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I Ulicllinsr Bcuus.
ghelling 1 loans! Bheliin* bwuait
This Is sport whan nights ore oold,
wbpn a cloud the moonlight acrowis,
Aud the wind is loud and bold.
Gathered close around tho tiro,
Prettiest o t household scenes,
g it fhe farmer’s family,
Shelling beans, Shelling boons!
Great big ‘‘squaw beam” white and pink,
Small “papooses” red and round
“Crowdles” pearl and crimson mixed,
In their poil the closest found.
“Cranberries” half a dozen shades,
“Californias” from tho eoast,
Flat-shaped “Limas” purple, white,
“Indian chiefs,” a dark bright host
“Wild goose” dotted with black speck*
Like the eggs the grass birds lay,
Red striped “Scipios,” “Rowleys” flat,
And “Imperials,” violet gray.
Little “pea beans," creamy white.
Spotted “bush beans” passing count,
From tho pods they rattle out,
Higher in the pans they mount.
He, who toiled to raise them all,
Underneath the summer sun,
Thinks how many ho can sell
Non- tho labor is all done.
While his wife in visions sees
Steaming, well-filled platters rise,
Brown baked beans for winter days,
Indian bread and pumpkin pies.
But the little boys and girls
Handfuls on the table lay,
And by shape and size and hue
Let their fancies with them play.
Pretty flower beds they devise,
Fence and pathway, house and field,
Such great pleasure to their hearts
Just a few bright beans can yield.
Shelling l>enns ! Shelling beans !
This is sport when nights are cold,
When a cloud tho moonlight screens,
And the wind is loud and bold.
Gathered close wound the fire,
Prettiest of household scenes,
Sit the farmer’s family, •
Shelling beans, shelling beans.
—Mary L. It. Branch, in Good Housekeeper.
A SCRAP OF PAPER.
It was once an immaculate sheet of
white note-paper, lying with its brethren
in a plush case on the stationer’s counter,
and was purchased with the rest by Mrs
Gordon for Helen's birthday gift.
1! fore coming into Helen’s possession
it spent a dreary time in a big, busy
work-room, where it was stamped and
pounded and generally ill treated, but
whence it emerged bearing a wonderfully
twisted blue monogram of which II and
I* ' v ' Te *-* le principal letters. Helen was
delighted with her gift, ahd exhibited it
with pride to Mr. John Cunningham,
who, however, observed that it “wouldn’t
be of much use,” and added in ail ex-
phnintory whisper that “she would soon
med aC instead ofaB.” AY’hereupon
Helen blushed, and pretended to be very
busy putting away the case in her pretty
secretaire. There, in a dim, vio’.et-scent-
ed corner, our particular sheet, which
ehaneed to be about the middle of the
box, lay undisturbed for weeks, till, as
its fellows were gradually removed, and
sent forth upon various missions, it came
in time to be the top sheet. Then one
night - or rather morning—its mission
began.
About 2 o’clock on a Wednesday morn¬
ing Helen returned from a ball, and, in¬
stead of going quietly to bed, as usual,
she hurried into her little boudoir, and
'hopping into* a chair before the secre-
tairc, buried her head iu her hands, and
begun to sob bitterly. “Oh, I wish I
hadn’t! 1 wish I hadn’t!” she said over
nnd over again. At last, however, she
grew calmer; and, opening her desk,
drew forth the top sheet from its place
5nd began to write rapidly.
“I know I can never rest, John, with-
lll| t lirst— even though this can not be
rent till morning—explaining to you
what happened to-night, and telling you,
< h‘ ar John, that 1 mu very, very ssrrv
j and ashamed. 1 know quite well that I
was wrong in giving three dances to
Laptain Morse when you had expressly
asked me to have as little to do with him
89 possible; and, believe me, I did not
intend dancing with him at all. If it had
not been for Louise Hill I never should
have done so. You know her teasing
wa y. In the dressing-room this evening,
before we went down stairs, she asked
nic if i intended dancing with Captain
Morse, and when I wouldn’t answer, de-
( '* :ir <'d she believed that you had forbid-
( ' un 'b and ended by daring me to dance
with him more than once. Afterward,
"Iron he asked for two dances, 1 happen-
' to '°uk up, caught Louise’s mocking
glance, and was silly enough, on the im¬
pulse of the moment, to let him put his
name down twice, thinking that I could
ex P'ain to.you how it happened. I had
no idea then that you were close by
nnd had seen it all, aud when, later in
t * 10 f ’ v,, > | ing, 1 tried to tell about it you
you
^''CROC-old and distant that my pride
lose, and, out of bravado, I'gave him a
third dance. But when I saw your pain-
St< ni John, 1 was quite misera¬
ble, and I even forgive you for flirting so
abominably as you did for the rest of the
cveilill f? with Louise. Now I have told
you all about it. Please, dear, dearest
John, forgive your own Helen.
**• ®*—I will wear the frock you like
1° the opera party Thursday evening.”
Then, a happy smile on her face, Hel¬
en left her letter lying on the desk and
went to bed.
