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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 188G.-TWELVE PAGES.
RECORD OF THE YEAR.
| 2. Dvnamite explosion on underground
[railroad in London; earthquake shocks de
stroy Albania, Spain.
T C. Governor Grover Cleveland, of New
EYork, resigned; the steamer Bello Shreve-
ort, with 100 passengers aboard, sftik.s in
he Mississippi at Island 0:1.
ft. Attempted assassination of Thomas
Phelan in O’Donovan Hcssu's New York
Bee.
11. Cyclone passes through Alabama and
reorgia.
14. Senafa passed Grant retirement bill;
bouse passe 1 Froach spoliation claims and
^^jhinesc indemnity bills; Panama engages in
I civil war.
■ 18. Seventeen lives of inmates lost in asy-
I lam fire at Kankakee, 111.
H 2ft. ViUftw* in Italv and France destroyed
t by avalanches; great loss of life.
24. An attempt to blow up the houses of
y \Parliament and the Tower with dynamite;
^Sixteen persons injured, including a itum-
t *pcr of children.
M 20. Deaths of General Gordon and Lien-
tenant-Coloncl Burnaby, at the full of
^Kbartoum.
BE 30. Falling of a railroad train through a
bridge near Sydney, New South Wules;
forty lives lost.
Mb 31. Three explosions at Pittsburg of nat
ural gas; many injured.
FEBBUABY.
B l. Store front of Gurry Bros., Now York,
molished by uynaume.
hm 2. O'Donovan ltoHsa shot by Ysenlt Dud
ley.
7. Bailway collision, causing $500,000
at New Brunswick, N. J.
jsJ 10. Senate passed pension appropriation
bill.
■ 11. The election of Cleveland and Hen
dricks fonuely declared
Bn 12. Sixteen lunatics burned to death in
{Philadelphia alms-bonse; Senate passed
army appropriation bill.
. - 13. Alto. Utah, buried by a snow-slide:
Thirty men killed.
■■fj 1C. Senato passed Indian appropriation
bill; the explosion of a powder magazine at
Gibraltar lulls seventeen men.
21 The Washington Monument dedicated.
27. Six officers killed by an explosion at
^^fchoeburyness, England; burning of Nation-
41 Theater at Washington.
MARCH.
© 2. Senate increased New Orleans appro
priation bill to $400,000.
■ 3. Explosion in Unsworih colliery, Sun
derland, England, thirty-six men killed.
4. Grover Cleveland inaugurated Prcal-
lent.
5. President Cleveland’s cabinet an
nounced.
G. Colliery explosion at Korwin, Aus-
rian Silesia, kuuug 147 men.
'J. Outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Java;
rer 12,000 minors in the Pittsburg district
rike.
II. San Salvador declares war against
Inatemala.
I 18. More than 150 miners k lied by au
•jKplosion of fire-damp at Camphaasen,
Prussia.
.22. Araks surprised British troops near
Snukim, but were repulsed with loss of 3,-
t)Uft men; British loss GOO.
In 25. Music Hall, Buffalo, N*Y., destroyed
by tire; breaking out in Northwest Canada
ftf ltiel’s second rebellion; French forces
©pulsed by Chinese in Tonqain.
27. Explosion of coal dust at McCollister,
I. T., eleven miners killed; thirty-five men
tilled by gas explosion in Chillian mines.
31. Tne Panama insurgents burned As-
binwall, to avoid capture by government
troops; the town of Battleforu, N. W. T.,
I was pillaged and burned by Indiana, M.
de Frevcinet tonus a new ministry at Paris.
3. Fire-damp explosion in a mine at Mar-
tinullo, eighteen men killed.
5. A now cabinet in Franco under M.
rishon; ten men buried by fall of a coal
ino at Haven Bun, Pa.
ti. James D. Fish, president of Marine
tuk of New York, convicted of erabezzle-
ent
13. Collapse of eighteen unfinished tene
ment houses in New York; several work
men injured.
15. Treaty of peace signed by Central
American Bepublics.
21. Town of Wischnitz. Austrian Galicia,
burned; 150 houses destroyed.
23. Twenty lives lost at Vicksburg, Miss.
21. American marines entered Aapinwall,
and Aizporu made prisoner; engagement
between Canadian troops and Kiel'* forces
at Fish Creek.
2G. Eleven men buried under a sno'
slide near Hoincatako mine, on Eagle Kiver,
Col.
28. Tho Prince snd Princess of Wales
concluded Irish tour, and returned to Lon
don.
2. Tho Japanese village exhibition and
Humphreys’ Hall, Hyde Park, London,
burned; fight on Chief Poundmakcr’s re
serve between Biel’s Indians and Canadian
troops.
3. Eleven persona burned to death in a
ew York tenement house; explosion of
•Her of Tremont House, at Galveston,
’ex , four killed.
Collapse of factory In Stato street,
•rooklyn, followed by fire, ten persons
’Hod.
8. Sixty-eight persons killed by an ava-
ncho at Lake Van, in Armenia.
