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About The Douglas independent. (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1882)
THE INDEPENDENT I TS ISSUED eaturday Sfornlncr BY ! JOHN W. KELLY, Publisher. THE INDEPENDENT nn riT a- HAS THE FINEST JOB OFFICE I5f D0C8LAS COUNTY. CARDS, BILL SHADS, LEQAL BLAXKS And other printing, including Large and Heavy Posters and Showy IS 9 taBl J DTLA Oh Tr tttx Month " Independent in all Things ; Neutral in Nothing." Tbr Mouths Hand-Bills. jlfeaBy and expeditiously executed A.T PORTLAND "PltlCES. These are the term for those paying la tdtuw. The IUDcrtKOBirt often fin induoemeais to ad TerUaera, Teims reasonable. VOL. 7. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, ArRIL 15, 1882. NO. 1. DO NDEPENDENT .'. 1 oe i ha PRACTICAL i f "WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND OPTICIAN. ; ; ALL WORlTwARRANTED. Dealer I Wtttebcs, Clock. Jewelry, Spectacles a.ad l)r(luu, Aod a Fall Line of f Cigars, Tobaeoos and Fancy Goods. The only reliable Optometer Id tow a for tbe proper adj ailment of Spectacles ; always on hand. Depot or the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. v OFFICE First door aouth of poetoffioe, Rose tmr. Oregon. nAHONEY'S SAlOON Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland Jaw. Mahonoy, Prop'r, She finest of winea, liquor and agar ia Dotf-,. las count, and the beat XlimLA.Tt.X TABLB la the Btata kept la proper repair: farties traveling on the railroad will And this -. place very handy to visit taring th stop ping of the train at Um Oak land, Depot. Git dm aealL i ' . t Jab. mAHON1T. i JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture, WILBUR, OREOON, Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc. Constantly on hand, j niPMITIIRF 1 " stoeke) runilMUIib. lurniture south of Portland And all of ray own manufacture. No two Prices to Customers Residents of Douglas county are requested to give me a call before" purchasing elsewhere. 1ST ALL WORK WARRANTED . HOTEL- 0AKXASD. - - OREtiOR. Ill chard Tiomag, Prop'r T"HI8 HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED for a naatber oi years, and ha become Yery popular with the traveling public. First-claas SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS. And the table supplied with the best the market affords. Hotel at the depot of the Kailread. . j : Furniture Store ! JOHN OILDERSLEYE CIA VINO PURCHASED THE1 FTJRNI ture Establishment of John Lebnherr, is sow prepared to do any woik in the j ; 'UPHOLSTERING LINE. He is also prepared to furnish In all styles, of the best manufacture, au! cheaper than the cheapest. His ; ditxirr?, Tables, BureauN, BedteadN, Wamlmtnndii, ETC.. ETC.. ETC. Are (A superior make, and for low cost cannot be equalled in the Slate. The Finest of Spring Beds And the j . Most Complete fr ofas Always on band. Everything in ;ue line fur- waaarida! tt rh ItAor niiulirw rtn ha akr4 etat. notice and at the lowest rates. COFFINS MADE AND TRIMMED. Atwl ortleri filled cheaper and better than can a nir nlKa? aalaMialimant 1 Desiring a share of public patronage, the un iersigne.1 promises to oner extra inducements to all patrons. Give n.e a trial. ' JOHN GILDERS LEVE. H. C. STANTON, ; Dealer in Staple Dry Coddsl Keeps constantly on hand a general assort merit of ? EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, j WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLASSWARF, v. ALSO . , j , - ' S - Crockery and Cordage A Cull stock of SCHOOL II O O KS Such as required by the Public County Schools All kinds of STATIOJVKRV, TOTS and J t . PAKCT ARTICLES 1 To su'it both. Young and Old. 'DUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures Dralt on San Francisco. j SEEDS !" 8EED8 ! ! ALL K1SDS0FIMT QI ALHY ALL OXt DERS Promptly attended to and Gooda shipped ; with care. ; Address, Hacheney & Beno, ' Portland. Oregon Hot tec. s Notice le hereby given, to whom it may concern, thai tbe umiersbjited has been awarded the contract lor keeping tbe Itooglae county Pauper, lor the period ot we year. All persons la need of sjulntance from 'aid county most Ant procure a certificate to that effect from nv member ot tbe County Board, and present it to one el the following named persons, who are author ised to, and will out! for those preeentuigsuefa certificate W. L. Batten, Roseburg ; L. L Kellogg, Oakland ; Mr Vfown, Looking Glass. Dr. Scrogss is authorized to luraiafa mad teal aid to all persona fa need ot the same arfeo have seen declared paupers ot Douglas county. ; Wll. 3. CL&R&k Sunt, of Poor. , ihtawnwi, Or.. Feb, , toad . LATEST mm SUMMARY. DT TELES Am TO Dm Scovillo is seriously ill, O. R. & N. Co.'s stock 145 on tbe 6th. John J. Pratt has been nominated con sul at Cork. The eastern city elections on the 5th dhow continued democratic gains. The secretary of the treasury has called in $15,000,000 m extended bonds. Ex-Dictator Fierola, of Peru, has left that coantry and it is now united. Senator David Davis is happy over tbe president's veto. His goose is cooked. : . The house committee on elections have decided to seat Mackay of South Carolina. . . Three fine brick blocks at Hearne, Texas, were burned on tbe 6th. Loss, 840,000. Three Russian soldiers murdered a Jewish family of nine persons recently at Jubelsk. Archbishop Purcell's debts aggregate 84,000,000, and his property 82,000,000 to 83,000,000. The reveuue officers on trial for the murder of Amos Ladd, have been de clared not guilty. Representative George made a speech in favor of harbor and river appropria tions on the 6th. The body of Jesse James was shipped to Kearney, Mo., and will be buried on the old homestead. ! The Democrats carried the Toledo, Ohio, election by fair majorities on all candidates. By Bharp work Detective Jack Duncan has captured the notoed outlaw Jesse Rpsscoe, of Tombstone, Arizoza. The Gladstone mills at Asltton-under-Lyne, England, were damaged by fire on Tuesday to the amount