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eb -.eal ESTABLISHED IN 1865. _SD MR. CLEVELAND DECLINES. His Reasons2 for not Attending the G. A R. Encampment at St. Louts. ST. Loris, July 7.-Mayor Francis a has received the following letter g from President Cleveland, declining t to visit St. Louis and giving reasons t therefor: ExEcUTIVE MANSION. t WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4, 1887. I r To Hon. David R. Francis, Mayor t and Chairman. t My Dear Sir-When I received 'l the extremely cordial and gratifying n invitation from the citizens of St. v Louis, tendered by a number of he-r s representative men, to visit that city c during the national encampment of r the Grand Army of the Republic. I f had been contemplating for some c time the acceptance of the invitation t from that organization to the same 'l effect, and had concurred in the pleas- y ure it would afford me if it should be c possible to meet, nut only the mem- e bers of the Grand Army of the Re- t public but the people of St. Louis and other cities in the West, which I the occasion would give me an oppor- t tunity to visit. The exactions of I my public duties I felt to be so un- I certain, however, that when first con- 2 frontei by the delegation, of which r you were head, I expected to do no n more at that time than to promise the e consideration of the double invita- I tion tendered me and to express the I pleasure it would give me to accept i the same thereafter, if possible. But I the cordiality and sincerity of your < presentation, reinforced by the hear- j tiness of the good people who sur- < rounded you, so impressed m2 that I s could not resist the feeling which a prompted me to assure you on the S spot that I would be iith you and e the Grand Army of the Republic at n the time designated, if nothing hap- c pened in the meantime to absolutely F prevent me from leaving Washington. c Immediately upon the public an- r nouncement of this conclusion, ex- 1 pressions emanating from certain im- r portant members of the Grand Army a of the Republic, and increasing in e volume and virulence constrained I me to review my acceptance of these f invitations., The expressions re- i ferred to go to the extent of declaring t that I would be an unwelcome guest d at the time and place of the National t Encampment. This statement is p ~based, as well as I can judge, upon c Qlertain official acts of mine, involv- c Simoortant public interests, donec restraints and obligations of t ~j 0f office, which do not ap- r ~' ani-ord with the wishes ofi ~'Rad,a~ of the Grand Army a Virg~, refuse to believe ItI o;founded upon Is .n veyoare ge dire&eo, are d>ia-fgghonor . crown meAdent, wis ~ r fl,ei at Co. r on the s ! is the~' umns to bi/ 5 Ri3r th1rQ#' trKe t 1 preva-t ks g, and such e, b ion, which should onous, peaceful and cordial, J. "ey cannot be ignored. s.gh beg you to understand that I am not conscious of any iset of mine ' which should make me fear to meet the grand jury of the Republic or any other assemblage of my fellow-citi zens. An account of my official stewardship is always ready for pre jentation to my coutrymen. I should not be frank if I failed to con fess, while disclaiming all resent ment, that I have been hurt by the uworthy and wanton attacks upon me growing out of this matter, and the reckless manner in which my ac- 1 tions~ have been misrepresented both ] publicly and privately for which how ever, the Grand Army of the Repub lic, as a body is by no means respon sible. The threats of personal vio lence and harm in case J undertake the trip in question, which scores of misguided, unbalanced men under the stimulation of excitement have made are not even considered. R a ther than abandon my visit to the WVest and disappoint your citizens, I might if I alone were concerned, Bubmit to the insult to which it is quite openly asserted I would be helplessly subject if present at the en - -, eampment, but I should bear with me - there the peoples' highest office, the dignity of which I must protect, and I believe that -neither the Grand Army of the Republic as an organi zation nor anything like a majority of its members would ever encour $- age any scandalous attack on it. If, however, among the membership of this body there are some, as cer taimiy seems to be the case, determ ed to denounce me and my ogiicial ets at the national encampment, I elieve they should be permitted to o so unrestrained by my presence as guest of their organization, or as a uest of the hospitable city in which leir meetings are held. A number er of Grand Army Posts have sig ified their intention, I any informed, remain away from the encamp )ent in case I visit the city at that ime. I feel that I ought not to be be cause of such non attendance. 