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VOLUME VI.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1885.
NUMBER 28.
Subscription......
.— IMIftt Y«M
City of Sondorsvlllo.
Mayor.
J. N. Gii.momk.
Aldermen.
W, K. Tukiprn.
B. E. Houghton.
J. Ji. liOllRhTS.
A M. Mavh.
S. Q. Lang.
Clerk.
0. C. Bkown.
Trcamrcr.
,1. A. Ill WIN.
ifnrslud.
J. E. WkdDON.
Town of Tonnlllo.
Intcndant.
John C, Harman.
Aldermen.
J. F. Mekkison.
J. D Pranelin.
J. M. Brown.
J. R. Pritchard,
TRAD* MANW
A NEW TREATMENT
For Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Dy*.
popaia, Catarrh, Ilcailaohe, Debility, Rhen-
matiam, Neuralgia, and all Chronlo
and Nerrone Dlsordera.
A. CARD.
-.an.. " prrpnfwd.otitl ndniinlhlerpd by |)n, Htnrko*
ninkn itn vlrtueo known and to intph-n tho pul lio with
Clerk.
S. H. B. Mamet.
Marshall,
J. C. Hamilton.
A. C. WRIBHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
105 Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
floTWill practice In tall the Court*
HARRIS A ANDERSON,
Altorno.ys At Law,
8ANDE118VHXE, OA.
Will pi Ad ieu in tho Mifldlo Circuit, nnd in
the counth'R Hunoundlhg WitHhiiigton. HpooiRi
attention given to Commercial Luw. [Juii23-ly
E. S. LANGMAUf,
L(kw
SANDERSVILLE, GAl
D. D. KTAN8, JO.
EVAN8 A EVAN8,
Attoriieys At I.aw.
SANDEURVII.LE, GA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I,AW,
BANDErtSVILLE, QA.
Wih practice in all tho Court* of tho Middle
Circuit and in tho counties surrounding
Wnsiiingt n. Special attention f. Won to com*
mere, il law.
0- C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bandaiarllla, Ga.
O. U. Rooaaa
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDKRSVILLB, QA.,
Will practice lu J o countlea of Washington,
Jefferson, Johnson, Kiiiituucl nnd Wilkinson,
and in the U. S. t’ourui for the Southern Die-
trlctof Uooight.
Will r.ot ms ii, enta In buying, selling oi
renting Ileal K*tato.
Office ou Waal aid# of Publlo Bqtutre.
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phjalelan*, who wj I not* wo art* biito, mako any atat«.
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• which era
piijaicmns who wi I net. we *
tnent which they do not know or belleta'i
puh ieli nn> leitliuouiih or reporta of «
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Piui.ADFi.i’nia, Pa., Jane I, 1882.
natural inn
In order to meet a natural inquiry In regard loom
profonrional and pcraonal lUmlttig, and to giro ln«
rrnnacd entiflilnnc* in our utateinrnt* and in tho g»n*
uln* more of our tfhUinoniala nnd reporta of oanna, we
pr.nt tho above card from grnt lemon well and widely
known and of the high** 4 1 -* 9
liiglieat.
Tr».ll|» on Oflhi bound Oi rare." oonUInln,
I the dkenvery Of and mode of aotioi *
Mo curative agant, and a large record.
Uonan(Option, Catarrh. Neuralgia,
IK
perHonal character,
i reainw on unmr
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liaonoee, will bu taut free’,
Addreaa
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IIOO and 1111 Ulrard Nt., Phlladalplila, Pa.
» Awthmo, ate., aod a wide range of ohronie
MUSIC, MUSIC
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Via, ACCORDING
Bows, r Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc-
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
FOB ALL KINDS ON MACHINED, for ml*
I will .1,0 order p.rta of MeonluM
th.t get broken, for wiilob new
pieces .re w.nted.
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PERSONAL MENTION.
Or. I u-tr
H. N- flOLLIFIELD.
Physician and Surgeon,
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
•tty nf Mi.iylttuii and returned home, now
•'flora Ills professional aervtcce to the cltlzonr
ci Hiiiidcravtlle and vicinity. Offlco with
Dull N Hollifleld, uajit door tofMra. Bayne's
millluery store.
0. W H. WHITAKER,
DENTIST
Bandererllle, Q.
TBKUs CASH.
i B.rrle street.
DK. J. H. MAY,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
Offer* his aervices to the citizens of Sanders-
*iile and adjaoent country'. All calls, day
n «ht, will be promptly reiponded to. Office
Jt his residence on lira. Pittman's lot, corner
•lama and Ohuroh streets. jaul6-1884tf.
Tub kings of Norway and Bwedoa ars
both poote.
Tub Prlncoss laouiHoof Euglatid paints and
writoi, and docs both very woll.
Dom Pkuho, emperor of Brazil,writes well
and lourniHlly, chielly on setentiflo subjects
Mini. John C. Urbbnk, widow of the
Princeton col logo patron, is Worth $10,000,
000.
(iKoitriic W. Ciiii.dh owns and keeps in
order a lot in a Philadelphia cemetery whore
poor printers may lie buried.
Likutenant Dankyhowkii does not bo-
Move in tho polar-continent theory, and
opp »*« m au> Xut '.Uct* explorations.
Santos, tho dictator of Uruguay, was tho
sou of a private soldier nnd born in the bar
racks, who never wont to saliool and was not
baptized. Iio established froo schools and
compulsory education.
Mus. Mackay, wife of the California bo-
nau/.a king, lias been giving ia lxmdon a
ios of ros3 dinners. The whole table is in
into a Ikj 1 of rosos, h aving just room enough
ound the edge for the plates.
Aok has not made many inroads upon Gen
eral Joseph 10. Johnston, now United Btatos
railroad commissioner. iio lias gotton over
the nervous trouble from which ho suiFerod
for many years. lie is married, but has no
ciiildr.n.
Senator Jonk.s, of Californio, has coma
back from a trip to Alaska Ho roports that
there is more gold in the veins of tho earth up
that way than in any other corner of the
globo. and lie is to return next your, it is
thought, with money and miners to work
vith.
One of tho celobrities of Boston is M. Sal-
vntor Libun, a hairdresser. He is a brilliant
wit a id writes admirable society vei'Ses, and
ho Koeins not at all ashamed of his occupa
tion. His name was recently proposed for
admittance to tho "Pemberton Square, n a
quit.) exclusive club of Boston Bohemia, but
tue b ack ball unexpectedly appeared in the
ballot-box.
Mrs. Rogers, the cattlo queen of Texas,
has her hobby in stock. Her first husband
was a stockman, and he loft her a herd of
40,001) cattle. The widow managed the busi
ness, and in duo time married a preacher
twenty years younger than herself. The
ministor had seven children. Bho took care
of thorn and him too, but she lets him
have nothing to do with the busiuosa She
watches everything herself, rides among her
cowboys on horseback, and can tell just what
a promising steor or cow is worth at any
season of the year.
