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And other printing, Including,
Urge and He.vy Posters and Showy
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VOL.7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY JANUARY 20, 1883.
NO. 41.
THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED
aturctny Mornings,
BY THE ' v
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
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",.'H JU J' l! Mr! i I
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PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORKWARRANTED.
Dealer lu WMctacw, Clelta, Jewelry,
Sfretselt-a mtd KrKiawM,
And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjustment cf fptxitaclea ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses;
OFFICE First door aonih of poet office. Rose
bnnr, Oregon.
DR. Um W. DAVIS,"
DENTIST .
. ROSEBURG, OREGON.
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OFFICE-OS JACK-OS STREET,
0PF08ITI THE POSTOFFICE.
XIAHOfJEY'S SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Just. AXii honey, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dowj
las county, and the beat
HI LLI A.lil TA.I3 IjB
In theBUU kept ia proper repair:
v f artiee trareiinsr on the railroad win find Utia
place Tery handy to Tiait during the stop
- ping of the train at the Oak
land. Depot. GiTe me aoalL
!&. MAfiVli1JiI
JOHff F RASE It i
Home Made Pxiitiire,
AVI LB UK,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring .Mattresses, Etc.
, Constantly on hand.
triimilTflDCr I hare the beat atocli'o
rUflllllUnCi. mrniture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents
auglas county are requested to
give me a call bel
purchasing elsewhere.
UST ALL WOJtK WAKRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL-
OAKLAND,
ORKUON.
Hi chard Thomas, Prop'r.
THIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot years, and has beoouievery
popoJarwitn the traveling public, t irst-ciasa
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table suppliod with the best the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Kailroad.
AVINQ ON AND A LARGE LOT OF FINE
Spanish- Merino
-WUGEKi
I offer the ame for aale. Cheap for Cash, at my
farm in Douglas county, six miles from Roseburg;
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STANTON,
. Dealer in , : ,
Staple Dry Goods !
Keeps constantly pn hand a general assort-.
' . " tnent of
extra fine: groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AM) ULASSWAKE,
; ALSO
Crockeixand Cordage
A full stock of
HCHOOL
BOO
Such as required by the J?ub!ic County Schools
All kind of STATIONERY. TOYS and
FAJJCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
IUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
- furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
DEEDS ssrSEEDS !
ALL Kin I)S ; 0 F BtfST QllALIl Y
A H. OR DISKS
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TrompUy attended toand Goods shipped
with care,
Address. Hacheney & Bono.
Portland. O report
Notice,
' Notice is herei-r riven, to whom it aiV concern, that
Ch uittletwned haa been awxrSed tins contract for
Ireninir tha Douubut county Fanner J for the period of
two tara. All persons in need of a&it inc. Irom aid
nMintr must first nrocure a certificate to that effect
from anr memlr of the Counry Board, and prewit it
to nni of the following named Dersona. who are author
ized to, and will care for those presenting such certificate
W. L. Butten, Boseburg ; L. L Kellogg, Oakland ; Mrs
irown. Lookinz Oiass. Dr. Sctocks is authorized to
burnish medical aid to all parsons in need of the
rho have been declared paupers of Douglas county.
WM. B. CLARKfe, Supt. of Poor.
Hoasavmq, Or.. Feb. lf, 1830
Fbtjtit Pobk Cake. A pound of pork
chopped fine, a cttpfol of molasses, "four
eggs, a teaspoonfnl each of cloves, cinna
mon, allspice, cream tartar and soda; a
"pound of flour and a pound of fruir.
Bake ia one large or two small loaves. If
kept in a jar, in a cool place, this wflI-4
keep for years.
Sare the sltim milk until curded and
then fe?d it to the hens. v
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UTEST NEWS SUMMARY.
UT TFXKeBJLPH TO DATE.
A competitive exhibition of the Brush
and U. S. electric lights will be held in
LtoTjisvjlle, Jiy., the defeated party to
pay $1000 expenses and donate $4000 to
the Polytechnic institute. v v
German citizens of San Francisco have
started a subscription list for the relief
of sufferers by the recent flood. , some
$500 have been collected so far, and ar
rangements are in progress for an enter
tainment, the proceeds of whicn will be
sent forward at once.
The superior court at Indianapolis gave
a decision on the 11th which, if the prin
cipel announced therein is carried out,
will cost the state $uuo,uuu. it is mat
the state must return the money paid by
counties to the state treasury, by mistake
or otherwise, m excess of balance due.
