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rHE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
PICTURES OF
WASHINGTON.
MANY CHANGES BEING MADE
AMONG OFFICIALS.
NOTES.
R. B. Talbert was appointed post¬
master at Greenwood. S. C.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker ha:
established an inviolable rule, that no
postoffiee shall from be kept in a saloon, oi
any room which a saloon may be
entered.
Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson,
ington (retired), died at his residence in Wash¬
on Wednesday, from exhaustion
consequent G9 of upon long illness. He was
years age.
Wm. Attorney General Miller has appointed
E. Haisen, of Kentucky, as special
examiner in the Department of Justice,
■vice Mr. Fisher, resigned. Mr. Haisen is
» well-known resident of Covington.
By direction of the President, the Sec¬
retary of War has ordered that the new-
be military post near Denver, Colorado,shall
known as Fort Logan, to honor the
memory of the late Gen. John A. Lo¬
gan.
The Secretary of the Navy on Tuesday
convened a courtmartial to meet at
the Washington trial navy yard on Monday, for
of Lieut. Commander Book, of
the Pinta, who left his ship in Alaskan
waters without permission.
Dr. J. H. Kidder, of the Smithsonian
Institute, in Washington, died on Mon¬
day, from an attack of pneumonia. Dr.
Kidder served as a surgeon in the navy
until he resigned about twelve years ago;
since which time he had been connected
with the scientific branch of the govern¬
ment service.
ployes Secretary Rusk finds the roll of em¬
of the Agricultural Department so
largely in excess of the resources for the
current there will year be that, until after dismissals June 30th,
far more than
appointments, In the seed division
alone, eighty of the employes have been
dismissed.
The Department of State stated on
Wednesday, cerned the three treaty powers con¬
in Samoan affairs—England, Ger¬
many and the United States—have reach¬
ed an understanding by the terms ol
which they will each keep but one wax
vessel at Samoa pendiug the termina¬
tion, of the Berlin conference.
The detail for the court-martial which
the is to try Major Armes, a retired officer of
regular army, has been made. The
general officer charge of conduct unbecoming
an and a gentlemen is supported
by specifications alleging the false arrest
of a Capt. Bourke, of the Washington po¬
lice force, and malicious charges against
the same officer, improper newspaper
publications and defamatory letters, and
finally a cowardly and disgraceful violent
public assault upon Governor Beaver.
Armes’ friends claim he i« crazy.
The Washington anniversary of the
American Tract Society was celebrated
in the Church of the Convent at Wash¬
ington on Sunday. Justice Strong pre¬
sided. Rev. Dr. Sherer, secretary, read
an extract of the year’s operations, show¬
ing the total receipts (one agency being
estimated) at $290,000 ;t he expenditures a
little short of that sum. About 150 new
publications were added. Printing done
in New York in 30 languages, and abroad
in 150 languages or dialects. Donations
and legacies, about $75,000. Over forty-
five million pages of tracts were distrib¬
uted gratuitously. About 200 colporteurs
are employed, and over $10,000 sent
abroad in cash and publications.
Maj. Marcus A. Reno died in Wash¬
ington the on Monday. Iu 1876 he was with
7th cavalry in the battle of Big Horn,
in which Custer was massacred. Because
he failed to cross the river and go to the
rescue of Custer, charges of cowardice
were preferred against him, *aud he was
tried by court-martial, but honorably ac¬
quitted. From this time dates his down¬
fall, which has been almost as rapid as
his promotion. He became dissipated,
and while drunk, insulted the v/ife of an
officer at the post where he was stationed.
Charges of couduct unbecoming an offi¬
cer and a gentleman were made and lie
was dismissed from the army April 1,
1880. By an act of Congress condoning
the offense because of his past record anil
promises of better couduct, he was re¬
stored to his rank, but he again disgraced
himself and was cashiered.
FIRED ON US.
A. Capt, Bucknam, Stubbs, of the schooner Carrie
which arrived at New
York on ‘Wednesday from St. Domingo
City, reports that when off Saona Islan.i,
at about noon, he sighted a vessel seam¬
ing distant towards his vessel j,from land, then
six or eight miles. The craft
proved to be a Dominican war vessel.