1). Battle of llatouche’s Crossing, between
lei’s forces and Canada troops—Biel
rquted.
10. The King of Dahomey made a raid on
the villages under French protection near
Porto Novo, and captured a thousand men
and women to be sacrificed at the cannibal
istic feasts.
12. News of avalanche in Iceland in April
confirmed-fifteen dwellings swept into the
a, and twenty-four persons drowned.
13. Biot in London around Nelson Monu
ment, Trafalgar Square.
14. Xitro.glycerine factory at Somerset,
Pa, blown to atoms.
15. Louis Biel captured by Gen. Mid
dleton’s forces north of the Batouche; new
version of the Old Testament given to the
public at London.
18. Cunningham and Burton, dynami
ters, sentenced at London to penal servi-
udo for life for causing Tower of London
iplosion.
*ft. Robert E. Odium killed In jumping
~>m the Brooklyn Bridge; Gen. John A.
elected United States Senator by the
» Legislature.
21. Fifteen working women suffocated
i a burning building, Cincinnati.
25. French fishing bark Georges Jeanne
nk off the Banka of Newfoundland by
iteamer City of Borne; twenty-two men
28. Sinking of bark George Jones off
Newfoundland, and twenty-three lives lost.
H 3. Thirteen miners killed near Durham,
.^PgbiPd.
[flC -8* Gladstone government defeated on the
I xcise bill; Lord Salisbury summoned to
or a new cabinet; a water-spout destroyed
he town of Paso da Curaenta, Mexico, 170
ives lost.
9. A treaty of peace signed between
'ranee snd China; Dubuque, Io., swept by
cyclone
10. At Thiers, France, during a murder
trial, many persons killed by the falling of
a stone staircase in the court house.
11. Six men killed by th 3 caving in of the
walls of the new river tunnel above Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
12. Gladstone’s resignation accepted by
Queen Victoria.
1G. General Grant taken to Blount
MacGregor; recurrence of earthquake
shocks in Cashmere, 3,081 persons in all
perishf*!.
18. Nearly 200 miners killed by au ex
plosion in Pcndlebury colliery near Man*
Chester, England.
19. Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty En
lightning the World,” received in New
York.
21. Biot at Madrid; soldiers stoned and
mob fired upon.
22. Cyclones in Missouri and Dakota.
Aastria refuses to receive United States
Minister Keiley.
3ft. Yseult Dudley a?qmtted of shooting
O’Donovan Bossa on ground of insanity;
Chieigo street car employes strike.
JULY.
1. Strike of Chicago street car employes,
rioting begun; snow falls in Tazewell
county, Virginia.
2. The Ohio prohibitionists uominatcM 1
for Governor Kev. A. S. Leonard; twenty
villages in Austria ignited by lightning and
burned, six lives lost.
9. Cyclones in Iowa, Wisconsin and Min
nesota.
11. Ten citizens of Blinneapolis, includ
ing ex-Mnyor Band,drowned by the sinking
of a steam yacht on Lake Minnetonka; At
torney-General Gurland decides that Secre
tary Whitney cannot accept the Dolphin on
the report ot tho examining commission.
18. Orange riots at Waterford, Ireland.
15. International lteservation at Niagara
Falls formally opened.
1G. The Virginia ltepublicans nominated
John 8. Wise for governor; V'ashington Post
building destroyed by fire.
23. The Princess Beatrice, Queen Victo
ria’s youngest daughter, and Prince Henry
of Battenberg, were married at Wipping-
ham, Isle of Wight.
2ft. Tho Virginia Democratic State Con
vention nominated Fitzliugh Lee for gov
ernor.
31. Ex-8nrgoon General Wales suspended
for five years for neglect of duty.
AUGUST.
1. Louis Beil convicted of high ereoson
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, and scutenced to
be hanged September 18.
2. Half a mile of buildings burned at
Toronto, Ont.; less $1,000,000.
G. News of tho loss in tho Arctic regions
of the bark Napoleon, of New Bedford,
with twenty-one sailors.
8. The funeral of General Grant at Kiver-
side Park; eight guests burned to death in
the Montezuma hotel, Las Vegas, Hot
Spring*, N. M.
12. British Parliament thank army and
navy for services in Egypt and the Soudan.
14. British Parliament prorogued; Fore-
laugh’s circus train wrecked at Eddy ville,
18. Don Pedro Preston, the destroyer of
Colon, was hanged at Aspinwall.
20. Ohio Democratic convention nomi
nates Hoadly for Governor.
23. Seven persons kiiled in collision on
London Underground railroad.
24. Anti-German demonstration in Mad
rid over Carolines Islands difficulty.
25. Cyclone at Savannah and Charleston
wrecked many buildings, vessels driven
ashore and several lives lost.
26. News ot the Hoods in China in June
last received, villages swept away and 10, -
000 porsons drowned.
HKPTKtfUIXL
2. The white miners a Mtock Springs,
Wy. T.,,ay«iultod (fill) lliMloes minors and
drove tlibfu to the mils, Milling fifty of
thoni.
