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A CINCINNATI BOOM.

HER EXPOSITION ANb tffcR NEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

A Procession Six Miles LoiijhThe Ex» position Now in Progress the Most Varied and Extensive Yet Held In Cln» cinnati—New Chamber of Commerce.

The thirteenth annual Cincinnati exposition fs now in progress, and will continue till October. The opening is claimed to have been the finest show ever witnessed in the Queen City. From the noise the usually quiet Cincinnatians made that day, it seemed as if for the time "Solid Cincinnati," had been changed into Chicago.

They had reason to tickle themselves and be happy. The procession inaugurating the exhibition was six miles long. They say it was looked at by 250,000 people, though perhaps it may be necessary to fall a person or two in accepting this statement of a reporter in his enthusiasm. The greatest of Ohio's statesmen were present and made speeches, among them Senator ShenAan, Governor Foraker and Congressman Butterworth. In the course of his happy, though brief, remarks, Mr, Butterworth made this striking observation: "The inventive genius of man is 'the divinity within him, and it ne^er worked to the detriment of mankind."

EXPOSITION BUILDINGS

The beautiful Cincinnati exposition is one that artist® never tire of copying. Many fine views of it have been taken from different points. Its architecture is unique and unsur-

So was the procession that inaugurated this great display of the victories of peace. The line of carriages was led by one containing Senator John Sherman and Governor Foraker. In some features the procession was a sort of carnival show, imitating the grotesque and the comic with solid business advertising. A group of bycicligg formed part of it, riding slowly and solenftly upon their shining wheels. Among them was a trycicle containing a lady and gentleman.

The Zoological garden in Cincinnati had been levied on for a. contribution gathered from inany lands. A great elephant, with a load of merry children in a cage upon his back, paced along snuffing the ground with his trunk, and wondering what it was all for. A troop of living little Shetland ponies,

ridden by gayly dressed, pretty children, followed the elephant. But the' part of the Zoological contribution whichvattracted most attention was an immense leopard. It lay in the bottom of alight cage at the feet of its keeper, sometimes raising' its paw toward him, playfully, so it was said. But what an awful row he might have raised, a consternation and a panic, with one little stroke of that paw. Spectators looked at him with great interest, and were relieved when he had passed. He was like a ghost story, intensely fascinating just because he was a little scary.

The floral show this year, it is believed, will be surpassing. It must be remembered that Cincinnati set the fashion of industrial expositions in America. Her first one was held in 1870, in an unpainted, barnlike, wooden structure. The shed was temporary, and was soon pulled down. Unplaned board walls .were the background for the high art display which the spectators looked at that year. These unpainted barns were thought good enough for expositions in those days all over the country. We have changed our ideas since then.

Special attractions for various days of the great show is the programme for expositions in recent years. Interest had quite died out in viewing, year after year, the same industrial products, arranged in the same order. However excellent, they got very tame at last. The modern exposition is more like an entertainment than a fair. Cincinnati has a very full list of the special attractions for different daj-s.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Cincinnati seems to be having a bdoin In a general way this year. A new bridge and elevated railway across the Ohio is in contemplation, to cost $10,000,000, making the fourth bridge over the river here. The new structure will have an elevated railway along with its foot and passenger roads.

The chamber of commerce building now being rapidly completed, is seen in the illustration. It will cost 5600,000. Money is plenty for public uses in Cincinnati That is more than can be said of most cities. The chamber of commerce building will be a handsome and imposing structure. It is at the corner of Fourth and Race streets, upon the site of the old postoffice. It is hoped and believed that it will be genuinely fireproof

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and no mistake. One of the chief beauties about the new edifice in the eyes of Cincinnatians is that it will be paid for "spot cash" when done, with the exception of a comparatively small sum. There will be offices and rooms to rent in it from which an income of $30,000 a year will be had. Times have been supposed to be hard since 1872, yet since then the trade in certpin lines has increased in Cincinnati some T0Q per cent.

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YACHTING.

The first yacht club on record was the Royal Cork Yacht club, organized in 1720. It demonstrated the necessity for. speed of sharp bows and hollow garboards, instead of the bulging hulls that were common up to that time. Their yachts were richly carved and gilded. The next lesson the British admiralty learned in the art of building fleet vessels was from the French smugglers, whose vessels could outsail the government vessels every time.

