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Celeepeapf? Sijuenal & 30j«3us*fig*r,
. dainty in question. As he closed his teeth,
|] H nlf!i ii ( HUFF however, the expression of his countenance
' ‘ suffered an extraordinary change. One of
the noblemen sitting in his immediate
vicinity had oontrived to substitute his own
Kit -At. WKIL8 IK*i
a «Mi»iwsii0.ii.l n.j»t,-j shaded bj large I genuine tallow candle for the marohpane
ui- lew \oUetablesor llowers imitation set before the Grand Duke, who,
trenstoi ill
asRicn itoorisn nml«:
the strong root' o: •
■oil.
hade and drip, nnd not choosing to betray himself to his guests,
trees usurp all the | found himself condemned to chew at least
one copious mouthful of good Russian
. . . I tnllow as an example to all the victims of
iris the forma! .e J hisdetcstable jest, none of whom, of course,
«go Social,*.., ooc.»0 dared to abstain from doingjts the terrible
human ru v d. .u a ds • not. Constantin0
smcuan of the c«.ir , empe.ors, aings, i
i trek* and uilwr oppressors, but also
destruction ot itie system of society
Chat breed* the n and makes their tyranny
Dotaiole.”
fu body or U
Denmark was >••
fix, Itsadaua r '
. velvet. I'
Into Qneen Dowager of
Deeper is the Heebes.
The frantic straggles of our unfortunate
contemporary, the Atlanta Constitution,
to sustain itself In the fraud it has been
,.J iu three coffins—of ( practicing upon the people of Georgia,
d ink—covered with have ceased to amuse. The sight of
•trussed ui the utmost journal, calling itself a blghtoned expo-
simplicity; the ho.i J reposed on the white I aeu t of public opinion, seeking a refuge
•ilk wedding- not tlio decoded, and behind sophistiy and falso dates is a pit!
■eras crowned wan wreath* of ’myrtle, and fu | one> a „d calculated to bring the blush
tee body wits covered with a white satin | to t |, c check of every lover of truth and
honesty. That the profits of our erring
ImxDO* Trui h: t hey tell a good many I ne j g bbor are small, we doubt not, but the
storms of ilr. u. J. Dyroa's wit. One runs sma |j ness 0 f profits can be no excuse for
‘ *-“•»* v ’ J ot i *'- a 0 ir,,on - fraud ; the branding an inferior article
txy waaboitrd beiuitd mu scene* utter the
pro Jucuuu ui a i
.are they doing?’
with a popular brand, or the selling of
•■v ‘Dear mo! whut.
.kid Mr. Byron's com- sanded sugar, cannot be justified on the
paa.uu. •authui.: neoOse.-vedscutenUous- I S TOuna of personal necessity, and a news-
ly; *Uiey .ire out. cuvuug ont the lust act,’” I paper daily perpetrating a fraud tosus-
Tira recent Frenchman is said to have tain iirelf comes under the same rule,
bfc£H reudort i uooood&ry by iho grwit Wo denounce OQ6 &3 readily as would
«rheu>e for nuc. "i:it improvements begun the other. They are equally impositions
by Ot Freycihet and voted in which is upon the public, and need the pruning
-aijieM- i p> ui). i ,i year f r knife, which it is in thisinstancc our mel-
jrruj . to coin •- i - correspondent= at Paris I anclioly duty to apply.
•*j mu. tlio loau will oe known as the Up t 0 the time of our capture of the
^Vltnuorui' man, nut t > modi aiiy real do- f rau <lu!ent dates, the Constitution's mid-
liUVJ iUlJ industrious | ,j| e Ucorgin edition came to hand with
SeiL, nu. t'u pm j
I by olio rut,
l Ok for small savings.
APAiiuum , nut ih-siariuJ young Ger-
suu travelled iruiu Austritiia to ij-.-rlm to I
take part in tins rey.iieiugs at t'riuee Wil-
henu s wedding; ou entering the city he
asst a girl so pretty that ha felt compelled j
to kiss her, nod tuuugii ho pieaded that
“hi* joyful impulses iutd outstepped his
discretion and irrepressibly stimulated him
to sa.DLa an mourpora.e ideal of German
Maidenhood,'' the jrohce magistrate sent I
less than a half column of fresh tele
grams. For three days we have hold our
struggling neighbor up to view by the
slack of fits nether garments, affording the
public an opportunity to witness his ridic
ulous antics and gasps for breath. When
we lowered him gently to the ground and
bade him go and slu no more, what was
the result? Let anyone who desires it,
take the Constitution of yesterday and
'him to iiris,-ii for five days. Wtieu he was see. They will find three columns of tclc-
reln.ied all the festivities lie hud travelled grains of March 30th. Imagination pic
K,*MJ miles ui participate in were over. t ures to us the smile which illumines the
A ivxonuiu report irom Sou Francisco faces of our brothers of the press when
saya: “ i he bride was radiant in a bcauti- | tne lniracle j s H ow !t wa8 doue
sal oran^u wreaui aud »ix-L>utiou No. 9
kid glow*, sii ;mly burst m tha thumbs.. w . ... . , . . r i >
-k. ' . , * „ . ... «, w I Nashville American ot March 20th, and
The groom v.u us strata, us u black I . . ’
•cloth suit, cuustructed by the best tailor on I m ,ts “’“mns wo see telegrams
Tehama street, could muitu linn, and as of Marc, ‘ 2Sth - which VP 8 *" ^
Lin the face as wus cousisuut with a Constitution under the date of March
Tair of boots i >vo sizes to smaii and o No. I -IOlIi. IVe do not say these telegrams
IS collar eum ruling his mamy sixieen-and were cut from the American and put in
n-half inch ueek. Fortunately before tho I the Middle Georgia patch-work quilt sent
ceremony was over the restraining button I out by our neighbor, though the American
on the back oi His shirt dew out aud saved I reaches the Constitution office before the
him from str.i agolation."
JUjxoon kVond: “ n some illastrions I
houses you Uuar of tho family nose, insomo
-of the family cheek bones, in some of tho |
family lips, in others of a patrician huski-
ueuel uuerancoinherited from Hugo do I
Mogyns, who helped to conquer England
quilt is sent out. We do not say our
neighbor altered these dates. We never
saw him do it. But we do say that the
quilt seems to have been pied with the
American. The crown to the anomaly
tho date of March 31st, which appears at
to William the Norman. Then there is the the head of the quilt, a false date, and
family wa.k, the family stammer and the I fitting crown for the alterations it covers,
family waie, each of them tho cachet and I So much for the erroneously dated tel-
hail-mark of antique and illustrious lin- I egrams, which, a slight computation will
-oage. The members of one noble house I show, are laid before the public four days
which ha* supplied us with at least two
Secretaries ui State during the last twenty
ream have a hereditary incapacity for eat
ing roast melton, while another is noted for |
instinctive dislike to boiled tongue.”
