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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGINTY <4 CABAN IS 8.
Only one former Vice-President sur
vives Hannibal Hamlin, the first of the
six Republican Vice-Presidents. He
w.ls elected to that office in 1860, and is
now nearly sr-venty-eight years old.
A shrewd merchant says that the money
;xpended in labor to keep a brass sign
properly seoured could l>c more profitably
invested in newspaper advertising. He
does not believe in brass ornaments of any
kind.
In the West, two-cent-a-mile-raiiroad-
Jari s arc being agitated, on the strength
of tho general demand for cheaper rates,
now that the railroads are making more
money than ever under the Inter-State
Commerce act.
The only piece of ground possessed by
the United States of America elsewhere
than in America itself, t is said to be a lit
tle plot of land on which tho American
Legation is built in the town of Tangier.
This was given to the American Nation
by the bultan of Morocco. The legations
in all other countries stand on ground
rented, but not owned, by the American
Government.
Sweden has become a great exporter oi
butter. The amount sent abroad last
year w as valued at more than 11,000,000.
The Swedish dairies are now worked
upon the most improved systems. Only
skilled hands are employed in receiving
the milk, separating and refining the
cream, and churning the butter. The
work is performed with the greatest care
and cleanliness, l'he dairymaids receive
a practical and theoretical training at
dairy schools.
ivler is the only President whose wife
died while he was in office, but that was
his first wife. He was a widower not
quite two years; and counting him there
have been six widower Presidents, the
others being Jefferson, Jackson, Van
Huron, Fillmore and Arthur, these five
remaining unmarried while in the White
House, and but one bachelor President,
lluehanan, who was single throughout
his term, Cleveland being the only other
who began a term as a bachelor. Fill
more married his second wife after his
ferm as President expired, lie and
Tyler are the only two of our Presidents
who have had two wives.
A plan conceived as long ngo as 187 c
is about to begin realization for the con
struction, in New York city, of a Protes
taut Episcopal Cathedral, which will
sui pass in size and grandeur any similar
building on this continent. The project
is being aided bv others than Episcopa
liar.s, in one instance a Presbyterian giv
ing SIOO,OOO. The estimated cost of the
structure will be $0,000,000. The con
struction of the will be done in
sections. The choir, which will prob
ably lie erected first, will, it is said, be as
large as Trinity Church in the metropolis.
I he site has not been selected, but it will
be as commanding a one as can be secured.
The name will be the Cathedral of John
the Divine, and the work of building will
be commenced at an early day.
C onsumption is the cause of nearly
fifteen per cent, of the whole number of
deaths, or about three in 1,000 of the
whole population each year of the world
over. Impure air and bad hygiene are
potent factors in its production. The
disease is most prevalent in temperate
climates, but exists in a virulent form in
the tropics. The influence of altitude is
very marked. There is almost complete
immunity from the disease among the
higher Alps, the Andes, the Himalayas
and other extremely elevated regions;
while among the Tennessee and North
i arolina mountains, a case of true pul
monary consumption was seldom, if ever,
known to originate. In seeking anew
location immigrants are wise who settle
in noil-malarious neighborhoods
A well-built young man of medium
height, with blue eyes, blonde hair and
a moustache, is a familiar figure on Broad
way, New York. He is Alexander Doyle,
a sculptor. He is yet under thirty years
of age, although already distinguished.
He is a native of Ohio and completed
his education in Europe. It was while
there he cultivated a taste for art, but
yielding to a desire of his perents select
ed a commercial calling. He went to
Europe again as the representative of a
Cincinnati business house, and having
considerable spare time, devoted it to art
and entered the Government Academy at
Florence. Soon he became so infatuated
with the profession that he gave up his
business life. He returned to this coun
try about six years ago and opened a
studio in New sork. Since then he has
made very rapid progress. His first work
was a bust of General Charles Graham
Halpiu (“Private Miles O’Reilly” t, which
is located in Brooklyn. He was next
awarded a contract to make a statue of
General Robert E. Lee of New Orleans.
Tiw people of that city were so delight
ed with the work that they engaged him
to make a statue of Margaret Hougherty,
the Irish lady who gave $2,000,000 to
the poor. He has recently completed an
equestrian statue of General Albert Sid
ney Johnson, and the Statue of General
Steedmau that was unveiled at Toledo
the other day, is his work. He is now
engaged on two statues, one of the late
Senator Hill of Georgia and the other of
the late President Garfield, to be erected
at Cleveland.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY JULY 20, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES.
CURRENT NEWS
GATHERED FROM ALL PORTIONS
OF THE GLOBE.
Item* Briefed For a Week About Canada*
It a rope, \la. Africa, the West
India inland*, etc.
Officer Adams, of Cincinnati,' Ohio,
clubbed a prisoner to death.
At Joliet, 111., state many con
victs were overcome by the heat and sev
eral died,
Chicago, 111., has thus far returned the
greatest fatalities from the heat; 47 fatal
sunstrokes in two days and 80 deaths
from heat prostration.
