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I THE OLD FIREPLACE.
I pmi may talk about your furnace fire*
I That warm your city homes,
I and tell me how the heat aspire*,
I And through the building roams;
I Tis handy. I’ll admit, to push
I a little iron wheel,
I And let the ghost of summer out
I About the room to steal.
I I But oh, I’d love to see once more
My father’s big fireplace,
j To hear the old logs sing and roar,
I A And nd tip watch the the chimney dodging chase sparks 1 outpour
;
I Vbur modern grate’s a nice affair;
I When full Of anthracite.
I Ij.lcildS the rooni a pleasant air
I f hi any Winter’s night:
I The glowing coal’s a flower bed—
I Lilies and crimson pinks,
I \nd ’mong them many an elfin eye
I Peeps through, and winks and blinks!
[ But oh, I long to see once more
| My father’s old fireplace:
! To n atch the shadows flicker o’er
[ My And mother’s whitely sanded floor,
[ round the ceiling race 1
I These patent pal lor stoves are fine,
I And charm away the chill i
I With windows whence the light may shlue
I The room with cheer to fill.
I tome people love to boast about
I (hir stylish modern ways.
I And thank the Lord who cast their lines
| In these progressive days.
But oh, that I might be once mors
Beside the old fireplace!
To see the fleet-winged flames upsoar
And watch the flashes on the floor
Entwine aud interlace.
Hearty and jovial fires were those
I I loved so when a boy.
I They tinted darkness like the rose
I Ytid warmed the heart with joy,
I They chuckled in an undertone,
I They cackled, whistled, laiighed, !
I They burned so bright, the cares Of life |
■ Flew upward iii the draught! I
| And oh, I’dldve to be once more j
Beside the old fireplace:
■
To drowse upon the sa-Jfled floor
And find my mother bending o’er
With love-light oii her face!
i —Georye Horton ( id Chicago Herald.
HIRAM’S ROMANCE,
Hiram Sttllmau came front the pine
woods back of New Brunswick to make I
his fortune in New Y'ork. He had no |
tvery ambitious hopes of becoming a !
{' underbill or an alderman, but he knew !
something about horses, and be thought ;
rr might ~ot u m*n im it Jiitmn ________1
The folks down on the farm were op
posed to his going; they would have pre
ferred to have him marry the youngest
daughter of the Methodist parson and
settle down at home. His father had
even gone so far as to offer him t#o
rooms on the second floor of the old farm
house and a third interest in the farm
with $200 down on the day of his wed'
ding, but Hiram wanted to see the city,
and his interest iu the Methodist par
son's youngest daughter was very sfio-ht.
He came to New Y'ork with just $18 iu
silver in his pocket, and a shinv papier
mache valise. As soon as he saw the
long, unbroken line of carts and drays on !
Wesf Street he gave up all idea of bfccotn- ■
ring a driver. He could guide a horse !
blown the furrow in front of the plow 1
H? * drivers dazed and terrified him. j
UP u' ,r dt St T t0
th. c P, City tv Hall HB park^which , struck . him as ;
no pleasantest part of the city that he
na«l yet: seen, and he sat down on a
P encii and looked around him wonder
inglv with his valise shut iu between his
Inees, ►harpers for there he knew what thieves and j
Hus big were prowling about in 1
curiosity metropolis. He had a 1
to see the Bowery, of which
bis cousin Elijah had told him, and when
he was and rested, and a little used to the \
lioise rush, and felt a little more
confidence in himself, ho asked one of
•he Bowery “constables” in gray where the j
was. He was much relieved to
fiofi it was so near a; baud, aud plunged !
into the stream that flowed up Park Row
still with alert vivid for interest and j et with his se nses wasi |
possible sharpers. He
miica pleased with the Chinamen, and
he ,oot *•> *" “S <**■»»
hour on the corner of Mott street gazing
at them and listening with puzzled in
lercst to their queer chatter. He was 1
father surprised to find that no one else |
seemed to notice them. He was also
much pleased with the pawnbroker's
shops, the cheap clothing stores and the j
ceaper lodging houses which seemed to
promise such rare accommodations at
such moderate rates, He went into one !
of these where the rooms were a quarter
of a dollar a (Thy or a dollar a week and
paid for a week in advance. The man
in his shirt sleeves behind tho desk gave
him lie a big key with a brass tag to it, aud j
went up to his room and left his bag
t! ll r e. He sauntered out with quite a 1
Pcling -hip of being somebody, for the owner
of the room gave him a sense of ‘
vested proprietory right in the metropolis,
He felt almost like a citizen and rather
wished the folks at. home could see him.
There was a hidden hand-organ play -
ing inside of a place, the front of which
was covered with colored canvas signs
t-uch as Hiram had seen billowing before
tue sideshows at the circus.
! The pictures were very inviting, lw!
Hiram knew, from his experience at tfc
circus, that they were not to be relied
te'- He stopped to look at them.
uuugii, and then he moved over to t'y
cuter edge of a crowd of men who
stood gazing in t hrough a pane of glass
“ f a young woman. Hiram thought she
was rather bold to sit there and be stated
by so many men and he thought it
"as alt the more a pity because she was
silJ 0 Un r Snd o° C<VnPl? ' Sbe a red
Dlk K bodice and a very large gold cam .
