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the citizens made frantic efforts to go to the rescue of the two crews, who appealed to them through signals of distress. But there was no boat at Marquette which could live in the waves then beating oo the shore. After a nnmber of efforts to communicate with the wrecked vessels, the people despaired of reaching them, and stood watching, expecting every moment that they wonld give way. The president of the Marquette, Ontonagon & Portage City railroad, which runs between Marquette and Portage City, came to the reseue at the last moment, dashed to the telegraph office, aud notified Portage City to clear the track of all trains. Then be called for the superintendent of the life-sav-ing station at that point He said to him: I place at your disposal a locomotive and a car for your life-boat. The track is clear ahead of you. Come on as soon as you can get your men and boat ready. Twenty-four lives are hanging upon the promptness of your action. The superintendent was as energetic and plucky as is known in the service. The pair of horses belonging to the station were quickly harnessed to the wagon, and the life-boat placed thereon. The crew then entered the boat, and it was desperately driven to the railroad station. In the briefest possible time a box-car was run down to the station, and the life-boat and the crew were placed upon it. The engineer, who had received another dispatch from the president of tho road by this time to hurry to the full top of his speed, pulled tbe throttle of the engine wide open, and the special train dashed away on its errand of mercy at a frightfnl speed. There is no record in the office of the time made by this fast-flying train, beyoud the fact that it was the swiftest ever made by a lifesaving crew from any station to a distant point. It is also the longest distance ever traveled by such a crew for such a purpose. The story ends abruptly in a brief chapter which tells that the crew arrived at Marquette before the wrecked vessels had given way, and that the captain and his crew saved every one of the twenty-four men, who had give up absolutely all hope, and would have been drowned within the next hour if it had not been for the action of the railroad president and the skill and courage of the crew. THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. The Record of Skill and Efficiency Suffers No Deterioration. Washington, Nov. 28. —The report of the general superintendent of the Life-saving Servicashows at the close of the last fiscal year, the establishment embraced 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 28 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific and one at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. Tbe number of disasters to vessels within the field of station operations, during the year, was 322. There were on board these vessels 2,726 persons, of whom 2,699 were saved, and 27 lost. The number of shipwrecked persons who received succor at the stations was 807, to whom 2,000 days’ relief Tin the aggregate was afforded. The estimated value of the vessels involved in the disasters was $4,428.330, and that of their cargoes $2,073,805. making the total value of property imperiled $6,502,135. Os this amount $5,073,078 was saved, and sl,429,057 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 88. Tho report says the number, violence and destructiveness of the storms which occurred during the year exceeded the record of any previous year since the general extension of the service to the sea and lake coasts. In one storm there were no less than thirty shipwrecks within the scope of the operations of the service, and, in a single day, the 9th of January, there were twenty-three. The service, however, did not fail to match its previous record of effectiveness in saving life and property. The number of casualties was greater by twenty-eight than that of any former year, yet the loss of life is fifteen less than tne average, and, although the vessels and cargoes totally lost were twenty more than in any former year, the amount of property lost was only nbout $65,000 greater than the average of the preceding years, while the amount saved is increased by nearly $2,000,000.

