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' TUESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW MEKTISEMENTS.
Meetings—Chippewa Tribe No. 4. I O. R. M.;
Ancient Landmark Lodge No, 331. F. & A M.
Special Notices -Notice to Water Takers;
Notice, T. M Cunningham, Cashier Central
Railroad Bank; As to Bills Against Br. Bark
Pohona.
Base Ball—Orientals vs. Amateurs.
Educational—Asheville Military Academy,
North Carolina; The Hanuah More Academy
for Girls. Reisterstoivu, Md.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Want
ad; Employ nient Wanted; For Rent; F'or bale;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
Auction Sale— Fine Located Property, by D.
It. Kennedy.
The New York Tribune undertakes to an
swer the question, why does the earth mis
behave ? It ought now to answer the ques
tion,why do the Republicans the bloody shirt
wave? _ _
The present year has not been a good one
for speculators. Wall street has been dull
And all the big wheat corners have inflicted
heavy damage on those who engineered or
took stock in them.
The impression that the Volunteer is the
Castest of the fast American yachts may
prove to bo erroneous. The Puritan is put
ting in a strong claim to the position of
leader of the fast fleet.
The New York Times says that Russell
Bagi has sold more privileges within the last
<hree weeks than In any preceding three
months since 1884. Well, ho lias only been
exercising his privilege.
Boston people say that the proper way to
eat watermelon is with a spoon. Tho aver
age colored citizen thinks that his fingers are
far preferable to a spoon, and there is some
reason for thinking that ho is right.
Energy and determination is necessary to
the settlement of the South Broad street cem
etery question. Tho people want it settled,
and if the authorities pursue the right course
they will settle it and give tho county a fine
court house site.
Tho French are a rather queer peoplo.
One of them wan|od to marry his mother
in-law near Toulon tho other day, and be
cause she refused he killed her. Mothers-in
law must boa little more passion-inspiring
in Franco than in other countries.
Vogue statements will never oust Higgins
from his present position. If tho civil
service reform association of Maryland
■want to get Higgins’ scalp they must make
their charges more definite and must back
them up with convincing evidence.
It can no longer bo said that all Ameri
cans refuso to take recreation. It is stated
<hat. 700,000 people have paid to see the
Spectacular “Fall Of Bubvlon,” at St.
George, Staten Island, N. Y Among the
number were over 1,000 clergymen
McGariglc, the Chicago boodler who re>-
caped to Canada, thinks that it is strange
that the reporters found no difficulty in
keeping track of him, while the detectives
claimed that they could not find him. The
newspaper men aro much smarter titan tho
detectives.
Tli colored i>eoplo of Southwestern Kan
sas own 707,000 acres of land, valued at
$1,230 .01)0, and have besides town property
■worth #‘.k)5,000. The most of them emigrated
to Kansas from the Southern States within
the last dozen years. They appear to have
been quite thrifty.
Henry Watterson and Mine, do Valsayr
differ vtydely in the matter of clothes. Wnt
terson thinks men would bo happier in
Mother Hubbards while tho French woman
is petitioning the French Legislature to per
mit women to wear trousers. The difficulty
of pleasing everybody will uover be over
come.
It teems that Mooney, the man who at
tempted to destroy the British steamer
Jueeii at her wharf in New York the other
ly by mcuus of lire, lias a bud record. He
has been a persistent dynamiter and has
been coneerned in several attempts to blow
up buildings. He is too bad a man to be at
lai'ge.
The minority portion of the Democratic
party of Maryland appears to devote its
energies almost exclusively to making war
on Higgins. As Higgins is a rather unim
portant individual it k pre tty fair to assume
that tho minority faction is a very insig
nificant part of tho Democratic party of
Maryland.
Tho States in which there is the least
harmony in tho ranks of tho Democratic
party are those in which tho'response of
■tho administration to tho demand for .a
clean sweep in tho offices has Ix-on tho most
generous. This would seam to indicate that
patronage is harmful rather than lauieflcial
to the party.
It is alleged that the t'ivil Service Com
missioner* in Washington have been shocked
by the publication of their secret confiden
tial instructions to examiners relative to tho
marking of examination {tapers. They must
be very easily shocked. Perhaps they arc
afraid that the critical eye of tlmpublic will
find some defects in their English,
The assertion is made that no colored man
has ever boon treated for sunstroke lu the
Pennsylvania Hospital at Philadelphia.
This lends tho News of tlmt city to say that
“in the flint surprise at this information one
might imagine that a good way for [icoplo
to avoid being overcome by the torrid heat
of summer would be to make liberal appli
cations of burnt cork to tbeir skins. There
is something so simple and easy in this sug
gestion that, if it were not for appearance's,
it might, be experimented with by the whole
pODUlattou of Philadelphia.”
Does Germany Want Holland?
Tho New York Herald publishes a
sensational dispatch from Frankfort,
Germany. It is to tho e fleet
that Germany is preparing to take
possession of Holland and her colonies. It
does not appear to have any other founda
tion tlrnr. tho imagination of a diplomatist
who, according to the Herald, lias extraor
dinary advantages for finding out Bis
marck's plans and purposes. If this diplo
matist is to be relied upon Bismarck does
not think that Germany and France arc
such enemies that they cannot be easily
reconciled to each other. If Germany
should restore Alsace and Lorraine to Franco
the two countries would become friends at
once.
