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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mirmros—Zerubbabel Lodge No IJ,F A.M :
Confederate Veterans' Association; Georgia
Hussars; Irish Jasper Greens.
Spec!ai. Notices—As toUrews of British Steam
ship Harrogateand Norwegian Bark Johann**; A
Proclamation of Reward, by Gov. Gordon; Bills
against Spanish Steamship Buena Ventura and
British Steamship Kate Fawcett; Notice, John
F. Schroder.
Medic* P. P.
Publications —New Boolrs, at Estill s News
Depot.
Cheap Column* Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For
Sale; Miscellaneous.
Auotion Sales--Lumber, by C. H. Dorsett;
Important Sale of Damaged -Goods, Handsome
Furniture. by J. McLaughlin & Son.
‘ Wasted—Heart Pine Railroad Ties.
The New York Nun now leads the Repub
lican press —in abusing the President.
It has been definitely determined that Mr.
Robert Garrett is not suffering from an
aberration of the mind. He is only tired.
One seldom hears of Foraker nowadays.
If, carrying out the policy inaugurated at
Philadelphia, he would part his coat-tails
invitingly, somebody might be induced to
kick him into prominence again.
The Maryland Democratic Association of
the District of Columbia has adopted reso
lutions defying Civil Service Commissioner
Oberly. When the election excitement is
over its members may find cause for regret
at their action.
The balloon ascension, the horse and bi
cycle races have thus far attracted more
attention at the Piedmont fair than the ex
hibits. Douttbws the exhibits will be got
ten into place sometime before the closing
days of the fair.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar says that
all the ignorant voters in the country are
Democratic. Doubtless Mr. Hoar desires
to have it understood that all those who are
controlled by malice and have no regard for
truth are Republicans.
Jake Kilrain is dividing the honors of
London society with Buffalo Bill. He has
just dined with the Mai*quis of Queensberry.
The pretty American girls who have mar
ried English noblemen were all wealthy
and may be said to have paid their way
into Vanity Fair, but the bull whacker
and slugger are received on their meritc.
It is too strange to be true, viz: the story
that the bomb which killed the Chicago
policemen at the Haymarket riot in Chicago
was thrown by one of Pinkerton’s detec
tives, and that the condemned Anarchists
had no connection whatever with it. It
will soon be asserted probably that there
were no Anarchists at tfie Haymarket meet
ing-
It is now said the great strike of coal
miners in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania is almost certain to continuo
into next year. The estimated money cost
to the companies and miners is $4,000,000.
What additional cost the miners will pay in
privation and suffering cannot be expressed
in dollars. Meanwhile, coal is becoming
scarce and an advance in price is expected
that will cause the poor of the cities also to
add to the sum of misery.
The interesting newspaper war at
Birmingham, Ala, continues. The Chan
cellor before whom the case between the
Ayr and Herald was brought has de
cided that a contract of one newspaper
with the Associated Press for exclusive ser
vice is void, as against public policy, but as
the Associated Press is outside of his juris
diction he cannot help tbe paper which his
decision favors. So the Herald, and Aye
will continue to fight on equal terms.
Henry George, in advocating his laud
theories the other day, asked if in heaven
houses and lands were held in severalty, per
haps expecting an answer in the negative.
Such an answer, however, would not be
worth much. In the first place it would be
a guess, and then, if popular reports be cor
rect, the system of government in vogue is
quite different from our own. This is a re
public, and up there is a King. Under such
circumstances it is not of much use to com
pare the land systems of the two govern •
nients. Mr. George might emigrate, how -
ever.
Asa general thing, one would not think
of going to Mexican law courts for a prece
dent., but the following remark of a judge
on the other side of the Rio Grande, in de
ciding a suit for damages against a railroad,
might be remembered sometimes to the
furtherance of justice on this side of the
river. After deciding against the claimant,
he said: “Those ties over there were intend
ed to have rails on, and the raiLs were in
tended to carry trains. If you will agree to
keep away from the track, I will see to it
that the train don’t chase you about the
fields.”
An Ohio correspondent of a New York
paper, in describing the recent trouble at
Yellow Springs on account of the attempt
to enforce co-education of negro and white
children, says the community was a famous
stronghold of the Abolitionists before 18tll,
and was one of the most important stations
on the “underground railroad.” One would
naturally think that in a community with
such a history negro children would be wel
comed in the schools. Another statement
made by the write!*, however, shows the
cause of the apparent inconsistency of the
people of Yellow Springs. He says: “Greon
county has relatively one of the largest ne
gro populations of any district in the North
ern States.”
Savannah’s Need.
I Savannah shows less enterprise in the
j matter of railroad building than any other
important town in the State. While other
| towns are projecting new roods for the pur
| pose of extending their trade and holding
that which they already have, .Savannah
: appears to be satisfied to wait for those who
| have no interest in her prosperity to build
J roods for her benefit. This is not a wise
thing for her to do, because the chances are
that while she is waiting roads will be built
j in other parts of the State which will draw
her trade away from her.
