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HLEY V COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
j HARP, Publisher.
HE NEWS IN GENERAL.
PENINGS OF INTEREST
from ALL POINTS.
LJ a m» .«iHUM! STATES*.
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on* exp! -ion in a rail mill injured at Troy, four N. Y.,
man, juried fatally of nature more,
,diet'd m a serious on
fcn— reports the death at
able dispatch of Colonel R. M. Hoe, the
e.y Ita.y. York printing press
,5-i'nj N-w
rer, mhust'entj-ouit yeai.
; sum of U0.0OJ was piescnted Cnion to the
at.■'nal Typographical at Pittsburg on This the
H'-i.f its -tssion *
b lib and* * 1
W i bunker A L DnttisL 1
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extensive woolen mills of W. SS. Har-
t Stamford, Conn., $225,000. bavobeento-
Mi ei by lire, loss
Maine Republicans have nominated
leveruor. r.’ R IVdweU,anch granite merchant,
K Rhode Island Legislature Nelson has re-
►i United States Senator Al-
[rcisT.R (Mass, i fishermen are »I4 t>
: Democrata rousted of the Governor Second Maine aS-cetan dis-
1S ve ex
r ile of Parsons, Penn , have been
r.akeu aud much frightened by an Mine, ex-
- l in the Mineral Spring
•■-face of themine sank two feet over
|l about eleveQ acre3 '
SOIT1I A.M> WEST.
rty thousand people witnessed the run-
u eat St. Ixiuis in which the mare Miss
f rd remesented the Ea-t and three
horses the West and Pacific coast. Th'
were rlO.fXX). Miss Woodford won.
s the race started the press stand fell,
number of newspaper men were more
severely injured.
; Loughlin Nail Works at Martin’s
IV. V», have b.-cn partially burned;
w.ooo.
, - ree men antil th:reeyoun,,
t ! « 5 n r .?t«o S iHSi^ conducto? U SLo?
R^la?ent harilv S C ini,ir^d The d ^
iTreturns remnL'frem were trom the the Oregon Oregon ele-tion election
i a victory for the Democratic State
and a close vote for Congress.
i'ap.d Kempis, a boy of six years, shot
lied a little playmate at Akron. Ohio,
r ard McManus a lan Cleveland! l no-ent arrested
large of forgery nt Ohio,
, pc Illations to the amount of $30,000.
greater biding portion hotels, of has Rawley Springs,
two been destroyel
ago Aldermen ... are charged . . w.th ...
ug bribes from city railroads.
i \terspout Marshall, N. did great Houses damage in an l
C. were washed
catdc drowned and crops destroyed.
isse of revenue officers have made a
Combeiland county Tern,., fulloperation’ capturing
argi- i]jj,it distilleries in ’
:ro" 1 of moonshiners.
efictal returns of the Oregon elec-
pm every county in the State ex ept
ive Hermann (Rep.), for Congress, tiO)
lloBriJe tv; Pennoyer (Deni.), for Governor,
Vebb (Dorn.), (Rep.), for for Secretary Treasurer, of State, 4(X);
Kep.), Dem.), for Superintendent Supreme Judge, Pub- 200;
for of
truction, 000, 900; Baker (Hep.), for State
r,
jerk k Turson, a resident of Jack-
sui un., aged seventy-two years, oora-
ide by blowing the top of his head
i a gun loaded with peas.
meu have bsan arrested in Chicago
mg lire to the two buildings in which
res were lost recently.
WASHINGTON.
S‘ tiat ■ lias confirmed the nomination
Praor Swineford, of Alaska.
. Winston has resigned as United
Mini-ter to Persia.
H use Committee on Invalid Pensions
ive.l to Report as a substitute for Sen-
lair’s pension bill a bill providing for
win pen,ion of #12 a month for all
6 and sailors w ho are absolutely dis-
tud unable to maintain themselves,
!ognizing no distinctions of rank.
President’s wife will receive from the
)f her grandfather, Colonel Folsom,
eJ recently near Buffalo, N. Y.,about
Canadian fisheries trouble was under
ion at a late Cabinet meeting.
President has on his table about 250
Bonding 100 pension bills, for final
ion.
wasters nominated by the President:
it wt; mton a t Stonington, Conn.;
Lutz, . Blatinaton, Penn.; William R.
I Long )'uinington, Branch Citv, N. J.; Robert H.
Reuben Del.: B. S. Martin, Jer-
L.v I'lesner, tstanloy, Crestline, Ohio;
Mount llicksvilie, Ohio; John D.
run, Vernon, Ohio; Samuel S.
r 1, Ada, Ohio; Cornelius A. Gallagher,
liRS’ [ueld, .?* Mo.; u 'h Gilbert : Prior P. B. Hall, Mayo. Petaluma, North
FOREIGN.
