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CURRENT TOPICS.
Vk ever saw a stuttering woman!
Th« Mrs. Logan fund has reached $64,000.
The selling of huge glass canes Is a new
street Industry.
Mrs. Cleveland will be twenty-three
years old July 31.
It is said of Cuba that every thing it
taxed there except the air.
Door-knob lanterns on which is the num
ber of your house are new.
Walter Mcrrat Gibson is the name oi
King Kalakaua’s right hand man.
Governor Torres, of Sonora, offers slot
each for heads of Apache Indians.
Bt. Locis has now twenty-four condemn
ed and accused murderers in her jail.
Queen Rapiolani says she will have a
jubilee of her own when she reaches home.
Five thousand hogsheads of tobacco
were burned in a Louisville fire the other
day.
Missouri heads the list in the condition
of the wheat crop, showing a full 100 per
cent.
It is estimated that there are sixty
thousand colored Knights of Labor in the
Bouth.
A daughter of Senator Enstis, of LoiTrsi
ana, is the best horseback rider in Wash
ington.
The Rochester Advertiser offers Henry
George a farm, if he will move on it and
go to work.
Of 76,373 “superfluous women” in Mas
sachusetts more than eighty-flve per cent,
are widows.
A recent writer on China puts the pop
ulation of the Empire at four hundred and
fifty million.
Carlyle’s old house at Chelsea, visited
by many tourists, is in a scandalous state
of dilapidation.
A vicar in England has greatly distin
guished himself by refusing to baptize a
child “Jubilee.”
English children are to be pitied this
year. Some of the new ones are being
named Jubiletta.
Five hundred more acres have been
planted to watermelons in the South this
year than in 1886.
The New York Legislature passed a bill
requiring a life-saving rope to be placed
in every hotel room.
An old rusty Barlow knife has been
found in a quarry near Greenup, Ky., im
bedded in solid rock.
Mr. Westinghouse, of air-brake fame,
has taken out about twelve hundred pat
ents of various kinds.
Mr. Parnell does not improve in health,
and it is now said that he is suffering from
cancer of the stomach.
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, will be
Rhut for the summer. No such thing ever
happened to it before.
Astronomy has a new term in its nomen
clature. A New York Sunday is now
known as a side-dooreal day.
The New York Tribune says “the selling
of the toy pistol to children ought to be
made an indictable offense.”
Governor Hill has signed a bill making
it unlawful for railroads in New York
State to use stoves in passenger cars after
May, 1888.
Prof. F. N. Crouch, composer of “Kath
leen Mavourneen,” who is eighty-seven
years old, is the author of twenty-seven
children.
Jat Gould recently purchased thirty
three ac res of valuable land at Mt. Vernon
and made the regents of that institution a
present of it.
Jack Shaw, of Bhamokin, Pa..vowed not
to wear a coat while a Democratic Admin
istration the helm,and so far he has
kept the vow.
TnE Cornell University trustees have
sold the pine-timber on twenty-five thou
sand acres of land in 'Wisconsin, receiving
therefor half a million dollars.
Philadelphia is annoyed because the
honest face of Ben Franklin is put on the
new one-cent postage stamps. They think.
Ben amounts to more than a cent.
The wife of John Murray, a Beaver Falls
(Pa.) blacksmith, whose luck was hard,
learned to help him at the forge, and
is now as good a blacksmith as he is.
The ghost of Mrs. Roxalana Druse, the
woman who was hung recently in New
York State, for killing her husband is
said to return to earth in the early morn
ing.
There is a Yankee in an Illinois town
who plants a sunflower seed in every hiil
cf beans. The stalk serves for a bean
p >le, while the seed is utilized for chicken
feed.
Bix carts and twenty men have for six
weeks been engaged in cutting and haul
ing branches from Washington shade trees
that are white with the cocoons of the
tent caterpillar.
A New York judge has decided that a
tenant’s lease covers the outside walls of
the building as well as the inside, and that
he has a right to use the former for ad
vertising purposes.
The women of the British Empire have
just shown that they are not lacking in
charitable impulses. Three million of
them have contributed to a fund of $350,000
for Queen Victoria. It is a jubilee pres
ent.
After spending a long season in Europe
Fred Douglass says he is “coming home
with the knowledge that the average man
in the United States is better fed, clothed
and sheltered than in any other part of
the world.”