'he time and place of the-encamp ient were fixed long before my in itations were received. Those de iring to participate in those pro eedings should be first regarded and othing should be permitted to inter ere with their intentions, Another onsideration of more importance han all others remains to be noticed. he fact was referred to by you when on verbally presented the invitation f the citizens of St. Louis that the ncampment of the Gaand Army of he Republic would be held in the >outhern States. I suppose this fact as mentioned as a pleasing indica ion of the fraternal feeling so fast aining ground throughout the entire and, hailed by every patriotic citi en as an earnest that the Union has eally and in fact been saved in senti cent and in spirit with all the ben fits it it vouchsafes to the united eople. I cannot rid myself of the elief that least discord on the pro ress of the sentiment of common rotherhood which the Grand Army f the Republic has so good an op ortuni.v to increase and foster. I ertainly ought not to be the cause of uch discord in any event or upon ny pretext. It seems to me that -ou and the citizens of St. Louis are ntitled to this unreserved state aent of the conditions which have onstrained me to forego my contem lated visit and to withdraw my ac eptance of your invitation. My resence in your city at the time you ave indicated can be of but little ooment compared with the import nce of the cordial and harmoniotls ntertainment of your other guests. assure you that I abandoned my lan without the least personal feel ag except regret, constrained there o by a sense of duty. actuated by a esire to save any embarrassment to he people of St. Louis or their er ected guests, and with a hcart full *f grateful appreciation of the sin ere and unaffected kindness of your itizens. Hoping the encampment 2ay be the occasion of much useful ess, and that its proceedings may [lustrate the highiest patriotism of toerican citizenship. I am yours very sincerely, GRovER CLEVELAND. The Bliggest Thing of the Age. G'eorgetown Enquirer. The completion of the Three C's L. R. from Ashland, Ky., to the At antic coast, is now only a matter of ime. The company employs 600 ands. Grading in North and South tarolina, and track laying are,.rapid. y-going on. Within eighteen months he West and Charleston will be mnited with the links of steel. This railroad is the biggest thing >f the age in this section, and prom ses to do much towards restoring >rosperity to the State. The road will run through undevel ped mines of coal, gold an.d iron. [he iron ore is said to be as fine as mny in the world. Charleston being he terminus, will enjoy superior ad -antages. She has, at last, within ier grasp, the long coveted prize, vhich we trust will rehabilitate her hattered fortunes, and cause her to issume her wonted position as the Queen City of the South. We claim he honor, in Georgetown, of being ,be projectors of this grand system, enown at first, as the Georgetown, K. C. Narrow Gauge Railroad. Syndicate after syndicate was ore ;anized and failed. Finally one syn jicate was formed with suflicient inancial strength to take hold, and ;ive vitality to the enterprise. No man connected with the road labored fore assiduously to bring together neans andl conditions, thian our fel ow citizen David Rtisley, Esq., anid .t is largely d11e to his indomnitable 'ill that the weaking enterprise has trown to be a mammonth concern, But one sows and another reaps. lulled by Lightning. During a thunder storm on Thurs day in Edgefield County 3Iiss Sailie Barnes, 16 years old. was at the well drawing a bucket of water when she was struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. MIiss Barnes was the daughter of a well-to-do farmer and was the belle of the neig-hhorhood SAM JONES. Eleet on the Public of a Fifty-Cent Admission Fee. BALTIMORE MD., July 5.-Sam Jones is here again, and his presence shows what an effect an admission fee has on the public. When Jones held evangelical meetings here a year ago, his audiences were tremen dous. People went hours ahead in order to get seats. The assemblies often aggregated, 5,000 and 6,000 people and more than 2,000 were torned away at a time. There were hundreds of converts, and the meet ings were an enormous success in every way. Jones and Small made several thousand dollars on a month's work. Last night Sam Jones re turned. He gave a lecture to which fifty cents admission was charged. When the Reverend Sam walked out on the stage he was probably tbe most astonished man in the country. Instead of the thousands he was ac customed to speak to in Baltimore, here were not a hundred in the hall. It was almost as famous as Mark Twains famous audience of one. But Jones struggled on with his G eor gia philosophy for an hour, and then, alluding to cortain contrasts, ex claimed '-Good Lord ! how a fifty-cent ad mission thins them out." To-day the churches where Jones preached were crowded. He makes a telling appeal for the orphan asy lum which he is running in Georgia, and the collection yiel:ed unexpect edly large returns. Instead of the usual ten-cent pieces and nickels there were notes and silver dollars. The people gave to charity when they would not give for a lecture. The emotional wave which Jones and Small ataited here a year ago has al most entirely disappeared, A Small Negro Murders a.White Man in Augusta. Special to Atlanta Constitution. A UGUSTA, Ua., July 5.