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■ MAiil'R DECLARES TOR CLEVELAND.
VNTA, July 22. — Senator Colquitt
••I 1 lie follow dispatch from Mr
w.v -iisc.ton, 1>. C., July 22.—Hon. A.
. ..nit: l pon r full consideration
!.»■ wli.>le subject I have concluded
i" come to Georgia At this Uino. If
i- desired 1 will come at any time
i g the campaign, after congress ad-
o' , is, an.l make a speech for the dem
isin' party. J. G. Carlisle.
it is believed by soino that tho talk
unit Mr. McKinley being invited toan-
, . r him, and the objection raised by
ii.ior Colquitt had something to do
it. Mr. Carlisle’s declining to come;
a it is probable that his pressing du-
s in congress ; s the real cr use.
A LAWYER SUICIDES.
• i sinsvh.lk, Ky., duly 2d.—At
ick yesterday ufternoon 11. \V. Henry
..f the most brilliant young lawyers
'■stern Kentucky, shot himself at his
i.-nce on South .Main street, dying
.n’.iy. He had i no a out on a polili-
-peakiiig tour last week. Goinc
.• yesterday evening, he shut himself
m his room. Shortly afterward
> allots were heard, and when his
ai.-i mother reached him ho was
mo* built t having pe netrated his
Mr lloo.y was the nominee for
land a id Thurman elector for this
o and hit been mentioned for the
. r.uc Humiliation for Congress, lie
,,:.lv thirty years old.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY; JULY 31. 1888.
. I M S OF I'll i: l’l.«
n\*«, \\. Ya, July 23.—The
vuMim of the Hood of last Tliurs-
,t w.in l >un«l yesterday on the
h-nv. r l» low town. It was
v of 1'ominie Hawley, aged five
four children of one family
Kight bodies are still unre
in 1 several missing.
Senator Coke was elected orcr Hans,the
republican nominee. His service in that
campaign brought Mr. Mills at once into
prominence, and he was soon afterwards
sent to congress.
Ever since that time Mr. Mills has
been regarded as one of the brain j men
Texas. In congress he has been since
the forty-fourth congress a member of the
ways and means committee, and
given close attention to mat
ters of finance and taxation.
When Mr. William H. Morrison was
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee, Mr. Mills was second on that
body and became a leader in the taritr
discussions of the session in which Mr.
Morrison introduced his famous hill for
•‘horizontal reduction.”
Mr. Mills is thoroughly posted on the
details of the tariff question and burns
the midnight oil in reading documents on
the subject.
He is described, by those who know
him, as a piain man of business, enter
ing little into society, and devoting him
self always with carncstnest to the pro
motion of the measures he has in hand*
1 n debate ho is described as a frequent
and effective speaker, and sometimes an
interrupter of speakers; a de
bater who expresses himself
in th»* vigorous language of a man of
strong convictions. He presses home
his view of a question, hardly stopping
t«* listen to the arguments or objections
of an opponent, hut following his argu
ments to a conclusion and driving that
in with a good deal of the power of phy
sical fotce.
lift is a man of fine presence, and
though of plain speech and the uncon
ventional style of Texas congressmen, he
is courteous and a man to hold his
friends. Harper’s Weekly, •speaking of
Mr. Mills,says that he has shown that
he can rise to the importance of the oc-
easion, and has shown himself a worthy
chairman of the ways and means coin-
nv.tt* e, and adds that he is what few
public men are, *‘a man in earnest.”
Mr. Mills is ahold man and his posi
tions arc clearly defined. In tho Texas
prohibition campaign, when others were
timid, he took a bold and leading part,
and stumped the state against prohibi
tion. Though his ideas were not ac
cepted by all Texas, those who ditfered
with him were obliged to respect his
can !or.—Evening .1 ournal.
A GRAND RE UNION.
FOUR Ul’XllREI) CARCASSES TO BE
SLAIN.
S|**ecll®* nn dToaat A-The Veterans of the
'JVl» tieorfU VaUaHuu of Artillery to
Meet at Suwannee.
1‘KAYKK FOR RAIN.
A Realistic Story of the Simple Faith of
Old Tom.
PLANT CITY.
I W..NGTOM, July -3.—Surgeon Gen.
»dt»»n, of the marine hospital re-
• d u lelegr tni Saturday staling that
«• w»iv seven ensue of yellow fever
Plant Pity, Ida., to-day vigorous
sure-* will he adopted to prevent a
i a i of the di.seane.
We have a cordial invitation to attend
a re-union of the Dtli Georgia llattalion
of artillery, at Suwannee, on Thursday
the 2nd day of August. The program is
inviting, and we know that our Athens’
visitors will have a grand time. Just
think of it, four hundred carcasses for
the feast. An editor and stall* can’t re
sill such temptations. We will go! Our
friends of tho “lost cause” must go with
us. The veterans of Clarke county are
cordially invited. They will have a good
time.
Gov. Gordon, E. P. Howell, General
Longstreet and other distinguished
speakers will address the crowd. A
section of artillery Mill he brought
from Atlanta, and all present will wit
ness a grand aitilhry practice. Special
rates to be given by the railroads for the
round trip, if consisting of ten or more.
Mr. II. L. Cranford, of the baialion. will
gladly give all information. Trains leave
at 7 o’clock a. m., on the Northeastern
road and return at 9:”*) o’clock p. m.,
thus granting a day of real hippy recre
ation and a grand tirae.
Gwinnett county will entertain her
guests most royally. This command was
composed of two batteries from Atlanta,
one from Fulton county, one from Col
umbus and one from La wrenceville.
The iiatlnlinn has held reunions at
every point except in Gwinnett county,
and it be*ng the home of Capt. Tyler M.
Peoples is a guarantee of perfect success.
Peeples and Horn of l.awrenceville are
joodJ team, “and our *w«*rd lor it, a
jolly good time is in store for the visitors
who may he so fortunate as to he pres
ent. Again, let us insist on a good del-
Tbe other day in an adjoining county
'old min Tom, a respectable colored farm
er had just laid aside his hoe and
was walking leisurely to his cabin about
dust. It had been 8 weeks since the old
man’s crop had known a rain, and it was
suffering terribly.
Clouds were gathering overhead and
he hoped that the long looked for show
er was about to fall. He had been dis
appointed many a time and he feared
that it would be so now. lie was in
bad sorts anyhow.
Dejectedly he walked into his cabin,
sat down an^l began complaining of the
drought to his faithful wife, old Patsy.
Palsy tried to cheer him, but failing, said
at last, “Tom, you don’t pray enuf. De
good Lord would send de rain if you
but axed Him in de right spent.” Tom
continued to muse, and in a few min
utes he got up and walked across his
field, lie was thinking f what Patsy
had said to him. Suddenly he dropped
on his knee in an attitude of prayer, his
head bowed and his arms extended to
lleaven. lie began, “Good Lord, do
send de rain. l’se gwine to quit all my
debilment, 1 ain’t gv.ine to steal no more
of ina’rs John’s watennilions, nor lift
any more of neighbor Hob’s chickens off
ob de roost of er Sunday night. No, l’se
gwine de lead er belter life, ef de good make $24 a day.
Lord will only send de rain.” Just at i In the library
A THEN* tms.