' F 16 DPxt morning, just as she w r as pre-
s,lli - tl '» address an envelope, “Miss
Louise UiU" 1 ,
welcome was announced. Helen’s
might certainly have been wore
cordial, but her visiter, wtyKitUaiawi,
cluiUttd «d uud on, and aired ker vUtvi
ou every conceivable subject, remarking
at last, as she rose to take her leave:
“So, Helen dear, it’s all off between you
nnd Mi-. Cunningham)”
“From whom did you derive your in¬
formation?” asked Helen, coldly.
“Well, from himself,” replied Miss
Hill, with a would-be conscious laugh.
“At least, he asked me to go with him
to the opera party to-morrow uiglit, and
as I knew that tov had expected to ac¬
company him, I supposed, of course”—
“You are at liberty to suppose any¬
thing you like, Louise,” said Helen, “but
if you please,” still more stiffly, “I should
prefer not to discuss the subject.”
And Mist Hill, with a satisfied air, de¬
ported. A moment later Helen had
snatched the letter from her desk, crush¬
ed it passionately into a tight, hard ball,
and flung it into the -waste-basket. “He
shall nover see it— nccerl" elm declured,
with an indignant sob, us slss left tb«
room.
In a little while Mary, the housemaid,
came in, broom in hand, opened wide the
windows and placed the waste-busket on
the window ledge while she went to seek
her dustpan. As she opened the door a
mischievous—or w-as it a beneficent?—puff
of wind whirled our particular bit of pa¬
per, in company with a torn dress-ntaker’s
bill and the programme of a morning
concert, out of the open window 1 All
three were blown together to the street
corner, and there parted company. What
happened to the other two wus never
heard, but Helen’s letter became some¬
how wedged in between a lamp-post and
a small block of coni which had been
dropped near it, and remained there till
toward evening, when it was noticed and
picked up l>y an old scrap collector, who
s.ull.d il our poor,
into lier Kick imong a lot of .e,y
rags and papers of all kinds and emptied
all together ‘ll,,. that evening ou the floor of
,, the ccllsi which ... bhc , oceupie H 1 with ... ,,er her
sister. Now the scrap collector’s sister,
known ns “Saircy” Malony, was a
“sweeper” nt the large theater where
Patti was then nightly trilling. Her
duties led her thither every morning at 0
o’clock, nnd kept her there usually for
five or six hours. She was in the habit
of carrying with her a crust of bread or
some similar delicacy to serve a* luuck-
eon. On the Thursday morning, being
seized with unaccountable daintiness, it
occurred to her to wrap up her crust,
which usually went unprotected into a
corner of her huge pocket. She sought
among her sister's heap for a suitable
wrapper aud selected Helen's crushed
letter, which, although it had lost much
of its original freshness, was still several
degrees cleaner than the rest. She smooth¬
ed it out—not being able to read, it»
contents had no interest for her—wrap¬
ped it round her crust, and slipped the
parcel into her pocket. There it reposed
till noon, when Mrs. Malony, having
nearly finished her work, seated herself
in company with Me'sdames Flannigau
and O'Riley, parquet and balcony sweep¬
ers, in one of the lower boxes, and pro¬
ceeded to discuss her luncheon. The
theater, with its dim half-light and long
rows of carefully “sheeted” seats, was a
ghostly looking place; the shrill voice of
an “under-study”—whose services, ow¬
ing to the illness of a prima donna, were
likely to be in request, and w-ho wits hav¬
ing a solitary rehearsal on the stage, toss-
mg about her lean arms as Elvira—was
the only sound which pierced the silence;
the three old crows in the box mumbled
their crusts nnd conversed in whispers.
Suddenly a door banged, and the firm
trend of the Huge manager was heard ap¬
proaching. In fear and trembling Mrs.
Malony and her companions made a hasty
exit fiorn their comfortable quarters—on
exit so hasty thi.t the first-mentioned
lady’s luncheon wrapper—in other words,
Helen’s much abused letter—dropped ou
the floor and was kicked unnoticed un¬
der one of the chairs—the identical chair,
in fact, which was occupied that evening
by Miss Louise Hill. Thus it came to
pass that during the second act of
“Lucia” a certain well known blue rr.on-
ogrtm on a torn nnd dirty piece of paper
which lny half concealed by Miss Hill’s
sweeping train attracted the attention of
that young lady’s escort.
By and by he managed, unobserved,
to secure it, and, making some excuse,
retired to the foyer. Ten minutes later
the indignant Miss Hill received by a
messenger Mr. Cunningham’s “deepest
regrets nnd apologies for being obliged
to leave the theater on sudden, urgent
business,” and had to content herself for
the rest of the evening with th* vacuous
youth whom her escort had deputed to
till his place.
* * * * *
Among the most cherished treasures of
Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham is a ccr-
tain torn and disreputable scrap of pa>
j,« r __ A. 0. Warwick in Chicago News,
Too Low for * he Tide.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men,’’
commenced the long-haired poet enttr-
ing the editor’s sanctum.
“Oh ’ ves ’ ” replied 1 the busy man, stop-
-
ping work long enough , to , waft the airy
creature through the open door on
point of his substantial gaiter; “but you
have got down too low for the tide;
you’ve been struck by the under toe,”—
Statttnm.
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 2-1, 1886.
A Wider Ylsiou.
