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VOLUME VIII.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1886-
NUMBER 40.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Douglasville—First,
third and fifth Sundays.
il Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST—Douglasville—First and
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
xmstor.
MRS. STEWART’S BEQUESTS.j THE SOUTHERN STATES,
HOW SHE DISPOSED OP HER
VAST PROPERTT.
MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M., meets cn Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter,. W. M.‘ W. J. Camp, Sec-
> ctary. , 1
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. N. Dorsctt.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A, Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner—F. Al. Mitchell.
superior court.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W. Harris.
Sol, Genl.— Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—S. N: Dorset!.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
_ COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and bolds until all the cases’
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets oil the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massev.
Sok Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinary's court.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
: - JUSTICES 5 COURTS.
780th Dist. G. 31. meets first Thursday
in each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P,, D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. C’s.
736th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bojnar, J. P. B.A. Arnold.
N. P., S, 0. Yeager, L. C.
1 184 Dist,; G. M. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett,
N, : P., J. C. James and M. S: Gore, L.
C’s.. jpg I |
1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton, J. p, t M. L.
Yates, N. P., S. W. Biggers, L. C., S.
J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Snfur-
Ev O. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud
son, N. P., J. A, Hill.-, L. C.
1271st Dist. G. M, meets first Satur
day, C. C. Clinton, J. P., Albem
Hembree, N. P,,——L. 0,
1272d Dist. G. M. meets fourth Fri
day. George - W. Smith, J. P C. J.
Robinson,‘N. P., , L, C
1273d Dist. G. M. meets third Friday
Thomas White, J. P.. A. J. Bowen N
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
Professional Cards,
ROBERT A. MASSEyT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett's Iiuikling.,
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
~ wTI james;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in oil the courts, State an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DQUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the Courts. Al lega
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
C. X>, CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All business
entrusted to him will receive prompt attention.
firGRiGGsT”
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
~~ JOHN BUDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Win practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
J. S. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, TauMing, Cobb, Fulton and
adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
J. H. McLARTI,
A’JVOUNKY AT LAW,
jr e g DOUGI.ASVU.LK, GA-
IVaotice in ail the courts, both State and
“ t Collections a specialty.
V. EDGE.
foUNEY AT LAW,
Pwaaafl fc^UGLAS VILLE, GA.
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PRINTING
NEATLY DON|,
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I All Her Relative* Remembered—The Jlalu-
teunuce of the Cathedrals and Schools
at Garden City—The Servants
of the Household,
The will of Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart,
wife of the late millionaire dry goods
merchant, was filed for probate to-day by
ex-Judge Horaoe Russell, Mr. Henry
Hilton’s son-in-law. Citations were im
mediately issued to the heirs and naxt of
kin. In the instrument, Mrs. Stewart
bequeaths $20,000 per year during life to
her brother, Charles P. Clinch, to be paid
to him quarterly. To each of her sisters,
Anna, Emma and Julia Clinch,- she leaves,
an annuity of $10,000 a year to be paid
quarterly during life. To her niece,
Bar h N, Smith, she leaves the sum of
$250,000. To Cornelia S. Butler she
leaves $200,000, and to each of her chil
dren, Lawrence and Charles 8. Butler,
$50,000; to Kate A. Smith, $200,000; to
each of the remaining children of Sarah
N. Smith, namely;,, Louisa, Ella;' Bessie
and James, $100,000; to each of the chil
dren of her deceased sister, Louise* for
merly the wife of Charles E. Butler,,
namely: Rosalie, Helen, Virginia, Lillian,
Maxwell and Pre cott, $50,000.
She gives $25,000 to be distributed by
the executors among her household serv
ants living with her at the time of her
death;
All the rest of the estate, real and per
sonal, she bequeaths to Charles J.
Clinch, now in Paris, and Henry Hilton.
None of the legacies are to be payable
until three years from the final probate of
the will, nor any of the annuities until
six months after such probate. The ex
ecutors to the will are Charles J. Clinch
and Henry Hill on, and the witnesses to
the instrument are H. E. Davies, Janies
Henry Wort and Edward B. Hilton.
