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j MAN’S PERILOUS FEAT.
piSStsa TH novo li THE Mi 0.4 HA
Jt A PI US IV A IS ill Kir..
Tlio l)nn«ermi» ITuIitiiiIiIiiv Hnfely Acroui-
ultetu'il With ii Mule ( otuptuiloii.
For tho first time, as far as is known, a
woman has gone safely through the whirl-
pool rapid* at Niagara Falls. Her only pro¬
tection from the rocks uiui wavos was a tor¬
pedo-shaped barrel, in which was also a
male navigator. Tho craft used was the ouo
in which Butts and Hazlett made the passage
on August 8, and George Ha :lett was the
companion of Mis; Snln Allen, who bellied
repent that feat. The cask Is cigar-shaped,
ten feet long by three in diameter, and has a
double head, tho prow being like a battoiiir;
ram, Hazlett, Potts ami a number of friends,
together with Miss Allen and some lady ac¬
quaintances, 27th. ramo to The Niagara Falls on the
sight of tbo adventuresome girl
ts eighteen years oil, plump, hands -me,
an d a brunette. Her hair, whit li
is of luxurious growth, is almost black.
She lives with the family of John Beullv, a
foreman forth# West .flora Rail'oad in Buf¬
falo, She is an who orpbau, previously an l her made sister tiro is tho
wife of Potts, the Falls before, trip.
Sadie had never soon and
laughed at the idea that there was any danger.
Sho laughed merrily with Mrs. when Scully, at 2 i\ m. ou the
2-ith she went her sistor,
Mrs. Potts. Mrs. Pa uuel Hazlett aud others
to the old Maid of tho Mist landing near the
Tho barrel had been ballasted with 500
pounds It of sand, and care was taken to make
water tight. At 2:25 ail was ready and
the women bade Sadie good-by as she
stepped from the dock on to tho bar¬
rel and slid through tho turret. Sho
wore a dark woolen suit. Hazlett quickly
disappeared steady in the the barrel and arranged He some
ropes heavy to flannel shirts, occupants. tiowsers, and wore Scotch two
a
cap. Besides the rope there were iron han¬
dles to aid in steadying the oci upants.
“I’m all right,” said Miss Allen, laughing.
“There’s not so much danger as you think."
Then the queer craft was towed by Elmer
Jones and John Keating down toward the
head of the rapids. On tho way
Sadie put her head out aud * talked
with the oarsmen. When near tbo
cantilever bridge the turret top was
screwed on and a few moments later the first
rapids were reached. So close was the boat
that its occupants narrowly es aped going
the through torpedo the with gorge, its freight It was 2:5(5 whirled p. m. when
was side
ways into the breakers aud began tho wild
but 'SSSS.’Sri—I, the waves wore higher than usual, a"
the tiuy craft seamed t > bo dashing on to de-
stru tion. “If there ara any rocks
there,” said old river them." neu, “that But thing tho bar- will
rel go to pieces hurled ou along from to
was wave
wave, occasionally turned m clouds or
foam and sometimes completely throwu from
the water. In three minutes the last roller
shot the barrel into tho whirlpool. There it
circled round a little and then tho out r cur-
roat carried the craft into the lower whirl¬
pool When or Devil’s torpedo Rapids. circled into, the
the out
second series, or Devil s Hnpals. it received
fresh impetus, and was hurled about on top of
the waves like a feather. When near the little
maelstrom, below Thomps m's fats, where
Swimmer Scott was killed trying to emulate
Captain R ebb, tho crad was tossed into an
«,ldy on the Canadian side. There it was
gently tossod around for three quarters of an
hour, until a man with a rope las oed it and
palled llazlett it ashore. and Miss Allen got out quickly
as
as possible. He was all right, hut she wa,
climb SSSStfXJFS; along the rocky shore around *28
was to
the inclined railway at the entrance tj
the whirlpool. This took some time,
when the party* reachad^Niagara FanYlt
was later when other fronds and a cart
load of reporters drove back from Lewiston,
whore they had beou waiting iu vain fo.*
tho craft to come.
Miss Allen, in conversation with a Sun ro-
porter, said that the worst part of the trip
was “Were the sickness .-he experienced. 1
you not scare f”
“I was not a bit afraid. T hung on believe tightly,
and it did not seem l.,u 1 dou t we
struck any ro ks. ”
The girl seems inclined 1 1 make light She < >f tho
danger and hardships of the voyage. falo, bat was
not well enough to return to llu o’clock train 1. t
companion, Ha dett, to zk the l>
for home. He said:
1 The trip was much worse than tho first
one. The water was rougher, aud, while we
did not strike any rocks, the shocks were se¬
vere. Miss Allen is a brave girl with and h ma tint le
no outcry. I made a bet of # > -r
she would scream before we got out, bat sho
won tho wager.”