NTY roi R dories, containing forty-six
re reported by the most recent infor-
110:11 Great Banks, Newfoundland,
WdnoTacran'^H y essels for several
Papal consistory in Rome the Most
ail)es Gibbons, D.D., Archbishop of
e, anu the Most Rev. Elzeaf Alox-
■ at r^’ l,!5 erswere b) D., created Archbishop finals. of
dstones n bisjjjips were nominated.
defeat on the Irish Home
1 ^ House of Commons
ioscIv.hT a ,.' :abinat meeting.at which
ianient thT'ou^n th l Trans°2
to Thi s
’ UJll “ting at Belfast Ireland, on
’ a'ted in a pitched battle between
• and the mob. Shots were fired on
,aud " 1 The many officers and rioters
J *' police finally triumphed.
L u ,on advices state that Queen
, , 1H phed to Mr. Gladstone lior
»
i io tie; dissolutionof Parliament after
if.T 1 ' l- ,01 ’d Harrington, whom she
„ nether he willing form
was to a
"inf “ r °™«V . Barrington her Majesty advised disso- he
imfu that
v dissolution as desirable at this
1(1 he form a government.
^*5” noting ' l in ,' avei Belfast, ns ai >d Ireland, houses were oc-
■d-a,idn;iu' nnWles J The^poUce^flred
[■"•Bd Eventually*th ly buckshot, wounding
" have Many also S
been wrecked during riot
Kitat’ 1 1 s ’ t * 10 ,esu B of the Home
p” e created six American
- more
iy Europeans i *,■ ,
by an earthquake at TaTawm New
shooting Wbftaey, has become a favorite
iorwno„ XEtg&'SS* near New Haven.
he and shore nndstops ISstant ont° n from th?
® h fires, an near
« and, if he is a good shot, kills
THE HONEYMOON ENDED.
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THE PRESIDENT ASD HIS BRIDE
RETURNS TO W ASHINGTON.
Hr*. Cleveland Duly liiatalled as lllsiress
of ihr While House
The President’s honeymoon trip ended on
th# ^ ’ and at 1
Grover Cleveland entered the White House
on the arm of her husbaud, to remain there
as its mistress. There had been no special
preparations to receive her excent that thn
wedding decorations ha l been cleared awav
-
and , ,, the gardener had , placed
in the brides
chamber and on the dining room table
“of bright aud fragrant flowers to
i lend sentiment to her welcome. The Rev.
Win. N. Cleveland, Mrs. Hoyt,the President's
sister, and Misi Rose Cleveland were at the
j White House to greet the pair, and they with
Col Lamont and his wife, composed the
family gathering at supper. It was because
ot the Deed that Mrs. Hoyt and the Rev. Mr.
Cleveland should return home that the stay
at Deer Dark was cut short a dav, as the
President thought this might be the last
j 2Z
eventful day. Incidents of the return
J!C« ^process lvenm a dispskh «
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of packing at the Deer Park
cottage land did not bhe seem to worry Mrs. Cleve-
much, was visible most of the
morning and yet when the baggage wagon
came for the trunas they were ready. At
*>» "as ft the doo,
and in less than five minutes the brn e
and bridegroom, Mr. an l Mrs. La
moiit, ex-Seuator Davis and Mr. Elkins were
feated in the private car Baltimore. The
telegraph operators aud railroad detectives
were put into the combination ear, which
followed the engine. CharlesSeldon, gener-
al mauager of the Baltimore and Ohio Tele-
graph Garrett’s company,and occupied John W. the Davis,President director's
assistant, car
Delaware, which was the second car of the
train. The Baltimore brought up the rear.
The train started from the hotel station,
‘ pping at Deer Park. The people had
gathered hands in full with force President on the platform to
shake the and his wife.
; j 0 un Graham was brought up as the repre-
sentative citizen aud introduced as the
Ma vor ’
“The - Mayor, indeed. I know how that is.
I Magistrate, wa. once mayor he took myself,” Grahams said hand. the Chief
as
Mrs. Cleveland took the women by the
hand as they passed the rear platform. One
somewhat diffident young the lady did not seem
inclined to reach up to platform where
Mrs. Cleveland stood. Mrs. Cleveland there-
fore stepped down two steps to reach the
bashful one’s hand. At 12:59 the train moved
j a “„ D< *f Ra ^H had l0St ltS greatest at ‘
"he t n nex“
train stopped at Piedmont. Ex the
Senator Davis had sent information as to
President’s movements, and a rousing lcrcp
tion had IsN-n prepared. A brass band and
several hundred people greeted the President,
A girl less than five years old was handed
over the heads of the crowd, and she banded
a bouquet to Mrs. Cleveland as the train
moved away. Keyser was reached at 2 o clock
aud here another crowd largely composed of
also^ XTchi'ld" CQiid was P^sed up the rear piatrorm
with a bunch of flowers for Mis. Cleveland.
J^ , as U the 1 trafn man” 0 b4an^to* get “under head-
wav an excited anl eagerly grabbed the
President by the hand said:
JiX ' mK taYSSaS- 1 *■ " for 0 '
“Come right ahead; I’ll make room
you,” was the laughing response. lined with
At Cumberland the tracks were
dent‘stood 6 on the ? bowed rear” ptatform^ while the vrit^mi- crowd
covered head, and
cheered and waved flags. At Martinsburg,
the largest place through which the tram
passed, only a few people were at the Ferry, depot.
