Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1893 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1893

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Good values in drets (roods all the time sometimes we icct an extraordinary quality at a small price, fiuch Roods never last long-the alert buyer never lose uca an opportunity. Three such lines of goods go on sale to-day. Here they are: Two toned Homespuns, 38 inches wide, for 29o a yard. 40-inch Xavy Blue Storm Series, all wool, for 39c a yardIt's a repetition of the lot you may have heard of before regular half-dollar quality. An all-wool Navy Blue Storm Serge, 4G Inches wide, and sold usually at 75c, lor ju&t 50o a frd. Pettis Dry Goods Co. PERSONAL AND SOCICTV. Mf. R. B. F. Pelrce 13 expected home today from a visit to California. Mr. II. G. Spellman has Just returned from a two years stay in Nicaragua. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Norrls will spend the winter at No. 43 Christian avenue. Miss Celeste A. Lane, formerly of Oxford. O., is visiting at No. 713 North Tennessee street. Mr. J. Roper, of Denver, who has been spending a short time here with friends, has gone to Terr Haute. Mrs. Richard Gatling and son Robert are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John R. "Wilson, on Central avenue. Mrs. J. N. Scott, of Tacoma. Wash., who is the guest of Mrs. Maurice Albrecht. at Woodruff Place, will leave today to visit relatives elsewhere. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wiles "will leave Wednesday for the Faciiie coast, where they will visit their daughter, Mrs. Albemarle Tousey, and then go to southern California for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Butterworth, of this city, and Mr. and Mr3. Henry Ruhl, of Raltimore, Md., who have been visiting In Indianapolis for two weeks, will go to Chicago to-day for a week or ten days' visit. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunlap and family, who came to attend the Sherwood-Gaston wedding, left Thursday evening for Chicago. The Misses Dunlap will return in about ten days to visit Misses Olive and Amelia Love Gaston. Prof, and Mrs. J. S. Black and their guests, Mrs. Holrnan, of New York, Mr. Frank Holman and their son, Mr. Charles Holman-Black, have returned from a visit to friends in Madison. Mr. Black sang before a large audience in Madison Tuesday evening. The marriage of Mr. Jefferson Claypool and Miss Mary Ross, of Connersville, will tako place Wednesday, in Connersville. They will come to this city, and will reside on North Delaware street, in Mr. C. F. Sayles's house. Quite a number from this city will attend. Mr. and Mrs. Reese R. Hammond have Issued invitations for the marriage of the latterg sister, illss Cora Pearl Hicks, of Orlando, Fla., and Mr. Nelson Lee Duncan, of San Antonio, Tex., to take place Nov. L at No. 2 Cherry street. At-homa cards are for after Dec. 1, at San 'Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Wallace, who have been spending several months East, have returned, and are In their home, at the corner of Fifth and Pennsylvania streets. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brown, who were in the Wallace house all summer, have gone to housekeeping on Hast Pratt street, near Delaware. Gen. and Mrs. -Lew Wallace were In the city yesterday for a short time, en route to their home in Crawfordsvllle. Mrs. Wallace has been spending the summer East, and was Joined there early in September by General Wallace. Both are in excellent health, notwithstanding the rumors of illness which have been current. Mrs. May Wright Sewall was the hostess, yesterday afternoon, for a most delightful 4 o'clock tea, which she gave In honor of Mrs. John M. Judah, of Memphis. The guests were all seated at a handsomely decorated table and enjoyed a feast of conversation as well as the menu which was provided. Mrs. Judah will remain to the observance of president's day of the Katherln Merrill Club, which occurs this afternoon, at the residence of Miss May Shipp. The congregation of Meridian-street M. E. Church gathered in the church parlors, last evening, to extend a greeting to the new pastor. Rev. Charles N. Sims, formerly chancellor of Syracuse University, and, previous to that, th3 pastor of the church which he has Just re-entered. Mrs. Sims, also, was present and shared In the welcome which the people gave. The members were the hosts and hostesses, as well as the guests, and they showed their most hearty pleasure in receiving their pastor again. During the evening, Mr. Charles W. Smith mads a brief address of welcome, to which Mr. Sims responded. The young people assisted and served refreshments. Mrs. Samuel J. Roberts, of Lexington, who has been spending a few da'3 here with friends, returned home yesterday. The first meeting of the Clio Club for this leason was held yesterday afternoon with Mrs. McDowell, at her home. No. 1531 North Meridian street. The paper of the afternoon was read by Mrs. Marietta P. Adams, and her subject was "Famous Fairs." She gave a review of the subject and a slight history of each. The subject of the conversation was "The Columbian Exposition," and the members who have visited the world's fair gave interesting accounts of their trips. The membership of this club is limited to thirty, and those who are on the list are Mesdames T." J. Anderson, M. P. Adams, Rose E. Brown, E. II. Cox, L. V. B. Coffin. Nora Evans, F. L. Edwards, Hannah Furnas. E. N. Hadley, Elva W. Hadley, Adallne Hollowell, D. B. Harvey, Kate P. Harvey, Marlanna Holllngsworth. H. K- Harper, Cora H. Iane, E. C. Marmon. Ella McCrea, L. McDowell, Luella Nordyfce, Anna Risk, M. C. Stubbs. II. Timberlake. Alice R. Taylor. C. M. Wright. F. A. Webb, E. J. C. Witt, and