It is a cold day in July when the
Athens firemen either colored or white
get beat. They always go for the first
prize, and generally get it The colored
companies are visiting Washington and
from the following dispatch, they keep
up the well earned reputation ol Athens
gallon from Athens.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
He and She.
_ , , _ . Jfl w*r* a kin*,” b* *»H,
Am attempt has been made to have the -And you warrjoatalo®!? i*«ir maid,
historic gallows tree on Hampstead Heath with my strung Kami l*d lift you >o my aide,
cot down. ■ And crown you quo u; aad the great king’s
When L T. Stewart died there was to | bride,
his credit on the books of A. T. Stewart t Men wan’d uot know,
A Co. $12,000,000. j Or would target, the beggar maid.”
THE FAIR SEX.
A Florida planter has contracted to
furnish a New York dealer with 1,000,-
000 cabbages during the season.
The British budget shows £57,000 for
extra police for the coming year, in con
sequence of tne dynamite scare.
It Is said there are farmers* wives on
Long Island who make boys* trousers for
three cents. There are women in New
York who toil sixteen hoars a day for
sixty cents.
A splended mine of molybdenum, a
metal more precious than silver, has been
found in the Cascade mountains, near
Tacoma, W. T. It is worth $50,000 per
ton.
The supremo court of Massachusetts
has decided tliat a railroad is not liable
for damages for injuries sustained by the
holder of a pass.
The whole stock of diamonds produced
by the three largest companies in Capo
Town lias been purchased by London
merchants to be held for a rise.
The gold mines of North Carolina are
again being vigorously developed, and
exceptionally rich yields are reported
from most of them. At the Mann-Ar-
rington, in Nash county, some men who
work over tho tailings merely are said to
“If I were a queen,” she said,
“And you a careless, wondering minstrel*
strayed.
To myf lair coart. I’d set you on the throne;
And being there, the grtatcel king e’er known
I would kneol down.
And serve yon as your maid.”
ABOUT RAILROADS.
Hi
I'OII A I.IFKTI.nK.
; strange why people who recogn
certain inherited disorders, let them run
on under tho vain delusion that they can
not be cured. Nine tenths “incurable”
diseases can be cured, lo ad how one
who had blood poison from birth talks:
lb
Itlooil Taint From !!irtli.
vii.i.k, Im*., January 25, 1887.—
I shall ever praise the day that you gen
tlemen were born, and shall bless the
day that your medicine wa> known to me.
1 had blood poison from birth, and so
much so that all tho doctors of my town
said 1 would be crippled for life. They
saul 1 would lose my lower limbs. 1
could not stand in my class to recite my
lessons, and eleven bottles of your Balm
cured me sound and w ell. You can use
my name as you see tit. In my case,
there w re knots on my shinbones as
large as a lien's egg.
y dru
uz/.led to know what to do with
in. Besides the five who are in cells
i.iomg been drunk three times there
ic • locked up Saturday for first ef-
The lawyers are having a regular
TIIK STRIKE 8TI1.I. ON.
McCook, Mo., July 23—Chairmen
and Murphy made an effort to have
strike on the C. 11. A tj. declared off
the firemen and engineers decided
u.iinously to continue the struggle.
ivISSIA AND OF.UMAKY
St. lV.TKnsiiCho, July 22.—Count ller-
• rt Bismarck had an audience with the
/.ir yesterday, lasting one hour and
MU'un minutes.
Y«
.Mint i.f. M. '
THE STA1!«*\ HoVSE.
.Inlv 23.—There are
:iks here that the authorities j f or Being the fastest and best firemen in
the State.
Washington, Ga. July 25th.— [Special
to the Banner-Watch man. ^ All first
prizes taken by Athens.
Bride and Lester.
This is certainly a triumph for the
colored companies of Athens, who visit
ed Washington and engaged in the con
test. The colored fire department of
Athens is the best in the state, and
when it comes down to hard work and
fast running, we will put them against
the w'orld. Athens is justly proud of
the colored companies for they are never
found wanting.
The Tournament.
Washinoton, Ga., July 25.—The col
ored tournament passed oil’ pleasantly
today. The square and streets were
lined with negroes from all sections, and
all seemed to be enjoying the occasion.
As usual Washington treated her
guests with hospitality.
Tho Athens firemen are jnbilant. Co
hen Keel Company No. G won first prize.
In the Hook and Ladder contest
O’Farrell Hook and Ladder Company
made a run of 100 yards in 34 seconds
and took first prize.
Siiti>r«-«1 I rom i’ili-h.
Baltimore. February 5, 1*87.—1 had
suffered with bleeding piles for two years
and take pleasure in staling that I have
been entirely cured by the use of one
bottle of Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.)
i cheerfully make this statement for the
benefit of the public.
(’has. Reinhardt,
No. 2020 Fountain st., Baltimore, Md.
this moment the young landlord, John
L-. , rode up on old Tom. He had j
halted his horse some distance off and
heard Tom's petition. “What are you I
doing Toni?” Lord ina’rs John I is dat
you? And axing me what l’se doing
while all dis here crap am er drying up
f**r de lack of er lettle moister. l’se er
praying f »r some rain. “Well, Tom, do
you think you will get it?” 1 do’no
ina’rs John, hut l’se a try in’. Just then
cam • a tremendous hurst of thunder and
vivid lightning llashed athwart the skies.
Anxiously the two stood side by side
watching the drifting, lowering clouds.
“If it would jist rain,” muttered Tom.
A moment later a terrific gale sprang up,
the clouds were driven down a stream
in the rear of the house; overhead a
clear sky was seen and the stars shone
one brightly. Hope of rain was gone.
“Ma’rs John,” exclaimed Tom. “De
good Lord am forgot us.” The young
man dashed ??. on his blooded steed, old
Tom turned and walked hack to his log
cabin. There he told his old woman
what he had done and how the Lord had
forgotten him. “Cheer up Tom, said
l'atsy,’’ all wifi turn out right.
library of Dr. Williams, in Lon-
Let I’m IIu\e •
A writer in the LaGrange Reporter
appeals for at lea^ one farmer in our
legation to Congress. In doing so he
sums up thus
1 Dis. Lawyer from Savanmh.
Lawyer
Lawyer
Lawyer
Lawyer
Lawyer
Lawyer
Lawyer
CapitTt
Lawyer
(Juitman.
Amencus.
Columbus.
Griffin.
Macon.
Rome.
Athens.
Gainesville.
Augusta.
don, is n copy of the Bible in shorthand.
It is exquisitely written, and is said to
have belong* d to an apprentice of the
time of James II, who feared that the
Bible was :il>oiit to be prohibited, and so
wrote this copy.
A new’ fire escape in England is a sort
of a chair that slides down ropes, and the
host of a house possessing it often enter
tains his guests by permitting them to
take a ride. At the Italian exhibition in
London it i.i exjwctod to prove the great
rival of the switchliack railway.
Australia and Canada are shortly to
be united hv a cable 7,500 miles in
length. The Egeria, a vessel lxdonging
to tlie British navy, lias lieguti to survey
tho route, end it is exjiected that the
work will take three years. The cable
will commence from a point on the east
ern coast of Australia and proceed l»y
way of the northern cost of New Zealand
to British Columbia, passing the Fiji
Islands and landing at Victoria, on the
southern end of Vancouver Island.