Paddy Byan, who i3 spending a week
in Omaha, says that he proposes to chal
lenge the winner of the fight letween
Sullivan and Slade, as soon as the match
is made. He savs he is in better condi
tion now than he ever was in his life,
and he is anxious to meet Sullivan in the
ring again some time this. year. He says
Mace's judgment as to Slade's ability as
a pugilist ib worth something and the
probability is that Sullivan will find Slade
a bard man to whip.
Considerable excitement was caused in
San Francisco on the 11th by a large
crowd which collected in front of a prom
inent bank on Montgomery street and
the impression was created that an exten
sive run had been inaugurated. Bumors
to the effect that the bank had collapsed
were circulated but an investigation re
vealed a man with a placard on his hat
bearing the inscription, 'I want work
This method of cheap advertising was
successful, 1 or the man was soon ,Krven
employment by a gentleman who saw. the
conspicuous placard.
Some years ago an old childless couple
near Ulysses, Neb., adopted a boy and
girl from different families. When the
children grew to maturity they indulged
in undue intimacy. "When the exposure
was made it was suggested they should
marrv. The old lady grew excited about
the unfortunate matter, and finally be
came insane. On Jan. 7th she prepared
the tea and put poison in it. All partook
except the girl. The old man was taken
sick and the girl was sent to a neighbor
for assistance. When she returned all
three were dead.
A Milwaukee, Wis., dispatch of Jan
10th says: The Newhall house, a six-story
brick hotel was burned to the ground
this mornin g. The fire was discovered
at i. a. m. In less than half an hour
the entire building was one sheet of
flames. The first alarm came at 3:47,
followed quickly by a general alarm. By
this time almost the entire south front o
the Newhall house was one sea of flames
In a moment every window in the large J
six-story structure was niieci with strug
gling guests, frantically and piteousiy
beseeching the few below lor aid, which
it was impossible to render. But few of
. - i l 1 r i
the uniortunate inmates gameu me irout
entrance on Michigan street, although
more might have been saved if some im
mediate attempt at systematic rescue had
been maderlo-the halls was a scene of
the wildest confusion. Men, women and
children rushed up and down the halls
in the dense and sunocating smoke,
avoiding the blinding flimes aud roaring
blaze, and in their frantic efforts rushing
by stairways and windows leading to fire
escapes, stumbling over bodies lying un
conscious on the carpeted walks. The-
scenes during the conflagration were ter
rific in the emtreme. The hotel register
was burned so that ' it is impossible to
state definitely the number of guests at
the time of the disaster, but all accounts
agree that the dead will reach 100. The
scene at' the morgue a few hours after the
fire was sickening. Thirty -two bodies
of men and women lay jnpon the floor.
many burned to an undistinguishable
mass, while the enorts of a strong police
force were required to keep back . the
agonized crowd who were frantically
searching for missing friends. The cold
was intense and many wounded suffered
from both the extreme of heat and cold.
The hotel wa3 built in 1857 and has long
been regard ed as a " dea th trap." The
elevator and passage ways were almost at
the first alarm enveloped in flames cut
ting off all retreat to the frenzied guests
arid employes. Telegrams from all parts
of the country are pov.ring iu asking for
missing friends. Inquiry has been made
by at least a dozen wholesale houses in
the east regarding their traveling men,
who were due here Tuesday. Not one of
those inquired for can be found, and it
is safeUo assume there were a great many
more transient guests in the house than
at first reported. The finding of the two
bodies so near the edge, that had not be
fore been seen, has given rise to the idea
that there are at least 100 bodies in the
ruins. It will take several -days to re
move the debris, with as large a force as
can be worked, and as the register is pre
served in the safe, it will be impossible
for a long time after the bodies have been
recovered, before it will be known who
all the victims are. A further dispatch
on the 11th says: At daylight this morn
ing a large gang of laborers resumed the
awful work of hunting for the dead in
the ruins of the Newhall house. The
streets in the vicinity of th ruins are
packed black with people. The greatest
excitement prevails. The fire department
is engaged in pulling down the remnants
of the wall?, and with each succeeding
crash, the excitement increases. The
police and firemen are confident that fully
w people are Dnneu in me rams, inciuu
incr a number of guests not mentioned in
the published list.; Crowds of people are
arriving on every train. The hotels are
filled with tearful and anxious people
seeking friends or relations supposed to
have been in the fire. The telegraph
wires inclosing the bulldicgon the south
and east sides played sad havoc with
those who mide the frightful leap' from
the windows for life. ; Several bodies
were fwrly cut in two by the wiie3, and
the torn and bleeding forms would drop
to the ground. Others would hit the
wires crossways, rebound and be hurled
to the ground with a dreadful crash. To
the unfortunate waiter girls, all lodged
in the sixth story and att'es, the saddest
lot Ras fallen. Of the sixty young girls
only eleven were heard from alive as late
as yesterday evening. r
The Union League club elected Wm.