If our merchants will give a little of their
time to the study of the map of the State
■ they will be able to discover where they can
use some of their surplus money to good ad
vantage in building roads. That there is
plenty of money here that is not profitably
invested, and which could he obtained for
any promising railroad enterprise if the
right sort of an effort were made, there is 110
doubt. If leading business men were to act
harmoniously and energetically they could
not only obtain money for building rail
roads that would help Savannah immensely,
but also for other enterprises which would
afford employment for the city’s increasing
population.
The Savannah, Dublin and Western, it is
reported, is being pushed aloug
quite rapidly. The amount of
work said to be done upon it is
sufficient to justify the belief that it is
going to be built. A little assistance offered
to it now might insure its early completion.
It is not asking for help, but a show of con
fidence in it by this city might aid it greatly
in disposing of its securities. When it is
built it will greatly increase the volume of
our trade. It runs through a country which
is capable of great development, and which
will at once furnish immense quantities of
lumber and naval stores. It will also pre
vent trade from being drawn away from us
by roads that are now either being built or
are projected.
A projected road that Savannah is more
interested in than any other, however, is
the Savannah and Western. The char
ter of it is virtually controlled by Savannah
men. It should be built at once. It
would do Savannah an immense amount of
good—more, perhaps, than any other road
that could be built. It has splendid possi
bilities, and might eventually become a
great trunk line. If the projectors of it
will make an earnest effort to build it there
is every reason to believe that they can get,
here in this city, all the help they need.
It is clear to anyone who observes care
fully what is being done in the State, in the
way of railroad building, that Savannah
cannot afford to permit railroads to be built
all around her without doing something in
railroad building hei-self. The Georgia
Southern and Florida railroad, for instance,
is being pushed ahead vigorously. A cargo
of rails arrived at Brunswick a few days
ago for it. This cargo will be sufficient for
twenty-three miles of track. Other cargoes
are now on the way, and it is confidently
expected that by May next the road will be
in running order from Macon to Valdosta.
From Valdosta it will run to Palatka, and
Chief Engineer Wells says that there
are so few difficulties on that part
of the line to be overcome that
he will be able to build it at a compara
tively small cost. The building of this road
from Macon into Central Florida, connect
ing there with the system of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company, will
have a very marked effect upon the present
transportation lines in South Georgia and
Florida. Of course it will not bring trade
to this city. It will tend to draw it away.
Our merchants cannot afford to see rail
roads built all around their city, and
through the territory whose trade they have
always controlled, without making an effort
to protect their interests. Savannah needs
more railroads, and she ought to be prepar
ing to build them at once.
Watching the Cholera.
Dr. Edward O. Shakespeare, of Philadel
phia, who was sent to Europe to investigate
the cholera scourged districts, has been
making some experiments with cholera
germs obtained from the cholera infected
immigrants on Swinburne and Hoffman
Islands in New York harbor, and reports
that they developed exactly as they do in
the cholera districts of Southern Europe.
The impression is getting abroad in New
York that there has been a good deal of
carelessness in the management of the quar
antined immigrants on Swinburne and
Hoffman Islands. It is reported that the
guards employed to prevent any one from
landing on or leaving the islands except those
authorized to do so are not sufficient in num
ber to perform their duty satisfactorily. It
is also said that for two weeks the islands
were virtually unguarded, and that boats
carrying provisions and vegetables lauded
at their wharves.
If these reports are true they show a
condition of affairs that is rather alarming
to say the least of it. If a few eases of
cholera should appear in New York next
summer the whole country and the greater
part of the civilized world would quaran
tine against her. Her commerce would be
checked mid her business come to a stand
still. Carelessness now in dealing with the
cholera immigrants may be the cause of a
calamity, the extent of which it is im
possible to foresee.
The New Y’ork Tribune is printing a
great many letters, written iu response to a
circular sent out by it, with the purpose of
finding out the true sentiment of the Grand
Army of the Republic relative to pensions.
The following extract from a letter written
from Tarkio, Mo., shows the feeling enter
tained by the more violent partisans
among Grand Army men: “The worst in
suit of this administration is the last (Cleve
land's letter). Dues the fool not know (for
fool or coward lie must In*) that there is no
assassin among the old guard to-day? We
know that the veterans are to-day the guard
of honor and law. The nation’s President
is our President. We will vote him to his
deserved perdition, but would shield Ins
effeminate body and imbecile bruin from
even an excessive caress of a Mugwump.”
It would be hard for even the most besotted
partisan to find justification in Mr. Cleve
land’s let ter declining to visit St. Louis any
excuse for the insult put upon him by the,
publication of such a letter as the one from
which this extract is taken.
When a Labor orator, in addressing an
audience of workingmen in Brooklyn, ap
plied very insulting terms to Mayor Hewitt
he found lie iiad made a mistake. There
were protests from all parts of the hall, and
tho speaker was obliged to modify his re
marks. These workihgmen perhaps differed
from Mayor Hewitt iii politics, and it is to
their honor that they refused to allow an
absent man to be slandered. They knew he
was not the villain he was described to be,
aud said so.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1887.
Cotton Fires.
