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4 S|c|tTorntngHftos Morning News Building, Savannah, Ga. WEDNESDAY, JULY (t. JBS7. Registered at the Post nfltrr in Savannah. The Morktvg New* is published every day in fbe year, and u served t<> KiiJisiTibors in the city , t>3" uewadcalcr, at *1 carriers, .on th*ir own ac count, at cor.!> a week. Si 00 a month, $0 tW lor six months and *io 00 for one year. The Morning News, by mail, one month, *1 Ou: three mouth*, $2 DO; six months, $0 UU; one year. Oh 1 W Tlie Morning Nr'vs, ly man, six times a week (without Sunday Ksuel, throe months, f* 00; six months. 00 one year, 00. The Morntxo Nfwb. TriWeekly, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, or Tuesday**. Thurs days and Saturdays, thin 4 *' months, Si 25; six tionths. $2 SO; one year, $T U). The Svnl’ay News, bv mail, one year, on The Weekly News. I>y mail, one year, ?l 25. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter. Cur rency sent by moil at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed •‘Morning News, Savannah, Oa.” Advertisinp rales made known on abdication INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Meetings—Tlie Equitable loan and Building Association; Magnolia Encampment No. 1, I O. o. F.; Stockholders Pioneer Brick Cos.; Golden Hulc Lodge No. 12, I. O. O. F. Special Notices—Steamer Seminole for Bluff Ion; Ivy Watermelons, L. Putzel; Felt and Cloth Hats, at Jaudon s. Cheap Column Advertisement*—Help Want ed; Employment Wanted; Fur Rent; Summer Resort*; Gist; Personal; Miscellaneous. Educational—Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga.; Hollins Institute, Virginia; Tiie Oglethorpe Seminar) 1 , Savannah, Ga. ILawke's Crystallized Lf.nses—At Butler's Pharmacy Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Cos. Seed IhiAs, Etc. G. S. McAlpin. The Morning News for the dummer. Persons leaving the city for the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, 31 for a month or $2 50 for three months, cash invariably m ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to thpm while a way ehouldleave their subscriptions at the Busi ness Office. Special attention will lie given to make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and quickest routes. It is the Fourth of July orator who about this time finds a lively interest in newspaper Comment. M. De Lesseps’ Panama canal seems about to prove his last ditch, and an unfinished one ,t that. The suspended charge of the Light Brig # age upon the Georgia Code, begins again to-day. The General Assembly is in session. In Omaha there 1 are no longer any open gambling housi>s. This is the very best evi dence of the progress of civilization in the West. It is rumored that a guano hill pending in tho General Assembly may lead to a duel between two members of that body. The honorable gentlemen ought to select some thing not quite so prosaic to fight about. At a church sociable on Saturday night last in Amboy, 0., 2<X people were poisoned by ice cream. The fact will cause many a young man to sigh and wonder why tho ire cream sold in the saloons never poisons any body. /In a few days unrecognizable pictures of members of the General Assembly, with nu merous flattering adjectives appended, will begin to appear in the Atlanta papers. This is one of the holes into which the lawma kers drop their salaries. Picture* und flat tery come high. A merchant in Nashville, Tenti., adver tises “thirty-eight dozens Lotta and Lang try wire bustles at 10c.” This is another illustration of the jiowor of the press. As bustles the Nashville papers are without equals, and the price, therefore, has to come down on all other kinds. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, doesn't seem to be afraid of the few protectionists that make such a fuss in the mineral region of his State. AU attempts to silence him by calling him “one of the free trade fel lows" will fail. Senator Morgan has the courage of his convictions. This is the only country in which tho affairs of all the outside world play au im port tut part in elections Immigration has brought together in the United States a population from a’l climes, each immigrant being more or less strongly tied to hi- native country. It isn't safe to abuse anybody but the Mormons. Twenty thousand people visited Asbury Park, N. J., on Sunday last. A few negroes were among the number, but the police kept them “moving on.” It will lie remem bered that Asbury Park is the place where social equality Viet ween the races is not recognized, except as a theory to be prac ticed nt tlie South. Public school teachers frequently express regret that jiarents take little or no interest in the schools and rarely visit them. If par- | ente would tnke more interest in the school • work of their children it would help both teachers and pupils. Experienced teachers j sty that visits to the school room by parents always encourage those who arc receiving instruction. . Commenting on a paragraph which re cently appeared in the Morning News, the Chattanooga Times alludes to those who op pose the protective tariff os “free trade numbskulls.” It is tho use of such epithets as this by the advocate* of protection that convinces the unprejudiced voters of tho country that the free traders have the best of the argument. j At Kansas City. Mo., the other day. a young, pretty and tastefully dressed woman walked up to the bar of a hotel with a party of gentlemon and absorbed a cocktail through a straw with groat relish. Hhe was the tjcnorita Guadalup Buinago, of the City of Mexico. Perhaps absorbing cocktails through straws is what causes the “warm blood” every Mexican senorita is said to have. On the question of protecting the terrapin a correspondent writes to the Morning News suggesting that a tax be