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Tho Puyallup Indians, who were granted
the right of suffrage by the last Congress,
ire Democrats. The fact is ample atone
ment for their horrible name.
The man who gives the advice: “Take
What is in sight and rustle for more,” will
lot do to trust. Following such advice is
tvliat sends many a man to the chain-gang.
A man in New York advertises to do
'‘mending for bachelors.” The women
loubtless regard him as an enemy, as his
trasiness decreases their chances of marry
g-
Gen. Sherman is fond of being called a
food sailor. If ho were in the American
lavy be would doubtless lose his love for
:be sea. It isn’t very pleasant to bo afloat
n a rickety tub.
Even the Anti-Prohibitionists are begui
ling to admit that prohibition in Atlanta
loes prohibit. It would be queer indeed if
tlosing more than 100 saloons did not de
crease liquor drinking and drunkenness.
The Summer School of Philosophy, at Con
rd, Mass., presents a sad spectacle of mis
lireeted intellects. Tho people who com
prise the teachers and pupils of the school
ire wasting time and are doing nobody any
good.
John L. Sullivan, Boston's slugger, con
templates a trip to England. If he goes
Mr. Blaine might ns well come home. With
x>th Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan in
ihe midst of them, Englishmen would have
k> eyes for lesser lights.
It is stated that corn is growning in
Rooks county, Kan., at the rate of two
nches every twenty-four hours. The man
,liat made the statement refuses to make
Himself known, however, doubtless because
le fears embarrassing questions.
The hot weather in fho West is said to be
!iaving a salutary effect upon the men who
manufacture the tall stories aliout the boom
m that section. They are so badly wilted
that they cannot treat the truth with us
ittle respect as they have heretofore done.
New Haven, Conn., is agitated over a
level elopement. The parties rode away in
lenreh of bliss in a horse-ear. Romance
teems to have gone to the dogs. Tho idea
if an elopement on a horse-car is enough to
make ull the bread-and-butter misses in the
and weep.
The postmistress ut Klimvooil, Neb., is
Musing considerable trouble to her support
ers by her efforts to have the Sunday mail
to that point discontinued. Her supporters
ought to respect her motive. Kite doubtless
Wants time to attend church on Sunday so
that sho may show other women whut sho
weans
It is alleged that Mr. Blaiuo has discov
ered that Americans spend abroad alsiut
$75,000,000 ovory year. It isn't stated what
use he intends to make of the discovery. If
the figures are correct it is not to bo won
dered at that the jieople of foreign countries
are always ready to welcome American
visitors.
Kays an exchange: “With microlicsin the
drinking water, tyrotoxicon in ice cream,
malaria in watermelons. Bright's disease in
beer, and paralysis in iced ti i. wherewithal
may the thirsty soul refresh itself in sum
mer timeT’ Tho question is hard to an
swer. Perhaps it might be well to try dis
tilled dew.
Tho American Shipping and Industrial
I/eague, which lias already held conven
tions at Washington, Charleston, Pensacola,
Son Francisco and Chicago, will hold one
in Boston in September, ami in Birming
ham, Ala., Nov. 8, 0 and 10. The one in
Birmingham bids fair to ho largely ut
tendtxi, und arrangements aro already be
ing made to insure Us success.
Don. Clinton B. Fish, of New Jersey, raid
In an interview the other day: “The result
of the election next year will depend alto
gether on the labor movement, and if the
workingmen should nominate a strong man
it would weaken the Democratic party moro
than tho Prohibition party would weaken
the Republicans. This would lie emphatic
ally true in New York. I should not bo sur
prised to see an alliance between laimr and
prohibition in tho next twelve months.”
The result of the election for Mayor in New
York city last year did not leave room to
believe that Gen. Fish is right as to the in
jury the Labor party is to do the Demo
cratic party. As to an alliance tictwoon the
Labor jiarty and the Prohibit)onibts there is
not much probability of that.
Au Objectionable Bill.
It is probable that there will be strong
opposition to tho bill pending in the Legis
j lature authorizing the government to con
demn property in this city for a public
building site. The understanding seems to
bo that tho government intends to condemn
the property of Dr. Hopps, on the corner of
Bull and South Broad streets. Dr. Hopps
objects to having his property taken from
him in that way, or in any other way, with
out his consent, and ho is right about it. It
is true that he offered his property for a
public building site, at a price which he fixed
u]Kin it, but he had no intention of letting
tho government have it at a price which a
commission, appointed under proceedings
to condemn it, might placo upon it. He
knows what his property is worth to him,
and it is a rather bigli-handed proceeding to
take it from him for less than he is willing
to accept for it. The commission may be a
fair one, and may place a just valuation
upon it, but that is no reason why ho should
be forced to sell it for less than his own
valuation. Tho same is true with respect to
any private property, other than that of
Dr. Hopps, which the government might
wish to condemn.
If it were absolutely necessary for the
government to have Dr. Hopps’, or any
other piece of private property which the
owner refused to part with for a fair com
pensation there would be some excuso for
tho bill, but there is no such necessity.
