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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884. NO. 37. VOLUME XXV1IL |||
OF THE PAST.
White flowers lie upon her breast;
Her throbbing pulses are at rest;
A circlet glimmers on her head;
She is a queen, and she is dead.
Around her all is very still;
"Unchanged, behind a changeless hill,
The western sun forever dips,
And dying splendors kiss her lips.
Her passive hand a scepter holds;
Her raiment falls in stately folds;
Her lashes slumber on her cheek;
The world would listen did sho speak.
She Will be still forevermore:
Though crowned king or emperor
Made bare his treasury for her,
The quiet lips will never stir.
She will be stid; but all around,
Voices, which speak without a sound,
Bid tender chords awake and thrill,
Telling of her, though she is stillTelling
how days had winged feet,
How childish nights had slumber sweet,
And little many-colored dream*
Shone through the dark in fitful gleams.
Then kindly Nature round in curled,
The skies bent down to cla<p the world,
And every star, a beacon-light,
Was steadfast on its stately height.
Content, we fronted wonders new.
Rainbow and thnnder, flro and dew,
And deemed the very highway sod
* Untrodden till we caine and trod.
And golden were the days of youth,
When all was beauty, joy and truth,
When sordid wealth na> nothing worth,
For Lore in splendor walked the earth.
Oh sweet, untroubled vision, stay!
Cease thou, importunate To-day,
Cease eager toil, and clamor shrill!
We are with her?aud she is still.
?Harper's Magazine.
NEW YORK WORKING GIRLS.
. Innumerable lies have been told about
New York girls, says a correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer. I don't think
that I ever picked up an out-of-town
paper in which there was any mention ,
tL'Knfovnr i\f Vnu* W?rlr rrirlc wit limit
finding at least half a dozen errors be- j
fore I got through with the article. The
pictures which represent New York girls
as playing leap-frog on Fifth avenue, j
driving four-in-hand coaches down
Broadway and acting as female barbers |
for the fun of the thing, are sufficiently
ridiculous to us. It is quite within the
bounds of possibility, however, that
somewhere the pictures are believed.
I doubt if anywhere on earth, except
in the coal mines of England, a more
wretched, poverty-stricken, unhappy and
miserable lot of women can be found
than the shirt-makers of New York, i
There are thousands of these women, and j
they work all day long and part of every
v night for a miserable pittance. The
work is excessively hard. They make
the garments for the big dealers, and so
great is the competition that a day's
labor, extending from 7 o'clock in
the morning till 10 at night, results in
the munificent stipend of forty-five cents
a day! They live in garrets and cellars,
and they arc, without exception, wan,
sickly-looking and weary. It is rather
odd that a majority of shirt-makers are ,
women who, by birth and natural advantages,
are very much above the average
of women workers.
I remember one Saturday afternoon
some time ago I had occasion to visit a
large shirt house in Eldridge street when !
the women were presenting theiv checks '
for payment. It was the end of the
week, and they had all brought in their '
work. There were perhaps one hundred !
and fifty of them in line waiting to be }
paid at the cashier's desk. They had
brought their work during the week,and
had received a check for each piece as it
was returned. At the end of the week
they presented all their checks for payment.
The sum which each woman re- I
ceived was actually pitiable, and it is im- |
possible to conceive how they can live ;
and support their families on so little ,
money. As they stood in line I was
struck by the extraordinary delicacy of
the majority of the faces. There was
not a healthv-lookinc woman in the ;
entire crowd, and the majority had the ;
pallid look common to those who spend ;
the most of their time indoors. Most
of them wore faded bonnets and were
wrapped tightly in old shawls. Fully
three-quarters of the number wore gloves
very much out at the finger-ends. Among '
them were a number of faces which in
^ former years hud undoubtedly been
those of thoroughly attractive women. 1
They were quiet, self-contained and reserved.
There was not a womai among
them who did not look as though she
was fit for a better livelihood than that |
of making shirts. I spoke to the pro- .
prietor about it, and he said:
" It is always a mystery to me. These ;
women work like galley-slaves and ruin j
their health because they think it is
more respectable to do this sort of a I
thing than to go out to service. More
than that?and this is the strangest part
of it all?they conceive that this work is
very much higher toned than that of a
shop-girl. They are overcome by the |
idea of being their own mistresses, and
so continue at the drudgery. Probably
three-fourths of the women here in line
could get good comfortable homes, easy
hours and abundant food if they would go
out as chambermaids or cooks, but they J
leave that sort of _thing to emigrants,
and toil on here."'
Probably after the shirt-girls in point
of wretchedness come the women and
girls who work in factories of various
sorts. They are obliged to get to work
at C o'clock in the morning, and they arcnot
released till G at ni lit. They make
all sorts of things, from paper boxes to
delicate flowers. They are herded in the
lofts of immense buildings in manufacturing
districts of the city, and are a
class distinct aud separate from any
other in New York. They affect to
despise the more showy shop girls and
the more miserable shirt-makers, and are
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special line. Th y have reason to be, for
of all wage-workers in New York they
are the most sensible. When a woman
of that class goes out to work it is as
I necessary that she should choose some
special branch as it is for a boy who
starts in life to choose a particular trade.
Women who excel in any of the various
grades of the numerous manufacturing
industries in New York command good
prices and are never in need of work.
That they have to work very hard is indisputable.
I shall never forget one woman who
attracted the attention of at least fifty
thousand people a day for several months
in a carpet factory near the elevated road.
The factory in question is situated directly
opposite and within twenty feet of
the Third avenue elevated station at
Chatham square. From the station could
be seen several hundred women sewing
carpets on clanging and clattering machines
al! day long. Business men who
came dawn in the morning and were
obliged to get off at Chatham square, so
as to connect with the branch road to the
City Ilall. watched the women curiously
as thev waited for their trains. At night
when they waited in the same place they
watched them again until their train came
along. More than fifty thousand did this
every day in the year. One morning in
the early part of May last the eyes of
every man were attracted toward the
southern window of the building?the
one nearest the station. A new-comer
had taken charge of the machine which
faced the window. She was a remarkably
handsome woman, and she charmed
the eyes of the multitude from the moment
she made her appearance. She had
a superb figure, shapely arms, magnificent
black eyes, lots of color, and regular
features. Occasionally she glanced
down at the multitude, who watched her
eagrerly, but she never smiled at the
' du'des, nor gave the slightest glance of
recognition to the bankers, brokers
and respectable merchants who glared at
her so amorously. She was a subject of
conversation every morning for a long
time after she made her appearance.
The men looked for her as regularly as they
looked at the city hall clock. When she
first appeared her black aair was' drawn
neatly down over her forehead and gathered
in a tight roll at tfee back of her
tad. She wore a bit of something
white about her neck, and looked refreshing
and pretty. This was just before
the hot weather began. Gradually the
woman began to fade; the heavy carpets
which she was compelled to stitch
became dusty, and the glare from the
street and the heat of the air made the
work more and more trying every day.
She began to show truces of fatigue; she
grew heavy-eyed; her hair, which had
formerly been neatly arranged, was allowed
to straggle over her brow, and the
neatness which had characterized her
whole appearance disappeared before the
| oppression of the heat and the awful
| amount of work which she was obliged
' to do every day. Her face grew thinner
and thinner, the color departed from her
cheeks and black circles came under her
eyes. The fifty thousand men stared
at her every day, observed the change
and commented upon it. By the time
the scorching heat of July had come
slip hud wasted awav to a mere skele
ton. The ]>;ilc and wan cheek
; was heightened by a hectic flush, and her
I eyes were unnaturally bright. The fifty
thousand men looked at her and bet ten
to five among themselves that she wouldn't
last until August 1. Those who had put
up money on the endurance of the poor
creature were more interested in her than
ever. One passenger, a produce broker,
whom I knew, said to me one morning:
"I look for that face at the window and
for the roof of the Produce exchange
every morning with the utmost anxiety.
If that tace goes away before August 1, I
l shall lose $25. If 1 find a flag on the
1 roof of the Produce exchange I will know
1 that some of the members are dead, and
: I hat will cost me $10 more. I can never \
I draw a long breath until I have seen both
lotteries and am safely housed in my of!
lice.''
The broker lost his money. Shortly before
August 1 the fifty thousand men
were shocked or gladdened, as the case
might be, by seeing in the place of the
beautiful girl who had so long sat framed
in by the window a raw-boned, scrawny
and freckled woman, with a face so positively
ugly that it would stop a Chinese
funeral. Speculation was rife as to what
had become of the girl. One day three
of us were going up town about 3 o'clock
in the afternoon in August, talking as
usual about the carpet girl, when somebody
proposed that we should go up into
the carpet house and ask about her. For
a moment it seemed a rash and dreadful
thing to do. But after a little thought
we descended the steps and climbed to
th/. cnprtnrl stnrv of the buildiner. When
we got there we were stared at by several
hundred employes, and guyed unmercifully
until we found the superintendent.
He was a little man, with a qnick, nervous
manner, and a bald head. AVe
stated our errand to him as quickly as
possible. He said:
' It is astonishing how much interest
that girl created. You are only three of
three thousand men who have come up
to ask about her. ller history was not
remarkable in any respect, and she is
now doing quite well."'
"What became of her?"
"You seem very anxious to know,''
said the little man with a very hard
twinkle of his right eve us he stared
at us.
