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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Traveler Taken in Charge at Way
cross on Account of Insanity- A Way
cross Negress Who Did Not Know
Her Husband’s Name A Man Sleeps
AU Night With a Snake.
OBORtitA.
A soap factory is to be established at
Home.
Oglethorpe's new court house was dedi
cated last Monday.
C. F. Newton, a prominent citizen of
Griffin, died Thursday.
John Hogan, of Waycross. had a finger
broken by catching a base ball a day or two
•go. He is getting on very nicely.
Horse thefts have become so frequent at
Cartersviiie that tie- existence of a regularly
organized gang of thieves is suspected.
Dr. W. B. Burroughs, of Brunswick, has
a State and county tax receipt for $5 08
given to Mrs. Fink, of Savannah, in 1822.
Hon. N. J. Hammond has closed up all his
public business in Washington, and has re
turned to Atlanta and resumed the practice
of law.
There was a gentlemen in Rome Thursday
who had a fine specimen of silver from the
mountains near Rome. It was valued at
about $9.
After the last annual meeting of stock
holders at Augusta the Graniteville factory
directors declared a semi-annual dividend of
5 per cent., payable on J uly 1.
At Waycross Rev. Mr. Burch read to the
congregation Monday night a request for
special prayer for the town of Madison, Fla.
It was from a lady of that town.
The ugeuts of the loan associations
coined money loaning money in Bulloch
last winter. One of them averaged $4OO
per mouth commissions during the winter.
Sam Small and Sam Jones left Atlanta
Friday for Minneapolis, where they will fill
an engagement of several weeks. Mr. Small
thinks that his health is gradually improv
ing.
Blakely News: The Savannah News
has donned a bright upw dress just as nature
lias donned her new robe. May the News
continue to be as reliable and prosperous as it
now is.
Sykie Hudson, the negro woman wlio a
few days ago so brutally murdered another
woman with whom she lived, was tried and
convicted of murder in the Superior Court
at Americus Thm-sday.
Mr. Robinson is in Dalton making con
tracts for shipments of manganese and iron
ore to South Pittsburg and to Dayton. From
one single point in the county he has en
gaged Iti.OOO tons of ore.
The report that the steamer Pope Catlin
was libeled at Brunswick Wednesday is
erroneous, the libel having been made here.
The steamer will make her advertised ex
cursions as usual, notwithstanding.
A day or two ago an old colored woman
entered one of the stores at Way cross and
asked for some goods, which she said she
wanted charged to her husband. When
asked what ner husband’s name was she
could not tell, but said she would Rtep out
side and find out from some other negroes
who were standing near.
Cartersviiie Courant-American: The Sa
vannah Morning News, in its bright, new
spring dress, looks more like a real metro
politan daily th*n any of our Southern
papers. It is lovely, and goes to prove
■what a thorough newspaper man Is at the
helm. Col. Estill can well go out into the
back yard and extend congratulations to
himself.
When old man Washington King killed
himself in Vineville, a suburb of Macon,
Sunday night, an investigation led to the
fact that he left an estate valued at $350.
He had a wife, who was the mother of sev
eral children when he married her. He hail
an illegitimate son himself. Another man
came in and applied for letters of adminis
tration on the estate, and these members of
the King family appeared as heirs. As the
circumstances of the case precluded the
possibility of their coming in as legal heirs,
they were told that they were barred. There
being no other heirs the property will revert
to the State. It will some day be a snug
little speck in the hair Is of some* man if the
boom continues.
An old gentleman arrived at Waycross
on the train from Florida on Monday last,
bolding a ticket for Eufaula, Ala. Having
to change car* at Waycross, he lay over
there live or six hours for the train Which
was to take him on his journey. Before the
time came for him to lea ve, however, Mr.
Wktfcon, the efficient night, watchman at the
{Wraunah. Florida and Western depot, dis
covered that the old man was deranged and
tad become perfectly unmanageable. Mr.
Watson therefore as a precaution against
hi* getting in the way of the trains and
. fcsirn.: run over, notified the Sheriff, who
"♦oak him in charge and placed him in jail.
He gave his name as Bryant, and said he
lived in Alabama.
Montezuma Record: Not long since Mr.
Fletch Norris burned a brush heap down in
his swamp near the river. A large moc
casin happened to have his winter home
directly under the heap, and when it began
to get not he attempted to make his escape
from the fiery furnace, but he was not like
the three Hebrew children. About a week
after Mr. Norris went to the same spot and
saw one-half of the reptile protruding out
of the ground, burned into a crißp. The
bead was burned until it turned inside out
and presented a ghastly sight. His little
dug spied the apparently lifeless snake and
went for him lively. After two or three
attempts he jerked the snake from the hole,
and the half of the body concealed in the
ground jumped, squirmed ami wiggled
around just like a live snake. It must be
remembered that a week’s time intervened
between the time the heap was burned and
the snake found.
