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W. F. SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME IX.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
I here isn t a public clock in Mcinphi?.
Texas ships $2,000,000 worth of pecans
annually.
North Carolina ranks tlfird in the list
of cotton-producing Stated
Light hundred Russian emigrants are
thinking of settling in Georgia.
Lawrence county, Georgia, doubled
its population in the last ten years.
The total acreage of cotton last year
in Tennessee was 722,502, yielding 330,-
621 hales.
Charleston, S. C., has decided on a
paid fire company, which will cost $35,-
000 a year.
Macon, Georgia, will have a tomato
canning factory, owned and conducted
by Northern men.
Tennessee will realize as much from
her fruit crop this year as she usually
does from her wheat crop.
Four thousand men are at work on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad from Atlanta to Rome.
Yazco county, Mississippi, produced
more cotton last year than any county
in the cotton region. It turned out
48,321 baleH.
The Constitution says over $150,000
worth of real estate has been purchased
at Atlanta by the Coal railroads in the
past four months.
Gen. Peyton Wise haslieen elected to
fill the office of bonded tobacco inspector
at Richmond, Virginia. The salary is
only $12,000 a year.
Among the exhibits at the Talbot
county, Georgia, fair were 1,200 speci
mens of minerals. The owner was
twenty-five years collecting them.
The Florida Agriculturalist says this
is the last year cheap orange lands can
be procured. There is very little left,
except in private hands, and it will
bring big prices in the future.
Two paupers in the Aiken, S. C., poor
house have so arranged it that their
hearts will hereafter beat the State as
one. The beautiful and accomplished
groom is only seventy, while the bride
is ugly and thirty-three.
Union Springs (Ala.) Herald: A suit
for damages by a colored widow of this
county against the L. and N. railroad
for killing her husband was recently
compromised for SSOO. The lawyers
got $250, her advancing merchant got
$125 for looking after the afiair and the
"lone widow” got $125 to soothe her
grief. Nothing like an equitable divis
ion of spoils.
St. Louis Republican: There is doubt
less no child now living that will see
New Orleans a greater exporting port
than New York, but the next few years
will see it make a demoralizing advance
on New’ York. Within the last three
years it has advanced ahead of Philadel
phia, Boston and Baltimore, and within
the next three it will make enough
progress to cause lots of trouble for New
York, however impossible it may be to
surpass the trade of that city.
Nashville American: For snuff-dip
ping and sneezing the people of Tennes
see annually pay over $1,000,000. A
dealer in snuff informs us that the Nash
ville merchants annually pay over $300,-
000 for snuff, and the merchant* of the
city of Memphis more than that amount.
The people of the Southern States con
sume'annually over $8,000,000 of that
article, while the people of the Northern
States use comparatively none. Two
firms of New York supply the South.
A Pike county, Alabama, negro firs t
stole a hat, a bridle from a near neigh
bor’s next stuck to his hands, .going
farther a mule's head became fastened
in the bridle, proceeding on his journey
a stable furnished harness for the ani
mal, and a few miles further on a farm
er’s spring wagon had joined ftafe cara
van, then someone else’s bale of cotton
that wouldn’t get out of his way was
transferred to the wagon, and the pro
cession arrived at Union Springs, where
the police jailed the manager as he was
bargaining to get rid Of his booty. He
resisted and cut one of the policemen s
throat.
In order to cure her husband of
drinking, a ooiored woman in South Car
olina put concentrated lye in his whisky
bottle. The last words he uttered were
to the effect that it would be a relief to
him to drop into hades to cool off, and
the last words the widow spoke to the
outside world, as she dodged into jail,
were: *‘l nevah seed aich weak stom
achs as de niggali are gittin’ nowadays;
day can’t stand fiufliu !"—/Vn/Vm,'
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
There is every indication now that
Cincinnati will have a union depot.
Emigration to this couutry amounts
to 1,800 souls a day, or 633,000 ft year.
Extraordinary atmospheric disturb
ances have been predicted for November.
General Grant carries SIOO,OOO in
policies on his life.
Experiments are to be made of com
pressed air motors on the New York Ele
vated Railroad.
A man aged ninety-two, at Des Moines,
lowa, is suing his wife, aged eighty-five,
for divorce.
Henry J. Gully, implicated in the
murder of the Chisholm family, is a can
didate for tho Legislature in Mississippi.