M. Evarts president.
The house elections committee declared
no election in the second Mississippi dis
trict.
The census shows Cleveland's popula
tion to be 198,000 a gain in one year of
8000.
An association for the preservation of
Niagara Falls has been formed in New
York.
The finest block in Pes Moines. Iowa.
was burned on the night of the 12th; loss
The ways and means committee re
duced the rate on fence wire from one
cent to three-fourths of a cent per pound.
President Boice, of the wrecked Citv
bank of Jersey City, was locked in a cell
on the Htn, being unable to secure bail.
At a meeting of pig iron representatives
held in Pittsburg, the organization of the
Western Fis Iron association was com
pleted. ;. o;;
Dispatches from the southern part of
Illinois say an earthquake shockwasielt
over the state on the 11th . It extended
into Kentucky.
J udge Graham in the superior court of
New York, adjourned hearing the case of
the Passion play to the seventeenth by
consent of the counsel.
The grand jury is investigating the star
route jury bribery cases. Frank H. Hall.
charged with bribing the colored juror
Brown, is under examination.
E. B. Washburne, ex-minister to
France, was painfully though not seri
ously injured by being thrown from a
horse near San Antonio recently.
The tobacco manufacturers have ap
pointed a committee to remain in Wash
ington to make surh representations per
sonally to the committee and congress as
the business requires.
The maritime exchange of New York
protests against the passage of the pend
ing bill in congress to transfer the ad
ministration of the revenue cutter service
to the navy department.
ine court pi claims decides that re
tired officers of the army were not ex
empt from the provisions of that section
of the revised statutes prohibiting an
officer of the government from prosecut
ing claims against the United States.
r 'l hos. woodman, general passenger
agent of the Central Pacific railroad, an
nounces his company prepared to furnish
orders for transportation to . San Fran
cisco from Havre, France, steerage by
steamer to mew urieans. and then via
Southern Pacific to San Francisco, third
class, at $6o.
The vvaDasn uannon mil tram was
ditched at Kansas City on the 11th. It
was derailed by the spreading of the
track near Miami Junction. A sleeper,
two coaches and a baggage car rolled
down the embankment, and the sleeper
caught fire and burned. No one killed,
and injuries are generally slight; one or
two broken limbs.
A Boston dispatch tell of a conference
neid at (jen. uuuer s omce, m which an
effort was made to organize a scheme to
put Butler in the place of Hoar, in the
United States senate. Butler men claim
ninety-nine democrats in the joint con
vention, and argue that a great many who
won t vote for Hoar under anv circum
stances, will vote for Butler.
A severe electric storm, accompanied
by high wind, which reached a velocity
of sixty miles per hour, prevailed at JJen
ver on the 12th. An electric light tower,
185 feet high, was blown over, wreoking
a small frame house which stood in it its
course. The inmates escaped uninjured
Several buildings were unroofed, and the
walls of a number of buildings in course
of erection were blown down. The dam
age is quite heavy throughout the city.
No loss of life is leported.
Uriucal examination oi Chicago, in
duced by the Milwaukee fire, shows that
most excellent provisions have generally
been made and are enforced to prevent
the spread of fire, and that from the
manner of construction and the thorough
precautions adopted, the better class of
hotels are as nearly as possible fire-proof .
it is believed that no such disaster as
that in Milwaukee could occur in Chi
cago, if the present restrictions are ob
served. Insurance agents report that
risks in uhicago hotel property are ex
ceadingly low. .
The Anchor line steamer City of Green
ville, from New Orleans for St. Louis,
with 700 hogsheads of sugar and other
cargo, came in collision on he 12th near
bayou Goula, ninely-six miles above the
city, with tb&Crrande Eco're packet Laura
Liee. The City of Greenville sank, leav'
ing only a portion of her texas and pilot
house above the water. ' The Laura Lee
took off the passengers and crew of the
sunken steamer and brought them to
this city. It is believed the boat andcargo
will prove a total Joss. No cause is as
signed for the collision. No lives lost,
A Syracuse dispatch of Jan. 12th says
A little group of operators have victim
ized tne bucket shops out of $12,000 to
$15,000 by anticipating delivery of tele
grams and buying grain by using fraud
ulent prices in dispatches from Chicago
Several telegraph piracies have lately oc
curred in the city, and it is probable tha
investigation under progress will bring
to light many scandalous transactions
among them the theft of the dispatch
sent to this city by Frederick Gebhard
to Mrs. ijangtry at Uhicago, which was
published in St. Louis, and the tenor o
which was exceedingly sickish.
