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BLACKSHEAR TIMES,
VOL. VI.
An invention whieh may revolutionise
discharging firearms consists in tiring the
cartridge by electricity.
It pays to have a pedigree. Horseflesh
sold in three counties of Kentucky the
past year yielded $3,000,000 to the farm
ers.
The Russian Emperor as he grows
older becomes in appearance more and
more a typical Cossack; colossal in fig
ure, entirely bald, flat-nosed, and enor
mously mustached and bearded.
It has been calculated that if the
United States cruiser Texas should be
constructed according to the present de
sign, she would be sixteen inches further
under water than the plans contemplate,
thus rendering a great part of her armor
a useless burden.
Ex-Lord-Mayor Whitehead, of London,
is a clever man. He is the only English
man who was benefited by the Shah of
Persia's recent visit. "Whitehead, who
was then Lord-Mayor, refused to give
the Shah a banquet unless he was prom
ised a baronetcy. He gave the entertain
ment and is now Baron Whitehead.
When the youthful ruler of the Chinese
Empire was compelled to marry a cer
tain daughter of a high caste nobleman
recently, he kicked most vigorously, but
his royal mamma persisted and was suc
cessful. Now the little fellow has as
serted his prerogative and he vehemently
refuses to see either 'Lis mother or his
wife.
Advices from South Africa report a sad
state of affairs in the Transvaal. The
people are suffering from drought and
famine. A critical juncture has been
reached in Johannesburg where bread
stuffs are commanding famine prices.
The neighboring countries are doing
nobly to alleviate the sufferings, and
have despatched many provision wagons
to the scene.
A German scientist proposes to deter
mine by means of photography if the
moon is inhabited, and it is said that the
King of Wurtemburg has decided, in
order if possible to solve this interesting
problem, to photograph the moon, then
enlarge the negative 100,000 times.
This proposition has been mooted for
many years. Perhaps the improvement
in terrestrial telescopes will yet solve this
Great enterprises are crowding one
upon another so rapidly in the South
that, according to the Manufacturers'
Record, no one ran take a general view
of the whole situation without being
•amazed at the magnitude of the revolu
tion that is in progress. One of the
most striking features is the heavy in
vestments of Eastern and especially New
Englund capital, which is pouring into
the South as it formerly did into the
AYest.
According to a French newspaper the
Germans in Berlin, under the direction
of the editor, Paul liennig, are about to
install a museum devoted to Bismarck,
and which is to contain only articles
which have been associated with the
Prince, such as books, biographies,
newspaper extracts relating to him,
photographs, busts, statues, autographs,
caricatures, utensils and articles of toilet
which have been used by the great man.
A metal that can hardly be distin
guished from gold has been invented.
It is like the precious metal in
all its points, can be hammered and
drawn equally well, and presents
a good wearing surface, It is
not a compound, and gains its gold
color from the action of a chemical. The
inventor has placed samples of his dis
covery on the market, and expects to be
gin its manufacture soon. It can be
made for sixty cents a pound, and may
be used extensively in the manufacture
of cheap jewelry.
t
The missionaries in the Central Afri
can lake district are now in a state of
open war with the Arab slavers. The
Rev. Mr. White writes that they have'
been compelled to fortify themselves at
iFwambo, on Lake Tanganyika, i hey
faave built a strong fort, surrounded it
with an abatis of thorny trees and a wire
entanglement, and spread broken bottles
over the approaches. They are daily in
expectation of attack, On Lake Nya ai a
the missionaries have Ir an constantly
fighting slave-raiding parties of late.
They always go out 1 attarK the party
svhich has committed a raid and compel
to release their
GA. DECEMBER 26, 1889.
CURRENT NEWS.
COE DENS ED FROM THE TE1.E
GRAPH AM) CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN K150M DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
In consequence of riotous conduct of
students at Odessa, the university of that
•ity has been closed.
Fram e. Acting in accordance with Eng
land. is about to recognize Hypolite as
President of Hayti.
The latest figures show that there are
250.000 Indians in the United States,
living upon 116.630,108 acres—or 460
acres apiece.
E. Shelhmburg A Co., retail dry goods,
Baljimore. Mil., assigned Tuesday. Moses
Greenbaum and Leopold Strauss, trustees,
bonded in $60,000.