MINOR MATTERS, Dakota Democrats Agitated Over the Selection of Gov. Pierce’s Successor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Nov. 28.—A good deal of nervousness is being shown by the Dakota Democrats over the approaching appointment oFa Governor for their Territory. Governor Pierce has >eßigned, and will become an editor again as soon as his successor is appointed. The Democrats of the Territory have been informed that the man has been determined upon, but they cannot learn his name. They believe, however, that he is not a resident of the Territory. Hence this nervousness. There is a provision iu the party platform, adopted at Chicago in 1884. providing that territorial offices shall be filled by residents of the Territories wherein the offices are located. It is understood that Governor Pierce favors the appointment of a Territory man, but he has no voice in the matter. The appointment is anticipated daily, and is expected to be a royal surprise to Dakota Democrats. Congressman Tom Browne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Nov. 28.—A letter was received from Gen. T. M. Browne, the other day, in which it was 6tated that he feared he would not be permitted to participate in the proceedings of Congress this winter, owing to the precarious condition of Mrs. Browne’s health. This will be very regretful news to the General’s friends here, althoueh those who know of Mrs. Browne’s.lllness do not anticipate the General’s presence in Washington till the opening of the Fiftieth Congress. He is one of the most valued members of the committee on ways and means, and would be of invaluable assistance were there an agitation of the tariff, but that question is to have a rest for a year, at least. Indiana Building Stone. Special to the Indianapolis JonrnaL Washington, Nov. 28.—W. C. Winstnndley, of Bedford, is here, it is said, to look up the interests of Bedford limestone for government work. It has deteriorated, it seems, as a government material during the past three or four years. Somehow the people at the Treasury Department do not give it the preference that those who formerly presided there did. Under Democratic rule, verily, the interests of Indiaua suffer in every direction. The limestone interests lost a good friend in the retirement of Mr. Cobb.

Wife Murder and Arson. Reading, Pa., Nov. 28.—Tbe coroner this afternoon investigated the cap* of the death of Mrs. Frank Iverner, who was found last evening burned to a crisp. The evidence showed that Mrs. Kernsr was in excellent health a few minutes before the fire; that a neighbor called and *aw Mrs. Kerner lying on a chair, with her husband bending over her; that he seemed frightened, and drove the visitor away; that five minutes later he was seen rnnniugdown the street and the fire was discovered, and when extinguished Mrs, Kerner was found in a third-story room, lying on a bed, burned to a crisp. Kerner said his wife had been tnken sick; that he carried her up stairs and went for a doctor. He supposed the fire had been caused by tbe stove pipe. The jury rendered a verdict that the woman died from suffocation, and that Kerner set fire to the house to cause her death. Kerner wa¥ eoadmitted to jail, charged with homicide and arson. It is said the couple bad quarreled about money matters. Steamship News. Bristol, Nov. 28.—Arrived: Sidonian. from New York. Glasgow, Nov. 28. Arrived: Scandinavian, from Boston. Havre. Nov. 28. Arrived: La Champalgne, from New York. London, Nov. 28.—The steamship City of ieriin, from New York Nov. 20, has been signaled off Bowbead. New York. Nov. 28 —Arrived: Britannic, Esruria, Adriatic, from Liverpool; Xederiaud, from Antwerp; La Bretagne, from Havre, Good nature and good sense must ever join. To suffer is human, to get well sublime. But if the trouble is neuralgia tbe only core is Salvation Oil.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. The War Over the Harrison County Recordership— Burglars at Earl rark—Verdict of the Jury as to the Accident at Savoy. INDIANA. More About the Harrison County Recordersliip— Mr. Baelz in Full Possession. Special to the ladianapolit Journal. Corydon, Nov. 28.—Harrison county now has two recorders, John M. Baelz, who was duly elected and qualified, and Henry Wright, who insists that Baelz is not a naturalized citizen, and therefore that he is the legal recorder, having been acting as such for more than a year past. Yesterday morning, while Baelz’s deputy was recording a deed, he was assaulted by Wright’s brother, who attempted to gain possession of the record. Both the recorders and their deputies and outside parties then engaged in a scuffle, Wright’s friends finally gaining possession of the record. The office was soon filled with excited people, and it was feared for awhile that there wonld be bloodshed, there being such a bitter feeling against Wright. Baelz had a mechanic remove the lock from the door and place anew one upon it, and Wright placed the most of the records in a vault and locked the door and put the key in his pocket. Baelz has the seal in his possession, and Wright has the records. During the excitement the attorneys for both parties counseled peace and directed both men in their actions. Baelz now has complete possession of the office, Wright’s deputy having been ejected at 2 o’clock this morning by the indignant citizens. No further trouble is anticipated. Declined to Release Their Pastor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelbyville, Nov. 28.—At the close of the services to day, at the Presbyterian Church, the congregation held a meeting to take action with reference to releasing the pastor, Rev. T. L. Hughes, from his connection with the chnrch, so that he could accept the call to the Second Pres bytenan Church at Fort Wayne. The congregation unanimously voted to refuse to release him, and appointed a committee of five to go to Rushville, next Tursday, and get the synod to ratify their action. Speeches were made by several of the prominent members, all of whom were anxious to retain the pastor’s services. The probabilities are that Mr. Hughes will remain with the church here. A Cripple Takes His Life. Terre Haute, Nov. 27.—John Reed, a cripple, and known to every one in the city as .a newsman, committed suicide to-day in an extraordinary manner. He wheeled his chair-wagon up to the dining-table, and, unfolding a small packago, swallowed the contents. His brother asked him what it was. “You will find out soon enough,” the cripple replied. “How does it taste?” his brother asked. “Wait and I’ll tell you.” Soon be began groaning, and before he could be wheeled into another room he was a corpse. The package contained strychnia. For several days he had been talking about the misery of being on the streets selling papers in winter weather.