There are plenty of sites which will answer
the government’s needs, and which can be
had at reasonable prices. The Union So
ciety, for instance, offered a lot on Whit
aker street, which has a front on a public
square, and which, in the opinion of many,
is a more desirable location for the public
building than the corner of Bull and South
Broad streets. The agent of the Supervis
ing Architect, however, reported in favor
of tho latter location, notwithstanding the
fact that the price asked for it was almost
double. A petition containing almost 1,000
names of prominent citizens urging the ac
ceptance of tho Whituker street location
was sent to tho Supervising Architect, but
Ho jietition, as far as the public knows, was
presented in favor of the location on the
corner of Bull and South Broad streets.
It seems strange that the wishes of so
many citizens should have been disregarded
in a matter in which they were so deeply
interested, and that the recommendation of
a representative of the Supervising Archi
tect, who knew little or nothing about the
city, should have had so much weight. If
the Whitaker street sib' had been selected
it is probable that the corner-stone of the
public building would have been laid by
this tiino. The indications now are that it
will boa long time before it is laid.
The Union Society may not be willing
now to sell the Whitakor street lot. It has
made arrangements to improve it. There
is a possibility, however, that it might be
induced to part with it simply to have the
public building in an eligible location. Mr.
Freret, who was appointed Supervising
Architect a few days ago, might be more
willing to comply with tho wishes of the
people than hts predecessor, Mr. Bell, was.
But if the Whitaker street sib' is not
available there are other sites which can
be obtained at fair prices, and that, too,
without the legislation that is now sought
at Atlanta. If the pending bill becomes a
law any rdizen’s property can be taken at a
valuation which a commission may fix upon
it, whether file property is for sale or not.
Before the Legislature acts upon this bill it
should inform itself whether it is needed.
It will lmve no difficulty in discovering
that it isn’t.
Tho Popo and the Knights.
Tho announcement is made that the Pope
has decided that there is no ground for Pa
pal interference with the Knights of Labor
organization. It will he remembered that
tlie Archbishop of Montreal thought that
there was, and that he took some steps look
ing to Its condemnation in Canada. His
action brought the Knights of Laimr ques
tion before tho Pope, and. Cardinal Gibbons,
of Baltimore, appeared as tho defender of
tiie Knights.
In a brief bilk on Tuesday night Cardinal
Gibbous said that there was nothing in tho
purposes or organization of tho Knights
which deserved condemnation, and that in
his opinion there would lie no condeinna
tion of them as long as they kept themselves
free from Anarchists and other dangerous
associations.
There cannot, of course, lie any reason for
finding fault with the Knights as long as
they respect tho rights of others, and seek
only to !tetter their condition. Efforts are
all the time being made, however, to induce
them to go beyond tho legitimate purposes
of their organization and to lend their in
fluence to the promulgation of doctrines
which aro hostile to the best interests of
society. To what extent those efforts will
succeed remains to b > seen. It is noticeable
that Dr. McGlynn and Henry George are
welcome guests at their meetings, and that
they wore received with favor nt
the great picnic of District Assem
bly 4K, near New York, last Mon
day. Thera is probably no reason
why these two men should not have nt
tended the picnic If they went there simply
to encourage the Knights to pay great at
tention to those things which promise to
better their condition, but if they went
there to make converts to the Henry George
land theory, and wore listened to with
favor, the Knights may well ask whether
such men are not dangerous to them, and
whether the Knights, in supporting and en
couraging them, are not drifting away
from safe moorings. The Socialists, Com
munists and Anarchists are each striving
to gain control of the Knights, but there is
no evidence yet that they are meeting with
success.
Tho statement is made that a gigantic
scheme is being planned to control tho
Knights of Labor throughout the country.
It is said to bo in the interest of District
Assembly No. 40, of Now York, General
Master Workman Powderly and General
Secretary Liteitmuu. According to a Knight
of Labor who is not committed to tho
scheme, it is ijroposod to. have delegatee go
to the General Assembly that will sustain
the Powderly administration. This will i>o
accomplished by establishing classes con
siiting of nine memliers in every city in tho
country. These classes ure to bo made up
of the most influential Knights available
and will be really branches of 4il’s Assembly.
The scheme is one that will displease many
Knights, and will be found to be another
wedge to widen the split in the order.
In Boone county, la., a preacher recently
kicked vigorously liecuuse a newspaper
there published Rev. T. DeVVitt Talmuge s
sermons each week. Ho claimed that the
Brooklyn preacher's sermons caused tho con
gregation of the Boone county church to be
dissatisfied with anybody rise’s sermons.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1887.
The New Navy.
Th new war vessel Atlanta has gone to
sea with a board of naval officers, who are
instructed to report whether she is strong
enough to resist tho strain to which sho is
subjeeb'd when her modern guns are fired.
Some time ago, when a test was made of
her eight-inch rifled guns, she suffered con
siderable damage, and some of her officers
expressed the opinion tliat the tiring of guns
of that size on board of her would very
soon render her unfit for service. They
went further than that, and expressed a
doubt w hether she could resist the strain of
six-incli guns unless she wore greatly
strengthened.
There aro a good many obstacles to bo
overcome in building a navy of armored
vessels. The constructors and builders are
forced to feel their way, as it were, since
they have never had any experience with
such vessels, and that which appears to lie
very satisfactory in theory often proves to
be very unsatisfactory in practice.
