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THE MONROE ADVERTISER .
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY McGLNTY <t CABANI88.
The Chicago Times says that farming
land of Illinois has decreased twenty per
cent, in value since 1880.
There are nearly 200 patients in the
' vada State Insane Asylum. In vie .
sr e small population of the Btate, thi*
la rge number is looked upon as a public
calamity.
I eforts from nearly 100 Consuls agree
r— at the In 3 -tates is receiving the
um of fori It population, and that
teamshin 1 owners are largely " re
fponsible for it.
The Detroit Fret Press suggests that
“Africa for the Africans” may be one of
f the twentieth century.
1 ho Arab and the Ethiop make a hot
fighting mixture.
The Boston Mu icul Herald proclaim*
in stentorian tones that “America is as
yet unprovided with a national air pas
sossing the breadth and d gnity worthy
of a great country.”
k “Protection for American actors” is
The last development of the movement
which lias taxed foreign pictures, banned
foreign clergymen and stopped fae im¬
portation of skilled artisan*.
A Mexican sorceress^ has predicted
that Mexico will conquer the United
Slates in 1890, and some of the Mexican
papers say that she is infallible. Mexico
will assume a lr contract if it tries to
verify the prediction.
Ulm Fr is Adams, flic distin
— railway authority, is of the
opinion that railroads will combine in
ihe future, and we shall have several
systems of ”0,000 miles or more each
under one management.
During tho past year the net gain of
new churches in this country was 6434;
of ministers, 4505, and of members,
774,861. On an average, therefore, 17
churches were gained each day, IV
ministers and 2120 members.
Cattle raising in the Northern Terri
torios is again increasing. Fifteen
thousand New Mexico steers have been
placed on Montana ranges and New
Mexico stockmen say that they expect
to sell 50,000 cattle in that Territory
aoxt season.
West Virginians were never entirely
pleased with the name of their ftate,
alleges tho New York Telegram, and a
movement to change it to “Kanawha” is
afoot. In a land where so many musical
Indian designations may be found, it
shows a lack of taste, tho Telegram
declares, to repeat the name of anotliei
Btate with any modification.
Nearly 1500 women in this country
are commercial travelers, 2D.6 are
architects, chemists aud essayists, 228
professional journalists, 820 authors,
20'> 1 artists, 13,182 professional musi¬
cians, 519 Government clerks, 2434
physicians and surgeons, 75 lawyers, 165
ministers, 216 stockraisers, 50,809
farmers, and 151,805 teachers.
Their grotesque alphabet is making the
Germans a nation of near-sighted people,
states the Trenton (N. J.) American.
Defective vision is not only acquired,
but it appears to be handed down to
offspring. Cohn fouud over six per
cent, of elementary pupils in Germany
considerably myopic; while in Antwerp
Dr. Do Mots finds only two per cent,
slightly affected.
The Agricultural Department at
Washington is compiling a directory of
all active departments, boards, societies,
colleges, granges, fair associations, farm¬
ers’ dubs, fanners’ alliances and other
organizations devoted to agriculture,
horticulture, dairying, fruit culture,viti¬
culture, forestry, stock-raising in all its
several branches, fish-culture, bee-cul¬
ture, silk-culture aud like industries.
Great as wore the predictions made of
the usefulness of the Brooklyn bridge,
the reality far surpasses the most san¬
guine estimates. During the year end¬
ing December 1, 1S88, thirty-three mil¬
lion passenger crossed the bridge and
the total receipts were $1,912,254.82.
The bridge paid $150,000 to the two
cities and also made many extensive
changes and improvements out of its not
receipts.
Recent ieports represent King Otho,
of Bavaria, as sinking deeper aud deeper
in his religious mania. He remains so
long in a kneeling posture as to be un¬
able to rise without assistance, He fre
quently summons his priest to his bed¬
side at night in order to confess, and
exclaims to those about him: “You do
not know what sins I was guilty of yes¬
terday. 1 dare not close my eyes until I
have received absolution.”
Tho preponderence of foreigu-born
seamen in the American navy was made
the special subject of discussion in Ad¬
miral Porter’s annual report some time
ago, and was then represented in the
light of a menanee to the nation, In¬
quiry among officers at the navy yard
Bet on foot by the New Y ork Times, in¬
dicates that the Admiral’s report caused
much leas sensation in tbe service than
among landsmen aud civilians. Hardly
an ofiicer could be lound to agree with
the statement that the predomiuenee of
foreign-born sailors was a menace to the
navy, and few seemed to think it a dis¬
advantage.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 91, 1889.-EIGHT PAGES.
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THE SOUTH
\T LARGE.
A GREAT ERA OF PROSPERITY
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
THE LABOR FIXED—FARMERS AXD BUSINESS SUN
ACTIVE—SOMETHING ABOUT BAILBOAD ACCI
DENTS, MURDERS, SUICIDES, FLEES, ETC'
ALABAMA.
i A destructive fire, which occurred at
Luverne, a town on the North, West &
Florida Railroad. The store and stock
of McDugal, Dorman & Co. were com
plctely Com Kendrick destsoyed. The store house of
was also destroyed. The
i fire was the work of au incendiary.