But what excuse can Bismarck find for
restoring these provinces? The German
people would never consent to their restora
tion without receiving somo compensating
advantage. Germany would be ever so
much better off with Holland and her cola
nil's than she is with Alsace and Lorraine,
because these two provinces ®ro of very
little benefit to her, and it will take a cen
tury to make them a harmonious part of
the German empire.
Germany wants colonies to which she can
send her surplus population. It grieves her
that so many of her sons and daughters seek
homes in America, whore they are lost to her
forever. She would like them to go whore
they would contribute to her greatness.
Holland has colonies which, under proper
management, would become rich and power
ful. If Germany possessed them they would
absorb her surplus population.
But Germany cannot touch Holland while
France is unfriendly. She does not dare to
invade Holland while France is waiting for
an opportunity to invade her. Bismarck’s
plan, therefore, is said to be to restore to
France Alsaco and Lorraine, if France will
agree not to interfere with Germany's plans
with regard to Holland. Tho scheme thus
outlined may exist in the brain of Bismarck,
but it is doubtful if any one has any evi
dence that it does. There aro plenty of such
schemes to bo found in the talk of diplomat
ists who are out of a job, and who think
that they could manage the affairs of the
world much better than they aro being man
aged.
England does not intend to permit the
continental powers to manage the uffairs of
tho continent to suit themselves. She has
possessions in different parts of the world
which she intends to protect. These posses
sions would lie greatly endangered if Ger
many, Russia and Franco were to fix up a
slate that would be satisfactory to each of
them, because such a slate would mean an
assault on England at somo point. It is
probable, however, that Hollauil has no
reason to think that Germany is looking
upon her with covetous eyes.
The Bibb County Tragedy.
Tile public would like to think that Thomas
G. Woolf oik is not guilty of the awful crime
with which he is charged. That a son who
bad been tenderly oared for could be so
wicked, and so lost to all tho better feelings
of humanity, as to deliberately kill nine per
sons, including his father, mother, brothers
and sisters, for no other reason than that he
might inherit his father’s estate, seems too
horrible for belief. And yet facts bearing
upon tho tragedy point directly to this con
clusion. If Thomas G. Woolfolk is tho
criminal, lie is a hardened one. He shows
neither remorse nor sorrow. There is no
statement that he bos exhibited the least feel
ing on account of the death of thoso who
should have been dear to him. The only
concern that he has thus far shown is to
escape the penalty of the crime with which
ho is charged. Only a few hours after the
tragedy ho expressed his ability to jwiy a big
foe to a lawyer to defend him, because
nearly tho whole of his father's property
would now lie his.
The feeling is that hanging would be too
fight a punishment for him, and there is re
gret that tho law does not provitlo a punish
ment commensurate to his crime. The Bibb
county tragedy will probably long remain
the most horrible one in the criminal history
of Georgia.
Tho Froehet.
Tho freshet which overflowed Augusta a
week or more ago stopped her mills and de
vasted the farms on the river in her vicinity
lias reached the plantations above this city
and is destroying the rice crop. It was
UojK'd thut tjio swamps would ab
sorb the water and that the
rise in the river would not lie sufficient to
break or pass over the banks of the planta
tions. This hope has been dissipated The
ilotxl lias come, and the rice fields, to a great
extent, are under water.
What tho damage will be is of course im
possible to say. Much will depend upon tho
length of time the water remains upon the
fields. It has boon so long since there was
a freshet in this part of the river, equal to
the present one, that there is a lack of dntn
upon which to base an opinion respecting
the possible damage. It is certain,
however, that the damage will bo
great. Tho rice planters have been having
a pretty hard struggle to make their plan
tations jviy during the last few years, and a
loss of the whole, or even a part, of their
crop this year will bear heavily upon them.
The New York Sun will havo to look af
ter its Presidential candidate, William T.
Coleman, of California, and give him some
good advice. Ho is trying to foist Chinese
labor on tho people of Tacoma, W. TANARUS.,
where lie owns some salmon tanneries, and
there is some indignation at Tacoma in con
sequence. If Mr. Coleman wants to seo his
Presidential boom grow ho will have to
drop tho Chinese. Ho can’t havo both the
boom and the Chinese.
The new President of tho Mormon church,
William Woodruff, is 80 years of ago and
possesses only moderate ability. The Ed
munds law sent him into retirement, ns it
were, and ho is still invisible to all save tho
faithful. He is a Connecticut Yankee, and
first heartl Morinonism preached at Oswego,
N. Y. The number of his wives is not
known to the general public. He married
one of Brigham Young’s daughters tell
years ugo.
Ex-Attorney General Colt, of Rhode Isl
and, says it is rnposwiblo to enforce the
prohibition law in that State, beenuio juries
will not convict offenders. Rhode Bland
ought to import jurors from Georgia.
There are certain violators of the prohibi
tion law in Atlanta who have reason to
know thut juries iu this State do their
whole duty.
It seems that tho Bianftse princes me not
at all pleased with their reception in this
country. They expected that a great deal
iivne attention would lie paid to them.
Perhaps they are better off for being let
alone. They wifi seo all tho sights and they
ought (o bo minified.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1887.
The Canton Meeting.
Tho State Agricultural Society meets at
Canton to-day, and it is expected that tho
meeting will be a very interesting and
profitable one. There arc -112 delegates, but
it is not probable that all of them will be
present. The proceedings will include a
great deal that will ’.>o valuable to the fann
ers in all parts of the State.
