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State tights LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. MY TKI.K.U K A I'll TO IUTK. The president attends the races daily Uelea M. ttloeuru, the well known public speaker and woman's suffrage leader is dead. Among the subscriptions received by Treasurer Gilfillait for the Garfield me morial hospital are $3,3f3 contributed in London am" Paris. The Mansion house Jewish relief fund has roaoiuHl t'.VJ.OOO. The committee dispatch t00 refugees to America weekly at a cost of 1600. Business statistics gathered from all parts of the country show a rather unsat isfactory eomlitiou of trade, probably caused in part by a backward spring. The postmaster geuersl has If fi Wash ington for a brief visit to Wiscousin. While west he will arrange for putting on a fast mail train from Chicago wast. It is said that a syudicate has been formed by Jay Goald, Biaine and others to build a new road from Baltimore and Cincinnati on the south side, to cost $15,000,000. The coal companies at Cumberland propose to end the strike by putting new men in the mines. Three thousand old mine! 8 have been idle ten mouths and they are not likely to submit to this without serious trouble. A Washington special says: The lar gest contribution through the American association of the Bed Cross for Missis sippi valley relief work was from Newton Edmunds, of Y ark ton, Dakota, and the next largest from Chas. S Neal secretary of the San Francisco stock and exchange board. . An Inter Ocean Sandwich, III., special says: Mrs. J. A. Lay died there on the Uth, having fasted four weeks. She la lored, under the delusion she was eu ciente, and that if she fasted till the child's birth, which she believed would occur in a few days, her offspring would be a second prophet Elijah. A post mortem examination showed it was a complete illusion. The tanners' strike continues in Chi cago and is assuming the form of a lock out. Employers threaten to put in ma chinery and dispense with manual labor altogether. It is now stated that on the 13th employers met and agreed to stand by each other and all stop work in case of s strike in some of the houses and discharge all the men. About 800 are out of employment. The first meeting of trustees of the John F. Slater fund for education of colored people of the south was held in New York on the ISth. Among those present were ex President Bu the.-ford B. Mayes, Chief Justice Waite and Gov. Coiqnit of Georgia. The charter granted by the state was read and adopted. The board temporarily organized for its work by appointing committees. Fort Madison special: The jury re turned a verdict of murder in the first degree against Polk, Wells and Cook, who murdered the jail guard, and a ver dict of murder in the Second degree against Fitzperald, who was an accom plice. The trial has been the shortest on record, lasting only two days. Wells and Cook are to be imprisoned for life, and Fitzgerald's sentence will be deter mined by the judge. The damage done by the anti-Jewish movement, including houses, breadstuff and other property destroyed, and money taken away by emigration of Jews, amounts to 110.000,000 all lost to Bus sia. To this must be added the losses resulting from preventing labor and profit, not only of Jews but others dur ing the riots and from stagnation of trade generally, which won Id increase the total by many more millions. A Pittsburg dispatch of the 21st says: Some railroad coal miners of this dis distriet recently struck against a reduc tion in wages and colored men wtre im -ported in their places. Miners in thirty -three pits to-day resolved to continue the strike and stop all work if the negroes are not discharged by June 1st: At present the strike effects 2000 miners, but if it extends to all the mines, as threatened, 12,000 men will be thrown out' of employment. The Times recently announced the in corporation in New York of the North American Silk Exchange for the purpose of stimulating silk culture in this coun try. To this end they are now negotiat ing for 350 acres of land on Long Island for the purpose of establishing a nursery of mulberry trees, and for 2000 acres of land in Kentucky, which they propose to let in small lots in advantageous terms to those who wish to raise silk worms and produce cocoons. It is said anybody can raise worms and children can realize as much from their culture as the same number of men can in raising cotton. Fire broke out on the south side of East Chestnut street in Leadville on the 19th and before it was under control bad destroyed the buildings on that side east of the First National bank for nearly a block, including Windsor hotel, Academy of Music and the Palace of Fashion, a large dry goods house. The front of the buildings on the opposite side of the street were charred. Loss about $200, 000; partly covered by insurance. It is supposed to be the work of incendiarism. One dead unidentified body was found and it is supposed that other lives were lost, as some of the occupants are miss ing. The war department has the following: A Fort Leavenworth dispatch of the 18th says: The following telegram just re ceived shows the situation at Mescaleros agency to be much the same only worse tliau it was with Cheyennes. The Mes caleros must be fed or they will starve. The Indian bureau, it appears, cannot feed them and the army must, therefore feed them. A heavy military force must be placed around them to make them starve peacefully. There is time yet to provide for them, but it cannot safely be postponed. It should be attended to at once. JOSEPH POPE, General Com'dg. The grand jury has returned new pre sentments against Gen. Thomas Brady, John W. Dorsev. Stephen W. Dorsey, Mountfort C. Reredell, Henry M. Tur- ney, J. B. Minor, J. M. Peck and Harry M. Van, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connec tion with the award of star route con tracts. Four allegations of overt acts committed outside the statute of limita tions have heen omitted and twelve new overt acts beeu inserted, the acts being, making fraudulent claims against the government, based on fraudulent allow ance for increase allowed by Brady. . A number of letters and petitions are incor porated, and finally the data of the con spiracy is brought forward to may 23, 1879. The court issued warrants for the arrest of defendants returnable on the 23d. The Northern Pacific road is about to run Pullman cars between St. Paul and Mtes City. S. B. Ainslie has been appointed sup erintendent