Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1884 — Page 10

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is," said Mr. Montoro, as unbluahinglyaa if he bad been Johnny of Oregon himself— '*it is in Nevada, in the city which has risen en my own ground, surrounding my own works. Ton will not find it on any map, because the city has only been built two or three years. You go •first to Colorado, and next But no matter for these details. They can wait."

It will be seen presently with what object the Colonel was deoaiVing the unfortunate philosopher. "Children," he said that evening, "the way is now clear to me. Should you like to .go to Nevada?"

Nevada! Bret Harte's boobs were about Nevada, were they not! Newada where there are rocky mountains, grizzly bears, silver-mints, adventurers, wolves, buffaloes, prairies, rattlesnakes, perils and dangers, wealth, revolvers, bowie-knives, and happiness! Goto Nevada! Kepler looked at .Tycho Brahe, and gasped. Ptolemy seized 'Galileo by the hand, and said, "Oh, oh!" slowly, and from his heart. "Where is Nevada?" asked his wife. "It is one of the newest of the States. -It is the place where Mr. Montoro mads his money. You did not know that, Milly "No. I have never had any letters from .• Nevada." "There he has built a city—it is only two years old—on his own grounds, and about his own works and in the city ia the 'college^ I am offered—definitely and formally offered—the chair of astronomy.

Shall I accept the offer?" There was a rapturous shout. "Well, my children," he went on, "if it is ordained that I achieve the greatness in America, which Oxford and Cambridge refuse me, I hope that I shall accept it in a becoming spirit. As for you going with 'me, boys, I am sure that with Mr. Montoro's glorious example before us, and his patronage at starting, we need have no fear or hesitation." i£

And then there was such joy in the Ambler family as would have done your heart good only to see it, without understanding what it was about at all. To the elder tboys it meant wealth unbounded, like Mr.

Montoro's but without so much temper to the younger it meant change and fun— no doubt there were no schools in Nevada to Copernica it meant justice—tardy, but still justica—to her father to the good wife it meant relief from tightness. Who would not go to Nevada for a thousand pounds a year?

Perhaps., too, they all thought there •might come a time when there would be less talk about that Grand Discovery which made the family look upon all glory as vanity, so much had it spoiled and wasted the father's life.

It was now four weeks since Mr. Montoro's return. He had partly succeeded in reconciling Milly. *She did not, it is true, Venture again upon the mistake of kissing him, or of expecting any carresses from him but she had overcome the repulsion which at first filled her soul with regard, to him. Perhaps, if he had behaved more kiudly in regard to George, she would have looked upon him with some approach to affection. What he wanted most, however, he had got from her. She trusted him she did not in the least suspect him, and she was growing very nicely, and just as he could wish, to feel toward the great Fortune a personal interest. He felt sure that he could manage the ^rest very easily, once she was away from her friends. You do not, when you go a tempting, approach the subject straight you work round it you talk about other things you prepare the mind for it you sap the ground you gradually destroy principle you do not, at last, make the last step until you are perfectly certain of success. The Colonel, who was a veritable serpent for craft and subtlety, knew that it would take time to convert an innocent girl into a rogue, thief, and confederate of cheats but he knew what he was about,' -and he also knew from long experience thai there are few so strong as to resist all kinds of temptation.

He now took his next step. "I must tell you, Milly," he said with a touch of sorrow in his voice, "that I am now making my preparations to go back in a week—this day week. I have again seen Mr. Richard Ambler, and I hear that b| can find me a purchaser for the houses, and will draw up the necessary papers immediately. .You have heard that I have given Mr. Ambler a post in my college. He and his family will therefore start at once. Thife, if you persist in refusing to accompany me, deprives you of a home." "I can find one with George." "I shall not oppose it," said her father. "I might have looked higher for my daughter, but I will no longer oppose your inclinations. You shall marry the man of your ''Choice, and I hope you will be happy. What you will do when you come into your Fortune I do not know. You will not, I fear, either of you, be equal to the position in which you will find yourselves. However, that is, after all, not my business, "because I neglected you so long. It is my punishment that I can not interfere as an ordinary parent might." "You are very kind to me now," said

Milly. "You mean that I was not always. Perhaps not—perhaps not. I did not know you, Milly, wheji first I landed, four weeks ago. Forgive me, my daughter!"