Misses Elsie Hadley, Clara E. Pray and Anna C. Pyle. OVER-THE-TEA-CUPS CLUB. President's day In the Over-the-Tea-Cups Club was observed yesterday afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. Elliott Perkins, on North Pennsylvania street. The club was named for Dr. Holmes's book of tho same name, and a Holmes breakfast was given at 2 o'clock. One of the treasures Of a member of the club is a letter from Dr. Holmes, .vhlch he sent in reply to one from a member of the club informing him of the organization of the club. All the work of the year is literary, and different subjects are given, all bearing on one general line of study. The first day also has its literary features, and yesterday's features were no exception. The members assembled at the appointed hour, and were soon invited to the room where the breakfast was served. The double parlors were used, and the long table was set through both rooms and tastefully decorated. From the arch over the center was a festoon of smllax, and from end to end of tho table were strands of smllax. Scattered over the entire length were cosmos blossoms. Under the festoon was a crystal rose bowl filled with creamy roses. At each cover was an array of handsome silver and a bunch of cosmos blooms tied with the appropriate colors of the club, tea green and cream, and one of the club programmes of the year. As the tea was served the toast responses were given. Each one related to the venerable author, and were: "His Boyhood," Mrs. John W. Jones: "The Class of W Mrs. H. W. Cathcart; "As a Physician," Mrs. Catherine Dor6ey; "As a Poet." Mrs. T. C. Day; "As a Novelist," Mrs. W. W. Woolen: "As a Philosopher," Mrs. Arthur N. Dwyer; "His Friends," Mrs. Henry Van Hoff. and "Over the Tea Curs." Mrs. W. C. Allen. The guests of the day were Miss Wardwell, of San Francisco, and Miss Ward, of Pennsylvania. The club membership Is comparatively small, and includes, besides those mentioned, Mesdames Coke Alexander, John R. Brown, Vinson Carter, Henry Coe, Henry T. Conde, Maria M. Finch. F. E. Hale. John H. Holllday, Flora C. Jones. I Anna Mavlty, Allison Maxwell, Frank F. McCrea. W. II. H. Miller, Charles N. Thompson. D. L. Wood and Miss Alice Finch. The first regular meeting will be held Nov. 10, with Mrs. M. M. Finch, No. 4&i North Pennsylvania street. A DRAWINGROOM MUSICALE. The musleale tea which was given at tne Propylaeum last evening by the board of managers of the Katherlne Home was one of the handsomest events ever given in the city. The occasion was the only public appearance of Mr. Charles Holman-Black in concert during his present visit to his parents in this city, and the many friends and admirers gathered to show iheir appreciation of his personal an 1 artistic qualities. The audlnco was brilliant in the exA pure cream cf torur powder. 55 7 "Pure and ore.'

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treme evening dress, and no bonnets predominating. The assembly hall was tastefully arranged for the event with rugs and ;

chairs placed in groups. There were iancy tables with flowers and extensive lamps, making the spacious hall appear as a drawing room. The platform was also gracefully adorned. Most of the prominent society people were present, and many visitors. The programme was exceptionally fine, and so artistic and well selected that It approached perfection. Mr. HolmanBlack, whose reputation as a baritone is well kno'vi:. not only in this country, but in Europo. was in excellent voice, and Its purity and exquisite quality and the admirable method which he possesses were fully exemplified in the several numbers which he pave. The first vas "Thou Art My Queen." by Blackstoc c; the second "The Arrow and the Song,' composed exclusively for Mr. Black by W. H. Wilmarth. and "Je Veux 1 lever et non Pteurer," by Vannucinnl. Mr. Holman-Black was heartily greeted, and at the conclusion of every sons was recalled. He sang two encore ballads, "Rose Marie" and "Alas," and both were exquisitely done. Miss Cornelius, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Cornelius, who has been studying in Chicago for several years, made her first appearance before an Indianapolis audience last evening, and sang "Bobolink" and "Marguerite" very sweetly. She has a clear soprano voice, and she used it delicately in the little ballads which she offered. Mrs. Enrique Miller and Mr. Maurice Butler, who are always favorites, sang splendidly, as they always do, and were recalled, the former responding with a drinking song for one number. At the conclusion of the music the ladles served tea and ices. At the rear of the room tables were placed and adorned with pretty china and lights. Mrs.Ferdlnand Mayer and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge presided at the ice table, and were assisted by Miss Lyon, Miss Hasselman. Miss Bessie Taylor, Miss Hannah Erwln. Miss Eliza Adams and Miss Susan Stewart. Mrs. Henry Schurman and Mrs. A. H. Snow presided at the tea table, and were assisted by Miss Josephine Robinson, Miss Baker, Miss Colgan. Miss Gaston, Miss Julia Landers. Miss Erwln. .Miss Batrer, Mis3 Eutler of Georgia, Miss Failey, Miss Mary Taylor and Miss Atkins. The board of managers of the Katherlne Home, in whose interest the tea was given, were the hostesses for the event, and received the guests at the door. Amor.g those present were Mrs. Holman, of New York; Mr. Frank Holman, of Paris; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Holcomb. of Washington, D. C; Mr. and Mrs. William Reed, of Kansas City: the Misses Hicks, of Orlando. Fla., and Miss Wardwell, of San Francisco. GERMAN LITERARY CLUB. The German Literary Club was entertained yesterday afternoon by Ml3s Mary Colgan, at