Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1882 — Page 1

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The One Year Six Montlis -Three " One " One Year Six Months Three THE LEADER 3S GOODS. I&epartmciit of THE NEW YORK STORE Every New and Desirable production of the Season can be found at the New York Store. Among the many Elegant Dress Fabrics we mention JFJEHEXCM SUITIXOS Oamelettes, All-Wool Satin Mervielleux, Pin Head Checks, Arniures, Vigonnes, Foulies, MIXED AND ILLUMINATED BEIGES, Forty-two inches wide, at 50 and 69c. Our assortment of NUN'S VEILINGS Is more complete now than it will be again this season, and includes the preferable makes, such as Voile, Oriental, Nun's Serges, Kyber Cloth, Gazelle, Etc. BUNTINGS. "We offer a full assortment in Plain and Lac Effects, from 8 to 25c. COLORED CASHMERES The finest and largest assortment in the city in all the fashionable shades, such as Cadet Blues, Garnet, Bronze, Olive Greens, Tan, Plum, Navy Blue, Brown, Ecru, Manilla, Etc. The price is marked on every piece of dress goods in plain figures. ÜPettis, Ivcrs & Co. W. V,'. FLANNER. JOHN IIOMMOWN FLANNER & HOMMOWN UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS. So. 72 SÖRTH ILLINOIS STREET. Telephone. Open night and day. 111DUIUP0US WTO. CORRESPONDENCE. lCorrapondnta will pleve mk their communication! m brief sod concise as possible. Owing to oar limited space, we are frequently compelled to lesTe out matter that we would like to pablish.bat can MOt far want of space. All letters outside of Indianapolis should reach m Thursday. All commu nication! written on both sides of the paper will be trfased.J Vxouxitl About lturul. RURAL, RANDOLPH COUNTY, IND John Bragg is still buying and shipping hay. Farmers report fruit prospects brighter than was first ru inored. Rev. John Harper held his second quarterly meeting at Greenville last Sabbath. A. M. E. Sabbath School opens this Spring with prospects of promising results. Mrs. Nancy Love has gone to Portland lend a helping hand to a sick relative. to Miss Lizzie Benson begun a two month summer term of school at District No. 1 on the 1st. Services were held at the A. M. E. Church Sabbath by the Friend Quakers, and our friendly brothers were welcomed with a large audience. The Smith family (murderers) passed through Rural on the 8:10 train Saturday morning en route for Winchester, where the trial is set for Monday, May 1st. William Benson, who is over 5 years old and who has been suffering for some time from an accidental blow over the eye, was able to at tend church last Sabbath. C. C. Hawkins, who has so long owned the Rural Mills, has sold out and will be succeeded by Mr.Swisher, of Indianapolis. Mr. Haw kins was a good miller, and a worthy citizen We return our many thanks to Prof. C. M. Bragg for strewing a few copies of the Leader among our citizens. R. V. 8. G recncastlo Ind. Mrs. Mollie Ecton was taken ill very suddenly Monday. Her life was despaired of at one time, but at this writing she is thought to be oat of danger. Monday was the birthday of Mrs. Robert McDanlels, and she was agreeably surprised

Y LOO $1.50 .75 - .40 by the members of the A. M. E. congregation with a handsome dress, which was very costly and for which they have her sincere thanks. Tuesday was the final settlement as to who should rule our city. The Republicans carried the city with one exception, that being the councilman of the second ward. Alexander Hawthorne think that the colored voters who did not support Frank Hayes in the third ward ought to be tried for arson. We would like to ask Alex, if be has forgotten that when Mr. Hayes was In the convention two years ago, he said he would not run in a convention with a "damned nigger," and we would like to ask him further did not Mr. Hayes at the recent convention call this same gentleman a"G J d d bladk nigger s n of a b h." Now we would like Mr. Hawthorne to know if he has nomore independence than to support such men, we have, and we will assert our rights when w haw an occasion so to do, and If Mr. Hawthorne will stay In the ward in which he belongs, we think the voters of the 3d ward wilj take care of themselves. We do really hope he will not make himself so unpleasant as to accost men in the fctreet about scratching such men as Mr. Hayes has proven himself to be We admit that the ticket was a good one, and was worthy of the support of Republicans. But we hope the would-be popular gentleman has 'gumption" enough to know that we will not kiss the hand that smites us. We believe in Republican rule, and will do what we ' can to maintain it. RUE. Waslilnston O. II., Olilo. Frank White 1 doing a good business at the Central Hotel. The A. M. E. Sunday school anticipates hold ing a concert soon. Elder Carrhas returned home after a few days' visit to Columbus. We learn that Alonzo Anderson will soon go to work for W. A. Kane, to finish learning his trade. R. M. Turner visits Hamilton, Sunday, via Wilmington, to help Rev. Charles Bundy In, his meetings. ' Wilmington, Satonla, Martinsville and RichI land Intend to hold a combination excursion of the A. M. E. Sunday schools. William Day Is doing a good business with the firm of Craig & White. This gentleman is one of the favorites of the town. We wish him success. Milton Easton left for Springfield recently, where he has accepted a position In a machine shop. 