MIDSUMMER DRESSES.
A TENDENCY FOR THE FASHIONS
OF FIFTY TEARS AGO.
Gowns Scant and Straight-Pretty De
signs in Lace Patterns Are Now the
Rage and Are Sold at a Moderate Price.
Everywhere within the domain of the
summer girl one especially notices the
exc.eeding scantiness and straightness of
her white gown. The woman who is
tall paces the glistening beach, a grace
ful, flitting image. The woman who is
short trips over the elusive, reflecting
sand, a dimpled, piquant figure, with
inches enough added to her stature to
make her-if she be not an extreme
example-instead of dumpy. simply
round and charming. Half the women
under thirty look like school girls.
The midsummer tenderness for modes a
la 1830 makes small distinction possible
between the young madame and made
moiselle. Both wear white, morning.
afternoon and evening. It would be
safe to estimate that out of every five
gowns turned out by competent hands
this season at least two are
Like a powder of snow from the heavens.
Since spring the shops have over
flowed with white materials. A collector
of samples might easily accumulate
scraps of half a hundred different white
woolens, and, adding to these the silks,
pongees, muslins, lacies, lawns, linens,
silk gauzes and semi-transparent tissues
of all descriptions, might go far towards
completing the full century. The sum
mer girl bathes in white flannel, boats
in white serge, promenades in white
nun's veiling, drinks tea in white China
silk, dances in white tulle and goes
home after the ball in a coachman's
cape of white challis. White velvet and
white silk are the-trimmings she puts
on white woolen gowns. Occasionally
she is charming in a white veiled gown.
This last innovation consists of an un
der-dress of striped silver and white on
gold and white silk peeping from be
neath a veil drapery of white silk gauze
of-the finest texture, gathered into a
waistband very simply so as to form
pretty folds.
The embroidered lawn and cambric
dresses of past seasons have dropped en
tirely out of favor, -though embroidered
India muslins, which have been laid
aside for perhaps a quarter of a century,
oan be brought forward to advantage.
White lawn is used only in its finer and
more shear varieties when it is made up
in quaint accordeon skirts, untrimmed
aid plaited all the way around. The
bodice and sleeves are likewise pleated,
and the sash of the same material is laid
in wide folds in Empire fashion across
the front, tapers toward the back and is
tied in a soft knot, instead of a bow be
hind, the two ends falling nearly to the
ground This makes a very fresh and
youthful-looking dress, and the chief
variation on it is a white lawn used as a
crisp-pleated front'to a Directory gown
of-black linen or sateen.
Some of the prettiest white gowns
for summer merry-makings are made of
white China silk with round belted
TYaidfInd having the fullness on the
shoulders drawn in rows of thick cords
forming points in front, behind and on
the top of each full sleeve. The skirt
is drawn upon cords for a depth of over
foutinches below the waist, whence it
falls in full straight lines. Few people
t can eed telling that none of the skirt
!'breadths is gored and that they are cut
off straight around, except in case of a
pronounced Empire dress which is made
shorter in front than hitherto, showing
the embroidered silken instep curving
up from the satin slipper. High shoul
dered full sleeves are the natural finish
to sneb gowns. The belt, the collar
e waistband are smooth white rib
bons and-the flower-crowned white hat
is net shirred over what looks like a
foundation of green twigs and trimmed
ishlavinug its queer but legitimate result,
aburrin o the lies which divide
ateh amenggon from evening
attrate sme abrcsbeing used with
Sout:distincion whether one sips an ice
-oni the lawn of a Newport cottage or
dances at the Casino, the transparent
overdress being in either ease a promi
nent feature of the midsummer fash
iois. It is an interesting commentary
on the ingenuity of womankind to see
bowdressy girls are reconciling the edict
h forbid bustles and reeds and
steels with the contrariness of tulle and
tarleton and muslin nature which tends
lo limpness and flimsiness and tiredness
^an4general sadness unless the butterfly
siitgare kept out from the figure. A
-fashi.aable evening gown is complicated
in its structure. First comes the full
petticoat, which is made of the thin but
'wiry gloriosa silk of a shade just match
m ig or harmonizing with the gown.
SThis. has two or three narrow
z> uffles about the bottom in front, and in
e ~icl-t is flounced in the waist line,
each frill being laid in rather stiff pleats,
~bug.without any undue protuberance.
Qver this skirt, which is said to herald
the return of the late lamented crino
linue, comes.the plain straight silk un
dergown, with three layers of net- or
]isse oitule over the foundation behind
Sand only one tulle veil lightly draped in
t' -ront. ~At the foot is set a thick pinked
silk niche, another running about the
front only or. extending all' the way
-around. In this flowers nestle or the
lisse or talle falls over it in a light veil.
The bodice of evening gowns leans to
ward the pointed French style, laced in
- the back, crossed with a sword belt sash
and edged at the top with tulle, in reac
Stion from the cross over Empire waists
foldi'ng1Mck and front and ending in a
wide sash, which are still oftenest worn.
There are many modifications in the
sash, which is made of a full breadth of
-silk, ties in the back just between the
shoulder blades and has long streamers
reaching the ground.
This is pre-eminently ea lace season,
-and the beauty and delicacy of many of
the loom-made patterns join with their
very modrate ~ -~ ~ men
--with--ths airy grace of suchdat
adorninigs. Black lace or black tull
-Tosca is mounted on black silk in dressy
toilets for morning wear, some of them
showingthe -long Oriental sleeves which
touch the ground and lend a subtle
charm to a lithe, willowy figure. Pale
green, light red and mauve are used for
afternoon wear, with puffs on the shoul
ders, pointed peasant bodice belts, lace
hats and the same trailing Eastern
sleeves. White net makes girlish gowns
with the straight skirt hanging full over
satin. For the waist the net is gathered
and fulled about the neck as a guimpe
and the elbow sleeves are puffed by rows
of beading alternating with rows of baby
ribbon. Brocaded satin makes the wide
sash, which is looped behind. Three or
four rows of narrow satin ribbon border
the skirt. Primrose yellow Suede slip
7pers and gloves are the usual accessories.
A new and pretty cape is beginning
to appear as a finish to summer toilets
Sat afternoon teas, folded like a fichu
scarf about dimpled shoulders, with a
.point in the bx.ck and two long pointed
-~ends crossed in front at the waist line,
drawn each under the opposing arm and
.fastened under the knot of the sash be
hind. With a rough straw poke bonnet,
with standing bows and a straight, un
draped gown open at the throat in a hmy
V, it is as quaint and picturesque as one
could desire. ELLEN OsiioRN.
The Pennsylvania Republicans.