Dynamite cartridges were exploded
beneath the windows at Ming, Ohio,
of a large dancing-hall, where some
colored people were holding a ball.
Rev. Thomas Arnold, who presides
over the “Christian Home,” an institution
in Chicago, 111., for wayward boys, was
the other day arrested for chaining a
twelve-year-old boy to the Worn.
The break-down of the Egyptian con
vention is a decided advantage to Eng
land, who now stands unpledged before
Europe, and may continue the occupation
of Egypt as long as it is considered nec
essary.
By a railroad accident near St. Thomas,
Ontario, nearly one hundred people were
killed or wounded. It is reported that
the engineer had been drinking, but it is
claimed that the main cause of this dis
aster was the failure of the airbrakes to
work.
W hen the train bearing President
( 1 eve land from his trip to the Thousand
Islands was between Clayton and Alder
Creek, N. Y., one of the connecting rods
broke loose and fractured the boiler of
the locomotive. Engineer Reilly was in
stantly killed.
A cyclone wrecked the opera-house
in Waupagni,Wis., unrooted two hotels,
blew down the Episcopal church steeple
and caused other havoc. The Currant
House was struck by lightning, btlt no
one was injured. Farmers in the vicinity
suffered heavy losses.
Bix cases of small-pox have been re
ported in New York city. A seventh
case was discovered in the police head
quarters’ building. The patient is a
baby found on the street. The child re
mained at headquarters two hours before
it was discovered that it had small-pox.
Fire broke out at two o’clock in the
morning in S\ Joseph’s Asylum in 89th
street, New York. Only for the coolness
displayed by the Sisters in charge, a seri
ous loss of life would have taken place.
As it was, not a casualty occured. The
Asylum cares mostly for German Catholic
children.
A movement is on foot in New York
for Catholic societies of that and sur
rounding cities to appoint delegates to a
general council, at which steps will be
taken to make arrangements for a public
meeting and parade in the metropolis in
ho; or of the golden jubilee of Pope
Leo’s priesthood.
At a reception given to President and
Mrs. Cleveland at Cazenovia, N. Y.,
Knowlton Post, G. A. R., had charge of
sffaiis. Just before the reception began
Mrs. Cleveland was presented with a solid
oaken box, silver-mounted, containing a
teacup and saucer of a breakfast set used
by George Washington.
The Metropolitan storage house in 31st
street, New York, was burned and the
loss amounts to half a million of dollars.
The warehouse was used by New Yorkers,
who are out of town, and contained fur
niture, paintings and valuable brie a-brae
of all kinds. Seven firemen were badly
injured by an explosion.
A committee composed of Gen. New
berry, A. M. Wright, J. B. Drake, J. C.
Creger and M. W. Fuller, of CKicago,
111., called upon Mayor Roche in the in
terest of having the City Council extend
an invitation to President Cleveland to
visit that city during his proposed Wes
tern trip, and at the time of the soldiers
encampment iu October, if possible.
Convicts at the Minnesota prison, at
Stillwater, will begin the publication of
a weekly four-column folio newspaper,
called “The Prison Mirror,” tho object
of the enterprise being to benefit the
prison library fuud. There are four
practical printers who will attend to the
mechanical department, while Prison
keeper L. W. Shoenmaker wdll be editor
in-chief.
While Mrs. John A. Logan, in com
pany with Airs. Henry Campbell, was
out riding in Carbondale, 111., the horse
they were driving became frightened and
backed the buggy over an embaukment.
Mrs. Logan, in attempting to jump out,
caught her foot in a wheel and was
thrown under the horse’s feet, sustaining
a severe scalp wound and her left arm
and side were badly bruised.
At the national convocation of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at
Lake Bluff, Illinois, Senator Colquitt, of
Georgia, gave some interesting details of
what prohibition has done and is doing
in the South. In twelve southern states,
he said there weie fewer saloons to the
population than in any other dozen states,
not excepting Maine and Kansas. Local
option had been adopted in Georgia and
Alabama, and prohibition was a success
everywhere.
A CONGREGATION SHOCKED.
When most of the congregation had
gathered at Mt. Olivet, a Baptist Church
nine miles north of Lebanon, in Trous
dale county, Tenn., where Rev. Mr. Mc-
Nabb was holding a protracted meeting,
lightning struck the stove-pipe, which
ran in a terra eotta chimney through the
roof of toe church, descending to the
stove and tearing the top off. but did not
seem to go any further. Out of a hun
dred or more in the church and about
the door, nearly every one was knocked
down by the shock.
SHARP FEELS TIIE HEAT-
Argument in order to show cause why
a permanent stay of the <#cecution of the
sentence of Jacob Sharp, of New York,
should not be granted, has been post
poned by consent. Jacob Sharp wa
more restless recently than any night
since his incarceration in Ludlow str.et
jail. He slept very little and frequently
complained of the heat. During the
night he became very uneasy, and War
den Keating was summoned and carried
him to his chair and fanned him.