of the Yellowstone division, which will be open the 1st of June. Smallpox has been introduced along the Missouri and Yellowstone by immi grants. There are six cases at Miles City, tan at Glendive, and several at Bismarck. An explosion of sulphur occurred iu the Btiokenridge colliery, mar Shamo kiu. Pa., on the 20th, causing instant death to three men and fatal iujury to another. A Little Bock special says: The com mittee which has been investigating the books of ex-state treasurer, new Gov ernor, Churchill for the past fourteen months filed a report on the, 20th. The deficit foots up ?114,8. Jerry Hurtigun, a noted 4th and 6th ward gsinhler ami politician, waaatabhod, probably fatally, in front of his rum shop in the Bowery on the 20th. The mur derer, who was captured, said he was out to ha.e some fun and he had had it. A fight for $200 took place near Phila delphia on the 21st between Deunis Mur phy and Louia Bheal, the latter wiuning in thirteen rounds, which occupied twenty-six minutes. The defeated man had his nose broken and face bruised into raw meat, and was taken home in a wagon. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 21st says: Iu his morning sermon Bishop Gilmour denouueed the women of his congrega tion for identifying themselves with the ladies' land league. The latter organi zation at its afternoon meeting hotly de nounced the attack made upon its mem bers. Justice James has announced the decis ion of court in banc upon the exceptions in the Guiteau case, denying a new trial and affirming the judgment of the court Udow. Justice Hagner, in a separate opinion, discussed the bearing of the old Maryland act of 1875, an indictment un der which would have been good iu this district. Judge Carter stated that the opinions given were the unanimous opin ions of the court. A dispatch of the 21st says: One hun dred and ten Canadians arrived at Mus kegon, Mich., and will go to work on the booms Monday, protected by SO of Pink erton's force. Nevertheless a collision is feared, as the strikers have ben idle so long aad have become destitute and ; correspondingly desperate. A collision did occur yesterday and several broken heads resulted therefrom. A Pittsburg dispatch of the 21st says: Intense excitement prevailed at the oil exchange this morning. Exaggerated reports of the capacity of the big strike at Warren were received, and fluctua tions of quotations were frequent and quite large. The opening price was 85, but the market quickly jumped to 00, and then back again to 66, closing at noon at 66, bid. Sales at the morning session aggregated 750,000. The Tribune of the 20th ssys: Y ester day there was received in this city a con signment of twenty-five cars of wheat from St. Louis, to be inspected here and shipped hence by lake to New York. Another consignment of the same num ber of ears of wheat from the same place, having the same destination, will arrive this morning. It would seem thst river barges are not running, or that the water in the jetties is insufficient, or that it is at least understood at St. Louis that the natural as well as the cheapest route for wheat to market is through Chicago. There are new and startling develop ments in the McMenormon fratricide, twelve miles west of Muscatine, Io. The girl Mary, who on the 20th declared she shot her father in self-defense, and her brother and elder sister are here in jail. The Daily Journal has a full confession from the girls, showing the murder was committed by a brother in order that the children might have things their own way at home, and that it was arranged that the youngest sister should acknowl edge the shooting with the idea that the plea of self-defense and her extreme youth would save her from punishment, and thus her sister and brother escape punishment also. There is much excite ment over the case. A dispatch from Kansas City of the 20th says: Littleton Younger, uncle of the notorious Younger brothers, three of whom are now confined in the Stillwater, Minnesota, penitentiary on life sentences for complicity in the Nortbfield bank robbery, stated that he intended starting for Oregon in twenty days and would take his nephew with him. For fourteen months this uncle and a sister have been striving to secure a pardon for the boys, having spent $20,000 as he claims, going about the country and endeavoring to secure sympathy and aid in his purpose. He now claims to have matters arranged so that a speedy pardon will be secured. The Pacific National bank of Boston, which suspended some months ago, but reopened a few weeks since, stopped pay ments again on the 22d, and will wind up business. Its directors vote to go into liquidation, and have applied for a receiver. Suspension is considered due to lack of business since resumption, as public confidence was not great enough to warrant any large dealings with the concern. The immediate cause of sns pension of the bank was the maturing of $500,000 on the 20th, which the bank was unable to pay, and which went to pro test. It is understood all deposits will be paid in full, but the original stock holders will have their investment of $2,000,000 wiped out. Two tribes of Alaskan Indians, the Auks and Stickeens, hsd a difficulty some time ago, and the Stickeens got the best of the fight, and last week the Auks thought it was a good time to get even, and they were all camped close to town on the west side, and some few Stickeens camped oa the east side of the town. The Auks captured a woman belonging to the Stickeens, and were goitg to burn her at a stake, but she made her escape and came to town to secure protection from the miners. The Auks came and made a demand for the woman, but the miners would not give her up. The Auks con cluded to take her by force, but three companies of military hurried out in full force and very soon drove the Indians out of town. The only damage done was the dislocation of an Indian's jaw and a broken musket stock. The President of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Society is stated by the Lancet to have sail that "two-thirds of all the medicines sold in the United States were in the form of patent medi cines. Spittoons are not among the appoint ments of the New York Elevated Itau roads. Persons on the street below have often remarked the fact in language which this paragraph would blush to re peat. TI1K UK iT AID THE LAbf (IF Hh'K. They wore all enjoying the breeze that swept through the wide parlors that summer evening, it had been so hot of late. The mouth of May, the place