•■round her neck, also reddish hatr and
he fan- complexion that always go*
'■ ) red hatr.
Hiram thought her remarkably pretty.
looked as if she was put out about
*omething or other and did npt meet the
eyes of the men in front,b,ut stared up over
their heads. Hiram wondered what she
could "be doing and crowded up nearer to
see. What be saw took his presence of mind
completely away, for when he came ueav
er he discovered that the girl waa whole
to the waist and that the lower part of
her body was cut completely away.
Hiram had seen some dozen circuses in
his time and many curious human freaks,
as they are very well called, but that a
woman who w«9 so good to look at
should have been bom in this way filled
hint with sudden pity and disgust.
Then he blushed aiid bowed iiis head
in anguish at his Own iitexperieuce when
6iie of the men in front of hint said: “A
tion: very pretty <jf trick, a done very clever cteep
course it’s with the lights
and mirrors; but it’S good; isn’t it?”
And then the gentlemau added Carelessly
to his companion as he moved away:
i. And the girl’s pretty; too—quite too
pretty to be wasted in these slums.”
Hiram followed them as they turned
up the street, Ho recognized them as
belonging to a different class than that
of the men lounging on the street around I
him. Yet they seemed to be as strange |
to the place as himself. He rather fancied !
he would like to get work from them,
and he stopped them after a block or two
and asked if they knew of a job for a |
young man who was strong aud willing
to work.
They answered him sharply iu the
negative, but stopped as he turned away
at once with a startled apology.
“Do you really want work?” one of
them asked, and then they told him there
were thousands like him, and that only
one out of a hundred ever got the work
he came for, but stopped looking for it
and went to the bad. They told him to
go back to the farm and stay there; that
it took very bright men indeed to get
along iti New Y'ork, and that he might
better be a big man on his own farm than
slave fora small man in New Y'ork They
seemed to think they ought to soften this
by some assistance; but Hiraai told them
sharply that he didn’t want any money,
and walked away feeling very much hurt
and discouraged; though he wouldn’t
Own it even to himself.
Hfe walked up and down the Bowery
all the rest Of the day, and ventured into
little cross streets aud into big ware¬
houses; where he asked fur work of any
sort. He determined not to go back to
the farm with nothing to show for his
v * s >t and have his people say “We told
7°“ 80i ” He felt very lonely and wished
®’ e bad some One to talk to. He concluded
Anally to go back and look at that giri
in front of the dime museum. She was
still there, and he took a great deal of
comfort in looking at her. Once or twice
Ac fancied she noticed him standing
there at the back of the constantly chang
> U S crowd, and he turned his eyes away
because he thought it enough to shame
U! hV g‘ rl to have a man stare at her.
When it grew dark and the electric
lights began to sputter overhead, Hiram
telt himself conspicuous and turned away
to g et supper, which he purchased for
fifteen cents in a restaurant. He was
ver J tired, and the hard pavements hurt
his feet after the soft country roads; but
before he went to bis room he walked a
blocks out of his way to take a look
the icd-haiW girl with the pretty ;
complexion. She saw him this time, J
surelv,aud looked rather curiously at him,
him
°ne clay followed another and no wo k
came to Hiram, and his money ran ier 3
low Each day he refreshed his home
sickness by going to lootc at the young
lady, without any waist, who hung i:i
midair in the window of a museum. The
young lady without any waist had grown
to look for and expect Hiram; there was
something so earnest and likeable in his ;
honest, handsome, sunburned face, aud
then he was so respectful in his bearing [
and did not wink at her, nor laugh at
her, as the other men did. She was very
iiredof hanging in midair iu the window, ,
but she knew other to keep her- ’
no way
self alive in that big city, to which she
had turned when her aunt died and left
her alone in the Connecticut ' " ' village from
which she came.
Aud one afternoon, after Hiram had ■
not turned up for a whole day, she could
.
smiled, he l0 ° k f" r? SSL' r nm‘ a nm ±
and though -• - she never “sssm* i j
first time, he knew she saw him and that
she was pleased to have him there. He
often wauled lo punch the heads of the
men around the window, but he consul
ered that she could not hear what they
said, and so let them alone. But one
night, when his money was quite gone.
and when itc had already learned the way
to one of the big pawnshops, and while
he was standing disconsolately gazing ai
the ladj r iu midair, something happened
that made him boil with rage. Two very
unpleasant young men in front ‘ of him
tapped on tho window pane d took (1 ;j
their hats and bowed to tac girl an.
called her very endearing names. ri.t*
grew as rei as her hair,out sae was afraid ^
to move, as that would upset the mirrors
which made her look as though sue were
cut in two, but she called to the propne
tor and the tears came to liereyes. itiram
did not wait for the proprietor.
]je just learned over the heads of ^ the
laughing crowd and caught the young
me n by the collar and shook them 118
though they wer3 dirty rags.
„y on me an. cowardly pups, you,”
ve i| e( q Hiram,“insulting a lwly that ain’t
'
;,. ot Qo Qne to take care of her. If you
g arp tf) s . )ea p ur look.ur even bit come of near life
t h ;1 t giri again I’ll beat every ‘
yo ur me an bodies.”