of 8200,000. DeLesseps denies the Panama Canal Co. intend to take up the Nicaraguan concession if American grantees permit it to lapse. Business houses are closed at Morgan City, La. The water is ten or eleven feet high, eleven inches higher than ever before known. On ihe 5th in New York, O. R. & N. Co's. stock was quoted at 145; Oregon Transcontinental 76; Oregon Improve ment bonds, 90. An $8,000 package lost by W. F. & Co., in Chicago, last November, has been found in the possession of a poor laborer and $6,000 recovered. It is announced that Wm. Plaisted & Son, proprietors of large tanneries at Lincoln and Princeton, have failed; lia bilities estimated at $100,000, assets small. An indignation meeting will be held probably the present week, under aus pices of the Trade of Labor Council, to denounce the president's course in veto ing the Chinese bill. Lieut. Sherburne, a hero of Balaclava, in the British army, was arrested at San Antonio, on the 6th, charged with obtain ing $9000 by a fraudulent check on Cheyenne, Wyoming. The two Ford brothers are confined in jail charged with murder, under a war rant sworn out by Mrs. James. They will not be interviewed and refuse ad mittance to all comers. Over 30 Bloomiogton, 111., people left that place on the 7th for Oregon and Cal ifornia. A large number from McLean county expect to come here this summer. Most all intend coming to Uregon and Washington. The house committee on foreign affairs heard Capt. Eads explain away the ob jection made at a previous session, that the railway across the isthmus will be impracticable on account of grades, which would not be successfully over come. Failures for the seven days reported to R. G. Dunn & Co's mercantile agency, 127. Eastern States, 18; Southern, 39; Middle, 20; Western, 35; Pacific, 8; New York City, 7, This is about the same as last week, so far as number is concerned. The figures in New York are insignifi cant. At the annual meeting of the Panama Railroad Co., the following directors were elected: T. W. Parke, Charles G. Francklyn, J. G. McCullough, D. O. Mills, Joseph Ogden, Wm. B. Dinsmore, Thomas Maddock, George Gaer, R. W. Thompson, Jesse Seligman, E. P. Fab bri, J. W. Ellis and Thomas J. Desabla. On the morning of the 8th the boiler of the steamer Bellamac exploded, with terrible loss of life, a few miles below the city of Lacrosse. The explosion com pletely wrecked the upper works of the steamer. The crew consisted of seven teen men, including officers. Of this number five are missing, one is dead and three probably fatally injured, and the remainder more or less hurt. The Bella mac is comparatively a new boat and con sidered perfectly safe. The second en gineer says that the boiler had plenty of water at the time and 135 pounds of steam. Sarah Bernhardt and a Greek gentle man of position named Domalia have been married. Sarah continues her theatrical career. Domalia is a fine look ing middle aged man, said to be toler ably rich. His wife is worth 12,000,000 francs. Bernhardt gave no previous no tice of the wedding. At 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th a man called at the church and said he desired to make arrangements for a marriage. The offi cial informed him a license was neces sary. The gentleman left the church to procure a license, and having obtained it returned, accompanied by Bernhardt. The latter wore a close-fitting seakskin cloak, trimmed with fur. A French lady and gentleman accompanied them to church and were the only witnesses. Passage of the army appropriation bill with the compulsory retirement clause by so large a majority ensures its pas sage by the senate. This is the most im portant legislation for the army since the reorganization in 1869. There will be 42 officers, nearly all above the rank of major, retired at once. The larger part wijl be from the staff, but every regiment in the line will be affected more or less. Next year the compulsory re tirement will be about 20, and the fol lowing year r bout the same. Sheridan does not favor exceptions, as he is only 55 years old and has therefore the expec tation of. seven yeirsia command of the army. Gen. Hancock is 58, and unless Sheridan dies, can have no expectation of commanding as general in ehief. Gen: Ingalls, just made .quartermaster gen eral, will retire at once, as will General Ekia of the same corps. Petitions signed by over 1200 officers have been filed for presentation to the senate as soon as the bill comes up, asking for retention of the compulsory retirement lauM. Arthur was hung in effigy at Napa, Cal., on the 7th. . ; The funeral of Jesse James, the out law, was largely attended. It is supposed that Frank James is still in the vicinity of St. Joseph. The graves of the confederates were decorated on the 7th at New Orleans. Ellen McFall was shot and mortally wounded by her husband in New York on the 5th. The new secretary does not think tbe plan of allowing Indians land in severalty is practicable. The government has accepted the Mex ican Central Railroad from El Paso Del Norte south-to Chihuahua. The republicans have captured Rhode Island and Anthony will be re-elected U. S. Senator for the fifth time. " There is eight feet of water alt over the country in the vicinity of Morgan City, La. Much damage has been done. Representative Allen's bill establishing a branch mint at St. Lonis has been or dered favorably reported to tbe house. The workingmen of Philadelphia are to hold indignation meetings to denounce the president's veto on the Chinese bill. The commissioner of Indian affairs re fuses to furnish money for appeal of Crow Dog's sentence for killing Spotted Tail. The president nominated James R. Partridge, of Maryland, minister to Peru, and Henry C. Ball minister to Central American States. Right Rev. Frederick Baker, D. D. bishop of Sydney, New South Wales and metropolitan in Australia, died at San Ramo, Italy. Russian authorities are taking great