The run from Martinsburg to Harper's
nineteen miles, was made in twenty
minutes. There was no greeting at this
point. An hour later the train reached
Washington. train reached the K street
When the cross¬
ing, out near the suburbs, some distance
from the main depot, gathered a large crowd, many
in carriages, had in hopes of
catching a glimpse of the President aud his
bride- But they were disappointed, as the
tram merely slackened speed at the cross-
ing and then continued slowly into
the central Baltimore and Ohio depot. Here
perhaps 400 or .500 K people, crossing, more fortunate awaited
thau those at the street
outside the depot the arrival of the President.
When the train came to a stop, the President
was ths first of the quartette in the rear car
( °M,f Cleveland followed, and assisted by
tto President, stepped nimbly from tbe
Z'L tHnnina few
and the the building,
the depot to the front of
where the President’s seal browns and
his carriage with the coachman were wait-
ing It took only a few seconds for tbe four
to enter the carriage, and they were off for
the White House—home after an absence of
six days.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
A Train Goes Thronah a Trestle. Killing
Six Passengers.
Thi norlhward bound passenger train on th#
N"r. Invest railway which left Charleston, 8. O.,
at 12 o’clock Monday, p unged through the
Sauteeriver trestle, between St. Stephens sta-
tion a id Santee river bridge, smashing up the
co.iohes and killing six passenger. Th « killed
>lre : J hn L. Cole. Dr. G. U. iunesen, wu-
iam Ingalls, M ss M'lver, of Charleston, Miss
,j_ g Jl’Wliite, of Mar,on, Miss Hannah Wil-
,0 “’ r , iidonce , 0 i known 1 ’
oudiic.or . B. G. Mazoclt and ..... 511 Ag . . v
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W. llenekcr were badly injured. The cause of
the acc dent ia not yet known, but it is sup-
po ed to have resulted from the insecure fast-
Aiso m as the news of the accident reached
Charleston, a special train was dispatched in
charge of Superintendent Loyall, with Dr.
Annum for the relief of the wounded and to
bri ig back the dea 1. The extent of damage
(o die property of the company is uotyetascer-
isiued. 1 he wreck was so serious that no
nor Irorii bound train was sent out that night.
A tra il with Iho dead and wounded arrived
nt Charleston the following evening.
not yet . . been
Tbe cause of the accident has
ascertained. The investigation will
thorough. The bodies of Miss Mclver and
Miss Hannah Wilson were sent to Cffieraw, and
the remains of Miss McWhite to Marion for
P** ^ Tuesday Th ° funeraI afternoon, of Wdlum and the }**}*"* funerals , took ol
06
Dr. G. G. Kinlock and John Cole occurred Wed
needay. The condition of the wounded ia favor-
able. Mrs. Bailey and five children, of Alexan
1 r’r a, Louisiana, occupying the sleeper, escape*!
* lth(mt the “tightest injury. W. F. Tift, ot
My tic, Conn., was also a passenger and escape.!
i wiihasbght bruise. George McConnell, of Nee
Fork, escaped with a badly bruised shoulder.
M. D. Bennett, of New York, was uninjured,
These persons all left Charleston Tuesday morn
in « b v ,he northward bound train on the North-
-
eastern railroad.
C. A. Price, express messenger, who was in.
dared in the accident, died Tuesday night.
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1886.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
First quality of butter sells in Minnesota
at sixteen cent* a pound.
A bunch of oats eight feet throe inches in
height is displayed at Winter, Cal.
the Crystallized latest violets in confectionery. at $0 a pound are
very things
Rusfila "Azov” doin wheat, lend recently imported Manitoba, from
’ is K s P ‘ d, y in
A wooden dish manufactory at Man-
eelona, Mich., ships a car load of disher a
day.
A Msthodist missionary has been ap-
pointed chief physician of the (Jhineso
army.
More than 45,000,000 persons have passed
over the Brooklyn bridge since it was opened
to travel.
i„hXX.CHt a swarm of hees attacked flSlfy a aaWtate™ freight train
w«
the engineer could proceed.
There arel79,000 bicycle riders in Great
^7,50° m A? the United coonnent States. of Europe,
! CdUfo^aWhvto
uTO^the /ime " m^v y
a PP° ar a * ini thw tmie 1 ri a a^-starv st8r Y*
• Nkw A astonished ijcently by the
ohk was
arrival of a car^o of ice from .Norway. The
article is sometimes taken from Maine to
! Kto LSSSSffKSUK ”
land, Ohio, Is 109 jeais °1A Her youngest
^oVtuT" E&! “^6 ShXftwS
bring in of whom is 196 ami
the other 119 years old.
A new cotton-picking patented?which, machine has been
invented and it is claimed,
fulfills all the conditions required woVk of such au
arrangement. It is the of a Georgia
inventor, Owen T. Bugg, and, though per-
fe-ted too late to do nay work on the late
crop willbeputto work to test its capacity
on the next one.
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PFR^ONH, luItOV/nflli MFNTIftN nun .
