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Newspaper Page Text•' A CAPITAL GOSSIPER. i +7'i-v •THE SMALL TALK MONGER IN WASH- INGTON IS A MAN. But Bo TMIh Some Good Stories About tliv I Men of the Nation—Tlio Barns Family. f Frank LmliT—Senator Ingalls* Red Cra vat—FhUetua Sawyer’s Son. , .?$»<»»"» t,r ' -: ift (Special Correspondence.! \VAsr:'"GTO.v, Jan. 2.. —Your Wash ington gossiper is a man. He has been here no one knows how many -years. He knows everybody. It is the delight of his life to take you up in the press gal leries, the best place in the world to see public men. and point out faces to you. His tongue moves in symphony witli hiB ' forefinger. There’s nobody too great for him to speak of in a familiar way, no body too obscure for him to know some thing about. ’‘There,” he says, pointing with his lead pencil to a big man in one of the rear seats of the house, "is Jim Burns, Of Missouri. Know Jim? I mean the large-man with the light mustache and tho curly hair. That’s ono of 'the best men in the world. He weighs 235 pounds and isn’t a lightweight in debate ' or anything else. Comes from the SL Joseph district in Missouri. He is rich. Queer thing about the Burns family is that they hold all their property in com mon. There’s Jim and his two brothers ' and his two sons. Altogether they are worth about $8,000,000, add every cent of it is held in common. They have the biggest bank in SL Joseph, lots of real ostate and stocks. The three Burns brothers and Jim’s two sons are all chums. They live together in a great house in SL Joseph. The brothers are all widowers, and the boys have never married. Their bouse is like a club house, and ono of the best places in the world to 6pend a few weeks. They have a country house at a summer resort near. St. Joseph. Great times they have oat there. They have plenty of guests g "the boys” of St. Jo, Kansas from among _ City and Bt. Louis. It is esteemed an honor as well as a pleasure to be invited to spend a few days with the Burnses. The Burnses are always together. That’s S ie of Jim’s sons sitting beside him now. ow did lie, get in on the floor, seeing he isn’t a member? I don’t know. Guess he’s a committee clerk or something, nominally. # * * Tell you a story about this Burns boy. All the Burns boys play poker. Their father taught them how when they were little fellows. This one in particular is a great poker player. Last summer the three Burns brothers and Jim’s two boys were' playing a* pretty stiff game one night out at their summer house. They are always playing together, and don’t like to play with outsiders. On this oc casion young Burns lost several big pots to his father, and then turned round and put up a hand on the old man, and beat him out of $7,000 at one show down. But you mustn't get the idea that Jim Bums is a rough man, He’s a gentle man, and was finely educated. He grad uated second in his class at Harvard, was a circuit judge for several years, and-has been in congress since 1884. He lives at Willard’s hotel, where he pays $350 a month for his rooms, so he will have a good place in which to keep bach elors’ hall for the entertainment of the otherBumses, who are often with him. # “The man in liglit clothes, with a red necktie, a smile on his face, and bangs on his forehead? That is William Wal ter Phelps, of New Jersey. He looks somewhat like a dude, but people who think he is one don’t know lum. Phelps is a brainy man. At Yale he was a leader both in the class room and on the campus. He looks effeminate, but he is an athlete. His muscles are like steel. He has a stock ranch down in Texas,- and when he goes down there he’s a Texan. Jumps a bronco and rides thirty miles without stopping, carries a gun and drinks a little whisky with the natives just to keep them good natured. Phelps had brains enough to make his own way in life. Before he was 25 vears old he had a large law practice. Made his fortune in railroads. Some years ago he had nearly his whole fortune in vested in ono enterprise—the Texas Cen tral. He kept sending good money after bad in that rat hole till his friends ad vised him to pull out or he would ruin himself. The road wouldn't pay. But Phelps stuck to it till he had. put in $1,000,000, and finally the road turned the hill and made him a very rich man. He is one of the most genial meh in public life. Everybody likes him. His manners