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JUDAH P. BENJAMIN.
Points In HU Career gathered from
Various Sources-His College
Days—His London law
Office.
The Into Judah P. Benjamin vras 'a
short wau, not Tcr fire feet eight,
with a volt-padded frame and' a meat
graeetul’and courteous manner. Mia
hair An 1 ere* wore black, and-the lat
ter weic large, liquid,-open anl full
of ooul. Ilia face was rather fair than
dapk, and his short-clipped ret black
whiskers made this fair complexion
a prominent feature. He dressed
plainly and did not effect the dandi
fied aif and jewels of Disraeli, He
•had a silver VeHe, and. spoke easily
and eloquently, lie wa9 one of the
lions of the benate in his day, and
the galleries always filled when-lie
. 7 a gMßUpeeein '
" ESPINO INCIDENTS
> ** fife. Me married
early in life a very beautiful woman.’
SUo did something Which offended'
the society of .Jgcw,. Orleans. Mfr.
Benjamin was much devoted to her,
it wounded hup keenly. He
spent-years and a Vast amount of trou
*>■* for h "
nor place in society, but ho-werer
succeeded. Once bo gavo a grand tun'
in New Urban*;ail the men invited
etude, and not a tingle woman. That
crushed his hope* then. When he
was elected to the Senate he brought
bis Wire to Washington and Set up a j
magnificent establishment. The old
grudge against bis Wife was remem
bered, and be again found himself
obliged to go ip Society without hiA
wife or to romalu iu soelusiou. He
sold bis splendid household effects at
-a greet lM*;-gavtr trp his house, and
said despondently to a friend, "I am
bankrupt in heart, purse and reputa
tion."
HIS Wise THEN’ WEST TO PARIS
where ho supported her in splendor
and visited her often. His own tastes
were of the simplest kind, and his
personal expeueee hardly a tithe of his
groat earnings He knew how to
charge clients, aud often described
with a relish fiis plau of making a fee.
“First, ** be mid, “I charge a retainer,
then 1 charge s remainder, next
I charge a refresher, aud then 1
chrrge a finisher.'’ He was exceedingly
liberal, and had uo love of money for
mouey’s sake. Ills law office In Lon
don was the darkest and dingiest
cranny imaginable. There were two
rooms, one tolerably comfortable,
which was occupied by hie clerks,
Wt} the other absolutely meagre, oc
cupied by the great jurist himself. It
was a favorite resort of Southerners,
aud a pilgrimage to the shabby little
law office whs religiously performed
by nearly every Southerner who vis
ited London.
jefterson davis, speaking or hr.
BENJAMIN.
immediately after bla death, said : “I
remember in the spring of 18G6;it must
have been ju A.pril. wo wore Mbmj
from,Greensboro to Charlotte, N. C.,
Benjamin was in an ambulance with
Cooper aud George Davis, and I went
ahead on horse-back, as usual. It
was toward evening that I reached a
farta house which looked like eligible
quarters for the night, but the aiubu
lauc-e not coming up, 1 turned and
rode back to as.ertain what had be
come of the party. After some dis
tance I found the ambulance stuck
fvst in the mud, while Benjamin was
engaged in his favorite rccitaliou of
Tennyson appenrently depending
solely upon Providence to pall the
ambulance out ofthe scrape. He was
an enthusiast of Tennyson, and placed
him even above Byron, wfio is n
great favorite ot mlue. Oe one occasion
he bad a discussion concerning the
merits of each insietingthat Tennyson
■ iOuld rank first,end appealed to mo to
decide. Upon my making some ob
jections he, with his good nature ami
exquisite bonhomie, exclaimed:
“Well, let us admire both."
HE WAS SOT A VAN Of STHOMQ
cenvlctious, nor of vast energy. He
wasco*!, adroit, accomplishing hi
ends by finesse, and not by fore*.
His iufinencs with Jeffers*'! Davis
was unbounded, and it was because
he always waited t* find out what
Jeffers*" Davis wanted, and then
t*k that side and maintained it with
ail his matchless ingenuity, lucidity
and plausibility. He was thus not so
much an adviser in the Contederat*
Cabiuet a* an advocate t* defend any
position that its Chief might take.
This was very dexterous, but it was
lacking in sincerity; for he must
have seen very ofteu that the pre
judices, and whims, and tempers of
Jeffersou Davis lsd him astray; yet
he defended these errors with the
same skill and )>ersuaivciies that he
did tha best actions. By Ibis coarse
b*wever, hs maintained a command
ing 1 influence over Jefferson Davis,
and was indeed, the power behind the
throne greater than the threne.
He laaded iu England in Septem
ber, 1865. In Jane, 1866, he was ad
mitted to practice at the English bar,
His admission was granted by the
benchers ef Lincoln' inn, in six months
instead *f three years as ths rales gen
erally require, o* the groand that he
was on old member of the bar of a
country governed under tha systems
of the common law, and. the fact that
he was a political exile. lie published
hie “Benjamin on Sales” in 1808, hav
ing la the intervening yeare supported
himself and hia family by writing
leading articles for the aewspapers.
HE EXTEBED TALE COLLEUB
in 1825, but left, without graduating,
in 1828, when he went to New Orleans,
and was admited t* the bar in 1832.
