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THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. XL NATIONAL CAPITAL INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR UNITED STATES' OFFICIALS. Gossip About the VVhite IIonse-Army nnd Nary Matters—Oar Relations With Other Countries and Nations. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, a number of bills were reported from committees. Among them were the following: House bill for the construction of a revenue cutter in Charleston, South Carolina, in place of the cutter McCulloch. To authorize the construction of a bridge across North the Carolina. Cape Fear and other nvers in To formation and admission into the Union of the states of Washington and North Dakota (with a minority report). Further bills were reported from com¬ mittees and placed bill on the calendar, in¬ cluding House for the purchase of the swords of General James Shields.... In the House, Mr. White, of New York, offered a resolution requiring the Post mas General to inform the House what instructions, if any, by circular, letter or otherwise, have been given to subordi¬ nate officers with regard to mail matter received from Canada, which are intended to prohibit American seeds from using United States mails on the same trains with citizens of the dominion of Canada living in the same vicinage and compet¬ ing in the same branch of business. In a decision, which office, took Mr. place O’Neill, about the of pub¬ Mis¬ lic printing declared that if the eight-hour law souri, passed, good example that was not to set a would be followed in private business, its passage was a piece of hyprocrisy to passed play upon the working classes. It was in the hope that thousands of idle men would be absorbed in the ranks of indus¬ try. That was the spirit of the law. The public printer violated that law, and it was also violated in the bureau of engrav¬ ing and printing. In the Senate, Mr. RidcTleberger, from the committee on naval affairs, reported a bill for the relief of the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal Company. Mr. Brown called up a resolution, offered by him on the 4th of January, declaring it the im¬ perative duty of Congress to repeal day the internal revenue laws, at the earliest practicable; and proceeded to address the Senate in advocacy of it—occupying his seat while he read his speech from manuscript. Mr. Cullom moved that the Senate bill, reported from the post-office carried committee by telegraph, to regulate be referred commerce the commit¬ to tee on interstate commerce. Agreed to in after a few words from Mr. Reagan vindication of the post-office committee. duty ... .Speaker in the House, Carlisle aud resumed greeted his post.of with was a round of applause. The bill reducing the fee for passports to one dollar was passed. Several private bills were passed, of and one measure referring to the court claims, the claim of Hannah J. Jones, rise executrix of Emanuel Jones, gave to considerable discussion. The facts in the case are, that clu ing the War, Emanuel Jones, bile, a British subject, residing in Mo¬ purchased with Confederate In money April, a number of bales of cotton. 18G5, the Federal army took possession of Mobile, and a guard having been placed around the warehouse in which the cotton was stored. Jones was denied admission thereto. In August following, the ware¬ house was burned down and the cotton the destroyed. The claim is for the Hopkins value of cotton so destroyed. Mr. moved to lay the bill upon the table. Pending the action on the motion, the House adjourned. GOSSIP. Col. J. II. Baxter, chief medical pur¬ veyor of the army, has been ordered to Augusta, Ga., on temporary service. Comptroller Durham has decided that the governors of states can get the $15, 000 lege due each state for additional agricultural legisla¬ col¬ purposes without tion. fore Mr. Carlton, of Georgia, appeared harbors, be¬ the committee on rivers and asking an appropriation of $8,000 for the improvement of the Oconee river be¬ tween the Georgia railroad bridge and Scull Shoals. Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, secured unanimous consent of the House, and passed the bill to pay the $800 claim of before Morgan Rawls, which has been pending The Congress for a long time. claim is for h s house destroyed by Union __ officers immediately after the War. Rev. Eugene Peck, pastor of the East¬ ern Presbyterian church was struck by a locomotive while walking on the railroad track on the outskirts of Washington and insiantly killed. 