are soft, almost ef feminate. But if you think he hasn’t a will just try lura once. He can yes or no quicker and stick to it longer than any man in congress. He likes to be frank and communicative when frank ness jvill help somebody and hurt no body, but you couldn't pull a-ward out of him with a yoke of steers when there are reasons why he shouldn’t talk. He adores Blaine and is fond of giving dinners. It is oneof the treats of Wash ington to sit at his table. He is generous with his money, but makes no display of hands, and it’s almost as good as won. He sticks and hangs like a leech. About 11 o’clock he runs around the hotels, and if there’s anybody in town from Chicago he shows them the sights, takes them up to call on the president, and does the fair thing by them generally. After his work in the house is done he sits up till 2 or 8 o'clock in the momiug writing letters and sending out public documents. He is the greatest letter writer in congress. Popular? Should say he was. Tho chances are he'll come to congress as long as he wants to. He spends $500 a year -for public documents to be mailed his con stituents. All the people in his district have small libraries of public documents. Why, even the switchmen and gale tenders along the railroads that run through Frank’s district have libraries of public documents piled up in their little shanties. They all swear by Frank Lawler. He’s a man of good liabits. and is nobody’s fool, either. To 6how you how 6mart he b I'll tell you he keeps a pair of eye glasses. in his vest pockeL When he meets anybody that knows him and that he can’t place he shakes hands warmly, ingeniously Qnds out who the person is, and then pulls out his glasses, wipes them carefully and says: ‘Why, of course. I’d a-known you in a minute if I'd had my glasses on. You see, my eyes are getting weak.’ Frank Lawler’s eya3 are as good as yours or mine. n * * “That great heavy man, with a body as big as a tobacco hogshead, is Barnes, of Georgia. He weighs more than 800 pounds, and is the biggest man in Con gress by long ode’s, and one of the most eloquent. Heard . a good story about Barnes. The other day he went with some southern friends of his up into the loft of the war, state and navy build ing, where a fine view of the city and riv«, is to be had. While they were up there Barries’ friends noticed him to turn pale and look scared. They asked him what the matter was, and he trem blingly pointed to a placard which read: ; Tho supporting strength of this floor is : ISO lbs. per sq. ft. “ ‘Great God!’ lie exclaimed, ‘I weigh 800 pounds, and if I don’t straddle out I’ll go downf “And suiting his action to tho word he began to take long steps so his whole weight wouldn’t come on any one square foot of the floor.” THE WEEKLY BANNER-WATCHMAN, BEN UNDER DURESS. The President Elect Literally Coerced Into Action. ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 1SS9. LIGHTING. Bovs Worked at Aod* NO DOUBT NOW THAT HAS BEEN FIXED. ALL it. He gives away more money in charity than anybody I know of. in Wasliington. Do you remember how he saved young En o'from going to prison by going down into his pocket and pulling out 8110,000, and fairly shaming Eno’s rich father into putting up a similar sum to save his his boy? Phelps did that simply out of the goodness of his heart, and not be cause he had any selfish interest in young Eno, ior he hadn't. ^ “I know of another case. When Phelps was down in Texas some years ago he met Billy Crain, now in congress. (Sain was lamenting his bad luck in a cattle ranch, and said he was likely to lose everything he had. ‘How much would save you?* asked Phelps. ‘Twenty thousand dollars,’ said Crain. ‘I’ll let yon have it,’ replied Phelps, as quick as that, and ho gave him his check on-the spot. Crain has since paid back every dollar of tho loan. That’s the kind of a man Phelps is. He’s a clear thinker, a splendid talker, and a man with a heart in liim. * ** “The little man sitting down there in front is Frank Lawler. Surely you’ve heard of liim. He comes from Chicago. Used to keep a saloon there. likes to talk about the poor workingman and twist tho tail of the British lion. Some people poko fun at Frank becauso he murders the queen’s English and blar neys so much, nut I think ne deserves a good deal of credit for pulling himself up the way he has without any early advantages. He is the hardest working man in congress. At 9 o’clock every morning he begins Ids rounds of the departments. He works througl more pe.