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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT
Mketingb- The Hibernian Society; Savannah
Volunteer Guards Battalion; Zerubbabel Lodge
No. 15, F. £A. M.; Live Oak Lodge No. 3, I. O.
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J. F. Oann; Notice to Water Takers; As to
Crew of British Steamship Rydal Water: Silk
Quilt for Raffle at Dr. Yonge’s Hall To-night.
Amusements— Cora Van Tassell and “The
Little Sinners," at the Theater Oct. 17; Annual
Gala Week at Charleston. S. C„ Nov. 4 to 9.
Alabama Borr Coal— D. R. Thomas.
Clothing. Etc.— Appel & Schaul.
Btcamssip Schedule— Ocaan Steamship Co
mpany.
Furnaces, Stoves, Etc.— James Douglass.
Bosses and Mules— At Kentucky Stables.
Parisian Bonnets. Etc.— ilme. Desbouillons.
Auction Sales— Sundries, by J. McLaughlin
£ Son.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; E nployinent Wsnted; For Rent; For
Sale; Lost; Found; Personal; Miscellaneous.
Gov. Hill will receive a hearty welco ne
from Gao. giaus, who like a man who isn’„
afraid to stand up and say, ”1 am a demo
crat.”
According to some reports, the Mormons
have abandoned p ilygamy. The frequency
with which they abandon it is only equaled
by the tenacity with which they cling to it.
It was 397 years ago last Saturday that
Christopher Columbus discovered America.
He sailed from Suain Aug. 3, 1493, and on
Oct. 12 he made his great discovery. The
world’s fair of 1892 wiM show what has
been done in America since then.
The President's friends are still trying to
explain why I dianapolis went democratic
last week. They are determined not to
admit that the President’s unpopularity had
much to do with the result, aud until they
do, their explanations will not explain.
The Memphis Appeal says that the south
is prosperous and is blessed with immense
crops. The crops in the south are excellent
this year, and in a short time the Appeal
will be able to say with confidence that the
south is the most prosperous part of the
country.
A London cablegram says that it is a
mistake to suppose that Prince Hatzfeidt,
who is engaged to Miss Huntington, is as
poor as a church mouse. To at is to say,
the prince is unable to pay his bills just
now, but he will come into considerable
property when Uls mother dies.
Chicago is working harder than New
York to get the world’s fair, aud her guar
antee fund is much larger. It is probable,
however, that New York will come in ahead
on the home stretch, and ia that event
Chicagoans might use their guarantee fund
to pay their hotel bills in New York.
Tbe Boston Admrtiser thinks that the
industrial prosperity of the south is only
temporary. The Advertiser is one of those
republican newspapers which can never see
anything to praise in the south. If it lives
long enough, it will eventually find more
industrial activity in the south than in any
Other part of the country.
Ex-Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, it is
reported, expects to sail from England to
morrow. When he returns he will explain,
doubtless, a good many things which stand
in need of explanation. There appears to
be a very general desire in Louisiana to
give him a fair chance to clear himself of
the charges made against him.
The New York Tribune thinks that it
was in very bad taste for Gov. Hill to refer
favorably to tariff reform m his speech of
welcome to the Three Americas delegates,
but it sees nothing improper in Mb. Blaine’s
attempts to convert the delegates to high
protection. When the Tribune doesn’t
want to see a thing, it can shut its eyeß as
tightly as any other republican organ.
Perhaps snobbery is carried to a greater
excess in E gland than in any other
country. When the august spouse of the
Prince of Wales became lame, the snobs
affected tbe “Alexandria limp,” and now
that the Prince of Wales has become
afflicted with varicose veins, heavy-ribbed
stoekings, imitative of that deformity, are
oomiug into fashion. W hen tbe pri nee dies,
possibly the saobs will commit suicide, and
if they do, nobody will sustain much loss.
Repubhca-n organs are using Gen. Chal
mers’ withdrawal for all it is worth. The
Chicago Tribune, for instance, says that
free speech is denied in pi. Very
few people fall to comprehend that Cbal
mers never did intend to remain in the
field. Ho wanted the nomination as an aid
to bis efforts to control federal appoint
ment* m Mississippi, and to bis contest for
a seat in congress. Tbe republican organs
i overshoot tbs mark whan they try to make
[ political capital out of tbe matter.
A Trial Full of Sensations.
The Cronin case promises to he the most
sensational criminal case ever before the
courts of America. Interest in it is not
oo.,final to this country. It is attracting a
great deal of attention in England. Weeks
have been occupied in the effort to get a
jury, and the jury box is not yet full, und
is not likely to be for many days. When
the jury is completed the chances are that
it will be found that someone or more of its
members are suspected of favoring one side
or the other so strongly that an attempt
will be made to reconstruct it.
Before tbe jury has beeu obtained the
ease has furu.s el a great sensation. It
has been discovered that the prosecuting
attorney’s office has been robbed by one of
its trusted empl yes of papers bearing upon
the case of the most valuable character, and
also that attempts have been made to bribe
men, summoned as jurors, to acquit the
defendants, if they should succeed in getting
on the jury. Half a dozen or more persons
of more or less prominence have beeu in
dicted for these offen-es, and still others
may be icdicied. The Cronin case, there
f< ire, although fche ti ial of it has only begun,
has furnished material for half a dozen
other cases, and may furnish material for
many more.
