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young man witjt SW coat ripped
the back and hfa hair dreadfully
MP called Tojnx.the.xautaia.uit
p<>l i<tihiivupunteT. yesierday nn<l lodged
a complaint.
”1 whs coming in on the Gratiot road
this morning,” said he, “wearing a brass
eagle on ihy vest as a b idge. Os course
you are aware that it was an American
angle?”
“Yes.”
“And you fully realize that the Amer
ican eagle represents liberty?”
“I do.”
“When the American eagle is around
all tyrants and oppressors have to take a
back seat. As I was walking along I
met two young men, and one of 'em
steps up and says:
“Is that 'ere a Wild goose or a menage
rie snipe?”
“Tati's the proud bird of liberty,’
1.
‘“I kin chuck that 'ere proud bird in
the mnd ” says the other.
‘“Not while I live!’ says I, and the
light begun. I was flung down, stepped
upon, rolled over, and the emblem of
liberty was torn off and spit on and
trampled into the mud. *
“Well?”
“Well, something ought to be done.
1 don’t care for myself, but when any
body insults our emblem he must be
taught a lesson.”
•I'm afraid there is no law to cover
the case.”
“No law to protect the American
eaglet”
“Never heard of one.”
••Humph! Isn't this a land of liberty?
Didn't the blood of our forefathers dye* a
hundred battlefields that we might be
free! And now you tell me that it is all
aUiIMQuT’
“Mostly that way, I gujss.”
‘• Very well. I’m done! I'm done with
brass eagles, live eagles, and all other
sorts. I've done with the life of General
Putnam—the adventures of Marion and
the exploits of Washington. American
liberty ran go to Halifax! Good day.”
N’rof Z‘>e«.
« Absent Minded.
F ■ f
igjFWSwS ’ ffcv I Wfror*
■ O n-t’uM*’* *' (rww&ii* ''
BiKMi H ‘who until m-eatly ha- been
mplorod «« « waiter in a rew* trust h—
“Hani boiled Or scrambled, saht” ~ r<-a#
THE NEWS ffi GENERAL.
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HAPPENINGS of interest
fr .om all points.
AND MIDDLE STATES.
. ;P F ANTS C. Witcox, a New York million
. » broker and manufacturer, committed
r jcide the other day by shooting himself.
*fe had lost heavily by speculation, and had
hmg suffered from physical troubles.
An engine collided with a milk wagon on
j a railway crossing at Lancaster, Penn.,
| resulting in probably fatal injuries to three
men.
Eicaurof the bakers who have been boy
cotting Mrs. Gray’s bakery in New York
by parading in front of her place and re
questing people by circular's not to purchase
in her store were arrested, and four of them
fined for disorderly conduct Since the boy
cotting -began Mrs. Gray’s business has
largely increased, and she has received con
tributions in money amounting to over SBOO.
The boycotters announce then' determina
i tion to keep up the fight.
Charles H. Reilly, another of the New
York ex-aldermen, was arrested on the 14th,
charged with selling his vote for the Broad
way railroad franchise. He gave bail in the
■ sum of $25,000.
The strike on the Gould system of rail
| roads and the subsequent, failure of all at
tempts at arbitration have led to an ani
mated andjpointed correspondence between
Mr. T. V. Powderly, the head of the Knight®
of Labor order, and Mr. Jay Gould. Mr,
Powderly has declared war upon Jay Gould
as “the master monopolist of the age,’’and the
latter having invoked the protection of the
law, the battle will be fought in the courts if
possible.
Mr. Powderly has issued a circular from
Philadelphia calling upon the Knights of
Labor throughout the country for funds to
help sustain the strike on the Gould system
of railroads in the Southwest.
The drivers and car conductors of the
Third Avenue railroad, the leading horse
car company in New York, struck on the
16th because the company refused to dis
charge some of its employes upon the demand
of the strikers. The company determined to
resist the demands of their employes, and the
cars thereupon ceased running.
SOUTH AND WEST.
William Helms, a Wisconsin farmer,
shot at two officers who were about to take
him into custody because he had become in
sane, but missea his aim and killed his wife.
At a large meeting of St Louis citizens on
the 13th resolutions were adopted favoring
the adjustment of the railroad strike by
means of arbitration, and a committee was
appointed to take steps in that direction.
