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Watches, Olocks
And JEWELRY
THE
MERCURY.
A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor,
VOLUME IV
"DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
$1. 50 per Ann sin.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY. NOVEMBER ‘20, J.8S3.
NUMBER 33.
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GENERAL NEWS.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
THE OLD STORY.
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DENTIST,
Banderavllle, da.
TERMS CASH.
Office at Ills Raaldenea, on Harris (treat.
Aorll M. IMP.
MUSIC, MUSIC
—GO TO—
JERNIGAN
FOB
VIOLINS,
Bowa,' Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc-
A Chattanooga firm has sold 3,000,000
feet of lumber to one firm in Boston.
Mississippi lins only twenty-three pres
idential pcstoihcoa.
The stock shipments from East Ten
nessee are increasing.
The largest crop of wheat over sown
in East Tennessee has been seeded this
(all
The financial condition of Now Or
leans is said to bo better than ever be
fore.
The number of Indians in the Ever
glades of Florida is estimated at eight
hundred.
The Georgia owners of the Refugio sil
ver mine, in Moxico, rofuso to sell it for
*500,000.
A farmor of Suwannee oounty, Flor
ida, has gathered two crops of pcaohes
from his trees this year.
Calhoun county, Alabama, is aglow
over the proposition to move tho court
house from Jacksonville to Anniston.
The grand jury of Craighead county,
Arkansas, doclarod their jail a nuisance,
and recommended that it bo torn down
The sum of 85,116 has been donated
by the trustees of tho Peabody school
'und to tho Florida Bchool system this
year.
Tennessoe has a population of 1,511,
XX), and pays about $8 00 por capita ns
revenue to tho stato and general govo n
mont.
Thirty thousand dollars have been
subscribed for tho Nownnn, Ga., cotton
factory, and Dr. A. B. Calhoun has do
nated tho ground.
The South Florida railroad has used
ip tho timber to such an extent tlmt
Tiirc total, revenue derived from dram'
shops and wino mid beer licenses from
September 1 to January 1, under tho
now high licenso law at St. Louis,
amounts to $255,128, an inerenso of
$188,697.
Alas for the hoarl with tha orown of gold t
Tho tempter came as life esmo of old.
Alns for tho heart that was glad and light 1
Alas for tho aoul that was pure and white 1
China is a country of marvolous ex
tent. Wo consider tho United States,
with 3,000,000 square miles of territory,
a very largo country. And so it is. But
China cover* about 5,300,000 square
miles in its throe parts—the Eighteen
Provinces, Manchuria, and tho Colonial
Possessions, including Hi, Koko-nor and
Thibet. The first of those divisions
alone is that to which othor nations have
given tho name of “China,” nnd is tho
only partontirclysettlod by tho Chinese.
CenBtire who may—condemn who must)
It was perfect faith—it was utter trust
That asked lior promise; nor pledge nor sign,
Ho wsh hers—she was his by law divine.
lie was Hftod up; he was set apart;
Ho fillcii her thought; he filled her heart;
Sho called him great ; she boltovod him true,
As women will, as women do.
Oh, to betray such tender trust I
(Oodwill repay, and He is JuBt)—
Through wrong and 111 sho loves him still,
As women do, aa women will
(living little and taking mnoh,
Ficklo and false—thore ore many such—
Selfish and cruel—you know the rest—
Ho broko the heart that loved him best.
Mahy F. Teems*.
Lost His Place.
n T. a. ARTHUB.
Tun Cubans, it is said, are about to
make a supremo effort to cut looso from
the dominion of Spniu. Genoral Bono-
ohea has nailed from Now York with an
expedition, and other* nro to follow.
Tho friouds of Cuba in tho United
States are very active, and the rovolu-1 ont spoko^kindlj but firmly
tionists ltnve groat hopes of success,
i ho negro slaves on tho sugar planta* I [’“ D 0 ’ f ^c stall now puto quieter
tions are said to bo ready to join in a | m(l0 j n i,{ 8 place."
•I’m very sorry, Mrs. Allison, hut we
can’t take him back.” Tho snperintend-
•If it
BUY YOUR
HU, SPECTACLES,
FROM
J ERN1CAN ,
Ran* *»inline without our Trada Mark
On hand and for Mis.
8PEITACLB5*. NOSE GLAS6E8, ETC.
