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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1883)
jtNK RAX NEWS. C ottou factory at Birmingham ISE ” acres, cost $500,000 0 ver four 1C ^ „,iov 500 operatives. witlield for number of patents , of the final fees was 2,056: F2L of patents all expired was 7,471. $1, from sources was £ ^’expenditures $518,255. including Increase printing in Kipts surplus, $155,020 over 1882, [Pratt Coal and Coke Company, of PL 11 have bought ten mining ma r \ bave them cutting coalra the ® es ‘ about 100 tons per iaft. The v will cut of caveats filed was’ 2, ^ip'immber of patents designs, granted, 21,185; the in Wing reissues and mbU' „f trade marks registered was jjje number of labels registered was ; 22,686, IS;» tal s8A6 Democrat: There will be a _ jderable falling off in the cotton * mffl people can bear it much ?■ but tlm than they could have done last lt!er more nearly out of debt ktr. They are jjsoare better, enabled to “live at L ivjusG the past year over received a third in of the a 0 £ dollars was pi ^ States land office at Gainesville, l nearly a half a million acres of ii.. a m There also ill were disposed of. were homestead entries, and the num $ entries was 2,181. j 0 J cash , pEAB orchard in Thomas county, was sold five years ago for $650. It next sold for $1,800, the $650 hav ■ ecovered from euttings in the {been r Bintime. A month afterward $2,800 offered for it, and now it could not [bought for $25,000. awaiting He Lumber of applications kon on the part of the office, July 1, b, as 4,799, au increase of 28 per "' Lt over 1882. The Commissioner L ^ business of the office is steadily El [ja appally increasing, but nearly stands two to half Million dollars now Lcredit of tbe office in tba Treasury. Euan- L by the name of Gallium living C. Low Gap, Surry county, N. L quarrelling with a neighbor a few ks ago, threw au ax at him, cutting [clothing L slightly and remained killing his in own the instantly. The ax ffis head for several minutes until Lgot [child’s through fighting. Mrs. greatly Galliati exci mother, became [ jinl it is feared she will die, Lle [southern the amount of cotton consumed Lnth mills last year was only one of the entire consumption in tho Led [in States, the increased consmnp the United States was nearly 25 [cent, of that for the whole country pillowing that tho south’isjprogress kmuch more rappidly in cotton man piling than the North. L Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a pal factory. The machinery will all lew, for the most part recent inveut L and will consist of eight fibre rna jies, jiior six machines for preparing immense pal- the mattrasses, etc., an no crusher, steam dyers and other ma pery for manufacturing palmetto pulp I for converting pine straw into ■for the upholsters, for mattrasses, ^H=vrrvsooo ^Wension vTimes: Considerable ap is expressed by the press of | |State as well as the prominent stock te at the prevailance of murrain the cattle in certain sections. 1 disease has made its appearance in ■■vlocalities, jone and is not confined to grand division of the State. To k 8 extent the cattle raisers of the * frave discarded the old thorough t* * scrub stock and have expended plerable their wealth and time in improv herds. Consequently an epi r of this dread disease would be of pitiable in jury to the State in a fiiian P°mt of view. Lax Telegraph: The Savannah 1 * iar mers are investigat ing fruit cans ' - st ablishments for the benefit of E association. The true solution of H pk question lies in this direction, •season, experience, if it taught any ■■ taught that truck is of too perish * satiue to be shipped long distan ® owner’s risk. The demand for fruits we are told, has never supplied, and should the sup- 1 ; r t 1j e time exceed the demand, ® 110 danger of [a glutted market . utive ‘'ton, canned fruit can be held market, f a ’trollogiste who selected 1883 as a ‘fear for earthquakes, pestilence and I®* 8 se em to have made a hit. ■•■- tlie eight months of the year con p more than 143,000 lives have ! ; st in notable disastrs, in that ■‘Tito account the yellow fever in r WEEKLY Sk VOLUME Vi. the south. By simply following the big news of the press dispatches the follow¬ ing