*isions and things like that than Anybody, Get a case in Frank Lawler' Thus the Washington gossiper rattles on about one man after another, no mat ter who. It is all tho same to liim. Go over to the senate and the first man he begins on te President Ingalls. “Ingalls,” he says, ‘*is one of the brainiest men in the senate. The only Trouble with liim is he likes to say smart, cutting things. He doesn’t mean half he says, but he is so fond of slashing and hitting he can’t let folks alone. I’ve heard liim tear his best friends to pieces. What he likes best is to have people talk back to liim. He likes to have people give liim as good as ho sends, and I think if some men would take a whack at him instead of going off and talking about his fnalignity he’d respect them more, and they’d understand and like him better. Next to bis wife, be is wonderfully fond of his family, I think he likes to ridicule men in a joking way. He used to board down at the Strathmore Arms hotel, where Logan lived. Congressman Thomas, of Illinois, boarded there, too, and Ingalls used to nag Thomas unmercifully. Fi nally Thomas turned on his persecutor. Ingalls is like Phelps used to be in his fondness for red neckties, and one day he put on one that was unusually large ana red. When they sat down to dinner that evening, Logan, Ingalls, Thomas and others all atone table, Thomas began in this way: “ ‘Senator Logan,’ said he, ‘as I was coming up Twelfth street this afternoon I saw something-that shocked me very much, something that frightened me till the blood stood still in my veins.’ “ ‘What was it?’ inquired Logan. “ ‘Why, I looked up toward this house and the building seemed to be on fire. It -was wrapped in flames. I started and ran as fast as I could, thinking of what a terrible thing it would be if my wife and you and Mrs. Logan and ml the others should not be able to get out, if the lurid flames should envelop and consume you, if we should liave a great holocaust right here in our peaceful little hotel The thought was so horrifying that I ran at the top of my speed, crying fire and rousing the people along the way. The shock to my nervds was so great that I am still trembling.’ “ ‘But what was it,’ inquired Logan, ‘that gave you such a nightmare as that?* “ ‘As 1 came closer to the house,’ Thomas replied, ‘I saw what it was. Senator Ingalls was standing on Hie front steps, where the rays of the setting sun caught him, and he had that neck- tio on.’ For once in his life Ingalls was knocked out While Logan and the others laughed the senator from Kansas blushed as red as the offending ntektie, bnt he could make no reply. He didn’t get mad, though, and when Mrs. Ingalls met Mrs. Thomas at luncheon next day, she said, ‘Do you know, Mrs. Thomas, James is very fond of your husband? 5 Ingalls and Thomas arc now the best of friends, for the president of the senate likes a man who sasses back, but ho has never since that day worn a red necktie. Communications Between Augusta and In dianapolis—Gillespie Would Ilave Been Humiliated—Anxious for Allison—Has tho Latter Accepted';—Friends Claim tlia lie has not. Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.-Blaine has, been offered and has accepted the secretaryship of state under Haniron’s administration. When (loloncl Jolm A. Bridgeland, formerly our consul to Havre, arrived here a couple of weeks ago, he brought a message from the presi dent-elect to Mr. Blaine. It was a verlml mes age. It set fJrth that wh.lu Mr. Ha; rison wa? anxious to secure the ser vices of Mr. Blaine for the head of the state department, hs had been admon ished so much by eminent leaders ot the republican party against appuin ug him that he felt ca led upon to hesitate. He asked Mr. Blaine wh t he Umugnt aitou it. Mr. Blaine sent back word that up to a month or six weeks before that time he had no an xiety to re enter put-lie life, but that his personal character and orli- cial r.cord had been attached by hi-; ea emies in and out Of his party to'such an e lent, and the pre s of the country had due isst-d his n me to such an e tent, in connection with the state d; partmeiit under the new admini trat on. that he would consider it a humiliation not to be tendered that department. Within a week Mr. Blaine has