A Jioston dispatch of Jan. rzth says
a . m . .
as an enect or tne prolonged drouth, in
M nchester, New Hampshire, 2000 opera
tives are idle, and ; mills are shutting
down. The product of the Maine saw
mills is reduced 20,000 feet. The rivers
are lower than for half a century. Mills
on the Penobscott will lose over $100,000.
Establishments on -the Kennebec, An
droscoggin and Sico is likewise crippled.
In southeast Maine hundreds of persons
were compelled to resort to snow for
wafer, and cattle were driven miles to
ponds and bro ks. The Merrimac river
is lower than ever. The great mills at
Nashua and Great Falls, besides those at
Manchenter, are ruuning on half to twq-
thirds time, and the losses to the employ-
era and employes are enormous. It is a few months with the owner of one of
impossible to estimate the aggregate these villas! The people are by no
losses. The rainfall for 1882 throughout means reticent in displaying their ob
the region was barely half the average. jects "de luxe" mostly wax flowers or
There was no January thaw. j French vases. Gilt-edged books bound
011 Tecr.mseh.
The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the
olio wing:
The other day, as 1 was turning the
corner of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, I en
countered General :Tecumseh Sherman.
'Why,' said he, "do you live over here?
Come m and see my room." He took
me into the same room Zach and Billy
Chandler had used for conducting Hayes'
Presidential campaign a parlor in front,
dark passageway and bath beneath and
bedroom back, on a small, dim court.
"General, said I, "you are in good
ooks and spirits for the hard knocks you
have received."
"Oh, yes," said Sherman, "I am just
as tough as a pine knot. Never felt bet
ter in all my life. ;. You know I am going
to have a rest.;'-Yes, I am going out of
the military service. I look forward to
it with great joy. My wife wants me to
go. I am tired of the incessant changes
in men and events at Washington City.
No stability, social life all cut up
change, change, change. We are going
o bt. Louis. Some of the family live
here. I have my own house there. I
always liked the St, Louis people. They
are warm, affectionate and spirited
people. I tell you, I have got a good
hou&e there.
"Do they retire you with full pay.Gen-
eral?"
"Yes, full pay. Even my horses I
keep them-, too. Congress has been
very liberal and square with me."
"What does the pay of the General
amount to?J ; '
"About $15,000. I can live in St.
Louis, I guess, on $1000 a month, and
that will leave me $3000 a year to spend
on my children. I think I can do that.
I am not a rich man, you know.
"Well, General, St. Louis is a rather
smoky, dingy citv hot in the summer,
tod." ' i..""; V .
"Well, that may be true, but T shall
light out in hot weather. The Rocky
Mountains will be my camp up , there
about Helena, Montana, where it is high
and lovely. I can drop down to FJorida
in the spring, or to Texas. St. Louis is
very central. I think I may live ten
years . in comparatively : active life. I
will be with my people, can see my old
companions and friends, and breathe the
breath of some freedom.'
"Your son-in-law, Commodore Fitch,
out there, is very well spoken of,"
Yes, he s a hard-working man, smart
and very successful. . He has built up a
large and safe business. I expect he
may be a rich man.
All this tame the General was giving
some instructions about visits to his
daughter. Bachel and putting his name
in autograph copies of his memoirs.
oaid 1: "General Sherman, a friend
called at my house last night and thought
you were sure to be the next Republican
candidate for President. i
"Now, about that," said. General Sher
man, "you see I cannot be fool enough
to decline what is not offered to me; but
what do I want to turn from the pros
pect of rest and peace at last for a period
of years to the delusion of four years in
an office that is just hell. That's what
it is," continued the General emphatic
ally. "It is hell- What did General
Harrison get out of it? Nothing but b
month of misery. What did General
Taylor get out of it? Twelve months of
misery. What did Grant get out of it?
Do I want to resign this competence
Congress has bestowed upon me for four
years of hell? What did Hayes get out
of the presidency? What did Garfield
get? Take them all within your memory.
Nothing but worry, trouble misunder
standing."
"Well, General Sherman, people will
talk. They don't care anything about
your comfort if they can elect you."
"That'sjBO. They will talk," said the
General.
I continued by saying that Gen
eral Hancock stood no worse for having
run for President two years ago.
told Hancock," Sherman said, "that
he got out of the mess just in time to
sa ve himself."
