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TUESDAY, MAY 31. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Congregation Miekva Israel.
Special Notices Savannah Volunteer
Guards: Another Lot of Summer Clothing, Jau
don: Grand Entertainment Masonic Temple;
Notice as to Local Bills.
Change of Schedui.e—City and Suburban
Railway.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Lost; Found;
Summer Resorts; Miscellaneous.
Black Silk Grenadines, Etc.—Daniel Hogan.
Removal—F. Gutnmu.
Auction Sales-Broughton Street Property,
Pine Horses, by T. I>. I.aßoche's Sons.
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Secretary Lamar is spoken of as likely to
get the appointment to the vacant place on
the Supreme bench. He would fill the
place.
An agnostic cannot be a witness in cer
tain cases in Washington. In that respect
he is not as much of a citizen as an unnatu
ralized Chinaman is.
Miss Lamar, the daughter of Secretary
Lamar is said to he the prettiest girl in the
Cabinet circle in Washington. The South
is bound to lead in beauty as well as in many
things.
■Bfo lierc is tall; of the formal ion of an “ \fn>-
National League, ’’ Its purpose
in. be to enact laws in the' Southern Slates
will favor the negroes. It will never
BWeceed; its name will kill it.
Ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of In
diana, says that his opinions regarding
politics are not worth much. His modesty
is refreshing. Most ex-Senators think their
opinions on any subject of incalculable
value.
Mrs. Chiara Cignarnle, who was con
victed of murder in New York last .week,
was the first woman ever convicted of a
capital offense in that city. An effort, will
be made to save her neck from the hang
man’s noose.
A keeper connected with the State prison
of Connecticut says that Charlie Ross is in
that institution serving a term of imprison
ment. Charlie Ross’ father does not place
much faith in the story. There is little
doubt that the boy was killed soon after he
was kidnapped.
The firm which furnishes the government
postal cards turns out more than 2,000,000
every day. The demand for them is said to
be on the increase. Chicago, St. Louis, and
Atlanta have been made sub-postal stations
for the distribution of the cards. This week
25,000,000 will be sent to Chicago.
Ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey says that three
fourths of the money contributed for politi
cal purposes during ctunpaign excitement
is stolen by the men in whose hands it is
placed. The ex-Senator ought to know, for
it is said that he has directed the distribu
tion of large sums for political purposes.
Henry George didn’t make $75 last Sun
day night. He was announced to deliver a
lecture on that night for the benefit of the
locked out hog butchers of New York, the
price of the tickets being fixed at 35c.
AVhen the hour appointed for the lecture
arrived there were not twenty-five persous
in the hall. George was on handy but the
small audience caused him to postpone the
lecture indefinitely.
Col. Robert Ingersoll is telling anew
story. “A Georgian," lie says, “came up to
Illinois after the war and wanted to sell his
uniform. He asked around at several places,
‘Do you want to buy a uniform P Finally
aonie one asked him what grade of uniform
it. was, when he suid; ‘lt was a private’s
uniform in Georgia, but I reckon it mout
do for a Colonel in Illinois.’ ” CoL Ingcrsoll
deserves thanks for having discovered at
least one Georgian who was a pri vatc during
“the late unpleasantness.”
Henry Blocker, of Chester township, liid.,
died lest week. He was a very eccentric
character. Some years ago he liegan lend
ing money at exhorbitant rates of interest,
receiving 15. 20, and even 83 per cent. The
condition was made in each case that if the
interest was promptly ]tid, the obligation
should cease at Blocker’s death and the
notes be canceled. It is said that many per
sons in all parts of Indiana were relieved of
financial embarrassment when their eccen
tric creditor died.
The statement* made that an adventurer
named Merina nas a scheme on hand tor
mortgage the Hawaiian Islands to sor/ie
government that will guarantee King Kala
knua a big yearly income. The matter was
at one time in u fair way tol bo brought to
the attention of the Uniti/mlo qes govern
ment, but something <>c<V r ' : l ‘! l P' prevent it.
If is said that the Itffh f *'jLJ| s j'ujpent favors
the scheme. It seems t/j n u jt, He Kalakaua
is always running Bug Judge jLum,
getting into debt, ai.#, ]
would tii' glad to •’'OKm . *■ HflUnt'lUlH
fcllW.iWU a i car. f
Two Weak Reasons.
Among the reasons which the protection
ists give for repealing the internal revenue
taxas, there are two which they thrust to
the front very often. One is that an army
of spias is required to collect them, and the
other is that the people aro led into becom
ing violators of the law in their efforts to
avoid them. It must be admitted that they
are not very strong reasons, though they
are calculated to create a prejudice against
the taxes in the minds of the thoughtless.
T 1 le some reasons might be urged against
the customs duties. A small army of spies
is maintained at New York and other ports
to detect frauds on the revenue, and consuls
are sent to all the commercial cities of other
countries to prevent undervaluations of
exports to this country. Notwith
standing the spies and consuls, however,
the government is defrauded to the extent
of millions of dollars annually. The im
porters become, just as the moonshiners do,
lawbreakers in their efforts to evade the
payment of customs duties. As far as the
moral effect upon the people and the spies
are concerned, therefore, the argument in
favor of repealing the customs duties is just
as strong as that in favor of repealing the
internal revenue taxes.