"Yes, we have come all the way up
here to see if we couldn't find out what
had become of her. We have no base
or sinister motives. We are moved simply
by curiosity."
"No doubt," said the little man, with
a.\. ^ ? Urtwl / ItffAt* in hlo ftvo TKflPO
lilt: >UU1C I1UIU 111 mo vjv. iuviv
was a painful pause. We stood and
stared at each other, while the operatives
kept on with their guying, and the little
man kept on with his staring. Finally,
after a long wait, some one of our party
said:
"Well, what the deuce did become of
her?*'
"She married," said the little man,
laconically. There was another dreary
pause. Finally I mustered up courage
enough to say:
"Who?"
"Me," said the little man.
Then we left.
Another distinct class of New York
girls are those who are under fourteen
years of age,and who are obliged to work
for a living. They are the cash girls in
the big dry goods stores, the errand
girls in small shops, and the workers
in factories. One day I was walking
along West Broadway, when a sign
from the second story of a low brick
building attracted my attention. The
sign said: "Torpedoes made here."
Impelled by curiosity, and having nothing
on my hands, I wandered up stairs.
There in a little room in the rear of the
house I found about sixty girls, none of
whom were over thirteen years of age.
They were the most woe-begone, stunted
little things that I have ever seen. There
was something pitiable in their wretchedness.
They were making torpedoes.
One batch of little girls filled a number
of holes in square boards, which they
held upon their laps, with the pebbles
and silver, of which toy torpedoes are
made. Other little girls took the boards
from them and stamped paper Into the
holes on top of the silver and pebbles.
Others extracted the material from the
holes and wrapping it up in other bits of
brown paper. All of them wore little
leather aprons and their hands and arms
were almost black from the work. Their
movements were quick. They were as
solemn as judges. The superintendent,
an old German, carried a rattan. The
children worked from seven until five.
They received sixty cents a day. These
are a few of the many classes in New
York.
Exercise as a Remedy for the Nervous.
Dr. Oswald writes in Popular Science
Monthly: "When I reflect on the immunity
of hard-working people from the
effects of wrong and over-feeding," says {
I)r. Boerhaave, "I cannot help thinking
that most of our fashionable diseases
miirht be cured mechanically instead of
chemically, by climbing a bitterwood
tree, or chopping it down, if you like,
rather than swallowing a decoction of its
j disgusting leaves." For male patients,
gardening, in all its branches, is about as
fashionable as the said diseases, and no
j liberal man would shrink from the ex-,
! pense of a board fence, if it would inI
duct* his drug-poisoned wife to try her
; hand at turf-spading, or at hoeing, or
' even a bit of wheelbarrow work. Lawntennis
will not answer the occasion.
There is no need of going to extremes
and exhausting the little remaining
strength of the patient,
but without a certain amount of
j fatigue the specific fails to operate, and
experience will show that labor with a
I practical purpose?gardening, boat-rowing,
or amateur carpentering?enables
people to beguile themselves into a far
greater amount of hard work than the
drill-master of a gymnasium could get
them to undergo. Beside the potential
J energy that turns hardships into playwork,
athletics have the further advantage
of a greater disease-resisting capacity.
Their constitution does not
yield to every trifling accident; their
nerves can stand the wear and tear of ori
dinacy excitemeuis; a little change in
i he'weather does not disturb their sleep;
they can digest more than other people.
Any kind of exercise that tends to
strengthen?not a special set of muscles,
but the muscular system in general?has
a proportionate influence on the general
i vigor of the nervous organism, and thereI
by on its pathological power of resist
mice.
For nervous children ray first prescrip\
tion would be?the open woods and a
J merry playmate; for the chlorotic affections
of their elder comrades?some diverting,
but withal fatiguing, form of
manual labor. In the minds of too many
parents 'here is a vague notion that
rough work brutalizes the character,
, The truth is, that it regulates its defects:
| it calms the temper, it affords an outlet
i to things that would otherwise vent
| themselves in fretfulness and ugly pas|
sions. Most school-teachers know that
' city children are more fidgety, more irritable
and mischievous than their village
comrades; and the most placid females
of the genus homo are found
1 among the well-fed but hard-working
j housewives of German Penns3*lvania.
! In France nearly all the railroad ticket
i and signal clerks are women, who are
j paid as much as men. They are proI
ferred because of their sobriety.
| The wooden boxes that bring orangeg
from,Florida are manufactured m Maine.
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A BONANZA KING'S RISE.
CABEEB OF MACXEY, THE CALIFOBNIA
MILLIONAZBE.
A Big- Jmni) from Comparative Poverty
to liumciiMC Wealth?How lie
.Tlftdc Hi* ITIoni').
j A recent issue of the Louisville Cour\
ier-Jounutl gives the following account
i of the career of one of the wealthiest
1 mnn Jn thr. world' A mnnrr f he numbers
"" " " v' ' ? ?n
of men who lmve leaped from com paraj
tivc poverty and obscurity in this couni
try in the past half century, none stand
| out more prominently than John W.
i Mackey, the California millionaire, at
I present living in Paris. Ilis name is
known all over the continent, and the
vast project of laying another cable
: across the Atlantic, bringing the other
J continent into instantaneous connection
with ours, with which he is so greatly
J identified, brings him before the people
j again. To those familiar with his career
I in the past few years and knowing his
! immense wealth and splendid surroundj
ings, it seems almost miraculous that,
i within the memory of comparatively
young men he was poor and obscurp,
without a dollar in the world. Although
much has been writteu and said about
him, as a matter of course, but few per- j
sons are acquainted with his early life, j
and the fact that he was at one \
j time a resident of this city has never
been made public. As a reporter was
[ passing down Main street yesterday, a
| gentleman standing at me corner m i
Twelfth street remarked: "You see that j
building over there?" pointing to the
house on the northwest corner of Twelfth j
and Main. Upon the reporter's replying j
in the affirmntivc, he continued: "I sup- I
pose it would surprise a number of persons
to know that Mackey once lived
there, and kept a saloon. The story is
not generally known, as he was not a
man of wide acquaintance, and when ho j
left the city all thought of him died j
out. Of those who used to take drinks J
from his hands across the counter, but j
few recognize him in his new sphere.
"Along aoout 1845 Mackey came to
thiS'City in company with one or two
others in search of employment, lie was i
a young man, strong, active and willing J
to work at almost anything which would i
afford him a good living. An old two- J
story frame building stood at the corner ;
over there, and the front room had been :
used as a saloon. The proprietor closed j
up a few months before, however, and
the building was left without a tenant, j
Mackey had some little money, and as j
the location was a good one lie resolved j
to start a bar-room there. He made a j
bargain with the proprietor and secured i
the place, opening up about a week later, j
The room and its fixtures would be in j
strong contrast with the fine saloons of j
the present day, with their gilded counters
and fancy bars. The walls were !
covered with a simple coat of white paint J
and the counter was a long narrow one j
made of pine boards. Behind it was a j
shelf on "which sat some bottles and j
glasses. His coming was not taken much <
notice of and none felt enough interest to
inquire from whence he came or who he
was. lie was an energetic and industrious
man, polite and attentive to his customers,
and his short figure and smiling
face conld be seen at all times behind
the bar. lie soon built up a very good
trade, but he never appeared satisfied. {
It was evident that he was not intended i
for such an avocation in life, as he was !
restless, and, like Micawber, constantly j
waiting for something to turn up.
"The long-looked-for day finally ar- j
rived, and he started for California,little ;
expecting that such good fortune as fell j
to his lot was awaiting him. In 1849 '
the gold fever was at its height, and
every day emigrants were leaving for the \
Pacific coast, eager to reap the harvest !
of gold which they confidently expected |
irntvi nwnitimr thorn Mlirkf'V WftS one i
of the first persons in this city to be
afflicted with the fever, and he endeavored
to induce a number of friends to go
with him. A party of about twenty-five
was finally made up, and he was one of
the leaders iii it. He sold his property ;
interests for a small sum, and that was .
the last heard of him until he jumped j
suddenly into the lap of fortune.
"I was," said the gentleman, "in Cali- !
fornia at the time of his arrival there, I
and watched his career with considerable
interest. He had previously known Flood
and O'Brien, and they were very fast .
friends. They were at. that time keeping
a saloon in San Francisco and Mackcy ;
worked in the mines. The two famous ;
fields of wealth then were the California I
and the Consolidated Virginia, and he j
worked in both of them. lie was a very
shrewd man, tolerably well educated,
and had some little knowledge of civil
engineering. lie clearly saw that money
invested in the stock of either of these
mines was sure to bring good results,
and every dollar he could raise was in- j
vested in that way. At his instance j
Flood and O'Brien went in with him,
and the three purchased stock at $8 a
share. Soon afterward it went up to $7,
and gradually increased to $18. In this
simple manner their forlunes were made,
and almost before they knew it they
were wealthy men. Maekey then lived
in a frame house on Sutter street, anu
his figure became a familiar one to the
frequenters of the mines.
"He was not married then, but met the
woman who became his wife soon afterward.
This in itself is a little romance,
and illustrates his character. She was
a widow when he became acquainted
with her, and was the daughter of Major
Hungleford, of New Orleans. She mar
ried a doctor and moved to Nevada city,
where her husband died soon afterward.
He was a poor man and left his wife and
child in rather destitute circumstances.