8ELBOR. WIRI?S'GT,IIi2IL.I OHIO. A.. 31. TZ. Sunday Hohool Ixhlljltion Personal-o to. Special correspondence of the Leader. By eight o'clock Tuesday night the hour for begginning exercies, the church was crowded. Nothing but a solid slope of heads could be seen In the gallery, while standing room was impossible below. Visitors from Urbana and other towns could be seen in the crowd. Notwithstanding the vast number that was present, order and discipline, virtues rarely regarded on such occasions was strictly ob served. The program was rich and brilliant while every performance was so systematically regulated, and rendered in such a pleasing raaner that it charmed the ears of the listener as did the lyrical strains of David when he gained the affections of the stony hearted kings. The essay of Mrs. E. C. Elliott -on Observance of the Sabath was a creditable pro duction, Miss Minnie Mitchells reading bears no other criticism than what is usually said of things that are sublime. Minnie la quite young a pupil of the High School, intelligent, affec tionate and loved by all who know her. Mr. Myer's eulogy on Robert Ralkes needs no en comium. We have often heard him speak and the clearer we see those growing feats of eloquence and oratory which distinguished the immortal Webster. MLw E. Basey's selection, "Be firm" was rendered in a pleasing manner. "The true man or woman" by Mrs A Robinson was a subject to which the lady did credit and from the arguments of her production drew a conclusion that forcibly impressed the whole audience. "Labor and Walt was the subject of an essay by Miss Mattle Guy, rendered with her usual propriety and force. "Sodom and Salt Lake City" subject of an essay by Miss H. L. Yates. As is well known, M Us Yates is an excellent essayist, perfect in diction and at tractive in reading. The exhibition was a complete success financially and artistically. J. W. Hunster, father of the well-known photographer, L. P. Hanster, died last Saturday, April 29, and waa buried Monday. The deceased was for a long time a tailor in the city, and a member of the Baptist Church He leaves many friends to regret his loss and emulate his upright integrity. The A. M. Es held their first missionary meeting in the Sumner street church last sun day. There was quite a crowd present. D. Wilborn goes to Urbana to-day to stay until Monday. C.W.Reynolds returned home from his visit to Cincinnati, with a smiling counteI nance. SLIDE.

CINCINNATI.

The Smith Law Colored Orphan Asylum Personal and Society Xotes, Etc., Etc. Cincinnati, O., May 4, 1882. Special Correspondence to the Leader. The past week has been oue of considerable interest. The law has shown its supremacy and power over its violators. The Smith Sunday law which forbids the selling of intoxicating liquors has been insolently violated and its majesty has been vindicated through the courts, a case brought by a prominent saloonist having been decided in its favor. There are hundreds of saloonist who treated the new Sunday law with utter contempt, and they will have to suffer for it, and will le taught" the useful lesson, that the law is Sovereign, and though sometimes severe, had best be obeyed. Our race has always been a law-abiding people, and in this case not more than two of the many colored saloonists over-stepped the jurisprudence of the law. We learn that the authorities of the Southern Railroad have refused to pay the one thousand dollars which the grand jury recently decided should be paid to the wife of Rev. W. H. Gray, because of au insnlt offered her while a passenger on that road, and have filed a petition for a new trial Whatever may be the final results of this suit, even colored persons of every community in the. Union if needs be, should sustain this noble lady, who not only asserts her own rights as a citizen of this boasted "Land of Freedom," but in whose fate millions of colored men and women have a deep and silent interest; for if she is victorious in the end, few railro.uls will close their decent accommodations to any person localise of color; if she loses, the race loses, and will often meet with insolence and insult which the law will refuse to chastise since it is indifferent to demand. A meeting of the friends and patrons of the Colored Orphan Asylum was held in Allen Temple lat Monday evening for the purpose of electing three members to the trustees' board of that institution. Th gentlemen elected were Messrs. I. II. Clark, Lloyd Johnson and "William I'urtef. The name of Prof. P. II. Clark was presented by Ford Stith, and was received with acclamation. Mr. Johnson reelected, easily overcame all opposition, but the real tug of war was between Wm. Porter and Charles W. B-ll, whot notwithstanding his heavy backing, was 'defeated by his too powerful opponent. The financial condition of the Asylum is good, there being a cash balance of $453.25 A body of young men from intellectual circles assembled in Dr. Carey's office, No. 43 Arcade, for the purpose of forming a Surely literary and debating society. W. . Ross, the chairman, stated the reason why the meeting was called, and a committee of three were appointed to draft resolutions preparatory to permanent organization. The committee consisted of Messrs. Johnson, Murray and Triplett. Adjourned to meet Thursday, 4th inst. The Silver-toned Quintette will give the second ard last grand concert of the