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#?$P > ■ | ■ .. wsuau**** -, „ ,, ImifuaK ., _.. . _ 11 ‘>T *;»: V m i\ T Av\& c ) r ff uvwxfti «i ' r A A V '< E TEMPERANCE -DEPARTMENT A* * l T~?. '! , - *'•»'*• How the 8 wins Deal With the Liquor ’ 7' ^ Bcune years ago, several towns in Swe-. den, notably Gothenburg, attempted, to > : solve fihb proftiletd oif drunkenness by go¬ ing intotoa —tail hquer business them •elvsa. AU thfijia^Qjas w^r^ dosctl, .and, the local authoiitiea undertook to be the only seUerftff strong drink. The Sweden are large consumer*.of arden^ spirits, und it was hoped that this experiment would xeadStHto chocking drunkenness. ,r ilie plan was ipqch lauded soon ufter its adlp^on^ hot nothing has been, heard About it lately. Tho Republic of Switzer¬ land, howpver, is now trying it on a na¬ tional scale. The distillers in that nation are required to sell all their products to the State. The alcoholic stimulant/* are manufactured under the oversight of gov¬ ernment officials, who flee to it that no poisonous ingredients, are employed. Those who want liquor to drink must go to the officers appointed by the State, who are under bonds not to sell to individuals or families whose habits are intemperate. Of course this experiment will fail, as tb* only remedy for drunkenness is total Prohibition. The dog*s tail must be cut ©ff close behiiul his cars. Bwt it shows that the problem of how to best cure the evils of iutem|>crnncc is world-wide, and that all civilized nations are beginning to grapple with it. These experiments, aftor they have failed, will educute the people to the necessity for sterner mess-, uree. It is idle to sav that Prohibition cannot be enforced, because throughout the Moharamodan world spirit and wine drinking has been put a stop to for cen f uries. There is no drunkenness nor any consumption of ardent spiritH in Mdhnin tnedan communit.ioa. except where there is wliat is OftUfd t’hristian traffic,. Euro¬ pean trades invariably introduce liquoi into all commercial channels which they leach. — Dnuorcot. The Voire of Science. The voice of science is emphatic against alcohol. Sir Andrew Clark, M.D., an eminent English authority, is reported as saying in a recent address; “I am speak¬ ing solemnly and carefully in the pres¬ ence of truth; and I tell you I am con¬ siderably within the mark when I say to you that, going the round of my hospi¬ tal wards to-day, seven out of every ten there owed their illness to alcohol. Now, what does that mean? That out of every one hundred patients which I have charge of at the London hospital, sevonfcy per cent, of them owe their ill-health to alcohol. 1 do not say these seventy per cent, were drunkard*, but to the excea-. sivc uae.” The experience of multitudes of total abstainers demonstrates conclu-t sivcly that alcohol, which, according to the significant testimony of I)r. Clark, is ■o potent a factor of ill-health, is in no sense a necessity for those who use it, and are thus injured by if. even when tselvnicallv they are not drunkards. To let if alone i“ best. Vot iorinl Tempera nee Adrorate. -t remperam e Notes. . Sam Small suys that in five yearfl the South solid /or’Prohibition. ' ' will be CanfiU <l * \ Farrar m “Drink has says: been ♦o the world a curse intolerable in its ex tent, and interminable in ils malignity.” Governor Bod well says the savings banks of Maine show an increase of de posits •tT during ® the last year J of over $2,000,- ^ 1 00 °* Colonel Dean La Banta, of New Yarik dtyV hair organized a regiment pf^totnl abstinence soldi***, T to be a part iff the ; .National Guard. . n * „ tjio encouraging fact ip stated to Kta* too drinking customs of the Upper classes, large numbpn pt whom dinners. are giving up the use of finfjff fv their * H-ftt sii - ' , / to higher standard and plane of civi&k*- u a mitfcsd to Us interest* Ii to the *#od *ncy, » * J &ri ] I Fir# tUoua-d b»M« -.. r , mt Ketr York city. Indisputable facta sbow * tbe tnisehisf which sends Tfths most powerful temperance sermone ever nrwwhed. 