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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
A CAR DRIVERS' STRIKE.
Pnurijai, NCR nek or violence in
NEW YORK CITY.
tn Arm* of Policemen In I led Upon to Ah|
In ttnnnlnu n for.
Unusual scenes of violence and disorder
followed a strike of car-drivers in New York
tho other day for a reduction in the hours of
lalior. The company refused the men’s de-
mauds, but in order to save its charter from
being taken away it was obliged to run at
jeast one car a day over its route,
Tho attempt to run this car aud
tho efforts of the strikers and their friends,
aided by the Knights of Labor, to prevent
the trip from being made, resulted in the po¬
lice being called out, and much disorder fol¬
lowed. A summary of the trouble is given
by a New York paper as follows:
Since 4 o’clock on Tuesday morning last
the employes of the Dry Dock, East Broad¬
way and Battery Street Car company—the
company that operates the line on Grand
street, from river to river, across the city-
have been on strike. It is the most general of
any of the street car strikes in the
outside history of the city. Every employe,
of the office itself, of the company—
from conductors down to water-boy—stopped
work at the word, 750 in all. For the
two had days full preceding of yesterday the strik-rs
lame possession the road. On Tues¬
day a but attempt w as made to send a car
across, the strikers drove it back into
the stables. On Wednesday the company
tried to force a way through the obstructions
heaped >usand by the strikers upon the tracks, but a
th men put themselves along the due,
overturned the car, and, in spite of the police
compelled the company to give up the ef¬
fort.
Tuesday night there was a conference be¬
tween State Railroad Commissioner Iveman
and the officials of the road. Finally Com¬
missioner Kernan gave it as his ultimatum
that the company must run at least one car a
day charter. along If its they line or forfeit
its were prevented by
mob violence from doing so then the city au¬
thorities, the company holds, are responsi¬
ble for the failure aad its consequences—in¬
cluding bona consequential damages. The appar¬
ently frustrated by fide violence. effort of W Yesterday ednesday was
the
police were massed iu great force along
the line of the road, and one car was run
from the East to the North river aud back
again. A hundred or more cars of other
street lines had been takeu from their >V\ II
cracks by the strikers, and overturned at in¬
tervals along the Grand street line; as many
more trucks, drays, brewery wagons and
carts were likewise used as ob-
structions, and these, with loads
of brick, coal and ashes dumped by the
strikers along the line, the police had to re¬
move before the one car could complete its
trip. Police Superintendent Murray had a
small army of 900 policemen did the work.
Along the street there was a good deal of
riotous conduct and the police had to do some
clubbing, But there was no serious trouble
and no one was seriously hurt. The strikers
themselves were not very violent; the im¬
mense crowd of idlers and lookers-on was in
the main good Matured and the police ware
remarkably cool but determined, kept well
in hand by the new chief.
.After the car had been returned to the
stables t he many platoons of police were or¬
dered back to their stations,a few only bein;j
left to guard the buildings of the railroad
company, and the great crowds that had
watched the slow pro -ession across the city
and back again quietly dispersed. There was
no dis rder last night.
Late in the evening the executive board of
the Empire their Protective associations, which in¬
clude in membership practically all the
employes in this city of all aud the Brooklyn, street car and companies
the" which
are assemblies of workingmen’s
organization known as the Knights of I oilier,
ordered a genenal “lay This off ’ on every taken railroad
in the two cities. step was avow¬
edly with the intention of forcing the Grand
street company to a‘cede to the demands of
its striking employee . The general strike
was to begin at 4 o'clock a. M., and after that
hour not a street carcoul 1 be seen in th > tw 1
cities.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
More than 800 Mormon missionaries are at
w wk in the South.
north Large herds of wild horses are reported
of Denver Junction, Col.
The British military authorities are con¬
templating in the use of pigeons as messengers
war.
Six women dentists were graduated at the
cently. Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery ,v
Texas has just celebrated the fifti-'. ‘I I"
niversary donee. of its declaration of i d >
European papers remark ujxm the go ><1
imitation of celluloid now manufactured from
p itatoes.
The diamonds and other precious stones
imported $9,000,000. to this country last vear cost over
A cable message can lie sent from New
York to London and an answer received in
six minutes.
Montreal papers say there is a gratifying
rush of travelers there since the small-pox
has subsided.
Philadelphia proposes to erect monu¬
ments to the memory of Generals Hancock
and M Clellan.
The work of the recovering the bodies of
the buried Nanticoke (Penn.) miners has
been abandoned.
! TiiKprospect for a greatly increased yield
of bullion from Colorado iu 1666, are said to
's' ' cry promising.
American base boll has become quite the
l a ,e at Havana, aud there are two or three
fine parks for its play in the city.
An American living iu Kobe, Japan, has
engaged thirty very skilful Japanese ivory
carvers to introduce the art into this coun¬
try.
Los Angeles, Cal., rejoices in the pos¬
session has produced of r black three Morocco crops of grapevine fruit since which Mav
last.