INVITATION TO THE PRESIDENT.
Mayor Francis, of St. Louis. Mo., has
appointed a committee to carry an invita
tion to President Cleveland to visit that
city during the fall festivities. On this
committee are the presidents of the va
rious associations having in charge the
fall festivities, and many prominent citi
zens representing Union and Confederate
soldiers and business men. The colored
citizens are represented by one of theii
race.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
MIDSUMMER NOTES FROM THk
CAPITAL OF THE NATION.
" Ii Being Done in All Che Department*
•f the (iorei-nnirqt-Kigid Econ
omy the Kmc
OVERHAULING THE BOOKS.
, Hv direction of Acting Secretary J
I hompson, an examination of the books
and accounts of the disbursing officers of
the Treasury Department will be made at
once. A count of the cash actually held
by each will be made. No notice of the
examination was given to the diSbhtsihg
officers. So far everything has been
found to be correct. An examination of
the books and accounts of the disbursing
officers of the Department of the Interior
will also be made.
VAGRANTS ARRESTED.
Acting on instructions from high au
thority, theTJistrifct police have been or
dered tb clear the City of all loafers and
suspicious characters who hang around
the hotels, saloons and gambling rooms.
Many of these men are regular gamblers,
and to all appearances have plenty of
money* but tne latV against vagrants and
Misptcioiis characters is so comprehensive
'hat they are all liable to fine and impris
nrnent, unless able to show some legal
means of support. The officers arrested
twenty-four such characters, who were
well dressed, but come within the pur
view of the vagrant law.
Stopping the Chinese.
The Treasury Department is informed
that a number of blank Chinese certifi
cates were recently stolen from the cus
tom house at Port Townsend, Washing
ton Territory, and that many of them
have been sold or otherwise disposed of
for the purpose of enabling Chinarfleh to
enter the United States in violation of
law. Instructions have been sent to the
custom officers to carefully scrutinize all
certificates presented by Chinairteh en
tering their districts by way of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, and if any of the
stolen certificates are found among them
to deny entry to the holders.
OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT.
Dispatches from all over the United
States, except the Pacific coast, which
has not beeu heard from, report this as
the hottest of the season. Detroit re
cords 102 degrees in the shade and out
door work suspetided. Cleveland 98 de
grees, the hottest in nine years, and
several sunstrokes. St. Paul 97 degrees,
and adds that for three weeks there has
not been a single cool, pleasant day.
Philadelphia 95 to 98 degrees, Lockhaven,
Pa., 100 degreed,Wilmington and other
places in Delaware 100 degrees, Baltimore
100 degrees, being the warmest in six
years. Syracuse, 100 degrees, Utica 98
degrees, Pittsburg 97 degrees at 2 p. m.,
the hottest day of the summer. Two
fatal cases of sunstroke and a number of
serious prostrations from the heat were
reported up to that hour. The iron and
steel mills were compelled to close down
during the heat of the day. Chicago 95
degrees at 2p. m.; five deaths from sun
stroke up to 11 a. m. Washington 981
degrees at 3 o’clock. Horses suffered
’erribly on the asphalt pavements and
one died on Pennsylvania avenue.
NOTES.
The President has appointed W. A
Fisk to be postmaster at Portsmouth,
Va., vice Ambrose Lindsay, removed.
The^ Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Oglethorpe National Bank
of Brunswick, Ga., to begin business
with a Cipital of SIOO,OOO.
Commodore J. A. Greer, president of
the Examining Board, has been selected
to command the European Station, in
place of Rear Admiral ( handler, who
will be placed on the retired list.
The Commissioner of Pensions is in
formed of the conviction at Knoxville,
Tenn., of Thomas G. Barry and John J.
Ball, charged with making false certifi
cates, and of a plea of guilty made by
f-amu 'l L. Sussong, to the charge of
forging an affidavit.
A DARING PLOT
To Slnuiehter I’lnUerton Detectives in the
Pennsylvania Coke Regions.
A murderous plot had been laid by the
striking Hungarians at and near the Leis
enring Works, near Pittsburg, Pa., to
surprise the Pinkerton detectives at that
place and drive off all new men working
there. All the details of the attack had
been arranged by a Hungarian who form
erly held a high position as an officer in
the Austrian army, aud who has been for
the past few months drilling the striking
Hungarians in the Austrian manual of
arms. The strikers, consisting mostly of
Hungarians, a thousand strong, were to
have proceeded to the Leisenring Works
at the break of day and draw off all the
detectives, aud men working there, and
to kill and wound all who resisted them.
The Hungarian officer, becoming fright
ened, gave the whole tiling away to one
of the officers at the coke works and
bought a ticket at Scottdale for New
York and left there for the east. He
informed an officer just as he mounted
the train that his life would pay the pen
alty for his treachery 1o his countrymen
if he remained; so he left.
DANGERS OF ROYALTY.
