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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— DcKalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F.;
Oalanthe Lodge No. 28. K. of P.; Georgia His
torical Society; Georgia Teat No. 151. I. O. R
Special Notices—Pew Renting of Savannah
Baptist Church; Venison Steak, etc., for Lunch
at Graham's.
Change of Schedule—City and Suburban
Railway.
Emptv Syrup Barrels— C. M. Gilbert & Cos.
C. H. Dorsett s Column—Sale of Carpets,
Furniture, Groceries, etc.
Steamship Schedule— Ocean Steamship Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed ; For Sale; Strayed or Stolen; Miscellaneous.
T. Thomas Fortune, who won some fame
as editor of the New York Freeman, isnow
a reporter on the New York Evening Sun,
and perhaps the only man of his color em
ployed in that capacity on a leading jour
nal.
The excitement, attending his visit to
Macon, instead of weakening Mr. Davis'
health, seems to have improved it. He is
safe at his home at Beauvoir again, and
expresses gratitude to the people of Georgia
for their warm reception.
The motto carried in the labor procession
in Washington the other day, “Ballots, not
Bombs, are Our Weapons,” shows
that Washington workingmen have
the true American idea. There can be no
objection to labor agitation founded on that
principle.
An Ohio Democratic paper charges that
Gov. Foraker's administration has in a year
involved the State in nearly $1,000,000 of
debt and bankrupted the Treasury. If this
be true, it is no wonder he chose to fight a
bloody shirt campaign. Success was im
possible on any other issue.
Capt. Black, counsel of the Anarchists,
sinks the lawyer in the partisan. When he
says the men whom he defeuded will be
“murdered by the law" he shows himself
unfit to practice in any court. In his devo
tion to the interests of his clients he seems
to have himself become an Anarchist.
It seems difficult to get a receiver for the
Covington and Macon railroad. Consider
ing the fat fees usually allowed by the
courts for managing a bankrupt railroad,
this is somewhat remarkable. Perhaps the
failure is more than ordinarily complete,
and the assets small.
Booth and Barrett propose that their ku i
ness association shall continue until it is
dissolved by death. They hope to obtain a
theatre in New York, and should they do
so it will undoubtedly become the home of
the drama in its highest form in America.
The whole country is interested in their suc
cess.
The preparations by an American com
pany to expend many thousand dollar- a;
once iu a thorough survey of the Nicaragua
canal route shows th# certainty American
capitalists feel of the ultimate failure oi De
Lesseps’ Panama scheme. When the failure
does come, it will be the greatest the world
has known, and may involve great calami
ties to France.
The Republican newspajs-rs in Ohio seem
to be nearly frantic because, as they allege,
Federal officeholders have been assessed t< i
pay the expenses of the Democratic cam
paign. Probably no such assessment
has been made, but, even if it has, Republi
cans have no cause to complain. It was a
regular business with them when they were
in power, and they did not then think the
employes were “robbed’' nor that the
money raised was a “corruption fund.”
The Republicans have employed John
Jarrett, who used to be president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers,
to go around among workingmen and
preach to them the beauties of protec
tion. Something must be done to coun
teract the effect produced by the knowledge
that the families of 110,000 “protected”
miners are now scantily supported by the
charity of other workers, because the pro
tected coal barons will not pay living
wages.
The Cleveland leader publishes a story to
the effect that the scar so conspicuous on
Gov. Gordon’s face was not received in
battle, but at the hands of a desperate ne
gro “whom he was lashing.” This is only
one of numerous lies printed by that paper.
It comes with little grace from a man who
fled to Europe in 18<i3 to n void being drafted
into the army, as the editor of the Leader
is said to have done. A coward himself, he
is jealous of another man’s reputation for
courage.
England proposes to pay $300,000 to an
Arab chief to expel the Mahdi’s followers,
also Arabs, from Dongola, which they
have held since soon after Gordon’s
death at Khartoum. In this little
transaction England shows the shrewd
diplomacy for which she is famous. If she
recovers Dongola for the money spent it
will have been done much more cheaply
than if her own soldiers were employed,
and if it isn’t—well, there will perhaps be
$300,000 worth of dead Arabs.
The newsjtapers of New York have suc
ceeded in blackening the character of almost
every candidate for office in the extraordi
nary’ contest which is going on in that city
and State. It ends to-morrow, and the re
sults of the balloting will be awaited with
much more interest than usually attaches to
an election for officers of minor important*.
Though the New York papers have lately
devoted almost all their spat* to the local
contest, the general attention is centered on
the success or failure of Henry George's
Socialistic propaganda.
Sectional Issues.
In a recent article on Gov. Gordon's visit
| to Ohio, the Morning News took occasion
j to contrast the position of the leaden, in
! Southern polities with that of Gov. Foraker
and others, who are endeavoring to gain
j office on sectional issues which were settled
I years ago, expressing the belief that the
I former were playing the more patriotic
• part. The Cincinnati Timur-Star takes ex
* eeption to this. It points to the demonstra
! tion at Macon and what it calls the glorifl
i cation of Mr. Davis as proof that the
! antagonisms of the war are kept alive by
' the Southern people, who are not loyal to the
I Union and yet hope for thp triumph of the
cause for which they fought. In conclusion,
the Morning News isadvisodto take off its
partisan spectacles and look at the subject
fairly.