She laid her course to intercept the
Bucknam, but could not do so owing to
the strong breeze then prevailing, and
fell astern half or three-quarters of a
mile. When nearly in the schooner's
wake, much to the surprise of the crew
she fired a shot which struck the water
only a few yards from the Buckuam’s
stern. She then gave chase, but with a
good.breeze the schooner soon distanced
her. After keeping up the chase for
about two hours, she gave it up and,
putting her about, steamed for land. What
errand was can only be conjectured,
as the Bucknam was far outside of their
jurisdiction and on the high seas, where
they could have no legitimate right to
overhaul her. The American flag was
flying it at the schooner’s peak all the time,
having been hoisted as soon as the
steamer was made out to be a war vessel.
THE IRISH MOVEMENT.
The municipal council of the Irish
national league on Tuesday in New
York, discussed the attitude recently as-
sumed pointed by minister Patrick Egan, Chili, recently* ap¬
to and Alexan¬
der Sullivan, in asserting the existence
of treachery amoug some Irishmen to the
Irish national cause. Resolutions were
adopted, requesting Charles Stewart Par¬
nell to appoint a committee of ten,
“whose standing and character shall be
a guarantee of their impartiality and
good faith,” the to make a thorough investi¬
gation of charges.
“JACK** AGAIN-
The body of a boy named Steinfatt
was found at an early hour Monday morn¬
ing The on a road near Hamburg, Germany.
abdomen boy’s throat had been cut and his
moved. ripped open aud his entrails re¬
The body was otherwise shock¬
ingly mutilated. It had been evidently
laid on the road throughout the night.
SOUTHERN
BRANCHES,
LOPPED HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE .
KEW ENTERPRISES—MOVEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS
BODIES—AFFRAYS, MISHAPS, ETC.—INDUS-*
TRIAL ITEMS—NOTES.
ALABAMA.
Gilbert Lowe, one of the negroes
arrested last week, charged with the
Meadows murder, on Monday made a
full confession, corroborating the con-
! e-sion of Ben Elgy. Lowe says Elgy,
himself and the other two negroes now
in jaii murdered uud robbed Meadows,
and that all were equally implicited.
A spirited meet ng of white Republi¬
cans was held in Birmingham on Wed¬
officers: nesday, a id organized by chosing these
Ex-Governor W. H. Smith,
president;L. E. Parsons, vice-president;
Robert Burlier, Montgomery, secretary.
The organization has an executive com¬
mittee composed of two members from
each congressional district and a vice-
prcsideut in each county. Resolutions
were tion, adopted favoring white immigra¬
home protection, Federal aid to
open rivers and harbors in the state, and
the organization of a Republican Pro¬
tective Tariff League.
DELAWARE.
The House passed on Wednesday,
with only one dissenting vote, the Davis
high license bill, which hts been sub¬
mitted for the Pickett mixed high li¬
cense and local option bill, which has
been pending for over two months past.
The Davis bill fixes the license fee at
$500 for cities of 10,000 inhabitants and
over, '800 for towns of 2,000 and over,
and $200 f< r rural districts.
* (•’l.dKOIV. #
Two Morman elders who had located
in Glaseock county, were waited upon at
Gibson by a committee of citizens and
warned to leave at once. They left.
The Arkwright Cotton Mills, in Savan¬
nah, valued at $100,000, were destroyed
by fire on Tuesday, The fire originated
in the engine room, and was caused by
an overheated journal.
Joshua Burtz ard W. C. Houston, of
Atlanta, have been arrested on a charge
of conspiring to liberate Reveire, the
Store Mountain murderer. They have
carried on an employment bureau in At¬
lanta for some time.
The Atlanta Street Railway Co., has
been bought by the syndicate that owns
all lhe other street railroads. Dummies
find new cars will now be put on, and all
ihe modern improvements introduced.
1 he Peters’ estute formerly owned the
railroad just sold.
Col. S. A. Darnell, the commander of
Blue ltidge post, G. A. R., of Jasper,
lecently appointed U. S. district attor¬
ney in Atlanta, has appointed Gen. Wil¬
liam Phillips, of Marietta, as his clerk,
arid raised the salary from $1,200 to
$2,000. Gen. Phillips was a Confederate
oldi< r, and was formerly the assistant
•tis rict attorney under Mr. Hill.
Three prisoners escaped from the jail
ii Decatur some time between Sunday
mid night and Monday morning. They
moved a stone weighing 2,000 pounds.
The prisoners were Sam Cullin, white,
and John Chandler and John Hill,
second m groes. floor They were all confined on the
of the jail and succeeded in
getting away without being observed by
any one. The DeKalb jail is built of
large heavy stone, each one of which is
from four to five feet long, three feet
wide and about one foot thick.
