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A MEMORABLE EVENT IN
AMERICAN HISTORY.
The Country Redeemed, Regene
rated and Disenthralled.
A DISPLAY THE LIKE OF WHICH
WAS NEVER BEFORE SEEN
IN WASHINGTON.
The Passage to the Capitol One Long
Continued Ovation.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF RE
JOICING CITIZENS WELCOME THE
NEW ADMINISTRATION.
President Cleveland’s Inaugural Address a
Model ofßrevity, Conciseness
and Strength.
THE GRAND INAUGURAL BALL TO
NIGHT.
Washington, March 4. —To-day’s dem
onstration was like a grand triumph signal
izing the return of the Democracy to power
in the National Government. There were
however, no captives chained to the victor’s
chariot, unless Mr. Arthur’s riding in the
President’s carriage may be regarded a s
repreieniiug the vanquished, Jbut there were
no spoils displayed to tempt the multitude
as the thousands of Republican Federal
officials who witnessed the spectacle, still
held the spoils in their possession.
A GRAND OVATION.
If a President’s popularity is measured
by the display with which his advent to
office is celebrated, President Cleveland en
joys at the beginning of his administration
popular lo' e and admiration, such as was
ne’er accorded to any of his predecessors.
At half-past 10 this morning Mr. Cleve
land and Mr. Hendricks were escorted from
their hotels to the White House, where
they were met by Mr. Arthur, and soon
took the carriages provided for their con
veyance to the Capitol. When the car
riages left the White House grounds the
escort, headed by the Grand Marshal, Gen.
Slocum, took up the line of March along
Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol. This
escort was, in itself, a long procession. Some
years ago it might have served as the whole
inaugural procession, and been spoken of as
making a display of unprecedented magnifi
cence. It was compi s;d of the regular
trope stationed in this city and at Fort
McHenry, Baltimore, the militia t
the district and the local posts of
the Grand Army of the Repub’ic.
The Marshals, by the way, were for a time,
greatly puzzled over the composition of the
escort of the President-elect. There were
many honored organizations which claimed
the privilege of acting as the special escort
of Mr. Cleveland. If the County Democra
cy of New York, for instance, had been
given the post of honor, it was feared that
Tammany would go home in high dudgeon
If any of the visiting military organizations,
many of which made a much handsomer
display than the regular troops, had been
selected as the escort, every other one
would have been wild with jealousy.
So to settle the question the Marshals de
termined to have none but United States
troops in this line, the District Militia be
ing considered as a part of the United
Slates forces. This was considered especial
ly appropriate also, as in reality, though the
honor is intended for the President-elec,
it was the President, Mr, Arthur, who w s
being escorted to the Capitol. The Grand
Army of the Rep ib ic was at first assigned
to the third division of the nmcession mi
der the command of Geciral Fitzhugh I.ee,
of Virginia, Thi-raised a gr at cry among
them and they announced their intention of
not marchirg at all. They were unwilling
to march in a column c mmanded by an ex
Confederate officer. The Chief Marshal,
therefore, plac< d them in the first division
composing the Prteident’s escort.
THE PASSAGE TO THE CAPITOL
was a continued ovation to Mr.
