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Meetings —Clinton Lodfn*. No. 54, F. A. M.;
DeKalh Lodge, No. 9,1. <> O. E.: Railroad Mu
tual Loan Association; Georgia Tent. No. 151,
LOR.; Attention Turners; (ierman Volunteers.
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Educational —St. Mary s School for Girls.
Lottery—Drawing of Louisiana State.
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St. Paul, Minn., was visited the other day
by a storm of bugs. The inserts covered
the streets and obscured the electric lights.
Hereafter hug storms may lie considered
another inducement to young men to go
West
Senator Wade Hampton, of South Caro
lina, who is in New York, says that Presi
dent Cleveland is popular throughout the
South, and will lie solidly supported from
this section for renomination. The Sena
tor's prophecy is a safe one.
At Carbondnle, 111., on Friday of last
week, Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the
General, was thrown from a buggy and
seriously injured. It is believed that the
accident will cause a long delay to the
literary plans she lias in view.
The Boston Advertiser thinks that a daily
paper in New York devoted to the interests
of the South would not succeed. The other
papers in that city, the Advertiser says,
would combine and crowd out the Southern
organs. The Advertiser is doubtless right.
Judging by President Cleveland’s ex|ie
rience, when the chief magistrate of this
country leaves the Capital to take a few
days rest, it means that he is going some
where to stand up and shake hands with
people. There is no real rest for the Presi
dent.
A prominent Wall street man says:
“Mark this prediction: Before this Balti
more and Ohio deal is consummated the
Pennsylvania road will lie found to lie the
most influential factor in it.” No doubt the
Pennsylvania would like to get possession
of its rival, for the former’s business would
be injured if the latter should succeed in
getting into New York.
Carl Srhurs has so far recovered from
the injuries he received by a fall last winter
as to be able to walk aliout on crutches.
Greatly to his discomfort, however, he is
still unable to play the piano. In the mean
time his friends doubtless hope that his
affliction will so chasten him tlmt he will
agree to give up piano playing when he
shall have been restored to his wonted good
health.
It is said that Edward Gould, Jay Gould’s
younger son, stooi 1 in the Consolidated
Stock and Petroleum Exchange in New
York, the other day, and sold his father’s
Specialties by wholesale. He pursued the
same tactics just before the recent shake up
on Wall street, and, it is understood,
Clean-1 $50,090. He is just 31 years old.
All the Goulds seem to know how to make
money.
Statistical reports of the Sunday Schools
in the United States at the late International
Convention held in Chicago, showed an in
crease in the membership of all the schools
since ISM of 305,645. The American Sun
day School Union deserves much of the
credit for the increase. A careful estimate
places the entire memliership of the Sunday
Schools at (1,743,K01, hut there are 3,000,000
children still unenrolled.
It is believed by some in Now York that
Dr. McGlynn will bring a civil and criminal
action against Archbishop Corrigan on the
ground that excommunication is boycotting.
J)r. McGlynn refuses either to affirm or deny
that such is his intention, but it is said that
Henry George, his adviser, is in favor of
taking the case into the civil courts. In the
meantime some of Dr. McGlynn’s old parish
ioners continue enthusiastically to support
him.
Ex-Senator Mulione, of Virginia, is still
in New York. Ho is interested in the rail
road and telegraph consolidations that have
been going on in the South, but it is said
that ho will withdraw from business in the
fall and try to carry the Virginia Legisla
ture for the Republicans, in order that he
may bo returned to the United States Seu
nto. To avoid disappointment it would be
1 >iter for him to remain in New York and
devote all bis time to business.
Home year* ago a number of- negroes emi
grated from South Carolina to Litieria. It
Is now stated that letters have been received
from them in which woeful tales are told of
tliclr condition in that country. Somo of
the emigrants bog for money to pay their
expense* bock to South Carolina, offering to
<voi k for the remainder of their days for
any person who will aid them. It seem* j
that most of the emigrants are about to
Itarve. Perhaps their fate will lie a warn
lug to others who are thinking of going to
Liberia. America is the best place for the
imgroes born and reared here-
The Pension Sharks.
The {tension sharks at Washington are re
sponsible for a great deal of the hostility of
the Grand Army of the Republic to the
President. They have carried ori a bitter
war against him ever since he began to
show a disposition to keep pension legisla
tion within proper Itounds. They pretend
to he patriots, and to have only the interests
of the ex-Union soldiers in view, but the
truth is that their sole aim is to fill their
own pockets.
The richest and most influential pension
shark at the national capital is the proprie
tor of the National Tribune, a weekly
publication which itj devoted to working up
sentiment among ex-Union soldiers in favor
of pension schemes. If it were not for this
paper, which circulates almost exclusively
among the ex-soldier element, there would
not have been one-quarter as many pension
bills before Congress during the last ten
years as there have tieen.