A Mormon elder is in prison at Ham
burg for trying to make proselytes. The
good are always persecuted.
Chicago lias canceled the order which
forbade the employment of married
women as teachers in the public schools.
It is said there are fewer office-seekers
in Washington now than there has been
for years.
Miss Arthur, the daughter of the
President, is a blonde haired young lady
who is now at school in Albany.
Mrs. Cornwallis West, the beauti
ful, and Adelina Patti, the prima donna,
two noted women, have arrived in this
country from England.
The late Gov. Wiltz, of Louisiana, left
his widow and five children in poverty,
and the citizens of the State are appealed
to to provide for them.
The stock of the wrecked Newark
Bank was worth 180. After the cashier
made a confession it wasn’t worth a cent.
One word from his lips killed it.
The Zulu Chief Cetawayo, is costing
the British Government about $20,000 a
year. Ho is rather an expensive pris
oner.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, says he
would rather walk than to rido on a rail
road pass. Yes, unless there is some
thing hitched to the pass to drag it
along.
A cannon weigliing 56,000 pounds
has been Ciist at Reading, Penn. It is
of rifle pattern, neatly and strongly
molded, and will cany a ball weigliing
150 pounds a distance of twelve miles.
It is suggested that Arthur, the wid
ower, and Queen Victoria, the widow,
pool their issues and give us a cheaper
government. The idea is a capital one.
The President ought to take it under con
sideration.
The Pittsbiprg-,ijhrt opinion
that the demaadT ObmeTOrate bonds is
brisk enough to start the printing presses
to going again. During the war the
Government winked at the Northern
manufacturer of Confederate money and
bonds.
Talmage thinks there ought to be
schools of journalism. There is. There
a re over 8,000 newspapers in this country.
They are all schools of journalism. But
journalism can no more be taught in col
leges than can fishing, and some men
never can learn how to fish.
President Grevy, of the French Re
public, receives the modest salary of
$200,000 a year. This, in connec
tion with the fact that France is no
larger than an ordinary State, is enough
to make an American President feel
pretty blue.
The estimated cost of the Mississippi
River improvement is SSO,IKK), 000. There
is a diversity of opinion as to w hether the
Government ought to bear the expense.
The improvement will be directly felt by
the Western States, but not by the East
ern, hence the East will use its endeavor to
oppose the matter in Congreaa.
Th hat of the fashionable woman is
something smaller than a wagon wheel.
Asa screen in church, where the fellow
just behind is anxious to take a nap, they
are par excellence, but in the theater or
other places of amusement, where there
is always an anxiety to know what is go
ing on, they must be an awful bore.
The prefect of one of the first cities of
Italy, who is a rich landowner, has, in
this civilized age, resorted to a feudal
custom, obliging his field laborers to
wear an iron muzzle daring the grape
harvest, to prevent them from tasting a
few bunches of grapes. Stingy men who
read this may be expected to turn green
with envy.
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obd to Industrial Inter, st, the Truth, the Establishment of Justiee, and the Preservation of a People’s dovernment.
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
The opinion prevails that Baldwin
should have stolen the safe also out of
the Ne*vark This is a reflection
fin his' The safe
would is, proba
bly it been, 4gn|pbhere is no
telling. He Could have credited it on
the books and that would hft-*#* , ' h §fttisfied
the Directors. All they cared for was a
respectable looking balance-sheet.
Buffalo has struck upon a liappy and
an economical prooess of dealing with
mendicants. All the charitable institu
tions in that city have been merged into
one, and thus the relief of one family
or person by several societies at the same
time is an impossibility. All applica
tions for aid are thoroughly investigated
before relief is granted and the result is
that begging is discouraged and idleness
effectually rebuked.
A new religious project is on the tapis.
It is that of attaching a Gospel car to
railroad trains for the delectation of all
who are religiously inclined and for the
conversion of those who are not re
ligiously inclined. It is proposed that
instead of a card table there be a piano
or organ, instead of spittoons, a carpet,
and instead of cards, a Bible and hymn
books. All seats will be arranged to
face the center of the car where some
good man may stand to preach, exhort
or expound, as the case may be.
Rev. Talmage has preached a sermon
on the newspaper business. When he
said “ a newspaper is the greatest tempo
ral blessing God has given this country,”
and, “if I had to choose between a gov
ernment without the newspaper, and a
newspaper without a government, I
would choose the latter./’ his words were
golden, but his opinion that the person
ality of Writers should be disclosed proves
bis lack of experimental knowdedge.