A project is under way to reclaim about
a million acres of land in California by
lowering Tulare lake to nearly fifteen feet
below its present level.
A burglar entered the sleeping room of
Mr. P. Kendall, at Lockland, Ohio. He drew
a pistol, but Mr. Kendall was too quick for
him, and the intruder fell dead at the first
fire.
Five strikers, among them C. L. Graham,
master workman of a Knights of Labor
assembly, have been arrested at Little Rock,
Ark., by the national authorities on the
charge of impeding and disturbing the ad
ministration of justice in the United States
circuit court.
The sheriff’s deputies who fired into a
crowd at St. Louis were held responsible for
the act by the coroner’s jury.
Later report < put tjic nuiteflMMhted by
the tonwlu m'
i five, and the injured at
Bapttste Fry, a vaihvß
' St Louis, TIL, refused’ b
' frt-tegive such a priun
'■’ w. as lie had ttetennfflfed to continue at wofk.
I TTfe ww*n left, declaring that Fry should quit
work or suffer the come juences. During the
night, while Fry was absent his house, was
set on fire, and his wife and five-weeks-okl
baby had a narrow escape from being burned
1 Coni oil had been poured over toe
ride of the house in which the occupants
dept
. WASHINGTON.
Second Comptroller Maynard has dis
allowed the claims of the Globe Mutual In
surance company, of St. Louis, and twenty
i four other insurance companies, amounting
in the aggregate to 1fi4,873, for losses under
policies taken by them u{»n steamboats em
ployed in the government service in trans
porting troops and supplies for the use of the
army during the civil war in 1861-2.
While the Senate was in executive session
on the 12th messages were read from the
President sending in anew the nominations
of fifty three persons who had not been con
firmed. These nominations were originally
made in place of suspended officials. As the
terms of those Officials had since expired, the
President sent in the nominations anew “to
till vacancies caused by the expiration of
terms.”
Additional nominations made by the
President on the 12th comprised a number
of collectors of customs and United States
Senator Howell K. Jackson, of Tennessee, as
circuit judge in the Tennessee and Ohio dis-
I trict. Senator Jackson was immediately
I confirmed by th»Senate.
An explosion on a small river steamer at
thehdand of Tumaju, Central America, killed
fifteen persons aud injured twenty-two more.
In the British house of common* Lord
j Randolph CinirchiU made a long address, at-
I tacking Premier Gladstone s plan for Irish
homo rule.
The Senate on the 13th confirmed the fol
lowing nominations: John O. MeCk'rnand,
to be a nsemler of the board of registration
and election in Utah: J. H. Oberly, of Illi
nois, to be a civilservi ocommiouoher; Chas.
; Lyiean, of Connecticut, to tie a civh servr.e
• commissioner; J. A. Berry, to lie postmaster
at Oswego, N. Y., and J. u. Corcoran, to be
j postmaster at Rome, N. Y.
• The House committee on military affairs
I has agreed to report favorably a bill to es
' tabhsli six signal stations in the West India
j Wands to give uotiw of the approach of cy-
vknes.
• AoDiTiONAi. pstuia>ters nominate Iby the
PTwideut: James F. Owen at Camden. N.
Y.; Francfe G. Boswell at lhelps, N. Y.;
! James F. Robertson at Culpeper, Va.; Fre
derick A. Ross at Tuscumbia, Ala; Philip B.
Spen er at Newport. Kv.; W. H. Camp at
I untune ivptre. town; jobu m«w ar. van
! Wert. Ohio; Jacob P. Kerlin at Warren. Ill.;
William B Bet kat Tekamah, Neb.; H. C.
I ’h-iley at FeU Rapids, Dak.
Rumors have Ueu ahundunt lately of the
- approa hing marriage of the President to a
i M iss Folsom, of Buffalo. Theladv is des ribed
: as young and handsome, and is the daughter
of th# widow of Prcsideut Cleveland's former
law partner.
FOREIGN.
♦ ■ Cholera has appeared at Brindisi, Italy,
Nink persons were killed and a number in
jured at Ajamo. th apitil of Corsica, by
■ the collaree and fail of a mnnrinn.
