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VOLUME XL NUMBER 31,
WIND AND DAFFODIL.
A wind came up One summer day—
A south wind, swift and Isold,
Pair w r itli a hint of sapphire skies
And jasmine’s starry gold—
And lay at the feet of 'a daffodil white,
And filled her with bliss untold.
“Oh, daffodil spill me yonr fragrant breath
And she gave it, in sigh on sigh;
“Oil, stoop from your stately purity,
And kiss me where I lie 1”
But. “Nay, dear wind ! I’m 6 nun ! ” slir said;
“That wish I must <Jehy."
“Then you love me not, “cried the eager wind;
.She trembled where she stood;
“I knew a clime wl-we the crimson rose
Vf ill meet me in warmer mood.”
“Then go, then go !” said the daffodil,
And tightened her snow-white snood.
At eve the sweet south wind had fled,
And the daffodil stood alone;
He layat the heart of a musk-roso red,
Whence the west wind scarce had flown,
Ami the one pure tear the daffodil shed
To the moonlight only was known.
—Boston Transcript.
the humorous papers.
VI HAT WE FIND IN THEM TO SMILE
OVER THIS WISER.
A TURCOMAN THICK.
Not even the Shah’s life is altogether
a 1 nippy one. A short time ago that
monarch sent some music-boxes fluid
mirrors to the Khan of Bokhara. The
Khan in return scut the Shah half a
dozen particularly pretty girls, not one
of whom was more than sixteen years
old. On tlm way they were captured by
Borne Turcomans. The Shah first tried
to recapture them, and then offered as a
ransom for them a number of decora¬
tions, including the great Sun and Lion
order. These the Turcomans soomed,
saying they preferred odalisques to jewels
every time. Finally the Shah offered
4,000 francs apiece for the girls, which
the Turcomans accepted. But after tlie
money was paid mid the sdalisques
brought to the palace the Persian mon¬
arch fairly howled with fury at discover¬
ing that the perfidious robbers had kept
the “sweet sixteens” and sent him in
their stead some of the veterans of the.ii
harems who were more remarkable for
uge than beauty.
CLAIMED AH offset.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle says a “hired
man” who has been employed on a farm
in that county for several months en¬
tered suit against his employer the other
<lay for the balance of wages amounting,
us he claimed, to thirty-two dollars.
The suit came to trial, and it looked at
first as if tlie plaintiff had a clear case.
He gave dates and figures iu a straight¬
forward way, and seemed a very liouest
man. When the farmer took the stand
lie said:
' ‘I claim an offset for that thirty-two
dollars. No man need sue me for what
i honestly owe.”
“What is your offset?” asked the law
yer.
“He is an unbeliever.”
“In what ?”
“Why, tn tho Bible.”
“Wlmt has that to do with your owing
him thirty-two dollars ?”
“It has a heap to do with it. I had
•six hands in my employ, and we were
i ashing things when I hired this man.
Me 1 ndu’t been with ns two days when
they stopped Hie reaper in the middle of
the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in
the lion’s den. and in three days we had
a regular knock-down over the whale
swallowing Jonah. The man who ran
the mower got arguing about Samson,
und drove over a slump and damaged
thc machine to tlie tunc of eighteen dol¬
lars, find the very next day my hoy broke
bis leg while climbing a fence to hear
and see the row which was started pver
the children of Israel going through the
lied Sea. It wasn’t a week before my
wife said she didn’t believe Elijah was
fed by ravens, and hung me if I didn’t
find myself growing weak on Noah and
his flood. That’s my offset, sir; and if
he was worth anything, I’d sue liim fora
thousand dollars beside.”
The court reserved decision.
CONTEMPT Td KILL,.
Old Uncle Isaac, the well known col
ored ragpicker, lias just made his appear
a nee after having been confined to hii
house for several days.
“ Where have you been?” asked the
Critic this morning. “ I haven’t seen
you for a long time.”
“Ob, I'se jess been senperation after
dat argyment I had wid the Washington
boys. ”
“What argument?”
“ Why, dat ’iigious argument we had
las’ week, when de biggest Washington
boy called me a liar, and sed dat I was
ole and ignorant. Den I jess gub him
one, and dat sneakin’ Jim Washington
hit me ’cross de back wid a fence
railin’.”
“ And you've been to bed ?”
