Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 26, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 April 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier.

BY H. J. SLOTS.

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BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

MEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation 01 the Important Happenings of the Week.

ASf ESFEHIEXCE AXOXO A EAIXIIOAD. Laurinbnrg, on the Carolina Central railroad, is about forty miles from Charlotte. When the train leaning Lanriuhnrc arrived at Monroe Tuesday, a big

crowd about the depot showed tbat something was the matterj A party of youag ladies bad been waiting for the train. They were under the escort of Mr. E. G. Edgeworth. One of them, "Miss Rebecca "West, happened to get hold of a pistol which she supposed was unloaded. It went off aud the ball struck Mr. Edgeworth and pirced his brain. The unfortunate man fell as the train stopped. A physician was on the train but cccjd&o no good. The train started again, and twenty miles lower down the road, at the next station, twenty minutes before it arrived, Janus Price, a lad of twelve ears, accidentally shot Henry Percer, a colored man, in the thigh. Again the medical p fcsenger was called fiom the train, and bit ding up the wound, lesumed his jour ney to Charlotte,

At Kockingham, thirty miles from Iaaurinburg, the passengers found every

body talkinfl about the affray between

Chas. McDonald and James Maringe.

The former naa his abacnitn cut . open, making a wound from which the entrails

nrotruded. The man was dying when

the train left.

At Wadsbcro the train nanas were

paid off and a ball was in progress be

fore the train arrived. Two men Al

gernon Mobjack and Silas Selyin, quar

reled as to whom the next set with

pretty girl belonged. Selyin was shot by

his rival through the thigh, and was lying in the grass when Dr. Huntly stepp ed from the train. The train reached this

place twenty minutes after, and'the con

ductor said m a service of twenty years

ne and his train had never had suck ex

perience. TXHTJMAN MONSTEBS.

History does not give a more horrify

ing account of douMe-distilied crime than

is called out by the Tewksbury almshouse

investigation. Wednesday, Mary E.

Bo wen. formerly an inmate, said she

could not eat the food furnished, but lived upon that bought with money fur

nished her. She never saw any of the

Marsh family wniie tnere. riiirty or

more women weie Datneu in tne same

water, many patients having skin diseases

and many infected with vermin. When there was time carbolic acid was poured on the heads of such patients. Terrain

were ali over the place, rans being so

abundant that patients would call the

nurses to drive them away. One eon-

sumntive woman was unable to call for

help and her feet were badly bitten. This happened every night until the woman died. Clothes and everything were filthy but when viators were expected things were cleaned. APPALLING MSASTEB. Dispatches from New Orleans, Monday give the particulars of the fearful destruction wrought by a cyclone in Mississippi Beauregard, a town of 500 souls,was completely swept away, killing twenty-three persons and wounding ninety others. Wesson, a town of 1,500 inhs&itants, was also .destroyed Thirteen persons were killed and eixty wounded. The town of Tillman was desirpyed,and great destruction resulted at Lawrence. The greatest suffering resulted. The rain poured down in torrents, and the people were shelterless. Several of the dead lay out in the storm for hours. New Orleans sent physicians and assistance at the earliest moment possible. The storm visited oths r portions of the South, but doing less damage, A special fx om Albany,Georgia, reports eight killed and abrut t went v-five wounded. An Eastern, Ga., special reports two kilisd. The cyclone in southwest Georgia was attended by large loss of life and property. In numbers of instances there was an entire loss of farmhouses, cattle and products. A very general wind and heavy rain prevailed all over the State. The lightning was continuous and kept the night lit up so one could read. Fences and dams were washed away with great loss and many houses blown down. A curious coincidence of this storm was that at the same date and hour the year previous the town of Mon ticello, Miss., was destroyed.

in consulting with Mrs. Dr. J. P. Hobson of the Eclectic School of Medicine. Lee O. Harris, of tho Greenfield Republican, whose house was robbed by burglars the other night, reniarkes : The

only thing of value taken was a rubber coat which we had borrowed from a friend and had in temporary possession. To him we tender our sincere condolence. Abner Dougherty, living a few miles east of Connersville heard the gobble of a turkey. On investigation he found three turkeys under the haymow. They had been there since last harvest, and lived on nothing but hay. One died im

mediately, but the other two are still

iviug, and they refuse eitbor to eat or

drinK.

Seme seatup is traveling through the

state representing to ex-soldiers that they

are entitled to 160 acres of land, and filing claims for them in the land ofiice at

Washington, probably pocketing con

siderable fees. The claims go into the

waste basket at the department, being

entirely worthless.