! IT is assesteo Wat an rmgusa. uormae an i
Chinese ',vn it -at ? have c muacte.l to sjnd
? riXMW I’him-x t to Mexico within the next
twelve n.*onih< The Mexi< an governumut
' Oi * iVC * ** t*en:y acres
Th» Pari of Sprites ury. the reprreentat.ve
of one of Eng’athi's fata dies, has com-
nutted vuierie bf rie>otw< himsdf in a cab
• during a fit of Amatid depression. He
. fifty-ire years «M.
A si t .vE ma-jpl <c urer has come to the
■ .NHiciuM .», aftej frying several methods,
that the beat to create a draught »
ogv tah» ib* bbek yard and salt mjiM.
KEWSY GLMHINGS.
Ceylon now claims togiwvtha finest tea
in the world.
There is a movement to make two States
out of Kansas.
A cremation society is being organized at i
Newark, N, J.
At a drum tap 9,000,000 soldiers could take i
arms in Europe.
A NEW English dictionary is coming out
with 240,009 words.
Edward Atkinson savs that a man can
live comfortably on S2OO a year in Boston. j
It is estiijiated that 5,000 persons were
converted by Jones and Small in Cincin
nati.
The net increase of the Methodist church
South for the last year is said to be about
50,000.
Last year the expenses of India exceeded
the revenues by $15,060,000, owing inainly to I
the war in Burmah.
_ One Bible house, which has been estab- i
lished since 1714, has distributed no fewer ■
than 6,350,000 Bibles. '
The refuse water of the paper mills is i
[ saved in England, and the waste fiber is
! manufactured by the use of aluui cake.
I General Master Workman Powderly
;gets $1,500 a year for devoting his entire
attention to the interests of the Knights of
Labor.
George Stirton of Perthshire, Scotland,
who has just died at the age es 101 years, is
said to have been the oldest Free Mason in
Europe.
There are no less than seventy-five Aztec
ruins in the Salt river valley, California, be
side the old canals and waterways of the
Aztec people.
The French minister of war has cut short
the beard controversy by issuing a peremp
tory order for all soldiers and officers to raise
beards immediately.
Os the 56,205 pei-sons who emigrated from
Ireland in 1885, no lass than 49,655 came to
the United States, while Australia received
only 3,867, Canada 2,170 and New Zealand
429.
Sugar cultivation has been initiated in
Southern Florida. Over 200 acres have been i
prepared for the planting of the cane uear
Kissimmee City, where a sugar factory will
be erected.
A Galesburg (Ill.) cow was struck by a
railway locomotive and thrown high in th£
air. She landed on her feet and resumed he)*
peaceful occupation of eating grass as if
nothing had happened.
Ex-Minister Wallace is in favor of
changing the name of our country from
“United States” to “America.” The latter
is the passport for citizens of this country in
Europe, where the name ‘•United States” is
seldom used.
PERSONAL MEMTICT. £
Rev. Dr. Talmage receives os
forty letters a day.
Miss Kate Field at Washington I
ing much attention from prominent people? ' T
Professor Chevreul, of the wMKKI
Gobelins works, Paris, will soon iwdk hss T
100th year. (
Joaquin Miller is
from Texas that he was oWTOs way
ico, and would never return to ,
The golden wedding of President' .|
of Yale, was celebrated a few MMHHnHr7I
his residence in New Haven.
John H. Noyes, the founder jj| tha '
■immunity, died at his home,
Ontario, a few days since,
years. J
to Brookly-
M. Pasteur lias agreed to receive in his
study an American student, who may thus
1 acquire a thorough knowledge of tj|g
; cation of the great cure for hydi««fflHWfi. __■»
Bismarck recently wrote a French young ,
' lady who inquired for his health that he eh- 1
joyed fair health, but he had no doubt hun
: dreds of Frenchmen would learn with pieas
! ure that rheumatism gave him mauy painful
I hours.
! The youngest daughter of the king of the
Belgians, who has lieen selected as the bride of
Prince Albert Victor, tho oldest son of the
Ke of Wales, is fourteen years old and
the names of Alberta. Maria. Leopol
dina, aud the title of Princess of Saxe Coburg-
Gotha.
General Alfred Pleasanton is a prom
inent figure at Washington. He has the look
of the military man from head to foot. His
hair is now frosted nearly a pure white, and
'• his luoustache and i nine rial are of a grayish
I tinge. He wears the black slouch hat of' the j
style in vogue when he commanded the cav- ’
I airy of the anny of the Potomac and his fav
! orite is a cape overcoat
A STRANGE PROCEEDING.
; flow the Sunppiua of a Man’s Fin«er
C'nuwcd n Silk .11111 to Shut Down.
William Strange, a silk manufacturer in ■
' Paterson. N. J., hat employed about 1,309 ,
hands, and his had no difficulty with any of '
! them till a few days ago, when a cigartnsker
j from Albany, N. Y., came to ths mill and in- ;
' listed that the sujierintendent should sign a •
■ pa]xu which prepose 1 to revolutionize the
j dyo ng shop. The cigarmakor claimed to ’
I have the power to indst upon this agreement
in tiehalt of the Knights of laibor. As '
this was not done immediately the eigar
maker went out As he pissed by the
■ dye-house ho snapped his fingers. ’ and
j every mau aud bay quitted
work. Toe men declared that they were j
perfectly satisfied with the wages rec jived,
but that they were compelled to obey th* ■
. order given. When overtures were then !
made to Mr. Strange by a local represent a
i the of the Knights of Labor, he said he i
’ w in’d shut down his mill just as fast as the {
I warns now in the looms were finished. I
! WhetWP Itv "??uld ever. again
;w. u’d depend on the action' of |
: the qperativex He propoe d that j
tho manufacturers and the operatives
: throughout th-? city aopolnt a board of arbi- j
tration—-five from each side—to whom all
questions of difference hereafter arising ;
should b? submitted. He further said that
already this arbitrary course of the silk |
dyers had results 1 in the diverting of orders
from the Paterson silk mills which would
have kept 1,4X10 hands bu«y f «r the next six
or eight months.
—
i CAREER OF A FAT PRINTER.
1 t*nrdeaed From Pri~»» an teeawnt *f HI»
I Great Mae.
A Louisville printer named Dick Sims.wlk, ♦
! has just been pardoned out of prise*, has tad |
a romantic eaieer.
While working at the case before the war
j Sims inherited a fortune of slßt».a». Ife i
l a fast lite, and in a few months Joat all hh !
money at fam After drifting at<n;t f-.-r a time
he wait to Chicago and art up as a div ore®
mwver. He entered the Federal annv. and
I while w: service found a eoff w sack cmtain
ing s3.A<Wtt. After hiding it fora few days i
be turwd it over to his reJonel for sate
tO ° t
it reridrtwse with
to worse until he ’
was of aecwrmg a fraudulent pen-
T-is |
f** 3 **’’ presence of such a big maa
w pfKA exrttod gere- ai sitorathv.
THE TERRIBLE CTCLORI
SEVENTY-FOUR PEOPLE KILLED
AND 21R INJURED.
Awful Scenes a/f Distress and Huflerlng—
Notes by an Bye-Witness.
The acene in St. Benedict Hospital, St.
Cloud, Minn., after the storm, was heartrend
ing. Men, women and children lay in broken
shapes, bathed in their own blood and faces
blackened and grimy, and arms and legs brok
en, and scalps torn and bodies lacerated. The
scene at the engine house was more horrible.
Eighteen lifeless bodies were stretched on the
floor in two rows, draped in sheets and blank- 1
ets, while around and among them moved men i
with lanterns uncovering faces, trying to rec- |
ognize in the distorted faces some familiar
line in which they might trace relationship.
The bodies presented a terrible spectacle. The
clothes they had worn were tern into shreds,
their faces were black with dust, and gravel
was ground into their cheeks, while the scalps
were torn and blood still flowed from gaping
wounds and covered the floor. Skulls were
crushed, eyes torn from their sockets and
tongues protruded from between lips that
were crue.ly cut and mutilated.
story of an eye-witness.
“My God, it’s a cyclone 1 Run for your
lives ! ” I cried to several men with whom I was
ta king in front of thejpostoffiee,” said an eye
witness of the awful disaster which befel St.
C oud and “Sauk Rapid#.” Hardly had we
sought shelter in our places of fancied security
when the storm burst in ali its fury, and in an
incredib’y short space of time the pretty town
of Sauk Rapids was ths picture of desolation
which you see. Two oi the poor fellows warned
were killed by falling timbers a most as soon
as they were indoors, and I, as you see, will
bear the mark of my experience to my dying
day”—pointing to the bandaged aim which he
carried in a sling
"Fortunately as it turned out I did not have
time to get under cover myself, and thus es
caped being crushed beneath a roof, a fate
which happened to very many. I saw, too, the
oytflone from its beginning until its ruthless
work was accomplished. The awful grandeur
of the sight I shall never lorget. It is impos
sible to say how many people were kited or in
jured. As soon as the storm had passed J
staggered to my boarding place,which strange
ly enough was lefu lam sure that no
less than thirty people were kilied, whi.e the
injured will number many score more. The
eastern portion of the town is in mins.”
Speaking of the approach of the cyclone, he
■Hk “Twisting and twirling it came down
jHHd the doomed town. Mothers with
IHKhed faces hastily snatched up their babes
sought protection in convenient cellars.
and fathers ran to their homes, fear-
their wives and children. Doors were
■Hed, windows closed, and families crowded
HE> cramped cellars. In nearly every case
the cyclone’s path precautions were in
®n. ,Like a huge black funnel, seeking
» 'gfilp down every-thing within its reach,
Ke death-dealing cloud came swooping
At 4.32 it had struck the southwestern
Ibortßn of St. Cloud. Like snow beneath tho
SunKaya the houses in its path melted away,
were lifted bodily with their contents
big J "trio the air and dashed into kindling- :
tayid upon the ground. Others, with stouter
frame, were crushed likc-so much cardboard.
Still others, more massive in construction, were
twisted and wrenched.
-liiiWjtft ’"ith Aying timbers
wattled like straws through tEw..
■W. Oecaaton&l) y was_ au. aaußirt hHwWtw
I'Ahove all the ctmfasfcwa. nm _ the WrbW
iawirl of®nutes the work
! quiet save for the groans and moaning of the ,
1 wounded and dying. There were others who
made neither sign nor sound. Lying under
heavy beams, buried in rubbish, choked cellars, '
lying lifeless in the roadways, where they had
been thrown.
Here beneath the edge of a broken roof a
.Mother was lying with her left arm thrown
protectingly around the mangled form of a lit- I
tie child. Both were dead. There a man
with the hardy vigor of bis manhood so re
cently snatched from him was lying beside the
boulder against which hie life had been !
cashed out. Principally the fatalities were
recaaionetl by the crashing in of the heavy
limbers of the bouses upon the heads of the
inhappy occupants. At this writing twenty
kave been recovered, and every additional
ttarch disriosea another victim.
The tale from Sauk Rapids is the same,
almost in a thought the scene of desolation
van shifted from one town to another, and
loth were in ruins—fourteen bodies have been ;
discovered in Sauk Rapids, and that the tale of
VO" is not yet ended. Upon the streets of both I
lawns children are seeking their parents, and
e rents their children. Dreading the worst,
i eager to learn the truth, they search each
rftin with wild-eyed fervor. Fathers and I
mithcrs with loved ones missing and almost
bttafl of reason, run from sobbing knot to
kaot of workers, hoping against hope that
tkere may yet lie such a thing a< rescue. I
Strong hands and brave hearts are lending all
the aid they car.
An accurate account of the killed sod injured
by the cyclone is as follows: St. Cloud, killed
21. injured 80 ; Sauk Rapids, killtd 37, injured :
IM ; nice's Station, killed 12. injnred 21 ; ad
jacent countv, killed 3. injured 12. Total
killed 74, injured 213.
OCEAN PERILS.
Seventeen Days Adrift in the OprnSen-A ■
Wreck with Great I.oaa of Life.
Use American schooner Ida Francis, which
sailed recently from Pensacola, Fla., for
New York, was dismasted when seventy
miles southeast of Delaware Break
water. Her cabin was flllel with water and .
the provisions were mostly decoyed. The
siHbooner drifted, water-logged and in a help- »
tawcoudition. for seventeen days. Theeaptam *
and his wife and child took refuge abaft the
cabin, and they, as well as th? crew, suffered
tembly from cold and hunger. When res
cu«d at the end of the sevente n days, all on
board » in a greatly e chausred condition.
The}* have been lauded in Ixmdon. The
«econ.l mate, who;e leg is broken, has Iren
{liced in a hospita’. |
The New Zealand coasting steamer Taiaroa
has bsn wrecked between W ellington and
(InLstehureb. New Zealand. A heavy gale
prevai ed at the time and the sea was very
rough. Three boats were launched, but each
was speedily <wpsis , ed. Twenty-nine persraas
were drowned. Only two paismgers were |
saved.
Neighborly.
• Have yon any tobacco, friend fa-ked
a Manchester. N. H.. man of a stranger
in the dejiot the other day.
“Plenty of it, neighbor." said the
“friend,” drawing out a so ty-cent plug
and handing it to the “neihhhor. ”
“I say, fiie id. dr esit make tiny differ
ence to you where I bite this?’ t*-k -d the ,
neighbor, turning it over and over in his
Lund a«if looking f»*r a goo 1 pl ice.
“Not in the least," sai l the friend, in
surprise.
“Well, th«n. I’ll bite it in Boston,”
arid the neighbor, stepping aboard the
‘rain as it start* dout. Free
MUSICAL ABD DRAMATIC.
John E. Owens, the eomrdian, has en
tirely regained his healt'.i.
Patti has come down from $5,030 to $2,000
a night for a London season, aud Italian
opera is to be resumed in that city.
Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The
Star Spangled Banner,” is to have a $15,000
monument m Baltimore. Tho State will erect
it.
Mme. Clara Schumann, de.<pite her
sixty-six years, still reitius her uhysical
powers and is regarded as one of the finest
pianists in Europe.
Miss Tellie De Sussan of New York
has made a brilliant success as Adina in the
revival of Donizetti’s “Elisir d’Amore” by
the Boston Ideals in the West.
Rubinstein, the pianist and composer, has
declined a $100,003 offer to come to America,
because he is afraid of seasickness. His first
experience was enough for him.
“Hamlet” has been performed in London
to a houseful of deaf mutes, pantomime and
the conventional signs by hands and fingers
being the mediums employed.
Mary Anderson is computed to be worth
$500,000, which is said to be safely invested
in real ■estate, gas stocks and railway shares,
both in England and America. She expects
to clear this year $50,030.
Miss Van Zandt, the American singer,
has bean so successful in her St. Petersburg
engagement that she has decided to remain
there for the present and has cancelled some
of her other engagements.
Although Queen Victoria gave strict
orders that no reporters should be admitted
circus performance recently given at
Windsor castle an enterprising journalist
got in disguised as a groom. #
The memory of PonchieUi, the dead com
poser, is still honored by his countrymen. At
a recent presentation of “La Gioconda,” at
Palermo, the theatre was draped in mourning
and the artists wore crape on their arms.
Edward ScovEL,the American tenor,who
has made his debut wtth Carl Rosa’s com
pany in England and scored a success, has
been singing for several years in Italian
opera in Europe, where he was regarded as
one of the best of artists.
The churches of Philadelphia are said to
pay less for music than do any others in the
large cities of the country. The average for
the 662 churches is about S3OO a year, and a
majorty of the choirs ds not cost that
amount. The cases are very few where or
ganists are paid SI,OOO or more, or solo singers
more than SSOO or S6OO.
BASE BALL NOTES.
The Chicagos have five men who weigh
over 175 pounds each.
, Augusta and Detroit played the first extra
inning game this season.
The National League clubs will travel a
total of 91,729 miles this season.
Nash, of the Bostons, claims to be the
youngest player in the league.
Morrill is captain, manager, and first
baseman of the Boston League club.
Nicol, of the St. Louis American associa
tion nine, was once a circus performer.
Philadelphia is the home of umpires. It
has a representative in every league ia the
country.
There are this season eight baseball asso
ciations—five with eight clubs and three with
six elubs.
The league clubs, f rom the present indica
tions, are stronger than those of the Ameri
can association of this season.
