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HEMS FROM WASHINGTON COMMISSIONER THOMAN SENDS HIS BESIOHATION, Which U Promptly Accepted by the Presi dent— Decision In a Celeb rated Cotton Case—riie Bell Patent Cases— Appointments to Oillce. THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27,1885.—TWELVE PAGES. 11 WzsHlNOTOH, October 20.—Civil Service Comini- h ’ li 'i° nr ' r Tlioman lias tendered Iiih jjjjmmtion, and it lias been accepted by the President, to take effect November 1st next, the following is tbe correspondence on the subject; IMTSII Status Civil Branca Commimios, Wa«h- rviiio*. 1>. 0 , October 20. 1885—Bit: UespecUaU; ti.f.-mus to » oonvaraanon h»d with you aa early aa v.rch loth, In which I expressed a wish to he re lieved Of my duties aa a member of the United suite. Civil Service Commlaalon. and alto to the ap- isreot fact that It was not thou your pleasure to Loader my request, I now hare the honor to tender formally my resignation and earnestly to beg ineirlv eonslderatlon of the same sod Its accept- Ince ’While thus asking release from so honorable I trust l desire to reoord my gratlllcatiou In the 7,roved practicability and remarkable effectiveness J,f the reform procedure. Tried veterans In political warfare view with amazement the facile thtiuh rad i -al departure from the familiar methods of the i'ooll. system of distributing patronage. Strenuous and sincere argument and also deliberate perversion mark tbe opposition of different groups of Ita aa- tsoonlst*. and yet It must be concluded that a m>- ioritv of the political leaders In either party arc in accord with the Pendleton law, If Its origi nal enactment and emphatic Indorsement by a subsequent Congress were honest loflilative expressions and not coercion of moral cowardice bv popular sentiment nor partisan legerdemain. In the great task of administrative reform which von have undertaken In accordance with personal and party pledges, the people wlU give aid. It lias been my pleasure within tbe last two months to visit outte a number of States and Territories of Ibis Union, snd It was my good fortune to meet with many of their citizens. .It is gratifying to know that the people coutlde lu tbe unequivocal Intention of the President to sustain the merit system in the elvlt service. They bail condemned the evils of the former methods. Long experience lisa made this knowledge acenrsts and they welcomed the Inauguration of the new system. The dis era district of Arkansas; Monti II. Sanders, of Arkansas, for the Western district of Arkansas. United States marshals, Thomas Fletcher, of Arkansas, for the Eastern dis trict of Arkansas'John Carroll, of Arkan sas, for the Western district of Arkansas. THE MCHHOND PDBI40 llUILDINO. At the last session of Congress an nnpro- rintion of $100,000 was made for a custom iouse at Richmond, Va., and subsequently another appropriation was made for "a pub- lie building at Richmond, Va.” Tho ques tion arose at the Treasury Depart ment as to whether one or both of ’ the appropriations would lie utilized. The solicitor gave the opinion that the specific appropriation of $100,000 only could be expended on the custom house, which was overruled by Assistant Secretary Fairchild, who held that the amount of both appropriations conld bo ex pended, inasmuch as the last appropriation, $50,000, must have been intended for the custom house, as that is the only Federal building in Richmond. The Secretary sus tained the views of Mr. Fairchild, and the supervising architect lias accordingly pre pared plans for the building on the basis of the expenditure of $150,000. THE BULL PATENTS. The argument on the application of the Globe and Washington Telephone Compa nies to have the United States bring suit to vacate tbe Bell Telephone patents will be heard by tho Secretary of the Interior on the 31st. COTTON FIGURES USEFUL HOUSEHOLD HINTS. THE WAY TO PREPARE THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE. IIow to Hake the Family Purse Ilolit Out— Ilccclpts for Cakes, Custards, Jellies, Flew, Puddings, Pickles and Ollier Kitchen Work. parti*. loualy 11 Intimate. To thia they are faat succeeding, binl the Aisnlt will be a cordial approraL Tbe iu- leption Std maintenance of great reforma are with the people. I believe that tho fundamental Idea of civil service reform la a characteristic American thought. Tbe popular hesitation over tbe accept ance of the nutated details suggests merely a safe conservatism. In tho Initial stage, of thla reform tberewasarrsiiouBC thrdngbont the nation politic. Contcata s-slimed a new tone, the okhtime method of corruption was discouraged and boas lam was grappled with freeh vigor. The Improvement la yet maikwl. If tbe vlclotu elements atll! aeek ob trusion into election, the chances of their success hare been leaacnrd. The reform system Is a mili tant advance toward complete success. Corruption by official patronage baa been removed, with the j—a — “ . "* e p ower honors PH a of the fact that this reform does not trench upon sturdy rtissnshlp came late. It was sedu- ly maintained that the civil service was be dominated of men who should abjure certain rights of citizenship. With the grad ual but inoTiuble refutation of thia false view, the outlines of reform at last stood forth in clearness. It Is a reform' which views tbe civil service aa a vast business agency. 