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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS. The eloping coachmen have taken a rest. A white racedbp has been ' captured in Michigan. innepeg has her exciting elections in December. Journalists .in India are excused from jury duty. . “lovs that make gestures ijill be in style this winter. ' • •' : »*# T f " * * 0 t Dakota brags of ' an eai* of corn holding 1,742 grains. ' . v .. Hog cholera has appeared in the northern part of Illinois. Publishers say children’s books take the lead this fall. A fortune teller in Cincinnati claims to make S3OO d week. Rhode Island is now the only State with two capitals. . An English actor named Chimney is said not to draw well. The Chinese jjave a largo theater in Los Angelos, Cal. Clajjstqne is fond of raw eggs beaten up in sherry. W i scons in has fully a thousand cream eries and cheeserics. Chief Justice Waite has never missed a session of his court. A spijjjNTisT says that it is water, and not food, jthSt makes people fat. Tub fruit crop of the country is esti mated to be worth $140,000,000. \ ermont wants the treasury surplus divided States for school pur poses. .. Girls of a marriageable age are worth sixteen dollars apiece in Japan, with few takers. A, number of German military officers have been engaged by China to take con trol of the army. American young ladies who have been abroad assert that it is dreadfully hard to find an honest count. The lata Duke of Brunswick was a suitor for the hand of Queen Victoria, but Prince Albert “cut him out.” I*r is estimated that sixty-five thousand poftnds of paper were used to print the bal lots used at the late election. Harrison, the “boy preacher,” celebrated his 1 forty-third birthday a few days ago. He is now almost a young man. A position in a farts bank, although paying a salary of about $225 yearly, was recently applied for by f>,ooo persons. Miss M. E. Braddon, the prolific English story-writer, is known in private life as Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to fifty-six years. The income of Cjeorge Alfred Townsend, “Gath,” frp»i his aggregated newspaper work is thought not £o fall below $50,000 a year. The sewing-machine trade is so dull that one company, do in" business at Elizabeth - port, N. J., has discharged nearly all of its employes. Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, will be the oldest member of the next National House of .Representatives. He lacks four years of fourscore/ Sir Erasmus Wilson, an eminent Eng lish physician who died recently,bequeath sl,ooo,ooo to the Royal College of Sur geons, London. A $75,000 Rochester girl has eloped with a 75-cents man. Presently some heiress up that way will be going off with a man with a trade dollar. The telephone has been introduced in New Zealand, Van Diemen’s Land, Borneo and Formoso. In Borneo the natives call it the “hell talker.” Gen. Fremont administered an oath to his men, when famine-stricken on the Great American Desert, to die rather than to commit cannibalism. Queen Victoria has had the sacred flag blessed by the Mnhdi and presented to her relegated to the attic, because it was so dirty and smelled -so badly. Confident applicants are making their claims known to Governor Cleveland for positions as postmasters and postmistresses. About a thinj are from women. The great extra sales of newspapers in the United States in the last few weeks is an evidence that there are thousands of persons who read only when they are ex cited. A Meadville (Pa.) girl bet fifty kisses against a winter wrap that Blaine would carry New York. It is needless to remark that the other party to the bet is a gentle man. Toronto is now lit by electricity. The lights are suspended from curved arrange ments that project over the side walks and leave the light a little higher than the gas lamps used to be. The National Board of Health calls at tention of the Governors of every State in the Union to the danger from cholera, and asks active co-operation to prevent the spread of the disease. Connecticut papers relate that in two instances at least in that State, during the recent campaign, young men applied for marriage licenses to town clerks, whose heads were turned by politics, and were given first naturalization papers, the mis take not being discovered until bride and groom had presented themselves to the clergyman. One-thirp of the newspapers published in Italv bear the title of “Gazette,” the name having been handed down from loiO, when the first gossipy little sheet saw day light at Venice, and was sold for a small coin, gaaetta. Miss Nancy Gould, of Portland, Me., who provided in her will that in case of her death property amounting to alout $3,000 should go to the Government to assist in canceling the? outstanding indebtedness, has fulfilled her part of the contract by expir ing, and the Government will attend to the rest. , - Dr. Stoecker, the court preacher, of Berlin, has been elected to the Reichstag, TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2(1. 