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■■ VOLUME LVI-XOH6 THREE OOOO DOCTORS. 'XUz best of *11 the plll-bo XArcw, Since ever time began, »’ Arc the doctors vrbo have most to do With the health of * heart; man. And *o I count them up again And praise them as 1 can; There'a Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry* man. There’s Dr. Diet, he tries my tongue. “I know you waU," says he; "Your stomach Is poor and your liver Is sprung, We must make your food agree." And Dr. Quiet, he feels my wrist And he gravely shakes his bead. •“Now, now, dear sir, I must Insist That you go at ten to bed." But Dr. Merryman for me Of all the plll-hox crew! Yor he smiles and says, as he fobs his fee/ "Laugh on, whatever you do 1” So now I cat what I ought to cat, And at ten I go to bed. And I laugh in the face of cold or heat; Yor thus hare the doctors said 1 And so I count them np again, And praise them as 1 can; ‘There's Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Matiy- man. —The Independent. SECRET SKELETON'S. Hysterics Hidden Behind the Bo- UtNle'a .Sign-Busluess Black Lists— A System that Ministers to Boehlaoo Kxtravmrance I’ostlna Fair Deltn- <)aon te. Hew Tort Mercurw. For some days last week there appeared In a morning paper the following curious advertisement: If J. W. will return the skeletons ho will re ceive the prico ho demands. The name attached to this invitation was that of a well-known Fifth avenue tnodiste, and a Mercury reporter, desirous of ascertaining in what direction skele tons were made valuable In the business of enhancing woman’s charms, called on the advertiser. The servant stated Hist ahe was engaged, and ushered him InWa reception room. Across the hail was a door marked "private office,” and the re porter speedily became aware of an any thing hut friendly conversation being con ducted on the other side. Finally the door opened and a young man came out, followed by the modiste. “Very well," said the young man, in angry tones, "this is the fifth time you’ve got me here, and it will be the last. You know how much I want; pay it, or I’LL OIVK THE WHOLE SWAP AWAY.” The modiste entered the reception- room without answering, and asked the reporter his business. When he stated itibe flushed and replied, hesitatingly; “Well, there's nothing in it, sir. My brother is a medical student, and a young man who was employed here stole hand some, prepared skeitona from him, and he advertised for them. That’s all, I as sure you. Excuse me, but I’m very busy, and must bid you good^lay.” The re porter went out. On the wont steps he found the young man, who seized him by the arm and said: "You’re a reporter, ain’t you? I thought so. Just come along with me and I’ll tell yon what yon want to kuow. I’ve got the skeletons, and here they are.” And he palled from his breast pocket two octavo-sized account books, whose leaves, as he fluttered them over, disclosed long lines of entries and columns of figures. "I was her book keeper,” the young man went on "and I worked like a slave for her for $12 a week. She hasn’t paid me a cent these three months, and last week she told me she wouldn’t unless I took it at the rate of $10 a week. Then I kicked and ELOPED WITH THE SKELETON, and she’s been advertising for roe ever since. Why ? Why, because she can’t run her business without ’em. There’* $50,000 in money lent In these books, and she can’t make out her spring bills with out them. Why, I could hurst the whole millinery business in New York inside of a month If I could get hold of their skele tons.” "But what do yon call skeletons ?” de manded the reporter. “The extra books,” replied the young man. “See here now. There are few dress makers in New York with any style that do a straight business. They can’ll Their customers won’t have it. There’s more money lent than la spent in customers’ dresses, and when a bill for a couple of thousand is made out, you can bet your life that half of it is ^clear cash, with interest. In these skele- ' ons,” said tbe young man, impressively, p/f.’pping tbe books with his forefinger, itii^Oiere’s over $75,000 entries, and less vxhtu $;k),000 of them are square business. rest are loans of nve per cent, a month that the husbands have to pay lor •long with the clothes that their wives wear. There’s one lady in this book whose spring bill will be over $5,000, and less than $2,000 is for dresses. The rest is for cash borrowed since last fall, and INTEKEST OX IT.” "Do you mean to say that dress-making is another name for usury then!” "I mean to say that many dress-makers In Hew York lend money on interest to cus tomers. That's where the skeletons come from. Tbe skeletons are tbe secret books of the house. On one page of them Is en tered the actual indebtedness of the cus tomers for dresses. On the opposite page are the loans. Every month the books of tbe business are made up from these skeletons, the money loaned being charged to the dress-making account. See here. Thore isn’t a full name on this whole book, you notice, but each amount is headed with a number, a letter or a star, or some combination of them. This Lum ber. letter, star or combination, corres ponds with some name on the other books, and nobedy’s got tbe key to them bat the man who keeps the books. I’m the man that kept the booas up there, and I’ve got the keys and the skeletons too. So if I don’t get what she owes me there’ll be trouble about the spring settle ment. But more than that, I’ve got the 11 LACK‘BOOK, TOO.” “What Is the black-book?” “The credit reelster. There's a system among the -dress-makers of keeping up a sort of regis tration of customers who are bad pay. It was started about ten years ago by a big modiste on University place. Whenever a lady ran up an account and failed or re fused to settle it tbe modiste entered her name in a memorandum book, and sent written slips detailing her indebtedness to the different other big dress-makers here. They were warned in this way to lookout for her, and in return would warn her of their own bad customers. After a couple of years these names made up a long list. About five years back, when the business of lending money commenced, this list became very valuable, for it saved the dress-makers from heavy Rai. There are some swell names in It, I can tell you— women who are rich enough to buy you and me out with a year’s income, and who yet have to pay cash for every bit of ribbon they buy. But women are not the ouly ones in the black-book. There are pages devoted to men, too. For instance: You are tu the habit of kicking at paying your wife’s bills. Very well. You are entered as a kicker and au extra charge tacked to your wife’s bills xveby time. They are sent in to pay for the trouble of collection. Another man is slow pay, so Interest is added to his bill. Doubtful husbands are kept account of, and those who have to be sued noted. There are men on the list who are regularly charged with the expenses of suing them to collect thsir wives' bills. Some women are allow ed unlimited credit, because they have the knack of making custom for their dress