Those of the delegates who are farmers
will not bo in as happy a frame of mind as
they would have been bad the convention
mot liefore the recent severe storms. No
doubt many of them have suffered severe
losses. The outlook for cotton and corn is
not, as good as it was a few weeks ago. Then
the farmers expected to have a little stir
plus after the expenses of making their
crops were settled, but now many of them
will be satisfied if they do not find them
selves in debt at the end of tho year.
The State Fair is under the direction of
the Agricultural Society, and tho
Society should seo to it that the
fair is a success. Last year it
was somewhat better than it was the year
beforefbut it was not by any means what it
ought to have been. The fact is, it is neg
lected by the farmers. They do not take
sufficient interest in it. They have the
means to make it a credit to the State, but
for some reason or other they fail to satisfy
themselves or the public.
This year the fair wifi lmvo a rival in the
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta, but no
less interest ought to be taken in it on that
account. On the contrary, an effort should be
made by the managers lo excel the exposi
tion. The fair will differ materially from
the exposition and its object is somewhat
different. It is an established institution,
and its improvement year after year should
be marked and steady.
Anticipating tho Interest.
From the statement in our dispatches this
morning there does not appear to be a great
deal of anxiety to accept Secretary Fair
child’s proposition to prepay tho interest on
tho bonds. Tho bondholders know that
their interest is snfo in the possession of tho
government, and they do not see perhaps
any immediate chance for investing it.
They are not in a hurry, therefore, to re
ceive it before it is due.
The financial condition of this country is
in striking contrast with that of tho great
powers of Europe. The revenues are far
greater t han the needs of tho government,
and the government bonds command such
a premium that thoro is very general opposi
tion to applying the surplus in the Treasury
to purchasing them.
The debt has been steadily reduced ever
since the close of the war. In 1805 it was
$2,381,000,000. On Aug. 1 it was $1,01(1,-
000,:i(ii3. This amount includes tho Pacific
railroad bonds. Without, those bonds, for
which the government holds security, tho
debt is $1,002,000,000. The annual interest
charge has been reduced from $150,977,(508 —
tho amount of it twenty-two years ago—to
$41,188,374.
Notwithstanding tho groat reduction in
the amount of interest and tho increased
ability of the country to meet its obligations,
there has been no very great reduction in
the revenues in a quarter of a century. The
money is being piled up in the Treasury
because there are no more obligations that
aro duo, and there is no legitimate way to
get rid of it. Congress refuses to reduce the
tariff because the protectionists don’t want
to lose tho monojioly they havo in certain
manufactured articles, and it will not
abolish tho internal revenue taxes, lie -.ausc
it is manifestly unjust to make whisky and
tobacco free while the necessaries of life art'
taxed. It is apparent, however, that
something will have to be done to lessen
the revenues, and that, too, very soon. Tho
policy of drawing tho money of the country
into the Treasury, and keeping it there, can
not be continued much longer without pro
ducing financial troubles.
The talk of war between Germany and
Franco is being boomed again. Somo of
those who claim to know all about the re
lations between the two countries insist that
war between them will bo declared before
October. They insist that tho Germans be
lieve in war and intend to force it on. The
statement is attributed to Von Moltke that
Europe is on the eve of a general war such
ns prevailed in 1815. Ho is reported assay
ing that the situation now is similar to
wliat it was then, when every country was
burdened with an enormous army and when
all were able to get back to a peace footing
only by means of a general war. There lias
beonso much war talk during the last year
that but little attention is paid to it outside
of the two countries interested.
King Kalnkaua is only a figure head now,
and not a very handsome or desirable otio
either. IVhen ho signed the new constitu
tion he stripped himself of about all power.
Ex-Premier Gibson says that while the new
constitution has many admirable features,
it is what may lie properly termed o “shot
gun” constitution. If that is its character
it will not be obeyed long. It is not im
protaablo that someone of the European
powers will endeavor to obtain control of
the Sandwich Islands before many years.
If they do not make the effort before we get
our new navy built the chances are they will
not succeed.
Secretary Fairchild’s announcement of his
intention to anticipate tho payment of the
interest on the bonds, and to purchase bonds
for tlie sinking fund, seeins to have created
u tietter feeling in Wall street. If he is suc
cessful in carrying out his purpose, some
thing over $41,000,000 will be put into cir
culation. This nmuuiit will probably pre
vent any stringency in the money market,
before the meeting of Congress. Tiie sur
plus in the Treasury, however, is accumula
ting quite rapidly, and Congress, when it
meets, will lmvo to act promptly to avoid
financial troubles.
A Loudon letter announces that it is dan
gerous for a man having cork legs to go
fishing. A cork-legged man was fishing in
the Thames tlio other day, and by somo
means was thrown into tho water. His
legs persisted in coming to the surface and
forcing his head licneath tho water. Some
men on the shore seeing t hat, lie was appa
rently standing on his head went to hU as
sistance and sueceoded in saving him.
It sooms that tho man who led the mob
which lynched James Moore, of Macon, a
year ago, has been arrested at. Chattanooga
and returned to the scene of his crime. It
remains to bo seen whether a Mi von juvv
will deal ns leniently with lynchers as the
Edgefield, S. G., Jury did the other day.
There is a rumor in Noiv York that that
city is again to lie inflicted with Violet.
Cameron. If she have a til.qvwilem to ilo
the right thing by the Now Yorkers she will
leave her husband at home. To see him
unco is to aoe him too ofUtu.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Whisky History Summed Up.
From the New York World (Dew.)
