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THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings —Haupt Lodge No. 6ft, I. O. O. F.
Special Notices— Schreiner's Music House,
Sole Agent for Ernest Rosenkranz, Dresden,
Germany; Coupons and Bonds of Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad; Drs. Lanier and Cub
bedge, .Dentists; As to crew of the Belgian Bark
Brabant.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Personal; Miscellaneous.
InlandJßoite— Steamer David Clark.
Notice to Contractors —Committee of Offi
cers First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia.
Base Ball—Orientals vs. Warrens.
At Butleb’s Pharmacy—George B. Ilawkes,
representative of Hawkes’ Crystallized Looses.
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Jay Gould has gone yachting again. He
itook his doctor with him, although he per
sists in declaring that he is not sick.
Twenty divorces were granted by one
court in Atlanta on one day. living on the
Piedmont escarpment doesn’t seein to be
conducive to conjugal felicity.
The City Council showed good sense and
good judgment in the selection of a city
atto-ney last night. Mr. Adams is an able
lawyer, an honest man and a public spirited
citizen.
Gen. Meade’s monument in Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, will bo dedicated on
Oct. 18. It is to be hoped that the orator of
the occasion will decline to harass his hear
ers with allusions to the captured flags
episode.
Henry Clews, the New York banker, In
tends soon to visit the home of his youth in
England, which he has not seen for thirty
one years. He will doubtless take with him
a few bogus Georgia bonds to remind him
that it isn’t always safe to bolster up a
fraud.
David Foutzat, of Jefferson, N. C., who
murdered his father the other day, says he
committed the crime liecau.se his father com
pelled him to wear a hickory shirt. Per
haps if the old man had laid the hickory on
David’s shirt often and vigorously the
young man would have been a better son.
In addition to their inability to find the
will of the late Judge O. A. Lochrane, his
fjpmily are troubled about certain stocks,
bonds and insurance policies that are miss
ing. It is supposed that they are in some
safe deposit vault in the North. Judge
Lochrane was like many other lawyers—
careful about everybody’s business but his
own.
Some of the Morning News’ State ex
changes are giving their readers a glimpse
of this slate. Senator Colquitt to succeed
Secretary Lamar, Gov. Gordon to succeed
Senator Colquitt, President of the Senate
John S. Davidson to succeed Gov. Gordon.
The slate doesn’t cause much excitement.
The truth is, it. is too warm just now .to
worry about politics.
In New York, the other day, the wife of
Prof. Haines went to police headquarters
and said that her husband hud deserted her.
Soon after she left the Professor turned up,
greatly excited, and declared that his wife
had deserted him. They had become sepa
rated while about to depart for Baltimore.
When they found each other it goes without
Baying that a lively scene ensued.
Washington specials continue to convey
the impression that Secretary Lamar” will
be appointed to the Supreme bench and
that he will be succeeded by Senator Col
quitt. No doiibt Senator Colquitt would
make a good Secretary of the Interior, but
does be want the position? If he should be
come a member of the Cabinet who would
sueceod him in the Senate? This is an in
teresting question in this State.
The news comes from Chicago that Dr.
McGlynn intends to join the Knights of
Labor and to work, hereafter, in the inter
est of that organization, with a view to dis
seminating Henry George’s land theories.
Some of the Chicago Knights express pleas
ure at the prospect of having the doctor in
their ranks, and declare that they will run
him for the office now held by General Mas
ter Workman Powderly. If the doctor
means to turn the Knights of Labor into an
anti poverty society, similar to the Kc-
Giynn-George concern, he will soon firt
himself boycotted. The Knights of Labor
are not fools.
The family of Craig Tolliver, the Ken
tucky desperado, who was shot to death by
a Sheriff’s posse in Rowan county a few
days ago, are rejoicing that he did not die
With his boots on. It was always predicted
of him that he would die with hi* boots on,
and when ho win about to make his desper
ate run for the railroad from the hotel
where he had been bolding the posse at bay,
he remembered the prediction, and ho quick
ly unloowsl his shoes and kicked them off.
hen killed only his socks were on his feet.
T).d he believe In the prediction, and did ho
tUmk that bv taking off hW shoes he would
the bullet* ot the posse?
a Tfißk >T " -f
Canal.
About ull from tho
Isthmus of Panama respeefingtho progress
of the canal are unfavorable. The latest
report, that of M. Arthur W. Roudier, who
held for ten months an official position un
der the f’anama Canal Company, and who
reached New York a few days ago, shows
that the work on the canal is being pushed
forward very slowly. There has been a
great reduction of the working force, and
there is considerable dissatisfaction among
the laborers on account ot the irregularity
with which they receive their wages. Tho
death rate is very large from tho Chagres
fever, and there is also at the present time
an epidemic on tho isthmus of yellow fever
and small pox. From the very beginning
of the enterprise there has been a great
waste of money, owing chiefly to tho
placing of incompetent men in responsible
positions. The same ineonqietency is notice
able now that was apparent in the earlier
stages of the work. Tho great need at
present, however, is money. With plenty of
that the canal may be completed within ten
years. There are competent engineers,
however, who say that if all the money that
is wanted is promptly furnished, and if an
entire change is made in the methods pur
sued in carrying on the work, it can, under
tho direction of engineers qualified for their
duties, be completed within five years.