season, in Ilolliday's Hall, on the loth inst. The gen'.lemen composing the Quintette are possessed of acknowledged ability, and will treat the public, on the occasion, with selections entirely, new. The United Daughters, a society among whose membership is found the larger part of Walnut Hills' feminine worth, celebrated their fifteenth anniversary on the 28th of last month, in the First Baptist Church of that suburb. The installation of officers, which was one of the features of the evening, was under the management of Prof. W. II. Parham. This ceremony completed, Rev. R, A. Johnson, of the A. M. E. Church, addressed the Sisterhood in an encouraging strain, and was followed by several others. The various formalities being concluded, the Society sought the vestry of the A. M. E. Church, where a sumptuous feast awaited it, ard while the menu was discussed, the Church Choir, assisted by Messrs. Hawkins, Woodson and Benson from the city, poured forth sweet and melodious music. At a late hour the association dispersed feeling a closer and better sisterhood for their fellowbeings. PERSONAL NOTES. Gaines will graduate a class of eight this year. Mr. Rufus G. Humphrey, of Chicago is visiting the city. Henry Forte has at last taken his departure for Chicago. Miss Emma Stith was the guest of Mrs. Humphrey Dixon this week. Miss Ida Liverpool, a society favorite will resume her studies next session. Wm. Morton Smith leaves for his home in Southern Indiana in a few weeks. The marriage of Mr. Theodore Willson to Miss Eva Kirk, is the latest surprise. Mr. Jas. Edwin Goggins. has been confined to his room for several days past. Geo. O'Bannon spent the whole of Arbor Day in Wyoming. Excellent attraction. It is real sad to see so many of the bovs packing their grip sacks for summer tours, Jeff. Smith, the rail-roader, can tell some very amazing stories about Indian warlare The estimable wife of Iiobt. Trov, Esq. for many days past so dangerously ill is re covering. Every body should visit Miller's unsur passed Ice Cream Parlors at 301 Central Avenue. A picnic under the auspices of the League, will be given the 25th inst. at Look out House. .Mr, urimn vv atson win oeconnrmed as a member of St. AnnV Church tomorrow at 3 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Cora Richardson, who spent several days visiting friends in upper Ohio, has returned home. Alonzo E. Morton, of Prof. Brank's band will leave in the latter part of July for his home in Terre Haute. m. , , x- . , The charming Miss Sarah Jsewman, of E. Seventh ßtreet, has forsaken her school, UUl continues her studies in private. A sneak thief entered the residence of Mrs Maggie Johnson, 110 W. Fifth street and stole some valuables. The thief is known and had better stand shy. jirs. Jennie forrest, lor so many years a useful and good citizen of this city has de cided to make Chicago her future home. The frond will und honrst Hon nf hr h,,nl dredsof friends go with her to-her new choice. Some one asked us a few days ago the ad dress of each of the following gentlemen; Eugene Hawkins, Jesse Woodson and John

Johns. We did not know, but have since been informed that ther can be found almost any evening on West Walnnt Hills. Miss Cornelia King, the reigning beauty of the "Hills" will be the guest of Miss Lizzie Laurence, of Glendale, during the greater part of the Summer season. At the last meeting of the Labor League the following substantial business was transacted: a sick committee was appointed, a fund of twenty five dollars was ordered to be raised to meet sick dues each member being entitled to four dollars per week duringhis illnets. TJrbana, Olilo. Rev. Tolltver spent Sunday, last In FindJay, Ohio and Rev. W. N. Allen In Sidney, Ohio. Miss Peters of Springfield, is visiting Miss Kate Cleveland. Messrs Walter Tudor, JWlll Uobinson and Eddie Coates, of Springfield, spent lust Sunday in the city. Beveral Urbanaltes went to Springfield last Tuesday evening to attend the Sunday School entertainment. Urbana always does well by .Springfield. After spending the honeymoon with paterfamilias, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Carty have begun house-keeping In the Lewis property on east Reynolds St., where the "latch-st ring Is always out" to their many frlens. The Board of Directors of the Ohio Sunday school Institute of the A. M. E. Church will meet in Lima, O. 11th inst. A program of exercises for the Annual meeting in July will e arranged and the place of meeting will, in all probability, be changed to Xenia, Ohio. Benjamin Lodge No. 1771, ü. U. O.O. F. sends greeting to Cincinnati Lodge No. 1883, and is pleased to state that she too is enjoying a season of prosperity. On last Monday evening the following namad gentlmen were initiated into the mysteries of the Order, and more are to follow. Messrs T. J. Ford, D. C. Lowry, D McCowan, J. H. Pulpress and A. Jones. This Lodge has been engaged recently in remodeling, and refurnishing its hall, and when it is completed it will compare quite favorably with the best equipped in the State. They will hold a festival next Wednesday evening which, from the excellence of former occasions and the spirit with which the committee enters upon its work, promises to be a grand snccess. More auon concerning the leading organization of the city. Next week we will write on the "square" if our head is level." Selwob.