-One of the most peculiar murders known to the annals of crime was committed here to-day. .4 twelve-year-old negro boy stabbed and killed a white man of double his age. Ti e murdered man, Milo Thomas by name, who has for some time been brakeman on the Centrul railroad, was standing in front of William Moore's store near the depot, when a small negro boy, Charles Lackley, walked up and held out a cigarette pictura, exclaiming: 'Aint this a dandy, Mr. Thomas." Thomas knew the little negro well, and in order to tease him jerked the picture from his hand. The boy commenced crying when he refused to give it up' and cursed Thomas. For this Thomas caught him in the collar and slapped him two or three times, at the time not suspecting that such a small boy was armed, but he was mistaken, for while not noticing the boy's hand, he drew from a pocket a spring back dirk, with a blade four inches long, and stabbed Thomas in the left breast, piercing the artery leading to the heart, which caused death almost instantly. The boy ran, but was caught and jailed. He is not exceeding four feet in height. And it is a mystery how he succeeded in doing his deadly work before discovered by Thomas. The coroner's jury held an inquest this afternoon, and returned a verdict of murder. Thomas is well connected here. Where Our MIoney Goes. Atlanta Constitution. The Raleigh News aiil O&serv'er complains that the people of the South work hard, and pay all their mgney to the North. We are drained at every pore, says our contemporary. Of the six billion dolars received for our cotton in the past seventeen y,ears we have saved oly a paltry forty million dollars. We have paid out our billions for Northern goods, and the bonded debt, interest, pensions and government taxation take one-third of our earn in gs. Our contemporary calls this state of affairs the Northern system. Why not call it the Southern system ? It is certainly our own fault if we do not raise our own supplies, and pre fer Northern goods to those of home manufacture. This is the only thing in the North Carolina editor's ar ticle that hurts, and it hurts because there is so much truth in it. We send our money to the North for hundreds of things that are just as cheap and just as well made here at ore. This is one of our greatest economic mistakes, and we must re form the whole business. But it is altogether wrong to say that the forty million dollars on de saved in the past seventeen years. { t The other day we printed a summary of statistics showing for the past , seven years alone an increase of forty-two per cent in the wealth of the South. What we have saved should not be computed in dollars F and cents. There are other evidences P of prosperity of more value. Our c people in the main live better, dress tij better and are better educated than th in former years. They surround of themselves with more of the comforts er and luxuries of life. They build T more houses, and bigger and better ni ones. Their money is going into new in towns, railroads< and manufacturing in enterprises. The people are keeping i abreast of the times. 01 We are making progress. too, in c( another direction. We are now pat- 1o ronizing home manufactures to such b: an extent that the orders cannot be st filled. This is one reason why so of much of our money goes North. la When our factories increase their ti facilities the larger circle of patrons si thus accommodated will send less fc money away. The powerful motive ai of self-interest will finally settle this h problem satisfactorily. When a d; Georgian sees that he can get his fi order promptly filled in Atlanta, and pi secure precisely the same article for tc the same money that it would cost in w New York, less the extra freight, he p: is going to make Atlanta his market. n We cannot bring about such a~rev- T olution in trade and industry in a al day, but we are getting there, and bi going at a rapid pace. The man who n looks at the South of ten years ago, ti and of the South of to-day without al seeing the tremendous results T achieved must be a pessimist, and a tl blind one at that. A The Prohibition Campaign in Texas. ew Yor: Tribuc. Says a Galveston business man: t< "The prohibition question has given is rise to more discussion in Texas a than any issue ever brought before p the people Those in favor of prohi- a bition live principally in the thickly v populated counties in the northern I portion of the State, Dallas and Fort ti Worth b,ipg the prohibition strong s holds, while Galveston, San Antonio si and El Paso are opposed to it. Both it sides are making a vigorous cam- ti paign, and vast quantities of printed Ih matter for and against the amend- a ment are distributed throughout the ti State. The anti-prohibitionists pub. S lish an illustrated paper in Dallas at I the cost of $2,000 per month, and 20,- a 000 copies are distributed each Issue. 