makers. There is one iady who dealt with onr house who hasn’t really paid a bill for years, and yet we have made thou sands through her. All these points are down in the books as regularly as tbe ac counts themselves. Why, look hero.” Be designated an entry on a final page of one of his skeletons. It ran: "4** # —A close bargainer, but fond ol show; hus band essy; father pays many bills. A.1.” Following it was the entry; "A. 4—Talk er and buyer; husband suspicions, but pays; money of her own; boen sued twice;” while still another reads: "0.0. —Irregular; Interest charges.” THE TOTAL SENTENCE, the yonng man explained, meant that an allowance must always be made In Mrs. O. O.’s accounts for tbe delays In paying them. In tbe same way all bills and credits were adjnsted by reference to the credit regiiler. As regards the loaning of money he stated that the customers to whom that confidence is extended are only the recipients of it when tbe lender is satisfied as to their solvency by a sys tem of elaborate and exhaustive Inquiry. The lender has absolutely no security for her money. Her rates of interest are usu- rious, ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, per month, according to the character of the borrower and the urgency of her need; and if the esses were ever carried into court the usurer wonld fare badly. "Bnt they never go into court,” said tbe young man, "because they are never disputed. The woman who borrows money from a dress-make; knows that if ahe doesn’t settle she will be posted in evory other establishment in New York, and she sees to it that the bills are paid. There most be some ter rible scenes when the dress-maker’s bills come home in some of cur uptown houses, and we used to get warnings from gentle men not to trust their wives any more along with the checks in settlement.” "And what did yon do?” “Let them fight it ont between them selves, and gave tbe lady wbat she want ed. She was onr customer, not the hus band.” A REMARKABLE CASE Which Goes to show That It U mot Al ways Beat to Convict s Man Purely Upon Cl reams tan tlal Evidence. A rather remarkable criminal case, showing tbe danger of conviction on cir cumstantial evidence, has recently devel oped in ML. Vernon, Posey county, Ind. On January 2Sth, 1881, the town was very much excited by the robbery of Dr. Spencer, a well known physician, and an attempt to murder him. The particu lar! of the robbery, which are still fresh in tbe minds of evory one In that portion of the State, are as follows: Dr. Spencer had collected $1,000 on that day from one of his tenants, and the supposition waa that he had tbe money on bis person. About 8 o’clock (bat night, as he was going from his office to his home, which was only a short distance-off, he was followed, and, when within a few feet of his door, s*t upon, knocked in the head and robbed. He had, however, deposited the money in bank, and the robbers obtained only a small sum and a case of instruments. The town was terribly excited over the affair, and soon every one was on the alert to catch the slightest clew asto who the parties were. Quite a number of per sons were arrested on suspicion, and among the number were three men named Francis Moore, Ben Kemper and John Reed. A man named Wm. Morgan, who had acquired a pretty hard character, having been one of the famous "cow boys” in the West, was known to be in town the night of the robbery, but left the next day. Suspicion rested upon him, and he was tracked oat of tbe city and finally arrested on "Devil’s Island,” lu the Mississippi, and brought hack. He remained In Mt. Vernon about a week, and was finally pat upon the stand to give bis testimony, and to the surprise of all be gave a dear account of the rob bery. Moore was then on trial, and was convicted on his evidence, coupled with that oi other very responsible parties. He stated that he was in town the night the robbery wss committed, and was'on his way to church. He passed the doctor’s house, and became unwillingly a witness to tbe whole aflair. He stated that four men committed the robbery after having knocked tbe doctor in tbe head with a hatchet. Three of the men he identified as Moore, Reed and Kemper, tbe three men who were arrested on suspicion; the other one he could not Identify. The other evidence against Moore was very strong, but entirely circumstantial. Sell able persons testified that he knew the doctor nad collected tbe money. He was seen to follow him arounii all day, and when be left the office to go home that night a man had seen Moore dog his foot steps, with a hatchet in his hand, and both of them disappeared. Upon this combined evidence Moore was convicted, 'at the November term of court, and sen tenced to fourteen years in the peniten tiary at Jeffersonville. He was sent up a .short time afterward, and is there now. iThe two men, Reid and Kemper, were tried separately, and on the evidence of Morgan, who testified that one of the men was Reed, he was on last Friday sentenced to eight years In the penitentiary. Tbe trial (of Kemper, the remaining man, com menced last Saturday, and it was then that the whole story was lonnd ont to be a fallacy. Morgan had never been sub jected to a severe cross-examination, bat jon this trial Major Menzles, who assisted for the defense, determined to test his story. lie was taken into a private room, and there cross-examined by Major Mcu- ziea and Judge Edson, until he was tangled up, and forced to mako an open confession. He Mated that he and a man named William Pheniz had followed the dewtor from his office, thinking that he had tbe money on bis person, knocked him in the head with a hatchet, and then robbed him. In the construction of his testimony against Moore and others Mor gan had showed remarkable cunning. Ho was in town for about a week before the trial, and had found out what all tbe wit nesses summoned knew about the matter, and then shaped his story to correspond with theirs. For instance, one man heard, or thought he heard, signal whistles, and another heard four men run by his house. In bis testimony Morgan described the signal wills' les and tbe four men running, thus cunningly weaving a chain ot cir cumstantial evidence strong enough to convict any man. After his coniessioD, however, an entirely new face was put on the matter. The men who had sworn they saw Moore following Dr. Spencer home, then testified that it was a case of mistaken identity, and the whole chain was completely broken. Motions have been made to give both the men convicted new trials, and it is probable that all save the guilty parties will be released. The unexpected ending of the trial has created much comment and a great deal of ex citement, while no little satisfaction is felt at the turn affairs have taken. Liver, Kidney and Bright's Disease A medicine that destroys the germ or cause of Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, kid ney and liver complaints and ha3 power to root them out of the system, is above all price. Such a medicine is Hop Bitters, and posiltvc proof this can be found by one trial, or by askiug vour neighbors who have been cured by it. HEX OF NERVE, Who have Looked Death Squarely lu the Eve. . Times-Democrat. "I would like to tee you a moment,” said a well known railroad man yesterday to a T.