The pension shark who controls it sees a
way in which he can enlarge the jiension
list, and he at once begins to advocate it in
his ]i>er. He tells the ex-soldiers that they
have boon badly treated, and that they are
entitled to a great deal more in the way of
pensions than they have received, or are
likely to receive. He insists that they shall
petition Congress to oppose the* new scheme,
and in a little while petitions reach Congress
by the hundreds. Congressmen who never
seethe National Tribune sometimes wonder
what tho influence is which has so suddenly
caused ex-soldiers to become active in se
curing additional jiension legislation. It
they knew the truth they would not be so
quick to act favorably upon the petitions.
The owner of the National Tribune, who
is both a pension claim attorney and a
intent lawyer, does not make much money
out of his paper, but the work that {taper
does for him pays him immensely. It brings
him clients by the thousands, and from
about every one of them he gets from <>lo
to siis as a fee for getting a pension claim
allowed. He is already n very rich man,
but the more his wealth increases the more
anxious does he become to increase it.
When the President vetoed the dejiendent
(tension bill he was mad enough to do some
desperate deed. His paiter was full of at
tacks upon the President, and he sought to
make the ex-soldier believe that they hud
suffered a great wrong. After tho President
had accepted the invitation to go to St.
lx uis it attacked him viciously, and was
chiefly instrumental in bringing out the
hostile feeling which prevented him from
going there. It is now actively engaged in
keeping alive that feeling. It did not want
the President to go to St. Louis, because it
thought that bis presence then* would inter
fere with the plan of the pension sharks,
which is to adopt strong resolutions in favor
of a dependent pension bill similar to the
one which was vetoed, and which the {ten
sion sharks intend to present to Congress
next winter.
It was an unhappy day for the Grand Ar
my when it fell under the influence of these
sharks. They will use the organization for
all that it is worth to promote their plans,
even though they bring it into disrepute in
doing so. Already the people are liegin
ning to show a lack of confidence in it, and
it is now in danger of lieing regarded ns a
disturber of the peace and a nuisance. It
claims to be non-political in its its charac
ter, but it will hardly lie denied tliatit is get
ting to play a very important part in poli
ties.
Railroad Foreclosure Sales and Receiv
erships.
The linihvnij Aye contains an interesting
and instructive summary of the foreclosure
sales of railroads for the first half of I—7.
To this is added a list of railroads which
went into the hands of receivers during the
same period.
It appears that nineteen railroads with’a
bonded debt of $117,163,000 and a nominal
capital stock of $30,770,00 ), making a total
of nearly $157,001,000 of securities, have
been sold under orders of courts and passed
into the hands of new proprietors. These
are large figures, but they are small in com
parison with those for the corresponding
period in 1886, when, although the number
of railroads was less by two, the mileage
was 5,193 miles, or more than two and a
half times that of the last six months, and
the apparent capital investment was $393,-
000,000. Of the nineteen railroads included
in the Railway Age's summary six are
located in the South. The remainder are
in the North and West.
Quoting the words of the Railway Age,
“If the record of foreclosures for the first
six months should lie taken as an indica
tion of what is to he expected for the entire
year it would still lie far from gratifying.
But while there are many roads still in the
hands of receivers, their number and the
amount of liabilities involved have l>ecn so
steadily decreasing that the sales for the re
maining six months of the year are not like
ly to equal those already reported.” It is
proper to add that the foreclosure sales
which are now occurring owe their origin
to financial troubles dating back several
years, and, therefore, do not indicate that
railroad operation at the present is necessa
rily unprofitable.
The number of new receivers appointed
during the jiast six months was very small.
The total was five, only one Southern rail
road lieing affected nnd that of little im
portance. For the same jie&od in lsst; the
number of railroads which passed into the
hands of receivers was seven, the mileage
1,384, against 438 miles this year, and
the liabilities over $45,000,000 against
$18,0(10,KUO ill the last six months.
Compared with the record for the
first half of ISB|, when thirty six railroads,
with a total of 6,539 miles and nearly $348,-
(XX),000 of capital and debt were turned
over to receivers, the Railway Age regards
the sliowing so far this year as very en
couraging.
The financial outlook of the railroads is
encouraging, and there is every reason to
believe that “the black and disgraceful
records of bankruptcy,” through which,
during the past twolvo and a half years, 393
railroads, with a mileage of over 3!),000 miles
and a nominal capital stock ami bonded
debt aggregutiug almost $3,310,000,000,
have been sold undor foreclosure, will not
be repeated.
Judge Thurman having pwitivrly refused
to boa unndhlate for Governor of Ohio, Con
gretwnan James E. Campbell has consented
to hare btt> mime go liefore tho Democratic
nominating convention. To succeed, the
Democrats must have a strong candidate,
nnd such it is believed Congressman Camp
bell would prove.
Leonard Swett, of Chicago, the former
law partner of Ahrahant Lincoln, was mar
ried on Thursday night to Miss Marie A. H.
Decker, his confidential clerk and book
keeper. Hereafter the lady will doubtless
keep the gentleman us straight as she kept
bis books.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 17, 1887.
Work for Women.
The attention which is just now being
given in the South to work for women is a
healthy sign. Since the war the numrier of
j occupations open to Southern women has in
j creased, but it is not yet as large as it should
| lie. The present agitation of tho matter
j ought to result in making it possible for any
Southern woman to earn her own living.