Tf.n thousand unlicensed dogs have been
destroyed since the in London at the Dogs’ home alone
weeks hydrophobia scare began a few
ago.
Mrs; Ochsenrider, of Wells county, Ind.,
is dren ninety-one years old, and her fourteen chil¬
are all alive, the oldest being seventy-
on •, the youngest forty-six years old.
Astronomers promise that a bright comet
will be visible just before sun rise daring the
latter part of May. It is the comet “1836,”
discovered lately by Profeqgor Barnard.
Fragments of Aztec ttery were re¬
cently the found in Arizona, eighty below
Wing surface, upon which were figures resem
and Pimos designs on the pottery of the Papogoes
of to-day.
HOSHIP FROM YVAHHINGTON, D. C.
Among the Depnrtmentn^beoreu* of the
Public Debt.
It i* estimated that there has been a deorease
°f $2,600,000 in the public debt during the
month of February. PenHion payment* (luring
the month amounted to about $11,000,000.
It ie reported that the judiciary committee of
the senate hax voted to adversely report upon
the nomination of Zachariah Montgomery of
Alabama, terior assistant attorney genera) of the in¬
mittee's department. The grounds of the com¬
entertained objection are said to be the sentiment public
school system, by nominee in respect to publicly
which sentiment were
expressed in a pamphlet issued by him several
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FATALITIES ON THE BAIL
r,,BKE N,T< * en'ivk art idknts to
Tit AI NN IN H \IN.
F 'lnl ( nlMstrojili' - l.-esidliiijf Fr un r»|
ti-tons iv 1 I 1 Snow Drifts.
A Portland (Me.) dispatch of the 2d says
: The heavy snow drifts caused no less than
three accideuts to snow plow this morning,
involving the death of three men and the in
juring of four others. The names of the
fortunate are: N. I). Marti.., fireman; James
Smith, laborer; Thomas Shed wick, laborer;
L. W. Philbrlck, fireman; John Kilpatrick,
laborer; -Lydon, laborer; RobertStim-
sou, engineer. The three first were killed.
Th- train known as the “snow plow spe-
cim’ left Portland at 1 o’clock, consisting ol
a conductor snow plow, two charge engines, of a A. scraper E. Hanson, and a
s van, in
mile above Brvant^Pond X e wa^lard a'side drift
was wa met l et aoout ils t eicht eignt teet feet aeep. lee lt it was so tiara
rail, rail throwing throwing it a. loss the track by tha
spreading of the tails. I his caused the en-
g.ue Sigh, to mte jump. a ditch the embankment> striking onitedd® about six Engl- jfert
peer l-. O. Mltehon stuck his hand out of th.
window and held on to the cab when he went
down, thus escaping injury. Fireman N D.
Martin, m the act of jumping, was struck fa
tlie middle of the back. His mp was dislocated
an.1 other serious injuries inflicted.
Hhen told that he could live but, a short
time h ■ said, “l want to see mother. Thu
was an impossibility,as said, Tell he her was I too near afraid his
end. He then am not
Y d‘ e - A little later he said, ‘I am
willing and anxious to die, but
his suffering became so great at last
that he begged the doctor his to
give and let him him somethmg die kly. to take He li\ awar ed until senses forty
qui< clock, retaining his mind
minutes past 11 o
tolly to the last. Just before be died he
?fked, “W ere any of the boys hurt?” and
then remarking, “1 want to see mother,” he
passed away. W. Philbrick, of
Fireman L. engine 13,
that was just behind the engine (312) that
went over the embankment, crawled un-
der the engine through steam and
hot water to the side of Martin and
lifted him out from under the wreck, where
he must have been tortured beyond
description had he remained Phil-
brick had scarcely got Martin out when he
fell senseless by his side. The cold was most
intense, and the garments of both were froze
on them. Philbrick was taken to the saloon
car and thence to Bryant’s Pond with Mai--
tin He was unconscious most of the time
until to-mght, when he revived and wdibve
The wreck plow special left Island Pond
yesterday noon, coming this way to clear the
track, with the Montreal passenger behind
it. The train consisted of a flange, a wind
plow, two engines and a |conductor's van. A
crossing caused the plow to jump the track,
and, striking a large rock, it the turned bottom
up. The plow hail in it at time eight
men. Janies Smith, from Island Pond, had
an inch bolt driven into his forehead and was
killed. John Kilpatrick, head from Island Pond,
was injured about the and shoulders,
Thomas Shedwick, also and from died Island Pond,
was injured internally Gorham, at 3 o’clock,
--Lydon, from N. H., was
badly hurt about the head.
Another snow plow train on the Grand
Trunk, in charge of Engineer Robert Stim-
son, was at Pleasant river this morning when
the engine left the track. Stimson jumped,
as he supposed the engine struck was going over th«
embankment, and was by the second
engine just behind his. He was badly
bruised and cut, b'lt may probably live.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Manitee, Mich., has an oreuesu-a com¬
posed of fourteen young women.
