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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUflSDA Y. .fUNE 32,1888—TWELVE PAGES.
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What will Mr. Randall do now?
question is of some importance
This
Let ns hope that the nomination of
Thurman will help the Sherman boom.
A Cbnarder has again lowered the
record of quick 1 trans-Atlantic voyages,
averaging 470 miles a day for the whole
trip. That speed will almost compare with
railroad travel.
In' another column will be found a call
for a meeting of the executive committee
of this Congressional district to fix the
time and place for holding the semi-an
nual convention for the nomination of a
Congressman.
The New York Herald has been inter
viewing the newspaper correspondents in
attendance on the St. Louie convention. It
is perhaps not remarkable that each ex
pressed c onfidence in the man or party
represented by his paper.
An unfinished waijvesscl, started twenty-
five years ago at the Brooklyn navy yard,
was sold the other day for $10. It is not
stated how much had been spent on her,
hut it is hard to see how, if she was worth
selling, the price was not greater.
Wf. w te in the papers almost every day
reports of purchases by Michigan and
Wisconsin lumbermen cf largo bodies of
timber land in the South. Our people
may not appreciate the value of their
present holdings until too into.
I’erhaph an instance w:\l never before
known of an uudisputed leader winning
the gratitude of his party by refusing to
be its candidate, but that it is what Mr,
Blaine has done. One Republican papei
says his letter “conferred lasting honor
upon him. 1 ’
The Platform. the first to carrv their banner to the plat- g**d of thf right* of the Indian*. If not
The opening declaration of the Demo- f orra w h en Thurman vraa nominated. Gov interfered Irish by the other European na-
cratic platform is peculiarly gratifying to ernor gray and his followers will give tions,we n|ay expect to see a great English
ESCAPES FROM Pit ISON,
the class of Democratic newspapers to Thurman a loval and hearty support in in- empire erfcblishcd in Africa, which, while
I. f-1. ~ Trrponlnil lie nnna T* incii. * * 11 1. . . . .
which the Telegraph belongs. It justi- diana Wet u nkthathIl
fies the interpretation which they have;
heretofore put upon the platform of 1884 •; ‘
The message of the President and the ■
Mills bill we have declared to be in ac-
noimnatiou in
. it may
sures the fullest possible Democratic vote ! ra ' n H l1
i in the West and that it will add many j them atj
votes to the ticket in the East.
, , , , Nobody claims that Thurman can carry
c ; rd with ^e spmt of the Chicago resoln-! ohi0i but ,, c wi „ give the Bepubiicans ]
ing wit
> but he|
Vest the natives of certain natu-
| ill advance civilization among
■ Agjid rate. John Bull, indeal-
I , savage subjects, rules sternly,
es well.
Senator Sherman claims to have 215
votes in the Chicago convention already
pledged to him. This may be true, but as
many of them arc Southern negroes they
will not nominate him. The negro vote
is not worth much in a Republican
national convention.
Thi viciousness with which many of
the Republican editors are trying to stick
pins in the Gresham boom is diverting,
but one can but think they are wasting a
great deal of labor and temper. Let it
alone, gentlemen, and it will collapse in
November.
The Monrovia lias just sailed from New
York, full of negroes emigrating to Libe
ria. In the course of a few months they
will be writing letters to tlicir friends beg
ging for money to pay their way hack,
The charms of the negro republic are only
seen from a distance.
A Chicago man who found out that a
drummer had been flirting 'with his wife
shaved off said drummer’s ear witli a razor
and carried the dissevered member home
as a present to the lady. Several valuable
lessons may he learned from this little
transaction.
tions, which has been indignantly denied
by Democratic papers of high tariff pro
clivities. The party in convention has de
clared that we were right, in language dif
ficult to wrest from its meaning. No man
or newspaper who acknowledges the au
thority of the Democratic convention can
longer deny that to reduce tariff taxation
on the line of the President’s message is
at this time the principal object of the
Democratic party. The platform begins
with a commendation of the efforts of
Democratic Congressmen in that direction,
and the las half of it is devoted to denun
ciation of the present sys em. It is not a
double-dealing platform, but a . straight
and honest one, which every Democrat can
fight for, with the conviction that victory
will bring positive results, for the people
will have decided upon a principle and
not merely made a distribution of offices.