It was announced, a short time ago, that
a famous Georgia college for women would
have in operation next term a technological
department. It is understood that teleg
raphy, typewriting, and kindred arts will
be taught. The departure from the old
plan of teaching women nothing but la.ii
j guages, a little natural science, a little
I geography, history and literature, and just
enough mathematics to enable her to count,
rounding it all off with a smattering of
music, deserves success. After a course
such as has tieen indicated it is difficult to
imagine how a woman could he made more
helpless. Unless she subsequently under
takes to educate herself more thoroughly
and more with a view to doing something
for herself, marriage is her only recourse,
and it is very well known that this does not
always prove satisfactory as a means of
livelihood. It is a matter for congratula
tion, therefore, that a Georgia college in
tends to take the lead in preparing South
ern women •to take rare of themselves.
The only objection to the school which this
college proposes to establish is that it
will not be comprehensive enough. The
occupations for which it is intended to jire
pare women offer but small remuneration,
and they are already crowded. A greater
variety of subjects ought to be taught.
Why would it not bo feasible, for instance,
to teach designing, engraving, photography
and other arts entirely suitable for women?
There is no reason why women should not
become architects, or why they should not
excel as engravers and photographers. Per
haps a careful study of the institution
founded by the late Peter Cooper, of New
York, would result in valuable suggestions
to the projectors of the Georgia Techno
logical School for Women.
Whatever be tho plan of tho Georgia
school, however, it will be tho beginning of
an important and much needed revolution.
A young woman said, the other day, while
discussing her lack of qualifications for
business; “I wish there were a school
within my reach in which I could obtain
the training I need. 1 want to earn money
for myself. 1 want just once, if never
agaiu, to enjoy the independence of sup
porting myself.” She doubtless voiced the
wish of many others of her sex. Men of
wealth could do no wiser thing than to give
a part of it to make the Georgia school of
technology for women what it should bo—
an efficient and comprehensive institution
in which young women may be trained to
earn money for themselves.
Gen. John G. Walker, recently appointed
Consul General and Secretary of Legation
at Bogota, is well-known throughout the
South. His record in tiie Confederate army
was an honorable one. He entered the Uni
ted States army from Missouri in 1846, serv
ing first as lieutenant and brevet captain in
the Mexican war. In 1861 he resigned his
captaincy in the Mounted Riflemen and en
tered the Confederate service under Gen.
Holmes. He served two years in the army
of Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee, and
was promoted to Major General in the lat
ter part of 1863. after the Sharps
burg campaign, in which he commanded
a division. Afterward he wps transferred
to the Trans Mississippi Division, under Gen.
Kirby Smith, and placed in command of the
military division of Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona. After the war Gen. Walker was
connected with Tom Scott and the Texas
Pacific railroad. Six or seven years later
he engaged in mining operations. Recently
he has been living in Winchester, Va. He
was indorsed for the position to which he
has bt-en appointed by the Texas delegation
and by many prominent Congressmen from
other States.
A strange case of marriage by proxy is
reported from Boone Court House, W. Va.
A correspondent of the New York W’o rl<l
writes that Thomas Harless and Let ha Hal
stine were to have been married, but after
the prospective groom had purchased for his
prospective bride her wedding trosseau she
refused to be married. The disappointed
lover got possession of the t rosseau, which
he sold at reduced rates to John Kirk, who
was himself about to be married. Kirk
gave it to his prospective bride, and then
bought Harless' marriage license. After
Kirk was married and he and his wife were
at tout to start on their wedding tour, Har
less claimed that the couple were proxies for
himself and Miss Hnlstine. Miss Halstine,
however, declines to understand the situa
tion that way.
The statement is made that the American
residents of the Hawaiian Islands favor an
nexation to the United States. They assign
a- a reason that annexation would lie advan
tageous to this country. It is claimed that
whoever has the Sandwich Islands can com
mand the North Pacific ocean. There is no
jKirt to compete with them as a naval sta
tion, so that with a foreign war mid the
Sandwich Islands in the haifds of other
powers the commerce of the United States
on the Pacific Ocean would have no show.
There are reasons to believe that England
understands this, and that a contingency
might arise in which sho would act for her
own benefit.
The Boston Journal is authority for the
statement that seventy-five organizations
known as “Know-Somethings” have been
formed in Massachusetts since the row over
the celebration at Boston in honor of Queen
Victoria’s jubilee, for the purpose of oppos
ing the element which caused the disturb
ance. The organizations are really akin to
“Know-Nothingism." It is not likely that
they will accomplish much, liecauso it
istoo late to prevent tho immigration of
foreigners into this country.
That the way of the transgressor is hard
is aptly illustrated by the case of Jacob
Sharp. His greed for money led him to
violate law, and now that punishment has
overtaken him he does nothing but sit and
weep. His appetite has deserted him, sick
ness has seized upon him, and it is believed
that he will die long before his term of im
prisonment expires.
It Is again reported that Secretary Lamar
declares that he is very much surprised at
the newspaper talk about, his being ap
pointed to the bench of the United States
Supreme Court. He insists that so far the
President has not uttered a single won! to
him on the subject. Perhaps tho President
has signaled his intentions to the Secretary.