Col. Evan P. Howell, editor of the
Constitution of Atlanta, and Henry W.|
-iraiiy, of the same paper, with the au¬
thority of Col. Wm. Lowndes Calhoun,
president of the Fulton County Confed-j
crate Veterans, have started a subscrip-j
tion to erect a Confederate Home in
Georgia. Already $20,000 has been sub¬
scribed, and several soldiers who fought
on the Federal side have sent in liberal
donations. Governor Gordon, who in¬
augurated a similar movement five years
ago, when he was residing in New York,
has gone into the movement with his
usual enthusiasm, and no doubt his plau
inaugurated five years ago, will be
adopted.
At a meeting of the Executive Com¬
mittee of the Piedmont Exposition com¬
tion pany on Monday, the following resolu¬
State was passed: “Whereas, the Georgia
Agriculture Society have declined
to recede from their date of opening
their fair, which date is in conflict with
the period decided upon, and publicly
announced nearly a year ago, by the
Piedmont Exposition company for hold¬
ing its Exposition in 1889. Therefore,
Resolved, That the Piedmont Exposition
Co.,do adhere to its original date, and that
the Exposition be opened on the 7th day
of October next, and close on the 2nd
day of November.”
MARYLAND.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has
issued a circular letter to the Catholic
clergymen of his diocese, directing that
a special meeting be held in all the
churches April 80th, the hundredth an¬
niversary ol the inauguration of George
Washington as president of the United
States, and that the church bells be rung
for half an hour as au expression of joy
and thanksgiving.
The Louisville Bridge & Iron Com¬
pany’s machine shops were completely
destroyed by fire on Tuesday, causing a
loss of $90,000. The shops were in a
one 400 feet story corrugated iron building about
in length. The fire is supposed
to be incendiary.
NOItTH CAftOI.INA.
In Swain county, a white man named
Sparks was instantly killed, He
tackle was rolling logs on a flat car when the
gave way and the hook was
thrown violently against bis face, tearing
away one side of it and fracturing hi*
skull.
A great number of letters are being
received by their former employers
in North Carolina, from the negroes who
left the Goldsboro section for Kansas.
All the letters beg for money with which
to purchase tickers to the old homes.
The letters are pitiful in their pleading
for help. All of them say that the
writers only pray for one thing, and that
is to get home again.
The particulars of a disastrous fire at
Smithfield, the county seat of Johnson
county, were received at Charlotte. In
all, sixty buildings were destroyed*
twenty-eight has being business houses. The
town only a population of about a
The thousand, and has no fire department.
fire originated in the wheelwright
shop of 8. R. & J. A. Morgan, and,
blown by a gale of wind, soon reduced
the entire business portion of the town
to ashes.
SOl’Tn CAROUNA.
At Leesvillu, a town two miles north
of Batesburg, the maishal arrested a
drunken Irishman and put him in the
guard night house for safe keeping. During
the the guard house was consumed
by fire, and the poor unfortunate was
roasted alive. He is said to have been
a sewiDg machine repairer, and his name
is supposed to be John Doyle.
The Rivers’ Bridge Memorial Associa¬
tion of Ktarse will hold its annual meet¬
ing in about one month. Gen. Rusk now
a member of Harrison’s cabinet, will be
invited to deliver the memorial address.
Gen. Rusk was brevetted brigadier gen¬
eral in 1865, about one mile from the as¬
sociation’s cemetery, for bravery in the
battle of Salkehatchie, as a Federal sol¬
dier.
Another victim has met her death in
the now famous Hunter’s wharf dock, in
Charleston. Mrs. Fickenberg, a white
woman, drowned aged sixty years, was found
in the dock. The general im¬
the pression is that she suicided, although
coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of
accidental drowning. Mrs. Fickenberg
is the sixth victim who has peiished in
this dock within the past two years.
The place is lonely and unlighted. The
dock is filled with pluffmud of the char¬
acter of quick sand. Of the six victims
three committed suicide, and three are
supposed to have wandered overboard
and have been caught iu the treacherous
mud until the flood, tide covered them.
VIRGINIA.
Further reports of damage by the re¬
cent storm are coming in, and show that
the loss of oyster vessels on both bay
and seaside is much larger than at first
supposed, and the loss of life correspond-
ing greater. Three bodies were washed
ashore near Cape Charles Wednesday,
one of which was that of Capt. Chan-
nock, of Eastville.
