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J. L. DXN3CT8, Publisher,
HAMILTON. GEORGIA
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Cedar Key, Fla., ships 40,000 fish per
week.
The Alabama insane asylum has 417
inmates.
Florida will soon be a perfect network
of railroads.
Arkansas has a two years’ supply of
corn, oats and wdieat.
Atlanta claims to have the finest
church building in the South.
Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a new
court house at a cost of $50,000.
A large bagging factory will soon be
added to the industries of Eufaula, Ala¬
bama.
Out of the 1,243 convicts in the Geor¬
gia chain gang camps, only 113 fire
whites.
Tho graves of the 264 Federal soldiers
who were burned at Key West, Fla.,
have been marked by handsome head¬
stones.
A vast ’amount of cotton will go to
waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot¬
ton States because of the scarcity
pickers. introduced tho
A bill will be at C(fir¬
ing session of tho Alabama Legislature
to exempt factory operatives from pay¬
ing poll tax.
Between fifty and sixty thousand dol¬
lars in Confederate bonds held by the
city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or¬
dered to Ik* sold.
The Chattanooga Times says large
numbers of farmers from Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois are settling it: the section
contiguous to'Chattanooga.
At Sarasata, in Charlotte’s harbor,
Fla., a Northern company is established
and engaged in catching fish, fur the
purpose’of extracting oil and manufact¬
uring it into guano.
A Mississippi physician says the day
is not far distant when cotton-seed oil
will have taken tho place of lard the
world over, He pronounces it much
purer than lard and a great deal health¬
ier.
Chattanooga (Teun.) Times : The
deer on Cumberland mountain are dying
with the black-tongue. No lens than
fifteen have been found dead within the
last ten days, Some cattle are dying
with it.
A curious Indian relic was recently
found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is a
piece of stone about fifteen inches long,
hollowed out in the shape of a police¬
man's billy. It can lie blown like a
horn and evidently was used to summon
the warriors to assemble.
Moscow Lamar eo Ala Nov fid 182
Please put this item in the Journal
Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State
Hayes he lias made a close Astronomicle
investigation of the commit in the East
and finds that there is a hole through
the stare & the blase is caused by the
raye* of the Sun shining through, like
shining though an Auger, hole, Sub
se fiber.
Near Chattanooga, Tenn., are several
Indian mounds which for years have at¬
tracted archwologists from many parts
of the country. The largest mound in
the group was opened a few days ago
and many skeletons, several pieces of
pottery and other interesting Indian
relics found. The mound was dug into
hut a short distance, and will be further
tunneled.
A meeting of the cotton planters from
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama met
at Memphis Monday to find some means
to successfully oppose the monopoly of
the cotton seed oil men. An organiza¬
tion was effected under the name of the
“Planters’ Co-operative Association.”
The planters allege that the oil men
have portioned off the cotton country
and fixed prices for the seed, to the
great detriment of the farmer.
—i
—A man named Neilson and three
ladies had a miraculous escape from
death while crossing the track of the
Denver and tho Rio Grande Railroad in
a wagon near vehicle Springville, covered, U. T., and re¬
cently. The was
Neilson failing to see or hear an track, ap¬
proaching train, drove on to the
only to have his wagon, himself and the
ladies hurled into the air. Upon land¬
ing, Neilson took an inventory, and
found that neither himself nor the la¬
dies were in the least injured, although
the horses were killed and the wagon
broken into splinters .—San Francisco
Chronicle.
—No boy of ten considers himself a
man unless he has a cigarette commend 1n his
mouth. To all such we care¬
ful reflection on a fact that came to light
in a police court in this city recently.
An Italian girl was arrested collecting
cigar stumps, of which she had about a
thousand in a basket; she explained
that she started every morning about
»■:. if
posed of her collect ton to persons who
transformed the burnt-out stamps into
brand-new cigarettes.—A". Christian
Union.
TOPICS OP THE DAT.
A pew in Dr. John Hall’s Church,
New York, sold the other day for
$2,600.
The late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada
“cattle king,” left an estate worth about
$3,000,000. gw
A Mississippi man has a “mad-stone”
for which, it is said, ho has refused a
cash offer of $7,500.
Recently compiled statistics place
the death rate from the administration
of chloroform at one per 1,000.
In France and Germany, respectively,
two franes and two marks are the medical
charges for single visits, except in the
fashionable watering places.