31r. Peck served in the Union army during the War, and after¬ wards became a-sistant of the New York Y. M. C. A. President Cleveland celebrated his fif¬ ty-first birthday, and notwithstanding the published report that a life insurance company refused to accept him as a risk, he is enjoying perfect health. In fact, it is said he seems a younger man than he did three years ago, when iuagurated. Services in honor of tlie late Emperor of Germany were held at the old historic German church, at goth and G streets, at the same hour which the memorial ser¬ vices took place at ‘ Domkirche” in Ber¬ lin. The services were part German and part officiated. English. Rev. Mr. Muller, pastor, The Washington Saegerbund were in charge of the musical portion of the services. Hon. J. Tarbell, formerly a deputy in the Comptroller of the Treasury depart¬ ment, died at Washington. He was colonel of tbe 91st New York volunteers in during the War, and at its close settled of Mississippi the Supreme and was appointed Mississippi. Justice Court of Af- CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 83, 1888. tevwards he was appointed deputy assist¬ ant comptroller remained of the treasury, in which position the he administration. until the incoming of present Mr. Clements, of Georgia, introduced the following private bills in the House, all of which are for property furnished the Union army in 1864-5: To pay to the heirs of Samuel Hunt. $1,384. To George W. F. Lamkin, $1,650. To Maj. Davis, $3,202. To George P. Barnett, of Floyd county, $25,050. To Prior!'. Toonly $12,970. To the heirs of Levi Blackman, $2,775. To Lowry Williams, $0,313. To Peter M. Shubby, $42,000. Also, a resolution to refer the claims ol Thomas Davis, Francis M. Fr eman and the heirs of Ripley Johnson to the court of claims. A GENUINE SURPRISE. A Strike of Engineers on thv A re bison, To¬ peka Santa Fe JRaiironcL Thirty-two hundred miles of railway were tied up in exactly ten minutes by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The entire main fine of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc com¬ pany, and all its branches, were brought to a standstill. The stretch of territory from St. Paul on the north, to El Paso on the south—practically the whole breadth of the United States—is now involved in the strugg.e that started between the Bur¬ lington “tired” company and its employes. The feeling that so suddenly attacked the engiaemen in the far West seems to have infused also their chiefs in Chicago, Ill. Lights were out at their rooms in the hotel at a startling early hour, and each of the principal executive officers' of tlie army of 80,000 men was apparently deep in peaceful slumber. Repeated knockiugs by newspaper men, bearing bundles of telegrams telling of the battles spread, were without avail. The first in¬ dication of trouble there was when the Osage City express was scheduled to de¬ part, when Engineer Higgins quickly and refused stepped down pull from his engineer’s The train cab to out. was finally sent out an hour later, with En¬ gineer Furst at the throttle. Mr. Furst is a regular Santa Fe engineer, but he and has a grievance against the Brotherhood, as he mounted the engine, he remaiked; “The Brotherhood gave me the worst of it once, and now I am going to get even.” A strike will begin on the Kansas and City, Fort Scott and Gulf system, on the Missouri Pacific. Engineers on both roads disclaim any sudden knowledge surprising of »nv such plan, but the and turn of affaiis on the Santa Fe the other evening, strengthens the belief in the re¬ ports. Advices from Pleasant Hill, are to the effect that a Missouri Pacific engineer was heard to say that there would be a strike on that road. Tnere was no notice of a strike or sus¬ pension of work, no notice of any griev¬ ance. On the contrary, there was on the part of representatives of the Brotherhood repeated disclaimers to any purpose to injure the Atchison, Topeka & Santa their Fe Company, or to refuse They to perform admitted duties as engineers. also repeatedly that they had no grievance against the Santa Fe road, but that they sympathized with their friends on the “Q,” and wanted to aid them in the fight. UNCLE SAM DEFIED. Tbe Killian «f Moroccn T.augli* at tlie Idea of American Citizens Belas Protected. The situation in Tangier, Morocco, has become vesy serious for the United States. Tbe