It is not the Morning News which needs
to take off its spectacles. It knows that
the people among whom it is published and
which it represents are as loyal to the gen
eral government as any other, and that they
resent as impertinent the suspicion which
attends their every movement. They are a
part of the Union, their future depends
upon its prosperity and permanence, they
bear an equal share of its burdens, they
stand upon an equal footing with others as
to rights in it, and if the necessity should
arise they would defend it with their blood
and treasure as promptly as the people who
are always belying them for partisan pur
poses.
There is something else to which they are
true, without disparagement to their loyalty
to the Union—the memory of the men who
died fighting their battles. The political
cause for which those sold ers fought is
lost, and by a vast majority is not regret
ted, but the recollection of their gallant
deeds and suffering is the holiest thing in
the Southern man’s heart, and he would
indeed lie a traitor should he fail on every
proper occasion to do them honor. They
made the history of the South —all that
part of it which is bravest and (vest—and
pride in tbeir valor is in no way incompat
ible with an honest acceptance of the results
of final defeat. Demonstrations of love and
respect for their memory are in no
sense political; they are purely
sentimental, but if the Southern people must
choose between showing honor to their
soldiers and the political advantage which
might be gained by appearing to forget
them, they cannot hesitate The political
advantage must be sacrificed. They cannot
help feeling, however, that they are wronged
when such a choice is forced upon them.
In view of these facts, the demonstration
in honor of Mr. Davis at Macon was inno
cent enough, so far as disloyalty to the Un
ion was concerned. None of the men who
went to meet him, and whose hearts
throbbed faster at the sight of the feeble
old man, looked on him as the representa
tion of disunion. That is forgotten. They
saw in him only the commander of the
Southern armies, whose history is their
greatest pride.
The cause of complaint of the Southern
people against Gov. Foraker and politician
of his kind, is that they persistently ascribe
to a feeling of hostility to the Union actions
which do not spring from that feeling.
Lacking in Backbone.
The authorities of New York would have
saved themselves a good deal of trouble and
expense if they had taken the steps with re
gard to immigrants from cholera-infected
places which they now propose to take. The
President of the Board of Health of that
city has written a letter to the Mayor asking
if the Federal government can in any way
prevent immigrants from localities where
cholera exists from coming to this country,
and suggesting that if it has such authority
that it exercise it at once. A representative
of the Quarantine Commissioners is also in
Washington to < order with the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Italian Minister with
regard to the same matter.
There is no doubt that cholera infected
immigrants can be prevented from landing
at any port in the Uuited States, and if the
teamship companies engaged in transport
ing ob jectionable immigrants are informed
that that power will be exercised, no more
immigrants from cholera districts will be
brought to this country.
If measures had been taken months ago
to close our ports against immigrants likely
to introduce cholera into the country New
York would not now be burdened with a
thousand or more immigrants in her harbor
who are regarded as dangerous.
The hospitals on Hoffman and Swinburne
Islands, in New’ York harbor, are not capa
ble of accommodating the immigrants \. ho
already occupy them, and part of them have
been transferred to a hospital ship. Not
withstanding this condition of affairs, how -
ever, other cholera-infected immigrants
may be expected to arrive at any tmu .
The steamer Burgundia, with immigrants
from Naples, is now due. For some reason
or other neither the New York nor the
Washington authorities appear to have the
ne essary backbone to deal with this ques
tion concerning cholera-infected immi
grants.
Arbor Day.
Every year the necessity for taking steps
to renew the forests destroyed in the
headlong haste of settlement and to meet
the demands of commerce for lumber be
comes more apparent. One means of keef -
ing the subject in the recollection of the
people has been the appointment of an Ar
bor day’by several of the States. Arbor
day in Georgia is Nov. 22, and the im
portance of the purpose for which it was
appointed should cause its getieral observ
ance.
The more common evil results of a too
liberal cutting of trees have been often dis
cussed and'are well known. The swollen
rivers, often causing great destruction of
property, every spring remind the people of
upper and middle Georgia of their own and
their fathers’ folly. The forests burned in
“newgrouud” log heaps, to clear the land for
a few years of careless cultivation, can only
be renewed by the care and patience of many
yea re.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has recently written
a letter on this subject, brought out by’ the
proceedings of the recent forestry congress,
held at Huntsville, Ala. He draws from
his great stores of information many facts
to show the desirability, if not necessity, of
the work in which the forestry association
is engaged. Among other things, he shows
that .Spain, now the most, arid country in
Europe, was at the time of the Roman con
quest well wooded and well watered, with
large streams where are now mere rivulets.
This country may have the same ex
perience.
Foraker boasts that he was in thirteen
battles during the war. He was not hit by
a single bullet, however. It may be there
are safe places even on a battlefield, and
that the mau who brags'now dodged then.
THE VORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1887.
Knights of Labor in Politics.