Connecticut’s strict Sunday laws have
been stopping all railroad trains, but the
State railroad commissioners have issued
an order allowing passenger trains to run
between the hours of 10 a. m. and 3 p. m.
on Sunday.
James Redhead and Harry Anderson
went swimming in Lake Contrary.near St.
Joseph, Mo., the other day and drowned
because a party of ladies and gentlemen in
a boat near by were too modest to rescue
them without their clothes on.
Dr. Joseph F. Geisi.kk, official chemist
to the New York Mercantile Exchange
and to the New York Dairy Commission,
has discovered that a poisonous compound
of lead is being used tor the enamel ag of
tt>* «w«*t bands in hats.
FRIGHTFUL PERIL
A Balloon Falls Into the Ocean, and
the Occupant Rescued
by a Yacht.
Wliat AVlth Hobnobbing With Telegraph
Wires and the Blue Waves of the Sea a
Hard Time is Had.
Portland, Me., July s.—“ This lias been
about the most exciting and dangerous
trip of my life,” said Prof. Charles H.
Grimley, the distinguished aeronaut last
evening, as he reclined in bed, where he
was forced by the drenched state of his
clothing. When the Professor agreed to
come here and make an ascent on the
Fourth of July he didn’t calculate on
taking a trip down Canso Bay or the
turning of lis air-ship into a sailing
vessel. Prof. Grimley in his voyage
was accompanied by a correspondent.
Before the balloon reached upper air it
went crash against a mass of telephone
and telegraph wires. Down wont the
’.vires and on went the balloon. Boon up it
went and struck a current blowing ocean
ward. Despite all the aeronaut could do
the balloon was going rapidly to sea. That
meant death within the next few hours.
Prof. Grimley said that no matter at what
risk, the balloon must come down,
and obeying his touch on the valve
line the balloon, at that time
rapidly sweeping along at a height
of some 3,000 feet, was made to take a
downward course, settling with great
speed. On nearing Clapboard Island,
soon to be struck, he began to hope that
the wayward balloon might be stopped.
“They see us,” said the professor, point
ing to a number of men who were run
ning from different sections of the island
to a point toward which the balloon was
drifting. One caught the rope, but it was
plain that he could do but little. “Put the
rope around that rock.” sang out the Pro
fessor, whose danger-trained mind had
already taken in all the points in the situa
tion. The order was obeyed. The bal
loon came down on the rocks and bounded
around for a considerable time, much to
the discomfort of those on board. For a
second the rope resisted the mighty pres
sure and then parted as if it had been a
«ord. The balloon released went up, stood
still for a little space, and, feeling the in
fluence of the strong wind, went forward
and downward into the ocean, burying
the basket completely beneath the waves
and submerging the Professor and his
companion. Then it dashed through the
water at a terrific rate. It would
have been impossible for them to have
cleared themselves from the ropes of the
basket. Ahead on the mainland appeared
the rocks of Prince’s Point,
and the reaching of the
Point was the only salvation for the men
in the balloon and the balloon itself. From
the place where the balloon then lay to the
point is a good three miles as the crow
flies. The Columbus did not go as the
crow flies, but in a far different way,
making a desperate attempt to go
down the bay, now righting, then
rising for a second above the water,
then down, plunging beneath the
waves again, pitching, swaying in the
wildest manner. Help came in the form
of a yacht. The wind was in their favor,
and soon the two men in the Mermaid
were within hailing distance. They caught
the line on the second trial, but it was
with some difficulty that the men in the
balloon were rescued by the yacht and
taken ashore.
POLYGAMY'S DEATH KNELL.
Important Sections to the Utah Constitu
tion Now Being Formulated.
Balt Utah, July s.—ln the Utah
Constitutional Convention to-day the com
mittee reported new sections stating that
bigamy and polygamy being considered in
compatible with a republican form of gov
ernment, each of them is hereby forbid
den and declared a misdemeanor. The
punishment for violation is a fine not ex
ceeding SI,OOO aiid imprisonment for not
less than six months nor more than three
years. The section shall be construed
as operative without legislation, and the
offenses prohibited will not be barred
by any statute of limitation; nor
shall the power of pardon extend thereto
until such pardon be approved by the
President of the United States. Any
amendment, revision or change to the
foregoing section shall not become a law
until ratified by Congress and the Presi
dent of the United States. These sections
have been agreed to in committee and
caucus, and it is thought will undoubted
ly be passed by the Convention. The Mor
mon leaders think they will prove the set
tlement of the vexatious Mormon problem.
