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VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 589.
ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26,1887.
PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
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Shading Across the Bloody Chasm.
TOO TBUE.
Some go to church just for the walk,
While others go to laugh and talk—
Some go there to meet a friend,
Some go their idle time to spend,
Some to scan a dress or bonnet,
Sime to prize the trimming on it.
Some to learn the latest news,
That friends at home they may an use,
Some to gossip, false and true,
Hid behind a rented pew,
Some the preacher go to hear
His style and voice to praise or jeer;
Some forgiveness to implore,
Some their sins to varnish o’er,
Some to sit and doze and nod,
But few alas ! to worship God.
HOLLIG AND JOHN,
-OB-
A NIGHT OF SUFFERING
By Bella French Swisher.
“Notice that old lady who is now passing.”
It was my friend, Mrs. Wilson, who spoke,
and the conversation occurred during my last
summer’s visit to my old home in Wisconsin,
which I left ten years since for the more genial
climate of Texas.
I glanced through the window, near which
we were si .ting, and saw an old lady with a
sweet plac. 1 face shaded by very white hair,
hut for whhh I might not have thought of her
being aged, for she walked with the quick
elastic \
‘Aj
jt youth.
able woman,” my friend cmtin-
brieizr cf
for a
laundry bdre.
V r enty-ergWy«V^
*■' is. Ads
Sb
many ways, for her tastes were almost as re
fined as a lady’s, having dwelt so long in an
air of refinement.
John rallied, grew better and worked harder
than ever for a whole j ear; then came trouble.
A wee baby opened its blue eyes upon this
world of sorrow, and Mollie came near dying
in giving it birth. The babe was boro during
the rainy season of early spring, and John
took a severe cold, which, owing to Mollie’s
illness, was neglected and allowed to settle
upon him from day to day, until he, too, fell
ill. A sickness of several months followed,
during which time the farm was unworked
and want began to creep into the dwelling.
The woman who had taken care of Mollie dur
ing her confinement, had to be dismissed, as
there was no money to pay her wages. For
the same reason Mollie could not hire a hand
on the farm. Her young baby and her sick
husband employed her entire time, and she
did not accomplish much outside, although
she made a strong effort to do so. She planted
a few vegetables, which, owing to her inabil
ity to cultivate them, did not yield advanta
geously; consequently the larder was often
bare, and even candles were scarce in the
dwellin','. Indeed, Mollie often sat in the
dark, holding her husband’s hand through the
dreary watches of the night, because she
could not afford a light
So the long months passed away. Baby
Anna was beginning to lisp familiar words and
the grass and early flowers were heralding
the approach of the little one’s second spring.
Another rainy season had set in, which made
it difficult for Mollie to reach the hamlet two
miles distant, where she went to obtain food
and medicine. The nearest house was half a
mile away, and as a consequence the people
at the farm were not often blessed or troubled
with visitors.
Poor Mollie ! Alone she watched the color
fading out of her husband’s face, and she
knew that he was slowly dying; yet she had
no power to hold his precious life, and no
means to give him the medicines and the hour,
ishment which he needed. There came a day
when fear grew to be agony, for his labored
breathing told her that he was Learing the
end. The larder was not only nearly empty,
but she was entirely without candles. She
had some trinkets which she might be able to
sell if she could go to the village; hut the rain
was pouring down in torrents; and whenever
she mentioned leaving him, John objected.
Thus the day with its terrible suffering passed
away and night began to fall. Then she grew
desperate. -
“John, dearest,” she said bending over him
as he lay in a kind of a stupor, “I must go
to town for some candles. But I will run
every step of the'way and will be back before
you begin to miss me.”
Two weak arms were slowly raised and
placed about her neck, and a low voice re
sponded in a to me of entreaty.
“Don’t go, Mollie. Don’t leave me to die
alone in the rain and darkness. ’’
“But, darling, we will be so much more
cheerful with a light, and I will be back so
soon. Baby is asleep. I will leave her by
your side. Then I will also bring you some
thing good to eat and you will be better in the
morning.”
But he still held her.
“No, no,” he said faintly, “I shall be dead
in the morning, and if you go now you will
never hear my voice again. Don’tgo, I can’
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distin
guished Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capitol.
By BEN. PERLY POORE.
No. 173.
A PERILOUS SITUATIOI—BROKEN THROUGH THE ICE.
MILLIONAIRE SENATORS.
There Will be Fifteen in the
Next Congress. ;
big four, we arejo have Stewart of Nevada
again. Turpiejf Indiana has some little prop
erty, and Davijof Minnesota has made enough
money lately tfassure him of a small income
outside his saly. Quay is fully vjjl^to-do,
while Paddock UC? e ^£ka, Hisi
York and Bate oil!
home.
