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Good Night.
From Oar Littlo One*.
The tales are told, the songs are sung.
The evening romp ia over,
And up the nursery stairs I climb.
With little buzzing tongues that chime
Like bees among the clover.
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, OCTOBER G,l&85.
Tbeit buay brains and happy hearts
Are full of crowding fancies:
From song and tale and make-believe
A wondrous web of droams they weave
And airy child romances.
The starry night is fair without:
The new moon rises slowly;
The nursery lamp is burning faint:
Each white-robed like a little salut.
Their prayers they murmur lowly.
Good night! The tired heads are still,
On pillows soft reposing.
The dim and dizzy mist of sleep
About their thoughts begins to creep,
Their drowsy eyes are closing.
Good night! While through the silent air
The moonbeams pale art* streaming.
They drift from daylight’s noisy shore,
Blow out the light and shut the door,
And leave them to their dreaming.
—M. Johnson.
From Everlasting to Everlasting.
Psalm 103:17.
The mercy of the Lord.
Was the subject of the singer.
Twa* the theme he loved the best,
He had known that mercy loug.
Could he measure or define it ?
Oh! no mortal could describe it.
But he sought to tell the wonder
And the worth of it in song.
As for man. his days are numbered.
Like the grass that fills the meadow
A little while he fiourishetb,
And then he fades away:
Like the early mists of morning.
Like a short and soon told story.
Like a swiftly flying arrow
' ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ t life tl
la his transient lire day.
And His love is as enduring
As—the poet found no words
That could utter all he meant.
For God’s mercy has uo ending.
And he found not its beginning,
Ti* sn aye abiding mercy,
And it never can be spent
80 he wrote, "From everlasting
And again to everlasting."
Common words, but who can fathom
The deep mystery they hold ?
Ah! the mind gets tired of guessing.
And the dreams—thoughts cannot picture,
_ And eternity alone
W God’s great mercy can unfold.
We may see it manifested
In the moor and wood and river.
In tLa golden glow of sunset
In the corn wealth of the land.
In the homes of all the people.
And the common joy and gladn
And no heart can und
Then lot no one dare to measure
Or restrict this boundless mercy.
And let every heart take comfort
And the timid ones be strong:
No creature is forsaken.
Each shares the Father’s mercy,
And the lowliest and weakest
Should take up the psalmist’s song.
-Marianno Farningham in London Christian
World. .
HAUNTED BY MUSIC.
The Peculiar Delusion Following a Man
Who Listens to Sad Music.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
“Young man,” said a prosperous-looking
citizen yesterday evening, “did you ever
observe the habits of mimical people!”
“Oh no, dear air, that branch is not in
our department”
“Because, if you have,” he continued,
“you have seen a good deal of character that
you would not have seen if yon hadn’t.”
With this strange declaration he sub
aided into a deep reverie. A cloud of pain
occasionally passed over his face, and there
was a twitching of the muscles of the
mouth, ns if he were undergoing some
mental torture. Presently he gave a start,
and, rubbing his hands across his forehead
for the purpose of collecting his thoughts,
broke the impending silence with his voice.
“Ah! me, he tuud, “I was living over
again some nights of agony I have spent. I
am fast growing old. I 'am haunted by a
terrible delusion. At times I feel that my
hair is white os snow, my hands shake as if
with palsy, and I seem to totter on my
knera. When the ideapnrsues me I can not
got rid of it, nnd I am driven almost to des
peration.”
“I am sorry for you, my friend,” said the
reporter. “But really, you do not look any
thing like the bein^ you describe." And he
was, indeed, anything but like it. Large,
well-built. fst and jolly-looking, he rather
was an impersonation of a prosperous Eng
lish ’squire.
“Mine is a peculiar case, I guess,” he
mused. “And strange as it may seem, it is
trne that the delusion that haunts my
dreams and makes my everyday life a mis
erable existence, la can—d MMcthtf by the
playing of a violinist in yonder,” and he
turneu his head and pointed his lingar to
ward a dark, gloomy, dilapidated house that
loomed up in the shadows falling around.
“He is a young man who has long been
in low health and spirits. Two years ago
bis father died, stricken down very sudden
ly; six months afterward his mother, one of
the kindest mothers that mortal ever loved,
followed her husband. The brother and
two sisters left behind continued to live in
the old home. They wero never seen to
smile. The young man is a great lover of
the violin. I believe he was taught by his
father. The instrument he uses is a won-
dorful one that was obtained in Italy over
fifty years ago. The violinist never plays
excoptat night Then ho shuts himself
alone in his dark room nnd ponrs his soul
out through the strings. And, oh’ I think
there can be nothing in this world or the
next sadder than the wails in that music.