Bow sad they scorn—tbs houses of the dead—
And how tho shadows of the trees advauce
And then withdraw, as they were spirit led,
And meant to mock us with a prayer unsaid,
Ur goblin dance.
It is not well, methinks, to revel thus;
It is not well to stir In such a place.
The dead are wiser than the best of us;
They lio so stiU, and yet, white we discuss,
They win the race.
No doors are hone 1 The dead have need of
none.
They hold aloof; they pray beaeaUi tiio
sod.
With sightless eyes they sui beyend the suu;
And they will hear, la truth, when all is
done,
The voice of God.
Yes! they will hoar It; they bftve team’d at
hut
A wider wisdom than the world bestows.
Hunger Is our* to-day ; but theirs is past. I
They toil uo uior*, and la the wintry blast
They fliul repose. Lancaster.
—George
I1UUUK0US.
Foot jiuds—Corn piaster!
There is generally an “if” in the way.
Frequently the sheriff.
A petrified .... clock , , , has , been found . , .
mi
Rome. Another indication of hard
tkues. !
Ever} v „„„, man has some hobby, and every
girl looks forward to the time when eh*
will nave a nuDuy.
There is any amount of good
in the dictionary, but it is dietributed in
a very tantalizing manner.
A carp 1 said to be 268 years J olrl has
teen taken out of the river Spree. This _
ahow* that fish «m .tend . P roe. tetter
than men can.
ft is reported that Henry Bergh is car-
1,1 his sympathies cuhiv.tl.g for animals so far
i, . b.ld .poto.U,
h«a „. p«tm. te Uta.
, . thousand device* for
cou ! >lln « , have bccn , P atcnted , . and , J ct .
t j, oussn ds of bachelors and maidens go
it . alone this . country.
in
A lady who lost a pet canary bird by
death was inconsolable until somebody
suggested that she have it stuffed and
put nnt on on lier her hnnnet bonnet, She bile is is non now »s as nappy hannv '
ss ever.
‘ >\ lint murderous-looking villain . the .
a
prisoner 1 is!” whispered 1 the old lady ■’ to
her husband iu the police court room. -‘Id
be afraid to get near him.” “Sh!”
warned her husband, “that isn’t the pris¬
oner, he hasn’t been brought in yet. It’s
j uc *S c - ’
The Air Guu.
The air-gun is simply a pneumatic en¬
gine, for the purpose of dischaijj[iug bul¬
lets by the elastic force of compressed
air. It,is not known exactly when or by
whom it wus first invented, but it was
certainly in use in France three centuries
ago. It is probable that had not the
gunpowder beeu discovered at so early a
date air-guns might have been made very
effective. They are usually made in the
form , of , muskets, .... having a , hollow ,, stocki . ,
which is filled with compressed air from
a force-pump. The lock is nothing more
than a valve, which lets into the ban-el a
p.,t of the oo,» F «rt * from th. took
when the trigger is pulled. The gun is
loaded with wadding and bullet in the
ordinary way, and the bullet is driven
frnm irom the 1 tic barrel uoiru bv uy the me expa exnansive n action ucuon
of tile air. Tile range of the gun de-
pends upon its ire Size ei 7 P „nd and the the amraint amount and and
degree of compression of the air. The
squire foot of the degree of compression
»< O. *■ D— die prMsure
atmosphere,, or 750 pounds, for i.wtance,
the impulse given to the ball is almost
equal to that of un ordinary charge of
j Air-*.,. * Mm,■times
mml, i„ the tern o, »„M , 6 sticks, so
they can be readily used for purposes of
defense. Air-guns are generally regard-
cd as somewhat unsafe, but it is not
known that any law 1 ms ever been enact-
cd against them. In the hands of inexpo-
rioneed or malicious persons they are cap-
ablc of doing much mischief. Infer-
Gee an.
A Big Baptizin’ by Military Order.
Gen. Stevenson relates the following
incident of the war. He said that in his
command was a very devout and energetic
chaplain, exceedingly earnest in regard
to the spiritual welfare of the soldiers,
especially before going into battle.
“The preacher,” said Gen. Stevenson,
“came down to where Billy Wilson’s
Zouaves were iitcamped and had u talk
with Bill^ He said that his efforts had
been wonderfully blessed; that he had
baptized fifty men from one regiment, a
hundred from another, and so on, enum¬
erating tho fruits of his religious labor,
and he suggested to Billy that ns they
were on the eve of a -battle it would be
well for him (the chaplain) to talk with
Billy’s men.
“Billy was very proud of his command,
and he turned to the chaplain and said:
‘That ain’t necessary; I’ll save you that
trouble. Adjutant,’ said he, calling an
officer, ‘you just go and make a detail of
j 300 men, and take em down to the creek
an d have’em baptized. No blamed regi-
ment ... this s:.all ii go ahead . of f Billy
in corps
WiDon’s Zouaves.’
| “And,” continued the General, laugh-
ing heartly at the reminiscence, “blamed
if the Adjutant didn’t obey Billy’s or-
! tiers,”
THE HEWS IH GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
RASTRltN AND M11IOLE STATES.
Sixty Now York car-drivers have boon
arrested for rioting during the recent tie-up
of the various lines.