11 R Davip, of Chicago, who has i Jtf io many .years stood at. the head, the medical profession in this country, celebrated his fiftieth/yeax of service. fit is a fa4»c»l,.sdyocate of total ab Pttocnec. and has Defer la bis half-cen¬ tury of pracflcff fAhleribed the use of nag * kind of alcoholic liquor. *■' . a INTUNAL MVINtn UOLLUCnoNS. I Ir ,l». I ! I ,,t«r»al WashlAgtoU D. C.,—Collections the of eight in JlipNNKths 4 revenue during first of the fiscal year ending June 80, ,* were $74,268, $68, being $917,607. collections during the cor eriod pf the last fiscal year.’ 1 receipts ficom a spirits, ft increase U, 786,69fi of %9$9 to an r Otto , :r*asc of $1,678,-j on quars, an incraw o|, meous objecU and Base for of February, $64,794 os penalties. $80,063 Re *1*5 ft 1887, toe were month of thlM reoeipts H for H amis L ■ .. .. EAST#® D$£>GE ^^Iji jytifrNK .. 1867- > ■/ * * FROZEN NORTHWEST. / 1 n< SNOW MELTING AND FLOODING TBE RIVEN VALLEYS. 1 ItorrIMe Seem !■ DakMt—Kalcraati Im Ii* the Se i wiM .i Kfave Bern*. „ A dispatch from Bismarck Dakota, ls ujidy ft furious datcLoUaik^unday blizzard r&ging sajA; to-night, .Jhere, and the air hr so thicjCVwith snow that it is impossible to se^adfo: ss the street. Relief jmrtilH'wliichavsfre and about wliose acut out this mornr •mg, felt, safety thej^atest concern was came buck this aftcr and nboii, Thomas oqa boat Ij^gtog. “Dutch Mike” where they had iWhitley^takeq bteii, fpr from a shack,’ four houfg, and the ya^l nsqrly bringfeig tftenty H. McCarty little and wife a«d C. A. #eal, found on u mound 8pj>osite Fort Lincoln with water within six snehes of them. In suefi boats a blinding fctorin th e return of the is little sliort of miraculous. Th^ report Graliom, of the drowning the of Superintenu ent on Mandan sidjs cannot be verified here, as there is no communi¬ cation. There is no ice running in the river, which indicates that the gorge is thirty still holding feet above. The Buford rise of cannot get here before tomor¬ row. The train from the east to-day brought more emigrants, and there are now over 190 here. The Northern Pacific is returning east passenger^ who desire it, free. ' l i 1 THE WKATHKIl GROWING COLDER. The published statement that the Northern Pacific river warehouse in Bis¬ marck was full of goods for the up river is a mistake, the goods having been re¬ moved in anticipation of the high water. The high trestle of the Northern Pacific bridge will require but three or four days to night repair. Word reached Bismarck to¬ that a whole family had probably perished, or is still held captive at a point 20 miles above. Parties at Painted Woods have been telegraphed to go to the rescue. It is getting colder. The Missouri river is still on the ram¬ page. The Buford rise reached Bismarc k to-day. and the water is flowing over the prairie at a greutor depth and more ter¬ rible speed than evfcr. The stream has risen u foot here to-dav, .which is equal to rise of over twenty feet in the upper river, us the water i* spread out over a stTetch of country six miles wide. The fearful blizzard has abated and left over six inches of snow throughout the Northwest. Thfs will add to the flood, ami as the sun has come out warm, the tributaries of the Missouri are already growing from the melting snow. THE PERIL OF THE PEOPLE. The rescuing parties that made the wonderful journey into the lowlands yes¬ terday. and saved the lives of six men and one woman who were perched upon the tops of honscs and in trees, are the heroes of the day. A telegram from Fort Lincoln yesterday announced that ihe people could be seen from that point standing and on the hay stacks and in the trees, unless they were rescued they would perish in the flood. If is referred to in the Lincoln dispatch, although many claim that the country directly op posits inhabitants the fort of is the settled, flooded