The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, December 29, 1885, Image 2

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I THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 2!), 1885.-TWELVE PAGES. TIIE TELEGRAPH, WRITERS OF FAMOUS HYMNS. ■rare dat n * be teas and wrxsx.t Triegraph and Messenger Publishing C<>., 91 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ox. The Daily la delivered by carrier! in the city or mailed poelag-e free to subscribers, (or $1 per mouth, 19.50 (or three montha, $5 (or all montha, or flOayear. Thu Voilt la mailed to anbacribeni, postage tree, at $1.25 a year and 70 conta (or air tuontba. Tranaleut advertisements will be taken (or the Dally at $1 per equate of to llneaor leaa (ortbe find Insertion, and 00 conta (or each aubaequent in anition, and (or the Weekly at $1 (or each Ineertion. Notice* otdcsfc, (anemia, marriagea and blrtha, $1. Rejected oominanicatlona «U1 not be returned. Oorreepoodence containing Important netra and diacuaaiona of tiring toplca la aollclted, but rnuat be brletand written upon but one aide of the paper to have attention. Remittance# abouldbeuade by expreaa, poatal note, money order or regtatered letter. Atlanta Bureau 17i; Peachtree etreet All communicationa ahould lie addreuacd to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, O*. Money orders, check a, etc., ahonld bo made paya ble to H. C. Hankox. Manaiter. Men and Women Wlioae 1.1 nes Have Bern Sung by Million*. Tlie Rov. Robert Lowry, formerly of Brooklyn, lias told a writer of the New York Star that he wroto “Shall Wo Gather at the lUver?" and how he happened to do it “It was on a ferociously hot afternoon in July, lHi'il, while lonnging in my study on Elliot place, Brooklyn, totally unqualified for mental work, tny’miud in a stnto border ing on dreamland, and with n delightful vision of country lifo ami flowing streams before me, that I suddenly roused myself and instantly recalled to mind that consid erable hail been written by hyronolo- gists regarding tbe ‘River of Heath.’ With my heart full of gratitude I at once resolved to write about tho ‘River of Life’ and tho goodness i id majesty of God. It required hut a re- :.iiantes to draft the entire hymn, making or.ly two or three cor rections, I thin!;. With my thoughts cen tered upon God and heaven, I sat down in the parlor at my organ, and sot tho linos to music that very day." This is tho histor" Esoi.and now occupies her favorite po sition. Russia and Austria are getting roody for war, and ahe is soiling the sup plies. Bays the Philadelphia Times: “Old as he is, Bismarck may yet learn that tbe cause of human rights advances in spite of pre mier or king." mnstc that very day. 1 tits is tue ntstory of a hymn that lias since been sting in all the churches anil Sunday-schools of Amer ica, imd ns the author himself has learned, in those ol China, Bnrmah, Hindcostan, and finite recently in Japan. Hr. Lowry now lives in retirement at Plainfield, N. J., enjoying a well-deserved reposo after an exceedingly busy life. Ho preaches but little, devoting most of bis time at his orgnn retting hymns to mnsio. Joseph Itopkinson, the author of “Hail, Columbia!" died in Philadelphia in 1812. The song upon which his fame chiefly rests, although lie wns distinguished for many other intellectual achievements, was writ ten, almost impromptu, for a young actor ; impromptu, named Fox, who was attached to a Phila- It used to be said that "all good Ameri cans go to Paris when they die.” Nowa days Americans, good or bad, go to Paris if only dogbitten. An exchange says: ‘-The Mikado of Japan novel wears a garment that has been washed.” And in this respect the “col ored brethren" largely follow the example ot the Mikado. Tun heirs anl administrators of General Toombs should get out an inj unction against certain newspaper scribblera who .still as sault his memory with manufactured remin iscences in wretched English. Tun voters ot Boston have decided that t!u* sex which hears and trains children idut'i have no part in the supervision of their school education. It is a wrong deci sion, nevertheless, thinks the Boston Her ald. Tun great lnjnstico inflicted upon Fitz John Porter and left unattoned for through twenty years, was acrimo worse than the as- saradnation of Lincoln or Garfield. Those wore the victims of two cranks. Porter is tlie victim of a nation. It is not too late to lilt the odium from his name, but who will give him bock the happlnoai which right fully belonged to his wasted years? Says the SL Louis Republican : “Fitz- John Porter is now an old man, worn out prematurely by the terrible ordeal ot twen ty-three years, an ordeal that would have crashed long ago a soul leas innocent, a spirit less courageous. Must he die without obtaining that poor measure of atonement now possiblo? Must the nation whose fame hi# valor has brightened, and in whose battles he has shed his blood, bear forever the ineffable shame of the wrong inflicted upon him ? It is for Congress to say, and delay is dangerous." hhreda and Hatches- Tho Hcrvfens hero encuAtcd PI rut, sad Milan can no longer slag, “lam a Flint King."