Mas. Suau.i Wills Flctcueb, the Ameri-
afier the happenings they record took
place. What an answer to our nefghbor’3
silly boasts! But let us examine the
sophistry which he uses to defend his
error. In reply to au article upon this sub-
can medi im, who is soon to bo put on her jftCt “PP^'S in tLe Alba »y 0,1(1
trial at Eoudon on a charge of coaxing a co P ied in our “Georgia Press” this inom-
lumin to part with her jewels through pre- in S> H>e Constitution admits that its first
tended communications from the spirit I and fourth pages are not “neat,” but says
world, has caused a stampede in London I the second and third pages arc new and
society by announcing her intention to I fresh. A glance at the last named pages
c-all »s witnesses to her high character every I shows—what ? Four columns of credited
titled personage who ever sat at a seance I clippings and two of editorials with the
with herself and husband. Among tho Atlanta markets, which no ono has any
personages whom she threatens to drag un- ^ for . Thu is the |iews referred to as
wiUmgly in the witness box was one very !accd Mon the pnhUe at grea t expense
* xalted indeed. Mere rumor of sneh an • ... , . ■ ... , ,
meant ,-aused inlense consternation, and r rhis anJ tho a ''v<?rtiscments. We had
•*»«J effort is using made to prevent the for S otteu * he advertisements. They are
“scandal” which would ensue. J 00 fresh, generally, as the news, and
f ns iiuw?papors have described fully tho | should not have been forgotten,
rigor* and Iiardsbips of the Western winter, j The following is the telegraphic news (?)
but tbo most palpable illustration of wbat I published in yesterday’s (March 31) Con-
to# suow.drift* lave accomplished in tho . lilulion for middle Georgia, with ex
ray »1 blockades is famished by the Sioux I plauatory notes furnished by the Tele-
ValJey (Dak.) Nows in its edition for | criAPn:
Maxcii ii. I’aper ran ont bnt invention !
«am« in uud the result is an excellent im
pression on white cotton cloth. A copy of
toa News for that date reached this office!
ye# mrduy ia a wrapper to match. During
to# a;.r Soatliem journals were occasion- I
ally j.l iuiedon wall paper, but it remained
“McVeagh’s rumored retlrement.”Dat-
cd 30. [Press dispatch; published the
previous day by the Teleobaph
with proper date, March 29tb.]
“Hand of Blaine.” Dated March 30th
[Stolen from tho Nashville American
for x »uow blockade in time of peace to I P robab ly» where it appears dated the 28th.]
feriug cimli into requisition for this par- I “Foreign Flashes.” Scries of tele-
vosu. I grams a column long, the first of which is
Uk.ikivi.BEBE says: “An English lady, ac- I dated 30lb, the balance 23lh. AU pub
costoinud to travel abroad and able to con- fished by the TELEGRArn of tho 30th,
wetil .e.itly in the language* of the conn-1 excepting a few marked “special to the
■trliis - ie visited, recently found herself | Constitution,” and barred by the statute
•tour ;ua railway carriage is Germany,
wlmu two foreigners entered with pipes
-in th-..ir mouths, smoking furiously.
She .quietly told them in their own lan-
gaige that it was not a smoking carriage,
but bey poisi-eud in continuing to smoke,
weinn.'Kiag that it was the ‘custom of tho
jeoabuy,' ii|i(«i ubiih the lady took from
fees j i i-kei a i iir ui .rlovos and commenc-
** ru .tuiuj >lii iu - itii benzoline. Her fol
low •« .- k ngers expressed their disgust at
I. ukii-u-ous eiBuviom, when she remarked
tu.n ■> tvas the custom of her country.
riiu> wa.» - uon left in sole possession of the
-carriage. 1
la-jiiboii Tr.vh: “What race bnt one en
tirely vir.rin of culture would consent to
have tl>« most glorious of ita natural ob-
jee - t!;:nsformbd into hoardings and spaces
to: -Jvcrtisers? Tho American conti
un- b -.uies with colored letters. The cliffs
a lou < i ho Hudson implore you to 'Buy So-
aoiiont;’ tho Horseshoe Fall H eloquent in
, -l iiiie of 'Lightning Oil;’ the voices of
oi limitations.
“Funeral of Upton.” [Published by the
Telegraph on the 30th. j
“Strange Plot.” [A long article entered
as a telegram, but clipped from an ex
change.]
“Ship of State.” [A press dispatch of
twenty-three lines, lengthened to nearly
a column.]
“Model Hospital.” Dated 30lh. [Stolen
from Nashville American, probably, where
it appears March 29tb, dated 23th.
“Six Months Without Food.” Dated
March 30th. [Stolen probably from the
Nashville American, ot the 20th, where it
appears dated 28th.
“Intercepting a vessel”—Special (o the
Constitution. [Published from Loudon
in the Telegraph of tho 20tb.]
Three small dispatches from Western
cities, and four fresh telegrams.
This Is the liews laid down in middle
toa Kocky Mountains are loud in recom-I Georgia at great expense. This is tho fresh
tarn - non of 'Rising Son Stove Polish;’
Mobil Canyon and the Yo.-emile, a miraclo I
■ot tnlure, soluble of advico about corn
ptiuccrs, hotels and ‘The Nobbiest Bathing
ao it* Ever Offered.’ It has been suggested,
intiuiild add, that tlie aense and character
new*, “telegraphic and otherwise,” which
onr contemporary wastes his midnight
hours in putting before the people.
Mnbone Mutilated.
That i-iaid aiul ili^nilicd body, tlie
of those inscriptions are religions, and that I United State3 Seuatc, was wrought up to
■ i-ious American regards hi* country as I a white heat yesterday, as wifi be seen by
bur to the almighty dollar, and these our dispatches this morning, by a tusslo
.uuay appropriate texts and illumi- between Billy Mahone and Voorhces, the
ions In either case the practice savors <; Ta n Sycamore of the Wabash.” Voorhecs
— in tb0 Philadelphia
are many other American ways I f . ~ . 1f , 1 7
<d.in are suggestive in the some direction ” I ^ tcntn 'J Tt/tqrapk, a Republican journal,
\al..so many amusing anecdotes of the wIlich expressed bis ideas concerning
-i.ia Imperial family related in the I Mahone, and sent the paper to tho clerk’s
Kurt Bender’s Memoirs is the follwing I desk to have it read. A point of order
f characteristic story of the eccentric j was raised at this juncture, and Yoorhees
n't Duke Constantine. While residing | look the paper and adopted the remarks
Wuisaw Constantino gave a splended I as m speech. Mahone raved and the “Tall
u 1 n - :.!• • of :lio great Polish I Sycamore” wared its arms in the storm.
oM.-s to each of whom at the conclusion I At the present writing the “Sycamore”
«t i .11 feast an ordinary tallow candle was ^ to liare the bert of h, but the angry
wrrcdou.ptataby tho attending lackeys langua?e ua a<yecttm
A* M' 1 n rs all his guests wore supplied 1
nth these peculiarly unappetizing objects
die Grand Duke, who had given orders
f! Jl un imitation candle, admirably exo-
rm« t ui marchpane, should be plaoed ui>-
l-lato, rose from his seat and ex-
lumod, “Gentlemen,' let us fcat,’tothehon-
- o! Uusaia, the favorite national comes-
o iu f my country. Look at me. This is
• iy to do it." So saying, be threw
! : .i ho-iid, oiu-niug hi* mouth wide and
Jauei ling therein two inches or so ot the
! to rush over the wires.
Ova belated oontemporary, the Middle
Georgia edition of the Constitution, of day
before yesterday, says that the paper ia read
by (he old people, “children carry it to
school, and babies refuse to sleep at night
unless a copy ia put in the cradle.” It
would appear therefore that the paper has
fallen into the hands of those best calcula
ted to appreciate it. If it is copiously used
in paniers also, the - oewfalnese at the
sheet is strained to its ntowst.
