Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 7 August 1895 — Page 3

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A COOL RETREAT.

Bag Every Desirable Facility for ail Enjoyable Summer Sojourn.

Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will And Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here find rest and liealthgiving recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites are ytt obtainable. Iu addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been made. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college halls are used fo Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurants and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large ileet of row boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pastime to satisfactory extent, us the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations on these lines. In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest. John M. Cou'ter. of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania Lhie,Ticket Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should be addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

I»LK »SITKK TRIPS,

Numerous Kxwirsiuiiit the Coining Smiimsr at Reasonable Kates.

Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of the North or to Lhe Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this vear. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to .Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab.e opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thintr for a siirht-seeiug jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and M-ssoun rivers Variable route nrivilejres will al*o bo accorded Boston excur sioniits, enabling tlieni to VISLI. Niagara Falls. Mon'mil. Thousand Islamls and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-set-i at X-wport. Narrigansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Col resorts to Ne»w York and thence ni-ou^h the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Allegheuies. around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johusto.vn and the coke and iron regions of Western Pennsylv una. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Liues WLII be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over ths Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the senson is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements ihan the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, •^hief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsire:, Pa. aprfiwd-t-s-tf

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD,

FOR SALE.

13 acres choice land, within corporate limits of city,

JOHN CORCORAN.

feb26 mol

ELMER J. BINFORD.

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, eottlint estates, guardian business, conveyancing, jtc Notary always in office.

Office—Wilson block, opposite court-hon«e.

C. W. MORRISON S SON,

UNDERTAKERS.

27 W, MAIN ST. Greenfield, Indiana.

MICHIGAN RESORTS.

EXCELLENT

SERVICE

July 3 —D&Wlmo.

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Are directly on the line of the

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

Traverse City, Ne-ah-ta-wan-ta, Omena, Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay View, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, Harbor Point, Oden-Oden, Mackinac Island

UpperPeninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on stile June 1st to Sept 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

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NORTHERN" MICHIGAN RESORT'REGION,

Time Cards and full information may be had by application to ticket agents or addressing

C. L. LOCK WOOD, G. P. & T. A. GUANO IIAPIDS, MICH. July l-d&w-tf

Indianapolis Division.

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JOSEPH WOOD, E.A.FORD, G»*ral tyugsr, Gantral Puonger Agtnl, 1-W-95-R PITTSBURGH, PE»N'A.

For time cards, rntes of fare, through ticket*, "twgatte checks and further Information reHi* the running of trains apply to any uf u* r«iiu»ylv»ai» Uimi,

SPRIHC YALLEY {DIET

Sensational Stories From That Place Denied.

IT WAS NO WHOLESALE MASSACRE

But One Negro Shot and the In jury Is Only a Flesh Wound of No Serious Nature.

The Blacks Are Still Out of the Place and the Mines Are Idle—Latest Jj'rom the

Scene of Trouble.

SPRING VALLEY, Ills., Aug. 7.—The situation is very quiet in the city. The negroes are making no efforts to come back. The reports about armed negroes coming from Peoria and Chicago to avenge Sunday's ali'uir caused no unusual excitement here. They would not have only tlio Italian miners to deal with but every white miner in the city as well, numbering in the neighborhood of 2,000. Word was sei:t from Luad and Toluca yesterday promising the whites all the assistance necessary in case of an invasion of blacks from other towns. In case of an invasion 5,000 white miners could be mustered together in this city in less than two hours.

The whites of this city do not apprehend any danger in that direction. Thev do not express the least sorrow over the event of Sunday and invite a I fair and impartial investigation. They I claimed to have endured the outrages of the blacks as long as they could, and they are severe in uieir criticisms of the sensational tales told several special dispatches to the morning dailies. A whole list of names have each day appeared as wounded and likely to die.

An Associated Press correspondent, who was on the ground and .witnessed Sunday's battle from beginning to end, has succeeded in discovering but one negro shot aud the injury is only a flesh wound of no serious nature. About 10 to 13 svere assailed with sticks or stones, but no attempts were made to kill. Had the mob Deen si disposed not one could have escaped. The prime object as stated on the ground while the fighta'g was at its height, was to scare them into leaving and never come back again. The reports of a number of iving dead in the ravines is made of whole cloth and the names mentioned we fictitious.

A meeting of miners was held yesterday. Several papers were denounced for their highly colored and distorted stories. The news correspondent who was compelled to flee the town Monday lias not returned. It was the middle class and business men who ordered him to leave, so enraged were they at his sensational reports.

Mayor Delmageo received an anonymous letter yesterday, postmarked Chicago, threatening to wipe him and the entire city out of existence if he did not use his position to get the blacks back in this city again.