Cleveland, such as falls to the lot
of but a few men in a century. A
hundred thousand people were massed up. n
the sidewalks and the stands erected along
the spacious avenue. This historic thorough
fare, rich in mem ries of splendid pageant e,
was never so gaily decorated and never wit
nessed so fine a spectacle. Viewed from the
Treasury, at the west, a magnificent vista
stretched away towards the Capitol. In the
foreground thousands of expectant faces
could be seen, but the eye soon lost all idea
of form or feature in the vast throngs which
could be distinguished cnly as dark moving
masses in the distant perspective. As the
open carriage, in which Mr. Cleveland rode,
made its way along this route, walled in by
masses cf humanity, the air was rent by
enthusiastic cheering, and at each step
thousands of hats were swung in the air and
myriads of handkerchiefs were waved by
fair hands. Both Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
Hendricks kept constantly acknowledging
the vociferous salutations which greeted
them by doffing their hats. Upon arrival at
the Capitol, the Presidential party was con
ducted at once to the rooms in the rear of
the Senate Chamber. Mr. Arthur was es
corted to the President’s room, where he was
busied for some time, performing his last
official acts as President, and signing th<
1 ills requiring his signature. Mr. Cleyelam
and Mr Hendricks, who were still plain citi
zens, were taken to the \ ice President
room. When the Senate was ready, Mt
Cleveland was escorted into the Chambe’
his appearance being greeted with applause
which even the solemn dignity of the Senat'
could not suppress. The Chamber was al
ready filled with the notables of the Capitol
the Senators, the Justices of the Supreme
Court, the foreign ambassadors in their gob
la e and decorations, the members of the
H Rise, and the officials who are privileged
to enter the Chamber upon such occasions
There was also a crush in the galleries.
Mr. Cleveland was escorted to a seat ii
front of the desk of the presiding officer
and from that point witnessed the closinf
scenes of the Forty-eighth Congress, tin
swearing in of the new Senatois, and.thi
installation of Mr. Hendricks as Vice
President of the United States.
Gen. Ordway, Chief of the Staff, had te'e
graphed communication with each diyiiior
during the five-mile parade by adoption o
the field telegraph of the signal corps. A
there were 24,000 men in line this wa
found to be the safest at d most accessible
way of communicating with the divisions ti
be informed of delays or interruptions to tin
line.
The first division, composed of the regu
lar troops and District militia, formed west
of Seventeenth street and escorted the
President-elect from the Arlington Hote
to the Capitol, where he took the oath o
office and delivered bis in
w! ile the t oops passed on to tlie north sid<
of the capitol and halted in readiness to
the line of march down that side of the
capitol when the ceremonies were completed
The remaining three divisions did no’
take part in escorting the President to th<
Capitol, but proceeded direct to New Jersey
Maryland and Delaware Avenues, east of the
Capi'to l , where they waited the terminatioi
of the ceremonies. The line then former
and the parade actually began. The route
of the precession was via the north side o
the Capitol to Pennsylvania avenue, t<
Washington Circle, to K street, to Connecti
cut avenue, to Rhode Island avenue, t<
Massachusetts avenue, to Fourteenth street
where the parade was dismissed. Before
the head of the line reached the avenue
opposite the Executive Mansion the p ri-si
dent left the line and proceeded to the
stand in front of the White House, where
he reviewed the parade.
The line was five miles long, and military
and civic organizations from the following
States participated : Connecticut, Delaware.
Washington, D. C„ Georgia, Illinois, Indi
ana, K ansae, Kentucky, Maine, Massachu
setts, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, North
Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South C rolina, Virginia, West Vir
ginia and Wisconsin.
SCENES ON THE AVENUE.
Washington, March 4, 12:30 p. m.—
The weather bureau’s predictions were
verified with the rising sun, and the day
opened with clear, bright, beautiful
weather. The skill and ingenuity of deco
rators has been tested to the utmost, and
every public building, the hotels and many
residences show evidences of his workman
ship. Pennsylvania avenue from the
President’s mansion to the Capitol, a dis
tance of more than a mile,
is one stretch of I anners, bunting,
flags and streamers, a demonstration
unprecedented in magnificence, unrivalled
in magnitude is assured. The city was a
stir early, and by nine o’clock martial airs
could be heard in any and every direction
Civic and military organizations were march
ing to their respective rendezvous, and
streams of people were pushing their way to
the line of march. Both sides of Pennsyl
vania avenue from Tenth to the Capita
were lined with a surging mass of humanityl
The stands erected along the line of route
were crowded, and the greatest enthusi. sm
prevailed.
President Cleveland then with clear
voice delivered his
INAUGURAL ADDBE-S.
