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THE BUTLER HERALD.
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1879
DEAnwoon is booming. About two
mouths ago it was in ashen; now it is
livelier than ever. That is, af course,
but a repetition of the experience of every
burnt-out American city, and ia another
example of the innate energy of western
life. The town ia rebuilt with large
brick and frame structures vastly supe
rior to the original ones. All the mer
chants are in business again, many firms
having over $100,000 worth of goods i
stock. Mechanics’ wages, which wer
$8 a day, have now dropped to half that
figure, and hist but not least Dead wood
has T13 gamblers busily plying their
cation. Who says Dead wood is not the
future great ?
It is announced that a now steamship
line is to be started which cannot fail to
is* of great advantage to the south and
probably to the northwest. It is the
Mississippi Valley and Brazil Steamship
Line. The St. Paul Tress is enthusias
tic about the project, and it interviewed
ex-Governor Washburn on the matter.
The governor thinks that an imn
trade can be worked up between Brazil
and the southern and western states.
J lo considers the obstacles at the mouth
of the Mississippi as practically overcome,
and he looks on the new line asp splen
did scheme. “At present,” continues
the governor, “our communication with
Brazil is by British steamers and
Liverpool. The result is that we I
# liltlc trade with that country, while if
we had direct communication it would
furnish a splendid market for flour and
other products, and give us in return
coffee
Nevada feels the shortened prr
of silver, ami the consequent ab
sjKTulative tramps makes the capital
city dull beyond conception. The tw
bonanzas are al>out played out. Their
three millions a month is reduced to
about a tenth. Nevada produced alto-
together fifty-six millions in t 1877, and
thirty-five millions in in IS78. In J*
we estimate twenty-two millions,
vast amount money is being expended
in exploring since the Sutro tunnel
the mines easy -drainage, and fron
pea ranees, ionic rich ore bodies Intel;
covered may develop into vcritnbl
nanzas and restore Nevada to its f<
standing. Nine-tenths of all m
charter
the
in Californi
perty at n
100, and new ones;
iow. Nine-tenths i
ctunl value, and a
iiadc of them.
i and Nevada value
ill ions, in shares of
re being issued <
re “wild-cnts” e
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
'flic 'IV
* has a bala
of $8<
left
Four hundred Mnr
Georgia and Alabama this year.
A bunting partv in Dinwiddic counlv,
Va., killed eleven deer last week.
The total indebtedness of the state of
S.ulli Carolina is *7,175,154 01.
Morchead City, N. on the Atlantic
coast, is to have a $20,000 hotel.
Texas is larger than either the Ger
man Fiupine or the Austrian Umpire.
Four thousand people rode on the
street cars at Little llock, Ark., on eir-
cu» day. '
A ton-thousand-dollar greenback was
paid into the Alabama state treasury
Monday.
There is a revival among tlv
islicn
at Bel
ial re W. Va.
Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., two
hundred miles apart, arc connected by
telephone.
Fast mail,trains are now run over the
Atlantic Coast Line and the »South Caro
lina railroad.
An industrious young lady in Ander
son, K C., has ’made a handkerchief
valued at $25.
They say that all that keeps tlr Au
gusta, Gn.*, canal from being a success is
too much water.
The first store in Grenada, Miss., was
built in 1838 by Col. N. Howard, who
still resides there. \
The colored people own 13,000 acTes
of land iidlalifax county, N. C., and
8,000 in Warren.
A contract for building a rnilrodd
which will connect Pensacola, Fla., Rnd
Selma, Ala., has been let. \
Of the six hundred and fifty/'convict*
in the Tennessee penitentiary there is not
one sick in the hospital.
Gorman carp is being extensively dis
tributed in Mouth Carolina by the fish
commissioner of that state.
Two Gatling guns, with mountings,
etc., lmve lieen added to the battery of
the Alabama .State Artillery.
F.ighteen hundred and ninety-three
person* have signed the temperanoe
pledge in Atlanta, Georgia, recently.
There are two colored centenarians
in Spalding county, Ga. One aged 10ft
and the other 10S, and lxith arc women.
Thirty million cigars were made in
Wheeling, W. V., last year, and the
number will Ik* largely increased this
year.
An eel six foot king got into the wheel
of a water-mill at Goldville, Alabama,
and was sufficiently largo to stop tho
wheel.
The Little Rock Democrat snystb#/."t
? the
lia>
life Tiegroos
nicy
of Arkansas had
present.
Savannah (Ga.) News: There were in
port Friday eight steamships, fourteen
ships, twenty-two barks, five brigs and
ten schooners.
Henry Harris, of Meriwether county,
Ga., trapped twenty leavers in three
nights last week. Ho sells the skins f<
$1 25 apiece.
Mome very fine oranges have boon
S mwn this year at .Savannah, Ga., and
ie Nows is confident of future success in
that direction.
A traveler in Suinner county, Tcnn.,
last week saw a man named William
Norris, aged ninety-two years, in the for
est chopping wood.
At the approachingstate fair to be held
ih Jacksonville, Fla., a pnftwvwr*/ fifty
dollars will be awarded f«A g
of oranges exhibited. *
Constitution: TU !>**•*■»■
ing house- : n *♦' J. p, Uusa, Sccrd
certained. Living is cheaper here tlian
in any city of Georgia.
Patrick McDonald, not three years
old, Bends the Charleston News $1.30
collected by him at Lynclihurg, K C.,
for the Hood orphans.
Tom Day was stabbed to deatli at
Knoxville, Tcnn., Sunday, by hisnephe
Eil. Day, a mere lad of seventeen years.
The lau is in the loek-up.
A bank at Borne, Ga., has rcc<
$30,000 in American twenty-dollar gold
pieces and they are being naid out for
cotton the same as greenbacks.
A force Is now busily engaged in con
structing a telegraph line along the Bhc-
nandoah Valley railroad, between Shep-
lierdKiowii, W. V., and Front R<
Va.