Bert and Fred Shipley of Elkhart

respectively nine and thirteen years of

age, were Friday arrested at the

instigation of the postmaster, f

robbing the maiis. They ha been accustomed to call for the mail for different parties, then stealing what was valuable and throwing theiest awaj They confess and implicate others. As William Simson was crossing what is koovvn as the upper bride, across Richland creek, a mile east of Bloomfiekl Friday evtning, the sills of the midle pier gave way and precipitated his four-horse team and a load of lumber into the creek,

distance of about twenty feet. The

picked up a cobble stone, whioh she threw with indifferent aim at Dukes head missing him, Dukes turned around, saw whence tho stone came, and quickened his pace toward his hotel, where ho remained the rest of the afternoon. THE WEST:

INDIANA ITEMS: . Work has been commenced onthe new street railway in Logansport, Dick St'we-eon, the Warren county murderer, is seventy- five years old and partially demented. uHis victim was nearly ninety. One of the four boys who ran away from Richmond a few days ago and started west , to fight the IndianSjCame home Saturday night and the others are on the way. A Suth Bend nv has four perfectly formed kittens, ercept that they are Joined one to another by a ban of flesh off the sde near the hips. So says the Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. John Callahan, of Lawrenceburg, quietly celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They have lived in the same house for forty-eight years. A police judge of St Joseph remarked in dismissing a case: 'I shall dismiss every case of woman insulting where it can be shown that the woman first flirted with the accused." While the VanAmburg show was parrading the streets in Connersville a lion in one of the cages became enraged, and seized his keeper by the leg, inflicting serious injuries. Henan Ngly, aged twenty-two; of MillersviUe, took a dose of morphine on Friday afternoon because his mother Ibaned his horse against his will to his brother. A stomach pump saved his life. Peter Deardoff had a portion of his face and tongue torn off by a circular saw at his mill, at Hagerstown, Tuesday night. It is not known how the accident occurred, as he was alone at the time. Drafts from the short horn herds of Richard Gibson, of Ilderton, Ind., and Rigdon. Houston & Son, of Blandinsville, I1L, were sold at Chisago Thursday. Thirty-five head were disposed of for

a

strangest thing is that not a horse was hurt,

Mr. Simpson was terribly bruised about the chest and shoulders. Bishop Dwenger has issued a circular, letter to the clergy of his diocese, stating that he will make a pilgrimage to Rome leaving Fort Wayne on the 24th inst In his letter he says: "We can give our holy father, the chief pastor of the church, a consoling account of the diocese of Fort Wayne. Since 1872, inclusive, forty nine churches have been built, and thirty-seven of these were the- first churches in new missions; one orphan asylum, three hospitals, and quite a large number of schools; moreover, in nearly every place the debt of the congregations have been largely reduced." A spiritualist by the name of Colby, in a lecture at Spirit Hah, Michigan City, got a message purporting to be from the late Maggie Shield,in which she said that her death was caused by malpractice. Dr. A. J. Mullen, who treated Miss S.. hearing of the statemenf, called at the home of Samuel Eddy, where Colby was stopping, and representing that he wanted a sitting with the spintualist,obtained akmittance to his room. After making a few inquiries about his deadrelative8,the doctor grasped Colby by the collar, and, drawing a horsewhip, applied the lash vigorously to Colby's face, lacerating the rlesh considerably. Colby afterward reiterated the statement, and the end is not yet,

THE EAST: The formal opening of the Brooklyn bridge will occur May 2. Pattiand Nilsson sailed from New York for Europe, Monday. There are 437 vessels fi tting out in Chicago harbor. To man these crafts 4,000 seamen will be required. A large party of Norwegian wood-choppers have arrived at Philadelphia, under contract with a Minneapolis firm. The Potts Colliery Company, of Ashland, Pa., is about to make a determined effort to extinguish the iires burning now for several years, and extending into the workings. The Campbell Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, offer the striking weavers 5 par cent, advance. The cigar manufacturers have voluntarily advanced wages $1 per thousand. Secretary Teller has made a formal and written demand upon Sidney Dillon, president of the Union Pacific railroad, for the payment of $1,016,24,88, due the United States on December 31, 1882. Sixty-one Mormon missionaries will shortly leave New York for Europe. Thirty two of the elders will be sent to Great Britain, twenty three to the Sca n dinavian peninsula, and four to Switzerland. A mob at Dover, Del., dissatisfied with the performance of O'Brien's circus, Sunday night, attacked the attaches after the show, fatally wounding Charles Henderson, a proprietor, and injuring ten others. No arrests were made. The Union Pacific railroad company are in debt to the government to the amount ol 1,030,000, and there is some aikof requiring payment before any more dividends are declared, but secretary Teller does not seem to be in sympathy with the plan.. Bishop Doane, of Albany, has made a plan to build a grand cathedral in the city and he has collected $44,000 with which to begin the work. The site has been selected and the ground has been paid for. The cathedral is to seat 2,000 people, and will have cost when completed about $300,000. Alice Flagg White, a beautiful young lady of twenty-six, daughter of the wealthiest farmer iu Boylston, Mass., and r graduate of the famous Oreid Institute at Worcester, has, after a three years' clandestine courtship, married George Hazzard, colored, a former farm laborer of her fathers. A public reception is to be tendered the couple. A Hartford father, whose daughter, aged sixteen, died shortly before Christmas, refuses to allow the body to be buried. An undertaker goes to the house occasionally to apply preservatives. The ather sits up with the body every night from midnight till daylight. The explanation of the strange affair is that when the girl was on her dying-bed she expressed a dread of being put in the ground, and the father told her that she should not be. The entomologist of the Smithsonian Institution has reported that there is no sign of phylloxera discoverable upon the vine cuttings from Madeca submitted by the New York customs oftteere, and adds that it is extremely doubtful whether phylloxera could Ve discovered upon any of the cuttings now held at New York, and the chances of the introduction of the pest by these cuttings is so slight as not to be worth considering. A dispatch from Uniontown. Penn., says: Thursday afternoon, as Miss Liz-

$37,000.

