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MB THE TFLEGF.RAPH AND MESSENGER. FRIDAY. JANUARY 2. 1885. 1 HE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON. How It wai Viewed by an Observant Col ored Scriptural Student. The Century. I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and sacb, and bow. gaudy they dressed and how much style they put on, and called each other your majesty and your grace, and your lord- ihip. and so on, ’stead of mister; and Jim’s eyes bulged out, and he was inter* ested. He says: "I didn't know dey was s } many un um, I habit beam 'boat none un um skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat’s in a pack of k’yards. How much do a king git! ‘•Get?” I says; “why. they get a thous and dollars a month, if they want it; they can have lust as much as they want; everything belong* to them.” "A»n’ dat gay ? Eu what dey got to do, Hack?" ••Theydon't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around.” "No; is dat so?” • Of course it is. They just S3t aronrd, except maybe when there’s a war; then they go to the war. But other times they i ust lazy around; or go hawking—just awking and ap 8h! I)’ you hear a notse?'' We skipped out and looked; hat it warn’t nothing bat the flatter of a steamboat’s wheel, away down, coming around the Quaint; 60 we all come back. , "Yes,” says I. "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the Parly ment; and if everybody don’t go just so, he whacks their beads off. But mostly tb«v hang round the harem “ ’Innn' / Bonn’ de which ? "Harem.” " What’s de harem?’’ "The place where he keeps his wives. Don't you know about the harem? Solo mon had one; he had about a million wive«." F "Why, yes. dat’s so: I—l’u done forgot it. A harem’s a bo’dn house. I reck’n. Mos’ likely dey his rackety times in de nussery. En I reck’n de wives quarrels contidable; en dat ’crease de racket. Yit dey say Srilerruun de wises 1 man dat eber live. I doau’ take no stock in dat. Ba- case why ? Would a wise man want to live in de mids' er such a blimblatnmin’ all de time? No—''deed he wouldn’t. A wise man *ud takeen bull’ a bller factry: endrn he could shet down de bller factry wliPfi Ha mint rot' " when he want to res'. "Well, but ho was fho wisest man, any way; because the widow she told me so, her own self.” "I doan' know what de wldder say. he warn’t no wise man, nattier. He had scrim er de dad fetchedes’ ways i ever see. Does you know* 'bout 'dat chile dat he ’uz gw\ ne to chop in two?” * Y*s. de widow told me all about it.” "Well, den l Warn'dat de beatenes' no tion Id de worl'? You jes’ take en look at it a minute. Dali's do stump dab, dat’s one er de women; heah’s you—dat’s de yu»her one; I’s tiollcriutin; en difh-yer dollar bill's de chile Bofe u i you claims it. What does I do? Does I shin aroun’ ’morigs’ de neighbors en tine out which tin yon de bill do b'long to, eu han’ it over to de right one, all safe en soun,’ ae Way dat anybody dat had any umptlon would ? No—I take en whack S am id ton would? No—I take en whack e bill in two, en give haf nu it to you, en dc y uther haf to de yutlier woman. Dat’s de wav Sollei'mun was gwyne to do wid de chile? Now, I wants to ask yon, what’s de use er dat haf a hill?—can’t bny nuth’n wid it. En what use is a haf a chile ? I wouldn’t give a dern for a million on um.” "Bat bang it, Jim, youve clean missed the point—blame it,- you’ve missed it a thousand mile.” "Who? Me? Go’long. Doan'talk to me 'bout yo’ pints. I reck’n I knows sense when I sees it; en day ain’ no sense in sich doin’s os dat. De '’spate warn’t ’bout half a chile; de 'spate was 'boat a whole chile; en de nun dat thinks he kin settle a ’spate 'bout a whole chile wid a half a chile doan’ know enough to come in out’n de rain. Doan’ talk to me bout Holler* mun. Hack, I knows hi >* by de back.” "But. I tell you, you don’t get the point.” "Blatuo de pint! I reck’n I knows what I knows. En mine yon, de real pint is down fnrder—it’s down deeper. It lays in de way Sollermua was raised. You take a man dat’s got on'y one er two chiilen; is dat tuau gwine to be wasteful n cbillen? No, he ain't; he can't ’ford it. He knows bow to value ’em. Bat you take a man dat’s g it 'bout five million chiilen ninuiu’ rouiv <!h house, en its difTunt. He as boon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey'a plenty mo’. A chile er two, mo’ or less, warn’t no consekeos to Sillermun, dad fetch him 1” Mark Twain. WEDOED TO HER COACHMAN. A Distant R tlativn of the Vanderbilts Imitates Mist MoroalnL New York World. The report that Mrs. Emma Britton, the wealthy widow of the late Abram Britton, a dau ghter of the aristocratic Yredenburgh family aud a rel itive by nurriage of the Vanderbilts, had been married to Thomas McLiujliliu, h*r twenty -one-year-old com*.!)nun, has create! a sensation in Staten Is and. Tn • Vredanburg homestead Is at Castle- ton. near the farm the la c Commodore Vanderbilt bought when he ran a line of sloops to New B'u iswick. The two old Knickerbocker families, resident on the islund since the colonial days, became c’osely connected by intermarriage. About twenty years ago Miss E.utna Vre- detiburgh, young stylish and handsome, became the wife of Abram Britton. The husbaud was much olcer than his bride, but he was very wealthy aud owned vast tracts of land throughout Richmond coun ty. Ths Brittons, too, are an old Knicker bocker family, and the homestead in Cas- tleton Is one of the finest residences of the i§Ur..f After Miia Vredenboreh became Mr.v Won, her husband took her to live in a - »iegant mansion surrounded by rasniiti eot grounds, at Clive road and Bard avenue, not far from the eld home* stead. There she had everything wealth could purchase or fancy could dictate. When Mr. Britton died, he hft his wido * in full possession of his fortune and free to divpose of it as she cho-e. Some months ago Thomas McLaughlin, A yo mg Irish-American tad, with rosy cheeks and quiet mauniv, went to work for her and arove he.