DAYTON OHIO. Tousnlnt's Opinion of tlio eto. Special correspondent of the Leader. Leroy Christy, formerly of Indianapolis, is of of now visiting friends in Dayton, the guest William Duncan. The concert given under the auspices Crystal Palace Lodge, No. 2158 O. U. O. of O. F., on the evening of April 20th was a grand suc cess. Misses Tenlea Campbell and Lavinla Page, both of the Xenia High School, paid our city a flying visit, and took in the Odd Fellows, concert. The eiForta being put forth by Rev. W T. Maxwell for raising rnaans for the purpose of remodeling the A. M. E. Church, promise to be crowned with success. The singing by the Henderson sisters on the evening of Dr. Webster's lecture, was a marked feature of the occasion, and they were very much praised for their excellent rendition of their music. The lecture by Rev. J. F. Webster, of the Episcopal church on "Sunset on the Palatine" in behalf of Rev. Maxwell's scheme Of remodeling, was a success financially, $93 btoing the net proceeds. The many friends of C. O. Martin, a former worthy and esteemed citizen of Dayton, but now of the Queen City, were glad to see his smiling face and bid him welcome to our city, during his recent visit. The moot court of the Central High School, has been reorganized, with Geo. W. Hartselr a talented and much esteemed colored student, as clerk of the court. The boys will soon place on trial some Interesting and exciting cases. Mrs. Ooorge Truss has Just opened an ice cream - tioon and boarding house, near the corner of Fourth and Ludlow streets, where she will spare no pains in administering to the wants of those who may patronize her. Give her a call. There seems to be a growing desire among the intelligent, thinking classes of the colored people everywhere, for the publication of col ored newspapers which shall take high van tage ground in behalf of the real interests of the race, namely: Its intellectual, moral and material advancement, and which papers shall be conducted by able minds, upon broad and catholic priuclplas, and which shall In point of erudition and scholastic ability, as display! through them by their publishers, compare favorably with most of the newspa pers published by representatives of the other nationalities of our country. We believe The Leader to be such a paper: and that it is ably supplying the long-felt want. Its able editorials upou the leading questions of State and National policy, and administration, as affecting various and sometimes conflicting'lnterests; its fund of news on weighty and Important subjects of a miscel laneous character; its close identification with the interests of the races, as represented at the National Capitol through its able Washington correspondent; and its items from various points of social and society news, place it in the front ranks of the colored journalism of this country, and makes it worthy the patron age of every one in favor of "an equal chance and fair play." The Leader in the future will be a welcome visitor to many Dayton readers. J. M. Butler, Dayton's most popular caterer, expresses himself highly delighted with his recent visit to Urbana, where he went on an epicurean tour. He has a high opinion of the Urbana people, because they all read The Leader. TOUSSAINT. Margery Deane says, ''Hungarian gentlem on Ii km mnat Kiirnrutifii h tra a onfMMia idea of American ladies: that we are snoil. ed," as they express it, by much pet tine, is generally believed. An Huneanan ex Dressed his knowledge of us by saying, when aaked to contribute to my entertainment, I peak only Hungarian; I can not talk with her; but I will find a rocking-chair in the town ROmewhere. and I will be the man to I fan Ytn ' T aw An ra w m TTunrrftvian nannv IdU AAV A. DU TT U UUUSIMIISU UflLTOl a picture of the American lady at home. Of course she sat in a rocking-chair, and four gentlemen hovered about her with fanj and wraps: A large and remunerative trade is carried on, principally by the women of St. Augus tine, in the manufacture of hata, baskets and brushea from the native grasses and palmet,e&ve8' or jewelry meir aexierou. uuciia um tu cbi muan vasnuitu lieu scales into a variety of delicate patterns, and exquisit plumage of the native birds is skill fully converted into flowers and fans. Florida Letter.