and district numerous are still in danger, if not swept away. A re j>ort also comes from the north to the ef¬ fect that at Painted Wood, the settlers have been in the trees und on the hay stacks for two days and relief parties have been sent to that point. The report that Superintendent Graham, of tlie Northern Pacific road,has been drowned, bus bean denied, and it is learned that the rumor grew out of his attempt to cofile to Bhfiiarck Friday evening. The gorge efforts at, Sibley Island remains firm, and all t<> reniovo it are vain. If the present state of affairs should remain a the Missouri would have a perma nent channel, cut east aerpss the county at least two miles of its old course, The ice is flowing freely today, and is be lodged in blocks of from a rod to a quar¬ ter of a mile in length on the farms and meadow loud of the settlors. Tho North ern Pacific trestle has not been repaired, and J l isimpossible f6r the company to work upon the structure on J account of the floating; iop. xchxing xrom thr waters. ■ 8fi rapidly did the flood rise at Painted children, , f " at two families, including five started to pack theirhousehold goods preparatory to .-houses moving back from „Their were located but f ee t of their compelled houses. They than started low* were l%od of to mile go through the a quarter a before they could reach BtfttesL their house being oil toan it swept down into toe tow land, ' I ' 8 «i. Before thev reached {or toe ^Yom-rodi WiJAJl they wprs overtaken, co^pellU und * ^te One ,o Jistsfice Another tcafK-JM tffi passen gers ar will be \ THE AHMISTOM LAND CO. ; TwtCmruiN Wut t. Bear the Name j* i .'Am ininMie* due. _ AUiUhasWnTn^lfrtWTfity Anniston court of Birmingham, Ala., by the land company against Roden et al., who bought out Oxanna land company some time ago, and organized another corpora tion under said npme of Anniston land comppnv, to enjoin tbe defeniMhts from using tfielP naMW otTtkfe-grcmrtd that the n^ne is to 6 ^P^P ert ^ of qomplainants three jeafp.iissq, and because such other corporation is not in fact an Anniston corporation, not identified at all with Anniston, and it* putting off its stock on 1 unwary parties over its actual values, is an injury to the Anniston land /company «t»d a‘deception arid a wrong to the pub Ifc. The complainants corporation is not the rsoantily.organized Annistop city land in company Anniston, which but was a company tonasd some years ago ;by Tffjme gentlemen of Talladega who bought cousisrerable property in Anntttou and s» are identified with Anniston, while the Oxanna concern wan bought and is still owned chiefly in Birmingham. Tlrtipf 1 ' ’* :: * ! .f • ” n4an *i*ES&m A special to the Atlanta Constitution ^ w?'°f^^» J rl V* U L°’ lv <uaoaatJort;* *^3^ beu it* g^e^in The safe subh wu$ : ^ M t0 rea i ^ ;Cpmt>matien and the draweia were rifled of their tents. ?|rn(jj I he vault jpntaming the money was- awayfwith the aUntps and regjHtenxl ttttera, hujl^ed or $700 letted kml^‘S tte th e*L!^i Ut re « i ? ter ^ d Known at imssan^wei^stblen. SLrlr h . ‘ ch An * W not through the '?° back d«)r,yw8eaw«rflocked -W ^ ect ed Hr® SSISSI? titling rflh.ifLmS them of tlfir their contents. thl SL The e ® work afte , r sjsfMrs-a she srf^SHTi® tif 4*l n *,»o inspector of tke robberV 1US aPm DEFYING OFFICERS. Three Men Resist arrest and Are shot Wown - “ the Atlanta ntgomery, Alabama, n Constitution says: Further particular* of the bloody tragedy which occurred at Mount Meigs, Fnday morning, have been received, The sheriff's posse of six officers went to the home of James S. Sidney, colored, who was wanted for grand larceny, and who had previously openly defied the officers. The posse found Sidney and his two stepsons barricaded in their house and armed with shotguns and axes. Deputy Sidney and Parks, told who led the po*ae, called I Kim to surrender quickly as the officers were determined to take him. Sidney replied that .he would kill or be