He began by saying that the impressive
ceremonies did not add to his sense of re
sponsibility. He then discussed the consti
tution and agreed that it should be construed
in a spirit of amity and mutual
concession. After commending the Mon
roe doctrine he said ; ‘‘A due re-
gard for the interests and prosperity
of all the people demand that our finances
shall be established upon such a sound and
sensible basis as shall secure the safety and
confidence of o’’r business interc ts and
make the wages of labor sure, and that our
system of revenue shall be so adjusted ns to
relieve the people from unnecessary tax
ation, having a due regard to the inter
ests < f capital inve’ted and the wor’- ingmen
em .loved .in A inerican iudustriis and pre
venting the accumulation of a surplus in the
treasury lo tempt extravagance and waste,
are i-r the property of the nation and for
the n eds of future settlers require that the
public domain should be protected from
purb ining schemes and unlawful occupa
tion. The people demand
REFORM IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT
and the application of business principles to
public affdrs as it leads to this, and civil
ervice reform should be in good faith en
forced. Our citizens have the right to pro
tection frim the incompetency of public
employes who hold their places solely as
the reward of partisan service, and from
the corrupting influence of those who prom
ise and the vicious methods of those who
expect such rewards, and those who worthi
ly seek public employment have the right"
to insist that merit and competency shall
be recognized, insteid of partv subserviency
or ihe surrender of honest political belief.”
He conclude as follows: “And let us
not trust to human effort alone, but humbly
acknowledging the power and goodness of
Almighty God, who presides over the des
tiny of.nations, and who has at all times
been revealed in our country’s history. Let
us invoke his aid and his blessing upon
our labors.”
At 11:30 the President arrived at th
Capitol and at once proceeded to his room
on the Senate side whose Appropriation
bills were laid before him for his signature
Almost at the same moment General Han
cock in full Major General’s uniform, enter
ed the Senate Chamber and was greeted wite
a burst of applause from the galleries. Th-
President’s party occupied seats in Pre
sent's gallery of the Senate.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1885.
MILITARY DEMONSTRATION.
The parade was the grand feature of the
day, and moved smoothly under the fol
lowing organization :
Chief Marshal MejorGeneral Henry W.
Sfocum, of New York: chief of staff, Brevet
Brigadier General Albert Orilway, United
States volunteers; marshal of first division,
Bre ret Major General R. B. Ayres, United
Sta'es army; marshal of second division,
Major General John F. Hartranft, National
Guard of Pennsylvania; marshal of taird
division, Major General Fitzhugh Lee,
Virginia volunteer militia; marshal ot
fourth division, Mr. Thomas J. Luttrell, of
Washington, D. C.
The first division consisted of the regular
army, the marine corps and the District
militia; the second of the National Guards
of the State of Pennsylvania, which was
represented by 184 companies; the third
division comprised all the other visiting
militia, whi'e 'he fourth consisted of the
civic organizations.
The civic division was organized as f.l
'ows : T. J. Luttrell, marshal ; Major E.
V. Anderson, chief of staff, and was di
vided into six brigades, as follows: Fits'
brigade, composed of civic organ zations
rom the l 'tate of New York, Gen. Horatio
King, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; second brigade,
composed of organizations from Delaware,
New Jersey, Ohio, and Illinois, Mr. Hen'y
Wise Garnett; third brigade, composed of
clubs from Pennsylvania, Hon J. H. Hop
kins; fourth brigade, composed of club
from Maryland, Mr. Spencer Watkins ;
fifth brigade, composed of Virginia and
District of Columbia clubs, Mr. Benjamin
F. Loyd; sixth b igade, fire department
and cavalr”, Mr. W. A. Hutchins.
The military turned out 12,000 men, the
civic organizations 11,000, while brass ami
comet bands aggregating 950 men furnished
the music.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
National Veterans’ Association of the
United States; Centennial Legion; compa
nies from New Hampshire, Massachusetts.
Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginie, North Carolina, South Carolina, ami
Georgia, 1,330 mei ; United Stat s infantry
from Fort Adams, R. I.; Forts Hamilton
Wadsworth, and Columbus, and David’s
Island, New York harbor. Fort Monroe, Co
lumbns barracks. Ohio, and 15 companies of
the 12th and 22d regimen's, stationed
along the northern lakes.
THE 219 ELECTORAL VOTES REPRESENTED
A cavalcade of horsemen, representing
the States which cast the 2 9 electoral
votes fl r Cleveland, was a novelty. The
cavalcade was commanded by Colonel Nix
on and Major Samuel Thomas, of George
town, with six bay horses, representing
Connecticut; Major J. W. Curran, of Ten
leytown, with six gray horses, West Vir
ginia; Major W. J. Mullin, of Tenleytown,
with eight sorrel horses, Louisians; Major
James Shanks, of Georgetown, with eight
white horses, Maryland; Major V. Selles,
Georgetown, with nine black horses, Mis
sissippi; Major W. J. Ryan, of Virginia,
with nine b ack horses, New Jersey; Major
John Curtin, of Georget wn, with nine
gray horses, South Carolina; Major Geo. W.
Burdett, of Tenleytt wo, with ten dark
horses, Alabama; Major John Veale, ol
Georgetown, with twelve bay horses, Vir
ginia; Major Patrick Maher, of Georgetown,
thirteen gray horses, Kentucky.
HANDSOME DECORATIONS.
All along the line of march the sidewalks
were thronged with enthusiastic people,
while every available window was filled with
sightseers. Every little park on the rou'e
was covered with tiers upon tiers of wooden
seats, and filled with spectators. Public
and pr’vate buildings were handsomely
decorated with bunting, flags and shields,
the War Department loaning nearly
a thousand stand of national
colors for t’t e occasion. Various trades
and civic organizations in the parade bore
hundreds of brilliant banners and emblems,
and among the features was a handsomely
decorated liberty car drawn by ihe mem
bers cf the East Washington Cleveland and
Hendricks Club, surmounted by a pretty
young lady, representing the Goddess of
Liberty. Two large bells chimed out glad
tones as the throngs made the air resound
with loud cheers, and every moment or two
the booming of cannon drowned the din o
the multitude.
Ornamental arches were constructed over
the entrance gates to the White House
grounds, but, in deference to the wishes if
President Cleveland, no triumphal arches
were erected over the streets as iu former
years.
The gay scene was also further enhanced
by decorating lamp posts by means of de -
signs painted on canvss backed by wood,
the canvas ab ait 3x3 feet, representing
coats-of-arms of the several States, United
States shields, Army and Navy designs,
scierce, ara, etc.
THE INAUGURATION BALL.
Crowning the grand events of the day,
and forming a lilting close to the festivities,
will be the inauguration bill to-night in the
new Pension building, which has not yet
approached such a state of completeness as to
be occupied by the Government. It is lo
cated on F street, Judiciary Square, in the
centre of the city, between the Treasury
and the Capitol, and a temporary wooden
roof was placed over the immense structure
for the purpose of this evening’s entertain
ment. For spaciousness and elegance of ap
pointments the building was fully in keep
ing with the importance of the event which
it celebrated. The interior will be brilliant
ly illuminated with new patent gas-burners.
In the decorations 500 navy flags have been
utilized, and thousands of yards of bunting.
The roof has been hung with bunting in
the shape of half moons. Suspended from
the roof are 36 pennants, 72 feet long, be
tween which swung garlands of natural
flowers. The columns supporting the roof
and the galleries are wreathed with smilax
and flowers Between the arches of the
upper gallery are placed various devices,
bearing the coat-of-arms of various States.
Beneath the gallery are suspended 144 ele
gant silk banners. Within the arches on
the lower floor are placed large American
shields, draped with flags, and adorned with
silver pointed spears.
At the end of the ball room is placed an
immense plate glass mirror, 16} by 10} feet,
in a frame of cut class, and at the opposite
end the President’s floral chain under A
Japanese canopy. Pyramids of palms and
tropical plants are placed iu each corner of
ihe ball room. One of the features of the
floral decorations are devices symbolical of
the various executive departments of gov
ernment. The curtains and other hanging*
f the ball room were wrought from the
richest fabrics, costing $22 per yard.
