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THE GROWING SOUTH.
Tilt: DEVELOPMENTS MADE DUR
ING THIS YEAR.
Nnrly 8130,000,000 InTnted In New Kn
terprlxe* Burin,; the Year—Alabama
Again Lead*.
In its annual review of the industrial
progress of the South, the Baltimore Man
ufacturers Record says that 1886 has been
the most remarkable year in many re
spects in the history of the Southern
States and more has been accomplished
for the prosperity and progress of the
whole south than ever before in any
year. This is shown in the enormous in
vestments of capital in industrial enter
prises and in the growth of confidence
among Northern and European investors
in the stability of the South’s iron ffnd
other manufacturing interests. The
amount of capital, including the capital
stock of incorporated companies, repre
sented by new manufacturing and mining
enterprises organized or chartered at the
South during 1886, including the enlarge
ment of old plants and the rebuilding
of mills, aggregate .$129,229,000, against
$66,812,000 in 1885, divided among the
•States as follows:
Statas. 1886. 1885.
Alabama 819.848,000 17,841,000
Arkansas 15,240,1KK) 1,220,000
Florid i. ' . 1,659,000 2,019,000
O orcia' 3,599.000 2,600,000
Kentucky 2.844.000 1.833 200
Louisiana 2.240 000 ,2118.500
Maryland 8,765,000 6,G63 800
Mississippi 7(4,000 761,500
North Carolina 8,676,000 3,230,000
South Carolina 1.208,000 866,00)
Tennessee 2,124 000 2,692.000
Texas 6,694,000 3,232,00.)
Virginia 8,514,000 3,314(00
AVebl Virginia 8,865,000 1,205,600
Totals $129,226 000 §66.812,000
The development of iron manufactories
employs the hulk of this new capital
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 188 G were 28 iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 20
miscellaneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.;
8 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 elec
tric light companies, 11 agricultural im
plement factories, 174 mining and quar
rying enterprises, 16 carriage and wagon
factories, 0 cotton mills, 28 furniture
factories, 42 water works, 58 tobacco
histories, 02 flour mills, 448 lumber mills,
not counting small portable saw mills,
including saw and planing mills, sash
and door factories, stove, handle, shingle,
hub and spoke, shuttle block factories,
etc., in addition to which there was a
number of miscellaneous enterprises One
• f the most gratifying features of the
South’s industrial progress is the wise
diversity of new industries that arc de
veloping all through that section.
BUSINESS DISASTERS.
'mrleft H. Raymond, of New York, Fails-*
Other Failures.
; Dries H. Raymond, dealer in sup
plies at 121 Chambers street and 103
I h 1 It- street, lias made .an. assignment for
the beuellt of creditors, to James AI.
Oakley, with amounting to
§206,609. ygßLid has tiard
■u: .venty-five year§e.JUjy^
gtrrt'nunettf. lie dealt mainly by
• ample, carrying no stock worth men-
I'oniar. 11 is Warehouse was at 103
‘ll aide street, and up to about a year
ui c lie was reported to be very wealthy,
;■!’ i Ids credit was of the best. But
ice then lie has been lax in his pay
i ants. He once owned sixteen or
• nil teen pieces of real estate in Brook
's n His assignment to James M. Oak
>’• <d Jamaica, L. 1., was tiled in
, biMoUlvn. The amount of his liabilities
> unknown, but they are estimated to be
ti §.'>oo,ooo. Raymond is a silent
i’d'Xner with George 11. Creed in tlie
i *PIV business, and at their establish
nt nothing was known regarding the
tinaiu . 1 trouble of Raymond.
lln failure of the J. Kellogg Printing
mpany and stationery firm. Little Rock,
k.. is announced; liabilities $20,000;
■■ - sets $30,000.
At a meeting of the creditors of A. P.
lariin & Cos., Boston, Mass., boots and
-hoes, W ednesday, it was unanimously
voted to accept 35 per cent cash, and 5
per cent in six months in Martin’s own
notes unindorsed. Martin was unable to
state at present whether he would accept
i he offer or not.
The assignee of the cattle firm of Pea
cock. Brochcr & Cos., Colorado, Texas,
me- filed a statement of assets and liabil
ities of the firm. The total indebted
ness of the company is $255,350, while
the assets, at a very low calculation,
amount to $355,500.
V I.IIIEUAL. BEQUEST TO HARVARD.
Harvard College receives some S4OO,
000 from the will of J. Q. A. Will-liams.
which has been filed in the Suffolk <.min
ty Probate Court. The estate is Uft in
trust, and after the bequest of severs!
legacies,when the rest shall have reached
-400.0, 0, it is to be given to the presi
dent and fellows of Harvard College.
The sum of $200,000 is to be set apart
and known as the Abraham 'Williams
•fund, in memory of the testator’s father
nd grandfather, the latter being a mem
ber of the class of 1844. A fund of $40.-
000 is to be used in aiding needy and
"• ritorious students.who are to consider
a ;ch aid as debts of honor, and also for
the library of the college. In case the
•ollege refused to accept the trut, the
estate is to go to the society for old men
hi Boston and the society for old females
in Newburyport.
CHEATING WITH INDIANS.
Commissioners Wright, Larrabee and
’ tuiels have effected an agreement with
t e Sioux Indians, at the Peck agency,
y which the Indians concede all titles to
iheir land, except that retained for theii
serration, the boundary of which will
How the Missouri river from the mouth
the Big Muddy fora stipulation of sl.-
■ >O,OOO, in anau&lpayments of $165,000
for ten years.
