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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meetings— Zerabbabe! I-odge No. 15, F. and
A. M. ; Haupt Lod.e No. SS, I. O. O. F.; Work
ingmen's Benevolent Association and Working
men's Union Association
Special Notices— Notice, Andrew Hanley;
As to Bills Against the British Steamship Seaw
Fell; Assorted Hats, at Jaudon's; Sale of Dam
aged Cotton at Macon, Ga., W. W. Starr, Super
intendent ; As to Crew of the British Steamship
Laleham.
Steamship Schedcle— Ocean Bteamship Com
pany.
Have Removed— The A. J. Miller Company.
Legal Notices— Notices as to Suits Against
the Swainsbore Bank of Emanuel County.
Apples, Cabbages, Etc.— Haynes & Elton.’
Auction Sale—Damaged Cotton, by J.
McLaughlin A Son.
Cheap Column Advertisements- Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent ; For Sale;
Personal; Miscellaneous.
Mr. aDd Mrs. Jchn Talitnan, of Rockland
county, New York, celebrated the 70tb an
niversary of tbeir marriage the other day.
This will be seen to be very remarkable
when it is remembered that even golden
weddings are not frequent.
Why should the New York Evening Post
try to prove that the grand army has great
influence with this administration in the
matter of appointments? Everybody knows
that President Harrison is bidding for the
grand army’s support ia 1892.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial Advertiser charges
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Clarkson with being
very active in securing appointments for
their relatives. If the charge is true, these
ladies might he engaged in much better
work.
The reports in a Pensacola dispatch
yesterday respecting ex-Marshal Bird, of
Florida, are auth ritativeiy denied in dis
patches published this morning. Mr. Bird’s
record is so clean that it is surprising that
any reports derogatory to him got abroad.
Doubtless they were based upon a mistake of
some sort
Mr. Cleveland was asked to make a speech
for Mr. McKinuey in Virginia, bat he de
clined. He said tuat he was greatly inter
ested in the Virginia campaign, and that he
hoped the democrats would win, but that
his engagements and obligations were such
that he was compelled to declino all such
invitations.
Chairman Quay says that if he had con
trolled matters, every democrat would have
been out of the government service three
weeks after March 4. It was hardly neces
sary for Quay to say this. The public
understands that he is a spoilsman. It also
understands that he has a very reprehensible
way of influencing elections.
Commissioner Henderson’s crop report for
the month ending Oct 1 places tue general
average of the corn crop in the state at 102,
oottou 87, rice 93, sugar-cane 95, sweet po
tatoes 90, and tobacco 97. The pork supply
is estimated to be 7 per cent better than at
the correspo ding period of ISBB, but hog
cholera is reported in some sections.
Colored people are at liberty to form
grand army posts, hut they need not expect
to be admitted into posts composed of white
people. When two of them applied for ad
mission into the post at Anacoslia, D. C.,
they were blackballed. Anacostia is
the suburban home of Fred Douglass.
Grand army posts do not contain ex-con
federates.
Several weeks ag > Rev. Sam Jones’ phy
sician warned him that if he did not take a
good rest be would broalt down. Mr. Jones
remained at home a week or two. to please
the doctor; then he went to North Carolina
to conduct a series of meetings. He is now
in Virginia. He is a very hard worker,
and has had no rest worth mentioning for
several years—in f ict, since he was on the
Monti cello (Ga.) circuit
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Washington Irving Davids has a (10,090
breach of promise suit on his hands. He
was the steward of the stea ner Olivette,
and he expected to sail from New York the
other day for Florida, but he did I’t sail.
He was arrested, and in defa lit of bail was
placed in the Ludlow street j til. Last sum
mer he was a clerk on the Fall Hi ver steamer
Puritan, and be paid considera le attention
to Mi-a Jennie Simonson, of Fall River, who
has just brought suit against him.
Both Secretary Blaine ami Hir Julian
Pauucefote expect an earlv disetMeioa of
the Behring man malo r, a id if it eh mid be
found necessary to submit that matter to
arbitration, It it said t .at Pope |*j would
be the cbo>au arbitrator, provided there
was reeion to believe that the selection
would lie eg!see le to him. In ums he de
stined, the anoioe would be between tue
Mugs at Belgium, Sweden end Dsi uis k
wad the piasidetii of the Hwiae cmfndsre
liot. If ibe iiesltb at the Bmperur at Hi a
Ml were good. it Is Intimated that aw <4 nor
name hat his would beeanaidwad.
Does Blaine Want Hayti*
Did the rumors which have bsen circu
lating in Washington recently, t lat Minis
ter Douglass carried with him to Hayti
instructi ins to do what he could to bring
the government and people of that country
to regard with favor and American pro
tectorate, originate with Mr. Blaine? If
so, did he start them with t ie view of find
ing out what the people of this country
thinks of such a scheme? It is very well
known that Mr. Blame sympathize! with
Gen. Hipoolyte in the straggle between
that general and Gen. Legitime, and it was
the general imores,ion that an understand
ing existed to the effect that this country
was to nave a coaling station in Hayti in
the event of Hippolyte’s success.