A Reminiscence.
That eloquent expeclorator, Logan, of
Illinois, seems uncommonly “chipper,” so
to speak, in the matter of thrusting his
tongue into the debate now going on in
the Senate. He has bad a great deal to
say about “treason” and “traitors,” and
otherwise slopped over in the direction of
showing how exceedingly “loyal” he is
now, and has been ever since Uncle Dick
Yates, then governor of Illinois, bought
him for the Radical party with a colonel’s
commission at the outbreak ot the late
civil war. John was at that time and
always had been, a furious Democrat, for
the very good reason that he lived in the
strongest Democratic district in the State,
and never could have broken into Congress
wearing any other colors. But the
Democrats had lost the fight, then,
and the black flag of Radical rascality,
robbery, and subjugation was flying ail
over the country bearing the lying
device of “Save the Union.” That meant
commissions, and jobs, and contracts, and
all manner of fat stealings and pickings
and John swallowed tho bait oftbat com
mission with the facility bom of long
wrestling with Illinois whisky, and turn
ing his back on the poor devils he had
persuaded to join a company aud cross
the line to fight for Dixie, donned tho
bluo and started for tho wars. What he
did and his reward for it U a matter of
history.
But this is not what we set
out to say. It was of his stalwart Democ
racy in old times,and how ho proposed on
one occasion tS illustrate it. The time was
during the session of 18G0-01,and blood was
on the moon thick and redder than red.
Tho Writer was present one day at a ses
sion of the House during that time, and
occupied a seat In the gallery nearly op
posite the Speaker’s chair. Logan aud
oue Kellogg, a “black Republican,” os
Logan always called them, from the same
State, had become involved in a dispute,
in which hot words passed, and Logau
spoke of Kellogg as “skulking
like a whipped , spaniel.” This
woke up Kellogg, a fat, red faced, hog
driver looking chap—who jumped up and
started towards Logan who occupied a
nearly central scat on the Democratic
side aud was on his feet at the time.
The latter reached down to his seat
where his overcoat was lying, and drew
from one of its pockets the longest, most
murderous looking revolvers we ever saw
which he cocked and held at his side in
full view of the galleries and those near
est him on the floor. Kellogg saw it, too,
aud paused in his mad career. Somebody
grabbed his coat'tail, and somebody else
put ibeir bauds ou bis shoulder, and be
meekly allowed bis impetuous steps to
be arrested and his thirst for gore to be
suddenly quenched. All this while John
stood, aud scowled, and spat, and grated
his teeth, and doubtless swore, for be
hadn’t joined the church then. The up
shot was that Kellogg didn’t come and
Logan didn’t shoot, and both made ex-
plauations and the matter dropped.
But somehow we can’t help recalling
tiiat day aud scene, whenever we hear or
read in the papers that John has been
more eloquent than usual in his denun
ciations of “treason” and “traitors,” and
more vehement iu his fierce assaults upon
the English language aud grammar—to
say nothing of the impartiality and pro
fusion of his expectoration. He x doesu’t
thirst for “Black Republican” gore any
longer. It pays better to howl at the
South aud his old associates of the Demo
cratic party. No wonder his old friends
in Illinois long since gibbeted him as
“Dirty Work” Logan.
It is reported to us that Jim Banks has
returned to Atlanta from Washington
clothed with bad words as with au ulster,
concerning oue Mahono and his “cussed
ness.” We suppose there arc others of
our brothers iu misfortune in tho same
state of mind. But-Jim should reflect
that “sweet are tho uses of adversity,”
and that if he had sojourned much longer
in Washington lie might have come to
think Atlanta not the earthly para
disc and centre of civilization which all
her sons and daughters arc trained to
regard and declare her to be. If that re
flection docs not comfort Jim, tben be is
indeed past consolation.
Conklino has reduced fighting under tho
willows to on absolute scionco. Ho lias al
ready succeeded in plastering Robertson
with two wads of rood and is busy in roll
ing up another.
It has been discovered that the man who
struck Billy 1’ntterson was a special corro-
spondent of the Atlanta Constitution. He
is preparing on account of tho "omo for
the middle Georgia edition.
That extremes meet is proven by the
presence ot David Davis and Billy Mahone
in the Senate.
It is whispered that the socialists ore
planning to blow up Mahono and David
Davis, as representing too much power.
Tbo chief difficulty lies in tho fact that it is
hard to construct a bomb that wifi go nuder
Mahone, or large enougU to lift Davis.
Our neighbors of tho Constitution con
tend that children cannot sleep without a
copy of the middle Georgia edition in their
cradles. Tho children very naturally mis
take tho paper for a patch workquilt mado
up of old scraps. But tho paper will put
almost anybody to sleep.
Fenton nnd liis worn-out corduroy pants
have ceased to appear in tho press dis
patches. Tho government should vote
Fenton and Wm. K. Rogers a twin bouquet
of lettuce and radish tops from tho White
House gardens.
Mahone and David Davis appear to bo
tho orphan boys of tho Senate. They are
now playing the roleipf babes in the wood.
We confidently expect to scoinnfew
dny3 a two-column account of Adam and
Eva’s eviction from Eden* worked off upon
the people of middle Gcorgin ns a “special’
to tho Atlanta Constitution’s early edition,
nndcr tho head of fresh nows.
Tt>« Horse la Eighteen Feet High.
The middle Georgia Constitution came
to hand yesterday morning chock lull of
fresh news. Tb« following is Us tele
graphic contents, April 1:
One column “foreign flashes.” [Pub
lished (“Constitution specials” excepted,)
upon the preceding day by the Tele
graph.]
“Specials to Constitution” aforesaid,
appeared in the Nashville American ot
the 30tb and 31st ult., received by express
at the Constitution office.
Telegrams from Shreveport, Boston, St.
Louis, etc. [Published in the Tele
graph of the day before.]
“Public Trade.” A triple head, balf-
colurnn article, dated “New York, March
31st.” [Taken bodily from tbe Nashville
American of tbe 31st, in which it appears
uuderthe beading “A summary of the
business movements for the past week.”]
“The Cabinet Bubble.” A half column
article dated March 31st. [Taken from
the Washington Post of March 30th, pre
fixed to a half column of Senate proceed
ings, and fired oft under a tnple head.]
“Hugged to Death.” A startling item,
from the West, appearing first in the
“Keokuk (Iowa) Gate City," copied into
tlio Nashville American of the 31st, reju
venated and fired off ia the middle Geor
gia quilt ot April 1st, under telegraphic
date March 31st.
Three fresh telegrams outside tli6 Sen
ate proceedings referred to.
Our neighbor still Quisle that it lays
down fresh news belore the people. He
has said that the horse is 18 feet high and
sticks to it.Tbe exhibit made above is open
to tbe inspection of tbe reader, as is the
Telegraph and Messenger of April 1
even date, containing more than three
columns of fresh telegrams, received di
rect from tho Associated Press and paid
for, not stolen from other journals and
redated.
It is hardly necessary to add that none
of the pieces above referred to were ac
credited to anyone. They were published
as fresh news, in telegraphic shape.