Mackey heard of this some months later,
aud started a subscription for the widow's
benefit, contributing liberally himself,
and raising a neat little sum. This so
touched the widow's heart that she '
called on him to thank him for his kind- |
ness. She was young and pretty, with i
a childish face and winning ways .and '
captured Mackey's heart completely, j
His courtship was a quiet one and of
short duration, and soon the pretty j
widow united her destiny with his.
Mackey was then a rich man, but he kept !
widening his field of action, until in con- |
nevtion with Flood, O'Brien and Fair, he j
established the Nevada bank, and Louis !
Median went from Baltimore to manage j
it. Since that time Mackev's career has .
been familiar to almost every school-boy.
A TJath iti a Japanese Water fall.
Arima has a great name for its mineral j
springs, says a Japan letter to the Pall
Mall Gazette. At the baths the water
came hot out of the earth. We drank of
them twice daily for a week when at the
"hermitage." Hut they are so strongly
impregnated with iron and soda that
they disagreed with us. We resorted to
stratagem to get rid of them without of- j
fending our doctor, wlio believed the hot j
springs were fountains of "jouvence"? j
an opiuion shared by the natives. Near j
the house was a delightful waterfall. ;
Dick, following the example of some ]
English missionaries, adopted the plan i
of taking an early shower-bath m its 1
spray. lie was delighted with the
change, and used to come home refreshed
and exhilarated. One line morning,
however, as he was enjoyiug the
spray, a viper shot by his foot, and lie
thought for a moment wanted to dart at
it. lie jumped away, and when he j
turned around to pelt the reptile it was j
half way in a hole, so that he only i
wounded it. This incident spoiled his ,
pleasure. A place that harbored such 1
ugly tenants was no longer charming. I
j The Japanese look with artists' eyes at |
their most dreadful serpents. The realism I
with which they model, paint, and
enamel them in decorative mohair is
' quite startling. One evening I was made
miserable by a serpent shooting itself
out of a hollow bamboo-rod. It was artificial;
but 1 did not kuow this until it j
was told me. Nobody could on tU?) ;
evidence of the eye alone have detected \
the unreality.
Ask Ma.
An inquisitive youngster asked this
i question one morning at the breakfast '
j table: "Pa, how is it a jury can con- j
vict a man of manslaughter when he
killed a woman?" Pa, bolting hifl breakfast?"Ask
your ma; she knows more
about manslaughter than I do."
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LOVE. LAW AND POETRY,
A CURIOUS BREACH OF FROMISS
CASE PLEADING.
I rhc Fair PlaiutirPN Complaint and
| the l>cfcniinnt'N AiiMtvcr ITIudc in
Verne?A I'nujiic Suit.
A courtship has not unfrcqucntly pro1
voked the interested parties to poetry,
but the only ca?e in which the rhyming
was kept up after a suit had been entered
fur breach of promise lias been brought
to light in Brooklyn. The suit owed its
celebrity to the fact that all the pleadings
were written in mirth-provoking rhyme, i
This novel proceeding was probably with*
out a recorded precedent in the history ol
American jurisprudence, and was given i
the widest publicity in the papers through '
put the country at the time the suit was <
Instituted. i
The story was regarded by many as a 1
mere newspaper fiction. Lawyers differed
in their opinions as to the legality
of pleadings so unique in style and as to
whether a suit could be legally insti- i
luled in such a manner. Some thought '
that no court would entertain a case 1
brought before it on pleadings of so ex- i
traordinary and frivolous a character;
while others contended that the complaint i
and answer were strictly legal, the plaintill
having set forth every fact required ]
by law to be alleged. <
The following unique declaration was i
filed in the case:
City Court of Brooklyn.
Arabella 1'arlhenia Featherstone
against
J. Uriah Allibone. 1
The p'aintiff, in seeking redress for her woes,
Comes into court and respectfully shows:
x.
That she now resides, ah! mire is the pity,
In Ten Eyek street, all alono in this city.
The defendant, too. is ro-;iding here?
But not alone, as will later appear.
ii.
That in 1870
The plaintiff said, Parthenia,
Resided with her relatives
In the State of Pennsylvania.
A single worran she had lived
Since birth?just thirty years?
With heart untouched by Cupid's dart
And ohceks unwet by tears,
Until the said Uriah came?
'Twas first of last J illy?
Tnfkh fnr trnnt. nml norch. and bream.
With tackle, hook aurl fly,
He wandered up an I down tho stream t
Tlia bubbled oer the stones? '
faw nio one day, bowed low and said, t
'My na'iie is Altibone."
from then he nev.*r lishod again?
At least, har.lly ever?
Unless he had mc by his side,
His darling Arabella.
He told to me tho old. old tale;
How new it was to me!
Declared I was his own true love,
Himself from wedlock free.
Oh! oh! tho happy days we spent
A-wandering by tho stream;
But now, alas! they are no more,
And all seems but a dream.
in 6
One day?July tin twenty fl,-st? {
With wandering steps and slow, t
He came and asked me "Be my bride, j,
And share my joy and woer"
And I, with trembling Hps, announced
My life was his for aye, c
And fixed November twenty-third 1
To be the wedding day; J
And all my hopes were soaring high
As dark November's moans
Pro claimed the days were drawing nigh 1
When I'd bo Allibone's. f.
iv. t
I've learned t io late that men betrayNo
soothing art can euro
The soul-fe t wound that Cupid left ^
Where once my heart was pure. t
Confiding in his promises , a
[ waited patiently, 1 r
Until Novemb?r came around
An 1 he should call for me.
But ere November came around, S
Tl.? lr>er f
IllOUllllUUl..H ...B ....
Woo d ami won a city maid, a
And had a city wedding.
And now forsaken and forlorn,
The victim of love's ravages? c
Moc!.e<l at home and jeered abroad r
I ask the court for damages. ?]
Also for the costs of suit,
By way of satisfaction,
The plaintiff a-ks the court to give ?
To carry on the action. i
i
v. r
Ton- thousand dollars is the sum, *
Though it would not requite me, ?
Twill teach Uriah, anyway, \
How much it costs to slight me. f
Se-nler & Towns, attorneys for plaintiff,
City of Brooklyn, County of Kings, ss. r
Arabella Parthpnia Featherstone, C
1 he plaintiff, being du y sworn, r
Says: I have read the facts above? r
Kama are true of mv knowledge born, <
Save the defendant's vows o( love,
And as to those I d 1 declaro t
I did believa him?that I swear. s
Aral eVa Parihenia Featherstone. t
Sworn to before me this I2:ith day of March,
1SS0. '
4 Augustus M. Price, ?
Notary public. i
Kinjrs county, N. Y. a
Mr. Fales, the defendant's attorney, is a
not one of those persons who must sub- a
mit to a surgical operation before he can |
Bee the funny side of things. He en- r
tered into the spirit of the situation and t
with the consent of his client he iiled an y
answer which, regarded as a specimen of a
special pleading, is quite equal to some e
of the prose efforts of the old school d
pleaders. o
To the plaintiff's unique complaint, v
the defendant tiled the following unique k
answer. c
n
City Court of Brooklyn.
The p aintiff, A. 1'. Feathers tone, I
vs. t
J. Uriah Allibone. ];
Unto the complaint the defendant replies,
And every and each allegation denies;
And second, defendant doth further reply, a
That he was at the tim , viz., 1st of July, V
When he met the said plaintiff, already en- 1
gaged |
To marry a widow both wealthy and aged, .
And that the said wedding was thoroughly 1
known t
And offo'ii discussed by Miss Belle Feather- r
stone;
And that with said plaintiff his only relation
Was the love called platonic and known as '
flirtation; 0
And further, that both tho said plaintiff and
he
Did only for fun and not marriage agree.
And that ho no promise of marriage nad
broken,
As never such fubject was dreamed of or
spoken.
A furthor answer, and his third;
That the said plaintiff gave her word
Uj)on November twenty-third
To marry James It. Wilder;
And that upon the fifth or March,
Corner of .Seventh strict and Arch,
Said Vedder J. did wkI her.
Judgment that said complaint should b^
Dismissed, d?fen lant aslc-;. anil a-iks to boot
Thaf plaintiff mado t'> pay should be
To him tho legal cost* of suit,
William F. Fates, Deft's Attorney.
Kings County?Allibone, J. U.,
First being sworn in manner due,
Says the foregoing answer's true.
Sworn befi re me,
March twmty-three,
Lascho, D. Frederick,
Notary Public;
Eighteen-cighty, the year of date.
Count}' of Kings and New York State.
J. Uriah Alliboue. i
I
lie Kccognizcd It. t
A Philadclphian was sitting in n mining '
broker's ollice, in Virginia City, one (lay .
last fall, when a stranger entered and
showed him a pound hunk of silver ore
which was at least ninety per cent, pure ' i
stutl". j ,
"Found that on one of my hills," he
said, as he drew up a chair and sat A
down. "
The ears of the man from the Quaker '
city began to work, and his heart to j {
thump. The native looked green, and ! ?
perhaps he didn't know the value of that I ,
hill. ' 1
" What you got ?"' asked the broker, , 1
as he came from behind his desk. | *
"Oh, nuthin' much? jist a little hunk j *
f found on one of my hills," was the I *
reply.