M. Jovis, a French aeronaut, is said to
b© building an airship in which ho pro
poses to a’.tcmpt to cross the Atlantic
from New York this fall. It is to be
called the “Atlantic,*’ and will be 200
feet high, with a cubic measurement of
nearly 100.000 feet. It will weigh 4,500
pounds, and will carry the same weight
of passengers and freight. M. Jovis
thinks he can make seventy miles an
hour in it. and expects to land in Nor
way or Sweden, or else iu Ireland, in
three and a half 'lays after starting. The
cost of tlie enterprise is fixed at about
$40,000.
THE RACE T Koriil.K.
Ih pcrts from Crittenden county, Ark.,
>ay that the race troubles there have
assumed a thieatening aspect. Ru
mor has it that one of the lately expelled
mum officials, who returned, has been
lynched, and the negroes arc excited
and threatening. The whites are prepar
ed for a conflict, which, if it occurs, will
i r.d the usual way.
AN ACTIVE NEW CONGRESSMAN.
Tried Five iio< lorn.
Hawkinsvii.le, Ga., Feb. 20, 1887.—
This is to certify that iny wife has been
in had health for eight years. After try
ing live doctors and six or seven differ
ent patent medicines, six bottles of}*our
B. B. B. has cured her.
James \Y. Lancaster.
Send for our Book of Wonders, free
to all. It treats of all blood disorders.
Address,
BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga,
FIFTY YEARS MARRIED.
. vdos, July 25.—Mr. an*d Mrs. W.
Gladstone celebrated their golden
ining today.
hey received thousands of congratu-
ry letters and telegrams, besides
r.y presents. At • reception by Lord
•lu’er Mr. and Mrs. Ulanstone were
M-nted with handsome portraits of
Rim Ives.
THE FIRST NEW COTTON.
<SAH, Ga., July 25.—The first
lab* ».i new cotton was received this
i *>'ining from II. Wise, of Thomasville
I* was strict middling and sold at 15
»• nts. it is eleven days earlier than the
hr>t hale last year.
KKOKoES FOR CUMLINU.
Cincinnati, July 25. — The national
iu-^ro democratic loague, which was or-
K*nued during the St. Louis convention,
has issued a circular in support of Presi
dent Cleveland.
O'KELLY ARRESTED.
Lon dos,J uly 25.—Mr. James O’Kelly
nationalist member of parliament for
lioscoimnon, was arrested last evening
under the crimes act, on a warrant
charging him with delivering speeches
in Ireland inciting to intimidation.
MILLS AND BYNUM.
TIIKY ARRIVE TODAY AND SPEAK AT CHAU
TAUQUA TOMORROW’.
Atlanta, July 26.—A number of
prominent gentlemen go up thia eTening
iu meet Messrs. Mills and Bynum,
Gainesville.
They will bs met »t the csrshed, on
tho arrival of tbs train st 8:30 by the
Young Mao’s Democratic League, and
will hold a reception of n couple of
hours. They return at XI to Salt Springs
Ur. Mills speaks tomorrow at four. Mr.
Hjuum will follow in ths afternoon, or
evening.
MIL MILL'S CAREER.
Hon. Roger Q. Mills, author of the
famous “Mills bill," endowed by the Ht.
I.ouis convention end pasted by the
democratic house, is between fifty end
sixty yeaw of age end bet represented s
Texes district in Congress for fourteen
years.
He commanded e Texas regiment in
Joseph B. Johnson’s army, end was ss-
rtmly wounded near Chattanooga.
Mr. Mills attained prominence daring
the stormy times when Texas was re
deemed from Republican rule. He took
pa active part in the campaign when
Washington, D. C., July 20, IS88.
Editor Banner-Watchman: For a num
ber of years I have been in department
service in Washington, and sin pretty
well posted as to vt hat is going on or
being done for 'he benefit ol Georgia and
her people, being one of them myself.
1 frequently meet her representatives
and senators, and always feel proud of
them, for they stand high as a delega
tion.
Today it was my pleasure to meet, in
one of the prominent departments, your
representative, Hon. II. 11. Carl ton. 1
have watched him very closely since
he came to Washington, as all new mem
bers are watched, to see how they are
coins to work, or whether they arc going
to work at all. It is but just to say of
him, and 1 must say it with
that though a new member in Congress,
he is certainly a very active and useful
one. No man ever came to congress who
lias faster learned to work for and serve
his constituents in the departments,
than Mr. Carlton. lie attends to every
duty, even the smallest, with that degree
of earnestness, energy and aviuity,
which is so characteristic of the man.
1 am not a cilixen of the 8th District,
but I want to say, the District never had
a better or more faithful representative,
and never will have. KTen for the short
time he has been here, he has had over
twenty new poBtolUces established in his
District, and a great many of the postal
routes so changed as to give bis people
far better mail facilities than they over
did. I heard a high official in the post-
office department aay a few days ago,
"if every congressman was as active and
persistent about postoffices and routesas
Ur. Carlton is, that the United btatee
would soon have the most perfect postal
service in the world.’, ... ,
Some people may think it strange that
Mr Carlton does not send out thousands
and thousands of public documents and
A Fuuny Little Occurrence.
A strange experience happened to
the writer Monday. On the train were
Capt John C. Reed and family of Atloii-
ta, who were to stop at 4Yoodvill«% on
their way to visit relatives in Woodstock.
Under their charge was little Miss Clif
ford, an eight-year old daughter of
Capt. J. C. Hall, of Crawford. As Clif
ford was coming down further Mrs.
Reed asked us to take enre of her. We
did so, and going over to entertain her
we took a seat by htr side. In a mo
ment and without premeditation the
bright little miss said, “it’s too hot fur
bof to be on the same seat.*’ We took
the hint. The little incident was a
source of much amusement to the pas
sengers. She is a sweet little girl, de
spite her preference for jespcctable dis
tance.
Woolfolk A I'aupcr.
Macon, July 24.—Tom Woolfolk’s lj
latest gag is that he is a pauper, and he j
has made an oath to that effect. This
morning attorney W. M. \\ imberly, act- !
ing for Captain J. C. Rutherford, went to '
jail, accompanied by Justice D. A. Keat
ing and asked to see Tom.
Woolfolk made a “pauper’s affidavit**
be.ore Justice Keating, that he was una
ble to pay the cost of carrying his case
to the superior court, which relieves him*
of this expense. It is doubtful IS bis
hearing before this court will bo had be
fore October, and ns to w’hether he will
get a new trial, there is no telling.
The Recent A►»<m-IhI1ou.
l*rof. Williams Rutherford says that
the recent Sunday School association,
held in Llherton, was most successful.
He added that the association was or
ganized nine years ago with but seven
schools represented. At the recent
meeting over forty schools and a num
ber of churches had representatives, and
the work done w*s grat.fying in the ex
treme. All of the visitors speak in high
•praise of the hospitality of the people of
Elbert.
The Cokt of Greatness.
It cost something to be known as a
well-dressed man in the upper circles of
dudedoiu. According to a recent edict
all candidates for tho honor must have,
in addition to a full complement of trous>
ers, coats, waistcoats, hats and shoes, all
English, you know, white silk breakfast
shirts at $25 each, embroidered night
robes at $150 and monogram hose at $?G
a pair. It costs something to he great
Work at G«forj;la Factory.