A special act passed by the Alabama
j legi- the ature jury on law, Monday applicable making only a to change Jef
fersoa county will cause a further pots
ponement of the Hawes trial. The cast
was set for trial March 4, but. will be
continued until the third week in April,
Jefferson County Commissioners on
Monday Legislature adopted resolutions appealing
to the to remove all state
convicts from the county. At great
length the resolutions set forth the finan¬
cial loss to the county in havin e 1,200
convicts competing with free laborers.
and tho groat increase of crime, due to
the dumping that of all the criminals In the
state m county.
MARYLAND.
The state fishing schooner Folly, Capt.
George Quad commanding, captured the
schooners Bateman Joseph II. Johnson and the
Silent of Baltimore—the for¬
mer whilst illegally dredging on Tolly
point, the latter on Ilacket. Both ves¬
sels refused to halt. Several rounds of
small shot and cannon had to be used
against them.
MISSISSIPPI.
The excitement which his shaken
Hinds county from center to foundation
for the past few days culminated Tues¬
day, and the question of whiskey or no
whiskey was settled in favor of liquor.
The county has been dry under this law
for two years. The negroes took great
interest, and voted solidly wet. Jackson
gave 3,680 majority for whiskey.
SOI'TII CAROLINA.
Coosar Frazer and Ned Criss, both col¬
ored, were arrested Sunday for the mur
der of E. H. Iloldonbnrg. Frazier made
a full confession of his own guilt, Criss
asserts his innocence.
TF.NNR8SEE.
A large number of laboring men met
in convention at Chattanooga to discuss
the eight hour law. The organized plan
had been agreed upon by the leaders of
the movement, and after a long discus¬
sion the whole matter was referred to a
committee to report at a future meeting.
There Isa disposition on the part of some
of tho most prominent laboring men to
have the eight-hour law enforced, and
a strong effort will be made to compel
all employers to recognize eight hours as
a full day’s work.
An accident occured at tho Creosoting
brick works of Guild, White & Gillspie,
in Chattanooga, which resulted in the
death of II, T. Falls, the superintend ant
and his son, Jesse Falls, is dying. The
plant had just been put into operation
whe n the boiler containing many barrels
of coal tar exploded, covering the elder
Fal]s with tar which was ignited by the
red hot bricks, and his flesh was soon
burned until it was impossible to recog¬
nize the unfortunate man. Jes-e Falls
was also covered from head to foot with
the boiling tar and is dying from his
injuries.
Father Ashfield, a Catholic priest con¬
nected with St. ?(tor's cathedial in
Memphis, was killed on Monday. Sever¬
al months ago, A. Reeves, a young man
well known about town, was confined in
jail on account of mental troubles. Fath¬
er Ashfield visited him in jail and was
instrumental in having him released after
a short confinement. A strong friendship
grew up between them, and Reeves was
a frequent caller at the priest’s house.
home, Monday, Reeves rang the bell of the
and when the door was opened he
pushed the porter aside and went direct
to Father Ashfijeld’s room. The porter
thought house, him drunk and run to the station
which is only a square distant, for
a police officer. When the two returned,
they found Reeves sitting on the floor
caressing dead. the head of the priest, who was
It was evident that Reeves had
stabbed him while asleep, as the bed was
covered with blood.
VIRGINIA.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee’s theory of the re¬
cent suicide of his private secretary,
James E. Waller, is that the unfortunate
man, pledge, having broken his temperance
and feeling badly, suddenly de¬
termined to end his existence.
MISSOURI.
A duel at short range took place at
Grant ^ City between Rollo Walton, a
and young desperado of twenty-one years
City Marshal J. C. Baidridge. Wal¬
ton had threatened to kill the mar
shal, aud when the latter met him in a
barroom, he opened fire. Walton was
killed and D. A. Martin, a bystander,
was shot seriously in the arm, that limb
having to be amputated. The marshal
was not injured.
DECISIVE POLICY.
A tramp who called at the home of
Mrs. John Penn, in Lebanon, Pa., will
probably remain for several days the
most surprised man kind in the who, country. when they He
was one of that
find no man about the house, proceed to
take charge thereof, by threatening and
frightening the women who may be at
home. The tramp in question and began Miss to
carry out this programme,
Emma Penn, who was the only person at
home, began to scream lustily. Her
cries quickly brought to her aid her
sister-in-law. Mrs. Catherine Penn, living
next door. She is a woman of fine mus¬
cular development, and, instead of
screaming rolling-pin or fainting, she grasped a
and struck the tramp a blow
that felled him to the floor. When a
policeman arrived shortly, the tramp wu
so badly used up that he had to be taken
to y ° station-house in a wheelbarrow
and a physician was called in to patch
him up.
A SOLDIER APPOINTED.
