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general, news.
Palatka, Fin., is to have a $200,000
hotel.
North Carolina has sixty-four cotton
factories.
Thebe is a Mormon church at Aber¬
deen, Ala.
The salted mul et- trade of Florida is
increasing.
Is East Mississippi Devon cattle are
very popular.
Peanut growing in Florida is being
warmly advocated.
The ruling price of oranges in Tampa,
is $10 per thousand.
The Assessed valuation of property in
Texas is $520,000,000.
There are nine negroes in the new
legislature of Virginia.
The domestication of buffalo calves is
to he attempted in Arkansas.
It is asserted that no other state can
jnake such a show in coal as Alabama
There are over 50,000 miles of un
broken pine forest in Southeast Georgia,
There are only forty-seven counties
in Georgia in which it is lawful to sell
liquor.
Texas is said to produce about one
half the cotton raised in the United
States.
A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals has been organized in Chat¬
tanooga.
A cotton compress, gas works and a
Street railway are being constructed at
Pensacola.
A hand syndicate has bought GO,000
acres of land in Clay county, Mississippi,
for $75,000.
Twenty cotton mills in Alabama are
paying an average of fifteen per cent per
annum in dividends.
The St. James Hotel at Tallahassee
is exchanging its entire corps of black
Servants for white ones.
Cookeville, Tenn., bids fair to be¬
come an oil region. Three wells sunk
there recently have struck oil.
The United States Court in Savannah
is advertising for “good, honest and re¬
sponsible men” to act as jurors.
A glass factory will be established in
Little Book. The building will cost
$ 10,0 )0, exclusive of the real estate.
The plans for the Exposition building
at Birmingham have been approved by
the Board of Arrangements and bids ad¬
vertised for.
Upon the recent visit of the agent of the
American Bible Society to W eakley
county, Tenn., 750 families were found
Without Bibles.
The R me (Ga.) cotton factory, which
has been in operation eighteen months,
has doubled its machinery, and now runs
night and day.
It is now claimed that the south ia
getting to be the best market in the
world for machinery and mechanical ap¬
pliances of all kinds.
From an orange tree owned by Captain
Dukes, of Lake City, Florida, he sold
$67 worth of fruit last season. He will
-do better this season.
Two hundred thousand dollars’ worth
Of gold dust has been shipped to the
Philadelphia mint from the Coco Creek
gold mines in Tennessee.
A company of Indiana capitalists are
Contemplating the erection of a jute fac¬
tory at Memphis. The building and ma¬
chinery will cost $150,000.
The State Controller of Florida has
decided that merchants selling brandied
peaches, cherries, e,c., mast pay the re¬
tail liquor dealers’ license.
The ore from the Magruder silver
tnine in Washington county, Ga., assays
about $48 to the ton. A smelter is to be
ptu up at the mine very soon.
Texas farmers sold last year $59,000,
000 worth of cotton, $53,000 worth of
Cattle, $7,000,000 worth of wool and mut¬
ton, and $ 1 , 000,000 worth of horses and
hides.
The electric light company of Savan¬
nah has resolved to rebuild their towers
and continue business. $25,000 in bonds
Will be placed on the market to secure
funds for that purpose.
The L.ttle Eock University, now ap¬
proaching completion, will be the finest
brick building in the State of Arkansas,
and one of the largest and most con¬
venient in the Southwest.
An appropriation of $150,000 was
Voted for the new extension to the Uni¬
versity of Alabama. This extension will
accommodate over 300 students and will
add greatly to the usefulness of the Uni¬
versity.
Mr. W. M. Dukes, of Lake City, Fla.,
has an orange tree on his place that
measures five feet and three inches in
circumference three feet above the
ground, and the oranges gathered this
year from it sold for $67.
Samuel Mackey, of NewSouth Wales.
sheared 1,500,000 sheep last year, and
this year he expects to have 2,500,000.
His lands run 700 miles in one direction,,
and comprise 5,000,000 acres, and have
been nearly ah reclaimed from the
desert.