P0ST0FFICE REPORTS.
I'be Annual Humniiri a* Prauonted by l*o»t-
■lastcr-Ueuerftl Vila*.
Tbs reportof Postmaster-General Vilas fo'
tho past fiscal year has just been published
In introducing it Mr. Vilas points out
that the mileage of mail transportation ex-
ceeded by more than 125,000,000 tho service
rendered to any other Government, and the
letters mailed were 100 , 01 ) 0,000 more than in
Great Britain, long the leading letter writing
morals. Sixteen postmasters were arrested
for fraud, and 300 or 400 are undergoing iu- in-
veetigatiou. By vigilance on the part of
ipectors, 478,575.00 has been reclaimed by
the government as wrongfully taken.
The frce-delivery system has been ex-
crease of 483 , making the total 4,841. Tho
cost was $4,312,“0J.50. an increase of 4320,- of
354.15, or 8.is nor cent. Tbo number
Ml. 'increase local 04,«£
The amount of post ago on mattor
was 45,830,242.97, an excess over the cost of
the sarvica of 41,526.030.27. M»r. Vilas re-
peals his recommendation that the servico
do oxtendod to p’aces of 10,000 inhabitants, or
tlOJ'Oi) Tho gross annual revenue.
tended to Money 801 additional Order System offices, has and been during ex¬
theyear orders tlwro were issued 7,940,302 domeslio
for nearly $114,000,000 ; 5,990,428 po>-
talnofcs, national for $11,718,000, and 493,423 The inter¬ total
set orders, into (or ¥7,178,780.31. $350,551.81'.
i Tho reveauo Special Delivery tho Treasury Hervice, was Mr. Vilas
wysflasbeea but hampered by its limitations,
rsasasa.- 484,784.82 has b-en spent for it, a gross
<■»««».»
improved. tion. Mr. Vilas says, beyond expecta-
For instance, the total oxer so of cost
over revenue was 48 254,167.53. lnls85tho
total excess was 48,321,6th*>.70.
The estimate of the revenue for thscoming
ycar is 447,312,710.83. The appropriations
f)1 year exeluaivo of tho . ost of the
JP«cial $13)53,152.42. delivery service exceed this sum by
59'Ui 034 nato ? rovonue for 18i8 is Tfl'Tr
^40; and j probsble disbursements, . $55,84 i,-
The report speaks in favorable term* of
the letter shoot envelopes. The deal letter
year 5,028,745 pieces during tho
When th« fiscal year 1886 closed, the post
ottos of the United States numbered 53,014,
wsides 497 branch offices or stations.
SA M JONES’ OMAHA CAMPAIGN.
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THE SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWSY ITEM8 'GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
OEOltOIA.
machine Miiledgeville shop. is to have u foundry and
a
Bears aro plentiful iu the swamps a few
miles front Darien.
A little over 10,000 l aics of cotton has
been marketed iu Eatonton tills full.
Judge Willis A. llawkins died at his
home in Americas Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock. All the business houses in towu
were closed from 2 to 5 o’clock.
Information to the effect that a syndi¬
cate, with one million dollars, lms born
formed in New York for the purpose of
establishing lino an iron furnace aud somewhere
on the of the Rome Decatur
road, has been received.
The North Georgia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church south met in
Augusta on Wednesday and will contiu-
In session ouo week. The meetings aro
held in St. John’s church, with Bishop
McTycire presiding. the It is the regular
annual conference for purpose of sta¬
tioning business preachers of and attending Tnerc to other
the church. are 400
delegates who aro entertained by the dif¬
ferent fun: ilies. At St.John’s church,
the liev, Lr. Wardlaw reception appointed commit¬ the fol¬
lowing gentlemen as Dunbar, a
tee: Messrs.W. M. L. B. Evans,
J. 11. Davenport, W. J. Hollingsworth,
W. C. Cleckley, George Patrick and L.
Albany's cotton receipts this season
footed up to over 30,000 bales. That
number was reached la3t week, and cot¬
ton continues to come in quito lively.
The magnificent dwelling of Hon. R.
C. Humber, on the Baldwin and Putnam
county line, was dostroyod by fire Wed¬
nesday. The loss is about $5,000, with
no insurance. His family barely escaped
with their lives.
