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THE ATHENS BANKER: FRIDAY MORNING JULY 23 1897,
Sea Island Percales, yard
wide, finest quality, worth
15c, in "one picc3,8 fchort
length.
yvt-Stc a Yard
Lace stripe Lappets, soft
as silk, worth 2l)c, in one
piece, short length.
At 34c a Yard
A GREAT COMBINATION:
MY NEW YORK BUYER AND THE
SEABOARD AIR-LINE !
A Most Wonderful Work Accomplished in Four Days.
Crown Lappet Cloth, worth
20c, in one piece, short
length
At 34c a Yard
Tissue Faconne, beautiful
dedigns, worth 15c, in one
piece, short length.
At 34c a Yard
Gold and silver striped
Batiste, worth 15c, in one
piece, short length
At 34c a Yard
India blue large figured
Mulls, worth 20c, one piece,
short length.
At3£c a Yard
Organdies, very finest grade
yard-wide, worth 15c, in one
piece, short length.
At 34c a Yard
Lawns, solid colors, dark,
yard-wide, worth 16c, in one
piece, short length.
At 34c a Yard
Dimities, large flowery de
signs, fine grade, yard wide,
worth 15c, in one piece,short
length.
At 34c a Yard
Grenadines, dark colors,
open work, beautiful, worth
20c, in one piece, short
length.
At 34c a Yard
Mulls, in solid colors, yarci
wide, worth 15c, in one
piece, short length.
At 34c a Yard
-By telegram, 5 cases Short Length Summer Dress Goods, were subnriited.-
LINEN.
MY MOTHER’S VOICE.
Oft In my happy dreams of infanev
A voice was hoard In that blest
Now rising sweet and clear, than So**'"
low, **•
Cn rippling tones of wondrous
melody.
All through my childhood ran* tw v
voice, K 11164 hi
‘PPT
A hash over the wires answered the acceptance, and on the fourth day, in the morning after the delivery to the
Old Dominion Steamship Co’s warf at New York, Mr. J. K. Dixon, the accommodating agent of the
Telephoned to the store, that this lot of Goods was unloaded and ready for delivery. They are now pl^ e <l° n
the Counters for MONDAY, SPECIAL BARGAIN DAY, JULY S6.
THEY ARE SHORT LENGTH FROM THE FACTORY.
All are 12*0,15o and 20c Summer Dress Goods
AT 3 1-2 CENTS A YARD.
All ye who want Children’s Dresses, Ladies’ Dresses, or Shirt Waists, be on Hand Early Monday.
3 pieces 72 inches wide
Bleached Satin Damask, val
ue 75c, at 39c a yard.
Large size honey-comb and
bird’s eye Towels at 6c each. I
5 pieces pure Linen Tur- » heard ita tone3 - which *•“*> m y heart^
kev red Damask, value 75c, r« from that ha PP y home, yo t not aw
. j I I wandor » Dsaring my heart that
at 30c a yard.
Large size fringed Napkins
worth 75c, at 37c dozen.
Extra large size figured
white Napkins, no fringe,
size 18x18 inches square
value $1.75, at 95c dozen.
Extra large size Bird’s Eye
Which fainter grew, as youth cameo*
Yet echoed on, when, weary of
tioowl Ito trtnou J. _ . “
Whioh lingers, guarding'fJJ“"*•
wrong.
I ever hear its old, familiar tone.
—Martha A. Kidder in New York lioma j
- naL
our.
OUR GIRLS_AND BRITONS.
Why American Maidens Are Tenmu. .
q»«im «•—if.. to
Wed 8tolld Englishmen.
Why does the American cirl
^ ~ I the Briton? Has she any adequate^
Towels, hemmed, worth due, |jjg oa y on ; Do yon suppose it p avallmi
at 13£c each.
Checked Linen Towels at
4^c each.
Another
Special.
We also have all the goods
mentioned in first column put
up in bundles—average about
30 yards to the bundle, of
mixed varieties. Choice
75c Bundle.
30 pieces Taffetas F^ancais
all in full pieces.
At 4c a yard
DOMESTICS.
Yard-wide Bleaching,equal
in quality to Fruits.
At 5c a yard
10-4 wide Pepperell Sheet
ing, bleached,
At 19c a yard
CORSETS
$1 grade R. & G. Corsets
at 75c each.