The will is dated July 8th, 1887. In
a codicil to the will she revokes the be
quest to Henry Hilton of one-half of her
residuary estate and instead bequests to
him one-half of the residue of her prop
erty and estate in trust; to collect, re
ceive, hold, manage, control, sell and ap
ply the same to the following purposes:
To complete the Stewart Memorial j
church, now in course of erection by her
in Garden City, Long Island, and to sup- j
B it with all that is necessary to make
a free church and cathedral for the I
Protestant Episcopal church of the dio- j
cese of Long Island, N, Y.i to endow it
with such money as will maintain it for
ever, with a provision for the bishop of
the diocese and his assistants; to con
struct two buildings to be used as schools
and seminaries of learning,to be attached
to such cathedral, and to endow them
with such money as will sustain them
forever, and to erect such other build
ings as the cathedral and seminaries and
schools may require. All these buildings
are to be erected on Mrs. Stewart’s lands
there known as Hempsted Plains, L. I.
These buildings; when completed, are to
be conveyed to the use forever of the
Protestant Episcopal church of the dio
cese of Long Island, or to the corpora
tions known as the Cathedral of the In
carnation in the diocese of Long Island.
All the one half, of her residuary estate
so devised is to be applied, for above pur
poses, For any violation of the terms
and conditions of either of them, said
lands, buildings and endowment fund
shall revert to Charles J. Clinch, her
nephew and his heirs. Charles J. Clinch
and Henry Hilton are authorized to make
such partition and division of their in
terests in the estate as they may see fit.
If any heir becomes a party to any pro
ceeding to interfere with the will, the
provision in the will in his or her favor
is to be cancelled.
HETTA GREEN'S GOLD.
She Amasses Thirty Million Dollars and In
vests it in Railroad Stock.
tj A special fr 0m ^ ew York, says: Mrs.
Ilctty ureen has secured the control of
the Georgia Central railroad. She is also
closely identified with the Louisville and
JNashville railroad, owning a large
amount of its stock, She is a remarka-
WMmM She is the wealthiest in the
United States.
. ^ r s. Hetty Green is worth thirty mill
ions of dollars She is rather handsome,
of robust build, about fifty years of age,
with iron gray hair, strong features and
keen penetrating eyes. She is the
d m l.l r .f , \ lA Bedford 'whaler, who
left her $9,000,000; not long after an aunt
died and bequeathed her J $4,000,000
mo ^- With the $13,000,000 she is
credited with making $20,000,000 more:
Yet she feels poor. On one occasion,
several years ago, she came down to her
banker sm Wall street, in a stage with a
valise Containing several hundred thou-
sand dollars wortli of securities,
n °f come down in a
carnag ; ?’ expostulated her banker.
“I can t afford it,” was her remarkable
answer.
A STRANGE DEATH.
One Alan Stand. n» the Track-Anoth.r
Killed by Hi. Hip-Pocket,
L. D. McBride, section foreman of the
Nashville and Chattanooga road met a
shocking death at Chattanooga,’ Tenn
He was standing on the track near by
when an engine struck him. He was
instantly killed. It is believed that
McBride stood on the track for the pur
pose of letting the train kill him, as he
had every opportunity to escape and saw
the engine before it stfuek him.
Mike Moore, a young man residing in
the eastern portion of the city, fell down
with a revolver in his pants pocket The
weapon was discharged and the ball
entered his abdomen, killing himinstant-
iy.
M®t. MANNING RESUMES.
Secretary Manning has assumed actual
control of the treasury department for the
first time since he was taken sick, and sign
ed'alL the mail requiring the .signature of
the secretary. He did not, however, write
his signatures on treasury -fitters, etc,,
but used astamp containing a facsimile
of his signature, Tire attorney general
save an dpinioo that tope is no legal ob*
us(k2f «|dh a stamp.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The state lunatic asylum contains 041
patients.
The South Carolina university has 200
students at present,
, The water courses in various parts of
the state are very low and the dry spell
continues. 1
Throughout the state, even in the
southwest counties, a white frost whs ob
served Friday morning.
The ball of the South Carolina club
will take place in Columbia on the night
of November 11th. It promises being a
brilliant affair.
In Newberry and Laurens counties
there are many fields which have not yet
been invaded by cotton pickers. It is
estimated that about one-eighth' of the
crop has not yet been gathered.
The work of repairing bouses in Char
leston goes on bravely. Business is said
to be improving every day and the people
are hopeful, if not happy. The residents
of the city have enjoyed immunity from
earthquake shocks for nearly ten days,
and confidence has been wonderfully re
stored.