Washington, £Sa£?®s D. C., on Tuesdav, and
engaged quarters for a four months’ Slav
In the event of an extra session, the
genera; will be sworn in and act until
the New Hampshire Legislature meets in
Jun and elects a successor. Manton
wi 1 not be a candidate, but he is op¬
posed to Chandler, and will use his in¬
fluence with the Legislature for Repre¬
sentative Galinger, who is a very con¬
servative man.
WASHINGTON'
PHOTOGRAPHED.
GETTING READY FOR HARRI¬
SON'S INAUGURATION.
CONGRESS.
Tuesday Among the Senate bills reported on
from the committees and placed
on the calendar, was one appropriating
$20,000 for the construction of au iron
bridge from Fortress Monroe to Eliza¬
beth City, Ya., and one to provide for
the better enforcement of quarantine laws
and regulations of the United States and
for the establishment of a board of health.
The Senate then proceeded to executive
business, on motion of Mr. Plumb, who
stated that he presumed it would not
j occupy more than five minutes. Within
five minutes, executive business was
, transacted and legislative business re
sumed. Mr. Evans gave notice that as
soon as the naval appropriation ,4k bill was
disposed of, he would the Senate to
consider the resolution reported from the
committee on privileges and elections as
to outrages in Washington county, Texas,
an< ^ directing that committee to revise
existing laws regulating the elections of
members of Congress. Mr. Plumb, of
Kansas, passed to the consideration of
the general subject of the navy aud com¬
plimented the present administration of
the navy department. He w'as glad to
say that, during the past four years, the
in navy department had been administered
a practical, level-headed, judicious
way. The result was that within the
next ten years tha United States would
have the best navy in the world. Not a
navy with the most ships; not a navy
with the greatest variety of ships, but a
navy with the most modern ships, with
ships best adapted to the work they
would have to do. Mr. Hale expressed
his satisfaction at Mr. Plumb's hav¬
ing called attention to the na¬
val strength of the country, and
having mentioned some of the
causes that had produced that strength.
Secretary his Whitney had been careful in
methods; he had encouraged Ameri¬
can inventors, American enterprise, to
have the very best navy in the world—
not in number of ships—but it would
have no refuse in its nayy. Its navy
would be like a clean-limbed,thoroughly
equipped w r restler, -with no impediments,
with nothing to hinder it, with no old
and useless ships, with none of those
vast, unwieldy and monstrous structures
that had consumed millions on mil¬
lions of money of other powers, and
that the officers and men would not dare
to trust themselves in at sea....
In the House, Mr. Townshend, of Illi¬
nois, introduced a bill appropriating
$50,000 for a special display of farm
products of the United, States at the
Paris Exposition. Refeired. The House
then resumed consideration of the
Smalls-Elliott contested election case.
Contestant Smalls was then accorded the
floor, to advocate his own claims.
Pending further debate, on motion oi
Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, the Senate bilJ
was passed, changing to the second Mon¬
day in March, the date for -the com
mencement of the March term of the
district court for the northern district oi
Georgia. ItHfDaxres
In the Senate, on Monday,
presented a petition from, Vi^uia, 120 Indian
students at- Hampton, against
continuance of the system of supply¬
ing rations to the Indians. The jietition
was referred. Mr. Sherman said that he
had been instructed by the committee
on foreign relations to move a executive
session, and the galleries were cleared
and the doors closed. The doors were
reopened and legislative business' was
resumed. After the transaction of some
routine business, the Union Pacific fund¬
ing bill was laid aside and the naval ap¬
propriation bill was taken up. Commit¬
tee amendments were adopted ap¬
propriating $68,000 for electric lights
on naval vessels, $100,000 for a torpedo
station and war college on Goat Island,
Newport, It. I., and $90,000 for addi¬
tional land adjoining the naval academy,
Annapolis. Other amendments of a
merely formal character were agreed to.
.. . .On motion of Mr. Caswell, of Wis¬
consin, the House insisted on its amend¬
ments to the direct tax bill,
and a conference was ordered.
Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, as a question of
the highest privilege, called up the
Small-EIliott contested election case,
from South Carolina. The House de¬
termined, yeas 181, nays 89, to consider
the election case.
XOTES.
The President signed the bill creating
a Department of Agriculture, and iin
mediately sent the name of Norman J.
Colman, of Missouri (the present com¬
missioner), to be Secretary of Agricult¬
ure, to the Senate for confirmation. Mr.
Colman will probably be confirmed.
The Senate, in secret session, h s pass¬
ed the following bill to enable the Presi¬
dent to protect the interests of the United
States in Panama; “Be it enacted, etc.,
That there be, and is hereby appropria¬
ted out of any money in the Treasury,
not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
$250,000 to enable the President to pro¬
tect the interests of the L'nited States
and to provide for the security of per¬
sons and property of citizens of the
United States at the Isthmus of Panama,
in such manner as he may deem expe¬
dient.”