The number of ilres that has occurred in
ships at this port, this season, loaded wi:h
cotton is sufficiently large to cause consid
erable anxiety among those interested in the
cotton business. Three largo cargoes have
been greatly damaged by iires within the
last two weeks, and the cotton season has
only fairly begun. Of course it doesn't
follow that other fires will occur before the
season is over, but it is certainly time that a
most thorough and vigorous investigation
of the fires was made with the view of dis
covering if possible the cause of them. If
facts are discovered which admit of the
conclusion that they are the result of care
lessness then more rigid regulations for pro
tection against fire must be made and en
forced. If any evidence pointing to crime
is found, then careful search for the crimi
nals should be made. It is apparent that
something should be done, because, if these
fires continue, the cotton business of the
l>ort will be paralyzed.
It will not do to admit that the causes of
the fires cannot be discovered and that there
is, therefore, no use to attempt to discover
them. They may all result from the same
cause or from different causes, and a careful
inquiry may lead to the adoption of precau
tions that will put a stop to them, or at least
lessen the number of them.
On Tuesday there were three cotton fires,
one of which—that on Gordon’s wharf—was
certainly due to carelessness. It was caused
by a match that had been dropped, and it
might have destroyed a large amount of
property if it had not been promptly smoth
ered. Only a few days ago a fire was dis
covered in some loose cotton in front of an
office of one of the cotton factors. Some
one had carelessly thrown a lighted cigar
stump upon it. If there is carelessness in
one place, why may there not be careless
ness in another i
Those engaged in the handling of cotton'
should not be permitted to carry matches
while at work. Doubtless there are
regulations providing all kinds of precau
tions, but are they strictly enforced? When
regulations are made they are generally
enforced for a time, and then are allowed
to fall into disuse. Vigilance must be con
tinuous from the beginning of the cotton
season to the end of it if protection against
cotton fires is to be secured.
Drawing Comparisons.
The Republican papers are finding a great
deal of satisfaction apparently in compar
ing the speeches of Mr. Blaine, delivered on
his tour through the country during the
last Presidential campaign, with those
which Mr. Cleveland is now delivering.
They claim that Mr. Blaine’s speeches
showed him to be a man of brains, while
those of Mr. Cleveland afford convincing
proof of his medioority.
Thi sort of talk not only indicates a great
lack of respect for the truth, but a degree
of maliciousness that any respectable jour
nal ought to be ashamed of. The fact that
a mau is not a fluent public speaker is no
indication that he is not a man of. ability.
No Republican newspaper would assert
that Gen. Grant was not a man of brains,
and yet he never showed any capacity as a
speechmaker. In fact, it was not until the
latter part of his political career that he
ever attempted to make more than a few
commonplace remarks when called upon
for a speech.
It is true that Mr. Rl&ine is a brilliant
public speaker, and that his speeches, when
ho was traveling through the West in 1884,
were fresh and bright, but it must not be
forgotten that he had a great variety of
subjects to talk about, and that each sub
ject was sufficient for a good speech. It
wouldn’t be in good taste for Mr. Cleveland
to discuss political questions. He is not on
a political mission, and it would not be wise
for him to make political speeches. He is
virtually confined to common place subjects,
and it is impossible for him, therefore, to
make an oratorical display even if be were
capable of doing so.
He is getting along very well, and the
people are satisfied with his speeches. They
are not so anxious to hear him talk as they
are to shake hands with him. To shake
hands with a thoroughly honest President is
something to remember and be proud of.
As for Mr. Cleveland’s ability, the success
of his administration proves that he is not
wanting in that respect.
A cablegram reports that the cancerous
growth in the throat of the Crown Prince of
Germany, which has several times been re
moved by cauterization, has reappeared
with greater virulence than ever, and that
the Prince’s strength lias lieen so exhausted
that he cannot stand another course of caus
tic applications. It now seems probable
that he will die before his aged father, the
Emperor. Such an event would be ominous
of troublous times in Eurojie, the heir to
the German throne, so soon to be vacant,
would then be a young mau whose tastes
are all military, and who is said to be
anxious to udd to the fame gained by Ger
man arms in the last three ware. It is to
be hoped, for this reason if for no other,
that the accounts of the illness of the peace
loving Crown Prince have been exaggerated.
At midnight Sunday night a large force
of hands began to put Gainesville. Fla.. iu
good sanitary condition. Energy and
promptness could not have been displayed
in a better direction, but it would have been
wiser by previous effort to have niude such
headlong haste unneccessary. Florida
towns, on account of the proximity of
Cuba, cannot be too careful of thtir sani
tary condition. The opinion seems to be
general among those best qualified to judge,
that, there is no danger whatever of tho
yellow fever spreading from Tampa to
other Florida cities. The precautions taken
against such a calamity are very thorough.
The New York courts have upset the ac
tion of John J. O’Brien, Chief Supervisor
of Elections, iu swearing in George election
inspectors, and it looks like the United
Laisir party will lie unrepresented in the
(silling places. Every party which lias cast
.■>o,ooo votes is entitled under the law to an
inspector at each polling place, hut iu this
case it has been impossible to determine by
what party the fiS,OOO votes for George when
he ran for Mayor were cost. They are
claimed by the United Labor party, the
Progressive Labor party and the Irving
Hall faction of Democrats. The first hauled
probably had the best claim to them.