Sultan, who is reported to be acting under the advice of the Spanish authority envoy, has decided to defy American aud to refuse to release the American “protected” citizens now in prison. Consul General Lewis is in a very preca¬ rious position, and immediate has telegraphed and vigorous to Washington that measures are necessary to meet the situa¬ tion. The minister plenipotentiary of Spain is asserted to have told the Sultan of Morocco that American war ships abroad bark but never bite, and that the United States Steamer Enterprise will stay in harbor till she rots before she dare fire a gun, since a single shot would in¬ volve serious complications with all the powers of Europe^ The General Sultan that told the by United States Consul imprisonment was the only way he could collect debts from Moorish citizens claiming American protection, and that he should refuse to release the prisoners. The Sultan has the support of nearly all the representatives of the European powers, who are desirous of abolishing the “protectorate” system. The Moors have been rowing out in boats to where the Enterprise lies at anchor, and have amused themselves by jeering at the American sailors. Thus far the presence of the American man-of-war has been entirely ineffectual. The present diffi¬ culty arises from the arrest some four or five "weeks ago, at Rabat, of a Hebrew entitled, in accordance with the existing treatv rights, to protection as a citizen of the United States, acd who, in direct defiance of these aforesaid rights, was cast into prison on some frivolous pre¬ text by the native governor of the place. The United States Consul General lost do time in pointing out to the Moorish au¬ thorities that all citizens, proteges of the various powers, were solely amenable to tbe tribunals of their respective consuls, and entitled to immunity both in the matter of taxation and jurisdiction of the native authorities. He, therefore, de¬ manded the unconditional release of the American prisontrin question and due re¬ paration for the infraction of treaty rights Because Secretary Bayard was very slow in action, the the Moorish non-arrival authorities^ of the United em¬ boldened by seize States man-of-war, proceeded to an¬ other narive entitled to American protec¬ tion, at Casablanca, and. after burning his house to the ground, through proceeded the pub¬ to flog him and his family fling them lic streets of Die place and to jnto prison. SOUTHERN GOSSIP, ROIL l.D DOWS FACTS A XT) FAX Cl ES 1 X 2 ’ERE SINGLY STATED. 'IreiJentu on I.tttul and oil yea—New Enter pri-.es—>iiiO!dc*s--IIeiig;ou», Temperance^ gh<I >ocial Jiuilcrs. Col. T. C. Howard, of Atlanta, Ga., a prominent citizen, died suddenly. Diamonds have been found on a farm withia a few miles of Atlanta, Ga. Tne Columbus, Ga., c:ty council inet and continued the $10,0 ; ‘.0 appropriation lor the Columbus Exposition. and Willie M ashburn, assist chemical a :t book-keeper in clerk at Scott's works Kirkwood, Ga., near Atlanta, road was struck by a train on the Georgia near May son’s mossing and died. Scholze's Opera house, at Avondale, Ala., and six cottages near bv were to tally destroyed by fire. All the stage wardrobes and scenery of the Yaughn comedy company were destroyed. Messis. Isaac Leisy.and X>. S. White head, of Cleveland, Ohio, are in Augusta, Mr. Ga., prospecting president for a big brewery. Lcisy is the of the largest brewery company in Cleveland, aud he wants a Southern annex. Policemen Buchanan, Bedford, Cason and Reeves, who have comprised the At lanta, Ga., detective department for promt- two or three years past, and. who were nent in prosecuting liquor dealers, have been ordered to patrol duty. The Evening News, a new afternoon paper, made its appearance in Birming¬ ham, Ala. Rufus M. Rhodes, late editor in-chief of the Daily Herald , is editor aud propriefor. It is a small six-column paper, without press dispatches. The turnpike leading from Atlanta, Ga., to Decatur is infested by a gang of foot pads, and no less than three attempts to rob belated individuals were reported at police headquarters in one night. The foot-pads were heavily armed. John Love was run over and killed by a passenger train on the Nashville, Chat tannoga & St. Louis Railroad in a tunnel, twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. He was walking through the tunnel, when he was run down bv the locomotive. A mass meeting of citizens, iu grand Dan¬ ville, Ys., resolved to hold a