We expressed a determination in bun
day’s edition of tho Telegraph to ex
pose a fraud practiced upon the people of
middle Georgia, by tho Atlanta Conslllu
tion. That we have done so thoroughly,
and in a manner that leaves no room for
doubt, wo believe is tbe opinion of tbe
public. We have no desire to enter into
a controversy with our neighbor. It is
the duty of a home paper nol only to fur
nish ita district with news, but to protect
it from impositions, and for both these ob
jects wo shall continue to strive. Fur
ther comment upon this subject seems
useless.
A Startling Fact.
Mr. N. G. Gonzales, tbe resident cor
respondent of the Charleston News and
Courier at Columbia, a native of tlie low-
country of the State, and whose family re
side, and have resided ever since the war,
near Adam’s Run on the Charleston and
Savannah railway, writes to the South
Carolina Agricultural Report as follows
“ The process of becoming invulnerable
to malaria is very simple, and it is founded
on common sense and logic. About the
first of May, before the miasma has been
diffused from the swamps, those who pur
sue this saving system begin to take quin
ine in daily doses ot two grains for each
individual. It is taken in many ways, bnt
a pill swallowed at tea time has become an
easy and natural habit to the inajortiy. This
quantity is kept up until the months of
August and September, when the mrlaria
is most venemous, and it is during those
months increased to threo grains a day. It
is afterwards reduced to tho first qunintity,
but that is maintained until ten days after
a killing frost, which usually occurs in No
vember nnd disperses tho last floating
atoms of malnria. Cinchonida, a kindred
compound, sold at less than one-lwlf the
price of quinine, is equally efficacious if
taken in rather larger quantities. The
logic ot this system is apparent: instead of
allowing the system to become poisonod
with miasma and then stunning it with
huge doses of quinine, it fortifies it contin
ually from the first hoar of danger and
makes tho poison recoil from the body
without attaining a foothold. The greatest
extravagance of oxposure to rain, dew nnd
air lias been attended under these circum
stances with invariable indemnity from ill
ness, and fever aside there is no more
healthful territory on tho continent than
that now written of. Quinine has been ac
cused of many faults, but whatever may be
ita effect* in exaggerated quantities, not a
fragment of ill nos resulted to thoso who
havo taken it daily evory summer for many
years. They are as vigorous and as robust
os if they dwelt ou the everlasting hills,and
know not tho taste of any drug.
If general in ita application, this state
ment is not only startling, but of great im
portance. Our readers in tho malarial
districts of the State will do us and the
public a great lavor by giving their expe
rience in regard to the protective power of
quinine against malaria.
Tho Cost or a Cadetship.
.Veto VorL Herald
Four thousand dollars is tho latest quota
tion for a West Point cadelship.
(jetting Ready to Die.
Providence Press (Rep J
We might a* well face tho facts. Tho Re
publicans of tho United States Senate, in
their greed for a few petty offices, are or
ganizing defeat for their party in tho fall
elections.
Just Too Awfully Awful.
Courier Journal.
Little Billy Mahono stuck a feather in his
head, smeared his faco with paint, bran-
dishod his scalping-knifo and raided Joe
Brown’s hair-patch in the most approved
Indian style. Oh, it was just too awfully
awful.
How to Make tlio Town Howl.
fieto York Herald.
Sensational preaching is demanded by
some ot tho members of tho chnrch in
Orange, New Jersoy. If the brethren real
ly want to make tho town howl why don't
they engage a minstrel show? Sinners
would respect it ns highly os they do sensa
tional sermons, besides enjoying it a great
deal more.
We tthould Think Bo.
Washington Post.
An area of very low barometer oontinues
to prevail in the vicinity ot Senator Conk-
link’s desk.
A Caution to Dovy.
New Y. rk Tribune,
Unless David Davis is careful he will
light on the pickets some time when he is
jumping over the political fence.
Activity Mi the Potooaac.
Little Rock Gazette,
Virginia Readjnsters, thirsting for office
and swearing by Mahone, have began
swimming the Potomac on their way to
tho White House.
Worse Than That.
Detroit Pree Tress.
Thirty days after a Michigan man got a
divorce from his wife to marry one with a
handsomer faue, the woman fell heir to
$287,000. Yon bet that ex-husband feels
like a man with the jumping toothache.
Teet It Came to an End.
Augusta Chron cle..
Mahone is nnoovered. Riddleberger is
revealed. The Republicans are caught
hugging a rebel brigadier and taking im
proper liberties with a buck repudiator.
Tho screen has fallen. Let tho farce come
to an end.
No Senator can be truly great who does
not possess a bouquet. Henco wo say that
when correspondents Speak of David
Davis’ greatness, the term must be ac
cepted with limitations.
The Nashville American seems to bo tho
special correspondent at large of tho At
lanta Constitution.
Telling on Him,
Wash inglin special to Courier Journal
The President’s health has been much
impaired by tho anxiety and worry of the
past two weeks. He lias lost twenty-five
rounds in weight since ho went into the
iVliite House, less than four weeks ago.
Plainly Slated.
Xeto York Sun
Tlio bargain which Mr. Mahone has made
puU-ut to everybody. No wool* con
change the fact, or explain it away. It was
a disgraceful barter, the odium of which
ho cannot escape. All that the Democrats
can ask of the Republicans is to keep Ma-
bene now tliey have got him. Ho is not
I wanted back.
Its mock In Trade.
Atlanta Post Appeal.
If onr Macon friend will cnrofuHy study
the columns of tho Constitution ho wifi
find that “Into news” is one of ita peculiar
ities. It frequently has a column or two
from tho Nashville American of the day
previous, that paper being delivered by ex
press for this especial purpose. And their
stale items from the Cmcinunti and New
York papers are ita stock in trade.
A Republican Organ on Beadjnatcr
BTaiione.
New York Times Rep.
If this is not repudiation then n man is
not a thief who robs you of ono-hatf tho
contents of your pocket*book and leaves
you the other half.
Tho Sort of Han Ho Ia.
New York Sun
Carl Schurz has declined no dinner up to
date. He takes all that aro offered him,
big and little, provided a mess of flattery
is guaranteed for dessert.
How He Made It.
liotean Post.
If you were to toll a man ho could mnko
a fortune by shaking a knife and hollering
he would not believe it, hut that’s tho wuy
Buffalo Bili has accumulated $100,000 on
tho stage.
Astonuding Information. ]
Washington Star .
Gen. Lew Wallace baa telegraphed to tho
President that he declines the appointment
as United States charge d'ailuirs to 1 ara
guay and Urnguny. Tliis makes three de
clinations within a short time of men nom
inated by the President. The other two are
General Badean, a* charge d’liffnire (o Den
mark, and Judge Phillips, as a member of
the Court of Claims.
Changed.
Washington Star.
President Garfield has decided not tore-
call Gen. Longstreet from Constantinople.
Tho slate for tho Federal offices in Geor
gia which was presented to the President,
and which included Longstreet's recall, has
t herefore been chan ted.
Hard Feelings Among the Fishes.
Chicago Times.
It will be noted that while Cramer goes
from Denmark to Switzerland as chari
no place has been provided for young S
Fish, Hamilton Fish’s son, who was cnargo
at Berao. The Fishes aro too solemn and
well behaved to make a fuss, bnt there are
going to be somo hard feelings.