Hon. Jewett Adams, who is elected
Governor of Nevada on the Democratic
ticket, is a native of South Hero, Ver¬
mont, and resided there until he was
twenty-one years old.
Tin; story that Langtry, when a girl,
used to milk the family cow, is said to
create groat excitement among New
Yorkers who liavo gotten rich by milk¬
ing the lambs in Wall Street.
“ Spinster dinners” are given by
betrothed New York girls on the eve of
their weddings to friends of kheir own sex
exclusively, and they are chaperoned by
tho mammas of the morrow’s bride and
bridegroom.
A young missionary visiting Thibet
for the first timo, recently expressed his
horror at finding the practices of Mor
monism reversed under the protection of
the KiDg of Oashmore. The law allows
women several living husbands.
Madame Patti, who is nervous when
crossing tho ocean, before starting for
America, made her will, in which
sho desires to bo buried at Craig
-y-nos, and loaves a sum of money
to bo expended in instructing a number
of poor Welsh boys with good voices
who may show a taste for music.
Wk aro progressing in tho science of
epigrammatic signboard advertising.
“Society for the Encouragement of
Wearing Glean Shirts,” is the latest de¬
velopment, os scon flauntingly displayed
over a laundry establishment at Chat¬
ham and Foarl streets, New York City.
General Grant’s now magazine arti¬
cle, entitled “An Undeserved Stigma,”
concisely reviows tho case of General
Fit/. John Porter, giving grounds for his
former belief in Porter’s guilt, and his
present conviction of his entire inno¬
cence, and nppeals to the Government
and tho country for prompt action in
Porter’s behalf.
Mr. S. C. Hale, a veteran nnmo in
literature, announces for publication in
March next “A Retrospect of a Long
Life,” in which he promises to give es
pecial prominence to his recollections of
Ireland sixty years ago, when he snys
he “frequently bought eggs eight for a
penny and chickons for eight pence a
couple. There were no markets except
in largo towns, and there was no mode
of locomotion."
Stave Commander James Charles
Atkinson, tho oldest officer iu tho Brit¬
ish navy, has just died at tho ago of ono
hundred years. He commanded the
Penguin, and was captured and his
vessel destroyed by the American
corvette Hornet in 1815. For the past
fifteen years he had been quite blind,
but otherwise retained all his faculties
unimpaired up to the very moment of
his doath.
Mr. Or,rvKR Ames. Lieutenant Gov
eruor-elect of Massaohnsetts, although
now a man of great wealth, w as trained
to work, aud did work for years iu his
father’s shops as a common journeyman
shovel-maker. The proficiency he at¬
tained as a mechanic is shown by the
fact that for several years he atone mane
all the prize shovels aud other tools ex¬
hibited by the firm at fairs in this and
other countries. His example is being
followed by his son, now twenty years
old, who daily works at the bench and
anvil.
Gknkkal Nicolas pk Piebola, ex
Preaident of Peru, who is in New
York, is described as a dapper little
man, about five feet five inches in
height, with a clear complexion, laugh¬
ing brown eyes, dark wavy hair, mous¬
tache with long curled ends and an im¬
perial. His foot is as small and as
neatly booted as a woman’s, and he has
the grace of manner of a Frenchman.
A high, broad forehead alone distin¬
guishes him from the commonplace, and
a few streaks of gray in his hair are the
only indications that he is forty-three
years of age.
Hoin patient German has collected
statistics of the capacity of the world's
largest houses of worship. First on his
list, of course, appears St Peter’s, at
Rome, which is capable of containing
54,000 people. Next oornes Milan Ca¬
thedral, with 37,000; tlieu St. Paul’s, in
Rome, with 32,000; Cologne, with 30,
000; St Paul’s, in London, and the
Church of St. Petronius, in Bologna,
with 25,000 each ; the Sophia Moeque,
in Constantinople, with 23,000; St. John
interim, at Rome, with 22,000; St
Stophen% in Vienna, and the cathedral
^ ” s
Munich, 11,000, and Ban Maroo, in Yen
ice, 7,000. ___ St _ I atnek . . ., s Cathedral, „ in .
Nevr York, is given a capacity of 18,000.