"Are you sixtv-four yet, General Sher
man?" "I was born in February, 1820, I am
nearly sixty-tnree. me law retiring us
all at sixty -four I uppoved of. I think
it is a good law.' -
xid you pass any or your youth in
Ohio?"
"Why, yes; I stayert around Lancaster
till I was sixteen years old. My father
died when I was about nine, and my
wife's father brought me up and put me
into the army. General Grant is two
years younger, or of the age of my
brother, John Sherman.
The General then went on to speak of
the Hoyt family, which he had : met on
his first visit to New York City when a
boy, and had become nearer them by
family ties. I believe the General was
disposed to talk with full freedom to me,
but other persons coming in led me to
postpone the matter for the present. He
does look magnificent, and for his age
he is as fighting-like a man as I ever
found. He talks quick, quaint, and I
should judge is not looking as far away
from the Fresidency.as his speech lm
plies, though not one word did he say to
me further than 1 have printed.
Uaarleui Architecture.
Although Holland abounds with the
most delightful specimens of domestic
architecture of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries, they seldom care to re
vive it when they build a new house.
There seems to be but one approved style
now, and that the very worst style of
French villa, with its dull dark ' 'Man
sard" roof; There is also an almost uni
vers il run on a certain gardenstatute in
plaster, the most ill-modeled child, with
a snort tunic, holding a basket of chalk
fruit on its simpering, idiotic head. No
garden is complete without that, and if
the means of the owner permit, a large
globe of shining quicksilvered glass, in
which is reflected the most awful dis
tortions of every surrounding object.
Those who f$a tired of hearing of "high
art" and "atethetics." of harmonies and
symphonies'of coljr, of dadoes and old
bric-a-brac, should come here to rest the
troubled brain. If one could only stay
in good old-fashioned positive colors, a
"magenta" tint now and then that seemed
to have been distilled from long pent-up
and suffering canal water; these massed
in brass-bound book -slides, and tended
by a Muse or two in plaster of Paris,
are on the veneered table between
the parted curtains of every one of
these new abodes. Wandering along
one of the canals, we stopped to admire
a crow-stepped gabled house of time
toned brick. We read on a tablet high
up the name of Ph. Wouvermans. Yes,
that must have been his studio-: window
that large one. A pleasant house, and.
a substantial well-to-do air all about it.
A pleasant spot, too, by the tree-shaded
canal. Wonder if it is still a. studio? It
looks like it. It almost tempts one to
ring the bell and ask if the Wouvermans
is at home. v i
There are still in Haarlem a goodly
number of charming old houses of the
seventeenth century. Some of their
gables lean rather forward toward the
street or sideways toward their next
door neighbor in a way suggestive of
fundamental debility. At first sight it
seems safer to walk in the middle of the
road, and look out for falling bricks.
But one soon gets over the tottery char
acter; in fact, some one told us that they
were built originally at that angle for
ward. : When they lean sideways they
admit the mouldering pile beneath, and
own to the sinkage. The fine old city
walls and ramparts that withstood the
famous siege have been pulled down, all
but one fine old gateway, a splendid
specimen of its kind, picturesque to the
last degree. That is all there is left "to
illustrate one ofthe greatest chapters in
the history of Haarlem. The boulevard
and the tram car have risen over the
dust of all the rest. I should like to say
something more worthy of this mem
orable siege, there is such . a splendid
opportunity; but on second thought
perhaps it is as well to refer the reader
to Motley, and not seek to supersede
that admirable history. J George H.
B rough ton, in Harper's Magazine for
January. - . kj-
An Enormous Locomotive.
We have hete at Sumner, making daily
tris to the summit of Tehachipa Pass,
the largest locomotive engine in the
United States, and perhaps in the world.
It was designed by A. J. Stevens, gen
eral master mechanic of the Central Pa
cific, for the purpose of running over
steep grades. It was considered a doubt
ful experiment, but it has now been
making daily trips to the summit for a
long time; and W. H. Worwick, en
gineer and machinist in charge of the re
pair shops and engineering department
at Sumner, informs us that it has proved
a complete success. He gives us the
following faot's in regard to this ponder
ous machine: It has twelve wheels and
weighs, when in working order, includ
ing two men, 123,000 pounds; total
wheel base 24 feet 11 V. inches. The
tender has eight wheels and weights,
in working order, 63,000 pounds.
The total wheel base of the en
gine and tender is 53 feet 1 inches, and
the total length of engine and tender
over all is 64 feet. The grade of the
Tehachipa pass is 116 feet to the mile.
with ten degree curves, one right after
the other as closely as they can be laid.