A society paper gives the following
astounding information: “When a lady and
gentleman walk on tho street the lady
should walk inside the gentleman.” Such a
spectacle would draw a larger crowd than a I
circus.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Trouble with the Mormons.
From the Philadelphia Record I I)em.)
The trouble with the Mormons is that they
want to march into the Union three or four
abreast. But the gateway to Statehood is not
wide enough. They roust march in pairs—one
husliand and one wife—after the Christian fash
| ion.
Their Common Business Interests.
J-Ytrm the Xashville .-ti eeriran l/Vr,i.)
There is no use trying to keep down the grow
ing feeling that the'N. .rth and the South have
common business interests. The prompt way
the hat tinting incident and the insolence of the
i Grand Army men wen- relegated to an obscure
comer la the best evidence lately that the busi
nessmen of the country will have none of this
nee sense.
Fair Play to Negro Passengers.
From the Chattanoooa Timer (Dem .)
The general principle all agree upon—that a
railroad's officials have no l ight to sell a mail a
first class fare and then, solely on account of
his race, force him to put up with second or
third-class accommodations. That is an injus
tice against which every instinct of fair play re
volts, and no railway directory can honestly, or
even decently, iiermit its servants to conduct
business in such a way.
The Leadership of the Republican
Party.
From the Xew York Herald (Ind.).
The leadership of the Republican party, there
fore, so far as it is here voiced by public opinion,
rests with James G. Blaine, John Sherman,
Robert T. Lincoln and William B. Allison. Mr.
Blaine, Mr. Sherman and Mr. Allison are poli
ticians pure and simple who entered public life
as poor young men and are now rich, as is be
lieved from the opportunities of public life.
Mr. Lincoln is a name, a patriotic and noble
memory. He is a colorless politician, a placid
Secretary of War—but a Lincoln. Mr. Depew
is anew sensation, an orator, a gentleman, a
railway president, who has never written letters
which his correspondents w ore desired to burn,
He is, therefore, a useful name on the season’s
cards. Three rich politicians, a season's sensa
tion and a memory —that is all
BRIGHT BITS.
An enterprising physician in Australia adver
tises: "I will pay- one-half the funeral expenses
in case* where I am not successful.”—Philadel
phia Call.
There is a Kentuckian ninety year* old who
has never been a candidate for office. If our
sister Ohio had a man with a record like that,
what scallops she would put on.— Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Life is short, and women are many. Most
men have not time for more than a superficial
examination of each one of their fair friends,
and to her who crowds her best goods into the
showcase is awarded the highest prize. Hebrew
Standard.
Buobron—What makes you look so cheerful
to-day, Dumpsey-?
Duiiqisoy .My daughter left the window open
during the thunder storm yesterday, and our
piano was struck by lightning. You can t im
agine what a relief it was.— Burlington Free
Press.
First Mosqttrro—What a queer smell! Won
der what it is.
Second Mosquito—Guess somebody is cooking
cabbage.
■‘Oh, I see now. He! he! This fellow is
smoking so as to drive us away.”—Ornate
World.
"Making good resolutions and then breaking
them ruin a man's character,” said Bjenks,
philosophically, “and I'm not going to rum my
character in that wav any more.”
“O, my dear,” said Mrs. Bjenks I'm so glad
to hear you aay that. You won't break your
good resolutions after this, will you my dear?”
"No, my darling.” said Bjenks, heroically, "I
won’t. After this I'm not going to make any.”
—Journal of Education.
“And what did you do at the parsonage, Augus
tine.- asked mamma.
"Played croquet,” replied Augustine. ‘-And
say, mamma, 1 was the only one in the game
who played honest and fair; all the others
cheated.
“That v iis like my own brave little boy," said
mamma,st. ipping t. > kiss the broad, hiinest brow.
"And why did my little boy play fairly?”
“Had to,” replied Augustine, a cloud of dark
discontent settling down darkly upon the brow
liereinhefore mentioned. "Had to; every time I
tried to cheat 1 got caught.”— Hurdette.
‘-Father! father!” shouted the son of a
Pennsylvania farmer, as ho rushed into the
house, “it's come!”
"What?”
“Natural gas.”
".Sea? Wiuutm, don't you lie to me.”
‘‘But we've struck it—me aud Jim-—down be
hind the burn."
"Well, shet right up, or the old woman will
hear you. Not a word to her, William-r-not a
whisper! Time we struck ile I ha t to buy her
two calico dresses, and when we found coal she
stuck for a pair of shoes. If she hears of this
she'll want a $2 shawl and, like enough, a pair
of red stockings. Mum is the word. William.”
Mill/ Street .Y errs.
PERSONAL.
It is said that Sarah Bernhardt invested the
hulk of the money made here last season in
American real estate.
I-ord Lucan, who has just been made a Fieid
Marshal, is 87 years old, and has served in the
British army seventy-one years.
It is raid that Mol lie Oarfleid, daughter of
the late President (iartield, will soon wed ,J.
Stanley Brown, her father's private secretary.
