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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE A, J HARP, Publisher , CORDON. Ills ISAVGURATIOS AH GOV ERF Olt OF GEORGIA. yiin liny (ilonmy anil Marred by Knln- I v{’resilient llnyrs nn Honored (.uest. wm 9 im m l/M / ft *02 \N m m 2r nr i hr' \ J The day set apart for the inauguration of a new Governor came in cold, rainy and thoroughly disagreeable. This may recount in a large measure for the fact (hat tiie crowd of out-of-town yisitors was much smaller than hud been expected by the managers of the occasion. Still there was a fair crowd in attendance, and the streets of the busy city of Atlanta for a time took on a holiday appearance. The procession formed on Whitehall street, opposite Trinity church, about 10:30 and shortly after 11 o’clock moved down Whitehall to Alabama, up Ala- haina to Broad, up Broad to Marietta, down Marietta to Pryor, thence up to Peachtree to the intersection of Forest avenue, where the infantry came to a hilt. The Governor’s Horse Guard, com¬ manded by Captain John Milledge, pro¬ ceeded out Peachtree to the residence of the late Walter 8. Gordon, corner of Peachtree street and Ponce de Leon Cir- ele, where they halted and saluted Gov. Gordon as he entered a carriage drawn by four horses, lion. W. C. Glenn, mem¬ ber of the House from Whitfield, aud Senator James 8. James, of the Thirty- sixth district, occupied seats in the car- riage with Govcrtior Gordon. The pro- cession then moved down Peachtree to (he Arriving capitol. at Hie capitol, the infantry formed on Marietta, opposite the build- ing, and the Governor’s carriage, followed by the Confederate veterans, in tommand of Col. Lovick P. Thomas, the Govern- ur's Horse Guard and the Hill City Cadets of command, Rome, Captain Charles arrived Coth- ran in who at 11 o'clock, moved up Marietta street to the entrance,, The streets were lined with people who cheered lustily as the procession moved, and Governer Gordon, ever anil anon, rising acknowledgement. in his carriage and lifting bis lrnt in After the address Chief Justice Jack- sun admini-tere 1 tbe usual oath of office. Tiie President handed to the Governor the great seal of tlic State, who in turn entrusted it to the custody of the Secic- tary of State. President Davidson then proclaimed the Hon. John B. Gordon Governor and eommander-ia-chief of the army and navy of the State of Georgia for the en- suing two years. When the ceremony was over quite a number of distinguished personages gathered around Governor Gordon and expressed their congratulations. Con- spicuous among these were ex-President hand Haves, who shook him warmly by tbe and complimented the inaugrnl ad- dress. solved, Immediately the joint session was dis- and as soon as the Senate retired, tl:e House adjourned. On the outside, on Marietta street, be- tween the capitol and the custom house, n large crowd gathered to witness the hist of the military display. But they were dimmed to disappointment. The vain had dispersed the military and driv- (a tiie hand to its quarters. Still the crowd waited until the carriage drawn by four white horses, which had been standing Governor, for some time waiting for the the was driven rapidly away, aud platoon of mounted police foil wed. The occasion came to an end without display, »d and nil went home in the rain a with little ceremony. The Governor’s Horse Guard scored a grand success in the dining given by that command to the local military and the State troops who took part in tiie inau- guil exorcises. 5 he dinner was given iu one of the stores in the Brown block, on Wall street, opposite tiie depot. The three flours of tiie store were used, and long tallies were placed in them. The seating eapneity uri’d, of the three floors was six huu- and while the feast was in progress ev jL r y chair had an occupant. ' lie grand military ball tbe Kimball house at was one of the most brilliant af- iursof the kind ever given in Atlanta. ' die Kimball, at ft o’clock, was in a 1 azc of light. Every floor of the arcade ™1 ''laminated. The; ball room never 0I mote beautiful. 