precautions against renewel of anti-Jewish disturbances at Easter. Two thous and one hundred persons with unsatis factory papers have been expelled from Kieff. A Philadelphia dispatch says that U. S. Senator Mitchell, in a letter to the press, virtually declares independence of the Cameron administration, and takes the leadership of the reform republican movement. On the morning of the 8th Joseph Hess, an aged man, a saloon keeper of Alleghany, Fa., deliberately shot his wife dead and then ineffectually at tempted suicide. He refuses to assign any cause. His daughter says it was jealousy. ' At St. Louis dispatch of the 7th says: The police believe they have at last cap tured old man Bender. The arrest waa made on the 4th, but the affair kept se cret. When arrested Bender gave the name of John Boclis. Haschall Hazeltine, brother of the congressman of Boise D'Arc, Mo., on the 7th, attempted to drown his wife, owing to a quarrel about the control of her property. He failed and fled. If he re turns he will probably be lynched. Theodore Gebhart, of New York, while drunk quarreled with his 'wife and or dered a nine-year-old boy out for beer. His wife refused to permit the boy to go, when the father brained the boy with a hammer and then out his own throat. First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton's letter to the Cincinnati post master, reversing President Hayes' civil service orders, attracts much attention here. It shows the administration is preparing to keep the reins well in hand. Following is a list of the year's ap pointments to the military academy at West Point from the west: Arizona, Horace Ri Apple; California, Cecil Stew art and Thos. G. Honson, and Jas. H. Humphrey, alternate; Montana, John Gibson; Oregon, Edward C. Brooks; Wyoming, Albert J. Brachett and Mich ael Harrington, alternate. A St. Joseph dispatch says: Prosecut ing At'orney Wallace and Dick Little ar rived on the 6th and identified the re mains of Jesse James. Capt. Ford, brother of Charles and Bob, says ha knows where Frank James is. He is in the east. Frank will avenge Jesse's death and somebody will doubtless be killed before this matter is ended. Samuel H. Foreman, Indian agent at the Ouray agency, just arrived at Lara mie from Ute country says that the , White river Utes have all gone peaceably ' to their agency at Uintah. Jack was ab- i sent from his people at the time, it is claimed, securing aid for an outbreak in the spring. His people had promised him that they woufd not leave before he returned, but they were prevailed upon by Mayor Bryant to go in accordance j with their promise of last fall, and there is not an Indian now in tbe vicinity. Foreman says that this shuts off all chance for an Indian outbreak in the spring unless there is a union of the White river and southern Utes, or union of either with disaffected Mormons against Gentile whites. J. S. Morrison was arraigned at Bos- ; ton on the 8th for larceny in obtaining checks from Charles Francis Adams. He waived examination, and in default of 825,000 bail he went to jail to appear in the superior court. The defendant's real name is Jas. Fitzgerald, alias the Kid. and he is a professional bunko player. It has been ascertained that the check was given B. M. Fernold, a lawyer, for col lection by Norton, wh? claims to be a real estate dealer. Fernold suspected fraud, and on tbe 29th deposited the j check in his own name, thinking if the proceedings were irregular the fact would appear on the 1st of April, when one of the checks would be sent to Mr. Adams, as it did. Fernold knows noth ing of Norton's character, and the fact of the check on the National bank pay able to bearer being brought to him for collection excited his suspicion. lie Wouldn't K ss Twice ia the 8me Place. "You must kiss me twice in the very same place George, or I can neyer be your bride." "Are you certain of this Myrtle? Is there no appeal from this decision?"- "None, whatever," answered the girl, giving her bustle a hitch to the left. Looking lovingly into Myrtle's deep blue eyes, George bent over and kissed the sunny-haired beauty on her right cheek, just aft of where a chunk of gum lay alongside her jaw. "And if I do not kiss you again we mnst part forever?" he asked. "Yes," replied Myrtle. "Then good evening," he said in cold, cruel tones. "Yon have unwittingly re leased me from my vows," and, with a hoarse, piratical laugh, he jumped over the front gate and was gone. Scandalous remark by Mrs." Grundy, of New York: That private coachmen are to organize in order to get their wagas when they are due. Market Classification or Lira Stock. Though the subject was discussed once before, the many months that have inter vened have added thousands of new readers to our lists, to whom the subject will be new, aud it is impossible for even the oldest hands to have a too thorough knowledge of this important subject, a technical definition of the terms employed at the greatest market in the world", cannot fail to be of inter est, even to those who are tolerably conversant with them. First in importance come hogs, aS their valuation as well as number far ex ceed nny other class of live stock. The principal grade is common to good mixed packing grades, usually designa ted as "common to good mixed." This grade is principal, because, notwith standing the progressing improvement, the mass of hogs are below what would properly be called good quality. It in cludes, ordinarily, all that are left out of an avercge car load of hogs after the strictly prime heavy barrows, smooth 180 and 200 S hogs, and the poorest skips and unmerchantable heavy hogs have been sorted out. Assuming that we have an average load of sixty hogs just as they would run from the farmer's feed lot, we will show how each grade is disposed of by "sorting," though the ex tent of this sorting or selecting depends entirely upon the general state of the market; for instance, when the supply