—Pi Ita lian! Chronicle. Mr. tleorge W, Cabin would alrvngthi-n hi# doubt- ful rlaim# to posterity by abutting tils mouth.— Montgomery Dispatch. At teat Mr. Morrison can congntulsta hlmaclf that ha la tbs author ot aoinething that wuin't de feated.—Baltimore American. The girl who won't dirt with anybody may not ham so good a time, bulubs will get along better later on.— Philadelphia Times. "A ebatr of matrimony Is talked of at Vaasar College." Of courts It will be a big rocking-chair ■lioug enough to hold two.-Gtapalc. Paso Wanna has failed as a book-keeper, and now employed as galley-boy la the printing ofllce at slag Stag prison. He it seems that the prison au thorium have coma to the conclnsion which Ward' victims reached long ego-tlialPent Ward is more ot e devil tqaa anything else.—Chicago Telegram. A woman ea in disguise and waa Seeing from aooi'- crime ahe had committed. She waa traveling la a stage coach sad stopped at a country tan. Tha trseuleia alighted tad tha supposed loan got oat with tha others. AU went to the wash shelf at the end of the porch. A man was anting leaning attsinat the post of the porch, lie was watching the woman la disguise na she washed bar face sod bands sad when tha waa dose ha at oaea arrested Iter, lie discorersd her sox by her manner of ap- plying tho water la washing bee fees. All men rub up and down and snort AU women apply Iho wa ter and stroke gently downward.—Chicago Trlbunm To Muggeat a Smile. “You’re eaten next to nothing,” lisped Smitliera, who was dining with his Thanks giving girl. “Oh, I always do that when I ait by yon," responded tbe yonng lady, pleasantly.—8am. “Yon dear thing," ah* said, gushingly, “how handsome your bonnet does look. I’m sure it locks au well as it did lsst win ter.” Only a vuuaj could say thing like this and say them so essy.—Rockland Con ner Gazette. A student of the Dime Novel—“Come, now, llertie, Idas your little sinter and make up with her," said mamma to her ten-year- old boy. “What! the Pawnee chief bow low to pale-face Cry Baby! Mother, yon ask too mneh." “How old are you?" asked a justice of tho peace of “Jim” Webster, who wax under ar rest tor stealing chickens. “I dnnno," said the darkey. “When were yon bom?" "What am d* rue ob my tellin’ you ’bout my bnff- day; yon ain't gwine ter make me no buff. delphia theatre, and was about to receive the compliment of a benefit. “I had known him when he was nt school," once said the author, speaking of the circninstanoe, and on this acquaintance he called on i» on Saturday afternoon, his benefit being, announced for tho following Mon day. He told me that he believed the suc cess of his benefit depended on his secur ing some patriotic song adapted to the ‘President’s March' that jwottid aronse the national spirit; there being nt that time (171)8) a prospect of war between France and America. 1 told him that I would try for him. Tlio next day (Sunday) I did try, and in an honr or so I wrote the song, anil the following morning I gave it to Fox. He hmumod it over and said he felt cer tain that it would be n success. The theatre waa fearfully crowded, and I attended, nt Fox’s request, to see uty song ‘carried by storm,’ ns he expressed it. Of conrse, 1 was somewhat nervous as the part of the pro- ;ramme eanio where it was to be produced. Its instantaneous sncct'sa and tho great en thusiasm it created was an astonishment to me, uml I sat in my seat bew ildered as en core after encore was responded to by the happy Fox." It is of Samuel Francis Smith, author of tho words of onr national anthem. “My Country ’Tla of Thee,” that Oliver Wendell Holmes sings in his poem “The Boys"— "Ami there's a ales fellow of excellent pith. Fate tried to conceal hint Ity naming him Smith, But he shouted a song (or tbe brave and the free. Just read on his ntedal, ‘My Country of Thee.* " Hr. Smith still resides at Newton Center, Moss., which place he has mode his home for sevorul years. The author is seventy- seven years of age, though in appearance he resembles a much younger man. He has a large fall head of hair, with puffs around the ears; it pair of keen, gray eyes and a beard that is almost entirely white. He baa given np all literary work, with the ex ception of conducting the large correspon dence which comes to him. Mrs. Annie Sherwood Hawks, the author ot the widely snng hymn, “I Need Thee Ev ery Hour,” resides in a modest brick house on fit Mark’s avenue in Brooklyn. She is a middle-aged lady, has a strong motherly face, and her dark brown eyes sparkle when engaged in animated conversation. Mrs. Hawks wrote the hymn which has gained inch popularity iu Jane, 1872, but thought so little of its merit that ahe filed it away in an old portfolio, where it remained until one evening, when Rev. Robert Lowry, referred to altove aa the author of Shall we Gather at tbe River?’ learned of its existence daring i visit at the honse of Mrs. Hawks. “Let me read it,” said the doctor. His reqnest wm granted, and he immediately recog nized its superior merit. After earnest so licitation permission waa granted by the sten Thott in marriago to her favorite, Jeppe Mnns, son of a rich burgher. The indignant brido, who was betrothed to an other, presented her husband with a gold ring, in which vas encrusted a copper nail, with this inscription: “Flourish, copjter nail, thon licet in gold." Qncen Margaret counted not on the vengeance of the bride's betrothed, Uolger Mtink, the Lord of Holler, who, to the rage of the Queen, picked a quarrel with the bridegroom, killed him and married his widow the next day. The marriage of Duke John, (brother of Erik XIV., King of Sweden,) to tlio Prin ccss Catherine, (sister of King Bigismund XL, of Poland,) in 1562, give great offense to Erik, who subjected the royal pair to terrible sufferings. When tlio dnke was cast isto prison his wife bad the choice of living in one of the king's palaces, or, if she wished to accompany her husband, she was only allowed ‘two maids with her in prison. When Catherine heard this she exclaimed that “she would rathor die than bo separated from the dnke," and frinted away. When she was restored Goran, the messenger of King Erik, asked her what she had determined. The Duchess drew her betrothal ring from her finger, and said: ‘ ‘Read what stands there. ” Goran saw the words engraved within it, “Nemo nisi mors,"(none bat death.) “I will remain by it,” said Catharine, and she did so. At the marriage of Napoleon I with the Austrian Archduchess, upon receiving the benediction ring, he asked, “Why did not the Empress Josephine give me a ring?" The reply was, “Because, sire, it is the cus tom of France that only the bridegroom gives the ring.” “Ah!" said Napoleon, “that ia good," ttnd whispered in M. Pradt’a ear, “but do yon know why the women re ceive the ring? It is a custom founded on tho Roman law, which ordained that all slaves should wear rings, and, as the women are our slaves, they onght to wear this badge of servitude.” AT HER MERCY. A Woman’s Istugli That Subdue* a Frisky 11 unhand. A Lewiston (Me.)business man's wife has been nwny on a visit to the old home in an other city, Bays the Journal. He has lived during ltt r absence ostensibly at home, hut renlly lias been living on itorterhouse steaks nt the hotel, and had just been elected pre sident of it new whist club, iu which ho had a voting, red-cheeked girl for a partner, and while, of course, he deeply regretted the en forced absence of his own dear wifo, he was managing to got along withont pining away rapidly. Tho other night lie and his roseate partner had just swept the board. They imd had n thirteen-trick hand, and the rest of the table was nowhere. The Lewiston man went home at 10:30. Things looked just the same. He composed himself to write his customary letter, be ginning: “It is now 8:30 o’clock. A SUCK ONE. The Young Hotter who Played the Heal Mute ltode In a Chicago House. St Louis Republican. Adolph A. Ploy, the Blick young Hebrew who successfully duped the clothing firm of A. L. Singer A Co., of Chicago, for three months by representing himself ns deaf and dumb and then wound np his en gagement by currying off nearly $1,000 worth tt clothing, left last night for the scene of his triumphs accompanied by Mr. Mann, a member of the firm. The prisoner appeared ns gay as the flowers in spring. In conversation with a Republican reporter he said: “They can’t say I wasn’t deaf nnd dumb up there, for I was. You see I found I could get work more success fully by representing myself in that condi tion. I learned the deaf and dumb alpha bet, nnd when I could talk I joined a deaf and dumb society. But I tell you I had to be carefnb People that don't hear and talk can see a long way. I was con sidered a phenomenal mnte on account of my musical abilities, nnd they pondered nnd wondered how my mate education had been neglected in ouo way, and what re markable progress it luade in another di rection. I used to play the piano, accori deon,zither and flirt with the feraalo mutes. Kingert complained for the first time of trouble in the throat. The nose nnd cheeks were growing more and more discolored. Poison was spreading through the patient's blood ittfd Dr. Boskowitz thon recognized symptoms of malignant diphtheria. Ho gave the patient brandy us fast as he could swallow it and administered powerful stim ulants hypodermically, hoping to prolong tho patient's life' until the throat difficulty could bo ai tacked. But in less than eight hours after the first symptoms -of diphthe ria, Dr. Kingert was dead. Two minutes afterwards, lie looked os if he had been a corpse for u fortnight. BisMABcKhttA Jn hand a big scheme of colonization in Brazil. YELLOW BEAU’S OB8EQUIES. Eion-rv-srx college graduates enlisted in the signal service lost year. It is the Grand Island, Neb., Times that goes into mourning for Vanderbilt. .Pac is to be the gayest place on the con tinent of Europe for the next few months. . The latest fashionable notion in Boston is linguistic,and everybody is studying Ital- An Indian Funeral Which !