Of course this country took no part in the
struggle betwee i Hippolyte and Legitime,
but there is no doubt that the former and
his followers believed that their cause had
the moral support of this government, and
this knowledge undoubtedly contriouted to
their success.
It will hardly be denied that this country
ought to have a coaling station in the West
Indies, a id the station ought to be a good
port where a Hast could rendezvous. Our
interests ia Central and South America
may s non become much larger than at pres
ent. The Panama canal has been aban
doned, but work nas begun on
the Nicaragua canal, which, there
is reason to believe, will be
constructed. Thoss who have control
of enterprise are showing by
their’ytdj’k that they are ia earnest. If it
should; he built, Our interests in Central
very great propor
tions at; once, and we should have more
need than evdP’BdFM'o for a good harbor in
the Wet |adies in which we would have
the privileges which we have iu our own
harbor*.
There has been talk from time to time of
purch&Mag -Cuba, but Spain has never
shown ta< willingness to part with that
island. ,K,thls coun ry could get control
of both Cuba and Hayti, their possession
might TQ&tse in settling matters that
now g!V$ this country a good deal of
trouble. One relates to race troubles, and
the other 0 yellow fever. Thi3 country is
in constant danger of being infected with
yellow fever from Havana. With Cuba
under our authority, a system of sanitation
would, doubtless, be introduced ints Havana
that would greatly lessen tae danger from
yellow fever, aud perhaps remove it alto
gether.
Hayti and Cuba would offer splendid
asylums for those of the blacks of this
country who are dissatisfied. The climate
would suit them, ana, in Hayti, at least,
they would have a chance to assist in show
ing what the blacks can do in the way of
self-government. Under the protection of
this country, they would be free from any
interference from the governments of
Europe, and they would have in this coun
try u splendid market for all their products.
Mr. Blaine may have a scheme on hand
with respect to Hayti, and also Cuba.
If he has, the fact will be known iu the very
near future. He is sensational in his
methods, and nothing that he might suggest
with respect to foreign affairs would cause
a great deal of surprise.
Cominir to Savannah.
The members of the legislature will visit
Swftnnah imnieiiately after the close of the
session. If the weather is flue on the occa
sion of their visit they will have an ex
ceptionally good time, and if it should not
be favorable, they will at least enjoy them
selves and have an opportunity to see the
greatest commercial city and ssaportoa the
South Atlantic coast. Savannah knows
how to entertain her guests, and she will
s e that nothing is lacking to make the
legislators feel glad that they accepted her
invitation.
A good many of the members of the
legislature have never seen Savannah,
probably, and do not perhaps appreciate
her commercial importance. They ought
to become acquainted with her facilities for
handling the products of their respective
counties which are shipped abroad, and
when they see her wharves, ware
houses and shipping, they will
have a much better idea of
the chief seaport of tbeir state thau they
have at present. Tbey will see uot only a
thriving, growing commercial city, but
also a beautiful one—one that is developing
greater energy every succeeding year, and
whose future is stoadily becoming more
promising—and they will receive a very
cordial weldbme.
The Washington Post says that possibly
after all t^a,jests that have beau made at
the expend of Mr. Keely and his motor,
the motSr will “mote.” A few days ago
several scientific men and mechanical ex
perts were invited to see the engine run, and
the teat is said to have beeu quite en
couraging, The electricians and engineers
said that they found out that the motive
power was neither compressed air nor elec
tricitiJ . linstock holders have been won
d rin|Un| what it is, and the proba
bilities are that they will never cease to
wonder. _
The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that
the Washington colored preacher’s advice
to southern colored people to secure homes
and to defend them with AVinchester rifles
was not intended to be mischievous, but
that it will do harm nevertheless. The la >v
allows a man to defend his home, even if he
has to resort to fire-arms, but that was not
what the Washington preacher-politician
meant. There are numerous agents of the
Republican party who are seeking to cause
trouble between the races in the south, and
the Washington preacher may be one of
them.
Gen. Mahone failed to get Langston to
speak for him in Virginia, but he is not with
out colored campaign orators. Thomas H.
Miller, who is the contestant for the con
gressional seat from the Beaufort (8. C.)
district, has I Men stumping Virginia in the
interest of the little boss for some time, and
it is announced that B. K. Bruce will make
a few speorhee for him. Bruce’s reward
will be a lucrative position in the govern
ment service at Washington. Miller ex
pecta to be rewarded with a seat in con
gress, notwithstanding he was defeated.
Tbs Chicago Tribune says; “It was
shameful that a reckless, inc nn,ietent man
like Tanner was imp>ei oaths IVesi l* it
for so important an offh-v, hut w n Ostt.
{tarrison saw how he bat been mi.led and
his confidence abused be corrected the
blunder as speedily aa possible.” To#
Tribune knows vary well that the Prsai
daut's eyas were wi is ope wu- a beep
l*>lwts*i Tanner, and that be lucfce 1 bun
out only when f sroed by puoU ’ ssuUinsjt
udo so. by (be war, wuat about (bs la
dor amenta the Tribunegaso Tanner Indore
be was kmh4 oeil
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1889.
The Murderers Must be Punished.