MEN OF THE HOUR.

"Some are born great, tome achlevt greatness, an, $om have orealnesg thrust uvon them." &hakcpear SENATOR BLAIR, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, TCE TEMPERANCE STATESMAN AND SHIPHEB's COUNSELLOR. The "most potent, grave and reverend signoire, who constitute that august body, the Senate of the United States, have among their number one whose rank as a statesman is overshadowed by his zeal as a social reformer. He is the acknowledged leader of those who desire to summarize the results of rporadic efforts in the direction of temperance reform, in one grand effort to amend the Constitution of the United States that drunkenness shall be an impossibility throughout the whole broad land. The attempt, mostly regarded as quixotic, though in one sense it comes under the head of statesmanship, seems to be outside the province of practicable leeislation at presentand in the immediate future, but It has hap pened. Mr. Blair's work is at once best represented and considered as concentrated in his proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution, which has been briefly expressed by one of his admirers in the following words: "That alter the year 1900 the manufacture and sale of distilled alcoholic liquors (except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and scientific purposes, and for use in the arts) shall cease In the United States and Teiritories, and their importation and exportation shall be prohibited." The closing sections of the proposed amendment are: Sec. 3. Should this article not be ratified by three-fourths of the States on or before the last day of December, 1890, then the first section hereof shall take effect and be lu force at the expiration of ten years from such raiifi at Ion; and the assent of any State to this article shall not be rescinded nor reversed. Sec. 4. Congress shall enforce this article by all needful legislation. Mr. Blair's speeches on finance, free schools, absolute money and other subjects, commanded considerable attention at the time of their delivery, but, as said before, his principal distinction Is nis leadership in the ranks of the temperance reformers. .Within the last few days, however, on December 6. he introduced a bill which Is des tined to command great attention, and whose passage would give him an enviable prominence among American statesmen. Considered independently of its chance of passage, it is a great conception, and its discussion, whether it becomes law or not, can not but result in fixing the attention of the civilized world upon the man who made and submitted It to the Judgment f the Senate. ' Mr. Blair's bill is to aid In tr e estab llshment and temporary support of Common Schools in the United States. It appropriates in the aggregate 105.000,000 to be expended as fallows: Fifteen million dollars In the first year and thereafter this sum to be diminished $1,000.( 00 yearly until ten annual appropriations have been made. The annual appropriations are to be divided among the several States and Territories in that proportion which the whole number of persons in each State of ten years of age and upward who can not read bears to the whole number of such persons in the United States. Senator Blair is under fifty years ot age. While he was au Infant his father died, and eleven years afterward, his mother died. From three years Erior to this sad event, he was an inmate of the ouse of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bartlett Camp too, who treated him with affection, but whose means did not extend to the ability of giving him an education. With exemplary purpose, however, the lad worked to collect means for this end. and paid his way by his own unaided efforts, through a course of study at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He subsequently read law with William Leverett, of Plymouth, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. His first public office was as Prosecuting Attorney for Grafton County, in I860. Upon the outbreak of the War he entered the army, and was appointed Major of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, of which regiment he was soon afterward made Lieutenant Colonel During the siege of Port Hudson, he was wound ed severely twice and. as the result of sickness continued incapable of active service during thi remainder of the War. In 1S66. he was electee a member of the State House of Representatives and of the State Senate In 1S67-6S. He served is the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congress, and k now United States Senator from his native Statt for a term expiring in 1S83. lie Is a tall m in ol impressive presence, and commands ready attention as a public speaker. CONSOLATION. Bill Nye in a Keflective Mood. In Which He Takes a Philosophical View of Life. I Laramie Boomerang.! Dear friend, do you ever stand in the doorway of memory, when the golden eun lights up the road over which you have traveled, through the dust and heat of for mer years, and while you look out over the field of your great struggles, and victories and defeats, do you ever wish yourself back again beyond the hour when first ambition filled your heart and made your present seem distasteful, and poor and mean in your n: J a . eyes i xjio. you