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VOL. V. -NO. 47.
GENERAL NEWS.
Opelifa, Alabama, will have a cotton ,
factor'. 1
Worms are at work on the Cotton in
.Alabama.
Is Birmingham, Ala., there are cigh
ieeu store houses going up,
Tut cattle drove from Texas this sea
fcon already reaches 200,000 head.
The mineral paint factory at Gadsden,
Ala., is running night and day. (
The mills at Gadsden, Ala., is ship- .
ping big lots of lumber to Canada. (
Anniston, Alabama, is to-have a SSO,- ■
U 0() hotel, and a bonk with SIOO,OOO cap |
ital. '
A gas company 1 as In en organized at I
Eufaula, Ala., with a paid up capital oi
$20,000.
Florida has more newspapers to her
population than any other State in the (
South. |
There were 300 stud< nte at the Uni- ;
Vereltv of Tennessee during the year
just closed.
The cotton caterpillar hrs made its aj>- ’
pearanee in I ovvudcs and Montgomery
comities, Alabama. I
The fruit and vegetable growers in the
vicinity of Hazelhurst, Miss., have organ- 1
ized for protection.
The large lioat car factory now being (
built at Devnll’s Bluff, Ark., will be com
pleted in a short time. It will work 300
men.
The cattle that were shipped from
Georgia recently ar ■ dying on the Texas
prararies. The weather is t< o hot for
them.
Pike county, A'al am a, has bought no
coni this year, and the farmers are in
better condition than for several years
past
’Tis said that there are 15,000 bushels
of in the western part of Greene
v’> AU, which the fanners have no
rise for and cannot dispose of.
One orange glower bn Alachau county,
Fla., has netted about SIO,OOO on cucum
bers this season. He is now marketing
the crop of tomatoes off of 130 acres.
The hydrophobia is raging among the
tattle at Crystal Springs, Miss., to such
an extent that the citizens have quit eat
ing beef, and the markets have closed in
consequence.
A wholsomk Virginia law requires that
tiny person elected or appointed to any
Post or office under the laws of the com
monwealth shall, before he acts in such
office, take the anti-dueling oath.
Tin: mayor of Norfolk has issued the
'•llmving excellent ride: “A police court
'* ■ moral school for the young;
therefore, boys under the age of sixteen
will not be admitted as spectators.”
Bn. lee ter has entered suit against
he city of Chattanooga for $10,(100,
claimed to have been sustained by his
impnsonment last fall an a charge of
concealiug smallpox. He proposes to
? ‘ e mayor, city physician and chief
01 Police individually.
Texas papers claim that the profits in
■‘the raising in that state have averaged
W per cent in the past five years, while
eases they have reached 500 per
• and the ciaim is substantiated by
nr/ 11 *? * B * n^B *tcs that abundantly
i irove the case.
j. if, , ." E 011 tllc Colorado river, over one
ni ength, and in some places thirty
“'-Uh, is attracting considerable
hal m' 111 Llll ”l-as, Tex. This cave
I v . " Rlxteen ’niles from the town, and
i it, whielTtf 11 r tr< ‘ aIUH nmUiUg through
1,11 'He about two feet deep.
J,* h “ r li ' C l "*' k " Bhoala,
fcitafe * “T- G “" “»
procres '” ik On third one is
est miates'tl, * -*ir l 11 englDeer in charge
to com,,] '' l, ’°-000 will be required
the work as it should be.