* car. Uge. Hoon after be became ill and he went to his humble home on the borders of Itocky Hollow on the Richmond road. Sympathetic Mrs. Britton, who is now forty years old, went there to curse him. Some tender scenes followed and the marriage—the date and place of which are being kept very quiet— reanlted. MsLaughlin'a neighbors told a reporter of the World that the young hus band was very sl*k, having recently had two heraorThag«is of the lung*. The newly married wife pa«aed a 1 her time with him. trying to make him comfortable aud paid the bills of the whole family. The reporter visited the humble abode Which the former Mrs. Britton had chosen to exchange for her own palatial domicile. K«ar it are the big breweries. The groom was seated beside the kitchen stove, with his head leaning against the wall. He wore a blue flannel overfill-1 and had on a new pair of slippers, with hand-worked floml patterns. Mr. McLaughlin's face If B * hm and sh* bovieh looking. He is thin and his cheek had a hectic flush. He tried to talk, but could not speak above a whisper. Finding cjnveraatioa impossible with the groom, the reporter asked to see the bride. "Emma,” he called, and the lady walked In. She was dressed in a bine check wrap per and gingham apron. She declined to make any extended reference to her mar riage. •^e are married legally and lawfully,” ■he said. "My family know of the mar riage. and they are the only persons that I care for. IX I choee to marry a young man and lie was poor that is my own affair.” A member of the Britton family said: "We are deeply grieved at the action of unde Abram’s widow, But Emma is old enough to act upon her Ideas of disci etlon. Wc only know about the affair from com mon report. We shall probably take no pains to inquire Into the event. Iteeema to interest her new neighbors and friends more than ns. Wc are not at all acquainted with her husband, and would not know him if we met him. It is not likely tha’.hcr own family feel especially honored by her HOW GUNCOTTON 13 MADE. POLITICAL POINTS. A Visit to the Manufactory at the New port Torpedo Station. Nxutobt, R. I„ December 22.—It is not generally known that there la but one place In the United States where guncotton is manufactured, but such is tbe cine. The navy, np to six months ago, was obliged to depend upon England for all the guncotton used. It was decided to erect a manu factory at the torpelo station in Newport Harbor, and In due season it was in sue- cessful operation and is now able to snpply all that is required for sea-going raen-of- war and torpedoes. It was erected under the superintendence of Professor Whit*, the chemist, at the sta tion, and of Mr. Angstrom, the civil en gineer connected with tbe station. The enterprise is mainly due to the wise fore thought of CapL T. O. Selfridge, the com manding officer of the station tor tbe past four years. In the manufacture of gun cotton the best cotton waste and the strong est and purest nitric and sulphuric acids are used for the explosive. There is only one manufactory in this country that can supply the sulphuric acid. The cotton waste, after it has been hand picked for the purpose of removing the dii t and grit, is placed in boiling tanka, where it is al lowed to remain for four hour-*. It is after ward subjected to a thorough washing and is reboiled. This operation removes all oily matter and leaves tbe cot ton harsh and stiff'. It is then dried In rooms heated with the waste air from a doing box. After undergoing this treatment the cotton rolls npinto snarls and bunches, and in order that the acid may have a freer access to it it is f iassed through a shredder and converted nto a fluffy state. It is afterward expoied in an air-tight box for several hours to a temperature of 21*0 degrees, which practi cally deprives it of all moisture. From the air tight box 11 is removed to the dipping- room where there are iron troughs filled with one part nitric acid and two ports sul- t ihuric acid. Into those troughs the cotton s placed, one bundle at a time, and al lowed to remain long enough for it to be thoroughly soaked. The acid is hand pressed from the cotton, which L then placed In covered earthern jars, where it remains 24 hours undergoing chemical transformation. In view of the fact that much heat is evolved during the chemical reaction, it is found necessary to place the jars in pots and surround them with (lowing water, which serves to keep them cool. Tbe cotton is now nitrated and is practically gun cotton, but the acid, still mechanically held, must be wholly removed or it would be apt to quickly de teriorate and become extremely danger ous. The charges, therefore, are taken one by one and placed i 1 an acid wringer and plunged in a large tub which is kept tilled with running water, in which a large wheel is rapidly turned in order to subject tho cotton to a thorough washing. This latter process is continue 1 till no acid is perceptible to the taste. It is then subjected to a still further wariiin, is men suojecieu io a sun lurtner wattling and boiling in an alkaline mixture, this being necessary in order to remove every trace of acid. The cotion is now in long shreds and balls, wtiich can be used or stored without danger, the processes of conversion and cleansing being completed, but for military uso it must be put into a more compact form. For tills purpose the gun-cotton in charges of 3'JO pounds is thrown