Now that a Jury his been obtained in the
Cronin case, speculation as to what the state
will bs able to prove against the accused
parties is very active. There is no diubt
that the evidence upon which the state’s
attorney relies Is very strong. In fact, if
reports are to be credited, he has said a
number of times that he has evidence suffl -
cient to hang every one of the defendants.
The .’beery is, of course, that there wat a
conspiracy to murder Dr. Cronin, and tb it
those who committed the crime were only
instruments in the bands of parties who had
docided up >n Cronin’s death. It is currently
reported that the state's attorney has the
correspondencs of some of those who were
leaders in the conspiracy, and that it sup
ports the state’s theory fully.
Throughout the country the deepest in
terest is felt in the trial; and this interest
has been stimulated by the sensntisnal de
velopments which occurred during the
seven weeks the court was engaged iu ob
taining a jury. Tie fact that important
evidence bearing upon the case was stolen
from the state’s attorney’s office, and also
that efforts were made to bribe those who,
it was thought, might get on the jury, te id
to confirm the suspicion that at least some
of those who have been indicted are guilty.
Doubtless the progress of the tril will be
very slow. The attorneys for the defense
will fight the case at every point, and fre
quent discussions of the admissibility of
certain kinds of evidence mar be expected.
If the state’s attorney is as well prepared,
however, as he has led ths public to believe,
the chances are in favor of a verdict of
guilty, provided none of the jurors have
been tampered with. The public wants the
Cronin murderers punished, and will not be
satisfied unless they are.
Dodging an Issue.
Two conspicuous instances of the prej
udice in the north against the negro have
occurred within the last few days. On
Tuesday, in the Episcopal convention in
Now York, an effort was made to bring up
the question of the status of the negro in
the Episcopal church. The negro, it is well
understood, is claiming a fuller recognition.
The committee of the convention which
had this matter in charge made a majority
and a minority report. The majority re
port was accompanied by a resolution
giving the negro equal brotherhood in the
church. The minority report stated that
the adoption of this resolution would in
volve the acceptance of a principle which,
the minority believed, it would bs impossi
ble to adopt, The convention refused by a
vote of 100 to 121 to take up the matter,
and thus dodged it. Tne delegates who
waited it taken up were from the south
aud west. Those who opposed it were
mainly from the north,
A month or more ago a negro of excellent
character, who has an unimpeachgd and
unimpeachable record as a soldier in the
union army, applied to the Nathaniel Lyon
Post, at Hartford, Conn., for admission to
the grand army. A strong opposition to
his admission at once developed. After a
month’s struggle it was found that he could
not gain admission, and his application was
withdrawn.
There is prejudice against the negro in
all parts of the country. It is hypocritical
for the republican organs to pretend that it
doe* uot exist in the north. It is stronger
there than in the south, notwithstanding
the fact that the smior class at Harvard has
just elected a negro to the position of class
orator. If the republican press would de
vote more of its atteution to prejudice
against the negro in the north and less to
it in the south, there would be less friction
between the two sections.
Gen. Daniel Butterfield is in Paris, and
is greatly interested in an old manuscript
he has found in the library of France. Tne
manuscript is one by Saint Breuden, a
notable abbot in the sixth century, and
seems to relate to the discovery of Amerioa.
Gen. Butterfield told Prof. Dewey, of New
York, that he had discovered it by acci
dent, and had become so interested in it
that he would remain until he completed it.
‘•He had pored over it so long,” gud Prof.
Dewey, “that he could read it faster than I
could. There is some discussion now over
the story that a party of abbots discovered
America long before Christopher Columbus
did, and it would soetn strange at this time,
when we are all talking about the four
hundredth anni vers nry celebration, if Gen.
Butterfield were to discover evidence which
bore out the facts.” If you make a dis
covery like that, general, keep it secret
until after 1893. Don’t interfere with the
world’s fair.
Secretary Noble and Assistant Secretary
Bussey are trying to “pooh-pooh” Tanner’s
last letter. Secretary Noble says that Tan
ner is a “back number" who will not be
further noticed by him, and Bussey applauds
the sentiment. This may be very well in
its way, but it is not the proper thing at
this juncture. Mr. Tanner reminded the
Secretary of theluterior, who is responsible
for the conduct of the pension bureau, that
according to understanding, pensions were
beiug paid out in the interest of the Repub
lican party. He charged Bussey with at
tempting to bribe him into making an ap
pointment coatrasy to the civil service law,
and he made a clear case of it. Noble and
Bussey may think that these things should
be unnoticed by them, but the public thinks
differently. Tanner fires off his mouth
promiscuously, hilt be sometimes hits the
mark.
The people of Northwestern Minnesota
and Western Dakota are suffering for the
bare necessaries of life. Throughout a wide
region of country they are without food
sufficient for their wants, and have not the
moans to purchase clothing for winter. Sub
scriptions to aid them have been opened in
all tne northwestern cities. The south has
been blessed with goad crops this year, and
might extend a helping hand to the sufferers
in the northwest, whose orops have failed
for two successive years.