levied on boats of all kinds and seines. The correspondent tx lievos that this would prevent irresponsible parties who pay no revenue from stealing the terrapin and destroying oyster beds. It would he well for the Chatham county representatives in the General Assembly to look into this matter. The Summer Session. The adjourned session of the I/egislature of this State meets to-day. It is not a pleas ant time of the year for legislative work. The weather is warm, and it is not reason able to expect that the members will devote themselves as closely to their duties as they do when the weather is cooler. There is a great deal of work to be done. Many bills introduced at the regular session were not acted upon. Some of thorn were reported bock to the House or the Senate, while others are still in the hands of the committees to which they were referred. Some of the bills are quite important, but there is none of them which ought to take up a great deal of the time of either house. Although the numbor of bills that are waiting to bo acted upon is large a great, many more from present indications will be introduced. This county has several new ones and doubtless the same is trim with re gard to a great, many other counties. Of course it will be impossible to act upon all of them unless the Legislature remains in session during the remainder of the year, and there to no probability that it will do anything of that kind. Would it not lie advisable to appoint a joint committee of the House and Senate to select hills to be first considered! Of course the committee would select the most impor tant ones. If these arc passes! upon before the time determined upon for adjournment is reached, then the less important ones can lie taken up. A great many bills are introduced which have no merit, and occupy the time which ought to be given to really important measures, but there dofesnt appear to lie any way, except the regular one, to get rid of them. There is one thing which the Legis lature might do witli lienefit t i itself ami tho entire State. It might pass a few gen era] law's which would enable County Cominis sioners and City Councils to do many things for which legislation is now needed. A great many of these local measures are not understood except, by the members who represent tho localities from which they come, and frequently they know nothing about them. If they are of much interest they are always supp >rtol by a lobby. Why not open the way for having these matters disposed of in the jwns and counties where they are understood, even if a constitutional amendment is necessary for that purpose ? Tlie Legislature would then be relieved of a heavy burden, the State of a heavy expense and the people would be better satisfied. One of the questions which the Legisln ture will have to deal with is that relating to the convicts. There is quite a strong feeling with regard to it throughout the State. It is not one that can be deult with hastily. If there were any other system that had proved to be wholly satisfactory it would not lie so diffi nlt to handle the ques tion, but there isn't. Whatever is done will have to lie done on anew line. The Gov ernor has made some suggest ions, and mem bers of the Legislature have advanced some views pertinent to the subject. If no new system is adopted it is probable that the present one will be so modified as to make it more acceptable. While there will lie a strong pressure on the legislature in favor of this or that bill, it should not be forgotten that the people wantonly carefully considered laws enacted. Hasty legislation is generally the source of troubles and evils. Blaine Boosting Hie Boom. It is doubtful if there is much truth in the story cabled to the Boston Herald from London that Mr. Gladstone has been in fluenced by Mr. Blaine to visit this country iu the interest of the Irish cause. Mr. Blaine doubtless would like to have the credit of hnviug persuaded the great Litieral statesman to come to this country upon such a mission, but it is hardly probable that he is to have that satisfaction. Mr. Gladstone is a very old man, and much as he would like to see success crown his present politi cal efforts he is not likely to take so long a voyage in behaif of the Irish, or any other cause. Indeed, he stated very lately that he has given up all expectation of visiting America. His presence would undoubtedly increase the sympathy for Ireland in this country, and help to raise contributions for tiie par liamentary struggle in which Ireland is en gaged. A speech from him in each of the principal cities of the country would have the effect of arousing Ireland's friends to make greater exertions for their cause, but it is a question whether it would bo wise for him to undertake so long a journey and to endure the futigue which speech making and receptions would impose upon him. The dnnger of the voyage across the ocean would not, of course, be worth considering, but the strain of the entire visit might be more than lie could bear. Tlie story, however, looks like an effort to give a Imrait to Mr. Blaine’s political aspira tions. Aw far ns he is coneermxl the next best thing to getting Mr. Gladstone to come to this country is to create the impression that he tried to get him to come. This sort of an impression can hardly fail to increase his popularity with Iri.ffi-Anierieans. There is no doubt that Mr. Blaine is a very shrewd politician. He improves every op portunity to advance his political fortunes, and leaves as little as possible to chance. He is already quite a favorite with many Irishmen in this country, and ho would like to have the support of all of them. He prolmbly thinks that the Irish voters hold the balance of power, and that with their help he would stand a pretty fair chance of