11 It is generally reported in Texas that the brewers and liquor men of St. t< Louis have sent large sums of money into the State to be used during the e campaign, and the prohibitionists are 1 equally liberal in expending nmoney, so that the election will be stubborn. b2 ly contested on both sides, and the t race will be very close. Most of the o leading business men of Texas are tl opposed to prohibition, but it is said C that fully two-thirds of the newspa- 1 pers in the State are in favor of it, S and many leading men are fighting v on that side." e Hanged in Efligy. DATOx, GA.,.July 8.-To-d ay was the most exciting one in the history ~ of Dalton. Thousands o.f people t came to witness the execution of the g woman murderer, but when they found that the Governor had com muted the sentence they were heardl to denounce him on every side. At 12 o'clock Governor Gordon was hung in effgy o'n the most pub- ~ lic street of the city in the presence of thousands of the assenting people. Governor Gordon's most faithf4l f-iends in the past denounce the ac tion. Hlolman's friends have kept themselves in-doors during the entire morning for fear of personal trouble, b for the crowd went so far as to go to where the gallows was erected and t there hanged Gov. Gordon also. A carrier- pigeon belongIng to Mr William Brooks, of the Germantown (Pa.,) homing club, has just beaten the best record ever made for one day's fly. The bird, with several others, was started from8Spartanburg, 1 S. C., Saturday morning last, a dis tance 510k miles at 5.31 o'clock, and arrived at its loft in Germantown at 6.30 o'clock the same evening. The average was 1168 yards a minute. 1 'The fly beats the best record everr made in Europe or America for one day fly. The best previous record in the United States was made by at bird belonging to Thomas S. Gold-I1 mnan, of Brooklyn in 1885. '1 ' Senator Don Cameron celebrated Ithe fourth of July by entertaining fifteen hundred poor children at his home near Washingrton. - DVEL CELEBRATION OF THE i FOURTH. he Snow-Covered Summit of Mount Hood Illuminated by Fireworks. t POI:TLAAD, OnE., July 5.-For a t uurth of July celel,,ration yesterday, C ortland undertook and successfully C Lrried out an unprecedented feat in e way of fireworks. It was ho less an the illumination of the summit j Mount lood, the tallest snow-cov- I ed peak in Oregon, 12,720 feet lhigh. r his was done at;exactly 11:30 last S ght, and the light was plainly seen 1 this city, a distance of fifty-one Iles ii a straight line. The illu- a mating agent was 100 pounds of t -dinary red fire. The task was ac- c mplished by William G. Steel, a 1 cal explorer of some note, assisted 1 Nelson W. Durham, of the aff of the Oregonian and five t hers. The psrty left here Friday st and camped Saturday night at e snow line. From t'iere to the immit the journey was made on 1 ot, over soft snow in some places id hard ice in others, where steps 1 id to be cut with hatchets and two 4 inge'ous crevasses crossed; besides, ve of the party had to carry two >gnds of red fire each, in additjon their blanket. The arrangements lien they left was for two of the arty to remain on the summit all ight, in order to touch off the fire. his, of course, they must have done, i id it is the first time that a human t sing has spent a night on the sum it of the mount.in. The illumina on was also seen in Eastern Oregon a distance of seventy-five miles. he party will begin the descent of ie mountain this morning. rrangements for the Presid ent's Trip Atlanta Constitution. Arr .ngements are being perfected make the visit of President Cleve md to the Exposition a significant nd glorious occasion. It is pro used to bring him and his party in special train of four cars. An in itation has been sent to Governor ee, of Virginia, asking that he meet e presidential party with his fqll aff at the Virginia line, as the train arts from Washington, and escort to the North Carolina line, where e Governor of North Carolina with is. staff will be waiting to receive it nd to give the President escort irough the old North State to the outh Carolina line, where Governor tichardson and his staff will be waiting the party. At the Georgia no Governor Gordon and his staff HIl meet the party and escort them > Atlanta. It is hoped that each of these Gov-. rnors, with staffs, will come to At. inta and remain with the President uring the exposition. It is proba le that by the time the presidential -ain reaches Atlanta it will consist f six or eight cars, and will have ie President, some members of the abinet and four or five Governors. 