A report based upon an inspection of 1,214
factories in 125 different branches of work
in Russia states that the hours of labor
there vary from six to twenty, and that in
one or two sjieclal instances workmen were
compelled to labor twenty-four hours unin
terruptedly. These differences are purely ar
bitrary and not controlled by the kind of
work. In the same district in the same sort
of work there is sometimes a difference of
eleven hours in tne amount of work re
-1 quired in a day in the different factories.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Mugwump Way of Looking at It,
From the .\>ic York Timer 1 Muff.)
The appointment of (ionium’s tools in Mary
land is wholly inconsistent with the avowed
purposes and pener and policy of the President,
and Mr. Gorman do**s the President the greatest
possible harm in identifying him with action
that is in every waj discreditable anil nufortu
nate.
The Nobleman’s Coming Rival.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal iflem.)
When the time comes for the American girl
to choose between a veteran 100 years old, with
n fnt jiensiou, and a nobleman from Europe, no
doubt shew ill marry the veteran The Ameri
can girl is bound to learn, after awhile, that a
United States pension is a much surer thing
than the income of a count.
The Proper Way to Get Rid of the
Surplus.
From the Keic York World (Dem.)
With ‘‘an admitted surplus of $45,000,000 and
a teal surplus of $300,000,000 more,” a war
tariff journal sees no reason why the Secretary
of the Treasury should not exercise to the full
est extent his power to buy bonds. The people
who pay the unnecessary and unjust taxes that
produce this surplus see every reason why Con
gress should “straightway” stop the excess by
reducing the taxes.
A Mistaken Conclusion.
From the New York Tribune (Rep.)
There are not wanting signs that intiuential
Democratic organ-, anticipating the defeat of
their party in this State, will make it the occa
sion for a resolute attack on the President. But
when they prove that the people are disgusted
with him, what other and better candidate can
they offer? The truth is that voters are more
disgusted with the President's party than with
the President himself.
BRIGHT BITS.
“Do you think that we literary men are over
worked?” asked a writer during a conversation
at a dinner table?
T don’t think so,” someone replied. “It's
the public that is overworked. The readers are
the ones that need rest.” —Arknnsaw Traveler.
Two Paris critics were discussing a young
actress who had recently made her debut.
"What do you think of her?” asked one.
“She has very little talent, but lots of dog.”
“Why, I thought she took a jirize at the con
servatory?’’
"No, it was at the dog show ßoston Her
ald.
Police Jruor.—Officer, you say this man is a
notorious Anarchist ?
"Yes, your honor. He's as bad as Herr Most.”
“Where did you urrest him?”
“I caught him in the act of carrying away
several bars of soap from a grocery.”
“And yet you swore he was an Anarchist?
Officer, you are under arrest for perjury.”—
Lincoln Journal.
Omaha Dame—l see you preferred being an
old man's darling to a young man’s slave.
Young widow—Yes; my husband was very
kind to the day of his death.
“He left you, I understand, over $5,000,000.”
“Yes.”
“What do you intend to do with yourself now,
dear?”
"Well, I'm thinking of becoming a young
man's slave.” —Omaha World.
Omaha Youth—Yes, 1 guess my sister will go
to church with you if you ask her. You are
both Episcopalians, I believe.
New York Youth Kr—no, I nevah attend that
church any more, igo to the Presbyterian.
“Well, well: What caused the change in
you?”
“The—er—Presbyterians do their praying
standing up, and that keeps a fellah’s Sunday
trousers from bagging at the knees, don’t y'e
know.” —Omaha World. \
Edward (flshingly)—l think of going to the
Cannibal Islands as a missionary, Cicely, but
you have only to say one little word to bid me
stay, darling.
Cicely (much interested in church affairs)—
And did the horrid things eat the last mission
ary, Edward?
Edward (eagerly)—Yes, Cicely, yes, they left
nothing but the bones.
Cicely—Oh how exciting? Yes, I think you
had better go, Edward.— Harper's Bazar.
A cadaverous looking man Invaded tbe count
ing room of a busy merchant on Madison Etreet
yesterday morning and handed him a card on
which was written: “I am deaf and dumb,
please buy a box of matches.” The merchant
shook his head and the peddler turned to go.
His look of deep dejection touched the heart of
the business man and he impulsively called
after him:
“Hold on! I’ll buy a box.”
The deaf and dumb man did not respond. Not
he. He was an artist in his particular line. He
merely happened in again the afternoon of the
same day and sold the penitent merchant two
dozen boxes.—Chicago Tribune.
Two ok A Kind.—A rather sharp-looking gen
tleman sat opposite to a roughly-dressed man
on an elevated car. The roughly dressed man
was remarkable for his bow legs. “My friend, ’
said the gentleman, “parilen my curiosity, but
bow did you acquire such a peculiar curve in
your legs?”
“When I was a boy, I went in swimming one
day. When I came out. I laid down on the
grass to dry. I fell asleep, and when I woke up
the sun had warped my legs,” replied the man
with the peculiar legs.
“My friend,” said the gentleman, “allow me
to take you by the hand. We are two of a kind.
1 prepare the affidavits to the circulation of a
certain New York daily paper.”— Texas Siftings.
