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CONYERS WEEKLY '■if; r;
VOL. XI.
The people of this earth, or the civil
j d portion of it, consume three tons of
Lubarb xe week.
per
No more little Moslems will go to
hristian schools in Palestine, for the
l
urkish Government has forbidden . it.
The price of elephants, without any
ood and sufficient reason for such
,
ction, has jumped twenty-five per cent.
a the last three months.
The wart on the face of General Grant,
rbich is faithfully reproduced in his
jortraits on the genuine $5 silver cer
ficates, : is lacking in the counterfeit,
L its omission furnishes a ready means
l detection.
Princeton’s class of 1879 was the
hiest ever at the institution. Its
are now considering the pro
, c t of presenting the college with an
jegant bronze statue of Dr. McCosh,
ibe made by H. Gaudens. The cost
Ml be about $25,000.
In 1880 there were in the United
Ltes, in round numbers, 10,000,000
iters. Of this number, 2,000,000, oi
ie-fifth of the whole number, were il
crate. One in every group of five
uld not write his name; one in every
could not read his ballot.
’he chief localities that had assumed
y prominence as gas centres at the
ise of 188(3 were in Southwestern New
jrk, Western Pennsylvania, North
istern Ohio and Central Eastern Indi
L To these may now be added a
Lality in Michigan and one in Eastern
fnsas.
bf the five million farms in the United
lies, at least 1,300,000, or over twenty
e percent., are occupied by lessees,
fen there are, besides, at least a million
biers of the rented farms. These two
fcses and their families are dependent
bn, or at least interested in, the proper
King of the farms—in all, probably
|r ten million persons.
. gentleman in Atlanta, Ca., is pe
jarly alluded. One of his eyes is
k blue in color and the other is a
tgrav. In the daytime—from sun
|to sunset—he cannot see anything
of the blue eye, but sees distinctly
well with the gray eye; and from
set to sunrise he cannot see anything
1 the gray one. His hearing is
iliarly ailected. He can hear only
he blind side; thus he can hear with
ear during the daytime and with one
| during the night. He never dis¬
hed this until recently.
Jr. kersity, W. P. Trent, of Johns Hopkins
in a lecture to the working
of South Baltimore, showed that
jv I of the features of modern indus
and social life were in full vigor in
lent Greece and Rome. There were
pent [lies houses in Athens, with several
in one house. There were cor
Jin Industry, the iron market and in the olive
brought about just as cor
I are managed now. There was a
I insurance office, by which an owner,
lie payment of one dollar and thirty
r a year, could be insured against
Baves running away.
ports from Guanajuato, Mexico, say
George Fay, an Englishman, worth
million dollars, is building a most
tndous palace, quite worthy, ac
■ n ” to the Argonaut, of the pro¬
ved nine crank that he appears to be. It
pe stories high, have hanging
P ns > after the traditional Babylonic
I have telephone, telegraph instru
r an( l electric lights in every room,
I Broad terrace leading from every
pw. The walls are to be of asbestos,
| an< ^ P a per, and the whole absurd
;ure will be supported by iron col
°f immense girth and height.
Cincinnati Price Current gives
bowing as wheat surplus of the
i States at the beginning of the
named, after making deductions
(ding requirements:
..... 1885 .......544,000.000
I’’ .....tS-M.......274,000,000 V 2TT ,000,0004883
P"mg 50.000,000 ....... 279,000,000
[‘a bushels as una
reserve, not likely to leave the
I 0 farmers unless on an occasion
| * carcit y> the preceding figures
I pconsumption - 208,000,000 bushels for do
and export during
| Tllx months of the present
I r year Tiic home wants
- may
I « nearly 150,000,000, so that
s left f 0r export is much less than
-BOO, 000 bushels sent out of the
7 ln tie first half of the current
i far - About 10,000,000
Both is apparently the limit of
l^plus ex
^ "heat and flour be
‘bis and the beginning of
est. our
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTEEESTING FACTS BEIEFED
FOE BUSY HUMANITY.
MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES—FIRES,
ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
Alabama*
Ex-United States Deputy Marshal A.
J. Willford, of Birmingham, suicided by
taking 14 grains of morphine.
The Alabama Masonic grand lodge
laid the corner-stone of Jefferson
county day. courthouse, at Birmingham, Thurs¬
The coal miners of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company, at Pratt
mines, are determined to fight their strike
to a finish; but they have decided to fight
it for themselves, so on Saturday they
declined an offer of the central com¬
mittee of the Knights of Labor to take
charge of it and manage it for them.
At Ensley, six miles from Birmingham,
Terrell Darden, a negro ex-convict, was
shot dead, on Thursday, by Deputy
Sheriff Jack Pasco. Pasco arrested the
negro for burglary, and while reading
the warrant the officer was knocked
down by his prisoner, who then started
to run. Pasco got up and started in
pursuit. The negro again turned on him,
and was then shot through the heart.
Darden had just served out a five years’
sentence for burglary, and robbed a store
at Pratt mines a few days after he was
released.
A collision took place at Muscadine
creek, on the Georgia Pacific road on
Thursday. The Atlanta bound passen¬
ger train ran into a west bound freight
train which was leaving a side track.
The freight engine was driven into a box
both car, splitting it in half. The pilot ol
cab engines were demolished, and the
of the passenger engine was torn off.
The baggage car was smashed. The in¬
jured are: William Spinks, engineer oi
passenger train, face bruised; B. IT. Fill¬
more, bruised. baggage master, lip cut and hip
A. B. Dunning, express messen¬
ger, nose smashed.
Arkansfis.
An Alma dispatch says: “The hardest
rain for many years have been falling
in Arkansas in the last two days, and the
streams are all overflowed, Immense
cotton fields and corn bottoms are over¬
flowed, and the country is suffering gen¬
eral inundation. So quick was the rise
from the Big Frog and Clear Creek that
the people were forced from their homes,
and some were compelled to swim for
their lives. Many women and children
are standing on the tops of houses crying
for help, with water ten feet deep around
them and still rising. It is feared that
several lives have been lost.”
Georgia.
Governor Gordon, on Thursday, par
doned J. M. A. Stringer, sentenced to
imprisonment for life for killing John
Goddis in Lumpkin county.
Contracts have been given out by the
Central railroad for 26 new engines, 15,
000 tons of steel rails, and the road is
building 500 new cars for itself.
Augusta has grown in population as
follows: 1860, 12,493; 1870, 15,386;
1880, 25,000; 1888, 46,176. Since 1880
the limits of the city have been enlarged.
An accident occurred on the Macon and
Covington railroad on Saturday. Half
way between Round Oak and Hillsboro
the engine was thrown from the track and
demolished. The engineer, William
Roberts, received slight injuries.
This is the menu of prisoners who are
confined in the Savannah jail: Loaf of
bread and water for breakfast and a loaf
of bread and a plate of soup for dinner.
During the rest of the day and night they
are allowed all the water they want.
Freight train 68, on the Georgia Pa¬
cific Railroad, was wrecked on Monday
just back of the Cotton Exposition ho¬
tel, two miles from Atlanta. As the
tender left the track, the fireman, a ne¬
gro named Lee Arp, jumped from his
engine. At the same time the engine
parted from the tender and the man
fell upon his head and shoulders, sus¬
taining some pretty severe bruises. The
tender was turned upside down, and was
thrown entirely from the track and at
right angles to it. Then followed seven
cars piled promiscuously. They had
plowed gullies through the mud, and in
some places had shoved the cross-ties
from under the tracks for ten or twelve
feet. The cars were in all sorts of positions, wrecks.
and most of them were complete
A rail was bent into a semi-circle 10 feet
in diameter, and one end had been buried
in the bank. Bob Mance, of Birming¬
ham, Ala., a negro brakeman, had been
standing when the wreck occurred. He
was found under one of the wrecked cars,
dead.
Maryland.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church met in Baltimore on
Thursday. The sermon was preached Ga.,
by Rev. Dr. Strickler, of Atlanta,
moderator. The assembly includes sixty
presbyteries, which are represented gen¬
erally by one clerical and one lay dele¬
gate, though some of them have two of
each. The whole number is about one
hundred and fifty, who are entitled to
seats in the body.
Texas.
All the infantry prizes at Austin were
won by Texas companies, except the
fourth, which was captured by the Mont¬
gomery, Ala., True Blues. The Washing¬
ton Artillery of New Orleans, won the
first prize, and the Walsh Zouaves, of St.
Louis, won the zouave prize. H. F.
Siringfeliow, of the Montgomery True
Blues, won the first sergeant’s prize, a
iiamond badge.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1888.
Kentucky.
A fire at Hiseville, Ky., on Monday de¬
stroyed the postofiice, and half a dozen
other buildings.
the George Washington Ewing, member of
Confederate Congress, died at his
home, near Adairsville, Ky., on Monday.
He was eighty years old. He was at one
time prominent in Kentucky politics.
A supplementary report was made on
Thursday on the investigation of ex
Treasurer Tate’s office, in Louisville. It
shows that $18,000 taxes paid by the
Kentucky Central Railroad Co., has never
been accounted for.
Missouri.
The Mississippi river at St. Louis has
been steadily, but slowly, rising for a
number of days past, but it is some six
feet below the danger line as determined
by the United States signal service. The
gauge on Saturday marked a little over
twenty-six feet of water in the channel,
and some of the cellars along the levee
were filled from water bucking up
through apprehend sewers, but steamboat men do
not a big freshet. The break¬
ing of the levee at Hannibal and Quincy
has relieved the main channel of the
river of much water, and unless the Mis¬
souri should pour out a flood on the pres¬
ent rise there will not be much damage
done at St. Louis.
North Carolina.
John Kellar was near a steam sawmill
in operation caught at Hot while Springs. Suddenly
the gearing the saw was run¬
ning through a log, when the sawyer suc¬
ceeded in reversing it. The saw being
released from its tension threw a
sliver through the body of Kellar, killing
him.
Information comes from the tobacco
growingcounties that two-thirds of the western part of
the state or more of
young plants were killed by the recent
frosts. Vegetables and wheat were
greatly damaged at numerous points in
the mountains. The mercury went be¬
low 30, and in one instance to 25 degrees
above.
.South Carolina.
A deliberate attempt was made Sunday
night dwellings, to burn the kitchen town of and Anderson.
Five a two large
stables were set on fire. The stables
were destroyed.
About half a dozen vessels of the
North Atlantic fleet will rendezvous at
Port Royal, arriving on Sunday, and
during a week’s stay will treat visitors to
a grand sliam fight, etc. The yacht
clubs of Charleston and Savannah will
attend.
Will Palmer and John Dammond, la¬
borers on the C. K. & W. Railway, were
arrested at Greenville on Thursday
charged with riot and carrying concealed
weapons. On last Sunday night, while
they were passing their families several citizens’ houses, pis¬
they cursed and fired
tols.
TenoeMee*
Buildings aggregating in value over
$1,000,000, have been commenced in
Chattanooga since January.
Pension Examiner, Dr. J. L. Gaston,
of Chattanooga, has been removed, and
Dr. W. T. Hope takes his place. ’
Joseph R. Anderson, who was nomi
nated lor Governor of Tennessee by the
State Prohibition Convention, died on
Saturday at. his home in Biislol, after a
few days’ illness of typhoid fever. He
was 68 years of age, president of the Bris¬
tol Bank, and for many years a prominent
business man of East Tennessee.
The Grunt Memorial University of
Tennessee is in need of funds, and the
president of the institution, Dr. John F.
Spence is on a collecting tour in New
York. It is not for the education of the
colored people, he said, as some have
supposed, but for Southern whites. It
has now over 1,000 students. Over
$8,000 has been collected in the last few
days.
Prof. Lawrence, of the High school of
Jellico, persistently dunned J. M. Chan¬
dler, agent of the East Tennessee system
of railroads, for tuition fees for two of
Chandler’s children. Words ensued, in
which the character of Mrs. Chandler wag
brought into question by Lawrence. The
husband thought the matter over and on
Saturday, arming himself with a Smith
& Wesson revolver, he went to the Con¬
gregational church where Lawrence was
at worship, and fired four balls into him.
The wounds may prove fatal.
Thursday was a gala day in Somerville.
The ciews from either end of theTennes
see Midland were at work laying track
just west of town, and so nearly togethei
that it was known early in the day that
the day would witness the laying of the
last rail. The whole population visited
the track in the afternoon and inspected
the systematic working of the large crews
of men, and quite a large number re¬
mained till dark, when the and last spike
was driven, and Memphis steel. Jackson
were united with bonds of
I Deputy Sheriff Shipe was shot and
killed by Hicks Martin, a negro whom he
-was attempting to arrest on the Powell
Valley Railroad works, twenty miles
north of Knoxville. The negro was
wanted in Alabama for muTvier. He
went to the tent where Martin was in
company with other negroes, and called
for him. He met the sheriff at the door
with two pistols, and began firing be¬ on
him. Shipe fell riddled with bullets
fore he had time to draw his weapon.
He died in a few minutes -without speak¬
ing. The negro made his escape.
Vi rginia.
Among the admissions to the Naval
cademy at Annapolis, Md., as cadets is
Robert Sasser, of Virginia.
Count Le Tolstoi, the famous Russian an
thor, has organized a total abstinence society
at Mooker, called the "Society of Ttm
perate. ’— The \oic*.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HOW CONGEESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY
iFFICIAL ACTS OF THE PRESIDENT—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS—WHERE
THE NATION’S MONEY GOES—GOSSIP.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Among the memorials presented to the
Senate was one from several of. the larg¬
est tobacco firms in St. Louis, asking
that all licenses and restrictions on the
sale of leaf tobacco be removed; the tax
on manufactured tobacco fixed at two
cents per pound; and the present system
of packing and stamping retained. Mr.
Morrill, from the committee on public bill
buildings and grounds, reported making a the
appropriating $17,500 for
west end of Smithsonian building fire¬
proof. The hill passed. The bill author¬
izing the construction of a bridge across Ala.,
the Tennessee river at Guntersville, and
was reported from the committee
placed on the calendar... .Senate amend¬
ments to the pension appropriation bill
were non-concurred in by the House, and
a conference ordered. The hour was con¬
sumed in referring to appropriate had com
mittees Senate bills which accumu¬
lated upon the Speaker’s table during
the past week. On motion of Mr. Dunn,
of Arkansas, a resolution was adopted
directing the committee on merchant
marine and fisheries to investigate the
fur seal fisheries of Alaska. Under the
call of States a large number of bills
were introduced, among them one by J.
R. Brown, of Virginia, for a public build¬
ing at Martinsville, Ya. Mr. Hatch,
from the committee on agriculture, moved
that the rules be suspended and the bill
passed to enlarge the powers and duties
of the department of agriculture and to
create an executive department to be
known as the department of agriculture.
Messrs. Herbert and Oates, of Alabama,
opposed that provision of the bill trans
fering the weather service of the United
States signal service bureau irom the
war department to the new department
of agriculture. The bill passed, yeas,
233; nays 13.
GOSSIP.
Secretary Fairchild has approved the
design of the new twenty-dollar likeness silver
certificates, hearing an excellent
of the late Secretary Manning.
Indian Commissioner Atkins will ten¬
der, and receive acceptance of his resig¬
nation srt an early date, probably taking
effect June 15th, after the letting of In¬
dian contracts for the year.
The act for the erection of a public
building at Asheville, N. C,, was pre¬
sented to the President on the 18th in¬
stant, and not having been returned to
Congress, in which it originated, within
the ten days prescribed by the Constitu¬
tion, it has become a law without his ap¬
proval.
Mr. Norwood has introduced a joint res¬
olution in the House providing Taylor for a sur¬ and
vey of the lands of H. Y.
George J. Milk, of Hutchings’ island, in
the Savannah river, Ga., to ascertain the
amount of damages sustained by said
owners by government work in improv¬
ing the channel of the river.