Many persons unknown to tlie world are
our ablest newspaper writers, and fur
ther than this, the newspaper reader of
to-day does not stop to inquire who
wrote this article or who wrote that.
He wants a record of thp events of the
day, and he wants them in a condensed
form, and he makes no more inquiries who
the author is than does the epicure who
prepared his dinner.
From the London World we get an
inkling of the reason why there is a de
mand just now for Confederate bonds.
Says the World: “The result
ing from the Confederate cotton loan was
not advanced because the people who
took the bonds had sympathy with the
Southern States, but because we needed
the cotton ; and before making the ad
vance pains were taken to ascertain from
the highest legal authorities that it was
a perfectly legitimate transaction, and
that there was nothing to prevent any of
our merchants agreeing to it. The cot
ton on which the loan was secured was
taken by the United States, who there
fore remain subject to all the agreements
made in respect of • it by the Confede
rates. There is not much chance of this
new being admitted by the United
States; but as it is vouched for Oy so
high a legal authority as Lord Hather
ley, it may be worth mentioning. ”
Plums and apples have been short in
quantity this year, while pears and
grapes have come to the front splen
didly. The two former require more
moisture than they got this year, while
the latter want only plenty of heat. This
is shown by the fact that plum and ap
ple leaves, when the fruit is ripe, are
juicy, while pear and grape leaves are
brittle, showing that they have given up
their moisture to feed tlie fruit. Xn New
•Jersey, North Carolina and a few vxarts
of Ohio, and in Arkansas, it failed ut
terly, and was only medium in Michigan
and Pennsylvania. Among vegetables,
potatoes will be high this winter. New
•Jersey produced the most, in Arkansas
fair, although the latter ones are poor,
and the bugs ruined them in Kansas.
Tomatoes are not a full supply, sweet
potatoes are plentiful, turnips are poor,
and onions are not plentiful.
Cktewayo, the dethroned king, it
Oude Moulen, a prisoner ysfc to the
English Government A recent letter
from a lady who saw the ex-Africar
potentate, says : “The great change 1
noticed in his appearance made me ex
claim involuntarily, ‘ls he ill?’ as I
stepped across the threshold, to which
the interpreter replied, without referring
the question to Cetewavo : ‘He is not
very well, but he has never been well
since he has been here.' After shaking
hands, I said to him : ‘Do you like
Oude Moulen better than the castle?’
To which he replied very sadly : ‘lt is
all the same to me where I am without
my freedom.’ In saying good by, I
said that I hoped he would try and cheer
up and not fret, as he would make him
self ill, and that fretting could do no
good. But he shook his head and ex
ciaimed, ‘ 1 cannot help it/ adding, as
he shook hands with me, that he ‘hoped
God would bless me for my kindness.’ ”
When a cashier who has stolen $2,-
600,000 is admitted to $25,000 bail, and
the fact of the theft is almost forgotten
within a week, the ordinary man is at a
loss to collect his senses. The whole
transaction from beginning to end
beyond belief. Baldwin’s stealings be
gan in the year 1873, by his own con
fession. That was eight years ago.
The bank examiner makes his rounds
six times a year, hence the affairs of the
Mechanics’ Bank was subject to his
inspection upon forty-eight different
occasions. It seems that on each of
these visits the Bank Directors, must
have, without knowing* testified to the
accuracy of the Cashier’s reports. Then
what? The Directors in whose hands
the bank is supposed to be, knew noth
ing of its affairs, and the President was
a mere figure head. The Cashier’s word
could not be doubted. He stood high
in the church and came from a good
family. AH his brothers stood high in
the business world. Dishonesty there
fore was out of the question. But dis
honesty crept in aud after everything
had been stolen that was available, leav
ing only the safe and the stove, J3aldwin
calls the Direotors about him to say he
has stolen $2,600,000, and if he was not
such a coward he would shoot himself,
and hence is ready to go to prison. But
they do not put him in prison, oh, no
His bail is fixed at $25,000, just l-IQIOtI
of the amount he has stolen, and for tin
time being he is a free man. Who suf
fers for all this? Certainly not the
Directors. The law does not hold them
responsible, but it ought to. If their
negligence is not criminal, it ought to
be. What are they there for if not to
look into the affairs of the bank? If
they were compelled to make good the
loss perhaps their position would be
something more than ornamental. Under
the circumstances thieving is encouraged,
and if there is not more stealing done by
cashiers in the near future than there
has been, it will be because there are no
more dishonest cashiers.
