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HAPPY THB MAN.
Happy the man who In some rural glade
Contented dwell, nor of It. coniine, tire.;
The rich. .weoUenndlmg .oil upturning with
hi* .pade
Where the dark earth, with little toll is
made •
To yield .ufTlcicnt for hi* few deilra*
Tlie ru.h and turmoil of the greedy town,
It* .In and pride and shame, to him un
knows;
Nor beggarS whine, nor iurly Mammon',
frownj
Nor erarked-voloed vender! crying up end
down.
Nor drunkard’s oath, nor ruined virtue’s
moan.
Instead, the morning pulsing full with life,
O'erllooded with the varied songs of birds;
The pure, fresh air with scents of flowers
rife—
Nor discord hero; nor sound of sordid strife,
Hut eloquence without disturbing words.
With swelling breast he roams the dewy
meads,
The meanest flow’r his joy and tender care;
Tho winds that, murm’ring, stir ttie tunglod
reeds,
Fit orchestra adapted to tho needs
Of Nature's drama acted for him thore.
Of eastlo massive often ho has read,
Of mosque, of temple and cathedral
grand—
Yet turns for beauty to the fields instead.
Finds some new pleasure wheresoe'er he
tread,
Tn meadow, wood or on the yielding sand.
The cliff abrupt; the river’s silver flow;
The eagle's flight; tho tempest ridden
wind;
The gloaming salmon swinging to and fro
In quiet pool, the timid, graceful roe—
All dear companions of his student mind.
For him the peace of close converse with
God,
To him the door of Nature opens wide;
The woods, the hills, the daisy -spangled sod,
He loves them all—where others blindly
trod
Ho moves serene—his being satisfied.
Amid such scenes his gentle life is passed,
The ward of Wisdom, learning what is
best;
His creed to love, his church the vaulted
vast,
In contemplation richest at tho last—
He falls asleep upon a kindly breast
— C. A. Bunks, in Arkansaw Traveler .
A SOLDIER’S KISS.
BY COLONEL JOHN P. MINES.
That truth is stranger than fiction is
one of the most threadbare of axioms,
yet it received anew illustration in the
strange succession of circumstances
through which Major Henry Kstes won
his handsome blue eyed wife.
Among the recruits who were sent
forward to be mustered into a New
England cavalry regiment attached to
the Army of the I’otomac, in the spring
of 1 tsts4, was a young man of fine up
pearance and excellent education who
from the first showed signs of having at
some time been under military drill.
No recruit ever fell into his place with
less trouble, or so rapidly ad justed him
self to the roughness and hardships of
camp life. “Every inch a soldier,” was
Major Estes’s comment the first time that
his glance rested on Private Herbert
Jauvrin, and neither in camp life nor in
battle had he ever any reason to modify
his v erdict.
The rank and file with whom Jauvrin
associated could never quite make him
out. They recognized instinctively that
he belonged to a higher social order
than their own; they found out that he
had traveled in many lands; they said
among themselves that he was a for
eigner and yet were puzzled to know
just were to place a man who spoke half
a dozen languages, and yet they were
never jealous or ill-natured toward him.;
He performed his duties with unfailing
conscientiousness; was in his place in
every engagement; proved himself a
hero in the skirmish at St. Mary’s
Church and in the long and dangerous
raid to Trevyllian Station, and endeared
himselt to every man in his company by
some little act of kindness or cheery
word of comiadship.
That there was a mystery about him
was evident. Not that he ever at
tempted to create such an impression
far from it. But officers and men knew
that there must havo been soiuo strong
cause that had moved a man of his cul
ture to enlist as a private in a cavalry
regiment in which he bad not a single
acquaintance. There were hints enough
g ven him to break through his reserve
and talk about himself, but he always
brushed them aside with a laugh and the
oft <; noted by word of the camps: “Who
wouldn't be a soldier?”
“By Jove!” said the Colonel ono day,
as Private Jauvrin ret red from his pres
ence with a courtly salute, “that fellow
has broken more than one heart, and in
our set, too, Major, or I’m a block Island
codfish. Fut him in a swallowtail and
he would be the most distinguished
looking man in the regiment, and would
saunter through the lanciers liae a lord.
I wish I could do something for him,
but he doesn’t ask for promotion and
doesn’t; seem to want, it, aud I don’t
know who his friends are so as to push
him. I’d bet a whale to a mackerel that
there’s a woman in the case, aud a mighty
pretty one, too."
It was in the insignificant little skir
mish on the etlgo of Chapin’s Farms
that Drivate Jauvrin received a des
perate wound which caused him to be
sent to the Cavalry Corps Hospital on
the Appomattox. At first he bade fair
to recover, and the whole regiment pre
pared to welcome him back, and the
Colonel had marie interest at Washing
ton to procure his promotion to Second
Lieutenant. But ono day a messenger
came from the Corps Hospital with tho
news that Jauvrin was worse, and with
an earnest request that Major Estes
would ride over to see h;m.
The Major had always manifesied a
sincere liking for the soldier, and had
tried more than once to win his confi
dence, with a sincere desire to befriend
him. He had not been successful, yet
there had always been that sort of
friendship between officer and man that
had led Major Estes to sit down and talk
with him of other times and other scenes.