Hanimss~no, Pa., August 7.-The Re
publican State Convention met in this
city to-day. State Treasarer Henry K.
Boyer was renominated by acclamation.
SIf elected, it will be his third successive
-tem. The convention then adiourned.
TELEGRAPH CHARGES.
Mr. Wanamaker's Reasons for Demand
ing a Lower Government Rate.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
written a letter to President Green, of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
replying to the latter's protest against
the reduction of the telegraph rate for
government business from one cent to
one mill a word. In answer to Dr.
Green's assertion that the privileges and
benefits derived by his company from
the government are purely imaginary.
Mr. Wanamaker says that under the
grants of the Act of 1 G6, and after
wards the supplementary Acts, the
Western Union Telegraph Company has
claimed the rlght of use, without conm
pensation of any kind as to right
of way, all the highways of the coun
trv. on the ground of their being
post roads. It has broadened this
claim to the extent that the streets of
cities and towns are also post roads, and
therefore open and free to its oceu
paney and use. The courts have sus
tained it in this claim. The company
has thus been able to occupy and use
the streets of cities regardless of the
views of the local authorities and almost
regardless of public opinion. The streets
of all cities and towns in the United
States have been kept open for the use
of the company. Mr. Wanamaker says:
"I am sure that, on reflection, you will
hardly claim that such great benefits as
these are 'purely iminginary.' Confer
ring such great privileges and benefits
upon you, the government, in my belief,
expected and is entitled to receive not
simply your exceptionally low rates to
others, but even a lower special rate."
Concerning President Green's state
ment that 'for messages transmitted to
a single customer, the government is
our only customer enjoying reduced
rates," Mr. Wa'uimaker says:
"By this I presume you mean that this
government has the lowest rate given to
any single customer, its lowest rate be
ing one cent a word for day messages
and three-fourths of a cent for night
messages: but this charge is made not
only upon the nssage itself, but upon
the a(ck-ss and signature as well, so
that. for ten words in a message and ten
words in the address and signature the
above rate is, in fact, two cents per
word in the daytime and one and a half
cents per word at night. Is it not true
that the large papers of New York, Chi
cago and other large cities have a half
cent rate for their special dispatches in
daytime and a fourth of a cent at night,
or a rate one half lower than the gov
ernment has been grented? Is it not
true, also, that this patronage from the
enterprising press is the most profitable
that you have, and that it would, in
fact, give you still more profit if made
still fewer? Reduced rates bring in
creased business and enlarged profits.
Your testimony before committees of
Congress it various times has been
steadily to the effect that every time
your company has reduced prices it has
gained increased income." Mr. Wana
inaker is in favor of a conference on the
subjct with President Green.
Gen. tosser Explains.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, the ex-Con
federate cavalry general, whose recent
speech in Maryland was criticised so
generally in the North, is in Minneapolis.
"Yes, I suppose my Minneapolis friends
criticised the speech I was reported to
have made in common with the people
of the North generally," remarked the
General to a reporter. "But 1 was very
badly misquoted. The first speech was
made to a body of Confederate friends
at the time of the Chandler and Black
burn fight in the Senate. I said that
the puritanical Yankee was the man to
make a great deal of noise and (lemon
stration, but the very man who was not
in the front to do the fighting when the
fighting was needed. It seems that a
great many people supposed I made a
The seconid troublesome speech was made
on Memorial Day. I spoke of socialism
and anarchism in the North, and said
that while we Southerners deprecated its
existence we should congratulate our
selves that these evils did not prevail in
the South. The newspapers' report of
it represented me as saying that I
chuckled over socialism and anarchism
in the North. I said no man could
listen to the words socialism and an
archism without shuddering. - I am not
in politics, however, and am not to be
hurt by these misrepresentations."
The Honeymooners' Hotel.
I am awaiting further particulars of
that Honeymooners' Hotel, which, ac
cording to a circumstantial correspond
ent, is to be built on the South Devonshire
coast for the %pccial, and, if possi
ble, sole use of newly-married couples
on their wedding trips. That the sur
roundings of the establishment are to be
made as idyllic and fairylike as possible,
need scarcely be said. Romantic arbors
in shady corners, gushing streamlets,
secluded sylvan nooks are to be provided
ad lib.; while with the aid of science
every night will be a moonlight one and
every day one of seeming bright and
wam sunshine. The prospectus is
even said to hint at the presence of
mechanical nightingales, which, thanks
to persistently winding up, will warble
on every suitable tree.
The decorations, artistic and other
wise, of the hotel-are of course to be all
in character, though I must admit that
I questioned whether the proposed
transformation of the 'ordina.my weak
kneed hotel waiters and the some
what too substantial chambermaids of
the provinces into attendant Ganymedes
and Hlebes as artistic in their poses as
they are classical in their attire, will
really be an advisable step to take.
The laying on of xolianm harps and
other mysterious nmusic iu every depart
merit is another dletail open to criticism.
But thete is nothing like actual ex
perience after all, and I shall be curious
to hear more about the lioneymrooners'
Hotel when it has been openedl for busi
ness for a few weeks.-Ibudon Fiyaro.
Indians in North Carolina.
Tn cvertnent school at which the
hildrein o, . band of Chero
kee Indians are educateuz is~. Cherokee,
on Yellow Ilill, in Swain County, North
Carolina, anid is very interesting to vis
itors. The Society of Friends established
the school in 1883, and now have charge
of it. There are eighty pupils. These
are taught mechanical work by the prin
ipal and seven assistants. There are,
during the fall and winter months, two
other schools in the reservation entirely
for Indian puplils. In Swain County are
1,500 Cherokees. andt there arc 500) others
in the Counties of Macon, Graham, Jack-.
son and Cherokee. There arc possibly
some 200 or 300 in Norih Georgia and
East Tennessee. Their capital is Yellow
Hil, the residence of Tsa-la-te-he, or
Charles Smith, their chief. The office
is elective and the Indians vote for chief
every four years. andl every' two years
vot)e for c-ounihlnen. There are twenty
of the latter: one for each 100 Indians.
Poisoned by Lobsters.
BosTON, August 6.--Something must
have ailed last Thursday's lobsters, for
reports from various sections of the city
show that peole who ate those crusta
ceans on Friday were made sick. In
East Cambridge eleven families, number
ing thirteen persons, sent for the doctor
at the same time on that day, and in
Roxbury one death has occurred attri
buted to the same cause, it is a curious
fact that a lobster which was captured a
day or two ago in the waters off Minot
Light, where the Cambridge lobsters
conme from, was entirely blue.
A Bed-Time Song.
Sway to and ntoin the twilight gray,
This is the ferry for Shadowtown;
It always sails at rhe end of the day,
Just as the" r.. :ess is closing down.