A band of religious fanatics attempted
to murder the Grand Duchess Elizabeth-
Mavrikieva, the wife of the Grand Duke
Constant in Coustanticoviteh, son of the
Grand Duke Constantin, who is the un
lle of the Czar. The attempt at assas
sination was made at the Paulovsk pal
ace, where the lady and her husband
were stopping. The cause given for the
attack was that the grand duchess, who
is a Lutheran, refused to modify the
f er ns of her marriage covenant, which
acc ids her the privilege of remaining a
outheran, and join the Greek Church.
A previous attempt was also made to kill
the Grand Due. ess Elizabeth Feordo
rovDa, wife of the Grand Duke Serge.
The lady is also a Protestant, being the
daughter of the Grand Duke Louis TV, < f
Hesse.
WC-IK OF UGHTNING.
At Temple, near Reading. Pa., Edward
Medlar's barn was struek by lightning
j and consumed; loss, $3,000. At Yo
| cum*s forge David Herseay’s barn and
crops of a 150 acre farm were destroyed;
loss. $4,000. At Pensburg. Michael
Goettle’s barn was struck by lightning,
an t Goettle and his horse killed. Henry
Fox's barn at the same place was con
sume 1 with contents; loss. $4,000. The
house of County Commissioners Frank
and Jacob Richards were struck, but
saved after considerable damage. Many
field- were washed out. Total loss in the
K< .ii district, $30,000.
The new bridge dn the Tay, Scotland,
where the former one collapsed on December
2''. is TO, is finished. It cost about $3,750,000
as arainst $1,750,000 for the old one, and is a
, much more solid-looking structure.
SOUTHERN DOTS.
INTERESTING NEWS PUT INTO A
CONDENSED FORM.
Tlie .tinny Happening* of a Week Pat
lo*o a Pleasant, Readable Form
For Busy Peofile; •
George B. Sibley, who was one of the
foremost men in Augusta, Ga., is dead.
Cage Gillen, colored, in attempting to
shoot a colored constable, at Ridgelaml,
S. C., was shot and killed.
Johnnie Ambrose, while bathing in the
Chattahoochee river, near Sewanee, Ga,,
was drowned. He was a son df H. .h
Ambrose, of Clarkston, Ga., and a grand
son of J. A. Born.
Matt Ryan, formerly Chief Engineer
of the Atlanta, Ga., fire department, died
very suddenly from the effects of the
heat. He was a nephew of John Ryan,
the millionaire dry goods man.
Because J. D. Rischer, a farmer In
Colleton County, S. C., impounded some
of his neighbors’ cattle for encroaching
in his corn-patch, about forty men raided
the corn field and destroyed the crop.
The old and well-known firm of Kauff
man *fc Range, of Galveston, Texas, has
assigned in favor of Mrs. Kauffman. The
assignment was caused by speculations
by Julius Range, the senior member, in
cotton.
D. L. Booher, one of the oldest citizens
of Coliimbus, Ga., died. Mr, Boohefwas
in the 76th year of his age, and was for
many yeais a prominent grocery mer
chant of that city. About twelve years
ago his eye sight failed and he retired
from business.
It has been many years since the crop
out look for Georgia was as favorable as
at present. From all parts of the state
comes the same report. All the indica
tions point to a most successful! seasoD,
and the farmers and planters are happy.
The Scotch-Trish stock of the United
Sta es will assemble in convention at
Columbia, Tenn., in 1888. The object is
to prepare a history of this illustrious
race and show its impress on the civiliza
tion of America. Tennessee, before the
advent of Andrew Jackson, of this blood,
possesses valuable data of the deeds of
this race.
A resident of Columbia, Tenn., has in
vented a coast defense battery, which he
claims has solved the vexed question.
The invention is a running rail coast bat
tery mounted on heavy wrouglit-iron
trucks. The track and battery is sunk
below the surface of the shore line, invis
ible to a hostile fleet, but can be elevated
and discharged in twelve seconds.
The Benevolent Home in Atlanta, Ga.,
is to be investigated, The bill of fare is
given by a widow xvith a babe of three
months, and is as follows: “Two small
biscuits and a half cup of coffee has been
my breakfast; a piece of sour corn bread
and a .small slice of fat bacon, with a
plate of boiled beans, has been my dinner,
and supper consists of a halt cup of weak
coffee and a piece of cold, sour bread.”
During a thunder storm, Miss Sallie
Barnes, an only daughter of W. G.
Barnes, a prominent and well-to-do farmer
living in Saluda section of Edgefield
county, S. C., was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. She was in the
yard attending to some domestic duties
when the came. The young
lady’s clothes were torn into shreds and
her shoes split into pieces, while upon
her bodvJslifeLw’as only a small blue
mark. *
NEGRO PARTY
To Ite Organized Throughout the Country
To Secure Civil Rights.
Editor Thomas Fortune, of the New
York Freeman, has given to the world
his ideas of the proposed Afro-American
league he is urging. “I first proposed
the idea of a national leaguing together
of colored people,’’ said Fortune, “at the
close of the editorial which I published
five weeks ago upon the lynching of four
negroes at York, S. C. I asked if the
negroes of the whole country couldn’t
band themselves together in some way
and do something to better the demoral
ized condition of the race in the South,
as well as to secure some of the civil
rights which are denied us in the North.
