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< ESTABLISHED 1850. 1
( j. H. ■STILL, Editor And Proprietor, j
HEMS in three states.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
X Brace of Negresses Charged with At
tempted Train Wrecking—Valdosta’•
>ew Institute —Fatal Slash at a Ne
gro'. Throat at Atlanta—A Bear
Strangles Itself to Death.
GEORGIA.
(i. ero Chandler, of Athene, died Friday.
The fair of the Richmond Hussars at Au
,.u.ta opens to-night.
r Then- - :1 little eleven-year old miss in La
urai -'' w,i ° 18 a K reat aunt.
\t CartUKYille the Euharlee Mills, which
: riK'd about a year ago, are being rap
idly rebuilt
pie - on-lass at Athene trill plant tkpir
. :r. Friday evening. P. H. Adanre is
t [ , orator for the occasion,
p, i man Joe Holcombe, of Athens, is in a
non. The physicians say he can
j-o: ..i-i many hours longer,
il. \. Daniel. formerly of the Reidsville
r bt, has bought the Blackshear Be tea
, - ./(, at<l will begin its publication
about Dec. 1.
The annual supper of the Rainbow and
V. Mam City tire companies, of Rome, takes
this evening, and that of the Citizens’
ji. Hand Ladder Company occurs Dec. 12.
A party of Oconee county trappers passed
ihr ugh Athens Friday, going up the Oconee
r vcr to traji beavers. Tney had a great deal
. aver meat and skins, which they sold in
the city.
\t i ony era Friday a large crowd collected
at t v .ei.it to take the train for the Atlanta
.... The engineer rushed through the
j a at the rate of forty miles an hour, much
t. the disgu-.t of the crowd.
The university at Athens has forwarded
two exhibits to the New Orleans Exposition,
oue was drawing of a dwelling plan and ele
v r. by M. J. Nicholson, and the other the
ilrawing of a horse truss by Neal Wilson.
They were sent by Prof. Barrow.
Various committees having in charge the
fair "f the Hill City Cadets, of Rome, met
Nitur i iy and arranged a fine programme for
t week. On Thursday evening the festiv
al e~ will reach a climax, the grand military
reunion taking place that night. Several
■ upan.es from abroad are expected to be
there at that time.
l ine Lee’s house, on the outskirts of Frank
lin, was burned a few nights ago. It is be
lieved by some that the house was fired for
the purpose of getting the people from the
town that some store might be plundered, and
when it was seen that no good couid be done
at the fire, the clerks hurried back to their
places of business.
News has just been received of the killing
•■r a young man named Freeman Crawford in
Monroe county. Crawford and the Crawley
I >s were fighting, when one of them threw
a rock striking Crawford on the head, from
which he died. No one has been arrested,
i rawford has a brother on the jury trying
Iioy&l at Griffin.
Last Thursday afternoon the house of Sea
born Moore, an industrious colored man liv
ing near Eastman, was burglarized of goods
and money to the value of 140. Moore’s wife
was absent from the house about one hour,
visiting a neighbor, and on her return found
the floor torn up. and the articles missing.
There is no clue as to who committed the act.
On Thursday while Harry Kemp, son ot
Janies Keinp, of Albany, was hunting out in
the Oaky W oods, his gun exploded and came
near killing him. He received two or three
painful wounds about the face, and one on the
forehead which was more serious. He was
unconscious for several hours after
the accident occurred, and his condi
tion appeared to lie. very critical, but bis
recovery is now assured.
Lena Roberts, a little negro girl about 7
rears old, was drowned m a well Sunday, on
\V. J. Orr’s place, about 3 miles from Madi
son. she jumped on the well to get some wa
ter, and the plank that covered it beiDg rot
ten. broke and carried her down into the
ground. Her mother was frantic with grief,
and it required considerable effort on the part
<>f several present to keep her from jumping
into the well for her child.
Terrell Superior Court, after being in ses
fon for two days, has been adjourned by
Judge John T. Clarke until the first Monday
in January next. The members of the bar
and Judge Clarke determined that the court
could then dispatch more business than now,
owing to the condition of cases in which the
lute cupt. Pickett was engaged, and because
Messrs. Hoyl and Parks desired to be in At
lanta in attendance upon the Legislature at
this time.
The Rome oil mills sent a box to the
New Orleans Exposition, a day or two ago.
•' •ntaiuing a full exhibit of the process of
making eottou seed oil. The box was divided
into compartments, and was filled as follows:
< otton seed, lint taken from seed, cracked
seed, cotton seed oil, cotton seed meal, cakes
of meal as they came out of the press, cakes of
meai ready for shipment and sale. This
txh.int will be oue of the prominent features
from North Georgia and Rome.
Athens Banner- Watchman : One of our prom
icent physicians got up yesterday morning
and iopnd his cook had not put in an appear
ance. He waited for some time and still the
rook did not come, and he got in his bugg y U>
g > and see some of his patients. As he u-#
driving down town a little negro ran out to
hi- buggy and said, “Ala says she can’t go out
m the ram this morning, and if you want her
t<> vook breakfast you must send the carriage
after her.” The doctor immediately dis
charged his high tonedoboh.
Lon Jameson, sectionboss on the Columbus
and Home Railroad, had two negro women
arrested at Columbus Friday under a charge
of trying to wreck a tram. As Jameson was
,ng up the road he met two negro women
with a wheelbarrow, in which were several
Mocks. Wnen he reached the place known as
Hughes’trestle, about one and a-half miles
from the city, he found that the blocks had
bin taken from under one of the piers and
left it in a dangerous condition. He had the
women ar rested and found the blocks in the
yard. They claim that the blocks were washed
out and that they got them down the branch.
In a difficulty four miles from Spring Place
Eugene Luttrell shot and fatally wounded
Lum Walker. A negro frolic was had at
Dave Johnson’s, and the parties above men
tion 1, both white, were there. Both were
drinking and hard wonts were passed lie
tween them. Luttrell went from the frolic
with u white woman of disreputable charac
ter, who was there. Soon after his arrival at
lur house Walker came and the old fuss was
renewed. Walker was led out of the house
by a friend present, and Luttrell drew his
ii-tol and commenced firing. Four or five
shots wi re tired and Walker fell to the ground
wounded in the head and other places. Lut
trell escaped.
Greensboro Bom* Journal'. The two nc
gri>es, Levi Conelan and George Bledsoe, who
are now in tii#county boarding house, the
former on a charge of murder and the latter
for vow stealing, made an attempt to eseape
on ia-t Friday night. They broke up a chair
which was in their cell, and with the rounds
mi e led at nearly prizing off the lock.
It was evidently their intention to eecr.it
themselves in the hallway and attack the
ja cr the next morning when he came to
In j them and thus escape. Their efforts at
escape were discovered on Saturday morning
by John Lorry, who has the feeding of them.
we now' in shackles, and it is not proba
ble they will try the plan again.
I-ast Friday evening, while a party of
in itroes were engaged in patting out a lire in
tlie woods- about one anil a half miles from
Aslibnrn’s mill, in Hodge county, the dress of
a woman by the name of Ella Wheeler,
' aught lire. Instantly the woman started for
heme at a breakneck speed. Her husband
was in the party, but, on discovering the con
dition of atfairs, he fainted. Others in the
crew t, however, started in pursuit of the
burning woman, but were unable to come up
with her before she reached her home at the
null. The clothes of the unfortunate woman
were entirely consumed, and she was hor
ribly burned from her knees up. Dr. J. D.
Herrman was summoned to the bedside of the
Woman, ard did aU that medical aid could
sun.t-.-st to alleviate her sufferings. Her life is
despaired of.
Jackson Xeie*: For some time past the wood
sawed ready for use at the steam ginnery
near the place of A. McWatkins, Sr., was be
ing tiv the proprietor. In order to
catch up with'the thieves a number of sticks
of wood were loaded with powder and left in a
convenient place. One night last week Dan
Roberts, a gentleman of color, who lives on
Mr. McWa'kins’ place, was sitting by the
comfortable fire in his cabin, in company with
several other negroes, toasting their shins
and cracking jokes, when suddenly an ex
plosion took place in the midst of the fire,
scattering burning wood, coals and hot em
bers over the darkeys and the cabin. A gen
eral stampede for the door took place, the
barkers almost frightened to death, and pro
bably thought that the day of judgment had
come. No material damage was done, but
Dan will probably steal no more sawed wood
lroin the ginnery.
1 rankiin A>tcsiJAn affray in the southwest
ern corner of the county last week came very
near resulUng seriously for several parties.
It x-ems tMVHr. Brink Cooley and William
Ellsbury have this year lived in the same
house. " There was some misunderstanding
between them which remained unsettled.
1- ' ury was moving last Saturday, and when
tut v came to divide the cotton Mr. Cooley,
being old and having defective eyesight, sent
for Mr. Green Cooley to attend to the weigh
ing of the cotton for him. Ellsbury affirmed
that Green Cooley should not come, but he was
sent for and went as requested. The matter
seems to lie a preconcerted one on the part of
Ellsbury. When Cooley walked into the door,
Ellsbury’a sister was ready with a heavy stick
and knocked Cooley down. By the time be
had regained his feet Ellsbury w'as before him
with a presented pistol, which was knocked
from his hand and broken. This, it is thought,
was all that kept Cooiey from being shot,
-'u weapons were used, bat sticks and fists
were used for all their worth, and a regular
knockdown and drag out fight ensued. The
two Cooleys received a few painful bruises.
Ellsbury and his sister got the worst of it,
but no one's injuries are serious. Ellsbury
tnay 10-e one of his eyes. These are the facts
m the case as near as'we can get them.