1U search Is for the best attaina ble merit in bnsluess which la not political it en forces no test of party. With confidentVuet tn the success of your ad- miniatmtlou, I am your obedient servant. Loot V. Thomas. To the Prrsldrnt Kxzcrnvz Mansion, Washington, P. C„ October at las.-,.—Hon. Linoi P. Thomas, Cult Slavics CcKinwwsa—lit Iltxn St* -. lh*ve received your letter tend, ring yonr resignation as a member of the Civil Service Commlaalon, which la In further ance of an Inclination expresed by yon very soon after my Inauguration as President The resigns- tt... thus tcudi red la hereby ace- pb 1. to Uke effect on the Unit of November next. I congratulate yon upon the fact that In the office which yon relinquish you have been able, by sincere and earnest work and by steady devotion to the canee which yon have had lu charge, to do so much In the Interest of guc * government and Improved political methods. You alucerely, Gaovzn ciivatASD. A CELEBRATED COTTON CASE. In the Supreme Court of the United States to-day Justice Blatchforil announced the decision of tho court in the caae in error from the Circuit Court for the southern district of Now York brought by G. Deroeae Lamar, executor of H. Lamar, deceaited, against Hugh McCoUoch, cx-Secrotary of tile Treasury, The action was originally brought in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in September, 1873, and was removed into tho Circuit Court of the United Statea by the defendant. The declaration waa framed to recover $150,280 aa the value of -178 bales of cotton known os tbe “Thomaa- \ die cotton” and $110,300 aa the valne of -120 other bales of cotton, known aa the ••Florida cotton.” Theauitwaa afterward discontinued aa to the Thomaaville cotton. The cotton in qneation waa aeizod in 1855 by special agent* of the Treasury Depart ment aa “captured or ubandoned" property, shipped to New York and sold. According to the letter of the apecial agent, it wa» owned by the “Exporting and Importing Company of Oeorgta" (President G. B. La mar),a company engaged in the sole business of blockade running, and holding said prop erty for the pnroose of aiding and abettl the rebellion. The court quotes tho act March 12, 1803, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint apecial agents to receive and collect all abandoned or cap- tun -I property in the States then in insur rection, and giving authority to any person claiming tohaye been the owner of any such captured or abandoned property to prefer his claim to the proceed* thereof in the Court of Claims at any time within two yean after the suppression of tho rebellion, it also quoted from the act of July 27, isos, declaring it to have been the true intent aud meaning of the act of March 12, 1853, that the remedy given in cases of seizure mode nnder aaid act by pre ferring claims in the Court of Claims should be t-xcluiive, precluding the owner of any property taken liy agents of the Treasury Department in virtoo of the act from suit at common law or any other mode of redress whatever before any court or tribunal other than said Court of Claim*. The court say* that it is manifest that the act of July 27, 1858, was intended to cover, and does cover, cases like the present. Whatever doubt there might have been before the act passed, there conld be none now, even though the property taken was private prop erty, if it was taken by an officer or agent of the United State* nniler tbe claim that it w as abandoned or captured property in the i..lministr*tion of the act of March 12, l- l, or in virtue thereof, or un der color thereof. The jurisdiction of every court bat the Court of Claim* is estopped when it is pleaded or alleged in ,1 feline that the property was taken by de fendant •* snob officer or agent in the *d- , - ■ itinn of the act or in virtue or nnder . olor thereof, aud that the fact U »u*taine; The Circuit Court hail instructed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, and Uu* judgiu nt the Supreme Court affirmed. AFFonmunrr* to officr. Fourth-class postmaster* appointed to day: In South Carolina, at E*»ty, Ambrose u. ib l-itis; in Georgia, at Macedonia, / II brook; in Tennessee, at Bridgeport! * k Brooks; at Fleetwood, William L. bi -tta; at Levisvillc, I’hmeantSUflmd: in Ik' T *t ri.il, Isaidi