Hr. Holpiu, of Boston, in a letter
n few ago, speaking •< hia stu
dent Ufe at Yale, said: “He was a
small, bright-eyed boy tialnk
complexion, evidently of Jewish
blood, and 15 or 16 yearsof age. Who
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his parents were and under wheso
guardianship-lie'was placid did hot
appear, lie appSarenlly passed his
time iu sauntering around (ho coHege
gronndsor dropping in at the sttidants
rooms. sjj}l i}e vouched for him .W
seemed to be familiar with his history.
Without any attention to his studios,
and following out this desultory and
vagrant existence, he easily mud
without dispute, took at once the
diighest stand in Ms class, wa* ac
knowledged to be a yiddle and prod-
Jgyj&t’iSicnecUal power. He disap
peared a%m**terJouslva*j fee came.■
•Tliinext wtf-iieard oflrinf- was as
member of a>njgr*# r (*fjuguUhed"
for his tearrifngHind
Wl, n;S S,.Otk3 .80
Washington, and had ,a jutev
view with MSfc of
*TiS3'3
embarrassed when ’ referenDe- Was:
made to his student life.”
| lATINO WITH Tffiß HNIPK. |
Apropos of war to the kuife the
Philadelphia Times says the niOTe
tpsnt against the use of-lho knileiu
catiug i* likely to take-form in the
organization of a society for the sup
pression of that instrument as a
means of conveying food to jho month.
There are already societies for the
suppression of cruelty <o animals hud
child ten, for the propagation of the
Gospel in foreign parts and ft>r vari
ous ether useful purposes. lint the
dangers to life from one persistent use
of the ordinary table knife have no
organized protest. Yet these are
many and great. When thy histerio,
table fork of rude construction was
the instrument in general use there
were ne doubt mauy good reasons for
the habitual use of the knifis. But
the impl•ovemeu , of tlio fork has been
so rapid and it lias been hipiight to
such a degree ot perfection that all cx
euscs for the persistent use of the
knife havy long been made void. Tho
rules of good society, in sympathy
with the changes introduced by
science and invention, have decreod
that the fork should be the active im
plement at the table,while Ihe knjfe
aud the apoou are simply auxiliaries.
A Minnesota newspaper philosopher
recently undertook to make the use
ot the fork one of the tests of compar
ative civilization. He started at Bos
ton on an imaginary journey, where
full ninety percent, of the patrons al
hotels used the fork. This propor
tion gradually declined as he went
toward the setting sun until on reach
ing the mining ‘ amps Tcrrilo
i ics It did not exceed ten per. ocut.
This is, no doubt, a short-sighted con
clusion, but that it has much truth In
it any traveler may testify. It is a
mistake,however, to conclude that the
use of the knife is confined to Ameri
cans. The French are freest from
this breach of good manner#, the
English next aud the people of this
country iiext In artier. The Germans
at home arc tho worst offenders
against this canon of taste where a
table d’holc dinner gives the sojouru
erlhe impression that it is a sword
swallowing exlrbitlou.
*- L*<*.——
WHAT TUB J(JDOK MID.
11l scnlauciug a murderer to death
Judge Johnson, of California, made
use of the following language:
“Nor shall the place be forgotten In
which occurred the shedding of blood.
It was one of.llie thousand antg-ebam
berti of hell, which mar, like plague
spots, Ihe fair face of our Stale.
You need not be told that I mean
a tippling shop—the meeting place
of Satan’s minions, ami the foul cess
pool which by spontaneous genera,
lion breeds and matures all that is
loathsome and disgusting in profani
ty, and babbling, and vulgarity, and
Sabbath breaking. I would not be
the owner of a groggery for the price
of this globe, converted into precious
or*. For the pitiful sum of a dime
be furnished the poison which made
(hs deceased a fool and this trembling
culprit a demon. How paltry a sun
for two lives! This traffic Is tolerated
by law, and therefore the vender
committed an act not cognizable by
caitidy tribunals, but iu the sight of
Him who is unerring in wisdom, he
who deliberately furnishes the in
toxicating draught which inflames
men into violeuce and auger an:l
blood-shed is “particeps criminis" ill
the moral turpitude of the deed, Is it
not high tint* these sinks of vice and
crime should be held rigidly accoun
table toHie laws of the land; and
placed nndcr the ban of an enlighten
ed and virtuous public opinion ?”
a tkllkh embezzle* soo.ooo
Charles A. Hinckley, paying feller
of the West Side Bank, New York,
has einWzzled (96,000 of the bank's
runds and departed for regions un
known. The ctnbezzlemcn was dis
covered last Wednesday. Hr. Hinck
ley did not appear at the bank Wed-‘
nesday morning, and, not answering
to a summons sent to his house ou
East Sixty-eight street, it was sus
pected that something was wrong.
After business bears the books of the
bank Were overhauled and it was
tound that there was a large deficit,
the exact amount of which was not
ascertained till to-night, when the of
ficers of the bank concluded their
investigation.
fiui 1 Sifso.
Over hundred women now prac
tice medicine in ihe United Slates.
BIEL ARP ON >. t. N.