New
cb at
i not seem
[years ago
1 jna- ever Mar her life-stoij
ft is really very sad. Hard heartei^
am, I wept like a child while I listened to
We will call at her house some day and I will
manage to have her repe it it to you I have
not sufficient lauguage to do it justice, else I
would tell it to you myself.”
Subsequent 1 }- my friend kept her promise,
and I heard from Mrs. Miller’s own lips, the
short sad story of her life, which is in sub
stance as follows:
Mollie Graham, a comely and blitheseme
English girl, wis at first head laundress and
afterward housekeeper in the home of an En
glish gentleman, who resided near the city of
Winchester, and was much respected and
trusted by her employer and his family.
She was not without lovers, for several of
the country lads vied with each other in acts
of courtesy to win her smiles; and she once
had an opportunity to wed much above her
station. But her heart was given lo a hand
some young man who worked a farm, some
ten miles distant from the mansion which
Mollie called her home. This farm had been
sold to the young man’s father on long time;
he dying before the payments were all made,
bequeathed the debt to his son, who found its
liquidation a rather difficult matter. The
land was poor and needed frequent enrich-
ings and the interest charged oa the unpaid
debt, was high. Consequently it happened
when crops were short, that John Miller found
himself scarcely able to pay the interest due,
let alone any portion of the debt.
Thus matters stood when he fell in love
with Mollie Graham. But when he plighted
her his troth, he made a clean breast of ail his
difficulties, telling her of his hopes and of his
fears like au honest mat shoul i do, when he
desires to take a woman’s love and a woman’s
life into his keeping. . .
“I leave it for you to decide as to the time
of our marriage, Mollie,” he said in conclu
sion “My heart calls for you every moment,
but iny reason tells me to leave you alone in
vour "ood home until the farm is free from
debt I cat not always manage to keep my
self in comfort and pay the dues. What
would I do, if crops were short, should I have
a wife and little ones dependent on me.
“We will wait,” answered Mollie, and 1
will help you pay the debt. I can do with a
few less frocks and caps and thus save a bit
Of S^ 0 theywa[ted Jea But fortune did not favor
them as they had hoped. Sickness and sor
row came to them. Every New \«ar s day for
fifteen years, they compared n0t l 8 an 'L c0 °;
eluded to wait another year. The girl of
twenty became a woman of five and thirty,
rising during the time to the dignity of house
keeper in her employer’s home. John grew
pahfand thin and old. Mollie tried to reas
sure herself by saying that his changed ap-
Oh! tb
she go? j
have ^ ‘
another!
with
saadows wcj
Sol* companionship Id
pearance was due to constant hard workjjmt
other people hinted to each other that John
Miller was going into a aTld would
soon fall a victim to consumption
ion I Hi l a Victim ^ „ 4.111
At the end of fifteen years there still re
mained a considerable sum on the farm debt
unpaid, though John and Mollie s combined
earnings had gone toward diminishing !*■-
“We must wait another year, said Mollie,
dolefully. “Perhaps it will straighten matters
out and bring our long hoped for badness.
“No,” returned the man. It is useless !
will wait no longer. I shall be^aAbefo
the debt is paid, and if you ever mtend to
nlace vour hand in mine as my wife, « must
Ee roiTs^n I feel that the hand of death
is upon me. , ,
The woman looked up into the wan face of
her lover and her heart seemed to come up
into her very throat sudden
“John, my darling!” she cried, in sudden
larm. “You shall wall for me no longer. I
alarm. ^ ho ^ u wi J£ you an d nurse youjbackto
health and hope. Let the farm go, we^can
rent it if we cannot pay “P ^ eb ^ e ^ht
had only done so in the beginning, we mi 0
have°had a happy home all these yearn
So they were married, and Mouie we
home with John to the farm.
home*'and^the^woman brightened it up in
•ning
light.
She sat despairingly cp vn by his side, and
clasped one of his cold I wasted hands in her
warmer ones, trying vainly to say some cheer
ful words.
The darkness fell; the storm increased.
More luridgs^wthe lightning and more heavy
the thunder! In the pauses of pastial silence,
in the warning of the elements she could hear
the labored breathing of her husband above
the pattering of the rain; and when the light
ning illumined the room she could see his
great, bright eyes always fixed upon her.
The hand which she held began to stiffen
and take on icy coldness, which chilled her to
the very heart. Then the lightning flashes
showed the pallor of death settling over his
face.