Rest, little head, on my shoulder-so,
A sleepy kiss is the only fare;
Drifting away from the world we go,
Baby and1 in the rocking chair.
See, where the fire logs glow.and spark,
Glitter the lights of the shadowland,
The pelting rains on the window-hark!
Are ripples lapping u; on its strand.
There where the mirror is glancing dim,
A lake with its glimmering cool and still;
Blossoms are waving above its brim,
Those over there on the window sill.
Rock slew, more slow, in the dusky light,
Silently low. ring the anchor down:
Dear little passenger, say cood-night.
We've reached the harbor of Shadowtown.
THE APPOINTMENT OF WEBSTER
The Waterloo of the So-Called Independ
ent Republicans of South Carolina.
WAsH1NToN, August 5.-The appoint
ment of Eugene A. Webster to-day to he
the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
South Carolina District was the Water
loo of the "Independent Republican"
party of South Carolina, so called, and
of its leaders and promotors in Massa
chasetts, L. Edwin Dudley, and the
members of the Massachusetts Club. He
was the candidate of the regular Repub
licans of his State, and. so far as the
party can be said to be organized, had
the party organization behind him. The
candidate of Mr. Dudley and the Inde
pendents was first George G. Alex
ander, a Democratic State Senator from
Kershaw County, and a sorehead. When
it was ascertained that he could not
win, the Independents trotted out
other candidates, and it seemed for
a time that the <ark horse would win.
Webster was really the only Harrison
man who came up p:-ominently for the
place. lie was a delegate at the last
Chicago convention, and one of the. few
who didn't sell out to Gen. Alger. He
voted six- times for the Hoosier can
didate.
The agents of the Massachusetts Re
publicans took only a week in South
Carolina to discover what a ground
swell reform movement the Independent
party representad. The come-outers
had never elected anybody to anything;
but Mr. Dudley was satisfied that they
would if they had a little Federal pap
for nourishment. Some hundreds of
dollars of Massachusetts money were
sent down to support the Columbia
Daily Record, the State organ of the
party, and Senator Hoar and Cabot
Loige spoke for Iudley and his cause
at the White House. A column and a
half report was made to the Massachu
setts Club, and the Republican papers
of Boston went wild over it. W. W.
Russell, a leading Independent, induced
Mr. Clarkson to give him some dozen or
fifteen postoffices; but gradually, as the
truth came in from the localities most
interested, the work had to be all
undone.
Between the regulars and indepen
dents, Chairman Brayton of the Repub
lican State Committee was in a heap of
trouble. Ile was a Sherman man at
Chicago, and is well known, and didn't
sell out; but the supposition is that he
knew that his delegates were selling out
to Alger right and left. That is, nc
doubt, the reason why John Sherman
refused even to see Brayton when h
called at his K street house soon after
the inauguration. That was Brayton's
first set-back. He went down and down.
First he wanted to be the head of somp
bureau here in the city; then he wanted
to be the South Carolina District Attor
ney, then United States Marshal, thea
a Consul anywhere, and jnally, whet
the "Independents" seem eo be making
it hopelessly warm for W tehe took
new hope and made a break for the In
ternal Revenue Collectorship, his oh]
position under President Arthur.-N
Y. ~Sun.
Cotton Xima in the South.
-The numb~er of cotton mills now in the
South as compared with 1880 has
doubled, while the number of spindles
and looms has more 'than trebled, the
tendency being to build mills of greater
capacity than formerly. From 161 mills
having 667,854 spindles and 14,322
looms in 1880, this industry has in
creased until there are now 355 mills,
with 2,035,268 spindles and 45,001
looms. Moreover, there are many mills
under construction and projected, and a
number of old mills are increasing their
capacity. Letters to the Baltimore Man
ufacturer-s' Record from leading imanu
facturers in the South, as to the outlook
for the cotton industry, indicate that
the production of coarse cotton goods in
the South is temporarily in excess of the
demand, and that the South must make
the finer goods and also seek a foreign
market by means of direct steamship
lines to South America.
A Youthful Couple.
People living in the vicinity of Gum
Springs, in the Southeastern part of the
city, are becoming deeply interested in
a youthful bride and groom who have
been camping near the springs for the
past few days. The groom is about 14
years of age, while the bride is little
past 1:3. They were married in Texas
about one month ago, and came over
land in a covered wagon. The mother
and step-father of the girl are with
them. Sunday afternoon the troubles
of married life commenced to come. The
htorm blew their tent down and left
them exposed to the fury of the rain, that
came down in torrents. Application was
made to Mr. J T. Smith, who has a
store at Seventeenth and Vance, fror a
stopping place. The young husband
gave his name as J. 11. Journeman.
Although air. Smith has very little
space, he agreedl to let them stay inl his
feed room. They accepted his offer
gladly, and have since been moving
in their household effects, which have
beeni coming gradu ally from their star-t
iug pinit ini Texas. Young Journeman
is a stout, hearty-looking' boy, while his
wife appears to he robust and strong.
They inte-nd moving on to Tennessee
eventually, but for the present will~top
in Little Rock. It is undeod that a
delegation of young ladies living in the
Eastern par t of the city will call upon
the yotung couple this afternoon. -Little
Rock ( Ark.) (urectte.
The Rice Crops.
The reports as to the condition of the
rice crops on the upper Pee D~ec planta
tions are disheartening in the extreme.
There was universal hope that after the
disasters of last year the planters would
have one or more good seasons, but this
hope is (loomed to disappointment. The
destruction by floods will probably be
more extensive this year than it was last
year. On Monday every glantation on the
river as far down as Entield (Mr. B. W.
Cannon's place) was under waler, hav
ing beeni submerged for several days.
The Pee Dee River at Cheraw wvas re
ported to be thirty-four feet high and
rising. Before thbis immense volume of
water, which is now slowly descending
upon the doomed plantations, can run
off, the last vestige of the rice crops now
standing on them will-probably be de
stroyed. There is a rise in the other
rivers also, as might have been expected
from the heavy and continuous rains
that have been falling for two or three
weeks, but it is probable that the dam
age on these rivers will not be very
great, if at all appreciable.-Georgetown
Enqirer.
Dont suffer from weakness and debility. Don't
let gloom and despondency take possession of
the human heart. Get health, get strength, get
the power of endurance from using B. B. B.
(oatnic Blood Balm.)
THE WAR IN HAYTI.
Horrible Atrocities Perpetrated by Both
Legitime's and Hippolyte's Soldiers.
The last acceunts from Port-au-Prince
are to the 28th of July. They show that
the war between Legitime and Hippolyte
has degenerated into a war of savages.
