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BARNWELL, <S. C„ THURSDAY, APRII, 21, 1887.
NO. 34,
tuk Gltomxt; * :u)Uk,
|{p|»oi’t, Mailt* t<* 11u‘ l iiiwnt' <>l A jtri-
rultu>»'>}'it> C'orreHpmHlenUi.
The BtaU‘ Uej)aituit*iJt of Agndblture
has rectivcdTTncl tabulated the April 1st
reports of its special Iconespoiidcuts.
These rtturns cover every county in the
State and over oue-h df the townships.
AKKA IX WHEAT ASl) OATS.
Estimates based upriu these reports
show that the area iu whpat has been in
awslhi .1 tlin-.' ]mi- .,v, r
ISHts , The condition is ,reporter
per cent. Iretter than at the sum
should be in'good condition for'work
ing, The time should lie determined by
experience of past years. The writer has
several times’planted com when the
ground was frozen early iu the morning,
and secured a perfect stand of vigorous
— jl hank or , ;•
Tilt* litbuluus Wciiltli of tlir IlitiiK of
I'rmirtf—lltnlorW itl sliftrli of u s|iijhmhI-
OIIH riliUllHsI IllHUtlltioll.
'A few eveniu’gs ago, say/ tin? Baroness
X \Vl>rKKN TKHKOH
The St orv of
a Wmtern llit;li\rii> iniin
a >1 oiuitHiii
ami
jilunts. In Dakota and other extreme Evador, I attended a most .interesting
N orthern sections, w heat, com and ve’g-1 reception in the 1’ari an Vufld-' a recep-!
etables are planted in May, os soon as i tion where few foreigners^ are ever aJ-j
the ground has thawed to a depth | mittod. .It was given by M. Magnin,
STlfeNTirn HOAXKS.
Ilou Soiiit* Srlfiitl.ts I)rrHN«il l |i I’wrtM ol
tti<> Muatoilon In a T’ani'lful Manner.'
(Scribner for April.)
OPH O.KKAT CAPTAIN.
sutlielent to jicrmit of plowing and bar- governor of the Bank of Trance, on the !
n _ i rowing, the spil having been deeply occasion of the eighty-seventh anniver-
0 -| j broken the iireoeding fall; ami—iP-wfton i sarv of the institution.^ DmiiiL j 'tTn' i tv-
^ .f^-^-j-oeennrthatTh^st’etls so planted are up uing 1 gathered much information, and,
,, tj me and growing while the deep subsoil is us it has never been published, my
Jt'lll, but 5 LK-TWtft. Below an aver ■ still haul fmmi to the depth of many ! ^lericuTr’fne^rTasy fihd a notes J
J ’ — * - i of value. After many tnSiHjknu failures, |
the great Bank of France w.is l>orn with i
the nineteenth century, iu tlie begip-
—~ uing its capital was :k>,OUO^N)»), fraucS, '
Somejif the readers of the Southern represented by TiU.OOO shares : tf 1,000 1
olders were
I
r**:
1
ageemji. The area in oats shows a dt^i
crease of S ]>er cent.. Is low last yoar.^
Condition ‘2 per cent, bette. than in
1886, but-11 per'cent. b. low an average, j
—It is eatuMU«4-tluit t'J per cent, of tne
oat crop was sown in the fail, and seven
ty foer of till '■ m port
early suiwirig 14 In-Uer V. i.'li i' , n than
that sown in the spring, wl. bon-
dred and thirty-seven cotsidf m; la-.te.
crop the most promi inp.
’rhe correspundeuls estinmt
about 6 |h 1 cefat. of life w in .1
drilled, tin balance ut the 1
broadcasted; and the tejsirls.
inches,
\\ hits Clover Aiiiiiiik Strmu bprrl*—.
KeuiiiiiM-rni-rii ol fjeneml from <f«n-
eral-i.oiig'* Hook.
(PTpniLtlle ehteago News.) {Scribner for April.) I (l ruin the New York Sun )
An amusing story comes to us from The great lesson which Cuvier taught' We are told that only twice during the
the far West. For a long time air out-j the world was, that many races of ani- j biographer’s prolonged intimacy with
law, named Boach the Terror, had liecn j ruals' were entirely extinct, and that Lee was the latter seen to lose his tern-
the scourge of the mountain districts ol ( nature’s 6hain of existence had not one per, ami that one-of these lapses from
Idaho, and-Ust month bp waylaid and maU y missing links. “From his j selbeontrol occurred at Bluirjisbttrg.
procccilcd to rob one Bivens, a wealthy recognition of that fact the science of { “Lee,” it seems, “was riding along a
gentleman who was traveling through paheontolotrv may bewnd to date. But, little ip the. reatHf the line when
the i errttory on ifmang bnstnew. While j the cardivi tjus nature of the mastodon j cainj’ across a soldier who had stolen and
the two weie thus employed—the one in | was too fascinating an absurdity to .lx 1 killed a pig, which he was surreptitiooa-
it!i. odium lieing robbed and it eontinueil to h|»- i ly conveying to his quarters. Positive
Tlley suddenly became aware of tin S ^r intervals. As fete as '1885 we ! onlorspaving been given Igainst pillage
approaeh of a mouutaiu lion, one of j lind a New England medical professor t of cTery kind iu Maryland, this tlagrant
francs
Napoli
tiortei
1 luxoc arid others h
poivirv home was tin
ach, and its sharehol<
m Bonu^rfe, Lneien Bonaparte,
Beauharnais, C’amllacens,
i noted. Its tom--
Hotel Massine, in
se ue
the I’lace dea Victoires. In I>u7
Its
tn
only
few exceptions, :
of the grain ;-ow.
