Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1881 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

Mrs. General McClellan is the guest of General Hancock, at the Yorktown celebration. A company of American citizens have a claim of one thousand million dollars against the governments of Peru and Chili. Secretary Kirkwood of the interior department is in favor of making the Indians in the reservations support themselves. Burglars are sentenced to thirty years in the state prison in New Jersey. We note there are no train robbers in that state. • Samuel J. Tilden evidently has just cause for a libel suit. A New York paper says lie is going to marry Mrs. Lydia Pinkham. The arrival of gold last week at New York from Em ope was $2,059,300. The Financial Chronicle thinks that $3,000,000 more is on the way. S. P. Rounds, of Chicago, prominently mentioned for the office of government printer has had fifty years experience in printing offices. An average of twenty-six persons die every day in Chicago. This is a terrible death-rate. The board of health seems to be utterly inefficient. The new senators from New York were both pu at the foot of committees, and the great state is without the chairmanship of a single committee. France is one of the most prosperous nations in the world, yet there was a serious panic on the Bourse in Paris last week. Over speculation was the cause. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars has accumulated in the New York city postoffice in money orders that have never been presented for payment. Congressman Wise who fought a duel with Riddleberger in Virginia, will doubtless be denied the privilege of taking his seat. Dueling is a disqualification for congress. The cold weather has just relieved the country of brass band tournaments, when the epidemic of college oratorical contests equally devastating breaks out in the land. To realize how rapidly this nation is growing in population it is only necessary to note that 58,452 immigrants arrived in this country during the month of September. Kentucky whisky is getting to be very bad They have a Professor Klein in Louisville who has discovered “a double comet in the sky surrounded by nine smaller ones all in a circle.” An Apache Indian chief has evidently been imported to take command of Wie Arabs in Tunis. They are cutting telegraph a ires and raiding railroad stations with genuine western vigor. The bill of the surgeons who attended the late president is $60,000. Dr. Bliss demands $25,000, and Surgeons Hamilton and Agnew $12,000 each. To show how ridiculous Bliss’ bill is it is necessary to state that he attended the president eighty days, and he thus asks $312 per day.

It is astonishing what good lawyers some ministers would make. In summing up the case for the prosecution in the Thomas heresy case before the Rock River conference, the Rev. Dr. Hatfield in rising to make the closing argument said that “he had no unkind feelings toward the defendant,” and that “he would act as if in the presence of God." After such a declaration we should expect an unusual speech, but judging from the following red-hot shots at the heretic, Dr. Hatfield is a man who would talk to God with a great deal of freedom. The following are a few specimens: “You might as well go to a plaster of Paris statue as to look for gush in Hiram •W. Thomas. ... Dr. Thomas is a master of words; he plays with them as a juggler plays with his copper balls Dr. Thomas, in a certain theatre, dispenses, or dispenses with, the Gospel. ... I tell my brother by the time he has ridden his hobby to the, city of brotherly love it will be so i wind broken and spavined and foun- > dered that it will be ready for the bone-yard. . . ’ Methodism has become a well digested system of theology, mighty’ in her articles of religion. Without these she would lie like a jelly-fish, or a body without bone. She would be like a couple of Kilkenny cats tied in a bag. . . . On the question of the atonement, a number of sermons revised and doctored for the purpose, were introduced to show Dr. Thomas’ views. These sermons were published by a man named Beerbower or Beerblowe. . . . The vieariousness of love, whatever it is, means nothing but an emasculated Gospel and a bastard religion. . . The Methodist belief is in an intolerab-'e hell, and therein it differs from Universalism. ... In one of Dr. Thomas’ sermons there is the most gushing discription of the glories of hell.” After pondering over these we are sadly in fear that if Dr. Hatfield should appear before the throne of grace and attempt to talk in such more forcible than polite terms, that St. Peter and the archangel Gabriel would speedily thrust him outside the pearly gates. Dr. Hatfield’s speech may be the language of the church militant, but it will not do in “the presence es God” in the church triumphant.

The Decatur Democrat.

TELEGRAPHIC. St. Louis, October 28. — Muncie Burns, a notorious burglar, well known in all the large cities in the west and by the wardens of four penitentiaries, where he has served as many terms, was shot to-night by a pojjceman while attempting to enter the residence of Judge Seymour D. Thompson, at 214 Lafayette avenue. Tlie bullet severed an artery and it is believed will produce death. Burns died of his wound two or three hours after being shot. New York, October 28.—The Erie road reduced passenger fares to Chicago to-day to $9, or twenty-five cents below the New York Central rate.

