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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY JULY 17.—TWELVE PAGES.
TOE PRICE OF DIAMONDS.
It Has to bo Maintained by Artificial be put on them- -_,■ - fietnher 1st
Methmi. middle . f August to about October 1st,
aimnotis. persons all their time to
From the 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. ann 11 taxes u r i *<
“When I was in London a short time manufacture goods.
ago,” said Mr. D. De S. Mendes, the dia- 1 Most .conspicuous amo^thenoveU^es
mond cutter, of Maiden Lane. “I was al- that will ippear P
lowed as special favor to see the great ing the campaign . p reg _
diamond that was found last year in South ?, °Sr c j?' n f;d er barrels and
A b fri ?*i -I 1 l !i' ng th Y h re , g ? iD £ r “ caged co rns. These will be mounted on
the Jubilee diamond, but * believe it .s and car ried in the van of the
not yet named. It is the whitest stone in \ N8treet dealer in animals
the world, and one of the largest, and is P"»“ oldg , nura ber of o.dera lor live
owned by eight persons on shares, the *>“» d , j t0 ,, ut in a stock of
value being greater than any one even of “ h “ m ’ in amicil ,ation of a big demand,
the enormously rich diamond dealers An enterprising carpenter is manufactur-
- ‘-xs,
* -a**-
ere, in order to reduce it to a regular I SENATOR 1UHPIK ox HARRISON.
Hhane. split off ihits end, and after cu ting j — ... . ,
tlm fragment found they had a fortv-ksrat A Beactlouary Staie.man ‘» r,en Be J« ted
brillian, which they sold to the tfing of | nml to be ReJ^cMil Agaln.
Portugal for 40 000 pounds. The value of Spec!U to the New York World,
the remaimler Wiis not Impaired by the Washington, July “.-Only eight 8ena-
substraction of this trifle, but rather eu- tors were present when the .Senate opened
“d since the split was successful, and to-day Gonatderai.on of the river and
the thane of the stone is improved, ft is harbor bill was resumed. The following
valued bv the owners at 1,500,000 pounds, amendments were agreed to: Making an
and any gentleman who wishes to invest in appropriation forthe Hennepen canal; ap-
• rather costly trifle cannot do better than , preprinting $13 >,000 for the purchase of
to examine it the Green and Barren river improvement
“The owners intend to keep it until the 1 ■« Kentucky, and *350,000 for the pur-
Prince of Wales shall succeed to the chase of the Portage Lake and the Lake
throne of England, and then trv to sell Superior ship canals. The bill was then
it to him. Failing this sale, it is hard to , P^sed. The bill as originally reported
tell what they can do with it.” f™” <•>« Se™ 1 ® committee on commerce
“Who are the owners now?” was asked I appropriated *21,502,783.7/. As it finally
I passed tile Senate to-day it appropriates
j J 2,174,783 77, having been increased by
' the enate $012,000.
Mr. Turple then addressed the Senateon
the President’s tariff message. In his
of Mr. Mendes. *
“I do not think I’d better mention
names,” he replied with that camion
which a dealer in diamonds must needs
have. “There is considerable mystery
maintained about it, and it would not per
haps be safe to tell all the facts, even if I
knew them—about when the stone was
speech he sai 1 there was an eternal jere
miad concerning the pauper labor of Eu
rope, and yet the American farmets and
found, who bought it and what they paid. I planters bad been for many years com-
1 know that there is such a stone, how
ever, for I have seen it, and I know it is
•owned in eight shares, for the gentleman
who showed it to me owned one-eighth.
“It is difficult for people outside of the
business to realize the enormous wealth of
the diamond dealers in London,” he con
tinued. “As an indication, I may say that
the same gentleman showed me one pack
age of stones aggregating 5,000 carats,
which he valued at five guineas a carat.
This was by no means his stock in trade.
It was one of a number of packages.”
“He isonc of the shareholders in the
two great companies which practically con-
• trcil the diamond market of the world.
They are the Central Diamond Mining
Company and the Kimberly Diamond
Mining Company. Between the two they
own or control every important claim in
the world in which diamonds are found.
These are in Africa, for, as is well known,
the supply from the old mines has entirely
ceased. The two companies control hun
dreds of millions of capital, and were
formed by a consolidation of all the small
companies owning claims, for the purpose
of controlling the output, and so keeping
up the value of diamonds.”
“Is the value then fluctuating?”
‘Tv has fluctuated considerably within a
few years. The scare or flurry in the
trade that was talked about after the Afri
can mines were discovered, and was pooh-
poohed by Hie bulls, was a very active re
ality, and was very nearly approaching a
panic when the consolidation was effected.
The large dealcre saw plainly that unless
something was done to limit the supply
the market would be broken, and they
banded together and bought a control of
all the diamond mines. Since that time
no new diamonds have been put on the
market excepting those which they have
allowed, and the price, which had gone
down, has been restored to about what it
Jiad been for many years.”
J'Then the price or value of diamonds
no longer depends upon their natural sup
ply, but upon an artificial restriction of it,”
“Precisely so.”
“And it is within the power of these
two companies to break the market when
ever they choose.”
“Undoubtedly, but they will never do it,
for they would be throwing away millions
of pounds of their own property.”
IT 14 FUN FOR THE HOYS.
•100,000 Spent In Cumimigii Outfit.—
Coons in line Demand.
From the Philadelphia Record.
"It will cost about $100,< 00 to fit out all
the campaign clubs in this city,” said a
dealer in campaign goods yesterday. "The
parades are going to be larger than ever
before, and the style of uniform to be worn
will be more elaborate and expensive than
in past years. What does it cost to St a
man out? Well, uniforms can be bought
as low as 75 cents and they can be bought
for $5, the price depending, of course, on
quality of the goods. I have been in this
business a great many years,” said the
dealer, “and it seems to me that with each
aucceeding campaign the desire for good
parading outfits increases. Oh, yes; there
have been great improvements in the man
ufacture of uniforms. Some time ago the
men used to turn out with colored paper
capes and paper bauds around their hats,
but you see very little, of that in these
times. From the paper capes they changed
to oil cloth, and this year there is a hi)
demand tor substantial cloth capes. Oi
cloth is but little used now.
“The wearing of leggings will also be
very much in vogue. They are made of
canvas, and cost from 25 cents to 50 cents a
pair. Capes can lie bought anywhere from
‘20 cents to $1, and t|ie torches are selling
at $52 per hundred.
“ There baa been a marked improvement
in the torches. I have patented one here
that is warranted not to leak, and can be
handled all evening without soiling either
the paraders’ clothes or hands. There are
many novel designs in these flaming
lights, the flambemiT of ancient pattern he-
ing the most popular with clubs that are
fitted ought regardless of expense. With
some of these torches a very startling ef
fect can be produced, and at a signal from
the captain the whole column will burst
forth in Hama This ia done by means of
an air tube leading from the base of the
flame to the bottom of the torch. By-
blowiug in this the flame will shoot up
two feet high.
“But the most money is spent on ban
ners. Those that are swung across tbe
streets in front of the headquarters of
the political cluda cost from $76 to $200,
the prices varying according to the amount
of work on them. Of course, a banner on
which there ia nothing but the name of
the club and its candidate doesn’t come
very high, but if the pictures of tbe Presi
dential and Vice-Presidential candidates
la are wanted on it the services of a good
■ photo-painter are required, and the cost
F wit! be much higher. The number of ban
ners now being made ia much larger than
usual, and every club, no matter its sue,
wants a banner of some kind.
“There is also a great demand for trans
parencies. They can be made at almost
any price, the cost varying according to
peting with the pauper labor of Europe,
Asia and Africa. The existing policy of
so-called protection has forced that compe
tition, What, he asked, had cheapened
and pauperized labor in India, Egypt,
China, or elsewhere?
it was long ages of commercial restric
tion and repression, the entire inhibition of
foreign traffic, a constant seclusion and iso
lation of manufactures, an exclusively in
ternal consumption both of work and
wares that produced diy rot and marasmus.
And yet it was seriously proposed that the
young American natisn should receive its
les-oii in political economy and in the prac
tical ruhsoi its revenue administration
from the ar.haic and mouldering systems
of the Mikado and the Mandarin.
Protection was a good servant but a bad
ma«tcr. Over-protection led to over-pro
duction, and to consequent stagnation and
decay. It could not be shown lliut any
person or corporation who was engaged in
good faith in the business of manufactur
ing would be inj ired by the reasonable re
duction of duties proposed in the Af ills bill,
or that any employe would be harmed
The emancipation of labor from the
operation of unjust laws, the liberation of
agriculture, commerce and manufacture
from inequitable and impoverishing re
strictions! the restoration of the people to
their ancient commercial rights and fran
chises—it was this that was proposed by
the message of the President.
Tite consummation of this would not be
retarded or prevented bv the action of the
Chicago convention. The platform and
the nominee of that convention were alike
exponents of the views and interests of
those privileged castes, which had so long,
under the loud and false .clamor of pro
tecting others, cared only for themselves;
who bad learned nothing of popular in
terests except to betray them. The can
didate of the Chicago convention was a
well-beloved and chosen representative of
the rauk and lawless growth of incorpo
rated power. He (the candidate) would
faithfully befriend, protect and encoursge
American industries by the highest, most
prohibitory and unnecessary restrictions,
and by the permitted immigration of the
Chinaman. Although he was a man of no
inconsiderable capacity, of great mental
force and acumen, he had that which was
not often found with such qualities—a
harsh intolerance which treated disease as
idiocy. Deeply touched and tinged with
the prejudice of an exclusive class aris
tocracy, lie belonged to that group of reac
tionary statesmen (traditional paternalists)
whom tlie people had w> often rejected and
would reject again.
The entire sea-ion of the House was de
voted to filibustering against the Anthra-
cite_ Union Pacific bill, which its friends
desired to bring up under a suspension of
tlie rules, and which its opponents succeed
ed in preventing. *
THE FIGHT ON FULLER.
size and the nature of the inscriptions to this evening that Mr. Cullom had with-
Mv season lasts from the drawn his recommendation of Mr. Fuller,
■ - “ • u- fiut there teems to be no foundation for
the story.
In spite of all his friends can do' it will
be some time, in all probability, before
Mr. Fuller is confirmed. Senator Hoar,
who will undoubtedly vote for him, has
gone home fore vacation of a week or two,
and in his absence it is not likely that any
thing will be done. The Democratic Sen
ators do not feel like forcing the fighting,
and thus provoking partisan bitterness.
They propose to move cautiously, and that
they will win in the end nobody doubts.
The pettifogging of the opposition isj dis
gusting self-respecting Senators.
French .Millinery.
From the London Telegraph.
Why should there have been held, ard
with triumphant success into the bargain,
an exhibition of millinery at Montmor
ency, which, fir all its grandly ancestral
name, is only an unpretending little town
fourteen miles from Paris, situated on a
bill surrounded by abounding thickets of
chestnut trees? Montmorency has a his
tory, and a very interesting one; but it has
never been to any appreciable extent con
nected with the chi'onicles of bonnets, caps,
lace, stockings, gloves and the other ad
denda of feminine attire known under tin?
generic term of millinery, in contradistinc
tion to dressmaking. ;Of the Chateau of
Montmorency, built by Guillaume, lord of
that ilk,"scarcely a vestige remains. The
fine old Golhic chu'ch, it is true, is still
standing; but its interior was so completely
gutted at tlie Revolution, and subsequently
by the “Black Band of Dealers in Curiosi
ties,” as to cause a recent traveler to ob
serve that the most remarkable relics nt
present existing in the church were the
tombs bf tlie two Polish generals, Kniaz-
cewicz and Memcewiez, who were killed in
an emeute—relics chiefly remarkable from
(he fact that not one Frenchman out of
10,000 would be able properly to pronounce
the names of the defflnet Sannatians ia
I lies (ion. Again, Montmorency claims at
tention as the site of the Hermitage, which
igluaiiy a peasant’s cottage, the
property of Mine d’Epinny, who offered it
as an asylum to Jean Jacques Kousseau.
There, in 1756—5'*, the mad, bad philan
thropist and philosopher wrote the “Nou-
velle Heloine;” and there, according:!© tra
dition, during the Feign of Terror, Jtobes-
pierre passed a few weeks in rural seclu
sion, occupying his leienre by drawing up
lists of proscription on the very table on
which the Philosopher of Geneva h*d
penned the lackadaisical enrrespondenceof
Julie and 8t. I’reux. That same table af
terwards served Grelry, the composer* as a
desk whereon to score some of the most (is-
lightfnl operas of the latter period of hi*
career. He became wealthy enough to
Hirrhase the Hermitage and there he,died
u IMS. What, however the captious
ask, had the author of the “Nouvelie-
Heloise,” the terrible member of the com
mittee of public safety, or the graceful
composer of “Elmire and* Azure, to do
with ribbons, chains and ouches, and all
the fripperies of Autolycus’stock in trade?
Kousseau was a sloven, and he certainly
failed to drc.-;:; his unworthy- wife Teresa in
anything approaching th- height of fash
ion. Grctry was fonder of good cheer tjum
of feminioe fal-lals, and Kobcspierrc, al
though somewhat of a dandy in miniature,
was a bachelor, and much less of an adept
iu adorning the heads of the ladies than in
cutting them off;
There is a reason, nevertheless, in the
roasting of eggs, and French millinery may
fairly put iu a claim to be appropriately
represented at snch a place os Montmor
ency. For more than two generations the
town and the fascinating country sur
rounding it have been the resort of all that
is witty,, beautiful and bright in Parisiau
society. The charming little chalets which
Araedee Achard used to declare had been
built after the model of the scenery in the
fourth act of William Tell have been the
residence nt various periods of Taglioni
and Funny Elsler, of Mademoiselle Mars
and the Duchess of Dino; while local tra
dition records that the unsurpassed trage
dienne Rachel experienced no greater
pleasure thaD in trotting on donkey-back
through tlie valley of Montmorency. As
for the world-renowned “auberge” of the
Cheval Blanc, the landlord, prior to the
war of 1870, was wont to declare that his
album comprised the autographs of tlie
Russian Gen. Kostopchin and of Sir Wal
ter Scott, of Berryer, Fenimore Cooper,.
Lord Brougham, Kubini, Meyerbeer, Ros
sini, Alfred de Musset, Tony Johnnnot and
Ibraham Pasha. It is the railway, how
ever, which has been the greatest means of
popularising Montmorency. Every Sun
day in the summer season all that in Paris
is considered to be “chic" or smart, vola
tile and vivacious, has trooped by quickly
succeeding trains down to the valley, the
woods, the lake, the chalets and the inns
of Montmorency. The fashionable world
has not deserted it, but the smiling spot
has grown every year a theater favorite
with the humbler classesof Parisian pleas
ure-seekers—the lingerers of the Rue Vin
cennes anil the Chanssee d’Antin, the pret
ty glove sellers of the boulevards and the
passages, the sylph-like creatures who pre
side over the “Magasins de Blancs” of the
Rue St. Ilonorc, the jietile bourgeoises of
the Rue St. Denis and the Faubourg Mont
martre, the Aspasiaa of Notre Dame de
Lorette and the Phyrnes of the (juartier
Breda, to say nothing of such grisettes as
the now transformed Quartier Latin baa
left sparkling on the surface of Lutetian
Bohemianism. All these have passed, anil
continue to pass, at Montmorency, the
most enjoyable of their outings; and, if
there be any truth in the proverbial locu
tion that who drives fat oxen should him
self he fat, it may he said by a parity of
reasoning that there could scarcely be a
more suitable localilv for an exhibition of
millinery than a suburban pieasaunce to
which during so many years such a crowd
of milliners have resorted, ft will {bus
become perteetly comprehensible whv
Montmorency lias been selected as the
place above all others in which t» gather a
competitive assemblage of the triumphs of
the French modistes. The exhibition, it
is understood, has proved exceptionally
successful, the only drawback being that
the jury of feminine experts have bein
slightly puzzled how to award the prizes
for best hats and bonnets, owing to the sur
prising excellence of the specimens ex
hibited.
A Reply in Fart to Arnol.l.
W. I). Howells ill Harper’s Magazine (or July.
Yet some good things we have done,
some great things achieved, and among
these Is the abolition of that “distinction”
which \fr, Arnold found wanting in our
life. We have noticed a disposition among
the critics of his criticism to dispute the
fact, but it is his only stricture upon our
conditions which we should gladly accept
as true. If wc have really got rid of dis
tinction of the sort he seems to prizf, we
have made a great advance on the lines of
our fundamental principles. If wc under
stand it aright, distinction of the sort that
There is a man iu the county whn
The Big Spook that Haunts - aZusix t" 1 ™ tlV’ 16
a Lone Fisherman.
SOME SNAKE STORES IN SEASON,
The Nmi Fnte of sir. Holmes’ Horse—A
Thomn*v!lle Editor See* n St range
Sight The Road from Kden
to Amer!cu«—Notes.
Schemes of Spiteful Senator*— IngalU and
Edmund* Doing Their llent.
From the Chicago Herald.
Washington, July 2.—The nomination
of Melville W. Fuller was at last taken
out the judiciary committee to-day, re
ported to the Senate, and placed upon the
calendar. No report was made, os the Re
publican members of the committee, led by
Edmunds and Ingalls, would not consent
to a favorable re;mrt, and the Democrats
would not consent to an unfavorable one.
The best they could do was to succeed in
having tlie nomination reported.
The meeting of the judiciary
committee to-day is said to have been
quite interesting. The Democratic mem
hers were diplomatic, and, although hot
with indignatiou at the unwarrantable
course of Ingalls and Edmunds, restrained
themselves and abstained from pressing
the matter to a vote. There was danger
that the malignant Kansan might strive to
make confirmation a party qmstion, and
that he would be backed by the Vermonter,
and for this reason the Democrats bridled
their tongues am! Iheit wrath.
The scheme, however, to draw party
lines will hardly prove successful. Before
the nomination was sent in the President
consulted with the two Illinois Senators,
and they commended Mr. Fulle; in high
terms and expressed their entire willing
ness to vote for confirmation. After the
nomination was made the Senators and
others of the Republican aide, among them
Messrs. Spooner and Frve, accorded to Mr.
Fuller high praises both as to character
and attainments. Then Evarts and Hoar
are favorably disposed, and the impression
is that Edmunds and Ingalla will fail in
their design to hang up the nomination
until after the Presidential election.
Sharp criticism is indulged in on the
action of the judiciary committee to-day.
“It was a very cheap performance,” said
one leading lawyer, “if the committee
was against Fuller it should have had the
courage to say so; and if some of the Re
publicans were in favor of him they also
should have had the manlineaa to go on
retord to that effect.” In the ten minute*
during which the Senate was in executive
session, the report of the judiciary com- , _ .
mince was received, but nothing at all was "hows itself in manner and. bearing toward
done with iu A report was in circulation on *’* fellow-men ia something that can ex-
A HEADLESS HOUSE.
if we have a civilization of our own, is
founded upon tlie conviction that any such
distinction is unjust and deleterious, and
our whole political being is a protest
against it. In every way our history has
said that a game ot that kind was not
worth the caudle, and that human nature
was better in itself than any aristocratic
extract or decoction from it. One of tho
truths which Americans have always held
to be self-evident was that a man, if he was
ilonest, was not only privileged, but was in-
duty hound, to look other men in the face,
with eyes as nearly upon the same level as
congenital differences would allow. The
fear^vith most Americans to whom this
truth is precious hns been that our social
structure was not responsive to our polit-
j ical ideal; that the snobbishness, more or
less conscious, which alone makes distinc
tion possiflle, was at least microscopically
present in our composition. But if an ob
server like Mr. Arnold, accustomed to dis
tinction as it shows itself in European civ
ilization, was unable to perceive it here—
if he could find gieat ability, power, good
ness, in our uoted men, and every virtue
except distinction, we may reasonably con
sole ourselves with the hope that snobbish
ness is also absent from all Americans not
corrupted by the evil communications of
the old world.
So far from feeling cast down by Mr. Ar
nold’s failure to detect distinction in a na
tion which has produced such varied types
of greatness in recent times as Lincoln,
Longfellow, Grant, Emerson, John Brown,
Mrs. Stowe, Hawthorne, not to name many
others eminent in art and science and
finance, we are disposed to a serene com
placency by it. Here, we may say, with
just self-congratulation, is positive proof
that we have bnilded better than we knew,
and that our conditions, which we have
always said were the best in fhe world,
have evolved a type of greatness in the
presence of which the simplest and hum
blest is not abashed. Somehow, the idea
that we call America has realized itself so
far that wc-airenuy nave identification
rather than distlntion as the fact which
strikes the foreign critic in our greatness.
Our notable men, it seems, are notable for
their likedess to their fellow-men, and not
for their nnlikeness; democracy has subtly
hot surely done its work; our professions
of belief in equaltiy have had their effect
in our life; and whatever else we lack in
homogeneity, we have in- the involuntary
recognition of their common humanity- by
our great met^ something that appears- to
be peculiarly American, and that we think
more valuable than the involuntary as
sumption of superiority, than the distinc
tion possible to greatness, among peoples
accustomed 1 to c inge before greatness.
HARRISON ON A WHITE 1IOHSE.
Bogus Fnnm- tttxl Genuine Discomfiture for
Chinese Ben.
Indian A seas, July 2.—A great deal of'
comment and considerable bad blood has
keen caused here by the action of the man
agers of the cyclorama of the “Battle of
Atlanta.” This cyclorama was bnilt by a
popular subscription of $iu shares and
upward. Democrats as well as Republi
cans are stockholders.
On Wednesday morning an artist ap
peared pn the scene, and very shortly
thereafter the picture of Captain Theodore
Davis, war conrespondent of Harper’s
Weekly, disappeared, and in its stead ap
peared General Harrison, mounted' on a
white horse. Harrison wasn’t in the battle
at nil.
This alteration roused the indignation
of the Democratic stockholders, and they
immediately proceeded to make things
warm for tlie management, with the result
that the directors have ordereil the picture
restored to its original form.
THE NEW BONDS.
The Familiar Features of Little Aleck to
Attorn Them. »
Atlanta, July 9.—The contract for on-
graving and printing the new- issue of
Georgia bonds was let this afternoon- by
State Treasurer Hardeman. The contract
was awarded the St. Louis Bank. Note
Company, of St. Lou is, for $1,760 to. en
grave and print the bonds under an act
approved Sept 5th, 1887. Tlie bond* are
to he oompieted by Sept. 5th. Thore will
he nineteen hundred one thousand dollar
due in series of one hundred bonds each
beginning in 1898 and continuing until
lOUts On the face of each bond will be a
vignette of the new State capitol, and a
picture of the late Alexander H. Stephens,
while on the face and back witli the coat
of arms of Georgia. Treasurer Hardeman
saya that the premium, which amounts to
60^750, when applied to State obligations
falling due within the next three yeitrs,
will save the State interest enough to make
the new issue practically four and one-
eight per cent-bonds.
From the New York Commercial-Advertiser.
The Chicago Tribune supports the Re
publican party but opposes it* policy. It
cries aloud for “Harrison and tariff re
form,” knowing all the while that a vote
for Harrison will be a vote against tariff
reform, because Harrison, if elected at all,
will be elected to carry out the programme
of tariff increase, free whisky and extrav
agant expenditures laid down in the Chi
cago platform, and his election will enforce
that policy. The fact is that the Tribune
is opposing its own principles, sacrificing
its convictions and violating its conscience
merely for the sake of retaining iu place
as the organ of a party whose policy and
present principles are repugnant and repul
sive to it. Its case is (ike that of any
o.her who yields to the temptation to sin
for gain.
Tlie Philadelphia Telegraph is in like
cate, but iu course is more cuuecieiiUuiis.
It says as little as possible about _ candi
dates or parties, but goes on pleading for
tariff reform and thus doing all it can to
induce iu intelligent readers to vote for
Mr. Cleveland without declaring itself for
him. It is much too sensible a newspaper
to imagine that tariff reform can be pro
moted^by the success of tlie party which
opposes tariff reform, and it doea not take
iu readers for fools. The Chicago ticket is
not likely to he helped in any marked de
gree by the Telegraph.
Flmillni for Maxwell.
St. Louis, July 9.—To-day wa* the time
set apart by Guv. Moorehouse to hear the
argument of the attorneys of Hugh M.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, for eomnintetTnn of
sentence for murder of Preller, but the
governor bad received such a number of ap
plications, petitions and letters from all
paru of the Bute which be thought the at
torneys ought to examine before beginning
their argument, that he postponed argument
until to-morrow. Mrs. B:oocs and her
daughter had an interview with Hie gov
ernor, and made an earnest appeal lb him to
■are their son snd brother from the gallows.
He listened attentively, snd said he would
give the oase the benefit of bis best judg
ment. .
Too Talented Fir n Q„l e t Count,
From tho Lexington Echo,
thirty years old’ Sltmly built and
with shoulders diooped. He ha, JI "
different names and as n-nny
passing as sewing machine agent, re»l„^
dete live and artjst, all of which h '
proved false. He has been going ai*
among farmers, staying all night Indies?
ing without paying lodging, (hen a.i
the negroes and telling Them that lie h?!
warrants for their arrest and crea Jn
general disturbance. We simply S.{
_ t , . that the people will not be in!posed
Everybody in. Albany knows Dink Mel-. by this scoundrel. U 1 J0D
vin, the fisherman and boatman, and A.k tho ftTwho shot th. Rookat
doubtless everyone who has ever been on a From the Thomssvlllc Times, July r,
fishing expedition with him up the Muck- ! Sitting,on our verandah last eveninr
alee or Kinchafoonee has heard the story jj®’ 1 ’ 11 '®’' of nature a ,
he tells about a ghost that haunts the night, we were somewhat s^tle^and"," 7
banks of, the river in the vicinity of the | mueh surprised to see a shootine dim
fair grounds. ffvino tin,.noli, ti— ® ei, r
When Dink gets wound up he can tell
as many ghost stories as any man living,
and he has told the particular ghost story
to which we refer so often that lie notonly
believes it himself, but rounds it off so
nicely, bringing in many interesting de
tails and giving such range to his rare na
tive diecriptive powers that he cannot fail
to interest, even though he may not im
press orcouvince the Itstei er.
TJfE G1I08T
that Dinli de cribes so eloquently is in the
shape of a hep while horse without a head.
The' horse is perfect in shape, except he
has no head, and Dink says that he has
been seeing it for the last five or six years.
Its trysting place is along the river hanks
ii» the vitality of ihe fair grounds, and
Dink says that he can show it to any man
that will 30 with him after nightfall. If
he gets in his boat and rows across tlie
river the big whit« home follows him to a
certain place and then disappears. It has
gi en him several bad frights, and one
Sunday evening,.as he was returning from
the creeks above, the thing came right up
to hie boat and seemed t > be tr ing to put
its fore feet in it’. Dink says that he has
been scared a good many times, but this
was the worst fright he ever had in His
life.
A News and Advertiser scribe was one
of a fishing p»rty that camped on the
Muckalee one night last week, and heard
Dink tell this wonderful story.
“I’d just like to see some man that had
tbe grit to shoot attiiething, but t wonld’nt
care to be close to him-when he done it,”
said Dink. >
“Well, sir, you take me there and show
it to me, and I’ll shoot at it,” said the
scribe.
“no am, boss, don’t Yotr do it,”
interrupted Harrison Pettis, the scribe’s
faithful boatman, from the outer edge of
the tent, “kase I tell you why—I knowed
a man what shot at a ghos’, an’ lie died in
arbout three weeks. No sir, don’t yon
shoot at uai. thing, for I don’t want you to
die.”
An engagement was made with Dink to
v'nit the haunted spot on-Inst Friday even
ing, but at the appointed time Dtnk begged
to be excused until Sunday evening, say
ing that lie was sick and> didn’t feel well
enough to take the walk and face the
ghost. He then promised to call for tho
scribe between sundown and dark on Sun
day evening, but, he failed to show up.
Another appointment will be made, and
flying through limitless seeing ua-
wa-id instead of downward as has a 1 wa
in oi»r observation heretofore been Hie
torn. Tlie action of this luminous body in
all save that u went up instead of down
was according to the old custom leavin,
its tail of fiery sparks and bar-ting lii»h
up m the heavens. Can some of , ur ii-
enlists explain why this reversing of the
order of things celestial ?
A Corpse Gives llmnkv.
From the Buena Vista Patriot.
Las> Friday morning a negro- died, or
was supposed o be dead, on the place of
Mr. John M. Smith, near Brantley. Prep*,
rations were being made for tlie l,urijj|
wlieu the woman raised up and exclaimed.
I hank God 1” It is said that people
that condition can see and understand
everything going on about them hut are
powerless to move a muscle, and ibis ex
clamation seems to verify that belief, a,
she was thankful that she had escaped he-
in ? buried alive. The woman is livingjmd
doing well.
To Sustain the City's Dignity,
From the Amerlcus Itepa Alean.
A colored man who wanted to go to Ma
con on the Fourth and enjoy the hospital
ities of that city as well as the sights to be
presen'cd to day, indited a note to Mayor
Felder, to the eff.ct that lie should let him
have the cash to enjoy himself on.
“Deer Mistor Feelder,” said he, “I wan't
ter go to Macon and enjoy mvself, and if
you plea-e let me have six dollars so as I:
can act like a gentleman representing the
big city of Americus. K-wpectfolly,
Regulation Drunk at Smith,ill,-.
From the Smitliville New*.
1 lie following story, if true, is rather
tough on somebody: "A man walked into-
a Leesburg bar and called for some whisky.
A small glass and a decanter were set be
fore him. He b-oked at the glass dubt-
biously and said: “Is tills the largest glass
you’ve got?” The barkeeper eyed him a
moment and then asked: “You’re from
Smithrilie, ain’t you?” “Yes, that’s my
home.” “John,” said the barkeeper calling
to the porter, “give him that piut measure
over there!”
The Ilonest Granger's-Mistake.
From the Marietta Journal.
A laughable incident happened not long
ago. One of our highly respected farmers
in going home from town, found a hustle
on Roswell road, that some female hid
lost from her “make up.” The farmer, in
hia un-ophisticated innocence, thought it
was a new fashioned rat trap and carried
we intend w either see that ghost or a.. I “home, baited It and placed it on the
voltop a monumental Bur who would tell a banktocach mmk. But it didnt
lie on credit, or free gratia, sooner than tell c * , ? h / H h« had baited it with a pretty
the truth for oaah. I g'fl he would have caught a dude.
BABY HUMORS
From.Eden to-Americas,
From the Savaunah.TImes.. I
in a few weeks work will be begun at ‘ , -r\-
track laying on tlie new railroad that will Alld all Skin and Sf'fdp DlS--
conne t'Eden.and America*. I eases Sneedilv Cured
President Alexander informed a Times i eases1 Opeeauy UUrea
reporter this morning that the work will i by LlltlCUra.
be prosecuted vigorously- The surveys
are nearly completed ami the way is clear Our little son will 1» four years of age on tin
fni* finiftlc ronHtrtifttinn Tha rontl will lm 25th lost. In Miiy f 188-S, hu wit (Utickcd with i<
lorqjiloK c onHtru«ii° n . ine ro»owm D« very paloful breaklii* out of me ikin. Woctll-
abouti U)0 miles long, ami for quite a «lis* «><i in n physician, who tn nttfl him for about
tance will run on the line that was lerelletl four week*. The child received little or no good
for the defunct Savannah, Dublin, and ^Zl^ Z'XXkZ
We»U*rn roau. . vated form, became larger tin blotche*. and more
There i» no railroad running through and more dintremdiiK We were frequently
• he irreoter iinet of the country ulonir the obliged to get up in the nlg.lt and rub hint with
coupon bonds,, each bond bearing four and route of th* new line, and it will open up 5recaMv*uther llt phyflc!aua 1 unHi no leH"'h»n
half per cent, interest, foiling a fine section, of undulating, healthv farm- six had attempted to cure him, all alike falling,
‘! ,c “ now “"’’d^bSSuha'aMh ^iwjm^whra «T-‘
scattered. When the road geta into oper- gan to give him Cutionra k»*«dvent iuternally,
..... ‘ * *’* ‘ * “ apexternHllr.
no nearly well
the Resolvent
. , ... „. nu* ten d«ys
able fine timber land along the road which longer, and he ha* never been troubled lioce
offers inducements to lomtermen that will ^ e A°. r H ofVtoU&l emigrel£Sw&
net remain uulaken for any length of a little leas than one boa oi Uutlcura, ami ouly
time after the means of reaching the one cake of C'utleuaa Soap.
markets L afforded II. E. RYAN Cayuga, I.lvlnrstonCo., Ill.
mi ., , ’ ,, . , Hnbscrtbed anil sworn to before me this 1th
_ The General was unable to estimate the | day of January, 1SS7. C. N. COE. J. I.
time that w»uld lie required to complete i
the road, but as a large force of men will SCROFULOUS HUMORS,
be employed, the close of the present year ! Last spring I was very slclt, bote* covered!
• ■ 1 J with souie kind of scrofula. Tho doeiors reuld
n t help me. I was advl.ed to try the Cullcure
scattered, v, nen me roau gels lino oper- g.n to give him Cutionra Resolvent interns
ation it is thought that it will fill up »n<l thoCutlcura, an.l Cutlcuru H. .pextern,
rapidly and devriop into one of the finest IhSiuSElv
portion* of tlie otate. 1 here ih consider- nbout every second da/ for about ten d
will aee it very well advanced.
Kf>«olvent. I dl l no, nod iu a day I grew bfder
and better, until I am a* well n* ever. I'lb*aa
you for it very mueh, aud would like to nave
told to the pu
. HOI
F.DW. HOFMANN. North Atlkboro, Mm*.
A Rellnblo IMgeon Story.
From the Talbotton New Era.
Heading your pigeon story reminded me
of a nigeon story I have heard my friend,
Mr. John O. Holmes, tell. It ran thus: Cutlcura. the great ►kin ctue, and Cutlcgrj
“One morning before it was light I went
upon I igeon creek to shoot pigeons. I are a po»nivM*uru for every form of akin ana
tied luv horse to a swinging limb, and ; blood dl*enu> from pimples to scrofula.
ra „ !° l TT C ‘°, r , T : ^ Price! Cullenra, 60a: 8o.P;
to see how to shoot. When it was light re.: Rrsolnut. *1. Prepared by the fotter
enough I shot at some pigeons near by and ; l'rna snd chcnilcnl Co.. Boston, Mass,
when the smoke cleared a«ay I noticed
that my horse was gone. I looked ill
around for himj but could see him no
where until, hearing a groan, I looked up
and saw him hanging in the air. I had
tied him to tlie top of a tree on which the
pigconB were roosting, and when I fired
the gun the pigeons flew, the tree straight,
cnetf lip and carried my horse with it-
Friend John is a strict member of tho
Church.”
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WW"S#nd f*»r “How to Cure Skin l)l»ea»e*. 64
pages, fio ill UNtratlona sad 100 teatlmonUla*^,
T» A UV’sI«kln >s.t Scalp preserved *™ 1
Dn 15 1 (O beautified by Cutlcura Medic*-
ted Soup.
PAINS AND WEAKNESS
feiimlM Instantly relieved by' tMl
new, elegant an I tnfaltlbla Antidot*
to Dalu.luSaiuuiatiut! aud -V
Ihe Cutlcura Anil-Pula • * . It
The llrit and uuly palu-subdulDg pla»ler- a
cent..
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this season. It is a icientific combination of the best tonics, and
those who use it begin the hot summer days with clear heads,
strong nerves, and general good health. Paine’s Celhiy t
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