ANOTHER FAIL,I'HR;
Ihe failure of Lonnon Pels, a leading
ir 5 goods merchant of Newport, is an
nounced. The creditors are St Louis.
New Orleans. Memphis. Louisville, Cin
cinnati. Boston. Chicago and PhiLadei
-1 ** merchants and manufacturers. Lia-
Hbties will reach $40,000; assets, SBO,-
THE QUEEN AND CRESCENT.
H. F Clark ha 6 been appointed super
uteudent of of the Vicksburg and Me
idian division of the Queen and Cres
ent route.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH, GA„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1887-EIGHT PAGES.
ASSIGNMENT OF A CATTLE FIRM.
A Failure Which Cnusea Much SorprUetn
Texna,
Tho Dolores Land and Cattle company
or Texas which was chartered last year
with a stated capital of $3,000,000, have I
marie an assignment. The ranches and
cattle belonging to the company are situ--f
ated in Demmit, Kinney and adjoining
counties, and were assessed last year at ,
$250,000. The ranches comprise over ;
200,000 acres, stocked at present with
16,000 head of cattle. The papers of as
signment as filed here and signed by
Messrs. Seabright and A. F. Robins,show
in round figures liabilities of half a mil
lion dollars, and the assets float up at
about $510,000. The assignment creates
great surprise and regret, cn account of
the high standing of the persons con
cerned in the enterprise. The assets,
however, as compared with the liabilities,
indicate temporary embarassment, which,
it is hoped, will be eventually overcome
without much loss, if any, to the credit
ors.
MORE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
i)ar;landrr> Fxperteuce Sevea Shocks, but
No llamage.
At Westminster, Frederick, Emrnets
burg, and other towns in Western Mary
land, on Monday, the inhabitants were
considerably excited over several violent
shocks aud loud rumblings which awoke
them from sleep, and continued at inter
vals from 11 :30 o'clock at night until
early next morning. Ne damage was
done, as far as can be learned, but as that
country is mountainous the people are ap
prehensive of grave trouble. Congress
man Shaw, who lives at Westminster,
says he was awakened by what sounded
like the blasting of rocks, and pictures
were shaken from the walls in other
houses lie heard two distinct shocks in
rapid succession. The mercury at West
minster was four below zero this morn
iug
THE WORST IN FIVE YEARS.
The Wuten Knilroad Blocked up With
Snow.
The present storm on the railroads has
been the worst in the west in five years.
Fortunately the weather is not very cold
or the railroads would be unable to move
a train. There is over five feet of snow
in a level iu exposed places, while in the
ravines it is six feet deep. The Michigan
Central had to abandon several of their
passenger trains. One is at Nixie’s, go
ing west, and two east bound trains are
at Michigan City, Ind. Three westbound
passenger trains became stalled in drifts
five miles east of Michigan City, and it
required nearly all day with five locomo
tives to bring them out.
The New York fast express became
caught near New Buffalo, and the Grand
Rapids train crashed into the rear, dam
aging the sleeping car and injuring the
fireman and porter.
LOUISIANA ORANGE CRGE.
Hut One-Tenth the Quantity of East Year
Produced.
The orange crop of Louisiana is all har
vested and market. It is, as predicted,
i, l Z
-£3** ora m?*-- gainst ten to thntya
cents thus time last year, and scarce at
these figures. There will be none for
shipment north, as usual. In fact a great
many Florida oranges have been import
ed and are for sale this year, a decided
novelty in New Orleans, which has hith
erto been exporter; but while the crop is
a failure a more favorable report comes
from the Plaquemine orange district, for
the trees are not as severely injured and
not as many of them killed by the cold
of last January, as was imagined at first.
A VIRGINIA HUSBAND.
Dr. Talmage'. Daughter to Marry a Hand
some Richmond Man.
It has been announced that Miss Edith
Talmage, daughter of Rev. Dr. DeWitt
Talmage, of Brooklyn, will be married
to Mr. Allen Donnan, of Richmond, in
about two months. The announcement
will be publicly made early in February,
and the marriage will take place a month
later. The prospective groom is an in
telligent and handsome Virginian. Miss
Talmage spent two seasons at the White
Sulphur springs, and the next fall visited
Richmond as the guest of Mr. James B.
Pace, Richmond’s millionaire. It was at
White Sulphur that Mr. Donnau met Miss
Talmage. During her stay there she was
a great belle.
THE DEVIL’S RIVER ACCIDENI.
Ten or Tttclto Eire* Believed to Have Been
I.oil.
The officials and employes of the
Southern Pacific railroad > till refuse to
give any information concerning the col
lision, Friday evening, of a freight train
and a construction train near Devil's
river. It was learned that ten or fifteen
lives were lost, nearly’ all the p *rsons
killed being Mexicans. Four or five dead
bodies from the wreck have been brought
iu. and several of the wounded have i e a
taken to Columbus for treatment at the
railroad hospital When the trains col
lided they’caught fire, aud two cars and
the locomotive were burned up. Most
of the killed and wounded receive l ! their
injuries by being burned.
THE DROUTH DISTRICT.
Thirty Thousand People in Want ot the
Necessaries of Life.