Southern Tobacco Exposition and trades display at that place next Fall. There will be added exhibits of agricultural products, stock and machinery of ’ ail 1 kinds. Engineers on the Carolina, Knoxville & Western Road begin the survey of the second experimental route for a line from Gieenville, S. C., to Marietta, taking this time a more central direction Tanner through is the country. Contractor there ready to shovel dirt the,moment the line is located. Maj. P.obert E. Blankenship, president of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works (on Bc-lle Isle), Richmond, Vu., was run over and instantly killed by a freight car in the yard of the Richmond its de¬ & Danville Railway Company, at pot in this city. In crossing the tracks he stumbled and fell forward under the rear car of a moving train. John Jones, once of the New A - ork Central Railroad, has been engaged by a railroad company in China for the past three years, and his mission in Atlanta, Georgia, is to hire 500 engineers, trains firemen the and brakemen, to run on American system in China. It is said the engineers will be paid $250 monthly, All fire¬ men $125 and brakemen $125. those engaged will have to sign the an agreement to remain five years with company. FIRES. A fire which started in Milwaukee, Wis., completely destroyed occupied a large Atkins, four story brick building by and Ogden & Co., shoe manufacturers, the Thomas & Wentworth Manufacturing company, wholesale dealers and manu¬ facturers of brass goods and trimmings. A wall fell, killing Firemen Leeher, Sum mel, Cleary, Langton and Doll. The ag¬ gregate loss will reach $425,000, and the insurance about $250,000. A fire broke out in a five-story double building on Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa., and be¬ fore the firemen could bring the flames into subjection ,a loss.estimated at $340, had been caused. Copeland mining & machin¬ Bacon, dealers in hoisting and ery, the George F. Blake Shoe Manufac¬ turing conpanV, and Wm. Ayres & Sons manufacturers of house furnishings, Saler, Leurn & Co. are the losers. Fire at Marcen, 8. C., destroyed a block of buildings in tbe business part of the town; loss $14,500, mostly insured. an awful deed, A Jiissouri Doctor Throw* Vitro! Jh a Woman’s Face. Dr, George W. Cox, a prominent United phy¬ sician of Springfield, Mo., and States pension examiner, has a young sot who became infatuated with a woman named Effie Ellis, of St. Louis. Dr. Cox tried in vain to break up the alliance, and after his son had become notorious and had squandered several thousand dollars upon the woman, the doctor en¬ ticed the latter to Springfield with his sen’s By means of telegrams arrived, signed and entered name. The woman a car¬ riage at the depot. Dr. Cox was in the carriage and as soon as tbe woman en¬ tered it, he broke over her head a bottle of vitrol. The woman’s screams brought the tbe police, who released her from frenzied physician, arrested him and cared for the woman. The latter is hor¬ ribly disfigured. Both eyes are destroyed but she will not lose her life. The doc¬ tor was arrested on the charge of may¬ hem and released on $5 ,000 bond. There was some talk of lynching the doctor, but the excitement has subsided. WORLD AT LARGE. I>EX PICTURES PAIXTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE ARTI >TS. What i- (loin# on North, East and West n;id Acro-s the Water—The Coining Eu vopenn Ktol'in. A banquet to Gen. Bragg, uow United States Minister t > Mexico, will be given by the American residency. A special service, commemorative of ^ S « Patnck, was held 1 u the cliurc Mexico, i o mta Bngida, m the City English. of scimon was preached m The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has decided to expend $2,000,000 for new rolling stock, to meet the demands for its increasing business in the Southern trade. Mrs. Ellen Tupper, known as the “bee woman,” and one of the most celebrated etomologists in the world, died suddenly at El Paso, Texas, where she was was visiting visiting v her daughter. ' She ” was widely ’ 1 1 kuown ------- s in - the East and througLout Europe. A collision occurred between two pas senger trains on the Pennsylvania road, a few miles east of Altoona, Pa. Two en gineers, two firemen and a brakeman were reported killed. Five or six passen g< rs were injured, but none fatally. The wreck :s simply colossal, The long and stubborn strike of the Reading, Pa., employes was officially de claved off