She looked at him in surprise. Strange that even when he was at his softest, using words which in other men would have been accompanied by some outward sign of tenderness. his eyes were as keen and his mouth as hard as if he wore contemplating some thing connected with fight and struggle. "Now, Milly, I have been thinking a good bit over things, and I am prepared to say to you, HJo and marry your lover.' I will not ask you to give him up, and«ome *f\ro*N the wateur vith DM »ill even unresisting to his own lodgings, which were not fur off. "Now," hesaid, turning up the gas in the sitting-oom, "let me look at you." Ha did look, and he trembled.

The man was dressed in an old and illfitting suit of black doth. I do not think there is any kind of dress in which a man may look so fearfully shabby as a suit oI black. This is partly due to the fact that it is evening dress, and should suggest social cheerfulness. In the same way, no one could possibly look more melancholy than a down by daylight outside his show and in official dress. A dress-coat, too, when it has grown old, and hsis seen long service in some third-class restaurant falls into curves, lines, and and folds which seem to dobsse and degrade the figure of man beneath. This man's whole suit, again, was disgracefully and deplorably dirty, and covered with streaks of grease. Every*, thin fir was to match: he wore no collar

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Mt had a tea nanlercmet tied about his neck, and a gray ilannel shirt in rags his hat was a slouched felt of the commonest description. He took off the hat and stood in the light, a little sobered, but hii eyes were heavy with diink. They were light blue eyes, unsteady and weak. Bit wore a long grayish beard, but his hair was brown and silky. And the reAso--why George trembled was not because his clothes were so shabby, but because his face was like unto the face of his sweetheart and his eyes like her eyes, though different in expression. The daughter was like the father, and he knew—he was perfectly certain—that before him stood the man whom the other pretended to be. "Once more—who do you say you are?" "Worshipful Charles Montoro is my name." "Where do you coma from?" sv: "From Oregon, lasty he replied, partly sobered by this young man's earnestness. "I came from Quebec in a timber vessel shipped as cook." "You came oyer here as cook? Where is all your money then?"

The man shook his head. ^I haven't got any money," he replied. "There was some in the bunk the Colonel stole it." "Where is your Fortune then?" "I haven't got any Fortune. How should I have any." "What did you mean then by your letters." "My letters? Oh!" Then he put his hand to his head in a feeble way, trying to understand. Then he sat'clown looking bewildered. And presently, while George waited for further explanation, his head fell back and his eyes ciosed. He was asleep. And while he slept he looked still more like Milly.

The man slept all through the night George mounting guard over him lest he should wake up and slip away. By the? morning light he looked more disreputable than ever. When he awoke at seven, George took him into his own bedroom, and gave him, to begin with, a completely new rigout, in which, at all events, he presented a respectable appearance. The man was very much subdued, and asked no questions, takiug what was offered him, and doing what he was told. Apparently a gentle and amenable person. Then George gave him breakfast, and after breakfast bade, him tell his story.