There is not much probability, however,
that the conditions for finishing it within
the shorter time mentioned can be secured.
The stockholders and directors will have
a meeting in Paris, within a few days, and it
will lie determined then perha)>s how more
money is to be raised. IV it bout money,
and plenty of it, tho company will soon go
to pieces, and tho enterprise will be aban
doned, at least for the present.
There is some complaint in this country
that M. de Lesseps has not received the en
couragement that he deserves, and that it is
apparent that* there is a desire that the
enterprise shall prove to be a failure. Doubt
less there are some who would rejoice if tho
canal should be abandoned either because
they want to see a canal constructed on the
Nicaragua route with American money and
under American direction, or because they
predicted at the outset that the Panama
undertaking would be a failure and want
their prediction to bo verified, but it is
probable that tho great majority of Ameri
cans, especially those who have given tho
subject considerable attention, would like
to see it a success. The comments on the
progress of the work have not, as a rule,
been favorable, because the reports have
not been favorable. They have received their
coloring from the reports and it will hardly
be denied that the reports have contained
very little that has been encouraging.
This country is deeply interested in having
the isthmus pierced. A canal would not
only greatly benefit our commerce, but
would bring about a very considerable re
duction in freights between points on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Tho fact that
Americans have put no money in the under
taking does not prove that Americans have
no interest ill its success. They have not
invested in it because the Panama Company
is a foreign one, and they were
not willing to trust their money
to men about whom they know nothing, and
who might waste the company’s capital
without securing any definite results.
All things considered, this country has
given the canal about as much material and
moral assistance as oould reasonably be ex
pected of it. If de Lesseps’ company fails
Americans may take hold of tho canal and
complete it.
A Washington Sensation.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore American says that there is a
secret organization of Democrats, with head
quarters in that city, whose object is to de
feat the renomination of President Clove
land. According to this correspondent the
headquarters of the alleged organization are
over a fancy goods store on Pennsylvania
avenue, and ho furnishes a paragraph from
a pretended circular which he alleges is
being distributed by tho organization, in
which it is declared that the administration
is controlled by Mugwump Republicans.
There are good reasons for thinking that
there is no such organization, and that the
report that there is such a ono was set afloat
by some ono anxious to creato a political
sensation. The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, who doesn’t take
much stock in sensational reports until he
finds that they have some foundation, asked
several Democratic Congressmen who are
at present in Washington, whether they
had hoard the report. All of them said
they hail not, and expressed the opinion that
it was wholly unfounded. Senator Butler,
of South Carolina, characterized it as ab
surd. The curious part of the report is that
which makes Southern Congressmen respon
sible for the organization. There is no part
of the country in which the President is
more popular than the South, and Southern
Congressmen are not likely to form a secret
organization for the purjxxe of defeating
his renomination.
There has been a marked tendency lately
on the jrart of Republican papers to attack
the President, and they miss no opportunity
to try to lessen his popularity. Why is this?
The reason is that the Republicans believe
that if he is renominated it will bo about
impossible to prevent his re-election. What
they are aiming to do, therefore, is to pre
vent his renomination. They understand
very well that he will draw a larger vote
from the Republican party in 1888 than ho
did in 1884, and their only hope for success
is in defeating his renomination.
They are using the incident of the battle
flags against him for all that it is worth,
and they are doing their utmost to impress
upon Democrats that the Mugwumps arc
having more to do with shaping the policy
of the administration than the Democrats
are. Although their scheme shows con
siderable shrewdness it is not at all probable
that it will be successful. Mr. Cleveland,
from present indications, will be renomi
nated, and that, too, with very few
dissenting voices. The Democratic party
is too wiso not to choose us its candidate a
maa whose election is assured. The Demo
cratic loaders understand that the President
is not only very popular, but thut his popu
larity is steadily in<reosing, and they also
know that the cause of his popularity is his
unquestioned integrity and his watchful
care of the interests of the whole country.
No one denies that he is administering the
government wisely and economically, and
that he is giving general satisfaction. The
Democratic party, therefore, is not likely to
abandon him for another candidate of
whose election there might bo considerable
doubt.
The jubilee yacht race in England was
rather a failure. The course was not liked,
the best yachts were not entered, and no
body accrued to care anything about the
result. The Genesta won a thousand guineas
by her victory, but very little honor.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1887.
How to Know the South.