being elected if he were a Presi dential candidate again. He is making no speechi-s in Kuglund and sal’s he has no in tention of making any, but if such stories iu-e cabled to this country as that in the Bos ton Herald they will do more to improve his Presidential prospects than he could do by speech-making. When Bam Jones, the evangelist, held re vival meetings in Baltimore a year ago his audience* were tremendous Tho assem blages often numbered 5,00.) and ti.OOO peo ple, and more than 2,000 were turned nway at n time for lack of Boom. He lectured th n re the other night, an admission fee of 50c. being charged. Less than a hundred p *ople attended. When he walked on the stage he exclaimed: "Good Lord! How a 60c. admission thins them out!” It is said that the emotional wave which the evan gelist and his aid, Sam Small, started a year ago has almost entirely disappeared. A canal boat florae at Schenectady, N. Y., has between its left ear and eye a horn about three inches long, ringed and riblted, nnd re sembling the horn of Durham cattle. There are a good many kinds of horns, but this apjienrs to he about the first horse horn ever discovered. Will that Florida weatlior prophet please prediet a few itays of dry weather! Every body admits his suocrau hi prophesying wet weather. THE MORNING NEWS; WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1887. Bacon’s Defalcation. It would not lie surprising if the defalca tion of the late Levi Bacon, financial clerk of the Patent Office should be brought to the notice of Congress nnd attract much more attention than it has yet attracted for two reasons. First there is good reasons for thinking that a jiortion of the shortage was used for political purposes liy the Republi cans during the Garfield campaign, and, second, because no examination of Bacon’s accounts had been made for a long time previous to his death. It is stated that the defalcation is much larger than was originally supposed. Tlie amount of it is now claimed to lie $!K!,OClO, nnd it nmy be found to be much larger when the whole truth is known. Tlie evi dence that much of the money was paid over to Jay Hubbell, to be used to assist in electing Garfield, upipeurs to lie pretty strong. The Republican managers were in great need of money during that campaign, and Garfield himself is on record in the shape of a note asking Hubbell about the ]>olitical assessments of the clerks of tho de partments. It is not improbable that Bacon turned quite a large sum of money over to Hubbell with the expectation of col lecting it from the clerks, and failed to do so. There is no doubt thut the practice of levying political assessments for party pur poses was the source of corruption, and it is gratifying that it does not exist under the present administration. The civil service reform law has put an end to it, and public sentiment will never consent to its revival. Bacon’s accounts were never looked into apparently while the Republicans were in power, and the facts indicate that he has not been bothered by any examining officer since the Democrats came intoeoutrol of af fairs. His defalcation shows how important it is tlmt a thorough oversight shall be kep>t of the official affairs of every officer of the government who has the handling of public moneys. While no part of Bacon’s shortage may have occurred since the Democrats came into jiower, yet, if the law with re gard to the examination of accounts had been faithfully enforced, the defalcation would have l*en discovered long ago. A day or two ago it was intimated that the government would be out only a few hundred dollars because the defaulter's bond, together with what could be collected from those whose due bills were found in Bacon's safe, would about cover the whole amount. It to now believed, however, that the gov ernment will be a very considerable loser. The defalcation is double what it was originally supposed to be, and there are grave doubts whether the defaulter’s bond can be collected. The bondsmen are able to pay but they object to doing so on the ground that the government neglected its duty in not making regular examinations of Bacon’s accounts, and thus opened the way for a much larger shortage than there would otherwise have been. The defalca tion of a (lost office official a year or so ago was a warning to the government which it ought to have heeded. Its failure to do so has been a rather expensive one. The Interstate Commission. The railroads appear to be adjusting themselves to the interstate commerce law. Just how much friction there is in the work ings of the law it to, of course, impossible to say, since there does not appear to be much disposition on the part of the poods to dis cuss it at present. It may be that they are trying sincerely to find out just what there is in it that is objectionable and what that is satisfactory, with the view of asking for some modifications of it as soon as Congress meets. As yet there are no noteworthy indica tions of a disposition to demand its repeal. Indeed, there to every reason to think that it has come to stay. That it will lie changed in some important particulars is very prob able. By lioth the people and the railroads it to still looked upon as an experi ment, but as an experiment that will ultimately prove to be successful. With referenco to it Senator Manlcrson said the other day that it was probable that the commission would be enlarged, or that several sub-corn missions would be creatod. He thinks that tho com mission has too much to do to be of much practical benefit. It may be that the commission is overburdened now, but it is impossible to toll as yet how great its bur dens will lie in the near future. Tlius far it has had more work thrust upon it than it could attend to, but when it gets wholly rid of