ALABAMA.
( The nail factory at Brierfieid is ship
ping 400 kegs of nails daily.
The frost has been general in Alabama
and thick ice has been reported from
many places.
About 100 arms and hands have been
tom to pieces by gin saws in Alabama
this season.
Thirty-five acres of land, laid off in
town lots, recently sold in Russellville
for $3,626.50.
A number-of cases of illicit distilling
have been before the United States court
at Huntsville.
'The next session of the North Alabama
presbytery is to be held in Gadsden .in
April next.
There are eight persons living in Som
erville, Morgan county, whoso combined
age is 668 years.
The North Alabama conference meets
at Florence the first of December. In
consequence of Bishop Hargrove being
absent in Mexico, Bishop E. R. Hendrix,
of Missouri, is to preside oyer the confer
ence.
In the circuit court in Eutaw, the case
of the state against Amos Washington,
indicted for murdering a peddler named
Teddy Meehan, in Sumter county, Ala
bama, in November, 1885, was tried on
a change of venue from Sumter county,
and the jury rendered a verdict of guilty
and sentenced him to be hung. This was
the same case that was tried in Sumter
county in February, 1886, and which, on
appeal to the supreme court, was re
versed. Counsel for defense say they
will again appeal the case to the supreme
court.
: GEORGIA.
Primus Perkins, colored, is in jail at
Bainbridge, charged with incest with his
daughter, Lizzie. His wile swore out
tne warrant.
A wealthy pitizen of Americus refused
t6 accept national bank notes in payment
for a real estate sale made the other day,
demanding gold instead. When gold
was immediately produced by the pur
chaser, he decided that he could proba
bly get along with the bank notes, and
no doubt did so.
Mrs. Erwin Hayes, an old lady seventy
years old, living in Jackson county, on
the Athens and Jefferson road, fourteen
miles from Athens, met with an accident
on Sunday night last that resulted in her
death the following day. It seems that
for some time Mrs. Hayes’ mind has been
affected, but no restraint was kept over
j„r. On the Sunday night mentioned
the lady was. wandering around the
house with a lamp in her hand,-when, it
is supposed, she either dropped the lamp
or it exploded, scattering the’ oil over her
person, that at once became a solid sheet
of flame. 'Mrs. Hayes lingered in great
agony until Monday, when she died.
Colonel A. K. Childs and Mr. Walter
Childs have returned to Athens from
Nacooehee valley,bringing with them all (
the teams and mining outfit. Their gold
mine was leased for five years to Mr.
Johnson, formerly of Charleston, | who
had married a daughter of Mr. Williams.
Mr. Johnson bears the entire expense d
working the mine, and pays Messrs.
Childs & Nickerson one-fonrth of all the
gold he gets for rent. This mine was
paying handsomely, and. the reasons for
leasing are that a great many petty and
annoying suits had been brought that mo
fettled in the trade.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, | BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
TWENTY SOULS PERISH IN A VARIOUS SOURCES.
TjELSCOPEED TRAIN. '
Dramatic Writings—Carrie’s Expla
nation—She Knew It—Senti
ment and Prose—'A Promi
sing Journalist, Etc. .
Bishop Whipple’s Experience Related.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
way on Wednesday ; last. The following
is the statement of 8n eye-witness:
Bishop Whipple, who arrived direct
ffom the scene of the Rio wreck, says:
‘•The freight train reached Rio about
twenty minutes before the limited train
which was wrecked, and the switch had
been left open, ! Our train was going-at
the rate of forty-five miles an hour, so
the train officials said, and the courage
and bravery of the engineer cannot be
pursed too highly. He stayed with the
engine, and I have never known- an air
brake to be set sq- quickly and strongly
as that ohe was.: I was in the first sleep
er, and had a befth in the end next to
the day coach. ; Mr. McGinnis, of Morris,
Was ih a berth opposite me. The instant
of the shock he sprang from his berth
and ran to the front end of the car, but
it was impossible to get out at that end,
for it had telescoped. He rushed back
and cried out : '‘Come and help me save
these people who are being burned to
death. ’ I had been awakened but a few
minutes before and had looked at my
watch. It was 12:30 o’clock, I followed
McGinnis in my Rocking feet. He ran
faster than I aid! when I came to the
burning coach li. had taken I wo children
from a woman near the rear of the
coach. She said her name was Sherer,
of Winona, and asked him to save her
children for their father was living. We
both tried to lift the woman from the car,
but we could not, for she was wedged
beneath the broken seats. A moment
after we reached her her dress took fire,
and she faintedapd was burned to death
before our eySTi TTbere was compara
tively little 8cresf 0 g coming from the
car, but there wtv “rather low moan of
suffering; and IJSSfieve that most of
those who perished were killed outright.