was Philadelphia, and I u almost afraid to say this it was the Centennial time. But don't be alsrmed, my reader; lam not going to describe the Great Exposi tion, nor tell anything about it, nor shall I give any information concerning 76 of either this or the last oontury. I only intend to relate an incident thst happened to take place then and there. The peoplo enjoying the breeze were a family by the name of Fen ton, and con sisted of a father and mother, two grown up daughters, one grown up son and a little girl. Mrs. Feu ton had jnrt been saying that she supposed they would soon be over run with visitors coming to spend a few davs and see the Centennial. ' Well, let them come!" said Mr. Fen ton, heartily, as he turned his paper inside out. "I dou't know one that I wouldn't be glad to see." "Nor 1." returned Mrs. Ponton. "I am always so thankful that we needn't le ashamed of any of our relations. There's sister Kate! Who could be more delightful thau she is?" "Oh.Annt Kate is perfectly splended !" chorused the young people. "And there's Uncle Phil and Aunt Emily," said Mattel, the eldest girl. "And Cousin Joe and his wife," added Florence, the second daughter. "And John and his family," put in Mr. Feotou. "Oh! if you go counting up, you'll never get through," said Tom, the son and heir. "But I say! haven't we any objectionable connections at all? Isn't there some old duffer who will turn up at the wrong moment?" "1 haven't any." said Mr. Feotou. "No-o-o," said Mrs. Fenton, rubbing her forehead thoughtfully. "Stop ! I thiuk I rememlier one. Of course Cousin Jerusha ! I wonder I didn't thiuk before. But I don't know thst she is objectionable; the fact is.I don't know anything about her. She's lived 'way up in Vermont all her life. She is a niece of grandfather's, and is an old maid ; at least she ought to be if she iau't married or dead. Her name is Heving ton Jerusha Hevingtou. I always thought it such a pity to spoil such a fine name as Hevingtou with Jerusha. 1 hope she won't come; I'm sure she must beperfectly awful !" 'I he two young ladies had Iweu look ing at their mother in blank silence ever since she had mentioned this unpleasant relation ; Tom had gone off in a fit of laughter; so that Mr. Fenton was the only one who spoke: "Well, if she comes, all we can do is to make the bast of it, and treat hor as well as we know how." "Oh, of course," said Mrs. Fenton. Tom here looked at his watch, and started up, exclaiming that be should lie late, he had an appointment, and bolted off, promising to be home early. Then Mr. FenUn settled down for a nao: Mm. Fenton buried herself iu Lorna Doone; j and the girls yawned over their Japaueae canvas, fearing a dull evening. The air gently fluttered the lane cur tains, the mellow light shone down from the many -globed chandelier upon the fresh white matting, the linen-draped fnruiture, the pictures and statuettes, the three ladies in their pretty evening dresses, and the old gentleman snoring away behind his newspaper: all was as quiet as quiet could be, when a violent peal at the door bell made them all nearly jump out of their skins. "Who on earth is that?" asked Mr. Fenton, bouncing up. Airs. Fenton dropped her book and gave a scared look into the hall. "I suppose it a Mr. Vender pool," said Mabel. "Oh no, he never rings like that," said Florence. Their old colored waiter had opened the door by this time, snd a loud voice was heard inquiring, "Does Mr. Fenton Mr. Samuel Fenton live here?" "Yes, m'am, he does," old James an swered respectfully. "Waal, hen, 1 guess I'll wslk right in; I seen the folks through the winder;" and apparently before the old servant stopped her, the owner of the voice did "walk right into" the parlor -a toll, strong-featured woman, with iron-gray , ? 11 , t . nair, in a oeaniiiuiiy nowereu urecs mat a bulging hoop-skirt showed to advan tage, and a shawl of vivid red and yellow plaid. A bonnet of the shape called poke was on her bead, and from it dangled a thick veil. She wore gray cotton gloves, and one hand firmly grasped a lumpy carpet bag, the other a fat umbrella. She looked comfortable and common from top to toe. She peered at the group through her steel bowed spectacles, and tucking bar um brella under the carpet-bag arm, she ex tended her hand. "Wa'al, now, I s'pose yer don't know me. I'm Jerusha Hev mgton yer cousin, Jerusha Heving tou." The strickin family were dumb. Mr. Fenton was the first to recover. He took the proffered hand and shook it warmly, and led the lady to a chair, begging her to be seated. He could not say that she was welcome, but he tried to make her feel as if she were. Mrs. Fenton then 'came forward, and sitting down beside her, asked some friendly questions about the journey; and the girls, a little conscience-smitten, offered to take her things. "Wa'al, I guess I won't just now, thunk yer I've got to go and see about my trunk in a minute; I bed it left in a grocery store jest sround the oorner. The young man was awful pleasant when I told him I was one of your folks he seemed to set heap by you." "Good gracious!" thought Florence, with a shudder. "I wonder if she has been going all through the city. advertis ing her relationship to us!" "Wa'al, Samuel," said Mrs. Jerusha, "yer've two fine likely gals; they'd onghter help their mar a sight in doin' house-work and sich. It must take a powerful heap o' work to keep all them fussin's clean" with an admiring, rather awe -struck glance about the room. Then she went on, "Is them all the children yer've got. Maria?" Mrs. Fenton answered that ahe had two more, a son and a daughter, Mabel offered to send for her little sister.think ing that a child might make converse easier, but Miss Jerusha answered, with such evident alarm and disrelish, "For law's sake, no! I can't bear children,' that she drew back, offended. Mrs. Fen ton looked annoyed ; but Miss Jerusha, unabashed, began to complain of the awful drought up in their place, while an awful silence fell upon the rest. A quick light ring made the girls start and fervently hope tbat it was not Mr Vanderpool I am sure for the first time m their lives. To have Mr. Vanderpool, of all beings in the world, see this dread -i iwl relative Mr. anderpool, whose father belonged to the oldest of Knicker bocker fnmilius, and whoso mother was an F. F. V. ; who was so fastidious and refined himself! It took on ty a few sec onds for this to rush through their brains, when in Mr. Vauderpool walked. Ue was greeted in a rather embarrassed manner by them all, and