The Baptist Convention o$ the State of
Georgia was first organized in 1822 when
Scarcely 25.000 Baptists answered to the roll
call of faith in the State. The representa
tion of the denomination, at the convention
now assembled at Albany, is from a mem
bership of over 100,000, of church
members of this convention. At Borne,
Ga., in 1880, the convention re
ported 00,000. (in round numbers,) repre
sented, Within the last
year 10,500 have lieeu added
to that number through accessions by
baptism, which swells the total to 100,500.
The colored Baptists <>l Georgia have I+<J,-
000 communicants, which, together with the
Missionary and Hardshell white Baptists,
makes the grand total ui the army of Ilap
list workers enlisted under the banner of
Christ; 295,0 , xi. The (; orgia State conven
tion has bad but five moderators within the
fifty-eight years of its existence.
Biieritf Janies Huberts, <>f Hart, count}’,
wdatos a thrilling adventure with a snake.
One night he was iu.]eep in a I ! in mi tin
ceiled house. During the night tie was
awakened by tin touch of something wild
on bis cheek, and heat once iouliz.vl that .
huge soaku was crawling across In* face.
He wai. afraid to move un i afraid to lie stilj,
blit isincludi-l to do the latter. He wo the
•nuke's l*Uy foil as cold as un
ieicU*. ami it horned ua if the
reptile ••onsmmsi an hour In crawl
log ikti -s Inc taie Finally lie felt it liogin
to taper down until it re ed, *1 u joint, and
leaning from the bed Jim . rite.l lu.tilv for
• light. It was brought and sanreli made,
but no Minim rotild t- lom.and it was dr
eld'd th' it hud i mu ll it mil a crack in the
Weather Isstisiiiig Mr itnfwrta went ten *
kiW aiglis. iii t..|| odeep nod it at lums(
f) !#f l/t' f*4t|( i/|*H l.le. ( „ I a I
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1 with an eye single to the procurement of
! wood, they removed the blocks. This let
! t.be cars go, and away they went down the
I grade toward the river. At the Washington
st-ret crossing two of the cars jumped
I the track and there was a crash. One of
■ tiie cars that got off the track was a fiat ear
loaded with lumber; the other, was a freight
box. Tile former was not much dam
aged, but the latter was so badly shaken up
that it will have to go to the shop for re
pairs. Policeman Kemp caught the two
small boys whose theft led to such mis
chief, and carried them to the guard house.
Late in tlie afternoon tlieir mothers called
for them and had them released to them
upon condition that each boy was to receive
a good thrashing then and there.
The life of a pilot is often mixed with ex
citement, as was proven a few days ago in
the experience of Capt. Elias Peerson and
others of the pilot boat Telegram, of Bruns
wiek. Whilst about ten miles from St.
Simon’s Light, out at sea, Capt. Peerson dis
covered a porpoise about eight feet long
running along by the side of his boat as they
naturally do. The Captain took his har
poon and burled it into him, and then he
and Mart in, the cook, seized the line and en
deavored to check the monster’s
onward course. The harder they
pulled the faster he ran, and
the hotter the repo got in passing through
their fingers. They were finally jerked flat
on the deck, but not until tne rope had
burned the Captain's bands very badly.
The end of the rope having been firmly tied
to the boat something hail to give way when
the whole of it was played out, and as the
boat was tao heavy awl the rojie and har
poon too strong to break the fish’s flesh had
to pay the penalty, which it did. Capt.
Penrson s hands are still bouud up.
FLORIDA.
Jefferson county's poach crop promises to
be a goixl one.
Dr. H. J. Long, of Enterprise, has pur
chased the Sanford market.
The Orange City and New Smyrna rail
road is said to be doing a good business.
L. G. Prescott, of Eustis, has donated a
site for a Baptist church overlooking Lake
Graeie.
There are six men in Orlando whose
weight collectively amounts to over 1,500
pounds, and twenty men who weigh over
'-.'oo pounds each also reside in the mty.
Mayor Lilientlial, of Sanford, has pre
sented the Gate City Band with a handsome
gold watch to be raffled for the purpose of
buying uniforms with the proceeds arising
therefrom.
In the claim of Mr. Edwards, who asked
for SI,OOO damages of the Sanford and Lake
Eustis railroad for running their track
though his homestead, was awarded S6O by
the arbitrators who went, out on Wednesday.