taiumfi'? ' ! ‘ ;iS fourte<?n iron and steel
i K ' 18 Cotton 18
and orist" 11,1,411116 H hops, 807 flouring
>kintal ini’?? 1 384 nnUB
-, l s t<d in these industries
&*•> hauds"7 l j “ plo ?’ meut 18 Kiven 6,-
' " a,<IU 18 paid in wages
Tn
[ krlaiid Colorw l colony on Cum
ffi pi ?' ' " bicb 18 being organ
-BPread ait, '.' 110 u * H attracting wide-
n 1 , 3- C* Tate, a wealthy
tooi mtaiu 71’ , iving 011 Cumberland
5 f|f| " a. rps ■ *' le lle °"' 118 from 3,d00 to
am] ie bea, t °f the move
( '‘l
w pe r Hcre
’’ Jf'l
i’T..7/' X '. rt < ’ ,,1,,1 ' lawyer, who
' the Austin bar at the
(Eljc Dalton
present term Os the District Court, has
tiled a petition in the County Court,
claiming SI,OOO damages from ;he Texas
Central railroad for the violation of the
Civil Bights Bill. He claims that the
defendant company damaged him to that
amount by not permitting him to ride iiii
a first-class car.
The State Central Express says the
experiment plantation, owned by Mr. R.
S. Day, of New Orleans, adjoining the
town of Alexandria, is the largest hay
farm in the South, The farm embraces
about 900 acres that is planted in red
and white clover, bermuda and other
grasses. It is the intention of the owner
to increase the acreage next year about
500 acres, which will give 1,400 acres iu
hay crops.
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EbITORIAL NOTES.
The Indian army, to which the mili
tary world is greatly indebted for its val
uable experience with the heliostat, or
sun telegraph, is now trying experiments
with pigeons as a means of communica
tion, and a service of these birds ha*
been established iir connection with the
intelligence branch of the quartermaster
general’s department. Moreover, the
birds have been placed under the charge
<ff a lieutenant colonel of the third Sikhs,
and consequently can claim the honor of
forming a distinct regiment of her majes
ty’s Indian forces.
When asked if she Was a parishioner,
a New York feminine witness promptly
responded: “I don’t believe in priest,
minister, Pope, Bishop—in anything in
the shape of man; I am not a parishioner,
and will not boa parishioner anywhere
where pants rule; men have dragged me
to-day from my business to testify in a
ease which does not concern me, and I
will lose fifty dollars by it. There is no
man here who will make my loss good,
but there are plenty of men to insult me
and sneer at me under cover of legal au
thority. I hope all the villians who
bring up such disturbances as this will
go to the eternal blazes; that is the kind
of a parishioner I am.”
Mb. John Stevens, of Hoboken, heir
to $10,000,000, suffered many years from
goitre. “A membraneous sac formed on
one side of his head and gradually in
creased in size, notwithstanding all the
efforts of the most skilled physicians,
until it hung down below his shoulders.
It was fast exhausting his’streiigth, and
hade fair to eml his life. He sailed for
Europe, and there consulted the m< st
eminent physicians. It is said that he
offered $1,000,000 to any one who would
remove the deformity successfully, but
the physicians agreed that there was no
possible chance of doing so and preserv
ing his life. Dispirited and discouraged
he sailed for home and visited Dr. Wil
lard Parker. The skilled surgeon said
the operation could be performed, and
made good his word by accomplishing it
successfully. It is said that SIOO,OOO
was the amount of the check handed the
surgeon for this new lease of life, and the
four years or more since the day on
which it was procured have been a new
experience to the young millionaire.”
Russian Grain.
•It was not many years since that
Russia was ragarded as the granary o!
Europe, but of late years the United
States and India have to a great extent
become the sources of supplies. This
has resulted from the change in the
cultivation of the soil by which free
labor was substituted for that of serfs,
but owing to a number of circumstances
in which the usurer and the land laws
play an important part the new method
is less efficient than the old ; and second,
from a change in the maimer of market
ing the grain. Formerly Russian when'
was held in very high estimation, and at
the different markets quantities of wheat
whoso excellence was guaranteed by a
knowledge of its source could always be
had. Now, as a rule, the cultivators are
in financial straits, and mortgage their
crops to speculators, who do not hesitate
to mix a high grade with a low grade
and export it as all high grade wheat.
