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VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 589. ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26,1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. i 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 receive 1 ... 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. | uog 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. rt
