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i. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Central & Southwestern Railr'ds.
[All trains of this system are ran by Stand
ard (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minute*
ilower lLan ume kept by city.]
Savannah. Ga., Jan. 24 1886.
ON AND AFTER THU DATJ3 PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run a*
follows:
GOING NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 53
Savannah.. .D 8 40am.. D 8 11pm
Leave No. 16—
D 5 40 p m..
Arrive No. 15—
Mil!en D 8 45pm..
Arrive No. 51— No. 53
Augusta D 3 45 p m.. D 6 15 a m
Macon D 4 20 p m.. D 3 20 n m
Atlanta D 9 35pm.. D 732 am
Columbus.. .D 6 23am.. D 215 pm
Perry DJ:B 845 pm.. DE> 12 00 in
. Port Gaines DES 438 p m
Blakeley DES ' 7 10 p m
Eufaula D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 245 p m
Montgomery D 0 7 25 p in
Mi.ledgevilleDES 549 p m
Eatonton .. .DES 740 p in
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Align ta —Trains 51 and 53 connect with
outgoing trains-of Georgia ia Ir od,Co:un.b a.
Charioite and Augusta lliilroa l, and Sour, i
Carolina Railrond. Train 53 conn rt- with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxvt e ltai.-
road. Train 51 connects wiih trains 1 r Syi
rania, Wrightsville and L u *vi le.
At Atlanta—l rams 51 ami 53 counec with
4i -Lino and Kennesaw routes to a.I ] o.uts
North and E st, and with ail diverging toad*
for local stations.
COMING SOU ITT.
Lem—Nos. Nos.
M-iten...l6D 5 00am..
Augusta. 18 D 9 3unt..2lD 9 30 pm
D 9 40 a m. 54 D 10 59 p ni
Atlanußls2 D 6 o>am.s4D GSO p m
i Jolunib's 2u D 900 p m.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Poriy. ...24 DE > 600 am.. 22 DES 300 pm
Kt. Gaines 21 ** 10 05 am
Blakeley 26 “ 815a in
Entail a 2D 10 55 am
Al ny .. 4 D 410 a m.. 2• i> 12 15 p m
Montg’rv 2D 7 40 a m
Mill’og’ve 25 DES 6 37am
Et ton ton 25 DES 5 15 a m
Airive—No.
savannah 16 D 805 a in.. No.
rarannahs2 1) 407pm..54D 6 0) a m
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western It i wty for ail po.nts in
Fiords.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to tak€
on or put off pissen;. rs between Savannah
mid Mil en. as trains No ; . 15 an l 16 aro ex
pected to do the way business between these
poms.
Local sleeping cars on all n ght passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Sa an
nah and Mac >n, Savannah and Atlanta, M icon
and Columbus
Tickets for a | points and sleeping car berths
on sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS.
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Snpt, Savannah.
PC. Shvw, W. F. SHEL .MAN,
G.n. Trav. Agt. Traffij Manager,
Savtimah. Or.
JD,” daily, daily except Sun lav.
A Lively Deer Hnnt.
“Among the visitors at the Turf Con
gress in Chicago,” said a well known
railroad man, “was a celebrated horse
man, who, in his early day. destroyed a
vegetable garden. He had then, as he
has now, headstrong enthusiasm in car
rying a point. He had been out on the
prairies in Central Illinois, and had cap
tured a fawn. He carried it in front of
him on his horse for several miles to one
of the few farms then in sight of Little
Towhead Grove. The lady of the house,
had a splendid garden, surrounded by a
high picket fence, and she was very
proud of the garden and the fence.
‘ The wild fawn was turned loose in
this garden, and at her suggestion the
dogs on the place were called up, with
the idea of making them understand that
the fawn was not to he disturbed. Hut
an old veteran deer-dosr, who through
many years had been educated in catch
ing everything in the shape of a deer,
came up at a bounding gate, and, with
out waiting for introduction or cxplana
t:on, made a jump at the fawn’s throat.
This unexpected move threw the fawn
rnd my sporting friend and the entire
family, gathered into a group near him,
into a panic.
“The fawn went across an onion bed
in one frightened jump,and the dog after
it. The expert horseman went after the
dog, and the several members of the
family followed him, all screaming and
calling at the top of their voices. There
was a long chase over onion beds, over
pea vines, through cabbage plants, over
strawberry beds, and for full ten minutes
that group of women and children, under
the leadership of the dog and man, went
about the garden, leaving a wide swath
of' destruction with every round they
made. At the very crisis of the struggle
the me.n, who is now a dignified patron of
the turf, struck at the dog with a long
plank that he had torn from the fence.
“The result of this experiment was
simply astonishing. He missed the dog,
knocked over two of the boys at the tail
end of the procession, and fell himself,
head down and heels up, in the network
of poles and supports of an onion bed.
He was wedged in in such a way as to be
ns securely a prisoner as though he had
been bound and manacled. In fact, the
whole detachment, including the dog,
deer, women and children, were exhaust
ed. The lady of the house lay on the
ground, holding in her arms the panting
deer dog; one of the young ladies held
in her arms, with her apron about it, the
panting fawn, and the man whose pride
it was to master a horse or a dog under
any and all circumstances, lay panting,
with heels up, in an onion bed.”
Two Under nn Umbrel’n.
They were walking together under a
very little umbrella, and she liked him
well enough not to want a large spread
ol ulapnea. He was modest, and seemed
to be nervous, and she finally remarked
very softly, and with a note of interroga
tion :
“Charley, I’ll carry the umbrella if
you’ii'iet me.”