Eight young men, while fl.-hing on Long
Pond Lake, near Hazeltou, Penn., were
thrown into tho water by the capsizing of
their boats. Two of them were drowned.
At a meeting of prominent Irish-Ameri¬
cans in New York, held for the purpose of
raising Home money to aid Parnell and his Irish
Rule followers, $U,0J0 was immedi¬
ately of liberty" subicrilwxl, and an appeal “to all lovers
was issued.
AV infield B. Thompson-, twenty-four
Tears Mo., shot old, a medical student, of Kansas Citv,
and killed his bride of two weeks
in their room at a New York hotel, and thou
sent four bullets crashing loto his own body,
inflicting fatal wounds. He refused to assign
any reason for the at t
Tile sloop Priscilla won tho first of the
eeries of races given by the New York
Yacht Club to see which versa! would contest
with the English for the America's Cup in
the next international race. The Puritan,
which defeated the Geucsta last year, came
iu last-
Twenty-tiiree miners recently convicted
of riot and conspiracy havo 1 e -n renteuced
at prisonment. AVashington, Penn., (o e ght months’ im¬
The Vermont Republican State ticket is
headed by E. J. Ormsbee for Governor. The
resolution* adopted by the convention ar-
raign istratiou the Democratic party and the Admin-
iu relation to the disposal of F deral
offices in Vermont; condemn the Morrison
Tariff bill; take a radical stand against in-
temperance; Rule favor Gladstone’s Irish Home
measures, and urge Congress to legislate
against oleomargarine.
T™ l^n^o^ekh^^ £
Long wharf Now Haven, Conn, have b en
The ‘“housPvres S tire ra »t oDrasivj^of’*the
kind in Now England.
Ay en ,f nwr ' two brakemen and jr. a fireman
K^n^c»»o« ,
renu -
nated Aaron ClaSffo^Gorernon^* .... D ° ml
The sloop Pris ilia won for tho second
.-I.**.®******.
..oithTnd \ve.t.
A tiue at Muscatine, Iona, has destroyed
a space of six blocks filled with lumber, a
sawmill valued at #00,000, four dwellings and
four bridges.
policeman OmcKE fatally IIavsex, wounded the seventh by the Chicago bomb-
threw,ng Anarch,-fa, hashed m the hos-
Dr. Morrison Mchford, editor of the
Kansas City (Mo.) Times, the leading paper
botwe „ u St i^ uisan d Ban Francisco, was
shot and seriously xvoun led while riding In a
street car at Kansas City by AV r . D. Carlisle,
a lawyer. Two merchant other passengers Hale in the and car—
a prominent named Carlisle. The a
young shooting lady—were wounded by Carlisle
grew out of attacks upon
in tho Times.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
rels Company of beer has refused Chicago to transport firm S,000 in Mar- bar-
from to a
shalltown, Iowa. The firm has brought sdifc
for $10,000 damages.
Alfred A. Taylor has been nominated
for Governor by the Tennessee Republicans.
The Indianapolis Democrats have renorni-
nated AV. S. Holman for Congress.
An attempt has been made to blow up M.
M. Secor, ex-Mayorof Ha ine, AYis., by such plac-
ing a bomb in front of his would house iu a
position that bis carriage pass over and
explode exploded the instrum ?nt of death. in doors, The bomb nnd
while Mr. Becor wai
badly wounded a Bohemian i^ruied Jambor,
who was arrested ou suspicion,
i \\ ASHINCTON.
The grandson of tha Emperor of Brazil.
now on a visit to this country, made a call
upon the President a few days since, uud the
following evening attended the State recep-
As a g re „,j upon j n committee, the Sundry
j Civil Appropriation bill appropriates #21,-
! S^!5C!&W®51ff3S; $26,205,747.
was
Additionai. postmasters nominated by
; the President:—George Kimball, L. Sleeper, Ipswich, Natick, Mass.;
Mass., Edward P.
' i Charles Kieth, Greenfield, Herman Mass.; Baumer, Miner
' Johnstown, Ramons, Canisteo, Penn.; N. Thomas Y.; Brady, Bergen
Point, ' N. J.; Edward McClune, Wright’s Fairfield,
m . Ju|ja D y oun g, Grove,
i I1L ; Henry AV. Clendeuuin, Springfield,
Doleu Bi-owmville Neb.; Charles E. Mor-
j Av'ilUam rtita
Anacou da, Mont.; J. Brynan, Ban
Francisco.
and S^teV** Abraham R(^e to he
.
of
^ ^° S °^ ' ' ’
jjrooldyn
Tiie ? cna tc has rejected the nomination of
j John U Handley tabu Postmaster at Fair-
: AcC0RDISC , to a statement of Secretary
Lamar, transmittedto the Senate, there are
employed m the Interior distributing Departmentin pubic re-
eeiving, folding and doc-
cost o?beU wn r *fs 000 and "Tyrar?
The Secretary -ays there of'distribution ought to be estnb-
ished some better system of
the publications of the government.
FOREIGN.
A Chilian bark was wrecked nt Valpa¬
raiso during a storm, and thirteen persons on
board, including the captain, his wife and
r.hei • three children, were drowned.