A bunch of half a dozen orange carrots
has been exhibited in Orlando, varying in
circumference from 5 to 0 1-2 inches, and in
length from 12 to 27 inches. The vegetables
with their tops would have filled a bushel
basket.
Thomas F. Huggins is authority for the
statement that in the boring of an ar
tesian well at Itoluir Grove, near Sanford,
at the depth of 100 feet, there were strong
indications of oil. The belief exists that a
strong oil vein is in close proximity.
At Marianna a, fire broke out in and
burned to the ground the servant’s house on
the lot owned by George R. Smith last
Monday. An infant of the woman occupy
ing the house was seriously burned. The
fire was kept from spreading and no other
damage was done.
The Orlando Record announces that it
will issue, on or about July 4, a sixteen-page
trade edition of 10,000 copies. A special
feature of the edition will be a prize article
on the subject “What can be done on five
acres in South Florida 1” for which a each
prize of $25 is offered.
A young negro man was raptured near
Reddick last wi-ek while in the act of set
ting fire to George Sanders' residence. He
was jailed under throe charges—firing a
house, carrying concealed weapons and en -
tering a house m the night time. The dam
fig. to Mr. Sanders’ house was slight.
Ocala Free Press: The Savannah News
came out in anew and handsome summer
suit Thursday, improving it immensely.
The only difference about it is that the ed
itor failed to sav anything or commend it
to the people. The News is a great paper
and the people of Florida love it for its de
votion to their interests.
The water works of the Leon Hotel, Tal
lahassee, were completed Saturday and set
to work. The capacity of the pump is about
7,000 gallons of water per hour. The source
of water supply is a spring near the gas
works. Time large jets of pure water burst
out of the hillside in sufficient quantity to
much more than supply the demands of the
Loon.
A sneak thief entered the promises of Col,
Henderson, at Tallahassee, while his family
were at church Sunday night and carried
off £SOO worth of jewelry, etc., consisting of
the following: A set of diamond earrings,
several pieces of silverware, including a
sugar dish, forks, spoons, knives, and table
linen; also a silver Waltham open face
watch with chain and locket, a small dock,
photo albums, etc. The only articles known
to have been marked were the solid silver
spoons, marked “W.” One hundred dollars
reward is offered for the capture of the
thief.
E. W. Speir began his career as post
master at Orlando when the mail was
brought to his office by an ox team, the en
tire contents of the bag being counted on the
lingers. The time now consumed in the
transmission of a letter from New York
city to Orlando is less than half that re
quired in the early days of Mr. Spoil 's ad
ministration to receive one from Jackson
sonvillo. All the office required at that,
time for the convenient transaction of its
business was a square box containing twen
ty-four pigeon holes placed on an empty
flour barrel.
Home ten days or two weeks ago two
judgments were issued from the Justice
Court in Sanford over which Capt. William
Mirrine manipulates the gavel. The judg
ments were against Mr. Dawes, who is a
contractor on the Florida Midland rail
road. The judgments were placed in the
hands of Sheriff Anderson, of Orlando, for
collection. The Sheriff proceeded to l/'-ng
wood, where, outlie arrival of a train, he
chained and locked it to the track,
where it remain'd until the judgments, one
for k.V and another for s!i4. Were paid, to
gether with tho cost of suit in the case.
Anew deal is on {<x>t to tight the Jackson
vilie 'linn’s t 'nlon. All early edition of the
i'niatku Daily Sent* is to lie.struck ell' and
sent to Jacksonville on the express that
puss- s I’iUutka at 4 a. in., and offered to the
jieoplo of Jaelajonville upon the arrival of
the train us u conqs'Dlor of the Timex-
Ihiion. Mr. Hammond is to be the Jack
souvilk'xiitor, and is now in Ju'k*nnvilla
completing the preliminary work of solicit
ing oilsillessamong tile business iii'-n. it is
Ik I levs | that Mr. (’rill, t lie Hint • Treasurer,
is iho |>owrr ls'hln l the throne, and it is
sni I thu' hedepo-ds the State nioui" in the
National Hank si l’olatku. and is pushing
the ,Veu' umt Mi. Harrison tut his organ.