It was a shock to him to hear bad
tidings of the soldier whom in his own
mind he had associated with a story of
romance and whom he honored as an
example of duty.
It was on a chilly autumn afternoon
that the Major lifted the (lap of the wall
tent in which Jauvrin lay on a rough
cot set on the bare ground. He was
shocked at the change in tho wounded
man’s appearance. The stalwart frame
had become reduced to skin and bone,
and only the eyes had retained the old
fire of life. He fairly started when the
ghost of tho well-remembered and once
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SUE EVER UK RIGHT ; ItIGUT OH WRONG, MY COUNTRYt"—3v.vv\&wn)H.
ringing voice welcomod him, and tears
started to his eyes as ho grasped tho thin
and wasted hand nnd said; “Boor fel
low, why did you not send for mo be
forof"
The Major stnyed at tho hospital that
night and, little by little, ns tho strength
of the speaker permitted, ho learned the
story of I’rivate Jauvrin.
Horn to an old and honorable name
and tho prospective inheritor of
wealth, llorbert Jauvrin, lifter a wild
and waywurd boyhood, had been com
missioned a Lieutenant in tho British
army beforo he hud reached his majority
and had fought gallantly before Sebas
topol. Among Iris pajrers would bo
fouud, Lc said, bis commission and his
Crimean medal. On bis return to Eng
land bo bad gono the way of all young
men in bis position and had exhausted
his income and tho round of l.ondon
j pleasures. At last his father and family
had cast him off ami he had wakened
I from his dreams to find himself deprived
j of all resources until lie succeeded to the
entaled estates of his family.
1 here was one pure spot, he said, in
j the darkness of his life. lie had loved
and his love had been returned. “I did
not know there was such lovlinc9s on
earth,' 1 said the dying soldier, until 1
met Helen Conyngham. I have her
picture here nnd you shall judge of her
yourself.” Here, with a painful effort,
he drew out a portfolio from under his
pillow ami gave it to the Major. “Her
i letters arc here, too—do what you will
with the picture nnd the letters, and
only write to her and tell her that I gave
her my last thoughts nnd all my love.”
At intervals he filled in the rest of the
story. The girl whom he loved had
forgiven him again and again for h's
wanderings nnd had tried to help him
j build up his shattered life. At last she
had applied the heroic remedy and sent
him a letter to shv that she would not
consent to see him again until ho could
come to her “clothed and in his right
mind.”
“She was right. Major, and I say now
and 1 will 6ay with my last breath, God
bless her for her sweet laithfu.ness to
duty.”
In a desperate mood Herbert Jauvrin
had sold his commission, taken steamer
for America aud for a while had passed
a life of gay dissipation in New York aud
other American cities. At last the in
evitable crisis came. Ilis money hud
gone and so were the friends of his
butterfly summer. When his last dollar
had been spent he enlisted in a regiment
then at the front, in the hope that a
friendly bullet would soon end his
troubles. The bullet had come all too
soon, and had found him realizing in his
life as a private soldier whit Helen
Conyngham had tried to impress upon
him about faithfulness to duty. It was
hard for him, he said, hut no doubt it
was better for her. Only she would he
glad to hear that he had died a soldier’s
death.
The Major tried to speak encouraging
words when he hade the soldier good
night, but even then he feared that they
might never meet again in life. Indeed,
when he went to the hospital tent next
morning the death dew was on Private
Jauvrin’s forehead and he could only
speak in the faintest whisper and with
catohes of breath as he asked him lo
pray for him. Major F.ste9 knelt beside
the dying man and in low tones uttered
the Lord’s Prayer, holding the clammy
hands clasped in his own.
“Thank you—am I dying now?’’ were
the next words. The Major could not
speak. He only looked sadly into the
eyes of the private soldier who in a
brief minute was to know the secret of
the eternities.
There must then have come some
sweet if sad remembrances of home
and human love to have prompted the
last request of a soldier who was known
as the bravest of the brave.
“Will you kiss me?”
Major Estes kneeled down and pressed
his-iijis to the chill lijrs that could mnke
uo response, and when he had wijied
away his tears the man he had kissed was
dead.
They buried Herbert Jauvrin in the
little cemetery of the Cavalry Corps on
the banks of the Appomattox. But his
ashes do not repose there. They rest
under a c stly monument in the parish
church of his fathers in England, and
under his name is the legend: “Dead on
the field of honor.”
When Ma or ICstes, after his return to
camp, opened in the secrecy of liis tent
the little portfolio which Herbert Jauvrin
had bequeathed to him he had no pre
monition that literally he held bis fate
in his own hands. There was a locket of
Etruscan gold in one of the packets, and
when he had opened it he held it before
him as if he had been turned to marble
by the sight. The face was beautiful
beyond anything he had ever seen—at
least, so it seemed to him. Golden hair
and blue eyes and the mouth of Hebe,
intellect and health and grace were there,
and with comparable beauty a firmness
as gentle as velvet and as hard as iron.
