Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1879 — Page 2

FE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1879.

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THE DAILY NEWS.

8ATCBDAY, AUQD8T », 1870.

The following waa the actual circulation of The Indianapolia News for the six months ending July 31: ▲range par day for 10,323 ▲Tango par day for June... 10,179 ▲Tenge per day for May.... 10,322 ▲Tenge per day for April. . 10,791 ▲Tenge per day for March 10,687 ▲Tange per day for Febroary 10,637 Fmoaally appeared before me, this 2d day of ▲uguat, 187a, a notary public duly qualified, W. J. Kicbarda, fidrertlaing manager of The Hew*, who, being awoni, depoaee and lays that the statement is true and correal. James Okkemb, [U a.] Notary Public.

Even yellow fever has no effect on the code of medical ethics at Memphis. ,

Secret a et Schcrz will make three speeches in Ohio this month, and will then go west to visit some Indian tribes. Judge Dili^on, of Iowa, says positively that bis resignation will take effect September 1st, and at the same time he tyarmly approves the choice of Secretary McCrary as his successor. The English are not done with Cetewayo, and will not be, until he is dead. The latest reports are that he has fled into a wilderness where it will be almost impossible to pursne him, but whence he can make damaging raids. There seems to be a great many small politicians in Cincinnati who are ready to “work” against candidates of their, own party, if the opposition will pay them for it.3The opposition never calls this buying votes, it is only paying men for their services.

Hsh a defence of his action in granting the request for a place in the Abbey, He aays the public sympathy had been so unmistakable that there would be no impropriety in granting the request; giving his life for the country that bed received him and Lis parents as guests, the Dean thought, gave thg^ prince a claim to be ranked among those princes who have had memorials in the Abbey. “The Abbey knows no difference of politics, either foreign or domestic,” says the Dean. “It is, as Lord Macaulay has well described It, ‘the great temple of silence and of reconciliation.’ The princes’ memorial will not be in the Abbey church proper, but in the royal mausoleum, where only royal personages are interred and where reet the remains of the Orleanist duke of Montpensier. The Dean admits that he rejoiced at Sedan and that if France is to have a monarch he would prefer an Orleans prince. The London Standard, ultra tory, thinks the Dean hasn’t shown sufficiently good reasons for granting a place for the memorial. It thinks “the opinion of all sober-minded Englishmen will coincide with that of the member for Dundee, who holds that honor enough has been done to the prince’s memory, and that further demonstrations, especially of the kind now suggested, can not materially add to the testimony of appreciative recognition already placed on national record, though they may have a distinctly prejudicial effect on our relations with France.” In its eyes it will be interpreted abroad as exclusive sympathy for the imperialistic cause. The London Daily News takes much the same ground The Indianapolis News did. It denies that the prince in any sense gave his life for England, as the Dean asserts, and says: He made no pretense of doing so. He fought in a war in which he had no concern, and in which no great principle or righteous cause was involved, at least on the side which he took. He was not thinking of England. He was bent on gratifying a love of adventure, and waa eager to acquire personal distinction in order that he might act with more effect the part of a pretender. He was really making war in Zululand against the French republic. To talk of such a one —of whom personally the News wishes to say nothing harsh—as dying for England, is at once to dishonor England and the memories of those who really died for her. We commend this to those of our readers who “wobbled off into flunkey ism” on this subject. We hope they will wobble back again without delay. CUKKKNT UOfiflUGHT. Green fruits are coming into this country in a way that affords a valuable source of revenue. During last year $3,7 35,000 worth of imports of this kind passed the New York castom house, and the duty collected thereon reached $666,000. The value of the oranges and lemons imported was $2,802,966, of grapes $232,000, of bananas $400,000, of cocoanuts, which are admitted duty free, $200,000. The duty on imports of this kind is 20 per cent., by which the home producers in the gulf states benefit.

There were twenty-two more cases of yellow fever at Memphis yesterday, with three deaths. The disease seems to be more prevalent among the negroes, probably because there are more of them now than of whites. The authorities are maintaining a strict quarantine, and wiil admit no one who can not prove that ha has had the fever and is able to support himself. ~ Montreal is having a bank panic. Three have failed in as many days; there are runs on several others and more failures are expected. At this writing it does not seem that John Sherman has had anything ta do with this trouble, but there are some people like the old sultan who said thera waa always a woman at the battem of every misfortune, and who may discover his hand before long. The failures are ascribed to reckless banking, embecalements and advances to irresponsible directors, the same[causes that have ruined or crippled many of our own banks. The Panama canal does not start off smoothly, in spite of De Lesseps’s confidence. The subscriptions in Paris, which clesed last night, have been small in comparison with the expectations, and in New York, where a good deal was looked for, only a few hundred dollars were offered. The belief that the route was chosen too hastily, and by an arranged plan of the Frenchmen who had the majority of the international council, together with the little bluster in this country about the Monroe doctrine, have more than offset any influence De Leaseps could bring to bear. The experience of railway companie in Europe, is that the stations in large cities should be as nearly in the business center as it is possible to get them. One road in London expended over fifteen millions of dollars to. extend its terminus further into the city. The Pennsylvania railroad has just authorized the extension of its tracks to, and the establishment of, its main depot nt, the. corner of Market and Fifteenth streets, in Philadelphia. The road will he elevated, and this will probably be the beginning of local elevated lines in that city. The passenger depot will be in the second story, while freight can will be raised and lowered by hydraulic power. The company's plM is to pvt down nine tracks, seventeen feet above the street, and for two years it has been quietly securing the property needed. The cost of this radical change will be between two and three millions of dollars, and one result is expected to be the settlement along the line for twenty miles out,of persona who would like to live out of the city, but who can not afford to take the time necessary to go to and from the present depot in West Philadelphia. A PAT illustration of The News’s diagnosis of the disease of “flvnkeyism” as its attacks the English speaking race, isgtven in more recent development* about the much talked of Westminster Abbey memorial to tbo Prinoo Imperial. We said: “We easily wobble off into flunkeyism and wotoe follies, bat wo are mighty sure to wobble back again to a safe level." The wobbling process has begun in England, to such m extent that Dean Stanley has thought it worth while to pub-