Eipresses His Opinion ot rfs.lij HU
i'ujirr. sod .Other lliius oflutoot.
friend sends use theToledo'Hlade
and trtarba- Nasbjrfe fast
on the South. My friend Is soujunad
about it and uses language." "Well, Jt
is aggravating to have onq of them
■fellers to come douffiberc and, by Unifi
ed atul toasted by onr aud
then go back home and write* pasael
oflies just to .please Ms newspaper
and tlio folkrf Wl>*~ ‘reSct iff' Bltt"'!
ThfllT flunk we ought to tak i
!*>**¥s** 'Xhtf do us to -hi Mi.
LerMAtiava'all the emigra tU-tf they
Manual htflor front tiino
ijunjeniorial has been done by negroes
only, and lifts been eoHsidcrcd disrep
utable in a. white man. Those eii
"graiits wTtriiot go to a country wTlfere
lie who plows, fows or reaps is coun
te*l as nothing better than a *d—<l nig
ger.’ All: this has to be changed be
fore Northern men or foreigners will
go southward.”
I don’t know Nasby. I doii’t knaw
whether lie is a knave or a fool, aud I,
don’t care. According to my 1 peculiar
views on emigration he hasn't done
the South nor me any harm, but nev
ertheless the lie isall the same, ant) if
emigrants uad Northern nten have
been kept away from us because they
believed that our laruierl didn’t
work, and that labor was disreputable
at the South, they must halve been
told so by just such plausible scrib
blers as Nasby. I walked ten miles
last Thursday in plowed ground,
dropping corn, with a lame back and
tho jerking rheumatism in my shoul
der, and when I got done I was in a
.sweat ef perspiration, and my neck
bone was iu a twist from looking one
way so long; but I never felt more
resectable in aiy life than when I sal
down to my turnip greens and tried
egg# for dm tier. 1 have uo idea that,
Nasby ever experiened er enjoyed
such respectability in jjis life and he
eughtent to proteud to be familiar
with such a subject. Iran say emphat
ically that labor is of all things the
most respectable thing among our peo
ple. IVc hare several able-bodied
individuals down here wlie don’t like
to work, but it is not because they
don’t respect it. It's because they
arc too lazy. They lack the iheliua
tiuu. I reckon there arc some of the
same sort every where, aud they will
resort to most apy tcspectabje
to keep froe* it.. Even to writing!]**
for uuwspuprrs. The fariue.■ ot fhc
South are her Mfeofcf*. Nfiie-teiiths
of them work with their hands and
work every day,and work hard. They
are the bone and sinew of the laud.
Three-fourths of (lie men who fought
our battles in the lale war were
working farmers, and their sons are
working now, and there is not a con
siderate father iu the South who
would not rattier his daughter would
marry one of them lhau to wed the
average young dectqr or lawyer, or
clerk of our towns and cities. I con
fess that niy curiosity is excited to
know whether Nasby inherited the
id*a honestly from his family alma
nac, or whether he made it up with
malice aforethought, qr whether he
got it from some oilier fool and lice a
tool believed it.
Nasby lias rovarnisbed tlio old pos
silliforous idea that the North had of
us before tiic war, that wc all owned
niggers and made them work and
didn't do any work ourselves. But
tlie truth was, not one man in twen
ty-five owned a nigger, and the mas
es of our population had to work or
starve. There was a small slave-hold
ing aristocracy and they didn’t work
with their hands no mere than the
money aristocracy of the North
worked. Kith folks don’t do mauua)
labor aaywtiers, but the war broke
up this aristocracy and leveled them
down and ihe hard working men
came to the front and took the lead in
everything. Tlio rich folks couldn’t
stand adversity like the poor. They
retired from the turf and common
stock took the track and have keft
it. This is the logic of events, the
swing of the pendulum.—Detroit
Free Press.
BOW BESSEMER BEGAT.
It was a chance remark at a gnu
trial in France that gave Henry Beas
tlier the idea of improving and
strengthening guu metal. lie incur
red an immense outlay. He built
furnace after furnace, be tried ma
chine after machine, lie took out pat
ent after patent, and he saw (liemon
ey lie liad amassed by" previous in
vsntioisfast nulling away. After
sundry partial screesses he fell Into
disrepute, and was being sneered at
by the mill manufacturers as an un
practical enthusiast, while the Wool
wich authorities had Wen snubbing
him as a matter of course. A few
months later Bessemer bad produced
steel worth from £SO to £6O )>cr
ton from iron that east him only £7.
“He coaid thea see in bis mind’s eye,
at a glance, the great iron industry of
the world crumbling away under the
irresistible force of tlie facts so recent
ly elicited.” “Fourteen rears after
ward these experimental works wi re
sold for exactly twenty-four times
the whole subscribed capital of the
firm, after returning fifty-sevenfold,”
and tlie manufacture lio originated is
now estimated to W worth no less
than £20,000,000 yearly.—London
Times.
WASHINGTON, fiiA.; FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1884
THE HEW REPORTER.