-D. reporter. “Certainly,” replied the scribe; “what is it about?” , "It Is about railroad engineers. I no ticed in Thursday’s Timea-Demoerat an article in which an English lady now in this city on a visit, expressed her admira tion and gratitude for Engineer Copely, of the Louisville and Nashville road, whose steady nerve and cool courage pre vented a passenger train with its load of human freight, being dashed to pieces. I agree with the lady In her state ment, that in this country there is not a proper appreciation of tha brave deeds of locomotive engineers, who are often called by duty to look death squarely in the face, anil to stand between it and a passenger. I know of two engi neers—heroes I should say—who are not known ontside of their narrow circle of friends, and yet these men held the throt tle with an arm of steel when they felt they were rushing into the very jaws of death. Do you know U. S. Miller? No 1 Weil, that doesn’t matter. He was an engineer on the "Big J,” and used to pnll a train on tbe Canton and Water Valley division. In about 1868 ho wa3 running the north-bound passenger, and while he was gliding along at tbe rate of twenty- fire miles an hour, bis engine jumped the track while going over a twenty-root embankment near Holly Springs. As soon ss he felt her leave tbe rail and go beuncingorer the ends of the cross ties, he closed the throttle and “ revers ed.” This bad the effect of checking the train, but hardly bad he done so when the lender coupling broke, and the engi neer, with his band still on the throttle, plunged with a crash down the embank ment. The ponderous tender followed the engine and fell npon tbe cab. The sudden jar caused the door of the fire-box to fly open, and Miller’s right leg was buried almost to the thigh in tbe blazing furnace, while the timbers of the crushed cab pinned him motionless totbe foot board. There he lay, amid the debris of the wreck, while his leg, from the foot to the knee was being horned to a crisp. You may think that I am wandering from the troth when I say that not a groan escaped him, but it is a fact. Only the death-ltjso pallor of his face, the quiv ering lip and the great beads of pcnpira- tion on bis forehead told of the terrible agony he endured. But greater than all this was his presence of mind. While the train men and others were working like beavers to clear the wreck from him he assisted l>7 quietly directing them how to do it. Miller lost tho leg aud experienced tbe torture of a thousand deaths, but he saved his train acd the lives of those who depended on him. He is now the fore man of lb* railroad shops at Cantou, Mississippi, and although bis crippled condition renders him forever unfit for the life of an active engineer, his old fondness for “throttle-pulling” sometimes induces him to take au engine out on an extra run. The other engineer to whom I referred is John Hawkins, who is still running an engine, and has the rep utation of being ono of the coolest and most careful "drivers” on the “Big J.” road. About a year ago Hawkins was pulling the fast mail, and everything went along smoothly until he got to a Bridge near Waterlord, Miss., when a cow at tempted to cross the track a few feet from the end of the bridge and directly Jn front of tbe engine. The pilot struck the cow anil throwing her forward on the rails, the fore truck running over her body and caused the engine to leap the rails and ruu a considerable distance on tho cross ties. Hawkins realized fully the danger he wasjn—below was a gulf thirty five feet deep, that appeared mere terrible thau ever before. The situation was one well calculate J to strike terror to the staunchest heart, but he was equal to it.- As quick as was possible he closed the throttle, “reversed” and put on -the air-brake, and the next mo ment tbe great pulsating engine went headforemost over the edge of the bridge, carrying the brave engineer with it Borne sweet cherub up aloft, however, must have been watching over Hawkins, and guarded tbe life which trembled upon tbe verge of 6ternity, for tbe engine in her terrible dive of thirty feet or more stuck her nose in the soft clay bank, and settled back upon her driving wheels without turn ing over. When the train men reached the wreck they found Hawkins in the cab, somewhat dazed by the effects of the fall, but uninjured. He had the opportunity to jump had he wished to do so, but he stuck to his post ot duty, and took the chances that every engineer bus to take who pulls the throttle of a locomotive. These noble fellows are men of nerve, and yot^an depend on it,’ ' Tbe Comet. Xeur York Sun. Everybody who can command the use of a telescope ought to get at least one look at the new comet before it becomes visible to the naked eye. It is a sight to be remembered, especially if the comet should make as great display within two months as the astronomers predict it will. Remembering that this gives promise of being one of the grandest comets ever seen, it Is interesting to look at it in its babyhood. It is far from possessing any thing imposing in its appearance. Tbe inexperienced oBservcr has to look twice before seeing It at all, especially If tbe tele scope he is using be of small aperture. Yet anybody can see that it is an infant Hercules. It has a head like a star, com pact and brilliant, and it trails behind it in its million-mlles-a-day flight a little, straight bright trail, bigger already away out there in space than most comets are able to display at their perihelion. Look ing at this little comet in the telescope, it is difficult to realize its powerandpossibil ities, or comprehend the speed with which it is darting toward the sun. Tbe later measures confirm the first calculations that the comet will go extra ordinarily close to tha sun. No astrono mer has succeeded In identifying it with any previous comet, and it is probable that this is its first visit to the solar sys tem, at least since men have made records of celestial phenomena. It is uot impos sible that it last exhibited the glories of its train to the inhabitants of the worlds revolving around some distant fixed star. The question is frequently asked, “How large will tho comet be?” It is impossible to say more than that, judging from the brightness of its nucleus and the present rate ot increase in the size of its tall, it ought to be a more brilliant comet than that of last summer. But nobody can promise that it will be, because tbe nature of comets and the laws that govern- the development of their tails are not well enough understood to enable astronomers to make positive predictions concerning iheir appearance. The comet’s position when nearing the sun will not be such as to^ive us tbe best View of its tail. The comet of 1858, like tills one, was watched from tbe time that it appeared as a faint object in the tele scope until, hanging in the western heav ens, it seemed to span half