the questions relating to the proper con struction to bo placed upon the different pro visions of the law it may not find its duties greater than it can attend to. However, that can lie determined only by time. When Congress inlets there will no doubt l>e a very thorough inquiry respecting the work ings of the law, and the ability of the com mission to respond to all demands upon it. At the meeting of tho McGlynn-George Anti Poverty Society in New York on Sunday night, the question of Dr. Me- Glynn’s excommunication was discussed. Michael Clarke, tho secretary, said that if Dr. MeGlvnn were excommunicated mil lions of Catholics would lie excommuni cated with him. They would never yield tip to Pope, Propaganda or Bishop one jot or tittle of their rights as American citizens. A large uudienco was present, and the secretary's words were almost unanimously indorsed. It is claimed bv Dr. McGlynn’s friends that his excommunica tion will lead to a serious division in tho Catholic church in New York. Well, ho is going to lie excommunicated, and it re mains to be seen whether his friends nre well infoi mod or not, The ebaneos are that the number who will follow him will not be large. The 'Washington Post says there to no doubt that tho Anarchistic, anti-patriotic fooling has lieen steadily growing among the Knights of Labor in that city. Of District Assembly No. 0(1, the Post says; “Some of the speeches which have boon delivered in this city, literally under th > shadow of tho dome of the capitol, but within tho locked doors of the assembly’s place of meeting, have been such as to rouse the indignation of tho loyal Knights who have heard them. Up to the present time, however, owing to the strict secrecy enforced, only the faintest rumors of the true state of affairs have been current." Congressmen with a wholesome fonr of dynamite would do well to stay away from Washington. The Knights of Labor in Philadelphia will lose three local assemblies, containing 1,000 members, because of objections to the tem perance clause in tho new constitution of tho order. Most of the seceding mmeliers are brewers, drivers of beer wagons, coopers and firemen. The disintegration of tho Knights appear* to lie progressing. Evansville, lad., celebrated the Fourth of July with a Spumsh bull fight. An Amer ican bull fight would have beeu more appro priate. CURRENT COMMENT. Trying to Eeat tho Thermomstrical Record. From the Galveston News( Pern.) The usual annual closing of the glass works special pets of protectionism bv pre-arrange ment. is observed. For a few weeks or months the protected barons will be watching the scale of prices trying to beat tha theriuometrica! record. Halstead’s Last Opportunity. From the Missouri Republican i Oem.) Gen. Tuttle, the lowa warrior, is drawing a pension for an injury in the lack, sustained while failing off a l eg in the service of his coun try. If Field Marshal Halstead hud been origi nal enough to conceive this idea of fighting, he might have been martial in war as he is in peace. The Gettysburg Reunion. Front the Neto York Star (Dent.) The fraternization between tlie Union veter ans from Philadelphia and the survivors of Pickett's gallant command was hearty and heartfelt. The occasion proves that none are so truly brothers in patriotism as reconciled fellow countrymen who have tested each other's valor as foes. Tlie speeches of the veterans who spoke for the North and for the South are paeans of congratulation over the prosperity and glory of a reunited country. His Childish Insanity. From the Philadelphia Record (Dem). Sometimes an advocate of tariff robber) 1 be trays u timidity in making iiis assertions that is in strong contrast with the nature of his cause. For example, one of them says: "The free traders cannot get away from the fact that all imported articles are vastly cheaper than when there was no tariff.“ Now. if his courage laid been equal to his willingness to deceive he wouid have boldly said that tlie tariff has done more to cheapen commodities than Watt's steam en gine. Arkwright's spinning-jenny, Whitney's cotton gin and ail the other multitudinous in ventions of humau genius and skill for dimin ishing the cost of production. That was what he wanted to say. but his courage failed him, and be fell into a childish insanity. BRIGHT BITS. It is mean to hit a man who is down in the mouth.— Youngstown Telegram. A man may be a bad egg, but he's all right till he gets "broke."— Dasort; Blizzard The balance of trade often gives the pur chaser only about fourteen ounces to the pound. lAurell Courier. A Decatur man hitches up a goat and makes him run a lawn mower. This is putting butter to anew use.— Netenan Independent. There are Craig Tollivers in Texas in every thing but courage. Instead of shooting they throw eggs - Fort Worth i Tex.) Gazette. What could the woman have meant who, when the doctor told her that her husband was dying and that she had better send for a minus ter. asked: "Will one be enough, doctor, or would you advise a consultation?”— Rochester Union. At the boot-black stand in the Windsor Hotel in Lincoln the following notice may be read: Pedal teguments Artistically Illuminated and Lubricated for the Infinitesimal Compensation of lOc.per Operation. Dick. —Omaha World. In a book entitled 'The Beer of the Bible,' the author undertakes to prove that the leaven which the Israelites carried out of Egypt with them was an Egyptian beer, called “booza " This discovery is more important than at first thought it appears to be. for now it is easily un derstood why the Egyptian hosts took to water. The Israelites had run off with all the beer. Boston Transcript. Said Anna Snapp. of la, To an artist in Savannah; “Can you take a photograph on such a dark and cloudy day?” Said the artist of Savannah; “I can take ya: But before I take the picture you must guaran tee the pay." —Chicago Tribune. There is something in dreams after all. A man in Barrington,.Pa , dreamed three nights in succession that there was a box of gold coin buried beneath an oak tree on his farm, and then he concluded to make a search. While digging with a pick he struck his left foot and nearly amputated his great toe. Then he limped home and resolved m dream no more about gold being found under an oak tree.