The White House has become too warm
for the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
and they have taken possession of Oak
View for the Summer. On the 2nd of
June they will celebrate the second an¬
niversary of their marriage. The Presi¬
dent has announced his intention to go
to Germantown, Pa., June 21, to attend
the celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the establishment
of the Presbyterian church. He has ac¬
cepted the invitation to review the New
York and Brooklyn parades on Memorial
Dayand will be the guest of the New York
Manhattan club on the first of June.
The total increase of the river and
harbor bill, as reported to the Senate ovei
the bill as it left the House, is a million
and a half dollars. Among the principal
items, as they now stand, are the follow¬
ing: Improvement of the Potomac Rivet
at Washington, $400,000; Savannah,
Ga., harbor, $200,000; Mobile, $150,
000; Cape Fear River, below Wilming¬
ton, N. C., $a40,000; Roanoke River,
North Carolina, $40,000; Yadkin River,
North Carolina, $10,000; Salkatachee
River, South Carolina, $8,000; Wacca
maw River, North and South Carolina,
$10,000; Ocmulgee River, Georgia,
$7,500; Ooloo.-ahatchie River, Florida,
$10,000; Black Warrior River, Alabama,
$50,000; Tombigbee River, above
Vienna, Alabama, $12,000. Inland wa
ter way from Chinesteague Bay, Virginia,
to Delaware Bay, near Lewes, Delaware,
$25,000. St. Augustine, Fla., wasstruck
out and referred to the board of engi
neers. Key West, Fla., was struck out
an' 3 referred to the board of engineers.
FAMINE THREATENED.
Advices from Tunis say that no rain
has fallen in that state for the last
months, and that A tabs are making
tile searches for pasturage and water.
They are bringing camels, oxen
horses to the cities and selling them
the merest song. Thc result is that
present there is a glut in the meat
kets, which will probably be
by famine.
NEW BISHOPS,
The African Methodist Episcopal Gen¬
eral Conference at Indianapolis, Ind.,
elected four bishops, occupying the en¬
tire day on Friday in this election, and
the following were chosen: W. T.
Gaices, of Georgia; B. W. Arnett, of
Ohio; E. T. Kaner, of Pennsylvania, and
A. A. Grant, of Texas.
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING! DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND WEST— THE EUROPEAN S1TU
ATION—DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
The world’s visible supply of cotton ia
2,090,112 bales.
The Pope congratulates Brazil on the
abolition of slavery.
Five hundred persons have been
drowned by floods in Mesopotamia.
The New York banks now hold $27,-
785.350 in reserve in excess of legal re¬
quirement.
The English police pretend to know
that the Clan-na Gael is plotting a second
Phceuix Purk tragedy.
“Buffalo Bill” (Col. W. F. Cody, of
Texas) arrived in New York from Eng¬
land on Saturday, and is the lion of the
hour.
Two Harvard students were fined $100
and costs each in Cambridge, Mass., for
maintaining a liquor nuisauce at a college
ciub.
John R. Miles, manager of the Shot
and Leather Reporter, of Philadelphia, girl
has eloped with a seventeen-year-old
after forging a cheek for $4,000.
“Prof.” Godfrey, an expert colored
boxer of Boston, Mass., has challenged
John L. Sullivan to a bout with the
gloves. The colored man agrees to put
the “champion slugger” through.
The wife of Professor Gregory, of Gi¬
rard college, dropped dead from apoplexy
on Monday while attending a meeting of
the Womans’ Presbyterian mission in the
chapel of Calvary Presbyterian church,
in Philadelphia, Pa.
Vice Admiral Sir William Nathan
Wright Hewett, K. C. B., K. C. S. L., of
Y. C., commander of the channel fleet
the British navy, died in Portsmouth,
England. He had served in the British
navy since 1847, becoming a commander
in 1858 and rear admiral in 1878.
Monster meetings of workingmen are
being held throughout Germany, and
strikes are spreading. collisions have At Mayence occurred and be¬
Hamburg, strikers and police. At
tween the Neu
menster, a thousand strikers “Marsellaise,” paraded and the
streets singing the
many arrests were made.