A Detroit saloon-keeper advertises
that he has paid $300 for a year’s license
to sell liquors, but that he means to vol
tmtarily restrict his business within oer
tain moral bonds. “To the wife who
has a drunkard for a husband,” he says
in an advertisement, “or a friend give who is
dissipated, I say, emphatically, me
notice of such cases, and all such shall
be excluded from my place. Let fathers,
mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their
requests shall be regarded. I pay a
heavy tax for the privilege of selling
whisky and other liquors, and i want it
distinctly understood that I have no de¬
sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to
tho poor or destitute. I much prefer
that they save their money and put it
where it will do the most good to their
families.
Thebe will be an effort daring tho
next session of Congress to reduce the
fee for patent rights from thirty dollars
to one dollar—the fee now charged for
copyrights. The thirty-dollar foe means
an examination, but it is no guaranty of
the value of a patent, neither is it a
guaranty that the patent does not in any
way infringe on other patents or inter¬
ests. The expenses of the Patent (Mice
will be reduced under the new bill to
less than one-fiftieth what they now
are, and there will be more profit in c in¬
ducting it, for, while the charge for pat¬
ents is exorbitant, tho expenses of run¬
ning tho office are extravagantly large.
Tho thousands of patents issued yearly
that aro never heard of afterward moan
the support of a certain number of clerks
in the Patent Office and a certain num¬
ber of patent attorneys who exist be¬
tween the inventorand the Patent Office.
It is claimed that there W'ottld be evert
fewer patents issued under the provisions
of tho proposed bill, and its effect would
be in the end to increase the value of a
patent-right.
Houses for Winter.
House cleaning in the fall, although
much less prom lienee is given to it, h
fully as important as house cleaning in
the spring, especially the when, house at has is often been
the ease in town,
do is! for the,•-ummer. Theu-eofdi -
iufe lant< is then neee-sary, anil sweep¬
ing, dusting, scrubbing and whitewa h
ing are imperatively c died for. it L a
w II known fact that malaria is more
active in the early fail than at any other
season even in the dog of days. There and is
in the air an excess moisture,
this, with the heat, are the exact ele¬
ments necessary for decomposition.
Mephitic taints are slower in coining to
a head, so to speak, Besides and so linger longer
about the house. in our fur¬
nace-healed houses, the frost lias no
chance to kill poisonous germs, and
when the fires are started they rise on
the hot air. carrying the seeds of dis¬
ease and death into parlor and bed¬
chamber. Therefore, if the whitewashing fall
is done but once a year, rather
than the spring should bo the time se¬
lected, and every nook and corner of
the cellar should be well whitewashed.
A strong solution of copcras is cxcel'ont
for pouring down sinks and water clos¬
ets. while chloride of lime should he
used for sprinkling in hack yards and
damp corners Concentrated lye or a
st rong solution of potash will often clear
a stopped pipe by eating away the ob¬
jection. It is. however, useless where
much grease lias accumulated, since it
merely converts it into soap and so
hardens it. These accumulations are
more frequent than one is apt to sup¬
pose, and sometimes clog the drain
pipes by degrees until at last a space of
several feet is tilled 'l'o clear this out,
the aid of the plumber is necessary, but
it may be prevented by occasionally,
say onco a week, flushing the pipe with
hot water.
Beds should be (denned, mattresses
sunned and blankets anil quilts w hich
have been packed away taken out and
"ell aired to ml them of tlie odor of
camphor or tar paper. Strong spirits
of a in moil' a injected by means crevice of of a
small glass syringe into every
the bedstead will effectually and dislodge should
anv supplemented unpleasant occupants, by liberal dusting
he a
with insect powder. have been loft the
Where carpets on
floor, give them a thorough sweeping, still,
cither with a new broom, or better
a patent carpet-sweeper. When this
last is used it will be necessary to use a
dust-brush and pan for the corners If
any signs of moths are detected, turn
ba-k the edges of the carpet and
sprinkle with insect powder thickly un¬
der them—this will probably check their
ravages. Steam cleaning is, however,
the only certain method of destroying
them.— Philadelphia Press.
Sounded Familiar.