The stockholders of Valdosta's new insti
tute company met in the court house last
Tuesday morning. A. H. Smith and B. t .
” nittington reported that the charter for (he
company had been granted by the Superior
Court, and the instrument, together with the
petition to the court, was read. Among other
things it provided that there should be six
trustees elected—two for one year, two for
two years, and two for three years, and as
their terms expire their places are to be filled
three years, so that but
Bn*!*! retire from the board at a time.
B-P. Joneatoominated the following gentle
*®d they were elected viva vooe, no other
Mines being proposed: B.F. Whittington for
®ne year, C. R. Pendleton for one j ear, T. S.
*citey for two years, Thoe. Crawford for two
. Jfagatnmfc
K’ H-Smith for three years, W. L.
wtTna? ree . ye . arß ’, 0,1 mot ' on the trU
r^*,? rere lnstruc ted to draft a set of by-laws
for the government of themselves, as well as
, and submit them to another
I, “••toektooldm. to be held at 3
hornw* Ti,?. Xt MoD l a y af lcraoon in the court
, “*® 80 instructed to submit
t * ie building. Mr. Jonefl%.rc*present
linniSLlTiT. 0 ! the old institute building,
now rna.f^^ a - he an<l 1118 associates were
" J! F? the P r °l* er deeds transfer
and Bite t 0 th e new coin
. pt ’ S J ni l h Bai<l that ,ie had the pa
a.n.d gentlemen were invited
,r° u ™ the Llerk s office, where the proper
ThcmL WaS ma ‘ l . e ’ Messrs. McKey and
Thomas, representing the temporary organi
at‘on ’ reported amount subscribed $4,530.
amount collected $2,012, and the number of
brick bought 200.000.
Pope Hopkins, colored, a well digger of
was fatally stabbed in the throat
Si b f lhc ha " ds of tieorge Anderson
i morning. The two men were in
Robert Stevenson ssaloon drinking, but neitli
er was ornnk. The man who was tending the
”**■ had just given the crowd notice that he
inunt close up, and as Anderson was passing
h® jerkeif Hopkins’ hat off his head and
tore it up., This made Hopkins mad and in an
angry tone he demanded pay of Anderson for
n s hat, but Anderson paid no attention to the
demand, except to abuse Hopkins, and, throw
ing the torn hat on the floor, passed out the
♦ k *"oor. Hopkins followed Anderson to
the door and[again asked for pay for his hat.
ii“..!f son Reeled around and began cursing
Hopkins, who retreated into the saloon. As
Hopkins went back into the saloon Anderson
h* m - When Hopkins reached one
°I pool tables in a room in rear
°f the bar-room he remarked to the crowd
who had witnessed the hat tearing, “I’ll
make the scoundrel pay for that hat. yet!’’
Anderson was standing behind Hopkins anil
heard the remark, but Hopkins did not know
that he w.is present. As Hopkins completed
Anderson said, * 4 You will, will
youv A8 he made this remark Anderson
drove a keen, lon* knife-blade into Hopkins’
neck on the left tide, indicting a mortal
wound. T.-c blade severed the jugular veiu,
and with the blood flowing in torrents from
the wound Hopkins sank to the floor. Ander
son wheeled and ran. Patrolmen Abbott and
Taj lor heard the row and chased Anderson,
who ran to the medical college, on Butler
street, before lie was captured. The patrol
men fired eight shots at Anderson as he ran,
and Anderson fired back four times before he
gave up. Anderson was placed in the city
prison. J
FLORIDA.
A debating club has been organized at Fer
nandina.
The post office at Braidcn in Leon county
has been discontinued.
Sorrento received a little boom last week by
the arrival of 12 persons from Michigan, the
majority of whom came with a view to pur
chase.
Work on the promised sanitarium at Mt.
Dora has not been commenced yet, am! people
are beginning to fear that it was only a castle
in the air.
S. Stanton talks of putting on alight-draft
iron steamer to act as tender to the Manatee,
running between points on Sarasota and Ter
raeeia bays.
The contract for the building of the Pres
byterian Church at Ocala, lias been let to
Mclver Bios. The lot selected is near Col.
Gary’s grove.
B. J. Gore, residing a few miles from Ocala,
one day last week killed two deer and two
bears while on a hunt. One of the bears was
a very Jarge one.
The Tallahassee Economist says that Presi
dent Arthur could not have named a more ob
jectionable man thau William Watkin llicks
for Surveyor-General of Florida.
Webb & Iligley’s mill and orauge box fac
tory, at liiglev, is so crowded with work tiia%
they are running day and night, and are
ing large additions to their wood working
machinery.
W. C. Neel, of Jackson county, has an old
silk handkerchief made by his mother, of
Jackson county raised silk, she having raised
the cocoons and wove the silk herself iu the
ante-bellum days.
There is in Jackson county near Greenwood
and the Long Moss spring a purple rock which
was, during the war, used as a dye-stuff for
home made goods. The rock'is, at tiie
present day, unnoticed, but might be util
ized.
Wiley Robinson, of Starke, killed an Ameri
can bald eagle last week, near the “Sink
Hole," measuring 7 feet and I inch from tip to
tip of wings and 3 feet and 2 inches from head
to tail, weight 15% lbs.,with a spread of talons
of 7 inches.
A handsome Blaine girl, a Jacksonville
saleslady, bet a drummer 50 kisses against a
new hat that Blaine would win, and the store
keeper says that if the drummer don’t give
him an order for the kisses lie will quit buy
ing goods of him.
At Seneca, a man who was arrested as a
thief of orange trees, was found to have a
starving family on his hands and was given
his liberty, with the understanding that he
would pay his victims 50 cents on the dollar
as soon as he could get the money.
It was a street rumor at Lane Park last
Saturday night that our town negroes were
holding themselves in readiness for an ex
pected attack from their brothers in black,
who claim to be citizens of Tuvare?. It seems
that bad feeling exist between them.
One of the young bears belonging to Sheriff
Crutchfield, of Orange county, got tangled
with his rope on Tuesday last and strangled
himself to death before assistance arrived.
It was a female andjever since her death her
mate has kept up a continual wail most sad
and sorrowful.
J. H. Johnson, of Dakota, was in Iligley
last week looking up a location for a general
merchandise store. He will very likely put
in a $5,(00 s’oek of goods. At no distant day
he proposes to build a large double store, or
two spires, 25 by 75 cacti, making a double
front 50 by 75, two stories high.
At Branford, Wednesday, a horse belonging
to William N. Land and one belonging to
Hon. T. P. Chairs, both of LaFayette county,
will be run for a purse of $l5O. Robert A.
Ivey is stake-holder ahd is busily engaged in
preparing the track. Both horses are local
celebrities and money will freely be bet.
At Ocala on Wednesday last W. D. Morton
sold to J. F. Dunn two orange groves, one
containing 100 acres and the other 80 acres,
lving south of Orauge avenue, for srf!,o€o.
The groves are not bearing yet, but are among
the finest in the county. A lew years ago this
land was bought by Mr. Morton for about#2o
per acre.
Nearly : 100 delegates to the Baptist State
Convention to be held at Orlando Dec. 11 to
14 have sent on their names intending to be
there at the meetings. The committee of
arrangements will this week call on citi
zens to find ali who can help entertain them.
The numbers come not only from Florida, but
from Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and
Kentucky.
Kissimmee Bitter-Sweet: While the steamer
Rosalie was backing down the canal with the
current last Saturday, the bell-line got caught
and the Captain coul’d not ring the bell: an
eddying current catching the boat at the mo
ment turned her sidewise in the canal, and,
the Captain not being able to signal the engi
neer, the steamer’s stern crashed up on the
bunk of the canal, with the wheel still revolv
ing. tearing half of it off and otherwise in
juring it. Distress whistles were blown, but
before the Okeechobee came to her assistance
the passengers had got out on the bank and
shoved her off, when she floated down the ca
nal and was taken in tow by the Okeechobee
and brought to this city for repairs.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Newberry .Yetcs and Herald wants to
try the “no license” for two years.
A colored man was terribly mangled in a
cotton gin in Kershaw county several days
ago.
Mrs. Elrod’s little child. 5 years old. was
burned to death in Anderson county last
week.
A public meeting of the citizens of Wiuns
boro, opposed to granting license, was held on
Tuesday night last.
The Piedmont Manufacturing Company re
ceived orders through the mail Tuesday for
151 bales of their goods.
The people of Anderson will vote on the
license question on Dec. 6. Four hundred and
ten voters, of whom 161 are colored, have reg
istered.
In Columbia there are 52 bar-rooms, and it
is estimated that $250,000 are spent annually
for whisky, while only SIB,OOO are paid to
preachers of every class and denomination in
that city.
Merchant and Fortner'. If “no license"
prevail in Laurens, about $50,000 will be
turned from the whiskv traffic into other
channels of trade, chiefly into bread and meat
and clothing. The same men who sell the
one can. if they wish, turn their atten
tion to the other.
The Port Royal Fast says: “As the law
against the retailing of liquor outside of in
corporate towns is inoperative in this county,
and a large business is said to be conducted in
direct violation of law, we suggest that the
Legislature fix and euforce a license for sell
ing liquor in this (Beaufort) couuty.
A young man named John L. Mosely, from
D ividsou county, N. C„ and a man named
Wesley Plyler, from Lancaster county, were
arrested in York county on Tuesday after
noon. A wagon and team of two horses, to
gether with two empty whiskv barrels and
one other barrel that was partly filled with
whisky, were also captured.
