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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 THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. • * " r .' ! ffi'.Mt!li\>*f.?'/ * ■**-*£* ’ , JUfrtf 1 fit;} flfHl rf fcfefi Nl jJ II '4W f JWI .'it fyf&l I fit *lf HI ,U (oA'an 2 fiftyt# <kl VOL. XIX. 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. mi ■ . ■ \ 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 '• rU ™‘"iW" * 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 ?'.* “ hr '*• * - ■■ •■■■ 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. - > - = ■- ■■■ 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,”