Dr. Cronin was not a very important in
dividual during his life, but his name has
become known to t e whole civilized world
since his death. The theory of the state is
that he was the victim of a great conspiracy,
and that those who murdered him were the
instruments of a political organization
which wields extraordinary power.
The prosecution declares that it has wit
nesses to sustain its theory. If it has, thore
are more seusati"ns in store for the public.
Men whose names have not been mentioned
in connection with the case, except ia whis
pers, may find themselves occupying very
unpleasant positions.
From the moment that it was discovered
that Dr. Cronin had disappeared the im
pression seemod to get abroad that a crime
had beeu committed that was altogether
outside of the ordinary run of criminal
cases, and when his body was found in a
sewer this impression became a firmly
rooted conviction. Subsequent develop
ments have fully sustained the early specu
lations with regard to tbe crime.
Put Them Under Ground.
The mayor of New York a day or two
ago made a swooping order relative to
electric light wires in that city. The order,
which was that all imperfectly insulated
wires should be cut, has not yet been en
forced, because the companies owning the
wires have obtained injunctions prohibiting
interference with their wire*. There is no
reaiou to doubt, however, that the courts
will sustain the mayor, and that very soon
all wires, whether telegraph, telephone, or
electric light, will be put in subways.
Overhead wires are not only in the way,
but the frequent deaths in New York,
caused by t.;e electric light wires,
have aroused public sentiment to such a
point that tbe ele.trie lighting companies
will be forced to put their wires uuder
ground.
The mayor of New York has bo n con
vinced for some time that all wires in that
city should be removed from overhead, and
the electric experts agree with him. Com
paratively few of the wiros are so per
fectly insulated as to be harmless.
Tuote which were first put up are much
more dangerous than those which have
been put up recently, because the insulation
of the latter is much more perfect. But
even those which are not dangerous when
put up may become so by having the in
sulating material rubbed off them by other
wires, which cross them or which they cross.
Asa rule telegraph, teleph me, fire alarm
and electric light wires all ocdUpy the same
set of poles, and they not only p eseut an
unsightly appearance, but a storm is liable
to cause them to become entangled. In
cases of that kind the telegraph and tele
phone wires, in contact with the electric
light wires, are about as dangerous as the
latter wires.
Even in the smaller cities th 9 wires should
be placed in subways. It would cost a great
deal more to place them there than on poles,
but the cost should uot be regarded as an
insurmountable obstacle when so many lives
are at stake.
The State Suffers.
The state suffers by the action of the
legislature in granting to the Marietta ami
North Georgia railroad the right to
parallel the Western and Atlantic railroad
from Marietta to Atlanta, because the
latter road will be deprived of a great deal
of business. No doubt the right granted to
the Marietta and North Georgia will have a
depressing i fluence ou the bidding for the
lease of the Western and Atlantic.
But while there may ba some j ustic; in
permitting the state road to be parallel s!,
there is none in making the Marietta and
North Georgia a gift of the $66,000 worth
of bonds, with several years of accrued in
terest, which the road owes the state. The
legislature may say that it has no intention
to make the r ad a present of these bonds.
Why, then, does it hesitate to exact pay
ment of them. This bond matter has been
pending several years, and the other day
when it was proposed that the payment of
the bonds should be made the condition of
the coming of the road into Atlanta the
legislature rejected the proposition. What
did it mean by rejecting it? Did it mean
that it did not intend to require the road
to pay the bonds? It cortaiuly looks so.
If the legislature doesn’t purpose to in
sist upon the road paying the bonds, why
doesn’t it say so? Does it lack the courage.’
Is the bond matter to be suspended indefi
nitely ! That policy ought to suit the road.
As kmg as it doesn’t have to pay the bonds
it doesn’t care particularly whether the
legislature acts or not.
The people are interested in having the
bond matter settled, however, and it is not
improbable that they will ask their repre
sentatives to explain their course with re
spect to it.
Prominent members of Tammany hall
deny that Tammany offered the nomination
for congressman in the late Mr. Cox’s dis
trict to Mr. Cleveland, and that upon Mr.
Cleveland’s refusal to be a candidate it was
determined to offer it to ex-Congressmau
Cummings. The election will take place in
about three weeks, and it will soon be
known whether or not a worthy successor to
Mr. Cox will be electe-l
It probably required a great deal of per
suasive eloquence to got Cotigressm in Nut
tiug, of New York, to resign. Mr. Nut.i g
would hardly have been able ti occupy bis
seat, but no republican feels that anything
short of death should cause him to lose an
office. His resignation shows tuat the re
publicans are alive to the fact that they
need every vote in the House that they cau
get.
THE MORNING NEWS* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1889.
The Olive BUI To-Morrow.