A seedy-looking fellow dropped failing into
tho city editor’s room. and. to
borrow a half dollar, "I used begged be to narrate officer
his experience. to an
of State, I did. I was Sheriff, and mem¬
ber of the Legislature, and Constable,
and Clerk of the courts, and Judge, and
a candidate time and again, and had a
high old frolic, 1 did.” "I don’tbelieve
it,” said the city editor. “Why don’t
you?” “Because I have a letter here
which says you are a thief, and a bar.
ami a scoundrel, and a villain, and a
treducer, and a perjurer, and a default¬
er, and a plotter, and a low-down brawl¬
er. and a lover of all that is viie, and
wicked, and dishonest, and abhorrent to
decent people, and a”--. “ Altai
stranger, go on and read that all over
again, and read it loud. It sounds like
old times. It brings back the days
when I rati for office. It reads like an
editorial in the opposition paper, and
brings again to mv memory that blessed
period when 1 felt like l was somebody
and life was worth living. O, glorious
hours of m.v past, will ye ever come
back to me?” and the tears rolled down
his cheeks a< the city editor pronounced
again the magic words, and then gave
him a quarter to sober up on.— i ms
til Ie (V urier-JounutL
—Do not put glass articles that have
held milk into hot water, as this causes
the mild to penetrate the glass, and it
cau never be removed— Chi cage Scuts.
j SEN EX JIj BILANS.
I
! The world Is growing better
K very year}
It throws off many a fetter
j There things relish, Every year}
are many to
j Though Bar the ancient things must perish,
! the beautiful we cherish
Every year.
j Many changes have o'er
I come us
Many friends have before Every year}
gone Everv us
Through mutation year}
many a strange
We have reached a higher station
Every year.
We have had our slight vexations
And pleasing jubilations Every year;
remember Every year;
There are visions to
of flowers in September
And Christmas in December
Every year.
The sun shines now as brightly
the Every year,
And snowflakes fall as lightly
In days Every year;
As when we were younger,
And the vcais appeared much longer
To our hearts, which then felt stronger.
Every year.
Artlietions have not shrouded
troubles Every year}
And have not clouded
hut hope the whole discounte Every d. year;
While the former were recounted,
And the latter all surmounted
Every year.
Our weakness Is more trying
And the days swiftly living Every year:
more
Our faults bring deep contrition, Every year;
Experience Our errors admoniiion, its fruition
Every year.
The end of life comes nearer
The lriends left become dearer Every year:
And the Every year;
"goal of all that’s mortal”
Opens To he wider still its portal
I land of the immortal
Every year.
And thinner grows the curtain
certain lively year;
That divides us from the
look forward to the livery year;
We morrow
Which shall close all earthly sorrow
With the calmness iiope can borrow
Every (la.?!It. year.
— William Heed, in Taunton (.Muss.)
The Fall Season.
The “fall of Ihc leaf” is the season of
death and decay. The gorgeous color¬
ing of the leaves and the changing
Ir.ie-i of the lower vegetation, are all
significative of this. It is the ripening
which precedes decay that produces and the
varied tints which clothe the woods
the shrubbery; and the beauty which
pleases the eye is nothing less than the
covering that hides the of unpleasant the summer’s and
unwholesome ruins
verdure. The fall season, with its
dying vegetation, its damps and fogs
and dripping moisture and its sudden
changes, is one that calls for and special death care
and precaution. Decay noth¬ re¬
produce themselves, arid there is
ing so hurtful to life as dead matter.
From il which are spread produce upon decomposition every breeze in
germs and disease in animal life;
living and unless matter pains taken to fortify
aro
ourselves aga'nst these influences, we
are in constant danger.
There are a few simple directions
wlveh might be noted usefully and given followed, just now
that may, if pre¬
vent, serious disorders; and first—be¬
cause tho most dangerous—the the serious drink¬
ing water calls for most
thought. Do we ever think of what ho¬
comes of the myriads of insects that
have until now infested almost every
leaf, and that with all the filth they
have produced, have fallen to the
ground and liavo died and disappeared,
and of all the dead, rotting matter un¬
der our feet everywhere? carried It is into in
greater part d ssolved and
the streams, ponds and springs; and
from all these we directly or indirectly
proeuec our supply of drink. It is hard¬
ly safe to use any water, even from the
deepest wells, because these are all
more or less polluted by surface water
at this season, without boiling it; and
special care should be taken against
drinking any water that has not been
thoroughly boiled. It is just now that
fevers, colds, sore throats and intestinal
disorders become frequent, and a very
little prevention may bo more useful
than a very large amount of cure.