The prisoners taken by Hippolyte are
forthwith shot, while those captured by
Legitime are at once brought into the
market place and their throats cut in
the presence of the populace, the Amer
ican Consul and the captain of au Atlas
Line steamer being eye-witnesses of tbe
bloody spectacle. But Legitime has had
only the savage satisfaction of cutting
the throats of seven of Hippolyte's men,
while Hippolyte has shot two batches of
prisoners, numbering ninety-five in all
-eighteen on one occasion and seventy
seven on another, the captain of a de
tachment of eighty men being surprised
and killed while going the round of the
works, all the rest, after surrender, be
ing summarily shot, with the exception
of two men who hid in the bush, and on
their return to the city reported that
they saw their comrades, while begging
for mercy, shot down to a man. If the
fighting were of the same fierce
and relentless character Hippolyte,
by all accounts, would soon be
master of Port-au-Prince, and a gen
eral slaughtcr of its inhabitants and a
general scene of plunder would ensue
unless the foreign war ships in the offing
send a sufficient number of armed men
ashore to protect the excited and dis
'tracted population from the fury and
resentment of Hippolyte's men. The
correspondent of the New York Times
gives a dreadful picture of the condition
of affairs in Port-au-Prince.' "Fear bor
dering on frenzy," he says. "appears to
have seized hold of many of Legitime's
soldiers. They refuse to stand fire, and
it only remains for the contagion to
become, universal to enable Hippolyte
to march unopposed into the capital of
the South. The idea of offering quarter
to surrendering troops has died out, and
capture now means something worse
than death. None of the inhabitants of
Port-au-Prince expects the least mercy
accorded him should Hippolyte's men
ever force an entrance into the city."
One or more attempts have been made
through the American Consul to nego
tiate between the belligerents, but Hip
polyte, it is said, refused to listen to
nothing but unconditional surrender.
And so the desultory warfare goes on,
with Hippolyte having the advantage of
the best fighting men, but no artillery
except one or two Gatling guns, while
Legitime has an abundance of artil
lery, but very few men who will
stand to their guns. With the occa
sional help of the war steamers Dessa
lines and Riviere, Hippolyte's principal
attacks have been directed against Fort
La Coup, which dominates and protects
the outer line of forts. He has twice
assaulted La Coup and twice been re
bulsed, although at one time if he had
pushed his attacking column resolutely
forward he could have carried the work.
Since then he has drawn so near to the
city that he can fire into it by occupying
some dry ground in an adjacent marsh.
He has thrown five hundred men into
that position, but it seems doubtful
whether they can hold it, as it can be
shelled by steamers from a creek that
runs through a part of the marsh. On
the whole, therefore, the situation ap
pears to be no better nor any worse than
it was at the last advices, two weeks
ago. The troops of neither belligerent
seem to have any liking for close fight
ing, so they skirmish for awhile at long
range, and then either Hippolyte's men
retire or Legitime's men run away and
are protected from pursuit by the guns
mounted on the outer line of forts.
Such a war, with its incidents of sav
attery, may linger on for mouths unless
some occasion should arise that would
-ive . ioto tlecomimadeafth.
oreign war ships in the offing to land a
body of marines and seamen to put an
end to the interminable struggle and the
bloody reprisals that accompany it.
NEw YoRKx, August 9-Purser Squire
of the steamer Alvo of the Atlas Line,
which arrived from Hayti last night,
brings Haytian news. The Alvo left
St. Mare 1 p. m. July 26th and arrived
at Port-au-Prince at 6 p. m. of the same
day. Wheni the steamer came to anchor
the noise of Hippolyte's cannon could be
distinctly heard firing at the town. The
attacking force was at the West of the
place, about two miles away. With the
aid of a powerful glass Purser Squire
and the officers distinctly saw Hlippolyte
on the seacoast. The United States man
of-war Ossipee lay in the harbor of Port
au-Prince, and near her was
anchored an English and a Spanish
man-of war. A tugboat named the
Panama, formerly belonging in thd
United States, of about 120 tons burden,
was there too. She carried a few heavy
guns and was in Legitime's service.
During the afternoon of the 26th of
July the Panama was ordered around to
where she could attack Hippolyte's
bombarding party in the right flank.
As soon as the little tug got within
firing distance she began to blaze away,
and kept it up until darkness set in.
The bombarding by Hippolyte's forces
was kept up all night. The Alvo left
the next morning. Legitime lost two
men during the fiercest of the fight. One
was killed instantly; the other lived a
day. Hippolyte's losses can be reckoned
in the hundreds, it is said.
The Gatling guns used by Hippolyte
played sad havoc with the outskirts of
Port-au-Prince. The officers of the Os
sipee said to the people on the Alvo that
they (the Ossipee's officers) had become
used to the continued firing, and dIo nut
mind it.
A Wild Runaway Ride.
In Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Miss Emily
English, the eldest daughter of Captain
J. W. English, was the heroine of a wild
runaway ride, and her escape. from a
terribl.cutard~as~'almnost-~miraculous.
The young lady, who is a splendid rider,
was mounted on a spirited animal,
which became frightened at a street ear
near thc corner of Peachtree street and
dashed up Peachtree towards North At
lanta at a furious pace. The young lady
plckily maintained her seat anid never
lost her self-possession. Several blocks
out the street was torn up on account of
the chain-gang being at work on the.
road, and a heavy rope stretched across
to keep off vehicles. The rope was just
high enough to miss the horse's back
about two feet. Behind it were Belgian
blocks~ and piles of sand. Miss English
saw the danger, but was powerless to
escape it. When within a few feet of
the rope she bowed her head, but the
rope was too low, and it caught her un
der the chin, and in a second, when it1
became taut enough, swept her from the
horse. Miss Euglish was hurled in the
air and thrown a distance of almost
twenty feet. She was picked up in an
insensible condition, but soon recoverced
consiousness. 1Her injuries were not
serious.
The Treasures of the Soil.
A curious illustration of the treasures
of the soil often overlooked for a long
time is the discovery of mineral wax in
Utah. It was discovered three years.
ago on the line of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, covering an area of
150 acres. Over 1,000 tons a year are
secured. It looks like the wax that is
made by bees, and can be used for the1
same purpose. It is mixed with para
phine in making candles, and is used in:
the insulation of electric wires. It:
mneed no refiningefr o rdinary use.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE TAX.
As the repeal of the internal revenue
tax is certain to be made a vital issue at
the opening of the new Congress, it be
comes an interesting study for the people
generally. The present outlook points
to an enforced declaration in favor of
the abolition of the entire internal tax
system from the Republican House cau
cus as a condition precedent to Repub
lican unity, and as the Southern Re
publican Congressmen who have taken a
stand for the repeal of internal taxes
bold the control of the House in their
bands, it is quite likely that the over
throw of the internal revenue system
may be accomplished within the present
fiscal year.
