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Volume 2.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, Anvil 18th, 1884.
Number 48.
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l-’or terms apply at tlilsotllee.
t ircenesboro, Gn., has
monkey from Nicanuijj
imported
ua.
A young lady lms o]toned a cigar
doiv in Atlanta. She will doubt
less have capital to-hac.k-’ei*.
FIVE I* 1ST Oh SHOTS.
Oho of* tin* Most Ueirnirknbli* .Vurdcrs Knonn
tin* History of Uncoil —Tli«• Prisoner’#
Statement, F.tc.
Mn
About ton acres of okra arophmt-
cd in and around Quitman. What a
pol of soup all that would make.
Some of the Athens college boys
arc hanging their boarding house
keepers in effigy. They don’t like
their hash.
As Mrs. Ifenry Turner, of Ogle
thorpe, was eating her dinner a feu-
days ago, she suddenly fell over and
expired from what was supposed to
he heart disease.
The Home city tax assessors have
completed the assessment of real
estate, and find the value of taxable
real property to he three and one-
half million dollars.
mi Telegraph April 15.
Last night, about S o’clock, the re
port was circulated through Macon |
that Mr. Wm. Landsborg, junior j
member of the firm of M. Xussbaum
& (to., wholesale dry goods dealers, i
iiad been shot and killed by J. U. 15.
Danfortli, the entry clerk of the!
house.
Our reporter hurried to the store ;
of X ussbaum & (’o., corner of Cherry |
and Third streets, and found quite \
a crowd of men, many of them en
deavoring to peep through the win
dows of the counting room, into
which the dead man had been taken, j
There was not one among the many j
congregated around the building,
not one could he found who knew ;
anything of the shooting. The re
port had gotten out in .some mys
terious way that five shots had been
A lady near Athens invited a j tired, lmt no one ventured any cause
lady friend to spend a week with | for tiie shooting, Or how it occurred,
her, but presented a hoard bill upon | All that was known was that officer
little ahead of me. I had no key, j the carreer of one of the richest,
and he let me in. There was no most picturesque of South Fieri-
one about hut him and myself.— da’s cattle kings is brought to a
After going in I went to the closet, i temporary halt. Lot us see if the
and then returned and fired live doubloons will avail him back his
freedom.
tlu> guest’s departure
Yankee woman sure.
That was a ; ban Thomas was called by two men
J to take charge of Mr. Danfortli, and
! that the officer took him to the bar-
Jedge It. W. Carswell, of Louis- |i {S
vide, held court this week in Sevan- j ‘ Gn , oin „ to the barracks, our re-
r.:th in pl.ico ol JiKl^o Auams in. a ■ porter held a conversation with Mr.
largo number ot cases in wliich j Oniifcrtli through the bars of the
,!udgo Adams was disqualified. dungeon in which he had been
| placed. At first he refused to make
facts
The papers say that the Greenes-
boro merchants did business Mon-j :U1 ^ • s tateniont, saying that tin
day, it being Easter, with closed i woult ^ * u ' i,r ° u giit out by others, and.
doors. By which they showed more i he <li(1 not feel hu “ lin ° a to im * v '
respect for the day than they enter- thhl - on tho sul ^ ci 1 U> '™ s vt ' r - v
tained for themselves. ‘ j M’Pruhensive of being taken out by
the friends of the dead man, and
The people in the vicinity of An- the first thing lie said, was to ask if
dersonville have determined to I the people were much excited over
build a hotel by the old stockade j the affair. When' told that there
for the accommodation of northern : was no undue excitement, and that
visitors. The current of travel to the coroner would soon hold an in-
the Federal Mecca is continuous. j quest, lie asked quickly with a tre
mor in his voice: “Is lie dead?”