ter tl'.uu the muh'
drilled. It is isl
of the wheat en-i
lh.it thi
dll
1U1 v*-ry
otidition
mch K t-
Cultivator may have Miseovereil that
there is nothfog in the ahajic of natural
grow th so destructive to the strawl.i-rry
plant as white clover. It'is much more
rampant some years Ihuu others, but it
is *1 a ays the great pestiferous obstacle
growth and mlturi- of this de- capital w.is inereaMvt to f
J iiciona betry. Tins muy Hot be the case fniucs. Mauv special laws have lies n I
iu oU*^fitruwU>mr regions, but in our enacted giving privileges to this Isuik 1
ovtioiror central Virginia, it is especial- December :B, lh?.', •privUcgea n 1
Vs». This clover, like all Othrs, is # new able after that date. The building |
-tap nHitcd growth. 11 crowds, hugs and oeenpied by the Bank of Fram e at th.-1
tie' stra»l»erry plants to a ruin- prvt-t nt timn has great importance. It
thi'Ke sti-a tliy, cnu l monsters that m-
hal.it atid,lay waste tlie fastness'-s of tlie
Kocky Mimutain region. Boach immi'
diately dropped Ids booty and--skinned
up 0 in e as nimbly us he evertsurtit^as
forth other nian, he didn’t stop to pick
up his projierty—he followed Boach up
■'if trmi with marked alacrity. The
writ in ■ as if it w ere an unquestionable
fact. The giant theory lingered still
longer, and even yet cannot bo consid-
eml entirely extinct among the un-
k-arned. The dictum that the Hii{>eniti-
tions of one age are but the rcienco of
preceding ages receives ample contirma-
tion iu the history of tjiis subject. Not
disregard of his commands threw the
(icneral into a hot passion. Though
usuall greatly disinclined to capital pun
ishment, he determined to make an ex
ample of this skulking pilferer, and
ordered-the man to bp arrested an 1 taken
liack to Jackson, with directions to have
him shot." The Puritan General, to
1 noil Him 111.11 aru niaiiiv’. Aim i UuU M the lilhtorV of this 811 l)H _■ _
rci-TTou, Haunting his tail savagely, iTouger ago tIi.iuT846 a mastoilon skcle- ’ whom Hcriptuml precedents were quite
Marvel
out extent
strawU rfy nx»
wiather. Thi'
lover roots
1, grow iu
clbvi-r and
v
Is and grasats may b
.;f igc 111 winter wi.ri
Irozen, but it is te. .i<
i a v w ell as
mild winter
all biennial
ceded out to
;e ground is
li.’lldwecd-
»t
Iu m
frt nj iliM-ftf" ' u
1 any liud, tl;< ’
;Tli«rs|»4ki
**xn«*4i i
1* -In of 1
('oiij|»iaUit bfiiij
Z <if i-Li.irl* 8U»
tctiR lidgfkp
ii
iu billa, 1
1 ’lit 11lift clucft 1i«
ut ajqx ar pi L*'
%• U • it a»
MUtniiJ
U- >i:vtun>
l*r% vahituit *» in
i-KvioUn «mr-
*. a\ ft *
C l!l till
VlitoV th
caae* of kuu«1
vta 1 v,» . i.
n I'CJfteii
!ln| «H!
ily »lut«
atuoD^ bon* %
■ 1 of lut
• un , "i4i
11 ••th,-r
dilMM.1 lift* In** |
Bchrrktalby t
in* M.*t ioli i
mill? c
• -B<|iarit
of Uu* Ivukitn
III at and the •
WIKM of
«lU Im
• Lrgcr i
“ wav, hot its long,
rcBTitn t«> come again
inwotnc aud will uot
eimtlv, however, lor
pittliu i nHvirt,* jn to
(wo plant* in a LiU, lali*
apart. The cultivator
1 in this posit <»n, and
rhirer, put hiue erass
I*
J tl
it Ur
iiu|)ortaiioe.
is Nil irregular quadrilateral building,
surrounded by the Bues Caoix ties Petit*
t'liangi s, de | a Vhllietv, lUililf et Bail-
- ziwciL The public has cut 1 re conhil.-oee
in tlm lank, an*l U> taanf thivcosSJi uce
grtwt pni-untious have Um tak< ti to
n ::di r private at *111 as ppblic pro|H rtv
safe. 1 he tire brtgadi', 4S.iri{sis4*i| of’
iln lul li who oUee beloniri'il to tlie r«'/f- 1
ment of Pari-, I am spa:
buildings undir one roof
iaiucusc rewrroirs, tfnd sixt
conUtu UBfi-A iSieTy l,. Ibr
water. Aside fn m tlie lirvrui
watchmen arc cmplcjtd. Tl
la Vniiicrc, occupasl to .h
liank of France, was built in
the di-eign* <•( 1 ranc< is Man
building is geiu rally known
licking l.i* hidequs fangs and rolling its
t la- -y ej 1 balls suggestively, looked up !