PERSONAL.
Kaiser Wilhelm is enjoying excellent health.
Ex-Senator Dorsey has never allowed a razor
to touch bis face.
Mrs. Tyler, widow of the President, went
shopping in New Y'ork Tuesday.
Ex-Gov. St. John is talking prohibition in
California. He has now become a public lec
turer of the third class.
Miss Frances E. Willard wants all temper
ance women iu the world to observe Nov. 13 as
“a day of special prayer for the cause.”
Alexander R. Webb, of St. Louis, the newly
appointed Consul to Manila, is assistant city
editor of the Republican. He was bora at Hud
son, N. Y.
Mrs. Charles Coye. of Washington, who was
one of the party traveling in Europe with David
Dudley Field, died on the steamship WerraSept.
38, and was buried at sea.
Bell, of telephone fame, has conveyed his
very large interests iu his patent to his wife, re
taiuing for himself but one share of the stock.
This he invests solely in cigars.
The Duchess of Roxburghe, who is a most ex
pert angler, lauded three fine salmon ill one
morning's fishing near her Scotch estate, the
average weight icing thirteen pounds.
Edmund Sylvester, the founder of Seattle,
W TANARUS, and the oldest member of the Masonic
Order west of the Mississippi, died in Seattle
last, week at the advanced age of 93 years.
Gen. Paine is on the wrong side of 50, but he
impresses nearly every one as a man of about
45 years, and scarcely iu his prime, lie is a
Harvard man, graduating in the class of 53.
Thomas A. Edison is an inveterate pipe
smoker. It is said that lie Ims invented anew
kind of pipe which will make a sensation in tue
world of puffers. There is no electricity aliout
it.
Mrs. Gov. Foraker is a daughter of Hezekiah
Bundy, an ex-Congressman and an old and re
spected citizen of Ohio. She is 37years old, and
is said to he as diplomatic in political matters as
was Mrs. Gen. i.ogan a few years ago.
Miss Isabelle Frances Morris, who has a
dowry of sl.o<X>,0 | M, part of the profits of her
father out of the Louisiana lottery, is to be mar
ried to-day at Westchester, N. Y., to Mr. Thur
low Weed Barnes, a grandson of tbe late Thur
low Weed.
Gov. Hill ami a party of prominent politi
cians attended a base ball match at New burg the
other day, but were almost unuoticed amid the
superior attractions of the game, not a cheer
being raised. A Governor is a very insignificant
personage when stacked up against an umpire.
James ('. Flood, the bonanza millionaire, has
been ill bad health for months. His disease,
combined with great anxiety over the wheat
■deal” that lias ended so disastrously for him
self and Mackey*, have reduced his strength, ami
his physicians have recommended him to go to
Carlsbad. It is expected that he will soon sci
out on his journey. Mr. Flood Is bO years of
age.
Gen. Henry Shaw Bnioos. who died in Pitts
field, Mass., last Thursday, was a graduate of
Harvard College, and a lawyer by profession.
He entered the army os captain of the Allen
Guard of Massachusetts, aud took part iu many
engagements, being luully wounded at Fair
i laks. He was made a brigadier-general in 1842.
Since tbe war he had been Auditor of State, Dis
trict Judge. amlVustom House Appraiser
When Marie Wainwright went on the stage a
few years ago her family -staid old Pennsylva
nians threatened her w ith ostracism. She per
severed and her relatives, except a favorite
brother, completely ignored her. Now the old
folks have relented and are w illing to forget
Miss Wamwrigiit's disobedience, as they term it.
She is happily married to Louis James, aud
evinces no haste for a family reconciliation.
Curious Grave-Robbin e in France.
From the London Sexes.
Paul Vtlleneuve is a day laborer aiul sexton in
t ie village of Artigues, near Monerabeuu, on
tii ■ river Boise, in Gascogne, France, one day
a lady from a ncighl>oring village, staying at.
Artigucs, was .struck dumb with astonishment
when she perceived Villeneuve passing her
dressed in a knitted vest of the exact pattern
and color of that vest in which she had buried
her husband two years before, the fashion of the
region being to bury the dead in a complete suit
>t clothes. She followed Villeneuve and recog
nized on the back of his vest the exact mark
she had years before stitched with her own
hands in all her husband s wardrobe She im
mediately reported to the maire. who issued a
search warrant. Proceeding to Villeneuve’s
house the officers found all the drawers, cup
boards and closets filled with kerchiefs, rags,
neckcloths, sheets and shrouds, shirts, drosses,
vests, pants, and other articles used in dressing
the (bad. liverything was mended, brushed,
washed and from*l. with tue utmost care, prov
ing Villeneuve's wife to be a most commenaable
housekeeper. Nevertheless the court sent both
of these grave-robbers to the penitentiary for
five years.
The Madrigal.
From the Century.
Once, as I walked in the woodlands green,
1 chanced on Love where he sat alone
Catching the moles of the air, and sheen
From sunrays broken and downward thrown.
“Wliat are you doing, Love!” quoth I;
For Love anil I have been comrades true.
And I speak him freely when none are nigh,
And he answers me as he might not you.