the arch of the sky, making the autumn evenings brilliant with its light. By May first this comet should be conspicuous to tbe naked eye. A Remarkable Article m tbs Death al Jews James. Seda ha (Mo.) Democrat. “Let not Cssaar’s servile minion* Mock the lion thus laid low : TC was no foeman’s hand that slew Iptr, ’l’was his own that struck the blow.” Not one among all the hired cowards, hard on tbe bunt for blood-money, dared lace this wonderful outlaw, twenty even against one, until he bad disarmed him self and turned hi* back to his assassins, the first and the only time he did it in a career which has passed from an almost fabulous romance Into that ot history. We called him outlaw, and he was; but fate made him so. When the war came on bo was just turned of fifteen. The border was all aflame with steel and fire and ambuscade and slaughter. He flung himself into a band which had a black flag for a banner and devils for riders. Wbat he did he did, and it was fearful. Bat it was war. It was Missouri against Kansas. It was Jim Lar.e and Jenuison against Quantreli, Anderson and Todd. ' When tho war closed Jotse Jame- bad no home. Proscribed, haunted, shot, driven away from among his people, a price put npon his head, what else could the man do, with such a nature, except what he did do? He bad to live. It waa ins country. The graves of his kindred were here. He refused to be banished from his birthright, and when he was banted ho turned savagely about and hunted his hunters. - Would to God be were alive to-day to make a righteous butchery of a few more of them. There never wss a more cowardly and unnecessary murder committed in all America than this murder of Jesse James. It was done for money. It was done that a few men might get all the money. He bad been living in St. Joseph for months. The Fords were with him. He was in the toils, for they meant to betray him. He was in the heart of a large city. One word wonld bavo summoned five hun dred armed men for his capture or extermination. Not a single one of the attacking party need to have been hint. If, when his house hail been surrounded, ho bad refused to surrender, he could havo been killed on the ioside of It and at long range. The chances for blin to es cape were as one to ten thousand, aud not even that; but it was never intended that he should oe captured. It was his blood the blooJy wretches were after; blood tnat would bring money to the official market of Missouri. And this great common wculth leagued with* lot of self-confessed robbers, high waymen and prostitutes to have one of its citizens assassinated before it was positive ly known that he had ever committed a single crime worthy of death! Of course, everything that can be said about the dead man to justify the manner of his killing will be said. But who is saying it ? Those with the blood of Jesse James on their guilty souls. Those who conspired to murder him. Those who wanted the reward, and would invent any Ho or concoct any diabolical story to gout. They have succeeded, but such a cry of horror and Indignation at the in fernal deed Is even now thundering over the land that if a single one of the misera ble assassins bad either manhood, con science or courage; he would go as another Judas and hang himself. But, so sure as God reigns, there never was a dollar of blood-money obtain ed yet which did not bring with it perdition. Sooner or later there comes a day of vengance. Some among the murderers are beasts of prey. These, of course, cau only sufier through cold or hunger or thirst. But, whatever they dread most, that thing will happen to them. Others again among the murderers arc sanctimonious devils, who plea'd the honor of the State, the vaiuo of law and order, the splendid courage required to shoct an unarmed mau in the back ol tbe head. And these will be stripped to their sklu of all their pretensions, and made to shiver and to freeze, splotched as they are and spotted and piebald with blood, In tbe pitiless storm of public contempt and condemnation. This to the leaders will be worse than death. Nor Is the end yet. If Jesse James had been bunted down as any other criminal and killed while trying to escape or in re sisting arrest, not a word would have been said to the contrary. He had sinned and he had suffered. In his death the majesty of the law would have been vin dicated. But here tne law itself becomes a murderer. It leagues with murderers. It hires murderers. It aids aud abets murderers. It borrows money to pay and reward murderers. It promises immu nity and protection to murderers. It is itself a murderer—the most abject, the most intamous and the most cowardly ever known to history. Therefore, this so-called law Is outlaw, and these so-called executors of tho law are outlaws. There fore, let Jesse James’ comrades—and be has a few remaining worth all the Fords and Littles that can be packed together between St. Louis and St. Jo—do unto them as they did unto him. No, tho end Is not yet; nor should it be. What right had any officer of this State to put a price upon his head and hire a band of cut-throats and highwaymen to murder him for money? Anything cau be told of a man. Tho whole land is filled with liars and robbers aud assassins. Murder is easy for $100. Nothing is sare that is pure, or unsuspecting, or just. But it Is not to be supposed that tho law will be come an ally and a co-worker In this sort of civilization. Jesse James has been murdered, first, because an immense price had been set upon his bead—and there isn’t a low-lived scoundrel to-day in Missouri who would not kill his own father for money; and, second, because he was made the scape goat of every train-robber, foot-pat and highwaymen between Iowa and Texas. Worse men a thousand times than tbe dead man have been hired to do this thing. The very character ol the instru ments chosen to do the work shows the infamous nature of tho work required. The hand that slew him had to be a trai tor’s. Into all the warp and woof of the devil’s work there were threads woven by the fingeta of a harlot. What a spectacle! Missouri, with splendid companies aud regiments of mil itia; Missouri, with 117 sheriffs, as brave and efficient on the average as any men on earth; Missouri, with a watchful and vigilant marshal in every one of her prln clpal town* and cities; Missouri, with ev ery screw aud cog and crank aud lever and wheel of her administrative machin ery in perfect working order; Missouri; boasting ot law, order, progress and de velopment, bad yet to surrender all these in the face of a single man—a hunted, lied upon, proscribed and outlawed man trapped and located in the midst of thirty' five thousand people—to ally Itself with some live or six cut-throats and prostitutes that the majesty of tbe law might he vin dicated, and the good name of the State saved from alt further reproach 1 Saved! Why tbe whole«tate reeks to day with, a double orgy, that of lust and that of murder. What tbe men failed to do the women accomplished Tear tbe bears from the flag of Missouri. Put thereon, in place of them, as more appropriate, a thief