tnveiglod into a seat as fsr as possible from Miss Jerusha, on pretense of its being cooler by the window. But Miss Jerusha didn't mean to be loft in the background she got up from her chair and stalked over to the group. "Who's this young man?" she blandly inquired, indicating Mr. Vanderpool with her cotton forefinger. Mabel, with a very red face, intro duced "Miss Hevingtou," mentally grateful that the name wasu't Mulkius or Snooks. Mr. Vanderpool made an astonished bow, but Miss Jerusha held out her hand, and gave his an unmerciful grip, exclaiming heartily, "I'm real glad to see yer, mister. But see here, sis" to Mabel "I aiu't ashamed o'beiu' your cousin yer might hev interdooced me as sich." Then ordering Mr. Vanderpool "to set down on the sofy," she took her place beside him when he had otieyed. "Wa'al, now, 1 didu't spect to see sich a fine young feller the fust night I come a beau 0 youru, I s'pose?" she said to Mul-el in a loud voioe. Msbe wished that the earth would ojmmi and swallow some oue of the party. "Wa'l, yor needn't gt so all ured red; J or ain't got no call to be ashamed o' im; he seems a nice nuff kind o' young man." Mabel felt the cold shivers running up and down her beck, and she thought she knew the meaning of purgatory now. Mum Jerusha, quite blisaful, turned to Mr. Vanderpool and put some searching questions with regard to his "trade. Mr. Vanderpool politely answered tbat he was studying for the bar ' Hum! bar tender; I shouldn't hev thought it!"was Miss Jorushe'soommeut. The girls sat shuddering, and wonder ing what was coming next. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton were holding a council of war in the back parlor. Miss Jerusha was silent for the space of three minutes, gazing upon Mr. van derpool with sooh ardent admiration that he began to fell nervous. "You're awful like Liuus SwinetVdd" she exclaimed at length "the fust beau I ever hed. I knowed him wbeu he went to th dtriet school. They useter call him Piggy then and none o' the gsis could bear the sight o' him, snd when he growed up, I was the only one who'd go to prayer nieetm' with him. My stars! but he was powerful like you. He'd jest the same kind tow colored hair and kinder wbity blue eyas. I was awful fond o' htm." She sighed and edged a little nearer the now thoroughly uncomfortable Mr. VemlerrSool; then sighed again and edged a little nearer. "You're dreadful like him," she said .and buried her face in a big red handker chief, and groaning, moved nearer still ; another groan, another sigh, made the girls rise iu a fright. Was the woman crazy? Still another sigh and groau wedged Mr. Vandfrpool against a sharp oorner of the sofa. He, somewhat alarmed, tried to get up when Miss Jerusha, with spasmodic twitches all over her face, threw her arms around his neck, exclaiming convulsively, "My dear, dear boy !" Mr. Vanderpool indignantly struggled to release himself, but the clinging arms refused to be unhooked. Mabel ami Florence stood wringing their hands in despair. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton rushed to the rescue, and in the senilis that en sued, off came the poke-bonnet and green veil, carrying with them the spec tacles aud gray hair, and there was lorn s curly brown bead confessed. "Oh, Tom, yon dreadful bov! cried the girls, as Tom sat down on the sofa, shouting and shakiag with laughter. It took alsiut the space of a lightning flash for them to grasp the situation, and such peals of laughter rang through the rooms that it is a wonder tue neighbor hood was not aroused ; but then it was hearty rather thau noisy, and that makes a wondrous difference. Tom, with many chokes and roars. told how he had managed, winding up with: "Nurse and cook and old Tim acted like regnlar trumps. How I did fool you all! but, by Jove, I thought I waa gone when Mab wanted to send up for Dot; shed seen the rigging up in the nursery, you know, and she'd have let it all out. Oh, dear, its the best fun I've had siuce I left the academy. When I called father. 'Samuel,' I thought I would explode on the spot. Oh dear! And, would yon believe it? the young scamp persisted iu wearing his outrage ous get-up all the rest of the evening, and when Mr. Vanderpool finally took his leave, insisted upon escorting him to the door, where he bade him an affectionate farewell, assuring him that "he was powerful like Linus Swinefleld. In the learned city of ioston resides a most accomplished and beautiful lady, whose toilettes all bear the stump of Worth, and who will be somewhat as tonished should she chsnce to read this sketch, for her maiden name was Jerusha Hevingtou. Bual Estate Improvement. Not far from Chicago are two commu nities, separated by a river, one settled with intelligent Christian people, and the other with those that are quite the opposite. A farmer of the latter place said to Deacon Good : "Why is it that you always get better prices and readier sales for your lands than we can, when our farms are just as good?" The deacon explained as best he could how the good schodlf . churches, etc., in creased the price of land wherever they are established. A few days after the same man called again on the deacon, and, placing a roll of bills in his hand, said: "I have beeu talking up this subject of churches, and we have concluded to have preaching in our district. We want you to take this money and get us a preacher." "I will do my best," replied the dea con, well pleased that ho was about to be the instrument of so much good. "What kind do you want? We have Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Christians." "Oh, any that comes handy. We don't euro a d n what kind it is so it raises the price of land." A young man asked a Liouisville po liceman to kill him. The officer de clined, though the man pleaded hard that he wished to die. He was taken to it. iiJ .. a 11 ' tne station, wnere ne soon ien into a stupor. He had swallowed laudanum. and the slow action of the .drug disap- pointed mm, out it killed at last. A TURTLE BOY K tt I HON HOOD. Tim grief Sl Iks princess of Bora st the loss of her husband is till reuiemhenHl throughout Paris. Wilkin bit dudra, drpd in black, Iu the Parisian mourning ouihUxoned with StpbSffSt tliere rolKiii'tl the terrible despair of s Mpatilab wumarl. The princes rut off tier bslr, and secludvd hursalf from every ous. Ill her mourning rube, with her youthful head shorn of it leek, ho hsd the BMSSMMt of s nun ; it made Iter hotel resemble s oouvent. as e t iter iUyn before thn jmr trait of her