The First National Rank of Hanford bun
lx*-u organized a* Pillows; I'rewiili-nt. Kml
eiick H. Itlllld, l/mgw nod; Vila* J iesld. pt f
Mon* Lyman, New Vork; Cashier, I iank
I', Forster, Hanford. Tlusm gentlemen,
with the following, couNtitiito the I’.-.ud • j
Dirertoiv to wit: I,y IIHIII I‘oelps. IS Jt,
Kwisipe, H L. Ifehoresf ioue lid ‘lulu,
Hanford. Fla.; J K. IVellamu*, U’mti'r
Hark, Fla.; Frwlerle< W l/ iom Minin
sotn. The lien lull.lf will succeed to Uih
busilic '"I the Lyinuil Hank ass e- 14a*
lass-ssary oifiei,ii in;-tie . with the l oop,
froller l M ashin-ton i.'.ls tiu. 1 Ia and
tin tssike. i p*., is "Puppisj I‘lop lily n
will la* a limtitii nr six weeks Isifoiv the new
mat itlltli ill Will go liipi o|ml uUo"
Js ktJlii 'u Tims ,I'a mu 1 nhr u
great 'hail ol i ii’iisurn m tin- ,iy J
pigh' *aif wfiil a* ill**] pi is* a Wt!] unUn*o
U-soul ruPnn l hat the Horn It lot, In the
•s/akaru end of l im i ity, p* I ~f | w'eef/si „
Ua alta* fm lib iMMrjp/.enuiws, UikUug.
*4i 1 wkMUMt'tfwJ than Mr Hw*" nwli
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1887 —’TWELVE PAGES.
before the citizens became aware of the
selection or could enter their protest. It
was also rumored that the Shoemaker
estate had subscribed $5,000 to the fund raised
to reduce the price of the lot and thus
influence the selection of the site, and also
that the services of Gen, Alexander, of
Savannah, a citizen of another city, had
been enlisted in the efforts to have that site
selected. The citizens besides boirtg excit
ed were exceedingly indignant aud pro
nounced the selection of the lot in one end
of the city an outrage, and much talk of an
indignation meeting was heard on the
streets.
A MORMON THEATRE.
Salt Lake City Dramatics in the Time of
Brigham Young Funny Incidents.
Virginia City (-Ver.) Cor. Philadelphia Press.
11l the early days of the mining cities and
of Mormonism it was curious to visit the
theatre in Salt Lake City and see old Brig
ham Young, his wives and his numerous
progeny march in and out. No company
was ever allowed to play there unless one of
Brigham’s spies was stationed at a “peep
hole" back or tbe scenery to note if any of
his wives or daughters winked, or made any
sign to the players, while from the front his
priests and elders watched. Money was a
scarce commodity with these people, and
com, grain and even vegetables were ex
changed for admission tickets. Brigham
always exacted of each company perform
ing there so many seats for his family, the
women all oh one side and tbe priests, elders
aud councils on the opposite.
Once a company iif actors, composed of
Shelby, Atkinson and a number of others
from St. Louis, strayed to Salt Lake City to
play that much-abused “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” and the last remark of old Ben
Deßar to the boys as they left St. Louis was
“Look out for the poly-gals. If Brigham
gets into vour flirting you will walk home,
for he will stop the show!" They opened at
the Salt Lake City Theatre to an immense
audience, Brigham and his tribe being pres
ent, but unfortunately one of the younger
actors, Sam Hooley, standing at the door as
the performance was over, attempted to
pass a note to one of Brigham’s 'laughters.
He was detected, and given twelve hours to
leave town.
The company, however, were allowed to
play their three nights’ engagement, but no
Mormon dared to come, as the edict had
gone forth, and the company were obliged
to get the agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Ex
press to liquidate part of their bills, for
warding their baggage with a c. o. and. tag
for the amount incurred, to be paid at Deli
ver, Col., their next stopping place.
In a little adobe cabin lust out from Win
nemucoa, and near what was formerly
Camp McClellan then under command of
Lieut. Karge, now Professor of Languages
at Princeton College, there is an old ma
hogany table. On it, cut in deem with a
knife, is this inscription: “J. w. Booth,
May, 1850.” The old man who keeps the
house, and moved from Virginia City there
ill 18G4, says: “I bought ther table from one
on ’em spouters what used ter play in ’(Jinny
City.” Is it a relic of J. Wilkes Booth?
Then he can be added to the list of players
who gathered in the shekels from the'Pa
eifle coast people, and who, passing away or
rising to a notch of fame on the stick of
time, are remembered as the early actors of
the frontier.
Fashion Notes for Spring.
Jackets and ulsters, both tight-fitting, are
in great demand this spring.
Half high boots and low shoes will again
be in vogue for summer wear.
Pongee costumes are made up over seal
brown or moss-green petticoats.
The fashionable stocking is black, or some
very dark shade of brown or blue.