table of people killed is made up: Loss of the Cimbria 434 Milwaukee Hotel lire 80 Poland circus tire 268 Australia mine flooded 72 Tehiehipa(Cal.) Flat-boat railroad accident 21 disaster N. C. J8 Loss of City of Brussels 10 Mine explosion, Ill. 10 New York scool panic 16 Braidwood mine disaster — -j February Drowned floods 56 at Drowns ville Minn 11 April tornadoes 200 Fall of a Texas hotel 14 Brooklyn bridge panic 14 May Sundernand tornadoes June floodi (Eng) school panic I - 59 Baltimore pier disaster 72 Carlon (N, Y. (railroad Occident 17 July London (Out) floods 17 Hungary fire 0 Ischia earthquake 4,500 English fishing fleets CC German floods t-H Mt Ararat avalanche 150 Powder explosions in Europe 230 Two mine explosions in Europe 162 Rochester Bombay factory panic,etc. 104 (Minn) tornado 16 Lake Chiem pa ace accident 23 Cornwall mine accident 12 Collision off Edystone lighthouse 18 Great Banks fishermen lost 60 J ava earthquake 100,000 India cholera 15,000 Egyptian Cholera 21,000 Italian steamer Ansonia 2H Steamer Kenmora Castle 32 Steamer Gypsy Navarre 18 Steamer 46 Ship Dunshoffrage 25 Rome explosion 21 ingBurnL Steamer Grapp’.er theater 70 ike Como 47 amerSte Daphne on Clyde 150 AN ENGAGED SEAT. The Traveling Ilojf Properly Reh iked. It was a day when everybody was tired and anxious to sit down that a large man, carrying a gripsack, boarded an Eastern railroad train, and after walk¬ ing through several crowded cars, finally found the one vacant seat. Seating himself, he placed his bag on the cushion at his side. Just as the train was about to start another man entered and made the same journey in search of a seat. As he stopped inquiring before the large man the latter said: •‘This seat is engaged, sir ; a man just stepped out, but will return in a mo¬ ment; he left his baggage here as a claim to the seat. ” “Well,” said the second traveler, frankly. “I’m pretty down tired, and if you don’t object I’ll sit here and hold his bag for him till he returns.” And without further ceremony this he proceeded to do. Then the large man, who was bound for Lynn, earnestly prayed within the inmost chambers of his little heart that his companion might get off at Somerville, or Everett or Chel¬ sea—anywhere but Lynn or a station beyond. And the tired man thanked his stars for even a moment’s rest, ex¬ pecting every second to be ousted by the owner of the gripsack. the sta¬ The train moved out from tion. In vain did the large man try to read the stranger's ticket to see what his destination was. Somerville was reached, but the stranger sat quietly in his place, and the large man grew nervous. The train stopped at Everett, and still the stranger gazed peacefully ahead, never budging, and the large man began the to perspire. Then came Chelsea, but straneer still held fast to the bag and never offered to stir. The agony of the large man was simply frightful, but he saw he could' do nothing but grin and bear it, and get out of the fix as best he ’ the stranger had by this could. But and time fully grasped the situation, though thankful for the seat, de¬ termined to punish the unaccommodat¬ ing pig for his selfish deception. So, when Lynn was reached, the large man put forth his hand for the bag, but the stranger drew back the same with an expression of surprise, saying, “I beg your pardon, sir, but this is not your baggage.” isn’t stammered the “But it yours, owner, blushing. but I to it “To be sure ; purpose see returned to the proper person. Here, conductor, here’s a man who wants to run off with this baggage that doesn’t belong to him. Somebody put it in the seat to secure a place, and evidently got left at Boston, for he hasn’t claimed it, and now this man wants to run away with it,” and he gave the conductor a wink, and as that official knew the stranger personally, he understood the wink, and promptly replied : “The only thing to do is to return the bag to Boston, and store it among the unclaimed expostulated baggage.” the large “But,” man. “Hold on there,” said the conductor, showing a police badge, “none of this. What kind of a man was it who left the bag?” And then the stranger and the con¬ ductor and one or two sympathizing the pas¬ sengers combined to confuse large man, and he, hating to confess to Ins piggishness, and knowing not what to do, precipitately fled amid the frowns and sighs of the observers at his wicked¬ ness. But the stranger, with a happy contented smile, had the bag returned to Boston, where the large man had to come next day, and identify it. I he moral of this true tale is obvious.