her home. On Fark avenue. The meeting was the first of the season, and the regular work for the year was begun. The author for the day was Goethe, and the essay was read by Mrs. J. R. Lllley, whose subject was "Werther's Leiden." Miss Colgan and Mrs. A. E. Dletrlchs related stories of the author. All the conversation was in the German language. BURNED BY GASOLINE. Miss Bertha Fahnley the Victim of an Unfortunate Accident. Miss Bertha Fahnley, the eighteen-year-old daughter v of Frederick Fahnley, the wholesale milliner, met wiMi a distressing accident, last night, at her home, No. 200 North Meridian street. About 6:30 o'clock, with the assistance of her -maid. Miss Fahnley was experimenting with gasoline, and was trying the virtues of the fluid in an effort to clean a glove. While the article was yet saturated with the explosive the young lady stepped too near the fire, and In an instant the glove was ablaze. Before she could drop the glove the flames communicated to her gown, and quickly her clothing was ablaze. Her screams- alarmed her mother, who ran into the room, caught up a heavy cloth and wound it around her. This prompt act probably averted a terrible- accident and smothered the flames. However, Miss Fahnley tiid not entirely escape, and will be confined to the house for some time with a badly scorched arm and hand. She suffered intensely from the burns until Dr. Hodge3 was summoned and succeeded in allaying the pain. MR. BRACKEN'S VISIT. New Revenue Collector Will Not Remove His Oflice to This City. William H. Bracken, of Brookville, who was recently appointed revenue collector for this district, was In the city" yesterday. He was asked If he would remove the office from Lawrenceburg to this city, and said the rumors to that effect were unfounded, and that the office would remain where It is now located, although he would much prefer to have headquarters in this city. He also said that the appointments were left to him. but he had as yet made none. There are fifteen hundred applications for the forty-one clerkships, and it will take some time to consider all of them. SKELETON UNEARTHED. Evidence of an Old Crime Brought to Light Bones of a AVoraau. Workmen engaged In the excavations for a furnace on West Washington street, near the street-car stables, dug out a human skeleton yesterday evening. The spot where the bones were found is underneath a blacksmith shop, where, some fifteen years ago. there stood a building which was utilized as a disreputable resort. The skeleton was well preserved, and Coroner Beck, who was notified of the find, conjectured that it had been that of a woman. The bones were small and the teeth were yet solid and firm. Inquiry about the neighborhood failed to elicit any information that would recall an old crime, and the coroner oidered th-3 gruesome object interred docently. m BROUGHT HIS OWX l'HOVISIOXS. A Man Who Thought Chlcnpro Could Not Supply Ilia "Wants. Kate Field's Taper. If the world's fair has done nothing else, it has at least had the effect of opening the eyes of many Eastern visitors to the fact that Chicago is a good deal of a city. It is not necessary that every visitor should like Chicago, or want to go there to live, in order that he should do it Justice, but I can well Imagine the amusement of some good Chlcagoans over the ignorance of an occasional tenderfoot from the Fast who has never been In pralrleland before A notable instance in point is that of an eminent divine, a prelate In his church of many years standing, who lives in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants in an Eastern State, and who probably had never ventured west of Niagara Falls in his life until this summer. When, he went to Chicago to vlalt the fair a trip he never would have dreamed of taking if it had not fairly been forced upon him by circumstances he directed his grocer at home to forward by express certain wines and other table delicacies which he felt he must not be without, but which he was sure he could not find in Chicago. In so uncivilized part of the world, also, he conceived that line fruit must be a rarity. He therefore ordered from a fruiterer several crates of t peaches, plums and grapes to be sent to him at intervals during his visit. I do not know whether the further story is true that he declined some preslng invitations to visit at 'private houses because he was too old to brave all the rigors of frontier subsistence: but I am informed that he went to the Auditorium Hotel for a time, with the notion that it was the best inn In Chicago, ani that he could probably find more of the comforts of life there than in any private cabin. His astonishment at discovering that he was in the midst of luxuries almost unknown in his own little city must have been amuslntr to witness, but I don't believe it was half so funny as tho astonishment of the hotel proprietors when they saw the good bishop's consignments of wine and delicacies, and fruits unloading at their doors. A New Certain Cure for Tile. "Wo do not intend to endorse any except nr tides of genuine merit; wo therefore take pleasure in reeommeudlng to sufferers from Files in any form, a prompt and permanent cure. Tho following letters sprak for them selves: Mrs. Mary C. Tyler, of Heppner. Ore, writes: One pkg. of Pyramid pile Cure entirely cured mo of piles from which I haTe suffered for years, and I have never had tlia slightest return from them since. Mr. E. O'Urien, Hook Bluffs, Neb., gays: Ths pkg. of Pyramid Pilo Cure entirely removed every trace of Itching piles, I cannot than you enough for It. Tho Pyramid Tile Cure is a new, certaic painless euro for every form of plies. It 1 safe, tiuro and cheap. Any druggist Mill got It for you if you ;uk him.