at the Kb m*n in the tree and ]>re(iari-d 1
to join them. ... , . fithd in the jaws, all missing parts were
• Have you a jastol ? asked Boach the | restored after the human mode), and the
i error.„ whole raiseiFupuir ffie hind legs.— It
^“N , said luven , the traveler, “but oertainlv eonveved the notion of “a
in my U It I carry a knife fourteen inches
‘sup-
1
.“Tin n,” - uggi ste*l the Terror, ‘
|lose you stick the knife into that
mint wh<-n he r<-aehera -ut for us.* , B
“V , but if r Uw\o tin- knife 14, the
'inn, ad 1 iveus, “hihI if ho falls with
it, whet |irot,N*tion Lave 1 from you?
No* I d keep tiie knife arid let you shoot
the rrrt-T wtrta vpiuir ptsToI.’*
“V.i*, laii <-up|Mwing I ih* shoot him,”
raid ib-uch, “ahat protection have 1
jour krflfo when my pistol is
ton was exhibited in New Orleans as familiar as tliey had been tn C'rom-
tliat of a giant. The cranium was made well s oflieera, “could not quite see the
of raw hide, fantastic wooden U'cth wore | utility of the culprit's execution, when
men were already scarce, and it struck
him tliat it wonid answer the purpose
quite as well to nut the fellow in the
front ranks of the army at the most
threatened point” He accordingly
treated him as David is report'd to have
served the . htisliand of Bathslieba,
lacing him where his cliauoe of
hideous, diabolical giant'
doubt responsible for man
As a Mid commentary on
and was no
nr nigiitmartw.
the state of the
w-1 medical profeasion ui the southwest at the ‘Jl•lacing Inm where his cliauoe of U’ing
time, it may bo added that the exhibiUifM#'** excellent. The fellow, though
was perfectly honest iu his lielief, aud to °f clandestine pork, wss not want-
supjsirt his faith he had a trunk full of 1 mg '» courage, and Iwhaved gallantly,
physicians ccrtihcwt.w that th<»c wen- rwh.enMxl his credit by his bra*
human iooumig Uir«,ugii the heat of tlie
. 1 unscalLed, and tlins though he lost
witl
hi*' tlie lion was coming up the
alarming rapidity. He seemed
of Hotel de
•rouRbt in 17
I M
T<
id foot h
m
way
In )8i0 “Dr.” Koch, a Ocrmau char
latan, mated a great sensation by an
nouncing the discovery of tlie leviathan
of Jqb, which he ralled'tlu- Miaaoiihum,
from the State where it was hmud. It
turned out, however, Uf be nothing but
a mastodon preposterously mounted,
b , Koch had adde<l an extra iloaen or more
jomta to the backbone and nbs to the
• a comnru- chest, turned the tusks outward into a
mu t will eat j m
a: Ton si
MMHHH
ought to be at any partieular mom sat,
if on time; but as trains frequently and
generally get late the train of inferior
class must have its movement expedited
by some extraneous cause or it may be
delayed for hours awaiting a train that
may have been wrecked or has been kept
back for some other of many nailers
Then the duties of the train dispatcher
are of importance. He will probably
give an order to the delayed train
1 place which he thinks it can
reach without difficulty, and ho directs
train to proceed to the
opposing ti
e place and
place and there pass the other
train and in that manner the trains are
enabled to naas each other without any
delay to dtncr. His great respondbQiiy
consists in that he may have a dozen
other trains in his charge at the amm
time and in directing one train to go
lieyond its usual place to meet another
he may neglect to give an order to the
second train aud in such an event a col
lision would probably ensue, mnch prop
erty be destroyed and probably lives be
It will readily be aee
est mistake of a train
cause serious results ; and in this 1
his responsibility is
than that of any other individv
whose charge the public are placed,
pilot on a vessel may lose his i '
out the fact soon becomes a|
othm, and his capadty for misehkf is
thorny lessened; other
pioyes may neglect their dm
rush headlong into danger, 1
Msoetatrs generally realise the
before any unfortunate results 4
but the slightest behest of a trail
patobar must be obeyed without
Hon; even though to do
ably.
and probably
an that the slight-
might
:ritU r hi
iuiy
d B
d 1 ac-
pig, he may lie said to have saved his
iMoon. ” . •
The author
the chajiter 1
where the star
fortunes
with the following anecdote, which rests 1 wrung directions,
only ou tn wiq aper authority, but loaUncw <>(
which General D>ng deems worthy of m •xtramelr
lielief and reproduction, because U M so of qq,
strangely eousonvot with his own obsor- adoww to ttw orders give
vationM of low's Urge minded and in- 1 .while they perform tasir
vanaUj considerate sttUode toward shuoal entirely unknown
Luiouuieb. The »«V»ry was on “—‘ .....
appropriately oonclihlcs; jeopardise 0m lives of thorn receiving
wgned to Gettysburg, the orders-though of oouree until an
x of the Confeilerwcy ■ aoe»d«Dt results the train asa are igno-
8 iisaaeil Into irreparable . chpse, rant of the fact that they have been grren
I lollnwiog aiu)CtioU% wbirh rmtm wroiur dimtioos.
u»
1 luuge
Hi vi'tih
I
*1 r. %v . si.
d» of Tfns
and flftcvn
decnw l
I
1.
la i*u* Um
tat the Hotel
the propert;
of ti
iu I*
ply thet
pr
•it -
lac I’
a p
•t i»
1 leu to th*'
xu head a
hw Iuug8
end.-.If
1 r Uisn {
d.
