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Tie CraifonlYt Democrat.
CRAWFORDVILLE - - GEORGIA.
GENE11AL NEWS.
The cotton worm is rejxirted in a num¬
ber of places in Wilkinson county, Miss.,
and it is feared will do the crop much
damage.
The inspectors at New York siezed
3#,000 watermelons, shipped from Savan¬
nah. The fruit was said to be rotten
and unfit for use.
' An Ohio capitalist wishes to start a
rolling mill in Atlanta, Ga., and has been
in rorrcH)H>ndenee with Mr. Nat. Haven,
of that city, in regard to the matter.
The Coalburg Coal and Lake Compa¬
ny, of Alabama, own 18,000 acres Coal
lands. The company has already begun
operations, and is getting out 300 terns
of coal a day, and will increase the out¬
put as fast as possible.
The military telegraph lines have been
sold at Han- Antonio. Seven hundred
and thirty-five miles of line were sold,
realizing a total amount of $71,441,50.
The Erie Telephone Company was the
principal purchaser.
A number of citizens of Oxford, Miss.,
have engaged in the business of buying
and shipping cattle. The cattle are
shipped to Arkansas, Texas and Missou¬
ri. The business seems very profitable,
and should encourage stock raising.
A (Jkntlf.man living in Florida 1ms
patented a process for making sugar
and syrup from cassava, and, after ex¬
periment. writes that he has no don b
that cassava cultivation will, in a few
years, be the most profitable employ
incut of the people of that State.
Great excitement prevails in Russel
Ark., over the discovery of n gold mine
a few miles west of that place, which ns
says $10.23 in silver and $11.03 in gold
per toil. It is thought the ore extends
all along the divide between Red and
White rivers. It crops out at Saledo,
Greenbrier and near Buck Horn.
R. W. Harrison, of Melrose, is the
honey fanner of Rockingham Co., Ya.
This year from 150 hives he will seuere
a crop of over 2,000 pounds of honey, for
which lie will get about $400. This,
besides the increase of liis bees, which
will be fully eighty hives, thus adding
to his “working” capital.
After shooting at it eight or nine
times, Mr. YV. H. Richardson finally
killed with the ninth shot, a few (lays
ago, a milk-white deer ill the forests
near Higbee, Ala. The negroes think
that white deer are akin te witches, qnd
| trioigffi« *d that one of them
has been laid low. Two more of them
have been seen recently in tin* forests of
Washington county.
Aroitnd Gainesville, Fla., the raising
and shipping of the turbine squash has
lieeome an industry. It finds a ready
sale at Boston, and is ns<<d almost exclu¬
sively for making pies. In shape it re¬
sembles a turbine wheel, whence it takes
its name. It line the color of a pumpkin
and looks like a kershnw, lmt is finer
mid has a more delicate flavor. The
vines bear heavily, and continue bearing
until about the flint of August The
prices vary from $4.50 to $5 per barrel.
The four wing dams at the “Upper
Flats" of the Savannah river have been
completed. The effect of these works
upon the channel is already perceptible,
nnd it is the opinion of the engineers
that there wall lie within a short time a
depth of twenty-two feet of water nt this
point, an increase of six feet. The con¬
struction of the wing damhs at te “Cab
huge Trees,” or “Lower Flats," has been
eommeiio»»d, and it is expected the work
will be finished iu two months.
C.U'ITALLAN (La.) Advocate: The in¬
cessant rains are working injury to the
growing crops, particularly cotton, which
is shedding iu some places and mstiflg
in others. It is feared the little cotton
the min leaves w ill be rtnisliixl by the
caterpillars, although this destructive
insis’t has not appeared in this vicinity
ns yet. Cane is not looking as well as
we would like to see it, the continued
rains being anything but favorable to
its grow th, while tlio grass in some phi
el's is about to take complete possession
<f the rune fields.
A large mining enterprise of North
era Alabama is the Ladv Easier Mining
to.
ey.qyorator* >*e chiefly Memphis gentle
men. and it is named in honor of a Mem
phis lady, who met a tragic death last
year on a N.iMmllc street- in a runaway
accident. These gentlemen with the
assistance of agents, hay, quietly been
buying lands along the projected
Birniiugham and Northwestern railroad
until they are uoyv in possession of 75,
000 acres of the finest mineral lands in
Forth Alabama, Mining operations
have already commenced.
Last week in the northern part 'if
Heurv county, Tenn.. while set Yf,
vn-re in a mill pond belonging to
Hays, they were making such a disturb¬
ance that Hays came out and ordered
them out of the pond. A boy named
Rut McConnell took a pistol from liis
brother’s pocket and shot Hays, killing
him instantly. Both boys started off on
a run over the hills, and about a mile
from the scene of the murder Rut sud¬
denly stopped and fell dead. No marks
or bruises were found on his body. It is
thought that his death occurred from
fright and exhaustion,the day being very
warm.
Georgia seems to be pre-eminently
the place of unique experiences. The
Sumpter Republican tells the story of a
young man down near the river who was
o be married on a certain night. He
had seen and loved the girl and was too
•,««1|1"I in rlo the ctor.tog «. it hi to
be done by proxy. 1 he day had arrived
the guests assembled, the license pro
cured, the parson on hand and tue bride
rr «,,„t
turn up. -The fnentl \slio had done tho
courting went out, and, after looking
around, found him sitting or lying in a
On „kto B ton, .„yU
did not go to the house to he married,
he said: “Oh, T can’t go thar and stand
before them folks.” “Oh, yes, yoii can;
everybody in there is married but your
girl. Come on.” “Get her to come out
doors and we’ll marry under the shed,
let the old folks stay in the house.”
The friend went back, got the girl and
parson out without exciting suspicion,
and they were married. The company
waited two or three hours, and, on being
invited to slipper, were introduced to
the bride and groom. They became so
indignant that all left without partaking
of the supper.
There is a good deal of complaint
along the line of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad in Alabama alsmt the depreda¬
tions committed on the lands belonging
to the road. Mr. Danner, President of
the Danner Land and Lumber Company
says he found hundreds of people depre¬
dating on the lands, especially in the way
of getting turpentine and rosin. The
people who do the actual work of cutting
the timber belong to a class of poor and
ignorant men, who are encouraged by
men of means and respectability, ‘For
instance, persons of means have built
turpentine stills at points near the lands
which were the property of the railroad
oompany- -lands which are now in our
possession—and would then give out
that they would buy crude turpentine
wlieu brought to them. They would at
the same time furnish these laborers
with provisions, tools, etc., show them
the railroad lauds, and induce them to
work on them and bring the produce to
them.” Those who have been engaged
in these transactions are to be prosecu¬
ted. and a company lias been organized
for the purpose of inducing parties to
move their mills there from the East and
West and saw up the timber.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is claimed that 90 per cent of the
10,000 felons pardoned by the czar du
ring coronation week have found their
way biu'k to prison again, and are ready
for another coronation.
The jury in the ease of Treasurer Polk
brought in a verdict of guilty of embez¬
zlement, fixing the penalty at imprison¬
ment in the penitentiary for 20 years,
and imposing a fine to the full amount of
the embezzlement.
An argument used in England against
the enfranchisement of women is the
power it would throw into the hands of
the clergy. “The vast majority of their
weaker sisters,” it is urged, “would un¬
doubtedly have recourse to their pastors,
not only for ghostly enmisel and advice,
but for iKilitical principles.”
The supreme court of Indiana has de¬
cided, in reviewing the proceedings in a
murder case, that the mere fact of a man
having read newspaper accounts of a
crime, and having an opinion therefrom,
but one which could be removed by the
evidence, does not render him incompe¬
tent to sen e on juries.
There is said to be an unusually large
number of young meu among the mem¬
bers elect of the forty-eight congress,
but the youngest man who has ever been
oleotixl to congress since the adoption t f
the federal constitution was Johu Ran¬
dolph, of Virginia. His fellow-citizens,
considering him a prodigy, elected him
their representative to congress at the
ijuveule age of 22 years.
Tobacco.—A lthough the Scotch an
greater smokers than the English, vet
,, u> j£ n a on Truth, to the canny char- large
„ 0 ter of Scotchmen. Owing to IK'
quantity of water in the ordinary /jbaeeo
out.^The Engli^mm
tlirmvs this damp tobacco; the
Scotch man carefully extracts it from his
pipe, and then, when it has dried, re
“Do roc know,” said Mrs. Sniveriv,
who wis reading a newspaper, “Charles,
that no less than two hundred and fifty
million dollars was paid out last year for
liquor?” "Good gracious! You don't
sav so? What a lot of money a fellow
could save if he never got thirsty."—
2 <3NU
THE FIRST Ld*)MOTIVE.
Forty-nine Yen.ro Old, and Still in tJoo ••
the Baltimore and Ohio Kond.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com¬
pany will send to the Chicago Railway
Exposition, among other articles of their
exhibit, the first locomotive engine bnilt
for their road which pro red successful.
Tliis locomotive is the celebrated “Ara¬
bian,” No. 1, which like It all family prominent his¬
objects in Baltimore, i a supposed,
tory. It is not, engine as is generally built by the
either the first com¬
pany or the first engine that pulled the a
train on a curved road, but it was
first successful American locomotive. It
was built at the company’s shops under
the supervision of its designer. It went
into service June, 1834 It has been
carefully taken care of and repaired, and
with very little difference is precisely the
““ SC
(j ve locomotive engine in the United
States, and perhaps in the world. It is
a geared engine, having a vertical cylin
;]s4*i h X^b b S y il is,'.:”
diameter, or nearly one-half the size of
the drivers used on modern passenger
locomotives. The weight of the Arabian
power is 6,000 pounds. It used to have
fans connected with the exhfmst, but
those became broken, and no attempt
has been made to restore them. With
this exception it is the same engine as
when first made. It is in active service
at the Mount Clare yards, and works as
well now as when first put pn the road.
It was for many years a passenger en¬
gine, drawing trains on both the Wash¬
ing branch and the main stem.
As far as could be learned it had never
met with an accident, never jumped a
rail, or ran off the track, with one notable excep¬
tion That exception finished was a Mr. Davis
one. Before it wits
promised the workmen engaged in the
shops, some 300, to take them and their
families on the train drawn by the Ara¬
bian as far as it went, then to go to
Washington and have dinner at Brown’s
(now the Metropolitan) Hotel. The
Washington branch was then opened
nearly to Bladensburg. The trip was
made, William Duff being the engineer. and
Just west of Jessup’s cut, thirteen a
half miles this side of Baltimore, the
Arabian ran off the track. Mr. Davis
was sitting with Mr. Duff when the ac¬
cident occurred. The engine rolled on
its side. Neither Duff or anybody else
in the train was hurt, but Mr. Davis.
He was killed. There seemed to be a
special fate in the matter. Nobody
could ever tell why the Arabian ran off
the track. There was no evidence ever
shown, although the fullest investigation
was made, that any cause existed to
throw it off. As the Bullock press,
which, the first time it was put to yvork,
caught the inventor and printed him into
its first impression, so the Arabian on
its first trip killed its designer and mak¬
er. An imaginative man. gifted think with a
little superstition, might with intelli¬ that
matter had been imbued
gence that rsaented its creation thus
fiercely Arabian on its creator. will be engineered to
The
Chicago by Mr. Thomas Galloway.
The Chicagoans will thus see thmoldest
effective by the locomotive ^deat eiitrinfuai.'WlS Bisdd .
run
neer, an incident in BBTway history
deserves a more lasting recori) than that
of a newspaper article.
England’s Greatness.
La France, says that England’s jenl
ousy of France is caused by her fears that
in case of war the Chinese tea ports will
be closed and the Chinese compelled to
use their own opium, and then the jour¬
nal goes on to show what England gains
from her colonies and dependencies. The
figures are calculated indeed to inspire
France to exert herself in the same di -
lection. Thus La France tells us that
England lias 7,917,000 square miles of
colonies and possessions beyond the Europe, seas,
in extent twice as large ns all
with 218.000,000 inhabitants, of which
200,000,000 are iu India, 5,000,000 in
Canada, 3,000,000 in Australia and
1,000,000 at the Cape, oil of which form
for England a vast army of consumers,
giving to her commerce and navigation
prodigious activity. In 1881 England's
trade of exports and imports with the
colonies and her possessions amounted to
nearly 5,000,000,0001, and her total ton¬
nage of shipping leaving her eoloniLil and
foreign possessions was 50,000,000 out of
the 63,000,000 tons registered. “shows “ Noth¬
ing,” adds I.a France, so
strangely as the above figures how much
England’s commercial prosperity is due
to her colonial possessions. ’ It concludes
by urging France to develop herself be¬
yond her own limits, as she has oom
meuced on the Congo, in Madagascar
mid Tonquin.
A Thieving Paymaster.
Quite a sensation was created by the
confession of Major Wasson, who Paymaster alleged
United States Army, was to
have been robbed of $24,000 on a train
near Fort Worth, that the whole transac¬
tion was a fraud to cover his short ac¬
count with the government. Wasson is
now at headquarters in San Antonio,
Texas, under arrest. Having failed to
obtain a clue to the robbers. Wasson was
ordered to San Antonio, Texas, to turn
over the balance of funds in his hands
to Chief Paymaster Terrell, and settle
liis accounts. An examination by Col.
Terrell exhibited shortages amounting to
$5,500. Wasson confessed the deficit,
but claimed to have made up the
amount and to have been robbed of
$24,000. On being further questioned
he finally made a clean breast of the
whole affair, stating that he had put up
the job to cover liis evil doings. He
■was immediately guarded placed under arrest and
heavily by soldiers. It is said
his Iowa bondsmen are good for the in
debtedness to the government of $5,500.
He has designated the hiding officers place of
the remaining $18,500 and have
gone for it.
France.— The increase of population
in France since 1872 is in no small meas¬
ure due to the immigration of the inhab¬
itants of Alsace- Lorraine.
A Mother’s Desperate Act.
SHE VTT.T-q HER TWO CHILDREN AND
HERSELF.
The details of an insane woman’s ter¬
rible crime are given in an Ohio paper:
A farmer named Robert J. McMillan
came to Ohio several weeks ago with his
family, consisting of a wife and two
smalfchildren, from Garland, the Warren of
county, Pa., and settled in town
Lindenville, in Ashtabulla county. His
wife, a woman about forty years of age,
has been in failing health for some time
past, and within the last week has been
the victim of spells of insanity, which
at times has assumed violent forms.
Several times she has made desperate
attempts to take her own life, but was
unsuccessful. She had been in better
health than usual for the last few days,
and Monday morning McMillan left the
two children in her charge and started
to work in the neighborhood. It was
not long after his departure that his
wife became suddenly insane, and while
the oldest child, a girl of eight picked years,
was in the front room the woman
up her baby boy, aged two years, and
going out into the yard proceeded to an
old well on the promises, and after kiss¬
ing and embracing the child threw him
into the well, which is forty-five feet
deep and contains ten feet of water.
The child sank immediately and was
drowned. The woman then returned to
the house and taking the little girl by
the hand led her to the well and pushed
her into the opening. A neighbor, who
was watching her queer action, hurried
into the yard and endeavored to rescue
the girl, but was unsuccessful. In the
meantime Mrs. McMillan returned to
house and swallowed several ounces of
bedbug poison. She was in a dying
condition when found and her recovery
is impossible.
A Rogue and His Captors.
Some of the the city detectives entertain
express belief that the bogus
“Lord Ashburton,” lately arrested in
N. Y. city for passing forged Bank of Lon¬
don circular notes, was pardoned out of
the California State Prison through the
influence of persons who wish him to
“work” a similar scheme on a large
scale. This would seem an incredible
if it were not for the fact that
the time the fellow fled from N. Y.
city eller, after robbing Kilpatrick, the jew¬
he was repeatedly used for such
purposes captured by the Western detectives who
him. At St. Louis they made
him give up everything valuable he had,
returned him the bogus circular notes
and gave him tickets to Denver. They
followed him there, and when he had
fraudulently of obtained city, $5,000 from one
the banks in that re-arrested him,
made him surrender tire good greenbacks,
and hurried him off to San Francisco
with the bad money.
At that place he deposited $20,000 of
circular notes as margin in a stock oper¬
ation, and the detectives waited for some
time for him to realize on this invest¬
ment, intending to grab all again. But
before he could obtain a settlement the
bank officers were apprised of his charac¬
ter and they retained his stock as
security. for He was arrested and sent to
prison five years, and the detectives
were thus foiled. He was pardoned
after four years nnd came directly to.
•wfaetc he f ,vas arrested, but
has been again quietly released, nobody
appearing to prosecute him. The sus¬
picions of the detectives may be idle,
lmt it is well enough for the banks to be
warned against the fellow.— Nev> York
Tribune.
He Was Forgiven.
The Philadelphia Press tells the fol¬
lowing amnsiug story of the late Dean
Richmond, President of the New York
Central R. R., a well-known railroad and
steamboat man: One of his sons was at
the time a conductor on the Central, and
very strict orders had been issued, ema¬
nating from the old gentleman, it was
that no passenger should be
“deadheaded” on any excuse whatever
without showing a pass from some officer
named. Mr. Richmond, the elder, was
one day on liis sou’s train, when the
young man was collecting tickets, ticket and
making no move to show a or a
pass, was plumply asked by the boy any,” for
a ticket. “Go away, I haven’t got
said he. “But,” said the conductor,
“my orders are strict to let nobody ride
without a ticket or a pass.” “Well, no
matter,” said Dean, “I’m president of
this road, and don’t need either.” “Can’t
help it, father; you see how I’m fixed.
have to put you off if you don’t do
or the other. ” The old man looked
him square in the eyes, but as the son
quail and looked a look that meant
mischief, the president deemed it best
:o come down with the “spondulics,”
did, amid the merriment of those
But, as it showed the young
mau’s mettle in the line of duty, he was
soon forgiven.
Protecting flie Troops.
The Texas Indians have always had a
thorough contempt for the blue coats.
Iu 1875 the railroad boom began. The
builders rau their lines with an army of
men iu advance to drive back the sav
ages, Tke railroads have done more to
the Indians in Texas than any
influence. Lo can't stand steam,
The State in 1874 began to prepare for
immigration iuflux which followed,
Despairing of protection against the In¬
from Uncle Sam. the Legislature,
the Frontier Battalion of State
Rangers. This handful of scouts attacked
the marauders wherever found, and
in six years what the United States
troops had' attempted for twentv vears—
out the Indians. Recently one of
gallant scouts was asked : “ What
you rangers do out here ? ” “ We
the frontier,” answered the ran
“ But,” exposnlated the inquirer,
“I thought the United States troops
sent out for frontier protection.”
“So they were, and the rangers came
out to protect the troops.”
which has an area of 5,000 square miles.
The contract has been put out for a win
fence 200 miles long tohead off the cattli
from ranging norik
Amber.
From the Builder.
The commonest impure kinds of amber
are used to make varnish, and the de
mand for the more valuable kinds, which
are employed for necklaces, pipe mouth
pieces, ami other purposes, is such as to
make an amber mine a source of great
wealth. The largest European amber
deposits are found on the Baltic shores
of Northeastern Prussia. There about
end] tv tons a year are at present
dug up, and the supply appears the begin- prac
tically inexhaustible. Since
ningof the century it is calculated that
over 1,600 tons have been produced
there and if the production, as some
contend, has been going on for 3,000
vears, the total quantity calculated, produced have in
that period, cannot, it is
been less than 60,000 tons. The amber
is found in isolated pieces, varying from
the smallest beads up to blocks of many
' weight. The largest piece
pounds discovered in weighs thirteen and
ever a
half pounds, and is now in the Royal
Mineral Cabinet in Berlin. Amber was
mentioned by Homer, who speaks of it
as being esteemed of equal value with
gold. It is the fossil resin produced by
upwards of six kinds of coniferous trees
of prehistoric times. Two of these trees,
of which immense forests covered the
regions now producing amber, have been
proved to be nearly related to the exist
jug Wevmoutli pine and the modern fir
tree. While the wood of flie trees rotted
away the resin which exuded from them
has been preserved in the form of the
fossil amber. The resin oozed out of the
stem of the tree as well as out of the
roots, and was deposited eventually s' in
immense quantities in the soil. I: me
of the pieces of the amber bits of the
wood and bark of the trees are found
imbedded, and through this from' lucky acci
dent have been preserved wood with the decay, micro
On examining this
scope it is at once apparent that the trees
were, as intimated above, closely related
to our modern eoniferae, but were not
absolutely identical' with any of the ex
isting species. Ages ago the whole re
gion now covered by the eastern part of
the Baltic sea was covered with these
amber-producing trees. The industry
of amber digging is one of very great
importance for Prussia, and it is calcu
lated that the amber district of that
country still contains a quantity which,
at an average cost of five shillings per
pound, is worth no less than £250,
000 000.
War a* a .HechaniNin.
Liverpool Courier.
That the operations of war have been
reduced to a science is a statement which
lias become stale and familiar. A newer
version of the aphorism will apparently
that the practice of war has been re¬
duced to a mechanism. The skill of the
mechanician is devoted to every device
for augmenting the strength and multi¬
plying the rapidity of engines of war.
Not only have we long ago passed out of
the era of flint-locks and muzzle-loading,
but even needle-guns and breech-loaders
are thought too slow for playing The deadly hand
havoc in the enemy’s ranks.
rifle is being, made to cany many charges,
so that it may be fired without reload¬
ing, and the mitralleuse is intended to
grind out death and desolation by the
mere process of turning a revolving drum,
very much after the fashion of grinding
bad music out Of barrel organs} But the
original mitralleuse is too slow and too
weak for modern warriors. They want
something quicker and stronger, and
just at present there are being tried at
Shoeburyness a number of competitive
experiments with six-pounder machine
guns to determine which is the quiekese
and most destructive. The rivals are tht
Hotchkiss, the Armstrong and the Nor
denfelt. The Engineering explains that
the adoption by England of the Norden
felt gun indicates the preference for re¬
sisting the advance of a torpedo boat by
solid shot, while those numerous coun¬
tries that have selected the Hotchkiss
have declared tlielr belief in a weapon
capable of penetrating the hull, bulk¬
heads and boilers of a torpedo boat with
a score of fragments of burst shell at
every successful round, each one of which
fragments may be dangerous if not dis¬
astrous in its effects. As an illustration
of the progress that is being made with
the introduction of the Hotchkiss gun on
the Continent, it is stated that France is
already armed with 1,055 of them, Ger¬
many has 303, Russia 106, while England
is the happy possessor of three. These,
however, are not designed for the na¬
tional defense, but only experimental
purposes.
Great Bridges of the World.
The following interesting figures of the
l ngtb of notable bridges of the world are
given:— Feet
Chelsea, suspended.................... Covington (over the 700
Cincinnati and
Ohio), suspended, built 1867........ 1.067
Clifton (over Niagara Biver), suspended. 1,268
Friborg. built suspended................ 1832. suspended......... 1.350 870
Hungerford, suspended....................... 2.562
Kieflf. suspended........
Menai, bnilt 1819-25. 1.050
Niagara, built 1855. suspended......... suspended........ 2.220
Pesth, built 1840-49, 1,362
NOT SUSPENSION.
Victoria, over St. Lawrence Biver,
wrought iron................... .... 9.437
Bombay (Madras)................ .... 3,730
Boyne, at Drogheda, wrought iron .... 1.760
Lisbon Aqueduct, stone........... .... 3.305
Louisville, Ky.................... .... 5.310
Maintenon Aqueduct, stone....... .... 16,367
Harlem Aqueduct, stone.......... .... 1.450
Montpellier Aqueduct, stone.™..... .... 3.214
Purke.-burg, W. Ya., iron......... .... 7.045
Potomac......................... .. . 5.300
Quincy (over Mississippi F.iver), iron.. 2.80C 3,200
Omaha (over Missouri Biver)........... 1,792
Stockport, Strasburg. stone....................... 3.390
stone.... ..................
St. Charles, Mo., iron.................. 6.536
Susquehanna, stone.......... 3,500
Albany, N. Y.. extreme length......... 4,800
Albany. N. Y„ double track railway
bridge (largest draw span in the
world)............................. 1,406
Vistula Biver. Germany, iron.......... 2.750
Firth of Tar. length nearly two miles or 10,321
Brooklyn Bridge........ ...... 6,9*9
“It is remarkable,” says the Norris¬
town Herald, “ how rapidly some news¬
paper men accumulate wealth. Mr. J ay
Gould has been a newspaper proprietor
He evidently conducted business on a
cash basis and refused to give SoOO
f?rth hls P a V of 111 advertisement ^g for renovators. SbO and take
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gambling by the sea.
The Tiger’s Fair nt i.ong
Branch, of His Combatants,
*, Chicago News,
Before I went to bed I dropfied into
the Pennsylvania club-house, within a
few rods of the West End Hotel, which
is the newest and completest gambling
establishment in this country, writes a
correspondent at Long Branch to the
Cincinnati Enquirer. It was originally
Chamberlain's cottage, but the present
proprietor, Phil Daily, of Philadelphia,
made a large addition to it during the
past spring, and there is now a gambling
saloon 100 feet long communicating with
the mam building, which is a public res
taurant and semi-hotel. You enter
throughh a gate under beautiful lamps,
and, seemg nobody, walk right up the
steps of this large frame cottage, and
find facing you a cigar stand; cigars are
twenty-five cents, but cf the very best
quality. through Then you drinking-room, pass to the light
a sort of and see
on your left the cut-glass and snowy-nap
kins of the restaurant, and parting a
curtain you come right into the snlle de
joie. It is really a beautiful room, hardly
to be matched outside of a palace. There
are two octagonal saloons under domes whole
connected by a long corridor, the
painted style. and varnished in the same gen
eral
Magnificent chandeliers, all excessive
with light, give the splendor of day to
this room. The carpet seems to be made
in waves of dark red, and is of the finest
quality. In the corridor are most sump
tuous chairs and divans of silk, and in
the niches# and alcoves are large birds
and aquatic and marsh emblems. The
gambling is going on as quietly as if
some problem in geometry was .being
solved by four or five different classes,
each around its table. There are two
games of roulette going on at opposite
sides of the room; faro is being dealt
at on place, and some other game not
much attended to is in a fourth comer,
Around the tables are plentiful chairs,
and at each table are three or four pro
fessionals working the game,
The chief interest is concentrated
about Mr. Woerishoffer, the celebrated
broker and Wall-street operator, who
has held the first rank for several years
in this country as a sagacious and strong
man. He came here from Germany, and
has a countenance somewhat aristocratic,
yet shrewd. Before him are stacked up
piles of ivory chips, the white ones rep
resenting $1, and the gray ones five, ten,
twenty or more dollars each. He seems
to play in a certain systematic way rather one
of the lines of the roulette figures
than upon the spot or group. He is here
almost every night, I am told, and wins
or loses about $1,000. Strange as the
remark may seem to you, I have no
doubt that this occupation is a relief to
his mind after the day’s labor in the- city,
just as children get out of school and
take to their toys. To a man of that
kind a $1,000 gaming in the evening is
about the same as a penny-ate poker
game in private families.
At roulette one man turns the ball and
a man at each side of him pays the
players or racks up the chips for the
bank. I suppose that on the night fifty of
the 3d of July there were thirty’to |iiWlji3
persons at one tin* playing
saloon. . \ ,
signs Daily of time. is a large He "liu man, about forty-eight
or fifty years old. His partner, Charles
Walsli, of New York, is in the neighbor¬
hood of seventy; has white hair and keen
hazel eyes, and is one of the best posted
men about New York on everything. I
asked Mr. Walsh about the percentages,
etc. He said that there would be no
more advantage in a well-known gamb¬
ling house of that kind cheating than in
a well-known jewelry store selling false
diamonds. Said he: “Wo have a first
rate percentage here; it amounts to about
five and a have per cent, in roulette, and
perhaps four per cent, in faro, although
the latter lias never been exactly com¬
puted. Roulette suits the Americans
better now than faro, because the decis¬
ions are so quickly come to. The ball is
but a minute spinning, and if you have
quick, prompt assistants they will pay
the checks and settle board in half a
minute and start the battle again. Con¬
sequently, we are getting our they percentage will play.
all the time, or as long as
Some of the old stagers stick to faro, but
it is a duller game for the modem gener¬
ation.”
Said I: “How much did this addition
to your club-house cost?”
“Daily says it costs $36,000. He de¬
signed to spend about $12,000, but the
artist he had here produced such fine
effects that he thought it as well to go¬
on and do it well. “You, see,” said he,
“Long branch to a bachelor or stranger,
at night, is a very dull place unless there
is something of the kind. These sea
beaches at night grow dark and forbid
iling. The roads are not lighted and the
hotels sit on the spirits. We felt that a
place of this kind was needed and that it
would pay us. It is purely a commer¬
cial transaction. A man can come here
and be accommodated with any play he
wants, or he can have a game supper at
Ills own expense, or he can sit down with
his friends and play cards upstairs.
While we keep this house open, we for¬
bid minors, improper characters, or pro¬
fessionals from coming in.”
The Postmistress General.— Mrs.
Gresham, the wife of the r~y Postmaster
General, is low in stature, slender and
well proportioned. She has beautiful
blonde hair, a peachy complexion, large
hazel eyes, overshadowed with long silk¬
en lashes. At a reception she wore a
beautiful wine colored silk dress and a
long string of pearls encircled her neck.
She is about thirty-two and is what
might be termed a model of feminine
beauty.
The Dog Show.— The New York Dog
Show was one of the most successful af¬
fairs of the kind ever given. “A fine lot
of dogs with less trash than ever be¬
fore,” said the judge. The most be¬
wildering competitiou was in bird dogs,
there being no less than 149 English set¬
ters, 56 Gordon setters, 97 Irish setters,
aud 112 pointers. The display of St.
Bernards and mastiffs was large and fine,
as was also the pngs.
Before yon criticise a neighbor for
keeping a dog, consider how difficult it
is to lose one when yon want to get rid
of him.