by a convention of delegates Read representing local assemblies in the ing employes’ convention, and men were given the right to apply for their old po¬ sitions as individuals. Recent parties visiting the volcano of Popocatepetl, ing activity in Mexico, report clouds increas- ot in the crater, with smoke and sulphurous fumes. Reports from Central America show that several volcanoes are unmistakably in renewed activity. Coal was so short during the great storm in New York and Brooklyn, that $15 per ton was paid for coal. There pMuty of it in the yards in New A ork a»d Brooklyn, but the difficulty is to de* bver it. Twenty funerals eu route to Calvary cemetery, near Brooklyn, N. A., stuck in snow drifts. The eorp es bad to be taken uto houses near by over night. Some of tbe mourners, drivers and horses had to be dug cut, nearly fr zen to death. THE EMPERORS BURIAL. The official programme for the funeral of the late Emperor William of Ger¬ many, was as follows: On the 9th, at 11 a. m., the bells of churches began functionaries tolling. The officers started, aud all charged with special duties took their prescribed positions around the coffin. In accordance with Emperor William's last wishes, the services at the cathedral were conducted by Dr. Koegle, who was assisted by the cathedral clergy. While prayers were being pronounced over the remains, the infantry outside the cathe¬ dral fired three volleys. The coffin was released from the dial by twelve senior colonels who bore it to tbe funeral car¬ riage. The procession through Chamberlain, the ca¬ thedral was led by Court Count Von tStolberg-Wernigerod. bell*, the procession Start¬ ing amid tbe tolling passed crossed the castle bridge, through Under den Linten to Bradenburg imperial gate. At SLgessile, members of the family entered carriages and proceeded There to Chnrlottenburg mausoleum. re¬ galia was withdrawn from the procession, The and sent back to tbe treasury. can¬ opy over the coffin was lifted off. Eight lieutenants assumed charge of the horses, and four captains took the places of the Knights of the Black Eagle as pall¬ bearers. MORE STRIKES A consolidated meeting of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad engineers and fire¬ men was held in Indianapolis, Ind. It was decided that tbe engineers at Beards* town and East, St. Louis be ordered Dot to handle Chicago, Burlington & demand Quincy freight, and should the company compliance, the Ohio & Mississippi will be tied up. Prominent railroad men say rhe plans first adopted, that one road a day should be tied up, has been praeti- will .■»■>]y abandoned, and the next which move all the oe consolidated action, in freight will be tines handling Burlington given signal, tied up at one time, at one Thursday and this will be done before i cing. As fast as engineers reach San Bernardino, on the (ulifornia Centra! road, they abandon their engines. Three cars of excursionists from Los Angeles for San Diego were delayed there, and many returned by the Southern Pacific. There hr.s been no refusal to take out tbe ■nail trains. The Santa Fe strike is ended. Pa Would Be Left. “Suppose, Tommy,” said a Kansas City teacher, “that your father owned fortv lots and a man from Chicago should bny sixteen of them and a man from St. Louts should buy twenty, what would be left?” asked “Where are the men front,” Tommy, “Chicago and St. Louis? ’ “Yes.” - “Pa would be left; he wouldn’t get lay money.”— Epoch. IMMENSE PURCHASES. Gov. E. Jackson, of Maryland, has purchased 120,000 acres of yellow North¬ pine lands in lower Alabama and the ern part of Florida. Nearly lands, one-quarter of a million acres of timber have been bought in that region by capitalists few from tbe North West within the past weeks, DEATH’S EMBRACE fell to the lot of a large RAILROAD PARTY. While Journeying Happily Along. Eu Houte to Florida, a Train Plunge* Through a High Trestle. Train No. 27, known as the “West In dia Mail,” from Savannah, Ga., to Jack }?