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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.