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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings—Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. A A.
M.: Workingmen's Benevolent Association: St.
Andrew's Society.
Special Notices— Boys' flats, at Jaudon's:
Wrestling Match at Turner Hall; Proclamation
by Mayor Lester.
Insurance—The Savannah Fire and Marine
Insurance Cos.
Holiday Goods— L. AB.S.M. H.
Auction Sale—Sale of House Effects, by J.
McLaughlin A Sou
Catholic FAJ*-For Benefit of St. Patrick's
Church.
Wholesale Grocers— Grady, DeLettre A Cos.
Direct Importation— Schreiner's Import
House.
Pianos and Oroans—L. AB.S.M. H.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; Board:
Miscellaneous.
Postmaster General Vilas has been a spe
cial object of Republican attack, but he
can afford to rest on his record. He has
made the postal service self-supporting —and
‘•the money talks.”
Were there ever a pair of trousers so im
portant as Mr. O'Brien’s? The base ruse of
the enemy to capture them by surprise has
cost the newspapers of this country many
dollars in cable tolls.
The New York World has sent a reporter
to find out its standing with the Sing Sing
convicts, and is pleased that it is very
popular with them. Newspapers generally
do not avowedly cater to that class, but it
is the World's boast that it is for every
body.
A Maine Republican paper says that Col.
Grant wa the only candidate who had :he
honor of Mr. Blaine’s indorsement. It per
haps did not know that the Republican can
didate for sheriff in Philadelphia received a
similar favor, and that ho, like Col. Grant,
ran far behind his ticket and was defeated.
Indorsements from that ource wiil hardly
be worth much hereafter.
It is stated that there are as many cattle
owned in small “bunches” by the farmers
of lowa as can be found in all the wide
range country east of the Rocky Mountains,
and that they are much more profitable
than are great herds to the cattle compa
nies. It will not be manv years liefore
lowa will not be the only State of which
this can be said, if it can be now.
There is a big newspaper scheme on foot
In Kansas City. It is said thut a syndicate
of rich men of that city, at the lua l of
which Is Dr. Morrison Munf id, of the Kan
sas City Times, has been formed to pur
chase the Si. Louis Republican, and make
it the basis of a eombinat iou of new- papers
which will have for its obje-t the control of
the Democratic party of the State It is
said that the syndicate has all the money it
needs to carry out its scheme.
Citizen George Francis Train hos kept his
promise and gone to St. John. He stopped
at Ban<or, Me., to make a final speech, and
predicted that in thirty days the country
would lie plunged in civil war. It is to lie
hoped that life in St. John will prove so
pleasant that Mr. Train will have no desire
to return. His country can very well spare
him, and newspaper renders need a rest
ft'om his lunatic ravings. His mouth has
of late been entirely too protuberant.
An Anarchist who delighted to extol Spies
and his gang in a Toledo iron mill was very
much surprised to find himself suddenly
hanging from a lamp post with a rope
around his neck. The workmen had be
came tired of his incendiary tirades. They
dia not hang him to death, but they came
very near it, and then nut him in a barrel
Mid rolled it down a hill. There are some
valuable suggestions in the course of pro
cedure adopted by these men, and its gen
eral adopt ion might have a happy effect.
A great change has come over the spirit
of Herr Most, the most ferocious in speech
of Anarchists. He threatens to me the New
York World because, as he says, it* report
df a recent speech slanders him. in attribut
ing to him violent language which he did
not use. A few short months ago the only
limit to Most’s violence was his ability.
The fate of the Chicago Anarchists is evi- j
dently having its effect. It might be inten
sified by sending this btooj-tuirsty disturlier
of the peace to the penitentiary, as the law
officers are said to be thinking of doing.
The New York Tribune reveals what it
a “si'amlalously corrupt plot" of Mor
mons and Democrats to s cure the admis
sion of Utah as a Stats-. A Mormon bishop
is represented as giving away the details in
an artless, child-like way which is refresh
ing in these days of secret political tracing.
Even Henry George can keep a secret of
that sort, and nobody likea to talk better
than he. Democrats arc not in need of the
vote of Utah, and the Mormons must trade
with the other side, which needs all the help
it can get, and would doubtless pay well for
it '
M. de Lcsseps gets a hard blow in the re
port of Senor Armoro, who represen ts Co
lombia on the Isthmus in its dealings with
the canal company. He shows that the re
ports by American engineers who have gone
over the ground were not unjust to the com
pany, and that it must soon fail if immense
sums of money are uot raised in addition to
those already spent. It is improbable that
this can be done. John law, whose Missis
sippi scheme almost bankrupted France,
will always live in French history, and it
looks now a* if Dc Lessops’ name will ul ways
Ve coupled with Law’s.
The Land Office Trouble.
Mr. Spark's connection with the General
Land Office has closed, and doubtless there
are not a few persons who are glad of it.
He is a very difficult man to get along with
and generally succeeds in making trouole
for those witli whom he has business or
official relations. He is a man of ability,
and. as far as the public knows, of integrity,
but he is overbearing and contentions. He
tainks that Ids way is the right way, and he
will not accept orders from his official
superiors unless the orders are such as meet
wdh his approval.