•u Rot w Ul 1
y at it and
Irovr his kliilc clean
ie monster s breaet.
ground wttli a bullet
ud ek-ven inches of
, Then Rack and
q. , told by a “Gran
j I" en no wing th
1 of (•• Uyahurg
•t dt
»U-n
the
tree.
They
y that tl.c
J could
in.
Karh wo* in-
Iil«
life.
1 top
IflO
id 1(1
iw they
uht
Ihuu
lt*n* to-
semi cuttle, and ronverteil the animal
| into an aquatic moustur which anchored
itarlf to trees by means of lt« sickle-
diaped tusks and then peacefully i-liun-
ti rid ou tlie loaom of the wav.*. lake
the SiU-nan. he f. und interest mg o
Urmationa of his viaus iu the lxi>k of
Job, that refuge of perplexed monster
makers. Koch took ha leviathan to
lojudou, where if was purchased by the
Bi ni»h museuia, ami reft'Qverted into a
‘ mastodon by FrufMaor Owen, who at
udoc rccogiuxwd its true nature-.
1 1 M nr-, ik A iiokhi: r Ait.
Tl.rj l *ra|X- lr»,u s I^mI) '■ l‘*rk«( »s4 J sitatu*rv,l my 1
t aaas Asj tiMssal mt Trwabto. |
(Vi.mii the Kpw fork “us ) and ae G« nraaLL"<* ordered his i trial.
A Fourth avenue ear was rolling ho aud his officers rvda mar ms. As
n ir th- y cam. 1 >' c I r< -gni/.d him, and.
whose Uvea they have
aud therefore never rw
umily
I Army ' man, who bad
i puli'.rains of the hauls
and who Mid: **i waa in
battle of l it j sh myself, and an ami the unnortaut uart thev i4st in
ffimde.il oeenmd there which largely J^aad ile~vEmant!! 1^----
clisiu: d my neWk of the Huuthem peo- -, T ,
praise due them, travelers ought el iaMt
bs made acquainted with thair daffim
i v ne rs
pi*.*! Iiad been a most bitter anti-Hooth ;
man, end fought and curved the ( onfsd-
i-rstee .1. 'ja-rately. 1 could see nothing
good m any of tticm. The U* <Uy
the tight I wss 1 sally wounded; a ball;
khstt'-rrd m# l*'(t U*g. I lay OU
from t'<-uw-icry Bidgre woe I
to**rw AK KVI
(froai Iks AMaaial
The followiag rather
■MT.
I. tit
liovi I 111. kin Til.
t.
L.
Ir
ThU
I n-ui X.
I Vai, ihc n
IU MonIht
ton*; for tl
Mlt'S have I
dtenu <• tl
tons. T in
low 1^ ,, 4 n
yt-snyw sti |
Ill’ll td . . n
(axu.< i- of tile Mtu
’I
►*M;
Wt that ku
jf revoluti
*'Tb»t I'. I
of the vil
or-
I'lUi
w ••
«U
. xhy
lv J
jr t*
liiL c m
.'i j* r re nt, <
in the Laud
Apnl. Th;
'UU
t.
nil I
i* 1- Uo Oi/tiltUaXid lor
>*t ths (ioejK'l; tho Cu
r ihii il^M .1 : t7i i..,
all tlie v. .rii" * ’
iu
»giv, we
•pit to
amnd is
olor i» too eu us ph.
rapiled. In blue wa- clioi
I in y are all blue with the exre ption of [
the note of o.iroi) francs, creutrel in IMd,
whu-h woa ml. Never more thou tra*
cuttings of this-fade wo* mode, and of
K these there.are 'out ftNe in circulation at
, preaeut. The ligtirrs priutrel on Ute |
notes are- tla-ir mi-BH'i I'r 1 rifiiuirtcutl. il,
and tlie combinations are so uuui» rolls
tii.it each Dote lias its own tu trk. A
I
B,
J. (Joy
• w •
ract for lay mg
t. i.
its own
twentw-three
it is Aret yu.