_ The turpentine .. distillery of , D. .. T I. IT mr-
den & Co., near Gibson. hn9 been dss-
troved by fire. All material lying around
A Urge number
of men have been thrown out of employ
ment thereby. The owners will start
0
Savannah is overrun with tramps,
* j> lr i v Tuesday morniug J* the police'made rxf
a raid on a camp neat the c>u. ^ .t
tho city anil captured twelve. I ncy
were arranged before the city court, mid
, ente nced to various terms in the cliain-
£ an o-
Mr q s . p ricc , ’ of Brooks Station,
killed two hogs that nette ... , l otn H) pound
c ,
II. \V. Callahan one weighing 319; r.
Racbres one wei'drim* “district, 350. 5V'. L. ICen-
" killed
TO d 0 f fle fourth ’rox one
eighteen , . months ,, pld , . Which v,' v, weighed 533
pounds.
The recent tragedy , near teocial , Circle, ... ,
Ga., remains a mystery. Five negroes
were ?«?"$!■ gambling and one of their number
»' murdered. IBs four **AM™* j»»“ ha
companions ve
been under arrest charged with the
cr ; rac but as nothing could be proven
against them, .hey have bom acquitted,
A meetiug of the citizens of Hancock
was held recently in the courthouse for
the purpose of organizing a county fair
association. A series of resolutions was
adopted consisting of rules and regula¬
tions for .he management of the business
of. this organization, and the whole af¬
fair was then turned over to a “financial
board,” whose duty it is to select the fair
grounds, erect the buildings, lay off and
grade the track, and iu general manage
the entiie business of the organization.
A very destructive fire occurred at
Graham, a railroad station ten miles
north of Baxley. The fire made its ap¬
pearance in the railroad warehouse. A
lot of rosin, consisting of two thousand
barrels, stacked from their distillery
to a point beside the railroad, near tho
warehouse,quickly caught from the burn¬
ing house and then their distillery in
turn took fire, both of which wetc de¬
stroyed, Tho express and mail offices
were kept in the warehouse and their
content*, with the exception of the money
packages, which were deposited destroyed. in a safe
and found intact, were also
The citizens of Carrollton have by a
large majority adopted public schools foi
the town.
election lo issue bonds for the
creation of a bridge across the Flint
rivet was hotly contested, resulting in
majority of five hundred and eighty-four
'
f or bonds.
A youth named illie limes, TI -' of , Tlr West .
M
j> 0 j n j „ r , ec J ] 7 years, eloped with a Miss
Newsome, several years his senior, and
was married to her in the office of L.
Hill, dentist. Young limes, to prevent
j t j a f a (] 10r f r om overtaking him, broke
the family vehicle and threw the old gen-
lleman s saddle in the well,
At a meeting of the citizens of West
Point, the question was discussed of
building a railroad to Birmingham road con¬ the
necting with the Kansas City at
former point. The road will pass from
Birmingham to Brunswick, intersecting
the Central system at that subscriptions point. Tnc
books are open and are
pouring in.
TENNESSEE.
,,,. _ of state has receiv-
This completes the list and sss Bob layiors
niaioritv J IS 16,791.
The T ennessee Marble company via*
in Chattanooga, of local capltal-
,h(s . , with pa 1 I st ock of $100,000, to
operate m marble manufacture _ ,ire nnd and ousr- qua
,|ing. The railroad same gentlemen have and also will
organized fc a compasv. the marble
ap ply for n charter to tap Tho
beds in Monroe county.
(Re railroad has not yet been determined
upon.
A Charlie Ross case has Ashwood been agitating
the usual quietude of the vicini¬
ty. On November 16th, a little child,
aged 3 years, disappeared suddedlydur- Colonel
ing the day from the farm of
Georo-c W Pold. Search has been
mad,"diligently whereabouts for it, but ascertained. as yet no
traces pits of its know
The of the child say they
nothing of its whereabouts, claiming
thnt it has been kidnapped.
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER \), 1886.
ALABAMA.
At a full moeting of the creditors of
Coter & Johnson, of Anniston, the assets
were taken out of the receiver's bauds
and an assignment made to R. P. Thom
ason, of Oxford. The assets aro about
$48,000, liabilities about $40,000. Dis¬
sension between the partners is thought
to he the eause of the assignment, and it
is believed that tho creditors will be paid
nearly in full.
Carroll McBee, who has been pursued
for twenty-one years by John and La¬
fayette Hardwick, was taken back to
CedarBluff. Alabama, Wednesday. Me
Bee went from Tennessee to Cedar Bind
in 180!, Hearing that one of the Hard¬
wicks was considered the best men in
the community, ho challenged him.
Twice failing to throw Hardwick, lie
drew his knife and stabbed him fatally,
lie at once escaped on a horse, and now
returns for the first time.
At Selma, Alu., Irwia Jones, a young
man of excellent family and good stand¬
ing, was found dead in his room. He
had been employed for some Tennessee, time as
baggage master on the East
Virginia and Georgia railway. He had
been in the habit of taking sprees, and
was for that reason supposition suspended is about that he u
week ago. The
became reckless, and went on a despe¬
rate spree. He was missed and friends
on entering bis room found him do d.