The brick work on the Georgia factory
is progressing rapidly. Two stories have
been raided and masons ore now waiting
for the gliders to be put up. 'They will
resume brick laying Monday. Mr. W.
1). Williams, who has charge of the ma
sonry, says he will finish the brick work
in two weeks. The capacity of the mill
will be about doubled.
Senatorial Convention.
The convention to nonnaate a senator
for the 27th Senatorial district, will
meet in Monroe on Wednesday, the 8th
of August.
Each county will v bc entitled to a vote
of double the number ef representatives.
Geo. 0. Sklman,
Chairman Executive Committee, 27th
Senatorial District.
A ?Ullinn on n I.tfc.
The greaU'M achievement in the his
tory of life insurance lias lieen made by
Mr. John Wanamaker, who /is now jmy-
ins premiums on $1,000,000 to twenty-
nine dilfercnt companies. Tho last
policy issuisl on his life was received by
him tlie other day, ami so fur as is known
there is no other man in tlie world wlioee
life is insured for such an enormous
amount. There are a numtier of men in
this city who have been trying for years
to achieve t lie point just gained by Mr.
Wanamaker. lint they have no far failed,
although John B. Stetson, tlie iiat manu
facturer. has succeeded in getting poli
cies on Ins life amounting fo $?o0.000.
He is desirous of putting the amount up
to a round million.
The risks on Mr. Wanamaker's life are
divided equally into life and fifteen year
endowments, and lie jiays over $60,000
annually in premiums to the different
companies in which his risks are placed.
In tlie mutter of paving premiums ho is
outdone bv Mr. Stetson, who pays $85,-
000 in the same length of time, hut the
difference is accounted for by tlie fact
that besidi-s paying tlie premiums on tlie
risks on his own life, he also jiays those
on the lives of his business manager and
liis son-in-law, both of whom he has in
sured for $100,000 each, besides holding
policies for large amounts on other peo-
Twantr Questions and Answers.
1. Bow many miles of railroads in the
U ni ted States.
About 156,000 miles; half the mileage
of the world.
2. Bow much have they cost?
Over $0,000,000,000.
3. How many people are employed by
them?
Over 1.000,000.
4. What is the fastest time made by
them?
Ninety-two miles in 93 min-
utes,one mile being made in forty-six sec
onds, on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad.
5. What is the cost of a high class,
eight-wheel passenger locomotive?
About $8,500.
V. What is the longest mileage opera
ted by a single system?
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe sys
tem; about 8,000 milts.
7. Wbat is the cost of a palace sleep
ing car?
About $15,000, or $17,000 if “vestibul-
od.”
8. What is the longest railway bridge
span in the United States?
Cantilever span, in Poughkeepsie
bridge, 548 feel.
9. What is tlie highest railroad bridge
in tlie United States.
Kinzua Viaduct, on Erie lioad; 503
feet high.
10. Who built the first locomotive in
the United States?
Peter Cooper.
XI. What road carries tho largest num
ber of passengers?
Manhattan elevated railroad. New
York; 525,000 a day, or 191,625,000
yearly.
12. What is tlie average daily earning
of sit Ainercan locomotive?
About $1U0,
13. What is the longest American rail
way tunnel?
Hoosac tunnel, on the Fitchburg rail
way; 4Ji miles.
14. Vv hat is tho average cost of con
structing a mile of railroad?
At the present time about $30,COO,
15. What is the highest railroad in the
United States?
Denver it Itio lirandt; Marshall Pass,
10,852 feet.
16. What is the chances of fatal acci
dents in railway travel?
One killed in ten million. Statis
ics show that more are killed by falling
out of windows than in railway acci
dents.
17. What railway extends furthest
east and west
Canadian Pacific railway, running from
Quebec to the Pacific ocean.
18. How long does a steel rail last,with
ordinary wear.
About eighteen years.
19. What road emits the hugest num
ber of commuters?
Illinois Central. 4,728,128 in 1887.
20. What is the fastest time made be
tween Jersey City and Sun Francisco?
Three days, 7 hours. 39 minutes and
1G seconds. Special theatrical train,
June, 1886.
THE OHIO VALLEY.
Tlie Next Senator,
pie’s lives. SliouM Mr. Wanamaker al
low the annual dividends to go uncol
lected until the risks on his life expire lie
will l* entitled to about $1,400,000.
Tliere tire three companies which carry
premiums of $100,000 each on his life.
But Mr. Wanamaker is not tlie only man
in this city u|k»d whose life big risks are
issue* 1. George W. Childs is insured for
$100,000, and so is Wharton Barker.
Hamilton Dh&ton is insured for about
$150,000. J. (i. Darlington is insured
for one-tenth of a million, and his part
ner, William M. Bunk, for twice that
amount.—Philadelphia Record.
Mr. O. A. Harper, of Elbert, was in
the city Monday and feels good over
the primary election in Elbert. He re
ceived 1,226, a majority of the votes in
Elbert county. Mr. J. P. Shannon re*
ceived three votes. He refused to run
in the primary election. The action of
the primary secures to Mr. Harper the
vote of his district as it is Elbert county’s
time to name the candidate accoi ling to
the Rotation System. Mr. Harper is a
; roung man who has made a success at
farming and will take a leading part in
the next Georgia Legislature. He will
represent the interest of this class better
than any man who could have been se
lected. Mr. Harper will always be beard
from in the interest of agriculture. Our
friend Harper has a brilliant future before
him and the Banner-Watchman wishes
him success.
Under the Ground.
To Select Delegate**
The voters of Clarke county arc re
quested to meet at the cjuticil chamber,
mphasis, | on Saturday July 28th, to select d .le
gates to the Gubernatorial Convention
which meets in Atlanta. August 8th.
Also to select delegates to the Congress
ional and Senatorial Conventi ins. A full
attendance is desired.
C. G. Tai.maihie.
Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee Clarke County.
The Right Sort of a Girl
One of Griffin’s society belles has pro
ven that social duties and domesticity
need not conflict. She has not only
made 170 jars of jelly, but has canned ail
of the fruit needed for the use ef the
family, besides attending to her social
duties, which are anything hut light.
Says the Griffin News: There is one
thing certain, the society belle of Griffin
has nothing in common with accepted
society girls, but makes a better wife
than she does a sweetheart.
Mr. 11. O. W. Rose while digging in
his hack yard in East Athens found two
bottles and a copper ink stand. The
stopper iu the bottles bail decayed and
one of them had soinethimr in it that
tasted like cherry wine. Mr. Rose is at a
loss to know how they became buried
there.
Muj. Kline 1'rouioted.
Maj. Theo l).jKline. of Macon, has been
appointed i;enerai superintendent or the
Mexican Natior.nl railroad, headquarters
at l.aredo, Texas. It is not known who
will succeed Maj, Kline as Superinten
dent of the Southwestern railroad.
Nut in th. ltace.
Mr. F. lVGriffeth we learn has with
drawn from the senatorial race but will,
probably be a candidate for the house
from Oconee. This leaves the field
open to Mr. J. It. Lyle.