Cashmere, repped silks and moire are the
fabrics most used for dressy spring toilettes,
A novelty in spring woolens is Valentia,
having velvet and plush stripes on plain sur
faces.
Fawn color and dark shades of steel and
brown are the leading favorites for tailor
made gowns.
Very high collars, stiff with gold or sil
ver embroidery, are used on handsome re
ception toilets.
The old-fashioned stringless “flower bon
nets" are to lie worn this summer under the
new name of the “Chaperon.”
Bias-fronted bodices are tieing extensively
usrd for mohairs, India silks, batistes and
other soft, thin summer fabrics.
Brims of bonnets will continue to be cov
erisl with gathered velvet. The velvet is
ofteij of the same color as the toilet.
Ruches of pinked or notched silk arc
placed around the brims of capotes which
are intended to lie worn without strings.
Ribbon bows are in great favor on all the
summer toilets, and when mixed with light
laces and muslins the effect is very good.
Full suits in different shades of one color
are to be much worn during the spring
months, particularly mouse and steel gray.
Charles X. pink is rapidly becoming,
with absinthe green, the rival of the univer
sal heliotrope, it is also known as old pink.
The popular combination dresses promise
to lie those of cashmere draped over silk
skirts, as they are imported in great va
riety.
Chatelaines bid fair to lie in favor once
more. Tiny “spico flasks” of Egyptian
make are one of tlie ornaments for full dress
occasions
The polonaise, in both open and clouts!
shapes, is steadily gaining favor, and is the
prominent, feature of many distinguished,
looking toilets.
New under garments are made of very
fine cambric, hand-embroidered in small de
signs. such as trefoils, horse shoes, etc., in
marine blue or red.
Many of the newly imported French polo
naises are cut with pompadour or heart
shaped Is (dices, or in graduated points, this
opening reaching from the throat to the belt
in front.
Mask veils with scalloped bonier* are
brought in tulle of every color, and also in
more subdantinl gauze or grenadine dotted
w itli chenille, ami the edge marked by rows
of dots quite close together.
The newest bonnets are iu cap shapes,
with longer crowns than anv lately worn,
and these begin to show a tendency toward
lowering the trimming, making them still
high, yet not in the exaggerated heights of
the past season.
The prettiest spring hats for girls from
12 to 14 years of age have low crowno und
broad brims, and can lie lient into almost
any desired ships'. Ostrich feathers ore the
favorite trimming, and a tali of them is
sometimes used resting on u velvet band in
side the brim.
Very pretty turbans for young ladies’
wear have crowns of black lace, and the
brims bio of jet and lit the head closely.
The trimming i* a knot, of black cock's
plumes and bin k molire ribbons, tied to
{tether with ofi rose, blue or pole green rib
ii hi They are e*pe dally suitable to wear
with black lace dries".-.
Fin were Iliads of “havings arc (he latest
. fail' y work era//*. Very effective slrnd.iigs
: are produced by the use of hlmviiigs of dif
| lerent kinds of wood, their d'4lc<iU‘ natural
: coloring showing to excellent advantage
[ against a background of plush. They run
inueh more durable Ilian muslin or ixipi-r
productions of the kuiui* sort.
Phillips' Digestible* Cocoa
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FRANKLIN'S UN HONORED GRAVE.
Unnoticed and Neglected, It Lies in the
Busiest Section of Philadelphia.
Front the New York World.
Tim hare, blank walls of n very old bury
ing ground are frowned down upon by the
towering structures of manufacture and
business that surround and hem them in in
one of the busiest pam of Philadelphia. In
side the burying ground walls ore trees
planted by men who died from old age
years ago.' Birds come nnd rear their wide
moutlied families in this cool oasis in the
great desert of throbbing city streets. One
old man, bent and wrinkled, takes an oc
casional walk over the scarcely discernible,
grass-grown paths, and his are the only feet
that tread tins silent: city of the dead.
In the Areli street wall very near the cor
ner an opening has been made. The bricks
have been taken away fi >r a space of per
haps a dozen feet. Through an iron fence
which covers this opening one cun get a
glimpse of the peaceful grounds within.
That graveyard was made long years ago
and the noisy city lias grown all about it,
crowding it and jostling it, but never en
croaching beyond its walls. From sun-upto
midnight there is a constant hurrying of
wagons and ears and human beings by this
necropolis. Yet that grated opening has
seldom a visitor, though there lies within a
few feet of it the dust of a man whose pro
found wisdom and humanity moved the
whole civilized world.