60c grade La Favorite Cor
sets at 32c each.
75c grade Royal Worsted
Rainbow Corsets, at 48c each.
75c grade “None Such’’
Corsets at 39c each.
THREAD.
Clark’s and Coat’s Spool
Cotton at 3c a spool.
Extra good grade Pearl
Buttons at 3c a dozen.
Crowley’s Six-Cord Spool
Cotton at 2c a spool.
1,000 dozen spools Basting
Cotton at lc a spool.
Belding spool Silk at 6c a
spool.
Clark’s “mile end’’ spool
Cotton at 3c a spool.
Clark’s O. N. T. at 3c a
spool.
One table Zephyr Ging
hams, value 7c to 15c. Choice
at 4£c a yard.
One lot Kid Gloves, value
75c to $2.50. Choice per pair
50 cents.
Extra large size Linen
Towels at 8Jc each.
25c grade Rubber Dressing
Combs at 8c each.
10c grade Ladies’ Under
vests at 3c each.
25c grade India Linen
Lawn, sheer and soft, at 10c
a yard.
25c grade Ladies’ Seamless
Hose at 10c a pair.
100 dozen Children’s Hose,
10a quality, at 4c a pair.
Best grade, full count,Eng
lish Pins, at 3c a paper.
Ladies Leather Belts at
10c, 12£c and 15c each.
Best quality Skirt Linings,
Remnants, at 2£c a yard.
50 pieces Mulhouse mills
Percales, 15c grade, at 7c a
yard.
1,000 yards Bleaching, 1
yard wide, equal to Fruit of
the Loom, at 5c a yard.
1 000 yards high color Cre-
pons at 4c a yard.
10 pieces polka dot Percale,
red ground, worth 15c, at 7c
a yard.
5,000 yards Embroideries,
values 6c to I2£c, at 4c a yd.
Duck Suitings, all colors,
at 9c a yard.
White Canvas at 5c a yard.
20c Pique at 10c a yard.
30c red, solid color, new
shade Persian Lawn at 12|c a
yard.
One lot Fans, value -10c to
15c, at 3c each.
100 gross patent Hooks and
Ryes at 2c card.
Shoes. Shoes-
18 pair women’s chocolate and
black Dongola Oxfords, new spring
styles, value $2.00,
. . , . Payshcr,
ana can suoh a choice on her part k.*
defended on large grounds ns promote,
of the greatest good of the greatest
Dumber? Is it a fact, as has been flu
pnntly suggested, that she moves tn
England to-get country life because
have no good roads here yet, or, on the
oontrary, can it be demonstrated that
one reason onr country roads are so 1
is that the American girl cannot ab
the country and promptly carries h7>
man off to town at the earliest moment
At $1 20 a Pair I that sees his endeavors blessed with
I the necessary income? Is it her fault
One ltt woman’s Dongola choco-1 that oonntry interests tend toomuohto
late and black Ox fords, heel or no I fall to the care of a residuum that is
heel, value $1.75, too poo* to 8 et away, or has the conn-
At <41 OH a Pair I try life not much to do ono way or tk
At $i.uu a rair. other wlth her Britigh
One lot Lvliet Dongola patent To be honest, there aro other oo n .
face and tip Ox'ords, coin or needle I oeivable reasons for marrying an Eng.
t * Jlish gentleman besides his country
At 90c a Pair —
. ' vom 'f:r.2 a ?5 e “ Vlcl Kid °*-
fords, value *2.25. an would be justified in marrying on
At $1,45 a Pair I general principles and without speoifio
| exouses, or he may bo a good “aver-
Oae case Misses pa'.ent Vamp
Sandals, value $1.10.
At 60c a Pair
P. S. MARKS 9 At Storgs Formerly Occupied by
~ivr a j-osieipih:.
Misses Tan and black Sandals
At 45c a Pair
D ngoli Button
At 60c a Pair
36 pairs Ladies
Shoes, value $100.
Men’s satin Calf Shoes, congress
or lace. Monday as a Special
age” sort of man whoso
over bis Amerioan brother is a matter
of size or complexion or hale appear-
once. I have known American women
who ventured to assert that the femi
nine eye rejoiced more in the type ot
male human that treads tbo pavements
of Piccadilly and Pall Mall than in the
contemporaneous pedestrians of Fifth
avenue and Broadway.