Cleveland, October 28.—The annual election of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railway' company was held this noon with closed doors. Rev. J. Lackington Batet one of the trustees representing the English creditors 0f58,000,000 or more, cast the vote which decided .the election. He voted for the following directors: S. L. Mather, W. H. Upson, P. D. Cooper, J. F. Clark, John Tod, Jarves M. Adams, George B. Ayer, Henry Perkins, W. W. McFarland, Thomas Warner, Robert Harns, W. W. Scarborougli and W. J. McKinnie. Another ticket was offered by Edsall, claiming to represent $14,000,000 of stock and debts of the old Atlantic & Great Western, but it was refused on the ground of non-registry. He then tiled a lengthy protest, which, in brief, is a protest against the scheme of reorganization under which the road has been running for one year. The sheriff also served notice of a new suit to be brought to test the validity of,the corporation. After consultation of perhaps an hour General Devereux, who has been president and receiver of the Atlantic & Great Western, and president of tlie New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, bid farewell to those assembled and withdrew, abdicating his office. The other directors who are retired under this election are H. B. Payne, H. Wade, and R. R. Ranny. The directors met and elected J. M. Adams, president; J. F. Clarke, vice-presi-dent ; and P. D. Cooper, general manager. Judge Caldwell this morning denied McHenry’s application for an injunction to prevent the New York, Pennsylvania &. Ohio railway election today. Cincinnati. October 28.—Fire this evening broke out in the John Mitchell building, on the southwest corner of John and Second streets. The building is of brick, seven stories high, and is 150 feet long by 100 feet wide. It is divided transversely into three parts by strong fire proof walls extending from the basement to tlie roof. The whole building is occupied by furniture factories. In the middle division of the building are the Ph<enix manufacturing company, the Union manufacturing company, and the Folding Hat-rack company. The fire started in the second story, and without seriously injuring the second or third' stories passed up to the fourth story and burned out the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh stories and the roof of the middle division, which is one-third of the building. No fire passed the partition walls which separated the names from the two equal compartments of the bedding, which was filled with inflammable materials. In this quarter several blocks are covered with large furniture factories, and here the greatest fires in the history of the cit,y have occurred. The loss is about $50,090, partially insured. It started about 8 o’clock. The whole fire department fought it. Omaha, October 28.—News was received at the Union Pacific railroad headquarters to day 7 of the murder of J. Hinckley, agent of the company at Franklin, Utah, on the Utah & Northern branch of the road. The tragedy occurred at 10 p. m., Thursday. Two masked men, presumed to be strangers, entered the depot, and pointing a revolver at Hinckley’s head ordered him to throw up his hands. Before Hinckley could make a move the revolver was discharged, and the shot passed through his neck, killing him almost instantly. The murderers, whose object was supposed to be the robbery of the station, turned and ran, from which it is concluded that the discharge of the revolver was unintentional. General Superintendent Clark, of the Union Pacific railway, has authorized the offer of a thousand dollars reward for the arrest and conviction of the murderers. Titusville, Pa., October 28.—The Niagara express from Philadelphia at 9 o’clock this forenoon was thrown from the track near this place by a misplaced switch, while running at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. John Welch, the engineer, discovered the switch was open and applied the brakes, but too late. The engine ran some distance on the ties, turned over, and was completely wrecked and the engineer killed. The cars were not much injured. The fireman escaped serious injury by jumping from the engine. None of the passengers were seriously injured, but some were slightly bruised. Canton, 0., October2B.—F. J. Rice, the tramp charged with the murder of his companion, an unknown man, and indicted for murder in the first degree, was arraigned before Judge Meyer this morning. He stated that he was unable to employ counsel, am’ the court appointed ex-Judge Treaze and John M. Myers as counsel for him. They requested time to consider the case, and the judge granted the prisoner until to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock to plead. Louisville, October 28.—Postoffice Inspectors Bowman and Galbraith yesterday arrested Robert Rich, amail messenger between the postoftice and railway station at Burnside, Kentucky, on a charge of stealing and rifling registered letters to the amount of over a thousand dollars in the last six montiis.

New York, October 28.—Judge Folger says he will not enter upon the duties of secretary of the treasury until the eases argued before the present term of the court of Appeals are considered, which will be in about a fortnight. Denver, Col., October 28.—Dell Lockhart, Kid Coulter aud a man known as Stem, were lynched at Terra Amaritta, Colorado, last night Lochhart and Stem were arrested a few weeks ago for horse stealing, and Coulter was imprisoned for murder committed at Chamo, nine months ago. The immediate cause of the lynching was the discovery of a plot to kill the guard and escape. Panama, October 18. —A procession in Buenos Ayres in honorof the memory of President Garfield, numbered 10,000 persons. All along the west coast the demonstrations were solemn and profound. Pittsburg, October 28.—A Chronicle special says: As the treasurer of Beaver county was opening his safe, this morning, he was knocked down by two unknown [men, and $13,000 of