The Hamiliton County Medical As- pie Nut and her younger sister, Annie,

Cyrus.

ociation has expelled Dr.. W. H.

The charge made against him was knowingly, persistently and intentionally violating the code of the medical ethics

were walkicg down Main street, Dukes

was going up the opposite side. When the young ladies were just opposite him Miss Annie ran out into the street and

Praine fires are doing considerable damage in Nebraska. The Canadian Parliament house at Qeubeo, burned Thursday. There are uow $700,000 m silver in tho Texas State Treasury.

Soheller, the Milwaukee saloon keeper on trial for firing tho Newhall House, has been acquitted. The "drive'' of cattle out of Texas this season will not exceed 240,000, against 350,000 last year. Six persons were killed and eleven injured at Sacramento. Friday, by the fall of a burning building. An unnatural father was arrested at Monticeilo, 111., Saturday. His daughter was but thirteen years of age.

Delhi, India, had an extensive conflagration Thursday. Tvo thousand houses wore burned. One of the features of the next Cincinnati Exposition will be a full exhibit of the minerals and ore of the west. There has been a marked improvement in the appearance of the winter wheat, fields of Illinois and Ohio since the first of April. The Ohio Democratic State Cent nil

Goniiviittee has decided to hold the next

State convention at Columbus on June

21st. At Youngstown, O., Edward Nock, the first man in tho United States to puddle iron, died Friday afternoon of paralysis gadaietgh y-one. At Columbus, Ohio, the Scott bill became a law Tuesday, taxing each liquor dealer $200 per year, and those selling only beer and wine $100. James G. Parkinson, a deaf and dnmb lawyer of Cincinnati, has been admitted to practice law before the supreme court tho first case of the kind on record. The reported fall of a meteor at William's ranch, Texas, related Monday, is now said to be one of Joe Atulhatton's lies. He is the fellow who sold Mammoh Cave for transportation to Ungland. Another great storm visited the west, Sunday. A Colorado railroad train was blown from the track, but no one was badly hurt. . The blizzard extended over Kansas and Wyoming, doing considerable damage. A Springfield (III) special says that the body of Lincoln has not been in the saj caphsous there since th.e attempt

made in November, 1876, to steal the remains. The place where they are deposited is not known to more than half a a dozen people. A Fond Du Lac, Wis., dispatch says tlmt contrary to what was previously ex

pressed, the whiter wheat at present promises to be the heaviest crop of the coming season. The grain is all nicely rooted, and not winter killed only in a very few places where water rested during the early spring months. The Coleman county court- house, at Coleman City, Tex., was broken into Friday night. All the criminal indictments were destroyed, and the district and county records for several years were car ried away. No clew to tho perpetrators, Tho cowboys, now on a strike in tho "Panhandle" district, are becoming more violent One hundred welt armed are encamped at Las Cosa, Oldham county, under thr leadership of one Harris, and make open threats of violence .gainst all who may come to take their phtee3. The Malagassy envoys were met in London by reports that there are alarming stories current at home of snorts upon their part to use British influence to overthrow their queen and father their own ambition. The.ee reports have been spread by their eaemies of tho opposition party. The envoys have written in lniste to their friends in Madagascar to ascertain the extent to which tho accusations are believed. They are in dou bt whether it will be safe for them to return home. F:om various reliable sources an ap proximate estimate has been made as to the probable wheat acreage in Minnesota and Dakota this year as compared with 1882 In the former State the loss in acreage is noted by land, being given up to daiiy ing, but new laud broken nearly offsets this. While the total acreage in Minnesota in 18S2 was 2,572,0 DO, this year it is estimated it will be fully 2,500,000. In Dakota last year the acreage was 850, 000, which this yerr will be swelled to 1,000,000, and it is estimated tins will swell the total crop to 21,000,OCfO bushels as compared with 12,000,000 bushels in 1882. A Davenport special says: "A gentle man counected with milling interests baa just returned from a trip through southern Iowa, and says that wintisr wheat is in fair condition though the acreage" is small. Most of the spring wheat is sown ad some is beginning to appear above ground, and the acreage is larger than usual. Rye is in good condition, and a large acreage of oats is being sown Farmers are preparing to pnt in a greater area of corn than last year. From travel ihrough Missouri, Kansas and Nebra ka the same gentleman reports HO per cent, of the old crop of corn still in the farmer's hands."

FOREIGN: Smuggling is being extensively practiced on the Bio Grande. Serious rioting atterfds the work among tho laborers on the Panama canal. Curley, another of the Phomix Park assassina, has been sentenced to lie hanged. Moody and Sim key and their sailed from Liverpool for this country on tho 10th. The working-men of Gorinany arc reorganizing for m general strike for an increase of wages.

navmg uisc-i vereu mat. a certain area

in Asia is suitable for the production of

cotton, the Orenburg liussians are pre

paring to make tho experiment.

