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";A, r - at r ^ ' } C .J ' f'. " ' . , 1 . . Ll J+'..k r \, \ . t",, . y.r ' V -fS1Y > . ' i ..+ V1 ru unr THE FAMOUS DEATH VALLEY. THRIE ADV1NTUROUS MEN FIND TH1E LONG LOlT MINES. Their Wagons Shriveled and Their Water lar wets Durst-Alnost Pierihlig Defore the Mountains Were Heched. Los ANGEnEs, Cal., September 27. There are now in this city three men who have recently crossed and reorossed the famous Death Valley of Southern Cali fornia, and who have succeeded in solv ing a mine of mystery which has bailled the most daring and skillful prospectors for many years. The Gunsight placers were located in '49, but afterward lost, and though repeated attempts have been made to find them, most of the men en gaged in the effort have perished. About six weeks ago when A. F. Jud son, A. D. Spring and Barney Carter an nounced that they wora going after the *. Gunsight trail, their friends tried to disuade. them, and chance acquaintances laughi4gly bade them good-by forever. No one ever expected to see them again, and when they set out confidently on their mission they were given up as dead men might have been. So many such expeditions had left this and other towns only to meet death in its most horrible form that this one was regarded as es pecially fool-hardy. A nt a week ago the three men re turn. They came in by rail, ragged, emacia d and feeble, and one of them, Carter, sick abed. ]3ut all wore enthu siastio over their achievements, and each had in his pockets nuggets to prove his assertion that the Gunsight mine had been found. The story of their tiip would be incredible were they not here as living witnesses to its truth, their bodies bearing all too plainly the proofs of the sufferings which they have under gone. Knowing that the discoverers of the Gunsight mines crossed the ])eath Val ley, these adventurers sought, if possi ble, to make the same trail. Onco through the Mojavo di"sert, they soon f came to the dazzling white sandy plain where no life can exist. Almost at the first step they were prostrated by thef fierce heat from above and below. Theic; feet swelled so that they were compellefl to rip open their shoes, and the goggli s which they had prepared were but feeb e protection for their eyes. The men had two wagons, coch drawt by two horses, and in these vehiwles the earned water in barrels and other sup-\ plies. After an hour or two of the mosti painful locomo+ion, the heat becoming S more intoleroble at every step, the party paused a few minutes for rest and re froshmont. The poor beaste fairl groaned in their agony, and the men themselves did not dare look at cacl?. other lest they would read in each other's eyes the des pair which all knew wvas set tiling upon them. On every hand they beheld the whitened skeletons of men, of horses and of burros. In sOme phices they found the remains of what apporet to have been an expedition-ruin il vehicles, with the skeletons of hors s and men lying about. Vultures swoop ,d down upon them with angry cries, i d other birds of prey circled high ab -o their heads, following them as tl -y progresaed. ' When night came they followed t io north star, OLe man trying to sleep wth io the others drove. At daybreuk th o was nothing to relieve the eye. 11 around them was the gleaming san l;: overhead the brassy sky, and far a Iay the rocky sides of mountains on wl4ioh no vegetable life was ever fo(mnd. Wearily they pressed on, con dent that the worst was over, but when almio t in sight of the east range of the Anmarg&sas, to which they were bound, the bla ting heat played them a merciless prank. The scorching which the men? and beasts were en(dui:ng with rea&sonLable fortitude were too nauch for the w, ter barrels and their wagons. The11 woo $of which they were made shrank land, shrivelled until they fell to pieces, first the wagons and then the barrels.) All attempts to keep thorn togethe were useless. With tIre water gone the party was well nigh, in despair.,- but when the wagons.. oo', fell to pieces there was a mitijuto when all recognized the proba bility that another expedition was to lbe -added to the long list of those which had gene into that abode of death never to be heard of again. When things ap peared.at their worst, Carter spied some thing in the white sandl a few rods away, - d, hurrying toward it, found the .ieces of a wagon which had belonged >a '49cr whose skeleton lay close at sand. Wood never decays in that at ' osphere, and of the three wrecked ~ auons the men were able to gear up o' e vehicle that wvould convey their~ re fl 'ing eupplies and their tools. Whis delay came very near being fatal to 1l concerned. One horse died in the ha s,and Carter was prostrated so cr lotely that for a tira his life was des ired of. Toiling p)ainfully along, nob' ithout water and with nio hocpo of any 'tmtil they could clear the desolate vadety, Judson and Spring were at ler th comp)elled in their agony to dig de, into the sand in the hope of find in fmoisture with which to qjuenich their ir olerable thirst. At a depth of a few f de they ca me upon water, but it was salt. Thby drank of it, but it only served to increase their suflering, and when they gave some of it to their horses the beasts refused to swallow it. With a firm determination to press onl to thre gitmost limit of their strength, the men wnntinue'd their journley, andi, at length, mg~re dead than alive, tihey emerged( from t,ht> valley and begr' the ascent of the mou,nitains. He, they found some bunch