blowing out tbe bialns of an unarmed victim, and a bra zen harlot, naked to the waist, and splash ed to the brows in blood. Tax public will please bear In mind tb&t tbe carbonic acid generated in tbe bottle of “Conrad’s Budwaiser Beer,” is a healthy attribute thereto. Ask your gro cer for it. Sell wed, Siesel A' Gtblan, agents. lw BERNHARDT’S MARRIAGE. Wk* Bsosls is, sad Wfcjr Sbs Mar ried Bias. Farts Correspondence of (ha New York Tribune. Sarah Bernhardt has espoused M. Damala, or Daria, for many reasons, the first and strongest being that she was desperately in love with him. She want ed to have a right to be jeaions of his affections. He is ateirible flirt, and took pleasure, when he saw that she wee smit ten by his manly beanty, in tormenting her. It now turns ont that those fainting fits with which she wss seized on the stages of Italian theatres were expedients resorted to la order to prevent tbe loved one from carrying on flirtations before her eyes, in the wings, with Mile. Lina Munte. When Dona Sol fainted, ot course she had to be borne out. The piece was thus spoiled. But an end waa put to the amorous biiling aud cooing of Damala and Lina. When also the manager found out why the gifted actress swooned he took measures to prevent a repetition of the annoyauce which had|>o deeply affected her. it appears that she and Lina tore their taps about the hand some actor. Sarah was not tbe preferr ed one. It was during a "scene” in the wings that she first announced her deter mination to wed M. Damala, or as he is known in theatrical circles, Darla. "What right have yon to meddle in hia affairs, or mine, either ?” asked Lina. "The best of all rights,” answered Sarah; "he is to be my husband.” “You’re mad,” was the reply; “do yon think that a hand some fellow like him would bind himself for life to a pair of castanettes ? Besides, be has a wife and children hidden away at Marseilles.” “I don’t mind tha^” re plied Sarah, "I’ll buy out her interest in him. As he has not seen her for over three years, she’ll sell it cheap.” “Oh! with all my heart! Tako him, and joy go with the pair of you.” And so Dona Sol took him. He bolted an oath iu Loudon in order to obtain a certificate of residence with which to get married in baste. Sarah’s present fortune is 1,200,000 franca. This does not com prise her bijou house lu Rue de Fortuny, or the place near Havre. Another motive for becoming a stave of the ring was to have a decent status in London, whither she goes on the 28th. At least, this wss tbe excuse she urged to her son Maurice, who is now grown np and Is as sharp a fellow as there Is in the Bourse district. He Is In tbe office of a stock broker. His mother, who hss ever shown him great affection, summoned him from Paris to Genoa when she felt bow madly in love she had become and was afraid of being drawn by her passion into matri mony. She thought the sight of the youth would steady her. Damala, when Mau rice Bernhardt arrived, played cold, and began to rave about the luxurious beiuty of tbe Itslian women. Flump women were good-tempered and gay, and it was pleasant to look at them. There waa a sonsy actress In the troupe to whom, when Lina Munte waa busy with her role, he paid court. Poor Sarah was in despair. When she had resolved to perpetrate matrimony she told her lov er how she had been pointed at by the finger of scorn in the United States, and preached against. The sermons in which she was stigmatized had been repeated in the London press, and the probability was that if she went back to Eugland as Mile. Bernhardt, she wonld be treated as a black sheep. An argument which tad more weight with him M. Bemhart file was, that Laving a husband who was a good man of business and an actor, would release her from the impreaaril, who have battened upon her. A woman could not do without a Barnum, and it was better that he should be her husband than a stranger who wanted merely to prey npon her. Who Is Damala, or Daria ? He is a Greek by nationality, ot semi-Hebrew race. To call him a Count Is absurd. There are no titles in Greece, except of ficial ones and In the royal family. His diplomatic experience was extremely short. He was in some accidental man ner studied to tho Greek Consulate for a few days. HU true profession Is that of a commercial traveler. His father was a trader in raw silk, keeping a house at 8yra. Sarah Bernhardt’s huibsud, whose Chris tian name Is not Aristides, but Jacqnes, represented it at Marseilles and Lyons. It was at tho Marseilles Lyceum that ho received his education. His class- fellows liked him. After he left school he was a joyous aud fast- living youug fellow. The father died and left him a fairly good fortune, which he soon devoured with his boon compan ions. He never refused, itis said, a small loan, when he bad money m his pocket, to a friend who was in hard straits. Af ter ho had got to the end of his heritage he returnedto business. Ho vu getting on fairly enough when he got entangled with a bouffd-opera singer, Mile. Mlnelll. She had an engagement at the Grand Theatre of Marseilles, and then went to star it at Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne, Lisbon and Rio. M. Damala loilowed tier during ten months. It is said that he married on return ing to Provence, but that his wife and he disagreeing, be came to Paris under an assumed name to take dramatic lessons and obtain an engagement. It was not Talien but Delaunay who was his professor. As a Greek, he sought tbe patronage of Madame Adam, and obtained it. He was - also patronized by M. Rou- vier. Until he went on his tour in east ern Europe with Sarah Bernhardt he never played in any theatre except tbe Vaudeville, where secondary roles were given him. He was valuable Tor his manly beauty. What has become of his wife? Nobody knows. It he had gone to be msffried before a French mayor, a cer tificate of her death would have been re quired. All these particulars I have just had from a Provencal deputy who knew Daria very well when he was Aristide Damala, and used to give joyous dejeuners at tbe Reservfe, a celebrated restaurant at the east of Marseilles and overlooking the sea. Damala is described to me as a very good-natured, handsome fellow, fond of poetry, music and the fair sex. My in formant tells me that he must have had a swarm of creditors at his heels when he and his bride were about to embark in the Segovia for Barcelona. He is fond o gambling, bat although ho was mixed up with Larnbri Pacha two or three years ago, is no, a blackleg. If his first wife is dead, he is master of Sarah’s fortune, she baviog married without a contract. The acquaintance began last October, when he called on her, and asked her to get M. Duquesnel to engage him in a company of which she was to be the bright, particular star. Selections from “Hernani” and “Phedre” were recited to her. She did not like his style, but ad mired and liked the man. Duquesnel en gaged him as a supplementary actor, and promised that if Augelo, who was to play with Sarah, broke down, Daria should re place him. Apropos of Goncourt’s work, “La Faustin,” I