(>h! for the sound of some human voice ! If
baby would only awake and cry, it would be
some relief. But baby slept on regardless of
her mother’s woe.
“John! John! do speak to me!” she cried at
length in an agony of fear, laying her face
against his cold, damp brow.
“God bless you, darling. Good-bye,” mur
mured the stiff, cold lips.
A little later she heard a gasping sigh and
she knew that all was over, even before the
lightning showed her the dead face and the
wide open eyes which still seemed looking at
her.
lie was dead. Her reason told her that the
hour was not past midnight. What an age of
azony she must endure before morning wjuld
dispel the terrible darkness! Still she sat
there and watched the lightning play over the
ghastly features, all the more frightful in the
lurid light.
Hour after hour pass - d thus. Sometimes
the impulse se zed her to grasft the child and
flee out into the storm. But between it and
her lay the body of the dead man. In her fear
she dared not reach across him to secure the
child, and she could not leave jt and go alone.
So she sat'motionless, suffering untold agony.
At last a faint streak of light appeared in the
East. For an instant it gave her new life.
“Thank God!” she cried, “the terrible dark
ness will soon be gone!”
Then she grew dizzy. She felt herself fall
ing, and unconsciousness mercifully blotted
out her sufferings for a time.
Late in the day a chance passer-by,
attracted by the continuous crying of a child,
entered the house and found Mrs. Miller
lying on the floor, apparently lifeless; and the
baby sitting on the bed by the side of the
corpse, screaming with hunger and affright.
Mollie, still insensible, was taken to the house
of a charitable lady in the village, where she
lay for weeks raving in the delirium of a brain
fever, constantly living over the events of the
terrible night, which had robbed her of her
husband. No one expected her to recover; but
she did, and after a time took up the burden
of life again.
During her illness the mortgage on the farm
was foreclosed by the heartless man who had
drained the very life blood from poor John
Miller’s veins as payment for the unreasonable
interest which he demanded for the unpaid
money on the miserable farm. By the word
ing of the instrument, the payments already
made were forfeited; and the toil of long years
which had cost the poor man his life, was lost.
The widow and her child had worse than noth
ing with which to begin life anew; for her
husband’s Iona illness had left Mrs. Milller deep
ly in debt. But she obtained employment, and
by economy saved, in course of time, a
sum sufficient to emigrate to American. She
final y settled in a thriving Wisconsin town,
where she opened a laundry. This proved a
successful business, enabling her not only to
educate her child, but to purchase a snug little
home.
There is no longer need for Mrs. Miller to
toil for a living. Anna is well married and is
willing to support her mother, hut the old lady
prefers to be independent. She still superin
tends her laundry and can iron a shirt as well
as the best of her employees. She is cheerful
and indus’rious, feeling as well, she says, as
she did fifty years ago, only slightly stiffer in
the joints. But she grew weak, trembled and
wept, wh le she related to me that one night's
terrible suffering.
Veterans of the War Fill a Third of
thef Senate Seats.
Kansa
Jones
fl’ayne of
and Sawyer
Washington, February 8.—Several men,
whose feet have touched the downward slope
of life, will hold up their right hands when the
next Senate meets, and begin a six years’ ser
vice in the upper House. The new or re-elect
ed Senators who may be said to have crossed
this divide are Edtnuns, Hearst, Hawley,
George, Sheiman and Reagan, all of whom
will be past GO when they take the oath. Sen
ator Dawes and Sawyer are the only men
chosen this year in defiance of the three score-
and-ten rule. Judge Reagan of Texas will
celebrate his seventieth birthday in the second
year of his term. Besides Senator Dawes and
Sawyer there will be three other men in the
Senate at the beginning of the Fiftieth Con
gress who will be beyond 70—Saulsbury, Payne
and Morrill.
It is still probable that there will he thirty-
nine Republicans and thirty-seven Demo
crats in the Senate during the last half of Mr.
Cleveland’s term. Whenever M \ Riddleber-
ger’s early training or rebellious spirit
gets the best of him the Senate will be
tied and the Republicans powerless to
pass any increase. I shall expect to see
the Virginia lfeadjuster oftener in agree
ment with the Democrats than with the
Republicans, to whom he is not bound^ by
anv political or social debt. The only Sen
ators who ever treat him courteously in
debate are. the Democrats, the men sit ing on
his own side of the chamber never paying any
more regard to his presence, questions or ut
terances than if he were not really the duly
accredited senator from Virginia. However,
outside the debates, in which the Democrats
generally treat him with due deference, ther >
is as complete a boycott on Riddleberger as the
most miserable rat ever experienced in a
union shop. In all bis three years as a member
of the Sena.e he has never eaten a meal with
an associate mr stood under a senatorial roof.