Or maybe it is his superior stolidity
that eleotrifies in the Briton. It is to
be feared that there is truth in that tale
Mr. Kipling or somebody was telling
At 90c a pair Ij’-zywj—.
LYNCHING AT GRIFFIN
Mob of Over One Hundred Men
Hang Oscar Williams.
TOOK HIM FROM CENTRAL TRAIN
te|ro Wu Being Carried to Atlanta For
Safe Keeping—HU Body Riddled With
Bullet*—Nemee of Those Who Partici
pated In the A Heir Known—Major of
Porn-vUls Threatened.
* Atlanta, July 22.—Oscar Williams,
the negro who committed an assault on
the daughter of a Henry county farmer
lilt week and was transferred to the
Macon jail for safekeeping, was taken
from the Central railroad train, on
Which he was being brought to Atlanta,
at Griffin and lynched.
Williams was pursued through four
Bounties by hundreds of armed and in
furiated men immediately after the
Commission of his crimo, but managed
to escape. He was finally captured by
a farmer at Barnesville and hurried off
to Macon, in whose jail it was thought
he would be safe.
Excitement in his case was supposed
S have subsided, but rumors reached
soon that an effort wonld be made by
n mob from the neighborhood of the
erlme to take the nogro ont of the jail,
and the police reserve and the military
were called ont to protect him. To make
sure of his safety, however, the officials
decided to remove their prisoner to At
lanta. They started with him on the
Central train leaving Macon at 4:20 a. m.
At Griffin, 40 miles from Atlanta,
near the scene of Williams’ crime, a
mob boarded the train, took the negro
from his .guards and marched him
through the principal business street of
the town to a point 200 yards outside
the corporate limits, where they hung
him to a small oak tree. His body was
riddled with bullets.
Mono of the members of the mob,
which numbered some 150, were dis
guised and their names are known.
The mob declared that if they had
Mayor Haguely of Barnesville. who
saved Williams from being lynched last
week, they wonld hang him too.
CROPS IN POOR CONDITION.
Alabama'* Temperature Below tbe Nor
mal and Balnfall Badly Distributed.
Montgomery, Ala., Jnly 22.—Crop
conditions in this state continue some
what unfavorable. According to Sec
tion Director Chaffee’s report, during
the week just ended the temperature in
the state averaged from 2 to 4 degrees
below tbe normal and the rainfall was
badly distributed, being quite general
over the northern half of the states
While in the sontherfa oonnties it was
partial, some sections receiving none at
all, while other places report the fall
excessive. Hail and windstorms visited
portions of Walker, Lawrence and Jack-
son counties and damaged crops con
siderably.
Cotton has continued to improve dur
ing the week and is taking on bolls rap
idly, and is making fine weed, though
reports indicate slight injury from cool
nights first of week, and lice and rnst
are reported in scattered oonnties of the
southwestern and southeastern sections,
but are not as yet serious except in
oouuty, the correspondent
i reporting
: rapidly.
is beginning to heal, and is in fair con
dition; wheat still in tbe shock was
damaged by raius in northern connties;
late Irish and sweet potatoes will be
only fair; melons improving; pastures
generally in better condition; army
worms have appeared in large numbers
In portions of Mobile county. •
Bold Burglar Cholera a Woman.
Charlotte, N. O., Jnly 23.—The
town of King’s Mountain, 30 miles south
of here, is greatly stirred np over an as
sault that occurred there. Mrs. P. S.
Baker, wife of a prominent citizen, was
awakened by a burglar prizing open a
bureau with an ax. She screamed to
give the alarm. Tbe burglar dropped
his ax, rushed to the bed, and grabbing
her by the arm and throat, choked her
almsot into insensibility. He jumped
from the window and escaped as help
arrived, leaving the ax beside the bed.
An American Consulate Armed.
New Yore, Jnly 22.—A special to
The Herald from Havana says; Mr.
Brice, United States cqusnl in Matan-
zas, has armed the consulate in conse
quence of threats of a demonstration
against Americans made by some of the
rntra-Conservatives in that place. Con
sul Brice does not believe the threats
will be carried into execution, but in
view of the preseut state of feeling
openly expressed by many Spaniards,
he believes this precaution necessary.
Dr. R. A. Mosely For Governor.
Montgomery, Ala., July 22.—A spe
cial from Washington states that Dr.