The promise of the platform, that in re
dactions of the tariff due allowance will be
made between the wages of American and
foreign labor, is but a repetition of that
made in the resolutions of 1884. It does
not involve the sacrifice of any principle,
and indicates a policy that will allay the
fears of wage workers while what they may
regard as an experiment is
being made. The good ef
fects of a reduction of taxation, of which
the platform speaks, will be shared fully
by the working classes, and will win their
consent to further reductions if experience
shall show them to be necessary. It is
only by actual experience of the blessings
of lower taxation that the fatal error that
high taxation is necessary to prosperity
can be eradicated. A move in the right
direction has been difficult because of that
error, and it is the part of wisdom to make
the first move, when it is possible, with
such caution that established industries
will receive no shock and all will be bene-
fitled.
The demoralizing influence of a vast
surplus, accumulated by un
just, because unnecessary, taxa-
time, is pro;>erly emphasized, and the
atic and Republican remedies for
ar:-. sharnly emitraated. This. ran.
not fait to he a telling point in the party’s
avor.
The other subjects with which the plat
form deals are handled skillfully, but an
omission will attract more attention. The
civil service is not mentioned. Among
the mugwumps, in whose creed civil ser
vice reform it a cardinal principle, and
whose aid was very useful in 1884, some
votes may be lost by this omission,
On the whole, the platform is a satisfac
tory one. Its tariff resolution is plain
apaakinf enough to satisfy those who
have ardently desired tariff reform and
that the parties should divide upon a
question of principle; it is at the 'same
time conservative enough to satisfy the
country that its industries will not be sub
jected to a shock’hy a sharp and sudden
lowering of duties.
Witli the adjournment of the convention
the Presidential campaign opens. It will
be fought out with the utmost energy, hut
we believe not with the bitterness of tec-
tidnal and personal feeling which have
characterized past contests. We believe
the odds are largely on the Democratic
side, and that next November will con
firm a party ascendency that will last a
generation
The Teleoraph has candidates and a
cause to its liking, and will fight for the
love of it.
Mr.TUndall has always professed to
more trouble there than any other Demo- j be a 1< yal Democrat. Now that the Demo
crat possibly could. They will be kept so , C ra.tic convention has declared in favor o
busy at home that they cannot spare any j the Mills" bill and the President’s message,
of their time or money to their party cause j the party will expect him to fall into line.
in other States.
All over the Union there is Democratic
joy over the nomination of Allen G. Thur
man. Democrats will work for the ticket
with a double enthusiasm because his name
is on it
CANDIDATES’ FACES.
Tho-je That Ar
Aliar ami Those That
| Are Scarcely Recognized.
From the New York Graphic.
V^terday I was in a place up town
where the pictures of Presidential possi*
Cleveland and Thurman is the strongest; bUities are a specialty. The trade consists
possible Democratic ticket. It will carry ; larf , e | y of on) „ h f rom thc country . «l t j 9
ulii.-li >1 ntro nnt vnfiul f nr <■ I tom,, 1 .. IJ ! 1 *• i
States which have not voted for a Demo
cratic Presidential ticket since the war,
and it is certain to win in all the States!
which voted the Democratic ticket four
years ago.
Editor John Triplett, of Thomas-
ville, is on the committee to notify Presi
dent Cleveland and Judge Thurman of
their nomination. We shall expect Edi
tor Triplett to write one of his
epistles.
The citizens of New York are distressed
because the board of health has discovered
that Croton water is full of wiggletaila. In
case this should cause an exodus, we hope
that N«w York people will remember that
Macon is a fine, healthy town, with abso<
lutely irreproachable water.
An admirer expresses the opinion that
Kansas would vote solidly for Ingalls for
President This cannot be said
strengthen the gentleman’s chances greatly,
Kansas is not particular about the charac-
Mr uf the men she votes fur. It u uoiy
necessary that they be Republicans.
The people who lynched an innocent
old negro in New Jersey two years ago are
now, perhaps, trying to justify the murder
to their consclencts. They will probably
take the shortest road by convincing them
selves that the negro who confesses the
crime f jr which the innocent sufiered is
liar.