f the tire; c.v.1
until the kignatur
placed upon it. The Mirvulia
severe tlmt workhigincb cai
i veu a clipping of |<«pt r. .1
,t
wirb
uuprvv.ion, women ore employed to
Ie - ‘ C'u. re.unt and recount the p ipers aim ndacc
;hm in [lockages of l.lklO. Tiic ie!. r
. rop anjig
•T'-t of t* ear
4- Sc '.lWO i y |Bf _
where. Mihs r;.. l[. . wom gie. ii up to I of the blue ink is unchungahle, and its
q. vlie, but hcrphyoicnuis mid, “If yon go composition is a secret. These notes
i to such a village on our coast, perhaps i l<»vo the bank crisp ana bright, To- rc\,
I v the sea air may prolong your life; but it' turn in less than two years torn, soiled
w : t . I', i ;* an aafully wicked place.” That pel* jknd often altogether illegible, having
V t1 i ' M>ui -‘ n arrixcddhi re, ami took a - room. | nmde the tour of France, and perhaps of
louu'. 'of S h** sU pt but littk’ the lirat night, and the world . As they are brought buck
k toward morning was sleeping quietly | “d judged iihworthy for use, after
with her windows open forjea air, when many formalities they are destroyed in_
du 1 w..:. a'ulib :ed by the rough swear-! tho prosenoouf tlie regents."At^ine time
m.iki^ ai big of men r'i'ir "mim -”- Hfae \ Hie worthless notes were bnmftl^Bnt
cunl-l m t bear it, and, ha^trlr-.hewing, | bow they pre rrdnred to pa^to; t'Vo*
wen!dewn to the door, and ^aul, “Oh, enormous cy/imlors receivo-the notrs
men, 1 anxw poor, sick, dying woman. ^ aUr is ^«mred upon this niass, the
1 have come from the hills tu prolong I orifice oTtn© cylinder eloped and sealed
The condition of In at and oats is jjnylife, but you are going to drive me ami the whole is cooked forty-eight
Fruit, gdiiiiu produce,
ptaiiUd (•'rn4o.it la-ui irji
recent fro-ts and freezes, _Ci
larly, at tin daic of ibe r, j
to furnish an estimate of ti.
damage ihUtcfcdi
UnVAl.bs.
favorable an exhibit a* e. ui.t
still tllTTt; are senje facts e.
them that should encouraged
The area in wheat has b. in
. d. wtJ,
■ twiat.l in
.. fmiaors.
higher than at the ramc tnu
A smaller proportion of tin
winter kiHed than iu 18n!. H-- m-s and to drive you away, you pale woman?”
other work animals are in fair euuditior
t y> nr. away. '
i rop was i •‘One wicked man said, “Who is going
for farm wdrk. There has be. n uo in
crease in the amount of food supplies]
purchaseil, notwithstanding lust year's
short crops, and there has been a de
crease in the amount of commercial fer
tilizers purchased in Value of about
3300,IKK*. .
With very few txceptibusduo reports
to tho Department arc of a cheerful
character, and their tone indierdes a de
termination among fhe farmers to do-
r,wearing
serve sneermthin-yefte, which they will have fli dmis.*’ Before she Tnnl filjiisEed, tingner, alt chjcfff of great French bauk-
- * win with favorable.
When to Elttiit tiet'tlH.
It is a common notion that the tem
perature of the air and tho soil is a re
liable indication of the time for planting
the different varieties of farm aud gar
den seeds. Many farmers will not plant
corn or e»tton until, in their judgment,
the soil is “wurnl enough” -to gepiinunU-
the seed. That this is uot an utf» rriflg
guide may be easily demonstrated by
the experience of anvame who has kept
a diary and observed closely. It is quit •
Uary
true that corn, nor cotton, nor other
You are; you have been
about my'Saviour.” .*
The man trembled, and said, “I will
knock down the man that swears.
Nobody shall swear while you areliero. ”
A man cjune along swearing. Said he,
“You stop thSt; tiq^re is an angel here.”
In a few days shelobk a little cabinet
organ, hired a hall, opened the doors
uud windows, and tne rough men gath
ered around. She touched khe keys,
and began to sing, “What a friend -yg
bars were in eyes unaccustomed to weep.
In a little while she bad irechnrch, and
had need for a minister, and they are
doing great things there that never
would hu've been done but for that pale
woman.—Dr. Bates in Service for Jesus.
She Went.
“I came down hero to go out ou the
Lansing brain, ” she said to Officer Button
ut the Third street depot yesterday morn
ing, as .she held a satchel in one hand
and an umbrella in the other.
Yes'm—train goes in thirteen min-
seed will germinate and come up if the “How are the stoves in the cars?” -
tempoPature ot the soil continues, aftei “Ferfectly safe, ma’am. All the cars
planting, below the projier degree of r<.n tiiat road can roll over twire; and not
warmth for the germination and growth i take lire.”
of the particular seed. But ordinary
observation shows that in our changi-able
sjiring climate the .temperature of th»
air and soil on one day is no guarante*
of what it will be throo or ttnir dayi
thereafter. The conditions of pi
may be all right at the time of planting
and tie all wrong at the time ol geriai-
uaittg. Itrtmrvmng corn Urt rtuy r. -
quire s about twelve or fourteen uni s (<
come up, ked cotiou rexd from ffvc t-
ten days. Ht i.ce, the weather liiay b*
all that could be desired U* ac cral uays
after phuitui? the re d and Wn i hl
eoldorrair. Itiwiocre importsa t rbst ure
Utter half of the period ol gt:tu
should be note fareraid* Urea ti
tmif. Tire ObERSt mb- av to •
coniiag to tuBs—taa day «4 ire*
i«r dcvarai ra tree * -L
“Bridges safe?”
“Entirelv so.”
“Don't tlie rails ever sjxcad ou that
« r
“N. vef.”
' “How is it about cotiisions?”
“Iu«y don’t have any.”
“Any chance for some o
run into the rear endof oure
"Nbl A tilt.”