In his letter to the President, which ac
companied his resignation, he endeavors to
make it appear tliat the differences between
Secretary Lamar and himself related wholly
to questions of law, and not to authority,
and his statement of the case i* calculated
to create the impression that he has not
been dealt with justly. Doubtless he under
stands his ease just as he puts it, because
men 'ike him do not think it possible that
they can be wrong.
If the reports which are telegraphed from
Washington, however, are to lie relied upon,
Mr. Sparks was a source of annoyance al
most from the day he entered the Land Of
fice. He assumed at once that he knew
more aliout how the office should be con
ducted thau the Secretary, and looked upon
himself as responsible to the country for all
that was done in it. He seemed to aim at
making a reputation for himself as the de
fender of the rights of the “poor settler,”
and in pursuit of that aim he succeeded
quite effectually in/ obstructing business.
Secretary Lamar never said a word that
could be construed as unfriendly to him. al
though reports frequently reached him that
Mr. Sparks was speaking of his administra
tion of the Interior Department in a very
disparaging way.
The immediate cause of Mr. Lamar’s let
ter, telling Mr. Sparks that one or the
other of them would have to resign, was a
letter of Mr. Sparks’ to Mr. Lamar relative
to the land grant of the Omaha railroad.
Mr. Lamar gave Mr. Sparks written direc
tions for the adjustment of that grant, and
asked him if h: had any views to express
apon them. If be had none Mr. Lamar de
sired him to adjust the Omaha grant at
once in accordance with the act of Congress.
Mr. Lamar told him particularly not to
write him an official letter and sign it as
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
about the advisability of settling the grant
in accordance with the law and precedents,
because he did not want to receive such a
letter.
Mr. Sparks did not adjust the grant, but
he did write the very kiud of letter that
Mr. Lainar objected to. In it he reviewed
all the differences between Mr. Lainar and
himself, and of course tried to make it ap
pear that Mr. Lamar was in the wrong Mr.
Lamar at once concluded that it was time
for him or Mr. Sparks to go, and Mr.
Sparks has gone. The Secretary had
either to accept Mr. Sparks’ views on all
matters relating to public lands, or devote
his whole time to a correspondence with
him. As he was not disposed to do one
thing or the other, and a* he alone was re
sponsible for the act* of the department, lie
adopted the only honorable course that was
open to him. That the press and the pub
lic will generally sustain him there is no
doubt. The General Land Office will be
much more satisfactorily administered
without .Mr. Sparks than it was with him,
and none of the reforms contemplated by
the administration wiil be abandoned.
Mr. Thompson's Banking 1 fcheme.
It is admitted that the tariff an 1 currency
will occupy a large share of the attention of
Congress next winter. Tiie tariff is a con
stant subject of discussion; the currency a
periodical one. Just now the hankers of
the country, per'i ulariy of New York, are
having a good deal to say about the cur
rency.
John Thompson, Vice President of the
Chase National Bank, of York city,
has just puhll l.ed a jiapor in which he out
lines a plan for perpetualing the national
banking system. Ho insists that the country
hasn't enough currency,tha’ is,real money
coin. greenbacks and national bank notes.
Nine-tenths of the business transactions are
in checks, drafts and letters of credit.
Those become comparatively useless when
there is a panic, or a threatened panic, and
at such time real money becomes very
scarce, because it Is hoarded. How is the
country to get more currency?
Mr. Thompson says it can be obtained by
following his plan, which is as follows;
First. Permit the banks t o discontinue the
deposit of government bonds as security for
currency, and iu licit adopt the following:
Second. Make it legal for banks to obtain
currency from the Tree ttry Department of
50 per cent, on capital " ltd up.
Third. Give this issue of currency a pre
ferred lieu on the entire assets of the bank,
including the individual liability of stock
holders. in esse of insolvency.
Fourth. Divert the annual ntemal reve
nue tax of 1 per cent, per annum on circu
lation into an insurance fund to lie held in
the Treasury of the Unit ‘d States as a
guarani re for the redemption of any cur
rency which may fail to he redeemed under
the above preferred arrangement.
Mr. Thomjison would not repeal any of
the requirement* of the national hanking
act. He would simply amend the act as
above indicate and, and he fe.ls fissured that
the rational lianking system would become
a permanency, and it would afford a cur
rency thnt would lie accepted the world
over at par, and would be suf
ficient to meet every demand.
He thinks tiiat it would absorb the State
banks, and that the banking of the country
woul<yoeGOme almost uniform. He makes
the prediction thnt. if his plan is adopted
there will lie $500,000,000 of bank note cur
rency in circulation within three years, and
tint the guarantee tuud will amount to
$10,000,000.
The ban leers have plenty of schemes for
increasing the currency and improving the
National Banking system, and doubtless
Congress will hove a very choice lot of them
from which to make a selection. This one
of Mr. Thompson’s seems to have merit.
Onp day last week >0,710 was collected in
duties and penalties from eighty-six wom
en, passengers on a single vessel, who were
attempting to smuggle good* into this coun
try. Some old curmudgeon, not half so gal
lant as ho ought to bo, has said that women
have no sense of duty to the public, and this
wholesale seizure would go to prove that
he was right; but if men wore bustles
they might smuggle too.