“Oh, no! I can carry it.”
“Yes, Charlie, but you see your arm
takes up so much room that one side of
me is out in the wet.”
“I know that. Fannie, but what will/
3o,with my arm? Won’t it bo in th
way just the same?”
■ ‘.‘l don’t know, Charlie. Jesse Clan’
always knows what to do with his arr
when he is walking under an umbveH.
with Mary Martin, because Mary told me
so.— Baltimorean.
Thb pleasing ceremonies of polite peo
ple are. liable to be about two-third<
show, jet are about as near the golden
gate as mankind ever gets.
(The Petti and Jitonct.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
Til® New York police had a short but sav
age fight with striking employes of the Third
Avenue Horse-car company who attempted
to prevent a car from running and beat its
driver and conductor. Seven men, all of
whom had received a clubbing, were arreste I.
This occurred on the 19th, nnd on the2oth all
the hone-car lines excepting the Third
avenue were running again, the strikers hav
mg resumed work.
Conversation "it , carried on between
-e" York and Chicago a few days since by
means of an improved telephone. The dis
tance by wire is 1,020 miles.
John Carpexteb, confined in the New
York Tombs under senten e of death for
wife murder, committed suicide by cuttin- T
his throat.
The body of Leopold Scbenck, editor of the
German edition of lurk, was incinerated at
the Mouut Olivet crematory on Long Island
the other morning.
Thirteen members of the New York
Bakers’ Union have been indicted bv the
Grand Jury for boycotting Mrs. Gray’s
bakery. They were all arrested, and gave
bail. The remit of the boycott has been a
large increase in Mrs. Gray's business, per
sons sending money to her from long dis
tances.
Several fatalities from lightning during
severe thunder sferms occurred on the 20th.
At Pottsville, Penn., a young man nnd sev
eral mules were killed. Four little girls in a
public school at Freeland, Penn., were in
jured, one fatally. James Manly, driver for
a colliery at Shenandoah, Penn., was struck
dead, and Rev. A. M. Child, a Methodist
minister, was painfully injured at Weitern
ville, N. Y.
The City National bank, of "Williamsport,
Penn., has suspended.
For the second time a New York jury has
disagreed upon the trial of General Alexan
der Shaler, of the State militia, who is
charged with bribery in connection with the
selection of an armory site.
The Grand Army of the Republic of the
Stateof New York, represented by delegates
from 590 pcs's throughout the State, opened
its twentieth annual encampment in New
\ ork city < n the 22d. A parade was the
feature of the day’s ceremonies.
Tnn New Jersey Senate, sitting as a court
of impeachment, by a vpte of fourteen to
seven, found P. H. Lavorty, keeper of the
State prison at Trenton, guilty of two serious
charges in connection with his management
of his office. He was deprived of his place
and forever disqualified from holding office.
Two men were crushed to death by the
fall of a derrick at Lancaster, Penu.
The grandfather of Miss Folsom, the fu
ture bride of President Cleveland, is reported
in a Buffalo dispatch to have stated that th
laly is in Europe selecting her wedding
garments, and that the marriage will take
place in June.
A fire on Broadway, New York, de
stroyed business property valued at $500,0J0.
Mrs. Josephine Landgraf, a New York
bakoress, who has been boycotted by the
Union, has beenreceiviugconsiderable finan
cial aid from sympathizing persons all over
tho city.
Three successive collisions between police
men and a crowd of strikers occurred on the
22d in front of the Havermever Sugar Refin
ing Company’s factor}', Gireenpoint, Long
Island. The 2,000 employes of the concern
ha<l struck for in"reased wages the day be
fore. Five policeman aud many strikers
were wounded, one of the former having his
skull fractured.
E. Remington & Sons, of Ilion, N. Y.
the well-known gunmakers, have su&
pended.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Some of the striking Knights of Labor on
the Southwestern railroads have returned tc
work. Vice-President Hoxie, of the Mis
souri Pacific road, reported on the 19th that
the places of nearly all the strikers had been
filled.
The Knights of Labor have been oreaniz
ing negro assemblies in Arkansas and Texas.
At a meeting of the officers of the different
raib'oads entering St. Louis it was deter
mine! to continue operating their reads with
out the assistance of the strikers and without
recognizing the Knights of Labor.
Two Mexicans, charged with horse steal
ing, were shot to death by a mob While
in a constable’s custody at Collins, Texas.
The Knights of Labor are calling out theii
men in factories which 1u- nish supplies to
the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
WASHINGTON.
The House Committee cm Alcoholic Liquor
Traffic l.y a vote of ti to 5 ordered an adverse
report on Reprereniative Taulbee s bill to
provide that no pei sou shall be licensed as a
retail dealer in intoxicants by the United
states until he lias first received a license as
such from the local authorities.
The Seventh regiment, Now York State
militia, arrived in Washing-tun from tho
metropolis on the 19th, and was received
with large crowds, much enthusiasm, music
and fireworks. The excursion was taken by
the regiment in commemoration of its first
journey to tho national capital at the out
break of the war twenty-five years ago.
Mr. Fowdeuly. General Master Work
man of the Knights of l ab >r, appeared be
fore the House special committee of investi
gations on the 20tli aud gave his version of the
labor difficulties in the Southwest He de
clared that the railr ad companies there did
not keep their agreements with their em
ployes, and that undoubted cause of discon
tent existed.