It is the melody of a soul that has been
dead for years -* The player’s heart is bro
ken, and he plays a heart-broken music. I
have listened at my window some nights
and eagerly drunk in every note. It makes
me feel olu and heart-broken. It is a terri
ble delusion, but I cannot shake it off when
it comes upon me. For days at a time it
makes me miserable, till I grow desperate.
The gentleman lives on D r street,
East End. Those who are intimate with
him confirm bis story. His case is indeed
peculiar. Yet it is not the only one of the
kind, for several similar to it have been
known to occur. It is a powerful .Uustra-
iion of the peculiar mental organization of
nsicol (—position, and of the mysten-
face the very moment he entera the Sanc
tum O’Heame.
To the uninstructed it is os well to say
that it is O’Hearne’s business to take charge
of all property, stolen, found or taken from
prisoners which falls into the hands of the
police. He has gotten along all right with
these goods nntil Friday last, when the de
tectives captured a very fine parrot which
had been stolen from a lady in the city, and
this, like all other property recovered, they
turned over to Mr. O’Heame until its owner
ship should be determined.
The trial came up on Saturday, and
0 Heurne and the other parrot were in
court Judge Davey said he didn’t think he
could try the case that day, whereupon the
little property clerk jumped to his feet and
said:
“Say, Judge, just a minute; I’d ask y(
Honor if the milk of human kinddess whi
circulates in your manly bosoiu lias not all
curdled and been churned into oleomarga
rine to have that bird removed from the sta
tion.”
“Send for the Black Maria,” sung out the
parrot, which, by the wav, was a most flu
ent talker.
“There he goes, Judge. That’s him. He's
a talker, and don’t you forget it. He talks ed out.
from his bill to his tail feathers, and it ain’t
no use to tell him to shut up. He under
stands everything but that, and it would
take that pile-driver on Canal street to make
him tumble. Why, Judge, I was talking to
a friend of mine this morning, a lady, by
the way, and I had just told her how* hard
I had to work, when this beastly bird cried
out: ‘Ob, yon give me a pain in my sus
penders.' How’s that for a bird, Judge,
and I’ll bet two to one that he never wore
suspenders in his life; why, he ain’t even
got pants on. And then I can’t come into
the room but what he shoots it to me with
‘All, there! Just my size,’ or something like
that, ”
At this juncture the bird, who had evi
dently been associating with some of the
baseball fraternity, cocked its head on one
side and said:
“That will do; three strikes and out.'
“Order in court?” shouted Judge Davey,
and Court Officer Shea quietly walked up
and told the bird if he didn't cheese the
racket he’d lock him up. He yelled it
S retty loud and the parrot replied, “One
awl,” whereupon Shea seized the bird and
threw him toward the window, but the
bird recovered, and alighting back on his
old perch said, “Fowl, not out.”
“Judge,” said O’Hearne, who by this
time had collared the floor again,* “that
bird knows me, and he knows that I can
organize a nine that will knock the stuffin’
out of the Dtidenhefer’s or any other man,
and his remarks are personal. ”*
“That will do, Mr. O’Heame,” remarked
the judge. ” The case is continued until Mon
day; in the meantime you will arrange a
place in your junk shop for this bird.”
“Johnny, make room for your uncle,”
shouted the parrot, and Johnny -got a pair
of tongs anil pulled the bird out amid the
laughter of tho assembled crowd.
Then John sought out Chris Cain, the lit
tle detective, who could write a big book
entitled “Wlmt I don’t know about birds,”
and Chris told him the best tbing he could
do was to get his life insured and then go
off and die.
A STUDENT OF SHAMS.
IIow Glitter rinse* for Gold In n Thought.
Inn* Community.
Philadelphia Press.
In a great, big, gilded eating house in
the business portion of the city, which is
thronged on week-days by myriads of nerv
ous men with their months full of hot coffee
and their heads full of the ticker or tho
trial list, a reporter sat down yesterday U
dinner. The place was nearly empty. The
only person at the next table was a man
who.fcinstead of eating, drummed idly on
the table and every now- and then looked
about him. Whenever lie did look about
him he smiled. The smile w as one of those
ostentatious smiles that invite your neigh
bor to vsk what it is you are smiling
about. The reporter looked inquiringly at
neighbor. The latter hitched his cuair
his
mis influence that uinsic line U|»n one who
lores it imil surrenders himself altogether
to its influence.
and thk p abbot.