In discussing ex-President White’s pro
posed Washington University, with its
non-resident students, the Boston Herald
speaks of the work it wonld do in culti
vating the “outlying talenlof the country.”
We must decline to encourageMr. White’
scheme. The tjdent spoken of needs no
development.
. The 250 citizens of New Orleans who,
unable to contribute money to the street-
cleaning fund, have came forward with
implements in hand and offered their labor
in cieaniug the filthy drainage Caiials of
the city, display more civic patriotism
than the wealthy who donate hundreds of
dollars The recent victory of the people
aver the ring seems to be having a grand
effect.
The grief and indignation with which
the New York Tribane sees Mr. Thurman
MnnaAiatopaUtie* is proof of its high
Bf N' tr, i f ,r that noble old Democrat. But
Bre*—t its griaf and indignation waited?
Mr.Tb-.ru.mightily pleaded, ar,.!
he probable know, whai he »»rn, p.. r .
hapa the Tribune fear- last . ■■ in.
ST fete will o» offended OV UB wavinr t>I cm i
Allen G. Thurman.
Those who suppose that the nomination
of Judge Thurman for vice-president was
the result of mere sentiment make a great
mistake. The enthusiasm which attended
his nomination was intense, and naturally
so, because no Democrat in the United
Stales baa such a Luhi Ou the affections of
the party as this noble old man, who for
fifty years has been the personification of
political parity and personal honor.
Bnt his nomination was not a mere rec
ognition of hit distinguished services to
the party, nor was it the outcome
of blind enthusiasm. There were
sound and practical reasons back of
Judge Thurman was the only man men
tioned for thia nomination who was known
to the masses of the Democratic party; he
was tjie only man in whom the maast
the party felt any especial interest. Wo
do not believe that there is a Democrat
who would have voted for General Black |
Governor Gray, or Mr. Stevenson who will
not vote for Judge Thurman. We are
confident that there are thousands of inde
pendent voters who will vote for Judge
Thurman who would have voted for any
of the other gentlemen we have named.
There is no Democrat who it *b strong as
J udge Thurman on tb* Pacific slope. Tbs
unanimous opinion of the delegates from
California and Nevada is that he will car
ry those elates. New Jersey, one of the
doubtful states, was most enthn-i ,-iicailv
in 1st ,r of hi- at ination, and -o n,
i—• u : l-.l. ‘-,-s - - * .
“An Octogenarian Statesman.”
Under thc above heading the New
York World prints editorial comments
upon the reaching by Mr. Jefferson Davis
of his eightieth birthday. The tone of
the World’s article is so different from
that which has for many years pervaded
almost every reference by a Northern
journal to the cx-Confedernte President,
that we must look upon it ns remarkable
evidence of the rapid amelioration of
Northern sentiment toward Southern men
connected with the Confederacy. It is as
follows:
Jefferson Davis filled his eightieth year last
Sunday. It is not often that our public ’nee at
tain that ago with fairly good health anil unim
paired Intellect.
While In tho public service o! the United
States, as soldier and statesman, Mr. D*»in es
tablished a reputation for courage, ability and
integrity which errors cannot obliterate nor
prejudice gainsay. On the plains and in Mexi
co he showed bis military qualities. ..la the
Home of Representatives, in the 8ehatOBCtjlo
United States and In the cabinet lie proved him-
11 u skillful and capable statesman. He was
thc recognized lc&dcr of thc Democratic puny in
Congress when Stephen, A. Douglas, Jesse D.
Bright, John Slidell,' George E.
h, James A. Bayard and n5V i; l
wor; in “H asp"'”" “h, V -it
dleton, Vallatidlgham, Cox, Pryor!' SlcCflcr-
d, Niblick, Lamht and John A, Logan were
among thc Democrats In the House. In every
•osltlon his honor was untmpeached and his
Integrity unquestioned.
Many an honest and brilliant states right ,
discipline was led Into accession through a con
scientious beiictiu Use duly ,,f pili,miy allegi
ance to his State. That error changed the posi
tion Jefferson Davis would otherwise have held
at this time among the public men of America.
But it can neither obliterate nor Impair the
merit c( his faithful services to thc Union for
nearly twenty years in tho field and In civil
Office servloaawhich must always identify his
name honorably and creditably with his coun
try'! history.