Cotton returns of the Department of
Agriculture make the average close of
picking six days later than last year on
account of later maturity and frequent
rains. In many counties' in the South¬
west, the crop has not yet been fully har¬
vested. A careful consolidation of re¬
turns makes the propor.ion marketed
84.3 per cent, the average of states being
as follows: Virginia, 83; North C’ar<>
lina, 84; South Carolina, 85; Georgia,
86; Florida, 87; Alabama, 85; Missis¬
sippi, 82; Louisiana. S3; Texas. 85;
Arkansas 84; Tennessee S3. The staple
is shorter than last year, and there is
more discolored and trashy fibre. The
caterpillar and boll worm has been
widely distributed, but their destruction
has been greatly United by insecticides.
Seed has been sold at 12 to 16 cents per
bushel, near the lines of railroads mostly
by tenants, proprietors finding it more
valuable for feeding aad fertilizing pur¬
poses.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
led DeLesseps his is ill. Hitherto, he has de¬
:allen years, but old age has suddenly
upon him with the collapse of the
i’&nama canal scheme. It is reported
-h»t he is to go and end his days at his
villa, Ismail.
Berlin Reichtameiger publishes a
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•is of k sses among the crews of the
e «T a ii. me ?' &f war 01 8 a and Eber in
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GEORGIA ITEMS.
Carr. Eton D to have a cotton factory.
A fire in Doug aaville.on Sunday night,
^t.-$i0,000. destroyed pi perty to the value of near
Tne Screven County Alliance decrees,
that the males and females must not sit
together.
Atlanta had another saow on Sunday
Monday night, which gave the b< yi a chance on
morning to indulge in snowb til¬
ing.
Tom Woolfolk, the alleged murderer
of his family, has been granted a new
trial by the Supreme Court.
A great deal of stock is dying in Madi¬
son county from a disease like the glan¬
ders. There is no cure for a horse or
mule when once attacked.
ToeCoa had a heavy conflagration on
Tuesday morning. Davenport The fire started in
the kitchen of the House, and
the hotel was destroyed.
Joe Lee, the muidered Chinaman of
Rome, was buried Monday. There were
no services. Besides a number of citi¬
zens, three Chinamen attended the fune
ll Mjttdy id jail, went Hamilton, before one the of. jury the and ne
roe3
confessed the crime,
A prominer t colored man of Americus,
Ga., called on President-Elect Harrison,
at to IndianapoItsT’Iad. the Cfncago Convention, He was and a delegate of
one
the two Genrei men who voted for Har¬
rison: ■4r \_Hed represent to the general
his vj s ; » Weidtmeut that should be
accorded qoloredpueu of the Smith. He
says tion that to ignore them in the distribu¬
of (patronage, as has been urged by
some of the Southern delegates, would
be to dkstrpy the Republican party iu the
South.
George Lunn, formerly private secre¬
tary to General Manager Haines, of the
Brunswick re Western Road, was mar¬
ried in Savannah to Katie, daughter of
Florence Frvidlander, a colored woman,
formerly a CAack-y^Clark, r< -lident of Brunswick. She is
a niece of the bar' er, of
Savannah, aud is said to be a good mu¬
sician and actress, having appeared be¬
fore the footlights in operatic and other
performances. Mr. Lunn is from Eng¬
land, and well acquainted with Maxwell,
the man who was lately hung at St.
Louis for the murder of his friend,
Preller.
Three negro fqot-pnfls-jmet colored John Car¬
ter, a very respectable man, near
the farm of Ely Moore, at East Point and
beat him into insensibility, robbing him
of $11, they went to 51 r. Moore’s house
and cried out: “All right; the first man
that pokes his head out will get shot;”
and through the chinks in the wall the
frightened occupants of the house saw
three men, one of whom held a gun in
his hands and remained in front of the
door, while the other two proceeded to
pillage. helped They went to the hen roost and
themselves. Then they went and
tore down the lot fence and let the stock
out, and played havoc generally around
the place, while the frightened people in
the house remained mute with fear.
Bloodhounds and Atlanta policemen.are
after them.
BISMARCK ANGRY.
Prince BismaiA^Y attack of neuralgia
is complicatediOBiMittiMftwiMJ^tcr
nal disorder, w. v? in
Bomba. He ecu fainst
the advice of Ill's His rifs Vi
the Chancellierre _ Quirked fre¬
are with
quent outbursts of passion and other evi-‘
elcncas of extreme irritability. When
Bismarck went to the Schloss to protest
that the action against the Kreutz Zei
tung mu-t proceed, he was kep: waiting
a quarter of an hour in an ante chamber;
that in a fit of violent rage, he told
Chamberlain Mirbach that the delay was
au intentional insult, arranged by the
cabal against him, and that the emperor,
hearing the broil, left his room hurried¬
ly apologized to the chancelor, suc¬
ceeded in calming him, and obtained his
assent to the abandonment of the prose¬
cution.
KEEPING OUR LETTERS.