The engine has hauled up this grade,
twenty-five miles in length, a tram of
fourteen freight cars loaded with twenty
tons (of 2000 pounds) to the car. This
is a heavy load for two of the largest ten
wheeled engines with 18 by 24-inch cyl
inders, and weighing forty tons, and, as
a regular thing, it actually does the
work of two of the heaviest engines with
a greatly reduced expense for coal, at
tendance, wear and tear, etc. It has a
reversing gear operated by water taken
from the Doner, which can oe used or
not, at the option of the engineer. It
also has a brake on the driving-wheels
which is operated, by steam. This en
gine has given such satisfaction that
twenty-five more of the same kind will
probably be built. Mr. Worwick, who
is a mechanic and engineer of great ex
perience, inclines to the belief that still
larger engines might ibe used to ad
vantage on steep grades; but for ordi
nary arxAtches of road, srich as that be-
j w ,
tween this point and San Francisco, the
locomotive in ordinary use is large
enough. J Bakersfield Courier.
The Rind of
Boys Philadelphia fro
ducev ;
A bright-eyed boy of eight year, nicely
dr eased, and having the appearance of
being a child of well-to do -parents, was
called yesterday as a witness m J udge
Fierce s court of the Quarter Sessions.
"Do you know what you do when you
k'ss the Bible?", asked the prosecuting
ofiicer. .
"No, sir."
MDo you go to school?"
"Yes, sir."
"How long?"
"Two years."
"Is it right or wrong to tell a lie?"
"Right." -"Rightto
tell a lie'"
"It's wrong."
"Do you know where you will go
when you die, it you tell a lie?
"No, sir."
"Have you ever been to church?"
"Once."
"Do you go to Sunday school?"
"My sisters won't take me."
"Have you ever beard of hell? . .
"Mv sir."
Or of hell?"
"No, sir."
"Did you ever hear of God?'
"Never."
He was not allowed to testify. Phil
adelphia Times. v
"That man is a phrenologist, Pat."
"A phat?" asked Pat puzzled. "A
phrenologist." 'That's that?" "Why,
a man that can tell by feeling of the
bumps of your head, what kind of a man
you are. "Bumps on me head, is it?
exclaimed Pat. "Begorra, then, I "should
think it would give him more of an oidea
phat kind of a woman my wife is!"
Citbok Cake. Stir together three
cups of brown sugar; four and a half
cups of flour, seven eggs, two cups of
citron cut in smaii pieces, two ana one
half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
cup of butter, one and a half cups of
sweet milk.
Home Goislp.
Ladies scarcely realize' the possibilities
of chamois leather. It is an excellent
material for decorative purposes. It !
takes color well, and is besides so " soft
and pliable that it can be very readily
embroidered; in addition to this it an
swers well for deaigns in dry color. .
Several - years ago paper curtains were
in great demand in England. They were
usually in imitation of .eastern designs,
and were, also, lined with paper r? and
linings being differently decorated. An
attempt has been made to introduce them
here, but hitherto not very successfully.
They are, of course, much cheaper than
hangings of worste t materials, and, as
they have a glazed surface, they can be
readily shaken" or wiped free from dust.
A novelty in , laca curtains is an-
nounced,' which consists in the peculiar
ity of the design rather than in anything
special in the fabric itself. It represents,
within a border of floral design, a4 win
dow with drapery and a view in
prospective beyond. The idea may be
new, but is certainly not artistic.
The fashionable table lamp to-day is
mounted upon a beautifully painted vase
of spheroid form, and is often of very"
great, value, choice porcelain being
selected for this purpose. :
Some of the most beautiful carving by
ladies is carried out in cedar wood. They
are specially adapted for glove boxes and
other small articles.
The table d'oyleys are now often em- i
broidered in the center only. An initial
letter is frequently selected, and within
a fanciful or grotesque figure is car tied
out in raised dotted embroidery.
A novelty is about to be introduced for
bed-rooms in the shape of a draped toi
let table. The foundation is of ordinary
wood, and above the table an upper
frame is supplied with a ' swinging mir
ror. The drapery is arranged upon a
projecting shelf above the frame and fes
tooned around the glass, which is also
decorated wih a double ruching of the
material. Usually ' paper muslin of
light color is selected. as a background,
and spotted Swiss supplies the material
of the drapery itself.