IT WASHINGTON.
RECENT INTRRKkTINfl OCCURRE!*-
CtAt AT TIIK CAPITAL.
A Day at the White Ilonno During a Tri
weekly Hereption*
Below is an interesting account of a day’s
doings at the White House during one of
President Cleveland's receptions. It is given
in a Washington dispatch to tho New York
Herald ;
The tri weekly informal afternoon recep
tions which have been instituted at the White
House by President Cleveland are now the
most interesting nnd attractive entertain
ments in Washington. Tho number who ak
tond them increase every week. This after
noon there wero* nearly two hundred per
sons in the East room when tho Presi
dent entered. Of this number more
than one-half were ladies, Tho people
much disappointed. Indeed, tho idea whici
has got abroad that the Whito House is con
stantly infest’d with cranks is far from being
correct
There were two visitors of this class at tho
White House to-day. One of them wanted
to talk on shipbuilding. Ho said ship
building was more sacred than any
other calling or occupation in which mon en
gaged, and that shipbuilders should have
ovory possible protect ion that the government
coulu give them in tho way of bounties nnd
rewards. Beforo ho had got very far he was
told to submit his idea in writing to tho sec
retary of the navy, who was just now invest!-
*' * * it rle
gating tho subjeot. They go
Tho other man wanted tho government to
purchaso of him a quantity of small croco
diles which lie said ho could catch in a couple
of days in the lower Potomac, and place
Ho thought tho antics that young
and playful crocodiles would perform would
parks.
and ph......
bo more amusing to tho children, as woll as
other**, than anything else. Ho said thoro
wero millions of crocodiles in tho Potomac,
and that ho possessed a secret by which he
could easily catch ns many as might bo
needed. Tills gentleman was referred to the
Fish commission. .... , tl # , .
Tho President makes all his visitors feel at
home. Ho sooms to make everyone^think
that he is specially glad to boo them. Though
to the ordinary observer it looks as if ho
•y
shakes tho hands of all who present them-
solves the same way, ho doos not, and many
of thorn go away with tho im
pression that they wero spoctally favored
n tho way tholr hand was shaken.
Ladies
ore always highly pleased^with the way tho
it ‘ **
President receives thorn. Ho never skeins to
pay any attention to their attire or ap|>ear*
n.ice, all. rich and poor, being cordially re
ceived, though it has l>oon nottcod that in the
case of aged ladies, and Indeed ngod men, he
makes extra efforts to convince them that ho
is glad to roceive their calls.
a f hemembeni of tho Utah commission spent
dfcli
considerable time with the President talking
over the results of their labors. Thoro Is an
impression in soino quarters that thoro will
be a reorganization of this commission before
long. At present it consists of two Republi
can ox-Henators. Ramsey nnd Paddock, nnd
one Domocrat, Mr. Pettigrew.
Civil Service (?omiHle*leiter Thom an
He tig no*
Civil Service Commissioner Thoman, in a
letter to tho President tendering his resigna-
"Whlle thus asking reloase from so honor
able a trust, 1 desire to record my gratifica
tion of tho proved practicability and remedial
effectiveness of the reform procedure. Tried
veterans in political warfare view
with amazement tho facile, though
radical, departure from tho fa
miliar methods of the spoils system of
distributing patronage. Strenuous and sin-
ooro argument, nnd also deliberate perversion,
mark the opposition of different groups of
antagonists. And yet it must he concluded
that a majority of tho political leaders in
either party is in accord with the Pendleton
law, if Its original enactment and emphatic
endorsement by a subsequent Congress wore
honest legislative expressions, nmt not tho
coorcionof * " * “ 41
moral cowardice by popular sent!
mint nor partisan legerdemain. * * *
Public appreciation of the fact that this re
form does not trench upon sturdy partisan
ship came late. It was sedulously maintained
tbat the civil service was to he composed of
mon who should abjure certain rights of citi-
zemldp. With tho gradual, hut inevitable
refutation of thh fnlno view, tho outlines of
the reform at lust stood forth In clearness.
It is a reform which views the civil service
ns n vast business agency; its search is for
the bo*t obtainable merit. In business which
is not political it enforces no to its of party.”
The President replied a.s follows:
Executive Mansion, I
Wrshington, Oct 24, 1885. f
Hon. Leroy D. Thomas, Civil Service Com-
miesioner,
Mv Dear Kin: I havo received your letter
tondering your resignation ns a member of
the civil service commission, willed is in
furtherance of an inclination expressed by
you very soon after my inauguration
as President. Tho resignation thus
tendered is hereby accepted,
tako effect on the 1st day of No
vember next I congratulate you upon the
fact that iu the office which you relinquish
you have been ablo. by sincere and earnest
work, and by a si cad v devotion to tho muso
which you have in charge, to do so much in
the interest of good government and Jin
proved political methods. Yours sincerely,
OuovKii Cleveland.
BASE BALL FACTS.
BUY YOUR
RTitt, SPECTACLES,
FROM
JERNIGAM,
**B. f.aulne without our Trod* link
On hand and for uU*
SPECTACLES. NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Watches, Clocks
Aid JEWELRY
Twentt-kivk extra-inning game. wm.
played In the longue this year.
Tun New Yorks played ten extra inning
games last season, winuli g eight.
Ktovey, of the Athletics, made more runs
and more homo runs than any American as
sociation player.
Nor only have the Bostons made expenses
tliis season but they have a nont little balance
In the treasury us a result of this season’s
work.
New YohkebS claim that the abrogation
of tiie rule compelling the pitcher to keep ids
nrm below tho shoulder, lost tliotr club the
championship.
Ramsey, of the Louisviiles, was recently
fined i'll) for appearing on the field in ail in
toxicated condition, and Mayo was lined
for not appearing at all
While nearly all of the league nines this
ear have had to line or oxpol One p'ayera
loHutoxication, Now York'and Chicago t
Iplmei
JEHXTICAXT
gother have had but'olio man so disciplined.
At a meeting of general leagues and
American Association .clubs representing
New York, a resolution was passed that no
higher salary tliun $53,000 should be paid to a
player next yoar.
The American Association players scored
117 home runs during the past season. The
Athletic Club leads, having contributed dl,
followed by Cincinnati with d6, Metropolitan
21 Baltimore 18, St. I-ouis nnd Louisville 17
etch, Brooklyn 13, and Pittsburg 4.
The past soason has been remarkable for
tho popular interest taken in the game.