The vote on the Olive bill ia to be taken
in tbe House to-morrow. There is no doubt
that those whi are familiar with
the bill and know the effect it wonld have
upon the railroads, and projected railroads,
of the state, and up*- n enterprises dependent
upon railroads, if it should become a law,
desire that the vote shall be strongly
against it. There is not much doubt that
it will be defeated, but the House should
show itself to strongly against it that it
would never be heard of again.
Legislation like that proposed "in the
Olive bill is hurtful to the state. It tends
to check enterprises of about all kind*,
because it makes it impossible to get the
necessary capital to carry thorn on. For
more than a year that bill has made it Im
possible to carry out plans for the develop
ment and advancement of undertaking*
that would have been of vary great benefit
to the people.
The advocates of the bill do not appear'to
know exactly what they want. The bill has
been presented in several shapes, and its
present shape is about as objectionable as
any of the others. If it should become a
law, it would be regarded as legislation hos
tile to railroads, and would do a great deal
to drive away capital.
It seems strange that bills like the Olive
bill can get any conAfierable support in the
legislature. There ape always those, how
ever, in every legislative body wno seein to
think it is their duty to oppose railroads,
and yet they are generally very clamorous
for railroads when the}’ see a prospect of
being personally benefited by them. They
semi to have no good reason for their op
position, and probably haven’t any.
It is to be hoped that nothing more will
be beard of the Olive bill after to-morrow.
It has already eccupied too much of the
time of the legislature.
Search Out the Fire-Bugs.
Are there persons in this city who are
engaged in setting fire to buildings? There
is beginning to be a very strong suspicion
that there are. There have been a great
many fires recently, And of some of them no
reasonable explanation is offered. Indeed,
there seems to be no question that several
of them were of incendiary origin. Tbe
evidence that the houses of Charles Burg
mayer and Dr. Norton, both of
which burned early Sunday morning, were
set on fire is strong. In fact, it is almost
impossible to doubt that the burning of
Mr. Burgmayer’s house was the work of an
incendiary. The watchman in Dr. Norton’s
house may have accidentally dropped a
spark in the building, but there is no reason
to think he did.
These two fires are mentioned because
they are the most recent. Quite a number
of others have occurred within the last two
or three months which were of a very
suspicious character.
Incendiaries do their work secretly, and
it is not, therefore, an easy matter to dis
cover them, but what has been done to dis
cover thoso who are believed to be at work
in this city? Perhaps the city amthorities
have taken some stepe in that direction,
but have they done all that it is possible to
do? Have they made thorough investiga
tions of the fires thought t > be of incendiary
origin, and have they sought and followed
up clews with the earnestness and vigor
which the situation seems to demand? It is
to be supposed that they have, and if they
haven’t, they have failed in doing their
duty.
The insurance companies are deeply in
terested in discovering tbe guilty parties, if
there are any, and it would seem as if they
ought to lend the city authorities some
assistance. An extraordinary effort ought
to be made, first, to settle tbe question
whether the fires were caused by incen
diaries, and if so, to arrest those who
caused them. It is folly to do nothing
while tbe fires continue to occur. The in
cendiaries will not be found if no effort is
made to find the u. Feeling secure they
will become bolder.
A writer in the Washington Capital says:
“I once saw a map in tho library of the
war department which I have often wished
to see again. It was Mr. Cameron’s idea of
what the map of the United States ought
to look like after the war. In it the names
of the southern states were obliterated.
None of tho southern state lines were re
tained. Even the border states lines were
rectified. Delaware was absorbed by Penn
sylvania and Maryland. Maryland also
took in the eastern shore of Virginia; Vir
ginia was divided and the ancient name
disappeared; natural lines were adopted to
form new states, and Louisiana west of the
Mississippi wasthrown with Texas to make
four new states, but none to cone into tbe
union until 1880. Florida was obliterated,
states taking the place of Mississippi, Geor
gia and Alabama getting a coast line at her
expense. I hope this map has not been
destroyed. It would be of great interest to
the future hisorian, as showing what a
politician would have done with the Uuited
States if he had had the power.” Gen.
Cameron wanted the south obliterated, but
Gen. Cameron is dead, and the south is
gradually becoming the most prosperous
section of the country.
N3w York already has two of the most
important foreign missions, the French aud
the Austrian, and the most prominent can
didates for the Russian mission are New
Yorkers. It was thought for some time
that Mr. Elliott Shepard, the erratic editor
of the New York Mail and Kxpress, would
be appointed to Russia, but Mr. Shepard’s
chattces have dwindled considerably since
Gen. Daniel Butterfield became a candi
date. Gen. Butterfield has been abroad
for the last nine months, and he was pre
sented to the czar and the czarina in Russia.
It is said that his appointment would greatly
please the czar.
Senator Evarts kept unusually quiet
about political matters until he went abroad,
but in Vienna be was interviewed
and remarked that the union was merely a
big state, aud that the southern people who
thought they were able to manage the race
problem without northern interference
were mistaken. The senator represented
republican sentiment when he indorsed the
“strong government” idea, and possibly he
did also when he said that the south could
not manage the race problem, but if the
south ge s any help in that work, it won’t
come from meddlesome northern repub
licans.
