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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1884.
CLIPPINGS*
A Stolen Kiss.
HIS EXCUSE.
As I bade her good night
<' < > 11111 1 h« ' | i t «• i. • ■ ■ ■
Pi*
The moon'si im llow light.
As I bade her good-n^ht,
IGKht,
On hei face shone so bright,
Those red llna revealing—
As I bade her good night
Could I help luit one stealing?
HER IDEA.
To take only one
Ami then aay “Good-night!”
CHow quickly Twaa done!)
To take only one!
Kcxt time he 11 get none;
" I don’t like it quite
To take- only one—
And then say ''Goodnight!”
—!Br~’
-[Buffalo Courier.
Washington's underground system
of telegraphy is said to be a complete sue-
lddes in a blind so planed that bis abut wil
rake the brush on top of the poles, and
shoots the birds as they alight The nhoot-
ing lasts two hours morning and even mg,
and from fifteen to thirty dozen birds is
considered a fair two hours’ work; hut
sometimes as many fifty dozen are kuU-d.
The birds sell at from fifteen to ivren. y-five
cents per dozen after they are picked.
Had No Ear for Music.
Chicago Newa
“My dear, I wish you would tell theser-
Mauon's Cotton Harvester and the Pros
pects of its Success.
News and Courier.
The autumn of 1884 bids fair to be a
niHiuorable epoch for tue Houihern States,
not only necause it is likely to bring to an
end me long reign of Republican misrule
in our national slhurs, but because it
promises to uabe- into successful usa an
p Vein ion which will ceriainly give a won*
dei ful impetus t > our great agricultural
| industry, and may bring about a peaceful
revolution in our system of field
ion in our system
I labor.
vant to stop moving that furniture around We reft-r«to the new cotton picking ma
in the par,or. I’m sure she has broken I, bine, known as Mat *n’» Cotton Harvester
some of the vases and bevrea ware.” I’ne multitude of inquiries about it that
T hear no noise, ChristO|»her." reach u* from all parta of tlie bouth shows
There! She has dropped the clock! I b nr widespread is the public interest in
heaid the shade sraa h!” I the t-ucceaa of the invention.
U‘ Why, Christopher, how silly you arc* 11 The opening bolls will in a few weeks
That’s not the servant moving the (urni- npread • the snow of Southern summers”
ture; that’s Birdie practicing a Wagnerian over our fields, and before the close of the
sonata.” | present month it is hoped that there will
weighted down with a lot of fictitious obli
gations on which they cannot pay tab
and dividends; and these linen hive af
fected others that are in a healthy condi-
IN TIIE FORESTS OF HONDURAS.
Singular Scenes and Surroundings at
Amorioon Settlement In the Bush.
New York 8nn.
Honduras, July 1.—I would like to
write you a few lines about this beauti
ful and interesting country. Wo have
here a settlement of Americans, 100
miles from Belize, in the middle of a
forest, or bush, as it is called here. It
would frighten timid people to see the
situation of our house. It is right
buying tliird-clase good*” Como S'" '
or write anil get prices.
A sew r.oologic curiosity in Baltimore
is an Australian fish called tbegoby. Ills
»ai<l to climb or jump out of its squarinm
and to crawl with great ease for several
hours upon terra firma.
Tiie prospectus of an electric sweat,
band loi men's b.ts declares that "It stim
ulate. the Imagination, atrengthens the
memory and greatly augments the work
ing power of the brain.”
Ebitor—You have not given us any
sharp paragraphs for a week. What Is the
metier? Dees the weather make t ou feel
dull? Paragraphlst—No, I feel all right
It's my ahears that are dull.
Tins definition of scandal, which
serins to be especially apropos these cam
paign days, comes from toe reply of a little
girl to her teacher and is given in Friauh
in Council: 'Nobody does nothing, and
everybody goes on telling of it every
where.”