grass on whi6h .jheir horser feasted, arid a spring of wat.r, copious draughts of which soon revivo i he entire p)arty. Tarrying at this sp p4ng for a (lay or two for thne pur poso3 c recuperating, the men finally pushed( on, p)rosp)ecting the country closelyj as they went. For a week no trace o 1gold or the previous presence of man vEsfound, but cii the eighth *day, as hey were digging for water, theyr canu >ion gravel abounding in coarse gold ir nuggts worth from $1 to $5 a picco. - hs then, was in the vicinity of tho jr-famed Gunsighit placers, anid anothe,t day's investigation brought them upon !the very ground where nearly years ago the mines had been staked out. l'roeuring many fine specimens, tRh mn retum~ed by a roundabout way, and on arriving hero mady known the discovery. The di1apidu'ed appearan< of th? adventurers an 'the magmflcel specimens which th had with the brought plenty of f ends to their aid and already propa tions are in pr gre, for an expedition hich is to have for i object the open' g of the mines. This caravap will be supplied wit wagons with 'steel wheels, and it wi carry wator/ in barrels mado of she< iron. Ti experience of the party hr convinced ,them that wooden vlieilc and reserv irs are useless in the parchin atmospher of )eath Valley, and the will run further risks with them. It i expect,1 that a start will be made i about wo weeks, the company this tim being lhrger and going prepared for wimter campaign. WHAT TE1E KUKLUX DID. WkRM SPRINGs, N. C., September22. Sitting on the broad piazza of the hott he e, away from the promenaders, I lie tem e last night to a passionate, earnes jusf fication of kukluxism in Louisian am other Southern States. The stor of 'wrong and outrages, i he violation ruliless and rough, of all that men hol mhst dear and sacred, as it came pourini ix i burning words from the lips of one o Nw .Orleans'" most eloquent, divines, wa ir, striking contrast to the perfect peac that wrapped the valley in deep silence ' 'ho moon was shining with a brilliano een only in Southern climes, and th learly defined mountains were patcho evith alternate light and shadow as th i louds drifted by. The conversation ha< rifted on Southern topics, and as th 1 reacher, whose faith is a firm belief ii tle fatherhood of God and the brother iood of man, warmed with his subjec is physical ills for the time were for otten, and the mentality that has stirre< any a congregation with its fire burnet ld glowed like molten iron. "Wa kukluxism justifiable?"hesaid, in answe: o a question. "Yes, sir, and if the doc trine that "tho end justifies the means bvas ever correct, it was during the reigi of terrorism in the Southern States whom kukluxism was rampant. Remember sir, that at the close of the war and dur ing the Reconstruction period the whit< men in the South wore disarmed, and i was penal offense for them to have fire arms in their homes. The negroes, how ever, were armed; our streets and high ways were Patrolled by negr soldiery who were but a set of barbarians anc savages, worse than are the savages to day in the interior of Africa. It got si that a wlite wonui dare not cross th tIreshloldl of her house lest she be as saultted by one of these brutes, whil white men had to abandon the roads t the negroes and mako their across thr field as best they might. To appeal t the law was useless, for the judges wer carpet-baggers and sustained the negroes "It was this state of affairs, when w saw our civilization, and all the right and privileges of society being swep away, and our dear ones exposed to fate worse than death, that gave birth t kukluxism. Self-preservation is a fun mental law, and recognizing that naugh but heroic measures would quell th growing evil, the white men quietly or gaiuzed, and in armed bodies began th redress of the wrongs from which the; were suffering. Do not imagine that th kuklux were recuited from the crimina classes. Such I know is the prevalen Northern idea, but it is absolutely false The members of the K. K. K. were gen tlemen of flue education. struggliin manfully to retain and sustain their man hood, and give to their children as heritage of the war a higher civilizatioi than perhaps they themselves had en joyed. In ninny instances that was th only legacy they had to givo, for all els hlad been swept away in the storm o shot and shell that hlad for ,four year been sweeping over the land." ''How did the bands work?" "Negroes, like sheep, require a head ear, and the hands quietly noted t.h leaders and where they lived. At night they visited their cabins, and called th, men ouit. The most brutal were eithe shot or hung; others thoroughly whippe< and ordered to leave tihe country. I this way a reign of terror was eate< among the negroes, and the white mel gained control. Whly, sir, even thl J.ed Ieral troops thlat were senit dowui t supplress kukiuxism refused in many ii s. mees to interfere, and in some cast actu~ally aided. Thley know thlat it wa' not a condition of crime and anarchy but a nlecessity bornl of negro insiolenc and inltolerancee." "WVhat about the Ford-Murphy mii der in Now Orleans?" "New O)rleass is anti has1 been sinc tile dlays of Warmouth cursed by rin rule. The spectacle of a jutdgo a<'jourr ing his court and deliberately going ou and shooting, a man to death as oni would a wvild beast was simply disgract ful, and is a blot on the fair fame of thi Queen City that will not soon be effacec 'Tho ring did all in its power to save thi murderers, and p)erhap)s would have s1u< ceeded hmadt it not been