Not three blocks away stands a great in
stitution bearing his name -an institution
fostering all that is scientific and that lives
to leam the hidden tilings of nature’s laws;
that fosteis and encourages the genius of
men and teaches industry and tbe value of
solid learning. Less distant iu the opposite
direction lies a great public square, one of
those beneficial breathing spaces of the city’s
pent-up -masses, bearing name. By its
side there runs a long, wide street bearing
his name. And all over the city there are
mills and printing shops and factories and
founderies bearing bis name, while oil over
the State and the country there are towns and
townships and counties also bearing his
name. Yet there lie his hones down iu the
heart of this big city, with arteries throb
bing with the work and pleasures of men,
beneath a thin stone slab, which grows
greener and thinner year by year, obscured
by the lightest snows of winter, the earliest
grasses of summer and the first fall of
autumn leaves. A singular end of a marvel
ous man!
I looked through the bars. With much
craning of my neck and much pressing of
mv face against the bars i made out this
simple, last-fading inscription iu the thiu
marble slab:
Benjamin
and
Deborah Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin, after many years
spent abroad enlightening men, gaining
fresh wisdom and laurels, came home to live
in quiet retirement with his son-in-law, Col.
Richard Bache, at the old mansion, which
stood in a large park on Market street, near
Fourth, this city. Shortly after that he
wrote a friend:
“I am now in the bosom of my family and
find our four little prattlers, who cling “about
the knees of tlieir grandpapa, afford me
great pleasure. I am surrounded by my
friends and have a good daughter and son
in-law to take care of me. 1 have got into
my niche, a very good bouse, which I built
twenty-four years ago and out of which I
have bean kept ever since by employments.”
Franklin had a small printing press set up
on one of the upper floors of the house, with
which he amused himself many an hour by
his experiments. But so busy a life was
but destined to be prolonged in quietness.
He had been settled but a short time
when his life light went out on Saturday,
April 17, 1790, when ho was nearly 75.
Three days later, now nearly a hundred
years ago, his remains Vere conveyed to the
old Friends’ Burying Ground and “placed be
side those of his w ife and the thin stone slab
laid over them.
There was mourning throughout this and
other lands. Twenty thousand people
crowded the streets around that old burying
ground on the day of the funeral, and as the
simple cortege passed over the few squares
between the house and the grove bells
throughout the city tolled and minute guns
boomed mournfully. Clergymen of the city
of all denominations, the Supreme Exe
cutive Council of the State, of which
Franklin had been president; the State
Assembly, Judges of the Supreme Court,
members of the bar, the officials of the city,
printers anil their workmen, the Philosophi
cal Society, the College of Physicians, the
students and faculty of the Philadelphia
College and many civic organizations' at
tended the funeral. The pall-bearers were
Gov. Thos. Mifflin, Chief Justice McKean.
Thomas Willing, President of the Bank of
North America; Mayor Samuel Powell,
William Bingham and David Rittenhouse.
Following the death and burial of Franklin
cam© honors and eulogiums from every
where. In Congress, Madison offered a
resolution which said:
“Benjamin Franklin was a citizen whose
native genius was not more an ornament to
human nature than his various exertions of
it have been precious to science.”
“Friends of Liberty” in France erected a
mausoleum, but Franklin’s unhonored grave
rests amid the turmoil and confusion of a
great, busy city.
NEWMAN IN HOT WATER.
The Great Eulogist Disparages Dr.
Huntley’s • Work, but the Ladies
Won’t Have It.
Front Waxhiwjton Letter lo the Baltimore
American.
The Rev. J. P. Newman has stirred up
the wrath of a portion of his congregation,
and they are now in open rebellion against
him. Under tho pastorate of his prede
cessor, Rev. Dr. Huntley, there was formed
among the members of the church social or
ganization called “The Wit more Club,”
which has grow n until it now numbers be
tween 800 and 10!) members. This club has
met with bitter opposition from Dr. New
man ever since lie lias lin.il charge of the
Metropolitan church, and the mem 1 sirs of
the club say that liis sole ground of opposi
tion growsout "f the fact Umt it was started
by Dr. Huntley. They say flint, lie has fol
lowed up every act, of tho former pastor
with the most prekistent enmity, and Ims
sought to uproot and change everything
Hint lias been done by him. At stated pe
riods the club would have an entertainment,
the pro*voits of which would Ixi devoted to
i Huinuiy m'lukil, library und other church ob
jects, and every second Wednesday a “so
••iai" would I*-giv-n. Dr. Ncwmun, in giv
ing out a untie *of the monthly meeting of
tin-dub tin* lil t Sunday that lie fill*si tho
pulpit, took onousioa to elude his Hock for
liavingsii'-li an orgniiiwition, and said that
li*- hopisi it would is* the last time he would
have touac the word •■club'iii connection
with the church. The dub very easily ■ inn
jWii-1 wilh hi - wishes by dropping the word
• Club" at their following meefing, anil it
was henceforth to Is- known simply as “Tile
Witipoi-e. Dr. Newmanlln-nnimieanother
move by aniMHlpiing that on the hcoihl
Wodnmda > iu every mouth tha very daj
on which the i Itib ms-iuls e/ re In-id he
would hold n w-r’isi of diiin-h soda!- The
club met ugain and ntt/h- it flank moveiui-nt
on the dis-tor by i-liiiiiglug thdr s-s-mls to
the l hud W'olncviay, rksm aft/-t waj-dsthe I
lin-iiils j- o, the , lllh lii'*t Dl‘. Ni-wmitlt at!
