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INDEX TO NEW ADYIRTISEMEJH
Meetings—Zerubbatiel Lodge No. 15, F. and
A. M : Haupt Lodge No. 58,1.0.0. F.; Working
men's Benevolent Association.
Special Notices—lmportant to Bankors, Wm.
A. Wright, Comptroller General; Notice as to
Detention of Steamer St. Nicholas by Fog.
Proposals— For Two Skiffs and a Horse for
Use of Marine Hospital Service.
Turkey—.lames Douglass.
Hotslr—The Seminole, Winter l’ark, Orange
County, Florida, W. E. Paige.
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On Sunday, Jan. 5, tbe Morning News
t rill begin the publication of anew serial
8 jtory, entitled, “The Great Mill Street Mvs
b,ry,” by Miss Adeline Sergeant, author of
‘"Jacobi’s Wife,” one of the most successful
ct rrcent stories. “The Great Mill Street
Mystery” is a powerful story, and will run
si;i months. It has been secured at very
considerable expense, and will appear
in the Daily and Weekly Morninq
NTzws. It can be safely said that it Is one
of tbe best stories that have been published
by the newspapers for a long time, and we
fuel certain that it will bo greatly enjoyed
by the readers of the Morning News.
Those who want to read it should subscribe
all once so that they will be certain to get
the numbers containing the first installment
of this great story. The story alone i well
worth the subscription price of tho W eekly
Morning News.
There appears to be a lull in the talk
about gubernatorial candidates in this state.
If tbe lull continues for a good long while
there will be no complaints hoard from the
people.
The McGinty joke has beeu productive of
quite a number of crimes of violence. It
begins to look as if the good of society
would require the joke to be suppressed by
legislative enactment.
The citizens of Washington, it is said, wore
profoundly interested yesterday in Baby
McKee’s Christmas tree. There is danger
of Baby McKee’s becoming a bigger man
(ihan bis grandfather.
Christmas eve in this city was not with
out its crimes and accidents, all of which
axe traceable, doubtless, to a too free use of
wihisky. How much better off the world
vrouid be if whisky drinking could be sup.
pressed.
It begins to look as if Englishmen would
finally succeed in purchasing all the
whisky distilleries in this country. It is
understood that they have secured seven
teen m Kentucky, and still they are not
satisfied.
New Orleans is a good deal disturbed by
the prospect of getting a navy yard. In view
of the fact that it will De a good while be
fore congress acts on the matter, it will b e
well, perhaps, for her to keep her feelings
under control.
Many Vermonters who emigrated west
years ago, and who have not prospered, are
returning and buying abandoned farms in
that state. They are finding out that they
din do better in Vermont than in the west.
They should come south.
It Is estimated that it will cost the city of
New York fully $230,000 to remove the
overhead electric light wires in that city.
If the electric light companies could put
them under ground for many times that
■mount they would be happy.
Every day or two the death of a human
being is due to the faith cure craze, and yet
there doesn’t seem to be any way to compel
a person to call a physiciau or take medi
cine if he doesn’t want to. Doubtless the
craze will have to run its course.
Leon Poffei-s of Washington, who has
been selling boutonnieres to congressmen
and others for the last forty years, has ac
cumulated a fortune of more than $30,000.
He is an example of what a man cau do iu
a small business by exercising thrift and
economy.
The new governor of Alaska is a Ver
mont man. Vermont is at present making
earnest efforts to get immigrants for her
abandoned farms. Perhaps the new gov
ernor of Alaska could supply Vermont’s
wants from among the natives of that
territory.
The effort to defeat Col. Brice’s election to
the senate from Ohio by trying to make out
that he is a resident of New York city will
not amount to much. He is a householder
m New York, but he has never given up his
residence in Lima, O. He will have no
- Double, probably, to prove that he is an
Übto office-seeker. The fact that he is after
a big office is pretty good evidence that he
w an Ohioan. ”
A Great Debate Promised.
There are bills before congress which re
late to the race problem, and when they
are considered that problem will bo the
subject of a great debate. Both northern
and southern congressmen are preparing
for it, and it is likely to occur at any time
after the holiday recess. A correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun interviewed several
senators and a number of prominent colore 1
men in Washington a day or two ago on the
race problem. The northern senators de
clined to talk freely, saying that
they intended to express their views
upon the floor of the Senate, and,
therefore, preferred not to discuss the mat
ter in an interview. Democratic senators
from the south, however, showed no hesita
tion in answering the questions asked them.
Senator Butler of South Carolina said
that for ten years or more he hid been try
ing to find a solution of the race problem,
and bad finally come to toe conclusion that
in no way could it be solve! so well as by
distributing a large number of the blacks
among the northern and western states and
terfitories. If the south could get rid of a
part of her black population she would im
prove, he said, much more rapidly socially,
morally, and industrially, and the blacks
themselves would be benefited, because those
who remained would have a better chance
to get an education and good wages, aud
those who emigrated would be thrown upon
their own resources, aud would therefore
develop qualities necessary for them to have
in order to be good citizens. There are not
sufficient transportation facilities, he said,
to take them away fast enough to jeopar
dize the industrial interests of the south.