is light and the demand usually active, the salesman who is supposed to be a good judge, can sell his hogs "straight," or just as they arrive, to the packers for more money than could be got by cut ting the load up. isut to return to the subject; out of a lot of sixty hogs taking about eight of the choicest, the "Phila delphia and lard hogs" would be disposed of; tbe "light hog" man would get about fifteen choice hogs, averaging 180 to 260 pounds; then after taking out seven skips and coarse culls there would be left thirty hogs, which properly come under the head of "common to good mixed." If the salesman thought he would not be justified in selling out his Philadelphia "top," he might sort out all of bis rough packers, light hogs and skips, and sell the bulk of the lot under the head of "heavy packing and shipping.'" It is impossible to observe any gen eral rule for selling hogs, for the reason that no two lots will have just the same proportion of the different grades. One man might have such a large proportion of good heavy hogs that a buyer would be willing to take skips and all at a good round price, for the sake of getting the choice siock, while another man might have half a dozen or so prime hogs, the balance of very low quality. Herein lies the value of a competent salesman who is a good judge. Oftentimes a very high price can be got for a few hogs, which leaves the majority of such poor quality as to be obliged to sell at ex tremely low rates; and as a rule, it does not pay to sort out the top hogs, unless the majority are of good quality. The term good mixed naturally implies smooth, fat hogs without pregnant sows, and reasonably free from "skips" or light, tail-end pigs and stags, though frequently including good light hogs. The safest rule for country shippers to follow, is to see that their shipments in clude as many heavy packing and ship ping and choice light hogs, and a few skips and common mixed as possible. Cattle in our market reports are classed as follows: "Extra," being the highly bred aud thoroughly ripe animals. Or dinarily "export" steers include well fatted 140016C0 lb cattle, and of a rule the cnoicest selections of th9 offering ex cept at times when Christmas beeves are coming forward. It is a common belief that export cattle are only the most highly finished animals, but this is erro neous as plain from tbe fact that cattle are constantly being bought for export alive in greater or lesser numbers; but a drove of cattle of the quality referred to as "extra" is not, by any means, a common sight as this, the greatest mar ket on the globe. Shipping cattle usually include steers from 1100 lbs upwards; "good to choice" steers are those fat and averaging 12501350 lbs, while medium, fair and common designate the next lower qualities, and too frequently rep resent the bulk of the offerings. "Mixed butcher stock" includes cows, bulls, thin steers, stags and oxen; "Stockers and feeders" are young cat tle suitable for stocking the pastures or feed lots, while "milkers and springers" are fresh cows and cows in calf. "Range cattle" include "through" Texas, Northern Texans, or those that have been driven up North when you ng, and grazed in Kansas, Colorado, Ne braska, Wyoming or Dakota. These latter are usually in better condition and sell for about 50c $ 100 lbs. more than the i former. "Americans" are the original cattle of the north ern States and Territories, while the off spring of improved bulls and Texas, or northern native cows, are known as "half-breeds." Sheep are largely sold to shippers and exporters, if good, but to local butchers if of poor quality, while well bred but lean lots are usually taken to the conn try for stockers and feeders. f Drovers' Journal. Broadway, Setr York. Broadway is the main street of New York, and the most brilliant thorough fare in America. Indeed, it would be impossible to find in Europe itself a street which is characterized by such tremendous activity.and such diversified and ambitious architecture, and such an air of metropolitan splendor, wealth aud life. The great avenues of trade which run from Trafalgar Square or Hyde Park to the Royal Exchange.the arcaded lines of the Rue de Rivoli, the busy Graben of Vienna, the Via Roma of Naples, none of these can sustain a com- Sarison with the grand artery of the ew World, through which course from sunrise till evening strong currents of tbe most electric life of the nineteenth century. The noble width of the street, so favorable to architectural effects and long vistas; its great length of fully five miles, nearly one-half of which is abso lutely straight; and its central position on the island, with long streets, crowded with stately buildings, diverg ing on either side; all these are the ad vantages of position, which serve to set off to tbe best advantage the co-morama of . humanity which continually surges along the pavements. . Broad as the roadway is so great are the num bers of carriages, omnibuses and wagons always in motion there, that it becomes an affair of no small peril to cross it; and the most stalwart and handsome officers of the police force are stationed at the corners to escort ladies from : one side to the other. : Some years ago an iron bridge was thrown over Broadway near Fnlton street, so i that pedestrians could cross in safety. Never waa there such a heterogenma architectue as ia here displayed, where the Greek and the othicj,the Romanesque and the Renais ance are crowded side by side, but all u -manner Harmonized by the distor- lona which the urban architects of menca are forced to insure the three rime essentials in a modern bnildinc lghtt air and space. New York dilet- ats ruefully recall Mr. Ruskin's cele brated dictum (Fors Clavigera, No. 1) that before tbe science of building can become respectable on this continent, their city must be razed to its founda tions. The harmony of Pall Mall, the uniformity of the Parisian Boulevards, are