The Northern pooplo are getting a much
better understanding of tho Southern peo
ple front letters written by Northern men
and women, who are living in different
parts of the South, to their friends at home
than they get from the talk of their politi
cians. The Boston Herald, a day or two
ago, published an extract from ono of these
letters. It was written by a Indy who is a
member of ono of the abolitionist families
of Massachusetts, and who is now teaching
in the South. She is said by the Herald to
boa lady of high culture and rare refine
ment. The lady is living in an inland
Southern town. Her letter was a private
one to a person in Boston, and if she sees it
in print she doubtless will be greatly sur
prised. The following is the extract:
One cannot know the South by any rapid
tour through it; one must live in its houses
and hear what the people think and feel,
and understand why they think and feel as
they do. Tho South is happier than the
North; people here are less restless; le6s
goaded by competition and envy, and there
is a purer democracy, fewer social lines
founded upon merely external advantages.
The spirit of brotherly love is more obvious
here, and much is real lovo between them
selves. I do not even exempt the colored
man, for I believe he gets as much sympa
thy here as he does at the North.
Expressions of this sort,which are genuine
and true, tend to bring closer together the
Northern and Southern people, and to neu
tralize the bitterness excited by tirades like
thoso of Massachusetts’ senior Senator when
ho thinks he has got hold of something which
he can exhibit to the country as a fresh
Southern political outrage.
Sharp Convicted.
The celebrated trial of Jacob Sharp is
ended and the defendant is convicted.
A half dozen of the sharpest lawyers in
New York couldn't prevent a verdict of
guilty. The twelve jurymen, who were
selected with so much trouble, required less
than fifteen minutes to make up their minds
respecting tho guilt or innocence of the
accused. The time occupied in securing a
jury was not wasted.
The fact is, there was practically no de
fense. Some exceptions were taken during
the trial, and the usual effort will, of course,
be made to secure anew trial. The State’s
attorneys proceeded carefully, however, and
it is doubtful if they made any serious mis
takes. The penitentiary will receive Jacob
Sharp, unless death claims him before he
can be placed within its walls.
The press is largely entitled to the credit,
not only for the prosecution of the boodle
Aldermen, but also for that of Jacob Sharp,
who furnished tho boodle to bribe the
Aldermen. That both Sharp and the
Aldermen are guilty of the crimes of which
they have been convicted there is no doubt.
The effort of the press was to protect the
public against such men. Their conviction
will be a warning which will be heeded for
a time at least. If such men were permitted
to go unpunished bribery would become so
common that only men willing to become
criminals could obtain concessions from
officials and legislative bodies, and an honest
man in an office would be a curiosity.
A Color Line Flurry.
Millionaire Bradley, the owner of the
temperance village known as Asbury Park,
on the New Jersey coast, near Long Branch,
is having rather a lively time with the col
ored folks who gather at that resort in the
summer season. Mr. Bradley is willing for
tho colored people to find employment at the
hotels and boarding houses of the town, but
he wants them to keep away from the beach
when the band plays and the white folks
are out to enjoy the sea breeze. He has
issued an order excluding the colored folks
from the board walks and pavilions along
the beach, and they are denouncing
him in a way calculated to make him
lose his appetite. They think they have
lioen insulted, and arc, therefore, making
just as much noise as if they had been.
Asbury Park is noted for its religious
meetings, at which there is a great deal of
singing and praying. These meetings the
colored people like, and that is why they
find Asbury Park so attractive. They
would rather work in the hotels there for
nothing than for wages elsewhere. The
town is overrun with them, and they
threaten to crowd the white people out.
Mr. Bradley see* that his place, which has
been built up at an outlay of millions of
dollars, is losing popularity, and that he
will either have to make it a resort for col
ored people or deny them the privileges of
white people. He has chosen the latter
course, for the very good reason that as a
colored folks’ resort it wouldn’t yield enough
to pay taxes.
Mr. Bradley isn’t to blame for not want
ing his place monopolized by colored people,
and the colored preachers and school masters
who are denouncing him ought to have
sense enough to see that he isn’t. The
white visitors of the place are the ones who
object to the presence of the colored people,
and Mr. Bradley can’t make them see that
their prejudices against any sort of social
equality with the colored people is a foolish
one. He might tell them that they are
always ready to condemn the Southern
people for their refusal to accept the colored
people as social equals, but it is doubtful if
they would be able to see any inconsistency
in their conduct.
After all, it is rather interesting in this
locality to watch the color line squabbles
that appear to be more frequent at the
North than at the South. Mr. Bradley is a
Republican, and probably the majority of
his ]>atrons are Republicans. They ought
either to share the Asbury Park beach with
the colored folks or cease insisting on wiping
out the color line at the South.
The 'Washington correspondent of the
New York lferahl says that a long, lank
West Virginian named Brown presented
himself at the Pension Bureau the other
day to furnish evidence in a landing claim.
It was learned upon inquiry that his mother
had borne thirty-three children. Twenty
were boys, sixteen of whom served in the
Union army. Two were killed, leaving
fourteen survivors. Each of the latter
draws a pension from the government for
disabilities received while in the service.
The death of the two boys entitles the
mother to a pension also. Gen. Black told the
corresiKindent that the files of the bureau
failed to show anothor record where the
sixteen sons of the same father and mother
served as soldiers in tho late war.
Commenting on the demand for an artistic
improvement in American coins, the New
York Herald says: “What tills country
needs just now is a half cent made of brass.