As fast as they emigrated their places would
be taken by white people, and the south,
therefore, would never feel the loss of thorn.
Senator Butler does not propose that the
blacks shall be forced to emigrate', but that
, uey shall tie assisted in doing so, and that
the boneflts that would accrue to them shall
be pointod out to them. Senator Hampton
agreed with Senator Butler. Indeed, both
senators said that they were in favor of any
plan that promised to afford the south the
relief that she needed. Senator Morgan
thought that the blacks would be far better
off in the free state of Congo than they are
here, ami he introduced a resolution into
the Senate recently looking to the opening
of a way for a very considerable percentage
of them to get there. It is a healthy coun
try, possessing vast possibilities, and there
they could have every advantage that the
people of any country have.
Ex-Senator Bruce, a colored man, ex
pressed tho opinion that two things would
settle the race problem, viz., education and
emigration. The general government, he
thought, should provide the means for both.
The south, in his opinion, is doing all she
ca for the education of the blacks, and be
fore more can lie done the nation must lend
a helping hand. The ex-senator is satisfied
that there are 4 great many more blacks
in tho south than are needed, and that for
the good of the whites,as well as the blacks,
the surplus should be got rid of. The
blacks are needed in the northern aud
western states, and there the surplus of
them should go. He declared emphatically
that he does not believo that there is any
danger of a race war, as the blacks know
they would come out second best in such a
contest, and, besides, they have no hatred
of the whites that would lead them to adopt
a policy of violence.
Other prominent colored men took pretty
much the same view of the subject as that
expressed by ex-Senator Bruce. They
would like to see a movemeut of the sur
plus black population toward the north and
west. They would not like to see any of
the blacks sent out of the country against
their will, but they would like to see them
more evenly distributed over the entire
country.
There is no other question now pending
that is so important to the people of this
country as that relating to tho races, and
even republican leaders will have to admit
that there isn’t. They are beginning to un
derstand that a settlement of the political
status of the blacks would not be a
settlement of the race questiou. Tho two
races must always remain distinct. One
cannot assimilate the other. Is it possible
for two races, utterly dissimilar, both free
and nearly equal in numbers, to occupy the
same territory without clashing ? Did any
seection of country ever enjoy great and
continued prosperity under such conditions
The Economy of Good Roads.
The question how to secure bettor roads
has received an unusual amount of atten
tion lately in nearly every part of the coun
try, and one of the suggestions for securing
them is that of a writer in Scribner's Maga
zine. He wants a superintendent of roads
for the entire country and one for each of
the states appointed, the superintendent i 1
Washington to instruct the people concern
ing the best methods of improving the roads,
aud to report annually the progress ma ie
in each state, and those in the states to see
that the road commissioners of the different
counties have the work under their direc
tion done properly. Y T arious other plans
have been suggested, all of which go to
show that the demand for better roads is
increasing.
The census of 1880 contained some very
interesting and important figures concern
ing the losses incurred by farmers on
account of bad roads. An attempt was
mode to obtain a fair estimate of the cost
in the west of conveying grain from the
farms to the railway stations, and while the
estimates varied from 30 cents to $2 for
hauling 100 bushels one mile, the average
cost was about 60 cents for hauling that
number of bushols the distance named. It
was stated that in most of the western
wheat regions, if wheat had to be hauled
more than eighteen or twenty milos to a
railway station or u> water, the profits of
its culture were eaten up by the expenses.
These figures led to special investigation in
some of the states, and experts iu {lllinois
calculated that for two-thirds of the year
in that state not more than one-half of a
good load could be hauled.
A Boston engineer, comparing the roads
of this country with those of England, says
that iu England a horse employed in the
streets of a city or on the roads of tlio coun
try can do twice ns much work ns one simi
larly employed in America, and in his
“Practical Treatise on Roads,” Oillinore
says that it requires three times as much
force to pull a load over a common country
road as over a macadamized one. He did
not take into consideration the fact that the
greater part of the year the country roads
are m very bad condition. Prof. Eley cal
culates that poor roads cost the farmer an
average of at least $l5 a horse a year.
These things should impress upon the
people the economy of good reads. It costs
something to keep a road in good condition,
but it costs a great deal more to let it re
main in a bad condition.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26; 1889.
Tbe Jesup Affiir.
Two while ard perhaps one or more
' black men were killed, and two white men
were seriously wounded at Jesup yester
day as tbe result of an effort on the part
of the marshals of that town to prevent
a turbulent and notoriously had negro,
; named Brewer, from violating one of the
ordinances of the town. One of tha white
men who were killed was the assistant mar -
shal, aud one of the man who were wounded
was the marshal. The bloody affray
created the most intense excitement in
Je up, and os there is a very large black
population in tbe immediate vicinity of
that town, and as many of the
blacks showed a very ugly temper and
assumed a threatening attitude, grave ap
prehensions were entertained that the
blacks would assemble in force and attack
the whites. At a late hour last night,
although quiet prevailed, it was generally
thought that the blacks would not let the
matter rest where the confliot between the
town authorities and Brower and his gang
had left it.