— Bos ton Globe. The pope is troubled with insomnia and cannot sleep enough to make it worth his while to go to bed. He ought to join the night police and he could sleep all the time. CONYERS, GA.. SEPTEMBER 28, 1883. SUNDA Y EVE AT SEA. Sitting alone at the Sunset hour, With my good ship moored in a foreign bay, Comes a hallowed thought with memories fraught, Of the loved ones far away. Faces familiar upon me smile, While my heart with the sweet remembrance swells, And I seem to hear the music clear Of jubilant marriage bells. Of marriage bells on a Sabbath day, In a beautiful village by the sea, When the world was bright, all filled witb delight, For my own Annie and me. A score of years have passed since then, And I’ve anchored my ship in many a bay, But my loved ones, dear, ever seem more near The farther I sail away. Moments there are when I may forget To think of one spot o’er the sea afar, Of the joy and light of a home made bright By love, where my treasures are; But whenever the Sunday evening comes, An! the waves are fierce and the night is drear, Like angels of love, as if sent from above, My loved ones seem hovering near. I behold them, then, my treasures dear, As at this moment they come to me; For sail where I will their images still My companions are at sea. Caleb Dunn. The Irish Seer. Squire Ormbsy’s pantry was broken into and robbed of a large amount of valuable plates. Mr. Ormsby distrusted the police and publicity in these cases, and his wife prevailed on him to send for Patrick 0’Rafferty, the village seer. That worthy came, and heard the story. He looked at the lady and gen¬ tleman, and his self-deception began to ooze out of him. To humbug his hum¬ ble neighbors was not difficult nor dan¬ gerous, but to deceive and undeceive and disappoint bis landlord was quile another matter. He put on humility, and said this was a matter beyond him entirely. Then the Squire was augry, and said bitterly, “No doubt he would rather oblige his neighbors, or a shopkeeper who was a stranger to him, than the man whose land had fed him and his for fifty years. ” He was proceeding in the same strain when poor Pat, with that dismal whine the merry soul was subject to occasion¬ ally, implored him not to murder him entirely with hard words; he would do his best. “No man can do more,” said Mr. Ormsby. ‘ ‘Now, how will you proceed ? Can we render you any assistance?” Patrick said, humbly, and in a down¬ cast way, he would like to see the place where the thieves got in. He was taken to the pantry window, and examined it inside and out, and all the servants peeped at him. “What next ?” asked the Squire. Then Patrick inwardly resolved to get a good dinner out of this business, how¬ ever humilating “ye’ll the have end might be. “Sorr,” said he, to give me a room all to myself, and a rump-steak and onions; and after that your servants must, bring me three ale. pipes and three pints of home-brewed Brewers’ alt hasn’t the same spiritual effect on a seer’s mind.” When the first pipe and pint were to so to him a discussion took place between the magnates of the kitchen who should take it up. At last the butler and the housekeeper insisted on the footman tak¬ ing it. Accordingly he did so. Meantime Patrick sat in state digesting the goqd food. He began to feel a physi¬ cal complacency, and to defy the future; he only regretted that he had confined his demand to one dinner and three pots. To him in this frame of mind entered the footman with pipe and pint of ale as clear as Maderia. Says Patrick, looking at the pipe, “That’s the first of ’em.” The footman put the things down father hurriedly and vanished. “Humph,” said Pat to himself, “you don’t seem to care for my company.” mind He sipped and smoked, and his worked. The footman went to the butler witb a scared face, and said, “I won’t go neai him again; he said I was one.” “Nonsense!” said the butler: “Ill take up the next.” He did