These dishonest methods have become
so general as seriously to affect the
foreign demand for Russian cereals, and
a system of government inspection is
proposed as an extreme remedy for the
situation. Were as effective a system of
grain inspection as exists in this country
adopted we may well fear the results of
Russian competition.
A boy of eight years, in one of rhe
Massachusetts schools, was asked by his
I teacher where the zenith was. He rt>
plied: "The spot in the heavens di
’ I rectly over one's head.” To test his
'knowledge further the teacher asked:
' "Can two persons have the same zenith
at the same time?” "They can.”
’ "How?” "If one should stand on the
> other’s head.
DALTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1883.
CRUISERS FOR THE NAVY.
A TALK WITH EX-('O.IIHANI»EK «OR
RINGS ABOUT THE NEW VESSEI.M.
RetiKoiiM for Giving them n Grcntci* Speed
than Fourteen Knots mi Hour—Whnt
Foreign Vessels tire Doing*
"Have you seen the Navy department’s
advertisement for proposals for new cruis
ers ?” asked a reporter of ex-Commander
Gorringe.
"I have a copy of it in tny jrocket. 1
notice that the department cadis for sev
eral Vessels and the second paragraph of
the advertisement seems to require that
bidders shall be prepared to build both
hull and engines of these ships, or en
gines only. If it means this it excludes
all but three of the shipbuilders of this
country, for only three of our iron ship
yards are fitted to build both hulls
and engines* But lam not discouraged
about this. I ineaii to put in my bids,
and I inay say to you that I have already
arranged with one of the most compe
tent engine builders in this country to
build the engine if my bid be accepted
by the department.”
"How ai’e War ships built in Eng
land?’ 1
“About four-fifths of the English war
vesselshave their hulls buil itn the gov
ernment dockyards. Hull building ami
engine building, though closely allied,
are essentially different businesses. At
least two-thirds of the English shipbuild
ers do not build engines. It has been
found in practice in England that if a
shipyard has also engine works these are
apt to be only partly employed, and thus
a loss occurs. An engine builder, how
ever, builds both land and marine engines,
and thus may keep his place at work for
several purposes. Hence, English ship
builders more and more get their engines
built for them outside of their own yards
and by engine builders.”
"Have you any opinion about the pro
posed cruisers?”
" I do not think the department calls
for adequate speed to make them efficient
cruisers. The highest sea speed required
s, I see, fourteen knots an hour, W'hich
nowadays cannot be considered fast
enough to keep out of the way of a mod
ern ship of superior force. A cruiser
means a ship to cruise after an enemy’s
merchantmen. Now, to set a fourteen
knot cruiser to catch a seventeen-knot
transatlantic steamer would be like set
ting a pug to catch a greyhound. It has
been demonstrated conclusively that
high rates of speed for ocean steamers
are not only possible but will be had.
Several of the transatlantic steamers
have averaged fifteen knots an hour for
a whole passage, and some of them
attain as high as seventeen knots an
hour. No passenger steamer is highly
thought of hi these days which will not
average a mean sea speed of fifteen knots.
A man-of-war, to be effective for us,
must be able to catch such steamers.
The Englisli have now a man-of-war—a
frigate—which steams eighteen and a
quarter knots. She has done it, and
they are building more such ships.
What would be the use of our cruisers
going in the highest mean sea speed of
fourteen knots against such ships as
tin se or against the fast transatlantic
steamers now in use which, in case of
war, would be turned into cruisers by
the English gov, i mient? In other re
spects, so far as I can judge frem the
adveriisement, the vessels appear to be
well d< signed. But, I must say that in
the important matter of speed they are
totally inadequate. ”
" Is high steed attainable from Amer
ican ship-yards ? ”
"It certainly is. No one will deny that
that we can do as wilt as they on the other
side, and on the other side torpedo boats
have recently been constructed which
have steamed for three consecutive hours
at the average rate of twenty-two knots
an hour. Six years ago I was on a French
torpedo boat which averaged eighteen
and two-tenths knots for throe consecu
tive hours. It is a well-known fact that
the larger a vessel the easier it is to drive
her at a high rate of speed, and it is safe
to say that if you can drive a 300 ton tor
pedo boat twenty-two knots an hour you
can drive a 4,500 ton ship at twenty-five
knots if you wish to. Tn my opinion
these cruisers should have been given a
maximum speed of not less than twenty
knots an hour, even if the greater part of
the battery had to be omitted to secure
this speed. Nowadays great speed and
few guns are the most effective.”