county funds abstracted from the safe. The robbers escaped with their booty without leaving a clue to their identity. Later intelligence from Beaver, Pa., says the two men secreted themselves in the court-house during the night. This morning about 7 o’clock County Treasurer Wm. Dawson went to his office to get some money 7 to use in Pittsburg. As he opened the safe the men jumped from their hiding place and one of them struck him on the head with a hand billet., knocking him senseless. When he became conscious again the thieves had -ucceeded in gelling away, taking with them $13,000. A reward of SSOO has been offered for their capture. * Philadelphia, October 28.—Early this morning General Baulanger, of the French delegation, awoke in his room at the Continental Hotel and saw a man standing by the table where he had left his watch and a roll of banknotes. The genera! sprang from bed and siez.ed, secured and detained the intruder until tlie arrival of the police. He has been identified as Wm. Marster, alias ’‘Buffalo Bill,” a notorious criminal. The grand jury 7 at once found a true bill against him and he was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment. The French delegates visited the various places of interest to-day, lunched in the park and dined at Girard college. St. Louis, October 28.—A Post dispatch special from Hannibal, Missouri, says: The Sny levee broke in the third place at 4 o’clock this morning. This time the break, is north of East Hannibal, and the water is sweeping 7 over the entire bottom lands. The break is two hundred feet wide and widening. The loss will aggregate $300,000. San Francisco, October 29.—From Chinese exchanges: A pirate chief has been creating commotion at Wingpoo and in its waters. He is said to have come within seven miles of the town and levied blackmail freely.- He does not care for Chinese gunboats, and has had several engagements with them lately. A reward of $3,000 has been offered for the pirate’s head. An encounter took place September 15 near Kingpoo between the Chinese gunboats and the pirates. Upwards of 20(J pirates were slain or drowned themselves. Nine were captured alive, about seventy escaped, and eleven of the pirates’ boats were taken. The pirates were in shallow water, and the gunboats were unable to get near them, but they lowered their boats and fought in them. A million dollar fire at Monila September 15. Cincinnati, October 29.—Arnold Hammerschmidt was asked by a man for a chew of tobacco this evening, which he refused, whereupon the disappointed applicant dealt Hammerschmidt a blow on the head with a dray pin, crushing, his skull. The wound is considered fatal. The police are at a loss to know whether it was Bill or Clay Jordan who dealt the blow. They have arrested Bill and are seeking Clay. Keokuk, October 29.—The river rose one ince last evening, although a standstill is hourly anticipated. The situation at Alexandria remains much the same, no further serious loss of property being reported. Paris, October 29.—The land leagures are still hesitating whether or not to transfer their headquarters to Paris. Virtually they are here already, for the only influential leaders of the league not in jail, with the exception of Arthur O'Connor, T. P. O’Connor and Justin McCarthy are now at the Hotel Normandy. Arthur O’Connor was here a couple of days ago, but received a summons to London, where he arrived yesterday. The leaguers have shrewd suspicions that the French government would not tolerate any regular organization hostile to England on French territory. It is probable, however, that tlie centre of the movement will for some time to come be here, but the opening < f the offices appears to be impossible. London, October 29.—At the rent receiving offices in Athlone Moate, Mulligan, Roscommon and other towns in the west of Ireland, a large number of tenants have paid their rents in accordance with the abatement, despite the land leagues’ advice not to do so. Many thousand tenants in counties Westmeath and Roscommon have decided to take advantage of the land commission. Meetings announced to be held outside the churches in those counties on Sunday have not take place. Since the land league been denouced by the clergy and will has been proclaimed trade in the west of Ireland has commenced to revive. Many farmers on properties in the neighborhood of Youghal, county Cork, have applied to the land commissioner to have their rents fixed. There is a growing desire among the tenants of Cork and Waterford counties to apply to the land commissioner. In Waterford alone a thousand applications have been lodged. The land league branches in Tuam, district of Counly, and Galway are fast breaking up.

A telegram from Armagh says cells have been prepared in the jail there for Parnell and forty others. Among the arrests to-day is that of an Englishman, Captain Dugmore, late of the 64th regiment, a former home candidate for Port Alington. Dublin, October 29.—The Freeman’s Journal publishes a letter from Parnell, dated Kilmainham jail, deprecating the plan of evading the recent proclamation of the government by the formation of tenants’ defense associations to replaee the land league organization. Parnell says such associations will be tolerated by Gladstone only so long as they appeared to be disposed to carry out his views, and it would be a mongrel, reactionary association such as were formerly condemned by Davitt. Every man in Kilmainham is willing to remain there any number of months or years that may’ be necessary. __________ The oldest Living Twins. Probably the oldest twins in existence in all this country are George and Edmund Gravely, who in good health are still living within five miles of each other and within three miles where they were born at Leatherwood Post Office in Henry County, Va. They will be 93 years old the Ist of December, 1881. 'Their mother lived to be over 100, and their father died at the age of 90. Leatherwood is the same place in Henry County’ where in 1861 ninety-six Gravely's voted the Whig ticket. We have the word of the Houston Telegram for it that there is a paper at Brownsville, Texas, printed onehalf in Spanish and the other half in Josh Billings. The first national college for the education of females in France has been opened by M. Ferry in person at Montpellier. ,

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 5, 1881.