The Carroll county agricultural i After some hesitation, he said:
club oilers as a premium fifteen del-1 “If you promise to state this ex-
lurs for the best acre of cotton, ten i actly as i tell you, I’ll tell the story
dollars for the host acre of upland | though it is somewhat of a long
corn, ten dollars for the best acre of one.”
bottomland horn, and one dollar) On being promised, he continued:
for the largest watermelon. | “1 was keeping books for Gus Nuss-
baum when lie sold out in 1882. I
A little negro child was burnt to had the choice of staying with
death on Mrs. G. X'. Butler’s plant- j I Hiody or-going with Nussbaum. Air.
iition, in Macon county, last week. Landsberg wanted me as entry
As usual, the mother locked it up clerk, but 1 did not think I could till
times. All the shots were tired in
the office. Neither one of us spoke
a word. After I tired the last shot,
ho walked out the side door of.the
office to the sidewalk and fell. 1
came out after him and threw my
pistol on the ground, and going up
to two men told them to take me to j circled paradise,
the barracks. They were not po
licemen, hut just then a crowd
came running up, and with them
an officer, who brought me here. If
the law wants to execute me for it,
I do not care. 1 want the public to
know 1 had a provocation for wliat
| ! did. I was so wrought up that I
hardly know what to do, and wliat
! f did was forced to.”
The prisoner is 2L years of age,
| and is the son of the late Oliver
! Danfortli, of Macon. lie is known
I as Rhodes by his friends, and bore
| the reputation of being one of the
j most quiet young men, and news of
his work last night proves a shock
I to all who knew him.
About half past eight o’clock he
I was taken in a hack by Lieutenant
i Wylie and officer Golden and
lodged in jail.
Coroner Ilodnett summoned a
jury and held an inquest in the
counting-room in which the dead
man was killed. Mr. John T. Boi-
feuillett was made foreman of the
jury. The only material evidence
was that of officer Thomas, to whom
Mr. Dantorth admitted the killing,
and that of II. Stein who heard Mr.
Landsberg when he came out of the
store and cried murder. The pistol
was picked up by Air. Stein.
The jury brought in a verdict
that deceased came to his death by
a pistol sliot at the hands of J. It. B.
Danfortli.
Air. Landsberg was shot once in
the mouth and four times in the
breast. 1 fe was about 27 years old,
and was known as one of the best
business young men among our
Jewish citizens.
I lis body was turned over to Air.
Clay, the undertaker, last night.
An island of 1’rctt.v Women.
in tlie house and went gadding
over the country, and when she re
turned she found the house and
child both burned.
rm r~~ . , r ,. I eepted the place,
The champion slugger of the I
,i r , l. ... >, i Ar Co., agreeing t
world, John ii. .Sullivan, of Boston,
and his company of champion
roughs are booked for Augusta on
Monday night next, and will ex
hibit- a few specimens of their ruffi
anism in the opera house in that
city on that occasion.
the position, never having done
anything but bookkeeping, and I
declined the place. This was in
February. In March J finally ac-
they, Nussbaum
to keep me eigh-
| teen months, whether I pleased
them or not. I went there and re
ceived fifty dollars per month. Af
terwards my wages were raised to
sixty-five dollars, and when Lands-
berg found out I was getting that
much, lie said it was wrong, and
The United States Marshal arrest-) that I must pay back all over $o<) 1
'
ed I. L. Gull, agent at AIcYille, on a
charge of selling liquor without li
cense. He delivered it to the par
ties to whom it was sent or to their
order, as express agent, sent there
<’.(). I>., and he collected and re
mitted as agent for the Southern
Express Company.
A negro woman died suddenly in
Thomasville last Sunday afternoon.
She was jumping a rope, and call
ed out to those turning it: “(live- me
some hot pease,” meaning thereby
“turn as fast as you can.” She got
received. 1 refused, and this caus
ed him to dislike me, and make it
very disagreeable.
“Last summer, when Air.
Nusslmum and Air. Landsberg were
in New York, i wrote to them ask
ing for an increase of salary to
$1,000 a year. Air. Nussbaum sent
Air. Landsberg hack to arrange the
salaries for the year. In the whole
sale department, J uly is the time of
year in which clerks are hired and
salaries fixed. In the retail depart
ment, September is the month.—
Well, Landsberg came back home
the “the hot pease,” and after imvk-|, ind hy with Mr , F r i e d, of the
ing a tew jumps she iell dead. Death ; p inn> arranged the salaries. I saw
was attributed to heart disease
caused from over exertion.
the slip handed to the bookkeeper,
and so did Air. Torn Rogers. In
A man and his wife living in I Mr. Fried’s own handwriting, and
Oglethorpe county, one night lost ' vritten Wlth an
1 was my salary fixed at $1,000 and
1 received my salary regularly at
those figures. Landsberg made it
I disagreeable forme all along, but i
! made up my mind to do everything
week, becoming alarmed at the ap
pearance of the clouds, took refuge
in their storm pit. During the night
it ruined and rained. Towards day
light tiie water rose knee deep in
the pit. Then they had to hold up
their childien to keep them from
drowning. It seems that it is
hard to got in a place in which wo
are secure from e.very hurtful ele
ment.