The suicide of the late King Ludwig has
caused great excitement throughout Bavaria,
ami a full investigation of tho manner of bis
cleat, i is demanded, assertions having been
n ad that it was not a case of self-murder,
but of assassination.
During au election at Santiago, Chili, a
great riot occurred. Forty persons, in¬
cluding a prominent member of the Radical
party, were killed and many injured.
Vast crowds viewed the remains of King
Ludwig ns thoy lay in state at Munich,
j Cuba, In a causo.l railroad by accident train running near Macagua, off the
a
track, fourteen persons were wounded.
C intraky Go expectations, Gladstone is to
be vigorously opposed by the (/oarer-, atives
in his contest for a seat in tho House of Com-
m ons from the Midlothian district. His op-
ponent is Colonel Campbell \V alker.
submHWto^^lrianDfet^o Kin? Ludwig 11 is prove de the
i isanityof the lata a ree
j s ters to death, copies of whi ;h were sent to
a’l the members of the Govorn-
ment, and a decree sentencing a number
o{ tha Mini tors to banishment to
I have aS> b^submftt ^ m wdiidPit K
that the King injured them by throwing at
I i t *dSMe^ro^th»* to^orrn Cabinet, n ‘o S ^*pro^o with bp.'valet t nJ G "tta
I a «u
RmUm t.
LUDWIG'S SUICIDE
THE DEPOSED It.AVAHJAS fif.VC
DROIVSS HIMSELF.
III. Physician Also Brow ned In Trying to
Wave the .Mouarrh.
Ludwig, who was recently deposed from
the Bavarian throne, hus committed suicide.
Ho had gone out fora promenade in the f, park
of , the .. Borg t . ........ a,tie, accompanied . by ,, br.Gud- ,
don, his p!iy»Hau. Tho King suddenly threw
himself into Btarnburg Luke and was
drown'd. Thy physician jumped into the
water to res.ue tho King uud wa? also
drowned.
l)r. M'ju’leraud II ibort, the kinj’ssteward.
ha 1 tho bodies of Ludwig a id Dr. Gulden
couvoyed to Berg Car le nnd placed on beds.
Alth mgh there was neither any perceptible
respiration tur pul e movement in either
l> rely, Dr. Mml or and his assistants of tlio
ambulanto c aps attempted to restore ani¬
mation in both, nil l only corned tho life r efforts
at resus.'Ration at midnight, wlnn wus
pronounced extinct in both . as s.
Tho medical commission which e- a niued
the Into Ki
be him Hogged to proatre until they tiis consent bled and to a then regency, te have to j
belief thoir eyes extracted. Before his death the j
pie was spreading the among King's tha deposition common.pe> l
Illegal. of Bavaria that was
The people did not believe he was
insane. Precautions had been taken topro-
King. vent the populace from rising to restore the
King Ludwig’s suicide has cast a deep
gloom over Munich. Now it is seen plainly
that king the people were deeply attached to the
and evidences are everywhere manifest
of the popular sorrow caused by his tragic
death.
Generate of ths Bavarian army met and took
b >' t !' l l or ott0 ' wbefat ,,n assumes the title
King, r under the* name of Otto tho First
Ho is threo years younger thuu Ludwiij,
havi b , oa born April 37th, 1818. Otto
Princo Luitpold, his uncle, will remain Ko-
g< Tho Generals of the have taken the
Prince army asRe-
oath of allegien e to Luitpold
~
Tho physicians appointed , to examine the ,
mental condition of Knig Ludwug, of llava-
[ tales la - him from that l 118 malady incapaci- Vi,.?* |
the govern! physiuans l “ 7 . report . Prince “I :
sequence of
£ tllZ
l0;g iu w ich hl . assumed the regency an 1
summoned the Bavarian Diet to meet on th.
Couut Holstein, who was instructs King 1 and bv
the Ministry to wait upon the I
j ask him to authorize the appointment |
of a Regency Council, King when was arrested he entered by
I order cf the
I the Castle of orders Hobensehwangau. of The
King d'amis also be gave placed around that the a guard castle. gen- The
Regent thereupon issued an order to release
Count Holstein and to surrender the castle to
the State Commission.
Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm, Louis II.
f Bavaria, was born August 25,1815, and
wa , therefore, in bis fo ty first year at tho
time of his death. His grandfathor, Louis
J - Buccoede l hii father on the Bavarkn
^ruction .^“age o? 'letLvT^nd 0 'arte and hb com
of so many fine public buildings
all( ] W oamnaats. He was a mau ot Demo-
cratic ideas, although his government ns-
suiueia despotic The character. disturbance He occasioned was da-
voted to poetry.
by his infatuation for Lola Montsz was tho
immediate cause of his retirement in 1848.