Morris Green and Ben Riley, of Campbell
ton, both colored, got into a dispate Saturday
about tbe merit 6 of a brass watch that a third
party was offering for sale, which terminated
in Riley’s shooting Green through the head
and killiug him instantly. Though there was
a large crowd present who saw the shooting,
Riley was allowed to make his escape without
arrest.
Saturday night W. J. W. Glover, of Aiken,
discovered his barn and stable-* on fire. He
rescued his horses from the burning stables,
but his wagon, buggy and supplies were all
consumed. Several negroes suspected of the
arson were arrested, but upon preliminary
examination the evidence failed to connect
them with the offense and taey were dis
charged.
j. R. Barber, a white man living about ten
miles above Yorkviile, was shot by another
white man named James Mabarlau. on Fri
day night last, the ball entering the stomach,
passing through the body and lodging in the
backbone. The weapon used was a squirrel
rifle. Mr. Barber lingered until late Satur
day afternoon, when he died. Maharlan has
been lodged in jail.
A business man of Greenville drew his
check a few days ago upon his bank In New
York for SIOO,OOO. It is drawn in favor of the
national bank of Greenville for collection.
The funds will be brought here to be used in
the business of the party who drew the check.
This is the largest check probablv that was
ever drawn In Greenville, and the largest one
that the bank here ever bad for collection.
CONGRESS MEETS TO-DAY.
WHAT THE FIRST DAY’S WORK
WILL CONSIST OF.
New Members to Supply Tacancies to be
Sworn In—The President’s Annual
Message to be Bead—Possibilities of a
Speedy Adjournment.
Washington, Nov. 30.— The second
session of the Forty-eighth Congress will
begin to-morrow at noon. One member
of the Senate and two members of the
House have died during the recess, and
two members or the House have resigned.
It is probable that the first proceedings in
both branches will be the sw’earing in of
new members to fill the vacancies thus
created. If this is accompanied by the
customary announcements of deaths the
two Houses will probably adjourn at
once as a mark of respect to the memory
of the deceased. The precedents in such
cases, however, give reason for the be
lief that no formal announcements of the
deaths will be made to-morrow, or if they
arc made they will follow the reading of
the President’s message. In this case
there will probably be no unusual delay
in the appointment of the Joint Com
mittee to notify the President of the readi
ness of the two Houses to receivta his
annual message.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
A greater number of appropriation bills
are in readiness for the consideration of
the sub-committees of the House Commit
tee on Appropriations than have been pre
pared at so early a date tor a number of
y ® a *’ 8 - These bills include estimates for
the Indian, army, navy, military academy,
consular and diplomatic, post office and
District of Columbia appropriations. The
members of the Appropriations Commit
tee are of the opinion that one or two of
these bills will be ready to report
to the House this week. It has
been suggested by a number of
Representatives that Congress take a re
cess the middle of the month to give op
portunity for the members to attend the
opening of the New Orleans Exposition,
and that during this proposed recess the
Appropriation Committee consider ap
propriation bills so as to have most of
them ready to report to the House upon
the reassembling of Congress after the
holidays.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
X. C. Murphy Dead—The Buruiug of a
Conductor s Residence.
Atlanta, Nov. 30.—Timothy C. Mur
phy, well known all over Georgia as
having been identified with the interests
of Atlanta since the days of’Marthasville,
died at his borne at 7 o’clock this morn
ing, after an illness of several months.
The deceased was a pioneer settler of
this city, and when Atlanta was Mar
thasville was railroad and post -office
agent. For a long number of years he was
a member of the Atlanta’police force, dur
ing a portion of which time he was a
Lieutenant. For the five years past
he has been a passenger agent here, dur
ing the greater portion ot which time he
represented the Cincinnati Southern. At
the time of his death he was still con
nected with that line. The deceased was
popular here and had many friends. The
Savannah passenger agents will attend
the funeral in a body.
The residence of Conductor James
McCool, near East Point, was destroyed
by lire last night. The contents of "the
house were also swept away.
Pope Hopkins, colored, who was cut in
the neck by George Anderson, another
negro, Friday night, died to-day.
$90,000 STAKED OX A LAW SUIT.
Heavy Interest Given for a Big Loan
Payable on Demand.
Indianapolis, Nov. 30.—Late Yester
day afternoon Hill & Lamb, attorneys for
the First National Bank of Indianapolis,
filed with the County Clerk a suit against
the Western Elevator Company, B. D.
Brown, President, on a note given by the
latter to the bank for SBO,OOO, the demand
of the plaintiff being for SOO,OOO. The note
was made Oct. 15, 1883, payable on de
mand. It shows that interest was paid on
it until Nov. 1, 1884, at 3 per cent, per
month, payment being secured by a chat
tel mortgage. At 4:30 o’clock Friday af
ternoon this mortgage was tiled. It bears
the date ot July 25, 1884, The property
mortgaged to the Indianapolis Bank to
secure the payment of the note, if the suit
be brought, consists of the elevators in
this city, and also those owned by the
Western Elevator Company in Paris,
Newman, Hammond and Weldon, 111.
THE LABOR COMM ISSIONEUSH IP
Horace B. Sargent Considered Most Apt
to be Appointed.
Washington, Nov. 30.—The new
Bureau of Labor Statistics, created by
Congress last session, is still without a
head. It will be remembered that John
Jarrett was appointed Commissioner of
Labor Statistics at the last session and
confirmed by the Senate, and that his
commission was never issued because he
had used indecorous language about
President Arthur. Recently Ben Butter
worth induced the President to appoint
his friend and active supporter, John
Fehrenbatch, of Cincinnati, now a
Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels,
to the vacant place. But a member ot the
Cabinet stated to-night that no commis
sion had yet been issued to Mr. Fehren
bacth and that it was probable that he
would not lie appointed. He added that
either Horace Benney Sargent or Carroll
D. Alright, of Massachusetts, would re
ceive the appoiutment, probably the for
mer.
TWO MEN SHOT BY SISTERS.
Alleged Double Seduction Ends iu a
Double Sensation at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Nov. 30.—Georgiana
and Josephine Conway, sisters, aged 20
and 22 years respectively, nieces of ex-
Mayor Conway, shot two young men on
Canal street last night. Georgiana shot
John D. Logan, son of ex-Alderman W.
D. Logan, and Josephine shot Joseph A.
Devonshire, a United States deputy mar
shal. The young ladies claim that they
were seduced by the men they shot, Lo
gan was shot in the back and face snd
dangerously, if not fatally, wounded.
Devonshire was but slightly wounded in
the back. The ladies and their brother
were arrested. The wounded men were
sent to the Charity Hospital. *
Tlie War on the Deputy Marshals,
Washington, Nov. 30.—Chairman
Springer, of the committee to which will
be reterred the resolution which Repre
sentative Follett, ol Ohio, will introduce,
prohibiting the use of Deputy Marshals at
the polls in Cincinnati, will strive to
have its scope broadened, so as to pro
hibit the use of Deputy Marshals at the
polls anywhere in the United States.
He thinks it will pass the House in that
shape, although he anticipates sharp op
position from the Republicans.
Brand Said to Give t'p.
Chicago, Nov. 30.—The limes to-day
says: “Evidence of fraud in the second
precinct of the Eighteenth ward is now
positive, and this was shown to Mr. Brand
yesterday afternoon, whereupon he tele
graphed to stop the mandamus proceed
ings and he will now make no effort to
obtain his seat.” The Times also claims
that the Democrats will make no further
effort to control the Legislature.
Dallas’ Sinking Ban*.
Dallas, Tex.. Nov. 30.—William Car
roth, a wealthy cotton planter, last night
filed an attachment in the District Court
against Adams & Leonard for a deposit of
$12,000. An officer of the bank gives it
as his opinion that if attachments con
tinue the bank will be prevented from
resuming business. Bishop Garrett had
on deposit SIO,OOO toward building anew
Episcopal Church.
An Ex-Convict Killed.
New t York, Nov. 30.— Frank Gordon, 35
years old, who, the police say, returned
only yesterday morning from Sing Sing,
where he had served out a five years’
term for burglary, was shot dead at 12 :30
o’clock this morning at Elizabeth and
Bleecker streets by James McVickar, a
pool seller, who claims to have acted in
self-defense. McVickar was arrested.'
Towed Into Port.
Delaware Breakwater, Nov. 30.
The steamer Pioneer, from Richmond for
Philadelphia, was towed into the break
water to-day by the steamers Ashland
and Fanita, and subsequently left for
Philadelphia in tow. The Ashland and
Fanita sailed seaward.
Sir Grant Dead.
London, Nov. 30. —Sir Alexander
Grant, Bart., LL. D., is dead.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1884.
2,500 CAR-LOADS OF EXHIBITS.
The Preparations for the World’s Great
est Exhibition Nearing Completion.
New Orleans, Nov. 30.—Director Gen
eral Burke and the Building Committee
of the Exposition, after a thorough inspec
tion of all the buildings and machinery
and the grounds of the Exposition, have
decided that there will be no delay in the
opening, which will take place Dec. 18.
Exhibits have been arriving for
twenty days, and up to date about
I.COO carloads have been received. Ex
hibits are now arriving, and the Director
General estimates that 2.500 carloads will
be received before the opening. All the
space allotted to Great Britain,
I ranee, Russia, Belgium, Austro-Hun
garv, ltalv, Japan, Siam, China,
Turkey, Mexico, Guatemala, Sal
vador. Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica,
and British Honduras has been located
with exhibits, and will be full. The dis
play of machinery from foreign countries
is very tine. Every building is full to
overflowing, and further allotments can
only be made as exhibitors who have
been allotted space tail to accept within
the proper time.
the last chance.