'he arrangements for the reception nd entertainment of the President hile in Atlanta are now being dis ussed, and will soon be developed. t is sufficient to say that they will e entirely worthy of the occasion of bie first visit of a Democratic Presi ent to the best city in the South and ie central city of the Piedmont re Tfhe Rancher's Baby. From the. Chicago Herald. "At Rlawlins, Wyoming, a few reeks ago," said a commercial trav 1r, "I saw one of the saddest inci ents it has ever been my misfortane o witness. A rancher rode into own on horseback holding in his rms a dead baby-a sweet little lung with flaxen hair which curled 11 over its head, soft blue eyes which ad not been closed even in death. eventy-five miles across the country le rancher had carried the dead aby in his arms. I talked with him .d heard his story. It was like thuis: L year or more ago he had' begun a orrespondence with a young woman n Chicago, getting her address from ,matrimonial paper. The result ras an exchange of photographs and nally marriage. The girl went to ive with him on his ranch, but the onely life there did not suit the city iri, and a few weeks'after the birth if her babe she ran away to Chicago, eaving husband and child behind ier. There was no woman on the anch, and the rough father did the iest he could to rear the child. I iave no doubt lie was tender and at. entive-in fact, he said that lie neg ected his stock and did nothing else ut care for the child-but, robbed >f its mothers care, the little one ickened and died. "'My life seemed to go out withj hat a littl ne?' said the rancher2 n his rough way, 'an' when she died cried like a woman. Then my ieart seemed to rise in anger against lie mother, and I felt 'that I could :ill her. It seemed to me that 'ar >ahe would be alive an' smilin' and ooin' to-day if her mother had not leserted her. Then, says I to my elf, I'll be revenged. And .so I crepped the little one in a blanket, umped on my horse and came here. 'm going to send the mother a little iresent, a peace offerin' from her de erted husband. I'm goin' to send ier the body of her little 'un.' He actually procured a little coffin nd laid the babe in it, atter kissing he white face again and again, and utting a few locks of her golden iair from the little round head. [here were no tears in his eyes-he eemed to be past that-but as he urned away from the railroad station, shcre he had shipped the body to an Lddress in Chicago which I sball not ,ive, he appeared to me the most )roken hearted man I'd ever seen. In five minutes he came running )ack, seized the little box and ex. laimed : 'No, no! I can't do it. Give me ny little 'un. Keep the money, but ,ive me my little girl.' Before the station agent could say L word the man had put the box on iis shoulder and i .. away. Five ninutes later he saw uim on his horse, he box in his arms, galloping back o his ranch." About a Mortgage. The editor of the Santa Anna 5tandard, having just succeeded in aying a mortgage on his ranch in 3rangethrope, rejoices in the full )wnership of "61 acres of as fine and as California boasts." His ex ?erience with the "dead pledge" low so happily past-moves him to ise reflections, as follows: "A mortgage is a queer institution. It makes a man rustle and keeps him poor. It is a strong iscentive to ac tion, and a wholesome reminder of the fleeting months and years, It is Cully as symbolical in its meeting as Ghe hour-glass and scythe, that repre. sent death. A mortgage also repre ents industry, because it is never dle and never rests. It is like a bosom friend, because the greater adversity the closer it sticks to a fel low. It is like a brave soldier-it never hesitates at charges nor fears bo close in on the enemy. It is like bhe sand-bag of the thug-silent in application, but deadly in effect. It is like the hand of providence-it spreads all over the creation, and its influence is everywhere visible. It is like the grasp of a devil fish-the longer it holds, the greater its strength. It will exercise feeble en ergies and lend activity to a sluggish brain, but no rnatter how hard the debtors work, the mortgage works harder still. A mortgage is a good thing to have in the family-provided always it is in somebody else's fain ily. It is like a boil-always