Excitement at Madrid over the seizure
by Germany of tho Island of Yap; 24,000
Christians iuAHsn« red in Cochin, Chinn.
8. The town of Washington, Ohio, swept
3. Be volutions in Mexico and Pern; Tht- J
baw’s surrender; five men killed by boiler
explosion, East river.
5. Biots at Derry; steamer wrecked on
Ohio, six lives loct; prairie fires in Kansas
collision on East river bridge.
7. Troops ordered to Soudan; Massowah
annexed by Italy; Congress meets; fire in
Lexington, Mo.
8. General amnesty in Spain; cholera in
Brittany.
ft. Peace negotiations begin between Ser-
via and Bulgarin.
lft. Alfonso’s funeral; Servians and Bul
garians resume holities.
11. Vanderbilt’s funeral; union of Bulga-
riaus rei ognizrd.
12. Battle between Servians and Bulga
rians.
14. Sacred Burmese elephant dies; Prince
Alexander acknowledges sovereignty of the
Sultan.
15. Aerolite fell near Naples, Italy; coal
mining troubles in llovier, Mo.; cotton-
laden steamer burned Havre; Flench victo
ries in Annoin.
1G. England and Italy take action in
Egypt; Turkish delegates arrive at Phillip-
popoli*.
17. Carolines treaty signed at Borne.
18. Flood iu Pennsylvania coal mine,
twenty-four lives lost.
lft. News of cyclone in Philippine Islands:
dynamito explosion in Siberia, 1,(100 lives
lost
20. Corean revolution; cholera breaks
out in Italy.
21. Distillery boiler explodes at Dayton,
Ohio, several lives lost; Congress adjourns
to January 5th; socialist trial concluded at
Warsaw; protocol between Servieo and Bul
garia signed, armistice till March. .
22. Cholera appears at Venice; peace
concluded between Franco and Madagas
car.
25. Six boilers explode in San Francisco
water works; Christmas treo iu Chicago
asylum takes live, 11 HI persons injured;
great insubordination among Servian
troops.
2G. Ketnru of B>dgari»u troops to Sofia.
OT ViiJit nn Knrviim fnmtior luitWAni
2T. Fight on Servian frontier between
Servians and Bulgarians.
28. President Grevy re-elected; steamer
collision at Houcn, ten lives lost.
2ft. Pirot plundered by Bulgarians; diph
theria epidemic in Montreal; fires at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
CREMATED ALIVE AT HOME.
■J. IU»U Ul H UUIU. n»r
nwrny by n tornado, several persons killed.
11. Cbanning, adopted eon ot Tadoc, ex-
Emperor, proclaimed King ot Annum.
15. Jumbo, believed to be tbe lnrgent
elephant in the world, killed by a railroad
tram near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
18. Seventeen live* lout by tbe colliaion
in tbe Nort Sea between the iteamer Dren-
da and Dolphin: the people ot Phillippo-
polis, the capital of Houtnelia roae in re
bellion, proclaiming the union of East
Honineliaaml Bulgaria. _
23. Ira Davenport nominated by tho New
York Repnblicana for Governor; seventeen
persona crushed to death at Christine Nil
son’s concert a Stockholm, Sweden.
24. David B. Hill nominated for Gover
nor by New York Democrats.
28. Anti-vaccination riots in Montreal.
21). Disastrous floods, covering an area
of 3,500 square miles, reported in Bengal,
British India.
ocTonmt.
I. Beginning of special delivery system
in post-office; six-penny telegram avstnni
begun in Great Britain—twelve words for
sixpence.
3. Conflict between Bulgarian and Ser
vian ontposta.
i. Hobinaon’a circns train wrecked on tbe
Northern Paciflc railroad—live men killed
and forty injured.
10. Flood rock snceessfnlly blown np at
Hell Gate, East Biver.
II. Eighty Ashing vessels lost in a storm
off Labrador coast; 300 men lost.
13. Ohio elects J. B. Forakor Governor
snd the rest of tbe Republican ticket;
Welsh Baptist Church at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
blown down by a gale.
10. Servian troops advance to Bulgarian
frontier.
17. Seven thousand Christians massacred
in Annam.
22. Princess Mario, daughter of Dae da
Chartres, married to Prince Waldomar of
Denmark; troops of British India invade
llurmah.
27. President Cleveland annonnees that
he will grant no more interviews to persona
seeking office.
28. Ferdinand Ward convicted of larceny
at Now York.
XOVUMES.
General elections throughout the conn-
try; Andre monument at Tappan, N. Y.,
blown np; 131 Chinese driven from Taco
ma, W. T.
4. A. P. Edgerton snd W, L. Trenhoira
appointed Civil Henrico Commissioners by
President-Clevehmd.
6. Cyclones in Alabama and Texas; eigh
teen persons killed and much property de
stroyed.
20. Eight thousand buildings snd twenty-
two Uvea destroyed in Pnillippine Islands
by a cyclone.
22. Two thousand persona dmwnod and
160 villages submerged by • cyclone in
Odessa, East India.