ever ngure your gains ana losses and look with weariness and unrest upon your achievements? Does it not sometimes occur to you that you have dear ly bought your position and wealth? Ah, who can buy the joyous hope and bounding health of eore-toed boyhood? AVhat wealth can procure the free and unalloyed satisfaction of those days when you could eat your fish-bate ard stay in the water up to your eyebrows all day? Would not President Arthur to-day madly fling away his scepter of power and resign his lofty position if he could once more be placed back at the threshold of life, with his pantaloons hanging by one home-made suspender? IIow empty and how vain are the glories that crown the hero of a thousand battles. How worthless are the faded laurels that crown the bilious, pimply brow of greatness. We combat with all humanity for a proud position, and just as we get our name in print we find that our digestion has gone back on us, and the overtaxed eaatric department must be sent to the shops for repairs. Then comes those retrospective longings r the dreamy nights long since, when the atydid sang in the August grass, and the watermelon went to its long home. Then come golden memories of the bright days of midsummer, when beneath the banding willow we bathed in the sunny depths of the silent pool and speared the watery toad with au old pitchfork. It is a proud day to the ambitious statesman, when in the flush of victory he stands before the applauding host of those who have carried him upward to this glorious moment, when he.teels his own strength and calmly surveys the gory -field over which he has fought. But when every man, who voted for him, has asked and petitioned him for the nine dollar postoffice at his old home and threatens to bolt all nom inatwns and disrupt party if he can not have it, there steals the senses of the

great statesman the Witless wish that he

may be taken back to -old home where he snared gophers with an old fish line, or pasted blue mud all over his freckled skin and ran along the beach in the warm July air, and scared the frisky horse of the young lovers wno arove along the pebbly shore. Greatness is to be sought for and desired because it stirs the stagnant ambition of man tnd helps him to kill time: but freh laui els and bronze medals can not minister to a pair of torpid kidneys. The praise of men ana tne smiles or beautiful women can not bring jc y to the heart of hollow-eyed titejrnan who can not digest anything but oatma-tl mush and distilled Graham juice. The world is full of great men, men who when they write their name on a bote register are sure that they will be inter viewed by newspaper men and their words printed before breakfast; men who wear rrince Albert coats every day and talk grammatically even when they are mad; ut the collection of happy men men who laugh and have fun and never miss a meal is comparatively small. Wealth does not al ways do the business either. Money can buy off the opinions of the public sometimes and take the edge from popular .censure, but it can not choke off the nightmare or still the vague unrest of a congested liver. It is ever thus through life. He who has a big bank account may also have the bilious colic, and he whoe name is found on every page of a nation's history may have an ingrowing toe-nail that makes his life a burden to him. If we could look at this life philisophically and live on soda crackers and calm the consuming ambitions which torture, the great would not come nigh us, and when we died, the human hell-hounds who survived us would net dig up our crumbling bones, and spread our errors out before a gaping, grinning world, while our widow and orphans would suffer a thousand agonies, helpless under the iron heel of the relentless slanderer of the dead. Blessed Is the dead whose worthless dust belongs al ne to his sorrowing relatives and to his God. The public did not feed him during lite, and in death it can not blacken his name. English Humor. (E. Nye's Boomerang. 1 The London Spectator says that "the humor of the United States, if closely examined, will be found to depend in a great measure on the ascendency which the principle of utility has grained over the imaginations of a rather imaginative people." The humor of England, if closely examined, will be found about ready to drop ov-.r the picket fence into the arena, but never quite making connections. If we scan the English literary horizon we will find the humorist up a tall tree depending from a sharp knot thereof by the slack of his overalls. He is just out of sight at the time you loos: in that direction. He always has a man working in his place. however. The man who works in his place is just paring down the half-pole and newly pegging a joke that baa recently been sent in by the foreman io repairs. "Dust n Tour Glasses.' I don't often put on classes to examine Katy's work; but one morning, not long since, I did so upon entering a room she had been sweeping. "Did you forget to open the windows when you swept, Katy?" I inquired; 'this room is very dusty." 