The car was’telescoped at both ends. Mr.
Ames, who was An the train, saw the
passengers in that coach and so did my
wife, and they think there were seven
teen. There were two sisters of charity
who boarded tliq train and were* bound
for Winona. There was a mother and
daughter whose -names are unknown.
Three young men, a middle aged man,
Mrs. Sherer, her mother and two chil
dren; a man that got on at Columbus,
two men who boarded the train at Water-
town Junction, and a man who climbed
out at the top. lie and the two children
were saved; Tlik others were burned to
death. Everything was done that could
be done for the comfort of-the passengers
who were left. The ladies on the train
were especially kind in caring for the two
motherless children. One was a little
girl about four years old and the other
baby a little boy! The passengers in the
sleeping cars had some slight bruises,but
none were seriously injured.”
Bishop Whipple said as for himself he
was in good condition, though the ex
citement had affected him somewhat.
The, other passengers say that Bishop
Whipple was among the most active and
cool-headed of all the passengers and did
gallant service in trying to save the poor
woman who was being burned to death,
not ceasing his efforts until the flames
drove him away,
THANKSGIVING DAY.
AN OPPOSITION TRAIN.
The Nashville and Chattanooga rail
road in conjunction with the Weslern
and Atlantic and Georgia Central, will
put on a cannon ball train to run to
Jacksonville, Fla., to compete with tne
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
system. A lively war is anticipated, and
there is talk of a renewal of former hos
tilities between the East Tennessee and
the Western and Atlantic.
THB ROME AND DECATUR RAILROAD.
The committee appointed to secure the
right of way through Floyd county for
the Rome and Decatur railway has re
turned to Rome, and report that they
have been very successful in procuring
the right of way. The. prospects for the
early construction of the roau are good.
It will be a great advantage to Rome.
A LEG AMPUTATED.
A well known young man named Bob
Ferguson, of Columbia, S. C., met with
a painful and dangerous accident on Sun
day last; He was trying to jump off a
street car that was moving rapidly round,
a carve. lie fell, and his leg wapanght
I under the wheels and terribly r’asM
TSe President Appoints November 25tli, a
Day of Prayer.
Tlnrf olio wing is President Cleveland’s
proclamation designating November 25th,
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
A proclamation by the President of the
United, States: It has long been the
custom of the people of the United
States, on a day in each year especially
set apart for that purpose by their chief
executive, to acknowledge' the goodness
and mercy of God, .and to invoke his
continued care and protection;:' In the
observance of such custom, I Grover
Cleveland, president of the United States
do hereby designate and set apart
Thursday, the 25th day of November
inst, to be observed and kept as a day of j
thanksgiving and prayer. On that day j
let all our people forego their accustomed |
employments and assemble in their usual j
places of worship, to give thanks to the j
Ruler of the universe for our continued T
enjoyment of the blessings of a free
government, for a renewal of business j
prosperity throughout Tour land, for the I
return which has. rewarded the labor of 4
those who till the soil, and’ for our pro- j
gress as a people in all that makes a .
nation great, and while we contemplate j
the infinite power of God in earthquakes, :
flood and storm, let the grateful hearts [
of those who have 'been shielded from i
harm through His mercy be turned in j
sympathy and kindness towards those <
who have suffered through His visitation, j
Let us also, in the midst of our thanks- J
giving, remember the poor and needy j
with cheerful gifts,and alms, so that our
services may, by deeds qf charity, be.
made acceptable; in the sight of the Lord.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at |
the city of Washington, this, the first j
day of November, in the year of our I
Lord one thousand eight hundred and j
eighty six, and of the independence of j
the United States of America the one
hundred and eleventh.
Grover Cleveland.
By the president:
T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State.
BANK CIRCULAR, AN IMPORTANT BE- !
C1SION.
Attorney General Garland has given
an opinion to the secretary of the treas
ury that national banks must deposit in
terest bearing bonds to secure their cir
culation and that the called three per
cent bonds cannot bs used as a basis of
circulation.
Dramatic writer—“Yes, sir; dramatic
writing is the most profitable branch of
literature.”
Newspaper reporter—“That so?”
D. W.—“Certainly; you ought to try
it. I am to get $5,00e for the play I am
writing now.”
N. K.—“Down?”
D. W.~“No. If the piece is success
ful.”
N. R.~“Iguess I’ll stick to my $11 a
week.”—Boston Courier.
Carrie’s Explanation.
A young teacher in one of our primary
departments spent the greater part of an
afternoon in describing the appearance
and habits of the mole to her class. And
when she had finished she, said: “Now,
children, I want you all to try and re
member what I have told you, for I shall
call upon one of yon to repeat it to-mor
row.”
Accordingly on the morrow she began
by asking, “What did I talk about yes
terday?”
Up flew a dozen hands in the air, sig
nifying that the owners were ready with
the answer. “Youmay tell me, Carrie,”
said the young teacher, singling out a
five-year old who had seemed uncom
monly eager to be singled, and the five-
year old, with a beaming smile, in a loud
and cheerful voice proclaimed: “A wart;”
Chicago Tribune.
She Knew It.
' “There!” exclaimed young Spriggins,
suddenly, as they were all sitting on the
piazza. “I must go and get shaved. My-
face is as rough as a cow’s tongue., I tell
you it feels uncomfortable to have these
little short bristly hairs all over a fel
low’s chin.”';
Miss De.Puyster always gushes when
young Spriggins says any thing. “I know
it,” said she now effusively.
And then’ everybody leaned forward
and asked her all at once how she knew
it,. but Miss De Puyster only blushed
painfully and said that they were horrid
things. ~S(r>mm>ille Journal.
Sentiment and Hard Prose.
lie was rather sentimental, and he
and his friend were in the park. A little
way off two ladies were seated. One of
them was very pensive and extremely
pretty. She was resting her cheek on
her hand, and her eyes were full of far-
off contemplation.
“She's pretty, isn’t she?” said ho. “By
Jove, I’m falling in love with that girl.
I wonder who the fellow is she’s think
ing about? I say, wouldn’t it be pleas
ant to think a pretty girl like that could
sit and dream about you as she’s dream
ing about somebody? Let’s walk past
and look at her.”
SO they Walked slowly past. The
maiden was still wrapt in contemplation,
and, as they passed, her companion said,
quite distinctly: '
“Now, Emily; this is all foolishness.
Let’s go in to Dr. —- and let him take
the tooth out. —San Francisco Chronicle.
BUSINESS FOR CHATTANOOGA.
Advices from St. Louis State Shat the
mammoth pipe works of Shinlde, Harri
son and H -ward will surely be h|cated: in
and that work wfiTbe cogt-
'mxStlT
A Promising Journalist.
Little Aleck was a small-sized African
who was employed in a newspaper office
as the errand boy, says the St. Paul
Globe. He was rigged up in a blue suit.
A cap with the name of the paper thereon
completed his Showy costume. He be
came very much interested in the work.
In sport the editor of the paper called
little Aleck in and told him it would be
among his duties, whenever he saw an
item of news on the street, to bring it in
the office.
“Now,’l said the editor, “if you should
happen to run across a dead man, or a
lost child, or a runaway horse, bring it
into the office. Do you understand?”
“Yes, sah,” replied Aleck, “I done
ketch on.” .. ,
Not long after the conversation Aleck,
while walking along the street on an
errand, saw a runaway horse coming
down the street. The horse passed him,
and Aleck took after the frightened ani
mal. Several blocks away, the horse got
rid of the carriage that was attached to
him by running against a lamp-po-t. Be
fore the horse was able to get under
headway after the little accident, Aleck
had him by the bridle, and was on his
back riding him down town. Straight
to the newspaper office Aleck rode the
horse. Once there he dismounted, and
leading the horse to the door of the busi
ness office, yelled out to the editor, who
happened to be standing there:
| “Boss, here’s a horse I done catch run
ning away. Whar shall I put him while
I go for dat,buggy what he smashed up?”
Holding a Seat.