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Gladstone is said to be looking very
Worn and ill.
King George of Greece, is arranging to
make a tour abroad.
Bright cl ° rab| i} ia 18 still the delie-ht S
IjOndon assemblage-.
Senator Logan and wife will go to the
Pacific Coast this summer.
Miss Rose Cleveland has a novel in
press entitled, “The Long Row.”
Lcct Larcom nmrirU , who3e poetry is widely
copied, once worked in m » a nntton cotto mill .
Rev - Dr. Sunderland s fee at the
_ Presidents wedding was a crisp |
Ex-President Arthur received a pack-
age of President Cleveland’s wedding cake.
The richest man in Alabama is H. F. de
Bordelebine. He lives at Birmingham, aud
is worth about $5,000,000.
latent °for N a new^me^i
regulate ana and enrich ennen uiummaung illuminating gas. gas
The great monument to V ictor Emanuel
at Turin, costing $^00,000, has been erects l
by King Humbert entirely at his own ex-
pense.
General Sherman will attend the Grand
| Army meeting in San Francisco in residence August, -
and on his return will take up his
in ^ eW Y ^ k ',
Seven hundred . babies v, w have a been . named „ ,
ft Cleveland since he became President,
! Pasteur’s death theory from has received hydrophobia a severe of
| strain in the a
lh« U wS!r un^’the^wmilftavo^Wecircunp
:
and fourteen days thereafter was m Pas -
teur s hands. JNe^ertheless, hydiopnobia
earned him oft.
portT&e^^Trge? heal, covered with chestnut hair, weflX^l slightly
gray. His beard and moustache are almost
white. He has a straight nose and pointed
bushy eyebrows, which overhang cavernous displays
gray orbs. He dresses in black, and
an expansive area of linen.
MUSICAL m DRAMATIC.
“Nanon” is said to have earned for Mr,
Conned *30,000 in royalties during the pasl
The American Opera Company had a
; g rf . a i financial as well as artistic success in
Chicaco 6 ’
_ Fanny Davenport will , begin . her , next
»*»»» on October 11 with a repertory ol
eight plays. ,
Sara Jewett, the favorite Boston ac-
tress, was at one time a Treasury girl at
Washington.
wWeh^the* ptano*'with* ex“n
and brilliancy
“Erminie,” the new comic opera, is enjoy-
i an unprecedented financial success at the
j casino, new none.
! Mrs. Langtry is negotiating which for she the pur-
chase of a site for a theatre pro-
poses to build m London.
Seven sweet girls of Pleasant Lake, Mich.,
have organized a cornet band and have been
serenading Jackson people.
ne^tNovoinber W for a'concert tour.'wdH‘hara
Mme. Scalchi and Signor Galassi in her corn-
pauy.
Belle Boyd (Mrs. R. B. Hammond), who
figured during the war as a Confederate spy,
is about organizing a company to appear in
“The Khedive” will be the name of Gil-
. bert and Sullivan’s new opera. It will prob-
ablv 1» produced in New York the early part
of November.
^ G f whU-llTe made* ta
this country. He lives in the most econoui-
ical manner in his Italian home.
Mme. Nilsson has engaged to make beg a nning fare-
well tour of Europe next season,
October 15 and ending April 15, 1887. She
wi j| visj( . a j( t [, . principal cities from St.
Petersburg and Constantinople to Paris and
Madrid.
The receipts of the “Mikado" performan ces
than $253,000, 1 hese being the perlon;:^nces
in which Gilbert and Sullivan were fman-
cialiy interested.
Mxss Margaret Mather has played 983
times in public during the pad four years.
She has never during that time missed an en¬
gagement, been late at a performance or
caused a stage wait
London lias a musical composer twenty-
two years old named Eugene d’Albert lie
talks contemptuously of “Papa Beethoven,’
and has produced several symphonies. He
is a Scotchman, and people regard him a, a
musical prodigy.
Old Love Letters and Cold Soup. *
0 M love letters are much like cold
A love letter that telegraphs a
a delightful tingle to the tip ends of the
fi n g Crs an .j toes, makes the heart thump
fast, and even warms up the stomach
when first written, if read after the flame
which inspired it had died, possesses all
the flatness, staleness and nauseating
quality that are in a porky bean broth
that has laid in the refrigerator advantage since
yesterday. Soup has this
it can be warmed over, while love letters
cannot. Le wiston (Me.) Joutra .
i ^^vVAshington , . , -,, lVinn fainted i
ivoryfta on
1UA by J. Lacon, owned in Spring-
field’. Mass., is offered to *250,090. the Government tor
the modest little sum of
BASE BALL NOTES.
The Detroits are making a strong fight
with Chicago for first place.
Not Tins has been a season of verified. surprises so far.
a prediction has been
ball The Southern clubs are evenly now matched. playing good
aud all are pretty
Bennett lias caught in twenty-five out of
twenty-seven games played by Detroit.
The Kansas Citys are known as the stormy
petrels of the league, They seem to carry
bad weather in their wake.