New applications will only be received
subject to location in case of vacancies
occurring. The Director General an
nounces that intending exhibitors failing
to send forward their exhibits or bills of
lading will forfeit their space. Exhibits
will be received until the day of opening.
Commissioners from 25 States and Terri
tories are now here placing exhib
its in the building for the government
and State exhibits, Cocoanut, India rub
ber, pepper, grape fruit, camphor, banana
and palm trees are arriving from Florida.
Gen. Diaz has caused a ship load of
palms and the choicest shrubbery of
Mexico to be collected from the rivers
and coast of Mexico. He will send a
collection of the rarest plants for the
Mexican garden.
Payan’s Mexican band of 70 musicians
gave a christening concert in Music Hall
on Friday.
MADAME HOGUES A HEROINE.
All Farts in Sympathy with the Woman
who Shot Her Traducer.
Paris, Nov. 30.— Public sympathy tor
Madame Hogues, who shot her traducer
Thursday, is intensified by the fact that
both M. Hogues and his wife devotedly
nursed sufferers from cholera during the
prevalence of the epidemic at Marseilles.
Paul de Cassagnac, editor of Le Pays,
considers the lady a heroine and urges
the entire press to uphold her. M. Hogues
says that his wife proposed to partake of
“the lovers’ breakfast’’ before going to
court. She was in excellent spirits during
the meal. Before leaving her home she
prepared a bundle of clothes for use during
her stay iu prison.
diversions in prison.
She has asked the prison authorities
that she may be provided with material
for modeling in clay. Hundreds of cards
from members of ali the political sections
in Paris, and a large number of floral of
ferings, have been sent to her. Her two
young daughters have also been permitted
to visit her. M. Hogues says that his
w’ife kept him in ignorance of the cause of
the tragedy, as she was absent from her
home, telling him that she was preparing
a bust for the salon. Public interest in
the affair overtoils for the time even the
political questions, and the newspapers
teem with extended details of the imbro
glio.
GORDON AND EL MAHDI.
Tho False Prophet Continues to Sum
mon the General to Surrender.
Dongola, Nov. 30.—Advices from
Khartoum state that El Mabdi continues
to summon Gen. Gordon to surrender and
that the latter replies by tiring into the
enemy. On one occasion Gen. Gordon
told El Mahdi to dry up the Nile and come
across if he was a real prophet and that
he (Gordon) would then surrender. The
rebels are entrenched at WadyGaniad.
Gen. Wolseley offered a prize of £IOO to
the regiment which would make the
quickest passage in whale boats from
Sarras to Debbeb. A message from Gen.
Gordon, dated Aug. 28, say 6 that it is im
perative to the prosperity and tranquillity
of Egypt that she retain"possession of the
whole course ot the Nile. He attributes
the present evils to the use ot the word
abandonment by Gen. Wolseley in tele
graphing to the Khedive. It is reported
that El Mahdi is short of provisions and
that much sickness prevails among his
forces. Five hundred of El Mahdi’s regu
lars are said to have joined Gen. Gordon’s
army.
GERMANY’S ARMY.
The Losh of Productive Labor Seriously
Felt In the Country.
Berlin, Nov. 30. — The attack of Herr
Berbel, the Socialist leader, in the Reich
stag, Friday j on the military administra
tion of the government, is causing a great
stir in diplomatic circles. Herr Berbel
demanded a reduction of the term of mil
itary service and the suppression for a
year of the volontariat. He traced the
cause of the budget deficit to the growing
expenses for armaments, together with
the fact that the country was deprived of
productive labor by men being forced to
serve in the army." He asserted that 14
times more suicides occurred in the army
than among the civil population. The
Socialist papers publish official statistics
to show that this is true.
CHINESE SHARP-SHOOTERS.
Twenty Frenchmen Killed in Attempt
ing to Dislodge Them.
Hong Kong, Nov. 30.—The French
forces, on Nov. 14, attempted to drive
the Chinese sharp-shooters from the
hill near Ke Lung and were repulsed with
a loss ot 20 men killed. On Nov. 10 the
French shelled the hill and succeeded in
recovering the bodies of those killed
on Nov. 14. The bodies had not been de
capitated. Steamers and junks are now
running the blockade, the blockading
fleet not being sufficient to prevent their
passage. It is reported that there is an
outbreak ot a plague among the men of
the French fleet.
CABINET MAKING.
Those Who Know Little Talk a Great
Deal.
New York, Nov. 28.— Congressman
David It. Paige, the close friend of Sena
tor Payne, of Ohio, arrived in New York
Friday night. In the course of a conver
sation with a newspaper man during the
evening, he said: “My opinion is that this
will be a thoroughly Democratic admin
istration. I think Mr. Cleveland recog
nizes that the responsibility of govern
ment is on tbe Democratic party, and
that to leave tbe responsibility even of
minor offices in Republican hands would
mean disaster. This civil service law is
a humbug, and the Civil Service Commis
sion a bigger humbug yet. Pendleton is
crawfishing on it, and Commissioner Tho
man told me in Washington this week
that every official appointed under that
law could be removed. No Ohio man
will go into the Cabinet. Pendleton may
get a foreign mission, but he cannot
make the Cabinet. Ohio doesn’t deserve
it, and he couldn’t get it if she did.”
A gentleman who claims to know some
thing of what is going on in inner circles
has this to say about Mr. Cleveland’s in
tentions respecting bis Cabinet: “The
statements that nothing has been decided
upon by Mr. Cleveland with reference to
his Cabinet are both correct and incor
rect. He has taken no step from which
he cannot withdraw, but be has done
some things which indicate a purpose
formed. He is wholly without knowledge
of men. He is trying to get acquainted
with the leading Democratic statesmen
and to measure them for nia use. His in
clinations as to men have not been given
expression to any extent. The two
men, however, to whom he is looking
with most reliance just at this time are
Senators Bayard and Garland. The Del
aware Senator will accept the Secretary
ship of State. That is settled. Garland
is by all odds the ablest of the South
erners who have been mentioned for the
Cabinet, and will probably be called into
it. William C. Whitney, of New York,
can have a porttolio if he wants it. The
matter is now under advisement. Mr.
Cleveland’s idea is that he must have
in his Cabinet men like Bayard and Gar
land for wisdom and statesmanship,
while he must call in younger men like
Whitney and Stockton for politics. He
is relying very largely on Senator Gor
man, whose management of the campaign
impressed him favorably, and who wants
no office himself. Gorman’s hand is to
be seen in the Governor’s liking for Gar
land, with whom Gorman is closely ulti
mate.
MiTTER IN THE MAILS.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL’S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Forty-Six and a Half Million Dollars
Expended During the Year—Statisti
cal Figures from the Different De
partments of the Service—The Mexi
can Fostal Convention.
Washington, Nov. 30.—The following
are extracts from the report of the Post
master General:
The total expenditures made on
account of the service of the
fiscal year ended June 30, 18SI,
were $ 46,404,960 65
The revenues were as follows:
1. Ordinary postal
revenue $42,818,635 00
2. Net revenue from
monev-order busi
ness : 519,492 08—43,338,127 08
Excess of expenditures over re
ceipts $ 3,066,833 57
The revenues were $2,170,565 53, or 4.7 per
cent., less than those of the previous Year; the
decrease being attributable to the reduction
of letter postage from 3 to 2cents, which took
effect Oct. 1, 1883.
The following are the estimated receipts
and expenditures for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1886:
Ordinary postal rev
enue $50,872,820 24
Net receipts from
monev-order busi
ness 400,000 00—551,272,820 24
Estimate'* expenditures, includ
ing amounts credited under
exist ng law to Pacific railroad
companies 56,099,169 50
Deficiency to be supplied out of
the general treasury 4,826,349 26
REGISTERED PACKAGES.
The number of letMWs“and parcels sent
through the registered mails during the year
was 11,246,545, of wiiich 8,068,338 were domes
tic letters, 466,902 were letters addressed to
foreign countries, 1,005,865 were domestic par
cels of third and fourth class matter, 29,488
were parcels of third and fourth class matter
to foreign countrie;, and 1,675,952 were letters
anil parcels of official matter for the govern
ment, by law free from the payment of regis
try fees. The amount ot registry fees collect
ed was $957,059 30, an increase of $30,509 60, or
3.3 tier cent, over the previous year.
The actually ascertained losses during the
year numbered 516, or one in every 21,795 let
ters and parcels registered. This is a smaller
proportion of loss than in any previous year,
ami shows increasing efficiency and fidelity
on the part of postal officials in this branch of
the service,
DEAD LETTERS.
The gross receipts of articles of undelivered
mail matter during the year were 4,751,872,
being an increase of a little more than 8 per
cent, over the previous year. There was a
decrease in the heid-for-postage matter re
ceived of 44,681, or about 34 per cent., which
was caused by the reduction of postage on
letters (many of those which were formerly
detained for postage in cities having been
actually prepaid by a 2-cent stamp), and tho
changed method of treating such matter in
p st offices. .
NEW OFFICES.
During the year 3,414 new post offices were
established and 1,260 discontinued. The whole
number of post offices at present is 50,017. Of
this number the President fills by appoint
ment 2,323 and the Postmaster General 47,694.
In the service of the department at Wash
ington there are in all Sfil persons. The whole
number of persons in any way connected witli
the postal service is 71,671.
MAIL DELIVERED.
The mail matter delivered during the year
was as follows: Mail letters, 402,577,395, an in
crease of 17.70 per cent, over ihat of the preced
ing year; mail postal cards, 97,421,725, in
crease of 13.10 per cent.; local letteH, 121,-
853,932. increase of 16.68 percent.; local postal
cards, 69,230,704, increase of 14.48 percent.;
registered letters, 3,083,961, an increase of 9.32
percent.; newspapers, 231,645,185, an increase
of 13.79 per cent.