All the vessels which lmve thus far been
built for the new navy were very faulty,
and required a great deal of tinkering be
fore tlio Navy Department would accept
them. It was thought that the Atlanta
would prove equal b the expectations which
were entertained of her after numerous
changes had been made, but unless the im
pressions obtained from the first test of her
guns prove to be erroneous sho will have to
be classed as a failure.
The ship-builders in this country lack the
experience in constructing armored war
vessels which England’s ship-builders
have, and it is not surprising, therefore,
that, the Secretary of the Navy thought it
advisable to purchase plans of a couple of
vessels from English naval constructors.
When it became known that he hail gone
abroail for plans some of the Republican
papers were cpiick to condemn him, but it
is noticeable that they have had very little
to say since the Atlanta lias proven unequal
to the demands upon her. It was intended
to arm tho Chicago, which is now being
built, with ten-inch rifled guns, but since
the experience with the Atlanta it is said
that six-inch guns will be substituted for
them.
An Old Proposition.
A correspondent objects to the composi
tion of the General Assembly, anil suggests
that, at the next election it would lie well
for tho pooplo to chooso as their representa
tives none but farmers.
About once a year somebody makes a
similar proposition. There seems to be an
impression among these people that there is
neither ability nor honesty among lawyers,
doctors, and merchants, and that to force
them out of the General Assembly would
greatly benefit the State. Of course the
impression is erroneous, and those who have
it are either ignorant or willfully shut their
eyes to the facts.
It is doubtful if the composition of the
General Assembly could be improved. There
are in the body representatives of various
interests, each capable of assistance to the
other, or of being a check upon the other
when occasion requires. If none but farm
ers were elected the agricultural interest
would receive more attention than it de
serves. Not only would this lie true, but
other interests would suffer. A farmer, for
instance, would not be likely to know the
needs of the legal or the medical profession,
nor would he understand correctly what
legislation would be of benefit to commerce.
Tho old saying, “every man to his own
trade,” contains a valuable suggestion.
Each important interest should be repre
sented in the General Assembly, just as
is t in' case at present.
It cannot be denied that the farmers who
devote their attention to law-making render
tho State good service. They are generally
conservative, refusing to act hurriedly.
They know how necessary economy is, and
they therefore carefully scrutinize every
proposition to spend the State’s money, not
Infrequently preventing waste. In addition
it may tie said that some of tho most impor
tant laws on the statute books were origi
nated by farmers. It is not probable, how
ever, that these laws would have been made
ns nearly perfect as they are without the
aid of the representatives of other intezests.
It is certain that these representatives have
originated laws as important as those claim
ing farmers as their authors, anil it is
equally ns certain that there is ns much
honesty nnd ability among lawyers, doctors
and merchants as there is among farmers.
The General Assembly is well enough as it
is, and may be depended on to do its duty.
An interesting dispatch from Cincinnati
to tho New York Tribune says that at Font
bank, near Cincinnati, is the workshop and
laboratory of Henry B. Cox, a young elec
trician who, though known to but few iu
this country, is attracting tho notice of
scientists nnd electricians in Europe by his
inventions, in which ho is as prolific and in
genious as Edison. His latest device is a
trumpet to be used for telephoning nt sea,
on which he has been nt work for some
months. The Invention is the outgrowth of
his discovery of tho grant distance an echoed
or reverberated sound will carry,
and tho discovery that speaking
trumpets, if made to give the
same fundamental note would vibrato and
produce the phenomenon known in acous
tics ns “sympathy." With this trumpet con
versation in an ordinary tone of voice was
carried on between parties four nnd a quar
ter miles apart. People sitting at their
windows or on their porches a mile away
conversing iu an ordinary lone could lie
distinctly heard, and in two instances they
were fold of the nature of their conversa
tion and admitted that such had taken
place. By listening to the whistle nnd
tracing it to and beyond Fernbank to Law
roncebiirg, Ind., it was found that
tho instrument has a well-defined
range of twenty-six miles; that is, a load
sound like a locomotive whistle or the
rumbling of a train can be distinctly heard
at n distance of thirteen miles in every di
rection. Conversation was readily carried
on between two men on high hills on opposite
sides of the Ohio river, about four nnd a
half miles apart. Tests made on the water
showed that the trunifsit was even roora
available than on land. The instrument
will be patented as soon as perfected. A
name lias not yet lieen chosen for it. Mr.
Coxhasagript many other curious and
valuable devices, both electrical and me
chanical, but none as curious as ids sou tele
phone.
It is stated by tho New York Times that
when business is normal in Wall stns-t the
Ktix-k Exchange, not counting transaction*
in Ismds, counts it a small day when.soo,ooo
shares of stocks arc dealt in. Monday n
fill! day’s business resulted in a grand ag
gregate of 108.000 shares. Tho liottom
seems to have fallen out of speculation in
Wall street, hut why nobody seems able
itisfactorily to explain.
CURRENT COMMENT.
He Needn’t Keep Awake.
I'rnni the Missouri Republican (Peril.)
Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of his father, is
becoming a considerable quantity in Republican
calculations. Blaine has more to fear from
Lincoln than from Sherman, though from pres
cut appearances there is not enough to fear
from either or both to keepthe man from Maine
awake o’nights.