Brewer appears to have had a grudge
against the assistant marshal, and delib
erately violated the city ordinance
in order to make an opportunity
to shoot that officer. He was
supported by half a dozsn or more armed
blacks, and doubtless felt that he could
carry out his purpose with safety.
It is notorious that all through the south
the blacks will support one of their color
in resisting arrest. Where there is
a crowd of them, it is dangerous
for an officer to attempt to
arrest one of them because they will
almost certainly uphold tile offender, and
even assault tho officer to prevent him
from doing his duty, it they are not intimi
dated. Many of the so-called race disturb
ances in the south are brought about by the
interference of the blacks whon an officer
undertakes to arrest ooe of their color.
Our dispatches indicate very clearly that
the blacks were the aggressors in the Jesup
affair. The uejfro Brewer killed an officer
without provocation, aud the blacks in his
company aided and abetted him, instead
of assisting, like good citizens, hi arresting
him.
Hundreds of other blacks who had no part
in the bloody affray wore ready, from all
accounts, to help the desperado to ovado
arrest
It is to be hoped that no effort will be
spared to arrest Brewer and punish him as
ho deserves. Such men as he are the ones
who are responsible for much of tho trouble
into which the blacks get.
The road traveled by prize fighters and
their backers is a pretty hard one. The
Nashville lawyers who went to the rescue
of John L. Sullivan and Charlie Johnson,
when they were arrested there last July,
have brought a suit in the supreme court of
New York against Johnson for SSOO, the
balance of SI,OOO they say ho promised
them. Johnson is very indignant, and will
fight the suit. He says: “This claim is an
outrage. I committed no offense, although
I was dragged out of the train by the Nash
ville officers with Sullivan to the jail, with
out hat, coat, or shoe*, surrounded by about
twenty policemen with drawn revolvers. I
paid the SSOO simply for gotting out on a
writ of habeas corpus. On being brought
before Judge McAllister he promptly dis
charged U 9. The few hours Sullivan and I
were detained in that city cost us at least
$1,500. We were bled on all sides.” Sulli
van, when he heard of the affair, said: “It
cost me nearly $4,000 to travol from New
Orleans to Chicago.”
The constable who went to Scranton, Pa.,
the other day to arrest Mr. Powderly
returned homo without his man. Tho war
rant contained a serious omission. It did
not state upon what charge Mr. Powderly
was to be arrested, and the constable was
warned by Judge Wastiabaugh not to serve
it. Mr. Powderly, it is stated, has decided
to bring suit for libel against Mr. Callaghan,
the man who wants him arrested. He says
that the matter contained in Callaghan’s let
ter to him and the charge which Callaghan
has frequently made public against him
furnish ample ground for such action.
Doubtless those j who feel a budding
genius for invention will oppose the bill in
troduced into congress a few days ago by
Mr. Lacey, of Ohio, which provide* that the
government may terminate u patent at any
time by paying the jiatentee or his as
signees a sum not less than #50,000, nor
more than SIOO,OOO. If a law of this kind
had boon in force years ago, the owners of
sewing machine and telephone patents
would not have made such enormous fort
unes.
Those who appear to be well Informed
concerning Mr. Randall’s condition say that
they do not expect to see him in his seat in
congress again. It is alleged that he is
suffering from cancer, and that hs death
may not be delayed very long. If it be
true that his malady is cancer, it is strange
that tho fact is not announced in a way that
would cause speculation about the nature of
bis disease to cease.
The Tuskaloosa (Ala.) Gazette makes a
suggestion which ought to strike the Presi
dent favorably, it is that he recall Minis
ter Fred Douglass, and appoint George W.
Cable minister to Hayti. Douglass doesn’t
seem to be popular in Hayti, on account of
his color, and as Cable is a white man, and
as he has no objoclion to mingling socially
with colored people, he would fill tbe bill.
Senator Quay is getting a good deal of
notoriety out of his position of boss of the
administration and the republican majority
in congress. Ho intends that his friends
shall have all tho fat offices at tbe disposal
of the government. He is aiming probably
to be the next candidate of his party for
President through the influence of the
office-holders.
Philadelphia think* she has the influenza,
the malady that is causing Europe 90 much
trouble. It will probably turn out that she
has only an epidemic of bad colds due to
the unseasonable weather. New York
thought she had the European disease a few
days ago, but her board of health said she
was mistaken.
The Law and Order Society of Philadel
phia is making war upon tho barbers of
that city for keeping open their shops on
Sunday, Unshaven faces are preferable in
tho Quaker City on Sunday to anything
that approaches what might lie construed
to be a disregard of the sacredness of that
day.