MISCELLANEOUS The debt of Prance i 5882,035,983. The Hast is traveling in Colorado. Rifle barrels are now made of paper. Yeddo averages 80 earthquakes a year. The codfish crop this year is said to be large. Ole Bull’s son shows a taste for the violin. Virginia has now 4,654 public schools. The Chinese are getting thick in Chicago. Hartmann, the nihilist has gone to Europe. The Mrs. Garfield fund closes at $357,000. Thirty murderers are in jail in Philadelphia. Cabbage is being imported from Germany. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will lecture nexi winter. New York has hud seven vicepresidents. St. Paul ladies go buffalo hunting in Montana, Mackay’s income is estimated at $lO a minute. London now has 28 theatres, all of which are open. The first quartz mill has been put up in Alaska. A bushel of corn makes four gallons of whisky. Omnibuses came into general use in Paris in 1662. In Italy they license hand organs which are in tune. Cincinnati has more telephones than any other city. Swinburne has written a new tragedy—Queen Mary.

Nashville’s debt has beea reduced $114,900 in two years. Chicago is going to tax her street cars SSO each per annum. Mr. Edison has taken out 114 patents on the electric light. 75,000,000 pounds of tea are annually imported into this country. A fashionable city wedding now costs from SI,BOO to $8,500. The Roman Tabernacle of Salt Lake city is described as a big rink. The government loses $30,000 by fire at the Rock Island arsenal. St Louis Is to have a new illustrated magazine called Art amt Music. Fred Douglass is writing reminiscences of his life as‘a freedman. Mme.Tussand’s notable collection is coming to America to exhibit. The church of Rome has sent fifty missionaries to equatorial Africa. There are handsome bullion plushes that come as high as $.40 a yard. The Cincinnati authorities have shut down on Sunday theatricals. Gov. Sherman, of lowa, is a cousin of Gen. and ex-Seeretary Sherman. The wife of Senator Jones has not been in Washington for tiiree years. Recent excavations at Rome have brought to light the baths of Agrippa. The Boston police will wear bull’s eye lanterns on their belts next year. Os tne forty-eight members of the United States senate in 1881, 27 are dead. Twenty churches in New York use the revised version of the New Testament. A thief in Rochester robbed two contribution boxes and got twenty cents. Silver match boxes for the pocket are the latest novelties for gentlemen. Girls of fourteen are sent by Mormon missionaries from Sweden to Utah. More than 3,000 women are employed in the Austrian railway offices. “Angels on horseback” are grilled oysters with a rasher of bacon about them. One million dollars worth of repairs have just been made on the Astor library. The Ohio river was called Fair river at the time of Cornwallis’s surrender. Durango boasts of squashes measuring six and one-half feet in circumference. American silks are far more durable than those of French or Swiss manufacture. There are many intelligent Englishmen traveling in this country at present. A waterspout which passed over the district of Melah, Algeria, killed 65 persons. The grave of Baron Steuben is in the town of Steuben, Oneida county, New York.

The King of Siam has appointed a London goldsmith jeweler to the royal court. The original manuscript of Mozart's requiem has, it is stated, been found in Berlin. With the exception of Washington, Arthur is the taliest and largest President in the list. From the autumnal exhibition of paintings at Liverpool the nude has been rigorously excluded. Hand kerchief Literature. Such an innocent looking little square of cambric—so unpretending and useful—yet what a world of har m it Las done first and last in the hands of designing people. Many a fair name has been ruined, many a happy home broken up though that should have stood for a signal of danger—the wave of a handkerchief, diverted from its original use, and employed by idle fingers in service of folly. Tragic scenes happen nowadays which begin with the dropping of a handkerchief. In ancient times when a knight errant riding abroad discovered a hankerehief floating from the tower of a castle he knew some fai r damsel was in distress, and he gallantly rode to the rescue, and by powers of tragedy released her, and as a romantic sequel carried her off as a bride. Now the knight is usually aroungman with a tendency to giddiness, and the fair demsel wears a poke bonnet and walks along serenely with a self-satisfied smile on her peachy lips. “But the heart feels most when the lips speak not,” and both are adepts in a language originated by school