Thomas; atPe- tir-l urt iliss Mary E. Bradley; Oscar 8, 1 . - V. i Wilmington, N. C. Hoi , r d S M'' andhsli, of \ii m «, b s its l examiii- r in the pension of As Given by tho Commercial anti Fnancfal Chronicle or New York. Editors Telegraph: Will you be so kind as to give these few lines space in yonr col umns. I seek the truth anil would be glad if some cotton buyer or other person inter ested or posted in reference to cotton re ceipts and reports would be kind enough to explain the following seeming inaccuracies in the report given by the New York Chroni cle. October 9 the total receipts ore com pared with laat year as follows; iocelpta to date 627,333 Becelpta same time ism 630,939 Showing a dccroaao of 3,726 The next report (October 16, 1885,) gives the following statement: Net receipts at all port* October 16 230,707 Net receipts at all porta last year. 240,546 Showing a decrease of 9,839 These figures added to the decrease of the week previous would give a decrease of 13,565. But we are told that the total re ceipts to October 16, 1885 are 857,210 and same time last year 827,785, an increase of 29,425 hales. But these Chronicle figures do not stop lying here, but for the weok ending October 23,1885, we have the fol lowing startling report: Net receipts stall United Statea ports 261,214 Net receipts same week laat year 283,347 Showing a decrease of 22,133 These figures added to the decrease as compared with last week would make a de crease as compared with last year of 35,698 bales. But look at the Chronicle’s arithmetic: Total receipts to date 1,118,424 Total receipts urns date 188! 1,105,902 showing an increase of 12,522 bales. But the actual difference would be a decrease of 22,133 hales for the week and a total de crease of 35,698 boles. Hero is a discrepancy of 35,698 bales. In stead of the figures given by tho Chronicle of 1,118,424 bales for 1885 and 1,105,902 bales for 1884, we would have for the year 18851,082,726, a discrepancy really of 47,220 bales. We want some one to correct these errors, or explain away the seeming incon sistency, for all these falso reports, if they are really false, have a depressing influence upon the price of cotton. If, instead of be ing 12,522 hale < ahead of lastyoar, the re ceipt* are actually 35,698 hales behind the same date last year, the farmers and nil other classes interested in the price of cotton ought to know it. 1 remem ber the experiences of 1867. Wo were totd that year that the crop would go to 4,000,- 000 bales and some put the figures even higher. Cotton went down from 16 cents in September to something less than 10 cents in December. At no period during that fall did the receipts indicate such a crop as 4,000,000 bales, still the price continued to decline because a few interested in its de cline held out the idea of a very large crop. Faripers sold their cotton at great sacrifice, and when they had no more to sell cotton suddenly went up. In ninety day* the net advance in price was just 17 1-2 cents. I don't predict any such rise in the price of cotton this year, bnt I do say cotton is altogether too low, and there will certainly be an advance in prices. The world needs and conld use to advantage a 7,000,000 bale crop, bnt it will not lie made. Let us have all mistakes corrected and have true reports and a fair statement of facts. J. 8. Wimdisb, Macon, Ga., October 26,1885. The air of a slot-ping room should he con stantly renewed from without, yet it should not be icy cold. It is amazing to see in otherwise weU informed people the linger ing prejudice to night air, which makes them willing to breathe vitiated air all night long. Attention to the airing of beds and bedding cannot be too great, and it ought to be insisted upon in every house. The hurry to have rooms in order early causes beds to be made before they have been thoroughly permeated by air and sunlight, and gives that close, stuffy smell, which is a sure index of deficient cleanliness. Dur ing the night the body throws off, through the invisible pores of the skin, much im purity, and to mako up a bed while the mattress, sheets and blankets are still swel tering with animal heat is a thing no neat, intelligent housekeeper should over do un der any pressure of hurry. The rest of tho room can be dusted and set to rights, and the bed olothes spread over chairs with tvin- dows open till a late hour, and nobody will be hurt. When a bedroom is the common sitting or sewing apartment of a family, it should be thoroughly aired for half an hour before dark, everybody vacating it for the purpose, and again before the oceupanta retire. Hint* anil Recipes. Little waiters of polished brass or copper are used instead of silver. Finger-glasses of heavy out crystal are now used in preference to any others. Centro pieces of beautiful Venetian glass