As he gazed he understood the whole
story of the hapless love which had
ended so disastrously and yet not hopo
lessly.
The letters of Helen Conyngham were
a further revelation of her sweet woman
liness. They pleaded with a pathetic
simplicity for the better life of the man
she loved, but she never for a moment
concealed from him or from herself the
fact that she could never marry a man
who voluntarily debauched himself from
the high standard she had set Even her
last edict of banishment was only a plea
for her lost love’s redemption.
It was a painful task to write to the
relatives of Herbert Jauvrin—most pain
ful of all to break tlio news of his death
to the woman he had loved. The Major
inclosed her own letters to Miss Conyng
ham—all except a little formal note ac- j
eepting an invitation to drive, though
why he had retained this he could not
explain to himself. The locket he prom
ised to forward by friends who were go
ing to England.
Somehow the locket did not go, and !
it would have puzzled his friends had
he been killed and this unknown face
found among the papers he always car
ried with him. He came to regard it as
his tutelary divinity and had a faint su
perstition that it rendered him imper
vious to bullets. At any rate, he found
it easy to make excuses for its detention j
in the correspondence which passed be
tween the original and himself, and ,
which he found so pleasant that he con
tinued it long after the close of the war.
Finally Major Estes wrote that he had
been appointed consul to one of the
cities of England and that he would take
an early opportunity to restore the por
trait in person.
When the portiere that covered the
entrance to one of the handsomest
houses in Cheltenham had been pushed
aside and Helen Conyghum, magnificent
in her beautv, entered, Major Estes’s
heart beat so hard that he could scarcely
speak, and, indeed, he never knew what
he did say. What his heart was saying
was, “My queen.” For It fell down and
j worshipped her then and there and
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 188!).
never swerved afterward from Its al
legiance.
They were soon well acquainted these
two— and though the Major fell in love
ut once, or rather recognized at once the
fai t that lie had been in lovo ever since
he opened tiro locker, it was long before
he dared think that he was specially fa
vored by her and longer still before lie
dared to speak.
It was the dead soldier who gave tho
Major his wife. They often spoke of
him. Tho English maiden loved to lieur
him tell of his battles and campaigning,
nnd fancied that it was not because tire
Major was a hero in her eyes, wli le he,
modest man, nover dreamed of exalting
his own deeds. Indeed, with a girlish
hashftrlncss,he had never told of the ki*s
li" had giving the dying soldier; it had
seemed sacred to himself and the (lend.
One evening they wandered in the old
English garden at the back of the
mansion in Cheltenham, and there, as
they stood under the shnde of a great
oak, Major Estes recounted the whole
scene. When ho had finished both of
her hands were in Ins and she was weep
ing.
“I have never kissed anybody since,”
lie said. “I promised myself in my tent
that night that the next kiss I gave would
ho to my promised wife. Helen —”
Beside himself with love he drew her
toward him, und to his amazement she
made no resistance. The next moment
she was in his arms, and before a word
had been spoken by either he had kissed
her as man kisses woman hut once in a
lifetime.
When people ask Major Estes what
was the most remarkable incideut he
met with in the war he always says: “The
good fortune that gave me my wife.”
And the golden Tinned matron who it
the crown and glory of his household,
and who is the most loyal of American
wives, is never weary of talking and
hearing of the days of the war.
If the spirits of the dead are allowed
to mix themselves with the turmoil ol
our lives Herbert.lauvrin must he happy
in seeing the happiness wrought out by
the soldier's kiss.— The Mercury.
The First Inauguration Ball.
The first inauguration ball known tc
American history took place at the
initiation of General Washington’s first
Presidential term, on March 4, 1789.
The records as to this event are very
plain and numerous. W. L. Store, in
his “History of New York City,” for
instance, tells of the great popular
demonstration of joy on this occasion.
The inauguration ceremonies and all the
festivities connected with it took place
in New York city, aud the fireworks
and illuminations on the evening of
March 4 were of an unparalleled splendor.
Of the ball itself this author says:
“The ball was truly an elegant en
tertainment. The old “City Asst rnbly
Rooms,” in which it took place, were in
a large wooden building standing upon
the s:te of the old City Hotel. In addi
tion to the distinguished few for whom
it was given it was honored by the Vice-
President. the Speaker of the Ilouso and
most of the members of both branches
of Congress, Governor Clinton, ( han
celor l.udington, Chief Justice Yates,
of New Yoik, John Jay, General
Knox, Mayor Duane, Baron Steuben,
the French and Spanish Ambas
sadors, General. Hamilton and many
other distinguished gentlemen, both
Americans and foreigners. There
was much attention paid to General
Washington and to the wife
of the President on this occa
sion, and there was more of
etiquette iu the arrangements for this
complimentary ball than was thought to
be exactly consistent with our republi
can institutions, and more, in fact, than
was altogether agreeable to the feelings
of him in whose honor it was given.
The costumes e cn to be worn by the
gentlemen on this occas on had been
minutely prescribed by the managers,
Colonel Humphries and Colonel William
8. Smith. They had to dance with
small swords on. Each gentleman, on
taking a partner to dance, was to lead
her to the sofa on which tbs President
and his lady were seated, and to bow low
to them. This ceremony of respe t had
to be repeated before each couple again
took their seats The decorations of the
assembly-room were truly splendid aud
very tastefully disposed.”