Machine Needles,
Oil aiid Shuttles,
revolution. Meanwhile, tho Spanish
government is in n state of nlarm, a ;d
oxtromo measures ora to bo taken to n-ip
tho now movement in tho bud.
A New Yontc man hits imported a pair
of Indian mangonses, tho first that ever ... . ,
to America. They »ro . Mil. K*..bat Ik.<Wnk —g.M*
“But it was the drink, Mr. Grant-
only the drink 1” urged the poor woman.
“There isn’t a more peaceable or kind-
hearted man in all tho shop thnn Jim-
mv, when he lota drink alone. And you
will give him credit for being a good
workman?"
No bettor workman in the establish-
larger than a good sized rat; thoir bodies I — r "
arc covered with brown hair, variegated
with white stripes. The importer will
brood these animals and soli them ns
vermin exterminators. It is claimed
.. Tlmt" spoils everything,
You’ll give him another trial? Bay
yes, Mr. Grant I” pleaded tho unhappy
wife.
But Mr. Grant said: “No, Mrs. Alli
son; I’m very sorry, bnt this thing is
elded. Your husband must get work
that thoy have no equal in that business. , 0 mewhcre else. Wo can’t have him
thero will not bo enough to furnish boxes I Ono mangocso will rid tho largest house * 1 ^ 11 ri*
for the shipping of the orango crop.
Northern capitalists will locate two ico
factories, each with a capacity of ton
tons daily, in Florida. There will bo
ono at Tallnhnsste aud one at Gaines
ville.
Tbo Southern Telegraph company will
roach Augusta with tlicir wives by the
middle of next month, and from that
point will operate in every city of impor
tance in tho South.
Spanish mnckerol nnd some other fish
only to be found in tho spring have ro-
eontly been abundant in tho waters about
Savannah. Tho fish dealers say tho
cause of their apponronce at this time is
tho late long drouth.
‘Oh, Mr. Grant," oried the wretched
of rats, nnd thoy destroy snakes with i (Vomft ' j lor vo j oe rising to a passionate
wonderful avidity and are tho inveterate a pp 0Jl j > <-just think of his poor old
enemy of every species of vermin. But
thoy arc gentle and harmless to human
beings.
mother ! It will brenk her heart.”
“He should have thought of his poor
old mothor, Mrs. Allison," returned Mr.
Grant, with a coldness iu his monitor
Hint ho did not feel. “We cannot take
these things into account."
It was all in vain. Mrs. Allison could
not move the superintendent, and she
left his office, weeping bitterly.
It is n bard case,” said Grant, speak
•TU do It. sir.’ Yon may count on
that. Good-bye, Mr. Grant," and tho
man held onthis hand, ilia fade working
with the straggle of feelings he conld
not repress.
“Good-bye, Jimmy," returned the su
perintendent as ho took the man’s hand.
“Think of mo ns a friend. It goes hard
with me a* well as with you. Bnt you
left us no alternative. Good-bye I And
if all goes right-let mo hear from you.”
Jimmy Allison hod no voice to reply,
Turning away in silence, ho loft tho of
fice.
“I don’t see how you can have the
heart to do it." said the book-keeper as
the man hoa gone. “He's taken the
plod go, and it’s my opinion he’ll keep it.
Why not give him a chance? I can't
get the poor, old, sorrowful faoo of his
mother out of my thoughts for a mo
ment; it haunts mo like a ghost."
Mr. Grant did not reply and the book
keeper turned to his desk and resumed
his work. A little while, afterward, the
whistle of the coming train was heard; a
few minutes later, and Jimmy Allison
was borne away from home, wife and
mother, on the swift wing* of steam, a
sadder and wiser man.
The day had worn on drearily to the
miserable wife and mother of Allison,
the pleasant Jane sunshine nnfoR until
the stin had reached the tops oi the
western mountains, for the shadow of
great trouble rested on the little house
hold. Suddenly the wild scream of tho
looomotivo cut the air, and went echoing
among the hills; and soon after the down
coming train dropped a few passengers
at the station, and then went thundering
on its impetuous course.
"Mrs. Allison." said a boy who rushed
into the room where the two women sat
in their helpless, half despair, “here is
a letter from Mr. Grant, and he says
read it right awny,"
The startled wife opened, with hands
that shook nervously, the folded paper
and read: “We’ve telegraphed Jimmy to
come baok—look out for him by the
down train."