iorroiv to the Host of the
mo Property Clerks
Orleans Chronicle,
irne—he's the little fellow
intenance that has charge
room at the Central Station
ting into another pickle,
teortless enough to remark
e fresh, nnd getting pickled
onldn't hurt him, but that
alousy that rankled in the
perhaps because he vrnsn t
ii, and it was just through
.he same party remarked
l either been sawed off and
i or won picked before he
cr here nor there; Iio’b a
r, and can take care of
y two men in the town,
everythin.’, but the only
: puts it there, and the
ir everything, and • very*
" store's u visitor in the
up to the reporter with a nervous motion
and broke out: “I come to this place and
other places like it to satiate myself with
sham. 1 have como to admire sham. It is
the ruling spirit of the age. It is the out
come of the croze for appearances—the de
sire of every man to eat, drink and be
clothed like his betters. This desire cannot
be appeased, for the price of the best is
eternally fixed—therefore it is sopped with
an imitation of the best at a price it can
ntlord to pay. Thia place is a temple of
sham. Excuse this homily. What are you
eating?"
Tho reporter, who had his own doubts on
the subject, replied, cautiously: “It's sup
posed to be tnrtle soup.”
The stranger sniffed contemptuously; “It
isn’t even attempted to cover up that
slum,” he said. “Yon notice on the bill of
fare that your turtle soup is but 10 cent*
. aire per plate than mock tnrtle soup.
Calipash and ralipee, green fat, an histone
delicacy, famed in the history of the world's
metro]M>lis os the nerne of epicurean delight,
for 10 cents more than a fried meat ball,
llut the age likes to think it is rating turtle
soup. It Houuds rich—therefore the veally
counterfeit. I am going to ent a .Spanish
omelette," continued the stranger, changing
the subject.
The stronger gave his order to a colored
waitor, who yawned nnd twisted his uions-
taeho against a gilded iiilinr, nnd the ome
lette was brought. The stranger investi
gated the ingredients of the savory mess
with his fork, and on the end of the utensil
produced a mnshroom. “Look at this," he
soiiL Then he picked at the appetizing
lus knife, scraped off the
vegetable with lua knife, ocropevl
covering of snnec and began paring the
stem. It crumbled under the operation in
n decidedly unvegetablo way. The report
er's eyes popped out on his checks.
“What is it?" he asked.
“Dough," replied the stranger. “It is an
old trick. Mushrooms are scarce and high.
Htill the patrons like to have the sensation
of ordering mushrooms in their composition.
If prices were put up to the mushroom
market they would abandon the restaurant.
8o they ent dongli. It is harmless. I would
advise the proprietor to stick to dough nnd
not indulge in toadstools, which might work
^r'he stranger pnslied away the omelette,
which, he explained, he had only ordered
as an excuse for remaining in the place, nnd
lighted a cigarette. As he sent a straight,
strong column of smoke out from the Isit-
tom of his lungs, after a deep inhalation, he
went on talking. "It is n question,” he
said, "whether any man of the present gen
eration, save only the negroes, who roll
tneir cigars out of leaves plucked from bales
of mw tobacco on the wharves of Southern
iKirts, has ever tasted real tobacco. I my
self have smoked valerian so long that you
see I positively enjoy it I confess that I
do not know what real tobacco is. Idiots
who buy, Itnd liars who sell various prepa
rations of valerian will tell yon that they
' The reporter’s cane, which had been leon
ine against the wainscot while its owner
gorged himself with sham food, fell to the
flaorwith a rattling noise. The stranger a
eye followed the direction of the noise.
‘•That stick," he said, "which ia mode to
represent Irish blackthorn and was grown
in Jersey, leaned against a P“«‘
mink* to represent mahogany amd » renllj
ash. The imitation blockthi
the imitation mahogany, nnd fell npon some
thing which is made to represent n marble
floor. It did not fall upon a marble floor,
but upon a preparation of a sort of concrete
which is intlde to represent marble by n pat
ent tile company. The very noise produced
is sham."
The reporter, occupied with the horrid
doubt in his mind ns to whether the piece
of beef in his month was horse, paid no at
tention to the stranger's nssnnlt upon his
enne, nnd the homilist continued, ns if to
himself, “A temple of sham. The sunlight
fells through stained glass which is not
stained gloss, but stained paper posted on
window panes. It lights upon medallions
of hammered brass nnd a frieze of^reponsse
work which ara not hammered brass and re
pousse, bnt pnpier macho. Truly tho—"
The reporter interrupted the speaker. He
had come to the Inst course of his meal.
“Sir,” he said anxiously,,“ia the pie imi
tation, too?” There wan a silence in
which the disciple listened with bated
breath, and the teacher framed his wisdom
into words. “No," he said softly, “Noone
would imitate American pie." And pro
ducing neoin which he said should by rights
be counterfeit, he paid his check and walk'
“BETSEY AND I ARE OUT."