I suppose there never was a man, since gift of speech was first granted to humanity, who rambled in his talk so much as Johnny of Oregon what he had to tell we already' know, but George did not. He got at last, and after a thousard twistings and turnings, to the jCoint at which the Colonel came, stayed with him a week, proved excellent company, and finally made off with the money the letters. Then he went on: "When the Colonel stole that money, and the letters as well, nnd I could not come up with him, nor hear of him anywheres, I hadn't the heart to go back to the dear in', and hung around a bit doin' odd jobs, as many are ready to do all over the States. And so somehow I worked my way back again to the east, and in the spring got to Quebec. Now when you stand on the hill at Quebec and look across to the east, it seems as if you can see all the way across the water to London. Curious that, isn't it? And what with havin' none of her letters to read, and lookin' across the water, and thinking I was gazing upon Hackney Wick, I fell to dreamin' about the little maid, and longin' to see her again." "So you came home, and got drunkf' "Yes, sir that is so. Oh, I knew vdry well I should have to own upt And 1 knew what they would say particularly Matilda's sister, P'leena, who married very well, and now keeps carriage company. It would be rough on the little maid at first to see her father such a disgraceful old pauper, and a shame to a respectable terrace to be seen loafin' around, after all Pd told her, too. First I thought I would just look ovar the palings like, and go away somebody would tell me which of them she was perhaps I'd beg a copper to carry away and remember her by. Then I thought how it would be if I made a clean breast and begged her pardon humble, and so went away again. All the journey across the ocean in that timber sihip I thought about it, and what I should do. And when I got across to Poplar only this morning, I teU you, sir, I'd no more notion of wuat was best to be done than when I started." "j'erhaps you never have had any notion in all your life of what was best to be done." ...jv "Perhaps not, sir. "Men who see clear get on in the world I never saw further than the end of the job." "But why did you get drunk?" "Well, twasn't right but think of it. I hadn't seen a public house for nineteen years. They haven't got any where I've been. They've got bars, but if you want a comfortable drink with a pipe and a friend to talk to, you must come to England. I don't quite know how many public houses there are on the straight road between this and Poplar, but I tried to drink at most, with a pipe here aud a pipe there, feelin' comfortable because I was workin' my way, you see, with the little maid at the end of the way." "And so you got disgracefully drunk. Yes—I see." There seemed no possibility of doubting or disputing the man's statements. They were told too naturally for deception. But whut was to be done next? "What is tne Colonel like!"

Jon liny described the man who had repaid his hospitality by stealing his money. .He described him-so exactly that there was little doubt in George's mind who was the personator, in spite of the discrepancies of beard and mustache. "As for his profession, he's a sportsman," continued his informer. "He sometimes plays alone, and sometimes he's one of a gang. Sometimes he travels and plays is the cars sometimes he goes to bars, and sometimes he keeps a gaming-saloon. There's thousauds like him in the countries where I've bean. Very good company they are when thar's no plunderin' and cheatin' around. If there's a quarrel, which there mostly is, it's wild cats. I was a peaceful man, I was, and nobody ever drew a bead on me but I've seen many a fight over the cards, and now and then a quiet man like myself got hit when the firm' begun. The best way is to roll over and lie*» the floor make a allowance, which will enable you to lire like a lady, if you

"Oh!" she replied, taking his hand. But he withdrew it quickly, as if afraid of her falling upon his neck again. "I did not expect this," she added. ''What am I fta say? How shall I thank you?" "Nay, I want no thank* There is only one thing you might do to pleasure your father." "Why, is there anything, except giving up George, that I would not dof "It is this, Milly: You know I have been a long time froH^bame. but I have

A genial old chief (K police, For a joke, once arrested his niece, For patching his pants

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZ1TTL,

Mrgo*cs«i yon my letters prove that Now, it grieves me to go back without even being able to show any of my kith or kin what I have done and- the edifice I have raised. It is hard to have no one belonging to yon. They will say wheat I go back, 'Colonel'—they call me Colonel out there— 'how did you find the little maidf—thatSi you Milly—that is yon and I shall have to tell them in reply that the little maid is grown up into a woman, who doesn't cars about her father—why, how should she? it is not reason that she should—and is going to be married to a lover in a low station of life. Ami there is not a creature in all the world who cares about me. It seems hard, doesnt it? What is the use of money if it cant bring me that kind of happiness?"

The tears cam© into Milly's eyes as' she stood before her father and listened. They would have flowed more readily if his own had showed the least emotion. "Then I thought to myself, suppose that Milly would come over with me for a year, or two years—not mom Suppose I were to promise her faithfully that after two years, at most, she should go back to her lover, if she pleased. It is not a very long time, two years. Milly is young her lover is young. He may vary well wait two years. Come, Milly, what do you say? A run across the ocean, a ride across the continent. First, Nevada for a year or so then we,will run over to California perhaps go up country to—to Oregon," he laughed. "Yes, I should like to show you Oregon. I know people in Oregon who would interest you very much. And when you are tired of your father, and his great house, and all, yon could come straight away back to your layer's arms. What do you say, MillyP1

She was silent, thinking. Was there ever a more reasonable or more generous offer. He would let her do what she pleased, and only suggested, leaving the offer for her oonsideration, -that she should give him two years of her society. "I will consult George about it," she said at length. "Soil/ Let it be so. Consult this infallible George. Milly, one word of advice. Don't let George know that yon think him infallible. It spoils a husband. Your mother never spoiled me in that way. Quite the contrary."