The King of Sweden has appointed a Swedish
State agent to live in Manchester, for the pur
pose of extending the sale of Swedish dairy
produce in England.
John Bcskin says that Scotch is “the sweet
est, richest, subtlest. most musical of all the
living dialects of Europe." John must have
been brought up on oatmeal.
John G. Whittier is actively engaged in the
preparations to celebrate on July 27 the 78th
birthday anniversary of Rev. Edwin Thompson,
the pioneer anti-slavery agitator aud temperance
advocate.
The most popular woman in the diplomatic
circle at Athens is said to lo Mine. Bakhmetiew.
wife of the first secretary of the Russian Lega
tion. She is the daughter of (Jen. Beale, of
Washington.
Rev. Dk. J C Enntriu., who lias been elected
Bishop of Nova Scotia, lias a high reputation as
an eloquent preacher, and is well known in Hali
fax. where he has s rved lor years as garrison
chaplain. He is an ultra High Churchman.
Thomas Harrison, a brother of ex Mayor Car
ter Harrison, of Chicago, is spending tiic sum
inerat Martha's Vineyard. Many years ago he
was known a tlie "hoy preacher. " and acquired
a considerable reputation foreonJuctiug church
revivals.
It is announced in the Louisville CnunVr-
Jnurual that Henry Watterson lias been direct
ed by Ills physician to cancel all his engage
ments for public K|.eukiiig in the Kentucky
campaign. He will spend the summer with lii's
family at Block Island.
M. de Qcatrefagks and H. M. Chevalier
have given their adhesion to the theory, which
is taught as to the Aryan race in its earliest
records, that the migrations of peoples in re
mote antiquity Were provoked by the gradual
increase of cold in the Northern regions.
Count von Moltke recently wrote to a coun
tryman a basket maker-who bad expressed
Ills reverence for the Field Marshal in rhyme:
"Esteemed countryman, I thank you for the pa
triotic poems and 1 ho]>e you may live to make
baskets aud write poetry tor many years.”
The engineer of the first locomotive that ever
left St. Iymis for the West, and the engineer of
the first steamboat that ever arrived at St.
Is mis, was William .1 Haynes, of St. Louis, who
is Just closing a century of life. He was ou the
stair of Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Or
leans.
Wir.UAM (it.KNN, the wholesale grocer, of On
einnati. though I>7 years of age, is one of the
in.vst wideawake business men in town Mr.
Glenn comes from a family noted for longevity'
Hi* uncle. James Hubbard, living near Indian
apolis, is 103 years old and still bright aud
chipper.
Gen. Francis F„ Stinneb, formerly Treasurer
of the United States, is greatly enjoying life in
bis tent boipe <>n Rabin Roach, Fla. Atm years
of age he is us genial and lieartj- as ever and
welcomes host* of-visitf<rs. |p-is % particular
ly successful flshormao, and enviftus rival* say
that, w hen worms are acarce he uses hia signa
ture tor bait.
"The will of Samuel Jones Tilden,” says the
rail Hall (iv.fltr. "who was • candidate for the
Presidency of t he U nitedStatea, late of Grey st one,
Yonkers, eouuty of Westchester. State of Non-
York, counsellor at law. who died on Aug. I
last, was proved in London on Juno 18 the value
of the personal estate in this country amount
ing to over t Pis,non /<
A i*non deal of fun has been made recently
over Roseoe Conkling s desire to lve considered a
young man. When entertained by the Grant
Club at Chicago the other day he said: "1 first
saw Chicago thirty years ago. You know how
young I was then a good strong nurse lielil me
up in her anus and said: That's Chicago.'”
Mr . Conkling was a bouncing baby of twenty
fight years when the nurse in queatiou held him
in her arms.
A NERVOUS WOMAN.
She Was Afraid a Smash-Up Would
Occur While She Was Asleep.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
A nervous woman on board a railroad train in
Missouri called the conductor and said;
“I would like so much to take a sleeper, for
I've been up three nights hand mimin', but I
am afeerd."
“What are you afraid of, madam/’
“Why, I'm afeerd that the train mout run
off the track."
“But will your staying awake keep it on the
track?"
“Wall, do you know I hadn't thought of that?
Why, my settin' up here with my eyes open
I.am t have tht3 slightest effect upon the train,
can it?"
“None that I can see."
“Then, if you was in my place you'd go in the
sleeper an' git a good night s rest?"
“i certainly should."
"Well, I will, but whenever you think there's
any danger of the train runnin’ off w'y I wish
you'd have ine called."
She went into the sleeper. About three hours
later while the condueor was passing through
the train he found the woman sitting on the
seat which she had occupied during the day.
“Why. madam, I thought you liad taken a
sleeper."
i did," she replied, "but the fetch-taked
train kep' a-threateniu' an' a-threatenin' to run
off the track till I thought the safest plan would
be fur me to git right out an' set here where I
ken watch everything: but do you know that
when I got up that fetch-taked nigger in then*
had tuck iny shoes and sloped off with 'em?
