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nrange crop of Volusia county,
^
P " less than 306 localities in
ore no found.
where gold is
Jor of bushels of tomatoes are
^vrnaway D9
Florida ovary season.
lands are selling in the oast
of Marion county, Ala,, at $1.
era P
f acre. Brooks county, Ga.,
TKEveg etables of
yielded a net revenue of $100,000
1»« J
tliis season. pounds of red
Thirteen thousand pep
«erereeei ived at Laredo, Tex., a few
rtf Mexico.
from
building of the observatory for
’ m McCormick telescope at the
-eat begun last
University of Virginia was
itPpIy finished the Yazoo
Tse grading is on
4 Mississippi valley raikoad and thir
miles of track have been laid on the
ffen of the line.
Jackson end
The contract for building the Army
and aavv hospital, at Hot Sprin gs, Ark.,
has been awarded to Cyrus Fristol, of
jjjit place. His bid was $86,335.
Con. King has s fid his ranehe and
rattle,' near Ban syndicate. Antonio, This for $4,000,000 is said to
fe m English world.
he the largest ranehe in the
• Is western North Carolina 1 here are
fifty-nine peaks above 6,C03 feet, ninety
three between 5,000 and 6,COO, and 143
between 4,000 an 1 5,000, a total of 29C
stove 4,C0J feet.
, Mobile never s w saw “so much buil¬
ding going cn” ns is under way this sum
nel . Many of the buildings are of an
impelling character, but the majority
of the middle class of citizens.
The whole town of Knoxville having
b e au aroused by a distant mysterious ex¬
plosion one day lecently, investigation
was made, an 1 it proved to be men fish¬
ing in ilie river with dynamite.
Foe ingenious methols of murder, an
Oxford, Miss., negro gets on the premi¬
um list trying to poisou his family by
putting the head of a moccasin snake
into the coffee they were about to drink.
The Paine Institute will be opened at
Augusta, Ga., in October. The aim of
the Paine Institute is to train young ne¬
groes for the ministry, and thus fnmish
the moans of enlightening and educating
their race.
Alien P. Morris was thefirs t Con
federate soldier to draw a pension under
the Tennessee law ‘allowing $10 per
month to Confederates in the army. Mr.
Morris had both eyes shot out in the
battle of Stone river, December 31, 1662.
By pouring oil on the floor, and setting
fire to it, then gouging out the charred
portions by means of a sharpened pike
and a piece of scissors, and then repeat¬
ing the operation, three prisoners in the
Corpus Christi (Tex.) jail very nearly
Biieceeded in escaping a few days ago.
The plans of the Georgia ruateh facto¬
ry, now going up in Gainesville, have
been changed, and its capacity has been
doubled from the &rst arrangement. It
will be in full operation in sixty days.
I) is rumored that several other manu¬
facturing establishments will soon be
added to the industries of the town.
A large roofing factory is to be erect¬
ed in Chattanooga, Mr. L. Sagendorpli
; i the Superintendent of a New York com¬
pany, will organize the stock company at
g an early day. It will be composed of
the wealthiest business men in the city,
f and will be licensed by the original com¬
pany to manufacture twenty different
styles of roofing.
Memphis Appeal: Georgia has reached
llie dignity of being “the great melon
eenttr of the South,” and it is anticipa
ted that before many years an annual
great melon pilgrimage to Georgia dur
the melon season will be organized by
our colored citizens, with low railroad
and steamboat fares. Evidently Georgia
lias a great melon future before her.
Alabama’s improvement does not seem
to he confined to her mineral interests
and manufacturing. The last census
shows that the number of farms have
nearly doubled. In ten years the Com
crop has increased about fifty per cent.,
the oat crop nearly quadrupled, the cot
ton drop increased nearly sixty per cent.
the wool product doubled, and the hogs
increased over seventy per cent.
“The Point” on Lookout mountain is
the property of Miss Whiteside, of Chat¬
tanooga. "Wishing to reside hereafter in
Boston, she has offered the Point for
Bile. As heretofore stated, a company
o; Cincinnatians desire to purchase this
property. It is now said that a Chatta¬
nooga firm will be a party to the pur¬
chase. In the event the sale takes place
some very extensive improvements are
contemplated.