With the completion of the large mills being erected at Minneapolis this year, that city alone will manufacture 10,000 barrels of flour per day, or 3,000,000 barrels per year. Business on the Erie canal seems to be falling off. The tolls from the opening of navigation to August 1 are nearly $100,000 less than last year. What is the matter with Kentucky’s treasury? The auditor says he is compelled to cease auditing claims temporarily. Is the money all gone? The amounLof the assessment of property for taxation in Illinois has decreased regularly since 1873, except in 1877. The falling off is about 37 per cent., and the estimated aggregate for 1879 is $752,339,937. The Chicago News claims the assessment is only about one-third of the cash value of the property. Some protectionist paper which sympathizes with the quinine monopolists, declares they can not compete with their English rivals for the reason that while the Englishman pays no duty On his raw materials “the American has to pay duty noon nearly every substance that enters into the construction of quinine.” The logic of this is that if the duty upon the substances which enter into quinine were likewise removed, our manufacturers could compete successfully with the foreigners. We do not ask for a stronger free trade argument than that, and it is exactly in accord with The News’s expression at the time the duty was taken off the quinine. We then said remove it from the other materials also, and give a fair field and no favor to both home and foreign manufacturers. We are constrained to believe that some day this will come to pass, not merely with quinine and ita material, but other things.

Ewing groans at the prospect of a good

harvest.—[New York Tribune.

Our Yazoo contemporary says the “democratic flag now waves unchallenged." This can not be disputed. Yazoo will certainly elect the whole ticket. But can we afford many such victories? We know exactly bow much the white people of Yazoo were wrought up. They looked upon Mr. Dixon as a brave, desperate man. And he is. They remember that he was but recently on trial for murder, and they firmly believed he intended to secure his election by the negro yote v and that alone. The do doubt feel fully

course they did. But will the state, the south and the whole country agree with them.-

[Vicksburg Herald (dem.)

There is a languishing of the Winlom boom. It hardly lasted long enough to serve Mr. Conkling’s purpose of a diversion.—[Cin-

cinnati Enquirer.

There once lived an old English alderman who was a jrreat admirer of “Robinson Crusoe,” and a firm believer in the reality of that famoua character’s existence and adventures. At length he waa undeceived by a friend, who received the following for his pains: “Your information may be correct, sir, but I do not thank you; far you have deprived me of one of the greatest pleasures of my old age.” Such is the attitude of the anti-re-sumptionists.—[Cincinnati Gazette.

Groat Fire at Sarajevo. A fire broke out in the Latin quarter of Serajevo, and the whole was burning at last accounts. The fire threatens to assume terrible proportions. It was caused by au explosion. The Catholic, Servian ana Jewish districts and commercial quarters have been destroyed. ▲ thousand buildings are burned, including the Catholic and Servian churches. Ten thousand persons are made homeless. The damage is enormous.

Trouble Among the Indians. The Indian agent at the Flathead agency of Montana reports the massacre of eight Nee Percies by a war party of supposed Gros Yentris.

▲ Doubting Thomas. [CoUmbua Republican.1 We begin to have a suspicion that some of the remarkable wheat stories area little like the current snake and fish stories.

KJkRVY DAVE.

Amoe Henway. the Cooper; anil ▲tno«, the Fteherman—The Former Abandanee ef Flab and Game Aroaad ladtaaapeUe—

Ham net Moore, ef Moereevllle.

[Prepared tor Tha Hew* bv Rev. J. C. Fletcher. In the fall of 1822 my mother records that she “went a graping” with my father several times between the 9th of September and the 16th of October, including the latter date. On one of these occasions they returned through the woods in the west end, near where at present is the residence of Mr. Samuel Patterson, on the ground originally owned by Mrs. Patterson’s father, Isaac Wilson. At that time the Hardings lived not far away, but as a general thing it may tie said to have been in the country. Between the Wilsons and the mouth of Fall creek and for a considerable way np the latter stream on the second bottom were large quantities of pawpaw trees and wild grape yines. As my parents were following the narrow path in the woods they met a bright little blende-haired, bine-eyed boy of six summers, who hatf evidently had unlimited acquaintance with pawpaws, a fruit which is more nearly tropical than anything we have in the state of Indiana. The little fellow saw my father’s hat full of the green, rellew, and brown kidney-shaped fruit (whose praises have been sung by Maurice Thompson and others), and he immediately asked, with boyish curiosity, what was in the hat? The reply was jokingly given as “little possums.” The boy grew np to manhood, and rarely did my father meet the man without reminding him of the incident which led to their acquaintance. That boy was Amos Hanway, who since that time is well known for his fervent piety and straightforward preaching. It may be noted that in these sketches of early days I have purposely avoided speaking, except incidentally, of the living, unless they were persons past “three score and ten,” as in the'case of James M. Ray, George Norwood and a few others; but I make an exception of Amos Hanway, who is not only a fisher of men, but was a famous'fisher of fishes. It is in this latter capacity that I wish to speak of him, for there is no one living more capable of telling about the scaly denizens of the White river and its branches

than this same Amos Hanway.