1 *. Hiram whirled the two toughs
^ h * “ J d gtrode angrily up the
aR e and th(;r , were few
people I U, about. Hiram was much dis
His visit to the city had been a
' would
bitter failure, and he
‘ next
. to ,be farm the very
| “ m f i( it bad not been for thaf girl,
| ! ^ n<! , b „ v „pld not leave her to be
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1890.
aBflsed and insulted, ft was really more,
than any one could ask. And then a
hand touched him lightly on the shoulder,
and, turning, he saw the young lady of
Vlhe dime museum standing firmly on her
feot now, and with a shawl thrown over
her red hair. “Gome here, quick,” she
said, drawing him into 1 the vestibule of a
dwelling house. They’re a piping you,
the boys are; they’ve been a followin’
you ever since you knocked G’asey down.
My stars, but you did do for him, didn’t
you! Those two boys arc cappers for
the place, and they were a bit full, that’s
all. Well, they’re after you now, aud
I've run all the way to tell you. You get
away, tiously now, quick." i) She looked cau
out Of the hallway, and pulled him
after her. Run up to Houston street, n
she said, ; ; Keep in the light, add take
the elevated ,r
.
‘'But where td—what for?” gasped
Hiram.
“Oh, anywhere,”she said; u only get
away. They’re wild as bulls, they lire,
aud they’re the worst Of the gaug. It
you run up againist them now they’d go
for you, sure. "
“Aud what abotlt you?” asked Hiram,
who was too ignorant o’f the particular
gang of which the girl spoke to be very
frightened.
“Ob, I’m all right,” said the girl,
“I’m . i used to taking care of myself; and
you stood by me, and so I thought I’d
do you a turn. Lookout,” she screamed,
“here they are. Police!” There was a
sudden stamping and trampling of feet,
a blocking of the entrance to the hall¬
way, and the gang were upon him. Hi¬
ram pulled the girl wilcl behiud him and
struck out like a man. They were
too close to use their fists well, and he
drove them back. Then he felt the dooi
behind his back give way, and as i!
opened he put hie arm around the giri
and pulled her with liim inside the house,
and threw his shoulder against the door
ahd locked it.
They were standing iu the hallway of
the lodging house, which was lighted by
a single burner, Outside the men
kicked at the panels and cursed viciously,
and then a voice cried hoarsely : “Cheese
it fellers, the oops is onter us,” and they
heard them jump away, and the sound
of their footsteps growing fainter as they
ran.
Hiram put his hand to his headj and
found that it was bleeding, but he did
not mind t'rtatj for the girl was leaning
heavily against him aud trembling with
terror.
1 ‘It don’t seem to me n said Hiram,
meditatively, “that this sort of a life’s
just the thing for a young girl,”
“I haven't got any other,” sobbed the
youn !"• i woman at his side.
t I I know of a place on a farm down iu
New Jersey,” takd^ou said Hiram, slowly, “where
they’ll and treat you well if I
say so—and I will say so if you’ll come.
Will you?”
The young lady of midair fame looked
up and drew nearer to Hiiatn and nodded
her head in assent as she blinked tear¬
fully.
They were all very glad to see Hiram
when he trudged up to the farmhouse a
few days later, and very much surprised
to sec the pretty, slight young girl at his
side.
“Tuts, mother,” said Hiram, simply ,
by way of introduction “is my wife. I
told you when I went away I would ut
come back empty-handed, an she s Lut
f
the second floor, and was eventually for¬
j> ^ ‘ ^ the lady who hung
u midair () the younge3fc daughter of the
minist er.-ivYi 0 York Sun .
^ M L'tiu.suftl Rank.
Wtiliam :Murray, , r >
aci le, w o is one o i »
manufacturers ln ^land, fells a story
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the Old Wo nd » ’. A . ^
ns summer ‘ 'o'
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waD - .'
presence of an American official, Flags
'' eie l’ 111 -”’ um s ] >j and every
t nug was 0 aj. As I was somewhat ac
quaiuted ;£r with the United States, I asked
»«<»• M tta bigge.t oltta Elbow MM
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I Tt1
the little notel, and there learned that I
was to have the honor of being under the
same roof with an official who stood next
to the President of the United States. I
went to the register to see if the Vice
President was there, and to my surprise
saw this on the books:
l( l Redmond Sheridan, Chicago, 111.,
Alderman of America.”’— Chicago Tri
bune.
A Flour Made of Siirer.
silver floors aro P r0 P erl y su PP 08ed to
exist only in the imagination of the au¬
thors of “The Arabian Nights,” or of
descriptions are somewhat
( , xa - , r , vpra { e( j But, going the other day
^ of Handy & Harman,
( , ealers in bul | ion j a Nassau street, 1
^ fi()nr of the room nea tly paved
^ bun( j re ds of slabs of the shin¬
w „ite metal, each of them about the
size and shape of an ordinary brick. Mr.
p ar p er Hundv of the firm informed me
tba t they were assay bars—that, is to say,
; gilver that had passed through the United
States Assay Office and received the
Government stamp testifying to their
being of the standard fineness, and con
tit j D j D o- each a certain weight of the
j p rec i ol is inetal. He tells me that, it is
no unusual thing for the leading bullion
houses here to handie in onedayhun
dreds of thousands of ounces of silver.