A gold mine has been discovered on
the land of Mr. Gravitt, seven miles east
of Cumniing, Ga. Years ago says the
Clarion, Dr. Stevenson, of Gainesville,
discovered and tested a vein on this land
hut for some reason not known notking
Mas done about it. Recently more test¬
ing and panning has been done, and the
output and the results were of such a
character that some gentlemen in Gain¬
esville closed a trade last Saturday night
^ith Air. Gravitt, paying him
THE WEEKLY
VOLUME Vl,
for the property. They will proceed at
onoe to put up machinery and place the
mine in No. 1 working order.
.TOE CORONATION TOILETS.
Dresses Worn by the Czarina at Moscow-'
Dream of a Parisian Modiste.
The following dresses were made by
Worth for the Empress of Russia:—A
court dress to be worn at the reception
at Moscow of the Notables on the day
after the coronation has a train four
is pieties long. It with is of pale rose velvet and
embroidered a line silver design,
copied from the court mantle worn by
Marie Antoinette at the fete of the
Dauphin at Versailles. The petticoat—or
the “ sarafan,” to use a Russian expres¬
sion—is of white satin, with silvery em¬
broidery. The two panneanx in out
are separated by buttons of diamonds
and tassels composed of clusters of dia¬
monds. A ball dress has a train of white
satin embroidered with silver daffodils,
surrounded with a garland of narcissi.
The front is of white crepe, with crystal
pearls interspersed with roses and nar
cissu This dress is for the ball of the
noblesse. Another ball dress, to be
worn at the soiree which will be
given by the City of Moscow to the Czar,
has a train of crepe rave and satin paille
crepe, the stripes embroidered in relief
with silver sprays and the front em¬
broidered with five garlands of silver
grain with a fringe of wild flowers. An¬
other toilet is an opera dress of the
Louis Seize style; It is a tea rose satin,
with large boquets woven in the tissue;
the front of crepe and rose satin, in re¬
lief, with large tufts of swan’s down and
tassels composed of clusters of pearls.
For the festival day, when the city of
Moscow gives honor to the Czar and
Czarina, there is a dress of green crepe
de Chine, covered with unbleached eam
oric embroidered with Valenciennes,
with a large ceinture and knots of moire
rose. Chapeau capote her of rose velvet.
Ou the occasion of arrival at Moscow
the Empress wore a costume of crepe de
Chine paille, with lace trimmings, and
with a ceinture of dahlias and a short
cloak to match; chapeau de paille,
trimmed with moss roses and clusters of
of velvet dahlias.
DRESS OF THE GRAND DUCHESS.
The following are the toilets which
Worth completed for the Grand Duchess
Vladimir:—a short dress of crepe de
Chine, trimmed with flounces of white
silk and muslin, embroidered with white
roses. A grand ceinture of moire blanche,
with large boquets of lilacs in the centre.
A velvet court mantle, cpingte, with pale
rose, and embroidered with her imperial
arms, set off with rich Renaissance de¬
signs. The sarafan is of rose satin, em¬
broidered with silver and trimmed with
clusters of pearls ball and marabout. On oc¬
casion of the of the noblesse she
will wear a toilet of white crepe, em¬
broidered with silver violets interspersed
with Parma violets, a grand ceinture ol
diamonds, with a cordon of violets. At
the city of Moscow ball her toilet will be
of silver gray crepe, embroidered with
silver roses in the Trianon style, trimmed
with garlands of roses and silver hazel
outs. For the opera she will wear a
robe of -white China crepe broclic over a
white satin jupe, the whole richly
trimmed with cascades of pearls. The
corsage Beauharnais is fastened by
agraffes and heavy tassels of pearls. On
the day of the Moscow festivities she will
wear a short Watteau dress of China
crepe and satin merveilleux of gris perle,
trimmed with insertions of Malines lace
and relieved by bows of plum-colored
velvet ribbons. The hat is of gris perle
crepe, trimmed with gris perle and loops
of plum-colored velvet.
Tree riauting in New York.