lit* n*qu*it. and In- t/ilil liviin ay ntn Unit In'
dl-l pol approve of tln*p I’rgn.il/atloii, aid 1
wauled tjo iu todlsUuid It inn I Jouia lyn-mii 1
which he via alsiut to put into oiwintjon.
Tluk wna iv -i*4 l< nJ none of hi* I c on-.
uii'l in no nmi utuuoliious you it wa/i|-
e|i|//l leit l/i 'bsi/ufel Mi alii tme, Die g'/si
d"i/*r wwi i, - wife oui t- ialsn aiiM/uK flat
lady PM'ipls'i- A til. *oo imii.elnm, (Inm,
11-O/I/ ..no *|.,|.| p, P-. 111., tin
l#-l of tint oi'i* niuui iK-is'laei'Mi, tiny
would uni Is- rM'loiUfsi, Iff Newman ti,mi
goi •in/'l ih >in*t and d*-W up Hnosi*
It/H-li’t Tie* tt’iliinne.*' win-1/ In Inf.) Te
!'•* u no-HP.; li tin- /'hut*-!/ i/uP*
J tnw i)*i /.* m iP/l uiat Um dub. wLllm i
ptteu’iu-i to u * purt id tha cwvt., laid •
never done anything for the church, and ap
parently did not intend to do anything: that
there was nothing of a religious nature in its
meetings, and that therefore it should not be
countenanced longer by the church; and, in
general terms, that it was a thoroughly
worthless organization, whose tendency was
to be bad, and recommending that it should
lie required to disband or retire from the
church.
The trustees sustained him and reported
against the club. The next day Dr. New
man again asked the ladies of the club to
disband, whereupon one of them asked him
iu effect what lie was going to do about it if
they didn’t. The doctor, with that look of
exaltation which only he himself knows how
to assume, replied that the church would see
about that. Last Tuesday evening a meet
ing of the club was called, anti it was unani
mously decided to leave the chmjch. A
change in the constitution was then made
and it became an entirely secular organiza
tion, with no church connection. A hall
was promptly tendered by a friend for their
meetings, and so the doctor and his pet
scheme for a lyceum are apparently left.
All th" members who sang in the choir have
lieen dismissed and notified that hereafter a
quarter choir would take care of the sing
ing. Judge Snell, of the Washington Police
Court, who is a prominent member of the
church, lias ranged himself alongside of the
boys and girls of the club. Oue of Dr. New
man’s inconsistencies has lieen that, while
he strenuously opposed an entertainment
•which the club proposed to have for the
purpose of paying off a church debt, on the
ground t liat it would be a desecration of the
church he announced a series of lectures
about his travels to be delivered in the
church, the tickets to be 50c. each. He
again surprised his young members by al
lowing tlie use of the church to be used by
the woman suffragists for their annual con
vention, since the leuders of that political
body are most of them pronounced free
thinkers. Dr. Newman is away, and when
he returns some new developments may be
expected.
GYPSY BOSSES THE HERD.
Elephants Believe in Women’s Rights-
A Chat with Elephant Bill.
From the New York World.
The big show over and thousands of rest
lass feet shuffled noisily over the concrete
pavement in the long walk that leads through
the menagerie. A man with a city map in
his hand would know he was on the South
sido of Madison Square Garden, but to all
appearances tlie throng of people and ani
mals was in some vast stone-floored oasis in
an African desert, where they hud midnight
receptions, at which men and beasts chatted
with one another, under the dazzle and sput
tering of electric lights. Tbe shining black
sea lions cried “Yawp! Yawp! Yawp!” in a
beseeching way. and poked their black noses
and spiky whiskers close to the bars of their
cage, as if they expected to see their visitors
take fish out of their pockets and stand
treat, The crowd paid no heed to them.