But the protectionists say that the people
don’t like to be harrassed by internal reve
nue officers inquiring into their business af
fairs. Those whose intentions are honest do
not object to such inquiry, but those who
try to evade the laws do. The same is true
with respect to the importers. The honest
ones submit without protest to the enforce
ment of the tariff laws, but those whose pur
pose is to cheat the government are always
in trouble with the customs officers.
The amount spent in preventing internal
revenue frauds is not anywhere near as
great as that spent in detecting customs
frauds. If, therefore, the internal taxes
were abolished Jor the two reasons specified,
it would be difficult to see why the tariff
tuxes also should not be abolished.
f The truth is that there are no reasons for
repealing the internal revenue taxes which
are as strong as those for reducing the tariff
taxes. There is not even a general demand
for a repeal of the internal revenue taxes
as there is for a reduction of the tariff taxes.
The protectionists alone are hostile to the
internal revenue taxes, not because they
think those taxes are more burdensome
than the tariff taxes, but because they believe
their repeal will prevent a reduction of the
tariff. They are wholly selfish in the mat
ter. Neither the good of the jieople nor the
interests of the country influence them
in the least. It is not to be wondered at,
therefore, that they are steadily losing
ground. Thay find it uphill work to try and
convince people that it is better for them to
have free whisky and tobacco than to have
cheaper cotton tits, agricultural implements
and clothing.
Population in the South.
The Public Health Conference, recently
closed at Louisville, Ky., was perhaps one
of the most important meetings of the kind
ever held in this country. It was cei'tainly
one of the most interesting.
Among the papers read at the conference
was one by Bishop C. C. Penick, entitled:
“The Colored Race as a Problem in Sanita
tion.” The Bishop claimed that the negroes
load degenerated in a very marked degree
since their emancipation. lie quoted statis
tics to prove that they were dying off 50 per
cent, faster than the whites, and that the
death rate among them was much larger
than the increase. His conclusion was that
unless the whites did something to prevent
the mortality of the negroes it would be but
a matter of time when the race in the United
States would become extinct.
When the result of the census of 1880 was
made known, much comment was excited
by the apparent rapid increase of the
negroes. Indeed, there were some who
lioldly declared that the time would come
when the negroes would not only outnumber
the whites in the South, but when they
would by their superior numbers drive the
whites out or drag them down to their
level. Of course, their dismal prophecies
were foolish. The English-speaking race,
when once it effects a lodgement,
never succumbs to any other. But the proph
cies so confidently made caused careful
inquiries to be instituted as to the relative
increase of the whites and negroes. The re
sult was indisputable proof that the census
of 1870 had not been properly taken. The
negroes, at that time, were situated so as to
make accurate enumeration of them almost
imjwssible, and in consequence their numlier
was declared to bo smaller than it really
was. The census of 1880 was more carefully
taken, showing an apparently great increase
in the negro population. The increase was,
however, not greater than that of the
whites.
The mortuary reports of Southern towns
and cities show that the death rate among
the negroes is greater than that among the
whites, and that the increase of the negro
population is loss than that of the white
population. This is doubtless due to the ne
groes' mode of life. They lack, to a great
degree, the comfortable surroundings which
the whites enjoy. Nevertheless, Bishop Pen
ick’s conclusion is erroneous. The negroes
in the South will not become extinct.' They
learn to take better care of themselvs every
year, partly on their own motion and partly
because they are compelled to do so by the
sanitary laws enacted and enforced by the
whites. It is not probubl t that the negroes
will ever outnumber the whites, but it. is
probable that the relative increase of the
two races by births will continue what it is
now. Immigration to the South, which
must gradually increase, will place the
whites largely in the majority.
At Richmond the friends of Hon. J. Ran
dolph Tucker are getting up petitions asking
the President to appoint him to the vacancy
on the Federal Supreme bench. Mr. Tucker’s
enemies are looking for documentary evi
dence to show that when he was Attorney
General of Virginia ho rendered an opinion
to the effect tha., the United States mails
could be searched for written and printed
matter that taught opposition to rights of
property in slaves. By going back so far,
his enemies confess that his record is a par
ticularly good one.
It is said that ex-Honator Jones, of Florida,
who is still: in Detroit, is beginning to see
/nic bottom of his purse. Miss Palms, who
is believed to have been the attraction for
him at Detroit, has gone to Europe, and it
is wondered whether the ex-S*>nntor will fol
low her there. Would he not do a wiser
thing by going to Florida and engaging in
the practice of tho law !
At Canton, 0., the other day, a man
named Dansizen horribly mutilated his
wife in an attempt to murder her. He gave
us aujaruso that the Salvation .Army had
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1887.
Tho New French Ministry.
There is a strong impression loth in Paris
and London that war between Franco and
Germany is only a matter of a compara
tively short time. It is believed that an
attempt will soon bo made to overthrow
the ttouvier ministry that has just been
announced, and there are not wanting those
who are in a position to form a very correct
opinion, who say that the attempt will be
successful
The new ministry favors peace, and if it
is sustained tho peaceful ralations between
France anil Germany will be maintained.