1884. DISASTROUS FUN. Frightful Ending of a Peculiar Celebration in a New York Village. One Man Killed and Several Dangerously * Wounded While Firing a Salute. Halsey Valley, N. Y., November 21. A peculiarly sad accident occurred here last night, by which several young men were severely injured. One has died. It was the outcome of an attempt to celebrate an oc currence which has been the subject of a great deal of gossip about here. Some days ago a disturbance arose between two families living close together. The husbands. and wives of both families separated. On Friday last the quarrel was made up and matters went on as before. A few young men got to gether and choose Saturday evening to give the parties a salute. They fired a can non four times, anil the affair adjourned until last night. Then they met again, and three volleys \nere fired. They wero reloading for the fourth shot, when the powder in the cannon became ignited, a terrific explosion followed, and when the smoke had cleared away a sick ening sight was revealed. Ellsworth Kirk, who had been pounding the wadding in the cannon, lay with his eyes blown out and the blood oozing from his face. He was alive, but insensible. Shortly after ward he died. Others suffered the loss of: eyes and fingers. The sufferers were conveyed to their homes, and medical aid summoned. The list of the injured is as follows: Fred Kirk, brother of Ellsworth, badly burned about the eyes; George Hess lost both eyes;. Henry Evlys was badly burned about' the head and body, and his legs were burned to a crisp; Sumner Rosebrooks lost an eye and a finger; A 1 Winters and Elijah Bostron were burned about the face and neck. ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES. A Whole Family Perish Ijiside of an Hour. Vienna, November 21.—A tragic inci dent is reported from eastern Hungary. A clergyman, with his wife and child, were driving in a sledge from Crasnisora to the neighboring village of .Kis- Lonka, when a pack of ravenous wolves pursued them. The mother, terror stricken, let the child fall from her arms. The father thereupon leaped from the sledge to save the -child. The father and child were at once fiercely attacked by the wolves. The father fought desperately and killed two wolves, but was at last overcome, and both he and his child were devoured. Meanwhile the horses had rushed onward with the sledge, still bearing the agonized mother, and in Jier agony of terror she gave prrnUv are'birth to a child which died. The terrible shock, with all she had suf fered, proved too much for the poor woman, and when the sledge reached Kis-Lonka she, too. was dead. So the whole family perished inside an hour. An Awfully Fiendish Crime Expiated. Savannah, Mio., November 21.—Oliver Bateman, a young man of twenty years, was executed at 1 o’clock to-day for the murder of the two young daughters of John McLaughlin, on the 31st of August last. The murderer slept well last night, ate a hearty breakfast, and appeared cool and uncon cerned throughout the morning, laughing and chatting with those about him. He left a letter for publication, admitting the crime and expressing his penitence. Twenty thousand people witnessed the execution, many coming in wagons a dis tance of fifty miles. Bateman’s crime was one of the most revolting in the annals of the State. The family of the murdered children occupied seats in front of the scaf fold. The Virginia Epidemic. Lynchburg, Va., November 21.—Local papers in the counties visited with the fatal scourge make only brief mention of its rav ages, but further information shows former reports are not exaggerated. The Gavsville Times, Wise County, says 150 deaths oc curred in that county. Tho disease spreads over a considerable section, but is worse in Wise, Lee and Buchanan Counties. Rains have fallen there in the last two days, and the foul water supply, which, it issupposed, caused the trouble, has been replenished, and the disease is reported abating. Phy sicians describe it as acute typhoid dysen tery. It is Finished. Albany, November 21.—-The Sta’e Can vasers met at noon all being present, Sec retary Wood announced the footings of the tables as follows: The highest Democratic Elector, Priest, 563,154. Highest Republican Elector, Carson, 562,005. Plurality, 1,140. Lowest Democratic Elector, Ottendorfer, 563,048; lowest Republican Elector, Harris, 661,971. Plurality. 1,077. Highest Prohibi tion Elector, Miller, 25,006; lowest. Ells worth. 24,948. Highest Butler Elector, O’Donnell, 17,004; lowest, Campbell, 16,751. After the announcement the members of the Board signed the tables and certificates. Guardian for Garfield's Children. Lynchburg, Va., November 21.