Never before has it justly won tin title of
“National,” but now all sections, including
Canada, acknowledge its attraction as a
sport and its fascination as a spectacle.
liiipormnt Conan Caw Decided,
The United Btutes supremo court has
rendered it■» decision in tho woll known cot
ton como of E. E. Lamnr, of Georgia, against
Hugh McCullough, ox-socretnry of tho treas
ury. Tito suit was brought in 1878
ill tho circuit court ol tho United
States for tho Southern district of Now York
to recover moneys paid into tho treasury as
tho proceeds of tho sale of several hundred
bales of captured or abandoned cotton. The
declaration was framed to roeovor $150,280
as the value of 578 bales of cotton, known as
tho ThomasWIlo cotton, and $110,703 as tho
valuo of 42(). other bales of cotton, known
as tho Florida cotton Tho suit wus afterward
discontinued ns t) the Thomasville cotton.
The cotton in question was seized in 1805 by
special agents of the treasury department as
“captured or abandoned” property, shipped
to New York and sold. According to the
lett u* of the spocial agent it was ownod by
“The Exporting and Importing company, of
Georgia (President G. B. Lamar), a company
gaged in tho solo business of blockade run
ning and holding said property for the pur
pose of aiding and abetting tho rebellion .
The court decided for tho defendant on tho
ground that tho law gives to the court of
claims exclusive jurisdiction in the class of
cases to which this one belongs. Tho supremo
court affirmed tho decision of the circuit
court.
Rampant Greeks.
LATEST NEWS.
TWO LITE* FOR A GIRL.
A Fatal Street Karoaater la nirmloahaai,
Alabama*
Walter Orr,a handsome young Mississippian,
who has been in Birmingham for tho past four
yoars in the livery busincBs, and Phil Givan, a
olefk iu a furmtJiing goods store, were in love
with Miss Mattie Rose. Monday night Orr had
an engagement to take this lady out to the re
vival conducted by Sim Jonos.
After walking two rqnares a man approached
tubing Oit'b right arm, aaid:
them, and grabbing i
You are the scoundrel I am looking for.
Orr at once recognized Phi! Givan, hia rival,
and at once prepared to defend hlmsolf. Givan
drew a pistol and began ilring on his rival
while tho girl still held Orr's arm.
At tho ffrat discharge she screamed and ran
across the street. Orr drew his pistol, return
ing tho fire. Each lied 88 calibre, five shooting
mg Wio Iirv, JMl'II MbUOOUteHUlUj HID rnuumift
Smith A Wesson, and when the duel was over
it was found that every ohamber in both pistole
was emptied.
Orr was shot twice, the fatal one entering
tho abdomen. Givan waa also shot twice, onco
in tho arm, and tho surgeons think tho other
,udi ** “ ““
ball penetrated the bladder. Both mon died
before morning. After Orr discharged every
ball from hia pistol ho ran into the houso of a
friond, near by» *nd borrowed another, and
reached the street before falling. Givan
walked two squares before oalling a hack. Doth
.... ^
young men were highly respected
ATTACKED BV TWO INDIAN*.
Lone Heltler Terribly Handled by n
Couple of H«ri Men.
A dispatch from Qlemulon, Dak., says: News
A dispatch iron* (Jleniillon, L)ak., says: News
lias Just been received that James Gray, living
alone four miles north of Glenullen, was at
tacked ou 'ihursday night by two Indians, who
came to tho house and AHked for food. Having
eaten all they desired, one of tho Indians, huge
and power.ul, took down Gray’s repmting
Winchester rlflo. placed the muzzle to Gray's
breast and pulled tho trigger. Fortunately
there was no cartridge In the barrels. Tho Indian
then put a cartridge in, whoroupon Gray seizod
a whiffle tree, and beforo the gun could be
brought to boar upon him, struck tho Indian
upon the head, and tho gun was discharged
Into the side of the house. The ride was drop
ped iu tho scuffle. Then commenood a rough
and tumble fight, both Indians taking part.
Grav lost his holt on tho whifilo tree, caught
up Carpenter's hatchet and struck the Indian
noarest to him on tho head, which felled him
to the floor. The other Indian fled. Gray
BURNED A LITE
n of •
Two Men Killed liy ibe Coving
Sewer.
A sewor exoavation at South Bind, Indlsnai
twenty feet deep, caved in Thursday, piling
in a mass of dirt on top of tho sower opening
fifteen feet in depth. Four masons wore
down at the bottom. In a fow minutes two oi (
the men made their escape through the man
hole a square distent, hiving had tho presence i
of mind to dodge into the completed psrtof tho I
aewer, when the e*artli began caving. Aftor I
four hours speedy digging, by a largo force of
volunteors, the othor two were recovered. Tho
plank walls in coming together, had oiushcd
their bodies, breaking a number of bon s. and
it is probable that they suffered iudiscribablo
agouy before life became extinct.
THE WORLD'S GREAT NAVIES.
BUH0R0U3 SKEfCIlEI.
REPORT FROM ENGLAND, «BR
MANY AND PRANCE.
CoM of t nnslriietlon nod Wages l*atd lit
ihn shipyard* of Forrlxn i'nnntrles.
A Decided ffllMNomer.
Mr. Foatherly (to young Indy whom
he has not soon for sovcinl years)—“And
is it possiblo that this Is Birdie Simn-
sorn, whom I used to know when a liftle
girl :V
Btrdio Simpson (who has recently in
The Chinese Mast He.
A meeting of three hundred eitizeus wai
leld at Htoezton, Cal., last Thursday evening,
lug those present to voto against all nom
inees at tho city election, November 3, not
pledged for the removal of C hina town. The
movement includoB tomo of tho best citllons,
and % permanent organization will Lo main
tained.
Falk tV Meyer’s, Han Francisco atruc n .. ... *
day because tho firm re ined to dischnrgo
their white workmen. It is learned that tin
Chinoso union of that city nrd rid the strike
must go” has created somo sensation.
■ed
bo Indian was dead or not, Gray was unable
to say. Friday morning a sot lor happenod to
jo to Gray's house, aud found him in bid
>adly bruised and scratched, scarcely able to
raise himself. Gray sAys tho Indian that flod
came back during the night aud oarriod away
the other.
A NAD CALAMITY.
Large Number «r People Precipitated
Into tbc River.
Wednesday evening a flro broke out on the
tug McDonald, lying at tho dock about one
hundred feet south of Gciichsco avonuo bridge,
East Hnginaw, Mich. A largo number of peo-
. . •
pic were congregated on tho britlgo whon a
>lecc of sidewalk on the bridge, five feet wide
md forty-five feet long, containing about sixty
)ooplo. gave way with • crash and precipitated
belli into tho river, fifteen to eighteen feet
deep, with a strong current. Tho night was
cloudy and (lark. Tue greater number wore
saved. Many,' however, wero badly bruised.