The Knights of Labor, as an association or
as individuals, have as much right to dabble
iu politics as other citizens. Nobody would
think of denying that they have. In ninny
eases their influence no doubt has a healtuv
effect. There were some developments at
the recent convention at Minneapolis, how
ever, which show that the leaders have
adopted methods in politics which are open
to objection. It was stated that pending
the Congressional elections last year lending
members of the order were sent, into the dis
tricts of Messrs. Carlisle, Morrison and Reed
to put all the machinery of the order in
motion to defeat them. They had a perfect
right to do . this, but many people
will question the propriety of sending
their emissaries under false names
and under false pretenses. This was what
was done. Brother T. B. Maguire was sent
to St. Louis nominally to settle some brew
ery troubles, but he soon made his apjs-ar
ance across the river in Morrison's district,
not as Knight of Labor Maguire, but as
plain Tom Brown, with no particular busi
ness of any sort. He visited every local as
sembly in the district, and, under the
secrecy of an oath-bound organization, put
the members on notice of what was expect
ed of them by the heads of the order. The
result was that one of the most useful mem
bers of Congress and a real friend of work
ingmen wasdef ated for re-election.
In Carlisle’s district different tactics were
adopted. No open fight was made, but by
the same secret means word was passed
around to members of the order to vote for
Thoebe. It was au effort, not to get the
sense of the voters of the district, but to
take advantage of their ignorance of any
serious opposition to Carlisle to foist upon
them as their Representative a man of
whom perhaps not a fourth had ever even
heard the name.
As has already been said, nobody will
question the right of the Knights to exert
all the power in politics which they can,
but the methods described are un-American,
opposed to our ideas of fair dealing, and
will eventually weaken the Knights. Their
strength lies in the belief that their order
represents a popular movement to amelior
ate the condition of workingmen. If in po
litical campaigns their agents sneak about
among electors under false names to deliver
to oath-bound members of a
secret society the orders of their
chiefs, and those orders are obeyed, popular
sympathy will desert them. The spectacle
of the governing body of a secret society
wielding the power of 500,000 votes will not
be agreeable to the average American citizen,
no matter what his politics. The members
of the society, too, are American citizens,
and their native independence will assert it
self.
It is to be hoped that the success which
attended the tactics which are criticised
will not encourage the leaders of the Knights
of Labor to persevere in their use. Such
iierseverance would threaten danger to
good government and disaster to their
order.
The Steel Ring.
The syndicate which controls the right to
use the Bessemer process in making steel is
a great handicapping weight on the metal
industry in this country, and especially in
the South. One of the charges against it,
which has never been denied, is that it also
controls the right to use the Tbomas-Gil
christ, or basic process. The latter process
is the only one yet invented in which it is
po-sible to produce good steel cheaply from
ores which contain a high percentage of
phosphorus. The purpose of the syndicate
in gaining control ot the basic process was
not to use it, but to prevent its use. Most
of the iron ores o£ the country
are, perhaps, phosphoritic, and there
fore unsuited to the Bessemer process.
Practically all the iron ores of Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee are of that class,
and the result will be that as long as the
syndicate maintains its present control they
will be used only in the production of iron
in its coarsest forms. It is said that in all of
the United States there is only one steel
works which uses the basic process, so jeal
ous lias been the syndicate of its monopoly.
The legal right of the Bessemer syndicate
to buy the patents to the basic process in
order to prevent its use was perhaps per
fect. but its exercise works a great hardship
to tiie people. As the New York Keening
Post happily expresses it, it is as if a tele
graph company should acquire and
hold unused all improvements of
the telephone because more con
venient and agreeable telephonic communi
cation would unfavorably affect the busi
ness of telegraphing. The members of this
syndicate ar e paid millions every year as a
bonus to enable them to compete with the
foreign makers of steel, yet they not only
combine to prevent competition among
themselves, but use their great power to
suppress an improvement that would diffuse
the steel-making industry to all parts of the
mineral bearing region and perhaps render
competition with foreigners possible without
taxing the people to pay a bounty.
One fact in connection with this matter
is of special interest to farmers. While the
slag from a Bessemer furnace is positively
worthless, that from a Thomas-Gilchrist
furnace is a valuable by-product. Pul
verized, it is a fertilizer of quite a high
grade, especially valuable on worn lands,
on account of the phosphorus which it
contains. Recent experiments in Germany
show that, it contains 10 per is lit. of phos
phoric acid, "iO per cent, of limn, 12 ]>er
cent, of iron and 7 per cent, ot silicic acid.
It was shown to operate better than Peru
vian guano, or bone dust. This product
would go far to reduce the cost of both steel
and fertilizers.
The Chicago Tribune prints a long
editorial review of the reasons why to hang
the condemned Anarchists will not make
martyrs of them, as the same process did
of John Brown, anil makes out its case
fairly well. It could have reached the
same conclusion, however, and saved much
space by merely saying that, though Brown
was a man of worse character than either
of the Anarchists and his crime no loss
detestable, he represented an idea and pur
pose which appealed to the sympathy of a
vast number of people, while the
Anarchists only represent the ref
use washed out of the sewers of European
civilization, which has settled down in the
lowest spot in this country. It cannot be
made too plain that they are executed for
murder, and nothing else.
At Republican paper suggests that the op
position members of the House can “coddle”,
the labor element by supporting Thoebe m
his contest for Carlisle’s seat. Unless we
very much mistake the workingmen of this
country, they want no representative of
their interests put into office by manifest
fraud and trickery, and will resent an at
tempt to buy them iu that way.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Will Need a Very Large Jail.