JUMBO'S SKELETON.
The Work of Mounting It—Why It Wilt
lie Exhibited.
New York Tribune.
Prof. H. Word, of Rochester University,
who has in hand the mounting of the skin
and skeleton of Jumbo, stopped a few min
utes in this city yesterday on his woy to
Bridgeport to see P. T. Bnmum. He was
seen at the Grand Union Hotel by a Trib
une reporter.
“Jumbo was a bank all by himself," he
said. “When I nrrived at St. Thomas with
my assistants to preserve the remains I
found in his stomnch a great many coins—
English shillings and sixpences, coppers
and one Canadian piece, showing that he
hns been keeping a bunk account, nlthnugh
he left no will. His head was fearfully
mashed, the engine having driven his tusks
clear through it. I found Jumbo on his
feet where tie had been rolled down the
bank away from the railroad nnd
had to skin him as he stood. His hide
weighed 1,537 ponnds nnd his bones 2,400.
We cremated liis flesh—the first cremation
in Canada. It took four and a half cords of
hard wood and two days' time to consume
the flesh. His skin was torn n little and his
back somewhat injured. We are mounting
the skin and skeleton in Boehcster. Wo
hud to erect n special building in which to
do the work. Jumbo was unlike ordinary
elephants, which are big and round und
with oval backs. He was more like a
French horse with a hollowed out back,
standing very high at the shoulders. His
head was drawn out at the tusks nnd the
forehead more curved than the Indinn ele-
ihnnts. It will take three months and
j’2,000 to mount him. We have to build a
wooden elephant, like that at Coney Islnnd,
for a frame, and keep shaping it until it ex
actly gives the right form with the skin
npon it. The frame hns to be made strong
with heavy iron rods and bolts to prevent
accident in travel. Two special cars are be
ing built for the new double Jumbo.
After a year abroad, his mounted
skin rests at Tuft's College and
his skeleton at the Smith
sonian Institution, Washington. The peo-
le of St. Thomas are preparing to create a
larnuni park and erect a $25,000 monument
on the spot where Jumbo was killed. Tom
Thumb, the trick elephant, is being doc
tored at Bridgeport, where ho cries like a
child over bis aches and pains. The broken
leg will heal, I think. I am off for Bridge-
fiort now to make final arrangements for tho
our of Jumbo mounted. We are also
mounting Emperor, the elephant which
died in Missouri a few weeks ago, for the
Missouri State University.—New Y’ork
Tribune.
A BOY STAGE BOBBER.
lie Calmly Itlfles the Mall-Itags With Fif
teen Fassengers Looking Oil.
Galveston, October 2.—A special to the
News from Dallas says; J. B. Kane and
John Cormack, citizens of Lnmpssos, who
were passengers on the stage from San
Angelos to Abeline, give the following ac
count of a daring robbery sixteen miles
east of Rttnnella. A siuooth-fnced boy,
about 18 years of age, met and pnssed the
stage. He was riding a gray horse. Ho
wore a loose bine flnnnel shirt nnd
his trousers were stuck in his
hoots. He carried a Winchester rifle
nnd six shooter. After the stage passed him
he turned nnd demnnded a halt. The driv
er whipped np his team, and an exciting
race for half a mile ensued, before the stage
was overhauled by tho highwnyinnn, who
demanded the mail sacks, at the same time
saying he did not care to disturb the pas
sengers, six in number, including a lady.
The mnil sacks were delivered to him, when
lie carried them two hundred yards out on
the prairie nnd leisurely appropriated
whnt he wanted. While this scene
was being enacted, the ftnge arum Abeline
for Kan Angelos came np, with seven mule
passengers. Weapons were called for, and
a man who seemed to be n ranger rn routr to
Bunnells loaded his pistol, buckled on his
licit and held himself in readiness to repel
nuy attack that might be mnde on the stage.
The robber, however, after satisfying him
self, rode off, leaving the mnii-bogs on the
irairie. Officers arc now in hot pursuit of
dm. He is supposed to be tho same high-
wuvman who robbed the mnil between Cisco
anil Brownwood a few days ago.
A Detroit Lawyer Has a Cuio lte-eintillng
That of a Foot.
Detroit Post
A document setting forth that Martin H.
nnd Bichaei B. Conn had hoen mnrried forty-
three years ngo, nnd praying the Wayne cir
cuit court to grant the wife a separation
from her husband was filed with the county
clerk a couple of weeks ago. The bill show
ed that both parties lived in Plymouth, and
thut their ages were 65 and 63 years, respec
tively. The natural surprise which the
public felt soon died away, nnd the case was
forgotten in n few days with others of a dis
tantly similar nature. Last Thursday n
number of assignments and quit-claim
deeds, Bomo bearing Rachel Conn’s signa
ture, others that of Martin, were filed witli
the register of deeds. Martin hod assigned
property to his wife, and she in turn had
qnit-cluinicd to him certain pieces of real
estate. Here was food for farther surprise.