The New York Hearld says: Accord¬
ing to a law recently passed and signed,
any person in the State of New York who
ii liable to highway tax—which means
every person who owns real estate—may
claim exemption to the extent of one
dollar for ever four trees planted property, on the the
roadside adjacent to his
exemption not to be asked until the year
after planting. The law specifies dis¬
tances but allows considerable choice as
to varieties of trees. This enactment
should lead to the gradual changing of
our many thousands of miles of bare
country roads into highways that m
summer will not inflict the strain they
do now on man and beast, This
grateful change may occur sooner than
would otherwise be expected if farmers,
who must do most of the planting, will
have enough pride in the appearance of
their own property to plant trees instead
of mere sticks. The usual plan is to set
out poles an inch or more thick and with
a clump of roots no larger than a man s
head These may live but the man who
plants them is likely to die before their
tops are large enough to cast shade, jo
set trees with larger roots and trunks
would cost the farmer very little more,
and it might enable the owner of the
property to enjoy the result of his labors
without waiting half a century.
The Gambler’s Dread. —It is said
that the greatest dread of a gambler is
that he will be paralyzed. They nearly
all expect to die from a shock of some
kind. It may come from the fact that a
great many of them have gone that way.
If a man with a withered arm or leg
should happen in a gambling house the
dealer would quit the chair. Another
dread of gamblers is a man who comes
in to play with a cane m his hand. That
is regarded as bad luck to the house.
JgSlSSSt* $3K states^ 00,000
CON YERS, GA., AUGUST 10, 1833.
The Arkansaw Farmer.
A cattle-dealer stopped at a house of
an Arkansaw small farmer, and called to
old-fashioned a man who was windlass drawing that water cried with an
out
with an alarming screak at every turn of
the crank.
<■ > Light!” shouted the drawer of
water.
The man dismounted and approached
the well, “I am a cattle-buyer,” said
the man, “and I’d like to talk business
to you.”
“Can’t talk business till I give these
steers as much water as they want.”
“How long will it take you ?”
“Blamed if I know. They ain’t had
no water for two days, and the well’s
seventy-five feet deep, and the bucket
leaks; now make the calculation.”
“How long have you been drawing ?”
“Since sun up; and the’re jest as ram¬
pant now as they was when I com¬
menced. I don’t'low to do nothin’else
fer several days yit, fer by the time one
gits ’nough, the other one is spilin’ fer
some. ”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
creek ?”
“Thar ain’t no creek ia the neighbor¬
hood.”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
river?”
“’Cos they’d rush in and drown their
selves.”
“Why don’t you drive them to the
pond ?”
“They won’t drink that sorter water.”
“Don’t yon want to sell them ?”
“I would if I had the ole woman’s con¬
sent, an’ I think she’s willin’.”
“Where is she ?”
“She’s jes’ gettin’ ready to go over to
see one of the neighbors.” before she
“You’d better consult her
leaves.”
“You don’t know that woman like I
do. It ain’t safe to pester her when she’s
gettin’ ready to go any whar. We’ll
hafter wait till she gits tkar.”
“How far is it?”
“About nine miles.”
“I see you don’t care to talk business.”
“No, I ain’t so powerful keen.” busi¬
“If you’d pay more attention to
ness you’d live better.”
“Don’t wanter live no better’n I am.
Suits me.”
“Are you making any attempt to edu¬
cate your children?”
“Yes, an’ they’re gittrn’ along fine.
Jim hit a nigger with a rock yisterday, and
Bob sassed a jestice of the peace,
Buck ain’t afreed of the devil. That’s a
mighty good skowin’, let me tell you;”
and the windlass screaked and the steers
rolled their eyes.
“Are all of your children boys ?”
“ They might have been ef it hadn’t
been fur one thing.” that?”
“ What was
“One of them was a gal.”
“ Where is she now ? ”
“Married to the triflin’est feller I ever
866(3 ”
“ Well there’s no use fooling with you;
good day.” day." And he turned the
“Good
crank, muttering to himself: “Nosin’
’round here tryin’ to find out who’s got
whisky. A" man haster be mighty
- ( mart" these Hays."—Arkansaw Trav¬
eller.
The Elephant and the Ape.
An elephant named Grand Tusk and
ail ape named Nimble were friends.