Jay Gould testified on the 22d before the
House Committee engaged in au investiga
tion of the labor strikes in the Southwest.
He gave a long account of the troubles from
his standpoint, charged Mr. Powderly with
distorting facts and placing him in a wrong
light, and asserted that bo believed in arid’
ti ation, but would not recognize the Knights
of I abor as such.
The court of inquiry into the recent Ore
gon disaster, held at Liverpool, has exon>
lated the owners and officers of the sunken
steamer from all blame.
Foreign.
Later reports put the number of porsous
killed at the fire which destroyed the town of
Stry in Austria at forty, most of thorn chil
dren. Alter the fire rnouy of the shops were
pillaged, aud some of the owners in their de
spair committed suicide.
Much opposition is being developed
throughout Great Britain to Premier Glad
stone's plan for Irish home rule.
Duke df. Castries, a wtfll known French
sportsman and owner of race horses, is dead.
Late news from Greece was decidedly
warlike, and it was l'eared that hostilities
against Turkey might begin at any moment,
notwithstanding the intervention of the great
Dowers.
lii (Rood Demand.
Miss Clara—“And so you really think
bangs are becoming to me, Mr.
Featherly?”
Mr. Featharly—“Vastly so, Miss Clara,
vastly so.”
Miss Clara—“But they -are getting so
common. Everbody wears them.”
“Mr. Featherly—“Yes, so I under
stand, A fashion note I saw in a paper
recently stated that hair dealers were
scarcely able to supply the demand.—
Neu York Sun.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY ti, 1886.
TROUBLED LABOR.
THE PRESIDE XT'S SPECIAL MES
SAGE TO CONGRESS.
Recommending the Creation of a Commis
sion for Settling Disputes.
The President has sent the following: mes
sage to Congress on the subject of the la bo.
troubles.
2o the Senate ami House of Representative >v
The Constitution imposes on the President
the duty of recommending to the consideia
lion of Congress from time #> time such
measures as he shall judge necessary aud ex
pedient. , i
lam so deeply impressed with the impor
tance of immediately aud thoughtfully meet
-ing the problem which recent events aud a
present condition have thrust upon us.
involving the settlement of dispute*
urising between our laboring men ani
their employers, that I am con
strained to recommend to Congress leg
is.’atiou upon this serious aud pressing sub
ject. Under our form of government the
value of lalxr a> an element of national
prosperity should be distinctly recog
nized and the welfare of the laboring man
should he regai d.d as especially entitled b
legislative eaie. In a country which offers
to all its citizens the highest attainment
of social and political distinction its working
men cannot justly or safely be considered a
irrevocably cc nsigned to the limits of a class
nnd entitled to no attention and allowed no
protest against neglect. r J he laboring man.
bearing in his hand au indi-p nsable contri
bution to our growth and progress, may well
insist, with manly courage nnd as a right,
upon the same recognition from those
who make our laws a* is accorded to any
other citizen having a valuable int-ere.t in
charge, and his reasonable demand should be
met in such a spirit of appreciation and fair
nessasto induce a contented aud patriotic
co-operation in ihe achievement of a grand
national destiny.
While the real interests of labor are not
promoted by a resort to threats and violent
manifestations, aid while those who, under
the pretext of an advocacy of the claims of
labor, wanten y attack the rights of capi
tal, and for selfish purposes or the love
of disorder sow seeds of violence and discon
tent, should neither be encouraged nor con
ciliated, all legislation cn the subject should
be calmly and deliberately undertaken, with
no purpose of satisfying' umcasouable de
mands or gaining partisan advantage.
The present condition of the relations be
tween labor and capital are far from satis
factory. The discontent of the employed is
due iu a large degree to tho grasping and
heedless exactions of employers and the
alleged discrimination in favor of < apital as
an object of governmental attention.
It must also be conceded that
tho laboring men are not always
careful to avoid causeless and unjustifiable
disturbance. Though the importance of a
better accord between these interests is ap
parent, it must be borne in mind that any
effort in that direction by the Federal gov
ernment must be greatly limited by constitu
tional restrictions. lucre are many griev
ances which legislation by Congress cannot
redress and many conditions which cannot
by such means be reformed.
I am satisfied, however, that something
may be done under Federal authority to pre
vent the disturbances which so often arisa
from disputes between employers and the em
ployed and which at times seriously threaten
the business interests of the country,
and, in my opinion, the proper the
ory upon which to proceed is that of
voluntary arbitration as the means of
settling these difficulties. But I susgc s , that,
instead of arbitrators chosen in the heat of
conflicting claims and after each dispute
shall arise, there b? created a Commission of
Labor, consisting of three members who shall
be regular officers of tho Government,
charged among other duties with the consid
eration and settlement, when possible, of all
controversies between labor and capital. A
commission thus organized would have the
advantage of being an able body and its
members as they gained experience would
constantly improve iu their ability to deal
intelligently and usefully with the questions
which might be submitted to them. If arbi
trators ai e chosen for temporary service as
each case of dispute arises experience an 1
familiarity with mn'b that is involved in
the question will be lacking, ex
treme partisanship aud birs will be
the qualifications sought on either side,
and frequent complaints of unfairness and
partiality will be inevitable. The imposi
tion upon a Federal court of a duty foreign
to the judicial function, as tho selection of
an arbitrator in such cases, is at least of
doubtful propriety. Tho establishment by
Federal authority of such a bureau would be
a just and sensible recognition of tho value
of labor and of its right to be represented i>i
the departments of the Government.