The river ia now being dragged and three
bodies liavo thus far Iren recovered. It is
thought that several perished, as twelve or
thirteen are missing. K I). Cowles, managing
tremo further poiut ot tho bridgo when it went
down. He could not swim, and was dragged
the struggling people to tho bo tom or the
Ivor twice, but got clear ami drifting down,
put
7
riv. _ ........
clung to a spile until rescued. Ho is but
slightly hurt.
TIIE LABRADOR HTORM9.
Over Three Hundred Llvre Relieved to
Have Been Losr.
The hurricane that raged on tho Labrador
coast was uiiprocedenti d even lu the inclemont
region. Over seventy vessels and prohablv three
hundred lives wero lost. Tho hark Nell e hat)
Just arrived with 200 shipwrecked mi n, women
and children rescued from the disaster. Sever
al women died from exposure, and others won
drowned. Over 2,000 persons aro destitute aud
stranded on tho coaHt. Five steamers havo
is not yet known.
The steamtliip Canadian, which has just re
turned from her seasonV. cruise in the guif, re
ports considerable distress on the LubrAdoi
coast, owing to the failure of the fisheries. At
Esquimaux l^oint, out of a population of 150
familios, only 20 Iirvo supplies for tho winter.
Thirty more nope to get enough from the mer
chants, who usually make advaucos to them to
pull thorn through. The remaining 100 fami
lies have nothing whatever with which to face
the wintor, and it will bo necessary either to
bring them off the const or aend supplies to
them.
nonernl McClellan Dead.
Gonoral George B. Model an died sudden!,*
at his residence on Grange Mountain, N. J,,
at ab ut midnight Wednesday night from heart
discs86.
Genual McClellan’s summer home was on
the summit of Grange Mountain, next to
that of his father-in-law. General Marcy. 2ho
whole community was shocked by tho news
of his death. Flags wore flying at half most,
aud th • Grand Army 1‘ost has called a meeting
to express sympathy and to offor a bodj
guard for tho remains. General McClellan
was an elder in the Presbyterian church*
General McClellan died from neuralgia of
the heart. Ho retimed home about six works
ago from hia trip wchI, with his family, and had
been under the care of his physician for about
two weeks. Nothing serious was expected
until Wednesday, when ho becamo worse. Us
died surrounded by his family at St. Cloud,
Wednesday, whore he had lived for about
twenty yoars. Invitations had been issued for
a reception the following evoning.
The Great Eastern Hold.
Tho great Eastern, tho largest steamship in
iho world, was sold at public auction for X20.-
200. Her construction commoncrd Mav i,
1854, and tho work of launching, her, which
lasted from Novcmbor 8, 1857 to January 31,
1858. cost XOO.OOO, hydraulic pressure luting
pinployod. Her extreme length is 080 feet,
breadth H2h|' foot, and including paddle boxes
118 feet, height 58 foot, or 70 foot to the ton of
the bulwarks. Blie has l ight engines, cap hie,
11 actual work, of 11.000 horse power, and hm
besides, twenty auxiliary engines. Hhe was so <1
in 1804 for 4.’20,000, and was employed on sever
al occasions with success as a cable laying
itcamcr.
N*v»I Constructor Philip Hlohborn, U. B, creased in flesh to 100 pound*)—“Yes,
N., who was *ont last yoar to rlilt tho dook- Mr. FYathcrly, I am tho sumo porson. 1
yard* of Europe, hn submitted to th*Unitod , ,1 0 not wonder that von find mo changed.
State* Bocretarv of tho navy a long report, I whs quite a chlltf whon you saw mo
which la Mid by high naval authoritlaa to b* last."
a work of groat practical valua Ho visited Mr. Feathoily (gallantly)—“Yes, and
tho yards of Croat Britain, Fran.w, Germany now that yon have grown *o stou—or—
and Runta. Ho doocrlbo* technically increas'd no much in weight-or—ah—
and with much detail the nhops, becomo a young lady, you know, I sup-
Thon I went to tho bow of tho boat and
got tho iantorn to have somo light on th*
subject. Gentlemen, whon I turned thkt
light on tho middlo of tho boat wh»t did
I soo thoro? Thoro »at old Tom, a* cool
n9 u clam, with hi* bob »unk in tho tank
in my boat. Ho had been bob' ing all
tho evening in that tank, nnd b*d caught
out every one of my fl»h and turnkd ’em
over into hi* own boat!
“Ily and by old Tom snid:
" ‘Well, Warron, it's a d 'hd heat, and
wo’ll havo to Call tho bet a draw. Don’t
any anything about it, though, and Ik*
next time yott stop at my house I'll glvo
months.
dook*, discipline nnd,working system* of tho • poso l ought no longer to call you
Institution* Constructor Hichborn says that' ‘Btrdio. "—-Veto lore 7lines.
in tho national dockyard, of Great Britain
about 18,000 men are employed,tbolr averag*
pay per day being ♦1.01. Tiie total sum ex*
ponded by tbc British government In the last
(lfteon years in tho construction and repair ot
vessels of the royal navy aggregates 1170.
The Kssni ho Llkti Meat.
"You havo boon to the country?”
"Oh, yos; just got back,"
“1 supposo you onjoyod mingling with
:tho hi
nut urn and hcitriug tho birds sing with
out,0:30, with incidental charges which swell out restraint?
the total to 1217,819,m j "You bot "
Tho Imporlnl navy of Mormany dates from rn t m t„ the mnsln
October 1,1807, front which time up to th* ‘ * ou r,m " d n Teatful calm in tno musto
present about 1140,0110,000 has been expended 1 bf the gurgling brook?
im.ii t.ho iinviil nnlnttlt-limnnt. will, th>, maiilh . "li’rftiilipnt.”
upon the naval establishment, with the result
that Germany now ranks as tho fourth naval |
Frequent
And the blcntlngof the lambs mndo
P °The r n»vy list of Kuala i, formidable in j l° h "f ‘°. ' l J° alwa >’ 1 ' ln Arc » dlaJ ”
o number of vessels and men, which place* 1 install. ....
“And even the squealing of tho pigs
was restful music?”
“Not much. Tlioy opened tho chorus
» littlo too early in tho morning.”
“But yon onjoyod the mooing of tho
cnttloi"
tho number of vessels and men, which place*
tho nation third in the rank ot naval powers.
Tho apparent navy aggregated at the begin
ning of tiie pi esent your 8 111
ng of tho piesent your sru vessels of all de
scriptions, but a cursory examination re*
vented that probably not more than 133, ex
clusive ot toriioiln boats, can proporly b*
classed as vessels for olToi.ilve and ilefonsiv*
warfare.
Franco lias flvo dockyards, collectively com
prising an area ot 900 acres. Him lias twenty.
f< ■ • ■ • ■
four drydocka, nnd
nro complete In nil
building, repairing, titling
hor
establishments
ilremenls for
nnd presorv*-
“I suppose so."
"The howling of dogs at tho moon
wore not so soothing, perhaps?”