A Ton of Truth.
Why is it that, in a majority of cases,
the newspapers, in recording anything
pertaining to continental countries that
involves a mention of weights or
measures, employ the terms used l>y
the metric system ? The metric system
is undoubtedly the best one in use, but,
unfortunately, it is not thoroughly un
derstood in this country, and the general
ity of readers are all at s°a regarding
the significance of the word. If an
American take any interest in a German
flagstaff, he wants to know how many
feet high it is ; or if he desires to know
the weight of a French pig, pounds
alone will convey the desired information
to iiis mind. If he is obliged to read of
meters and kilogrammes, he utterly fails
to grasp the idea. The staff may be
miles high, and the pig may weigh tons,
for all he knows to the contrary. Much
the same may be said of the employment
of words and phrases in a foreign lan
guage. No American is so cultured that
he cannot understand at least equally
well an idea conveyed in plain king’s
English, with this exception, that there
are words and phrases in foreign tongues
that are practically untranslatable, and
whose force would be lost iu an attempt
to render them into English. But these
words and phrases are generally familiar,
and in common use in English conversa
tion. Such words and phrases are of
course allowable. But the use of a
French phrase that can be understood
only by one versed in the French lan
guage is snobbish. The journalist who
indulges in the practice of peppering his
manuscript with foreign words run a
great risk. The intelligent compositor
may make sad work of his best efforts,
and it is dangerous to repose unlimited
confidence in the proof-reader. It is no
evidence to the mind of the reader that
the writer is possessed of any particular
erudition because he is able to handle
Latin, Greek and French freely. • Any
body, with a dictionary of those lan
guages at his elbow, can do the same.
What the general reader wants is a plain
story, plainly told, in words that he .can
understand —Boston Buoet.
A Sure Remedy.
There is no remedy for trouble equal
to hard work—labor that will tire you,
physically, to such an extent that you
must sleep. If you have met with losses,
you don’t want to lie awake and think
about them. You want sleep—calm, sound
sleep, and to eat your dinner with an
appetite. But you can’t unless you
work. If you say you don’t feel like
work, and‘go loafing all day to tell
Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your
woes, you’ll lie awake, and keep your
wife awake by your tossing, spoil your
temper and your breakfast next morn
ing, as (I begin to-morrow feeling ten
tunes worse than you do to-day. There
are some great troubles that only time
can heal, and perhaps some that can
never be healed at all; but all can be
helped by the great panacea, work.
Stonehenge, in England, Has been
generally supposed to be a relic of the
Druids, but one eminent antiquary gives
it as his opinion that it dates still farther
back, and was a temple of the fire wor
shippers, belonging to the Bronze Period
of Northern archaeologists.
CatLDBEN have more need of models
I pun of criticism.
Feeling Hurried.
Probably nothing tires one so much
as feeling hurried. When in the early
morning the day’s affairs press on one’s
attention beforehand, and there comes
the wonder how in -the world everything
is to be accomplished, when every in
terruption is received impatiently, and
the cloek is watched in distress as it
moments flit past, then the mind tires
the body. We are wrong to drive onr
selveS with wlflp and spur in this way.
Each of us promised strength for the
day, and we must not wear ourselves out
by crowding two days’ tasks into one.
If only we can keep cool and calm, not
allowing ourselves to be flustered, we
shall be less wearied when we have
reached the even-tide. The children
may be fractious, the servants trying,
the friend we love may fail to visit us,
the letter‘we expect may not arrive, but
if to can preserve our tranquillity of
soul, and of demeanor, we shall get
tlirough everything creditably.
Especially is this good advice for
warm yveatlier. Wliofeels the heat most?
Who is most exhausted and prostrated
by its severity? Why, the person who
flies from fails to ioe-water, bemoaning
herself, who changes her dress a half
dozen time a day, who laments that it
is so w arm, and watches the thermome
ter with despairing Certainty that it nev
er was so hot before ; who, in short, in
tensifies her own discomfort and adds to
that' of others by constant thinking of
it. Women who can stay in-doors have
the advantage of men in warm weather.