The apple crop of Virginia is so large
this seassn that purchasers are unable to
find barrels, and the fruit is being loaded
in hulk on the cars. One gentleman
Irom Baltimore last week bought 20,000
barreis in Augusta county at prices rang
ing from $1.50 to $2 per barrel.
On account of the drouth, which seems
THE WEEKLY.
VOLUME VI.
to be prevalent of Florida all over is the eountry, the j
orange crop maturing slowly,
and the fruit is somewhat smaller than
usual, but the prospect for a good crop
is considered excellent. The yield is ex
pected to be much larger than last year’s.
Chattanooga Times: At Dayton the
Coal and Iron Company Lave struck it
rich by discovering six new veins of coal,
Each of t .ese veins leads into the center
of the mountain, where it is almost a
solid mass of fine coal. About 200,000
bushels per day will be taken out of these
-
ye ms
New Orleans ~ claims to , be the , best
por m the Umted S ates, and the papers
of that city do not hesitate to mention
that fact occasionally. The jetties are
supposed to be in successful operation;
at any rate they have provided a channel
through which the steamship Silverton
passed the-other day, drawing twenty
five feet of water. The Silverton car
ried out a cargo equal in bulk to 13,780
bales. The Silverton, bv the way, has
been engaged to lay the' new cable for
James Gordon Bennett and J. W.
Maekay
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The waters around Florida, the Med¬
iterranean and the Bahamas supply most
ofthe sponges. The Florida >p -nge is
coarse and cheap. That from the Med¬
iterranean is used in surgery, but the
finest and costliest sponge is from the
Bahamas. The harvest of sponges lasts
about eight months in the year, and dur¬
ing that time skillful divers make as much
as $10 a day each gathering them. It
requires from twelve to fourteen months
for a sponge to get its growth.
According to General Badeau, our
minister to Cuba, tbe trade relations be¬
tween tbe little island and the United
States could not he in a worse condition.
Owing to our nearness to Cuba, Amer¬
ican merchants should have almost a
monopoly of trade, hut the existing tarifl
rates practically shut them out, while
Great Britain and Germany get every¬
thing. As an instance of the effect ol
the unjust laws against American goods,
he states that flour from this country is
first shipped to Spain, thence to Cuba,
and sold for considerable less than thal
which is sent direct to the island.
The first ground was broken in Pull¬
man, Ill, three years ago, and nowit ha<
6,000 inhabitants. It has a lesson foi
Atlanta in its waterworks and its sewer¬
age. The system of sewerage is admir¬
able. The refuse of the town flows to an
immense cistern under the water tower.
The steam power is used to pump the
sewerage to the town farm of 15,00C
acres which is thus irrigated and • en¬
riched. The profit on the farm under this
system of culture when it had only sixtv
acres was $8,500. This land was consid¬
ered exhausted and worthless. The suc¬
cess of this experiment suggests a new
use and value for city sewerage.
Adulteration of food is a growing
disgrace in the United States where the
people eat more impure and unwhole¬
some matter than anywhere else in the
world. As long as the black art was
confined to the luxuries it made little
difference, but the necessaries of life are
now tampered by some of its most cun¬
ning tricks. The many adulterations oi
flour aud sugar represent a vast amount
of vicious enterprise. Startling analyses
and repeated exposures of these frauds
seem only to increase the daring energy
of their perpetrations. The baby born
jn a poor American family to-day starts
life with the prospect of eating far more
than the proverbial peck of dirt said to
he destined for every human stomach.
The Chinese Minister at Washington
says he has received many tenders of ser¬
vice from ex- officers of the union and
confederate armies, but he has told them
a ll that their acceptance cr rejection rests
with the home viceroys. He does not
think the trouble with France admits of
mediation, which would naturally result
’
in a compromise. China, he says, can- _
notaceept a compromise in a case that in
vo i ves the integrity of her territory and
the control or her own subjects. His
C 0 U ntry, he adds, does not dread a wax
w ith France. Her army is we! officered
by European soldiers of experience and j
capaci y, and its equipment is up to J
modern standards. The reported medi- j
a t| on 0 f the United States is, therefore, i
] ie lieved to be withoutfoundation. China
jg probably ready tofight, and sheeounts,
no doubt, on a long war and the creation
of expenses that the French people will
not be apt to stand up to.
o 71 , GA.. r rj td £ 30, 1883.