The broker took the hunk, carefully j
examined it for a minute, and then quietly \
remarked: j g
" Yes, I recognize it. T sold that hunk j i
four weeks a<ro to salt a hill in the next ' r
county ! I'lcasc put it in your coat-tail j
pocket and move on. It's too rich for i
our blood!"? Wall Street News.
Meteorology ntid Finance.
"F'inc morning, your honor," affably i
remarked the man who was arrested the
night before for being drunk and disorderly.
" Yes, indeed," heartily responded the
justice; "quite a fine morning; in fact,
a ten-dollar line morning."
After this little pleasantry, the gentleman
was booked for the 44 Black Maria,"
and the business of the court went on as
usual.?Free Press.
Give work rather than alms to the
poor. The former drives out indolenoe,
the latter industry. * 1
SACRED WHITE ELEPHANTS.
THE ANIMAL THAT IS WORSHIPED
IN THE EAST.
nadcancmbcr of tho Royal Family?
li* Capture and Life?Burial
Ceremonies j
It is the general impression that the
white elephant is specifically different
from others, but this is not the case. 01
the fourteen or more various elephants
that formerly existed in this country,
Europe and Africa, only two, the African
and Asiatic, are alive to-day, and white
elephants arc likely to occur among
either. Albinism, however, occurs more
frequently among the Indian races than
any other, and it is merely the result ot
the absence of the minute particles of
coloring matter that the microscope
ithows us in the lowest layer of the epidermis,
or what we call outer skin, that
is. the color-tfivinjr layer. j
Albinos have always been regarded '
with superstition in the East; especially
lire white monkeys reverenced, and records
from the earliest times contain mention
of them. The common white ani- I
mals were prized, and quite naturally the
rare ones were reverenced by a people !
nmong whom superstition has reigned
for centuries, and so it comes that the
possession of these creatures is consid- j
Dred the greatest possible honor. It is'
*aid that the king of Ava is called the
"Lord of the White Elephants," and j
considers it one of his proudest titles.
Twelve years ago the king of Siam at
Bangkok received intelligence that a
baby white elephant had been captured ;
:n the northeastern portion of British :
Burmah, in the vicinity of Tounghoo.
[t was brought to the capital with magnificence
and pomp, and nursed on the
tvny and later by twelve native women
selected especially for the honor. Even
inder this treatment the infant died, and
:hc nation went into mourning, all occu
Rations ceasing for several days, and the
;ntirc populace shaving their heads.
Suclj attention is not surprising when
t is realized that the white elephant, be
ic mottled, yellow, brown, or gray, is
;onsidered and looked upon as a memjerof
the royal family, ranking next to
he queen. As a matter of course, less
mportant officials and dignitaries arc
tnxious to claim relationship to it; hence
he king of Cambodia calls himself the
'First Cousin of the White Elephant;"
he prime minister of Siam, the "General
)f the Elephants." The king of Burmab
s styled the "Lord of the Celestial Eleihant,"
the king of Siam the "Master of
Hany White Elephants," and the foreign
ninister of Cochin-China "Mandarin of
21ephants," which,in fact, arc only a few
>f the titles acquired by attendance upon
hese pampered brutes.
The royal white elephant has its corps
>f attendants of royal blood, mnndarins
>f the highest class, its cabinet, its
pecial priest and medical attendant, or
generally those who divide their services
jetween the elephant and the human
ting. In years gone by the white ele>hant
has been worshiped by all classes
tnd considered sacred as being the temjorary
abode of a mighty Buddha. It is
iow regarded as a deity and worshiped
)V the Tower classes, the most intelligent
lobles only considering it an omen of
food luck to possess them, and an honor;
nit this regard is carried to such an exrcmc
that it is akin to worship.
As early us 1500 the white elephant
vas the cause of numberless wars bewcen
Siamand other outlying kingdoms,
ind during one conflict over one of the aninals
five kings and thousands of soldiers
verc killed. The animals are found by
iccident when hunting for others, and
he discovery is the making of the finder,
is he is immediately, no matter how low
lis condition, made a mandarin, exmpted
from all taxation for life, and
ewarded with a large sum of money.
The news of the capture is carried to the
:apital by a special messenger, and a seaon
of rejoicing begins. A proper placc
s at once prepared for its reception, and
ts attendants appointed from the highest
loblcs in the land. These proceed to
lie place of capture, conveying choice
fifts. If the captivc has been bound
nth ropes, these emissaries change them
or others of scarlet or white silk, and
ich canopies of silver, white and goldloih,
fans of feathers, coverings and
ich robes arc all used to protect the
lewlv discovered member of the royal
amily from the heat, cold or from trou>lcsomc
ftisects. If near a navigable
tream, a vessel is especially prepared for
he purpose, decked with silk, gilt and
irecious stones, and covered with a canopy
copied from that of the royal palace
tself. Thus in gorgeous trappings the
nimal sails down the river, receiving the
cclamation of the villages on the way
nd showers of gifts.
If taken overland, it is escorted by
aandarins and nobles and other elephants
hat conduct it through the farms, the
icople offering up their possessions with
free hand. When once the city the
ntire population enters upon u three
lays' time of rejoicing. The mandarins
if the nation now present their gifts,
irhich are often of the most expensive
;ind. One lately described was a vase
if solid gold that weighed 480 ounces,
^he animal is placed in the royal stall
irepared for it, its surroundings being
hose of a monarch. One nobleman
(rushes insects from it; another feeds
t with choice lruits. About its tusks
re bracelets or bands of solid gold,
vliile the blankets that cover its ugly
lody arc of the richest stuffs that can
)e obtained. If of a vicious disposition,
t is shackled to the ground by a chain
hat is gilded or plated, and made as
ich and expensive us possible.
If the white elephant dies, it is conidered
a national loss. The body lies in
tatc for soinc time, and then is placed
ipon a magnificent funeral pyre composed
if the choicest stuffs and woods, the gifts
if thousands of mourners. Valuable log9
if sassafras, sandal, and other aromatic
voods are used and finally lighted, the
ire being kept up by four enormous gilt
>cllows, one at each corner, that are
>lo\vn by noWemen. When the body is
entirely cremated, it is allowed to lie
hree days, when the sacred ashes are
:ollectcd by a mandarian and placed in
<aluable urns, which are conveyed to the
icmeterv of the King and buried with
nuch ceremony. This would naturally
?e the last of the animal, but now arcliiccts
and builders are gathered, and the
mtcome of their conference and labor is
i mausoleum built over the ashes, of
ichest design and workmanship, and to
his placc devoted mourners often go,
caving gifts in memory of the great ciemrted.
The money value of the white elephant
s difficult to determine, and what was
laid for the one that is to be exhibited
o the Parisians and Londoners before
eachinir this countrv. will nrobablv
icver be known. Fifty thousand dolars
is given by Sir John Bowring, an
mthority on white elephants, as a posliblc
money value of one, but he also
caves us in doubt by saying that a few
lairs from the white elephant's tail were
vorth a fortune.
This recalls a curious incident of Sii
lohn's visit to the king of Siam. lie was
iharged with a state message to the king,
ind on his return home was presented
vith a golden box with instructions to
iresent it to her majesty as a gift from
he king of Siam. It was delivered to
he queen in due time, and when opened
ound to contain a few hairs from the
ail of one of the king's white elephants.
For the Secret Police.
After one of the frequent changes ol
government in a certain South American 11
in artist, and ordered from him designs
or new styles of official uniforms. "1
ivish," he said, "showy costumes, very
ihowy, for the people like to see them so.
[ have here some designs that I mysell
lave made. Look them over, and adapt
,-our designs to these ideas." The artist 1
ooked over the album of sketches of- i
fered for his inspection by the president.
'Very pretty, very pretty indeed," he 1
jommented. "This is evidently for the
mvy, and this for the army. But, if you j
:>lease, what is this for?this one com- (
sosed of great riding boots, yellow dresi
:oat turned up, and trimmed with purlie,
and a great plume on the three-cor- j
iered hat?" "That is for the secret poice,"
gravely replied the chief of state. (
? i
Rabbit's feet sell for charms in Tusca- <
oosa, GjOj^at $2 each. _ J
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle;States.
About l!i5 gentlemen more or less prominently
conn?cted with the Republican party
In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Maryland met in New
York city for the purpose of perfecting an
Independent Republican organization hav.n'j
for its object the nomination of presidential
candidates at the forthcomine Republican
hational convention who?e record would
" warrant entire confidence in their readiness
to defend the a Ivancos already made
toward divorcing the public service* from
party politic*." Ujion motion of Carl
Schurz a committee was appointed to perfect
an orpani/alion covering all the States and
to take such othor action as may be deemed
expedient.
Thieves entered a jewelry store in Troy,.
^ "v Arum fcoftt n nrl rnrried awav
property valuod at $15,01)0.
Vessels arriving at. Boston report passing
immense icebergs and ice pac'cs. Some
icebergs were from a half to nearly three
miles long, and from 10) t> .*500 feel high.
George William Curtis has accepted
the invitation of the Boston city government
to deliver the eulogy on Wendell Phillips,
and has selected April 10 as the time for its
deliver}'.
A national bird show has been held in
Boston, with more than '.',000 entries.
Thomas B. Marshall, a prominent citizen
of Girardville, Penn., committed suicide
by cutting hi.s throat. Heavy financial losses
led to the act.
An ocean steamer collided with a tug boat
near New York, and the latter went to the
bottom with two of her crew.