The closest attention should be given
to the health. The feet should be kept
dry and warm and a chill to the body
be carefully guarded against. The per¬
spiration throw off much of whatever
unwholesome matter maybe taken into,
or produced in the system; and a sud¬
den stoppage of it throws back all this
into the circulation and poisons the
bio <1 with it. The result may be what
we * all a cold; or it may be more se¬
rious ami appear as a fever, or pneu¬
monia or, diptheria; amt all of these
differ chiefly in degree and location,
and not so much in character; for tho
former may easily change into the
latter. The doctor is not always at
hand, and so every person should be as
much as possible his own and his tam
ily's doctor, so far as the prevention of
sickness is concerned. Precautions and
good nursing save more lives than med¬
icines. A simple cooling laxative, a
warm bath, a simple sweating drink of
gruel and wrapping in a blanket and
going to bed. will frequently ward off a
serious illness an l avert the danger tie
fore the doetor can be rea hed. And
to nse these, no one need to wait for
the (looter's orders. Ho that, to sum
up, it may he io;>oated that extremely at this sea¬
son it is very safe to be par¬
ticular in regard to drinking water; to
avoid damp or wet feet or clothing; chilled to
avoid getting heated and then
bv cooling; to eat moderately and at
the first intimation of anything pointed wrong,
to use the simple remedies out,
and thou send for the doctor.— Btiral
New York? r. ___
—More hay is injured by not being
dried enough than by being dried too
much. One extreme is equally as bad
as the other. Clover, for instance, if
allowed to become too dry and in its the blos¬ sun
will lose all of its leaves
soms, aud the stocks that are left are of
little value. On the other hand, if put
i n the mow too soon it will become mow
burnt, and equ ally worthless, A little
of last year’s hay to mix with each load
as it is put in 'be mow is very desirable,
absorbing the moisture from the new
hay.— Fanner's Mnnasine.
_
_The la-lv newspaper originated correspondents Press
in Washington have a
Club, ami will make an effort to have
galleries in the Houate aud the House
set apart tor their use.
Bread*
The average quality of the bread
on any one table Is a pretty fair test of
the quality of the entire cooking in that
household. For good bread day after
day and year after result year can not by any
possibility be the good flour of accident. and good It
means but not skill only making the
yeast in two into
bread. There is not a stage or a proc¬
ess of bread-making the from the time the the
flour is put into pan until fra¬
grant, golden brown loaf, perfectly does
done, is taken from the oven that
not require the exercise and of judgment,
forethought, patience habitually painstaking. in
These qualities exercised
bread-making will show themselves as
we’l iu kindred industries and occupa¬
tions.
The use of leaven is of the remotest
antiquity. The Egyptians taught claimed Osiris; that
t lie u-e of ferments was bv
the Greeks, bv Bacchus; the Hebrews,
by Noah. The latter, in their flight
•from Egypt, “took their dough before
it was leavened, their their kneading eiothc3 troughs
being shoulders.” bound up m From ;ia the upon
their . A art
of making bread wa ad ; brought their to Boeotia
by two travelers, countrymen
in grateful remernb ar.ee raised statues
in their honor. Fun Besot ia the art
spread rapidly though Greece. In
Chen* in the time of Apnleius the pro¬
fession of baker was highly honorable
ar.d the bread of Athens v/as far-famed.
Rome learned the art from Greece; her
troops returning from .Maeoion in 168
B. C. brought Greek taken to Italy. A
college of bakers was founded at Home
and richly endowed. In that city bak¬
ers ccu’d become Senators. From the
ims of the Caesars to our’own no pro¬
fession has been more carefully Adulter¬ legis¬
lated for than that of bakers.
ation of material has always been re¬
garded as a crime against the common¬
wealth, and short weight has been an
abomination to all rulers.
Thousrh ferments have been used
since tlie time of Noah, it is only about
forty-five years ago that the yeast plant
was discovered by Cagniard de la Tour,
and almost simultaneously by Schwann.
As early as 1680 it was known that
yeast consisted of little globules collect¬
ed into groups of three or four together, them
and scientists of later dates saw iu
certain characteristics of living matter,
but not till 1837 was it conclusively
proved that “albuminous bodies ar - e
never the ferments, but the aliment of
the ferments, and that the “true fer¬
ments are living organisms.” These
microscopic plants are in great variety.