The history of contemporary whisky may lie
siinuned up in the words "from corn to cor
ner."
Everybody Satisfied.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Devi.)
The business men and laboring classes are all
thoroughly well pleased with the present
national administration and will vote fur the
Democratic ticket in order to sustaiu it and let
well enough alone.
Mr. Ives a Bad Man.
From the Brooklyn Eayle (Dem.)
There seems to lie an impression in Cincin
nati. whither Mr Henry S. Ives has gone on im
portant, business, that our young Napoleon of
finance is a bad man. The intelligence of the
existence of this belief is all the more unwel
come since u niAi to be considered bail in Cin
cinnati must bo bad indeed.
The Fossils Astonished.
Fi om the Philadelphia Record ( Dem.)
Quite to the astonishment of the barnacles
and fossils of the Navy Department, Secretary
Whitney has refused to i>e convinced that a
worn-out old tug that could lx? replaced with a
new r vessel at a cost of $,'0,000 is a projjer object
for repair# costing an equal sum. The thieves
and fords of the old naval ring are having a dull
time of it during the incumbency of the present
administration.
BRIGHT BIT3.
Wife —What a pity, it is that Mr. Bibber
should 1)0 so awfully internperate! But he's
very rich, isn't he?
Husband—Yes; it's a case of rocks and rye,
as it were!
Facetious Customer—l don't think you ought
to charge full price for a head like mine; ought
to reduce about half.
Barber—No, sab. Couldn't afford, vo' see.
Hit’s offset on account of having to hunt for
de lv*yar to cut. — Harper's Bazar.
Caller (to old Mrs Bently)—The new minister
I is making himself quite popular, is he not, Mrs.
Bently ?
Old Mrs. Bemtly—Well, I ain't much sot by
him. For the last throe Sundays he's prayed fer
rain, an' there ain't a drop fell yit!— Puck.
Tnn other night fair little Margherita attend
ed a children's party, and after the return home
her brother spolce in admiration of a little girl
whom he had seen then*, and whom he pro
nounced very nice. “All little girls are nice,”
said Margherita, gravely. “I’m nice.’’— Boston
Transcript.
On the Howland piazza.
“Gerfcy. did I show you this engagement ring
of emeralds and diamonds that Charlie Brown
gave me?”
“Oh, I have seen it before!”
“Seen it before?”
“Yes, l w'as engaged to him the first part of
July!” —Toim Topics.
Tue other evening a young couple w ere stand
ing in front of the court house listening to the
Excelsior's open-air concert, and each was suck
ing an orange. Avery pretty piece was being
played by tin* band, which seemed to strike the
fair one favorably, for sho turned to the young
man with the remark: “What a sweet sympho
ny. John.”
“Yes,” said John, “yours may bo sweet, but
mine's sour.”— Napa (Cal.) Reporter.
“Ray,” said Berkey to his w ife yesterday at
dinner, “you didn't say anything to anyone
about what I was telling you night before last,
did you? That's a secret.”
“A secret? Whv, I didn't know it was a se
cret.” she replied kind of regretfully.
“Well, did you tell it? I want to know.”
“Why, no, I never thought of it since. I didn't
know it was a secret — Newport (Ky.) Journal.
“Why don't you propose to her, Joe?”
“Well, I'm half afraid.”
“She loves you, doesn't she?”
“Ob, awfully.”
“You agree with her father in politics?”
“Yes.”
“And with her mother in religion?”
“Yes.”
“And with her brother as to who is the best
pitcher?”
“ Y**s.”
“Tlu*n Mow me if I can see what you’re afraid
of ."'—Harper's Bazar.
A young Aberdonian, bashful, but desperately
in love, finding that no uotice was taken of bis
frequent visits to the house of his sweetheart,
summoned up sufficient courage to address the
fair one thus: “Jean, I wis here on Monday
nicht.”
“Aye, ye were that,” acknowledged she.
“An' I wis here on Tuesday nicht.”
“So ve were.”
“An 1 wis here on Wednesday,” continued
the ardent youth.
“Aye. an’ ye wore here on Thursday nicht.”
“An' I wis here last nicht, Jean.”
“Wool,” she said, “wliat if ye were ?”
“An' I am here this nicht again.”
“An’ what aboot it, even if ye cam' every
nicht ?”
“Wlmt abfx)t it, did ye say. Jean ? Div ye no
t*gin to smell a rat ?”— Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Latest on the Dude. —A pretty advanced
speci men of this class was paying court to the
daughter of a clergyman. He was invited to
dim* at the house, and the young lady assured
him that he had better prepare himself to re
turn thanks at tho dinner table, as her father
always asked his guests to do so.
“1 really cawnt. 1 couldn't do it, ye knaw.”
“But you must,'* said bis sweetheart, “or your
chances are gone.”
“Ah, well, I will twy, but I*ll make an aw’ful
mess of it, ye knaw.”
Dinner time came, and theclergynmn politely
called upon the young man to return thanks, as
the young lady had predicted. He gave a
despairing glauoe at his sweetheart, folded his
hands, ami said:
'Ah there! Jesus. Awfully jolly spread.
Thanks awfully!”
There was no marriage.- Truth,
PERSONAL,.
Rev. H A. Young, a Methodist minister of
Sutton Falls, Ont., has Just been blessed by an
addition to his family of a fourth set of twius.
Ex-Gov. TajjorV. first w’ife is living quietly
in Denver. Hit mining properties are flour
ishing ami she is worth considerably over sl,-
ow,ouo.