Capt. Leary, who commanded the
United States man-of-wnr Adams, at Sa¬
moa, and to whose prompt action is
ascribed the failure of the Germans to
make open war on the natives until after
his departure from the islands, has
learned tiace his arrival in San Francis¬
dressed co, Cal., that important iA letters were ad¬
to hi by Admiral Kimberly
and by tbe State Department, which
failed to reach him, but that other mail
matter sent at the same time and one
ordering him to cruise in other waters
reache 1 him. The postoffiee at Apia is
in the hands of Germans, and all mail
matters, whether addressed to officials of
private parties, is handled by them.
Complaint has frequently been made that
mail for American citizens at Apia has
been delayed, and at times altogether
withheld byqthe Germans.
NEWEST THING.
The dudes of Washington, D. C., have
discarded both the cigarette and the
cigar, and have taken up the pipe. It is
no longer style to be seen on the
streets smoking a cigarette, and it is no
uncommon sight to see the dudes prom¬
enading up and down Pennsylvania
avenue headed carrying and their immense silver¬
their canes carrying a pipe be¬
tween lips. They do not smoke
the meerschaum, but instead use a small,
dark, polished wood pipe with a long
and straight but very small black stem.
The pip s are never carried in the hand
but are kept between the lips until the
tobacco is exhausted, when they are
either refilled by a patent apparatus
resembling a shot pouch or are taken
apart and laid away in a thin case made
to be carried in the pocket.
DEADLY VISITOR.
The Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
crop in Central Illinois. In some places
whole fields have beer £*stroyed. Dry
freezing weather has afe aided in killing
off the wheat.
HOME AT LAST.
The steamer Haytieu Republic, recent¬
ly the cause of so much trouble between
Hayti and the United States, arrived at
Boston, Mass., on Sunday.
A new wav of fighting the liquor traffic
has lately been tried with success by some of
tbe Catholic priests of Brooklyn, been
Hundreds of boys and young men have
pledged to shun the saloons and cigar stores
ter a "stated number of years.
Ax tiier story of the Austr.an Crown
Prince Rudolfs death says that the Baroness
Marie Vet sera and the Prince committed
suicide together at Meyerlmg.
THE egg supply for New York city has not
been so large for many years and had prices been for
January were lower than they fof
twenty-seven years during that month.
ALL OYER
TTTP W ORT R)
d MOST INTERESTING MEDLEY
OF CAREFUL CULLINGS.
what is go in q ox Ef Europe—distinguts hed
MIX France's peril—gerslany amd
tee txited states.
A shock of earthquake was felt in
Naples on Menday. Vesuvius is in erup¬
tion.
A shock of earthquake was felt on
land. Monday at Bolton and Manchester, Eng¬
No damago was done.
Michael Rizzolli, or “Rod-Nosed
Mike,” was on Monday found guilty, in
Wilkesbarre, Pa., of murder in the first
degree in killing Paymaster McGuire
and his companion, Flanigan, and rob¬
bing them.
Thomas Axworthy, city treasurer of
Cleveland, Ohio, who decamped from
there last Fall, after appropriating half a
million dollars, has bought a large
block of real estate at Sault Ste. Marie,
Out.
United Secretary Bayard’s statement that the
States would request that the
treaty be observed in Samoa, causes sur¬
prise in Berlin, as it is contended that
the Samoans continue to occupy ground
belonging to Germans.
The Gentiles wero successful in the
municipal Ogden, election, which was held in
Utah. It is their first victory
over the Mormons in the history of the
city aud in the territory. There is great
rejoicing, citement. and the city is wild with ex¬
The Standard Oil Co.’s factory at
Constable Hook, N. J., was totally de¬
stroyed by fire on Sunday. Thirty thous¬
and new barrels were burned also, with
two empty parafine oil stills and two agi¬
tators. Loss, $100,000; no insurance.
A cablegram announces the death of
Cardinal John Baptiste Pitra, who was
second in rank in the sacred college. lie
was born 1st, at Champforquil, France, Au¬
gust 1812. He was made cardinal
March 16, 1863, and was one of the six
suffragan bishops of the Roman pontiff.
The extensive establishment of James
Wyeth & Bro., manufacturing chemists,
in Philadelphia, Pa,, was completely de¬
stroyed by fire Sunday. The building
was completely gutted and tbe loss will
8e between $8,000 and $5,000. Several
Expulsions occurred, causiug the firemen
;o run for their lives. During the pro¬
gress of the fire the central portion of
;he double building fell, burying several
iremen. George Showers was taken out
lead, and Abraham Savery and William
Buzzard injured, the latter quite seriously.
Reports of heavy snow storms came on
Sunday from all parts of Germany. In
Berlin the snow was a foot deep, and in
the Bavarian highlands it has fallen to
the depth of six feet. In the west and
northwest, thunder and lightning accom¬
panied prevailed the throughout snow 7 . A great snow 7 storn.
Great Britain and
France. On the coast heavy gales pre
vail and a number of shipping disasters
nre reported. A *storm of exceptional
rid^s eewarity raged throughout Holland. The
Dordrecht,’telieid are greatly swollen, and Rotter
itflpn, gtiinpen irpmdated irn, Many Zwolle ship- and
are
tvj yec ks with gvyi iosj of life are re
ported.