so. Patrick gazed m his face, took the pipe, and said, sotto voce. “This is the secondthen, very re¬ gretfully, “Only one more to come.” The butler went away much discom¬ posed, and told the housekeeper. “I can’t believe it,” said she. “Any¬ way, I’ll know the worst.” So in due course she took up the third pipe and pint, and wore propitiatory smiles. “This is the last of ’em,” said Patrick, solemnly, and looked at the glass. The housekeeper went down all in a flutter. “We are found out, we are rained,” said she. “There is nothing to be done now but— Yes there is ; we must buy him, or put the comether on him before he sees the master.” Patrick was half dozing over his last ippe when he heard a rustle and a com motion, and lo 1 three culprits on their knees to him. With that instinctive sa¬ gacity which was his one real gift—so he underrated it -he said, with a twinkling eye: “Och, thin, you’ve to make come a clane brist of it, the three Chrisehin var tues and haythen graces that ye are. Ye may save yourselves the trouble. Sure I know all about it. ” “We Bee you do. Y’are wiser than Solomon,” said the housekeeper. “But sure ye wouldn’t abuse your wisdom to ruin three poor bodies like us ?” “Poor !” cried Patrick. “Is it poor ye call yourselves ? Ye ate and drink like fighting cocks; y’are clothed in silk and plush and broadcloth, and your wages is all pocket money and pin-money. Yet ye must rob the man that feeds and clothes ye.” “It is true! it is true!” cried the butler. “He spakes like a priest,” said the woman. “Oh, alanna ! don’t be hard on us; it is all the devil’s doings; he timpted us. Oh ! oh ! oh !” “Whisht, now, and spake sinse,” said Patrick, roughly. “Is it melted ?” “It is not.” “Can you lay your hands on it?” “We can, every stiver of it. We in tinded to put it back.” “That’s a lie,” said Patrick, firmly, but not in the least reproachfully, “Now look at me, the whole clan of ye, male and faymale. Which would you rather do—help me find the gimcracks, every article of ’em, or be lagged and scragged and stretched on a gibbet and such like iligant divaisions?” They snatched eagerly at the plank of safety held out to them, and from that minute acted under Mr. O’Rafferty’s orders. “Fetch me another pint,” was his first behest. “Ay, a dozen, if ye’ll do us the honor to drink it.” “To the divil widyour blarney ! Now tell the master I’m at his sarviee.” “Oh, murder! what will become of us ? Would you tell him, after all ?” “Ye omadhauns, can’t ye listen at the dure and hear what I tell him ?” With this understanding all expectation. Squire Orms by was ushered in, “Yer honor,” said Patrick, “I think the power is laving me. I am only able to see the half of it. Now, if you plaze, would you like to catch the thieves and lose the silver, or to find the silver and not find the thieves?” “Then “Why, the silver, to be sure.” you and my lady must go to mass to-morrow back will morning, look and when you come we for the silver, and maybe, if we find it, your honor will give me that little bit of a lease I’ve been wanting so long.” “One thing at a time, Pat; you haven’t found the silver yet.” At nine o’clock next morning Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby returned from mass, and found O'Rafferty waiting for them at their door. He had a long walking-stick with a shining knob, and informed them, very solemnly, that the priest had sprin kled it for him with holy water. Thus armed he commenced the search. * . e | >encrat 8 I ? t < ! 1 “ to STT , 0 pt-houses, nf »nd JW* ap ' 3 non nn P N ° luck ' Then he proceeded to the stable-yard, and searched every corner; then into the shrubbery; then into the tool-house. No luck. Then on to the lawn. By this time there where about thirty at his k< >el8 ' Disgusted at this fruitless search, Pat rick apostrophized his stick; Bad cess to you, yore only good to burn Ye knpe turning away from every place; but ye don t turn to any anything whatever, ktop a bit. Oh, holy Moses . what is this . As he spoke, the stick seemed to rise # and point like a gun. 1 atnek marched in the djrection indicated, and after a while seemed to be forced by the stick into a run. He began to shout excited ly, and they all ran after him. He ran full tilt against a