• to Lout Several Daya. IUrrold, (Tex**)—Special. The remains of Yellow Bear, the Coman- RRHflP I have I che chief, who waa asphyxiated in his jnst conic in from rnv work on the books. I room in the Pickwick Hotel, Fort Worth, am awfully tired, dear, and ntisa you so I arrived on Thursday evenings train in much. I don't want to hurry you home, | charge of Chief Qniinnh Parker, who was and I want you to stay ns long os you feel | with him at the time of his (loam, and iiur- Fern fourteen years the * names of tbe tort Wayne postmasters ltavo begun with Hamm, Kell and Kaough. A BEAL Japanese baby, 6 months old. is the quaint dot that catches the feminine eve nt the Japanese Village in London. A walnut tree like it this time, for I shall not want to let rowly escaped the same fate. The nows of you leave mo again,” etc. Yellow Bear's death had preceded the arri- He finished tho letter and stamped nnd vnl of the body by a special courier, as directed it, and then took a look at the Chief Qnanah desired that the head men of star-lit evening uud, thinking he would the tribe should meet him that ho might finish his cigar (he never used to smoke in explain the causes leading to the death, the house,) walked out to the comer, lest the tribe should think Yellow Bear When be got hack he heard n rustle in tho 1 had been murdered, dining-room and looked in. The light had About a hundred bucks and some fifty- been moved. There was n head bending squaws met the body here. The sqnnws over tho light. His wife’s smiling face were all slashed and cut about the neck and looked np out of the radiance beneath the face, presenting a horrible sight as the dry shade and greeted him. She was reading blood stood ont in welts on their persons, the letter. His heart dropped down his This is their way of mourning. Tho In- trousers leg. He felt like death. “I’m ditins set up a mournful wail ns tho train rending charming letter from yon," said approached, which was kept up while the site. “So kind of you! It sounds like body was being lifted from the csrs nnd those you used to write before we were placed in a wagon. Then they immediately married." The lady read it through and I departed northward for their reservation, it then rend it aloud. being contrary to Indian law to perform fu- "if she'd only a’got mad I'd been all neral rites in the habitation of Grangers, right," said the Lowiston man Tuesday, They left town marching iu single file and “but she didn't; she laughed. Every one heating their tom-toms in mournful cadence of my yams twisted her np and she lntighed to the chanting squawB. The camp of Chief nntil it made me sick. I never got snch a Qunnah was reached some time last night roast, nnd the worst of it is I have lost all of nnd tho funeral ceremonies began to-day in inv reputation for veracity. If I say I'm legal style. They will continue several go’ing to the lodge she lets out one of them ‘fays- The programme for the funeral is toughs and I stay at homo. If 1 say I have about as follows: The friends snd relatives been making up a trial balance at the office I °f Yellow Bear are all notified to meet nt and it kept mu late, she draws that laugh | the camp, where the most awful ceremonies on ino nnd I wilt. It's terrible. I feel I imaginable are practiced. AU those squaws meaner every day. If it keeps on I’ll have I who have not slashed their faces and bodies to fix it up with a sealskin cloak. It’s my j are required to do so in the presence of the Inst resort, but if this thing keeps up and assembled tribe. While this is going on worse cutties to worse, I’ll have to stop tak- tlio entire tribe move abont nttering pitiful ing degrees and ante on tho sealskin. wails. I The bncks then gather in a great circle A COIL OF LEAD PIPE. | and dance the death danceto the mnsio of slow-beating kettle-drums. Certain wor- . It. S. - purchased in Straley county, V V a., for $250, was cot into four logs and sold in New York for Jl.usi. One ranchman in Southern Kansas lost blH) cattle lately by a prnirio fire, nnd others suffered losses almost as serious. The number of sheep received at the t hicngo stockyards last week wns 30 377 with one exception tho Inrgtst number on rocord. A donkey at Hagen, Prussia, haring be- como short sighted,has been famished with n pair of eyeglasses. This jirnctico was not uncommon in Denmark whore horses were put in spectacles nnd driven over roads strewn with pebblts so os to give them a lofty got. Some one ban discovered a enre for sleep lessness. Just before retiring let the sleep- lea ono run up stairs two or three times, ns fast as possible, until ho : s thoroughly winded; Hint will start tho blood from bis brain and, in the words of tho preacriber he will sleep “sure." In Wisconsin the validity, of n will was questioned because the testator could not rend the languago in which it was written, ho being a German nnd tliu document in English, nnd the question being taken be fore the Supremo Court of the Si it--, whilH was absolutely withont a' precedent to ap- ; real to, decided on general principles in :’avor of tho validity, as any other decision would invalidate tliu wills made by persons nnnble to read orblinil. I conldn't live on $5 persuaded, accompanied the other two. _ Tho nersonnl nrnnertv of tbe late Ft nsed to talk a little just to ease the ten aion." "What induced yon to steal the cloth ing?" “A desire to live, week." "Going to plead gnilty ?’’ “I don't know yet. I am going back without a fight.” Mr. Mann arrived in the city yesterday morning and was much astonished when he confronted Plev iu the hold over at tbe Four Courts. The sound of the prisoner's voice had the effect of an eleotrio shock on him, nnd he could hardly realize that tho man before him had successfully person ated the character of a mnte for more than three montha. He had a long talk with the prisoner who signified his willingness to waive all formalities and go book to Chicago at once. Mr. Mnnn Haiti: Tie one of the strangest things I ever heard of. That fellow worked for three montha in nn office with ten men arid waa day present" Tub bnrial of a (dative in Timor is a very serious and expensive bmdneaa. It in volves a gift to the deceased from all of hia blood relative*, and, in return, a bnrial teas*. If the deceased ia a man of rank thin toast I* a matter very often of rain to his family. Tha festivity must be given, and at the same time the hospitality is expected to 1st extraordinarily lavish. Consequently it often happens that tha day of the funeral i" indefinitely postponed for montha, and even for yean, nntil the family has had • : 'ie to accumulate anffieient wealth of cat tle and substance. In the meantime the corpse is inclosed in matting and boused, eilber in a tree or a bat. sndleft tolMf! Than for days there is a savage banqueting end w-rrlmg, and the interment at last is carried out. author to embody it in Dr. Lowry's volnmc of hymns, “The Koval Diadem,” then abont to be published. The tnecesa of the hymn was instantaneous, audit waa translated into the Hpanish, German and Italian lan guages. Several years ago, at a notable festival in the Vatican at Rome, it was snng in the presence of the Fope with great effect. In a modest bonne in the town of Rich mond, IIL, Uvea Dr. 8. Fillmore Bennett, the author of “The Hweet By nnd By." This favorite hymn wan srritten by Dr. Bennett at Klkhorn, Wis., in the year 1868. The writing ot the words was based upon a mere remark made by Mr. J. P. Webster, who composed the tannic. Mr. Webster waa of tin exceedingly nervous and ttensi- tire nature, and auhject to periods of ter rible depression. In one of bis melan choly moods, dropping in at the home of Dr. Beunutt, the latter nuked him: “What ia the matter now?” “Ob, it ia no mat ter," replied the despondent man; “it will be all right by and by." The three last words instantly convoyed a suggestion to Dr. Bennett, “and the ides o( the hymn came to me like a Bull of sunlight." Turn ing to hia daak, be penned the words wbicb have since become so famous, as fast as be conld write. "I think It did not take me more than thirty minntea to write tho hymn," writes Dr. Bennett A friend, hap pening to drop in at the moment of its con. elusion, read over the lines, and immedi ately ottered the prediction “That hymn is immortal.” It was first published in a hymn book called “The Brgnet Ring,” in 1868, since when It has been included in Innumerable hymn books, and been circu lated snd snng “in avsry land nnder the ■nn,” as has been very truly said of it Fannie Crosby, tha blind bymnoiogiat. Liras in a poorly furniaeed home in Forsyth street New York. Miss Crosby is wholly blind, and accomplishes such work aa she still performs by the aid of a younger sister. Hhe is said to bava written upward ot 1,500 hymns, many of which have been achieved grert prominence, and have been sung in •Sunday-school* in every part of the world. Eliza Cook, author of “The Old Arm Chair,” still reside* in London, at the age of sixty- seven, scarcely ever beard of. The Story of it Gambler Who Bet on the ri org selected for tho occasion will then Chances or Life and Heath. step forward, and in the presence of the Philadelphia Preai. I covered body King songs recounting the Tho passion of betting takes preced-1 valorous deeds of Yellow Bear, praising his ence of everything with some men. No friendship and his virtues, if he had any. opportunity to make a wager to ever permit-1 At the conclnsion of each song the squaws ted to go by. Illustrative of this n good I move abont in a groat-circle, holding tb«m- atory is told of n New York gambler, who I selves in recumbent attitudes, and wailing waa in the habit of getting drunk occasion- n* though their heurts were breaking, ally, and, when in that condition, was not I Those bucks who are nearly related to Yel- nt * all particular as to his associates. One low Bear will then assemble and cat nnd night, before the Brooklyn Bridge wus I slush their bodies in the most inhuman built, he full in with two professional [ fashion, cracksmen in a saloon near the old Fulton Ferry, nnd the three drunk heavily. To- What were his dnties?" 