“Yes, snr; jess got out dis moniin’,
and de ’facts oh dat argymint haint worn
off vet. But I'se goin’ now to Jedge
bnel' fer to git a warrant for all ob den,
boys.”
“ What will you charge them with—
getting the best of an argument?”
“ No, sab. dat I shan’t; I shall charge
dem wid insult; with contempt ter kill.’
— Washington Critic.
TN A SLEEPING CAR.
A traveler relating his experience in a
deeping he awoke to find „ . his , .
ear says
bald head against the window, and his
Hamilton Journai 9
feet out in the aisle in the ni'cide-piated
euspidore, and the car was colder than a
refrigerator while ho had only a single
blanket no thicker than a sheet of paper.
He says; “I was stiff all oven A.,ff l g0 |
"I* !U1| f staggered to MiS end of the cat,
and ,vital Ac yon think I found ?
'OVhy, I found the porter rolled up
on the back seat, in six blankets, fast
asleep, tlie fire gone out, and both doors
open, and ho rvns shoring foi- all that
was out, while the rat Was going at forty
miles an hour across the prairie. Well,
I was mad. t took ail the blankets
nv,ay from him, and covered the iioon
with a piece of oil cloth off the floor, and
took a fifty pound piece of ice out of tha
rank and laid it on Ills chest ana
wrapped liis arms around it, <\tl‘a shut
the doors and went to bed. Pretty soon
I heard tha colored man begin to talk in
his sleep. He said, ‘gway f’um dnr wid
dem cold feet. I dun tote you never put
deni frigerator Cars of yours no where
near me. Take dem right away or dere’s
goin’ to be a divorce, on do ground of
cruelty to animals.’ Then the coon woke
up mid said if he had a 'ranker’ he
would knife the man that put that ice on
him, and pretty soon t heard him build¬
ing a fire. Now, what I claim is that
George rnllmnn should have made a
thermometer in every car, ami men
enough to keep the temperature about
right, aiitl hot use a colored man for a
thermometer. ”— Peck’s Sun.
A CITY’S CLERKS*
A l’orty ot YOhiiir Men that Need .Look¬
ing Alter.
Speaking of the Coupon robbery iu
New York city, a prominent city official
said to a Herald reporter, that liis only
surprise was that the Finance Depart¬
ment did not “ take a tumble” to tlie
defaulting clerk, as the spying is, long
before his death.
The reporter asked if the city official
knew of liis knowledge that Carroll i
own .
was addicted to gambling and fast com- j
pany, and he replied:-—" No, I only knew
him in casual but I knew that be ^
a way,
could not have lived as lie ilid On $1,100
a year, and that il the way ho lived is
explained by the fact that his father '
supplied must have him had with to money mighty the old big man j
pay a sum j
yearly. But to my mind there is tnote
ample field for investigation than can be I
found in the books of the dead elerk ami !
that is in the various departments of the
city government. I’ll guarantee that
there is not one clerk in one hundred in
the departments who has received his
appointment exclusively because of his
peculiar fitness for his duties. Political
backing is tlie force which flings him
into a position, as it were, and there he
stays so long as his political backing is
good and on the right side of the fence.
What is the consequence of this kind of
appointment to office ? Why, that the
city government business is being run
by a set of men who were never asked
for recommendations from their previous
employers and who, in hardly one case
out of five, would have been able to , !
obtain such recommendations if they
wanted them. The city officials don’t I
act like business men when they want i
clerks in their own offices. When a -
clerk on $1,000 a year salary is known to
own a fast horse and to dress like a !
nabob and live in the best of style in one
of tho swell sections of tho city his em
ployer naturally says to himself, • Hello,
somebody must be paying for this,’and
he not only watches that young man’s
hooks, hut 'finds ont the kind of com- !
pany he keeps, and in a short time he ,
finds it profitable to discharge that young ;
man. The city officiate do not act in
' . |
“A large proportion of the clerks and j
employees places* in the city departments in I
of more or less trust, are fre
quenters of gambUng-saloonsW other
places of ill-repute, and they are to be
found everywhere where ‘sports’ congre- i
gate, and the fast and loose methods are !
considered the proper thing.” ,
The reporter here suggested that this
was a sweeping general charge.