have a mirror at the base surrounded with flowers in Venetian glass-work. Celery is sometimes deceptive and not so tender us it looks, and in fact is too tough to be eaten; but do not throw it way. Chop it and put it into jars of tomato or cucum ber pickles. It wiU give a most excellent flavor. A fancy which has been seized upon by French ladies may be utilized by our coun try women who are deft with the needle. Before relegating to the rag-bag old em broidered muslin or lace curtains first cut away the delicatedesigns of flowers, what ever they may be, and use these as models in appliquo work for table scarfs, screens, cushions, etc. Nothing is easier than to embroider over the contour of the figures, either in silk or wool, a handsome "raised” effect being the result of the overwork. If fears are entertained that the pickle supply is not going to equal the demand mako some chopped pickle after this rule. It is appetizing, and wiU take the place of more expensive pickles: Chop two quarts of cabbage and two qnarts of celery, put them into a porcelain kettle, pour over them three quarts of vinegar, half an ounce each of crashed white ginger root and turmeric, one-quarter of a pound of white mustard seed, two tablespoonfnls of salt and five of sugar. Let this cook slowly until the cab bage is tender without being soft A very pleasing dish tor desert is made thus; l'eel six or eigiit pears; pnt them into a saucepan (after entting them up and re moving the cores) and cover with cold wa ter; when they begin to bo tender, add a little lump of butter anil sugar enough to sweeten to yonr tastes. If you cut the pears in halves or quarters only, when they are done brash them over with tho yelk of an egg and sprinkle powdered sugar over them, and arrnnge them in a fruit dish. Add half an ounce of gelatine to the syrup and let it aimmer for about five minutes, strain it over the pears and let the dish stand long enough before serving to be come perfectly cold and jelly-like. A pretty way to arrange hhinc mange is to mold it in smaU enps, then pnt a mold ot elly in tbe centre of a platter and place the llano mange around it. Hweetened cream shoul l be served with it. If chocolate, enough to flavor anil color the blanc mange hi added to half ot it, so that every other mold is brown. Tbe effect is pleasing. 8CONOR CAKE FRITTERS. SPECIAL DELIVERY PROBLEMS. The Font-office Department Puzzled Over Koine Unexpected Obstacle*. Washington Special. The apecial delivery system so recently inaugurated has not proved such a success as it* originators expected of it. Several problems have arisen which puzzlo the de partment In tho first place tho law au thorizing the service matte no provision for its support in cities where it did not sup port itself. The department found itself in many eases .powerless to carry ont its own advertised scheme. From many small towns where the full delivery system doe* not obtain the reports come tuat nobody conld be found to deliver the special letters for the money there was in them. As there were no regeiar carriers in such towns no way out of the difficulty was found until it was suggested by an Indian* postmaster that his assistant in the office be allowed to deliver snch letters and collect the revenue therefrom. The Post- office Department to-day decided that where snch assistants were hired by the pi Atmos ter this might lie done, bnt that no official appointed by the government conld be allowed to add to his salary in this way. Unless tho postmaster or his assist ant will undertake to run about town and deliver special letters in person fornotbing, there wiU bo u good many offices where the blockade will exist. In the opinion of legal officers the ernment is liable for any damage w may arise from the non-delivery of letters prepaid at the special rates, the same as ■ telegraph company is liable for the non delivery of a dispatch. The obligation on the put of the government is stronger, owing to the fact that it enters into a spe cial contract for the additional ten cents to deliver the letter immediately in certain specified cities. The department under stands thia and feels considerable embar rassment. Sir. tVatson's Funeral. Miixzrsianu.*, October 26.