Salvini closes his season in America in
May, when he returns to his native country.
Gough’s last letter was written to the tem¬
perance organization of the Haverly minstrel
troupe.
Queen Victoria has engaged a London
circus company to give a performance at
Windsor Castle.
Anna Dickinson contemplates returning London
to the stage, and is negotiating with
managers to that end.
Franz Liszt has Richard completed a new compo¬
sition in honor of Wagner, which he
calls the “Funeral Barge.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess of
the passions, having made a hit with her
novel, is now going to write a play.
It is said that the Grand 0;)era-house, New
York, brings the largest rent of any theatre
iu the country. The rate is $40,000 a year.
They have a woman at the Paris circus
that jumps from one horse to another while
the horses are going round the ring in oppo¬
site directions.
Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star
Spangled Banner,” raised is by to five-cent have a monument subscriptions in
Philadelphia schools.
in the public
Edwin Booth has engaged for his leading
man next season John T. Malone, originally
a lawyer of San Jose, lago. CaJ., who some time
ago made his debut as
The American composer, Mr. Arthur Bird,
brought out two of his larger orchestral
works in his concert at the Berlin academy of
song recently, which elicited much applause.
Liszt, the composer, notwithstanding his
great age, seems to have obtained a new
lease of life, and is very lie actively paid employed. when he
A great ovation will him
visits England next April
Over 1,000 persons, animals and birds, in¬
eluding ostriches, horses, elephants, nightly camels, kangaroos elaborate
and appear in the
pantomine of “Aladdin and the Forty
Thieves” at Sanger’s amphitheatre, London.
The fair sex of Bucharest gave Patti a
queer ovation recently. After the diva had
ended one of her particularly effective arias
in the Opera house, a number of ladies sud¬
denly rose to their feet and threw white
pigeons with ribbons round their necks on
the stage until the singer was surrounded by
the birds. Patti has been living on pigeon
pie ever since.
Train Wreckers.
[ARM DITCHED AND TRAIN HANDS
ROUGHLY TREATED.
An El Paso (Texas) dispatch says: A freight
train on tho Mexican Centra 1 railroad in
charge of Conductor Nai l bound north, was
ditched and robbed at Kilometre, north of
San Francisco station, on Tuesday
night .by a I >and of sixty
Mexican outlaws. The train con-
sistefl of seven care, which were all ditched.
The outlaws first roblied all the train hands,
then stripped them of their clothing ami
tied their hands behind them, and iu this
condition the men walked into San Fran¬
cisco station. No one, however, was
hurt. The cars were broken open and
fl large amount of freight was taken
by the robbers, in search of whom troops are
now scouring the country. It is believed
that the outrage was committed by the same
band which some time ago robbed a stage in
the State of Zacatecas. There were in
the stage, beside the driver, three
men and one young woman, all belong¬
ing to the best families of Chihuahua.
The outlaws robbed them of their valuables
and every particle, of clothing, aud in that
condition allowed them to proceed in the stage.
The robbers, out of consideration for the
young woman, gave the people in tho stage a
sheet which they u*:«l m common the as u lap-
robe, and thus m ade their wav to nearest
station %
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1886.
TELE NEWS.
InteresL'ng' Happenings from all PoL s
LANTKU.N ANIi MIDDLE STATUS.
Ttnc 133 savings banks in New York IStats
had on January 1st 1,308,072 flenositore; fc'uo
resources wore $534,536,683, and the liabili¬
ties $457,258,744.
A i .a rue chimney fell during the fire at
loss is about $100,000.
By a succession of accidents to trains foi*c-
& !g» the jr thr wa “ * me thro,, " Were « h k,lled moly “ d , d '° , rltte Ur , in
In the town elections just held throughout
Maine, the Republicans were successful in
^^3 ^ th - Rockland, Saco and Port-
tteR ticteUn Oardinfr
henry F. Nickerson & Co., Boston mer-
chants aad steamship agents, have failed,
ewing $900,000.
T « art the season In New York
^ l ** n th * action sale of the late Mrs.
Morgan’s paintings Eighty tWda^s’ paintings were
°n sale,
ud they brought $1T1,20U, the higheste-a
1 .,j oture J,® Meiawmier—bringing hifrtoiwZSohn #16 r>25.
Miller and
■[«“»“ In r^rw^o^?W.st their wagon near West Milt,m Milton, Penn Penn.
William Higgins, who died a few days
since at Tamaqua, Penn., in his eighty-
sixth year, was the first locomotive fireman
in America. *
The manufacturers of Rhode Island have
combined and subscribed a fund of $1,000,000
to fight the labor organizations.
_
SOUTH AND WENT.
an explosion blew up the Miami Powder
BjUs at statiolli Ohio, and three men in-
gjde were into fragments.