Twelve thousand head of cattle, the
largest consignment under tbs control of
one man ever sent over the Kan Francisco
road from Missouri, were shipped recent
ly. It reqnired twenty-threo trains of
twentv-one cars each to consign the lot to
market
Oysters are plentiful along the entire
coast of Northeaatern Mexico. They com
pare favorably with tboae of Chesapeake
and Delaware Bays, and costabout 25 cents
abaabcl. Two miles south of Ban Dias
oysters are easily gathered from the roots
of trees skirting the banks of the Conchal
river.
An improved locomotive constructed
at the shops of the Lehigh Valley railroad,
under the sucervision of Mr. George 8.
Strong, it fa claimed, will draw a train on
the New York division at the rate of eighty
miles an hour. The engine weighs 100.000
pounds, and will develop a power of 1,400
or 1,600 horse power. The boiler is of steel,
and will stand a pressure of 100 pounds to
the square inch.
“Emma, I hear you Jiave broken off
with George.” "Ye. ; I em sorry, but it
had to be. Ha lnsnfted papa.” "Why,
wlist did he do?” "Well, you know last
Sunday night papa kinder kicked him off
the steps, and when lie cante round Mon
day lie brought a pair of slippers with the
lots i ndited, and asked me if I wouldn't
get the old man to put them on."—Acto
Fork Dial.
Had Told Thtm ail the Same.
V Philadelphia Call. „
kl-sVman youfare'not^ngaged loT" 11 ^
Ma-"Certalnly, my dear, very wrong 1 ' I c ri| )*“ machine which would satisfactorily
"There now, tWa just what I told <h» the work ot picking the cotton from the
them " ‘ plant and take the place ot the expensive
iV.fd whom ?” I ami tedious proceta of hand labor. Bev
Why, Dic k and Jack and Tom and «»> niacblnee of slightly varying
h/.'- x . ..I i turn n..i t l Niils4 )mvi> now been completed and
Charlie and Arthur and Will and Bob and have
Al and Sam and Gus and ”
But ma bad fainted.
Asking Too Much of Him.
Near York Son. ‘
My dear.” said a wife to her hnsband,
Suppose a party of men should br?ak into
the bouse some nltht when you are away,
and abduct me. what would you do? ’
That is not a supposable case,” he re- covered,
plied. I the principle at that time was not perfectly
T know it ia not likely to occur, but just I satisfactory to Mr. Mason. It was too
imagine it.”
“Impossible.”
“Well, you certainly can imagine it.”
“No, 1 can’t, my dear.”
Tub attributes of a good policeman
arc defined by a New York police inspector
to bo courage, health, a strong physique,
horse sense, a general knowledge of thi
city and its laws (ao far as they t>ertain to
hia duty), ability to read, to write plainly
and to calculate up to the rule of three,
court **v and politeness—a bunch of ac
complishments that is seldom found in the
knignt of the
Thk Chinese army, which looks suf
ficiently formidable on paper, is divided
present month it is uopea mat mere win
be abundant opportunity for the final test
of i he new harvester. Bince the last crop
wan gathered no time bus been lost and no
the wild woods. The brush is discussed nothing,laid down noprinci- ( n tiMm/m T„., u *imn
like a solid wall all around us, except pies and gave no indications what *£i i .Tirntirn a
uru ready to straddle the cotton rows,
At tue close of the last season Mr. Mason
had succeeded in perfecting a machine
wi-ich would pick out the open cotton
without injury to the growing plants, or to
the utimatured cotton bolls and blooms.
This machine, which was tested in the
presence of large numbers of planters.de-
moriNtrated that the principle which was
to solve the great problem bad been dis
The mechanical application of
^■■t.iicated and costly, and in other re
spects needed improvement. The convey
ors which remove the cotton from the box
e*, where it is deposited by the picking
stems, were not of sufficient capacity to re
move the cotton as fast as it was picked. To
remedy the defects of construction and to
simplify the machine has been the aim of
Mr Mason’s work during the post six
monMi*. The coming tests will best show
Another Outpjuring.
Philadelphia Call.