He died in Nice in 18(H, when he was suC-
ceeded 011 his death by his son, who has just
ended his eccentric eareey in a tragic man-
ner. Hit IVagner, one personal and fr.midship Lohengrin was with
Rieha rd was the
first theatrical performance the King ever
witnessed. This, like all the subsequent ones,
was given for Louis’ sole enjoym;at iu a
darkened theatre. His lavish expenditure of
money for his private pleasure, his erection
of numerous gorgeous palaces, his ruaguifl-
ceut of riding underground breakneck retreats, speed his peculiar through freaks
at city
after city at midnight, the difficulties with
his people, occasioned by his illimitable
debts, and his behavior of recent years, ex¬
hibiting many of the ordinary traits of hope-
less lunacy, are familiar to newspaper road-
ecu. castle AVheu, Hobensehwangau, after barricading himself finally in his
of he was in-
dueed to open the gates and was taken out
i anil transferred would to Berg Castle, it was feared
that he attempt suicide, and precau-
tions were taken to prevent him. These sovm
t > have li-eu somewhat relaxed after his nr-
rival. The seclusion and rigorous character
lie grandfather’s eccentricity has assumed
rlftSr ISS wSSS t ST,"" KU!’«h 8 c,'™ ,SMr
" “
Outside of Bavaria, L uis was chiefly
known inapuiiticalway by his friendship
Z'ssfTsiVrs* feSSieSmf insts:
Prussian war he was th 3 tirstto offer tho
assistance agah t Napolcan
I’ONVIOTS sth.k^.N SOUTH f AUO
-
N« Food to be Given Them r«"l Ttw,
1 ' " }
Mventy-threo o„ thePUteburg corvids railvord employed. there isagimg Tnesdij of j
sixty-seven of these convicts refuse! to work,
The< ffirors in charge went to Rileigh andheld I
« conference with the penitentiary • authorities
wliich . resulted , , . .. Ins returning . . will, , hrgt
in a
force of extra guards. The convicts refined to
11 ma out of the stockade or work. Initrir-
lions havo been given to give no fool to t’ use
who refuao to work. It. is a new an l curious
P *«• of Mi* «>™°‘ lBb,,r , question. rn Die me.i
nuke no complaint of their treatment, of fare.
They s’mp’y decline to work. They arc verj
closely guarded, and it is thought tho menu
taken will prove 3 ucees<fill. The rin^ loader*
will be punished.
HURLING THE BOMB.
j * Diabolical Attempt to Murder *
Hlayor iu Witte on sin.
At 10.S1 Tuesday night a druam to bomb was
hurled into the carriage way of Mayor M. M.
Secor’a house in Racine, W b. The bomb ex-
ploded with a report that startled the whole
city. Mr Sioor drove over the fuse that explo¬
ded tho bomb about fi teen minutes previous to
die explosion. A Bohemian _ named , Jmibor
was-Beverly hurt, as lie was traced by blood
rora his wounds for over a milo and a half to
be residence of ex-A deruiau Bdioo. H ? claims
hat he was passing Becor a rets deuco at the
tine of the explosion, on his way to the 11.10
train on the Northwestern railroad, but will,
uo doubt, have a chance to explain why he did
uotcdlfor help when to severo.y hurt, mate*?
pr 1 -uuuing away,
BASE BILL NOTES. I
Fowl.*ii. the colored second baseman,
loads the Western League in his post. ion. j
TH* Detroit* made seven home runs in a
recent game with the Bt. Louis U-ague nlue.
Hkvkiiai. Have) hill (Mass.) clergymen In that ore
constant at teaduuw at the games
I’tWB, of the AUantas, leads tho Buith-
ern Is-aguo in 1 all iu; with an average of
1
M'Uie extra-inning games are b-iingplav'd other
in . the Southern League than in any
oigauizatiou. j
Atlanta leads all the Southern Loigue
clubs in Lat i in j nnd has -running, while Ma-
ton is ut tlio top in fielding.
Til* heavy batters in tho League are all
left hander-, wfcnlo all the hard hitters in tu 6
American Association a e all right haudel.
Tati Chi agos hold the l ad on base run-
ring thus far this season, and have the lar-
gost number of “bases stolen to their credit.
HritDfutK’s batting in late games bos beeu
the prettiejt exhibition ot that biauch of
baseball that lias been s cm in Boston this
seism.
Htaou, tho Yale pit her, has struck out
eighty-two men in eight games. Nichols, of
fivegame^ :iSStrUl ‘ kOUtt0rty '*' B ““
lost J: St. L_jvus, won lost 10 , Kansas Ut).,
won 3, lost 7.
The League championship since 1870 has
tea won as follows: Boston. 1877,1878,186 1885; Vvovi- <!;
Chicago, 1B7G, 1880, 1881, 1882,
dene, 187V», 1884. i
McRlonk and Weir, of the Buffalos, are
tions, BttilKi third and SS&A'tSZ&lS short.
Detroit’s first ba eman, Dan Brouthers,
was hit in the head with a ball at the homo
plate re ently and knockedsenreloss. HeSOOii
recovered, however.
Should th© New Yorks keep until well they up begui to the I
leaders in tho league race pobsi-
their last games at home, it will still bo
bJe for them to come out lirst.
one club tauiatf this making eleven bite iu one ■
season, of New York.
inuing off Keefe,
There are :tOf> players under contract in
the National League, American Association,
and Southern League, distributed as follows: >
League, t*>; Association, 108; Southern
league, 103.
w«ahinrtnn« is
!5RSS hit him safely twic3
the Chicaoss only in a
recent game.