The father of Amos Hanway, whose name was also Amos, was from Maryland. Ellicott’s Mills have been famous for its mills and factories, and it was here that the elder Hanway was born, and where he learned the trade of cooper. Hanway, Sr., was the first cooper to establish himself in Indianapolis. He left Maryland when a young man. and settled in Marietta, O., where Amos, Jr., was born in 1816. In 1820 cooper Hanway determined to come to the “new purchase. He procured a flat boat and floated down ithe Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash, and came np that river as -for as Vincennes, where he wintered, and in the summer of 1821 he continued his journey to Indianapolis. He settled in a hewed log cabin not far from the river, and this cabin was the first shingleroofed house in Indianapolis, Hanway, Sr., having split out the shingles, and then shaved them with a drawing knife. The cooper worked at his trade, and evidently prospered, for we find him advertising, in 8mlth & Bolton’s Gazette, under date of August 31, 1822, as follows, (premising that “tight” work was wood-work, and a very different thing from modern “tight” work, which is a liquid affair): “Wanted. A young mau of a good moral character, who can come well recommended, and understands tight work will meet with constant employ by applying to

Amos Hanway.”

In 1832 Hanway left off coopering and moved to the west side of White river, haring purchased block No. 5 (the second from the river), which contained five acres of splendid bottom land, for $70. Here he keptagrocery store until 1852 when he died. Young Amos, the Rev. Amos H., was brought up to the coopering business, bat it was soon found that he could make far more money in fishing. I recently asked Rev. Amos,-“Where and how did you learn to fish so skilfully?’’ He replied: “I was absolutely born a fisherman. I took to it as naturally as a duck to the water, and for years I supplied the family with coffee, sugar and tea, to say nothing of many other things, by fishing.” “What kind of fish did yon mostly catch ?” “Bass, salmon, red horse, ordinary suckers, quill-back$, or, as they were sometimes called, spear-backs, perch, pike, catfish. etc., etc.” On asking him as to the class of the so-called salmon fie said that “they were exactly like the yellow salmon oaught in the lakes.” If that ia the case, notwithstanding the name, they are not the true salmon. The late Prof. Agassiz said that the white and yellow fish of the lakes, usually called salmon, are .apparently fresh water representatives of the “Allosa,” or herring family of the high seas. When I asked nim in regard to the largest fish he ever caught he gave me the following interesting facts, which show that our river was plentifully stocked with fish equal to any found in the inland waters of America:

“The biggest salmon I ever caught weighed sixteen pounds. I once caught a pike which measured four feet and two inches; at another time a gar-fish which measured over three feet, and a blue catfish which weighed 16K pounds. The finest rock-bass I ever took was one which weighed 8*4 pounds, and that was near Waverly; while the biggest jriver bass I* ever lifted from the water weighed six and a fourth pounds.” I well remember, when I waa a boy, several times seeing Nat Cox catching bass np where the old bridge now stands, while Amos Hanway could be seen doing the same thing near the mouth of Fall creek, or at another time south of the bridge site, net far from Kiugan’s. The fish not only supplied the family table, but found a ready sale in town; and afterwards, in order to supply the growing demand for town consumption, a seine waa procured and Amos, jr., and his younger brother Sam, made fishing, in their way at certain seasons of the year, a profession. They did not confine themselves to the neighborhood of Indianapolis, but went up the river into Hamilton county and down the river into Morgan county. Amos informed me that on one these occasions they drew, amongst other fish, forty bass (rock and river) that would average between five and six pounds each. “But the greatest haul,” said Amos, “was once when I was seining along with Sam, in Morgan county, above the Cox dam. The fish were traveling, and we actually at one haul seined twelve barrels of fish, and there were thirty fish that averaged, undressed, ten oound* each.” When I inquired, “What kind of fish ?” he stated that, “they were mostly bass and salmon, but there were also large red horse, white perch, quill backs and ordinary suckers.” “I knew,’ f he continued, “that we need not expect the same streak of luck in the same spot, for when fish are disturbed at certain seasons of the year they are like deer, and will not soon go over the same track. They bad traveled, and two weeks afterward we found that they had gone up a creek in Morgan county, and there we bad another

good haul.”

Rev. Amos H. also told me a number of interesting facts in regard to the wild land game which has disappeared from this vicinity. The price of a whole corpus of a deer mentioned by my father shows how plentiful venison was in those early days. At three different times, Amoe informs me, that he saw flocks of that beautiful and rare game bird the white swan so felicitously described by Audubon. The only one that was killed near Indianapolis, of which we have any account, was 'that recorded by my father to have been shet in the spring of 1822 by George Smith, the father of the now venerable Mrs. Martin. Then white swans were seen just about and above where the Vincennes railroad bridge now stands. But that which is perhaps the most “rare avis” that ever visited our inland town was the white sea gull, which, at rare intervals, came to the vicinity of a small island (which has now disappeared) opposite the present site of Kingan’s pork house. Mr.