The well-known Joanna furnace, al Jo
anna. Pa., and the Jones Iron Ore Com
pany, near bv. have closed down for the
winter. Too much pig iron on hand is
the cause.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted iu value to
$47,1(57,423^against $44,010,890 during
.the same mouths of 1889,
On the 29th of this month Gladstone
will be eighty years old. lie is still more
youthful than the majority of the tired
young men of the present generation.
A prominent physician of Boston, Mass.,
reported on Wednesday that there were a
dozen cases of influenza iu Boston, and
that there is good reason to believe the
affliction will become general in that city.
The BVw'/' Zeitung, of Bremen, says
that another plot against the czar has
been discovered, and that a number of
military officers in St. Petersburg have
been arrested on the charge of being con
cerned iu it.
A committee sent from Sioux City to
inquire into the reported destitution iu
Dakota, returned a few days ago and re
ported that in Milner, Jerauld, Kingsbury,
McCook, Hand and Hyde counties there
are at least 5,500 families who need relief.
A company has been formed at Middle
town, N. Y., to transport milk from that
place to New Ah irk City by the pipe line,
as oil is carried in Pennsylvania. It be is
estimated that milk can in this way
transported 100 miles at a cost of one cent
per gallon.
The .Morning Post of London, England,
commenting on the Crouiu verdict, says:
‘ If the case shall result in a thorough the
awakening of public opinion iu of the
United States to the real character
Clan-na-Gncl, then Cronin's life was not
sacrificed wholly in vain."
The G. A. It. of the State of New
York is moving in the matter of
erecting the Grant monument. The esti
mates have been on a descending scale,
first $ 1 000 .Out), then $500,000. and now
.
$400,000. ’Tin* amount on hand is only
$130,000,
The work of removing the poles and
wires of various electric light companies
in New York city, erected in violation of
the rules and regulations of the board of
■lectrical control, was continued Wed/ies
day. Xearly 65,000 feet of wire and
■ighty-five poles were taken down.
Liverpool's weekly cotton statement is
ns follows: Total sales for week, 52,000
half's: American 41.000; trade takings,
including that forwarded from ship's side,
79,000: actual export 9,000; total im
noi'ts, 131.000: American 113.000: total
stock, 798.000) American. 606,000: total
iflont, 281.000: American, 258,000.
Charles Seiner, proprietor of indicted the .Sun- bv
day Herald and Times, was
the Lucas county gniyd jury at 'Toledo,
Ohio, Tuesday, for forgery, and arrested.
The indictment contains several counts
for forgery of notes and orders, the prin
cipal one of which is said to have been of
a bill of exchange on Bates, the New York
advertising agent.
City Marshal Solomon, County Recor
der Cannon, Selectmen Wciler, Brig and
Hampton, all Mormon officials, wef-e ar
rested at Salt Lake, Tuesday afternoon.
There arc six indictments against Solo
mon. charging misappropriation against of public
funds, and one indictment each
of the others charging them with con
spiracy.
U nder a resolution passed at a s <pecial
meeting Philadelphia, of 'Typographical Wednesday night.officers union No. 2,
at
of the union sent notices to the proprie
tors of morning and .Sunday newspapers
affected tlmt a demand for an advance in
price of setting type from 40 to 45 cents
per thousand ems. would take effect on
and after Christinas eve. Pape week-day s con
corned include all the English union
and Sunday papers now paying the
rate of 40 cent- per thousand, except the
Public Ledger, which has been paying 45
cents per thousand for many years, and
several papers not recognized as union
papers.
BANK ROBBERS
GET IN THEIR WORK ON A RHODE ISLAND
BANK.
Wednesday noon, when only the teller
and !x»ok keeper were present in the Sla
ter National bank, at Powtucket, R. I.,
three men entered aDd while two of them
engrossed the attention of the bank offi
cials at the wickets, the third jumped
over the gate amt grabbed another a package containing con
taining $1,900 and
$1,400. Teller Gardner heard the man
and turned in time to see wiiat lie w as
doiug. 1si liis haste the thief dropped the
$1.‘jij0 package, but carried off I he other.
All three men escaped.
It will pay you to advertise with us.
SOUTHERN GROWTH.
ESTIMATES SlICVi 1X<; INCREASE OK POPULA
TION OK THE SOL Til HUN STATES.