The Fort Worth Gazette publishes an
official report of the convention of coun
ty judges from the counties in the drouth
district of Texas, held at Albany, Texas.
The total number of people in these
counties now in need of food, clothing
and fuel is placed at 30.000, while thou
sands more are without seed to plant
during the coming year. An appeal is
made to the state and national legisla
tures and to the country at large to fur
nish at once $500,000 to relieve immedi
ate wants.
SHOT THREE TIMES.
Geo. Hill, one of the commissioners of
LaSalle county, and a leading citizen of
Tuchig, was assassinated last Sun
day. Hill was an important witness at
the coroners inquest on the recent killing
f Sheriff McKinney. He was shot three
times, but lived long enough tostatethat
tiis assassins were Captain Silas Hay and
Frank R. Hall. Captain Hay was father
in-law of the late Sheriff McKinney. The
State Ranger and local authorities ire
scouring the country in search of the as
sussinfc, who fled immediately after firing
u their victim. Hill was a man of
wealth and high standing.
PERSONAL MENTION.
P. T. has built three toboggan
slides at Bridgeport, Conn,
A grandson* of the late Reverdy Johnson
of Maryland is a page in the United States i
Senate.
The Empress of Austria wants to visit this
country, having always longed for a ride on
the prairies.
Evangelist D. L. Moody has been in
vited to visit Australia an 1 conduct revival
meetings, but he has declined.
On the first of January Emperor William
celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his
entry into the German army.
Massachusetts will have two authors of
books in Congress when Henry Cabot Lodge
and Governor Long meet there.
Senator Logan was sixty years, ten
months and fifteen days oil at the time of his
death. He did not look, however, more than
fifty.
Bona.i/a King Flood’s stone house in
San Francisco cost $2,000,000. The cost of
Leiaud Stanford’s wooden house is estimated
at $1,000,000.
It is said that ex-Senator Conkling is very
charitable toward impecunious members of
the legal profession and gives away large
sums of money. ’
Senators Payne and Ingalls are said to
be rivals for the pedestrian championship of
the United States Senate. They are both in
defatigable walkers.
Henry M. Stanley has left London for
Zanzibar, Africa. He is said to have declined
an offer of $400,000 to return to America an l
resume his lecturing tour.
Sculptor Ezekiel has finished a little
figure of Robert E. Lee to be placed in front
of the house in Westmoreland County, Va.,
in which the General was born.
Senator Morrill is noted for his resem -
blance to Charles Sumner. He has been in
Congress thirty-one years—twelve iu the
House and nineteen in the Senate.
Secretary Lamar is regarded as the best
swordsman in Washington. There are sev
eral Senators whose knowledge of singlestick
would enable them to defend themselves if
attacked.
Mr. S. H. Puleston, the millionaire mem
ber of Parliament, who is about to purchase
$2,000,000 worth of Pennsylvania coal lands,
was twenty years ago a reporter on a small
paper at Pittston„Penn.
The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of
Westminster an 1 the Duke of Bedford have
incomes ranging from $1,500,000 to $2,500,-
000 a year. No one thinks of trying to esti
mate their possessions in any other way.
The Independent is authority for the state
ment that Dr. Douglas really lost his own
health by his efforts in the care of General
Grant. He has gone to Arkansas and Flor
ida for the winter with his family, a man se
riously out of health.
The telephone is put to anew and conven
ient use in Brussel-. Gentlemen who wish
to rise early, but don’t like to, can have a
row of little bells along the edge of their
beds, which ring viciously, until they rise
and stop the disturbance.
Four of the Justices of the United Ela’es
Supreme Court are over seventy years old,
and as they have served upon the ben hover
ten years are eligible for retirement on fuil
pay. They are Chief Justice Waite and As
sociates Miller, Field and Bradley.
Before sailing for home Genorai Booth,
of the Salvation Army, claimed that durieg
his stay in this country he had put iu 6 >
hours on the cars, had spoken to 180.009
American sinners at 129 meetings, and had
saved 2.500 souls.
General Pd—t. A. P"vo* r.-’-t tr \ct
York soon after the war without ad bur,
and with no introduction save his reputation
as a Confederate soldier. He acquired al
most immediately a good practice, which has
steadily grown, until it now brings hi n
$20,000 a year.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
a he people or raris eat a, 000, 000 larks every
year.
K-iWTu rke v hanging in a Chicago butcher
shop weighed 39 1-2 pounds.
The 1,009 convicts in Sing Sing prison eat
twenty-one barrels of flour daily.
Buffalo has natural gas now which is
brought eighty-seven miles by pipes.
New railroads to the length of 7,000 mile
we: e built in the United States during the
past year.
The silver mills of Montana represent an
investment of $20,000,000, and her mining
machinery as much more.
King KALAKAUA,of the Hawaiian Islands,
has gambled away $14,000 deposited by poor
people in the Postal Savings Bank.
Granville, Mass., is the centre and heart
nf the drum making business of the United
States. It turns out daily about 1,200 drums.
More than fifty colored men hold clerk
ships in the departments at Washington at
salaries ranging from SI,OOO to i,t>oo per
year.
During the year 1880, American mills have
produced 1,350,000 tons of steel rails, valued
at §40,000,0J0. The prospect for 1887 is said
to he better.
Hvacinthe Boyer, an aged basket maker
at Ottawa, Out., has received notice that by
the death of an uncle in France he is the sole
heir to §8,000,000.