A wild ciy of joy broke from tho lips
of Jenny Allison: “Oh, mother, mother I
they’ve sent for him to oome book, ana
there he is now 1"
Springing up and bounding through
the door half crazed with joy, sho ran
through tho little garden, and flung her
self, laughing and crying, all at ouoe,
into the arms of her husband.
We’ve had a narrow escape, Jimmy,
James* iikneagb carter para*
I.V/-KD BUT Eli 1.1. OE VIM.
1 hr gr;i]>o crop of Ohio, representing
a grout industry, is a dead failure, and
California will liavo to be depended on
for tho main supply of domestic wine,
Besides furnishing an immense American i (n(? his "book-keepor in n troubled
trade, California sends groat quantities | venoe. “But we can't have Jimmy Alli-
of wino abroad ovorv year. It is there jrm in tho shop any longer. He will
manipulated, labelled nnd sent back to tnke his glass, and when be gets too
"■« fniW Slates, to be WUtaoj
prices and sipped with tho knowing ))0 f oul ,cj f if he’d leave off tippling,
smilo of tho pretentious American epi-1 Bnt for drink he’d be our foreman to-
euro. It is certain that contrnl Califor-1 .lay, instead of a cast-off. Ilis example
Eon ADD KINDS or MACHINES, for enla.
1 will also orilar psrls of MsoIiIiim
that get broken, for wblcli new
pieces are wanted.
A. JT. JEHNIGAN.
ful
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.,
Will practice In tl<e oonntles of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
and In the U. 8. Courts for the Southern Dis
trict #f Georgia.
Will sot as agents In buying, selling oi
renting Real Estate.
Office on West elds ef Pnbllo Square.
OotU-tf
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
msici&i Lsi \mm
.Having recently graduated at the Unlver-
Maryland ‘
J of Maryland and returned home, now
oners Ids professional services to the oliisene
of Banderavllle and vicinity. Office with
Dr. H. n Hollifield, next door tofllra. Bayne’s
millinery store.
RICHARD I. HARRIS,
Attorney at Law,
LIE FSVL E, GA.
Will prsitice in all the courts of the
circuit, and in the counties sur
rounding W shington Special atlen
tion givnn to commerpial law.
E- S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Zaw,
SANDERSVILLE, GL
mayor.
O. H. ROGERS.
VZEltIC & 22tEASU2tEE
D- E. B, WELLS.
MAfftSHAZZ.
J. E. NVEDDON.
azzeemee.
W. H, LAWSON,
}Vm. RAWLINGS,
o- G. LANG.
A- M. MAYO,
M. II. BOYER.
The”contract to build a pedoslal for I a ia is now producing tho richest quality IJ 8 ,,ad > ftud w0 musk remove ik -
He
the Jackson statue, ou Capitol Hill,
Nashville, Tenn., has been awarded to
Mr. P. Swann, of that city. It is to bo
East Tennessee marble, of a boauti-
pink color, and fourtcon feet in
height.
The work now going forward on tbo
Panama canal has built ttp an entire
town thore, with a collection of work
shops, warehouses anil connecting rail
ways for tho rocoptim and distribution
of material. Tho working force will bo
Augmented in Decombor to a total of
16,000 mon.
The lumber business in the swamps of
tho Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers, Miss.,
is ussuming immonso proportions. Be
sides the great amount of cypress lum
ber that is being gotten out, tliou-ands
of walnut logs nro being cut for northern
manufacturers of furniture and othor
articles in which walnut is used. One
Boston firm alono lins a raft of 3,090
logs, ready for shipment, at tho mouth
of the Tallahatchie river.
The worth of tho early vegetables sent
north from Mobile county, Alabama, last
year, amounted to $264,000. About the
some amount will be realized this season.
The principal vegetables used are cab-
to be found nnywhoro. 9 ho art of wino
rnnking is not properly cultivated, and
tho stato thus loses much of tho possible
value of its fruitful vines.
lends others astray.”
A QUAitTiyi of a million cases aro now
brought each year boforo tho consular
anl commercial courts of France, nnd
“Ho'll go to rain, I’m afraid," said
the book-keeper.