Well, he had done that very thing an’ I had the
hardest sort of work gettin' 'em back again, fur
the cussed rascal had put a little dab of black
in’ on 'em an' wanted to charge me 10c. I paid
the conductor $2 for the shelf—or berth, as he
calls it—hut I reckon he'll give it back to me in
the morale*."
“He won't give it back."
“He won't?"
"No."
"Not if I te'i him I am a pore widder?"
"That won't make any difference."
"Wall," bouncing up, "I*ll jest go back there
an' lay them waitin' rur the train to run off, fur
I II he bound fx I'm goin' to be beat out of my
money thater way. Whenever the train starts
to run off you mout call me, an' if you hear a
awful rumpus in there you may know that the
uussed nigrer is alrter my shoes again, an' that
I'm defend in’ my lights."
A STRANGE COMBAT.
A Rabbit, in Defence of its Nest, Gives
Battle to a Blacksnako.
A Peoria, 111., special to the Chicago Tribune
says: The keeper of Springdale Cemetery, just
north of Peoria, to-day was witness of a strange
combat. While engaged in his usual business of
attending to the graves his attention was arous
ed by the strange antics of a rabbit. It seem
ed to lx* jumping up in the air and acting alto
gether in a crazy manner. Proceeding to the
spot, he was astonished to see that the rabbit
was giving battle to a blacksnake about five feet
in length. The rabbit had a nest near by, and
in it were its two young. The serpent was
several feet from the nest, aud as it
tried to approach the rabbit would jump
fiercely on the snake, biting it near the
head, and then jump back before the black
snake could get it in its coil. When the snake
showed a disposition to remain coiled the rabbit
would make a feint and get it to strike, and
then quick as lightning would jump on the
snake's body. The rabbit had api>arently lost
all fear of the presence of man. as the witness
of the strange battle stood within a few feet of
it. After a few minutes the snake made up its
mind to get away badly worsted, and found
safety in a brush pile into which the rabbit
could not penetrate, although it made efforts to
do so. It is the opinion of the keeper that if
tho fight had occurred in the open ground where
the snake could not have sought concealment
the rabbit would have killed it.
Are Blinders Necessary?
From the Hartford Times.
The majority of people probably do not re
alize how much and in how many ways the eyes
of work horses are injured by the use of blind
ers. Scarcely a day passes that Mr. Thrall,
agent of the Connecticut Humane Society, does
not ask someone to have a loose blinder re
moved or mended in order to save the eye of
a suffering horse. It is sad to not ice how many
cart and draught horses have defective eyes.
In hot weather the heated leather worn close to
the head during many hours isa serious evil, not
to mention the pain and disease which would re
sult to the eye of any animal from having its vis
ion continually impeded bv a near object. In con
nection with this subject the following incident
was related to us by Air. Thrall. Seeing a horse
passing along on a sweltering day with a loose
nlinder knocking against his eye at every step,
Mr. Thrall said to the driver:
“Pat. suppose it was a pretty hot day, and
you didn't feel very comfortable anyway, and
t here was a big piece of hard leather flapping
into your eye— ’’
“ne gorrah! ye're right I Don't ye say anoth
er word your honor—l'll fix ’em.”
Early the next morning came a knock at the
door of the Humane Society office, and when
Mr. Thrall looked up there stood the man beam
ing with satisfaction.
' The top o’ the mornin’ to ye! An’ will ye
stiii out an' take a sight at him, if ye plase?”
Mr. Thrall went outside, and there was the
horse, also satisfied, for lie had had an extra
feed and rub-down, and his blinders had been
cut off.
Mr. Thrall says that he frequently meets with
this readiness of comprehension and willing
ness to act humanely as soon as the slightest in
timation of unkindness is given, which proves
that a great many really well-meaning persons
are cruel through thoughtlessness; and as soon
as their attention is called to their mistakes
they are thankful to remedy them. We hope
there will soon be a fresh confirmation of this
undoubted fact in the large number of “eman
cipated horses’’ which will lie seen on opr streets
rejoicing in their freedom from unnecessary re
straint. Already many horses are driven with
out blinders; but the number of those that are
relieved in both directions is still comparatively
small. We w ish all persons who have adopted
this humane method of driving, and all who
may do so, now that the subject has been
brought to their consideration, to know that
there is a tide of sympathy and approval (low
ing toward them from every direction—a tide of
humane feeling, of love for those low orders of
intelligence which it is the duty of man, su
preme in power and wifi, to develop and pro
tect.
The Fate of the Children
From the XeK York Sun.
Oh, the children! Oh, the children! How they
suffer, droop and die
In the close ana crowded city, when the days
are hot and dry!
How they gasp and groan and murmur, in their
ceaseless, voiceless prayer
For a bit of God’s great bounty, for the blessing
of the air!
Knnms Anri houses (lacked and reeking hold the
children day ami night.
Shutting off the healthful breezes, with the sun
shine and the light;
Only noxious odors roach them, that can enter
everywhere.
All the gases of the garbage, all the fever-laden
air.
Then the dark Death Angel fans them, watching
well their failing breath.
Holds them, folds them in his arms until their
even are closed in death.
Oh, tne coffins nightly tilled, and oh, the hearses
that by day
Through the city's narrow, nasty streets are
driven fast away!