The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
has reports and estimates from the Gov
ernors and State Comptrollers of the
Southern states, giving their estimate ol
the population of each stale. These es
timates are based largely on careful in
quiry instituted by the State Comptroller esti
on behalf of the Tradesman. The
mates are as follows: Alabama, 1,658.453,
increase per cent in last ten years, :l I ; Ar
kansas. 1.‘247,771. increase-56: Florida,
424,896,increase 58: Georgia.2,165,511.in
crease 47; Kentucky 2,200,000, im rea.- v
311; Louisiana 1,251,840, iuerease 83:
Mississippi 1,240.753, increase 304;
North Carolina 1,713,024, increase 204;
South Carolina 1,200,000, increase 224;
Tennessee 1,800,000, increase 23; Texas
2,314,812, increase 45; Virginia 1,800.
560, increase 239. Total, 19,489,150,
Against 14,088,930 in 1880, being an in
crease in file South of over 38 per cent
The Governors estimate the white and
blacks as follows: Whites 12,128,430,
blacks 7,270,720. It is estimated
that there are to-dav in the
Southern States 394,930 whites
from Northern States, against 244,885 in
1880. The foreign born whites in the
South to-day are estimated by the gover
nors, in their reports to the Tradesman,
at 648,043, against 4^0,871 in 1880. The
white population of the South, according
to these estimates, has increased a little
over 3,200,000, while the colored popula
tion shows an increase in ten years of
about 1,000,000.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING REl.OW MA
SON’S AND DIXON'S LINE.
In the Birmingham iron market a fur
ther advance of twenty-five cents a ton is
announced.
Citizens of Anniston, Ala., have sub
scribed $82,450 for the establishment of
a rolling mill in that city.
A tire in Billing, Texas, on Sundays
night, destroyed a cotton mill and ad
joining property. Loss, $60,600.
The effect of the Government work in
Galveston, Texas, harbor will be to in
yrease the depth fifteen to
inches.
Great excitement prevails around Mid
way, Ala., on the question of rabies. A
large number of fine dogs have been
killed.
The Times-Democrat pronounces fhe
gravel roads of New Orleans a success, which
Did far preferable to the shell roads
were first tried. *
headed A syndicate of eastern capitalist has s,
by General Clinton 11. Fisk,
bought 15,000 acres of coal land on Wal
deni Ridge, East Tennessee, for $10 an
acre.
About five hundred New England expected cap
itulists and business men are at
Anniston, Ala., about the middle of Jan
uary, They have been invited by the
Anniston City Lund company.
The supreme court of Alabama lias
decided that the local prohibition law <3
Calhoun county, in that state, is null and
void, because il was not published in all
the papers of the county a* required.
The Virginia house of delegates, on
Wednesday, reconsidered the action ot
Tuesday directing the clerk to inform
Mrs. Jefferson Davis of the desire to have
the remains of l.er husband buried in
Richmond, and adopted ji resolution up lu-r
pointing a committee to wait upon
and make the request.
A dispatch from robbed San Angelo, Texas, of
says: Five men the express
flee at Brownwood of $7,000 Tuesday
morning. They entered the office just
after the west bound passenger train
pulled the . agent,
out. Walter Joues, sand
was beaten into insensibility with a
bag, ami the sate opened and. robbed.
I he men were not disguised. A posse is
.ifti i tin in.
News comes from Nashville that there
is more horse stealing going on now in
Davidson county, adjoining counties and
middle Tennessee than at any period
since the war. No less than ten eases
have been reported to detectives during
the past few days. No trace of any of
the animals has been found, and they
have probably been Liken some distance
from that section of the State.
AN IMPORTANT RULING.
A GEORGIA JUDGE DECLARES SUN-TIME
THE STANDARD OR THE COURTS.
Monday, w*--a.,™ decided two important questions
whieh arose in a ease brought up from
Cobb county, Ga. The jury on the case
were charged shortly before 12 Saturday
night by railroad time, and though they
had an hour to deliberate unleS by sun time, the
Judge told them that they brought
in a verdict before midnight, by railroad
time, they would be placed in the
of the sheriff until the following Monday,
and would be obliged to furnish refresh
ments at their own expense. The supreme
court judge reversed the decision of the
lower court, and decided that railroad
time is not recognized by law as a stand
ard guide to the courts, and in the ad
ministration of the law or to the under public, the
in the performance of duties
law. sun time must be considered only,
He also decided that the verdict of a jniyr
can be received on Sunday when a case is
concluded and the jury charged before
midnight, and hold that it is
with law, morals and common sente to
receive the verdict whenever it mreai hed
AT Till- CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY FIRST CO.\ ,
a REFS is 1)01 XG.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT Il.VKUISON *
M HAHl’ltKS OK NATION Al. 1 M POUT ANTE
AND ITEMS OK OKNKHAI. IN I'KKI.s'l’.