Work: WonKtuabne has been “re^miedm resumed in the the McCormick McCormick
Reape. works, Chicago
A Western syndicate with $20,000,000 tonnnnnnr >
capital is stated to have secured a monopoly
in the manufacture of cottou seed oil.
Two members of the Kentucky legislature,
ane of whom had obtained a pistol, became so
belligerent on the floor of the House that the
Speaker caused their arrest.
the Chinese are beginning batch to leave the
West in large numbers. One of 1,400
^1*,! the other dav from Han Francisco for
china, and many hundreds are entering the
g ou thwest ‘--
WASHINGTON '
during February the national debt was
redui> , d $>,702,153131. This left the total
debt on the lst at Jl,482,080,319.60. ’ 4^1.0^ The
^ 1D th trea * llry J was *404 * ’ 53.
In , , Executive „ .. session . ot the Senat- ., , „ dw
nominations of Pillsbury aud C hase, to be
collectors of internal revenue at Boston and
Portland respectively, were rejected,
President Cleveland on the 2d sent a
message Chinamen to Congress on Wyoming the recent attack
upon The President takes in the ground that Territory,
while
the government is not bound by treaty or
statute to make reparation, it is morally
bound to right the wrong because of the ut-
ter failure of the authorities to give the
peaceful aliens the protection the to which they
ar c entitled. He suggests granting of an
indemnity to the Chinese sufferers as an act
°f generosity.
Democratic Congressmen have been hold
ing a caucus Democratic and arranging congressional for the campaign selection
of a
committee,
To Additional nominations United by States—Henry the President: .
be consuls of the
Albert Johnson, of the District of Columbia,
at Venice; Mortimer A. Turner, of Arkansas
at St. Thomas. Commodore VV illiam T
Truxton, to be a rear admiral in the navy;
Elmer Clark Tracy, of New York, to bean
assistant surgeon in the navy.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Collector Hedden, of New York.
The Chinese claim for indemnity for losses
to their people at the Rock Springs massacre,
in Wyoming Territory, last September, foots
up over *147 000
■XStfia K V ' ash ‘
ing to after alter a short illness.
The President has nominated James C.
Matthews (colored) of New York, to be re¬
corder of deeds in the District of Columbia,
vice Frederick Douglass resigned.
FOREIGN.
Mrs. Phelps, wife of the United States
minister to England, was received iu private
audience by Queen Victoria at Windsor
castle.
An express train fell forty feet through a
bridge near Bellville, Canada. Many persons
were injured, four totally.
A Paris dispatch says that M. Pasteur
hopes to be able to treat diphtheria method and
other diseases successfully by a simi¬
lar to that of his treatment of rallies.
A rich vein of coal has just iieen discov¬
ered at Bloomington, Ill.
The British government, has notified Lord
Dufterin to definitely annex Burmah.
Fifteen socialists have Iieen sentenced at
Padua, Italy, to ten months’ imprisonment
for trying to incite the populace to civil
war,
Goodbody’s tobacco factory, been Tullamore, destroyed
Kings County, Loss, $400,000. Ireland, has
by fire.
The first tilt between the Gladstone gov¬
ernment and its opponents in the British
house of commons has resulted in a victory
for the former, owing to the votes of the
Irish home rule members.
Gen. Hancock’s Successor.
BRIGADIER GENERAL A. II. TERRY
NOMINATED.
The President on the 3d seut to tho Senate
the name of Brigadier-General Alfred H.
Terry te * W M .,d
Scott Hancock, deceased. Geneal Terry was
born at Hartford, Conn., November 10,
1827, and was educated at Yale, Ho
afterward studied law, and was admitted i
,»r in » F„,n, j™. «*, » Jnn.,
I860, he was clerk in the New Haven county
courts. He commanded the New Haven
county Second regiment, and in April, 1861,
led it to the field, serving at Bull Run, re¬
tiring in good order when the day was lost,
bring up in the rear and thus saving a
large amount of government Connecticut property. regi¬ He
then raised (he Seventh
ment, which was attached to Novenilier the expedition
under General Sherman. On 7, it
occupied Hilton Head, and was employed
in the investment of Port Pulaski, and on
its capture was placed in charge of it. Dur¬
ing the summer of 1662 he hail command of
the jiorts an; l forts on the Atlantic coast of
Florida. He was made brigadier-general brigade on
March 24, 1862, and led a in the bat¬
tle of Pocotaligo. Later on lie commanded
a division of the tenth corps, and was
engaged in the operations in Charleston
harbor, also, in the army of the
Jamas, and Bermuda was engaged Hundred, at Drury’s Deep
Bluff, Petersburg, actions of New-
Bottom, siege of road.
marke and Williamsburg placed the head On January tho
15, 181 j, he was at of
first division, twenty-fourth corps, aud, aided
by the fleet of Commander Porter, carried
Port Fisher by assault. He was breveted
major-general after the capture of Wilming¬
ton, N. C., and at present is in command of
the department of Dakota, division of Mis¬
souri.