Breezes blowing all about them, blowing freshly
here and there.
All the glory of the ocean, all the sweetness of
the air:
But the children cannot reach them, trout the
freest blessings barred,
And we do not need to wonder that their lives
are brief and hard.
Sad Moments.
From the .San Francieeo Chronicle,
We have nil some sail moments in our lives,
sad secrets dial are not immoral nor criminal,
or anything like that, but simply moments of
unhappy ncoident or painful stupidity. Don't
you recollect, for Instance, the time when your
lies! girl wanted you to take her to the theatre,
and you wrote to her you were sick and confined
to your bed. and her younger brother told her
next morning he hail been out at a prise tight
with you? Don’t you n-me.roher and kick your-
Siflf when you thick 'if it. the time you wanted
to show her the pretty letter you had front
your toolbar about her, and you gave
her a dunning cofci from the jeweler for the
handsome btlu-elet you gave her ns a preeenf
the Christmas llofort? There are worse conif
temps than that you recollect -occasionally, I
know, but they would not look pretty in print
lam reminded of the subject by the absent
mindedness of a fellow who dressed himself up
iu bis lies! and went one evening to call upon
the pretty daughter of u rich man, upon whose
fortune ho was building great ho|**s of future
happiness. He ruug the hell au-l was shown
into the |wrlor. In a minute the old gentleman
himself came down with the card in his haul
“We are very glad to see you, Mr Jones, but
I don't think you intended this card for us."
It was a pawn-ticket.
When you go to the mountains, he sure to
place in your portmanteau a bottle of Fred,
brown's Jamaica (linger. Philadelphia, jaa.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
England is said 10 have one cow to eight and a
half persons, France one cow to three and one
third, and America one cow to one and t
third persons. America is ahead on tne<
A kind of jubilee exhibition is being planned
in which we shall see systematically arranged
the changes in domestic decorative art which
have taken place since Queen victoria
crowned.
David Thurman, of Fremont. 0., did on July
1, as sworn and subscribed to before a Justice
of the Peace, drink one full gallon of butter
milk in the space of seven minutes, ana tuerecy
won an accordion valued at $3.
In the window' of a boarding-house in a XX ast
ern town the following notice is posted: “ 1 his
ain't a Boardin’ House: it's just an ornery plain
hash house. But don't pass It by on that ac
count; for there ain't no better in the null aig
gins."
The Latin ode which the Eton boys sung at
their jubilee celebration was composed, words
and music, by Dr. Warre while dreaming.
While Warre has no scientific knowledge of
music, musical experts declare that the tune is
an excellent piece of recitative.
The cost of the British medical army staff is
.€2*10,000 a year, but, in addition, there is an item
of £200.000 a year for pensions to retired doctors
and surgeons. 'The medical officers retire from
the service at 45 years of age, and receive pen
sions for the remainder of their days.
Thx Chinese law requires every householder
to hang at his front door a list of the inmates
of his house. It seems as though it ought to be
easy to make an accurate census. By one
which the officials of the empire have recently
afforded, the population is 450,000,000.
A standard THERMOMETER is made with a dial
upon which the figures are as easily read as
upon a clock. In this instrument strips of
metal, which are equally acted unon by heat
and cold, are soldered together m the form
of spirals; the action of the temperature is mul
tiplied by delicate wheels and pinions.
Victor Hugo did not know the amount of his
fortune until some friends, in 3854, inquired of
the Rothschilds. They discovered that he had
nearly 0,000,000 francs deposited with them, and
astonished him greatly when they Acquainted
hi ru with the fact. He was then getting yearly
royalties from his works of 40,000 francs. So
says the Paris Figaro.
Tiie public lands of Mexico is still an un
known quantity. A survey has lx*ec in prog
ress for two or years, which has resulted
in mapping out 20,000.000 acres. The survey
has not yet comprised the entire area of two of
the twenty-seven States of the republic. These
lands, as last as they lire surveyed, will be
thrown open to colonization.
Rev. I. C. Bagley, of Camden, N. J.. was
called upon by a stylish looking couple who
desired to be wedded. There l>eing no impedi
ment, the pastor soon made them one flesh.
Then the groom handed the clergyman a large
official envelope manted “A present, with
thanks." Upon opening the envelope Mr. Bag
ley found inclosed the sum of 10c.
It is amusing to see that in future the Indian
pilgrims to Mecca, will by agreement with the
government, be in charge of the European tour
ist agency. Tickets are to l>e issued at all the
Mohammedan centers and the pilgrims wil/ren
dezvous at Bombay, where the great tour agents
will take charge or them and be responsible for
their safe conduct to the tomb of the prophet
and back.
There is a firm in Berlin that employs 300
girls w'ho manufacture little bundles of anti
septic dressing material, with which all German
soldiers are to be supplied in future, so that
they may W able to dress their own wounds in
the absence of a surgeon. The girls an* all
dressed in white linen cloaks, and are strictly
forbidden to bring victuals or anything else into
the room where they work.