While the Tariff Keeps Steady.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
If wages would certainly be reduced by a re
duction of tbe tariff many protectionists em
ployers would be as swift to demand tariff re
duction as the loudest-mouthed friend of rev
enue reform But wages are one matter anil
tariff duties quite another. Wages go up and
down, while the tariff keeps steady.
They Can’t Be Forced Out.
From the Washington Post (Dem.)
The rumor that Randall and a few other
Representatives of like high tariff views will
help the Republican , organize the next House
on a high tariff basis is a little absurd even in
the hot and silly season. These persons have
influence only as Democrats within the Demo
cratic party, and a combined derrick and pile
driver couldn't force them out of it.
An Uncomfortable Fact.
From the Poston Globe (Dem.)
There is no more helpless lieing in the world
than a man who has a sick wife and children to
he cared for, and who is in search for competent
help to do it. It matters not what his financial
resources may be, for money, no matter how
lavishly expended, may not command the as
sistance he needs. While almost ever}- branch
of employment is crowded with those eager
and anxious fur work, household assistants are
so scarce that it is a matter of chance to secure
a competent one.
BRIGHT BITS.
One good way to avoid being sunstruok is to
keep the elbows perfectly straight.—Philadel
phia News.
“Never take a sulky girl to ride in a buggy,”
says Harper s Bazar. No, we should prefer a
hansom girl iu a phaeton.— Springfield Union ,
Up in Washington Territory there Is a ranch
where they shear 3,0* 1 sheep in one day. This
threatens to rival the business done in Wall
street. Rochester Post-Express.
After running a lawn mower for an hour
this morning he remarked that if ever he had
said anything derogatory or unkind of the snow
shovel he would most willingly take it back.—
Springfield Union.
It has heen asked why a city is called “she.”
The answer seems an easy one. There is always
more or less bustle about a city. Besides a city
has outskirts, and a he could not under any cir
cumstances have skirts of any kiud.— Pittsburg
bulletin.
“Waiter,” said a gentlmm in the dining car,
“have you any gooseberry pie?"
“No, sahffaint carry hr any this yeah, salt.”
“Why is that?"
"Well, you sea-, sah, dey’s seace dis sesum.
Las' winter was so cole and stormy dnt it wus
mighty tough on de geese.”— Washington Star.
“On, no. ma’am,” pleaded the tramp, “you
may think my life all sunshine, but it ain’t.
Wherever Igol am beset by dangers. In short ,
m'-'otn. I carry mv life in my hands.”
“Ah, I see!” exclaimed his temporary hostess;
“that accounts for your not washing your
hands. You don't dare to do it for iear you'll
drown yourself.”— boston Transcript.
“The money wasted in worse than useless
fireworks in our city,' writes the astute editor,
"would save hundreds of the poor and needy
from starvation. Will people ever leant the
judicious use of money? Here," he continued,
turning to the office hoy, “take that biggest tin
pail there and go and get it full of lieer. Hustle
yourself because I'm dry," - Dakota bell.
Mrs. Goldleaf, newly graduated from a very
humole spnere of lif--. is lend of using a French
word now and then, and this she always dees
with striking effect. As, for instance, when,
speaking of some duty her maid servant had lefi
undone, she remarked, in a light and airy man
ner, “Pauline is a good servant—a very good
servant—but, I must confess she is apt to be
neglige.”— Harpers Bazar.
Now at thy seashore doth the maid
In garb fantastic sport her,
And with aquatic fervor wade
Within the sunlit water.
A yard-wide hat she doth disclose
To sliield her from the sunbeams.
And yet, when she returns, her nose
A little overdone seems.
—Yonkers Gazette.
Once doubly in love, 1 wavered between
The two sweetest girls that I know.
And only these faults in the pair could be seen:
A little too lively ami quick was Pauline,
While Jane was a trine too slow.
But, alas' their behavior uo harmony kept.
When 11 egged them by turns to be mine;
In spite of the way that i pleaded and wept,
Pauline was unfeelingly slow to accept,
Jane cruelly quick to decline.
. —Tid-Bits.
A coNSTAnt.it recently brought a man before a
justice of the peace in n Dakota "no license”
county, charged with selling liquor.
“Well, Jim," said the justice, addressing the
officer, "where's the licker ho was selling?”
• They had just finished drinking the last of it,
your honor."
“Ilev?" thundered the court.
"I say it was all gone tiefore I got there.”
“All gone before von go* there? Great Scott!
where was you ail tho t ine'’ Do you think I
am going on with a cise like this without some
licker put iu as evidence for the court to sam
ple? Let the prisoner go and mebbe he'll bring
some more to town. And you see that you
get around and make your arrest just liefore he
begins to sell, and not after it's alt lieen swal
loved by a lot of l'ellers that ain't half as dry as
the court." Dakota Bel,
PERSONAL.
Rk'r Admiral Franklin will be retired next
men h. He will be m -eaeded by Com. Gherardi.
E I>. Morgan, the recent purchaser of the
Mayflower, has been elected Rear Commodore
of tbe New York Yacht Club.
Ex Senator Robert Mercer Taliaferro
Ulster, of Virginia, was a classmate of Edgar
A. Poo at the University of Virginia,
John McMackin, Henry George's political or
ganizer, predicts that the Land and labor
party's State ticket will poll 150,000 to 300,000
votes in New York this year.