While the Chicago, were the President. in Washington, 1 lie
ro - utlv. t h -y called on
(U iy ni; , n he recogn z "d was McCormick,
n " “* d: r * membe r >”"
tf. 1 1 ';-loielandTai'id . en'more tennV.ne I
^ players a h 8 ! ( >n , lay Llvel^uyou down their sticks in disgust, Buffalo^
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Thf. Ba:-rett-Booth company for next sea¬
son is completed.
Itrni-vsTKi v, the pianist, will soon make a
tour of Ame.-i ft.
Mme. Mon.iE'KA is at her ranch iu the
vicinity of Jxw Angeles, Cal.
The big Boston Th 'itre has begun a sum¬
mer sen-s re with cheap prices.
Mme. Berxharut’s South American debut
was made in Kio Janeiro on Jims 1.
Loxd os is the only European capital with¬
out a permanent operatic e-tabliahment.
The “Crowing Ilea,’ Colonel McCaull’s
now opera, is growing in popularity in New
York.
Mi*s Maud Banks, the daughter of thealri Gen
era! N. I’. Banks is to start out as a
cal star ire August.
Av Am -rican tour, beginning a undertaken year from
next October, uiay pos ibly lo
by He- ry Irving.
It is aren amced that Chrisfns Nilsson i > to
become Countess Casa Miranda. She will
first carry out her plans for a European
tour.
Mr. George M. Pullman bought more
than 1,000 tickets for the American Opera
Company, while it was in Chicago, and pro
senteul them to his friends an 1 employes.
Mbs. Lanotrv’s Lyons” impersonation of Fa dine the
in tho 4 ■ Lady of so impress* 1
London dramatic critics tiiat they have de¬
clared t int she may b.come aii actress after
all.
Charles Pope, tho manager and a do:-,
who has not a-upeared on the stage for sev-
era i years, pro poses to take up next season
the roles with whi h tho late John Mc-Cul-
lough was particularly identified,
! of’S hilleT-’s ’“Wallenstein."
f whole
”»«*
Mmk. Marcella Sembrith, „ the prima .
tars ^x^ntly 0 *? a° ^frectavsnbVtte
with her singing. ^gS^SSS'iSSa
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PERSONAL MENTION.
--
President McCosh of Princeton is nearly
eighty-six years oil.
Senator Loo an and wife will go to tho
Pacific Coast this summer.
Mrs. Olk vkland is said player. ti be ’ a “thought-
ful and exquisite piano
Oenkral Hancock’s memory is hnnorel
in lire iia rang . f Lie camp nt A\ estl oint lb s
year. yea-.
Mb. Twee ), ^ son K ,-, n of of the th „ “Bo: “Bo ,” cf Now
York : zro wth and national noiorioty, is to
qrit America to livo in Paris,
Untk:> Ktvfs SenatorGorman usually |
c.-.rr <• i an unli ghted cign•• u I i; mouth, b ,t
is k a *1 ;lot to Lave; moke i one for year ..
( /KO Ktatks Sknat >h Uearst i, si id
(o worth $20,000,ISO,I, and his cfcarill-s. wife g.v s
aw.iy S?‘JO.<KKl a year in private
“The Quern of Spain’s bnbv,” as a Madrid
ticker telLs, “is not a fine child but small and
puny, TT :s complexion is fair and bis eyes
are blue.
Mins Hose Cleveland announ;os Uor in¬
tention of going on a European jaunt this
summer, She has been paid $12,000 by her
publishers.
Captain Walter Bicker, the last sur-
vivin-g officer of the regular army who took
pa’ t in t’>c war of 1812, died a few days a^e
in New York.
Hon. \V. G. Owens, ex-Speaker of the
Kentucky ITou-e of Representative?, will, it
is th night, t.e the successor of Governor J.
Proct er JCnotfc.
Colonel E. Z. C. Jcdson, the writer, fa¬
miliarly known as “Ned Buntiiiio,” is slowly
re overing “Eagle’s from a long Nest,” au l painful ilbrs.
jjj s home, L near Stamford,
Conn.
; ,| n a i shoveling coal at ll-ty <eats e day
into the iron furnaces in tha district he now
represents.
Collis P. Hcntinoton, tho Cal fm-nia
He is sixty-five yotrsold. m4 hart pioasftut
but l ather bluff manner.
VOL. 1. NO. 39.
A CJVCLONB IN TEXAS*.
Ilun- s-n Blown ['own, Bnrrylna Tlielr Or.
capanta JIrni'Htk [he Unlaw.
A dispatch from Denton, Texss, says This
and adjacent counties were visited Wednesday
n0Qn aM , njffM hy tt ejrc ; on , which did
^ ^ e ln tM , Denton county. The
lami> hed th , himie of Mrs. l’rigmore,
who, with bur daughter, w« bnried in the ruins.
The mother was fatally injured the daughter
will recover. Tho resident) “I Ur. J. W. Ruth-
ur f or( ] blown from its foundation and
turned ov i ou its Hide. The family escaped,
having flat! to their s oim cave. Many barns,
abeds and ousLousos were blown down, and *
solioolliouae, at Stony, coinp'etely wrecked.
^ <oUool had beeu dismissed, however, and
f .... italitiea i ciulUd. , AtTilot Point • *. signs - and «
no
awnings wore cairied away and houses un-
rou fed. Williams & Newburg’s warehouse was
m ,, ve(1 1)y the to- ee of the wind forty feet from
fonud »M on . Kendall’s grain warehouse
was unroofed.
