearly so strong as those of con-
aan gu it v- To use a proverbial expres-
sion: “Blood is thicker than water.”
The fact is generally known that
after, the expulsion in 1756 of the
In the disenssion of the resolutions of
repeal, in the house of assembly it was
asserted that the province since 1867,
When the anion was consummated, has
not be.en so prosperous as for some
years immediately preceding. In re-
ply, the fact was stated that th! ’ pros-
perity was partly owing to the civil war
in the United States and • iiT 0
measure to the reciprocity treaty that
— ---—. —- -Jiprooity •« v ** ■«
was in operation from 1854 to I860.
Hie termination of the.war and
“French neutral#”(from Nova Scotia assorted, produced the business
^—r—— — of the
treaty* and mol Confederation, it was
v, hoop the morals of the oity pure. They
have the entry of all houses df bad re
pute without other legal authorization
than their official position. Tho mouch-
\ard is considered t>y the honest els sues
flf Poric no ma Ik., -a LI__
‘ of Paris us no better than a bj^ok-
,3- ; to«0er, who will let anyone whom he
haswrrested escape for a gratuity-that
Jho arrest has not been effected
—nude# Ouch- eewditiens of pubiicity as
^ render it impossible. MAAfld his eall-
upon as simply
■ M' b. ,K1
But though the mourJmrih are num-
bered by thousands, and though they
Me omnipresent, th.ey. havo the assist-,
anoe of another class still lower and
rwwufl1 itHMUr uwi1 yhuinrBWB___ _______
ject of “Woman’s Rights. j much annoyance and inconvenience to
We have not spaop to enumerate all respectable people as possible. * ■-*
w*„brc“£h,*I UulVt (dVenioM. u «kaHngr»li»Km-
Tl.»g.p»/e revealed MT'owm0^
those venerable but athletio pies were JJtL 1 - “ #8"d’ r^e predominating
baked that now adorn so many of onr f‘iat,Irr8,of at the summer resorts
railroad Junch counters. I •9«»on. The racquet and other
hsvo the letter P Hy-blov
The number of skeletons actually I A timbor raft that will measure 410
found among the askes of Pompeii was foet long, 50 feet wide, aod 85 feet deep,
small when compared with frtb# oensus *«d oontain U.226,(XK) ifeet, and weigh
01 (‘oundWo” ‘N0"S'
was explained. It was thp j ^ a
«ew England colonies, chiefly from . Those who are in favor of asevenniOT
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con-1 of the, union express their belief that if
necticot, to whom favorable conditions J It be effected the province will be, able
"ZnT'Z RAflafs>w°^ Sib-r^id
f, T— — , . . .. «*•• I mo uim.au ouues,
hese became substantially New Eng- The desire of the liberal or anti-pro-
land settlements, and have so oontin- tection party of Nova Scotia for onro-
ued in a great measure unto this day. stricted trade with the United States b
£h^K^*m,i£r8nJs belonged to the best | so great that the failure to obtain »
day before
When
and on
these • posters
l reading them
itrickonInhabit
----- ew wi.teie».li -u--M -a- .-
r« aiscoverou, * *— -----j —• uuuucm
n.hin^NT.Ti.rt.TiiTii.T^yrf* ?* k*
panic-stricken inhabitants broke for the nation of rest with the fatigue of ex-
uiumi 1UI MIOI-.-VU W. lauguo OI ex-
wooda, and in this way-their llrei Were ercise, and consider^ it a very bad these settlers- altliomrh «rnm | «--------- a
ffi*» r—-— a,
m w » a. ___ Buffalo hM tWftlVfl (xOrmfin mnelAel Knf A# AAiiteiA 4aaI> --Mk I 1 iffnnl (*ifiv«>n mm/I U m*aa«1
'
baser. These are the mouton*. The
YfiOUlon is usually adiscl.arged criminal.
who*is allowed to ao operate with tho
mourh.tr,!, giving him snob information
he can about othdr criminals, or aid-
. LCJ , . - » ,mtm ^ . .. .
Buffalo has twelve German musical
, organizations, which will Jtend four
soon hundred singers to the Baengerfest, at
. . | Milwaukee, in July. This Is the third
11 Ml mu Ml >
to say that no mouton will ever betray
any one to tho policjja no matter wltat
the offense may bo, if ho can make any
money out of the offender. -Hot vnify
do they ai a class constantly try to ex-
JPro’
tection .................................
continue a eafceer of fraud and rob-
either ignore or
blaokP
Can Ton Tell Us Why
A man’s tooth stops achinEhs
ns he reaches the dontistsP-j ‘j- ^ ^^ ,« » 4U) ^
A small dog has a more extensive! largest contingent*oontribnt^ty^ny
rge one? **» the country. Chicago aud BW
, ether parts of Nova
i
•lx feet long, and was roven feet six loyal to OrSat Britain. ArisRto WoTf-
mohes around. ^
The people of Boston are taxed to
rapport the oity hospital, and where-
fore, asks The Journal, should the
wswvissvi eunrou aria uutm
him.—Toronto Chip,
It to said that a dour mm at .
Dak., has been ran for tbs past flto month* b.
•Mam produced by the best of flax straw. Tbs
east of running tb« *l« by the flax strew
.htok; • Wfle more “
j .... 4. - *
possessed the steady virtues of their
ancestors and aeteeng belief In relig-
ions as well as civil liberty, and their
children in subsequent years exerted
giteil lufluenbias to em&ccipate “c
Fashion Item.
senters
ions of
When ymrstflTOlWlBE
klrf wilt, . ___
trom tho tyranny aqd exact-1 8^irt with a plain white ootfaf attache
these settlenralthough remote from fh" * a ^ T 1“,nb'
but, of course, took no motive part in | citizen, and is merely deficits
the strife. During the wer some “loy- In ta«, \ If tho effect of a paper colla
alists from Now ^ff|aodn/we^ if j real shirt ie agreeable to
—. r . " 7~.------—-—. ihff a large } there is no reason why he sho
number settled on the lands near the | be allowed to dress in such a
St John river, in New Brnnawt
John v
after whloh IKe town of
the fashion was this: Mr^AJbru^ E
Wales ordered some fancy shirti,9
Btooe IJffi) the New England settlers jj}>e material
to Wova Scotia and their descendants mother utifiw— w „„
kept up » oorrespondenpe with their lars and bad them stitched on.
objected, but hi* mhthsc w
fashion was set, and to
to GrShtBritain. AVieltio reooesion ally wee
near the hiNtoric Grand Pro. at j It give# a man the
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The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1886, newspaper, July 1, 1886; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth886490/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.