Masked Burglars. Special to the ludiauaoolis Journal Shelbyville, Not. 28.—Last night, about 8:30 o’clock, three masked men went to the residence of Joel Law, in Hendricks township, and broke the door in with a rail. They then rushed in on the family with drawn revolvers and held them powerless. One of the men searched the house, securing a gold watch, several dollars in money and two revolvers. The rascals then departed. They are supposed to be men who live in the township. This is near the same place where John Snyder was knocked down and robbed a few weeks ago. Burglars at Karl Park. Special to tue Indianapolis Journal. Earl Park, Nov. 28. —Thieves burglarized the store of Holtama & Mclnerny, of this place, taking with them several valuable overcoats, suits of clothes, and other small articles. The extent of the amount stolen and the loss are not yet known. They also broke open the money till, but only secured a small amount of change. Entrance was made by removing a rear window. The thieves also broke into a furniture store, but nothing is missing. It is supposed to be the work of tramps. Minor Notes. The libel suit of John H. Pegs, of Morgantown. against the men who slaudered him in regard to the postoffice at that place, has been changed to Franklin, Johnson county, and will come up for hearing in- the Johnson Circuit Court Dec. 6. Hog cholera has again made its appearance in a most malignant form in the southern p3rt of Miami county. A farmer named George Smith, of Butler township, lost fifty animals in the past week, and other farmers are meeting with nearly as great losses. Purdue University, iu addition to its justlycelebrated mechanical and agricultural departments, will this week introduce anew feature in its curriculum, viz.: A school of domestic economy, similar to that presided over by Mrs. Prof. Ewing, at Ames College, lowa. G. W. Campbell has sold his interest in the Rushville Graphic to John K. Gowdy, who will hereafter be associated with Dr. McMahan in the ownership of thAt paper. Mr. Campbell has been elected to office, and is compelled to retire from the paper to attend to his new duties. Milo Hudnett, a young farmer of DeKalb county, attempted to board a Grand Rapids & Indiana freight train at Wolcottville, but was thrown under the wheels and both legs so badly crushed that amputation was necessary, and it is hardly possible for him to survive. He has a wife and two children. A poplar tree was recently cut down near New Middletown, Harrison county, that measured twenty-seven feet in circumference. The tree made 12,000 shiugles, 1,000 rails, 600 feet of lumber and twenty-five cords of stove wood. Ten citizens of that county are willing to swear to the truth of the above statement On Saturday, John Gillespie, a well-known farmer residing at Lincolnville, Wabash county, while driving into Wahasb, was thrown violently from his wagon by the collision of his horses with a team of runaways. Mr. Gillespie, falling down a high embankment, received serious and possibly fatal injuries of en internal character. He was removed to his home.