lacking here, where it is all strongly individualized, and' the narrow fronts of shops along a single square exemplify every style and color. Iron is largely used as a building material, and long colonaded facades, simulating marble or brown stone, are composed of iron castings riveted together. The colossal hotels, rivaling '.he Midland or the Par isian Grand; the newspaper offices, dwarfing the High street of Edinburg with their ten and twelve stories of alti tude; the banks and insurance buildings marble, granite, iron, in transformed architecture of Palladio, of Viollet-le-Dno, of Yankeedom undisguised; the shops and warehouses, larger than Roman "paiazza," and replacing their dead walls with wide expanses of glass; all these follow each other in bewilder ing succession, with the unceasing roar of the street between, and the vivid blue sky overhead. Broadway was Been by Lady Mary Wortleyasthe "lengthy Mis sissippi of streets; by Gratton as a per pect Alexandrine in street-making;" and Ampere likened it to the Strand or the Rue Vivienne. IFrom "Cities of the World." A Woman'! Heart. "Lemma see," said the old man, mus ing with his chin on the top of his cane, and speaking in the shrill falsetto voice of age, "it must be forty-seven years since Anna Maria died, yet I can remem ber the very gown she wore, and the aolor of the Jong curls that hung down over her shoulders, and the red on her cheeks that was like a winter apple ! Dear me ! she's never faded a mite in all t' em years, but just sits there a-lookin' at me as she did when I brought her home. You see, there was a kink of ro mance tew it; and I often and offen thought that if . I had the power and could rite it out it would read beauti fuller than a novel. The fact was Ann Maria had another beau.but that ain't no wonder, for she was the smallest and prettiest and best girl in the hull coun try side; but what I mean she had favor ed him ever so little,af ore I come around and began keepin' her company. Folks kind of coupled their names together, and some of 'em, to bother me, hinted that she cared a heap for him. Why, you'd orter tew hev seen him. He was slim and fine as a lady, and wore gaiter shoes.and had holler eyes es if he'd never had quite enough to eat. Ann Maria care for him? Why, the girl had sense, and knew the difference atween a fellow as straight as a sapling with a color like new mahogany, and such a melancholy looking specimen as that. Besides, I hed a mortgage on the old homestead, and Ann Maria's father owed me money, and I did right by them. I told her ef she married me I'd deed the whole thing back to her, and I did. Well, we was married, and we made as purty a couple as yon ever saw in your life. Ann Maria had a settin' out of china and linen, and I provided the house, and folks said I had the best wife in tbe world, and I'd got everything just as I wanted it, and s'posed it would always be so; but from the day we were married my wife failed in health and spirits, and in six months I buried her folks said it was consumption, but it didn't rnn in the family. I was blind and full of pride then but I've thought since" here the old man lowered his voice "that mebbe all the time she loved that white-faced chap as I de spised; a woman's heart, I've found out, is a queer thing, and love goes where it is sent; but if she did and married me from a sense of duty, whv, all I've got to say is I've been punished too, for I loved her! Perhaps I never felt it as much as I did when I saw her lying white and peaceful in her chintz gown, with the violet on it and something round her neck that I never see before a little cheap locket with some hair in it that wasn't mine. "Then I mistrusted that her heart had broke, and I said solemnly as I kissed her good-bye, 'My dear, I'll never have a wife but you if 1 live the four-score year and ten!' And I never have, and I think mebbe she will see that I loved her truly, and forgive me at last." Seeking InTorratiOn. Tbe first passenders -of the western bound train to finish breakfast were coming out of the diniug-room at Colfax on the Central Pacific Railroad. One, a young man from beyond Omaha, with innocent blue eyes.and looking cheerful, and as if he was full of questions, ap proached a man who was looking, in an indifferent sort of a way, at the train and passengers.and who was roughly dressed and wore a shaggy beard. The young man opened: "Live 'bout here?" Not fur." "Mining?" "No." "Got ranch?" "No." "Born in this country?" "Mizoorer." "Must follow something?" . "B'ar buntin'." "O! many bears in these mountains?" "Good deal of b'ar in the Sary Ne vaidys." "Grizzlies?" "Grizzlies." "Like it?" "Yep." "Resting?" "Come in to get my lightin'-rods, fixed." "Lightning-rods 1" "Lightnin'-rods." "Have to protect your cabin !" "Mvself." "How?" "Ligtnin"s mity bad in the tops o! the Sarya. B'ar hunters have to wear lightnin'-rods." "Wear them?' "Yet. Been struck so fen lately, my rods got p'ints all wore off. Come in to git Vm rep'inted. One I wuz wearin yutiddy got too blunt, an' didn't take Iightnin good. Got my pipe broke by the Iightnin, and boot-heels busted off." 1 "Thunder 1 How do-yon stoop-with one on?" ! "Got two hinges in 'em. One at the bend nv the knees, an one above. ; -V j The bell rang. - The young man rolled en toward where the. sun makes his couou. Exchange. k Seat la a Parlor Car. As you go to Boston and Hartford by way of Boston and Albany railroad, if you take tbe morning erpress there are two parlor cars attached thereunto, with all the appurtenances thereunto apper taining, including a porter with a whisp broom in one hand and a place for a quarter in the other. Now, the two par lor cars are twins, differing only, as is the case with twins, in their manners. The last time I went out that way, which was only a few weeks aince.one of these cars Governor Hawley, and the other was "T'other Gov'nor," I don't remem ber who. All went well