24. Servians driven across Bulgarian fron
tier; earthquake shocks in Spain.
25. Prohibition carried by 225 majority
at Atlanta, Ga.; King Milan, of Bervia pro
poses peace to Prince Alexander, of Bul
garia.
20. Thanksgiving day.
27. King Tbebaw, of Bonn ah, abandons
Mandalay and British forces take posaes-
on.
28. At miotic* concluded between con
tending force* of Servia and Bulgaria.
30. King Thebaw, ot Burmah, surrenders
to British forces under Geo. Pondcrgnu.t.
i. Funeral of Vioe-Prsaident Hendricks;
riots st Dundalk, Ireland.
The Horrible Death of m Klch Illinois Farm-
rr anil hie Wife*
Seneca, IU., Special.
The details of tho mysterious death of
Mr. and Mra. Patrick Rooney, who were
found Christmas morning, the one suffocat
ed and the other cremated, make a horrible
story. Foal play was suspected, but the
circumstances scarcely justify the suspicion.
Hooney won seventy-three years old and
the wealthiest farmer in Central Illinois,
his estate being rained at $200,000. By
his first wife he had four sous, nil of whom
lire married IIo never was known to give
them so much aa a cent. Twenty-five years
ago he married his second wife, a childless
widow. Khe wan twenty years younger
than he. It was assumed in all the coun
try that she would inherit the major por
tion of his estate. He had made no will,
but won expected to call in a lawyer after
Now Year’s.
Two years ago he caused a great sensa
tion by engaging a Chicago architect to de
sign tor him n residence which should be
not only magnificent in all respetts but
nir-tlght from foundation to garret. He
little knew that he was carefully preparing
for the frightful death of himself ami wife,
os the sequel shows. Hooney had n horror
of fire, and it was to provido against the
fate which befalls so many unprotected
country homes that he directed the archi
tect and contractor to spare neither time
nor expenso iu making the building as
close as a portable refrigerator. The
neighbors all agreed that the tottering old
man was Rung his mind when the structure
was completed. The artisans had done
their work bo well that with all the interior
doors open (the house had sixteen rooms)
feather-weight tests iq all parts of it failed
to show that there wus the slightest draught.
Hooney and his wife had a sociable fond
ness for whisky and often brewed their
evening punch with tho favored hired man,
who also was allowed a room in tbe new
mansion, and was their solitary guest. He
was a deaf 8wede and spoke few English
words. His room was over thokitenen.
Christmas evening Hooney came into the
village and bought a hutf gallon of whisky.
After the supper dishes hod been cleared
away he sat down with his wife in the
kitchen, with tho little jug between them.
How loug they remained there is not known.
Just before tho Swede retired he was in
vited to join the old folks and had two
punches with them. When he left they
were merry but not intoxicated.
In tbe morning the hired man awakened
with a headache. His pillow was covered
with soot and a sickening odor pervaded
the atmosphere ot hi« room. Descending
to the lower hall, the stench increased. Ad
joining tho kitchen was the old gentleman’s
bedroom, and uext to it that of Mrs. Bou
ncy. The door of Hooney*s room was open.
Peering in, the hired man haw his master
prone upon the floor, his clothing undis
turbed. Upon slmkiug the prostrated form
the Hwede found it limp ami lifeless. Over
the face of the dead, aud dinging to every
thing in tho room, was a black, stikoy sub
stance. The hired man then looked into
Mrs. Hooney’h room and the kitchen, and
failing to find her in either, walked to
the house of one of the sons, half a mlb*
away, and related os best he could the
nature of his discovery. A party of neighbors,
including a physician, returned with the
hired man and a more careful investigation of
the premises was made. On the centroda-
ble wa« the half-empty iug and tho gtaras.
At one side there was a hole three feet long
and two feet wide burned through the floor.
Near by was a caudle, half burned, aud at
one end of tbe black-rimmed aperture stood
a booted foot nprigb^ a charred remnant ot
the right leg protruding from the shreda of
blistered 1esh and muscle. The tall, old-
fashioned clo^k in the comer was open and
the key wax on the floor. The hanging
fringe of the cloth had been burned up
close to tho circular edge of the table and
then smouldered out, as had the small patch
od the floor, within which a human form
bad writhed in all the agonies of living cre
mation. In the cellar they found a handful
of white ashes, a calcined skull and part of
a vertebral column.
It was evident thst Mrs. Booney was
winding np the clock when the candle ac
cidentally ignited her clothing. She waa
doubtless weakened by the liquor the had
drunk, and sank to the floor in fright. She
was a large woman, weighing 29ft pounds,
or more. Once prostrated she was unable
to rise.und the flames rapidly eating through
her clothing to her body, soon began the
work of incineration. Afire canty was
formed beneath her in the floor and as the
concave furnace burned slowly through to
the cellar the remains were gradually melted
into the handful found on the cement floor
beneath. Apparently one leg was extended
at length, and burning off just above the
ankle, at the outer rim of tbe fire, the foot
righted itself when dismembered. Booney
was suffocated to death. Tbe hired men u ,
now a-bed and no*, expected to live. Tb*;
property will probably be divided among
the four sons without inquiry or c< -nt*st.
BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENT.
Office-Holders Eating Out the Substance of
the People.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
The time is gone by when we can afford
to indulge our wit at the expense ot the
Old World monarchies, the administrative
machinery of which, au everybody knows,
is made up of a bewildering network of bu
reaus, extending from the door-keepers of
the palace to the King or Einperor on his
throne. Germany ami Austria h\ve afford
ed some curious exemplifications of the
bureau system pushed to an extreme which
presented it finally as uu ingenious inven
tion for providing snug places, chiefly sine-
cares, for court favorites at the public ex
pense.
But, we begin to thing that our country
can beat the Old World monarchies in the
manufacture and multiplication of official
bnreaus. This manufacture and multipli
cation is going on in every branch of the
public service, from tbe capitolat Washing
ton and the '.State governments down to the
city halls of our municipalities. It trans
cends anything of the kind ever before
witnessed, even in a country which, as the
reader of revolutionary history will remem
ber, commenced its career in a memorable
protest against the “creation of new offices”
and tbe “swarms of officers" that were har
assing oar people and curing out their sub
stance.
Take a single branch of tho Federal ad
ministration as a specimen of all the others;
we mean the Navy Department, According
to Secretary Whitney, eight bureaus sup
ply stationery to ships; three bureaus sun-
ply ships with lamps aud lanterns. To
the sama ship one bureau supplies electric
lights and the light far general illuminat
ing purposes; another supplies electric
search lights, and a third oil aud light for
the engine and fire rooms. Tho faculty of
these bureaus for getting rid of the public
money is something really wonderful. As
is well known, the law requires all pur
chases to bo made by contract after ad
vertisement, except in emergencies. But
the Secretary says: “The open purchases of
the Nnvv Department for the year ending
June 30, 188o, amounted to $841,285.84,
while the purchases by contract amounted
to only u little over a million. A large
proportion of the open purchases consist
ed of articles of either comparatively small
value or more or less difficult of classifica
tion, but $138,000 of the amount was spent
by the seven bureaus, each acting inde
pendent of tho other, for coal bought, not
in one lot, but at 1GG several open pur
chases; 2ftft different open purchases
of stationery verc mode by eight dif
ferent bureaus, $121,315.66 was spent for
lumber and liardwuro by bit bureaus in 490
separate open purchases; seven bureaus
spent $16,000 for oils and paints in 26ft sep
arate purchases; 117 different open purchas
es of iron and steel were made at an ex
pense of $41,524.48; $68,881.5ft was spent
far hemp and corduqo in 45 different open
purchases.” What is all this but a “canco-
turo” of government, or rather, what is it
Irfit a sample of the excessive officialism
with which every department of the gov
ernment machine is overweighted, and fa
maintain which the peopic arc remorseless
ly taxed? It furnishes a key also to the
waBtefufa'*** and extravagance v/hich have
especially disgraced the Navy Department
daring the post fifteen or twenty years.
If wo descend now to the municipal govern
ments. we aro confronted with bureaus and
sinecures on almost every hand. Wo do
not propose fa go into details as regards
the city of New York, as a single illustration
will answer for the whole. Iu his testimony
before Iho Senate investigating committee
yesterday, the deputy commissioner of tho
public works department informs us that
there nn eight bureaus under his charge,
and, from the general tenor of his testimo
ny, we aro led to infer that tho principal
business of these sevorol bureaus is to
'look after the patronage.” Even the
street laborers arc appointed through tho
operation of this bureaucratic machinery,
not because of their fitness for their places,
but simply as a matter of obligation to the
politicians:
[Extract from the Uttimony.]
Question by Senator MUler—Yon have Mid that
you made tbo supointmeiiU up to three mouths
aso. Hoar many appointment*, approximately,
w«*re made by yon? A.—Bet wen 400 and Sno.
Q — Mostly lalrarem? A.—Yea. there is very little
patroLftire out*lde of laborers. I know very I'ttle
about the laborers peraonally. Half of them at
work thla auramer were reappoin ed. They work
from spring to fall.
.—Until Just after election? A.—Sometimes un
the the fourth Cheney vroa himself sent
through the ropes by a Tex ua upper-cut.
The sixth round was short, sharp and de
cisive, Quinby eli*aing Cheney ali over the
room, finally set 1 ng him with two stinging
right-handers on the nose that m ule the
blood flow freely down upon Cheney’s face
aud breast. At this Cheney threw off his
gloves and gave up the fight and the girl.
ADDICTED TO FEMALE GARB.
KcuiarkabU Case ami Very flood Clothe*
otm Chicago Carpenter,
Chicago Hperlal.
Joseph Pei tide wicz is a medium-sized,
slight man, with his head closely shaven
and his face as smooth and white as wo
man's.
Tuesday
tho rail a wordrobo rich and fashion
able enough to satisfy a belle's fancy.
There were among tho collection an elegant
littlo French bonnet, a fur trimmed silk cir
cular and a close fitting tailor made dress.