There was great rejoicing among the
anarchists of Chicago, Ill., over the sus¬
pension of Bonfield, Schasck and Low
enstein, the police officials whom the
Times has been charging with corrup¬
tion. The saloons and halls frequented
nights and Sundays by the disciples of
the late August Spies xvere illuminated
by scores of candles. Behind the bars
ptood busts of the executed anarchists,
and before the bars were dozens of men
guzzling selves hoarse free b.er the and downfall shouting of th the in
over
men whom they held responsible for the
death of their martyrs. A lad went into
one saloon carrying a small red flag. He
was borne about ou the shoulders of the
men amid shouts of joy. A young fel¬
low found a small American flag and held
it up. The crowd shouted: “Take it
away 1”
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Oh, my sweetheart!
Not coy is she.
Each morning
She gets in bed with me.
She makes a little dash,
And though I sleep as sleep the dead,
She wakes me as she pounds my head
gives And pulls at my mustache,
And me many a shake.
‘'You dear o d uncle, wake!”
Then I move slightly, with a great pretense
Of drowsiness and dull'indifference,
And then she gives another shake—
“You dear old uncle, wake!”
.and then I make a sudden, mighty start,
And laugh and draw her down beside my
heart
(Gulp down the thought that comes that I’m
alone—
Try to forget that on8 life's had it’s wreck).
And feel a soft cheek laid against my own,
And small, warm arms wound tightly round
my neck,
And it’s “Oh! and Oh!
I love you so!”
And then 1 cuddle her and say how sweet
She is, and that I’ve half a mind to eat
Her bodily,and stifi.iYs “Oh, and OhJ
And thus we Ch 0 ma°ke?reat love, j
my ■weetheart! - ’
—Chicago Mail
N. B. Jones, of River Bend, Ga., haa
a sow fifteen years old that has raised
him 132 pigs. Of her progeny he haa
sold twenty-eight breeders and fattened
enough meat for family use and sold
from $20 to $65 worth each year. Mr.
Jones says he fattened “Old Blue” two
years ago to kill, but after the water was
hot and everything in readiness for the
slaughter his heart failed him and he
spared her life. He is now determined
to keep and feed her a? long as she lives.
Geogr*ph ; cal mem—The Letts of modern
rivers, the Spree.
A Will in Rhyme.
The following is a copy of an authen
“last will and testament”of the late
Willoughby Dixey, Esq., of Bosworth
Park, Doctors’ Deices tersbire. August It was proved in
Commons, 17, 1815,
aud sworn uuder £300,000.
IN THE NAME OF GOD. AMEN.
I, Willoughby Dixey, of Bosworth Park
M ithout the aid of scribe or clerk,
Rea^yto'SeoVfin^the To flaw,
my sister, Eleanor, of Bourne,
I.est she her brother long should mourn,
The welcome news she must hear.
That I give her eight hundred pounds
year.
And also on her do I fix
To be my sole executrix.
To sister Rosamand, whose bower
Of happiness ne'er knew- one hour,
I twelve pence give, far more than’s due
To such a sad, vexatious shrew.
To Tom Drakerley, my steward ever true,
Who did for ine all man could do,
I give in cash and notes, no little sounds,
The sum of twenty thousand pounds.
To young Drakerley. ever true,
Who ditl what the elder could not do,
I give of sheep five hundred head,
As good as ever Bakewell bred.
To Joe, my groom, who swore my stud
None were surpassed in shape or blood,
And that no knight of high degree
Could ride a horse or hunt like me;
1 give him all that in the stable feed
Or graze upon the mead.
To Bam, my balin', lest he repine,
1 give my residue of stock and kino.
My gamekeeper 1 give of guns a stock,
By Joe Manton, Egg and Knock,
He can go forth and shoot the feathered
And flock;
when I am in Heaven above
He can pursue the sport I love.
And to my servant from tho ranks,
That due to me may be tho thanks,
The chargers that 1 rode in battle;
Horses that heard tho cannon’s ratt’
And to my brewer 1 do give,
Hoping Of that he long may live.
malt and hops a rattling store,
That when he’s drank the ale he may brew
more.
Yes, and puncheons full of fine old rum,
Filled as tight as any drum;
And as ho ; s a fellow fine,
To him I give my stock of wine,
With glass, I, yes, and everything
That makes a joyous table ring.
And to my gardener, rake and spade,
And every tool that suits his trade;
And as the poor devil needs some luck,
I give him all the fruit to pluck;
And in the garden he w.ll find some greens—
Cauliflower and kidney beans.
An 1 to my housemaids—noisy crew—
My chairs and tables, not a few;
Brushes and brooms with goose wings,
And every other sundry thing.
And lest they should think mo mean
I give them all they'd been used to clean.
Now to the cook I give my tea,
Borne twenty pounds of line Bohea,
And that she may remember me
1 give her all the good coffee.