Mr. Robert Lincoln says of Col. Grant’s
defeat that it ‘‘effectually disjioses of tho
proposed Lincoln and Grant ticket. The
heredity platform ia not strong enough fora
party to stand on.” Which goes to show
unit Mr. Lincoln inherit and a great part of
his father’s good common-sense and modesty.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1887.
The Fishery Commissioners.
There is no doubt that the Republican
leaders are hostile to the effort which the
administration is making to settle the fish
eries dispute. The Republican orgaus have
been insisting that the President was wholly
without authority to nppoint commissioners
to negotiate a treaty, and they now say
that the Senate will, in all probability,
refuse to ratify the treaty that may be
negotiated.
What the Republicans want is the en
forcement of the resolution adopted by the
last Congress, which authorizes the Presi
dent to employ retaliatory measures to com
pel Canada to grant to American fisher
men the same privileges which are granted
to American traders iu Canadian
waters. They know tliat the enforce,
meni of that resolution would re
sult in complications which would
injure the popularity of the administration,
and, consequently, of the Democratic party,
and that the Republican party would be
benefited by such a condition of affairs.
The administration, however, kuows what
it is doing, and is not likely to be pushed
into the position which the Republican lead
ers would like to have it occupy. It is true
that the Senate, at the la,t session of Con
gress, indicated its hostility to any effort to
secure another treaty with regard to the
Canadian fisheries, but the administration
is not bound by the attitude of the Senate.
Hamilton Fish, who was Secretary of State
during Gen. Grant’s administration, says
that, there is ample authority in the consti
tution for the appointment of commission
ers by the President to negotiate a treaty,
and that in appointing them
to settle the fisheries dispute he has not
exceeded his powers There is no better
authority on this matter than the ex-Secre
tary. and it is probable that there will be
no further question relative to the legality
of the commission.
It is true that the Commissioners will
have to be confirmed by the Senate, but it
i possible that they will have completed
their work before it will become necessarv
to send their nominations to the Senate for
confirmation. If their nominations should
be sent there, however, soon after Congress
meets, and they should lie rejected, it is
probable that the President would imme
diately nominate other commissioners t<>
carry on the work. The chances are
that the present commissioners will
not be disturbed and that they will nego
tiate a treaty.
Mr. Blaine’s Programme.
If the statements sent to this country by
European correspondents respecting the
effect which the result, of the recent elec
tions has had upor. Mr. Blaine are to be re
lied upon that eminent Republican., will not
be a candidate for the Presidential nomina
tion of his party next year. It may be.
however, that he has a purpose in letting
the impression get abroad that he proposes
to stand aside in 1888, and let some ot her
leader of his party have the non ination.
but reaiiy means to take it h.inself if he can
gut it.
liefore the elections this year his support
ers were sure that the result would show
Republican gains, particularly in New
York, and if it had they would have im
mediately said that Mr. Blaine should be
u uniri ted because all tliat would be needed
to insure success would be liis name at the
head of the ticket, und his magnetic man
agement of the campaign. The remit, how
ever, was against the Republicans, and
Blaine’s friends now insist that he alone can
save the Republican party from another
disastrous defeat next year. As an evidence
of his extraordinary popularity they point
to the fact that he ran within a thousand
or so votes of Mr. Cleveland in New York,
while Col. Fred Grant, who led the Repub
lican ticket in that this year, was
beaten by nearly 20,0 K.I votes.
It inav be assumed as certain tliat until
the result of this year’s elections were
known Mr. Blaine intended to be the Re
publican candidate for President next year,
but tliat now, having grave doubts about
tiie ability of bis party to elect him, he is
uncertain what course to pursue, and will
be guided by events that will occur before
the meeting of the national convention.
His confidential friend, Mr. John H.
Alley, of Massachusetts, who is in Europe
with him, is reported a* saying that Mr.
Blailib will not be a candidate next year,
but will enter the Senate from Maine, and
will seek the Presidential nomination of his
party again in 1892. He will only be (il
years old then, and a* he is in vigorous
health now he may succeed in carrying out
this programme. The chances that he will
ever reach the P esideucy, however, are de
cidedly against him.
The Leader, edited by the notorious Col.
Hinton, which has professed to lie tiie organ
of organized labor in New York, in its Fri
day's issue had a number of paragraphs on
the execution of the Anarchists, of which
the following is a fair specimen: “Ameri
cans, drap- your once glorious stars and
stripes in mourning t They are disgrace-1,
polluted, spat upon by the vermin
which now controls your c lU.itrv!”
In another column is found the following
announcement: “The Leader is kill'd by
the indifference of workingrn n. After a
year of struggles and hardship-, of every
kind, the Leader is compelled to temporari
ly suspend its publication.'’ This looks like
another case of cause and effect. The
Leader, whatever its pretenses, evidently
did not represent the workingmen, and they
would not support it.
A great deal has lieen said in the newspa
| pel's about the remarkable vessels to be
built by the Arrow Steamship Company, at
.Alexandria, Va. It was confidently pre
dicted that they would revolutionize marine
architecture. The New York Herald now
prints a long expose, which shows that the
company is a fraud, the Pocahontas, so soon
to he launched, a myth, and the whole
scheme a gigantic swindle, by which a few
men were growing rich. There was never
any intention of building a vessel. If the
Herald's allegations can he proved, the
[ men it accu-es cannot be put behind the
bars of a jail too soon.