It is not an unreasonable guess to say that
about 50,000 persons paid to see the various
games on the professional Day, grounds in or near
\ oik on Decoration
Three of the heaviest batters pitchers, in the League
are first basemen, two are one a
catcher, one a third baseman, another a
stop and the others outiieldTs.
Manning, of Detroit, had played without
accident in ^ew^York^hhi'^iLta^wY playing for time.
tate him from some
It is singular that of the first dozen than leading
batsmen of the Association no less six
“^pitchers. Of the remaining six four are
outfielders, one au mfielder and on© a catcher.
I s Tate, Poor man, Sam Wise, Nash and
Johnston th 3 Bostons have a flue quintet of
great base ruuners. They keep tne pitcher
I****’ “ »** -I—-
Charleston, recently accomplished Welder the feat
of catching a ball muffed by Gil-
~ e 11 ™- hed the K lound * a wo “ der -
0
nv-wa nlitved 25 000 neonb attended the first six
ETrettv c^ hv toe B istous “ at home which
.nTftWulmeuTh suDMrt of l-
l0St th-63 outofe ° Ut ° f eVery very f0Ur four
”
XT New ,, \ ork is a wonderful ball town. In ,
the three N ew \ork-Detroit games the De¬
£ roits received fifteon cents for each of the
34,000 the New spectators Yorks share who paid being to^aee thirty-five tbe game, cento
each, beside the proceeds from the sale of
about 15,OX) grand stand seats.
Ball players in Pittsburg are talking
about the catcher of an amateur club, who
was remarkable for catching many batsmen
out on foul tips, even when the bat didn’t
seem to strike within three or four inches of
the ball. Au investigation revealed that the
ent her had a gum land attached to his
glove, and when he desired to foul out a man
he would raise the band with one finger, and
when the ball would passed under the bat release it.
Tne band snap against the glove and
all within hearing would hear a supposed
j *°Ultip.
| A THEATRE BURNED.
Louisville’s New Grand Theatre Destroyed
by Fire.
At 3:53 Tuesday morning . fire was discovered
behind the stage of the new Grand theatre, at
Louisville, Ky. The canvass and oil of the
“-enery and stage settings burned fiercely and
m five minutes after the discovery of the flames
the lh « entire cntl “ ataae stage was was blazimr blazing fnriouslv furiously An An
• aiarm was sent in, but the engines that re-
, 6 p onded were unable to do anything toward
extinguishing » the conflagration which, by 'block this
ume, covered an oi me miacue oi the me diock
between Third, Fourth, Jefferson and Green
streeU A Becond alarm " 88 lurned in ’ bu ,‘
the entire theatre was then on fire, and resisted
.. 22T\1 * * « 4 £tST m
Green and Jefferson streets, and at daybreak
the entire centre of the square was a glowing
maas of red hot mortar and blazing wood. The
»«.». - I— to Wf.,1.0 Brother., .boo,
four years ago, and was one of the finest in the
west or south. The block was valued at $100,-
000 ^ and . g R compIefce lo8B> the Green etreet
front, which was occupied by the medical col-
lege, being all that remains standing. It is
insured. At 5 o’clock the fire broke out with
renewed vigor in the medical college building,
and at the Jefferson street side of the theatre.
The roofs of all the burned structures fell in,
and the block was entirely destroyed.
The fire was confined to the Davis block. Ths
theatre had just dosed for the season. The
I first estimate of the losses was little if any ex-
agK6rated .
FATAL It A I LRU A it ACCIDENT.
Fireman Ivi le.l and E isrineer Hurt on the
Central II. U. of Gt oruin.
Excitement was caused ia S ivannah Tuesday
i by the report of a seri us incident to passenger
j 1 train No. 54, from At anti, due in S ivannah at
Bix o'cjjck. i nq , il7 developed (ho following
When “ ear No ’ % “ bout “aif P**
two o’clock, the trai l i mining at regular speed,
‘he engine struck an o -struction and «« (
thrown from the track, dragging three car.
, and smashing things generally. E lgineer W-
; h. Pcndergrast and Fireman Charles Maddox
jumpea i nmne d aa as the tne anirine engine was waa turning tnrnimr over, over jiotli Both
! were badly scalded. The engineer w is seriously
i bruised, but Maddox was killed, bin bead fear-
fully mai bed and his body scalded. The pas.
^ngers were uninjured, hut badly shaken up-
A special tram was sent, io tlio scene, and (ho
infill and passengers were transferred, a’so
the engineer and the holy of Maddox. The
traiu reaohed 8avannah at ten o’clock. Pen.
dergrast was sent home under a physician, and
will recover. Maddox was buried this evening,
He was a worthy young man, well thought of.
The accident occurred by miscreants wedging
heavy pieces of timber between the frog of the
switch, elevating tbe rail. Every effort will 3
made to apprehend the sounndrels.
A \ Puzzling 1 iizzun a Ouestion. tjuesiion.