girls, but “spoken” universally—the language of the handkerchief—of which the following are said to be tlie rules: Drawing across the lips—l wisli to know you. Across the cheek—l love you. Across the forehead—We are watched. Opposite corners in both hands— Wait for me. Over the shoulder—Follow me. Winding around the first finger—l am engaged. Around the third finger—l am married. Dropping it—We will be friends. Twirling it iu both hands—lndifference. Letting it rest on tlie right cheek— Yes. On the left cheek—No. Putting it in the poeket—Goodbye. Another Case of Cure by Faith. Urbana, 0., Oct 16.—A very remarkable case of the restoration of a person to health has been reported from Northville, this county. The subject was given up to die, but through faith and prayer, the invalid lias been restored to good health and the particulars of which are as follows: About two years ago the wife of Dr. E. J. Barr, of that place began spitting bl< od, and she was impressed with the idea that she would not live five years. On Aug. 15. while running after a chicken she was seized with a hemorrhage, and had.thiee attacks that night. On going to bed that night she was seized with another violent attack, and from its effects she was confined to her bed for three weeks, and at intervals she had other attacks of the same nature, and there was nothing in her case that gave any hope of recovery. On Oct. 5 she was taken worse with chilling and smothering, and it was supposed she was dying. Dr. Hunt was called and succeeded in reviving her, but being extremely weak did not remain in this condition long. On Sunday morning last the called her husband and told him she had but a short time to live, and for him to call her father. She said she had been in a trance, and the Loid told her “she had never done very much for him in this world, and now you must be a servant for me this night,” and quoting several other messages. She then fell into a coma, and her hands, arms, lips and whole body wore cold covered by a cold sweat, her pulse irregular, and every indication that she was near death. She presently came to, and asked them why they were weeping and began talking to all who came in, this being the first time she had spsken above a whisper for two months, and she continued to talk in a strong voice all day. On Monday she said she had no pain in herlungs, and continued to talk with ease all day. Tuesday she thought it was time for her to standup, and while eating her breakfast she arose, and stood for several minutes, and finally ■walked to the kitchen, being in her bare feet. On Wednesday she was some stronger and walked across the street. Thursday morning she went out of the house and stood in the rain for several minutes, and when she came in her shoulders seemed perfectly dry. In the afternoon she rode out without any wraps about her. For two years she has been unable to sing in a high note, but now her voice is strong and clear. The case is remarkable, and she attributes her wonderful cure to the Great Physician. Her husband and her aunt at the time thought she could not live a week. She gives God the glory, and says that her marvelous cure is brought about by her faith in prayer. The care is most remarkable, and in attracting some attentien.

A New Humane of the Forest.

The St. James’ Gazette recounts the particulars of a shocking crime which was committed recently at a monastery near the forest of Vran-yo-Selo in Hungary. This monastary, which was inhabited by eight monks who were believed to be very wealthy, was attacked by a band of brigands, but an alarm having been given, a body of ■soldiers came to the rescue. The brigands endevored to barricade themselves in the monastery, and exchanged several shots with the soldiers, who were more than an hour before they could force an entrance. When they did get in they found the monks lying gagged on the floor, but could find no trace of the brigands. After the monks had been set at liberty they informed their delivers that the brigands had escaped by an underground passage leading from the cellar into the forest. The soldiers at once searched for the passage, while the monks went off to the chapel to give thanks for their delivery. The soldiers having explored the cellar and having failed to find the door of passage, came back to ask one of the monks to act as their guide; but they were nowhere to be seen. In the course of further investigations, however. they found the dead bodies of the eight monks in a small room, and the mystery was then solved. The brigands, seeing that they could not escape, had murdered tiie monks and hidden their bodies in this room, having first stripped them of their clothes and put them on themselves. They then gagged one another to deceive the soldiers, and while the latter were searching in the cellar had made off to their fastnesses in the forest. Given Up by Doctors. “!• it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at work and cured by so simple a remedy?” “1 as-.ure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hon Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die.” “Well-a-day'. That’s remarakble. I will go this day and get some for my poor George—l know hops are good.” _ Recent Postofflceßules. Feather beds are non-mailable. Eggs must be sent when new. A pair of onions will go for two scents. Ink bottles must be corked when sent by mail. Over three pounds of real estate are not transmissible. Parties are compelled to lick their own postage stamps and envelopes; the postmaster cannot be compelled to do this. An arrangement has been perfected by which letters without postage will be immediately forwarded—to the dead letter office. Parties are earnestly requested not to send postal cards with money orders inclosed, as large sums are frequently lost in that way. Nitro-glycerine must be forwarded at risk of sender. If it should blow up in the postmaster’s hands he cannot be held responsible. When letters are received bearing' no direction, the parties tor whom they are intended will please signify the fact to the postmaster, that he may at once forward.