'I think there is dust on your eye-glasses, ma'am," ehe said, modestly. Ana sure enough, the eye-glasses were at fault, and not Katy. . I rubbed them off, and every thing looked bright and clean, the carpet like new, and Katy's face said "I'm glaa it was the glasses, and not me this time. This has taught me a good lesson, I said to myself upon leaving the room, and one I shall remember through life. In the evening Katy came to me with some kitch.en trouble. The cook had done so-and-so; and she said so-and to. When her story was finished I said, smilingly, "There's dust on your glasses, Katy; rub them off, you will see better. She under stood me and left the room. I told the incident to children and it is quite c . mmon to hear them- say to each other, "Oh, there's dust on your glasses." sometimes l am referred to, "Mamma, Har ry has dust on his classes : can't he rub them off?" When I hear a person criticising another. condemning, perhaps, a course of action he knows nothing about, drawing inferences prejudicial to the person or persons, I think right a way, "There's dust on your glasses,rub it off." The truth is, everybody wears these very same glasses, only the dust is a little bit thicker on some than on others, and needs harder rubbing to get it off. I said this to John one day, some little matter coming up to call forth the remark. "There are some people I wish would begin to rub then," he said, "There is Mr. So-and-so and Mrs. bo-and-eo, they are always ready to pick at some one, to slur, to hint. I don't know, I don't like them. "I think my son John has a wee bit on his glasses lust now; he laughed and asked: "What is a body to do?" ''Keep your own well rubbed up and you will not know whether others need it or not.n will," he replied. I think as a family we are all profiting by that little incident, and through life will never forget the meaning of ''There is dost on your glasses." UeU fire Kock. At a meeting of the San Francisco Micro scopic Society, last Monday, H. O. Hanks, State Mineralogist, read the following in teresting paper: "Some time since D. B. Huntley, of the Geological Corps of the Tenth Census of the United States, brought to the State Mining Bureau a mineral, with the statement that it had shown certain pe culiarities which led the miners to call it by the rather startung name of Hell fire rock.' The nronertv known to mineralogists as phosphorescence is not confined to one min eral specious, nor is it very uncommon, But in this specimen it is so strangely mark ed that there is some xcuse for the refusal on the part of some of the miners to work in the mine. - When striking their picks into this formation flashes . of light were seen, which they regarded with superstitious alarm. The locality in detail is Shenandoah mine, Snakecreek district, Wasatch County, Utah. . , .1 . . t .. i "A chemical examination shows this mineral to be an impure dolomite. It is inter eeting, not only from its remarkable phosphorescence when rubbed with any hard substance in the dark, but from its beautiful crystalline appearance under the microscope and the ease with which it can be reduced to a crystalline powder, even by crushine it between the fingers. In Cleve land's Mineralogy we find it stated that some varieties of dolomite are phosphoresc ent in the dark, either by friction or when thrown on a shovel which had been allowed to cool just before the point of redness." The lights being turned down, Mr. Hanks produced tie phosnLorescence beautifully by scratching the specimen with a knifeblade. It was of t bright reddish yellow or orange color, and it was clearly seen how a miner could be agitated by striking such in ternal material in his subterranean walks.

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THM MOmtKB HIGH WATMAN. The ancient highwayman was stout and brave, And robbed the lonely traveler of Lis pelf ; The modern highwayman's a sneaking knave. Who tries to steal the great highway Itself. The Courier-Journal knows of forty-four cases where people who smoked after coin? ms ueu awu&e in a ongnier iana. ' A man Catherine: mushroons was'told that they were poisonous. "Thauk you," he rereplied, "I am not eoineto eat them rnvself: I sell thera at the hotel." 'Misses Fanny Marston and SaTIy ".Marston. sisters, of North Hampton, N. 11., one aged seventy-nine years and the other eightytwo, died on the 15th inst. within live hours of each other. Oregon Constables never make a mistake ia arresting a citizen of that State, If he isn't the one they're after, there's sure to be some charge against him on which they can hold him. This is very convenient A lecturer who had iust one listener was flattered to discover that he came in to eet out of the wet. Umbrella would hare cost a dollar; lecture, twenty-five cents; teventynve cents saved. "Yes." said the Indiana ledslatur. "our laws on divorce are rather easy, but we must encourage immigration somehow, and it . takes a good deal to do that with fever and ague in the air to buck against." . San Francisco has a bureau for exchang ing bric-a-brac When housewives cet tired of the ornaments in thejr parlors, tbev swap mem on witn otner nousewives, and thus get a change without increasing the original -investment. Snooks went home the other rieht afilicted with double vision. He sat for some time with his sleepy gaze riveted on Mrs. Snooks, and then complacently remarked: "Well, I declare 'f you two gals don't look 'uouerh alike to be twins." : It was deemed singular that eight em ployes of the New York Central Railroad at Buffalo should come out simultaneously witn bunday suits of like material. 