That evening George and Milly had a long and earnest talk. The proposal made by Mr. Montoro seemed really prompted by affection. After two years she might return to him. Was two years a great deal for a father to ask of his daughter! And then—one need not be quixotic, al though one is a clerk in a chemical works, with prospects—there was all this great Fortune. No one doubted the existence of the Fortune, any more than they suspected Mr. Montoro of being somebody else. This Glorious Fortune 1 Her father might marry again he might leave it away from his daughter he might do anything with it. Surely it was worth a little concession to make that inheritance safe. "I think my dear," he said at length, "I think—how can I part with yon fer two years?—that you ought to go." "I think so, too, George. But I am afraid of him. I do not know why, but I an afraid of him. The Amblers will be with us. It is a great thing that Copernica is going. But I am afraid of him."

Breaches o# Peace. [Life.]

With a quilt of her aunt's,

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letcptlns.a Daughter'! Correction* [San Francisco Chronicle.] There's an old legend of the time when Bidwell was candidate for governor. He had a servant at the door, who demanded cards from bis visitors before thoy could be admitted. Cards do not grow in the rural 'istricts, and even the playing cards are not of the best quality. But the story has nothing to do with cards. One day an old farmer and his family called. The servant answered the call. "Is the governor's folks at home?" demanded the old farmer. "Are, papa, are, not is," said ths Mills aemiuary daughter, "Are the governor in?' said the old man, and the young lady fainted.

Gen. Grant Acquitted* [Sew York Herald.]

£x•Governor Benjamin F. Butler said to a reporter: "I most fully believe that Gen. Grant knew nothing whatever about the workings of the firm of Grant & Ward, in which he was a partner. While I agree that it seems Almost impossible that he should not have known, yet still I believe that be did not, and there is one piece of evidence which is controlling in my mind on that point. If he had known about the workings a£the firm, he would have known pretty Well its condition. Now, that Monday, morn he went up and borrowed 1150,000 from Willi *m EL VanderbiU* and came down

and gave it to the firm. If he had known the condition of things, he would have known

into it at all the cocoanut grows around the milk. Ask us a hard one. Punch's Artist.

George Louis ralmella Btisson du Maurisr, that is all ths name The Punafa society artM I l«ys claim to

A CASE OF PREMONITION,

Short Rarrsttw or Interest tm Sti dents of pqrchslsgr. [Alex. Skirving in Nineteenth Century.] As a conKtant reader of. The limes, I have noticed the "proceeding" of the Psychical bociety, aud as your society has invited communications, I respectfully beg to offer you fhort statement of my experience on a subject which I do not understand. Let me premise that I am not a scholar, as I left school at 12 years of age in 1837, and I therefore hope yon will forgive ail sins against composition and grammar. I am a working foreman of masons at Winchester cathedral, and have been for the last nine years a resident of this city. I am a native of Edinburgh.

It is now more than thirty years ago that I was living in London, very near where the Great Western railway now stands, but which was not then built I was working in the Regent's park for Messrs. Mowletn, Burt & Freeman, who at that tints had the government contract for three years for the mason's work of the capital, and who yet carry on a mighty business at Millbank, Westminster. I think it was Gloucester gate if I mistake not At all stents it was that gate of Regent's park to the eastward of the Zoological gardens, at the northeast corner of the park. The distance from my home ivas too great for me to get home to meals, •o I carried my food with me, and therefore had no call to leave the work aU day. On a certain day, however, I suddenly felt an intense desire to go home, but as I had no business there I tried to suppress it| but it was not possible to do so. Every minute the desire to go home increased. It was 10 in the morniug, aud I, could not think of anything to call me aWay from the work at such a time. I got fidgets and uneasy, and felt as if I must go, even at the risk of being ridiculed by my wife, as I oould give no reason why I should leave my work and lose 6J. an hour for nonsense. However, I oould not stay, aud I set off for home under an impulse which I could not resist