explained to you how much embourgeoisee the modern aclreaa has become. It is now a fashion among them tojget married. Sarah probably wouid have done better if she had espous ed a mere business man, who would have been at once a house steward and a Bar num. Parisian friends of Sarah imagine that her hasty marriage will not bind her here. As she Is of Dutch nationality and her husband of Greek, tbe hard and fast regu lations of the Code Napoleon do not apply to their nnlon. I believe Ibat^he mar riage, being legal in England, will be valid all the world over—u indeed there is no "first wife.” I read to-day In tbe London correspondence of a French paper that tbe bride caused the news of tbe happy event to be communicated to tbe Prince of Wales, and that his royal high ness exclaimed, “By Jove! 8ar*h getting married 1 She most be mad 1” Of course I do not vouch for tbe veracity of the cor respondent. “GEBB TMAXDERIXG.” Sssatlhlav About Osd El bridge (ter ry, Whose Hstate is Thai Percent - slt*. Boston Traveller. Gerrymandering has become a sort of rage, and one party is about as bad as an other in having resort to it. There is no excuse for it, mod it should be condemned by men of all parties. The word gerry mander is of Massachusetts origin, but the prevalent belief that it originated in an unfair redistricting of this State In or der to control the election of members of Congress Is unfounded. Eibridge Gerry, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for Massachusetts, was a man of much note here for about forty years, he dying in 1814, while holding the office of Vice-President of the United Slates. He was governor of Massachusetts from May, 1810, to May, 1812. Tbe late Mr. Wm. Sullivan, In his lively "Familiar Letters,” says: “As there is nothing to bo said of his administration, which one could take pleasure in saying, so the pain of speaking of It at it may have deserved may be avoided, When the time comes for writing the sober history of Massachu setts, the historian will find abundant materials for his work in these two years; sod tbe exercise of party power in dis tricting the Commonwealth for the choice of Senators is particularly commended to his notice. He will find the English lan guage enriched by a new term (gerry mandering) which may often find a suitable application when the origin of it may have been forgotten. He may find It in tbe patriotic labors of the two yean in which Mr. Gerry was.gov ernor of Massachusetts.” At the election which followed the introduction of the gerrymander to our politics, Gover nor Gerry was defeated, and the House of Representatives was carried by the Fede ralists; but the Republicans (Democrats) c*rried the Senate, showing that the ger rymander’s back was equal to its burden. It was a question, “Did the gerrymander save the Senate, or did it cause the loss of the governorship and the House of Repre sentatives ?” Probably it did both, as the popular majority of tbe Federalists was not large. A picture of the gerry raander wm published, acd a moet comical-looking beast it proved to be. Copies of the pro duction are occasionally to be seen, even now, they having survived the wear and tear of seventy years. It was reproduced years later, in at leMt one newspaper, where we saw it, about a half a century since. We remember having heard old Demo crats say, in our youthful days, that, whatever the demerits of tbe gerrymander it was unfairly christened, for, they as serted, Got. Gerry had as little to do with the offensive redistricting m a man in his position could well have. But he was governor of tbe State, and tbe highest member'of the offending party, and so be was made to bear ills party’s burden of sin, as being that party's representative man. Then his name came so pat that there wm no so such thing as missing its usefulness in what seemed to be a natural caricature—that is, a caricature that is not forced, but proceeds easily from tbe occasion. Had the Governor’s name been Hicks or Howard, Simpkins or Sidney, it would have been impossible to employ it iu the way that Gerry was employed. Maoder was, we suppose, from the Latin mando, or from mandatory; and the Gov ernor wm regarded as mandator, or di rector. Germander is a scientific word, relating to certain plants. Gerrymander is one of the very few of our political slang terms (bat have survived, and apparently it is destined to last as long as tbe base practice it satirizes—that is to say, for many ages. GLASS 8AXD. A Vast DtpMlI Discovered at Fort Pickering, Tennessee. Memphis Avalanche. ' Probably very few of the clllzecs of Memphis are aware of the fact that the bluff in the vicinity of Fort Pickering contains a mine of wealth, which might readily be converted Into a source of prof it for many people, aod add greatly to the prosperity of the city. A few old citi zens have long known that a vast de posit of the finest silica sand existed in the blufis about Fort Pickering. It may be remembered, too, that at one time, about tho years 1850 acd 1851, a small plant for a glass factory wm erect ed in Foit Pickering. As to the exact history of the-enterprise, the Avalanche is not informed. Nor Is it known now what particular cause led to tbe failure of tbe undertaking. Bnt, at any rale, tbe glass factory, which was commenced thir ty years agu, wm soon abandoned. From that time to the present very little has been said about the vast deposits of pure while sand in the blufis here. No effort, so far as known to this writer, has ever been made to turn this rich possession of Memphis to a valuable account. Yesterday an Avalancbian accidentally stumbled upon a splendid specimen of pure white silica sand, equal, if not supe rior, in quality to the best specimens from Tlatin Creek, or Pacific, J«o., from which such excellent crown, plate and bottle glass is manufactured in St. Louis and at Crystal City. It was learned that this sand wm taken from the bluff in the vicinity of Fort Pickering, and that there were YMt deposits of tho same kind in that quarter. It wm a matter of sur prise to the Avalanche representative to learn this fact, and the further Informa tion that it has never been mined for shipment. Tbe glsss sand-banks of Mis souri are extremely valuable property,aod thousands of car loads are shipped annu ally from tbe mine of Pacific and from those on the Iron Mountain railroad in tbe vicinity of Platln Creek. Tbe lurther fact was ascertained that fire clay of a most excellent quality existed right here In tbe bluff. Meeting Mr. Hughes, the well-known glass Stainer, the scribe gained some in formation, which might be turned to val uable account. Mr. Hughes has some knowledge of and experience iu tbe busi ness of glass making, haviog at one time been connected with a manufactory of glass in Pittsburg. He informed the wri ter that vhe sand cf Fort Pickering Is of a very superior quality, and can be mined at a very small cost. As to tbe quality of tbe fire clay found here, he says It is equal to the very best. This <%y, he thinks, would make excellent crucibles aud finishing slabs for window glass'. The