The New York Tribune, in an artiole on
“The Democratic Conspiracy in Moutana,”
says that Montana was settled by southern
immigrants, aud that the prevailing demo
cratic methods of Arkausas, Mississippi aud
Louisiana have been put in operation there.
This is a plain aud disreputable attempt to
arouse suotional feeling, in toe hope of help
ing the republican scheme in Montana. The
repuhUcsas iu Moutana are simply trying
to steal the legislature, and the Tribune Is
trjriug to assist them.
C<4. Robert Rea of Montana is the mau
who is trying to start a prastdential boom
for Chief Justus# Fuller Ths chief Justus's
refute! to listen to the buzzing >4 the presi -
■leuLai he* has not 4ur 'uragsd C 4, Kae,
who lustsfs that the dsse'xvals ■yjuid uot do
Letter then follow Ms tfrka Tee -4--tri
| seems to he a pussies twit sort of mis.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The People Won’t Stand Them.
From the Philadelphia Time* (lnd.l.
If the Republican party shall not depose Its
Platts. budl-vK and Clarksons pretty soon the
oomiDg generation of voters will depose the
party without fail.
A Portentous Evil.
From the Hew York Time* (Ind.).
The crime of bribery and corruption at the
polls has been on the increase in recent years
until it has become a portentous evil, menacing
the very foundations of free institutions.
Why Hayes is Cheerful.
From the Dallas New* (Dem,).
Rutherford B Hayes is cheerful these days, •
and as time rolls over the heal of the Harrison
administration he has cause to be cheerful in
the prospect that when 1892 comes Haves' ad
ministration will not be sneered at as the ;Poor
est that the country ever experienced.
Couldn't Expect Anything Else.
From the New York World (Dem.).
It Is not at all surprising that tae civil service
reform law is evade t and violated to secure
contributions from office-holders to aid Mahone
in Virginia and to strengthen the sickly repub
lican campaign in this state. What usually
happens when foxes are set to administer the
affairs of a chicken-coop?
BRIGHT BITS.
Charming Widow— And what are you doing
nowadays?
He—O, amusing myself; looking out for
number one. And you?
Charming Widow—Looking out for number
two.— Life.
“Well, I can't see any fun in attendin’court,”
said an observant old lady. “Every time a
witness goes to tell anything that's got any
thing to do with the case, ail the lawyers jutrp
up and holler, and the j*>dg© rules the’testimony
out.”—Fuel.-.
A New Breed. —Dog Fancier—Yes, madam, I
have all kinds of dogs here. Is there any par
ticular breed you wish?
Old Lad v (who reads the papers) O, anything
that’s fa unable. lemme see an ocean grey
hound.—New Yotk Weekly.
“Excuse me, miss,’’ said a smart young man
to a lady who affects juvenility in head dress,
“but your hair is all down.”
“Thank you,” was the reply; “possibly you
have observed the same fact in connection with
your mustache.”— Washington Capital.
Judge—Do you know the prisoner, Mr. Jones?
Jones—Yes, to the bone.
Judge—What's his character?
Jones—Didn't know he had any.
Judge—Does he live near you?
Jon-s—So near that I know he has spent less
than $6 for firewood in eight years.— New York
Sun.
Miss Slvmme—How do you like my new gown,
dear?
Miss Plompe—Well, it isn’t so bad. But it
has a rather odd-looking figure in it, I think.
About thirty minutes later.
Miss Slymnie—l wonder if that hateful thing
was referring to me. These goods are per
fectly plain.—Terre Haute Express.
He—The case of Jacob sometimes has a
modern parallel. I knew a man ouce who served
five years for his second wife.
She—How romantic!
He—Not so remarkably romantic. He mar
ried the second one without getting a divorce
from his first, and served five years for bigamy,
don’t you know. —Terre Haute Express.
“I don't think Jones has been indulging’too
much,’’said his kindly believing spouse; “but
still I thought it rather odd of him that he
should wrench the knocker off the front door
and bring it up to me as I sat in bed, saying
that he’d gathered another rose for me out ot
the garden; poor, dear, simple boy! He's just
as loving aud sentimental as ever he was.”—
Troy Pres*.
Bagsley—Doctor, I wish you would call
around and see mv wife.
Doctor—What's the trouble?
Bagsley—That’s what I want to find out. I
came home at 4:30 o'clock this morning after a
time witli the boys, and siept till 12 o’clock.
She hasn’t said a word about it. I’m afraid
she’s losing her mind or else going to strike for
a sealskin. These women always were too
much for me.— Kearney Enterprise,
Ancient History.—Joues, who had been
listening to the outpouring of some congres
sional Boanerges, said to a friend as he came
out into the oponaiir
“Well! that s what I call real oratory.”
“But he doesn't understand the English
language.”
“Never you mind; when I went to school and
studied Gre k 1 read the orations of Demos
thenes; be didn’t understand English either,
and yet they call him a great orator.”— Judge.
PERSONAL. t
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the
interstate commerce commission, has written
an introduction for the ’’Railway” book of the
Scribners.
It is not generally known that there are in
existence some very spirited ballads by Lord
Macaulay, which, in accordance with the autnor's
wish, have never been published. Tne best of
them relates the story of Bosworth field.