Fireworks Explode.
Watertown, N. Y., July s.—ln this city
last evening a portion of the Fourth of
July fireworks display, which had been
placed in position for firing, accidentally
became ignited by sparks from a rocket,
and a big explosion followed. Four men
on the stand at the time were all injured,
either by failing from the stand or being
hit by the explosion. J. J. Bragger had an
arm and hip broken by the fall of tweive
feet to the pavement. William Moore had
an arm broken and received severe burns
about the neck and face.
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Postmaster and Killed.
Cleveland, 0., July s.—During a sham
battle at Delta. Fulton County, yesterday,
Postmaster W. R. Huntington was fatally
shot. He lived but a short time aft >r the
shooting. How the bullet got in among
ihe blank cartridges which the troops
were sunposed to use no body can explain.
Death of an Aeronaut.
Ole an, N.Y.,Julys.—Aeronaut Clarage,
who fell from h:s balloon yesterday after
no. 'u, remained in an unconscious condi
nvii list ! o»* e’tlock) whoa he died.
TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 8. 1887.
BIG JUMP.
Deeping From a Balloon a Mile and a naif
In the Air.—The Descent to the Earth
Accomplished in Safety and AVlth Ease
by the Aid of a Parachute.
Quincy, 111., July 4.—The much-talked
of leap from a balloon was made by Prof.
Thos. S. Baldwin at the Fair Grounds in
this city to-day. Over thirty thousand
people witnessed the performance,
which was the most daring and thrilling
ever attempted by man. His original in
tention was to send the balloon up two
thousand feet and hold it captive by a
rope and make the jump from that height
and afterward draw down the balloon and
make a regular voyage. Owing to the
wind which prevailed the rope scheme
was abandoned. Baldwin ascended to the
height of one mile, and then, holding
his parachute, launched himself
into space. The parachute is
an umbrella-shaped affair, with
ribs of cord, which are prolonged and fas
tened to a ring, to which the aeronaut
clings. The parachute is made of silk,and
is eighteen feet *in diameter. The para
chute was attached to the netting of the
balloon by a small cord, intended to break
by the weight of the aeronaut. When the
jump was made the parachute was closod
and the first two hundred feet the aero
naut dropped like a rocket. Then, as the
parachute expanded, the speed became
less rapid, and the aeronaut and his
strange apparatus floated steadily
down like a bird. It was a grand and
beautiful sight. The descent was accom
plished in three minutes and twenty sec
onds. Mr. Baldwin struck the ground
with some force in a sliding manner, but
was not even jarred by the shock. The
descent varied about a quarter of a mile
from the vertical, and Baldwin struck the
ground a mile and a half from where the
ascent was made. He tried to collapse
the balloon before jumping from it,
but the apparatus failed to work
and the balloon escaped and was
soon out of sight, going east at an
altitude of a mile and a half. Baldwin,
called by his friends the “Man Bird,” is a
native of Quincy, twenty-six years old.
He was for several years an attache of
the lleratd , but for the last few years has
been studi'ingand practicing athletics and
ballooning. He made a similar leap in
California last winter, the distance being
about a thousand feet. The people here
are wild over the affair, and regard it as
the most wonderful thing ever done by a
human being.
TOWN BURNING.
Clarendon, l’a.. Set on Fire By Pyro
technics, and There In No Help For Tt—
Logs of Life.
Erie, Pa., July 4.—The town of Claren
don, in the upper oil country and on the
Philadelphia and Erie railroad, is burning.
Fire-works started the conflagration in
Beacon Brothers’ wells and in the Weaver
House. The town being without a fire ap
paratus. is helpless. The Warren depart
ment arrived, but without sufficient hose.