The general impression is that he killed
himself by heavy drinking.
MISSISSIPPI.
A fire at Bay St. Louis, Miss., Tuesday
destroyed the properties of Bojariu
Breath, Higgins «& Delery, a residence
and drug store and tho Stockton Hotel
and outbuildings. The residences of
Mr*. Villars and Misses Wagoner estimated were
badly damaged. The loss is at
$25,000, partially covered by insurar.ee.
The planters in the central or hill sec¬
tion of Mississippi have noticed with a
go d deal of uneasiness the tendency of
the negroes to go away toward the Yazoo
valley, and, in fact, soma portions of the
state have been almost totally denuded of
th ir negro population. This is explained
by the fact that Messrs. Wilson and
the Huntington have very sagaciously turned
attention of the negroes to the mild
Yazoo bottom lands along the line of
their railroad, between Vicksburg and
Memphis, and some 5,000 negro families
have located there already. The railroad
company sells the land in lots to 6uit, at
the rate of $5 an acre, in five annual pay¬
ments, taken out of the crops as raised.
The lands are principally in what was
known as the Yazoo swamp, which was
a wilderness prior to the time the railroad
was extended through it. The character
of the soil is very fertile and averages
two bales of cotton to the acre. The land
is heavily timbered with gum, oak, ash
and hickory, and can be cleared at an ex¬
pense ranging from twelve to fifteen dol¬
lars per acre.
LOUSIANA.
A special from Bayou Sara, La., says
the Rod River and coast line steamboat
Richard was burned nt ConcorJerie,
about forty miles above tho mouth of
Red river. The boat and her cargo of
387 bales of cotton arc a total ; oss. Fire¬
man George Clark and Watchman Chas.
Robinson, both colored, were drowned.
Dick Hickman, the cook, was badly
burned.
A special from Lake Providence, La.,
West says: S. Carroll Wilowski, representative arrived from New
parish, at
Orleans Tuesday evening and reported
that he had been waylaid in his parish
by a gang of outlaws numbering about
ten persons. He was accompanied by
fortunate two friends. in escaping He expressed taking himself the as
by to
woods. Ho further reported that about
ten o’clock the night before, his book¬
keeper, Major John McKay, a justice of
the peace, was shot and killed nt his
home, about four miles from Caledonia, dwelling
together with his cook. His
was set on fire and both bodies were con¬
sumed. Wilowski has large business in¬
terests in West Carroll parish, and where brought he
has lived a great many years
up his family, and whom order he was that com¬ he
pelled tp leave behind in
might escape.
TEXAS.
Twelve Mexican cattle thieves were
morning captured twenty miles above Laredo this
by a posse under Deputy Sheriff
Sanchez. A large quantity of dressed
beef was found in their possession, also
twenty stolen horses, Tha band have
been preying m6nths. on American ranchmen for
the past six
FIRES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
A Large Amount of Property Destroyed by
the Flame*.
Extensive and destructive forest fires
4re raging between Charleston, S. C.,
and Sumter, on the Central railway of
South Carolina, a distance of ninety
miles. At Monick’ Corner, many plan¬
tation buildings are reported to have
beeu destroyed. At the Stony Landing
brick works, tire surrounded the build-
ings but was beaten back after it had
destroyed over a hundred cords of wood.
The Central between railroad walls train of from|Columbia fire, miles in
had to run
length, and extending up to the tracks.
Tlir. MONTH!. Y Df'UT STATEMENT.
The national debt statement shows (he
decrease of the public debt during the
month of November to be $3,005,249,57;
cash in the Treasury, $439,023,740.51);
gol 1 certificates outstanding, $90,520.-
633; silver certificates certificates outstanding, of deposit
$105,519,817; $7,025,000; legal tender out¬
outstanding, $346,081,016; fractional
standing, including amount estimated cur¬
rency (not destroyed) $8,375,934.
as lost or
BETRENCnlNG WITH AN OVERFLOW¬
ING TREASURY.
Secretary "Whitney has sent to tlu.
commandant of each navy yard in the
United States an order to utilize the
marine guard as far as possible in place
of civilian watchmen and ship keepers.
The measure is purely an economical one.
There ate about 125 men estimated employed that in
these capacities, and it is
about two-tbiwis of them will be dis¬
charged.
WESTERN CATTLE MEN
iH'muml ot<M'ilo:i from IMt*nro-rn«uin«-
uisi nuii UttHroti * !:\torcion.