received in writing a tender of the state department from the president-ele :t, and two days alter the i eceipt thereof he answered accept ing the portfolio. There is no doubt as to this. Harrison was not anx oas to make Blaine his pre mier, and the sen ling Bridgclan 1 here with a left handed message plainly indi cated that. But Blaine u as n t to be nit o f with a left-banded message. There are cnly two contingencies for him—the pr miership of the administra tion or war. Hai rison shrank from the possibility of war, and invited Mr. Blaine o the chief seat in his cable e . Whanon Ba k u- had be*n s riously considered for ‘he tr asury po tfolio after Allison s positive d clination ot it, up to h? lim: hat Blaine sent h s m s- 6age piac ically d mnnding ih ■ s a e d - purlin nt. Ha risen cone iv d h idea that it would not do o appoint two a t ein men to the two p incipai oiiic.sot his cqlin t, so when Blaine was a.suied of tho stat? depa, tm nit ihe presid nt- el ct again op n d n gotia ions wi h Mr. Allison to try and uuKc that g ml raau to accept he finano ministry. Alii on kept on d dining A Utter, arid to every mess ng -r that nar ison s nt oh in. At last Allison was re piest d io go to In dianapolis. It can oe stated |o-itiveiy that h> left h re with the posi iv • i iten- on of not acc p ing . he treat nry port- ‘Talking about big men, that round headed, gray old fellow there isn’t so very small He is Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin. The politicians say he lias the state of Wisconsin in his pocket Sawyer told me once he came to the senate simply because he had nothing else to do. " Ho was dying of ennui The senatorial seat was a sort of play thing for him. He 6ays now he has got all the fun out of it there is to be had, and that he doesn’t care to come back any more. But lie has four years jet to serve. Sawyer is very fond of his son, who is out west, Texas, I think, on cattle ranch. When tho young man got ready to start out for himself the old gentleman gave him $450,000 and told liim to take good care of himself and his money. ‘That isn’t the way I started in life,’ added the senator; ‘in order to get out into the world and get a start on my own hook, I had to buy my time from the master to whom I was apprenticed. It cost me $100 of hard earned money to get away from tho blacksmith shop and into the lumber business.’ ” If you have the time to spare your Washington gossiper will go on like this all the afternoon. He is a very enter taining fellow. Walter Wellman. ' Difficult to Understand. Custom—Here is something chicken salad, waiter, that look deal like feathers. Waiter—I)at cahnt be poss’ble, sah. Customer—Why not? Waiter—Kase calves don* hab feathers.—The Epoch. - in my a goo d no How Three Enthusiastic It Thirty Wars [Special Correspondence. 1 v New York, Jan. 2 ..—The companies controlling the myriwl of electric wires in our streets are still battling against having them put under ground, and a* fast as one of their obstructive baruen is knocked away set up another. 1 uen latest professed objection is that tne buried pipes of the fcjleaai Heating com pany leak steam and keep the grounc. about them so hot and damp that h sub way system in it cannot be successfully operated. It will not be at all surprising if they- eventually claim like disastrous influences from the contiguity of UI- vinists and Baptists living near their fines. Surely they will if by so doing they can wdrfe delay in the bury mg ol their wires. . ,, Reverting to this matter recalls some interesting facts that have been lost sight of for a quarter of a century, but that are worthy of resurrection and re tention in remembrance. New York was the first citv in the world that it was pro posed shoufd be lighted by electricity, and the proposition was made by three brainy boys, then students in tho New York college, neither of them 19 years old at the time. -o o« Ihose boys, the leading spirit in the scheme, was Ed ward Hoffmevcr Boyer, now principal of Grammar Sch*x>l No. 9; another holds a prominent editorial position on the must widely circulated newspaper in New York, and tho third is, as he has been for years, an official in ihe weigh ers’department of the New .York cus tomhouse. The three lads were enthu siastic Btudents of electricity and conducted most of their experiments together. One day Boyer suggested to his fellows