The liohigh coal strike is aliout to enter a
new phase. About 70,000 Knights of Labor,
railroad men and others, propose to boy
cott all merchants whose goods are handled
by the Lehigh road. The result will be
watched for with interest. It is hard on
the merchants, who have nothing to do with
the quarrel, thnt they should be beaten with
the boycott club in order that the railroad
company may be crippled.
Ex-Senauir Conkling mode a speoch of
cnly twenty-five minutes before the Su
preme Court to earn the fee of SIO,OOO paid
him by Virginia, and his effort is said to
have lieen a very poor one. Virginia evi
dently made a very poor investment.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Anything to Gamble With.
>Vom the Chicago Tribune (Rep.)
Jay Gould is in Paris. If the French crisis
ha* Any negotiable value, and is tor sale, it will
b-iu Mr. Gould's pocket before be leaves the
city.
A Happy Result of the Ohio Election.
From the Missouri Republican (Dem.)
There is no denying the fact that Tuesday's
election made Foraker a bigger man than Sher
man in Ohio. Even for small favors of this
kind the country has cause to be grateful.
A Place Where Sparks Would be
Useful.
From the Philadelphia Record 1 Dem.'i
Commissioner Sparks upon retiring from his
present office should tie made Surveyor of the
Territory of New Mexico. Sparks would be a
good man to wrestle with Stephen W. Dorsey
and his cowboys.
BRIGHT BITS.
•'Now. how mill I do with this wedding cake
to dream on it?” asked a gushing damsel of a
matter-of-fact young man.
• lust eat it, that's a.l.' was the reply,— Wash
ington Critic.
Old Lady—-I'm sorry to bear a little boy use
such shocking language. Do you know what
becomes of little b lys who swear*
Urchlq—Yes'm. i>e v gits ter be boss car
drivers. -TUI-Bit*.
Edison says that only one-fourth of a ton of
coal is used. The rest goes up the chimney. It
is well tiiat Edison lias settled this question, for
we had been led to believe that the three-quar
ters not burnt went off with the wagon.—Bos
ton. Transcript.
Willing to Accommodate.—Miss Sangbleu (to
coachman, who Is actually crowding her out of
the earn—Patrick. 1 wish you would have the
kindness to move.
Green Coachman—Yes, Miss. Which way,
hlissl--Harvard Lampoon
Bulgaria is said to be overrun with armed
bands. The Bulgarian band has the reputation
of being w orse than any we have in the back
towns of New England, and if they aid not go
armed the people would fall upon the trombone
min and stuff liis horn with old boots.—Bur
linyton Free Frees.
Bunks— Ah: How de do, Jenks? Becoming
famous, I see.
Jenks—Well, my name has been in the papers
a good deal lately.
"So 1 have noticed. How do you like It ?”
“It makes no change in my daily life except
that my mail is overburdened with liver pad
circulars.''— Omaha World. •
"What are you going to do with that gun,
Hal?"
"What am I going to do with it? Don't you
see the tramp iu my patch? - ’
"Yes; but you surely am t going to give it to
him are you?”
"Oh no. iam merely going to let him have
charge of it.”— Yonkei i Gazette.
"CLARENce,” exclaimed his mother, “come to
me quickly, dear. How pale you are. How
strangely "you look. You are ill. 1 smell to
bacco. Oh, Clarei.ee, you have a tobacco
heart.”
Clarence shook his head and gasped feebly.
"Nome, ' he said, moving away in the direction
of the lonelv cov. barn, "nome. tain t my
heart.” And with white compressed lips, he
was gone behind the barn: not l ist but gone lie
hind: though lost to sight, to memory and other
faculties qtute altogether perfectly audible.—
.Vent York Tribune.
“And so you are going to be married?”
“Yes: and 1 am so happy: 1 love Charles
with my whole heart."
"Has he any property?"
•Vi n. I believe so. And as he isn't very well 1
permitted him to make a will in my favor."
"Very good in him. I'm sure, lint you have
some property of jour own? Have you willed
that to Charles?”
"What a ridiculous idea: Of course not; but
I've fixed il so that he can t get hold of it.”—
Boston Transcript.
First Easterner—l guess you remember me.
We met in Los Angeles.
Second Fasterner-I remember you perfectly.
You are the good arigel who sold me a corner
lot on which 1 made a small fortune. 1 sold tliat
lot for JOU.UUO. You know X only paid you ®30,-
00(1 for it.
“ Yes. and as you did so well. I don't mind con
fessing that riohrlv all that $30,000 was clear
profit. I bought that lot fur a couple of hun
dred dollars. By the way, wliat became of the
man volt sold toy"
"Tin: last 1 heard of him he was in the alms
house."—Omaha World.
Vigilance tiie price of big profits. Omaha
man—See here. I u durst and the fruit canning
trust proposes to advance prices.
Fruit Can Baron—Yes. it is necessary.
‘The crops were good enough, weren't they?”