Everything has gone along serenely since the negroes were driven out Sunday, but no doubt trouble will again break out if they make an attempt to come back. The Spring Valley Coal company have representatives at Seatonville, trying to persuade the blacks to return, but the latter are satisfied to keep away. The mines are still idle. governor Altgeld wired this to Mayor Delmageo yesterday: "Is there any danger of further trouble in your town. What steps have you taken to preserve ords: aud" to protect life and property Answer."

The mayor telegraphed this answer: "in reply to yours, and in view of the exaggerated reports published concerning iills trouble, we respectfully request you to send a representative here or do us the honor to come yourself and make a complete investigation. Every ellort has oeou made by tne municipal autnorities ol this city to protect Jiln and property. jSo lives have been lost nor private property destroyed by mob violence. One Italian resident fatally injured bv negro highwaymen. Everything quiet and newspaper reports exaggerated. Three negroes injured who reiuse to vacate location and insisted on remaining, 'iliey are not seriously inured.''

Xo c«'ssity 1'or Troops.

Spkin TFIK1JD, Ills., Aug. 7.—Uuvernor Altgeld uecul ul late yesterday evening not to go to Spring Valley, out. will send a member ol his staff to look into tiie condition ot affairs there. He is satisfied irom the advices lie lias received that there is no necessity l'or the sending ot troops. Tlieshenlt ot tnecouuty wired him that lie couid cope with any trouble that might arise, so far its present indications went, and he found it getting beyond him, would advise the governor. T:ie municipal uu- I rhorit-ies of Spring Valley have wired the governor denouncing the wildly exaggerated reports which have been sent I out as to the extent of the trouble aud

urging that the governor oirhe commission or come himself saying they court tho fullest gation.

ONE PERSON MISSING

The Cincinnati l'iro Was »t IM instructive as at. 1' iriit Xiiuiiglit. CINCINNATI, Aug. 7.—There was probably only one life lost at the lire 011 the river Mom lay afternoon, .lames C011dron, the 12-year-old son of Mrs. Margaret Condron of Fourth and Ludlow streets, has been missing ever since the fire.

It is known that the boy was in the habit of playiny around the wharfboats, and he left home Monday after dinner to go to the river. He was seen 011 the Cincinnati wharfboat a short time before the fire started. His companions, however, do not remember whether or not lie left before the discovery of the fire.

A body was seen to under a sand barge while the lire was raging, aud the police now believe it was that of young Condron.

The four men injured at the fire are rapidly recovering.

Itlooily Battle Itetween Two Women. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.,' Aug. 7.—Two women fought a bloody battle early yesterday in the darkness in South Clarksville, and one of them, Eliza Hale, is thought to be fatally wounded, being almost hacked to pieces. Kitty Wisdom charged the Hale woman with being intimate with her husband, broke open the door of her room with an ax and then attacked the Hale woman with the weapon, cutting gashes in hex face, neck and arms.

MINERS STRIKE.

Rrrlons Trouble Feared in the Vicinity of Birmingham, Ali». BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 7.—The deputy sheriffs have been sent to Ensley City, where 100 negro laborers employed by the Tennessee Coal and Iron company struck lor an increase of wages. Convicts were put to work in their places and trouble is feared.

At the Brookside, Brazil and Cardiff mines of the Sloss Iron and Steel company 300 white miners struck yesterday for the reinstatement of some discharged committeemen who have been appointed at a miners' massmeeting to ask for certain changes in mine regulations.

Miners Secede.

MASSILLON, O., Aug. 7.—Delegates, representing 1,700 Massillon district miners, met here yesterday. A general discussion took place about the doings of the National Miners' organization, and a motion to withdraw was unanimously carried. An independent organization was formed, retaining former district officers. The miners have long been dissatisfied with the officials of the United Mine Workers of America.

MURPHY-SHELDON BOUT

Aw:irdul to Murphy After Being Stopped by tlie Police. LOUISVILLE, Aug. 7.—The MurphySheldon bout was pulled off here last night at National park under the auspices of the Falls City Athletic club. "Murphy weighed in at J11 l-:3 pounds and Sheldon at 110 1-2 pounds. Mike

Murphy made the pace very hot from the start and had everything his own way. The light was to 1« lo rounds for points. Billy Thompson .tnuounced belorehand that the police would stop the contest if it became brutal. The tight was stopped in the fifth round by the police and Referee Alirens awarded it to Murphy, as he had his man all but out. Sheldon is deserving of a good deal of credit as he put up a good fight, but he was clearly outclassed.

RIOT IN SHANTYTOWN.