Why Btlklus Went Into the Urd
Business. "
'•ml? *hHP “wR* *? -•
A nrwrtporf?r is, a qpeer Jbeiifg..
a. brief ])4riod hie revels ill
bliss. iThe motnent he secures a pop
sitkmon if daily impbr he tjiiuks jlia,i
thecypiiof the world reijts
aiomwimb all that lio has to bb
reaftlTup with ne bind ana yank
rbj?fi*e]£fiJpSn Jhe jiodostal ef ftMafe. Jn
thq course of a tew months, however,
3te real(zes >U4t he mleda both bauds,
maf opinions, audj
J?oud feu t to the. old report ora hoy
easily the fee imjmgy'j^jMU
snrreuudings are novel, and in qqnss
qtienCe he werks liko a Trojan. If a
corner grocery burns down lit pic
ture* a scene iu two columns which
harrows the souls of men and makes
the eity creditor want to kljl liinjvhi
cold blood. He will speak ofthe lu
rid sky, and tha roaring flames lick
ing Its angry tongue, and all that kind
of.Stuif, aud when he sees next inora
iug-luuv Uie oily editor cut the whole
aytit-'lc dawn to, ten or fifteen Hues, be
ftebf surc flmt fhc entife stafi *ro jeal
ous of bis thrHling style of Writing,
atul wish to crush him., Tho city edi
tar sends him to report.a meeting, but
the people there wjll not admit him,
and the bare idea‘that they refused 1o
allow him to be present at the meet
ing is an insult which I>urlows its
way down to the roots of his flutter
ing soul, and he returns to the office
lowering with rage, lie flashes Ida
.eyes and pounds the air with* feofti
fiats like an untamed cavalier, and
roars for revenge, lie must have H.
The press must not bo' throtlled. It
cannot be ha long as he has strength
to wield a pen, so ha sits down with
.the hah'on his head bulged out like
the tail of an angry cat and eonimenl;
■ees his fierce attack. He write# uf
the Barrel-makers’Union as a Men 1
wart upon the body politics, lie
scolds everything connected with
barrels and their makers. He up
roots the barrel Bystcm, pitches into
the law, tears up the constitution,
flaps his coat-tails iu the face of the
President, wipes his bootson the cap
itol and points with pride and satis
faction to Bstijanii Franklin and the
flag. No, tliepross, the great guar
dian of the libertica of tho people can
atul will not lie, suppressed. When
pale with indignation, and reeking
with perspiration, he presentsliis ar
tffcle jo the city editor, that wm tbjH
ftinefionttry secs fifteen libels in it,
aud he merely swears around "the
flee until the lights go otlf. Bud they
have to putmoro water in the gasuac
ter.
An old reporter, however, never
dreams of acting iu such a way. If
he is detailed to report the meeting of
Ihe Barrel-makers’ Union, and they
refuse lo let him iu, he thanks tiic
Barrel-makers from the bottom of
his heart. Therefuial lets him out
of that much work, so he leafs the
evening away at the theatre, and
looks at Ihe pretty girls iu the dress
circle, and wonders if there will ever
bo one for him. The dear, s'.veet
delightful things.
Wo recollect when Bilkiua first
went to work on Die Post that lie bad
a craving to plunge right into the
middle of literature and making a for
tune in two weeks. One day lie car
ried a poem to tb* city editor, who
was ail old journalist witli a bald
head, three children, a skinny wife,
and a disposition so sour that it would
shrivel a crab apple. Tlie city editor
read tlie poem about a little child
gathering flowers by a babbling
brook, and then turned toßilkins and
said: “I see that you must have
mental recreation. Y*u have not
been connected more than a week
with tlio paper, but the strain on you
lias been se great that it lias dazed
your mind. You need rest. Go up
in the country and shoot jay-liirds
for a week, and you WilPfcel butler.”
ltilkins resigned his position on the
paper the next day, and is now iu the
lard basinets,—New Orleans Figaro.
A JOKE THAT TOOK ALL OVER THE
WORLD.
“Paper car wheels are composed
entirely ef paper-rings,pressed under
a weight *f six tons, and then Xante li
ed by means of bolls and steel |i**a
put tut them when tLcy are ready ft>r
use. Laid loosely, tlie lings slauil as
high aj the shoulders it any ordina
ry man. Under treatment tho sirtfc
thc thickness required. If tlie lire
should wear or fall •(!' they wheel, or
the train jump the track, there would
be no danger of their breaking, as
tiicy are flexible and would spring.
A paper hall can ho rendered so jol
id that nothing but a diamond tooh
can cause an indentation into it. At
the mill is a square block of eom
presfifcd paper fastened on a tuniing
lathe, and so hard that if a flue steel
chisel is held against ft when'it is
moving, instead of cutting the paper
it will break the chisel Into a hun
dred pieces. The strength is jgatpik,
ishing. You can lake a five-pound
note of the Bank of England, (wild it
into a kind of rope, suspend 830
pounds i pon oue end of it and It vfil)
uet injure it in the slightest degree.
Bath-tubs and pot* are farmed by
compressing the paper made oWt of
linen fibres annealed and that is
'p'ainted over with a composition?
1 which becomes a part thereof, and . hr
fire-prief. The lube last IfiMflififCly,
never leak tljeffiEe, ’♦tiff
not burn up. YjS'i 'can btttt dn them
with a Jiamjfier fejfil not injure them.
PtetoSieiipprcfejcd 'and annealed, are
durable; you cannot only wash, but
drop lhem upon tho floor i and stand
upon them. Tlio fork can bo uagfi
tor any particular pul-pose, and, the
knifecan feiSrays'bo'kepf sharp. Pa
per can be substituted for wood, coti'
ferted intOvpvptuic-fruDCSi and col*
ored like walnut, cherry, and the like.