a good thing on some other fellow. It makes. one sour, cross, unsociable and mis erable, and varely does him any good, only to exercise him. In that re spect it is equal to Vigor of Life, or the latest patent medicine. We've had our last one as far as we know oiurself. We would rather have the ague t.han have a mortgage. Adieu, old death pall, a fond adieu." A Big Contract. Atlanta Constitution. Few peop)le comprehend -the nmag nitude of the business of the Stone Mountain Granite company. They are now filling a contract for six hun dred thousand dollars wt-rth of blocks for Cincinnati alone. This contract is to be filled in six months, and from fiftcen to forty carloads of granite blocks leave Atlanta every day for Cincinnati. The freight bills of the company average a thousand dollars a day and the pay roll ranges from five thousand to seven thousand dol lars per week. The quality of the granite improves the deeper it is quarried. The sales of the company will reach one million dollars this year and its business is constantly increasing. Plenty of Blackberries. Mr. Frank Bethune, o1 Dawson, Ga.. purchased 120 bushels of black berries last week to make into wine, paying $1 per bushel. IIe bought sixteen bushels from one wagon at one time. They came in so rapidly and in such large quantities that the price declined this week to fifty and seventy-five cents per bushel. Before sailing for Europe the other Jay Congressman Pat Collins, of Boston, predicted that Cleveland woald carry Massnnhnmetts in 1888. A HUNGRY PLACE. A.n Incident of the Attorney-General's Sojourn at Hominy Hill. While Attorney-General Garland was sitting under a tree in his Hom iny Hill retreat, says the Arkansaw Traveler, an old fellow, followed by ;ix or eight dogs, came along, stop. ?ed, looked searchingly at W. Gar and, seated himself on a log, slapped i brindled cur and said : "I've been around here several times, but this is the fust time that ['ve cotch you at home." "Yes, I don't stay here much of ,he time." "Don't try to rkise a crap, it seems." "Did you ever try ?" "No.' "Do you reckon this old dirt would sprout a black-eyed pea ?" "Not if the eye were too black." "Ef you wuz to take away the crickets do you believe a woodpecker could make his living on it?" "Don't believe he could." "I reckon you stay here till you git hungry and then go 'way. "Yes." "Is that yore cow that's down an' kain'tgit up over'yander ?" "I haven't any cow." "She's sombody's, I reckon she got on yore place an' fell away so fast she kain't git off no mo'. Wuz that yore ole hoss that died out yon der in the thicket the other day ?" "No." "Them yore sheep starvin' down yander in the bottom ?" "tNo." "Is that yonder yore dog that's tryin' to jump over the fence ?" "Look a here, what in the deuce hove you got anyway ?" "This farm." "That all ?" "About all, I believe." "Whar air they goin' to bury you?" "Do I look like a man that's going to be buried pretty soon ?" "Well, no; but ef you ain't got nothin' but this farm, you are mighty ap' to drap off at any minit. Whut'll you take fus this old po' place ?" "If it's so poor, what do you want with it ?" "Wall, you see, I've got a spite at a feller, and I want to turu his cattle in here. rm sorter hungry. Did you fetch a snack with you ?" "What air you goin' to do for sometein'? You'll starve to death before you ken git away from here." "I'm expectin' a friend with a loaf of bread pretty soon." "What business air you in ?" "I'm the attorney-general of the United States." "What'? Is this Mr. Garland ?" "Yes " "Wall, Gus, you come over to my house. i've got a hunk of corn bread and some sorghum molasses over there,' and TIll be dinged if I'll see you go hungry. It don't make no diff'unce to me if you air a'turney. general; I'll treat you like a white man." PERSONS ANJD THINGS. By the decease of Mr. Wheeler, the only surviving Vice-President elected by the people is Mr. Hanni bat Hamnlin, now in his seventy-ninth year, chosen to office a quarter of a century ago. Buffalo Bill's phenomenal success in England has enticed the Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond. He will demonstrate to the benighted British ers that the '-sun do move." It is now urged that Secretary La. mar, being only sixty-two years old and but recently married, woula not conduct himself with sufficient dig. nity if made a judge of the supreme court. Young men are generally 'coltish, bat if Mr. Lamar should sol enmnly promise to behave with cir cumnspection when on the bench he would probably keep his word. The hanging of Albert Turner in Louisville was a remarkable instance of swift retribution. -He brutally murdered Jennie Bowman tw. months and a half ago. The day after the murder lhe was captured and barely escaped the vengeauce of a a 31ob. lie was' indicted, tried and sentenced all in one hour and five minutes. When A bram S. Hewitt was in Con gress he was very much annoyed by the howling dogs in the .neighbor hood of his Washington home. He appealed to the court to abate one especially noisy dog as a public 'nuisance, and an amusing lawsuit between the congressman and the dog's master was the consequence. Mr. Hewitt, as mayor of New York, continues his canine crusade. He wants the board ofC aldermen to ahnlich don in the metropolis. 