“It seem so to you,” said the official,
“but vou can get the facts for yourself. |
Go any night you please to the fast re
sorts inN. Y. city, make around of them,
and if you don’t find city employees
‘putting up the wine’and having a good
time generally in most of these places,
I am much mistaken. Go to Saratoga
in the summer time and Long Branch,
and who are the men you trip up on every
once in a while in the club-houses and
on the road ? Why, city officials and
city employees on a vacation. It’s all
very well for the young men to tell you
that the ‘old man’ is putting np the
money for him, when yon find him open
ing wine at Moon’s every night, and
making a big swing for two or three
weeks at a time in the Grand or United
States Hotels, or at the West End. The
fathers of our city employees are not
rich men as a rale, and the thing don’t
wash. I don't mean to say, mind yon,
that these men live on money taken ais
honestly from the city, for that, perhaps,
could not lie proved; bnt I do mean that
their salaries are not big enough to pay
for the wav they live, and that the fact
that they.freqnent gambling-saloons, are
to tie seen at the roulette table fre
quently, and wherever the ‘game of
chance' holds out a tempting hand, is a
significant one.
Yoc may knock down a man with a
fraw if one en do f thestraw isina brandy
-mash.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1883.
About Titles,
Rev. Penstock who. insist being
addressed by his title, and who never
title or ds the same honor to any of the
Judges, Colonels or Professors in the
Lime Kiln-Club, suddenly bobbed up
and offered the following resolution!
Ob “Resoti'ed, jumping-match Dat Judging not a dog-figlit
a does license it
cull’d man to assume de title of Judge
M’d A big and
Resolved, Dat while width Ivashin’
an’ stove-hlackvu’ ahl phrfeshuns to be
looked lib to an’ respected, de puss’ns
biherin’ sick purfeslmns am not necessa¬
rily Professors wid a big P; Job and.
Resolved-, Hat bossili f. of diggin’
a cellar or fillin’ an’ ice house doan’ en¬
title de bosser to call liisself Colonel.”
Penstock was hardly down before the
thirteen Profcssote, Seventeen fudges
and tWehty-cight Colonels in the club
were on their feet and demanding to be
heard. They felt the insult and were
prepared to resent it, and Penstock was
seen to grow pale at the rate of a mile a
minute. Brothel’ Gardner finally se¬
cured silence after continuous rapping,
and then said;
“Will de Rev. Penstock please explain
how he cum by his title ?”
“Yes, sail. Ize a preacher, sab.”
“Was you regularly ordained?”
“Yes sail.”
“Who ordained you ?”
“Two ofdedeacms of de Fust Baptist
Church of Richmond.”
Tiiel'C Avas a general yell over his re¬
ply, and tlio worthy member lost his
temper and rushed from the room.
“My friends,” kindly observed the
President, “envy alius overreaches her¬
self. If it seems to please a fellow
mortal to call him Professor or Judge
or Major orGinei’ol, keep it up. it costs
nuffln, ffn ! keeps him good-natured. It
sounds much better to read in de papers
• lat Prof. Ginalong Jones am at present
engaged in cartin’ out ashes fur Col.
Dayball Smith, dan to menHliun dat ole
nigger Jones has struck a job of de gin
g' cr beer peddler, Let dignity go wid
yonr titles, howeber. Professors am
outer place in a white man's chicken
coop, an’ do Judge who lets his wife go
h’arfut will appear powerful small in de
ryes of his nay burs. Wo will now strike
dosin' attitood an’ disjourn de meet
in’.”— Detroit Free Press.
—
A Prank of “John Phoenix.”
The Secretary of the Navy lately , . , sent
11 note to naval ofhcer » askln S the “ for
as to a change of uniform.
This puts some old-timers in mmd ot a
similar request made by Jeff Davis,
when Secretary of War under Franklin
Pierce. Lieut. Derby, alias John
Phoenix, the first great American joker,
was so fortunate as to get one. In reply
he sent a proposition for having a two
inch iron ring appended by a stout piece
of leather to the seat of each enlisted
man’s trousers. Long and formal spec¬
ifications demonstrated the utility of this
ring, the use of which would incontesta¬
bly place our army at the head of the
military bodies of the world.