Representatives of prison management
from twenty-two States met in New Yoric
and discussed the various methods of managing
prison*.
At Newport, R. I., the officers and crew
of the revenue cutter Dexter were publicly
? resented r solutions reco mixing their galintry
in aiding the survivors of the City of
Columbus disaster.
Ex-Governor R. D. Hubbard died at
Hartford, Conn., of Bright's disease.
A fire in a New York tenement house has
wiped out an entire family. The flames weie
discovered in the early morning, and when
subdued it was found that Cornelius Van
Riper, forty years old, and bis three children
aged resnecti vely thii t ?en,nine and two years,
had been burnei to dea'.h. Mrs. Van Riper,
aged thirty-two years, jumped from a window
and broke her neck.
A proposed b 11 to submit to the people of
the State of New York a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
6ale of liquor was defeated in the State assembly
by sixty-three nays to sixty-one yeas.
William McDonald, a New York city
contractor, was brought before the bar of
the State senate and committed to the Albany
jail for contempt in refusing to answer
questions put to him oy arsenate committee
concerning material furnishe l by him to the
New York department of public works.
South and West.
A fire at Jackson, Mich., destroyed the
Union hotel block, occupied by a hotel,
theatre, savings bank and other business
1 won Knttnnr) f/\ r?no t h an/1
nouses. WHO mail rrtio vv,
four persons were fatally and one seriously
iniured. The pecuniary loss is about $175,
000.
Part of an express train foil through a
bridge on the Hannibal ani St. Joseph railroad
in Missouri. Soveral persons were killed
and about twenty-five injured.
W. B. Cash, son of Colo..el Cash, the duel
ist who killed Colonel Shannon a few years
ago, entered Cheraw, S. C, and after drinking
heavily got into a difficulty with Town
Marshal Richards, who was roughly handled.
Cash then left town, but returned the following
afternoon and approaching Marshal
Richards drew a revolver and rapidly fired
three shots. Tho fir.it ball struck an innocent
bystander named Cowart and the second
hit Richards, both shots causing mortal
wounds. Cash then mounted his horso and
rode rapidly away.
The cabin of Beverly Taylor, a colored
man living near Cincinnati, was burned to
the ground at night, and it was at first
thought that the owner, with his wife and a
Ganachild, had perished in the flames.
iter, however, the bodies of all three were
discovered in the buildi.ig of the Ohio Medical
college, whither they had b;oa carried
for dissection. Allen Ingalls, a noted nezro
body snatdier, was arretted, and confessed
that he a-.d Ben Johnson ha I entered the
cabin and killed the three inmates, taken tho
bodies to a waiting wazon, driven by R. B.
Dickson, and conveyed them to the Cincinnati
medical institution, where they sold the
corpses. Beside the three negroes mentioned,
two others were arrested for complicity in
the terrible crime.
Two Denver (Col.) lodging houses occupied
by railroad laborers were destroyed by
fire and four inmates were burned to death.
Numerous colored men's civil rights
* />?/?nin7n'l ir> fVlA Woof,
leagues are ucmg uigouiM....
The Rev Thomas G. Thurston and his
daughter, aged sixteen years, were drowned
while a: tempting to ford the Catawba river,
near TaylorsviUe, N. C.
Measles is scourging the Zuni Indians, of
New Mexico, and more than 100 have died
within a month. The scenes about the
Indian villages are sickening.
The subsidence of the waters of the swollen
Ohio river has l>een followed by a rise in the
lower Mississippi. For 100 miles above and
below Shreveport, La., the country was reported
under water, and steamers were employed
in bringing people and s'ock to places
of security. The river was filled with floating
debris and dead cattle.
Two Chicago boys who had been bitten by
mad dogs died in dreadful agony of hydro
phobia.
J. 0. Beach, of Rideeway. Minn., shot
and killed his wife, from whom ho had been
divorced, and then put an end to his own existence.
Four boys, from ten to sevonteen years
old, while out hunting near Omaha, Neb.,
caused an explosion in a powder house containing
six tons of powder. All four were
blown to atomsA
pitched battle took place in Clavton
county, Ky., between four members of the
Burke family and two members of ths Clayton
family. Tho trooble grew out (5f an improper
remark regarding a female member
of tne Burke family,made by one of the Claytons.
The battle resulted in the death of one
Clayton and fatal wounding of the oiher
and the death of one Burke and wounding of
another.
A special dispatch from Spokane Falls,
Washington Territory, says that the rush
to tho recently discovered Coeur d'Alene
mines in Idaho during the spring and sum
mer will l>e oveiwhelming. Already the
craze has spread so that miners are flocking
to the place without the prospect of earning
a penny in some time. Telegraph and telephone
lines are beii g pushed through the
snow, and capital has b -en subscribed for
staee lines, a railroad a id a steam navigation
company. A writer in Fort Keogh says
that, in regard to tho richness of the mines,
oiraeir nn? whn has been on the cround
speaks glowingly of the placar yielT?gold
to the va'ueot from $10 to $310 being gathered.
according to this correspondent, in a
(single day's labor.
Part of a Covington (Ky.) distillery,
which was undermined by the flood, slipped
into the Licking river, with SO,000 gallons of
beer.
Washington:
The state department lias received by
cable intelligence of the suicide of James R.
Partridge, formerly,minister to Brazil and
other South American State*, at Alicante,
Spain. Continued illness is as-iljned n? the
cause. Mr Partridge was appointed a; inirist r
plenipotentiary and envoy extraordina y t>
reruou April f>, l?M>. Ho was one of ihe most
distinguished citizens of Baltimore, an l lia i
been identified with the diplomatic service
of the government for the past twenty years.
The President has nominated Horace
C. Burchard, of Illinois, to be director of the
mint, and Commodore William U. Temple to
be a rear admiral of the navy.
Speaker Carlisle ha* received a lotter
addressed to him personally by several of the
most prominent members "of the liberal
party in the German reichstag, express ng
their high sense of appreciation of theaction
taken bv the House of Representatives as a
token of respect for the memory of the late
Herr Lasker. The letter expresses the liope
that the two nations may develop and continue
in friendship.
The commission appointe 1 by the President
to examine tlio swine industry of the
United Suites has male a report asserting
the healthfulness of American pork products.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Horatio C. Burchard to ba director of the
United States mint.
Representative Hewitt was authorized
by the ways an 1 means committee of
Congress to re|?rt a bill to prevent the imtwrtation
of adulterated teas. The hill is
>ased upon the recent recommendations of
the secretary of the treasury.
Chikk-Enc-ineer Melville, of thelo-st Jeannetto,
will neconpnny the (Jreoly relief expedition
as engineer of the advance sJ?ip
Thetis.
llNt'TKD States F.Mi Commissioner Ellis
is distributing from the national lisli hatchery
at Northvilte, Mich., 7T?,00>,i)() i white
fish minnows for tho oiinin or great
The postofllce appropriation bill, as prepared
liy the House subcommittee, appro*
priates $45,071,0 !l). Tho estimated revenues
Tor tho next fi-cal year arc $47,1(11,11(1 >. The
appropriation for tho current fiscal year id
t44,4S91;VJO.
The House cornmitteo on foreign affairs
agreed by a party vote (De'incrats in fa or.
Republicans opposod> t > a bill proposed by
tho California members so am?ndin? tha
Chitie-e act of last year as to greatly increase
iis restriction upon emigration.
Further confirmations of tho President s
nominations: Max Weber, of New York,
consul at Fa-ites; H. P., Trist, District of
Columbia, consul at Mozambique; Georsre
B. Clark, of Georgia, consul at San Luis
Potosi; Cornelius S. Palmer, < f Vermont,
associate justice of tho supremo court of the
territory of Da'tota.
The American Government has received
an invitation through tho German legation
at Washington to participate in on exhibition
of dairy products at Munich in October
Foreign.
An Indian uprising has occurred in Mani I
toba, British America, and twelve mounted
police sent to quell the disturbanc3 are reported
to have been massacred.
The three men who murdered Count Von
Majlath, president of the court of cassation
at Ofer, Hungary, last March, have been
hanged in Pe?th. A great crowd collected
about the prison and cheered the condemned.
The boiler of the steamer Kotsai, from
Hong Kong to Macao, exploded. Seventeen
passengers?eight of whom were Europeans,
the rest natives?were killed.
Seven thousand Arabs have reinforced
tho insurgent army of Osman Diema in the
Soudan. He has altogether 18,000 men
against 5,000 British troops^
Emperor William, of Germany, and the '
czar of Russia are to have a meeting in the
spring.
Masses of stone fell upon and killed five ;
laborers in a quarry at liienne, Switzerland.
El Mahdi's emissaries are busy through- J
out the whole of Egypt. Thoy go from vil- ,
!a"0 to village bearing the simple message: [
"lam coming Ba ready!" This passes on;
from mouth to mouth, and the situation is
becoming serious.
Shortly after 1 o'clock, a. m., a terrible
explosion occurred in a cloak-room at the
Victoria railway station in Loud >n. The ex
plosive agent was undoubtedly dynamite. A
iarsre portion of the roof was blown off an 1 j
nearly all the glass wor* in the sta'ion was '
destroyed. Seven men were sent to the h is- ,
pital with Revere injuries. Ext nsive damage
was dono to surrounding property.
A Russian government committee which
has b^en examining the administration of
Turkestan has discovered a deficiency of
100,000,000 roubles (about $70,000,000) iu the
last fourteen years.