aand and tbe clay then are here. Only the fuel and the caustic soda em< ployed in glass making need bp brought from abroad, to all American glass manu factories. But there are advantages of situation here which are superior to those possessed by auy other seat of this partic ular Industry. The sand and the clay are ' on the banks of the river in close prox imity to the railroad Roes, and beuoe there are superior facilities afforded for the transportation of fuel, and also for the shipment of tbe prodncUana of the fac tory. There is a splendid opportunity offered for the Investment of capital in this enter prise. Glass of a very superior quality might be produced here, at a leu cost, than it is possible for tbe factories of St. LoujA New Albany and Pittsburg to nsaylt. Who will inaugurate tbe enter prise, and thus add ooe more to the al ready increasing manufacturing indus tries of Memphis ? Death mt >r fsues. We are ones more pained to announce the’deathof Hon. Jesse James. We speak of him as Hon. Jesse James because it is possible he may not be dead yet, and we should not desire any personalities raked np in case he shonid be still at large. The regular semi-annual death of Jesse James has been a cause for national sor row for some time. His obituary has been written seven or eight times by the falter ing hand that pens these lines, and we are still young. Death has marked Mr. James for its own a good many times, and now he has again been butchered to make a Missouri holiday. Tbe soil from Maine to Califor nia has been drenched with his gore, and the green grass waves above his ashes in every portion of onr great land. No man has perished from tbe face of the earth so ubiquitously as Mr. Janes, and no American citizen ha) yielded his young life unde%such varied and peculiar cir cumstances. Lay him down where the bobolink blossoms on the sweet potato viue, and always plant him in tbe valley where the pecan waves. Born of humble and obscure parents, he rapidly rose to the proud eminence of America’s leading thief aud murderer. When death marked him lor Lis victim tbe last time, be wm m prominent a man m Henry Ward Beecher or Roecoe Conk- ling. His genius took a different shoot, it is true, but be won a name as a pluudet- er which throws the achievements of our modern bank cashiers back into cold and clammy oblivion. Death has once more stilled tbe pulse ot a man who, were it not for his little eccentricities m a liuman butcher and grand larceny connoisseur, would have made an elegant humorist or statesman. Had he been lees of an enthusiast, and less radical m a murderer, he might have shone in the best society. Had he pleaded emotional insanity the first time be got np a surprise luneral, instead ol making an outlaw of himself, be might now be alive, loved and respected. But be wm ignorant of the law, and thought that when a man murdered all the first-class passengers on a train, be would be dealt harshly with and ostracised. That is where he committed a grave error. He went on from bad to worse, aud lost all respect for himself. Yellow fever and the James boys have been a great scourge to this country. The mortality from these combined diseases hM been ’frightful. Now that Jesse is dead ooce more, we feel hopeful that tbs country can be populated without delay. Heretofore it has been an upbiii job, aud such men m Dr. Hsywood have felt at times as theugh they wouid sink down with discouragement. But now there is hope again. The fever is subdued, aud Jesse Jsmes again reclines on his bier. The census should show a rapid advance in tbe next five years, and boom in a way that will make other nations sick.—Bill Hye. Debilitated persons, and sufferers from wasting diseases such as consump tion, scrofula, kidney affections, will be neatly benefited by using Bro wn’s Iron Bitters. A JOB VERDICT. The Award ot One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Htlboarn-The Possibili ty ot Va«*mlB( tho Transactions of the Heel Estate Pool. N. Y. Sun. Washington, April 24.—Hallet Kll- bourn, chief of Boss Shepherd’s staff and one of the Washington ring, was impris oned by order of the House of Represent atives lor refusing to produce the books of his firm, that wouid have exposed the secrets of the real estate poof, of which be and his partners were the intermediaries and the beneficiaries. At tbe Ume of the investigation Kil- bourn’s concern had pretty well run through an odious career at Washington. He and his asrociates had quarreled over former transactions, and they were in the wont odor with tbe community at large. Their business wm gone, and it never re covered from a loss of confidence. Kilbourn ns restrained of his liberty for forty-five days, and during that time he wm maintained liberally at the public expense, and enjoyed every indulgence, except the freedom to go and come at his pleasure. This nominal imprisonment, tor it wm, in fact, nothing else, was sanc tioned by an unbroken line of preoadeuts under Republican administration, and was really nothing but an exercise of authority by the House to bring out the proof of corruption known to be in tbe bands of the recalcitrant witness. A model jury has decided that Kilbourn was entitled to more than $2,200 a day, or over $01 for every hour during this re straint, aud has a’towed a gross $100,000 for his wounded feelings. Whereat the ring Republicans and the Kilbourn Demo crats, backed by their “organ,” rejoice with exceeding joy over tbe verdict. It would not distress the country' much if John G. Thompson, late sergeant-at- arms, who brought iu tbe liquor bill for the Garfield funeral, and against whom this suit waa brought, should be mulcted for the verdict. He may be described as a Kilbourn Democrat generally, who was recently defeated for common councilman in tbe town where be bM always lived, and where hb is best known outside of the capital. But the verdict and the money are two different things. There is some comfort In knowing Congress will never vote for this jury job, and ought not to do it if the award was only one hundred cents. Kil- bourn’s creditors will have to wait in any a day before they can attach the proceeds of this verdict, which even shocked the judge who tried the case, and who has long been recognized as a friend of the Washington ring aud of Kilboaru. The House ot Representatives failed to get at the secrets of tbe real estate pool. But the court may succeed in doing what the House did not do. Mr. Hillyer and Mr. Sunderland, of California, made ex tensive purchases of real estato in Wash ington during the reign of Boss Shepherd. Kilbourn and Latta were their brokers, to whom large sums of money were ad vanced. These persons have filed a bill against Kilbourn, Latta, and Olmste&d, charging fraud in the transactions, the illegal ap propriation of their money, and most ex orbitant bills for alleged agency. Iu other words, vast swindiiug. -They pro pose to prove the charges by the books and papers oi tho Ann in part, and by other testimony. If they do, the real cs tale pool will be uncovered. No production from hope and malt has