The first international yacht raoe of which we have any record was sailed at Bermuda in 1849, between the English cutter Pearl and the American yacht Brenda. The BrendA was victorious. It was the performance of the yacht America in the race around the Isle of Wight, in 1851, in which she distanced the sixteen competing yachts, that awakened seamen to the possible improvement in yacht modeling, and brought about a revolution in yacht building.

THE GALATEA AND MAYFLOWER. The above sketch of the Galatea and Mayflower as they appeared in running before the wind in one of the recent races gives an excellant idea of the number of sails that are crowded on to a modern yacht, and also the beautiful curves the outlines of these sails assume when filled by the wind. It is In the shape, size and management of sails that the greatest improvements have been made of late years. In this both countries have made equal strides. But it is to the use of the Yankee centerboard that American yachts owe most of their superiority, and it is only by adopting it that crafts of other countries may successfully compete for the international challenge cup.

JOHN M'BRIDE,

The Democratic Nominee for Secretary of State in Ohio. John McBride, the Democratic nominee for secretary of state, was born in Chippewa township, Wayne county, O., June 25, 1854. He was in the last legislature as a representative of the workingmen. He was lucky enough to get a common school education before he went into the mines digging coal. He served his time underground, and became prominent among his brethren as a young man of more than ordinary ability. He became a member of societies for the amelioration of labor, and was 16 years

JOHN'M^BRIDE. old when he joined the Miners'union. He progressed until, in 1882, he was elected president of the Ohio Miners' association, the strongest labor union in the iState. He was re-elected by unanimous vote in 1883f 1884 and again in 1885. He was defeated for representative in 1881 by only sixty-three votes. He was renominated and elected in 1883 by a majority of 1,106. Faithful to the interests of his brethren, he at once took a stand in the legislature as the champion of labor. He joined other workingmen in the assembly in perfecting legislation which has given to the laboring classes more benefits than any legislature has ever given.

During the terrible strike in the Hocking valley John McCabe was the busiest man in the state of Ohio. As president of the Miners1 association he was kept busy night and day, and was prostrated during the winter near unto death. He is made of good material, however, and has since recovered. He comes of good Irish-English stock, his mother and father having been born in Carlisle, Cumberland county, England. They came to America in 1852. Mr. McBride is a member of the Knights of Labor, and has held many important positions in that organization.

A Professional Beauty Craze. Washington is threatened with a professional beauty craze during the coming winter. Several of the Republican senators' wives ar* sure they know one or two young womet possessing charms of face and figure quit) equal to those of Mrs. Cleveland, and they propose to invite their beauties to visit Washington during the next session, and eclipse the White House mistress.—Washington Letter

GERONIMO CAPTURED.

PORTRAITS OF THE RENEGADE CHIEF AND THE GALLANT GEN. MILES.

The Knd of the Trouble With the Chiricahua Apaches—History of the Trouble. Geronimo En Route to Florida—Will

He be Hanged?

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The Stops by Which the Modern Yacht Has Developed. Now that the American type of yacht has proved agaii the fleetest afloat, it is interesting to note the stages by which this degree of perfection has been reached. When racing vessels were first built is unknown. But that guch were in use by the northern nations of Europe is well attested. The sturdy old Norse chieftains were so proud of their boats that they insisted on being buried in them. Mkny of their graves have been unearthed with the hulls of their vessels in sufficient preservation to show that in shape they were as beautiful and perfect as anything we produce to-day for propelling with oars. When the Phoenicians and Arabians were contending for the India trade a model of sailing ship was developed which was strikingly similar to the oldtime clipper ships, which came after. The fleet* 'ness of these latter sailers, was sacrificed to the requirements of commerce.

Geronimo and band, the terror of Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora, Is once more captured, and it is to be hoped he will now be placed where he can no longer harm others or where he himself will not fall a victim to revenge at the hands of friends of the many he has murdered during'these many years.

Geronimo is the head chief of the Chiricahua Apaches and first came into notice in 1876, when a tavern keeper named

Rogers was killed by some drunken Apaches. It was then decided by the Indian agent to transfer the Chiricahuas to the San Carlos reservation. Geronimo, at that time a sut^ohief, protested, saying he did not think it just to send them all away for a murder one of the number had committed, and whom they had already put to death. But Geronimo's protests availed nothing, and his people were ordered to move. Geronimo jasked for leavd to 'gather his family

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in the mountains. He escaped with them. He was afterward captured in New Mexico and brought to the San Carlos reservation with the rest of his tribe.- Soon after this he escaped again and was out until 1878. In 1881 he made his third escape, and eluded the soldiers until 1884, when Gen. Crook brought him into camp.