“Scarcely."
'Well, now, of all the sounds pocu
lion ot ships and the manufacture of stores |[ar to country life, which did you liko
and nrttcles. Convict labor has boon utilised in ; (ho best?'
Fear Indians Kill**.
The report of tho tanrder of oonduolor
Bsmnel Dunbar, of tho Hsucan Central rail
road, by Appaihes, while pruapeotlng, pruvea
unfounded. A hundred mtlea oouth of El
l'aao, Texas, the Appaohsa attaoked a rxnch
and killed two Amcnosna. Four Indiana wore
killed in tho encounter.
such national work, while,beside, the wngesol I 1 r.-t’i- J .n_ ,.„n „
freo labor aro siifllclontly low to accomplish 1 Iio dinner bell, (..ueago Ledger.
ih in
rroat deal ot work at an outlay wlilol __
this country would bo regarded as insIguiU
cant.
Of the work and tho workmen, he sayst
" of th*
Killed Ills Four Children.
Word hue been reoclved to tho effect that
John Howell, a fanner residing near btaruoca,
Wayne comity, Pennaylvunta, Friday attcrnooi.
■hot four of Ida children, ringing in ago from
tliroo to eleven years, thou sill'
lot himself. His
wife and oldest ' daughter wore absent at tin
at time of the tragody.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
lichll
8,877,000 the world over.
Tiikhk has not been a death lu tho town of
Horner, Gn , for throe yearn.
Thk Congo state will join the Universal
Postal union January 1, 188(1.
A iiKi’knt letter from Panama says eggs
sell for thirty cent* apiece there.
Binck 1881) more than 2,800,000 emigrants
have landed in tho United Htaton.
The cost of tho opidemioot smallpox at
Montreal is likely to reach $5,000,003.
Cannkd rabbit is the lati-st business stroke
in Nevada. There Is a good demand for it.
Gveiiy one of the tii rtccn member.! of ills
presout British cablno. la a perr or u sju of n
peer.
Two monkoys ln tho zoological gardens,
"In British prlvnto yards the bulk
work is given out to the inon 111 small con
tracts. Day wage, seldom amount to mor*
than from 00 to 05 per cent, of wlmt the same
trailos roceive in tho United Blatos. In the
royal dockyards tho matter of wage* is
somowhat amondctl. Much of the labor it
day work and the employoi havo con
siderable attention paid to their comfort
About one tbird of tbe mon are called
established and liavo a |>onsion to look for
ward to when advanced In life and incapa
citated—a wise provision, encouraging good
conduct on the part of tho inen and render
ing a strike in tno dockyar I an impossibility.
The average hired man In tho government
yards get 3 shillings, 6 ponoo per day, and
the average established man gets 4 shillings
6W pence; a leading man ot shipwright gets 11
shillings, t)W pence. In both public and prl
' i tho men are subjoct to * "
vote yards tho men are subject to formldabl*
lists ot regulations, and In tho latter th*
rules are particularly stringent. In th*
prlvnto concerns of Knglnnd the woek’s work
.. made up of flfty-slx hour* Iu Franc*
wages nro oxtromely luw and the condition
of the workingman Is corres|xmdingly de
pressed In tbo dockyards laborers get
about thirty cents |ier day; black
smiths' liolpors, thirty-five to fort
flvo cents; a second-class
*/i
to forty-
shipwright
may get 80 cents. Avornge
tors and turners get about 00 cents. A com
petent smith will get 80. After years of ser
vice, whon looking forward to becoming a
foreman, lie will get |1 per day, hut iio fore
man get* more than 8 francs, or
ogtcnl garilons, ; 11.00, After twonly-flvo years' cm-
Philadelphia, hard boon poked to death by I ploylm nt every workman Is cntlll d to
visitors.
“Liberty Enlightening the World” wants
♦>0,000 more for chains nnd anchors to ke p
her steadfast.
A Mahhaohuhetih inventor took out forty-
four patents two weeks ago. This breaks the
previous record
A proposition to ostabllsh a universal
langungo will bo introduced at the Fai is ex
position In 1889.
In far-away Madras, India, tho municipal
authorities have conferred tho right of suf
frage upon women.
It Is now estimated tlmt tho present sea
that of 1884 by nDout 1,000,0,K) bales.
A Cai.ipobnia farmer has just stepped
68,000 pounds of mustard sood to Now
Tills is the largest shipment ever made.
IiUMHKit made of straw nnd pottery made
of Iron slag, will bo exhibited at the Ameri
can Institute fair, New York, this yoar.
At thejirusont rate it would take the Su
premo Court of tho United Stales 133 yoars
lo get through the eases on' tho caloudar.
'pension, which Is two-thirds of Ills
greatest pny. Tills pen-inn Is what most of
the employes aro looking forward to, nnd it
does much to reconcll* tiiem to their rather
forlorn condition. In the summer months
they work from 5 A. u. to 7 r. il., stopping
from 8 till 8:3.) and from 13 to 1 ;530. In win
ter tho hours of labor aro from II A. M. till S
p. M., with a half hour for broakfait and an
hour for dinner."
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
I.a.i III* llsal
A fow years agoTUo people of a certain
township woro about to culobrnto the
opening of n new bridgo, and invited a
young hi
young lawyer to deliver the oration. Ito
had made no written
posing that a lawyer oug
preparation, sup
ight to bo capable
of speaking without uoto or nolico any
abor of
numbor of hours, on any snbject, in a
stylo of thrilling oloquoncc.
Therefore, ho trusted to the occasion
He stood out upon a platform erected
near the bridgo and began amid tho pro
found and attonllvo silcnco of Ills audi
ence:
Follow-clti/.ons;
Five nnd forty
years ago tills bridge, built by your en
‘ ia c_.„.
terprisc, was part and pared of tho howl
ing wlldnarnessl"
lie
pnusod a moment. "Yes, fellow
citizens, only flvo aud forty year* ago,
this bridgo, whore wc now staud, was
part and parcel of tho howling wlldor
noss I"
Again lie paused.
tt’rioj of “Good! Go on!")
“I fed it hardly necessary to repeat thnt
this bridge,fellow-citizens, only live siul
fortv years ago was part and parcel of
the howling wilderness, and i will con
clude by suyiiig that 1 wish—l wish it
was parcel and part of it now I”
, P'
ou a receipted hill If you stay three
" i.”-JY
iie York 6u i
Uso* to Which Paper May he Pat.
npor, bolng nonrly air-tight, wlll ox-
ly alr-t __
elude" cold nncTshould bo used more then
it now i«; builder* place paper between
lards of n houro
the boards and clapboard
nnd wo should do woll to follow their
example in smaller matters. Fanners
have found that the extra warmth
secured by tacking several thickness of
nowspapers around the inside of hen
houses, etc., havo saved oxtrafood, A
luyor of paper under a carpet, is prefer
able to straw, which is sometimos used,
and if the paper mnde tor this purpose
olit
cannot be obtained, sovcral layers of
newspapers will do nearly ns well. Paper*
spread bet
tween bed coverings will take
the plauo of extra blnnkota. A folded
paper is an excellent lung protector; one
over tho chest and another around the
shoulders, under the outsido garment,
would often sava a cold and porhaps
pneumonia. Dissolved in flour pasto,
nowspapers mako a uteful tilling for
cracks in floors and cl-cwhero. Scraps
of paper, wot nnd scattered over tuo
floor, whon swccpiiig, will savo the dust
in tho room ns woll as bright,in tho carpet.