In view of the possibility of the repeal
of internal taxes, its effect upon the
general revenues of the government
becomes an interesting inquiry. Com
missioner Mason has just made an
official preliminary report of the opera
tions of the department for the last
fiscal year. The total revenue from
internal taxes was $130,895,432. Of
this amount, $74,313,206 came from
spirits; $31,866,860 from tobacco; $23,
729,835 fio n fermented liquors, and the
residue from oleomargarine, banks and
miscellaneous. The total revenues of
the government amount to about $390,
000,000, of which internal taxes make
up about one-tbird of the whole, and
during the last few years the expendi
tures have been increasing with more
rapidity than the revenues. It is doubt
ful whether, with all our resources,
including internal taxes, the statement
of the treasury that will be presented
in the President's message to Congress,
will show as much as $40,000,000 of
surplus for the present fiscal year, and
the question will then present itself for
positive solution, whether there shall be
a repeal of internal taxes when the
repeal must necessitate either a very
large reduction in expenditures or a
bankrupt treasury.
The last Congress was largely in favor
of a severe reduction of internal reve
nue taxes, but the question was never
reached in either body as a distinct
proposition. Both the House and the
Senate tariff hills largely reduced inter
nal taxes, and both claimed to reduce
the revenue about $70,000,000, but the
effect of either measure upon the reve
:.ue was purely conjectural. Could
Congress have reached a direct voie on
the repeal of the tobacco tax it would
have succeeded by a large majority, and
it is certain that all other internal taxes
except those levied on whiskey and prob
ably beer, would have been repealed if
the direct question had reached a vote.
It is probable that a reduced tax of
about 50 cents would have been retained
on whiskey by the last Congress, but that
is the most that could have stood the
pruning knife of our lawmakers.
It is understood- that the Southern
Republicans, who have taken a stand on
the issue, will demand the entire repeal
of. the internal revenue system, and if
they shall stand to their guns, they can
force its entire overthrow. They are
likely to be heartily seconded by many
politicians, from the President down,
who have made profligate promises as
to pensions and other speculative
schemes, and want an excuse for not
fulfilling their pledges. With the repeal
of the internal taxes, increased pen
sions could not be entertained, and only
the severest economy in every depart
ment of the government would enable
the revenues to meet the expenditures.
It is an open secret that the leaders of
the prxesent administration are appalled
at their campaign pledges about expen
ditures which now confront them with
the demand for fulfillment, and the
only way to retreat frnm a policy of fatal
profligacy is to cut down the revenues
to a point that must not only forbid any
andl every increase of expenditure, but
that will enforce a large reduction in
in a favorable position to win their
battle, and it is not only possible but
quite probable that the next Congress
will strike off $130,000,000 of revenue
by the entire repeal of the internal tax
system. It would be a violent whirl
from -profligacy to economy, bat it
would be a most wholesome departure
toward honest government.--Philadel,
phia Times.
SA RRTIAGE WAS NOT FAILURE.
An Interesting Family Now About to
Invade Europe.
A large and interesting Mexican
family sailed for Paris to-day on the
steamship La Champagne, of the Coin
pagnie Gencrale Trausatlantique. There
were twenty-three persons on the family
roster and two maids. The father is a
Mexican official, who is going over to
show his "little ones" what Paris is like.
The eldest son, who is married and has
his wife with him, is 35 years old, and
the youngest child in the family still
nestles fondly in its nurse's arms. This
is the list of names that graced La
Champagne's passenger list: Mr. F.
Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid, Mr.
Daniel Madero, Mrs. Madero and maid,
Mr. Raoul Madero, Mr. Alberto Madero,
Miss Mercedes Madero, Miss Maria
Madero, Miss Magdelena Madero. Miss
Barbarita Madero, Mr. Alfonso Madero,
Mr. Benjamin Madero, Mr. Emilio
Madero, Mr. Evaristo Madero, Miss
Rafaela Madero, Mr. Salvador Madero,
Miss Gabriel Madero, Mr. Ernesto
Madero, Miss Angela Madero, Mr.
Manuel Madero, Mr. Julio Madero, Mr.
Jose Madero and Mr. E. Madero.--New'
York Ecening, Telgram.
TR1:A TEENT OP HYDROPHOBIA
According to Pasteur's Method to be
Practiced in a Chicago Hospital.
Cm~CAGo, August 7.- Residents of
Chicago or elsewhere who may be unfor
tunate enough to be bitten by mad dogs
will not hereafter have to go to Paris to
be treated by Pasteur. The County's
public service committee yeslerday, on
the recommendation of the hospital
committee, set apart two unused rooms
in Ward 13 to be used by Dr. Antonio
Lagorio for the treatment of hydropho
bia according to Pasteur's method. Dr.
Lagorio is a Chicagoan by birth, but he
spent five years as a studlent with Pas
teur. The hospital medical staff recom
mended the utility of bacteriological
work and preventive inoculation for
rabies at the hospital, and Dr. Lagorio
will undertake it.
FIGHTING THE JUTE TEUST.
Alabama Farmers Will Use. Cotton Bag
ging for Wrapping Cotton.
MONrGOMERY, Ala., August 7.-The
State Farmers' Alliance of Alabama,
aow iu sesssion at Auburn, has adopted
the following resolution:'
"Resolved, That the memnbers of the
Farmers' Alliance reiterate their deter
nination to use cotton bagging for
Lrapping cotton, and will, under no
3ircumnstances, use jute; and that this
resolutioni be transmitted to the conven
tion of Commissioners of Agriculture of
the Southern States, to meet in the city
>f New York on the 9th inst., and by
:hat body be presented to the Cotton
Exchange."
A Black Confederate.
Eli Pickett, a colored man, has made
tpplication for a Confederate pension
from the State of Georgia. He rendered
valuabl.e service, and was disabled in the
nilitary branch of the Confederacy. The
Atlanta Constitution says Picket will
find that he has plenty of Confederate
riends, and expresses the hope that his
~as may meet favorable cnsideration.
BE WAS HANGED TWICE.
A Georgia Man Recovers Damages for a
Mob's Doings.
On a bitter cold night in January,
1887, nine or ten disguised men broke
down the door of W. O. Shellnut's house,
in Santa Fe district, Jackson County,
and dragged him from his bed, running
his wife and mother-in-law screaming
and terrified into the woods. The mob
earned Shellnutt to Rehoboth church,
near by, and there hanged him twice to
a joist in the c'hurch with wagon lines,
afterwards dragging him over the frozen
ground to a fallen log, across which they
held him and flogged him until he was
nearly dead. Mr. Shellnutt was a one
legged man, and the attair created a
great deal of excitement at the rime.