into a pulping tub, where, mixed with water, it is ground by steel cutters into a line pulp. The grinding and breaking up of ilia cellular tissue of the cotton has made it more or less dirty and *it is necessary, therefore, to expose it, ti frequent washings in the poaching tubs, from which, after treating it with lime water to make the moisture slightly alkaline, it is drawn up into a large iron tank, where it is f-d to tbe molds, which, under a moderate pressure, press the water from the pulp and trim out cylinders of cotton about 8 inches high and 3)4 inches in diameter. These cylin ders are then placed under a hydraulic C ross, and exposed to a pressure of about ,700 pounds to the square inch or about eight tons on each. The cylinders are pressed into hard cakes or disks, some two inches high and three and a half inches In diameter, with a specific gravity a little greater than water. They are then packed in boxes of fifty pounds each and kept in magazines for general uso. Guncotton is, from its great explosive power and the conditions of safety attached to its storage, superior to any other known explosive for naval warfare. Since the introduction of guncotton the gnneotton torpedo system has been intro duced at the station. These torpedoes now take the place of the heavy, un wieldly gnnpowder torpedoes, which, with their charges, weigh 380 hounds. The guncotton torpedo only weighs seventy-five pounds. A Discreditable Evasion. Mew York Sun. "Nt-itber House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn fir more thun three days.” This command is contained not In any statuto, but iu die fundamental law of the Iant—the constitution of the Unittd States. It sho ild be obeyed and respected in letter and spirit, We are sorry t« see that the House cf Representatives has corns to what is called an understanding to evade it. The Senate would not take a holiday re cess. The House of Representatives want ed to adjourn until the first Monday in January. The constitutional provision which we have quoted prohibited so long au adjournment without the consent of the Senate. This could not be obtained. The House did not venture opemy to dis regard the constitution, but resorted to subterfuge. A resolution was adopted to adjourn three day s, and the un derstanding is that ou the adjourned day tbe House will be still further adjourned for three days, and so on until January 5, 1885, whet business will be resumed. We do not see how tho members of Con gress who were parties to this evasion can reconcile it with tbe oath they have taken to support the constitution. It is a leas m iu law-breaking taught by the national law-maker«. William M. Evarts Enters the New York Senatorehlp Raoe. Albany. N. Y., December 22—Tbe Evening Journal prints the following let ter horn William M. Erarta to Senator James Arkell: "In response to many in quiries and requests made me from all parta of the State, I take tbe liberty, in this form, of making public my readiness and desire to be comiderel among the candidates for the election by tbe Legisla ture as Senator from this State. Iu asking the favor and support of Republican Sena tors and Assemblymen for this distin guished and responsible representation of this great 8tate in the Senate of the United ret tale the princip'es of the Republican party or my own hearty acceptance and undoubtiug maintenance of thwe princi ples. The Republican party, iu its declaration of its opinions and its purposes, has never used language obscure, uncertain or framed in a double sense. The last app?at of the great political parties to popular suffrage, especially the political senti ments and cardinal adjuncts of the Re- S ub lean party, have been presented to le country without concealment or dia simulation. In this last, as in every earlier struggle to maintain the supremacy of a Republi can policy in the government of the coun try, I have given every aid in my now: support the policy, doc rines and ca dates of the Republican party. The general sense of the Republicans of this State looks upon the Senatorsbip now open to election as of unusual importance. They regard this as important to the great political and material interests of this State. Thev regard it as important to tho whole body and array of Republicans of the country in the place an * share that a Senator of this State shall take and main tain in tbe increasing warfare with the Democratic party, in which every Repub lican is enlisted, and which will be per sisted in until Republican policy and a Republican statesman shall regain au thority iu Congress and the Presidency. In this critical juncture in the affairs of the country, and in the interest of 'he Re publican party, I am desirous to fail in no duty on my part toward toe welfare of the country and the authority of the Republi can party in the national government, which I deem inseparable from that of the welfare ot the country. I have no doubt the Legislature will treat the duty before them with entire devotion to the highest and best interests involved in the election of a Senator, and I submit to their judg ment the quest! m whetherthe.se intents VAINLY SEEKING AEDAE88. The Story of a Victim of Federal Office- Holders. Washington, Dec. 21.