! Just for the sake of the experience, I
I took a short walk up and down this silver
pavement, but I cannot say that, outside
1 of its appearance and the name ot the
thing, the high-priced material possesses
1 any advantages over the style of pave
! ment patronized by the Department ot
Public Works -New Jerk Star.
i
FIFT^FIBST CGNGKJL'SS.
In the Senate.
125th Dav,—T he Senate ordered a nert
onference on the Dependent Pension bill
aud Messrs. Davis, Sawyer and Blodgett
were Senate. appointed conferees on the part of the
Mr Blair introduced a {Service
and spoke Dependent the Silver Pension bill dud bill.. the .M-f tariff 1’lnm'j
on Mr.
Hiscock also address** ftte gritafe on the
same 126th questions.
Day. The Senate proceeded to’ the
consideration of bills on the calendar, and
I he following, Senate among others, were, passed:
bill to pay to the representatives
»oU(»0 tor the value \ ViUiii of i n a Cr vessel ook-. seized of Canada, by
Cm ed States vessel a
wi-June. on Lake Ontario, on the
Declaration 1812. twelve da vs before ^i. the
ox war. A pfoYislofc 0 MM
allowing the Hoilse interest was strue* out .
bill appropriating <®0,(XD for de-’
fieiency in public'printing; the Senate bill to
provide for the compulsory education of In¬
dian children; tile House bill to prevent de¬
sertions from the army, by withholding part
of the soldiers’ rhontlily par as a deposit, etc
.... Private periston bills oil the Calendar were
then taked up! and 12() were passed;
127 th Day.—A choiig the petitions presented
and referred was ode from Nelson, Neb..
praying 100 (sarcastically) did that all ex-soldiers
over years shall have pensions of £2
a month. ...Mr. Hoar introduced a joint
resolution proposing a constitution^! amend¬
ment for the election 6f postmaster. Re¬
ferred... Mr. Hiscock introduced, by re¬
quest, a bill to pension all officer's of Colored
troops who served iri the ldte war at $8 pei
month----Mr Cockrell discussed the Silvei
oil]----Mr. Vest called tip one of his meat
product rhe bills; itwentover without action,.. .
Senate Committee on Postoftlrajs and
Post Roads repbrted favorably the bill to 1 in¬
crease the salayv of the postmaster at
Augusta, Me., from $3000 to £3500 a year.
128th Day.—M essrs. Teller and Call spoke
on the Silver bill; it was resolved to, put the
five-minute rule into effect____Mr. Edmunds
introduced a bill providing that all funds
other property belonging to Mormons shall
be devoted to the benefit of public common
schools in UtoL... The conference r^m-t on
.
the bill to secure a sue for the (O' - ,.Astonlo¬
ot The Washington was also presented is and the reao.
site selected by the Senate one
fixed upon—the square on the south side of
Pennsylvania Twelfth avenue, between Eleventh and
streets. The cost of the site is not
to exceed £800,600, After considerable dis
eussfon the conference report was agreed to
without division.,, .The conference report, on
the bill for a public building at New London,
Conn., Was presented and agreed to, It
limits the cost to An $75,000.
129th Day,— amended draft of the
House Silver bill was reported froni the Fi¬
nance Committee., .Messrs. F.ustigtMwl Tur
pie spoke on the .Tones Silver Stanford’s bill,. .Anvers* bill
reports were made On Mr. for
Government loans OU liens of real estate, an !
on the bill to abolish ilietal money ; and the
bills were indefinitely postponed.., .The friorn fol¬
lowing were among the bills taken the
calendar add passed: Senate bill fora public
building at Racine, Wis., cost not to [Revised exceed
1100,000; Senate bill to amend the
Statutes so as to make the act of breaking
into a postoffice for the purpose of; larceny
the crime of burglary, and to increase the
maximum of imprisonment from five to ten
years; House bill increasing from $150,000 to
$275,000 the limit of dost for the public build
ins at Dnlntla, Minn.;. .The Senate then pro¬
ceeded to the consideration of individual
pension bills on the calendar, and passed
seVenty-five Day. of —Messrs. them. Everts, Morgan and
130th
Vance spoke On the silver question... .Mr.
Davis presented the Conference report or,
the Dependent Pension bill... ,Mr. Edmund,
reported back favorably, with amendments,
the bill recently introduced by him provid
ing for ctf the Utah. reorganization of the Govern
ment
In tlio House,
135th Day.— The (lay and night silver sessions
were devoted to debate on the ques¬
tion. Speeches were made by Messrs. Lind,
Lacev, Holman Walker, Perkins, Kerr, Blount, Dor¬
sey, and Wickham.
136th Day.— The entire day was devoted
to ths consideration of the Silver bill, The
bill was passed —y eas, 185; nays, 113.
137th Day.—M bill r. prohibit Oatos, of aliens Alabama, from re¬
ported the title to lands within ac¬
quiring United States____Mr. to or owning O’Neill reported favor¬ the
able the bill appropriating $50,000 for the
erection of a monument on the battlefield of
Tippecanoe, lnd., to commemorate and died the hero¬
ism of the men who fought General William there
under the leadership of of the session
Henry Harrison.... The rest
was devoted to matters from the District of
Columbia.