Nine of the parties were indicted for
riot, three of them being convicted at
the February term of Jackson Superior
Court, and the remaining will be tried
before Judge Hutchins at Jefferson, the
County seat, next week.
A suit for damages was filed against
seven of the party on the civil side of the
court. Ttis suit was tried in Jefferson
yesterday, the jury remaining out until
11 o'clock last night, when they brought
in a verdict awarding Mr. Shell nut
$1.500 da'nages.
Mr. Shellnut has been the night
watchman of the Southern Agricultural
works for the past two years, and has
numerous friends in the city.
SICKNESS IN JOHNSTOWN.
The Doctors Unable to Respond to the
Numerous Calls Made Upon Them.
JHossTows, Pa., August 7.-Notwith
standing favorable reports are still seat
out from the Board of Health, there is a
great deal of sickness here. I)octors are
so busy that they cannot attend to ca!ls
made upon them. A man living several
miles in the country came to town to
get a physician to attend a member of
his family who was ill, but they were all
too busy to go. Another case happened
yes erday, where a gentleman wanted a
doctor to make a trip five miles to the
country to visit his child, who was very
sick. He called on ten different doctors,
but it was impossible to get one of them
to go.
Typhoid fever, malarial fever, dysen
tery and a genuine case of scurvy were
reported to the Red Cross hospital dur
ing the past two weeks. The case of
scurvy was caused by salt pork diet
which the contractois' men have to sub,
-sist on.
Of Interest to Banks and Bankers.
WAsHINGTON, August 9.-The Treas
nrer-of the United States has issued the
following circular
"The Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at New York will receive deposits
of gold coin or currency, or draft
payable to his order. collectable through
the clearing house, in amounts of not
less than $1,000, returns for which will
be made in small denominations of new
United States notes and silver certi
ficates as may be available when de
posits are made-shipments to be made
by the Treasurer of the United States on
receipt of the original certificate of
deposit of the New York office. Express
charges will be deducted from such
remittances at government contract
rates when the currency is forwarded."
The above "notice" is intended to
apply to all banks and bankers through
out the country who may see fit to
avail themselves of its advantages.
She Can Drive a Horse Car.
What cannot a woman do? The pas
sengers on a West End street ear were
treated to a novel exhibition of a wo
man's skill last night when a fine-lookin,
robust woman passed rapidly - gh
the ear and engaged th -iver in con
versation for a ment. Then they
saw her take th reins, and, with one
hand on the brakes, dri h~rses
c oaucung the a
business with 11 , dignity and effi
ciency, adjusting t ,brakes at switches,
stopping the car for '-assengers, urgina
the horses to greater. cped, or restrain
ing them, and fulfilling-all the duties of
a competent driver. Then handing the
reins back to the lover, 1&rother or friend
to whom they belonged, she unfastened
the chain, stepped outside. fasteped it,
and swung herself off with a cheery
"Good night!" amid the murmuiss of
admiration from the surprised passen
gers. -Detroit Free Press.
Proposed Reunion of Veterans.
A movement has been inaugurated in
Vicksburg, Miss., originating with Con
federate veterans, to have a grand re
union of the veterans of the blue arid
the gray from all parts of the country
in that historic city on next Decoration
Day, May 30, 1889. Letters have been
sent to the different State societies of
the Con federate Veterans' Association
and to the various posts of the Grand
Army of the Republhe, asking their Co
operation in carrying out the plan pro
posed. A committee will be sent to the
meeting of the Grand Army of the Re
public in Milwaukee, next September, to
lay the plan before the chiefs of that
society for their consideration. The
most prejudiced Northern journal or
politician will be unable to discover any
thing disloyal in this proposed reunion
of the veterans of the armies which op
pcsed each othei- in the late civil war.
The Case in Nutshell.
The administration is. right in its
course in the Behring Sea matter and in
the seizure of the Canadian-vessel Black
Diamoud, because the administration
has no choice in the matter. Congress
makes the laws; the President executes
them. As to the right of the United
States to exclusive jurisdiction in Behi
rings Sea, that is semething to be de
termined by a conference. It has never
been admitted by England. England
may be justified. or the United States
may be. The diplomatists imust settle
t he matter.- Washington Capital.
Detained on Suspicion,
NEW YORK, August 8.-The
Labor Inspectors at Castle Garden
detained twenty-four Sweeds to-day,
suspecting that they came under
contract. One of the detained
men is Andrew Amberg, an American
citIzen of Birmingham, Ala., who is
indignant at his detention. He denies
that his companions are under contract,
but admits telhng them they could jget
work at Birmingham. Each man paid
his own passage here.
Fatal Marine Collision.
NORFOLK, Va., August 7.-This morn
ing, while the Old Dominion line steamer
Old Dominion was coming up the river,
she was in collision with the sloop Ella
May of Warwick County. James Henry
Coombs, the captain, and two of the
crew, colored men, were drowned.
An Uprising Summarily Quelled.
CITY OF MExICo, via Galveston, Au
gust 7. -The prisoners confined in Fort
San Juan at Vera Cruz revolted against
the officers. The troops on (duty at the
fort shot twenty of the prisoners and
quelled the uprising.
More Bodies Found at Johnstown.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., August 8.-Three
more bodies have been taken out of the
ruins near the lower end of town. One
was a little girl and was found in the
middle of Market street.
At the last examination of candidates
for positions as teachers of the Sumter
County public schools more negroes in
proportion to the numbor- of that race,
who applied, proved proficient, and
were granted certificates of qualifica
tion, than whites.- Watchman.
HOW HE RUNS THE RANCH.
LARGE PART TAKEN BY THE OFFICE
BOY OF A DAILY PAPER.
His Well Developed Nerve Is Calculated
to Carry [im Through Life a Winner.
Other Positions of Some Importance, Yet
They Shrink When Compared with His.
Among all the attaches of a big newspaper
there is one who imagines himself the head
and front of the concern, the preeminent
manager of the office, but for whose untiring
energies and indomitable will the paper would
never find its way to the subscribers' front
doorsteps two hours before sunrise, rain or
shine, every (lay in the week, including Sun
days. Thisself important individual on whose
shoulders re.sts so great a responsibility is no
less a pe:onago than the office boy, the
much abused, greatly maltreated, and ever
underrated youth who spends many sleepless
nights worrying about the editorial conduct
of the paper.