—There is nothing more melancholy than the consideration of the case of the average claimant appeal ing to the government for relief from in justice. There is a spirit of actual dishon esty running all through all branches of the government whenever there arises anv question of the payment of a claim. In private life the creditor is sup posed to occupy the superior position But when it comes to the business of the government the situation Is different. To bave a claim against the government is enough to reader you an object o! suspi cion. If you are resolved to collect it, ▼ou are placed at once upon a plane with burgla 1 s and common highwaymen. E very demagogue iu Congress always votes against the payment of any claim. Mem bers appear desirous of emulating the ex ample of Turner, of Kentucky, who always votes against all bills providing for the payment Of money, even to the regular appropriation bills. I have seen a good many claims present MOVEMENTS Of SUPPORTERS OK THE SEVERAL CANDIDATES. New /ork, December 22.—The interests of President Arthur in the Senatorial con test were looked after in this city to-day bv Gen. George H. Sharpe, ex-uonrressma'n John M. Davy, Congressman Burleigh. Senator James Otis, Collector Pierce of Rochester, andex-Smator W. W. Brutnan. A'l except the latter had a conference at the Gihey House in the morning, and went through the list of icgislato-s to see how they stood. They arrived at the con clusion that the first point toattend to was the election of a Sneaker and the defeat of Mr. Erwin, the Morton candidate. Also, that the candidates for Senator ag litist Mr. Morton should be made to understand that it was for their interests to have some one other than Mr Erwin elected Speaker to help their chances. The rest of tho day was spent In ascer taining how many votes could be secure 1 for waiter How* for Speaker, so that it might be determined whether he could be made the candidate of the pro posed combinations against Mr. Erwin. Two votes were found, and the search for another will be continued. On the Erwin H. Morton side the leaders were watching developments and talking up their candidates. They were all sure that no combination could be made to de feat Mr. Erwin, aud that his success would end Mr. Arthur's chances and leave the senatorial chances between Morton and Evajts, or Morton and Hiscock. The h-tter of Mr. Evarts is a disappointment to those who have been raising the free trade charge against tbe President, in that it does not treat of the tariff and protection * The Amesthetlo Cocaine. New York Times. Dr. William Oliver Moore read a paper on "The Physiological and Therapeutical Effects of the Coca Leaf and its Aika’oid”' last evening, before the County Medical Society, in the lecture room cf the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Physiologi cally, ne spoke of the stimulating and nu tritive qualities of the plant, which had been properly called, be thought, the moat tonic plant of the vegetable world. It seemed to him strange that it had been used for several cento-1 ries before Its efficacy as an atihelle was demonstrated, but having been demonstrated within a few months, cocaine had been quickly and generally adopted by tbe medical aud surgical pro fession for certain d> licate classes of ail-L meats, notably affections of tbe eye and ear. Dr. Moore made several interesting experiments on himself, hypodermically I and externally, during the past two montha, which he explained tn his lectnre. They had not differed essentially from other reported tests. Ai instancing the favor which cocaine at once commanded beaaid that oat of 147 operations since October 10, at the Eye amt Ear Iufirmary,| cocaine was used in 102 cases. A Channeling Joke.. From the Washington Hatchet. "Hello, old fellow,” eaid a three dollars- week funny-man in a patent inside manu factory to a bald-headed Washington mon ument joke. "Hello,” came the heart-rending reply. “You look blue. Oh, yea, you were call ed in last week. That’s bad; you’ve teeu a good friend of mine, and I hate to lose yoT.” "That’s not the frouble; I’ve been ex pecting that, and am prepared ami anx ious to leave the road, but I'm afraid that some heartless villain will kidnap me and send me ont as a Bartholdi statue joke.” "Ah, ha!” That was all the funny man said, but tbe way be hustled that poor old joke around was a terror. In three minutes he was scarcely recognisable, tad be wai then shoved out upon aa afflicted pablic. Two Kinds of Reform. New York tun. There seems to bo some confusion among our contemporaries as to the re forms which are hope! for from the ad ministration of Mr. Cleveland. One set of thinkers desire administra tive reform, and the others want civil service reform, meaning thereby the ex tended application of tbe principles laid down iu the Pendleton statute. These principles aro literary examinations a* the test of fitness for appointment anti perma nency of tenure after the man is ap pointed. We observe that these two kind* of. re form do not go together. In fact, they contradict, prevent and nullify each other. The essence of administrative ref ;rm is a universal overhauling and reconstruction of the executive machinery. In th4 hands of Mr. Cleveland we all hope anti expect that ths Presidency will be overhauled and reconstitute! through tbe introduction of different principles anti alms in the con duct of the executive. Next, if adminis trative reform is to follow, the new Presi dent must use a free hand and an uure- laming will in taming oat all the old ten- outs of office who are not indispensably neces-ary through peculiar compe tency and efficiency, aud 1 i flliljg their places with Democrats who possess the indispensible qualifica tions. This is ad ui i List rati ve reform such as Mr. Tilde l would have carried through eight years ag», if the people had not been cheated out of the benefits they had a right to expe3t fio n his election. Civii service reform, ou the other hand, consists in keeping all the office-holders who are now there excepting only those against whom some positive misc induct, neglect, or inadequacy can be clearly proved, and in filling