The following letter has been address¬
ed to Piosi lent Cleveland :
“Omen of the International
Hanoi-: Association, Denver, Coi..—
His Excellency Grover Cleveland, Presi¬
dent of the United .States; Tho timu
in c me when that brunch of the com¬
mercial interests of our country repre¬
sented by the live stock industry feels it
s'louhl no longer plead for, but demand
justice. Inin empowered by the Live
nek nu n of the plains, who have more
th ..i sivhundred millions of dollars in-
vo-!"d ill cuttle alone, to respectfully in¬
vite the attention of your Excellency to
the imminent danger threatened our
herds by the existence of contagious bo¬
vine diseases, which, if once introduced
to tlu* open ranges of tho West will sweep
our entire interests from tho earth. I
fori that I nin justified in asking that in
your forthcoming message to Congress in¬
some suggestion may made in tho
terest of'legislation looking to tho ex¬
termination of the contagious cattle dis-
e: s: known as pleuro-pn'.'umouia, and
such sanitary regulations as will protect
the cattle interest of the United States
against the importation of cattlo from
known disease 1 centers in other coun-
tries.
“I would further respectfully submit
that under the pooling system entered
into by tho transportation favoriteism companies the ol
the United States ami on
rebate system, bn grievous wrongs beef, are and per¬
petrated the producer That of
the consumer as well. samo com¬
bination which compels tho millions
who toil to pay an exorbitant price foi
the prime necessities of life, compels promts the
producer to accept for his a
price which has pressed cattle growers to
the verge of ruin. The bill now pend¬
ing before Congress for the regulatian of
inter State commerce, known as the
Iteagan bill, is in the interest of justice
and equality, and the cattle industiy
bespeaks for it such attention in your
message as may meet your commen¬
dation. Respectfully, “R. G. Head.
[Signed] Range Asso-
••President International
ciation.”
SHAKING BY THE QUAKE.
Half a Mile of Railroad Truck Walked
Away.
The new dam which has just been fin-
ixlicd at the Lanutry cotton mills, on the
line of the Charlotte, Columbia aud Au¬
gusta railroad, gave way Monday after
noon, and it is again almost a complete
wreck. The water rushed through in a
resistless flood from the pond, and swept
away half a mile of the track of the
Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta rail¬
way, and Carolina badly damaged the All track the of the
South railway. new
and expensive work recently completed
on the former road is- totally ruined, and
it will be at least a week before the dam¬
age can be repaired. The passenger,
mail and express train from Augusta,due
iu Columbia at 10:35, was cut off by
the flood and could not reach that city.
The accident is ascribed to a violent
shock of earthquake, which is reported
to have been felt in that locality. It is
believed that this shock the was foundations sufficiently
strong to shake away
and cause the structure to break loose.
The waters are inundating all the adja¬
cent country.
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
French Spoliation Claim.*--The Cabinet
Meeting— Debt Statements
Arguments , , of - counsel , - the French ,
m
spoliation cases were ’concludad before
the court of claims Wednesday afternoon,
and the first fourteen cases on the calen¬
der Yore submitted for decision. These
are test cases, and involve the general
question uf the government’s The habiiity
for damages claimed. president’s
message again formed the only subject of
discussion at the meeting of tho cabinet,
All the membersi werc present. It is uu-
derstood that the message is complete
with the single exception of that portion
relative to naval establishments.
The public debt statement (flows u
decrease in debt for the month of No-
vemberot a little over $1,000,000. The
small amount of reduction nearly is $14,000,000 principally
due to the fa-t that
were paid out during the month for pen-
sions alone.
Receipts during the month were about
$27,000,000, aud disbursements about
$24,000,000. Iu November of last year
the receipts were about $85,000,000 and
expenditures about $23,000,000. millions There
was an increase of about fout in
the debt in November. 188a.
CLUVERIUS’ LAST CHANCE.
The Appeal to Governor Lee.
As the day (10th of December) ap-
nroaches the execution of T. J. Cluvenus
for the murder of Fannie Lillian Madi-
son, at Richmond, Va., According public interest
in the case increases. to ap-
pointment the prisoner’s counsel had ur¬
lan ged to call on Governor Lee to present
to him petitions both for the pardon of
Cluvcrius and for the commutation of the
sentence to imprisonment for life, which
had boon freely circulated through signatures. the
state and received numerous
There is much speculation as to the ac¬
tion of the governor, but ho has indicate given
expression to nothing that would
what he will do. It is generally believed,
however, that even if he refuses to inter¬
fere with the execution of the sentence
on the prisomy, he will at least circula- respite
him for a time, Rumors are in
tion that Cluverius has made a statement
giving an account of his whereabouts on
the night of the 13th of March, 1884, the
night of the murder of Miss Madison,
but they cannot be traced to any reliable
sources. lie will doubtless do so, but it
is not expected that it will be made n ub-
lie before it goes into the hands of the
governor.
FIRE at AIKEN, S C. %
There wag a serious fire at Aikin, S. C.