The South Carolina legislature is con
sidering a bill to prohibit the running
of freight trains and to regulate the run
ning of mail and passenger trains on Sun
day.
East Tennessee marble is to be used
in the construction of the proposed mon
ument t*> the memory of the late Gen.
Roliert E. Lee in the city of New Or
leans.
Sunday two members of the Christian
church at Little Rock, Ark., each p
seated a title to IfiO acres of land,
the l>eginning of a fund to build a church
edifice.
Jackson, Miss., is building a
opera house, capable of scaling 900 jk*o-
ple, and it is said that when completed it
will be one of the prettiest theatre
the south.
Twenty-two young men will npplv for
admission into the North Carolina *C<
ferencc, M. E. Church, at its nextsessii
This conference already embraces 170
inemlierH. •
Memphis Lodger: Gobi eagles and doll
hies were freely paid out by those wh<
had debts to settle to-dav. The vello\
icdal will i
l»ec
the
i Pennsylvania have bet n
;in lately. Quite a mini-
inployed at the timlici
market.
Laborers fro
coming to Geo
lx?r of them a
mills of the Georgia Land and Lurabc
company.
Lynchburg ( Va.) News: The Mid
land railroad has a contract to ship. r »,0<)0
car-loads of iron ore to Pittsburgh. The
ore is to be furnished fron Riverville, <.
tho canal, below the city.
A Mr. Stoddart, at Pensacola, Fir
has an orchard of 3,500 fig trees, mar
of which were imported from Euroii
Asia and Africa. Almost every know
variety is represented in this orchard.
A negro named ix*aeli escaped from
jail in Robeson county, N. (’., last week,
and a deputy sheriff’ named Cole, while
trying to arrest him, wes shot and i
stanlly killed. I.each is still at large.
Some burglars at Charlotte, N. C., e
tored a store on Tuesday night by borii
few holes around the two locks on
jor, filling the holes with kerosene and
burning the door until the lacks dropped
off.
The Av
iclie .
that there seer
phis; It is within the city’s financial
:ope.
U is thought that special session of the
ennc.-soe legislature will W called coon
to pass an act enabling the taxing dis
trict of Memphis to levy a tax for im
proving tlve sanitary condition of Mom-
[this.
Brvokhaven Ledger: There is some
talk of changing the gauge of the Chica-
iouis and New Orleans railroad
to four feet eight and a half inches, to
make it conform to the standard of
northern roads.
vl K. Adainsou carries the mail <mi
f<H)tbetween Ridgway and Lcnkville, Va.,
cc of twelve miles. He lias not
failed to make a trip for several years,
id receives twenty-five cents for each
mini trip.
The Arkwright Cotton Factory, at
ivannnh. Ga., which has been closed
>r some time, is likely to l>e purchased
v A. Campbell, a capitalist and large
iMiufacturer of Philadelphia, who will
■suine work at once.
The school children of Georgia pro-
>se to contribute enough money to erect
monument over the grave of the late
Prof. Bernard Mallon, of Atlanta. The
suggestion is credited to Miss Laura A.
Haywood, of that city.
A large steam ginning and milling es
tablishment at Mikcsvillc, Fla., was
burned on the night of the 21st inst., to
gether with 80,000 ]H)undsof seed cotton.
The fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: The house
t one Jacob Keaton, colored, on G. /.
French’* plantation, at Rocky Point,
Pender county, was accidentally de
stroyed by lire on Monday last and his
fonr children perished in {lie flames.
Tho South Carolina public schools
were attends} during the last school year
" 122.663 pupils, of whom 58,308
ire white and 04,095 were colored.
iis is the largest attendance the schools
that state have ever hud in one year,
fcelgreen (Ala.) Nows: J. G. Moody
hi* sent to odr office a cotton boll with
fourteen well developed looks of fine
staple in it. There Doing usually but
foil* locks, this makes the boll we have
eqUfll to three and a half of the ordinary
cotton.
T|ry are killing fish in the streams of
Geoigia by exploding cartridges of dyna
mite aider water. Mo general has this
praeijhb become that fears arc expressed
that ifi many places the fish will lie en
tirely destroyed. But there is no law to
p re vents t, ami the novelty of the 1ms-
—ess is Efficient to nmkc it popular.
Do CloU (Mss.) Times: When our
darkies £ to Kansas, a d other north
ern statesibreadstufi's will Ik* cheap, cot
ton go u it to twenty cents per pound,
stock mi*\g will Ik* a paying business
in this set Ion, and treating negroes for
their votes Will then Ik* played out.
The Peabny fund makes the follow-
ng alio warn schools this year:
Houston, $2Ml; 8<ui Antonio, $1,200
Sherman. $1100; Branham, $800. After
this yffiu the -ustecs pre|>o ■> to confine
from that fond to normal schools in
Texas.
The New ^rk and North Carolina
Smelting company are erecting their re
duction works hear Charlotte, N. C.,
where they expert to handle gold, sil
ver, copper and wic ores. The capacity
of tho works wal lie twenty tons per
day.
New Orleans J’kayune: Hon. Jldah
P. Benjamin, it is ^ported, stands^ fair
Knoxville Tribune: Marble quarry
ing in cast Tennessee has grown to be a
very important industry, and new dc-
I Kisits are lieing developed constantly,
mmenae quantities are lieinp shipped to
the eastern and northern cities, where it
is universally admired, and commands a
high price.
Savannah (Ga.) News: Dr. J. L.
Wilkes, of Lincoln county, recently sold
one of his plantations to two young ne
gro men, who paid him cash for the
property. 1 >espite the numerous “south
ern outrages” on the “poor African,”
the colored people are rapidly becoming
land-owners anu tax-payers.
The Americas ( Ga.) Bepublican tells
of a singular quadruped killed by a par
ty of tear hunters- It was hear tehind
and goat before, a sort of hybrid for
which they could find no name. They
have the skin and legs, and are anxious
that some skilled naturalists will come
and give it the right nomenclature.
At Corpus Christi, last week, a Mrs
Coghel was sent to the city hospital, to
getter with her two children, aged three
years and eighteen months, respectively.