The couple Lad been at loggerheads, re
cently, at least a suit between them wits
pending in court nnd was set for Thursday
next. J. W. Douovon, Sirs. Conn’s coun
sel, was visited, the apparently strange cir
cumstances of the case pointed out to him,
and he related a abort history of the case.
A few weeks ago a tall woman with dark
gray hair and strong bnt much wrinkled
features entered Sir. Donovon's office and
told him that she was Rachel Conn. She
had found it impossible to remain in the
same house with her hushnnd SInrtin, she
said, because of his dissolute habits nnd
cruel treatment of ber. She would be com
paratively content if she could get enough
to keep her from starvation, but her hus
band would give her nothing, not even her
wearing apparel. She asked Sir. Donovon
to help her obtain n just share of the pro])
erty. The lawyer informed her that there
was no way in which she eonld do this ex
cept liy obtaining a divorce or legal separa
tion from her husband. It was with much
hesitation that she agreed to ask a separa
tion. SVhen the requisite document was
drawn up she was given n pen and told to
sign. She looked over the paper, her hand
trembled and tears came in her eyes. She
wrote her name, bnt with much effort, and
began sobbing violently.
Last Wednesday evening ns Sir. Donovon
was seated in his library nt home, a man of
medium height, whose hair, once blonde,
had almost changed to white, stopped at
his door. He said he was SInrtin H. Coan.
and wished Sir. Donovon to go down 1 ’town
nnd kind of fix np matters. Sir. Donovon
consented nnd went to his office. To his
surprise, on arriving there he fonnd Sirs.
Conn awaiting him there in company with a
friend. Coan said be was willing to assign
his wife a third of the property with all her
wearing apparel and trinkets. There ap
peared to be no reconciliation between the
old folks, yet Sirs. Coan expressed a wish
that too much should not be taken from her
husband. The assignments and quit-claim
deeds were drawn up and signed. Coan ap
peared uncomfortable and manifested some
emotion. His wife broke down completely.
They parted without even a good-bye.
SLAIN BY HIS FRIEND’S KNIFE.
A Singular Tragedy—'The Fatal Result of
Rough Joking,
New York Herald.
After taking several drinks together,
Thomas Foley and James Carten, two yonng
longshoremen, stopped on the sontheast
corner of Sixteenth street nnd Tenth ave
nue yesterday afternoon and begun knock-
inj> off each other's hats, jnst for fun. Five
minutes afterward Foley lay on the side
walk with a knife blade throngh his heart,
while above him bent Carten begging the
dead man to get np.
.1,.'
CRIMES OF A NEGRO BRUTE.
Lorn slid along
He Is Captured After a Week’s dulse—l*ar-
tlculars of Ills Crimes.
St. Louis, October 2.—Si King, the negro
mvisbei; who 1ms been pursued for a week
by a mob near New London, Mo., was cor
ralled in a corn field a few miles from that
town last night. He wns shot twice, bnt
not seriously injured. There is great
excitement in that locality, and it
is nut improbable that an attempt
will be made to lynch him. Friday,
September 25th, he outraged two
women—Miss Laura Jeffreys, of Fike
county, and Mrs. Harris, of Rails county,
in localities a few miles apart.' The out
rage on Miss Jeffreys was committed about
8 o'clock in the morning. King went to
the farm house occupied by E. Jeffreys
and family. In tho ham lot lie fonnd Miss
Lanra, a seventcen-year-old girl, milking a
cow. Te girl says he assaulted her without
saying a word. He found Mrs. Hnrris alone
in her farfn house, and cocked a pistol
a, her he ml, anil at tne same time demand
ing all the money in the honse. She plead
ed with him not to kill her, at the aame
time giving him a dollar and fifteen cents,
which was all the money she hail in the
house. He then, after beating her severely,
rendering her about half unconscious and
perfectly helpline, dragged her into an ad
joining room and outraged her.
An Enterprising, Reliable House.
Lamar, Rankin k Lamar eanalwaya be relied
upon, not only to carry la atock the beat of aveiy-
thing. but to serum the Agency for each articles aa
bate welt-known merit, and nr* popular, thereby
anstalning tbs reputation of being alwaya enter
prising. and aver reliable. Having aeeurrd the
Agepcy for the celebrated Dr. Klng'e New Dlacov-
ary for Conanmjrikm. wilt aetl It on a poalUva
guarantee. It wifi surely cum any and every affec
tion of Throat. Longs, and Cheat, and to Show our
confidence, wa Invito you |o call and gat a Trial
bottle fra*.