The idea was taken up and advocated by
all the leading newspapers edited by ne
gro men in the land, and received the
indorsement of our leading colored (cit
izens. I had no idea of starting such a
movement as grew up when I wrote the
editorial, and was somewhat surprised at
the eagerness with which the suggestion
was acted upon. Our plans are not ma
tured yet. What we are trying to do
now is to get our people organized upon
the general basis of belief in a movement
to secure our rights. We propose to
form ward and county and state leagues
first. Then we shall hold a national
convention and settle the exact purposes
and policy of our order in a constitution
and by-laws. In a general way, however,
I may say that the league will doubtless
aim at the creation by agitation of a pub
lic opinion favorable to the rights of col
ored men and, at the collection and
maintenance of a fund for the prosecution
of those who violate the laws which have
been enacted in our behalf. The w T ork
of preliminary organization is going on
splendidly. We have a large organization
in Virginia, and I understand that the
first steps towards state organization in
Connecticut were taken in Hartford by
the coalition of the negro societies there.
Undoubtedly our negro societies will
form the basis of the present league.
You can t begin to know how ready our
people are for this movement. All our
organization wants for its success is, that
it should once get fairly started.”
PARENTAIj inhumanity.
A man living near Riverside, Ark., had
a step-son, five years old, whom he
greatly disliked. He was known to
treat him cruelly, brptmg ’ im in a terri
ble man"--.-, r.tv putting one of the lit
| tl • lei. w’s eyes ou , while whipping
him. A few days ago he beat the child
in a horrible manner, then tied him by
the wrists to a stake in the hot sun,
without food or water until he died
Just how long the child was there is not
known, but the cords at his wrists L'ad
cut in two, and the and wounds
were filled with worms. The fiend,
finding his victim was dead, armed him
self and took to the woods. The child’s
mother seems to be indifferent over the
affair.
EARTHQUAKE IN EUROPE.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt at
Malta. A serious shock w T as also exper
ienced at Cairo, where one man was kill
ed and* several injured. A number of
mosques were injured. Shocks were also
felt at Ismailia and Alexandria. A slight
shock of earthquake was felt at Sicily
and along the Italian coast. Mt, Etna
is in a state of eruption.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS UNDER
WA r AND CONTEMPLATED.
l.nrg<- Trnrt* of Land Bought By Capitalist*
—Nrw Railroad* Projected—Factories,
Hotel*, etc.* Being Bailt.
Sanford, Fla., is to have a Union
depot.
Anew hotel is to be built soon at
McMinnville, Tenn.
Murphy, N. C., is about to get a brick
yard and planing mill.
A railroad is to l>e built to Selma, Ala.,
to be knoWn as the Bessemer and Selma
Railroad.
The Meehanicsville Land Company,
capital stock $50,000, has been organized
at Anniston, Ala.
Henry T. Collins, of Cleveland, Ohio,
will erect at Asheville, N. C., a roller
flour mill and ice factory.
The Morning Herald Publishing Com
pany, capital stock $60,000, has been
organized at Birmingham, Ala.
The Cornwall Iron furnace, at Cedar
Bluffs, Ala., will be put in operation by
Samuel Noble, of Anniston, and others.
The Fishcrville National Gas & Mining
Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,-
000, has been organized at Louisville,
Kv.
The Davy Crockett Mining and Smelt
ing Company, of Hot Springs, Ark., has
been organized with a capital stock of
$3,000,000.
The money has been raised for build
ing another charcoal furnace in Gadsden,
Ala., and one-third of it was subscriber!
by Gadsden ladies.
The Standard Machine Company, of
Bay City, Mich., will shortly remove
their machine works to Chattanooga,
Tenn., and enlarge their capacity.
The contract for the inside wood work
of the new capitol, at Atlanta, Ga., has
been let to the Mitchell Furniture Com
pany, of Cincinnati, 0., at $59,750.
An investigation is being made of Pen
sacola, Fla., as to its adaptability for
accommodating a large plant for building
iron steamships and heavy machinery.
John W. Bishop, J. A. Powe, J. A.
Huey, George P. Anderton and J. T.
Dumas have organized a company to
build an iron furnace at Talladega, Ala.
Jackson, Tenn., wants a $200,000 cot
ton mill. Her citizens have subscribed
$66,000 and will donate a valuable
site toward the enterprise. The entire
product of the mill can, it is said, be
sold within a radius of 60 miles of the
city.
The Print up Land & Improvement
Company, of Rome, Ga., is contemplating
the building of a street-car line for
Printup City, near Rome, Ga., at the
junction of Rome & Decatur Railroad
and East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, to connect Printup City (a su
burban villuge) with Rome, and also to
erect an “inn hotel” at Printup City.
DIAMONDS DISAPPEAR.
VYlmt a Southern Young Laly Lo<t in tlie
Great Metropolis.