Tho time is not long past when even the
most widely circulated newspaper in the
North would not have dared to speak these
kindly words of Jeficrson Davis—to say of
him that his name would always he hon
orably identified with his country’s his
tory. Even yet there are journals which
believe that sectional hate is the most
effective of political weapons, and never
refer to Mr. Davis except in insulting
terms. The World’s article indicates the
growth of a jualcr spirit.
thing about this Presidential
year,” said the proprietor, who lias been
in this sort of trade for many years, “that
few of ihe candidates’ faces are known to
the general public. Of course everybody
knows Cleveland’s face. His candidacy
f, nr years ago and the fact that he is
President would of course make his face
familiar. Why, it is as familiar as Wash
ington’s. I don’t know what there is about
it, but there is a something which, when
you look at it, makes yop remember it. I
sweetest don't know vour politics, so you can use
that expression any way you like it. It
will fit either way. It is a part of my
business to talk that
“Now, you would think from all that
has been said about Gresham, and from
the fact that he held two places in the
Cabinet of Arthur, that his face would be
familiar to Americans. The other day I
got a very fine picture of him and hung it
'n the window, and I guess at least twenty
a request with which his jailor
obvious reasons, dared not 1 C ompl7
he fnimj f, **
Notable Ca§e of Jnil Breaking in Former OBVIOUS reasons,
Thnea. j 10 him great jov he fou j’ - -
From the London Standard. his arm chair, fn the \ »
Prison breaking, in the proper sense of which he had concealed his mp™°7f” of
the word, is now .ii event of a very rare was carried to his new cell £L°l * ro P*
occurrence; hut it may be doubted wlietli- managed to find out that a "monkwas'con
own;
thhis
occurrence; out it may be doubted wlieth- managed to find out that a numb
er even the cleverest prison breaker of fined in the cell directly above h-
former times could have accomplished 1“' contrived to commrnicate
their feats m tho present day. Not only fellow prisoner by mean ni l!
are tho physical dlfflcultiea greater than cealed in the hollow undwAahSi?^
books. Eventually this „r : of
they used to be, but the constant inspcc- books. Eventually this niece of'ir*™
tion, the ceaseless round of duties, which transferred from "the lower cell i T? 8
are part of the modern pri.-on discipline, upper under a large pie dish ,„,i ■ ,
give the convicts no time for adventures this tho monk, after many dan’m-rsln la
of that kind. When a man escapes from la ?8, broke a hole into Casanova 1 . Jii'
prison in the present age, he generally does Toe latter prisoner was drawn „„ k
so by cleverly abusing the system of move- ropes, made of clothes, into rl,.L„ y
rnent which the modern system allows, apartment, and from it the two
lie scales a wall while the warder’s back breakers forced their way thromrh
is turned, or, without premeditating an roof and found themselves at list nL
escape, finds a door unlocked and takes ad- leads. Here their real peril* bmn Tt
vantage of the opportunity. Breaking roof was wet and slippery, and the nl.u
through windows or tunneling under walls was pitch dark Casanova missed ?•
is now irapracticn le. But it was not al- footing, and slid down to the
ways so. In the old days convicts were To his horror, he found that hecnuM ,
left shut up in their cells for many hours atop himself—his legs an d . ' . ,
together; they had plenty of time at their his body went over theedLe and
disposal, and it is not surprising that they "e only saved himself by catching lVi.
sometimes spent it in attempting to escape, elbows in the gutter which ran round th.