During the past year 25,000 articles have
accumulated in the Dead Letter Office. These
included all sorts of necessaries, from Easter
eggs to seer-sucker suits.
E. Cooper, of Santa Barbara, has proved
that olive culture can be made to pay in Cal
ifornia. He has a grove of 6,0 JO trees which
yearly yield 50,000 bottles of excellent oil,
which he sells for §1 a bottle.
The Plonk family, in Lincolnton, N. C., is
long-lived. Joseph is now ninety-eight years
old; his sister, Mrs. Tetkrow, is one hundred
years; and Mrs Weaver, another sister, is
one hundred and two years of age.
A New Mexico cattle man recently
shipped five car loads of fine beeves to the
Kansas City markets, and after paying rail
road freights, stock yard charges, feed, com
mission, eta, had just §7 a head left for his
cattle.
A huge iron reservoir is being built at a
remote spot in the outer harbor of Amster
dam for the storage of petroleum. It will be
neariy thirty three feet in diameter and of
the same depth, and is calculated to hold
1,740,60 J gallons.
OUR INDEBTEDNESS.
The debt statement just issued shows
>he decrease of the public debt during
the month of Deeembertobe $9,358,202,
32; cash in treasury, $444,015,791.19.
gold certificates outstanding, $97,2 i 4.-
605; silver certificates outstanding $117.-
246,670; certificates of deposite outstand
ing $6,510,000.
How Vengeance Worked
A capital story is told regarding two
peddlers who were plying their vocation
in the country. Calling at a farmhouse
for dinner they were accommodated,
though the fare was, if anything, worse
than that usually given to tramps —the
driest of bread, very stale, cold pota
toes, scraps ot fat meat and bones, sour
milk, etc.—and what made matters
worse, they were charged one dollar for
the miserable repast. It took ail the
small change they could rake and scrape
to pay the score, and shouldering their
packs, they left the house two very sober
and disgusted men. After walking
down the road for half a mile in silence
one of them ventured to relieve hi
feelings:
’ Dot vas a pad man, Isaac.”
•‘Yes, Moses, dot vas a ferry bad
man.”
Another half mile, and another long
silence, then:
‘God vill punish dot man, Isaac."
“Yes, Moses, God vill punish dot
man.”
They trudged on fully a mile further
before either spoke again, and then
Moses broke the silence bv exclaiming
with quiet emphasis as he drew a hand
ful of si.ver spoons from his bosom:
“Isaac, God has punished dot iuau.”—
Button Uncord.
LIVING AND DYING.
Finding to-day a hard task done—
Finding a moral conflict won;
An answering glow the setting sun
One’s warm heart giving—
Companionship of those we prize.
Or e’en one glance of love-lit eyes—
And this is living!
Stealing away an unshared grief,
While naught but weeds compose the sheaf.
Unsightly blots upon the leaf
Our care belying;
1 he sky o'ercast when day begii
Loving the one another wins—
Ah! this is dying!
But death itself to life must yield,
And lo! Heaven’s portals are reveale
The King’s great register unsealed—
Oh, joy supernal!
Shows us as what we strove to be,
And love has turned for us the key
To life eternal!
—Hartford Times.
A SCRAP OF HISTORY.
In his speech at Cooper Union, Oct.
22, Mr. Hewitt, then a candidate for
Mayor, gave a sketch of
his own life as an answer to some attacks
made upon him as a “rich man.” In the
course of the remarks he said: “I be
came nearly blind, and was compelled
to pass a year in Europe, for which I
paid out of the earnings which I had laid
up from the lessons I had given. On my
way home another accident occurred—
the ship on which I was went to the
bottom, and I was saved by another acci
dent in one of the boats of that ship in
company with a man who has been
Mayor of this city, who was and is
my friend and brother, and will be to the
end of my life.- I landed in midwinter
in a borrowed suit of sailor’s clothes—
not a thing of my own—and I had three
silver dollars in my pocket, which con
stituted my entire worldly wealth. I
wastwenty-two years ef age.”
I.et the captain of the rescuing ship
tell the story as he did a few years ago to
a little circle-of friends in a New York
club:
“In 1844 I was commanding the ship
Atlanta, and in the month of December
of that year was making a voyage* from
Liverpool to New York. On the 11th I
was crossing the Gulf Stream, and had
got well over it, when, near evening, I
saw a ship under full sail several miles to
windward, and evidently heading for
New York, like myself. My barometer
had been falling rapidly, and as I always
regarded it with great care and obeyed
its orders, I took warning and shortened
sail. But I noticed that the stranger kept
everything spread, and when night came
on and hid her from sight she was far o J
on the horizon, aud didn’t appear to have
taken in a stitch of canvas. During the
night it came on to blow heavily—a reg
ular cyclone, in fact—aud you may be
sure I was glad I had taken in sail. It
only lasted a couple of hours or so, but
was very rough as long as it was on us.
“About nine in the forenoon the watch
reported pieces of wreck floating on the
water, and an hour later we sighted a boat
and bore down for her. It was as Ih id
feared: ThgrtDanger had foundered in
the gale,his was one of her boats.