Seed fur Dlatrllmtlln.
speeches of distinguished men. For the
information of vour readers, 1
information of your readers, 1 want to
gay, that a new member has no such
documents to hit credit, and consequent
ly, if he sends out sny to fill » request
of some friend, he has to purchase them.
Every o* e wtU realise the truth of thu
remark, if be only stop* to r f“ 0D ;. ' V
member U only entitled to public docu
ments as they eccumulate from the
congress of which he is a member; hence
it is only after bis first term that be has
*•
will not be opposed for re-election in
his District, and for the interest uf his
people sod the pride of Georgis. l hope
they will keep him in eongtM* whore he
is sure to make hD mark, and at no dis
tant day become one of the great leaders
in th. Amtricsn congress.
One of the many tales told by the par
ty recently returned from the Chattoo
ga river, is that Mr. K. I. Smith caught
four large blue cat fish on hcoks that
bad not a sign of bait on them. Mr.
Bill Tuck, of WinterviUe, when he heard
this game, handed a card which had on
it, "1 am somewhat of a cheerful liar
myself.” There was no more-fish tales
told for some time.
Mr. Sylvanue Morris, Secretary of the
Northeast Georgia Fair Association has
received large shipments of choice seed
for distribution. His farmer friends are
invited to call and lay in a supply.
A Fish Stars.
Hr. Grans In Ohio.
John Temple Graves is just back
from Columbus, Ohio. Ue has seen
much there to injsrest him, and looks
upon tho state as double in the national
contest. Hon. Allen G. Thurman said
to Mr. Graves: “The Republicans say 1
am too old to be of any further service,
but they’ll find me lively enouge before
this campaign is over.”
Watermelons for Subscript ten.
To secure good *2“ JS?f, "JwJ
Year the fwnner should begin while toe
corn is growing to mako observations.
He°should note and mark .U pn.mm.nt
stalks as the esrly maturity, vigor wa
prolificacy sre »s important ss toe g
mination of the seed.
The Solid South of Conyers sgrass to
take s large watermelon for subscription
to that paper. A mess of tqrnip greens
M d s piece of bacon wiU bo taken Inter
in toe season. It takes money Md not • cs;
watermelon Md turnip gremis to run *
paper. Printers and paper dealers cant
lire on melons.
Cavalry Company.
Mr. W. IV. Price is trying to get np a
cavalry company in Athens, and says be
is bound to' success. There ie nothing
that will add more to the city thM a
well organized military company.
Close Bidding.
The contractors in Athens bid very
close for a job. In the repairing of the
college buildings there was only twenty
dollars difference in the bids, in a job of
over four tooutMd dollars.
llow to Get a Silver Cradle.
Talking of customs reminds me of a
curious old practice which still prevails
in some of the provincial towns of Eng
land, of presenting the wife of tlie mayor
with a silver cradle should she give birth
to a child during her liushand's term of
office. The old custom is still kept up
in tlie town of Worcester, England,
where the mayor’s wife, having had a
child born unto her. was a few weeks
ago presented by the corporation with
the traditional silver cradle. It was in the
form of a dish for fruit or flowers. On
each side were cut glass dishes, between
which the cradle, which was of wicker
work [vitu-ni. swung from tlie hands
of a |siir of silver cupids.—Jewelers’
Weekly.
The above named genileman is a can
didate for re-election to the office of
Solicitor General oi the Northern Cir
cuit Mr. Howard has filled the office
fearlessly for the past term and a better
solicitor does not exist in the state. He
is the best prosecuting officer in Geor
gia and his re-election should be unani
mous. He makes his basis for re-elec
tion on his record which is a good one.
Funeral Notlrra In the ’20s.
’•Tlie means of informing the public of
a death in the ’20s." said Mr. Williams,
“differed from the present mode of fun
eral notices in tlie i>aper. A man was
srait with a bell to toll or ring. If the
deceased was a grown |ierson a piece of
black, or if young a piece of wbito
cambric was tied to the bell handle. As
tlie man |iassed along tolling or ringing
the U-U persons would come out and he
would announce toe death Md tine, of
funeral.”—Chicago Herald.
•• Ilonklng” for thn Season.
This is tlie time of year when the man
agers of country opera houses come into
tlie city to go Uirough a process which
they importantly call "booking.” Trans
lated. that means tlie engaging of com
panies to visit their houses during the
approaching season. The smaller places,
or “one night stands,’’ are represented
by “managers,” who generally pursue
oilier occupations varying from black
smith to lawyer Their knowledge of
theatricals is bricl but they can argue on
sharing terms with great plausibility, and
they sign contracts with the utmost care
for tlieir own interests. To well known
stars they gladly yield 75, 80, 85, «"■*
sometimes liO i«r cent, of the entire re
ceipts. j Tlie smaller companies have to
be content with 55. 80, and 85 per cent.
Most of tlie minstrel shows, which are
big cards in the minor cities, get 80 or 85
uer cent.—New York Sun.
Gored by a Bull.
Mr. Johnson the post-master at Dan-
ielsville had his fine buggy horse gored
by a bull, and it is thought that he will
die.
Well Organised.
The lazy club of Harmony Grove i«
well organized. They beet dzily at 9
o’clock a. m. Md adjourn when the snn
goes down. The mayor is prssidsnt of
toe dab.
Tbs monied men of Harmony Glove
are dning their best to start s' bank frith
* of $50,000 before the fall tnds
opens. Harmony Drove is foil of good
ive merchants and if they will all work
ogetber the money can os raised.
According to a London paper, the New
Testament in Arabic b in deumnd in tho
land of Muab. In one day a colporteur
sold fifty-four copits flour bring tbs
purchasing power. When night came
every receptacle in the colporteur's honae
was filled with flour, and not a copy ol
the Scriptures remained unsold.
Probably no one thing haa caused each
a general revival of trade st John Craw
ford & Co’s Drug Store as their giving
away to their customers of so many fres
trial bottles of Dr. Kin£s Haw Discovery
for Consumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in thia vary valuable article
from the fact that it always cures and
oever disappoints. Coughs, colds, asth
ma, bronchitis, croon, Md all throat Md
lung diseases quickly cured. You cm
test it before buying by getting s trial
bottle free, Urge silo 1$. Every bottle
warranted.
*v.- '
Newspaper Gossip Concerning the Dnngts-
ten or Kvo—Personal Mention.
Bose Elizabeth Cleveland will go to
Europe next year to pursue her literary
studies.
The fastest typesetter in California is
said to be a young woman who is em
ployed in a newspaper office at Santa
Barbara.
Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wado
Hampton’s daughter, is a famous pe
destrian. She recently walked from her
home to Charleston, a distance of 145
miles, and in ado in one day a record of
twenty-fivo miles.
The Dowager Duchesse de Fitzjames
sent recently to a Paris fashionable bride
as her wedding present a copy of the
funeral oration delivered over James H
of England, recovered and preserved by
too Baron de Maynard at Lisbon.
The number of tall ladies now in Wash
ington society is noteworthy. A niece of
Secretary Bayard, Miss Bayard, of Balti
more, is six feet tall: Speaker Carlisle’s
wife i9 five feet nine inches, and Gen.
Greeley’s wife, Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of
Representative Wilkinson, of New Or
leans, and Miss Ginter, of Kentucky, are
about tlie same height.