“Yes, crops were fair.’"
"Been no advance in the price of tin, has
there?"
No. tin is cheap.”
“How's solder?"
"Unchanged ”
"Then what under the canopy are you going
to advance prices for?”
"We are afraid the Job printers’ strike in Chi
cago will iiioren-e the cost of nextyearislabela.”
—Omaha World.
PERSONAL.
George Francis Thais spent $20,000 to secure
a pardon for the executed Anarchists.
Senator Ingalls’ much talked-of-novel, a
satire on Washington life, is said to he almost
ready for publication.
Mbs. Laiuhton. of Washington, has presented
her daughter. .Mrs. I)? Pedros, nee Bcrghmann,
with an income of $38,000 a year.
Mrs. Brown Potter ha* a souvenir from the
Prince of Wales in the shape of a diamond
prudunt representing the Prince's crest, three
feathers
It is declared that Secretary Bayard is not
even acquainted with the lady to whom heedless
rumor is trying to marry him within a year of
his wife's death.
The funeral of Sarah E. Williams, of Doug
button, L. 1., on Sunday, woe at'ended bv her
son. aged s years, and seventeen grandchildren.
She as 90 years old.
Pol. Fr.rn Grant telegraphed to the Hon.
Fred Cook, his successful opponent for I lie Sec
retaryship of State: “Accept my congratula
tions upon your election.”
The building for the Ramona Indian Girls’
School at Santa Fe. .V >!.. commemorating
Helen Hunt Jackson, will cost $30,000, being
arranged to accommodate 150 pupils.
C’apt. William P. Black, one of the counsel
for the Chicago Anarchists, who delivered an
oration over their graves, is a brother of Uen.
Black, the Commissioner of Pensions.
Fcrd. McCavit, a Titusville telegrapher, made
tho fastest time on record in New York Wednes
day. sending rifty eight words a minute for
forty-six minutes, a total of nearly 2,700 words.
\ genuine sensation was caused in Sheix <v
/an. \VI, r-i entlv by the announcement of the
urn i r'ii'. -of Mr Joseph Keller, aged 72 years,
to Miss Mary Bauckneclit, of Manitowoc, Wls.,
aged 18.
A poem by Thomas Hood was published for
the first time in a recent number of Murray's
Magazine, it was written for the Islington
Literary Society and read at their tint meeting
in October. I*2o, when Hood, then 22, was Presi
dent of that organization.
Arthur W. Du e. iv Brooklyn man. who dis
appeared in 1830. left behind him a will which
was tak-n into the courts for probate. \s it was
proved that lie had threatened to terminate hi
life, tie has been judicially pronounced dead,
which ivi!! make ir extremely awkward for him
if he should turn up.
Mi:f,:i Maibob \li Khan is the signature of the
Nyzam of Hyderabad's letter to the Anglo-
Indian government sending $-3,000,000 for from
tier defenses. The Prince concludes his com
munication with these words: “This is my offer
in the time of peace. At a later stage you can
count upon my sword.”
Hono Yen C’hano, Esq., is iho firs'. Chinese
lawyer, it is believed, to bs arimiit *d to practice
in this country. Mr. Chang, who is a graduate
of the Columbia Uw School, was admitted las!
week, in New York, and though he is free to ac
cumulate a general practice, will with the pro
fesaional f-How feeling make a specialty of his
countrymen's legal interests.
Warren C. Aiida, who has been elected to
Congress from Rhode Island, commenced work
ing for a living when only S years old in a cotton
null. He remained there ten years, acquiring
in the meantime a good common school educa
tion. After seven years spent in storekeeping,
he engaged in cotton manufacture, from which
he acquired a considerable fortune.
By the death of David Mahoney Washington
loses an interesting character. For the last
quarter of a century Mahoney has been William
McGarralian's backer in the latter's fight in
Congress to establish his olaim to the New Idria
Quicksilver Mines, the richest mines of their
kind in the world. Mahoney and McUorrahan
were inseparable companions. Both had known
what it was to be worth millions, and lioth had
suffered poverty. Mahoney owned Crystal Lake,
San Francisco, and because he would not. accent
$,.',500,000 which the city offered him for it he
died poor. He thought the lake worth more
than the amount offered, and his pride would
nut allow him to accept it.
MAN'S LOVE FOR A HORSE.
Jerry May Have Been Tough, but He
Had One Soft Bpot In His Heart.
Prom the Ch icago Journal.
‘ Your little story about Judge Randall
White's purchase of Charley Ford, Jerry Mon
roe’s old racer, reminds me of an incident that
occurred the other day, in which the three men
tioned were interested," said a friend of mine
yesterday. "Jerry has figured for so many
years as a dive-keeper, an owner of gn me cocks
ami a patron of the dog pit that public opinion
of the old man has given him a hard name and
a desperately immoral character. He may have
been brutal in his taste.-,, and hardened through
contact with the depraved inmates of the noto
rious resort of which he was proprietor, but
Jerry had one soft spot in his flinty old heart,
and that was for the aged white horse he sold
the other day to Judge White. When old Char
ley was in his prime Jerry was offered SI7,(KM for
him. but refused it, and remarked at the time
that he did not think money could buy him.