WRECKED ON A REEF.
» HE NTEtlt I It SAXON LOST DIKING
A HEAVY STORM.
rile ( aiilnln mid Five of (lie Crew of I hr
luted Vessel Lose '1 heir Lives.
«■*»* *■*
fax tho other morning from Jamaica, Turks
Island, and Bermuda, after a very stormy
P**®* 6 - she brou * ht from Turk ’ 8 Is,tn<i
the second engineer and seven men belong-
in| f ‘
wrecked at Jim his Ixx kout Reef, Caicos
passage, on the 4th ult, the captain and five
" ie " last t,harles J ’ M "° n ’ 8ei ' on ' 1
engineer of the unfortunate ship.who belong,
Hahfax > fl,rnlshes the followu) - P artlc >‘-
lars of the disaster:
The Saxon, Captain & Wyman, left New
York on January for Cap© first throe Haytien with
au assorted cargo. The days out
the weather was very stormy, with head
winds. On the night ship of Thursday, tho Febniary off the
4, daicos, at HP. M., the struck reef
Birche’sLonkout,) the weatherat the
time being moderate. Theengineswereimme-
reversed and .kept at full speed all
night. f At daylight | on Friday the which crew corn-
m noed throwin over the cargo, was
aC( . 0 mplished before night. At nine i>. M.
Friday, with heavy sea on, the engines be,
came useless from the vessel breaking in
two. The boat which had beenlaunched was
swamped alongside, when the second
mate and the cook were drowned,
At this time, ten P. M., the first and
second engineers, two firemen, ami two
sailors left for the shore in a small boat, leav-
ing the captain, mate, steward, three sailors
and on6 fireman on board. Two of the men
who remained on the steamer with the subsequently
jumped into the sea, and assistance
of a plank managed to reach a schoouer near
by, from which they were afterward trans-
fermi to shoro b a boat. During the night
th ” mate (tho captain's son) swim jumped over- and
board and attempted to ashore
was dr0 wn6d. Shortly after this the
steward became crazed and jumped sailors over-
board and was lost, while one of the
was washed overboard and also drowned. The
captain became delirious and soon remained died, leav-
ing only the fireman of all who on
the ship. On Monday morning the wreck
was boarded by the schooner, who rescued
the fireman and took the captain to West
Caicos, where it was buried near the shore,
A Turk’s Island paper in speaking of th»
affair says: “We learn from several sources
that Constable Dean and others did their best
to persuade the captain to leave the vessel,
knowing the dangerous position she was in
but their efforts were of no avail. All
that is known of what took place tho
after the chief engineer left is taken from
statement of the fireman who was rescued
from the wreck. A portion of the cargo has
been sold saved in a damaged condition and will
bo for the benefit of all concerned.”
Chinese Expulsion.
’• I'll.-TAIL* HEIMS DRIVEN FROM
Till) PACIFIC SLOPE.
The expulsion of the Chinese from the Pa¬
cific slope continues and seems to gain
itrength daily. A San Francisco dispatch
says:
While comparative quiet has returned to
Washington Territory aud Oregon the anti-
Chinese movement shows an increased activ-
ity in California. Close on the heels of the
expulsion of Chinamen at Nicolaus has come
equally determined work by a masked
gaug in Yuba county. In the dead
c f the night thirty men from Wheatland,
with masks over their faces, broke into a
house where eleven Chinese hop pickers were
asleep. They marched them to another
ranch, when a second house was broken into
and the Chinese dragged out. took They then pro¬
ceededto a third ranch, several more
Chinamen from their cabins and then walked
a b their captives into Wheatland and turned
them loose. To emphasize its sentiments the
mob severely pummelled an 1I old Chinaman d d
re ” “' “ “ ” *
For a long time the movement was con¬
fined to the northern and middle parts of the
State, but it Diego. has now Chico spread blackboard south and
rea ched San At a
has street, been whereon erected on inscriliec the principal d the
are
■ames of those refusing to dis-
charge the Chinese. At Red Bluff over
a thousand names have been pledged to the
boycott. The Stockton hotel aud restaurant
men agreed to send away all Chinese help and
an outbreak is to be expected at Petaluma
Calusa, Rocklin, Spanishtown, Martinez, Ne-
vada City, Pentz,»Ckerokee Flat and Grass
Valley pledges. have organized These boycotting nearly of clubs the and
passed character, the following are being representa- same
a
tive example—“Believing it to be the duty
of all citizens who desire good to their
country to use all moral, civil and rightful
power to drive the Chinese from this coast, we
therefore pledge our honor and integrity not to
encourage the Chinese among us by patroniz¬ in
ing or giving them work or employment
any capacity whatsoever, or by purchasing
or buying any goods, wares or articles, mer¬ in
chandise, manufactured or labor produced performed
whole or in part by Chinese
in the United States or by patronizing Chi¬
nese laundries or Chinese laundry werk.”