It would not, perhaps, be too much to say eaves. In this horrible position he him!,
that the annals of war cannot show in- till, by slow degrees, he pulled himself im
stances of greater,daring, or the records of °nec more upon the roof. At leneth he
useful inventions give examples of more noticed a garret window far below It wn*
admirable ingenuity than prisoners have almost inaccessible, but he and his com-
shown in regaining, _ or endeavoring panion reached it and succeeded in enter,
to regain their liberty. No real ln g it. From the garret they made their
escapes, it. may be admitted, can way down to the lower part of the build-
match the imaginary adventures of the }°K n °d when the morning broke thev
abbe and the sailor in “Monte Cristo;’’but boldly walked out into the street. As
some do not leave these splendid fancies » 00n a* ho was in safety Casanova" burst
far behind. A few, but only a few, of the '“to tears. Several other escapes from the
most noteworthy attempts have been made “Piombis” arc recorded; but from the
i>. our own country. Two of them are re- “ Pn **i” the terrible underground dun-
corded in the chronicles of Milibank gcon. by tho walls of tlip canal no uris-
prison, tlie names of the heroes of adven- oner has ever succeeded in forcing his war
ture being Pickard'Smith and “Punch” t0 liberty. 1
Howard. Smith was only 18 years old j
men—business men at that—came in here
ami asked whose picture that was. I
Daily put his name on the bottom of it,
and the next man who came in said: ‘So
that is Gresham, is it? Does it look like
him ?’ ”
"How is it with Blaine?”
“Blaine! A blind man would know
Blaine. That’s easily enough understood,
of course. He has been in politics so long,
and then Puck made his faco familiar.
Do you know that Blaine’s personality is
so strong that you can’t disguise it? I
-aw a man draw his picture thc other day,
leaving off the beard and putting glasses
the nose, hut there was Jim Blaine, just
the same. ’Tain’t many men you can fool
ith in that way. Horace Greeley had
that sort of a face.
You ask mo about Sherman—John
Sherman. Now you would think every-
IjimIv knew his face. They don’t. They
don’t know his lace as weil as they do
Gresham’s A man out in Iowa ordered a
hundred pictureso£ Sherman and I sent
them, niut if he didn’t send them back,
and wrote that I cuuida’t palm any old
newspaper cuts oil on him. That’s the
wa v it goes, and, as they say, such is fame.
‘•How many people do you suppose
know Harrison’s Dice when they see it? I
am in the business, and von would think
that I would know it. I may have some
of hi- pictures, hut ifi have I will thank
you to pick them cut. It’s the same way
witli Alger— and he is a man of more na
tional reputation than Harrison. I have
never had a man call for Depew’s picture;
I have never hail a country order for one.
Depew’s is not such a laid face either, but
somehow there i- nothin” familiar id,,ml
it. It is not wholly unlike that oi Mr.
Arthur.
“Jerry Rusk’s face is a familiar one in
thc Western section of the country. The
trouble with a Western man is that the
Eastern papers do not print his picture
ift»n enough In ntnkc it familiar until he
has got a nomination.”
“Whose picture is that?” I asked, point
ing to one oil thc wall.
The man looked nt it a moment and said
he didn’t know. He happened to look
over the hock of it and -aid: “Oh, yes.
This is Hayes, it. B. Hayes. An old
one i fished out this morning. 1 didn’t
know it until 1 saw the name on it.”
when he made hi. escape from Milibank; From the Dctro’t Free Press
and when the lad s ago is considered, his Mrs. Shamm to Mr*. Gall—Wc reallv
achievement may he thought worthy of can’t make up our minds ns to where "e
ranking beside the deeds of more famous will go this summer. Mr. Shamm would
scamns. Ila was confined in a like to have girls and I go abroad, but I
of which tell him I won’t hear to it unless he cango
scamps. He was
cell, tlie roof
was an arch of solid brickwork. It was with ub, and he'says he "is "rcafiVtoo busv
!j!ni r f U n?. 0f t H e & nS ° n l ’ at °j n galurd "y t0 8° this year, although he might run
"‘^bt clean clothes were served out to the over for a week or two and come home
convicts, the soiled ones remaining in tho with us.
Fifteen thousand handsome, large-sized
photos of Governor Foraked will be
shipped to Chicago for the convention.
This is evidence that John Sherman is
again to be thc victim of his next frieud.
Forakcr is to head tho Sherman delega
tion thiB year, as Garfield did in 1880.
A New Empire.
It would seem that there is no limit to
the English desire for new territory. With
an empire that already stretches " around
the world, and tributary provinces whote
population outnumbers tenfold that of tlie
mother country, constant efforts arc being
made to extend yet more widely the em
pire’s bounds.