There were corsetsandn-ddinp and HnyerU
from top fa bottom. Tno prisoner stood
in a pair of French heeled boots, and his
figure suggested that he atill had about him
a good deal of tho padding necessary to
JEFF DAVIS’S NERVE.
Cool as an Iclele When Ills Friends Were
Greatly Disturbed*
Kansas City News.
I was in a restaurant tho other evening
when a water-pipe on the second floor barst
and the fluid spread over about ten feet of
ceiling. A very angry man remarked that
tho plastering would full some time and fill
up the soup of somebody at the table. This
was a very trivial remark, but it unwound
a historical recollection of another. “In
185ft,he said, “I was a boarder at the Pea
body House, in Memphis, Tenn. This vaa
the Hotel where Jeff Davis always stopped.
When it waa known that he was coming a
certain table was spread in the dining-
When he confronted Justice Mecch I room. This table had a seating capac-
the officer brought in and ln:d Ou ify 0 f ten, for Mr. Davis always
Q.—Uow Jo tho Uboron’ 'aottioo come to ,ou?
.—A greet rainy were prentwi by Alilermt-u. A.-
■emblymcn .11 <t Mute Meu.ti.rA
Q.—They wen lotcneteit ’ll baring their potltl-
c.t adherent. ippoIntmlT A.—1 lure no doubt ol
borer, .hould bo Appointed? A..
Q.—When thee ecnatora and A.M tubl> tnen came
to yon. yon could uot know anything peruonully
about the men to be appointed) A—No.
Q.—Then, u a nutter of feet, the appointment
of laborer, waa a favor to certain poUtlcUne)
A.—Yen, we act on recouinieniUttonafrom the poll'
Tbo taxpnyerM will thunk the deputy
comtuiiMicmcr for bis fraukueaa. At tbe
aiuue time it in to be hoped they wiU duly
empbaaizn the fact—not a new one, how
ever—that tbe street department, liko *11
other depurttnentH, with itn immense pat
ronage parcelled ont nmon|| the bureaus, is
administered entirely in tno interests, not
ot tbe comnmnity, but of the wgrd states
men, “tbe men that rnn tbe primaries’’ and
the “patriots in pursuit of a pluco."
Clearly, we hare too many departments,
too muny bureaus and too tunny office
holders in every division and Hnh-division
of the Kovernment machine. They aro
"eating out the substance of the people ’
quite us voraciously in their way hh the nine-
enrist* of George III. “ate out the instance”
of the colonists; and it ia high time that
something was douo, in tbo interest* of
economic administration, at least to arrest
their moIUplication. If not, whim is tbe
thing to atop? >
SPARKING FORA SWEETHEART.
Boston HpecUI.
A beautiful blonde of twenty-Uiree yean,
living near Tremont street and Sbawmut
avenne, and who has Price crossed the
continent and spent a year or more in the
capital of China, has been the object of
adoration on the part of a number of
Harvard students, who are tbe ions of
wealthy parents. Among her most
anient admirers was a youth of about
twenty yean, named Albert Cheney, the eon
of a wetdthy New England farmer. Upon her
he has lavished considerable money and ha
felt secure iu pomaalug the enure affeo-
Uuua of the young lady, until he discovered
her in the embrace* of another student,
Harry Quinby, ths son of a wealthy cattle
ranch proprietor in the Lon* Star State.
Cheney Insisted thst Quinby should ct plain
his conduct and apologise. Quinby rafnaad,
and yesterday afternoon Chancy determined
that the former should explain and apolo
gize or light Quinby agreed to fight, mak
ing a proviso that!» ilia event of his prov
ing the b' tter man Chern y .hould give th"
girt up, Muinby agreeing to do th. it
give his figure tho appeamucc of a woman’s.
When IVithicwicz was arraigned bo was
arrayed in female attire. His disguise was
so perfect that nobody would suspect that
be we* a man. He was booked on tbo
charge of larceny and for assuming the
guise ot tie fair sex. His wife was in
court with her two children,
Tbo prisoner confessed to sieuling about
$2 worth of goods, and tho ehargo was ac
cordingly onanged to disorderly conduct
end the prisoner finod f 10 tor this offence.
For the other offonse bo wss baud $40. At
tho cloee of the case the officer took hold of
the prisoner to lead him down stain, when
tbe latter turned nronnd and mode an at
tempt to kiss his wife. There was no kiss
ing done, as she avoided him. Peithiowicz
is tkonght to be insano.
Tbo prisoner was the thief in woman's
attire nebbed yesterday in the Boston store
for stealing aud whoso person a Isdy clerk
was at first set to searching. Tbe case is
likely to prove a remarkable one.
Tbe prisoner is a carpenter, and has boon
in Chicago eight or nine years. At No. 571
Noblo street he has a very pretty young
I-oliah wife and a very sweet little baby.
The wife said that she bad never been able
to explain her husband's fancy for woman's
clothes. She admitted that when they were
married bo bad on fomnle clothing. “I
have lived with him for ten years,” aha
said in broken English, “but we never
could agree, liis female attire wss always
tbe rock we split on.”