Chairman Independent meeting: “Tht«
assembly will now cotue to order. I regret 1UIIU11 . ( -, nrTM11T .
that the warm weather has prevented so I j 1( ,w completely he has succeeded in this
many patriotic Independents from attend difficult ta-k. The machine is now quite
g as light, weighing only about 300 noundf,
The secretary (whispering): "Stop; 1 ,- <1 is shapely as well as hsndv. Yet it Is
there is the other one. | g0 H t rung that it cannot easily get out of
Chairman: ’Where7 (order, and ita manipulation requires no
Secretary: “Just coming in the door, other skill than the knowledge of how to
Go ahe«d. ( We are all here now, the whole | drive a horse or mule. Until the test shall
have been made, it is impossible to say
five of us."
A Pugilistic Bird Which Fights Ita Image.
Boston Journal.
A small piece of looking glass was placed
in an upright position about a week ago on
a picket fence in a Leominster back yard
what the capacity of the m jebine will be.
Its inventor is confident that it wili har-
vh-14 000 pounds of seed cotton in a day
of t**n hours.
After the first tests, which will be made
near the company’s shops at. 8 tmter, 8.
and for about three hour-4 every dav since ?*• nth^p
then a .narrow baa been wen Arinin* 1 *" ""•*"* thl * H,a, “ “ n ‘ 1 nth ” r
about tho small mirror. The hiril will,. — - - ... .. ... . ...
stand and peck awnv at its refbeted self H°**l ,r T r l,lu 0 . r V„*
untillt getithornughly excited Then it **" < irl.sns says that in Mmpliance with
will run back and forth along the fence. I made ny the Cotton *t?n T J!!
fly about the mirror, then return and peek t - f . Company, the director-general »ill ap-
aST.'SKStSSf S’lJSSiSil'SffJS: >
..... C,.™ „„U .O ™.u„.e. 0 ,.. I „sus.eo. . wit.ess a trial of tne cottonharv.sting ma
when it depart, to appear again the next "Vt,* 2T SSL*!?
day,
The Kind of 6arcasm that Passes In Utah
Salt Lake Tribune, ^ „.. m „ ... w ...
At Smith field, on July 24, Wifi Harris j januarv, when it wii probably be only
• -- * ~ 1 fairly organize 1 end Ixrgpty attended, the
designated by the Harves'er Comp ny.
This arrangement has been made in ord-r
that ihe real merit-* of the machine may
boconciu-tvelv demonstrated, In Decem
ber. wuen the expoiir. on will open, and in
ami Joe Taylor got to fooling and pacing
sarcastic jokes, which soon gave offense
and a fight commenced between them in
dead earnest During the ffcriinmage Tay
lor bit off about two-tbirds of one of
Harris’s ears. After the coinhvants were
parted Harris began looking around on the
ground fur his ear, when Taylor exclaimed
him: “D n you. you needn't 1
co'ton in tiie fields will not be in favorable
condition for picking. Such cotton as
might be preserved on the plants for th*»
l»ur|Mtse would he wind tossed, stained and
full of trash. Wha»- the Cotton Harvester
Company desires to demonstrate is that
their ltischine is specially adapted
for gathering the cotton at precisely
into three classes—namely, ttc Banner-
men, the Troops of the Green Standard,
the Volunteers or “Braves.” The Ban-
nennen are the descendants of the Man-
chu Tartars who conquered the country
in the seventeenth century, and number
about MO.COO. The troops of the Green
Standard number (100.000, but it is on the
Volunteers that the authorities rely.
Tub small proceeds' of the tale of
’Woinbwcll’e menagerie, in London, has
called attention to the great oepreciation
in the price of wild beasts. One German
dealer has twenty-sevrn elephants on hand.
Tigers have fallen from £200 to £80: a two
horned rhinoceros bought by the Zoological
Gardena twelve years ago for £1.2&0 couki
now be had for £100; heart can be had for
a gift, and lions are open to offers. Ani
mal philanthropy, meantime, has so
greatly advanced in London that the sec
retary of the Society for the Prevention of
Cnmtj to Animals lias opened a boarding
house where the cats of people leaving town
are lodged and enter tamed for Is. Od. each
a week.