so many favorable indorsements from the medical fraternity as “Conrad’s Rudjvilser i Beer. ’ iScftwed, Siescl <fc Glhian, sgant*. t lw TABOR VS. TABOR. Tbe bBH Celebre a* Denver Beeaafca t» Is taypasM te Have .WliUaan In Iu Denver Special to Chieaoa T mee. Just now Denver’s wealthy and aristo cratic society, and the eoc.'ety which is not wealthy and aristocratic—In fact, everybody in the pretty, aspiring liuia city who read* the newspapers and listens to gossip, is greatly Interested In the suit brought by Mrs. Augusta L. Tabor against her husband, Horace A. W. Tabor, liau- tenaot-governor of tbe State of Colorado, the kaiser among tbe State’s bonanza royalty, and a formidable wlli-be candi date this fall for theUntted Staten Senate. The suit Is not brought for a divorce, though the plaintiff says that he hM de serted her ; but U to compel tho defend ant to support her. She states in her pe tition that her husband has repeatedly refused to pay taxes on the family resi dence, and other expenses, aud that she is necessitated to rent rooms lor her own. support ; while among the charges Is tha infidelity cf the defendant. Tho accused smiles a calm smile, and say* : “I have given her $100,000. What has she done with It ?” Oh man ! great is thy assur ance. Twenty-five years ago, * Horace A. W. Tabor took Augusta Pierce “for better, for worse,” winning her away from wealthier suitors ; took her from her pleasant Maine home and brought her to the then wilderness of Kansas. Here they pre-empted a farm, but they were too poor to stock it. So they started for Colorado amid tbe golden ex citement, he hoping for a stroke of luck that would enable him to fit np their farm, she following uncomplaining ly wherever he went. And for twenty years they labored together in Colorado, she bearing .her half or tbe burdens; the first white woman in the region, living all of tbe time beyond the limits of culture, cooking and working, uot only for her family, but for the men her husband em ployed, assisting him to wait upon tbe customers of the little mountain store of which he wss proprietor. A life such as this for twenty years. Then tbe waiting and working, and hoping brought their reward. Presto 1 the Little Pittsburg wm discovered in California guicb, whore they had so long looked for gold and found none. Mr. Tabor beesme a rich man. A State election wm held. Mr, Tabor became a lieutenant governor. In fairy books, or novels, this would be the dellgbtfnl climax of the story; it is the juncture where the chronicler should stop, bat this tale didn't. True, they bought a handsome house, and lived very happily for a while. But the Governor began to display a penchant for the socie ty of ballet girls, and other pretty but naughty females. At last his attentions to this class became so open that bis wife could no longer live with him, se ha transferred bis residence to the Windsor Hotel; and it is stated quite reliably, that he has several times offered her money If she would sue fora divorce, but the spunky wife would not gratify him oy ac ceding. And for a year and a half they have lived openly apart, both going in the best circles of Denver society. Now, Tabor is not othewise a bad sort of a fellow. He hM built elegant build ings for Denver and Leadville. He is al ways doing odd generous sorts cf things, I remember, when he intended building his opera house, he met one day a stone mason whose only fault wm poverty, us he wm both capable and honest. Tabor, who Is himself $ mason by trade, ana knew the young mar., said to him: “Are you not going to bid on my opera house?” “No,” replied the other, “lor if I should win it, I have no friends who txo able to go cn the bond required ot' me.” The amount was $20,600. "Bid on it,” said Tabor, "aud it you are the lowest 2 will go on yoor bond myself.” Aud, as tha yonng fellow wm the lowest, he reality went on his bond, and tbe happy mason did tbe work. Every once in a ’ while be throws open his opera house for a free matinee to the children of Denver. He 1* ever doing something generous, and, indeed, it is partially through this very generosity ana good nature that he hM sinned. But when he comes forward and pleads that be has given his wife $100,000, while lie himself is worth $10,000,000. I have no patience with him. Granting that he has given it to her, about which I do not know, it is a very paltry sum, wheu by every unwritten decree of just humanity she is entitled to much more. "Tbe ap ple raised by the mutual industry ot th$ pair should be equally divided between B them.” Oh! it will not be; you may be certain of that. Men do not usually agree to s division of that kind; but it is a teen disgrace, I take it, to tbe Lieutenant- Governor of Colorado that his wife should be compelled to go before tbe courts and ask for mainte nance, and that he shall pay tbe taxes on the house she lives in, wnich is still in his name. But then there were no taxes to be paid in the little log-cabin of yore, unless it were to tbe Indians, who sometimes constituted themselves collectors anyhow, and were ones not to H be despised. The suit is the talk of tbe hour just now in Denver, and the sympathy is on tbe side of the wife. They bate but one son, a young fellow of twenty-four, now La Europe. He treats<hi* parents with equal affection, and both are equally fond of him. It is ssid, however, that the Color ado law makes m provision for a suit of Mrs. Tabor’s kind. Bo it remains to be seen wbat will be the outcome of it all. He Hnet Faith Sana* Doubters. Samuel E. Palmer, a young employe iu tbe Gents’ Furmshiug Store of T. Mil ler, No. 255 Sixth avenue, New York City, hw Invested regularly in the draw ings of the Louisiana State Lottery by sending to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. He failed to get a ticket in the Feb ruary drawing, as he sent tv> late, bat received one in the March distribution. He was laughed at by his friends, but of fered to bet $100 that he would some day win a large prize. Sure enough he found that U14 wm a hail of ticket No. 600 , which bad drawn $5,000. He collected it through Adams Expresi Company, and m he hM frequently drawn small prizes of $20 and $10 before, wil send in time tor May Ot'u, to be in the next drawing uuuer the special supervision of Genorals G. T. Beauregard of Louisiana aud Jubal Early of Virginia, m usual. File* assd Boss Flies, roaches, ants, bed hugs, rata, mice, gopher*, chipmunhs, cleared out by "Rongb on Rats.” 15c. lw A PuEBtlntr Situation Cott filiation. It would be risky to lay the odds as to whether Gorhein or the esteemed editor of the New York Tribune will break his sus- jlenders first. The situation u very’ puz zling. Tbe Qulitlrweace. Lc figure. “ Where are jon going in nneb a harry ?” “Ouly hack into the house n minute, to change ray poeketbook.” “Change it?” “Yes, I had no idea the day was so hot j I started out with my sealskin pocketbook,” Beware ot Frauds, Tito original and ouly genuine “Rough on Rats” is manufactured by and baa tsa nsmo of EphsaMu 8. Weils, Jersey City, N J., on eheQgffijfe H ‘ employs no ellDg agents i