Neither did they waste time watching the
giant polar bear in his never-ending effort
to tie a knot in his long w hite neck. The
lions and tigers blinked lazily and with much
dignity received what little homage fell to
them.
When the pushing, shuffling crowd got to
the middle of the long walk they halted.
The elephants stood before them, twenty-six
giants in a swaying row, and that was what
the thousands eame to see. Each great gray
beast leaned as far forward as he could, and
held out his trunks as eagerly as ever a
boodler thrust his hand to Billy Moloney.
They wanted candy. All were tethered by
a chain on the left hind leg to the stone wall,
or they would have joined their visitors in
the promenade, ana just as likely as not
trod on a corn here and there. Big Fritz,
twenty-six yearn old, with a hide like oak
bark on his* massive frame, came in for much
attention. William Newman, commonly
called “Elephant Bill” because of his famil
iarity with the tricky pachyderms, stood
near by to keep the big fellows in order.
“Just watch Fritz a while,” he said, “and
you’ll see fun.”
A Brooklyn citizen, with his wife and
three small citizens, were in the front rank
beside the rope which walls off humanity
from elephants. They simply gazed their
fill and never offered to treat. Fritz flour
ished his trunk end pointed the end of it
straight over then - shoulders. They looked
and saw this Sign:
ELEPHANTS LIKE PEANUTS.
* *
The whole family took the gentle hint
and presently they stood in a row pelting
peanuts at Fritz’s open mouth. They were
not good shots, and, lifter a little time, Fritz
gently, yet nimbly, snatched the bag, pea
nuts anct all, from the smallest boy with Ills
lissome trunk. He throw the whole thing
into his mouth. Thereupon all threw down
the peanuts in bulk as a tribute to Fritz’s
greatness
Mr. Newman pointed out the big difference
between Indian and African elephants.
“The Africans are the most timid,” he said,
“and the hardest to train. The Indian and
Ceylonese are handsomer beasts and learn
tricks much quiekert lian Africans. Alice,
Jumbo’s widow, is the only African
we have. Which is our handsomest elephant ?
Mandarin, by long odds. Jxiokat him.”
Tlie reporter looked. Mandarin, although
only o 0 years old, is about as largo as eighty
John L. Bull!vans rolled into one. He hash
fine black bang, which grows down the
middle of his forehead. Also his ears and
head are sjjotted with pinkish white patches
like the color of the sacred elephant. “The
doctors say it’s an unnatural color,” said
Mr. Newman, “but it isn’t dangerous to
touch. His skin is like velvet. Js he danger
ous to handle? Oh, no; not when I’m around.
Ho did pick up Prof. Doremus once and slam
him through a wall, but he quit as soon as
we shouted at him.”
“Which of the herd is lioss ?” asked the
reporter.
■‘Gypsy, by a largo majority. Once in a
while, late m night, alie whales Fritz with
her trunk like the dickens and butts him
with her heavy head. Does he resent it i
Not a Mt, He and all male elephants be
lieve in women's rights.
‘By the way, Torn Thumb over yonder,
the little trick elephant, is a wonder. Her
ease is the only one on record where an
elephant’s broken leg has beep set success
fully. Jumbo lost nu life trying to snvi her.
Do you know that Scott, Jumbo’s keeper, is
still with the show: Nothing run induce
him to go away, lie says he will stay hy
Jumbo's Ik>nch as long as ho lives.”
The crow and was thinning out now. One by
one the electric light's stopp'd sputtering
and the shadows spread thickly through the
long room. Gray-coatod men tisik down
the rojs s that hud kept the crowd at a safe
distance.,
Then Tom Thumb was unbobblod. She
trolled around Iron) one giant to another,
chatting with funny little squeak’ and wav
ing* of nor trunk. They all seemed glad to
talk to lu r and hear the budget of goesipshe
had I > spread. Only two lights wero left
glowing now. They were mere specks in
tii and i i.iiw', and out of the vast bulk of
great dark I inns you eonhl make out only
one or two noiselessly weaving strange
figure.! w ith their trunks.
A y ' uliar eii s- is down for hearing at, the
Ksoott Division l’miit, Cun,'ln The di
teudaiit oftviedu marri si Indy *>loo to in
duce her sl*ier to marry him The match
was amicably arranged by the sister and
they wero duly married, and now the sixter
Hlid Inulmlld ri’fuaa to pay the stlpuliiLivl
IJli.llcV, H”l ell Hint to recover the lllllouut
agreed ll| m si
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Hence it may have ts*e|j quite natural that
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