On this occasion and on many previ
ous and subsequent occasions George
Washington and Lady Washington, as
his wife came to be popu arly known
throughout the length and breadth of
the Bepublic, danced the menuet or min
uet— Chicago Herald.
The New Japanese Minister.
Tho new Japanese Minister, Mr Mutsu,
has one of the most bcuutiful homes aud
interesting households in Washington.
His wife is a bright and refined woman,
but a little timid beeausse she does not
speak English. He is a scholarly man
and well informed concerning the affairs
of the United States and politics of
Europe, as well as topics connected with
his own country. He talks English but
little, but is improving rapidly by ex
perience. They have three children,two
sons and a daughter fourteen years old,
who is now at school in this city, auil
has for a companion, Miss Kuki, the
daughter of the former Minister. It is
a custom in Japan for ricli men who
have no children of their own to adopt
them, and Mr. Fura Kawa, a gentleman
of enormous wealth, has adopted Mr.
Mutsu’s eldest son, a young man eighteen
years old, who has taken tho name of
his adopted father, although he is living
at present with his natural father, the
Minister, and studying law at Columbia
College in this city. Mr. Sato, the
Secretary of Legation, was educated at
Grecncastle, Ind., and speaks English
fluently. Chicago Hews.
Where Lodgers are Iltiug Up to Sleep.
Plunging about on the levee in the
blackness the other night a reporter dis
covered a retreat, the novelty of which
knocked him all in a heap. It was a
lodging house but there were no beds.
The guests did not recline on the floor
either, nor were they hungup on hooks,
and yet they slept. The room was per
haps seventy live feet deep by twenty
wide. About throe feet from tlio wall,
and extending around it, was a rope
fastened to posts placed at intervals. It
was about five feet from the floor and
was slightly slack. Underneath it were
other ropes similarly stretched, the
whole resembling a rope fence. With
their backs to this support, and with
both arms thrown over it to keep from
falling, were twenty-two persons, mostly
colored, but among them were several
wretched white men, and all were sleep
ing soundly. The placo was dimly
lighted, and the old darkey proprietor
sat patiently waiting for more guests to
arrive. His charge for lodging, or
rather to hang on the ropes all night, is
but five cents.— Louietille-Courier
■Journal.
WASHINGTON
PHOTOGRAPHED.
IETTINO READY NOR HARRI
SONS IN AUQ URA TION.
VONMItKHM.
When Ihe sundry civil bill was up in
he Senate on Thuisd.iy, Mr. Colquitt
iffercd un amendment, which was
nli pled, appropriating 110,060 for a
nick li apitnl at the United Slates nr
tcu.tl in Augusta, Ga. Mr. liiscock of
cr, and an umendment appropriating
(800,000 for tile expenses and adequate
.in paiatum for the appropriate celebra
tion of the (Chti nniul of the Constitu
. on of the United States, and uulboril
tig the President to invite chief execu
tive and judicial officers of Mexico ami
Jcntral and South American states, and
if the several states and territoriiaof the
Uni* al State", and to cntcituiu foreign
41) (in n suitable manner. Mr Ed
a: _, e _ iid lie did not Vvei willing, to
v \ an of the taxes of the
jieojilo for mere glorification, and lie
called for the yens and nays. Tho vote
re ulte I yeas 10, nays 12, (no quorum.)
The Home went into committee of
the whole on tire post-office appropriation
bill. Messrs. Adama und Lawler, of Il
linois. made earnest nnd vigorous efforts
to increase the appropriation for the pay
of letter carriers. Their efforts were,
however, unsuccessful. Having con
cluded consideration of the hill, the
committee rose. Mr. Cannon, of Illi
nois moved to recommit lire bill with
instructions to the post-office committee
to report it hack with the classification
features cl,minuted. Tuo hid was
passed.
In the Senate on Wednesday, Senator
Hoar modified tlie resolution reported by
him on Tuesday us to the Southern elec
tions, so as not to require its reference
to the comm ttce on contingent expenses.
And, as afmodified, it went uver. The
Senate then resumed consideration of the
-tindfy civil appropriation bill. Con
dderation of the hill was interrupted by
the presentation, by Mr. Platt, of the
conference report on the hill for the ad
mi siou of Soutli Dakota ns a state, and
for the organization of tlie territory of
Nortli Dakota. The report wars agreed
to without division. A message fiom
the President, transmitting the report of
the Secretary of Stale, with accompany
ing correspondence, touching tl.e case of
Lord Sackville, was presented, read and
referred to the committee on foreign re
lations Immediately after the reading
of the journal, in the House, tlie contest
over tlie direct ’.ax hill was resumed.
The constitutional features of the hill
were discussed by Me sis. Oates, Hooker
and Caswell, and the conference report
was then agreid to—yeas 168, nnys 88.