Over 20,000 Canadians returned to the

Domiuion from the United States last

yea r. The Manitoba craze curried them

back, and took with them thousands of

Americans. In due time the Americans will be returning to their own native land followed by n stream of Canucks, A report has been received by the national board of health saying that 'cholera which prevailed to an alarming extent in China, Japan and India some time ago, has disappeared. The report has also been received that smallpox is raging in Bio do Janeiro. Jiov. Dr. Thomas 33. Wood, formerly a resident of this Slate, is visiting in Jefiersonviile. He is the superintendent of the

Methodist Mission in South America, Be ia at Rosarie, in the Argentine Confederation, and has been made superintendent of public instruct ijn of the entire country.

This announcement is good for this day and date, per cable: The Russian Empeior and Empress will reach Moscow on the 21st of May and tho coronation will take

THE SOUTH: Two Frenchmen, subjected to indignities by General Bo tier at New Orleans during tho war, have recover ed, respectively, $10,000 and '$4,000 from the United States as a balm for their wounded sensibilities. lu Douglassville, Ga., about a year ago the sheriff of the county, an cx-nioraher vf the Legislature, and several other prominent and enlightened citizens attacked a poor Italian imago vender: spat upon bin , rolled him on tho floor and them sat upon him, singing ribald songs and relating rude jokes. Denied a hearing by the grand Jury, the Italian brought suit in tho Uni ted States Court, and t een red a verdict for $1,250 damages on Wednesday. Two weeks ago a child died in the family of a man named Westbronk, in Graysville, Georgia. Soon thereafter other members of the familv were stricken down with a singular disease, Sunday the mother and four children, and Monday two more children died, making seven members of one family lying dead at tho same time. Only one member ia left, the father, who is crazed with mingle:! fear ani grief. It is not known of what disease they died.

THE HOUSE WITH CLOSETS.

Uow door, to tho heart of the housekeeping woman Are. comforts of which so few architects toll; Nice children, tyDod servants and plenty of room in Tho well fitted mansion in which they must dwell, But firet of the blessing kind fortune can give her. If she in the city or country abide,

Is that which she. longs for and covets forever, Tho big airy closet, her joy and her pride The roomy, clec.n closet, the well-ordered closet, Tho big, airy sluset iwr joy and Iter pride, Tho house may ba perfect from garret to celfar. Well lighted, well aired, with cold water and

hot. And yet, to the eye of the feminine dweller, If closetlesB, all is as if it wero not, How oft she has sunk like a dove that is wounded. How oft she has secretly grumbled and sighed, Because she saw not, through with all oleo surroundotl. The big, airy closet, her joy and her pride! The roomy, clean closet, the well-ordered closet, Tho big, airy closet, her joy raid her pride. Pond husbands, who fain would have home bo an Eden, For you and your Kv-as all complete as a whole, To read in, to write Ui, to sleep iu, to food in.

Forget not the closets so dear to the soul; But build them ia corners, in nooks and in crannied, Whatever rn closet may harbor or hide, And give to your Marys, your Kates and your Annies, Tho big, airy olosets their joy and their pride The roomy, -clean closets, tho well-ordered closets,

The big, airy closets, their joy and their pride! I he Builder.

place. May 27. The festivities include eigb c I alls to be prolonged until J nue 5. Tho state entry into St. Petersen g will be made on June 10th. At Antwerp, the authorities refused to grant a concession to a company wishing to erect grain elevators lor unloading: grain. Previous to the announcement of the decision a mob attacked the towu hall, smashing windows and injuring several persons. The police charged on the crowd, and made a number of arrests Tho coronation of the czar lias been again and unexpectly postponed, and while the announcement is leticent as to tho cause ol! the postponement, there is no doubt that it is due solely to the recent increased activity of the Nihilist agitators, and was probably caused directly by the discovery of the Kremlin plot. The now date fixed is Jane 10. Consul Lewis, of Sierre Leone, writes to the Department of State that importers of leaf tobactio from the United States complain that it is dishonestly packed that hogsheads, on being opened, are found to contain a great deal of refuse

tobacco; tlmt from 25 to 50 per cent, of tho imports is not according to samples, and that this is particularly the case with

Kentucky tobacco. Owing to the difficulties of inspection, the .inferior charater of the tobacco, according to Consul Lewis, is rarely discovered until it has found its way to the retailers' shops, and the importer is obliged to make an allowance to the consumer, which in cases averages 2 per hogshead on tho cargo. He advocates a more carsful inspection tcobacco before- shipment,!