Gov. Foraker is reported in ill health at his
Columbus, 0., home. His physicians say he
is simply overworked and needs a mouth's va
cation.
The venerable Mr. Caleb Cope, of Philadel
phia. now more than 9 > years old, is the only
survivor of the directors of the United States
Bank elected in 182).
Gen. John 0. Black. Commissioner of Pen
sions, is to visit Brooklyn Aug. ID. He is prom
ised a hearty reception by tho Grand Army
)>osts on that occasion.
It is cst if not )d t hat 8,000 Boston servant girls
carry books or n music roll on the streets when
they go out, thinking thus to deceive the public
as to their occupation.
Mme. Dif.' iakay, of Paris, who recently ro
ceived the (Voss of tin* legion of Honor for her
scientific researches in Asia, is organizing an
African exploring expedition.
Smith Teriiunk. a salesman employed at
Halifax, is confident tlmt he enn make good his
claim to tin* ownership of the T wharf, iu Bos
ton. Tin* wharf is only worth s!,r>oo,ouo.
Miss Bessie Kvim is said to lie the best look
ing young woman in Washington society. She
is neit her of the pronounced blonde or brunette
type, but her features are purely American.
Rev. Thomas Edwards, a Welsh pastor of
Pitt sburg, has mysteriously disappeared, taking
wit h him his savings of $30,000 in a valise. He
is 84 years old ami is thought to bo slightly de
mented.
If 11. Warner, the patent-medicine proprie
tor, is at Saratoga. He is a tail, vigorous man
with gray moustache and goatee and a bronzed,
unwrinkled face. He is 15 vein's of age. His
fortune is a large one and he spends his money
frcclv. Like most great in* nbois an enthusias
tic fisherman
Oak View has Income for tho time a Jolly re
sort, when* the President is entertaining Secre
tary Lamar. Postmaster General Vilas mid Pol.
Lament. The veranda* of the lions*• present a
lively appearance in the evening as the stag
party assembles after dinner t<> smoke cigari
and indulge iu conversation.
Eugene Higgins is having a very good time at
I>uig Branch, where lie hits attracted a great
de.d of attention. There is nothiug Mephis
tophelean inhisap}N*arance. In fact, the ladies,
sharp tongued critics though they lie, consider
him a very gentlemanly and prepossessing man
n looks. Mr. Higgins bathes every morning in
the surf, attends tn** races in the aftemoou uml
spend * his evenings nt the dubs. If is said that
he has won some hundred* of dollars at the
race*. His favor.te drink is champagne.
>lns Cleveland's sudden uud unexpected
desertion ot Oak View is a source of a great
fle dof goA.sii). The President's socks, upon
which his wife hm Itoon at work for some days,
were left behind unfinished, and the Western
cities w hich expect to welcome President Cleve
land I • t kstober are much excited over thi* fact.
A national interest has l*een awakened in those
socks, and Mrs. Cleveland's unexplained cessa
tinn of tier to** bos caused something of a sen
nation Mrs Cleveland should be interviewed
on the subject.
A Sod Oversight.
From the Texas Siftings.
Detective 10 Banker—You say your bank lias
been entered during tbe night?
Hanker -yes, the burglars got into the bank,
but they failed to open the safe where there was
SOOO,OOO in bond3 and securities.
“So the burglars didn‘t get any of the bonds
or money?"
‘ Not a cent.*’
“What a pity. If they had gone off with the
contents of the safe, we could have had a clew."
A Disturbed Court.
From the Philadelphia New*.
Scene—a local court room; time last Tuesday;
daamatis persona -a grandiloquent lawyer,
pert but ignorant witness, dignified Judge, spec
tators, etc.
O. L.—You got into an altercation with the
plaintiff, didn't you?
P. B. 1 W. Navv; “twore a fiu*niture van I got
into wit! him.
O. L. You made a violent personal assault
upon him with some sort of an agricultural im
plement, didn't you?
1* B. I. YV.—Jleh? Guess not;l>ut I pelted the
blackguard over de head wid a hoe-handle.
G. L.—Didn’t you also apply opprobrious epi
thets to him, attacking bis character for verac
ity. accusing him of larceny, and menacing him
with bodily harm?
P. B. I. YV,—Nope! (Very positively.)
G, L.—What di'l you say to him?
P. B. I. W.— Oh! I said as how he were a
dhirty scoundhrel of a lying loafer and a thafe,
and thet ef he ever thried any of his old thricks
agin, I would tear his rotten liver out uv 'irn.
General disturbance of the dignity of the
court.
An Offended Author’s Atonement.
From the Temple I a>\
Just before Mortimer Collins* death, he hap
pened in some way to run counter to the preju
dices of one of the most brilliant and rugged of
men of letters, with whom he was personally
acquainted. Ilis sin brought upon his head- in
“The Athenaeum" or “Notes and Queries," I
think a very lava-flood of scathing denuncia
tion from the offended Olympian. Before he
had time to answer, Mortimer Collins was dead.
Three years liter, when his widow was in trou
ble at Isle worth and saw no one, her little maid
refused to unlock the gate to a white-haired
burly stranger. Standing outside, he shyly mur
mured something about a "friend of Eamund
Yates." This acted like magic, as many were
the packets and letters the girl had posted to
that address, and ne was shown in. Mrs. Morti
mer Collins, I think?" “Yes." “God bless you.
Take this."