Some o persons seem wholly unable to
tope with scientific facts, their inability
bein^ doubtless due largely to circum-
stances and their education. For hun-
d reds of generations men were puz-
teems so simple to us. A teacher in a
western county in Canada, W'hile making
calls among the people came into con-
versation with a farmer’s wife from Ver-
mont, who had taken up her residence
in the “backwoods.’ Of course, the
school and former teacher came in for
criticism, and the old lady, in speaking
of “Wa’ftl, his predecessor, what asked: do think he
master, you
learned the scholars?”
“I couldn’t say, ma’am. Pray, what
did he tench?”
“Wa’al, he told ’em this ’ere arth was
round ; what do yon think of such stuff!”
Unwilling to come under the category
nmrkecf n ° r8nt ’ tC “ Cher eVasiVe,y ^
“It* does seem strange, hut still there
arc many learned men who teach those
things.” she, “if the earth is
“Wa’al,” says holds it
round, aud goes round, what
up?” learned that it
“Oh, these men say holds it goes by
round the sun, and the sun up
of attraction .>»
The old lady lowered her specs, and
responded with ths roier:
“Wa'aL if these high h.rnt men sez the
sin holds up the arth. I should like to
know what holds tUo art,)) up when the
sun goes down?”
Over the Sea.
Over the sea in a sunny land
Some one is thinking of me.
lie hears the surf on a shore of sand,
The snow is falling on me.
Over the sea, over the sea,
Surely he’s thinking of me.
Over the sea where the palm-trees bend
And lilies nod in the sun,
Lives there one who is nearer than friend—
My "greatly beloved” one.
Over the sea, over the sea,
To-day he’s thinking of mo.
Over the sea till the roses come;
Then back he will speed to me,
To bear me queen to his island homo—
To our home beyond the sea.
Over the sea, over the sea,
To-day he is loving me.
—Rev. Wm. B. Olcson in Independent.
A Moment of Temptation;
“I can’t stand it any longer, Dolly.
I’ll go out Rnd perhaps something will
turn up.”
“It’s a cold night, Robert.”
“Cold, yes, but it’s not much colder
out than in. It would have beon better
for you, dear, if you had married John
Tremain.”
“Don’t t say sav that that, Robert KoDert. I 1 have nave never never
regretted my choice.”
“ Not even when there is not a loaf of
bread , in . the house for , you and , the . chil-
dren?”
“Not even now, Robert. God has not
forsaken us. lVrhans d ernaps on on Easter ioaster dav any the tne
tide will turn.”
‘It’sbeen Lent all the winter with us, ”
said Robert bitterly, “Day after day I
have searched for employment. I have
called at fifty places and received . , the ,
same answer everywhere.”
A curley-headed boy crept up to his
mother’s knee.
“Mother,” he pleaded, “wont you
give me a piece of bread ? I am hungry—-
just a little piece, mother.”
“There is no bread, Jimmy darling,”
said the mother, with an aching heart.
“When will there be some?” asked the
little one piteously,
Tears came into the mother’s eyes.
She could not speak.
“Jimmy, I’ll bring you some bread,”
said the father hoarsely, and he seized
his hat and went to the door.
His __ wife alarmed, laid her hand on his
sleeve sleeve, She one saw saw the tne look iook in in his ins eves eyes,
aQ( j feared that he might be driven to
some desperate 1 step. 1 “Remember, * Rob-
she said solemnly, “it . . ham , to
is
« -er.
worse.”
He shook her off, but not roughly, and
without a word went out.
Out into the cold streets that would be
their home ere long, for the rent would
soon be due and then even the shelter of
the cheerless room in the poor lodging
house would be denied them, Rob-
ert Bruce was a mechanic, competent
and skillful. Three years since he lived
in a country home, but in an evil hour he
removed to the city. Here he vainly
] hoped to do better. For a while he was
successful, but he found his lodging-
house a poor substitute for the pretty
cotta ge that had been his country home.
He saw his mistake, but was too proud
to go back, though his wife pined to do
„ 0
Then a time of great depression came
and business seemed suspended. Work
ceased for Robert Bruce as for others.
If he had been in his old home he could
havc turned his hand to a^ething else,
or at the most have borrowed of a neigh-
bor t ffi better times, but now he felt
hopeless.
When he went out on the street he did
not know how he was to keep r his protn- p
lse to little Jimmy. He was absolutely
penniless, and had been so for three days,
There was nothing that he was likely to
find to do that night.
“I will pawn my overcoat,” he said.
^ eann °t sce nay wife ... and children
starve.”
“It was a well-worn overcoat and the
night was raw with the blustering winds
of March. He was so weakened by fast-
ing that he was shivering even while
wearing it, and needed something much
warmer.
“Yes,” he said, “it must go. I don’t
know how I shall get along without it,
but j cftnnot hear the poor little ones cry
, bread ”
He was not in general an envious man,
but when he saw the slick, well-fed cit : -
zens buttoned up to the chin in warm
overcoats coming out of their grand
homes, while his children were starving,
he had some bitter thoughts of the ine-
quality of fortune’s gifts. Why should
they be happy while he was so miserable?
Ther , n . JU* , . with ... h,s , .