President Carnot, of Francs, was oske 1
tho other day if he thought that Boulaugtsm
was dead. Ho said; “By no m.-aus. The
Boula gists have been cripplod. but, with
the aid of the monarchists, they are still iu
condition to give trouble. Boulangism will
live os long as monarchical aspirations are
permitted in France.” Tbs President
thought that the only way to put an eud to
utonari hical aspirations was to revise the
constitution.
CURRENT COMMENT.
They Needn’t Unless They Like.
From the St. Bouis Republic (DemX
Hon. Roger Q. Mills has stated in clear, suc
cinct aad unmistakable terms that the mail
hand nolicy won’t go. The mail band organ*
do not Irie his statement. Weil, they are not
obliged to like it unless tney lice.
Quite True.
From the A femohit Avalanche (Dem.).
Because Mahon* has the negro preachers on
his side is no reason why he should console him
self with the belief that heaven looks smilingly
down upon tux cause Toeir methods doaot
tavor of the philosophy of Christ.
He Will Be Crushed.
From the .Veto Korfc .Star (Dem.).
President Harrison is re portal as greatly
chagrined ov?r the result of tne Indianapolis
election. If the general is disturbed at the out
come nt the first skirmish, what will he think
when the result all along the line is known?
Is Sherman for Foraker or Campbell?
From the New York Timee ( Ind.).
Tbe attitude taken by Senator Sherman in
the pending canvass in Onioisa curious one.
It cannot be said to be very favorable to the re
election of Gov. Foraker. since be rather goes
out of his way to express the opinion that it is
a very even thing for tne public good whether
Foraker or Campbell snail be governor.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Synthetic Mind—“l have only one single
wish, which is that all my wishes would come
to pass.’’ —Hiegende Blatter.
Teacher or English— “ You must pronounce
this word just as if one drop of o had fallen into
a bucketful of a.*’ — Flieyende Blatter.
It takes us half our lives to learu that man
kind are fools; and the other half to be con
vinced that we are one of tuem.—Puck.
Smartte— Hullo, Sharppe! How s Christian
sciei.c y gittin* aloug?
Sharppe—O, I’ve give up Christian science an’
gone back to plain bunko.—i-ueSr.
Hooker Crook (to chum)—So you’ve been
getting married during my absence—who was
best, man ?
Hen Peck (sorrowfully)—Maria.—Time.
Mrs. Closehall—Do you know that I’ve in
duced Mr. Closehall to give up cigars?
Dovetail—Really? Why, I've known him for
ten years, and I never 6aw him give up one yet.
Judge.
Prospective Father-in-Law—How do you
expect to get along without a salary if you are
going to get married ?
Young Smiley Banker—That is not the point
—how am 1 to gel along if I don’t get married?
Time.
Mrs. Pancake (to tramp) —Well, what do you
want?
Tramp—Here, muni, is de pie I stold off yer
window yesterday. There may be two or three
teeth stickle’ m it, but otherwise ’taint hurt
any.—Life.
Rev. Dr. Primrose— l had a most pleasant
time in Paris this summer, but it didn’t rest me
os much as I thought.
Merritt—Yet it should be some conso’ation to
you to know that your congregation got the
rest.— Life.
Yabslky—lt would be a great snap if a fellow
could make himself invisible, like they used to
do in fairy stor es.
Wlckwire—Well, you can come pretty near it
by marrying some famous woman.—Terre
Haute Expiess.
Book Agent —Going from books to babies,
madam, that’s a fine youngster. Allow me to
congratulate you.
Young Woman—Sir, that-baby is not mine.
Book Agent—l repeat, madam, allow me to
congratulate you .—Judge.
' ■ You tee, X have some reputation as a painter.
Even the bank director, Kripfer, has ordered
his po: trait from me.”
“Sly old fellow) When he runs away and
thev send out his likeness from your picture, he
knows he will be perfectly safe.’’— Fiienende
Blatter.
“My hands are awfully cold,” said the pretty
girl suggestively, on the last quarter of a starlit
sleigh ride
“Why didn’t you bring a muff with you?”
asked the'practical young man prosaically.
"t did,” she snapped, but she wouldn’t ex
plain where th i muff had gone to, and he has
been wondering ever since just what she meant.
Somerville Journal.
A daily publication in this city which prints
scriptural quolations at the head f its columns
is responsible for tns editorial comment: “A
negro named Moliison has oeen nominated by
republicans for MiisissipDi’s lieutenant gov
ernor. It is to be noped that Mr. Mollis m’s life
is insured.” Perhaps it was a co.ncidence that
the text for the day jocosely informed the
public that “It is sport for a fool to do mis
chief.”— Time.
Strategic Movements. —First Boy—See here!
Didn't I see you running down the street yester
day, with Bill Bounce after you, wantin’ to lick
you?
Second Boy—Y-e-a.
“What did you run for?”
“I—l was only running so as to get him away
from home, so his mother couldn't see him
flghtin’; but by the time we was out of sight of
his house we got in sight of our house; and
then, as my mother would see me if I stopped
to hit him. 1 went in, so as to be out o' tempta
tion.”—Aeto York Weekly.
PERSONAL.