nntill we reached Springfield. There the usual halt of five or fen minutes was made, the parlor car was switched off to its proper train and we went thundering on to Hartford. Before we were well out of the depot an old gentleman confronted me. Round faced, well-dressed, quick-spoken, a lit tle crusty and a general air of authority about him. "Young man," he said, sharply, "out of that '." "Out of which?" I t&bid, in innocent surprise. "Out of that chair," snapped the old party. "Come, be lively, I want to sit down." I was puzzled and annoyed and stam mered something about this being a par lor car "Yes, yes," he said, impatiently; "I know all about that; tihs is a parlor car and you've got my seat. Get up and get out of it now without any more words. Get a seat of your own somewhere, and don't go around appropriating other peo ple's chairs when they've gone to lunch. Get out, young fellow." I am naturally a very meek man, but I did make one more desperate effort to retain my seat. I said I had occupied that seat- "Ever since I got out of it at Spring field," snarled the old man. "I rode in that seat all the way from Boston, and the minute I left it yon jumped into it. And now you jump out of it.and no more words about it, or I'll make the car full of trouble for you." It began to dawn on me then just how matters stood. In fact, I knew, but I was nettled. Everybody in the car was laughing at me, and I do hate to be laughed at. I determined to wait for my sure revenge. I said: "You'll be sorry if you take this chair." He snorted fiercely, and I abdicated without another word in favor of the testy old jumper of chairs who thus summarily ejected me. I arose, gathered up my hat, overcoat, lap tablet, newspapers, book, big valise, little valise and arctics, and. thus bur dened, walked meekly to the rear of the car and sat down on the meanest, poor est, most uncomfortable seat in the train, the upholstered bench under the big mirror. The wood box in the smok ing car is an easy chair in comparison with that bench. By and by the old chair grabber called out: "Young man, where is that little red hand bag I left here?" I meekly said "I hadn't never touched it," and he roared out that it was there when I took his chair. But just then the conductor came along and glanced at his ticket while the old party explained how I had made way with his little red hand bag. "That young man there," he ex-, plained, "was in my chair when I re turned, and my overshoes and a little red leather hand bag is " The conductor, a brisk, taciturn man, full of his own business, here handed back the old party's ticket. "Wrong train," he said, brusquely. "Get off at next station. This train for Hartford and New York." The old gentleman's face was a study. "For Ha Ha wha what!" he shouted. "I know better 1 Told me at Boston this car went through to Albany." "Lem' see parlor car ticket," said the conductor, briefly. "Yes, that's all right, your on wrong car; this ticket for the other car. Your baggage half wayt Albany by this time. Get off at Hart ford." "Well, when can I get a train back to Springfield?" wailed the jumper of chairs. "To-night," said the conductor, and passed on to the next car. Then I arose. 1 1 gathered up in my weak and long-suffering arms iny hat, overcoat, lap tablet, newspapers, book, big valise, little valise and arctics, and walked back to that chair and stood be fore the most crest-fallen man the immor tal gods ever pitied. I didn't say any thing; I didn't make a gesture. I just stood up before him holding my goads, personal effects and railway chattels in my arms and looked at him. He arose and vamosed the claim. And as I set tled down in my recovered possession I made only one remark. I said to the poor old gentleman: "I told you you'd be sorry if you took this chair." And he marched back and took a seat on the upholstered bench, to the merry laughter of the happy passengers. And the last time I looked around,ohl crown ing woe, the conductor was making him pay a quarter for his seat in the parlor car. R. J, Burdette in Burlington Hawkeye. j ' 'fbe TbaokYon Game." "What in the world is that?" asked the ?roung folk of Don and Dorry, and their tost and hostess candidly admitted that they hadn't the islightest idea what it was. They never had heard of it be fore. ' ' I "Well, then, how can we play it?" in sisted the little spokespeople. - "I don't know," answered Dorry .look ing in a puzzled way at tbe door. "All join hands and form a circle!" cried a voice. j . Every one arose, and soon the circle stood expectant. "Your dear great-great fairy godmother is coming to see yon," continued the voice. ''She is slightly deaf, but you must not mind that." ' "Oh, no, no!" cried the laughing cir cle, "not in the least." "She brings her white gnome with her," said the invisible speaker, "and don't let him know your names or he will get you into trouble." "No, no, noP cried the circle, wildly. A slight stirring was heard in the hall, the doors opened and in walked the fairy godmother and her white gnome. She was a tall, much-bent old woman, in a rufiied cap, a peaked hat and a long, red cloak. He, the, gnome, wore red trousers and red sleeves. The rest of his body was dressed in a white pillow case with arm-holes cut in it. It was gathered at his belt; gathered also by a red ribbon tied around the throat; the corners of the pillow case tied with nar row ribbon formed bis ears, and there waa a white bandage over the eyes, and a round opening for his mouth. The god mother dragged in a large aacK, ana in gnome bore a stick with bells at the end. "Let me into the ring,dears,"squeaked the fairy godmother. "Let me into the ring, dears,"growled the white gnome. The circle obeyed. , "Now, my dear," squeaked the fairy godmother, "I've brought you a bag full of lovely things, but, yon must know, I am under an enchantment. All I can do is to let yon each take out a gift when your turn comes, but when