—Con gressman Tucker, recently elected from the Tenth District by the Democrats, lias been appointed guardian for the minor children of the late President Garfield. His trust includes all the property owned by General Garfield in Virginia. Mrs. Gar field in making the request, referred to the kindly relations which existed between Mr. TuOker and her husband. No Longer an October State. Wheeling, W. Va, November 21. West Virginia now disappears as an Octo ber State, and her importance in the po litical arena is greatly decreased. At the October election a constitutional amend ment was submitted changing the time of the general election and fixiug it on the same day as the Presidential election, and to-morrow Governor Jackson will issue his proclamation declaring the amendment ratified. Cattle Men Make Up a Purse. St. Louis, November 21. —In the Cattle men’s Convention, General N. M. Curtis, of New York, called the attention'of the con vention to the report of the fearful scourge sweeping through certain counties in Vir ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, Con tributions were at once made, amounting to $1,200, and transmitted by telegraph to General Jubal Early, Lynchburg. AS BAD AS CHOLERA. Frightful Ravages Among the People of Soutli-West Virginia. Charleston, W. Va., November Information from Perryville, McDowell County,this State,near the Virginia border, gives a frightful account of the so-called cholera in the extreme south-western counties of Virginia and adjoining terri tory in Kentucky. Making every allow ance for exaggeration, the loss of life has already been appalling, while the condi tion of the survivors is terrible in the ex treme. No rain has fallen in the Cum berland Mountains, in which the infected district is situated, for four months, the drought entailing not only an almost total failure of crops, but cutting off the »u,. ply of water over a wide area./Difficulty was experienced in obtaining water for stock, in some of these localities, as early in the year as the middle of Am ust, but no actual suffering among/" the in habitants occurred lufitil toward the end of Septgfrvbcr, when ordinary sources of supply having for the part failed, the mountaineers were compelled, in order to sustain life, to ob tain water from what were known as “poison” or mineral springs in the moun tains, or from the small amount remaining in the deep holes in the beds of the creeks. A persistent use of this water soon developed a peculiar disease, as dead ly as Asiatic cholera in its nature, which has ever since raged with terrible fatality over half a dozen counties in the two (States of Virginia and Kentucky, the loss of life thus far being variously esti mated at from four hundred to eight hun dred. Among children and adults well up in years the mortality has been greatest, but no class has been exempt. In a number of instances, especially along the forks of McLean’s Creek, a tributary of the Big Sandy, and in the valley of Powell’s River, emptying into the Tennessee, entire families nave perished, while in numerous other cases but one or two members of a household sur vive. Few recover from the disorder, from sixty to eighty per cent, of those at tacked dying. This is being accounted for by the fact that pure water is still unob tainable, and proper food and medical at tendance can not be had. The drying up the streams has necessitated the stop page of numerous small grist mills along the mountain valleys, and the population for the most part appears to be in most abject want and misery. The locality is almost inaccessible to the outside world, there being no rail road within obe hundred miles, and the ob taining of reliable news is very difficult, but if even half of what is alleged be true the calamity is one of the most serious nature, and calls for prompt action by the authorities and public. Fourth Auditor’s Report. Washington, November 20.—The annual report of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury says that the growing evil in ex penditure of money by the Navy Depart ment has been increasing. The disregard by some bureaus of the law requiring ad vertisements and contracts for purchases made, recently discovered fraud ulent practices in the Naval Bureau of Medicine and .Surgery, were greatly facili tated by persisteut determination of the late Surgeon General to nominally make all purchases himself, while it was practi cally impossible for him to personally su pervise the transactions taking place scores of hundreds of miles from the seat of the Government. During the fis cal year 1883, supplies were purchased amounting to $2,293,853, of which only $985,352 were bought upon advertisement and contract. Three bureaus wholly neg lected the law requiring advertising, and another, vhe one making the largest purchases of all, only advertised and contracted for one per cent, of the goods