for the( efortsc the Rev. R. A. llclind, of 'Trinit Church. Hie not only pdlishied lett< after letter in tile PicayunN, demandin their punishment, lbut also publicly an from his pulpit demanded their execi tion. His life was frequently thireatone by members of the ring, but lie perst vered and won. Had those men bee pardoned they wouild have been lynelie within twenty- four hours. So determine were the members of Trinity parishl, ti wealthiest in New Orleans, to rid th city of thle scourge, that 100 of ther orgamz 'ed secretly for the purpose lynchung the murderers. Among ti. mnembers of this band were numnbere some of the most respectetd citizens < Now Orleans, and their counsel was tile pastor. In many respects the lRev. I A. Holland is a remarkable man, Hoi. a Kentuckian by birth, anid although< small physique, is all pluck, and do< not hlesitato to raise his voice in donim ciation of wrong-doing and in favor of higher civilization. F"romi his plpLlit 12 fought time fraud in the expositioni mai agemnent, andl alone1 was the means stopping the bull lighting on the expos tion grouIndis- You may know ho0w di voted lie is to principle when I tell yc the men lie fought ini the expositic were among the wealthica~t miembers< his chulrch. Hie is strongly intellectua and hmas most p)roniounced views, whlic hie never hmesitates to expresa. --A cooper in Exetr. Cae'da, built large tank in the shop and ten hadi tear down tile whole front othe she I efor I. could gpt itugh. ir MR. ULEVELAND'$ NEW HOUSE. it The Villa on Tennailytown Road In Not Yet Ready for Occupancy-What May be Seen 3, There Now. (W ahingto". Letter to Pittaburg DiL,p..t h.) I went out to the President's cottage h on the Tennallytown road this afternoon 1 to learn the exact condition of the novel it residence of the chief executive of the a United States and his bride. It is novel , because no President has yet purchased a house and taken up a residence at his own individual expense outside of the Executive Mansion, where expenses are u paid out of the public purse. President o Grant and President Hays lived for a weeks and months in summer at the 1 Soldier's home, but they lived at the expense of the soldiers of the regular i army, out of whoso pay is deducted twelve cents a month each for the main - tenance of the houso. The meat they 1 consumed was furnished by the private - soldiers, the milk they drank, the new t laid eggs they ate, the garden truck that a whetted tho royal appetites, the ;very y flowers that were placed at the plates of the distinguished guests were produced i i by the aged and decrepit soldiers, or were paid for from the slender pluses of f the enlisted men of the army. s It was left for a Democratic President I o to purchase a private residence in the c suburbs of the national capitol out of his r own purse, where he might live with his e o wife as any other American gentleman I might, at his own expense and pay for a o the roof that shelters his private uests 1 and for the food and drink wherewith he t o entertains them. The residence and its a i improvements will cost Mr. Cleveland in - tho neghborhood of $50,000, and to keep i t it up with the expenses incidental to the - position of its owner not less than $10, 1 000 and probably $15,000 to $20,000 a t 1 year. President Hayes went out of t s office with $100,000 or more, or a saving r of half his salary. President Cleveland I t - will not save any money out of his Presi dential salary. He evidently believes t i that salary was given by the government 1 i to enable the President to live like a a gentleman and pay his bills, and the i - cost. of entertaining such guests as are r 3 worthy of the honor. His purchase on 1 I the heights above Georgetown includes - twenty-two and one-hair eres of land. 1 - There was an old squaro stone house of 2 - the cold, old-fashioned type on this plot t of ground. It lies or lay back from the i pike about five hundred yards, a strip of - forest trees along the road hiding all but ) a glimpse of the manion from the vulgar I o eye. To the southeast lies the capital - city, the great white dome of the legis- t o lative halls arising above the horizon of c > green, and the sharp outl inc s of the a Washington Monumnent appearing against ~ D the blue sky. Only a slight dip of the c c great city is exposed between a bird's- c eye view down the wooded gorge. To- .' e day, under the fierce heat of the sun of s expiring summer, the white dome is , t whiter, the monument outlines are a sharper, and the green is a greener green. The old stuno house has been metamorphosed into an artistic residence t of the colonial style, the very grounds o have changed, the roads and drives ap pear where none were before; nothing o save the prospect remains, and that no V art can beautify and no money can make e more lovely and picturesque. A myriad I I of workmen are busily engaged on house t and grounds. " - Under the trees near the entrance is a - vacant chair, and, in the absence of the ; watchmen, your correspondent drives up - the winding roadway unchecked. A 5 1 man in brass buttons rushes hastily down 1 2 the hill from the house, waving his - hands frantically, but ii is too late, the l C correspondents are up on the other side " C before they can be intercepted. The mni f reaches us and says we must go out, we 5 are niot piermnitted there. We tell him C we are there anyhow, and hope we dlon't initrudle. Hie says it is against strict - orders from the White Hlouse to come 5 C within the grounds. We innocently