138th Day.—T he conference report relief on the of
bill appropriating $75,090 for the
A. H. Emery was rejected—yeas, 82; nays,
93____The Postoffice Appropriation bill was
passed... .Mr. Miliikeu presented the confer
enca report on the bill to acquire a site for a
city postoffice building in Washington.
Agreed to____The Speaker laid before the
House a Senate bill amendatory of the In¬
ternal Revenue laws, Passed... .Some
hours were spent iu the consideration of a
Senate bill for tiie relief of Hyland C. Kirk
and others, assignees of Addison C. Fletcher,
patentee of a canceling stamp. The bill was
finally laid upon the table.
VMfiX Day.—T he Sundry Civil Appropria¬
tion bill was reported____Mr. Stewart pre¬
sented the conference report ou the Senate
Anti-Trust bill... .The Pension bill agreed
upon in Conference Committeo was passed—
145 to 56____The Speaker announced the ap¬
pointment of Mr. Mills, of Rules, Texas, and as a of mem¬ Mr.
ber of the Committee on
Turner, of Georgia,as a member of the Com¬
mittee on Ways and Means, to fill vacancies
occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Car¬
lisle, ot' Kentucky. the
149th Day.— The Speaker laid before
House a letter from Mr. Mills, of Texas, re¬
signing his membership on ths Committee on
Rules, to which he was appointed the day be
fore. The resignation was accepted, aud
Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, appointed to till
the vacancy____Mr. Spooner presented, and
the House agreed to, the conference report bill
on the Mi itary Academy Appropriation agreeing tc
.The vote was then taken on
... the Anti-Trust
the conference report rejected—12 on to 115
bill. The report was reported Urgent De¬ ...
Mr. Henderson $3,708,000 ari_ for thf
ficiency bill, appropriating and $14,075,000 for
payment of pensions ex¬
penses of the eleventh census. Passed...
The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
parsed____Mr. Monow Pension presented Appropriation the confer
mice report on the
bill. The report, which is a disagreeing one
was adopted and a further conference wai
ordered.
A Romance of the Turf.
Hermit, the winner of the sensational
English Derby iu 1887. which was run in
a snowstorm and for which 66 to 1 was
bet against him. has just died of old age.
The horse belonged to Henry Chaplin,
now minister of agriculture, who won a
fortune by the animal’s victory. It is a
well known story now that the then Mar¬
quis of Hastings had stolen away Chap¬
lin's affianced bride, and it was the Mar¬
quis who bet against Hermit : long as
he could find anyone to lay money on
the horse. Chaplin himself was the chief
backer, and he had the satisfaction of
half ruining the man who robbed him of
his intended wife. Beyond his winning
of the Derby Hermit was rather a failure
as a race-horse, but at the stud he pro¬
duced more prize-winners than any other
stallioD, and yielded his owner a iu prmcely
income. His progeny won stakes
alone $1,570,940 in England and $130,-
715 in France.—[Chicago Herald.
SUBSCRIBE NO\y.
TflL' NATIONAL GAME.
Philadelphia is the banner city for at.
tendance.
A A Anti-mustache epidemic is raging amont
tall teaiflr
Ex-Associatio.) timber has shown up wel
this seasou.
New Haven is playing the strongest game
of all the Atlantic clubs.
Extra-inning games abound in the Amer¬
ican Association this year.
TnK best of feeling an l entire unity of
purpose prevail iu tile Flayers’ League.
Dunl^ p; recently released by the Pittsburg
League C.ub, h still a gentleman of leisure
In Denver, Co!., f batsman making ft
home run hit receives a shoWer of silver dol¬
lars.
\ iau, of Cincinnati, has recovered ths
drop bail he used so effectively two years
ago.
Seventeen men now playing "with the
League have bean in tiiebusiness tenor move
years.
Esterboox is the most timely batsman on
the New York League team if not in the en¬
tire League.
Six offers were made for Kelly, the Pitts¬
burg League left-fielder, as soon as his release
was made public.
Denny 1 , of the New York League team,
has fallen off in batting, lu nine gamas he
only made one hit.
The admission at St. Louis has been re¬
duced trf twenty cents. This is done by sell¬
ing ticket and score card for a quarter.
The feat Of running from first to third
base on an infield hit is cue of the ploys of
which boasts. Long, of the Boston League team,
Toil Daly is catching in great form for
the Brooklyn Club of the National League;
and he strengthens that team in a hereto!' ore
weak spot.
Tim Keefe, of the New York Brotherhood
Club, is His pitching slowball better ball this season than
ever. with a fast motion is Av
ing the work.
Glasscock pays Shortstop Long, of the
for iayed rSori
any team.”
Rcsie is getting to be the terror of bats¬
men, whosay that to be hit by the New York
as League being Club’s punctured star pitcher, by Minie is almost ball. as bad
a
New' Haven, Conn., is just at present the
best drawing city in the American Associa¬
tion . The crowds there number from 2000
to 3090 in these palmy days of leadership.
Joyce, of the balls Brooklyn Brotherhood, has
got 33 bases on iu 22 games. This is
record for the country. He had made 22
runs on 15 hits. His hits include three
doubles and four triplets.
Ward, fined of the Brooklyn by Gunning—$20 Brotherhood team, the
has been $30 in
New Y'ork and $10 in the Boston game. The
shortstop has been ploying ball twelve years
and this was his first experience.