How to Tell TlftBL
Hawkey n.
Smokers who carry tho cigar at consider
able elevation are generally asses. If the
habit is accompanied by a white cassimero
hat, worn on tlie right side of the head, they
arc rowdies as well as asses. Beware of the
man who “wnllows” hta cigar, rolling it
loosely from ono side of tho mouth to tho
other, and chewing tho end. He is apt to be
looso in his morals, and indifferent about
payment of his bills.
Don’t Relive It.
N 1. Commercial Advertiser.
Tho Philadelphia Chronicle says that the
Princess Dolgorouki, tlio late Czar'* inor
ganic wife, thinks of coining to tliis coun
try to marry Brick Pomeroy. Gammon I
Brick is as bald as an ostrich egg and chows
tobacco. Dolgorotfld has her oyes on a dis
tinguished fat man connected with tho
United States Senate—a man too groat to
bo blown np all at once. That is tho kind
of a hoop skirit she is. _
let It be Done Ht Once.
Washington Post.
The death of “Old Abe,” tho Wisconsin
war eagle, suggests that this might have
been tho identical fowl which lit upon Mr.
Garfield’s ridge-polo lost summer. There
has been an unsolved mystery about the
matter ever since, but we trust there is
nothing ominous in Old Abe’s doath.
Would it not be woll for the President to
order nn opening of his bowels fororacn
lar inspection ?
A Fair “rhwap.”
New York Herald.
In society chronicles it is noticeable that
a not inconsiderable nntnbor of prominent
Southern gentlemen are scoking and fre-
a nontlv winning the hands of Northern la-
ies. This, we hope, is no slight to South
ern ladies, who, in torn, are attracting
Northern gentlemen. In love, it is said,
we seek onr opposites, and if Southern gen
tlemen wifi quote poetry under the pine in
stead of nnder tho palmetto to blue-eyed
girls, there can be no objection.
In Her Old Place.
Wash. Cor Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague occupied the Sen
ate gallery as of yore to-day and was much
observed. From the fact of her presence
'it was rumored that Conkling would make
a speech in reply to Mahone, bnt these
humorous speculations came to nnnght.
Mrs. tSpmgno looks care-worn and thin,
nnd was dressed in more subdued style
than usual. A royal purple fez, with a nar
row gold braid and colored feathers, sat
jauntily on her brow, while a solferino
scarf concealed the bones in her neck, and
was pinned np on her bosom. Sho was nc-
companied by her daughter.
A Comet of tlie Bccoud Empire,
- London Truth
Does any ono remember tbebeantiful
girl who went by the nickname of La Com-
eto. and flashed through tho Parisian world
during the last year of tho second empire?
She was called “Comet” on account of tho
exceeding length nnd lovelintos of her gold
en hair. Theophile Gautier wrote a sonnet
to her, Babonel painted her portrait, Worth
dressed her, and Leon Cugnot took her ns
the model of his pretty statue, “La Baig-
ncuse.” Her renl name was Adele Terch-
oat, nnd just before the Franco-German
war broke out she declined an offer of mar
riage from nn elderly dnko with a very nn-
ciont escutcheon. At that time she owned
one of tbe finest mansions in the Champa
Elysoes; bad twelve horses in her stable,
and a bushel of diamonds in her dressing
case. Last week tliis dazzling creature died
in s n Parisian hospital absolutely destitute,
and the disease which carried her off was
the most hideous that could befall a pretty
woman—a lupus vorax or cancer on tho
face which totally disfigured her. Like
Zola's Nana, tho ofily vestige left of her
beauty was her matchless hair, which meas
ured uoarly fivo feet.
MOMNINU GLOHIES.
BT CUES B. TBQWBB1DQE.
There are passion flowers for plucking
with nails and thorny cross,
There are pansies golden-hearted, there are
asphodels and gorse,
And the roses droop and beckon, sweet as
sunshine after rain,
But the early-morning glories, can they
bloom for us again?
We have sought for wealth and honor, we
have piled oar trophies high,
Dust and ashes, gems and laurels, but we
pas* unheeding by.
All along tbe weary highway, and upon the
wind-swept shore.
We are seeking morning glories, will they
bloom for us no more ?
Oh, above the gracious hill-tops and beyond
the noon’s red glare, .
Where the river smiles its wolcome in the
quiet evening air,
On the brows of loved and sainted, in the
music of their strain,
Oye purple morning glories; ye shall
bloom for ns again.
A SEA OF ICE.
TIME DEAD CZAR.
Slide Judge*.
N. Y Sun.
An effort was recently made, in a neigh
boring State, to removo a judge from the
bench. It was contended in his dofense
that nothing worse could be established
against him than that he was “coarse,
discourteous, and unsympathetic in man
ner.”
Now, it jndgo who is coarse, discourteous
nnd unsympathetic in mannu-i, has no bnsi
ness on the bench in any court, iu any
State. In order to seenre their rights, liti-
;ants have to appear themselves and have
a put forward their witnesses, before
judges. They have n right to expect that
Judges of every grade shall not only be
well versed in tho law,bnt patient, respect
ful, nnd polite in tboir manner*.
We never see a bear on tlio bench without
feeling that there ought be a four-legged
bear sitting baside him to illustrate his
true character. Indeed, nlthongh rough
and course judges are sometimes highly
iraised for tlio correctness of thc-ir decis-
ons, wo have nlwuys found it difficult to
reconcile bearish manners with a very nice
and nocarate sense of right and justice.
A man ought really to know for himself
whether ho is a gentleman or not; and if he
is not, ho onght nevor to take a seat on. tho
bench of any court
Taffy for Ilisnmrck.
X Y. Tribune
It is sad to see Senator Brown preferring
tiie pleasures of sin for n season—or, in
othor words, choosing rather to be tkeload-
of tho Democratic side of the Senate
than take his plnce in the movement for
the political regeneration of tho Sonth,
whore lie naturally belongs. But it is some
thing to have a lively Democrat in the Uni
ted States Senate, and Mr. Brown fulfills
th# function.
A Spring Sonnet,
N F World
“My son, you had better tarry,”
Said tho father, “and not marry,
Or you will catch old Harry,
And then yonll feel forlorn; /
For carriage is a bubble,
Which bursts and ends in trouble,
And makes tho wretch seo double,
Just ns sure's-you’re born.
Now amid the girls you're scooting,
Dazzled by their frills and fluting,
Bnt you’d bettor mind tho tooting
Of your dear old daddy’s horn.”
Shako!
Courier Journal.
“And I shook my lap,”said old Jeremiah,
tho lamentator. Now thero’a a hint to
Miss Spring, who cumo -tripping in tho
other day with hor hnir all Dangad and
■white apron biled. Old Winter is in your
lnp. Shake 1
The HarmonI'>n«. ilrcthren.
St Louis Glohe.Democrat {Rad.)
Mr. Blaine is represented a* defending
himtelf In his course toward Conkling, by
the assertion thuf but for Conkling he
would have been nominated at Cincinnati
in taiii. Wo never knew before that the
letters of the New Vork Senator's name
could be made to spell Mulligan.
Him Private Elf* and Character.