It is wise to air a house thoroughly in
the early morning, and to keep it, as far
as possible, close and darkened through
the middle of the day. Dispense with a
great fire in the kitchen range, and let
the cooking be moderate. Fruits, salads,
and simple, easily-cooked cereals are
the proper foods for summer. A gas
stove is an economy and a comfort.
Find the coolest place to sit, go quietly
about your work and make as little fuss
as may be about its being warm. Let
the children have frequent baths, and
do not encumber them with heavy cloth
ing. Common sense and an easy mind
help one over most of life’s rougli places
with little friction,
How Barbers Learn to Shave.
“ How long does it take a man to learn
the baffler business ? ” asked a reporter
while undergoing a tonsoris operation
at the hands of a colored professional.
.“Well, dat depends on how much
talent he has for de business,” was the
quiet reply; “ generally takes ’bout a
year.”
“ How do they begin,” asked the re
porter.
“ Dev gene’lly begins by blackin’
boots. Deu dey stan’ round an’ watch
an ole barber strop his razah, an’ watch
him stave. After a /while dey lets ’em
put de lather on. Den pretty soon lie
tries his lian’ at shavin’. Somebody
comes in dat’s Very good natured, or
mebby ain’t very particular how lie’s
shaved, an’ dey put dar new man on to
try his han’; but some ole barber always
strops his razah, an’ keeps an eye on
him. Mebby de new man does fust rate,
an r mebby lie doesn’t. It all depends on
his confidence. Confidence is de main
tiling in learning de barber business.”
“ Do barbers shave themselves? ” que
ried the reporter.
“No, dey shaves one auuder. When
a barber w ants a shave, he asks a friend
to do it, an’ den lie shaves de other man.
Barbers never pays nuthiu’ for shaves,
unless they’se away from home.”
“Doesn’t a professional courtesy exist
among barbers everywhere ? ”
“I reckon it does, but I never heard
it called by dat afo’.”
Debris of Old Buildings.
[New York Industrial World.]
The varied materials collected from
old buildings in course of demolition
form enormous accumulations in some
of the upper wards in New York City,
where one can purchase anything in the
building line from a piece of lead pipe
to a magnificent French plate glass.
Timber of all sort, from giant cross
beams to little joist posts, can be had
in these yards, where there are also win
dow sashes, window weights, doors,
shutters, iron * and wooden staircases,
window frames, doorposts, flooring lath
:ng, tiling, wainscoting, bricks, brown
stone fronts, granite steps, granite col
umns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron
stair-frames, and, in fact, anything and
everything that has ever been used in
a house. Door knobs, bell handles,
iron railings and balconies, not to men
tion the cornices, are there in profusion,
and confusion. The profits of this busi
ness a re said t a be great, and while it
frequently happens that large figures
are paid for some houses, the profits are
correspondingly great. Recently some
houses on Twenty-third street were
taken down, and as they were finished
in hard wood, ornamented with mirrors
and great spacious fire-places, the price
demanded was very large, but the old
brass work and glass alone paid the pur
chaser for what he had invested, and
the wood, stone and brick of the house
was all clear profit. The two firms who
do the largest traffic of the kind carry
to their yards about fifty truck-loads of
material a day. Thee there are dozens
of others in the tr;;b who do a much
more modest bus i
Arsenic is not freely soluble in any
organic mixtures and may generally be
found as a white sediment, which, when
thrown upon red-hot coals, gives out a
strong odor like onions and a thick
smoke. Common arsenic can not be
detected by the taste.
Mrs. Bebva A. Lockwood, the woman
lawyer of. Washington, is said to ride a
tricycle and to make long excursions
about the city.
SUBSCRIPTION-ll.if.
NUMBER 13
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Out of evqry IQO inhabitants of the
United States sixteen live iu cities.
A locomotive brinks forty-five gal
lons of every mile it travels.
The finest tfiyead in a spider’s web is
composed of ho less than 4,000 strands.
When an frang-outang dies the others
cover up tlie body with great branches
of trees; * .
M. Le Goa¥ saw in Java a female
ohimpanzee that made her bed very
neatly every day, lay upon her side and
covered herself with the clothes.
The heat on the Colorado desert is
terrifiow At Yuma the thermometer fre
quently registers 125 degrees and tho
air is so rarefied that objects 100 miles
distant appear very near.
It is noted as a curious fact that no
President, from Washington to Garfield,
was bom in a city, and that oniy the
second Adams was even nominally a
resident of a oity when elected.