Trouble With

A Lumber Company Huvin a Hand of bquatter.4. MARINETTE. Wis., Au broke out yesterday morning in Shantytown over the land which is claimed by the Menominee River Lumber company and over 200 squatters. The lumber company built a fence Monday night and yesterday morning 30 or 40 women attacked it with axes and tore it down

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When another crew attempted to rebuild the fence the women chased them away with clubs, and John Lunberg, the foreman, wail seriously hurt. Mike Carry, the superintendent of the company, attempted to start the fence building again and the women threw hot water on him. The men hare decided to help the women fight it, and they now stand with sleeves rolled up ready to drive the first man off who trespasses on their alleged rights.

RAVAGES OF YELLOW FEVER.

ltapidly Increasing in Texas and Throughout Cuba. WASHINGTON, Ang. 7.—A telegram from Eagle Pass, Tex., to the surgeon general of the marine hospital service states that the smallpox cases among the returning negro colonists quarantined there have increased to ?U, while there are now negroes in camp.

Writing trom Santiago de Cuba, under date of July ^7, Consul Hyatt says that yellow fever is now epidemic that city aud throughout southern Cuba. There had been deaths on aoeouut of the fever Santiago during t-ne first half of duly, and states that the disea.se has been much worse since. All unaccliinated people who can get away are leaving. The fever has broken out among the iron, miners.

and Killod.

Mkmi'HI*, Aug. 7.—Deputy Sheriff Alfred Werner of Crittenden county, Ark., was shot and killed at daylight yesterday morning near Jones' Landing by a negro whose name has not yet been learned. Werner, who is a deputy sheriff, we.it to the negro's house with two other men to arrest him. The nogro was lying in ambush nearby, and when the posse appeared he fired on them, killing Werner, and then fled to the swamp. A party of citizens are out hunting tor him.

Charges Against a JJurant Juror. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.—A strong protest will probably bo made against Walter Brown, one ul' the accepted jurors in tno case of Theodore Durant, owmsj to his jury record. In the first trial ot M. Howell, charged with counterfeiting, it is said that Brown hung the jury and that his action in that case has been the subject of inquiry by the federal grand jury. Ko auditional

send a I were secured yesterday to try at once, Durant. llivestl- Missouri Democrats Want. Krue silver.

PKRTLE KSPNINURF, Mo., Aug. 7.—Free silver has conquered 111 Missouri as it did 111 Illinois. Biand said in opening the convention that the Democrats of Missouri had assembled to adopt resolutions for the free coinage of silver. The resolutions' committee for free and unlimited coinage at 10 to 1, regardless of any foreign nation, was carried with a hurrah and expedition seldom seen in any convention.

Sliot Himself oil His Wife's Grave. CLEVELAND, Aug. 7.—A. E. W. Kelly, a well known commission merchant at 152 Merchant street, went to Lakeview cemetery yesterday and lying down on his wife's grave shot himself through the heart, dying almost instantly. Mrs. Kelly died about a month ago and the husband has been despondent fver since. This fact, coupled with some business, is supposed to have led to the suicide.

Imitator of H«lin«» Will Hang. FAKUO, N. D., Aug. 7.—The jury in the trial of Myron ii. Kent, charged with instigating the murder of his wife at Mandan in order to secure the $50,000 insurance on her life, late last night brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty as death.

Seamen Drowned.

MONTREAL, Aug. 7.—Three seamen of the steamship Bengorhead, Captain Brennan, Were drowned here while going ashore without leave. They are Frank Stokes of Dublin, William Bobinson of Shields, Thomas Monagle of Carrick Fergus, Ireland.

AT GAY LONG BRANCH

THE ROUND OF FASHIONABLE DIVERSIONS AT THE FAMOUS RESORT.

Dressing Driving, Dancing and Bathing the Chief Amusements The Quieter Charms of Atlantic Highlands—Where

Girls Catch Crabs and Devil Them.

[Special Correspondence.]

LONG BUAXCII, Aug. 5.—Tho season i3 row at its height. Tho great hotels are crowded, and the big drivo which is tho pride and glory of Long Branch is thronged with as many smart private equipages as may pass each other with safety. Driving, dancing and bathing are the sum total of Long Branch's amusements, and the I height of tho season means when there is tho greatest number here to enjoy them.