Arthur "VV'ellesley has been elected
speaker of the British house of commons
War prevails am mg the South Sea
Islanders. Twenty natives of one island
were killed in an engagement with the na- j
tives of another island.
The British house of lords has passed the
bill placing greater restriction upon the importation
of ca.tle.
Tennyson, the poet, intends to support in
' the British house of lords the bill legalizing
j marr.aze with a deceased wife's sister.
\V. H. Hunt, United States minister to
i Russia, and ex-secretary or the navy, died in
I St. Petersburg of dropsy. Mr. Hunt was
| born in Charleston, S. C,, in 1834, bat early
' in life move I with his family to Louisiana,
; He was appointed by Hayes a judge of the
| court of claims, a position which h'j held
i when called to President Garfield's cabinet
1 as secretary of the navy. When President
: Arthur reorganized his cabinet, Mr. Hunt
was sent to Russia as minister to succeed Mr.
i Foster.
i Several other beleaguered towns in the
Soudan have surrendered to the False
Prophet's followers.
Mi ch alarm has been create 1 in London
by the discovery of several infernal machine-,
of American manufacture, in railway
stat:ons.
By a collision between the military ana the
people at a festival in Vallareal, Portugal,
i fifteen persons were injured.
Since January 1st there have been sixteen
suicides and two murders at Monte Carlo,
j the notorious gambling center.
MUSICAL AND MAMATIG
Sol Smith Russell has a new play, calle.l
| "The Editor."
! T. C. Scoltron, the colored tragedian
i started on his soutnern tour.
Mme. Modjeski made a great hit in "Nadjesda,"
brought out in New York.
! Seventy different operas were given at
, the Vienna Opera house during 18&'*.
dONNENTHAL, the foremost leading man in
Germany has been engaged for an American
tour.
Charlotte Walker, the soprano, will
' organize an English opera company for next
i season.
i Little Eva French, the child-actress, has
I been takon from the profession aai sent to
school.
Teneseria Tua, the young violinist, comes
to America next October for 100 concerts;
i price, $40,000.
Mme. Ristorj will make her appearance
in this country at the Star theatre, New
York, October 0.
Mme. Marie Durand, the American lady
i who created such a success abroad in the
, opera "Gioconda," will soon return home.
During Edwin Booth's first visit to England
he was supported by a Manchester stock
company, among whom was Henry Irving.
Ten combinations have gone to pieces
recently on the Western circuit, and from all
| accounts the number will shortly bo doubled.
Mrs. Charles Stratton, widow of Tom
Thumb, applied recently to Mayor Edson, of
New York, for a license to open a museum
iu the Bowery.
plan'quette'3 new opera, "inou uwynne,
has made a gTeat success in London. It Is
said to belong to the purest school of Frenc J
cjinic opera and suggests Aub;r.
Harlev, a tenor of the Hoyal Comedy
theatre, dismissed some time ago for singing i
out of time, has recovered ?250 damages
from the director of tho theatre.
Piccolomint, who was an operatic sensation
in tbis country a quarter of a century
ago, is now an old won-.an in very destitute
circumstances. Her condition Is attributed i
to her having married an Italian marquis. |
It is said that Mary Anderson will mak9 a ;
tour of Great Britain next season; the year j
after she will follow Booth's example ani act !
through Germauy, and in the autumn of
1 WO she will begin a thirty-weeks' tour in
this country.
The liberal remuneration secured in France
to dramat c authors, who for each piece
repre ented are entitled by law to a certain
proportion of tho gross receipts, is directly
clue to the ag itation on the subject undertaken
bv Benumarchais.
There are in London 4,000 professors of
music, including vocalists, instrumentalists,
and tenciiers. but excluding musical governesses.
There are about. 200 shopkeepers, musical
instrument makers, and others en^a^ed
in the music traie. In the provinces there
are 6,000, including both classes.
LAST SAD RITES.
Tho Funeral of (he Heroes of the
Jcannette.
The dead heroes of the Jeannette were
borne from the steamship at Jersey City to
New York and thence to the navy yard in |
Brooklyn with military pomp an 1 civil dis I
play. The route of the processio 11 was lined j
by sympathizing thousands,and many houses
were draped in mourning, whiie the flags on
the shipping in the harbor and everywhere
n the city were at half mast. Ten hearses
were used in conveying the remains.
The hearse bearing the body of Seaman
Heinrich H. Knaack was first. Three sailors
and three boys of tho schoolship St. Mary j
were on each sid >. After it in order came
hearses bearing Machinist Walter Lee, Coal
Heaver Nelse Iverson, Seaman Adolph
Dressier, Fireman Georse W. Boyd, Seaman
Carl A. Gortz and Seaman Ah Sam.
The hearse of Jerome J Collins came next,
; and as pall bearers he had twenty friends,
; mostly newspaper men. The body of Sur- '
geon Ambler followed, with ten surgeons as j
fall bearers.
The memorial catafalque of Lieutenant 1
Chipp and the unrecovered dead followed, j
and was the most noticeable object in the 1
line. It was covered with large floral designs.
On tho top wa< a design of the Jeannette,
fully six feet long. The hull was made
of ivy leaves, and the masts were liung with j
vine-. Lilies wera scattered all over it, and
the boats on the davits were filled with violels.
This was from the city of Brooklyn.
The body of Lieutenant-Commander De
! Long, was in the last hearse. Twelve lieu
tenant-command ts acted as his pall bearers.
On his coffin was a wreath of Marechal
Niel roses and laurel, which had been sent by
the American Geographical society.
The little band of men who followed on
foot were tho center of much interest.
These were the survivors of the Jeannette? I
j Chief Engineer Melville, Lieutenant Danen- !
hower, Mr. Newcomb, the natnralist, and |
Ninderm&n, Noros, Wilson, Ton Sine, and j
Bartlett, seamen. "With th ni walked Lieu- '
tenants Berry aud Hunt, of the Rodgers relief
expedition.
Following the survivors of the Jennnette
was a Ions line of carriages occupied by Mrs*
De Long and tho relatives of tho other men
As these passed the Twenty-third aud Sixtyninth
regiments and tho regular army battalion
fell in behiii'l. Their bands played dead
marches and they marcuel slowly,'with re- j
vers -d arms. Tho Hans were tied with |
j crape ami the hilts of the officers' swords |
were hung with crape. Carriages with
invited guests followed. ;
} The remains of Mr. Collins were taken for !
burial to Cork, Ire'and. Surgeon Amb'er's
body was taken to his hoiuj in Fan!
quier county, Va., and that of Fireman
Bovd to Philadelphia. The ro-nains of
tho others wero buried in Woo llawn cemetery,
New York.
| A SEKIE3 OF FATALITIES.
five TIcinlicr* oS si I'aniil)' file, Four'
front I'iro, in Ttvo JHonilii*
! In tho absence of Milton Highland, of Me- '
j chanicsburg, Ind., two months ago, his 1
j house was destr.ive 1 by fire, and his little
girls, seven and four yours old, perished in
I thy llaiues. A month after this his brother's
wifo and child w iv buriivd to death,
with four others, in tho Orr building at |
a lliirii'ninL almost crazed by these i
| calamities, dec dod t < move to 111 liana, for I
I which pla-e ho started a few days a so with I
his wife and a surviving daughter. When alj
most within 'sight of his now homo he was j
taken sick and di"d within a few hours. The j
heart-broken mother, with her litt'o girl, the
only roma ning member of what was two I
months aio a ha-ipy family has returned to j
j the vicinity of her former h'jme almost crazed ;
through grief.
A site has been secured at Lutterworth, j
in England, for the ir.onu nent of John \VyclifTe,
which, it is inteudod, shall b; set up to i
commemorate the five hundredth anniver- I
sary of his dfath.
A FAMILY GONE.
D eadful Scene at a New York
Tenement Fire,
A Whole Family of Five Persons
Lose Their Lives.
Details of the early morning fire in a New
York tenement house in Stanton street, by
which the Van Riper family of five persons
lost their live", are as follows: Men who had
gathered in the street heard a cry from one
of the upper windows. Mrs. Van Riper had
opene 1 the middle window, and was leaning
out. She was clad only in her night dress.
The smoke rolled out thickly around her as she
waved her arms and shouted for help. A
faint voice was heard inside crying, "Save
mo! Rave me!" Mrs. Van Riper placed
her knee on the window sill. Mrs. Presley,
who stood below, cr.ed. " Don't jump. It
will kill you." Mrs. Van Riper answered,
"I must, I?" and, half turning her head,
she fell to the stone walk below. Her head
struck upon the flagpring, and her body was
pitched violently over against a coa box.
She was canned into James Corr's li juor
store on the corner, where she died two minutes
later.
Just before the policeman 8iw the smoke
curling from the w ndows, Frank Weaver,
on the top floor, was aronsed, and ran into
the hall. There he met Mr. Van Riper, who
had just come out of his own door. "The two !
passed a few words, and Van Riper hurried
back into his own room, shutting the door,
and shouting to awaken his wife. "1 thought
there was time enough," Weaver ?aid, "und
went back to get my clothing, but
as I reached my bedroom the fire
burst through the side of the
hallway and clear across the stairs. The
smoke poured into my rooms so fast that I
ju?t managed to break open my wiDdow and
get my heal out. When I had caueht my
breath I crawled through and reached up to
the eaves. Being a ship s painter I am used
to climbinz, and I had little difficulty then.