“Did he wear your clothe*?” asked the
reporter.
“No, indeed, he bought bis own. Why,
only last week he paidgili for this dress,”
sbo said, opening her husband’s trunk and
pulling out Jm undergarment. “But that
la not half. Bee here/' she added, jerking
ont female unmentionable garments, with
fringo and laoo on them, front other parts
of the trunk, till the carpet wus strewn with
material good enough to lit out a woman
from bead to foot.
“All tbe time he ia in tho house," contin
ued the little wonmn, “be is dressed up in
them. He stands before tbe gloss, ns vain
as a peacock, and turns round and round,
admiring liis slispe. I have scolded him
and Hoolded him, but ho never answers a
word. It's fun for him. but I don't liko
that sort of fmi. I think ho is wrong here,' 1
she said, tapping her forehead. Tlio fam
ily consists of hor two ohildren and an un
married sistor. From all appearances thoy
are in comfortable ciroumstancea.
LITTLE MAIDS EDOM SCHOOL.
Bar oj
Ttiav l’ut Out Their Tongues at
Iron and Get Stuck Fast.
Butte. U. T„ Miner.
Lost evening about nnpper time, while
tho dining-room was crowded, tho guests at
tbo Centennial Hotel were thrown into a
stnto of consternation and excitement by
hearing cries and shrieks coming from ap
parently an unknown quarter. Home
thought the house was haunted, snd others
were satisfied that the erica were human.
A speedy search waa made and it waa soon
discovered that the balcony waa tbe
point whence the sounds emanated,
and the voice* belonged to two little
pets of the household—Pearly Bate
man and Boaaa—the daughters of 'be house
keeper. When the crowd reaobed the spot
tho girl* were found prisoners in a nidnncr
that in familiar to the other folks, but waa
something new to them. Together they
had walked on the balcony, the rail of
which is of iron, and r.« the frost looked so
tempting Un y decided to lick it off. Tho
result was, of course, that both wero glued
to the iron and lnckilv, instead of attempt
lug to release themselves by farce, thoy be-
gau a series of shrieks. Br. Beall, who was
on band, promptly procured :: pitcher ot
hot water and soon, the iron absorbing tbe
heat, the youngsters were released.
■ MURDEROUS ELECTRICITY.
An Organ Grinder, Leaning on an Electric
Light Pole, Is Htruck Bead*
New Orleans 8|ietlal.
At 7 o'clock to-night two Italian organ
grinders, Vincent Muugelln and Salvador
Torcicie were grinding their organ at tbe
corner of Hi. Louis and Chartres street.
Torcicie was turning tbe crank at the time
Mongolia, awaiting bis turn, leaned against
an electric light pole. There was a flash of
electricity and Mange!)* fell dead at his
comrade's feet. Torcicie dropped the or
gan and stopped to pick up the dead mau.
As soon as his hand came in contact
with tho body of Mongolia be received
a powerful shock, knocking him
to tho ground. When be recovered, it was
found that bis hand waa burned to a crisp.
Investigation showed that MangeUn bad
issued against a hoisting wire running
along the pule from tbe main wire to the
ground, and bis l>ody became entangled In
it when be fell, hence the shock to Torcicie.
Tbe wire is just being strung throughout
lbs city, andnocurrcntlusyet been turned
on, there being no circuit. It is supposed
that it wss crossed by tbe wire of another
company, thus producing the current. Mon
golia was twenty-foor yean old.
Getting I at of sight.
California lfaterirk.
“Talk about fast time," said agreyheaded
ngineer, as the “gang” were sitting in a
little room back of Handenon's grocery on
McAllister street: “When I was runnin'
an enqino out in Australis we acaired up a
drove of kangaroos. Zip, whi" that's nil;
oat of sight quir.ker than you could say
Jack Robfnoon.” “Kangraroos hub; you
never saw a jack rabbit out on tbe plains, I
guess. Talking about gitting out of eight.
A jock rabbitt takes the oake. None of
your zip-whiz business; Us just a streak
and bn's gone,” spoke np a little fellow
who claimed to nave been with Cnster,
“Hpeakin' about gettin’ out of night,"
cbimedln a tiili-colTc’lor;-T'vo seen men
Therm
1 whipped.
ify of ten, for Mr. Davis* always
surrounded himself with a number of con
genial spirits when he dined. I think hw
was the most entertaining man at the tnble
I ever saw. He hod company, and I want
to tel! thst his company waa always com
posed of men who were brilliant 'This ta
ble was always kept spread when be woe at
tbe hotel, fur ho was irregular in bia hours-
of eating. Tbe cooka were always kept on
duty when be was a guest There wero
never less than a half dozen kinds of wine
on tbe spread. There was an uceident at
tho Peabody one day, precisely like this
one, bat no one paid any attention to it.
Sir. Davis occupied the seat of honor.
General Breckenridge—he wasn't »
general then; tho Governor ot
Tennessee, whose name I have forgotten,
nml several others of fame were about him.