every place ih at is vacate.: without regard to the political sentiments of applicants, anti with regard atone to th- manner iu which they pass the literary examinations. Which cf these two kiuds of reform will Mr. Cleveland go in for? This is a ques tion which the people of the country con template with some interest; and as soon as his purpose upon the subject is made irauifest it will be fully reported in the Hun, which shines for ail. ed to Congress during the la3t ten years, but I cannot recall anyone which presents each a picture of wrong without redress as a case now pending before the Senate. The claim is not a Urge one but if the owner of it is wise, he will spare himself much sorr -w and expense by ut once giv ing up nil hope of ever securing justice. I* shall strip the story jf ail the legal verbiage aud endless involutions that law yers love to wind about a case. From the elaborate and musty records I snail take only the fact! that are conceded by the Senate committee on claims without any regard to party. The name of tbe wretch ed man who has presumed to ask the gov ernment to make good to him the injury it has done him through its agents is Fett-r Targar na, a Spaniard, and a resident of New Orleans during the closing days of the war. He transacted business in New Orleans as a shipper and was employed by Gen. Butler iu carrying supplies. Targarona was never charged with any sympathy wi.h the rebels until after the clote of the war. He owned a steamboat called the Cipitol. Upon the 31 of July, 186), the United States District Attorney se-zed the steamer upon the allegation that it had been employed for insurrectionary pur poses. Targarona gave bond for the steamer, which was appraised at $8,000, and continued to run the vessel until the trial for confiscation could take place. But before the trial .took place the steamer upon one of he trips ran against a snag aud was sunk. Here one might suppose the case would have ended. But no. Targarona was sued upon his bond, and upon very flimsy evidence-evidence that was afterwards deemed wholly unworthy by the Supremo Court—the 1 ib. 1 wa9 sustained. The Spaniard was directed to niAtre the amount *■1 the value of tin C i pit ol ($8,000) good to the band ot high wavinen, who, under the guise of Federal officers, were taking ad vantage of the loose condition of society initu-di&tely following the war to enrich tuemselves. In order to enforce the judgment ob- taiued. another steamer, the Live Oak, be longing to Targarona, was seized and sold in au trregular manner without any real authority ot law. The vessel had cost its owner f2\000. He had expended upon her $45 000 additional in tho way of improve ments. The vessel was appraised by tbe court at a value of $25,000, yet these court officers sold the vessel at ;iuc ion for $8 • 300. This was applied upon the origina judgment and costs. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court. It promptly decided that there was no case iu the original instance. It order ed peremptorily that the first libel should be dismissed. But where was tbe Span iard's remedy? He had had in tue first place a vessel worth $8 000 seized by an arbitrary act and a vessel worth $40,000 soli to satisfy the claim Here, with costs, be was out or pocket over $50,0 0 for an act of in ist outrageous tyranny. Manifestly he could only go to ^Congress for relief. It is now nearly twenty years aince bo was set upon by Federal highway men, and how is he received by Congress? It is sst up against him that he should have known that the attempt to sell the Live Jak wv» illegal, and that be should have protested. Not protesting, it is held that bis silence relieves the government from all responsibili ty for the illegal acts of its agents. Tbe generous committee on cl si ms offers the poor Spaivard $1,570.85 to pay certain costs, for which it is gravely thmig'itthe United States is liable, for these aro the costa incurred by Targarotio in defending his property from the thiev ing attack of the Federal office-holders. The commit ee is further decidedly op posed to the poor man having hi* case transferred to the Court of Claims, whe e there would be a possibility of his getting his petition for justice settled up in a basis of legal evidence. It would be very unreas inable to expect that Con gress will ever do anything with this case If the Sruute passes the bill giving the ac tual co*ts of the defense it cannot be reach ed in the House. The real truth is, Congre-s has no busi ness with the bearing of claims or the pass ing upon their merits. A general law should be parsed sending ail claims to the regular Uuiud States courts. The Court of Claims her* might be used »s a court of appeals. Under the present ay stem all claimants are deni-il the fainUst sem blance of justice. Tagarono’s case is only one of many. street. Gibson, of Louisiana, has a very large Income from his sugar interests. He has a handsome house here, in which he has lived for years. Gorman, of Mary land, has large railroad interests. He keeps house. He occupies one of the handsomest resUences iu Washington. Groome, of Maryland, is poor. He lives at a hotel. Hale, of Maine, roust have con trol of property worth at least $10X1.000. He rents one .of the largest house* iu tbe city. Hampton, of South Carolina, is a wealthy planter, an 1 belongs to a family which has been rich for many generations. Harris, of Tennessee, in a man of small means. He boards. Harrison, of Indiana, has a good income from his law practice. He lives in a comfortable rented house. Joe Hawley, of Connecticut, lives in the most quiet way. He was in debt when he came to Congress, and is hardly yet square with the world. Hill, of