It is said that McKinley, the chairman of
the ways aud means committee, proposes to
report a tariff bill so short that it will make
his name a household word. If he could
discover a way to cut short ihe debate
which any tariff bill is certain to excite, ho
would win enduring lame.
CURRENT COMMENT.
The Plunder of Dam Pedro.
From the Mete York Timesdnd.).
The decree of the pr. v isional government of
Brazil cutting off the allowance to Doin Peuro
and confiscating his pro; -rly is as unwise as it
la mean. It does not always bold true that
“honesty is the best policy.” becaus*. for a
given end that rnav be bad, dishonesty is some
times much the better p 'licy.
The Silver Question.
thorn the Washington Pott (Hep.).
Between the discussion to which Senator ltea
gan’s bill fur tbe free comage ot silver is sure to
lead aud that which must auto be had on auy
measure prepared in accordance with the
recommendation of Becr-tary Windom in the
same connection, the silver quest ion is certain
of being tnoroughiy agitated m the Fifty-first
congress.
Mr. McKinley as a Leader.
From the A5. Y. Commercial Advertiser (Rep.).
It ought not to be any occasion for surprise
that Mr. McKinley, the new chairman of the
ways and means committee, has thins early in
the session of congres- demonstrated his fab
ureas a leader ou the !l >or. He has never had
any training for this particular kind of political
work, and has, in truth, little fitness for the sort
of duties expected of a lea ier during tho present
session of congress.
Ballot Reform Coming.
Front the Pittsbnnj Dispatch (Rep.).
It is generally agreed by both parties where
the Austra lari system of voting has been tried
that it contributes materially to the honesty
and purity of elections This kind of ballot re
form has now passed b yond the experimental
stage, and there is more or less consideration
of its extension over the whole country. Some
such reform has been rendered necessary by
the bribery anil corruption which of a certainty
preva led in many pla-s at the last presidentiil
el ction. Tiie people ire eager to hear more of
tlie Australian system, and a great many poli
ticians appear to have discovered that their
opposition to the reform could not stay its prog
ress.
BRIGHT BITS.
A woman is never so badly in love that she does
no : try to find out the cost of her engagement
ring.— Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
Bashfclness is very becoming sometimes to a
young man, but it is well for him to get over it if
he is going to board.— Somerville. Journal.
Every man ought to be as good as his word.
Nothing is expected of those who never have a
good word for anybody.—New Orleans Pica
yune.
Seeoy Simmons—ls niv face good for the
whisky ?
Barkeeper—No. Ido not think it is. I think if
they got together the whisky would get decid
edly the worst of it—Terre Haute Express.
In Court—How comes it that you committed
4 robbery in so crowded a street iu full day
light?
“If your honor please, because T had laid out
some other streets for the evening ."—Flietiende
Rlatter.
' Ah, my doar friend, Ifbn’t be offended that my
husband was not at your brother’s funeral, bn.
to tell the truth he has such a very comical way
of walking that he has found it is out of the
question for him ever to go to a funeral.”
Ehcgende Blatter.
First Broker—No fluctuations in the dress
market, eh. Plunger? Strong effort to '‘bull”
Parisian styles yet?
Second Broker—Yes. and yet, singular
enough, the bare faction seems to predomi
nate,— Richmond Dispatch.
He (after a tiff)—So you persist in breaking
the engagement?
Mature Fiancee—Certainly; what do you take
me for?
He—About 40. Better think it over; it may
be your last chance.— Life.
“Vwich cookies you rudder haf, meester, de
vwones mit holes in de meedie or the vwones
init citron in tho meedie ”
Av it don’t mahk ahny difference to yez, mem,
OITJ tahk de ones wid de citron. Oi’ni fonder
av citron dan av holes mem. - Harper's Weekly.
Sunday School Teacher.—Who was it that
went down to Jericho and fell among thieves?
Smart Pupil—You can't play it, teacher. You
want me to say I don t know and then ask you,
aud then your going to spring McUinty onto
me. You can't play no McUinty drives on me.
Boston Transcript.
Slandered PARTy (in a towering rage)—Sue
him for $50,000 damages, sir 1 Not a cent less!
I ll teach him to blast my reputation and de
stroy my peace of mind—ihe scoundrel !
Lawyer (making out the papers)— His attor
neys. by the way—ha! ha!—have offered to
compromise by paying the costs and giving
you $26, I told them we’d see ’em—
Slandered Party (foaming at the mouth)—
Twenty-five dollars! All right. I'll take it,
blank his ornery hide!— Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL.
Corporal Tanner has had a postoffice named
in his honor in Indiana.
Jeremiah Rusk, secretary of agriculture, has
become a great friend of the new Cninese min
ister.
Miss Mary Anderson has decided to live in
Rome duriug the greater part of the winter of
1869-’9O.
John C. Hunter, who recently died in Phila
delphia at the age of 80, laid the first gas pipe
iu that city.
Robert Browning is said to have made up
scraps of verse when he was a small child, and
to tiave done something in the way of trans
lating Horace when but 8 years old.