“I am making a madrigal.” he said;
"i need but one rhyme to close it well."
And. lo: it seeiued that a spider's thread
Glanced in the light and lie caught its spell.
Wonderful, beautiful, rare and sweet
It lay there, perfect, upon his hand;
It throbbed with a murmur, soft, complete,
I could not describe nor understand.
\
“And how will you send it, Love?” quoth I;
Ah. how he smiled! but lie said no word;
But he beckoned me, and I followed, shy,
| jAnd we came on a poet all unheard.
There os he dreamed, did Love liestow
The little song in hi3 car content:
And fled so quickly that none might know
Where it was written and how it was sent.
Samuil Willoughby Duffibld.
A Bad Man With a Bowie.
From the New York Sun.
"I’m from Californy, 1 am; ye hyar me’ Tin
from the elope. I kin flte my heft in wildcats.
1 perfer wildcats; but now I want to cat up a
dude. Fetch me a dude until I sliver him. I
own this end of this blank, blank town just
now. I’m takin 1 this hull sidewalk; d’y’hyar
me: this hull sidewalk. I want it all. 1 might
need it. The fust blankety dude who puts nis
fut on this walk ‘s my meat.
It was a western gentleman favoring the
metropolis with a passing call. He stood in
front of the World office a little before 8 o'clock
last evening, and held at bay a swarm of
alarmed looking newsboys. The bigger the
crowd got the more he slashed around, making
an ever-widening circle about him as ho brand
ished a long, ugly-looking knife and extended a
general invitation to the masses to come and
have their livers carved.
“D'ye see me?” he went on. “D'ye hear me?
Wildcats is iny regular vitties. I own this end
of the town. This hyar sidewalk's my private
property. I take it because I want it. Don't
none uf ye set a foot ou it. I own it. I own
the hull gulch. Wildcats is—”
Just then he caught sight on the outskirts of
the crowd of a policeman's buttons moving
calmly down on him.
“Good evenin',” he said to the assembly.
“You may hev your d— town now. I'm
through with it.”
His knife disappeared in a twinkling, and in
another moment he was around the corner in
Beekman street, as mild and law-abiding citi
zen as any who were abroad.
Writing: by Electricity.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
One of the most beautiful of modem inven
tions it remains to be seen whether it is as use
ful as it is beautiful —the instrument devised by
Mr. John Robertson, for the transmission o*f
writing by electricity, may now* lie seen at work
at the American exhibition. Out of the top of
a box, which is about the size of an ordinary
dispatch box, protrudes what has the appear
ance of a stylographie pen. This, how ever, is
not a pen, but the handle of the “transmitter,”
and its lower eud is fixed to a light brass per
pendicular liar Any motion given by the hand
—you hold it just like a pen—to the handle of
the transmitter is communicated by this bar to
two series of carbon disks contained within the
box, and, after various adventures among mag
nets, etc., is carried again to the top of the box,
where it is reproduced exactly by a small ink
holding pen, w hose point rests on a white paper
tape. A clockwork apparatus pulls this tape
along at a gentle pace; and after a little prac
tice you find that it is quite easy to move the
handle of the transmitter so that the pen shall
write legibly on the moving tape.
Now, whatever is written on the tape before
you is written simultaneously a mile off, or it
may be fifty miles off. on a similar tape, by a
similar instrument at the other end of the wire.
The instrument is very compact, and apparently
efficient; and, as it is quite silent, there seems
to be no reason why a reporter sitting in the
House of Commons should not straightway
write off his report of a debate to be instanta
neously read off in Printing House Square or
Northumberland street . A name will be w anted
for his machine. Perhaps the “wire writer”
w ill do.
Her Ambition Realized.
Boston Letter to the Providence Journal.
A city missionary related this interesting, and
not wholly uninst ruotive. tale ill connection with
his labors among the destitute. The incident
occurred last winter, but the moral is of a con
tinued application that keeps it fresh.
He found, in the course of his examination of
a certain district, a woman who was not only
wretchedly destitute, but seriously ill besides.
She seemed a very decent and uot undeserving
person, an impression which accorded with the
reputation given her by her neighbors, and the
missionary interested himself in her behalf,
calling to nis aid a couple of ladies who were
members of the associated charities. Every
thing needful for the comfort of the w oman was
done. Her room was kept in order, she was
provided with a nurse, the young ladies brought
her delicacies, and when at last the patient was
thoroughly convalescent they presented her
with $5 as a help toward starting her once more
on the way of earning her ow n living.
A day or two later the missionary called and
was pleasantly received by the jo >r woman,
who evinced due gratitude for ail the kindness
she had received. Then with an overflowing
self-satisfaction and an nbs< l .itely child like de
lig.it the pauper produced from a closet anew
and remarkably gay bonnet.
“There,” she said, beaming with satisfaction,
“don't you think that is pretty? All my life I've
wanted a bonnet with a feather in it, and when
1 got that $5 all at once, I said to myself that
now was my chance to have one. The man
asked $7 for it, but I told him s.“> was all I had
and he'd have to let me have it for that; and
true as you're alive he did.”