_ Each , olflccr „ ‘ u,stead .... of a 8W0 *; d . - W “ *?
cmry a long , white ash pole, , with a hook
- l - one elu ’. J 100 is po e m
1m stern-niig of a private lie could be
, ': ld “ lme of battl %f caught when he
tned to rana W’ Men “ ke artlI1< f
8 used ™ for co dl " ' Id a,, - p h / b moal13 pmposes ot thc and in ^ the
«"™lry , could be locked to other rings in
he and ^ fr ™ MI f“ g ° ff ‘
Lieut. Derby was a good draughtsman,
«nd he illustrated his proposition. Ofti
<! h « ragg rs f ers re al! Vf™*. omng cat f 1< m m « 1 ' 1 °,,
dragOOU3 f . j . to their
saddles and artillerymen with eannon
P^tongs hitched to heir rings and draw
m « kuge P^ces up steep heights,
This extraordinary proposition caused
°™« d «able fun among the War Depart
“ eut cl ® rks ’ » fiua1 ^
a r>avl8 “ used - wko fU’ . t was ^ do ^ ° "T Sc 1 ^ ^ Jt “ to an be
8,dt ’ At 1118 instance charge8 and
f,Ratlons were dra ' fn n P and « cut-aml
dried conrt martiaI was ord f ed ’
Mare V ’ Secretar V of Ktate > hoard of the
- -
matter and advwed Davls to let lt dro , P
as Ue ^ould be laughed at. Davis saw
t,,e wisdom of the advlco and Derl, J dld
r ot haTC to suffer for his joke. His
‘proposition and specifications for a
change of uniform are yet among the
archives of the War Department,
Prohibition in Michigan.
I 11 the Michigan Senate the prohibi¬
tion amendment to the Constitution,
which had been put on its passage, was
lost by a vote of 20 to 11, not a
two-thirds, bnt nearly a strict party
The matter was then reconsid
ere( j The proposition providing for
local option was laid on the table for
fntnre consideration. This action has
settled as certain the impossibility to
i- irry the prohibition amendment at this
Legislature.
She Had a Hish Opinion or Him.—
“ The idea of putting John on a jury ! ’
exclaimed Mrs. Tompkins, when she
heard that her hnsband ha-1 been drawn,
“They might as well order a new trial
right oft They won’t get John to agree
• -ii a verdict. He is the most obstinate
man I ever saw. I never knew him to
agree with his own wife in anything, and
it isn’t at ail likely he’s going to agree
with people he don’t know anything
bout. A pretty juryman he is!” — F.x
hangs.
THE LAST KISS.
HOW A FRENCHMAN SQUANDERS A
FORTUNE.
! Tired of I,lle He Stnrls in Commit Suicide
and Gains a Wife Instead.
Smile PeekeVel Was bdfn tit Skint
Micliel near MontherZ; His parents sent
him to Dfli-is to strtdv Irtfr, bttt before bo
liad passed HIS Inst eiabiindtidn be iost
Siiddcniy both father anil in6tbei\ When
a yoiing mail thus comes into possession
of $100,000 he does not stee the necessity
of living at Ht. Michel. On tbe other
hand lie imagines that bis $100,000 will
last forever; and pitches the law books
into the fire.
t’efckerei began to lead a gay iife.
Such a life could not last long. il.
Peckerel soon found himself at the end
of his resources. He was courageous
enough to try and reduce his expenses.
He sold his plneton; he sold his horses,
and at last sold his furniture and went
into lodgings.
There ene flue evening he began to
thinkt
“ It is a pity,” be reflected, “ that na¬
ture bas been decidedly Unkind in Uot
giving me either uncle or aunt from
whom I might entertain expectations.
Where can one get money ? I cannot
gain any myself. I might, perhaps, earn
$10 tbe a Meek afi an attorney's clerk. What
is use of that? I have known the
pleasures of this world. I had better go
and see if there are any pleasures on the
other side of Jordan, Poison gives one
a pain in the stomach, the pistol spoils
one’s looks. I have one resource left. I
have never learned to swim, and there is
the rivcf;”
Peckerel smiled like an author who
lias discovered a new incident.
“Now, then,” he added, “I must
make my preparations. A good Chris¬
tian takes the last sacrament—a good
Parisian must take his last kiss. ”
But ho was somehow or other suddenly
fastidious. He went on the bridge St.
Peres and waited till there should come
the nymph he had pictured in ’liis mind
should be the recipient of his last kiss.
She whb to be someliody he did not
know. She mnst be young, pretty and of
a stylo that pleased. A score of girls had
passed him. Some had brown hair,
some dark chestnut, some light chestnut.
None of these would suit, for he had set
!iis heart on a bloi-de.