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Fitz-Joh.v Porter is sixty-four
years of age.
The Crown Prince of Germany has seventy-
two decorations.
Senator Dolfh, of Oregon, beard and
all, looks lik6 “old John Brown.”
Of Charles Wesley’s great-grandsons Church three
are members of the clergy of the of
England.
Miss Kate Field announces her intention
of invading the South with her lecture on
Mormotusm
Arthur and Cleveland,
Miss Susan B. Anthony asserts that
i twenty-six members of the United States
| Senate are in favor of woman suffrage.
state of Wisconsin, has brought a suit for
divorce.
M. de Freycinet, prime minister of
France, excites less personal animosity than
any prominent politician in the republic.
Even his enemies praise him.
Jefferson Davis is still in good health
and is described as a tall, slender, erect man,
white haired, indication walking with a cane, but hav¬
ing no of decay or senility.
Congressman William D. Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, America thinks he was the first public
man in to make a speech for woman
suffrage. It was forty-five years ago, aud he
lias firmly supported the cause ever siuce.
Senator Ingalls is an ardent lover of
nature. It is not unusual for him to start off
on a tramp across the Maryland aud Virginia
hills alone and it is his boast that he frequently
walks twenty miles on a bright, clear day.
M. de Lksseps’ reeent journey through
Panama had some of the features of a tri¬
umphal procession. He says that he is per¬
fectly satisfied with the progress of the work,
and intimates that there is lo doubt that it
will be completed at the appointed time.
There are seven Mexican war veterans in
the Alfred present H. Colquitt, Congress, of as Georia, follows: Senators
John A.
sissippi, Logan, of niinois, Bell John Z. Georgga, of Mis¬
Samuel Maxey, of Texas, Rep¬
resentatives William H. Forney, of Ala-
ha un, Egbert Negley, L. of Veil©, T’.uruylvama. of New York and
James 9.
Is Life Worth Mvlng t
b life worth living T Ask the lad,
Barefooted, homeless, starved, ill-olnd,
And hear the answer yon will get,
“My dorg on’ mo has fun—yon bet."
Is life worth living ? Ask tho wretoh
Upon tho gallows doomed to stretch
The hangman's rope, mid hoed his cry,
“It, is ! it is ! Don't let me die !”
Is lilo worth living? Ask tho tramp,
Whose home’s the gutter cold and damp
And hear him tell you with a jerk,
“It is, old pnrd, for I don’t work.”
Is life worth living? Ask the dude,
Whom old Dome Nature somehow epowc?,
And see him suck his cane and say,
“Aw—wuiilly—life is—aw—quite gay.”
Is life worth l ving? Ask the fool,
The giggling maidens fresh from school,
The toiler, invnlid, the slave;
O! life, sweet life they ever crave.
Is life worth living ? Ask the wise
Philosopher who vainly tries
To solve the mystery about
The matter—aud—remains in doubt.
Is life worth living ? Ask the great,
The millionaire, the kings in state,
And note their looks of utter wo
As in despair they shriek: “No ! no !”
— H. C. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press.
CHARLEY’S TOOTHACHE,
A young newly-married Denver
man went to his home on Welton
street, the other night, taking with
him a severe case of toothache. As
soon as he got into the house he threw
himself into an easy chair and began
to groan. At about the same time his
face on the side where the aching
tooth had many years before attained
a homestead began to swell. In about
thirty minutes his left cbeek bore a
strong resmbiance to an old-fashioned
apple dumpling prepared by the hands
of a generous mother for a large fami¬
ly. The more the jaw enlarged the
louder the young man howled and
rolled about in his chair. His wife
was several years younger than he,
and her sole exper ence wi$h the tooth¬
ache had hitherto been limited to one
or two mild attacks caused by an ex¬
cessive consumption of caramels. She
had usually cured her pain with creo¬
sote, and so soon as Charley had found
time between his groans to tell her
what, was the matter with him she got
the creosote bottle and told him to
open his mouth and let her see the
tooth which was troubling him. He
complied, but as she could not tell by the
looks which one of the teeth was making
the trouble, and as Charley could not
enlighten her, she thought that she’d
better pour a little of the stuff into the
neighborhood of where she thought it
probable that the tooth was located.
Just as she got this idea into her
head she happened to think that there
was another toothache panacea in the
house, it was in a small phial which
a peddler had left there for trial.
She thought that it would be a good
plan to mix a little of this stuff with
creosote, and put the mixture on the
infected jaw. So she made a nice lit¬
tle combination in a tablespoon, and
telling Charley to open his mouth she
poured it in. She was a little excited
and nervous, and her hand shook and
so the fluid penetrated to every nook
and corner of the young man’s food
receptacle. There was a yell of agony
which awoke every 8og in the neigh¬
borhood, and Charley performed a
hornpipe in the middle of the floor,
and accompanied it with a series of
words, the majority of which his wife
had never heard before.