Fr om the Memphis Avalanche (Dem.)
If Great Britain means to jail every man who
occupies the same relation to the government
that William O'Brien does, the walls of the pri
son must lie extended a good deal beyond the
Irish coast line up
Much Like Other Human Nature.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
Mr. Samuel J. Randall seems to lie taking a
good deal of interest ,n Thoelie's serio-comic
contest against Mr. Carlisle. The Democratic
party and Mr. Carlisle can afford this kind of
thing, but it is doubtful if Mr. Randall can.
Political human nature is a good deal like other
human nature, and Mr. Carlisle will appoint
the House committees of the Fiftieth Congress.
BRIGHT BITS.
If a lawyer isn't all lies he can hardly "no
said to be one of truth's al lies. Yonkers Ga
zette.
. Four-year-old little Edith after seeing
many red and brown and black parti-colored
cows, suddenly noticed one that wore an un
broken coat ot white, “Oh, see there!” she
exclaimed; “there's a cow that didn't paint.”—
Harper s Bazar,
“No, darling," said a Burlington mother to a
sick child, “the doctor says I musn't read to
you.”
"Then, mamma. ' begged the little one,
“won t you please read to yourself out loud?”
Bu lington /-Via Press.
Mrs. Popinjay—Mr. Popinjay, do you pro
pose to put up that stove to day, as I requested
you?
Mr. Popinjay—But. my dear, you know
Mrs. Popinjay -Mr. Popinjay, either put upor
shut up
“Did you know that a mule is a mighty intel
ligent animal:" said Smythe to Brown.
“No,”
"Well, ha is."
“How d© you n a te that out.”
“Look at 'the amount of brayin' work he
does.”—Washington Critic.
Dr. Hoowover ,to man with a swollen jaw)—
Why do you come to me? Tin no dentist. You
should go to some regular dentist.
Sufferer—l was going to a demist, but I heard
a great many people say if you treated a man
h • never had any more aches and pains; so I
thought I’d come to you.— Tezas Sittings.
Yorxo Dumps ey has been jilted in love, but
he takes If philosophically, as a sensible young
man should. "There is one thing about it," he
remarked confidentially to a friend the other
day; clove’s labor is never lost. If a fellow
saves up his money for the sake of a girl, and
doesn't get the girl, he has the money.”—Rur
lington Press.
Socialist— Among other things, lam opposed
to the immigration of the Chinese.
Anti Socialist As you admit you won’t work,
in what manner do they conflict with you?
"Confound them, they rob me of a living.’’
"How?"
“By doing the washing my wife used to get."
—BinQlmntton -V Y.) Republican.
The President's Thanksgiving Omaha
Mail—You can easily see, Mr. President that the
great West has much to be thankful for.
The President—Yes, so have I. Some of those
pictures ol nfe were horrible.
“But what is it you are thankful about?"
“lain thankful that my wife met me before
she met those pictures.” —Omaha World.
Said Mrs Smith, who had come to spend the
day, to little Edith: “Are you’glnd to see me
again. Edith?”
Edith—Yes. m'm; and mamma's glad, too?
Mrs. Smith—ls she?
Edith—Yes. m'm; she said she hoped you'd
come to-day aid have i: over with.
Mamma bushes scarlet, but Mrs. Smith simply
smiles.— Boston Transcript.
Smith —That paragraph in the Daily Horeler
touched you up rather severely yesterday,
Brown.
Brown—Oh, yes; I don’t mind that sort of
thing, however The world will always contain
fools, you know .
“I suppose so. If there were no fools there
wouldn’t be anything for those follows to write
about, I Suppose Binghamton Republican.
A Scientific Scorcher— Small Huxleyan—l
say, mammy, disyer friziology sa.v ef a chile
hah a narm long nuff to reach to de sun w'en
he's bawn, he done be bead'n and derided seben
ty-flvs yea to elr he gwine fell de sco'ch.
Mammy (severely)—An'nins S’phiry Nebeud
ne/.zali JoneS, shot dit ar book, V go split de
kindlin’ ’n' rest my po' brains'. ’Pears like's if
too much larnin’ll make me mad— Harper's Ba
zar.
Use of Parties —Omaha Boy—Pop, are po
litical parties good for anything?
Wise Citizen- Indeed they are, my boy. Good
citizens would be badly off if it wasn’t for po
litical parties. They are controlled by certain
men that we all know.
“Oh yes. And then when those men make
the nominations you know who to vote for."
“No. indeed We know who to vote against."
—Omaha Wo Ad.
"Can you tell me where I canfind the reporter
who wrote that article?" asked an irate indi
vidual of the eit? editor. “I want him dis
charged iiritnedtately.”
“I really don t think you could have him dis
charged," replied the city editor, castiousiy.
"Why not. sir! I demand it.”
“You see, the proprietor of the paper wrote
that Ton might go ami ask him to-suspend
publication, however. ’ Wash ing ton Critic.
An Opportunity Unimproved.— She stood in
the press room of the country daily, where the
agile “fly" of the press was slapping down the
papers with admirable precision. She was a
motherly-looking creature, w ith a blue cotton
umbrella and a double chip.
“That ‘fly’ delivers the papers at the rate of
1,50) an hour," modestly remarked the proud
proprietor,
'•Fifteen hundred an hour!” she exclaimed.