‘Tcrhnps not. Whon I pny him off,
[ shall talk to him, kindly nud seriously,
And I shall do more.”
■Wlmt?”
‘Give him six months’ probation.”
‘Where and how ?”
‘I’m thinking it out. Can’t gee it
tho number is steadily incronsing. Much clear, but it will come to me.
..... I lhn<i/i’n n Will tnnFD fl fi WflV I
Where
. .old mother. That touches me. Ah, the
gntion arises in tho commercial centers, ()001 . 0 ]j mo ti, nrs | if young men would
Paris, Lyons and Marseilles furnishing i, u t think of them ns thoy should, there
forty po'r cont. of tho whole number, wonld be fewer heartaohes at old age."
J 1 -n v t Mr. Grant had a harder trial still. In
Tho cases aro rapidly disposed of, not ^ orrow an(1 despair old Mrs. Allison
ver ten per cout. being carried beyond R(ime to t jj 0 o ffi c0 to plead for her son.
a year. About twonty-oight per cent, of g e W as very kind to her, and tried to
tho oases aro settled by actual trials, I make her seo that lior son’s loss of his
my son," said old Mrs. Allison, after they
were all qnictod down. “It hurt me
AN OLD SHOWMAN’S YARN.
He Itrrnlln Ilia Early K«Eerteaee wttll
I'lnrn Merrla mA Olker Theatrical
Celi'brltlee.
away down here, my son’’~and slio laid
ker l>and over her breast—“hurt m-
more,may lie, than yon will ever know.’
‘ ‘On, don’t say that, mother. But you
shall never be hurt again," answered
Jimmv, catching his breath with some
thing like a sob. “Never, never, never!
I’ve taken the pledge, you know, and
when Jimmy Allison puts his name to
anything, it's got to stand. Tho Alli
sons dou’t go book on their word of
honor.”
“I’ll trust you, my boy,” was the
mother's confident rejily os the sunshine
of gladness fell over lier aged face.
Ail this happened just ono year ago.
And hns Jimmy Allison kept truo to his
plodgo ? More than true; for besides
holding true to his own integrity, he hns
induced a dozen other workmen to follow
his example, and is now organizing a
tempernneo society in tho shop, where
he already holds tho position of foreman.
The Welland Canal.
forty-two per cent, ou judgment by do-
fuult anil thirty por cent, on compromise.
Tho number of failures is each year
about six thousand, nnd bankruptcy pro
f-codings aro rather slow. They do, how
ever, generally end in a dividend.
plnco might really be tlio best thing that
ever happened to him, Bnt this was
impossible. Sho saw nothing but evil
iu his going away.
Poor old lady! At seventy, instead
of comfort in her latest born, best be
loved and only surviving child—her boy,
sho yet called him fondly, though he
was eight and twenty—she had heart-
aohing wretchedness.
“Oh, Jimmy 1 My poor boy, Jim
my 1" wailed the mother, on coming
back from the office, where she had so
Tub postmaster-general has received
tho annual report of Joseph Blackfnu, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _
superintendent of foreign mails. The | va i n iy striven to change tho superin tend
total weight of mails dispatched to the ent's purpose; and, putting her arms
i • = n,« , 1( ,Ht,d union with the about the stalwart man, she sobbed and
countries in the postal union, ‘ “J moaned so piteously that he also was
rne nnncinai vonoiuuioa useu mo , exception of Canada, was l.BdJ.JJU moved to tears.
p 1 b , , , a-id pounds, an increase of 329,114 pounds But there was no help for them. The
boges, tomatoes, potatoes, beans aud I ^ weigllt of i nst year. Of the let-1 shops were closeHo Jimmy Allison, and
2own of 2ennille.
Mayor- J °h n C. Harman. J-
Aldermen _ W . P. J)avi*,
C '.’i 1 ' J" P 'P ki »- T. J. Beck.
ink S. H. B M-issey.
Mursliaj-j. C. Hamilton
peas. Less attentio.i is now given
cauliflower, lettuce, radishes, nnd
cumbers, as all except tho first aro raised
in the North, under glass. Several capi
talists have, recently put considerable
money in the business of market golden
ing at Mobile.