'General Joe Johnston is in San Francisco. A reporter tried -to get him to say something about the battle flags incident, but the general told the young man that his business at present was to look after the govern ment's interest in the Pacific rail roads. The reporter retreated, but not in the admirable manner which c'iaracter,zed General Johnston's fa mous backward movements toward I Atlanta in 1864. Mayor Hewitt says that it is with in his personal knowledge that Queen Victoria was asked to join with the French Government in the recognition of the Southern'Confed eracy, and that she refused to do so. He personally carried the message to this. effect from Minister Dayton to Minister Adams. Mrs. Annie Rush, of Letart, Va., whose one hundredth birthday has been celebrated, is said to be the mother of the largest family in America. She was married when she was fifteen, and bore thirteen chil dren, eight of whom are living. Her eldest child was born when she was sixteen, and her oldest child is seven ty-eight. Her oldest grandchild is sixty-eight years old. She has fifty two great-grandchildren, and her de scendants number six hundred. She is %pparently good for many years yet. The Yale class of 1838 was a re markable one. It included a number of men who became famous. Amonig them were Senator Evarts, Chief is tice Waite, Edward Pierrepont, and ex-President Chapin, of Beloit. The s average longevity of the class is re markable. Of the one hundred and four men who graduated fifty years ago, forty still live. Nearly all these met. at a class reunion and talked over their college days. They were a jolly set of old boys. The Duke of Westminister is the richest man in England, if not in the world. He appears to be also one of the biggest liars. A few years ago he paid $10,500 for pottrait of Mr. Gladstone, by Millais. The other day he sold it, and in elplauation he " wrote "the grand old man" that he - was compelled by his poverty to dis pose of the portrait. The effete' duke became offended at Gladstone because of his home rule attitude. Secretary Lamar, after the Presi dent's Guilford Miller letter, ordered the land grant railroads, to show why they should not at once select the lands to which they are entitled and restore to settlement the great areas which are held up by them. There plies of the railroads show that the'y mean to hold on to the vast territory they now have in their grip until that grip is loosened by the omnipotent hand of the law. The only legitimate way of boom ing a town is to do something that adds value to the town-gambling in town lots is no more booming a town than betting on an election is. * Jackson- & Co., of Saulsbury, Maryland, to-day purchased forty~ thousand acres of land in Covington . County, Ala., adjoining the recent purchase, for fifty thousand scres * of government land this- firm has purchased in three weeks. They will have four hundred families settled before fall and large mills erected. It has been computed that the death rate of the globe is 67 per minute, 97,790 a day, and 35,639,835 a year, and the birth rate 70 a mini ute, 1,008,000 a day, and 36,792,000, a year. Queer Freak of insomnia. From the New York Indepen~i To illastrate the alleged sleepiness of a certain college town the follow- ~ ing story is told : A certain profes sor, who made the unusual complaint of insomnia, was advised to consult a New York physician. Lie did so, and the latter, after a most thorough :. examination of heart, -lungs and all the vital organs, pronouncea the pro fessor absolutely sound. "I am at a loss," the doctor said, "to account tor it. You seem perfectly well. Per haps something is preying upon your mind?" "Oh no," said the professor, "nothing at all." "Perhaps you have some business cares?" "No; nothing of that sort." "And yet you say that you get no sleep at night?" "Oh, I no ! I never said that. I'm all right at night; but its insomnia in the day time that bothers me !" fE Civillzatian AmDong the Redskins. Salt Lake River Valley, News. As an evidence of what civilization is doing for the Indians, we noticed last Wednesday, in one of our stores, the purchase of an immense wire bustle by a young and giddy Pima squaw. She was quite particular, and finally selected one of the wire arrangements with blue trimmings.