One night she prevailed upon the nurse
to leave them in her room overnight, and
next morning the children were found
strangled to death and Mrs. Coghel was
gone. She has not yet teen discovered.
Thf tate : The planet Venus created
a sensation in Richmond on Saturday.
Hundreds of people gathered at differ
ent times during the day at the street
corners, especially on Main street, to see
the morning star in the southwestern
heavens. It was plainly visible to the
naked eye until late in the day, when it
set.
Memphis (Tenn.) Lodger: A weekly
average of about $1,500,000 worth of
eastern exchange termed cotton hills has
been selling to bankers by cotton buyers
here during the past month. The rate
paid is from $3.75 to $5.00 per $1,000,
and it is from this source that the chief
profits of the banking business here is
derived.
Vicksburg (Miss.) Commercial: There
are property owners in this city who
have not paid a dime of taxes on their
real estate since 1872. They refuse to
pay and there is no law by which they
can Ik* compelled to do so. They pay
their State ami county taxes to the sheriff
and keep the State from selling their
property, but tho city has no way by
which to compel them to pay.
Nashville (Tenn.) American: J. C.
Rodimer, of Gallatin, a well known rail
road contractor, was in the city yester
day. J ie says the people of Mumnor, Trous
dale and Vmith counties are talking
strongly of building a railroad across
from Gallatin via Hartsville to Carthage.
He says the country through which it
would pass is one of tho most teautiful
and richest agricultural regions ii
State.
Tho Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
that A. J. Grant, of Harris couhty,
treated this year a crop which yielded
eighteen full bales of cotton aiid 300
bushels of corn; besides about 3,000
mdsof fodder, nnd be only ittcd on<
le in the cultivation. Another farm
.1. A White, iuad© 406 bushel* of
n and fourteen bales of cotton, weigh
ing 500 pound*, on a onc-horsc farm.
’ tesidtv a trop of fodder, i»cas,
potatoes, etc. *
Dallas (Texas)\Uw*M : The tide of
colored emigrants that is rolling int<
Kansas at present from this State is ver
large. They are going by hundreds to ‘
id where a great many must die of cob
il hunger this winter. Nearly ever;
in that goes north carries a lot of
them. So far they have been coming
ed i-onceudons by the government of Nics
ruugs for the protection of said inler-oceauic
canal, and will Nccure to naid company the
peaceful enjoyment of the rights conceded
l»y such concession. Referred to committee
on commerce when appointed Mr. Burn
side then called up his resolution of last ses
sion, reaffirming the Monroe doctrine in con
nection with the proposed Darien canal and
proposed to speak thereon. At the close of
Mr. Burnside's remarks, tin-senate, on motion
of Mr. Gurland, went into executive session,
and when the doors were reopened, it ad
journed.
In the souate, on the third, Mr. Beck intro
duced a bill to authorize the payment of cus
toms duties in legal tender notes; also a bill
to amend title of the revised statutes so a.-
to authorize the purchase of foreign limit
ships by citizcus of the I'uited Slates for use
in foreign carrying
miittci
i film
Mr. Bayard in
from ami after the passage of this resoiu
the treasury notes of the United States s
be receivable for all dues to the United St
-pting duties on imports, and shall no
y of i
legal tender, ami ,
A shall Ii
scriptiou. Referred to finance couimitU
In the Senate on the 4th, Mr. Carpe
offered a resolution declaring that tin
sumption of circulation of gold, silver
greenbacks as lawful money and the ex
tatioii that finances would not lie distui
by precipitate legislation, had been folio
dustry and general prospe
duct of business depen
d policy,) and t
(the successful
upon a stab!
in the opinion of tin ,
during the present session materially chang
ing the existing system of finances would be
inexpedient At 12:30 the senate went ii>
to-dav by Mr. Mori ill to fucTtite the refund,
iug of the national debt It is a dupdlicatc o.
the treasury department bill introduced by
Mr. Garfield At 12:45 the doors were re-
opined ami smate apjeurned until Monday.
Tlie Hoiinc.
On the first, at precisely 12 o’clock, the
aker called the
r by th.
50 absentee!
tho
but the
nvement is spreading and is beginning
I>c felt in this section of the State.
Norfolk Virgin iau: Yesterday nil Ital-
n was going the rounds of the city with
•age of t nincdmice. The little animals
gave recognition of their respective
names and performed many singular and
amusing tricks. Anion”: other tilings,
iicc arranged in order a miniature
>n, put the cap on and fired il oil',
and showed no alarm at the explosion.
One of the creatures then pulled his
mate, who lav down as if dead, into a
cart and hauled him off.
New Orleans Picayune: We are in
debted to Major A. W. Rountree for
specimens of an orange that is both seed
less and dqilble. The finest is large, of
a rich gold color; keeps well, and is of
delight ful flavor. In a hundred of these
oranges there will seldom be found a
d, and many of them have a pretty
miniature orange in the flower end of
the large fruit. Tho original tree in this
country was procured from the Emperor
>f Brazil’s botanical garden at Rio dc
Janeiro.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle : There is a
society of colored men near Williston, M.
Cm that is a law unto itself, so far ns the
of larceny is concerned. The men
are cotton-pickers, have a president and
rules and regulations for their govern
ment. A lew days ago one of them
issed five dollars. The proof was very
plain against a former inemter, who was
immediately tried bv a jury of six of his
peers and found guilty. He was sen
tenced to receive fifty lashes on his
naked back and be expelled from the
neiety. The sentence was executed to
the letter.