The Philadelphia and Erie railroad au
thorities are running all relief possible to
the doomed town. The fire spread from
the Weaver House, taking in the post-of
fice, John Logan Hotel, Melvin Jackson’s
gents’furnishing store, C. Well’s clothing
house, M. Showers’ barber-shop, C. S. Mc-
Caudless’ drug store, G.W. Hill’s grocery,
Boyd Bros. ’ grocery, and one hundred other
business houses and dwellings. One man
was burned to death by a bursting oil
tank; others are missing. The fire at 12:30
a. m. has spread to the Henry House and
involved the depot. The people are panic
stricken and are seeking the hill-sides to
escape the burning oil. No estimate can
be put upon the loss, but there is every
reason to believe that it will reach $500,000.
There is but little insurance.
The Burnside Monument Unveiled.
Providence, R. 1., July 4.—The Burnside
monument was unveiled to-day. The en
tire militia of the State had been ordered
out by the Governor, and at half-past ten
o’clock a procession moved from Exchange
Place through many of the principal
streets. The line was an hour and ten
minutes passing a given point. There
were few elaborate decorations, and the
display of bunting was not general.
Beat Her Child to Death.
Charleston, W. Va., July 4. —Virginia
Robinson is in jail at this place charged
with the willful murder of her five-vear
old child, Noretta. The mother for some
trifling act of the little girl beat it to death
with a hoe, fracturing the skull, breaking
one arm and inflicting terrible wounds on
the body and limbs. The crime has
arousod great indignation.
Picnic Pleasantries.
Chicago, July 4.—At the confectioners’
picnic at Cedar lake, yesterday, a crowd
of toughs assaulted Policeman Jerry Sul
livan, and were using him badly when
four officers charged them. For a time a
terrible fight raged. The officers by using
their clubs freely dispersed the crowd and
made several arrests. There were a num
ber of broken heads.
The Oak Ridge Riot.
New Orleans, July 4. As the result of
the riot precipitated by the attempt of ne
groes at Oak Ridge, La., to rescue one of
their color who was being conveyed to
jail, charged with criminal assault on a
white woman, thirteen negroes and one
white man have been killed.
Fatal Affray Between Farmers.
EauClaire, VVis., July 4.—Two faimeia,
named Geo. Morris and John Spitzer, .
came involved in a quarrel while return
ing from a dance yesterday morning.
Suddenly the latter drew a revolver and
shot Morris, inflicting a wound which
will prove fatal. Spitzer was lodged >n
jail here to escape being lynched.
Killed by Lightning.
Nashville, Mo., July 4.—Two brothers
named Bass were killed by lightning to
day while celebrating the Fourth. Two
women and a child were severely shocked,
and one of them may die..
DESOLATION.
Dreadful Work of the Drought in
Illinois and Wisconsin.
No Soaking Bain Since March—Public
Prayers Offered for a Shower.
Chicago, July I.—No such drought- as
now prevails has existed in Illinois and
Wisconsin for many years. The roads are
ankle deep with dust, the pastures are
brown, and the leaves on forest and shade
trees are shriveled up and each hot breath
of air from the cloudless horizon drives
them away. Creeks have run dry, and the
water in the larger streams is at a lower
stage than was ever known before. There
has not been a soaking rain in this part of
the country since March. Two showers in
April and one each in May and June had
but a temporary effect on crops. Stunted
yellow spears betiding disconsolately over
immense beds of dust arc the only evi
dence that the farmers sowed any corn
this year. The leaves of the fruit trees
are falling and the fruit, which promised
to be plenty, is wrinkled and dried to the
stem. Raspberry bushes look as though
they were producing a crop of snot, so
infinitesimally small and hard are the
berries. The drought has become
so terrible that public prayers
are being offered ior rain.
The fences along the country roads and
the dead walls of the villages are plas
tered with huge bills calliug for special
services at the district school houses and
churches. Fires are burning in the woods,
and pastures for miles around are
scorched. The farmers have lost many
cattle in these fires, which seem to spring
up in a dozen places at once. Reports
from all parts of Henry and adjoining
counties tell of intense suffering from the
droug it. The drinking water in many
towns has been polluted and the white
beds of the creeks are covered v.’it-h decay
ing fish. The drought in the northern and
central tiers of counties of Illinois is not
any more serious than it is in Wisconsin.
The Badger State is literally burning up,
and fruit and crops are nearly destroyed.
Reports from Northwestern lowa stato
that the drought has been broken.
Our Debt.