_ Amelio Rives’ sister, about whose beauty
so much is being said, is small, very slight
and girlish. She has golden hair, largo
dark blue eyes of weird expression, and
a complexion of tho most dazzling pink
and white. Slio has long lashes, a lino
nose, and full red lips. She dresses with
school girl simplicity.
Mme. Vincent, a French woman, has
saved twelve persons from drowning.
A short time ago she jumped into tlie
waves entirely dressed and rescued the
twelfth, a 6-year-old boy. Slio lias seven
children of her own, the youngest a
baby.
Now that tho queen and the Princess
of Wales have set tlie fashion of wearing
opals, it will be very widely followed, in
spite of the reputation for ill luck which
clouds the beauty of these prismatic
gems.
Miss Frances Wetmore lias been ap
pointed government physician for tho
island of Hilo. “Dr. Fanny, ’ ’ as she is
called, has a large practice, and is very
popular among all classes. She makes
lier visits on horseback, and is ready to
answer any call, night or day, in fair
weather or foul.
Mrs. Ritchie, the daughter of Thack
eray. seems to write her stories by a
similar method to that which Emerson
pursued in tho preparation of his essays.
When anything strikes Sirs. Ritchie she
writes it down at tho moment, and then
patches the little scraps together. It np-
itears that before the publication of Mr.
ixmis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jelcyll and Mr.
Hyde,” the very same story had been
thought out by Mrs. Ritchie. It had
come to her with a flash—tlie very best,
most delightful story she had ever
thought of; and bitter was her disap
pointment when she picked up Mr. I-ouis
Stevenson’s little Is- k and found her idea
had been anticipated.
Col. Ingerscll's daughters are brilliant
girls. Not in the sense that society terms
its girls brilliant: for they are not shal
low, and frivolity does not babble when
they speak. They are brainy. They
have read and studied deeply. They
have a tine scientific knowledge, and
they talk thoughtfully on all topics of
tlie time. Still, tiiese two young ladies
have by no means neglected themselves
in the lighter accomplishments. They
are fine musicians, and they possess in a
remarkable degree tlie gift of entertain
ment. One of them. Miss Maud, is the
possessor of a remarkable memory. She
lias stored up in her mind a vast amount
of know ledge which she recalls in tlie
most minute mauuer and with the great
est apparent ease. Without the slightest
hesitation she can tell, for instance, the
date of birth or death of ary importaut
couqiosor, and can recall any event of
moment in his career. This quite un
usual gift she carries into other fiblds,
and her information is so widespread and
so accurate that but for her singularly
winsome manner ordinary folks would
be quite afraid to talk to her.
IATTKIt FHOM THE GKKAT KX-
PUSmoN IN CINCINNATI.
COMPLKTK IN KVKBY RESPECT—THE GOV
ERNMENT DISPLAY—THE INCANDESCENT
LIGHTS—A PLEASANT PARTY OK ATHE
NIANS.
E. I. SMITH & CC|
KEEP ALL
Styles of Shoes
OF THE
Best Make.
OUR NEIGHBORS.
XnjCRet* of Nfiwa From BotldMt Corre
poadfloM At Various Point* Hoar Ot
t City.
Cincinnati, Ohio, July 23, 1888.
Editor Banner-Watchman: It may
be interesting to some of your
readers to read tho statement of one who
has seen this great city in ill its won
derful equipments and improvements,
with a short description of what just
now is its pride, tho great Exposition,
celebrating the one hundredth year of
the bCttcment of the Ohio Valley. There
may be also some in your fair and at
tractive city, among the hills of old
Georgia, tvho have a mind to spend a
few dollars this summer in pleasure and
instruction c ’lnbined. To such I say,
unhesitatingly, come here by all means
and see sights for one week at least, and
1 feel sure that they will be amplv re
paid, botii as to pleasure and informa
tion.
Fassing through the Exposition ball
last evening 1 met Mr. Hiram Crawford,
and later Mr. Ed ltrown and iiis charm
ing lady, we immediately resolved our
selves into a committee of four, with
special privileges in the restaurant, and
held the fort at table forquito a while
enjoying ourselves as only thosb can wiio
meet friends in a strange land. It was
our unanimous opinion that the Exposi
tion was a grand success and would re
pay bountifully any one who would
come to it.
Some few years ago I saw an exhibi
tion in the then New Music Hall, a mag
nificent structure, both in size and
architectural grandeur and beau
ty, and what was then thought to
be amply large for all exhibitions which
would be held here. This building is
filled in all its parts witli the varied ex
hibits from all portions of tho country
and yet it holds hut a small part of what
is to be seen. Lying between the music
hall and the Cincinnati Hospital Building
is the Miami Canal, or "the Rhine” as it
is familiarly called This canal,as well as
the street, to the sidewalk on ea’h side
has been covered by a large structure
600 feet long, and known as “Machinery
Hall.” On each side of the canal is a
varied, and to me intensely interesting
exhibit of machinery, while upon the
waters of the canal ply the oar of the
toccoa,
Toccoa, Ga, July 25.—A fatal boilo
explosion happened in Franklin couniyj
near Martin. Monday. Ono man wz'
killed instantly, Md three other* badll
wounded. The engine belonged to PinF
Smith and was used to run hiz Mir mil.
The Toccoa High School opened her
yesterday with about fifty pupils.
HARMONY grove. I L
Harmony Grove, July 23.—Mr. J. B S
Rogers, a prominent planter of this counj I
ty, is in the Grove this morning.
Dr. Sam Adair, a popular young den[
tist of Elberton,is in the Grove this weelj|
visiting friends and relatives.
Prof. J. A. Walker was to-day unani!
mously elected principal of the Harmon:
Grove School for the nextjerm beginnin]
in September. A wise choice was mad
by the trustees in tho re-election
Prof. Walker.
Miss Ida Bohannon, one of Harmon'
Grove’s most popular young ladies, i
spending sometime with Miss Anni
Walton, of Wilkes county. Wo trial
her a pleasant stay in Wilkes.
Venetian gondolier in his genuine gon
dola. The canal is crossed at several
W. X. Howard.
,Buckleu’s Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the word for Cots,
Bruises, Sores,Ulcers, Salt Hlicutii,Fe
ver Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands,Chil
blains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions-
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box.
For sale by John Crawford & Co.
Wholesale and Retail Druggist.
Saw Tli* Kogitw.
When, the engine first passed Green-
wood in Oconee county, there was a lit
tle black steer standing in front of Elder
& Uodg-on’s store. ’1 iie steer saw the
rngine and after curling his tail over his
back made for the woods and his owner
bis been looking for him since, but be
has failed to appear.
The Eclipse.
The eclipse of the inoon Sunday night
was watched by nearly all of Athens who
were not too sleepy to lit up. It was a
good time for the young tuen and their
sweethearts to occupy the front porch
and Mxiouslv await for the tint appear
ance of the eclipse. The young men had
a good excuse lor staying late.
Crop Prospect*.
Mr. Gantt has just returned from a
trip through all the counties of the 8th
Congressional district, and girez a gloomy
report of the crop prospMte, except in
section*. In tho Savannah Valley, corn
is parched up to th* top. Md seems to
be dead, but cotton, if rain will come in
s fsw days, will make a good crop.