dismounted water bar rel, and the end of the stick struck it with such impetus that it knocked tlie barrel over, then flew out of Patrick’s hand to the right, who himself made a spring the other way, and stood glaring with all the rest at the glittering objects that strewed the lawn, neither more nor less than the missing plate. Shouts and screams of delight. Every body shaking hands with Patrick, who, being a consummate actor, seemed daz zled and mystified, as one who had sue eeeded far bevond his expectations. To make a long story short, they all settled in their minds that the thieves had been alarmed, and hidden the plate for a time, intending to return and fetch it away. M, Ormsby took the seer into his s udy and gave him a piece of paper stating that for a great service rendered to him by Mr. Patrick O’Rafferty he had, in the name of him and his, prom ised him undisturbed possession of the farm „ , long v he his should farm so as or it themselves, and pay the present rent. Pat’s modesty vanished at the Squire’e gate; he bragged uo and down the vil lage, and henceforth nobody disputed his seership in those parts. A neighbor’s sold estate, mortgaged up tc the eyes, was under the hammer, and Sir Henry Steele bought it. and laid some of it down in grass. He was a breeder of stock. He marked out a park wall, and did not include a certain little orchard and a triangular plot. Patrick O’ Rafferty observed, and ap¬ plied for them. Sir Henry, who did his own business, received the appli¬ cation, noted it down, and asked him for a good reference. He gave Squire Ormsby. “I will make inquiries,” said Sir Henry. “Good Ormsby morning.” and He knew in London, when he became his neighbor the Irish gentleman was all hospitality. One day Sir Henry told him of O’Rafferty’s ap¬ plication, and asked about him. “Oh,” said Ormsby, “that is our seer. ” “Your what?” “Our wise man, our diviner of se crets; and some wonderful things he has don e .” He then related the loss of his plate, and its supernatural recovery. NUMBER 27. Then Sir Henry said that he would put these pretensions to the test, At his request Patrick was informed that next Thursday, at one o’clock, if ho chose to submit to a fair test of his divining powers, the parcel of land he had asked for should be let him on easy terms. Patrick assented jauntily. But in his secret soul he felt uneasy. However, he came up to the scratch like a man. After all, he had nothing to lose this time, and he vowed to sub mit to no test that was not preceded by a good dinner. He was ushered into Sir Henry Steele's study, and tliere he found that gentleman and Mr. Ormsby. One comfort, there was a cloth laid, and certain silver dishes on the hobs and in the fender. “Well, Mr. O’Rafferty,” said his host, “I believe you like a good dinner?” “Thrue for you, sorr,” said Pat. “Well, then, we can combine business with pleasure; you shall have a good dinner.” “Long life to your honor !” “I cooked it for you myself.” ‘ ‘God bless your honor for your con descinsion.” “You are to eat the dinner first, and then just tell me what the meat is, and the parcel of land is yours on easy terms. ” Patrick’s confidence rose. “Sure, thin, it is a fair bargain,” said he. The dishes were uncovered. There were vegetables cooked most deliciously; the meat Wfts a chef-d’oeuvre; a sort of rich ragout done to a turn, and so fra K™ 11 * that the very odor made the mouth water. Patrick seated himself, and helped himself, and took a mouthful; that mouthful had a double effect. He real * ze< l 0116 and the same moment that this was a more heavenly compound than he had ever expected to tasteupon earth, and that he could not and never should divine what bird or beast he was eating, He looked for the bones; there were none. He yielded himself to desperate enjoyment. he When he had nearly cleaned the plate said that even the best cooked meat was none the worse for a quart of good ale to wash it down, Sir Henry Steele rang a bell and or dered a quart of ale. Patrick enjoyed this too, and did not hurry; he felt it was his last dinner in that house, as well as his first. The gentlemen watched him and gave him time. But at last Ormsby said, ‘'Well, Patrick—.” Now Patrick, whilst he sipped, had been