— Norristown Herald. “Mr. Doppenheimer, I want to introduce a burglar alarm into your house. It will indicate at which door or window—” "I don' want non- of dose tings. I don’ bod der me mit burglars." “Once you have tried them, Mr. Doppen heiiuer—” “Lx>k here, meester. If you wash got a con drivance what keeps mine wife from goin’ dru mine pockets when I wash ashleep. den I talks mit you a leedle bit."— Harper's Bazar. “Some people want the earth, and if they got it I believe they would kick because it is a little fiat at the poles," remarked a builder and con tractor yesterday. "What's the matter?” inquired his com panion. "Do you sec that row of houses?" “Yes." “Well, I'm building them, and I got a paper hanger to paper the entire biock and take in consideration therefor one of the houses in lieu of cash. I endeavored to make the same bar gain with a plumiier, and. wouid you think it. he declined. He wanted the remainder of the row."— Philadelphia Call. PERSONAL. Emperor Dom Pedro has sailed for Europe on the steamer Gironde. George Dougherty, of Gettysburg, Pa., is 84 years old, and is still cutting teeth. John T. Ford, of Baltimore has been a theat rical manager for thirty-three years. AcnMED Ben A mar, the Algerian lion slayer has killed over 2tX) of the king of leasts, ’ President Cleveland writes of Henry Ward Beecher as his "loved and honored friend." George Gould has bought the titieof "Prince of St. Louis” from the Italian government. John Boyle O'Reilly intends to make some canoe trips on the Penobscot and other rivers of Maine next month. Canon Wilberforce is a vehement opnonent of vivsection. which, ho declares, has never re sulted in a single discovery of importance. Gen. Albert Pike says be has little time for reading "She" and “King Solomon's Mines" are the only new books iie has read for ever so long. Tnn Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford aro exploring the Yosemito valley. The Marquis is the heir of *ho Duke of Devonshire, the largest landholder in England. The wife of the High Sheriff of Galway, Ire land l as Invented and patented a jubilee brooch and a jubilee bangle, both of which the Queen has examined ami commended. Sam Jones has invented anew and captivating title for tlie reporter who doesn't report ids see metis exactly to suit tlie nuthetlc preacher. Ho calls him a pestiferous skunk." Lord Tennyson is deriving great lienefit from iiis yachting cruise along the English coast witli ids son and Mrs. lldlain Tennyson. The baroness did not accompany her husband, Bret Hartk was a book agent in IN4O-'5O, and a good one when lie w ould work, which was seldom. In U'Gi lie was writing "condensed novels' for the San Francisco Gulden Era at 35 per column. Sin Dinshaw Manoi-kjek Petit, the Parsec Sheriff of Bombay, has given mure than $750, ntri for educational and other philanthropic pur poses in that e,tv. Ids latest gitt being $,5,000 to a women’s college. While Lord Aberdeen was In San Francisco lie was the recipient of many tagging letters, ami lie left ivWniib him a considerable sum of money in tho hands of a local society for tho re lief of the deserving jko ir. The only Anieiiiui now living who was pres ent at tiie coronation of Queen Victoria fifty years ago was tlie Hon. Richard Vaux, of Phila delphia. who was at that time a member of the legation to the Court of St. James. Vii.le Beaumont, an exiled French Count, who claims to lie .idle to trace his lineage bacn to the time of William the Conqueror, is now enniiug an honest living in the office of a Pitts burg areniteot, where lie has tho reputation of possessing rare ability. The Duchess d'Alene. >n. who has recently be. come insane, used to be as accomplished an equestrian as her sister, the Empress of Austria. She has never rallied from the si,ock caused by the guiei li of King Louis of Bavaria, to whom sin l bed Iven liet INC In*.l, ,md at mu l time she had to Is- closely guarded to keep her from imitating his tragic example. II A P. Car eh, the Hawaiian Minister at Washington, who denies that nuy considerable quantity of arms has been recent!) shipped to the Sandwich Islands, is said by the San Fran cisco Post to be a member of tlie firm of C. Brewer A Cos.. of Honolulu, to which part of the arms were shipped, and lienee boa an interest in manipulating the facta. THE LONELY LITTLE GRAVE. A Sad Story From the Plains of the Wild, Untamed West. From the Dakota Brit. Did you ever come suddenly upon a crave off on the prairie, tar from any human habitation? Nothing can seem more sad ami lonely than such a grave, with the summer wind bending and waving the tall grass with a low murmur ing harmony, which yon can just hear if you listen closely, like fnr-off music I remember finding such a grave—a little one -a number of years ago, in a then almost un settled portion of Dakota. It was ten miles to the nearest house, Hut there was a board at the head and foot—it was less than three feet long—and an attempt at a feuee around it. It was not an old grave and there was a little wild rose bush growing on it. but the soil was so dry that it was not flourishing, and it hail but one little, withered bud. while on the surrounding prairie the roses w ere all in bloom, making it almost like a garden. I rode twenty miles before I came to a house. Here a man