hnebaiid. ami dined alotio in the large diiitug riMiin, where every evening the table waaapread for two. The eano aud the bat ef the prinee rcutafued ill the auto-room in their sou us U mix ulaous. a If the master, tlavugh he had left homo forever, bad just eome iu. HI presence IwIiik tbu recalled rendered the despair of the poor wife mors intense, sod the void ef hi atmenoe even k rester. Hut of u 11 tbat round of rail, ball, recep tion., and ctjucerts where they bad mot sod leved, and which act, ss O were, thqir happi ness In a fashionable society frame, be re- tained only one friend, the llarories Alice) in draw ing room prima donna, who was Indebted to la-1 U atitiful voice for having remained the intimate friend f the prince, whose great, inconsolable and noisy grief mad all conver sation Jar upon her mood, but who loved to bear nglng around her. as it helped to glv,e vent to tsar. Two years p assail thus, and the widow was till sorrowful, still austere. Her hair, how ever, was allowed to arow, tippling over bar head with rebellious life la luxuriant carl aud wave. Her mourning was thus lightened and Blade more cheerful, and seemed now to be worn only a a caprice of fashion. It waa st this perlisi thst the nephew of Mote. Anosllu. meeting the on urn at bis aunt' house, fell doaperalely in lovo and began to dream of marryiiiK her. At the first word of love he ventured to addrusa her th widow Lmm-soic iu dtKuaitt. To her the prince till lived, snd this offer seemed au iusult. tempting her to be unfaith ful. For some time she did not see her frleud. the baroness. The young man went away and" trieo to noiiet, nut son returned, and snowed so much love aad despair tbat Mm. Ann I in took pity on bun and resolved to overcome the scruple of the priuces. llu how could sbe persuade a woman with so peculiar a nature, who never reasoned, aud who was led only by in. pulse and eotbuKiasmi Kb believed thai a pssslou so exclusive must aesavaarily be jealous, and tried to obtain some obi letter of the prince. Till was not very diile ull, M. tie Hora having written very many StiSffS bis marriage, and altered hi scrawls tbrouxhout a multitude of little hose and locked drawer, which, however, wtre ao well bidden one from the other, that each might boast of being the sol possessor of the per fumed coal of-srnia of the great lord. In order to bring a few alieet of aofue common-place romance in letter without dale to abow to the widow, Mme. Auceliu bad the courage to present herself again at that hotel which was like s lomb of the dead, a sOsSJl ri .wr-dockod lomb, where all day long wept s living statue. It was not grief, but the falling of her idol that now became her paiu. Toor little Prin cess! Her yrr of hapniuas. end period of widowhood, alike rolled down snd vanished into the aame abye of acorn and soger. Noth ing remained but an intense deelro to avenge herself. Tie- portrait was banished from her room. The second plate st table by which she bad tried lo delmle her fancy that sbe was not alone, was now removed from before the empty, sacredly guarded seat; and in the crowded anteroom which sa henceforth to be otwe to callers aud passer to and fro. the aat and cane thai had been there ao long were no longer to be eawn. There were fetes at the Hotel de Hora now, ball and suppers. As a changeful ky shake off the night that lingered long, the priucew emerged in gray, lilac pisk and ' blue, recover ing all Iter former brilliancy. 'I hen one eve ning, while walking- io her small conservatory, she said to Mme. Aneelin'a nephew, who had been following her about like a gloomy ehadow since Iter return to the soullgbt: "Now I will be your wife whenever you wish." ft be would have liked to have lbs ceremony performed thai very moment in the conservatory. Tbcv were married verv soon after snd were happy, she, through a kind of rage, sad he perplexed snd astonished at her sudden pas sion, but enjoying bis happiness without seek ing to analyze it too closely. In society lite marriage was much talked alont. The Itarou- css Auceliu. remembering similar phrases in ner romancm. had rwstlr a charming little speech upon lie- subject: "Do you see the priuc.' e e People thought she was lamcutiiiK. when a her lamentations were cooing. see ntr was a turtle dove widowhood." Hfx months clamed. The ncwlv married couple were living in the country, in a chateau In the suburus of Paris, where the friend made them a visit. Hoeing them qsieUy manifesting their happiness a they walked among the mootb lawns and silent paths, the charming baroness, who was never far-sighted, having her eyes open only to the present moment, aud deuly asid to them: "It was I who made you so happy. Well. I do not regret my falsehood.'' Th princess gave a sudden start. "What do you say.' v hat falsehood" (P ar. 1 cau tell you everything now. The poor prince waa not so black as I painted him. Those famous letters wore dated five years back. You were not married then." "Is this what you have done? aald the prin ces, looking at her husband and ber friend with an expression of madness in her eyes. The lead, forgotten prince, whose name she no longer bore, wholly resumed his former place iu her affections, as her husband plaiuly saw by a shrinking motion as ahe drew back from him. All wsa over between them without a word of explanation. The princess shut herself up st homo, and in an agony that lasted long sbe gave way to all the remorse that tortured her. The unhappy woman hed married again, not for love, but out of revenge, and finding thst the prince was not unfaithful she felt guilty to ward hiss aud ashamed of herself. With what pi ty and sorrow sbe recalled bis memory that had been so rudely banished, snd now returned with the satno power. The poor lover held himself aloof, knowing well that he was nothing hi her; her former Iiassion returning with such strength, hsd lilled what she felt for him as by one blow. At the last moment, as Mme. Aucelin was woepiu)r m ar her, being overcome with re morse, although, hardly understanding hor fault, the princess leaned over toward the thoughtless creature who had fluttered like s butterfly serosa hor straight and serious path, and said in a voice too feeble for the complaint to resemble a reproach, "You see I am not coo ing; I am dying." And it was true. Alphmwe Daiulei. Mohammedan Keniuallhin No one of the Mohammedan races has carried out the license given to sensual E fission given by the Koran and the ad ering tradition to such an extent as have the Ottoman