Mrs Shaw, the American whistler, has lately
had a photograph of herself taken in London
for exhibition. It is over nine feet high, and is
probably the largest ever printed.
Jons Most has discarded his flaming necktie
and trimmed down his wild, anarchistic beard.
A suspended sentence to the isla and hangs over
him, and he is conducting himself with con
servative discretion.
Mrs. Amu Rives Chanlkr made 810,000
last year by her writings. She, however, has
developed a stronger love for art than for litera
ture, and is now working as hard as any poor
artist in the ateliers of Paris.
Eben E. Bexford, writer of “Silver Threads
Among the Gold" and much current new.-paper
poetry, gets 81.500 a year from the Ladies’
/<■ me Journal for a column amo th on flowers.
The golden rod is one of his favorite topics.
Robert Bonner once paid Tennyson $5,000
for a poem which made only twenty lines in tne
New York Ledger. This was at the rate of s*so
a line, which is a price that would seem almost
beyond the value of any written production.
The New York Morning Journal says that
ex-negister John Reilly laughs at the report
that he is to lie a candidate for congress in Sun
set Cox’s old district. “Why s lould I pay
$ 0,000 for a $5,000 seat in congress'” is the
bu iness-like query ma te by Mr. Reilly.
Miss Roxanna Wentworth, ths only child of
“Long John’" Wentworth, is one of the wealthi
est women of Chicago. She was educated at
Vassar college. Her father never allowed her
to receive attentions from gentlemen, and now,
at the age of 30, she is still unmarried, al
though Bho is rich enough to support a family,
having inherited six or seven millions from her
father.
Mrs. Frances Hodoson Burnett was earning
a small salary as a school teacher down in Ten
nessee wuen she wrote her first stories. It is
said that the stamps with which her first story
was sent to Peterson's Magazine were made by
picking blackberries. Her early stories at
tract el little attention, and it was not until
“That Lass O’Lowrie’s" was published that she
became known as n popular writer.
Says the New York Sun: “Gen. Dan Sickles
has got back from the rustic regions, and may
now again be seen about town. He certainly
does not look like a man in the 67th year of his
age. There are gray streaks in his hair, but it
has a dark look for ail that, and his mustache
is as fierce as ever. His face is that of a man in
the prime of Ufa. He uses his crutches skill
fully, and salutes his old comrades in the style
of long ago.”
Kino Otto of Bavaria narrowly escaped being
killed a short time ago in his castle of
Fursteuried. While passing through the din
ing room the chandelier fell from the celling
and just grazed the head of his majesty. An
attendant who stood near by was badly
wounded. Tbo ooms of the castle have since
been examined, and, with two exceptions,
declared unsafe and unfit for habitation. The
king is now c indued in these two rooms. His
condition is considered more hopeless than ever.
“Prince Bismarck,” says a correspondent,
“is in appearance now a feeble old man. His
face is waxen and flabby, and his hail Is are
those of av, ry old man-yellow and swollen in
the joints and marked wit i uunaturally big blue
veins. He is once more becoming very fat ab
dominally, and Dr. Schweninger is at his wit’s
end to keep his flesh down, for Bismarck is no
longer able to walk much. To plea-e his puvsi
clan, he tries from tune to time, but his legs
hurt him 100 much to make this form of exer
cise no-si hie. All this tends to depress him, and
this further tact that hit family have not been a
long-lived race serves to deepen his conviction
that his days are numbered. ”
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For Indigestion,
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Eit the Leader and Got WolL
It was a sad scene, says tho San Francisco
Chronicie. The old man iay on hi* bed. and by
him *at the faithful wife, holding his worn
baud in hers, and forcing bacx the tear* togre -t
his wandering look with a smiA She spoke
words of cmi fort and of noi. lut ip- fell the
cold hand fallinr on him, and he turned his
weary ey s up to her pale, wan face.
• Jennie, dear wife, lam going."
“O, no. John—not yet—not yet."
“Yes. dear wife," and he closed his eyes; “the
end is near. The world grows dark about me.
Th-re is a mist around me gatnenng tnicker
and thicker, and ther -. as through a cl >ud, 1
hexr the music of angels—sweet and sad.”
“ No. no, John, dear, t at isn’t angels; that’s
the brass band on the corner. ”
"What:” said the dying man. “Have those
scoundrels dared to come around here when
they know I’m dying? Give me my bootjack.
I’ll let ’em see.”
And in a towering rage the old man jumped
from his bed, and before his wife could think
h - bad opened the window and shied the bout
jac at the band.
“I’ve bit that fat leader, anyway.”
And he went back to bed and got well.
He f-moked Right Along.
Two young women and a man climbed on top
of a Fifth avenue stage one day 1 ist week, and
settled down on one of the back seats fora
pleasant ride up the avenue, says the New York
Times. The young women were of the prim
sort, and were evidently not used to traveling
on the hurricane deck fa vehicle. Ou the seat
with the driver was a fashionably dressed mm,
smoking au excellent cigar and enjoying him
self to his heart's content. Tne smoke was
w fted back, but it was rather enjoyed bv all
on the sta.e except the two prim young ladies.