Tuesday morning. Eight buildings were
destroyed, as follows: llahn & Co , dry
goods and groceries, loss $14,000; Schro¬
der & Thorpe, loss $3,000; W. J. Pratt
& Co., loss $2,700; M. Loeb & Schultz,
loss $1,500. Other losses $2,000 The.
total losses are estimated at $24,000, and
the insurance at $22,000.
Chime*.
Far from the fern and moss,
Fluttering hireli unit wee fir cross,
And the pine’s low murmuring.
Whore the frightened lichens cling
To the overhanging edge
Of the precipice and ladgo,
Fearless in their dainty glee,
Wave the harebells merrily.
From the dusky rafters hung,
Ne’er in Belgian belfry swung
Bells more exquisitely wrought!
By the mountain bronzes caught—
Tos-dng, swaying to and fix)—
While beside them, bending low
Breathless I wait to hear
Echo of t heir chiming clear.
But the airy harmony
Is too wonderful for me,
And I caunot catch a strain
Of that rare and sweet refrain,
Vet the tiny bells still ring,
And they shall my greeting bring
Till, though near so softly stirred,
Every trembling note is heard.
—Marion. IS. Alien in the Collaga Hearth.
A CASE OF BRIBERY.
BY LUKE SHARP.
In the centre companion way of most
Atlantic steamers there is framed a pub¬
lic notice which attracts n good deal of
attention from tho passengers on the way
over. It is published by the British Gov¬
ernment, and is to the effect that any
person offering a bribo to one of Her
Majesty’s custom! officials will lie heavily
fined. The amount of this fine ii men¬
tioned, either £40 or £100 or something
of that sort. The contemplation of this
notice for nine or ten days every time a
person goes up the centre c mipanionway
is calculated to give that person a very
great respect for the unbribnbility of the
Liverpool customs offices. The Atneri-
can Government has no such uotic: s
posted up anywhere that I ever saw.
Whether it is because it is so well known
that the American customs officer never
under any circumstance accepts a bribe,
or whether the government fears that the
public would regard the posting of a no¬
tice as a joke, I have not been able to
ascertain.
I have nevei 1 met anyone yet who would
bribe a Liverpool customs officer. The
penalty which has stared him in tho face
during the voyage is apt to discourage
all such attempts. However, there are
few things which a person could take
into England on which duty is exacted,
I believe the customs officers have a
prejudice against dynamite, against pi¬
rated reprints of English books, against
tobacco and some things of that sort,
but, as a general thing, the American
traveler carries uothing with him ou which
duty could be charged.
Our big steamship reached Liverpool
late one evening last summer. The cus¬
toms authorities penned us all up in tho
several rooms of a building on the land¬
ing. Hero there was a good deal of fuss
and shoving through a passage way tlmt
was and the hand
baggage was examined ns we
passed out. This was a very slow
aud tedious arrangement. and
it was nearly J 11 o’clock nt night before
we were through with it, and even nt
that time the trunks “had not been looked
at. We were then passed up into a room
which wo reached by a long incline. On
climbing up this incline we entered a
Dirge building seemingly containing
only one immense ‘ room. It was well
lighted, nnd the scene was one which
once looUocl upon 1 a pcr3 ‘ , u would not
forget . in a , hurry. On the , right . . L . hand .
side were piled trunks, bags, valises,hand
satchels aud baggage of every deserjp-
tion. On the left ran a long, low counter
on which trunks were being examined
by the uniformed custom house officers,
while, bending over their open baggage
were the owners,generally talking rapid¬
ly to tho imperturbable officer. All over
the room were some 100 excited pas-
sengers running wildly hither and thither
trying to collect their lugga e. Ttunks
-were marked with names were ar-
ranged , in . alphabetical . , , . order. , .... I he sec-
tions of the building were
lettered with the alphabet painted
] ftr g e and conspicuous along the
M han(1 but , aa the grcat •’
majority of the trunks had no nnm ■, the .
owners had to run about in quest of
them. Porters were there with their
short jackets and numbered caps, drag¬
ging the trunks about under the owner’s
directions, and ns soon as one trunk had
been examined it was taken away by-a
stalwart porter who called a cab; and
its place was filled by another trunk
slammed down by another stalwart
porter. It was a scene of bewildering
confusion. As I always travel ns light
as possible, endeavoring to compress mv
belongings into a satchel that can be
carried by hand if necessary, my troubles
were over, and so I strolled along with
comparative in liff rencc, enjoying the
strange aud b istiing appearance of the
place. I was able to give somo assi t
ance here an I there to companions of
the voyage, nn ’ rather put o:i airs as
being an old traveler with some ex¬
perience of th t sort of thing, don’t you
know, and plumed myself on having my
baggage examined long ago. •
At the fur: her end of the room were a
coup'-e of i.idies who were travelling
alone. One of them had a lar;c trunk,
and the trunk had a new-fangled lock,
the latest of American patent. A cus¬
toms officer was vainly trying to unlock
this trunk, nnd the owner was-looking
on with much coucern at bis Ineffectual
attempts. She had trio 1 herself, it
seemed, and had been unable to open It.