*■ sonville, Fla., left Savannah half an hour Sec It was running m two sections. p ^bur, Resident of the Lehigh Val j e y Railway, two Pullman sleepers, one firs t-cla S s car> a second-class car and bag g ;l g G ]^ear the eighty-six mile post the road crosses Hurricane trestle, a small stream. The trestle is fifty feet high and about one hundred yards long. The train was running at a speed of forty miles per hour, when it struck the trestle, and the engine had nearly crossed the end of it, when the baggage car left tlie followed track, caused by a broken axle, quickly by all the other cars. They plunged headlong into the stream below, fifty kindling feet. All the cars were broken into wood, and the dead and wounded pass¬ engers were buried in the debris. The en¬ gine broke loose, and crossed in safety. The combination coach was the first one which struck the ground. On it fell the passenger coach, the sleepers and the special traveling. ear, in The which lower a private coaches party was were smashed well nigh to pieces. Fortunate were those passengers to whom death came instantly. Every coach was filled and scarcely injury. a passenger escaped without some Of the killed outright, ten were while and ten were colored. Of the wounded ten were ladies, twenty white, and six are children. The spot is one mile east of Blackshear, Pierce county Ga. The road there crosses Hurricane riVer, and beyond it is a long stretch of iresile work. !he baggage which car left the for track the accident, on the trestle, ties accounts showing where this trucks that cut deep into them. It was car careened the rear cars, and by its strain dragged the tender down, the engine having safely crossed over. Had it not been for the presence of mind of Engineer Richard Welch, a much more horrible fate would have been in store for the wounded. Hurriedly dispatching an engine with the fireman for help, ho ran down to the wreck, and with the assistance of tire porter of the Pullman car, “Minerva,” ex in linguished the fire which had broken out the baggage car. Part of the rebuilt, trestle which was destroyed is being and direct connection will be reopened with Florida. The accident is tire first of the kind that h is over occurred on the road since it wrs built, thirty-five years ago. The following is a list of the killed: Wm. A. Martin,Union News company, Bridgeport, Ohio; W. B. Geiger, of Sa¬ vannah; C. A. Fulton, master of trans¬ portation, T. M. Brunswick Smith, the and Pullman \Y T estern conduc¬ rail¬ way; tor; John T. Ray, Blackshear; John II. Pate, Hawkinsville, Ga.; E. P. Thomp¬ son, New York; Mrs. G. W. Kelly, Pa¬ ly tka, Fla.; W. A. McGriff, daughter, Columbia; Mrs. W. A. Shaw aud Jack¬ sonville, Fla.; M, A. Wilbur, son of E. P. Wilbur, of Bethlehem, Pa.; J. H. and.Coffeel Hurlbut, Philadelphia, Pa.; Valdosta; Charles Pciu Williams, Lloyd Dawson and Caesar Foster, Waycross; JIosci Gate, Waycross, and five unknown colored men. 5’hefollowing is a Savannah, list of the injured: slightly; Milton Lawrence, Wm. L. GrifliD, Savannah, conductor, dangerously People's wounded; J. A. Thompson, editor Journal, Jacksonville; Charles Brown, Savannah, badly hurt; C. D. Helmbold, traveling agent of Armour & slightly; Co.; Miss Laura Jones, Thomasville, George J. Gould and wife, New delphia, York, slightly; internally; Mrs. McClench, Phila¬ Miss Alice Simpson, New York, internally, badly; Samuel Ames and wife, Providence, R. I., badly; Dr. Booth, New York; E. P. Wilbur, President Lehigh Valley railway, Bethlehem, Pa; W. A. "Wilbur, Bethlehem. Pa; R. A. Wilbur. Bethle¬ hem, Pa; Miss Labelle Cox, Bethlehem, Pa., internally; A. G. Broyle, Bethlehem, Pa; A. J. Faircloth, Waresboro, Ga; E. Butterfield, New A r ork;L. B. Mallard, Savannah, an arm broken and cuts on the head; T. B. Thompson and wife, N. O. Captain O. W. Wallace, traveling agent of the Louisville & Nashville Railway; McClinch dangerously injured internally; W. D. Austin, Savannah; A. C. Hud¬ son, Macon, badly hurt; John Papy, Fer namiina,Fla.; Gen. G. F.Ferrero and wife, New York, badly Walter injured; J. S. Pino, Newark, Sam N. Allen, J.; Savannah, Goodyear, badly Savan¬ in¬ nah; jured ; Fred Maynard, of New York, re¬ ported killed, was from Utica, N. Y., was not killed, but is slightly injured. RAILROAD INDICTED. The United States grand jury at St. Louis, Mo. returned an indictment against the Illinois Central Railway; S. B. McConnico, general agent, and D. B. Morey, general freight agent, for viola¬ tion of the interstate commerce law. This is the first prosecution in the South under the provisions of that law. The indict¬ ment alleges substantially unjust and mi leasonable charges for the transportation of cotton from Canton and Holly Springs, Miss., to New Orleans,-and also unjust discrimination against the people awl locality of the city of New Orleans in fa vor of the people and locality of Lowell, Mass., in the transportation referred of cotton from the points above to. Australia produced the largest nug¬ get of gold ever discovered. It. weighed 136 pounds, and was found at Ballarat, near GeeloDg. NO. 4. FUN. “Put up and shut up.”