Bedsteads are fashioned the sitmd
aa car-tvAboio, auiy of loug atrip* in
stead of (ingg. They are very beau
tiful and Mating. Cooking or hwrt
ing-stoyes are also animated audit ia
imposafbie* to burn them . ifijU,, 'k'bey
•to loia e*ttly .iriSM A b*u
cfen be Mte.-aliy constructed of and
furuisbed wtih ovory cvnvewlenee in
paper. The printing-press, type, and
all the fixtures ofthe office could be
concocted out of this Material, and
more cheaply than the ordinary kind.
A complete steam-ongine can be thus
manufactured aiid do ail required
duty, Glothes and shoes will come
m the future. Twenty-nine hours
are needed to transfer linen fibre into
a car-wheel.” -
Tho above article, originally pub
lished in the Couriol-Jeunial some
tour years ago, is the creation of Mr.
W. T. Rots, at the time connected
with the Bremaker-Moore Paper
Cos., of this city; and given to a green
reporter as “taffy” . The young
mail published ail tho facta (sic.) as
given him, swallowed the fork,knives,
steam engine, and all, and what Hr.
Ross imagined would never got fur
ther thau tbo managing editor’s
clutches was published entire; copied
all over the world; and now, after
four yca’tv wandering,comes back to
us from 'fiamdon.
II,,
pboiiibition ui gkorqia-
The temperance imminent in Geor
gia is atiraetiug attention iij other
Slates. D. K. beftsjj- knlrifßW
rotroleuin V. Nasby. in a recoht let
ter to Ilia papa*, tho Toledo (Unde,
spenks ortho movement in thoi high
est terms, this matter he thinks
tiiat Georgia is tojuihcad of many of*
the States whose newspapers and
stump orators take delight in criti
cising Goorgia civilization. Mr
Locke calls attention to the fact that
%of 137 count ies r #C the State have
declared tor prohibition, uml they
3 s W-Well-nigh free from the liquor In
fluence. Ho predicts that the renalu
ipg forty-two counties wiJJ toon fok
■lffW tlie example of the prohibition
counties. With respect to the eft'eet
•f prohibition counties it has been
startling. -‘Labor has been improved
100 per cent, and the condition of the
laborers 1,000 per cont. Men who
never worked but a part of tho week
now put in six good days, and those
who spent their in tire wages at the
doggeries, leaving their wives and
children to shift for themselves, are
now saving money, and are looking
forward hopefully to the time when
they shall own land themselves
something very easy to accomplish in
almost any pari of Georgia.”
Prohibition appears to mean a great
deal more in Georgia than it docs in
Maine. There Is certainly not so
much parade ovor it in the Southern
as in ilia Northern State. Notwith
standing liic vast amonnt of temper
ance work that has been done in
Maine the amount of intoxicating
liquor sold within its borders is enor
mous, and now when it is proposed
to put a prohibition amendment in
the constitution the ablest advocates
of temperance id the Slate rise up and
oppose it on the ground that it can
not be enforced, because public senti
ment is not ripe for it, Georgia, qui
etly and unostentatiously, and in a
comparatively short time, has done
more genuine temperance work than
Maine has, although Maine has been
posing for years before (lie country as
a great temperance Stale.
five ackki or burning oil. in
riiuDELpau.
A dispatch of tlio 241 h, say* : By
noon 14 tanks of oil were ablaze anil
several more were In great danger.
The flamc*Si,now spreap over an area
of live aero* and will very likely con
tinue to burn for several days. At
the same time it is considered under
control, that is Iho tlrcmeu feel confi
dent that they ean keep it confined to
the oil now burning. This was, how
ever, said at 4o'clock this morning,
and since then several explosions ltaye
taken place, and a change in the wind
may spread the flames to some unex
pected quarter. It is now said that
the loss will roach sCoo,tioo. Several
cannon have been placed in readiness
to use in tapping the tanks and draw
ing off their contents into the district
already burned over in case other
tanks are endangered. A ehangc of
the wind will greatly enhance the loss
and the difficulty of keeping the firo
within hounds. There is no insurance
in the regular insurance companies,
but the oil company carries a largo
.fund Cor, self-hisuriiKe.
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We have the largest and most varied
assortment oflamp goods ever brought
South- Parlor and hallLarope, Glass
and'frrkss Lamps,Rcfleciior'Lamps and
l.antcrir Shades, Bnmcrs, and Chim
neys. Yeu rvae a good profit in
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* McßaiDr & Cos., Atlanta Ga.
1 A DKSVEIfXnbs COWABDICD- „
About the year (1861, the ; most in
fluential man in SaAiAntatnio was an
alleged desperado named Beb Augifs
ttnv. Bob ea* t#'tean Aitfertto with
a fearful record] ‘He oil jo red the rep**
utatioa of having kiHed * dozen or so
•f men, and was respected according
ly.. White ho Was in Sap Antonio,
Jiodid nffi reduce tho census at *1),
but that was not his fault. He had a
seductive wav of drawing his eigli-
Arkajwaa toothiunk. tyjfi
examining it critically with a sinister
smile l while humbly requesting the
temporary loan of $5. Thiue it was
Chat Bob went about acquiring woaith
and,wam-porsoual friends, bill crea-
ting bo funerals. There wer- enmow
1 that BobiWat playing bluff, bt that
was after he had marched away.