The Comptroller of Currency has an
thorized the Earley National Bank ol
Montgomery, Ala., to begin business with
it capital of $100,000.
The Senate, on Wednesday, continued
the nomination of -bulge David -I. Brew
er, of Kansas, lo lie Associate Justice ot
the Supreme Court, There was eleven
negati\e votes.
Senators Colquitt, YoorliePs and Kustis
have been selected liv the Democratic
caucus as members of (lie Senate commit
tee on the world’s fair, to In- held some
where and sometime in 1892.
The Secretary of State has sent the
following cable message to Explorer directed Stan
ley, now at Zanzibar:- "1 am
by the President of the United Stales to
lender his congratulations to you upon
the success whieh has attended your long
tour of discovery through Africa, and
upon the advantages which may accrue
therefrom t> the civilized world.
The President sent the following Wednesday: nom
inations to the Senate on
Postmasters Samuel Gilbert, Decatur,
Ala.; Mrs. Jennie It. Tyler, Ihookhaven, Point,
Miss.; Edward L. Kagan, High
N. C.; William Miller, Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Benjamin F. Briinbmy, Albany, (la.;
Walter Aekermau, Cartcrsville, Ga.; A.
J. Frazer, Greenville, Tenn. : Joseph T.
B. Wilson, .Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The House was in session but half an
hour Tuesday. A lew bills were intro
duced and referred, and at 12.30 p. in.
the House adjourned. reported In the committees, Senate sev
era! bills were front
and placed on the ealemlar. Mr. Bale,
front the committee on appropriations, passed the re
ported back, and the senate
small delieieney hill ($150,000 for puhlie
printing and binding, and $250,000 for
preliminary printing of the eleventh ecu
sits.)
One thousand and sixty-four puhlie
bills were introduced in the House on
Wednesday, and fully four times that
many private bills anil petitions. the In holes fact,
there were so many would that pigeon them,
in the bill room not hold
and they were dumped on the floor by the
basket ill. More public building hills
were introduced than there are public
buintings m this country,tmd if all should
become laws, there would be no surplus
left in the treasury.
President Harrison on Tuesday trans
mitted to the Semite the extradition
treaty with England referred to in his an
mud message, negotiated by Secretary British
Blaine and Sir Julian l’mineefore,
minister. By its terms the number ol
extraditable olfenses is largely increased,
the most important addition being that ol
embezzlement, so that if the ireaty In
ratified Canada and the United States will
cease to exchange the class of undesirable
residents who have hitherto secured im
lnimity from punishment.
MORE INFLUENZA
rIf i: HESSIAN PLAGUE 1IAH Al’PK AIIEI) IN
DETROIT AND KANSAS CITY.
The influenza has reached Detroit, arid
curiously enough so far only bank rill
ployes arc afflicted. this i> attributed.
Dowever, to the report that microbes
"j^' 1 1,1 l’ : *F r money and when ennta
K'°. us !“»!**»«“ Dc’ n fnely circulated ...
“ c ‘\i 1 ”' ««» Feoine epidemic,
A ‘ the Fenmsulur bank, nine of the e,n
!* N '/ M * .' ,l one I tine.
5,1 th « Fn ' s,,,,, 1Satlonil1 ar( '
four cases. The entire staff of the
First National has it, and then- are two
cases in the .Merchants’A Manufacturers’
bank. The symptoms are different in
nearly every ease. In some it produces
“an all gone, tired feeling," lining as one ex
pressed it. while in others to nose,
i„ 0 uth and throat is affected; still
Jiav( . ,. 0( , ,, LnI1; ,. n , us is OI)( .
t . ral in(s whj ,. h it ljp
stron ^
The Kansas City Star says: A liurnbei
() f cases of influenza, distinct enough in
type to lie readily recognizable, physicians have at
traded the observation of local
j„ ti,j s f .jtv. Interviews with several
physicians are presented, and the number
0 f <. ftSfcs arr . placed «t about one hundred,
A BOYS CRIME.
A YOUNG TRAIN-WRECKER CAUGHT AND
(O.NEESSES.
A disriiiteh from Wabash Tnd savs
iHsrnrs; frightful bv
one was caused
mitiluecd ] switch. The bov
f Jf( , j iw | started from Wabash
on foot that j,, tried
^ silk handkerchief, *»’
” lo< . k ’ ,hrew 4 . w ”‘ e
hW 1 c *** * ' l ’’ a PP < lir 1 ■
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STORM IN CALIFORNIA.