Hits of papor, with soap stlds, are ef
fectual in denning bottles, and nro cosily
removed with wator. Greasy dishes and
kettles if flrst rubbed with papor, wash
much easier; tho pnpur absorbs tho greaso
and is all the better for kindliugtho tiro.
A greaso spot enn often bo taken out of
a carpet or garment by plnoing two or
three layers of paper over It, then put a
warm iron on tho paper. Tho heat soft
ens tho grease and the paper absorbs it,
nnd by changing paper and Iron occe-
lly all tiie
siounlly all tuo grease will dlvappeer.
Boft newspaper ot tissue paper is prefer
able to doth' for cleaniug lamp chimney*,
its, etc., a* it leaves no
A areal riahliig Caniras.
“The lust time 1 bobbed for cattish
was a good whilo ago,” said Warren
ltidgoway, ox-shorilT of Pike comity,
Penn. “It was on York pond, whore
tho catflth grow so big that they’re big
enough to out as soon ns they'ra hatched.
Ti
Old women net as usliors Iu soma of lb*
boat theatres in Holland.
Ci.aba Louise Kellgoo is about to start
on a sixteen weeks’ concert tour, covering
the South.
Mu. Lawhence Bahbett Is said to be pre-
ugo'a tragedies.
Eveiiy manager who has run tbe new
Out of a total of about 37,090,(100 acres of 1 Grand Opera muse at Paris has thereby In-
Twenty Miles of Head Fish*
The schooner, Alico Montgomery, Cnplain
Lavender, master, from Kennebec river, with a
cargo of ioe, arrived at hor wharf at Now Or
leans, I.a. The captain repor s that on Oc
tober 16, when about 10 miles of Kehocoa
Sholee, in the Gulf of Mexico, about 400 miles
from the month of die river, lie encountered
vast quantities of floating flsh, dead and dy-
They embraced a great variety, msny
kinds being unknown to him, and they
tended as far as the eye could reach. '1 h.
( I.AMMEltlNG FOIl WAR AND AN KX-
TENSION OF TERRITORY.
An Athens (Greece) dispatch says that the
Council of Candia, the largest city in Crete,
has voted in favor of a uuion with Greece,
but the populace refuse to rovolt against the
Turkish government before Greece
has declared war. The Grooks are
wild with enthusiasm. Thirty
thousand mon of the reserves have beon on-
rolled during the past five days, and thou
sands are arriving from nil parts of Greece,
especially froin the Peloponnesus and the
islands o'f the cEgeail Tlio poople are clam-
oring for war and an extension of territory.
The Barrel Burst.
Colorado has 815,000 head or cattle,
valued at $32,000,000. Oijly one State
west of tho Mississippi lias a larger
allowing—'Texas, which ha* 5,600,000,
valued at •»'*,000,000.
THE FATE OF THREE YOUNG MEN-
Three young men, named Robert Flchter,
Edward Bradley and T. Scott, wero hand
ling a gun at Hazleton, Penn., the othor
atternoon, and Edward Bradley loaded both
barrels with a heavy charge of powder and
shot Just as he had put on a cap the guu
fell from his hand and the cap exploded, The
barrel being overcharged burst, and one of
the flying pieces oi' iron entered Fichter’s
heart, He • -a**-*-- — -*-
_Je ran about thirty yards and then
dropped dead in the road.
Scott wax terribly cut with another flying
fragment about tut
nent about the head, faco and body
nn<Twas not expected to recover.
Bradley’s right arm was so badly mangled
that Vi had to be amputated, and he was oth
erwise injured, bis face being badly burned.
as the eye could reach,
was streaked with yellow, oily su stances, and
lie sailed through inis strange combination of
y^dovr water and dead fish for twenty miles
He had no bad weath-r and generally fair
winds after entering the gulf. This is not
the first time that such a phenomenon has
been encountered m theso waters, and it has
been attribu'ed to eruption of matter and
poisonous gases from submerged volcanoes.
The appearance of unusual varieties of fiHh
from the de p sea would seem to strengthen
th s theory.
linked in the Molten Irou.
Scott Thomas, a moulder, working in a foun-
sry at Twolflh and Papin streets, St. Lonis
Mo., while emptying a largo Indio containing
10,000 pounds of molten iron into a nit four
teen feet deep, the cable holding the ladle broke
and the unfortnmte man was precipitated iu
the pit, with the molten metal on top of him.
Me was seen to writhe several times, aud when
the body was removed it was found to be charr
ed boyoiul recognition.
land in Florida, about 8,000,000 acres in the
southern part of tho Btate have never
boon surveyed, and do not appear in the tax
Yx>ks.
Bkahh are unusually numerous in Oregon,
a condition of affairs nttrlbutoJ to tho groat
wind storm early in 1880, which rendered
tho woods in parts of tho Btato almost ha
unted with dogs.
The largest cargo yet floated on auy of tho
great lakes, namely, 20,0)0 barrels of flour,
was recently cloared from Duluth by tho
steamer Wullula. Twenty thousand barrels
represent 100 cars, which, strung together as
one train, would cover one tnilo of track.
curivd financial failure, despite the govern-
j meat allowance.
Viola Allen,who supports 3a!vini d ; ig
: his coming American season, is tho you igest
loading lady on the stjige, being but nine
teen years of age.
Ferdinand Fraceh, the composer and
writer, has been appointed tu'succcod the lata
Sir Julius Benedict at the Crystal Palace
Music school in London.
A well-known Spanish playwright, Don
! Luis Salome, is iu New York nt tho head of
a scheme for building an l running of a
Spanish theatre in tho iuelro|K>lis.
1 Mihh Akma Sknkhaii (Hnrknesv), tbo
young American violin virtuoso, has boon in-
A Great Drainage Enterprise.
KBULAIMING LOW LANDS IN Tllh
8 i ATM OF ILI.INOI.***
vitod by Haus You, Bulow t.i play at one of
fen, this month.
the ducal concerts iu Meningen,
EltNKST VON WlLDENBRUOJf, the best Of
modern German dramatists, has just com
pleted* a tragedy entitled “The New Com*
A feat in drainage engineering, probably
purpassiug any ever before attempted in this
couutry outsido the Everglades of Florida,
Is now being successfully prosecutod in Illi
nois.