Tho .Terscv beaches are favorite resorts

Amusements succeed each other at the I various points thick and fast. Wlien it is not horse racing at the Branch, it is a bicycle race at Asbury, a tennis tournament at

Seabright or a formal dance to a charmii

Conley, the "Itlnica Giant," and Tom band at the Highlands, and ill through Lansing were in Murphj^s corner, and distinctly separate quarters with a varied William Commodore, Potsv Gruobi and scheme of amusement as easilv reached us Ben Brown wore in Sheldon's-worner.-.

may be different quarter:-

The bathing costumes are all quiet, and as there is no smooth beach the all da.s lounging in startling attire of both men I and women is a thing unknown. There is no parade ground either lor walking or driving. Long Branch is a duplication of city life during tho sea.-on. One can't go out there on loot or in carriage unless prepared to be critically focused. Atlantic Highlands folk turn out from their cotI ayes, nestling in verdure, dressed as tiny might in tho New England rural ceiiler, anil take long walks to theNa\esink iri.^hlands, to Locust Point, ramble idly through the woods, sit on the sc\eral pier« running out into tho bay, drive to the Branch as informal outsiders, not on exhibition, to Seabright, Norniandie-by-tho-Sea or any oilier resort they may care to enjoy without the trouble of dressing for it..

Cottage life is tho principal one. Thore are several hotels and boaroing houses, at tho latter of which ono may put up comfortably for about $12 a week In a good sized room and with a good, liberal table. Hotel rates are §4 a day. Tho old Methodist church has this season been converted into an amusement casino. Hero a capital mixed band plays every afternoon and in tho evening ii string orchestra. On Saturday evenings the subscription dances of tho cottagers are gay and exclusive. There is plenty of pretty dressing in quiet, good taste, hut the abscnco of diamonds or an enormous variety of French ball gowns won't make a nice, interesting girl any tho less a belle.

Crabbing at Locust Point is a glorious, popular pastime. A walk of a mile and a half through a green country takes ono there from the Highlands. Tho banks of tho Shrewsbury river are hero decked with houseboats, and from the host of tho wayside inn rowboats, crab bait and not.s can all bo rented for a song. Along tho banks tho crabs aro as thick as possible, and through tho cloar water on a warm day whun the tide begins to flow you can see the delioiously eatablo gentlomon making for the bait a good deal faster than you can draw them in. Atlantic Highlands develops many good shellfish cooks, for Dearly every girl who catches a basket of Irabs at Looust Point is anxious to devil chem herself for supper.

for New Yorkers who can run to and fro daily, and who feel that if they tiro of clull if eminently dignified job of being a things they can at any moment reach the

New York it

self. One is sure also to meet a host, of interesting people. Actors, {nithors, musicians, artisls, who cannot sever communication with the city through the holidays, swarm the Jersey coast. You meet ihem with the mask thrown off all a-pleasuring, from tho leading man who has been the winter idol of the matinee girl to the poet, painter or singer who has been hitherto a fa roil beloved mystery.

To enjoy Long Branch ono must drive a great deal. Tno private vehicles are very tine, and those who have not. their own and cannot afford to hiro a good ono regularly will lose the principal opportunity

for display and rendezvous. Tho bicycle is in voguo, but it will not replace for the summer girl the lounging carriage seat, whero charming frocks and pretty poses discloso her at her best in a way the bicycle nover can. Morning and afternoon the drive skirting tho ocean presents a moving panorama of luxury and display not elsewhero surpassed, and if you cannot be a member of this daily and much lorgnetted show you area lost cipher at Long Branch.

Atlantic Highlands, close by, is different. There you can enjoy tho best thore is without a fortune. Cottage rent is not ex-

ON TJIF. 0-.':EAN DRIVE AT LONG BUANC1I. orbitant. You can get from Jur.e to October a pretty, coolly furnished 10 to 1.0 room cot tag'.1, surrounded by a wide honeysuekled veriintia, lor Unless for ppeeially planned functions people do not dress much. The highlands, which a.-o simply a succession of thick leaved, lilting woods, slope down to the lower bay, which, being still water, makes an encouraging place for young .swimmers to learn. Tho:-..e who want sort bathing drivo or take tho eight minutes' train journey to Highland beach, whero they can get all Lhe buffeting they want.

EMILY M. AYLWABD.

STORIES OF BLACKBURN.

Kentucky's Free Silver Advocate la Popular With All Who Know Him. 4 is [Special Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky, now officially known as senator, over since boyhood days called captain, and always known to his admirers and intimates as Joe, has been doing things all his life that have made, folks talk. Just at present his course upon tho silver question is particularly provocative of comment and conversation. Some thore are who indorso his course enthusiastically, and some thore are who decry it with emphasis. But now, as always, everybody who knows him likes him, and a dispatch concerning his latest speech is rarely read without provoking tho recital ot some story about, him.