say 5 that we are only two newsp)aper men C looking for an item. Thils sets the mant r wild. Newspaper men are esp)ecially 1 1 prohibited. WVe ask to be allowed to " :i walk around and look at thec outside of I the house. The guardian of the lace I LI turns;.fairly white at the idea. Couldn't e we look at the city-surely we couldn't a hurt the city, what we woul see of itt fronm this hill, by looking at it without s a pass. But the man is inexorable. Then 5 we ask him how lhe is gett.ing along. , "What you see in the newspapers is e nonsense," says he. ''The house isn't near comleltion. See the workmen out -side?" We saw the workman outside. They were swarming On the unfinished o) verandas, and spread out among the half g linishied drives abIout the grounds. ''"There are as man y as can lie ad *t vantaigeou sly employed," continuedI the I 0 superintendent. "'Inside they have just ~ begun to lath. TIhe house w;ill not be 0 readly for occupancy before the 1st of -. November, though the President has 0 been p)ushing us all sumu1er." And things in sight bore out this I fstatement. A dozen laborers were 1 r corherng the new drive up to the piorte r ohr;out in the rolling field another g driveway was being built, leading to ~ (1 Woodloy lane, a lovely road that leadls at right angles from the tulrnpike down ~ d into the Rock Creek gorge, while the ~ soundl of the hammer inside and out of nl the mansion woke the echoes of the hills. d1 'Thore was another gang of maen with ~ d carts pecking away at a gravelly knoll I 0 which lies by nature a little htighier th'au' e the foundation of the house, andi in n direct line of vision between the veranda ' fand the dome of the Capitol, four miles 0 away. Part of this hill has already been d carted away, thme gravel being deposited to build the roadways. Along Woodley ~ ir lane on the south another gang of men -are at work on a high barbed wire fencee. ~ I t is six feet high at lea.st, and1( appearst to be especially designed to keel) news ispaper men out. No pair of jolurnialistic e pantaloons cani ever stautd that climb. a We took a hasty glimp~so of all these ~ *o signs of p)reparationl and turned our (log Scart toward the road again. F"rom Wood- ~ leby lane a liner view of the mansion is obtained. The irregular high pitchi curving roof of red tiles is the main u artistic feature of the new hmouise, though n it is the broad verandtas over which this 'I roof extends which givo the air of com-t I, fort to the p)lace. '.I'hec workmen look at Ii us suspiciously as we pass, but go on with the hammering and dligging and I grading and leveling, at which we leave a them to (lip into the gorge. On every o side are great yellow and white signs min p b' blc letters announcing "Villa rown every elevation and line every ioturesquo vale, and the seductive titles iro enough to make the mouth water. very bare knoll covered with weeds Illd bowldere, every clump of scrub oak ined with golden rod and every rook ibbed run has been gobbled up and is )n sale by speculators. TIRE LAIHOIt PLA'rFOLM. 'Intfnrm Adoptud by the Workingunen of New York-1ir. IlIenry George the Nohinee for Mayor. (V-'rom the Baltimore Sur.) It has already been announced in the iun that the labor campaign iu New Cork city was opened Thursday evening y tho adoption of a platform and the omination of Mr.- Henry George for nuayor. Over 400 delegates were present, epresenting, it is claimed, 6,000 organ zed men. The following is the platform, rhich was adopted with great unanimi y: TILE PLATFORM. 'Ihe delegates of the trade and labor rganizations of the city of Now York, a conferenco assembled, make this leclaration: Holding that the corruptions of this overnment and the impoverishment of tbor result Irom neglect of the self vident truths proclaimed by the found rs of this republic, that all men are rented equal and are endowed by their :reator with inalienable rights, we aim t the abolition of the system which ompels men to pay their fellow crea ares for the use of God's gifts to all, nd pornits mnonopoli;;ers to deprive ibor of natural opportunities for em 'loyment, thus filling the laud with lamps and paupers and bringing about ni unnatural competition, which tends reduce wages to starvation rates and make the wealth producer the indus rial slave of those who grow rich by his i)l. holding, moreover, that the advan iges arising from social growth and in rovement belong to society at large, we im at the abolition of the system which lakes such beneficent inven ions as rail ad and telegraph a means for the op ression of the people and the aggran izement of an aristocracy of wealth and ower. We declare the true purposes of overument to be the maintenance of Lhat sacred right of property which gives every one opportunity to employ his ibor and security that lie shall enjoy its ruits; to prevent the strong from op ressing the weak and the unscrupulous rom robbing the honest, and to do, for he equal benefit of all, such things as an be better done by organized society ban by individuals; and we aim at the bolition of all laws which give to any lass of citizens advantages, either judi ial, financial, industrial or political, that re not equally shared by all other citi ens. We further declare that the people of ew York city should have full control ,f their own local afthirs; that the prac ice of drawing grand jurors from one lass should cease, and the requirement 'f a property lualification for trial jurors lhould be abolished; that the procedure f our courts should be so siul)lified