Prom the London News
Alexander U. was never capricious
sullen in private life. He had a kind-
even temper; he was an indulgent father,
a gentle master, aud he loved to be sur
rounded by fnends. Solitude made him
sad, and he courted cheerful company
some do bracing air for the sake of their
health. Even when tbe Nihilist agita
tions bad begun, and ono dastardly at
tempt afier another was made against hi*
life, tbe late Czar could never bear to
shut himself u{> and avoid all society but
that of his family and intimate triends, as
be had been advised to do. The very bus
tle of the streets was pleasing to him
Though no soldier, he loved military pa
geants; aud playgoing was almost a pas
sion with him. He submitted w it h a sort
ot impatience to the precautions that were
taken to insure bis safety after the at
tempt made to blow up tbe Winter Tal-
aoe last year; and the circumstances of
his deatli prove that some of these precsu
tlons lie had laid aside as too irksome. He
wasofien heard to say with unaffected pi
ety, though with a sadness which was but
too natural, that his fate was in God’s
hands: and lie could not be prevailed upon
at this season of the year to live elsewhere
than in the Winter Palace, which cumin
ned to be his favorite residence, notwitli
standing the sinister associations which
had become connected with it.
This Whiter Palace is a huge, oblong
building, five stories high, aud painted iu
a staring red-brick color. On ono side it
it borders a quay of tho Neva, on tbe other
it fronts tbe enormous square which is
adorned with a monolith granite column
erected to tho memory of Alexander I.
To tho light of the palace stands the
Admiralty, aud a little further ou the
same side tlie Barracks of the Chevaliers
Gardes; to tho left aie the Museum of tlio
Hermitage and tbe Imperial punting
office. Facing the Admiralty runs the
Ncwskl Prospect, which is the principal
thoroughfare in Ht. Petersburg, so that the
Czar could see from Ins palace windows
all tbe animationof the city. The Winter
Palace is said to have cost huudredsof
lives in the erecting, for when the old one,
which stood on the same silo, bad been
burned, Nicholas ordered tbe new one to
be built in six rnoutbs. This necessi
tated the employment of thousands of
workmen day and night through tbo wlu-
ter, and many of these unfortunates were
frozen. Aa fast as the lower stories were
completed tho walls were dried with
roaring tires while the works were carried
on above; and the upholsterers and decora-
tois had completed the furnishing of the
principal rooms before tlie attics were
roofed. With 1 !! ten days alter the work
men bad left the building it was inhabited
by tbe Czar and bis court; and Nicholas’
fir.*t care on arriving was to go tbe round
of tbe whole place with the architect and
contractors to see that none of the work
had been “scamped.” Being satisfied
with what he saw lie paid the bill—about
a million sterling—without a murmur.
It was in this palace, so strangoly
erected, that the late Emperor always
spent the six winter months; and belore
the Nihilist troubles begau the life he
led there was a pleasant one... Alexander
II, as above said, never affected the Spar
tan simplicity of his father Nicholas, who
used to sleep ou a camp bed, eat of the
most frugal fare, and speuil most of the
time be could spare from State business
in inspecting bis soldiers. He (Alexan
der) was addicted to conviviality and
homo pleasures. He bad a few very inti
mate friends—the Bariatinskies, Adler-
bergs, ficliouvaloffs, Uhmdofls, ami others
—with whom he spent a good deal of his
time, and from whom ho heard all that
went ou in the world. Every evening one
or other of these familiars attended the
private Court dinner, and afterwards cha
rades or comediettas used to be performed
either by the ladies and gentlemen of tlie
Court, or by comcdiaus from tbo French
theatre.
During the daytime when it was tine
the Emperor would take walking exercise
in the public garden of the palace, the
gi a/el walks of winch were boarded over,
and bis only attendant was usually a big
dog; or be would get into his sleigh and
drive about the city without escort.
Sometimes he alighted and walked all
down the NewsUi Prospect, looking into
tbe shops; or be would stroll into some
friendly house aud pay a visit. He was
known to everybody, but it was not the
etiquette to salute him, still less to accost
him; unless he courted recognition by one
of those good-natured uoils of which he
was never chary toward bis personal ac
quaintances.
All this easy style of living, however,
came to an end last year, and the precau
tions taken to guard tho Czar made lus
life for a time absolutely burdensome.
He was scarcely allowed to go out, and
when ho did so was closely followed by
detectives with loaded revolvers and by
an armed Cossack hetman; who walked
beside him or sat opposite him in his car
riage. The vehicle in which the Emperor
rode—whether it was a coach or railway
carriage—was cased iu iron, ami it had
notlfiug about it to attract attention. Thus
in tho streets, when several Court car
riages passed together, the one which
looked like tlio Czar’s was never that
which contained His Majesty; and, on the
railtoads, tho most brilliant saloon car
remained empty, while tho Emperor
travelled in what appeared to be a second-
class compartment or baggage van.
At one tlmo tlin Czar was pre
vailed upon to wear a chain breast
plate under Ills tunic, but though one of
tlie lightest kind was made for him, he
Would not hear its weight, so the expe
dient was adopted of causing his tunics
to be padded with cotton wool steeped in a
preparation which hardened it, and ren
dered it, if not bullet-proof at least knife-
proof, nnd difficult for even a bullet to
pierce at a long shot. An attempt was
mado some time ago to poison tho Czar
by sending him a petition covered with
some noxious powder, since which he has
ceased to receive letters, papers or peti
tions, For a similar reason ho gave up
smoking, though lie used to liko a cigar,
and ho drank no wiuo except from bottle
uncorked in his presence. In the imperial
kitchefftho Czar’s food was prepared by a
French cook, who plied his avccation under
tho eves of two police guards—not that
tho cook himself could incur any suspi
cion, but because some conspirator might
have >,ot at tlie ingredients lie was prepar
ing. Tho iood was always cooked in tho
simplest way, without sauces, and it was
tasted by officials before it wa3 served at
tbe Czar’s table. Every tiling that Alex
ander II- ale or drank was' tasted in bis
presence, and all the attendance iu tbe
dining room was performed by servauts of
tried fidelity. As regards sleeping ar
rangements, the Czar used to intimate
half an hour before goiug to rest iu what
room he would sleep, and sometimes ho
went off to spend the night at the house of
ono of Ins family. Wherever he
slept he was guarded by a mastiff
auu by bis Cossack belmau,
Yussuf, to say nothing of the ordinary
military guard in bis palace, under tbo
Fort Pierre, ea Uw Upper Hleeeart,
Crushed On* mi Existence hjr ax lee
Flood lx tbe River.
Courier Journal
The unusual winter weather has resulted
in terrible- floods in ibis region as the
snow melts. Winter beginning so early
and suddenly, caught several steamers in
mid-stream between Yankton and Ben
ton, which have been frozen in all winter,
their loads being taken oil by teams. In
dians and old settlers predicted terrible
floods in the spring, bnt the Yellowstone
rise came and went with no damage, and
then the Tongue nver broke up, which
drowued a few Indians and ponies, bi t
made do impression upon the Missouri.
However, ou March 26, tbe Missouri be
gan to rise, and people in Fort Pierre
looked to the lime when they must move
from the bottom lands quickly, but ou
this side no preparations were made. The
water came higher and higher, bearing
ice three feet thick. The weather, for a
few days preceding March 26, was very
warm, melting snow rapidly, bat seemiug
to have no - fleet upon the ice. During
the 26th a fresh, warm wind from the
Somhwest blew ail day long, up stream
at this point, and the gale freshened a
night. About midnight the ice broke up
and began to mu out. Ou the evening
of tho 27th tbe river presented a grant
spectacle of power and terror as it rolled
along, bringing enormous blocks of ice.