Andrew D. Baird, the republican candidate
for mayor of Brooklyn, is a Scotchman by
birth and a stone-cutter by trade. He served
through the war, coming out as a lieutenant
colonel, and has since been prominent in the
business circles of Brooklyn.
The Emperor of Russia has ordered the well
known Russiau artist, Prof. Bogynboff, to paint
a picture atter the style of Salzmann, repre
senting the entrance of Emperor William into
the harbor of Cronstadt. It will be presented
to the German emperor when finished.
Emile de Laveleyb, the European publicist,
says, in the October borum, that a hundred
years hence, leaving China out of the question,
there will be two colossal powers iu the world,
beside which Germany, England, France and
Italy will be as pigmies—the United States and
Russia.
Oliver C. Borbyshell, the new superintend
ent of the mint at Philadelphia, is 50 years of
age and a native of Vicksburg, Miss., but his
parents were Pennsylvanians, and he was
brought up in the Schuylkill valley. He has
been connected with the mint in various capaci
ties since 1869.
Baron Hirsch. one of the richest of the
French bankers, who was blackballed a few
months ago by the Paris Jockey Club, is about
to take his household to England. He thinks
of buying Houghton hall, one of the most mag
nificent of English places, near Sandringham,
for £300.000. The baron is reputed to be worth
£10,000,000.
J. T. Trowbridge, whose stories for boys
have made him famous, lives in retirement in
Boston, seldom receiving callers. He has made
a fortune by his pen, but does not care for
society iu his declining years. Ho is now over
70 years old and has a very handsome face,
which tells of a well-spent life. He declares
that work will never injure a man if he leaves
all kinds of dissipation alone.
Appleton Morgan, founder and president of
the New York Shakespeare Society, is very
like Napoleon in appearance, and is fair, fat
and 40. His home is at Newtown, L. 1., where
he has a choice library, which is particularly
rich in Sbakespeariana. He is a lawyer by
profession, but, like Master Shallow, he had
very little love for it in tne beginning, and it
pleased heaven to lessen it on a better ac
quaintance.
Count D’Orsay was a Bohemian of the grand
princely type. For a quarter of a century he
was the glass of the Loudon world, altaough
he was so deeply in debt and so harassed by
bailiffs that it was on Sunday only that he
could stir out of doors, for fear of beiug ar
rested. But on every Sunday he appeared in
Hyde park resplendent in person and turnout,
for ue was the moat accomplished whip among
the fashionable gentlemen of the day.
William I). Howells is a short, thick-set,
round-shouldered mau. having more the appear
ance of a Bowery boy i liana graceful humorist.
His iron gray ualr falls in unkempt masses over
a low forehead, and his eyes have more snllen
uess than intellect in their expression. lie re
ceives *IO,OOO a year from Harper'* Magazine.
He writes with great rapidity, turning out ten
printed |>agrs a day on a stretch. Kluce the
critios mg and little, have begun to speak
plainly about his novels be is uot so sweet
tempered oa he was when ev. rything he wrote
was praised to the skies
Mrs. Margaret J. I’rbmton, the Virginia
ponteas, is ml blind, as several newspapers bate
announce,] but she is suffering from the merci
less .se of uer eyes ID her generous efforts to
help southern literature m the years which foi
low el uie civil war. This luce.sant work, day
and night, wore out her eyesight, and for leu
years u- has bneu compel!* 1 to dictate her
literary work, and atao uer letters, to a type
writer In Aleut this great drawtieck, she
brought <>ut three bowks Met year Hh* is now
To years of are, but she works sUU Her hue
hand, t’nl J T L Freebou, is s pe deesor at Ue
Virginia Military Institute, at L-Alogtwu, Va
Hr was a- ia*mate of Edgar 4 Foe at a private
seats tl in kirnmood, as far hawk as l met
To lurk the akin, remove ex ram tala
Irow Lbe blood with Lite Beans JJuae, uste
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Hie Business Against Him.
From the Boston Courier.
Farmer’s Son—Did you hire th* man, father ?
1 armer—l wanted to, but he wouldn't accept
the place.
F. S.—What did you offer him?
F—l offered him SOO a month and to find
himself.
F. B.—And he thought S9O too little?
F —No. be was satisfied with the wages, but
he said he couldn’t find himself.
F. B.—Why not?
F.—Because he is an ex-detective from Chi
cago. Ho said he never could find anything. 4
Not bo Poor as He Seemed.
From the Youth a' Companion.
Iyord Lonsdale was said to have more daugh
ter* than any other member of the British
aristocracy.
At one time he waa at a German watering
place ana took a walk in company with big six
oi est daughters. Some Germans, a little be
hind him, gazed at the procession, and preg
ently one of them remarked, in an undertone:
Alas! poor man.”
Lord Lonsdale caught the words, and turned
immediately.
“O no, sir: not so poor as you think. I have
six other daughters at home/’
The Deaf Deacon.
From the Bouton Transcript.
