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The Irwin County News Official Orgsin of Irwin County. A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r. DIRECTORY: Mayor—A. U. DeLoacb. Couucilnum —W. B. Dasbier, I. L. Murray. H. W. Cockrell, E. K. Smithy J. P. Fountain, Superior Courts—First Monday Hawkins- in April anoi'tSotOber. C. C. Smith, Jjudge, viHo.Ga. Geueral-—Tom Easpn. McRae,Ga. Solicitor D. Paulk, Ir- , Clerk Superior Court—J. B, win villa, Ga. Ruby* Ga. Sh >riff—Jass« T 'auj , Priescott, Deputy Sbri.ua—C. L. Irwin- vide, Ga.; Wm. VauHouten, ibycaraore, Ga. County Court — Monthly session, second Monday; Quarterly session, second Monday iu January, April, July and Outober. J. B. Clements, Judge, Irvrinville. Gat. Couuty Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir¬ win ville, Ga. Mon¬ County Commissioners’ Court—First day in '-icli month. M. Henderson. Commis¬ sioner, 0 ilia. Ga. Ordinary s Court—First Monday in each month, Dr ue! Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga. School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru¬ le. Ga. County Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin- Tu:r Recei er—... .T. Mobley, Vic, Ga. Ga. 'f ax Co.lector—J W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga, {Surveyor—M. Bax .«;s, Miunie, Coroner—Daniel Hull, Miunie, Ga. Chair¬ Board of Education—Jno. Clements. man, Irwinvrille, Ga.; Henry T. Fletcher, L. Ir- D. winville, Ga:,,; L. R. Tucker, Vic, Ga.; Taylor, Xrwiuville, Ga.; 8. E. Coiaman, Ocalla, Judaea Ga, Courts— 901 Disfc. G. M., Second Saturday in each month. Marcus Luke, N. 1. aud cx-offi. ,1. P ; Win. Rogers, Bailiff, Irwiuville, Ga, Saturday ineaeh 1388 Disc. 6. M., Third mont.i. iff. V. Hanley,{J. P.; David Troup, Bailiff. Minnie, Ga. USd Dist G. M., Tim'd) Wednesday ineaeh month. C. L It yai, J, I'., Sycamore, Ga.; A. Joues&P. Royal, Bd ilift's, Sycamore, & Ex- Ga, 9S2 Disc. G. Iff.. D. A Ray, A. P. c iiicio J. P .. Sycamo re. 1 l a. _ _____LODCt L1RSCTORY. Sycamore Lodge, iNo 210 F. A; A. M. Rt.gu.rta communications 2nd and -ith iSatu - day. W. L. Story, W. M.; J. F. Royal, Sec. \munieuffion Oeilla Lodge, I’. & A. M.—Regular com- Thursday, before the util Sunday 111 each month. .J. A., J, Henderson, W. M. ; V. W. M. Whitley, Sfec’y, Ocilia, Gu. CHUi.CN DIRECTORY- sycamore circuit. • Sycamore—2nd.Sraiday Sunday. and Sunday night. CycJoaeta—First Grove—3rd Sunday and Saturday Rmey before. ' Clemon’i; Chapel—4ih, Sunday aud Satur¬ day Damascus—4th before. Sunday afternoon and 5th Sunday. Prayer,meeting Sycamore Thurs¬ at every day night; Sunday school Sunday morning at lb;30 O’clock, J. tv. Connors, Pastor. UNION PRIMITIVE'.BAPTIST. Brushey Creek—4.h Sunday and Saturday before. Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Satur¬ day .pompe, ‘I.r f? fotoCoFt*. •• Saiem—Sfd'Sunday W. H. ,mct Harden, i-inurciav Pastor. before. Eld. Little Rivur—3rd Sunday and Saturday lief ore. Turner’s Meeting House—2c.d Sunday and Saturday before Oaky Grove—4th Sundry and Saturday bitore Emaus—1st Sunday Bld. J'amjib and Saturday,before GIbbs, Pastor. xvotricij. Parties are warned that lots uo of hunting Nos. or fish¬ ing will be t.llowed on land 13, 14, 17, IS, 3.9 and 44, in 3rd district of Irwin county, Wiley Fletcher. “ ----- PROFESSIONAL CARDS. h. story, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia. jyjAHK ANTHONY, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia. Will to loe .ted for the present at the Dod¬ son House. Patronage respectfully sol'.cited. rjv MV. ELIjIS PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Ruby, Georgia. Calls promptly attended (o at nil hours. I respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage Office ia B. H Cockrell’s store. J-JR. J. F. GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Ashbury, Georgia. Caffs answered promptly day or night. £3?”Special attention to diseases of women aud children. JgBNXON STRANGE, M, D. SPECIALIST. Cordellk, Georgia, Diseases of women, Strictures, Nervous oiid all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬ ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth curreut of GalvauGm without pain or detention from business; aud given to patient iu a vial of alcohol. Correspondence solicited aud best references given. Office north-east cor¬ ner Suwanee House. B. M. FUIZZELLE, LAWYER, McRae, Georgia. Practices in tho Slate and Federal Courts. Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties. W A. AARON, LAWYER, Ashburn, Georgia. Collections and Ejectment suits a Special¬ ty. gfOffice, Room No. 4, Betts Building. c. W. FCI.WOOO, LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS, Tifton, Georgia. P. ompt attention given to all business. “Office, Love Building, Room No. 1. OHN HARRR4. SHOEMAKER, Ashbubv, Georgia, ' y prices are low and all work striotly •G unanteafl. kS In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.” SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 20, 1893. AT THE CAPITOL. A Full Synopsis of What Has Been Dona at Washington the Past Week. What Congress has done the past week, literally speaking, can be told in one word—NOTHING. We, of couse allude to what lias beeu dono towards bringing about a change in the financial condition of affairs, for it was for this purpose they were call¬ ed into an extraordinary session. On the fiftieh day Mr. Morgan of Alabama, offered in the Senate an amendment to the re¬ peal bill. It revives the coinage an of 1837, and provides for the remis¬ sion of 20 per cent, import duty on goods imported from countries that admit standard silver dollars of llie present weight and fineness as legal tender for all debts. The repeal bill was taken up in the afternoon and Mr.Dolph continued his speech. When lie got through it would have beeu hardto tell who was entitled to the floor there had been so much cross-firing. It now looks like it was going' to be a • starve out game in the Senate to bring the bill to a vote. Compromise has been talked, but it seems it is no go. House.—The entire day was spent in the house in discussing tlio bill to repeal the federal election law. It was a one-sided discussion, alt the speeches being made by democrats in fayor of the pending bill. fifty-first day. Senate—Senator Morgan reported back from the committee on foreign relations, without recommendation, tire bill makiug appropriations to en¬ force the Chinese exclusion act. Sen¬ ator Peffer oflered a resolution to ap¬ point a select committee of three to consider and report whether any and what legislation is needed to improve the banking system of the country. The resolution went oxter. Senator Morgan offered a resolution instructing the judiciary committee to; inquire and report what provisions of the act of January 1873 (the free coinage act)’ are now in force. The resolution weut over. The silver purchase bill was taken up at 11:30 and Senator Butler addressed the Senate in oppo- flition. fit, WAs followed 'By* Senators Blackburn of Kentucky and Call of of Florida, both in opposition to the bill. House—On motion of Mr. Oates of Alabama, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the president to detail an army officer to act as instructor at the University of Alabama. Several bills were reported l’romthe committees and went on the calendar, and the remain¬ der of the day was spent in the dis¬ cussion of claim and the feder- * a war al election repeal bill. FIFTY-SECOND DAY. The opening session of the Senate this morning only lasted fifteen min¬ utes, and (he body then went into ex¬ ecutive session to deal with the nomi¬ nation of Indian agents. House—A number of bills were re¬ ported iu the house today, but none were of local interest. The federal election repeal was discussed as usual and several members were thus ena¬ bled to create literature to send home to the “dear people.” FIFTY-THIRD DAY. In the Senate today Mr. Blackburn of Keutueky submitted an amendment to the bill repealing the silver pur¬ chase clause of the act of 1890, It strikes out the Voorhees substitute, leaving the bill as it passed the house, and then provides for the free coinage of silver of American production. This is as Mr. Blackburn says a compro¬ mise measure. The debate on the re¬ peal bill was continued by Senators Call and Butler. The resolution of¬ fered by Mr. I J eflier was discussed and referred to the committee on finance. Mr. Morgan’s resolution was laid be¬ fore the senate and agreed to. Sena¬ tor Teller had the floor when the sen¬ ate adjourned. uouse.—several hours of uninter¬ rupted debate on the election bill occu. pied the time in the house today. FIFTY-FOUTRH DAY. Tilings are beginning to look some- what serious in the Senate, for today Mr. Voorhees gave definite notice that commencing on Wednesday he would ask the senate to sit continuously until a vote was reached on the pending measure and that he would expect sen¬ ators to maintain a quorum until the end of the present contest is reached. The repeal bill was discussed as usual. House—There was no ohauge of the order in the house today. FIFTY-FIFTH DAY. Senate.—The day in the senate was spent in discussing the repeal bill and the debate grew quite personal before its conclusion. There was nothing done - House.