Thnt Foley’s death was caused by an acci
dent is believed by every one who saw the
occurrence. Carten, who is a mere boy in
.ranee, being only twenty-one years
ms been working all summer at odd
jobs along the river front. His dearest
friend wns Foley, who was twenty years
old and lived nt No. 408 West Sixteenth
street. Tho latter was employed by Peter
Graney, of No. 98 Tenth avenue, a coal
bolster.
The yotrng men were apparently on the
liest of terms np to the moment of Foley's
death. Neither had been at work yester
day when they met nbont noontime. In
company with another longshoreman named
Ellis they took several drinks and walked
down Tenth avenue to Sixteenth street
Here Foley jokingly trashed Carten off tlie
sidewalk and knocked his hat into the
gutter. Carten laughed and retaliated. The
two then grappled, and each tried Ilia best
to throw the other. They separated after a
moment and talked laughingly to one
another. Ellis borrowed Carton's knife for
a moment and then handed it back to him.
but Foley grabbed it,
“Give me my knife, "Carten demanded.
“If it's your knife why don't yon get It?”
naked Foley ns he tried to close it, but
Carten grasped the blade in his hand and
pulled it toward him.
Whnt happened nextno one except Carten
knows exactly, os Ellis had turned and
walked toward Tenth avenue. Carten says
that Foley twisted the knife so that the
point wns toward his (Foley’s) breast In
this position Carten wns afraid to retain his
hold on the blade for fear that it wonld cot
his hand. He, therefore, he snys, released
bis hold and atepped backward. Foley was
pulling the weapon townrd himself with
snch force thnt when his friend's grip was
relaxed the knife plnnged into bin left
breast With a groan he pressed his hand
to his side and exclaimed, “I am atabbed!"
Carten insisted on his friend opening his
coat and ahirt and tried himself to stanch
the blood with a wad of paper. As he was
doing this the wounded imin fell soaping to
the sidewalk. Policeman Daniel Hnllivan
rang for an ambulance from the New York
HospituL lint Foley was dead before it ar
rived. Cnrten was arrested and locked up
in the Twentieth street police station.
The dead man leaves a mother and several
little brothers anil sisters. His hotly was
removed to his home last evening, nnd ua-
til nearly midnight the street was filled with
sympathizing neighbors.
Carten, who goes under the nickname of
the Sun Dodger, because of his unwilling-
swuiu flew vv-, .vb in fill a unnlinlif will Isa fill alsv-
caution nnd discretion in order to appre
hend them at nil. The chief source of reve
nue derived by West Tennessee moonshi
ners comes from selling to storekeepers in
small towns, in denting until whom they
adopt such precautions thnt while the
storekeeper may lmvc an idea, he never
knows precisely with whom he is trading.
These moonshine stills are great resorts
for the men who dwell in the vicinity of
where they are located, and on Saturdays
nnd Sundays and other idle days dozens
congregate nronnd them and pass’ tho time
drinking, smoking, and telling stories.
While tho West Tennessee moonshiner is
fully as shiftless os his brother in the Ten
nessee Mountains, nbont whom so much
hns been written, he is not near na blood
thirsty, - probnbly becanse he has never been
hunted so persistently, having iieen allowed,
in a measure, to pursue his business unmo
lested by meddlesome officials. Hence,
while many a revenue officer hns dropped
from his horse dead at the crack of the
mountaineer moonshiner's ritte, there is bnt
one or two instances on record where officers
have been killed in West Tennessee.
Years ago when revenue officers hunted
the festive moonshiner in his lair, the method
of entrapping them was to induce some one
familiar with the country, generally a man
who had a grudge against the moonshiners
or some negro who wonld, for a considera
tion, agree to pilot the officers to the still.
Then n deputy marshnl went to the town
nearest tho point he wished to reach, and
summoning n posse started ont. In all of
thia it was necessary to preserve the utmost
secrecy, as the moonshiners invariably have
friends to warn them. Piloted by tlie guide
the officers would npproach until they could
see the smoke of the still curling above tho
tree tops, and then charg6 down. Some
times they were successful in capturing the
men, but generally these managed to es
cape. Tho officers always cut up the worm,
Ot Roverelgn Muter of a tlioi
Hut sovereign uioat wbe
deep
Drivi
08 f
To find aome radiance in the awful niaee—
Ol Muter, cau'at Thou doubt wh-—■ soul filial!
keeji.
Finn, faith with thine, where hearts hare ceaeoil
to weep.
