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T&e Hamilton Journal
HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
At the White House.
SCENES DURING A PRESIDENTIAL
RECEPTION-CRANKY VISITORS.
Below is an interesting account of a day
doings at the White House during one of
President Cleveland’s receptions. It is given
in a Washington dispatch to the New York
Heiald:
The tri-weekly informal afternoon recep¬
tions which have been instituted at the vv hite
House by President Cleveland are now the
most interesting and attractive entertain¬
ments in Washington. The number who at¬
tend them increase every week. lms alter
noon there were nearly two hundred per¬
sons in the East room when the t resi¬
dent entered. Of this number more
than one-half were ladies. The people
who expoet sensations to occur tl S3
much disappointed. Indeed, the ide P which
has got abroad that the White House is con¬
stantly infested with cranks is far from being
correct of this class at the
There were two visitors wanted
White House to-day. One of them
to talk on shipbuilding. He said ship
building was more sacred than any
other calling or occupation in which men en
gaged, and that shipbuilders should have
every possible protection that the bounties government and
could give them in the way of
rewards. Before he had got very far ho was
told to submit his idea in writing to the sec¬
retary of the navy, who was just now investi¬
gating the subject Thor got rid of mm.
The other man wanted the government to
purchase of him a quantity of small croco¬
diles which he said he could catch in a couple
of days in the lower Potomac, and public place
them in the basins of the fountains in
parks. He thought the antics that young
and playful crocodiles would perform well would
be more amusing to the children, as said there as
others, than anything else. He
were millions of crocodiles in the 1 ofcomoc,
and that he possessed a secret by which he
could easily catch as many as might be
needed. This gentleman was referred to the
Fish commission. all his visitors . feel . , at .
The President makes think
home. He seems to make everyone
that he is specially glad to see them. 1 hough
to the ordinary observer it looks as if he
shakes the hands of all who present them¬
selves the same way, he does not, and many
of them go away with the im¬
pression that they were specially favored
in tho way their hand was shaken, i .adies
are always highly pleased with the way the
President receives them. He never seems to
«t««.iuon CO tiiou aiiwre o, unbal¬
ance, all, ric sr:r and poor, being cordially re¬
ceived, thoug it has been noticed that in the
case of a;ed 1 p dies, and indeed aged men, he
makes extra efforts to convince Suj.u that ii>*
is glad to receive their calls.
considerable The members time of with tho Utah the President commission talking spent
over the results of their labors. There is an
impression in some quarters that there will
be a reorganization of this commission before
long. At present it consists of two Republi¬ and
can ex-Senators, Ramsey and Paddock,
one Democrat, Mr. Pettigrew.
Preaching for Ninety Yearn.
Rev. Mr. Tann&nt died at Evansville, Ark.,
the Monday, aged 115 years. The deceased was
oldest gospel minister in the United States,
and had preached for ninety years.
A Remarkable Duel,
HOW A TEXAN AND AN INDI AN ENDED
EACH OTHER’S EXISTENCE.
The particulars of a recent novel duel in
the Indian Territory have just Iveen published.
The affair come off at Tishamingo, in the
Choctaw nation. Tishamingo is a small vil¬
lage whore the Indians do their t rading, and
is the frequent resort of hard characters
from Texas and other parts of the United
States. That region is full of outlaws. Among
a dozen or more outlaws sitting in a saloon
was a tall Texan named Chalmers. An Indian
police officer named Brown entered the saloon
and Chalmers insisted on treating. As they
Chalmers’ were about liquor to drink the Brown floor, managed telling to spill
on him he
had enough. This enraged the Texan, who
demanded blood, and pulled his revolver with
one hand and his dirk with the other. Brown
also drew his weapon, and a tight was about
to open, when the spectators interfered and
attempted Nothing would to settle satisfy the matter. the
wounded honor
of Chalmers but blood, and so the other
white men and Indians fixed up a tight on the
following terms: The two men were to stand
back to back in the middle of the floor. At
a given signal Indian each man through was to run out of
the room, the the frontdoor
and the Texan by the back door. They were
to turn in the same direction after clearing
the Both doors, and begin firing promiscuously.
took principals positions. agreed The to signal these terms and
their was given,
and both started from the house, pistols in
hand. They facet! each other on the north
side of the bouse and opened fire at almost
the same instant Three rounds were tired
in quick succession. Then the Indian began
to stagger, and, running toward Chalmers
with a drawn knife, plunged it into the Tex¬
an’s breast just as the latter fired his last
bullet, which penetrate'! the Indian's heart,
killing him instantly. Chalmers died hair
an hour after his antagonist Over fifty In¬
dians and whites witnessed the duel.