The floral decorations are truly magnifi
cent. Prominent among them are seven
massive designs, eight feet in diameter, rep
resenting the Cabinet offices. For the Sec
retary of Sta'e a coat of-arms of the United
States; a large safe represents the Secretary
of the Treasury; the Navy Department by a
fjll-riggeu man-of-war; the War Depart
ment by two crossed cannon, the Secretary
of the Interior by a stump of a tree with an
axe imbeuded in it, a plow at its base, and a
C/the and a sheaf of wheat; the Attorney-
General by a desk and open book, the
cales of Justice and a motto, “Fiat Justi
ti the Poitmaster-General by a mailbag
with the letters, “U. S. Mand an envel
ope addressed to Mr. Cleveland, postmarked
“ Washington March 4, 9 P.M.” On each
design are also a representation of a quill
pen and a scroll bearing the name of the
department. These designs are composed of
rare and beautiful flowers, and an enter
prising museum in New York has already
offered $2,500 to exhibit them for one
week.
Some idea of the elaborate preparation of
these floral designs may be gathered from
t e fact that $5,400 has been paid out in
cish fi r the flowers which compose them
the contract included 10,000 ch ice rises,
5,000 lilies of the valley, 5,000 tulips and a
miscellaneous assortment of 10,000 other
varieties. For the decorations 10,000 yards
of garlands have been made and 5,000
strings of smilax ordered. It required 8,000
yarlsof muslin simply to form the back
ground of the decorations proper. The
entrance to the ante-rooms were hung with
fine silk damask curtains, twelve feet long,
made of material worth sl3 a yard.
THE DANCERS.
The ball room is 316x116 feet, covering
more than one acre in extent, and was
calculated to accommodate 2,6000 persons
engaged in square dances, or 9,000 in round
dances. It will be a brilliant multitude cf
swallow tailed coats and deoollette dresses.
RECEPTION CF THE PRESIDENT AND
VICE-PRESIDENT.
This evening the following cemmittee
will receive the President and Vice Pres
ident at the reception room of the inaugu
ration ball at 10 o’clock : W. W. Corcoran,
chairman of the reception committee; the
Justic sos the Supreme Court of the
United States; the Ju-tices of the Unit°d
States Court of Claims; the Justices of th
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia;
the Commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia; United States Senators and Repre
sentatives named as on the reception com
mittee; Admiral D. D. Porter; Vice-Admiral
S. CRowar; Gen Philip H. Sheridan, and
Geo. Bancroft.
The following committee will introduce
the Presidential |ar y at the ball: Mr
Justice Field, Senator Thomas F. Bayard,
Senator George H. Pendleton, Hon. W■ W.
Eaton, Hon. O. R. Singleton and Hon. Wm
R. Cox.
The floor committee of the ball com
prised 168 members, divided into twelve
sections.
THE PROGRAMME AND TICKETS.
The dancing programme is an extensive
affair of sixteen pages -a book in sact —and
furnished in envelopes. The pages are of
heavy cream colored paper, with a beveled
gilt edge on the outside sheet. On the cover
is a finely engraved portrait of Cleveland,
and on the back a view of the Pension
building. The programme of dances is
neatly printed in gilt letters, and the names
of all the committees are recorded, a con
siderable proportion of the population of
Washington; but few Democrats escaped.
Then thousand programmes w ere printed.
The ball tickets of admission is a modest
affair. Os the separate ball invitations 12,-
000 were struck off. Each is 7 by 10 inches,
large enough to be used as a fan by some
of the ladies. It is a copper plate engraving,
executed at the Government bureau, and
shows a medallion of Cleveland on the left
side and one of Hendricks on the right side.
Below these medallions are leaves connected
by a knot at the centre. Behind each of
the medallions the American flag is draped.