Banway, upon my queationiug him oonoerning there birds, gave a description of them, which corresponds exactly to the sea gulls upon aa Atlantic coast, and tha few early settlers who had seen this kind of bird in the east always • said they were sea-gulls. By the Way, upon this small Island Mr. Hanway when a boy onoe saw a large black bear. It was in the autumn time, and he and Cloudaberry Jones (an elder brother of Mr. Wm. Jones, of Ooburn It Jones,) were standing on the east bamk of the river when they were suddenly startled by seeing a large black animal tramping amidst the short willows that grew on the little island. Boon the beast plunged into the water, swam to the western bank of the river and disappeared in the thick woods of the river bottom. Jim Van Blaricum, who was near - the hoys, came up and confirmed their own inexperienced eyes, informing them that it was a Urge black bear. Years after this another large bear was chased from the cornfields in the vicinity af North street. Of wild game I can only say that in the fall of 1834 I was walking with my father and Mr?. Richmond (mother of Col. Richmond, of Kokomo), towards the river. We were just oa the edge of Military park or tha woods, which at that time came nearly up to Missouri street, and we were startled by seeing a flock of wild turkies alight in tha trees. In n moment we heard the banging of guns and saw two hunters, one of whom waa Mr. Pulliam (partner of Samnel Henderson, in the tavern business) and the other if I remember rightly was Mr. Jacob Cox, tha Neator of Indianapolis artists. In about tea minuted twelve of those turkies were laid low, nine were killed by Mr. P. and three by Mr. Cox. It must be remembered that in those days there were no breech-loading rifles or shot guns. Mr. Robert L. M’Ouat it is said, killed the last wild deer that w^shat in Center township. In a recent visit which I made to Mooreaville, I learned from the venerable Samuel Moore, that often he stood in the door of his first store, and saw troups of deer passing within gunshot Mr. Moore also informed me that a little more than fifty years ago he had occasion to go to see Matthew Lowder (father of Charles L., the well known cattle dealer) and on arriving at Mr. L.’s place northwest of Mooreeville, he saw two immense bears dressed and hung np. They were as large as yearling heifers. They had been killed the night before. His Quaker friend, Eleazer Bales, who is still living, did better than this for he shot four bears out of one tree. It waa late in autumn and a mother bruin with three well grown cubs found near Eleazer’s house a fine oak tree filled with the richest mast. The bears naturally sought their food, and Eleazer naturally sought the bears, and shot one after another. Mr. Samuel Moore is now more than eighty years old, and is as bright and cheery as a successful man of fifty. In the sunset of life he does not seem to know decay. His memory is exceedingly clear, and he takes a deep interest in all that concerns the early settlement of this region of country. He and the late James Blake founded the famous “early settlers’ reunion,” which is annually held at Mooresville on the 12th of each August, and which, 1 may say in passing, is the most successful of all this class ef gatherings. We hope that Mr. Moore may be spared to us many years, a link of that past when the virgin forest was subdued, and when such men as he were the heroes who subdued it.

A Call to Independents. LBwton Herald.] The old parties tend to extreme positions. If this tendency continue, the national tickets presented by them next year will be unsatisfactory to a large class of voters who are not very firmly attached to either party, but are disposed to go for the best men, who believe in human progress and are faithful to the constitution. Under the circumstances, these independent voters should organize and show their strength. It is almost certain that they will hold the balance of power in the next presidential campaign. After the nominations are made they can do little— they can only select the ticket which is, on the whole, less unworthy than the other, or remain inactive. But, organized beforehand, they can exert an influence. Politicians have the highest respect for votes, and they respect little else. Show the politicians on both sides that there are half a million voters who do not believe in extreme views, and who will vote with that party which comes the nearer to the spirit of the constitution as amended, and the nominations will be influenced. The independent voters, who think for themselvee,do not believe that it is necessary to continue the contest over questions settled by the war. They see the states in the anion, governing themselves,and the late slaves free. They are willing to leave the prejudices of race to time and natural laws. They believe in the enforcement of wholesome laws and the protection of every citizen in person and property. They believe in honest money and fidelity to public and private obligations. They believe in a civil service based on fitness, in the education of the masses, and in civil and religious freedom. They do aot believe that there is going to be another war between the sections, or that the smaller section is going to rule the larger. Why should not the independent voters organize, assemble and declare their views? The conference of independent voters in 1876 had no organization behind it, but it was one of the powerful influences which saved us from a national administration as objectionable as that of the-previous term. By organization a much greater influence can be exerted. Tkepoliticians are only seeking selfish ends. Back man has his eye on his state, bis district, or his town. A broader view is demanded. Half a millioi^roters who.do aot want office, who want peace, order and progress, would send a tremor through the ranks of the politicians, and induce them to put up their best men on both sides. Then the independent voter could choose between the best possible, instead of the worst.

New naan Hall Gets a Divorce. Newman Hall, the Congregational pulpit erator, of London, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife on account of her adultery wijh one Richardson, a stable keeper. The trial created a great sensation. His wife brought counter charges of the same character. He 'admitted that he abandoned a previous action for divorce because he feared it would be au obstacle to his efforts to raise funds for a new chapel and for the Lincoln memorial tower, commemorative of Abraham Lincoln.