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE.
The free delivery service has now reached
that period in its history when it is largely
self-sustaining, the surplus over the entire
cost of the service having gradually increased
for the past 10 years until, during the-Jast
fiscal year, it amounted to $1,273,276 28. I
feel, therefore, that I can with great proprie
ty urge the reduction of posiage on local let
ters to one cent, the single rate. The reasons
for such reduction seem to me stronger than
those presented for the reduction of postage
on mail letters to two cents.
1 renew the recommendation of my prede
cessor, that the unit of weight in rating let
ters and sealed packages (first-class matter)
be changed from one-half ounce to one ounce.
INLAND MAIL SERVICE.
The statistics of the inland mail service,
June 30, 1884, are as follows:
The number of routes in the star service
was 11.729; the length of the ro ates 226,779 m iies;
the uunual transportation, 81,109.052 miles, at
a cost of $5,089,941, being about 0.28 cents per
mile.
The number of routes in the steamboat ser
vice was 117; tho length of the routes 15,591
miles; the annual transrortation, 3.882,288
miles, at an annual cost of $696,573, being about
15.37 cents per mile.
The number of routes in the railroad service
was 1,573; the length of the routes. 117,160
miles; the annual transportation, 142,541,392
miles, at a cost of $15,012,603 (exclusive of
$3,979,362 for railway postal clerks), being
about 10.53 cents per mile.
LOOKING OOT FOR THE CLERKS.
As experienced clerks arc absolutely indis
pensable to an efficient service, it’could not do
other than work confusion and delay to the
whole mail system of the country if the pres
ent force should be set aside and new and in
experienced men beiput in their places.
During the past twelve vears not a single
clerk has been removed without good cause,
and that cause has been incompetency, in
temperance or neglect of duty. By such
means the clerks have, in great measure, felt
secure in their tenure, and have devoted
themselves with all energy to the best inter
ests oi the service. And, as the retention of
the present force oflpostal clerks is essential
to the integrity of the mail service—if the
tenure of this class of employes cannot be
made secure under the civil service law now
on the statute books—l would recommend
that Congress enact a law whereby railway
postal clerks shall be secure in tneir posi
tions, and be liable to removal only for one of
the following causes, viz: incapacity for the
duties of the office, disobedience of official in
structions, inattention to or ueglect of duty,
intemperance, or conduct unbecoming a gen
tleman.
FAST MAILS.
The appropriation for special facilities on
trunk lines for tho present vear is $250,000.
This amount, in my opinion, is being econom
ically and judiciously expended, and great
benefit accrues to the public by the expendi
ture. I therefore recommend a continuation
of the appropriation for the coming year,
with the increase recommended by the Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General, making a
total of $260,7(14 50. In my opinion the fast
mail system should be continued and extended
as rapidly as circumstances will permit.
FOREIGN MAILS.
The total weight of the mails dispatched to
postal union countries, exclusive of Canada,
during the last fiscal year was 2,679,851 pounds,
an increase of 146,861 pounds over the preced
ing year. The weight of the letter and post
card mails was 497,889 pounds, and of the
printed matter and sample mails 2,181,961
pounds, an increase compared with the pre
ceding year of 16,412 pounds of letters and post
cards, and 130.448 pounds of printed matter
and samples. Compared with the weights for
the fiscal year 1883 the percentage of increase
for letters and post-cards is 3.41 per cent.; for
printed matter and sample mails, 6.86 per
cent., and for all the mails 5.8 per cent.
The cost of the ocean transportation of
mails to and from foreign ports was $332,221 21,
an increase of $15,699 08, or nearly 5 per cent,
over the cost of the same service in 1883. Of
this amount $275,962 74 was for trans-Atlantic
service, $19,125 78 for trans-Pacific service,
and $37,132 69 for West Indian, Mexican, Cana
dian, Newfoundland and Cen.ral and South
American service.
POSTAL CONVENTIONS.
A special postal convention, yet to be rati
fied, was concluded with Mexico on Oct. 20
last, which will prove to lie of great advan
tage to both this country and Mexico. An
advantageous special arrangement has also
been concluded with the Argentine Repub
lic.
The total number of mail depredations re
ferred to inspectors during the last year was
50,610. The number of arrests for violations
of postal laws was 756.
MONEY ORDERS.
At the close of the last fiscal year there
were 6,310 money order offices, an increase of
383 over the previous year. Their transac
tions aggregated $122,121,261 98 in domestic
money orders issued and $121,971,082 80 in
domestic orders paid and repaid, $7,688,776 53
in international orders issued and $3,571,066 36
in international orders paid and repaid, the
total issues being $129,810,038 51, and the total
payments and repayments $125,542,149 16
There were received from the public fees
amounting to $950,065 79 on domestic orders
issued ana to $170,102 35 on international or
ders issued, a total of $1,120,168 14. These
totals show gains over the fiscal year 1882-’B3
of 4.08 per cent, in the domestic business, and
4.54 per cent, in the international business,
and losses of 13.77 per cent, in domestic fees,
and .08 per cent, in international fees
The gross revenue for the year for domestic
business was $241,741.84; from the interna
tional money-order business for 1882-’B3 it was
$128,605.64, and for 1883-84 $115,19121. After
deducting all ascertainable expenses of every
kind there was a net profit of $214,856 81.
POSTAL NOTES.
The number of postal notes issued was
3,689,237 of the amount of $7,411,992.48. The
net revenue derived from postal notes was
$33,893 39.
Spain’s Cholera Invasion.
Madrid, Nov. 30.—During the past 48
hours there have been reported 8 new
cases of cholera and 5 deaths at Toledo,
and 3 new cases and 2 deaths at Beniopa.
The quarantine at the French frontier
will be abolished on Tuesday. Travelers
will then be subjected only to medical
inspection. •
Why suffer t with Malaria? Emory’s
Standard Cure Pills are infallible, never
fail to cure the most obstinate cases;
purely vegetable, contain no quinine,
mercury, or poisons of any kind; pleasant
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and 50 cents.
FANNY ELSSLER.
A Sketch of the Famous Danaeuse who
Expired in Vienna Thursday Last-
Fanny Elssler. who died in Vienna
Thursday, Nov. 27, says the Philadelphia
News, was born in Vienna of Hungarian
parentage in 1817. Her father was a mu
sician, with talents of a high order, a
bosom friend of Hadyn, the composer, who
at that time was living in the Austrian
capital. She was trained as a singer by
her father and other masters, but when
about 12 years old she conceived a pas
sion for dancing. After bitterly opposing
her wishes her father gave way, and she
was apprenticed to expert dancing mas
ters for training.
She made rapid progress in the art, and
when she had reached 15 years she and
her sister obtained an engagement at
Naples. In that city Fanny Elssler be
came a great favorite, but she insisted on
returning to Vienna, where she was in
stalled as premier at the Court Theatre.
When she was 17 she had become the best
dancer in Germany and was equally re
nowned for her beauty. Crowds assem
bled at the Court Theatre whenever she
appeared. Wherever she went she crea
ted a furore,
SOME OF HER ADMIRERS.
It was during this period that the Due
de Reichstadt, son of Napoleon 1., fell
m love with her. He never avowed his
passion, but frequented the theatre
nightly. It was only on his deathbed that
he finally confessed his lifelong affection
to his friends. The Baron von Gratz, at
one time the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Austria, was another one of Fanny’s
admirers. He was 65 years of age when
he was admitted to the circle of the dan
cer’s friends. Four years after the bar
on’s death a series of letters were pub
lished, in which he repeatedly avowed
his love.
In 1833 Fanny was engaged at His Ma
jesty’s Opera House as a premiere dan
seuse. Her success was so great that
Veron, the director of the French opera,
went to London for the purpose of induc
ing her to go to Paris. He gave a dinner
to Fanny, and invited a great many of her
admirers. At the toast which honored
the presence of the dancer Veron pre
sented her with a dessert-dish filled with
diamonds and rubies. Fanny refused the
gift and so surprised Veron that he was
captivated with her disinterestedness. In
1834 she consented to appear at Paris,
WHAT WYKOFF SAID OF HER,
It was in 1836 that Chevalier Wykoff,
the celebrated Philadelphia beau and
courtly adventurer, first met her. Wykoff
at that time was in the zenith of his pros
perity. He had exhausted the fashion
able gayeties of Philadelphia and New
York, and was competing with Sam
Ward, Miss Astor’s husband and the
uncle of Frank Marion Crawford, the
successful dude modern novelist, for the
entree of the most select circles in Europe.
Wykoff was introduced to the Elssler by
the Marquis de Lavalette, In the book of
his adventures, which Wykoff published
some five years before his death, he writes
of the great danseuse:
“She was above the medium height,
finely formed, and her features well
shaped. Her countenance was sweet and
winning, her voice was low and musical,
and her every movement was an incarna
tion of grace.”
Wykoff", at the solicitation of Mr. Price,
the manager of the Park Theatre in New
York, induced Fanny to come to this
country. She arrived here in 1839, and
then began the intimacy which remained
between her and Wykoff" until his death
last spring. About ten years ago she re
tired from the stage and lived modestly
on her large income in her favorite city,
Vienna.
Fanny Elssler was the rival of the great
Taglioni when this century was young,
and she attained credit Jbr capturing
more hearts by the spice of her cachuca
than Cleopatra chained with her beamy.
Not alone was she a great danseuse, hut
she was remarkably handsome. She had
the peculiar witchery of her Magyar
descent, and wherever she appeared she
carried with her a long line
of admirers, who Vowed their love and
accepted her disdain with acknowledg
ment of its justice.