Crystal is growing in favor. Most
beautiful center-pieces for the lunsh
table are in vogue, deeply cut in this
material, and a new shape has super
seded the globular. It is not unlike a
crescent. ! -
Iridescent mother-of-pearl is much
used now for bouquet-holders, fan -handles,
&c. It is often richly carved, but
still more frequently inlaid with gold
and silver,,., :. vj -- ;J ,
Braiding is to become popular again.
Rounded soutache will be used, as the
designs can be examined in raised work
by its use. It is easy to give 'Eastern
effects by carrying out a free design upon
muslin, scrum, or thin materials of any
kind. -
The effect of applique work, which is
given to the popular jute and linen
plushes so much in use now is gained by
the great attention that is paid to the ef
fect of light and shade. Even without
the outline embroidery in .gold thread,
which gives them their handsome finish,
the same result is largely effected.
Cushions for deep cane chairs are
made of tufted plush or-satih, and as an
accompaniment a btrip of the same ma
terial and color is embroidered as a scarf
for the back and finished : off with deep
fringe, which is often of rich quality.
A handsome ornament for the parlor
wall consists of a small cabinet in .carved
wood, the doors of which open down
ward and by means of movable supports
form a writing desk. Frquently the
panels are either painted or pieces of
embroidery are mounted upon them.
Oddly shaped tables are much in de
mand.' Some of them ; are round and
just low enough to reach a lady's elbows
as she sits at work, and are rotatary.
Others are round in front and straight
at the back, and are supported uponjhalf
recumbent figures. Tables of every
shape are to be had for decoration at
home, and are covered with jute plush
embroidered in raised figures or simply
nnisned on Dy a deep inn ge.
Ornamental figures in terra cotta are
seen everywhere. By the introduction
of color an immense variety in effect is
gained, and where only moderately used
it is as beautiful as effective.
Menu cards can be beautifully deco
rated at home. They should be m three
folds, like miniature screens, and each
fold should bear a . different floral or
emblematic device. The outer one, if
possible, should have as decoration -the
monogram of the guest by whose plate it
Vegetables may be aesthetically beau
tiful, but the attempt to introduce them
as appropriate decoration for table mats
and doylies has not proved successful;
fruits, blossoms or fancy figures are far
more suitable.
Gems irith a History.
The New York Sun is responsible for
the following:
"These are $100,000 twins brought
together by ohance after more than a
quarter of.a century of separation, and
never to leave this country, now we've
got them."
The speaker was a German gentleman,
the head of a wholesale diamond import
ing house in Maiden lane. ; As he spoke
he took a packet of silken tissue from a
big safe behind and dropped it upon a
counter covered with green haize, at
which the reporter seated himself. A
wire gate slammed to and locked the
visitor in without seeming to have im
prisoned him, and the German gentle
man began to open the tissue paper
packet. Two lustrous gems,- which blaze
with a pure bluish white fire, gleamed
side by side, j Each ; was about as big
around as a three-cent piece, but, what
was more striking than their sizes was
their identity of appearance and beauty.
They are cut alike, weigh alike gtt
and one-half carats each, and are verit
able mineral twins.
"I conldYcreate a sensation and make a
fortune with them in Paris' said the
diamond mearchant. "They! are old
Indian mine diamonds, and have a his
to ry that put them in the catalogue of
the famous gems of the world. I have
proofs that establish their " identity.
They must have been in the possession
of Warren Hastings when he was governor-general
i India. Previously they
had been the jewels of a rajah, and after
they had left Hastings' jewel casket they
were secured by a Russian nobleman
during a mutiny in India. He took
them to Amsterdam, where a skilled
Dutch lapidary recut them, thereby
greatly enhancing their beauty while
only slightly decreasing their weight ;
The nobleman lest possession of one of
them at the celebrated gaming table of
M. Blanc, at Monaco. At least it is sup
posed he lost it gaming, for it was only
recovered at the auction sale of the
effects of Mms. Blanc, widow of the
famous gambler in Paris, a year ago. I
secured it through an agent at the sale.
"Its mate," continued the . jeweller,
"had a no less eventful career. It found
its way to a French jeweller, who sold it
to the duke of Brunswick, who with
eccentric prodigality, lavished nianey on
precious stones, which he left to the city
of Geneva. The history of the first bine
diamond was published in Paris when I
bought it, but search made afterward for
the mate, which the duke of Brunswick
had bought, revealed the. fact that it had
disappeared. ;
We found it two months ago and
how, do you think? Why, my. partner
saw it sparkling in the shirt front of a
Chicago merchant. He could hardly be
lieve it. But by a stratagem he secured
the means of comparing the gems, and
broved their identity to his satisfaction.