asking himself what line he had better take; and he had come to a con elusion creditable to that sagacity and knowledge of hnman nature he reaJ] p OSSegged and tulderra ted accordingly. He would compliment the gentlemen on their 8U P erior "' isdom - and own he could not throw dust in such eyes as theirs; then he would l)eg them not to make his humble neighbors as wise as they were; but i e thim still pass for a wise man in the parish, whilst they laughed in their superior sleeves. To carry out this he impregnated his brazen features with a wor j d 0 f comic humility, “And,” said he, in cajoling accents, .i a jj your honors, the old fox made m a tnrn but the dogH were too mftny for him atlaat ... What more of self-depreciation and ca jolery he would have added is not known. for sir H enry Steele broke in loudly! “Good heavens ! Well, he is an extra ordinary man. It was an old ,, dog-fox , I cooked for torn delighted , at J the i eU success yOU? of his 0rm country- * by ' maD ' “Well, sir,” said Sir Henry, whose emotions seldom lasted long, “a bargain’s a bargain. I let you the orchard and held for-let me see—you must bring me a stoat, a weasel, and a polecat every year. I mean to get up the game.” Mr. O'Rafferty cunningly, first stared then stupidfv, blandly then winked absorbed laudation ■ and land; then retired invoking solemn blessings; then, being outside,, executed a fan dango, and went home on could wings; from that hour the village not hold him. His speech was of accumulating farms on peppercorn rents, till a slice of of the country should be his. To hear him, he could see through a deal board. M wben ’ eonfidi Blake? in his 8 W, he ied Nor ah a beautiful girl, ,, ut a m ost notorious vixen, Tbe ? t ,, ,c ™ J , ucky . , forgave , him . a ones great * deal; for sure wouldn t Norah re f them? Alas ! the traitress fell in , ov< with her hnsband after marriage, and ] et him mold her into a sort of " an ‘ <jelic duck. This was the climax. So Paddy Luck j* uow numbered among the lasting in st itutions of old Ireland (if any), May he live till the skirts of his coat | <1!0 ck his brains ont, and him dancing m j r i s L fling to “the wind that shakes the barley V’—Harper’s Magazine. Smoky. —In Mexico nearly everyone is a smoker. Tlie school children who have done well in their studies are re¬ warded by being allowed to smoke a cigar as they stand or sit at their lessons. The schoolmaster is seldom without a cigar in his mouth. In the law courts all persons commonly enjoy their to¬ bacco freely, and even the accused in a criminal trial is not denied this indul¬ gence, but is allowed, if his cigarette goes out in the heat of the argument, to light it again by borrowing that of the officer who stands at his side to guard him. " J have no wealth,” she said; “I can 6^ e onl y my hand and heart.” A.nd then he thought that if her heart was »« big as her hand she was indeed wealthy. WIT AND WISDOM. Abstaining from food, it is said, wi?? cure rheumatism. If you have rheum** Hem go live in a boarding house. Thebe is so much sand in the straw- 1 terries that are brought to market now that they seem quite fit for the desert. Logic is logic, and it does not follow that- Noah brewed beer in the ark be¬ cause the kangaroo went on board with hops. “Yes,” said the gilded youth, “I hate to make the sacrifice, but I will. My tailor must wait for his money and she gets the bouquets.” The City of Houston, Tex.. offered to pay Ingersoll more to lecture one night on infidelity than it pays a single one of its ministers for a year’s work. Speaking of the avocation of the heav¬ enly bodies, there is no doubt but ‘bat the sun is a tanner. —Oil City Der¬ rick. “Why are these flats called French flats ?” “ To distinguish tlum from American flats.” “What are American flats ?” “The people that live in French flats.” The “gentle reader” is supposed to be one that doesn’t get on his ear and,swear whenever the newspaper man is lucky enough to get a full-page advertisment. — Wheeling Leader. “Remember who you are talking to* sir,” said a father to his fractions boy. “I am your father.” “Well, who’s tc blame for that, ?” asked young imperti¬ nence ; “It ain't me.” The meanest man we have heard of 'his season is the fellow