I ran over the roof to the brick house. The
engines were coming when I got down to the
street, and a policeman was carrying Mrs.
Van Riper across to the saloon."
Engine 11, from Houston street, was the
first due on the alarm. Foreman Fishor says
he got the alarm at 3:37, and at 3:39 he had
the water from the hydrant. As they brought
up at the hvdrant the flame* burst from the
upper middle window. In front of the burning
building were grouped nearly a dozen
women and children, scantily clothed.
A hose wan led ud the stairway. As the
nozde men worked their way they had to
turn six times and play behind them to put
out tho fire that kept breaking through the
wall aud cutting them off. It was fifteen
minutes before the fire was sufficiently controlled
to allow the men to reach the third
floor. Even then it was eating through the
floors and ceilings.
While most of the men tore off plastering
1 .a i i.i._ l? it j ?
anu y >unug in vie uan uuu wic ioai iuuuu,
two of them with lanterns entered the front
rooms. Just beyond a sofa bed, and under
the window, Jay what seemed to be a singid
bundle of clothing. Closer examination
showed that it was Jennie Van Riper, thirteen
years old. She had on only her night
dress. She lay on h?r side, with her baby
brother clasped in her arms. Her limbs and
one side of her face and neck were shockingly
burned, but the little one, shielded by
his sister, had not been touched by the
fames. Both were dead.
Through the partly open door of a bedroom
a man's arm protruded. When the
door vvas opened the body of Van Riper was
tonnd lying on the floor beside the bed face
down. On the bed, near the wall, hi3 feet
drawn up, and his arms bent up as if to
shield his" face, lay the boy A bert, a child of
nine. HLs body wa. burned more than those
of the rest, and particularly on the limb; and
back. It would seem tbut the father had
carried the girl and the baby to the window
and had th> a returne I to the bedroom for
the boy, when he was overcome by the
smoke.
The whole family had perished. The bodies
were lifted into a market wagon and carried
to the police station. There they were laid
on the floor and covered with a coarse cloth.
Cornelius Van Riper was forty years old.
He was a cracker baker. His w.fe wen
thirty-two yean old. The oldest child, Jennie,
was thirteen, Albert was nine, and the
baby, also named Cornelius, was between
two and three.
PLEUROPNEUMONIA.
SynopMiM of the Bill as Panned by the
Houne.
The pleuro-pneumonia bill, as passed by
the House of Representatives, provides that
the commissioner of agriculture shall organze
a bureau of animal industry and appoint
a chief thereof, whose duty it shall be to investigate
and report on the number, va'.uo
r\9 thft flnmoQhir* Animals of
UUU LUUU11IVU V4 vuw UX.UVW..W
the United States, and also the causes of contagious
and communicable diseases among
them, nnd the means for the prevention and
c ure of the same. He is au'.horized to appoint
two competent agents, whoso duty it
shall be to report upon the best methods of
treating, transporting and caring for animals,
and the nuans to be adopted for the
suppression and extirpation of contagious
pleuro-pneumonia. The bill further
provides that the commissioner of
agriculture may expend so much of the
money appropriated by this ac- as may ba i
necessary in paying for i he animals it is
deemed necessary to s aughter, and in such
disinfection and other means as may be necessary
to extirj a e disease. The authorities
of the S?at s shall pay one-half of the
expense of the animals it s deemed necessary
to slau^ht^r and one-half the cost of
disinfection and care < f the henls of c&tt'e.
It prohibits th-j transportation from one
State to another of any Lve stoc't al'ected
with any contagious or infectious dL-ease,
and provides for the prosecution of any person
violating this prohibition. The sum of
$-'50,(X O is appropriated to carry into effect
, the provisions of the bill.
TinAifinrnTm nnnnr n
ttiUMJDiUflii ruuriiEj,
Bovnton.?Paul Boynton, the swimmer,
was married recently to Maggie Conuelly at
Chicago.
Brown.?United States Senator Brown, of
Georgia, has four iron mine3 in the northern
part of that State, in waich he employs nearly
1.01W hands.
Grant.?Jud^e James Grant, of Davenport,
Iowa, pres.dent of the National Trotting
association, says that there are in the
association 5,000 hor.-es trotting below 2.:30.
Beecher.?It is expected that Mr. Beecher
will go to Europe on o lecturing tour in tha
spring or early summer. It is over twenty
years since Mr. Beecher was in England,
where lie made many addresses upon the war
Barnum.?P. T. Barnum being invited tha
other day to lecture before a temperance society
in -N'ew York wroto-in reply: " I have
finished lecturing forever in this world." Mr.
Barnum is a frequent visitor to the Bridgeport,
Conn., jail, and often addresses tne
prisoners.
Cox.?Washington correspondents note the
sprinkling of gray in Congressman S. S. Cox's
hair. Though one of the youngest members
in appearance, he is fifiy-nine years of age,
and has been in Congress for a lonser period
than any democratic member. Kelley, of i
Pennsylvan'a, only exceeds him on the re- i
publican side in length of servica.
ODD HAPPENINGS.
Amaziah Jordan, of Hartland, Me., in a
fit of insanity cut off his toes, one at a time.
A few weeks ago butterflies were numer- I
ous in England, peas were above ground and ;
roses were in leaf.
A YOUNG dog was recently frightened to 1
death near Lafayette. Ore., Dy a child who j
1 I n?/l nhOCA/1 unl. I
uivsseu uj) us uu^ttuuu ciuu vuw -...
nial.
A short-horn heifor named Lillie Dale,
belonging to J. W. Dawson, of Russellvilie,
Kv., died four hours after eatiug a leaf of
tobacco.
Mas. Nellie Keller, of Hyde Park, Vt,
was severely burned in the lace, hands and
arras by the explosion of a doughnut which ;
she was frying.
J. H. Smoot, of Owen county, Ky., cut a 1
rpi pntlv in whi -n a big hollow was filled
with honey, upon which a colony of flying
squirrels were living.
Mrs. Louisa H. Ai.bert, of Cedar liapids, j
has entered into partnership with hor hus- '
band in the practice of the hw. Their sign
reads. "Albert & Albert, Attorneys at j
Law." I
In Beech Grove. Kv., live Wi Ham J. Har- j
din.<4he father of twenty-ono children, William
Miller. the father of twenty-six children,
a-wl Cameron Story, who has twenty- j
two children.
In Minnesota is a well that freezes at a
depth of seventy feet, but not at the surface
of the water. A draught of cildairisues
from the well strong enough to ta':e off the
hat of n man stan ling at it< mouth.
A i AitiiK lutii'i of <lrv Nile mud,with a hole
in ono side showing that a mud fish wa?
within it, lias l>t e:i in the posses-ion of the .
Rev. J. (J Wool for four years. He recently
cut the lump open and found the fish in goo J
condition, doubled up, with its tall ovo its
hi a I, ju t as when it went to sle.?p more t. an
twenty years a ;o.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Oni.y three executions for murder took
place in France during 1HS'!.
x, ? ? v v ,1m
iUIlM. KHTIiG't UA.VIA. U1 HUJ, a.........
while on tier knee* at pray t.
Many V.'estern railroad camps are now forbidding
the presence of Chinamen.
Fourteen millions' worth of diamond*
were exported from South Africa last year.
The government envelope factory, at Hartford.
I'onn., uses a ton of gum arabic every
year.
There aro thre? women in New York dime
museums whoso combined weight is 1,96> i
l>ouuds.
California is at present producing not far
from of gold and silver bullion j
annually,
I >
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS ->|
Senate.
Mr. Ransom offere I in the Senate in the -'U
mornintr, a joint resolution to appropriate
$100,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the
recent tornado in the Southern States. He
said that over .7)0 people wore killed, and
many thousands wounded. Mr. Harris said . ^
he would not vote a dollar out of the treaaury
for any such purpose, and Mr. Morgan "* '
said he thought the new line of policy n
dangerous. Mr. Voorheas believed the immediate
supply of food, clothing, and shelter
in a case of creat public calamity suoh
as the recant floods in the West seemed indisnensable
in the ca'ise of humanity. The - 1 /*Sc
resolution was referred to fhe committee on
?? Tn,? kill a f*ar 3
a\jyi if * uvuuiia. x uv cuiivuvj wtt^ ??v ? -<GS
debate, was passed.
Mr. Hale introduced the following joint ,
resolution, which was at once read three <
times and passe 1 without debate: . "Resolred by
the donate and House of Representatives,
That the act of her Britauoic majesty's
government in presenting to the United
States government the Arctic steamship
Alert, which will be used in the cojitemp'atea . ' i?g
expedition to relieve Lieute^aat Greely and .; rK
his party, is recognized as opportuns and
penerous, a>id Is deeply appreciated by the
Congress and pe pie of the United States:
That the President be, and ho i3 hereby
requested to communicate a copy of this- ?
resolution to her Britainic Majesty's .
government" Mr. Sewell reported favor
ably from the committee on milltary
affa'rs the bill for the pe- . :'~gM
lief of Fitz John Porter. It is the bill which \? <gfi
parsed the House some time ago, with an .
maniinwnh Btrilfinir ftllt t.hw Tirovision . . {2
for the restoration of Porter "to all "v4SS
tlio rights, titles and privileges" of the . ,;*'g|
rank held by him at the time of h.s dismisal . *fx
from the army. Thus amended, the restom- '
t on provided for by the bill is simply the
lotion of jolon-1 or the Fame grade and
rank a-> wa< held by him at the time of hit '*:?iS
dismissal This mates the bill identical In
its provisions with t!ie bill wh ch passed the '.-Si?