10 guests, who began to arrive at „ clock, '■ | 0 were so numerous that they md.' tilled all the ball room, but they cd all tfie floors of the arcade and ■ many of the adjacent balls. The fCml- onus nl the-soldiery added much to the i 1 nancy of the also did the ffiwt toilets scene, ns if of the ladies. It Hundreds as everybody was present, of noted public men of Atlan- I i | J,her mEles mixed with the throng nn ' e I'tfl'tly whiled f\ away the hours as if rav e questions of state had ever ... ' e *cd them , again. or would ever vex them J ht '".Vuhtble, n ' ilitar y feature and was not brilliant LJ" U the few military or- ? S "hidi acted as an escort ol or ,utraded attention and admiration. ^ ,i'"'crnor-clect e 1 'lm and his escort reach capitol at 12 o’clock. Writ"!" 1'" , ’°'l’ ? re the 'I’m fair time (lie galleries in 1 UIn er8- Many sex ladies being present nn o 10 « ?° or of thc House. occupied tW ™d daughters Among ut and The imposing doorkeeper voice announced in a Into that the joint com mitteo and the Governor-elect awaited the pleasure of tho General Assembly. The president ordered that they be ad¬ mitted. The party entered it; the fol lowing General order: Gordon, escorted I). Scnntoi James, chairman of the Lcnute commit tee. Governor McDaniel, escorted by Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, chairman of the House committee. Ex-President Rutherford B. Haves, es¬ corted by Senator Butts. Prof Francis Whalov, of Yule, ex- Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, es¬ ham. corted by lion. Morgan Bawls, of Piling, officials, Following these were the Stale House United States Senators Joseph E. Brown and Alfred II. Colquitt, judges of the Supreme Court, of the Superior Court, and ex-judges of both courts. Governor McDaniel and the Governor- elect were seated to the right and left of the President. The ceremony was opened by nn elo¬ quent President prayer. Davidson then said: “We have assembled for the purpose of inau¬ gurating the Governor-elect of the State of Georgia, the Hon. John B. Gordon, of the county of DcKalb. I have the pleasure and the honor of presenting tc the General Assembly the Governor-elect, Hon. John B. Gordon.” General Gordon arose, and taking posi¬ tion just in front of the Speaker’s desk, facing address. the audience, delivered the inau¬ gural ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. The Animal Jleport of tlie Chief c.f itse Bureau. Mr. Graves, chief of the National bureau of engraving and printing, lias made bis report of the operations of the bureau during tiie last fiscal year. There were finished and delivered during tiie year $2(5,655,400 sheets of securities, in¬ cluding $4,077,218 of United Slates notes, certificates, bonds and national bank notes, amounting in value to bureau $5(13,- 500,890. The expenses of the during the year were $703,208, or $201,- 087 less and than less than for the preceding since 1878. fiscal year, any year salaries Tlw amount expended for was $3,433 the less charged than the appropriation, appropriation and amount to the for labor and expenses was $170,352 less than tiie amount appropriated, making the aggregate saving $182,785, which will he returned to the treasury unused. A largo share of the saving is due to a decrease in the work fairly produced, down but at least $125,000 may be set to tiie credit of economies which have been made in tbe management of the bureau. The estimates for the expenses of tbe bureau for the fiscal year 1888 are $9Q1,- 030. or $106,040 in excess of those for the current fiscal year. The increase is due to the increased quantity of engraving : nd printing., which tbe various depart¬ ments and bureaus of the government es ¬ timate that they will require. SOUTHERN RATES- Aic rnsso ngrr Pnols I- ixiiur ihc Prices of Tickets. The Southern passenger association and representatives of lines in the Chica¬ go and Ohio river pool, have finished the winter tourist rates to points in the south. A resolution was passed to con¬ tinue the regular excursion rates from Chicago and points in the northwest to Florida and the southern winter resorts. The rate to Jacksonville from Chicago will lie $25.40. Last year’s rate was $30,35. Commissioner Slaughter, of the Southern Passenger association, was au¬ thorized to designate what the rate to the other southern points should be. The question of making reduced rates for petition a special of excursion southern to meet California the com¬ the lines was discussed at some length, but it was finally decided to defer this subject for future consideration. THE BALTIMORE AND O'llO EXPRESS. rumored the Baltimore . , It i? that Ohio express company lias at last' suc¬ ceeded in reaching into the southern ter¬ ritory by a contract made with the Qri'een and Crescent route for (no transporta¬ tion of its ears over the entire line of that system. The Baltimore anil Ohio pcojjlo have for many years been making an-if- fort to reach southern territory^ ftmt failed until recently, The the Adtims company with the Queen, ftiu.1 Crescent road expired November people 1st, and the Baltimore and Ohio im¬ mediately made a hid for the franchise. If tant true, piece Ibis of scoop news will for prove fruit gvowcmi»- an impor¬ this section. It will give the.gfowers competitive rates for the It;,asportation of produce, and will especially enhance the value of the strawberry extensive. interests that have recently grown so A CONFEDERATE! MONtJMRNT AT GET. tv sut: iso. The first confederate monument ever erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg, It Pa., has been put in position. is of Richmond granite, and marks the posi¬ tion of the Second Maryland Infantry, formerly the First Maryland battalion, which was stationed at. the foot of Culp’s hill, on the confederate left, and which also participated in the short hut bloody charge made on the federal troops stationed on Culp’s hill, on the evening of July 2. 18C3. The monument will bo dedicated November 19th. AN A It VI flIANHI.i l), Columbus Spearman, a son of John Spearman, of Buchanan, Georgia, had his arm badly mangled with a gin last week. He was pushing back the motes with his hand, when the gin caught his shirt, drawing ins arm into the gin. AN ILLICIT STILL UNCOVERED. A dispatch from Buchaunnn,Ga., says the revenue officers made a raid in the first district in this county capturing who a still and Dr. Ab Charles’s son, was running it. A negro who was assisting in running the still, wade his escape. ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1886. THE SOUTHERN STATES. NEWSY ITEMS G ATHERED UP IN PARAGRAPHS. GEORGIA. For neighborhood somo days, recently, the woods the of Sparta were on fire, A reorganization of tlie Savannah, Dublin and Western Railroad Company took place at Savannah on Monday. V fire ft t Columbus destroyed the insured. Large forest ires have been raging _ through tho woods around. Milledgeville fierr two or three days. The smoke and blazes can be distinctly seen from the city. There is a big loss in wood,fences, etc. The tires are about five miles from the town. Miss Bertha Courtney was arrested at Columbus, charged with aiding and abetting the prisoners in escaping from jail on Tuesday. She is a sister of Wil liam Courtney, one of the escapes, and the jailer believes she furnished him with a saw. The attendance at the .... Albany academy , continues to increase, audit has been found necessary to employ another teach- ; er. Professor 8. P. Orr, of Athens, is the gentleman selected for the place, and lie will arrive to lake charge of his duties in a few weeks. The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgiarafitoed has made an important change in (he schedule of its passenger trains. Train No. 11, arriving at Atlan¬ ta at 11:55 p. m., and heretofore stop¬ ping at Atlanta, lias begun to run through to Brunswick, making close connections at Jcsup with the Savannah, Florida and Western for Jacksonville. Mapiev s gin house and , nbout , , tcnba.es , ,, of cotton, mid near five thousand bushels of cotton seed burned near the line of Baldwin and Putnam counties on Monday night. I he gin house and fixtures were very fine ami the loss v\ ill reach near three thousand dollars, no insurance. Supposed house incendiary.. burned This this is the second gin in county this season. On Wednesday, first dirt on the Rome and Carrolton road was broken. The road will be finished by the first of next June. Mr. Williamson, president of the Borne and Carrolton railroad, has tele¬ graphed have from bpet New York that arrange¬ ments v p »de for the extension of the mad fr:m Cedartown to Carrol¬ ton, anil work will be commenced at once. of ThclniiHlingofthe.se importance two roads are great to Home, and the people arc greatly- rejoiced. NORTH CAROLINA. A colored fair is in progress at Hal oigh. The in independents have tiie balance of power the legislature. TENNESSEE. William Coffman, a prominent mer¬ chant of ■Knoxville, committed suicide . Tuesffity morning by cutting his throat. He had a,paralytic stroke six niontiis ago, a id for two mouths had been demented. A week ago he attempted to jump from the Tennessee river bridge, eighty' feet high, lint was rescued before making the leap. Last Friday