SPIRITUAL HELP TO WEALTH.
The Story Meillnm James Told About a
ISiff Petroleum Lake.
Glean, Nov. 26.—A letter received in
this village announces the death in Ore
gon of Abraham James, an old man re
membered all through the oil regions in
connection with the singular discovery
and development of the once celebrated
Pleasantville oil district, at one time the
greatest petroleum producing region in
the world. James was a spiritualist and
a medium. His seances in the Oil Creek
territory in 1868 led to his making many
converts to spiritualism among leading
operators. He was a geologist, and dab
bled in oil territory.
One day in the summer of 1868 he called
together a number of his followers. He
told them that the dav before he was
riding along one of the Venango county
roads, when he felt a peculiar feeling
come over him. His horse stopped, and
a spirit bade him get out ot his carriage.
He did so. The spirit hurried him away,
across fields and through woods, raising
him in the air when any obstacles lay in
their course. The spirit finally stopped
with him in a lonely spot near Pleasant
ville. As they stood there the ground
opened, revealing an enormous cavern.
The spirit led him down into the cavern
for a long distance. When it again stop
ped with him they stood on the margin of
a lake of petroleum of unknown extent.
After he had gazed, speechless with
amazement, on the last body or oil for a
long time, the spirit led him back to the
surface. The opening in the earth closed,
and the spirit vanished.
James said it was evident that the spirit
had shown him the presence of the great
petroleum deposit near Pleasantville in
order that he might take advantage of the
knowledge and have the region developed.
He was penniless, hut said that if his
friends would provide him with capital to
put down wells the discovery might be
made mutually advantageous.
No one had ever thought of finding oil in
that vicinity, but his followers had such
faith in his story that some oi them pro
vided him with means to put down a well.
At the depth of 830 feet the drill struck
oil, and a 150-barrel well was the result.
The news of this discovery turned the at
tention of all oildom to Pleasantville.
Five wells were put down on the property
controlled by the Spiritualists, and every
one was a big producer. Other operators
flocked to the new oil region, and in a
short time Pleasantville district was pro
ducing more oil than all the other dis
tricts.
The life of the new territory was brief,
however, but was long enough to make
big fortunes for James and all who were
associated with him. When this territory
became exhausted he left the oil country
with nearly $500,000. He never returned,
and it is said that hv investments in un
profitable mining property on the Pacific
coast he lost all the money he made in the
oil regions. It is believed that in his
prospecting about the oil country the geo
logical characteristics of the Pleasant
ville region had convinced him that the
chances were in favor of the existence of
petroleum there. To enlist his' spiritual
istic friends and their capital in testing
the territory he had invented the story
about his supernatural visit to the petro
leum lake, knowing that he had every
thing to gain and nothing but a reputa
tion as a medium to lose in the enterprise.
Killing of a Courageous Georgian.
Shreveport. La., Nov. 30.—Charles
A. Devereaux was shot and killed Friday
night by John O’Neil at Houghton, Bos
sier parish. The cause of the tragedy is
unknown. Devereaux was a man of ex
traordinary courage and had served manv
years as Deputy Sheriff. He came from
Milledgeville, Ga., from whence he fled
after killing his father-in-law.
Key West Cigar Makers Alarmed.
Key West, Fla., Nov. 30.— Great ex
citement prevails among the cigar manu
facturers here on account of the provis
ions of the commercial treaty between
Spain and the United States, reducing the
duty on Havana cigars. Petitions are in
circulation and meetings have been
called.
• ‘ Imperishable.”
Days and even weeks after the applica
tion of the genuine Murray & Lanman
Florida Water the handkerchief or gar
ment still exhales a soft, rich fragrance.
It is this peculiar advantage over all other
toilet preparations that has won for this
world-lamed Perfume the expressive de
signation of “imperishable” by which it
is generally known. To distinguish the
genuine article from its numerous imita
tions look out for the “Trade Mark,”
which consists of a narrow white strip
label bearing the fac simile signature of
Lanman & Kemp, New York, sole pro
prietors.
TALMAGE GIVES THANKS.
NOVEL DECORATIONS IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Fruits of the Earth from Every Quarter
of the Country Placed Before the Con
gregation Multitudinous Blessings
Which the Nation Should be Thankful
For.
Brooklyn, Jiov. 30.— At the annual
Thanksgiving service at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle the church was profusely
adorned with corn from the West, sugar
cane from Louisiana, wheat from the
North and cotton from Georgia. The
opening hymn was:
“Hark, the sound of jubilee,
Loud as mighty thunder’s roar.’’
The subject of the sermon by Dr. Tal
mage was, “Thanksgiving Day, 1884.”
The texts were: Ezekiel xli., 2: “Another
door toward the southand Revelations
xxi., 13: “On the south three gates.” Dr.
Talmage said:
King George, of England, at the close of the
revolutionary war, in which he had lost the
thirteen colonies, set apart a day for national
thanksgiving because of the return of peace.
A chaplain of the King asked him: “Are you
going to give thanks for the loss of the thir
teen brightest jewels of your crown?” “No,
not for that,” answered the King. “Because
so many millions have been added to the na
tional debt?” “No, not for that,” answered
the King. “Because so many thousands have
been slain, though belonging to the same race
and religion?” “No, not for that,” answered
the King. “For what, then,” insisted the
chaplain, “does your majesty want us to give
thanks?” “Thank God,” vehemently cried
the King, “thank God it is not anv worse.”
And if the year now past lias been to anv of
you misfortune, or calamity, or bereavement,
you have so many mercies left that you ought
to thank Ged that things are no worse with
you than they are.
But to vast throngs of us it has been a year
of overarching mercy, and, as individuals, as
a church, as a nation, we keep jubilee and
would to God that our habit of gratitude
might become as fixed as that of St. Felix,
the monk of Cantalice, who on all occasions,
whether stopping a fight or soliciting alms
for the monastery, cried out, “Deo Gratia-,”
(thanks be to God), until the church called him
Brother Deo Gratia3 and the children hailed
him along the street as Father Deo Gratias.
After a year in which other nations have, felt
the scourge of epidemic, but this land has
been spared, after emerging unhurt from a
Presidential contest in which the blind Sam
son of partisanship threatened to pull down
the pillars of state and to leave the temple
flat in the dust, and after 365 more days of
kindness from our God, we are here, in the
graceful and splendid decoration of this
church to-day svith the grains and fruits of
all sections we have an American Congress of
national products. Delegations from North,
South, East and West. Here are delegations
with white hair from the cotton fields of the
South. Here are these with auburn beard
snd locks from the golden wheat fields of the
North. Here are iruits that have in their
round cheeks the blush of the setting sun of
the West. Behold this moss from Southern
woods, the bridal veil of the forest. Behold
these plumes of pampas from the far West.
Behold this rice from the Carolinas and these
grapes and pears from California. Behold
these apples from Connecticut, the land of
steady habits. Behold these great banana
trees, standing sentinel at either end of the
platform, by last steamer from Florida, hut
the fruit this moment growing and one of
them in blossom of resplendent orb. Behold
this coal frora Pennsylvania and this iron ore
from Idaho, and this silver from Nevada, and
this lead from Colorado, and this copper from
Lake Superior, and these great blossoms of
New York and New Jersey and Long Island
cereal luxuriance. Harvests of 1884 looking
down upon all their predecessors. The wave
of temporal blessing has dashed to- the top of
the nation’s corn bin.
Aye, the prosperity of this nation has rolled
up until the crest of the wave has broken and
recoiled upon itself. More corn and wheat
and cotton and rice than we can find profita
ble market for. More manufactured goods
than we can dispose of. The grain markets
are glutted, and the factories hv the hundreds
stopped or run with only half the spindles
harnessed, and wages are cut down because
the supply has swamped the demand. Noth
ing is the matter to-dav with this country
but over-production and under-oonsumption.
Where there is work for 10 there are 20 who
offer their services, and the lOO.OcO wheels
of American industry are slowing up, not be
cause there is 100 little, but because there is
too much! God has snowed upon the track
of the nation such vast accumulation of pros
perity that the engine which draws the train
cannot plough any further through. The
American nation is being choked to death
with surplus of production and manufactures.
Too muen wheat, too much corn, too muca
cotton, too much fruit, too much coal and
iron, too much hardware, too many dry goods,
too many shoes, too many carpets, too many
philosophical instruments, too many cattle,
too many sheep, too many artisans, too many
merchants, too many lawyers, too many
doctors, and from the large numbers of excel
lent men in my own profession without settle
ments, some might think too many ministers.
The deluge of supply rises fifteen cubits
high above the mountains of demand. The
load of national ovealth is greater than the
team can draw. The man who dies for lack
of a crust of bread is no worse off than the
man who is smothered to death in a wheat
bin. The nation suffers to-day not of maras
mus but of plethora, not from consumption
but from apoplexy. What shall we do? “Isjt
us rush right down to Washington and have
the tariff changed,” say a multitude. But put
up the tariff as high as the Tip-Top House of
Mount Washington, and while you might keep
out foreign goods, we have enough mills of
our own left to weave ten flannel shirts where
there is only one back to wear them, and ten
pair of shoes lor every two feet that need
them, and twenty curtains for every window
that could support them, and twenty pair of
eye-glasses for all the visions that could be
reinforced by them, and twenty ear trumpets
for all that could hear through them. Doctor
the tariff with hommopathic or allopathic or
eclectic dose from now until the Thanksgiving
day of the year 2000, and j;ou cannot in that
way cure this chronic natiounl malady.