R. A. Mosely of Birmingham has an
nounced to friends there that he will be
a candidate for uomiuation as governor
before the next Republican state con
vention. Dr. Mosely was the anti-
McKinley leader in this state before the
last convention.
Hiss Brown In Anil at Montgomery.
Montgomery, Ala., Jnly 22.—Miss
Brown, the young woman who is in-
criminated with the two Bell boys of
Ozark in the sensational infant murder
case, and who escaped from the city
sanitarium here last week, has beei-
brought back to the city and will be
held until the trial. The Bells are in
iail here. .
A Big 1’roperty Sale In Atlanta.
Atlanta. July 22.—Tlie property of
the Georgia Mining, Manufacturing apd
Investment company, consisting chiefly
of coal and iron mines in North Geor
gia, valued at $1,000,000, was sold hero
by Receiver Julius L. Brown, on the
order of the coart. The property wrt
bought in by Attorney Clifford L. An
derson, representing tbe certificate hold
ers, for $24,805.
Injunction Made Permanent.
Raleigh, Jnly 22.—Judge Simonton
has made tbe injunction permanent
against Governor Russell and the presi
dent and directors of the North Caro
lina railway, against carrying ont tha
provisions of the act whioh took away
all power from the private stockholdei
and rendered the presence ot the state
proxy necessary to make a quorum.
Cotton Oil Mill For Gadsden.
Gadsden, Ala, July 23.—T. Y. Con
ner of Tnskegee has decided to build a
20-ton cotton oil mill in Gadsden. He
has been here several days to investi
gate tho town’s advantages, and h$u
completed arrangements to build his
mill =here. Mr. Conner owns several
mills in the state. •,
Senator Is Anxious For Speedy
Strike Settlement
SYMPATHIZES WITH THE MINERS
Doing All Ho Can In a Quiet Way to Bad
the Unpleasant Situation In tha Coal
Fields — Gi^rernor Atkinson of West
Vlrglola Thinks Diggers WU1 Wla—Lat
est News From tho Big Walk Out.
Washington, July 22.—No one re-
guards the situation in the bituminous
coal mining fields with greater interest
than Senator Mark Hanna, himself a
leading coal operator. He is in receipt
•of frequent telegrams from the mana
gers of his various properties. He said:
“1 am doing all in my power to end
the unpleasant situation in the coal
fields. The strike has assumed such a
broad range that it is beyond the influ
ence of sections.
"I do not hesitate to say that I sym
pathize generally with the miners. We
had an agreement at our mines by
which we paid 69 cents a ton. The
price paid generally has been consider
ably lower. Yon cannot blame the
miners for being dissatisfied if they se
cure only 62 or 63 cents. I do not ex
pect satisfaction nnder.snch conditions,
and do not blame the men for feeling
as many of them da
"lean see no immediate ending of
the strike, bnt hope it will end soon.
"I am doing all 1 can in a quiet way
to set the machinery running again—
not openly as an arbitrator, bat in quite
as effective a manner.
"I think 1 can do as much in the rear
as if at the front in suoh business.
"I am not aware that tbe president
has received ah invitation to act as an
arbitrator. He wonld probably decide
when he had been so requested to act.
There wonld be difficulties in the way
as regards precedents for his taking
port. I presume.
"No one regards tbe conditions in the
mining districts with greater interest
than myself. I earnestly desire the re
establishment of business on terms equit
able to all concerned.”
Deulal From Eugene Dab*.
Fairmount, W. Va., July 22.—Eu
gene V. Debs issues the following state
ment under his signature: "In yester
day’s papers there appeared an alleged
interview with me whioh I desire to re
pudiate as wholly untrue from begin
ning to end. No such interview was
had and no such statements as were as
cribed to me were made. The alleged
interview was a tissue of falsehoods
made in order to serve a purpose whioh
readily suggests itself, I understand
the same interview was telegraphed to
Chicago and other points. I am entirely
satisfied with the situation and believe
the cause of the miners will be crowned
with success.
CHICAGO SHORT ON COAL.
Big Sugar Refluary Shut* Down In View
of Ulgh Fuel Prloe*.
Chicago, Jnly 22.—A shortage of coal
has began to make itself manifest in
the Chicago market The Chicago Sugar
refinery, which uses 400 tons of bitumi
nous coal daily, has suspended opera
tions, in view of the high prices for fuel
The coal men believe that the sugar re
finery suspension is a forerunner of
more similar cases, when the large con
sumers attempt to replenish their stock.