He thrust a roll of bills into her band, and was
off in his carriage again without another word,
leaving her to look blankly after him. It was a
little time before she learned that her visitor
was Charles I 'eade, and that the timely kindness,
was his atonement for bis haste. Jle kept
the atonement up, and one of the first literary
boarders who cam** to lighten Frances Collins'
burdens at her Eastbourne house was Charles
Reade. It was not long before his death.
Of the Olden Time.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
A young Northern lady, visiting this city some
months ago, had a little incident happen to her
which she seemed to take pleasure iu relating.
In crossing a quiet side street one day, a vege
table cart, drawn by a small donkey and driven
hj* an tiffed negro with shining black face and
very white wool, was about to pass at the same
time. As she hesitated, the donkey
" *is stopped with a peremptory: “YVoa.
Squash! YVoa. sah! I tells yo'!" and
while slie crossed, nodding in recognition
of the clear passage thus afford <1 her, the van
arable darky took <>tf his tattered remnant of a
hat and said, with a flourish: “Pass on, my
missus, pass on; Squash and me. we alius waits
on the ladies." She was charmed with this as a
sample of the courtesy of the colored race, and
said Sir YValter Raleigh's gallantry fell far short
of it, inasmuch as it had interested motives.
Her hearers were loath to tell her that she must
look upon this burnished Chesterfield not as a
type, but as a survival and one which is passing
away to leave no trace behind.
With the general acquisition of the three It's
and the abolition of headkerebiefs and the fa
miliar titles of “Daddy" and “Auntie." the col
ored race has undoubtedly lost much that was
picturesqely nolito in manner. The reason for
this is a self-evident one. Freed violently and
suddenly from a state of thraldom, and forced
to evolve for themselves a new’ scheme of
life, something like chaos was the tempo
rary result. The only thing at all clear
seemed to 1 o the importunate idea that to
prove their independence it was necessary
to eliminate every sign of respect or even
civility from their intercourse with the domi
nant race. The old ones strove laboriously to
forgot natural and acquired politeness; the
young ones sucepded without difficulty in being
aggressively rude.. Time, also a glimmer of
good sense show ing the necessary interdepend
ence of the races, has somewhat mended mat
ters. But the bloom is gone from the old-time
negro courtesy, and with the death of a few
others like the owner of “Squash," their stately
politeness, which used to l** the admiration of
all visitors iu the South, will have departed for
ever.
One of Corwin’s Stories.
Ben: Per ley Poore in the Boston Budget
Tom Corwin used to tell a good story about a
Cincinnati dealer in clocks, who sold to a widow
woman residing in “Western Row," in the out
skirts of the city. The clock wo* put up and
“warranted," of course, to keep good time at
least one year, if not forever. Some threo or
four days after this, the clock seller was re
quested to call up, as the clock did not keep good
time, and make repairs. He went, but found
little out of the way; two or three more days
passed, and the widow wasafter the clock mer
chant aga n, alleging that her clock did not keep
correct time, and it was again repaired, and
that most thoroughly; in fact the merchant sat
an hour, and made comparisons lictwiten the
widow 's timepiece and his watch, till he was sat
isfied all was right. Two more days had not
rolled by before the widow again made her ap
pearance. much to the annoyance of the clock
merchant. Another ?iredo ne trip to YY’estern
Row flashed through his mind, us well as a return
of the clock to his shelves, a calamity in itself to
any clock seller.
The widow soon made known her errand. It
was the same old story. * Mv clock does not
keep correct time! ' The clockmaker hesitated.
“A trick," thought he; “this widow Is just mak
ing an excuse to entrap me to ruin! Widow’s,
I've heard, are sly! I must lie cautious." The
clock merchant looked searchingly into the
simple face of the widow, and felt convinced
that such a countenance was not the index of a
bad heart. His suspicions of her flew away.
He w-as alKiut taking the tour to Western Row
again; probably there might lie a weak plac** in
the works he did not discover on previous trips.
Hat in hand, and near the door, a thought
struck him. “Perhaps," said he, “madam, you
do not compare .vour clock with a good time
piece; they may lie regulating the town clock,
or something. I‘rny. madam, what do you com
pare your clock with to know that It was too
fast r too slow?"
“Ob. 1 compare it with the on mi busses; they
generally pass you know, about such tine s of
a day, and it s never right by them!" It was
with some diftlculty the clock merchant held
his rage, and kept himself from insulting a
widow lady of Western Row by a voluminous
curse.
Without Me,
Lines by a Convict in Prison.
How does the active world go on
Without me?
Its laugh of joy, its sigh, it s groan,
The sou. the stars, the rolling moon,
The brinks, the rivers, oceans moan
Without, me.
Say, is the busy world the same
Without me?
Do men sook fortune still and fame,
Beam with goo I will, or blush with shame.
Or is existence but a name.
Without me?
And how along the paved street
Without me?
Ho friend • once daily want to meet,
And in the bonds of friendship greet
Each other, smile in union sweet.
Without me?
Within the realms of “home, sweet home,"
Without me?
Listening for si cut that never come,
Of a weary wanderer’s endless roam
And is it silence, sadness, gloom,
Without me?
Is there o’er all n death-liko calm
Without mo?
I'o “hearts that onee beat high and warm”
With love, now fed that greatest charm
Broken, and elsewhere seek a balm
Without mo?
0 God forbid: O world go on!
Without me.
Yo-raoon and stars, unfading sun,
All nature’s endless courses run,
And friendship's webs lie deftly spun
Without me
And in that circle broken still
Without me.