killed before he would surrender. The officers then forced tbe door open, and the shooting began. Two of the officers shot Sidney and he fell dead. The two stepsons were both .wounded, one in i toe face and the other in th# thigh, After the melee ended, it was found that the negroes were armed with two shot guns and five axes. Neither of the offi cers were hurt. The boy shot' in the face will lose an -eye, and the other’s wounds are various. An inquest was held and the officers released. Sidney’s family was a terror to the community where they lived. * BEECHERS SUCCESSOR* - ! i>r. Joa«ph Tarkor. of London. Talked «i for Piymo.th. The question of who is to succeed Mr. Bucclicr iu the Plypaouth church pulpit has already k> dbtrflded Itself Upon the - minds of the ceugregatidU, and in many instances given rise to conjectures upon the ultimate selection of the trustees. The major Dr. Joseph preferences at present seem to be Parker friend Parker, of London. Dr. i 1 was a and admirer of Mr. Beecher and for years there was the arj!i*X'aaa« “.=t snst£tt " m T h - Tb n h ^ ?*r < hur i h ’ ^ 0 “ ld if V^nsed to sw Dr. Ly mm Abbott K in tho Plymouth pulpit. Mr. UmmasG. Shei wood thinks it would be a wise plan to select a minister who is to tally different from Mr. Beecher, so that no drawn. disparaging comparisons can be A TOWN BURNED. Hlaekvtue Rwll O«rollw la Visited toy « a Destructive Fir*. The entire business portion of the little town of Blackville, 8. C., was burned Wednesday. The fire originated in the rear of the general merchandise store considerable of P. W. Farrell and bad gained dis-] headway before it was covered tofi entire and notwithstanding' check to* the effort* fire to of town to a remarkably short time the flames haa spread to adjoining buildings, afld in less than half an hoqr almost the entire town was one mass of flames and at night the other portion of the town east of toe rail-, road was one mass of ashes, twenty-seven houses having been consumed. .1 ‘ u -< Among the buildings Consumed were; P. W. Farrell”* and Martin & Son’s gen eral merchandise store; J. L. Buse’s large brick grocery house; D. K. Brigg’s Bimon drug store; W. A. Jarrell’s general store; Brown’s new brick general store; Martin Keeler’s grocery store and bar; Brown’s livery stable and a handsome *«dence; the laree warehouse of the South CSr6lina railroad; half a dozen small stores and many the few residences. buildings- 4 The town dqppl that wpp escaped Wlf jf m the flames. The loss is estimated at $»«0,000. »■ Insurance about* $6Q, 000. * * X .ul f w riEK ATiiALRKNBURO*. C. ** Ab °*L f h^k d0 ° k • W i7°!^T T TS\ with L-f±, aH oantenta, waa.deatnjwd. *‘®l, 1 She 000 ^ aafejSSfeaii A-1,000. The; Omo Bnat aa ttat m lt^d great exertion jeopardy, of the cltwenH but by Wae tbe eeved. determin^ No Other mas of property Ufe, but dd^ed. th? inmates There iff the wa. hotel no Itarely had time to eeeape in their night clothes. The fire i* aahl to have been In ceadiary. * , .•iu II r inn _ TEX txfotlt- ., "* w, *» “ .-•-i« ".l Jiuatwarac*- ;!*“”..*.' - * • ■ ^«*years;WWliain ‘*™l ™*Hm M. Cooky; of Michigan, for IlHttoiJ, R. Morrison,' | ,f ffte years', Augustus Schoeu Wa^er. atf^y^fouryeawf^lduce- of \ three “iter t. Brafg^idflCama, ermom, years : r two years. SKKtcnkS or TitE coirinSBion. • » »* wilibe mhst ilefct chairman ita (ton pf oUSismaii. the Commissi^ AdfowtoK The is a'sketckof ths the^mmission wdHiecareert ofthhmen dffSSpw Mr^^fnrr^nn ^omposinir excentinw *-■ - and remored to Michigan 6 in 1848, W where be ;£Sr.S has since resided Tn iSR7 wad In 1864 he was elected justice of the su andihl%77; iireme court and was re-ilected in 1869 he was hbfninated by the republicans for re-election in 1886, and was defeated. He is autlior of a number oftSandnrd legal works. He was recent ly appointed by United States Judge Oresnnin rtcetrer of the Wabash railroad company. F. Walker is Aldace a Vermont lawyer, in about politics, forty-four