"Mercy on us! you don't mean it!" And then,
moved by motherly instinct, she added: “What
a place to spank a baby!" Somerville Journal.
PERSONAL.
Claus Spreckels. the sugar king, is said to
be worth over $H0,000,000.
It is said that Julian Hawthorne is to give up
writing to go into business.
Jay Gould appeared on the Umbria's list as
“John Smith." according to a New York paper.
William Castle, once ihe popular tenor, has
1 st Us voice, and is now a New York stock
broker.
Mr- J ames Brown Potter expects to make
>!. M This season. Is it any wonder that ac
tresses are jealous?
Henry AVatterson persists in his intention
not lo leonine a candidate for the Senatorial
seat of James M, Beck.
Buffalo Bii-L lias been offered $400,000 for
his Wild West sho.v. but he will not leave it in
England for lew thau $500,000.
Ex-Secretary B. 11. Bristow, is a notable
figure on Broadway. New York. He is a devo
ted pedestrian and is entirely out of politics
A poetical address delivered by Tom Hood
to a literary society of which he was President
is to be published from a lately discovered man
usoript.
A tabernacle to -seat 5.000 persons is being
erected in Louisville for Mr. Moody to hold
revival meetings in next January, prior to his
departure for India.
John Russell Yorxo, who has been out of
office journalism for several years, is writing
now for the New York Herald, and, it is said,
will soon be given the management of the
paper.
Clara Lot use Kkllooo was once worth $250,-
000; but she lost heavily in bad Investments,
and now has to struggle along on the in
come of $100,1)1 X) and what she picks up by
singing.
John Martin, of Trimbelville, Chester county.
Pa., courted Miss F.stella Webb for twenty years
and then broke a marriage engagement. Now
Nhe sues him for $20,000, or SI,OOO a year for his
courting.
A year ago Mas Clara Moore, of Cincinnati,
went to risit friends in l.os Angeles, Cal. She
had a few hundred ..dollars with her, which she
invested ,n Southern California lands, and in the
bourn that followed Sile sold and resold her
property at a hot gain of s]Js,ono.
Tbe sente of health of I lie venerable Duke of
Devonshire hoWekcit.es tile deepest apprehen
sion of fits family and friends, and Is regarded
v itli mill'll interest by |silil Mans of all parties
in England. His death would have ,nn Impor
tant effect in transferring Lord Harrington
from the Commons lo the House of Peers.
The latuTl’.vK. Vnutter is to have n memorial
in Weatuihl'tyr Abbe' and n bronze stable in
London oii a site shtirtly to be chosen. The let
ter to the Dean oi Westminster respecting the
memorial is bused on the services rendered to
his country by Mr. Forster in the establishment
of a national system of education and is signed
by Lord Roseberry, Mr. Goscheu, John Bright
and the Bishop or London.
The late Muj. Mordeeui. of North Carolina,
met the Czar (if Russia once, and in the course
of the conversation, which was carried on in
French. ;vl !r ■ -e-l hhu a “Monsieur." Turn
ing to Gen. M. Ciellan. the Major said: "D—
--the fellow, i (.-.iiled him mister." The Czar,
with a smile, remarked: “Let us talk English,
we can get .atone hotter.” The North Carolinian
<H'l"'f cues the Czar any more during tUuUnter
view
A. T. STEWARTS BONE3.
Superintendent Wallin Sr's Story Con
tradicted.
A statement is published in New York that
the police officials laugh at the sensational ac
count of the return by the grave robbers of the
body of Alexander T. Stewart, and its midnight
delivery to the custodians of the crypt at Gar
den City, os narrated in the book published by
ex-Superintendent of Police Walling. The state
ment is made that:
‘ It is a notorious fact that Mr. Walling, when
superintendent, was purposely kept in the dark
concerning the movements of the detectives
during the long and fruitless search for the
missing body. Inspector Murray, in whose dis
trict the robbers operated, had charge of the
case, and he enjoyed the fullest confidence of
ex Judge Hilton. Toward the close of the
search Inspector Byrnes aided in the attempt to
unravel the mystery, and after following many
false clews, directed all the energies of the de
tective bureau in aiding Mr. Murray and his
trusted assist ant, Capt. Meakin, in tracking Mike
Kelly, the lmcknion, who carried the body in his
hack from the graveyard to New Jersey. Kelly
was tracts! to Pennsylvania, thence to Wash
ington. thence to San Francisco. There it was
learned that Kelly had gone to Tucson, Ari.,
where he was killad by a miner, with whom bo
had a quarrel oyer a game of poker. Gideon J.
Tucker, the United Laborfcamlidate for Surro
gate, was editing a newspaper in Tucson at the
time, and sent to Superintendent Murray a cir
cumstantial account of Kelly's tragic end.
Thf* only part which ex-Buperintendent Walling
played in the Stewart affair was to see ex-
Post master Patrick H. Jones, and receive from
him a piece of velvet cut from the casket, the
cheap linen shirt studs, and two of the screws
which had been forwarded to Mr. Jones by a
man calling hitnself “Romaine." Jones, as an
attorney, saw Mr. Walling because Murray was
absent from his office Walling put detectives
upon the track of Jones. This fact was report
ed to Romaine and negotiat ions were broken off
at once. “Ex-Superintendent Wailing must
have been dreaming," is the comment at police
headquarters, “for Mr. Stewart’s body long ago
was consign*! to a grave filled with quicklime
on Canadian soil."