Thev didn't like, or at least they pretended not
to like it.
“What a horrible cigar that issaid one.
“He ought to kuow better than to smoke on
the stage,” said another.
"Well, some people don’t know enough to
stop smoking when there are ladi -s aroiiud."
“Someone should complain to the officers of
tbe company about it."
The geutl man sitting with the driver heard ail
that was said, and it was evidently said so that
tie should hear it. But he smoked right on, and
didn't seem to care whether the officers of the
company were complained toornot. The young
women kent on making remarks and his posi
tion was a little embarrassing. His cigar was
pretty well smoked down by tho time he got
ready to get off.
As the stage halted he turned to the young
man who was wit th ) prim young ladies and
said; “I have heard a good deal of what has
been said about smoking Now, it inignt as
well be understood that all these seats up here
ou the top of the stage are for smokers and
those who ride with them.”
"Who is that?” asked the young man as the
other got down.
“O, that’s Ely Goddard,” said the driveF.
“And who is he?”
“He’s the president of this stage company.”
How tho Golden Opportunity Came.
Prom the Xeio York Sun.
There was a grocery just across from the
depot, and on a bench tinder the window were
seven large watermelons. A short, ca laverous
luoking colored man sat on a baggage truck
looking across at the grocery. Alter a bit one
of our crowd sauntered up to him aud carelessly
observed:
“Some Hue melons over there.”
"Deed dey is, boss," was the reply.
“Do colored folks ever eat watermelons?”
“Does a- y? Does dey eat wa ermeliyons! I
should reckon to consider dat dey did!”
“Is that so? How many colored men about
your size would it take to get away with one
large melon?"
“How many? Say. boss, ’pears to me you
doan' lib in dis kentry.”
“No; I’m jus over from England.”
“Dat accounts. Yer doan’ know us. How
many would it take? You’d better ax how
many mellyons would be wauted fur one cull’d
pusson named Josephus Pardon.”
“You don’t mean you could eat a whole one?”
“Doan’ I. If I can’t eat de hull seben, I'll go
off to de swamp an’ die:”
We chipped In to buy the lot and give
the man the gol len opportunity of his
life. The melons were brought over and laid in
a row. and Josephus removed h.s hat and
coat and let opt his leather belt three notches,
and sat down with his back braced against a
box.
R-i-p! went the knife as he got the word, and
the storm had burst. He cut the melon into
four pieces, dropped the knife, and ia just two
minutes by the watch nothing was lett but a
heap of rind and a Oaudful of seed. A second
was rolled over to him, and he gained five sec
onds on his other time. On the third he lost
ten seenuds, aud on the fourth nearly a minute.
He cut the fifth, ate a quarter of it, and then
stood up to inquire;
“Was it speeted dat I was to eat de hul seben
right down?”
“O, no. The idea was to see how many you
could eat at once.”
“Wall. Ize a leetle disappinted in myself. I
did believe I could git away tvi 1 de lot in "bout
half au hour, but Ize sorter filled up on fo’.
Reckon I oain't foelin’ overly well, an' dat de
dozen turnips I ate dis mawnin’ hev sorter held
me off. If you would be so kind as 10 give me
'bout five minutes tq finish de rat of dis.au’
den let me take and • odder two down dar in de
bush by myself, I’m a believin’ dar won’t be
nutliin’ left by sun high.”
He goon finished the fifth, and then took a
melon under each arm and made for the
thicket down the track. Twenty minutes aft>-r
he left the train came along, aud as we rode
past the thicket Josephus rose up with a soli
tary melon in his hands, bowed bis thanks, and
shouted:
“Ize gwine ter do it, white man I It’s de only
one left, an’ I’ll git away wid him befo’ you
du i get down to Petersburg!”
If Our Old Clock Gould peak.
Will Carleton, in Home Journal.
It isn't a scrumptious thing to see—
It’s rather short o’ paint—
Its brows will always wrinkled be
lts tick is grinviu faint;
The circulation’s noways good—
The j’ints too stiffly play—
It some't of’ner than it should
Forgits the tune o’ day;
’Twi 1 stop an’ try to recollect
For somethin' like a week;
But there’d be music, I suspect.
If our ol’ does could speak.
In rain or shine, through peace an’ war.
It’s still been, as a pears,
A member of our family tor
Some live and fifty years;
It’s stood right there, through thick and thin.
An’ kep' track of the sun,
An’ raked its own opinions in
'Bout what we mortals done;
It’s he 1 good watch o’ young an’ old
( n’ looked so mild and meek!)
Some anecdotes ther’ would be told.
If our old clock could speak!
It’s stood aroun’ at every meal.
Mid clash o’ plate an' cup.
An’ heard us our id’s reveal,
An’ size the neighbors up;
It’s traced our little bicseria’s, too,
An' seemed to sympathize,
A squintin’ softly at us through
Them solemn key-hole eyes;
It’s umpired many a lively game
O’ social hide-an’-soek;
’Twould score a number o’ the same,
Providin' it could speak!
How our folks drove to town one day,
An’ lef us chilrun free
With self protectin' things to play.