Turks, and no race has suffered so much from that license. The evil consequences are far-reaching and baleful in the extreme. It is to feed Turkish sensuality that the slave trade throughout the empire and in. the inter ior is maintained. The beautiful, fair daughters who are purchased from the Georgians and Circassians also find their way at last to the harems of Constanti nople, Brusa, Smyrna, Adriauople, Aleppo, Bagdad, and other towns and cities of Asia Minor. One of the direct results of tnis sensuality is that the Turks have degenerated physical! v d urine the past 200 years. That the conquerors of Constan tinople were a hardy race of great phys ical strength there can be no doubt; that the great majority of modern Turks are of an efhminate type is equally certain; very many of them are persons of fine appearance, but they are physically weak, without elasticity, giving impress of men who have lost their vitality. The same mav be said even more emphati cally of Turkish women; they are small in stature, of sickly complexion, easily fatigued by slight exertion, and become orematurelv old. After the ace of 40 all femine beauty is gone, the eyes have become sunken, the cheeks sunken, snd the face wrinkled; and there remains no trace of the activity and strength often sewn in English w onion of 65, or even of 70 years of age. Another immediate re sult of the prevailing seitsuality is the mental imbecility of multitudes of the Ottoman Turks; great numbers smong them are intellectually stupid. Many even of the young men have the vacant look which borders close on the idiotic state. Hevero mental application is for them almost a physical tmpoeai bility. It is woll known tbat in all branches of business whom consider shle mental activity is required the Turks employ Christians to work for them. This is owing, not so much to a lack of education, or to a general want of energy, as in many cases to a mental incapacity which often amounts to real imbecility. Obvious illustrations of the sp:ial topic now discussed ia furnished by the royal family itself. Hultao Abdul Mejul, Huliau Abdul Azz, and the dis poned Hultan Mured were all men of de p raved minds, vicious habits, iutemper ate and sensual in the extreme, and were alike devoid of moral character and men tal character. Mental incapacity, how ever, from the causes alleged, is not con fined by any means to the wealthy ami aristocratic classes; it ia found in all trade of society. - British Quarterly iteview. Maed Us That Wash. Basin. There is a pronenes in man to admire great thieves. When, however, a thief has obtained a national reputation for robbing stages, and murdering vendue tors and detectives, there ia do limit to the slobber and gush when the scoundrel is finally brought to grief. It is really sot safe for a sensible person to read some Western papers since the death of Jesse J aes, unless the reader has a wash basin within reach. Not long since, Jesse James and his gang murdered, treacherously, shooting him from behind. Conductor Westfall. because he was trying, as an honest, brave man, to protect the passengers and property entrusted to him. He waa quite as brave a man as Jesse James, but as he was not a thief and au outlaw, there waa no gush in the papers about bia death. Nobody seemed to care bow bis widow and children came on. but when a thug, who has been murdering and robbing all bis life, is finally come up with, half the Missouri editors want to reverse their column rules and patt-rapf on their bats. For Heaven's Hake, hand us thst wash-basin, quick ! There! me feel better, now. Bat to rename. Governor Crittenden, findiuK that whole neighborhood were screen ing the highwaymen, and furnishing them information and aid, and as the officers of the law were continually ldng betrayed and murdered by these cut throats, declared Jesse James an outlaw, and offered a reward for him dead or alive. This ia precisely what is done the world over, when sueh a vitiated ami depraved condition of society exists that it ia impossible to arrest s profes sional murderer. One ol the gang, hav ing imbibed Jesse James' notion that murder waa the only approved method of procuring wealth, gives him a dose of his own medicine. What is there in this to mske Jesse James s saint, and r ord the reverse? The late Mr. James waalnot in the habit of allowing detec tives to get the drop on bim, and he and his pals were not particular where they shot those they robbed, if the letter were at all slow in handing over their prop erty. A world of sympathy is extended to the outlaw's wife and mother, but peo ple ftocin to forget that those women hevo aided and abetted the outlaws in their rimes for the last ten or fifteen years. And ia it not possible tbat the victims of the bandits had mothers, wives and children? Bah! Hand na that wash-basin again, quick! (Texas Biftinga. fres dent Tyler aad the Schoolboy. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier Journal relates the following story: When John Tvlcr wss President, the Whig party wss displeased with him, and said many grievous things to his disad vantage. The President took a trip and made a short stay in a nit all country vil lage. The school teacher of the district school invited his Excellency to witness the culture which sbe imparted to her pupils. She drew them up in it line snd propounded the following qtsosiiona: "Who was the first President?'' "George Washington," the boys ssng out in chorus. "Was he a good man?" "He was," the boys emphatically re plied. "Who was the second President'" "John Adams." "Was she a good man?" "He was." So she kept on through the list until she got to Tyler. Then sbe asked: "Who is the present President?" "John Tyler' "Is she a good man?" "We are commanded by the Scriptures not to speak evil of our rulers," rolled out the little band of embryo politicians. I'l netting the IT run,' Leg. A dignitary of the ehuroh was dining out. Of the two lsdies between whom ho wss seated, the one on his right hand side was an intimate acquaintance, and noticing that her distinguished neighbor was silent and preoccupied, said to him, "sotto voce": "I am afraid you are not very well this evening, you do not seem in your ususl spirits." "Well," said the dignitary, "I am in rather a nervous state of mind about my health, and have a sort of presentment tbat a serious illness is hanging over me. I am conscious of a peculiar numbuess all down my right side, which seems to forbode an attack of paralysis." His fair companion expressed her hope