Nashville American: The city treas
urer says that he is out of money. He
. unable to pay the street hands, the
police, the city teachers, the firemen, the
rk-nouse guards, the dump-boat men,
the porters at the market house, for
the past month. He says the tax-payers
too dilatory, and that unless some
payments arc made to collector McCann,
the laborers will suffer. A great many
v tehind, too, with their privilege tax-
i, tippling licenses, etc. All the city
needs is for those who owo to walk up
d settle their indebtedness. The re
iver of water taxes has been for three
four day* past stopping the water of
del inq unite
C ONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
The KeiniU*.
lo- senate mi the 1st was called to order
. Vice President Wheeler at 12 o’clock
The vice president laid before the senate the
al report of the Secretary of the Treas-
vliieh was ordered printed. Just before
.’clock the President’s message was re-
d and read by die clerk. At its com lii-
Mr. Kerry arose and announced die
death of Ids colleague, Zachariah ('handler,
of 232 members,
At 1:30 the Pres
ideal’s message was received and read by the
clerk On motion of Mr. Wood, of New
York, the message and accompanying docu
ments were referred to a committee of tin
whole and ordered printed The house ad
journed.
In the House on the 2nd, a resolution uat
offered by Mr. Price of Iowa, declaring it tu
be tho opinion of the house that no change
diould be made in the currency laws at the
•resent session of Congress. It was referred,
is was also the joint resolution introduced bv
Mr. Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, pledging the pro
tectiou of die government to dieNicaraugunn
inter-oceanic canal company, when it shall
lmve obtained a grant from the Nicaraugiiau
government Mr. Speer introduced u bill
nstructiug the Secretary of War to pre
nilitary parades and army bands from
In the house, on die 3rd, by uiiai
onsent the Slates were called as on .\
or the introduction of bills, under
all the following was introduced a
d by Mr. Wood, of New York, r
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 11.
VD ML1XM WIMir.
nlaths city all
What t
And*
WlU. V«BI I
But raallv. you an getting »
Conditionedi Whatofltr l a always
CoMttl—ad-a regular stack;
Bat I work the* offooaakov or etiMf,
And keep myself straight with the M.
Clair;
fellow* down there.
u’d think eo to aw
a regular belle;
iwHiw
And gene off with
Wo end et aloe girls and salt
And lota of our fellows r*~
Anr saebT Well, you’d
Every girl ~ _
All the tons <
And other
But one of them, Tom, was a stunner;
She brought dowu her game <>n the wing,
For in leas than six bourr, by Jingo,
She had <-»ery man ou a string!
Pretty? JUihrr! Her teeth were like pearls, sir
Peeping out between confine bars;
And her eyes, when ehe smiled on a fellow,
J ust twinkled like midoigbt cigars.
Such li life; here, I'll show you tha locket
She mt« me at part iug; and Will
Haa a handle of her’# in his pocket,
Wo keep ihem for mcmonbil.
As for me, though, I wsto't enraptured,
Xu »ptt* of tho ruee tint and pearl,
For inuiehow I'm never contented
With only a tenth of a girl.
And she’s not very younr, let me tell you—
Ten years »inee they shipped her from school,
And 1 don't tliiuk she’ll ever got married,
She can't lud s big enough Toed.
Her name? Miss Van Andcl, of Brooklyn,*
You met her, you say, In July,
You'ro engaged to her, Tom? Oh, the dickens!
tiegpar ,1- well, lung It—good-bye!
—Acta CtmtiUiUian.
id re
mg the refunding of the National debt.* Tin
bill is as follows: Be it enacted, that si
much of the authority conferred on tin* sec
retary of Use treasury by the nets of July 14,
137B, Httd January 20, 1871, to refund’tlie
public debt to i lie extent of $1,500,000,000 as
been exhausted and executed, be and
the «
is her.
the rate of fatten s
authorized by tho
not to exceed 3L
Mr. Garfield Intri
the refunding the pat
[It.prevMcs ♦bat all
Hie* law shall apply
bonds bearing higlici
four pc
odified,
(•lids vet
•d a bill to faeilit
af all existing provisions of
apply to any United States
er cent bonds <
:d bv net of Julv
it' is undersir
•cd at the treas ii i
Hiding (be ti
ieh fall due i
0,000,000]
In the bouse, the -1th,
4, 1870, for unv si
•d that his bill '
• department by >
ntains all the pro
saetingnny ini-
t 1 o’clock, ad-
va, declaring congress om.osed to
lion in the volume of United M
,voder notes, but on the contrary i
of substiuting greenbacks for imti
notes, and that it is in favor of fret
•ted coinage of 412L
...Mr. O’Conn
•cd a lull to r
mth their sa
men’s saving i
Adjournc
f South Cnroli
•turn to the freedi
rings, deposited
md trust com pain
>1 until Monday.
3:15,
d timt the Senate, as a mark
t to the latter’s memory, adjourn, which
agreed * ~
and the Senate
In the senate, on the 2nd, Senator Gordon
announced the following joint resolution:
Whereas, The project of the const ruction of
the inter-ocenmo canal in Niaaraoga, is re*
iguixed as a n< owelty for the pronparHyand
commerce of tho world and th« davelopnieut
of the maritime and commercial interwats of
United States, awl, Whereas,—ah «*r
Facts About the Human Body.
The average man measures about firo
feet three and one-half inches.
The weight of the average male adult
is 1-10 pounds.
The human gkelcton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones.
There are more than 500 separate
muscles in the body and an equal number
of nerves and blood vessels.
The skin contains more than two mil
lion openings, which are tho outlets for
an equal numDer of sweat glands.
Each perspiratory duct is one-fourth
of an inch in length, which will make
aggregate length of the whole about
nine miles.
Every adult man has fourteen hun
dred square feet of lungs; or, rather,
the mucous membrane lining the air
cells of his lungs, if spread upon a
smooth, plane surface, would cover an
extend of fourteen hundred square feet
About two-thirds of a pint of air ii
inhaled at each breath in ordinary res
piration.
The full capacity of the lungs is about
three hundred aim twenty cubic inches.
A man breathes eighteen times a
minute, and uses three thousand cubic
feet, or nbout three hundredand seventy-
five hogsheads of air per hour.
The weight of the heart is from eight
to twelve ounces. It beat* one hundred
thousand times in twenty-four hours.
A STRANGE STORY.