Agricultural Notes. A good vegetable garden pays. Get good seed and plenty of it. See well to the ewes and lambs. Don't use poor tools or bad Beed. Exercise mind as well as muscle. Feed and water stock regularly. Care well for all young animals. Are your buildings well painted? Never breed from senile animals. Grow more small fruits this year. Put your fences and gates in order. Make home attractions "stick up." Allow no brute to Train your brutes. Girls, how about the f? lower garden? Make tramps work or leave t he farm. Plant both fruit and ornamental trees, Give agents and peddlers a wide berth. Repair and paint tools, etc., rainy days. Industry and economy produce wealth. Salt and ashes foraVa good dressing for the quince tree. The younger the pigs the ofterner they should be fed. We have no perfect cattle food. Good hay comes nearest to it. . In all cases a cow should be milked regularly and stripped clean. The hay crop of 1882 is estimated af the value of 372,000,000. The timbered land of Arizonia embrace an area of 5,760,000 acres. It is said Ihf.t sheep in orchards will annihilate the codling moth. Good corn stalks, well cured, are abou equal to hay for cows. There are 3,400,000 acres of United "states land for sale in Mississippi. Philip Bitas is fencing in a 7,000 acre wheat farm near IUtzvill, W. T. Coal ashes sifted on currant bushes, it is said, will destroy the currant worm. Flowers and ornamental shrubs and frees and beauty and value to tho homestead. Governor Glick, of Kanasas, is President of a cattle company, the capital of which is $1,000,000. Stock cattle are very scarce in Arizonia, and prices very high, cows without calves ranging as high as 26 Wyoming has a territorial, vaterinarian and model law for the prevention and suppression of contagious diseases. The greatest winner on . the running turf in this country was Hindoo, and his net earnings amounted to less than $80.000. They have regular comity stook sales in Madison county, Ohio, which have been kept up monthly for over seven years. A man in Georgia made 39,000 last year from 100 acres of water-melons. This year 7,000 acres, in seven counties, will be planted Parties from the Wisconsin pineries says that the woods are now in better condition for work than at any former time this year. Tho Prince of Wales has at Sandringham, 105 Shorthorn cows and 29 Shorthorn bulls, which a re kept in two distinct herds. ft is a mistake to suppose sheep can go a great while- without water. They drink little at a time, it is true, but on that account they require water often. A PSMSACHER down iu Arkansas, whose church was flooded, preached from the

THE HEATHEN CHINESE,

Not CIiHIBHm and Warnl,' Imt Kwtc, Krutnl and Disobliging Tliey Murder Their Sick, tml Dishonor Women.

roof of the sanctuary in skills.

to a congregation

E. Y. Smali&y in the Out my. There is a mistaken notion in the East that the Chinese are always humble and submissive, and much put upon and abused by the whites of the Pacific Coast There was a time when the hoodlums of San Francisco maltreated the Asiatic immigrants shamefully, but that time has gone by. Now the Chinaman appears to be as secure in his rights of person and property as anybody. Instead of being deferential and timid, he is often pushing

and insolent. He does not give way in the street He bustles you as rudely as au English navvy, A body of Chinese laborers marching down a narrow street will crowd ladies into i he gutter. The Chinese merchants, doctors, and other beonging to the better classes, aie as poilte as Frenchmen, but the masses of the Chinese population on the Pacific Coast are rude and brutal. The chief thing in their favor is their habit of personal cleanliness. The railroad laborers, who are the poorest and most ignorant class, wash themselves from head to foot fo the end of each day's work. All classes are frequent customers of the barber, who

gives minute attention to their heads, faces, ears and necks. Among the common laborers there is little sympathy for the sick and injured comrades. If a man is likely to become a burden, t he other members of the gang want to t,et rid of him as soon as possible, 3t is commonly believed by the bosses on the railroads that the Chinee e doctors put sick men out of the way by poison when they think they canifot be speedily cured. A ease was told me in Oregon of a coolie railway laborer who had an arm broken. It was set by the company's doctor, and was doing well, but the man's comrades insisted on bringing a Chinese doctor to attend him. The doctor came from a distant camp and gave the patient a dose In an hour the poor fellow was dead. In such cases there is no investigation, nobody cares that there is one Chinaman less. The death of a cart horse is of much more consequence, One great difficulty the employers of Chinese labor have to contend with is the superstition of these queer people. Their religious worship consists chief ly in propitiating the malevolent spirits ot the dead. If a Chinese domestic fancies

there is a ghost in the house ho departs !

at once, and leaves an inscription behind to warn his successors. It of ten happens that a family will be unable to keep a servant longe:-: than a single da Man after man will come and go without giving any reason for his abrupt departure. At last the warning sign is found in the kitchen or servant's room and expunged; then there is no more trouble. Not long ago two Chinamen were killed in Oregon by the premature explosion of a blast on a new railway line. One of their fellowworkmen declared that just before the explosion ho saw ttto devils come to the opposite bank uf the river and heard them talking. Thereupon the whole gang of forty men dropped work, and could not be induced, by threats or persuasion, to return to the spot. It was necessary to send them to another part of the line, and bring on a fresh gang who had not heard of tho occurrence. It is commonly supposed in the East that the Chinese make excellent servants. Some of thera do, no doubt ; but I met no housekeeper on the pacific Coast who did not s&y she would greatly prefer a good white woman, if one could be obtained,to the biast Chinaman. As a rule, the Chinese domestic servants, while they do faithf uUy,and in a machine like way,what they agree to do, and are shown how to do, they are stubborn and disobliging if asked to go outside of their regular day's routine of labor. They insist on having their eveningB to themselves, and on leaving the house to gamble and smoke opium with their comrades in some dirty den. If for any reason breakfast is wanted at an earlier hour than common, the mistress must get it herself. The greatest trouble with them is,however,to teach them, to show the same deffbrenee to the mistress of the house that they show to the master. They despise women as a lowor order of beings, and cannot understand, until they have been some time in this country, how a woman can rightfully have authority iu a household. The oulj' reason the Chinese ara valued as houseservants on the Pacific Coast is because white servi.ee is scarce and very bad. Knowing that they can always get sanations, the lew whits women who go out to service are, as a rule, arrogant, lay and incompetent. Mules Used in Coal Mines. Shoxuidoah, I'a,, Correspondence, Turkey Kun Colliery has a phantom mule, which miners believe in implicitly. Dozens declare they have seen tnospt oter and describe it as double the size of an ordinary mule. The vision haunts the old breasts, and uo one is ever said to have seen it in the main gangway, where fleshly mules work. When a minor declares that he has seou the spectral beast superstitious people working about him believe that a catiistrophe is at hand