While cotton and grain are moving
across the water as rapidly as at some
periods, the exports of provisions
al ’ e unprecedented, and there are no in¬
dications of a decreased.movement. The
ex Ports of fresh beef are more than
doubled, while there has been a liand
some “crease in the amount of bacon
and hams exported. Lard and pork also
show increased figures. The totals for
°^ whldl tober “ “? the wonderfuL same month Fresh last ^ beef ear ’
’
amoUnt< ; d to 3,000,000 pounds, runs up
to nearly 13,000,000 pounds. Bacon
shows an increase for the month 22 , 000 ,
ooa ds> or a total of 27,000,000
pounds> while the export of hams is
tbree ,, times . 8 "**“ tban , tbat ,, , of „ last ,
year ’ or over 3 ’ 000 ’ 000 P°unds. The ex
port of pork iu 0ctober 8 , 000,000
pounds ’ as com P ared witb 3 , 000,000
pounds in 1882 ‘ TiilIow share8 iu the
general increase. During the month of
October there were 6 , 000,000 pounds ex¬
ported > an improvement of 4,000,000
po ’f ds 0Ter tbe corresponding period
of last year, and for the twelve months
there were 52,000.000 pounds exported,
an increase of 11 , 000,000 pounds over
that of 1882. The total value of pro¬
visions and tallow for the twelve months
ending October 31 w T as nearly $99,000,
000 , while for 1882 it is $80,000,000.
It is cold comfort to talk of money,
hut this country has so many rich men
that they constitute one of the staple
themes of gossip. Everybody knows
about the Vanderbilts, the Astors and
Jay Gould. In the class of sma lei for¬
tunes are some names worth mention¬
ing, The wealthiest men in Philadel¬
phia are said to be Frank Drexel, I. Y.
Williamson and William Weightman, the
quinine monopo ist. W. W. Corcoran,
of Washington, is known everywhere for
his charities. Giving with a lavish hand
has not left his fortuneless than $4,000,
000. Joseph Willard ranks next in the
District of Columbia, and scrupulously
conceals the amount of his lucre. Fred.
Ame 3 , of Boston, is credited with $20,
000,000, and John M. Forbes, of the
same city, scuffles along on $15,000,000.
Cleveland has her John D. Rockafeller,
with $15,000,000. Cyrus McCormick,
of Chicago, rates along near those fig¬
ures, and J. H. Wade, of Chicago, has
about half as much. Some people say
Phil Armour is the richest man in
Chicago, hut he gambles heavily and his
figure is uncertain. Alexandei Mit¬
chell, of Milwaukee, flies among the
king bees with $40,000,000. Henry Shaw
leads the St. Louis list with $8,000,000,
and is a bachelor. David Swinton, of
Cincinnati, has as many millions as he
has fingers on his right hand. John
Hill, of St. Paul, counts to nearly $10,"
000,000. The south furnishes very few
millionaires.. The richest of these is A.
S. Abell, of the Baltimore Sun, who must
have nearly $20,000,000. Boss Winans
has hardly less. The richest man in
Richmond is James B. Pace with $15,
000,009. W. B. Smith, of Charleston,
has over a million. Joseph E. Brown, of
Atlanta, is put down at all figures from
$1,000,000 to $5,000,000. Ed. Richard¬
son, of Mississippi, is the largest cotton
planter in the worm, and has $5,000,000.
Harper’s Weekly relates the story
that when, last spring, Bishop Williams
(of Connecticut) and his clergy desired
to honor the anniversary of the meeting
of clergy which dispatched episcopal Seabury orders, to
England in quest of
they wished to meet informally in the
same room of the old house at Wood¬
bury, now occupied by an ancient dame.
The old lady, when asked if the clergy
might have the use of the room for a re¬
union and supper, replied, after some
hesitation: “Well, I dunno. I’m op¬
posed to dancin’, They can come if
they won’t dance.”