BANKRUPT RAILROAD

Three Keceivers Appointed for the Union Pacific Company. S. II. II. Clark, 0. W. Mick and Government Director Anderson Xamed . by Federal Judfje Dtmdey. COULDN'T MEET OBLIGATIONS Gross Revenues Fell Off 1,500,000 During the Past Month, And SoU3,000 in the First Eight Months of the Year, Compared with the Same Period of 1892. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. OMAHA, Neb.. Oct. 13 Judge Dundy, o the United States Circuit Court, to-day appointed S. II. II. Clark, M. A. Anderson, and O. W. Mick, receivers of the Union Pacific Railway Company, and of all railways, water systems and all other property owned, controlled or leased by It. Mr. Anderson is one of the government directors of the Union Pacific railway, having been appointed by President Cleveland. Mr. Clark is the president and Mr. Mick the controller of the road, .'hey were appointed on an application signed by the administrators of the estate of F. L. Ames, one of the heaviest stockholders. The action, it is said, was taken for the purpose of forestalling any suits which might arise In the present depressed condition of business, owing to the inability of the road to meet obligations about to become due. It was the general expressed opinion that putting the road into the hands of receivers was best for the road and also for all creditors, including the government. The principal 'aim of the applicants was to preserve the road as one system, and thus maintain its greatest value. Instead of allowing it to be disintegrated by suits here and there. It is alleged in the application that the defendant is indebted for labor and material, due on Oct. 1, 1893, amounting to $1,500,000, or thereabouts, on which, if not paid or provided for, the said company is liable to innumerable suits, attachments and Judgments; that the gross earnings of the Union Pacific system from the operation thereof and from other property for the business year ending Dec. 31, 1832, amounted to the sum of $45,025,176.40, and the revenue from other sources to $1,548,113.90, making a total of $40,573,295.39; that Its operating and transportation expenses, rentals. Interest, sinking fund and other charges paid during the same year amounted to $41,503,533.32, leaving a surplus for said year of $2,069,757.0-1. v It is shown that It appears from the report of the Union Pacific Railway Company that from Jan. 1 to July 1, 1&)3, there was a falling off in the gross revenue of the company for said six months of the preceding year of $S63,733.39, and a falling off of the net revenues of.the company tor the came period of $S39,059.60. The orators further showed that for the months of July and August, 1S93, there was a further .falling off in the gross revenues of $1,000,000 and a falling off of the net revenues for the said two months, as compared with the same two months of the preceding year, of about $1,400,000. Further, that there has been a further falling off of the gross rev enues of the system for the month -of .September, 1893, in about the sum of $1,500,000 as compared with the month of September of the preceding year. Further, that, as appears from a statement made by the financial and accounting officers of the Union Pacific Railway Company and of the Union Pacific system, covering the operations of the system for the eight months ending Aug. 31, 1S93, a falling off in gross revenues of the system for the eight months, as compared with the same months of the preceding year, of about $3,143,000, and a falling off in net revenues of the system for the same eight months, as compared with the same period of the preceding, year, of about the sum of $2,588,000. WHAT THE OFFICERS SAY.' Pesldent Ctarke, who was appointed one of the receivers of the road, In dlscuslng the situation this afternoon, said: "The bill for the application for a receiver va3 not unexpected, as the careful student of railroad operations In the past few months must necessarily conclude after a review of the startling? decrease in gross and net earnings which Western roads have suffered. With the possibility of a default in tho payment of interest staring us in the face, the only thing to be done to keep the property intact was to file a bill of cornplaint praying for receivers and ask the court to intervene. The property will be managed fcr the best interests of all concerned. Reond this there is little to say, the court new having taken the road under its protection." Speaking for General Manager Dickinson, GeneiU Solicitor Thurston said: "Tne unexpected and surprising falling off of business on the system, the stagnation and depression throughout the Transmissouri territory convinced all the parties interested in the preservation and integrity of the property that it would be impossible to meet the interest and other fixed charges soon coming due, and that therefore the system would be subject to different actions in different jurisdictions, which miglit, and probably would, result in the depreciation of the property. The present action virtually continues the management, giving it the additional sanction and authority of the court and preserving the properties for the real Interest of the creditors and bondholder Tho order In the case Is almost identical with the one issued in the Northern Pacific case by tho United States circuit for tho district of Wisconsin and supplemented by auxiliary Orders In all the United States courts along tho lines of the Northern Pacific road as well as In New York. Th receivers are In full possession of all the properties and the various officials of the several lines are reporting to them. The court. in determining thie Penonn , of . the receivership, selected Mr. Clark and Mr. Mink on account of their well-known familiarity with the property, their peculiar fitness for the position and the confidence of the stockholders and creditors, as well as the general public, in them as managing officials The court further insisted that the important interest of the governm3nt In the property should be represented in the receivership in order to fully Protect the government's revenues and to see that the management was of such character as to preserve the government lien. It ?electd therefore, as third receiver, Mr. Kllcry nderson. whom Mr. Cleveland recently 'appointed as government director, and who became thoroughly familiar with th properties during his service as a