Louisville has purchased O'Connor,
the Evansville (Ind.) first baseman, for $300
Ball players’ releases arc not worth as much
as they were before the Players’ League
knocked the reserve rule into a cocked hat.
From the style in which Van Haltern is
pitching and covering ground in center field
for the Brooklyn Brotherhood Ciub, it is
generally Ward caught believed, the in king Brooklyn, pin that the Chicago Johnny
of
Club.
Captain Kelly’s work behind the bat, so
far this season, has never been equaled in
this couutry. But one man has stolen a base
on the Boston Brotherhood catcher, and he
has caught men at first and third iu several
games.
No season has been as prolific as this in
producing promising young major players. Not
only is this true id the leagues, but
also in the minor ones, which are full of am¬
bitious youngsters who would do credit to
any club.
Childs, the chunky second baseman of the
Syracuse (N, Y,) Club, made a nine remarkable
record the other day. He had put-outs,
nine assists, ode error, made one hit, got two
bases on balls, and in the ninth inning won
the game by stealing borne.
Clarke, of the New York League team,
has now played as catcher, Outfielder, and
every infield position except first base. In
each position he has shown himself ft first
class player. He is a sure “comer,” and has
a bright future before him.
A CROWD of 4000 saw the worst umpiring
ever done in Denver,Col., in ft game between
Denver and Minneapolis, and at the con¬
clusion of the game the author of the un¬
popular decisions as chased out at town.
His name was Blogg, aud he used the fire
marshal’s horse and buggy, driven at full
Speed, to aid in his escape.
Another evidence of the uncertainties of
baseball. In the New York Brotherhood
team, Whitney voluntarily, actuated simply
by friendship, exchanged places with Short
stop Hatfield so as to give the latter a final
chance to redeem himself. Now Hatfield
seems to be a fixture at third, and Whitney
is resting himself on the shelf.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Chicago paper-hangers have organized.
Connecticut musicians have organized.
Mexican laborers kick against Chinese.
There are sixty brick yards in Philadel
f.'nia.
Striking New York cigarmakers are win
ning.
New York ho *esmithk have a labot
bureau.
Cleveland si :os workers struck against
a forewoman.
Brooklyn is. Y., letter-carriers are
Knights of Labor.
In St, Louis, many women get $2 for
seventy- two hours.
The new mills at Oldham, England, will
contain 80,000 spindles.
The iron aud steel workers will demand
ten per cent, advance.
There is a gr3at rush of building activity
in all the Southern States.
The Platt coal mines, of Alabama, are
now producing 5000 tons of coal per day.
Paterson. N. J.,’ silk ribbon weavers’
wages were cut fifteen to twenty per cent.
It is said the iron-workers recently in ses¬
sion at Pittsburg will demand $8 a day.
The labor troubles in the Pittsburg iron
districts have been settled, the agreement
to last a year.
A proposition has been made to the b'ast
furnace people le to shut down their furnaces
for two weeks.
The colliers of Merthyr Tydvil, Wales,
numbering 15,009, have refused to adopt the
weekly holiday.
The new constitution of the Knights ol
Labor expressly repudiates the office of
walking delegate.
The Workiugwomen's Improvement Asso¬
ciation, of Chicago, 111, board women luxu¬
riously for $2.25 o week
Builders and workmen in Montreal,
Canada, have entered into an agreement as
to wages for five years to come.
The Georgia Central Railroad Company Bir¬
are about to build car shops at North
mingham, Ala., to employ 1900 men.
Emperor William, of Germany sent ex¬
perts to examine the hygienic condition ot
the mines and the grievances of miners.
OrlCKSlLVER miners in Spam get twa itv
cents a dav. In five years the men are
physically unable to continue the labor.
The Swiss National Senate has pro¬
nounced in favor of legislation accidents to and insure old
laborers against sickness
ajT?*. societies
Great Britain s comparative capital of $■>.', -W
have 1 000.000 members, a aad in*
Off $15'.000.000 1 eeii $180-000.009 worth* year, •
VOL. XVI, NO, 31.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
A MSLON trust has been forme
The price of meat is advancing.
There is a small rebellion ia Si»ir.
Cotton has advanced one-half cent.
Oakland, Cal., lias a female footpad.
St. Louis, Mo., has a one-legged burglar.
Farmers’ alliances are growing rapidly.
CHICAGO is to have a ranid transit rail
way.
A general improvement in business is
setting in.
IVheat aud other bread stuffs are declin¬
ing in price.
The saw fly is injuriug tlio wheat fields of
Central Illinois.
Germans’ took the leal as the country of
syndicates in 1889.
OvKn tOO titled -Europeans ave now travel¬
ing in this country .
The rains are too late in tbo year to save
the crops iu Mexico.
There are 5077 medical practitioners
registered iu London.
Them arc now eight mission ships cruis¬
ing in the North Sea.
The importation of American potatoes in¬
to Spain is prohibited.
Cattle stealing is prevalent on the Sioux
reservation in Dakota.
A great many new banks ar3 being or¬
ganized in the South.
The deficiency in the pension office if re¬
ported to be £6,000,000.
IT is not probable that Congress will ad¬
journ before September 1.
New York is again agitating the old
scheme of annexing Brooklyn.