On May 7,1885, Geronimo led in the outbreak which has given Mexico and the United States no end of hardships since. The chief difficulty in capturing him came from the rough nature of the country, where the Apaches were perfectly at home. In fact, it is likeljr they would prefer a life of lawlessness, with the privilege of roaming free over these mountains, to a life gfluxuryin captivity.

MARCHING GFERONIMO INTO CAMP. Then Geronimo has been skipping across the Mexican border in such away as to harrass the troops. The Mexicans will not allow,the United States to establish a permanent camp on their side of the line, and as the Mexicans exerted themselves but little toward his capture he fell back on Mexico as a place of refuge. Geronimo has never considered the Mexican soldier worth bothering about anyway, and boasts that he never wasted any ammunition on Mexicans—he killed them with rocks.

On the 11th of last January, it will be remembered that Capt Emmet Crawford, while pursuing Geronimo, was shot down by a party of Mexican soldiers, who had mistaken his command for a body of hostile Indians, at least so it was said at the time.

Since then reports dnd denials of Geronimo's capture have followed one another thick and fast, until he became like the Irishman's flea. This time it is hoped he is captured "for keeps," and to Gen. Miles is the honor due.

Gen. Miles will always be noted as a most successful Indian fighter. He it was who captured Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces in their flight through Montana after they had suc

and evaded other generals. He also captured the hostile Cheyennes, who are now living in peace. as farmers, on the Rosebud, in Montana. All this was GEN. MILES. accomplished after much fierce fighting. To him must be given the credit of having brought to end the career of Sitting Bull and the flriftl submission of his thousands of savage followers.

Gen. Miles is a Bostonian by birth, and in his 48th year. He began his career as a merchant, but in 1861 he entered the army as captain of the Twenty-second Massachusetts infantry. He has not laid down his arms since. He married a niece of Gen. and Senator Sherman.

In answer to a request from Secretary Endicott, Gen. Miles furnished the following reasons why the Apaches should be removed from Arizona^ The reply is worthy of the man and of the occasion. Here is a portion of it:

You ask me why I desire the removal of the Apaches from the territory? I will tell you in as few words as possible. I ask it in the name of the territory whose prospects and progress have been blasted and retarded by the fiendish cruelties of those Indians. I ask it in the name and on behalf of the widows and fatherless children whose lives have been wrecked and whose future has been darkened by the murdering raids of these fiends. I ask it in the name of the thousands of lives that have been offered un ss a sacrifice to the

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tion system. Finally, I ask it tne name of civilization, which can never advance in this territory so long aa the Indians are allowed periodically to terrorize the cOtmtry.

"Let Her Ro\), Gallagher." The favorite slang expression on the Chicago board of trade now is, "Let her roll, Gallagher." This comes from New Orleans. When Blakely Hall went down there a few years ago to write up the exposition, which didn't expose, he found that the generic name of the bobtail car driver of thp Crescent City was Gallagher. He observed that when the driver of these ramshackles stopped in the street for a lady passenger the gentlemen in the car would usually rise, take off their hats and see the newcomer seated with something like cliivalric grace. Then one or more would sing out, "Let her roll, Gallagher." The rusty brake would twirl, the jaded ftiule would propel and the creaking car would roll on through dust to destiny.—New York WorkL

CANADIAN FIREMEN.

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to rami. Even the street Arab, with his blacking box and cigar stump, can

tell you all about the "machine," the men that run it and the origin and full particulars of all the fires that occur on his habitual route.

In the matter of fire apparatus Canada finds herself far behind the age. With the exception of a very few cities in the western provinces, you can only find the old "hand machines," similar to those used in New York before the powerful steam engine made its appearance.

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Every town h^s its brigade. These brigades are composed of men filling every position in life The old and the young, the professional and the laborer, run side by side. For a very trifling fee a citizen maybe enrolled in the brigade, and thereby become exempt from jury duty. It is on this account more than anything else that you find half the town enrolled, and the other half ready to volunteer at a moment's notice.,

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With the first cry of "fire" the fun and excitement begins. Fun, because all routine business is laid aside in a moment, and a wild chase for the engine house instituted. Excitement, because men, women and children run here, there and everywhere. Shouting, yelling, blackguarding and mud rolling is the order. The first person reaching the enginehouse gives the general alarm by ringing the bell. The machine is run out, every one int grabs the rope, and off they go at a neck pace.