Foots, who is a man of chronic ail¬
ments, drops in to see his doctor almost
every day about some real or imaginary
trouble. Generally he has a very fine
line of symptoms of an appalling "his physician’s char¬
acter with which to regale stumped
ears, —but the other day he usual was
when the doctor made his inquiry;
“Well, what’s the matter to-day ? Said
Poots, disconsolately: “Well, doctor, I
don q know: but I feel so well that I
think there must be something awful the
matter w ith me.”
^ ___
A x apple in perfect preservation, al
though ninety-six years old, is in pos
session of a gentleman in L Ister county,
‘ ^hTpaTCut 1787, stemT°fo bottle the
e ldv bUln mer of a was
drawn over it and attached !o the
branch, and after the apple had ripened
the stem was severed and the bori e
8 l> lirstfjducked. °° "
on
The merchant said he had some pretty
good bar soap at home, and the interview
concluded.
GETTING OUT OF THE ARMY.
Why Young Men Enlist, and Why They
NVish to Be Free Again.
[Washington Letter in Philadelphia Record.]
Mothers and fathers are constantly
applying to the Secretary of War for
the discharge of their sons from the
army. As a result he has to talk to a
dozen or two agonized parents every
day. As a rule they represent that
their sons were under lawful age when
they enlisted. If they can prove this
their sons are discharged. When they
can’t hold they complain -that it is unjust to
a young man to a contract which
he concluded impulsively in a moment
of desperation. Sometimes it was the
result of money troubles, sometimes of
love troubles, and sometimes of family
troubles. You would imagine, if you
heard all these tales, that this was the
popular method of committing suicide.
Most of our young soldiers appear to
have taken up arms because of a sea of
troubles. In almost every case the
young man is just about to desert. Ho
sees nothing before him in the army
hut the slavish monotonous life of a
soldier without a cent and without a
future. He sees about him, if ho
is in the West, as he usually is,
splendid possibilities for a young
m ui. They want to get out of the
army. They want to get at the possi¬
bilities. So they write to their people
in the East that they will desert un¬
less they are honorably discharged from
the army by a certain day. Thereupon
the half-frantic mothers and fathers
and uncles and aunts flock to the War
Department. The War Department
holds on like grim death to the few sol¬
diers it has. The army grows smaller
day by day. A year’s desertions deci¬
mate it as a battle would. There are
only 20,000 men in all. They are drop¬
ping out by fascinating twos, threes, dozens every
day. The recruiting agents
do not charm enough recruits to make
up for the losses. So the War Depart¬
ment fights for its soldiers as its sol¬
diers ought to fight for it. When they
desert they are chased, if enough sol¬
diers remain in the garrison. If the
deserters are caught they are tried by
court-martial and sentenced to two
years’ imprisonment at hard labor in
the military prison at Fort Leaven¬
worth, Kan. At the expiration of his
term of imprisonment ho is dishonora¬
bly discharged from the service of the
United States. I would advise young
men to keep out of the army, until at
least the army grows better. Perhaps
it will never grow better unless they
grow better, and unless more of them
ao into it.
Bacteria.
Bacteria have their name from their
rod-like shape. They are vegetation so
minute as to be visible only They by the multi¬ aid
of powerful division, microscopes. each rod separating in¬
ply by Then each part speedily
to two parts. whole, but
becomes a complete soon
divides into two parts.
It will he seen what countless num¬
bers must result. The view has been
extensively adopted that these micro¬
scopic vegetations are the actual poison
that produces most infectious diseases.
Prof. Lionel Beale, F. R. S., knighted
for his attainments in microscopy and
medicine, is not prepared to accept this.
We present a condensed statement of
his views.
The tongue is constantly covered by
whole forests of bacteria. Millions
pass into the stomach whenever we
swallow. It is the same with all ani¬
mals. Every vegetable and fruit and
leaf also contains countless numbers.