Back in the rear of his State street dive, just off
from the room in which were caged some of the
best bred game chickens in the country. Monroe
had provided a big box stall, warm as toast, and
the floor of which was ulw-ays covered with sev
eral inches of clean yellow straw. Here the old
horse had the best of everything. Jerry never
being without a lump of sugar for him when he
went to the stall. Upon the evening of the day
when he sold the horse to Judge White, Jerry
went into the little saloon at the corner of
Twenty-fifth and State streets, and resting his
head upon his hands at the little table which
stood behind a pile of ale boxes in the corner,
cried like a woman, the tears running down his
iiar lened fac ■ until it was wet with a moisture
it hail not known for years. The other afternoon
Judge White took the horse from his stable and
drove to his house on Wabash avenue, beyond
Twenty fifth street, where he hitched him and
entered the house The day was chilly.and the old
horse shivered a bit in the cold wind as Jerry
happened to pass. A look almost of tenderness
came over the old dive-keeper's face, and this
deepened as the aged trotter whinnied when he
felt his former master's hand upon his neck.
Jerry glanced at the house, and when the Judge
himself appeared at the door in answer to
Jerry's ring, said: 'Excuse me, Judge, hut the
old horse is out there uncovered. He ain’t used
to it, Judge, and he's getting old. like. I know
he's your horse now, but say. Judge, I'd rather
take off my overcoat and cover the old fellow
with it than to see him shiver another minnte.'
The big-hearted Judge smiled, and going into
the house cam * out with a wool blanket, which
he threw over the old racer's back. ‘Thank'ee,
Judge.' said Jerry, 'I didn't want ter interfere
nor nothin', but old Charley was my pet, and
I'd go huugry to day to give him a square
meai,' You see," concluded my friend, “it is a
stony bearr, indeed, that has not one tenderspot
for something or somebody.”
A Game Littie Irishman.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“Did you ever hear about the adventure Char
lie Mitchell had in Leadville a few years ago?”
remarked a venuer of shoes on Clark street the
other day, "and how he got fooled by a little
sawed-off miner there? No? Well, I’ll tell you
about it. Hilly Madden was managing Charlie
Mitchell then and the pair had been meeting
with great success all through the country. Ar
riving at Leadvilie Madden offered, as usual, to
give the sum of SIOO to any man who would
stand before Mitchell four rounds. Among the
miners there was a little man named Mike Hays,
who had the reputation ot being a pretty tough
man to get away with, and he was egged on by
his friends to attempt the feat, and finally con
sented to do so.
" He can't knock me out w ith a club,' he
said confidently, as he walked onto the stage.
"The theatre was crowded, and probably in
the whole crowd them were not 'ten men who
believed that Hays would succeed in his under
taking as he stood before Mitchell in an awk
ward attitude with his gloves on and seemed
almost Hire a dwarf. Mitchell played with him
for a few moments, and then his right shot out.
catching Hays under the ear and knocking him
dear into the scenery in tile further corner. No
one expected to see him come up again, blit
come up he did. and smiling, too. as the sport!
ii;g reporters have it. Time and time again did
Mitchell knock him down, and just as often did
he turn up ready for more. Mitchell grew more
and more vicious at every faiiure, and during
tlie last round lie knocked the little follow all
around the stage like a shuttlecock, but when
the round was over little llays was still on deck,
and, marching proudly off when the fight was
over, he said:
“ ‘Begorra, he kicks like a mule, that fellow
does, an’l'll bet right now bis hands is sorer
than me head, and me head is pretty sore at
that.’
"Madden promptly paid over to Hays that
SIOO that he had won, and so pleased was he
with the little Irishman s gameness that lie
bought him a handsome suit of clothes besides
it was a long time, however, before Mitchell
could use his hands again, he having knocked
them out of all shape against Hays’ cocoanut.”
The Maid and the Highwayman.
From Texas Siftings.
It was a giddy, gushing girl from New York,
with an amplitude of bang and a scarceness of
vocabulary, which showed at once her romantic
tendencies. She was traveling in a stage coach
iu one of tlie sparsely settled regions of the
country. "Oh 1” she said to her mother. “I do
wonder whether we are going to make this
whole trip without even the sign of an adven
ture. Wouldn't it be horrid.”
Her mother informed her that she didn't have
much common sense, but the girl didn't seem to
mind it in the least. In the course of the next
hour, however, the coach stopped suddenly and
the muzzle of a pistol was shoved through the
door.
"Sorry to trouble you, ladies," said the man
whose head followed the pistol, “but if you've
got any valuables, them's wliat we want, an’
we're it little pressed fur time.”
"Oh, Mamma, at last we have found a real
highwayman,” said the girl with a delighted
shriek.
"You’re a real live robber, aren't you?”
"Well. I reckon that's what I’m called.”
" And you tell people to hold up their hands,
and say,' 'your money or your life' to them don't
you?”
"I liev done so. Miss. But I ain’t got no time
ter talk I'll have to ask—”
"How lovely! Just come right in and sit here
beside me."
"Ye gee, Miss, I'm here on business, an' I'll
trouble you—"
“No you won't trouble us at all. Just come
in. wo won't hurt you. I just dote on robbers.”