A fatal wreck occurred on the York
River branch of the Richmond & Dan¬
ville Railroad, near West Point. The
heavy rains washed out a culvert and a
part of the dam between the tank pond
and the river, and an engine and seven
freight cars plunged into the washout.
Two men, a colored brakeman and the
fireman, a young man named Durvin,
were buried under the cars and killed.
The reports which are coming in from
Norfolk, Princess Anne and Nansemond
counties, show that serious damage was
sustained in these counties from the
storm and tides. In many localities cat¬
tle and other property were destroyed by
the extraordinary high tide. The pota¬
to crop in the trucking sections will be
generally the seed injured the by water, which will
rot in ground.
TELEGRAPHIC.
The steamship Chattahoochee, of
Savannah, Wednesday, Ga, arrived in New York
on three days overdue and
pretty well stove up. She encountered
one of the heaviest gales ever experi¬
enced on the Atlantic coast, and came
near being wrecked.
Another attempt to wreck the west¬
bound limited vestbule express on the
Pittsburg, road, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Rail¬
which passed through Canton,
Ohio, about midnight on Wednesday,
was made near Louisville, at the same
place thbt the attempt to wreck the same
train was made the night before.
The committee appointed in Sydney,
New South Wales, to investigate the dis¬
covery of Pasteur for the extermination
of rabbils, have made a report that upon
experiment, they found that the rabbits
which had been inoculated with the vi¬
rus of chicken cholera, or which ate
food which had been infected with virus
died, but that the disease was not com¬
municated by one rabbit to another.
Lord Lonsdale, a British nobleman,
who made quite a stir in social circles in
New York about a year ago in connec¬
tion with the divorce suit of Violet Cam¬
eron, an actress, and then went on a wild
goose chase of Arctic exploration by
himself, has just been heard from. He
lies at Kodiac, Alaska, with a broken
arm, hausted, arriving there starving and ex¬
and says he is disgusted with
exploring.
Rev. Sam Small conducted one of the
most exciting temperance meetings of
the prohibition campaign at Pittsburg,
Pa., on Wednesday night. He was de¬
nouncing the liquor dealers vigorously,
as wealthy “law-breakers,” when Jacob Kellar, a
liquor dealer, objected. “He is
one of them,” cried a man in the audi¬
ence. “You’re a liar,” cried Kellar.
The latter became demonstrative, and
was ejected from the church amid great
excitement. Resolutions were passed
requesting reuewal the court to refuse Kellar a
of license. One old lady became
so much excited that she rushed up to
Ivellar as he xvas leaving the church, and
struck him in the face with her fist.
An eastbound train on the Santa Fe
and California was just leaving Lorenzo
station, which is fifty miles from Chicago,
on Wednesday when an accident occur¬
red. Attached to the rear of the train
was the private car of J. E. Hart, mayor
of Brookline, Mass., and a director of the
California Central road. The party in
the ear consisted of Mr. Hart and his
son, Henry Robert Hart; his niece, Miss
Winslow; a porter, known only as Harry,
and a cook. Just as the train was pull¬
ing out of the station an.extra fast stock
train, following, ran into- the rear of the
passenger train at a good speed, demol¬
ishing the private car and damaging tho
freight engine so that a large quantities
of steam escaped, scalding those whJ
had escaped from the effects of the crash]
The killed were : Miss Winslow, Henrvl
Hart, the porter and' the cook. J. F.
Hart ami his wife were badly scalded.
DETERMINED BOOMERS.
he officials of the Santa Fe Railroad
are busy investigating the story that the
boomers concealed in the woods of Okla¬
homa, had banded together for the pur¬
pose of destroying the railroad bridges,
in order to obstruct the influx of home¬
steaders until the men concealed in the
country could make perfect their cluims.
It appears that the boomers in hiding are
despeiate. They have selected and
watched their claims for years, aud they
now fear that the new comers, with the
assistance of rapid transit, may get the
best of them. The Santa Fe railroad has
400 cars already engaged by parties who
desired household gcods removed. The
crowd has increased at Arkansas City,
Kansas, to such proportions,that persons
who get their mail at the free delivery
window at the postoffice are compelled
to form into a procession, and then it is
frequently five or six hours before they
can get to call for their mail.
COTTON.
Tee increase in amount iu sight as
compared with last year, is 62,299"bales,
the increase as compared with 1886-87 is
447,9S3 bales, and the increase over 1835-
86 is 494,201 bales.
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WORLD OUTSIDE.