On one side should be the head of Gen.
Fairchild, and on tho other the three palsies
that he prizes ho highly.” The objection is
that the three palsies might unfit the half
cent for use in the contribution box.
If the school book* on physiology are
authority, it is a lucky child thut inherits
nothing from its parents but mono.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Man With the Rapid Mouth.
From the Boston Globe (Dem.)
Civilization trembles in her fastnesses at the
sight of the Man with the Rapid Mouth. The
greatest menace which threatens our institu
tions is the man whose mouth goes off before it
has established connection with his brain.
The Mourners Will Not Increase.
From the Washington Post (Dem.)
The Republicans of Allen county, 0., the first
in that State to take action, have just voted
down, by four to one, resolutions pledging Ohio
to Sherman next year. Blaine and Forakerto
f ether will always is) found too heavily loaded
or John Sherman The latter is certain to be
sold out in 1888, just as be was in 1880, and there
will be no more mourners than before.
The Plain Truth.
From the New York Herald (Ind.)
Well, if we were to tell you the plain truth
bluntly, we should say that the Republican
party has done its work and now lives on its
past record, with nothing to do in the future
that can’t be better done hv the Democrats. It
was born to abolish slavery. Slavery has been
abolished. And now the party has taken a
tumble from the top of a bold, aggressive
statesmanship to the bottom of a political
machine.
Mr. Randall and Tariff Reform.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem).
Ex-Congressman William R. Morrison ex
presses his despair in the matter of a satisfac
tory tariff revision in the next Congress. He
says the Democrats have tried to compromise
with Mr. Randall several times, and have found
him willing to accept nothing but a repeal of
the Internal revenue taxqs. Formerly Randall
made a pretense iu favor of tariff reform, and
introduced elaborate bills on the subject. But
he now openly declares his hostility to any form
of tax reduction except a repeal of the internal
revenues. He and his faction in the late Con
gress were evident ly only fooling when ostensi
bly seeking conferences with members of the
Democratic majority in order to effect a com
promise on the tariff.
BRIGHT BITS.
It is not justice to put one lawyer on the bench
at a small salary ana allow other lawyers to talk
him to death and mllect large fees for doing it.
—New Orleans Pitmmune.
An old-fashioned Fourth makes surgeons, un
dertakers. glass-eye makers and cork-limi) ar
tists look upon the dispensations of Providence
with a resigned air .—Oil City Blizzard.
A man named Oyster registered at the St.
James Hotel last Sunday. Although out ot
season the courteous clerk could not refrain
from greeting him with “R" there!”— Hotel
Mail. „
One extra Strom? minded woman has re
marked that an old bachelor is a man who
through selfish motives has refrained from
making some women wretched.— Shoe and.
Leather Reporter.
‘‘Where did you get all the fish. Johnny?”
asked a little urchin of his chum, who had a big
basket on his arm.
“Down at the market, to be sure,” returned
Johnny. “I'm going to take them out in the
count ry and sell them to the fishermen coming
hom a."—Judge.
A Vermonter, attending a prayer meeting in
Massachusetts, heard an elderly gentleman ex
press his feelings in the following manner:
“And we should all, my dear friends, bless the
Lord that we arc not born in Africa, nor Ver
mont, nor any othr dark corner of the earth.”
— St. Allxins (Vt.) Messenger.
Two business men wt r? talking the other day
about the inefficiency of their assistants. One
expressed himself warmly upon the subject.
The other quieted him by saving: “Wait a min
ute. Did it ever occur to yoi i that if those peo
ple were as smart as we are they would not be
our assistants?”— New York Ledger.
Seedy party (to bartender) —Your refusal,
sir, to trust me fora paltry drink of whisky fills
me with astonishment and indignation.
Bartender—All right, sir; you can fill yourself
up with astonishment and indignation and it
won’t cost you a cent; but if you want to fill
up with whisky you will have to have cash!—
Puck.
A boston servant, like many of her class,
does not know her age. She has lived with one
family eleven years, and has always been 28.
But not long ago she read in a newspaper of an
old woman who had died at the age of 106.
' Maybe I'm as old as that meself, said she.
“Indade, I can’t remember the time when I
wasn't alive.”— Harper's Magazine.
A Vermont farmer met a patent medicine
fence decorator in Burlington the other day and
Invited him to come out. “I'll give you leave to
pulut your signs on 600 rods of fence along the
main road," said the farmer. Next day the
sign painter hired an expensive livery team and
drove out. The farmer gave him a warm wel
come and invited him to look over the farm.
After a while the painter asked to see the 500
rods of fence. '“Oh, I forgot to tell ye in
town,” said the farmer, “that air fence is wire.”
—Burlington Free Press.
“We are all slaves,” said an English socialistic
orator, as he pounded the desk on the platform.
“Not all of us,” said an old man, rising.
"Yes, sir,” answered the orator, "every one
of us. We may sing Britons, never, never,
never shall be slaves,’ but we are slaves for all
that,"
■‘Some of our mechanics are free, you’ll ad
mit?”