It was during the reign of Bob -A
gustlne, “the long-ranged roarer of
Calaveras canyon,” as he familiarly
called himself, that a yonng man
(row Boston,named John Winlhrop,
came to San Antonio, pi-festanably in
search ofhoallli, os be broughV y.ery
little with him. He was far gone in
consumption, and nothing but the
fact that he had but a short time to
live, unless the climate of Western
Texas. Saved him, induced him to
come to San Antonio. As everybody
carried a pistol, Winlhrop did not
care to insult public decency by going
unarmed. Besides, such a course
might as seriously interfere with his
restoration to health as putting ou a
clean 'skirt. ,c>
His Puritan training caused Him to
revolt at the idea of carrying firearms,
so liq resorted to artifice. Ho wore a
holster, but instead of keeping a pis
tol in it; he had his cash funds stored
away in it, and nobody was the .wi
ser for it, On the contrary, Win
throp was looked tip to by tbo best
citiaon* just the same as if he, was
leaded down with deadly weapons-
Of course, everybody tried to make
the stranger from Massachusetts feel
as comfortable as-if he was at liotnc;
so he was told ail about Bob Augue
tiue, the ioug-rangod roarer, at least
ten times a day, and lie was advised
not to be particular in asking security
.for the debt in case the roarer wanted
to borrow a small sum, unless he
(Wintlirop) did w>t to regain
nis health.
As might have been expected, the
long ranged roarer called on Wiu
tlirep to collect his usual assessment
on strangers. WmUirep was of the
opinion that if it would save his life
undipi.. alitUi# money he would be
doing unusually well. The long
ranged rearer's idea was to chase the
blue bellied Yankee around llio room
far a time or so, collect $5 or $lO, and
perhapo make some ear marks ala
Whittaker, so he would know him in
a crowd if ho should meet him
again.
The long-ranged roarer saunterod
into Wiuthrop’s room at the hotel, but
before tho desperado could open his
mouth or draw a weapon, the unfor
tunate Yankee threw back ids coat,
and with trembling Ungers tugged at
hie pistol holster to get at bis money
to appease the would-be assassim On
the other hand, as soon as the roarer
saw Wintlirop trying to get out ids
pistol, he turned as pale qa a ghost.
The alleged desperado’s knees knock
ed together, the cold sweat boiled out
all ovor liim, and he extended his
hand ami said tremblingly:
“Don’t draw, good Mr. Yankee. I
was ouly trying to fool you. bold
Arkansas heart beats for you, mj
boy. I just wanted to teach ybu a
lesson. Never let any darned galoot
get the drop on you. Jf anybody in
suits you just tell them that Bob An
gustine, the roarer, is your friend.”
A I.OXO I.OST HUSBAND FOUND.
lltTani 11* Just In Tints It Prevent'
s Marring*.
Six years ago, says a Marietta (Ga.)
special to the Now Yerk Times, there
lived in a cozy country home at Bal
tic Creek, Jehn Maginuis, who had
hut a year before won the heart and
hand ef Miss EmiJy Uogers. A little
girl blessed the first year of their
married life. The young couple were
among the attendants at carap-’ueel
ing on Salem camp grounds in 1879.
One night revenuo officers entered (he
tent and arrested six men, among
whom was Jehn Maginuis, and ear-
ned them elite Atlanta en a charge
of illicit distilling. The yooug wife
was ill the greatest grief at the less
efhor husband, and the whole con
gregation was deeply stirred" bvwiraf,
ill their eyes, was a desecration ofthe
sacred, spot. Mr. John Hobkeutialt,
since dead, who was One of the
wealthiest citlzeus of Dawson county,
pioceeilcd shortly after lo Atlanta for
the purpose of giving bail foHhe ar
reeted Wen, Ga arrival there hi!
was told that Maginuis had , effected
kio escapo under a dozen ahstf tired"
by the-guards In the skirt ef woods
near Cnmining, hut that in the dark
ness of the night they fouiiil it impos
sihic to find him. A few weeks and a
month passed and no word came of
th* missing man, Mid at lash if was
believed that he must havebeen woun
ded, and, escaping to seme the
way place,die*. The young wife.hew
cver, clung to the belief ibat her bus*
band would ro-urn, until at last
there sensed no grotind left for liej e
(A yooug man who had" boon a for-'
merlover pressed bis suit; and at last
Mrs. Magineis agreed thaflf flojbing
was leaeuad of her husband tr*4f
she would listen to him. May came,
Z
-i .no'H j ej
s and mure id sorrowful I resignation
than in. joy, Mrs. Magiunis jjegap.
preparation* for her nuptials. On
Friday last a bearded man made liqs
appearance at her house, spd in.T hip)
sbS; found her long lost husband.
His story v.as- that he Was 'afraid that
jhp revenue officers- wnuid take Jjjgi
ajMjr. and going West lie got into the
cattle business in Montana. Neglect
to Write for a month madejlim asham-
ed to write lator, and thus years pass
ed until the woek before last, when
hating counted his possessions 'at
Helena, Montana, he found himself
worth $20,000. He then determind to
coble in person 1 tor Ml Wife (md. eUikf,
sssssmmm
instant bonus. W odT ?'.* “
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BITTEN BY A KATTUSBNAKB,
I A A arrow Escape from a Horrible Death.