“Sh-fD fgtaLtoDe, or to have been,
gjJll Alabamian, Captain
jijD UU( )TD Sh ' had
two vMi: Ah,..i Jg*aP ..bin. Mie was
un<^er fw*®|yyJwMß'wind struck her,
and in a she was an un
sea worthy vtHgjr She h and two boats,
one a stanch and the other an
old and rotten long boat. Lots were
drawn for places, and the life-boat fell to
the first officer, while the long-boat went
to the Captain. The two cabin | a^sen
gers went to the long-boat, and alson'ne
of the crew. It was the life-boat that I
picked up, with the first officer in com
mand, and he said they left the ship at
2 in the morning, and lost sight of the
long-boat soon after. She was nearer
the ship than they, as the Captain had
been the last to leave her.
“The weather was cold, and they suf
fered considerably from their cramped
positions, but in a little whiie after com
ing on board they were warmed up aud
all right. Nothing could be seen of the
long-boat, and it was not certain whether
she was still afloat. I determined to
save her if possible to do it, and the
great question was to determine what
course to steer to find her. I reasoned
that Captain Hitchcock would try to get
out of the Gulf Stream as soon as he
could, in order to find smoother water,
and after carefully studying the situation
I changed my course in accordance with
this theory. I sent men aloft to keep a
sharp lookout, and report the lea-t sign
of a boat, and to watch tor anything
that would indicate she had gone down
and was past all help.
“.Noon came, and then one o’clock,
and then two, and no signs of the boat.
I went to the cabin with my first officer
aud the officer of the Alabamian, and we
held a council. One of them thought I
cught to run on another course, and he
gave his reasons for it. and then the
other, who had been wavering on the
subp ct joined him. I persisted in my
belief, and stood alone in it. Somehow
I could not see their reasons as they did, j
and I had a firm conviction that I wtis
right, and if the captain of the Alaba
mian had done what I should do under
similar circumstances, he would be ex
actly in the track I was running.
“The afternoon went on, and about an
hour before sunset I went into the cross- !
trees to have a look on my own account. ,
I swept the horison with my glass over
and over again, but saw nothing, and felt
what a terrible re-ponsibiliry re-led on
me. and what would be said of me for
holding my course against t e advice of
the others, if I should not find the boat.
“Just as the sun was within a hand
spike's length of the horizon I saw a
speck on the crest of a wave. It went
down as the wave fell, and I believe my
heart stopped beating till the speck came
up again and showed itself. There it
was and no mistake, and it was e actly
dead ahead as near as you could draw a
line.
“I bailed the deck, and sent the firt !
officer to take the wheel. I t Id him not I
to vary the breadth of a Lair fr m the
course we were running, 'then I came
down, and sent a man up t< take mv
place.
“ ‘Have you seen anything?’ every- j
body asked as I reached the deck. !
“ ‘Nothing I'm certain of.’ I answered; i
*but we may have developments pres
ently. I don’t know if my heart was j
beating then, but presume it was.
“In a little while—it may have been a
quarter of an hour, and just as the sun
was dipping into the horizon—the man
in the rigging called out: -Sail ho!' j
“ ‘Where away?’ I asked.
“ Dead ahead, sir. I think it’s the j
boat.’
“My heart went up in my mouth, but
I tried to appear as cool as an iceberg, j
Of course everybody else was all excite- j
ment. and that was more reason why I
should not be Besides, I was Captain,
and nobody else was, as I had shown i
them by sticking to my course.
“The night came on clear and beauti
ful. aud we kept straight ot. We lost
sight of the boat as the da light faded,
but iu half an hour or so we saw her
again, and we still had her right in lice.
As we neared her I kept the ship up a
little so as to bring the boat under our
lee. and I put men in the fore-chains and
along the sides with plenty of lines, and
made all possible preparations to make
fast. I knew the men in the boat would
be so chilled with the cold that they
would be nearly helpless, and whatever
was to be done would have to be done by
ourselves.
“We got them out all right, an 1 it
was as I had surmised; they most
of them too much benumbed to ciimb up
the sides, and had to be helped. When
they were all safe on board we tried to
hoist the boat in and she broke in two
with her own weight; how she ever lived
as long as she did is a mystery.
“Captain Hitchcock told me they
rowed as long as they could after leaving
the ship, with the intention of getting
into smoother water beyond tbe Gu.f
Stream, and he had thought that iu cas;
I fell in with the other boat I would do
just as I had done. The two cabin pas
sengers took their share of the labor with
the rest. They w*ere both young men.
with a difference of perhaps five or six
years in their ages, and had been travel
ing in Europe, the elder of the two being
tutor for the younger, who was the son
of a prominent citizen of New York.
They took passage at Leghorn for New
York, and when their turn came to enter
the long-boat they had done so without
complaint, and had borne the privations
of the night and day as cheerfully as any
one else.
“All day they had watched and hoped,
hoped and watched, but there was no
sign of a sail. The night threatened to
be cold, and there was little expectation
that any of the party would live till
morning, even if the boat continued to
float. As the sun neared the horizon
the younger man was lying in the bot
tom of the boat, wrapped in his over
coat and a blanket, while the elder sat
in the stern with the captain.
“Just as the sun was dipping into the
waves, the elder of the twain said to
Captain Hitchcock that, with his per
mission, he wou and offer prayer. Of
course !it was given at once. ‘And I
never, in all my life,’ said Captain
Hitchcock, ‘heard a more beautiful
prayer from the lips of mortal man.
And as he said “amen,” and I said
“amen ’ too, I raised my eyes and saw
your sail.’