The latest movement in this direction
has attracted little attention, but thc re
sults it is intended to accomplish are far-
reaching. This movement takes the shape
of that which resulted in the acquisition
of England’s vast Indian posse.-!,,a
royal charter bleed on thc lines «f
the old East India Company has been
granted to a powerful »«<cciai!es Pro
moted chiefly by Lady Bnrdett-Cbatts and
constituted nnder the name of the East
African Company. The latter is author
ized thereby to take possession of the <l is-
trict in question, to exercise justice, to col
lect revenue, to deal with refractory sub
jects "by force of wm*,” and, in fact, to
wield all the power of a semi-indapadH
government.
The territory in which the new company
will operate is an empire in size, with a
population larger than that of the United
State*. Itextends northward from Zanzi
bar to Abyssinia, with a seaboard ol v-
enteen hundred miles.- Westward it ex
tend* beyond Lake Victoria Nysnxa and
the other great lake* from which the Nile
take* its source, and Include* tl. tm. si
land* and beat markets of Central Afri *.
Over this vast tract and th*seventy mil
lions of people which inhabit it I igUnd
b»s no more right to ml* than -he 1, M t„
rale the United Sutee, bnt nevmhei.-M
the Ooeen
the land
-Facts,
Let ua look at facts first, before theoriz
ing about them. Wages are always high-
hen importations are largest. This is
it tide
any and every tariff. There is
lint one year in tlie last sixty in which
wagea did not follow the fluctuations of
imported merchandise, rising with the rise
of im;>orts and falling with their fall; and
that is the last year of the war, in which
the enormous drain of men for the war
raised nominal wages. But even that year
is no exception to the rule; because in
that year wages, reckoned in gold, as our
imports were, actually full, although, in
pai er valuations, they seemed to rise. But
why do importations increase? Because
the tariff, although unaltered in form, has
become less effectual, and fails to exclude
foreign goods, as it was meant to do.
No one will pretend that a tariff, of it
self al tic, iias any POWST to raise Wage*.
Tlie reason assigned for its doing *o is al
ways that it excludes foreign productions,
and so -'keeps our work for i ur home
workmen.” But this is only another form
for saying that if wc sin-cei d, in any wa;
in excluding importations, wages
rise. The fact is, undeniably, that wages
do not ri-c when importations fail off, and
•!* when importations increase.—
Thomas G. Shearman in Bettord’l Maga
zine for June. m
not ilio Cards !!e Knew.
A Pittsburg man went to a reception the
other night in that city and thus relates
his exp- riencaat “I went to the Poriaby
reception on Tuesday night, and as I en
tered the door a colored man pushed out a
nlate to me. I didn’t know the man
Never raw him I adore. There were cards
and envelope* in thc piste, so I knew he
wasn’t tnkiii” up s ■ idl." 1 '., ii. I i.t 1 didn't
know what 1 was expected to do. It
» isn’t a place for delay, and as the man
kept th<' plate before me I simply took a
card. Tlo-n I pu-hed by thj man into the
house. Winn I reached the dressing-
room I looked at Tnc card ami read iue
Mrs. SonUy Lodge. I don’t know
* .10 t , _ ”, ouuiiuti, nuu Ub uuc 11 III u I Kill (| lllte
clothing four rupea, each of which was in ado up our in imls to go but so many of
y u -£. en ° U - h t0 re . ach ffom one lloor our friends arc going to Bar Harbor a d
of the building to another. Then, with j they are so persistent in their entreaties
the iron pm of the ventilator, he made a , for us to go with them, that we have
hole in the brick roof of his cell, crept; almost allowed ourselves to be persuaded
through it, and found himself under ' into giving un Europe this year and divid-
the slates. He was soon on the; ing our tinio between Newport and "liar
roof of tho prison, from whence he j Harbor. We may, however, run over to
lowered himself by one of his ropes! Paris the latter part of the season.” I rather
to a wiudow nil, from that by a second j think we shall.
,‘ h lL e , X i, W !, ndow . 8111 “ nd “ Mrs. Shamm—How nice if we could sr-
‘ «:n T r U,JU auit». onamm—now nice 11 wo
, he reached thc ground. Once in I range to all come home tocr*ther!
the yard he n anaged to lay his hand on a j Mrs. Gall-Uh, that would be lovely!
rone. Witli whiell lin lnulmrl Irv.- e I "tlT II AS.:.* . .. J*
rope, with which he lashed together two . We really must try to arrange it that
planks, and by their help he scaled the Mrs. Shamm to Mr. Shamm—Mrs.