member of the Pacific railroad investigating committee appointed by Mr. Cleveland some veara since. Most of the preliminary operations have been conducted In the East, and the endeavor has been to complete the proceedings in such a manner that the first public Information would come after the receivers were in possession. This will protect the stock and securities from any depreciation which might have followed the announcement that rapers were being prepared for the application to be made." At the headquarters of the road the blow has been expected ever since thL meeting of the board Oct. 10. The bond's of the receivers were placed at $50,0u0 each. A dispatch from Denver says: Ex-Gov. John Evr.ns, who was a holder of 5750.C00 of the stock of the Union I'r.clfic. Texas & Gulf road, recently brousht suit against the Union Pacific for an accounting and the appointment of a receiver, is at present in Chicago. Ills attorney in this c;iso, Jude Wells, this afternoon said: "The appointment of Messrs. Clarke, Mink and Audenaon will in no way complicate our cae. Our application was a prior one to this, and one to which Mr. Ames was a party in suit. Judge Hallett, of the United mates court, can, when our case comen up for hearing In December, go ahead and appoint a re

ceiver "without any reference to those ap-

jHJiinvu - io-aay, ana ignore mem cnurny. decisions, but whether or ndt we will de mand sucn action cannot now te saia. Controller Mink says the wage question has not been considered. The receivership is a good thing for the road. The road is a splendid property, and he believes it win come out in excellent snape. uirccior Millard Fays: "People will not know the difference unless they read that receivers are appomiea. rne only ainerence win ue for tho hnttar VntMnir In thr fir fflir years has happened so good as this for the roaa. ine roaa was wnere it couiu not fend itself, and it had to take thi3 step. It will be better for everybody." The employes of the road were dazed when, they heard that a receiver had been appointed, but were satisfied on learning that Mr. Clark would still remain at the head -of the road and that there would be no change in the management. Recently the pay of monthly men was cut and the question of cutting the pay of sch?dute men was to have been decided this week. The appointment of receivers opens both questions again. The road comprises 8.950 miles of railway and steamship lines, and usually employs about twenty-four thousand men, but recently cut Its force down to twentytwo thousand. The opinion amonp business men and others in Omaha acquainted with ths affairs of the road, is that it will remain in the hands of the receivers until after its debt to the government is paid; that the road cannot, mider the most favorable circumstances, pay its debt to ths government as it matures under the present law, and that either the time must be extended, whieh. it. is thought, will b24done, or tho road sold. , Somebody Had n. Tip. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 13. Somebody here had a tip that the Union Pacific was to go into receivers' hands. There was a great decl of quiet selling yesterday, but to-day it grew in volume tremendously. Inquiries as to the cause burdened the wires between New York, Omaha and Chicago, but nobody explained. The liquidation was enormous, and at last values gave way with the trading, which was the largest ever known on the local board. At 12:30, when the receivership was announced, the point had been so thoroughly discounted that Union Pacific was affected only oneiourth of 1 per cent. IX HARD LINES. Shnpn of the C. fc S. Nulled Up by ; Striker Locomotive Attached, , Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 13. The Chicago & Southeastern railway employes still refuse to work until the company settles for wages due for several months. The strikers locked and nailed up the shops here, and are guarding it, permitting no one to enter. The city treasurer, with several trustees, to-day broke through their lines and Into the shops, and levied on two locomotive engines for back taxes. Payln&r Depositors in Pall Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind.. Oct. 13. The Farmers and Merchants Bank, of this city, which suspended In the latter part of July, and of which Hon. E. H. Nebeker, exUnited States Treasurer, was president, la now and has been for several. days paying all depositors, in full or part, as they call for their money. Thl is the first bank In the United States, that suspended during the panic, to pay all its depositors in full. Application for n Receiver. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GAS CITY, Ind.. Oct. 13. W. R. Golden and Jas. P. Newkirk, stockholders in the Almerlan -Cathedral Glass Company, have petitioned to have a receiver appointed for that institution. They allege insolvency andwant the affairs of the company stralphtened out. The plant is a valuable one, but has been Idle for several months. Other Rnsincsft Troubles. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-An assignment has been made by the Ketcham Lumber Company, which confessed judgment for $35,000 last evening. Tho liabilities are estimated at J250.000; assets, $500,000. The judgment was on a promissory note executed last July to James C. King, a capitalist. The Ketcham company claims that there was no necessity of taking judgment, and that dollar for dollar will be paid. The assignment was to protect other creditors. The company has large interests in Wisconsin and Michigan. CINCINNATI, Oct. 13. The Sowles LumC Company assigned to-day to Charles J. 44iuiu loauiji, ;uj,v"jv, uauuiin;5, -tv,yiA. Xiie cnicers are J. It. De Camp, president; Wm. Stichlenoth, vice president, and C. W. Sowles, treasurer. MILWAUKEE. Oct. 13. Goldberg Brothers, dealers In imported laces, have made a voluntary assignment to Moses D. Newald. The bond is fixed at $70,000. Llallllties about $05,000; assets not yet given. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct 13. Louis Brandt, jeweler, assignsd to-day. Liabilities, $10,00-3; assets, nominal. TIIIUTKKN-YEAH-OLD TRAVELER. On His AVny from Berlin lie Telia His Story nt Sun Frnncisco. San Francisco Chronicle. Louis Nornung, thirtesn years old, is here on his. way frotn Berlin, Germany, around the world. He had 15 cents when he asked a reporter for the next steamer to Honolulu. The lad said ho was but tw days old when hl3 father died. His mother was very poor. He never w ent to school in Germany. As soon as he was old enough he began earning money by carrying packages for travelers. This took him to the depot often.' On a day he went into a car with a package. He was only eight years old, tut he . decided to travel. Squeezing under a seat, he started. He went to Paris, thn to Spain. About eix month3 after he left Berlin he was in SL Petersburg, where he lived for nearly a year with a gentleman who picked him up in the street. This man sent him back to his mother. In a few months he started again. He beat his way from Liverpool to Hamburg, and then came to New Tork on the Victoria. On the Victoria he had plenty to eat, as no one suspected that the ten-year-old youngster who came so regularly to the table was a stowaway. The sailors kept thq lad concealed when the ticket-takers went about the ship. When he reached port an emigrant took him ashoro In a great bag. Adrift in New York, with no knowledge of English, he was thoroughly lost. The first night the police picked him up, and he was sent to schools where he learned to read, write and sneak English. For a while he was In St. Vincent's Hospital. From New York he went to Sing Sing. He then walked to Albany, but rode in an empty cattle car to Buffalo. He walked most of the way from BulTalo to Cleveland, O., and then stole a ride vlth some cattle bound for the world's fair. For two days he went hungry in Chicago. Then he went, to the oflice of the Chicago Dally News. They wrote him up and gave him a job with the Associated Press. He had to work from 3 o'clock in the afternoon till 6 in the morning. This did not agree with him, and he started for San Francisco in a box car. At El Paso, Tex., he was held by the chief of police. The chief telegraphed to New York and verified the boy'3 record of himself. Then he purchased him a half ticket and sent him to San Francisco. "I am going to Honolulu next," said the boy. "I don't want to beat my way. I am going to try and get a job as cabin boy. Frcm Honolulu I will go to Australia, and then to New Zealand. China, India, Egypt and home. I am going to write a book and make some money for my mother." He Remembered the Sulitance. Omaha Bee. At a reception in Chicago, the other night, to the world's parliament delegates. Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, of this city, told r. story which run as follows: A farmer met a parson and said to him: "1 remember a sermon you preached twenty years ago." "Indeed," replied the parson, "and wnat was the text?" "I don't remember the text, but the sermon remains in my mind." "Ar.d pray what, then, was the substance of the sermon?" "Well. I can scarcely word it properly, but it amounted to this that 'theology is not religion by a sight.' " Four lloyn I'erisli 1- I"lre. MI NOT, N. D., Oct. 13. The houss of George Kosmati, living six miles east of here, was burned last nlcht, and the bodies of four pons, aged fifteen, twelve, ten and eight, were cremated. The boys were sleeping upstairs. Two men were occupying the same room, both of whom escaped. The father attempted to take one boy out of the window, but, frantic with pain, he drew bACk and perished. The fire is reported as of incendiary origin. No trace of the bodies is to be foun-?. Can't See the Joke. While J. E. Christian, of No. 137 East Pratt street, was transacting some business In Dr. Marsee's office on Pennsylvania street yesterday morning some fellow drove his horse and buggy off. Mr. Christian has ben assured that the act was a practical joke, but fails to appreciate the humor of tho situation.

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Points from the Career of "Grand Old Man" Marshal MacMahou. A Descendant of Irish Kinfrs Who Gained Fame on the Battle Field and Became President of a Republic. New Tork Herald. Marshal MacMahon, ex-President of the French republic, whose serious illness has been announced. Is eighty-five years of age. But little has been heard of him since he retired from the presidency on Jan. 30, 1S79. It was said at the time that when he got home to his own house in the Rue de Bellechasse, and he had read the account of his upset In the evening papers, he had the first sound night's rest he had enjoyed since his accession to power. From the moment he returned to the station in life for which nature and habit had fitted him. a certain grace and even grandeur gathered round his retreat He had left the palace where he had dwelt as lord of French taxes with clean hands. Afterward he returned to his life of other days hunting, shooting and traveling. Bound his table he gathered many of his old companions In arms, to whom the new government had showed decided hostility, and became content to be a simple spectator of the troubles of the newborn republic, while his wife returned to her priedleu and her works of charity, with no regret for her past grandeur and no wish to be called from her poverty to a life that had been at all times distasteful to her simple habits. It was with surprise and sorrow that Paris saw soon after his retirement from the presidency large printed posters announcing that a part of the very home of the old general, the magnificent hotel in the Rue Bellechasse, was to be sold at auction. Immense yellow posters covered the walls of the mansion, announcing a sale of half the extensive property at a reserve price of 320.000 francs. The beautiful grounds surrounding the hotel were thronged with curious sightseers, and the salons, halls and galleries, rich with paintings, statuary, furniture of every .age, from the days of Henri IV down to the present time, and other evidences of a liberal taste, had a crowd of eager visitors. The house was the ancient hotel of the Due Do Castries, Minister of War under Louis XVT. It' was sacked by the mob In 1TS0, the Minister having been accused of bringing the King's troops to Paris to maseacra the people. Mme. MacMahon. who is still alive, has the title of Duchess of Castries. FROM A FIGHTING STGCK. The MacMahons were always a fighting race, and the name is prominent In French military annals, sharing in glory and in disaster. One of his ancestors wa3 at Waterloo, and the story is told that when the battle was lost and It was necessary to make a desperate effort to cover the retreat of the shattered army,"Charge; keep charging, boys," MacMahon