The bighwiivmun had dropped his pistol and
was beginning to look apprehensive.
"Do you have to goaway and rob somebody ?*’
she inquired naively. I hope you will not run
away, because I am just beginning to get ac
qm; iiited with you. lulu ays said I would hug
the first real robber I—”
But the stage door slammed shut and the
higuwayiiian had fled.
The Old South.
Shall Halid n aud Oeey live,
Emblaz'd by hand of Mars,
And Roland's name and valor flame
Immortal an the stars:
Shall Hellas old and Hellas new
Grow grander thro’ the years.
And this fair pageant fad", uway
As mist that disappears i
And milder scenes that lie beyond
The earthquake w aste of war
When proud traditions wrought their end
Beneath a fav’riug star.
And that fair flower of knightly grace
I- lash'd joyance on the day.
Till glowed again the lights of old
| In dreamland far away.
Immortal names like blotted suns,
Must perish in that and ath
And spirits, still our nations boast.
Must yield their God-like breath
And all too soon that certain doom
Come swiftly moving on.
As come it must—our nation's dearth—
When dies great Washington!
Let perisli hate and feudal pride,
Onr old ancestral foes,
And o'er their waste let union rise
As erst the ocean rose
Above our hdls and unform'd plains
With shoreless swell and high.
Till slept the fire in cratered depths—
So let our passions die!
The new is but the old renewed
And come to higher state.
Resurgent froni a fiery grave
And quick with life innate.
To fate's dim prescience pass the false,
But heaven sliall keep the true!
Then, dollied and crowned, old South, all ball!
And hail—thrice hail, the New!
— H. it Duliose in Dallas Newt.
A Girl Who Eats Paper.
From the Boston Oazette.
There Is a young lady of this city who Is very
much addicted to eating paper. Every clean
speck of this article that comes in her way is
immediately put in her mouth. She happened
to be in a counting room the other day, and
after she had <k‘|>arted the gontleman missed a
check that he had made out that morning and
laid upon his desk. It woo sought for high and
low, but could not be found, and. finally, as a
last resort, a messenger was sent to the fair
caller to ask if sne had seen it She returned
answer at. follows; "Pear Mr. Blank: There
was a nice smooth, shiny piece of palter in front
of me in your office aud 1 ate it. Could it have
been that s'’ 5 '’ The itaymon of the check was
stopped, though this proceeding was deemed
IUIMWH7.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tux dome of the new Texas capitol is thought
to be unsafe, a crack having appeared in it.
The structure towers 30(1 feet above the ground.
Joseph Snyder, residing near Little York, is
the smallest voter in New Jersey. He is 22
years old, weighs 73 ponnds, and is 39 inches
high-
The Sultan of Morocco has been tormented by
a revolt in his har -m. and forty of his majesty s
ladies have been distributed among officers of
his guards.
Diphtheria is reported so bad in Clearfield,
Pa., that the public schools have lieen closed.
The low stage of water in Clearfield Creek is
blamed as the cause of the epidemic.
The gamblers of East Saginaw, Mich, tried to
present a silver tea servive lo a police sergeant.
The officer refused the gift, and ras since been
raiding the gamblers to set himself right with
the public.
The congregation at morning service in Can
terbury cathedral, England, the other day con
sisted of one person. This is said to be an un
paralleled circumstance, the smallest congrega
tion hitherto having been four.
What do Protestant Episcopalians think of
the statement, by the Rev. Dr. Norton, that the
average yearly contributions to the cause of
missions by converted h<-athens is $1 50. and the
average contribution of Episcopalians in the
United States 7J4c.?
In Boone county, West Virginia, forest fires
have caused such an unnatural beat in the at
mosphere that the trees are budding and put
ting out new leaves and blossoms. In pi ces
where tlie fires have been raging the thermome
ter has marked 90°.
An Iroquois (Dak.) man has rigged up a prairie
yacht, in which he is said recently to have trav
eled eighteen miles In an hour and a half. The
yacht consists simply of an ordinary road
wagon, to which sails and a steering apparatus
have been attached.
David Foster, an old man who was pardoned
from a life sentence ten years ago, and who re
turned to the Michigan State prison recently
with the request that he be allowed to spend the
remainder of his days there, is now temporarily
boused, but there is no authority for keeping
him.
A gang of tie choppers in Colorado recently
saw two large buck deer engaged in deadly
combat on the side of a mountain, near Trini
dad. The animals' horns had become locked
together so that the men had no difficulty in
approaching and killing the deer with their
axes.
There is a hotel In Arkansas where the rooms
are designated by names of cities and States.
"Here, front, show this gentleman to New Or
leans. take a pitcher of ice water to Minnesota,
see wbat that man in Boston wants, and make
a fire in Chicago,” is a sample of wnat one hears
in the office.
A man with a load of hay attempted to go
through a toll-gate near Brockville, Canada, but
the gate was too narrow. The toll-keeper then
pulled down the fence and the load was taken
through the hole. On being asked to pay Un
usual toll the driver refused on the ground that
he liad not passed through the gate.