Suddenly he started; there came the
angel of his dreams. His death knell
had struck.
At No. 110 Rue du Bac was a pretty
little hotel, in which lived a rich Ameri¬
can. He had come to Paris with his
only daughter, Helen. A little garden
with great trees, a lawn on which the
sparrows hopped about, a conservatory
that -was a little winter garden. Such
was the home of the fair Helen.
Miss Helen, aged sweet 18, accompa¬
nied by her governess, Miss Peabody,
was out for a walk this fine day. Miss
Peabody had allowed herself to be born
in Salem without a murmur. By her
side walked Miss Helen, with her pretty
little nose in the air, like a lark going to
take wing.
Peckerel felt all the blood rush to liis
heart, and his temples beat furiously.
Miss Helen came slowly on in maiden
meditatien, fancy free. Peckerel walked
straight up to her, seized her in his arms
and pressed his lips to hers. Then,
with a spring over tbe parapet, lie
plunged into the stream.
Helen gave a cry of terror; Miss Pea¬
body fell back against a lamp-post; the
crowd rushed up. “Save him ! save
him !” was the cry.
A boat shot ont from the quay.
“There he is 1” “He is dead !” “ No,
lie has fainted I” “I tell you he is
dead!” Such were the confused cries
that were heard by Helen as Miss Pea¬
body led her away homeward.
When she got home, she fell into a
fever. Her father was informed of tha
occurrence and was blue with wrath.
Miss Helen asked if the ruffian was
alive or dead. The father said he
was alive.
“Then, papa,” said she, “I want to
kill him or marry him.”
“My own dear child,” murmured the
stem papa.
He at onee set out to fine Peckerel.
“What do you mean, sir,” he began,
“by insulting my daughter ?”
“I wanted to die.”
Tlie Yankee produced a Bible, "Un
cle Tom’s Cabin” and “ Innocents
Abroad.” He made Peckerel swear on
the Bible that he would be faithful to
his wife. He swore on “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” never to neglect his home for his
club. He swore on Mark Twain to
avoid all the pomps and vanities of the
world.
Peckerel swore freely. He immedi
ately married the fair Helen.
So says Aurelin Scholl. -Freund’s
1 Daily.
I Texas Cattle.— Since the large cap*
talists came into the business of cattle
! Texas, great bodies of land
raising in
j have been bought np for ranges, and
soon desirable free pastures will be a
thing of the past. Having the money to
f e „ce as well as buy the land, most of
,he large ranges are being enclosed with
; — More than .lOO.WO.OOOwold b«
; required to purchase the cattle now
roaming over the State. Half of this
j value, according to tbe best testimony,
is the increase of cattle within two yearft.
me summer taxation.
“I hat my own obiniou on dot vnt-iV
tine “I dink peezness it gqt, bretty yet,” much says the humbucks barber, j 1
peon
apowd ncetiug a vacation from VOl’k.
Vork tond kill n man half so qwick ns
doing ilOfllug tob tench. Yot der pig
gest batt of us vant is a lecdlo vacate;,,
frota otir hlertstires and habits, alretty. I
Dirt man Vlch .links lie earn! lif ,f lie tend ,
got viskt cilery hale hour 1m '
a trink of
pedder sliVenr himselluf off. Chust der
same del cainpier; pedder he dook a va¬
cation ttVay from ids thirds. Der pest
rest! for der averitch gletchymnn vould
jieen tb sdop making long faces ttf him¬
self find looking around choost as if der
vorlt vos all a pig fliucral; yet. Dei' vel
lers viek amuse demsellnfs tnlt Such
lecdle flyers py Vail sdreet vot dem hand
sleeb dree nights a veck, wild der clien
dlemen vieli dink only uf preaking vim
men’s hearts und pillard blaying mid oil
horse races pedditig —if dem should
dako dwo veeks’ vacation from nil deni
dings, dot vonld peon der pesd dings
oWid 11
.
“Ate yon going to go into the country
this summer ?’* tile reporter asked the
monkey barber.
“Veil,” he replied, “if der poss vilt
vent avey a gupple days a veek in dot
summer, yet, und gif der shop a resd mit
his chaW, dot's vacation enough for me
und der gusdimers. Der resd uf my hol¬
idays I’fc got to put in mit n bhimmer
up down. I’m shbarking a blummor for
all he is vortli, so I can marry hisdaugh
der und retire. I’fo grtishod dot girl so
she sents mo sick boedry owid from a
den cent Alpum Wridor’s Friend. She
lias efen vent so far as to make mo shlib
bers four sizes doo shmiill. Now, I’fo
got to get some fine vork into der olt
man."— New York Sun.