“Will you be kind enough to watch
my seat here and allow no one to net into
it while I go into the smoking car and
take asmoke?” asked the presumptuous
passenger in the opposite seat of me.
What else could ! do hut to answer
yes, though I had started out on a pleas
ure excursion, and this man’s condescen
sion quite knocked all the pleasure out
of the trip at the beginning, and now
that fatal seat lay on my mind like my
last year’s debts—provided I had some,
. At the next station a big man came
in, and spying the only vacant seat,
pre-empted it on the spot, and pro
ceeded to make himself comfortable. I
sat a long time considering: how far my
responsibility went, but I saw that 1
must do something, so I mildly whisp
ered to him that the seat belonged to
another, and he scowled and left ai the
next station, where some ladies ■ got
aboard. As a last resort I placed i.iy
new hat over in the seat to preserve
it—the seat, not the hat.—and two of the
females sat down on the hat. They did
not appear to notice the hat, or probably
thought it was the bustle, , and began to
make themselves at home. I told'them
as coolly as I could.that the seat was oc
cupied. They said of course it was. I
remarked that the owner’s hat was under
them. They obliterated me with a
frown and got up; the hat didn’t get up.
Its get-up was gone. I tried to straighten
out the hat and felt sick, so did the hat,
I indulged inwardly in some strengthy
secular language, and soon a tall, long-
fellow got aboard,- rivhpse pantaloons
Were poked into his boots to rest, and
whose shirt yearned toward a wash-tub,
and took the fatal seat without paying
any attention to me waving him away,
I had to do it, though I shuddered,
I walked to him and gently and politely
told him the seat belonged to another
man, when, all of a sudden, he jumped
up as if there was a tack in the seat and
gave a regular Comanche howl, as I sat
back into ray seat, wishing there was a
trap door through the floor of the car.
“This seat belongs to another, does
it?” Where is the duffer? Where are
his sypptoms? Nothing here. Where
are his remains, his silk umbrella, his
peanut shells, his tobacker spit, his
chewing-gum shoes, his fur-collar over
coat, his thirty-eight calibre valise, and
his oye-glass? Show me, if you please,
his assets, his liabilities, his heirs, ad
ministrators, or assigns! Where is his
mortgage, or his lien, or twenty years’
lease? I am Cross-eyed Bill from Bra
zos 1 (and he parenthesized the name with
a couple of long-horn revolvers). Are
you the ozone, the canned fr s uit man who
is; trying to preserve this seat for the
coming man, or the rising generation?”
I begged to prove an alibi, insanity, or
anything legal that was necessary or
would do any good, and begged him not
to mention it, when in came the former
occupant and asked the stranger shortly
to get out. The stranger 1 got out, and
the owner of the seat began to fall all
over himself, to explore the ceiling with
, his feet, to test the floor, to unhandle the
neighboring seats, and when the stranger
laid him gently down in the aisle and
spread him out comfortable to rest, and
recuperate, and catch his breath, and get
his health back, and try' to feel better,
and try to be easier, and wait for a doc
tor, and gather his senses, I had time to
think that it was the right way for a man
to be served who will ask another to hold
his seat during his absence.—Detroit Free
Press.
How Bohemian Glass is Colored.
The ornamentation of the glass is done
partly in connection with the exposure
in the furnace and partly in the finishing
shops, where the work is completed by
cutting, polishing, tarnishing, etching,
painting and . mounting in metal. The
glasshouses have at their command a
very complete color scale for transparent,
opaque and clouded glasses. But it must.
not be supposed that a crucible is placed
in the furnace for each color, from which
glass colored for each ornament is to be
made. The colors are worsed out by
means of what are called pastes, which
are kept On hand in sticks or cake*.
From pieces of these pastes, previously
warmed till they are soft, suitablo quan
tities fire cut off, laid upon the founda
tion of white or colored glass, and then
spread out by drawing Or blowing. By
this means only is an economical, use of
such costly materials as gold and silver
compositions possible. Some of the
gla-ses thus treated—gold, copper,
and silver glasses—remain still
little, or not at all, colored after the
melting, shaping, and quick cooling,
and do not take on that bright hue until
they are reheated. This is the case with
the new yellow silver glass, which con
tinues uneolored after the intermelting
of the silver salt until it is exposed in
the furnace again. Very fine effects are
produced by blending or : overrunning of
paste colors, provided proper attention
is given to the laws of harmony. A blue
glass cup is, for example, overlaid with
silver glass at its upper edge, and this is
drawn down in gradually thinner tones
till it fades away at the foot of the vase.