and materials bought. About $1 ,000,000 open and exempt purchases were made of six individuals of firms, one dealer going over $300,000. Under the act pertaining to materials for boilers, hundreds of thou sands of dollars’ worth have been bought practically with no competition at all. Over sl9/(00 were paid during the year as commissions to Seligman Bros., Of London,' and nearly $7,000 in interest, the former, in the opinion of the Auditor, being twice as much as it ought to be, and the latter, wholly unnecessary. The report says: “The recently discovered frauds in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were mostly committed upon the continuous hos pital fund, whose large unexpended bal ance has furnished a temptation not exist ing in the case of the annual appropria tions made by Congress.” A Railroad Sold. Pittsburg, Pa., November 20.—The franchises of property, rights of way, branch tracks and all attachments of the Pittsburg Southern Railroad were sold this morning at Sheriff’s sale to Thomas M. King, representing the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, for $50,000. The line runs from Pittsburg to Washington, Pa., the distance being thirty-two miles. It has been in debt, the amount exceeding a million dollars, for some time, and was un able to pay the interest on its indebted ness. The Baltimore and Ohio was the largest creditor, and has had virtual con trol of the road nearly a year. Heavy Guns Recommended. Washington. November 21. —The Arma ment Beard recommends to Congress that heavy guns be procured at the earliest date practicable for harbor defense. The list comprises 707 guns, ranging from eight inch guns to carry projectiles weighing 285 pounds to sixteen-inch guns carrying 1,631 pound shot; also, 512 twelve-inch mortars. These guns will penetrate at five thousand yards (about two and three-quarter miles) wrought iron of the thickness of 10.39 to 22.20 inches. A Thrilling Street Car Ride. Pittsburgh, November 21. —This morn ing, while a street car was going down Butler street, the brake became un manageable, and the car started down the heavy grade at a frightful speed. When Thirty-sixth street was reached the car jumped the track, and ran along the sidewalk for a block, until the horses fell, and the car was forced on top of them, in juring them so badly that both were after ward killed. Tweutv-three passengers were aboard at the time, and all weremore or less bruised, two of them, Thomas Moore and Roller quite seriously. $50,000 for Breach of Promise. London, November 20.—Miss Fortesque, the actress, has accepted the offer of soo,- 000, made by Lord Gurruoyle. to settle the breach of promise suit brought by her as Miss Finney. DEAD-LETTER OFFICE. Some Interesting Figures for Care less Correspondents. Informal ion About Deceased Missives and Directions to Diminish the Mortality. Washington, D. C. November 23. —The whole number of letters received at the Dead-Letter Office during tholast year was 4,879.11)8, or an average of 14,172 for each working day. Of these 3,346,357 were sent there because they were not called for at tfre Post-otlice to which they were directed. Seventy-eight thousand eight hundred a&A sixty-five were returned to Post-offices by hotel-keepers, and thence sent to the Dead-Letter Office because the departed guests for whom they intended failed to leave a new address; 175,710 wero sent there be cause they were insufficiently prepaid for mailing; 1,345 because they contained arti cles forbidden to ho transported in the mails; 280,137. because they were errone ously or illegibly addressed, while 11,979 bore no superscription whatever. The number of parcels of merchandise, books, clothing, needle-work, jew elry. etc., received during the year was 90,808. The total number of dead-letters which were mailed abroad was 400,898. These were all re turned to their respective countries of ori gin , “unopened. Of the domestic letters opened 15,301 contained money amounting to $32,047.23; 18,095 contained drafts, checks, money orders, etc., to the amount of •'*1,381,904.47 : 06,837 contained postage stamps; 40,215 contained! 1 receipts, paid notes and cancelled obligations of all sorts, and 35,100 contained photographs. Every letter and package is delivered to the owner if possible. Misdirected letters are sent unopened to the persons addressed if practicable. Of these 31,834 domestic and 9,821 Foreign were so delivered during the past year. Letters and parcels which can not be delivered to the persons addressed are opened and if it is possible restored to the senders, the former free of charge and the latter upon receipt of the return postage. Every opened letter containing an iriclosure of value is carefully recorded, and those for which no owner can be found are filed away subject to reclamation at any time. Letters with out remittances of obvious value are