A feature of the new grounds in ,
some ‘
Ojtoyßifcfi.o£_thr- Naw. Vfrrtiß ’farvo
ms club a short time in June, in order to
take his regular examination in the Yale law
school.
Advices from Washington are to the
effect that the interest in the national game
is greater than ever before, and is still on
the increase.
About the only case on record when not
one of the champion club of one season was
re-engaged for next season is presented by
the Atlanta club, of the Southern league.
The general strengthening of the other chibs
of that association led the Atlanta directors
to try and improve upon their team of 1885.
PULLING THE ALDERMEN.
Eleven More New City Fathers es 1884.
Indicted and Placed Under Arrest.
Eleven more of the New York aldernianic
board of 1884 have been indicted by the
grand jury and arrested. The warrants
charged the indicted aidermen with accept
ing bribes for voting for the Broadway rail
road franchise. The names of the person 9
arrested are: Thomas Cleary, Michael Duffy
Louis AVendel,Rudolph A. Fullgraff, Arthu ’
J. McQuade, Thomas Shiels, Patrick Farley,
Henry L Sayles, John O’Neil, Francis Mc-
Cabe, and Frederick Finck.
The men were arretted by detectives under
the direction of Police Inspector Byrnes and
were imprisoned at p lice headquarters. Im
mediately upon their arrival at headquarters,
the aldermen sent nies-eugers .to their friends
informing them of their arrests and urging
upon them the necessity of securing bonds
men.
The prisoners without an exception ex
pressed indignition at th»ir arrests They
were served with warrants at their housec
After waiting a short tim? in ln<p«u tor
Byrnes’ office, the prisoners w?re taken to the
district attoruoys office, where they gave
bafl in tiie iram cm s2'*>,<M)o each oijd were re
leased p. n ling trial. This in ikes seventeen
members of the aiderman ie bjarl of 1834
who have been indie ted.
The Wine Baainrss.
The Los Angeles (Cal.) WeMy C n»or y
in an article on the wine business in Cali
fornia. says:
“In this State there is no excuse for
raising any demoralizing product. In
Southern California there is a greater
variety of industries than in any other
part of the world, and a greater facility
of acquiring a healthy confidence with
a moderate exertion. The best answer
to the cash argument of the wine interest
is the outcome of it in France and other
wine countries. France has had the best
wine market in the world and the best
c hances to profit by the business. But.
after one thousand years’ experience and
labor, it drinks the whole product of its
iramen-e vineyards, import* largely of
gin, lum, beer, potato-whislcy, cider,
Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Portu
gue-e wine—far more than it exports—
and then after all this utter waste of land
and labor it has to spend $120,000,000 to
$150,000,000 a year in the purchase of
bread, which could h ive b?en raised on
the land wasted in grapes for wine.
“Any impartial arithmetician can see
that its wine business is sure to reduce
France to the pauperized. I eggared con
dition of all the older wine-producing
peapies who still remain <m tho map of
the world. As long as their wine buri- !
nc s lasts, e -ery year will be worse finan
cial Y. ’
WOMEN AND WOMEN.
Some women cannot build
The broken altera of their hearts up 3traight-
Their weak hands are upskilled
To mend the breach that perfidy has made-
And raise behind the gate
Os pride, some newer alters in the shade
Os first dead hopes. Such women, it is said,.
Sit ever wailing o’er their f aithless dead.
Their idols, when they fell,
Shook the fair shrine and rent the veil irr
twain,
And evermore a knell
Rung by the ghastly wraith of hope belied,!
Wails a requiem of undying pain
And moves the crushed dead at tho altar
side,
While the dull blasts of ruined love aud trust
Eddy around in clouds the by-gone’s dust!
Some, in the numbing sh )ek
Os crumbling rltars, sink to rise more stron g
And build completer altars on the ro-k
Os womanhood; to cast the past away
Without a tear for what is lost, nor long
For the bright phantoms of a vanished day ~ r
But to their new-throned idols incense bring,
Saying: “ The king is dead; long live the
king! ’
Thoy find a worthier dust
And raise it o’er th j altar.; of the past,
And lo . e it dearly, a; a woman must—
They even forget in happier hours tbsir loss
Os former idols, saying, with smiles at last:
“How could we deem our broken dreams a
cross . • -<_
Which are the noblest souls: those who forget
Or those who mourn their first sweet idols
yet ?