Senate of the last Congress?The bill pro* '
hibiting tho mailing of newspapers containing
lottery advertisements was reported fa-.
The House bill repealing the test oath war, '
passed after being modified by an amend- ,r%lB
ment proposed by the Senate judiciary com- /A
mittee, providing that no person wholield
a commission in the United States -.M
army or navy, before the war
and wa<! afterward engaged in the ,
military, naval or civil service of the socalled
Confederate States, shall be appointed $
tn flnv nosition in the armv or navv of the $4ffll
United States....Mr. Sewell int^xftlced
bill to grant a pension to the widow of G?neral
Judson Kilpatrick?A bi'l was Intro
duced to incorporate the YeUows-tono Parte
Reservat:on company The pleuro-pttftomonia
bill was amended .in committe ol the *
whole and reported to thi Hou-e;
Consideration of the hill for the construc- ' Jig j
tibn of new steel crui<en was resumed, and ' '%
several amendments were a 'opted Mr. .
Injralls introduced a bill to relieve the mem- . V?8S
hers of the original Fitz-Jobn Porter court ;
ma'tial of the obligation of secrecy as to the 7;58fl|
* otes of members Mr. Pendleton, by nquest,
introduced a bill to facilitate the set*
t'ement and dev elopment of Alaska, and ap- .
propriating 1100,00) to open overland communication
with that Territory.
Hons*
Mr. Springer introuucdi a proposed con- .
stitutional amenJni9nt making the preti- 7^0
dential term six year3, aud rendering tbs >"???
President ineligible to rc-election for the
next succeeding term. It provides for a direct
vote for President in each State, aud abol- "" t
ishes the electoral csllego Bills were introduced:
By Mr. Beach, of New York?Aa
thorizing the controller of the currency to ^ ~<3&
changertne names of National banks; by Mr.- '
Dowa, of North Carolina?Appropriating
$50,000 for the relief of the sufferers by Uw . ; v. jfr
late cyclones in North Carolina; by O. D. ,'^dx
Wise, of Virginia?For the completion of the
monument to the mother of Washington at .
Fredericksburg, Va By Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas?Appropriating
f-%0,000 for the relief
of the persons rendered destitute by the '-??
overflow of the Mississippi river ana itl
tributaries Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, rose to '
a question of privile ;e a id denied a recently
published statement that Gr. F. Brott gave
him a fee for service in securiag Star route
contracts on the Donalds >n route. Mr. Ellis .
offered a reso ution, whi:h wa-i adopted, directing
the committej on -o^tofflces to investigate
the chanrej reflecting upon him In
connection with Star route frauds. ' , The
Senate biil providing for the complet
on of the statue of Rear-Admiral Samuel &
Francis Du Pons was passed. The statoeia.
to be placed in Du Pont Circle, Washington. .'-njj
Mr. Broadhead, fmn the judiciary commifctee,
favorably reported a bill providing ' for
the increase of the sa'aries of the circuit *' ??
and district judges of the United States. qjaBB
Committee of the whole.
A motion to strike out the enacting clause
of the pleuro-pneumonia dui was aeieacea? -t-ZZzM
J13toll4 A resolution by Mr. Morrson
was adopted, directing the secretary of the
treasury to inform the Houss how much '/*-}
money is now in the treasury of the United
States, under what provisions of law- it Is ,
there retained, and how much, in view af-V-v^SM
tho current receipts, expenditures, and legal '
liabilities of the treasury, can be applied at . : :j8
this time in liquidation of that part of \
the public deb' now payable, withoat Vv
embarrassing his department Mr. .IOTH|
Phelps from' the com nittee on foreign -4A
affairs, reported back the resolution directin:
thAt committee to in iuire a? to whether
the minister of any for<>i :n power has endeavored
to nullify the effect of a unanimous ' .S
resolution of the He ^se by reflection on the
honor aud integrity of its members. The..
committee had ma ie an investigation but
had been unable to < btain any information
on the subject, and asked to b ? excused from
further consideration of the resolution. The
report was agreed to without disrussion and
the committee dischar red :rom the further -%y3&
consideration of the subject. '
Mr. Deuster.of Wise rnsin, obtained unanfmous
consent to have tho clerk read the resolution
of the executive committee of the j
Liberal Union of th<? German parliament. '.-yraB
expressing irs appreciation of the action of
the Houseof Represftntativesin adopting reso- 5 3|H
lutionsin honor of Edward Lasker. Mr. Deustei
sa*d he was convinced iha', the action of the
Liberal Union was a true index of the feel- . . " $1
ine of unit?-d Gerimny. Mr. Guenther, of
Wisconsin, expressed a similar opinion. Mr.
Kasson thought the House would better /
consult its dignity by waiting until some. "
official communication reached it showing
that improper commsnt had*
been made tipon it} action,
1'pon his motion the matter wa? referre i to
the committed on foreign affairs..... The
nionro-nneumonia bill wai passad, 155 to .. j
2 Public business being'suspend^d. the
Houss paid its tribute to the- memory of ih?
la e Represen'a'lva D. C. Haskell, of Kansas. v .^3
Many eulogistc soea-hes were mad* by
members, and as a further mark of respect '.j
the Houso adjouruel '
ODE SWINE IHDU3TET.
Report of the Cotmniiaion?Health- 'a
fulness of Aiuerican Hog*.
Commissiouer Loriuj has Ja.d before th<
President the rejiort of tho commission ap * :-&?
pointed to examine the swine industry of the
United States and into the a'legations relativetothe
healthfulness of pork products. ? '
The inquiry embraces the origin and history
of hogs which make up the market suopiy,
their condition on farm3, the methjda of
management, transporting, treatment at restock
yards, man er of slaughtering curing, >
pac ing, handling and shippi. g of pork
pioducts, the effect and extent or hjg
disease, necessary preventive mea-ures ana
effect of the curing process on trichinae. The
methods of breeding and rearing and fattening
of swine in the great h >g producing regions
are elaborately ;6t forch, and the report
is emphatic that there is no condition
surrounding the industry which tends to propagate
disease or render pork uuhealthfui ' U
It finds the number of hogs raised anuua'ly
to be about thirty millions, making a total
of cured meats, lard and otliA* product* of
4,725,OOy,OOJ pounds. The most careful,
thorough and minute inquiry soems to have >;
i tionrliin'r nf nork from the
Ut*t:LI luauc iu bMv ^ r
farm to port of debarkation.
I' rom returns from railroad and transpor- -V.
tation companies, slaughter bouses, packers '
and strip,'x>rs, confirmed by those from
b >ards of health, humane societies and ex- '$
perks ?m, loyed by the commission, it appears
that the utmost care is pre *rved y- ,'S
throughout; that hog-; which die of disease
are never transported exccpt to offal render- ? 3
ing esiabl shments: that, diseased hogs are
ret used transportation; tha" humane Jaws
and sanitary regu ations ex.st at all stock .1
yards, enforced by local inspectors under
penalty 01 fines, etc.; that rinid scrutiny is
enjoined at a 1 slaughter houses; tha methods
of slaughter and packing, qualities of
material u*e 1. ins ectim, etc.. are regulated
by rules of chamber* of cjmnierce and of
trade, an i c meant care is exercUad to sea
that no unhea.thful means are employod in
any branch.
Of tho extent o' diseases, preventive
measures and the effect of salt on trichinae,
the report is full of \altinb.'e an 1 interesting
information. Even the extremely small percentage
of tri'ihiniasis, a< slnwa by the investigations
of the a,'ricul ual departing t,
_ t Ktr nnvwuli nf
seems to De .arge,jr icuiurm .v
curing The decree of luat ncc^sary to
render pork harmless is t entel ?t a: length.
The commission ?Jenv that h >g cholera is
dangerous to h im in health, ami assert thi
impossibility of curing s jch meat even so as
to deo-ive'tho m>st sup.-rfic -il examiner.
The report points out the pract.bi.ity of a
microscopic inspection, if su'h is necessary L.'
to remove existing restrictions. The commission
state that their exa nination prove.;
our pork iu ly e jual, je naps i^perior, to
that of France or Germany: no uen.ral
disease exis s, an I the occasional presence
of trichina1 is comparatively unimDortant.
The report is * .-ignxl by Mr.
fleorge B. Loring, chair nan of the board57
... ? ? ?J -< r-u:
Mi*. E.W. tfiatciuoru, <n i iuic.wi
Chandler, of New York; D.\ D. E. Salmon,
of the department of agriculture, and Mr.
! *. D.Curtis, of New York, and in conclasioa
it favs:
"\Vhilo ivo believo that 110 legit'mate
i^rou d exists for the restriction* imposed in
some foreign countries on the importation of
American pork, we are satisfl *d thai microscopic
insoe -tion of all pork for export can
be secured at the paoking houses, ir' such inspection
should be deman led.''
Babon Rothschild, of I.on Ion, is having
built "the largest steam yacht in the world."
The craft is to b3 240 fe t long, and i3 to bay?
twenty-seven feat bea n.
maAiHiH