It, Puzzled Them.
Lucy Hooper, writing to tho Phila¬
delphia Telegraph about Booth’s visit
to Germany, says:
“Some comical incidents arose during
liis tour out of the presence of Ins
daughter’s colored maid Betty, whose
black skin filled tho averago German
mind with wonder and amazement.
Sometimes they set tier down as a Zulu,
and were surprised to learn that, she was
a harmless American. Mr. Booth’s cour¬
ier was several times asked, on arriving
at a now hotel, as to what the strange
creature was to be fed upon. One day
when she was out walking with Miss
Booth, a kindly-looking German, who
had been staring at the pair for some
time, evidently came to the conclusion
that Betty was some kind of a large,
tamo monkey, for ho darted into a fruit¬
erer’s shop and came out witli a quan¬
tity of fine plums, which lie pressed into
her hands. On another occasion Betty
was going through the corridor of a ho
tel, when she met an elderly gentleman,
who stopped her with an authoritative
gesture. He then carefully applied tlie
tip of one finger to her cheek and gave
the skin a vigorous rub, afterward look¬
ing at liis fingers and shaking his head
in bewilderment on finding that the
color did not come off. ”
An Old Gun.
The Si. James’s Gazette says :—A dis¬
covery which lias just been made at
Aleppo is likely to cause considerable
surprise in military circles, for, accord¬
ing to the Turkish official gazette of that
place, a party of engineers, while making
excavations beneath tho citadel of the
town, have come upon a large wrought
iron breech-loading cannon which
must have been buried for at least 250
years. That the weapon should be a
breech-loader is in itself sufficiently
astonishing; but the most extraordinary
part of the affair is that the breech
mechanism is almost exactly similar to
that which has for so many years been
fitted by Krupp and Essen to the artil¬
lery of the German army. The gun
bears the name of its maker, Halebli
Mustapha Osia, and is in fairly good
preservation.
How to Make White Bread.
For the sponge take a pan of butter¬
milk or sour milk which has just turned
thick. Put it on the stove and scald.
When the curd is well separated from
the whey strain or skim it out. Let the
whey cool until it will not scald, then
stir in the flour, beating thoroughly. It
ghfm]d }x) ftbf>ut M thlck „„ hatU t fol
• ddJe cakcB Hw(M . t miik| or eTen
wat€r may )*, nHe q ^ wetting for the
spon g P) i} good Ronr m ji k or buttermilk
cann , jt ’^ hfu j. But fresh buttermilk is,
_, rhaps t jj e p e(i t of all. When the
- 8 about milkwarm, beat in a tea
{ul q{ t 0n(J teacupful of the
yeafit i» enough for three ordinary white
loaveS) one loaf of brown bread and a tin
^ ro p R qfie sponge should lie made at
nig ht. Let it stand until morning. Un
less the weather is very cold, it is not
! necessary to put it near the fire. In the
morn jng, when the sponge is light, take
j out enough for your loaf of brown flour, taking bread.
Mix the remainder with
care not to put in too much, as that will
make the bread dry and hard. Knead
ha]f an hour. The whiteness and deli
borough o{ the bread will lie much increased
, kneading. Put the dough
Wh« tt ».».,«<
you wish to make rolls, save enough of
the dough for that purpose. Make the
remainder into loaves. Set them away
1 ^ When light, bake.
A RUSSIAN NIHILIST.
ilK^iiNGjcFT iPt’ ’Gii: l. nv POLICE. the BRtflPAtrf
of
The 8lory Ver „ i„. h , am Itfsi
Capture by the Authorities.
Verft Sassulitch, who is once more re
g* ted as havln S been captured by the
H ll8sirtu authorities, has been as eXten
*ively and inconsistently “biographed
aa French sister, Lmtisc Michel.