“You are not doing it rightly,’’ said
the second young lady. “You have to
push this clasp that way, then turn tho
key half way -around, push the clasp
lack aud give the key another turn and
then it will unlock.”
Tho officer looked up, smile I and
shook his jarred finger, and I said: ,
“Let me try the unlocking.”
I followed the directions ns well as I
could and nearly broke my fingers, but
the key wouldn’t turn. I atn afraid the
magic words I said were not tho “open
sesame” that was required,
“I am very sorry, ladies,” said the
officer, “but. I shall have to break the
lock.”
The ladies were very sorry too, but
they made no objection and the officer
departed and returned with a hatchet,
This he placed under the obnoxious
catch and tried to pry it opeu. But the
lock was built very strongly and it
wouldn’t give way. The hatchet slip¬
ped and tho officer cut His finger.
“Can’t you stretch tho law a little,”
said I, “and let that trunk pass. The
ladies ara not going to stay in England,
but aro going directly to France. I am
sure you would find nothing dutiable in
tiie trunk or they would have made
some objection to your breaking the
lock.”
It was now after 12 o’clock. Most of
the people had. claim: 1 their baggage,
had it examined and departed for their
hotels.
“Well,” sa’d the officer, “I ought not
to do it, you know, but I will chance It,”
and with that lie put on the requisite
mark that would enable it to pass out.
The owner was very grateful indeed, and
while he was stamping the trunk tho
said to ine;
“I would like very much to give him
something. How much do you think I
should offer him?”
“Well,” I replied, “as a general tiling
in England it’s safe enough to give a tip
where a service is done, but the penalty
here seems to bo very high. I don’t
think I would risk it. Yet I don't sup¬
pose ho would object to a shil¬
ling if it could bo given him so that no
one could see it.”
“I will give him half a crown,” she
said, “if he will take it.”
“All right,” I cautioned, “but don’t
do it very publicly.”
The lady approached and said in her
kindest voice :
“I am very sorry you have hurt your
finger.”
“Ob,” said the officer, “it don’t mat¬
ter in the least, I assure you ; a more
scratch.”
“Well, I am very much obliged, in¬
deed,” she whispered, “I hope you will
let me give you this, not as a compensa¬
tion, you know.”
“A ! miss,” he returned, smiling nnd
bowing very low to her, “glad to have
beeu of any service to yo.u, but really,
we are not allowed to take anything;
it is again t the rules,” and he waved
his hands up and dowu as he said this.
“But,” persisted the lady, “it is only
a very little, aud don’t at all come under
the head of a bribe.”
“1 assure you, mis*,” be said, “you
are not indebted to me for anything, and
as 1 said before, 1 am only too happy to
have been of any service. You see,
mis*,” lie said, as we walked away after
the porter who bad shouldered tire triink,
“officers of tho customs are never allowed
(o take anything, no • icidter'how small,
under any circumstance; wliatevcr.”
And with that he again bowel Very low
to u*, and I walked with the Indies put
to their carriage. I'.-; ■
“Well,” said I, “it is refreshing to
see a customs officer that will not take o
bribe!”
The young lady laughed merrily.
“Iam glad to hear you say so,) 1 she
said, “for 1 know now we did it very
cleverly.”
“Why, you don’t mean to say that you
gave him the money?”
She held up her hands. They were
“I slipped half a crown into his hand
the first time I spoke to him, and he con¬
ceded it with a deftness that convinced
mo lie had done the like before.”
“Then you urged him to take it after
ha I it in his hand, and he refuted ft
with *u< h a Ciiestcrfic’dinn air while he
rally in position of it!’
“ExactTv,” she said. “Wasn’t it neat¬
ly done on both sides?”
“Neatly don :? Well. I should say so.
But wliat a pair of hypocrites both of
lire ! ’ — Detroit Free l‘re:n.
A Wise EH.
In the summer of 1868 Peter Kern of
Washington township, Pennsylvania,
caught a -mall eel aud put it in a well in
his yard, where it still is. It is four
feet long and about five inches iu diatne-
ter. It keeps itself concealed et the
bottom, except at irregular intervals,
when it conics to the top, and tlr so ap¬
pearances are always followed- by rain
with n a day or two. During haying
mul harvest and other critical periods of
farm work the farmers for miles nrpiind
. Mid every day to Kern’s for intelligence
of the eel. It will have no other kin l of
fish in the well, and kills all that are put
i p. —»Ph ia del j ifi Id Record ..