"Who are they?”
“The Free Masons.”
Then the orator sat down.—Boston Courier.
PERSONAL.
—3
July 21 will be Mrs, Cleveland's 23d birthday
Patti has bought another absolutely farewell
piece of real estate.
The late Mark Hppkins bore a striking resem
blance to Mr. Gladstone.
Justice Field reached San Francisco last
week after an absence of two years.
Ex Gov. St. John is in New York waving the
prohibition flag in the faces of his foes.
President Grevy, of France, is added to the
long list ot notable people who are sufferiug
from neuralgia.
The Rev. George Lawson Rogers of Bullitt
county, Kentucky, has been preaching ever
since 1818 and Is 100 years old.
The Interesting rumor has gone forth that ex-
Senator Jones, of Florida, intends to forsake
Detroit and settle in New York.
Buffalo Bill is introduced to a lord or duke
as “probably the most famous man in America
to-day and a candidate for the next Presi
dency."
Queen Victoria was presented with a silver
crucifix by an English monk with whom she
conversed for some time at her receDt visit to
the Grand Chartreuse Monastery.
W. L. Trkniiolm, United States Comptroller,
of Currency, is a tall, lithe man, with dark eyes,
gray hair and gray moustache. He is a pleasing
conversationalist and has cordial and attractive
manners.
Washington gossips assert that the eldest
daughter of Minister West is soon to marry the
secretary of some legation, who has procured a
leave of absence to go home and secure his
parents’ consent.
The committee in charge of the McCullough
Memorial have instructed the sculptor to pre
pare a full portrait statue in place of the bust
with which it was designed to mark the grave
of the distinguished tragedian.
This was President Garfield's opinibn of the
late President of Williams College, whom tbo
students called "Mark, the perfect man:” “A
log with Mark Hopkins at ono end and a young
man at the other would be a university.”
1). W. Dorc.HKp.TV, son of the Hon. Daniel
Dougherty, recently caine near losing his life at
a bull light at Baragosa,Bpain. Tho hull escaped
from the pit and charged among the spectators,
and Mr. Dougherty narrowly escaped his horns.
Capt. n'Ai.MKinA, a naval officer of Portugal
aud member of the Chamber of Deputies at
Usbon, bit the Minister of Marine a blow on the
nose during u heated debate in Parliament. He l
was at once arrested and confined in one of the
war ships in the harbor.
Walter Mcriiay Hibson, the American Pre
mier of the Hawaiian kingdom, 1* said to Ih not
only the power behind the throne, hut ambitious
to mount the throne Itself. Ho persistently de
clines to be knighted or decorated, and is likely
to be the leader In the anticipated revolt against
King Kalakaua.
A month knt to the Emperor Alexander I. of
Russia is atjout to lie erected on the bank of the
Danube, tie! ween Renl and Ismail, at the place,
close to the St. Therapont Monastery, where the
Russian I coops crossed the Danube in PW. The
monument consists of a bronze obelisk, oma
mooted with Turkish arms and Russian im
perial eagles. At the four corners the cannon
arc placed which were taken from tho Turks In
18117.
li is sAin that even If a revolution should suc
ceed in Hawaii a republican form of govern
nient would not be imposed. Kalakaua would
be succeeded by his sister, the Princess, a young
girl IS yearn of age. the idol of the English rest
dents. She is a daughter of “Arable” (leghorn,
a Scottish Australian. Her mothfr was ine late
Lilcelike, sister of Kalakaua. The English and
the Kipls, or rebels, are very anxious to place
the little girl ou the tbrono.
THREE LADIES IN A BOX.
The Grisly Sight Seen in the Ruins of
the Opera Comiquo.
3lrs. Crawford's Paris Letter in London Truth.
"Look up there,” said the Colonel. I did as
he told me, and beheld in a liox that held on as
if by a miracle to the wall, three ladies with
blackened visages. One was in black velvet.
Another had a jet cuirass. The third was in
pink and white, and had flowers in a mass of
frizzed fair hair. Her mouth was opened, as if
gasping for hreath; the lips were greatly curled
back, and two rows of white, even teeth were
laid bare. The others leaned back in their
chairs quite quietly, and one of them held a fan
on the ledge of the box, They formed the most
awful sight I think I ever gazed upon. The
probability is that, despairing of escaping in
the fearful torrent of human beings which tore
in the dark along corridors and stairs, they re
turned to their seats and quietly waited to be
burned or suffocated. Death came upon them
in the form of suffocation. It was impossible
up to the time I saw them to get near them,
and so they remained in their conspicuous posi
tion for several days. Who these ladies are no
body has an idea.
A Fortress of Criminals.