LATEST NEWS.
ATTACKED BY TWO INDIANS.
A Lone Bottler Terribly Handled by a
dispatch Couple from Gieuuilen, of Red lion. j
A Dak., says: News
has just been received that James Gray, living
•Jons four miles north of Glenullen, was at¬
tacked on Thursday eight by two Indians, who
came to the house a ad asked for food. Havitig
eaten ail they desired, one of the Indians, largo
and powenul, took down Gray’s repeat ng
Winchester rifle, placed the m izzLe to Gray’s
breast and pulled the trigger. Fortunately
there was no cartridge in tho barrels. The Indian
then put a cartridge in, whereupon Gray seized
a whiffle tree, and before the gun could be
brought to bear upon him, struck the Indian
upon the head, and the gun was discharged
into the side of the house. The rifle was drop¬
ped in the scuffle. Then commenced a rough
and tumble fight, both Indian* taking part.
Gray lost his holt on the whiffle tree, caught
up Carpenter’s hatchet and struck the Indian
nearest to him on the head, which felled him
to tho floor. The other Indian fled. Gray
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the Indian was dead or not, Gray was unable
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badly bruised and scratched, scarcely able to
raise himself. Gray says the Indian that fled
came b&ek during the night and carried away
the other.
A TUG BOILER EXPLODES.
Which Results in the Killing of Four M«i
and the Wounding of Othora.
At 2 o’clock Sunday morning the tug Frank
Moffit, bound down with four barges, rounded
to because of thick weather, at the wharf of
Sombra, opposite Marine City, Mich, The
line was taken ashore and made fast, but the
current was so strong that the captain thought
to ease up a trifle on the hawser, and so rang
one bell to go ahead, As he did so the boiler of
the tug exploded without sign of warning, and
with terrific force, carrying away the upper
works and a large portion of the deck planking,
besides shattering the hull from stem to stern.
The cause is not known but it is supposed to
be a lack of water in the boilers. At the lime
John Waul, first engineer, of Detroit; Wil iam
Miller, second engineer, of Port Huron; James
Wylie, home unknown, and Walter Fisher, of
Port Huron, fireman, Captain were Thomas at their Cmry posts had and
all were killed. a
leg broken and was otherwise injured. Frank
Furtali, wheelman, and Andrew Bennett, Reed, deck
hand, were badly scalded. Maud the
cook, who was in the after cabin at the time of
the explosion, was blown into the river, from
which she was rescued ashore uninjured. handling Robert the
O odwin, mate, who was
line, was blown over the woodpile, of dead and had his
side injured. The bodies the sank in
tho river and have not been recovered. The in¬
jured men are at Sombra under the care of a
physician from Port Huron. The tug was
i^Port Hnmn ;»> lsco, and was valued
Gamral McClellan Dial.
General George B. McClel an died sudden
at hia residence on Grange Mountain, N. J,;
at ab lit midnight Wednesday night from hear:
disease.
Gen vi al McClellan’s summer home was on
the summit of Grange Mountain, next to
that of liis fatlier-in-law, General Marcy. The
whole community was shocked by the news
of his death. Flags were flying at half mast,
and tho Grand Army Post has called a meeting
to express sympathy and to offer a bod)
guard for the remains. General McClellan
was General an elder McClellan in (he Presbyterian neuralgia chnrch.
died from of
the heart. He returned home about *ix we ks
ago from his trip west, with his family, and about had
been under the care of his physician for
two weeks. Nothing serious was expected
until Wednesday, when he beoame worse. II«
died surrounded by his family at St. Cloud,
Wednesday, where he had lived for issued aboir
twenty years. Invitations had beon foi
a reoeption the following evening.