Out in one of the Worcester county hill vil
lages there used to live, and tor all the listener
know s lives still, a man and a
pillar of the church, who was very deaf. He
was aso a very complacent man. One night
this man—Deacon Jones we may call him—
came into the prayer meeting and sat about
fossiping a little, all on his own account, while
e was waiting for the meeting to begin. At
last the meeting was oj>enea by one of the
brethren, who knelt aud began a prayer, but
Deacon X. did not hear a word.
‘‘Well,” said he presently, breaking with a
loud voice into the other's prayer, **l guess
we re goin’ to have quite a good meetin', after
all. spite o’ the rain/’
The brother went on with his prayer as soon
aa übe interruption was over, but Deacon X. was
inexorable. After waiting a few moments
longer he turned half way round and said:
“Well, brethren ands sters, we might as well
begin."
The praying brother saw it was no use and
brought his prayer to a close with a hasty
Amen.” Meantime Deacon X. went on.
"Brethren aud sisters," said he, “I've got
somethin’ dreadful to tell you.”
The congregatiou was on the gut vi re.
. *, es ” said he, "I want to ask the prayers of
this ere meetin' for my sister out in York state.
She is in deep affliction. Her husband has been
assassinated."
A thrill of horror went over the little assem
bly as they waited for him to speak more
definitely.
“Yes, brethren," he said, presently, “he's
hung hisse f in his barn!"
It was horrible, but the extraordinary nature
of the ‘assassination" tinged the announce
ment with a little of the color of ridiculous
ness.
Ingln Summer.
From Harper's Magazine.
Jest about tb© time when fall
Gits to rattlin' iiitbe trees.
An’ the man thet knows it all
’Spicions frost in every breeze.
When a person tells hisse’f
Thet the leaves look mighty thin, —
Then thar blows a mellar breafl
Ingin summer’s hyereagin.
Kind-uh smoky-lookin’ blues
Spins acrost the mountain side;
An’ the heavy mornin’ dews
Greens the grass up fur an' vslfia
Natur' raly ’pears ez ef
She wuz layin’ off a day—
Sort-uh drorin' in her breaf
’Fore she freezes up to stay.
Nary lif o’ work I strike
’Longabout this time o' year!
I’m a sort-ub slowly like,
Right when login summer’s here.
Wife an' boys kin do the work.
But a man with natchel wit,
Like I got, kin ’ford to shirk,
Ef he lies a turn for it.
Time when grapes set in to rip^
AU I ast off apy man
Is a common co’n cob pipe
With lerbacker to my nan’.
Then jest loose ine whar the air
Simmers ’crost me, wahm and free!—
Promised lands ull find me thar;
Wings ull t'ahly sprout on me!
I’m a loungin’ round on thrones,
Bossin’ world* f’om shore to shore.
When I stretch my marrer bones
Jest outside the cabin door!
An' the sunshine seepin’ down
On my old head, bald an’ gray,
’Pears right lLe the gilted crown
I expect to w’ar some day.
The Alligator Wouldn’t Eat.
From the Chicago Mail.
“Had great fun the other evening.” said a
young man. “Called on a young lady friend of
mine, aud found she had just received a little
bit of an alligator from a friend in Florida. The
young lady was terribly worried about the little
saurian—afraid it would die. and all that. Well,
I knew that you couldn't kill the reptile, but I
didn’t say so; I encouraged the young lady to
worry and feel bad.
“ ’lt wants eggs,’ I said; ‘that’s what it wants
—raw eggs; ana you had better hurry up and
give it some.’
“She put the beast in the basket. I took It
lip and said:
‘Why haven't you got some cotton in here
for it to sleep on?'
“She looked scared, and said: ‘Cotton?’
“ ‘Yes, cotton,' I said. She was mightily
alarmed, and hustled around and found a roll
of cotton, which she loaded into the basket.
Then she got a saucer and a couple of eggs and
broke 'om aud put ’em under the alligator’s
nose
“ ‘They must be beaten and made frothy,’ I
told her.
“So she did that. But it wouldn’t eat any
more than before, of course. I flopped the
little beast over in the egg and smeared it all
over with the batter, and it got so scared that it
jumpei around in the cotton and got tangled
up. You know egg paste is a great stuff for
sticking.
•’Then I told her to take the cotton out; that
the hlligator wouldn't sleep till it had eaten.
“Then I had her fix up a dish of pulverized
sugar and cream, and bring some new radishes
and some peach preserves aud some olives and
little onions and cheese.
“All this time the poor girl was worrying
dreadfully, and two or three times when the
beast let the curtains down over ita eyes she
thought it was dying. But she never suspected
that I was making game of her till I told her at
last that she couldn’t kill the alligator with an
ax, an’d that all that it would need to eat for
a while would be a dish of water and a lot of
pebbles and dirt. Then she chased me out of
the house with her brother's big horn-handled
cane, and I haven’t dared to go back yet.”
Knocked the Emperor Down.
From the New York Star.
Few of the thousands who pass him on lower
Broadway have any idea that the old gentleman
with the silky white hair, clean-shaven face,
somewhat stoop-shouldered, and wearing an
old-fashioned light hat, whom they meet occa
sionally. Is Joseph Francis, the father of the
American life-saving service. He is the in
ventor of the metal life-car. and almost the
entire service to-day is the fruit of his inventive
Snius. During the past few years Mr. Frauds
s subsisted entirely upon a diet of milk. Al
though over 80 years of age, he is as sprightly,
and has as clear an intellect, as most men of
half his years.