Others hope by change of national adminis
tration to correct the trouble. No President,
though he combiued thepatriotismnf a Wash
ington and the broad views of a J, fferson and
the suavity of a Madison and the courage of
an Andrew Jackson and the old-fashioned
honesty of an Abraham Lincoln, could regu
late tne inexorable law of supply and de
mand. Well, some say, “Let us pack our
trunks and move East or North or West.”
Going East toward Europe would be exodus
into starvation. The avalanche of population
from Europe assures us that that country is
already overcrowded. We all know that this
is the best country to live in. I have 850,000
new reasons for saying so—Bso,ooopeople com
ing in one year from the other side the sea to
our country. If this had not been the best
country to live in there would have been 850,-
000 Americans going to the other side the At
lantic. Shall we go North? Already the
busiest lives of competition are along the St.
Lawrence and the Androscoggin and the Pe
nobscot and the woods of Maine, and the wa
ters of the Lake Chain answer, “No room
here.”
Shall we move West? There is no West.
The emigrants chased it across the Ohio,
across the Mississippi, across the La Platte,
and Fremont’s exploring expLdition put their
spurs into their horses’ flanks and chafed the
West from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra
Nevadas, while the forty-niuers from Cali
fornia, landing from their ships on the Pacific
beach took the West in the rear. And the
workmen of the Union Pacific and Nortnern
Pacific and Southern Pacific came upon it
with their spades and the giant West has
ceased. And though many might suppose
that it m.ght be said of it as of Moses: “No
man knoweth of his sepulchre to this day,” I
think that the Yosemite Valley is its sar
cophagus, with El Capitan for the headstone,
and Cathedral Rock at the foot. The millions
ot foreign population that are yet to cross the
sea for America will soon fill all the area be
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific beaches.
But, in the words of my text, I now declare
“another door toward the south.” And when
I say south, I do not mean the Southern
States of the nation, but I mean a magnificent
infinity of opportunity beyond—Portuguese
America, the fifteen Spanish-American re
publics, and the islands of the South Pacific
Through that door will come the complete
and glorious relief for all this over-supply It
will come within ten years, within five, with
in three. On the 16th of next month at the
New Orleans Exposition that door will begin
to swing open. If the government of the
United States fully appreciate the oppor
tunity and the people will help, the highest
water mark that the wave of our national
prosperity has ever reached will be a hundred
feet under what shall speedily be the full tide
of commercial, agricultural, manufacturing,
literary and moral success. In the name of
God, I proclaim revolution. Not by sword or
dynamite or nitro-glycerine or giant powder,
but by plow and saw and yard-stick and
factory bands and new lines of steamers, and
whole nations rising up to greet our nation in
commercial amity. Our people for the most
part sit in appalling ignorance of an oppor
tunity such as was never spread out before
any nation since the morning stars sang
together. “On the south three gates”—yea,
three thousand gates, and all of them wide
open.
I have had facts put before me enough to
keep a man awake nights because of their
startling significance, and statistics so loaded
with meaning that they move with the splen
dor and power of the iron Duke’s army at
Waterloo—Scotch Grays and the Life Guards,
and Pack’s infantry and battalions of Pon
sonby. and Kvland and the Dutch Belgians
and Highlanders sounding their bagpipes.
Aye! Aye! It is a bloodless Waterloo which
will decide the commercial destiny of North
and South America. The simple fact is that
the vast realms of population in the tropics
are buying from trans-Atlantic nations al
most everything, and from us almost nothing,
and the tide ought to turn and the tide will
turn, and I preach this sermon to help it
turn. Your ears will tingle with the inten
sity of this recital. In 18H0 $5,349,000,000 worth
of goods manufactured in the United States
and only 2 per cent, taken by foreign mar
kets. It is a marvel that American man
ufactories are not as dead as the proverbial
door-nail.
My only wonder is that nine-tenths of the
manufactories have not gone into bankruptcy,
and ninety-nine one-hundredths of the fac
tory hands gone into starvation or the alms
house. And it will be worse if the battle is to
go on between Lowell spindles here and Man
chester spindles there; between foreign mer
chants who want tariffs down and American
merchants who want tariffs up. There is no
■relief for us in the markets of Europe, and
will be none till moons shall wax and wane
no more. “Another door toward tbe south.
On the south three gates.” This nation to
‘l’yf ? Bll ]y dry goods merchant who
airmail bftl * lnd the CoUl)t er haggling with a
8 ’? a „ customer about three yards of tape
w'?Gn t i 1 ti re ar S at the counter impatiently
their h?i.V^ e , e Pri “cesseß wishing to purchase
nßtiniVflim oUßs<iau x. May God arouse this
nation from its commercial idiocy!
On the south of us are regions nearly
states larg £ 48 the United
which are without manufactures,
without woolen goods, without agricultural
implements, without telegraphs, without
telephones, without shoes, without sew
ing machines, without ten thousand
ihings that we have and they must have
Where shall they get them? They are getting
them from 3,000 miles away and we at the
next door from them are buried under a sur
plus of these very things. They are able to
trade with us for their sugars, coffees, spices,
fruits and valuable woods we need as much
as they need our products. But look and then
hang your heads at the statement that while
our next door neighbors, the Southern repub
lics and Brazil and neighboring colonies, im
port $675,000,000 worth ot goods in a year, only
$126,000,000 are from the United States. Only
one-fifth of the trade is ours, European na
tions taking the four fingers and leaving us
the poor thumbs. The sister republics on the
American continent have a foreign com
merce amounting to $428,( 00,000, of which
we have only the feeble and paltry sum of
$63,000,000. There is nothing but acomparativc
ferry between this country and the West In-
dies, while there are raging seas of long voy
age between them and other continents. Yet
they import $116,000,000 worth of goods a year
and only $31,000,000 come from us.
Now, all this is going to he speedily changed,
and the change is going to be the solution of
the labor question and the bread question and
the communist question and the over-produc
tion and under-consumption question aud al
most every other question. It is going to set
all the mills on the Merrimac and the Connec
ticut and the Susquehanna anil the Chatta
hoochee running day and night with double
sets of hands and calling for ten factories
where we have one factory, and putting all
the men who are now out of employment into
work at good wages, and change this story of
dull times into a prosperity which will roll ou
t * de the Mississippi loses its way
to the Gulf of Mexico. lam no more thank
ful for the past blessiugs of this country than
I am thankful for this opening opportunity in
its height stupendous and in its width hemis
pheric.
How will it be done? Among other things
by such action as that which led our Congress
to appropriate $1,300,000 to the New Orleans
Exposition, Mexico giving $200,000 and New
Orleans $500,000. That exposition, though pre
ceded by the Sydenham Crystal Palace and
the French and the Vienna and the Philadel
phia expositions, will be, in far-reaching sig
nificance, more important than all of them
put together. They showed chiefly what had
been done. This exposition of next month
will build a plaiform on which the nations of
the American continent shall come for intro
duction to anew commercial epoch in the
history of the ages. On that platform will
come up Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay,
Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil and the brunette
West Indies, to meet the blonde and smiling
United States.
Had marriage day of North and South!
VV hile the pessimists have been hunting up the
burial service to read at the death of Ameri
can commerce, and the stops of the organ
were being pulled out for the dead march in
Saul, I, an optimist by nature and by grace,
take up iu anticipation the bright covered
wedding service, and as the blonde North takes
the brunette South by the hand saying,
“With all my worldly goods I thee endow,’’
I erv, “Whom God hath joined together let
not foreign despotism or American demagog
uery ever put asunder!” Then let all the
organs and choirs ana orchestras make every
thing from the Montreal ice palace to tiie
halls of the Montezumas quake under the
rolling thunders of the grand inarch of North
and South American progress.
This southern door will be fastened open the
more firmly by the tides of travel diverted
from Europe to the land of the Aztecs. Much
of tiie $106,000,000 yearly expended by Ameri
cans in Europe will be expended in southern
exploration, in looking at some of the ruins
of the 47 cities that Stevens, the traveler,
found a little way apart, and walking through
the corridors, and under the arches, and in
the great doorways, and over the miracles of
mosaic, and along by the monumental glories
of another civilization, and ancient America
will with cold lips of stone kiss the warm lips
of modern America, and "to have seeu the
Andes and the Popocatepetl will be deemed
as important as to have seen the Pyreneean
and Balkan ranges. So there will be fewer
people spoilt by foreign travel, and in our
midst less poor imitation of the French shrug
and the intentional hesitancy of the brainless
swell. The fact is that there arc more people
made fools of by European travel than any
other way, and though scusible when they
embark, they return with a collar and a
cravat, and a shoe and a coat, and a pro
nunciation and a contempt for American in
stitutions, and a bend of the elbow that make
one believe in evolution backward from man
to ape. Of the 39.000 Americans who now
cross the sea annually there will be thousands
who on pleasure and business visit the tropics,
and 60 tourist and merchant, and scientist
and capitalist will all lielo in this national
development.
I wish that somehow our next Congress
might take the $100,000,000 of surplus in the
United States Treasury which the Republi
cans diil not steal, and before the Democrats
get a chance to steal it, and in some way ex
pend it in establishing new lines of shipping
between the ports of North and South Amer
ica, and in dredging their harbors aud in
building telegraphic wires, and in quickening
all that glorious consummation which is sure
to come. Go on, gentlemen, discussing vour
high tariff and low tariff, and horizontal tariff
and no tariff at all until the question is as
malodorous as the moss bankers that the Long
Island fishermen throw on the fields to enrich
the farms. But, meanwhile, God is going to
prepare for the rescue of the
millions of hard working men and
women of this country, who have
been hungry and cold long enough, and this
door of the South open is going to let in on
them a summer of bright, warm prosperity.