who telegraphed just his sympathy to a friend who had lost everything in speculation, and made him pay for the message. Commercial traveler—“My narno is Muller. I am agent for Schnltze, in Berlin.” Merchant—“Schnltze, in Ber¬ lin ? Iu that case I must beg you to shut the door from the outside.'” It is a very small village indeed that doesn’t contain a billiard champion bil¬ of' the United States. There are more liard champions in this country to-day long than there are billiard tables by a chalk. A negbo baby was born in Georgia recently which weighed only a pound and a quarter, and a “literary feller." hearing of the circumstance, remarked that it was funny how anything so dark could he so light. The other day a Paris lady abruptly entered her kitchen, and she saw the cook skimming the soup with a silver spoon. She said to her, “Francoise, I expressly forbade you to use silver in the kitchen.” “But, madam, the spoon was dirty.” Oub contemporaries are now making the time-honored saying: “What is m> rare as a day in June.” There is some¬ thing far more rare, and that is an ad¬ vertiser who does not want his notice a,t the top of the column and next to the reading matter. “The last link is broken,” the fellow said when he kissed his girl good-by for¬ ever at her request, because her parentis wished a dissolution. A few days later, he received a note saying “Dear George: There are plenty more links ; come and break them ” Editob to city merchant: “Colonel, I’d like very much for yon to advertise with me. Suppose you put in a small card for six months ? Shan’t cost you much.” “I don’t believe it would help me.” “That’s not the question. I want it to help me. ” A soandal, or quarrel, or murder, is often explained by the statement that “there is a woman at the bottom of it"— as the man said when liis wife fell into the well. There is generally a the woman at the bottom of everything; lint Cap¬ itol at Washington is a notable excep¬ tion. There is a woman at the top of that .—Norristown Herald. The Melon Losses. No watermelon suicides thus far, says a New York letter, though the price is low. In fact this is a year of melon misfortune. Its great lesson has been, beware of sudden success. Ex¬ perienced hop growers have said that the extraordinary price obtained last year was a damago to the business. It will lead to such extended planting that a glut may be expected. This is tho cause of the present melon misery. Last year the priet s reached an extra¬ ordinary mark, and the result was that the South became melon crazy. Last year the price was $20 a hnndrc d, which yielded an immense profit. The freight is $10 a hundred, but this was so easily paid that growers lost sight of it. This year, however, melons will not bring enough to meet this debit, and commis¬ sion dealers have declined receiving them unless freight prepaid. One ship¬ ment of 20,000 was refused by the con¬ signee, and on top of this came fifty car loads, which had first been sent to Cin¬ cinnati, and finding no market there sent to New York city. Being refused by the commission merchants, they hardly were sold by the railroad agents, who got enough to pay freight. The market was thoroughly glutted make by this forced' sale, and then to matters worse the very next day 63,fb 0 melons arrived week, by steamer, making 230,000 in one and it became almost hard work to give them away. The health inspector, how¬ ever, interfered and ordered an immense quantity destroyed to prevent disease. The melon mania is uow over and the mud will lie devoted to other crops. Melons will probably be dear next sea¬ son. since one extreme generally follows another. The money made last year has been lost by the glut, and exper¬ ience thus proves that an average profit even of moderate amount is better than extraordinary prices and sudden wealth. The waste of melons which occurred*' (hiring the past month has probably never been equaled in the memory of man. A wild storm of applause followed, during which some one hit Shindig Wat¬ kins a blow on the neck which rendered him unconscious for seven minutes. The orator was then escorted to the ante-room and placed before a water¬ melon and a pitcher of lemonade, and tbe meeting resumed the regular routine.