Modern poets enjoy longevity. Browning
lived to be 71. Wordsworth, Bryant, Emerson,
and Longfellow were old men. Whittier, Ten
nyson, and Wait Wnitman still live.
Senator Allen of Washington state is so
youthful in appearance that he was recently re
fused admission to the floor of the United States
Senate chamber by a doorkeeper who did not
know him.
Bishop Brewer of Montana says: “Our
Montana men are honest, hard-working, inde
pendent fellows. They are not particularly
religious, and they do not respect church offices,
but they treat a bishop quite as well as they
treat a cowboy, provided the bishop is a manly
man,”
TnE heir apparent of the Japanese empire
having become of legal age, 11 years, last
month was given a sword which is said to have
been kept in the imperial family for nearly
1,300 years, and installed in an office that will
entitle him to be called colonel or something of
the kind.
Representative Tucker of Virgima was one
of the last members of the House to draw in the
seat lottery, and great was his surprise, as well
as delight, when, taking it, he discovered that
it was the seat of his father, J. Randolph
Tucker, first occupied when he was a member
of that body.
Rev. Charles E. Stowe, son of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, has resigned his position as
pastor of the Windsor Avenue Congregational
church, Hartford, Conn. He asked for leave of
absence for a year and it was refused. Mr.
Stowe is the author of a recently published
biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Ur. Mapbier, the artist, was educated orig
inally in scientific chemistry, and as a very
young man once took charge of a gold mine in
llevon: a gold mine in which, however, there
was no gold, as he very soon found out. But
the desire of art was so strong in him that he
gave up bis profession and went to Paris, and
there he studied for a year at Gleyre s studio.
Ludovio Halevy, member of the French
academy and author of many successful books
and plays, says that his daughter lamented to
him that she had never read a line that he had
written: for the parental edict had gone forth
to that effect. Moved by her complaints, he
set himself to write a story for her especial be
hoof, and the result was “The Abbe Constan
tin.”
Thackeray was fond of a good dinner, and
when he was in this country enjoyed the terra
pins andcanvas-back ducks of the Chesapeake.
He liked to gather a few choice spirits around
him and have a good time, but all within the
limits of becoming mirth, with wine, cigars,
stories, etc. He used to enjoy the Saturday
nights at the Century Club, New York, where
he once met Ur. Kane, soon after the latter had
returned from one of tiis voyages to the North
Pole. The doctor told Thackeray how' he lmd
seen a sailor reading "Pendennis” by the light
of a train oil lamp beneath a polar glacier.
Hortense Bertrand, daughter of Count
Bertrand, the most faithful of Napoleon’s gen
erals, is still living in Paris. She accompanied
her father and mother to St. Helena in is 15.
The emperor taught the little girl her cate
chism, and she made her first communion at the
hands of tliy same alibe who administered the
last, sacrament to the dying Napoleon. Ilor
tense returned with her parents to France and
married ,M. Thayer, a gentleman of American
extraction. She retains a vory vivid recollection
of the great emperor, and has many Napoleonic
relics, among them his silver service, his fam
ous Waterloo coat, etc.
Do not be induced to take some other
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Sarsaparilla. Be sure to get Hood’s, which
is peculiar.
ALL BECAUSS OF A CIPHER
A Man’s Life Ruined by a, Moment of
Forgratfulnesa.
From the Son Francisco Examiner.
“There goes a man whose life was ruined by
forgetting the si mpl * character o,' said a prom
inent railroad man yesterday, pointing to a rag
ged. besotted man shambling along the street,
unmindful of the rain.
'•' as a train dispatcher on the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad once, having worked up to
that position from messenger boy in toe tele
graph office. _ One Sunday he had only two
trains on ills division, an express train westward
bound end a fast stock train running ■-ast.
The day was warm and sultry, and Dili, for
that was his name, bad hard work to keep
awake. He knew that as soon as he made the
meeting point for the two trains he couid doze,
and be im|>atienUy awaited the time. When
th trams were close enough together for him
to figure a meeting point he sent an order to
the passenger train to meet and pass the stock
train at a little station called Willow Valley,
fix ng the time st 12:50 o'clock. To the stock
train he sent an order that it could have until
1:25 o'clock to make Willow Valley for the pas
senger. seo the in stake': He forgot the 0, and
hence gave the stock train thirty-five minutes
more time than he should. Bill saw his mistake
ten minutes after he had male it, but there
being no telegraph Rtation between the points
where the trains were given the orders or at the
meeting point, he could do nothing to rectify
It. He sent for the superintendent and ordered
out the wrecking crew, then sat at the key pale as
death, the cold perspiration running down his
face in streams, awaiting news of the collision.
“It came. The passenger train reached Wil
low \ alley on time, waited the required thirty
minutes under the card-time rules for the
freight train and then pulled out. Thr:e min
utes later the two trains met on a curve, both
running at a high rate of speed. Fourteen
lives were lost in the collision, besides SIOO,OOO
worth of property destroyed. Bill resigned at
once, and the next day disappeared. For a
long time it was thought he had committed
suicide, but I met him on the street here one
day just as you see him—a total wreck.’’