Colorado, is a silver million *ire He hss always li red in one of the handsomest houses iu Washington, and his wife has entertained upon the most liberal scale. She is not here this winter, and tbe Senator lives at a hotel. Ingalls, of Kansas, and Jack- son, of Tennessee, are poor. Jonas, of Louisiana, has a large iucome and lives with hit* family in one of the most expen sive fiats in town. Jones, of Florida, is poor, and has a family of six motherless children ou his hands. Jones, of Nevada, has bis ups and downs. He is a million aire one week and next week he may have difficulty in paying his wash bUl. He is not considered a desirable tenant, as he has a pnjudice against paying rent. Ken- oa, of West Virginia, has large coal min ing interests. Lamar, of Mississippi, is poor. So are Lipbam. of New Yurie, end Logan, of Illinois. McMillm, of Minne sota, is rich. McPherson, of New Jersey, is a wealthy man and lives in a very line new house which he hss just built. Mahone, of Vir ginia has the reputation of bring worth at least half a million. Manderson, of Ne braska, aud Maxey, of Texa*. have small fortunes. Miller, of California, is a very rich man and lives in one of the finest houses on Connecticut aveaae. Miller, of New York, has a big iucome from his pa is poor. So is Morgan, of Alabama. Morrill, of Vermont, has been a resident of Wash ington so long that he would be at home n ovvhcre else. He is a very wealthy man. He bus lived in bis own house here for at least ten years. He always entertains very handsomely. Palmer, of Michigan, hss an income of at least $20,000 a year. He is hard at work upon the plans of a new house. Pike, of New Hampshire, is Pe idleton, of Ohio, lives in a very man with at least $75,000 income. Platt, of Connecticut, is n man of moderate means. Plumb, of Kansas, must be very rich. He takes great pains to keep up an appear »nce of poverty, bat no one behoves A SENSIBLE CHOICE. The Advantage of Getting in With the Evening Newspaper Man. • Pittsburg Telegraph. During an excursion from this city, while at Cleveland, the Kennard House was crowded, when a druggist appeared late at night at the hotel office and de manded! bed. The clerk replied that there was only two vacant beds In the house, one wherein was quartered a Pitts burg morning newspaper man and the who were with the excursion. "To tell the truth, they are both pretty drank, so you may take your choice as to which room you will sleep in.” The drnggtit said that he would take his cnauces with the eveaing newspaper man, as they excelled the morning mea in more ways than one, and he would doubt less be so drunk that ho would lie quiet all night. He went to bed and was soon sound asleep. The journalist, however, awakened about 12 o’clock, and, thinking it a long time between drinks, dressed him- seif unconsciously in the druggist’s clothes and sallied out. Ever and anon he mut tered, as he treated all present: "Funniest thing I ever heard of. When I went to bed last night I only had twenty- five cents to my name, and now I’ve got over a hundred dollars (showing a corpu lent roll of bills), and I’m bound to spend every cent of it before morning.” He did. —Prince Albert, of England, will join the Grenadiers at the clone of bis studies at the university. The Prince of Wales has requested that no distinction be made between Albert’s duties and those of other officers. “Boucicault.” according to Mr. Haworth, "calls Mr. Booth a parrot, says naworio, -cans air. ttootn a parrot, says Mr. Barrett is a wooden actor,tnat Mr. Mc Cullough does not know how to write his own name, and he even claims to have made Irving and Joe Jefferson. He says there are no artists in America, excepting Clara Morris, who is a very rough dia mond.” —Hattie C. Cummings, of Dixie, \V. T., has addressed the following to the Waitsburg Times; "I want a man of the following description: Red hair, blue eyes; one that has pride enough to dress —od. bui noi above his means. He must tall or short, thick or heavy-set man; small feet; one that does not wear fine shirts much. He must be good featured, of light complexion, and one who is not afrAid to cut too much wood for the cook. I don't want one that will go to sleep while at work. I want one that likes to hoe potatoes, work in the garden and won't play baseball. If there is any one of this description please answer through the Waitsburg Times. No dainty store clerks need apply.” bicn tube poor. Pugh, of Alabama, is well to- 'o. Ransom, of North Carolina, and Kiddlebergor of Virginia, are poor. Sabin, of Minnesota, and Saulsbury.of De’aware, are rich men. Sawyer, of Wiscons’n, Is worlh at least $4,000,000. He lives in the o!dCre*swell house. SewoM, of New Jer- ee/, and Sheffield, of Rhode Island, are moneyed men. John Sherman is a mil lionaire. He lives in his o*n house here and has be -n here eo Ion; that he has lost all interest in the people of his State, if he ever had any. AN AMERICAN RAKE'S FATE. Washington Lettor to the New York World. The rich men of the Senate are men whose fortunes range from a quarter of a million of dollars to a million nr more Those below a qua-ter of a million are singly classed as men who are well t j do. f do run think that there are a dox-n men in the wen ate who are obliged to depend Let ns ran 8am and Joe. Gath. "Joe” Brown and "Sam” Randall are the taro men most fearet In their own party became they are two of the best Americans in it. Randall is a little more Southern than Brown, who is the firat and I think the on’y Southern man since the war to announce that he recognized "the power of New England ideas in a recon structed republic.” Brown went to school to the Republican party a while, aud Ran dall’s father was an old Whig. Toe pecul iar hospitality of the State sovereignty idea is the excitement shown in Kentucky because Randall presumes to visit there without a*king the Legislature. He is fetlll nno nf lh>''rnn tin«*’ It imtall ployed lag era craft I t nimble lingers: Manufactur- Flre In . Jack Pot. Buffalo Exprtu. A pleaunt little game of draw poker famished amusement to . part* of conge- nlal bachelor eool, tbe other night. The b inker kept the money against which cblpe had been Usned in ■ cigar box which itoodoo tbe Hour eonrenient to hla reich. Tbe circulation bad been expanded to eome |5Cf or W), and this amount In billi wu in tbe box. A splccdid jack pot bad joat been disposed of when • ointbody remarked ■ smell of burning. 