'Addressing envelopes. We really tlidn’l have a place for him. He ctuno to me one day ana wrote on a slip of paper that ha waa deaf and dumb uud in destitute circum stances and willing to work for any kind of salary, llewroto well and farther stated hatt he conld read and write German and French, besides English. We have a great deal of correspondence and I thought we could utilize him in the office some way. He waa mt to work addressing envelopes and did tls work qnickly and well. Whatever con versations he bail with anyone in the office or building was carried on through the medimnship of a pencil and paper. He never attempted to speak, except give vent to a series ot gibbering sounds that increased onr sympathy for lim. lie never appeared to be influenced >y any of the conversations carried on bout him and was quits a favorite with the employes. A few weeks ago be conveyed tho intelligence to me that the Deaf and Dumb society, of which he waa a member, intended to give him a benefit in a abort time and exhibited tbe tickets. They were one doLareach, and I thought I was doin; onset ot charity when I purchased five oi! them. He wrote ont his thanks and I sug gested that he canvass tbe store, which he did, and I believe be received abont fifty dollars. I believe now that the scheme was a,trend, and that be belonged to no Deaf and Dnmb society, bnt got the tickets print ed and began collecting.” “How did be steal all tbe clothing?" “That's what puzzles me. He worked in the office and when he came I gave him the wit of clothes he is now warning. He moat' have stolen them a suit at a time and carried them off when he went to hia meals and in the evening. “He nsed go to ont with some of the boys and drink, bnt in his most intoxicated moments be never did anything to reveal his true character. He told me doarn there that if he had got a fair salary he wonldn't have stolen, bat that is no excuse for his conduct. He obtained the work nnder false pretenses and waa paid aa ranch oh others received for the same kind of work." PERSONAL. wards midnight it wns proposed to make a -Ex-Senator Tnbor ordinarily wears jew trip to Brooklyn, and the gambler, easily c lry that is said to be worth $30,000. side while tie burglars entered, lie did l , -Ea .'£“ B< S >th . in Boston to- so and they returned in a few momenta «J. * ,lh * ho Boston Museum Company disgusted. The house was unoccupied I “ ,H *"PP°ri. and nothing had been found except a coil —Connty Treasurer Burke, of Cars conn, of soft lend pipe. Determined not to go back I ty, Dakota, is tbe father ot a twenty-nine- empty-handed, one of tbe burglars wrapped 1 pound pnir of twins, tho pipo around his waist and bnttoned hia —Miss Cleveland ga e $25 toward the fund coat over it. When the party arrived at f or a children's dinner, given nt Washing- the ferry entrance they found a boat ju»t | ton Chrutnias Eve hU^fcn^M^ iwrf Jfate ^ -Infant Elliot, of Harvard, at a fate mn with th^ fal?l pipT ^Se lwl' W “ U " ^ jumped and fell into the water. Immediate- vote <L £or hi & „ y there wm great consternation and tbe I , —Horace (Ireely Ik the name of a leading boat wa» stopped. citizen in Kumtervillc, Fla. He is a nephew “Throw him a line!” was »houted. “Get of the great and original, a life preserver!" "Heave a block over-1 —Clara Louise Kellogg will visit Waih to all appearance* just what he represented hoard!” | ington in January ns the gacst of Mrs. himself to be, deaf and dumb,” Then the smart man-there is one in I Charles L. Mitchell, of that city. ererv crowd-stepped forward and remarked -They say that Senator Evarta writes O0 ?3a : , „ . ., — , . his best speeches ont in full and commits ‘ That U be all right. There s no hurry. Urem to memory before delivery. he drowns '*° ° 0me " P *"“* b * f0r ° - Young Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tich ^tantiy the gambler's right bund went baT^to^ tat “I'll bet yon a hundred doilare he don't." I * e * T ' And be didn’t. Tbe gambler wo* betting on a dead sure thing. AMUSING WAR INCIDENT. —Governor Fitzhugh Lee has declined to accept * carriage and harness which his Virginia friends projmeed to present to him on New Year's day. —Chang, the Chinese giant, is learning to skate on roller skates. The papers say ho ia a startling sight to see when he gets PATCHWORK. fatdoiisdoli.jbttobaiaand bite. For'tla their nature <o; But boys and gtrla should seek In flight Green flc.de and pastures new. Last Maa and Lost Ditch—T ewksbnry nnd Guard From Djemal Swamp, Con—i"-o4enc# Cincinnati Enquirer. , , . - . During the war tho “Ust man" and “Uat •*•"*** . ditch" were common phraHon, nnd, atrange — . *”£5*°* Belgian consul as it may seem, they were located at tho end I K® ner »l at ' teuna, was horned to death of the war. On fourth of Jnly morning, ?. h ? rt ?“*.• »«.