VOL 11. NO. 11.
Our Ship at Set.
Dear heart, we two have waited
For many a weary year
TIid fli p we launched at sea,
Freighted with htq>n for you and me,
And currying never a fear.
tVe watched thorn fail away,
As "<< stood on the shore,
And sweetly we did dream,
With true love for our theme,
When their voyage should be o'er.
IVe said, "Wh n they return to us.
O’er the ocean’s briny foam,
We'll build a kingdom heavenly fair,
With love and faith dwelling there—
We’ll call our kingdom horoa."
love was wrecked on an angry shore,
On the locks of worldly gain,
And oh! the saddest sight to m<\
IAdth was lost in a dismal sea
Of slander, doubt and pain.
Vet o'er the dark and angry waves,
Hangs the bow of promise fair;
It tells of that br 'ght and better land,
With love and faith, an unbroken band,
Up there, dear heart, up thera
HUMOROUS.
Goes against the grain—The reaper.
If there is any one who should be
“rnppcd in slumber,” it is the man who
snores.
Bees can predict tho weather. Com¬
bine a bee nnd a small boy and they can
produce a squall.
“I don’t sec tlie point, but I realize Its
force,” said the man when tho bee settled
on the back of his neck.
A man who advertised for a perma¬
nent position, where salary was no ob¬
ject, was advised to try tho cemetery.
A new game of cards is called ‘‘matri¬
mony.” If the man wins, ho takes the
girl; if the girl wins she takes the man.
Tho difference between two great po¬
litical parties is easily explained to for¬
eigners, one gets the offices the other gets
left.
The discovery of a scarlet snake is re¬
ported by an Ontario paper. The man
who discovered it had iu *11 probability
been painting the town red.
An Ohio man claims to have invented
a machine that will continue to run with¬
out stopping until it wears itself out- It
is evidently nn infringement on a book
agent’s tongue.
Lady to small boy — 1 ‘Then you never
had educational advantages!” “No,
mum not that I know of. I’ve had
airy siplas. If what you said is worse
nor that,I don’t wanter catch it.”
“’Mary, I wish you would be a better
little girl,” said a father we wot of to
his little girl. ‘ You have no idea how
sorry I am that mamma has to scold you
so much.” “Oh, don’t worry about it,
papa,” was the reply; “I’m not one of
those sensitive children. Half the time
I don’t hoar what sho says.”
(luirvctcr In Handwriting.
There are people wlio claim to react
men’s characters from their handwriting.
As the writing of every nation is dis¬
tinguished by strong national peculiar!,
tics, it is easy for on expert th decide to
what nation a writer betongs. Having
settled that, certain large characteristic*
which arc common to all men, but in
different d agrees, can be seen in every
han.djvriting. A certain number of men
are calm, even-lived, sensible and prac¬
tical. Men of that claw are almost cer¬
tain to write plain, round hands in which
every letter is distinctly legible; noither
very much slanted forward, nor tilted
backward; no letter very much bigger
than its neighbor, nor with heads much
above or tails much below the letters not
so distinguished ; the letters all having
about Ihe same general uprightness, and
the lines true to the edges of tho paper,
neither tending upward nor downward.
Exact business-like people will have an
exact handwriting. Fantastic minds
revel in quirks and streamers, par¬
ticularly for the capital letters, and this
quality is not infrequent in certain busi¬
ness hands, as if the writers found a relief
from the prosaic nature of their work in
giving flourishes to certain letters. Firm,
decided, downright men are apt to bear
on the pen while writing, and to rnako
their strokes hard nnd thick. Cn the
contrary, people who are not sure of
themselves, aud are lackiug in self-cou-
tro\ press unevenly, and with anxious-
looking, scratchy hands. Ambitious
people are apt to be overworked; they
are always in haste and either forget to
cross their t’s, or dot their i’s. They
are nls > apt to run the last few letters of
every word into nn illegible scrawl.
Flurried, troubled, and conscience-
twinged persons have a crabbed and un-
even handriting.— St. NichoUia.
An Ex r.« Tea.
Major Johnstone is very particular
about the spelling of his name, lie is a
very proud man Oa general principles
Nothing exasperates him more than to
be mixed up typographically or other¬
wise with the common herd of Johnsons
without a t. He wag about leaving a
hotel in Dallas. JTo had asked for his
bill, nnd when it was handed him by
the flerk he scowled fiercely.
“D there any mistake in tho bill?”
asked the clerk.
“There is, sir; you have spelled my
name without tho t.”
“Ah, I see,” replied the clerk, “you
sin u d be charged with an extra t.
Fifty cents more, if you please.”— Team
Siftings. >♦ fi'V ’