“Well. I don’t know
rinks and go, but 1 want to
•tunt that U anything doew
■ larh 1 arm kdlrel my <4d
ake a*Hrnt leva thair gj,-‘ni,
xpefta
hours. A very line blue paste is the re
sult, ami this is sold by weight for the
manufacture of pasteboard. The notes
in circulation at this moment represent
3,500,000,000 francs, aud since its cioa-
tion the bank has issued 35,500,000,000.
The governor of the . Bank of France
is M. Maguiu, a faithful representative
of tho government presided over by M.
Jules Grevy, and himself vice-president
of the Senate. The general council is
composed of two lieutenant-governors,
three honorary lieutenant-governors and
fifteen regents, among these Baron
AlphoaSe.de Bothschild, and Baron Hot-
mg-houscB. Several times has the Bank
of T‘ranee been in a position to reader
service to the government; once in 1871,
at.the close of the Franco-Frnssian war,
it inade the Bepublie a loan of several
hundred millions. The shares of 5(H>
frauck are quoted at the Bourse 4,550,
aud during- the last few weeks, when
stock fell far below par because of the
rumors of war, those of the Bank of
France were reduced to only l,52iTfmncg,
A Story of Twit Words.
“Oh, if I were lucky enough to call
this estate mine, 1 should lie a happy
ft How," said ayoungmam “And tberr^
said a friend. “Why, then I’d pull
dow 6 the old house, and build a palace,
have lots of prime fellows round me,
keep the bust wines; and the finest
horses and dogs iu tlie ooanrty.” “And
then?” “Then I'd hunt, and ride, and
smoke, and drink, and dance, and keen
oi>en house, and enjoy life gloriously. '
“And then?” “ Why, then, 1
I like other'people, 1 should grow old,
u ioj and not awe much fur there-
rs?” ,v .« v ^* .Wia theft?;’ ••Whj,..tiremrel
in the coune «f nature I should kaiv
ut I mil take i *11 thss* -i-l- r-ar* Uiimza—and- wt-ll-
V.» I otk Sun •
W oskuigtoti, has the
the new system ol
wen in East Orange, and on Saturday
in' secure »1 HU negroes from North Cat-
idiiis siwl \ irgmia. They were brought
ou by throe agent* of a labor bureau,
aud, os tho agents got a cummin, ion for
each man, they made all aorta of repre-
st-ntstiona to secure them, promising
many of ihuu SIN a mouth sn l loard,
irrt otlwn jit . trpcf day. CojI* could
nut jay them all the agents promised
and a row*seemed uumiMeut. To make
laatUrs worse, the agtuts became in-
tcxH-ated, and attempted to avoid any
iiecii.’wiun with the laborura ami to drive
them into quartern in an old ha? shop in
Dodd struct where u gong of Italians bod
l>een housed. The colored .men did not
hkc the quarters, and were diMSsttffiad
with the rations of meat and corn meal
provided by th<- contractor, 1 earing a
riot, tho nmtrartiir (Tallod on tlie
•uiiHitlily along Msdiaou aveua<.
I’lfty-nitilh slrot-i, the other day. when
it* ordinary assurtioent of all norta of
I iasM ngt-As wa- - tortl< <1 out of m-tui-
istleaMicMi by s nlinek that would have
mode Buffalo Bid's proudest Sioux burn
with envy. p
* 'Taka it off! Take it away! Take it
off!" screamed a nicely dressed Indy, t meant to kill me.
jumptaji into the aisle, with one hand on ] he looked down at
' expression upon 1
left me, and 1 woi
about. He extended
SfCIblq*
to one of the
Her features
and the other outstretched
startled male passengeni.
were a picture of terror,
and her block < joe g! uned with frantic And grasping mine tb-mir
intensity at the wrist of her ouUWetohod right into my ey ua, jsaM:
arm. ] hope that you wdl scon be
At find a suspicibu swept throngh the
minds of tho knowing paseengese that it
was a case of suakes, but on looking at
the pretty wrist, set off by a jeweled
bracelet, they h*w a real live leech.
A lawyer who has an office in the
Poth r building and w ho has some nerve
as wdl as gallantry, plucked off
leech and put it in a pajer box
the lady had oarriaa Jv her - ;
Meanwhile the other lady
TMff * "
Governor Gordon.
Hon. Jons B.
Pardon ms for taku.g tha
tnuuiih faiat (rota exjiimure oihI l mb of writing to yoa to ask a Is
bit..'!, 1 n..M*l jpp icy luuiN, 'X'kud A bunt two months ago I ws
Lee in tl.- (ace, ana shout ui as loud as a* a maamgar in the Interior
1 could, 'Hurrah Ai tlie-Ctnon!' The ment, on a I
General hear i roe, Ymts'-d, stujqwd IriaiVanH.
hone, dramounUdl and came toward Co*
rue. 1 c uf< ns that \at drat thought ha instructed me to writs to yoa,
he cams up • that yoa wss a personal frisftd d
•d sak yoa woald yoa
enough to writs to tha Han. Hs
is. Thud
'as oa srasisa s x n v, raiasj
Manning and an sx-
m from the Htats of
-is up
with such s asa
face that all fear
what ha was
his hand to me,
and looking
•My sun, 1
welL* If I
live a thoiiHaiid yean l shall never forget
tire I M»k upon Lee's face. There he was,
dchalud, retiring from a fi<Id tliat hod
coat him ami hL cause almost their last 1 ment, my employers will say to-day that
uojn-, yet hestopjM d to ftqMuush words | they never had tne least suspicion of my
Harris,
General, at Washington, D. 0., in
Iwhalf. Mr. Gordon, I was atom k
ful ia discharging my duties as a ■
aenger, and of aU the
and other valuables that I
paaosd through my hands of
asthow to a wuiinde<F suhlter of tho
< uemj who had taunted him as he passed
by! As soon as Um» general had left m.-
' I cried myself b> bleep there upon the
bloody gn und."