lie walked into tiie river, but was caught before lie got be yon.l his depth. ALABAMA. Mr. Jake V. Kersey, the supply agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Birmingham, made a fatal mistake last morphine Sunday night, which by taking an overdose of caused liis death. Captain prominent William H. Gardner, of Mo¬ bile, a merchant and insurance man, (bed suddenly of heart disease on N Ovefnber 8th. lie was for five years president of tbe cotton exchange, and in 1883 was elected president of the nation¬ al cotton exchange of America. The Alabama legislature .organized on the 10th inst„ when an excellent message - from-O’Neil was read. The synod of the Alabama presbytery is in session ftt Talladega. A boiler exploded at the I’ratt mines Wednesday, killing a Mr. Sanford. The Alabama national bank of Bir¬ mingham, lias increased its capital to A?500,0()0. . The hb'ily of Matilda Gradger, of Brad lev county, Twin., was taken from Mill creek, near Dalton, ou Wednesday. Foul play is suspected. » FLORIDA. Thu American shipping and industrial league is in session at Pensacola. AN ENCOURAGING REPORT. Tbe AtlantaMissiMiioA ainl Aslaniii- Knil- road. The committee on the Atlanta Missis sippi and Atlantic railroad has applied for a charter and is engaged yet in at¬ taining reliable information necessary to determine the probable cost of the road. The most expensive portion of tiie road leading east from Atlanta, extending as far as Efttonton, Georgia, was surveyed last summer by a competent engineer and the cost determined. There arc re¬ ports Washington on tile in the war made department at of surveys some years ago by the United “States government furnishing reliable estimates of the most expensive portion efi the route leading toward tho Mississippi ORTON IN JAIL. Tlic Claimant In Trouble. Arthur Orton, whose claims to the Yicliborne estate in England gained his board¬ him notoriety, has been arrested at ing house in . Brooklyn, N. Y., upon com plaint of tiie pension department at " Ortoifis charged with having person- alleged nted one Charles Curtis, who is to have served in the 106th New York Volunteers and with endeavoring to draw the presumable peusion of the al- j, ., c( | Orton illocked up in bail; Raymond rtreet jail jo default of $2,500 !,ATI0NAL ,A ” clR CUIfl ™ A (onllnrlInn Of Iiaj-Ktakl fllilllmis In. cvltnbli. that it j s stated opinion on given authority by in Washington the the attorucy- general as to the unavailability of the of called three per cent bonds as a basis national bank circulation will make no change in < hc attitude of ! h u trea T y do ' pnrtment, because this opinion . only con- tirmed tho rule heretofore followed, Bunks have shown considerable diligence in acting under this rule, and in eonsc- quence of it they have withdrawn from *??&xsr$ E srffiasjssu'sa .mtss of the first if 10,000,000 call. At the same rate herea'ter, it is expected fairly that withdrawal, will keep pace very future calls, Against the $40,000,000 three per cent bonds withdrawn, there have only been about $8,000,000 of other bonds bonds deposit deposit¬ ed, so that the total on to secure national hank circulation have been reduced by about $31,000,000, which contracts the circulation by about $28,000,000. If these proportions are preserved throughout the changes vesult- ing from future calls of three pci cent bonds, there may be further contraction of about $58,000,000 by the time these bonds are withdrawn. It is said at the treasury that this contraction in the vot- ume ofnational bank circulation will not be fc[t in tlic channel* of trade, because the national hank notes withdrawn from circulation will be replaced by disburse¬ ments from surrender the treasury; bonds anti and in addition, reduce banks that their circulation receive money for ten per cent of the bonds redeemed, and five per cent of the circulation and half surrendered, making fourteen of the bonds. a On per tho cent 12th up¬ on the face of August the total amount of three per cent bonds held by the banks, as a basis for circulation, was a little more than $103,000,000, so that when these bonds are all paid their payment will put into c i rcu q R tion fourteen and a half million ( q 0 p ars m0 re than the amount of currency then outstanding on these bonds. The redeni ption of national bank notes is a j y g ] ow process. The last report of , ^ treasurer showed that lie was holding *. ( .q qqq 000 lawful money for the