" Is it easy to drive a man-of-war ahead
as fast as one of the transatlantic steam
ers ?”
"Much more easy, because the mer
chant steamer must have her model and
her capacity such as to provide for freight
and passengers, while the man-of-war has
only to provide for motive power and
guns. By reducing the number of guns
you reduce the space necessary for a
crew', w'hich enables you to put in pro
portionately larger engines. By the finite
these cruisers are finished, unless the
Secretary requires higher speed, they
will be relatively to the cruisers of other
nations and to transatlantic steamers in
course of construction as slow as our old
tubs are to-dav. hi other words they
will be out of date before they are com
pleted. ”
A farmer’s journal recommends
"blanketing the bees in Winter.” A
man should be careful which end of the
bee ho grabs when he g°e< P ut “
blanket on it, or he may bla,lk . 'J,
considerably nmre than he bargained,
f or< _ The Judge.
Business Habits.
An Up-town t’rofessor lost the Oriental
bit of script given him by rt Chinese
laundryman, and was without it when he
went for his shirts* The Chinaman said,
" dimme tickee* 1 ’
" Lost it,” said the Professor*
The Chinaman went to the rear of his
den, and came back shrugging his
shoulders.
He said, fiiniling, “Solly,”
" Why are you sorry?'* said the Pro*
fessor.
" Me lost shirts,” said the Chinaman.
The Professor got a lawyer, and re
turned to bulldoze the Chinaman.
" Give this man his shirts,” yelled the
lawyer, fiercely.
"Holly/’ said the Chinaman, as he
rolled Up a damp garment, “ Ho lost
tickce; I lost shirts.”
Parleying did no good. The Professor
retired without his shirts. On the next
return of his wash from the same laun
dry the Chinese messenger gave him, in
change, a trade dollar. It proved to be
as light as a feather. Going to the laun
dry the next day, after discovering that
the coin was worthless, he told the
Chinaman there that his man had given
him that counterfeit. The Chinaman
tossed it on the counter, weighed it, and
smiled.
" Badee,” he said.
" Your Chinaman gave it to me,” said
the Professor.
" Badee Chinaman. I sent him ’way
yesterday.” And the proprietor smiled
again. The Professor concluded to try
another Mongolian.— Ucw York Sun.
A Story of Poison.
In a speech in favor of vivisection,
some weeks ago, Sir. Lyon Playfair
made a great hit by a story of two Ger
mans experimenting with a poison he
would not name, which produced no im
mediate effect, but killed sometime after
ward, if those who had taken it were not
made idiots by its use. Os the two who
took this poison, one died (said Mr.
Playfair), and the other is in an idiot
asylum. He argued that had they ex
perimented upon rabbits they would
have saved their lives. It has, how
ever, been since asserted that this
amentable occurrence was due to quite
another cause, having arisen out of
some experiments made with mercurie
methyde in Dr. Oclling’s laboratory.
The two men had just completed their
work, when they spilt a flask containing
the poison on the table. Unwilling to
do the work over again, they preferred
to sop the stuff up with sponges, and
unwittingly inhaled the poison, which
arose in a vapor. One died under its in
influence almost immediately. The
other, having spent days in warning his
fellow chemists of the dangers they
were exposed to in using it, grew grad
ually worse, and died a month after the
occurrence.