Glover Defied. Hon. Edward McPherson publishes an open letter to Hon. John M. Glover, replying specifically to the criticisms made upon the management of tha bureau of engraving and printicg in the so called Glover report. He concludes: “You can not pot your finger on a single dollar of expenditure while I was in charge of the bureau, for which the government did not receive an equivalent. I defy you to the test and am willing to stand or fall by it.” _

Give It a Fair Trial. [Attica Ledger.] If the silver dollar is. as i« claimed,® deceit and a swindle, what good can result from keeping it a secret until the treasury is piled full of them ? Put them into active circulation, and if it is demonstrated that they will^ not circulate at par, let the people know it* and they will promptly stop their coinages Nothing less than & fair trial will furnish satisfactory proof.

Grata Distillery Seised. Revenue agent W. Atkinson, with the concurrence of collector Woodcock, seized the grain distillery of Z. R. Morrell, in Franklin county, Tennessee, on charge of violation of tne revenue laws. It contained 138 barrels of whiskey.

Look Oat (or a Lunette. King Humbert, of Italy, has set himself to reading the Italian parliament reports for the last thirty yea»s, in order to poet himself in political history.

SolclUe Preferred. George Brown, colored, of Louisville, drowned himself yesterday rather than be married in church.

▲ New Poetoffioe Work. By a new law the Frencbjpeetoffice undertakes the collection of small bills in the provinces.

WOOD OkBTlMG. The Cigar Datamlee aad the Fashion la

Them.

[Atlantic City eomepondoare Philadelphia Mtar.J The wreck, which remain* in the same place but in nn altered position, its bow standing boldly up aad defiantly confronting the hotels, had a figure-heed seated pensively but inversely upon it contemplating that and other wrecks. This was just the place to find and the last place to expect to see the artist, himself, who claims to have carved the figure-heads of all the ships built in his own time in Philadelphia. Hu art is a lost art; extinct by reason of the decline in ship building, the change in the bow construction of vessels from the straight up and down line to the sharp prow form, and the hard

times.

Where he once made figure-heads at large remuneration, he now carves scrolls which are afterwards gilded and' much more economical. He was a rapid talker and had the history of his profeesion at his fingers ends. Having no note book within reach much interesting information recited volubly and quickly is lost for the present. We have had in onr profession, said be, men who cotrid take a log and an axe and carve a figure

equal to aay sculptor.

One of these was old Mr. Rush of Philadelphia, dead these thirty years, who carved the Washington in Independence hall. Some of our eminent sculptors were wood carvers, Bailey, perhaps is the most notable instance. The present generation are familiar with his marble productions, bat not his wooden ones. I have some rosewood carving of his that equals his best stone work, hanging up now in mv Philadelphia shop, which 1 prize most

highly.

The business in Pompeys for tobacconists, and those which have been most admired in our city is principally quartered ia New York. There are several large competing firms there who send out drummers all over the west, where Pompeys are more and more popular, as their popularity decreases in the east. The drummer carries not the Pompeys, but photographs of them by which they are

sold.

The figures that sell best are those which pertain to some popular notion. For instance, during the Champagne Charley and Captain Jenks period they were the most sought for. Metamora and Montezuma were once very great favorites, and with many variations are stilL During the Franco-l’rnssian war the Emperor William, Bismarck and the Crown Prince were each multiplied many times, and now perhaps adorn the country tobacco stores outas far as the Black Hills. Burlesque figures were once the rage, and Ben Butler was the effigy that took the lead and paid the

best.

The specimen photographs rival Mad. Tassaua’s or Mrs. Jarley’s wax collections, aadr indeed, the wood artist, like the formei; ‘ had to add to his stock all the newest acters that time and circumstances Hufig' before the public most prominently. The state of the trade in Philadelphia is dead except as to special jobs which one or two of us in my shop can get through with. No figures are made or carving done by machinery. It must all be done by hand.

The Gentleeaan from the East; [Detroit Free Frees.]

—v uajipci iii.iv iruun, aa uuj ow i new pin, and as he entered one of the “sam pie room” on Woodward avenne, yesterday the barkeeper mentally remarked: /‘That fellow will call for champagne. 1 Rut be was mistaken: the little fellow leanet over the bar and said: “I want a tumbler two-thirds full of water and some pieces of pure ice in the turn

bier.”

It was banded to him and he asked: “Do you ever have a lemon about th<

place?”

“Yes.”

“Well, gently squeeze one into the tum-

bler.”

The squeezing process took place, and the little man contimied: “Do you have raspberries out here?” “We do.” -

“Well, pnt two into the tumbler.” They were added, and he put his hand to his brow, tried hard tocollect his memory, and suddenly exclaimed: “Ah! yes—sugar! I knew I could think of it. Add a spoonful of sugar.” While it was being added the little man dropped on to three kernels of coffee, a powdered cracker and a bit of cheese, and then

said:

^ “If yo s keep Maderia yon can add a spoonThe Maderia was added, the glass shaken, and the little man opened a long Morocco case, which he took from a side pocket, took out a solitary straw, carefully cut off an inch

or two from one end, and said:

“Owing to the prevalence of malarial diseases in your western country I find it the beet way te carry my own straw with me. A fellah kinder hates, you know, to use everybody’s straw, you know, especially out west

He pinned his handkerchief under his chin, brushed back his mustache, aud began drawing. The bar-keeper’s pet dog came in when the glass was half drained, and the little man took the Htraw from his mouth and

said:

“Plwease remeve your dawg to the rear room; Ican nevah dwink lemonade with a dawg in the room.” The “dawg” was escorted out,'and when the bhr-keeper returned the little man had disappeared, and the glass had been emptied of even the lemon peel.