—Mr. G. E. Watson's funeral was preached yesterday at the residence of Mayor Walker at 11 o clock, by Rev. B. W. Bighorn, pastor of the Mcth- tins. Those in the shape of fluted shells are very pretty. MOLASSES COOKIES. One cup butter, two cups molasses, one teaspoonful ginger, sufficient flour to make n stiff batter, not dough. Mold, with the hands into small cakes and bake in n steady rather than quick oven, as they are apt to burn. TO BEMOVE UNPLEASANT ODOB8. Burnt coffee is the best disinfectant and it is very agreeable. For water closets, night chairs, etc., chloride of lime and even common lime should be used. Or sugar of lead, one ounce; nquafortis, one ounce; in nearly one quart of water. This is effectu al to cleanse utensils from bad odors. Or charcoal powder and camphor dissolved; the articles well rinsed with the composi tion. TO BEMOVE SMELL Or PAINT. Water neutralizes the smell of the paint. Vessels of water placed in a newly painted room will remove the smell, especially if impregnated with a little sulphuric acid. Or straw and hay well saturated with water. Or chloride of lime and water. beep soup. One pound of beef, two qnarts water, one cup rice or barley, salt to season. Put in a soup pot, let it boil slow and steady for two hours. In another vessel have a good soup bone, leek, parsley, one onion, a pota to, half a carrot, turnip; let it boil as long a* the meat. When ready to set the table, strain tbe soup off the hones and vegetables into the other; stir up when ready to put on the table; take two eggs, heat well in the soup tureen, and add the soup gradually so the eggs will not curdle. Always boil bones and vegetables, separate and strain them, and yoq will always have good as well as chap soup. EOMON MERINGUE PUDDINO. * One quart of milk, two cups of bread crumbs, four eggs, one-half cup of butter, one cup of white sugar, one large lemon, jnice and half the rind grated, soak the bread in the milk, add the beaten yelks with the butter and sngar rubbed to a cream, also the lemon. Bake in a battered dish until firm anil slightly brown. Draw to the door of the oven and cover with a meringue of the whites whipped to a froth, with three talilespoonfus of powdered sugar and n little lemon juice. Brown ve®,’ slightly, sift powdered sugar over it and eat cold. You may make an orange pad ding in the same way. CUP PLUM PUDDING. Take one cup each of raisins, currants, flour, bread crumbs, snet and sugar, stone and cut the raisins, wash nml dry the. cur rants, chop the suet, nnd mix all the above ingredients well together, then add two ounces of cut candied peel nnd ' citron, n little mixed spice, salt and ginger. Bay half a teaspoonful of each, stir in four well beaten eggs, and milk enough to muke the mixture so thnt the spoon will stand up right in it, tie it loosely in a cloth or pnt it in a mold, plunge it into boiling water, and boil for three and a half hours. FRENCH ROLLS. One pint of sweet milk, heated almost to a boiling point, half a cup of butter, one- third of a cup of sugar, one cup gf yeast. Stir the yeast and sugar into lnhe-wnrui milk, and with the tlonr make a light sponge. When it hat risen the first time knead tho butter into it; let rise again, cut into strips or round cakes, butler half the top and fold over. If made the night be fore they should he kneaded in the morn ing anil set to rise again an hour before noeded. Have a piping hot oven aud bake from fifteen to twenty minutes. DOUOHUUTS. Two’ cups of sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two cups of sugnr, one teosjioonful of melted butter, three eggs and flour suffi cient to roll; cut into any desired shape: fgy in boiling hot lard; skim out und drain on til dry. OfNOER COOKIES. The best ginger cookies thnt I ever tasted had in place ot the nsunl cap of water a cup of sweet milk. This gave a lightness to the ciikut thnt water cannot give. The formula for these is; Two cuj s of New Orleans mo lasses, one cup of sngar, one cup of sweet milk, half a cup of lard, one teaspoonful each of ginger nnd of soda, and half a tea- A MEXICAN HUSBAND’S CRIME. Jealousy ur III* Beautiful Wit'.- ln-ialt* in a Triple Tragedy. Laredo (Tex&sl Special, Particulars of a brutal murder yesterday of two beautiful Mexican ladies at a ranch sixteen miles from town were received to day. The crime was the most deliberate and cruel ever perpetrated on this border. Six months ago a wealth)' Mexican named Rumaldo Gomez, mamed a remarkably handsome senonta named Orozea Perez, who reigned the belle of Mexican society for over a hun dred miles. Tile memory of her many admirers and offers of marriago constantly rankled in the jealous bosom of Gomez and led him finally to become insanely suspi cious of everything his wife said or did. A few days ago Gomez left bis ranch, sajing he would never return. About 9 o'clock yesterday he suddenly returned and found his old grandmother lovingly combing his wife's long black tresses. As he en tered the room he courteously sainted the ladies, nnd asked them whether they loved him; they replied “No," whereupon he withdrew and appeared a moment later at nn open window with o Winchester rifle. He fired several times, killing first his wife, then the grandmother. His wife was about to become a mother, thus sacrificing three lives. Gomez fled to Mexico, where he wns arrested to-day aud was about to be surren dered to the American sheriff when it was