shouted to the Third Cuirassiers. "Marshal," said the colonel, "we are so cut up it is certain death for us to charge. You know It." "Embrace me, my friend," was MacMahon's only reply. And then the two gallant soldiers led forward the regiment which made those three terrible charges that are recorded among the great deeds of the French army. Only 109 men of its number remained, and of these all but eight were wounded. A recent biographer, snenkinc nf MacMahon's Irisn descent, says that he was a direct descendant of Brian Boru, the famous Irish king who conquered the Danes at Clontarf. He then goes on: "There is much romance connected with the story of the settlement of the Irish MacMahons in France. Away back in the seventeenth century, It is told, one Tersnce aiacManon was a retainer of the famous house of Sarstield. He owned a farm at Leadmore, County Clare, which belonged to his ancestors for manv years. But he was fallen In fortune, and was glad to serve tho great Sarsfields. He had a son named Terence, and this son married Anne Clarke, a waiting maid who had served the Castlemanus and had been brought to Ireland by Lord Tyrconnell. This couple went bacfi: to Leadmore to live. Of all their children only one, John, lived to grow up, and as a companion tor him they adopted a nephew, John Baptist MacMahon. "These two lads were sent to France to be educated as physicians. They got on uncommonly wen, and after gracfuatlcn were appointed to fine positions in the pub lic military service. Lord Tyrconnel was their friend and patron and helped them mightily. John went with Lord Tyrconnel to Berlin, where the latter was French em bassador and the former physician to the embassy. There he spent twenty years, and was a close friend of Voltaire. He left one son, Patrick MacMahon, who won the favor of Napoleon Bonaparte, and was li brarian to the faculty of medicine In Paris for many years." As for John Baptist McMahon. he was even more successful. Being a stalwart. handsome fellow, with a fine touch of blarney, he was a prime favorite among the ladies of the French court. One of them got him a place at the head of a great hospital at Autun and introduced him to a crippled old woman there who was worth 3,UK),0(X)f. The Doctor cared for the old woman until she died, and then found him self heir to all her fortune. Then. he mar ried a great lady, one Charlotte le Belin d'Eguilly, who was the widow of on-3 no bleman, daughter of another and niece and heir of a third. John Baptist MacMahon I . -1 i j "r j i ji wiarnuu ner in ami tncy uau seven children. Some of these took high-sounding titles belonging to their mother's family. such as Marquis de Viange.Comte de Charney and Baron Sully. The second son, who bore the last two titles nameil, ned to Brussels during the French revolution and married a lady of the great Caraman-Chlmay family, a niece also of Mirabeau. Their tnird son was named Marie Ldmond Pa trice Maurice MacMahon. He was born at Autun in 1S0S, and became the "Grand Old Man of France. THE MARSHAL'S MEMOIRS. On July 20, 1SS2, the cable reported that Marshal MacMahon had completed his me moirs, but that he would not allow them to be published until after his death. They are in four volumes and cover the time between the Algerian campaign and the es tablishment of the French republic. Mme. la Marechale MacMahon will have charge of their publication. Madamo la Marechale was never very popular at the Elysee. She was a strong legitimist and exceedingly devout, and French wits said of her: "The Marshal governs France Mme. de MacMahon governs the Marshal and the cure of Ste. Clotllde governs Madame de Mac Mahon. She Is said to have wept bitterly when she quitted the Elysee. But she was a good wife and mothe- if an unpleasant lady presldentess. They told a story about her illustrative of her devotion to her hus band.. When the French army was engaged in the Italian campaign Mme. de MacMahon happened one day to be with the Empress Eugenie when the telegrams an nouncing the victory of Magenta were received. The Empress began to read the dispatch from her husband aloud. It gave a sad list of the generals who had been killed ami wounded, winding up with the words: "And General MacMahon." Thereupon Mme. de MacMahon uttered a shriek of despair and sank back half fainting, but was instantly revived by the concluding words of the phrase, "has been created Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta." It was in the campaign of In Lom bard y, thai McMahon made hb fame and obtained his title to the Duke of Magenta. Undoubtedly his was the grant, success of the campaign against Austria, on one memorable day he wrested victory from received his title and his rank of marshal on the field of battle. He was one of the dozen heroes of the neriod when he made his triumphal entry into Milan. Mr. Browning has paid a graceful tribute to his kindly, chivalrous bearing, as he car ried on his saddle bow a little child whom he saw in danger of death from the tu multuous crowds and the trampling horses. In April, lHT.d, "General McMahon was ap pointed to the command or the bocond Army Corps of the Alps, vlth which he passed the Ticlno, at Turblgo, on the 2d of June, and took Kobecchetto on the 3d. On the 4th. having been reinforced by the Foot Guards, he was ordered to move rrom Turuigo to liurtaiora ana Magenta, while the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were to take the tete-de-pont of nuffalora and Canrobert to con up fiern Novara, From som partly explained caust these man ou vers were not punctually ex ecuted, and MacMahon had to rsK-ht a ter rible battle In the center (Magenta) until tho concentrating movement of tha .other corps had been executed and the Aus trian driven back with enormous losses. At Solferino the Marshal's corps stood near Cavrlana. between Nlel's and Boragucy d'Hllllers's corps. The position of his corps became very critical at one mo ment, the Forty-fifth Raiment and the Turcos having been repulsed in their attack and the Austrian advancing tom Guidizzolo. This column, however, was or-