There came suddenly a perceptible check
to its motion, and simultaneously a sud
den rise of water, amounting to as a uch
as four feet in ten minutes. This caused
A SUDDEN' STAMPEDE
from the lower portion of Fort Pierre,
panic siezed upon Piene, for with a sud
den jet k the level of the river came up
the level of the streets. Then there was
a rushing to aud fro, with loud calls for
help. Teams were in great demand;
household goods were hastily thrown into
passing vehicles, and all the town were
in motion toward the bluff. The water
was soon three feet deep, boats took the
place of teams, and by 3 o’clock the watei
was up to the floors of all the houses.
From the first the ice bad remained sta
tionary in the channel, gorged against the
island, just below; one could see the icy
walls steadily gaining in height at the up
per point of tbe island, and as steadily the
surface of the river rising, inch by inch,
and then it gained continually. From
second story windows we could see houses
in Fort Pierre being hustled about, crush
ed or turned over, aud also people putting
up tents and making all kinds of camps
upon the clay hills, while their property
and
COMFORTABLE ROMES WERE BEING DE
STROYED.
Before sundown all had come to some
order, auu the water reached a depth of
two aud a half feet on the floors. As
darkness came on, the fear ou all sides
was augmented. At about 0 p. m. a sud
den gush sent great, thick ice chunks over
the banks above, and they came tearing
down among tbe buildings like great-
sledge-hammers, and when one would
strike a house there would be a crash and
roar which led many to believe that the
town was be.ug torn to pieces. Many
who had had the temerity to remain in
tbe aecood Rnriaa over night, beganH
to
ring bells, fire "guns, and,
with loud calls, attract attention
and seek to gain the friendly
bluffis. Soon after the water began to fall
and at the same time the river set up a
roar which was a sous of gladness, for tho
gorge had broken. The watere rapidly
receded, and now the river stands just
below the lower f?ont door sills. In Pierre
some houses had been moved from their
foundations and lumber piles floated off.
Loss, about $.'>,000. Ft. l’ierre’s loss is
undoubtedly much greater, it being lower,
aud tho ice having pushed up over the
hanks and into tbe town like a glacier.
Ruined houses are visible from here, but
all commuutcatiou is cut off.
Tbe Black Deatb.
The Herald.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that the plague has appeared at Kufa,
ninety miles scuth of Bagdad, and that
the mortality in Nedjib is increasing.
Already Europe is beeumiiig alarmed
at tlie appearance of the pest Iu the East,
and fears are expressed that It may spread
westward. It therefore becomes irnpor-
iar.tto know tliecharacteristic.s of the dis
ease. The London Standard states on
pathological grounds that it is a “very
malignant form of contagious fever,”
which breaks out suddenly in certain lo
calities and spreads wifi frightful rapid
ity, and that tho present “type” is 33
virulent as that of tho Middle Ages. • It Is
characterized by swellings of tbo lym-
lathic elands aud by carbuncles, and
jcyond doubt one seizure seems to afford
no security against a second attack.
This is, however, a point upon which
physicians have not often had a chance of
studying, since “tho pest” does not usu
ally leave tbe ssmo individual a chance of
experiencing its symptoms twice. It has
been contended that it has not been con
tagious, but iu almost every case of an
outbreak the disease lias been traced to
persons who have come from infected dis
tricts. In the Astrakhan epidemic of 1870,
aud in that of 1771, which cut off 100,000
leoplo iu Moscow, tho pestilcnco was
mown to have been brought, in the one
instance, from Central Asia, and in tbe
other from Chocziu. Again, during the
latter outbreak the 1,-iOO inmates of the
Imperial Foundling Hospital, who werai
isolated, and in 1813 tbe
town ol Jegla, in Malta, which was shut
off from valetta, where tho disease was
raging, entirely escaped. Quarantine,
however, as a preventive against tho rav
ages of cholera, has been proved to be
utterly futiie, aud it is very generally al
lowed that it is not much more potent as
barrier against the plague. No other
form of death has ever enlisted into ita
xervice historians of such brilliant talent.
Do Foe could not have been an eye-wit
ness of the horrible scenes of 1665 in Lon
don. But he had doubtless talked to
many who had survived those dreadful
times aud were familiar with tbe tales of
tlio corpse-carrying wagon going its dis
mal rounds, of tho living being unable
to carry out tbo dead, and of tho city
ot Loudon deserted by tho court,
and, indeed, all who could escape
into the country. In “Ricnzi” tho lato
Lord Lytton has given an account scarce
ly less pictorial of tbo plague in Florence,
and in almost every other European coun
try “tbe pest” which crept like a fonl mi
asma oyer Asia, North Africa aud Europe
from Naples to Archangel, and even dis
tant Greenland, where it smote the Es
quimaux by thousand?, lias secured such
able chroniclers that, at tho slightest
sign of Us reappearance Western
Europo naturally grows alarmed. In the
years 134S, 1301, 1353 and 1569 London
was visited by tho “black death,” though
these early [attacks of the disease sinkinlo
insignificance when compared with that
which desolated the city in 1665, the year
which wifi ever be known as .“the year of
tho plague." In reality, however, though
it caused before Christmas a mortality of
63,506 out of the half million people
which tho metropolis then contained, it
did uot abate until 1666, while iu the
thirteen subsequent years there were
many fatal cases recorded. But after
1070 no death from plague • is known to
have occurred, and in 1704 so entirely liad
it disappeared that the name or tbe dis
ease was actually omitted from the bills
of mortality.
time, some idea is gained of the number
of them and the dangerous nature of their
occupation. “Climber.” .re paid from
W to $75 a month, and every D
office has one or more awaiting oSen
They are the men who, with ie® eucsied
in leather aud equipped with long .n*
sharp spurs, climb poles with the acilite
of a cat and do their work with a vwe »
pMr of pliers and a strap. “Ground men.’
who are paid laborers’ wages, carry tb«
wire, dig the holes, plaut the poles and do
?»f 1 >>. r °d.d J obs - When a wire snaps in two
It Is the climber’s task to catch tbe broken
ends with bis vise and strap and then
splice them with the pliers, care being ta
ken to leave a little slack to allow for the
contraction of cold weather. In cities
it is easy to locate a break, and the work
or repair i. easy, but in the country tho
lineman s lot ia not a happy oue. Each
man there has a beat or twenty-five or
thirty miles, over which he must make an
inspection tour ouce a week. If his route
is along a railroad track be usually goes
on a hand car. If the poles run acrow an
open country he has a beat about twenty
miles long and goes out on horseback. He
must live near a station, so that he’can be
quickly notified, and mmt be ready to eo
out at any time, day or night, in rain or
snow, Mid or hoL One of them, in speak
ing oi his life the other day, said, alien
asked If he ever bad any very hard work:
“Well, I should say so. I was called out iu
the middle of the night once inJanuaryin
a blinding snow-storm,and the thermeme-
ter bout ten degrees below zero. The
snow lay several feet deep on the rough
mountain path I had to ride over and
kept flying into my eyes, blinding me so
that I could not see the wires, and I had
to climb up every ether ^>o!e for a couple
of miles before I could find the break and
repair it. It’s a pretty hard life when
there’s stormy weather and there are
man> breaks. But then, again, you may
not havo to go out in a month, and you
can just loaf around, while your wages go
right on. But you’ve got to be always
ready for a call.”