“Perhaps,” said Captain Raymond to
li : s group of listeners—“perhaps you’d
like to know the names of those two pas
sengers? They are familiar to you all.
and you’ll find them at the bottom of
this letter, which I received, with a sil
ver pitcher, a few and tys after we reached
New York. I haven’t seen it for some
time, until it turned up to-day while I
was overhauling my desk. It is an old
letter, yoa see, and was written before
the envelope was invented.”
The letter was pissed a:ound and
handled with great care. It was then
read aloud by one of the group, and
ran as follows:
“New York, December 28, 1844.
“Dear Sir: Desirous of tastifying our
grateful sense of the noble disinterestedness
with which you stood frem your course on
the 12th of December last in search of the
captain, pass u;ers. and crew of the ship
A'alamian, which foundered on that day at
sea, and of the kindness we received at your
add to the pn ud feeling of s, * action
whi-h must have animated your bosom when
upon your own deck you saw the eighteen
human beings whose lives you had saved;
but we wish you to possess some slight token
which in after-days may serve to remind
your children and your friends of ho v nobly
you did your duty to your God an 1 your
fellow-men; aud we desire that other ship
masters, incited as well by their own humane
impulses as by the approbation which so no
ble an act never fails to < a'd down from the
public, may ‘ go and do likewise.’
“In conclusion, we congratu'ate you upon
the opportunity you have enjoyed of grati
fying the most generous promptings of the
soul, we pray that Heaven may shower its
choicest blessings upon you and yours, and
we beg yo i to be assure 1 of the lasting gra'i
tudo of, very truly, Your friends,
“ Edward Cooper, i Pass „ n „ e ,. s
“Abram S. Hewitt, : 1 assen = e's
“To Captain George B. Raymond, of the
ship Atlanta, of New York.”
“A day or two after receiving ; nil an
swering this letter,” said Captain Ray
mond, “I received an invitation to go to
Mr. 1 eter Cooper’s house, as the family
was very desirous of seeing me. I was
so busy with the affairs of my ship that
I could not respond at one%, but sent
word that I would call on New Year’s
Day. When I called, and my name was
announced, they did not wait for me to
go into the parlor, but all came out into
the hall to greet me: the ladies pressed
a r ound me, and I assure you it was
rather embarrassing for a young sea-dog
to receive so much attention. 1 had
done noth'n r more than my duty, and
somehow felt that I was being th inked
and praised a good deal beyond what I
merited. I tried to tell them so, but they
wouldn't listen to me. and all the time 1
was there they made such a hero of me
that I didn't know what to say, and
i wondered how I would be able to <s-
I cape.
“None of the Cos iperur Hewitt family
have ever forgotten me, but, on the
contrary, they miss no opportunity of
referring to that incident of the 12th of
December. When the 1 otos Club gave
a dinuer to Mayor Cooper I wanted i o
come as much as I ever wanted to do
anything in all my life, and I thought I
would do so: but i don't like lobe called
up for a speech, and I knew that Hewitt
or Cooper would be sure to have me out
and make me say something; so I stayed
away, and saved the club from listening
to the story of the loss of the A 'la nian."
“If von had told that story as you have
told it now,” sai l one of the listeners,
“you would have made one of the most
effective speeches ever made at a dinner
party.”
“So say we all.” — Harper ’* Weekly.
Collecting Postage Stamps.
The mania for collecting postage
stamps seems to be gaining more ground
than ever in France, writes the Paris
correspondent of the London Tels/;m
Among the most famous coliectors in
France is a man who has over a million
postage stamps preserved in 130 ri hly
bound and another who keeps
two clerks employed in classifying aud
arranging his enormous collection.
Added to this, there are in Paris about
150 wholesale firms employed in the
trade, and one of the best known of
these has lately offered from £2O to £4O
for certain stamps. Tuscan postage
stamps dated before 1860 will be pa”d
for at the rate of £5 each, while stamps
from Mauritius for the year 1 -47 fetch
£*', and French stamps of 18*9 are
quoted at £1 each.
There have been some very large pur"
chases of diamonds by Americans in
in London during the past sea on. owing
to their great cheapness. The market
there is flooded with stones from the
South African fields, where the yield is
said to have reached fully a ton p£r
month. Stones of this South African
variety sell as low as S3O a carat, and in
rough at $4 or $5 a carat.
TIMEPIECES.
A JEWELER GIVES SOME IN
SIGHT INTO HIS CRAFT.
The Artisans’ Guild of Old England
—Queer Fancies in Watches
Shown at the Paris
Exposition.
fi Thc history of the art of clock and
watch making is an interesting one, and
I often think how few of the many curi
ous spectators and purchasers who stand
daily around my windows understand
anything about it.”
The individual who gave utterance to
the above expression of opinion was the
proprietor of an old-established jewelry,
watch and clock store in one of the main
thoroughfares of the city.
“The invention of a clock driven by a
we’ght is. by many, attributed to a
famous archdeacon of Verona in the
ninth century,” he continued, “and by
others is credited to t-'erbert, afterward
Pope Sylvester 11., who made the clock
of Magdeburg in 996, when he was an
archbishop. My belief, however, is that
the invention of this prelate cannot be
set down in the category of clocks, for
it is described in a very old history of
inventions —Beckmann’s, I believe —as a
‘timepiece which was set by looking at
the Pole star through a tube.’ There is
no doubt, however, that genuine clocks
had been invented before the commence
ment of the twelfth century. It may
seem stiange, but it is nevertheless true,
that watch making is the outgrowth or
offspring of the older but ruder trade of
blacksmithing.