°- , h , aT1,l K (fme to steep with 1866, fifteen months after Lee surrendered, ''Bhted cigar fat Ida mouth, the secretary of war. who had planned a I —Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, wife of the New fishing excursion to the falls of the Potomar, I York editor and Congressmuu, presented received a telegram from the provost I overcoats, shawls, toys a»d candies to over marshal at Richmond, Virginia, stating I 300 poor boy* and girls in that city Christ- that a sqna-1 of Confederate soldiers maa Day. were at hi* office ready to deliver np their —Hi-ury Larkin,who was for ten years the anna and be amnested. Knowing 1 assistant ot the late Thomas Carlyle in his that joking ot that description would tub-1 literary work, ia about to publish a volume ject the perpetrator to couitamartial, be I entitled “Carlyle and the Open Secret of made a bee-line for the White Ilonae to con-1 Hia Life." The book is expected to throw ■nit President Johnson, which resulted iu * I a great deal of additional light on Carlyle's telegram to the provost marshal: “Who I character and his relations with his fellow- are they and where did they come from?" men. Tbe answer • -a direct to the point: “8er-1 — Elihu Voider, the artist, while teaching geant Tewksbury and guard from Dismal I hi* son how to fly s kite in Route, walked Hwamp. Did not know the war waa over.” off tbe roof of hi* bouse, breaking all the After a load roar of laughter the provost I small bones of his right band. In recover- marshal was ordered to receive Uuir capit-1 ing, these bones have knit together wrong, ulation. Tewksbury, a Virginian, ordered I and it is said that they will have to bo a couple of Georgians to come forward, | broken and reset to prevent hia hand from give np their (hooting iron and stick being permanently crippled. IBs left hand their fists to the “document,” re- has long been disabled and is of no use to solving himself as the last man and old DU-1 him professionally. His present intention mal Swamp the las', ditch. Tewksbury'sde-1 is to spend the winter in Rome. serration of how he aacertainel the war was I „—— —— over was very amnaing. He snd hi* compan- ,Ie Koum ' * Friend, ions had been posted on tbe edge of the I K * w Vofk 8on - swamp to watch movements of Yanks from 1 William Lever, abont forty-five years old* WEDDING PINOS. ecdotes of flow They Figured In Royal Marriages. In connection with wedding rings may be mentioned the following cnrioqs notice in one of the marriage registers of the Church of 8L James, Bary Saint Edmunds: “1832, November 5, Christopher Newsom, Charity MomJL Charity Morrell being en tirely without arms, the ring waa placed r o the fourth toe of the toft foot, and wrote her name in this regtoter with her right foot” Queen Margaret, of Denmark, was ■ great match-maker, and gave the high born Kire- A Marriage on the Stage. A genuine marriage ceremony waa per formed with theatrical mountings Christ mas day at the opera houae in Birmingham, Ala., where the Baptista boldaerrires pend ing the completion ot the new church, rhere were, a number of spectators in the perquettewhen the curtain rose and showed the contracting parties, the minuter and several relatiria of the parties in ■ carefully arranged situation, with the prett: \»t scenic effects the throtre conld afford; and so they stood daring the ceremony. William Op- pendyke, from Wheeling, and a Miss Karsh Thomas, of Birmingham, were the parties. Rev. D. I. Parser was the officiating minis ter. Tlie Story Spoiled. Wasaixoio*. December 28.—It to stated at the White House that there U no truth in, nor any foundation for, the story pub lished by tbe Pittsburg I’ennay Press. " a number of detectives an coming to Norfolk, with orders to remain nntil reUev-1 nrtived on the steamer Wisconsin recently ed. He never was relieved, and had srib-1 with four children from eight to eighteen ■toted on game and Ash for Ihrex years. He I J e *re of age. He to a widower and came to met an old negro who told him that tbe I Into country to obtain work aa a baker, gar- war had been over a year, which tickled ‘toner or nunieryman, at each of which pro- him better than if ho had been kicked by a I fessiona be is said to be an expert Super- male, as be facetiously expressed it jntondent Jackson, of Csatle Garden, is sut- ufied the man U deserving and will en-h-av- A VICTIM OF DIPHTHERIA. I or to get him a sitoatioi. As Lever w... sitting in the rotunda with his chiMr- n A Phiuldelpuu lady to in deep distress concerning her coachtimn. She returned from a drive in very dejected spirits ihe other day, and explained tho oanae to a friend by saying: “I sent clear to South Carolina to get a man tomatch my brougham. He waa a real olive green, and I was do- lighted all Hammer. Why, you don’t know how many congratulations I received on my taste at the city troop races! But now the cold weather cornea lie tarns tlmt nasty gray. The wretch, I believe he knew he would.’’ Yoctbfcl exquisites are ju»t now carry ing canes thick enongh to be the boles of trees older than them-olves. The size and weight are increased in some c tsea by hnck- liorn crutch handies half a foot in width. Koine other fashionable youths, not so ex treme iu their tastes, nrc sati.fled with slen der malacea sticks with smaller hnckhorn handles. Ash and Irish bog iu the natural wood are also favored a good deal, espe cially with solid silver cratch top or shep herds' crooks in sterling silver. “In tho gallery of the Queen's private apartments st Windsor," says Adam lladenn, speaking of Queen Victoria dud her grief orerthudf ath of her bus!