and eformedi that the rich shall have no ad antage over the poor; that tLe oflicious atermeddling of the police with peace ul assemblages should be stopped; that he law for the safety and sanitary in pection of buildings shouhl be enforced; lant in public work the lirect employ aent of labor shoud1(1 be preferred to the ystem which gives contractors an op ortunity to defraud the city while rinding their wohkmlen, and that in ulbli; employment equal pay shouldl be eord Ad for equal work without dis inction of sex. We declare the crowding of so many f our p)eole ito narrow tenements at normous rents, whaile half the area of ae city is yet unbuilt uapon, to be a 2andlalous evil, and that to remedy this late of things all taxes on buildings and nplrovements should bie abolished, so Liat no fine shall be Put upon the em1 'loyment of labor in increasing living ceommodations, and that taxes should eo levied on lands irrespective of im rovements, so those who are now hold ng land vacant shall be compelled either o b)uild on it themselves or to give up he land to those wvho wvill. We declare furthermore that the enor 'ions value which the presencee of a m ion and a half of p)eop)le gives to tihe tnd of this city belongs p)roperly to thec hlole comamuanity; that it shiould not go o the einrichmiient of individuals and orporat ions, buat should bea taken in aixation and applilied to the impliroveament n.beautifying of thae city; to the pro iotion of the health, comafort, education ud( recreation of its peo~ple, and to the roviding of imeans of transit commnean uarate with the mneedlsof a great nmet ropo s. We also dleclare that existing means f transit should not be left ini the haunds f corporationas which, whaile gaining normous proits from the growth oef oipulationa, oppress their emp1 jloyees and revoke si,rikes 'md interruipt travel and Inyieril the piuhhe peace, but should, by iwful p)rocess, be assumted by the city nid operated for p'ill)ic b enefit. To clear the way for suach reforms as re inapossible withocut it, we favor a onstitutional convemntion; and since the rellot is the only maethaod by which inl ur repiubilic thue redress of political andl ocial grievances is to be sotughat, we es ecially call for sucha chaanges in ouar lective methods as shuall lessen thec need f raoney in elect ions, discourage bribery nd prevent intimnidations. And since in the coming most import nt mlunaicipal electio n, inda(ependlent po0 tical action afl'ordls thle only1) 1hope of xposing and( bireakinjg ump the extortion nmd spuecualationa by whmich a standing rmy of professional pluiticians corrup,t hae pe(ole whoum they plunder, we call .1)01 all citizens who desire honiest gov rinmnt, to join uas in aan el>rt to secure b, and to show for once that thme w~ill of le p)eople may iprevail even against the loney andl erganizationi of banded poilsmen. -A (cuumber has been raised in Iowa 'hich measures four feet in length. --A yo.ang man at Neche, ID. T., near ho Manitoba line, wanted to marry a ~irl att GIretna on thae other side. Hrer arents forb de haer leaving town, so shte ted on thu Manitoba si do andl ao in he Unite< States, anmd the minister *tood with tone foot in the Queen's reala bnd the o l'er in Uncle sam's, and tile wo wereo.married. Thoe ty~ of the 0)LD TINE DUEL. A Bellever In the Code ltas somleting to Say on the luello es It Was. (From the New York Star ) "Is dueling still popular among gen tlemen?" was asked by a Star reporter the other day of a mihtary man who has been prominent in several "affiirs." "No, times have changed marvelously. During Jackson's second teim the )em1 ocrats, flushed with victory at the Presi dential election, were rather arrogant. Many dashing and gallant young men had been elected from the '\Sestern and Southern States, and conscious of their great numerical superiority were some what disposed to carry matters with a high hand. Dueling in those days wfr much in vogue, and personal discussions in the House were fretqtuently brought to an abrupt termination by an intimation that injurious imputations would be re sented elsewhere. John M. Patton and Henry M. Wise, of Virginia, Bailie Pay ton, of Tennessee, Gallatin Iawes, of Kentucky, Jesse Bynui, of North Caro lina, and many other Southerners were known to be prompt with the pistol, and it was understood that a call to the field would follow any dataging personal at tack upon distinguished memlbers of the ruling party. The rude demeanor and offensive vituperation by which Congress has been disgraced for some years past would have been promptly punished forty years ago. Now it excites coin paratively little public attention and is only met in Congress by a retort in kind.'' "how do you account for the decline of the dueling mania?" "The decliie dates from the time it was made ancillary to gambling and swindling, or to the settlement of dis putes between vulgar scoundrels. Since then it has gone out of fashion rapidly. The gross abuse of dueling has done more to remedy its owe mischief than moral appeals and legal enactments." ''What do the Irish think of dueling?" ''Gratton's dying advice to his sons was: 'Always be ready with your pistols.' The Irish are often much too readv. There is a trait in the1 rislh character which is considered by mua v to be nationally chivalrous, and that is a oral dislike to seek in courts of law a monetay compensation for honor out raged through woman's folly. In this country reparation for loss of service is considered a thing as correctly reclaina ble as