EPITOME OF MOST INTEREST¬
ING MATTERS.
OREAT LABOR AGITATION—SPRING STORMS—
DEATHS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS.
FIBES, SUICIDES, ETC.
William Henry Smith, first lord of the
British treasury, is to be raised to the
peerage.
of Dispatches houses from India says hundreds
have been destroyed by tire at
Surat. The loss is placed at $1,000,000.
Police Officer Woodville, of Chicago,
HI., was shot Tuesday morning by a bur¬
glar, whom he was chasing. He will die.
Good order prevails at Panama. The
troubles which were learcd on account
of the stoppage of work, have not oc¬
curred.
Sir Charles Russell has consented to
act as arbitrator between Vandeleur and
the Clare tenants in Ireland and their
landlords. His decision is to be bind¬
ing.
The Berlin Reichstanger announces,that
Count Yon SchelleDdorf retires from the
that ministry of war at his own request, and
he will be succeeded by Gen. Verdy
Du Yernois.
The immigrants on board the Red Star
line steamer Nordland, which was in the
collision off Beechhead, with the schoon¬
er Carrie Dingle, and fvhich put into
Southampton lo land. for repairs, was forbidden
Henry L. Stanley’s letter to the Royal
Geographical Society body was read at the
meeting of that in London, Eng¬
land, on Monday. He describes at length
the various devices by which the natives
endeavored to prevent the advance of the
expedition.
The freight houses of the Boston &
Lowell division of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, situated between Lowell, Minot
and Nashua streets, Boston, Mass., -were
burned on Tuesday evening, only a por¬
tion of the walls remaining. The loss
will be $500,000.
It has been discovered that, owing to
the faulty construction of a New Jersey
law recently passed in regard to city
governments, Trenton will be without a
mayor for three weeks, and that the
newly authorized fire and police com¬
missioner cannot be appointed.
Jacob Sandt, the eminent commander
of the Hugh DePayn committed commandery, suicide
Knight Templar, at
his home in Eaton, Pa., on Monday, by
hanging. The act is believed to have
been due to melancholy over the return
of an old sickness. He was in the gro¬
cery business and one of Eaton’s most re¬
spected citizens.
There was some little excitement in
Chicago, IU., political circles that about a de¬
cision of court to the effect Brighton
Park, a suburb, had been annexed to the
city proper and should have participated
in the late city election. The Republi¬
cans, who were defeated, will try and
have the election declared illegal.
In the British House of Commons on
Monday, the lord advocate introduced a
bill providing for local government in
Scotland. The bill creates county coun¬
cils, the members of which are to be
elected by the householders. All the
boroughs, with a population of less than
7,000, will be merged into the counties,
the others will be self-governed.
The town of Fairburg, 111., has been
quarantined on account of the prevalence
of scarlet fever. There are more than
twenty cases of the disease in the little
town, and six deaths have occurred.
The families, in which the disease pre¬
vails, are and not permitted provisions to leave furnished the
premises, committee appointed are by the
them by a
town board.
A large meeting of farmers was held
at Anderson, Ind., on Tuesday, r.nd
pledges were made, to pay no more than
15 cents per pound for trust binding
twine, and not in any manner to patron¬
ize any merchant offering such twine for
sale at a greater price. The farmers de¬
clare they will bllow their hogs to eat the
wheat in the fields before submitting to
the twine trust.
At the closing session of the Mormon
Conference held in Salt Lake City, on
Tuesday, George O. Cannon read the
statistics of the church, which are, 12
apostles, 70 patriarchs, 3,719 high
priests, 11,705 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292
teachers, 11,610 deacons, 81,809 families,
115,915 officers and members and 49,302
under eight years of age—a total Mormon
population of 153,911.
Capt. Couch, the Oklahoma leader, ar¬
rived in Winfield, Kansas, on Tuesday
from Oklahoma. He says the soldiers
have scouted the Oklahoma country, and
about everybody without authority to
remain has been driven out. Nobody is
allowed to alight from a train no h ngei
than the train stops at a station. The
Bank of Guthrie, I. T., with a capital
stock of $50,000 was organized.
A few months ago burglars broke into
the residence of John Reilly, of Wilkes-
barre, Pa., chloroformed the family and
stole nearly 81,000. On Monday, Father
O’Hearn, pastor of St. Mary’s Roman
Catholic church, handed Reilly $700,
which he said had been given him that
evening by a prominent man, and who had told had
made a confession to him,
the story of the robbery. The story is a
secret of the confessional.