The missionary looked at the bonnet, regarded
the woman, opened liis lips, and wisely recog
nizing the futility Of remonstrance, closed them
again. The story i* literally true, and very
likely could le matched by any city visitor of
long experience.
Mary Will Get Along:.
From the New York Graphic.
The steerage passengers of the City of Rome
were landed at Custle < warden. As they fled past
the registering clerk a rory cheeked, buxom lass
of 18 years halted before John Nigiutseh. and,
in reply to the usual query as to her name,
answered:
“Mary Egan, sor.”
“Where are you from, Mary?”
“Queenstown, sor.”
“Where are you going?”
“Sure. I don’t kno v. sor. I've been w orking
five years for one family in Queenstown for four
pun an' me tioord, sor, an' sure I couldn't save
enough to buy docent clothes an' 1 just thought
I'd try me luck in America. I had tuppence and
the clothes 1 stood upih, but 1 kissed me brother
Tim, who runs a donkey cart from the docks to
the boarding house an' went out in the little boat
to the steamer with the rest. As 1 went on the
deck I waved my hand to Tim. who with theonld
donkey was watching nit* from the dock and cried
out, 'Good-live, ouid Ireland.' The donkey
st etched out his nose toward me, and Tim
waved bis hand, an' I knew they were both
wishin’me good luck. The officer on the ship
asked me for my ticket, an' 1 showed him my
tuppence an* tould him what I wanted to do, nii’
snrehetuk me down vvid the rest of cm', an'
they treated me just as well as any on** who paid
their passage. I had a good bed an' plenty to
♦ it an' everybody was rale kind to me, and
here's my tuppence yet, sor.”
“But how do you expect to live over here?”
asked Nigiutseh.
“Sure, an h docent girl who is willing an'can
work ougnt to live nsy enough in America, sor.
I'm going to get a situation, sor.”
“ltow much money does your brother Tim
make with bis donkey cart?” asked Niglutscb.
•‘Sure, sometimes one shilling an’ sometimes
two or throe, sor. The most he ever made in
one day was five shillings. s* >v. an' when he's
paid for the donkey's living an' bis own he's
nothing left, sor.”
Mary was turned over t-o Matron Boyle of the
Employment Bureau, who interested herself at
once in finding her a situation.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are forty Jewish millionaires in New
York city.
Joel Schlitz, of Stroudsburg, Pa., a con
stable who is 50 years of age, recently walked
fifteen miles to serve a summons.
Black River Falls, \\ is., has a winter-green
oil distillery. The owner pays IHjC. a pound for
the vines and receives $2 a pound for the oil.
It is estimated that the presses of the Eng
lish, French and German nationalities turn
out nearly 50.000 distinct works every year.
Anew supply of natural gas has been found
in Western Pennsylvania 150 feet below the ex
isting source of supply. The pressure is 000
pounds.
Young Edwin Gould, the second son of the
great financier, has just turned 21, and been
elected a director of the Western Union Tele
graph Company.
The names of thirty-six widows of soldiers
who served in the revolutionary war are still
on the rolls of the Pension Office. The average
age of the pensioners is 82V4 years.
An 18 year-old youth of Axtell, Kan., has
seventeen nephews and nieces, and a boy of 11
is uncle to twenty seven persons, all living. Two
have died, making the number twenty-nine.
Near Coal Canyon, Cal., is a mammoth fig
tree, measuring 102 inches in circumference
four feet from the ground, it has four immense
branches, each of which exceeds 50 inches in
circumference.
A young woman of Michigan has sued her re
calcitrant lover for $8,000—52,000 for damages
to her heart and SI,OOO for her bridal trousseau.
Affections are seen to be worth just twice as
much as clothes.
The Lloinia volcano in Araucania, in Chili,
has recently been in eruption. The lava ami
falling rocks and the fear that the melted snow’
would cause a landslide, compelled the picket
stationed there to move off about two leagues.
Stella Davis, a young woman living at Fort
Saunders, W. TANARUS., appropriated a horse, saddle,
and wedding dress and started out to see the
country last week. She reached lAramie in
time to be welcomed and cared for by the
Sheriff.
At West Point there is a dog which belongs
to the band, and every afternoon at dress parade
the dog stations himself near the cannon which
is fired at sunset. The dog watches intently for
the discharge, and then starts down the hid to
look for the ball. This he has done for yeais.
The Prefect of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has issued
a decree imposing a line of from Si to S2O upon
all persons using the telephones for the purpose
of sending chaffing or immoral messages. This
decree was rendered necessary by messages of
an improper character being frequently sent
through the wires.
There is a rumor in the American colony in
Paris-that Count and Countess Telfener have
separated. Countess Telfener is the young'r
sister of Mrs. Mackay, and on her marriage
with the Count she received a handsome dowry
from her brother in law, Mr. Mackay. The par
ties have not been living together for some time
past.
The Garrison cemetery of the old Brit ish fort
at Crown Point, N. Y., unused since the days of
the French and Indian wars, bas i>een gradually
denuded of its tombstones by predatory farm
ers until but two remain. Gen. John Hammond,
of Crown Point, has recently had these two
removed to the village park, where they can
receive the care which their historical interest
merits.