A bold robbery of diamonds, jewelry
and money, was reported to Inspector
Byrnes, of New York. The thieves found a
fertile field in the four-story brown stone
mansion No. 110 East Eighty-sixth street,
occupied by Nathan Rogers, a diamond
merchant. The victim was his niece, Miss
Ida Sternberg, of Savannah, Ga. Miss
Sternberg was on a visit to her uncle,
and had rooms on the third ll or. She
is engaged to be married shortly, and
her object in going there was to pur
chase her trousseau. She had several
large trunks, which were deposited in
one of the font bedrooms. In one of
these she had all her jewels and money,
amounting in all to over SI,OOO. Imme
diately after luncheon, .Miss Sternberg
went to her room to dress for a ride in
the park. When she came to put on her
jewelry she discovered that all her dia
monds, money and valuables were gone.
How the thieves got into the trunk, or
even into the home, is a mystery The
trunk was still locked when Miss Stern
berg went to it, and the e was not the
slightest evidence of the lock having
been tampered with. That they were in
the trunk, all are positive. On the. pre
vious evening Miss Sternberg had
brought them all into the dining-room
and exhibited them to her relatives. Sise
afterwards placed them in their proper
receptacle in the trunk and locked it.
COURT-ROOM TRAGEDY.
At Union City, Ind., a negro named
John Thomas, was charged with a horrid
crime. A posse was organized, and after
a long search, he was found at Humboldt
and brought back. His preliminary ex
amination was held, and a large angry
and determined crowd filled the court
room. He was positively identified by
his victim. At this point someone in
the crowd shouted: “That’s enough.
Let’s put him where he’ll do no more of
the devil’s work.” The entire court
room of men, numliering perhaps two
hundred enraged citizens, then rose to
their feet and with an impulsive rush
surged over the posse of officers sweep
ing them aside and despite th< ir efforts
to save Thomas, the maddened throng
seized the trembling wretch. In an in
stant, a good rope was produced and a
noose, deftly prepared, slipped about the
prisoner’s neck. Willing hands threw
the end of the rope over a beam in the
court-room and then the crowd walked
away, leaving the body swinging.
KAISER IN DANGER.
The Paris Intranzigeant announces
that the police at Grosgeren, Germany,
have discovered documents which give
evidence of the existence of a socialist
plot to murder Emperor William of Ger
many while journeying to Gastein. Ar
rests have been made of persons charg
ed with being implicated in the plot.
Slips of paper had been found in several
pi aces, through which the imperial train
would pass, indorsed, “To-night at about
midnight the emperor’s train passes.
Be ready,” A fictitious special train was
dispatched before the emperor’s route
from Mayence to Darmstadt, and was lined
with police and and gendarmes. Both
trains passed safely without incident.
THE SALOON WENT.
A building occupied by Ira J. Smith,
as a saloon, which he jr.st opened up in
the tow T n of Fairmont, Ind., was com
pletely destroyed by dynamite. Several
adjoining buildings were also ruined.
This high-handed act was the result of a
determination on the part of the people
of Fairmount to exclude the liqu r truf
fle from the town. It has a Quaker pop
ulation, and no saloons have ever been
ftarted before. Loss about $6,000.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FE M [XIX E RE A K US.
A Heroine of the Skillet.
Mi-s Parloa is a brave woman. At one
of her cooking classes lately something
slipped and boiling water ran over her
hands. The pupils cried out. the lecturer
did not change a muscle. She sprinkled
the burns with soda, bandaged them with
her handkerchief, and went on with the
lesson, her hands swelling into puffy
balls of pain before her hearers’ eyes,
but not detracting her from her lecture,
or causing a moment's stoppage in her
running tire of jokes. — lltn/n/a’a Journal.
A Mexican Custom.
A Mexican custom which is extremely
pleasant and convenient to women folk is
their way of leading a lady up and down
stairs, and American men would do not
only a courteous but a humane thing in
imitating them ig this respect. In de
scending stairs the Mexican goes a step
before his companion, and taking her
hand, holds it up in such a way that any
misstep or failure on her part would be
sustained by him. In ascending, the lady
takes her escort’s arm and is thus assisted
by him.
Publishing the Bans.
I have heard from a brother clergyman
an incident, the truth of which internal
evidence may be said to guarantee, inas
much as it seems beyond the power of
invention. The good old minister of
whom it was told always used to have the
book containing the bans put on the read
ing desk just at his right baud. One
Sunday morning he began as usual:
“I publish the bans of marriage between
—,”and, putting down his hand in all
confidence for the book, found to his dis
may that it was not there! In his
nervousness, while searching for the
missing register, he kept on repeating the
formula: “I publish the bans of marriage
between—l publish the bans of marriage
between,” till at last the clerk from
beneath, in sheer pity, came to the rescue
with the suggestion whispered loudly
enough to be hear all over the church:
“Between the cushion aud the desk, sir.”
The book had slipped under the cushion.