Heajine, traveling among the Indians, was
asked by a friendly chief for a charm against
bis enemy. Hearne wrote some words and
made some marks on a piece of paper. Tne
Indian took care that the facts should come to
his enemy's ears, and the "brave” in question
forthwith sickened and died, having been killed
by bis imagination.
TnE old fence on the Yale College grounds,
which has been known to students for years as
a favorite lounging spot, is not to be demolishes
as had been intended. The situation of the new
recitation and lecture building, for whose erec
tion it was to give way. has been changed by
the college corporation so as to allow of the old
fence remaining.
When William Lawrence was arrested in Chi
cago the other day for obtaining money under
false pretenses he had a long flowing moustache.
When he was taken from his cell to court even
the policeman hardly recognized him. He had
sharpened one edge of his watch case, and with
it shaved off his moustache, hoping thus to
escape identification.
Mas. Frank Seacoy, a poor woman in a Ne
vada village, had her well cleaned, and her
chickens scratched over the gravel and dirt that
came out. A few day - afterward she killed one
of them and in its crop was a piece of gold as
big as a bran. Mrs. Seacoy at once located a
mine in her well, and asks a big price for her
hitherto modest property.
A St. Lons man teds as the truth that he saw
a large blacksnake catch a rabbit and swallow
it and then crawl part way through a fence and
catch another rabbit. Having swallowed the
second morsel the snake could not crawl back
ward or forward, the hole in the fence being
too small to allow the rabbits to pass. In that
position the snake was killed.
One hundred and sixty head of metinoshei p
were forwarded to New York from Vermont
this week, for shipment to Australia They
were gathered from various parts of the State,
and are pronounced the finest specimens ever
exported from Vermont, each animal being
valued at from SSO to SSOO. They are intended
to be used for breeding purposes.
One of the most successful missionaries in
Oroomiah is a blind Armenian from Harpool,
Turkey. He knows the Bible thoroughly, and
riding on a miserable little donkey, which is led
by a one-eyed deaf man. he goes boldly from
village to village preaching the gospel. His
blindness protects him. and the people crowd to
see the wonder—a blind man reading.
Queen Victoria's fancy for the highland
dress has brought it into the highest fashion.
As soon as she goes up to Balmoral every ser
vant is at once put in kilts. As for tlie royal
princes, they are extremely fond of the high
land costume, and even that round faced Ten
ton, Prince Henry of Battenberg, comes out as
a bare legged highlander. They all wear the
Stuart tartan.
The electric light fluctuates in popularity in
London, according to a correspondent writing
from there. •It has been abandoned at most of
the restaurants where It at one time flamed, has
been adopted by many of the clubs, has been
very little accepted by West End shopkeepers,
and is tieing gradually introduced in the thea
trex, though it is giving so much trouble in the
latter that they may give it up.”
Idaho newspapers are calling attention to the
fact that the Lemhi Indians are slaughtering
deer by wholesale, just for the hides. They
form a circle covering miles of country, and
drive the deer toward a common centre, gener
ally a deep ravine, and do their work so thor
oughly that almost every animal started within
the outer circle is killed. The authorities are
asked to put a stop to this slaughter.
An Ohio preacher visiting in Boston asked a
bright woman there about her religious belief.
He was shocked to find that she didn't seem to
have any. “How can you be happy without
faith?" he asked. "Doesn't your woinanly
nature demand a belief in something?” "Oh,
yes.” she answered, "and I give absolute belief
to eacli Boston craze as long as it lasts, and that
not only sat sfles the demands of ray womanly
nature for faith, but also for variety.”
Con Jack Haverly is keeping out of the
newspapers just now, but his busy brain isn’t
idle. The scheme to which he is giving his at
tention now is to form a theatrical syndicate
which shall build three magnificent theatres
one in S'. Paul, one in Minneapolis, and one in
Omaha; and he (Mr. Haverly) shall manage
them. It is said that he has succeeded in get
ting some of the richest men in the Northwest
interested, and is as likely as not to develop his
project.
The London Live Stock Journal says that in
England conflicts between horses and bulls are
not uncommon and are usually disastrous to the
horses. A liery colt often chases cattle m the
pasture, biting t hem as they run: but when he
tackles a bull the latter usually won't nm, but
charges the colt broadside arid often kills him
Having come off best once, the hull thereafter is
apt to charge horses that arc grazing quietly'
It is never safe to leave any bull in a past ure
with horses.
The latest “fad" of a wealthy young man of
Larchmont, reports the Boston Herald, is hunt
ing sparrows with trained falcons. He has half
a dozen falcons and travels around with them in
a bottle-green hunting suit. The falcons, wh* n
liberated, swoop down on the innumerable spar
rows of the vicinity with great voracity The
presence of the destroyers has driven nearly all
the birds from the neighborhood, and the local
huntsmen complain that there is nothing to
shoot now but sparrows.
The counsel for two brothers of the narao of
Murray, who were convicted of burglary in Da
kota recently, have explained why they did not
permit the prisoners to testify in their own be
half. In their statement to their counsel they
averred that their father was German and their
mother Irish, and that they were born in tins
country, but their mother had never been iu
America. In view of the seeming luck of har
mony in these statements, it was deemed better
to not put the prisoner* iu peril of u cross
examination.
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