was working near a little new board “shook.” I got into conversation with him and asked him if he knew about the little grave. “About fifteen miles this side o' where tho town is started now, and near a little mound''' “Yes." “Our little boy is buried there—the only child we had. He died there when we were movin' into the country a month ago. an' I buried him there with my own hands, an' nobody with me 'oept my wife—and the bosses, the bosses looked on—an'we come away an'left him I'm goin' back after him soon, an' we’ll make him a little grave here near our new home, where it won't be so lonesome for the little feller.” “Was he sick long?" “!,oss'n a w eek. He was took sick one after noon and tho next day it hurt him to ride in the wagon, an’ so we stopped there with him. He grew worse, an' nothing my wife or me could do seemed to help him any, so I took one of the hosses an' rode fit'tv miles to the nearest town. The doctor couldn't go out, but he sent some medicine, an' I went back as fast as I could. My wife was all alone there on the prairie in the covered wagon, an' tlie little feller kept grovvin' worse. He seemed to know lie was goin' to die, an' all day lie kop' askin' when papa was coinin'. My wife set an' held his head in her lap an’ kep' tellin' him that papa would come pretty soon. Sometimes he would drop into a feverish sleep, an’ then he would start up an’ say: ‘Mamma, ain't papa turn yet? I want to see him.’ An'she soothed him" tha best she could an' tried to hide her tears. "I got there jest fore sunrise. The sky was ail re-1 an' mighty fine lookin', an' the wind was still, an' the grass an' little spring flowers ail wet with dew. My wife heai-d me outside, an' I heard her say that papa had come. An' I stepped up an'crawled into the front of the wagon, an' he raised up his head a little, an’ his great big eyes were open awful wide, an' he held out his hands to me an' said: Tse been waitin' for no, papa, on was gone awful long!' An'l knelt by his side where his mother was boldin' his head in her lap. an' his eyes wandered an' looked out the front of the wagon at the booti ful red sky. an' once he stretched out his arms a little an'then the sun come up an'he shut his eyes an' my wife took holt o my hand an' we both knowed he was gone, jes' as the sun come up. “We did the best we could, burying him there in a rough box I made, 'cause I didn't know how fur we might go, an' as I told you. I'm going back pretty soon an' bring him here, where it wont be so lonesome for the poor little feller.” PARTICULAR BRIDEGROOMS. Queer Questions Which Intervene Be fore the Knot Is Tied. From the Manchester Courier. A clergyman, the vicar pf Fitsmoor. has been speaking oa the modes of marriage in and near Sheffield. He states that people are there mar ried in b,italics; that the bridegrooms almost in variably get the rings too small, and have at times to lick the lady's delicate little finger to induce the stubborn ringto naove on. It seems to be no uncommon thing to find that the ring is the difficulty through its presence or absence. "Then, again," says the vicar, "when they come to that important part of the marriage service where the minister asks the man if he will have this woman to he his wedded wife, the man will not unfrequently turn to the woman and say: Wilt tha’ black my boots" aud the woman will invariably say: 'I will;' and the man then rejoins: 'Now, tha'st said it.' and he holds her to her word. Such are Yorkshire manners." A reverend canon of the church relates that on one occasion it fell to his lot to marry his footman to his cook. The footman wouid’per sist throughout the service in putting his finger to his forehead every time his master addressed him, in accordance with custom. The reverend gentleman remonstrated in an undertone, ‘‘Don't touch your forehead. John, but sav the words after me." Then aloud: ‘Wilt thou take this woman" etc. John, bearing in mind the vicar's hint, replied, "After you, sir.” and the assembled friends burst into laughter. Cyrus W. Field. FYom the New York World. To lose a fortune is no more of a novelty to Cyrus W. Field than to make one. The son of a Connecticut clergyman, he began his business life as a clerk in A. T. Stewart's dry goods store. He must have been very popular with th,-other employees, for when he left Stewart s they gave him an oyster supper and presented him with a gold scarf-pin adorned with a small ruby, and the salaries of Stewart's clerks were never large enough to make nester suppers and ruby pins common Mr. Field went into the paper trade and became rich, but while he was travelling through the country to solicit orders he was ruined by his partner's folly. Again he built up a magnificent paper business, paid all his partner's debts and retired with a compe tency. This he risked and apparently lost in the first Atlantic Cable Company, but. like bread upon the waters, it returned to him after many days He bought the Mail when it was a financial failure, and annexed to it the Repress, which even the treasures of John Kelley and Tammany Hall were insufficient to sustain, and out of these two losing concerns he has made a financial and journalistic success of tlie Mail- Express. Such a man can no more be kept down than a cork. Having once been bounced out of the Elevated stogk by Samuel J. Tilden and again by Gould ami sage, it is expected that Mr. Field will undermine iiis persecutors by doing for the Underground railway what he did for the ocean cables. If he should break out afresh in that direction the Elevated managers might as well begin to take down their stilts and give New York its streets once more. Sleep. Oh! sleep is a fair little maid. With a step that is soft anil light, And she waiteth on all the world At the wonderful banquet of life. Tis "Oblivion wine" she bears Fresh from the'winepress of night, Which she pours into empty cups From her mystical tankard bright. She passes a rollicking crowd And offers her soothing draught; Their life is too Joyous for sleep. So they’bid her "Begone!" with a laugh. But sooner or late she is bailed. For "oblivion wine" they plead, Alas! their cups are so full of sin She can give them but half they need. Then gladly she g*s-s to u weary child Ana touches the wine to his lips; He smiles up into her dreamy face. His blue eyes dose while he sips. So on and on through tlie motley throng Moves the heaven sent little niaid; There, giving an old man rest from care; Here hushing the nman of a Irnhe. But u drop can she give to the drunkard, Though tie holds out his reeking cup. While the tear stained cup of a woman She pitifully fllletb up. Ah! Sleep is a loved little maid. For she stiUeth the noise and strifo As she waits on tlie restless world At th wearying banquet of life. Nuui , l Roulomse. + Clour Gilt;* From the St. Stephen* Renew. Asa young officer doing duty with a Madras cavalry regiment. Sir Edward Bradford was a keen siiortsman. One day when tiger shooting lie “missed liis mark," and soon found himself in a tiger's clutches. It wan an anxious moment, few of his friends being at hand. Asa sports man of experience. Sir Edward knew well that his licit course WHS to lie nnletiv and shim death. Tlie tigor surveyed liis prev. looked around, and thinking all was safe, set steadily to work to make its meal Taking the voting officer's hand in Ins month it was steadily dis posed of. and the arm eaten to the elbow l. foro Sir Edward's companions rune up and released him. The cool resolution of tiie man in feigning death had been the means of saving what has since i,roved to Is- a piost valuable life, for ns Sir Edward says w hen telling the storv. hid lm moved, or iift -re l even a groan, the rigor would have put an end to ids existence before golug on witli liis repast. Of course the shattered arm had to he re moved from ihe shoulder. It may be Imagined what tlie suffering was which the victim enlttired while lying, quite conscious, in the power of a veracious "man eater" In rheumatism, to rub with, the genuine Brown's Ginger Frederick Brown. Philadel phia, 1,822. Brown's Ginger is the licit. ITEMS 05' INTEREST. Over $617,000 in gold and silver was paid in annuities to the Omaha Indians last week, and there is now a strong demand among the sav ages for firewater. I* proportion to the number of soldiers each State sent to the civil war, Kansas is said to have lost the most—one in every five from that State having either been killed in battle or died of diseases contracted in the sendee. According to Hufeland, the man who is des tined to long life is of the middle size, and somewhat thickly set. His complexion is not too florid this head not too big: his shoulders are round rath-: than flat: his tieck is not too long. Teusoeath Manager S. W, Janes, of Jack sonville, 111., raised a potato on his farm which has a big tooth, whether it once belonged to a man or some other animal or not is unknown. At anv rate the potato was dug out of the ground with a four-Dronged molar sticking to it. A New You a gentleman, 94 years of age, was asked tile other day by his grandchild to bless her. Happening at that moment to have a ten-dollar bill in his hand, he said: “No: I will not bless you with the devil in my hand." He then gave the money to an attendant, raised his hands above his grandchild's bead, and saW the prayer. A carat of gold received its name from the carat seed or the seed of the Abyssinian coral flower. This was at one period made useful when gems of gold were to be weighed and so came about the peculiar and now general use of the word. Twenty-two carats fine means that out of twenty-four parts twenty-two are gold and all the rust alloy. A mare with a moustache was hitched to the chain in front of the Mount Vernon (111.) court house one day last week. The animal was a gray, and the moustache was a light blonde and extended entirely across the mare's upper lip, and grew out at each corner to the length of about itu or 8 inches. ' Each corner curled nice ly, and the moustache was quite becoming. The effect of the intense heat on the infant population of New York may be noted by sim ply walking through the down-town tenement houses. Crape may be seen hanging at front doors in almost everv block. In some places it is long and new. with handsome rosettes, but in a majority of cases it is old and faded, and on many doors merely a scanty, well-worn ribbon. The schooner Hattie Ellen, of Fail River, Mass., engaged in swordfishing, struck a fish off Brentons Reef lightship, and a man went out in a small boat to secure the catch. The fish thrast his sword through the bottom of the boat and nearly swamped it. The fistierman. after his fright had subsided, cast a line over the protruding weapon and held fast until the schooner came to his assistance, when the prize was secured. It weighed 250 pounds. As ancient Spanish spur, along with some pieces of ancient crockery aud portions of a ho* man skeleton, were plowed up by a farm laborer near Austin, Tex., the other day. The spur, rust eaten, ;s unlike anything else in this age. au i is stated by antiquarians to helnng to the Spanish era of three centuries ago. It is a foot from tip to tip. and the rowel is a half foot in diameter. The spur is supposed to have been worn by the man portions of whose bones were found with it. Violinists will be interested to learn that Wieniawskv's diabolically difficult “Romances Russes'" have at last been played to a London audience, and that, too, by a young and com paratively unknown artist. Mr Seiffert, the gentleman in questi on, achieved the feat with