At the suggestion of H. H. Carter, Super!it
t’oident of tin- Baltimore and Potomac railroad,
a library for th - employes of that company has
been established at Washington.
Postmaster Jeon, of Chicago, is a power In
Episcopal church councils, ils well as polities,
and is sari to bo aliout the best posted man on
ecclesiastical law in this country.
Ex Gov. Ext,list:, of Connecticut, has returned
from Europe, whither lie has been on a bridal
trip. He and his new wife an- to go to house
keeping in the land of steady habits.
The Prince of Wales, who keeps the wolf from
the door by an income of about 81,000,000, has
boon well-high bankrupted bv the expenses of
the jubilee and is u frequent borrower on the
London “street."
Rorert Loris Stevenson will probably arrive
in New York sometime in August or Septem
ber. He proposes to cross the plains and to
pass a year or so in California and New Mexico
for the benefit of his health.
Gits. 8. \V. Caiipkxtkh. of the United States
army, is among the prominent guests at Sara
toga Gen. UariH'iifer enjoys the distinction of
being the man who tired the lust shot at the
memorable siege of Fort Sumter.
Lii.i t Felix, of tbe French navy, who died of
bruin fever a few weeks ago out on the Congo,
where he was engaged on a special mission oil
liehalf of the French government, wus the
favorite sou of tile great tragedienne Rachel.
Coqt'BUN is a i>-t us well as an actor. Here
are some of his lines: "When I see a petticoat
sweep the pave und dangle in the gutter. ‘That
is no molest woman,' I am free to mutter, she
lias, i'll vow. an ugly calf ora stocking needing
washing. ’ This creature, who, with skirts adrug,
goes down the streets a sloshing.”
The literary men show up well in the addi
tions to the Fiftieth fongr-ss Henry Uatsit
lgidgp ays: "Mv lsisinoK.s is literature." Sen
ator Daniel alludes to the fact that lie is author
of "Daniel on Negotiable Instruments.' Thera
an l not many clergymen in the next Congress.
Stewart, of Georgia, and McKinney, of New
Hampshire, ure ministers. McKinney served
through the war, mid went through college
after he was SH years old in order to enter tlie
ministry.
Miss Jennie Collins, well known and identi
fied with charity work In Boston for many years,
died July 20 She first came before the public
in the capacity of a lecturer, and was one of the
first women who interested liersjlf in the anti
slavery movement. Soon after the war she
took upon herself the duty of educating soldjar
Isiyu She founded the institution called “Boffin's
Bower," the principal feature* of which were to
aid girls who have to work for u livelihood. It
is said that she did more in aid of the working
girls of Boston than alt of the charitable socie
ties of tbe cily put together. It boil lieen the
i sir pee of Miss Collins to found u Dickens
library, white the p<ior children of the city
could co and procure gratuitous literature.
EXPERIMENT WITH A D. T. BOY.
Going 1 to Seo How Long it Will Take
Him to Got to London and Back.
From the New York Sun.
A district messenger hoy ia to be started on a
long and novel errand on Wednesday next, his
destination l>eing no less distant a place than
London. After the Lyceum Theatre closed
Manager I)an Frohrnan conceived the curious
idea of sending by a district messenger souvenirs
and congratulatory letters to the surviving
writers of ‘The Highest Bidder'* and others in
London. Th* nlav as originally produced in
England was called “Trade/ and it was written
by the elder Sothern, Madduson Morton, and
Robert Reece. Frohmai and Sothern
oreiared a souvenir, and the services of Low’s
Exchange w-reengaged to see that the boy was
properly cared for during the voyage over and
back.
The lari, in anew uniform resplendent with
brass buttons and red tu;e, will Like the steamer
Germanic next \Vednenduy. On landing in Liv
erpool he will be met by John 13. Curtis, General
Manager of the Midland railroad, who will
whoop him along in a special carriage to the
first, train for the city. In London no will at
once start on his round delivering the souvenirs.
Edmund Tates, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry. Buf
falo Bill, Nate balsbury, Emily Faithful, Nat
Goodwin Toole, Clement Scott and many others
will receive them. Each will sign the little
ticket, iust as would lie done if the recipient
were in New York.
Tiie souvenir consists of a number of sheets
of heavy cream-and-chocolate colored paper
bound toget her with ribbon. The first page has
a photograph of E. 11. Sothern. At the bottom
is the legend, in tine writing of Bothern: “He
did-i'f do it very well, but lie did it.” It is
si"tic lby Sothern. The four following pages
are filled with sketches made by Sothern from
scenes in the play.
As soon as tne boy gets his packages deliv
ered he will take the first ship back to New
York. His ticket, signed by those who re
ceived souvenirs, will be quite a souvenir in
itself.
No End of Rattlesnake .
From the Birmingham Age.
Just over the Hue in Morion county, Ga., a
wild mountainous section of the county, a man
by the name of Becker has lived for several
years. Mr. Becker's home is the ordinary one
room log cabin of that section, and his family
consists of a wife, several small children and
naif a dozen dogs. The Becker homestead is
located in a picturesque ravine near a number
of small caves in the mountain side. week
Mr. Becker, returning at sundown from his day's
labor, found his family some distance from the
cabin clinging to each other in abject terror.