Loving Their Beasts.
Ex Speaker Grow was telling some
anecdotes of Thaddens Stevens, who once,
defending the public schools that had
with difficulty been legalized, said that
the Pennsylvania Dutch cared nothing
for educating their sons and daughters
providing they could import and breed
tine pigs and cattle and horses. This
was made the most of by Stevens’s ene
mies and he had to defend himself pub
licly when he went back to Gettysburgh,
and. did it with the argumentum ad
hominem. "Isn’t it true?” he said.
“ You, Jake Snyder, have got a ram that
cost you a thousand dollars and none of
your daughters can read. You, Hans
Dcitman, paid four thousand dollars for
a bull, but make your sons wor]< winter
and summer. You, Jimmy Lootman,
own Westphalia boars and brood sows,
and can’t read yourself. Don’t you love
your beasts better than your children
and your minds?” The honest Dutch
men began to confer : "That is right,”
they said; "he only told the truth.”
Stevens, instead of Muhlenberg, should
have a monument in the capital.
Nice Puppies.
“ Did you ever hear about John Os
born and his setter pups ?”
“John Osborn ran for Shcrifl in-St.
Paul, Minn., and while he was -working
all the boys with his good natufe lift had
frequent calls, and whenever a man with
, fancy for field sports came, the talk
always fell npon a beautiful setter and
her line puppies.
“ ‘ Nice puppies, John.’
“ ‘Yes, bully puppies, ain’t they?’
“ ‘They are the most beautiful setter
pups I oversaw anywhere.’
"Then the candidate for Sheriff would
■ake the man aside and, in a confidential
tone tell him : .
" ‘ You just wait till after election and
I’ll give you one of those pups.’
"This thing had been going on for a
•ouple of weeks, and one evening a man
-hut the doorand left the house, with the
promise of a pup lingering in his ear,
when Nil’s. Osborn asked :
" ‘John, how many puppies are
’in re?’
"‘Five. Why?’
" ‘Well, I was thinking that to-night,
you had promised the twenty-third
man that he should have one of them.’
"‘Oli, well, Mary,’ said Osborn,
• don’t you think it would be a mean man
to run for Sheriff who wouldn’t promise a
pup to his friend ?’ ”
Silty —An island in VermilHoo Bay, i
'“’Ar'" ■■
that it •• 'l’'’’” 8 J", ’‘Xun ndlle
Ivuambe ami ground n j£j‘ out ' e
About 200 tuns a day ute tube
This Season’s Peaches.
"The real Delaware peach district”
says a newspaper correspondent, ‘ ‘is sit
uated on a peninsula that is surrounded
by salt water, and this has the tendency
to keep the timperatitre of the wind at
a uniform rate, so that danger from and
den mid intense cold blasts are mucl
less likely to occur. Every season,
early, specimen branches from several
trees are plucked and placed hi warm
water, then put in a hot-house and the
buds forced into blossom. These are
examined under the microscope, and an
expert can easily decide what the crop
will be for the coming season. Such an
experiment was made a few days ago in
my presence. The crop may not be an
extraordinarily large one, but this test
shows that the fruit will be of much bet
ter quality than the average, and larger
than for several seasons past. An aver
age crop from the Delaware district is
4,000,000 bushels. This year it is esti
mated to be a little above that, but the
fruit will be of the best quality and of
much more desirable condition than
when small and excessive in quantity.’’
Again victorious in the Courts.
Mrs. Gov. Gaines, who has won an
other suit against the city of New Gr
it ans, is now seventy-eight years old, has
been engaged for about fifty years in le
gal battles for the recovery of property
lawfully hers, and she still retains much
of that energy which has made it possi
ble for her to continue during this pe
riod to brave opposition, insult and dis
couragements of every description. Un
der decisions made some time ago Mrs.