Immediately below this drapery there are
on each side two columns, upon which are
engrave! the names of the General Com
mittee. In the upper right hand corner
there is a picture of the Washington Monu
ment. The inscription is as follows:
Inauguration Ball,
March 4th, 1885,
Commemorative of the
Inauguration of
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks,
Piesident and Vice President
of the United States.
AFTER THE INAUGURAL.
The President Greets the Procession with
Uncovered Head.
Washington, March 4.—After del’ver
ing his inaugural, the procession was re
formed and passed to the White House.
President Cleveland remained with un
covered head, bowing to the
people, who kept up one continuous
cheer. At Fifteenth street President Cleve
-1 ind’s carriage drove to the White House
by the rear entrance and reviewed the pro
cession from the While House steps. The
crowd was so dense and so many were
in line that frequent stops were made, and
it was not until after 3 p. m. that the last of
the procession passed.
The Grant Retireme t Bill Passed.
Washington, March 4.—The President,
in pursuance of legislation adopted to-day,
nominated U. S. Grant to be General in
the army with full pay, and was confirmed
in open session of the Senate.
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congressional proceedings.
Last Days of the Forty-Eighth Congress. |
Washington, March 4—At 6 o’clocx
the conference report on the naval bill was
taken up and a general disagreement reached!
At 7 o’clock the sundry civil bill came up
again, aud thirty-nine Senate amendments
were disagreed to; then the deficiency bill
was agreed to, as reported from the Confer
ence Committee.
At 5 minutes past 11 o’clock, Mr. Alli
son presented the last conference report on
the appropriation bill, being the sundry
civil bill—the legislative, the navy, the post
office and the deficiency bills had previ
ously been reported and agreed to. The
river and harbor bill was tabled after an all
night discussion.
MACON MATTERS.
Feeling Still Aroused Over the Sherwood
Scandal—A Negro Desperado—Lula
Hurst Called a Humbug—Libel
Suit in Prospect.
Special Corespondenee to the Daily Times
Macon, March 3—Speculation has been
ripejtoday amongst some of our best citi
zens, as to what the next grand jury of Bibb
county will do about the proposed indict
ment cf the “Enquirer” correspondent, F. S
Brown, Wales, Wynton and Charles Dreyfus
the latter for selling newspapers containing
obscene literature,and of a libelous character,
the other two for causing the, article to be
published. There is great indignation here
yet over the matter. Wynton has the
sympathies of many, as he was led into the
trap.
A sensation was created in front of the
jail this afternoon oy the desperado Alex.
Etheridge, trying to bite, scratch and whip
the officers who brought him from the City
Barracks, where he was put when arrested
yesterday for burglary from Col. H. J. La
mar's residence. This successful thief and
desperado is pretending to he crazy, and
thinks he can frail out the whole police
force.
Professor Iverson Branham, cf this city,
claims that he can explain every trick oi
the famous Lula Hurst. He says that the
public are being badly humbugged, thatitis
all slight of hand and claims that he can do
any feat attempted by Miss Lula. Profess
or Branham tried a few and has been sue
cessful.
Col. Nat Hammond is getting in his
work in the postal service. He has had
Mr. F. M. Kimble, of Jonesboro, Ga., ap
pointed postal clerk between Atlanta and
Macon, vice Mr. J. Balan Campbell, de
ceased.
Mr. Thomas H. Henderson, formerly
Southern express agent here and against
whom much was said in that libelous article
in the Enquirer of last week, has determined
upon entering suit against that paper for
$20,000. H.
ATLANTA AFFAIRS.
Latest Happenings at the Capital.
Special Dispatch to the Times.
Atlanta, March 4. —Messrs Lowe and
Steele, and English and Murphy, are at the
convict camps to-uay figuring over a settle
ment of their differences. As was tele- |
graphed the Times a few days ago, M-.
Lowe bought out Colonel Lockett’s interest
in the lease of convicts, and English and
Murphy, of B. G. Lockett & Co., refused to
deliver the property. Extended legal pro
ceedings were threatened, and the conference
of to-day is held with a view to a compro
mise.