▲ Gas Well at Titusville. . [Correspsudeac* Springfield Union.] But the one attraction which Titusville has above almoet every ether city in the Union is its gas well. This was discovered a few years since about five miles from the city where oil wells were being bored. \Yhea opened its contents burst forth with a loud, roaring sonwh-which greatly alarmed people living at a distance of ten miles. After a time it was found that the gas could be utilized for fuel, and it is now conveyed in pipes to the city, where houses are supplied as with ordinary gas. Its light is usnally too unsteady for illuminating purposes, but when introduced into grates, filled with blocks or logs of iron, to simulate coal or wood, it gives forth a delightful, cheering blaze and an amount of heat sufficient for ordinary cold weather. Ia the midst of winter, however, a small quantity of coal or wood must be used with it, as the supply is not equal to the demand. Its superiority over au other methods ef beating is evident. There is no smoke, dust er ashes as with coal and wood, and you have a bright, beautiful flame which gives a cheerful light to the room, with none of the disadvantages of steam. Then you hare no kindling to supply and you need waste no time on a frosty morning in building a fire and waiting to see whether it will burn or not. It doee burn, every time. You have only to throw a well lighted match in the grate, above one of the jets, turn the valve which controls the passage of the gas, and in an instant your fire is burning aad is good for all day, without the slightest possibility of going out or any accident to anything connected with it. It is introduced in ranges and used for cooking with great advantage, and sometimes supplies furnaces by which whole houses are heated.

▲ Singular Fact. 1 Attica Ledger.] The very men who would not Believe the monthly public debt statements when they showed a steady reduction in the grand total, are now the ones who swear by these same official utterances, since they occasionally shown an increase.

Tire Ohio Campaign.

The Ohio republican state central committee have decided to open the campaign on August 20th. Secretary Carl Schure will speak at Cincinnati August 20th, at Columbus August 21st, and at Toledo Angnst 22d,

Frontier Troubles. The correspondent of the London Daily News, at St. Petersburg, hears from a good source that in consequence of the concentration of Turkish troops oa the Roumelian frontier Russia has addressed the powers.

Harder In New Orleans. Mr«. Brown, alias Riley, we# shot in the he^d at New Orleans, last night, in an oyster saloon, by Police Officer Tom Clarke, her paramour. Both were drunk. Clarke escaped.

X Am UM Wag. “How, O Lord, shall we follow ThreT” I hoard one sadly ssy; “Whither Thou goost wo esmiot sto; How can we know tbo wayf” **1 sm tbo wsy." 1 Ihe Shepherd sold; “He that dwslleth to lovo Cwelieth lu no, and aboil ha lod Hale to tbo fold a bora.”

TIxo Ktver of Life.

The more we live, mors brief appear Our life's succeeding atsgm; ▲ day to eh fid hood seems s femr. And year* like passing ages. Tbo gladsome current of our youth. Ere passion yet disorders, - Steals linger lag Ilka a river smooth Along ita greasy borders. Bat as the careworn cheek grows wan, And sorrows shafts fly thicker, Ts stars, that measure tils to mse. Why seem your courses quicker?

When joys have lost their bloom and breath And ll/e Itself Is rapid, Why, as we near the Falls of Death, Feel w# ita Ud# more rapid? It ssay be strange, yet who would change Time’s course to slower speeding. When one by one onr friends are gone And left our bosom bleeding! *

Heaven gives onr Tears of fading strength Indemnifying fleatness; And those of youth, a seeming length Proportioned to their sweetness. —[Thomas Campbell.

MCMAPft. Feebler waa a crack shot and fond of field

sports.

There are 450 woman dentists in the United states, and 1,350 are studying dentistry. About the hardest thing a fellow kan do is to spark 2 gals at one time and preserve a good average. Try it.—[Josh Billings. Verily there is nothing in this life wholly good or wholly MR!.—[Boston Transcript.] Ain’t, eh? Yon forgot the egg.—[Boston

Poet.

Charles Fechter, though of German race and English birth, waa a French actor. Aa befitting such a cosmopolitan, he ended his

career in America.

A yonng man went into a restaurant the other day, and remarking that “Time ia money,” added that as he had a half hour to spare, if the proprietor waa willing he’d take

it out in pie.

There ia no misfortune without some compensating advantages. Thus a tramp who rode 600 miles in a locked car ia comoany /with 400 green hides was completely cured

C nsf a bad case of catarrh.

“It is dangerous work for women to play with souls,” says Mr. Burnett. It certainly is; but some recent experiences show that it is still more dangerous for them to play with

base balls.—[Buffalo Express.

He was inclined to be facetious. “What quantities of dried grasses you keep here, Miss Stebbins! Nice room for a donkey to get into.” “Make yourself at home,”* she responded, with sweet gravity.—[Oil City

Derrick.

The story written by CoL Gil Pierce,

the Chicago Inter-Ocean, andipriated in that journal about two years ago, entitled “Zachariah, the Congressman, has been dramatized. As a drama it will be known as “Quarter to Eleven,” and will soon be pro-

seated before a Chicago audience.