the magnificent idea of de vising a practicable plan for economically lighting New York by electricity. The incandescent light wait not yet dreamed of, but they knew that the decomposition of carbon by tho electric current would produce an intense light—such as every body knows now as the ‘‘arc light.” They recognized before them the prob lems how to provide the current eco nomically and how to distribute the light effectively^ and on those they worked with purposeful patience for a couple of; years. At length their scheme was perfected. The power they pro posedto employ was the,slow-but certain and tremendous one of the rising and falling of the tide. They planned to have four enormous floats geared for the generating of that power, one stationed on the “Poor House Flats,” at the head of Avenue D; a second at Corlear’s m HQ9DS fl* Milt EX! num mminirnae Used by the United States Government. Endorsed by the heads of the Great tv snd Public Food Analvets, as tha Strongest, Purest and most Ilealthfnl. hr. Bakin" Powder does notcontain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Dr. Price's I)elidon«Fl», tracts, vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Almond, Rose, etc., do not contain Poisonous Oils or ( PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., New York. Chicago. St. LouiaT fo.io f. om Mr. Hamsoju. Wh ■ili r lie w ak ned while in Indianapolis is still an 0]K-n qm fltion. but Allison s fri nds hire l eli ve that be has not yet accepted the treasury port'olio and that he w ill not. If! during his long stay with thj pr sid nt-el ct, Alijsonccns nted totak ? the treasury po tfoLo it is saf _• to say tha: he did so on curtain terms. Allis n does riot tx li ve that Han is, n is tigeno sgh to > eatwo-te mpr fcideru. He also t* U ves that S.iermau will not be a p esidential candidate four v ears from now. and th it cons < uentl. h* will le the most < ligible can ti-.iate in th - le putlicun conv ntion. He con id red that he wo Id stand a 1 etter cliunc • of maiatai.ung friendly nLtions with his party and the people gen rally a-; a sena tor than as s creiary of the treasury. These were the considerations that were continually in front of Ahi«on. as J our’correspondent is reliably infer . ed y a ck> e personal and poli ical friend of his. A flit on wanted the president to jive Clarkson, bis Iowa friend, a t-lace n the Cibiuet. and it was at Alii-on's suggestion ti at Mr. Harrison in tiled Clarkson to visit him at his home .n in- dianapoi.is. Clark on. from all accounts, did not make a very favor, ble impres sion on Harrisoi, an l he renewed his importunities to Allison to assume the responsibilities of the t easur-. Allison kept on ’.esisting. and finally, when a definite and po itive answer was deemed essential, and the c& e was comi g to a crisis, so to speak, he .was summoned to Indianapolis, .f he yielded to the plead inga of Ha rison liis friends here w ill be surpr sed. They still believe that lie did ! iot yield, and ti.ey deck re hat if he did t was under a promise from Harrison that the 1 .t.er would not be a candidate for i e-election, a d that Al i on could use the i fluence of the treasury depar - meat to advance his prospects for the republican nomination in 18ai?, Allison keeps very mum, and the chances are that lie will not ay anything until Harrison first speaks. Mrs. Blaine. hjweve\ ia not tongue tied. She has no hesitation in declaring that her husband will be secretary of state scfcn after the 4th of March. LEGISLATIVE OUTRAGE. FUGACIOUS SCISSORS. An Instrument Which Disappears in the Most My.-terious Mann r. The apparently fugacious habits of scissors have been noticed since the ear liest historic period, according to a writ er in Collier’s Once a Week. They dis appear with a celerity and secrecy whol ly without parallel in the history of lost objects. A woman is sewing and has a pair of scissors in her lap.She uses them, say twice, and each time drops them again in her lap.The third time she wish es to use them she cannot find them. Though she searches her lap, her dress her chair and the floor thoroughly, she cannot find the -slightest trace of the missing scissors, and thereafter they are never again seen by mortal eyes. Or let us say that a woman, in the very act of using a pair of scissors, is called from She places the scissors care- FOR SALE _ her work. Hook; a third at