How the Condemned Anarchists Look,
Chicago tetter to Quincy , (III.) Whig.
Here, in arm's reach, is the scaffold corner
from whence but lately the souls of three Ital
ians together, went out into the hereafter; just
down below us, coming ai a four-mile gait are
Fielden, Spies aud Schwab abreast, filling to the
utmost the hour of exercise alotted them. A
glace at Schwab, pale, spectacled, black-bearded,
tall, slim, spider-legged, shows you "Carl
Schurz, by Nast." Spies, well built, medium
height, light complexioned. good looking,
manly in his bearing, with his head upraised as
though proud of his young past, has a German
cast of features, yet far less handsome than
many of his countrymen in Quincy. Fielden is
a solid built heavily bearded German, evidently
always ready for anything the coming hour may
bring, be it victory or defeat. They suddenly
disappear beyond the double tier of cells- we
follow, Onihe inside of the heavy iron cage, it
self covered with a closely woven wire net
ting, sits Engel, looking like an honest, well-to
do, middle-aged mechanic, who would find no
time for anything but his daily work and the so
ciety of the pale, little, all motherly-looking
wife, who sat with her cheek pressed to the op
posite side of the cruel iron: a few feet further
on sat Parsons, the crankiest, most defiant look
ing of them all, and as we notice the large
dowdyish negress. his wife, who seemingly en
joys her surroundings, the unpleasant impres
sion Parsons has made increases There, at the
corner, standing as none of the others do, is a
tall, daintily formed girl, with a face
so sweet, aud pure and expressive,
so devoid of sensuality and sensation
alism, our fist closes and our muscles
harden as comes the desire to knock down the
good looking German who has “voudooed" Nina
Van Zandt One can but feel deepest indigna
tion, while thus surrounded, toward the parents
who would allow such a daughter, with such re
lationships and prospects, to tie thus sacrificed,
and our lips whispered a hope that they and
Spies may yet have to pay in some manner for
the injury done this girl.
Paganini’s Famous Violin.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Prof. M. H. Grist, the violin teacher at the
Maryland Institute for the Blind, contributes
the following interesting item to the Sun: "The
Cremona violins are the delight of connoisseurs.
Tuese remarkable instruments were made by
the Amatis, Stradivariuses and Guameriuses,
who resided in Cremona, Italy, between 15300 and
1736. Besides these most famous makers there
were others very highly esteemed, sueh as Gas
pard di Solo. Maginiand Bergonzi. Montaguani
excelled them all by his rich varnish and also
made some very fine violoncellos. About the
year 1820 Nicolo Paganini, the first great vir
tuoso of the violin, commenced his collection of
the famous instruments, to which reference is
made in this notice, and the discovery of one of
his violins in Baltimore gives fresh interest to
the subject. During his tour in France and
England this wondrous player succeeded in ob
taining seven of the finest violins to be got for
money. They consisted of one by Amati, two by
Stradivarius, one by Magini and three by Guar
uerius. The greatest favorite of these seven
instruments was the splendid specimen known
as ‘Guarnerius del Jesu,’ dated 1743, and is now
deposited in the museum at Genoa. The other
six instruments were presented to the finest
artists of Europe in 1840, viz: De Beriot. May
seder. Sphor, Molique. David ami Ernst. The
writer has endeavored to ascertain the where
abouts of these instruments, but has succeeded
in placing onlv two of them. The ‘Amati,’
given to De. Beriot, was sold in Paris about
twenty years ago to Dr. Frick, of Baltimore, at
whose death the violin and other musical in
struments were presented to the Maryland In
stitute for the Blind. Mr. Albert, of Philadel
phia, has lately repaired the ‘Amati.' and de
clares that two or three months’ practice on it
will develop its original grand tone."
Toddy from a Plant
From the Baltimore American.
Rain interfered with the exhibition of plants
yesterday in the Biddle street rink. The display
is very fine. Among the striking things that
meet the visitor's eye near the entrance is the
"toddy” plant, an eastern production about s
feet high, from the const*vatory of Mr. T. Har
rison Garrett. It has grown too large for Mr.
Garrett'B house and he has presented it to the
National Botanic Garden at Washington. A pe
culiarity of the plant Is that during the sup
season,"about two months in the year, a quart
of excellent toddy, with all the and dicioim intoxi
cating effects of the American y fixed drink, can
!h* drawn twice a day and enjoyed. When this
was know n many inquiries were made as to
whether the plant would grow in this latitude
with ordinary care An exjjert said it required
a warm climate, about the temperature of
India, for the tree to thrive. Several gentlemen
were sure sure money could la* saved by grow ing
the plant at home. It is believed if will l>e at
tempted by several who looked at the plant.
Gaining* or Losing a Day.
From Chambers' Journal.