CROOKED SCALPING. How Railroad Tickets are freshened up by Using Acids, etc, The confession of “Doc” Lamm,the ticket scalper, alluded to in the News last evening, contains some information which will be of value to the railroad men aud the public generally. Lamm gives away his partners in crime, and explains the manner in which the business of “doctoring” tickets is conducted at considerable length, his confession covering 42 pages of printed matter. “The first crooked business I have any knowledge of,” says he, “was the use of acid to erase ink. It would also erase words that are put on the face of tlie ticket with those ordinary rubber stamps, but it would not touch the ribbon stamp that agents used in stamping the back of $ ticket. It was used very frequently.’ For instance tlie New York Central road issued tickets at Rochester and other places, but principally from Rochester. It issued tickets reading from Rochester to Suspension Bridge, and from Suspension Bridge to Detroit’ and from Detroit to Chicago over the Michigan Central, and they would take a firstclass form, and they had a rubber stamp reading ‘second class.’ It was just an ordinary stamp with ‘second’ at the top, and ‘class’ at the bottom. The tickets were of a lavender or pink color, I forget which, but by putiing them in the acid it would remove the stamp ‘second class,’ so the ticket would read first class. It would also change the color of the ticket and leave it a plain w 7 hite. We used to sell these tickets for first class. We would give about $5.50 for them, and by clian-ing them we would get $7.50. The same th ng was ilone witli tickets over the Grand Trunk. Then there was a plain white ticket issue I at London, Canada, reading over the Great Western railroad to Detroit and from Detroit to stations a short distance out on the Michigan Central, such as Ypsilanti, or Ann Arbor. When the ticket came to Detroit there would be a coupon reading from Detroit to some other local station on the Mien gan Central, tne name or the station being written in. By using the acid it would erase the writing of th name of the local station, and linn it would be from Detroit to —station. All we had to do was to fill in I e station or designation. We used to fill’ in Kensington (that is a subuiban station outside of Chicago, and the fare is exactly the same as to Chicago), and that made the ticket worth as much as Chicago tickets. We would pay 25 or 30 or 35 cents apiece for them ano sell them for $7.50 a piece. In the course of his statement Lamm refers to a young man who was employed in the Detroit & Mil- . w’aukee railroad offices, and who used to slip around and sell him tickets purporting to have been issued in Grand Rapids, from. Grand Rapids to Detroit o.ver the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee, and thence over the Great Western, Canada Southern and Grand Trunk to Buffalo or Suspension bridge, and to New York over the New York Central, or to Boston over the Boston & Albany or the Hoosac Tunnel route. The Coupons from Grand Rapids to Detroit were always torn off. “We bought fliem,” says Lamm, “for “about 50 cents on the dollar. At last they got on to it and the attorney and general manager of the road came to the office inquiring after these particular tickets. One high official of the road was removed on account of this same business. The last time the young clerk came in had a lot of tickets, and I paid him about SIOB for them at the rate of 50 cents on the dollar. That same night he skipped across to Canada, and I guess he is there now. I never asked his name. I didn’t want to know it. When he came around with tickets I let him in at the back door, and we would have a glass of liquor in the private office and talk quite sociable, but whenever we met on the street we would pass without recognizing each other.” Question by Chas. E. Miller—" Did you ever get any tickets from men you knew were employed on the roadbrakemen or anything of that kind?” A. “Not to my recollection.”

Mr. Tarsney —“Nor coilductors.” a. “No, sir; not to my knowledge. In fact I don’t remember that I am personally acquainted with any of them. I had no knowledge of the business when I came to Detroit, and after I got into it and saw the way it was conducted I used to be as exclusive among railroad men as possible. I tried to keep from getting acquainted with them, because the less you know of them the better you are off, and if they patronize you, they are more apt to do so if you are not acquainted with them than they are if you know them. I don’t think I made the acquaintance of a single employe of the Flint &Pere Marquette railroad company.” Lamm says that for some time a stranger used to come around to sell him Michigan Central tickets. “We came to the conclusion,” says Lamm, “that it was some brakeman who took care of the conductor’s valise and used to go through it and steal tickets tbat had been punched. He would get those card tickets, Detroit to Chicago or vice versa, and I suppose he would usually chew up a piece of paper of exactly the same color and make a paper mash and fill up the punch hole with it and let it dry in there, and you could not detect it unless you were an expert, especially on a night train,with an ordinary light. It was almost impossible to discover it at night, but in the day time it was plain enough when you looked at it closely. The man was finally discovered, but his father came down handsomely and settled the whole business.” “The Michigan Central was the best road to work over because it was like the continual dropping of water; there was always something coming in. The railraad companies don't issue their tickets right. They could be issued so that there could not be anycrooked work done on them, but they don’t issue them tiiat way. 1 could get up a form of ticket that Almighty God eould not monkey with, but the way they issue them now I never saw a ticket but there could be something done with it.” “There is a scheme,” said Lamm a system of some kind by- which, tickets are sold and rode on from Detroit to Buffalo more than once. I am under the impression that conductors, or sleeping car conductors* are standing in together, and they take the tickets up and don’t punch them. The firm of ,of Rochester, are ticket brokers for several railroad companies. They form the outlet. Tickets are sold to them, end they always used to send us a lot of them every week for which we would ■ remit the money. They were always I first class tickets from Detroit to Bus- ! falo, and had all been used before. 1 This business is probably going on all I the time, but there is no way of get-