. (S.viinnU News.)
On Sunday afternoon Mr. Charles
Fish, living at No. (if, President,
street, while gathering wild Fiowers
in tho wqodfi was bitten ia the right
leg just belgfw tbo calf, by a rattle
snake. Mr. Fish, with.groat presence
of mind,, made a turniquot of his
handkerchief, applying it above the
wound, thus stopping the upwatd
flow of the Virus, and made his way
to Montgomery, where lie drank a
considerable quanity of whiikey to
counteract the effect of the poison.
Dr. Faliigauf, who vyas spending the
uftzrnoOn at that place, was scut for
and tound the wounded man at the
railroad deport in a stupefied condi
tion. Ho oxamiued the bite and dis
covered tha# both flings *#r the snake
had entered the flesh, inflicting sma.il
bpt dangerous wounds. The Doctor
applied a poultice of tobacco to the
wound and dosed the patient with
more whisker. - 1
Mr. Fish was put abeard the cars,
and on the arrival of the train the
DtfeloV took ’ liiuo, to liis hoarding
At a lalfc hour last iiight the
wounded man. was still under tho
influence of stimulants, but was in a
fa}r way of recovery. it was a very
narrow escape from death, as it is
not often that a person bitten by a
rattlesnake, if ever so slightly, jives
long enough' to scolds home.
GRANT DEFBESSSO.
Tile Revelations Respecting the
Transaction of Ferdinand.
Wrt have rreqret.
ed Blm.
A gentleman who saw Gen. Grant 1
lI'FW ¥*ik tills Went*, says > Wash
ington Graphic special, sa/d he is
nttory broken down by tlie disclosures
which have followed tho failure of the
bank in Which he was interested, and
that tho sliook has shorten his life by
ten years. He talks freely about it to
his intimate friends, but keeps him
self seeludqd, and fears that he has
lost Die respect and confidence of th*
country. The General admits that
some of liia friends came to him
months ago and warned him that
VTard was an adventurer and was
using his name in an improper way,
but his confidence In the;young man
was so great that ho repulsed them,
and thinks he may have treated seme
of them coolly. He is said to bq so
sensitive obout iho matter that ho
does not read Iho newspaper and
knows but little oUhe magnitude of
the failure or tho extent of Ward's
fraudulent opci-atieng.
SOLDIERS’ HOME.
Baltiuobk, May. 24—A meeliag in
behalf of the efforts toestablisha hoaie
in Richmond, Va., for disabled and
destitute Confederate soldiers was
held in Ford’s Opera House to-night.
Governor Mohan presided and
speeches wers made by Speaker Car
lisle, ofthe Mouse of Representative,
Senator Colquitt, ef Georgia, Repres
entatives Calkins of Indiana, Goff, of
West Virginia, Herbert of Alabama,
Curtin of Pennsylvania,Skiner ot New
York,McGinnis of Montana, and Gen
eral Fitzhngh Lee. A letter of regret
received from General Roßecrans,thut
circumstances beyond his control
prevented him from being present.
Senator Gorman and Hon. J. L. Hud
ley. ef Maryland, were also present.
During next v eek performanced will
be given at Ford’s Opera House for
the bene lit ef the home.
He First TurmS Hot and Then Cold.
And now comes the drawing of the
capital prize of (25,000 in The Louis
iana State Lottery Company, on April
‘fill*,- drawing at New Orleans, of
which Isider Isaacs, of Modesto, has
been aw girded (9,000. Mr. Isaacs
was Id Siaii Francisco yesterday, *nd
said that a peciillaretffeum
stance in relation to his scenting the
ducky •WW. “Tti tlie first place,”
said he, ■•‘Merit f Ban Francisco ftr
a ticket in The Louisiana State Lotte
ry. I received Kb answer to my let-
ter, and so wrote again, requesting
him to send another or refund my
money. He Pent the ticket. No.
68,298, ftrr April Blh driwliig— the
lucky one—for it Was only a little
wliile before < received a dispatch that
l had won a (5,000 prize. Will, I
guess I felt about as any poor tnan
'dees Wh6 suddenly comes into
possession* of money like that. I
flint turned4iM and then eoid.” # j.
Boas cashed the check fbr the ’lucky
tt*n, who ffl#t the city’fbr Modesto in
high gleoHMr. Isaacs is a clothing
store keeper in Modesto, and has been
some Hard struggle*.—flan
Fra nctaco, <bltpfifcrewiole, Aprll.3o.
a > i judge R**k>>s WIFE.