In sailing round the world eastward the days
are each a little less than twenty-four hours, ac
cording to the speed of the ship, as the sun is
met with every morning n little earlier. These
little differences added together will amount in
the course of the circumnavigation to twenty
four hours, giving the sudors an extra day, not
in imagination, but in sober truth, as they will
have actually oaten an extra da;, s food and
consumed an extra day's grog. On the other
hand, in ailing westward, the Him is overtaken
a little each day, and so each day is rather
longer than twenty-four hours, and clocks and
watches are round to be too fast This also will
amount, in sailing round to the starting point
again, to one whole day, bv which the reckoning
has fallen iti arrears. The eastern ship, then,
has gained a day and the western ship lias lost
one, leading to tins apparent paradox, that the
former ship has a clear gain of two wfcoie days
over the latter, supposing them to have started
and returned together.
Chinese Method of Suicide.
IYom the San Francisco Chronicle.
When Wong Fat got back from the Morgue
he informed Lob Fun that the intelligence that
the rich pork butcher in the next block had been
assassinated by his poor relatives was some
what premature. It was a white mas who had
committed suicide by jumping off the Oakland
ferryboat.
**\Vlia fo Melican man jump alle time off fel
ly boat *: ’he asked of Loo Fun. "Him lose 15c..
take lide on boat. Wba fo him no jump off
wharf him nay nothin; plenty water seawall."
"Me no subbe."
“Melican man big foolee Chinaman heap
sabbe. Chinaman him likee die him go work
powlie mill, BcKclcy. B.vmeby mill blow up.
• 'hinaman cousins sue mill, say you pay me
$5,00u damage—be get two hundred lire away.
iJo back China. Tay joss sJo —ketchee w ife
have heap good time. Melican man no sabbe."
Revenue.
From the Century for November.
Revenge is a nuked sword—
It has neither hilt nor guard.
Wouldst thou wield this brand of the Lord:
Is thy grasp then Ann and hard ?
But the closer thy clutch of the blade.
The deadlier blow thou would’st deal.
Deeper wound in thy hand is made
It is thy blood reddens the steel.
And when thou hast dealt the blow—
When the blade from thy hand has flown—
Instead of the heart of the foe
Thou may'tft find it sheathed iu thiue uwul
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The Daily Dinner Horn is the name of anew
paper at Paris, Tex.
A Wisconsin man literally covered a cow with
notices of his wares, and then set her at large as
aa advertisement.
The Provincetown (Mass.) Grand Bank Fleet
have, as their total season's catch, taken 112,000
quintals, against 130,000 last year.
The oldest Consul in the United States in
point of service is thought to be Horatio J.
Sprague, who was appointed to the Consulate at
Gibraltar in 1846.
The Dominion of Canada is in debt to the ex
tent of $223.500,000, fully S3O per head of popu
lation. The Dominion debt has increased
$3,407,699 since June 1.
Queen Margaret, of Italy, has had capable
Jewish instructors, can read the Old Testament
in Hebrew with ease, and has collected a large
Hebrew library, with the latest works ou Jew ish
literature.
Mosquitoes in China have a very poisonous
sting. In a Tientsin hospital there were at one
time this summer a man with an abscess in his
face and another with blood poisoning from the
bite of the insects.
The Jackson (Mich.) police force, sixteen in
number, weighs 2,882 pounds, is 640 years old,
and 94 feet in height. Its feet are 320 inches in
length, it wears a .-fize 110 hat, and has 52<' but
tons on its clothing.
Of Miss Anna Earner, who died recently at
Bulltown, Ky., aged 105 years, it is told that she
never wore glasses, retained her memory unim
paired until death, and was not ill a single day
after reaching maturity.
A San Francisco man who refused to pay a
bill of $336 60 for twenty-two hours' work put
on his teeth, was sued by the dentist for the
amount. The court cut the charges down to
S7O, which the defendant willingly paid.
A Vassar (Mich.) barber has a baby ten
months old that caught a live mouse the. other
day and proceeded to eat it, hide, hoofs and
all. The squealing vermin was rescued, for
tunately, before the baby had succeeded in its
design.
The new dancing slippers have "Louis XV."
heels, with stitching round them. The hand
somest ones are merely foxed with kid or
leather, the vamps and quarters being of satin
to match the dress. The bronze foxing is epo
cially rich.
There is bad blood between whites and black*
in the neighborhood of Burdette. Washington
county, Mississippi, and several hostile encount
ers have taken place. In one of these E. A.
Sullivan and another white man, named
Delarue. were shot and seriously, though not
fatally, wounded.
A long-time close observer of the weather
in Cincinnati predicts a long and severe winter.
He bases his opinion on what he lays down as a
natural law, that early snows or early freezes
are a certain precursor of a severe and extended
cold spell. He also asserts that very severe
winters invariably follow excessively hot sum
mers. *
George Goodwin, while riding along in the
mountains near Wet more. Col., herding stock
and playing on a French horn, saw coming
toward him a coyote. He quickly dismounted,
still blowing the horn, ana .procured a club.
The wolf seemed unconscious of danger, and
allowed him to come so close that he killed it
with the club.
In Newark, 0., Friday last, while ex-Con
gressman and ex Supreme Judge lion. Gibson
Atherton was engaged in a lawsuit, he suddenly
lost his mind, and will have to be placed in an
insane asylum. He had an attack of paralysis
two years ago, and had been advised by his
physicians and friends to stop work, but would
not consent to do so.