“TESQEAXCte IS MINE,” SAITtt
TDE LOUD.
PMC OF ESS I OX AI CLMBEHS.
The Lire et the Men Who Repxir Tele*
graph Wires.
Boston Journal.
Nowadays it is not infrequent in a city
to run across a wire hanging in a huge
bight across a street and then to aae it
gradually lighten over tbe spooe interven
ing between two tall buildina, and per
haps now and then some one look, np and
sees a man standing on some perilous
cornice or clinging to some precipitous
steeple, or, it may be, hanging apparently
by bis teeth and nails, as tbe sailors say,
to some lofty pole, and engaged in tight-
_ _ . . ening the wire and completing a line of
command of two officers, wtio were sta-1 telegraph. The construction of wire Unas ia
tinned so as to guard every approach to the work of these men, and when one re
tire Imperial chamber. If rumor* be true, members that there ara hundreds of thou-
mote attempts were mado to assassinate I sands of miles of wire strung over the
lire Czar than tlie world ever heard of, ! United States, each requiring at find
N«w York, April 2.—At a meeting
of the directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company to-day, Cornelias
Vanderbilt resigned as director, and Geue-
,, . ral Eckert was made a member of the
and the guards in the palace enjoyed no point at every one hundred and fifty fret, : executive board in the place of S. F. Bsr-
sinecuro.. J and the whole liable to wreck at aaty ger.
Death of Jins Carrie, the Murderer ol
Ben Porter—HIw Ellen Cnmmeu
Otvea tho Details or tbe Marshall
Trszedy.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Private dispatches received in this city
yesterday from Las Vegas, New Mexico,
stated that James Currie, the man who
shot and killed Ben Porter, tlie actor, at
Marshall, Texas, was himself killed at
Las Vegas on the 24lh 111st.
The telegrams said that Currie was on
a drunken spree and threatened to kill
several people. Among them wa3 a bar
tender, who, in a scuffic with Currie, shot
and killed him in self-defeuso. A number
of railroaders, Currie’s friends, tried to
lynch the bartender, but the sheriff
of tho county succeeded in getting him ia
jail, where lie wes kept unti. the coroner
held an inquest on Currie's remains, when
the verdict exonerated him and he was
released from custody.
The dispatches were very meager in
particulars, and it was impossible to obtain
further particulars in time for to-day’s
paper.
AN INTERVIEW WITH NELLIE CUMMEN3.
Last night, a representative of the En
quirer called at Houck’s Opera House
and bad a long talk with Miss i-.llen Cum-
mens about Currie's death and the kill
ing of Porter. Miss Cummcns, it will
be remembered, was tho leading lady of
tlie Diplomacy troupe, and was the only
witness of Porter’s murder, besii'es his
assassin. She was naturally much af
fected by tho news of the retribution that
had overtaken Currie, though she felt that
he had come justly by hi* late. Boingre-
minded that her testimony given in the
trial of Currie had never been fully re
ported, but merely epitomized, she gave
our scribe the following details oi tho ter
rible affair. Said she: After tbe per
formance at Marshall all the company
went from tlie hotel to the railroad sta
tion iu omnibuses. Ail tbe members ot
tho company except Mr. Por
ter, Mr. Barrymore aud myself bad
had supper before they left tho
hotel, and while they sat iu the waiting
room or walked about tbe platform wo
went into tho lunch room to get some
thing to eat. The room was furnished
with a counter and high stools. We sat
down, Porter on my left, aud Barrymore
on my right side We were amusing
ourselves reading the signs, -bard-Unl. u
eggs,” “pigs’ feet,” “coilee,” etc., when
Mr. Barrymore discovered that he only
liad twenty cents in money about him,
and he went out to see Mr. Redpalb, the
treasurer of the company, aud get somo
more. He had hardly left the room when
man came in and took tbo stool he had
vacated, and, moving it away five or six
feet, sat down upon it. I looked over at
him and saw that lie was a rough looking
man and under tbe influence of liquor.
We called for eggs and other eatables,
and so did the man, and it seemed that
lie called for the same things that we did,
but that may have been because there
was nothing else to ask for, as tho bill of
fare was a rather scanty one. Back
of the counter was a lattice-work partition,
and I thought that the room beyond was
dining-room, and 1 suggested that we go
ill there and eat, he said, “No, that is
the bar-room. Stay where you are. It is
all right.” After the man liad eaten his
lunch bo paid for it, and the man who
had charge of the stand gave him a five-
cent piece in change. He threw it back
to him indignantly, saying: “Do you
want to sell me a dog?” Then ho went
through a door in tbe partition into the
bar-room. Iu a moment or two Mr. Bar
rymore returned, aud seeing that his stool
had been moved, *ald: “Who’s been here
8tnco I was gone ?” I told him a rough
looking man had used tbe stool while eat
ing, and that he had made a funny re
mark m refusing his change, saying,
“Do you want to sell mo a dog'.'”
We laughed over the remark,
and I handed him an egg off my
plate, aud began eating. We were jest
ing and talking pleasantly together, when
the rough man entered and passed
through the room to the outer door.
Neither of us paid any particular atten
tion to him, but as he got to the door be
seemed to imagine that Mr. Porter had
insulted him by a movement of bis hand
over his ear, and turned toward him and
said: “G— d— you, what makes you do
that to me ? ” Porter replied: “You
are mistaken, sir.’’ The man said: “You
aro a G— d— liar,” and other opprobri
ous epithets. Mr. Porter showed 110 de
sire to quarrel, but tried to pacify tbe man
by saying, “Please to remember there is a
lady present.” Currie, for tills was the
man’s name, said: “A lady,” but did not
say it in a sneering mauuer. Just then
Mr. Barrymore spoke np and said: “You
musi. not flatter yourself, sir, tbat
every time, a person speaks he
is talking about you.” Currio turned
bim and said : “G—d d—u you, maybe
you would like to take his quarrel up!”
Barrymore replied: “I have r.o pistol or
knife to take it up with.” “Neither have <
I,” responded Currie. “Will you awear
that ?” asked Barrymore. Ail this time
Currie had- his hand in his hip pocket,
aud I tried to quiet matters by sibilating
“s-s-s-h.” “Will you swear to that ?”
said Barrymore, jumping up. “I will”
answered Currie, and with tbat Barry
more said, “Then I will take it up,” and
threw off both his coats. As he did so
Currie fired aud shot him in the arm.
Barrymore instantly ran into tho bar
room, while Currio turned to Porter and
shot Inin in the stomach. I was almost
paralyzed witli fright—so much so tbat I
did not scream out or utter a word. Cur
rie went out of doors, but came right back
and put both of his pistols in my face. I
beggad hhn not to kill me, saying: “Oh.
please don't!” when he went out on tbe
platform. Previous to this the young man
who attended the lunch counter had tried
to quiet bins by saying, “Keep still, Jim-
You had better go home,” but he paid no
attention to bim. After the shooting I
learned that Came had made some com
ment on my personal sppearauce in the
bar-room, bnt it was not of an insulting
character.
Western Uxiea.