« a _ P-win*
hands thrust deep m the pockets of his
shaggy overcoat. There was a jolly
smile on his face. He was doubtless
thinking of a pleasant circle nt home,
Robert knew him as a rich cabinet-maker,
whose ample warehouse he often passed.
jj e applied to this man only two davs bc-
fore for employment, and had been re-
fused. Just as he passed Robert Mr.
Grimes drew his handkerchief from his
pocket. As he did so he did not per¬
ceive that his pocketbook came with it
and fell on the pavement. He did not
perceive, but Robert did.
His heart leaped into his mouth and a
sudden temptation entered his mind. He
bent quickly down and picked up the
pocketbook. He saw that , h» ,, movement
had not been noticed. Mr. Grimes went
on unconscious of his loss.
“This will buy bread for my wife and
children,” thought Robert instantly.
A vision of the comfort ths money
■would bring into that, cheerless room
lighted up his heart for an instant, but
then he was not dishonest. Conscience
spoke. The money was not his, much as
he needed it.
“But I can’t see my wife and children
starve,” ho thought. “God hassent thin,
lie dropped it in my way—it will save
their livos—a life is worth more than any¬
thing—God will forgive me.”
But all this was sophistry and ho knew
it. In a moment he felt it to be so.
There were some things worse than star¬
vation. Dolly had said so the last thing
before he came out. Could he meet, her
gaze if he returned - with food so obtained.
“I’ve lived honest so far. I wont turn
thief now,” he said.
Ho hurried after the owner of the
pocketbook with Jimmy’s cry for bread
sounding in his ears. It was with a sub¬
lime effort that he stepped forward aud
placed his hand on the tradesman’s
shoulder and extendod the hand that
held the pocketbook.
“Thank you,” said Mr. Grimes, turn¬
ing round; I hadn’t perceived my loss.
I’m much obliged to you.”
“You have reason to be,” said Robert,
in a low voice. “I was very near keep¬
ing it.”
“That would have been dishonest,”
said Mr. Grimes, his tone altering slight-
iy-
“Yes, it would; but it is hard for a
man to be honest when he is penniless
aud his wife and children without a
crust.”
“Surely you and your family are not in
that condition,” said Mr. Grimes earnest-
iy-
“Yes,” answered Robert, “it is too
true. For two months I have looked for
work in vain. I applied to you two days
ago.”
“I remember you now. I thought I
had seen you before. You still want
work?”
“I should feel grateful for it.”
“My foreman left yesterday. Will you
take his place at twenty dollars a week?”
“Thankfully, sir,” cried Robert, tremb¬
ling with joy.
“Then come to-morrow morning, and
take this for present needs.”
He drew a note from the pocketbook
and put it into Robert’s hand.
“Why, this is a twenty dollar bill!”
cried Robert in amazement.
“I know it. The pocketbook contains
a thousand dollars. But for you I would
have lost the whole. If I find you de¬
serving I will give you twenty more as
a bonus at the end of four months.”
“God bless you!” said Robert in .a
choking voice. “Good night.”
“Good night.”
Dolly waited for her husband in the
cold and cheerless room.
An hour passed, and there was a step
on the stairs. Could it be that her hus¬
band was coming up with that light elas¬
tic step?
She ran to the door eagerly.
Yes, it was he, and he carried a huge
basket in his hand.
Jimmy danced at the sight of it. “Ob,
it’s bread, isn’t it, father?”
“I should say so,” cried Robert radi¬
antly. “What do you call this?”
He heaped on the table the crisp rolls,
the golden pat of butter, the delicious
links of sausages, the packages of tea and
sugar and coffee, and some rosy apples
for the children, which made their eyes
sparkle.
Soon a man appeared with a sack of
coal; a bright fire warmed the room, and
there was a gay and merry laughter about
the little table that night.
The next week they moved to more
comfortable quarters. Mr. Grimes proved
a firm friend and Robert has an account
in a savings bank. He thanks God for
the dark hour in which he resisted temp¬
tation. —New York Journal.
Are We Losing Our Teeth?
Man’s dentition has to be judged from
our experiences made in the mammalian
group. Hence, first of all, it is a reduced
dentition. True, we do not know the
definite stages by which it was attained
in man, any more than we do in the ease
of the anthropomorphous, and all the
other r.pes <*f the O! 1 \Ynrld, but we
‘.hull not hesitate to maintain that the
ancestors of iimn ■ 1 u fu.ier num-
her of teeth, as loag as deductions are
justified from the observations of facts,
Our teeth hav.e decreased in nuraoer dur¬
ing the course of our geologioo-zoologi-
cal development; we have lost on either
side, above and below, two incisors, two
premolars, and one molar. By this we
transfer ourselves back to those periods
from which the jaw of the otocyon has
been preserved. Baume, our eminent
odontologist, in a recent work which wc
have repeatedly referred to, has success¬
fully followed and pointed out cases of
atavism or reversion in the human jaw,
by tracing cases of “surplus” teeth—and
certain dental formations met with in the
jaws in a large percentage of cases—back
to those portions of the jaw in the ani¬
mal ancestors of man which h»ve disap¬
peared in the course of ages.— Popular
Science Monthly.