who years studied old, a republican law with Sena tor Edmuds. He served as colonel in the union army and has since been practicing law at Rutland. In the Vermont seuate he has taken a leading part in framing und legislation given to solve the railway problem, has much study to toe ques tion. Augustus Shoemaker, of Kingston, N. Y., was born in Ulster county, N. Y., March 2, 1828, and is a lawyer in active practice. He bus always been a democrat in polities. He has been judge of his county, and candidate of his party for supreme during court judge. He was a state senator Governor Tilden’s term as governor, and was one of the leaders in the legislature. He was always a close personal and political friend of Mr. Til den. Mr. Shoemaker was attorney gen ernl of New York state in 1878 and ’79, succeeding Mr. Fairchild, the present acting secretary of the treasury. In 1886 he was presented by the anti-Tammany delegation from New York, in the demo eratie state convention in 1876 and in 1880, and also the Chicago convention in 1884. Mr. Shoemaker is now a member of the civil service commission of New York state, having been appointed by Governor Cleveland andretained in office by Governor Hill. v\ alter L. Bragg was born in Alabama in 1888, but resided in Arkansas from 1843 to 1861. He was educated at liar vard university and the Cambridge law and practiced law in Arkansas for some years. At the close of the war he settled in Alabama, and was for some years the law partner of Senutor Morgan. He has been a leading democrat in that state for some years, and has served as arid national delegate, presidential democratic elector a member of the national evsa :s ,taaas WTALTHT CELESTIAL. Mr. Chang Yen Hoon, Chinese miuDtei, sat for some photogaaphs Thursday. He was accompanied by his interpreter and two or three lady frieqds who were aux ious to see the operation. His servants carried up to the photographer’s smaller room two or three trunks and several cases,-to which were ten h or a dozen changes “done” of costume. The minister was in each of these and in as wauy different positions. He wore a silk cap, in the center of which was a Urge dia mond, about the size of a hazel nut. Tbe ,?a P fitted so clo>dy that the diaroona looked like a huge star sc in lus ekulL From the cap floated a long peacock “ Around his neck was a necklace of jthree chatos, each of which vjas about a jard'lct^ sixth *omposed Of whifch of. pi^btous 'diamond, stones, every Was a His interpreter, one of the party, said the aggregate Value of toe jewels which . rtoorjied o£ toeA‘tflow<ry .to 6 person kingdoti” of the representative Was about a million dollars. The different costumes ' Were Composed of the richest silks and satins embroidered with with solid gold and trimmed the richest furs. ’ -'Mr. Chang Yen Hoon is said to be the richest man in China. CKLEflTIAI. S4MBLBBS. dietnet Lientenairt Philadelphia, WUton.of'fMaitthgolicc with sjwd of of a •twontj-fonr officera, Sunday night ™dSl tss^Jstss^u six of ^he leading Chinese gambling asa£s.y pud other fixtures' Ajfl tSlSwes raided Mt that gambling the baeiag been'carried oneo «,di openly, and no.se created leleatiMn, by congregation of ranisw^esSroraont totofflaced to the kuds of the sixth distriet oOeen. with the result above stated. I» «ip houee aiou* on gtreet » two-ri&ry atruc tore, ninety-seven people were captured, and to others various numbers, from sixty down. ***T ; IN THE; FLUKES.:; ' ! ,, i oilu.n tii - • <b b *M/ ; ARPAMinm SCENES AT* A FINK IN : 1 NVF*ALO> N. -W hb >v ->t.a -v ii.-. f> » • ; * *:*>; o,„ no,,, u,«U rrasBanafasr a t Buffalo, N. Y. The building wftHsit uatedat.the corcer of Maine *ml Ea^le street*, The extending oriSn ofXe tlyougb tp isnotiHvot Washino* 1 ton tire fderk known. Wm .