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WILL MR. FULLER ACCEPT? Some Beasoms why the Chicagoan May Not Want the Chief Justceaship. WAsHINGTON, May 6.-There is a rumor current among those intimate with the President that it is possible Mr. Melville W Fuller will not accept the position of ,Chief Justice of the United States. It will be remembered that when the President offered Mr. Fuller four other appointments he declined any office for reasons obvious to those who knew that he was dependent upon his practice for the support of his family. In this instance the President felt certain that Mr. Fuller would accept, and did not deem it necessary to ask if he would. After his name was sent to the Senate on Monday last and the nomination was known throughout the country, it was naturally expected at the White House that some re cognition would come from Mr. Fuller of the great honor conferred upon him. The day passed without the slightest acknowl edgement of that honor. The Presiaent, supposing Mr. Fullerwas observing to the extreme all the proprieties it was possible toinvent. met him half way, and at once addressed Mr. Fuller a letter informing him of the compliment that day bestowed by naming him for the most ex alted judicial office in his gift. A reply came promptly, recognizing in the most befitting manner the President's act, but it was wholly silent about whether he would accept or not. Reasons for this were at once asked of those who knew Mr. Fuller. The only one that appeared reasonable was that a gentleman with seven daughters, accus tomed to all the refinements and conveni ences of cultured society, would still need thelarge income of their father's profession to maintain their social status wherever they might live. The salary of Chief Justice is only $10,500 per annum. To accept the office would make him dependent upon that salary and such income as he might derive from his Chicago property. Whether the total would then be enough to maintain in Wason the same social standing that Mr. er's family has enjoyed for many in Chicago is a question that the t's advisers were enabled from years of experience in Washington to answer in the negative. It was not alone a question of judicial honor, but of, honor with an assured enjoyment of all that is necessary to main tain it through the remaining years of his life without, in the end, having the story of Chief Justice Waite's fifteen years on the bench repeated at his death-that he died poorer than when he came to Wash ington. A stated income of $80,000 a year would not, it is said, more than enable Mr. Fuller to maintain his home in Washington as he would want to live. A personal friend of Mr. Fuller says that be believes he will accept the place and make whatever sacrifices may be neces aary to bring his expenses within his per sonal and official income, but will leave the formal acceptance of the honor until the President is able to hand him the only evidence that would be acceptable, viz. his enmmiaton as Chief Justice. Trata Bobbery in Ohio. MXnamizr, 0., May 6.-A bold, but b mufng empt to rob the Limited Ex poeo. 6, on the Baltimore and Ohio at about I o'clock this morning was frustrated by the train crew and passengers. At the bouruamed, the train being at this station, a man entere't the smoking car, where most of the p a rs were dozing, and at tempted to snatch the watches of three of them in succssion He had succeeded in obtning one'watch when the occupantsof the car became aroused and the thief made arusfor the rear'door, only to be met by Conductor Corwin, who, taking in the sit uation at a glance, dealt tne scoundrel a trmnosblow over the head with his lantern, bringing him to the floor enseless * A crporal of Company G, Fifth In fantry, who was conveying an insane sol dier from Fort Keough, Mont., to the Natinnal Asylum, quickly produced a pair 'of handenB, and when the prostrate bandit regained -nniun he found himself mmnaded and amon a crowd of passen gea, -who talked excitedly of the bell cord ad the nearest ~hpole. The thief 'ptosyfor his life, and after he been searched and no waosfound on his person, and there bennpniceamman within call, the crowd yile othe councils of Conductor Cor win. The rascal, after receiving a severe thahing was allowed to go, and the train poeddon Its way. Two companions ofthe scoundrel, who were stationed on the side of the train opposite the depot, took to their heels on the first alarm The stogawatch was returned to its owner. Two M-----r. Conuie. N ~1onworK; Va., May 7.-The British steamer Benizon, Capt. Aikenhead, from Matarisma to Philadelphia, was towed here today in distress, and reports being In col liaion yesterday afternoon shortly after 12 o'clock, during a dense fog, with the En reka, Captain Quick, from New York to New Orleans. When the fog lifted about an hour later, the Eureka was nowhere in sihand it is feared she was sunk. After the comliin there was the sound of escap *ing steam and one whistle. The Benizon's -bow was badly stove, and she would have sunk but for her water light compart ments. The collision occurred 168 miles southeastof Cape Henlopen. The Benizon struck the Eureka suare midship. The Bureka was a freight botand carried no Her crew, all told, numbers thryeight persons. Not a word was pamdbetween persons on either of the stamers during