Every active member is provided with a uniform consisting of a helmet and white blouse. These he keeps at home but he is supposed to wear them at afire in order to be distinguished from a volunteer. As the machine is run down the street, the wives and daughters of the "actives" appear at the doorways with the uniforms. The gymnastic feats performed by these men, while running through the streets, discarding their coats and hats for their uniforms, beggars description.

At the fire, every one is at perfect liberty to do as he pleases. A* rush for the house is the first grand move. Every available article is carried off. Sometimes the unlucky owner has to skirmish all over the town before he has collected all his furniture. When a saloon is burned the property (in the form of liquids) very frequently finds its way to very distant localities. On one occasion two "actives" rescued a keg of Scotch whisky, carried it to a house three miles distant and never left it for four days. On "brigade picnic days," the entire force, both active and volunteer, go out for sport, and leave the town to the mercy of Providence.

FRANK S. MARTIN.

A lady, writing to The Philadelphia Ledger, says: "I am the wife of a clergyman, and letters are constantly received by me addressed to 'Rev. Mrs. Smith,' and I do not preach either, except occasionally in private to my husband, when he deserves ft When my on a charitable list it is as 'Mrs. imith.' Fancy my emotions when,

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themselves 'Mrs. William Jones' ought to know

better—who make claim to culture and are leaders in their own circles." You will always notice that when there is nothing about the garden to cut the grass with but a common break-back sickle the wife always does the work but when there is anew patent lawn mower around, the man of the house is always very, willing to accept the responsibility.—The Judge.

The following notice is posted on a fence in Morris county, Texas: "If any man's or woman's cows or oxen gits in these here oats his or her tail will be cut off, as the case may be. I am a Christian man and pay my taxes. but a man who lets his critters loose, say I. "—New York Tribune.

EARTHQUAKE ECHOES.

EVENTS WEIRD, COMIC AND TRAGIC, FOLLOWING ITS WAKE.

Newspapers Call It the Quake—Colored People Hold Revivals—A Wife Beater Takes It as a Warning—Damage Done.

Charleston Must Be Rebuilt.

When the American people'had sufficiently recovered their balance to speak of the calamity at Charleston as "the quake" that was a sign they believed the worst was over. It took five days for them to do this. The Sunday papers next following that terrible Tuesday night spoke jocosely of "the quake." They went further than this. They even thanked their stars that the earthquake had for the time quite shut up the prohibition row in Atlanta. The night of the first shock, immediately after it was felt, a Prohibition citizen of that place rushed wildly into the street without much clothing on, bidding his wife and little ones follow him, vowing the bloody whisky men were blowing up his house with dynamite. He quite believed it. But from that evening no word referring to the whisky war was heard in Atlanta for a week. That, at least, was something.

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Botli in Atlanta and in Charleston wiidfy thrilling scenes were witnessed at the religious revivals which immediately broke loose among the colored population. They believed beyond doubting that the day of judgment had come, and they begged for mercy in a frenzy of fear. A weird spectacle it was to pass through their camps and hear the strange, more than half barbaric chants and the wild prayers that rose from the throngs in the open squaresjand streets. They sang hyms like this.

Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down iff No manlike Jesus. Sometimes I'm almost on de groun',

No man like Jesus.

Their prayers were wild and appealing beyond description: "Oh, my handsome God, dear sir, look down on us. We know what the little finger of th» Lord can do. Sometimes the world can kick up in thunder, but do take care of our brothers. Ain't the black lamb and the white lion done lie down together in peace? Move along my brothers, move along! God gimme grace to move along, aint I dun promise to be baptize?"

The excited throng took up tfee words: "Promise to be baptized," and made a song of it, chanting the refrain with a roar like a ringing earthquake itself. They Stopped to 1*1™ breath, and the leader fell into another frenzied prayer. "The last chance is come to save old Charleston! Oh, my Lord, don't toich my city any more! I pray God to hold the world. Hip, hip, hip! Oh, Lord, take me in Your charge to-night Night before last I didn't expect to see Jesus. Oh, God, look at these dry bones in the valley. Didnt you hear Gabriel blowi Oh, Gabriel, turn that horn to the land of Egypt on the miserable sinners, and not on we. Oh, Lord! the birds have nest, but we are here to-nigM for mercy.. Oh, Lord, have mercy!"