| ting on to it unless you can find out who the man is, because there are no . changes or erasures made in the ticket. That is done by not punching the tickets. A great many conductors have confidence enough in the sleep- . ing car conductor to let him take up . the tickets. If they take up 20 for instance they can put four or five in their pockets and hand the balance to the conductor.” Photographs in Natural Colors. The announcement is again made that a process has been discovered for taking photographs possessing all the brilliancy and delicacy of the natural colors, and an exhibition of pictures thus naturally colored has just been held in London. According to the reports, the colors are produced by the action of light alone in the camera, and owe nothing whatever to the artist’s brush. In the photographs exhibited, the coloring appeared to be quite true to nature, and delicate tones and shades were clear to tlie view. Tlie tleshgtint was exact to life, and full justice was done to gorgeous regimentals. The protruded tongue of a dog in one of tlie photographs possessed the exact color of nature. Some of the guests, says the English Mechanic, inspecting this collection, and not fully acquainted with the character of the latest invention, took it for granted that the work was done by skillful artistic hands on ivory and other material, and could scarcely believe their eyes when informed that the color, as mueh as the form and outline, was produced by the light of day. Careful investigation, however, would then show that human hand- ’ icraft was not in it; for there weie touches and effects Which nature’s pencil of light could alone accom- 1 plish. -The contention is that photographs colored by artists, however clever, must be more or less “monot- ’ onous, hard, untrue to nature, and to the originals.” The process was discovered, it is ' said, by a French scientist, but has 1 since undergone improvement by the proprietor of the process in England. 1 If the new system proves an unqual- 1 ified success, the reward will not have 1 been reaped without much labor in : the past, for numerous attempts have been made to induce the sun-pencil to fix colors in tlie picture it draws in tlie camera; but chemical and me- ! chanical difficulties have stood in the way. In tlie new process colors are ! said not only to be faithfully pro- J duced, but protected from the action of light by being passed through a , boiling solution, of which gelatine forms the principal ingredient, and f some of the photographs so treated j have been exposed for months to the sun without being in anywise affected 1 by the ordeal. Unfortunately the 1 process is yet unknown, as it is likely 1 to be for some time.—[Manufacturer I and Builder. 1

Nevada Journalism. The editor of a Nevada journal sees in a rival paper a political anuouncement which, after careful search, he tails to find in his own sheet. Thereupon lie sits down and writes: “A Nk_k Pill.—Bill Wiggins is out with an announcement that lie is a candidate for Sheriff. Who is Wiggins ? A hundred persons have asked us this question within the past few days, and we have taken pains to look up his record. Wiggins is a man who has bummed in this community for the past ten years, seeking office and finding none. He lias bucked like an old mule, stiff-legged, at every ticket he has not been on, and tried to bust every combination that was not made in his interest. He is a political parasite, that the voters of the town should put their foot on for the last time. He needs a final quietus, and the next ” Just then, Mr. Wiggins entered and laid down five dollars for his announcement, explaining that he had intended to bring it earlier, but it slipped his mind. He was hardly around the corner before the editor had thrown his article in the waste basket, and wrote as follows: “ A Representative Man.—We are glad to announce the fact that Col. William Wiggins, well and favorably known in these parts, announces himself as a candidate for Sheriff. Mr. Wiggins has always been a consistent man. and never identified with the bolters and sore-heads who made themselves so odious in the county for the past few years. He lias stood by the party in the darkest hours of its history. Mr. Wiggins’ name will be a tower of strength for the tieket, and will lead us to a glorious victory. His name heading the county ticket makes it folly for the composition to nominate a man to run against him.”

A Brakeatan’s Dream. “During the heavy rush of freight i on the Erie Railway last summer,” 1 said a brakeman “I had been on du- j ty three days and nights, and was completely jaded out. Between De- j posit and Hancock our train broke ‘ in two, and running together again caused a wreck. I was sent back to flag the first approaching train. After ‘ going what I considered a proper ’ distance I sat down on the outside of 1 the rail to wait I was soon asleep with my head leaning upon my hand and my face turned up the track. I dreamed that I was lying on the track and that the Atlantic express ran me down, cutting off both my arms and mangling me so terribly that I could not possibly survive. 1 awoke with a start, and there within forty feet of me was the headlight of a locomotive bearing down upon me at the rate of forty miles an hour. I grabbed my red lantern and sprang from the track and as I did so the engineer saw me, there was a whistle of down brakes, and the train was saved. It was the Atlantic express that I saw in my drcam.” A Blackfoot Belle. ( The correspondent of the Toronto < Globe, who has been traveling with | Lord Lome through the northwest, i gives this description of an Indian ; maiden they fell in with: “The upper ’ portion of her face, including fore- , head, eyes and cheeks, were painted I in bright chrome yellow, the lower ( portion of her face was scarlet, she wore a blanket thrown loosely over her shoulder, and under this was a long loose blouse made out of a dark . navy blanket and trimmed with pipings of scarlet and white. This blouse was fastened at the waist with ‘ a leather belt fully eight inches broad and literally covered with large bosses of polished brass.” All the duels in the south are not fought by the more pretentious upholders of the code. Jack Patrick and Frank Comer, bummers of Columbus, Georgia, had an encounter by appointment with knives, the weapons being agreed on by both. The struggle was desperate and bloody, thirteen stabs being divided between them, Somcr died on the spot and Patrick is still in a precarious condition.