Governor George W. Atkinson of
"West Virginia, who is here attending
the Logan day ceremonies, believes that
the miners will eventually win iu the
great coal strike. Ho says:
"The indications in West Virginia
point to the success of the miners. I
believe that the miners in my state will
quit work. They have nothing to com
plain of, but are ia sympathy with the
suffering miners outside. So am L and
so is everybody else I know anything
about. There' are 25,000 miners iu the
state, and, of course, it will take time
to reaoh them all and perfect organiza
tion, .but there is no reason for the dis
couragement of the strikers.”
Ratchford In West Virginia.
Wheeling, July 22.—The arrival of
President Ratchford at Fairmount was
the most important occurrence of the
day in West Virginia. It is not likely
that Ratchford will be able to do any
thing which Debe could not da Debs,
Ratcl lford and the other organizers held
a conference at Fairmount to devise
plans for future work. They favor the
commissioning of all strikers as mission
aries to work from man to m*" among
the miners in their homes. The great
trouble has been to get the men ont to
big meetings on acoount of the surveil
lance of the operators.
More Join the Movement.
Pittsburg, Jnly 22.—The miners at
the Banda Goal company’s mine, near
Elizabeth, have joined the strikers.
They were induced to come out by a
body of 400 marchers from FinleyviUe.
The marchers were headed by a brass
band and were very orderly. The Bu-
nola men offered no resistance, but the
mine dosed down.
Strike Far From Settlement.
Cleveland, July 22.—The failure of
the miners to make any headway in
West Virginia has had the effect of
causing a much easier feeling in the
local market. Local operators regard
the strike as more complicated than
ever and a long ways from settlement.
Fire In a Fnrnltnro Factory.
Cambridge, Mass., July 22.—The fur
niture factory of Keeler & Oa, corner
of Thorndyke and Second streets, East
Cambridge, was visited by a fire daring
tbe night, and although the blaze was
confined to the top floor, the loss will be
about $26,000, fully insured.
Big Fire at New Orleans.
New Orleans, July 32.—The barn,
power house and six cars of the New
Orleans street car railroad have been
burned. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $30,-
000.
Shot Ten anil Killed Seven.
Wilmington. N. a, July 22.—Isaac
Holderfield, an overseer ot convicts of
the state penitentiary, while here from
OaBtle Hnyuo with 57 prisoners, on his
way to Raleigh, said that he had beeu
serving in that capacity for the past 26
years, and that he had shot ten and
killed seven.
Prominent Californian Dead.
San Diego, GaL, July 22.—John T.
Gordon, a prominent fruit grower in El
Oajon, aud who built the first street oar
system between Oakland and Allegheny
Oity, near Pittsburg, Pa., has died sud
denly of heart disease at his ranch. Ho
came here from Pittsburg in 1887.
HE ASKS BUTLER TO QUIT.
Tam Watson Call*' Far tlie Fopnllst Na
tional Chairman’* lleilgnatlon.
Atlanta. July 23.—In his People’s
Party Paper for this week, jost ont,
Thomas E. Watson calls on Senator
Marion Butler to resign the national
chairmanship of the People’s party. He
■ays:
“With Butler at the head of our host,
the host is not goiug to march! We
have had enough of Butler and of But-'
lerism. He has deceived us, and is de
ceiving us now. He is in collusion with
onr foes, jnst as Allen is. We can’t
fight fusion with a f usionist in com
mand. There’s no sense in trying it
“The party is entitled to a chairman
who is in sympathy with itB official pol
icy as declared at Nashville. Populism
can’t go to success unless a Populist
leads it—a leader who pats principles
above the offices, and who realizes the
deadly mistake of putting onr party
into corrupt bargainings for office with
its foes.
"Let Mr. Butler resign. L9t ns have
Washbnru or Reed for a chairman.
Let us have an official head in whom
the rank and file cau pat confidence.”
NO TRUTH IN THE REPORT.
Bamor That Dr. Talmsge Will Lasra
Washington Emphatically Related.
Des Moines, Jnly 22.—Dr. T. DeWict
Talmage was asked:
“Is the report true that you are dis
satisfied with Washington aud that yon
will not return iu the autumn, and that
you will probably go to Chicago?’’