1 Tie exElanation was found in' the fact that they ad plundered a freight car. Ocean steamers can not be run safely when empty, and' to get ballast a steamship Company has agreed to pay a bonus of lJa cents per bushel for 16,000 bushel? of grain for Liverpool delivery. If prices maintain their high figure the vessel can carry the grain back and forth all summer without much loss. It is not the drunken husband, father, eon or brother that feels ail the keen toj merits t)f the drunkard's home. Not It ' is the wife, the mother, the sister and the dsuh daughter. The intemperate man drinks the cup, but the dregs at the bottom are lett lor the woman. Rev. Hosea Ballou. According to the Florence Vedetta the Prince of Monaco, in a recent conference with President Greyy and M. de Frey einet, said he had determined, if France joined in the attempt to suppress the Monte Cairo Casino, to sell his principality to the United States, whose Government, in his opinion, would be only too glad to get a seaport on the Mediterranean. Ruskin has given expression tnheotinion that each child with other necessary knowl edge should imperatively be tanght, with the best skill of teaching that the country could produce, the following three things: (A) The laws of health and the exercises enloined by them; (b) habits of gentleness and ustics; and(c) the calling by which he is to ive. What a revolution would be effected in our practical social life were this to be done. The curious enterprise is being conducted in New Jersey of grinding. up worn out India rubber overshoes to make what is called "stock. This material is brought here in barrels and is pressed by the manufacturers into new India rubber poods. A thin coating of fresh rubber varnish makes them look quite equal to articles of the best quality, out vney are saia w nave an outrageous lack of durability. Queen Victoria is going to make a state visit to Epping Forest. By the exertions of a few public-spirited men and the corporation ef London, this beautiful tract of- 6.000 acres, within half an hour of the metropolis, has been rescued from the filching and encroaching landlords in its vicinage, and secured forever as a playground for the people of London, whose toiling East End popula tion can reacn it by rail in half an hour for a few cents. It is full of green glades and fine timber. Lawyer Goodhue is of high stand inc and considerable property in Montreal. He went on a tour of Europe a few months ago. Then he returned on a mission fron the Bishop of Tourney, in Belgium, to recover $289,000 in bonds that had been stolen from the prelate and brought to America. He traced the thief to Chicago, secured the property, and sailed again for Lurope. The news has now reached Montreal that - he is under arrest in Brussels on a charge of mis appropriating the bonds, but no particulars are given. ... a How to prevent the adulteration of food is engrossing the attention of the Massachu setts Legislature. A Committee has re ported a long bill designed to preserve the purity of both food and . drugs, giving a broad definition to the term adulteration, and putting ample powers into the hands of the etate Board of Health. That bodv s to make all necessary inquiries, fix the limits of "permissible variation" from the standard, and establish regulations for examining articles, in order to determine their quality. Twenty-four young women of Nevada City, Cal., mocking the military boys of the place, organized a broom bntrade. Their uniform consisted of muslin gowns trimmed with red calico, "jaunty jackets of similar fabrics and blue cans. Each carried an ordinary broom, made fantastic with bits of red ribbon. The drill Is described as de lightfully entertaining. On the 12th inst one of their number was married, aud the broom brigade escorted the bride from her father's bouse to the railway station, the bride's broom, trimmed in mourning goods, being carried reversed at the head of the procession. . m i i . , Sending Wine to the Jndge. , New York Sun. ; 4 i When the calendar was called vpstpnlnv in the Fourth District Civil Court and a case was ready for trial, Civil Justice Stecklerraid: ' "I would like Mr. Birkenhe'rapr ih rjlaintiffin the case, to sten to th i stand for a moment" Birkenheimer obeyed and Justice SterlrW said: - "Mr. Birkenheimer. mm vino Viof T I .MW, VUCb A neither paid for nor ordered, was sent to my house a day or two ago. ' pid you send it?" "Well, your Honor," replied Birkenheimer, confusedly, "the wine may have gone to yuur uuun. 'JJia yoa send that wine, Mr. Birkenheimer yes or nof' the Judge insisted. Wll. Jndra. I mav hiv an 1 ' T; kenheimer answered, after some little "hesi tation. , .. . , "My opinion is," Justice Steckler said, "that the wine vu ant tn r v knmMi w;.k . - - j uuw n i lu a tn lnflnnrtnv ma In c. t say here, once and for all, that I do not prow mA,.y muj rub wuaiever auring my term of office. Tahall arwf Vi n. t,. - charitable institution. I have determined not to try this case, and I shall transfer it to any other Civil Judicial District that counsel on both sides may acree upon.',' The case waa then taken from the calendar.,