Ho is a genuine Kontuckian in everything implied by that term, but it cannot bo said that ho has never found anything moro to his likinsr than tho sometimes

son.1fror-

city in a few hours. They present a union studies men closely, however, and he gets of coast and verdure unsurpassed, and tho presence of city conveniences in cottages, hotels and even shopping quarters leaves little to be missed. And then tho contiguity of a host of other popular resorts— Asbury Park, Seabright, Elberon, Ocean Grove, Atlantic Highlands and Norman-die-by-the-Soa—is a great attraction to tho society loving New Yorkers.

jjo is not a student of books. He

most of his views and opinions from talks with his fellows rather than from perusal of ponderous tomes. Once when he was rallied upon his lack of studiousness he said ho carried his working library in his

HON. J. C. S. BLACKBURN. S

hat and that ho was taught to do withbtdi books when but a young practitioner byv old Joe Baird, a leading criminal lawyer In northern Kentuckyijomo decades ago. Blackburn had gained somo repute as pleader and had been compared on ono two instances to this veteran, Baird. O day the young man visited the old who, though not a college graduate, noted for his shrewd sense and was a pleader who could not easily be mat Blackburn found Baird's office •, void of furniture and containing bnt tw.'*' books—a copy of the statutes of 1&K2 and. one of the criminal code. "Where/do you keep your library?" inquired the/visitor. The old man jerked his thumb in the direction of tho two old books. "Don't ever buy books, Joe," he said. "They'll only bother you."

Like all real Kentuckians, Blackburn lovesa horse, and all his constituents know it. It was probably tho knowledge of this characteristic that led tho authorities of a raco track, not a thousand miles from Louisville, a fow years ago, to select Blackburn as ono of tho judges, the late Senator Beck boing the other. Of course it is improper for judges to bet on the horses in a raco they are judging, but the two senators laid a wager all 1 he same, the stakes being §10, and straightway forgot they were to make a decision at the closo of tho contest.. Now, it so happened that tho horses they we,re hacking ran very close all the way around the track, and neither of the backers was able to tell which was in the lead when the half mile post was reached.

As they came around rfie bend to tho homo stretch, however, Beck's horse pushed his nose ahead, and Beclt began excitedly yelling that he had won. Blackburn was quieter, but he, too, got excited, and before tho wire was reached the two men were animatedly discussing tho qucs-, turn as to which horse would pass under first. At tlio moment of passing noith was looking at the horses, and for tho 1! of them they could not tell how to dc the race. Wii.it shall we do, Joe?" tinned Bock anxiously. "Don't wo Jim," said Blackburn. "I guess it very close, and if we just keep quiet $ will adjust themselves." It turiieu that way, luckily for the reputation of theto. senators. The alt ondant-s put up the figures, and Blackburn saved tho reputation of himself and Beck by simply nodding cordially to tho jockeys as they came up. Senator Beck used to like to tell this story, and at the windup he used to add that, ho never sat in a. judge's stand after that, beinir quite satisfied thenceforth with the accommodations furnished by the grand stand. Senator Blackburn has allother quality not out irely unknown among Kentuckians, and that is the fondness for polysyllables which, combined wiih fbe^ ability to utter them glibly, results in what* is known as the "gift of gab." In his young days he was sometimes accused of being grandiloquent, but as he usually won his cases ho was not generally criticised, excepting by his opponents. Oho of these, who was beaten in this instancfe, by the way. was once moved to say in speaking ot Blackburn: "It' you or I wanted to Htate that two and two make foMr, we'd be just fools enough to blurt it (rtit in so many words, but if Blackburn wanted to make that statement Jus would sfty: 'If by that particular arithmetical operation known as addition we desired to arrive at the sum of two integers added to two integers, wo should find—and I assert this boldly, sir, and quite without tho fear of successful contradiction—wo, I repeal, would find by that, particular rule of arithmetic, properly applied—and, sir, I hold myself personally responsible for the assertion I am about to mako—that tho sum of two given integers added to two other given integers would be four.'

The man who produced this take off on Senator Blackburn was unquestionably disgruntled by defeat, but it is nevertheless true that on occwision ho has been known to multiply words. It is also true, however, that when lie desires so to do ho can make as clean and direct a statement upon tho platform as any man living. And undoubtedly his varying abilities as an orator have been among his strongest points in holding the affections of his fellow citizens of Kentucky.

CHARLES APPLEBEE.

Treasures.

Among the treasures in Lord Rosebery'B house aro a mantolpleco from Rubens' house, the chandeliers from the doge's palace and tapestries that belonged to Cardinal Mazarln. These were Bothsohlld tnbasures, and on tho death of Baron Meyeir" TO

Rothschild, in 1074, they camo into ther /possession of Hannah d« Rothschild, Lonfr Rosebery's wifa