the collision. (oai Blood Balm.) The great Blood Pnrifler and Tonic. It enres Sarofula, Kidney Troubles, Ostirrh, Skin Humors, Bhenmatism, Eraptions, Boils, etc., and is a wonder inltonie. (Botanic .Btood Balm.) The great Blood Purifier and Tonic. It cures Barofula, Kidney Troubles, (Jainwrh, Skin Humors, Bheanatism, Eruptions, Boils, etc., and is a wonder fal tonic. A-Pauper Dis with Gold in Her Poekets. Eliza Maxwell, an old colored woman, who has been sheltered at the expense of the county, at the poor house, three months pat, died in that institution a day or two ago. After her death her dress was picked uby an attendant who remarked that it fetlike It was loaded with rocks. An in ' was made and the cause of the was developed, when a pocket book, containing $40 in gold, was drawn froma pocket inthe dress. Mr. Alexander, the superintendent. turned the money over to the county treasurer and It has been ap ulet te ghenealfund of the county. Da Mn. Enzro:-Won't you p lease tell your miale raders that $S will buy a fine, strong and servioeable ~ of ms iade to orderby the N. . tan Pants Co., of 66 UJniversity Place, New York city? By sending 6 oents in posiage stamps to the above firm, they wlfluundto any address 25 samples of~ loth to choose from, a fine linen tape masmre, a full1set of scientific measure ment blanks and other valuable informa tion. All goods are delivered by them through the U. B. Mals. A novel and ractical idea. Advise your renaer to .rytefirm,.~? are thoroughly re libe Yours , mRRBLT GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Iems of :Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. Dom Pedro is now considered out of danger. The flood in the Mississippi River is assuming alarming proportions. Lord Stanley, of Preston, is gazetted as Governor General of Canada. Three thousand persons were drowned by the recent flood in the Canton River. A train of empty "Q" cars was set on fire Sunday at Chicago by strikers and nearly consumed. ] The Delaware Democratic Convention endorse Cleveland and favors the Mills tariff bill. The Emperor of Brazil is suffering from pleurisy. Physicians attending him say < that his condition is serious. The State mineralogist reports that Cali- l forna last year produced $13,063,928 in ores and bullion. A fire in Georgetown, S. C., yesterday morning, destroyed property to the value of $20,000. Lightning struck a schoolhouse Wednes day at Dayton, 0., and two little girls were fatally injured. The President has nominated Robert B. 1 Roosevelt, of New York, to be minister resident of the United States to the Neth erlands. The Brazilian Government has announced its intention to submit to the Legislature a project for the abolition of slavery in Bra zil. The President contributed $100 Wednes day towards the building of an orphan asylum for colored children at Lynchburg, Vs. Forty-six thoroughbred yearlings were sold at Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday, for 1 $23,410, an average of $487. The Kansas Republican State Conven tion paesed resolutions endorsing Plumb and Ingalls. The sentiment of the conven tion was decidedly in favor of Blaine. The Vatican has received a dispatch from the Papal Nuncio at Paris stating that the disputes between France and the Vatican have been satisfactorily settled. The schooner t idgewood, loaded with lumber, was burned Wednesday below Jacksonville. Fla. Loss on vessel and cargo $28,000. Commodore Norman Wilson, one of the wealthiest men in the Northwest, died sud denly yesterday evening on the train en route for his home in Minneapolis. Geo. F. Montgomery, of Vincennes, Ind., lumber dealer dealer, who has been buying extensively in the South, has con fessed judgment in the sum of $28,800. The expenses of living in the city of New York may be conjectured from a re- 1 mark in the Mail and Express that a man on an income this side of $5,000 finds the country healthier than the city. The Republican newspapers North are diligently searching for something damag ing to Mr. Melville W. Fuller. They say they have discovered he was a member of the famous "Peace Legislature" of Illinois. Dennis McLaughlin, of New Haven, aged 50, hung himself in his barn yester day. He owned considerable property. Disappointment at losing a situation in the Derby railroad shops is the supposed cause. Wm. Hopkins, who was to have been I hanged in 4abun, Ga., has been respited by Governor Gordon. Hopkins is the man who stoned a stranger to death at a country church because he wore a "biled shirt." The National Bureau of Engraving and Printing is engaged night and day in print ing one and two dollar silver certificates and to date has finished $26,000,0u0 of ones and $17,000,000 of twos. Blakely Hale telegraphs to the New York Sun from Berlin that "it is not to be wondered at that his Majesty has deterio rated in health at Charlottenburg. The place is little more than a swamp. The golden rose sent by Pope Leo to Miss Caldwell will be ceremoniously pre sented to that lady at the laying of the corner stone of the Catholic University in Washington, D. C., on the 24th instant. One thousand miners declined to renew their working contract at Pratt mines, at Birmingham, Ala., Monday, according to the company's figures, and are now out, of work.] A riot occurred at Dnnimany, Ireland, < yesterday, as the police were removmng a number of prisoners to Cork. The pohice charged upon the rioters, and used their batons freely. W. C. Chamberlain, of Texas, who wenti to Paris to be treated by Pasteur for wolf1 bite, returned to New York on the La Gas-i cogne Sunday, though a man bitten by] the same wolf has siace died. Sunday afternoon at North Bend, 0., during a quarrel over a game of cards, in< which Lewis Brown, Joe Howard and Harrison Stapleton were engsged, the lat-] ter stabbed Brown in the heart, killing him instantly.1 After a one hundred and ninety days voyage the schooner Edward E, Webster arrived at San Francisco from Gloucester, Mas., with her crew disabled with a strange disease, and no provisions on board but musty flour. Nathaniel Watts, the last of the "old defenders" who defended Baltimore from the British invasion in 1814, is dying at the residence of his daughter in Baltimore. He is 94 years of age. A terrible dynamite explosion- occurred Tuesday morning at Colly mine, Bessemer, Mich., instantly killing Frank Robatsky and fatally injuring three others. The en house was burned to the ground. Three burglars entered the house of Mrs. Mary E. Reynolds, at Gresham, Pa., on Monday night. She was alone, but she kept the robbers at bay with a hatchet. One of them attempted to seize her arm, whereupon she knocked him senseless to the floor. The Missouri Supreme Court has re-1 yersed Judge Noonan's decision upon the law of 1857 (Sunday law). It holds that the city government of St. Louis never had authority to grant permission for the sale of wine or beer on Sunday. Twenty-two editions of the May number of the North American Review have been issued. It was Mr. Gladstoue's article on Col. Ingersoll's ideas that caused this un precedented sale. Between four and five hundred people were at Fort Hill, S. C., yesterday for the Clemson sale and were disappointed when there was nothing of value for sale except the live stock, all the furniture being left< by Mr. Clemson to the State.t Of the 650 reserved cases called by Jus tice Truax in the New York Superior Court, special term, during last week, sev eral had been on the calendar over twenty. five years. About 400 cases were disposed The steamer Iowa, at Boston, on her last trans-Atlantic trip, was surrounded by a school of whales, which indulged in all sorts of capers, until finally one of the bolder of the monsters unwisely attempted 1 to cross the vessel's bow. It was complete- I ly cut in two. William Watts, a farmer near Delaware, 0., was struck by lightning Wednesday I and killed. The bolt struck him on the I neck, ran down the left side and tore a holeC in his heart, then ran down his leg and tore his boot off. The Supreme Court of Illinois has affmed the decision of the lower courts in the boodle county commissioners' cases,-r and thedefendants will all have to servec their terms of sentence in the State peni- 1 tntiry . The United States fish commission car eached Atlanta yesterday. A change of water was found necessary and Artesian water was supplied. Inside of an hour 15,000 young fish were dead and nearly x,000,000 eggs are supposed to be killed. Davidson College experienced a severe lectrical disturbance on Sunday night. A lestructive fire was caused by lightning triking the warehouse of John Caldwell. 'he structure, contents and nine bales of otton were consumed. Caldwell's loss is stimated at $12,000. The Sound View Farm stables of Rich rd Conkling, who raised the great trotters Rarus, Wedgewood, King Wilkes and nany others, were destroyed by fire Mon lay morning, together with several valua >le horses. Loss $50,000. Insured. The Senate public buildings and grounds :ommittee Monday acted favorably upon )ills for public buildings at the following )laces: Vicksburg, Miss., $100,000; Jack ion, Miss., (eniaruement), $6,000; Colum us. Ga., $100,000; Charleston, S. C., 8300,000. W. Bayard Cutting, under decree of the United States Court, Monday bought for 6125,000 the balance of the T. R. & N. R. Railroad system, consisting of the Florida 'ransit, Transit, Tropical and Plant City Extension. He controls the majority of bonds, and now has the whole property. After four days' discussion the General onference of the Methodist Church, at Kew York, Monday afternoon, by a ma jority of 39 votes, refused to admit women is delegates. The ministerial vote was 159 iyes against 122 nays, and the lay vote 78 iyes against 76 nays. Captain Martin Moore, of the steamer Benton, running between Memphis, Tenn., ind Jackson Mound Park, was murdered n board his steamer at 8 o'clock Suuday night, during a disagreement between hose who chartered the steamer and him ;elf. Eph Reeves and W. J. McCowan are charged with the murder. Judge Tuley, of Illinois, has rendered a preliminary decision in a contestea will case which is of considerable importance to all children born in slavery and to many Af the descendants of such children. He pronounces such children illegitimate, and holds that they cannot inherit property from the father. The Georgia State Temperance Conven tion, before adjourning, passed resolutions to make a general prohibition contest in the elections for the Legislature this fall. Prohibition candidates will be nominated in every county pledged to vote for a statu tory prohibitory law instead of leaving the luestion to the vote of the people. A Dublin dispatch says: James Quinn, a boy ranger. who lived in the village of oughrea, County Cork, was found mur lered yesterday. Three bullet wounds were discovered on his body. He had been threatened by moonlighters with death anless he abandoned the farm he occupied. uinn's family live in America. Mrs. Annie Flsenbarth, residing at 3,725 organ street, St. Louis, was walking through her residence Sunday morning when she suddenly fell to the floor and ex pired. Her sister, who lived near, was summoned. On arriving at the house she went to the room where the dead woman lay and fell dead beside her. Both ladies were supposed to be in the best of health. During a heavy rain and thunder storm Fuesday the towboat Future City and three barges from St. Louis came in contact with United States war vessels at anchor in front >f New Orleans. Two of the barges were unk. One contained 51,000 bushels of bulk wheat and the other a full cargo of freight. The barges are valued at $9,000 ach and their cargoes at $70,000. United States Revenue Officer A. H. Williams on Tuesday arrested Geo. Hale, noonshiner, at Rocky Mount, Franklin nounty, VA., while peddling illicit whisky rom an ox cart. While on the way to jail :h guards were overpowered by a crowd >f 150 men and the prisoner released. The rescued prisoner was carried to the moun :ains amid wild shouts. No pursuit was nade. Henry Miller and Win. L. Aderholt, two armers living near Beecher City, Ill., had Slaw suit Wednesday over a trivial matter. aerholt won the suit, and Miller became o enraged he went home, seized his gun, narched to Aderholt's house and shot him lead. He also went to the house of a man iamed McKenzy, who sided with Ader iolt, and shot him, but McKenzy will re :oer. Early Monday morning a cloud burst ear Maize, fifteen miles west of Wichita, [an. Rain had been falling all night and when the cloud broke there was an awful oar which frightened the people out of heir houses. Many buildings were de nolished. The house of a family named Rockby was swept into the Arkansas river where it sank. Rockby, his wife and two :hildren were drowned. Many horses and :ows were lost in the flood. The Common Council of Lansing, Mich., ad a deadlock session of twenty-two iours, which ended Tuesday evening in :he election of Democrats to all city offices. he vote of all members was required to nae an election legal, and Mr sn a Republican, was purposely kept hidden. Be was found at last and forced to vote, mnd as the count was a tie, the Mayor's rote (Democratic) settled the contest. The barn and stables of William Smith, who lives about ten miles west of Ander on, were destroyed by the torch of an in :endiary on Saturday night, about 10 'clock. The buildings contained forty bushels of corn, seven hundred bundles of Eodder and two fine mules. Nothing was javed. Mr. Smith knew nothing of the ire till aroused from his slumbers by one >f his neighbors who lived near. There is o clue yet to the incendiary. A strange atmospheric phenomenon was een at Maize, Kansas, on Sunday. A torm cloud burst and extended over a ipace, parallelogram in form, about 500 ards wide and one mile in length. For alf an hour the rain came down in tor rents. The heavens were black, and dark ess almost equal to that of night covered ;he entire area. The people ran affrighted rom their homes, many crying that the and of the world had come. The loss of roperty will be heavy. . Trying to Murder by Wholesale. An arrest at Toledo, O., Tuesday diR losed a fiendish attempt at poisoning that night have resulted in the death of hun reds. Hiram Fields, a prominent grape grower and wine merchant, reproved his iired man for drunkenness. The hired man ~eplied, "I'l1 fix you !" Later Mr. Fields ound that his wine casks had been tam iered with. A closer examination revealed ~rystals of blue vitriol not dissolved in he wine. Dozens of casks containing housands of gallons were found to have yeen thus poisoned. The man was ar ested. There is great excitement and reats of lynching. PIANOS AND ORGANS. We are prepared to sell Pianos and )rgans of the best make at factory aries for Cash or easy Instalments. ?ianos from $210 up; Organs from $24 ap. The verdict of the people is that hey can save the freight and twenty-five' er cent. by buying of us. Instruments elivered to any depot on fifteen days' rial. We pay freight both ways if not atisfactory. Order and test in your >wn homes. Bespectfully, N. W. TBUMP, * Columbia, 8. 0. Flattery is often a traffic of mutal mean less, where, although both parties intend eception, neither are deceived, since words hat cost~little are exchanged for hopes that noat ess. WEDDINGS IN PARIS. The Great Resort for Parties of the Middle Classes. Bride and Groom Go Hand-in-Hand to Church, Their Friends Grouped Around Thom-Description of a Double Marriage. The Bois de Vincennes is a great resort for wedding parties anong the middle class, as there is a restaurant there where they can dance and have an entertainment, writes a Paris correspondent to the Baltimore sun. We saw two parties on a previous visit. In one instance the bride and groom were walk ing hand-in-hand, with a group of friends around them, and a boy was playing a fiddle. The other party were playing some sort of game chasing each other in a circle. Both brides were dressed in white, with nothing on their heads but orange blossoms, though the weather was quite cold. I attended the wedding of my French landlady's nephew on Saturday last. He is a very nice-looking young man with very little to say, especially if you do not speak French. Each of the guests of the hotel was furnished with an invitation nearly as large as a sheet of fools cap, in an envelope to suit. There was a monogram of the initials of the bride and groom at the top of the paper, and on one page a request from the father and mother of the bride that you would honor them with your company at the mar riage of their daughter, while the opposite page contained a similar invitation from our landlady with respect to her nephew. At the bottom of the sheet there was a state ment to the effect that the wedding would take place at midday precisely in the Church of St. Merri, in the Rue St. Martin. It was a few minutes after twelve when I arrived at the church, and the wedding was in progress. It is not fashionable to be late at a wedding in Paris, as it is with us in Balti -more. The Church of St. Merri, formerly St. Mederic, is a Gothic structure, with a beautiful portal in the Flamboyant school The Roman Catholic churches of Paris are all built on the same general principles. There is a high vaulted roof over the main building, supported by several rows of col umns. Behind these columns or pillars are recesses built in the side of the church, which are known as chapels. There are usually paintings on the walls of the chap els; and they are furnished with altars and candles. The pulpit is commonly in the middle of the church and the organ over the entrance. There are no pews, chairs tak ing their places. I found the wedding party in one of the chapels. The bride was dressed in white satin, with a long white veil, while the groom wore a dress suit. They were seated in chairs near the altar, and behind them was a bridesmaid dressed in a short blue dress and a dark red hat. The groomsman was dressed like the groom. Our landlady was there, dressed very elegantly in black silk, and there were some thirty or forty relations and people from the hotel in attendance. A priest, in a white satin surplice, embroidered with gold, and an altar boy in red, with white surplice, were performing the ceremony. A large man in a cocked hat, with silver lace, and a uniform similar to that worn by our police, was standing in the aisle holding a baton with a silver knob on the end in his hand. I was told he was a beadle. After awhile he went away, and was sue. ceeded by a smaller man with a large silver chain round his neck. When the bride arose from her knees the beadle would care. fully arrange her veil on a chair behind her kept vacant for that purpose. All at once the bridesmaid left her seat, and accom panied by the groomsman, walked about among the people taking up a collection in a blue bag she held in her hand. After she returned to her seat the deputy beadle struck his cane on the pavement and led the way out of the chapel to a room where the register is kept and the names were duly inscribed. Thea congratulations were in order, and nearlyeveryone kissed the bride. first on one cheek and then on the other. ] shook hands with the bride but did not kiss her. I never care to kiss another man's wife when he is standing by looking at me. Besides, as a native of North Carolina once remarked to me: "I never did believe in this here promiscuous kissin'." There were a number of poor old women watch ing the ceremony in the church with great interest, and when the bridal party stepped into their carriages several women, with babies in their arms, offered flowers for sale. After the bride and groom had left]I retarned to the interior of the church to have a look at it, and discovered two other weddings in progress in different chapels. One party were attired exactly like those I have just described, bridesmaids and all, while the other bride was in a dark dress with a short lace veil, and her bridesmaid wore a bonnet and brown dress. This bride looked past thirty, while the groom had evidently not had the hair on top of his head cut for some time, for the reason that there was none there. When I returned to the hotel, about four in the afternoon, I walked into the dining-room for a glass of water and found our wedding party seated around the table with a look of expectation, while the stout French landlady was bustling about with the keys of the side board. I felt that this was notime todrink water, so beat a hasty retreat, just catching a glimpse of the blue bridesmaid as I went out. I have noticed several marriage ad vertisements in the papers here. One reads: "Bare opportunity; pretty orphan, twenty one years, 500,000 francs." Another: "Great choice of misses, and a widow of forty, with 90,00 francs." PRESIDENTIAL POETRY. What Mr. Cleveland Wrote in a Lady's Autograph Album. Says a Washington special to the Pitts burgh Pres: A lady went to the White House recently to obtain the President's autograph. Handing Mr. Pruden, the Ex ecutive clerk, a bright, clean sheet of tinted note paper with her monogram upon it, she requested that gentleman to ask Mr. Cleve land to inscribe his name thereon. Mr. Pruden, always obliging, wvent to the Presi dent's private $lce to secure the favor for the lady. Returning in ,a few moments ho said: "The Presidentsefds his compliments, and says that if you will bring your auto graph album he wiil be glad to write his name in it, but he never puts his signature upon a blank sheet of paper." The lady was rather taken aback, but, thanking Mr. Pruden for his kindness, re turned home to bring her album. The book being a trifle dingy in appearance, and also quite full of autographs, she determined to purchase a new one and have the Presi dent's signature to "start it." Proceeding to a book store, she bought a new and hand some album, and repaired to the White House, arriving there within twenty min utes from the time she had left. Mr. Pruden, miling, took the book and repaired to the President to obtain his autograph tor the persevering lady. Returning, he gave the book to the lady, who, thanking hun, left for her home. Upon arriving there she opened the album to gaze on the valued in scription and found the following: Woman's name-hers but to give away! A man's. his all; it should not go astray. GnovER CLEVELAN~D. It is idle to say that any man get ahead n life. He can if he has the will in him, therwise he can't. There are tunes a plenty in the piano, but one has to know how be fore he can pick them out. There will be a marked change in the endency of things, or stylish young ladies will get to wearing their hats so far back hat they will have to lif t them when they lt down. The economical country housewives are ow airing their husk mattresses for sum er boarders. Singularly enough, there is a great deal f fire in a hot base ball that comes from a conl pitcher. WALTZING GIANTS Luck of a Prospector Who Met a Dancing Dervish of the Desert. "Out in Nevada," said Joseph Grandle meyer, a mining man from White Pine, to a New York Sum correspondent, " we have the sublimest dance that any ma:n ever saw. We call it the dance of the giants. Great cylinders of sand, from eight to twenty feet in diameter, and sometimes immensely tall, come carcering across the desert with a whirling, waltzing motion that is very graceful. I have often seen them when they must have been two or three miles high, for their tops reached up into the clouds. But oftener there will be one big column, with a lot of little columns attending it, all waltzing along together. The effect is the strangest thing imagin able. It inspires you with awe, and at the same time fills you with the desire to laugh at the odd performance. And, if the man is superstitious, the weird, fantastic sight can make him feel mighty uncomfortable. They arc never seen except in the summer time, and are most frequent in July. They have their beginning in some little, incip ient whirlwind, which snatches up a hand ful of sand while the surrounding air is still, and then they keep on growing and moving onward. "They are not like the cyclones further east, for they move with very little noise, and, instead of being funnel-shaped, are of the same size from top to bottom. The motion is the same, being both circular and advancing. They draw up into the cyl inder fabulous quantiLics of sand, tons of sage brush, and sometimes good-sized stones. How far they travel nobody can tell. The very big ones must have waltzed along in their silent majesty over the lonely deserts for a long distance. They must travel the whole distance of the White Pine valley, three hundred and fifty miles, and sometimes they conie downa through Spring valley from Idaho to the Perannegat valley. "Joe McCann, one of the pioneers of White Pine, solemnly declares that he owes his richest strike to one of these waltzing gianfts. He was plodding along through the valley, leading a pack mule laden with his prospecting outfit, when half a dozen sand columns came dancing silently along. Joe tried to dodge one of them, and got right in the way of the biggest one of the whole gang. It picked up him and the mule as though they were feathers and pacled them across the valley in the liveliest waltz Joe ever shook a leg in. He got so dizzy that he couldn't tell where he was going, and he had just made up his mind to be smothered in sand and carried to Heaven by this daneng dervish of the desert, when his feet $truck solid ground, and after whirling about a few times he fell into the bed of a creek that was almost dry. When he picked himself up there was the mule kicking solemnly and methodically at a shower of sand that was falling around him. The waltzing column had struck a side hill and collapsed, as they often do, and the upper part of the column was just com ing down. Where the foot of the column struck the bed of the creek it had torn up the gravel to a depth of three or four feet and exposed some of the richest pockets of small nuggets that ;oe ever saw. He stayed with the claim about two months, and cleaned up nearly 160,000. Then he started to go back to the States, and blew in the whole pile at a faro bank in Pioche. Joe has wandered through those Nevada val leys for years since then, but hasn't had the luck to be picked out for a partner by an other waltzing giant." TRACHEOTOMY TUBES. An Englishman Who Has Worn One for Fully six Years. A case in which the operation of tracheot omy proved strikingly successful has just cone under our notice, says the Pall Hall Gazette. It is that of a man, formerly a sol dier, who had the incision into the wind pipe made six years ago, and who wears the tracheotomy tube at the present mo ment He was a private in the Royal En gineers, and took part in the Egyptian cam paign of 1881, being present at Tel-el-Kebir. While in Egypt he drank some bad water, and this induced a blood poisoning, which ultimately took the form of deep-seated ab scasses in the neck. He returned from Egypt, arriving in this country some time in October, 1852, and at once became a pa tient at the Royal Military Hospital, South ampton. The man describes the operation as being only a little painful. The previous difficulty in breathing had been so great that if the incision into the windpipe had caused much pain that pain was over whelmed by the great relief which followed the operation. He remained in the hospi tal for some months, but finally left quite cured. He finds but little discomfort or incon venience in wearing the tracheotomy tube. He can not speak without first putting his finger to his neck to close the orifice of the tube. Trhe reason for this is obvious. Voice is caused by the vibration of the vocal chords in the larynx, and to set them vibra ting a current of air from the lungs is re quired. The incision of tracheotomy being made in the windpipe below the larynx, enough air to vibrate the vocal chords can not be obtained until the orifice is closed. The closing is, in most tracheotomy tubes, effected by an automatic valve, but the soldier now in question will have none of them. He wore the automatic valve for a short time, it is true, but when he was com ing down Regent street one day it flew off and was lost, and he has done very well without it since. He can also talk by put ting his head down, in which ease the orife is closed by his chin instead of by his finger. He possesses a duplicate tube for use in case of accident. A brief description of the tube may be found interesting. It ila made of silver, that being the metal least likely to be acted upon by any fluids to be found in the windpipe or by the condensed aqueous vapor of the breath. It is in reality no more than the name implies-that is, a tube. Itis bent into the form of a quadrant, and the outer por tion has a shield, which presses against the flesh of the neck. To the shield are attached tapes, which pass around the neck and are tied. These serve to keep the tube securely in position. T'he instrument is further sup plied with a smaller inner tube and 'guide. The former can easily be removed and re placed for the purpose of cleaning, which, however, is not necessary more than once a day, unless the weather be very foggy. But the inner tube is not an essential, and the soldier of whom we write never wears it. He removes the tube itself, the tissues around it having become so hardened that for a short time they answver all the purposes of the tracheotomy tube itself. The person who is compelled to use a tracheotomy tube generally wears a high collar, and all that is seen is a small hole. Human Electricity. At a recent meeting of the Society de Biologie a woman was exhibited from whom E. Fere could under certain circumstances disengage at the surface of the body luminous electric tufts, one centimeter long -more than a third of an inch. The son of this woman presented the same peculiarity. In both the skin was remarkably dry. These phenomena could be easily augment ed by exciting the sensations. Such phe nomena are known more commonly in cer tain hot and dry tropical climates. Every day we hear people complaining of spring's detestable weather; but they are, all the same, willing to bear with it rather than be beyond the reach of climatic dis couragements. One of the colors in spring dress goods is "apple green." Green apples present many shades of green, and sometimes pro duce a little yeller. It is hard work to believe in the mental superiority of women, particularly when we see what miserable specimens of human ity they are willing to marry. No sweetness of perfume comes from the life of a mean man. It is partly because such a man hates to give up a scent for any rposMe. MELVILLE WESTON FULLER. Illinois Furnishes a Successor to the La iented Chief Jutice Waite. The new Chief Justice could scarcely have been anything but a lawyer. His father and his father's brothers were lawyers. One of his grandfathers was a lawyer and a Judge of Probate. His mother's brother was a lawyer. His 7 maternal grandfather was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Middle District of Maine: and after the F separation of Maine from Massachusetts was appointed one of the Judges of the c Supreme Court of the State of Maine, and he afterwards became the Chief Justice of that Court. Nature gave s Melville Weston Fuller a good start on t the road to distinction in his profession. The choice of Mr. Cleveland for the ' highest place in his gift was born in Augusta, Maine, on Febuary 11, 1833. He received his collegiate education at Bowdoin, where he was a classmate of Minister Phelps, and was graduated in 1853. Mr. Fuller pursued the study of law at Bangor, and also attended lectures at the law department of Harvard Uni versity. In 1855 he began to practice in his native city, but devoted himself chieflyto editorialduties. Thefollowing year he was elected a member of the Augusta common council, and was made president of that body. In addition to - this he was city solicitor, but he resigned both offices, and went to Chicago. He at once established a lucrative practice, and made a reputation as an able lawyer. At an early period he took an active part in politic:. He worked hard in the Presidential campaign of 1856, support ing the Democratic candidate. Five years later he and "Long John" Went worth were elected delegates to the State Constitutional Convention, where his legal abilities came into play, and he rendered a distinct service in the revision of the Constitution. In 1862 Mr. Fuller was sent to the Legislature from a usually Republicrn stronghold. He has continued to be actively engaged in politics, and was a delegate to the Nat ional Conventions for several years, tak ing part in those held in 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880. His record in the Legislature was one of efficient service. It was in 1863 that he was at Springfield, and he was the recognized leader of his party during those stormy days. Among the numerous public addresses which he de livered the one at Michigan City in 1860, in welcoming Stephen A. Douglas, is mentioned as especially noteworthy for its eloquence. He it was, also, who de livered the address a year later when that celebrated statesman died. In the mean time he had been rising in his profession. He was notably connected with some celebrated cases before the State Supreme Court arising out of the proro gation of the Legislature by Governor Yates in that year. In 1869, when Bishop Whitehouse attempted to discip line the now Bishop Cheney before an ecclesiastical tribunal for leaving "rege nerate" out of the office of infant babtism, the offender was advised and defended all through the years of tedious litigation by Mr. Fuller, who exhibited a profound research and knowledge of ecclesiastical law. The Reformed Episcopal Church, of Chicago, of which Cheney is Bishop, largely owes its existence to the prosecu tion thus instituted. Mr. Fuller has often appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States, and his rep utation is that of a learned and sound lawyer and a man of very superior culti vation and attainments. He was married in Chicago in 1858, but soon lost his wife. In 1866 he was married a second time. Mrs. Fuller is a little woman, blonde, with a sympathetic face, a winning manner and a ready tongue. She has five daughters and a little son. The young ladies of the family are remarkable for their cultivation and originality. One of thenm attracted a great deal of attention two seasons ago in Washington. There is no doubt that they will be belles in the society of the Capital. In personal appearance Mr. Fuller is unusully handsome; his hair and mustche are silvery and his features clear-cut and intelligent. He is short in stature and of slight build. His membership in the Democratic party has been continuous. While holing advanced views of State rights, he was loyal to the Union cause during the war. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and has been prominently identified with that denomination. The Mysterious Package. WASHINGTON, May 7.--The Treasury Department has no further information as a to the circumstances under which a pack of brown paper was substituted for $41,000 of currency scat in for redemption by the American Exchange ~National Bank of New York. Treasurer Hyatt said this morning that the matter was not one in which the department could take action. Upon the presentation of the bogus pack age the Treasurer had refused to receive it, and had thus escaped all responsibility and connection with the matter. The investi gation and location of the responsibility lies between the bank and the express com pany. If you envy a rascal's success you are( also a rascal in all save his boldness or shrewdness. The "drop letter" boxes in England mustt get pretty well filled up with h's. 1 Pursuit, not possession, is to us the great est source of enjoyment. 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Write us for estimates. W. P. LESTER, Superintendent. THORN WELL MoMASTER, Business Manager. ~IARLOTTE FEMALE INSTI [UTE. The current session of this Institute loses January 21st, 1888, when the p~ring Session begins, which ends June The present session is one of the most >rosperous in the history of the Insti ute. There is room for only a few more oarding pupils. The health of the chool, the accommodations of its board g department, and the efficiency of its orps of teachers are unsurpassed any riere in the South. The first of January Sa very convenient time for entering. 'upils are charged only from date of trance. Rev. WM. R. ATKINSON, Principal. Charlotte, N. C. PRIVATE BOARDING. ON THE FIRST OF OCTOEER, th~a dersigned opened a 'IRST CLASS BOARDING HOUSE i Charleston, for the accommodation of oth Transient and Permanent Boarders. The Building, located on the northeast orner of Wentworth and Giebe streets, Sconveniently near the business portion f King street, yet free from the noise f the thoroughfares. It is within easy each from the Academy of Music and rom Churches of all the different det ominations. The house has been thoroughly re aired, and fitted up ingood style with ew furniture and fixtures. Terms reasonable. For further information address Mas. E. E. HASET4 or Miss S. S. EDWARDS, tf Charleston, S. C. H Ow CASES. WALL. CASES. iSKS, OFFIC NITU AND FIXTURES. 8 -e .'/0 }