Kind up those heart,, by Thv sweet will,
And in their lives Tliy peace Instill,
Protect them, lord, from every ill,
Without toe
Will tiicii' hereafter come a dav
Without me? •
Whoi time ends and worlds pa < away,
When Christ o’er ill resumes his sway,
lajt then 1 be no ItnCveii, 1 pray.
Without me
IPEMS OF INTEREST.
Johjv StiArt, of Four-Mile township, near
Altoona, la, brought home some cornmeal. As
it was a litte la**. Ids wife concluded she would
not hake h&acl out of it f*r supper, and told
him to givdtlie chickens a feed out of it. Ho
did so, and the follov. ing morning Lie gathered
up forty-three dead chickens. It is not known
what was U the meal.
The Michigan Central grounds at Marshall,
Mich., are made up of a mucky soil that is noth
ing less that peat when dry. About a month
ago theycaight lire, and have been burning
ever since, despite the efforts of the company to
stop it. The Are has now traveled some fifty
rods from whtre it started, and is still going. It
burns several loot deep in some places.
L. B. Goldsmith, one of the oldest Captains
on the great hues, was in the pilot house the
other day when his boat, the Progress, stopped
at Oakland, Mica. As she w-as making the dock
the crew noticed that something was wrong
with the Captain's signals, and one of them
went up and found the old man lying dead with
the bell rope in his hand. He was 76 years old.
The Omaha Wolld cuts off one of Col. Buffalo
Bill Cody's titles atone fell swoop when it says
that he was never a member of the Nebraska
Legislature. It declares that he ran once in
Buffalo county against a man named Ashburton
aud received his certificate of election. Ash
burton contested tie seat and won, but before
the case was decitfcd Cody sent iu his resigna
tion.
At his St. Paul reception the Earl of Aberdeen
wore black silk stockings, low patent leather
slippers with a blade ribbon bow, the customary
black coat and trousers, the former almost im
perceptibly “cutaway:" a white vest with lapels
and four buttons di*plny<*l, a still whiter and
polished shirt front with two pearl studs. A
standing collar with turned over |>oints and a
white necktie completed bis outward attire.
The elementary schools in England and YVales
have been more than doubled since 1870. and
the number of teacher has more than trebled.
Though there has been a considerable increase
in board schools duriig the year, they are still
comparatively few compared with the Church
of England schools, tie number l>oing 4.40*2 and
11,797. The expenditure per scholar is greater
in the former than in the latter—in other words,
board schools cost the rate-payers more, but the
parents less, than thechurcn schools cost their
subscribers aud parents.
The first name of LeadviHe, Col., was Agas
siz, but it did not suit for some reason, and
when the time came for tho formal adoption of
a legal name there wag something of a contro
versy. a strong faction desired to call t! I **
camp Harrison, after a. St. landsgentleman, but
a storekeeper named Tabor was bent on having
LeadviHe. As he was the oldest resident and
carried many of the inhabitants on his books
for flour Mid bacon, he won the choice of names.
To please the other side, however, the principal
avenue was named Harrison.
A Washington dispatch states that the Clerk
of the House of Representatives is opening aud
collating the testimony in contested election
cases in the list of membership of tfcat branch
of the Fiftieth Congress. The contest of
Thoebe against Carlisle has apparently been
abandoned, as no papers have been received by
th** Clerk on that subject. The Democratic ma
jority is sixteen, with two vacancies—one in the
Second Rhode Island district and one in the
Twenty-fifth New York district, in the place of
Hiscock, elected to the United States Senate.
Charles G. Lelavd has been folk-lore limit
ing in Florence. He writes to the new number
of the Folk-Lore Journal to say that he finds
it a land of promise of the most abundant fields
that he has ever examined. His letter contains
a story of a witch's ladder, which exhibits anew
phase of superstition. “Eight years ago a
child died here in Florence by witchcraft. It
began to waste away. The parents took it
about everywhere for cure or advice, but
nothing did it any good. It withered and
shriveled up and died. Then they found one
da}’ in its bed la streghria, or the witchcraft,
which had killed it. First there was a figure
like that of a cock made of cotton, stuck full
with feathers. With this was a long twisted
cord also stuck full of feathers, put in cross
wise."
One of the oldest landmarks of Pennsylvania
Democracy, Oramel Barrett, died on Wednes
day evening, at the home of his non, in Alle
gheny City, at the ago of 80. 3lr. Barrett
edited the Keystone, a Democratic weekly, at
Harrisburg, from 1851 to 1856, when he and his
partner. Haldemand, started the daily and
weekly Patriot and Union. During the war he
was imprisoned because of a burlesque placard
which his printers got up to ridicule the first
call for colored troops, hut was released through
tho mediation of Simon Cameron and A. K.
McClure. The deceased was a prominent Mason
and was with Thad Stevens during the Morgan
riot in Harrisburg in hfcs flight through the rear
window of the State house and in his place of
concealment on the river bank. In 1806 lie
went to Pittsburg and was employed in an
editorial capacity on the Pittsburg Post. He
consistently refused all offers of support for
public office.
An exciting sc°ne which occurred in a me
nagerie at Salford, in England, is thus described
by the St. James Gazette : “A woman named
Mary Dean, who was accompanied by a child,
was inspecting the animals, and eventually came
to the cage in w hich a young leopard was con
fined. In order that it might obtain a better
view’ of the animal, she lifted the child up in
front of the cage, and then put forward her
hand as though to stroke the leopard. Her hand
almost touched the bare oi the cage, and before
she could withdraw it the leopard had seized her
arm between its paws. The screams of the
woman, who had been previously cautioned no*
to go too near the cages, brought several people
around her, including a young man who tried to
wrest h**r arm from the clutch of th*' leopard.