■ _ti ii j) * ., * .7 ...w sv, *»*i. Ajuuiiuu—Mn. viau
outer wall. ^ 1 unch Howards esetpe | was here to-day, and of all the airs a wo-
W ratoaikidrtff fo*^e**”‘™“--^-^~^*N-- 1 ***•' ih -V P* .9“
<i . ,t able for the extraordinary fact I Talked about “doing Europe” and spend-
tliat the Window through which he ! ing the summer at Bar Harbor' 1 ■
squeezed liirnr '
iqueezed himself was a mere nor- j hardly keep my face straight. Europe,
z.mLl slit in the wall, three | indeed! As if I didn’t know they were go-
" t long, but only ttx and a ing to do as they always do- stay rieht
half inches high. I le afterward s . id that; h< re in the city all the s't.mmer c xVm.ting
be got his head out first, and then (lying : for a few weeks in August, when they'll go
wilt, u > wilggied.akiw.y through, a few miles into the country to a'forty-
When half way out lie threw himself up,
caught the coping of the roof, clambered
up to it, and then, by nis rope of blanket
strips, lowered himself to tho ground.
Fortunately for him, he landed in the
graveyard of tlie prison, and the sentry,
seeing a white object suddenly appear in
that uncanny place, took U for a ghoBt
and fled, while Howard scaled the wall by
the half of a plank and escaped.
One prison breaker, whose adventures
have won for him a place in history, is
Frederick, Baron von Trench, who hail th*
misfortune to offend Frederick II. The
facility with which Von Trenck bribed his
gaolers and corrupted Frederick’s officers,
and the frequency with which he was him
self betrayed, throw a curious light on the
ideas of honor obtaining in Pruisiaat that
period. At his first attempt Von Trenck
attempted to carry off a brother officer who
was, ltke himself, a prisoner; but this in
dividual betrayed him. He afterwards
got a warder to bring him a file, and con
structed a'saw out of a pocketknifc. By
♦he help of these instruments he cut
through his window, which was sixty feet
from the ground; but in descending he fell
and was recaptured. Some lime afterward
tlie commandant of the fortress was
•peaking to him, when Von Trenck, with a
r.ally splendid audacity,seized llieoflicer’s
sword, cut bis way out of tlie place, leaped
from tho rampart, killed a sentry who
opposed him, and would certainly have
succeeded in making good his escape
hut that lie came in contact with another
sentry who overpowered him. Nothing
daunted by his defeats, Von Trenck bribed
- country to a forty-
ninth cousin of Mr. Gall’s, where they get
their hoard for nothing. That’s ju.t shat
fliov’ll sin
they'll do.
Mrs. Gall to Mr. Gall—I called at Mrs.
Shamm’. to-day, and the assurance of thit
woman grows greater every day. She had
the faco to sit and tell me that they ex
pected to “go abroad” this summer, and
that Mr. Shanun would likely “ran over"
and come home with them. I looked at
the woman in blank amazement. I happen
to know that they’re ail going to a dead
little town up in New Hampshire that no
body ever heard of, and that the man they
are going to stay with intends taking his
pay in things out of Shamtu's store. I
don’t see how some people can have the
face to talk os they dot
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
How n Batter County Alan Jumped Inina
lllg Fortune.
Zeltcnoplo, Pa. News.
in 1878 David Btirford,a blind and aged
farmer living in Sugar Creek township,
made a contract with his son, Abram, to
care for him. The son, failing to please
thc father, was discharged. Did Mr. Bur-
ford then agreed with a neighbor farmer,
Franklin Miller, that he would properlv
care for him and his aged wife they would
deed their farm of eighty-four acres to him.