not recorded, but are returned to the w riters if practicable, otherwise they are destroyed. A large proportion of the most valuable parcels sent to the Dead-Letter Office are addref -ed to foreign countries and de tained because they contain dutiable goods or exceed -the limit of size and weight. In all such cases, if the name of the sender does not appear, the addressees are not : led that the package will be for wai/a''j*j;.'express at their vxpense or re -turixeA To the sender if they will furnished the proper adddivsa in this country. The articles received ill parcels which can neither be delivered to the person addressed nor returned to the sender are finally sold at auction, and the proceeds deposited in the United States Treasury. Letters are only read to ascertain the name and address of the writer, or to see if anything which was originally inclosed is missing. Information obtained from letters in the course of their official treatment in the Dead-Letter Office is never divulged. A FATED THEATER. St. I.ouis' Graufi Opera-House Hurned for the Third Time. St. Louis, November 22. —At hndP-past 3 o’clock this afternoon in the midst a piercing gale from the west, the Grand Opera-house, located on Market street, be tween Fifth and Sixth streets, took fire, and three hours later nothing remained of the beautiful place of amusement but a few black, dismantled walls. The fire origi nated in the box office, and must have been burning a considerable period before dis covered. This is the third time this theater has been burned. Jhe loss will be in the neighbsrhood of slaLouo. Acadents at'a Jollification. New Cas* ,e, I’a., November 23. —At a Democratic jollification lost night, a sky rocket struck a man named Douglas Mc- Ilvenny on the chin, and when he was picked up the rocket-stick was found pro truding from the back of his neck. His chin was almost entirely torn away, and he will probably die. About the same time Jimmy Moony was hit on the chest by a rocket, and one of his lungs burst. He cannot recover. Dan Gun sley, a bay aged thirteen, was struck on the thigh and dangerously injured. The physi cian pulled a section of rocket stick from his leg. Charlie Shaffer, a small boy,was knock ed down by the crowd and had one of his legs fractured in two places. A small l>oy named Warren was knocked down and had his right side crushed. His arm and shoulder were broken and badly crushed. A man named Black had one foot frac tured badly. Six Persons Drowned and One Goes Mad. Chattanooga, November 23. —Six per sons were drowned in the Tennessee River, near Stevenson, Ala., yesterday, by the capsizing of a boat, in which were Tom Key, the ferryman, his son, two negro women, named Lane and McCurdy, two McCurdy children, a white man named Short and two negroes. The river was rough, and the boat overturned. Key was drowned while trying to save his sou, who was also drowned. The nogro women and their children were also drowned. Mrs. Key witnessed the drowning of her husband and son from the opposite bank and went stark mad. Earthquake in New Hampshire. Concord, November 28.—A slight shock of earthquake was felt at 12:30 tbi3 morn ing, followed sixt ‘on minutes later by a very heavy one lasting several seconds, during which large buildings were shaken. The second shock was accompanied by a heavy rumbling noise sufficient to awaken people. Shocks were felt in various parts of the State. The American-Spanish Treaty. London, November 23. —The American- Spanish treaty is believed to insure a large expansion of American trade, and is re garded in Eu;dand as a triumph of Ameri can diplomacy, England having hitherto vainly attempted to secure similar con' cessions. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANIiIGS. In Florida the Cleveland men poured oil on the lakes and set fire to it. All of the principal railroads centering at Atlanta have adopted the plan of deliv ering freight at the store doors, and in con sequence the tussel for business is becom ing quite lively. The Tennessee Prohibitionists claim a vote of 2,000 in the State. Thomas Hughes is taking steps to es tablish an extensive library at Rugby. West Virginia gives Cleveland a plu rality of 4,203. Isaac Johnson was hanged at Canton, Miss., for the murder of Bella Booker. In Cocke County, Tenn., some time since, William Rollins was shot from ambush, but recovered. The other day, While Charles Gunter, w'honi Rollins suspected of the attempt on his life, was passing a thicket with a brother and sister, he was shot dead from ambush. Rollins has dis appeared. The sugar-house on Armant plantation, St. James Parish, La., owned by Oliver Birne, together with T50,000' pounds of sugar burned. No insurance; loss $150,000. Fire the other night at Toisnot Station, Va., on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail road, destroyed several houses and