“Although there is no watchmakers’
union in Chicago, or indeed any city in
the United States that I have ever heard
of, it is nevertheless a fact that away
back in the reign of Henry VIII. of Eng
land there existed in London a watch
makers’ union which was one of the most
powerful and famous of the trade guilds
of that city.
“These ancient guilds originated, I
believe, in the old Saxon law, which de
manded sureties from every ‘freeman’
of the age of fourteen y: ars for his good
behavior. This custom, or law*, wnich
survived under Norman rule, compelled
artisans and workmen of every descrip
tion to combine in associations organized
to meet expenses imposed upon mem
b rs for violation of the law. Ihe guilds
were divided into tw o branches or sec
tions, one of which w*as denominated the
ecclesiastical and the other the mercan
tile. ThC ecclesiastical guilds were under
the guidance and control of churchmen
and had for their principal object the
advancement of religion and the cause of
charity.
“The mercantile branch contained all
the trades associations and had certain
rules for the improvement of the par
t cular craft to which the members be
longed. Ancient though the watch
makers' guild is acknowledged to have
been, there w*ere many whose inception
w*as many generations older. Among
these may be mentioned that of the
w eavers, which was the oldest trade guild
in the world, its charter dating from the
reign of Hen y 11. The skinners, bakers,
and fish mongers’ guilds were also much
more ancient than that of the watch
makers. Twenty years before the watch
makers were chartered, in 1(541, they
were in orporated with the blacksmiths.
“Although in the international ex-
Tfiurnon tachbiu ,*nr'x in 1 rjie french
and Swiss exhibits formed fully four
fifths of the many hundred specimens of
workmanship in the watch making de
partment. there is no doubt that America
is rapidly coming to the front in the
manufacture of this as in all other ar
ticles.
“Among the many curiosities in clock
manufacture sent in from* Switzerland
were a variety of watches which would
ruu for one month after being wound.
A clock vyas sent there from Paris which
was said to be able to go for fifty years,
but this was totally eclipsed by a time
piece from Geneva in Switzerland, which
w’as solemnly guaranteed to be capable
of running for one thousand years.
There is no on■; alive at present able to
say whether this latter assurance hat
ever been carried into effect, and life
was to a short to wait to see whether the
fifty-year promise would be fulfilled.
The Austrians had a pneumatic appar
atus that would work dozens, hundreds,
and even thousands of clocks in all part*
of the city at the same time.
“The French showed a watch that
told the days of the week and the month
and marked the changes of the moon.
They also exhibited timepieces that
would sound an alarm by the discharge
of a pistol or work out problems Of lati
tude and longitude. Among the curious
pieces of handicraft turned out by these
artists was an extraordinarily small
watch which was exactly the size of a
dime. This little article could strike
the hours and half hours in a clear and
distinct tone. —Chicago New a.
Armour's Dude.
Millionaire Phil Armour has a pleasant
custom of buying a suit of clothes once
a year for each of his office employes.
This year ail but one of the boys visited
a certain taiior on the South Side and
were measured for suits ranging in price
from §7O to $3 7. The exception was a
dude, who s orned the selections made
by his colleagues. He wanted some
thing gorgeous and tight fitting. After
pawing over the fashion plates of the
tailor he finally selected apiece of goods
which wouldjcost $125 to build into gar
ments. When the tailor, a few weeks
later, sent his itemized bill to the big
pork packer, the latter made inquiries
for the purpose of finding out whether
thu young man with such aesthetic
taste was really so unfortunate as to
have to work
“Is he at work in any of our depart
ments? ' Mr. Armour asked, turning to
one of his lieutenants.
“Yes; he works in the room,”
was the reply.
• Eh, eh : has he drawn his money for
this month?”
'O, sir: not yet.”
“Well, then go get his salary and give
it to me. and tell him I want to see him
at once.”
When the dude tripped up to the mil
lionaire the latter cleared his throat and
6aid:
“Young man, I like to have my clerks
consider themselves on an equality with
one another. In looking over the tail
or’s bill i find that you rate yourself S9O
higher than the figures your colleagues
place upon themselves. As I see nolan
gibie pr ,of of your great worth to this
establishment, it gives me much satis
faction to present to you your month’s
salary, together with my estimate of
your value—your dismissal from my ser
vice Remember I'm an expert on hogs
and know how to salt them.”— Chicaao
Herald.
An artist's idea of desolation—the
miners deserted cabins in places near
Pitt-burg where old mines or oil welU
have been abandoned, doors wide open,
window panes broken, rooms empty.
A NEW CASABLANCA
The boy stood on the burning roof
"Where he for life had fled;
The building, being quite fireproof.
With flames was painted red.
"Jump!” yelled the horror-stricken crowd,
“Jump, bubby, from the ridge.”
“I can’t,” he, dancing, shrieked aloud.
“This ain’t no Brooklyn Bridge.”
Huge tongues of flame, in fiendish joy,
A-darting out like mad.
Commence! to lick that noble boy
As if they were his dad.
The firemen tried, in sad despair.
That gallant youth to soak;
Alas! No stream could reach him there
And ha began to smoke.