Mr. Davu Kenney has just closed the
contract for repairing the old college
building. He will pat in * new floor,
new blinds Md make the old building
look as good ss new.
Atti*' at Heard.
The epplicati in for s new trial in the
case of Tom Wool fork was heard Satur
day. Judge Gustin over-ruled the mo
tion fo.’ • new trisl. The case will go to
the Supreme court
WbatWMlIUkSara
When Thos G. Woolfolk we* told of
toe refuial of the morion for a new trial,
he told it was not more tun he had ex
pected. He said further that he would
oarer hang. When asked what he
meant, he replied, “That’s my busi
ness.’’
Getting Rid of Rat*.
A farmer living near Greensboro, Ga.,
was much troubled by rats, and theii
depredations on bis com crib increased to
on alarming extent. Ho finally thought
of a method by which he could rid him
self of them. He secured a three gallon
jar and half filled it with water. On the
top of the water ho placed a thick layer
of cotton seed. The seed, so he argued,
would attract the rats as a pleasant place
to play, and of course the morneut they
touched the seed down they would go.
The trap worked like a charm. The rats
came; they attempted the frolic ufX on
the seed with too deceptive foundation,
and, to use Mr. Kilgore's own words, he
“caught a gallon and a half of rats the
first night,” running too water to too
top.—Chicago Herald.
Routbwestsrn China's ltallrcads.
Great interest is taken in tho east in
the railway between' Siam and south
western China, which will bo about a
thousand miles long. It has been sur
veyed, but more surveyors are going out
from England. It is expected tliat this
railway will postpone for a long time the
construction of a line between Tonquin
and China. The ChinaRailway company
have, by the way, completed tlieir line
as far as Taug-ku. and iu April tlie trains
began to run from tliatixiint to Tougsaa.
Thu remaining section of the line, be
tween Tang-ku i .id Tien-Tsin, will bo
pushed on with unremitting energy, and
in n few mouths' lime tlie "living
wheels” will be making tlieir revolutions
to toe delight and amazement of tlie peo
ple of Tieu-'isiu.—Home Journal.
Prices Paid fur Novels.
There seems to have tiecn a great ex
citement over the $10,000 paid to Mr.
Stevenson for liis “Outlaws or Tuustall
Forest" by an American syndicate. As
a price it pales into insignificance before
tbe $40,000 paid by Smith. Elder & Co.
to George Eliot for "Romoia." and the
$50,000 paid by tlie Longmans for La rd
Beaconslield’s "Lotliair." Anthony Trol-
lope and Charles Reade often received
$20,000 for a single work, and Harrison
Ainsworth, at tlie bright of Ids popular
ity. is known to have made vluO.OOO a
year.—Uelfoijl's Magazine.
JACKSON POLITICS.
The Race for Senator Getting an Uot as the
Weather will Permit-
Jackson county bas the naming of the
senator from the counties of Banks, Hall
and Jackson. Jackson has three candi
dates in the field, who are working with
all their might for a seat in the next sen
ate. Capt. J. P. Hudson is a farmer and
of course will represent that part of the
ticket; while Wyley Howard and Mc
Carty present their claims as being bet
ter fitted for the place.
Tbe race is getting lively, and speech
es are made both day and night by the
candidates.
Ho Fruit.
Mr. Gantt did not register a single
fruit distillery doting his trip through
the surrounding counties. He says there
» no fruit to nuke brandy out of.
bfeccp in Worth.
Sheep farming has passed the exper
imental stage in Worth. ihc increase
in the snimals there this year is 43 par
cent. Mr. J. L. Sommer, who owns s
heard rf 700, clipped fleeces from 7U0
this summer, Md the fleeces averaged
three pounds. This would bring.him
2100 pounds of wool, worth in this mar
ket, today, 21Jm cents per pound, or
$451.50. The revenue is derived from
700 eheep, worth $1,050 in the market,
which cost him, in driving, caring for
and clipping, sb iut $100. To toe net
profit odd the value of the increase, 300
head, and we have $801.50, or 78 per
cent, profit , on the investment in one
jeer.
Am Old 8ub*orlb«r,
Mr. Henry L. Brittain, now in his 89ti»
year, remembers when he subscribed to
onr paper in 1832. May the clever old
gentlemM live many yean yet as one of
0urp*trons,
CRAWFORD.
Crawford, July 24.—Mr. Nat Ed
wards lias bought the machinery for thi
Skull Shoal cotton factory. Abou
twenty wagons passed here yes
terday, hauling it to Hart county to b
placed in position for the coming crop.
The Legislative race will begin ih ear
nest Thursday by a speech by J.'T. Ol
ivo st White Oak, in Simpson district
Ue will also speak to tho votera of Goose-
pond on Saturday. There are three can
didates, Messrs Arnold, Olive Md Birch
more. They are all good men and the
rare will he close. . _
Mr. T. L. Gantt and Dr. Wood Arnold
traded horses yesterday.
NYK ATCONKY INLAND,
points by bridges, thus connecting both
sides of the machinery display. The
most pleasing display to most visitors to
this hall is that of tlie Moerlein Brewing
Compinv. Here they show in minia
ture, their large brewing building, and
running to and fro, in actual motion, a
steamboat on the river, passenger and
freight trains, wagons, bicycles, etc.,
while in front of all flows a little rivulet
over rocks and down into a miniature
garden, which, when lit u;> at night by
the many colored electric lights is very
beautiful. Adjoining the display is that
showing the process of bottling beer.
This begins *»y the bottle-washing ma
chine, and ends with tho beer bottled,
labeled, wired, otc., and in the case ready
for use.
The best time to see the exhibition is at
night, when all the buildings and streets
surrounding are ablaze with electricity
and gas. Probably never iu America has
there been such an extensive and beauti
ful exhibit of the little incandescent
lights, as will be seen most beautifully
in Horticultural Hall, as well as all
through tho buildings. The little many-
colored globes are used by tlie thous
ands, and placed in all sorts of positions
—under waterfalls, deep down in a pool
of water, giving a green, red or blue glow
to a spot in it, or in fountains, among
flowers, as a border to flower beds, in
beautiful figures suspended in air, or
simply to light the way along a passage
or iu tlie streets. Tho light is steady,
beautiful and strong, and to such perfec
tion his it now attained that in this city
it is used almost everywhere in the bus
iness houses; notdisplacing gas,but used
ith it. But to hurry on with what is
already longer than I thought I should
make this. Across from the Music Hall
was, when I was last here, four years
ago, a tine, large park shaded with old
trees. This park is now covered by the
main building] ol the exhibition, and
in it aro the wonders of human ingenui
ty and invention. Here also tlie elec
tric display is gorgeous and dazzling.
In this building are the exhibits of
manufacturers, the display of the appa
ratus of the life saving stations, the naval
and army exhibits. In short,a complete
and large display bv the government
Tho making of postage stamps
stamps, of stamped envelops, and the
working of a miniature postoffice will bo
given. The fish commission also will
have an exhibit showing the hatching
of fish eggs and the care of the young
tish. The whole exhibit will bo ready
iu about a week. These and many oth
er interesting sights are here for the vis
itors and one may spend daily & week
here without feeling that he has seen all.