(Aa Extract from Anna Dlcklntoa's "Esgg.4 R.gisMi.’H
T>id I tell them of queer people and
strange experiences?
Yes, indeed, did I.
Can I recall them now?
No—ves. One I remember, because
It was the most inexplicable affair that
ever befell mo—no, aid not befall—but
that has ever come tome “second-hand,
almost as good as new.”
1 found myself one day at a certain
town with no “connection” till aix
o’clock in the afternoon—a train that
might make sixteen miles an hour, with
ninety-six miles to get over. Due on
the platform at 7:30 o’clock That
wouldn’t do. So, of course, I had to
have a “ special.”
Place and time—Central Iowa, some
time ago. Country just a fiat plain, not
the rolling prairie land lying further
west; no towns, few villages, fenceless,
treeless; a speck of anything easily
seen afar had any speck existed.
Even the ties were without incident.
One af ter .another, on© after notheV, all
alike—same length, striking family re
semblance, lying on the even ground,
without so much as a ditch at tne side*
to break the monotony.
Nothing of interact without, ao %'■
turned my eyes to inspect'what might
be found within. They era generally
wide open when they an to lool at ma
chines or machinist*.
I have traveled behind engine* and on
them by hundreds, and have walked
about and questioned and gazed and ex
amined them thoroughly, but alwaya
with fresh wonder and admiration.
Strong as Titans; simple, complicated;
helpful, merciless; beautiful yet terri
ble.
And I never look at them without
wondering what manner of world this
will be when some one learns how to
utilize, not one hundred, or fifty, but
even fifteen per cent, of steam.
As to their manipulators, fools do not
abound among them. A man needs
brains and logic to be a good machinist.
I like to watch a first-class one listen to
an argument on a subject with which he
may ue ever so unfamiliar. He eees
flaws, and shows where the screws are
loose, and the sequence ia broken, and
the point overlooked or bunglingly made
better, half the time, than the combat-
ante, though they be no mean ones.
If a man knows a machine, he knows
how to arguo from cause to effect, step
by step of the way, and isn’t easily
“bamboozled,” and there’s precious lit
tle “ nonsense” about him.
My engineer was one of the right sort.
A clenr-cvcd, intelligent, wide-awake
young fellow from New England—the
last man in the world you would suspect
of drink or either superstitious ni:
flams.
He was explaining to me some of the
mechanism, when, with his right hand
on the lever, he suddenly paused, threw
himself halt out of the little window,
gazed a moment up the track, then,
turning his head, with his left hand
thrust up before it as though shutting
out some awful vision, drove on.
There was no mistaking the attitude
nd its meaning.
“You have run over aome one here,”
■aid I.
Yes—no—I don’t know,” he an
swered.
His firemen seemed to notice neither
action nor answer. I gazed at both with
amazement akin to horror. “Am I rush
ing through space forty miles an hour
in the keeping of madmen?” thought
“. “Let us see.”
“You don’t know?”
“I don’t wonder you look," laid he,
and ask. too. Will you kindly oblige
ne by telling me if you saw anything off
to the right r*
“Nothing,” said I, “but open plain.”
“Nor ahead of us?”
“Nothing but level track.”
“Nor behind us? Did you look?"’
“Yes, l looked back. There was noth
ing but track and plain.”
“I knew it,” said he; “knew it just os
well before I asked as afterwards, but
couldn’t help asking. Don’t you think
that’s queer?”
“I think you are troubled/ That is
more to tho purpose. Do you mind my
asking what nas troubled you ?”
“Do I mind? Didn’t I want to tell
you, and see what you can make out or
itf ’ and he drew his hand over his fore-
. 7 ; , . r * . ill anu lie urea nia unuu uver *»*•
» nd hi * “ th0 ?« h
whole quantity of tho body passes
through the heart every minute.
The stomach daily produces nbout
nine pounds of gastric juice for th«
digestion of the food; it* capacity ii
about five pints.
it were a nightmare that threatened to
“TiSAfet letitj^mnSlngly, to cheer
his distressed face. “You are too broad
shouldered to stand that sort of treat
ment from anything.” at which he
Witchcraft In Pennsylvania. laughed
That belief in witchcraft not only con
tinues to exist, but, were in not for the
law, would sometimes lead to tho violent
death of unoffending old ladies, was il
lustrated a few evenings ago. Several
girls were brought before a Scranton, Pa.,
justice, the charge of attacking with
■tones a peaceable old lady who resides
in the suburbs of that city, the girls evi
dently believing that the old woman was
a witch, and regarding it as their duty
to stone her to death. Mrs. Shloss, the
mother of one of the girls, indignantly
charged the woman. Mrs. Wagner, with _ __
being a witch, saying that she could j voices lau|
prove eV=r The. «crantonJ?<7>t/6/«Vv7 M says j fellow caL .
.ibe seemed intensely In earnest, and with his bat off, a flannel shirt unbut-1 bod built into the wall ii
fairly trembled with mtcitcmcnt while ; toned et the throet, and one sl«0Vo loose i ship’s berth. A small ta
barling this aocnretfam at the head of the aud hanging, holding a whisky bottle, j and a cupboard complete
plaintiff. The aWarman heard the dc- ffie reeteadown thehfll, stumbled and l^^ffi^sscd to tho ~~
tells of the stiango case patient^ and * sly bled, stemek hie font againstaJgrefl^^H^KiU, all
33 eeloftt of tbV sincerity j yr ^Tbetteffi^ tad pjt T ’ “
the
little and the fireman re
marked encouragingly: “You just pitch
in, Ned;” and Ned pitched in.
“As for the story—it isn’t much of a
story, you’ll say—Dut—well I You see I
was coming down the road the other day
—a good two weeks ago—a road I’ve
been over hundreds of times, and knew
every foot of it. I saw off there, at the
ight, instead of that pancake region,
r egular hill country, wild and green
looking, plenty of trees, and among
them, on top of a sort of ridge, there was
a shambling tavern painted red.