loss of profit on a broken contractf for a cargo of wheat or cotton, while among Irishmen, in nine eases out of ten, the man who works upon the weak ness of a wife, or trifles with the alec tions of a sister, is not subjected to an assessment for damages by a jury, but sumnmoned to give personal satisfaction." Men disinclined to make targets of themselves in obedience to a convention al code of honor have often got out of the ditliculty by availing themselves of the right accorded to the challenged to choose the weapons. An old whaling captailn not long since declared lie would fight with harpoons or not at all, an al ternative declined by his adversary. A Missourian daunted his antagonist by insisting upon a combat with rawhides, limited to half an hour's duration. General Putnaim was once challenged by a young oflicer and proposed that each should sit 111)011 a powder-keg, with a lighted fuse in the hung. As lie would hear of no other terms, the (iencral had his way. At the appointed time the belligerents took their seats, the fuses were ignited, and the veteran watched the progress of the flame with unioved couitunance. Not so his opponent. ie took intense interest in the fast-essening match, and when the Ilme got sulgges tively near the 1mug hole shawed his possession of the better ptart of vlor 1 ' jumping elf the keg and maitniug for th'e open field till arrested by Putnam roar ing ouIt: "H10(1oldn, imy"hyi'soy olion seed."ls'itsoy Tiwo WVestern edlitors of opposinig newvspapers once inado foals of th enm selves, It came about though the etditor of one of the paplers tdeclarinig in a leader that the editor of the other psaper was ia bigamist, and that gentlemaitn resentin g the calumny by p)ulling the 1 lbeler's nose in the public street. T1he Mayor of the town kindly undertook tto arranlge for tile difliculty being settled ini a lrop er way, and the two editors were soon1 ensconed, rifle ini hanld, behind the trees in ia wood. For two monrtatl hours thiey dlodged antd peep)ed, neither earing to lire, lest b)y missing lht slioliti leave himself itt his enemy's mer'e). Thsen the rain caime tdowin, iand one of the combat ants discovered that it hadt satui ratedi his p)owder. "lIa your powder wet?" shuted lie to his rivial. ''NO,'' answered the othier. ''Mine's becautifully dry,'' cont inuted tho first. But his adversary, gitessinig hotw iiait ters wvere, caine boltdly out tof cover, withI his weapon ready to comle t, the " pre sent." "'StAop!" cried the appanilled man. "stop! Let's have a parley. You're a darnedl good fellow. Suppotse inasteatl of ''All right,'' replied the other, aind they retuirned home together. Of course biothi editors had to set themselves right with their subscribers, which thley tdid by telling themi that their guins were wvet, anti wouldna't go( oil. A wontderful freak of nature was seen in a chil4 horn in this city a few (lays sinc of respectab le paireints whlich oub t t less has no pitrallel. Wheni the chiiltd was born'i it wits disco veredi that it hiad three eyes, one of which was set directly ini the ttop tof ita hieadt. Th'e eye wits per1 fectly formed, withi lids, andis was simfilarii to the two eyes in its fort eea, with thes exepltioni that the eye was very harge antd perfectly luei, wh ile the '.thsers were black. The chil was hideously die formed otherwise, both of its feet b eiing growin together, but were well formietd. There was also about twvo inchtes of thn sine miissinig ini the smaall tof its bacek. TheJi monstrosity weighed fourteen pou)lnds, butt only livedi abou,tt twto hours after birthi.- Chasttanoogt 'Tlimes. -~ ACoinviet in thle jail at Athlens, Ga., strippledl the iron hotopls froim his cell tub, iiatde theim into tsaw-lhades, sawecd through ait iron liar ani inchl squar mnak inig a hole ini the wvitdow fourtoon incItes stquare, soaped his naked body, and thus slippetd through it, and was then detect ed by the Rheriff. Hie sai he-ha4 to get odofM Ti'tli l'I1MOl:'I'i 110I'K 'OLD. MIerry Lie on the Old l,at During Jiu Flk's irii-. The fauous old steamboat Plymouth ( htock, redolent with memories of Colonel Jim Fisk in his palmiest hours, of the 1 great reign of shoddy at Long Branch E in I171, of the famous coachi_i rivalry < of .l'isk and Ilelubold, of ,Jay (ould and I Black F'riday, elaunipagne and oysters, 3Jarrett and P abmer, and mysterious 1 petits soupers in gilt-edged state rooms, F has been sontenced to death. aho was t sold at auction on Se)tei)ber 22 to But- t ler, Clancy and Co., of lioston, for the i sum of $5,100. They sent Captain iley, a crack steamboat skipper, and their i junior l)artuer, Mr. H. Fitzgerald, here with a crew to take charge of her. This morning at 8 o'clock, in tow of the big tug Cyclops, she will move out to the eastward through Hell Gate, and bid fareweli to the Bay of New York forever; for when she reaches Boston she will be broken il) an(1 sold for old junk. She ran fifteen years on the Sound be fore Colonel James Fisk, Jr., saw her and fell in love with her. It was at the time when Fisk was in his glory as a railroad and steamboat manager and the proprietor of the (rand Opera House. lle was also ('oloncl of the Ninth 1legi ment at the tinie lie formed the idea of beconilg a commodore, and be eigaged the regimental hand to play on board the steamer. lie himself us(1 to ap pear in her saloon wearing a yachting cap heavily trimmed with gold bullion, a blue retiig jacket with black buttons, and white trousers. Just before reach- 1 ing the city or Sandy hook he would 1 disappear into his stateroom and pres eitly emerge clad in his street costume. On the samo boat traveled Dr. Hehn- ] bold, then full of wealth and ambition for display. On arriving at the Branch the )octor ] was always met by his coach, drawn b t six bay horses, and whirled to his splen- < did nansion in Chelsea avenue. Fisk i had three cottages on Ocean avenue, near Bath avenue. le occupied one himself, while the other two were ten- I anted by several beautiful young women I wl', al),earc(1 to bo very well acqinuted I with 1i. k. 