•n*./, H Alpert -tf ’-n ntifcf f ” g*ys:“ w •- - ry u ‘'Tht tins started in the cloak rooni the night porter, S^d ^lummei- and bell **7- the I different pulled all flioraJ four of -the tire Alarms on and the people 3 came clothes flying The down W& rtair* 1 in their stairwHVH night fire followed the hk ssifs ^frightful vator shaft uj its rapidity. The els served as a flue for the flames eaMssactwc: effect their escape. At 4«o clock the en tire Richmond hotels &b. James hall And other property in tl)e block were doomed \° •pccpy destruction. The whole place burned like a tinder box, the corridor in the center of the building acting as a great funnel and the flames streamed up *ards. The guests^opnd themselves niPKisoNED by a wall, of fxhe. The screams of tho guests could be heard for blocks. At many windows could be callingloudtv seen the guests in tWir niaht thfrd clothes wMo^twf forhnln wL At ^o. «en H- bv 8 L 1 he wile and daughter 8 «ri°usly of injured. Mr. Mann, one of the proprietors, were badly burned, butare m private quarters. A number ol °thcr injured persons are also being cared for at private houses. There were many narrow escapes and a number of instances of persoual bravery and self Mcritice by both inmates of the hotel and firemen rescuers. The have following is a list of those known to Katie perished in the flames: Kent, servant; Minnie Kelly, servant: Katie Pierce, servant; Wilson Purcell, of It. G. Dun & Co.; Mark Os borne, day clerk at the hotel; Johnson, a Toronto, railway man; Kate Wolf, of Lockport, servant. The dying are: Jacob" Kahn, New York; Heurv B. Rumsey, New York; Maggie Muliiach. Buffalo; Mary Nolan, Buffalo* Edward Whelan, Newburgh. ' • Manv others were lost list’of but it is inmos sible to get a full their names It is an undoubted fact that at least thirty persons perished The total danimre to nronertv 1 ^ is estimated at nhn.it f* luniwmn * > • ' ItJSJfUoJjll/ TM?i?TTcx''n All 4T\wrT'r*vet> MITT AHCE. colored Men call « n ahwmu bat a Hotel clerk Refuse* t» Admit Them. Tuesday mornim? a uartv of colored uie „ ho^? BirminXm to toe Ftorence l Ala A . Bar» 4 .*»jar “c&wa’s room, down to the office to see about it. Mr. Cowan told General Warner that Senator Sherman or no one else eould re ceive negroes in the- rooms or parlor of that hotel. Mr. Sherman and General Warner at paid their Mils and went to another hotel. The Evening News, editorially condemns the action of Manager Cowan. The Age and Chronicle will have little to say. , --— — ^ ' . ■ - A0CIDKVT AT CHUECH. i - . 4 m.ir.r* oirr. w.yana M*»y p.r.~. A i»iue ooenraAit the Kmmh Utho-, lie church of Nativity, corner ofc Dashiel and Thirty-ninth greets,Chicago, Thurs day afternoon. The, church was com .lading pletely crowded.ana outside on tho steps up to toe chrirch was :v vast Crowd unable Wgain admiuan. e. Sud denlytlunre waa . sharp crack follow ed feu feet, the hoot door p.at^rn, Saving given way. TVenty-throe perwn, m all received more or less serious injunes. Mrs Bernan an aged woman, had her hack broken; P. O’Connor had both ega broken. Many jieople were injured by lieing tramped on. .-inclined People inside the church Were-at first to rush for the dtxrra, b(it, wcr«^(t)l»sd owing to ,, or d, of (he nfflciatipg priwt. - / • ---7 r~. . At Richmond . ..JW iTatic memberapf legislature, i^meaa-. of Virginia m the diacateio B; of yt < cna agreed till all not who to .trife *iahed a..vote bad on any quention Jinnr ylewa an op portamty toanpreea nmendmeny»ropoeed which provide* that all by bonds Senator not funded Rhe^ in new thriea> by the^^time huch amend went i* ratified by the people shall be forever barred, and prohibiting all future legislation looking to their payment, The caucus adjourned 4511 Wednesday. .BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES VARIOUS SOURCES. !/l !>■ u t *' • '4'—----:---L »it A Wise Provision—No ' Needed—T$ho St, l^mia Girl’s M ay - Sarcastic—AU in .Ml Ml il the Family, Etc. ih%t taken placed First old mau J (sadly)—“I oonnot enjoy myself now as .J pould when v I was a ‘ boy. I can t h4f StCbiid as much.’ , ’ old man—“I cannot eat as m'ueh now-as IOould when I was a boy, that as rather a wise pro. “ mUCh “t- , —Arkansas Tramler. , , - 1 ■ N = ^^CWometer n,r-r-r^ *uJi Needed. bu. ,.J Must r ? be prefty cold out yout way,” , ^Kit Ur™ .It * thermometer regia £&$?& u i u «. ^ ■- - =sa«afe~" - The St. Louts GfrlV Way. .' At the toboggan slide: 8t. Louis girl—“ What are these love ly Cleveland caps, or hoods that the girl’s wear?” Ain’t they girls—“O, these are toeques. St. Louis pretty?” girl-*-“Y«s. But wouldn’t become fashionable in St. .. ! O, because we could just as well pin . out eara ovcr the tope of our heads.”-4. Qladand ***■ au visited the Gratiot avenue police station to secure advice in a rather delicate mat ter. As she stated the case: “A mau has been paying his atten tion to me for two years past, and we have been engaged for over six months. All at once I discovered a coldness; he comes at longer intervals; he is not the same man. 1 reproach him, and now ho seems to have skipped. Can’t I have him arrested for breach of promise?” She was given some sound advice and went her way. Yesterday one of the officers met her on the street and asked her how the matter stood, and she cheer fully replied: “Oh, that’s all right. He has acted the part of a perfect gentleman!” “Then he has married you?” “Oh, no; he has married my daughter, It seems that he was loving her all the time instead of m Q.”- Detroit FreePrernt. - Sarcastic. “Did I leave my false teeth in here?” ? sked a red-headed man, as he rushed mto a Madison street restaurant. “Haven’t seen them,” replied one of the waiters. “Are you sure about that ?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, you see, continued the red headed man, “I went to sleep in the ticket-scalper’s when I office across the way, and awoke my teeth were gone. I <i ldn ^ know but what I had left them in piece of steak I tried to eat over nere; but seeing you don’t know any srlKisrJr? “Goah!” said he to tones of ment “What's this?” “That” explained Hassau Ben All the faithful Mameluke embfazoned guide “that is famous sphinx, in soug and illumined in story.” “Humph,” ejaculated the journalist after a critical review of the placid dame’s features, “to this is the sphinx, eh? Well, I don’t think she amounts to vary maqh; we’ve got girls-in our office 100 pef C«nt better looking than she is. 3 —Chicago Neve*. “ ul ■ - ^ Two Mnina Judges. s During a recess f^rom business to the Coundlor Wai^Q told about « ***°> “A W * 16(1 ? or d ^ VitoiS? ^ Ce 1° : * f, i ^. am e profOTnd^^esajoa.’^fter ‘ *•*? he’he.^d :**«< , , gHog B re ,pn„dent, delieered TP* him.elf aa “C- 0 nsidering the importance of this CMe ftnd the enormity of the offense w ith which you are charged fahem!) the Court fines you one dollar aqd costa and may God have mercy oo yottr. soul.” Thiareminddd C*uuriHbri.O(d ofa , tory u»ut a Juetice of the Pe«e id Cumberland County., y who had a ainillar CMe - • ~ -w. w ju nOW go on with the rase.” .....j ^. e J°p^^Ajui^tt^mlln’HS^ • Beecher 4r«» Allye. -mpt^twatnibi* There are probably city that bo« few bwenot newspaper fair among Ihd reportehi, f8r he^s aeoefeitoe, graiil, and. aa a role, tritkstive. He is a fw«ya ready to engage in» handles* hit of chaff with the nesrtpaper men, but he will not brook inaolence. The la*t mentioned fact was recently impressed upon the alleged mind of a swaggering BER44! youngster who mid that he represented that Mr. a Brooklyn paper. dead A started rumor in Beecher was got some un¬ accountable wildfire. manner and spread hurried like Beecltor’s Reporters house by the and score there to Mr. were confronted by the famous preacher hale and hearty. After awhile along came a young.toau who said to 5brX Beecher with an impudent grin that he naa be en sent by the fifty; editor of- the Brooklyn -‘ ‘to find out whether Beecher was afiVeordesd.” * r 4 . . r,7 “Well,” said; the Plymouth pastor, “I sunpose.yqu know who I ami” “Oh; yes,'! answered the fellow pertly, '‘but I would like to have it directly from you that you are not dead.” “Ah,” murmured the aialwgrt pastor, aahalahtoa hqavy, hand .on the^funny young man’s fioat collar. The next iu “ a ^ T°h ,d « h ' ,kc ^, saw ' dmt do\\ Mt'. Beecher Set him down on the sidewalk not any too gently and quietly remarked: “Now. you can go »,ssfjsss" to your city editor and tell him ithat you ““ 1 “ rrf.v^ it V*m account of mining m what is now the t mted States, is found m tho BSrJrl?