stores. John Howard shot and killed Henry Peak and wife in Marshall County, Ala., in order to settle an old feud, and in the en counter received wounds at the hands of Peak that resulted in his death. Georgia has secured about 4,000 feet at New Orleans. Dr. S. M. Bemiss, a prominent physician of New Orleans, is dead. Four tramps were killed near Rayville, Louisiana, in a freight train wreck. The dissatisfaction over building the Georgia Capitol out of other than Georgia stone has invaded the sitting Legislature. The Savannah, Ga., Cotton Exchange does a business of $35,000,000 a year. Ex-Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is among the members elect to the Forty ninth Congress. Hon. Alex. K. Davis, colored, Lieuten ant Governor of Mississippi during Ames’ administration, died tho other night of heart disease. He had been pustor of the colored Methodist Church at Canton. Miss., for the past four years, and was highly re spected. A young son of Colonel J. M. H. Beale, residing on Mercer’s Bottom, six miles south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., went to the meat-house of his father the other afternoon, and, with that adventurous spirit characteristic of children, climbed up on the beams, some twelve feet from the floor, to which are attached iron hooks for the purpose of hanging meat, and in some manner lost his presence of mind and came tumbling down. His descent was arrested by his right thigh catching on one of the iron hooks, which penetrated some distance in his flesh and left him hanging ingmidair. His cries for assistance were heard by some laborers near the house, who released him from his perilous position. His wounds are serious, though the doctor thinks if pyaemia does not ensue he will recover. BA gentleman who has just located in Chattanooga from Pennsylvania states that large numbers from his section contem plate moving South this wiuter, and Ten nessee seems to be their preference. t Bills are before the Alabama and Geor gia Legislatures prohibiting the importa tion, manufacture or sale of liquor in those States. The question of raising the salary of Alabama’s Governor to $5,000 is before the Legislature of the State. Henry Vagen, a tinner, fell from a roof at Hot Springs, Ark., the other day, and was fatally injured. A similar fate befell Henry Betzinger, a tinner at Little Rock. Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, had his pocket picked while en route home on the Texas and St. Louis Railroad. Georgia official vote: Cleveland, 94,567; Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125; St. John, 184. North Carolina official vote: Cleve land, 142,905: Blaine, 125,068; St. John, 448. The dead body of a young woman ap parently about thirty years of age, with a living emaciated babe of six months clasped in her arms, was discovered the other day in the woods on the property of E. C. Cockey, about nine miles from Balti more, in Baltimore County. The body of the young woman was genteelly attired in a black silk dress, trimmed with velvetf and wore gold ear-rings and other jewelry. Upon the left hand was a wedding ring inscribed, “Mizpah, May 1, 1883.” Upon the inside of a gold watch found upon the body was engraved, “Frank to Gertrude.” The babe was unconscious, and it is thought the exposure it has endured for two days at least will result in its death. Cane begun in Georgia. Catching ’possums for market pays well in Alabama. • German immigrants are said to avoid settling in cotton States. Louisiana promises the largest rice crop she ever had this year. The Gainesville, Ga., match factory can’t keep up with orders. A Newton, Ga., man has paid for a farm with the melons off it. The Governor-elpct of Florida is a native of the State of Massachusetts. He was a young man when he removed to Florida, and opened an office at Pensacola for the practice of the law. Chattanooga is bent upon having a pub lic library. Memphis has the lighting of her street® by electricity under consideration. Good horse? are in demand in Florida. A torpedo on the street car track in At lanta tore a hole in the car and ruined one of the horses. The little child of Mr. Hayes, of Athens, Ga., while sitting on a high stool in front of the fire-place, fell in and was burned to death. The official count for President in Ala bama showed Cleveland 92,973, Blaine 39,- 444, Butler 762 St. John 610. VOL I.