Much of this isolation is due to the adverse
influence of his rich and hospitable colleague,
Mahone, while he himself is the cause of no
small part of it. A good deal of it, however, is
due to his poverty. He is worse than penniless,
and if his salary were liable to attachment he
could be starved out of the Senate.
Everybody here remarks the rapid increase
in the number of
Rich Senators,
and it is an unquestioned fact that the popu
lar demand for a change in the election of the
upper House is growing. To hope that the
time will ever come when two-thxds of tte
States will agree to an amendment pro
viding for the apportionment of senatorial
seats°on the basis of population, would be no
less unpatriotic than ridiculous. But there
does seem to be reason to hope that the States
will some day elect their representatives in
the Senate by popular vote. The res
ponsibility for a poor choice would then
be clear. The exchange of cold cash
for a seat in the Senate has undoubtedly-
been rare in the history of the Union, and
criminal br bery is the grossest vulgarity to
which wealth ever stoops. As surely as there
are more ways than one of killing a hog, so
surely is there a more effective and delicate
way of exerting the influence of aggregated
dollars. If you don’t see the point, just ask
your member of the General Court why he vo
ted this way or that way on the last corpora
tion bill that came up.
An old Washingtonian and a close and con
servative observer was speaking, only last
night, of the rich and poor Senators. Said he:
“There have been a dozen new Senators chos
en for the next Congress, and among them are
four millionaires, and I guess old Judge Rea
gan and John Daniel of Virginia are the only
really poor men that caught on. George
Hearst of California, you know, is vilely rich,
and made his money, tco, by just simply buy
ing and selling mines. Farwell is the first
millionaire Illinois ever sent to the Senate,
and they say Colonel Stockbridge of Michigan
is another millionaire. Then, to complete this
■ u.ucr
own of \V.
Tale of Malm?. Mi
of Nevada, phermaiA'V and
Ohio, Cameron 6f 1‘ennsylVania
Wisconsin. Mavbe Camden of West Virginia
will get back. If he does he will join this
group, and for all I know, Sabi i of Minnesota
has recovered sufficiently to be again classed
among the millionaires.
If all the millionaires in the country were to
show their hands, it wouldn’t surprise me to
find that Lelat d Stanford is the biggest. He
is distressingly rich. He wanted his son to be
Ransom and Vance of North Carolina, Mitch
ell of Oregon, Butler and Hampton of South
Carolina, Riddleberger of Virginia, and ICenna
of West Virginia. Some of these are land
poor, and some were born poor. Poverty, of
course, I employ in a relative sei se. With
three or four exceptions all the Senators
in comfori, and even luxuriously, as compare!
with, the condition of tbeir constituents.
Although the Senators, with tut half a d,
“V 0 hJjfE-.S'briqJpd to the
of thY m do not practice.
* a single U
Eulogies on Stephen A. Douglas.
Judge Douglas’s death was formally an
nounced in the Senate and House soon after
the commencement of the special session in
July, 1861, and a day was consumed in eulo
gizing him. In the Senate the opening remark*
were made by Senator Trumbull, who offered
the customary resolutions of respect and con
dolence. He was followed by Senator McDou-
gall of California, whose brief tribute was to
tally inaudible in the galleries, and mostly so
on the floor. Judge Collamer, of Vermont,
succeeded him in the most eloquent and ap
propriate words which were uttered, and
which tended to deeply impress upon the rap
idly-forgetting mind many of the sterling trails
of the lamented deceased, and the great loss
the nation had met with in his death. The
eulogy of Judge Douglas’s successor, Senator
Browning, created a favorable impression. It
was delivered with good emphasis and discre
tion, and interwoven with many little inci
dents of the personal relations of the speaker
and his predecessor. In the House no less
than ten speeches were delivered, nearly every
one of them being in the same eulogistic strain,
with the exception of a brilliant sketch of the
life and public services of the deceased by Mr.
S. S. Cox, then a representative from Ohio.
It was anticipated that Breckinridge would
make a few remarks iu the Senate, inasmuch
as his relations with Douglas were known to
be of the most coroial nature, but the Ken
tucky senator sat firmly in his seat, with his
head bowed, carelessly twirling a paper cutter,
but intently listening to all that was passing
around him. Hon. Robert J. Walker, one of
the most devoted friends of Douglas, was the
only distinguished spectator present, except
ing a few members of the diplomatic corps.