Mr. F raticis enjoys the enviable distinction of
being the only man who ever knocked an em
peror down with impunity. It ocourre lin this
way. While in Europe some years ago ho was
invited by the Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria to visit that country for the purpose of
demonstrating to his majesty the working of
an ingenious syst.m which Mr. Francis has
invented, for tue transportation of military
armament across rivers. Ten thousand people
?athered to witness the operation. A space xOJ
set square, fronting on tne river, was reserved
for the emperor. Upon this soars no one but
Mr Francis, who was superintending the oper
ation personally, was allowed to enter. Some
thing went wrong during the process, and Mr.
Francis, seeing how to rectify it, rushed down
to the water's edge, and, seizing one
of the guide ropes, gave it a vigor
ous pull The rope slackened sud
denly in Ins grasp, and he was thrown violently
back against the emperor, who had followed
close upon his heels, knocking hi* majesty fiat
upon his bars. As the person of an Austrian
emperor is ronaidered sacred by the people, the
crowd waited eagerly to see what kind of eon
dign punishment would be meted out to Mr.
Francis, who had chancel, even accidentally, to
violate it. But when Mr. Francis bad assisted
the prostrate sovereign to Ilia feet and apolo
gized for the aocident. and tbe emperor graape I
him warmly by th* band, tlie assembled masse*
manifested tneir appreciation of tfna gracious
token of forgiveness on the pari of their so*,
•riwgu by Uu> wil ls*) applause That eight a
inagnlll rut banquet waa given by Hie emperor
In nos rof tb* great JituarUtau inventor and
life saver.
impure mater, the cause at uu much u|
health it uiad# harm less by add iug a Buis
Aiiguature BiUerv Mauufaoturai by Ur.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
OrmrwA. La., is to have a coal palace, in de
sign and idea similar to the corn palace of
Sioux City. A committee has been appointed
to investigate the construction of the Sioux
City palace, and will at once formulate
Slan< to carry out the erection of the Black
iamond palace during the coming sea.
It was noticeablx at the Paris exposition
this summer how rapidly two-wheeled vehicles
in Fra !22? are supplanting four-wheelers There
were 300.000 four-wheeled and 600.000 two
wheeled vehicles in the country in 1874. The
uumber of the latter is now 1.100.000. while that
of the more aristocratic conveyances remains
just what it was fifteen years ago.
Indented writing upon iron has just been
successfully done by John Farrar, an eastern
foundryman, by the following process: The im-
P r^®^ on on the iron is made by writing back
ward on thin paper, pinning the paper in a
mold, and then pouring on the iron. The
writing thus transferred to the plates, when the
iron is cooled, is wonderfully clear and distinct,
and is to deeply imprinted as to defy any at
tempt at erasure.
James Shields of Creston, la., arrived in
Kansas City the other evening with his bride of
a week. Leaving his wife in the ladies' waiting
room or the union depot, he went across the
street to find a hotel. When he returned his
wire was gone. He spent several hours looking
for her, and finally reported the matter to
g? 1 / T “ e uiissing woman is 18 years of age.
nnieias, who had never before been in Kansas
City, went there to reside.
There are 3,000 medical women in the United
States whose incomes range from $5,000 to
a year. The number is increasing every
year, and the supply of “Jady doctors” bids fair
to be as great as that of the male physicians.
Austria is the only civilized country in the
world which prohibits women from entering
the medical profession. Russia and China per
mit them, and the <Jueens of Italy and Rou
mama employ women bysiciaas. l
The chief of the ‘bureau of st Aftfctics reports
that the total values of ‘the is of mineral
oils from the United the month
of September, 1889, and during the nine months
ended bept, 30, 18MF a* Sbihpared with similar
exports during the corresponding periods of the
B 2? ed J?5.J car ’ were tt3 follows: {September,
1889, $4,5.8/i6B; September, 1868, $4.00.*,374.
Nine months ended Sept. 30, $30,197,615;
nine months ended Sept. 30, 188£, 834,699,067.
Common as slate pencils are* extensive as
is their use in all the schools ef the country,
their manufacture is one of oupgnost peculiar
industries. There is* only one slate-pencil
factory in all the United It employs
only twenty-five men, and it turns out 30,000
slate pencils a day. It hardly feefcras that this
quantity would be sufficient, btffcrftace chewing
gum has come into such goferal vogue the
consumption of slate pencils has evidently
fallen off. T -. (T . *
Henry Exall of Richmond, Va., claims to
have suKK*sted a tower similar to that now
known as the Eiffel tower as lonjf ago as 1875.
He says: “I have yet my plans, and only last
year proposed to the mayor of Chicago to put
them in the hands of some of the rich and enter
prising men in that city, where the tower
would make a grand show near the edge of the
lake, and over a large extent of country. The
mayor replied that the city government couid
not enter on such a scheme, and he did not pro
pose to favor it so much as to propose it to the
citizens. ”
The Vanderbilts are known at Bar Harbor as
people who do a great deal of good in a quiet
way. helping the deserving poor on frequent
occasions without making any parade of the
matter. During the past season they purchased
at one shop, through an attache of the cottage,
S6O worth per week of common clothing for
needy villagers. In one case the family's,
philanthropy was sadly abused. They had pro
vided a destitute family with a lot of furniture
among other things, and not long afterward
found that the shiftless recipients sold
the goods for ready cash.