Gaines could have turned out about 400
families holding titles from the city of
New Orleans to property decided to be
hers, but she has always treated these
people as innocent sufferers, and has
made no effort to molest them, although
she has often been sorely in need of
money. She has often said that if she
recovered her property she would use it
in doing good, and she has refused some
tempting offers to dispose of her claims
to persons who would have shown no
mercy to those who bold titles from the
city of New Orleans. Her object has
been to secure her rights without injury
‘o innocent holders of her property, and
some time ago she offered to appeal to
the city to give to the present holders
full and free claims and to settle the pe
cuniary damages with her.
— .
A New Eye.
The following letter from Blue Horse,
a Sioux Indian, was received at the In
dian Office, Washington, by the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs: lam a friend
of the Great Father’s and am going in
the white man’s ways. I have noticed
white men cutting wood, and I thought
I would be like a white man and chop
some wood for my wife. A piece of
wood flew up and put out my right eye,
and now- I would like the Great Father
to send me another eye. I can have it
put in here. I have al ways been a friend
of the white man and am bringing my
children up in the white man’s way.
I am getting old and wish my Father
would send me a cane. When you send
the eye please send a brown one, as that
is the color of my other eye. I hope the
Great Father will do as [ ask. I shake
hands with a good heart.
■ “
A Tramp’s Revenge.
A tramp giving his name as James
Boyd made a deadly assault on Margaret
Lee, aged seventy years, in the suburbs
of Trenton, N. J., by striking her on the
head with a stone because she refused
him something tocat. He then ran away,
and was pursued by a number of men
and women. After a lively chase he was
captured and taken to jail. He was sub
sequently brought before a justice of the
peace and committed on a charge of
assault with intent to kill. The wound
inflicted on the woman’s head is three
inches long, and her condition is consid
ered critical. Threats of lynching were
heard when the prisoner was being ex
amined, and but for the presence of
officers they would probably have been
carried out.
*
Plantation Philosophy.
I heard a white man the udder day
say dat in all ob his plantation ’spen
ence he nebber seed a honest nigger.
Dat may Ixi true, an’ wid equal direck
ness de gcn’lemen coulder said dat hon
est white men is sorter scarce. Bar is a
certain amount ob deceit what it stands
a man in han’ ter practice. When I has
a pair ob breeches dat is too short for mo,
I rolls ’em up a little. Es folks sees dat
yer breeches is too short, dey commences
ter question yer success in business, be
lievin’ dat yer had ter take any kind ob
clothes dat come de handiest, but when
yer rolls up yer breeches dey thinks dat
it is a matter ob choice.
Georgia Justice.—The story is tola
that in a small Georgia town a case was
recently before a justice, and an Augusta
lawyer of high standing was one of the
attorneys employed. This lawyer having
all the facts and the law that he desired
in the case, made little or no argument
before the justice, but to his utter
astonishment the case was decided
against him. After court was over the ,
lawyer w- nt to the justice privately ami
asked him how in the name of common
sense he could deoid' that cose m he did
He simply -iffi-L
brought f
I before the court.’ j
--I T js too early vet to say 'vlmt style /
|, “ r T’ , they l wdl just high /
TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR.
ONLY YOU.
If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled
And take my choice of all earth’* treasures too
Or choose from heaven whateo’er I willed,
I’d ask for yon.
No man I’d envy, neither low nor high
Nor king in castle old or palace new,
I’d hold Golcomla’s mines less rich than I
If I had you.
Toil and privation, poverty and care,
Undaunted I’d defy, nor fortune woo.
Having my wife, no jewel else I’d wear,
If she were you.
Little I’d care how lovely she might be
How graced with every charm, how fond, how
true;
E’en though perfection, she’d be naught to me,
Were she not you.
There is more charm for my true loving heart,
In everything you think or say or do,
Than all the joys that heaven could e’er impart,
Because it’s you. H. A- F
Lost His SIO,OOO.