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t Garfield and his Wife, > The sweetheari of his boyhood—- • the girl-pupil whom her tutor loved—--3 was for Garfield the star of bis heart's ’ horizon till the last moment of his ■ life. In a passage leading from the > parlor to his dining room in his house • at Mentor, hangs a picture of a nun 1 about to enter the confessional in a ’ cathedral. The resemblance to this sweet face to that of Mrs. Garfield is very striking, one of those accidental likenesses one sometimes observes , in a picture, and because it was in- . volved from the painter’s fancy with- . out any knowledge of the dear model it so greatly resembles. So marked was the likeness between the angelic upturned face of the heaven commun ing nun to that of Mrs. Garfeld, that I stopped before itas General Garfield was taking me into dinner. “How like Mrs. Garfield!” I exclaimed. She was directly behind me, walking with General Swaim. The married lovers exchanged a fond glance, and Mrs. Garfield said, with a joyous smile. “The General calls that his pretty girl.'” This was his pet name for herself, by which he always spoke of the accidental portrait. I never saw two people talk so much with their eyes as these two did. It was evident that they consulted each other upon every circumstance of life as it arose, and that the action he took thereon was the one which the mutual judgement settled upon as best. I saw him in the Senate Chamber go through the imposing ceremonial by which he was transformed from a private citizen, one of the mass, to a ruler whose powers, while they last are more autocratic than any king’s. The agitation of the solemn moment had blanched the glowing cheek,still ed the smile en the now pale lips; but ever and anon he lifted his eyes to her, as she sat in the gallery above and in front of him,and her calm,unrufled face seemed to give him the responce he needed—the only one he could listen to or sought. Any observer versed in physiognomy could see that her eyes spoke aloud to him across the space which separated them, saying, “Allis well. You are doing nobly. I am proud of you.” Behind the unimpassioned mask of her delicate features, held in bondage by the power of her will and fortitude, there glowed the fire of an enthusiastic love of him, support from her for him, to which no cold description in writing words can do justice.

No one who saw’ President Garfield after his installation in the White House can fail to have observed the great change which his accession to power had occasioned in-him. Only at intervals did his bright joyousness shine out again, as at the pleasant home at Mentor. The very day after he became President, the struggle for the spoils of office began with a fierceness hitherto unparalkdjin all the strife of that kind which has been seen at Washington. He was half maddened by his desire to do justice to all contending parties. It was this feeling which made him slow to give irrevocable decisions. I was at the White House one morning. »nd h« referred to Ins anxiety not to take a step in haste which he might repent at leisure. The humor of his own cautious slowness brought back the twinkle in his eye, the smile on the rosy lip. “I don’t know w’hen I shall get around to that,” he said. “You know there’s no telling when the Mississippi river will reach a given point.” The sluggish movement of the great Father of Waters w'as hit oft to the life by this impromptu epigram, The day I called at the White House to say good-by—l did not think it would be forever—l was shown to the family drawing room upstairs, an apartment to which the public is not allowed to penetrate. Mrs. Garfield came in with her daughter Moiiie, a splendid, largelimbed maiden of fourteen, her father’s self in feature and in form. A noble girl. Beside this heiress of her father’s grand proportions, Mrs. Garfield looks almost smaller than her daughter, yt t she cannot be called a little woman. Sweet-voiced, ladylike ; her apparel again most fitting, most simple, most becoming. The President enters, clad in a gray morning suit, his hands in the jacket’s side pockets. Only a moment! Such a rush of people clamoring to see him! But during this moment husband and wife continually glance affectionately—their old glance—their glance of Mentor, of the Senate hall, at each other. Eyes constantly look love to eyes that speak again. He complains of the loss of sleep which the Presidential duties entail. “I only slept four hours last night,” said he. But he hopes everything is doing well now. Life is to be joyous in the future. There is always some trouble getting to rights when we move house, is there not? So, goodbye, and God bless you! And he is gone. A BaPet Such as was Never Seen Before. There is a ballet now being performed at the Scala, which, if transported to London, would make the fortune of a theater. One ballet is generally very like another. Their authors seem unable to strike anything new. The contriver of the ballet at the Scala is a certain Manzotti, and he certainly cannot be said to be wanting in invention. The subject is the eternal struggle between progress, as represented by a good spirit, and staI tionary Conserva sm, as represented by an’evil spirit. The opening scene discloses the innsofa city. Suddenly the city disappears, ‘ and in its place the entire stage is covered with figures. There must be many hundreds, and all are in motion. The sounds somewhat prosaic, but when seen it has a most curious and exciting effect. Scene follow's scene. In one of them a train crosses a high bridge over a river, whilst at the same time a steamboat passes below. Os dancers there are a vast number, for the ballet lasts about two hours, and not one single one of them is like anything that has been seen before. The performance is nightly received with wild enthusiasm, and its author has been created a Cavaliore of the Order of St. Murice by the king.

His Wooden Leg. Sandy Powers is a darky who suffers the misfortune of being an occupant of jail quarters. The County Judge a day or two since contracted to hire him out as a county convict, but thu fact that he has lost a leg Sandy urged as a sufficient objection to the arrangement Judge Austin had made. He therefore swore he would break I his wooden leg before he would go jto work. Sheriff Owens, knowing he was to be taken out yesterday, caused his wooden limb to be taken from him temporarily; but yesterday morning, when it was returned, he demolished it against the iloor of his room. The Sheriff now has a one-legged j convict whocannot and will not work; 1 and as a new leg would be too costly, • he is in a quandary what to de wo** hi« darky.