Rivalry In Rich Men’s Tombs.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
A contract was signed yesterday for the con
siruc! lun of a magnificent mausoleum in Lau
rel Hill cemetery for the Floods, and work upon
it will commence in a few days and bo pros
ecuted steadily by a large force of men for a
vear, when it is hoped thit it win be finished.
The mausoleum is to be finer than the beautiful
one lately completed by James G. Fair, and
equal to that of the Crocker family. It will
cost at least SIOO,OOO.
It will be modeled after the Jay Gould mau
soleum, but in beauty of structure will, it is
stated, even surpass it. Its form is to be that
of a peripteral lonic temple, and it will be con
structed entirely of California material, and
almost entirely of granite. The only other
material used will possibly be a little marble
along the margins for the receptacles for the
dead. Even tuis will be dispensed with, if
possible, and artistically worked granite sub
stituted.
The great tomb will be about thirty-two feet
long and twenty feet wide, and will reach to a
height of twenty feet. There are to be
twenty-eight colurns, each being a
perfect polished piece without joint and un
marred in any way. The cella will be ten feet
eight inches In bight with angle or volute caps
on all sides.
When completed, the mausoleum will in the
interior have the effect of a great mirror, as its
granite sides, and even the Hour, which will be
of granite, will be as smooth as glass. Tha
dome in its interior will be of paneled and curi
ously carved granite.
The mausoleum, as at first constructed, will
have receptacles for six persons, or for as
many as constitute the Flood family. When
the monument is completed the remains of Mr.
Flood will be transferred from the O’Brien
vault to their permanent resting place.
The Man With the Coonskin Cap.
frVom the New York Sun.
One night a year ago there were half a dozen
°fus to go up to the village hotel in the rickety
old bus, and among the crowd was a solemn
looking old chap, dressed in very plain goods
and wearing a coonskin cap. It was the typical
village hotel landlord in the barroom, a very
fresh young man behind the register, might y
little for supper, and that poorly cooked, and
there was more or loss growling. The man with
the coonskin cap was treated very brusquely by
the clerk, and the frowsy-headed waiter girl
didn't seem to care whether he had anything to
eat or not. He didn't say much, but it was evi
dent that he was mad.
After supper the landlord and “Coonskin”
had a private confab. When it was ended the
old man came down-stairs, opened the front
door, and then turned to the clerk and said:
“You git!”
“What do you mean?”;
“1 have rented this hotel. Skip!”
The clerk put on his coat and hat and walked
out. Then “Coonskin" sent word to the cook
and waiter girl to be out in half an hour, for the
hostler to be gone by midnight, and for the
barkeeper to vacate by noon the next day. He
kindly allowed us to stop over night, but we had
to get our breakfast at a bakery. By noon the
doors of the hotel were nailed up, signs of
“Closed" posted, and as we footed it down to
the depot the solemn old man thawed out suffi
ciently to observe:
“I’m after seven more of ’em along this line
of railroad, and if I can shut ’em up the public
will be in my debt. I have figured it out to my
entire satisfaction, and I truly believe that
three-fifths of the crime in this country is in
cited by poor hotel keeping.”
Btuart Robson’s Voice.
Stuart Robson, the comedian, called the other
day upon one of our local chiropodists, says the
San Francisco Examiner, and solicited his
services professionally. As an expert in the art
of polite and entertaining conversation he
found the knight of the knife equal to any ton
sorial talker he had ever sat under. After a
brilliant discussion of art, politics, and letters
the expert deftly turned the conversation upon
tke subject of a magic corn-destroyer of his
own discovery.
“Do you know,'' said he suavely, “this is one
of the most remarkable drugs ever discovered?
It will remove any corn in forty-eight hours;
takes tan and freckles from the face, and if
rubbed on the affected parts will remove gout
and rheumatism with lightning speed. But by
far the most wonderful virtue it possesses is
that it will cure almost any affection of the
throat or voice. For example, do you ever go
to the theater?”
Mr. Robson admitted that he was sometimes
seen in the play-houses.
“Well,” continued the chiropodist, “there's
that man Robson down at the Baldwin theater,
lie’s got a voice like a steam calliope suffering
from bronchitis. If he would take one bottie
of my magic corn eradicator his voice would
become as soft as the cooing of turtledoves.”
The artist’s labors being over, he requested
his patron to inscribe his name upon his book
of testimonials. The comedian took his pen
and printed in large capitals .STUART ROBSON.
“That corn doctor’s facial expression as he
read the signature,” said Robson in telling the
story, “would have made the fortune of a low
comedian.”
Psalm of Life.
From the Somerville Journal,
r.
Eschew tergiversation
And avoid concatenation
Of atrabilins inchoate, interrainate discoids,
Balbucinating corbels.