So far as its conciliatory offices bad rela
tion to disturbances which interfered with
transit aud commerc e between the States, its
existence would be justified under the provi
sions of the Constitution, which gives to
Congress the power “to regulate commerce
with foreign nations and among the several
States.”
And in the frequent disputes between the
laboring men and their employers of lets ex
tent, aud the consequences of which are con
fined within State limits aud threaten do
mestic violence, the interposition of such a
commission might be tendered, upon the ap
glieation of the legislature or executive of a
tate, under the constitutional provision,
which requires the general government to
‘‘protect” each of the States ‘‘against domes
tic violence.”
If such a commission wore fairly organized
the risk of a loss of popular support and sym
pathy, resulting from a refusal to submit to
so peaceful an instrumentality, would con
strain both parties to such disputes to invoke
its interference and abide by its decisions.
There would also be good reason to hope th it
the very existence of such an agency would
invite application to it for advice and coun
sel, frequently resulting in the avoidance of
contention and misunderstanding.
If the usefulness of such a commission is
doubted because it might lack power to en
force its decisions, much encouragement is
derived from the concede! good that has been
accomplished by the railroad commissions
which have been organized in many of the
States, which, having little more than advi
sory power, have exerted a most satisfactory
influence in tho settlements of disputes be
tween conflicting interests.
In July, 1884, by a law of Congress, a
Bureau of Labor was established aud placed
in charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who
is required to “collect information upon the
subject of labor, its relations to capital, the
hours of labor and the earnings of laboring
men and women, aud the means of promot
ing their material, social, intellectual and
moral prosperity.”
The commission which I suggest could
easily bo engrafted upon the bureau thus
already organized by the addition of two
more commissioners and by supplementing
the duties now opposed upon it by such
other powers aud functions as would per
mit the commissioners to act as arbitrators
when necessary between labor and capital
under suelf limitations and upon such occa
sions ns should be deemed proper nnd useful.
Power should also be distinctly conferred
upon this bureau to investigate the causes of
all disputes as they occur, whether submitted
for arbitration or not, so that information
may always he at hand to aid legislation ou
tlio subject when necessary anil desirable.
GHOVEiI CI.KVKf.AND,
Executive Mansion. Amil 22. ISSG.
I will bet my la3l dollar on tenacity.
It is a legitimate pcrsecu ion. It ,vill
even make Canada thistles pine for death
as a release.
It is not creditable for a dog even to
bite the hand that feeds it. How to ex
cuse man for tfie same thing is what
puzzles me just now.
THE PAN ELECTRIC MUDDLE,'
’ '■ 1
GARLAND BEFORE THE INVESTI
GATION COMMITTEE.
The Attorney-General Explains His Re
lations to the Telephone Company.
Attorney-General Garland testified befort
tho Pau Electric Telephone Investigation:
committee of Congress at Washington on th<
19th. As soon as he was sworn Mr. G arland
put in evidence his statement made to the
President and his Cabinet last October con
cerning his connection with the Pan Electric
Company. He said that as far back
a* February, 1883, Mr. Atkins, the
present Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sug
gested that witness, being a poor man like
himself, ought to eater into the Pan Flectri:-
enterprise. Mr. Garland replied he had
never ma le auy money except at law ami
poker, and at poker he frequently lost, and sc
ne heiit ite 1 about going into the company
Subsequently he met Senator Hai ris, Caso\
Young, Mr. Atkins and Dr. Rogers at tin
latter’s house, where they talked about the
general idea of organization of the Pau Elec
trie company, and he concluded to go into it.
When, later on, parties urged him as Attor
ney-General to bring a suit against the Bell
company by the government he at once
refused to do so. lie had looked into the
matter carefully, nnd conclude 1 that owing
to his interest in the Pan Electric company
he could not and would not touch it.
Mr. Garlanl de dared the organization of
the Pan Electric company simply an under
taking by five or six impecunious men whe
wanted to better their condition in a legiti
mate business enterprise. He never intended
to use his official position (being then a
United State* Sera tor) in the interest of the
company. The original stockholders had paid
in their assessments and went ahead
in a proper manner to bring out
Roger’ invention. They had never tried
to boom the business. He for one took ho’d
of it as a legitimate business venture, and
regretted that it had not turned out better.
He ha l never looked into the question of the
legality of issue of t-lie Pell patent. He re
gnrded th? Rogers patent as au improvement
over the Bell, and as no infringement
against the Bell, and therefore patentable:
but he did uot. waut to be drawn into a dis
cussion about the validity of the Bell patent.
Van Benthuysen and others, Mr. Garland
said, came to him in July, 1885, representing
sime t le phone interests, and asked him as
Attorney-General to bring suit in the name
of the government. He simply told them
that he could not have anything to do with
it, as he was a stockholder in the Pau Elec
tric company, a rival of the Bell company.
That was the last talk he had with any
body about it until after his return
from Arkausas, and tho thing had gone out
of his mind until he received a dispatch in
Little Ro k from parties in Now Orleans in
forming him that he was being coni pi imented
for l aving directed a suit to be brought
against the Bell company. He never told
anyone that in his absence an application
cou 11 lie ma le to the Solicitor Gene~*l.
He never mentoned the fact to Mr.