'T'hese enchanting creatures used to i,-'t the gallant Colonel at the f train, whither they went in a handsome landau with gold trimmings, drawn by bay horses with gold mounted harness. Fisk himself used to ride in an enormous ( dray drawn by a crossed team of six u bliahicks and grays. He had a coachman 1 and a tiger on the box and two footmen on the riule behind. t All the wealth aid fashion of the Uranch, front John 11 oey and Charles J. = Osura to old Jeremiah Curtis, the fath- I er of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and iussell Sage, the grandfather of puts, calls and straddles, used to travel on the Plymoutlh Rock in those days; and with the music and the champagne, and the gilt-edged staterooms with spring locks, every trip was i pieiic, a men:ge rie and it sdeshow thrown in. After i checkered career stories got afloat that the vessel was unseaworthy, and Scofield, who then owned her, lost ionty onl her as an excursion boat. Thieii lie built a great platform on top of her, put an awning over it, called her a 1loating skating rink, and ran her up the -udson. Ibit she failed to draw, aid on November 12, last year, she was put til at iuiction. Scofield bought lier ill for $7,875, and owned her until she was sohl last week. I1cr career has ended, 1 but no boat ever had a merrier life of i.---N. Y. Star, ept. 29. 1)11 At II. TA L1i OF ('Li1LAND1. le Ii:r u liit' l'rNiidt m .iii lbe Ieno tiutuued t nnd lite-eleeted. i D.ormani U. EaLton, b)eing in town for t few daiys, consented yesterdlay to tell a World reporter sonmething abIout his liews onl the possibility andio probability L)f Cleveland's renomination in .1888. "There exists no( douttt," ''le said, ''that Uleveland 's worst appointments have been brought about by the willful deceit >f the politicians of his p)arty. T1his has, If course5, hurt him, but in his position wards Civil Service Reform the best elemients of b othI parie is are certainly in blis favor. IBy the time his present term 1 af oflice uits expired two-thirds of the litteeni tltt-usant1d people whlo 1hold office inider the Civil Service rules w ill be Diemocrats, whose initerest it will of aOurseO be to support hhn. In addition to this, if the I >omocrats nominmated aLny >t her manii except Cleveland, hie wo'uhl probly , b10 defeated by the Repubulicain vote; wheireats if Cleveland is niominated b y the IDeomocrats lie woutld iiot only aarry with himl thme De)mocratic vote as It iinatter of policy, but also thaLt of the I uidepenldents atrul many Republicans." "The motto of the D emnocrats,"' 5Iaid Mr. Easton., ''is 'HeItter' (leveland for 1. P resident withI such spoils as we cani get: thani aL R.epulicanI atdmIinistrattioni and( no(1 poIils. ' '11e on)subiur service should ~ somne unmder the Civil Service lawv. 'That I wias It slend id chlamlee, too, but it was lost. Suceced? Of couzrse it would sue- F acedu. Why, Elaine waus in favor of this 1 ivil service ini the conisular service, thouigh I hanvenu't 11nuch1 confidhenie 111 I linue. Yes, sir, whicbever way I look it it Clevelanld's reomtIinaIItionI seems to t bIe a thing of some certainty, but not be (cause his party wants him, for if coni sideored through IL private ballot they would doubtless throw him over, but becaLuse it is po(licy to atppIear favorableI to himl. enry11 (lay, wllio wias Ia neaIt lenmuan, was quiite' an i*nthuiaist on thei subl ject of pilai haidwritin jandLI wias in the habit If telling ai story ini potint ablouit a Cin 'innahtt grocerlyIan who wanted aL lot of Irut ries anid thou ghit lie couldl get hem:1, ceapJ in Ia little Kentucky town. lo tju len hlIle wrote to) a custaliner tt lhe p lace t reeting htimi to) senm d tim [1no hiuiidredl bushels of ranblerries per famouIlils - the name of his teamster. lhe writing was so lhad that the piarty to whom the ntotoe was addressed coutldt not niaike out the word '-*cranblherries"' at aill, buOt dlid cOIochde that his correspondent d.id wiant 0one hunditred bushels of per sl1nmIons4, wvhich wvere at once gathered anid foirw,airded, mucih to the disgust of the (Cincinnati mtan.--en. Pecrley's New 1 ook. '.'Tie newV~ Atitorny Genieral of Tenneiissee It George W.l' Pike. he is genierally re gardled as ai we'll preserved mian'.