you send me a 'Thank you,' don't let my white gnome know what it is, for if he guesses your name you must put back the gift without opening the paper. But if he guesses the wrong name, then you may keep the gift. So now begin, one at a time. Keep the magic circle mov ing until my gnone knocks three times." Around went the circle, eager, with fun and expectation.! Suddenly the blinded gnome pounde .three times with his stick, and then poin ed it straight in front of him, jingling the little bells. Tommy Budd was the happy youth pointed at. "Help yourself, my dear," squeaked the fairy godmother as she held the sack toward him. He plunged his arm into the opening and brought out a neat paper parcel. "Hey! What did you say, dear?" she squeaked. "Take hold of the stick." Tommy seized the end of the stick.and said, in a horse tone: "Thank you, ma'am.' "That's John Stevens," growled the gnome. "Put it back! put it back!" But it wasn't John Stevens, and so Tommy kept the parcel. be circle moved again. The gnome knocked three times, and this time the stick pointed to Dorry. She tried to be polite, and direct her neighbor's hand to it, but the godmother would not hear of that. ''Help yourself, child," she squaked, and Dorry did. The paper parcel which she drew from the sack was so tempting and pretty, all tied with ribbon, that she really tried very hard to disguise - her "Thank you," but the gnome vua too sharp for her. "No, no!" he growled. "That's Dorothy Reed. Put it back ! put it back!" And poor Dorry dropped the pretty parcel into the bag again. So the merry game went on; some es caped detection and saved their gifts; -some were detected and lost them; but the godmother would not suffer those who had parcels to try again, and therefore, in the course of the game, those who failed at first succeeded after a while. When all had parcels, and the bag was nearly empty, what did that old fairy do but straighten up, throw off her hat, cap, false face, and if it wasn't Uncle George himself, very red . in the face, and very glad to be out of his prison. Instantly one and all discovered that they had known all along that it was Mr. Reed. "Ha! bar they lifughed; "and now, let's see who the white gnome is !" They caught him at the foot of the stairs, and were not very - much aston ished when Ed. Tyler came to light. "That is a splendid game 2" declared some. "Grand !" cried others. "Fine," ''first-rate," "glorious, "capital," "as good as Christmas," said the rest: Then they opened their parcels, and there was great rejoicing. St. Nicholas. , Gambling Farmers. The following extract from an Illinois paper may help our farmers to form some fair idea of the working of the "put and call system" now adoptei in San Francisco : "Tbe extent to which farmers have staked money on wheat margins is working harm to 'many com munities. The fact that such men as Armour, McGeoch, Handy and Gould have made their tens and hundreds of thusands on corners in wheat, has tempted many of the farmers of specula tive turn of mind to try their hand. They usually find their hand empty before the deal closes. Where one farmers makes by operating in wheat, a thousand lose. It is not complimentary to the shrewd ness or intelligence of the small fish to rush in, making themselves the victims of the mighty. It is tbe old story of the big fish eating up the little ones. If it is not an established fact that gambling in grain or stocks is the chief business transacted in Chicago wheat puts and calls, or we may say of boards of trade and exchanges in the great trade centers, it is something near akin to what is un derstood by the term; The present manner of dealing in grain is not only damaging to those operating, but to the whole country. The Banker's Magazine gives a table which shows the extent to which gam bling in some of the stable articles is carried: CAMBLRIO $1 I ti W0.UIN) TKADK. . 0 000,000 Cotton Wheat... 600 000 00 : 13S6Ti.tOH Corn-. 32 000000 Oat nooo.O'e 6,0 0,000 This table shows that only about ten per cent, of tbe corn and wheat that waa bought and sold really exchanged hands. In other words, there were $60,000,000 worth of wheat on hands for consump tion, or shipment, and there was specu lation or chances taken on it to the ex tent of $600,000,000,that is to say, $540, 000,000 of the trading done was on imag inary wealth. Now in the face of such facts there are men who mortgage farms to get money to put up on margins. They have faith in wheat or cotton or pork, and they back up their faith with their farm. When men become smart enough to make something out of noth ing, these gosling farmers may get back as much money as they put up." A WoHDEMTJli Old Mah. Whatever judgment may be passed on Victor Hugo's later work, says a writer in the London World, it mnst be admitted that bis intellectual activity is marvelous. Even now he is up every day between five and six o'clock, and every day he works. A hearty eater, his great pleas ure is the eight o'clock dinner, at which there are al way two or three guests. Having seen everything and forgotten nothing, Victor Hugo is a wonderful talker. His souvenirs embrace a whole century. Unlike Lamartine, who used to pretend that he was born in 1803, whereas he was really born in 1790, Vio tor Hugo does not seek to hide his age. "I have more to do than I have done," Baid Victor Hugo to a friend only a few days ago. "It might be thonght that age weakens the intellect; my intellect, on the contrary, seems tq grow stronger, and does not rest. It seems to me that as I advance my horizon grows wider; and so I shall pass away without having finished my task. I should require several lives still to write all that my mind conceives; I shall never finish. I am resigned on that point," The resolution of a moment.with some 'men has been the turning point of infi nite issues to the world. ALL S0RRS. General Garfield's son Harry is re ported to be niatrimonally engaged to