that nuoh fears were ill-founded. "Ah, no," he replied, "I'm afraid there's no doubt of it, for I have been pinohing my right leg all dinner time, and can elicit no responsive feeling what ever. The limb seems quite dead to all feeling." "Oh," exclaimed the lady briskly, and with a look of intense relief on her face, "if that is all that troubles you, I think I can at onoe relieve your mind from all anxiety, for the leg you have been pinch ing all the evening is mine." One of the new caprices among im ported dresses is tho use of velvet on ootton dressts; for instance, the turned over collar, cuffs, belt and bows on a dark blue percale dress are of velvet of the same color. The quaintest little buttons of Dresden ohina are used for fastening such dresses. The ficelle or twine lace is used alike on ootton dresses and on the richest costumes of the season. fctotle VtllhiMit Moras Henry is a boy who gathers instrnc lion from whatever he reed. He in uot like some boys, who reml merely for mental excitement, and who know no more about the great lessons intended to be men Jested by a look after they have laid it down than they did before taking it op. Onoe upon a time Henry read of a great man who died from overwork. "This is very sad," mnsed Henry; an.', bo made a mighty resolve that, what ever might be the temptation, he wnnld never ao far forget his duty to himself and to mankind as to die of overwork. He began to act upon this resolution the very next morning. Everything he was bidden to do he set about so slowly that his mother lost sll alienee and said she would rather do it terseif. it pained ber to see him so awkward. Henry waa not a lad that wonld willingi!y give pain to his mother; so be very soon neglected his work alto gether. It was the same at school. He copied his mathematical problems from Charley Jones' slate (Charley was a stu dious boy; Henry characterized bim as s "n f,' whatever that may mean) be wrote all history dates on his finger cail. for convenient reference, dnring recitation, and, by divers other ingenious devices, most nobly kept his resolve. Henry is now the rich owner of a fsro liank. Charles is bookkeeper Usn the princely salary of g.)00 per annum. "If st first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. This motto was the gniding principle of James life. When James first assayed to smoke a cigarette be turned deadly pale, and was verv sick; but be was not the boy to weakly sue enmb to so trivial a thing ss a cigarette. He triad again and again, and though he was repeatedly quite ill in consequence of bis bravery, be persisted until he could smoke any number of cigarettes with impunity. In time he conquered the legitimate cigar itself, and now cbewa tobacco with all the grace and efficiency of a man-of-war's man. Frederick also tried to smoke a cigarette. He lacked the persistency of James. He wsa fickle in the extreme. He wished very mnch to smoke, but hardly had be puffed at a cigarette five minutes, when be lost sll interest in the diversion, and proposed to disposssss himself of his dinner. Frederick not only failed woefully upon this initial at tempt, bat he surrendered uneondition ally to his internal remonstrances, snd gave up the battle forever. James hail no end of amasemeot in pnffing his smoke into the faces of young ladies on the street, and in deeorating the side walks with fluid tobacco; while Freder ick, tieaidee lowing all tins pleasure, is burdened with small change which might have been ao profitably expended upon nicotine bad he possessed the true manly courage which distingrished James from himself. j Boston Tran script. Unlock) Hen. , When a yonng man, I was a staunch believer in the integrity of hnman nature; consequently I was always ready to lend money to thisxo of my acquaintances who needed it. As a natural consequence, the "unfortunate" ones gravitated to me as though I hsd been their legitimate prey. When I would find myself swindled as I did in ninety -nine eases in a hundred I woold declare that I would never trust another thing io human shape; and the very next time an "uulncky" wretch came along (always telling a story of suf fering and promising so sweetly and plau sibly), out would go my hard earnings often my last d dlar to lie swindled again and attain, losing, I believe, folly one-hslf of all my earnings in this way. Many and many a time was I reduced to the verge of pauperism, and a great deal worse than this (if anything can be worse to a man who is industrious and frugal). These "unlucky" wretches, if they ever found me helpless or exposed to their mercy in the least, after I had shared my scanty hoard with them free ly, would take, an it were, the dollar, the next to my last dollar I had on earth, that I had offered to them cheer fully, and use it aa a wedge or lever to pry open my pocket and get my last cent, and add insult to injury. And, seemingly, without shame, they would come back again and again, until even mv patience became finally exhausted. Wherever I found the "chronic" bor rower and "unlucky" man and his name ia legion I found by being credulous in trusting, a man as utterly, totally and completely destitute of hu man principles as he was of money and business habits. I never found one in a thousand whs was free to ask a loan of comparative strangers, or a "regu lar" borrower, but was at heart a thief who is too cowardlv to rob any but his friends and the benevolent. Tbero is something radically wrong about such people, and yonng men are wise who avoid them. Eternal Paalshmenl. It is refreshing to hear of a genuine conversion; if it be from darkness to light, especially when it is speedy. and complete. A few years ago, a friend of mine there is.no harm now in telling this story, aa the superstition referred to it is exploded, if not everywhere, cer tainly among our readers was taking a country walk with a friend, a clergyman, when the latter suddenly wheeled around, his face toward home with the remark: "Let us go back, I'm tired ; was culled up in the middle of the night to baptize a child that was dying. " Wsrs vnn in time?" "Just," was the reply; "another half minute and I should have been too late!" "And if yon had been, what then?" "Why, then, I suppose, the poor little thing would have been lost." "Eternally?" "Well, yea, according to our belief." "May I ask what sort of boots you wear?" "Boots? Elastic side, always." "Now suppose yon wore laced, and they had taken two miuutes to put on, the ohild would have been dead, .and eternally lost, ay?" "That's