-1-Ec. N ow let seine fellhow ghcrkin a joke about hils beimr mixed nu pin r..mnily inra. WOMEN's NAME. L 8lmplo Device by Which Personal Mdertitp May be Retained. Oharlee Dudloy Warner in "Their PlgrIoage.") Now, however good a woman's e nay bo, she is in danger-except, , ay, in Massachusettsof losing i$ ~ommonly in the change she blot. out~ ill traces of her former existence and von identity. In royal and noble faiwi ies the attempt has been made to pilo o many names upon the fomale infant hat some stick through life, and we have o some extent imitated this in our re-' >iblic by giving girls two and three mines, sometimes a string of very pretty lppellations taken out of novels, and > specially if the child is poor will she be rich in names. This is all very well so Long as the girl remains Clarissa Elvira 1'.uphemia Iloskins; but when it would becoio Clarissa Elvira Euphemia Hos kins Pond it is too much, and either the surnamo or some of tho baptismal names have to he thrown overboard. All these and many other inconvelienOces can be avoideci ind tho Personal identity of a woman be secured through all changes by a very siuple device. In the first place give the girl in baptism only one name. She will be perfectly content with it. her lover never reqpures, never uses, but one of a her names, if she has half a dozen. In the height of his tenderness he never says: "Amelia Jane, come to my arms!" iEo siuply extends his arms and cries: "Jane!" In the second place, when the prl marries lot her always keep her sur iame. Then, w honever we see a we nan's name we shall know whether she s married or single; and if she is married, ye shall know what her family name is. f she has earned a reputation as a vriter or a doctor or an LL.D. as Mary irown, she will carry that with her as liary Brown Johnson; and in all cases here will be spared an indefinite amount f talk and inquiry as to who she was be ore she was married. This system is essential to the "cause" if woman. It may be said that it ppks >erfection in two respects. We dould tot tell from the three names whether ho bearer of them might not be a vidow, and it makes no provision for a econd marriage. Those are delicate ledtions. In regard to the first, it is lobody's business to know whether the voman is or is not a widow, unless she hooses to make that fact prominent, .id then she has ways enough to em ilasizo it. And in the second place it loes not at all matter what becomes of ho name of the first husband. It is the Vomaian's identity that is to be preserved. \id she cannot be required to set up ni -elones all along her life. WAI TCiING BIG IIE1A'8 OF MONEY. 1'l 'yst inm Va Loose Ilefore, but Now It I. Closer and Safer. tFrom the i'hiladelphia ltocord.) Assistant United States Treasurer S. l)avis Page has ben in actual charge of the Sub-Treasury in this city about three weeks, but during that time iho has made many changes in the method of conduct ing the business of the ollice. There is ttored in the vaults of the office over N22,000,u0, and great care must neces arily be exercised to insure the perfect tafety of this large sum of money. After hio experts sent from Vashipgton had ompletd their count of the money in he office Mr. I'age stepped in and as tumed control. The first day he was uprised to find the clerks and tellers go n and out of the big burglar and fire )roof vault and deposit therein trays "ontaining hundreds of thousands of lollars. It occurred to Mr. Page that his was rather a loose way of doing busi ess, as a ishonest clerik could steal a 'eil of bills or a pacekage of gold from nether tray and get an innocont man in rouble .110 issued an order that no lerk or teller should enter the vault lone uinder paini of dismissal. If a lerk has any business in the vault he aunt call another clerk, and the two aust enter together, where the first must ransact his business ini full sight of the econd. Mr. Page also caused the com >mnations of the big safe to 1)0 changed, )ne combination was given to one teller nd the ether to another teller, so that >oth must bo p)resent to open the safe. .roper precautions have been taken to over any exigency that might arise in ase of the sudIden dleath or sickness of tither of the gentlemen piossessing the ecret of the combination. Bunt the most muporimit reform is ai perfect system of hecks upjoni each of the clerks and( tel ers. At the close of business each day lie rcedemplltion clerk and paying, assist nig and interest tellers make out a state aent of thme amount of money received rom each and the amount p)aidI out. 'hose are furnished to the book-keeper, 'ho makes out a general statoment which roves the correctness of the individual taitements. TLheso arc at once furnished r> Mr. P'age, who can tell at a glance if verythinig is running smoothly and roperly in his oflice, and, at the same me, it gives every assurance to that eotlenman of the safi by of the many uiliont intrustedl to his chare. .10ohn and IIIk ight WIth the Indianm. A numbohr of years ago a Dakota set ior who bad recently come from Mis ouri went ini a hastily formed company u repuel a Sioux outbreak. After a few rooks a neighbor who had also gone re urnred and informed the man's wife that ier husband was dead. "Was he killed luring a fight with the Indians?" asked lhe woman. "TIhore was a little skir mish going on, that was all." "Yes? " 'Weo had retreated to one side of 'a avmo and1( the .Indians were on the othi r. lie ventured down into the open pa1cc and was killed." "DIo you' mean 0 tell me that .John crawhl out of good over right down where the Indians 1u1l see him?" "'Yes, ma'm.'" "I can't olhevo it, sir; he knew more about, in-2 ian fighting than that. I don't b elie, ti would risk his own life that wa', ov'A f he knew lhe could kill an Indu,." "Oh, he didn'tcorcop out to kill Indians." "What was it, then?" "Why,.when we retreated s< moebody dropped a bottle OA whiskey in the botton., of the ravine, uind lie wont back to get it. before the ians did." "How large was the bot-. i the?" "It was a quart bottle of good old wvhiskey, and he got most of it drunk b)ef ore the Indians succeeded in hitting him." "Wedll, I beheve you now. John waks an excellent judge of whiskey, and would make almost any sacrinlce p it."-Estelline Dakota Bell, l'he martlag w