Goode that an application for a suit
was on file, in fact, never mogjjpned tele
phone matters to Mr. Goode until after his
return from his Arkansas trip. Mr. Gar
land denied positively that ho timed his visit
so that he might be away from Washington
while the Solicitor-General was considering
the application. He made arrangements to
go six weeks before leaving. He went
tj Arkansas, as had been hi* practice for a
number of yea *s, in the month of September,
when deer were m season, and as he went
for recrent'on and to get awnv from
business, from letters and papers, he directed
that none bo sent to him at Hominy Hill,
v hera he spent the month. Hominy Hill,
the Attorney-General said, was fifteen miles
from Little Rock and seventeen miles from
anywhere else, and ho never heard a
word mentioning his name in connec
tion with ordering the government suit until
the 27th of September, when he returned to
Little Rock. In reply to a question Mr.Gar
land said that at the time his name was first
mentioned, and subsequently, nothing was
said to him by anyone about the ofiice of
Attorney-General being advantageous to the
Pan Electric company. “I never dreamed
of such an idea, and I have never tried, and
never thought of trying, to use the office or
its powers to benefit the Pan Electric com
pany.”
Mr. Garland could see no impropriety in
taking the interest he had taken in the com
pany. Other government and Congressional
o Tu-crs were interested in all kinds of pri
vate enterprises.
curing tiis cross-examination by Mr. Rnn
ney, the Attorney-General stated that hearted
as attorney for tno Pan Electric company to
the extent of examining and iu soineinstauces
making papers aud documents. He often
met gentleman conue ‘ted with the Fan Elec
tric company in his committee-room of the
Senate; but there never was a meeting of
the company held in his room. Mr. Garland
reiterated that he had refused to converse
upen matters relating to suits against the
Bell company since he assumed the duties of
his present, ofiice.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The museums all over the country appear
to be doing well.
The New York theatres gave no perform
ance on Good Friday.
Verdi h*s been at work on his opera fci
five years, and it is not yet done.
Engagements for 210 performances for
next season have been mode by Edwin Booth.
Congressman lianback,of Kansas, tes'flea
having a >hmey bald head, is said to be gifted
with a cultivate l Lnor voice.
Anna Russell, a charming Limer ck
singer, has raptured all London with the
sweetness of her face and voice.
There are said to be 000 American girls
studying music in Milan alone, and hundreds
of others in other Italian cities.
M iozL, n popular singer in Vienna cafes
chantants, receives for every night’s per
formance 500 florins— a little over
Iris now settled that Mine. Nilsson will
come to this country next season. She has
signed an engagement with Max Strakos *h.
Some charitable actresses in London have
starto I the c ustom of sending all the flowers
they ret eive over the footlights to th hos
pitals.
B. L. Farjkon, the English novelist, is
writing his first play, which, when com
pleted, will be submitted to an American
manager.
Queen Victoria rent the royal coach to
the stat.on to meet Lisst, the great pianist,
when he visited Windsor. This is an excep
tional honor.
Pauline Lucca made her first appear
nn e in Vienna after her.long illness in the
opera of “Carmenand Mas received with
great enthusiasm.
Among the theatrical treasures that went
down iu the Oregon were the score of “ The
Harbor Lights” music, and a transcript of the
new play, “Si-tor Mary.”
Myron W. Whitney, the famous basso,
receives SOOO per week for singing in the
American opera, and has renewed his engage
ment for next year at an advancod salary.
Chicago has a rising genius in the per
son of an eighteen-yea’’-ola colored boy who
played Glost r in “Richard Ilf. ’ ie?ently in
that city and received the encomiums of the
press for his performance.
The composer who has written most operas
is Pacini \* ho counts 115, including cantatas
and oratorios. Next to him Donizetti has
written 00, Mercante 00. Auber 14, Rossini,
150, Halevy 32, Ricei 28, Verdi 27, Potrella 24.
Mozart 16, Meyerbeer 15, Gouppd 11: Bellini
10, and Wagner 14.
BASE BALL HOTES.
There are seven left-handed batters on the
Detroit Leagu) nine.
A high laced shoe is the best for ball play
ers, made on the English walking shoe last.
Tiie railroad fares of the League and Asso
ciation will loot up to nearly SoO,UOO this sea
ton.
Johnny Ward hasn't forgotten how to
run the ba es, according to reports from New
York.
TriE Southern papers say that Twitehell.of
the Detroits. is the graceful pitcher ever
seen down there.
Purcell, of Atlanta, and Dickerson, of
Chattanooga, are the oldest ball players in
the Southern League.
The Piii’a lelplTa (National League) won
the local a h.impionship from tho Athletics
(American Association).
The Atlanta (Georgia) people are of the
opinion that their dub has a walk-over for
the Southern League pennant.
The eight leading organizations will
employ over .-even hundred players, whose
salaries will aggregate SBOO,OOO.
All St. Louis has actually worked itself
into the beli f that the Maroons can and will
win the National League ieunaut.
All the Southern League games are draw
ing big crowds, aud interest in the contest is
greater even than it was last sea ion.
It is said that the players of the Metropoli
tan Amciieau Ass.m iati u Club have leen
promis 'd S2OO each if they win the pennant.
The pitchers seem to be getting the bettei
of the batsmen as much as ever, and big
strike-out records are of almost daily occur
rence.
Roger Connor is batting in a style which
indicates that if not at the top of the league
batsmen again this year, he won't be very lai
down the lis7.
Every club in the International League
has already set forth its claim for the pen
nant, an 1 eaph on* has prove 1 conclusively j
that it will win the championship.
The New York Herald thinks the New
arks will win the championship of the Eastern
Langue without putting themselves to much
incouveuieuce. Hartford demurs.