—the stoves and doors .—Danville Breeze. Nothing so vitally remind* us of the brevity of life as a thirty-day note.— Drift. A young woman who manned a one legged man says it doesn’t take much to make her husband “hopping mad.”— N/rristnm Herald. Landlady—“Jane, pass Mr. Dumley the salt for Ms egg.” Dumley— ‘ ‘Thanks, not any salt. This egg is none too fresh as it is .”'—New Ym'Js Sun. If you will notice it, the grandest op¬ portunities for making money are always open to the man who never had a cent he could call hie own .—Boston Transcript. In a school not a thousand miles away from Augusta an urchin, in answer to the teacher’s question: “What are the parts of grammar?” said: “Syntax, etymology and er-er-ar doxefiogy .”—Augusta Jour¬ nal. Gold handled umbrellas are coming into fashion. The handle is so arranged that it nan be taken off. This is an im¬ provement on the old style, where the entire umbrella was taken o 3.—States^ man. Visitor (at insane asylum)—-“Who is that poor fellow who jumps and yells so whenever your door-bell rings?” Keeper — “Oh, be used to be night clerk in a drug store. There are lot* of those chaps in here. Drift. Several diamonds were found in a meteorite which fell in the town of Krasnoslobodsk, Russia. They will be given to the individuals who are able to pronounce the name oi the town. Now is the time to get up clubs. —Pittsburg Bos!. A commercial traveler was bragging about the magnitude of the firm he rep¬ resented. ‘I suppose your house is a pretty big establishment ?” said the cus¬ tomer. “Big? You can’t have any idea of its dimensions, Lost week we took an inventory of the employes and found out for the first time that three cashiers and four bookkeepers were missing. That will give you some idea of the magnitude of our business.” The Savage Stage of Childhood. Like the savages off to-day, those fierce progenitors of ours must have delighted in the torture of captured enemies. Thus, during long ages, compassion waa unknown, and it appears to have been lately acquired by the new dominant races. Indeed, even among »o highly cultivated a people as the Romans, it re¬ mained almost unknown until a compara¬ tively recent time-say 1,800 year* ago —in proof of which may be noted their heartless fondness for the bloody sports of the arena. The emotion of pity, then, appeared late in the history of the race, and in view of the Law of our development, which carries us along the path our an¬ cestors trod, how can we expect our boy* to be anything else but cruel? How far is it judicious to go iu trying to altar the natural course of a child’s mental growth by imposing on him ideas whiofa In due course be will not shave until later? This last question is inviting, but we will not go into its solution at pres¬ ent, contenting ourselves with observing that because a boy shows no compunc¬ tion at giving pain to a captive bird, or calmly lacerates the feelings of a family or quarrels merely to give himself a few soon-neglected pets, is no reason for ev peeling him to grow up monster of cruelty. And we will further venture to suggest that much of the immorality of boys i3 a necessary consequence of their descent, as a corollary which follows the aphorism of my friend: “A good boy is diseased .”—Popular Silence. “ He” Changed His Mind. A pleasant-looking elderly man occu¬ pied a cress seat alone m a Third avenue elevated train. The car was nearly full, acd when a well-dressed girl, accom¬ panied by an equally well-dressed young man , boarded tbe train at Twenty-third street there were no seats left together, and tbe young woman took possession of the one beside tbe elderly man, and her escort found a vacancy opposite. They did not seem pleased at the separation, and the elderly man, noticing this, turned to the girl beside him and courteously *iid: “If you wish your friend with you I am perfectly willing to exchange places with him.” Without a word of lhanks the yoimg woman leaned toward her companion and called: “Come over here, Charley; he is willing to change.” The kindly expression faded from the elderly man’s face, and he said coldly: “Your friend can keep his seat, young woman. ‘He’ has concluded to stay where he is.”—New York Tribune. One hundred and twenty thousand copies of the song, “Bock-a-Bye Baby,” Vive been sold.