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AHDW AND HOT THE TESTIMONIALS OF PURCHASABLE CHEMISTS. rested by General Auger, and the heights of Cavriana finally storm'td, and at tha same time the Austrian army ban to retreat upon the whole immense line or. battle. . A French biocratihlcal 6ketch of him gives the following additional particulars of the battle of Magnta: "MacMahon, with a force under bis command, had cany In the day crossed the river further up, to execute a flank movement, and had already marched some miles away from the scene where the hottest fury of battle waa raging. The thunder of cannon nevertheless reached his ear: he listened eagerly to that terrible music of war. and with a war rior's instinct interpreted its meaning. Wlta the ouick intelllerence of a great military chief he saw at once how matters stood, and hastily reversing his orders, hj doubled upon the Austrlans. It was the decisive moment of batue; tne rortune or empires was at that moment weighed in the balance, and the sword of Dalcasa turned the scale. The might of the Teuton reeled before the headlong charge of tho Gallic lesion: the Austrlans were utterly routed and ned in disorder, leavingprisoners in the hands of the conquerors. nnd 20O00 soldiers killed and wounded on tho field of battle." The sketch which we publish of the Mar shal 13 a recent ona. It Is taken from the Paris Monde Illustre. and represents th veteran soldier as he appeared at a military festival, where he received tne most enthuslnrtic Ovtitlon. Even in his old age ho Is now eighty-fivo he was as erect as on the day he commanded at Magenta, or earlier, when he issued one of his characteristic end stirring addresses to his men . just before th attack on the Memeln at diers of the first division and zouaves of tha Aruard You are about at length to cult your parallels and attack the enemy hand to hand. On Uus aecisive uay tne general has confided to you the most Important part tho carrying of the Redan and Malathe army has Its eyes on you, and your standards planted on the ramparts of that HtAdM must . reffoond to the slgrnal given for the general assault. Twenty thousand English and twenty thousand i-rencn on the . left will lend you their support by thmwlnt? themselves on that side of the place. Zouaves, foot chasseurs, soldiers of tho Seventh, Twentietn ana. .xweniy-sev-enth of the line, your bravery answers for th success which is to Immortalize tha numbers of your regiments. In a few hours tha Kmperor will maKe Known to rxanca what the soldiers of tho Alma and of Inkermann can do. I shall give you the signal by the cry of Vive PEmpereur! Our rallying word will be 'Honneur e Patrie!' S03IE POIXTS OF GOOD ENGLISH. Good Idioms to He Preserved, Even li They AVill Not Purse. Boston Transcript. Passing from the use of words to the us of phrases, one finds that certain ungaLnly purisms in phraseology have crept into use in our language, much to tho detriment of (he' sam?. Take the now too common "to be let," instead- of the time-honored and thoroughly English "to let." It may be objected that the sentence "This house is to let" is not to be parsed; but the sentence Is idiomatically English for all that. and one of the commonest features of an idiom is that it will not parse exactly. One of the dertnitlons of an idiom is that it is a turn of phrase which contravenes the rules of universal grammar and is to be ex cused only by the special rules or tne particular language to which it belongs. The German "Das habe ich mlr sagen lassen" (I have told you so) will not parse accord ing to the rules of universal grammar; to agree with these rules, it would have to be, "Das habe mlr sagen gelassen," which may be excellent universal grammar, but is certainly not German at all. Just so our English "to let;" it is good English, "To be let" may parse better, but It is lumbering in comparison and has the still wors vice of striving to overthrow an idiom. Ana the idiomatic expressions in a language are what most give it its characteristic color and pithiness: they are what Is best worth preserving Intact. Idioms are quite as much in danger of being lost or perverted through carelessness as through an. overnlce care for the general rule3 of grammar. A case in point Is one good old English phrase which on sees less and less in print nowadays (in this country at least), "To differ with a man" meaning to hold a different opinion from his. Time and time again we find "to differ from a man" used in this sense, whereas its true English meaning is "to be unlike him." Now, the distinction between "to differ with" and "to differ from" is old and well established; it Is part and parcel of English idiom, and is too valuable to 1 lost. "To differ with" is just as ir.defeasibly English as "a six-foot pole." Ought it not really to be "a fix-feet pole?" asks the purist. Certainly not; a "six-feet" pole is not English and a "six-foot" pole Is; there is no reason for it beyond its being a fact! Grammatical analysis fails here, and has not a word to say. Some persons ooject .to "I had rather" on the ground that it i nonsense,, and "I would rather" is sense. Cut "I had rather" has been English, and perfectly good English, too, ever since Thaksin-are to say the least. The argument that the phrase originated in a careless return by the wrong road from the abbreviated "I'd rather" In which the 'd may have stood originally for "would" but was mistaken for "had," does not hold watT. Very likely the phrase "I'd rather" cajne at first from "I would rather;" but "I had rather" came into use so long ags, and has become so ingrained in the language, that it is not to be ousted now. "I had rather" i3 English, and all the belter for being idiomatically English. As has been said already, you cannot measure th; correctness of an idiom by the foot rule qif universal grammar; Us value consists in Its being idiomatic, not in its being parsable. "Wanted to Save Tlielr Own Lives. New Tork Commercial Advertiser. It is Interesting to leam that flfty piano manufacturer!! have won first prizes at the Columbian exhibition. You don't know how much better you will feci if you take Hood' ariaparllla. It will drive oil' that tired feeling ana make yon atretic A remedy which, If nscd by Wires about to experience th rdnful ordeal nttendact upon Chl.-blrth, proves an laf&lliMe epecitic for,&udobrutes tho tortures of confinement, lftS2nii:(r the Canj-rsttercof tobothmctherand chilJ. f-old Ij ail drupKlsta. 5entby expre-s on receipt of price, J 1.50 per bottle, charges propald. CO., Atlanta. Ca. CRADFIELD REGULATOR rniTATIONAL. SIO THUKK MONTHS. Ilook keeping. Bborthal. TrpwTlttnx. 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