discovered that he was a citizen of Mexico nnd he wns released under existing treaties, and is now at large. A VERY CLOSE CALL. Heavy clanging round ect, into Liberty Terrier Who Trletl to Stop Freight Engine. Pittsburg Chronicle. When locomotive comes the curve nt Eleventh street, street, a small, brown, smooth-skinned ter- ner invariably dashes out nnd barks furi ously at the iron monster. Not content with thnt the audacious little dog bites at the revolving wheels and runs springing backwards in the careless way a Dalma tian hound leaps before n horse, harking all the time. This morning n ponderous Fort Wayne engine was dragging round into the depot, a heavy freight train, and the dog leaving his muster, Mike Rosa, the Italian newsboy, ran out to gnm- bnl and gyrate within an inch or two of death. He bit at the wheels and the engi neer laughingly called to the dog: “Sick 'em.” Bnt there was very nearly an end to the little terrier. The wheel of the tender at which the dog bit somehow drew the lat ter in and whirled him round thrice before it threw him ten feet from the track. It was a close call, lint ten minutes later the foolhardy little canine was tempting Prov idence again, nnd the railroad men hanging round, were betting upon the risks the newsboy's dog persisted in taking. THE PUNSTERS' PENCIL. one tahlespoonfnl corn starch, wet up in cold milk; one-quarter pound currants, washed and dried. Pound the cakes fine and pour the cream over them. Stir in the corn starch. Cover for half an honr, then heat until cold. Add the yelks—light and strained—the whipped whites, then the entrants thickly dredged with flour. Beat ail haul together. Drop in spoonfuls into the boiling lord; fry quickly; drain npou a wanned sieve, nnd send to table hot ALMOND BREAD. A loaf of Vienna bread cut into slices, hut so as to have one connected with the other. Ponnd almonds with a little vanilla and spread between the slices. Torn the bread in milk to maintain the crust. Tie tbe slices together and turn tbe loaf in one egg. Fry on every side a few minutes in lard. Pour over the whole a custard. Beat an egg with a little milk. Put a little sngar into milk already on the stove. Add the egg, and remove as soon as custard boils. Reason with cinnamon. ALMOND JUMBLKS. One pound sugar; one-half ponnd floor; one-quarter pound butter; one teacup “kip pered" milk: five eaga; two teaspoonfuls water; three-quartera ponnd almonds. unded; one teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water. Cream Iratter and *i stir in the beaten yelks, the milk, the floor and the rose water, the almonds, lastly the beaten whites very lightly and qoickly. Drop in rings or round cakes upon battered paper, and bake immediately, You may substitute grated cocoanut, or tbe chopped kernels of white walnuts, for the almonds, in which case add a little salt RICH JUMBLKS. Rob to a cream a pound of butter and a pound of sngar; mix with it a ponnd and a half of flour; four eggs and a very little brandy; roll the cakes in powdered sugar; lay them on fiat, buttered tins, and bake in a quick oven. * spool Baltimore Sin, it to country ml Quir. i m l They both exceed thn ■•• - re aud tun, and have been personal friends for fifty year*. Carl Rosa lux resolved to prodne-* 4 an English version of Maillart's "Lea Dragon* de Villara,” orig inally produced at the Paris Opt ra Comi-jin; in l**'»i;. The cast U to include Marie Rose and Julia Gay lord. \ romantic marriage waa that of the pretty ac- treaa, Lilian Conway, eight or nine yean* ago, to Mr. Charles Cambios, a well-known Philadelphia ■tock broker. He frequented tho theatre where slut played, and finally aucceedid in coaxing her to taavo the stage to be hi* wife. Now, it i* rumored, she will once more appear before the footlights. Daniel Frohman write* to a friend that ModJe*k* waa inconsolable over the lo«a of tbe Siberian blood hound, which committed suicide m the railroad train near Easton, Peun„ and that through its death he waa comp* !!- .! to purchase another dog at Chi cago for llTfi. The owner of tbe dog that was killed haa been offered $100 for ita akin. Belle Boyd, the farnoua "Confederate Spy,” will ahortly take the atage, aud appear as "Daisy Brown” in “The Professor.” After the war ahe mar ried Lieut. Harding, of the Federal navy, and with him moved to Texan. Khe ha* two beautiful daugh ters, aud, by the death of her husband, she has been made responsible for their support. Mra. Bugera, tbe cattle queen of Texas, inherited from her first hi -band a herd of forty thousand cattle. Thu widow managed the business, aud in due time married a preacher twenty years younger thsu herself, who had seven children. Khe attends to her estate herself, ride* among the cowboys on horseback. snd esu tell just what a promising steer r cow is worth at any size or age. It