The scene was in striking contrast with some
of the occasions on which Douglas addressed
the Senate.
PERSONAL MENTION.
What the People Are Doing
and Saying.
British Minister West weighs 200 pounds.
Mrs. Logan is said to be in very poor
health.
Lord Randolph Churchill has gone to Al
giers for his health.
George, the king of Greece, is 41, and Hum
bert, Italy’s king, is 42.
Frank James, the noted desperado, is now a
clerk in a dry goods store in St. Louis.
The senators who voted for the woman suf-.
frage bill are now known in Washington as the
“sweet sixteen.”
Prince Louis, the son of Prince Napoleon,
has forfeited his nationality by taking service
in the Italian army.
Mr. Coke said that in Texas the mail service
was very poor. It never had been worse ex
cept during the war.
Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress,
boasts that he never spends more than half au
hour reading a book.
The report that Crown Prince Frederick
William was going to Rome to the Pope is of
ficially contradicted.
Ex-Senator inurman, of Ohio, has declined
a position on the commission created by the
Inter-State Commerce law.
The Prince of Wales thinks it would be dif
ficult for him to accept the offer to be rector of
the Edinburgh University.
Mr. Vest said that if this Congress were ta
last much longer, it would put Aladdins lamp
into the hands of a receiver.
Senator Crockett wants a bill passed donat
ing certain lands to the Louisiana, Arkansas
and Missouri railroad company.
Messers Mahone and Riddleberger are said
to be the only Senators who never visit the
Democratic side of the Chamber.
When Henry M. Stanley is among civilized
people he smokes six cigars a day. In Africa
he smokes mild tobacco in a pipe.
The German Minister of War has ordered
the army bicyclists to hold themselves in read
iness for the carrying of dispatches.
Rev. Dr. Talmage was taken to the New
York Tombs, oh Saturday, by a young lady,
and Warden Wq^eh promptly admitted them.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis once saki: “A
well conducted weekly paper does more for a
town and country than all the dailies in Chris
tendom." v ■ •.
Col. Jno. Washington.
Col. John A. Washington, who had inherit
ed Mount Vernon and sold it to the Ladies’
Association, was well known in the social cir
cles of the city which bore the name of his dis
tinguished ancestor. He accepted $. commis
<jion in the Confederate army early in the war,
and was killed in September, 1801, while out
on a reconnoissance with two othtA officers.
President Cleveland has appointed A. C.
Haskell, of Columbia, S. C., director of the
Union Pacific Railroad, vice E P. Alexander
resigned.
i baa
l in !f bush by the roadside ’
he Seventeenth Indiana Reg
The Wealthiest American
when he came into his father’s property. But
the young fellow died. The heart broken old
man paid Parson Newman 810,000 to preach
the funeral sermon, and now there’s nobody
this side of a cousin to inherit the Stanford
mil ions. It was not until after the death of
his son that Governor Stanford took it into his
head to establish that colossal university which
lie has already endowed with about §7,000,000
The princely benefactions of 250 years, do not
leave II arvard with as big an endowment as
this unbuilt California school enjoys. If you
will except horses, it may be truthfully said
that Leland Standford could enjoy as well the
income from 8300,000 or §400,000 as from the
iinreckoned millions that he has piled up. He
is the most magniic ; nt horse lover in Ameri
ca. Not long since I received from him the
catalogue of his Palo Alto stock farm. Well,
sir, that book has 223 pages, and I calculated
that, on an average, it recited the pedigree of
three thoroughbreds on each page. Stanford
is probably worth more money than all the
representatives together.
Joe Brown of Georgia is the only confederate
millionaire that ever got into the Senate, unless
Camden be excepted, but I guess he didn’t have
much to do with the war or the confederacy.
Plumb made his million or more in land and
mining speculation, and is now getting deeply
into the Southwestern roads. When I said
Hale is a millionaire I meant that he. had as
much in his family, to whom Zach Chandler’s
fortune descended. Palmer of Michigan, is
one of the richest men here, and Jones of Ne
vada has had a turn of luck and he got back
on a millionaire’s feet long ago. Sherman is
the only millionaire senator who made all his
money while in public life. His colleague,
Payne, is a richer man, and one of those
Standard oil fellows. Don Cameron is a mil
lionaire, but he couldn’t hold it, while old man
Sawyer has chopped a million out of the Wis
consin timber.