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Three men, two of whom, John Devine and David Thomas Williams, now live in this place, vow that they saw the apparition an hour before the big explosion in August, 1881,, when four men were killed and several others wore injured. An ordinary mule cannot bo induced to enter parts of the mine where damps exists in dangerous quantities. There arc in

stances on record, however, in which mules have been overpowered by damp, when the mules and the rats in a mine start for the foot of the shaft or mouth of tho drift the miners rarely fail to follow, as it is considered a sure indication of

danger. The confinement of mules in coal mines has no evil effect on their constitutions. They are always well fed and cared for, and the coal dust gives their coats a gloss rarely seen on the hair of mules living in

the open air. While a mine is worked the mules never come out. Some months ago water in the lower workings of the argest colliery at St. Clair caused a suspension of the work and all the mules were brought up. More than a dozen of the animals had been in the colliery eleven years. When turned out to pasture near the village they did not pay the slightest attention to the scant herbage

about them, but devoted their whole time to gazing at the sky, the mountains and the horizon. They wero evidently lost in open-eyed astonishment and failed to

realize where they were. They stood for hours in silent contemplation of the sd nery and appeared so stupefied that not one of the lot offered to make war on his mates. Tho strangeness of the scene had driven all the coinbativenes3 out of tnem for a time. On the first day they did not even make a circuit of the tenacre field they were in, and the food offered to tJiem was refused. That night, however, they devoured the food, and at daylight again huddled and remained so until nightfall. Their astonishment did not wear off until a week went by, and hundreds of people visited the place to see them. Just as they were becoming accustomed to the place and were beginning to indulge in kicking matches they

were lowered into the colliery again and renewed work in the dark.

as the live one, for a specimen nine fet long and reasonably fat will net both branches of the trade as follows; .. Hunter. Dealer, Oil 85 50 $7 $0 Skin , l CO 4O0

Head 10 00 25 00

GENERAL

MISCBLLASY.

-the attic

Au unfinished story-

Good vinegar can bo made of honey cap-

pings.

Mrs. Harriet Beeehcr Stowe is building

a church near Jacksonville, Fie. . . ,-.

The colored Methodist Episcopal church

Total... ..$16 5 . $86 50

The value of the head is ascertained by has more than 100,300 members.

the number and size of tho teeth. Deal

ers mount especially fine specimens of the skulk but the greater number have no

other value than that of the ivory they contain.

How to Answer "Mashers." There lives in St. Louis a very sensible

old German named Muller, who keeps a

store. Ho has a daughter named Mine. Not long since she attracted the .attention ofono of those unfortunate creature called "mashers," so called because their

noses nee-1 masninc auouc ten tunes a

day. He found out where she lived, and next day an unkempt urchin brought Miss Muller a personal note, marked

"strictly confidential. The contents of

the note wore to the effect that he loved

her for herself alone. The following post script was added:

L xnat my darling may make no mtstake.remember that I will wear alight

pair of pants and a dark cut-away coat.

In ray right hand I will carry a small

cane, and iu my left a cigar. Yours for

ever. AdOTjPHUS.

As the urchin said he was told to wait

for an answer, Miss Muller took the note to her father and requested him to write

an answer. The old man did so, stating

that his daughter would be at the ap

pointed place at the time specified by

prosy, he, her father, having authority to

represent her at the proposed caucus.

The postscript read as follows:

P. S. Dot. mine sn may make no mis

takes. 1 vill be dresned in my shirt-steefe.

l vi ,1 year m my n-jnt nana a cuid: m

my left hand vill year a six-shooter, 45

caliber. You vill recognize me by de vay

I bats you on de head a goople dimes

twict mit de glnb. Vfut for me on de corner, as I have somedings important to

inform you m it. lour front, Hkinrioh McmER.

For some unexplained reason Adolphus

was not on hand when he was wanted,

much to the grief of the old man, who

meant ad that he wrote.

The Bombardment of Alexandria. Admiral Nicholson. There was only two buildings leu standin in the European quarter after the pillage of the city the St. Mark's building, which the American consulate occupied, and the building of the Egyptian tribunal, containing the real estate or other records of the city. As a sample of tl e damage done by the pillagers, I may mention the house of Baron Manas33

tho American consul. He must have expended 70,000 in building and furnishing it. The Bedouins went into it with pickaxes and deliberately smashed the elegant pi ate-glass mirrors, tore off the upholstering of the furniture, and cut up pieces of the furniture to carry away. Tbedinaage t) the furniture alone .mas have amo anted to i0,000. When I landed Am iricau troops I sent to the Khedive to obtain has consent to re-establishing our consulate. The Khedive is well versed in American affairs, and he speaks English &s well as you or I. He said to my officer: "Yes, establish the consulate and for G od's sake help to restore order in my unfortunate city." That doesn't look much like troops invading a foreigu shore. I imagine that Arabi Pasha evacuated Alexandria for the purpose of giving up the ; European quarter to pillage The Egyptian troops were poor soldiers. I think the Soudau blacks manned onlj two ot the twenty odd batteries. If the Egyptians could have stood the tire of the English lieet the defense of Alexandria could have been prolonged, for they would have exhausted the ammunition of the bombarding fleet. Of course, further supplies would Iwo been obtained later, but the tight could have ecu made more dilEcuit if there had beer. Europeans behind the Egyptian works.