Miller accepted the proposition, and in
February, 187U, he received a deed for the
farm, against which the Burfords held a
mortgage for the enforcement of the agree
ment with him. In 1881 Mrs. Burforddied,
and Miller paid thc funeral expense*. At
■uiLller r i tf7 - ’ ■ 7” *—“'•» ”*‘ueu . the age of 84, ami threevearslater, Firmer
-7!_ *° ldler ’ atld corrupted one Burford died and * " ,! - J
. .. » —. uuo * nunoru u:
officer after another, only to be again be- by Miller,
travctl. r I nil 1 V ll.tvoiroe 1.1 1 •
was respectfully buried
a 1 .??^lljihowaw, he got his guard | ' In a short time Miller*town operators
tn * Ilnur i.;»x s® in a »nort lime Mine mown operant
h.,1 Z d .°, 1D S ’9 !> e ! * < t? 8 ’ d »>e old Burford farm and .fuck
liml Dm . rv' — t 7“5 lu.ifKu im oiu uurioru farm ana wuw
For houreZ'an' tT. ° U * “ n<1 !" »»• -9“ "«. begsn at Kit-
1-or hours he and his companion wandered
about in the cold and darkness, not know
ing where they were. Next day they pro-
cured horses from a peasant who had a son
in the company of the officer who had lied
with \ on lrenck, uid they reached Aus
trian territory. The Governor of Dantzig,
however, delivered him up to the tyrant
Frederick. This time Frederick threw
****** *t*U/ 2. Lauiuw
tanning by the Burford heirs versus Frank
lin Miller. After a four davs* trial and
examination of witnesses, the defendsnt
wpn a verdict before Judge White *t
Kittanning. Judge McCandlcis and Cot
Thompson, of Butler, assisted BsrcUy
and Patton, of Kittanning, for MiB* r »
while the heirs were represented by the
Golden Bros, and Buffington Bros.^ The
her; luv. n't iheaUchtcsiidem who she is.
What did *h«* di-’.rihiitt» ln-r fir.!- ti. •
CihnrU-
the
ih»
I’m iir.trL
laiighc-al ta
ny th ing «ir
?x iiected to do with
tint the colored
3k the card. Did I
So
• one hr
• ■ ■ j , “• — length ssv a*ua bci
frro, and made his way to France, where,
it U said, he perished by the guillotine at
the revolution.
Very clever escapes are detailed in “Un-
dergound Russia,” especially that in which
the prisoner, a man enfeebled by confine-
mett, darted from thc prison yard under
aw. Lose of the sentry at the gate, while
aome heavy hay csrU were entering, and
succeeded in retaining his liberty. But
perhaps the most remarkable ol all
wa* blind and quite deaf, his mind w*»
vigorous.
Over 160,000 barrels of oil have bttn
pumped from the 86-acre farm, and Frank
lin Miller has already received $25,000 m
royalty, and continues to enjoy a hand
some income each year.
GEN. BQBHIDAJTS CONDITION.
Ills Appearance Hotter
Hopeful of lie
Washington, June 10.-
He Is Now
Jeoeral Sheri-
disturbed
Ahore (| 1# ~i 'n | oy ms couvn, wmenwasnot d*' -
where the dreaded council of three held : ,Thefallowla;ba’Jzlia -astuned
GiovannUCasanova" 1 'di°&ing*u7t*from\he ' ^ P 7* d ,* ^ ^ ™ ‘
“Piom'bi” of Venice. A&ve the h.H I » omewh * t b 7 hi » C0U S h . which was
1766, Casanova, a gay and nnscrnpu
adventurer, was confined. He was In
(fair* —.—•—«■> "-'. 'i.umiru. ue was lucky! bald*.81 well and Ms i»m,i t* elrar. i«'”
' to hml in his cell an jro n bolt i» noprut-m indi-atum of any «i-rimis *e»
twenty inches long, and strong enough to taspaalhig His apm-arano- i-bni.-r
d v,u th't v .,„ r <■ ,t .... md M-'-' i rii'-tf hor<-.«l
V., >r r ! i. f. break V r ’" " v 7 r >. u .‘“- ; S - ,V
kz* vork iLrouvIdy W, ' - D.”.,; fur.,!-! , wi.h the ml up.; ivmU IS after » o-Cock, left f-
urshlr. It
Remedy will ,
and it al.av, d
have ret t'/he,
not srromplivh a run
CstAirh i'. A (liuraur ull
nrglf' L A CTIAII) rrmrdy iu u
m«n,l Ar.il uourrrll of it 1^1
thfullr
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ml
by the help 1,1 a
d hi-, u-lt. Hut ,
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andIhe
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