Mr. Springer presented the conference
report on the territorial bill. The bill,
as agreed to in conference, provides for
the admission of the states of Nortli
, laktota, Soutli Dakota, Montana and
Washington. The report was then
adopted amid applause on b,,tli sides of
the chamber.
NOTTS.
The President signed the Nicaragua
Banal bill.
President Cleveland has returned to
the House with a vet > message the bill for
the relief of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands, lowa.
A telegram was received by the Secre
tary of State on Wednesday from Mr.
Hubbel, United States minister to Japan,
saying that he lias signed a treaty of
commerce, amity and navigation with
Japan.
Dr. Francis Wharton, solicitor of the
State Department ami author of the
Standard Digest of International Law,
etc., died at his residence on Thursday
of heart failure, aged (!8. Dr. Wharton
attained a national reputation us legal
authority.
The President has granted the appli
cation for pardon in the case of Gourge
M. Bain, Jr., convicted in Virginia for
violation of the national banking laws,
and sentenced March, ISBS to five year
imprisonment in the Albany, N. Y., pen
itentiary.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a third dividend of ten per cent
in favor of tire creditors of the Stale
National bank of Raleigh, N. C. 'Hits
makes in all 40 per cent on the claims
proved. This bank failed on March 27,
1887.
Sir. Candler and Senator Colquitt, of
Geoigia, have received from President
Cleveland a reply to their request to
grant general amnesty to violators of the
internal revenue laws. Mr. Cleveland
refuses either to grant a general amnesty
or pardon before conviction.
The President on Wednesday directed
the discharge of Lieut. I.andon P. Jouett,
a son of Rear Adinir. 1 James E. Jouett,
United States Navy, with one year’s pay.
This officer was examined for promotion
aud was fouud morally disqualified. He
was given another tr al but failed to
meet the requirements of the service.
Tho direct tax bill was on it- way to
President Cleveland for his consideration
within five minutes of the time it lmd
been signed by President Pro-Tem In
galls. The fate of the bill is a subject
of general interest, iu view of the rumor
that the President has an intention of
killing the bill by means of a pocket
veto, that is, withholding bis signature,
in which event it is assumed that the
adjournment of Congress at noon, Match
4th, would prevent it from becoming a
law.
The centennial of the Georgetown
(Jesuit) Univirsity, for which arrange
ments have been iu preparation for many
weeks, began Wednesday. Archbish
ops, bishops and priests were arriving at
the university from almost every state iu
the Union. " The university buildings
were elaborately aud tastefully decorated
with flowers, Hags and banners bearing
appropriate legends. Ibe procession,
composed of vatious bodies of clergy,
students, cadets and alumni, was formed
and marched to Tiinity Church, where
pontifical m iss was celebrated by Car
dinal Gibbons.
The House committee on nav tl affairs
finally acted on the Senate amendm nts
to the naval appropria'ion bit s. Con
ciirreuce wil! be recommended in tin
items appropriating $1 0,00:) fora orpe
do station and naval college building
and nutho izin ; the transferor store i
from one bureau to another. Non-con
currence will 1)0 recommended in all of
the amendments providing for the con
struction of two 1,000-ton gunboats, and
for the purchase of reinforced guns; in
creasing to *300,000 the appropriation
for thu complet on of Vessels already
authorized to be built, and to the
*3,000,000 appropriated for their arma
ment.
I’r, sident Ch v,-land'! tsoepiion to tlit
public ou Thursday, the Inst of hisitnts
receptions, drew a tremendous cr,,w l tc
the White ll,ms ;. Although the recep
tion did not begin until y o’clock, the
crowd began to gather ah,art dusk, and
shortly after 7 o’cioek tin re wire several
bundled jar.one on tire portico of tire
\\ Into House w ho lrad come early in or
der to secure eligible |>laccs in the 1 nc.
At 10 o’clock the ciusit was immense,
and lliero was a closely packed line ol
|>eo|ile , xtcmling from the entrance to
die White Houec down the western hj*
protieh to tlie gateway and about a block
or so along Pennsylvania avenue. Tlie
crowd seem, and to la; good natured, and
waited with patience in the chill utmos-
I'here for ill ir ojqiortumty to shako
linniis witli Pnslihnt und Mrs. Cleve
land.
ALL OYER
TIIE WORLD.
A MOST INTERESTING MEDLEY
OF CAREFUL CULLINGS.
WHAT IS oorvo ON IN ECBOPZ—DISTINOtJISBKD
MEN DEAD —FUASCE'h I'EBII. —OKRMANY AND
THE UNITED STATES.
The German consul adviser of King
Tumasese, of Samoa, lias been recalled to
Berlin.
The strike among tlie seamen at vari
ous British ports is subsiding. The
men aie freely signing articles at com
promise rates, suggested by ship owners.
Mrs. Marianna L. Hubbard-Sister, wid
ow of Ihe late John F. Slater, famous for
iris munificent gift of $1 000,000 to
Southern froedmen, died in Norwalk,
Conn., Tuesday morning of pneumonia,
aged about CO years.