In New York, on Tuesday, there was
an apparent attempt at a transaction on
Wall street which would scent to indicate
an apprehension that gold may again i'll
mcntH wero resumed, but the
cite alarm have never been aueceasful. It
!i true tbt amount of ibid held bv the
Treasury is not greatly in excess of legal
require incuts, and that the workings of the
silver bill may result In more or less com
plications; but it is hardly possible that
the export trade of the country will not
this year amount to enough to increar-
------ - — -- . Y- , .. - . I iiir itauiriiHK mu vghgii ao inruisri*
tb«re for your ear. it's down here ” patliiig th« same time that it is pinked bv
his stomach in . manner to Indlcaiethat hand. To demonstrate this it is likrlv
he hadawallowed the member he had bit- Ih.t some time about the middle of
t®aoff* I Octi»b*»r will 1>h fixed for .the te^t. The
• a,*.'., cimudttce will then have every opportuni
tndlnn Civilization. u f exa iiining u»e work performed by fh»'
Dcnvcr-InU-r Ocean. tiiachlne iqMin the cotton'plants when fill
Judge Axtell writes us from 8anta F»*: | ed with blooms, forms, unripe bolls an
’During the present tension of the Diitrjet | op^n b-ifis ^Whatever award the judges
Court oT Santa Fe county, a Puehto ir,. may decide to make can be mwle, during
dian was indicie*l by the graid jury for *be ejtpmltkin. and a machine will, of
living with an Indian Indy who was t».e course, beon exhibition as a part of tho
wife of ano’ber Indian in another pueblo. I Carolina t-zhiblt.
The Indian bad been in attendance upon The de*p interest which is felt through
— . IaI - S- •_« a # . - I ft t«aa In M* Uaann'a wnrlr I.
the court awaitii-g hie trial f.»: nearly two «mt the South in Mr. Mason's work is
weeks, smi had b*en a verv close oh-wrv^r *hown by the large number of prominent
of all ibe proceedings. Tindsy he c».ine to gentlemen who travel long distances to
the attorney-general, asked to be permit* v*»'t the shop* In Humter u» see it. They
ted to renounce his relations to the pueblo. incredulous that the tin-
and requested to be naturalised, *mor.hr.* chine will ever succeed in tue prac-
he said, referring to bis indicnnent. ‘that work o» picking cotton ; but they go
I may enjoy the privileges of an Ameri- away convinced that its success is as-
can. 0 ' an red. The magnitude of the results of
the solution of the problem which has
Oravatrard” Walker. I h-p**!. the Inventor, for half a century
T . ia hard to overestimate. The, complete
u)ndon Truth | p rftC ucal suocees of the cotton harvester
Dr. Georga Alfred Walker, known as I mnaus that ihe Southern States can and
Graveyard Walk* r. who died last we**k I will raise the cot’on for tho world at a cost
bjs residence, Yns>faiir ( Barmouth, si leart forty millions of dollars less than
North Walee, after a brief illness. «u it now cotta to produce it. No wonder
born at Nottingham in 1807. He became a that the outcome of Mr. Mason’s modest
at a premium, and that before long. An licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in mschineahop in Sumter Is watched by the
offer waa made of % per cent, for the priv- 1829, and a member of the Royal College I whole South with eager and impatient
-a *. of Burgeons in 1831. He studied for algaie.
lengthened perion at the Alder-gate street 1
-i-ltrxil nml uf Mr Hurt In ilittit«tu'.a II....(t.I
acboul and af St. Banlioloinew-a Hospital,
complatinK bis pn>lta»lnnal niucatlon In
Faria. Karl.v iniifebrwaadraplylntpreaa-
rd by Ibe terrible nptundnm id buiuao
conrttierably the Hosting supply of gold,
and to add materially to Ihe balance on
baud ill the treasury.
Why 8o Catlad.
Fhlldelpblt Call.
The Concord School of Philosophy it so
called because it does not teach philosophy
—it la cot a school, and it* members ere
never fn concord.
Whr the Bird of Freedom Doeen't Scream.
Damascus Letter In the BL Paul Pioneer Press.
Again I blush for American representa
tion abroad a ben I record that our conrnl
—or rather vice consul—in tbla city ia tbt
dragoman ot tbe English vice-consul.
Tho Railroads or the United Statee.