In anticipation I nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement:
WANTED—One hundred thousand men, to
build South Americau railways, long as from
here to San Francisco.
Wanted, five thousand telegraph operators.
Wanted—Twenty million dollars’ worth of
dry goods and hardware from New York.
Wanted—All the clocks you can make at
New Haven, and all the shoes you can manu
facture at Natick, and all the brains you can
spare from Boston, and all the hells you can
mould at Troy, and all the McCormick reap
ing machines you can fashion at Chicago, and
all the hams you can furnish from Cincinnati,
and all the railroad iron vou can send from
Boonton and Pittsburg.
Wanted!
Wanted right away!
Wanted by express, wanted by rail train,
wanted by steamer!
Wanted, lawyers to plead our cases!
Wanted, doctors to cure our sick!
Wanted, ministers to evangelize our popu
lation !
Wanted, professors to establish our univer
sities !
“Another door toward the south. On the
south three gates!” Lift up your heads ye
everlasting gates and let the North come
South and the South come North! Corrected
forever the geographical blunder of the cen
turies which says there are five continents
when there are only four—Europe. Asia,
Africa and America. Our Arctic and Ant
arctic only the crystal latches on front and
back gate of the one palace yard. Aye, the
continent is one living queen of beauty and
power Though the continent be narrow at
the waist if you girdle it at Aspinwall it is
still one living queen upon whom God hath
put the richest diadem of all the world. On
this Thanksgiving day I thought I would tell
you of your inheritance. Henceforth put this
into your prayers, tune it into your doxologies
and let capitalists and statesmen lift it into
theirplans. 'What is tbe use of gathering a
whole fleet of laden steamers at the mouth of
a small river, trying to pile them in, jostling
and stuck fast, when there is this great, wide
Southern sea with room for largest merchant
men to spread sail or drop anchor.
Without this opening prospect this day
would be very dark for those of us who are
interested in the laboring classes. To-day
one million people in the countryout of work.
Ten per cent, of the laboring classes with
nothing to do but suffer and another 20 per
cent, toiling on half wages. 1 shall not take
my seat at the Thanksgiving table to-day un
til I look at the bare plates of these multi
tudes and at their empty wardrobes and
invoke upon them the mercy of God and the
generous consideration of those in comfortable
circumstances. Congress assembles next
week and let it waste no time on abstractions,
but by some swift enactment open this door
south and all the other legitimate doors for
the relief of men who can get no work and
who stand in this November cold wringing
their numb lingers with their helpless families
at their back. Hungry men and women
never have been quiet and never will be quiet
and never ought to be quiet. Bread they
ought to have and bread they must have and
bread they will have. With this, the fifth
plentiful harvest, if there be any one
man, woman or child without food and with
out comfortable apparel and without shelter,
there must be something awfully wrong. May
the suffering Christ who once had nowhere to
lay His head, champion the cause of the help
less, and smash the great monopolies that are
built out of the bones and cemented with the
blood of poor workmen, and send a supply this
day from every full pantry to every destitute
home, and so change the condition of those
hardly bestead, that when another thanks
giving day arrives, the poorest man in Ame
rica shall have upon his table a twenty
pound turkey, royally browned and
hasted and stuffed, put upon his
plate dashed with cranberry and emptied
only to make way for pumpkin pies such as
New England matrons baked, or the more
classic and juicy mince pie such as our dear
old mother made with her own hands before
those hands were folded in the last sleep, just
before they entered upon the long Thanksgiv
ing day of Heaven—where we shall yet throw
our arms around them and the other departed
ones who used to be with us on these holidays
and give them a rapturous hug and kiss, all
the heartier for the present painful separa
tion. I believe no more in the Fatherhood of
God than Ido in the brotherhood of man. For
all the world may there be plenty to wear and
plenty to eat. Amen and amen. Amen and
amen!
A Brig’s Cargo Ablaze.
Falmouth, Nov. 30. —The German brig
Herrmann Freidrich, from Wilmington,
N. C., Oct. 25, for Bremen, has arrived
here with her rudder damaged and her
cargo on fire. Water is being pumped
into the hold.
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CARLISLE OK CONGRESS.
TARIFF BILLS IMPROBABLE AT
THIS SESSION.
The Work of Reform Probably to be
Left for the Newly-Elected Represen
tatives— The Spanish Reciprocity
Treaty and Other Like Measures to be
Stubbornly Fought.
Washington, Nov. 30.—Speaker Car
lisle arrived here this afternoon. He was
weary and went early to bed. Before re
tiring, however, he was interviewed and
said that he did not think that there
would be any tariff legislation this ses
sion. The causes that prevented tariff
legislation last session were still present
and attempts at such legislation would
fail now as then. The revenue reformers
must wait tor the next Congress In which
something could be done to reduced tariff
taxes. He thought that this would be an
uneventful session in which little save
routine business would be transacted.
He also said that he was opposed to the
proposed adjournment for the purpose of
permitting members to go to New Or
leans, and that he would be a candidate
for the Speakership of the next House.
Mr. Carlisle has had no opportunity to
confer with the members since his arrival
ami simply expressed his own opinion
about the prospects of legislation at this
session. His opinion, however, is shared
by a large number of Democratic mem
bers.
V At TING FOR THE NEXT CONGRESS.
They argue that it would be expedient
to postpone a struggle over the tariff
question until the next Congress comes
in tresli from the people in comparison
with the present Congress. The Demo
crats will hold a conference within the
uext lew days, at which the order of busi
ness will be arranged for the session.
Representative Collins will make a hope
ful effort to get the bankruptcy bill,
which lias passed the Senate, through the
House.
Senators are cautious about expressing
opin|onß relative to the probable action of
the Senate on the reciprocity treaty with
Spain, but it looks as if there would be
opposition enough to beat it.
There will be a sharp light in the House
over the proposed legislation to carry into
effect the Mexican reciprocity treaty, and
it is apparent that contests will also oc
cur on the Mexican {tensions bill
and the postal telegraph bill. No
thing will take shape, however, until the
members have had time to consult with
each other.
FAIRY STORY FOR NELLIE.
President Arthur Tell* About a White
Cat with Dainty Pink Ears.
Thanksgiving day has been generally
observed in Washington, says a special
ef Nov. 27, to the New York Morning
Journal , manufactured to order in New
York. The President set a good example
by attending morning services at St.
John’s Church. He drove in from the
Soldiers’ Home with his little daughter
Nellie. She held her papa’s hand- They
presented a very pretty picture.
During the afternoon some of Miss Nel
lie’s little friends cfclled to see her and
Mr. Arthur entertained with his
promised story. He had a very attentive
audience. The little ' furls’ eyfes became
as large >is saucers under the influence of
the I’resideut’s romantic tale.
When the children were all seated
around Mr. Arthur’s knees, he began:
“Once upon a time.” All stories sup
posed to commence in this way,..and the
President did not feel like changing the
custom. The President’s story in lull
would fill a column. Briefly, however, it
was about the strange adventures of a
white cat with pink ears. She began life
in poor and humble circumstances, but by
hard work became rich and lamous. The
plot of the story was very intricate, it
transpired that the cat was once a beau
tiful young lady. Her tiansformation to
the cat land had been brought about as a
punishment for her evil deeds. The beau
tiful young lady owned a little white
kitten. She was very fond of it, and tied
a blue ribbon around* Its neck. The kit
ten and blue ribbon were her constant
companions. The young lady, however,
who was called Arabella, had a cruel dis
position. She did not think the kitten had
any ieelings. One day, to improve its ap
pearance. Arabella cut. two small holes in
the kitten’s ears. The kitten cried pite
ously, and, strange to relate, it was given
a voice.
“Ah,” snid the kitten, “Arabella, you
have no pity for me? How would you
like to be a kitten?”
“I should like it very much, indeed,”
said Arabella thoughtlessly.
Tbe fated words were scarcely out of
her mouth before Arabella was changed
into a kitten and the kitten into Arabella.
Then the queen of the kitten world ap
peared. She said:
“Arabella, when you have given proof
to me that you have a heart you can re
turn to the land of mortals and your
home; but not before.”
Arabella felt very badly at first over her
changed position, and cried a great deal,
but she finally determined that the most
sensible thing she could do would be to
prove that she had a heart. She set about
it at once.
Here the President paused and re
marked:
“Like many other young ladies, she
found it a very difficult task, but she
finally succeeded. She established a
hospital for all maimed and abused cats
and kittens. By hard work she managed
to secure better treatment for all the kit
tens in the neighborhood. Arabella’s
punishment took place on Thanksgiving
eve. On the following Thanksgiving day
the kitten queen appeared, and by waving
her wand broke the spell. Arabella was
once more a beautiful young lady. Sha
had proved that she had a heart. Her
father was so much pleased at the im
provement in his daughter that he bought
her anew dress and a box of jewelry.
Arabella was very happy, but ever after
that she remembered the lessons she had
learned. She was always kind to little
kittens.”
The children pronounced the story de
lightful.
SCHURZ ON OUR CONGRESS.
Both Branches Declared Necessary and
Impossible of Abolition.
London, Nov. 30.— Carl Schurz has
written a letter to Prof. Bryce upon the
double working chambers of legislation
in America. Mr. Schurz says that the
popular judgment is right in regarding
the double chamber as necessary and part
of the American political institutions.
Any proposal to abolish these bodies
would find no consideration In the United
States. Americans are justly proud of
their Senatq, which does not represent
any privileged class or any separate in
terests, but is extremely useful as part of
the American legislative machinery. The
letter from Schurz on this topic aroso
from a reference by Prof. Bryce asking
him if he considered it advisable for Eng
land to continue the House of Lords as a
legislative body.
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