Like tinkling, tinnient door-hills,
Imply crustacean, nyetalopic valances and
voids.
ii.
Trlchroism, traumatic,
Spasmodic, acrobatic,
Never sibilates resilient when occult megrims
come.
Thaumaturgical negation
And amorphous oblectation
Only unto supramundane sinuosities succumb.
Cymophanous depilation
Deletery cogitation
Together lancinate and thrill like sonants cleav
ing surds.
So abstain from impereeption,
Coarctation and deception.
And, no matter what you have to say, don't use
big words.
A Severe Test.
From the Commercial Traveler.
“My dear sir. this position carries with it a
great responsibility. Can you convince me
that you are capable of filling it?”
“1 think I can, sir.”
“You must be a man of great discretion, pos
sessed of a keen insight, capable of judging ac
curately between right and wrong.”
“I think I can satisfy you, sir.”
“You must be able to discover the truth,
no matter liow it may be disguised, and must
be well read on current events.”
“Yes, sir; I think I can fill the bill.'’
"Well, what ae your credentials?”
"1 have been examined fora jury six times,
and been rejected every time.”
■‘l think you will do. You must be a man of
great capability and intelligence,'’
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
French fathers arc usually very careful in
the selection of husbands for their daughters,
but M. Gallot, a worthy commission agent of
Paris, is an exception to this rule. Mile. Gallot,
Ins daughter. being marriageable, he asked his
iamily physician, a Dr. Ribot, to find a limb and
for the young lady. The physician introduced
a colleague. Dr. Faulquier, on the s-ene, and
this person married Mile. Gallot. who had a
dowry of $6,500. Shortly after the ceremony
Faulquier began to borrow large sums from
his iatner-in-Jaw, who. suspecting that some
thing was wrong, made inquiries und found
that nis son-in-law was only a chemist's assist
ant who had no right to the title of doctor. M.
Gallot accordingly obtained a divorce for his
daughter and prosecuted the two medical per
sons for swindling.
The widow De Groot of Brooklyn was to
marry Edgar Hopkmion on July 31, last, tut on
July 30 she up and died. Edgar was inconsolable
for a time, but he rallied and filed for probate
the copy of a will wnich he alleges was made by
the widow several months before her death,
ahe original will, he says, was destroyed by
Mrs De Groot’s brother because it devised all
of the property of which the deceased died pos
sessed to her husband, cutting off the relatives
with a few dollars. As the property at stake is
worth about $50,000, it will be readily under
stood that the relatives intend to make a deter
mined fight, and as Edgar Hopkinson is a youDg
man without means, he, too, will strive with all
his might to have the will made in tr.s favor
stand. Tha contest, at any rate, is relieving
Edgar’s pent-up feelings.
Daisy Robinson- of Sumter, S. C., is rightly
named. The is 12 years old, and recently dis
covered that some unseen power is present
with her on all occasions, and she is able to
make things interesting for her enemies,
uheuever Daisy stands something is certain to
fall, and the falling is not the result of any
voluntary effort on her part. The first demon
stration was the falling of a sideboard, and
immediately afterward a water bucket fell
upon a shelf. The girl's mother realized at once
that the house was haunted, and she moved.
Tile spiritual manifestations end the folks
are almost crazy. Great crowds congregate
daily at the house to see the peculiar exhibi
tion, hut not even the savante—and there are
savants in Sumter, S. C., —can tell the source
whence the funny business emanates.
Cora Welsh is a dashing blonde, 17 years old,
whose home is at Keyser, W. Va., where her
father is a prominent lawyer. Cora has been
visiting in Cumberland, Md., recently and had a
miguty good time. Monday evening she was
out making some purchases, and in an off-hand,
girlish way, tendered a $lO bill in payment for
some Christmas presents intended for the loved
ones at home. The merchant looked at the bill
and then eyed the girl. He hesitated and stam
mered and the girl grew nervous. Then the
merchant sent out for an officer and the girl
was arrested charged with trying to pass a coun
terfeit. The bill was a rank one, and the young
lady is in jail, where she spends her time pro
testing her innocence and bemoaning her fate,
borne of the best lawyers in the state have been
retained for the giri's defense, and there is a
great big probability that Miss Welsh is actually
innocent.
A singular traditional csage was carried out
at Lisbon after the funeral of the late king. At
three principal places in the city platforms
were erected covered with black cloth. A pro
cession passed from ono place to the other. The
chief municipal officers of the city and the chief
personages of the late royal household, all clad
in deep mourning, formed the procession, which
was preceded and followed by cavalry in
mourniug, the colors draped with black.
Military bands accompanied the march, and
four shields, on which were painted the
royal arms, were borne aloft on long staves, A
multitude of people, all dressed in mourning,
were present. Arrived at the platform, ail the
principal persons took their places upon it. and
one of the shield-bearers, advancing to the front,
cried out in a chanting tone, “Weep. O Portu
guese, for your king Dom Luis I. is dead.” He
then dashed the shield to the ground with such
violence that it was shattered. This ceremony
was repeated at the other platforms. Then the
procession moved to the church of Santo An
tonio da Se, where a solemn requiem service was
held. During the whole ceremony all the bells
of the city tolled.