A man named Poss, who was at one time
on the Atlanta police force, died a convict a
few days ago, at the Rising Fawn Camps
Poss was sent up for robbing a countryman
of several hundred dollars.
Captain Noon Bagby, late of the police
force here, died yesterday.
Shinbones as a Runner.
Puck.
“A good bit ago, w’en I war a boy,” Shin
bones began, “I libbed up neah Albany.
Dar war an ingineah on de Noo Yawk Road
wot runned de fast ’spress train, an’ he
’lowed dat his ingin could beat any’ting on
de face ob de er*. Wai, chillen, I war a
doin’ a good deal o’ runnin’ in dose days. So
I wen’ down to der depot one day, an, tole
Jim Buzzard—dat war de ingineah —dat I
war goin’to run a race wid his ingin. He
’lowed dat he war willin’, but he siz ter me,
sez he,dat we’d letter hab de race on a
Sunday, we’n dar war no trains runnin.’
So one Sunday, I wen’ down ter de depot,
an’ he got out his ingin an’ fiahed up. De
run war ter be ter Syrricuse. De telegraph
man sent wuhd ahead ter hab der road
cleah, an’ at ten o’clock we starhted. An’
den—ha, ha ha! Oh, chillen, den —ha, he,
ha!”
And Shinbones went off into a fit of
laughter.
“ What den?” asked Squeezecut.
“Den,” continued Shinbones. “1 jiss kind
o’ snickered ter myse’f and hitched up my
ole s’pendiz, an’ beginntd fur ter trot.
When I war a-trottin’ dat dar ole ingin war
doin’ her puttiest. Wai. chillen, I begin
ned fur ter let myse’f canter’ W’en I can
tered de ingin beginned ter drop back. I
runned away from dat ingin’ in de fust
mile. ’Foah we’d gone five mile I war out
uv sight. I don’t know wot de ingineah did
till arterwahd.”
“What did he do?” inquired Peter.
“He runned back ter Albany an’ tele
graph’ ter Syrricuse ter fin’ out wot time I
got lar.”
‘‘An’ wot war de ansah?”
“W’y, he got his ansah in fibe minnits
dat I had been dar a houah an’ had my
dinnah.”
“Wot’s dat?” exclaimed squeezeout; “de
ingineah on’y runned fibe mile out, an’ den
wen’ back an’ telegraph’, an’ find out yo’d
b’en dar a whole houah? Hew yo’ make
dat cut? Humph?”
“Jess ez easy ez winkin’, chile,” said
Shinbones, as he arose and moved slowly to
the door.
“How?”
“W’y, I done gone beat de clock fouty
seben minnits on de houah!”
And Shinbones slammed the door behind
him.”
S6OO A YEAR
GEORGE GOULD INITIATED.
The 8 oek Exchange Brokers Have Som-4
Fun With Jay Gould's Son.
George J. Gould was elected a member of
the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.
A notice of his election was sent to the
office of W. E. Connor & Co. early in the
forenoon. The son of the aan of many
millions received this information calmly
but he began to get nervous when Mr’
Connor suggested that he had better go
over to the Exchange and be introduced in
the Board room. “But I have just bought
a new nat,” said young Mr. Gould, “and I
don’t want to wear it over there.” |
“Never mind the hat,” replied his part
ner. “You had better go and have it over
with.”
Mr. Morosini also counseled the new
member to go "nd take his initiation, and
offered to go with him and watch the pro
ceedings from the Stock Exchange gallery,
ibis young man fiually put on his new hat
and s.arted for the Exchange. As soon as
he stepped out of the office Mr. Connor in
structed their pi ivate operator to send word
to the numerous brokers’ offices which are
in telegraphic communication with W. E.
Connor & Co. that George Gould was going
to make his first appearance in the board
room and ask them to see that he had a
warm reception. Mr. Connor’s thoughtful
ness in this respect bore abundant fruit.