FATAL DISEASE.
The terrible mortality of Rio Janerio,
Brazil continues. Rio appears to he rap¬
idly progressing toward the condition of
a pest house, aud the deaths aver¬
age 150 a day. The epidemic is no longei
yellow fever, which disease, indeed, ia
rapidly declining, but au uncompre¬
hended malady, termed there “pernicious
attack,” which strikes down its victims,
almost wholly males, suddenly, and
proves fatal within a few hours. No
age or condition is exempt. Brazilians
a:e as liable as the most recent immi¬
grant, and on one day forty-five persons
perished from it, yellow fever contrib¬
uting the comparatively small contin¬
gent of twenty-four to the day’s mor¬
tality.
AGAINST CIDER,,
An interesting liquor case has just been
decided at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The
defendants were tried on the ordinary
liquor had, selling indictment. The witnesses
as shown by the evidence, bought
cider in the defendant’s restaurant; the
question was, whether or not cider is
classed with intoxicating liquors. Judge
Travers ruled that while cider is at first
a non-intoxicant, the it became intoxicating
in course of time.
DlACKSMITHING J
HORSE-SHOEING I
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
J&RRETT & SON.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
MBS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als) has charge of tin
Railroad Eating House at Bowersvillq
Ga. Good accomni' lations, good board,
at usual rates in first-class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW-
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
RIAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont Ri gion, Georgia. Also
Ortnge Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. f&cLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
W. A. MAT1ES0N,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS HOODS F
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS,
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
terial, Blacksmith’s Tools, Hinges,
Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE,
AND WOODWARE i
- ALSO -
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. GA.
Poet Riley’s Sign painting' D.irs.
I have wondered a good many times
how many peopie in Warsaw, Ind.,
writes S. B. McManus to the New York
Sun , remember when James Whitcomb
Riley was a resident of that place. It
was in the spring of 18? 0, when I was
reading medicine there and Riley was in
town filling an engagement, or engage¬
ments, handy painting this window signs. He was
at sort of thing, and did
some nice jobs.
Later, he with a very deft and cunning
hand, made drawings for his poems,
which were as full of artistic strength
and quaintness as his “Old Swimmin’
Hole” is full of poetry. About this time
the Indianian printed some little things
of mine—picturesquely little, some of
them, from a literary standpoint. But
out of charity or to encourage me, or to
get rid of me, the rhymes were printed,
and one day Riley and I were talking
about them while he was painting a sign
of the boss jewelry store, near Mr.
Wynant’s drug store.
In a mild, friendly way, he was a
trifle envious of my success in getting
into print, and i posed beside him
while he painted the “IiY” in jewelry,
as a person whose literary standing was
assured. When he had made a marine
blue period, he took off his apron ana
gether we went over to little the Wright House to¬
to see a bit of rhyme which
he said he had there. He wanted my
opinion and criticism on it, and as I had
more opinion and criticism to give than
anything else, I was willing to bestow it
even on a sign painter. raley read the
poem. It was called “The Argonaut,”
and, inexperienced as I was, I knew that
only a poet and a genius could have
written it. I was unstinted in my praise,
and I knew the Hoosier poet was born
and was only waiting the recognition of
the public, which in a few years it so
magnificently and munificently gave.
After this episode an abiding and
deep-rooted friendship was the result.
I have met him since then, and have
read about all that he has ever written,
hut nothing ever pleases me so much—
no “reading” I have ever heard of his—
pleased “The me as well as that little poem,
Argonaut,” read one raw spring
day up in a cold room by a curtainless
window in the Wright House block,
A DEADLY PIPE.
Robert Schideler and wife, of Manson,
Iowa, were driving to town on Tuesday
when a spark from Schideler’s pipe ig¬
nited the clothing of his wife, and as
the wind was blowing a stiff gale, she
was enveloped in flames in an instant.
Terror stricken, she jumped from the
buggy on one side did and her husband on
the other. He all in his power to
quench the flames, but to no avail. The
grass took fire around them and Mrs.
Schideler was completely enveloped in a
fiery shroud, and died before her hus¬
band’s eyes.
The New York Press informs its read-
ers that the TheosophicaJ Society of
Philadelphia has dispatched two dele¬
gates to Hindostan to search for the
grave of Buddha. If those delegates
should attempt to enter the jungles of
Nepatu in the midst of the rainy season,
they will probably find a grave of some
sort before the end <4 May.
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