At the Jerseyville (III.) fair, the other
day, about 2,0)0 children were treated to a sur
prise entertainment that made the little ones
wild with delight. It consisted of a mock wed
ding of two little 7-year-old children—Lester
Daniels or “Lord Fauntleroy,” and Jessie Finch
as his bride—Marmaduke Fox. 10 years old,
officiating in clerical robes. The little bride
was arrayed in a beautiful dress of cream alba
tross. en train, with garniture of flowers and
wreath of orange blossoms. They came upon
the grounds in an elegant close carriage, and
atter the ceremony rode around the ring iu a
splendid dogcart drawn by a Shetland pony,
with Senator Chapman's 6-year old boy as
driver.
A certain Lewiston (Me.) woman is in luck.
Recently she sat counting some bills to the
amount of SBO, which she had just taken out ot
her pocketbook. Near at hand was a flower
stand, and, noticing some dean leaves on her
plants, she picked them off and mechanically
crumpled them and the bills in her hand, thrust
the whole into the stove, laid in kindlings
turned on kerosene, lighted the whole and went
into another room. Suddenly, searching for
her bills to replace them in her wallet, she
thought of what she had done, and, seizing a
dipper of cold water, turned it upon the fire
in about as quick time as ever Rhe did anything
Truly “time was money” with her just then
And she actually rescued the whole amount un
damaged except one bill, the edges of which
were slightly scorched.
They have the color line drawn in the ward
room,” said an old sailor to a New York Herald
reporter, on board a ruau-of-war at the Brook
lyn navy yard yesterday. “They don’t want
to associate with a black man, even if he is a
minister going abroad to represent the nation
But we poor shellbacks have to put up with the
colored men they pile in on us before the mast.
We have no choice. Have we any objection to
colored sailors? Well, it don’t make any differ
ence whether we have or not, we have to put up
with 'em. The docks are full of the ‘black
scorpions'—that’s what we old meu-of-war's
men call ’em. Yes; they make pretty fair sea
men, but they ain’t our race or color. ’Fore the
war there warn’t so many of ’em as there are
to-day; now we 'pear to take anything in the
shape of a man that comes oinug. The navy of
the old wooden ship school ,w*s the best for the
marlin spike and topmau, nagnjar yankee man
of-warsmen, but times change and we are going
aloft to another sphere to jnake way for the
new-fangled invention of flic times. It’s all
right, I suppose, but ain't what it used to be
’fore the war. ■ va v
The tallest and heaviest Watf who has passed
through the entrance of the ftotel Lafayette for
many a day, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
bent his six feet and a quarter of stature
over the desk yesterday when he regis
tered as Hugh Ferguson, Charleston, 8.
C. He is sheriff qf his county, and in the
Eolitical scales of ffliqstate from which he comes
weighs as heavily gs fie wbnld in any merely
mechanical balance. decided tne turn
ing of the beaui’iM'j(aay ii critical contest in
the Democratic mu-ty of riocth Carolina, in
which he is manager of the fires importance. In
his black suit, which hangs loosely on his mas
sive figure, and his soft, black jfeit hat, he is
more Uke the southerner of the Hays before the
war than a type of the new south,
where the tailor's art is not far
behind the northern patterns. Mr
Ferguson is a strong man in that faction of the
South Carolina democracy tvhich counted the
late Capt. Francis W. Dawson as a big section
of its brains; but he and his associates have not
lost their party grip because of the killing of
Dawson by Dr. JlcDow. The sheriff has a brother
living in Philadelphia, to visit whom is the prin
cipal incentive of his northern trip.
Laurel. Md., has a haunted mill. The othe
night persons standing near it heard agonizing
groans in the direction of the old building, and
a light was discovered in one of the upper stories.
Several people had been attracted to the spot
by the light, which shoue brightly from the
paneless windows, for it was known by every
schoolboy in town that the old building h&l
long since been abandoned, aud no hope of Its
ever again being inhabited was indulged in even
by the owner. The light, however, was there
which in itself was sufficient to attract aitem
tion, but wheD a moan, followed by screams of
agony, saluted the ears of the listeners, there
was usionistnnent and fear depicted upon their
countenances. The screams fell gradually to
peculiar moans, such as might beW>x|ected to
emanate from some human being who was fast
breathing out bis Uie from some mortal and
sudden hurt. The sound of hurried footsteps
descending the old. oraaxjr stairs was plainly
heard by the attentive listeners on the side
walk, but no persuu waa seen to (save the build
ing, which waa cloaelv watct.ed ( After the dis
appearance of the light iu the upper rooms of
the building and the hush of t he ghostly sounds
a few of the stouter hearted entered and did
gently explored every nook aod o wuer, but no
presence of earthly inhabitants rewarded their
•earch
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