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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 X"• £Sd I SSM? ‘wVK; 0 the Indian was dead or not, Gray was unable !W2d JSSS %SM! 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"