Report* from Cook comity arc ti the effect
that the storm was the licav est evor known,
y foundation n view a drug store was moved from
and turned around. Other
l 01 tt 0re d in every direction Large trees wei3
twisted off ami cairied away. Several lives are
*ep itc , , . .. fnrf whore the storm is
,
known to Lave atsimd the form of a tnil
fledged cyclone. At Ilarea two churches wera
boivn down several faimtiousis lorn to pieces
rn *»»-«
Bimilar damage was done, ana Hi, ltiley s
dwelling was blown to pieces. At McKinney,
bridge over Wilton’s crook was completely
k j tlullci’s grocery store was damaged,
the U1( roof 1001 being u carried <riirua off and the front of the
baildiug blown in. Corn was laid .ow , an , l
cot.on severely damaged. At Pleasant Valley
the will(1 waH more violent, and blew down th?
^.erten andMeth..dtatchnchcs, complete y
wrecking both. At Waco, J. C. 8ch,.ffci was
(truck by lightning and severely injured. 11;
w jil p ro bal>ly die. The storm is regarded as
lll0 mo8 t serious ever known in this region,
and the ilama ge to crops it is feared, was very
groat. Farther reportsoflossof life are ex-
pected.
the white notrsE reception.
The Preeldent nml III* Bride Receive the
People.
The Fresident’s reception Friday night w a i
attended by the , , largist , crowd . that ever f 11 , 0 „ k( k , d 1
to the white hon* on weh an eooMion.
Everybody was imit.d and the general curios.
ity to see Mrs. Cleveland carried the multitude,
regardless of color or condition. A more dem¬
ocratic mass of humanity can hardly be im¬
agined. The procoaeiou extended several hun¬
dred yards outside as llie people slowly entered
the porta’s of the mansion and filed through
the east room into thebueroom where tlia
President and Mrs. Cleveland stood, smiling
alike on high and low ns they entered. Mo-t
of the crowd sought the priv lege of shaking
hands, which was cheerfully granted by both
tho President and his wife to several thousand
of their follow citizens. The Pn sich nt had
just returned from a visit to the 8 hue' 7 . u
feast, where h ■ was aeeoided an enthusiastic
reception hy the German popu ation. Mis.
Cleveland wore her wedding dress, but tho
rich lace and embroidery had been taken off
to make it accoid with the simplicity of the re¬
ception. She seemed to enter thoroughly into
the spirit of the occasion, and stood the severe
test admirably. The great lawn in front of
the whito Lous; swaimed with people from
nine to eleven o’clock. It is estimated that,
fifteen thousand people gained admission, and
that at least five thousand failed to get in.
Just as the reception wascloa ng a procession
of nearly a. thousand people came in from
Bchuetzeii park, and marehed to the white
house.
As a popular social occasion, the even,
eclipses all the previous records at the bistort;
mansion.
HEWSY GLEANINGS.
Nevada has 1,500,000 acres of land for
sale.
An ancient law against public shaving is
being enforced in Boston.
The camp meeting fever ln Iowa is more
vigorous this summer than ever.
A Methodist missionary has been ap¬
pointed chief physician ot the Chinese army.
Eons a e so cheap that a large quantity of
the best grades has been put into cold stor-
Italian railroads reduce the fares of all
Island, T«. made 1, o>0,000 pounds «*»».-ft* of bogus butter
white men who have been enlisted to
fight the Apa-chea are to be paid $80 a month
JSScSSKS ra ‘*^L_ f .
erol thousand cfases ofreutagious^pluhabnia . that there and residen- are sev-
n , nonK spools the children in asylums
t ut in New York City.
An unknown and mysterious disease is car-
rv.ng off the jack rabbits in Inyo C'ouuty,
Cal., very fast. Th-ir bodies lie in great
numbers all t ir, ugu the sago In ush.
There s a lemon on exhibition in Marys-
ville, Cal. , grown at Notre Dame, which
msasurts tw elve and a half by ti t3en inches,
au 1 weighs one pound eight ounces.
The excessive dryness of the atmosphere
in Dakota anil Montana is said to c ause rheu¬
matism, and many persons u e obli ed to
seek a change of climate on this account.
A German inventor is building a balloon
whi-ii is 500 feet in length and will be oper¬
ated by steam. It will cost $125,000 aud he
has already betn offered $150,000 for his
patent.
AN INSANE FREAK.
A Child Suspended from a Second-stor*
Window hr a Hope Around Its N'rclt.
A ha'f-witted colored woman cieatecl i iteiua
excitement in Yamacraw, Ga., by suspending
from a second story window a three year old
child around whose neck she had drawn tight¬
ly a rope. The child was rescued in time to
save iis life. The woman was taken iu charge
l.y friends and sent to the country.
.
Not Lasting.
fineSretToudhrArolheP pme waterF’
Jeweler—“Yes, and they urn as
sparkling as the tears of a youug
widow.’’
Customer_“If that's the kind of
diuoumris they are I don't want them,
i 1 The water would QOt last very long. —
Hijlinyi,