So does the air we breathe and the
water we drink. All disintegration and
decay facilitates the growth of this mi¬
nute vegetation. bacteria in large
It is certain now, that
quantities are constantly passing into
the alimentary canal of men and ani¬
mals without doing harm. There is
probably not a part of the body of any
one of us, one-quarter of an inch in
diameter, where their germs are not
present. So small are they tbat they
pass freely into the substance of every
organ. They exist within us, even in
the blood, without disturbing us in any
In disease their numbers are vastly
increased. “I have seen every part of
the stomach, the small and large intes
tines, filled with curdled milk which,
when placed under the microscope,
seemed to be almost composed of bac
tf-ria But this probablv did not origin
ate the disorder, but resulted from the
prior diseased state of the secretions,
It is still an open question whether in
factions diseases originate from some
special kind of death-carrying bacteria;
or from practices wholly independent . !
of all such organisms. Though some 1
evidence lias been adduced in favor of
the first hvpothesis, many new facts j
must he discovered before the problem I
• i i u
Jh ” *
Sait “The Lake Chinese City must shibboleth. go !” is An now qrdi- a j
nance is before the Common Council for
compelling the wash-houses to remove I
outside matter flic thus; city limits. “Chinaman John he explains tend j |
the
business; he wasiice clothes and j
lie hao no one, two, tnree wives, alle same .
Mormlon; Mormlon he wantee ua away
so we makee no money, sabe? Wantee
tax us likee church makee pay tidlings.”
A passionate woman’s love is always
overshadowed by her tear.—George
Eliot.
NUMBER 30.
TJIE JOKER'S BUDGET.
WHAT WE FIND in the humorous
PAPEKS TO SMILE OVER.
WANTED A WHIPPING.
I know a pair of boys beside whom
even Helen’s Babies must have dwindled
and grown tame. Naughty, wilful, mis
cliievous, loving little scamps. They were
at times as soundly thrashed as a rather
soft-hearted father would permit. For
a time they would mind; hut child- they
“wouldn’t stay minded.” to use a
ish expression. Nothing seemed so
forcible a method of punishment as tak
ing away their spendiug-money-a few
pennies each day
For some particularly grievous offense
this was resorted to two or three days
before the Fourth of July, and great was
their grief and indignation. morning the
Very early the next this them,
father, who had visited upon
was awakened bv hearing them at the
chamber 9” door crying.
“Boys
“Oh papa t”
“Boys—-go back to your room !”
“Oh, papa-dear papa-won’t back you
please give us our pennies and go
to the whippings flIntation ?”
philosophy.
Dar is a hundred seekers aider money
whar We dar is one seeker aider happiness,
ain’t got no respeck fur do stingy
man, nor fur de feller what flings bis
money away. awkward shape ain’t
A man’s no argu
ment agin his ’preciation oh do finer ain’t
piuts pb life. A ole black bear
putty, but he’s powerful fon’ ob honey.
De’possom was neber thought ter
hah much sense, hut lie’s mighty smart,
He has fooled many a man iu pretendin’
likehe was dead, while the coon, what
all ob de animals call jedge, r’ars arouu’
an’ neber fails ter git hurt.
I has often heerd dat de bes’ is de
clieapes’. Dis doan’ hole good cheapes’ iu all
cases, fur I’ll he dinged ef de
way ter lib is de lies’. A man mout tell
me dat bread an’ ingons is better den
bread, meat, ’taters an’ ingons, _ but I
wouldn’t belebe him.
It’s mighty strange, but de biggest
sinners in de worl’believes in de eber
lastin’ fire ob de debil. I has knowed
many a good man what didn’t believe
dat de clebil was half sich said, a powerful has
feller as de preachers dat an’ believed I
knowed many a thief
ebery thing he was told about de ole man.
I ain’t got much confidence in dat’ligion
what is based on fear. A convict may
work mighty hard ’case de oberseer is
lookin’, but de work is neber done as
well as if he wan’t fo’ced ter do it.—
Arkansaw Traveler.
fraternal TIES.
In the Lime Kiln Club Judge Chewso
arose to ask for information. He wanted
to know how strong the fraternal ties of
such a club should be considered. How
far was he obligated Chewso,” ? replied the presi¬
“Brother
dent, “I will read de follerin’ fur your
benefit:
“1. All meet heah on terms of equal¬
ity, but de member who blacks stoves
an’ saws wood am not ’spected aimin’ to be so
familiar as to ask de barber $17
per week to lend him his toof-pick.