Gold and copper ruby colors are thus
Combined' with green glasses, etc. An
other brilliant effect is produced when a
still hot bulb of glass is rolled in finely
pulverized aventurine glass, and after
this is melted, and previous to the shap
ing of the vessel,is overlaid with a coat
ing of either colored of colorless glass.—
Popular Science, Monthly.
did you ever.
Married in Two States.
A whimsical marriage took place in
the Eastern part of the State last Satur
day, during an excursion from Lafayette
to Dayton, Ohio, over the Lake Erie and
Western Railway. While the train was
crossing the dividing line between Indi
ana and Ohio it was stopped by an ac
commodating conductor, and David
Clark, residing near Mulberry,candidate
for Sheriff of Clinton County, assisted
off the cars a lady named Mrs. Mary
Hawkins, of Lafayette. The gentleman
placed himself on the Indiana side of the
line and the lady on the Ohio side. A j
minister in attendance for the purpose
straddled the dividing line and soon pro-
nounced the couple man and wife. The j
whole 800 passengers on the train then |
formed a circle around the central, fig- j
ures in this singular marriage and gave ,
them three cheers, the ever present |
photographer secured a negative, the I
band played, and the: train started up
with everybody happy.—IndiaJiapoUs \
Journal- ■ T -■ ' . ' ■ 1 ;T T -' gg
Longest Railways of the World.
“ The Union Pacific Railroad Company
controls the greatest length of line of j
any company in the world, to wit: 5,627
miles. The Union Pacific Raiboafl
proper, from Council Bluff, Iowa, to Og
den/Utah. with branches, is 1,831.0
miles in length: The Canadian Pacific
has the longest main line in the world,
from Quebec to Ft. Moody, being 3,025
miles long; with branches it. has a length
of 8,004 miles. The Northern Pacific
has a main line of 1,674 miles, from Su
perior, Wis., to Wallula Junction, W.
T. Its extent of lines owned, leased,
and operated is 2,546.84 miles. The
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul oper
ates owned and leased lilies to the Extent
of 4,801 miles ; the Chicago anrl North
western,. 3,763.25 miles; the Wabash,
St. Louis and Pacific, 8,549.5 miles;
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy,
3,471.67 miles. 1 :
How Cloth is Tinned.
A mixture of finely pulverized metal- ,
lie zinc and albumen, of about the con
sistency of a thin paste, is spread with a
brush upon linen or cotton doth, and l y
means of lipt steam coagulated. The
cloth is now immersed in a bath of stan
nic chloride, well washed; and dried.
Running the cloth through a roller press,
the tin film is said to take metallic luster;
Designs nit in stout paper, letters, num
bers, etc. , when laid (between cloth and
tan
sd
roller, are impressed upon it. It
also be cut in strips, corners, etc.—
t-ntifie American. ':
- I—1SRI
In hats the novelty consists m having #
the crown different from: the brim, 7
Bid you ever wake to consciousness
Of bliss?
When the maiden fair was willing
To bestow the pleasure thrilling,
In a moment’s taste of heaven called
A kiss?
Did you ever urge a maiden
To confess?
When the coy, evasive glances
Held the sweetest of romances—
Every sigh and every quiver
mcaress?
Did you ever feel the terror
Of a doubt?
And the subsequent beguiling
When assurances of smiling
Put the peace-disturbing traitors
All to route?
Did you ever meet an obstacle
So sad?
When the angel sweetly heeding
The existence of your pleading
Supplemented—yon had better
Call on dad? ,
—Texas Siftings.
PITH AND POINT.
The tramp is a man of many ties-—
railroad ties.—St. Paul Journal. ;
“Would you believe it? I have had
that idea in my head these six months.”
“How lonely it must have been!”— Tid-
Bits.'
Some men are so mighty penurious
that they keep everything they get hold
of—except the ten commandments.—
Blizzard.
Mamma—“Frankie, are you eating
those green apples again?” Frankie-—
“No, mamma; I’m eating some others.”
—Harper's Young. People.