And even are purged from griefe funereal ha/.o?
Tliy threescore years and ten are overpast.
Therefore, grown eager now, “thine Arthur"
watts,
A fair Immortal by the fodelen gates,
Uod’a hour long severed bonds of life to bind:
Fruition crowns all loyal souls ut hut.
Ahl lore In heaveu grle'
Beyl
i not *■* life behind!"
—Paul Hamilton liayne, iu tfje Indejieudent.
NEWS BITS.
A Fonr-pouilil Tootayr IVootsy.
Sulphur Well, in Hardin county, lias a
curiosity in the way of a baby nine uiontha
old, which weighs ouly four pounds.—Lou
isville Courier-Journal.
Arrested for Swearing.
Detective Brewer overheard a yonng man
using profane language. The detective haa
recently joined the church, and remember
ing thnt the bluo laws of acme 200 yean ago
were still extant, arrested the youth. The
fine in the case will be $1.50.—New Haven.
Special.
And All Democrats.
Mrs. Husnu Phillips recently died nt Wil
son's Creek, N. C., at the age of 96. She
had thirteen children, sixty-three grand
children and sixty great-grandchildren, most
of whom are males nnd nil of them Demo
crats.—Charleston (8. C.) Conrier.
Playing with Dynamite Cartridges.
Several children, while playing in tho
v burn of J. II. Naff, about a mile out from
chopped up the still, tore down the shanty, I Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday nfternon,
nnd poured out tho tunsh and whisky that found a number of dynamite cartridges
happened to be on hand. A raid’ on
moonshine distillery is always interesting
and exciting because fraught with so much
danger, one never knowing when a rifle ball
will tear its way throngh his body.
ARABIAN WOMEN.
Their VisibleTemleney to Flirtation—Habits
on tlie Streets.
Letter In the Ban FrancUco Chronicle.
The Arab women, scrupulously veiled
when in more crowded thoroughfares, nre
much in public. Sometimes the drapery
drawn about the face parts a little, if the
wearer is pretty and knows it, which is
rarely the case—that is, the beauty and not
the conscionsnesa of the fact. It may be
taken ns a rnle in all Mohammedan conn-
tries that tho more earnestly a woman tries
to conceal her face the more hideous her
ugliness, for it often happens in Cairo and
sometimes in Algiers that the accidental
falling of the veil reveals the unsightly
lineaments of n negress from the Soudan.
Most of the Arab wotnen of Algiers trip
along the streeta seemingly unconscious of
observation, carrying their little effects tied
np in a handkerchief, now nnd then stop
ping to inspect tlie shop windows or to pur
chase a pretzel of n street vender, for tho
Germans huve imposed their beer with their
indigestible concomitants on tho French
colonies, and not alwaya to their advantage.
Now anil then one, by the intentness of her
look through tho parted drapery,
suggests u difference of social
strata, or nt least a disposition
to a little harmless flirtation. The blend
ing of French and Algerian vico is not such
ns to delight tho moralist. There nre Moor
ish and Arab cocottes who drop the veil and
assume the garb and coquettish manners of
their Parisian sisters, nnd prove themselves
uo mean rivals either in personal charms or
the blnndishmonts thnt make vice attract
ive. These are, however, exceptional, for
the life of tho Arab hns not been such ns to
refine his features, which arc hereditarily
hard and strongly marked, into any of tho
•a which modem civilization recognizes
as'benutifal.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
hns postponed her cn-
t of trie terrible calatn-
—Christine Nilsson has
ingements on account
ty that attended her reception at Stock
holm
—Mme. dc Ktnel, who wns plain nnd quite
stont, once said: “I would give half my
knowledge for a few personal charms and
oonsider them cheaply bought.”
—It is lamented by the friends of Ade
laide Nilsson that no photograph or pop-
tifi t ever token or painted of her approaches
anywhere near doing jnstico to the original.
—The will of the late Chnuncoy Hnrllmt,
of Detroit, leaves 950,000 to the city author.
ities for the pnrjKise of improving nnd beau
tifying the public park and maintaining tho
public library. -
public library.
—Thomas Stevens, the eccentric indi
vidual who is making a tour of the world
an a bicycle, hns reached Persia. The na
tives regard his machine as something to be
fonght shy of.
—L. P. Morton, ex-minister to France,
intends to present the city of Newport with
land for a public park. Thu lot contains
between twelve and thirteen acres and is
known os the “Izard" lot.
—The French composer, Loo Delibes, is
at present in Gahcia, where he is collecting
national songs nnd melodics of the Poles
nnd ltuthenians with the intention of com
posing an opera npon a Slav theme.