Times Democrat
. . The advance abeetaof Poor’s Railroad
* ,,n Manual give some interesting facts and
i'“ r "‘f 1 ’ 3 ! flgntea about tho railroade of this mid
* d r.t’**. U i ,t I ottiercountries.
lntramnral Interments, abich nltiiuatnly | The flguret for the
Stolen
brought about the passing of the law for-
Unitcd States
lently grand to be startling. The
fV, d mtteeae for this coutitry Is
which led to the construction of public jjb mu,, having been con
allied possession
ispel, lu London
I past yaar. Tbe total length of all the
eke ia 149,183 tulles, of which 78.491
miles ere laid with steel rail..
Ot locomotives there are 23 823
7-8 tnt freight, 1U 899
return. In due course tiie letters were
sent back to Iiaton Rouge. Among
them was Gov. Slorelmad's letter noti
fying Gen. Taylor of the action of tho
Philadelphia convention.
Gen. Taylor’s response was dated
July 16, a month and five days after
the letter of notification was written.
It had laid in tiie Iiaton Rouge post-
oifice four weeks after Gen. Taylor re-
fused-topay tho ten cents postage.
General Taylor's aoccptarico was
couched in respectful terms, in a
letter not exceeding two hundred and
fifty words. He expressed his thanks
for the nomination, said he did not
seek it and that if ho was elected Presi
dent, for which position ho did not
think lie possessed tiie requisite qusli- „„ , u .
!!®.>' v °'L t< L do markets bought by tiie hundred. Rubber rdting—largest lineol any 'hotll
THOUSANDS LOST.
< , Don’t waste your money n n chean V
chinery. Thousands lost every,“„,
hityi:
f. •?,/ Two
rttSTtt
get prices.
Eive Leading Engines and Saw Mills
Tlircwx 1 ft ft-;:.,..
Tliree Best Gins,
t Best Grist Mills.
place large enough for a yard and
garden. The frame and roof of our Itouso
were made by the natives, the sides
being closed in with long leaves forty
fifty feet dn length and tied with
vines. There is not a nail in the whole
house, and tho ground serves for a
floor. Some of the settlers here plant
orchards and send the fruit to New Or
leans. Sugar cane is tiie crop at our
settlement. It has to be planted only
once in several years, and what little
cultivation is necessary is done with the
hoe, it being impossible to plough the
land, os the stumps are too numerous.
The forests are beautiful, and the ma
hogany tree is eo common that we use
its wood in our cooking stove.
The hottest part of tho year is about
tiie end of May, which is the close of
the dry season, but the heat even then
is less than with you in summer, for
the sea breeze never fails us. The wet
season begins the first of July, and
lasts until Christmas, and the weather
then is pleasant—liko our bright fall
days. It rains only at night, the sun
sinning hotly all day. But you never
saw anything to equal the mud.
The Caribs.or natives, are very black,
but it is considered a great insult to call
them negroes. They are cleanly and
honest. They live on fish, cassada and
green fruit. Cassada is a kind of bread
which tiie natives make of a root, bak
ing it on stones. It is very cheap, and
we have learned to like it. Plantains,
which arc a coarso variety of bananas,
are a great help to the housekeeper, as
they can be cooked in many different
ways.
One of our men shot a largo jaguar,
or tiger, which came into our field after
the oxen, and as we were told it was
good to eat, we tried it, finding its
meat white, and as tender as that of
chicken. The natives cure meat by
cutting it from the bone and hanging
it in the hot sun to dry. One drawback
to this beautiful country is the innu
merable crowd of insects—ants, mos
quitoes, gnats and hugs of all sorts
There are, however, no house flies
November is the orange season, and we
have a good many fineoranges, but we
have to buy them at tiie coast, where
they grow better than inland. But our
lemon trees are loaded and
breaking down with ripe fruit,
and it ia impossible for
us to consume them all. Lemon etts
tards and pics are a luxury wo can in
dulge in without expense. Wo treat
ourselves to pots of cocoanut candy,
too. Tiie young people in this settle
ment have a fashion oi getting up danc
ing frolics, which are like our surprise
turtles at homo, only they coolc up
S iskets of provisions, as we do for pic
es, and carry them with them. Some
times the frolic lasts until daylight
We have some splendid game In these
woods, among which is the gibnut, a
beautiful little animal, which, when
cooked, tastes very much like snice
fat little pig.