The office boy is not, properly speaking, a
marvel of probity. Ho is a nearer kin to the
devil He may think he gets up the paper.
but he doesn't. He only assists, and he as
sists in his own peculiar way. He is always
in the way when one doesn't want him, and
is never around when there is an urgent case
on hand which requires his immediate etten
tion. He is slower than his brother of the
district messenger service, and chews gum,
keeping time with his jaws to all his move
ments. But he isn't aware, or pretends not
to be, that there is anything in his general
make up which tends to detract in the least
from the many excellent qualities he thinks
he possesses.
Johnny thinks he has a hard struggle for
an existence, but Johnny is mistaken. It's
true he has to run back and forth a hundred
times in the course of- a night between the
local and telegraph rooms and the c6mposing
room. It is also true that everybody wants
him at the same time, and on such occasions
he has to bring his fine judgment as a news
paper man into play and decide on the spur
of the moment whom to serve first. The
copy in the local room must be carried into
the composing room immediately; likewise
a big bundle of news that has just arrived
by the lightning process over a copper wire.
The foreman, too, has some proofs which
must be taken at once to the proof reader,
but Johnny, if he is as bright as the average
office youngster, knows just whom to serve
first. Strange to say, he doesn't attempt to
run all three errands at once. He doesn't go
to the nearest place either, but hurries, after
his own fashion, to the room where he would
stand the best chance of getting a blowing
up if he didn't answer the call promptly.
Ten minutes later he shuffles into the local
room.
"Did you ring?" he asks.
"Ring? Why we've been ringing for you
for the last half hour "
"No you haven't, either. rve been sitting
out by the elevator for the last ten minutes
and you haven't rung once during that time."
"Well, here now, take this copy out and
hurry up about it. Tell Mr. Jones that this
leads the South side murder with a display
head."
"Who was murdered?" asks the boy.
"Peter Brown. Hurry up, now."
"Who killed him?"
"Oh, Sam Willianmnkilled him in a saloon
row on Clark street. Now take that copy out
and hurry up about it for the first edition."
"All right, sir. Did he shoot him or stab
him?"
"Will you take that copy out?" asks the
copy reader, losing his temper.
"Well, ain't I taking it out? What are
you givin' us? Do you take me for a streak
of lightning?"
This is more than the copy reader can
stand. He jumps up and makes for the fiery
headed youth, but on these pccasions Johnny
displays his latent agility. He invariably
reaches the door first and slams it in the
other's face with the parting ''
he's "gettin' too fresh."
Johnn sta -'with the copy after this
"'e episode, and as he couldn't get the in
formation he wanted verbally he stops on
the way to digest the contents of the copy.
It is Important that he should knew every
thlihg that goes into the paper, but he hasn't
educated the emiployes of the local room up
to a recognition of that fact yet. He hopes
to do so before long. He hopes also to get a
rtaise of salary seen, for he is tired of "work
lngtnslfso dath" for a dollar a week and
Johnny has one Tyaptbung friend into
whose willing ear he pourM, This
is the elevator man. He gives the yoigtr
all the free rides he wants down to the stl
floor and back and thereby incurs his ever
lasting friendship. Johnny swears by the
man who manipulates the wire rope that con
trols the movements of the elevator cage and
that Individual is the only person whom he
recognizes as his superior. For him he will
do any service. Ho is the only person about
the office whom Johnny envies his position
and the only one on whom he won't play
tricks.
After Johnny has had one of his frequent
rows with the copy re:ade rs in the local or
telegraph room he seeks consolation from his
friend.
The office boy is the only person in a news
paper office who does just as he p'eases. When
the circus comnes to town he takes his day off
without asking anybody's permission. On
the Fourth of July ho touches off a big fire
cracker under the proofreader's desk and
sticksa crooked pin in the n.ght editor's chair
to get even with that individual for sending
hin out after his midnight luach. He never
means to do any of these things. They and
a hundred other annoying little tricks that
he is responsible for are accidents, and when
they happen he puts on his most sorrowful,
look and seems so genuinely repentant that
one doesn't have the heart to strike the lad.
These woe begone looks are all on the surface,
however, and as soon as he gets a chance to
slip away he hies himself to an unfrequented
spot and has a good laugh all to himself. His
vacations generally come whenever he gets
"sick," which ho does on every holiday and
about one a week besides.
The oflice boy, in fact, is probably the
sickliest person living, but the redeeming fea
ture of h'-sickness is that it always comes
over him af'tho most opportune time for his
own convenience. The omtce boy's position is
not a sinecuro, after all. Ho is everybody's
property and every one takes a kick at him
when ho chooses. Ho is eternally kicking up
a fuss in some department, but he invariably
pays up for it by running his legs off on Im
possible assignments about the office, but if
the fellows "on the desk'' do get the best of
Johnny in the long run he remains in blissful
ignorance of the fact, so the victory is only
hal~f a one after all, ana it is probably better
for the copy readers that this is so, for if the
boy could read the thoughts of some of them
he would makitso hot for them that in self
defense they would tender their resignations
-Chicago Times.
"Stephen Adams," otherwise Mr. May
brick, the song writer and singer, is a tall,
powerful looking man, blonde and handsome.
When he sings he appears to be working ter
ribly hard.
A School of Devil Fish.
Old ocean pilots and steagoing people
who watched the school of dev-il fish
that played about the pilot boats and
the tug Uynthia before tiie boats got off
in the regatta yesterday, say that. such a
sight is very rare in the life of a ma
riner. They played about the craft for
fully half an hour, antd were principally
young devil fish, from four feet long to
six feet, and they looked like great hats.
Some of thlem had she-d their tails,
while others had caudal appendages
fully a yard ini length. As many as
twnzv of these hide-ous-lookiug miri ne
uriosities werie seen at oneC timfe, anid
one was shot by- one of the cr-ew or the
Neca, antd after lashing the water of the
sounid into a foam, it, sauk out of sight.
- Sacannah (ua) New.
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Labor Reforzns Demanded.
Cu rANxooGa, August 9.-The Trades
man has received authentic information
that tile coal miners of Alabama are or
ganizing to fight the convict labor sys
tem and the company stores, and to
:emand better mining laws. A conven
tion will be held in &ptember and the
struggle inaugurated. Leaders wiite
the Tradcsman that it will be a war to
,te hitter cnd,
ARCDA.
There is a land that stretches far away
Through candors of unviolated dreams,
A land that to the vagrant fancy seems
A paradise of sempiternal May.
And It is caled Arcadia, they say. "
Within its flower fields are quiet streams,
And green and cool retreats, and beauty beams
On every side, while pleasure lords the day
0, lovely land! thou Uest far away,
Too far, indeed, for laggard stepe like mine:
Yet I have heard returning travelers say
That on thy frontiers they had marked a sign.