All nt once down came the plastering with a
crash. Every man at tbe table except Mr.
Davis jumped to his feet, some kicked their
chairs over in their fright, snd one ran the
whole length of tbo dining room. Mr. Davis
sut unmoved, and didn’t let go his glass un
till it wss emptied. Then, looking about
him, be said to the bead waiter: ‘What
seems to be the disturbance? Please request
the gentlemen to reanmo their seals.’ I
saw much of Mr. Davj-i in my lifetime, nml
I never vet saw him when his equanimity
appeared to be out ot balance. 1 '
rsohlon Novelties.
Dull-red doth redingotes, very long and
with no loopi, only plaiting down in the
back, ore made jost Use a man's long c -
sloshed from tho bottom to the waist
l : ne, or, rather, to the turn of the tour-
nurc.
Deaden Astrakhan is one of the latest
conceits for bonnets, and tbe combination
of tbe rich, dark, glossy, beads and tho
round little balls of wool in all of the deli
cate shade of green, red and ocru is really
lovely.
The Amaxone, a tall, conical-crowned bat,
with a picturesque brim looped up in the
hack, snd trimmed with ostrich feather*
fastened at the bock and nodding over the
top of tie crown, is the coining novelty of
tho season.
Serges of various weaves ore in high favor.
There are the self-stripod cotelle, Devon
check, bonds, Indian coating canvas and
Yunuton tweed serges, and different weaves
and every shape of color.
Handsome marquis coats of black silk
velvet, elegantly embroidered in blnok silk
on the largo Lonia vest, deep pocket flaps,
collar snd sleets ends, aro to be worn far
into the season over dresses of light wool
in dove, beige, cream and ecru.
Tbo new colors of Airicaine, a netiirul
gray; Florentine, a deep dear bronze;
viouxvert, old dull green. Old mahogany
is a popular red brown. Hugo is tbe color
of old leather. Sanrionne if moss-green.
Ocean tens old dull red, like old brick.
Fancy ornaments, such as leaves unknown
to botanist or florist; feathers that no orni
thologist world recognise, and other uiavels
in millinery art, are dusted over with gold,
siver iui,l colored metallite; powders, and
also, with velvet powder, termed poudra
Idas.
A pretty sleeve upon one of Worth's
snberb dinner dresses of velxet and mqK-d
silk is cat to lit tbe arm snugly to the elbow.
Here it flares a little, endin-' m 'five ranky-
kee, each point being richly ornamented
with gold and bronze bead-work. From
iieneatn thia issue* a puff df veltet, "which
ia gathered in to a velvet band just abovo
tbe wrist, tbe band also decorated ^with bead
ing.
Beads are very fasbonable, not only for
evening but also for town toilets. Thus,
for a visiting toilet a silk bodice is trimmed
from the nock by a pointed plastron of
beads finished in a point. The lower put
is arranged into narrow gangjns, and peaked
in front aud tbe back. The sleov-s aro
gathered at tb» shoulder, and tight in tbe
lower part, with ret era stimulated by a
bead-work pattern. This bedioe may be
worn either with a skirt of tbs some silk or
with one of brocaded silk or fancy woolen
material.
There is no continual ebange iu articles
of lingerie as there is in other parts of the
toilet, but some modification, particularly
in the ways of trimming undergarments,
urn frequently made. Chemises, for an
instance, are now trimmed in fichu style.
They are cut, os usual, with thoTolo object
of taking as little space as passible. The
trimming may be arranged in bands of in
sertion, and lsce is taken from the shoulder
down. Inside th* lace is gathered like a
fichu and crossed diagonally on ths other side,
of the chemise in a square end. Another
way of trindng these front* is to have a
lace drapery ou one side only and embroide-
S r ob the other- These sro also squares of
De-work embroidery on the chemise prop
er, and trimmed around to produce tho ef
fect of a tichu placed inside of a square-cat
waist Some chemises are pointed tack
nnd front an in the open put aro cross
wise or lengthwise puffings, separated by
Valenciennes insertion. Corset covers are
made after the same pattern* as chemise*.
Drawer* sro wide on the lower part, snd,
instead of being battened, thoy are taken
in aa much as required by mean/ of a
ribbon shirring. Small under-petticoats aro
alill trimmed with plaiting* and insertiuna.
These are indications of s return to the use
of muslin petticoat* irxtead of anrah, as
the latter goods is only pretty when new.
Giving Awaj Stolen Money.
Gaidar HUtlon, X. T., Hpeelsl.
A letter signed John R Swift, and doted
September 17, baa been fonnd near Indian
Ladder. The writer says that he murdered
a man named Hailey and threw the body
into a hole. He also says that he secreted
in a cave $16,000 in gold and bills, which ha
gives to the finder of the letter. The
letter states thst his wife and himself snd
Hailey committed a robbery in Kbowets-
ville hut enmmer.
Before and Arter.
Pan ville Breeze.
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Yen da Kriaiaaa day befit*:
Cod dot vas Jakay's sbftcttack