Colonel Kocltweu 8 daughter Lulu. The ode on Prince Leopold's nuptials, which is being written by Mr. Tennyson will.it is understood, appear in the Nine teenth Century. There are now in the three southern provinces of Ireland as many troops as Lord Raglan had when he landed iu the Crimea to fight the Russians. Washington correspondents talk about "the elegant comfort of .the White House," and glorify the social tact.grace and knowledge of President Arthur. Haters of the Chinese at El Paso, Texas, raised money to defend a woman who bad shot a saucy Chinaman, and. after seeing her acquitted, presented her with a silver cup. At a recent ballot for the Oxford and Cambridge Club, according to the Lon don Truth, Mr. Ashmead-Bartiett-Burdett Coutts achieved the unprece dented distinction of receiving jtwenty black balls. Wooden shoes are worn in the West, and enough of them are sold to keep a large manufactory going at Green Bay. They are cut out of green basswooil, smoked and dried like hams, and sold at A Chinaman ran wildly through the streets of Cleveland, crying: "My wifey died my wifey dead." She was a white woman, and had committed suicide be cause seeing her former husband pass by, she surmised that he was about to have her arrested. Mr. Gladstone has recently expressed the strongest desire to see Mr. Goldwiu Smith in Parliament. In all probability he will brought forward as a minis terial candidate CH the first available opportunity in Ireland. Mme. de Balzao has soli, her famous house in the Rue de Bern to Baroness James de Rothschild for half a million francs. No visitor has ever ljeen allowed to enter the suite of rooms fhich were formerly occupied by the great? novelist. The fiance of Prince LeopolflrHtsconl ing to the London Truth, has made a very favorable impression on those who have seen her. She is fair height with a beautiful figure, dark hair, fine fore head, good eyes and mouth, and charm ing manner. It is said that just before the crush in the Union Generale the Pope sold out, through his agent, the' banker Merigui, all his shares, at the pleasing price of 8500 a share, thus realizing a nice profit and proving again the truth of the "Nou pessumus errare." In Duval county, Florida, dwells a poly gam is t with three wives. A negro deemed it his duty to prosecute him and, after gathering the requisite proof, he started for the court house to make a complaint. He had gone but a few miles when the polygamist overtook and shot him. , Leha J. Bobin6onrBoston's woman lawyer, is said to have acquired "a fair office rjractice. hut is denied the riclit tn argue cases at the bar. In order to let hev voice be heard in public she has de livered a lecture before a large audience. She maintained her cause in a way that made the newspapers praise her. A curious wager was decided in Lon don at midnight a few days since, when the son of a noble duke- undertook to run along the embankment, from the Houses of Parliament to Waterloo Bridge, while Big Ben was striking 12. The lordly athlete won easily, reaching the goal at the ninth stroke of the hour. A young woman got a free railroad pass at Jackson, Mich., by telling the poormaster that she was a . stranger in distress. Next day she reappeared, and said that she had lost the pass and wanted another. An investigation showed shat she was a married woman, residing in the city, who desired the tickets for berslf and a lover to use in eloping. v The New York Herald Paris corTM- ponuent gives the particulars oi barau Bernhardt's recent illness at Genoa. She fell back on the stage while acting in "La Dame aux Camellias," vomiting streams of blood, and had to be removed to her hotel immediately. This is not the first time that similar accidents have hap pened to Dona Sol, but it appears that the attack on this particular occasion was most serious than ever before, and the many admirers of the actress' genius are very anxious about her. She was look ing forward with delight, when takan ill, to returning to returning to her pretty villa on the cliffs of St. Adresse. ART AND ARTISTS. , Luminous paint is now being utilized lor door plates, house numbers and signs. The advantages are obvious. Herr Ziegler, the historical painter, has just completed a fine life-size paint ing of Marshal Moltke for the Moltke Club in New York. Munkacsy's great picture, "Christ Be fore Pilate," has been purchased by the Austrian government, and will not be ex hibited in this country. The exhibition in the gallery of the Boston Art Club, which closed Satur day, the 11th instant, had a total attend ance of 41,997 during its fkecty-six days. At the sale of the paintings of Alvin Adams, in Boston, Bierstadt's "Lake Lucerne brought $3375, and "Winter," by Adolph Schreyer, $2710. John C. Calhoun is to have a costly monument and statue in Charleston. Models have been submitted, and the association shortly will determine upon the figures. . Bayard Taylor says: "It is a withering commentary upon our modem .costume that no sculptor has dared, or ever will dare to model a statue wearing a stove pipe hat." At the base of the London Cleopatra' Needle are four sphinxes, which have been made to look inward and toward one another, for some curious and inex plicable 'reason. . Mr. Valentine, the sculptor, is now at. work on a statue of John C. Breckin ridge, which is to becastin bronze.eight feet in height, for the Breckinridge As sociation of Lexington, Ky. Albert Wolff concludes in the Paris Figaro that the influence of ' American wealth tends to make French art law and mercenary. This is a severe reflection wu xreuuu avritutis, sua exposes meir viw defect, lack of scrutiny. Millais is new painting a portrait of one of Edinburgh's little princesses. lie asks about a thousand guineas for such pictures, whuh is several times ss much as Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he emu lates but will never rival, expects to re ' ceivo. y i . - 1 t ..... f