One variety produces the ferment in
beer, another in wine, another in milky
each special fermentation having its
own special plant producer. The name
given to the yeast plant of beer, to
which we are so largely indebted for
light bread, is Saccharomyces cerevisue,
a very long name for so short a plant,
for these yeast cells are only about
1 -2500th of an inch in diameter. They
multiply during fermentation by six a pro¬
ee?s of budding, and increase or
sevenfold, evolving during the process These
carbonic acid gas and hydrogen.
gases in their attempt to escape through
the dough separate the particles retained of glu¬
ten, and are at the same time
bv them, thus giving lightness to the
bread. \Y hen the bread is baked these
gases are expelled from the loaf in the
form of alcohol. Liebig estimated that
150,000 gallons are thus lost annually gallons in in
London alone, and 12,000,000
Germany. Efforts have been made to
save it by condensation, but without
success.
Every bread-maker has observed that
the temperature at which her dough is
kept while rising has a decided inllu
e.nce upon its quality. If it is kept warm,
so t hat the process of fermentation goes
on rapidly, the bread will be whiter and
tenderer than if it is allowed to rise in a
low temperature. The little plant with
tho long name flourishes best at a tem¬
perature of about 72 degrees, and when
it has abundance of sugar to feed upon.
If no sugar is put into the dough
the plaut converts the starch of the
grain into sugar and feeds upon it.
Tho word broad, according to Horne
Tooke, comes from the verb “bray”— brayed
to pound in a mortar. Bread is
gram, and dough is brayed grain wetted
or mixed with water. Leaven is a cog¬
nate word with lever, and is derived
from the French lever —to raise. When
dough is raised by leaven it becomes a
loaf; this word is cognate with lift, and
is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “hli
fian,” to raise or lift up. Our word lady
comes from the Gothic a loaf,
and diau, to serve or distribute, because
the mistress of the family used to dis¬
tribute tho bread to the domestics and
guests.— N. Y. Tribune .
Chinese Masonry.
Last Sunday was a great day for the
Chinese Masons of Philadelphia, for no
less a personage than Loo Chew, a gen¬
uine Mandarin, had arrived to initiate
niDe new candidates into the mystical
order of the Gee Hing. with The ceremony feast,
began in the afternoon a at
which a generous supply of chicken,
rice and shark’s fins was put where it
would do the most good, and a consid¬
erable quantity of American whisky
where it would do the most harm.
Philadelphia boasts several Chinese
singers of the first rank, who enlivened
both the feast and the initiation exer¬
cises with various selections from their
native repertory, which were received
with rapturous a* plause by the heathen
and set on edge the teeth of passing
Christians. The programme had been
adapted to an all-night session, and
there is every reason to suppose that it
was carried out to the letter. — Chicago
Herald. __
—A few days of ago a young lady and a
voung man Gadsden. Ala., were se
cretly married. It was considered best
to keep the marriage a secret for a few
days, and accordingly the young lady
returned to the house of her father and
the young man returned to his bach¬
elor lodgings. The next day his heart
yearned a,ter his bride, and he went to
her father’s and demanded her. The
parents refused to give her up, as she
was only sixteen years old. In the
meantime the ardor of the young lady's
affection had cooled and she declined to
go with her husband. The young man
is nonplussed and disconsolate.—A'. 1*.
Herald.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Marian Harland, the novelist, is
writing a history of Virginia.
—Mrs. M. S. Pitman (Margery
Deane;, during her recent stay at Buda
Pesth, in Hungary, was tendered a ban¬
quet by the Authors' and Artists’ Club,
at which complimentary addresses were
made, flattering toasts were drank, and
patriotic songs were sung.
—A man at Simmons’ Gap, Va., is
arch living is with e’ghty his ninth old, wife. has The tifty-tbree patri¬
and years
children, at a recent reunion over
three hundred o.' his descendants were
present. He does not know all of his
children, and makes no effort to keep
up Time with Ills grandchildren.— Chicago
—The will of tlie late Edward Clark,,
leaves of the Singer $50,000 Sewing Machine Williams Company College,
to
S10.000 each to his agents, Runyon, and
Meeker; $50,000 daughter-in-law. to two nephews,
@250,000 to his and a
like sum to each of her four sons, and
the remainder of his property, estimated
to be of the value of $30,000,000, to his
son Alfred C. Clark.
—McDonald Clark, known years ago
in New York as “the mad poet,” and
who died in the Blackwell Island Luna¬
tic Asylum, left among other items the
following lines children concerning will his funoral:
“1 hope the come: 1 want
to be burled by the side of children.
Four things I am sure there will be in
heaven—music, flowers, pure ar and
plenty of little cluklren. ” — N.Y.Graphie.