In September wo planted a second
crop of vegetables, including corn, but-
^^^■■^■^^■gcuhaws and
cucumbers. June and November are
tho planting seasons. Tiie fruits hero
are, I think, as a general thing, un-
wholesome, and we cannot indiscrimi
nately eat them. Every stick, fruit,
leaf or vegetable that you touch in this
y leaves
course he would pursue. In this the
General cut it too short to satisfy tho
Whigs. He had to write another letter-
one of considerable length—to his
friend, Captain Allison, in which he
set tilings right. Tito authorship of
this letter was tho subject of no little
conjecture. If living, Thurlow Weed
ami Alexander II. Stephens could shed
light on the subject.
After that the campaign went ahead
smoothly and successfully. Although
Mr. Weed makes no mention of this
matter in his book, it was ono of tho
most annoying episodes in his eventful
life.
Official Longevity,
Tlmei-Democrit.
Tiie fact that Gladstone has served
Premier of England so long has
called tiie attention of some American
papers to English official longevity,
and the marked ditl'erenco in this re
spect between the statesmen of the
United States and those of Great Brit
ain.
Gladstone has been a member of Par
liament fifty-one years, Granville forty-
seven, while a number of other distin-
tuished Englishmen have served in
farliainent over forty years; whereas
in this country there is but one mem
ber of Congress who has served even
half that time. Granville lias been in
office twenty-eight years, and in the
cabinet twenty-one. Gladstone twenty-
one and twenty years respectively.
What American can show such u
record? Not even Webster, Clay or
Calhoun had any such official life as
this.
It is acknowledged that, the value ot
Congre--mnn, member of Parliament
of tiie Cabinet, increases in propor
tion with the number of years tie bus
served. He learns the duties of tiie of
fice better, ..tul is more thorough to ac
quainted with public affairs. When,
therefore, Kentucky f mtd a man like
Clny.it kept on electing him to C ti
gress again and again, and Massaclttt-
tts did the same by \V«b.-ter, but they
never kept their favorite sous ns long
in official life, or in such positions of
promiitcnco as great Britain has done.
This difference may he because, thanks
hereditary fortunes, Englishmen en-
poiitical life , earlier than
country leaves on Indelible stain, so
that our men and boys have given up
white shirts except on Hundav. Ma
larial fevers are prevalent all tiie time,
It is • fine country for poor people to
eke out a living, but Americans cannot
Stand the climate.
NOTIFY1NC ZACH TAYLOR.
of tho notorious Knon . ...
from which he exhumed several thousand
bodies In various stages of decay, and bad
them entombed In a monster grgvelu Nor- m I, „ W JH „
wood Cemetery. He wes the author t.f p„„ ng ^ and 5.9U) haggage malUrnl
several work, on sanitary reform atal the | \, tM The tots! s“o!lnv of dm eart
liu,,,ber Iona liabilities of the roads !• 17.495,471 311.
cf tbe treatises on the skin, ulcers, goat. ,, r one-iixth of lit* entire wealth of
LmTN W, ^" li 7'.,Jj ud , tit- country. They lrant|lort a,.ramify
which laid the foundation of a new era in | 40) 000 two t*»ne of freight, wo-th $10,000.-
lOt.OKj, and 312,088,611 paawi«ere ( eiR times
. tbe toul pop.iltaiiou of the United Butee.
Boldness of Bluff. I Tho Isr^rst freight trsfflo is in the Middle
VlrfioU Chronicle. I Sister the largest psa-enger btiaintse In
A stray horse which hail been running I IinYt**? wijn thl iSiiih la ***
for several montBi within a short distance
of Weiier City, ldsbo, was claimed end L JSlff of these roads
say
' What is your doggie's same, Daisy ?"
‘Damn.”