Young Mr. Gould went directly to Secre
tary Ely s office and signed the constitution.
Subsequently accompanied by E. S. Conner,
he went around into New street and entered
the board room. A number of the brokers
were evidently expecting him, and he was
greeted with a shout that caused the chair
man .to hammer with his gavel for order.
Cordial hands were outstretched to greet
the new member, and as he put out his
hand tograsp the others he was caught by
a whirlwind of arms and hustled into the
middle of the floor. His new hat wag at
first gently tipped over his
eyes. The next instant it was sailing off
toward the silver plated water cooler, and
a messenger boy’s cap was clapped upon the
young millionaire. He took the horseplay
good natundiy and allowed himself to be
played with as though he were an inani
mate thing. The brokers pushed and
pulled him; and executed all manner of
imaginary sales over his head. In leSfe
than two minutes they had sold
him se.eral bundled thousand shares
of Western Union. By and by his hat
came back looking as if it had been around
the world in a coal ear. Mr. Morosini
meanwhile gazed upon the scene from one
of gallaries and laughed heartily. Young
Mr. Gould remained on the floor about 20
minutes. He watched his opportunity and
darted out of the door before his hilarious
persecutors could stop him. When he
reached his office he offered his baptismal
hat to a ragged bootblack, but the bootblack
refused it.
. Rattlesnake Bite.
Perhaps there is no place on this conti
nent where rattlesnakes do congregate in
greater uumbeis than along the Tioga
river, in Pennsylvania. The mountains
through which that crooked stream finds a
passage are the heme of the rattlesnake,
and in the warm summer months they
leave their dens by thousands for the narrow
valley, where they bask in the sun for a few
weeks, and those that do not ffet their heads
bruised by the heel of man, or get cut in
pieces by lying nights on the warm
rails es the Corning and Blossbur Railroad
as thousands of them are, crawl back to
their dens in the rocky ledges. In midsum
mer it is an almost daily occurrence for some
one to be bitten by these reptiles in the
Tioga Valley, and domestic animals are fre
quently bitten. But the residents of this
region do not look upon the bite of these
reptiles as anything serious. When a person
is bitten a handful of mud or wet clay is ap
plied to the wound, and fresh applications
are made every ten or fifteen minutes until
the poison is all drawn cut. The first thing
a native of that locality doe
er being bitten is to seek a place where
gs wallow, where soft mud or wet clay ill
ways found. He binds on a quantity, and
icon cured. The same is applied to domes
c animals when they exhibit symptoms of
inakc bite, and this treatment is always suc
cessful if the application is made before the
poison has gone too far. It is well known
that bogs ate not harmed by snake bites, and
this is accounted for by the porkers’ habit of
cooling off by lying in a mud hole. A
farmer on the line of the Corning and
Blossburg Railroad had a small cur dog
that made it his business to kill rattle
snakes. In his encounters with large ones
he would be bitten several times, but as
soon as the fight was over he would hasten
to the farm yard atd lay himself in a “hog
wallow” for several hours, when he would
come out entirely free from poison. It is
well to fortify the system with stimulants,
then apply the clay mud, and a cure is cer
tain. The clay must be moist, or of the
consistency of dough.
New York Stock Market.
New York, March 4—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacific 47%
Missouri Pacific HO
Western Union Telegraph Co 59
Pacific Mail 55%
Lake Shore 63%
Louisville and Nashville 31%
Texas Pacific 13%
Denver and Rio Grande 8%
Michigan Central 62%
Delaware, Lackawanna A West’n
Northwestern 95%
St. Paul 72%
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 121%
Northern Pacific 42%
Rock Island 112? i
Jersey Central 38%
Memphis and Charleston H
East Tennessee, Va. A Ga (com) 3
East Tennessee, Va. A Ga. (pfd) ”%
Philadelphia and Reading 17
Omaha (com) 23%
Omaha (pfd) 86%
New York Central 91%
Kansas and Texas - - 16%
Erie 13? k
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