—Clare Beatrix Coffey,in Jnfer-Ocean.
PITH AND POINT.
Every bonnet has a “b” in it.— Liwll
Citixen.
A friend in need is a friend who gen
erally strikes you for a quarter.
The silver question—“ Have you got
half a dollar handy?”-— Lowell Citizen.
A close cdl—Let me look at one of
your ready-made suits.-—Bwfow
Two heads are better than one—On a .
freak in a dime museum.— Boston Rid*
letin.
The most forward women look the
most backward on the street.— Pacific
Jester.
The heaviest mash on record was when
truth was crushed to earth. Texas Tar
antula.
The rage for old gold seems to have
passed away, but the enthusiasm for old
greenbacks continv.esi unabated.— Detroit
Free Press.
Time is money, they say. And we have
often observed that it takes a good deal
of a good time.—Somer
ville JetbrtiaE ...
Thm hi
0 great deal ofmonev and doe .a't
• - rtw.
cstMn! i*Ht in wh i n bv i
MMteaturet until he attetepts
Ithe noise ..e
this world, Tvi*r»de dollars
I* l will make nW jingle than
in bills. Herald.
If anybody wishes to the
marked decline in silver let Wm ar-1
silver dollar to a friemi when he changes
a bill for him.— Barlhvj'ou Free Pres*.
A Waupaca county farmer found a
hornet’s riest in his bint last fall and
tried to burn it. Th? insurance: on the
harn is not yet adjusted.— Pack's San.
A new fashionable dunce iscadid the
“button dance.” Yes, we’ve seen it.
The wife negleets to do the button, and
the husband does the dancing.—
nutn.
“Doing anything now, Bill?” “Oh,
yes: I'm kept busy all the time.” “Ah f'
Glad to heir it. What are you doing.”’
•‘Looking for a job.’ - Aenfticl'y Stale
Journal. *
The Indians of New Mexico are very-.,
thrifty and economical. When blood
hounds are sent in pursuit of them they
shoot the dogs and eat them. —Ruriiuyf >/»
Free Press.
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THE DRAW BACKS OF LIFE.
There is no kitchen girl, however able,
But breaks the cro-kery ware:
There is no butter placed »pon the table
But has its lo k oi' hair.
j —Boston ('or.,-te,.
“W’hat station doyo;: call this?’’ asked
a man. as he crawled out of the ruins of
a ear, after a rec'in riiiro.id accident.
“Devastation, sir l ,” n plied his feitow
passengers in chorus. - t'hPayo Telegram.
It’is a’veryeasy matter for -a person to
be in two places fttthes: me time, even
though thos? places be thousands of miles
apart. One frequently hears of a matt
being in a strangel country aud home,sick, j
—Siftings. t i
An excl an ge says: “Last week a
stranger came to our town with a turned
up nose and run down Loots.” A
with a turned up pose and run down booU
cannot hope to become a great commer
cial centre.— Arlw/tsmc Traeeftr.
Com? into the garden, Maud; _.,L
I am hereby the gate aloue; -
Come into the garden, Mand..
Forth, father’s <1 has flown.
An ! I m middling sure i won’t be ‘> hn afIMMB
For he's bmy with a Ixmel
-
A correspondent writes to a
racy stating than the credit
bad system. It is indeed. It
the creditor constantly on the alert HUH
ing out for the debtor, .and the
forever on the jump keeping out
wav of the creditor. — £ ('ouri ■*s,
The Shriek of the GuillotinflSm
The “Mikado's” lord high
aings: “Oh, never shall I forget tiw’W*.- s
or rhe shriek that shrieked he,
sabre true cut cleanly through hirieerYs
cal vertebra? ” Nicholas Gum
guillotined at Mezieres in .France,
eently. As the sabre true cv<. cleanly J
through his cervical he uttered <
a terrible cry. The executioner says it |
was the most appalling shriek he ever .
heard on the scaffold. In 1871 at LeA-’
Maus the victim gave a shriidfcthpt froze .4’
the blood of those within hearing,
the cry of Gurniot is on record as being,
next to that of Nanki-Po, the most 4
bloodcurdling one on record.—
Fret Press. ' \