A dis|iatch from the capital of Corea,
says: “A terrible famine prevails in
the southi rn portion of Corea. People
are reduced to the last extremity and
many are starving. Need of assistance
is urgent, and relief funds should he
cabled. ”
The Cologne (Iniettc says, that Ger
many will demand of the United States
government that it arrest and punish
Klein, the American whom Germany
charges with having led the Mataafaites
inSimoaatthe time of the repulse of
the Germans in December last.
At a liberal meeting in Edinburgh,
Scotland, on Wcdi.csday, a letter from
Gladstone was read, in which he protested
against O’Brien and others being made
political prisoners for nets which were
tailed crimes in Ireland, but which were
hot called crimes in England.
On Sunday. Frank Silvers, of Tecum
reh, Mich., shot his wife anti two daugh
ters, Edith and Ada, aged eleven and
nine respectively, aud then shot himself.
Every one of the victims was shot
trough the temple, anu with the ex
jeption of Silvers himself, death was
probably instantaneous.
At Missoula, Montana, a Flathead In
dian stoic an overcoat from J. E. Clifford,
who, discovering the theft, beat the
thief over the head. Tbc Indian died
and his people, in revenge, killed Clif
ford and a Dr. Cunningham. The Indi
ans on the reservation arc up in arms
und trouble is feared.
A critical state of affairs prevails at
Castle Mining camp, Helena, Montana.
The minis have been closed on account
of a lack of funds, and the men have
not been paid off. Manager King es
caped lynching a few days ago by riding
off on a fast horse. Rioting Ims oc
curred and more trouble is imminent.
At a meeting of the Arbeitcr Bund, in
Chicago, 111., on Wednesday, it was de
cided t hat Albert Curlin and Airs. Parsons
should he sent ns delegates to the Paris
Labor Congress. Before going across
the water, these two delegates will de
vote their time largely to organization of
anarchist groups on the plau of the
Chicago Arbeiter Bund.
An order was recently made to members
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, in the employ of the Reading
Railroad company at Reading, Pa., that
it was desired by that company that they
should either quit the brotherhood or the
company. Since then, many members
have withdrawn from the order, and it
is assorted that those failing to do so will
be discharged by the company at once.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The warship, Mouongahela, sailed for
Samoa from San Francisco, Cal., on last
Thursday.
James C. Flood, of California, died
at the Grand hotel at Heidelberg, Ger
many, on Thursday.
A not occurred at Kilkenny, Ireland,
on Thursday, on the arrival there of
James Lawrence Carew, member of Par
liament for North Kildare, who was ar
rested in Scotland on a warrant issued
in Ireland for refusing to answer a sum
mons for violating the crimes act. The
mob attacked the police with stones, and
were charged by the officers. Several
persons were injured. The trial of Carew
took place at ouce. and resulted in his
conviction.
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LIKE ’EM BOTH.
flic North German Gazette , of Berlin
(Bismarck’s organ), reprints tiro report
of lhe proceedings of the foreign com
mittee of the United States Senate in
relation to Samoa, ’lire Gazette especi
ally appreciated Senator Sherman’s judi
iions and circumspect attitude, ami
declares that Secretary Bayard contribu
ted in no small degree to appease the
public by statements in interviews pul •
lished in American newspapers.
WITH ÜB.
The discussion of the Samoan ques
tion in New Zealand and Australia, has
shown that the press uniformly supports
the action of tho United States govern
ment in appropriating money to protect
its interests, and the declaration is made
that in case of serious trouble between
America and Germany over the islands,
that the sympathy of the colonies
would be with the former, no matter
what position England assumes.
A CRISIS.
The cabinet crisis in France indicate*
the impossibility of forming a ministry
on opportunist principles. President
Carnot offered tho premiership to M.
Tirard, who declined it. Ex-President
Grevy is very ill. Many public men are
going over to the support of Gen, Bow
Unger.
i HE SOUTH
AT LARGE.
A GREAT ERA OF PROSPERITY
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
rur; I.AUnit FIFI.I) -FAKMKIIH AND lIt'SINESH MEN
ACTIVE SOMETHINII AlloUT UAIUIOAD ACCI
DENTS, arm, rats, buicideh, flues, etc*
A I. AIHII A."
A iniln-ad between Anniston nnd
Montgomery is jirojected.
More than a dozen of tlie sub-contrac
tors on tlie Florence Northern Railway
are organizing their gangs, ami will be
gin work at once.
All the residences anil the business
houses in Haleshurg, were consumed.
'lhe lire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Ed 11. Jones, a freight trai l conductor
on tlie Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
~ml A. Knight, a bruit ennui on his train,
fought a fat J duel with knives at Bir
mingham ou Thursday. Knight died an
half hour after the fight ended; Jones
may die, as lie lias 11 bad wound just
below thi lieuit. Knight had been dis
charged that morning for neglecting his
work.
Fi.oitm A.
John G.Borden, of New York, a Win
ter resident of Green Cove Springs, has
offered a premium of SI,OOO for that city
or town in Florida which, on July Ist,
1880, Rial I present the most cleanly con
dition in public and private premises.
The special session of tho Florida
Legislature adjourned Wednesday, hav
ing pnssed the committee substitute for
tlie Senate hill instituting a state Board
( f Health. The hill has been signed by
tlie governor, and the board must he
appointed within thirty days.