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Meantime, on Sunday, the white sheep of Hie great fold weft gathered in a very different scene. The white people's worship was conducted in a quiet, solemnly impressive manner, and in the square. Bishop Northrop, of the Charleston diocese, celebrated mass in the open air, in tLe presence of a vast throng. These religious services, in the midst of the earth fissures and the ruins, form a most striking scene, and were participated in by the various denominations, each in their separate gathering.

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medical college, of which Charleston was justly proud, is a ruin. At a colored church in Barnesville a deacon was just praying fervently to close the meeting. He was just saying, "Good Lord, come down an' bless de chilluns. Bring on de time when Jesus am a-comin'. Good Lord, come down an' take de chilluns home. Hasten de time when You'll take us all from dis world ob sin and sorrow." At that instant the earth began to rise in billows "and the church to rock to and fro. In wild affright the deacon and all his congregation spn-tig to their feet and fled out of the building. They thought the Lord was taking the deacon at his word.

A characteristic freak of "the quake" it manifested in the case of the old house in which Gen. Wade Hampton was bora. It is built in colonial style, and is older than the revolution. During that war a 34-pound British shot struck it, and is still irabedrTed far the walL Through the fierce bombardment of the lata war, through three great fires, and through the cyclone recently it has stood uninjured. Strange to say, the earthquake spared it too. It stands untouched in the midst of nuns all about It almost seems aa if a charm had been put upon the old house.

HIBERNIAN HALL.

The beautiful porch of Hibernian hall, with its large fluted pillars, is a total wreck. Only the lower parts of the two middle pillars are left standing. On falling the roof of the piazza brought down with it tho front pediment of the halL The large golden harp, with the date of construction, 1S40, is still intact. This hall is the property of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, of which there is a large membership in the city.

In great tragedies there are always comic incidents. The quake so thoroughly frightened numbers of desperate sinners that for the time at least they became the veriest saints. One of these was an old tough in Cherokee county, Ga. In Cherokee county is a famous ground where the Indians in their day used to play balL The old tough in question habitually amused himself by beating his wife. He lived upon the ancient Indian ball ground. On the evening of the earthquake he administered to his beloved companion the customary drubbing and stalked out doors to cool off. The eartb. began to tremble and heave, a sullen roarsmote the ear. Suddenly the tough fanciedi he saw, floating in the air all about himr„ weird specters, ghosts of the Cherokee Indians who used to gather there. In no otbec* way could he account for the shaking eartlr. He fell upon his knees then and there and implored the spooks with all his soul to spare his life and he would never whip Peggy Ann •grin, .ff

NEWS AND COURIER OFFICE.

Looking at the remains of The Charleston News and Courier office, one is not surprised that the printers on the top floor declined to continue setting type up there. Every soul left the building the night of the first greafe shock, except the proprietor, Capt Dawson. The earthquake left the edifice in such a forlorn condition that it will undoubtedly be pronounced unsafe by the government engineers and have to be pulled down. The paper has been uncommonly prosperous at recent years, and the proprietors had recently put in a fine new printing press.

At Columbia, S. C.. an old man had been a helpless rheumatic for years. He could scarcely walk, even with crutches. At the earthquake alarm he sprang from bis couch like a deer and skipped into the street at three bounds. He has not used his crutches since. The earthquake was as effective as the mind cure.

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.

The steeple of St Michael's church is eighteen inches out of plumb, and unless the best engineering talent of the country can warp it back to its old position it must be torn down. The massive portico of thft church covering, Its entrance on Meeting street is wrenched and torn and toppling.

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natural discouragement of the people of Charleston. Heavy rains finished what the earthquake had left. Soaked to the skin, wandering in the streets, without food, over tVm the agonizing terror of earthquake ffrnplra almost every day for weeks, their plight was sorrowful enough. Added to this, broke out among them. The accumulated garbage of all that time was left unremoved upon the streets.

But beautiful, hapless Charleston must take heart again. As with Chicago after the fire, money will pour into her from her generous sister cities all over the Union, and Charleston will be rebuilt, greater, more prosperous and more beautiful than ever. I

Eight members of congress have died dm* ing the pi-camt administration.

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