the foot of Canal street fully in her work-basket, ^oes out lock- in the North river; and the fourth at the * j n g the door 6f the room after her, and foot of West Twenty-third street. By 1 returns iu ten or fifteen minutes to find ingenious appliances they arranged for • her 6c j S80rs gone . theconservation ofenergyMurmgthe Wh at is the more remarkable about -LT . _.v having disappeared thiy ore never again found. You may loses tack hammer,or a comb, but sooner or later you find the mis ing artice behind some piece of fur niture, but a pair of scissors once lost are lost foreyer. There is scarcely a case on record of the final recovery of a pair of scissors that have been missed not been found within the next five minutes. That there is something peculiar in the disappearance of scissors is virtually ad mitted by women when they seek to prevent the loss of scissors by means of charms. For a piece of ribbon, which many women attach to the handle of their scissors “to prevent them from be ing lost,” must act as a charm,or other wise it would be valueless. How, in the name of science and common sense, can the mere fact that four inches of blue ribbon are tied to the handle of a pnir of scissor* keep them from being mislaid? In point of fact ic does nothing of the kind, and in spite of women’s faith in the blue ribbon charm, it is abs lutely ustless. If,however,we assume that this origin cf this custom as the attaching of bill of witch-naze! to the handle of a pair of scissors, we can understand it. The woman ef the middle age had a ■■■ Piece of properly ffi and rents for§l25.00 Brice §1.300 m,,. b vance in 12 months at 8 percent inor.: 3 Room house in East Athens, in cud and well lqpated a h bonghtiwd 1 tore house on exteiisi n of hoad *3 I E st thens (an be bought chexn 1 OA Acre farm in 3 miles of thens «J OU state of cultivation. 20 acres inV.' original f rest; 2 branches routine tin'. I place This place is well improved room dwelling, barn, stables, arrlaoi ■poultry house and > ottou house; vltlS J mile of a school and church and in 3oa the-:. & M Railroad. Prioe §1200 cash balance in 12 months at 8 p r cent -t Acres of land 8 iu a high state oil IU tion, 2 in woods, some fine fruit trml 3 room dwelling on the place and within tl of Athens for $300. . II Aces of splendid land, within 2d c.\J 1 the post office of Athens, on tl leading out to Wat insville. It lias ac. dwelling, stables and other houses used! farm. Itnasalso2tenant houses lSOacnH land in a high state of cultivation the l in old field pines and original forests, has also a fine orchard on it. ■ 0 fomilty at all times. Then, for the utilization of the light, they proposed to erect four towers, each 250 or 800 feet high, constrticted of skeleton iron work like the tower now standing at ilullett’s Point. One was to be placed in Tomp kins square: a second, in or near Mad ison square; a third, in St. John’s park, QI and the fourth somewhere near the city ) . . halt The angles of radiation of each J a light were carefully calculates l, and the heights of the several towers regulated accordingly, so as to give tho widest pos sible diffusion to tho lights, the practical effectiveness of which was to bo still further enhanced by a system of super imposed reflectors. This plan was a bold one, and the boys had worked it out, in all its details, with tho thoughtful care of able engineers, and,so good was it that its principal fea tures .are now practically employed in tho lighting of an English city. The in auguration of the plant would have been expensive, each tower, it was computed, costing about $180,000. but the projectors demonstrated that the subsequent cost of operation would not exceed $50,000 pel- annum Tor the entire service. The proposition, accompanied by an admirable set of illustrative drawings, ample explanatory matter and closely detailed calculation of cost, was pre sented to the board of aldermen in 1859. The livery stable keepers, gin sellera and ward he'elers in that august liody re ceived the communication with shouts of laughter. The idea of fighting a city by electricity seemed intensely funny to them. ' “F’wats electricity onyhow?” asked one. “ Damfino," replied another. They brayed at science, and laid the communication on the table. Doubtless there were flaws in the plan; it would be strange if there were not, coming as it did from three