—The entire day in the house was again spent in discussing the elec- tion repeal bill. Soldiers on Trial. Sixteen soldiers are on trUl at Knoxville, Tenu., charged with the a “ m * r MT "*> LATE state items. Will Lacy, colored, was hanged at' Japer for a rape committed some si;t mouths ago. A brick and tile company at War¬ rior has a single contract which will require twelve months to fill. Otto von Koenitz, a German por¬ trait painter living in Huntsville, a<D cidentally fell from a porch and was killed. The Selma Times has information of Primitive a man 1Q4 Baptist years church old joining Brown’ tlm at Station aud being baptized. Near Gold Hill, an old man named Broughton threw himself across well^ tne bed saying he did not feel very and in a few minutes be was dead. John Davis, colored, was killed by a posse who had captured him for en¬ tering the room of J, T. Fanner’s daughter at Shortville, Henry county. He undertook to give the party leg bail, but Winchester bullets overtook him. A gin and grist mill belonging to Bynum & Ashford at Courtland was burned. Seventy-live bales of ginned cotton, fifteen bales of seed cotton, and live tons of seed wore burned. The owners of the mill lose at least $5,000. The fire was incendiary. The Montgomery Advertiser says: “There are many counties in Alabama where the sale or giving away of in¬ toxicating liquors of all kinds is aston.i abso-f lately prohibited, and yet it is ishing to know that whisky is being; carried into them in large quantities ’ and is sold almost as openly as before the prohibition laws wei - e passed. Nearly every train that goes out of this city has aboard whiskey shipped in boxes as merchandise to these places and it is wondered why the deputy' marshals and internal revenue collec¬ tors confiscate are not more vigilant and do not tha goods. One of the pro¬ visions of the internal l’evenue law demands that all spirituous liquors shall be shipped as such, and when the liquor is shipped otherwise tliau this it is subject to confiscation. The shipping of liquor in kogs aud boxes and billing it as merchandise is sufficient violation of (he law. It is a wonder that the Federal authorities have not long ago taken ipognizauce of this flagrant and frequent violatio i of the revenue laws, but perhaps ^ley* have not been able to discover it.” _____i To the Colored People. Bishop Henry M. Turner, of the Colored Methodist Church, South, baa just issued a call signed by himself and “by approval of 300 prominent and distinguished colored endorsers,” ad¬ dressed to “The people of the United States iu anguish, greet¬ ing,” for a convention to meet iu Cin¬ cinnati, O., on Nov. 28, at 12 o’clock, “Said national council is to review and pass upon our condition truthfully patiently, im¬ partially and to report murdered our by- knowledge of persons mobs, lynchers, aud when and what for, with documentary evidence if possible, for the use of committees as will have such matters in hand.” The address is bused on the “revolt¬ ing, hideous, monstrous, unnatural, brutal and shocking crimes charged upon us daily on the one hand, and reign of mobs, lynchers, tire fiends, midnight and midday assassins oa the other, for the purpose of crvstalizing our sentiments and unifying our en¬ deavors for better conditions in this country, or as a change of base for existence.” The address states that no points of order (aisers, cheap notoriety seekers or hot-headed squallers are wanted; that matters are too solemn. Each delegate who expects to occupy th8 floor is urged to prepare Ilia speech in manuscript before leaving home,so that he cannot be misrepresented or thwarted. The address concluded: “Let no one who uses ardent spirits ever dream of attending unless he can promise his God that he will not touch the accursed cup while the council ia in session, for it will be no place for unbalanced men. States, communities or sections sending delegates,we hope will see thsy arc amply supplied with funds to creditably meet their expen¬ ses and to return home like gentle¬ men at the close of (he session.” Penalty for Silence. The nows comes from Knoxville, Tcnn., that on Oct. 1, engineers and conductors on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railway system Were notified by tile receivers that there would be a reduction of 10 per cent in their wages, to take eftect Nov. 1. Both engineers and conductors have failed to notify the receivers of their acceptance of the cut, and con- sequently they have received notice to the effect that one-third of their num¬ ber will be laid off indefinitely. Scare at Decatur. At Decatur, Alabama, there was considerable excitement the past week