The half dozen dogs lay dead in the yard, and
over their swollen bodies crawled and hissed
hundreds of rattlesnakes. The floor of the
cabin and the entire yard were covered with the
poisonous reptiles. Mrs. Becker informed her
husband that early in the afternoon several
snakes erawud into the yard, coming from the
direction of the nearest cave, which was about
2 yards away. These were promptly
killed by the dogs, hut in a few minutes
others came in such numbers that the dogs were
overpowered and stung to death ty the poison
ous tangs of the reptiles. They soon began to
come in still larger numbers, and several of
them entered the house. Mrs. Becker and her
children then fled in terror aud left the reptiles
in full possession of the premise's. In the semi
darkness even the bold mountaineer did not
dan* attack the hideous invaders of his house,
and carried his family to the house of a neigh
bor, where they remained during the night.
Early in the morning Mr Becker returned home,
only to find the snakes still in possession ami
largely reinforced. He summoned several of
liis neighbors, and the party, armed with shot
guns, returned to the cabin to exterminate the
reptiles. Volley after volley was fired into the
writhing mass, but still snakes continued to
crawl out of the brush and coil themselves in
tiie yard or cabin. After killing snakes for an
hour the party left, and the reptiles were still in
IKissessiou of the cabin.
Mr. Cleveland’s Double.
A dispatch from Syracuse, N, Y., to the
Cleveland Plain-Dealer says: Had the Presi
dent qf the United States walked into the office
of the Vanderbilt House when he was here and
written on the virgin page of the register the
autograph: “C. C. Hicks, Philadelphia,” people
familiar with the personal appearanee of
Grover Cleveland could not have been more
surprised than three or four gentlemen were to
set* an incident so like this as to be absolutely
startling. C. C. Hicks, of Philadelphia,
is a gentleman who frequently comes
to Syracuse in pursuit of trade, whose resem
blance to the President is really remarkable.
He is a trifle older, perhaps, looks his years
and is broader about his girth, but in facial con
tour and facial expression is the double of the
President. The peculiar expression which Mr.
Cleveland habitually wears in his eyes, as if they
were being blinded by the sun, is Mr. Hicks' to
a dot, as is the rather mottled complexion of the
fac*. Mr. Hicks has a thousand times been told
of the likeness he bears and was once intro
duced to the President at Washington as his
double. Indeed they frequently met before
Mr. Cleveland became great.
Mill more unusual is the fact that Mr. Hicks’
handwriting s so nearly like the President's
that one would b* * forgery of the other, it is
a small and nervous hand, aluios f ininine in
its characteristics, and in letters like the capital
C's ir. a el* 82 copy. Mr. Hicks says the re
semblance in chirogrophy is as unstudied as
the personal likeness. A friend suggested yes
terday that Mr. Hicks ought to travel with the
President in order to p vse for him at the cross
roads where they stop his way and s|**ll \ ini in
th * orocessions which insist on taking him ly
t e hand. He coul lbe intr xkiced at any ii*ne
without the d~c *it being app irent to the aver
age observer. Mr. Hicks did not go to Fayette
ville or he rnig-it have complicated matters.
Concealed His Crime for Years.
A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., to the New'
York 11 arid says: One of the members of th<*
Lowell Grand Army posts had a curious experi
mice at the dose of the Into war, which caused
him to postpone his return to Lowell for years.
His name is Halsey, ami when the war ended he
was released from a Confederate prison. He
went to New Orleans, where he fell in with an
other Ijowell man named Darnly. On the levee
Darnly was accosted by a six-footer of the
Louisiana Tigers, and the two got into a fight
about The merits of Northern and Southern
soldiery. They grappled and the Southerner
got an advantage. Halsey had not interfered,
but when the Southerner drew a knife Halsey
seized a stick from a pile and aimed a blow at
the Southerner'll head. Darnly just then man
aged to turn the Southerner oa his back and
Darnly received the blow on the skull. He was
rendered insensible and it was some time tx>fore
he left the hospital. Halsey supposed he had
killed his companion. Greatly alarmed, he
reached the steamer, which was just leaving the
dock tor New York, lie was considerably re
lieved when no officer approached the steamer
to arrest him at the landing in New York.
Halsey took another name and made his way
to a Western city. He did well in business, but
always felt an inclination to return to Lowell.
A few days ago he did come back. While stand
ing at the corner of Merrimae and Shat tuck
streets, yesterday, he was approached by a
stranger, who asked him if ho was ever in New
< )rieans. Halsey says be was sure be was to l>e
arr**ited. Tlio stranger said ho had rather a
strange story to tell about that city. Much ex
cited. Halsey inquired If it was about a Lowell
soldier killing his comrade. The stranger hesi
tated, but finally said that there was no killing,
and then Halsey recognized him as the man
w hom, for many years, he itelieved he had slain.
The reunion between the old veterans was of
the happiest nature.
On Nancy Stitching.
fVoai thr Toronto drip.
Never ps.iator's fairest f,i*oy
Can comnare with my ewe t Nancy,
For she is n perfect picture
Of n perfect womanhood;
Though sue is not blessed with riches,
And I mist earn her hre.Kl liy stitches,
She is better than her liettei*.