KILLED BY STEAM.
i wo Steamship Engineers Scalded to Death
by Steam.
As the stevmer Milos was leaving her dock at
Duluth, Minn ,Friday night the cast iron chest
or jacket of the cylinder filled with steam and
exploded, throwing force a knock great volume the of steam
with such as to down second
engineer who was on watch. He was thrown
through into the room where the first engineer
was asleep. The steam rushed in through the
opening and filling the room, scalded them so
that when the crew went in o the room almost
immediately afterward, they found both men
dead. old, Thomas and leaves Hickey, wife first and engineer, children was 37 in j
years a two
Hamilton, Out. The second engineer, Wm.
Rooney, was not married and leaves relatives in
Ottawa, Out.
Thrown Into tlie River.
S&S. W
ghanv railroad, connecting with the train from
river, was precipitated through the trestle inu
tho river, which was much swollen by the recent
heavy rains. The only particulars of the acci¬
dent are that the entire train fell into the river
and Conductor Whittaker, of Richmond, Etigtn
eer John Williams, of Lexington, a: d Fireman Tin
Richard Tyree, of this city, wore kified.
telegraph lines are down and particulars e .mn t
be had.
Ritssian* and Moslem* Fight.
A bloodv affray is reported at Baku, on the
Caspian sea, between Moslems and Russians,
ihe military b*d tube
der. wounded.
killed and a large number
IN NEW YORK.
Their Principal Occupations
in the Metropolis.
Celestial Gambling Dens, Restaurants,
Laundries, and Other Employments.
The Chinese gambling-dens in New
York are devoted to a game called
Fan-Tan, which is to the Celestial
what faro is to some Americans. Its
basis is betting on the number of coins
left on the table, after the dealer has
put a pile of metal on the board, from
which he removes four coins at a time
until either one, two, three or four are
left. The game in the main is a “square
«“*” a-1 dtow. to*™ a P«>“
of seven per cent on all business done.
Jt l» highly popular with the Chinese,
and gives employment to about 200
persons. „ Chinese ___ gambling __, resembles
American. Each house has its propri
etor, backer, cashier, dealer, cappers
and hangers-on. The largest game is
conducted at No. 12 Mott.-st,, and fre¬
quently handles over a thousand dol¬
lars a day. All of the games are own¬
ed and managed by syndicates, and
never by a single individual. Chin¬
ese policy is played in eighty numbers.
The managers draw each evening
twenty of these. A player is allowed
to play on ten numbers. If the ten he
selects are all drawn he is paid $10,000
for - $L If he draws four . numbers , or
j es3 J ie receives nothing. ° Twice have
players drawn ten numbers. In one
case the lucky player received his mon¬
ey in full; in the other, where he had
bet $4, lie was compelled to compromise
for $15,000. This case happened in
San Francisco.
The restaurants are practically open
day and night. Each is noted for
some particular dish or style of cook¬
ing. No 4 Mott-st is noted for its
pates and dumplings. No 11 for soups
and stews, No 14 for style and fancy
dishes, No 18 for meats, one near Mott
and Park sts, for cheap prices, and the
Pell-st, restaurant for American cook¬
ing. Prices are lower than in Ameri¬
can eating places. An average lunch
for an Oriental is tea, rice, chiken and
fish. The cost of these is for the tea,
nothing; rice, five cents; chicken, fif¬
teen, and fish, five or ten; in all twen¬
ty-five cents. The same meal in ar
American restaurant would cost him
sixty cents or upward. An ordinary
dinner and its costs are: Chicken soup,
nothing: tea nothing; rice, five cents;
duck, fifteen; perfumed pork, ten;
maccaroni, ten; fish, five; meat-ball,
five; rice-wine, eighteen. The amount
served is sufficient for _ two gllSSt. In
these restaurants the kitchen and
food , are visible and open to the guests.
r phe customer wanders from the din
ing table to the kitchen examines the
articles he has ordered, chats with the
cook and then returns to his table,
The Chinese are particular in regard
to their meats and insist upon all
poultry being alive in the morning of
the day on which it is eaten, For
this reason in all the restaurants there
isa C0 °P whicb unlucky chick
ens and ducks emit continual discord.