One of the most edifying spectacles in the operation of the farce we call law is that of eminent medical men testifying just aa they are paid to testify, and bewildering with a mass of polysyllabic jargon and foreign technicalities the twelve idiots who have been selected as jurymen in a murder trial.—

[Puck.

A gentleman traveling on a train of care recently said to the condnctor: “Suppose the breaks should give way, where would we go to?” The conductor remarked that it was impossible for them to give way. Bat the gentleman again asked the same question, when the condnctor replied: “It all depends on what year past life has been.— [Portland Transcript. Snow is shoveled oat of a large granite building in Boston every morning, and the boys m»r play at snowballing in a temperature of ninety degrees, if they are quick about it. This building is a warehouse for the storage of perishable provisions, and the air in it ia kept at forty degrees by refrigeration with ammonia. The snow gathers constantly in the machine room. One of the confidential employes in the extensive department of the United States signal service died of a brokea heart last week, because he bad thoughtlessly omitted to send a three hours rain upoa a hapoy Sunday school picnic. Poor man; and now he has gone to a country where the barometer never indicates rain areas or even so much as “cloudy or threatening veather.’’—[Burlington Hawkeye. When Sir Frederick Haines completes next snring his five years' term as oommaader-ia-chief in India be will be succeeded by Sir Garnet Welseley. The appointment « by far the most extensive command in the British army, and is better paid than nay other military post in the world, the salary attached being i,13,000 a year, beside* perquisites in servants, etc. Sir Garnet' will be the youngest officer ever named to that command. A wealthy English parvenu, who began life with a lapstone on hit knee invited Kulak, the great pianist, to dinner, and immediately after the meal insisted on his playing for the company. Kulak complied, and invited the snob to a dinner party at his residence on the fellowing Sunday. Alter the meal Kulak astonished his guests by placing a pair of old shoes before his rich parvenu friend. “What are these for?” queried the latter. Kulak replied, “Last riunday you did me the honor to invite me to-dinner and insisted upon my paying with music. 1 have returned the compliment, and require my shoes to be meaded. Every man to his own trade.”—[Reynold’s Newspaper. During an excursion from this city to Niagara Fails, and while at Cleveland, an incident occurred which will never be forgotten by these who heard of it. The Kennard House at that city was crowded with guests, when an eccentric and witty druggist of Smithfield street appeared late at night, at : the hotel office and demanded a bed. The clerk replied that there were only two vacant beds in the house, one wherein was quartered a Pittsburg morniag newspaper man, and the other in a room wherein was a Pittsburg evening newspaper man, who were with the excursion. “To tell the truth, they are both pretty drunk, so you may take your choice as to which room you will sleep in.” The druggist said that on general principles he weuid take his chances with the evening newspaper jeurnaiist, as they excelled the morning men in more ways than one, and he would doubtless be so drunk that he would lie dormantly quiet all Eight. He went to bed and was soon sound asleep. The journalist, however, awakened abont twelve o’clock, and thinking it a long time between drinks, dressed himself, unconsciously, in the druggist’s clothes, and saUied out to make a nigbt of it. Ever and anon he mattered, as he treated all present, “Funniest thing I ever heard of. When I went to bed last night 1 only had 25 cents to my name, and now I’ve got over a hundred dollars (showing a corpulent roll of bills), and I’* boond to spend every cent of it before meming.” He did.—[Pittsburgh Telegraph. Yankee* Ahead as Pensioners. [Washington special.) The records of the pension bureau here show a carious fact in reference to pensons not easily explained. Kentucky furnisned the union army 79,025 white soldiers during the war. There are bow on the pension rolls 2.106 invalids in Kentucky, or an average of one to every thirty-two soldiers sent to the field. Maine, New Hampehire aad Yennont furnished 144,005 soldiers to the army, and now have 8,860 invalids on the pension rolls, or an average of one to every sixteen, jnst doable the ratio in Kentacky. It is possible the down-eastere cannot stand the exposures of camp life as well as the Kentuckians, or else they have better success in arranging their pension papers.

VALEK AFFNAJKANCN OF WKALTH. Haw Hiatus Taatsh When tha Wills As*

Frabatad.

[Kaw York CoTrespoadsaea Baltimore Smsrtaaa.] ■ T*** made of the affaire of Mr.

Harry Palmer, the colleague^ Mr. Jarred U the management of Booth’s th enterprising and euecarefel manipulator of so

i’s theater, and the

many dramatic and 'nroatoeT

many dramatic and musical vntii lelses. baa

MS,

do with business ia which a great deal of money passes through his hands, therefore he mast be rich. Probably there never was a time when so manir people who have the appearance of wealth were, in reality, poor as now. It is not only the misfortune, ft it the ruinous fault of this country, that every one tries to manufacture an appearance of be* Mg much better of than he really is. Ex-Surrogate Robert B. Hutching* remarked recently that nothing had surprised him more in the course of hie official duties then the disclosures which death made of the baseless foundations upon which reputation for Wealth were built •». Thousands of men whs live on Fifth aad Madison avenues, while they are here—whoea daughters are sent to expensive schools, whose sons drive T-carts mid whose wived figure as patronesees ef charities—are found to be worse tbaa poor, for they have laid bo honeet and re*p«t*We foundation upon which their children can build even a livelihood. They hare threw* tfeamsalvea away upon “cats and doge,” their reeearcesare represented by worthless securities, and their great expectations af* mere air bubblee. Bach men bare the greatest confidence ia themselves and their wisdom. They resent any intimation that they can not control future