It was an hour before Charley got
quieted sufficiently to sit down, and
about that time a lady neighbor ven¬
tured in to ask if they had sickness in
the family. She was told of the afflic¬
tion which had overtaken Charley, and
she was all sympathy at once. She
£ad suffered just so herself, and the
only way to cure the trouble was by
making cold applications upon the
outside of the cheek.
So she went home, and Charley’s wife
made a neat little bag and filled it with
chopped ice, and then tied it on his
face with a Jong red stocking.
This had the effect of changing the
nature of the pain and make Charley
feel as though he was having needles
thrust into his brain.
He could feel the hair stand right
up on the top of his head, and his eyes
protruded from their sockets to such
an extent that his wife thought Char¬
ley was going crazy.
Pretty soon the ice began to melt
and to drip down upon Charley’s shirt
bosom, and to meander around his col¬
lar and course slowly down his spine,
and Charley iu his delirium felt as
though he had been fishing and fallen
overboard. Then he began to pace up
and down the room and kick the foot¬
stool, and stare out of the windows,
and look unkindly at the cat; and just
at this juncture a friend of Charley
and Mrs. Charley arrived. His name
was Arthur, and he had been a drug
clerk before he became a dude, and in
consequence his most intimate friends
ail call him “Doctor.”
! He was much interested when he
found how his friend was suffering.
smiled superior smile whon i
and he a
Charley's wife explained what she had
done for him. What was needed, he
said, was a counter-irritant, The
teeth and the Interior of the mouth
were Inflamed, and there was un¬
doubtedly fever there. A hot plaster
of some kind on the outside would be
just the thing. Tie said that If Char¬
ley's wife would get him the materials
he would prepare something which
would ease the pain almost Immediate-
iy- all went to tho kitchen and
So they
Arthur turned back his cuffs and be-
gan to work. First he ripped open
the baji which had contained the Ice
and laid it out flat Then he put on a
coating of mustard and moistened it
with hot water. Then he put on a
layer of red pepper and then sprinkled
the whole with water so that it made
a nice thick paste. He tied that upon
Charley’s face and then put a bandage
soaked with hot water over that, and
then tied the red stocking on once
more. Then he went home and Char-
ley went to bed.
During a period of about twenty
minutes after Arthur had bowed him*
self out Charley howled, swore, danced
and he stood upon his head. His wife
at first asked him “if it ached worse.”
Then she didn’t dare get within speak¬
ing distance of him, until in a mo¬
ment of wild frenzy he tore the plas¬
ter from his face and dashed it at a
picture of “Two Cherubs,” which was
hanging upon the wall.
Then Charley fainted, and she had a
chance to look at his face. There was
the swelling, the mustard, the pepper
and a two days’ beard all mixed to-
gether. The removal of the plaster
had also caused the secession of a con-
siderable section of cuticle, and, take
it altogether, it did not look like the
same face which Charley’s wife used
to think “too sweet for anything.”
She thought that his face must be
sore, and she remembered that once
when she was a little girl she burned
her finger one day and her mother
put cold molasses on the injured mem¬
ber and that took the pain away. 80
she took the syrup pitcher and poured
its contents on Charley’s face. Two
ladies who lived down the block called
just then to see who had been injured
in the house, as they had thought they
had heard some one groan there. One
of these, when she found out the cause
of the trouble, said that sweet oil and
lime water was good for burns. She
had some all prepared at home, and
she kindly offered to go and get it.
While she was gone the old lady
thought that flour was good for burns,
so they threw a handful of breadstuff
upon the molasses. Then the other
lady came with the sweet oil and lime-
water mixture, and they poured that
on. Just then the family washer-
woman called to see if they wanted to
have their washing done the following
day. As Charley seemed "to suffer
some pain,” they asked the washer-
woman, who was old and Irish, and
they thought ought to be wise, as to
what to do. She said that “blueing”
was the best thing In the world, and
so they added another color to Char-
ley 8 f ,r ?'
.. Well, . the two . ... ladies staid with Char-
ley-, wife that night and they have
since declared that Charley is the
worst-tempered man whom they ever
SOW.
Charley is better now, but he says
that he will not get out of the house
for a month to come unless he wears a
mask .—Denver Tribune.
He Enjoyed the Trip.
“Have I ever been to Yurrip?” ex¬
claimed the middle-aged and bald-head-
ed passenger; “should say I had.
Half a dozen times. Like it? Rather.
’Tain’t so much Y urrip I care for as the
ocean voyages. How i do love those
ocean trips, though!”
“Don’t you get sea-sick ?”
“Sea-sick? I shou.d say I did.
Why, I just lie in my berth five days
out of the eight and hope the ship will
sink in ten miles of water. There
seems to be a whole slaughter house
inside of me. I feel like a sick egg.
But I enjoy it, all the same, you bet.”
“Enjoy a voyage under such ciroum-
stances? How do you make that out?”