The Surf-Riders. Owing to the entire absence of coral reefs, the surf, says the author of "Fire Fountains," at all times breaks on the shores of Hawaii with prodigious violence. But in stormy weather this is,-of course, iucreased ten. fold, and the great green billows come rushing in with overwhelming lotos. These are the delight of tho surf -riders. Each carries a surf -board which is simply a wooden plank ,and rai

ment is of course almost nil. Plunging beneath the ilrst wave, they rise beyond

it, and swim out to sea till they meet another, and then another, in each case div ing just at the right moments to allow the billow to pass over them. if they miscalculate by one second, the surf catches them and dashes them shoreward, when they need to be good swiinjne.es to escape being battered on the rocks. But 1 mg practice makes perfect, and many of the surf-riders dive safely beneath each successive wave till they reach t he comparatively smooth water beyond the swell. Then, laying themselves Hat on their board, they prepare for their exciting ride. Their tirst care is to select a winning sea-horse. They calculate that every third wave is larger than tho fcre and rushes higher upou the beach, so their aim is to mount the biggest billow, which carries them shoreward at almost lhhtaing speed. The ride has all the exciteaient of a raee;for, should the rider fail to keep his plank at exactly the right angle on the crest of the green billow, he will ba overtaken by the breaking surf of the wave which follows, and, to avoid this, must ag.dn dive beneath if and swim out to sea to make afresh start. Should he fail to select the right wave as Us courser, and find himself on one of the lesser waves, the result is the same, as it will break ere he reaches the 6hore, and he must again do battle with the pitiless surf and swim for his life. The Southern 'Gator. Six thousand baby alligators are sold in Florida e,very year, and the amount o ivory, number of skins and quantity oE oil obtained from the older members of the Saurian family are sullicient to entitle them to a high place among the products of tho State. The hunters sell young 'gators at 25 per hundred, and the dealers from 75 ots. to $1 each. Live alligators two years old represent io the captor 50 cents each, and to the dealer from $2 to S5, as the season of travel is at. its height or far advanced. A ten-foot alligator is worth $10, and one fourteen feet long 825 to the hunter, while the dealer charges twice or three times that price. The eggs aro worth to the hunter 50 cents per dozen, and to tho dealer 25 cents each, Tho dead alligator is quite as valuable

Even young Mr. Wilde must concede

that the dude's head is full of sawdust.

Colorado is one of the few1 states that ;

can boast tc-day of freedom from debt

A Dresden artist haf made -a watch.

entirely of paper, which keeps good time.

St. Peter never passed anybody in oii 1

the say-so of a string of obituary resolu-.. ,

tione. y

Generous natures will hesitate about ;

licking a postage stamp when it gets down

to two cent?.

It is now the t me to save your spare

money for ?iummervacation.

The Brifcsh wild x is extinct, except

is a few English and Scottish parks.

Canada is haying a larger immigration

this year than last, the U. S., less.

In Paris men wear bracelets of gold. In

N .Y., of iron put ou by policemen.

A nation at bank about to be established

at Mcridan will be tho second one thus far opened in Mississippi. .'. '

Workingmen who labor hard for their

daily bread do not object to having a loaf

thrown in once. in a while.

It is ire cr ted that Jews have, in propor

tion to their number, fewer illiterate cail-

dren than any other people. . , :

The military guard of the Band of- -

France, which was discontinued some time ago, has been re-established.

Fifty thousand copies: of Mark Twain's

new book, ''Life on the Mississippi will

be printed fo a first edition.

The garden truck raised about Norfolk ?

Va., t his season, will require 1,000,000 f barrels in which to market it.

Lobsters are becoming Scarce and the

Material for a Romance. Kiissollvjllo HornW.-Eatorprise.

The departure of a certain gentleman

of Muhlenberg county for Arizona,last week, was an incident in a story about t Til i ' t.

wnicn count oe ouur an interesting ro

mance. Between twenty-five and thirty

years ago, when tho gentleman was a ba

by, his father left home to better his for

tunes, and went, it ,vas thou gut, to Cali

fornia. His wife heard nothing from him

or of him until he had been gone for

three or more yean?, when she received a

cheek for ftoOO and requesting her to

come to him. She kept the money, as wqs

proper, but declined to make the journey.

and he became silent again. Tears went by and the lady, after tha proper preliminaries, married again. The gentleman had almost dropped from the minds of his old neighbors, many elieving him dead, until a few weeks ago, wbea he gave another sign of life by sending another cheek for $500. This time tho money was sent to his son, whom he remembered only as "the baby," but who is the father of a family himself now. In his letter he said if his son would come to him in Arizona, he would give him a good farm. The young man accented the offer. The meeting of the ld man and "the baby" will doubtless be an interesting one. lhe gentiaman is said to be quite rich now.