When I reached my own door and knocked the door was opened by my wife's sister, a married woman, who lived a few streets off. She looked surprised and said, "Why, Skirving, how did you know?" "Know what?" I said. "Why, about Mary Ann." I said, "I don't know anything about Mary Ann" (ray wife) Then what brought you home at presentP "I can hardly tell you. I seemed to want to oome home. But what is wrongF I asked. She told me that my wife had been run over by a cab, and been most seriously injured about an hour ago, and she had called for me ever since, but was now in fits, and had several in succession. I went up stairs, and though very ill she recognised me, and stretched forth her arms and took me round the neck and pulled my bead down into her bosom. The fits passed away directly, and my presence teemed to tranquillize her, so that she got into sleep and did well. Her sister told me that she uttered the most piteous cries for me to come to her, although there was not the least likelihood of my coming.. This short narrative has only one merit, it is strictly true, i' m: .• :,v

The Diver* of Delhi.

[Delhi (India) Cor. Kansas City Journal.] I followed my "small boy" guide to a very curious well, over 100 feet deep, with stone steps leading down to the very surface of the water on onfe side. There were also stone balconies at various heights, from which one could look down into the deep, oool pool.

As I stood cautiously looking over, a scant-ily-clad native oame along with reckless gait and desperate countenance. Approaching the brink he threw his arms above his head, uttered a despairing shriek, and sprang into the water some eighty odd feet below.

Did my flesh creep! I think it would had I not known what was coming but if this narrative is to possess the merit of truth, I must confess that I had been told what to expect when I reached this well. Nevertheless it was a "delirious thing for a man to do to plunge do.wn oyer a precipice, enclosed by granite wal Is. Again my nerves were over-wrought upon and I turned away almost sick, just as half a dozen more meft made the awful plunge. I noticed that their feet went down first, and I judged that the depth of the water must be very great I wondered that the different divers didn't collide with each other. Of course it was all a money-making scheme, and by the time I had reached the head of the long stone staircase there were a doeen dripping natives ejaculating with great gusto, and holding out both hands at me as though they thought I was going to 'oad them down with gold. I think they must have been laboring under some misapprehension in this respect At any rate I shut my eyes, hurled a handful of pice among the crowd, and betook myself to my heels, for I Oould see another doaen clambering up the ghats, and I wanted to have enough money left to at least get through to Bombay.

Missouri Was Saved. [Philadelphia Press.]

"Did you hear," said ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, "that we have passed the bill giving the widow of Gen. Frank Pi Blair a reasonable pension? And, by the way, there is a queer incident connected with the early history of that brilliant general. One night, at the very beginning of the war, while we were cut off from Washington, I sat in my office at Harris burg, and a lengthy telegram was handed me. Without looking at the address, I tore it open. It was from Gen. Blair to the national authorities at Washington. He begged for permission to at once seise the arsenal and all the arms and mill-

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that this amount was only a drop In the communicate W^ngton, and after bucket, and that to give it to the firm was to deliberating awhile I tamed the telegram

throw away his last dollar, because money borrowed under such circumstances as this was must be repaid at whatever cost "Gen. Grant has many admirable qualities, but be is not a gtod business man, and his training has never lain in that direction. & has evidently been a Credulous believer in the infallibility of Ward. There is not a scintilla of evidence that he knew, as others did, that •it* way, the money was claimed to be made f?™ «gnu«m«eu ana was through contracts got through his inflv- Kentucky had seceded, end_I believe there eoce. The. fore it is that I acquit him.1' Aeawere* With One Hand Tied Up. (Burlington Hawkeye.] "How does the milk get into the cocoaaUtP' asks a subscriber. It does net get

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over and wrote on the back: Ton are directed to take immediate charge of all the arms munitions of war now in St Louis,' and sent this to Gen. Blair. Upon this individual authority he acted, and Missouri was saved to the Union. Gen. Rchofield was then a captain in command of the arsenal at that point I have often thought since how differently the war would have terminated if Missouri,. Maryland and

would have been no war if Virginia had not gone out*

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A Blchtenna [Chicago News.]