Nobody can say that these are all the mil
lionaires there are in the Senate, for no less
than half a dozen other senators have specula
tive fortunes bounc.ng around in the comfort
able neighborhood of a million. There is
Bowen of Colorado who cannot be worth less
than three-quarters of a million, and he is
often called a millionaire. His colleage, Tel
ler, has a habit of playing poverty, but I’ll bet
he has half a million at least. Gorman of
Maryland is one of those
Indefinitely Rich
men. McPherson of New Jersey strikes me
as a man worth perhaps §500,000, and Mahone
is better off than that. Allison is looked upon
as a rich man, and I guess he is
worth 8250,000. He certainly plays a
cunning hand at poker. Vest of Missouri
has become prosperous and his people think he
is pretty rich. Mr. Evarts is probably a quar
ter of a millionaire, and Dolph of Oregon is
equally as well off. Both the Rhode Island
Senators, Aldrich and Chace, are rich men at
home, and Harris of Tennessee is comfortably
fixed. Gray of Delaware is a thriving country
lawyer and bel mgs to a wealthy family, while
his colleague, Mr. Saulsbury', must have some
thing, for he is a bachelor and never spends
anything on himself. Beck of Kentucky lives
within his salary, but I fancy he has a nice in
come besides. Ingalls is a cheap liver, but if
the stories are true he couli not be classed
among the poor. Spooner of Wisconsin had a
§20,000 railroad practice when he came to the
Senate, and probably had a little fortune to
console him. Now, I have classed among the
well-to-do and rich many more than a majori
ty of the Senators.
The only men whose absolute poverty im
presses me are Jones and Berry of Arkansas,
Colquitt of Georgia, Voorhees of ladiana,
Blackburn of Kentucky, Frve of Maine, Cock
rell of Missouri, Blair of New Hampshire,
Major-General, and Ac r. Mafoi._ .
bret'et Hawley, while associated with him wil
be five Confederate Major-Generals—Colquitt,
Walthall, Ransom, Butler and Hampton. Bow
en, of Colorado, and Manderson, of Nebraska,
are brevet Union Brigadier-Generals, while
Morgan and Gibson were real Confederate
brigadiers. The other veterans in the next
Senate will be Colonel Quay, of the Union, and
Colonels Blackburn, George, Vance and Harris
of the Confederate army; Lieutenant-Colonels
Ingalls, Plumb and Blair of the North; Major
Daniel, of the South, and Brevet-Major Spoon
er of the North; Judge-Advocate Eustis, Cap
tains Coke and Riddleberger; Lieutenants
Pugh and Berry, ani Privates James K. Jones
and Kenna of tbe South.
Here are twenty-seven veterans in a body of
seventy-six men, but only- eight of them are
from the North. Colquitt and George did their
first fighting in the Mexican war.
James Morgan.
Mobile Feeling Alabama’s Boom.
The Chattanooga Tradesman has been col
lecting statistics in regard to Mobile, which
makes an unexpectedly good showing. It is
stated that “Mobile’s business during the past
year has been, as a general thing, satisfactory.
There have been fewer failures here during the
yea 1 - than in any town of the same size in the
South. In this particular Mobile is a typical of
Alabama, which State to day bears the palm
of all the others, so far as paucity of failures
is concerned.
“There have been established this year
twelve industries here; for example, a motor
manufacturing company, an okra preserving
company, a coal mining company, a saw mill,
a shingle mill, a tannery, a water-works com
pany, a railroad company, a logging railroad,
a newspaper, an electric lighting plant, and a
new steamboat. These represent an aggregate
investment of §1,023,000 and give employment
in Mobile and the immediate vicinity to from
700 to 1,000 m m.
“In regard to coming industiies it may be
said that Mobile has a promise of several addi
tions to its industrial facilities.
“A shingle mill of 00,000 daily capacity, cap
ital §20,000 expecting to employ 25 hands; a
dry dock company, charter drawn up; a grain
elevator suitable to supply the Gulf trade; the
Dauphin Island and Gulf Railroad Company,
chartered at §200,000; the Mobile and Alabama
Port Railroad Company, hacked it is said by
Chicago capitalists; the West Alabama car
shops, to be constructed during the year, f)th
er enterprises of moment are on foot but se
crecy is observed concerning them.”
There are, in all, about two hundred indus
tries, with nearly four million dollars capital
invested, affording employment to about four
thousand people.
The increase of capital invested in Mobile in
1886, has been in the lines of lumber, barrel
and box making, electric lighting, boiler mak
ing water supply, etc., industries in which
there are large possibilities, and which promise
to add greatly to the prosperity of Mobile.
The article also makes due notice of the new
steamship lines to Tampa, New York, and
Liverpool, as well as the new steamboat lines
on the river. It concludes that the outlook
for Mobile is bright, and that Mobile is to be
congratulated.