One of the attractions is a spectacular play
upon the stage of Music hall where over
two hundred people take part and that
of Rhodopis or the Cinderella of the Nile
now given every evening at 9 o'clock,
in 1876 I spent three weeks in Philadel
phia at the Centennial, and 1 honestly be
lieve that the domestic display here will
compare favorably with that of course
this exhibition does not have the foreign
exhibits which added so much to toe
interest and completeness of the cen
tennial.
Besides these sights there nre others
in the city which will repay one who
has never seen them. To me one is a
never ending source of wonder and
pleasure, and that is the cable street
cars. There aro three lines here going
from the heart of tho city out to the dif
ferent suburbs of Clifton, Walnut Hills
and Avondale. One of the cable lines is
five miles in length, and the whole trip
is made is an hour. Thu engines used to
move the cable are of 300 horse power;
but the engineer in one of tbe power
houses told me that it did not require
over one hundred horse power to move
the cable, and that was about all be used.
Another place of interest is the battle
of Gettysburg on canvas 50 feet high and
280 feet around, and still another the
wonderful painting of Muukacsy’s of
Christ on Calvary. At Sbilleto's uiom-
moth dry goods store is given in wax,
life size, the Russian wedding Feast, the
beautiful picture of which Mr. Charlie
Scudder.has a copy at his store. These and
many others make tbe attractions for the
visitor, Tbe weather is delightful, Md
not at all warm. The nights are always
cool. s. C. B.
He Returns to New York in Company Witt
u New Hampshire Farmer,
In the scat ahead of me sat a plait |
man with gray hair and toil-hardenoc
hands. Ever and anon ho wiped tin
honest sweat from his brow, and then
plunging a full blown nose into hif
red bandanna, he sounded a tocsir
which would naturally make an alt<
horn go and dispose of itself at a sac
rilice.
“You are an Ohio man doubtless,’
I said to him iu a bantering tone.
“Why so?”
•‘Well you seem to have tlie trui
Thurman snort.”
“No, I ain’t from Ohio. I’m from
New Hampshire. I carried a bandan
na liefore the war. I’olitics don’t have
uawthiii’ to do with it. I’ve alwayB be
leived that
A Plucky Employee.
Mr. Spencer is one of the wonders of
the railroad business. It was not so
many years since he was a station agent
at a poverty-stricken little place on tho
Washington branch and lived with his
wife and baby up over the ticket office
in the rickety station. One day there
was an accident near by on the road,
and 8pencer went down to lend a hand
in clearing up the debris. A fussy well-
built man kept getting in Spencer’s way
where ho was working, and he finally
ordered tbe gentleman to get out or lie
would throw him into a neighboring
ditch. “Guess you won’t,” was the ans
wer. “Iam John W. Garrett, the Pres
ident of this road, and I have a mind to
discharge yon right now. “DUcharge or
no discharge,” said Spencer stoutly, for
he recognized he was in for it, “if you . ,
don’t stand out of my wav while working' folks up that' way git out
I will tumble you into that ditch’,—Md Just then tho bout hum
Garrett got out of the way. He remem
bered the plucky Station master and in a
month or two promoted him. Spencer
was getting $4<) a month in his station-
master days. Now ho is drawing a sala
ry of $20,000 a year as President of the
road.
“I suppose that it is often in youi
ease taken for a campaign badge.”
“Yes.” Badge? I shouldsay so. Il
I’ve been ast to likah up to-day once
I’ll bate I’ve been ast fawty times
They say tliat the ltepublioan party
is the free likah party, hut so far il
strikes me tliat the Democrats are a
good deal freer with their likah than
the Republicans ah.”
W’c got pretty well acquainted dur
ing the evening and finally rode back
to New York together. Sitting below
where wo could smoke together ant
feel the salt spray on our polishet
domes of thought, the old gentlemai.
said;
“It’s curis how folks always want:
to go summers else to have fun. Duke:
and one thing another comes to thi:
country to take a vacation, and whet
we get enough means on hand we g<
over amongst the gaudy trappin’s o .
effect monickeys. as the feller says, an<
catch Roman malaria or break ournecl
skimmin’ tho Alps, when we’ve got’: .
blame sight better mcawntins ngh
here.
“Now, right at the present minnit
while I’m here aboard o’ this bo’
thousands o’ you New Yawkahs art
payin’ two prices for the privilege o J
livin’ up in my neighborhood. Whet
we git our hayin’ done up in my placl
wc like to break loose and come dowi
to New York. Here, land sakes, yoi {
can go in fawty different direction!- '•
and have sea aih and loggali becali, am ,
the Lawd knows what else, and al! ,
pooty reasonable tew. I come dowi t
heah most every summah ahterthe lia,
is m and the cawn and beans don
need but a little tendin’, and I get
room pooty cheap, for the blame tow j
is almost empty, anyhow, then 1 kin /|
of browse arourd and skin out ever V
day on a little oue-lioss picnic up th
river or out to this island or the ba
or fishing’, or crabin’, or sumthin’ <
other everyday for two or three week
Then I go hack and tell about it. \
“That’s the way everybody doe: \
They want a change I s’pose. The: ’
their own home look seems a blame-
sight better to them when they ge ‘
back. It’s pooty tough on folks, whe
they’vs got to stay right at home al
the time, man or woman. A feller a; .
tually gets to hate the wall paper, an
he hates the old furniture,and gets ti -
ed of lookin’ at the pictures of Was!
ington about to become the father < •
his country, and all.the other pictun ’
get to look so measly, and tho everla |
tin’ fiowers in the sittin’-room begin \
look like delusion.
“Then’s the time to skin out and tet: >
the county fair down at Coney 1.
land. Folks want a change and thi
ort to have it. We liaq a woman up
our section that pizened herself ri
in the dead o’ hayin’. Left five
tie folks, and the oldest {wasn’t tofr
five years old. Her husband was awn rf i’
from home a good deal, changing pti p
jpits and one thing or another, but al C.- 1
wrote a letter lin’d left it on the buroit ,
that weiit on to state that whilst the '* !
was probly no place like home, and i r i,
doubt she ort to be Contented, ahlshiu’ '
got wore out with the wall paper, ai
the liair-cloth-chaira jest made her*ga «
and so while she was doing wrong :
pizen herself and she knew it, and th:
they’d probly hev to hire help in th n
house now, she had thought for aloi , e |
time that the smell of fned pork an
warm dish-water was wnrpin her min
So before she had went crazy and k
led several of the children, and mu
lated the neighbors, and bit the o,
man, she had decided to take advata
tag* of a lucid interval and light oat
search of a change. -
“That ain’t her exact language,
course, hut that is the main idea w!**
the thought germ aa a talanted nil
would call it. Her huaband’s fid'
read the letter and: claimed she’d!:
ready got to wandering in her mi
before ahe wrote it, hut the nei t
.bora got together abd voted that
was infested moro or lqas all i
way through: with thoug
germs, as you wahld call ’em,
they had it printed in a country
per, and since that onr wimmffl
‘ Iks up that'way git out more. thi
Just then the boat humped ngninieyi
tho iron pier nt New York, and
shook hands and separated, each op 1 ’* 1
striving to add his share to ti
general riot which takes place on j
crowded boat when she lands at ti *
Bill Ny;i,|