“But let the ol’ clock be’’;
An though we young ’uns inever stil 1)
Hadn't thought o’ that before.
We now couldn't let it Tone, until
It crashed down on the floor!
We tremblin’ set it up again,
Half-runnin’, with a squeak;
’Twas lucky for our jackets, then,
The cnt.er couldn’t speak!
How o’ folks went to church, one night.
An’ left us all—sly elves—
If we’d conduct there—good an’ right—
A meetln’ by ourselves;
But neighbor gals an’ boys in teens
Walked iu—an’ first we knew,
We fell to pla.viu’ "Oats, peas, beans,"
"Snap up and eaten ’em,” too;
We scatt re , when, by good ear-luck
She heard the big gate creak;
The ol’ clock frowned an’ ticked an’ struck.
But couldn’ make out to speak!
Ah me! the facts ’twou’d just let fly,
Suppose it had the power!
Of courtin’ chaps, when on the sly.
They turned it tack an hour;
Of weddiu’s—holdin' tender yet,
The bride’s last virgin grace;
Of fun’rals—where it ueeped to get
A good look at the face;
It knows the inside-out o’ folks—
An’ nature’s every freak;
I'd write a book if I could c oax
That wise ol’ clock to speak!
Still straight as any gun it stan’s
Ag in the kitchen wall;
An’ slowly waves its solemn han’s
Outlivin’ of us all!
I venerate some cl cks I’ve seen,
ah e'en a’ most sublime;
They form revolvin’ linss between
Etarnity an’ time,
An' when you come to take the pains
To strike a dreamy streak,
The figurative fact reraalu*
That all the cl cks can speak.
Bbccham's Iti,la cure bilious mod ner
vous iUs.
ITEMS OF IVT3RB3T.
Three tears ago a small fig tree was placed
in the open space which was made bv taking up
a brick in a court intie r ar of R. S Jenkins’
office at Marysv.Ue. Cal. From the dav the tiee
was planted until the pr -sent not a bit of sun
light has reached it. am it now stands at a h.gnt
of over t venty feet, and has a very heavy crop
of figs upon it. A number of people who have
tested tne fruit pronounce it very flue.
The payment of the employes of the park
department. New York, will be delayed for sev
eral days this month, aa the pay-roll* have been
retnrnnd to the department from the controll
er* office for correction. One of the vigilant
auditors in the coitroll -r’ office returned the
rolls with tbe inquiry: “Why ha< Mr. Averv.”
one of the park employes, “charged 13 cents f< r
street car fare one day. and on another only 10
f° r the same distance?” An investigation
wo. be made to find out the reason.
A rexarkable feat has just been completed
by Julius G. Ellinger, a cooper of Allegan,
Mich., making 10,000 barrels in forty weeks,
working eight hours per day, which beat ali
records of b irrel-making in the United States.
; v cry s:ave, head, hoop and nail must be
hand ed separately, and some staves from one
to three times. In making 10,000 barren it
I'O.OOo staves, £5,000 pieces of heading,
(0,000 hoops and 180,001) nails. It would require
ten box car* to carry the timber and fifty to
carry the finished barrels.
It is KTATicn in the Reichswehr that success
ful trials have been made privately with anew
explosive prepared by an Austrian officer,
iAleut, hubin. It is called “ecrasite,” and is
said tobe very pow rful, and at the same time
insensible to mochanical and atmospheric in
fluences. An armored tower, covered with a
Ig-centimeter st ?ei cupo'a. was bombarded, and
an ecrasite shell broke through the cupola, de
str yed the inner part-> of the tower, and shat
tered its walls. Earthworks were penetrated to
the depth of about five feet.
The Jews of New York propose to erect a
mission building, to cost $200,000, and a fair is
o° in ai( ? ot . the project. It is said that
£ >,UUO Hebrew immigrants arrive in New York
yearly, of whom 20.(XX) remain in the city. There
now ah ut 100,000 of them in the clown-town
districts, the condition of a large proportion of
whom it is the duty of their more fortunate and
enlightened brethren to better. In the new
building will be established a kindergarten, in
dustrial classes, free lectures, libraries and in
struction in various departments.
One of the features of military drill in the
Russian army is the training of soldiers to swim
in battalions, at the same time using their
weapons. At the recent annual military
maneuvers in the presence of the czar, a line
exhibition of proficiency was given in this
direction. A large force of infantry swam
across a wide lake in full marching order, with
the help of fascines made of reeds and rushes
inflated sheepskins. At the 6ame time
J fe Pt u p a lively fire on the boats of a sup
posed enemy who were disputing their passage.
Two accidents, involving severe, if not fatal,
injuries to half a dozen persons, are reported
from the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. In one
case two gentlemen from Frankfort-on-tlie-
Main tried, with the assistance of two guides,
to ascend the Ortler Spitze, but the whole party
missed their footing and felt from a precipice.
The two guides were severely injured, while toe
tourists themselves sustained dangerous bruises.
On the same day a North German tourist, with
his guide, fell down the mountain side, and both
were severely injured. Greater precautions, it
is said, are to be taken by the authorities in
future to prevent inexperienced tourists from
exposing themselves to danger out of mere idle
curiosity.