The ostensible issue on which the Goblet
ministry was overthrown was one growing
out of financial matters. The receipts from
tho revenues were less than the expenditures
and the ministry proposed to make
up the deficiency by additional
taxes. To this the Clianibers
objected. They said that he trouble should
be cured by a reduction of the expendi
tures. On this issue the ministry was
beaten, and was, of course, forced to resign.
Everybody understands, however, that tho
real trouble was not a financial one, but one
invaliding war with Germany. Gen. Bou
langer dominated the ministry, and he wns
spending immense sums on the army and
navy. If it had been clearly understood
that war was the thing aimed at, and that
the outcome of the enormous expenditures
would be hostilities, it is not improbable
that the Goblet ministry might
have held on a while longer.
But nothing of the kind was claimed. On
the contrary, it was distinctly asserted by
Gen. Boulanger that there was no intention
to attack Germany. He wanted to be
ready, however, he said, in the event that
war was declared. Tho peace party could
not see the necessity for additional taxation
for military purposes unless war were
regarded as inevitable.
Gen. Boulanger has asked for a leave of
absence from France on the ground that his
health needs a change of climate. He is
out of the Cabinet, and, therefore, not in a
position to do much to bring about a war
between France and Germany.
If, however, he is the scheming, ambitious
man he is represented to be, he will not stay
out of the Cabinet very long. The war
party is a very strong one, and he is one of
the leaders of it. The chances are that his
health will very soon improve greatly, and
that he will make an active effort to regain
his old position of Minister of ihe War
Department. Some of the French journals
announce that the new ministry will go to
pieces within a very few days and that the
ministry of which he was a part will doubt
less be recalled. It will not do, however, to
be too certain about this. The peace and
war parties nppear to be pretty evenly
balanced and unless some unexpected event
to stir up the war feeling occurs it is by no
means pertain that the war party will get
the upper hand. A few days may deter
mine what the chances are for a continu
ance of the Rouvier government.
The Thistle.
There is no doubt that the Thistle, the
yacht, that is expected to carry off the
America’s cup this year, is a much better
boat than either the Genesta or the Galatea,
the yachts which were beaten in the races
for the cup last year and the year before.
In the channel match on Saturday, from
Southend to Harwich, which opened the reg
ular English yachting season, she easily beat
the best of the other nine yachts which took
part in it.
The wind was light and, therefore, the
time made was nothing remarkable. Some
doubts are expressed about the Thistle’s
nbility to do good work in rough weather.
There does not appear to be any ground for
them. On her trip from the Clyde, some
days ago, she had rough weather enough—
so rough, in fact, that she suffered consid
erable damage—and the testimony is that
she behaved beautifully.
An American yachtsman who was on
board of her during the race on Saturday
expressed the opinion that she can beat tho
Mayflower, the winner of the international
race last' year. It is probable, however,
that American yachtsmen will have a boat
ready to meet her by the time the contest is
to take place.
The Thistle is 135 tons burden, is 85 feet
in length at the water line; 20.3 feet beam,
and 16.1 feet in depth. She has all the fea
tures, it is suid, of the Mayflower and Puri
tan except their stern. That she is a very
powerful boat there does not appear to be
any doubt among yachtsmen. The contest
for the America’s cup is looked forward to
with deep interest.
The United Labor party of New York,
more fitly designated the George Labor
party, will hold a convention at Syracuse
on Aug. 17. Candidates for State offices
will be nominated upon a platform, the
essential planks of which will bo the abo
lition of private property in land and the
issuance of United States Treasury notes to
represent the accumulating surplus. The
loaders of the party are making an earnest
effort to unite tho workingmen in its sup
port. A circular which is being distributed
in large numbers says: “One and one-half
millions of people in the city of New York
ure tenants to 40,000 landlords, and should
unite against the old parties, of which the
landlords and other monopolists are the
wire-pulling leaders.” The progress of the
new party will be watched with great in
terest.
Mr. Chauncey M. Depow, of New York,
says that he has made enough after-dinner
speeches in the last, twenty-five years to fill
ten or twelve large volumes. The New
York Star says that he laments that people
will not consider his serious efforts as they
do his fun making, and, like the genial
Sunset Cox, sometimes thinks that, after
all, Tom Corwin’s injunction to lie “a sol
emn ass” is the road to permanent success.
If Mr. Depew wishes the people to consider
his serious efforts, lot him induce tho Re
publicans to nominate him for the Presi
dency. It wouldn’t lie long before he would
wish that he had never made a serious ef
fort.
Boston is agitated over the bills for the en
tertainment of Queen Kapioliani upon the
occasion of her visit to that city. They
foot up 818,000. One of the largest items
is $4,500 for flowers. Another item is the
cost of the reception to the Queen at the
Victoria Hotel, Only 100 persons wore
present, and the bill for liquors shows that
each must have drank one gallon of liquor,
for the bill says that 100 gallons were con
sumed. It is probable that somebody Ixv
sides the Queen had a royal time while she
was in Boston.