Mrs. Gen. Grant, the New York World says,
has been quietly making ai rangements to dis
pose of her house on Sixty-sixth street. It is a
valuable property, but she w ishes to have its
value in some form where she can divide it
among her sons and give them the benefit of it.
One of her projects m this direct to ex
change the property for three less v.mtable ones,
which her sons might occupy.
New Haven was invaded by a flock of birds
the other evening from 0 to 11 o'clock.
Thrushes, linnets, catbirds, and even humming
birds thronged about the electric lights, and
many of them entered stores aud dwellings and
were caught. The onlv explanation offered was
that flocks of these birds flying southward were
attracted by the bright electric lights, and fool
ishly stuped in their long journey.
A strange negro appeared in New Haven on
Monday, and announced himself as the steward
of George Gould's yacht. He said the yacht
was in that port, with Mr. Gould. Mrs. Gould,
the baby, and a party on board, including “Mr.
Macy, the drv goods man of Fourteenth street,
and Jay Gould's nephew Timothy.'' all bound
for Havana. The negro ordered a large bill of
supplies to be sent aboard, and then disap
peared.
Agitation for a revolution in the manner of
addressing mail matter is going on in Chicago.
The new plan provides for the reverse of the
present order of addressing- instead of the
person's name coming first that of the country,
followed by the State, then city and street, and
last the person's name. The Chicago Tribune
has interviewed many post office attaches on
the scheme, and. while several approve of it on
the score that it would expedite in casing,
others pronounce it worthless.
Anew marriage law went into effect in
Michigan last Wednesday which is already
causing trouble. It provides that licenses must
be issued in the county where one of the parties
resides. This prevents elopers from getting
married in the State. Even foreigners are
affected, for a ('anadian couple who came to
Detroit to l>e wedded were refused a license. In
vain the groom protested that the law applied
onlv to residents of the State. The clerk was
obdurate, and the couple bad to recross the
line.
John Buckley of Meriden. C'onn., caught a
snapping turtle and took it t< the central tele
phone office, where hejpurposed killing it with
electricity. He let the turtle snap at one end of
the wire, put another wire beneath its shell, and
turned on the “full strength of *he current.
Heavers that he “heard the current go
through it, making a noise i ke a small planing
machine, and he left the turtle for dead. The
next morning he found th<* turtle walking
around and snapping at wires, as though it
wanted another taste of the current.
Sheridan Powers was out hunting one day
last week in the St. Francis river bottoms, near
Wappapello, Mo., when his attention was drawn
toward the river by a.strange aud pecu liar noise.
Un arriving on the banks of the river lie disco-. -
ered two large turtles fighting in shallow wan r
a few yards from the bank. He watched the
battle a few minutes, aud until the larger turtle
drove his antagonist from the field, when he
leveled his fowling piece on the remaining out*
and shot him through the head. When taken to
town and weighed his turtieship pulled the
beam at 120 pounds.
The process of welding invented by Mr. De
Benardoz. of Russia, is now applied industrially
by the Society for the Electrical Working of
Metals. The pieces to be welded are placed
upon a cast Iron plate supported by an insulated
table and connected with the negative pole of a
source of electricity. The positive pole com
municates with an electric carbon inserted in
an insulating handle. On drawing the point of
the carbon along the edges of the metal to be
welded the operator clones the circuit. He has
then merely to raise the point slightly to pro
duce a voltaic arc whose high temperature
melts the two pieces of metal and causes them
to unite.
Col. Coxf. of North Carolina, has the most
comprehensive and impartial war record of any
man in the country. He began service in the
Southern army; then, to protect his inheritance,
he gained the consent of the state authorities to
procure a substitute and visit Pennsylvania.
Arrived there, he was soon drafted Into the
Union army, but again procuring a substitute,
ami, letting the two hired patriots fight it out
between them, lie went to Huropu, His record
is thus succinctly summed up by a correspond
ent of the Boston Herald: "He fought on both
sides, simultaneously, and yet at the same time
was in Europe. He was killed in one army
wounded in the other, and yet never received a
battle scar."
Friday last, in New York city, while William
A. Sandberg and his wife were standing in front
of their store on Sixth avenue, the wife resting
her arm on an iron railing surrounded l.y sharp
spear-like points, which guard the basement
steps, they heard a cry in the air and the next
instant a dark object was seen descending. The
object was Eddie Bingham, 7 years old. lie fell
heavily upon the woman s arm and rebounded
into Mr Sandberg's embrace. Mrs. Sandberg
was knocked down by the falling buy and had
her sir,u der dislocated, while her arm was
badly bruised by the. railing points. The only 1
injury the hoy received was a gash on otic 1
cheek, received by coming in contact with the
raihng ot the fire escape at the . cm,l story.
He had fallen through tt.e man-hole in the (lie
escape at the third story, while living a kite '
If Mrs. Sandberg, says the Ne.v York H orM.
had not been there to break the lait's fall he
would certainly have been impaled on the iron I
spears. \ |he bpy seems to baur a charmed life I
Ah,m. three years ago his brother was chop
ping wood, when he, in stooping to pick up a
toy, received the full force of Hie blow on his
head, the a* remaining fast in the child's skull
from which it was with di/ticutty removed
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