Telling to each that happiness was his.
Where pain Is not, and not where pleasure is.
-Edgar Saltus in Pittsburg Bulletin.
"Fishin' Jimmy."
A short, simple story, pathetically told, is
Annie Slosson Trumbull's "Fishin' Jimmy."
"Fishin' Jimmy" was a quaint, old White
Mountain character, passionately fond of
fishing, keenly sensitive to the beauties of na
ture and thoroughly "good hearted,",which
Is another term for lovable. "To his simple
intellect the fisherman's art was a whole sys
tem of morality, a guide for everyday life, an
education and a gospel It was all any poor
mortal man, woman or child neede'l in this
world to make him or her happy, useful and
good." The old man is "converted" by a
"fishing preacher," and finds great comfort
in the fact that the disciples were selected
from among fishermen.
"When he was a choosin' the men to go
about with him an' help him an' larn his
ways so's to come a'ter him, he first o' all
picked out the men he'd seen every day fishin',
and mebbe fished with hisself: for he knowed
'em, and knowed he could trust 'em."
The poor old man meets with a tragic end
ing to his simple, picturesque life, but his
faith and his ruling passion stand out clear
until he is half across the dark stream p
tween this life and the next.-Now York
Star.
A Drowned Man's Shirt.
August Melching was drowned in the Co
dorus creek while swimming. His body could
not be found for some time, when one of the
searchers suggested that his shirt be thrown
into the water, claiming that it would float
to where the body was. The suggestion was
acted on and the garment thrown into the
water where it was thought that he had dis
appeared. It instantly shot out, then stopped,
circled about a short time and in another
moment disappeared under the water.
A young man present on the creek's bank
then dived to where the shirt was seen to sink
and found the body of the young man where
the shirt had disappeared. The singularity
of the incident consists in the fact that the
shirt was found clinging to the dead man's
body. Two gentlemen who were on opposite
sides of the creek at the time this occurred
corroborate the truthfulness of the incident.
This gives credence to the ancient idea that
the clothing of a drowned man when thrown
into th water will float to the body.-York
CPa.) Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bashful OriginalIty.
An unpremeditated and bashful compli
ment is often the most flattering. A young
lady, who had gone to spend a summer with
some country 'relatives, found it difficult to
get on with one cousin, a boy of 16, who was
so shy that any chance remark directed to
him served to plunge him into direembarrass
inent.
One morning she proposed driving to town
with him, and on the way the conversation
waxed quite flourishing-at least, on one side.
Presently a pause ensued, and the young
lady became aware that her companion had
turned and was regarding her hair, which
was of the closely curling variety, lying in
small, deep waves.
"I like your hair!" he announced, sudden
ly, as if determined to speak his mind, let
what would cuze ofit.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because it's so full of them little jerksI"
Youth's Companion.
The English Spaitw.
his ravages were not as notable. It was
thonght that the millions that perished in the
bUzzard of the early part of the year eo
counted for the check. But 1880 brings the
rascal to the front everywhere. The United
States commissioner of agriculture recom
mends a method of poisoning them with
wheat soaked in an arsenical mixture. In
England this manns is generally resorted to.
The poison ls distributed along highways
where sparrows resort and where other birds
are not liable to pick up the poisoned ma
terial. No greater pest to agriculture exists
in the world than this pugnacious bird; all
the worse, as birds In general are our best
frends.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An Oldect Lessen.
.,Don't write there," said one to alad who
was raichinT with adiamond pin on a panc
of glass in the window of a hotel.
"Why not?'
"Be ane you can't rub it oait."
There are other things we should not do
for the same reason-because we cannot rub
them out. This person is lonely, depressed,
in sorrow, and needs sympathy. Instead, a
cold word, a heartless word is spoken. An
impression Is made which is more durable
than thatof adlamond on glaes. Break the
glass and that disappears. But this may last
forever. D'e careful what you write on the
mind and heart of those you meet.-Ciergy
man in St. Louis Republic.
To Be Seen, Not Imitated.
Much as we all admire the play of "Little
Lord F'auntleroy," is there not a wondrous
dearth of small boys who would like to be like
Little Lord Fauntleroy? We have talked
with a number of little fellows about it, and
all have agreed +hat they couldn't be induced
to wear their hair long, to wear a girl's hat
with a plume in it, and to wear an enormous
silk sash. The play interests all the boys, but
when It comes to introducing the salient fea
tures of Little Lord Fauntleroy's career into
their own lives-that Is quite another thing,
and the boys wili have none of it. And we
do not blame them.-Chicag8 News.
.Feonowed to the Letter.
Editor (fiercely) to office boy-See here,
boyl If you let another poet in here this
weee I'll break every bone in your body, and
hang you up for a towel. Mind you, now.
No long haired person comes into this office
hereafter.
Office Boy cneekly)-Yes, sir.
Editor (three hours later)-Who was that
beautiful young lady wL'd turned in fronm
the street andl then went avvay again?
Office Boy-That was the new banker's
daughter, Miss Lovelydot, and she wanted
to subscribe. But I had to follow your or
ders, sir.-Burlington Free Pra-'s.
Made Himself Rlight.j
The editor of a western weekly wrote up
an account of the death of a good and promi
nent citizen, putting over it the time honored
heading: "A Good Man Gone." A fter the issue:
was printed, but before it was distributed, it
was learned that the dead man wvas an em-:
bezzler. So the editor sat down and- wrote
the word "Wrong" after the wordl ",laro" in:
thadline in every paper of LUm hane.
ew York Tribune.i
The Southbound Railrcad.
In the Superior Court on Saturday a
charte'r was granted- O the Savaninah
Construction Company, whose specific:
object is the building of the Southbound
Railroad. The capital stock is $250,000,
divided into shares of $100 each, and,
under the terms of the charter, the comn
pany has the privilege of increasing its
stock to an amount not exceeding
$1,000,000. The charter members of the
construction company are Chai-les Wal
ters, John Lawton, Mike Brown. .John
L. Hammond, Herman Myers, William
S. Tyson, Thomas F. Stubbs and B. A.
Dnark.-&u'annahi Nrs.
Cotton Bagging.
The jute bagging men have advanced
the price of thlat article one-fourth of a
cent a pound on each grade. and --it%
now quoted at 10+ cents per yard for
two-pound bagging. The Boston Onnm
merial Bulletin says jute baggingz can
be made and sold at a profit of chfht
cents a yard. The same paper is ani
thority for the statement that there will
probably be 3,000,000 yards of cottont
bagging made this y'ear, (t he West
Point and Rosedale mills have orders
for nearly two million yards), and thbat
the competition for cotton baled im it is
Hklrl to be liely.