“Well, you see, my wife she’s al-
ways along with me. She gets sick,
too—sicker’nldo. I11 fact, she gets so
awful sick that she can’t talk till after
we’ve anchored on the other side, and
if I were to try for a week I couldn’t
tell you what blessed days of relief
they are for me .”—frhicayo Herald.
Arqnnintcfl With Mnsic.
“Does he know anything about mu¬
sic?”
“Well, I should rather think he
ought to.”
“How so?”
“Well, for one thing, he’s the father
of twins not more than six months
| old, and, for another, his wife was
dead -set on having a sealskin for her
birthday, and didn’t get it ,”—Chicago
Ledger.
VOL. 1. NO. 24.
Freoions Memories.
Death cannot take the memories
Of those we lore and cherish;
Their frames, which in the dust we lay,
To dust may erumble and decay,
Yet with us they themselves do stay}
They do net, cannot perish.
How potent are thy memories I
They make blest bond ot union;
For oft belore onr gladsome eyes
The sweet familiar lorras arise,
And dearly do we lore and prize
Those moments of communion.
Immortal are the memories
Of those whom death ha* taken;
We seo them, hear them, have them alfllt
Command their pretence at our will,
The chambers of our heart* they fill,
They have not u* forsaken.
—It. M. Uffarit.
HUMOROUS.
A valuable bird—A gold eagle.
Auctioneers have a nod way of re-
ceiving bids,
A misplaced switch — When the
wrong boy is whipped,
We fail to see any difference be¬
tween a travelling dress and a walking
suit,
There is some hope for the dudes at
lasjt A Sacramento man has invented
a calf-weaner.
A lovesick poet says that a kiss is
"the meeting of two soul3.’’ Very
true, and it is a protracted meeting,
too.
Everything is adulterated nowadays
A Sanfrancisco man bought a cork leg
and afterwards ascertained that it was
made of paper.
“See, mamma 1 ” exclaimed a little
as sbe looked out of the window
dim Q g a snow storm, “see the popped
rain coming down."
“May I help you to alight?” asked
ji mS on, politely, as Miss Le Jones
drove up in her carriage, “Thank
you. I never smoke,” she returned,
coldly,
A woman in Georgia lived 48 days
on water and then died. Water is a
pretty thin diet, for a fact, but we
know some sailors who have lived
nearly all their lives on water.
Dry goods merchant—“You would
like a place in my store, Mr. 8haw-
mut? Have you had much clerical
experience?” Mr. Shawmut—“Well,
no. The fact is I am not a church
member.”
Surgery in a Menagerie.
The Philadelphia Zoo’s manicure op.
erated on the leopard Fannie recently,
and reduced her toe-nails to a fashion*
We leQgth Xhe nail8 had grown 80
j that they were burying them-
selves in the balls of the feet, produc¬
ing a serious lameness, accompanied
by irritating pain. The animal had
her feet successfully noosed and tha
paws hauled between the bars of th«
cage> whUe a billet of wood wa8 thru8t
1q her mouth fQt her tQ bite on .
Reeper Shannon extracted the sharp
nails from the inflamed feet, and Head-
keeper Byrne promptly clipped them
ofl clo8e tQ thfl lck> after which the
band30me brute was released from ig-
nominoU3 confineme nt.
The yaluable chiinpanzee ha3 devel .
oped J an unexpected knowledge of den-
Desp ite his warm cage and the
^ ^ ^ he is ded from
d ht he managed to catch a cold
. Q hi8 jaw> which re8U i te d in a tooth¬
ache. It was his first experience and
he did not like it. He picked at thi
offendijg molar until, giving it an ex¬
tra hard pull, it parted with the gum •
and came out. This was a notch
higher than the chimpanzee had evei
gone before, and, as he gazed at the
glistening tooth in his brown paw, *
look of anxious bewilderment spread
over his countenance, and his undei
jaw dropped in helpless astonishment
Ministers Advised To Wear Beards.
Dr. Wm. MacDonald, says in the
London Lancet: That ancient ami
pious father of the church, Terlullian
designated shaving as a blasphemy
against the church. It may surprise
not a few when I say that there can
no longer be a doubt that the bron-
chitic affections under which ministers
of the gospel so frequently labor are
often due to the violation of hygienic
Jaw. The fact that the Creator plant-
ed a beard on the face of the human
male, thus making it a law of his
physical being, indicates in a languagt
not to be misunderstood that the dis-
tinctive appendage was bestowed foi
the purpose of being worn.
Besides, the Levitical law is just as
explicit in forbidding the shaving ol
the head, except in cases of disease, as
in the requirement—“Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.” More¬
over, physically considered, these views
are corroborated by experience: for
disease of the throat have in numerous
instances been traced directly to the
shaving of the beard, the liability dis¬
appearing with its growth, and vice
versa. Let all our ministers, then,
disregarding fashion, wear beards; for
the Bible and nature are in favor of it.