Ex Governor Abner Coburn is the
riches' man in Maine. He is worth al¬
most §7,000,000. He lives near
Skowhogan, and he drives about the
virago in a two seated phaeton showing
evident marks of usage. The horses
arc strong and eiaau-limbed. but their
trappings and grooming evince a dis¬
regard of upper?.nee.?. There are no
heirs to Mr. ViAirn’s property but two
nieces. - Bo ston Tran cript.
—Mr. Jacob Kunkel, the junior mem¬
ber of the firm of Kunkel brothers, died
recent’y. He was one of the most
artistic! musicians resident in the United
States. His compositions, always full of ^
melody ami exquisitely harmonized,
had made him famous as a writer of
piano-music far beyond the limits of
the United States. As a solo pianist be¬ he
was poetic in his interpretations, since the days
yond any one, and perhaps, his duo playing with
of Gottsehalk,
his surviving brother, Charles, was, ac¬
cording to no less authority than the
king of pianists, Anton Rubinstein, the
finest in the world. Mr. Kunkel had
not yet completed his twenty-sixth year.
— SI. Louis JkvnbH-can.
The Phipps Extradition.
The case of Phipps, the Canadian Philadelphia
embezzler, before the courts
presents some interesting international
quest.ous. Phipps, who was superin¬
tendent of the having Philadelphia robbed alms-house, the of
is accused of city
$650,000. His peculations extended
over a period of nine years, and it is
said he divided the fruits of them with
four members of the board of guardians
of the institution entered according to the a time nefari¬ ho
ous compact into at
was chosen superintendent. guardians The should agree¬
ment was that the four
make Phipps superintendent, and he in
turn should divide w th them $75,<XM) a >
year, a compact which he carried out
with scrupulous fidelity. When his
robberies were detected he lied to
Canada. The United States Govern¬
ment demands his surrender under the
Ashburton treaty. This treaty provides charged
for the surrender of persons
w ith various embezzlement--the crimes; not including
j^-peny and very
offenses that Phipps was conspicuously of
guilty mentioned of. Forgery is one and the the crimes Phila
in the treaty,
dclpha authorities have made out a
show of a case against him on this
charge, on the ground that ho issued
fraudulent receipts for warrants. The
court at Hamilton, Canada, holds that
the forgery charge is sufficiently made
out to warrant the extradition of the
prisoner. But the prisoner’s Court counsel of
has taken the case before the
Appeals at Torouto, and if defeated
there will take it to the Supreme Court
at Ottawa.
If Phipps shall be surrendered it can.
be for trial on the charge " of forgery But the
ruses.
will regard it
as a a man who has
robbed their city official of $650,000 life, through through
nine years of a
ser es of crimes that ought to send him
to the penitentiary for the remainder of
his days, should be exempt from trial
for the worst of these crimes, and be
tried only Besides.it, for one. and that the least he of
them. is nrt clear that
can be convicted of forgery, as tho case
is a weak one. If, therefore, tho Ca¬
nadian court shall make it a condition
of his surrender that he be exempt
from trial on t lie charges of larceny and
embezzlement, tlie proofs of which are
overwhelming, and be required to an¬
swer to the charge of forgery only, and.
if on this ehargo he should be acquitted,
it would be a signal example of inter¬
national law shielding a hardened and;
infamous offender from punishment.—
St. Louis Ji ivuhHean.
A Commercial Item.
Mose Schaumburg’s little boy, al¬
though only ten years old, is traveling
around slung to a tray, like a miniature
Sam’l of Posen, instead of being sent to
school where he could acquire a knowl¬
edge of arithmetic that might be useful
to him hereafter.
An Austin gentleman and stopped Mose little
Schaumburg, junior, asked the
fellow how much he made on his arti¬
cles.
“Five per shent; don’t yer vant a
hair of sushpenders for a quarater of *
tollar?”
“Five per cent* IVby that’s not much:
profit.” hash pin to school, but I
“1 never
shuppose I makes five per shent. What
costs me one tollar I sells f>r five tol
lars. Don’t you vant two bairs of sush¬
penders for a quarter of a tollar.”—
Texas Sifting's.
—To make steak tender, lay it on ts
large fiat dish in a mixture of three ta
bh spoonfuls of salad oil and one of
vinegar, and let it remain at least half
an hour on each side, 3 his w ill iuak"
the toughest steak tender when cooked.
—Chicago News.