The committee of New York printers
who are making efforts to raise money to
erect a monument to the memory of Hor¬
ace Greeley, held a meeting on Sunday, at
which a committee from the Horace
Greeley post, No. 577, G. A. R., was pres¬
ent. The Secretary was directed to com
unicate with Gen. Roger A. Pryor in re¬
gard to soliciting aid from the Southern
societies.
The Leadville express on the Denver &
Rio Grande road, was derailed while
rounding a long curve in Brown’s can J
yon, Colorado. The express and bag¬
gage cars were dashed to pieces on rocks
in the canyon, and the smoking car
was partially demolished. The day
coach and sleepers turned over on the
track, but were only slightly injured.
The escape of many from death is re¬
garded as marvelous, although many were
bruised.
The celebration of the anniversary of
the battle of Gettysburg first will of be opened t
by the first corps on the July, at
p. m., at the spot where Gen. John. F.
Reynolds fell. The programme will be as
follows: Address of welcome, Governor
James A. Beaver; response, General Ab¬
ner Doubleday; speeches by War Gov
nors Smith, R. J. Kirkwood, Frederick
Holbrook, William Sprague and Fred¬
erick Smvthe; Generals John C. Robin¬
son, James Longstreet and Lucius Fair
child, J. II. Hinc, historian first corps;
Generals James A. Hail, Joseph Dickin¬
son and J. P. Rea, commander in chief,
G. A. R.
HOW HE LOOKS.
For the first time since his critical re
lapse, Emperor Frederick has been out
side of the Schloss. On Saturday, peo
pie assembled iu front of the palace were
gratified by the appearance of the empe
ror and empress in an open carriage. The
emperor still bears marked traces of fever,
but his appearance daily improves. Dur
ing the drive the emperor remained reclin
mgon pillows A marque is erected on the
lawn behind the Schloss. It has two
windows and is carpeted The interior
is furnished with a telescopic table.
couches and folding sofa, especially made
for the emperor’s use in open air.
The latter was greatly enjoyed, and the
invalid delayed his return to the rooms
until constrained to do so by Dr. Mac
kenzie. While walking he looks very
frail, and is obliged to lean on a staff.
Every step is taken with evident effort.
He takes strong interest in the prepara
tion for the wedding of Prince Henry
and Princess Irene. It is expected semi-pri- that
the marriage, instead of being
vate, will be a court celebration, as¬
sociated with the emperor’s recovery.
DIED nirn im IN PR pbavfr AYER
While Elder James Quinter, editor of
the Gospel Messenger of Huntington,
Pa and president of the Normal college
at that place was upon his knees on the
rostrum in the center of the ent leading
m prayer at the German Baptist Ind., Confer
ence, at North Manchester, sur
rounded by an audience of 3,000 persons,
he was stricken with apoplexy and died
almost instantly. While praying, it was
observed that he grew incoherent and as
he uttered the words: “We are glad to
meet again,” he expired.
NO. 13.
HIS MARIA.
I dearly love my Maria’s face,
In modest beauty unassuming,
With all the tender witching graoe
Of dewy musk-rose sweetly bloomtngt
Hof silken bang of auburn hue.
And oh her eyes of sparkling blue
Outshines tho heaven’s sunny brightens**.
My own de^r love,
My gentlo dove,
My pretty, blushing, blue «yed true lovs;
And well I know ^
Where’er I go
I meet with none to equal you, lovs. \\
When with Maria dear I rove
The tint her peaehen cheeks are showing
Tffls of the warm, undying love
That in her soul for me is glowing. j
Oh, then I sigh in softest tone,'
My darling, may thy love ne’er vary.
But ever glow for me alone,
My soul’s enchantress, blue-eyed Maris.
My heart’s delight
By day and night,
My own, my winsome, darling true lovt r
And oh I know
Where’er I go
I ne’er shall meet with one like you, la a
—Neiu York Sun.
PITH AND POINT.
Out on first— bill collectors.