The work consists of a canal fifteou milov
long, thirty-five feet wide, and seven and a
half feet deep, situated in tho eastern part of
Piatt county. It runs through a largo tract
of low fiat prairie, subjoct to annuul inunda
tion, having no natural drainage or outlet*
The dredge boat used in its construction is
seventy-six feet long, twenty-six foot wide, “P 1
and cost its owners $£4,600. Fourteen hands
are employed upon it, and tho dredge ad- ,r '
vances about 400 feet a day.
As far as completed the results of tho work
aro very satisfactory, having lowered tbo
most equal to tho depth of the canal. About
20,000 acres of overflow lands will bo re
claimed, and at least 50,000 acres more will
be greatly enhanced in productiveness and
valuo.
The sight of this ponderous machine, plow-
A Whole Village Destroyed.
Dispatches from Periquex. tho capital of the
department of Dordognia, Franco, state that
a fright I ul accident has occurred at the Chan-
colade quarries, near that town. While a large
body ol workmen wero engaged in taking out
stone, the quarries suddonly fell in, destroyed
the villages situated on the ground above the
stone pit, and killing a number of persons.
Many are buried in the ruins, and it is doubt
ful if any of them can be rescued in time to
save their lives. Troops have been sent to the
scene of the disaster to aid in tho work of-re
lief.
Nine Men Killed and Wounded.
of twenty trackmen on the Husaohusetts
Central railroad were being conveyed to tbeir
'flat car. The men
were sitting on the sides ot the car, ten on eaoh
■ide. Whan near Oakdale, without a second’a
warning, all the men on one aide were swept
off, iu aome way, at preaent unknown, bnt
■ " by * fault ’ . •
, . ling tree, or telegraph pole.
Nine of the men were e'Vhar killed or injured.
not even u small ditch before existed, excites
The
ranndment.” The subjoct is taken from
German history.
The use of opara glasses offered free of
charge to the occupants of tho stalls and bal
cony is u novel idea of the new management
of tho Hnymarket theatre in London, where
“Dark Days” is now running.
Mmk. Modjeska is n successful landscape
painter. So is Joe Jefferson. Mr. Robert
son, of Mary Anderson’s company, and Mr.
Grosmith of tho Yokes troupe, are both
known in England as promising paiuters.
Mas. W. E. SiiANDriKW.of Mendville, Pa.,
known to tho public as Miss Jessie Couthoui,
tho elocutionist, has
3on tho dramatic
ester Grayebrook in ,( An l nequul Match.
There is said to bo little doubt t hat Mine.
I Patti will form part of Colonel Maplosou’s
opera company tliis season. She will not ar*
i rive in this country, if she comes, until the
1 season has been opou for a couple of weeks
or so.
Chorus choirs of male voices have become
i the fashionable church music in New York.
There are six or raven congregations which
will begin this fall their first experience in
male choirs, and the chorui of boys’ \oices is
j increasing a* popularity, it is quite English.
OU1 Tom Winchester, of New York, was
with roe that night. You know old Toro,
lie kept tho Western hotel in Cortlundt
street then; keeps tho Brower house now.
He used io come up every year, fishing
nnd hunting, lie never shot anything,
nnd tho only time ho over caught auy
fish was the night Pro going to tell you
about.
‘It was just tho kind of a night for
tho work. There were two bln flat-
bottomed boats on tho pornl. Thoy bo-
lnngod to an old fisherman who lived
near by, nnd be had water tight nnnrt
windows, mirrors,
lint;also for knives, spoons and tin»varo
after scopring; and a stove will not need
blacking to often if now and then
rubbed wltii paper, Scraps of writing
paper or that used on ono side only may
bo utilized in several way*. Bowls and
? ;lasscs without covors, may l>e tisod for
oily, by cutting n round of paper tho
size of tho top, dip In brandy and press
down ovonly upon the jelly, cut another
covor of softer papor Inrff* enough to
paste down on tho outside of tho jar.
I’apoi In brtad and cake tins,protects tho
loaf from burning and insures its safe re
moval from tlio tm, hy this help a tin
with holes in it may honied. Laid over
n loaf of cuko in tho oven, paper is alto a
protection, but unless it Is warmed Hrtt
(he cake may settle. Cut in strips and
curled with tlio scissors, writing paper
makes a good tilling for pillows for hain-
' ‘ "llo r 1
mocks, or tho largo pillows sometimes
nsod to show oil Iho elaborate "shams.”
Postal cards and thin pasteboard can ho
out iu strips fur Inniplighloi's; newspa
pers for (iio Bitmo use are cut in sltipi
and rolled. — Hood Housekeeping.
Il*w Farmers Are Swindled.
Swindlers aro many and busy just now
socking their pray among tlio farmers
who are resting after tho labors of har
vest and who nro couuting how much
monoy tlioy can spare for spanding. It
is itnpossihlo to recount tho tricks and
deceits thoy aro practicing. The favor
ite gnmo is to get from their victims un
der some pretense signatures to rocoipts,
orders, petitions or contracts, and to
transfer these signatures to promissory
notes, which nro at once sold to the local
bank. This transfer makes tlio presumed
meats, nbout three feet square, built In j nmkor 0 , t |, 0 noto liable under tho law,
tho middlo of tlio bouts, which lie kept 1 deprives him of any dofense on uc-
full of water to keep ball flsh in. I know wo i eount frttllll or „. an t 0 f consideration.
were bound to havo a heap ol luck that | If Q man ia fool enoug h to permit n rogue
i «.*. n t i .* ““ “ id a
•light, so I lushed the boats together.sUIo bio name on a bogus noto, nnd an
by side, so that old loin could lish from i j nn0CCD t purchaser gets tho noto before
one nnd I from tlio otliur, and both have | matllrity t ) )0 defeuso of fraud is cut oi!
plenty of room. It was darker than three , un(J t)|0 ori „ llm t fuol uiu , t bear the bur-
stacks of black cats, nod l bad a littlo j d(m o{ his owu fol |.. Ant j nny man is a
bull's eye lantern that I lit and plncod in i f()0 , wbo ., erm j t9 IV perfect stranger to
the bow of my boat. That throw a streak | t bis signature to any paper whatever
of darkness behind it that was blackci under auy ci cumstances. Yet thousands
than any other part of the lake, and I
couldn't sco Tom, and hocouldu’tsca me.
“I rowed out to the Bpot where I know
entfish woro thicker than bear, and rig
ged up my bob. Tom said ho knew all
about flxiug up bobs, and so l lot him
flx his own. I had a bunch worms
strung together ou thread on tho end of
my polo as big as my list, and I hud
bunch just n9 big, struug
given Tom a I
on patent thread; I began to flsh. and
id
had yanked ia a dozen of nice cattish
and chucked ’em in tho hate-tish tank in
I he boat, but hadn’t heard a word from
Tom.