Then came a voice of thunder sound
From one cool man below:
“I’ll save you,boy—unless you’re drown'd—
Jump when I say to go.’’
Then snatching up the hose he aimed
A mighty stream on high.
“Jump on that water,” he exclaimed,
“Aud grab it tight—or die.”
Hurrah! With one terrific scream
Out leaped the little kid,
And, clinging on that solid stream,
Safe to the ground he slid.
— II. C. Dodge, in Tid-Bits.
PITH ANFPOINT.
An old score-r-Twenty,
Sweet home —A beehive.
A hard case—an iron chest.
The Bank of England—A fog bank.
A soul-stirring subject—A nail in your
shoe.
A mean temperature—Ten degrees be
low zero.
Hop farmer—A one-legged agricul
turist—Siftings.
There was a young lady in Bassyille,
Who said to her lover: “ Alas, Will.
You come every night
And vou talk such a sight.
That the people all call you my Gas Bill.”'
The call to arms—“ John, take the
baby.” —lies Moines Mail.
A tug is the only thing that has its
tows behind. — St. Paid Herald.
Although there is said to bs plenty of
room at tiie top, tbe chiropodist is quite
content to remain at the foot.— Boston.
Courier.
General Horace Porter says Miss Lib
erty can hold thirty-six men in her hand.
Th t brings her about up to the average
girl of the period. Boston Herald.
Our eyes, so very prone to trace
In others signs of sin,
Are blinded often if the man
Has pocketsful of ‘tin.”
—Siftings.
Mis< Kate Sleety, of West Point, Ind.
having thrashed the postmaster, an
nounces that she can lick any postage
•tamp in the country. — New York Jour
nal.
The Indians say: “If a dog howls in
the night a stranger will come to-mor
row. ’’ The saying does not state why
the stranger will come, but it is probable
to murder the dog.— New Ilmen News.
A paragraph be ore us calls Bartholdi's
act in taking his mother's face as a
model for the face of the statue of “Lib
erty Enlightening the World” honoring
his mother. One would say, on the con
trary, that he was making light of tho'
old lady.— Boston Transcript.
A police case—Prisoner (charged with
stealing a pair of boots) —“I only took
them for a joke. I thought it would be
great fun to know ihe person could not
go out." Magistrate—“ How far did you
carry the boots;” Prisoner—“l took
them to my own home,in Leather Lane.”
Magistrate—“ That was carry ing the joke
too far. Three months.”— -American. Reg
ister.
Among the fashionable follies to be
perpetrated by society this season is a
novelty in the way of dinners. Thi*
will consist of a banquet at which only
the flesh of young kids will be served.
It is not announced whether they are to
be eight button or mousquetaire kids,
but something stylish is predicted. —
Boston Herahl.
To his girl’s fond father irate,
Said Susanna’s William dear:
“I have something, aged pirate.
For to tell your privateer.”
But tbe old man said him nay,
And hi smote the frisky suitor,
“If a pirate, as you say,
I am also a free-booter.”
—Rambler
First Pastor —“I see that the demand
for small coins still keeps up.” Second
I astor—“So I see. Unless it is quickly
gratified most of us will soon be preach
ing to pretty small congreg itions. Peo
ple stay away from church rather than
be made to feel uncomfortable by not
dropping something into the contribu
tion box.— Pittsburg Dispatch.
Smith —“That’s a very fine song you
were singing, Mr. Jones ‘A J ife on the
Ocean Wave.’” Jones—“lt is. indeed.
It always thrills me through and through
when 1 hear it.” Smith—“ You must
love the ocean very dearly. Mr. Jones?”
Jones—“l do, indeed. It has a great
charm for me.” Smith—“l suppose you
have been to sea. What vessels havjA
you sailed on?” Jones— “Well—er —tbn
fact is I’ve never seen the ocean in m™
life I’ve read a good deal about it,
though. ” — Pittsburg Dir patch.
WHY SHE SIGHED.
“Why sighest thou, my fairest fair'
Why droop those eyes of gray?
Has sorrow shaded thy young life.
Or its bloom av/av '
Confide in me, my rose, my queen:
My soul s bound up in you.’’
“Oh, Harold, could you love me, dear,
If my nose were turning blue.'"’
—Sew York Journal.
The Bromidia Habit.
The bromidia habit is the newest
cour-e. Bromidia contains, among other
things, bromide of p together
with chloral and “hasheesh.” It was
tr ade for quieting nerves, and has been
on the market six years. Of late it has
taken its place beside morphine as a
slave-maker. It is said that the bromid a
habit is almost incurable. The drug is
a liquid, brownish in color, and is taken
in water.
It has the sharp, pungent taste of
chloral, and the flat, cold, iron taste of
the potassium bromide, and a faint flavor
of cantaloupe It does not produce any
fanta-tic dreams like morphine, but the
subject experiences a soothinsr, quieting
effect, which has an irresistible charm.
The victim of the habit is constantly
drowsy, and very soon his miud and
body are completely wrecked. A man
suffering from the habit might be taken
for drunk. His legs collapse under his
weight. The drug has already ruined
many people, its hold being principally
in the Northwestern States.
There are 7,000 hawkers of newspapers
in London—big men, little boys, old
women and young girls, and the ma oritj
of them are in the preliminary or normal
condition of paper, i. e., rags, and liv*
from hand to mouth.