Dr. Talmage replied:
“No; that story from top'to bottom
and from stem to stern iB a falsehood.
"I have no idea of leaving the churoh
in Washington. Everything is satis
factory. The congregation and myself
are in perfect harmouy. The attend
ance was larger las t year than ever before
and mauy morn people desired to wor
ship with us than could be accommo
dated. The church has met all its obli
gations to ma My relutious to Dr,
Sunderland in the co- pastorate are com
pletely happy. I expect to live and die
in,Washing on. I will be in my pulpit
the second babbath in September, prov
idence permitting.”
India to Prascents Editor*.
Bombay, India, Jnly 32.—The govern
ment has decided to prosecute some of
the editors of newspapers in the Poona
district, which have been most conspicu
ous in the publication of seditions ar
ticles of late oalonlated to stir np the
natives against British rula The ar
ticles chiefly complained of are those
that have placed a wrong construction
upon the efforts of officials to check the
spread of the plagne. These endeavors
have been represented as made in utter
defiance of the native religions customs
and prejudices, the sanitary purpose of
the regulations being absolutely aud, it
appears, wilfully ignored.
Not One of Andree** l’lgeons*
Stockholm, Jnly 22. —Dr. Eknela,
who was associated with Andree in the
projected balloon expedition of last year,
does not believe that the carrier pigeon
caught on Tuesday in the neighborhood
of Soevda, iu Pirylko, with a silver r.ng
on one of its feet aud the message North
Pole 142 w 47 62 on its wings, is one of
Andree’s pigeous. He says that Au-
dreo’8 pigeous do not wear silver rings
on their legs and they have “Andree”
stamped on their wings. Moreover, he
is confident that Andree will not send
such an obsoure message
merchants of tha
east had discovered that the tray to
i teat the American was simply to put
Men s V.c! Kid S lOff% congress or I him off and let him fret himself reck-
lace. I less. Stolidity is not quito the same u
At $1.10 a Pair I repose, but to persons who aro suffering
1 from an aento dearth of repose it may
Whittemore’a Gilt Elge Sho? | appeal as a tolerable substitute, so that
Dressing, former price 25c. 0110 can imagine an American maid,
. i Q t> ,, i I worn with the restless aspirations of
At loC per .bottle, I her high pressure countrymen, turning
with Bincere relief to pillow her fair
| young head upon a bosom behind which
lurked no threat of heart failure.-
I North American Review.
Block Urate Reported Barn*d.
Florence, Ala., July 22.—A report I
from Riverton says that the negro |
oanght near there started for Tnscnm-
bia guarded by an armed party. Near I
Cherokee he was met by an armed mob
and hanged. Another report, waioh j
is not credite ’, says be was tied to
stake and burned to death. He has oer- I
tainly been punished for his crime. Hia
identity was thoroughly established by.
his victim, Mrs. Vaughan. Mrs. |
Vaughan’s condition is serious.
B’siisl Die* oo the Scaffold.,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 22.—Peter
Wass el, alias "Terrible Pete,” was
hanged in the county jail yard here.
The drop fell at 10:30 and at 10:36 he
was pronounced dead. Wassel’s crime
was the killing of Joseph Kupersavage,
in Georgetown, in 1895. Wassel shot
at another man, but missed him and
killed Kupersavage, who was standing
outside the window.
Woman Hart In a Runaway.
Melbourne, July 23.—Lady Thomas
Bnusey, wife of the governor ot Vic
toria, has met with a serious accident.
While out driving her horses, a spirited
team, took flight aud ran away. Lady
Brassey was thrown out and severely
injured, two of her ribs being broken.
February Baron Brassey was
Last
thrown from his horse and badly hurt.
Mr*. Langtry's Colt a Winner.
London, July 22.—At the second day’s I
racing of the Liverpool July meeting,
Mr. Jersey’s (Mrs. Langtry’s) chesnnt
oolt Brayhead won the Liverpool cup,
seventieth year. This race is of 1,2X1!
sovereign, part plate, or the whole in
specie, at the winner’s option. There ]
were six starters over the oap coarse,
I mile and 3 furlongs.
A Sparrow Prim a Donna.