-.rad, "there stands n piece of statuary, of life size nnd nobly conceived, representing the Prince Consort drawn by angels heaven want from the arms of the weeping Queen, anil beneath is in scribed tbe line, ‘Allnred to brighter worlds, and led the way.' To comenpoa this group amid the splendors of a palace ia to feel how completely it expresses the emotion of one who mourns lie-lore the nations and is lone ly upon the throne.” Banos Ai.i-iionso he Itrrrnscniiji, says tlio London World, has jnst finished the trans formation of bis house iu tho line St. l-'lor- entin into a sort of ironclad fortr* aa. Every window is provided witli tlio bullet-proof shatters; each glass showcase containing ) riceless curiosities disappears into an iron spring; each picture to provided with a numbered case, lined with morocco leather, so that in an cm urgency the whole gallery conld be packed iu nn hournnd stow ed away in tbe cellars or sent to England for safety. Tbe bill for these cases amounts to 5H.UU0 fnincs. One never knows what may Imp- pen in Paris. The Iowa courts have mado an im|>ortant decision regarding the civil rights of colored people. A m-gro who was refused ndmis- slon to a pi,ice of amusement because ot hia color apn.-nltd to the law, when the circuit coart lu-i.l tlmt it did not aii|H-ar from the avermi-nta that plaintiff had any legal right to enter the place of ainaMinent. The Su preme Court affirms this ruling and says: "Tfae act ccnfptoincd of by tbe plaintiff waa the withdrawal by the if, fondants h* to him, of the offer which they had made to admit him, or to cofatract with him for ad mission. They bad the right to do this, na to him or any other member of the public. This right is not baaed upon the fact that be belongs to a particular reco, but arises from the consideration tliat neither he nor any other person conld demand as a right, under the law, that the privilege of enter ing the place be accorded to him, A itiviAKcx growing ont of a erasy quilt baa just come to light in Jamestown, K, Y„ involving a New York gentleman. Lost summer a yonng man named Juitoon, of New lorV, went to that place on bis way to Chautaoqna. He called at a famishing store and bonght a necktie, leaving his old one on the counter. The merchant nicked up the tie, saved the .ilk, and ‘ii to a yonng lady to place in her crazy quilt. Two weeks later Jndson met the young lady at Clmntanqus. Hhe was at work sewing'his After hehml told her lT!??iiTt u*' 1 on c CC ***“ worn - *nd she had told him where ahe got tho article, they Woods, m it Mwtnft- , he u We “ d * hl l’ lH '« nn nt Chan- wedllSng ?n*May!* COMnm,n » 1 - 1 »«l«fa‘ ADortor, Attached After Attending » — “Ti m Hinall-Pox Fatlent, Dies In Fight Hours. ' f **" v— I ropcnnleiiaen*, impreiMctl by his tuul con- rn -At* $ rvv. * I <1 it ion, gave the •migrant a $2o bill. The n-^v* an w’ 2? W><1 ? r0 l*** man ’» e J<* filled with tears as he IUchanl Knigert, jr, of No. 58,West Twenty- thanked the generous giver. fourth stre et, was filed st the Bnrean of 1 Vital Statistics yesterday by Dr. G. W. )31 a Fish's Fin Poisons Sian and Wire. Boskowitz, of No. Ill East Twenty-1 HUsankt*. wu^ upset*!, fifty street Dr. Knigert had Mr*. L A. Bradley died early thie morn- been attending a case of ing from blood-poisoning, haring punctured a mall-pox when, on Thursday afternoon, he her thnmb with tbe fin of a fish whiledress- was taken ill. To Dr. Boskowitz, who was ing it for the table a week ago. Her hna- at one* called ip, the patient complained of band is also dying, baring cat bis finoer pains in the bead and back. Dr. Knigert with a razor while removing a loos# piece passed an uneasy night, snd on Friday flesh from hia site's thnmb. Tho inflam- morning Dr. Boskowitz saw him again. | motion spread rapidly np their arms. Mr The pains continued. These were evidences Bradley to an employe in the office of the of small-pox, anil tbe attending physician Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Com- ■ -u--- applied remedies “to drive to the surface pony. The (bh was fresh, bnt the fin to Washington to look after the personal whatever was inside, as he said. j supposed to have come in cm tact with de. aafety of the President. ' At four o'clock in tbe afternoon Dr. ' cayed animal matter. It gives Edmund Rnssell, of Brooklyn, the shivers whent-v. r he sees a funeral pro- h “K'; n «ni>» I ‘ ti>e platform to uijm a reform m funeral*. One of tho flret things that Mr. Rnaaell saw in Venice was a funeral in gondolas, attended by a red-cloaked mnltitnde. In Florence heeaw a bier hasped with garlands and “ the hands of men in white, preceded by a man with gjoiden ernciflx ami beys with ■ ihe procession went rhnnling d ° W F tb « «‘ r ' •» to Kan Lorenzo. This .Ira- cession wa* l, ke a poetic 1 had beauty an-l pro- dream, tnyiterj. are All our funeral cuHtmim nrA »fa*‘ emphasizing all tl„. gllrivand unlovely features of death. Black, so much UjO^and-zmk* weli inl^cT ITomenin ■■'ver jsiwnxeo j per a.