For her heart m pure auil good.
When t sometimes watch her stitching,
Every stitch my heart bewitching,
I exclaim In hasty language
At the sad mistakes in life;
But she I nights -i quick und joily,
Aa she puts to Iti flit my folly
By asking if 1 wish to have
A duchess for a wifu.
Then I say with IV. ■ that lingers
Near the stitches hy her lingers.
That if l had Aladdin's lamp
A duchess she should i..
And slie answers, archly smiling,
In u niutitier most beguiling.
That If she were a duchess
She would never marry me.
So perhaps, it may be hotter
After nil to wear tne fetter
Of a poverty that's honest
'l oan he titled, proud and rich;
For lief ore the moon is changing,
By a mutual arranging,
King ('upiil will our threads of life
Fnite iu one strong stitch.
A Hr.MAKKAOT.R occurrence to~>k place in nn
adjoinm* county one day last week. A homo
wa* killed by lightning. and a newspaper ac
count of the incident, lustfu l of Haying "a valu
able horse** I aloofing to Mr. so-aiid-so, stared
that the animal was * oldutid nearly worth loan."
FJrJMb? An* thne on record that a horao
killo Thy Itghtufog was not reported us “valu
able.* - J Vorrtaloum llarald.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
A Brooklyn preacher, who had gone mad
on total abstinence, once proposed to celebrate
the eucharist with buttermilk.
More deaths occur from lockjaw on Long
Island, it is stated, than upon any other eorres
ponding area of territory in this couutrj’.
The Richmond (Va.) State is agitating the
establishment of a Confederate museum in
w'hieh to “preserve the relics of Robert E. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson and the other heroes.”
Absalom Dennis, aged 87, was buried at De-
Witt, lowa, Sunday. Ho drove the stage in
New York in 18:28 on which the Freemason apos
tate, William Morgan, left his home for Canada.
Someone clipped off 20) names from the
Yankton county (D. TANARUS.) local option petition
after it had been presented to the County Com
missioners. Twenty-five dollars reward is
offered.
Senator Bill Chandler is not the only thrif
ty person in the Granite State. There are 132,-
000 depositors in its savings banks, and they
have increased the deposits within a year more
than $4,000,000.
The Palouse (W. TANARUS.) Gazette is responsible for
the following statement: “Whitman county has
the smallest woman living. She resides three
miles from Bine City, is 27 years old, twenty-nine
inches high, and weighs thirty-three pounds.”
A 10- year-old girl was arrested in Washing
ton last week charged with breaking into a
bouse, robbing it of about SIOO worth of goods
and then setting it on fire. She was wearing
some of the stolen property at the time of the
arrest.
John Osterman, who recently opened a hotel
on the bank of Brown's lake, Racine county,
Wis., thought to evade the law by anchoring a
couple of bouts on the lake and selling Honor
from them. He sold SB7 worth of beer on July
4, but has since been lined SSO and costs.
Prof. Elisha Gray's new discovery is called
autotelegraphy, and it is claimed that it will be
possible with its use to write upon a sheet of
paper and have an autographic fac simile of
the writing reproduced by telegraph 800 miles
away, and probably a mucli greater distance.
In St. Luke's Church, Birmingham, Eng.,
there is a vested choir of young men and young
women. The surplices of the young women art*
said to he made of Scotch lawn, with plaited
hacks. Th<* male attendants of the church
think that they (the women) look very pretty.
Dr. West, r ctor of Grace church, Grand
Rapids, had fifteen persons to preach to Sun
day. The remainder of the members went to
Ottawa le eh. The doctor will announce in
t 1 e prayer meeting, it is reported, that lie will
french during the summer at the beach in the
morning and go swimming with his congrega
tion in the afternoon.
Boatmen on the Seine receive 15 francs for
each dead body they find in the river in the de
partment of the Seine. Iu the two adjoining
departments no reward is paid. It has now
lieen discovered that all dead bodies found
above or below th#* prescrHxrd limits have been
carefully towed down or up stream until they
could be profitably passed over to the police.
Advices have been received to the effeet that
the governments of Belgium aud Switzerland
will send one infantry company each to partici
pate in the international military drill in Chi
cago in October next. Jl is expected that
France will send a company from tne graduat
ing class of St. Cyr, the West Point of the Re
public. In an interview with Gens. Breutley
and Chetldin, Chicago's representatives, now in
Europe, Sir Garnet Wolseley said, in response
ta a special invitation to attend the military en
campment, that he would be pleased to revisit
the United States, of whose citizens he had
many pleasant memories.
Ex-Gov. Shepherd was thrown against a rock
while in Mexico and stunned. He became de
lirious for a time and his bead was terribly
swollen from the erysipelas. He says they tell
this story on him: “When I was at my worst I
was very desirous of seeing myself in a mirror.
I wanted to see if that head looked as it felt.
The doctor wouldn't let me do it, but one day,
while the attendant was not attending, I
stepped across the room to a looking-glass.