“ ‘Wbat luck, Tom?’ I said.
“Luck!’ho snid. ‘I enu’t And a hook
iu all this stulf you gave me, aud if 1
could I'd like to know how auy white
man is going to get a worm out of this
new fangled, tangled up bait box.’
"Tom thought ho huu to have a hook
just made her debut i to bob for catflsii, and that the bob it-
stags at Cleveland as self was a bait box. So l took ills polo,
i e nemm • <■ v jj ed j|, e bunch of worms on the end of it,
' it down in the
they gather by hundreds along the banks of
tbo new-mado stream to witness the wonder
ful workings of tho groat steam dredge.
A Fatal Collision.
A Murine Moustor.
A. monster devil lisli lias beon caught
in the Gulf of Mexico, oil Galveston,
Texas. These creatures are rarely seen
iu the neighborhood, but lately a shoal
came iu shore, nnd after much trouble
one wus caught in a seine. It had to be
drugged ashore by horses, as it woighed
Two sections of a freight train wire wait. I fully two tons. The catch proved to bo
ing on a siding about four mills from Wit- i truo specimen of tho “Ccphaloptra
liamsport, Bonn., for tlio accoinniodatloa Valapyrtis,” the vampire of the ocean,
train which leaves that city atli.J) r. m. for and as it my dead on tho beach it exa t-
tho East. The train was late, ond did not ; iy resembled nu enormous bat or vam-
leave until 7:02. The express train came j l ,irc ' Thc 11811 "'** 8lxte0n feot wlu ?
TWO MEN KILLED AND OTlIEltH Stilt I
OUSt.Y INJURED.
lonvo Ulllili I ,Uv. A HU OAIJIUB3 (ilillll UUII10 I , 1 t . |
into collision with the oast bound accommo- j from the extreme edge of the pectoini
dation on the curve near Potter’s crossing at I I'ms and fourteen feel l“nff, while the
7:20. The two en/ines. the ox press, baggage, 1 , n0 ;ith was four feet wide, and was pro-
and one passenger coach on the train west, 1 tez-ted on uneh s'.le bv curious append-
and a like number on tho east bound tram . 1 -
were badly damaged. Fujene Thorn, Are- a^ 0 ’ bko horns,
ill -vhiclt it sei/.od its
man on tbe oast-bound tram, was kit e 1 and
horribly mangled. Arthur Middlenauf, ox-
press inesmnger on the wod-bound train, was
als i killed. Daniel Hoot, engineer on the
west-bound trni t, was badly injured. Henry
Weleotiior. engineer of the ea-t-boiind Ire n,
was also badly injure 1. James A. Scott, a
travoliug inau, residing at Trenton. N. J.,
had his ear cut and was badly bruised.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union of Philadelphia county, Penn.,
report ,hat thirty-three churches have
rgreet to use unfertnouled wines.
and told him to sink
water, and when he felt a bite to pull up
gently, aud be would lift a catfish into
the bout every time. Thou l went to
Ashing again, aud Tom put iu his bob.
I kept hauliug up tlsh, and Tom struck
luck nnd went almost crazy over the
way he was yankin’ up catfish. Aftor
ou hour I got tired and quit. Tom was
just in tho height of his sport, and kept
on fishing. I couldn't see him, but I
could hear him; aud I enjoyed tlio way
ho was enjoying tlio sport.
“ ‘Can’t bob for catfish, hoyi’ he’d
say, aslie pulled iu a fish und slung it
into tho tank in his boat. ‘Can’t bob,
hey? If I don’t teach ’em something
about bobbin’ for entfish you can shoot
me!’
“And so Tom went on for ten minutes
after I quit fishing Then ho bneamo
silent. I didn't henr him hauling in any
more fish. Ten minutes more went by.
“ ‘What’s the matter, Tom? Gone to
sleep?’
“ ‘No,’ said he. ‘They’ve quit biting.
I guess I’ve caught tho last one thorn is
in the pond. I'll bet the drinks tbat
I’ve got more fish than you have, allow
ing you twenty for tho timo I’ve fished
the longest.’
“•‘I’ll go you,' I said. ‘I’ll count mine
nnd chuck ’em out on the bottom of the
boat, and then come over and count
yours.’
“I ranched in to get n fish and didu't
feol auv. I swept my hand all around in
the tank but nary a catfish was there.
of farmers are being made vic'iins hy
the confidence mon now on their bnsinoss
rounds by this very trick.
One of the most successful swindling
tricks is this; A long-haired, shaven
nnd saintly-looking man appears loivutd
evening with credentials purporting to
igent of n church aud
show that ho is an agent i
achool building association, or soma
other bonovolent institution, lie asks
for tho locality of n leading citizen a
good many miles off, nnd, finding it too
far to roach, bogs to bo accommodated
for the uight. He talks, nnd, if he cun,
ho prays, nud gets up a meeting, perhaps
securing a few dollars from tlia company
for h's association, lie makes receipts
for the subscriptions, and to Bhow the
strict business methods under which lie
works, requires every donor to put dowu
tho amount given on the half of tho re
ceipt retained in tiie book, signing bis
name to it. On lenving his host in tbe
morning he insists upon paying bis bill,
and tunes a receipt as a voucher for tho
expense, which ho is enroful to say ho is
obliged to strictly account for. In duo
time these signatures nil turn up at the
bottom of promisory notes, which have
beon sold at somo bank in the neighbor
hood. Tho fine uit4jf swiud ing yearly
grows finer and liner, nnd r.ow deserves
tlio name of n science.'-—Aiew York Times.
Five Kinds of Time Koqnired.
Tlio Lake of Constance is only fifty
miles in length; hut uny one who travels
from pier to pior nud widles to know tho
right lime of day at each, ought to carry-
five watches. Its wators wash tho shores
of five different states—Austria, Baden,
Wurtemburg, Bavaria, and the Swiss
Federation. It you land at Horschach,
and want to catch the train for lingatz
or Chur, your watch ought to stand at
Bern time. In Friodrichshafen you must
know the Stuttgart time, iu (’on tanre
the iiadeu time, in Lindau the Mun ch
time. The Austrian time is no; reck
oned from Vienna, but from Prague,
which differs no less thiu twenty eight
in' mites from the Bern time. Henr e a trav
eler crossing over the Austrian frout'ey nt
St. Margaretcn must put back his watch
half tin hour in order to set himself l ight
at tho Swiss station. This noucomform-
ity amongst tho clocks may lie an amuse
ment, or merely a slight inconvenience,
o tlio tourist, but it must be a serious
hindrance to the men of business iu tb s
centre of increasing international traffic.
— Chicago Tribune.
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