a peculiar view of the ques tion; I must think over my position." Two days after the clergyman met my friend and said : "I have thought that matter over and must altr my view. The boots did it." Loudon Spectator. A curious fact connected with the kill ing of Jesse James, thst ev-Oovemor Burbank, of Dakota, now postofhoe in spector of Chicago, received notice Sat urday that there were found among the effects of James a $900 diamond pin and watch aud ohain, taken from him in a stage robbery near Hot Springs, Arkan sas, eight years ago. M l( EOCM ITIMS. A Vermont man wants to know who this Lowell minister is that Blaine tele graphs to every day. Fix upon tbat course of life which is the most excellent, and habit will render it the most delightful. Bitting Bull baa the proud satisfaction of counting the entire United States army among his most devoted follow- When the devil wants to trsin np a young man in the way he wants bim to to go, he appoints idleness to boss the job. Captain J. A. Sylvester, who when a private in the United States army cap tured Gen. Santa Anna, died recently in New Orleans. m Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter ef the poet, is a handsome young girl with bright, dark, soft eyes, and a proud and graceful carriage. A soldier's life resembles s cigar. He passes through the fire and smoke to find bis hopes in ashes, and what ia left of him is a mere stomp. Some men, they say, like to be lied alxMit. We presume this means Wash ington editors, of whom no good can truthfully be said. Boston Post. Deep-voiced guzzler: "Hi, waiter! bring me three more schooners!" Ave strack spectator, whispering: "Thst must be the new secretary of the navy." It looks now ss if a prominent feature of every traveling show this season will be a figure of Guiteau dressed in "the only original"' suit of the assassin's old clothes. A parrot believed to be seventy-two years of age recently died at Napier ville, Illinois, reducing the percentage of first-elass profanity in that town about 50 per cent. An Iowa judge says of the prolivity of the lawyers: "This State pays a quarter of a million dollars annually for unne cessary gab.'' That's getting off pretty aheap, judge. An esthetic poet wrote: "The muses kiss with lips of flame." but when be found the second word printed "mules" he talked like a burly pirate for five minutes. Jane Johnson, of Leeds, who is re ported to have been convicted 200 times for drunkenness, has now. in her &3d year, joined the Salvation Army. Some folks know when they've had enough. "The Lord sends meat and the devil wends cooks:'' but when a woman's "help" lights out in the middle of the season she wishes the old gentleman in black would send 'em along a little faster. Hortense Kittrell was sp pointed a clerk in the Nevada lefriaiature. Henrv H. Welch, the chief clerk, at first ob jected to the presence of a women in the office. But his prejudice has been over come during the present session. Miss Kittrell is now Mrs. Welch. Two young girls had a fight In a street in Reeding, and one of them was so badly injured that it is doubtful if she ever folly recovers. A disgraceful tart of the affair was that two fellows, escorts of the combatants, let them struggle with each other till the weaker was sll but killed. Sbe was kicked about. jumped upon, and finally, left uncon- srous on a porch. A Remarkable AeosmpltslmeU A young man out West, a printer by trade, has a faculty of no common order that of spelling backward as rapidly as most people spell in the usual way. On a recent occasion the word incom prehensibility was given to him. As soon as the word was pronounced he said "Fifteen letters," and went to work at it backwards so fast that his hearers were unable to tell whether he was right or wrong. "You see," said a fellow printer, "he can tell the number of . let ters in any word without a moment's hesitation, as well as he can spell it backward, and not only that, but you can give him a whole sentence, and he will tell you at once how many letters there are in it, and go right on and spell through the whole thing backward faster than most people could spell it the other way." This thing was tried time and time again, and no word or series of words could be hit upon which were not rendered as indicated above. The strongest part of the Whole thing is that the young man has never practiced or studied spelling backward a day in his life. He says he does not know how he ever acquired the ability to do it, but as soon as he hears a word or sees a word.even if he had never thought of it before, which, of oourse, ia the case with a large majority of words, he knows immediately how to spell it backward or in a regular way. It is so, too, with sentences. He knows at once how many words and letters are in any sentence that may be suggested, and states the numbers promptly as soon as the words are uttered. He can also dis tribute type backward as fast as for ward. In tho left-hand spelling there ia no theory of sound to aid him, as in very many instances the letters spell nothing at all, and cannot be pronounced, so there is no accounting for his ability to spell iu that way except to conclude that it is the result of a -gift a peculiar fac ulty of a remarkably quick mind. There is no particular advantage in all this as far as can be discovered, but it is a cu riosity, and a rare one, and if anybody thinks it isn't hard to do let him try to acquire it. A Hopeful Progeny. Old Farmer Gruff was one morning tugging away with all his might and main at a barrel of apples, which he was endeavoring to get up the cellar stairs and calling at the top of his lungs for one of the boys to lend a helping hand, but in vain. When he had, after an infinite amount of sweating and tugging, accomplished the task, and just when they were not needed, of course, the boys made their appearance. "Where have you been, and what have you been about, I'd like to know, that you could not hear me call?" inquired the farmer in an angry tone.and address ing the eldest. "Out in the shed settfn' the saw." "And yon, Dick?" "Out in the barn, settin' the hen." "And you, sir?" "Up in Granny's room, settin'the clock?' "And you, young man?" "Up in the garret, settin' the trap." "And pow, Master Fred, where were yon and what were you settin' ?" asked the farmer of his youngest progeny, the asperity of his temper being somewhat softened by the amusing category of answers, "Come, let's hear." "Out on the door-step, settin' still," replied young hopeful.