Some beetles, when counterfeiting
death, will sutler themselves to be grad
ually roasted without moving a single
joint “I have pierced spiders with
pins,” says Mr. Smellie, “andtorn them
to pieces without tlieir indicating the
slightest marks of pain.”
The water-boatmen, among the most
agile of water insects, row’ themselves
along undCT-sfde uppermost. Their
habit of moving upside down is of
great use to them in feeding, for manj
of their victims have hard backs, so the
water-boatmen dive down and come up
under their prey, thus attacking them
on their soft side.
The unicorn still exists in the interior
of Thibet. It is there called the one
horned tso-po. Its hoofs are divided ;
it is about twelve or thirteen hands
high ; it is extremely wild and fierce,
yet associating in large herds. Its tail
is shaped like that of a boar, and its
horn, which is curved, grows out of its
forehead. It is seldom caught alive,
but the Tartars frequently shoot it, and
use its flesh for food.
Tiie equatorial diameter of the earth
is greater than the polar by some thirty
four miles. While the center of gravity
remains as now the polar and equatorial
regions will remain substantially the
same ; but if from any cause the polar
shall preponderate, then a change in
polarity will ensue. Such, without
doubt, was the case when the tropical
elephants were incased in the icebergs
of Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen.
The paintings of the ancient Egyptians
show that we cannot mix paints as well
as they. In manufacturing metals they
were our superiors. They made a sword so
exquisitely that it could be put in a sheath
coiled up like a snake without breaking.
They had the steamboat and eanal 5,000
years ago. and they had the art of mov
ing immense masses of rock, weighing
1,000 tons each. The pyramid built 1,500
years B. C. employed 360,000 men for
twenty years. Twelve billions, seven
hundred and sixty millions pounds of
granite were used in its construction,
and in dimensions it was 460 feet high.
Astronomers say that the average
number of meteors that traverse the at
mosphere, and that are large enough to
be visible to the naked eye at one place,
if the suu, moon and stars would per
mit, is forty-two in an hour, or 1,000
daily. The apparent size of meteors is
greatly magnified by irradiation. Some
of them have been computed to have a
diameter of 100 or 200 feet, and others
1,000 up to 5,000 or 6,000; but this
must be regarded as the diameter of the
blaae of light which’ surrounds the
meteor. The meteor itself, before it
takes fire, may have a diameter of only
a few feet, or perhaps only a fraction of
an inch. The mean distance of meteors
from the observer is about 105 miles.
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Another Love Tragedy.
“I know that I am not beautiful,
Adelbert, and in my jealous moment* it
comes to me with a great throb—the
power of beauty over a man. Soft,
pearly flesh, rounded curves, sweet, red
lips, velvety eyes—all the magic and
marvel of tint and texture of outline—
when I think of this, I say, I am in ut
ter despair,” and the proud girl crushed
with cruel force between her white, tap
ering fingers a flower-pot that stood with
others in the window. The noise at
tracted the attention of her father, who
was passing by, and he pushed aside the
curtaia and entered. * * *
“ How much will anew window cost ?”
said old Mr. McAnery to his agent the
next morning.
“Did he take the sash with him ?”
“Yes.”
“ About $15.”
* * * Two years later Violet Mc-
Anery married a man who owned two
garbage carts, four mules and a big tin
trumpet. But her heart was desolate
and her young love blighted.— Chicago
Tribune.
itABORiN'G man, don’t feel at all humil
iated because of your occupation. You’re
a manufacturer —you make money every
day you work. —Kentucky State Journal.
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A Special from Helena, Ark., October sth, sapw
“Night before last an attempt was made to as
sassinate Simon Silverman while on bis way to
this city. Five shots were fired at him from be
hind a tree, with no other effect than to frighten
the horse ridden by Silverman, which threw ita
rider without injuring him. The cause of. this
attempt on Silverman’s life is owing to the dis
pute about the ownership of the lottery ticket
which won the $15,000 prize in the Lonisiana
State Lottery Company, Silverman claiming it
to be his, and a Mrs. Clark claiming that she
had bought it of Silverman, who afterwards
purloined it from her. The ticket was taken
from him at the muzzle of the pistol, and ht
has instituted suit for the money. It is sup
posed that the attempt on his life was made to
| keip him from prosecuting the suit.” —Jfem
i (A Picayune, October 19.