M. Mingand, a naturalist of Niuic*,
France, gives, in La Revue Scientific,
an interesting aocount of tho musical
accomplishments of a sparrow in his
collection of living birds. Ho captured
the sparrow soon after it had been
hatched and fed it by hand until it
could care for itself. Then he placed it
in a cage containing a chaffinch, a gold
finch and two canaries. After a time
the sparrow learned to warble like the
finches and to trill like the canariei, the
imitations being so perfect as to deceive
the ear. In spring M. Miugaud is ac
customed to keep a box of crioketa ucar
his birdcages. Two days after the
crickets had been placed near the cage
containing the sparrow the latter began
to imitate their cry, intermingling it
with its songs. Even after the crickets
had long been dead the sparrow remem-
bred its lesson and continued to repeat
their ory. None of tho other birds at
tempted to imitate the crickets. Singu
larly enough, the sparrow never utters
the' peculiar squalling cry of its cwn
species, having been removed from its
nest too early, apparently, to have
learned it
Orstnl’s Headaches.
Dr. Lees told one amusing story about
Orsini at Blaydon Hall, which showed
the latter as a very slmplo man. Orsi
ni, at one time, complained every
morning of hiB head. 1 ‘I ’ave one baa
headache, ” he used to say at breakfast
to Mrs. Cowen. One night Joseph Covr-
en detected a strong smell of gas pro*;
ceeding from Oraini’s room. He went
to see what was the matter aud fon& d
the explanation of Orsini’s bad head*
aches. The room was quite dark, ana
the gas had not been turned off. " ” lia
aid you do with the gas?” asked Cov
en. "Blew him out,” said Orsim, who
boll, once sweet of tone, is cracked and
dissonant. The Baptist ohurch, built
only a few years ago, mainly at the ex
pense of a church building society, is
ono of the shoddily constructed many
gabled atrocities due to the maligu in
fluence of the so called Queen Anne
restoration. Its original coat of paint
of many colors has mostly soaked into
the surrounding soil. Its panes of stain-
od glass, ns they have been broken from
time to time, have been replaced by or
dinary window glass, with piebald un
canny
Wholesaler Goes to tho Wall.
St. Louis, Jnly 22.—Albert Acruman, ■ — —- n .
wholesale notion dealer, has filed a deed I had never 80611 a 8 aa burner before.
of trust to George Lerue, Jr., for the « heada °hea then ooased. wpre
benefit of creditors. Liabilities, $55,000;
assets, $60,000. Preferred creditors hold
claims amounting to $37,9.31. There
are also 160 nnpreferred creditors, mostly
St. Louis firms.
Two New England Churches.
There are Catholic communities, both
in America and in the old world, says
Alvan F. Sanborn in The Atlantio,
where an extreme wretchedness in the
dwellings is at once partially explained
by the riohness and beanty of the
churches. But not so in Dickerman. On
the oontrary, both the Dickerman
ohurobes axe of a piece with their sur
roundings. The Congregational church,
more than a century old (Orthodox is
the name it still goes by), waB a worthy , , .
structure in its day and wonld be so yet Within the last decade the populate"
had it been kept in good repair. Alas, I of Europe has increased by about 8 .*
it is only the ghost of its former preten- I 000,000, of whom Russia contribute
tious self. Its sills are badly rotted. Its I 12,610,000 and France only 07,000.
spire and belfry have been shattered by —
lightning and imperfectly restored. Its The Austrians are great smoker*,
roof is leaky, tho clapboards of its walls I The daily consumption of matches w
are warped and blistered, and its heavy that oonntry is 20 tor each inhabitant-
They were ■
j factually cored some months * ater ^
the instanoe of the emperor of *“
French.—Westminster Gazette.
Tory Romantic.
"Wasn’t that romantic?” said the
elderly maiden boarder. ,
"Wasn’t what romantic?” grow lee
the baohelor boarder, as there was n
one else at the table to pay attention to
the lady’s question. *
“Here is a story of a man who pu
down his wife’s name in his tax list an
valued her at $1,000,000.”
“Huh! I’ll bet he is figuring on lev
ting the taxes go delinquent and having
her sold.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Central Americans Celebrate.
New York, July 23.—A special to
The Herald from Panama, Colombia.
Bays: The Sons of Colombia celebrated
iu an appropriate manner the eighty-
Seventh anniversary of the freedom
from the Spanish yoke. The celebm*
tion was general throughout Centra*
America.
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Earthquake at Saratoxa.
Saratoga, July 22. — Earthquake
tremors <