An Insane Asylum crouched behind a tna "What are you hiding than tatf asked aa Aoorn from its lofty swing. "Shi rm laying f«r a man."' "Whom." "Hie fellow that protnlsss nottodiattor eat his hair until soma certainmiin elected ^aaident"

the Chinese Bat,

[San Francisco Chronicle.}

As every Chinaman is able to cook Us ovs meals in first-class style when occasion requires, he stares amazed »t the lamentable ignorance of the foreigner who does not ht»| pen to be a walking cookery-book. It is at meal-time that John Chinaman displays pxtraordinary powers aud capacities. I:, would be strange Indeed if his place were vacanton that occasion. When a Chinaman :iaa lost his appetite his case is pronOunctxi •tesperata. The great mass of the people have oaly two meals a day, though laboring men while hard at work insist upon three square meals.

Considering the variety and quality of the food supplied, I must say they are incomparably better fed than the average farm laborer I have seen in the United Kingdom. Tne employer invariably finds his men in food, no matter whether he to tradesnan, artisanor farmer, and his men eat at one oommon table. Bowls and chopsticks are arranged on the bare board. In the center of the table are placed dishes containing pickled fish, boiled pork, some salt vegetables and perhaps a curd made of lentils. The smell of garlic and oil Is enough to knock one town. The men sit on stools around the table, and if the weather is hot, divest themselves of every stitch of clothing save the tucked up pants.

When they are rsady for the fray, In comes a servant-man, bearing a huge bucket of rice steaming hotj the contents of which he commences to shovel in the bowls on the table. Each man takes his chopsticks, digs into the eentrnl dishes and fishes out several lumps of meat into his |)owL Raising tho bowl to his face, he pokes the rice and meat into his gaping month. The chopsticks are plied so rapidly and continuously, and mastication occupies so little part of the process, that the whole basinful of rice soon disappears as if by magic. Once, twice, three times, perhaps, is that bowl replenished and as quickly emptied «s before. Having reached the limits of hk capacity, he takes half a dozen whiffs from a brass hubblebubble pipe, drinks a cup or two of tea ani resumes his task, or makes tho night hideous by unearthly snoring.

Buh fajrelh Tribute to the Duek. [Youkers Gazette.] Ducks is the bigges' gooses I knows of, cause tha kiks tlutru fete out the rong wa when tha tries to walk. Ducksi noses is good thing's to stick out in frunt of 'em, cause thnru hardern a brickbat au' don't make no diifunce wether its opin dores or rockin'chairs tha bunks against, the feechures izpei tected, only don't think them kinder noses i? good ter smell mushmellins with—gose to fur inter there fruto fore tber returns o* mes it. Ducks fetes is flattern a pancake, and the doose knose how far thare knuckles an' toze wood git way from ech other ef they wnaen't'stuk tergether with slabs ov jew-jew payst It's a bonansy for shoemakers that men's fete aint made that wa, but wen it comes tet* dose ducks has got the bulge on boys, cause tha kin go in swimmin' all da, an' don't hafter bother'bout sliakin'duds. tSf tber Lawd knowd how popular hede bfn with boys ef hede harniased us that wa, gess tie never got likt for gittin' my dose wet

A Journalist's Hllk Bottle. [San Francisco Chronicle.] I know a man who is always seen with a satchel. He is a newspaperman and lives on milk. He has lived on that impure diet for more than a year and it has not weakened him a bit. Some people hoped it would, but th:it was from envy of his fluent conversation. He goes to parties, and when the ladies have ieen supplied with supper 'he retires into corner with the prettiest, produces his valise, opens it, and drinks his milk out of the bottle ^while he makes violent love to her.