It seems scarcely possible that in any part of
the habitable globe there should be a natural
refuge wherein criminals can openly defy the
law and where it is impossible for crime to re
ceive punishment. However lax we may be at
times in our judicial proceedings, says the San
Francisco Call, still we know it is impossible to
lay hands on the evil perpetrat ors even though
we desire not to punish them. In the lisland of
Formosa, however, nature herself has formed a
fortified home for bloodthirsty criminals. For
mosa is an island about ninety miles off the coast
of China, from which country it is separ
ated by the channel of Fokein. It was un
known to the Chinese until the year 1408,
and in 1034 the Dutch established" a settle
ment there, but after twenty-eight years of
peaceful residence they were" expelled by the
famous rebel Coxinga, whose successors ruled
the island until 1082, when the Chinese took full
possession. Then the population was 2,000,000
to 8,000,000; now It has dwindled down to little
more than 190,000. Although 250 miles long and
80 miles in breadth, nothing is known—by civil
ized beings -of the interior portion, for it is en
closed by an enormous volcanic range, and it is
within this space that all the aborigines now
herd together. These natives have a slender
form, olive complexion, long hair, and blacken
their teeth. They have no written language,
and their religion is confined to a superstitious
belief in demons and sorcerers. No wonder,
then, that they are easily governed by some of
the more advanced descendants of the rebel
Coxinga, many of whom have taken up their
abode with them, and a wild and desperate
life they lead. They take advantage of the
asylum offered by this belt of
country to make organized expeditions
therefrom for purposes of pillage, and even go
so far as to arrange defensive operations against
the dwellers on the seacoast as a pretext for the
levying of tribute. More than 1,000 cases of
murder are committed by these people every
year, and the Chinese authorities are completely
set at defiance. The mountainous nature of
the country and the large numbers to be dealt
with preclude all success of the Chinese soldiers
against them. The brigands know every loop
hole and can get outside, whereas the others are
unable to get in. The policy of the present
government of Formosa seems to be to draw all
the natives outside and away from their asso
ciates. This plan has partly succeeded, but
there are still at least 100,000 natives leagued
with the brigands, and nature’s lofty volcanic
walls still remain a fortress impossible to storm,
but easily defended by these red-handed des
peradoes.
My Love Goeth Forth.
Soft is the sky, and the joy of birds
Breaks from the copse on the budding brae.
And the air hath the dream of the peaceful
herds
Thut graze in the fields to-day.
And the brook hath a tum in its wavering strain
That steals to my heart like a passionate
thought;
The phantoms of evil assail me in vain.
And I set the world’s wisdom at naught.
For my love goeth forth, and her robes are
white,
White Uke the clouds at the break of dawn,
Fnir, fair, and a madness doth burn in my sight
Lest the vision shall be withdrawn.
My love goeth forth and the lingering air
Lifteth up the soft tresses that shadow her
eyes:
’Tis an angel, I say hath been drawn by my
prayer
To come down from that land in the skies,
it.
What envious hand doth lay
The keen blade to the grasses?
What blight hath turned to gray
The powering woodland passes?
hi.
Dull is the sky; the mingling joy of birds
Sounds from the dell, nut music’s balm hath
fled.
I heard the lowing of returning herds.
But hope and love are dead.
The brook's soft wave doth murmur at my feet.
Like some lost voice that calleth from afar;
The withered leaves sail like a mournful fleet
Which cotneth back from war.'’
For my love goeth forth, and her robe is white,
White like the snow in the cleft of the hill;
My love goeth forth with the king in his might,
And her hands are orossed and still;
My love goeth forth, and my wild despair
Cannot lift the soft lashes which shadow her
eyes:
'Tis an angel, I say, that in spite of my care
Goeth back to that land in the skies.
—Robert Bums Wilson ,
Pleased With a Battle, Tickled With a
Btraw.
From the Chicago Tribune.
One of the favorites of London this season in
an amusement way is a man with the very at
tractive nameof Corney Grain. He is an enormous
man—tall, with a tremendously powerful body.
His shoulders are broad and exceeding thick,
and, as he stoops badly, it makes them look still
more gross anu awkward. He is a mouse col
ored blonde, with sallow complexion, dull,
sleepy blue eyes, a large mouth, and thick pug
nose. His forehead Is low and retreating, but
he partly hides it by a loose ware of hair. This
man is considered the great wit in London at
present, and his appearance is the signal for a
laugh before be opens his mouth. I think it
would l>e easier for Americans to laugh at him
before he had opened his mouth than after. He
Is simply a diluted music-hall singer- -a music
ball singer with all the fun and dash left out.
He seats himself at the piano and the audience
laugh. I heard him at a concert the other day
at which all the music was good and classical.
This man closed the entertainment with one of
his songs. The audience consisted of some
of the best jieople in London -people who are
among the representative cultured society of
the city. Yet there was no part of the pro
gramme which received such applause and at
tention os the shrieking of this course elephan
tine humorist. He sang a vulgar song, without
wit or originality, of a Scotchman’s coming to
London and seeing the sights and describing
them afterward to a friend at home. The great
point of the song was that a!! of the women
f liat lie saw wore very low-necked dresses, ami
if his wife did the same he would heat her and
send her to lied. The audience fairly shouted
with appreciation of this delicate satire, the
women enjoying it as much as the men. A
friend told mo that this Mr. Corney Grain was
invited to Marlborough House to sing to the
Prince and Princess of Wales last Sunday even
ing, and among M|hers he sang this same song.