Dragging Anchors.
Three men, members of the New York City
Board of Aldermen in 1884, have been cor-
vi-.ted of bribery in tbe Broadway railroad
matter. Two of them have been found guilty
by carefully selected juries solely upon the
uncorroborated testimony of accomplices who
confessed to having committed perjury in re
spect to the same matter before a legislative
committee. We think this is without prece
dent in the administration of criminal law in
this country or in England.
Savings Banks in New York.
The number of depositors in the savings
bank of New Y'ork during the past year was
069,433 persons, or about ha f the population
of the city. This is a fact that is really re
markable, considering the strikes and labor
disturbances. More than half the people of
that city must be minors, and this shows that
the rising generation has thrifty habits. The
peo ole that puts its spare cash in the savings
banks is taking care of itself.
hmyton and his companion
— . »-jad tfye Indiar A4boys arose
olace of crncealmenjr Ad fired,
from hjs hor»e on
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entirely through his b(jur»'eflt'6ro??f at the rigHT
breast; and one of the quartette was also hit,
but the two remaining unhurt managed to get
him away by supporting him on his horse. The
body of Washington was conveyed to the quar
ters of Col. Waggoner. He lived for the space
of half an hour, and never spoke save to utter
once, ‘ Oh, my God!” The next day his body
was sent to the rebel camp under a flag of
truce. In the pockets of Washington was
found §100 in United States gold currency and
a splendid gold watch. His dress was new
and of the most elegant make, broadcloth coat
and pants and a white satin vest.
-Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, late Repul lie da
candidate for mayor of New York, is a young
gentlemen with opinions of his own and tats
ability to express them forcibly.
Sir Stafford Northcote’s first considerable
literary production was a pamphlet most ally
and brilliantly vindicating Mr. Gladstone’s ad
ministration as colonial secretsiiy.
Maxwell, the St. Louis murd^er,
granted a stay on execution u
April. Then he will probsiny
atone for the butchery of l’reller. |
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McClellan and the Quartermaster.
Gen. McClellan was indefatigable in re-or
ganizing the army routed at Bull Run, and he
used every day to ride or walk through the
camps about Washington in citizen’s dress,
looking out for abuses to be remedied. One day
as he was strolling through the rear of a regi
mental encampment, he saw a pail of some
dark looking mixture standing by a fire, and
asked what it was “It’s coffee,” said the
soldier who was officiating as cook. “Tome,”
replied McClellan, “it looks more like slops.”
“Oh,” said the soldier, “It is not fit to drink,
but we have to put up with it, and our other
food is not a bit better.” “Well, whose fault
is it?” he asked. “Oh, our quartermaster is
drunk most of the time, and when he is not
he is studying how to chea\”. McClellan
passed on, and seeing more evidence of the
dirty and slovenly manner in which the quar
termaster conducted the operations in his tent,
he accosted him with the remark that the men
were complaining of bad treatment from him.
The quartermaster flew into a passion, and
swore it was none of his business, and he had
better not come sneaking around trying to
make mischief. McClellan answered him,
telling him he had better be cautious how te
talked. Quartermaster replied, “Who are
you, that you assume so much apparent au
thority?’ “I am George B. McClellan, and
you can pack up your traps and leave.” The
quartermaster was struik dumb, and McClel
lan turned ani left him. That evening the
quartermaster left, to the tune of the “Rogue’s
March,” played by some of the boys who had
got wind of it.
Gen. McClellan made a laudable endeavor
to secure Sunday as a day of rest for the vast
body of troops encamped around the Federal
metropolis. The chaplains were accorded the
s ivereignty of the day after the usual Sunday
morning inspection, and the men were not
given any leaves of absence, so that but few
of them were to be seen on the streets of
Washington. Those streets were as quiet as
those of a Northern village. There were no
horse railroads, and the rickety omnibuses did
not run. A few scattered army wagons loit
ered through the streets, bearing their loads of
bread and provisions to some suburban camp.
A few private carriages bore their owners to
church or to take the air. Now and then a
coach was seen, driven slowly by a tall para
gon of propriety in white gloves and ruffled
shirt, with an ebony hat and complexion,
while within were seated, in softly-cushioned
luxury, Mr. and Mrs. Moneybags, wearing no
expression save one of mild resignation to the
plumes of fortune. No newsboys smote with
their shrill, discordant cries the stillness of the
summer air. No jangling bells from rattling
wagons announced to all the neighborhood the
sudden arrival of somebody’s morning milk.
No street cars bowled merrily by, their cush
ioned seats filled with happy, social faces,
which would have made even aristocratic Mr.