The referee in the breach of promise
suit of Bernard Barwick of New York
city against Rebecca McLean of Staple
ton, 8. 1., filed his decision with Judge
Barnard nt the Circuit Court of Rich
mond county. Mr. Cronk finds against
.Mr. Barwick’s claim for SIO,OOO for dam
igcs to his character anti affections. »n
remarking on the case the fair defendant
says: ‘ ‘ The finding must be discouraging
o Mr. Barwick, who evidently lielieve.it
his case a good one, else he would hardly
have risked so much in bringing the
matter into court. But his disappoint
ment may prove valuable to other young
men who have a nice chance of feather
ing their nests for life, but who will in
sist on making the most stringent regu
lations for every act of a young lady, and
laying down the-Jaw as to how she shall
treat all her friends, a>. 1 who, unless
these whims are acceded to, wili hastily
■ hatter an engagement of marriage."
A Yfiung Indian.
This story is told by Dr. Edward
Eggleston: "A band of Indians
emigrated in a body from the Minisink
region to avoid a malign genius of the
place. A party of Senecas chased a
young Catawba warrior for five miles.
He succeeded in killing seven of them
before they captured him. The next
day, when lie was led out to be fortun’d,
lie escaped by a sudden dash, leaped into
the river amid a shower of bulletsand
swam under water like an otter, only
rising to take breath. On the opposite
bank he made insulting gestures at his
enemies and fled away. Os those who
pursued him he slew a party of five while
they slept, mangled and scalped them,
uid then returning in the night dug up
and scalped the seven whom he had slain
at first. A solemn council of his foes
decided that he must be a wizard and
that pursuit would therefore be useless.”
!__ »
Ou the Sound.
The New York Tribune says that the
old mistress of William M. Tweed is liv
ing in a villa near Cos Cob, on the shore
of the Sound. Her sister has a family by
another celebrated city politician. Their
father was the chief gambler in N. Y. city
thirty years ago, and they were consid
ered the finest woneninthe Broadway
promenade. Both married and took to
pleasure, and it is charged that Mr.
Tweed’s friend not only obtained a mil
lion from him but caused his imprison
ment and death by refusing to accom
pany him abroad and he was too fa ci la
ted with her to fly alone. Like Jack
Sheppard, he clung to the city for the
sake of Edgeworth Bess.
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The Circus Canvas.
How the Cincinnati Enquirer found
this out is a mystery. "And what, in
the name of goodness, is this? asked
Mrs. David Davis as the Senator lugged
something into the room and dropped it
'at her feet. “ This is my shirt, darling,
and I will be greatly obliged if y<>u will
sew on a button for mo.” "David
Davis,” said the lady, sternly, “when
you bring me your shirt I will sew on a
button for you with pleasure, as becomes
a fond and dutiful wife; but just now,
sir, I must insist upon } our removing
tliis circus canvas from my apartnv nt.
The New Shield.—The Gruson armor
or shield for forte, i» made of chilled
cast iron, of the enormous thickness of
live feet. The inventor is a citizen of
Magdeburg, Germany. As not half that
thickness could be p< rforated by any
guns afloat, and furthermore as the
svstem would allow still heavmr con
struction, if necessary, these shields are
absolutely impregnable to the extent of
the space covered by them. The cast
ings are also so made as to lie lined
without being bolted or backed, and can
be set up in the form of turrets.
to*, erevity in the statement of a
tragedy commend ns to this paragrap .
‘‘A party of the name of Russell Lester
went to Virginia, Indian Territory, for
the avowed purpose of killing a man
)I; , nl ed Rutledge. The remains-of Leshr
were returned in the baggage-car of the
',ext train. The best of plans are some-
' times thwarted. ”
The Boval feet
.lone at Madrid w,l J f thor-
I'he ” b ‘ J ff“7 h# . r “rehami, ‘treked
luhiv io ‘ , ,i, tin v w'll as sf^ ,a
. .loti'- ogro ? w
,s they get male
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