One of the most remarkable monuments in
America is in San Luis Obispo county-, Southern
California. A great rock rises 150 feet above
the plain of Carissa, and in the distance looks
rugged and forbidding. On near approach it is
seen to have on its eastern side an opening
twenty-five feet broad, which leads into an
inner temple or court, with level floor 225 feet
long and 125 feet broad at its widest part. The
ceiling is 60 to 100 feet high. This great
natural cathedral is a wo ider to geolo
gists, but it is more wonderful to arche
ologists. It was evidently used by prehis
toric men as a temple of worship or a capitol of
government. On tne walls are paintings in red,
white, and black, doubtless having a meaning.
There are figures representing fields,
suns, forts, spears, men, and animals. The
colors are apparently as bright as when laid on.
The wonder was discovered by Franciscan mis
sionaries ono hundred years ago, and there has
been no change in its appearance since. When
or by- whom the walls were decorateu no one
knows. The Indian tribes had no traditions
concerning the work, and regarded it with su
perstitious reverence.
An interesting discovery is thus told of in a
letter from Center Bartlett. N. H., published ia
the Boston Journal: “Anew ’Old Man of the
Mountain’ has just been discovered in the
mountain region of Livormore by J. M. Jerow.
an artist of Portland, Me., who has been tak
ing photographic views of the picturesque
scenes near Sawyer’s river. The most curious
circumstance of the discovery is the fact that
the artist who took the view of the gigantic
crag from which the huge stone profile
of a man stands out in well-defined
lines did not discover the statuesque
head until it was pointed out to
him by George Payne, who hapjiened to take
up the photograph. The likeness to a gigantic
human face which the picture displayed to the
eyes of the astonished artist as soon as his at
tention was directed to it by Mr. Payne was so
strikingly accurate that an excursion was at
once made to the spot whence the picture was
taken, and tnen for the first time the stern
features of the ‘Hermit of tha Gulch’ were re
vealed to mortal eyes. It is such a palpable
semblance of the human face that the dullest
eye cannot fail to discern every feature of a
well-defined profile.”
Gen. Sir J. Lintorn Simmons, the special en
voy of the British government to the pope,
drove to the Vatican in a carriage and pair on
the occasion of the presentation of his creden
tials the other day. This was necessary, as
otherwise he would not have been admitted to
the Vatican courtyard. Only two persons enjoy
the singular privilege of driving in with a one
horse vehicle, one of w hom is the commissary
general of the holy inquisition, and the other,
the Prussian ambassador accredited to the holy
see. The latter’s privilege owes its origin
to rather an interesting circumstance.
A certain Prussian ambassador some years
ago drove up ono day in a s ngle-horse carriage
and presented himself for admission at the im
mense gate of the Vatican, leading into the
courtyard; but in pursuance of their orders, he
was peremptorily refused admission, except on
foot, by the Swiss guard, who are notorious for
their literal observance of orders. Being forced
to yield, he complained with some bitterness to
Cardinal Antonelli, then secretary of state to
Pius IX., who said he would refer the matter to
his holiness. Plus IX , who ever had a bon mot
ready and adapted for every occasion, upon
hearing of the incident, immediately gave or
ders that henceforth his excellency the Prussian
ambassador was to be allowed admittance cum
quocumque qaadrupede.
“I once lived in Wisconsin,” said a Philadel
phian the other day. “I was clerk on an Indian
agency there, and it was part of my work to
make out the pay rolls. Shortly after taking
the position, I was astonished one day at seeing
the name of Jefferson Davis on the pay roll. I
thought it odd. and when pay day came around
I watched for him. He was a robust fellow,
about fifty years old, and his name was his sole
knowledge of the English language. I asked
the interpreter what it meant, and he said that
when Jefferson Davis, who has just died, was a
lieutenant in the regular army, he was stationed
at Fort Howard, which was then the headquar
ters of the Green Bay Indian Agency, which
was in charge of an annv officer, Davis came
to know the Indians quite well, and on one
occ sion he did a good turn for
one of the braves, which so delighted him that
he named his infant son Jefferson Davis, to the
great disgust of ”his squaw and his pagan
iriends, who thought it a disgrace that an In
dian should violate the traditions of his tribe to
such an extent. But he had his way, and his
name is still on the pay rolls of the Menominee
Tribe of the Green Bay agency. And, by the
wav, this tribe of Indians sent aco npany of
troops to the war. They had been mustered in
but two weeks when they were ordered to the
front. They arrived before Petersburg just
two days before tbe mine was sprung. They
were in the van that made the assault. They
rushed forward into the crater far beyond the
lines, and were cut to pieces before they could
be driven back. Nearly one-half were killed or
wounded. Jefferson Davis' namesake was not
in this comoany.”
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