Not succeeding in this he hit the animal, w hich
had forced its head against the iron bars, a
heavy How on its nose. This compelled it to re
linquish its grasp. The woman's arm was seri
ously lacerated."
The President is entitled to hearty praise for
his selection of Miss Alice O. Fletch**r as Indian
agent to allot lands in severalty under the
Dawes bill to the Indians of the Winnebago res
ervation In Nebraska. The agents who are to
have this matter in charge on the various reser
vations have it m their power to materially as
slat-the work or t*> seriously obstruct it. Miss
Fletcher by her noble labors among thet Mnabas
of Nebraska has shown her ability to win and
hold the confidence and respect of the Indians,
and also t<> Induce them to undertake tho white
man's path of civilization and self-support.
Miss Fletcher herself drafted the bill securing
to the Omahas their reservation and allowing
them to take lands in severalty, and she herself
at the request of tho department, supervised the
work of allotment, an arduous task, the hard
ships of which nearly cost her her life and have
left her a cripple. She has the missionary spirit
and a faith in the success of the new departure
which is founded on knowledge of the Indian
character. In her new work she will have the
sincere good wishes of all w ho know her.
A Paris correspondent of the London Stand
ard telegraphs; “On Saturday last the Police
Commissary at Belfort received instructions to
look closely to a luggage train due cm that day
on tho frontier from Hamburg, and partic'ulary
to search any package addressed to a M. G&dala,
at Lyons. No contraband wns spoken of in the
instructions he received, and he was to detain
nothing that might law fully pass, but to make a
report <u anything that struck him as nofe
w rthy. The luggage train arrived punctually,
and the merchandise was looked into. Nothing
out of the way was found, until a rough deal
b x addressed to (ladala, Lyons, was opened.
It contained Jl.OdO handsomely o.vcuUhl chromo
lithographs bearing Iho stamp of a Hamburg
house. They were equestian portraits of Gen.
Boulanger saluting an enthusiastic French
crowd. The only moral to be deduced fr,m
this is that traders will try and seize their ral
vant&ce wherever they can find it . M. Ondnla
and mbfWs wanted to do a stroke of business, and
thinking he could obtain the article he wanted
cheaper in Hamburg than in Paris, went to the
former city in quest of It."
A writer in the Christian Leader (England),
describing Dr. Murray aud his work on the great
English Dictionary.says: “Notwithstanding his
heivulean labors, lie is a quiet, placid, genial
man, taking things in t he easy fashion that does
not wear a man out. There is y.t u strenuous,
decided wav about him. which wins its way by
winning help from many quarters. A rippling
humor belongs to the man with all liisflx.ty or
purpose. 'Die work he is doing for the English
language must stand on a level with WycllPs
translation of the Bible Some have found a
likeness of him among the hoods of the philoso
pher* that adorn the pillars in front of the Ash
molean Museum; but I could not discover
which. I have myself detected a curious simi
larity between the look of Dr. Murray and some
engravings of Wyciif. This was confirmed in
the afternoon, for, turning to come out of the
hall at Bailiol. I saw to the right of the door a
portrait which at once drew my at tuition, and
turning to ray companion, who sees much of
Dr Murray, I exclaimed: ‘Why, who in the
world is that? It’s th very image of Murruy.'
*lt. certainly Is like him,' said my friend. Aud
on drawing closer we found it was old John
Wyciif himself. Then I remembered that he
hod lieeu com oeied with both Merton and
UulliftJ *’
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r I'HE following goods will be sold chcapetthan
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Summer and India Silks.
( ream. White and Light Shades of Aibftross.
t 'olored and Black fill Wool Dress Good/.
Black Camel's Hair Grenadines at 85c. ; 10-inch
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Printed Linen Lawns at less than cost.
Peal Scotch Ginghams at less than eo.
Black Henriettas at Si -10 aud Si 75;Soldat
S3 and $3 35.
Ladies' and Children's Silk and Lisle Thread
Hose in black aud colored.
Ladies' and Children's Undervests; best goods
in the market .
Linen Sheeting and Pillow-Cafe Linen.
Cream and White Table Danmdf.
9-1 White Damask at $1; forirer price $1 50.
Napkins and Doylies in crean and white.
Linen Damask Towels in vhite and colored
bordered.
Linen Huck in white and cqOred bordered.
Pantry Crash Doylies at gr<at reduction.
The above goods will be Offered at prices to
insure quick sale.
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Such as DIAMONDS, FNE STERLING SIL
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21 BULL STREET,
the sole agent for the ceUbrated ROCKFORD
RAILROAD WATCHES, and who also
makes a specialty of
18-Karat Wedding Rings
AND THE FINEST WATCHES.
Anything you buy from him being warranted
Kl .^presented.
Opera Oflapses at Cost.
GROCERIES.
Best Raspberry Vinegar, (|t. Buttles, -60 c
Best Lime Juice, Quart Bottles, -35 c
Best Syrups, Piot Bottles, - • - 450
Best Vanilla, 4-Oitnce Bottles, - -25 c
Best Essence Lemon, 4-ouace Bottles, - 200
Good Essence Vanilla, per Bottle, -10 c
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