“It was growing dusky, and I could
see lights in the tavern, and hear loud
laughing and rowing. Directly a
came plunging out of tho door
feet easy enough if it hadn’t been for his
cursed whisky^ Dottle; but he grabbed it
and held it up so as to save it, and*
wouldn’t get his balance, of course, with
out both nands, and so pitched forward
again, and this time flat across the rails,
and we went over him.
“It was all done in a minute, you see,
and the train stopped, and I starting at
cfSfyou Soffit for?” said Jim.
“jerking her up like that for nothing.’’
“My God! man, run over a human
creature, and mash the breath out of
him, and ask what I stopped the train
for?”
“Run over a man!’’ cried Jim. , “ Are
you crazy or drunk?” But I didn’t waH
to answer. I streaked up the track to
where the conductor was out, and the
brakemen and passengers all had the!/
heads out of the windows, and everybody
wanted to know what was the matter,
and there—well! you know just as well
as I, there was the open country and the
track as flat as my hand, ana nothing
else near or far to be seen.
“Drunk! No, I wasn’t drunk. I
don’t drink—ever. And it happened
just so?” turning to Jim.
“Just exactly so,” answered the sooty
fireman.
“Yes, just exactly so.” echoed the en
gineer, “and just exactly so I’ve seen it
every day—and done it regularly since
then. And I can’t stand it much longer.
I’ve got to quit. Look at that!” holding
up his strong hand that was shaking in
a way that didn’t belong to its muscle,
nor to the dear blue eyes that had no
drink nor craze in them. “Maybe I can
make a change with a friend of mine
who wants to oome West. Anyway,
I’m going to get out of here, lively.”
i sat and pondered.
“Doyou believe me?” said he.
“Believe you? Of course I do. Tm
not a fool. I know when a man has
truth in his face, and you’ve got truth
in your—voioe, too. for that matter.”
He smiled, and thrust out liis grimy
iat.
“I’d like to shake hands with you for
that—if you don’t care.”
“But' I do care,” raid I, smiling in
turn. So we shook hands.
“Can’t you explain it?”
“No—no more than I can tell you how
a flower grows.”
We reached our destination and each
went his or her way, and so far
kpew there was an end of mystery and
explanation.
Five years afterward I was at New
Brunswick, aiming for the ten o’clock
train to Philadelphia.
“Drawing-room car,” called I, as I ran
down the long, dark platform.
“Drawing-room car this wayl’
■bowted from the rear blackness.
“Ah, if it you, Misa Dickinson!
Planter of room to-night,” and I scram
bled fn
About every official and employe on
the road knows me. So I turned to see
with which conductor I was going, but
did not recognize him.
“You don’t know me?”
“No,” raid I, yet I found something
familiar ia face or voice. “You are a
new man.”
“Yes,” he answered.
“Let me seel let me see!” thought Is
1 don’t like to be thwarted. I alwav.
remember people’s faces, and always for,
get their names. I could forget my own
“Who is he? When—where did I evei
travel with him?”
“You wore not a conductor when I
saw you before. I am sure of that,” 1
ventured.
He laughed at my puzzled face and
answered, "You’re right there.”
All at once I placed him.
“Ahl” cried I, “how’s the ghost?”
The man had a fine ruddy color, but
he turned pale at that—pale as this pa
per.
“Why, you don’t moan that anything
did reallv ever come of it?”
“Yes, but I do.”
“What?”
“Well, I’ll tell you all in a breath—
that’s the best way, and I don’t like
talking about it. You know I wanted
to got away? Yos. Well, I cot my
transfer, catno to the riiilidelpnia ana
Erie road, and my friend went West.
“Maybe I didn’t draw a long breath
as I got under way that first day, and
thought I’d left my bugaboo so far be
hind me. Everything about me was so
different from what I had quitted, it
f iade me feel like a new man. You
now the country tho Dhiladeiphia and
Erie runs through?”
“I know it. Beautiful, fresh and hilly,
and full of streams, with a rough look
ing road and curving track.”
“Just so.” he assented “and I.went
along it cheertul as a cricket, looking at
everything and full of interest until to
wards nightfall—and then—well 1 I shut
my eyes and drovo ahead. What else
could I do? But my fireman was drag
ging at the rope like mad and rousing
me, and the engine was jarring ana
jolting, and presently stopped.
“ ‘What did you do that for?’ raid L
“ *My God, man,’ cried he,'/run over a
human creature and mRsh the breath
out of him, and then ask what I stopped
the train for—are you drunk or crazy?*
and he nlunged off;and I after him.
“I didn’t expect to see anything, but
at the right, you see, as the train ran—
there was a bit of a hill, and a sham
bling old red tavern, with some lighta
shining on top of it, and a lot of people
with the conductor and passengers gath
ered about somethina on tho road, and
as 1 came up—there was a man with his
hat off, aud open shirt, and the whisky
bottlo in his hand, across the track—
dead.” -_
, Where Women hover Go.
Daring eight hundred years no woman
is known to have entered the grounds of
the monastery of Camadoii, Italy, except
once, when a princess of tho nouse of
Medici, who had a great desire to behold
the place, disguised herself in men’s
clothing and was admitted. But so
stricken with remorse was she on behold
ing the sacred spot that she hastened to
the Pope to confess her fault, and, as a
penance for it, was commanded to build
a now cottage in the enclosure, which
■he did. The monastery is one of the
few institutions of the kind suffered to
remain in Italy. A recent visitor rays
that what are called cells are comfort
able little dwellings. Each is surrounded
by a wall, and has its garden twenty
feet square. A little piazza, with tho
trunk of a tree planed and squared for a
bench as its only furniture, runs along
the side of the house. Entering the
door, you find yourself in a brick paved
vestibule, with an empty chamber where
His New Flying-Machine.
An enterprising saloon-keeper
Grand River avenue is always on the
lookout for any novelty that may draw
customers, and perhaps this fact may
have been known to a bland-faced old
man who entered the place the other day
and confidentially began:
“ If I could draw a crowd of one hun
dred men to your place here what
sum would you be willing to give me?”