She teas born in 1850, according to the
(apparently) most trustworthy authori¬
ties, and in 18(17 was shut Up In a Lithu¬
anian prison for tho offense of being a
schoolmate of the sister of Netclinleff,
the political conspirator. Her imprison¬
ment lasted two years, and she had
scarcely been liberated when she was ro
nrlrstod on an administrative order oi
exile (tmt hurried away from hot mother’s
house so rapidly that she would have
perished of cold but for the compassion
of a gendarme, who covered her with his
cloak. For some years she was passed
on from town to town an a “suspect,”
until, having spent tho best years of her
life in prison, and a victim to tho in¬
solence and brutality of the police, she
had learned to pity thoso who wore
similarly afflicted and to desire to avengo
them. In 1878 she learned of the brutal
ill-treatment of a prisoner, Bogoluboff,
by General Trepoff, “Prefect of the
Town,” at St. Petersburg.
The General had entered the fortress
and was exasperated on beholding Bogo¬
luboff and a companion walking together
and conversing, as, not being convicts,
tmt merely accused men detained on
suspicion, they had a right to do. To a
harsh question ns to why this was allowed
one of tho two volunteered an explana¬
tion, "I do not address you—to your
dungeons !” shouted tho General, furi¬
ously. The two prisoners walked on
quietly, when Trepoff, crying, “Hats
off!” aimed a blow at Bogoluboff, The
prisoner’s hat fell off, but Bogoluboff
picked it up and put it on, whereon the.
General ordered him to he flogged. A
romantic version made it seem that Vera
HiiflSillite.h had been acquainted with
Bogoluboff—had even been his mistress
—hut there was no truth in tho story.
Bho read with indignation of the outrage
and waited some time to see if the Gov¬
ernment would pay any attention to it.
Wlion no action was taken she resolved
to do vengeance herself, and oil tho 5th
of February, 1878, went to the General’s
reception-room with a petition, mid when
he stretched out his hand to receive it
shot him through the body. She made
no effort to escape and said that she
hail fired upon tha Goueral premed
itatedly, without caring whether she
killed him or merely wonndgd him,
since in tho latter case her end would lie
obtained in calling attention to his bru¬
tality. Hlie was brought to trial hi
April, 1878, and defended by M. Aloxan
droff. The jury selected was composed
of six members of the civil service, twe
merchants and a nobleman, a school-in¬
spector, a student and an artist, and it
acquitted her promptly amid the ap¬
plause of the audience, despite the evi¬
dence, her avowal and the speeches of
tlie judge and the prosecutor. Tho ac¬
quittal provoked a general outburst of
applause from tlie press throughout Bus
sin. 6n
the fid of July, 1878, Vera Hnssu
litcli appeared at Geneva, where she
was received in triumph by Rockfort
and his friends. She gave out that she
had been rearrested but permitted to
escape. It was reported for some time
that the Vera of Geneva was an impos¬
tor, and that the Russian Charlotte
Corday was really in Siberia, lmt finally
all doubts as to her identity ceased.
In December, 1879, she published a
statement to the effect that her attempt
on the General’s life had been made in
pursuance of orders from the Revolu¬
tionary Committee and that she had
been designated by lot as tho avenger.
In February, 1880, her arrest was said
to have been effected at St. Petersburg,
but the report proved false, and she was
repeatedly heard of thereafter at Geneva
and Paris pushing on the Nihilist prop¬
aganda and active as one of tho editors
of the Naradnala Volin, a well-known
Nihilist review.
1 ramps Taking the Road.
Sports from New England States
™y tra ™I* fr ‘> m N,:w York aud
Piston are swarming the country towns,
and a number of outrages have been re
ported. Three children who were alone
in the bouse of their father, Leopold
Wolf, of Morcstown. Conn., on Sunday
evening gave food to two beggars. The
men demanded money, and ransacked
the house. The eldest child, a hoy 16
years old, got a pistol and drove tbe
robbers out of doors. An hour later tin
Imnse was on fire, and was burned to
the ground. Before the fire broke ont
young George, who had driven tbe
tramps from the house, had put the
other children to bed. They were res
<med ami George saved $700 in money
that fatber had lald XrT'
A number of men are on the track of le
tramps, and exect to^cap ure lem.
These and other transgressions of the
law, flagrant and open, give* rise
many complaints but political mflmmrc
™ to spare Om’***%«■
to escape detection, walks the
streets a free man to-day, though made
times very grave threats are
against him.
$1. 00 A YEAR.
A DESPERATE EXPLOIT.
A» Altempt to the Confederate Onus
on Inland No. IO.