Wm. R. Thacker, of Martinsville, was a participant in a very queer transaction last Monday. During the afternoon an affidavit was sworn out against him by one Mary B. Shane, before 'Squire Baldwin, charging him with assault sad battery. The matter was harmoniously adjusted on the same evening by a matrimonial Alliance between the belligerent couple, which proves that “all is well that ends well.” The Montgomery couuty teachers’ association was largely attended on Saturday. President W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal, delivered an address on ‘‘The Relation of the Science of Education to the Art of Education,” and Prof. S. S. Parr, of DePauw University. Greencastla, had for his subject, “Some Fallacies of American Life.” In the afternoon Prof. A. B Milford, of Wabash College, discussed the “Influence of Italian Literature on English Literature.” ILLINOIS. Railway Officials Condemned for tlio Recent Savoy Accident. Champaign, Nov. 27.—The jury’s verdict rendered to-day on the four deaths caused by the terrible wreck at Savoy created great interest

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here. It mostly exonerates the trainmen, bnt stronely censures the officers of the railroad company, and says if proper notice had been given the conductor and engineer of the wild train that another train was just before them, with orders to stop and pick up a load, the accident wonld have been avoided. They close their verdict thus: “The death of those four men was in part, if not wholly, caused by and through a grossly defective and inefficient management of affairs of the railroad company respecting the running of its train, a condition of things of longstandingand evincing a criminal indifference and neglect on part of its officers and employes. We do not advise arrests of any persons at present, but recommend that this finding and the evidence be laid before the grand jury.” Brief Mention. James Barlow was run over and killed by a switch-engine at Quincy, Mrs. Martitia Kirk, wife of Benjamin F. Kirk, residing nine miles northwest of Vandalia, died on Saturday, after a brief illness, of pneumonia, aged thirty years. Gotthelff & Kohn. tobacco and cigars, at Jacksonville, have confessed judgment to the extent of 5i3.000. and their doors were closed. No schedule has yet been filed, bnt it is said their liabilities amount to about $17,000. They have been doing quite an extensive business, and at one time ran a branch store at Centralia. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. F. M. Levy, a prosperous merchant of Baton Rouge, La., was accidentally shot and killed last evening. At Newark, 0., on Saturday, policeman Thos. Roach was shot and fatally wounded by William Gorman, a drunken man whom Roach was trying to arrest. Roach died Saturday night, and Gorman is in jail. Two freight trains on the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee railroad collided at Lowell, Mich., on Saturday. The locomotives were telescoped, and engineer Price, of the east-bound train, killed. No one else hurt. The ammonia boiler in the ice factory at Apalachicola, F'a., exploded yesterday, killing C. A. Glazier and fatally injuring Capt. Wm. Moore, of Columbus, Ga., and seriously cutting several others. The factory was demolished. A man on whose person papers were found indicating that he was from Detroit, and was named James H. Farnsworth, committed suicide by hanging, in his room in a New York hotel, last night Despondency is the cause assigned. Capt. F. A. Cloudman, of Rondont, N. Y., started from Savannah, Ga., yesterday, in the twenty-four foot sloop yacht Outing, on a trip around tbe world. Before going ten miles he ran aground in the mud, and did not get off until midnight. Strong efforts are being made by his" relatives to secure a pardon or a commutation to life imprisonment for Thomas J. Cluverins, now under sentence of death in Virginia for the murder of his cousin, Miss Lilian Madison, on March 13, 1885. Cluverius is preparing a statement which will be laid before tho Governor. The cables at the northwest corner of the Niagara suspension bridge have been successfully transferred from the old stone tower to the new iron one, by the ass of powerful hydraulic jacks. Traffic was suspended from Saturday morning until 1:30 o’clock yesterday. Other transfers will follow at weekly intervals. The old towers are to be taken down. The steamer Mary Houston, from Cincinnati, had a narrow escape at Louisville yesterday. She was heavily loaded, and in trying to land was swept by a heavy wind into the chute and over the falls. She grounded several times and struck several rocks, but finally got into safe water and escaped without special damage. Two tugs that went to her assistance were also carried over the falls. The psssengers aboard were badly frightened. Granville Brown, aged fourteen, living near Mount Vernon, Ky., was sent on an errand by his aunt, and a few minutes after ho had left the house she heard him scream from the barn. She rushed out and saw the barn in flames, but found the barn door fastened. It was impossible to rescue him from the flames. After the barn had fallen on bis body it was recovered, burned horribly, and part of his arms and legs were burned off. It is not known how the boy came into the bArn, and the community is troubled over the mystery. J. O. Lynah, a traveling salesmanL employed by the Hazard Powder Compopv, York, was accidentally killed, near Galveston. Tex., yesterday. Lynah visited a powder magazine, three miles from Galveston, belonging to the J. S. Brown Company, for the purpose of destroying five hundred pounds of damaged powder owned by his company and Btored in the magazine. He carried the kegs of powder a short distance from the magazine, piled them up and set fire to them at arm’s length. The explosion which followed throw Lynah high into the air, killing him instantly.

Condition of the Fall-Sown Grain. Chicago, Nov. 28. —The following crop summary will appear in this week’s issue of the Farmers’ Review: “The reports from the winter-wheat sections were uniformly favorable up to the close of the week as to the prospects for tbe fall-sown grain, more generally favorable than before for a number of years. In Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri the reports state that the grain is looking unusually good. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Kansas, while the reports are not so favorable, none of the correspondents report any of the fields as looking other than promising. The plant is reported as vigorous, and with an average snow protection, the general crop promises to go into the winter in unusually eood shape. Out of one hundred and forty-nine principal winter-wheat counties in the States named, one hundred and three report an increased acreage as compared with 1886, and forty-six reporta decreased acreage Illinois and Kansas indicate the largest decrease, In Ohio only three counties out of twenty-nine show a decrease, and only four in Indiana out'of nineteen counties reporting. In Illinois eleven counties out of thirty-two report a decrease, and in Kansas ten counties out of twenty-one report a decrease.” Obituary. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. Evansville, Nov. 28.—Harry S. Minor, deputy prosecuting attorney for Vanderbure and Posey counties, died at the residence of his parents, in this city, at noon to-day, after an illness of two weeks. Mr. Minor was a prominent young Democrat, and was the first prisident of the McDonald Club of this city. He was a graduate of Princeton College, and had bees practicing law about four years. He had one year yet to serve on his second term as deputy prosecuting attorney. He was twenty-seven years of age, and was unmarried. Sunday Amusements in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 28.—The Times to-mor-row will publish an account of a glore fight which, it says, took place early this morning in the parlor of a wealthy gentleman resiling on the outskirts of the city, between Frank Burke and Charley McCarthy, two local light-veights. The fight was for SIOO a side, the stakes being posted by two wealthy admirers of the respective men. Eight rounds were fought oi velvet carnet, under a brilliant chandelier. Naither of tbe contestants received very severe punahraent, but both were well “winded” at the eni of the eighth round, when the fight was declared a draw. About thirty well-known citizens witntssed tbe contest. Ample Reaeon for Leaving Tovn, Corunna, Mich.. Nov. 28.—At midnijht Saturday night, a mob of twelve mnsked mn broke into the house of Charles Pringle, dragged out a boarder named Coleman, tarred and fathered him and escorted him from town, with instructions to leave immediately. He has disappeared, it is alleged he was too familiar with Iringle’s wife and has long been an offensive chascter in tbe neighborhood. The “reformers” ire unknown. Strike Declared En Jed. Salem, Mass., Nov. 28.—The Knights of Labor held a largely-attended mass-meeting this afternoon, at which the strike was declared off, and the men were advised to get work it wherever they conld. Fob twenty years Henry F. Balcom.ef Shirley, Mass., suffered with rhe .matism. Hi found no relief till be took Hood’s Sarsaparilla.

THE FIRE RECORD. Losses of Insurance Companies by tbe Burning of the Duluth Elevators. Duluth, Minn., Nov. 28. -—The total insurance on the elevators burned last night is as follows: Elevator A, building, $87,750; Elevator A’s con tents, $274,750; Elevator Q and annex, $100,000; Elevator Q’s contents, $152,100; total, $513,600. Mott of the companies are represented by small amounts only. Tbe principal losers are: Sun of London, $10,000; Phoenix of London, $10,000; City of London, $15,0000; Fireman’s Fund, $35,000; Springfield Fire and Marine, $12,500; German of Freeport, $10,000; Mutual of New York, $30,000; Traders' of Chicago, SIO,OOO. The loss on the nine small frame residences and stores is sl4 000, making the total loss acout $830,000. The fire continued burning all night with a bright blaze, and the wheat will probably burn for several days. Several ears belonging to the Manitoba & St. Paul and Duluth roads, some of them loaded with wheat, are also burned. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been friction. The latest reports are that Ed Lee, foreman of Elevator Q, surely perished in the building. Business Portion of a Village Destroyed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, Ind., Nov. 27.—A telephone message received here to-day states tnat the entire business portion of the village of Tocsin, a small station on the Chicago & Atlantic railway, twenty miles east of Huntington, was destroyed by fire last night The fire originated in a building owned by Samuel Kunkle, and occupied by Albert Morker, dry goods merchant and thence communicated to A. Seoot’s harness shop, Christopher Beer’s hardware store and one or lwo other structures. The village has no fire protection, and the buildings were soon in ashes. The loss is from SB,OOO to SIO,OOO, with bnt little insurance. It is charged the fire was started by parties interested in the prosperity of a rival town, but it is not thought there is any foundation for the statement. Fire in an Axle Works. Pittsburg, Nov. 28. —At about 2 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the building occupied by the National Tubular Axle-works, at McKeesport, twelve miles from this city. Before the engines arrived the flames had spread go rapidly that it was apparent the building, as well as several residences adjoining, would be destroyed. Three double frame houses, owned by John Gallager and William Taylor, were entirely destroyed, the inmates escaping in their night clothes, without saving a dollar’s worth of effects. The total loss on all the buildings is estimated at $70,000, entirely covered by insurance. The axle works was anew structure. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Manufacturing Works Burned. Boston, Nov. 28. —The large establishment of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company, on Sumner street, East Boston, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morniug. The company announces its business as building steamships and manufacturing leather-dressing machines, and other machinery. The spar yard of Pigeon & Son is adjacent, and when firemen arrived the fire had seized upon the property of both firms. The yard of Pigeon & Son was only slightly damaged. The total loss is estimated at $200,000; insurance on stock and machinery, $135,000; on buildings, $15,000. Blaze in a Furniture Factory. Chicago. Nov. 28.—The upper floors of tbe saloon furniture manufactory of C. Rothschild’s Sons were gutted by fire this afternoon, involving a loss of $60,000. The fire is believed to have originated in the spontaneous combustion of oil rags. Rothschilds had a stock valued at SIOO,000; insured for $65,000. Dwelling-House Burned. Special to tbe Indiaaapolis Journal. Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 28.—The residence of Garrison Pauley, located one mile south of Bloomington, caught fire this evening from a defective flue and was completelv destroyed; also, several out-buildings. Loss, $2,000; no insurance.

A K. of P. Treasurer Flees to Canada. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 28.—J. L. Remington, past cbaucellor and master of the exchequer of Washington Lodge, Knights of Pythias here, has gone to Canada, after drawing from the bank nearly all the lodge funds, amounting to about $1,700. His wife has also disappeared, and it is ascertained that his household goods were shipped on the cars this week to a Montreal address. AN H£lK TO MILLIONS. The Romance in the Life of the Son of Francis Palms, of Detroit. Detroit Special. Francis Palms, the richest man in Michigan, left two heirs, Francis F. Palms, his son, and Clothilde, his daughter. The children had different mothers. Clothilde Palms has obtained unpleasant notoriety of late because of the stories connecting her name with that of Senator Jones, of Florida. It is due to the lady to say at the beginning that she has never given the slightest encouragement to her persistent suitor. Francis Palms, who has just died, was the son of Ange Palms, who came to Detroit in 1831 from Antwerp. There were four sons and two daughters, and failing to find the City of the Straits to his mind, betook himself to New Orleans, Francis and one daughter remained in Detroit. Ange Palms, with his other son and his remaining daughter, established himself in the Crescent City. Francis married a Miss Bennett, who died in giving birth to his only son. Soon after his first wife’s death Mr. Palms married a second time, and the new wife was so averse to the children, that the boy, while yet a baby, was sent to his grandfather’s house in New Orleans to be brought up. So engrossed was the father in money-getting that he forgot all about his son. and the lad grew up in utter ignorance of his father. No letters passed between the two branches of the family, but the grandfather took entire care of the boy. In the course of time he was sent to college in the Sonth, and when his education had been finished he was started ont to see the world. Finding himself as far North as Virginia, young Francis took it into his head to push on to Detroit, to see if he could discover his father, who was a sort of a mystical personage to him. In due time he reached this citv. His grandfather had told him that a step-mother was the cause of his exile from home, and he wisely concluded to see how the land lay before making himself known. On making inquiries he found that his father was regarded as the richest man in the State. He further discovered that it was the habit of the elder Palms to visit the hotel reading-room every evening at 8 o’clock, to read his letters, look at the papers and occasionally do a little business with people from out of town. That night the son was on hand, and he had not long to wait. Punctually at 8 a short man with a little stoop in his shoulders came into the office. There was a smile on his kindly face as he nodded good evening to the people he knew, and then made his way to a sofa in the readingroom. The son possessed his soul in patience until he saw his father tear open his last letter, glance through it, and then torn to take up a paper. Sauntering up to the elderly gentleman, the young man, with the ease of a Southerner, began the conversation. Gradually he drew from Mr. Palms the admission that he had relatives in New Orleans. “I have a father there, and brothers, too,” said the elderly man. “Indeed,” said the younger, in apparent surprise, “and what is the namel” “Palms is my name.” “And mine, too,” said the young man, coolly. “Perhaps you and I are related.” “My father’s name is Ange Palms,” admitted the elderly one. “And he is my grandfather,” was the young fellow’s response. There was no scene. In a few words the father told the son that he was glad to see him again; and then gave him to understand thst the hotel would prove more comfortable quarters than the big brick house up the avenue,

where the master and mistress found the least said the soonest mended, and so said nothing. Young Palms had lived eighteen years without a father, and he concluded that he could keep on as he had begun. But by degrees the elder Palms began to get fond of the boy. However, the young fellow felt no more living for Detroit than his grandfather had done before him. At the end of three weeks he paid his hotel bill and returned to the South. The outbreak ot the Rebellion found him the owner of a Louisiana plantation. He entered the Confederate army aud fought to the end of the struggle. In the meantime he had foreseen the inevitable result and had exchanged his property for cotton, which was then the only thing of vaiue in the Confederacy. The cotton he got to Charleston, where it was confiscated. Returning to Orleans the young man looked about for something to do. Family influence obtained bim a clerical position in the United States courts, and he settled down to a quiet life. About six years ago the second Mrs. Palms died. On returning from his wife’s funeral Mr. Palms sat down aud wrote to his son to come North. He pointed out to him that before very many years he must come into a large property, distributed among pine lands, iron mines, bust ness blocks, railroad enterprises, manufacturing and bank stocks and the like. He enlarged on the fact that for over ten years the name of Palms had been in Michigan the synonym for commercial integrity of the strictest kind, for fair dealing and for great wealth. He nrged the son to come North to learn the details of a business that