The result of the accident was a publica
tion of bans which I should imagine to
be unique.— From All the Tear Hound.
Gnadaitipe Sanchez.
Guadalupe Sanchez is a little girl well
known in the city of Mexico through her
facility of oratory. She is only ten years
old, the daughter of a poor but very in
telligent shoemaker. In the meetings of
the artisans and other workingmen in the
City of Mexico, Guadalupfe is a promi
nent feature, and their eventful distur
bances are readily calmed at the sound
of her soft, sympathetic voice, perfectly
modulated, intoning the carefully pre
pared speeches, usually for her
by Senor Gonzalesy Gonzales, Secretary
of the Workingmen’s Association. The
child takes part in many public displays
and ceremonies, and her talent and self
possession are striking, not only in con
sideration of her youth and obscure so
cial position, but also from the fact that
women in Mexico, of whatever rank, oc
cupy a very subordinate position as to so
cial and political movements, and almost
never participate in public demonstra
tions. A litte sister of Guadalupe, Ma
ria, in her fifth year, often seconds her
serious efforts and has better natural
gifts than even Guadalupe. —New York
Graphic. . m
Queen Isabella’s Diamonds.
A firm in John Street showed me the
most brilliant and beautiful diamonds I
have seen in a long time. They were
©nee the property of that famous Isabella,
Queen of Spain. They are called the
violet diamonds. In the store they
looked the steely blue-white that tine
diamonds should be, but taken to the
door they were really a distinct violet.
They are unset at present, but used to be j
a pair of ear-drops. In the exhibition |
was a watch of ancient make which has
a movable tableau upon it. Cupid is
sharpening his arrow at the forge of
Vulcan, while Venus and other j
mythological celebrities look on. When
the watch is wound the god at the i
bellows begins to pump, Vulcan at the
anvil strikes it. a tiny chain that looks
like running water runs over a wheel to
imitate a cascade, while Venus waves her
arm and Cupid brandishes a bow. The
workmanship is extremely line and the
little watch is vc*ry valuable. Among
the articles formerly belonging to
Isabella is a collection of different colored
diamonds. There are black and tan
diamonds, amber colored, pink, san
guinary red ones, almost like rubies,
gray ones and tliar- famous violet pair.
The old lady had a great fancy for
jewely. As many as a dozen sets of
different jewc'c l settings are in the hands
of this firm for sale.—A 'em York Letter.
Little Tiffs.
What absurd little things people quar
rel about! says Mary Kyle Dallas, in the
Ledger. What trivial matters cause ill
feeling in families! The mutton being
roasted too little, or the beef too much;
an opinion about the temperature of the
house or the style of curtains that ought
to be bought for the front windows; the
definition of a word, or its pronuncia
tion, are things that might be argued
pleasantly about, but surely are not topics
worth a quarrel when peace and good
will are of so much importance in the
home. A little ill-feeling is like a
little seed that may grow into a large
tree which will shade the whole house.
Many a man and woman must look
with regret on the hasty word or the
cold reproach which was the entering
wedge that split a household in two, and
yet how few make a point of uttering the
j soft word that turneth away wrath!
Quarreling is one of the original sins, I
suppose, for the babies sitting on the
floor will fail out over their toys, and one
will push down the block tower that the
other has built with great pains: and
there will be a ‘’name called,'’ and a
“face made.” and a slap given, and
mamma will be called to settle a quarrel,
and no truth can be got at. for each is
right in his own entimation, and each
has been wronged by the other. So it is
through life. A reasonable quarrel about
great matters may lie settled and the
parties made friends again; but little
tiffs about nothing are such foolish, in
tangible things that reason can not over
come them.
! Fashion Notes.
Metal ribbon is used for sashes with
more or less bizarre effect.
Silver and gilt braids are seen on some
black silk imported costumes.
Red is the color par excellence for all
picturesque costumes this season.
Valenciennes net will be worn by
j bridesmaids at summer weddings.
The new silk lace in marquise designs
will be much worn by bridesmaids.
The wreaths of small flowers always so
I becoming are now generally worn on
close bonnets.
English hose with lengthwise stripes
are stvlish for children and come in only
finest* qualities.
Mob caps of very fine sheer mull arc
worn by little children and have a finish
of ribbon ruching.
Louis Quatorze basques aud vests arc
stylish and mueh liked this season for
the new Bengaliues.
Rose bonnets of petals, with a frame
work of soft stems are dainty head cov
erings for summer wear.
Watered ribbon is used more than
plain this season and is in white or col
ored equally decorative.
White cotton Hercules braid is used
to trim ginghams and other cotton fabrics
for children’s costumes.
Full blouses with round or pointed
yokes are alike worn by little girls,
misses and slender ladies.
Wisteria is one of the prettiest arti
ficial fiowers shown this season aud it is
wonderfully counterfeited.
The white velvet vest bestrewn with
cut steel beads are recherche when worn
with a tailor-made costume.
Many rows of silver braid make a vest
much like the coat of mail in effect, a;
they show only a solid front piece.