re- 0 f outstanding bank circula- an( j 0 f course a more rapid surren j er 0 f circulation larger will be the amount required people to be choose held in the send treas¬ tho ury until the to notes in and take lawful money instead. THE NATIONAL CUAIOSITIES. The Smithsonian Institute Want# an Addi¬ tion to Its Accommodations. Professor Spencer T. Baird, of Wash¬ ington, D. C., director of the Smitlison- ' iau institute, aud ex-officio head of the national museum, in liis annual estimates for the museum, asks congress to appro¬ priate $250,000 with which to begin the construction of a new building to flank the Smithsonian building on the west, as the present building flanks it on the east. ’ The new structure is held to be an im¬ mediate and pressing necessity, in view of the lack of room for exhibits already Oil hand. The materials prepared and other for display are packed in cases, jars and receptacles in cellars, crypts garrets, and a small village of unsightly wooden structures erected from time to time for special purposes is packed with rich ma- terials which remain untouched. Proba¬ bly a hundred tons of exhibits inherited from the centennial exposition, compris¬ and ing artistic bronzes, tiles, porcelains handiwork a thousand varieties of typical of foreign countries, remain in the orig¬ inal boxes in which they were shipped from Philadelphia ten years ego. Were tiie new building ready for occupancy taken to-day, its entire space would be up at once with selected objects already prepared sufficient for display, it is and said current fill acces- good sions are to a sized museum every year. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR. Tho Elglilermli Annual Exhibition l>c(ini Next Tuesday. The eighteenth annual exhibition of the South Carolina agricultural and me¬ chanical society lias began at Columbia, S. C. The fair gives promise of excep¬ tional excellence, both in variety and ex¬ tensiveness. The indications are thatthe display he of field and garden attractive. products The will entries particularly of live full and A stock are numerous. peculiar feature of this year’s fair is the absence from the grounds of all sorts of gambling games and all descriptions of catch penny devices. This rule, which is rigidly forced, bears hard on the fakers. LONE TO CANADA. J. W. Allen and Thomas H. McLain, auditor respectively and general cashier ticket agents Toledo, and of the Columbus and Southern reilway, whose general offices are in Toledo, Ohio, ha , e skipped to Canada, their accounts being short something less than a thousand dollars. Both arc young men. ll!S«i WINNIE 11 ETCII NN MOVIE. ( I Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jeffer¬ son Davis, in company with General Jos¬ eph It. Anderson and wife, of Richmond, Va., have returned from their recent trip cast. PKEPARINU FOR WORK, The Augusta factories have voluntarily reduced tiie hours of labor from sixty- eight to sixty-five hours per week and all mills begin work Monday, G'ommit- teemau Wright, who compromised off debts the differences, is engaged in paying He will incurred during the lockout. pay out about $25,000 knights. for groceries and supplies for the no one hurt. An accident < ecurreil on the Mobile and Girard railroad at Guerryton on Sun- day, by which two < ars were completely wrecked and several others slightly dam- aged. It freight was caused by several carsoi an extra train becoming detached and running into that part of the train «» Xo 8ne * as bu H. _____ Consolation# Because dark clouds have crossed the sky $ >> Shall tho sun refuse to shine# Bocauso tho morning lias been wet May evening not be Hue? Sometimes the night has rayless been— Shall s ar.Vforget to glistonI Although tlie winter has been drear, To summer birds we listen. My life has sometimes rnyjoss (>eeu, l Enshrouded sorry grief; . May never times a^maging. hand Bring softly sweet robot. Allhough m.v s.ml bo o\eiwlHinu. —w ......... Ah, yes, God showers tho selfish soul YfJth sorrows bitter rain; -pho purest heights are often rem tmd Through suffering an l pain; Ami deepest griefs in love were meant To purify and strengthen; Tho souls that opens toward God Grows as life's siadows lengthen. —//•/•• t M. IViiisloio. “ BLUE MONDAY.” If ever a blue Monday dawned upon the terrestrial ball, it was this thirteenth day of September, 18—. The equinoctial had come before it s time, with a rush of angry rain borne on the wings of n morning wind ; the kitch¬ en chimney smoked rant oroudy, and tho scuttle leaked a steady “drip, drip, drip!" directly over the roses and tulips of the best-room carpet. “A regular spell of weather,” said Mr. Crayfish, chuckling, as he shaved him¬ self, with one of the children p’aying horse with his suspenders, and tho other packing different-sized marbles into the toe of his slipper. But Mr. Crayfish, as his wife scornful¬ ly remarked, would chuckle at anything. “I am sure I don’t know what is to become of me!” said she, sorrowfully. “With Bridget gone, and the lange out of order, aud this terrible rain, and not a washerwoman to he had for love or money! And your Aunt Pamela writing that she is coming here to sp:n(l the win¬ ter, and my report not yet written for tho Woman’s Elevation Society, aud Mrs. Ponsonby sending word that she shall expect me to give an aesthetic tea, or a literary breakfast, in honor of young Lord Ernest Elberon, now that he is here gathering material for his book on ‘Woman’s Upward Progress. y 7? “Hang progress!’’ said Mr. Crayfish, emptying the marbles out of his slipper toe. “Yes, that’s just like you, Leander,” said Mrs. Crayfish, fretfully. “If you had your way, you would tread us all under foot, like inferior beings.” “In the meantime,” said Crayfish, “I’d like my breakfast.” Aud his wife went slowly and despond¬ ently down stairs, wondering how she should get word to the plumber about the range. But the milkman,opportunely present¬ ing himself, volunteered to leave an order at tho pi umber's shop. “I must get something done on the re¬ port to-day,” she pondered, as she sliced up potatoes for frying. “Mrs. Edge- worth, from Chicago, is to be at to¬ morrow's meeting, and— Oil, dear!” as the knife slipped, inflicting a sharp little gash on her finger. “I knew there was destined to be a blue Monday when the decorated lamp-shade cracked, all of itself, before daylight this morning!” And Mrs. Crayfish, forgetting all about her “Elevation” and “Aims,” burst into tears, as auy milk-maid might have done. The range obstinately declined to cook; the chimney poured clouds of smoke down into Mrs. Crayfish’s face; and tho family breakfasted upon yesterday’s oat¬ meal, with a little milk. “Is this {esthetic?" said-Mr. Crayfish; “or is it literary?” “Leandcr, how can you?” sobbed his wife. “I’ll stop myself anil jog that plumber’s memory,” said Mr. Crayfish, good humoredly. “Don’t fret, Carry! It will be all right.” “I wish you would not call inc Carry, when my name is Carolina!” said Mrs. Crayfish. Just at noon the door-bell rang. “Who is it?” shrieked Mrs. Crayfish to tho little Crayfishes,who were stretch¬ ing their necks out of-the front Window. “It’s a young man, with a black leather bag, mn!” shouted back the youthful scions of the race. “That everlasting pumber J” said Mrs. Crayfish. "I’ll teach him!'’ And with her kitchen apron swallow¬ ing her in its sombre folds, and her hair all bristling in porcupine papers, Mrs. Crayfish hurried to tbe door. “Do I address Mrs. Leander Cray- fish ?” began the young man. “I should rather think you did !” said | Mrs. Crayfish, tartly, “And if this is the way you intend to transact business, I want nothing more to do with you!” “I am very sorroy, ma’am, but—” “I -dare say!” curtly interrupted Mrs. Crayfish. “But I don’t want to listen to any excuses. Be so very good, if you please, as to come down stairs ut once and get to work, without further loss of time.” And she led the way down to the kitchen, talking volubly as she went. But before she could explain the man- jfold shortcomings of the delinquent rfthge, tho door-hall sounded for the second time, loud and long, and Mrs. Crayfish was obliged to hurry tip stairs once more. This tiiuo it was an old lady,stout and red-faced, with pulls of gray hair on cither side of her face, and her portly figure shrouded in a waterproof cloik. “Aunt Pamela, as true as I live f”cried Mrs. Crayfish, who never had met her husband’s aunt. “I declare if you are n >t just in time! My cook has gone an 1 itiv washerwoman .h.'csn't.comi', and Ido believe that Provideflce 1ms sent you to Ill). If you don’t mind I’ll give you a cup of tea and set you ritgli to work picking tho chickens for dinner. Ye*, I know the house looks forlorn,” us tho lady glanced dubiously around, “but it's blue Monday and everything is in a tan¬ gle. This is my room; yours is all drip¬ ping, from the leaky roof. My bed isn't made, and the dear children’s clothes are all over the lloor; but you’ll excuse all deficiencies, Aunt Pamela, until 'beamier comes back. Good gracious!