In answer *■■ the inquiry, “What makes a
Statef” the Mobile Register says: “Real
!t in tlliH Part of the world at
I jjf* *t takes pa
trnitwmm jmi wwas:i, Nfpv< < n - i, ,i
CURRENT COMMENT.
No Coldesa Between Them.
I'roin the Mobile Registers. Dcm.)
The fact that the President and Mrs. Cleveland
will pay Gov. Hill, of Ne,. York, a visit is evi
dence that all the talk at mt coldness between
tho two gentlemen was imaginary,
Canada’s Idea of Reciprocity.
From the Few Yorl: llerald {lnd.)
Canada favors reciprocity, but, in Hibernian
phrase, she wants it nil on one side. That Is to
say, Rlie would like to have the United States do
the square and generous thing, and then, for
herself, she will reciprocal*' by doing just as she
pleases,
Blaine the Strongest Man.
From the Birmingham Age ( Item.)
We still hold to the opinion that Blaine Is the
strongest man for the presidency in the Repub
lican party. But Blaine has suffered in health
ax well an prestige since the last campaign, aud
will be much easier to heat in 1558 than ISB4. He
will have to bear the burden of fuur years of de
pletion.
Needs Repairs.
From the Philadelphia Record ( Deni.)
So vast and complicated is the tariff system
that the Treasury Department is kept constantly
employed iti settling questions that daily arise
under the provisions of the tariff laws. A Bos
ton firm recently appealed from a decision of
the Collector at that port in regard to the ap
praisement and assessment of the duties on
steel hillets. In other isirts the assessments of
duties are made In a different way. After
twenty-five years of tariff tinkering this model
American protective system is sauly in need of
repairs.
BRIGHT BITS.
Those who wish to paint the • town red on
Sundays must use water colors,— Life.
How seldom you hear of a woman fainting
anywhere else than in a man’s arms.— Boston
Transcript.
A phrenologist has examined John L, Sulli
van’s bumps. We suppose he found them on
the other fellow’s head.—Ran Francisco Alta.
“Women are not backsliders as men are.”
says a writer. No, but they would be if it
wasn't for their bustles. — Binghamton Rejmb
lican.'
“How much are these flowers?" asked a hand
some, well-dressed gentleman. “I want them
for my wife.” “Really, for your wife?” ex
claimed la marehande, astonished: “then I’ll
throw off 50 percent.”— Texas Siftings.
Curate (to old man who is beating his donkey)
—Fie, tie, my good friend, do you know what
happened to Balaam once?
Old Man—Ees, sure, zur—the same as has just
happened to me, zur—a ass spoke to him— lrish
Times.
“He’s gawn to the dawgs, paw fellaw, he has,
I assuaw you?”
“Good gracious! I hadn’t noticed it.”
“Gad! Whenw aw youaw eyes! Haven’t you
seen how tight his bweecbes aw and the cussed
colaw of the ewavat he weaws?"— Town Topics.
Herr Professor—You haf a remargaply
bowerful foice, my vrent!”
Basso—Yes; do you think it will fill St.
James’ Hall?
Herr Professor—Fill St, fha-mes’ Hall! Ach,
my vrent, it vitl not only fill St. Chames’ Hall—
it vill empty it!”— Punch.
Miss Waldo (of Boston) —You sometimes
have very warm weather in Chicago, do you
not, Mr. Breezy?
Mr- Breezy—Occasionally; but last summer
the weather was delightful. I don’t think I sat
down to dinner without my coat on more than
two or three times during the entire season—
Pack.
“And what kind of a man was your husband?”
a weeping widow was asked.
“Well, I thought he was an angel before we
were married, but 1 found I had made a great
mistake. He wus just the reverse. But he got
religion before he. died and I guess he’s an angel
now. That’s some consolation.— Boston Cour
ier.
There is no longer any doubt that Chicago is
the literary centre of the country; Adam Fore
pa ugh says so. “I had three times as many
people under my canvas every day last week,”
says he. “as I had in Boston, and I turned away
about 8.000 people every night. 1 know what
Pm talking about when I say that for genuine
git-up-and-git culture Chicago' beats the world!”
—Chicago News.
Omaha Girt,-- Have you read “She?”
Chicago Girl—l haven't had time vet. I've
become a- fully interested in "Bloody Billy, the
Gulch Gallante,” though.
“Horrors!”
“Yes, indeed, it’s delightfully full of them."
“The idea of reading those vulgar dime
novels!”
“Oh, this is all right, dear, it’s bound in cloth
with gilt edges.”— Omaha World.
Little Ben’s grandfather was afflicted with
a very lame leg, and the small grandson was
wont to pray for it every night. After awhi!-,
however, be evidently grew tired of it. and one
evening arranged matters in this way: “O,
Lord,’* he prayed ns usual, “bless grandpa's
lame leg." Then, struck with a happy idea, he
settled his obligations once for all: “O, Lord,
bless everybody's legs)” Ameu.— Harper's Mag
azine.