Capture* of u Desperado.
Jacksonville, (Fla.,) Herald.
A reliable gentleman of this city,
just returned from Tampa, brings
us the graphic details of a thrilling
drama recently enacted in South
Florida. Ralph Willingham has
been for many years one of tiie
wealthiest and most desperate cat
tle kings of South' Florida. I lis ca
reer lias been wild and chequered,
hut always successful, llis wealth
is said to be enormous. Those who
know stato that lie lias two huge
chests full of shining Spanish
doubloons, hidden away in one of
his fortified cabins in the wilder
ness. lie is the terror of the Kissi-
meo region. Five bloody murders
are on liis hands, and a reward of
$2,'>(10 is outstanding for li is deliv
ery to tiie authorities, dead or alive.
A few days since Ralph Willing
ham and ids handsome wife hoard
ed tiie trading steamer Gertrude,
Captain Fierce, of the Kissimeo riv
er and contributing lakes. Captain
Fierce treated the desperado with
civility, and the two sat down to
dinner. Willingham suddenly
turned to his host and said: “What
right have you to tit up and run a
trading steamer on this river any
how? Why can’t 1 do it?” The
captain good humoredly replied
that he had been permitted to do so
in peace a long time, and to end the
pending controversy rose from tlit*
table, stepped out of the saloon,
and was about to give some direc
tions to the men below. Turn
ing suddenly, ho beheld tiie despe
rado of the Kissimeo standing over
ho asked me no matter how unrea
sonable it was, and I did so uncon-
plainingly. But at last he became
so overbearing that the clerks no
ticed it, and l became frightened
lent I should loose my job. I had a
mother and sister to support, and I
The Atlanta•, Constitution reports | " ils anxious about it. 1 went to
the occurrence of a most terrific Mr, Nussbaum and asked him it 1
wind and rain storm in that city j was giving satisfaction. Ilo told
Monday night. The rain fall is de- j mo that as long as I •attended to
scribed as something uncommonly my business 1 was nil right. This
terrible. The damage along the j satisfied me, and 1 continued on.
Western A- Atlantic railroad was Yesterday morning Air. Nussbaum
very groat, and was the cause of and Air. Landsborg wore in the
two blood curdling accidents. Thu
first accident occurred two miles
south of Big Shanty. At that place-
all foot of a fill thirty foot high was
washed out, and the train ran into
it and w as dashed to atoms, and $1,000 a year. They said a
two men crushed to death. The i deal to me which was very
office, and both spoke to me about
the salary. They said I had taken a
mean advantage of them, and that
1 must receive sixty-live dollars,
and pay back the difference of a
great
harsh
The grass grows green and rank
and the perfume of the rose fills the
air even in the bleakest days of the
bleak autumn in this little sea-en-
writes a corres
pondent from St. Helier’s, on the
island of Jersey. There are hun
dreds of lanes winding among the
valleys and hill sides with trees on
either side growing so close togeth
er that no sunshine can ever pene
trate through the inter-lacing
houghs to the hard, smooth, beaten
track beneath; miles of w-liito,
siting beach, on which the sand is
as fine as sifted flour and is left hy
the receding tide as hard as cement ;
quaint little farm houses embower
ed in sweet smelling shrubs and
flowers, and acres of moorland that
are covered the year around with
heliotropes, petunias, and margue
rites. A blue gray sea rises and
falls around the island forty-two
feet. “Sweet Little Jersey;” “Dear
old St. Iielier’s,” is the affectionate
way in which tiie people here speak
of their Island home and its chief
town of fif),000 souls. St. Helier’s is
a queer old place.. Its streets are
narrow and crowded. Massive
earthworks and miles of masonry
Crown tiie hills about, and render
the place apparently impregnable
against the foe.
The channel islands, and particu
larly Jersey, possess much of inte
rest to tiie stranger, hut the crown
ing glory ot Jersey is the beauty of
her women. For general comeli
ness they would readily he award
ed a prize in any competition of
feminine grace. Rare, creamy com
plexions that would put the bloom
on the peach to blush, figures made
graceful and sinewy by boldily toil,
with rather strongly cut features,
eyes like aloes, and lustrious black
hair, the girls met on the streets of
St. Ilelier’s seem to the stranger
the personification of womanly in
dependence, beauty and maidenly
reserVe. The soft white mists that
wrap the island every night from
sundown to sunrise give them ear-
nation cheeks. The toil that brings
with it tiie active, healthy body is
duo to causes which will enlist on
the side of these women the sym
pathies of true manhood. It is lie-
cause of the woeful dearth of men in
Jersey that the women do all tin*
work. Where you meet one man
in tiieso tortuous streets of St.
Ilelier’s you meet ten women.
Out among the green farms this
disproportion of tiie sexes is even
more painfully apparent. The
heavy, ungainly carts on the coun
try roads are almost without excep
tion driven by women, and hand
some women, too. Groups of cherry
cheeked girls may bo seen in the
wayside orchards, some picking ap
ples from the trees, others straining
at the rude cider-presses. The little
fields, with their luxuriant growth
of turnips, cabbages and bogus are
all tended by women while the
blooming flowers in the house
yards show in their rich variety
the evidence of woman’s care and
attention. None but women are
to be seen in the big public market
of St. I lellier’s, women buying and
women selling. What men you see
are either too young or too old and
decrepit—hoys who have not start
ed out in life, or old sea-captains
who have come homo to end their
days, smelling of salt cod and full
of reminiscences of stormy voyages
to Buenos Ayres, to Australia or
through tin* (Tina seas.
Chlna’H Hillers Kxiis[ii'r»to(l.
i.ooiiorr ion ca.xned coons.
How to Detent Deleterious Samples.
Hi view of the frequency of poison
ing by canned goods, the following
summary of a lecture delivered on
Thursday at the regular meeting of
the Aledico Legal Society in Mott
Memorial Hall, New York, by Dr.
J. G. Johnson, of Brooklyn, will ro
pey perusal: Representatives of the
canned goods, manufactures, and
the editors of some of the trade pa
pers were present. Dr. Johnson
said that in March he was called to
see a family in Brooklyn who were
suffering from poison. The family
consisted of six persons, and he
found that they had eaten for lunch
some bread and butter, and a can of
stewed tomatoes. Immediately
afterward they all became very ill
with burning pains in the pit of the
stomach, dryness of the throat, and
bright red eruptions of the skin,
and one of them was in a state of
coma. The doctor found the can
from wliich the tomatoes had been
taken, and showed it to a tin-smith,
who declared the lid to have been
soldered on with muriatic amalgam.
The acid is put in tiie groove in
which thcflivl fits with a brush, and
lie came to the conclusion that some
had dropped from tiie brush in this
operation into the can, and in that
way had caused the illness of his
patient.
He stated there were many firms
engaged exclusively in selling-what
are known to the trade as “Seconds,”
which ho defined as meaning-doubt
ful or unsound goods. He closed
by giving the following rules to be
followed in buying canned goods to
avoid purchasing unsound or taint
ed meats or fruits:
Every cap should be examined,
and if two holes are found to have
been punched in it take the can im
mediately to the Board of Health,
with its contents, and give the
name of the grocer from whom it
was bought.
The reason the second hole is
punched is that the can lias been
found to he a “swell,” that is, tiie
head lias been bulged out by tin
gases caused by fermentation, and
tiie can has been “reprocessed” or
put in a hot water bath a second
time and a second opening made to
allow these gases to escape. Reject
every can that does not show the
golden line of resin around the edge
of the solder of the cap, the same as
is seen on tiie seam on the side of
tiie can. All others, the doctor
claimed, were sealed with muriatic
acid.
Reject any and every can that
shows any rust around the cap or
the inside of the head of the can.
Rust proves that there was air
inside and consequently fermenta
tion.
Reject any can that does not bear
the manufacturer’s name.
Before buying press tlm bottom
of the can up and if the contents are
decomposed the tin will rattle like
the bottom of the oiler of your sew
ing machine.
If the contents are sound the bot
tom will he solid and impossible to
push up.
him with a huge carving knife rais
ed with deadly intent. Captain I r Vhe lntpst advices from .Shanghai
Jurors Diirrliasablr at $5 par Dozen.
Fierce evaded the deadly t li rust
of the knife, and grappled the sin
ewy pirate, who would no doubt
have overcome him but for the
and gallant interference of
several members of the crew, who,
after a desporute and bloody strug
gle, succeeded in disarming and
binding Willingham. In the lower
part of tlu> boat was Redding Far-
ker, brother-in-law of Willingham
and a desperado himself. As soon
as Farker learned of Willingham’s
misfortune, he made a desperate
effort to effect his release, and a
small mutiny was imminent on
the boat until Farker, too, was
quelled. Farker then demanded to
be allowed to get off the boat, blit
permission was refused. Watch-1
indicate that tiie Chinese govern
ment is greatly exercised at the re
cent successes of the French in Ton-
quin. Fersons in any way respon
sible for the reverses are being do-
graded and punished, and active
measures are being taken to pre
vent further loss of prestige. The
Viceroy of Canton has been public
ly degraded for refusing to obey
I orders. The officers answerable for
the loss of Baeninh have been con-
j demnod to he beheaded. The Gov
ernor of Yunnan has been sum
moned to Fokin to receive punish-
: ment. A general levy of men for
war in tiie Chinese army has been
; ordered. Affairs at Fokin are
represented, to bo in an extremely
critical condition and admluistra-
Nkw Yohk, April 1(1.—Judge
Nicholas Long-worth, of Cincinnati,
to-day said that the riots of Cincin
nati were not an unmixed evil.—
Juries and lawyers had grown so
shamefully indifferent to the fulfill
ment of justice that they needed an
admonition.
I have had five years experience
on the bench, and 1 known some
thing about Cincinnati criminal
procedure. Of course tlm hotter
class of citizens were to he blamed
for not being- more willing to serve
on juries. Trial by jury seems to
me about played out. Cincinnati
Judges could not get respectable
men to serve on juries, and jurors
for sale at $•'> per dozen swarmed
around tho courts. Every one of
those twiffity-two murderers whom
the mob wanted to lynch because
they had only been convicted of
murder in the second degree will be
hanged sure enougn now.
Cl! ATTANOOGA, TlCN.W, April 1(1.—
Upon motion of the Government
Attorney the Jesse James trial at
Huntsville has been postponed un
til to-morrow. Two witnesses from
Tennessee failed to appear. James
is ready for trial, and his attorneys
were willing to admit testimony
expected from absent witnesses, hut
tiie Judge allowed the motion for a
postponement.
ITHKK.Vr UI.K.lMMiS.
John (’. News Successor.
Wash ixirrox, April lb.—C. E.
Coon, Assistant Chief of the Loan
Division of the Treasury Depart
ment, will to-day he nominated
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
vice John C. New, resigned.
Fast Time.
The Southern Telegraph Com
pany have direct wires for market
reports from Chicago and New
York, used exclusively for that pur
pose. Reports received from
Chicago in from one-half to two
minutes after being placed on the
hoard in Chicago.
Exports of t’oln.
New Youk, April lb.—The steam
er Werro took $18,000,000 in gold for
Europe to-day. The specie engage
ments to-day for to-morrow’s steam
er now reach $2,000,000 in gold bars.
Foreign bankers report a larger
margin of profit on shipments of
gold bars to Paris than to London.
A Ill'll Iluoy.
Washington, April lb.—Notice
is given hy the Eight House Board
that on or about April 20, 1881, a
bell buoy will be moored near red
buoy No. 2, off the southeastern end
of the middle ground entrance to
Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. 'Plus
buoy will be rung by the action of
the sen.
Tin 1 Ohio Itelkd Fund.
The relief committee appointed
last February by tiie Chamber of
Commerce to receive and distribute
money and supplies for the people
made destitute by the flood is about
to close its labors. It lias received
$18-1,000, all of wliich lias been dis
tributed except $0,000. This amount
is soon to bo used in helping the
poor restore their dwellings. A
large part of the money has been
used outside of Cincinnati.
A 1‘itrlieil ltnttlu with Convicts.
A special from St. Louis of the 13,
says: Eight persons confined in
jail at Gainesville, Green county,
Arkansas, assaulted the jailer last
night and escaped after they had
secured arms from the jailer’s house.
A posse of fifty citizens started in
pursuit, and a pitched battle oc
curred, in which over one hundred
shots were fired. A burglar named
Brockman was killed, and three
other prisoners were wounded and
secured. The remainder escaped.
The jailer received dangerous in
juries.
liking Against Americans.
Chicago, Iu, April l(i.—A spe
cial from El Paso, Texas, says: “A
dispatch from Fracasecas, 701) miles
south of here, is to the effect that
there is trouble among the inhabi
tants and an uprising against the
American residents. They attack
ed the Mexican Central Railroad,
burned tiie bridges and tore up the
track for several miles. Tn Chihua
hua tho Governor called out the
troops to prevent any demonstra
tion. Travelers from the interior
for several days have reported un
easiness and fears of a rebellion
among the inhabitants. It is im
possible to obtain particulars.”
Konsted Alive.
Austin, Tkxas, April 1">.—News
is received from Lyons, nineteen
miles from here, that late Saturday
night a burly negro entered the
house of a widow named Mrs. Moore
and demanded that she get supper
for him. On her refusal he took an
ax and brutally murdered her.—
Friends passing the house discover
ed tiie crime and a hundred men
set out in search of tlie murderer.
They overtook him early yesterday
morning, marched him back to the
scene of his crime, and on his being
identified by t he children of his vic
tim, took him into tho woods and
roasted him alive over a huge fire.
No arrests have been made so far.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
Tho m I hoc pie grneeth tin* festive board,
Masking Its juices fare,
And (lie mouth of our baby waters the while
He vioweth tho treasure there.
The doctor snilleth a wan, sad vnille,
And henveth n crocodile moan;
And the marble man goeth Into his yard
And pollslietli up a stone.
And the undertaker mournfully asks:
“What will his measure be'.’’’
Willie the sexton labels a spot “reserved”
Under a willow tree.
, , , . ..... , , , tlvo changes of great importance
second am-ldent happened within and unjust. tins worried mo all mg his opportunity ho evaded 1 s ! ltl . y imminent
fifteen minutes of tho time of tho day, and l made up my mind what guard, suddenly plunged into tho | '
first, and only four miles distant, by
which an engineer of a freight
train was dashed to instant death.
Thousands of dollars’ worth of
property was destroyed. The lav
ages of the storm throughout Mid
dle, North and Northeast Georglu
are very great.
London, April lti.—Queen Vic
toria and Princess Beatrice have
started for Darmstadt, to be present
to do. I thought this way about it: Kissimmee, swam ashore and os- an old negro in Montgomery,
i could not support my mother anil raped into the swamp. The Ger-1 Ala., while watching tho monkeys i at the marriage of Frineoss Vii
sister on such tv salary, and If l quit trude put on extra steam, made in tho menagerie,spoke thus: “Deni I toria, of Hesse, to Prince Louis, of
Landsberg A: Nussbaum would ruin j good time to Kissimmee, where i chlluu got too much sense to come Battenhcrg.
my reputation so 1 could not got Captain Fierce with Ids valuable ; oaten dat cage) do white folkes ’ml!
aiiy other place,so 1 thought 1 would ; prisoner boarded tho South Florida t . u t dm* tails off, and hub dam A Toledo woman got up while
kill Landsberg. After supper 1 train for Orlando, the county scut, notin’ and milkin’ coustertuUons her husband was asleep, robbed Ids
went to tho store. Ho got there a to claim his rich reward. And thus 1 ’tore iley got well.” ‘ pockets of $3,000 and disapneared.
Conkllng out of I'olith'N.