‘If there isn’t tho bell again! I do believe it a bewitched to-day! But you will t ike olT your things, and presently I’ll bring you up one of my big gingham aprons, and tell you what is to bo done first.” Down she bustled to the door for the third time. A grimy-faced personage stood there in an attitude of utter indif- fcrence. “Who are you} ” said Mrs. Crayfish. “Plummer’s man, mum. Mr. Crayfish, he-” “But why didn’t you come when the other young man did?” irritably de¬ manded tho lady. “Ain’t no other young man, mum.” "Yes, there is, toot” said Mrs. Cray- fish. “And lie’s at work down in the kitchen now.” “Well, if you’ve got some one to work on the job, you don’t want inc,” said the independent citizen, shouldering bis bag of tools. “Yes, I do,” said Mrs. Crayfish, “I want all tiie plumbers I can get. Make haste down stairs and expedite tiie other nuin all you can. Why, Mrs. Ponson¬ by,” as a smiling matron skipped out of a coupe and hurried up the stops, “it can’t be possible that this is you!” Mrs. Ponsonby, the president of “The Social Circle for the Elevation of Women,” shook the rain-drops from her bonnet-plume and smiled graciously. “I am so sorry to take you by sur¬ prise, dear!” said she. “Oh, not at all I” interjected Mrs. Crayfish. “But Mr. Ponsouby’s mother is very ill,” added the president of tho Social Circle for the Elevation of Women; “so of course 1 could not receive company. And I knew you would be so glad to welcome Lord Earnest Elberon, ami to answer Mrs. Edgeworth’s inquiries on the subject of French Amelioration.” “Eh?” said Mrs. Crayfish. “Where are they ?” asked Mrs. Pon¬ sonby, looking around her, “Where are who ?" gasped Mrs. Cray- fish, "Lord Ernest, to-be sure!” said Mrs. Ponsonby, ‘ ‘and Mrs. Edgeworth 1” Mrs. Crayfish gave a little shriek of dismay as tho full truth broke in upon her mind. She seized Mrs. Ponsonby’? arm, as a drowning woman might grasp at a straw. “I will tell you where they are!” said she, with tho stony calmness of despair. “I pushed Lord Ernest down stairs be¬ fore me, and set him to pulling the kitch¬ en range to pieces. And Mrs. Edge- worth is at this moment sitting up stairs in probably tbe dirtiest and most untidy bed-room in Philadelphia.” It was some time before Mrs. Ponsonby could be brought to quite understand tlic position of affairs. But when she did, she was even more perturbed than Mrs. Crayfish had been. “Let us go up stairs—I mean down stairs—at once!” she cried, “Oh, how could any one possibly have made such a blunder ? Oh, what will Lord Ernest think? And what sort of account of us will Mrs. E lgeworth put into her hus¬ band’s Chicago newspaper ?” Lord Ernest Elberon, sitting on the edge of the wash-trays, was meditatively watching the operations of the plumber, when they came down. “lie wanted to fight me at first,” ob- served the sprig of English aristocracy, “But lie was tl uite peaceable when Icon- viuccd him that I did not come from an opposition establishment; and really he seems quite an ingenious sort of fellow, Anl there is more complicition in one of those baking and roasting concerns than I had any idea of. Pray, ladies, make no apologies. It was the most natural mistake iu tlic wcrld. Aud 1 assure you I regard it as a capital joke. ” Mrs. Edgeworth of Chicago, however, W!1S no t S o placable. They found her sitting in the middle of Mrs. Crayfish’s rather disorganized bedroom, with a face like that of the Sphinx; and nothing but au introduc¬ tion to Lord Ernest Elberon pacified her in the least degree. Mrs. Pon8onby carried off the whole party, Mrs. Crayfish included, in her coupe, to lunch at Damorettc’s. And when the luckless housekeeper reached home again, the plumber was gone, Aunt Pamela had arrived, and bail “straightened up” everything, a good dinner smoked on the board, and Mr. VOL. IL NO. 8. Crayfiih welcomed her with a broad •mile. “It’s all right, Carry," he said. “Blue Monday has com: to an end ut last!” “1 should think it might,” said Mrs. Crayfish, hysterically. “With an Eng¬ lish lord in my kitchen, a Chicago re¬ former in my bedroom, anil nobody knows what else! I declare, I'm sick of tin: Sod ty for the Elevation of Woman, ami everything that belongs to it!"