The Prince ofm/ales went into such fits of
laughter ovojJ®s.hat, he nearly fell otf of his
chair. thut, I can account for the
Knglish Airing such stiilf is that they
are so that theyseiio
upon is labeled funny in order
Marries a Pair.
fVam the London Globe.
I have found a place in the Nebraska Legisla
ture, I have been in the cattle business, acted
as hunter to the Grand Duke Alexis, and per
formed a marriage ceremony. This last feut is
not without Its humorous aspect. X had been
elected a magistrate for the State of Nebraska,
and was one evening astonished by the visit of
one of the Sergeants of the post who desired to
be married. There was no clergyman in the
country, and I as the representative of the law
was therefore empowered to tie the loving
couple together. There was one awkward point,
however. I had never j erfomiod a civic mar
riage or even assisted at one. and the statutes
of Nebraska contained no.hing in the way of
form of direct ions. I therefore had perforce to
rely upon my ingenuity on this occasion, and
felt somewhat confused. The time arrived, and
with it the pair of lovers. I turned to them and
said to the bridegroom:
"Do you take this woman to bo yotir lawful
wedded wife, to support and love her through
lire?”
"I do." replied the man.
“And do you," I said to th bride, “take this
man to be your lawfulfwedded huslmnd?"
“1 do," said the woman.
"Then join bands, and know that I pronounce
you two to beman and wife, and whomsoever
Buffalo Hill Joins together let no man put asun
der."
It was not perhaps strictly formal, but It did
well enough The pair were married and were
contented, and I believe lived very happily
together ever after.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
John Conklin, a Grand Rapids (Mich.) city
charge, who has chewed tobacco for eighty-flvo
years back, is getting ready for a centennial
celebration in August. He’s hale and hearty at
100.
A Sturgis (Mich.) man placed $lB in green
backs in his stove for safe keeping. The usual
result followed—his wife built a fire in the
stove a few days later and the money was
burned.
A German mathematician has calculated that
the snowfall of central Germany from Dec. 19
to 23 weighed no less than 10,000.000 tons in the
area between 50° and 52.5° north latitude and
between 7° and 18° east longitude.
A London omnibus conductor who was dis
charged fifteen years ago has just sent the com
pany a letter saving that he bad defrauded the
company Gf about- SSO while in its employ,
which amount he intended to repay in small in
stallments.
A writer in the Boston Ploughman holds
that the briars, thorns, thistles and weeds are
an actual blessing rather than a curse, because
they exert a powerful influence in dissolving the
nutriment contained in the rocks and soil and
preparing it for plants of a higher and more
useful nature.
Apoplexy, induced hy excessive laughter, was
given at the inquest as the cause of the death of
a young woman, in Sheffield, Eng., lately. She
had been highly amused at the predicamen into
which a neighbor got. and broke into a fit of
laughter which continued until she fell to the
floor unconscious, death following shortly af
terward .
The Baris Theatre Commission, has resolved
on requiring all scenery and decorations to be
made incombustible within a month, the Pre
fecture of Police affixing its stamp on them. It
has also decided on requiring that an iron drop
shall be fixed in each theatre in projecting ma
sonry, so that when it is lowered the stage may
be entirely cut off from the auditorium.
Edward King writes from Paris that he knows
personally that all the rumors concerning Gen.
Boulanger’s appointment as Ambassador to St.
Petersburg, or to some other prominent diplo
matic or army position, are entirely groundless.
He says: "Boulanger desires nothing more
than he has had; he wants to work for the gen
eral good; he is a true patriot, and too much of
a gentleman to truckle for favor; altogether,
his record is one of the cleanest and most per
fect that any French politician has had since
Gambetta's time.”
At Mount Vernon, N. Y., a few nights ago, a
young woman gave Michael Schwartz.a burglar,
a pass key to the house in which she was em
ployed so that he could enter at night
and rob the premises. Schwartz was caught
while endeavoring to escape with a lot of plun
der. He told the officers now he had obtained
the pass key and Justice Edmunds, of that
place, before whom the two delinquents were
arraigned, without consulting them as to their
wishes married them then and there, and then
sentenced both to Albany penitentiary for four
months each.
Says a Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Telegraph: “Henry George has a
goodly number of converts in Washington. It
is a fertile field for missionary work, and the
seeds McGlynn dropped by the wayside are
already bearing fruit. Many government clerks
have become firm believers in the economy of
Mr. George, and a movement is on foot to form
an Anti-Poverty Society. The prospects are
that the membership will be large. Men who
have grown musty in the service and never ac
cumulated anything but large families have
tired of reading the standard worksfn political
economy, which seem to furnish no cure for their
case, and are drinking in George like a draught
of fresh air. Some long and animated discus
sions occur at lunch times, and even the women
are interested in the question.”