is not geuerallv known that Ben Magiuley, the Tom Blossom" of "May Blossom," (and Georgia Cayvan's delightful old dad, in the play) is one of the best lone distance swimmers in the county. He repeatedly applied for permission to dive from Brooklyn bridge, aud has l»een repeatedly re fused, although his friends feel confident that ho could accomplish the fest successfully if he tried. Pstti hss accepted an offer of £480 a night for a series of ap)>earance* in Paris. Khe has also signed a contract with Gye, securing her £450 a night for the next London sea*ou. for an extended engage ment. Mr. Gye pleads the current depression in trade as a reason for lower receipts at tho theatres, and ways that his financial prospects, in view of thin condition of business, involve a reduction of tho price which he has heretofore paid Mine. Patti. General Schenck grows old. "I saw him yester day," says one, writing from Washington; "he seemed a thick, grizzled, grirajawed old man of seventy. Kchenck was always plctnresnely un couth. even in his prime. HU hay-colored hair, as wiry s* a Scotch terrier’s: his small, half-cloned, deep-net eyes and bulbous nose made him an un couth figure at best. He is only a reminiscence now, snd the fire of youth ban gone ont of the once sturdy frame. Old age han added seams and wrinkles to his homely features, and given him no grace to compensate for them.” For Ilroncliinl Asthmatic, and Pulmonary Complaints, "Brown’s Bronchial Troches" manifest remarkable curative properties. Sold on ly in boxes. Agents Wanted. We want nn agent for the Weekly Tele- oraph in every community in the South. We will make Ktieli Arrangement* as will enable any one to make money canvassing or us. Write for terms to ngentH. w-tf. DENTISTRY—DR. S. B. BARFIELD, TUTTS The marriage service allow sixteen wives —four better, tour worse, tour richer, four poorer. Ouch!—Evansville Arnos. Newark highwaymen prefer leatl pipe to a saml-bag when they rob their victims, 80 Joes a plumber.—New York Jonrnnl. Overheard in the park: Irishman:— Sure, an’ wouldn't wan o' tliiiu hear skins make a foine buffalo robe.”—Rambler. A New Jersey farmer has a tame mosquito that weighs six pounds. It is perfectly gentle and eats with the cata.—Tue Rum bier. It isn't considered in good form for a Ran Francisco engine company to turn out when a Chinaman’s house is on fire.—Boston Post. Ram Jones says he had rather his daugh ter would lie “rattlesnake-bit than societv- liit." The lattet i* the moat lingering death. —Hartford l'ost. One grain of wheat nt Pnget Round pro duced 966 kernels. This is more prolific in kernels than a Georgia political campaign. —Lowell Citizen. Two Chinamen killed a white man in Idaho and are now in jail. They will "go" just as soon ns the hoys get in from the mine. —Chicago Herald. An exchange heads one of its columns Men and Things." The women ought to 25 YEARS IN USE. melted, should be rubbed with the flour the same os the pie crust. hominy uurriN*. A tcacupful of boiling water poured npon two tablcspoonfuls of uncooked hominy. Rimmer fifteen minutes; add a cup and a half of boiling milk and a cupful of white Indinn or comment When eool add two well beaten egg*, two takleapoonfnl i of su gar, salt anil a lenspoouftil of baking pow der. Pour into the' muffin linns, whiehhave been previously heated and buttered, und hake fifteen mmntes. SALMON OBAT1NO. One coffee cup of cold lioiled salmon, half a cupful of cold drawn hotter, pepper and salt, tine bread crumbs. Pull the co’d salmon into flakes with a fork; mix with this tlie cold drawn butter, pepper and salt; fill with the mixture the little earthen dishes that come for cooking eggs sur f, plat, cover with fine bread crumbs and brown in the oven. TO MAKE A GOOD OTSTIR PIE. If the oyster cooks as long as the emst does they are overdone. If the pie is baked first and filled in afterward, then the blend ed richness of the oyster and noth r crust is lost To get the true flavor of tbe pie the thickened liquor should he put inside of the pie before it is baked. No amount of cooking will hurt the the oysten have been liquor before it is pnt blanckod and chopped 'small, bnt not * ot ® 0Te '[*‘l bowl, the upper crust - • jnj,, dissolved in °**y be lifted when the pie is done, nnd ot Kinger ana ot sotln, and hull a ten- rise in anna iu indignation at being called nful of wilt. Tbe loril, iiutcailof being by hucU a umue.—Evansville Argus. A silk blanket for a respectable New York poodle costa $10, What a pity it it that the owner of the poodle cannot go to a store and liny some brains.—Texas Riflings. Jay Gonld gave np whisky twenty-five years ago, since which time he kns made $50,000,000. Rome men sacrifice every thing for money.— Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. The man who finds it difficult to negotiate the loan ot n dime will not readily believe that $2,709,060 was put into circulation odist church. X- remains were then I ( tick, not larger than yonr little Anger, slip- turned over to the Masons, who then pro- ping it out carefully when the cake takes eaedad to perform their usual ceremonies ie grave. Mr. Watson had been in onr only a year or two, but had thus sariy confidence and esteem of all at the dty gamed the who knew him. Tbe young man who imprinted a respect ful kiss on the fair forehead of fail beat gill, t ild bis friend next day that be bad been i..nin .a bang-up time.—8omerriUeJo*m»l| Rix eggs; one pint of flour; two ounces meited batter; one and one-half enpu pow dered sngar; one cap milk; one teaspoonful nutmeg. Beat whites and yelks separately nnd very stiff, mb the sngar and batter to gether, and work in first the yelks, then the milk, then the flour and whites. Bake in well battered wafer or waffie-irona, rent quickly, browning aa little as possible. Roll them while hot upon a smooth, round ping it ont carefully wb thn right shape. These little cake* are an ileodditi acceptable addition to any tea or supper table, and look well among fancy cakes in a basket. ■NOW DBOFS. One cup of butter; two cups of sugar; whites of Sea eggs; one small cup of milk; three full cups prejured flour; flavor with vanilla and nutmeg. Baku in small, round they can be put in at the last minute, be fore senring, gttting their sufficient heating in the boiling liquor on their way to the table. Even better than lifting the crust is to lift “the rose,” the large ornament of pastry which fills the center of the upper crust, and put the oysters in the aperture. If this ornament is carefully put into the center of the upper crust before baking there will lie no difficulty in raising it from the pie. Mace, a few whole peppers and the came thickening of flour and Imtter that you may make drawn butter of, is pnt into the liquor when it fits, goes into the pie. By this means yon avoid tbe 'ough and almost tasteless filling of tbe dish usu ally served by that name. The Carolines Attalr. Madrid, October 23.—The populace an becoming incensed at the reticence of tin government respecting the negotiations oi the Carolines question, and fears of tn ont break sre entertained. The German lega tion is strongly guarded to prevent a repe tition of tbe recent outrage. ThrouaL Another Week, There is a Sodded loctlsatlea uoa the pat of the •thlLBom at the Wait (sir to have U eoottsned thrtmsh another week. Tbs axhlMton of cattle tad ^TaT^n".^^ _ leiseteJ la Uw matter to errant* to have the fair roottaaed thnmrU at leaet tr.ree Jay* of nett weelr. If they encceeil Joe announcement of the fact a ill The Greatest Medical Trinmph of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. 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Yes; and as in all other lotteries, there is always something rotten in connection with his drawing.—Norristown Herald. A Pagis letter says the rage in city at pres ent is “to be mamed at midnight.” The mania should be discouraged. When a young woman gets married she should have her eyes wide open, which is seldom the case st midnight.—Norristown Herald. Charley Chart reuse—Your question puz zles os. Yon tsk: "What is the proper coarse for a young man, who, while eating oysten in a saloon with a young bulr, suddenly find* that he haa a questionable oyster in bis month?" We sbonld say that the most expedient plan would be to coll the young tally’s attention to the ceiling, ami then extract tbe oyster and throw it at the waiter.—Rambler. ABOUT HIM AND HER. Valuable and Convenient. Bron’e BiunebUI Troche* ere a eefe end eon , eouks. tad otter trembles OoTl ooly la bozee. Price Elizabeth Cedy Ktautoa bis turned her eeven- tteih birthday. Mas o’Belly, the author, is coming to tbe Doited State#, to tenuis two yean. Lord Randolph Churchill la making lane pur ehaeee of high-tying hone*. ^ -Josh Billing*" won hi* hair long, not for liter ary affectation, bu. to bide e phyetoddefSet WWhlt*. Of the Kesneb ie now proprie tor of Tom Tbomb’e old home In CoosectkA William D. Howell#’ new collection of old po em# 1? arid to be abnoet ready for the pobltaker. Mra. Mat-hay will not Uva tn Pari* during tbe wtatar. se wm reported, tail will go to London for Mr. Langtry ta living quietly, near Belfast, on tbe annuity watch bin wife allow* him *o long a* be Mai’s away from her. The late Ear! of Bhafleatatry. who afterwards !r^-r.fhfii& u ^“‘ Padre Olacomo. t> whom before dylae tbe Cower favour addreeeed bin "Father, a free cksreb ta'S free St-died st Turin a few dgya since. Sarah .tithes Hi I Hharuo la atojylu for the 2T: ■» Ptattn. Is "The Me* chan I of Venice, tee ie to receive 14.0*0 /or a week's engagement m Ban Praadace. Col. 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