Abram Wilinsky, drummer for a
Charleston, 8. C., clothing house, had
both feet crushed by juiujiing fr. in a
train on Thursday at Jacksonville.
Amputation followed. He is a married
man, with a wife, three children, and no
accident insurance. He will probably
live. His feet were buried by order of
Ihe Israelites iu the city cemetery by au
undertaker.
The Florida Sub-Tropical Exjiosition
opened at Jacksonville on Wednesday.
A great crowd lined uli the principal
streets, es|iecially Branch avenue, lead
ing to the Exjiosition building in Spring
field suburbs. AU tho military c impa
nies in the city, secret societies, Mitchcl
Post G. A. R., Camp Lee, Confederate
Veterans, fire department and citizens
nnd distinguished visitors in carriages
jiarticipated. At tlie Exposition build
ing addresses were delivered by J. O.
Burbridgc, W. 8. Webb and R. N\.
Davies.
TENNESSEE.
The lute Bishop McTyiere’s will was
probated at Nashville on Wednesday,
lie leaves $2,500 hank stock ami his
farm in South Carolina to his wife; a
$1,500 bond and the profits from his
history of Methodism to his eldest
daughter, Mary Gale.
rmiiiNU.
Leon Truman was killed Thursday in
Richmond, by falling with an elevator in
W. Ellis Join s jirinting office. He got
on with a form of type. The cord broke,
and the elevator cur fell about seventy
tine feet, crushing Truman’s skull. He
was a brother of W. Cabell Trueman, ed
itor and owner of the Critic newspaper.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Granitcville, S. C., where are located
♦lie Gruniteville and Vauclure cotton
factoiies, Wednesday wired the Augus
ta, Ga., fire department for aid to fight
the fire.
The Cuthbcrt police force in ve received
their new uniforms. They were gotten
up in New York and are of the latest
style, giving to them an air of importance
rarely ever found outside of large cities.
The summer residence of W. A. Fra
zer, in Elemington, was destroyed by
tire. A light was seen in the house early
in the evening, and the supposition is
that the house was robbed and then set
on fire to prevent detection.
The town of Centre, six miles from
Athens, had a fire Wednesday night.
Two store houses aud one small dwelling
house were destroyed. It is supposed
that a spark from the engine of the
Northeastern passenger train set the
houses on fire.
The “Snow, the Beautiful Snow,” was
the refrain on everybody’s lips on
Thursday, in Atlanta, when about four
inches of mow fell, offering a fiue
chance for the shoo dealers to sell
off their stock of rubbers. Many
improvised sleighs were seen oil the
thoroughfares, and the young folks en
joyed snow-balling, and some of the old
folks took a hand in it too.
Uriah Kellogg, on old man, was found
dead Tuesday morning in Jacksm, sup
posed to have frozen to death. Mr. Kel
logg came to the county before the \\ ur,
from the state of Connecticut. lie mar
ried into ono of the best families in the
county. He was drum major of the 14th
Georgia regiment during the War. He
has two sons in New Aork, one iu
Savannah aud one in Louisiana.
C. J. Hawkins, superintendent of the
waterworks at Athens, had a very nar
row escape Tuesday. He hail climbed to
thu top of the water tower for some pur
pose. and was descending a ladder on
tho inside when one of the rounds broke
beneath his weight. Instantly ho was
hurled with frightful velocity down the
hundred-foot shaft, but fortunately
struck upon a small platform before go
ing very fur. U was a narrow escape
from what might havo bceu a terrible
death.
In the absence of United States Com
missioner Will Haight, of Atlanta, Col.
A. E. Burk took bis place end tried a
very pecul ar case. Barton E. Thrasher,
ordinary of Oconee county, und W. B.
Dickon, deputy sheriff, were arraigned
before him, charged with retarding ih-
United States mail by holding Ink a
tiaia at Wutkinsvillc in a very unique
wav. It seems that the officers held a
11 fa for about S2B against the.contractor
who built the road and levied it upon
the train. It was in evidence that the
wheels of the foremost car were chained
to the engine so that they could not re
volve In this way the train was
•-scotched” or Held for some time. As
si, e evidence did not connect Ordinary
Ihirasher with chaining the train, ho wi s
honorably discharged, but Dicken was
' ve Attired to give bond.
NUMBER 19.
SAWING WOOD.
There am many kinds of exardM-
Honio lovo to play at hall,
Tho school boy oft hi. klto high file*,
With unmo, HU billiard, all;
Thorn aro ga mns for each and ov’ry 000
But he it understood, .
For right down .olid, lasting fun
There’s naught liko sawing wo
Ho push anil draw
The old hack-saw,
Thro’ good haril-seasonsd wood.
The “grand old man" may .wing hi. ax*
The ’cyclist spin his wheel,
rodestrians, on thick saw dust tracki,
May go It, too and heel;
Prize fighters may pouch sand in bags—
Hitch excerciso is good;
But I, whene’er my spirit flAg*,
Just taek’.a seasoned wood;
1 push and draw
The old buck saw,
Thro’ masoned maplo wood.