This was when one side of my head was bigger
t han the other. One eye was bulged out aud
the other looked sunken from contrast. They
said that I stood intently gazing at my reflec
tion a moment and then exclaimed, ‘Hello, Ben
Butler, what in the devil are you doing way
down here?’ ”
A Police Justice in the city of New York is
an officer of serious responsibilities. This year
Police Justice Duffy, who lias served thirteen
years, passed sentence in more than 16,(XX)
cases. He says that the most difficult of the
duties of a police justice is to act according to
the dictates of his conscience. By long train
ing he thinks that he always knows when a
prisoner is lying. A guilty prisoner's wisest
course, he declares, is to say: “Judge, I am
guilty. I throw' mvsclf on the mercy of the
court.” In a case oi intoxication or disorderly
conduct this course is likely to secure his dis
charge if it is a first offense. “When a woman
weeps lief ore me," declares Judge Duffy, “I re
member that I had a mother, a sister and nieces
and lam apt to let her go. When a man weeps
1 think the worse of him. I haven’t wept my
self since I was 16 years of age.”
Says the Manager of the Oregon Immigration
Bureau: “I never knew immigration to Wash
ington Territory and Oregon to be as heavy as
at the present time. The Pacific coast boom be
wail in California, and is extending north to the
international line. The class of people who are
taking up land in the north an* better than the
average of past season**. They all have money;
not fortunes, but ufflei ntto keep thin inde
pendent of tiie farm ior two years or more.
There are no pauper foreigners among them to
make themselves a burden. Most of the people
who go nortii engage In st^ckraising or dairy
farming. Washington Territory is considered
unapproachable as a dairy-farming country, and
the government and railroad lands are being
taken up rapidly. The completion of the Cali
fornia and Oregon line will assist greatly in
populating Northern California and Southern
Oregon, and will institute a boom that will have
no precedent.”
An Eastern visitor says that a Pacific coast
town is thus launched into existence. A real
estate dealer secures an option to purchase a
certain tract of land, has it surveyed and sub
divided into lots, gives it a catching title like
Atzuea, Roseerans. Providencia, Glendale, Mol
rose, or San Juan-by-tho-Sea, and then proceeds
to work the land craze. A large lot in the cen
tre of the town is reserved for a SIO,OOO or a
$20,000 hotel, circulars are distributed dwelling
upon the salubrity of the climate, the adapta
bility of the soil ■■■ raise every*''<ng under the
sun thoexcollen eo the water, the insttrpossid
scenery, etc. Tin.. an auction 5... is carefully
worked up. and the Eastern gudgeon, having
heard of tne wonderful advance in prices, and
knowing of no reason why he .should not take
advantage of a booming market, fairly scram
bles for an opportunity to get in. The end of
the sale finds the real estate agent ahead 310,000
or $20,000 on the transaction.
Ton Rabbi of the principal synagogue in Ber
lin recently testified as follows relative to
"Kosher" (conforming to ritue.listic require
ments! meat at a trial of a butcher charged with
offering “unclean" meat to Jewish customer!:
The Mosaic law requires that the Jew butcher
lie a perron of good reputation nnd morals, ami.
after undergoing an exnminnti. n by the Rabbi,
should only exercise bis particular function on
the strength of a certificate. One of the tests
of bin fitness for the place consists in promptly
resharpening Ins knife, which the Rabbi bas
purposely blunted. During the act of butcher
ing lie bus to any certain prayers; be must se”
that the l lood falls upon ashes or [Halt, and.
above all things, he must avoid being touched
by anyone while In the act. this in itself render
irig the si nightered animal unclean. lie is re
quired to put bis seal upon the carcase, giving
too date on which the animal is killed. So li
ra. lit-- is nermltte l toe.it fn-.U which has been
kiled more than three days lief ore.”
Gi:n. UrcottoE A. Siikhioan, of Louisiana, s
again in New York, where bis SSO pounds of
avoirdupois hugs tiie sidewalks on a flvc-foot
four-inoh frame while the General mops the per
spiration from his big face and forehead. He
has Ivon sweltering In Chicago for right week*
in attendance on the sick lied of his (laughter
who was taken ill while playing with Richard
Manofleld in “Prince Karl. She Is now count
lesoent. and tig. General expect / to bring I or
soon to tiie scashoic. He has managed to get
several shots at the public lately through his
lecture on 'The Modern Pagan," and had an
audience of l.tioo people in Chicago. He will go
out next winter under the auspices of Kedpath's
lecture bureau. The lecture is an arraignment
of Col. Ingersoll on the religious issue In its
earliest form the General mude the statement
that Ingersoll hu.i backed out of a controversy
with "Jerry' Iliad;. Col. Ingemoll took him to
task for tills statement and denied its truthful
ness. nt the same time asking for the General's
authority. "It was told me In Black himself.”
said the General, “who gave tlv editor of the
North Amenci i lirrirtr as his authority."
"Well, it isn't trui', and yon should correct ft,"
said Ingersoll. So tin* t heierul lias amended bis
loctine. He now explains to his audience that
Black told him that Ingersoll becked out. that,
Ingersoll dentes it, and that as he has no means
of communicating with Black, tliev emi form
their rnrn conclusions about the matte*
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ence—at 111 young iu energy and ability—with
nil the accataorlM necessary to satisfactorily
conduct the business to which he lias given his
life. Grateful for past fon -hopeful of oU imn
to come. i , 4j u u u h