Harvard and Columbia are to shorten
the college course to three years.
The cruisers on the east coast of Africa
mrr> uuaDie t«stop me slave trade.
Despite the ovderc «>c . u- / ------ v ....
Cherokee strip is covered with grazing cat¬
tle.
ja.vMTFcmT, Me., now has twenty rreiTeti sardine ul
a * —a— 7 -on
There are said to bs an unusually largo
number of American tourists at present in
Scotland.
An Englishman was for shot dead at Genoa,
Italy, by a sentry not replying to a
ebadeage.
First-class roadsters are comparatively
scarce and likely to be in demand for some
time to come.
The young Mexican pretender. Prince
Iturbide, has just been senteuced to a year’s
imprisonment.
The Russian Government has to granted a
subsidy to a new expedition explore
northern Siberia.
At Brooklyn, N. Y., large buyers of ice
pay sixty-five’ cents a hundred. Last year it
cost twenty cents.
The Government has bought 400,009 acres
of land from the Sac Indians in Indian Ter¬
ritory for $1.2 2>.j an acre.
A Toronto (Canada) agency is said to get
from $29 to $30 a head for smuggling China¬
men into the United States.
The German farmers have formed a union
to protect the small agriculturists against the
oppressions oL t h a larg er onus
Within the last ten years it has cost New
York city $8,250,000 for the sites, construc¬
tion and repair of school buildings.
The agricultural complete districts destruction of Hungary of are the
threatened with
crop of cereals through the pestilence of
mildew.
English markets are overrun with Amer¬
ican beef, and known. prices are Exportations lower than have they
have ever been
stopped.
The British Admiralty Court awarded the
steamer Aldersrate $37,500 and the Amer¬
ican steamer Ohio *3000 for saving the City
of Paris.
There are over .100,000 convicts in the
Siberian mines, probably 200,000 2000 wandering officers
about the country, among them
and noblemen.
Nearly twenty thousand marriages have
taken place in Camden, N- J., since the
Pennsylvania Marriage law went into effect
six yc-rc
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Bismarck is suffering from neuralgia.
before vKr.BKTvr ciuadstone is coming to America
long.
ChAUXCEY M. Cti r. , IB VI 'Vlessua -M«
guenot descent.
The Bishop of London (Dr. Temple) is
threatened with blindness.
Kk'Haiid Vaux, Randall's successor in
Congress, looks like Tennyson.
The Bashaw of Tangier* is five feet two
inches and weighs 400 pounds.
W. H. Doan*, the famous liynin writer,
is the manager of an iron foundry in Cincin¬
nati, Ohio.
The marriage of Explorer is' definitely Stanley and
Miss Dorothy Tennant fixed for
ths 12th of Julv.
Emperor William, of Germany, has re¬
fused to allow Bismarck to be prosecuted tor
divulging state secrets.
Miss Hattie Blaine, the youngest and
prettiest daughter of the Secretary of State,
will be married shortly.
The richest mail in Brooklyn, N. Y\, is
Charles Pratt, the founder of the Pratt In
.ti title, who is worth $15,000,000.
The Queen of Spain speaks most excel¬
lent Eurtish. She is thirty years old and a
woman of extraordinary accomplishments i t
social and business ways.
Kino Humbert, who iias always bad a
tendency toward melancholy, is growing Mar
more morose every day. and Queen
gherita is afraid to leave him alone.
The wealthiest man in Alabama is prob¬
ably Josiah Morris, of Montgomery. He has
a fortiiue of $3,000,000 that was made for
the most part from operations in real estate.
Mrs. Cox. widow of t iie late Congressman of
B. S. Cox, has returned to the Bultan
Turkey the orders and decorations which that
genial potentate conferred upon her late hus¬
band.
Senator Maxderson. of Colorado, is
considered the neatest statesman in Wash¬
ington. His collar, his cuffs aud his shirt
spotlessly white, and his attire .
are always .s
faultless.
“Old Hutch,” tho picturesque Chicago
speculator, dresses iu solemn black, and al¬
ways we^rs a felt hat. When in repose
Hutchinson is said to resemble Lincoln _ as he
appeared in 1861.
Rider Haggard, the novelist, is shoul¬ a tall
and slender man with rattier broad
ders and the general carriage of an athlete.
He has blue eyes, and his mannars are very
frank. He is thirty-four years old.
Congressman Springer, of Illinois, lives
in a little frame cottage, with porch Illinois and State ga
bies, just half a mile from the
House, at Springfield. The estateof place is about called
“Oakwood.” and embraces an
seven acres.
Jay Gould has resumed his former habit
of spending one or two evenings each week
in the crowd ot Wall street men at an up
town New York hotel. He does not do a great
• ■eal of talking himself, but he is a close lis¬
tener to what others have to say.
Mrs. Dolph. wife of the Oregon Senator,
is considered one of the handsomest women
in the Senatorial circle at Washington. She
is a woman of fine figure and of command¬
ing presence, and she is a clever talker, being
not«i for her quickness at repartee.
King Dinah Salieou, the dusky monarch
of the Nalous, who attended the Paris several Expo¬
sition accompanied by the sons of po¬
litical absence! opponents dead, as hostages dssp.fe the for reports peace in that ms
is not
he was poisoned or strangled' fer introducing
Rcooeau customs.