over the report that the strikino- men out of the Louisville Ss Nashville rail¬ road shops were going to cause troub- ^'es Sthe Sffto^miUtia 111t fromffTnd ar0 und Birmingham to quell any that might arise. Ail is *e- Hit. GENERAL NEWS. Current Events of the Day Boiled Down Into a Few Lines For Busy People, They are going to play a game of freeze out in the Senate. Yellow fever is on the increase at Brunswick. The American Keel Yacht outsailed the English Cutter last Saturday by eight minutes. F. L, Greenhagle has been nomina¬ ted by the Republican parly of Massa¬ chusetts, for Governor. Henry Lack, of Savannah, asserts that ho can certainly cure any and every case of yellow fever without the use of disinfectants or drugs, but he de¬ clines to say what his remedy is. The destitution along the Gulf coagt in the track of the late storm is impos¬ sible to estimate. Relief parties are doing all in their power to relieve dis¬ tress and help is being forwarded from all directions. Whilecaps continue to post gins in many parts of Mississippi and carryout their threats by burning those who disobey their mandates. Who are these outlaws? It does seem like some of them would be detected. MisB Sarah Carmichael, a poor, de¬ pendent young lady of Ripley, O., advertised for a well-to-do husband and as a result is now the happy bride of Arthur Nelson of St. Peter’s, Minn., a farmer with 500 acres of rich land. It pays to advertise. The breach of promise case of Mrs. Anna D. Van Houten vs. Asa P. Morse in the Boston courts has ended and a verdict for $40,000 has been re- turned. This is the case of which the Judge ordered that no newspaper re¬ port should be made until the conclu¬ sion of the trial. Washington’s hop crop this year is one of the largest and finest ever known. It is estimated at about 50,- 000 bales. Germany reports the short¬ est hop crop for half a century, and, while the Washington farmers are not rejoicing in the German hop growers’ misfortune, they think it is an espe¬ cially fine season for American hops. Some smart storekeepers at Tacoma, “Wash., hit on the nappy idea of ad¬ vertising their business by sticking Ktt)e wafer posters on coins, like la¬ bels on pillboxes. They securedja sure and wide cii-culation for their ad¬ vertisements and the scheme worked well until a few days ago, when the treasury department notified the local authorities that the practice was ille¬ gal, and it was slopped. The latest move of the whitecappers is to post notices that they will kill any one found picking cotton for less than a stipulated price which they name In their notices. A special from Grenada, Miss., states that a negro at work “picking cotton on Capt. Curt. Gay’s place, ten miles of Grenada, was shot from ambush with buckshot. He had been guilty of nothing,” so the dispatch continued to read, “but gathering cotton and whitecaps is the only explanation.” It is claimed that a new national party is in process of formation. The Pan-American Convention which met at St. Louis last week, is now given out to have only been the prelude to a series of conventions which are to re¬ sult in the formation of a new party in the south and west. Free silver will be the leading issue. At a meet¬ ing of the executive committee the chances of success in breaking the sol¬ id south were discussed, and Alabama was the state decided upon to capture. A convention is to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in December to perfect plans for the campaign. Brave Hannah sneli. There have been many women war¬ riors in the world, but, it must be ad¬ mitted that there have been very few whos'e deeds were such as to claim the admiration of the country for any great length of time. In the annals of woman's warfare there are gener¬ ally stories of over-zealousness, lead¬ ing to fanaticism and subsequent punishment and disgrace. Seldom, Indeed, has a woman warrior been gratefully recognized by the govern¬ ment of her country. Within the memory of our grandparents there lived in England a woman named Hannah Snell, who, when but a girl, took the strange resolution of enlist¬ ing as a soldier. She served as a ma¬ rine on one of the vessels of a fleet bound for the West Indies, and showed so much courage that she wa( repeatedly promoted. Her sex wtu unknown, and therefore it could never be claimed that Hannah Snell’i success was due to partiality or favor¬ itism. Once, when dangerously Wounded, she extracted the ball her* self, fearing that she might, be difr covered and discharged. After long ^ervice home at she Worcester, returned England, to her native wher« (her adventures soon became spread abroad. The government, on inves- gatlon of her really great career, granted her a pension of £20. Shi died full of years and laden with hon¬ ors in an inn near V\’apping.