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GREAT LOSS OF I’ROI'RKTY - MANY BRIDGES
SWEPT AWAY.
A pi*patch t of Tuesday ~ J" , from San c Diego, . .
Cal., says: The loss of property hen-a
bouts, caused by the recent storm, will be
between $100,000 and $200,000. 8ix
bridges on the California Southern rail
road were washed out near the Sclidad
Canyon, and the road suffered heavily
otherwise from the storm. Washout* also
occurred in many plv '-s on the Pacific
fceaf h r „a<l, 1.000 feet of the road bed at
, Rose canyon having been destroyed. No
run for a week.
Letter farriers on bicycles.
Tl .'" I”*,'” 1 "J. ,nlii:l j s fullv :is
com! as that ol the l mlctl States ami
the natives u>e the mails more ami tore
every year. The number of letters and
newspapeis carried Iasi year were twice
as many as ten years ago. There are now
over fifty thousand miles of rail routes in
India. A fast mail train carries letters
al the rate of forty miles an hour, across
the country from Calcutta to Bombay,
and the Queen mi manages her Indian
postollices that they almost pay for them
selves. The native letter carriers use
bicycles lo n great extent,
ll is the same with the use ami the
growth of (he telhgraph. The English
Government owns all the lines, amt it
has covered t h *• count tv with a network
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AX INDIAN MAIL CAltlllK.l!.
of wires. India has now over a hundred
thousand miles of telegraph wire, and a
curious thing about the construction of
the telegraph lines is that tile posts are
made of iron.
One of the great pests of India Is the
white ant, which eats anything wooden.
A telegraph post, such as is used hi the
United States would disappear in a night,
and even the ties on the railroads are in
many eases of metal The ordinary
Indian telegraph post is made of three
galvanized iron tubes which tit into one
another and wfiieh are sunken into the
ground. The post extends above the,
soil about hull us high us do our posts,
and the wire is fastened to it with insu
lators. In some parts of the country the
wires art’ hung upon iron rails, the same
as those upon which the cars move.—
('oMitopa/tlau Magazine.
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Tat.
HAT
PU2ZLE
s:
Look at the cut, and without measur
ing say which is the greater distance
across the top of the hat, or from top to
bottom—the lower line of the hat band
being tin. bottom. Then put your own
hat, on die table about a yard in front of
you,and carefully reconsider the problem.
When you have absolutely made up your
mind, take a foot-rule and measure your
hut both ways. You will he very clever
indeed if you guess correctly; nineteen
out of twenty persons yo wrong!
SHUT DOWN,
PAPER MILL* AT NAUGF.KTTKH, N. V.
CLOSED KORAN INDEFINITE TIME.
The paper mill of J. IL Sheffield &
Son, the bindery of the Saugerties Blank
Book company, and the envelope factory
of J. Q. Preble A Go., constituting the
most important inaiiufaeturing interests
of Saugerties, N. 5., have been shut
down, and, it is said, for mi indefiniti
time. The three concerns are owned and
operated by the same individuals, and tin
pay rolls contain the names of
nearly one thousand persons, re
reiving from $20,000 to $25,000 monthly.
'The permanent closing ot the mills would
eauke great distress. 'There is scarcely a
family in tin- village that is not, either
directly or indirectly, interested in their
maintenance,
SWIFT JUSTICE,
A VIGILANCE COMMITTEE SWING FOUR
.MURDERERS.
Saturday evening. Henry Wright,
was unarmed, but made a desperate light,
He was knocked out of the rear of Ids
falling t; the ground inseumble
Sunday morning V right was found by
n-ghbors who had gone in sea h of him,
ana, Efficiently although fatally injured, rallied
to dearribe'his assailants. ^
vigilance committee was at once organ
izttl. and the murderers were caught and
lynched.
HF. WAS THOUGHTFUL.
“Can yon furnish bail in the sum of
amo,’* was asked of a prisoner in the
j»7 l.y, Court the other dav. but_”
, J huodosc I could,
“Who will go vour liond?”
“I was going to ha v that the President
0 f the United States would probably bt;
only too glad to, but 1 hate to bother
with such a trifle. I’ll-”
“Get Borne one else t”
«, j/n go j aI [. This is Mr. Hal -
rison’s 'busy ‘lay, and I Free don’t Press. want to
OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY S’
Wasn’t it pleasant, cTbrother mine!
i u those oUl days of the lost sunshine
Uf youth—when the Maturday’s chores were
through,
Ami the ".Sunday wood” in the kitchen, too,
And we went visiting, I and you.