“2. If you find a brudder in distress,
aid him. Dar am no pertickler objeck
shun to takin’ a mortgage on his stove,
in case he wants to borry fo’ dollars in
cash, but give him a little show befo’
fo’closin’
“3. Excuse a brudder’s faults as fur
as you kin, but arter he has spit on your
butes about three times you kin con¬
clude dat he aches to be licked.
“4. Speak well of each odder; avoid
wrangles an’ slander; be ready to give
good advice; encourage sobriety an’ in¬
dustry, but doan’ let a man kick yer
dog simply bekase he sits on de stool
ilex’ you in Paradise Hall.”— Detroit
Free Press.
A Lesson in Boxing.
“Pa told my chum and me that it was
no harm to learn to box, cause we could
defend ourselves, and he said he used to
be a holy terror with the boxing gloves
when he was a hoy, and he has been
giving us lessons. Well, he is no slouch
now I tell you, and handles himself
pretty well for a church member. I
read in the paper how Each Chandler
played it on Conkling by getting Jem
Mace, the prize tighter, to knock him
silly, and I asked pa if he wouldntlet
bring a poor boy, who had no father
to teach him boxing, to our house to
fearn to box, and pa said certainly,
fetch him along. He said he would be
B lad to do anything for a poor orphan,
«o I went down in the Hard ward and
got an Irish hoy by the name of Duffy,
who can knock the socks off of any hoy
* n ^ 10 war< ^* a P rize fignt once,
It would have made you laugh to see
P» tell !nm how to hold his hands and
how to guard his face. He toul Duffy
not to be afraid, but to strike out and
hit for keeps. Duffy said he was afraid
P a would get mad if he lnt lnm, and pa
said, ‘ Nonsense, hoy, knock me down if
you can, and I will laugh ha! ha 1’ Well,
Duffy he hauled back and gave pa one
in t] ie< nose and another in both eyes,
and cuffed him on the ear and punched
him in the stomach, and lammed him in
the month and made bis teeth bleed, and
then he gave him a side-winder in both
eves, and pa pulled off the boxing
gloves and grabbed a chair, and we ad
jonmed and went down stairs as though
th ere waa a pail j 0 , j haven’t seen pa
Was his < civ
9 I K :,oiild so,” said the
grocerv man. "And hi nose seemed to
].'• trying to b-.»k in his left beefsteak ear. He
wa is at the market having to
put on it.” Peck’s Sun.
A TRAP FOR SEYEN.
A WESTERN DESCRIPTION OF AN IN¬
CIDENT IN REAI, LIFE OUT THERE.
How Seven Well 4rmed Men Were Cleaned
Out by Two—The Painful Silence Which
Ensued*
Catch a rat in a trap and he will fight,
Trap a man and—well, you can’t rely on
him. It’s according to the trap. roll
In the heavy stage-coach as we
out of Leadville are seven men. One is
an army officer who has half a dozen
scars to prove his bravery. Cut off from
his command on the plains last summer
by a score of Indians he entrenched
himself and fought the band off until
help arrived. Two of the others are
desperadoes wlioliave killed their men.
Three ofthe ot hers are stalwart miners,
each armed with two revolvers, and they
look as if they would prove ugly custom
erg j u rQW
The seventh man might do some
shooting on a pinch, but he hopes there
wi!1 be no pinch In the crowd are ten
revolvers, two derringers, three repeat
mg rifles and four or five bowie-knives;
md there is perfect good feeling as the
stag® rolls along. It is tacitly under
stood that the army officer is to assume
command m case the coach is attacked,
and that all are to keep cool and fire to
mil.