ThB ■*«•* u'uetty used in the order of
their popularity are: Meats—chicken,
duck, pork, beef; vegetable foods—
rice, macaroni, Chinese turnip, onion,
celery. Muttons, lamb and veal are
seldom used. Preserves and pastry
are popular, Every fruP known to
tlie American markets ns well as a
hundred indigenous to China is em¬
ployed in every form,—dried, smoked,
evaporated, expressed, candied, pre¬
served and canned. A price-list from
a Chinese grocery will sometimes eon,*
tain as many as five hundred fruit
preparations.
The Chinese population of New
York and its neighborhood, according
to its vocations, is about as follows:
Laundrymen, 4,500; cigarmakers, 300;
200 sailors; 200 gamblers; 300 unem¬
ployed, who are looking for places to
start laundries; 100 merchants; 10 doc¬
tors; 5 carpenters; 2 barbers; 4 provis¬
ion-agents; 8 musicians and one or
two each of sign-painters, interpre¬
ters, fortune-tellers, tailors, commis¬
sion men, fruit venders and insurance
agents. There is also one journalist.
At present there are in New-York
about 1,000 laundries, in Brooklyn 300,
in Jersey City and Hoboken 175, and
in the other near places about 50 more.
Each laundry employs from one to six
men, besides the proprietor, and they
average three men each. These laun¬
dries range in value from $100 to
$2,000.— Bew York Tribune.
Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book.
There is now on view at Mr. Edward
Joseph’s gallery, in Bond street, a
very curious and, it would seem, gen¬
uine relic of Queen Elizabeth. This is
a small prayer book, three inches by
two inches, in which the Queen has
w ritten in a very neat hand, on sixty
five leaves of vellum, prayers in Eng¬
lish, Greek, Latin, French, and Italian.
The inside of the shagreen case, which
is adorned with ruby clasps, contains
a pair of miniatures of the Queen and
the Due d Alencon, painted by Nicho¬
las Hilliarn; and the book is evidently
a gaye d'amour prepared by the Queen
for her suitor, probably about 1581,
when, as readers of Mr. Froude will
remember, she announced to her court
that she had accepted him for husband.
The prayers are very autobiographi¬
cal; the writer speaks of herself as
“drawing my blood from kinges,” and
thanks Gocl for “passing me from a
prison to a pallace” and “placing me a
Souveraigne Prince over thie people of
England.” The histoiy of the book
can be traced from James II., who
gave it to the Duke of Berwick,
whence it passed to Horace Walpole,
and afterward to the Duchess of Port¬
land. At her sale, in 1786, it was
bought for Queen Charlotte for 101
guineas. She left it to one of her
ladies in waiting, from whom it was
acquired by the late Duchess of Leeds;
thence it passed into the late owner’s
hands. It is described in Walpole’s
“Anecdotes of Painting,” in his ac¬
count r f the famous miniaturist Nich¬
olas Hilliard.— St. James Gazette.
Glucose Figures.
The manufacture of glucose or grape
sugar in this country now r employs a
capital of $10,000,000; employs 4575
workmen, who are yearly paid $2,058,-
750 in wages; consumes $13,703,000
worth of raw and manufactured ma¬
terial yearly, and in the same time
yields a produet worth $13,270,000.
Each year there can be made about
610,000,000 pounds of corn sugar and
61,000 bushels of corn used daily, each
bushel giving thirty-two pounds of
glucose. The glucose sugar can be
made with profit, it is said, at two
cents a pound.
Safety ami Danger.
First Hen—“There comes the wo¬
man to drive us out of her garden.”
Second Hen—“Yes, and she’s pick¬
ing up a stone, too! Let’s lly out
quick!” '
Frst Hen—“No, no, stay here
Second Hen—“But she’s a ‘
right for us.” should
First Hen—“Yes, ^Q we
an a n
move we might get b"