Florida oranges are moving slowly on
Account of their maturing slowly. Job
bers are making their contracts for tho
fruit by the box instead of by the thous
and. Tho ci up of ono grove near San
ford, estimated at four thousand boxes,
has been Sold at *2 10 per box, the pur
chaser bearing tho expense of picking
ind boxing. It is iB estimated that fully
one half of the crop will go to tho West.
From a quarter to a third of the crop
went west last year, but this year the fa
cilities ore better and shippers aro hotter
acquainted with the market.
Tho Washington monument has reach
ed a height of throe hnndred and eighty-
four feet, and cost, thus far, as follows:
Fxnecded by the monument association
upon the old shaft, $230,000; expended
by Colonel Casey, $710,000; leaving a
balance on hand of $190,000 from tho ap
propriation by Congress of $900,000 A
reporter who ascended to the top last
week found men shifting *h. massive
machinery and preparing to laj the 886th
course. The workmen, he bays, mn
around the edges with the agility o
dies, aud trusted tlieir lives to the safety
netting that surrounds the top,
• iv A1 ru.r Annt wns sent I a week afterward he left home to seek
ter mail dispatched, 41 per cent, was sent | av ^ town fifty mj]e8
to Great Britain and Ireland, 23 pci wliero llQ j lftd an acquaintance in a roll
cent, to Germany, 27 per cont. to other ing milli u pon (be sorrow and grief
Annritvies of Europe, and 9 por cont. to that fell like a shadow on the henrts o'
d union countries and colonies out- his wife and mother at the moment ol
postal utno . , , .1 I parting streamed in a ray of hope,
side of Europe. Of the printed mattei | l ««j,taken my last gloss, mother 1
and samples sent, 41 per cent, was sent I My lftst g]fl88i Jeuny | A nd it will all
sent to Great Britain and Behind, 17 to j come out right I’ll be sure to get work
Germany, 21 to other European eoijii-
Fcw Americans have any idea about
tho Welland Canal. I looked at this new
achievement of tho Canadians last week;
the Great Western Railroad of Canada
runs beneath the canal by n tunnel; the
old Welland Canal, which is still used,
lies some two or three miles to tho west
of the present ono. Tho old canal was
a towpath concern, and did not admit a
steam-tug coincident with tho vessel.
The new canal has fourteen foet of wa
ter when there is high water, but in sum
mer drouth it is said to be less thou four
teen feet. It is n magnificently con
structed work, and excites surprise that
the Americans should havo permitted the
Canadians to anticipate them. Yet it
will be observed that the facilities for a
canal through Canada are muoh better
than through the United States. The
axis of the two lakes, Erie and Ontario,
lasses through Canada; the Niagara
Ltiver issues from the extreme oastern
end of Lake Erie, while Lake Ontnrio
overlaps Lake Erio considerably in Can
ada. It is rather startling to see mov
ing through the apparently solid ground
(for the country is very high where the
new canal is built) tall massive ocean
steamers, full-iigged ships, eto., some
times as continuous ns a oarnvnn across
the desert. Tbey go along silently, not
a sound or whistle escaping them, and
the visitor sometimes thinks his mind
deceived and that the landscape is
haunted.
tries and 21 to postal union countries
outside of Europe. Tho amount of mail
dispatched ast year increased seven!;,
per cent, over tho amount sent iu 1880.
Printed matter increased soventy-foui
., or cent over the snmo time. The sum
paid for sea transportation of mails was
1316,522, an increaso over tho cost oi
1882* of *36,368, or fifty-nine per cont
over 1880. The aggregate amount of the
balance credited to this country by otliei
■ountries on account of mail transpor
tation, is $145,777. Tho sum paid by
dm department to other postal union
-ountries on account of mail transporta-
don was 180,745. It is estimated tha
tl m revenue collected in the United
5tides from unpaid matter, received from
foreign countries, exceeded the amount
,f unpaid matter sent to other countries
*123 333 The estimated amount oi
onstage collected in the United States on
So mail matter is 42,078,913.
Tpp prodigal robs bis heir; the mjsei
robs^ him self? The miUdle way «, pis-
tice to ourselves and others.
in a and then I’ll send for you and
we’ll be bnppy again."
Mr. Grant waB standing at the window
of his office looking ont. __
“Thore goes Jimmy Allison to tho sta
tion,” he said, turning to the book
keeper. “Poor fellow 1 I hope the les
son will he good for him. But I’m
afraid.” .
While Mr. Grant was speaking, he
sew Allison stop nnd stand irresolute for
some moments, and then turn and walk
qniokly toward the office.
“We aro to havo a parting word
curse or a blessing,” added Mr. Grant,
iu a changed voice. And the office door
opened; nud Jimmy Allison came in,
Ho did not speak at first, but drew i
paper from his pocket, which he opened
and handed to the superintendent.
“Oh 1 a pledge 1” said Mr. Grant in a
tone of sm-prise.
“Yes, sir; and whnt is more, I’m go
ing to keep it,” replied Allison, in a firm
but subdued voice.
“Stick to that, my man, and all will
be well,” said the superintendent. “And
let me say this to you in parting: if you
lind let beer and whisky alone, von might
have had a foreman’s plaoe here long
Nothing has kept yon back bm
A Joke.
Two men in Miles City, Montana,
pretended to havo learned by telegraph
tliat the Government had thrown open
the eastern part of the Fort Keogh reser
vation to settlors. They whispered this
cautiously to special friends, enjoining
strict secrecy. Before night there was
a stampede, the supposed public land
claims were staked off, shanties were
put up, tents were pitched, and the
jokers say that a town was laid out, and
a real estate “boom” was under full
headway before nine o’clock in the even
ing. But l>y ten o’clock the joke was
out, and the place was deserted.
A little old man bent nearly doubly
and withered, apparently with age, oat
in a baok room ou the third floor of a
house in IMoeeker street listening to
music produced from a violin and piccolo
in the h mis of two boys of eighteen and
fifteen respectively. The old man WM
James Ben age Carter, better known M
the originator of the fnmous Carter
Zouave Troupe, which secured such a
world-wide reputation daring the day*
of tho war.
“Yea, 1 am in splendid health," raid
Mr. Carter to a reporter of tho World,
and he hobbled to n window m best he
eould, considering his paralyzed condi
tion, aa if to refute the statement. “I
shall never bo what I was thirty yean
ago, thongh. Oh, those were good old
days. It was in 1848 that I reached
this country from Englnml. I was a
mechanic, and first went to Cleveland,
where I earned my first dollar In the
capacity of a Journeyman painter. When
paluting became slnek I began deliver
ing lectures on 'Artificial Memory,’ I
did not succeed very well, so I packed
my trape nnd steered for New York. On
arriving there I entered the employ of
Rufus Porter, tho founder of the Solon-
tijlo American. At tho time he was en
gaged constructing a flying machine to
take people to California in three days.
Wo soon found that tho railroads and
stenmers wonhl eventually reach there
as qniokly as wo could witlr our invou-
tion, and It wns acoordiugly abandoned
I then tumod to the stage. I sang at
the Old Bronilny Theatre in 1850 intli
the Begtiin Opera Oomnauy, and also
played with Lester Wnllaok in 'Monte
Christo’ as super. Oh, he was a ‘crack’
actor. Never hoa an audience seen his
superior ou the stage.
STAimNO otrr roa himsblf,
“I then thought I would start out for
myself. I obtained the services of a
‘Mexican Indian Giant.’ With him nud
a dwarf I formed the 'Carter Curiosity
Shop.’ Fbr several years I traveled
with them, visiting every State in the
country and making sevoral visits to
Europe. In 1857 I cleared in eight
months alone in Texas $5,000 with this
rhow. The following winter I went to
Cuba, ns my giant could spenk Spanish
well, nud uleared $3,000 with two ex
hibitions. Then I started out with my
'American Entertainment.’ I presented
the most magnificent panorama the
world had ever seen nt that time,
personated tho yankee, negro, fireman,
waiter, newsboy, nnd Indian, The
scenes were laid in Now York, tho South
and the wilds of the West. I began the
entertainment in England to 'standing
room only.’ It was an immense suc
cess until I was seized with rheumatism
from which I have not even now recov
ered.
“Then the war broke out here, and
from tho fame of Colonel Ellsworth and
bis Zonnves I conceived the idea of get
ting up a Zouave drill, the principal at
tractions being that tho participants
were little girls instead of men. I re
turned to Amerioa nnd began seleetin(;
my company. In N. Y. city l obtained
sevon littlo girls from seven to eleven
years of age. I equipped thou, with
muskets and Zouave dress. They ac
quired so muoh Bkill tliat at their debut
at the Groon street Theatre in Albany
in 1801 they mode a great hit. I had
letters of congratulation from the Mayor
ox-Mayor, Erastus Corning and other
promiucut citizens, and for one mouth
the houses were packed nightly. Then
I showed them in the principal cities
throughout the country. There was not
a greater sensation created during the
war in the stage line.
IfEKTINO CLARA HOBIIIS.
“Right here let me tell you an interest
ing episode: in 1862, in tho early days of
my girl troupe, I brought the girl
Zouaves to Cleveland to open the old
theatre now called thoComique. In the
same house nt which we boarded there
were two girls about fifteen years of
age. These girls beoame quite intimate
with those belonging to my company
aud begged hard to be allowed to go be
hind tho scenes while the performance
progressed. I consented and tho two
girls becoming Infatuated expressed n
desire to become actresses. • One of tne
mothers said ‘no,’ but the other said
•yos.’ The girl whose mother said ‘yes’
became the eminent and favorite tra-
f edienuo Clara Mort is. The other girl,
believe, is the wife of a master black
smith and is the mother of ten children
and resides on the Tactile slope.
“It wns only n little after, too, that 1
popped the question to a young lndj
from Paiusville, O., and she said yes
Wo were accordingly married at once,
anil the result of that marriago was these
boys whose music you have just listened
to,
“On the 9th of November, 1863,1 took
passogo with my troupe for Cuba; from
there I took them through New Englano
and their success wns immense. I added
brass instruments to the combination
and organized the first female brass
band in the United States. The music
THE MERCURY.
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DBUSHED EVERT TVESMT
yf*t
past I have been exhibiting Ike
spy glass, my own invoiUon. XI en
ables you to see in a single drop of wa-
’" ‘ to
ter wonderful
mechanism of a humming-bird’s
and the elephantine proportion
insect. Oh, I’m death on Mad
am. I have cleared thousands of do
in a single night, bnt |1 pleas*
Well now. <*’•'
I shell soon be in the field again,
however, with an entirely new end novel
entertainment, which my boy* will
participate.”—New York World.
A CALIFORNIA FARM.
iflrdtl'Xlielils tha War VTeas aaSlIew
It la Manage*.
In her graphic illnatrated artiel* in
the October Century, on “Outdoor ln-
dnstries in Southern California,” H. H.
describes one of the great ranches as
folloum: "The South California statistics
of fruits, grain, wool, honey, etc., lead
mot e like fanoy than like fora, and *Mnot
readily believed by ona unaeqaaiated
with the country. The only way tfi get
a real" comprehension and intelligent
acceptance of them ia to study utem on
the ground. By a single visit to a great
ranch, one is More enlightened thaii he
would be by committing to memory
scores of Equalization Board Reports.
One of the very best, if not tha beat; for
this purpose is Baldwin’s ranch, in the
San Gabriel volley. . It includes a largo
part of the old lands of the San Gabriel
Mission, and ia a principality in Itself.
“Thero are over a hundred men on its
pay-roll, which averages $4,000 a month.
Another $4,000 does not more tfaaameet
its running expenses. It bra 96.000
worth of machinery for its tpain har
vests alone. It has a dairy of forty oowa.
jersey and Durham; one hundred and
twenty work-horsea and mules, and fifty
thoroughbreds.
“It la divided into four distinct es
tates : tha Hants Anita, of 16,000 ceres;
Puente, 18,000; Merced. 20,000; and the
Po’.rero, 25,000. The Foente end Mer
ced are sheep ranches, and have 20,000
sheep on them. Tho Potrero is rented
out to small farmers. The Santa Anita
is the home estate. On it are the homes
of the family and of the laborers. It
has fifteen hundred a-orea of oak grove,
four thousand sores in grain, five hun
dred in grass for hay, one hundred and
fifty in orange orohards,. fifty of almond
trees, sixty of walnuts, twenty-fivs of
penrs, fifty of peaches, twenty of lemons,
and five hundred in vines; also small
orchards of chestnuts, hazel-nuts, and
aprioots; and thousands of acres of good
pnsturage.
“From whatever side one approaches
Santa Anita in May, he wfll drive
through a wild garden—oaten, ysllow
sn*l white; scarlet pentstemons, bine
larkspnr, monk’s-hood; lupines, white
and bine; gorgeous golden esohsonoltzia,
abler, wilil lilac, whito sago—all in riot-
ous flowering.
“Entering the rnnoh by one of the
north gates, he will look southward down
J 'cutle slopes of orohards aud vineyards
ar across the valley, tho tints growing
softer and softer, and blending more and
more with each mile, till ell met into e
blue or parple haze. Driving from
orchard to orchard, down half-mile
avenues through orchards skirting seem
ingly endless stretches of vineyard, he
begins to realize what comes of planting
trees and vines by hundreds ana tens of
hundreds of sores, and the Equalization
Board Statistics no longer appear to him
even large. It does not seem wonderful
that Los Angeles-county should be re
ported as having sixty-two hnndred
acres in vines, when here on one man’s
ranoh are five hundred acres. Tho last
Equalization Board report said tho
oounty had 256,135 orange and 41,250
lemon trees. It would hardly have sur
prised him to be told that there were as
mnuy as that in the Santa Anita groves
atone. The effect on the eye of such
huge tracts, planted with a singlqzortof
tree, is to increase enormously the ap
parent size of tho tract; the mind stum
bles on the very threshold of the at
tempt to reckon its distances and num
bers, and they become vaster and vaster
os they grow vague."
ngo,
lrink. For your own sake, and especial
ly for your wife’s nud good old motlier’b
sake, let it alone,”
A Davton, Ohio, man writes to the
paper that his child “had fifty fits in
twenty-four hours,” nnd is now well
hearty, and ragged. Oh, well, we should
think it is very likely. A child that has
made a record of fifty-two tits, in twenty
four hours, ought to be tough enough to
board ail the year round. The Asiatic
cholera would balk at that infant
Hawkeye.
X SOFT ahswbb.
Twn* past twelve at midnight when
ho rolled home and prepared to oonooct
Borne story for the lateness of his return.
She, however, wns awake, and with
horp-soented nose detected an odor of
‘ What smell is that, my dear ?” sho
remarked.
“ Cloves, my love.”
“ But the other odor, sir ?”
“ Allspice, my sweet."
“ But I smell something else.”
“ Oh, that’s oinnamon."
« But I am certain I smell something
that isn’t spice at all.”
“ Oh, that’s an apple I nte before I
c-ame in.
“ Well, I should think,” she replied,
-• that if you’d just taken a good drink
of brandy before you came in and eaten
a ham sandwich yon would have hod all
the ingredients necessary for a good
they rendered was pronounced some of
tn<
A county prisoner says he has always
been taught to do in Rome as Romans
do, and he finds fault because now that
tic’is iu jail he is not allowed to do as
(lie jailors do
Thu Highest.—Mount Jefferson
Davis is tlie highest peak in Nevada. Its
altitude i& 13.075 feet.
,e best ever heard,
THU LATEST ATTRACTIONS.
“A little later Sol Smith Russell was
glad as a greenhorn to ask me for a
situation, and he was given one aa a sort
of specialty artist. He thanks me to-day
for the start I gave him. At the same
fim« i took the Berger family in bond
and lind them taught to perform upon
the instruments with which they have
acqnired such a reputation. With this
family I made a big hit. I have just,
been to seo Annie Berger myself. But
then success hod been too much for me.
Financial reverses and ill-health came,
and I am reduced to the position in
whioh you now see me. I went to a
water-cure and become a victim to mal
practice. I then tried the Hot Springs,
Ark., and the treatment there only ag
gravated my malady. I was paralyzed
ten years ago whilo writing a letter in
Washington, and I have never recovered
from tho shock; still I am well and ready
to enter the ring again, For Borne time
mince pie.
He sighed os he dropped to sleep, and
murmured that he’d have done so if he
Hadn’t been afraid of bad dreams,—Li/s.
Shortly after the match tax was abol
ished, a man went into a store in the
vicinity and called for a bunch of the
lucifers. “How much?” he asked.
“Two cents,” said the clerk. “How’e
that; I thought the price had dropped,
now that the tax is off?” “So it bos,’’
explained the clerk, “bnt these are some
we hart on hand." The man paid.
H. N. BOLLXFIXUtf
Physician and Surgeon,
■ondanvlUa, 0a.
oaea naxt door t« Mnb Bayne'S mUlluey
store on Harris street. —:
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