™SP sssassBiiSsiSiS* d as throp He wSSSs onened mim>« m»in> Mirtdu. town, Conn., then, and took out gold. One vein was opened to the depth of 125 feet, : and a good deal Ot drifting done. The mine was abandoned .thirty'-four and the location forgotten until years ago, when it was rediscovered,and several attempts have been made since to wotk it, but they were not successful. The ore contains gold, but ic is of too ow bold grade to pay now. , mining has been conducted profitably in Virginia, b JVortli and South CaroU»(, «nd G. or«ia -luce the carl, “Pike’s Peak,” there were frequent min kg what excitements in these States. ' Similar to we have of late years become ac enstomed tp. We remember one once when.thousands of men rushed to tho Great Peedee River of South Carolina, and And they obtained a good deni of gold, “there we reqieniber is wnen Virginia men used to 8R y ore in which runs $10 a bushel, and you can’t see a bit of gold wonderful in it!” That was considered a the best things thing. Then, good as it ever is, were a wayB off. The tinest collection of gold specimens in the United States came »from North Carolina mines. Wisconsin, Mining in what limestone is now was Illinois, conducted Jowa, in Missouri and Arkansas in the early part of the present century. Sixty years ago Dubuque was a mining camp,.ftf 2,000 population, limestone, and with the mines features were wholly like m many those of the limestone in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada. The princi difference is that the.lead ores of the Rocky Mountains regions contain more silver thap thope of the Eastern States. Mining litigation was conducted in those days, agothelnUiedStntesbppremeyqurtre- and As long as thirty-three years diiced a decision involving the title to Gie limestone ore m iles of Dubuque, The mines in the limestone on the St. rraucis River,, Missouri, were worked in while prehistoric times, and were productive bpam owned that re^on of country. Baron Caron delet, for whom ssrststestf- jt.'sibw • • “ Wh * don,t y° u rua * ^taurant in connections” “Oh, it 1 inquired. bother,” replied wtrnld be a the ! andlord don .’ t vou S ive ™ ea1s w,th .. board, American -style, aipl make the Profits yourself?” ... “It would be too much bother, he re¬ pbfd. Aethnllyi shrugging the prOprtntotr bis shoulders. is so afraid • of . be bothered toe don t straw * n * care a whether anyone stops with him or not. I usked for a wash ljst to give out some mat hTlher tney mrer lurnistied lists lT^ for'w"^ lor wasn ^Jothw^Kcalise \ to!her" t*Rbwn«d. tKb „ gl wbo mjght w „ h for ..J, 1 a tourist, I was told, came un ahead and said, to eighty the proprietor tois of a _ hotel that he had ih party, who would arrive next day, rind wanted to know IT auy reduction would be made irMAWngdlkr of large charge number of *4 per,lay The on acco>.at (he pro t ^ In ^ yt M moch —Bouton acraid. >-. >>ar » Yltnntr Mt Mnfhttr * ? a Cri.T f' A V ret t J ^ lU ® stor y u toid P f one of the , prettiest . and sweetest little women in Englewood. bhe three has tinwa boeri a wife a mother, *«* youogeat—died, *»•» ■»!<*• and_ of her talon habea-her wa, on a cold a$y to Oakwooa for burial. The requested that the *#lfaln»« coT:h be once 7*^ g lone ' a Bodj ctoak in her arms, aad pnlled Iteeyobeeee from beneath doth h*r a warm chdd’aqnjlt, and earefall,. wrapped it ^ kp h 1r * fini MsrmU* .- Mf j The silk weavers of the. Suited State* ere forming a national organization that will join toe workmen and wom^n of and. v. -