Brown—“See those two ladies over
there. They seem be enjoying them
selves.” Fogg—“Yes; I wonder which
of their dear , friends they’are gossiping
about.?’-—Boston Post.
, Some Americans are about to start a
national banking system in the Hon
duras. The venture will, probably fail,
owing to the great distance between
Canada and the .Honduras.—Life.
Tobacco blindness is said to be on the
increase; still we never found any friend
of ours to be afflicted with it when we
have incautiously left a choice segar ex
posed in our vest pocket.—-Siftings.
“You sit on your horse like a butcher,”*
said a pert young German officer who
happened to be Of royal blood to a veter
an general who was somewhat bent from
age: “It is highly probable,’’ responded
the old warrior with a grim smile, “It is
because all my_lH^^o_bcen leading
calves to the slatelteS’W^'ll
A .’Saftv * . ~
There is ab_ *
premises of the National Bank of Scot
land, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh,
the largest steel strong-room or safe e ver
manufactured. Its external dimensions
are fifty feet long by twelve feet broad
and ten feet high, and a careful compu
tation shows that within it might be
stored about 1,250 tons, weight of gold
bullion, equal in value to $550,000,000.
It is, heavy in proportion to its size
weighing 100 tons, rifts walls are be
lieved to be thicker than those of any
other steel room of similar proportion in
use in the United Kingdom. With the
view of insuring greater security than
has hitherto been obtained, its walls are
composed of a triple series of plates
similar to those Which the firm have for
many yesrs used in the manufacture of
bankers’ safes. These plates are so tough
ened and hardened ass to be prartically
impervious alike to the force of blows
leverage and cutting by , drills. This
“compounding of the (plates,”; as it is
(termed, involved an enormous amount of
drilling, no fewer than 1,000 holes being
pierced in each section. Admission to
the interior of this strong" room is ob
tained by means of three massive doors
each seven inches thick and weighing a
tonanda half, but on the hardened steel
pins on which they are hung they swing
with the greatest of ease. Apart from the
great thickness of compounded hard and
mild steel plates in these doors, the prin
cipal feature they present is the patent
diagonal bolt. These bolts, of whiel— —
there are twenty in each door, shoot out
from the edge of the door at opposing
angles of forty-five degrees, and thus
powerfully dovetail the door into tha
frame at either side. Thus any attempted
wedging between the door and its frame
simply tends to bind these bolts tighter
into their holes.
Trade Winds.
W. M. Davis has recently given in the
American Meteorological Journal an ac
count of the derivation of the term
“trade-wind.” The original meaning of
the word “trade” has been so far replaced
by an acquired meaning that a ponular
error has arisen as to the derivation of
the common term “trade-wind ” Web
ster’s dictionary says the trade-wind i«
“so called because of great advantage to
navigators, and hence to trade.” Woroea
ter’s dictionary explains it as “To
called because favorable to commerce ’’
But looking further back, the followin'-
extract from Skeat’s, etymoW'cal lUS
tionary is instructive: g “Trade-wind a
wind blowing in a constant direct on
iormed from the phrase ‘to Ki° n ’
trade,’ to blow always in tL , ow
(course.” A step further ( i; Same
,ers_ that trade is “properly tw
patn which we ‘tread.’ It on on -J • ■
literally, a ‘path.’ The M. E iS’
English] words are ‘tred’ and ‘trodw?
in the sense of foot-mark. >11 f.-n’-,
A. S. i Anglo-Saxon | -‘tredan,’ to »
The following extracts show the
use of the term, two or three com. • y
ago, by the navigators of that f IMes H
Hakluyt wrote: “The wind "
trade, without an mob of sail, wo ,
before the sea.” (“Yoyages,» D11 l? i °? ed -
in 1600.) Dumpier said: “Trade 1S -^ l j. d
are such ns do blow coustantK- \
point ox quarter of the compass Tm° ae
are divers "softs of these wind's-■ ere
blowing: from east to west, some e° me
south to north, others from
etc. Some are constant in one t0 east >
all the year, some blow one-half iS Uaiter
one way and the other six monf-m- ye : ar -
contrary, and others blow six m f,Ui , tR
one way, and then shiftin'./ only- 1 *''' 3
or ten points, continue six months’ e ' 8i *?s ■'
and then, return- again t 0 their f
stations, as all these shiftin'/, *° r . ln or ]
do,” . ° J