—< II len Forrest Graves. Surgery for l’iano Players. “Surgery for piano-forte players,” ns recommended by one of tho ledding piano-forte teachers’ of this city) and now being rushed at in San Francisco to a degree that will at least make this au interesting spot for tho rest of the mu¬ sical world to watch, in seeing how such a large average of tho Venturesome come out. The clever physician, with hi? knife made expressly for the purpose, and his cocaine, admits he knows little about piano-forte playing, but is told that the results of the operation are sat¬ isfactory. There then follows something about liability to “loss of grip," etc. During the halcyon era of piano art, when Liszt was electrifying Europe, and Mendelssohn and Chopin vying with each other in tho production of composi¬ tions embodying the utmost d:tistic per¬ fection ; and when gigantic Beethoven was astonishing Vienna with a succession of his sonatas—why was there no kniv- ingthen? Surgeons were skilful fifty years ago, and knew as much of tho mechanism of t lie hand us to-day. There were enthusiasts in those days who would have gone to the bottom of this method and as readily yielded themselves up to a trial of it, and yet we do not read of any ham-strung artists coining to the float. Yes, there was one who tried a royal road to pcrtection. Poor Robert Schumann essayed seme expediting method on his third finger, and ran him¬ self hopelessly and disastrously out ol the field of executants. He has stood as a warning monument from those days art to mechanical contrivances and all sort? of e xtraneous dodges, and it would 1st well for every intending victim to thi knife method to first read through hij “Advice to Young Musicians.”— San Francisco Chronicle. Diamond Mines, Many geologists of Australasia cherish tiie faith that diamond mines will yet bo # added to the sources of wealth of that developing land of surprises. Accident¬ ally discovered by a travelling trader not quite twenty years ago, the South Afri¬ can mines, which are five hundred miles from the coast, and at an elevation of four thousand feet above the sea, are, however, at present unrivalled in their size ami value. The romantic hardships which toughened and roughened tho early digger? have largely disappeared before the railway communication which brings the fields within a thirty hours’ journey of the coast. The business i4 now transacted on scientific principles and a regular system. There have been, as might be expected, alternations of profit and loss, but the returns of the four principal mines show that in tho three years and a third previous to tho c-nd of 1885, there was a total production of more than eight and a half millions sterling. A Kimberley diamond was re¬ cently shown in London valued at £100,- 000. It weighed more than 400 carats in the rough. The finest diamond in quality ever found in South Africa was the “Porter Rhodes,” discovered in the centre of Kimberley mi ne in 1880. It is a pure white octahedron, valued at £00,- 000 .—London Standard. The Manufacture of Hairpins. For years the English and French con¬ trolled the manufacture of hairpins, and it is only within the last twenty years that tiie goods have been produced in this country to any extent. The machin¬ ery used is of a delicate and intricate character, as tbe prices at which pins are sold necessitates the most rapid and cheapest process, which can only bo se¬ cured by automatic machines. The wire is made expressly for the purpose, and put up iu large coils, which are placed ou reels, aud the end of the wire is placed in a clamp, which carries it to the machine while straightening it; from there it runs in another machine, which cu ts, bends, and, by a delicate and iu- stautaneous process, sharpens the points, Running at full speed, these machines will turn out 120 hairpins every minute. To economize it is necessary to keep them working night and day. The dilii- cult part of the work is the enamelling, which is done by dipping in a preparation am i baking in an oven. Here is where the most constant and careful attention is required, as the pin must be perfectly sjuooth aud tho enamel have a perfect polish. The slightest particles of dust cause imperfections and roughness, which is objectionable. In tlic Railroad Train. A gentleman carrying a very heavy satchel finally succeeds in getting it into the rack. A lady seated directly beneath manifests lively fear. “Oh, monsieur, supposing it should fall?” “Rorssure yourself, madarae, there is nothing iu it that can break,”— French Fan,