With sugar plums and good spice,
And everything folks thinks is nice;
And lest that she should think these shams,
My bacon 1 do give and all the hams,
W ith bread and flour, and good salt meat,
And everything that is fit to eat.
To Mary, my scullion wench,
As good as need sits on the bench,
And though her portion is but small,
’Tis all that’s in tiie servants’ hall,
And that her mind may be at peace,
She shall have all the kitchen grease;
And she must search well o’er each nook
For all the cook may overlook.
To the old woman at the gate,
Which 1 have parsed through of late;
Who to crack hazel nuts is'willing,
And to buy some 1 give a shilling;
But as that will only buy a few,
1 give her all that in the garden grew
And as long as she doth live,
To her all the hazel nuts I give;
Ant if any she doth dare to sell,
Tne next she cracks shall be in hell.
Bui all I intend for her to eat,
For she will be short of bread and meat!,
An 1 only on that proposition
The nuts arc hers by that condition.
And lest a vnrlet oJjnine showed repj.ua
/To Henry,/the iabfrer, I give mv
And a/i the fStUftcfcs/py Store %>l S« £*eat ll! and pams, grains * NSBSm
—
To Mary Ann, who was my wife,
The jay and comfort of my life,
What Providence has given to me >
When Dated 1 die 1st day I give of to June, thee. 1815. \ A
Bosworth Willoughby Park, Leicestershire. Dr&rv,
Proved in Doctors’ Commons, the 17th
August, 1815. \
The Irridescent Sunbeam Treatment.
It has long been known that a free
exposure to sunlight or diffused day¬
light is tranquilizing to the nerves, and
the physicians at Ale-sand ria, acting
upon this, have carried the test much
further and distinguished between the
effects of different colors in the light.
The sashes of an asylum window were
filled with glass of various colors, and
the walls and woodwork were painted to
match the glass. A patient suffering
from melancholia, who refused to eat,
was placed in one of the rooms with
walls and windows of a bright red.
Three hours’ exposure to this influence
produced cheerfulness and he asked for
food.
This seemed very important to physi¬
cians, who know that with the insane
whose malady begins with melancholia
the refusal of food is the earliest, the
most common, as well as the most
dangerous symptom, and is generally
administered persisted in until nourishment has to be
by force: so that the re¬
moval of that fancy and the restoration
of a healthy, spontaneous desire for food
caused by only a few hours’ subjection
to light influence is an important fact in
the anDals of medicine, Another melan¬
choly patient, who always kept his hands
over his mouth so as to shut out food
and air, was placed in the red room and
soon began to improve, and the next
day had so far forgotten the hallucinar
tion that he ate with a hearty appetite.
Still another patient, a violent maniac,
was placed in a blue room and became
quiet in an hour, while a fourth was
completely cured after passing a day in
a violet colored room.— New York Iltrald.
India-Rubber Horse Shoes.
“The proposed substitution of India
rubber for metal in the manufacture of
horse shoes is based upon various sup¬
posed advantages,” says a well-known
New York authority to a Mail and Ex¬
press reporter, “one of these being that
the former enables a horse to go easier
over all kinds of roads and rough or
smooth ground without slipping. The
contrivance brought forward for this
purpose is such as to obviate in one in¬
stance the necessity of using an iron
shoe, which can be morel momentarily
when the horse is shod with an iron
shoe. According to this design the shoe
consists of an India-rubber bottom piece
molded to fit over and around the frog
of the hoof, with a ledge or protecting
rim rising up the front and around the
level where the nails are clamped, the
projection band having an edge under which
a steel or other appliance can be
drawn and nipped tight to retain the
rubber shoe. The band is connected by
studs, which pass through the heel part
° f the h ? of : th ’ S bein &' CUt awa / { r0m th ?
lnQer 8lde for the purpose, and the stud
or studs may work eccentrically to ob
tain grip or fixing. If the rubber shoe
is U3ed with an iron shoe the frog por
tion or pad has a front plate and two
side wings partially imbedded in to hold
the rubber shoe in place. If the rubber
shoe be divided or made thin in the
center, a swivel or other bar can be con
tracted from the rear to reduce the width
of the pad, so that it enters easily and
also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes
in position,
Queen Victoria has requested that for¬
eign married ladies presented at coi rt
must be accompanied by their husbands.
SAWING WOOD.
There are many kinds of exercise—
Some love to play at ball,
The school boy oft his kite high flies,
With some, ’tis billiards all;
There are games for each and ev’ry ona
But be it understood,
For right down solid, lasting fun,
There’s naught like sawing wood;
So push and draw
The old buck-saw,
Thro’ good hard-seasoned wood.
The “grand old man” may swing his axe,
The ’cyclist spin his wheel.
Pedestrians, on thick saw dust tracks,
May go it, toeaud heel;
Prize fighters may puuch sand in bags—*
Such excercise is good;
But I, whene'er my spirit flags,
Just tackle seasoned wood;
I push and draw
The old buck saw,
Thro’ seasoned maple wood.
I love to see the saw dust fly.