What they could
frightened rioter.
llow many leeches
to
TIIK TKAIN irlSI’ATCBKK.
did you have,
fr ... 11,.. . i i, ^“^ Inodam, in the kox?” a jydted the lawyer,
from Orange and East Orange, and sev- ••Three:” she gaspech
“Why, madam, there’s only one here.”
The shriek that followed was a chorar^
ifo of ftirerj t*ss
Hand.
cral sqinids of men were sect to the |
scene. Tlie colored men luul sensible
lea<K-rs > who said that tliere would lie
in* row; but the jxilice ha<l plenty to do^
in pr.>b cting the diUiikeu agouti from
tne wratli of the crowd of men and lioys
which gathered and excited tho iro of
persuadqd the colored men to stay iu the
barracks until to-day, when uu effort
w ill be made to come to some under
standing with them. They wore quiet
yesterday, but demanded that tlie agents
should pay Their fares to their homes if
satisfactory arrangements wore not made.
Tilt-Cotton llovynoiil. .
Every female pa-seugar thought sho was
weandjj one or lioth of tile other two.
But tho lawyer founjl both in the mat
ting of the car, ana one of tiiem was
crippled in the excitement.
The lady jumped off the car spitefully
to conceal her embarrassment. It turned
out that she was the pretty wife of a well
kuown iron merchant and member of
the Seventh Regiment, who was at home
with a swollen leg. . His wife had been
down town to get the leeches to feed on
her husband’s leg, but the dfoggist had
cut too big a breathing hole for them.
WUgn the husband learned of his wife’s
adventure he laughed till the swelling
went down.
in tho annals
rences i
gener
of thj
his
serve
grossest inj
honor v
merits; but]
employes,
passengers,
An Irate I’lea for PrsNent Style*.
f 'fflkl 1
'll «ai*t the
Murial <
it ao r -
'N«*wv»l«*
uatvi
a»-*U '
'Ir^ tlmr 1
* . I
a" as! s to
•sir; j •
i to under- yea-die.” “And lire;
bapi*-n by your thru*, I must be
^ V “MC -j- M wj yean oiler
si. T!_cbba Tfinmi d With: “God I
• to book.' my hapfeiM'Oi to yoa
“OL, bo
gnoa
•Tj*
In its weekly review of the movement
of tho cotton crop, the New Yuik Finan
cial Chronicle says that for tho week
L-ndyig Friday, April 8, the total receipts
have reached 2‘.>r308 bales, against 34,115 . , ,
balvp last week, 46,2!i8 bales the previous 1 hero is a class of women, and the
W'-ckj ami 57,716 baK s three weeks since; u l llu , r i* 1 ' 111 i- s nnneoqssaiily large,
making the total receipts since the 1st of who , have 11 tendency to asrihne an air of
hepUimljcr, 1886,5,676,161 bales, against apology and self-toTcuse whek the Jove
4,8‘Jl,:*s:i bales-for the- same period of of adornment and eagerness to achieve
1H8.7 showing ah increase biuce Hop- aame ia talked of. Tb®y awime a
tember 1, 1886, of 178,202 bales. deprecating air when this subject is
The exjiorts for the same time reach a brou 8 ht n P- And Bhoidd they? It
total of 40,004 bales, of which 27,986 1H uatural an(1 fittin 8 that women should,
were to (Irtat Britain, 405 to France and want 40 look and dreW) weU - Mor e t’" 14 *
12,573 to the rest of the continent. The ^ lt 18 ft woman’s duty, just so far a«
total sales for forward delivery for the her circumstances and means will admit*
wor k are 480,400 bales. For immediate ^ dre68 woU aud t^tefuUy. Why them
delivery the total sales foot up 961 bales. 18 an Y {or a w " ma11 to makif a
The imports into continental ports have of herself for “beauty’s sake t> a
b. .-n fur tin'S.UH; period tti.otxr bales. mystery. Dressing, to be sure, is gp
There was an increase in tho cotton in j d rt, and it is only to those to whom thlaJ
sight Friday night of 10,106 bales as art is unknown who are raising the hue
compared with the same date of 1886,- •nd cry about “dress reform and ‘ ■
an increase of 45,474 bales &.s compared 8lble ‘irking- . The women who tin
with the eorresjKindiug date of 1885, and lze B^t exhaustively upon this s'YOjl
a deercano of 225.009 balcb ah cum pared l ^ ri5 bo Tool
wiihlHM. - dowdy and ndicoloua anywhere to
The old interior stocks have decreased "J 0 ® 0 "’ ^ is the woman devoid of
during the week 10,578 lialee, and were w , figure is scrawny mid abso-
Fridav night 184,554 bales less tiian at lately destitute of any lines of beauty 1 ,
the same period List year. Tb<- receipt* who8t ‘ arm u l uU « aud ^“y, that is sure
at th* 1 same towns have been 2,136 bales u ® ®T*y •’*“ ■U* o®raeions ti> declare
less' than the same week Lot vear, and ^ dw W 0 . f ^ P^ Dt “
•ance Scptcml^r 1 the receipts at aU the harm,ul “ d ‘fijanoua to ones ht*tiih
ara-tiK.327 bales more than for the TLt; 7 “V." 11 Inaiiig merery ruffU and
mm. - fims in Lft.'C. JaT - -* . ^ -
The tolAl receipt* frem the planlatioo* I au kus^Am as*.