Washington, D. C., July I.—During the
fiscal year just ended the principal of the
bonded debt of the United States decreas
ed $127,911,030, and the amount of the ac
crued but unpaid interest on such debt
decreased $508,911. The decrease in cer
tificates of deposits amounted to $9,480,-
000. and in demand notes and fractional
currency to $7,438. During the same peri
od there was an increase of $09,182,854 in
in gold and silver certificates, and an in
crease of $40,949,854 in cash in the Treas
ury, showing a net decrease in the public
debt during the yaur of $109,707,640. The
decrease in
852,?25,17.
Strange Cattle Disease.
Brazil, Ind., July I.—A disease that
thus far baffles the best veterinary physi
cians has broken out among cattle herded
•y Samuel Cheeks at Seelcyville. The
first indications are ulcerous tumors ap
pearing on the surface. The cattle re
fuse to cat, and die in their tracks in tvveu-
The disease has not spread
to but several of this herd
tfc-e affected, and it is feared to be con
tagious.
Slept With a Dead Woman.
Baltimore, July I.—Mrs. Barbara Airey,
aged fifty-two, committed suicide last
night by swallowing laudanum. There
had been trouble between herself and her
husband, and she took the drug last night
and retired. Her husband returned at
midnight and went to bed, ignorant of the
fact that his wife was then dead. He did
not make the discove. y until he woke this
morning.
Consolidation Consummated.
Washington, July I.—The consolidation
of Internal Revenue Districts, whereby
22 districts are merged into others,
was consummated today. Telegrams
were received by Commissioner Miller an
nouncing that all the collectors had filed
their bonds and had completed the trans
fers of the offices.
Coin Circulat on.
Washington, July I.—During the month
of June the circulation of standard silver
dollars increasedsß4,6B7, and the gold ho'd
ings of the Treasury increased $307,896.
The increase of silver circulation during
the year was $1,336,000, and the increase in
the gold holdings during the same time
was $27,946,000.
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Turner Throttled.
LiorisviLLK, July I.—Albert Turner
(colored), one of the murderers of Jennie
Bowman, was hanged at 6:32 this morning.
Turner went to his death without any evi
dence of fear, and declared with his last
breath that Win. Patterson, who is also
sentenced to hang for this same crime, is
innocent.
Wife Murderer Sentenced.
St. Joseph, Mo.. July 4.—Peter Hrenck,
a Bohemian, whomurdered his young wife
April 10 last, was to-day sentenced to be
hanged August 19. The murder was com
mitted while Hrenck was drunk. He sus
pected his wife, without cause, of being
intimate with another man.
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Tobacco Firm Assigns.
Louisville, July I.—Dick, Middleton
Co., proprietors of the Grant Tobacco
Works, assigned with liabilities estimated
at $100,000; nominal assets the same.
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California Wheat.
San Francisco, July 1. —The Chanri*
(newspaper) will sav to-morrow : “Cali
fornia will raise 35,000,009 bushels of wheat
this year and export 1,000,000 toft.
Murderer Hanged.
Henderson, Ky., July 1.--James MeEl
roy was hanged here to-day for tho
murd«: - of a farmer named Walter Mart,
FRECOCIOUS KID.
A Ten-Yenr-Old Boy Burns Two School*
Houses and Attempts a Third Because
He Didn't Like the Teacher.
Quitman, Ha., June 30.—Sunday night
three weeks ago Stonewall Academy,
nine miles from here, was burned by an
incendiary. No clew could be found to
the guilty party. Determined to keep up
their school, the neighbors met and impro
vised a school-house out. of an out-house
on Mr. Sepell’s plantation, and after one
week’s occupation his house was also
burned by an incendiary in the nighttime.
The neighbors met again and converted a
house on Mr. Rountree’s place into an
academy, and school was being had there
in. This morning about two o’clock Mr.
Hill, Rountree’s tenant, was awakened by
the barking of his dogs and urgent yells
for help. He went out and following the
sound of the voice he came upon Hope
Croft, a boy not over ten year.s old and
very small for his ago. Hope had a bun
dle of light wood splinters, some partly
consumed, and the dogs had him at bay a
short distance from the school
house. He was charged with Ihe
burning and soon afterward con
fessed that he had burned both
academies, and that he had come to burn
the third. He said he was not afraid to
get up and come a mile through the woods
and swamp, and that he prepared the
splinters on the afternoon before. His
reason for the acts was that he was op
posed to going to school to Mr. Williams,
and that his parents made him go, and that
he had burned the other two houses and
was going to burn the third in order to
keep from going.