Tom Corwin used to tell in his inimitable way
a story about a Mr. Jones, who was running for
Congress in an Ohio district, and who, while fill
ing his round of appointments, made a speech, at
the close of which, bv way of commending him
self to the “bone and sinew," the “regular sov
ereigns” of the country, he said that he was a
self-nmde man of "obscure birth and humble
origin;” that in fact he was sprung from "the
very dregs of the people.” "Why, fellow-citi
zens," said he, warming up and elevating his
voice, “my parents were so poor that when I was
18 years old my mother had to tie me to the bed
post to keep mo from falling into the tire when
ever she went to the spring for a pail of water."
Of course he Intended to say eighteen months,
and Mr. Corwin, who was present, cried out:
“Oh, Jones, Jones, what a thumping big baby
you must have been!’’ The crowd saw the point
of the joke, and Jones broke down at once amid
their jeers,
Extract from the London Court Journal:
“Hon. W. F. Cddy (Buffalo Bill) was a close
companion of a man named Boone, who dis
covered Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a
granddaughter of a distinguished gentleman
known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody was twice
Governor, of Chicago and was at one time
Mayor of the Arkansas Legislature. He served
in the Confederate army, in the command of
Gen. Butler, who so gallantly defended New
Orleans against the threatened invasion of the
Federal Gen. Longstreet. After the war Mr.
Cody went to Congress from the province of
Detroit and introduced a measure far the relief
of the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for him
the name of Buffalo Bill. He has contributed
largely to the Atlantic Monthly , a newspaper
edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a
man who is mainly noted for his negro dialect
sketches. Mr. Cody has a ranch of many acres
in St. Louis, where he keeps a large lot of In
dians and ponies constantly on hand.”
C. T. Ward, of San Francisco, has lately re
turned from a several years’ residence in Chili.
Among the South American curiosities Mr,
Ward brought bock with him is one of the eyes
of a Peruvian Inca, which was preserved with
the embalmed body. These curious specimens
of the preservative art are very rare, and are
very valuable when they are found entire. The
specimen in the possession of Mr. Ward has the
shape of a piece of wax that has been cast in a
thimble. It is translucent and of a bright golden
color, looking something like colored glass. Few
people who see it for the first time would !>e
able to discover from its appearance its true
character. But even to them It would lie sur
rounded by some mystery which they would tie
anxious to have revealed. It is related that a
Poruvian lndv had a collection of thirty or more
eyes of this kind, valued at $30,000, which she
had mounted and wore as ornaments at a hall
in Paris. Efforts have been made to discover
the secret of the art by which the eyes of the
Peruvian monarehs were preserved, but up to
this time no chemist has been able to make it
his own. It is believed, however, that gold was
one of the materials used, which would account,
perhaps, for the color of the specimen.
The Indianapolis New Record says June 14
was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordina
tion to the priesthood of Bishop Obatard. of the
Diocese cf Vincennes, but because of his
absence in Europe no demonstration would be
made of the love and honor in which he is held
in his diocese. Bishop Cbatard is a son of Dr
Ferdinand Chatard, of Baltimore. His father
says he has not heard from him since May,
when he was to have left Rome, which he has
probahly done, and he is now in some other
part of Europe. The Bishop went to Romo on
church business, hoping alßo to obtain Some
rest and recuperation. He was horn in Balti
more, Dec. 18. 1884, was graduated at Mount St.
Mary's Emmitsburg, in 1853, and then adopted
the profession of medicine, following his
father's and grandfather's example. But after
pract icing a year ho became an ecclesiastical
student at the Urban College, Home, and was
ordained a priest in Pentecost week. 1862. The
next year he was made a doctor of divinity, and
became vice rector of the American College at
Koine, afterward becoming a rector. He was
also private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX He
was made Bishop of Vincennes in March, 1878,
and his diocese is one of the most, prostierous
and well regulated in the United States.
Or all the wonderful boomers who have re
cently risen in the West, Murdock, the editor of
the Wichita (Kan.) Ragle is said to be the great
est. Kays a correspondent who visited him and
his sub-editors the other day: Before I had
time to ask anything about the‘greatest grain
metropolis of the Western hemisphere’ they had
ordered a hack and wanted to drive me out to
an addition where It is suld that land will soon
be worth SI,OOO a foot and no questions asked
1 declined to go, and then they proposed to give
me SIOO,OOO if I would start a manufacturing
establishment in nn addition in which they were
all interested. They then spoke to me some
thing about Wichita's connection with the
seaboard. A liveried messenger pulled the
door hell furiously, and upon Icing ad
mdted bowed reverently and extended a
gold lined Sliver salver to Mr. Murdock, which
Contained a highly • perfumed note from Jay
Gould, Informing the editor that his presence
wns needed in New York at once, to develop
some great railroad scheme for the benefit of
icblta. .After reading the note carefully ho
passed it around anil summoned his faithful citv
editor and gave iiniiorative orders not to allow
anything to appear in the Eagle except plnte
matter, for a period of ton days, or the ttmu
that he would be abseu) The city editor bowed
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fjpok#* Jn courtUfTitial undertones to the “Blir
rhin* and told th£m to look after the intercuts
of the city while he wag gone.
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