“What do yon mean?” asked the
■aloonist.
If it was known that I had in my
possession a flying-machine, and that ft
was to fly from your door hero on a cer
tain day and hour, wouldn’t the novelty
be sure to collect a thirsty crowd?”
“ Yes, I think so. If you have a fly
ing machine and want to show it of]
here to-morrow night 1*11 give you a dol
lar, and if the machine is a success jier*
haps I’ll buy it.”
“ Well, sir,” continued the old man in
a whisper, “ I’ve got the boss! She flies
from the word goT All I’ve got to do is
to toss her into the air, and away she
rails. It’s right down fine and no chance
for failure, and I'll be on hand at 7 o’clock
to-morrow night.”
The matter became noised about, and
next evening there were fifty or sixty
people in or around the saloon to wit
ness the experiment. The old man ar
rived on time, having some sort of a
bundle under his arm, und he collected
his dollar of the saloonist and received
several “ treats ” from tho crowd.
When everything was finally ready he
stood on the walk clear of the spec tutors
and said:
“Gentlemen, I warrant this thing to
fly. I didn't invent it myself; but I am
now acting as State agent to dispose of
county rights. Hundreds of men have
■pent years of anxious thought and thou
sands of dollars in seeking to invent fly
ing machines, but this one leads them
all. She will now fly. Please stand
back and give her a chance to rise.”
The crowd fell back and the man lei
fall the cover hiding bis bundle, and
gave an old speckled lien a tow into th*
air. She uttered a dismal squeak, railed
this way and that, and finally bumped
against a telegraph post and settled
down on the roof of a low shed, cackling
in an indignant manner atlxdng turned
loose in a strange neighborhood. It was
a full minute before the crowd was sure
that it was a hen, and during that min
ute the old man is supposed to have run
a distance of seven blocks. A few tried
to overhaul him. but it was no u.e.
d Friday nifht tha Pluaivll]* Aar,
Tha weekly waah os> Monday.
_od, eh I (hart's Barer a llna
Aod never a hint of glory."
•ha (triad her ayes sad anted her hair,
And want to tha ooolereooe meeting—
From tha garden gate to tha reetey eta*
The eell-eame words repeating.
At last the Anal hymn wee eunc.
And all the prayers wen ended.
When one from tha doorway crowd emeag
Her homeward etepe attended.
They left at length the rlllege street
And sprang the low wall over,
To croas through Captain Peaaley’a wheal
And Deaoon Eaaoombe’* clover.
The moon seemed shining overhead
To flood the path with glory;
They whispered low but what they raid
Was—oniytbarenw old story t
—Cambrldf* TrQm*
A New Alpine Damrer.
On the 13th of September three ladies
and two young gentlemen obt
the Hotel Pilatus, at Alpnncht, a horse
and guide, and reached the summit ol
the mountain after six hours’ hard walk
ing. They rested and refreshed them
selves at the hotel on the mountain, and
started on the downward journey,
fore leaving the top the guide asked
of the gentleman for some cognac, which
was refused. It soon appeared that the
guide was intoxicated :uid worse than
useless. He led the horse on which ono
of the young ladies was riding, and so
alarmed her by dragging the animal to
the edge of the path that she got off and
continued to descend on foot.
Once the man would, in the sight of
the party, have sent one hors* down a
S recipice, but the poor beast realized tho
anger, and set his feet steadfastly
against going further in that dirextiou.
It was now getting dark, and to be left
to the mercy of a drunken guide half
way down a steep and rugged mountain-
path was trying enough; but, to make
the matter worse, the man appeared de
termined to go into danger. The ladies
and gentlemen therefore, hastened on
and left the guide and horse to follow.
After much trouble in finding nnd keep
ing to the path in the darkness, they
ultimately got safe to Alpnacht. nnd
told their story. Tho guide did not
come in. The next morning search was
made for the guide and horse, nnd lx>th
were found dead on the mountain side,
having evidently fallen from the path
about fifty feet above. The hotel peo
ple tried to keep the affair from be«
ing public, ana the guide was buried
next day without an inquest of any kind;
but, having still nil eye to business, the
worthy host cooly demanded
demnity for the loss of the horse from
the persons who had so nearly become
the victims of the guide he had s
to them. As yet tpe claim has not been
paid. 1 could npt ascertain tho guide’s
a me.
The Bine naze of Indian Snmmcr.
Mr. Joel Ben ton haa recently published
an elaborate essay, combating the popular
notion, which also has a quasi-scientific
support, that the blue haze of Indian
summer is theproductof ordinary smoke
from fires. He argues first that the
well-known behavior of smoke is not con
sistent with tho various phenomena of
tho blue haze. After describing this, he
rays, “ If it [smoke] ever seems to wilt
or attenuate In some secluded valley, it
is never still; it does not even approxi
mate quietude sufficiently to cheat the
eye; it is not a part of the air, but rather
a passenger upon it, and subject to every
breeze that blows or summer zephyr that
dallies by. I have watched the attitude
of a good many heavy volumes of smoke,
and I have never yet seen one that
stimulates in any of its wrigglings and
active transformations, or in its complete
repose, that unique enchantment which
is wrought by the Indian-summer haze.”
If this haze is the product of smoke
from fire, “there should be,” he says,
“an alarming number of them in tho
fall of the year.” But neither the an
nual fire statistics nor the newspaper
reports show this. Mr. Benton says the
heaviest autumn fires occur at the end
of the hazy season, which would make
the haze precede the fires, and cease
after tho usual mountain fires have be
gun, which consecutive facts he haa
noticed. Besides, all the woods of the
Hudson River counties, if they should
be on fire at once, would—if smoke could
cause the haze—make no appreciable
part of it; and the simultaneous appear
ance of it over a whole continent makes
it impossible to be caused by smoke
from any fires that were ever known.
It reaches from the Arctic Circle tc tlia
Torrid Zone. Its occurrence In the
northernmost region, if it is caus'd by
smoke, could not happen there e*a»pt
through “ a,conflagration of iceberg* 1 '
waifs and whims.
a scandal monger Is a person td add*
mire.