Ex-Senator (‘tinkling was recent
ly invited l>y tin* Commercial
(lazette either to submit to an inter
view hy a staff correspondent or to
give his views at length on tho
political situation and his prefer
ences for Presidential candidates in
a written communication to he pub
lished over his own signature. Fol
lowing is the distinguished gentle
man’s courteous reply to tho com
munication addressed to him:
Laic
■ a
(i'Dice of Jlo8coc Ciinkl iny,
No. 2, NY a l.l, Stukkt,
New Yohk, March —, 188-1,
(lentleincn: Thanking you for
your note and kindness, I am com
pelled to say, ns I do in answer to
all communications proposing word
or act in politics, that 1 am wholly
out of political movements anil
affairs, and wholly absorbed in pro
fessional work which taxes all my
energies. Apart from preferences,
it is impossible for me to partici
pate in or he drawn into discussion
at this time. Cordially yours,
Rosi-ok ConKI,ING.
To the Kditarx of the Commercial
(lazette, l'ittubary.
t av, , .....
Credit is the thing that keeps a
man in debt.
Tiie man with ii lottery ticket
looks out for the number won.
The man who “found his level”
was a carpenter, of course.
Floods come high, hut it seems
tiie unhappy Ohio people must have
them.
An amateur punster says he has
seen a house lly—we thought it was
only the chimney flue.
Nature don’t often make a fool.
She furnishes the raw material anil
lets it take its own course.
Texan marriage notice: “No card,
no cake, no flowers, no thanks, no
regrets, jiobody’s business.”
.Japanese soldiers carry fans.—
These weapons are probably used
only in the hottest of the fight.
“I’m in for a fine time,” is wliat
tin* prisoner said when incarcerat
ed for his inability to pay a fine.
“This is a new figure for the Ger
man,” said Hans, when he was fined
$■-><) for selling beer without a license.
The young boatman who takes a
party of girls out sailing should con
tent himself with hugging the shore.
When you see a counterfeit coin
on the sidewalk, pick it up. You
are liable to arrest if you try to pass
it.
“Persons having no business in
this office will please get through
with it as soon as possible, and
leave.”
The law can never make a man
honest; but it can make him awful
ly uncomfortable when he is dis
honest.
Shoes wear out pretty fast, yet,
after all, “there’s nothing like leath
er.” Just see how the old leather-
covered Bibles last.
The South complains of too much
rain; but you can’t make a country
water-proof and expect any crops.—
Detroit Free Press.
A lodging-house bed in New York
can he obtained for five cents, and
still some New Yorkers will persist
in staying up all night.
The one redeeming feature of
Mormon ism is that it does not throw
the burden of the support of a hus
band upon ono woman.
The latest typhoid fever theory is
that tho germs were scattered in
milk cans. It is possible. Almost
anything can be found in milk cans
nowadays—almost anything but
milk.
When one reflects that the annual
rag business of the United States
foots up over $2,<><><>,<)()(), the aged
overcoat that lingers in the lap of
spring assumes an air of respect
ability.
A colored woman, when reproved
for undue expression of grief, said:
“Now look here, honey, when do
good Lord sends us tribulation,
don’t you spose he ’spects us to trib-
ulate?”
Commenting on the grandiloquent
boasting of an exchange that Wash
ington never saw a steamboat, John
Adams a railroad, Andrew Jackson
ft telegraph, or Abraham Lincoln
the telephone,the Portland (Oregon)
Xeivs blandly affixes to the list of
wonders the fact that Adam never
wore a reversible ulster, or Eve a
full-rigged hooped skirt.
The Philadelphia Call says that
tiie best way to polish windows is
to breathe 011 them and then rub
them with a napkin. This reminds
us that the host, cheapest and quick
est way to paint a barn is to let a
Missouri editor hreutho on it anil
then spread the accumulation with
a large brush. The result invariably
is either a deep red hue or a beauti
ful dark brown tint, accompanied
by a perfume strong enough to wind
a clock.—Chicago News.
In Texarkana, tho town lying
partly in Texas uml partly in Ar
kansas, the Marshal for the Texas
and the Marshal for tho Arkansas
side were sent out to arrest tv drunk
en man. It appears that he was
lying across the State line, his head
in Texas, the feet In Arkansas.—
Each Marshal argued for jurisdic
tion, ami finally the Texan won, on
the ground that the head was tho
offending party, as the legs did not
intend to get drunk, and had no
part in doing what superinduced in
toxication.—Chicago Tribune.