The annual report of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, just made public, is one of
the most remarkable in its history. The net
balance earned by the Weste-n Union in the
year ending with last June was the largest ny
more than SBOO,OOO in the company’s history
and the surplus would be equally large in pro-’
portion but for thj increased dividend pay
ments of the year. The average cost of mes
sages was 22. 1 cents in 1889, against 25.2 cents in
the preceding year; but n > reduction in the
average charge for messages was made, this
item remaining at an average of 31.2 cents, or
the name as in ISBB. Inasmuch as the net profits
for stockholders was increased this year by an
enormous amount, and the surplus balance re
ported on hand is between eight and nine
millions, it seeing as though a reduction In rates
ought to have been a result.
Innumerable stories are told by the Anglo-
Indian press of the adventures of the famous
Bhil dacoit wno was lately captured. Tantia
had a way of suddenly disappearing and reap
pearing that to the native mind savored of the
supernatural. At one time, when there was a
hue and cry, he appeared as a barber, and be
gan to minister to the native policeman who
was leading the hunt. Under the inspiration
of shaving, the policeman prattled gayly of his
intended capture. O, yes, he knew what man
ner of man Tantia was: could tell him at a
glance. There was no doubt that the dacoit’s
days were numbered: the reward was as good
as in the policeman s pocket. Whereupon
Tantia, the uarber, with his razor at the man’s
throat, quietly introduced himself, and, after a
few words of humorous admonition, left the
astonished minion of the law* minus the tip of
his nose, which the amateur barber whisked off
in a frolic.
An interesting return recently presented
to the British parliament shows the receipts
and expenditure of the treasury solicitor during
1888 in the administration of estates revertiug
to the crown by reason of the owners dying
intestate, etc. The total received was no less
than £L0,476. The balances in hand at the
commencement of the year were £304,382 and
after various payments they reached, at the
close of the year, the sum of £313,551. It is
noted that the crown’s rig hts to real and person
al property of the value of £8,486 were waived
and that a sum of £22,633. bequeath-d to the
chancellor of the exchequer by a “would-be
national debt extinguisher,” has been trans
ferred to a special account. In a senedule is
given an alphabetical list of seventy estates
which fell to the crown during the year, wilh the
names and addresses of the intestates, but the
amount of eac i estate is not stated. It appears
however, from parliamentary returns on the’
subj ct, th t since the passing of the treasury
solicitors act, 18(6, under which these estates
are administered, considerably over £1.000,060
has been received by the “crown's nominee.”
The machinery of the Scottford Manufact
uring Company at Kenosha, Wis., has been
acting very queerly for the last few nights. On
Oct, 1 the watchman said that when he was
down stairs the machinery up stairs started
running and that when he went up stairs to
ascertain the cause, the machinery up stairs
immediately stopped and the machinery down
stairs cuiimwiiccd to ruo. Ijpoii coining down
again be saw something white at the other end
of the room, which vanished when hd threw the
rays o the dark lantern upon it. In the morn
ing the watchman told Mr. Scottford what had
happened, and the next evening Mr. Scottford
staid with the watchman. About 12 o’clock
the machinery commenced as on the previous
night on the second fl or, and when they both
went up stairs it again stopned and commenced
down stairs They then went down stairs and
it commenced above as before. Mr Scottford
fired with a revolver through the floor, but it
had no effect. Saturday night six watchmen
were hired, but when tne machinery started
they all fled. About three mouths ago a young
man named James Costello was kißed by his
clothes being caught on a set-screw on a rapidly
revolving shaft in these works, and b lievers in
spirits do not hesitate to hold the departed
spirit of the young man responsible for the
ph.-nomenai action of the machinery.
In a Maine company recently the conversa
tion turned to gastronomical feats and achieve
ments in the art of stuffing. When the young
lady who had eaten six bananas at one sitting,
and the young man who had boasted of having
topped off a dinner with a whole mince pie, had
told their stories, a demure maiden modestly
related an incident in the history of her family
that completely discouraged all her rivals
“One Fourth of Jnly,” said she, “my brother
and a friend wished to make an excursion up
river, and as they propose i to start very early
in the morning and be gone oil day, my mother
prepared a large basket of food for them the
night before. In the bottom of the basket she
placed a thick stratum of delectable.articles to
represent supper: ou this she placed another
layer for their dinner; and at the top of the
ba-ket, where it would be first accessible
she put a hearty breakfast. Being
well acquainted with the capacity of the boys
she made au unusually large allowance for each
of tne three meals. Well, the boys set out for
their excursion at 4 o'clock in the morning.
Their h at t:ad not gone far up the river wuen
the rain began to come down. They went
ashore to wait awhile, and ate I heir breakfast
The rain was slill failing when they had finisaed
tais share of their supplies, and so they imme
diately ate their next layer—th-ir dinner. Ktill
they were huugry. and still it was raining.
They rad notning else to do but to devour the
remaining contents .f the basket, and so ther
ate their supper. It was then evident that the
weatnar wouldn’t clear, so they jumped into
their b>at and came nack home—and took
breakfast with the rest of us!”
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