Winter Luxuries. New York Sun. "Fifty thousand quarts of strawberries may be expected here next month from Florida, Georgia and South Carolina," said a wholesale dealer yesterday. "Two thousand quarts arrived to-day from Jacksonville, and this makes 7,000 quarts received from there this month. They are selling to-day at seventy-five cents a quart; the first brought $2.75. Let the young folks who are thinking of matrimony kuow that two cases of orange blossoms arrived this morning from Florida being the tirst that have ever been sent here from there. They were sent in a refrigerator, and are in a fine condition.' Hot-house strawberries from Massachusetts and Rhode Inland bring $3 a quart now; the first brought $10. Peaches from ahe same source will begin to arrive iu about two months. Cucumbers from the hot-beds around Boston and

Fitohburg are arriving, and id oilers sell the best at. S3 a dozen or 1 more than the wholesale dealers charge. Mushrooms from Loiiij.: Island and from the hothouses around South Aniboy are worth fifty "cent a pound at wholesale; the retailers ict a large profit. The hot-house radish's in market come mostly fromLong Island. "New York is the best market for all these luxuries," said ade der, "but Boston, Philadelphia and Washington also take considerable. New England is the seat of the hot-house industry, though we have houses also on Long Island and in Now Jersey." Facts bout the Bible. A prisoner condemned to solitary con finemeni obtained a copy of the Bible, and by three years, careful study, obtained the following: facts: . : The Bible contains 3,389.489 ' letters, 773,692 words, 31,171 verses, 1.189 chapters, and 06 books. The word and occurs 40277 times. The word Lord occurs 2 .355 times. The word Rov., occurs but once, which is in the 5th verse of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse is the 8th verse ot the 118th Psalm. The 21t verso of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters in the alphabet except the letter J. The finest

chapter to road is the. 26th chapter of tho Acts of i ho Apostles. The 19th chapter of II. Kings and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike. The longest verso is tho 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther. Tho shortest vsrse is the 35th verso of the 11th chapter of St. John. Tho 8th, 25th, 21sh, verses of t he 107th Psalm end alike. Each verse of the 136th Psalm ond alike. There are no words or names of more than six syllables. KowHe Lost His Wheat. Faducah s A geutioxnan who resides on the lowlands on the other side of the river, tells how he lost a neld of wheat, in a curious manner, during the late Hoods, lie says the wheal had come up nicely, when a heavy storm of si et fell and covered his farm with a thioh. coating of ice. Before the ice melted the river overflowed the field, the ice arose to the surface of the water and pulled. up with it every last wheat blade. The last he saw of his crop it was following his fence down the Ohio on its road to the . Gulf... The field now looks as bare as a grimlstona

need of protection for them in Connecticut ? and Raoda Island water is felt A Flock of Fifty Eagles, Sioux City -fournaK -. '. . A flock cf eagles is believed to a rats thin g, bur. that is just what Niok Maher ex-Sheriff of Dakota county, , and B. I Ward, of this city, saw on Friday atter-, noon. Tiese two gentlemen?were return- .M ..s ing from Jackson to this city, coming by , the island road. When about four miles out from Covin gton, in CoL Orr's timber in Brushy, bend, they saw on the tress ahead of t hem what they at first supposed was a dock cf turkeys... Coming nearer they saw that tho birds were not turkeys but eagles, bald eagles, too. As they came clos e most of thorn fiew off toward the north and were hid by the timber. But six- remained. Among theee six was"; one whic i Mr. Ward said looked like Old Abe, the' Wisconsin war eagle. This on; . craned his neck as the two men passed di

rectly under the tree where he. sat. The

mcn halloed, but neither this white-head

ed vetcra i nor any of the six new off. Mr, Ward says there wes fully fifty eagles in this dock . Their plumage was not all alike, sorae being gray-headed and others with white heads. Both gentlemen are confident that there are no mistake about the identity of the birds. It is possible that these bald eagles had been south to winter and so happened to come back -in a body. The b:ld eagle is not entirely the nobis -bird tlmt ho is pictured by the poets. Truth compels the statement that he is by birth and practice a thief, and his principal source of support is the fish-hawk, whom 1 e robs remorselessly. He will catch rabbits and other small game when he can't rind a fish-hawk to rob, and when on the tramp find hard up will eat carri on. The bald eagle, it may be mentioned in this connection, is the bird of our land.

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Alderney and Jersey Cows. , Aldorxtey, Jersey, and Guernsey are small islands in the British Channel, just off the coast of Normandy, Prance; from which the fiist, an isle of about four square miles in area, is separated bv only a narrow strait Jersey, about sixteen miles off the coast, is a much larger and more fertile island, being about eleven times the size of Alderney. While the cattle of the three islands are all believed to have come from one common Norman stock, and paw under the common name of the Alderney breed, the Jersey cattle have been greatly improved by careful inbreeding, and are better milkers as to quantity, th u not iw to quality; than the native cattle of Alderney Few cattle are exported from the latter island, while a considerable number of Jersey cattla dre ex per ed to England and this country where lDjrly all the representatives jof whit is known a? the A idem breed are jei-soys. I fe would not be correetto speak of Ald-jrneys and Jerseys a distinct breeds. :

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