'Great Car I” cried one of tbe players, nitney'i on fire!” And ao It was.Wi lighted match bad been carelesel* dropped Into tbe dgar box, and our eratwblle jovial party spent tbe rest of the night roefnliy in trying to piece the charred fragments together. upon their salaries for a living. Let ns ran through the list ulplia illy. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, is worth about three quartern of a million of d>dlars. He has always kept house here, but has not yet built a residence of hit own AI Lon, of Iowa, who Is a widower, lives In a house on Vermont avenne worth with its ground* about it at least $50,000. He lives there the greater part of the year, anti only goes home to Iowa in the summer time. Hi* firtuoe Is esti mated from quarter to half a million of do'Iars. Bavsrd, of Delaware, has lived in his own house hero for years. It is a three-storv Mansard brick on Highland terrace. It is worth $25000. Biyarri’s fortune is said »o be from $150,000 to 1200,- 000. Beck, oj Kentucky, Is only moder ately well off He live* in a rented house ou K street, lllalr of New Hampshire, is a poor man, but he maaagos to keep h-xts* in a very elecaat house on Capitol Hill. Bowen, of Colorado, (s an alleged silver millionaire. He lives at a hotel. Gov. Jce Brown,«of Georgia. It many times a millionaire. M. C. Butler is poor and boards. Call, of Florida, has bought a house hero, for which he (aid $25 000, aud has the reputation of being well-to-do. Camden, of West Virginia, Is a million aire. He livea at a hotel. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is worth three or four mil lions. He hai built a house here which with its lot is worth at leant $100,000. Cockrell, of Missouri, is a poor man. He has generally boarded, but thh year he is plug hod* London, December 14.—Among the vol unteers who sailed on the Pembroke Cas tle for the Fcchuanaland expedition two weeks ago was a dashing young American, known as "Dave” Gould. His engage ment as a member of the force that is known as the "Broken Brigade” was the last resort of a man driven desperate » y his own extravagance and fast life. He was a characteristic member of the "Brig ade.” But few of hie broken down com rades have a history more eventful than his experiences in London and Paris and other cities on the continent daring the past two years. David Gould comes of a good family. He Is probably not unknown in New York, since Pauldings, on the Hudson, is his native plwe. With an abundance of money, be lived an idle life, and fitiul'y turned up In Paris five years ago, where he soon became a prominent figure in the fast world. He kept tbe company of fast young Americans, dress- 1 extravagantly, but showed much tas»e. Until It was whispered about In Pari sian sporting circles four months ago that • ‘Dave’ Gould had gone” nothing partic ularly dishonorable was known of his ca reer. Then it became known that tbe Press Club where he bad bet large sums sad b')en "done” bv him and gradually it leaked out that he had s’milar escapades in tbe French capital. His last days here were marked sy numerous transactions of a disreputable character. He was au ad mirer of Blain- aud his devotion to his cause brought about hi* downfall. He borrowed money from every one a ho would lend him any and lost it stead ily. Remittances he claimed to be expect ing never came, and he appeared to nave been cut off at home. America seemed no longer to possees any charms to him, and he made no effort to return home. At last he became desperate and join ed his lot with hundreds of others jnst as detperate as himstif. ‘ ' ' London be lived at tbe While stopping in L Langham Hot*! in great style. When his Burnett's Coconlne Promotes a Vigorous and Healthy Growth of the Hair. It has been used in thou sands of cases where the hair was coming out, and has never failed to arrest its de cay. 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I b,ye recommended it to » erel, and Dr. Plant hu ordered tt fortbeiS" “/ Terrible Csse.” top of hi,'bead to the aolee of hU foefw mass of scabs.” Every other remed* physicians had been tried in vain. * FOR PALE, LANGUID, with pimply, eallow •am, sue smucura Remedies will prove feet blessing, elenmlng the blootfand rtQ Inherited tmpuritle, and expelling tbe genu of scrofula, rhcnmatUm, coniumptlon ins severe skin diseases. Sold every where. Price, Cutlcura M eeeu Resolvent 11.00, So,p 25 cent,. Ponxn Dice and Cuexical Co., Boston, Mail. Send for “now to Cure gkln Dlcaaie,.