-.nee Srjtombt-r 1, ore 0,154,351 ___
i» {885 *wj were \l:i.5,w<i balss; Nathe* are all-prepared rarafilia* — .
-a I'vM IK* were 4,112, PWl naira. Al-, reliable, llua a pruvrar by the resuits |
lU'.-jgh the reempto a» the tratjorto the ■ the ws .d Dr Harter a bua |
ps*4 seek were tftlra, the ‘
mmrwamt free* |Jaatet»nft* *a* oftiv r rau .
hahar the tohmw bawg ^ftC -
frees Ih*- NOucks *1 lbs r~it-r r tovw.
k| fc w mag* hkr i
'emgr amt -torn
A Mtu WKs Hnl<U
aenaer la
Tn^ traveling public have long
wont to bestow approval upon rail'
engineers for the self-sacrificing
which they exhibit when the lives en
trusted to their care are endangered, and
of the rail these occur-
quoit that passeogDra
the man at the throttle
ye a* a hero ay virtue of
opinions are de-
d it would be the
to detract, from the
Abnegation always
a cum* ol railway
tirely unknown to
responsibility is so
much greater and whose slightest omis
sion might jeopardize the lives of people
on trains more than any oversight on
] the part of conductors or engineers, that
| it is indeed strange that they .are so
seldom mentioned in the public print*.
This class is the tram dispatchers,
whose every order is implicitly obeyed
by truimaeii; and while tne crew of one
train is responsible for the movement of
that train alone, the dispatcher holds in
las hands the lives of every individual
on every train on the road; and on a
road having a large traffic the duties im
posed on mm are very great and arduous.
liis position in the railway service is
Unique; were all trains running on time
and provided for on the periodical time
table issued by the company, he woald
have no duties to perform; but trains
will get delayed ami occasions will arise
requiring extra trains, or trains' w ithout
any specified tune or rights, to be run
over the road, and then his sen-ices are
necessary to avoid hoars of deffig. ^
All trains on railroads are divided in
classes, according to their importance,
generally two, passenger and freight;
and all trains of one class running in a
specified direction have the right to the
road, or need keep no lookout for trams
of the sam^or a lower class running in
tha opposite direction. Thu* it is
on a certain railroad train*
running wffiward have the right of way
over train#lffiHing westward; then an
east Bound pasetoffigJniB ean run the
whole length of flWMff in entire Jiare-
—| gavd of all train*; another powettger
train going west need only kick out for
j the esat-boond paarntger train, while
tin, j the freight train* Burt to* out of
way of both j iftungw train* and of th*
honesty. Furthermore I
my old master. I was **i*htoi I aarvad
him w.ll, and li<* ^sid wlien he pit me
in the department, upon this hs fait
bound to serve me some too. I wee til
General Toombs’s brigade during tha
war and served there faithful a* a ser
vant. I. have crawled up on my knees
and hohds, over a mde, to carry my
friends something to eat that waa in tha
defense of their section of the country
aud General Toombs has often add I
never forgot my natural ritual I know
^ho my best friends are. Mr. Stephens
that it are the duty of those that
elevated to high, lofty position to
n the humble and poor with tha
pity for this reason I appeal to
pathy, your charity and to
erority as the Governor of tha
State that give me birth to
n my humble and deprived oon*
with pity. I bag of you, Mr,
eye i
your
your i
dear
look]
ditiffif
with all the humbleness crowning tha
not of a servant to write to Mr. Harris at
the earliest date as your convenience*
will allow you in my Dehalf.
I remain, sir, your most humble and
obedient servant. Piano Latarttb.
Moody Riot in Denver,
Dbnvkr, April II.—A bloody riot oc
curred here to-night between rival
Swedish, Polish and I
at 34th and Blake stresta, which i
in the fatal shooting of five men and the
serious wounding of several Others.
It grew oat of a
When the christening party
and drunk they went out upon the side
walk and made war upon fli^lphehiiianto
of a neighboring house. Others itf*4|ie
neighborhood became involved and the
uproar became great
It required a detachment of a doaen
police, armed with Winchesters, to quaO
the disturbance. Three or four police
first made their appearance, whan tha
rioters postponed their contention and
joined loroes against the common enemy.
They could not stand against the rifles,
however, and about thirty wen lodged
in the calaboose and some in the hoapi-
taL * , •
But one or two of the
apeak English. They era all
dirty and spattered with blood, i
the appearance of belot^tog to tha low
est type of humanity. Many of
“lenver only a;
ana. Palau ~
of Europe.
tow Wm w ra S am I
of Us I
torjfti
aad
ivn
| *•/-|
ftwragmoa
oftows a* |
tom free.