soon must be his own, and ended by offering a salary of $2,500. The son came and settled down in a semi-fashionable street, where he could be near the little brick office in the rear of the paternal residence. There he has lived quietly, making few friends, and spending the greater part ot his leisure with his wife and his eight children. He is a member of one or two clubs, and, by those who know him. is accounted a good fellow. He will not waste what has been left him. Miss Clothilde Palms has kept the honse for her father. Occasionally she goes out in society. She has not inherited her father’s bright face, but she has his quiet ways. She dresses with extreme simplicity, and her one devotion is the Catholic Church. What she will do with her enormous fortune cannot be guessed, but one thing is certain—no fortune-hunter will ever touch one penny of it. It is reported that Miss Palms is engaged to Dr. Thompson, a brother of ex-Mayor Thompson. \ NEW rOEM, BY MARGARET FULXEER. One-That Was Omitted In Spite of the Editorial Diligence of Her Hrother. Joel Benton, in Pittsburg Dispatch. The verses of Margaret Fuller, like those of George Eliot, are not poetry, perhaps, of the highest order, but they have a certain value as the expression of unique mentality. It was hardly possible for either of these women to put a thought in any form whatever without giving off a high flavor of the personality behind it. The masculine strength eclipsed in both writers the lyric flow. Os Margaret Fuller’s verses Mr. Higginson, who has given us the most true and readable biography of this author, says: “No one could think so ill of them as did she herself.” But he acknowledged that they sometimes have “lyric glimpses,” which her friend Emerson praised. Such a glimpse, certainly, is the following, in one of her contributions to the Dial: “Do men reject thee and despise? An angel in thy bosom lies And to thy death its birth replies.” And even here the thought is more than the melody. When Margaret Fuller's brother collected her various fugitive writings together, they were so scattered that he had no definite clew to go by in "rfcPCTiing them; and he speaks of his task as “a difficult one. It is even possible,” he says, “that among the poems, one or more written by friends and sent her, or copied from some other author, may have crept in unawares.” Os course it was just as likely, if not likelier, that something she really did write was left out I find, in fact, that one brief poem was omitted, in spite of the editorial diligence of her brother. It is every way authentic, and was signed with her full name before the S was left off. It bears date of “June, 1844,” and I reproduce it below: “during a summer shower.” June, 1844. By Miss 8. Margaret Fuller. With equal sweetness the commissioned hours Shed light and dew upon the weed 3 and flowers: The weeds untouched raise their vile heads on high, Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky; While thy dear flowers, with fond humility, Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye In speechless homage; and to holy hearts Perfume that homage all around imparts; Is it most blest to give? O, child! believe, ’Tis bliss enough for mortals to receive. The S. in Margaret Fuller’s name, as many readers may not know, stood for Sarah; but for forty years, now, it has been entirely disused.

A Refractory Model. • Magazine of Art for December. The bigolante, or water-carrying damsel, is among the most familiar figures in the sea-city. M. Van Haanen has here shown us a striking type of woman, with the bigolo across her shoulders, from which are slung the bright copper buckets that she has just filled at the public well while chatting and chaffiug with a dozen of her sex, who, if not so handsome, are surely as talkative. To show how refractory are handsome models, we can tell the reader that this charming portrait remained long unfinished, as the original had eloped with a lover, who luckily soon proved faithless, and then Gigia or Nina, or whatever her name may be, returned to Venice, where she continued to pose for the artist. So, if she lost an admirer, at least we gained a delightful picture. Helping His Old Chums,, Washington Letter. Mr. Cleveland kicked up an awful fuss while here by going to call upon his old friend, James Lidgerwood, a grocer at Thirteenth street and Broadway, whom he has appointed Indian agent. It is a queer appointment—for it would tempt an ordinary groceryman to work off his old groceries on the aborigines—but the President never hesitates to let an old friend into a good thine. Conkling, who was also at Arthur’s funeral (which, by the way, was a model of quiet dignity and elegance), always speaks of Cleveland as the “White House Jumbo,” as he always spoke of Hayes as “that man at the White House.” Conkling grows oid, is more careless of his attire than formerly, but his tongue has lost nothing of its ancient sharpness. A Self-Righteous Opinion. Boston Transcript. Rev. Dr. Witnrow does well in leaving Boston and going to Chicago. A minister’s duty is to call sinners, not the righteous, to repentance. *AKIH c POWDER Absolutely Pure. Thlspowder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. tfore economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the multituaeof low-test, short-weight slum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. BOXALBAK.II’O\VPkilCO.i 106 Wall iStrsst, M. Y,

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