In the couree of his duty he has to interview many great personages. He went to call on Patti, and while he jotted down the interesting portious of the diva's conversation, he astonished her by refreshing himself out of the valise. He is seen at political meetings, and while all the fiery eloquence of the pa triot is ringing through the hall, he sib calmly swallowing the lacteal fluid. He has been too long in the newspaper business not to knoW that when the orator gets on to the "glorious history of the time-honored party," he has a rest of at least forty-five minutes. He goes to make calls, and with a courteous apology and voluble explanation he produces the valise with its bottle and takes his dinner just wherever he happens to be. But he is the most astonishing warning of tht dangers of milk diet I ever met

0 N I W a [Wall Street News.] The employes of a Michigan railroad had been trembling in their boots over a threatened reduction of wages, when an agent dispatched from headquarters passed along tin* line and said to the various station (•flicinta: "1 am bappy to inform you that there will be no cut in salaries." "Good! My salary is so small that I could hardly stand a out of 5 per cent" "The road is not making any. money, but the president feels that every employe ia earning his salary, and that perhaps the fall business may bring us out all right. Put your name down for what you can uffurd.* j"On whatT "Why on this paper. It Is a subscription to buy the president a 13,000 silver tea set, as a token of the esteem of the employes. Let's see? You get 1000 per year. If yem put your name down for $50 you will be giving all yqn can afford. Rest easy, M| Blank, there will be no cut in salaries" "OMB saoaa awaesi [Wall Street Kent.,

One day, a few weeks ago, one of" the richest men in Chicago was asked for a private interview by a stranger, who asked: "You are very rich. You have had wonderful luck. Tell me what to speculate in that I may make moneyT "Never speculate at all," was the serious answer. "But you have made money in railroad stocks, wheat, silver mines, canal stocks, etc." "Not a dollar, young man? In fact, that's the way I have lost thousand*" "Why, then, bow have you made yom wealthF "By inventing a soring bed and patenting a boot-jack. Let all speculation alone, and turn your attention ti the solid wants of the people.*

•rtsln of the Strawberry Saylus*. (Izaak Walton's "Complete Angler.") Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, I "doubtless, God could have made a better berry, but doubtless, God never did," and so {(If I might be the judge) God never did mate a mora calm, quist, tnaoosat occupation than

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BRAZIL.

Lamb—A Cnvtrt Fraa RipfPsaiinhThe CsBBerelal Bssk. BRAZIL, Oct. 14.—[Ganrrm Special.]— John E. Lamb made two adcfmeee tu the people In this county yesterday, la the afternoon he "poke at Perth, a oiUt Ing town in the north part of th" oouaty. At mgbt he addressed a large audleaoe at Cardonia, uue if the largest mixing villages in tbe county. The meeting was Urxe and be was listened to throughout very earnestly by tbe braway sons of toil.

To-night Morris Grsy. the Republican astse«snr of this township, will ad (ire is the Cleveland and Hendricks Club at tbe court house. Mr. Gray i* an intelli. gent man, a miner bv traf'e and a recent convert to tbe Demooratio party. The mugwumps of the r. o. r. p. have ap

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in ted several committees to wait upon Grar, to try to oure hie dljaffeotfon, but all to no pufpoee. Having failed In thu they now endeavor to sllen^in by

The creditors "rthe Commercial baahA held a meeting yesterrisy to tjtke steps towerd re-organising the bank* Rochester Hobbs was chosen president, Mr. A. O. Bridges, secretary. The meeting was largely attended and after eanyass* ing tbe situation it was unanimously sgrced to ssk the Couic which is now In session to defer any judicial action in the matter for two weftxtt so as to enable the further consider«tion of the plans submitted to them

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Large Tobies Factory Bareed1*KTKR8BURU, Va., Oot. 14.—The to. ba9co ftictoryiot C. A. Jaekson A Co., street,' the seoond largest In tbe city, was totally consnmed ty Are last night with p« Qootente, involving a l.ss of over *l4tf00 insurance, 9100,000. The firt* origirat in the leaf rooai. The burning of titia factory throws ent of emplfiyjeut over 400 colored operatives. Tb« flro was oot extinguished until an early kour this morning. In sddition to the faou-iy several small tenemeut houses burned.