One night, about the first of April,
says M. Quad, in his War Sketches, a
hand of fifty Federate left the fleet un¬
der cover of darkness, bent upon such a
desperate undertaking as is seldom
planned outside the realms of fiction.
Every gun npon Island No. 10, which
Commodore Foote could disable before
liis fleet was called npon to push down,
increased his chances of succcsb, anp
this llttlo band of men started out with
the intention of landing on the island
and spiking as many guns as possible
before being discovered.
Tho Confederates bad a picket boat
out to discover and check any such at¬
tempt, but on this night tbe darkness
was intense, the rain was falling steadily,
and when the lightning came it was so
vivid that men were blinded for the mo¬
ment. Tlie Federal launches from the
fleet passed within 100 feet of the picket
boat without discovery, and made a suc¬
cessful landing upon tho island. Tho
first guns were planted about 350 feet
from the head of tho island, aud the
ground between was covered with small
hushes, rank grass and weeds, and cou
siderahly broken. Between the landing
spot and tlie guns were two or three low
spots full of water, and an attack from
this direction did not seem probable.
Tho Confederate sentinels were strong
along the ditch in front of the batter.,-,
cowering in tlie storm and hearing noth¬
ing but tho war of the elements. Had
the party of Federate halted and sent
three or four men forward, the smaller
number could have passed tho sentinels
and perhaps had plenty of time to spike
every gun. But the holder plan of
marching the whole command straight
up to tho ditch and into it was adopted,
and a flash of lightning betrayed them
to a sentinel. His musket bad scarcely
sounded tlie alarm before it was taken up
all around tho battery. Then in the
midst of a furious storm, tho thunder
making the island tremble and tbe light¬
ning striking trees along the river al¬
most every moment, tbe Federate dashed
into the battery itself. Muskets were
cracking and men shouting, and it was a
situation to try the nerve of tho bravest
mnn living.
Every fifth man in the command was
provided with a supply of rat-tail files,
to ho driven into tho vents of the gnus
and broken off. The Federate had come
for a certain purpose—the Confederates
could not determine at once what that
purpose was, and were naturally sur
prised and confused by the sudden
attack. One writer says that seven
eniiB were spiked ; another says five ; ft
tiiird says that only one large pivot gun
was disabled. Confederates on duty in
the battery at tlie time agree that four
guns were so thoroughly spiked that they
were rendered useless for three or four
days, or until the broken files could bo
drilled ont.
After the first, moment of surprise the
Confederates rallied and began an attack
which forced the little band out of the
battery, leaving three or four dead and
as many prisoners. Three or four others
were wounded iu making their way to
the boats, and two who become separated
from tho command and did not reach the
boats were made prisoners next day. It
was an oxploit full of nerve and daring,
lint thc results were without real value
to Foote.
A Telegraph Joke.
A well-to-do young man recently mar 1
ried and started West on his bridal tonr.
The happy young conple were break¬
fasting at a station eating-house. Dur¬
ing the repast two smart Aleck ii came
into the dining-room and seated them¬
selves opposite tho contracting parties.
They were telegraph operators. By
delicate poising of their knife and fork
they were able to make sounds in close
imitation of telegraphy. In the mystic
huiguago of tlie key one said unto tho
other:
“Ain’t she a daisy, though ?”
The party thus addressed replied by
clicking off:
“Wouldn’t I like to hug and kiss her,
the little fat angel ?”
“Wonder who that old bloat is that
Bhe lias married ?”
“Some gorgeous grange, I reckon !”
replied the other.
The groom stood it until forbearance
ceased to be a virtue, when he also
balanced his knife, and click, click, it
went, in rapid succession. It was intelli¬
gible to the cute twain that had recently
made fun of its author. When inter¬
preted it read:
“Dear Sirs: I am superintendent of
the telegraph line upon which you work.
You will please send your time to head
quarters and resign your respective posi- of
tious at once. Yonrs, Superintendent
Telegraph .”—Lowell Courier.
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It would be difficult to compress more
of the technical language of the diamond
into the same space than occurs in the
following, from the telegraphic report
of the Boston-Cleveland game on Tues
, day : ‘ n second Sutton " got his
, ,i Glass
base on ml s, '' n nn
cock's fumble of ' ^ . d t k
«T to Ir “‘ J ’Z “I
beautiful d. V ”. off Burdock’s
grounder to fQ
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Ifriod y.’ -LoweU Courter.