is present. ulative habit and tendency is so strong upoa them that all other consideratiens are sacrificed to it; in fact, they refuse to entertain them as possibilities. Korean women be fairiy charged with blame in the matter. The most prosperous kourebelds of to-day, almost the only ones that are built on a solid foundation, are thoee in which the wife assumes the inside management. The interests are identical, aud the confidence complete. It is not natural for women to live on uncertainties; they are usually too timid. The majoaity would far rather depend with an income over eo small than take the chances of a great deal or - nothing. Few wives of speculative mea have however, any control over the financial affairs of the lamily. The household is run on “bills.” Their inquiries and expressed wishes for more fixed methods are met with rebuffs, they) hear a great deal of inflated talk about the money made in this, that, or the other, and as they find it easier to make a “bill” of $100 tbaa to get possession of $5 in cash, and are compelled by the force of circumstances to preserve the same appearance as the people among whom they live, and they could not do otherwise.

Spotted Tall to Heorotary Sohare. “I want to tell you these last words. I have had enough of the military. I want my people to work. I want no more scouting. I have had my belly full. We want to work the ground. I never laughed but once; that was when the agent of the Lower Brule* said that I kept his people here. They visited ue and I fed them aud my people, gave them 350 head of horses and sent them home to their agent. Since we have been here my people nave bad no whisky. Wherever the military are there is always whisky, and that makes trouble. I want you to come here and stay a month, and see how it is. My friend, this is all I have to tell you. his “Sporran 1^ Tin, mark.

Florida Land. [Sumter Advance j Florida, like every other state, has its proportion of good and bad land. The sou is divided finto what is called hummock, high pine, low pine, and swamp land. On too hummock land you fiad the oak, hickory, bay, mageoiia, gum, beech, aud many trees familiar to northern eyes, ana whose existence with them always proclaimed a good soil. The same rule applies with equal force here. The swamp lands are very rich, and when drained are the best sugar and rice lands in the state.

The “Editorial” Kxcursloa. [Shslkyvtlla Democrat ] To-day a so-called editorial excorsion is advertised to start from Indianapolis to Denver, loaded with “dead-heads.” It is safe to say, however, that ef all the crowd that goes, there will not be half a dbzen bona-fide editors. The people who go “represent’* papers that they are not connected with, and few of them are er ever have been in the newspaper business.

Germaas Taka Notice. According to the New German law conrt regulations, which are to come into operation on toe first of October next, German will be the only language which can he used before the tribunals of the empire. Interpreter* are to be allowed when oa* of the other party before the court does not anderotaad German, but all papers and proceedtags mart be in the German language.

CVo! Rnrgrea. the minstrel, was arrested tart night in the Tivoli theater, New York, on a telegraphic requisition from Toronto. The warrant for Burgeas’s arrest is for felonious assault upon William F. Witigery, a Toronto fruit dealer. Widgery having been the cause of au estrangement and separation between Coo! and his wife. v

Overdoing the Thing. [UveeacaaSte Baa ear. | In the effort to gain a reputation forgiving local news, county papers are filling their space with the most insipid stuff about matters that are of no interest whatever to the public. A Rich Carpet. About three weeks ago a large carpet la the adjuster’s room of the San Francisco mint was taken up for the first time in fir* years and burned for the purpose of reducing the accumulation of filings. The value ol v bullion obtained was $2,400.

Irish Karma. Nearly half Ireland is now under pasture. The size of farms has, for the past 25 years, been steadily increr^ng. Since 1878 there bna been a decrease of 3,120 holdings nnder thirty acres, aad an increase of 656 ia holdings above that limit.

Soapsetsd Mordsrar Arrested. Casper W. Nye, one ef the principal witness in the Raber murder trial at Lebanon, Pj^Bylvania, has been arrested on suspicion o‘ r ytvintr beaten to death Cyrus Craig, a c Jred man found dead a short way from Dauphin, July 26th.

The General Sterjr. [Laperte Argaa.] It is generally believed that the wheat oa Rolling prairie will average fall thirty bushels to the acre. This Is about double the usual avenge yield.

Panama Canal Stock. Only one hundred and sixty thousand shares of Panama canal stock bad been subscribed in Paris up to last night, when the subscription closed.

Aa I no# me Without Cards By the oomblnatioa method of-ropartUng ia Stocks a haadaome income cos be secured without Capital In any amount, from f 10 to *80,000,

oua «ums, Into one vast amount, aad oo-aperots them under the most skillful management, dividing profits monthly. Each ahareboMsr thus obtains all the advastagee of the lorgeet capital and experienced skfl], and the percentage of profits is very great; S2S wiil pay *1<S» a SO days; tSW wtO return *1,828, or 7* P*r cent, an tha stock, and ss oa, os the market varies. A promineat sabiiabar mm mZmST h£SS1 - ot her* are doing even better. Messrs, tawreaes A Co's, new circular has “two unsrrlng rules for sueceea ia stock operations’’ aad fall mlorwstlsa, as that any one can d«*d In stocks. AU kinds et M and stocks wanted- New •overameat bands t piled. Deposits received. Co., tankers, 67 Ex charge