In its efforts to find the true boundary line
between itself and Massachusetts. New Hamp
shire sent to the record office in London and
procured fac similes of the orders of the King
in Council and of the old maps and surveys.
These latter were compared with the recent sur
veys of a United States Engineer, and the two
were found to be almost identical.
Levi Painter, a California farmer, saw Ah
Cue, a Chinaman, helping himself to apples in
his orchard, and he fired a couple of charges of
birdshot into the heathen. Ah (’ue brought suit
against Painter, who was sentenced to pay $250.
He appealed to the Supreme Court, but the sen
tence was sustained, and Mr. Painter's shot cost
him, all told, about SI,OOO. Ten cents would
have paid for the fmit that Ah Cue had taken.
Virginia is the great peanut-bearing State,
and most of the crop is grown in the counties
south and east of Petersburg. After Virginia,
Tennessee and North Carolina produce the larg
est crops. In 18; 4 Virginia produced 225,000,
Tennessee 175.000. and North Carolina 60.00 >
bushels. In 1884, Virginia's crop was 1,250,000
bushels, Tennessee's 600.000, and North Caroli
na’s 150,000. The average yield is forty bushels
per acre; the average price $1 a bushel.
A representative of an exchange in a neigh
boring county recently met at a railroad station
a pretty child of about 4 years of age, whom he
found to be the daughter of a "car tracer."
The father stated that he was obliged to travel
through various sections of the country in
search of lost cars, and that the child had been
his companion in his journeys since she was
nine months old. She had never been sick, he
added, although constantly exposed to the many
changes incident to a life on the railroad.
At the Comstock silver mines in Virginia City
mining science has reached its highest point,
according to a San Francisco newspaper, which
says that they carry water down a vertical shaft
to the depth of 1,700 feet, and then gear it back
to the surface, running the gigantic mills by the
1,700-foofc pressure. When the plan was sug
gested to engineers of Europe they laughed at
it; but now it's a proved success, and furnishes
a power immeasurably greater and cheaper
than anything hitherto applied in mining.
The Monongahela (Pa.) Republican says: A
letter passed through the j>ost office this morn
ing from Green Center, lowa, ou the envelope
of which was printed: "Prepare to meet your
God," with the following inscription thereon:
"O. hurry me along at a rattling rate.
To Washington county aud Pennsylvania
State.
To Fallowfleld station, and there let me lay,
Till Ollic M. Win nett carries me away."
It would seem as if tin* St. Louis street car
companies would soon abandon the cable-trac
■ion and horses and adopt electrical motors
The only question as yet to be decided is which
of the motors will be contracted for. The street
car companies will demand from the electrical
people a guarantee that tile nlutors will work as
well at the end of the first >ear as they do at
the outset. The motor people are willing to put
tip the plants and guarantee that the cost of
running, as compared with horse-power, will be
only one-half.
A street FIGHT occurred between factory girls
at Paterson, N. ,1., Saturday night. Annie Klees,
a ring polisher, who lives on Bloomfield street,
Hoboken, has been annoyed for some time by a
number of girls as she came from the ferry who
would make audible remarks about her relations
with Charles Smith, a lemon peddler. These
girls, by a ruse, got Annie to go to a lonely spot
on Hoboken avenue where eight of them attack
ed her. The young woman had brought a raw
hide with her for safety, and by its vigorous use
soon routed the attacking party.
Harold dk Mi-rat, first officer of the Estalla
which sailed from Valparaiso to Puget Sound,
was on deck when a negro boy who was trying
to furl the mainsail was thrown overboard bv a
lurch of the vessel. Murat ordered the helm
put hard down and the long boat lowered
but the sea was so heavy that the men would
not oliej Then he alone cut away a light boat
jumped into and managed to reach the negro
who was fidO yards astern. He got him into the
boat, rowel back to the ship, helped him climb
the vessel s side and then completely exhausted
sank back in the boat, which at that Instant
was capsized. He went down and as never
seen again. e
An old lease on record in the Bergen county
(New Jersey) Clerk’s office is of interest as show
tng how Sunday liquor-selling was regarded in
the last century. The lease is dated Mays itss
and conveys from Kev. Ben jamin Vun der Linde!
pastor, and the elders and deacons of the Pnri
mus Reformed church, a half acre of land at a
road crossing next to the church to Robert Low
"theTlr V I,''",i' ,>:lrs V'" are t hat
the part) ol the second ptrt. his heirs and us
signa, from the commencement to the exnlru
tlonof the term aforesaid, keep or can re fc he
kept a decent, civil, and orderly house. no t sul-'
fermg any person or persons the -v:l tending
praetteeof playing at cards, raining at dice or
coppers, nor set an evil e>n ~p|.. u ,o S n
lng shoot,nc-match -s or -ock-fighting. !mr a , v
otln r £aiuo or games whatsom.-r; neither *hail
he she, nor they eel or retail, or suffer or came
cib of snmn' al ,‘, y ptrs, "‘- "‘Of than one-hulf
F* * [■ ■P'rituous liquor on the Sal, nth day be
foie divine service, nor sell or retail anv Honor
Whatsoever during the time of Silre Uvlw- 1
occasion. It is said that a deacon u-*
always on niard during service to s<* that
wus not utilized for utTwfffi lVt£
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