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THE FIDELITY BANK.
Comptroller Trenholm Brings Suit for the
Forfeiture of its Franchise.
Cincinnati, June 30.—Comptroller Tren
holm to day, through District Attorney
Burnet and E. W. Kittredge, attorney for
the Comptroller, brought suit in the U. S.
District Court against the Fidelity Na
tional Bank, its directors and officers, for
the forfeiture of its franchise and the dis
solution of the bank, the grounds upon
which the suit is based being (1) the
making of a fraudulent statement as
to the bank’s condition May 13, 1887;
(2) loaning to J. W. Wilshire and Wil
shire & Eckert a sum in excess of one
tenth part of the capital stock of the bank
actually paid in ; (3) making loans of sim*
ilar proportions to E. L. Harper and E. L.
Harper & Co.; (4) increasing the capital
stock of the the approval of
the Comptroller's) making loans to di
vers persons named, taking as security
therefor stock of their own bank; (6) not
having on hand May 13, 1887, and an divers
days before and after that date, the twen
ty-five per cent. reserve required by law;
and (7) knowingly permitting the over
certification of checks. Summons was
issued by Judge Sage, returnable Julys,
and July 12 was fixed as the day for hearing
of the cause. The Government also brought
suit in the Superior Court of the city to
set aside attachments issued against the
Fidelity at the suits of divers parties.
An Air Ship.
Washington, June Hi). —A circular re
ceived at the Navy Department from a
Chicago man announces that he has solved
the problem of aerial navigation and is
about to build a great air ship, with which
he will start on June 1 of next year on a
voyage of discovery to the North
pole. He estimates that a month’s
time will suffice for the vovage, allowing
teh days or two weeks for scientific observ-'
ations of arctic phenomena. The ship will
carry two hundred persons and travel at
a speed of seventy miles an hour. The in
ventor undertakes to carry with him rep
resentatives of the press and scientists.
The essential feature of the discovery
consists of a great cylinder, built of thin
plates, to which the passenger car is at
tached. Instead of gas. a partial vacuum
is used and eight exhausting screw pro
pellers, driven by electric secondary bat
teries propel the craft.
Celebrating a Centennial.
Louisville, June 30.—A special from
Elizabethtown, Kv., gives the particulars
of the celebration of the centennial birth
dav of Mrs. Fannie Hill at Blue Ball
Church, twelve miles west of that place.
About two thousand people were present,
two-thirds of whom were related to the
aged lady. ®he and her husband, who is
about junior, rode to church to
gether, \rtie re they were surrounded by
descendants to the fifth generation.
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Northern Investments South.
Montgomery, Ala., June 30. —Norther*
capitalists are rapidly acquiring all the
pine lands in Southern Alabama that are
still owned by the Government, and that
can be had for $1.25 an acre. Elihu and
William Jackson, of Maryland, have just
purchased forty thousand acres of finely
timbered land in one tract in Covington
County, and twenty thousand acres were
bought by another party about a month
ago.
Gambrell’s Murderers Indicted.
Jackson, Miss., June 30. The grand
jury, in their report yesterday, brought in
true bills against Jones S. Hamilton and
L. W. Eubanks for the murder of R. D.
Gambrell, on May 5, at Jackson, Miss.
The case of Albrecht, who was placed un
der bonds in the same connection, is now
under consideration. Very probably, if
the case is tried this terra, a change ol
venue will be obtained.
The Canadian Refugees Cast Down.
Montreal. June HO.—The Now York
“boodle” aldermen appear very much dis
concerted over Sharp’s conviction. They
refused to see reporters, but their friends
say they feel bad, as they consider Iheir
stay here now indefinitely prolonged.
Moloney, however, appears as happy as a
cricket.
Has the B. & 0. Been Gobbled?
New York, June 39.—Mr. l-'tokes was
asked last night what he though': of the
rumored telegraph deal. He said “I be
lieve that the story is t run Jin l that Jaf
<-I<J lias final v sccureo Ihe B»,ltitoi*r4
fc Ohio T» ‘“graph system. ’* ‘
VOL. IV.—NO. 20.