* BABY Toilet, Bath and Nursery Sanative. na NOTICt * f EORGIA. Ribb Coomv-By virtue of an order from K. H. Pottle. Jndgo Superior Court Northern circuit, prcsldlnx In raid county, will be sold before iho court bom; door, within tho legal hours ol Hie, on the first Tutsday in January, 18si, onelno yonui pr - v * 1 -* 15 0. M. DAVI3 dcc9 tue It inn 3t Kecclver C. C. Health is Wealth! WH0STILLD0UBT II so they wUI find in our office many such letters a, the following, but none that are entitled to more consideration: Withray experience I pronounce] Brewer's Lung Restorer the best lung remedy made. Four of my brothers and sisters bad died with con sumption, and about three years ago I became id exhausted by a tong continued cough, accompanied with low fever and night sweat', that I could barely get about and my friends gave np ail hope. I coughed «o incessantly that I coaid not deep at dl. After trying aereral lung medicines I be gan tbe ute of Brewed* Luus Restorer and was greatly benefited by the first bot tle, gaining flesh anti strength and resum ing work. I continued to take it and am as stout now as I ever was, rarely ever cough nor do I suffer with my lungs any more than if they never had been affected. I am never without a bottl * of it in my house. During the winter I give it to my little children, even a little fellow three years old, for anything like common colds or when they show any evidence of croup and always with the most satisfactory re suits. Very truly, G. E. HUGELY, Barneaville, Gs. Brewer's Lung Restorer contains no opi ates in any form. Lamar, Rankin & Lamar, MACON, GEORGIA. declOeoddEweowtf keeping home with hi, wife ami elx Chil ean tell the poor white, in the south that dren iri'a place jnst hoc, of the British le- he repraeenta the firet idea which ever pat ration. Coke, of Texa,, i, rich, although E StlUU. UIU, OI ICIfif, I* null, «uuuugu e live, (imply. Colquitt, of Oeorgia, 1, very rich. He live* at a hotel. Conger, of Michigan, hu a small fortune, and hla wife ha, more. They have recent 1 * bought a handsome hou-e near the Fourteenth Circle. Michigan to them i, but a sum mer reaort. Callom, nf Illinois, ix poor and live* at a hold. Neither if the Mus- ■chuetts Senator! cou’d b. called rich men. Both Hoar and Dawn live in board- lng-botuee. Dotph, of Oregon, lias the reputation of being worth a hundred ihouund dollar, or more. Edmund,, of Vermont, ia a mil'ioodm. He has an in come of from 150,000 to $79,000 a year. He has lived in hi, own house for yeari, and is now planning to build a new one mere in keeping with hie great fortune. Fdr. of Nevada, baa the credit of being ten tlmee a millionaire. He livee at • hotel. Frye, ot Mdne, and Oarland, of Ar- kansas, ore men of moderate mean,. They board. George of Miieiadppf, le a ealthjr planter. ” "~ house i He lives in'a large l palatial row on ffoet Capitol b II nad leached so large an amonnt that there wa, no alternative but to pay or rtm away lie offered the explanation that he woe daily expecting a remittance from America. Finally he left, giving a check for the amount of his indebtednn, nn Browe, Shipley A Co. Payment wax re fuse.; when presented, the bankers staling that Gould li td no nmnev there. A month ago the manager of the Langham was as tonished to see the man for whom the po lice had been looting, and who waa sup posed to have left town, walk Into the ho tel. He was faultlessly dressed, oa usual, nud carelessly swinging his cane, be walk ed up to the maftager, whom he coolly ad dressed. The remittance, as he exelalnel, bad been sent to Morgan’s bank instead of through Brown, Shipley A Co.'a, and waa -here deposited. His impudence com pletely deceived Ilia victim, and when he offered a check on Morgan’a it waa gladly accepted. Procuring ion> small article be had left at the bole' ha cordially shook handsvrlth his old boat an t departed. The same answer wu mode to tbe manag- r at Morgan’s that he had received at the other hanker s—Gould had no money there. Other hotel, were systematically awfnd’ed. among them one at Virginia Water. He drove there one dey with a splendid eqnip- age and had tbe best the house afforded. After remaining there aome time he left the pair of horses and fine carriage oa se curity for this debt The owner of the keeper sent bis check for tbe indebtedntas. The team wu returned tut payment on i be cheek was stopped. Four months ago, and only a few days before he left Paris, Gould is laid to have borrowed 3 000 francs from the adminis tration of the Press Club. With thia ha won a large sam at the gaming table Bat be did not repay hia loan nor tbe next day, after making otber forge winnings. The director sf the club, mistrusting that all wa, not right, unt to his hotel, where he turned that tbe debtor wu Intending to leave for London that evening. An employe tracked Goald to “ tnd found him just aa be wu soon leav ing. Calling him aside-for Goald wu in conversation with a friend—the employe f iresented the director's note. Gonld ef- ■ fected to be highly insulted, declaring that the money bad already been lent to the dab. Meklng hit epdogire, the men re tarred totheelubtoffiuf*tbet no money bed been received end Goald had disap peared before file duplicity wes made known. Dcuxt'a cold meet usee end salad dressing, ready made, nutritione, econom ical, delicious. Nothing equal to it was ever ofiered, and It le Invariably popular both et borne end abroad. eONSUMPTION. 'fol ttu»r«Apofiitlvsi ... UM thnn*M<l*of CMotaor tli* word klti-I and of I ■UKUnv h»»« bm ctir*4.1 i».Ie-^*t. ••itrniiKln ■Tfatlfk lnlfa«dffa<-y.*f,ritrwt »*set.4TVO IK.VTI.M FRKS, togatbtrwitn a Vkl.UAlf'KTRBATlMion thiadlMUi ■ U> am/ •Bffwrer. Olvaaij»rw«- ■ - -* »*«*"•* “'Ili'lIU DK.T. A. bUXXii.lil rtArlKL, Sow Yttk. - ;bxe»v F SSB.-A rict Un o f y ou t h fbJI i CAuainr I’remAtar* Decay, Karroo* Debility, MAohAoiI, Ac., bavin* tried in taIo inrjr ki fMBadjr.hM d iacovnrad A aim pie na Ana of Mlf*curou THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE SHTE is only TWtLVK DOLLARS per year at~ GORDON INSTITUTE. Barneaville pays the balance. 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