And blocks in straight rows laid,
And if the old saw “pinches,” 1
Rub “taller” on the blade;
Gymnasiums do very well.
And dumb bo's are quite good;
If I want to feel my biceps swell
I tackle seasoned wood;
I push and draw
The old buck-saw,
Thro’ good hanl-seasoncd wood.
—Thomas Burke, in Yankee Blade.
PITH AM) POINT.
In divers piaccs—In the deep sea.
How to raise the wind— Use a fan.
Lot’s wile must have been a bad lot.
A home of song—The Canary Isles.
A wedding present—The clergyman’s
lee.
Horticultuie for lovers—Raising two
lips.
Grave literature—Inscriptions on tomb¬
stones.
Motto of ragpickers —“By hook or by
;rook.”
There is a cheerful ring in an engaged
girl s laughter.
“I am laying for you,” said the hen
to the housekeeper.
Depth of feeling—Feeling for the last
lime in your pocket.
A gentleman who is rather previous—
The Prior, of course.
Paradoxical as it appears, the most
successful miners have worked n vein.
The snowline—It crosses the sidewalk
it the division fence. —Detroit Free
Press. f
Boston may not be the “Hub of the w
Universe,” but she is its center off
gravity. “Claude 1 ’ before lie married y
He was
her and clawed afterward. — Merchant
Traveler.
Even the moth lias his sphere in so¬
ciety. lie very fie i uently appears in a
dress suit.
Miss Fortunes never come single, nor
need they remac so very long for want
of suitors.
Some people think thn t_jLh o brewers’
lockout w a s'"* p 1 1 ifva
York World Q
r ,.ng down and
. chief; “What
mp' 1 ne-erowd shouted
MHSyon the pianos first.”
Money will purchase anyth’ng, says It a
;ontcmporary. Not every thing. took
3 an not purchase a p'ano that Courier. never
the first premium.— Be ton
We shall meet, but we shall miss him,
Ha lias gone beyond recall. boodle
Wrh his pockets fu'l of
He has skipped to Montreal!
—New York World.
The small boy was asked at dinner by
his mother what he best like to eat.
“Well rna, I like those came.’a hair
ducks best, I think. ’— Ban Francuco
Chronicle.
A little girl in the Warren street
school the other day, being asked, in the
grammar glass, to give tlie plural of
“child,” promptly replied “twins.”-—
Toledo B e.
j^he—“The reception last night was so?” a
very brilliant allair, don’t you think noticed
lie (in the trade)—“Well, yes; I
a. great many imitation stones weie dis¬
played.”— Jeweler's Wnklj.
Mr. Featherly—“You seem tc have a
nice color this evening, Bobby.”
Bobby—“Yes, sister had to step
around to the dressmaker’s a moment
before supper and I got hold of some of
hers.”— Fpoch.
A maiden livefi on the West Bide
Who asked her true love for a ride.
He replied, in a pickle,
“1 haven’t a mckle,”
Then laid down his burden and dide.
—Chicago Eoeninj Herald.
“Don’t you find life a good used deal of to,” a
grind, Count Spaghetti;” he let “I h>'s mind
replied the days Count, when at he and his monkey re¬
vert to the
worked eight hours a day to gratify the
public taste for music.
“Why do you pay so much attention
to that klotie dude.” “Because he
moves in the best society.” “I’m sur¬
prised! He doesn’t look to me as if he
aad animation enough to move any¬
where.”— Boston Gazette.
Willie—“Ma, can anything be foreign
md domestic, too.” Mother— “No,
William.” William—“Yes, it can.”
Mother—“You are wrong, my son.”
Wilke—“I ain’t. What’s the matter
with Bridget;”— America.
Tropical Fruits.
The impression is no doubt general
that the tropics are especially favorable
to fruit culture. Travelers describe in
glowing colors the appearance of orange
trees bearing at one and the same time
blossoms, green fruit an 1 ripe. Such a
condition of things is conven ent and
desirable in cases where fruit is raised
for home consumption, but it is a serious
drawback to exportation. A fixed sea¬
son for harvesting is necessary if the
aim of the culturist be supplying a
foreign market.
In the case of fruit which has to be
gathered in clusters, like the grape, this
habit of ripening indifferently at any
time of year is a most inconvenient one.
It is said by observers that in Brazil
and in tropical Africa grapes look well,
but the bunches never ripen thoroughly.
In tact, the same cluster will contain
berries of every age, from the smallest
green to the oldest purple. For the mak¬
ing of the wine th ; s makes necessary a sort¬
ing deal of berries, which involves a great
of labor and trouble, as well as a
waste of fruit.
Again, in many parts of tropical
America, the hot season is the rainy
season. The wet and heat together lead
to rapid decay as the fruit approaches
maturity.
To protect itself from tnis danger, tho
skin of the grape is said to become thick
and leathery, and it acquires an un¬
pleasant thick taste. We are all aware how and
is the peel of the orange
lemon, and how abundant is the oil it
contains to protect from decay the pulp
within.— Youth's Companion.