‘Why, you wfchetk child; where did yon
ar that wordT”
■•Why. Marion, that’s wbat Unde George
»D
•old by a saloon keeper named O. Ala. ran
ger, who Usd just arrived in the locality,
hearing the circumstance-, procured a ue-
BCriptlim ot the enima), celled oa Mr. O.,
and atked if he had sold inch a horse.
"I did,” Mr. G. replied
*4 It ss msK a ft anftkneltwf
-Damn the dog.’
Blaine's Luck.
Washington fiUr.
Mr. Blaine has another bit of good luck.
Mr. John Bright disapproves of him be-
tjBBM M a protectionist he is advetse to
foolish interests. The Blaine men ere
prompt to utilize all these English anti-
Blaine opinions as campaign thunder,
Before and After
Chicago Herald.
“Clara, what mskee jron ait so dose to
orp* ah* u lie calls Saturday night? I
- '* * ‘ - Proprieties, m>
w you will not forget the pro
child."
! and their truffle and business; but Poor't
figures show more than this, for they
demonstrate the cause of the decline in
railroad stocks, and tbe late New York
fiurry. The immense increase on ficti
tious capital brought ibis about. The rail
roads ot this country are paying band
query,
"1 c'aimed him,” asidO.
Welt,” said the strani
“there is no
By whet authority 7” was the »«« ™“V on their cost whtob.-far .V. romf.
in operation, did not exceed 43.747.419,728.
Their net earning* was 433d 911.881 or
9 per cent on this. But the .pecula
tors wero nnt content with Ibis and
commenced watering the stock and io-
•oln- ill kinds ot bonds and obUgalions,
until nner tne total liahil tie, of these roods
use disputing about tSe 'matter. You ) ?„ P* r l 2P t _ < J° Jjjjl;
claimed bint and I claim him. We ll ju»l
lot a jury decide Who he belongs to."
"Stop, stop," ex dalmed C., "there ia
nse of that; if I made a mistake I am v
"Oh, bat ns, George Is dreadfully deaf.”
“Yes, I remember, your father woe
troubled with the seme complaint btfort
We Hi re inarritd, bnt now I cannot go
through h:-1--1 ruin the morning without
wakii.q him up.”
Fresh Facts About the Fall Fashions,
■ rnm the Foahloa Columns of the Best Papers.
KmSbsw mwaBsr, hats larger.
fabrics show spotted and
will be
;«1 de-igns.
i said that trained
again tn the fall,
tush laces are to be set aside for real
ly. revived for fall wear,
nki-h looking long cloak ot gray or
slice a or mohair, or tome light
latest novelty.
da Down tho Delaware.
Every Evening,
r bfackblrdr are being sL..
Port Penn. Three are four
i ere sot ap oa oat dabble or in a
iSareb, ends piere of bristle tied on top of
each pole; a dead bird ft fastened toon.
I more placed near
Tbe gunner then
timatlon U yon’ariutowUdmcT’that'^oD I '•«* 'loe. bmltdurnath. v«mwot«*».000
stole the horse ” 1 per mile, while $630,132,000 of railroad
“Well.” Mid C„ "we won’t OttatreL gjgftgLk 1 *'*."" U,l ' d “ lhe New
8ay whet yon valae the animal at and I'll Yo I k8 , tu 5?
pay vou ” I IWi Manual gives a timely warning on
this subject, just aneb a warning as tbe
"Fifty dollars,” woe the answer.
Ffye minutes after the
parted with that amount iu
having received payment for
never saw.
. atranrer de-1 prta» gave six months ago, end which, bed
in hla uocket I « been heeded, would have preven-ed any
tor a horse he 1 finandaf dleturbance. "From 1879,” ft
V * uuno lie I lift. lha nlrtom I HUT o moat
I aaya, "to near the dose of 1883, a most
| singular delusion reefed upon tbe public oa
I to the value of railroad securities, and this
I celution waa taken advantage of on
Opium Habit Cured.