I love to tee the saw dust fly,
And blocks in straight rows laid
And if tlie old saw “pinchas,”!
Hub "tailor” on tno blade;
Gymnasiums do very well.
And dumb be Is are quite good;
If I want to feel my biceps swell
I tackle seasoned wood;
I push and draw
The old buck-saw.
Thro’ good hard -seasoned wood.
— Thomas Hwrke . til Yankee Blade.
mil AM) POINT.
In divers pinces—ln the deejr sea.
How to raise the wind—Us# n fan.
Lot’s wile must have been a had lot.
“I am laying for you,” said the hoi
to the housekeeper.
Depth of feeling—Feeling for tho lasl
dime in your pocket.
A gentleman who is rather previous—
The Prior, of course.
Paradoxical ns it appears, tho most
successful miners have worked in vein.
The snow line—lt crosses the sidewalk
at tho division fence. — Detroit Free
Press.
Boston may not be tho “Hub of tho
Universe," but she is its center of
gravity.
He was “Claude” before he married
her and clawed afterward.— Merchant
Traveler.
Money will purchase anything, says a
conlcmjiorary. Not every thing. It
sun not purchase a piano that never took
the first premium.— Boston Courier.
We shall meet, but we shal l miss him,
Hu lias gone beyond recall,
With his pockets full of hoodie
He has skipped to Montre ill
—New York World.
The small hoy was asked at dinner by
his mother wliat he best like to eat.
“Well ms, I like those camel’s hair
ducks best, I think.’’— San Francisco
Chronicle.
Mr. Featherly—“You seem tc have a
nice color [his evening, Bobby."
Bobby—“ Yes, sister had to .top
around to the dressmaker’s a moment
before supper und I got hold of some of
hers." — Epoch.
A maiden lived on the West Bide
Who aske l tier true love for a ride,
lie replied, in a pickle,
“I haven't a nickle,”
Then laid down his burden and dide.
—Chicago Evening Herald.
“Don’t you find life a good deal of a
grind. Count Hpnghetti;” “1 used to,”
replied the Count, as ho let his mind re
vert to the davs when he aud his monkey
worked eight hours a day to gratify the
public taste for music.
Prussian Economy.
The traditions of the Prussia* court,
army and civil service, favor an honor
able and even severe parsimony. An
Irishman of the last generation who died
rich found that even when be had late
in life acquired money be had not the
heart to spend it; he “could not,” he
said, “get the chill of early poverty out
of his bones.” Prussia is the same—she
□ever forgets her poverty of origin; she
Barries into the care of imperial finance
the Brandenburg traditions of economy.
She Is even proud of them. A touching
storv in illustration is told of the Em
peror William I. After paying n visit to
the house of ono of his generals hecom
pla ned on his return to his aide de camp
that his study was dimly lighted com
pared with the rooms in which his sub
ject lived. “That,” said the aido-de-
Bsmp, “arises simply from the fact that
the general burns mineral oil which gives
i better light than the colza oil used by
your Macsty.” “Then use the other
oil,” said the Emperor. But, after a few
days’ trial, the new lamps went wrong
every night, and the smell was bad. At
first the aide-de-camp could not under
stand it until the confidential valet of
the Emperor explained that it was all
bis Majesty’s fault; whenever ho left his
study he turned the lamp low. The
aide de-i amp ventured to point this out
to the Kaiser. “I have done it. all my
life,” was his reply. “When, after Jena,
we were very poor, my mother never
left the room without doing it herself or
asking us to do it for her. 1 now do it
iu memory of her aud of those hard
times.” “Yes, your Majesty,” was tho
reply, “it may be done with colza oil,
but "it makes mineral oil smell.” “Then
burn colza oilagain, for I will not give
up the practi e of my life.” This is tho
spirit that still animates tne Hohenzol
lerns anil all their subordinates. —London
Telegraph.
A Cure for Stooped Shoulders.
How often one bears the remark:
“What a fine, big fellow Mr. So aud-so
would be if be didn’t stoop?” And still
such a misfortune can easily be cured.
The stooping figure and halting gait,
accompanied by the unavoidable weak
ness of the lungs, can be attended to and
finally cured by the very simplo and
easily performed exercise of raising one’s
self upon the toes in a perfectly per
pendicular manner several times da ly.
To take this exercise properly one must
take a perfect position, with the heels to
gether and the toes at an angle of forty
live degrees. Then drop the arms life
lessly by the sides, animating and rais
ing the che-t muscuiariy to its full ca
pacity; the chin should be well drawn
iu and the crown of the head feeling as
if attached to a string suspended from
the ceilingabove. Slowly raise upon the
balls of both ieet to the greatest possi
ble height, thereby exercising nil the
muscles of the legs and body; this done,
then reassuming the standing position
without swaying the body backward out
ot the perfect line. Repeat thisexerciso
first on one foot aud then on the other.
The result will be a surprise to many to
know what a powerful straightening-out
power this exercise has upon round and
6tooped shoulders, and it will soon be
apparent that tho lungs will begin to
tiiow expansive £ development.— thiUk
ielphia Telegraphy