The University of Kings College, Windsor,
Nova Scotia, is the oldest of all the British
American colleges. The royal charter under
which it was founded in 1788 explicitly provides
that its academical habits shall be the same as
those of the University of Oxford. And its
enceniajs conducted every year with all the
pomp and ciroumstance of an Oxford eneenia.
The Rev. Dr. Isaac Brock, Oxon., is the presi
dent.
The editor of the Webster (N. C.) Weekly
thus apologizes for the appearance of so much
original, grave matter in a recent issue of his
paper: “Our shears are sadly in need of sharp
ening. The rivet is loose, arid when we try to
clip an article they wobble through the paper
like a turkey-gobbler with a sunstroke, and
grate with an unearthly sound. The process of
cutting has become so disagreeable that we
have been forced to put in more original matter
of late.”
The length to which blind credulity will go
has just been illustrated in the case of a man in
Frankfort, Ky. He had been a sufferer from
asthma for years, and on beingtohl recently by
a friend tiiat if he would swallow a few bird shot
everyday for a few weeks he would lie cured,
he promptly began to do so. After he had
swallowed about four pounds violent symptoms
of lead jMiisoning were developed and the man
was obliged to go to a physician. His life was
saved, but he still has asthma as bad as ever.
During the last fifty years, since Queen Vic
toria was crowned in Westminster, the French
count up the reign of Louis Philippe down to
Feb. 34. 1848; the republic from Feb. 34 to Dec.
10, 1848: the Presidency of Louis Napoleon Bo
naparte to Dec. 2, 1851; the empire from No
vember, 1852; then the downfall: next the gov
ernment of National Defense, on Sept. 4, 1870;
then the Presidency of M. Thiers, in 1871 until
May 24, 1873; next that of MacMahon, to the
month of January, 1879, and lastly, the republic
of President Grevy.
A bank vault expert says in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat that there are not exceeding
half a dozen first-class safe robbers in the couii
try, and that he knows them all by their work.
One of these men might almost as well leave
his name behind him as a mark of his work, and
he can t very well destroy all trace of it. The
following is given in illustration: “I remember
one ease I was called on to investigate in Ohio.
Hooked over the work and remarked,- ‘Well, if
I didn't do this myself it was my old boy.’ He
had learned his trade under me, and I knew
every mark he had made. The detective worked
the case up on that clew, ho was arrested,
found guilty and is now serving a twenty years’
sentence in the penitentiary.” The vaults now
living built, it is said, are so difficult to enter
that it would not be worth the risk. Too much
time is needed.
A Ri-Mott got loose in San Francisco the other
day that Mr. Frederick Gebhard was in that
city, where Mrs. Ltngtry is now playing, but
the Alta investigated it and found it baseless.
“It came," says that journal, "from a brake
man on one of the overland cars. He had mys
teriously hinted at seeing a man in a long duster
and with a bundle under his arm, which re
sembled a hat-box, riding on the brakebeam
under the Langtry car as it was whirled across
tiie plains. The brakeman, it is said, even went
so far as to say that this was the infatuated
Freddie, and that upon his arrival here he
dropped the duster, disclosing a rich broadcloth
suit, and resurrected a shiny plug hat from tho
depths of his bundle. He then registered at an
obscure water-front hotel. This rumor was
quickly laid by a co-worker with tiie brakeman
who coldly asserted that the story was a fabri
cation as far us the refugee under the ear living
Freddie was concerned. He stated that the
rider upon the Langtry brakebeam was an
eccentric Italian nobleman who was enjoying
Ids vacation in his own peculiar way, aud who
was bent upon investing a small ’part of his
colossal fortune in a chestnut plantation.”
M. CograuH will, it, is said, rejoin the com
pany of the Theatre Francais after his return
from his American tour. He means to spend
the next few months in some quiet spot ia the
country, and to devote himself to the composi
tion of the treatise on acting which he ban long
been meditating. “L'Art dii Cainedien," as it
is to tie called, will contain everything that the
actor's experience and his ‘'constant and pas
sionate study of the masters" have taught him
and he starts with the assumption, which it will
tie the main object of the work to establish
that acting is a purely conventional art’
Amongst the other illustrations which he will'
cite in support of his thesis will be found a
rather amusing one (so "Parisis” of "The
Figaro" says). derived from a recant, experience
of his own. He was playing the part of "Annf
t.al" in ■•L’Aventuriere*' In a provincial town
some little time ago, and when ho came to the
scene In which "Anaihal" is supposed | 0 f„u
asleep, the actor, who happened to be --xirermiir
tired that evening, fell asleep lr> good enrnest
He slop! heavily and "snored like a bellringer ’’
When he took up the local papers noxt day lie
found that while praising Ills performance In
general, they all condemned his simulation of
the phenomena of sleep as ridiculously stagy
and unnatural. '
Dramatic Critic ) can't Imagine how you
CMnuppear to h- so carried away with your part
when, according to your own admission, you do
not feel a word of it.
Great Actress—l liecame quite proficient in
that art by a long course of training before I
went on t be stage.
"At a dramatic school?”
“No: I was a salesgirl in a millinery store nnd
when customers were around 1 had in admire
all the new bonnets,"— Omalm World.
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