-*-Phil» delDhia I nouirer _ _ Our salvation does not depend upon ouv feeble grasp upon Christ,bat upon his firm hold on us. “The Lord wiW fopsake bis people*” $ 1.00 a Year In Advance. ITEMS OF INTEREST. It takes 4,500,000 men to work the world’s coal mines. Uncle Sam furnishes 41 per ceul of the world’s silver. Norway men cannot vote unless they have been vaccinated. Thirty-five countries have bee* in¬ vaded by the Salvation army. California has raised 720,000,000 pounds of fruit within the last year. A single trip of an ocean steamer requires $7,000 worth of coal. Kansas hens lay more eggs than those of any other State in the Union. Ten thousand people are employed as telephone operators in this country. Large beds of oysters, unlike those of the East, have oeen found in Alas- ka. Alaska produced $1,000,000 worth of gold last year and California $12,- 000 , 000 . Three hundred and sixty mountains in the United Slates are 10,000 feet high. Over 1,000 series, of Greek coins, issued by independent cities, are known to exist. Tobacco was discovered in Cuba in 1492, but was not introduced into England until 1655. A chestnut'tree 212 feet through and 2,000 years old stands at the foot of Mt. Etna. They cut diamonds so small in Hol¬ land that it takes 1,500 of them to weigh a karat. A farmer in Mason, Mich., has a dwarf pear tree that put out two sets of leaves this season. More women are employed in Gov. eminent positions in England than any where else in the world. A single sponge has been found on the coast of Florida with a circumfcr. ence of 5 feet 6 inches. The tronomter is a device of Dr. Quintavd, a Frenchman, for gauging the trembling of a nervous person. A steel ship has been constructed in Cardiff, Wales, with the standing lug¬ ging, as well as the hull, all of steel. Uncle Sam makes more paper than auy other country in the world. The biggest paper mill is at Westbrook, Maine. Some .insurance ts ! y’ low the use of none oTSt the old-fash- ioned sulphur matches in the houses they insure. A North Carolina turkey gobbler rc- e<- .tly scratched up eight potatoes in a garden and has been sitting on them tor several weeks. It. costs more to fertilize an acre of land in England so that it will grow good wheat than it does to send the product of an acre in Dakota over there. RICE BIRDS. They Are Caught in Nets In South Carolina Rice Fields. The rice birds are destroying the rice in South Carolina and are as nu. meroua as the grasshoppers West. get to be in the grain fields of the The Charleston News and Courier says that reports fromGeorgetowu are to the ef. feet that the rice birds are more plen. tiful than ever before known. They have almost cesaed to be a target foi shotguns, and are so thick and close together that they are caught with a dip net like so many fish. One gen¬ tleman who did go out with his shot¬ gun killed 180 at a single shot. Tbs regular way now, however, is to get a boat and a dip net and go among the ditches in the old rice fields aud dip up the birds. A gentleman went out a few nights ago and returned with 1,236 birds. It required a Wagon and two buekboards to carry them all home. Quite a considerable sum has beeu realized by seveial parties who embarked in the rice bird business. They can be bought on the plantations for a mere song, and when taken to the town are sold for at least 25 cents a dozen. Strange Phenomena. A dispatch from Toledo, O., says one of the most peculiar phenomena ever seen in this part of the country was witnessed by people in the Mau¬ mee valley this morning. The terrific gale of last night blew the river dry. From the rapids at Waterville, twent- ty-two miles above the city, to the Lake Shore bridge, just above the har¬ bor, people walked across the bottom, as on dry land. The cause was the direction fiom which the wind came, the southwest. It is not uncommon for the water to drop from four to eight feet when the wind blows to¬ ward the lake, but never before has it blown so hard that the river bottom became visible. There was over twen¬ ty feet of water in the harbor yester¬ day. tied Many large vessels were up at the wharves, and soon after the water began running out they rested upon the keels. A steamer was making its regular trip up stream last evening to Penysbuig, when it was caught half way to Penysburg and stuck in the mud. Oh, mystery or mercy: oesus was reduceil to a level with the malefaci- ors. tbut he might be raisod higher thau the angel*. VOL.IV, NO. 23. TBADE IS STAGNANT- Duo to a Lack of Confidence Rather Than a Lack of Money. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says; It i* difficult to t any signs of improvement. Whiie ihere has been some addition to the number of man¬ ufacturing establishments and to the number of hands at work during the past week, it has become painfully clear that the orders do not suffice to keep at full time even the limited force at present engaged. The busi¬ ness transacted is still far below that of last year in volume, iu railroad earnings the decrease being 10.6 per cent, in spite of the largo World’s Fair business and in payments throughout the principal clearing-houses outside of New York the decrease is 26 per . cent. Reports from other oities dis¬ close a distinct check on business. There is on the whole less activity and less confidence regarding the futuro than there was a week ago, and this in many instances is attributable to the uncertainty regarding the monetary future which the delay in congress causes. While the volume of all kinds of money in circulation has increased $21,377,247 during the moDth of Sep¬ tember, and is now greater by almost $10,000,000 than it was last year, the embarrassment has now, as it has all the time been, due to a lack of confi¬ dence rather than to a lack of cursei. cy. It is observed that while the bank circulation increased in September $5,052,317, the amount of bank notes it\ the treasury has increased $4,657,- 946, and several of the banks which took out additional circulations have retired it and sold the bonds deposited. The stock of money iu Now York banks has increased rapidly, and the retirement of clearing-house certifi¬ cates here and at other cities shows a great improvement in the monetary situation; yet there is but little in¬ crease perceived in that confidence upon which commercial or industrial loans mainly depend. There is not such encouragement as might be desired in the industrial re¬ ports for the week. Iu almost every department orders are louud too small to keep the restricted working force ■Obt'^potly aftrWorktog-wi employed. Wep*&'hUetfe Many cog jjny. fitKHj general reduction in wages also affects the purchasing power of the millions who still have work, An in creased number of establishments is reported in operation, but the sagging of prices in print cloths and some other cotton goods, and iu the most important products of iron and steel, discloses greatly retarded business. The demand for iron products ia on the whole Jess satisfactory than it wr” a week ago. In the manufacture; wool there is still remarkable hesi tion, aud the demand for consumpt is much restricted. , The wheat movement has been fij ly laj’ge, and the price has declij about 2 cents, while corn has decli' about 1 cent. Cotton is about higher without distinct reason in c prospects, and pork products are somewhat higher, pork 75 cents barrel. Happily the conditions far have not diminished the expoi products, which continue fairly J Failures continue to decreai number and importance, thougl / as much as has been hoped. The ber reported in the United States ing the past week has been 320, a; 184 the same week last year, and ada 45, against 35 last year. Fight in MIR.Air. The citicens of Atlanta, Ga. p.ast week, were treated to :i t-. performance somewhat out of the us- ual line. A painter named Tnckei gave a war dance on the narrow plat¬ form at the top of a telephone pole, ninety-five feet above ground, at Mitcheil and Forsyth streets. He car¬ ried up a flask of whisky aud a can of green paint. With the paint he cov¬ ered himself grten from belt to crown. Then he sang, yelled and danced, at¬ tracting a great crowd. He swung himself from the rim of the platform and dangled there in the air to the horror of the crowd below. Two linemen were telephoned for. They climbed up. One got through the trap door, when Tucker shut it and would not let the other up. He ag- _ __ saulted (he lineman on the platform aud they had a thrilling fight. Tacker tried to throw the lineman off, but the latter finally got in a blow with his nippers on Tucker’s head, knocking him senseless. The other lineman then got up and Tucker was let down with a roDe and taken to the police station. Deceived His Looks. Senator Allen, of Nebraska, is a big. burly man who looka like a pros¬ perous dealer in live stock. Shortly after his arrival in Washington he waa stopped at the door of the senate chain., ber by a new doorkeeper, who i formed him tnat no one save senator, were allowed ou the floor. Mr. Allen smiled sadly, waved his hand and said: “Very well • I’m a I don’t lj| the crodsismM same,” t ■