The best thing in baby carriage*—
twins —IMrsville Breeze.
“What does Leman do?” “Something
in law.” “What?” “Father!”
A small boy reachiag for a high closet
shelf makes an excellent strainer for
jelly. thinks,’*
“ Woman feels where man
says a writer. Y r es, that’s why the man
is bald.— Penman's Gazette.
Now is the time to put your lawn U
order—and to form a lawn order league,
as it were .—Lincoln Journal.
Girls should be sweet like candy ; and
candy should be pure like girls. 'There’*
a combination that is a combination.—
New York News. \
Everything is at least a century old in
Philadelphia. Even the principal “Chestnut.”— street
of the village is called
Bymerrille Journal. ;
“The consonants are better than the
vowels,” said an English father to hi*
son; “I mean that L S D are always to
be preferred to I O U. ”
Gubbins says that if his wife insist*
on banging his hair, she might at least
do it with something besides the fir#
shovel .—Dansrille Breeze.
Matthew Arnold objects to American
nomenclature, and 1 ‘ Griggsville, his teeth ! »
“Briggsville,” and the like, set Arnold
on edge. Pleasant mornings Mr.
is often seen on Rotten Row, London.—
Epoch.
A bow-legged man was standing be¬
fore the stove wanning himself. A small
boy watched him intently a while and
then he broke out: “Say, Mister, you’r*
standing too near the fire, I guess, you’r*
a-warping.” I
A furniture dealer advertises that h*
has marked the prices of his cradle*
down to bedrock. Writing this kind of
stuff for a living may not be very re¬
spectable, but so far there has been no
law prohibiting it.— Life.
“I detest him; I never could marry
him,” sa d a young girl. “Why, do you
know what I call him? I call him ‘th*
little tin mogul.’ Oh, dear no, not to
his face, but in my diary. “That’s
where I take all my revenges, and have
everything out with everybody—-in Nett my
diary. I find it a great relief.”
York News.
She fell upon the crowded walk,
Amid the great parade, fabrics rich,
In dainty boots and
An l sealskin sacque arrayed.
Her daughter bent low over hor.
Her heart almost dismayed; qui*k!”
“What is it mamma:—tell me
In accents wild, sho said.
The pale lips moved, the weak voice spoka—
“I couldn’t—couldn’t match the shade I”
— Harper's Bazar.
Cranberry Culture.
Years ago, when the entire cranberry
crop of the country was obtained from
the wild “cranberry bogs,” scoops and
rakes of gathering a peculiar this construction fruit. In were
used in using
these implements the vines were usually
broken oil or pulled out by the roots,
and large quantities of weeds, grass, an
mud got mixed with the jeiries, a o
which had to be picked and washed out
before “ the J™ |<r -y^ke is still use used or.
™ 8 ° f thc wi plantations, wi.li this but im
™ , frllit gather truked, ed
§ ig badly y causing picked, it to
y much soo ner than the hand
Galh rin ,® „ by J hand is now considered
i f b to anv ofh er mode, not only
bei if the least i n ; ur ious to the vines,!
but a 0 to secU re clean, sound berries,
Ag the }, an( j.p; c ked fruit commands a
better pr ; ce in market than that gathered
w j t h scoops and rakes, the extra expense
0 f gathering it is more than made good
to tbe cultivator.— New York Sun.
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\ A Case or Hard Luck.
Manager Brown, of the Witherald &
\ Brown that Rolling luck Mill, is dead at Findlay, against Ohio, him.
thinks peculiar
He was the victim of a most ao
cident the other day. He drew $o00 in
hills from “ bank, ° and placing the^pack^
t he railroad track to walk to
; ^ “ train passed him, and from
noke8tack 0 f the engine a spark of
tnrown into his pocket, alight
: the pack age of money, causing
; it Y i* when Brown discovered and
-uLjcked'the fire it the had bills, eaten leaving clear
through * the centre of
Qnlr w0 #ndg of <ac h bill unconsumed,
ig tbe op i n ion of bank officials that
cn0UK h of the money remains to be re¬
deemed in bill*.— WatMnaUm Star.