Why will yon use the poison when I Targeacateby at,!* and unscrupulous ad-
you can be so easily cured? It will not venturer a. Whatever was manufactured
coat yon hat little more to be treated I -t" 1 Put aflo* 1 was seized wlth avldlty by
than to buy Uw drug,. Ueml tbe fol-
I uSed opium forty year, mtd was M =
cared by Dr. W. H. Jones. the most loud mouthed and unscrupulous
G. 1I.-Si.apft, 1 promoters usually bod a great success.
Marnliailville, Ga. I Tbs delu-ioif t uttulnated shoot the time of
Write to me and I will give yon tbe I ,b * n P*nlng of the Northern Paciflc, In
names of parties tn Macon and other «“"n*«lon ™
places whom I have cared. ^thtoLTS
All correspondence confidential. I an q ThiJ^rapid decline of their
«. L. Jokes, M. D. | securities exerted d powerful In
m Fcartb street, Macon, Ga. I fluvnee over U»e public mind, wbxh con
•eplfiu ly ■ I tinue» er*u now. The dutruu extends
— 1 alike to good tod bad.mnrf this distrust will
In the absence of muruatemis or continue nntil lime •bn ! show • wbrnt se*
the time to prepere it, people often go curates are really web based.” In other
without a drewing for salads. Iluy Bur I wi-nis, tbe rsilroadsof this country are iu
kce’s Dressb.g, aod you will never trouble a good cooditkin, operating sucne-sfolly
joursed to make Another. I And making money, but some of tfiem are
Hie Acceptance Delayed by Hla Refusal
to Pay Poatago on the Letter,
Washington Dispatch to New York 8nn,
Nowadays a train of cars is barely
sufficient to accommodate those who
travel hundreds of miles charged with
the Important duty ot Informing a can
didate that he has been nominated for
the Presidency. Long speeches are
mode and the notification costs many
thousands ot dollars. But this is not
ail. Tho candidate must write a letter
of acceptance, giving liis views ■■
pretty much every subject he can thint
of. These journeys, parades, speech
makings and long letters are of compar
atively recent origin.
The convention that nominated Gen,
Taylor met it) Philadelphia Juno 7.
184S. Tho chairman was tho Hon.
John Morehead, of North Carolina.
On tbe 10th of that month Governor
Morehead addressed General Taylor
letter officially notifying him of his
nomination. The distraction into
which the Whig party was thrown by
General Taylor’s nomination waa not
made less in tbe ensuing thirty-five
days by the silence of General Taylor.
Governor Morehead, in reply to innu'
ries by leading Whigs—notably M
Weed—said he nod positively written
to the General and he knew of no rca-
sonjwliy the reply was not f&rtlicoming.
General Taylor was such u
wretchedly old fellow, and Whig
laders in general knew so
little ot him personally, it was thought
best not to stir him np on the subject.
Letters from the old soldier were ap
pearing in different quarters, some ot
them not altogether satisfactory to the
Whig leaders, but not • word came
from him about the nomination. It
began to look like on indignity. Mr.
Weed, to whom more than any other
man General Taylor was indebted (or
his nominstton, was desperate tinder
the suspense. Meetings were proposed
and one was actuojly called in Albany
looking to the repudiation of tiie nom
ination. When.it met other counsels
prevailed, tboagh the suspense con
tinned.
On July 22 the postmaster st Baton
Rouge, where General Taylor lived,
addressed the Postmaster-General a
letter, saying that with tbe report for
tbe current quarter from that office two
bandies of letters were forwarded for
the Dead Jitter Office, they having
been declined on account of the non
payment of tbe postage by tbe senders.
It was in theten-ccnt an I nou-prepay-
incnt time. Of the forty-eight letters
, thus forwsriled to the Dead Letter
j Office the Baton Rouge postmaster said
S majority were addressed to Gen. Tay
lor, w ho bad declined to pay the postage
on them ami take them oat of theotfice,
because his moil expenses had become
burdensome. Tbe General hod since
becume swore that some oft the letters
were ef importance and asked for. their
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INSIDE OF THE ELEPHANT.
Sights which Visitors 8ea After Climbing
up Through His Hind Lsiks.
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Although its eyes aren’topen yet, tho
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terday. The visitors paid fifteen centa
each to climb np through the elephant's
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cilntbed into tiie observatory at hia
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The inside of the elephant is three
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