MY PICTURE.
Do you want to 3ee my picture,
The one I love the best?
It comes when dying sunbeams
Lead nature to her rest
The background to my picture
Is a mountain towering high.
Whose rugged peaks are softened
In outline ’gainst the sky.
The stars look brightly downward
I see them in the lake.
And of its silvery whiteness
A magic mirror make.
With giant limbs extending,
Behold my noble trees.
Their branches gently bending
To softest perfumed breeze.
The flowers have closed their dainty cup)
And try to hide from s ! ght,
The moonbeams touch the tree-tops
And paint them glistening white.
Oh, artist! can’st thou paint me
A scene like this of mine,
Can’st make the dewdrops glisten,
The silvery moon to shine?
Oh, paint me little flower-cups.
Whose porfume fills the air,
Bedew their lovely petals—
Display their heauty rare.
The stars—my living diamonds—
Those brilliant eyes of night—
Can’st draw their shape, oh, artist!
Their colors, too—their light?
The brush divine that painted this
Is not to mortals given—
The rak>r.< and tbe ^I(isA9V.D >4 “'' 1
_
_ Han Franc,isco News-Letter.
PITH AND POINT.
A man's cheeks naturally' burn when
tie is made light of.— Boston Gazette.
“Every dog has his day, Cynicus.”
“And every crank has his turn.”— New
York Bun.
Cholly Peacliblow—“Otv! I say, bah
bah, that razor pulls, Barber (coa
temptuously)—“Pulls what ?”—New York
Sun.
Brings—“I did not see you at church
last Sunday.” Braggs—“No; I didn’t
get in until you had gone to sleep.”—
Terre Haute Exrress.
“Are these handkerchiefs all pure
linen? " Salesman—“Yes, on my hou
Dr. 1) “So I sec; half cotton, I suppose
;hen .”—Flitgendc Blaetttr.
. I Always pay cash as you go. That's
my principle,” said Seedle. ‘Hump!
That accounts for your slowness, I pro
iume, jj remarked a friend.— Munsey's.
“I come,” the lecturer began. cough,
And then came a gentle
For in the audience a man
Irreverently said: * ‘Come off t”
—New York Herald.
The Conductor (to train robbers)—
“Boys, there's no money in this job;
the Pullman porter has just jumped off
the train and escaped .”—Scribner s May
mine.
Proprietor (firmly)—“Your account, for
Mr. Weeks, has now been running
six months.” Weeks (blandly)—“Well,
suppose we let it rest for a year or two!”
— Mercury.
l - Bibleurre, why don’t you stop drink
ing? 17 “I have often tried to, but it
seems I can’t. 11 “O, pshaw! All it re
quires is strong will power.” “Well, ii
requires strong water pow er, too, and that
I haven’t got .”—New York Herald.
See how small investments pay. A
man i, poor but enterprising, paid $6 ^ for
t n jvolver. That same evening he earned
iUtOU hv simulv nappenw* pointing his $15 revolver
at a man who -w -■=- ——
amount specified iu his inside pocket.—
Munsey's.
Mrs. Caller—“There's a horrid dog
running across your garden, a Mrs. At
home—“It’s our puppy, Jack, We hint
one of tho neighbors’ boys to tie a wet
sponge on his tail and chase, him an hour
svery dav. It waters the garden nicely.”
.
—Frank Leslie's.
“So that fellow Brown married the
popular Miss Jones and she had a dozen
better men at her feet?” “Yes, and he
calls her ‘F, pluribus unum. »n ‘E
pluribus unum?’ What does he mean by
that? ?» U Won from many. Brown is a
great Latin scholar, don't you know. —
Washington Star.
A Pathetic Trip to Frlsou.
A middle-aged woman, dressed in an
olive green cloth Newmarket, and carry¬
ing a skye terrier, tried to gain admis¬
sion into the smoking car of the Pough¬
keepsie train which left tho Grand Cen¬
tral depot the other morning- The con¬
ductor said: “No dogs are admitted
there. That is the smoking car, madam.”
“Please let me in,” she pleaded, and she
ap pealed to the conductor so earnestly
that he allowed her to enter.
Rapidly walking up the centre of the
jntoking car the woman took a vacant
seat next to a smooth shaven, stout, but
somewhat seedy-looking man, and kissed
kirn. The man was handcuffed to two
Dthera who sat ou the opposite They seat, one
M whom was a colored man. were
convicts on their way to Sing Sing to
work out their sentences, The stout man
w’as the woman's husband. The little
skve terrier was so glad to see his former
master that he literally licked away the
tears that trickled down the prisoner's
cheeks. conversed
The man and woman ear
nestly in an undertone, aud as soon as
the train was in motion the woman pulled
out a thick roll of greenbacks and drew
the man’s attention to them, as though
to assure him that she was not unpro
vided for. and
Then the train peddler came along
the woman bought six of the very best
:ignrs he had. aud forced them upon the
>hort man, who gave a couple apiece to
his fellow-prisoners, The scene was so
pathetic that more than one passenger
roughed a ad wiped his nose energetically
:o conceal his emotion. The prisoner
was George Wilson, who wilt serve three
and a half years for burglary.— New Tori
News.
The f^lafies of all Federal Districl
ire to be made $5000 ^ per year-