Moneybags, in his solitary coach, turn pale
with envy. Save the light footfall of pedestri
ans and the creaking noise of the public
pumps, as their long, iron handles were plied
incessantly by those in quest of water, no
noise was heard in all the streets of Washing
ton.
The vast extent and wonderful diversity of
the climate, typography and productions of
this country are strikingly illustrated the year
round. No other one sovereignty on the globe,
so far as we know can afford a parallel. Above
we give the terrible experience of the week
ending the 12th in Dakota—below we give the
sunshiny experience of the same week in
Florida. Ice, snow and people freezing in one
country—oranges, bananas, early vegetables
and summer clothing in the other.
jTj-iive,
gaged in tae business of telegraphy.
If the President, by vetoeing the
pension scheme, has saved to the count]
§70,000,000 a year, he has saved enough fj
build a very good navy and provide for a ver
complete system of coast defences in ten ye
Sir George O. Trevelyan’s refusal to contest
the seat for Burnley, made vacant by the deatn
of Mr. Peter Rylands, was due immediately,
P" rhaps, to the wish of the Liberal-Unionist
and Tory local managers to run a local candi
date.
Mr. Gladstone’s final decision not to take
part in the debate on Mr. Parnell’s amend
ments is attributed by the Tories to his dis
covery that home rule, if judged by the result
in Mr. Goschen’s election, is more unpopular
than ever in London.
Lulu Hurst, Georgia’s magnetic girl, was
married at Chattanooga, recently, to Paul M.
Atkinson, her former manager. She is said to
be worth 8o00,000, which snug fortune, no
doubt, in the eyes of Mr. Atkinson, adds
much to her magnetism.
\ ee Shaw How, the Chinese Consul, gave a
reception at the consulate, No. 23 West Ninth
street, assisted by the Vice-Consul, Lin Yuk
Lin, his interpreter ani secretary, Mr, Win'*
and his son Yee Ting Kee. About seventy
guests had been invited and most of them ac
cepted.
Gen. Boulanger has been recently presented
with a picture, executed by M. Frichot iu
1846, representing the return of the remains
of Napoleon I. from St. Helena. It has been
handed over ofti daily to the governor of the
Hotel des Invalides, and will figure arnon" the
other relics of the Corsican c onqueror deposit
ed in that establishment.'
The Emperor of China is the shortest mon
arch in the world, being only live feet tall
The Emperor William, of Germany, is the tall
est, being just six feet. Prince Albert, of Ger
many, nephew of the Emperor, is six feet six
inches tall. The Emperor of Russia is nearly
six feet.
EmperorV llliam, of Germany, recently made
a joke. On the eighteenth anniversary of his
entry into the army one of his doctors tried to
prevent hnn from going to the open window to
return the salutations of the assemblage out
side. His majesty replied: “I must go. It
is noon, and ‘Baedeker’s Guide’ says that I
am always visible at the window at this hour.”
Emperor William, Count von Moltke, Gen
eral W. S. Harney, U. S. A., and Colonel E.
G. W. Butler, of St. Louis, are believed to be
the oldest four military officers in the world,
getween the last two there is a good deal of
rivalry as to precedence. Butler went into
the army before Harney; that is, at West
Point. But Harney recieved his commission
before Butler got his.
According to the Boston Traveller, Secre
tary Whitney recently had the Marine Band to
play at his house and afterward gave it a lunch
eon. When he invited them to the table he
asked their nationalities and said, “I have hog
and hominy for. the America as, macaroni for
the Italians and sauerkraut for the Germans.”
Then he ordered out terrapin and champagne
for them all.
Miss Dolph, the handsome daughter of the
Senator from Oregon, has scored the social
success of the season by a brilliant stroke of
thoughtful consideration and kindness to a
number of pretty strangers. It seems that at
a recent german, she made a point of intro*
during all the best dancers and nicest men she
knew to the strangers, and went out of her
way to see that they were not neglected. She
made a host of friends at once and now every
body 13 saying how very nice and kind it was
of her.
Tne ex- Empress Eugenia approves of the
marriage between Princess Letitia and Prince
Roland Bonaparte and she will give the bride
a handsome marriage portion and all her jew
els. “Plon Plon,” nods acquiescence in the
mating of his daughter with the son of the de
spised Prince Pierce and the dressmaker Clem-
ence Rufiin. But Humbert of Italy is unal
terably opposed to it because Prince Roland’s
income of $150,000 a year consists solely of
his dead wife’s share of the profits of the
Monte Carlogambling hell.
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