Grand Tusk observed, “Behold how
big and powerful I am !”
Nimble cried in reply, “Behold how
agile and entertaming I am !”
Each was eager to know which was
really superior to the other, and which
quality was the most esteemed by the
wise. So they went to Dark Sage, an
owl that lived in an old tower, to have
their claims discussed and settled.
Dark Sage said: “You must do as I bid,
that I may form an opinion.”
“Agreed,” said both.
“Then,” said Dark Sage, “cross yonder the
river, and bring me the mangoes on
great tree beyond.” Grand Tusk and Nimble,^ but
Off went the stream, which
when they came to
was flowing full, Nimble held back, but
Grand Tusk took him upon his back and
swam across in a very short time. Then
they came to the mango tree, but it was
very loftv and thick. Grand Tusk could
neither touch the fruit with his trunk,
nor could he break the tree down to
gather the fruit. Up sprang Nimble,
and in a triee let drop a whole basketful
of rich, ripe mangoes. Grand Tusk
gathered the fruit up into his capacious
mouth, and the two friends crossed the
stream as before.
“Now ” said Dark Sage, “which of
you is the better? Grand Tusk crossed
the stream, and Nimble gathered the
fruit. ” Each thing in its place is best.
Two French Authors.
One evening when neither of them
kad a sou in his pocket, Belzac said to
Jules Sandeau : “Sandean, I must have
twenty francs, to go to the Duchess of
g-’shall. Murder a publisher, if you
like; assassinate a banker, if you can ;
but get me the twenty francs. \\ itn
out a word Sandeau went oat it was
midwinter—and pawned his overcoat,
Returning, he handed Belzac the pro
ceeds, twenty francs. “Now,
Belzac, "oblige me by lending Sandeau me your
overcoat ” “Stop; Fere,” said
handing hun the pawn-ticket Forgive
me; I am a brute, cned Belzac, and
threw himself weeping uito Sandeau*
arms.
Saw Mills.— --States The Umtei 8 has
A FRENCH DETECTIVE.
How He FIxea u,i eo that no one will Know
Hiuio
It was on the fourth morning, as I was
ordering my dejeuner at the cafe where
I had made the appointment, that the
detective came to see me; but so com¬
pletely was he changed in appearance,
that, notwithstanding his having warned
me that I would not know him when we
met, I thought at first the individual
who had accosted me must have made a
mistake; and it was only when he
showed me his card, and whispered Police, some¬
thing about the Prefecture de
that I grasped the fact that this was in¬
deed the gentleman with whom I had
bad the interview in the Rue de Jerusa¬
lem. Instead of a clean-shaved upper
lip and chin, he now wore a very neat
pair of moustaches with imperial to
match. His hair was close cut, which,
together with the fact that his mutton
chop whiskers had disappeared, makes
me believe that when I saw him before
he must have been wearing a wig and
false whiskers. At the Prefecture ho was
dressed in badly-made and somewhat third
shabby clothes, and looked like a
or fourth-rate clerk of a small office. But
when he came to meet me at the cafe he
was smart, well set-up, and had the gen¬
eral appearance of a French military man
in plain clothes, who was trying to look
younger than he really was, or what
Frenchmen would call a ci-devant jeune
homme, In a word, a more thorough
and complete change it would be impos¬
sible for any'man to work in his own ap¬
pearance. him join at breakfast,
I invited to mo
which he did, and a very hearty meal ho
made. But it was not until we were
taking our coffee and smoking our after¬
breakfast cigarettes that ho told me why
he had changed his dress and genera)
bearing. tell monsieur,” he
“I must you, ex¬
plained, “ that if we, the secret agents
of the police, are once recognized, our
occupation is gone, we are of no more
use to the Prefecture; and although wo
may not be actually turned adrift, appoint¬ we
are given some very inferior
ment, and very likely never rise again to
the salary we have held. This is why
we take care never to appear the same
in and out of the office. At the Prefec¬
ture we may be seen by any one; and
should those we have met there be able
to point us out in public, we are as good
as lost, so far as our usefulness is con
ccrnccl.”
On my remarking that such treatment
could hardly be called fair, he said he
did not take my view of the ease. The
police, or detectives, were highly
paid, and were extremely well rewarded
they had discovered and brought to
any veiy had difficult do when case. they They
wliat they to told en
the service, and they were
the first the penalty of failure,
are among them men who have
in almost every class of life, and
of them has what may be called a
line of business of his own. In
course of their duty some of them
with the receivers of stolen goods;
with thieves; many with what are
in Paris commercial rascals, and
a few with those whose “ industry”
is to melt silver and other property of
like valuable nature. Fingers, shnrpers
all kinds, house-breakers, and horse¬
very numerous and most in¬
class "in Paris—have each and
their special agents of the police, who
them and know where to lay
upon them when they are
wanted.”
Ex-Senator Tabor’s Troubles.
A letter from Denver, Col., says: In
Criminal Court here the trial of
H. Bush, ex-Senator Tabor’s
in the Windsor Hotel, and until
manager of the Tabor Opera
on the charge of having embez¬ while
$2,000 from the Opera House Bush
was concluded. Mr. was
innocent after the jury had been
five minutes. The suit was brought
Mr. Tabor as the result of a quarrel
himself and Bush, because of
refusal of Mrs. Bush to associate
the new Mrs. Tabor. It was the
impression that the prosecution The
malicious and groundless. prominent
Club, the most organ¬
of the kind in that membership, city, has ex¬
Mr. Tabor from its
at the same time a resolution to
effect that the expulsion is due to
fact that he married a woman with
the members or their families could
associate. The significance of the
action is seen in the fact that ali
prominent politicians of Denver are
of the club, including Senator
Secretary Teller and Henry R.
It is understood Mr. Bush
now bring suit against Tabor for
for alleged malicious prosecu¬
tion. The trial lasted two days and has
a great deal of interest.
The Croat Fire.
^ a p a p er rG£L( j before the “Chicago
jjj s t or ical Society, £. C.“ Lamed esti
the number of human lives lost
; n the great tire at upward of 300, but
there were no means of getting at
exact number. Speaking of the
wor j £ done by the Chicago Relief and
g oc i e ty, he said it handled over $5,
000,000 in money alone and accounted
for every / dollar; that it received contri
bution of m0 ney, food, or clothing from
every State in the Union and almost
every country on the globe; that it as
aisted 156,968 persons all but 21,692 pi
whom were of foreign birth, and that it
built 7,983 houses for persons unable to
build with their own means, and that
SOUTHERN PROSCRIPTION.
The IUauoy Couple who Settled In illlt*
slsaippio
In the suburbs of Natchez I found a
Northern man. He was digging worms
alongside the fence and getting ready to
go fishing, and his wife sat on the track
steps smoking a com-cob pipe and kick¬
ing with her bare feet at the chickens
whenever they came too near. The man
had black patches on the knees of gray
pants, a leather belt in place of sus¬
penders, and he chewed plug tobacco
and squirted the juice around with a
vigor which would have earned him two
dollars a day in any other locality.
There was only one room to the house,
and the furniture would have been no
load at all for a skeleton mule.
“ Yes, I’m from the North—from Ul¬
anov,” he said, as we sat down in the
shade for a talk, “and I made a great
mistake in moving down here.”
“ How came you to move ?”
“ Well, some of the folks back there
got down on me because they missed
some hogs, and it got so hot I concluded
to move.”
“ And how do yon like the South?”
“Not a bit. It’s no country for a go
ahead man. There’s nothing here to
rouse a man’s ambition to rip and tear
and bust things. I’ve accumulated four
dogs, three fishpoles and a shotgun since
striking this country, but I feel home¬
sick and discouraged.”
‘ ‘ How does your wife feel ?”
‘ ‘ Clear discouraged. Why I’d hardly
know her to be the same Sarah Jane
Baker. She’s run right down to a skele¬
ton, and she’s got heaps on her mind.
‘ ‘ Say, we’ve been here better’n a year
and not one of the ladies in Natchez haa
called on her!”
“No!”
“ Solemn fact, stranger ! When we
first came she greased her shoes and
washed her best calico and called on every
lady in town, to show ’em that she wasn’t
proud nor stuck up, but nary oue of
them has returned the call. They know
we are from the North, you see, and
they cut us on that account, I tell yon,
the Northern family has to suffer down
here. They are entirely ostrichciaed
from society. Sarah, Sarah Jane!”
Sarah came around to om side of the
house in answer to his call. I remember
that I judged she had on just the single
garment of a dress, and half the buttons
were missing from that. Her bare feet
went spat! spat! spat! and I further
judged that they hadn’t been washed
since the winter break-up.
“ What you want ?” she growled out.
“ Say, Sarah, haven't we been ostrich
eised here in Natchez, ’cause we’re from
the North?”
“ Dead right you are, old man,” she
replied as she blew a cloud of smoke
from her mouth, ‘ ‘ but what do we keer ?
We kin hold our heads up and bust
around for all that. If they don’t
like us let’em look t’other way. Come,
ye’d better be off to the river after suck
ers. If ye don’t git fish to-night ye’ll ge
to bed with a atomaoh as empty as y ft
wallet. M. Quad.
NEARLY A MILLION STAMPS.
The Tedious Task ol a I*ady Collector It
Philadelphia.
“I have been collecting stamps foi
nearly four years and have now aboul
850,000, counted, assorted and tied in
little bundles of fifty and one hundred
each,” said Miss Ntvvbold, of No. 1518
Pine street, Philadelphia, to a reporter
of that city. “Of course, my desire is
to procure the greatly envied million,
which is the ambition of so many other
ladies. But a million stamps are a great
many, you kuow.”
The lady pointed out a pile of at least
thirty pasteboard boxes, all filled with
stamps, neatly tied and labeled, in bun¬
dle* containing fifty and a hundred each.
The boxes were marked with the quan¬
tity of stamps therein, ranging from
6,000 to 50,000 per box.
“I can vouch for the accuracy of the
figures,” resumed the lady, “for they
have all been carefully counted. The
great bulk of the stamps are, of course,
of the United States, but every nation
on the globe is represented. I know of
only one person who has secured a col¬
lection of the full million and she lives
in New York. Several years ago a gen¬
tleman of that city offered a premium of
$500 to any one who would bring him
one million stamps, procured That by prize his the or
her individual exertions.
lady I referred to received, and he then
made a second offer for another million,
but this so far has not been claimed.”
“But how do you procure all these
stamps ?” asked the reporter. and in
“Well, my friends in the Army
business saved stamps and sent them to
me. Besides, I have received many
from England, Germany, Egypt—in complete fact
from everywhere. I can my
million, I think, in a short time—if I
have the patience to keep on counting.”
“What denominations are they princi
. >a )i v ?” ... and
**Xhey are of all denominations,
include a quantity of Internal Revenue
gmmps. ” Any that are tom or mutilated
Miss Newbold discards. Many have
i^ cn subjected to a steaming process to
remove the mucilage, but generally they
tre in the same condition in “ft inch they
-when removed from the envelopes.
His Bfward Rewabd. —The Abbeville ^ (Ala.)
n g 4-ho worked for a man last
,, ....derstandine J that he waa
...Jl*;,,,, A of the year, as com
Steer f, ir hte services doubled- the man’s i
iwP for a rifewda
hot-cun and having labored ,
NUMBER 20.
WIT AND WISDOM
A Westers paper has started the dis*
cussion when men should marry. Our
idea of the proper time is when they get
the girl’s consent and the money to pay
the minister.
“Can you tell me,” asked Twistem,
“ the difference between ray cook, thia
•noming, and a passenger on a new rail¬
road?” One wns bakin’ shad and tho
other was shaken bad.
Pater is now employed for the con¬
struction of domes for observatories. It
Las also for a long time been ntilized in
the manufacture of Western mining
claims and township speculations.
A Brooklyn girl is much worried since
the first of May. Her lover has moved
next door and she is afraid he will see
her putting out the washing, and expect
her to do it after she is married.
“My son,” said an American father;
“how could yon marry an Irish girl?”
“Why, father, If I I’m married not able Yankee to keep girl two I’d
women. a
Lave to hire an Irish girl to take care of
her.”
A West Point girl says it is unkind of,
the Government to allow only men in
the Army. She says women would do
jukt as well, or better, as they like to
dress up and strut about for inspection
and admiration.
A Scotch parson said somewhat sar¬
castically of a hard drinker, that he put
an enemy in his month to steal away
his brains, but that the enemy, after a
thorough and protracted search, re¬
turned without anything.
A teamster in Maine conquers balky
horses by taking them out of the shafts
and making them go round in a circle.
This is the only method of prohibition producing
dizziness in Maine, which is a
State .—Lowell Citizen.
Is New York, a few days ago, a hand
organ grinder’s monkey attacked a boy
and bit and injured him severely. It is
supposed that the boy called the mon¬
key a dude, and the wonder is that the
lad was not torn to pieces .—Norristown
Herald.
A poor woman in Lawrence was visited
by a female missionary, who, in the con
versatiou, asked her if she intended to
bring her boy up to any trade.. “Well,”
said the partv addressed, “wid respects
to yer, I think I shall bring him up to be
an Odd Fellow.”
McKee Rankin is said to be the daddy
of the word “masher.” He once said to
Thorne, alluding to the applause given
Thorne by the ladies, “Charley, I’m no¬
where in this ‘rig’ (alluding to his cos¬
tume), I only touch their hearts, but by
the gods, you mash ’em !”
Punished for Cutting Prices,
Lung Foy started a laundry recently
in Paterson, N. J. The other Chinese
laundrymen charged ten cents for shirts
and three cents for collars, but Lung
Foy put the price down to eight cents
for shirts and two cents for collars. A
number of liis rivals demanded that he
put his prices up, but he refused. On
Sunday morning thirteen employees of
other laundries went to Lung Foy’s
place and made threatening demonstra¬
tions. Ju the afternoon Hunk Jum,
whose laundry is in Goodwin street,asked
him to come down there and see soma
friends who hud come from New York.
Lung Foy went down, As soon as he
inside, the doors were locked, and ho
seven of the Chinamen who were
his place in tlie morning. They him
they had sent for him to punish further
for cutting down prices. Without
he says, they attacked him
with hatchets, chisels, old files, and
Their object, he says, was to
him and punish him, but to Btop
of killing him. Finally which they they sent had
him home in a carriage
in waiting at the door.
Lung Foy was so badly hurt that he
was unable to notify the police of the Then oc¬
till Wednesday morning. in
was brought to the station bouse
carriage. One eye was closed, there
was a stab on one arm and a hatchet cut
oue side, and there were hacks and
all over his body. He was evi¬
in great pain. Tlio doctors say
are no fatal injnries. his
Lung Foy gave the names of seven
as Moy Chin, Moy Hing, Moy
Jim, M< y Dock, Moy Fee Ni, Moy
and Moy See. The interpreter
the singularity of the first names
owing to the fact that they were all
A Prolific Potato Patch.
About 1855 or 1856 a man by the name
Parker, who lived on the Mokelumno
in San Joaquin County, made
before the Commissioners of the
San Joaquin Agricultural Society that
had raised 2,500 bushels of potatoes
on an acre. The story was so astonish¬
ing that a committee was appointed to
investigate it. They reported that the
ground was planted as usual in the
spring, and matured a large crop o£
potatoes; that before the potatoes were
dug the June rise of the river sent the
water near to the surface, producing ground, a
second crop on the surface, the
being nearly covered with the potatoes.
When the -water went down, a month,
or two later, a third crop set in and ma¬
tured below the first. The Committee
dug several hills, which produced from,
seventy-five to eighty-seven pounds each.
The top potatoes were sunburned and
worthless for the table; the first crop
was, of course, worthless, and but a small
quantity of the lower or third crop was
good. The digging and weighing of the
potatoes were not carefully done. A
close estimate would probably have re¬
duced the figures considerably, but no
one who examined the field bushels placed tha tha
yield at less than 1,200 exhausted, to
acre. The ground was utterly after,
producing nothing for some years
—San Luis Obispo ( Cal .) Tribune.
“Is the howling of a dog always girl fol- ol
lowed by a death ? asked a little
her father. “Not always my dear;
sometimes the man that shoots at tint