out perceptible effort or anxiety, manipulating a fine Amati violin WD h considerable power and mastery. The florid interspersed harmonics which make the piece so perilous seemed to pre sent no special difficulty to him. The Prince of Wales originated the idea of the jubilee jugs which to the number of 35,000 w’ere distributed to the children in Hyde Park last week. His royal highness was much struck by the distribution of rough brown cups bearing the imperial cipher in relief, with which the Czar commemorated the marriage of the Czarevitch; and the productions of Messrs. lioulton, which cyst nearly sixpence each, are great improve ments on the original. The ground is of polished cream colored earthenw are, and the two por traits of the Queen (1031 and 188. ) are artisti cally executed in neutral tints. Of the twenty-two Aldermen concerned in giving Broadway to Mr. Sharp. Jaehne, Mc- Quade and O'Neil are in Sing Sing: Sayles, DeLacy and Dempsey are fugitives in Canada; Rothman is a fugitive in Germany; Kenny and McLoughlin are dead; McCabe is insane": Kill grail. Waite and Duffy have turned witnesses tor the State: and Sheils, Finch. Farley, Cleary. Wendel, Pearson, Reilly. Miller and Kirk are under bail awaiting trial. The remaining two of the Aldermen of 1881, who voted against the Broadway scheme, are Hugh J. Grant, at pres ent Sheriff of the city and county of New York, and John Christopher O'Connor. With Sayles. DeLacy and Dempsey in Canada, and also fugi tives. are John Keenan, understood to have tieen the agent who paid the bribes, and William Moloney, a go-between. A Hartford man writes to the New York Evening Post sharply criticising the new Na than Hale statue in the Connecticut eapitol. He says: "The nose is out of proportion (it is of a German rather than a Yankee cast), the width of the face is improperly graded, and the back of the head has no development at all, much less the fine expression that any artist fa miliar with the facts of the artist's life would have given it. The chest is too narrow, the shoulders not properly nut on, the neck ungain ly. the facial features those of one aged 49 rath er than 21. and without classical lines. The thighs are not heavy enough: the legs have no shapeliness; the muscles of the calves are mis- f dared; the ankles are of improper size; flesh ine of the heel runs outside of the shoe coun ters The arms and hands are extended in an unnatural manner; the right foot seems to toe In." The Boston Budget Saunterer tells this story; A couple of Boston ladies in an art store were gazing upon an engraving of Millais' famous picture, "The Angelas,'' and as they closely scanned the two figures in the foreground oneof them remarked: "I suppose he is just propose ing to her; at least, they both appear so bash ful like 1 should judge that was what the artist intended to portray." "More like," said her less romantic companion, "they are talking about the crops, an !. with eyes turned toward the ground, are looking for the first indications of that fruitfulness that shall repay their toil" Neither of the observers took the trouble to look at the legend at the bottom of ibe picture, or if they did, the title had no significance to their worldly minds. Tills, one of the happiest of artistic creations, dealing with the simple and prayerful devotion of “The Angelus," could not touch the heart of ’hose to whom simple piety was an unknown quantity. There is now being built in the Mother mar ket, Stratford-on-Avon, a lofty, spire like struc ture, to combine within itself drinking foun tains for men. cattle and doits, and a four dialled, illuminated clock with chimes, the whole lieiiiT presented by Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, as a jubilee gift to Stratford on-Avon. The monument will he about fifty feet high to the summit of the gilt vane, in the base are the troughs and basil a of the four.'aiu. ail of polished Peterhead gran ite. Over these, on tie'four sides, are pointed ID' ’lltl'si arches, on columns, with carved capi tals, In the second story are arcades of three arches, with circular turrets at the corners, and in the upper story the four dials of the clock, under enriched gables, with finals representing mustard I. cobweb, inch, pea-blossom. The liiittre •; of tlie lower story terminate in lions and igl—' alternately, b ■ ii'ing shields, with the anus of Great Britain, mid with die stars and stripes of ihe United States With the excep tion of the granite basins, steps and plinth, tho whole Is to be erect'd in a fine-grained, very hard and durable at.mu l . of u delicate grav tint, from Boitonwood, in Yorkshire. Albert uk Mrs, the great orator of the Cleri cal party in the French Chamber, made an im pressive speech on the nnny bill. He paid a plowing tribute to the memory of the old army which had acquitted itself so brilliantly in Africa, the Crimen and Italy, and went on to su.v: "Yes: 1 render a supreme homage to that urmv which fought so valiantly at Grsvelotte at". Rezotiville. at W' issenhurg and Reielishof feu; to the army which mode (tint charge at Be dan. of which 1 cannot speak without u rising lii my throat, for half the regiment of Chasseurs d'Afriqne, in which t first fought, remained on the field that charge which drew from the King of Prussia a cry. like that of William of Orange at Serwinde. ‘Oh, those gallant fel lows. h" cried, us the other had exclaimed 'les Insolent*'"' The entire House partook of notion of the speaker. There wen- few dry rvi - union, lhe members, whether they sat on the right or the l"(t of the President. I oldies ill the tribunes went aloud. Then suddenly, the first thrill of emotion past, a loud rhe -r arose from all the I- riches, only to be repeated again and again. 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