—Lord Vivian, an advanced Church of
England man, recently discharged his en
tire yacht crew for not attending prayers.
Then tho crew sued him for a week's wages,
and a verdict in their favor was rendered.
ness to work in the sunlight, will be charg
ed at Jefferson Market this morning.
MOONSHINE WHISKY.
IIow It Is Made nml Solil anil t.uaranteed In
Went TrnnrtMiw.
Memphis Avalanche.
The “wild cat still is usually qnite a
primitive uffnir, consisting of n copper still
of small capacity, the necessary worms and
one or two barrels or hogsheads
ill i
in which is
kept the mash. The still is nsuaUy owned
and operated by one family, some male
member of which is nlwaya to he found at
the shed or cabin of brush and logs in which
it is located. The corn from which the
hisky is modi ia secured from the anr-
rounding fanners or raised by the owners,
nnd the liquor sold to sny one in the neigh
borhood who is willing to psy fifty cents a
gallon for it and keep mam. By reason of
this, enabling them to sec nre a fair quality
of whisky cheap, the moonshiner makes
frienda of all his neighbors, and aa a rnle
they are ever ready to warn him of impend
ing danger, and at the approach of an offi
cer or ever a suspicious looking stranger
sll evidences of the still are quickly remov
ed. This fact makes it an exceeding diffi
cult task to apprehend the violators of the
law, and it is necessary to nse the utmost
-M. Marani, tho French tenor, asked
the trilling sum of £400 for singing each
night at the Italian performances nt the
Paris Opera next winter, or £8,000 for
twenty nights. Ultimately, as a mark of
friendship, he reduced his terms to £0,000.
—A marriage of twin sisters to twin
brothers is reported from Meyera, Kentucky.
The brides are nineteen und the grooms
twenty-seven years. The brothers resem
ble each other in almost every respect,
while the sisters are jnat the opposite is the
case.
—Ex-Senator Woodbury, of Maine,
whose presence in Washington was recently
noted, was a colleague of Welwtor, Clay
and Calhoun. He is quite old, though not
yet entirely incapable, and allndes to the
time when he was in public life as a re
markable period.
—Algernon Hartoris, the hnsbnnd of Nel
lie Grant, has taken charge of his father's
estate in England and will reside among the
tenants. He met the tenantry for tho first
time week before Inst nnd won their good
grace, by singing a lovely sea song for their
entertainment.
Verdi, the composer, is sa generous aa
. taas g.
brilliant He has lx qncathed his villa.
Novo d’Arda, to be transformed into a hos
pital He bus given 16,900 francs to the
>r nt Bnssto, and in consequence of the
1 harvest, has taken off 10 per cent from
the rent of sll its tenants.
—"The divorce between Mme. and M.
Nicolas (Nicolini) has been legally pro
nounced,” says the London World, “and
nothing now stands in the way of tho great
tenor's nnion with the most celebrated so-
E rano of the day except the time prescribed
jr law, ten months after her divorce, which
will expire in May next”
hidden under the hay nnd were about to try
the effect of pounding with a hammer upon
tho deadly explosives, when somebody saw
and stopped them.
I’eculpir Ore*
A stratum of a very peculiar ore has been
discovered at Riohview, Illinois. A well
was being sunk on the premises of a Mr.
Kent, and the metal was discovered at a
depth of twenty-one feet. It resemblos
silver and load mixed, but is as hard as
steel. Further developments are anxiously
awaited.—Centrnlia, IU., Special.
A Queer Woy to Catch Squirrels.
There is an old mountaineer over in Co-
Humnes township who has a couple of
trained cats and a dop, with whose help tho
old fellow provides himself with a number
of gray squirrels every day. Ho takes them
all out with him in the woods, the dog trees
a squirrel and the cats cUmb up the tree and
chase tho squirrel down, and tho dog
catches it and brings it to his master.—Soil
Francisco Call.
A Snake Colled Around ft Lady *» Waist.
Mrs. Arabella Heiney, Martinvillo, Lan
caster comity, was seated npon the door
step engaged in sewing, when a large black
snake crawled into her lap unperceived. It
was not discovered until the lady attempted
to rise, wherepon it coiled itself around
her waist She screamed for help, and her
husband ran to her assistance, and through
their united efforts the snake was detached
and it immediately ran to the table and
coiled itself around one of the legs of tho
latter. Mr. Heiney procured his gun with
the intention of dispatching it, when it at-
t' n;|»t• 'I t ijf . Mr. II- in*1»\ a well
directed shot, lolled it. Upon measurement
it was ascertained to be over live feet in
length. Mrs. Heiney wns greatly pros
trated by the shock.—York (Pa.) Dispatch.
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