Out to old Aunt Mary’s?
It all comes back so clear to-day—
Though I am ns bald ns you are gray—
Out by the barn lot and down the lane
We patter along in the dust again,
As light ns the tips of the drips of rain,
Out to old Aunt Mary’s.
Wo-cross the pasture, and through the wood
Where the old gray snag of the poplar stood,
Where the hammering red heads hopped
nwuy,’
And the buzzard raised in the open sky.
And lolled and circled as lie went by,
Out to old Aunt Mary’s.
Aiu^then in the dust of the road again,
And the trams we mot and the countrymen.
And the long highways with the sunshine
spread
As thick us butter on country bread,
And our cares behind, our hearts ahead,
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
i see her now in the open door.
Where the little gourds grow up the sides
and o’er
The clapboard roof—and her face, O met
Wasn’t it good for u hoy to see'.'
And wasn’t it good for a boy to U»
Out to old Aunt Mary's?
Aiul, O my brother, so far uivay,
This is to tell you she waits to-day
To welcome us. Aunt Mary fell
Asleep this morning, whispering, "Tell
The boys to come.” And nil is well
Out. to old Aunt Mary’s.
■ laws Whitcomb Mbs y.
PITH AND POINT.
A broken window hath no pane.
A great blowliard The late hurricane.
The thirsty circus clown is a dry
joker.
It is hard to get at the naked truth of a
11,11 M " l > ‘
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People who live iu glass houses are
liable, to have shattered health.
Everything about, a rattlesnake keeps
cool in time of danger except its tail.
That gets rattled.
When the office seeks the man, you
can see its coat,-tails stick right out to
vvaid him. Part.
Fish nature is something like luuuan
nature. The whale blows too much to
be a fighter .—New York News.
“What struck you most in the equa
torial regions?” naked a gentleman of a
traveler. “The sun,” was the reply.—
Life.
Authors of flesh-producing systems find
it a paying business, for it. enables them
to live on the fat of the land. -Baltimore
Amerir.au.
Little Freddie (to sister's caller)—“It
must be awful nice to be a man. Don’t
you wish you were a man, Mr. Nobrane"?”
— Yankee Made.
He wooed her and sued her and cold, sought her
Till he melted her heart wt
Then ho married the iceman’s daughter
And now ho la rolling in gold. lloslon Courier.
There may be as big fish in the sea an
( caught, doubt
ever were but we veiy
much if there are any as big as tine*?
claimed to liuve been caught.— States
man.
My Lucy’s eyes
Are summer skies
Whene’er her heart is 1 ig 1 1 1, and cheery,
But when she’s sari
The weather's bad
Amt all my skies me dark and dreary.
Chicago Herald.
A paper in Memphis relates a ease of a
beautiful young lady, the daughter of
wealthy parents, marrying an editor.
That is as it should be. We thought all
along that American young ladies would
eventually recover from the mania of
marrying Princes and aspire to tho
nobility again.
A Case of Cotv and Rope.
“These Western peiqrle have a delicately
humorous way of telling unpleasant facts,
haven’t they?” said Captain Robert Lay
ton, a well known Westchester County
business man, to. me a few days ago.”
{ * How is that?” I asked,
“Why, I just received a letter, which
is an illustration. I used to know a fel
low, whom I will call (,’liarlie Latnon,
when I was a boy up iu the State. We
were together during the war, in the
zza 3£&s&ils few he
as butcher. A .years ago w*nt
vVest and, while we hadn’t been very
intim;it( . t h „ commenced writing to me,
and M hls lctters we re very interesting I
kept up the correspondence. The last
letter I had was from Butte City, Mont.
That was about two years ago, and he
wrote that he was in great trouble and
was going to Southern Cali forn ia, and
said not to write to him ogam until I
heard from him. I never heard. A
few weeks ago I decided to write again,
and I sent a letter to the Marshal of
„ Butte . City ... asking . . where , he , could .. . be
f° un< f- 'The letter I got read in this
way- ‘Your friend found a cow. Then
he found a rope. That was two years
ago, and I don’t think you’ll ever find
him.’
“That was all, but it would ha.-e
sounded a good harsher if he hail writ
t ,. a that Charlie was lynched for cattle
stealing, wouldn’t it .”—Nee York Star.