Does a standing joke ever require!
■eat.
Are men who fit counters in boots
counterfeiters?
The sawmill runs to the tune of •
log-a-rythm.
Sound logic—arguing through the
telephone.
A professional beauty, though two
words, is really only one silly belle.
A thumb on the hand is worth two in
a dog’s mouth.
The editor’s position is one of trust.
He has to trust nearly evervbod j.
It is a fallacy to suppose th-.. a baby
is being shampooed when he is cl. istene*
by the minister. It is « untakt
“Genius finds its or. ruad and ragriei
it* own lamp,” rays tho Ev« • raffilir
Journal. Been watcnir.g us, have you?
—Kentucky New Era.
It was a mean trick fur the Bucltt t
State to hold an election while the Dem
ocrats were away attending prayer meet-
fi'jTE man that bought a “salted”
gold mine in the Black Hills was a hole-
sold fellow.
Depend upon it, “ there’s a time for
all things.” The time to leave is when
she askh you how the walking is.
An individual who cslVd his first
daughter Kate, when his a fe had an
other girl, christened her Duplicate.
Many a man who prays n>>t t*> Ik* led
into temptation would be u» fully -ap
pointed if his prayer was granted.
“Bob Injureboul” is one of the
frightfi i results of the Chicago Tribtmdf
new nut hod of spelling,.
▲ newspaper reporter says that one __
of the ladies at the late haa, “took % ^
everybody** eye.” What an sye-dsarl * T
Young Lra!y—“Have you any dressed £
kid gloves? - ’! Cleric—“No, miss, we’fto J
nae kid gloves.”
The man jwho starts for the river to
drown himsdf will run f ir t place off
safety if he res a cnihs lull coming.
The father with uine marriageable
daughters mast have been engaged in
the belle foundry business.—Cincinnati
Commercial.
“ TnE evil of men’s wives lives after
them, while the good which they do ie
seldom spoken of with safety to a step
mother.”
A newspaper reporter who died re
cently, left a large sum of money behind
bim. * In fact, he left all the money in
the world.
The best lip salve is a kiss. This rem
edy should be used with the greatest
caution, as it is very apt to bring on an
affection of the heart.
Thoz hoo r advokatingafonetiksistem
ov speling seem to want toinstituta “g«
az u pleez” orthografy.—Detroit Free
Preu.
There is a difference between light
ning rods and enlightening rods. One
takes the mischief out of the clouds, and
the other out of the bad boys.
" Two aoula vlth bat • cinglo thought,
Two heart* which beat aa ona."
Old fdka abed—tha lamp turned out—
Oh crackey! warn’t It fun.
— WkilthaU Timti.
In tho room of a railroad depot fn
Iowa is the following plaeard over the
clock behind the counter: “ This is a
clock—it is running—it is Chicago timo
—it is right—it is set every day at 10
o'clock—now keep your d—d mouth
shut.”
“ what so rare aa a day in June?”
sings tho poet. A day in January ie
not only rarer but sometimes actually
raw. — New York Newt. Well done.
Lukens! Couldn’t have thought of
anything half so rarefied have tried.
A man who was a great stickler for
etiquette, having married a widow be
fore her term of mourning had expired,
soon after made his appearance with a
weed on his hat. On being asked aa to
his reason for it, he remarked that ha,
considered it no more than the 'ABd-*
some thing toward his ’interned \ redo-
^Servant (answering door-bell , ulled
by little ragged boy)—“ Dome, g»* right
away. We have got nothing ter you.”
Boy—“ Haven’t asked you for i.ething
vet, have 1?” Servant (banterinriy)—
“ Well, what would you have aakcator?”
Boy—“ Didn’t know but this house was
for sale, aud if it wo* I wanted to buy
it.”
Young Poet—You have some poetls
fancy, but your poem will never be ao
ceptea by an magazine in the world. If
is sufficient to ray that anybody can
understand it The poem of the period
must be an enigma, a rebus, a conglom
eration of the vast, the infinite, the
homoeopathic, the perpetual, and the
■erio-hicroglyphic. You take our mean
ing? Write tor lunatics, not for men ol
sense, and you will succeed.
A lady walking down street *he
other day, while she cast fur-tive parcel
at the store windows, was hear 1 tv* re
mark: “That husband ermine '^ofc
an old muff he won’t get mo a n. w sell*- j
this fall. I’ve a notion to gopher » nsfe|
boa that sable to fur-nish such things a*
he had otter. He’ll have to bravery
careful; if I catch him trading witk
young minx again. I’ll make him pull
bis weasel, or seal his destiny for hiiBi
I won’t bear it any longer, so now!”
A Smart Trick*
[r.rt* Utter.)
A few days since a young man
In tie height of fashion came,
the other travelers, out of the
which had just reached Paris
left, and ihe living rooms on the
right These consist of a study just
(sleeping i
^Ik*
Zulu Female Reserve.
ai>cr recorded Ale fact that
Abe brought up a
:ui(l>» itioiicd them
Mpreeent
car when ho was accosted courteously
M l>0 you wish a porter, sir?” "Tn*
very thing I was looking for. Will yo«
take this valise and show mo tho way If
Hotel do la Rounmania, Boulevard P"
Michel. As this is mv Aral visit
Paris, I prefer going there om
“A t your service, elr.” On they tn
fVlum they had crossed Point St, I
ihoporter, instead of followltg Boil,
dn Plalain. turned to the left, went <
Coal de 1 Horologe and entered thf
freture of Polioe. He said to the 4
of the valise: “I am going
vou to tho master of the 1.
ushered him iuto the office of .
detective. The latter
eyes on tho
a* « “‘v **w*K* r ***
'JVhy, good itf, Won. Van'
lave ju.t com. from Am
— ~ >00 .to). . lam tom ol
njum^-dodgiapy J ■,ready ipotU^fiv. —
want to
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