The Chicago and Philadelphia clubs did
not lose a game houlb. The Chicagos’ j er
formance is the more creditable because they
played many more games with different
clabs.
A New York paper asserts that “Finley,
of the Columbia College team, is considered
by many to be the best amateur catcher iu
t*.o country. He is certainly far ahead of
many professionals.”
Dealers in baseball supplies report the
largest business ever known, which would
indicate that tho game is steadily gaining
favor, and that this will be one cf the best—it
not the best—season on record.
The base-stealing record seems to have
stirred even the most sluggish players up,
and men now run to second whom previously
nothing could coax further away than two
feet from first base but a safe hit.
It is proposed to organize a North Georgia
base ball league, comprising the Madison,
Washin:ton, Lexington, Harmony Grove,
University and Athens clubs, together with
su h clubs os wish to join the league.
A colored ball league has been
formed at Jacksonville, Fla., including Mem
phis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ma ou, Augusta,
Charleston, Savannah, St. Augustine, Mont
gomery aud other Southern cities.
Kent Howard, who was the leading bat
ter of the New England League, and for that
reason was signe 1 by the St. Louis National
League Club, has discovered how difficult it
s to maintain a minor league reputation in
the fast company of a big league.
Tiie propose 1 Virginia State League ought
to boa success, considering the popu'ation of
the cities which propose entering, viz:
Lvnchbtrg, with 28,0911 inhabitants; Dau
ville, 20,009 Richmond, 80,000; Norfolk,
85,000; Stanton, 12,000, an! Roanoke, 11,000.
The Eetroits are the biggest set of men
ever gathered into one team. Manning being
the only raecliom-siied man in the team. In
Brouthers, YVhite, Thompson and Twifcchell
the team has giants, while Rowe, Richard
son, Hanlon and Bennett are very large,
heavy men.
The have followed Washing
ton’s example, buried a horse-shoe under the
home plate for luck aud then went to New
York aud allowed the Giants to beat them
14 to 0. Meanwhile the Washingtons are
<at -hing it right to loft. The horse-sh o
theory doesn't seem to pan out at all in
practice.
The St. Louis Republican says: “Bauer,
of tiie Maroons, is perhaps the most muscular
ball-player in the profession. During oue of
the re rent games at Sportsman’s Park, some
cue in the crowd where Bauer was standing
made an insulting remark about the Maroons,
and Bauer almost irale a hi le iu the fence
with him.”
A number of Atlanta players have al
ready been lieavifv fined for drunkenness
ou t late hours. Managing Director Ryan
admits this aud says: “1 will do it .again
whenever they break the rules. They know
th • rules, and they know the consequences of
breaking them. Our team can play ball and
it has pot to play ball. ”
THE WORK OF DYNAMITE.
ine of Tlic Fluent < lmreb Buildings iu
Vladri-i Wrecked.
The city of Madrid, Spain, was startle 1 a
few mornings ago by one of the most das
tardly outrages conceivable. Just as the peo
ple were preparing to leave their homes for
church services the sound of an explosion was
heard from the direction of the Church
of San I.uis. A number of people
who happened to bo in the neighborhood
reached the spot, and it was d'seovere 1 that
a cowardly outrage had been perpetrated.
The whole building was scattered with
debris, the altar demolished, and two sex
tons, who were in the edifice at the time of
the explosion, were discovered in on insen
sible condition. As soon as the men were
able to speak, it was found that an explosive,
supposed to be dynamite, bad been place 1 in
one of the large candles which stand on
either side of th ■ grand alter, but the explo
sion, instead of takingnla e while the. hnrch
was crowded, as prol ably intended, occurred
before the people began to arrive
for the service. The building was
badly wrecke 1 and for a time was
filled with smoke and flying pieces of wood,
plaster and ornamentation Urn from iur
rounding objects The two sextons were
badly burned and unable to give auv clue ns
to the wretch who had committed the out
rage. Naturally this occurrence, following
so t oon after the murder of the Bishop of
Madrid on the steps leading into
the Cathedral of Ban Isidore, Ims
caused the mo t intense excitement through
out the city. During the day the scene of
the disaster wax visi.ed by crowds of curious
people, who expressed their indignation in
loud and fierce denunciations of the tinknown
scoundrel who had w recked one of Madrid's
finest buildings. _
A Capable Race,
Young Mr. Wrayburn Snaggs Thorn
dyke Wynn, of England, was dining re
cently with Mr. and Mrs. J. Bleecker
Aten Montmorency, of upper Fifth ave
nue.
“Are you an Englishman?” suddenly
inquired the youngest Anglomauiac of
the household.
"Yes,” laughed young Mr. AV. 8. T.
AVynn. “Don’t you like Englishmen?”
“Oh, yes,” was the response. “Our
butler is an Englishman. Mamma says
Englishmen make the most capable
house servants in the world.”— Harper's
Boaat.
hAUH AND VS’OHKS.
bo answer comes to those that pray.
And idly stand
And wait for stones to roll away
At God's command.
He will not break the binding cords
Upon us laid
If we dci>end on pleading words,
And do not aid.
When hauds are idle, words are vain
To move the stone;
An aiding angel would disdain
To work alone.
But he who prayetli, and is strong
In faith and deed,
And toileth earnestly, ere long
He will succeed.
— J. C. Rockwell.
The San Jaguelo Mine.