Some charming costumes are mad*
from bandanna silks this season. Col
ored silk lace is used in the trimming.
Colored wraps are the rule with Parisian
ladies, black being worn only with plain,
unpretending toilets or by elderly ladies.
Plush wraps in mauve, moss or ruby,
and trimmed with feather bands, are in
tended for use in the cool days of summer.
On Loudon made costumes are deep
and wide pockets on the outside of the
overskirt, intended more for use than
show.
Cross-barred nun’s veiling is stylish,
and promises to be much worn the com
ing season, as being newer than the
plain.
A style of trimming much in vogue is
wheel embroidery, of immense size for
skirts, and smaller for bodices and
sleeves.
Some of the sumptuous small wraps
worn at the present time by Parisians
have the appearance of richly-embossed
armor, so heavily covered with gold are
they.
Bonents entirely covered with small
flowers are shown. Parma or wood vio
lets, lily of the valley, lobelia, myosotis
or small red poppies and buds are the
flowers generally chosen.
High clusters of flowers are no longer
worn on top of bonnets. The newest
trimmingNjonsists of two wreaths of tiny
flowers laid along the edge of the entire
brim and all around the crown.
Moire antique is being used for brides
dresses for weddings. This is the old
fashioned moire, with large ripple de
signs, instead of the French watered
silks in stripes now so generally worn.
Colored veils are of delicately figured
tulle, of Russian square net, of dotted
crepe lisse, and are worn in all shades,
lilac and heliotrope, red from pale rose
to fiery scarlet and deep crimson, all
shades of gray or ficelle, brown, tan,
black, blue, and green.
Passementerie yokes, with or without
beads, are seen upon some very elaborate
silk gowns. A novel toilet was of gray
silk, having a yoke, collar, cuffs and belt
Clasp in imitation of chain armor, which
was comparatively light, and in perfect
harmony with the color of the silk.
The style of a dress of the present time
is made to depend largely upon the ma
terial of which it is composed.. Thus
rich silks and velvets are invariably made
with plain, straight skirts, while foulards,
Bengalines and other soft materials re
quire folds and loopings to make them
effective.
Pretty novelties in passementeries are
being constantly brought out. Some of
the newest, which are very subdued ia
effect, have threads of gold twisted with
the silk. Open passementeries of gold,
silver and steel, when used for dress
trimmings, are sometimes placed first
upon flat bands of velvet ribbon.
Keeping the Eyes Shut.
We are told to keep our eyes ever
open. It is often yell to keep them shut.
One of the chief causes of nervous dis
ease is the straining of the eyes and the
consequent tension of the mind. When
stretched in the barber’s chair do not try
to read a newspaper, but close your lids
under the soothing undulations of the
lather brush or the dreamy sensation of
the shampoo with the barber’s hands glid
ing over your pate. In a railway carriage,
instead of staring out of your sockets at.
the landscape that is being torn in shreds
before you, fold your arms, bow your
head, and listen to the wheels that make
an accompaniment to a wordless song
crooning in your heart. Again, in the
concert room, in place of surveying the
audience critically or watching the beau
ty of the singer behind the footlights
shut your eyes once more and let the
music sink into your soul, rocking it on
waves of emotion and wafting it insensi
bly into the ideal world. In a still higher
sense, to keep our eyes and mouth shut
is one of the wisest lessons of life.— Mon~
treat Gazelle.
It Didn't Work.
“ Had a terrible time yesterday even
ing,” said the “fly” traveling man, as
he walked into the store the other morn
ing.
“ What was the trouble?”
“I called on her father.”
‘ ‘ Oh, I see, the old man doesn’t favor
your suit ?”
“No; but we got along right peacebly
until I made one wild, weird break and
put my foot into it irreparably and for
ever. You see he said he objected to
my habits, and affirmed very vigorously
that I was a worthless young scamp.
Then I addressed, him in some such
terms as these: Sir, I love your daughter
devotedly and nothing in life could give
me more heartfelt pleasure than to have
you for my ownest, dear father-in-law.”
“ Why, how on earth did you come to
say anything so weak and silly as that:”
“Well, you see I had heard somewhere
that a “soft answer turneth away wrath,’
and that was about the softest answer I
could think of. I did my best. — Mer
etiant Traveler.
The Elusive Moth.
To the Psychical Society in its searen
after the supernatural is commended the
domestic moth. The power of this
unbiquitous and vexatious insect to make
itself invisible at will is surely beyond
the range of the natural. Gayly the tiny
creature flits before the eyes of the vigi
lant housekeeper, but when she attempts
to seize the vagrant it vanishes, and her
eager hands gra-ps only thin air. It
passe* quietly through the most solid
substances; it is now a tangible object,
and in the twinkling of an eye the place
where it disported its minute plumes is
empty. It has not flown away; it simply
has ceased to be there. It flutters across
the room, now r seen, now invisible; it
circles about the fingers that itch to
crush it, and when they close apparently
upon it, it still floats unharmed and un
daunted.—Boston Courier.