CON8TANCK, Oirr.. Oot. 14.—Tbe Kin-bui-n cUt'fcuo factory burned. Loss. $10* 000. An incendiary arretted admits his guilt.

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A daughter of Mrs. Il^nry Iting. living at Palttha. W. T., set her dtens tire by acciiient Saturday, and soon died in horrible Hxony. In Attempting to extinguish the lire Mrs. liing tfas fatally burned.

The railroad bridge over 8ione Creek, between tbe Danville Junotion and tbe depot, burned yesterday. The Wabash lb blockaded.

The bonded warehouse of J. G. Roach A C«., at. Uniontown, near Evansville, burneJ Saturday, with 2,060 barrels ot whisky. Loss on whisk? flflO.OJO and 110,000 on the building. Insured lor twothirds of its value.

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Criminal Notes

Lawrenea Cauley, of Philadelphia, shst Mamie Benson, of Lancaster, Pa., and then fa ally shot himself. Miss Benson's wound is not fatal. Ue shot her because she refused to love bin.

Henry Heil and Jamee Frank, rival lover.-, called on-Mlss Ella Mets at Billsburg. Pa. While there Frank fatally stabbed Heil nnd left, takiog Miss Mets away with him. Officers are in pursuit ofFiabk.

Still well. Hendershot with bis son Thomas, were taken from the Itookpori jail at niicht by tbe sheriff of Spenoer county and taken to Jeffersonville for safe keeping, as the officials were informed that a mob intended to bang tbe prisoners.

John Lowry and wife, cattle feeders ror C. U. Hudson, were found murdered near Marshall, Mo. The crime is my« terinus, though a party of tramps are suspected.

What Shall the Harvest Be? Since March 1st. to date Chicago pack, ers have slaughtered 1,661,000 bogsj again*t 1,665,000 for the corresponding peiiod ihst year.

Hog cholera is committing serious losses in Champaign and Rantoul, Ills. John Gilford,,a farmer, within a few days, lost 48 head. The disease is on the increase.

Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana* arrived at New York yesterday from Europe, where he has been studying the beet-root sugar industry. He flnde European methods of manufacture superior to ours.

Since July drouth has prevailed In lower East Tennessee, North Georgia and North Alabama. All the farming interests are eeriously imperiled and unless there is rain sooa tbe reeult will be disastrous. The creeks are dry.

VeraoRt's Senator.

MONTPKLUR, VT., Oct. 14.—In the balloting for United States Senator lor tho long term in the House to-day, Senator Morrill received 177 votes Timothy P. Bedfield, 26 W. P. Dillingham, 8 scattering, 3. The Senate votes this afternoon. To-morrow noon tbe rotes of tbe two houses will be ratified.

The Senate voted for United State* Senator tbis afternoon, Justin 8. Morrill received 27 votes and Timothy P. Red field 3. The joint vote of the two houM-s to-morrow will be Morrill 904 Ued field 29, scatteriog 6.

Edward the Cosfesssr

LOKDOM, Oot. 14.—After tbe celebiation of mass yesterday in St. Peter'e church the Bishop of the diocese and lergv,and tbe congregation, numbering 500, proceeded to tbe snrioe of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, where they knelt and prayed for the conversion of England to the sncient faith. Tbev were not disturbed by tbe vergers, visitors at tbe Abbey were much astonished by the proceeding..

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HARTFORD, Oct. 14—Maud 8. has been brought for a few practice beats in nrcg

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aration for a final trial. She has lust given a warming up and trotted in 2^a A high wind is blswing- It is doubtfuUf she does better than 2:tl.

Maud S. made 2:12V on second trial heat.

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PITTSBURG, Oct. 14.—The grand jury to^ay found true bills against President Riddle and Cashier Ruber of tbe defunct Penn bank for eonspiraey and embezzlement of fl,201,000 against J. Watson, oil broker, for conspiracy to defraud tbe Penn bank depositors.