It is ten o’clock in the morning. The
windows are down and the passengers
are smoking and talking and seeking for
comfortable positions The hill, coach has
just reached the top of a when ev
er y b°™ e 18 suddenly pulled up,
““ \ t s a b f 11 la J e
growled one of the miners, . as he put his
bead out of the window. ■
‘- £ 18 ? obber ,’ gimm ? 16 f 18 pop
at t hlm ,” whispered one of the despera
does,
No one cou ^ w kat the trouble
* ben a wiry little chap about five
feet six niches tall, until b ack eyes and
Afir, c ean face .and thin lips, appeared
at the left - b ? nd do °* wlth a cocked re
volver , in either hand and said;
“Gents, I am sorry to disturb you,
but I’ve got to make a raise this morn
ing. Please leave your shooters and
c n m b down here, one at a time.”
It was sudden. It was so sudden that
it took ten seconds to understand the
of his remarks. Then every eye
turned to the right-hand door, and the
two revolvers held by a second robbor
were see n at the open window. It was
a trap. The rats were caught, and would
they fight? leetle impa
“Gents, I’m growing a
tient,” continued the first robber, “and
I want to see the procession begin to
move.”
Let’s see. The captain was to leal
us> aB d wo were to he cool and fire to
kill. But the captain was growing white
around the mouth, and nobody had a
weapon in hand. The rats were not go
ing to fight. One of the miners opened
the door and descended, and the other
g j x humbly followed. The seven were
drawn up'in line held across his the shooter road, and the
while one robber on
line ] 10 cooliy observed to his.partner;
“Now, William, remove the weapons these
f ro m the coach and then search
gentlemen.” William obeyed, victim
As every was
ordered to hold his hands above his head,
an d whatever plunder was taken from
their pockets was dropped into William’s
hat. Four gold watches, two diamond
pins, a telescope, a diamond ring, a gold
badge and $1,200 in cash changed hands
j n {. en m j nu tes. Not a man had a word
to say. The driver of the coach did not
leave his seat and was not interfered
with. When the last man had been
plundered, the genteel Dick Turpin ob¬
served kindly:
“You are the most decent set of men
I ever robbed, and if times weren’t so
darned hard I’d make each of you a
present of $10. Now, then, climb back
to your places, and tbe coach will go
on.
The crowd its journey. got inland Not the vehicle re¬
sumed a weapon, a
timepiece or a dollar had been saved.
Seven well armed men had been cleaned
out by two, and not a shot fired nor a
wound given. Mile after mile was passed
in silence, and finally the seventh man,
the one plaintively who might fight on a pinch but
didn’t, suggested;
“Can’t some of you gentlemen be think
of a few remarks which would apropos
to the occasion ?”
No one could, and the silence was re¬
sumed.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Thc> Effect of Chicago Sand-Bagging
“I have a case of pulsating ex-oph
thalmus at the Michael Reese Hospital,”
said Dr. Boerne Bethman to a reporter.
“There have been but ten cases of the
disease reported in America. Very few
physicians ever met with a case. I
have been fortunate enough to see one
patient before this. My subject is a
young man who was waylaid and
sand-bagged. He has suffered most
from the throbbing in his eyes and the
veinR running back over his forehead,
which are greatly head. distended, Both and the ter¬
rible pains in his eyes are
abnormally swollen and protruding, and
the left one is turned toward the nose,'
causing him to see double. I account
for bis suffering and present condition
on tbe ground that blows ex-ophthalmus he
was produced by the the head. The received internal
on the back of
carotid artery, which carries blood to
the brain, aud the large vein which
carries blood from the brain to
the heart run closely together for
about an inch at the base of the skull.
Wei], where the blows were received a
slight fracture of the skull took place,
and a spiculaof bone was driven through
(he vein and artery, so that the blood
from each obstructs the flow of nutritive
blood to the brain, on the one hand, and
the exhausted blood to the heart on the
other. The stagnation thus brought
about is responsible for the pulsating, swelling
the throbbing in the head, the
of the veins, etc. Unless this difficulty
is relieved the patient will die of apo
ilexy. ’—Chicago News.
Win3S Frank James is released, he ia
to , on the .. ‘ 8 " a g®- Prudent . travelers
oa that stage will sup their
under the cusbi ns.
TTb who seldom speaks, and strike with
calm, well-timed word can dumb
the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ^