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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. 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