PITH AND POINT.
—A man can not attempt to find
out what is in a woman’s heart with
out a certain disturbance of his own.
“Listen to your wife,” says a
medical advertisement. As though
one didn’t have to listen to her!
—How seldom you hear of a Avoman
fainting anywhere else than in a
man’s arms.— Boston Transcript.
—There is no rule for beauty; this
enables every man to have a better
looking wife than any of his neigh
bors.
—The wise man advertiseth his
wares in ye newspaper, the fool on the
Carmine emblem of ye sheriff. White
hall Times.
—When you come to think of it, it
was perfectly natural for the manager
of an umbrelia company to decamp.
The umbrella is corrupting.
—Talmage says that men who
Avhistle can not have much evil in their
hearts. And we agree with him; the
evil is chiefly in tboir months.— New
Haven News.
—All who have been there will agree
witli us that the biggest thing in this
world is the hole left in a man’s jaw
after a back tooth has been extracted.
—Lowell Citizen.
—An expert in Washington has dis
covered that the real geographical
center of the United States, including
Alaska is situated in the Pacific Ocean,
125 miles from Cape Flattery.
A suburban friend thus classifies
the passengers by the morning trains:
“Firstthose who work, then those who
clerk, next those who flirt, and last
those who shirk.”— Boston Transcript.
—The editor of a Maine paper re
cently received from one of bis sub
scribers a bag of rats. Accompanying
the gift was a note stating that the
rodents could be used, one at a time,
in ihe funny column.— Burlington Free
Tress.
—A staunch old deacon being asked
how it was that he allowed his daugh
ter to marry a man who belonged to a
denomination that he disliked, replied:
“Well, my friend, so far as I have been
able to discover, Cupid never studied
theology.”— N. T. Ledger.
—Wife (who believes in consistency)
“lf the old Blue laws forbid kissing
one’s wife and the selling of intoxicat
ing liquors on Sunday, why isn’t the
former enforced as well as the latter?”
Husband “Because it isn’t neces
sary.”—Harper's Bazar.
First Domestic—“An’ are ye goin’
to leave thatime place ye have, Jane?”
Second Domestic—“ Yes, Mary, I’ve
given ’em warning.” “I never heard
a word agin them.” “No, Mary, but
the mistress is so perlite that I’m git
tin’ lazy.” Omaha World.
“You are very late, doctor,” said
the sick man, feebly. “I expected
you an hour ago. lam afraid the de
lay may prove serious.” “I am very
sorry,” responded the physician, “but
I got into an argument over the rela
tive merits of the old and new schools
of medicine, and couldn’t get away.”
— N. Y. Sun.
—The Great Virtue.—
When perspiration every pore
Beginneth to distiU,
And going to the ocean's snore
Is quite impossible,
And troublesome become the flies—
If naught one else can do—
Our patience we can exercise.
And that will pull us through.
— Exchange.
TAXES IN CUBA.
Feculiar Methods Adopted to Tnrrease the
Revenue* of the Island.
Cuban taxation is reduced to a sci
ence. The authorities would tax the
air here if they could get any adequate
means by which to regulate it. They
do tax every thing else. The steamer
Maseotte, which carries the mail to the
United States, has to pay a tax of S3OO
every time it enters the harbor at
Havana. Travelers are taxed $1 apiece
upon their passports, and this hotel in
which I write this letter, aft r paying a
number of hundred dollars for the
privilege of doing business, is taxed
live cents for each name on its register,
and it has to put a revenue stamp of
that amount opposite each name. This
is a new tax. and the landlord of the
hotel did not at first observe it. The
omission was discovered and he was
fined S3OO.
The cab-drivers pay a heavy tax.
and the boatmen who land passengers
in the harbor have to pay a license.
S nail retail stores pay three hundred
dollars a year, and as their business
increases they pay more. Each trades
man is taxed so much for every letter
on his sign, and the clerks must pay
two and a half per cent, of their quar
terly salaries. The thousand miles of
railway in Havana are taxed ten per
cent, of all freight and passenger
money they receive, and every citizen
of Havana has to pay live dollars a
year for a document of identification
or passport for home use.
These are hut a few items of taxa
tion of which I have heard. Is it any
wonder that the native Cubans hate
Spain and that the prices of every
lung are extremely high?
LciUr.