To Joshua Main’s widow it had always ;
seemed a simple thing for people to sup
port themselves. Did not girls and
women do it oftentimes? Was there ever
any difficulty about it?
Yet, when she herself was left alone at
the age of twenty, she did not know in j
which direction to turn.
She was a soft-eyed,timid little woman,
with absolutely no experience at all in
the ways of the world; and so she went
to her cousin—a brisk, bustling widow,
who kept a wayside hotel ou the high
road to Santa Barbara.
“What am I to do?” said she, looking j
very small and pale in her deep mourn- ;
ingrobes. “What is to become of me? w •
“Wh in’tyou go to Joshua’s folks?”
Mrs. Chcbburn, who was frying crabs
for a party of excursionists who had ar
rived by the noon stage.
“I have no money,” said Alice. “Be
side. I wrote to his father, and he wrote
back that we didn’t ask his advice about
getting married, and he certainly
shouldn’t interfere in my business now.
Such a cross, curt, hateful letter!”
“Just like them!” said Mrs. Clieb
burn, fiercely dredging her pan of crabs
with flour. “Couldn’t you keep miners
to hoard ?”
“I—l don’t think I have courage for j
that!” whispered poor Alice. “Beside, 1
it would require a large house, furniture,
capita!.”
“Might sew?” suggested Mrs. Cheb- j
burn, who had a quick, abrupt way of
speaking which was very apt to discon
cert a stranger.
“I am dreadfully slow and awkward \
with the needle.” confessed Alice. “Y'ou
see, Cousin Chcbburn, I was brought up
in a boarding-school. I can play on the
piano, and speak tolerable French,
nnd—”
“O, my!” burst in Mrs. Chebburn.
“And p'raps you could paint on velvet
nnd make wax flowers, or any such other
accomplishment which would be so use
ful out in these California mountains.
There, Alice, don't cry! 1 don't want to
hurt your feelings, child, but people’s
ideas about educating girls arc so queer.
Get me a platter—two big platters—for
these crabs. You can stay here for a
while. It’s possible you may be able to
help me with the housework. But I've
no use for your French and your piano
playing. ”
For all Mrs. Chebburn’s short, blunt
speech, there was a kindly sparkle in her
honest, gray eyes, and Alice Main ac
cepted her invitation in the spirit in
which it was given.
It was a strange existence for the girl
who had been brought up in the artificial
surroundings of San Francisco life, this
wild home on the plateaus, with monster
redwood trees keeping watch on the
heights above, passion-vines swinging
in purple fringes over the edges of the
cliffs, and figs ripening against the sunny
rocks.
With the coming and going of the
daily stage, travelers came and went,
also, of all varieties, and Mrs. Chebburn,
assisted only by a pair of pallid China
men, and a fat old colored woman in the
kitchen, ruled, an absolute queen, over
the place.
“It’s hard work, to-be-sure,” she would
say; “but lam my own mistress here,
and I render an account to no one. If a
miner talks too loud, I can turn him out
of the house. If a traveler finds fault
with the fricasseed chicken, I can bid
him go further and suit himself better.
Joshua's widow is welcome to a home
here, though I misdoubt me she'll turn
out a poor, shiftless timid thing.”
But Sirs. Chebburn was favorably dis
appointed. Joshua’s widov proved to
be possessed of better qualiy ,-s than she
had thought.
She was quick and dainty with the
desserts, tasteful in the arrangemeut of
the rooms, and affectionately anxious to
spare her cousin all that she could of
work or worry.
“I may make something of the girl
yet,” said Mrs. Ohcbburn. “Poor dear!
she’s very young to be left a widow.
AVhat a selfish scamp that old f.it-her-in
law of hers must be! Joshua was as
fine a fellow as ever lived! Guess he
wasn’t like the rest of his folks though.”
It w-as one December evening, when
the heavy winter rain was pattering on
the roof of the house and b rating down
*the shuddering boughs of the redwood
trees, and the stage was several hours be
hind time.
“Supper’ll be clean spoiled,” said Airs.
Chcbburn, with a discontented glance
toward the kitchen, “and then they'll all
be grumbling. Men arc so inconsiderate!”
Just then, however, Emn, the tallest
; and yellowest of the Chinamen, came
; shuffling in. with the news that the rain
had washed away part of the steep and
narrow rond that wound through the
gorge, that the stage was overturned and
I “alloc folksee killed!”
“Linn, you are a fool!” said Airs. Cheb
burn.
“Alissee look for sheself,” persisted
Linn. “Alice dead ! Horseo leg broke!”
And presently two or three men came
j up the hill, bearing the senseless body of
nn old man, who represented the “allee
folksee” of Linn's terrible tale.
AVith this exception, the travelers had
been more frightened than hurt.
“Is he dead?” said frightened Alice,
with a glance at the yellow pallor of the
face, temporarily pillowed on a folded
shawl.
! “No,” said Airs. Chcbburn, who had
no contemptible knowledge of simple
surgery, “he isn’t dead. But there are
some ugly bruises on his head, and I
think there's a rib or two broken. Get
the little corner room ready, Alice, as
' quick as you can. Light a fire and see
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that the bedclothes arc well aired aud
that there is plenty of hot water.”
When Mrs. Chebburn came down stairs
again, to superintend Linn and Chee Sun
as they served the supper and to keep
old Aunty Felicia from braining those
brisk Celestials with her pewter spoons
-for there was always an internecine
warfare between the Mongolian and
African races in the kitchen —the stage
driver xt .s warming his chilled hands
before the tire.
“He ain’t dead, eh?” said he, nodding
at the stairs.
“Oh, bless you, no!” said Mrs. Cheb
burn.
“Well, it seems kind o’ wicked to say
so,” observed George Geith. the driver
“but 1 wouldn't a been sorry to heat ba
was dead!”
“Come, comesaid Mrs. Chebburn;
‘•don’t talk like that, Geith!”
“He sat on the box seat Slung o’ me,”
said George. “He’d come out here to
look arter the San Jaguelo mine. Suite
told me. He’d a powerful gift of the
gab, and a many questions to ask, for lm
hadn't never been this a-way before. It
seemed he'd a son come out here a spell
ago, and they bought a claim together.
And the son he got married all of a sud
den-like, and then he up and died.
“And so this old sinner, mind you.
Mrs. Chebburn. he mistrusts that the
son’s wife don’t understand business; so
he has come on to pocket the whole con
cern, profits aud all—for the San Jaguelo
mine, don’t ye know, is trebled and
quadrupled in value since they first be
gan to work it.
“ ‘Ain’t you goin’ shares with tho
Woman?’ says I.
“ “Ain’t the papers all in my name?’
says he, with a leer. ‘l’ve al’ays heerd,’
says he, ‘that you Western people was
sharp on business.’
“ 'Not that kind o’ business,’ says I
'I sw'ar,’ says I, ‘ef I liain't the biggest
mind I ever had in my life to pitch you
off the box into the bed of the creek be
low 1’
“And, sure as you live,it wasn't fifteen
minute s afore the lurch came, and over
we all went together! Most like a jedg
ment, now ain't it? And I declare I'm
’most sorry he wasn’t killed outright!”
Airs. Chebburn was busy spreading a
luscious cream meringue over the top of
' a pineapple pudding—for the dessert-.
| served by the lady of the Redwood
| house have acquired quite a local celeb
rity—but she looked quickly up.
"Didn't say what his name was, did
ve?'’ said she.
“No,” said Geith; “because 1 don't
know myself. Grasp, I should reckon—
\ or Gripe, or Grind, or some such thing.’’
And he chuckled at the clumsy joke as
| he made haste to obey the summons to
supper.
It was late in the night before the
stage was righted and a relay of horses
supplied, so that the tide of travel could
once more flow onward: and the clock
struck twelve when Mrs. Chebburn
went up stairs with the candle in her
hand.
“Who's that talkin'?" she asked, asshe
stopped on the threshold of the im
promptu hospital ward.
“It's the sick man,” said Alice. “The
doctor said he would be more or less de
lirious for a day or two. Do you know,
cousin Chebburn, he keeps talking all the
time about ‘Joshua!’ And look at the
color of his eyes, and the way his hair
grows down on his forehead!”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Chebburn. glancing
keenly from the restless head that rolled
to and fro on the pillow to the pale,
startled face above it.
“I know who it is,” cried Alice,
wringing her hands— “it's Joshua's
father!"
“Hush!” said Mrs. Chebborn. “Ikind
o’suspicioncd it was. Now, don’t cry!
A sick room ain’t no place to get excited
in. Ktepcool—keep calm, and jest let
Providence workout its own salvation.”
Near-y two weeks elapsed before old
Sewell Main recovered two weeks of
pain and suffering; two weeks during
which he looked grim death full in the
face.
“Who are you?” he sharply asked,
when first he became conscious that a gen
tle hand was ministering to him day by
day.
“I am Joshua's widow,” Alice gently
answered.
II closed his weary eyes, and asked no
more. But he thought of many thing-.
“I should have died if it hadn’t been for
you, shouldn’t I?” was his next abrupt
question. “But how does it happen?
Joshua’s widow here, takingcareof me’.”
“Hush!” soothed Alice. “Don't try
to talk norv. Don’t even try to think !”
But he put out his skeleton hand to
find hers.
“Forgive me!” said he, in a choked
voice. “Only say that you forgive me!”
“For wliat?" she asked, in amazement.
“For all that was in my heart!” said
he. “For all that I might have done, if
God had not stayed my sinful hand!
Alice—they called you Alice, didn't
they?”
“Yes.'’
“You have been like an angel to me.
Henceforward, nothing shall ever part
us. AVill you go back to the East with
me, Alice?”
And Alice went, only too l'.appy that
Joshua's father had learned to love her.
She never know aught of the darker
s’de of hi< character. Stage-driver
Gcith never came that way nowadays,
and Mrs. Chebburn was one of the few
women who can keep their own counsel.
“lie’s good to the child now,” said
she. “They’re as happy together ns if
they were own father and daughter. Why
should I interfere?”
And so the San Jaguclo mine made lit
tle Alice rich in her Eastern home, and
old Sewell Alain'treasured her as if she
were a rare tropical Bower. AVtiile every
year there c amc some loving token of re
membrance across the Sierras to Airs.
Chebburn, who still presided over the
Redwood House, and kept the peace,
with ever-increasing difficulty, between
Aunty Felicia and the two sous of the
sun.
“The child doesn’t f--get me,” said
Airs. Chcbburn. with'a smile and a tear.
Helen Forrest Grates.
Naturalists now count no less than
! 1,870 differt at kinds of fishe> in North
! American waters, of which 500 live in
the rivers aud lakes andsso kird belong
to the Pacific. Of the remainder, 10 '>
dwell only iu the deep waters of thy At
lantic and Gvdf of Mc.xcj, never up
, Broaching the shore or the surface.