—NO. 39. THE TWO ASTORS. Contrast Bet weep the John of To-Day and the John of Yesterday. The original John Jacob Astor may have had, at some time or another, a carriage, but I never heard that he did. It would have been contrary to the habit of his life .to spend a dollar for personal comfort or ease, while a cent devoted to the procurement of any kind of luxury would have been a waste so grievous as to cause tears of bitter re gret to flow down his brazen cheek. Now, mind you, the present John Jacob Astor is a very nice man. There is nothing special about him, one way or another, except his wealth. I don’t mean to imply that he leads in «nv sense a shoddy life. On the contrary, his entire course is that of a plain, practical, methodical man of business, devoted to the accumulation of shekels, and much more interested in a phase of social prosperity which would warrant his raising the rents of his vast estab lishments live or ten per cent, than in any possible improvements in the con dition of the race, or any great prob lem, financial or political. The con trast, nevertheless, between the John Jacob Astor of to-day and the John Jacob Astor who peddled knicknaeks about beaver, Wall, and William streets is so tremendous that no mere word-painting could presume to present its picture. The one lived in a hovel, the other in a palace. The one fed on crusts, the other on the best the market affords. The one was looked upon with suspicion, as a miserly old grub; the other is regarded as the great landlord of the day, intent, to be sure, upon mak ing and saving money, everywhere re spected as one who keeps his word and cares for the protection of his property. The one utterly unfamiliar with the in side of a copafortable dwelling, the other accustomed from his earliest days to social courtesies in what are called our best families. The one probably never saw a festive dance in all his life; the other is conspicuous for his attendance at the society balls and festive develop ments of the season. The one walked through the streets with a heavy pack upon Tiis back; the other lumberly lolls along Broadway, conscious of his posi tion and proud of his wealth, or else trundles down-town in a heavy family coach, drawn by the most respectable span of horses in the province. Oh, yes, it is a great change, a vast distinc tion, and very natural was the thought suggested by the appearance of the lat ter-day Astor. Cor. Boston Herald. OLD-TIME SURGERY. When It Was Thought a Wonderful Thing to Shorten a Jaw. A number of years ago there lived in Wheeling a certain Dr. Hullien, who became famous as a surgeon. Some of his operations were very brilliant and decidedly awe-inspiring among the common people. One case in particu lar was thought to be unparalleled at that time. A young lady belonging to one of the best families in Eastern Ohio was terribly disfigured by a protruding lower jaw. Hearing of Dr. Hullien’s skill as a surgeon she prevailed upon her father to allow her to go to Wheel ing and see if anything could be done to improve the shape of her face. She went alone, and nothing was heard of her for two weeks except that she ar rived there safely. One evening as the shades of night were gathering, a really handsome huty drove up to the gate in front of the farm house and asked if she could get lodging for the night. The well-to-do farmer said they‘did not keep a hotel; besides, they were expecting their daughter home at any time, so they could not keep her. She said she guessed she would stay anyhow, and hopped out of the buggy. The farmer thought she was an escaped lunatic, and was about to shut and lock the door in her face when the house dog came along and recognized the lady as his young mistress. It was impossible to satisfy her par rents and sisters of her identity, so re markable was the change in her ap pearance. In her pocket she had two sections of jawbone, each containing three teeth, which explained how the Change had been made The operatiou is quite common now, but at that time it was rare. In this case there were three more teeth on either side of the lower jaw than usual, and as they grew they caused the jaw to project forward. At birth the lower jaw was but little longer than the upper one. The sur geon merely resected the jaw on both sides by cutting out a section on either side containing the extra teeth, cutting out one in front to make the jaw nar rower and bringing the ends of the bones together. It was simple enough, but the country people laid awake of nights thinking and talking about it. Another young lady who, when a mere child toddling around, had her neck badly scalded by pulling the cof fee-pot off the breakfast-table, and al terward carried her head greatly to one side, went to see the doctor. With out so much as asking her consent he severed the contracted muscles; snipped a piece out of her shoulder, fitted it in, tied up the wound, and told her if she would hurry she would catch the next boat for home. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. —A Cape Vincent (N. Y.) man learning to play the cornet has picked up brick enough in the front yard and on the balcony where he sits to prac tice to lay a pavement all around his house. He hopes to be able to build a brick hen house this summer if the neighbors do not all move out of the neighborhood. —Buffalo Express,