A younosteu of the mature age of 10, captain
of the Boomer club, a base ball nine in n neigh
boring city, recently received a challenge from
a rival club to play, which he accepted. Before
the game took place, however, lie prepared two
reports for I he local papers, either one of which
could be used as occasion demanded. One set
forth in glowing colors a victorious result for
his nine. The other merely left a space for the
Score, with this concluding comment: “The
game was lost by the Booiners<hrough bad um
piring.” This was taking time by the forelock
indeed.— Boston Herald. 1
PERSONAL.
Mas. Langtry is to spend most of the summer
in the Yosemite Valley.
Gen. Grf.ely is now framed in a suit of white
flannels. He supports his own weather.
Ex-Postmabteb General Hatton is booming
Roscoe Conkling in the New York corridors
It is said that SJrs. Blaine objects to having
her husband make another fight for the Presi
dency.
The Emperor of Brazil is still in feeble health,
although the contrary is asserted by the court
physicians
The testimonial performance given this week
to John T. Ford, the theatrical manager of Bal
timore, celebrated the close of his thirty-third
year in his business.
On a road leading from Greville to Landemer,
near Cherbourg, in Normandy, stands the hovel
in which .lean Francois Mellet was horn, still
inhabited by one of his brothers, who has turned
it into an inn.
Lord Lyons, now in his 70th year, will not
resigu ins [lost as Ambassador to Paris for two
years. This promise, according Jto the Paris
American Rcr/isler, has been given at the spe
cial request of the Queen.
The wife of Senator Sawyer, of Michigan, is
an invalid, and the Senator gives Dr. Kempster,
formerly manager of the Utica Insane Hospital,
J'.'i.ddfl a year to attend her. Her slightest wish
is always gratified, no matter what the expense
may be.
Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond sculptor,
has coin [ leteil the statue of John (’. Hiss-kin
ridge in c'Ay lor t he capital square at Frankfort,
Ky It Is Ilf heroic size, and Senator Beck, who
was Breckinridge's law partner for ten years,
pronounces it an excellent work.
Tub Pnbliehei-g' bulletin, anew weekly just
started in New York, says that Dr. Taltnage will
soon begin to write a weekly syndicate letter for
a number of newspapers. His sermons are al
ready published by a large syndicate of news
papers. und arc said to have a circulation of
5,000,000 a week.
The Emperor of Austria appears to be very
accommodating. The other day a committee
called on him, begging him to Is- present, at the
unveiling of the Haydn monument, on May HI
The Emperor replied he would be delighted to
come, und on I-ring asked what hour would best
suit him he replied, “I shall be happy to come
at uuy hour that suits you."
Lord IVolsklkv made his maiden ascent in a
lialloon at (.'hat ham the other day. lie went up
in an an-ial machine containing 10, um feet of
compn-ssed gas. nearly as much ok has ts-en
given out by ids Journalistic p ilfers since bis
Ashantee campaign. It was a 'captive” balloon,
which, from a w olselsjrstandpoint, is suggestive.
Ms). Esdile, who as<-ended with the (Sen crab
observed that had Iwlloons been thought of in
the Houdan campaign it would not have lasted
as many weeks as it did months. Tile Major
will doubtless bo promoted for this sage-facto
discovery.
Mrs. t iti.iA Tuaxter, whose most charming
poems are those of the sea. Imd a stran-w- girt
hood. Her father, a Mr. lalghlon, who was a
thorough misanthrope front various disappoint
ments. left boston when she was a child and
bought the l lr of Hhoals, and lived in that lone
Ivspnt, which m those days was quite cut off
mint tlie world. Thera his daughter was brought
up In uttr Isolation. And it was but natural
thut when some young Boston men spent a
shot! time on this scclu'jMLjaauu y.MSiniiuier
t i 1 M,C
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BEN; PERLEY POORE’S HOME.
A Remarkable Old Farm House With
Sixty Rooms.
The Iferald has the following description of
the home of Beni Perley Poore, the veteran
Washington correspondent, who died at Wash
ington last Sunday morning:
MaJ. Poore's home, near Newburvport, Mass.,
is probably one of the most remarkable and in
teresting old homesteads in the country. The
farm takes its name from an eminence upon it
wl(gre the owner lot his quaint fancies manifest
themselves in various ways. From its summit
the American flag has never failed to float in
houorof national anniversaries or to celebrate
important events. National and political vic
tories —the Major was a staunch Republican—
wcrq announced unfailingly by the blare of the
bonfire at night. And many a time have the
sides of the lull been bright with the uniform of
visiting military organizations and Masonic
bodies, to both of which Mai. Poore was always
ready to extend a hearty hospitality. Ho was
himself a Freemason of high degree.
- On the southern slope of this hill is a flue
piece of woodland, started a little more than a
quarter of a century ago by the Major himself.
Every seed was planted by his own hand. This
remarkable instance of arboriculture was re
warded by the Massachusetts Society for the
Promotion of Agriculture with a prize of 81,000.
The rambling old mansion that Maj. Poore
called home covers ap immense area fora farm
house. It i.i not more than two stories high in
any part, and yet it contains upward of sixty
rooms. There are ancient looking halls, old
fashioned stairways, broad fireplaces, mediteval
galleries, chambers full of suggestion and all
kinds of peep boles in the shape of windows, and
of sally ports in the shape of doors. The place is
a veritable museum of antiquities. Relics of the
past are found in every nook and corner.
Ancient pictures hang on the walls; antique
books throng the library shelves. Arms and
armor, tools and implements, uniform and cos
tume, old furniture, old utensils and every kind
of thing that can suggest lie- long ago is there,
and to those interested in mementoes of the
past hours at Indian Hill are easily melted down
into ujpments. Among the curiosities ure arms
and equipments of Revolutionary times and
subsequent wars; chairs, tables, lamps, crock
ery, etc., formerly owned by Washington, Jef
ferson, Lafayette, Webster, Lincoln, Sumner
and other notables; the printing press and type
cases used by Benjamin Franklin when an ap
prentice boy in Boston; Indian relics, weapons
and tools of early settlers; ancient dishes,
tools and utensiis, and many souvenirs of nota
ble persons and places gathered in foreign
lands. 3Taj. Poore’s home was a favorite re
sort of antiquarians from all lands.
A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING.
A Senator’s Daughter and a Journalist
Married.
The most interesting social event in Washing
ton last week, says the New York Sun, was the
really beautiful wedding of Senator Dolph’s
daughter and Richard Nixon, of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. There has been a good deal
of interest in this wedding for several reasons.
Miss Dolph’s beauty has never been disputed,
and she has been an acknowledged belle in
official society, where t lie re are always prettv
young women each season. She has been bappy
in the number of friends, and has been termed
a popular girl. Some of her girl friends have
frankly expressed surprise, because, as they
said, she did not marry money or position. One
young woman, more outspoken than the others
m her set, exclaimed: “Oh, Agnes, why do you
marry a poor young journalist? Why don't
you wait and marry a Senator, somebody worth
while?” Miss Dolph, though “finished” in a
fashionable New York school, still holds to the
breezy, Western prairie off-hand maimer of the
Oregon-born girl.
Few "Washington journalists have married
daughters of men in official life. Young men
often called newspaper men are too busy to
give much time to society. Asa rule they- are
not in the “set" of society men, and have no
opportunity to meet society girls. Several years
ago Howard Carroll married Mias Starin. whose
father was a member of the House at the time.
Later I. C. Crawford married the daughter of
Representative Joyce, of Vermont. Miss Joyce
was a beauty, not unlike Miss Dolph in the
Style of being tall and a brunette. As Mrs.
Crawford she is still a flne-looldng woman, and
clever, too. Miss Dolph has much Independence
and strength of character, that will serve her
well as the wife of a "poor young journalist,”
"Marry a Senator!” she retorted, with vim in
her voice. “Marry a man as old as my father,
and one I don't care for! You know Senators
are old men, or fliost of them are. Young men
don't get In the Senate. When my father and
mother were married he wasn't a Senator. His
chances were no better then than Mr. Nixon’s
are now. No; you may wait and marry an old
Senator if you want to. I'll take the poor young
journalist now, and we will wait together for
the Senate or any other good place we can get.”
Then, in a graver tone, she added: “You see,
Mattie, I care more for him than for money or
position. ”
Selling’a Farm.
From the Dakota Bell.
“Your price is too high,” said an Eastern
speculator as he rode over the farm of a Dakota
man living near Fargo. "I can’t pay $5,000 for
such land as this.”
“It’s worth it, though,” replied the owner.
"Why. look here, it's all low, flat laud.”
“Yes.”
“Covered with water half the year."
“Yes, just about.”
“The soil is heavy and cold.”
“Yes, middling heavy and cold."
“Then how do you rpake out its worth $5,000?”
“My friend, do you see that hole over there
back of the barn?”
“Yes—dig ring a well, I should judge.”
“Supposed to be, but it has a deeper meaning
thaii that. That hole Is down sixty feet and I
have two dead dogs in the bottom.”
"Well, what's the scheme?"
“Why, you buy the land for $5,000; dogs begin
to smell good and strong in about a week, ex
pert sniff’s around and pronounces it natural
gas, Fargo papers full of it, farm sold tor $25,000
inside of two days, clear profit of $20,000! See
it?”
“Y-e-s, the plan appears feasible, but why
don't you work it yourself?”
"Me?” Why, you see I'm a minister and the
people of my church qre getting so very partic
ular that I don't want to try it. But I’ll let you
have the place at those low figures, uud preach
a powerful sermon the next day after the expert
is here and point out that natural gas in the
Red River Valley is prophesied about away
back in Deuteronomy.”
Love’s Tender Signs,
By Mm. 31. A. Kidder ,
You say I am happy.
Pray how can you tcllf
The heart of a inaid
Is as deep as a well!
She often will smile
With a heartache below.
And when meaning “Yes,”
She will likely say “No.”
Ah. yes, my own darling,
Some maidens, I own.
Their heart-secrets keep
In a casket of stone.
But when some fond swain
A sharer would lie,
If looked on with favor.
Love tenders the key.
A suitor who loves
As I, dear, love you.
Can wait for an answer
From lips that are true.
Your gentle blue eyes
That look Into mine.
Each day tell the story
My heart would divine.
A Parisian Dentist’s Suicide.
Par in Letter, to Loudon Telegraph.
A Parisian dentist, about 50 years old, has
just committed suicide in very tragical circum
stances. He hail fallen desperately in love with
a rather good-lookms woman, who was it singer
in a suburban cafe concert. She did not return
his affection, although she continued to frequent
his surgery. She went there yesterday to have,
ns she said, one of her teeth stopped, nud the
dentist renewed his protestations of affection;
but, as she refused to give him any encourage
ment. ho suddenly locked the door of the room,
sat down and scribbled a few lines on a piece of
jiuper, and deliberately shot himself While
dying, according to the woman's statement.be
caught her in Ids arms and passionately cm
braced Inn - . Tills accounted for her clothes
being covered with blood. The neighbors state
thnr, besides the report of a revolver, tbev heard
sounds of an altercation in the surgery. The
dentist was a married man, but had lived apart
from his wife for many years.
The Zephyry Spring 1 of ’Bl.
From the Flmidreau (Dak.) Herald.
“You have some wind in Dakota,"said a land
seeker to a Flandreaulte last Saturday. "Oh,
yes, it blows some here, but nothing like it did
In’Si. I knew a man that spring who sowed a
twenty-acre Add to oats, and the wind began to
blow the next day after they were dragged and
kept it, up three days. . After tiie wind emptied
lie happened along on the north wide of the field
and there in the grass lay every oat sown three
days before in n regular oat drift. Hiring some
boys anil girls to pick them up, lie realized
about forty bushels of his seed. It so discour
aged him that he took them to town, sold them
at 50c. • a bushel, paid his taxes on the land,
and turning hts horses out tq <qrasa, lived on
bullher.de. lho rest of the summer. We bad
some wind that year."
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The people of the Holy Land are becoming
civilized. Bethlehem's sti-eetsare lighted with
g:ts, Nazareth is the headquarters of big olive
oil speculators, and Cesarea is having a building
boom.
Buffalo's malt business is enormous. The
annual product of the malt manufacturers
there is 7,090,000 bushels —an amount exceeding
ly nearly 2,000,000 bushels the combined product
of any other two American cities.
Eevbex M.Wkst, a negro barber, who recently
died in Richmond, Va., aged 88 years, was once
of the most prominent men of his race in the
State, chiefly owing to the remarkable fact that
he had about $20,000 invested in the African
slave trade.
A. T. Soule,* of Rochester, N. Y., who built at
his own expense a canal nine miles long for
irrigating purposes in Kansas at an expense of
$1,000,000, has announced his intention of
extending it so that 1,000,u09 acres of laud will
always yield a full crop.
A when built its nest in an old fruit can nailed
to the gate post of A. J. Diehl, of Normal, HI.
The nest was destroyed, but was renewed twelve
times on twelve successive days, having been
pulled to pieces each time as soon almost as
built, The bird was then left hi undisputed
possession.
Englishmen are advised by Consul Ricketts
not to emigrate to Brazil. They may get land
cheap, but will And that work under a tropical
sun is dangerous. There is a lack of communi
cation with the interior, and the natives are
hostile to the English. For these reasons there
are few British settlers in Brazil.
Two Brockton (Mass.) men claim to have in
vented a machine with which two men and a
boy can last 200 pairs of shoes a day, and do it
more cheaply than by the present process. 'The
machine will not strike, and if the two men and
a boy can be depended upon, the, last of the
lasters’ strikes seems to be near at hand.
The only woman cab driver in England has
just died. Visitors to Epping Forest will recall,
as one of the peculiar institutions of that vicini
ty, the female Jehu, who for many years wore
conspicuously the badge of a driver, and held
the reins in skillful competition with the men,
who, no doubt, vociferously denounced at cab
stands and railway stations this demonstration
of a woman’s rights.
Maky McLaughlin, who has been appointed
postmistress at Lake Forest, 111., Is a young Irish
seamstress who has been sewing among the
families there at $1 a day. This appointment
will give her $1,500 a year, and she must have
been astonished when a telegram reached her
from Senator Farwell that her name had been
sent to the Senate. She was not a candidate and
probable never dreamed of such a thing as being
postmaster or holding any other office.
Not long ago, the Secretary and Treasurer of
one of the largest street car lines in Pittsburg
was taken ill, and his daughter undertook to
manage his business. She kept the books in
good shape, attended to the collection of money,
paid the employes, and bought feed and stock
for the company. She did so well thut when
her father died, the company elected her to fill
the position permanently—but we are not told
that she draws the same salary.
Bikthday boxes are among the new inven
tions for raising money., and are used by some
Hudson River churches. These boxes are placed
in prominent places in churches and Sunday
school rooms, and upon the birthday of ang
member of the church or school that person
puts into the box as many pennies as he or she is
years old, and continues this practice each year.
The boxes are opened every six mouths, and in
this manner quite a snug sunf is realized.
At the close of the recent session of the Con
necticut Legislature that body, as has been its
reprehensible custom, voted to the newspaper
reporters sums of money for “special services.”
William F. Clarke, of the New Haven News, re
ceived S2OO. The proprietors of the Weirs dis
charged him upon his refusal to turn the money
into the State Treasury, and then sent their own
check for S2OO to the State Treasurer. This the
Treasurer has returned to the paper, saying he
lias no authority to receive it, and that lie can
not take it without a special vote of the Legisla
ture.
'A steamer which arrived at Philadelphia from
Antwerp the other day had among the passen
gers eight children, ranging from 2 to 14 years
qld, whose father had not been seen since he put
them on board the vessel at Antwerp. Just be
fore the ship left Antwerp the father made
some trifling excuse to get ashore for a few mo
ments and cud not return, and the children were
carried here unprovided for and without the ad
dress of any friemls. The eldest boy said that
his father treated them very kindly, and had a
great deal of money about his person when
leaving the ship.
A Son Fraxcisco drcmmer visited one store
to make a sale, but was told that no dealings
could be had with him as long as he stopped at
a boycotted hotel. Thereupon he went back to
the hotel, paid his bill and left. Subsequently
in another store, he was toki that they could
not deal with him because he left the hotel; and
to “square" the matter he returned to the boy
cotteu hostlery. He was a very perplexed
drummer indeed. A tailor’s assistant was board
ing at a boycotted house. The tailor w as warned
that he ran the risk of boycotting if he per
mitted this, and he thereupon caused the young
man to change his quarters. The boycotted
hotel man then got even by countermanding
the order he had given the tailor for a suit of
clothes, and inducing a friend to countermand
another order.
A Dakotas and a Texan who met in Chicago
were disputing about the greatness of their re
spective districts, and among other things
traded marvelous stories about the work of the
wind in each locality. “How fast does a Texas
norther blow?” asked the Dakotan at last,
“How fast? Well, the only thing that will
measure it is lightning, When a Texas
norther is coming they telegraph ahead, so peo
ple can ®et under ground, but when It gets
under good headway it will just about run a
ueok-aud-neck |raoe with the telegram. How
fast’s a Dakota blizzard:” “Oh, you can’t
measure a blizzard. There’s nothing like it.
I've seen a blizzard skin a telegraph message
right off the wires and carry it on ahead. I
never saw but one the speed of which could be
measured. There seemed to lie something the
matter with that one. It went rather slow,
only 'bout 1,000.000 miles a second, and we
couhln t tell what was the matter with it until
it w ent by, when we found it Was dragging one
of those infernal Texas northers along behind.”
“There has been such a rush of American
ladies lately, all panting to be presented to the
Queen,” says London Truth, “that a most un
compromising circular has been issued from the
American Legation, in which Mr. Henry White
announces that there can be presentations from
the diplomatic circle only under special circum
stances, i. <.. when the lady is a person of genu
ine distinction, whose position in the United
Slates justifies her attending the drawing-room
under the auspices of her Minister. It has be
come absolutely necessary to take steps to re
strict the number of American ‘ entree ’ presen
tations, as it is not the custom for any of the
foreign ministers to present officially unless
under special circumstances, The ' feverish
yearning to ’bend the knee’ at Buckingham
palace, which possesses so many American
ladies, arises from an extravagant" notion that
attendance at a drawing-room will inevitably
produce an Invitation to the jubilee entertain
ments; but there art: some Americans now
flaunting about London who could assure their
countrywomen that it is one thing to attend a
drawing-room, but unite another to get an invi
tation to the palace.
The bo.nb-ridden Czar of Russia beguiles the
interims of time while he is not dodging Nihilis
tic missiles by playing on the French horn, with
which instrument he is an adept, says Strakosch
to an Interviewer. On one occasion, while he
was the i 'zarowitz, he glayed a French horn ob
bligato to a song given by Mme. Nilsson. When
ids imperial majesty last visited Copenhagen he
attended a concert in which Nilsson snug the
same air, and he was affected to tears by the
memories of a time when he could toot his horn
in peace undisturbed by revolutionary subjects
and the cares of government. When (he lute
King Victor Emanuel visited the small cities of
his realm, one of his first questions always wbr
regarding the condition of the opera li luse. If
there was none, he would suggest and
aid in the construction of one,
even in towns having no greater popula
tion than 8,000 Inhabitants. I always find an
aiT“ction for the King, for be gave me this deco
ration the cross oi San Maurlzto de Lazzaro—
after a series of concerts given by I’atti in Flor
ence. Victor Emanuel was a protector of
Verdi, ant made the composer n Semi tor,
although the composer had no longing for po
litical honors. His son, King Humbert, pay ; a
subsidy of 10,000 francs a year out of lus own
imrsoiml income to tin- Apollo Theatre of Rome.
EX-Queen Isabella, of Spain, used to sing very
well, Imt, her voice being no longer fresh, she
now hus a preference for Instrumental music.
Tbe Queen of Belgium is very fond of music,
and by her efforts she has contributed much to
the progress made in musical art in Belgium of
late years. The Emperor of Austria disburse*
over 1,000,000 francs a year to the Vienna Opera
Hoime, it. being bis idea that hi* capital should
have an opera house to rival the Grand Opera of
Faria.
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