A story that Cun Hardly be True.
rtisprUbalflo Chat Judge Reid, the
Kentuckian Who suicided last week,
wotilij Ipivcbjees aiiyo to-da/but for
tlie conduct of his wife toward him
TO-KttTOT’MMeuJI C.rneiT
aouv'tho. lmlly whoi’ horsewliipped
I I hi*, iteidtocakwtO Save >een a
bravo mmvbirt ho did wot approve of
! dueling;and he particularly deemed
ik be needs WsdlgnUyfs a Judge to
*nd a dmllesigOito a jaok-icglike tho
person who insulted him* He should
have had Hie sympathy and en
eomagemtttfc# Ms WifiHn his nohiil
:ty>- but he’ receive* neither. On the
eontraiypif newspaper riports are t
he credited)-h* B -Wife upbraided him
fur not. sUfliqg ‘.MatiUhnscientieua
. 6cl 'P , SfiJWid atiaff,ering the demands
of tho brutal code of honor. Held
survived the in-
personal
the sentiment
fgjtt mm •®°*
• when
Sri *“ ,ne “ tt *
pit fw a him, it is not to be
wonoerqd thy t his heart brokt and
that ho was anxious th die. There is
probably nobody who Whidd not pre
fer jo he Judgo Iti.d to ) his grave
than tlmTivipifeywifie who contributed
so largely t# the,uyrß> death— taking
it for granted, of course, that the
woman has a heart and a conscion
GARDEN OF BONN BOCKS.
A Columbia, S. C., correspondent
writes: Since tlie days of tne “forty
acresand a mule” dodgeif amonth has
passed away without some ridiculous
fraud being practiced upon tlie color
ed people here we toil to remember it.
Tlie latest and most absurd was
brought to light to-day, when a col
ored man with his eyes dancing with
delight, came in to shew me a treas
ure that he had just bought in the
shapo of “a rock from the Garden of
Eden.”
It looked like a siuall pieoo ef slats,
waadhighly perfumed with musk and
packedtis a small pasteboard box.
Ho. had bought it from awhile wom
an, w hot old him that she was from
the Garden of Eden, and was the on
ly-living- agent for the sale of the
rocks. She had thousands of them
ptit up in similar papor bdxes, and
sold them* through theoooiftt-y at 25
cents-each, She has sold several hun
dred in Columbia. The colored man
refused to soil the re*ktor-* ten times
its price. At; big Toklvai is'ln preg
4-ess among the colored Methodists of
this city, ami tlie aforesaid s enterpris
ing whilo woman is reaping a rich
harvest in the sale of her “Gtirden of
Eden rocks,” among These Sgmfranl re
ligious enthusVasto. - >
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Ths Masons of Philadeipbia have
at last been enabled to make good
-Aheit ctaim UmtrthOtrs ww to* moth
#r oil j,-of Freemasonry iu^-
arid Wins set at rest tbo pletto*Massa
chusetts, -for priority. The'ledger
books of Sb John’s Lodge; kept by
Benjamlu Franklin and giving a list
of members from Juue 24, 1731, to
June 24,1738, a still' vellum volum, all
in JFianklin’r owu liandwriting, is
now in tiie library of the Philadelphia
Historical Society!, having presented
to it by tieorgo T. .Ingham, of Salem,
N. J , who received;, it flrsm a
descendant of David Hell, .who was
Franklin's partner ita tho printing
business. It is welt preserved and
beats sn it toon itaevidenco as an ori
ginal record. It'is the Oldest Masonio
lodge bsok by tor in America. Tha
oldest existing lodge record book pre
viously known in Poirsjlvauia dates
back*only to 1707, and the oldest
lodge record book in -Massachusetts,
that of St. John's Lddge Boston, was
compiled and .written in 1751-2 and,
records events only from Jily, 1733,
when Masonry was established in
Massachusetts. The discovered record
antedates it two years.
THAT aiS.OOO FRIES
Drown bv Engineer Isaac Halnoo.
The lucky holder of one-fifth of
lieket 10,842, which drew the capital
prize of (75,000 in The Louisiana
State Lottery last Tuesday, it Mr.
Isaac llnines, the engineer of passen
ger engine No. 51, on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad- The gentle
man was interviewed at Chattanoo
ga last Wednesday, by aw attache of
the Times, and that journal on yes
terday had the following on the sub
ject : ‘“I’ll tell you bow it happened,'
raid Mr. Haines, ‘I happened to find
an old dollar bill in my pockctbook
when in Memphis last week, and,
while sauntering along the street,
concluded (0 buy a lottery ticket. I
put it away and thought no more of
it until thiri morning,, When a gentle
man showed me a 'telegram from
New Orleans', stating'that ticket No.
16.842 had drawn tlfe capital prize,
(75,000, In The Louisian# Slata'Lot
tery. Remembering that I had a
tiekcl r huffteitk uf>, Stid fßn ! nd 'that
it corresponded With the number
telegraphed: 1 Mr. Ifaihes is undeci
ded what ho will do with the money,
birtitvrill'birpilfto good tisfc, He has
been running an enginelui 'tlic item
phis read fourteen years,'rfrftTls field
iu high esteem by Ids employers. lie
4tas supported twb sister# aflri,ttn aged
father for years on Ids‘farm near
Stevenson, Ala. A few months ago
He was In a pool for# ttckbt the
same lottery and dhow # tkrg'ij" pyizo,
receiving SOOO for lils's&ib—Susm-
Ledger; s Uly H.‘
(Tho Nef York Journal of /.Com
merce closes a very sensible editorial
on the financial excitement with Ibis
jffiiprb, “It iodimo io* idiars to beep
aw#y from yie street camei*. Mdrier
all who are willing t. earn tfcolr
living to take off their coats and tgo
to work,”