The merchant said he had bought the
stone in England from a Jewish diamond
merchant of London. He was induced to
part with it at a handsome figure.
"Thus they eame together, said the
owner, as he re-wrapped the sparks of
mineral fire with care, "and thus they
stay." They'll never be separated
again."
Stppnen airariMi Valet.
The cream of Philadelphia colored
society gathered at the house of Mr.
John Meyers. No. 1817 Addison street.
last evening, to witness the nuptials of
Mr. Charles Simpson and Mrs. Mary L.
Harris, a dusky widow from Alexandria,
Va. Colored circles have been greatly
interested in the marriage, for, while the
blushing bride is but twenty-eight years
of age, eighty-two summers; and a like
number of winters have relied into his
tory: since the bridegroom's birth.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. C. T. Shifter, pastor of Allen's
chapel, Lombard sheet, above Nine
teenth, the groom being accompanied by
an old friend from Baltimore, who acted
as his best man. The bride was dressed
in white silk, with orange blossoms in
her hair, and looked even younger than
she was, while the radiant bridegroom
seemed his own junior by a score of years
at least. , - ; i
Later in the evening the happy pair
held a reception at the residence . of the
bridegroom, on North Tenth . street,
where they received the congratulations
of their mafiyTriendsr
This is Mr. Simpson's third matrimo
nial venture. He is a pleasant-faced,
jolly old gentleman, full of spirits (ani
mal, not alcoholic), with Burnside whis
kers as white as snow, and eyes that
twinkle with fun. He was born a free
man, in Queen Anne county, Maryland,
in 1800, and at the age . of twenty-five
came' to Philadelphia,. where he went
into the service of Stephen Girard in the
capacity of body, servant, which position
he filled until the time of Mr. 6irard's
deaJh, in 1830. He is bright and enter
taining in his conversation, and relates
many interesting anecdotes of his
millionaire employer. Philadelphia
Record.
Beware of the Cloak.
A
A scientist, in the interest oi married
men and the oppressed of all nations,)
has advanced a new idea that will fill
a want long felt, and afford all. men who
take advantage of it immediate ; relief in
this hour of their affliction. He says
these new fur-lined circulars are un
healthy and should be abolished. It ap-
pears tac me jur-imea cioaK nas tne
same effect on a woman as a diamond pin
on a man's shirt bosom has on the man
who wears it. A man with a diamond pin
on cannot have hi3 coat buttoned up, for
fear the pin will not show, and in nine
cases out of ten unless he is careful to
wear a sheepskin protector, he catches
an awful cold and is liable to die. More
has been written by scientists and medi
cal men upon the folly of wearing dia
mond pins on the shirt front than upon
any other of : the modern fashions to
which mortal man is addicted. And it
seems the fur-lined cloak is also a worm
11 i m 1 , m t
that is gnawing at the bud cf our beau
tiful types of womanhood, aud making
consumptives out of them. The trouble
is a woman is bound to have about five
or TBix buttons of her fur-lined cloak un
buttoned at the bottom so the cloak will
blow back and expose the fur. But
women seem determined, in the face of
all this testimony, to stick to the fur
lined cloak and embrace death in one of
its most horrid forms. :.They have
either got to button up ' the fur-lined
cloik ,or wear a sheepskin chest pro
tector. . - -
Thurlow- Weed was a good man to
name babies for. . Out of his large estate
he bequeaths only $2900 to charitable
institutions and $100 to each of 18 name
sakes whom he specifies in his wilL The
bulk of his property he leaves to his
daughters and grandchildren, having no
sons living. Theraare a few bequests of
little intrinsic yaltieto personal friends.
He gives to Hamilton Fish "the massive
link of the iron chain which his father
aided in stretching across the Hudson
river near West Point during the war of
the revolution;" to Frederick WSeward,
"in affectionate "remembrance of a warm
ftiendshiD which c.iminfitic.p nwr half n.
century ago with the late William H.
Seward . lasting uninterruptedly to his
death," he bequeiths acana, Harriet
A. Weed, his unmarried' daughter, is
nam ed executrix.
A German peasait comes to a broker
to exchange a handred-raark note for
silver. The broker give- hira-a htriidred
jaark roll, .which the peasant opens to
see if it is all right. He counts r up to
seventy -one and pots it all in his pocket.
"It was all right so far, so I suppose tits
rest is right, too."
A miniature boalding-house, with the
guests seated, arour. d a long table, ia a
Christmas toy novelty. It is as nattiral
as life. Tha table ia full of dishes' and
there is nothing to speak of in thera...