Saratoga is making grand preparations
for a grand demonstration next autumn
to commemorate the surrender of Bur-
goync to Gates.
VOL 1, NO. 38.
“The Milking of the ‘Alabama.’" ?,
From the account, in the accond Centurg, officer bjj in
John McIntosh Koll, the
command of the Confederate cruiser Ala¬
bama, we take the following: “Whon
the firing ceased, Captain Semmea order¬
ed me to dispatch an officer to the sinking,j Kcar-
sarge to say that our ship was
and to ask that they send boats to savo
our wounded, as our boats were disabled.-
The dingey, our smallest boat, had es¬
caped damage. I dispatched Masters-
mate Fullam with the request. No boats
appearing, I. had one of our quarter boats
lowered, which was slightly injured, and
ordered the wounded placed in her. Dr.
Galt, the surgeon who was in charge ot
the magazine and shell-room division,
came on deck at this moment and was at
once put in charge of the boat, with or¬
ders to ‘tako the wounded to the Kear-
sarge.’ They shoved off just in time to
save the poor fellows from going down
in the ship.
‘ ‘I now gave the order for ‘every man
to jump overboard with a spar and save
himself from the sinking ship.’ To en¬
force the order, I walked forward and
urged the men overboard. As soon as
the decks were cleared, save of the
bodies of the dead, I returned to the
stern-port, where stood Captain Semmes
with one or two of the men and his faith¬
ful steward, who, poor fellow 1 was doom¬
ed to a watery grave, as he could not
swim. The Alabama’s stern-port was
now almost to the water’s edge. Partly
undressiug, we plunged into the sea, and
made an offing from the sinking ship,
Captain Semmes with a life preserver and
I on a grating.
‘ ‘The Alabama settled stern foremost,
launching her bows high in the air.
Graceful even in her death-struggle, she
in a moment disappeared from the face
of the waters. The sea now presented a
mass of living heads, striving for their
lives. Many poor fellows sank for the
want of timely aid. Near me I saw a
float of empty shell-boxes, and called to
one of the men, a good swimmer, to ex¬
amine it; he did so and replied, ‘It is the
doctor, sir, dead.’ Poor Llewellyn! he
perished almost in sight of his home.
The young Midshipman Maffit swam to
me and offered his life-preserver. My
grating was not proving a very buoyant
float, and the white caps breaking over
my head wero distressingly uncomforta¬
ble, to say the least. Maffit said: ‘Mr.
Kell, take my life-preserver, sir; you are
almost exlipusted.’ The gallant boy did
not consider his own condition, but his
pallid face told me that his heroism was
superior to his bodily suffering, aud I re¬
fused it. After twenty minutes or more
I heard near me some one call out,
‘There is our first lieutenant,’ and the
next moment I was pulled into a boat, in
which was Captain Semmes, stretched
out in the stern-sheets, as pallid as death.
He had received during the action a
slight contusion on the hand, and the
struggle in the water had almost exhaust¬
ed him. There were also several of our
crew in the boat, and in a few minutes
we were alongside a little steam-yacht,
w hich had come among our floating men,
and by throwing them ropes saved many
lives. Upon reaching her deck, I ascer¬
tained for the first time that she was the
yacht Deerhound, owned by Mr. John
Lancaster, of England. In looking
round I saw two French pilot-boats en¬
gaged in saving our crew, and finally two
boats from the Kearsarge.”
Advice to Stoop-Shouldered People.
A stooping figure is not only a familiar
expression of weakness or old age, but it
is, when caused by careless habits, a di¬
rect cause of contracted chest and de¬
fective breathing. Unless you rid your¬
self of this crook while at school you will
probably go bent to your grave. There
is one good way to cure it. Shoulder
braces will not help. One needs not an
artificial substitute, some means to devel¬
op the muscles whose duty it is to hold
the head and shoulders erect. I know of
but one bull’s eye shot. It is to carry a
weight on the head. A sheepskin or
other strong bag filled with twenty or
thirty pounds of sand is a good weight.
When engaged in your morning studies,
either before or after breakfast, put the
bag of sand on your head, hold your
head erect, draw your chin close to your
neck, and walk slowly about the room,
coming back, if you please, every minute
or two to your book, or carrying the
book as you walk. The muscles whose
duty it is to hold the head and shoulder
erect are hit, not with scattering shot,
but with a rifle ball. The bones of the
spine and the intervertebral substance
will soon accommodate themselves to the
new attitude. One year of daily practice
with the bag, half an hour morning and
evening, will give you a noble carriage,
without interfering a moment with your
studies.— Hull’s Journal of Health.
Japanese Athletes.
Dr. Oswald says that the superiority of
Oriental athletes is not so much in theii
absolute muscular strength, which they
cun hardly match against that of the
bulky Caucasians, as in what turfmen
would call their “staying powers.” In
Ohasaka, Japan, a German traveller saw
a pair of rough-and-tumble wrestlers fight
with short pauses for six hours and thirty
minutes, and only quit after their knees
and elbows were flayed and their faces
battered out of all resemblance to human
countenances.