boys; but those boys were far ahead, in scientific knowledge, of the fellows who sat down upon them, and even had they offered nothing more than tho germ of such a splendid idea, that germ was worthy of much more re- ? >ectful consideration than it received. he fact deserves to go into history that municipal lighting was first proposed for the citv of New York, and with it the other fact that it was proposed by repre sentative American boys, whose being ahead of their fellow citizens was not so very strange after all, 6ince they were ahead of all the rest of the world. James EL Connelly. vague belief that the, disappearance of j e tter or in person it would take scissors was due to the witches, and * ■ * ^ therefore called in the use of witch- hazel. The rubdern woman, ignorant of the peculiar efficacy of witch-hazel, farcies that anything tied to a pair of scissors will keep them from being lost, and she prefeis ribbon to witch-hazel because it is prettier and more conven- * nt. A Contemptible I’ioco of Libel Law Passed , Iu New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 31.—Tlie most pot rious libel bill that has ever been in troduced in any legi lature, has passed both houses of the ass embly. The governor is hard at w ork prepar ing a veto, which will be transmitted to tha council to mor. ow. It will accom plish i.othing, however, as it will be K 3sed over, his head, as others have en. Mr. Oatron champions the measure, aud as he is the most inlpopulat man in Newie.ico with the p ess, at who e hands he has been frequently roasted, it Is pres lined that the bill is to protect himself. It makes it a lible for a person to read aloud from a newspaper anything de rogatory to the goed or bad name of an other, and punishable by a heavy fine and imprisonment. This is o .ly one of the many outra geous provisions defined in this act. It is the principal topic in thiB state at present, and meets with generation- 1 demnation. Dr. L. M. SchaTer, who was sent to the state penitentiary of South Carolina, after CQnviction as the principal party to the “corpse trust,” died in prison. The plan of operations of this “trust” was to enroll fiotitious names for life insurance afterwards to collect the policies on 5<$ticus deaths and interments. - om Silver. A great deal of fossil history Is sealed up in genuine old silver. Here, is an example of it, dating back to the first third of the Eighteenth century, guaranteed by the only test which in disputably proves the quality and date of sterling silver, the English “hall mark.” Tnis is a two handled “lov ing cup,” which at feasts was grasped by its two handles and was so passed, literally, from hand to hand and mouth to mouth around tho circle of the “goodlie companie.” This cup is of the year 1727. Here is a tankard dating 1733, another One old English piece. In marked contrast {o the plainness of tho rest, here is a high! ornamented tankard—a modern worl in reproduction. Its body is a solid piece of ivory covered with intricate carvings of war scenes- tbe top and base are silver, and too cover is crowned with an ivory warrior.— New York Times. Queensland's Rich Mine. The Mount Morgan gold mine of Queensland has proved to be the rich est mine in the world. It is situated on the range of a sheep ranch. It is an iron stone hill in tne midst of green grass. A public . road runs over the mountain, aud it was while repairing; it that the gold was discovered. 1 . was purchased for $3,200, just $5 an acre, and the shares are now worth $75,000,000. It is supposed to be 1 old geyser impregnated with gold. The metal is extracted by the chlori nation process and costs but $7.50 a ton.—Brooklyn Eagle. street for $650. TO RENT. 6 ROOM HOUSE AND L'BGE Dougherty strefet. 4 Ho-se farm, In Smiles o r Athens, good I iu high state of cultivation, a goodrinl barn ana several tenant > ouses, cau bt venr cheap for 1889. A-iso a 6 horse farm with some spleniMi bottom land, in 2 mi es of Athens. the hams and tenant houses sufficient ton farm this size, for 1889 Q ROOM HOUSE, garden, well and* iJ house, close to business, in a good 0 hood and nicely located • n Hancock an ROOM HOUSE on Hulls reet. J. T ‘NDERSOK Ill FIRE IN MADISON COUNTY j News reached the city yesteidi the burning of the Henry Williford j idence between Athens and Daniil in Madison county. 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